January 8, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Horrible fires in southern CA & sicknesses getting worse?
- Mailbag!
- Trump buying Greenland?
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Jackie and Pee arm Why from Studio C.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I don't see you, Senor. Yeah, well you will, Chorley.
It's a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels of
the Armstrong You Getty Communications Compound And hey y'all, midday week, hobday.
We're under the putolage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I was going to go with Greenland to come a USA,
but instead, good Lord, the people of Los Angeles County.
The apocalypse is upon La.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Man. If you haven't watched any of those videos, holy crap.
I don't even know what you say about that. Hell
descends upon you like that. One hundred times our winds
fired and traveling it like a mile every thirty seconds.
And today could be every bit is bad or worse. Yeah,
(01:33):
I was just hearing a report that they said that
they might be worse. And there are many many fires
all over the area. The super fancy Hollywood type houses
get the most attention always, but there's fires all over.
I was actually on the phone with a number of
people last night who were fleeing for their lives, electricity off,
(01:57):
pitch dark, can't see anything. Why there's so much traffic,
You don't know if you're gonna be able to get
out or stuck in traffic. People fleeing their cars and
running for the ocean. Insane.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And the minute that the dust settles on this and
we certainly pray that the loss of life is zero
or certainly as little as possible. The big story is
going to be the fact that several of the big insurers,
or at least one that I'm certain of, have dropped
fire coverage for that area, and people were scrambling to
figure out what to do when the fires began.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And this was as according to a friend of ours
who had to flee and doesn't even know if his
house is stole up or not. This was as recently
as a couple of weeks ago in that neighborhood. They
dropped the fire coverage, right right, That is a problem. Well,
you've been talking for a long time about this is
going to have to come to a head at some
(02:54):
point with the banks and the insurance companies in various states,
whether you're talking about fire's, hurricanes, whatever, How are we
going to deal with this because houses have to be insured.
The insurance has to be affordable enough that people can
buy houses. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I don't know how this all gets worked out, or
it might just completely distort the housing market in a
way that will be take decades to untangle.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
If you've ever considered it. The very very short version.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Of it is you have to keep in mind that
a huge percentage of the personal property in the United
States is mortgaged. And so you have banks, including some
of the big banks or even Fanny May and organizations
like that, that have billions trillions of dollars worth of
mortgages out there, and if there's no insurance on those properties,
(03:46):
well then the big banks would lose their arses and
that's not acceptable for a number of reasons. So, yeah,
we're definitely moving toward something like a homeowner's insurance crisis
in the US, and not just like in Florida and
California all over the place.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, and you know, continuing with what you were just
saying there, that's the interest the banks have, and then
we the people as a society have, you know, a
great interest in people being able to own homes. I mean,
there has to be a thing. It can't be a
only for you know, a tiny percentage of people that
can afford homes and insurance.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right or self ensure my house burns down, I build
it again, ho home. Yeah, that's that's a tiny percentage
of people. It'll be interesting to see this play out,
and it could well be. It's almost certainly going to
be on Trump's watch, right, right, Chirst Why do I
mention the president Congress rights laws or they used to.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, people have been listening for a long time now.
I had a fire. We had a fire on our
farm about five years ago, and I got to experience
in person with flames around me, which melted my shoes.
How fast a fire travels when it's really windy outside.
And until I had seen it in person, I had
no idea. But it just it can go from a
(05:08):
spark to your you can't see anything but smoking flames
in seconds. It's just shocking. And that was happening all
over La yesterday and today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, so fingers crossed the prayers whatever, uh, and on
we go.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I'm walking in the door, Michael, the door opened place
there he is, Hey, everybody, how.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You doing fine? How's Katie doing? That's what I want
to know.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Poor Katie ailing with one of the several bugs ravage.
Oh stop it ravaging the country. I under sneeze a
two call.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I'm doing I'm doing better today.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Yesterday, man, I had so much chest pain that I
was married. I was going to end up in an
urgent care because I didn't know, like if this was
bird pneumonia or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Exactly monkey bird box pneumonia, murder hornet pneumonia, I.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Don't know exact right exactly, atmospheric river covid.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Now I'm back and with a deeper voice than ever,
so so.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Okay. So I'm glad that that came up because I've
been trying to figure out, like, did all of our
brains get broken with the pandemic or is all climate
stuff and diseases worse than they used to be. Does
it just seem like it is, or or it just
seems everything seems more extreme than it used to be.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, I don't know. I think part of that is media.
My wife had a cold last week and remarked it.
I think she said, I haven't had a cold since
the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Good for her.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So maybe it's just, you know, we're getting used to
it again, the slog through the minor diseases that afflick humanity. Uh,
I'm not diagnosing you as minor, Katie were concerned. Chest
pain doesn't sound good to me.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I when I would cough, I would double over, and
I'm going, Okay, this is not working. But I got
COVID a couple of years ago, and I said I
had never been sick like that until I got COVID.
And I can say that I have not ever had
a flu like this. That wasn't COVID.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I know my son has been sick for a week
and sick in a way that was beyond what a
normal cold is, like you're talking about, and we did
the COVID test. It wasn't COVID. That he doesn't appear
to have sexed up a bird or whatever you do
to get bird pops. I believe that is it? Yes,
all right, I didn't do that just to kill any rumor. Yeah,
let's say internet settled down and he had La burning
(07:45):
down and the mountains of North Carolina flooded and just
I don't know, maybe it's just seems like things are
worse because of media govern Just Michael way. Whoa, whoa? Who?
Who is Jack Canning at the wog wrath of God? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm not. I'm not going down the climate change road,
but it could be the wrap of God. Yes, Michael, oh,
as I says absinentely January eighth, and look at what's
(08:06):
already happened.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, well, so have you come up with a slogan,
because stayin Alive in twenty five might be a good one.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Whoa, boy, this seems a little close to the bone,
doesn't everything it does? It does? Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'd i'd prefer other choices, but that's your Uh, that's
your committee.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm a disc jockey. I don't know if I need
to focus on staying that term again. Ever, right, let's
start the show officially yourself. Then we'll get to similar
news of the day. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Jo Getty
on this It is Wednesday, January eighth, the year twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Staying Alive in twenty five. We are Armstrong in Getty
and we approve of this program a sleep in action.
Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, here we
go at Mark.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Well, you see the the remnants of flames. Those were
all homes and as you drive down pH you couldn't
inceive the water because they were home after home after home.
Now they are all gone, and it's he's gonna dan
all the way over to those lights far down there.
Those were all homes, you guys. They're gone.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, like a whole street of homes. Just they're gone.
They don't exist anymore. And people are going to come
back and find that out. And so that's the Palisades area.
And we have a friend who lives in that area
and he doesn't know if his house still exists. And
then I was talking to people in the Pasadena Altadina
area where which I know very very well and I've
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hiked around those hills and everything many many times. And
it's burning down a senior center that has burned completely
to the ground in the Pasadena area. And for whatever reason,
I think this comes out of the Paradise fire that
also was in California, Northern California. Horrible death from that,
the idea of trying to get away in your car
(09:50):
and being stuck in traffic I find like the most
terrifying of all things. Just right, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, and there are folks saying, hey, if you have
to abandon your car, leave the keys in it so
we can move it to let the emergency vehicles through,
and blah blah blah. You know, the idea of leaving
your keys in your car in LA is practically hilarious
in any other context. But yeah, it's chaos. It's the
disaster in the Maui style. Again, not the loss of
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life thus far, partly because you know, there are multiple
roots in and out of everywhere in La. None of
them will work ortho dam most times of the day.
But thank god so far. Okay, from what I've heard.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, so people were in the traffic jam, fire was
getting closer. They're afraid they're going to burn up sitting
in their cars like we've seen in other places in
the country in the last couple of years. So they
abandoned their cars, took off. There was no way to
get the cars out of there, so they started bulldozing
cars out of the way to try to get the
fire trucks through. Then late in the day yesterday they
put out the alert. I saw Bill Millusion of Fox
(10:55):
tweet this out that they put out the alert. Hey,
anybody who's a firefighter, whether you're on duty or not,
need your help. And he said he's never seen that
in any disaster in LA history, after decades of covering it,
where they're like that desperate for more help. Then the
wind was so many from we're talking about any town
in county within earshot. Yeah, yeah, just La. And then
last night they called off all like helicopter, plane rescue,
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dropping water, all that sort of stuff because the wind
was too bad, so they couldn't fly anything. And also
you couldn't see from the air get those kind of
reports because nobody could fly. So yeah, and it's gonna
be worse today, as you said, So that's quite the deal.
We'll keep our eye on it. How does mailbag look outstanding?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
It's on the way. Here's our text line four one
five two nine five k ftc Armstrong. So the Facebook
No More fact Checkers story continues to get a lot
of attention, mostly from the hold on quit trying to
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cover yourself in glory. Your main interest is making the
America freer, better place to live, and not the fact
that you're just trying to get your business have your
business ruined by Trump and the incoming Republican Party so
more on that coming up later.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I have a nuanced view of the issue, Jack, which
I will be sharing with you.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I can wait to get to that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Also, some bonus mailbag coming up in a little bit,
all having to do with Trump's ideas of annexing this,
that and the other that controversy. We'll sprinkle a bit
of that into mailbag proper. First to your freedom loving
quote of the day. I love it when you bring
nuance to a story. That's what I'm all about our
(12:42):
series on beginnings. This from Jim Rowlan, who's work I
do not know, and I didn't have time to look
up who he is, but I like this. Learning is
the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is
where the miracle process all begins.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Wow, that's really good. I say that like that. I
say that not as well to my kids all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, there is never a downside to learning things, you
know what. And that fits in with the controversial the
veg Ramaswami tweet about American kids versus foreign kids and
the culture and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They got so much attention during the break. We'll love
to talk about that later. That's perfect, perfect, perfectly, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We'll kind of touch on it right now during mailbag,
and I'll tell.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You why that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Jovias note mailbag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com. Michael
in Washington State rights Well. He suggests he likes staying
alive in twenty five giving out crazy the start of
the year has been. But the most popular choice, though,
is cut the jive in twenty five based on remember
at the end of last year.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
My new slogan has cut the crap.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And what I mean by that is there are so
many things that have been foisted upon us off and
by the progressive left and our universities and media. Crap.
There's a brutal crime in New York. A woman stabbed
a postal worker. No, it was a dude, a delusional
dude dressed as a woman.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
That's a dude.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, the people keep telling me I need to say
that crap, because it's rude not to say that crap. No,
just cut the crap. You need to get back to
common sense.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I about the FBI saying this, we don't think this
is a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh, she just stated this is not a terrorist event
way before anybody could possibly draw anyclusion.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Conclusion, that's garbage, that's crap. Uh. This is from JT
and Livermore.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
OMG, Jack, who doesn't even understand how crypto works or
why anybody would go to taco Bell is trying to
explain the multiverse. Either it's a sign of the impending
apocalypse or it is ironic proof that there is a multiverse,
because it would take an infinite number of universes to
have one where Jack doesn't understand many things but does
understand one of the most complicated theories ever devised.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, it's a matter that's on necessarily snide. It's a
matter of things I'm interested or not. I assume I
could understand crypto if I ever read about it, but
I haven't because I don't know. I just don't care yet.
I probably should.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, I don't like cliches, particularly modern ones, but I
don't have the bandwidth. There's a pretty good statement. I
just I don't have time right right, moving along, I
love this. Marina and San Diego frequent correspondent. My family
just visited Grapevine, Texas, the Christmas capital of Texas. Main
Street all decked out, just absolutely beautiful. It was like
a Hallmark movie. We went over to the life sized
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Nativity waited for our turn to take a photo. Just
then a man with his wife and kids started pushing
their way to the front in front of us. Realizing
this family maybe from a country or pushing and shoving
is the norm, I said politely, excuse me, but you
need to wait your turn.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
We were next. We then took our photo.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And as I returned to the group, I realized I
almost had to throw down in front of Baby Jesus.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
On Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Wow, rudeness not in my Americus there from San Diego.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Man, the three wise guys would have been going tisk
tisk tisk as you rolled around on the ground with
that dude.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Or get them, get them because they saw what was
happening and they're wives.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Here take my mirr. Hit him in the head, throw
the mur in his eyes and turns. Maybe he does.
Nobody knows. Swimmer is uh.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Let's see Ted Wrights on Canada's the fifty first State,
whoa not so fast? Yes, Canada is very very liberal progressive.
So before Canada becomes a state, we need to have
a little transition period to deprogram them. Off their current
socialist government mindset. First, they need to be a protectorate
like Guam or Puerto Rico. In fact, when you look
at the definition of protectorate, Canada is practically one already.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And I quote.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
A protectorate is a territory that is protected by a
stronger state or entity, either militarily or diplomatically against third parties.
The United States has several territories, including commonwealths and other territories.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, is that what some in Greenland are wanting to
have happen. I listened to a politician from Greenland on
NPR this morning. He's all four coming under the umbrella
of the United States. There's a lot to be said
about this. It is not a crazy notion, and we're
not going to conquer it. We're going to buy it
or you know, enter into an agreement. I'd kind of
like to conquerte. You're on a ship on shore and
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somebody runs up on the beach and plants a flag.
The Greenlanders are like, okay, it's got a lot to
do with China. At least the politician I heard this
morning a lot more on the way, stay with us,
armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Just hear US tourists seeing it looks like an incredible place.
We've been talking about going for a while.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I was actually supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Here last spring for some of the stuff I do
in my free time.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
As Donald Trump junior. Landing in Greenland yesterday being asked,
asked obviously about his dad's speculation about Greenland becoming a
state or something like that, and he said, oh, no, no,
just coincidence. I've always wanted to come to Greenland, and
what come on, there's.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
A tourist what in my Trump jet?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Right? Just a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I meant to come earlier but didn't get around till
till like the day after my dad gave a big
speech about having Greenland. So Trump made a handful of
really intriguing statements that his long press conference yesterday. News
conference you call them these days because the press is irrelevant,
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like the printing press, because that's where that term comes from.
I think that's why they call it a news conference
these days. Anyway, it's like not saying I'll play you
some tape. No, there's no tape anyway. Ah.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So he said a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Number one, we're gonna change the name of the golf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I'm down change
the maps. I don't care. I'll pay for it. It's
our golf, now give it back. And besides, we just
surrounded as much as Mexico does. We drill, we maintain it.
If something goes crazy, we cleaned it up. It's our golf.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Does any Is there any pushback on that? I assume
the people that hate Trump were laughing at it, like
it's ridiculous, but it makes Why has it always been
to Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
From America hating weasels? There's probably pushback. I mean, it's
just the name, all right, that's our name now, Okay,
Having said that, no blood has been spilled, We're just
going to change the names. And also the idea of
turning Canada into a state, which I don't think is
going to happen. As JT pointed out in mailbag, it
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practically is a protectorate. Now we're going to table that
motion for now. It is a sovereign country with functioning government.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It says we don't have a treaty or anything. I
don't think with Canada. But obviously if China assaulted Canada,
we'd be all over it. Oh yeah, not like we
would allow that to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
In spite of the over long tenure of woke Elvis
Weenie Justin Trudeau, who's ruined Canada with his woke politics
and economics and the rest of it. Canada is a
very close ally huge trading partner, etc. And just really
good people, so we will not be annexing Canada in
my opinion. On the other hand, the Greenland thing to
me is really intriguing. And no, Trump's not gonna take
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it by force. That's just are you not used to
Trump yet? He makes outlandish opening offers or threats or whatever.
Then it gets down to negotiating and you figure out
what he actually wants. Is it the most responsible way
for a president to talk? Perhaps not, but it is
what it is. He got elected.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Now because I'm of medium IQ, I can't help. But
when I picture Greenland, picture a big green country, because
it's in the name, the Land of green. But it's
not right, it's not it's ice, as they famously say.
Just remember, Iceland is green and Greenland is icy. Greenland
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is actually a fascinating place, and we don't have time
to do the full boring geography lesson, but it is
of growing strategic importance, and I'm gonna hit you with
a couple of emails like Andrew in the Bay Area.
Trump is one hundred percent right on Greenland, not just
because of the ten trillion dollars plus of energy resources
and rare earth minerals it's estimating to hold, but also,
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as a Navy jag officer with a little knowledge of
operational law, because of its geographic significance with respect to
future sea lanes. The earth warming, whatever the cause, means
sea lanes are opening in the Arctic, and transiting those
new roots between Asia, Europe and America takes a fraction
of the time compared to the Panama or Suez Canals. Wow,
(21:32):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Think one hundred billion dollars of goods being shipped every year,
taking half as long to reach their destination by ship,
and the billions that would save in costs. The first
areas expected to open up are the lanes between the
islands of Canada and Greenland. Grabbing Greenland would ensure having
a hand in sending the policies on those new routes
and maintaining freedom of the seas Moreover, Russia is positioned
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as the nation with the most land mass bordering the Arctic,
thus the most likely to try to control them. And
in Greenland, coupled with Alaska, our friends in America's hat
and our Scandinavian friends in Finland and Sweden, means we
could rival Russia for who controls these new roots.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Well, And as I said, I was listening to NPR
today and they had on a some high level Greenland
politician who is four coming under the umbrella somehow of
the United States. And I couldn't quite figure out what
they were getting at there, and weren't talking about being
a state. And he said absolutely no to the idea
of the United States purchasing Greenland, although they at least
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this guy hates the fact that they ended up somehow
attached to Denmark and the EU by extension, which is
all sorts of screwed up. But he was talking about China.
He said, Chinese ships are regularly about and they're surveilling
us constantly, and we don't like that.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, So to get serious about this because a serious topic.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And again, if you get hung up on Trump's.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Specific nomenclature, you're going to get dragged off of what
you ought to be talking about. Those sea roots for
the reasons that Burr Andrew is spelled out so beautifully
are going to be incredibly important geopolitical targets in the
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next fifty years, I mean like crazy important. And the
idea that Greenland and we do have I was about
to get to this. We have a significant military base
on Greenland. But the idea that Greenland and the might
of Denmark and again the awesome power of the EU
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would be sufficient to project the power of the free
world on those sea roots is not realistic. It will
take the United States and Trump's point of view on this,
as so many things, is all right, Look, if we
are going to be in charge of protecting it and
projecting the power of the free world around it, we
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got to get a better deal. We're not gonna do
it just because we're nice guys. So what that treaty
looks like, I don't know, but it's of enormous geopolitical importance.
And anybody gets hung up on making fun of Trump
as an idiot. A couple more thoughts is Alvin and Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yes, So would they become anything official? Would they be
like the Virgin Islands or anything like that, or I
don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There are a number of different options, but the whole
frozen tundra practically uninhabitable. Most of it ain't gonna be
true if the warming continues, and it probably won't.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Who knows. The Earth moves in cycles.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
But I liked this. Oh oh, here is on Greenland.
I think no one's talking about our military base in Thule,
which I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Perhaps I am
probably not, which was put there to watch out for
the Ruskies back in the day. I don't know what
the US does there now. Also of note is that
Greenland is a It really is really a string of
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islands with a big canyon slash frozen lake in the middle.
The earth really starts heating up, it will be a
good source of fresh water rises up when the ice melts.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Let's see, Greenland should be the fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And then Joe from Dayton says, I laughed at Trump
talking about invading Greenland.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Greenland. We already have a base there.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, that's true, formerly an Air Force base and now
a space Force base Pititufic Space Base Bidofik has a
ballistic missile early warning system mission to detect inbound to ICBMs.
So yeah, we're already a big presence on Greenland.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Okay, did not know? Yeah? He learned something every day,
don't you, Michael?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You got to learn one more thing. In eighteen sixty seven,
William H. Swords, Secretary of State, Swords folly the purchase
of Alaska. Remember that he wanted to buy Greenland and
perhaps Iceland, but opposition in Congress ended the project.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
And then we tried.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I think they're under Kennedy or somebody. Somebody talked about buying.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
In nineteen fifty Denmark allowed the US to have a base.
We tried to buy it and they said no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
So I'm watching more NFL football than I've watched in
a decade and a half. I think I'm not exactly
sure why, but has just happened? Are you watching any games, Michael?
Just a few here and there. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm
a Chiefs fan obviously, but Lions that can be very exciting.
How do you not root for the Detroit Lions and
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that coach in that fan base that has been without
a good team like the entire time they've been watching.
Oh yeah, very exciting stuff anyway, got the playoffs coming
up this weekend and all kinds of opportunities for you.
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
I just heard from another person that I know that
has a fire coming down upon them apparently and has
a mandatory evacuation order in the LA area. So it
is going to be a long rough day for that.
And again, the long term over arching store, as we mentioned,
is how are we going to fashion the relationship between banks, mortgages,
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homeowners and insurance Because at least one big insurance company
had dropped a bunch of these homes with their fire
coverage just weeks ago. I don't know if they knew
the fire was coming or what.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And if you are, you know, thinking, well, you know,
to hell with the coasts. They're liberals and they have expensive,
beautiful real estate, and the good good for them. We
mentioned at the end of last year. Actually I brought
you the story that the south central US has seen
an enormous building boom, and there's so there are so
(28:43):
many thunderstorms and hailstorms there. That's been one of the
big loss sources loss whatever of the sources of losses
of the big insurance companies. And so between the hurricanes
and the wildfires and flooding and the hail in the
middle of the country. You know, it's a lot of
(29:03):
the country now with building costs as high as they
are that it's just it doesn't make sense for corporations
to offer insurance there. They're losing too much money. Yet
it does make sense for people to be able to
buy homes. So how do you make all that fit
together that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I don't know what the way is out of this,
but California is going to be the leading edge of that,
and probably this whole la thing that's happening right now,
you're gonna have to fire something out.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh yeah, I hope there are a couple of really
smart senators and or congress people on both sides of
the aisle that have this on their radar and are
talking seriously about it because it could be a national
financial crisis.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, those homes that got dropped in their fire coverage
just weeks ago. Are some of these homes burning down
with no insurance coverage?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's correct? Wow dropped this month? Are now burning down
in La County?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That'd be a life changing experience. Holy crap. We got
Katie's headlines on the way stay here. Got a couple
of nieces I got texts from. They missed three days
of work because of the snowstorm that hit the Midwest.
(30:13):
Finally got home. Airport's finally opened up after several days
in the Midwest. I'm not flying. And then I just
saw on TVA McDonald's I know well in the Pasadena
area that is burnt to the ground. Mother Nature, man,
Mother Nature, all powerful.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, I would say, all sorts of good stuff to
get to next hour, including some really good commentary and
incredibly idiotic commentary about Facebook's move away from professional fact checkers.
I can barely spit those words out of my mouth.
It's orwelly into the extreme, and all sorts of other
(30:49):
good stuff. Anything you want to mention, Jack or uh
up to you. No, Okay, we'll move along. Then let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green and Katie Well as you.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Guys now the fires are the big stories.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Starting with NBC, three fires grow, forcing more than eighty
thousand evacuations around Los Angeles area.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So three thousand acres for one firewdred for another, five
hundred for another, and then a bunch of smaller ones.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah, another small one just started north and the winds
have been pushing south, which is worrying a lot of
people in the Tarzana area.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
One hundred mile an hour winds all day they're expecting.
It's hard to even imagine.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
And from KTLA severe drought conditions fueling dangerous Palisades fire,
you're saying it hasn't rained there in eight months, a fraction.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Of the normal rainfall, even as the northern part of
the state, which is enormous and ungovernable and ought to
be at least two different states, if not three, they've
Northern California's gotten plenty of.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Ring from ABC.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Biden administration seeks stay a plea deal for alleged nine
to eleven mastermind.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Biden's stuck in LA. Right, he was in LA to
fundraise or speak or something like that, and he couldn't
get out because of the fires, so he spent the night. Yeah,
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
From Fox News, Biden admits he might not have lasted
another term.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
If you had been re elected. Quote, who the hell knows?
I do? You wouldn't have if you're too old? Well, yes,
say now, then that wasn't really the problem you're dying
in office is your brain didn't work. Dude, doesn't work.
From CNN.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Green beret who exploded cybertruck in Las.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Vegas used chat GPT to plan the blast. Is there
any greater significance to this story or is this a
guy who just for a variety of reasons, went crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, the greater significance is our troops that have traumatic
brain injury in PTSD, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
That's what the story's about.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
From Reuters, made a shelves fact checking in policy reversal,
head of Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Ran everybody's catching on to the fact that you're just
trying to stay out of trouble with a Republican Congress
and president coming in and pretending that you're some sort
of free speech warrior.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All of a sudden, Well, I have a nuanced view,
as I mentioned earlier, I believe on the topic. I
think that's a tad unfair and I'll explain why I'd
sure hate to be unfair to Mark Zuckerberg. Boy, would
I feel bad about it?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Bomb Well said he was wearing a one million dollar
watch in that video yesterday. Did you see what I did?
I saw that?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
What?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh? Yeah, people zoomed in on it. He's a he's
a watch collector, and you know there are expensive watches,
but then there's a one million dollar wise actually nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but close enough million dollars exactly.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
From the New York Post quote face bb els can
undo horrid ozembic face side effect, and people are spending thousands.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Okay, what's what's face bbal Uh?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
It's fillers and all because when you when you go
on ozempic and you lose weight so quickly, your face starts.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
To get this sunken in.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Lagging skin lifts while for your skin to catch up
to your weight loss.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Yeah, so people are getting fillers and all sorts of
stuff to bring their faces back to life.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
All right, Sure that looks perfectly normal. What does what
does BBL mean? Is that what you said? Beautiful lady? Uh,
there you go.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
It's a but it's a butt lift a Brazilian butt
lift on where it stands.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, they're getting face butt lifts. Okay.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
And finally from the Babylon Bee, Trump announces plan to
rename the Moon quote Space America.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Go ahead, I just showed it. John Fetterman, demoocratic senator
from Pennsylvania doing an interview, saying this whole Greenland conversation
is absolutely responsible, which I appreciate. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Fetterman was on Special Report with Brett Bear last night.
We'll play you a couple of clips. I don't know, honestly,
if it's the stroke, or if he's just now able
to show his true colors or what. I've never misjudged
a politician as much as I've misjudged Fetterman. Oh, yeah,
I will say that. He was talking about how Trump's
cabinet nominees. He said, I'm talking to all of them.
(35:29):
And the idea that that's controversial I don't get. He said,
that's my job, so I'm going to do that and
he and he gave a couple other examples.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
He said, in what way?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
He said, aliens, illegal aliens who've committed crimes ought to
be booted out. He said, how can that be controversial?
They came into our country illegally then committed crimes. We
want them out.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Who's against that? I'm like, dude, wow, wow. It seems
controversial that a Democrat out of saying that, But that's
the mainstream of the Democratic Party. It's just we've lost
that fact through Facebook and Twitter, I guess.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, and because of the incredible volume of the far left,
progressive woke winging the Democratic Party. They have volume, loudness,
an influence so far beyond what it ought to be.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
It's time to get rid of that. Right, those were
mainstream opinions he was espousing. If you must now get
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Speaker 1 (00:59):
I was going to go with Greenland to come a USA,
but instead, good Lord, the people of Los Angeles County.
The apocalypse is upon La.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Man. If you haven't watched any of those videos, holy crap.
I don't even know what you say about that. Hell
descends upon you like that. One hundred times our winds
fired and traveling it like a mile every thirty seconds.
And today could be every bit is bad or worse. Yeah,
(01:33):
I was just hearing a report that they said that
they might be worse. And there are many many fires
all over the area. The super fancy Hollywood type houses
get the most attention always, but there's fires all over.
I was actually on the phone with a number of
people last night who were fleeing for their lives, electricity off,
(01:57):
pitch dark, can't see anything. Why there's so much traffic,
You don't know if you're gonna be able to get
out or stuck in traffic. People fleeing their cars and
running for the ocean. Insane.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And the minute that the dust settles on this and
we certainly pray that the loss of life is zero
or certainly as little as possible. The big story is
going to be the fact that several of the big insurers,
or at least one that I'm certain of, have dropped
fire coverage for that area, and people were scrambling to
figure out what to do when the fires began.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And this was as according to a friend of ours
who had to flee and doesn't even know if his
house is stole up or not. This was as recently
as a couple of weeks ago in that neighborhood. They
dropped the fire coverage, right right, That is a problem. Well,
you've been talking for a long time about this is
going to have to come to a head at some
(02:54):
point with the banks and the insurance companies in various states,
whether you're talking about fire's, hurricanes, whatever, How are we
going to deal with this because houses have to be insured.
The insurance has to be affordable enough that people can
buy houses. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I don't know how this all gets worked out, or
it might just completely distort the housing market in a
way that will be take decades to untangle.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
If you've ever considered it. The very very short version.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Of it is you have to keep in mind that
a huge percentage of the personal property in the United
States is mortgaged. And so you have banks, including some
of the big banks or even Fanny May and organizations
like that, that have billions trillions of dollars worth of
mortgages out there, and if there's no insurance on those properties,
(03:46):
well then the big banks would lose their arses and
that's not acceptable for a number of reasons. So, yeah,
we're definitely moving toward something like a homeowner's insurance crisis
in the US, and not just like in Florida and
California all over the place.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, and you know, continuing with what you were just
saying there, that's the interest the banks have, and then
we the people as a society have, you know, a
great interest in people being able to own homes. I mean,
there has to be a thing. It can't be a
only for you know, a tiny percentage of people that
can afford homes and insurance.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Right or self ensure my house burns down, I build
it again, ho home. Yeah, that's that's a tiny percentage
of people. It'll be interesting to see this play out,
and it could well be. It's almost certainly going to
be on Trump's watch, right, right, Chirst Why do I
mention the president Congress rights laws or they used to.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, people have been listening for a long time now.
I had a fire. We had a fire on our
farm about five years ago, and I got to experience
in person with flames around me, which melted my shoes.
How fast a fire travels when it's really windy outside.
And until I had seen it in person, I had
no idea. But it just it can go from a
(05:08):
spark to your you can't see anything but smoking flames
in seconds. It's just shocking. And that was happening all
over La yesterday and today. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, so fingers crossed the prayers whatever, uh, and on
we go.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I'm walking in the door, Michael, the door opened place
there he is, Hey, everybody, how.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
You doing fine? How's Katie doing? That's what I want
to know.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Poor Katie ailing with one of the several bugs ravage.
Oh stop it ravaging the country. I under sneeze a
two call.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I'm doing I'm doing better today.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Yesterday, man, I had so much chest pain that I
was married. I was going to end up in an
urgent care because I didn't know, like if this was
bird pneumonia or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Exactly monkey bird box pneumonia, murder hornet pneumonia, I.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Don't know exact right exactly, atmospheric river covid.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Now I'm back and with a deeper voice than ever,
so so.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Okay. So I'm glad that that came up because I've
been trying to figure out, like, did all of our
brains get broken with the pandemic or is all climate
stuff and diseases worse than they used to be. Does
it just seem like it is, or or it just
seems everything seems more extreme than it used to be.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, I don't know. I think part of that is media.
My wife had a cold last week and remarked it.
I think she said, I haven't had a cold since
the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Good for her.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
So maybe it's just, you know, we're getting used to
it again, the slog through the minor diseases that afflick humanity. Uh,
I'm not diagnosing you as minor, Katie were concerned. Chest
pain doesn't sound good to me.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
No.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I when I would cough, I would double over, and
I'm going, Okay, this is not working. But I got
COVID a couple of years ago, and I said I
had never been sick like that until I got COVID.
And I can say that I have not ever had
a flu like this. That wasn't COVID.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I know my son has been sick for a week
and sick in a way that was beyond what a
normal cold is, like you're talking about, and we did
the COVID test. It wasn't COVID. That he doesn't appear
to have sexed up a bird or whatever you do
to get bird pops. I believe that is it? Yes,
all right, I didn't do that just to kill any rumor. Yeah,
let's say internet settled down and he had La burning
(07:45):
down and the mountains of North Carolina flooded and just
I don't know, maybe it's just seems like things are
worse because of media govern Just Michael way. Whoa, whoa? Who?
Who is Jack Canning at the wog wrath of God? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm not. I'm not going down the climate change road,
but it could be the wrap of God. Yes, Michael, oh,
as I says absinentely January eighth, and look at what's
(08:06):
already happened.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, well, so have you come up with a slogan,
because stayin Alive in twenty five might be a good one.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Whoa, boy, this seems a little close to the bone,
doesn't everything it does? It does? Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I'd i'd prefer other choices, but that's your Uh, that's
your committee.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I'm a disc jockey. I don't know if I need
to focus on staying that term again. Ever, right, let's
start the show officially yourself. Then we'll get to similar
news of the day. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Jo Getty
on this It is Wednesday, January eighth, the year twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Staying Alive in twenty five. We are Armstrong in Getty
and we approve of this program a sleep in action.
Then officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, here we
go at Mark.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Well, you see the the remnants of flames. Those were
all homes and as you drive down pH you couldn't
inceive the water because they were home after home after home.
Now they are all gone, and it's he's gonna dan
all the way over to those lights far down there.
Those were all homes, you guys. They're gone.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, like a whole street of homes. Just they're gone.
They don't exist anymore. And people are going to come
back and find that out. And so that's the Palisades area.
And we have a friend who lives in that area
and he doesn't know if his house still exists. And
then I was talking to people in the Pasadena Altadina
area where which I know very very well and I've
(09:28):
hiked around those hills and everything many many times. And
it's burning down a senior center that has burned completely
to the ground in the Pasadena area. And for whatever reason,
I think this comes out of the Paradise fire that
also was in California, Northern California. Horrible death from that,
the idea of trying to get away in your car
(09:50):
and being stuck in traffic I find like the most
terrifying of all things. Just right, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, and there are folks saying, hey, if you have
to abandon your car, leave the keys in it so
we can move it to let the emergency vehicles through,
and blah blah blah. You know, the idea of leaving
your keys in your car in LA is practically hilarious
in any other context. But yeah, it's chaos. It's the
disaster in the Maui style. Again, not the loss of
(10:20):
life thus far, partly because you know, there are multiple
roots in and out of everywhere in La. None of
them will work ortho dam most times of the day.
But thank god so far. Okay, from what I've heard.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, so people were in the traffic jam, fire was
getting closer. They're afraid they're going to burn up sitting
in their cars like we've seen in other places in
the country in the last couple of years. So they
abandoned their cars, took off. There was no way to
get the cars out of there, so they started bulldozing
cars out of the way to try to get the
fire trucks through. Then late in the day yesterday they
put out the alert. I saw Bill Millusion of Fox
(10:55):
tweet this out that they put out the alert. Hey,
anybody who's a firefighter, whether you're on duty or not,
need your help. And he said he's never seen that
in any disaster in LA history, after decades of covering it,
where they're like that desperate for more help. Then the
wind was so many from we're talking about any town
in county within earshot. Yeah, yeah, just La. And then
last night they called off all like helicopter, plane rescue,
(11:18):
dropping water, all that sort of stuff because the wind
was too bad, so they couldn't fly anything. And also
you couldn't see from the air get those kind of
reports because nobody could fly. So yeah, and it's gonna
be worse today, as you said, So that's quite the deal.
We'll keep our eye on it. How does mailbag look outstanding?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
It's on the way. Here's our text line four one
five two nine five k ftc Armstrong. So the Facebook
No More fact Checkers story continues to get a lot
of attention, mostly from the hold on quit trying to
(11:57):
cover yourself in glory. Your main interest is making the
America freer, better place to live, and not the fact
that you're just trying to get your business have your
business ruined by Trump and the incoming Republican Party so
more on that coming up later.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I have a nuanced view of the issue, Jack, which
I will be sharing with you.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I can wait to get to that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Also, some bonus mailbag coming up in a little bit,
all having to do with Trump's ideas of annexing this,
that and the other that controversy. We'll sprinkle a bit
of that into mailbag proper. First to your freedom loving
quote of the day. I love it when you bring
nuance to a story. That's what I'm all about our
(12:42):
series on beginnings. This from Jim Rowlan, who's work I
do not know, and I didn't have time to look
up who he is, but I like this. Learning is
the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is
where the miracle process all begins.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Wow, that's really good. I say that like that. I
say that not as well to my kids all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, there is never a downside to learning things, you
know what. And that fits in with the controversial the
veg Ramaswami tweet about American kids versus foreign kids and
the culture and everything like that.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They got so much attention during the break. We'll love
to talk about that later. That's perfect, perfect, perfectly, we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We'll kind of touch on it right now during mailbag,
and I'll tell.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You why that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Jovias note mailbag at Armstrong and Getdy dot com. Michael
in Washington State rights Well. He suggests he likes staying
alive in twenty five giving out crazy the start of
the year has been. But the most popular choice, though,
is cut the jive in twenty five based on remember
at the end of last year.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
My new slogan has cut the crap.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And what I mean by that is there are so
many things that have been foisted upon us off and
by the progressive left and our universities and media. Crap.
There's a brutal crime in New York. A woman stabbed
a postal worker. No, it was a dude, a delusional
dude dressed as a woman.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
That's a dude.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, the people keep telling me I need to say
that crap, because it's rude not to say that crap. No,
just cut the crap. You need to get back to
common sense.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I about the FBI saying this, we don't think this
is a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh, she just stated this is not a terrorist event
way before anybody could possibly draw anyclusion.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Conclusion, that's garbage, that's crap. Uh. This is from JT
and Livermore.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
OMG, Jack, who doesn't even understand how crypto works or
why anybody would go to taco Bell is trying to
explain the multiverse. Either it's a sign of the impending
apocalypse or it is ironic proof that there is a multiverse,
because it would take an infinite number of universes to
have one where Jack doesn't understand many things but does
understand one of the most complicated theories ever devised.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, it's a matter that's on necessarily snide. It's a
matter of things I'm interested or not. I assume I
could understand crypto if I ever read about it, but
I haven't because I don't know. I just don't care yet.
I probably should.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, I don't like cliches, particularly modern ones, but I
don't have the bandwidth. There's a pretty good statement. I
just I don't have time right right, moving along, I
love this. Marina and San Diego frequent correspondent. My family
just visited Grapevine, Texas, the Christmas capital of Texas. Main
Street all decked out, just absolutely beautiful. It was like
a Hallmark movie. We went over to the life sized
(15:34):
Nativity waited for our turn to take a photo. Just
then a man with his wife and kids started pushing
their way to the front in front of us. Realizing
this family maybe from a country or pushing and shoving
is the norm, I said politely, excuse me, but you
need to wait your turn.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
We were next. We then took our photo.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And as I returned to the group, I realized I
almost had to throw down in front of Baby Jesus.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
On Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Wow, rudeness not in my Americus there from San Diego.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Man, the three wise guys would have been going tisk
tisk tisk as you rolled around on the ground with
that dude.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Or get them, get them because they saw what was
happening and they're wives.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Here take my mirr. Hit him in the head, throw
the mur in his eyes and turns. Maybe he does.
Nobody knows. Swimmer is uh.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Let's see Ted Wrights on Canada's the fifty first State,
whoa not so fast? Yes, Canada is very very liberal progressive.
So before Canada becomes a state, we need to have
a little transition period to deprogram them. Off their current
socialist government mindset. First, they need to be a protectorate
like Guam or Puerto Rico. In fact, when you look
at the definition of protectorate, Canada is practically one already.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
And I quote.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
A protectorate is a territory that is protected by a
stronger state or entity, either militarily or diplomatically against third parties.
The United States has several territories, including commonwealths and other territories.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, is that what some in Greenland are wanting to
have happen. I listened to a politician from Greenland on
NPR this morning. He's all four coming under the umbrella
of the United States. There's a lot to be said
about this. It is not a crazy notion, and we're
not going to conquer it. We're going to buy it
or you know, enter into an agreement. I'd kind of
like to conquerte. You're on a ship on shore and
(17:14):
somebody runs up on the beach and plants a flag.
The Greenlanders are like, okay, it's got a lot to
do with China. At least the politician I heard this
morning a lot more on the way, stay with us,
armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Just hear US tourists seeing it looks like an incredible place.
We've been talking about going for a while.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I was actually supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Here last spring for some of the stuff I do
in my free time.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
As Donald Trump junior. Landing in Greenland yesterday being asked,
asked obviously about his dad's speculation about Greenland becoming a
state or something like that, and he said, oh, no, no,
just coincidence. I've always wanted to come to Greenland, and
what come on, there's.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
A tourist what in my Trump jet?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Right? Just a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I meant to come earlier but didn't get around till
till like the day after my dad gave a big
speech about having Greenland. So Trump made a handful of
really intriguing statements that his long press conference yesterday. News
conference you call them these days because the press is irrelevant,
(18:28):
like the printing press, because that's where that term comes from.
I think that's why they call it a news conference
these days. Anyway, it's like not saying I'll play you
some tape. No, there's no tape anyway. Ah.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So he said a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Number one, we're gonna change the name of the golf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I'm down change
the maps. I don't care. I'll pay for it. It's
our golf, now give it back. And besides, we just
surrounded as much as Mexico does. We drill, we maintain it.
If something goes crazy, we cleaned it up. It's our golf.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Does any Is there any pushback on that? I assume
the people that hate Trump were laughing at it, like
it's ridiculous, but it makes Why has it always been
to Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
From America hating weasels? There's probably pushback. I mean, it's
just the name, all right, that's our name now, Okay,
Having said that, no blood has been spilled, We're just
going to change the names. And also the idea of
turning Canada into a state, which I don't think is
going to happen. As JT pointed out in mailbag, it
(19:27):
practically is a protectorate. Now we're going to table that
motion for now. It is a sovereign country with functioning government.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It says we don't have a treaty or anything. I
don't think with Canada. But obviously if China assaulted Canada,
we'd be all over it. Oh yeah, not like we
would allow that to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
In spite of the over long tenure of woke Elvis
Weenie Justin Trudeau, who's ruined Canada with his woke politics
and economics and the rest of it. Canada is a
very close ally huge trading partner, etc. And just really
good people, so we will not be annexing Canada in
my opinion. On the other hand, the Greenland thing to
me is really intriguing. And no, Trump's not gonna take
(20:09):
it by force. That's just are you not used to
Trump yet? He makes outlandish opening offers or threats or whatever.
Then it gets down to negotiating and you figure out
what he actually wants. Is it the most responsible way
for a president to talk? Perhaps not, but it is
what it is. He got elected.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Now because I'm of medium IQ, I can't help. But
when I picture Greenland, picture a big green country, because
it's in the name, the Land of green. But it's
not right, it's not it's ice, as they famously say.
Just remember, Iceland is green and Greenland is icy. Greenland
(20:51):
is actually a fascinating place, and we don't have time
to do the full boring geography lesson, but it is
of growing strategic importance, and I'm gonna hit you with
a couple of emails like Andrew in the Bay Area.
Trump is one hundred percent right on Greenland, not just
because of the ten trillion dollars plus of energy resources
and rare earth minerals it's estimating to hold, but also,
(21:12):
as a Navy jag officer with a little knowledge of
operational law, because of its geographic significance with respect to
future sea lanes. The earth warming, whatever the cause, means
sea lanes are opening in the Arctic, and transiting those
new roots between Asia, Europe and America takes a fraction
of the time compared to the Panama or Suez Canals. Wow,
(21:32):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Think one hundred billion dollars of goods being shipped every year,
taking half as long to reach their destination by ship,
and the billions that would save in costs. The first
areas expected to open up are the lanes between the
islands of Canada and Greenland. Grabbing Greenland would ensure having
a hand in sending the policies on those new routes
and maintaining freedom of the seas Moreover, Russia is positioned
(21:55):
as the nation with the most land mass bordering the Arctic,
thus the most likely to try to control them. And
in Greenland, coupled with Alaska, our friends in America's hat
and our Scandinavian friends in Finland and Sweden, means we
could rival Russia for who controls these new roots.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Well, And as I said, I was listening to NPR
today and they had on a some high level Greenland
politician who is four coming under the umbrella somehow of
the United States. And I couldn't quite figure out what
they were getting at there, and weren't talking about being
a state. And he said absolutely no to the idea
of the United States purchasing Greenland, although they at least
(22:30):
this guy hates the fact that they ended up somehow
attached to Denmark and the EU by extension, which is
all sorts of screwed up. But he was talking about China.
He said, Chinese ships are regularly about and they're surveilling
us constantly, and we don't like that.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, So to get serious about this because a serious topic.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And again, if you get hung up on Trump's.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Specific nomenclature, you're going to get dragged off of what
you ought to be talking about. Those sea roots for
the reasons that Burr Andrew is spelled out so beautifully
are going to be incredibly important geopolitical targets in the
(23:16):
next fifty years, I mean like crazy important. And the
idea that Greenland and we do have I was about
to get to this. We have a significant military base
on Greenland. But the idea that Greenland and the might
of Denmark and again the awesome power of the EU
(23:37):
would be sufficient to project the power of the free
world on those sea roots is not realistic. It will
take the United States and Trump's point of view on this,
as so many things, is all right, Look, if we
are going to be in charge of protecting it and
projecting the power of the free world around it, we
(23:58):
got to get a better deal. We're not gonna do
it just because we're nice guys. So what that treaty
looks like, I don't know, but it's of enormous geopolitical importance.
And anybody gets hung up on making fun of Trump
as an idiot. A couple more thoughts is Alvin and Berkeley.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yes, So would they become anything official? Would they be
like the Virgin Islands or anything like that, or I
don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
There are a number of different options, but the whole
frozen tundra practically uninhabitable. Most of it ain't gonna be
true if the warming continues, and it probably won't.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Who knows. The Earth moves in cycles.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
But I liked this. Oh oh, here is on Greenland.
I think no one's talking about our military base in Thule,
which I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Perhaps I am
probably not, which was put there to watch out for
the Ruskies back in the day. I don't know what
the US does there now. Also of note is that
Greenland is a It really is really a string of
(25:01):
islands with a big canyon slash frozen lake in the middle.
The earth really starts heating up, it will be a
good source of fresh water rises up when the ice melts.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Let's see, Greenland should be the fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And then Joe from Dayton says, I laughed at Trump
talking about invading Greenland.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Greenland. We already have a base there.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, that's true, formerly an Air Force base and now
a space Force base Pititufic Space Base Bidofik has a
ballistic missile early warning system mission to detect inbound to ICBMs.
So yeah, we're already a big presence on Greenland.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Okay, did not know? Yeah? He learned something every day,
don't you, Michael?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
You got to learn one more thing. In eighteen sixty seven,
William H. Swords, Secretary of State, Swords folly the purchase
of Alaska. Remember that he wanted to buy Greenland and
perhaps Iceland, but opposition in Congress ended the project.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
And then we tried.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I think they're under Kennedy or somebody. Somebody talked about buying.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
In nineteen fifty Denmark allowed the US to have a base.
We tried to buy it and they said no, thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
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Just a few here and there. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm
a Chiefs fan obviously, but Lions that can be very exciting.
How do you not root for the Detroit Lions and
(26:32):
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Speaker 3 (27:44):
I just heard from another person that I know that
has a fire coming down upon them apparently and has
a mandatory evacuation order in the LA area. So it
is going to be a long rough day for that.
And again, the long term over arching store, as we mentioned,
is how are we going to fashion the relationship between banks, mortgages,
(28:10):
homeowners and insurance Because at least one big insurance company
had dropped a bunch of these homes with their fire
coverage just weeks ago. I don't know if they knew
the fire was coming or what.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And if you are, you know, thinking, well, you know,
to hell with the coasts. They're liberals and they have expensive,
beautiful real estate, and the good good for them. We
mentioned at the end of last year. Actually I brought
you the story that the south central US has seen
an enormous building boom, and there's so there are so
(28:43):
many thunderstorms and hailstorms there. That's been one of the
big loss sources loss whatever of the sources of losses
of the big insurance companies. And so between the hurricanes
and the wildfires and flooding and the hail in the
middle of the country. You know, it's a lot of
(29:03):
the country now with building costs as high as they
are that it's just it doesn't make sense for corporations
to offer insurance there. They're losing too much money. Yet
it does make sense for people to be able to
buy homes. So how do you make all that fit
together that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I don't know what the way is out of this,
but California is going to be the leading edge of that,
and probably this whole la thing that's happening right now,
you're gonna have to fire something out.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh yeah, I hope there are a couple of really
smart senators and or congress people on both sides of
the aisle that have this on their radar and are
talking seriously about it because it could be a national
financial crisis.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Yeah, those homes that got dropped in their fire coverage
just weeks ago. Are some of these homes burning down
with no insurance coverage?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
That's correct? Wow dropped this month? Are now burning down
in La County?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That'd be a life changing experience. Holy crap. We got
Katie's headlines on the way stay here. Got a couple
of nieces I got texts from. They missed three days
of work because of the snowstorm that hit the Midwest.
(30:13):
Finally got home. Airport's finally opened up after several days
in the Midwest. I'm not flying. And then I just
saw on TVA McDonald's I know well in the Pasadena
area that is burnt to the ground. Mother Nature, man,
Mother Nature, all powerful.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, I would say, all sorts of good stuff to
get to next hour, including some really good commentary and
incredibly idiotic commentary about Facebook's move away from professional fact checkers.
I can barely spit those words out of my mouth.
It's orwelly into the extreme, and all sorts of other
(30:49):
good stuff. Anything you want to mention, Jack or uh
up to you. No, Okay, we'll move along. Then let's
figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Katie Green and Katie Well as you.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Guys now the fires are the big stories.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Starting with NBC, three fires grow, forcing more than eighty
thousand evacuations around Los Angeles area.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
So three thousand acres for one firewdred for another, five
hundred for another, and then a bunch of smaller ones.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah, another small one just started north and the winds
have been pushing south, which is worrying a lot of
people in the Tarzana area.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
One hundred mile an hour winds all day they're expecting.
It's hard to even imagine.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
And from KTLA severe drought conditions fueling dangerous Palisades fire,
you're saying it hasn't rained there in eight months, a fraction.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Of the normal rainfall, even as the northern part of
the state, which is enormous and ungovernable and ought to
be at least two different states, if not three, they've
Northern California's gotten plenty of.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Ring from ABC.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Biden administration seeks stay a plea deal for alleged nine
to eleven mastermind.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Biden's stuck in LA. Right, he was in LA to
fundraise or speak or something like that, and he couldn't
get out because of the fires, so he spent the night. Yeah,
I have no idea.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
From Fox News, Biden admits he might not have lasted
another term.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
If you had been re elected. Quote, who the hell knows?
I do? You wouldn't have if you're too old? Well, yes,
say now, then that wasn't really the problem you're dying
in office is your brain didn't work. Dude, doesn't work.
From CNN.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
Green beret who exploded cybertruck in Las.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Vegas used chat GPT to plan the blast. Is there
any greater significance to this story or is this a
guy who just for a variety of reasons, went crazy.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yeah, the greater significance is our troops that have traumatic
brain injury in PTSD, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
That's what the story's about.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
From Reuters, made a shelves fact checking in policy reversal,
head of Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Ran everybody's catching on to the fact that you're just
trying to stay out of trouble with a Republican Congress
and president coming in and pretending that you're some sort
of free speech warrior.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
All of a sudden, Well, I have a nuanced view,
as I mentioned earlier, I believe on the topic. I
think that's a tad unfair and I'll explain why I'd
sure hate to be unfair to Mark Zuckerberg. Boy, would
I feel bad about it?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Bomb Well said he was wearing a one million dollar
watch in that video yesterday. Did you see what I did?
I saw that?
Speaker 4 (33:37):
What?
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Oh? Yeah, people zoomed in on it. He's a he's
a watch collector, and you know there are expensive watches,
but then there's a one million dollar wise actually nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but close enough million dollars exactly.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
From the New York Post quote face bb els can
undo horrid ozembic face side effect, and people are spending thousands.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Okay, what's what's face bbal Uh?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
It's fillers and all because when you when you go
on ozempic and you lose weight so quickly, your face starts.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
To get this sunken in.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Lagging skin lifts while for your skin to catch up
to your weight loss.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Yeah, so people are getting fillers and all sorts of
stuff to bring their faces back to life.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
All right, Sure that looks perfectly normal. What does what
does BBL mean? Is that what you said? Beautiful lady? Uh,
there you go.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
It's a but it's a butt lift a Brazilian butt
lift on where it stands.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, they're getting face butt lifts. Okay.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
And finally from the Babylon Bee, Trump announces plan to
rename the Moon quote Space America.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Go ahead, I just showed it. John Fetterman, demoocratic senator
from Pennsylvania doing an interview, saying this whole Greenland conversation
is absolutely responsible, which I appreciate. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Fetterman was on Special Report with Brett Bear last night.
We'll play you a couple of clips. I don't know, honestly,
if it's the stroke, or if he's just now able
to show his true colors or what. I've never misjudged
a politician as much as I've misjudged Fetterman. Oh, yeah,
I will say that. He was talking about how Trump's
cabinet nominees. He said, I'm talking to all of them.
(35:29):
And the idea that that's controversial I don't get. He said,
that's my job, so I'm going to do that and
he and he gave a couple other examples.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
He said, in what way?
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
He said, aliens, illegal aliens who've committed crimes ought to
be booted out. He said, how can that be controversial?
They came into our country illegally then committed crimes. We
want them out.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Who's against that? I'm like, dude, wow, wow. It seems
controversial that a Democrat out of saying that, But that's
the mainstream of the Democratic Party. It's just we've lost
that fact through Facebook and Twitter, I guess.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, and because of the incredible volume of the far left,
progressive woke winging the Democratic Party. They have volume, loudness,
an influence so far beyond what it ought to be.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
It's time to get rid of that. Right, those were
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