February 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Joe watched the trans movie & his review
- The violence of Russian soldiers
- Foreign aid & how the money is spent
- Grammy's recap & Kanye's wife...
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong
and and he armstrong and Eddy. That very nice to meet.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'd like to know about sex change.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Of a rationale.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I see, I see men two women a woman, two men, man,
two women from penis to vagina?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Is it for you?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
For me?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What would you like to know about it?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Man? I want to know it all. What is the protocol,
the techniques under risks? How many operations? How much do
you need?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I'm oblastie yashi no blesti yes, p no blessi, lavinko
blasties namo bresti, speccio blest possi, lavin blesti control lavino blasti.
What is that Adam's up for reduction?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yes? Yes, I've now heard the summar anthem that is
the sex change song from that movie several times and
it I'm more astounded each time. And how dumb those
lyrics are, I mean, even for what they're going for,
they're so did you put any effort into this whatsoever? So?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
All right, here's the deal.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
We've been talking about this obvious Oscar bait up with
transgender movie Amelia Perez.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Hide for the most nominated movie in Oscar history. Joe,
I tell you what, brother.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
So, I was informed Friday on the show that it
is indeed viewable on Netflix if you dare, and so
I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You know what, I'm gonna take one for the team.
Why you watch it home? He didn't go to a theater?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Correct, Yeah, it would have been interesting to see it
in a theater. On the other hand, if i'd done that,
I'd had to sit through the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh you didn't watch it? Uh not at the first sitting. No,
then you don't know. No, I watched almost all of it,
but no, I couldn't. It's long. It's long.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Here's the deal, here's the story, and you'll get why
I didn't watch. And by the way, I watched like
an hour and a quarter of it on my Friday night.
Is a guy with a full time job, Friday night's
a thing?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I'm like, holy crap, I've suffered enough. I'm gonna do
something I actually enjoyed. I watched a big chunk of
the rest of it Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I didn't finish it.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Anyway, It's a trans movie. We mentioned that yeah, so yes,
that's the Oscar bait part of it. It's like, oh, wow,
trans is hot and Trump is in office now, so
we're gonna put out a movie about up with trans
nominated for all the Oscars.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And you're so obvious, you people. You don't know the
half of it. So here's the deal.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
The movie is about a rough, brutal, very manly Mexican
drug cartel boss who secretly dreams of being a woman
since he was a little kid, to be his true self.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How they work that in hastily, That's one of the
things I'm gonna tell you about.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
This movie has like massive life transitions and decisions and
things made in like twelve seconds. It's like, perhaps you
could move to Switzerland and started in life. Yes, that's
what I'll do. I'll move to Switzerland. And the next
thing is you're on the plane and it's like wait,
(03:37):
wait what Anyway, So the idea is this brutal drug
cartel is aided in his journey toward being a woman
his true self by his plucky, put upon, racism affected
girl boss undefeatable I Am woman, hear me roar attorney
(04:00):
who he like kidnaps initially to talk to her and
treats rather brutally.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And so is that Selena Gomez? Who is Selena Gomez
in this No, Selena Gomez is his wife in the movie.
This is what's her name? From the Avenger movies.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Anyway, I don't care about actors anymore than I care
about Orthodonys and Dennis.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
But so.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So, I will tell you this about the movie. It's
it's well made.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I mean the guy who the director whose name I
haven't bothered to learn either, very skillful. But here's the deal.
I'll give you a rough plot outline. So he becomes
a transgender person, a newly minted quote unquote woman.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
You can't change your sex, even with all sorts of
drugs and operations, you haven't changed it anyway. So he
quote unquote becomes a woman. And not only does it
become a woman, he becomes a saint. He becomes a
brave crusader for help helping the families of cartel victims
(05:03):
be found and even if it's their bodies, just so
they'll have closure, and so they'll know a brave crusader
who raises money for this and his saint like and
then reintroduces himself into his wife and kids' life as
their beloved aunt and is loving.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And nurturing to them, and he's a perfect person in
every way. And the tears are flowing against the child
recognizes the scent of his daddy, and he cries because
he doesn't daddy, but his act doesn't better love.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Him, and I well, so did they think? They didn't
think Dad was gone or something like that? They just
dead faked his own death.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Alert Wow, So he gets it. He must have got
quite the operation if he looked so different than they
think dad where he weren't.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Address Well, it's a different actor. They got a different actor.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, they got the transgender person who is nominated first
transgender person ever nominated for Best Actress.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Who's performance, by the way, is really really good. Well,
I'm never gonna watch this. I'm not. I don't think
I quite follow it, but I'm never gonna see it.
So well, it's the idea is.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
The most horrible of human beings will be turned into
a saint and the finest human being on earth if
they can become their true selves through a bunch of
brutal operations. All right, Well, the drug treatments that last
the rest of your life and render you sterile, one
hundred of them.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
The reverse being, of course, society forcing someone to be
what they don't feel they are is going to cause
them to be murderous, tortuous, evil people.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Right, cartel bosses. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And what's what's interesting is and again that like major
life events whip By, for instance, that you see a
shot of this person wrapped head to toe and you
can see through the bandages that they've had serious surgeries,
(07:04):
and it's like you've got to just go at him
with knives and scrapers and grinders and a dozen operations
and just to make them their true selves.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Does that not ring like logical to anybody else?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But then five seconds later on screen he's totally recovered
in his life is just going great.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
It's interesting that they portray the operations is so brutal.
I would think since it's an up with trans movie,
they would have downplayed that and made it seem like it's,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, that's the thing, But they do for like five seconds.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Then the then the person's in perfect shape five seconds later,
and then the wife thing as Tea the ant comes
into the lives of his wife and children because he
misses them so much, which is lovely.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The aunt even asks his wife, did you truly love him?
Did he love you?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And this is her husband now in the guy's way, Woman,
this isn't the way the whole trans thing works. You
don't get an operation and you're so clearly different that
you're a different person than nobody would even recognize you,
or or.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Even asks did you cheat on him? And she confides
that she did.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
But now because being transsexuals changed this person into the
Jesus figure of all time, they just nod knowingly, and
you can tell in her her eyes you know what
I probably drove her to that it's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm not going to torture now sat like I would
have as a cartel boss.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Right like five minutes ago on screen against it, and
instead I am going to crusade across the Mexican countryside,
bringing closure to the victims of cartels because I am
now a saint.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, the speeches Oscar Night are going to be something.
I'm so you've heard the expression spreading it on too thick.
They spread it on too thick and then triple that.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So is the song better in context or is it
just is stupid in context? Oh, it's presented as humor. Okay,
so it's supposed to be funny, dumb, well, ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Odd, yeah, how that fits into you know, as as
we've both pointed out how that fits into. But it
is still a wonderful idea. Didn't exactly ring true to me.
Is this in English or subtitles or what? Uh, it's
it's actually in Spanish and English. Like everybody's got to
(09:29):
read subtitles about twenty five percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I hate reading subtitles.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Another should have paid attention to phonics.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
It's it's very easy, It's yeah, it's it's in Spanish
and English and all sorts of different stuff. And yeah,
but it's uh, it's it's weirdly off putting and uh
so over the top.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I will watch the end eventually, just out of I'm
just curious. I am trade wreck. I'm kind of curious
at how the brutal cartel boss shows little glimpses of
he's really a woman inside.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
How he doesn't at all.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
No, he just sits down and tells her, yeah, I'm
actually a woman inside, and they get started.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
On the process.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Okay, No, there's no character development whatsoever. The changes are
so incredibly abrupt. There's not like an arc. They talk
about a character arc in screenwritering or in movies. No,
it's like character pinball. Oh I'm this, now, I'm this.
Whoa now, I'm this now.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I had read and I don't know if this is
true or not that audiences in Mexico are really hating
it because it doesn't take the whole cartel thing seriously enough.
That is absolutely a legitimate critical because the country has
been ruined by these cartels and now they're kind of
using it as a side story to the main story,
which is drans up with drans Yeah, the cartels are
(10:58):
pretty much is a Mexican family having a beer party
and there's.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Some guys with guns. Wow, yeah, just crazy.
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(12:16):
pretty cool. They're very well written songs. So if you
want to put those in, that's fine. They're in service
of a just a Frankenstein monster of a movie, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Pretty song and just the most sledgehammer version ever that
Hollywood is like, come at us with a trying to
teach us about an issue.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
All right, we get it. We're on to you. That's
why nobody watches anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
All right, right, you know what, I got to watch
the last several minutes of the movie. I fully expect
this cartel boss turned saintly woman to rise up into
the clouds and sit at God's right hand.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That's really that's the way they're headed with this.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So it looks like Mexico may have caved in the
whole tariff thing. Yeah, you haven't heard. This just happened
in the last few minutes. Mexico's announcer's sending troops to
the border, and Trump said, okay, we'll pause the whole
tariff thing for a month while we work out the details.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Trump grabbed them by the avocados, you know what, and
he squeezed, Well done, I say, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
More on the way.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Danish scientists have discovered a patch of sixty six million
year old vomit that's being hailed as a national treasure. Well,
that beats us in America. All we had was an
eighty one year old piece of crap.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
In the White House. Oh of course.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh wow, not the most artful joke, come on from
Greg Guttfeld.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I was reading through a list of some of those
people he pardoned and commuted the sentences of they're horrific criminals.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, oh my god, just evil.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
And the victims who are hastily trying to hide or
figure out if they're safe or whatever, because the people
are supposed to be gone for decades or now coming
on to the streets.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Just terrible.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, that's pretty awful, speaking awful. Did you happen to
see this? I tweeted it out. So this Russian medic
who had been fighting with the Russians against his will
for the last couple of years there in Ukraine, found
a way to escape and it's really hard to do
and got to France where he's seeking asylum. And he's
(14:27):
been doing lots of interviews about what it's like on
the front lines and what's been going on there, and
it is a gruesome account, including videos that he had.
He had examples of people being sent to the front
and being dead within minutes. When you get there, like
some eighteen year old, you're grabbed off the street, and
(14:48):
sent there. You know, somebody you take out of prison
and you send them there and you're not trained, you
don't have any idea what you do, and you don't
even know where you are. You get there and you
say you got to run that way, and you've got
a gun at your back. You'll be shot if you don't.
You run that way, and you get machine gunned by
the Ukrainians or blown up by a drone or whatever.
But it's just the whole thing that Russians have always done,
as we've talked about with my clients, They've done it
(15:08):
for a thousand years. They just overwhelm you with people
not carrying at all for the lives of their countrymen,
and people just running into machine gun fire over and
over and over again until you overwhelm them. It just
as gruesome as gruesome can be. And then the people
who are unwilling to do it, the Russian soldiers who
(15:29):
are unwilling to run into machine gun fire, they tie
them to trees. And this is what he had videos of,
and I watched some of it. I had to turn
it off because it was too brutal. They tie them
to trees and just leave them there in the wintertime.
Come back, you know, in a day when you haven't
had any water and you've been out all night long
and now your feet are so frostbitten. One has to
be amputated. You're ready to run now toward the Ukrainians
or not or they beat you a That's when I
(15:51):
turned it off, when he was beating the guy and
they had with a rifle, but I mean to their
own soldiers. Yeah, it's just as awful as anything that
what's ever happened.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
In you know, on Earth is going on right now
and literally dehumanizing everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh and I'd been reading about this for a while.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know why they're into this, but they're digging
these pits with the grates over the top, and they
put these Russian soldiers down in the pit with no water,
and they come over and they urinate them or they
rape them, or they beat them or whatever until they
can get them to Okay, do you like this or
are you gonna do what we ask you to do
and run towards the Ukrainians?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And any of you out there who are on the
side of putin in this thing, you can make.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
The argument that it's not in America's interest to fund
Ukraine and when this war I disagree. You can make
that argument if you want, but if you actually think
Putin's on the good side, you are so misled. He
is not a good guy. He's not standing up for
anything good in the world at all. He's an evil, evil.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Bastard God.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Their videos are hard to watch, Holy cow, But they
just have a practically endless supply because there's such a
country of human beings to run. But the Ukrainians have
gotten so good at swarming them with drones. That's what
this medic was talking about. The Ukrainians. They just have
these drones come at you and you know you're gonna die,
and they blow you up.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
That reminds me of something really interesting I read over
the weekend about the appeal of fascism.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
But the problem of it we can talk about next
half hour.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Maybe because there are a lot of people on the right,
young men in particular, who are getting dragged toward a
set of beliefs that is, it's absolutely a neo fascist
way to look at things, can describe that.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I thought it was a fantastic argument against it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
We got some highlights from the Grammys last Night. Beyonce
Win's Best Country Album and Best Album of the Year
for her country album, which she wore the cowboy hat
and the tight pants.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And the chaps. Attractive young woman.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Has anybody ever mentioned that good to see her and
her husband get some acclaim.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Good to see Kanye and is naked? Whatever? Oh my god,
completely naked wife? What the hell was that? Armstrong and
Getty now it was.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and
we're getting them out. Us AID run by radical lunatics,
and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
You're not endorsing getting rid of us AID as a
separate department, which already reports to the Secretary of State,
are you?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I would be absolutely for if that's the path we
go down, removing USAID as a separate department and having
it fall under whether are the other parts of United
States Department of State because of its failure. I just
went over the numbers twice with you in the amount
of aid that actually makes it into the hands. I mean,
you could you could almost say this a little bit hyperbole,
but there's probably more dollars that go towards state dinners
(18:59):
around the DC belt Way, then what actually goes into
rice and beings abroad. That's the state of what's going
on with USA, and Samantha Power said.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
No lesser self.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
So this conversation over the last several days about foreign
aid to other countries, there's some ridiculousness on both sides,
with my final point being I'll jump to my final point.
I don't care if it's a tiny amount of money.
If it's a waste of money, it's a waste of money.
It might be all the taxes I ever spent in
(19:29):
my life that goes to some stupid thing. I don't
want my money going to stupid things, even if it's
a tiny percentage. But here's an interesting thing for you
before we get into that guy there who was on
facination yesterday, he's a congress person who was wanting to
stop giving money to other countries practically entirely.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He's going to list off some of the crazy things
we spend money on.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
But before I get to that, whenever they pull people,
how much do you think we spend on foreign aid?
Most people percentage of our federal budget is given money
to foreign countries. People tend to guess around twenty five percent. Really,
when people are asked, what would you have well, maybe
you've been doing this long enough you wouldn't have guessed
(20:12):
that been I would have guessed it's higher than it is. Certainly,
when people are asked what do you think it should be,
people tend to say ten percent. That polling has been
fairly steady. People think it's twenty five. They think it
should be ten. It actually is less than one percent
of our federal budget that goes to four and eight.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's not very much. But again, to me, that's not.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
An argument so give money in stupid ways to countries
that doesn't do anything. If it's doing something, fine, But
if it's not doing anything, then don't do it. And
I don't care how tiny the youmon. That's the argument
I have with the doge thing. When people talk about
this is nothing compared to Social Security. Okay, fine, but
if there's an agency with five hundred ploys that accomplishes
nothing and cost twenty million dollars, get the free rate
(20:54):
of it?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well right, yeah, If I'm still subscribing to Hulu and
I haven't watched it in six months, you got to
get rid of it. Whether it's five bucks a month
or fifteen. Yeah, that's a silly argument. The problem is
that there's a fake argument for foreign aid to begin
with those of us who are in favor of it.
As I've made clear, it is a cold eyed, transactional
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bribe a lot of the times. Sometimes it's actually helping
downtrodden people to build goodwill and because we're a nice country.
But it's a bribe. You win friends and influence people
around the world. That's how you have a happier, more peaceful,
more profitable world. But it's sold as this great moral,
important thing we do. Because if you sold it the
(21:39):
way I just described it, people as say, I don't
get it.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Really, that's too bad because it doesn't seem that complicated. Well, anyway,
that fits in with this description of how we spend
some of our money. With Margaret Brennan on Faced the
Nation yesterday, I will.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Make sure, certainly as the Foreign Affairs Chairman, that we
give every single authority as we go through State Department
reauthorization to make sure that this moves forward, as well
as purging of people throughout the State Department other agencies
where we're freezing aid. These are all very important and
necessary steps. To make sure that we secure America and
we're going to support that.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I'm sorry, can I follow up on what you just
said there? You want to authorize purging of State Department personnel?
What does that mean exactly?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Well, if you want to take a look at the
State Department where DEI has been a priority over, let's say,
diplomacy in many accounts, I can give you hundreds of
examples of where they were.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Sure, let's list them off.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Half a million dollars to expand atheism in Nepaul, fifty
thousand dollars to do let's see a transgender opera in Colombia,
forty seven thousand dollars to do an LGBTQ trans comic
book in Peru, twenty thousand dollars a pop to do
drag shows in Ecuador? Shall I continue with more examples
of where it certainly seems.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Like there could be a review of things. Four and eight,
as you know, is less than one percent of the
entire federal budgets.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
And then you're back to that, well, this isn't very
much money. If there's no point to fund a trans
comic book in Ecuador, then let's not But you're saying
it's just to make them be our friends.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
It doesn't matter how they spend it. That that was
such a beautiful go around. Good for Eric Schmidt of Missouri.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The whole.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Margaret's saying that's not happening, and Eric Schmid saying, yet
is here are the examples and her saying.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, okay, but it's not a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Okay, and his name is Ryan Mass doesn't make any difference.
But he does that like three times with her where
they get into this back and forth and then he
starts listing off nutty things that we're spending money on.
I particularly liked transcomic books in Ecuador. It's my favorite
on the list.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But are they entertaining? That's my question. Are the comic
books good? Yes, Katie, I don't know about the comic books.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
But this is reminding me of that interaction with Martha
Rattitz where she was talking about, oh, it's only one
apartment building that those gang members took them over.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It's like they downplay everything right, right, And I don't
get how they think that works on anybody. It's forty
seven thousand dollars, that's less than one percent. Well, I
don't want to spend forty seven thousand dollars of my
tax money on something that's stupid.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, check their ratings and the popularity of the Democratic
Party right now.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's not working.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
That's sort of circular, never moving or never ending movement
of the gold posts.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
But if your point is we bribe a whole bunch
of countries to be in our orbit rather than China's orbit, and.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How the money is spent doesn't really have that much
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, mostly goes to their elites. I'd like to do
away with the ruse. I feel like you ought to
be able to make that point to the American people.
I think that's a better point to make than transcomic books.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, well, atheism symposiums, there's some Congressman masts point.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
There was that, but it's not being used for the transactional,
cold eyed, real politic thing I'm describing. It's falling in
the hands of the DEI crowd. He's absolutely right about this,
and they're trying to spread this radical left ideology, and the.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Problem with that is in terms of winning friends and
influencing people, as a lot of these countries say we're
not interested in being trans friendly. I think we're going
to go with China because they don't tell us how
to live our lives. They just give us stuff. They
just build us a bridge or cut us a check
or whatever. They don't lecture us about gay rights or
equity or all kinds of different things you guys lecture
(25:33):
us about.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That's a serious problem, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Africa is a great example of that. The warlords down there,
they don't care about any of us crap. They just
want the money and the guns.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
By the way, and another win, it has been announced
today out of Marco Rubio's State Department that Panama has
agreed to decouple with China around the Panama Canal. So
we might not get control of it, but it's not
going to be China running it either, so that might
be a win. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
I reinforced safeguards to make sure those contractors at each
end of the canal never have the ability to bring
it down.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's great, good progress.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Trump's style is bombastic threats, then he gets reasonable concessions
and on we go with our lives. I'm hoping that's
the case with the tariffs. As we were discussing earlier
in the show, I suspect it is given. You know,
Mexico's announced with that they'll put ten thousand of their
troops on the border to help enforce the border.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Great, super We ought to take a break.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I'm wounded psychologically today as I just flat can't beat
my son at chess anymore, and went from I'd beat
him all the time, and so I'd kind of take
it easy, so I'd make it competitives fun for him
to we're fairly evenly matched to He beat me so
bad Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It was embarrassing. I mean it just.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
It was embarrassing. It was embarrassing for him. Everybody was embarrassed.
Let's just change the topic.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I got to take lessons or something.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I guess I bought him chest dot com a membership
on that and he's taken lessons.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Consolate.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
It seems to be working. But I gotta up my gamer.
He's not going to play with me anymore. Well, that'd
be the best thing you could do for him too.
Oh yeah, you have a better opponent.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, there you go. Just just just you know, it's a.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Combination of I'm glad he's doing well. It's a good
it's an intellectual pursuit and uh, you know, I'm proud
of him. On the other hand, you hate to be
He said, you were just beaten by a child, And
then he does and the gritty he gritties around the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I don't know what That was the most popular touchdown
dance last year before the Trump touchdown dance became the
popular touchdown dance. Okay, but it is. It is a
touchdown dance. Is the whole point in the kitchen in
front of me. You were beaten by a child.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's what he says. Wow.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Wow, And then I tell him to go to his
rowing and tell him all all ounce and you're only
allowed to eat eat oatmeal for the next week.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
That's what I do. Ow, you're going to kenzie on them? Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Absolutely. I want to do a little highlight montage of
the oscars. Couple of song things I want to mention
that I thought were interesting, among other things. On the ways,
stay here, Jack. The game is called chest I don't
think it is.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Are strong and getty all the leasea firm.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
And the skyes.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
I f.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Thursday.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
That's bernal Mars and Lady jo John believe that's the
way he pronounces performing California Dreaming. There was a lot
of La California focused stuff because of the fires. Obviously,
the open song was really cool, they saying I love
La the Randy Newman song with a whole bunch.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Of stars doing that, which I found quite entertaining. Yeah,
sounds it's very nice musically. Beyonce one Album of the
Year and Country Album of the Year MBA Dark. I
don't even know.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I'm just curious as a guy listen to country music
my entire life. I just like to hear the people
who vote. It's got to mean something, or you wouldn't
have different categories, right, It's got to mean something, or
there'd be no point in having a country category, a
rap category, a pop category.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, then what is it in your mind? What do
you think these various categories mean? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah, I've long despised the Grammys as an award giving outfit.
As a list of great albums is fine, but the
awards are always silly.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, I don't know. I haven't listened to it. But
you're more impressed by the album than you thought you'd be. Yeah,
it's very, very, very artsy. It is not just I
just thought it like be another dance album.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It is not.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Yeah, okay, can we all chip in? I mean give
a little or give a lot to buy Kanye West's
babe some clothes?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So what is that she needs to do?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Kanye shows up with his wife completely naked in high heels,
like completely naked. Not, she's naked, but she's just wearing
a revealing dress. No, she was naked, completely naked, and
uh so what is that? Is that a flex? Look
how hot my wife is? Is that a I can
make my wife walk around naked? Misogyny seems to be game?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Well, yeah, that's always complicated psychologically.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Person say it was an effort to recreate his latest
album cover, which is her with only a small piece
of cloth covering her hindbin he does.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
She does that all day, every day's recreating the album
cover when they walk through the airport and everything else
they do.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Katie, you have a thought on this.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Yeah, there was some some people talking online about how
uncomfortable she looked. If you watch her face and her
eyes and kind of the way she's looking around, she.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Does not that's funny you'd mention that.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Yeah, I didn't see last night, But all the other
times I've seen her, she looks like she's being forced
to do something.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It looks like a hostage video. That's what makes me uncomfortable.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
He's never been rumored to be abusive in anyway or
anything like that, But I don't know. She looks like
I don't know. She didn't look happy, id I just
I did find it funny while they were taking pictures
of her.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
She was wearing a mesh, a piece of mesh over herself,
but you couldn't tell, and she kept pulling it down.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Like it mattered, right, Yeah, it was completely see through.
So I don't know what difference to me. Yeah, that
was odd.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
You know, Kanye is absolutely half a dozen kinds of crazy.
He turned out to be seven kinds of crazy that
would not shock him.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I think he's completely nuts, but he's so wealthy he
can pull it off.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, could be.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
So.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I wanted to get to this real quickly. I thought
this was really interesting in a great perspective. And I
bring this up partly because Jack reminded me that a
lot of young men, especially these days, on the right,
have been convinced that what they insultingly refer to as
boomer Conservatism has failed. The woke have taken over the country,
were doomed, and extreme measures are absolutely justified. The threat
(32:24):
against the fatherland is so severe that we must chuck
the constitution and embrace, you know, the new leadership, which is,
you know, essentially the call to fascism.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And you know, it's like every good scam, there's a
lot of truth to it. But I thought this was
a great perspective.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
The lesson we can draw from fascists fighting communism is this,
if you go too far in fighting communism, the communists
will capitalize in your decade of error for a century communism.
Communism needs a boogeyman to fight I would say, neo Marxism,
the woke crowd whatever, they need the racist, the white man,
the patriarchy to fight against. That's that's the only way
(33:03):
they can justify themselves anyway. Fascism supplies that boogeyman where
it may not have had before. For instance, Hitler's battle
with Marxism ended with him putting a bullet in his
own brain while the literal Soviet Marxists took over half
of his country.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
The point being the overreach and and.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Severe tactics, and we must suspend the constitution because the
threat is so great that always engenders a backlash that's way, way,
way bigger than any goods you would have done. Always,
And there's there's an element to the angry young man politics.
(33:48):
It's very difficult to explain to angry young men until
they have gotten a little life experience. The slow, steady,
two steps forward, one step back thing is really frustrating
and annoying. It's also necessary and I know that will
satisfy none in the angry young man community, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
M right, uh yeah, Well in terms of the looking
to putin as the savior of the world, as.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Tucker kind of seems to do in his crime. Oh,
I just I just don't get it.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
I just I always feel like I'm missing something, or
like you did a special I didn't see, or wrote
a book I didn't read, or something well did.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
It reminds me of how there are differences between the
fascists of Spain and Italy and Germany in the twentieth century,
and you would look at the other guy and say,
all right, the important part is he rallied the people,
he seized control, he suspended the Constitution and he got
the stuff done that needed to be done. He did
it wrong in these ways, and Musseladi did it wrong
in these ways, and Franco did it wrong in these ways.
(34:55):
But our guy, our you know, uber leader, is going
to do it and we're going to straighten out the
country and lead ourselves into the brilliant future.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But it always ends the same way.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Breaking golf News joking weighing on John Fetterman at length. Yes,
John Fetterman, Senator Pennsylvania is a pebble beach, apparently in
his normal clothes, and it has sparked outrage. His normal
clothes being a hoodie and basketball shorts. And is he
playing or I don't know. I just saw the headline.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I don't know what context he's there. And could you
play in that or down the street? Could you play
in that? Or would they not lay?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, not at all, No, No, what would they do?
They just tell you you got to go. Oh, they
beat you with golf clubs.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Wow, it's part of the grand tradition of the game jack.
It's a gentleman's game. No, they just say I'm sorry, sir,
that the dress is not appropriate. We'd be happy to
help you out. What is your size. Here's nice shirt
and pants, here's a belt. Okay, he's a US senator.
I don't care if he's the king of the world.
(36:05):
Put on a collar shirt to get okay. That's where
you draw the line. At golf. The US sell you
that now you let that go you the civilization crumbles.
Suddenly you got cats laying down with dogs, etc.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'd like to know about sex change.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Of a rationale.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I see, I see men two women a woman, two men, man,
two women from penis to vagina?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Is it for you?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
For me?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
What would you like to know about it?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Man? I want to know it all. What is the protocol,
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
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Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yes? Yes, I've now heard the summar anthem that is
the sex change song from that movie several times and
it I'm more astounded each time. And how dumb those
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
All right, here's the deal.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
We've been talking about this obvious Oscar bait up with
transgender movie Amelia Perez.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Hide for the most nominated movie in Oscar history. Joe,
I tell you what, brother.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
So, I was informed Friday on the show that it
is indeed viewable on Netflix if you dare, and so
I thought.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You know what, I'm gonna take one for the team.
Why you watch it home? He didn't go to a theater?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Correct, Yeah, it would have been interesting to see it
in a theater. On the other hand, if i'd done that,
I'd had to sit through the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh you didn't watch it? Uh not at the first sitting. No,
then you don't know. No, I watched almost all of it,
but no, I couldn't. It's long. It's long.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Here's the deal, here's the story, and you'll get why
I didn't watch. And by the way, I watched like
an hour and a quarter of it on my Friday night.
Is a guy with a full time job, Friday night's
a thing?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
All right?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I'm like, holy crap, I've suffered enough. I'm gonna do
something I actually enjoyed. I watched a big chunk of
the rest of it Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I didn't finish it.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Anyway, It's a trans movie. We mentioned that yeah, so yes,
that's the Oscar bait part of it. It's like, oh, wow,
trans is hot and Trump is in office now, so
we're gonna put out a movie about up with trans
nominated for all the Oscars.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And you're so obvious, you people. You don't know the
half of it. So here's the deal.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
The movie is about a rough, brutal, very manly Mexican
drug cartel boss who secretly dreams of being a woman
since he was a little kid, to be his true self.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How they work that in hastily, That's one of the
things I'm gonna tell you about.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
This movie has like massive life transitions and decisions and
things made in like twelve seconds. It's like, perhaps you
could move to Switzerland and started in life. Yes, that's
what I'll do. I'll move to Switzerland. And the next
thing is you're on the plane and it's like wait,
(03:37):
wait what Anyway, So the idea is this brutal drug
cartel is aided in his journey toward being a woman
his true self by his plucky, put upon, racism affected
girl boss undefeatable I Am woman, hear me roar attorney
(04:00):
who he like kidnaps initially to talk to her and
treats rather brutally.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
And so is that Selena Gomez? Who is Selena Gomez
in this No, Selena Gomez is his wife in the movie.
This is what's her name? From the Avenger movies.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Anyway, I don't care about actors anymore than I care
about Orthodonys and Dennis.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
But so.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So, I will tell you this about the movie. It's
it's well made.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
I mean the guy who the director whose name I
haven't bothered to learn either, very skillful. But here's the deal.
I'll give you a rough plot outline. So he becomes
a transgender person, a newly minted quote unquote woman.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
You can't change your sex, even with all sorts of
drugs and operations, you haven't changed it anyway. So he
quote unquote becomes a woman. And not only does it
become a woman, he becomes a saint. He becomes a
brave crusader for help helping the families of cartel victims
(05:03):
be found and even if it's their bodies, just so
they'll have closure, and so they'll know a brave crusader
who raises money for this and his saint like and
then reintroduces himself into his wife and kids' life as
their beloved aunt and is loving.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And nurturing to them, and he's a perfect person in
every way. And the tears are flowing against the child
recognizes the scent of his daddy, and he cries because
he doesn't daddy, but his act doesn't better love.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Him, and I well, so did they think? They didn't
think Dad was gone or something like that? They just
dead faked his own death.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Alert Wow, So he gets it. He must have got
quite the operation if he looked so different than they
think dad where he weren't.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Address Well, it's a different actor. They got a different actor.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, they got the transgender person who is nominated first
transgender person ever nominated for Best Actress.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Who's performance, by the way, is really really good. Well,
I'm never gonna watch this. I'm not. I don't think
I quite follow it, but I'm never gonna see it.
So well, it's the idea is.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
The most horrible of human beings will be turned into
a saint and the finest human being on earth if
they can become their true selves through a bunch of
brutal operations. All right, Well, the drug treatments that last
the rest of your life and render you sterile, one
hundred of them.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
The reverse being, of course, society forcing someone to be
what they don't feel they are is going to cause
them to be murderous, tortuous, evil people.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Right, cartel bosses. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And what's what's interesting is and again that like major
life events whip By, for instance, that you see a
shot of this person wrapped head to toe and you
can see through the bandages that they've had serious surgeries,
(07:04):
and it's like you've got to just go at him
with knives and scrapers and grinders and a dozen operations
and just to make them their true selves.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Does that not ring like logical to anybody else?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But then five seconds later on screen he's totally recovered
in his life is just going great.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
It's interesting that they portray the operations is so brutal.
I would think since it's an up with trans movie,
they would have downplayed that and made it seem like it's,
you know.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, that's the thing, But they do for like five seconds.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Then the then the person's in perfect shape five seconds later,
and then the wife thing as Tea the ant comes
into the lives of his wife and children because he
misses them so much, which is lovely.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The aunt even asks his wife, did you truly love him?
Did he love you?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
And this is her husband now in the guy's way, Woman,
this isn't the way the whole trans thing works. You
don't get an operation and you're so clearly different that
you're a different person than nobody would even recognize you,
or or.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Even asks did you cheat on him? And she confides
that she did.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
But now because being transsexuals changed this person into the
Jesus figure of all time, they just nod knowingly, and
you can tell in her her eyes you know what
I probably drove her to that it's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm not going to torture now sat like I would
have as a cartel boss.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Right like five minutes ago on screen against it, and
instead I am going to crusade across the Mexican countryside,
bringing closure to the victims of cartels because I am
now a saint.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, the speeches Oscar Night are going to be something.
I'm so you've heard the expression spreading it on too thick.
They spread it on too thick and then triple that.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So is the song better in context or is it
just is stupid in context? Oh, it's presented as humor. Okay,
so it's supposed to be funny, dumb, well, ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Odd, yeah, how that fits into you know, as as
we've both pointed out how that fits into. But it
is still a wonderful idea. Didn't exactly ring true to me.
Is this in English or subtitles or what? Uh, it's
it's actually in Spanish and English. Like everybody's got to
(09:29):
read subtitles about twenty five percent of the time.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I hate reading subtitles.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Another should have paid attention to phonics.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
It's it's very easy, It's yeah, it's it's in Spanish
and English and all sorts of different stuff. And yeah,
but it's uh, it's it's weirdly off putting and uh
so over the top.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I will watch the end eventually, just out of I'm
just curious. I am trade wreck. I'm kind of curious
at how the brutal cartel boss shows little glimpses of
he's really a woman inside.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
How he doesn't at all.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
No, he just sits down and tells her, yeah, I'm
actually a woman inside, and they get started.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
On the process.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Okay, No, there's no character development whatsoever. The changes are
so incredibly abrupt. There's not like an arc. They talk
about a character arc in screenwritering or in movies. No,
it's like character pinball. Oh I'm this, now, I'm this.
Whoa now, I'm this now.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I had read and I don't know if this is
true or not that audiences in Mexico are really hating
it because it doesn't take the whole cartel thing seriously enough.
That is absolutely a legitimate critical because the country has
been ruined by these cartels and now they're kind of
using it as a side story to the main story,
which is drans up with drans Yeah, the cartels are
(10:58):
pretty much is a Mexican family having a beer party
and there's.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Some guys with guns. Wow, yeah, just crazy.
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Speaker 4 (12:28):
Pretty song and just the most sledgehammer version ever that
Hollywood is like, come at us with a trying to
teach us about an issue.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
All right, we get it. We're on to you. That's
why nobody watches anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
All right, right, you know what, I got to watch
the last several minutes of the movie. I fully expect
this cartel boss turned saintly woman to rise up into
the clouds and sit at God's right hand.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That's really that's the way they're headed with this.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So it looks like Mexico may have caved in the
whole tariff thing. Yeah, you haven't heard. This just happened
in the last few minutes. Mexico's announcer's sending troops to
the border, and Trump said, okay, we'll pause the whole
tariff thing for a month while we work out the details.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Trump grabbed them by the avocados, you know what, and
he squeezed, Well done, I say, okay.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
More on the way.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Danish scientists have discovered a patch of sixty six million
year old vomit that's being hailed as a national treasure. Well,
that beats us in America. All we had was an
eighty one year old piece of crap.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
In the White House. Oh of course.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh wow, not the most artful joke, come on from
Greg Guttfeld.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
I was reading through a list of some of those
people he pardoned and commuted the sentences of they're horrific criminals.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, oh my god, just evil.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
And the victims who are hastily trying to hide or
figure out if they're safe or whatever, because the people
are supposed to be gone for decades or now coming
on to the streets.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Just terrible.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, that's pretty awful, speaking awful. Did you happen to
see this? I tweeted it out. So this Russian medic
who had been fighting with the Russians against his will
for the last couple of years there in Ukraine, found
a way to escape and it's really hard to do
and got to France where he's seeking asylum. And he's
(14:27):
been doing lots of interviews about what it's like on
the front lines and what's been going on there, and
it is a gruesome account, including videos that he had.
He had examples of people being sent to the front
and being dead within minutes. When you get there, like
some eighteen year old, you're grabbed off the street, and
(14:48):
sent there. You know, somebody you take out of prison
and you send them there and you're not trained, you
don't have any idea what you do, and you don't
even know where you are. You get there and you
say you got to run that way, and you've got
a gun at your back. You'll be shot if you don't.
You run that way, and you get machine gunned by
the Ukrainians or blown up by a drone or whatever.
But it's just the whole thing that Russians have always done,
as we've talked about with my clients, They've done it
(15:08):
for a thousand years. They just overwhelm you with people
not carrying at all for the lives of their countrymen,
and people just running into machine gun fire over and
over and over again until you overwhelm them. It just
as gruesome as gruesome can be. And then the people
who are unwilling to do it, the Russian soldiers who
(15:29):
are unwilling to run into machine gun fire, they tie
them to trees. And this is what he had videos of,
and I watched some of it. I had to turn
it off because it was too brutal. They tie them
to trees and just leave them there in the wintertime.
Come back, you know, in a day when you haven't
had any water and you've been out all night long
and now your feet are so frostbitten. One has to
be amputated. You're ready to run now toward the Ukrainians
or not or they beat you a That's when I
(15:51):
turned it off, when he was beating the guy and
they had with a rifle, but I mean to their
own soldiers. Yeah, it's just as awful as anything that
what's ever happened.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
In you know, on Earth is going on right now
and literally dehumanizing everybody.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh and I'd been reading about this for a while.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I don't know why they're into this, but they're digging
these pits with the grates over the top, and they
put these Russian soldiers down in the pit with no water,
and they come over and they urinate them or they
rape them, or they beat them or whatever until they
can get them to Okay, do you like this or
are you gonna do what we ask you to do
and run towards the Ukrainians?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
And any of you out there who are on the
side of putin in this thing, you can make.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
The argument that it's not in America's interest to fund
Ukraine and when this war I disagree. You can make
that argument if you want, but if you actually think
Putin's on the good side, you are so misled. He
is not a good guy. He's not standing up for
anything good in the world at all. He's an evil, evil.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Bastard God.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Their videos are hard to watch, Holy cow, But they
just have a practically endless supply because there's such a
country of human beings to run. But the Ukrainians have
gotten so good at swarming them with drones. That's what
this medic was talking about. The Ukrainians. They just have
these drones come at you and you know you're gonna die,
and they blow you up.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
That reminds me of something really interesting I read over
the weekend about the appeal of fascism.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
But the problem of it we can talk about next
half hour.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Maybe because there are a lot of people on the right,
young men in particular, who are getting dragged toward a
set of beliefs that is, it's absolutely a neo fascist
way to look at things, can describe that.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I thought it was a fantastic argument against it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
We got some highlights from the Grammys last Night. Beyonce
Win's Best Country Album and Best Album of the Year
for her country album, which she wore the cowboy hat
and the tight pants.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
And the chaps. Attractive young woman.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Has anybody ever mentioned that good to see her and
her husband get some acclaim.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Good to see Kanye and is naked? Whatever? Oh my god,
completely naked wife? What the hell was that? Armstrong and
Getty now it was.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
It's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and
we're getting them out. Us AID run by radical lunatics,
and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
You're not endorsing getting rid of us AID as a
separate department, which already reports to the Secretary of State,
are you?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I would be absolutely for if that's the path we
go down, removing USAID as a separate department and having
it fall under whether are the other parts of United
States Department of State because of its failure. I just
went over the numbers twice with you in the amount
of aid that actually makes it into the hands. I mean,
you could you could almost say this a little bit hyperbole,
but there's probably more dollars that go towards state dinners
(18:59):
around the DC belt Way, then what actually goes into
rice and beings abroad. That's the state of what's going
on with USA, and Samantha Power said.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
No lesser self.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
So this conversation over the last several days about foreign
aid to other countries, there's some ridiculousness on both sides,
with my final point being I'll jump to my final point.
I don't care if it's a tiny amount of money.
If it's a waste of money, it's a waste of money.
It might be all the taxes I ever spent in
(19:29):
my life that goes to some stupid thing. I don't
want my money going to stupid things, even if it's
a tiny percentage. But here's an interesting thing for you
before we get into that guy there who was on
facination yesterday, he's a congress person who was wanting to
stop giving money to other countries practically entirely.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
He's going to list off some of the crazy things
we spend money on.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
But before I get to that, whenever they pull people,
how much do you think we spend on foreign aid?
Most people percentage of our federal budget is given money
to foreign countries. People tend to guess around twenty five percent. Really,
when people are asked, what would you have well, maybe
you've been doing this long enough you wouldn't have guessed
(20:12):
that been I would have guessed it's higher than it is. Certainly,
when people are asked what do you think it should be,
people tend to say ten percent. That polling has been
fairly steady. People think it's twenty five. They think it
should be ten. It actually is less than one percent
of our federal budget that goes to four and eight.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's not very much. But again, to me, that's not.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
An argument so give money in stupid ways to countries
that doesn't do anything. If it's doing something, fine, But
if it's not doing anything, then don't do it. And
I don't care how tiny the youmon. That's the argument
I have with the doge thing. When people talk about
this is nothing compared to Social Security. Okay, fine, but
if there's an agency with five hundred ploys that accomplishes
nothing and cost twenty million dollars, get the free rate
(20:54):
of it?
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Well right, yeah, If I'm still subscribing to Hulu and
I haven't watched it in six months, you got to
get rid of it. Whether it's five bucks a month
or fifteen. Yeah, that's a silly argument. The problem is
that there's a fake argument for foreign aid to begin
with those of us who are in favor of it.
As I've made clear, it is a cold eyed, transactional
(21:18):
bribe a lot of the times. Sometimes it's actually helping
downtrodden people to build goodwill and because we're a nice country.
But it's a bribe. You win friends and influence people
around the world. That's how you have a happier, more peaceful,
more profitable world. But it's sold as this great moral,
important thing we do. Because if you sold it the
(21:39):
way I just described it, people as say, I don't
get it.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Really, that's too bad because it doesn't seem that complicated. Well, anyway,
that fits in with this description of how we spend
some of our money. With Margaret Brennan on Faced the
Nation yesterday, I will.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Make sure, certainly as the Foreign Affairs Chairman, that we
give every single authority as we go through State Department
reauthorization to make sure that this moves forward, as well
as purging of people throughout the State Department other agencies
where we're freezing aid. These are all very important and
necessary steps. To make sure that we secure America and
we're going to support that.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I'm sorry, can I follow up on what you just
said there? You want to authorize purging of State Department personnel?
What does that mean exactly?
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Well, if you want to take a look at the
State Department where DEI has been a priority over, let's say,
diplomacy in many accounts, I can give you hundreds of
examples of where they were.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Sure, let's list them off.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
Half a million dollars to expand atheism in Nepaul, fifty
thousand dollars to do let's see a transgender opera in Colombia,
forty seven thousand dollars to do an LGBTQ trans comic
book in Peru, twenty thousand dollars a pop to do
drag shows in Ecuador? Shall I continue with more examples
of where it certainly seems.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Like there could be a review of things. Four and eight,
as you know, is less than one percent of the
entire federal budgets.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
And then you're back to that, well, this isn't very
much money. If there's no point to fund a trans
comic book in Ecuador, then let's not But you're saying
it's just to make them be our friends.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
It doesn't matter how they spend it. That that was
such a beautiful go around. Good for Eric Schmidt of Missouri.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
The whole.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Margaret's saying that's not happening, and Eric Schmid saying, yet
is here are the examples and her saying.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Well, okay, but it's not a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Okay, and his name is Ryan Mass doesn't make any difference.
But he does that like three times with her where
they get into this back and forth and then he
starts listing off nutty things that we're spending money on.
I particularly liked transcomic books in Ecuador. It's my favorite
on the list.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
But are they entertaining? That's my question. Are the comic
books good? Yes, Katie, I don't know about the comic books.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
But this is reminding me of that interaction with Martha
Rattitz where she was talking about, oh, it's only one
apartment building that those gang members took them over.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It's like they downplay everything right, right, And I don't
get how they think that works on anybody. It's forty
seven thousand dollars, that's less than one percent. Well, I
don't want to spend forty seven thousand dollars of my
tax money on something that's stupid.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, check their ratings and the popularity of the Democratic
Party right now.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's not working.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
That's sort of circular, never moving or never ending movement
of the gold posts.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
But if your point is we bribe a whole bunch
of countries to be in our orbit rather than China's orbit, and.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How the money is spent doesn't really have that much
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, mostly goes to their elites. I'd like to do
away with the ruse. I feel like you ought to
be able to make that point to the American people.
I think that's a better point to make than transcomic books.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Yeah, well, atheism symposiums, there's some Congressman masts point.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
There was that, but it's not being used for the transactional,
cold eyed, real politic thing I'm describing. It's falling in
the hands of the DEI crowd. He's absolutely right about this,
and they're trying to spread this radical left ideology, and the.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Problem with that is in terms of winning friends and
influencing people, as a lot of these countries say we're
not interested in being trans friendly. I think we're going
to go with China because they don't tell us how
to live our lives. They just give us stuff. They
just build us a bridge or cut us a check
or whatever. They don't lecture us about gay rights or
equity or all kinds of different things you guys lecture
(25:33):
us about.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That's a serious problem, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Africa is a great example of that. The warlords down there,
they don't care about any of us crap. They just
want the money and the guns.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
By the way, and another win, it has been announced
today out of Marco Rubio's State Department that Panama has
agreed to decouple with China around the Panama Canal. So
we might not get control of it, but it's not
going to be China running it either, so that might
be a win. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
I reinforced safeguards to make sure those contractors at each
end of the canal never have the ability to bring
it down.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's great, good progress.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Trump's style is bombastic threats, then he gets reasonable concessions
and on we go with our lives. I'm hoping that's
the case with the tariffs. As we were discussing earlier
in the show, I suspect it is given. You know,
Mexico's announced with that they'll put ten thousand of their
troops on the border to help enforce the border.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Great, super We ought to take a break.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I'm wounded psychologically today as I just flat can't beat
my son at chess anymore, and went from I'd beat
him all the time, and so I'd kind of take
it easy, so I'd make it competitives fun for him
to we're fairly evenly matched to He beat me so
bad Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
It was embarrassing. I mean it just.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
It was embarrassing. It was embarrassing for him. Everybody was embarrassed.
Let's just change the topic.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I got to take lessons or something.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I guess I bought him chest dot com a membership
on that and he's taken lessons.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Consolate.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
It seems to be working. But I gotta up my gamer.
He's not going to play with me anymore. Well, that'd
be the best thing you could do for him too.
Oh yeah, you have a better opponent.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah, there you go. Just just just you know, it's a.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Combination of I'm glad he's doing well. It's a good
it's an intellectual pursuit and uh, you know, I'm proud
of him. On the other hand, you hate to be
He said, you were just beaten by a child, And
then he does and the gritty he gritties around the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I don't know what That was the most popular touchdown
dance last year before the Trump touchdown dance became the
popular touchdown dance. Okay, but it is. It is a
touchdown dance. Is the whole point in the kitchen in
front of me. You were beaten by a child.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's what he says. Wow.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Wow, And then I tell him to go to his
rowing and tell him all all ounce and you're only
allowed to eat eat oatmeal for the next week.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
That's what I do. Ow, you're going to kenzie on them? Oh?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Absolutely. I want to do a little highlight montage of
the oscars. Couple of song things I want to mention
that I thought were interesting, among other things. On the ways,
stay here, Jack. The game is called chest I don't
think it is.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Are strong and getty all the leasea firm.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
And the skyes.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
I f.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Thursday.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
That's bernal Mars and Lady jo John believe that's the
way he pronounces performing California Dreaming. There was a lot
of La California focused stuff because of the fires. Obviously,
the open song was really cool, they saying I love
La the Randy Newman song with a whole bunch.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Of stars doing that, which I found quite entertaining. Yeah,
sounds it's very nice musically. Beyonce one Album of the
Year and Country Album of the Year MBA Dark. I
don't even know.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
I'm just curious as a guy listen to country music
my entire life. I just like to hear the people
who vote. It's got to mean something, or you wouldn't
have different categories, right, It's got to mean something, or
there'd be no point in having a country category, a
rap category, a pop category.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, then what is it in your mind? What do
you think these various categories mean? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Yeah, I've long despised the Grammys as an award giving outfit.
As a list of great albums is fine, but the
awards are always silly.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, I don't know. I haven't listened to it. But
you're more impressed by the album than you thought you'd be. Yeah,
it's very, very, very artsy. It is not just I
just thought it like be another dance album.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
It is not.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Yeah, okay, can we all chip in? I mean give
a little or give a lot to buy Kanye West's
babe some clothes?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So what is that she needs to do?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Kanye shows up with his wife completely naked in high heels,
like completely naked. Not, she's naked, but she's just wearing
a revealing dress. No, she was naked, completely naked, and
uh so what is that? Is that a flex? Look
how hot my wife is? Is that a I can
make my wife walk around naked? Misogyny seems to be game?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Well, yeah, that's always complicated psychologically.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Person say it was an effort to recreate his latest
album cover, which is her with only a small piece
of cloth covering her hindbin he does.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
She does that all day, every day's recreating the album
cover when they walk through the airport and everything else
they do.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Katie, you have a thought on this.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Yeah, there was some some people talking online about how
uncomfortable she looked. If you watch her face and her
eyes and kind of the way she's looking around, she.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Does not that's funny you'd mention that.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Yeah, I didn't see last night, But all the other
times I've seen her, she looks like she's being forced
to do something.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
It looks like a hostage video. That's what makes me uncomfortable.
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
He's never been rumored to be abusive in anyway or
anything like that, But I don't know. She looks like
I don't know. She didn't look happy, id I just
I did find it funny while they were taking pictures
of her.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
She was wearing a mesh, a piece of mesh over herself,
but you couldn't tell, and she kept pulling it down.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Like it mattered, right, Yeah, it was completely see through.
So I don't know what difference to me. Yeah, that
was odd.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
You know, Kanye is absolutely half a dozen kinds of crazy.
He turned out to be seven kinds of crazy that
would not shock him.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I think he's completely nuts, but he's so wealthy he
can pull it off.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, could be.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
So.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I wanted to get to this real quickly. I thought
this was really interesting in a great perspective. And I
bring this up partly because Jack reminded me that a
lot of young men, especially these days, on the right,
have been convinced that what they insultingly refer to as
boomer Conservatism has failed. The woke have taken over the country,
were doomed, and extreme measures are absolutely justified. The threat
(32:24):
against the fatherland is so severe that we must chuck
the constitution and embrace, you know, the new leadership, which is,
you know, essentially the call to fascism.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And you know, it's like every good scam, there's a
lot of truth to it. But I thought this was
a great perspective.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
The lesson we can draw from fascists fighting communism is this,
if you go too far in fighting communism, the communists
will capitalize in your decade of error for a century communism.
Communism needs a boogeyman to fight I would say, neo Marxism,
the woke crowd whatever, they need the racist, the white man,
the patriarchy to fight against. That's that's the only way
(33:03):
they can justify themselves anyway. Fascism supplies that boogeyman where
it may not have had before. For instance, Hitler's battle
with Marxism ended with him putting a bullet in his
own brain while the literal Soviet Marxists took over half
of his country.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
The point being the overreach and and.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Severe tactics, and we must suspend the constitution because the
threat is so great that always engenders a backlash that's way, way,
way bigger than any goods you would have done. Always,
And there's there's an element to the angry young man politics.
(33:48):
It's very difficult to explain to angry young men until
they have gotten a little life experience. The slow, steady,
two steps forward, one step back thing is really frustrating
and annoying. It's also necessary and I know that will
satisfy none in the angry young man community, which is fine.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
M right, uh yeah, Well in terms of the looking
to putin as the savior of the world, as.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Tucker kind of seems to do in his crime. Oh,
I just I just don't get it.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
I just I always feel like I'm missing something, or
like you did a special I didn't see, or wrote
a book I didn't read, or something well did.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
It reminds me of how there are differences between the
fascists of Spain and Italy and Germany in the twentieth century,
and you would look at the other guy and say,
all right, the important part is he rallied the people,
he seized control, he suspended the Constitution and he got
the stuff done that needed to be done. He did
it wrong in these ways, and Musseladi did it wrong
in these ways, and Franco did it wrong in these ways.
(34:55):
But our guy, our you know, uber leader, is going
to do it and we're going to straighten out the
country and lead ourselves into the brilliant future.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
But it always ends the same way.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Breaking golf News joking weighing on John Fetterman at length. Yes,
John Fetterman, Senator Pennsylvania is a pebble beach, apparently in
his normal clothes, and it has sparked outrage. His normal
clothes being a hoodie and basketball shorts. And is he
playing or I don't know. I just saw the headline.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I don't know what context he's there. And could you
play in that or down the street? Could you play
in that? Or would they not lay?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
No, not at all, No, No, what would they do?
They just tell you you got to go. Oh, they
beat you with golf clubs.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Wow, it's part of the grand tradition of the game jack.
It's a gentleman's game. No, they just say I'm sorry, sir,
that the dress is not appropriate. We'd be happy to
help you out. What is your size. Here's nice shirt
and pants, here's a belt. Okay, he's a US senator.
I don't care if he's the king of the world.
(36:05):
Put on a collar shirt to get okay. That's where
you draw the line. At golf. The US sell you
that now you let that go you the civilization crumbles.
Suddenly you got cats laying down with dogs, etc.
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