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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

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at the George Washington Broadcast Center,

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong

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and Getty Show.

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Midnight tonight is the deadline

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for Trump coming up with that half a billion

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dollars and doze or dozen

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lee and is there an appeals process?

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More on that later. That's some pretty

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exciting politics. Also, the president of Mexico

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was on sixty minutes last night, what

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a kook? And that's our number one trading

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partner and right on our border and millions

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of people are crossing from that country into our country.

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So we'll check in on that story a

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little bit.

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I think it is one of the great

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undiscussed stories of our time, maybe

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the great undiscussed story of our

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time, that we live cheek bagel

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with a half failed

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Narco state, and

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it's more it's more of that now

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than it was a couple of years

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ago. Right right, hey,

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Before we dive into the fair of

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this hour is one to greet new listeners

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around the country joining us on

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some great radio stations. Thank you very much for

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being here. I hope you enjoy the show. It's

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a little different than what you may be used to give

1:12

it a little while, if you'd.

1:14

Be so kind.

1:16

You still don't like it, give it another week. A

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couple of statistics you are going to be

1:21

hammered with, or sets of statistics,

1:24

and you've probably heard some of these before, but during an election

1:26

year you'll absolutely be hammered with them. Have to

1:28

do with, on the first hand,

1:31

the plight of the poor in the United States

1:33

and the need for more government programs. And then

1:35

a really interesting example about maternal

1:40

mortality that

1:42

you'll hear thrown around two that

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you should be aware of. But I

1:47

thought this was so good. George Will pointing out

1:49

something that Jack you pointed out through the years,

1:51

and he starts with an anecdote to Manhattan

1:54

District Attorney saying, you would not prosecute people

1:56

who jump subways turnstiles to avoid

1:58

paying fares, because this is a crime of desperation.

2:01

A right right every

2:03

person jumping to turnstile. It's because

2:05

I'm trying best I can to get a job, but just

2:08

the current system won't allow it.

2:10

And Bob, Bob are right.

2:12

And he doesn't name this retired New York

2:14

police chief who responded, I wish he had because

2:16

I want to know his name. But he responded, Yeah,

2:19

find me a turnstile jumper who doesn't have a

2:21

smartphone, even one.

2:23

I'll bet you can't.

2:25

So George Will points out that during cloudy

2:27

election, to your campaigns, the nature

2:29

and importance of economic inequality really

2:31

get to you know, lift it up. Everybody's

2:33

discussing economic inequality, income inequality.

2:36

In more than fifty years, government

2:39

transfer payments which include medicaid,

2:41

food stamps, and all sorts of different programs

2:43

to the average household in the bottom Quinn

2:46

tile of earners, that's your bottom fifth

2:48

of earners, have risen in

2:50

inflation adjusted dollars. It's just last fifty

2:52

years, from ninety seven hundred to

2:54

forty five thousand dollars

2:57

annually. And

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again that's since nineteen seventy

3:01

four. So why then,

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does the government, which is

3:06

substantially staffed by progressives, use

3:08

statistics that suggest that these anti

3:11

poverty policies are perfectly fuderal, futile

3:14

because they continue to make the same

3:16

argument, Oh, people are very poor, they need more

3:18

and more and more and more. And

3:20

Will points out the reason they do that is it provides

3:22

a permanent rationale for government growth, perpetual

3:25

undiminished poverty. But the

3:28

problem is the poverty is diminished

3:30

a lot.

3:31

Right, So I used

3:34

to wonder, why have wages

3:36

not risen in however many years

3:38

that's adjusted for inflation.

3:40

That that's the.

3:41

Stat they always say you going back to the eighties,

3:43

wages haven't earlier.

3:44

What is going on?

3:45

It's because the transfer payments, the red

3:47

distribution of wealth has exploded

3:50

in that amount of time. That's where

3:52

the growth came from.

3:55

Right, Right.

3:56

And in a book that came out a couple of years

3:58

ago, Phil Graham and a couple of other fe is the

4:00

Myth of American inequality pointed

4:03

out that there are gross

4:06

defects in the Census

4:08

Bureau's measurement of inequality. These

4:10

statistics you hear are

4:12

affected by the following by not counting

4:15

about eighty eight percent of government

4:17

transfer payments that enlarge

4:19

the buying power of lower income households. I

4:21

mean, what else is income than giving you money

4:24

to buy stuff with and not

4:26

counting the taxes that lower

4:28

the wealth of higher income.

4:32

Right, that's a good point. Yeah, they never subtract

4:34

on that.

4:34

End, so you don't count the money

4:36

out on the top end, and you don't count

4:39

the money.

4:39

In on the low end.

4:40

I remember doing this last year on tax day. Probably

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do it again this year on tax Day. It's a bit

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of a eye glazing mathematics thing.

4:47

But I mean you'll

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hear these multiples that they throw around that the

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average got it right in front of me. Okay, but so the average

4:54

person is this many multiple times the other person.

4:56

Okay, So you're taking the big number,

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you're not taking the taxes out the bottom

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number. You're not adding in the taxes they get,

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so you have the biggest difference you can possibly

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have. It's such a it's

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such a it's a flat out lie. It's

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not sug just being you know, inaccurate

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with your data.

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It's a lie. Oh

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where is that?

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By not counting about eighty eight percent of the government

5:20

transfer payments or the taxes,

5:22

Government statistics claim to

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prove that the average income in the top

5:27

quintile of earners is sixteen

5:29

point seven times that of the

5:31

average in the bottom quintile.

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But when you include the taxes

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and the.

5:36

Transfers, it's not sixteen point seven

5:39

times, it's four times as

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much.

5:42

It's four to one, not seventeen

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to one.

5:45

Right, just a very simplified version

5:48

in these numbers won't be accurate, but just surely you can picture

5:50

this. If you got somebody who makes two hundred thousand

5:52

dollars a year, they get to keep I don't know, if

5:54

you're in California, maybe a

5:56

little less than half of that, but let's call half of

5:58

that. They get the action have like one

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hundred thousand dollars to live on out of their

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two hundred grand they make roughly, just really roughly

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for this point. And then you got the person who makes

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fifty grand a year, who's making a fourth

6:09

as much as a two hundred te They get fifty

6:12

grand in various

6:14

government programs, you know, your electric

6:16

bill or whatever it is. So you're actually more

6:18

like one hundred. So the one person came down to

6:20

one hundred, the other person came up to one hundred in

6:23

this scenario.

6:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah, cite an extreme

6:26

example. But they point out that

6:30

that were is that I'm sorry, Oh.

6:33

They point out that according to the government's own

6:35

statistics, those in the bottom of quintile spend

6:37

twice as much as they earn. And

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you ask the government, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, how

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is that possible?

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And their answer is, don't worry about it. Never

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mind.

6:47

So again, Will is absolutely

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correct. This provides a permanent rationale

6:52

for government growth, perpetual, undiminished

6:54

poverty.

6:55

I feel like this has just become well,

6:58

it's certainly not mainstream. It's like become

7:01

mainstream finally in like the

7:03

the the the the the chatting classes

7:05

on the right. But it needs to go fully

7:07

mainstream. This is the thing people don't

7:10

understand at all about

7:12

the whole so called inequality problem we've

7:14

got going on in America. This the

7:16

amount of money that's all being transferred. I came across

7:18

this article last night.

7:19

Charles Murray. Is he the guy that's uh wrote

7:23

the Bell Curve? Is that his name? It's

7:27

a yes, I believe so.

7:28

All right.

7:28

For some reason it sounds roun

7:30

Douglas Murray.

7:34

Well look it up, who wrote the Bell Curve? Katie

7:36

google that for me. Uh.

7:38

Anyway, So he's been he got a book out a

7:40

year or so ago. I think we even talked to him about he wants

7:42

to go with the uh

7:45

guaranteed basic income thing where

7:47

you get a check from the government for a certain

7:49

amount, but do away with all the programs

7:52

and so he's pushing

7:55

that as a libertarian. So he

7:57

recently and I saw him a quote of this

8:00

from him yesterday. He recently found

8:02

out that his proposed what is that right

8:04

name.

8:06

Charles A.

8:07

Murray and Richard Houkstein Charles Murray

8:09

didn't right to build croup anyway, Thank you pushing

8:11

this this basic income

8:13

that you get from the government idea, and

8:16

then you found out that his number that he was throwing

8:19

around is.

8:19

Like half what people already get

8:22

from.

8:23

The government in various

8:25

wealth distribution. So it would

8:27

never work. I mean, it's it's not even close

8:29

to them out you get.

8:30

Now right well, and then

8:32

Left would never ever go for it because it interrupts

8:35

their argument for permanent growth of government programs.

8:37

The other interesting statistical lie,

8:41

why not just go with the simple term lie that I wanted

8:43

to bring up was, and I've actually

8:46

heard this, the US pregnancy

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crisis. They're referring to America's

8:51

supposedly soaring maternal mortality

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rates. And according

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to the AMA, which is an utterly

8:57

political organization, the US quote

9:00

stands out among high income nations for its alarming

9:02

incidents of maternal deaths despite substantial

9:04

health care spending. Quote,

9:07

evidence and experience shows us conclusively that

9:09

the risk of death during or after childbirth

9:11

is approximately fourteen times greater than the risk

9:13

of death from abortion related complications

9:16

according to the AMA, and yes, this does

9:18

factor into the whole women's health

9:20

pro abortion thing. And

9:23

these folks suggested

9:26

that the justices who were about to overturn Roe

9:28

v Way would have blood on their hands because

9:30

so many women die in childbirth these days.

9:33

But as with the COVID pandemic

9:35

rights Alicia Finley, experts

9:38

are using bad data to drive a political

9:40

agenda. New study this month in the American Journal

9:43

of Obgyns showed that off

9:45

sited US maternal mortality stats

9:48

are inflated owing to discrepancies

9:50

and how pregnancy deaths are recorded. The

9:53

Centers for Disease Control and other groups

9:56

have roughly say that maternal

9:58

mortality rates in the US have left roughly tripled

10:00

since two thousand and one, which

10:02

is impossible. This is nearly three

10:05

times as high as rates in other developed countries,

10:07

but as the study concludes, it's largely a statistical

10:10

artifact. Deaths among pregnant women

10:12

or new mothers are often classified as maternal,

10:14

even if they owe to other causes

10:17

such as cancer or pre existing conditions.

10:19

The culprit is a checkbox that states

10:22

added to death certificates in two thousand

10:24

and three to identify women who had died while

10:26

pregnant or between forty two days

10:28

and a year of when their pregnancy ended, depending

10:30

on the state. It is a

10:33

statistical anomaly caused by

10:36

do you remember the great underdiscussed

10:40

matter of did.

10:41

They die from COVID or with COVID?

10:44

And how that the failure to differentiate

10:47

between those two causes or

10:49

ways to die caused just ridiculous

10:52

statistical inaccuracies.

10:54

This is the same thing.

10:56

It's anybody who died within

10:58

a year in some states of having given birth,

11:00

even if it's a car accident. But

11:03

they include these in these grossly inflated

11:05

maternal death statistics.

11:07

If you ever hear any statistic to hit

11:09

you as wow, that doesn't sound right, it probably

11:12

isn't right right.

11:14

It's like the US is twenty second in the world

11:17

in math achievement and as pathetic

11:19

as our public schools are in many places

11:21

around the country. That's because we test everybody

11:23

in this country. Country like Germany for instance,

11:26

just tests their college track students, and

11:28

so because they have like vocational led like we

11:30

should have. And then a college track.

11:33

So yeah, yeah, statistics,

11:35

especially in an election year, are

11:37

h not to be taken at

11:39

face value.

11:40

God, I I have one kid that would love

11:42

it if there was a track that was

11:44

not college oriented. But if you go to you know, your

11:47

school's orientation meetings, it's all

11:49

they talk about is the college track, just because

11:52

that's what everybody should do.

11:53

That's the way you have a happy life going to college.

11:55

Ninety seven percent of the teachers and all

11:57

of the administrators made

12:00

college their track.

12:03

I am ready to lecture you all

12:05

a little bit later. Those of you who

12:09

thought were said

12:13

disparaging things about Kate Middleton, our

12:16

princess, who

12:18

is princess?

12:20

Just awful? I mean, people were throwing up

12:22

maybe she had a sex change.

12:23

I remember somebody saying that, I mean, just as

12:25

awful a thing as anybody could possibly say, given

12:27

what actually happened.

12:28

I think I said that.

12:32

If you haven't heard the update on that story, since

12:34

it explains everything, Sure

12:37

of course it does. And why do you care

12:40

anyway, Kate Middleton isn't

12:42

seen for three years? Why do you care?

12:45

What is the matter with you? Thought

12:47

they photo shopped the family photo? Damn

12:49

it? Do you not understand the consequences.

12:51

We fought two wars, not one, but two

12:54

with the Brits for the right to not give a damn

12:56

about the royal family, and we won.

12:59

We won. I have a bunch of stuff

13:01

all the way, stay here, armstrong.

13:03

And YETI.

13:08

One advice I would give to the conference

13:10

and to the Speaker is do not be

13:13

fearful of emotion to vacate. I do

13:15

not think they could do it again. That was sheerly

13:17

based on Matt Gates trying to stop an ethics

13:20

complaint. I don't think

13:22

the Democrats will go along with it too. Focus

13:24

on the country, focus on the job you're

13:27

supposed to do, and actually

13:29

do it fearlessly.

13:31

Just move forward.

13:32

That's former Speaker Kevin McCarthy saying,

13:34

Mike Johnson, the current Speaker of the House. I finally

13:37

memorized his name, probably about the time he gets

13:39

booted. Should not be worried about Marjorie

13:42

Taylor Green or whoever calling for his oulster

13:44

that he doesn't think that'll happen again. Yeah,

13:47

to throw in there that Matt Gates was trying to avoid an ethics

13:49

complaints to get a shot at him, but probably

13:53

completely accurately. Brian or

13:55

rightell, I should figure out how to pronounce his name

13:57

because I follow his Twitter account and really like it. On

14:00

the current state of Congress, Oh, this is because

14:02

my favorite congress person, uh,

14:06

Mike Gallagher out of Wisconsin. He

14:08

announced he's leaving and then

14:11

he announced on Friday he's leaving now,

14:14

like in April. He's done

14:17

now, and he's like, he's

14:19

he's a Republican. Me'd have to like him even as a Democrat.

14:22

He's like a normal person. He's like, he's

14:25

an intellectual. You might disagree with politics,

14:27

but he's a completely one serious

14:30

person.

14:31

Yeah.

14:31

And as one of my favorite pundits

14:34

wrote, Congress has become absolutely unbearable

14:37

for serious people who want to do policy,

14:39

and driving out the sane ones replaced

14:41

with more crazy ones only makes the place

14:44

worse driving out more sane ones. Hope you

14:46

all enjoy Congress as a hybrid. Part is an infotainment

14:48

reality show. That's

14:51

a really good description.

14:52

It's a bunch of would be social media

14:54

stars who raise money and fame

14:57

by being outrageous, are

15:01

always always defiant,

15:03

never making a deal, and perfectly

15:06

comfortable being in the minority.

15:08

As long as you get lots of clicks and

15:10

fundraise off of it and get relected. Hyper

15:13

part is a infotainment reality show.

15:16

So Mike Gallagher and a number of other congress

15:18

people that are leaving likely will

15:21

be replaced by people that say crazy

15:23

things on cable news shows or

15:25

social media, and so

15:27

we'll go further down that road. Fantastic, That's

15:30

something to look forward to.

15:33

I've got to admit, as much as I just can't

15:35

stand left

15:37

politics, particularly woke

15:39

progressive sick stuff,

15:43

my faith in the Republican Party to actually

15:45

govern.

15:46

Is not super high right now.

15:50

So the opening day for Major League Baseball used to

15:52

be a really big deal. Now they dribble it out a couple

15:54

of games here and there, and it's not as fun

15:56

to me. But anyway, Opening Day is

15:59

a game on Thursday. This Thursday,

16:01

when the Diamondbacks are at the Rockies, the

16:03

traditional Rockies Diamondbacks

16:07

Juggernaut.

16:08

AnyWho.

16:09

The chefs at Chase Field there in Arizona

16:11

have prepared thirty new menu

16:14

items to be unveiled for the twenty twenty four season.

16:16

It's supposed to be among the best eating you can get

16:18

at any ballpark in America. M foot

16:21

long sonora and hot dogs, desserts

16:23

glore, including churo Sundays, apple

16:26

pie chimmy chongas that's

16:29

not a pretty good and I the hell of an apple

16:31

pie chimney jonga drink fifteen beers

16:33

and vomited all over my shoes.

16:35

It's a fried apple pie. Oh

16:38

how good does that sound?

16:40

Anyway, there's a whole bunch of days they figured out

16:42

there's a lot of money in this at

16:44

ballparks all across America, and

16:48

so there's a lot of ballparks that are unveiling

16:50

lots of new menu items this year.

16:53

Yeah. Well, I told you when I went to see the Tampa

16:55

Bay Rays they had coconut

16:57

shrimp in.

16:58

A waffle cone at the

17:00

old ballpark. Wow.

17:02

Wow, Why did for so many years they just stick with a hot

17:04

dog in nachos, not realizing there was so much

17:06

money to be made by h so

17:10

washed down with tangery and tonic too. Or maybe

17:12

we weren't just as gluttonous back in the

17:14

day. I don't know think that could be the whole answer.

17:16

Actually, Armstrong

17:20

and Getty.

17:23

Videos posted on social media kot

17:25

people screaming and ducking for cover

17:29

as the gunmen fired round after

17:31

round of automatic gunfire. Someone's

17:34

shooting here. This man says, the hole

17:36

is burning. They've set us on fire. Outside

17:39

the building was engulfed in flames.

17:42

Inside. Concert goers try to escape

17:45

the relentless gunfire, trapped

17:47

in a crush of panicked people.

17:51

Just absolutely brutal.

17:53

And I hope we don't see something like

17:55

that in the United States anytime soon, with

17:58

isus K getting across

18:00

the border. But more on that in just a second. Here's

18:02

some more of how that all went down. So four

18:05

guys from Tajikistan that

18:07

they captured there in

18:09

Russia.

18:10

This is what Putin says.

18:11

Despite the fact that ISIS has claimed

18:13

responsibility, he used the opportunity

18:17

to boast support for his war in

18:19

Ukraine, now entering its third

18:21

year. The

18:25

assailants were moving in the direction of Ukraine,

18:28

Putin claimed, where they had a Russian

18:30

border crossing prepared from the Ukrainian

18:32

side. It's a charred Ukraine

18:35

deadly denies and the US

18:37

has categorically repudiated.

18:41

So we warned Putin last week that

18:44

there was an ISIS attack being

18:46

planned on a venue full

18:48

of people, maybe a

18:50

music concert, something like that, And

18:53

he said thought

18:56

that the West was trying to blackmail him into

18:58

something. You gotta admit it is

19:00

a little weird to have, you know, two countries that are

19:02

basically at war with each other. Hey,

19:04

by the way, you're about to get a terrorist attacked, letting you know. I

19:07

hate to see anybody get hurt. I think

19:09

the real reason we warned them and we did it

19:11

out loud. It was in the New York Times on Friday.

19:14

I think it was we did it out loud

19:16

so that when Putin would come out over the weekend and blame

19:18

Ukraine.

19:19

We could say, no, it's not, and you know it's not, and

19:21

we knew it was. We knew it was Isis

19:23

before it even.

19:24

Happened, and the State Department warned

19:27

US citizens too to avoid gatherings

19:29

in Russia. I have never

19:31

come across an incident that

19:34

is so fertile ground

19:37

for conspiracy theories and paranoia

19:40

and misinformation and that

19:42

sort of thing. I mean, first

19:44

of all, you have Putin, who has a history

19:46

of false flag operations to justify

19:49

various acts of war in Chechnya or whatever

19:51

else. You have the involvement of the CIA

19:53

making that statement to Putin rejected

19:56

it. Then you have his trying to

19:58

blame Ukraine. You

20:01

have the fact that these guys were shooting

20:03

and burning for over an hour without

20:06

opposition. In As Gary Kasparov,

20:08

the great chess master and dissidant pointed out,

20:10

this is a city where you can be arrested in thirty

20:13

seconds for whispering no war. And

20:16

these guys came in, did what they wanted, and drove

20:18

out again and then carried their Tejik

20:20

passports on them while heading toward

20:22

a militarized border.

20:24

Come on, right,

20:28

so what actually happened? I have a feeling

20:30

it is isis K.

20:32

Sure, but man again,

20:34

is this fertile ground for all sorts of rumors

20:37

and conspiracy?

20:37

So isis K.

20:38

That's the group that killed a whole bunch of our guys

20:41

there in Afghanistan when we're leaving at

20:43

that gate. They're the ones that pulled

20:45

off the big terrorist attack in Iran a couple of weeks

20:47

ago. They have reconstituted in Afghanistan.

20:49

As Michael McCall was talking on one

20:52

of the talk shows yesterday, it's

20:54

sort.

20:54

Of like we're going back to that old playbook where history

20:57

repeats itself, and that's why the fall

20:59

of Afghanistan the way it was done, and

21:01

the way we left it with no ISR capability,

21:04

that intelligence surveillance for cognizance

21:06

puts US in danger. Where

21:08

this is a new battleground training ground for

21:11

ISIS.

21:12

Well, let's hear what Marco Rubio Senate.

21:15

He runs the same.

21:16

So McCall runs the Committee for

21:18

the Republicans, Rubios on the Committee

21:21

for the Senate.

21:22

If you think back at the end of twenty twenty, under the Trump

21:24

administration, ISIS was basically out of business. I

21:27

mean they were bound to less

21:29

than a thousand fighters and so forth. And now

21:31

they've reconstituted themselves. And part of it is once

21:33

we leave in Afghanistan, we're no longer there

21:35

to conduct regular strikes. They can now operate openly.

21:37

No matter how much the Taliban wants to take them on, they can't.

21:40

They don't have the capability to do it. And these guys

21:42

have found a place to operate from. They need real

21:44

estate, they need land, they need places where they can organize

21:46

and do external plotting. They would love to do what they

21:48

did in Moscow here inside the United

21:50

States. And it's something we have to be very vigil about.

21:53

When we have a border in which nine

21:55

million people have come across in the last

21:57

three.

21:57

Years, obviously, and we get an

21:59

event like what happened in Moscow over the weekend.

22:01

Did it even mention in there? One hundred and thirty

22:03

seven killed, one hundred and fifty injured. I mean, that's

22:06

a lot of people. That's a vague

22:08

terrorist attack that happened in the United

22:10

States. WHOA Well, you talk about turning our

22:12

politics upside down? Holy crap.

22:16

Well a couple of points, just to

22:19

repeat the conversation about radical

22:21

Islam coexisting with the West. That

22:24

was quiet for a while is

22:26

back. It never went away, it

22:29

just paused, So welcome back

22:31

to that. Secondly, and I thought this was great

22:33

analysis in the Wall Street Journal. They pointed out that,

22:35

you know, we've got our serious

22:37

conflicts going on with Russia and China, Iran,

22:41

But to the Islamic State, they're

22:43

all enemies of the Muslim faith that need

22:45

to be annihilated. So say

22:48

what you want about the subhuman monsters of Isis,

22:50

but they sincerely want to kill and

22:52

fight everybody who's holding back fundamentalist

22:55

Islam, including our.

22:56

Enemies, including the Tally Ban. Sure,

22:59

yeah, including Iran. As we saw

23:01

a couple of weeks ago, with the big terrorist attack. So the

23:03

most interesting thing Mike McCall said yesterday

23:06

to me was, and this is

23:09

an attitude that the Biden

23:11

administration is shot through with and affecting

23:14

so many different things. He said,

23:17

when we left Afghanistan the way we did

23:20

our State Department, and he said, it goes

23:22

all the way up to the White House. Thought we could

23:24

keep the embassy open and we could normalize

23:27

with the Tally ban and we would

23:29

still have some say there.

23:31

So that is the problem.

23:34

Joe Biden has had his whole damn

23:36

career, and what every single

23:39

foreign policy thing we got going on right now that is

23:41

a mess is because of that fanciful

23:44

unicorn, Like you're an eight.

23:46

Year old girl version of the world.

23:48

You thought that, No, the Taler

23:50

band, they'll work with us and we'll be able to normalize

23:52

because we'll be nice to them, so they'll be nice to us. And

23:55

they thought the same thing with freaking Iran. No,

23:57

we'll give him a whole bunch of money. We'll loosen

23:59

up that all money. And then they've told us they won't

24:01

try to get nuclear weapons, so that will

24:03

be taking care of. Obama thought that too, and

24:06

then what's going on with Hamas and Israel, just

24:09

similar sort of situation that we can reason

24:12

with any of these people to state solution.

24:14

Come on, where does this, where does this come

24:16

from? What? What historical

24:20

evidence do you have that these super

24:23

bad guys can be reason with like this.

24:25

Well, that's the problem with hubris. It leads you to

24:28

ignore that which is plainly true. Like Barack

24:30

Obama believed that he could lecture

24:32

anybody into compliance and convince

24:35

them of the wisdom of his plan and they

24:37

could negotiate away every conflict on Earth.

24:39

Well, Joe Bid, Yeah, Jeff,

24:42

thanks, Hank Junior. Joe Biden thinks

24:44

he can backslap his way into

24:46

solving every problem on Earth. Just good,

24:49

turn on a little old scratton, Joe

24:51

and get together with him and talk it out and it'll

24:54

be fine.

24:55

It's ridiculous.

24:56

You thought you were going to normalize with the Tally

24:58

ban and then things are gonna be fine. Really

25:02

wow, that is disturbing. And

25:05

so now we got a terrorist to group

25:07

that wants to attack us out

25:10

in Afghanistan in the middle of the where, just

25:13

exactly like before

25:15

nine to eleven in al Qaeda.

25:16

It's just it's amazing and if

25:18

it were only Afghanistan, that would

25:20

be bad enough. But I found this really

25:22

interesting, great analysis in the Wall Street Journal.

25:25

Recent security sweep inside a sprawling,

25:27

fenced refugee camp holding forty

25:29

four thousand people turned up a raft

25:32

of weapons, dozens of Islamic State

25:34

militants, and a Yazide woman who had been held

25:36

by the group for nearly ten years.

25:38

This is in Syria.

25:40

For many, the horrors of the Islamic State

25:42

ended when the US led military campaign

25:44

collapsed them in twenty nineteen got rid of the so called

25:47

caliphate, But five years later, tens

25:49

of thousands of civilians are still being kept

25:51

in camps, including this one they're highlighting,

25:54

which are filled with the families of Islamic State

25:56

militants and others inadvertently swept

25:58

up.

25:58

The camps are part of a bigger problem.

26:00

Some nine thousand Islamic State

26:02

fighters are being held separately in

26:05

a network of detention centers in the same

26:07

region, and they're being held by our

26:09

Kurdish allies with our.

26:11

Arms and financing and the rest of

26:13

it.

26:14

And if either the Kurds fall,

26:16

because remember they're all under constant pressure from

26:18

the Turks, or if

26:21

the next administration decides we're not going to fund

26:23

this stuff anymore. You got thousands, thousands

26:27

of pissed off ISIS fighters in

26:29

these camps ready to go. And

26:32

I made the point at

26:34

another time.

26:35

But.

26:36

And it reminds me a little bit of the Israeli

26:39

Palestinian or I'm sorry, I should say the Israel

26:41

Hamas conflict right now for

26:45

virtually all of human history. I mean all

26:47

of human history. If you had a foe

26:49

that was bent on decimating you and

26:51

you beat them, you would decimate them.

26:54

You wouldn't put them in camps and say,

26:57

I hope they'll be nice if we keep them in a camp

26:59

for five years, turn them back to their hometown,

27:01

slowly but surely, in the same

27:03

way that I think net Yahoo has decided. No, no,

27:06

we're not going to cooperate with AMAS on any level.

27:09

We're gonna kill them all. And

27:13

I just wonder whether trying to reinvent

27:15

history makes makes

27:18

for problems that never go away. And no,

27:20

is Joe Getty calling from some sort of mass slaughter

27:22

of everybody held in those camps. No, I haven't really thought

27:24

it through. And besides, I'm a talk show host. I couldn't

27:27

get that done. If I wanted to, but you know what

27:29

I'm saying, right.

27:31

One more clip from Marco Rubio that I think is interesting

27:34

in two levels. One the geopolitics

27:36

of it, uh

27:39

and he understands it a lot. And two, keeping

27:42

in mind that NBC reported last

27:44

week that he's on the short list to be

27:46

Trump's running me.

27:50

So keep that in mind.

27:51

Everything has gone on fire since the time Joe Biden

27:53

took over. Afghanistan's gone down, Ukraine has

27:56

been invaded. Now, the Philippines and the Chinese

27:58

are on the verge of something bad happening every single

28:00

day, not to mention the threats to Taiwan. We

28:02

have this blow up in Haiti going on in our very

28:05

own hemisphere. We wake up every single

28:07

day, terrorist attacks people

28:09

across The're.

28:10

Not suggesting that's all happening because of Biden.

28:13

Absolutely, I absolutely,

28:15

I'm suggesting it happening because of Biden. He's president,

28:17

and his weakness and his.

28:19

Just because of Biden.

28:20

That Russia invaded Ukrain Absolutely

28:22

because of Biden, that that Haiti, Okay, absolutely.

28:25

I mean the Putin's sitting there saying, these guys can't even stand

28:27

up to the Taliban and they have to fly people hanging off

28:29

the wings of these airplanes.

28:31

Now's the time to go.

28:32

That's the Marco Rubio that is going

28:34

to be on the campaign trail if he's picked

28:36

to be the running mate for Donald Trump. And that's how

28:39

he's going to sleep well at night too, because

28:41

he's got he He has a lot of problems

28:43

with Trump that he has decided to swallow

28:45

since he originally ran against him in twenty sixteen.

28:48

But that's how they sleep well at night. And I

28:50

can see how that. Look.

28:53

This is where we are in the world.

28:54

The world's on fire, it's going to blow up, and

28:56

anything good for the United States, and I want to get Joe

28:58

Biden out of there, and some that's not Joe Biden

29:00

in this case donald Trump in That's that's how

29:03

he'll justify it in his mind.

29:04

I think I think you've nailed it absolutely

29:07

right to Marco Rubio

29:09

into a lot of us.

29:10

The idea that you could have a.

29:13

Flawed but robust

29:15

and tough foreign policy under

29:17

Trump or a flawed and

29:20

weak and apologetic foreign

29:22

policy under Biden. For a guy like

29:24

Rubio again or me, frankly, that's

29:27

not a difficult choice.

29:29

Yeah.

29:29

Interesting, So listen, listen, for that same sound

29:31

clip when he debates Kamala

29:34

Harris during the uh during

29:37

the presidential election.

29:38

At some point, Oh, speaking of

29:40

our lifetime, the.

29:41

Most election of our lifetime, that's

29:43

indisputable. Where's that new

29:45

Kamala clip?

29:46

Which one is that? Michael? You

29:49

got that? Come on now, I know

29:51

we have it? Is it clip? Night fire

29:54

Away?

29:55

There is no whatsoever any

29:57

evidence, and in fact, what we know to

30:00

be the case is that iss K is actually,

30:03

by all accounts responsible for what happened.

30:06

That is unedited, that

30:08

is Kamala. Play

30:10

it one more time, Michael.

30:12

There is no, whatsoever any

30:14

evidence, and in fact, what we know to

30:16

be the case is that isis K is actually

30:19

on by all accounts, responsible for what happened.

30:21

First half of that sentence is difficult to diagram.

30:24

I don't know where the subject and prediget are and.

30:27

Is anybody hurt? So a train

30:30

wreck. We got a lot more on the ways the here aartrong,

30:33

and.

30:39

We're getting very close to the decision

30:42

that's going to have to be made about TikTok. We

30:44

are looking you know, China owns TikTok, and

30:46

we are threatening to ban it. So the kids who

30:49

like TikTok. They're sending threatening messages

30:51

to Congress people, saying they're going to shoot them and

30:54

cut them into pieces. On

30:57

the bright side, it's good to see the young people interested

31:00

in government again. But

31:05

yeah, I

31:08

think that could come down this week trying to either

31:10

sells it to an American or we ban

31:12

it. I got a better idea. How about we traded for

31:15

Boeing.

31:17

Hey, hey, I don't

31:19

appreciate that.

31:23

I remember telling this story a while back. I

31:27

had a delayed flight into

31:29

Denver, and then I had a

31:31

connection I had to make, and it just the time just

31:34

kept getting shortage. It was one of those who were sitting on the

31:36

tarmac. They wouldn't let us off the plane. Situations

31:38

as getting so angry as the minutes

31:40

ticked away and more and people. More and more people were

31:42

saying, well, I've missed my connection at

31:45

ruins my entire vacation, that

31:47

sort of thing.

31:48

Oh I hate that. Roll some stairs

31:50

out and let us get off the damn plane. God

31:53

dang it. But anyway, that's not what I'm here to talk about.

31:55

So I had my connection, and when

31:58

they were finally getting up there, I mean, everybody was talking

32:00

to each other about this whole thing, and I was shown somebody, I said,

32:02

I got to get to gate what you might call it from

32:05

here in like two minutes?

32:06

Can I do it?

32:07

And everybody said not a chance either,

32:09

you don't have a chance. I thought, well, I'm gonna try

32:12

just on the on the hope, And this is what ended

32:14

up turning out that they got held up for

32:16

a little bit so that it gave me like an

32:19

extra couple minutes. Otherwise I wouldn't have made it.

32:21

But I ran the whole way.

32:22

I mean, cowboy boots and I got a big bag I'm

32:25

pulling in one on my shoulder, and I ran

32:27

the entire way, and I mean I was getting full

32:29

pain in the side, like you're

32:32

in high school cross country or

32:34

sweat pouring off of me athletic

32:37

event.

32:37

Tired. It was such a long run and

32:39

I kept thinking, how far is this

32:42

actually? How far am I running? Well?

32:44

So a list out today airports

32:46

that have the longest treks to their gates,

32:49

and the Denver International Airport

32:52

that I was at does have.

32:54

I mean, if you end up on opposite ends.

32:56

One point four to five miles, wow,

32:59

some of that is you're riding a train, but a

33:01

lot of it.

33:02

It's not so you might. You might. Actually

33:04

I probably ran a mile. I

33:06

probably ran a mile.

33:09

No better way to start a flight than sweat

33:11

soaked in cowboy boots pulling

33:13

a bag in one on my shoulder.

33:14

I ran a mile.

33:15

Probably the longest is Dallas Fort

33:17

Worth, if you ever had that. From

33:19

where you buy get your ticket to

33:22

the gate for your plane can be two point

33:24

one six miles a long

33:26

way. Your longest tracks

33:28

are Dallas, Washington, Dulles,

33:31

George Bush, and Houston. I don't think I've ever been

33:33

to that airport Denver, which I go

33:35

to multiple times a year, and John F.

33:37

Kennedy Airport in New York. Your

33:40

shortest walks and your tiny little airports like

33:42

Hollywood Burbank. Man, if you ever fly into La

33:44

if you're listening from anywhere, you don't know this.

33:47

You probably buy tickets to Lax.

33:49

Don't do that flying to Burbank,

33:51

tiny little, awesome, efficient

33:53

airport point two miles fifth shortest

33:56

walk of any airport in America,

33:59

along with the whole bunch of other little ones that you're probably

34:01

not going there. Oh there's a little one. No, you're

34:03

not going to.

34:04

Any of these other places.

34:05

So how do you know, maybe I want to, but

34:08

you are probably going to La someday to go to Disneyland

34:11

or watch sho hey o. Tanih Yank

34:15

went in straight

34:18

out a guy because he's got money on it. Whoa,

34:21

oh, that's a little hasty. No, there's no evidence

34:23

that the Great Otani is gambling. His

34:26

George Santos slash Joe Biden

34:28

like interpreter right

34:31

now, he was up to goodness knows

34:33

what. That's good news for Otani, who

34:36

there's no reason to think that he was gambling

34:38

on sports or anything like that, especially

34:40

now that you know his interpreter would lied

34:42

about everything.

34:43

On his resume. How did they not do a better background

34:46

check on that?

34:46

But anyway, the guy,

34:48

he's all kinds of weird and lying and probably

34:51

did steal from the guy that was paying him.

34:53

Yeah, yeah, almost certainly, you know,

34:56

given how sloppy the

34:58

vast majority of organizations are by ever

35:00

checking anything that's on your resume.

35:02

I just to amuse myself.

35:04

I would like to concoct something ridiculous,

35:07

but there's really no point at you know,

35:09

this point in my career, but just to see

35:11

see if you could get away with it. And then I was in the UH

35:14

in NASA for a while and flew on one's Space

35:16

Shuttle mission. But anyway, I'm really excited

35:18

about this opportunity.

35:19

Well, why don't I have a philosophy degree from

35:21

Nebraska University?

35:22

I mean, why why not on

35:24

my resume? Why not?

35:27

Indeed, it may ever challenge me. All yeah, Hegel

35:29

talked a lot about Hegel all the time.

35:31

Hegel Armstrong

35:35

and Getty