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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 3: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shockingly claimed he has prepped for America invading... Which explains his Amazon order for white flags.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's another wrinkle in the whole tariff war with Canada thing that I don't have a lot of interest in being an expert in or talking about. I just wish none of it was happening. But it is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a similar attitude. I love Canada. They're woke and stupid, but there's no reason to alienate our friends. And I read a great piece in the Free Press. You don't necessarily hear this or get this sense. The Canadian people are horrified and enraged at the way they're being treated.
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Speaker 4: They don't get it.
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Speaker 2: You've punched your best friend in the mouth without explanation or provocation.
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Speaker 4: It's not cool. And from what I can tell from most of my favorite economic pundits, for no gain, Oh, right. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's incredibly damaging to U.S. manufacturers. I mean, the autos, the cars, nobody says automobile. Oh, nice automobile, Jim.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Ed. It crosses the border like a dozen times. Nice automobile, Jim. Got a murder in the Bay Area where we broadcast part of California that's getting national attention today. Not sure how many of the details are out now. I think it's pretty obvious what happened here. Anyway, here's the news report on it.
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Speaker 5: The couple in their mid-70s allegedly used a single firearm to take turns to shoot at their son-in-law. Police say the incident happened on Saturday at a busy sports complex in Dublin, California. Police have identified the victim as Jonathan McKenzie, a director of engineering at McKenzie.
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Speaker 4: New York Times games.
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Speaker 5: Authorities also identified the suspects, his 77-year-old in-laws, Shu Yong Zhang and Shili Chen. Their daughter had been mired in a brutal divorce with McKenzie, according to court documents.
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Speaker 4: They'd each accused each other of domestic violence.
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Speaker 5: McKenzie had also faced two charges of misdemeanor child abuse for which he pleaded not guilty.
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Speaker 4: Police say still no word on a motive. All right. Just for the record on a motive. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Just for the record on air meeting. I would have told the story five times better than that. That was terrible storytelling. I'm offended as a consumer of the human experience.
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Speaker 4: I would agree that you're right. Go ahead and tell your version of the story. And Katie, if you got something... Well, actually, I wanted it to be a bad version because that's the way I'm hearing it everywhere without them making clear what happened here. Wow, so terrible. Am I wrong that clear what happened is you got some parents... who their daughter and grandchild was being abused by a dude. There was no legal way to deal with this. He was still being abusive. So they did what I would do myself is murdered the son of a bitch. Now, I don't know if this is true. You know, they could be wrong. They could be misled by their daughter. All kinds of things happen in these divorce disputes. But if there was a story, we had a story like this a couple of weeks ago. Who was who was that in that case? High profile. One of these. Anyway, it'll pop into my head. It was a high profile news story where somebody couldn't get justice for... It's not ringing a bell. It'll pop into my head. But yeah, if my daughter and grandchild was... This guy allegedly had punched the six-year-old grandchild in the face. And if there's no way to stop him and he's still abusive and I'm 77 years old, I'm going to kill you. That's what I'm going to do.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 4: I heard somewhat different facts, but all right.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's why I threw in the caveat of depends on what the details turn out to be. But if that's, I have a feeling that's what the grandparents believed.
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Speaker 1: Right. Okay. All right.
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Speaker 2: So dude is walking across a parking lot in a park in a very nice part of the Bay Area of California. Elderly dude walks up to him, shoots him a bunch of times, hands the gun to the old lady to his right, who empties the magazine into dude who bleeds out in the parking lot. They stand around, get arrested by the cops who show up. Turns out it's his in-laws. It's his mother and father-in-law, elderly in their late 70s. Now, allegedly, this guy was, well, not allegedly accused. He was accused of allegedly slapping his child upside the head. And his wife called the cops and claimed that he had also bruised her arm a couple of years prior. And the cops actually investigated that. And when they went to the home, they found the two-year-old child in a room upstairs by himself while the dude was out shopping. It certainly seems like mom and dad were pretty horrified by this guy as a husband and father of their grandchild and decided the world would be better off without him.
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Speaker 4: And they probably figured we're old, we're willing to, you know, fall on a grenade to stop this from happening. Right, right. You always have to throw in the caveat in these divorce situations of who knows what the facts are because people claim all kinds of crap in divorce disputes. Now, Katie, is there a trans thing going on? Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot that aspect of it. Dude's trans. Female to male trans. So he is originally a she.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So somebody with some pretty significant mental problems. They buried that in the story that I saw. That was like in the last paragraph. And I thought, how? That seems I suppose you could make the argument that it's not. germane to the discussion, but I'm going to claim it is.
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Speaker 2: I think somebody who thinks they're living in the wrong body has mental problems. Even if actual gender dysphoria is a thing in very rare cases, that's.
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Speaker 4: A hell of a mental problem. If I'm a juror, whether I like it or not, I'm leaning toward thinking, okay, I'm more likely to believe this guy's capable of weird behavior. Whether that's fair or not. When I find out that he's trans. I appreciate your candor.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of us would think the same thing. This guy, person, thing, guy, fella, woman, guy, was the, like, one of the head engineers for the New York Times games section, of which I am an enthusiastic participant, tech guy, person. Was he behind, like, making Wordle work?
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Speaker 4: That's his department.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Connections. Oh, so good for the brain. I need to do that every day, but I don't. I should. Et cetera.
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Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of cross play. I feel like we've gotten off track.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's right. A guy was gunned down by his in-laws in a parking lot. Right. Oh, but have you played Spelling Bee? Because that's a good one. Judy is into it. I don't have the time. I don't have any interest in any of those. I've never played Wordle. I don't even know what it is. That's why your brain is turned to motion. It's so good. That's why you're a jittering old fool. That's why I have to wear a bib drool running down my chin. Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: A guy was murdered.
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Speaker 2: Sorry.
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Speaker 4: Back to the thread of the thing. You got to admit, before you know what happened to me, once you know what I think the grandparents think is true, whether it's true or not, once you know that, I think it's pretty easy to understand this story to me. But prior to that detail, it's like, what the hell? A couple of really old people taking tremendous glee in shooting this guy in cold blood. What the hell is that? And not even trying to get away with it. Where'd you get glee from?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: Glee?
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Speaker 2: Glee.
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Speaker 4: Glee might be the wrong word, but but certainly probably they're probably horrified that they had to make this sacrifice, but they made it nonetheless. The standing there, he hands a gun to her and she finishes out the clip. I don't know what the word would be. Maybe Glee is not the right word, but it's certainly a tremendous enthusiasm. Willingness. Yes.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Uh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: And they decided to share that sacrifice, uh, between the two of them.
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Speaker 4: Right. Yeah. That's, that's a good point. Clearly on purpose. They wanted to both go down for this. Hmm. I don't know if I would do that. I would think, you know what? I'll go to prison. You stay out of prison so you can help take care of the granddaughter or grandson. Right, right, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's a heck of a story though. We don't know.
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Speaker 2: Or, you know, the wife who I think was the second shooter, uh, her lawyer's going to say, dude was already dead.
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Speaker 4: She was just shooting a gun into a dead guy. You got to let her off. The husband's thinking, wait, what? Nobody told me about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe he really hated Wordle.
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Speaker 2: This is neither here nor there, but there's, do you know the legendary weird L.A. band Sparks? They've got a song. It's Romeo sings the song to the living Juliette. And it's extremely bitchy because they were both supposed.
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Speaker 4: To take the poison. And she doesn't. And right. Well, she doesn't.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 4: And and he's guilting her through the whole song. Anyway, it's very funny. What's the name of that? Anyway, I don't know. Figure it out. Ask your local chat bot. So, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So I guess these two old Chinese folks, Chinese American folks are just going to go to prison for the rest of their days.
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Speaker 4: They clearly were OK with that. Because they did not try to get away at all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: They knew what was going to happen. God, I wish I could remember that story. We had it just like a week ago. We had this discussion. I even said the same thing on the air. If I was a dad, I would do the same thing probably. None of us remember that? We all have Alzheimer's. Or you're having a psychotic episode. Or you're making things up again. Because your brain's gone soft from not doing puzzles.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Right. No wordles ever. The lack of word all this, it's probably a, you know, it's like a vitamin deficiency. My brain's gone soft. I'll remember it. What story it was. Gosh, that was high profile. It fits into a big story.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of crime and, and Lord activities and justice and that sort of thing, the Cornell rape case. I do want to touch on that at some point. Um, It's turned very Duke lacrosse ugly.
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Speaker 4: It was the I know what the story was. You're right that that Cornell gang rape story is compelling. We'll have to get that at some point, maybe separate it from this by a segment or two. I remember the story. The congressman who was allegedly sure looked like it was true, abusing his wife and kid. And you had his daughter. Father-in-law, the U.S. senator, talking about how awful it was to have to drop off the grandkid with this monster all the time and wanting justice for that. And we were having the discussion of what would you do when you can't get any justice from the cops? And I said, I think I might kill the guy as a dad who was getting justice no other way. That's what I think happened in this story in the Bay Area. So it would seem.
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, with all due respect, and I mean that too, Your statement about how all sorts of wild and dishonest stuff gets thrown around, sometimes in divorce proceedings and custody battles. Mom and dad had to be 100% convinced of what the truth was to do what they did.
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Speaker 4: They probably have pretty good reason to feel the way they felt. Unless they're nuts. Both of them. Their brains went to mush because they didn't do enough crossword puzzles or whatever your theory was. Yeah, or connections, even better.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Any thoughts on this? Text line 415-295-KFTC. Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 7: The two giant pandas are now settling into their new home at Zoo Atlanta. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang were loaded into custom crates onto a plane dubbed the Panda Express, bound for their new life 8,000 miles away. Amid tensions between the two countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping called this latest arrival an envoy of friendship. Visitors can't see the pandas just yet. They have to quarantine for 30 days before the zoo can introduce them to the public.
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Speaker 4: I think panda diplomacy is stupid. I'm perfectly fine with pandas at the zoo, and I'm sure your kids would like to see them. But the idea that it has any effect on world peace, I think, is silly. It's the opposite.
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Speaker 2: It's a measure that, OK, things are reasonably friendly, so they'll lend us their money.
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Speaker 4: Colorful bears. Do you think it slows down China's intent to take over the world by even this much?
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 4: How about you also free a couple of dissidents?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll take the pandas. Yeah, it's just silly.
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Speaker 4: And I'm pro-panda.
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Speaker 2: Strongly pro-panda. Why do they have to quarantine for 30 days? Do they got the COVID? They've been hanging around the Wuhan lab where it leaked from?
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Speaker 4: Coming up, we're going to talk about the terrorists arrested then let go in Great Britain, what that story was about. And I don't know if it has anything to do with the whole Muslim extremists taking over Great Britain thing. But I don't know if you've been following this. Marine Le Pen now leads in the new French presidential poll by a lot. So we might see another big move by... what they call the far right in mainstream media, which is all a reaction to just insane levels of immigration.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And specifically, immigration from a culture that is extremely unlikely to integrate well with Western civilization and our norms of democracy, free speech, freedom of religion, etc. I tell you one thing, you good people, If you're bad, I'm leaving you out of this. But you good people, you need to absolutely flush somehow from your consciousness the idea that criticism of Islam is a bigoted thing, is bigotry, it's ugly, as opposed to comparing and contrasting to political systems. Never mind its religious component. It's irrelevant. Well, it's not irrelevant, but it's less relevant to the question than the sociological and political questions. It's not bigotry to compare communism with the free market. It's not bigotry to compare a parliamentary system to a bicameral legislature like we have. It's not bigotry to compare Western liberal democracies with with islam it's not bigotry compare away and we shall.
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Speaker 4: And then in addition to that if you let in a whole bunch of people from a different culture even if it's not islam as seen in the united states people don't like it it's just true i mean you're going to drive them into certain political factions yeah if you do that it's just it's just to me it's just human.
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Speaker 2: Nature Yeah, Germany, another great example of that. The mainstream pretended that the concerns of the people either didn't exist or weren't legitimate until somebody said, hey, we're listening to you. And that happened to be the the AFD.
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Speaker 4: Is that it? Another so-called right wing party.
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Speaker 2: Also, we probably ought to get to the superhuman baby of color who ate a live mouse. and the controversy over that online.
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Speaker 4: Superhuman baby of color who ate a live mouse. There's a lot in that sentence.
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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 6: Five British men are out on bail tonight after a suspected bomb plot against a U.K. air base used by American forces in the war against Iran, a move President Trump is questioning.
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised that they released him.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done that. Look, they've been very good. They worked with us very closely. We know everything about him.
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Speaker 6: Police say the suspects, age 23 to 25, are from London. They were initially taken into custody on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of inquiry.
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Speaker 4: I am highly confused by this story. I hope you have a way to unconfuse me. Maybe not. I, too, am confused.
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Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said a foreign actor was behind the incident over the weekend at a British airbase. He called it a very serious situation. He did not provide details or evidence, which is fine at this point. But he was unequivocal, saying it was a foreign actor. He praised British officials for working closely with the U.S. He said that a lot of people are disturbed, quote, by the news that the suspects were released on bail, but indicating that the release did not minimize the severity of what happened at the base.
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Speaker 4: Here's what he said. I have to be careful.
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Speaker 2: There's some things I cannot say on the air for a lot of different reasons. Suffice it to say that what happened, what almost happened, what could have happened in the U.K. over the weekend is a very serious situation. It's one that clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor. Okay, then there's no way that these people should have been let out. And he did mention Iran like two sentences later. Well, yeah, that makes it all the more surprising and mystifying that the men were let go. Bomb detection robots searched three white vans. Officials said the men were suspected of violating the Explosives Act.
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Speaker 4: Does this have anything to do with Great Britain's laws are just so different than ours in ways that I don't know?
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Speaker 2: Well, even the New York Times is saying, and I'm not an expert on... on British law, but the New York Times points out that the Britain's head counterterrorism guy said in a brief statement that the men would remain under investigation would be subject to, quote, stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others. You can really accomplish that in jail, sir. But anyway, I like the way the New York Times put this. Their release raised new questions about what happened near the base, how the men managed to drive three vans so close to an area where American bombers are stationed, and whether the British Army's bomb disposal unit had failed to find any evidence after examining the vehicles for more than 24 hours. Britain's national security laws give the authorities widespread latitude to detain terror suspects, so the decision to grant the five-man bail suggests the police may not have found enough to link them to a specific act.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so they can do what... what I was talking about yesterday about what we do in the United States, we come up with a reason to hold people. If we need to, we just hold them until we figure out what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Trump said some stuff, but Trump says all sorts of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Um, and so I don't think it necessarily indicates anything substantial. He said they'd intended to do big damage to the air base.
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Speaker 4: Well, do you have the sense that we did have our eye on them for a while? And it wasn't just the, uh, a cow lady up late at night, partying, seeing a couple of guys running around with masks on calling nine one, one. All I know is I.
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Speaker 2: Want to party with that British farmer lady who gets it on and drives home at night.
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Speaker 4: Um, uh, yeah, I, something's going on.
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Speaker 2: Cause Rubio was unequivocal that they're the hands of a foreign regime. Two sentences later, he mentioned Iran and, On Monday, Trump was asked whether the men might be connected to Iran. He refused to elaborate, adding, quote, I know the answer. I can be very specific, but I'd rather not say it. He also expressed surprise at the decision to release the men.
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Speaker 4: So Rubio saying it was a foreign actor means we we did have our eyes on them because there's no way you would know that if it unfolded as farmer ladies coming home from the bar. three milk cans to the wind, and sees a couple of guys running around in masks and calls 911, you wouldn't have the information that it was a foreign actor get to the U.S. Secretary of State within 18 hours.
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Speaker 2: No, especially given the lack of evidence. A couple more lines, then we'll hear from Sally, the party in Milkmaid. According to the New York Times, public details about the incident remain murky at best. Investigators arrested the five men in the early hours of Sunday morning, Bomb disposal units spent most of Sunday examining the white vans while 85 families living anywhere nearby were evacuated from their homes.
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Speaker 4: 85 families.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Wow. So here's the anonymous farmer lady.
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Speaker 8: First thing I noticed was there's a vehicle on our farm drive.
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Speaker 5: And then I.
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Speaker 8: Realized there's three of them and they're parked in a really strange formation. It's such a flash moment of seeing them, but they were, Definitely more than five. We think maybe between eight and ten of them were.
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Speaker 4: There at that point.
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Speaker 8: And a lot of them had their faces covered.
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Speaker 2: She sounds like she has a couple of Boddingtons in right now, but a key statement there, there were at least eight to ten men, she said.
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Speaker 4: Not five.
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Speaker 2: So they scattered into the hinterlands, half of them, and the five who got arrested, you know, not as fleet of foot or something, but So, mystery piled upon mystery.
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Speaker 4: Well, if I may continue to pull on the teat of the story and try to milk more information out of it, not knowing exactly the details. Is there any chance it's got something to do with the bad relationship between the current British government and the United States government? They just, like, hate Trump and the idea that our, maybe, State Department was... watching these people and pushing them, and Great Britain now has this, one, they hate Trump, and two, they're just, they lean over so far to try to protect their Muslim population right now.
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Speaker 2: There's no evidence that any of that is true, but as harebrained conspiracy theories.
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Speaker 4: Go, those are decent. Those are decent ones. For instance, let me give you this. I've been following John Cleese's Twitter feed. Comedy legend from Monty Python back in the day, John Cleese. And perhaps the best sitcom ever, Fawlty Towers. Right, right.
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Speaker 2: A Fish Called Wanda, a number of great comedy films as well.
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Speaker 4: He tweeted out yesterday, the rule of law no longer exists in the UK and connected this story. A British man stated on social media that he does not want to see Palestinian flags displayed all across the UK. Police officers came to his house at 4 a.m. and arrested him. He got arrested for saying he doesn't like seeing Palestinian flags around his country.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: How crazy is that?
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Speaker 2: We need to go big on this topic soon, whether today or tomorrow or whatever.
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Speaker 4: So keep that story handy. The cops come in the middle of the night and haul you off for that?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly what's going on. They have imported so many Muslims who have zero intention of assimilating into Western society and or who are religious fundamentalists enough that that is their be all and end all is Islam, the Koran. And so the British authorities looking around saying, seeing that they have passed critical mass, they they they're past the point of no return on this. have decided the only thing they can do is bend over backwards and then through their legs, then backwards again like a corkscrew, saying, we're not hostile to you. Please don't hurt us. Please don't be angry at us. We can all get along. Look, we'll show you how respectful we are for your religion. In fact, if anybody even criticizes it, we'll jail.
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Speaker 4: Them for you. It's pathetic. It's Stockholm Syndrome. We've always had more free speech than any other country on the planet, but it used to be the gap between us and Great Britain was like this much. Now we're not even close. Oh, no.
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Speaker 2: Great Britain is sprinting backwards in terms of free speech.
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Speaker 4: And it's all about fear of Islam.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: Which is why I tweeted at Ian Bremmer last night the cover of the book Submission, which I've talked about for years. uh by michelle welbach is that that the name of the guy i think it is um he was part of the whole a terrorist shooting back in the day anyway um that book features and i always wondered if this would actually happen marine le pen actually getting elected because of the A reaction to way too many fundamentalist Muslims being led into France. And it looks like that is now going to happen. That's how that that's the whole plot of the book. And then there's a reaction to her becoming a right wing president that goes the other direction on the other side. And you end up with a real mess there in France. And I think we're actually going to see it play out. with the idea of fundamentalist Muslims taking over their colleges and a lot of the governments in the smaller towns and everybody being afraid of them, just like you're seeing in Great Britain.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the election of Mamdani was in large measure because of the controversy over Israel's.
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Speaker 4: Counterattack against Hamas.
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Speaker 2: That's another example of what Hollebeck was writing about, that there's that backlash and the progressives, the intellectuals of society say, In order to demonstrate how we're so enlightened and not bigoted, please take this seat of power and this seat of power.
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Speaker 4: And of course you can run the university. We're not bigoted. Don't hurt us. Right. Wow, that is really interesting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know, I was hoping to pay off the superhuman baby of color who ate a live mouse.
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Speaker 3: So the MTV Video Music Awards aired last night. Snoop Dogg was the host, which means they had to stop midway through the show to open the windows. And I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Madonna's performance, but my TV now has crabs.
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Speaker 4: Oh, unfortunate. I like the second joke. First joke was just dumb, Greg. That was just dumb. Yeah, that was weak, yeah.
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Speaker 2: New York Times, I happen to be closing a window from yesterday's morning newsletter that they put out. And the best and worst moments of the VMAs.
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Speaker 4: What the hell? Why does this even exist?
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Speaker 2: They thought Madonna was fantastic. Every second she was on screen was amazing.
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Speaker 4: Well, we featured that on our One More Thing podcast yesterday. If you want to know about it, we took a look at it. We dissected it. We broke it down. The One More Thing podcast. Find wherever your podcasts are found. Armstrong and Getty on demand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you subscribe to I'm Strong and Getting On Demand, you get the one more thing automatically. It downloads so you'll never miss a segment. So a couple of things to talk about, including the superhuman baby of color story. So this began, as so many things do, online. This gal tweets, you think you've seen the worst, but this week my friend turned her back on her seven-month-old for one second, and the baby managed to find and catch a live mouse, then eat most of it, the tail and entrails dangling out.
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Speaker 4: OK, there's a lot there. There is a lot there. You turn your back for a second. Where do you live? Well, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well, you have many of the questions the world had. So one of the responses to this was this is such an insane take. This child is being neglected. No baby should be in a position where they could consume a dead animal that is in no way they're physically able to catch. I actually it was worded better than I read it. This baby found a rotting mouse corpse and started to eat it. And the mother was too distracted. Call CPS. All right.
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Speaker 4: So I didn't catch it. The mouse was dead. No, no.
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Speaker 2: Because the original post said a live mouse. And this person says no baby can catch a live mouse. It was obviously dead.
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Speaker 4: Seven month old. How old is your baby there, Katie?
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Speaker 5: Four months.
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Speaker 4: Okay. Has he caught any rodents? Just a possum, but we got to get away from them pretty quick. They're slow afoot, though. Possum! I don't remember the faculties of a seven-month-old, but I don't think they could catch a mouse. I don't remember.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's all right. So here's the reply. People are projecting their own white experiences onto this story.
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Speaker 1: Ah, okay.
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Speaker 4: It's got a race angle. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I won't divulge private information, but the baby wasn't white, wasn't living in squalor, was.
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Speaker 4: Born with teeth.
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Speaker 2: walked by six months, is very agile and strong and well cared for, and lives rurally with no indoor pets.
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Speaker 4: Reads Latin and can ride a unicycle. Born with teeth. Yes. Yes, it happens. It happens. And you know what you got on your hands if you get a baby born with teeth? You got a mouse eater on your hands. Hide your mice.
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Speaker 2: So this one person who posted this whole string, her comment was the superhuman baby of color who hunted and ate a live mouse simply defies white people's limited understanding is a very rare discourse. I don't think we've seen before. And then somebody commented to that, we are losing our last remaining novel English sentences with alarming rapidity. Let me read that to you again. The superhuman baby of color who hunted and ate a live mouse simply defies white people's limited understanding, close quote, is a very rare discourse I don't think we've seen before.
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Speaker 4: The novel sentence. Oh, that's funny.
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Speaker 2: People are projecting their own white experiences onto this story.
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Speaker 4: You got to have a camera on this baby like we did Jackie the Eagle. I mean, you got to have a camera full time so we can check in on the mouse eating super baby with teeth so we can see what it's up to at any given time. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: There should be a national mouse eating super baby of color cam. Definitely.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's a good story. So every day we record little promos.
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Speaker 2: They're promotional announcements for the show that run on radio stations all across America. And one of them included me saying that we would talk about Rachel Dolezal and her porn career. Remember, she was the fake black lady who's now defending the fake Palestinian lady who's come to our attention briefly and will vanish again into obscurity as quickly as possible. But the most interesting part of this article, I thought, and they talked to Rachel, who is a crazy person.
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Speaker 4: Um, she's a foot porn specialist by the way.
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Speaker 2: Uh, but they talk to her about the fact that she's down with the whole transgender thing. In fact, a day-to-day transgender person and said, well, since, since sex is just a social construct.
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Speaker 4: You know, blah, blah, blah, the whole, uh, critical theory thing, woke thing.
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Speaker 2: Um, And then the interviewer says, well, you just told me a couple of minutes ago, race is just a social construct. So can this other person identify as a different race?
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Speaker 4: And they go back and forth. Then they ask another expert.
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Speaker 2: And the other expert says, well, no, no, you can't adopt a black racial identity because white people have always had the power. So race is just a social construct. But white people can't use that logic because they're white people. The whole critical theory thing is merely Marxism trying to take over Western civilization.
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Speaker 4: If it goes one way, it's got to go the other.
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Speaker 2: If they're both social constructs, so if I claim I'm a woman, I'm a woman, then I can claim to be black or Hispanic or whatever else because that's a social construct too. But no, that wouldn't aid your taking over of institutions. So it's completely phony.
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Speaker 4: I remember my brother... When he was about two and a half years younger than me, and he would crawl around on the floor and catch crickets and eat them when I was a little kid. He would hold them up and drop them into his mouth. And I remember I have a vivid memory of their little black legs sticking out of his mouth, wiggling around. But never a mouse, as far as I know. And your son was a drain licker. Is it genetic, maybe? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Was your brother born with teeth?
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Speaker 4: So many questions. I'll have to ask him. If you missed the segment, get the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 3: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shockingly claimed he has prepped for America invading... Which explains his Amazon order for white flags.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's another wrinkle in the whole tariff war with Canada thing that I don't have a lot of interest in being an expert in or talking about. I just wish none of it was happening. But it is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a similar attitude. I love Canada. They're woke and stupid, but there's no reason to alienate our friends. And I read a great piece in the Free Press. You don't necessarily hear this or get this sense. The Canadian people are horrified and enraged at the way they're being treated.
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Speaker 4: They don't get it.
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Speaker 2: You've punched your best friend in the mouth without explanation or provocation.
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Speaker 4: It's not cool. And from what I can tell from most of my favorite economic pundits, for no gain, Oh, right. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's incredibly damaging to U.S. manufacturers. I mean, the autos, the cars, nobody says automobile. Oh, nice automobile, Jim.
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Ed. It crosses the border like a dozen times. Nice automobile, Jim. Got a murder in the Bay Area where we broadcast part of California that's getting national attention today. Not sure how many of the details are out now. I think it's pretty obvious what happened here. Anyway, here's the news report on it.
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Speaker 5: The couple in their mid-70s allegedly used a single firearm to take turns to shoot at their son-in-law. Police say the incident happened on Saturday at a busy sports complex in Dublin, California. Police have identified the victim as Jonathan McKenzie, a director of engineering at McKenzie.
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Speaker 4: New York Times games.
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Speaker 5: Authorities also identified the suspects, his 77-year-old in-laws, Shu Yong Zhang and Shili Chen. Their daughter had been mired in a brutal divorce with McKenzie, according to court documents.
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Speaker 4: They'd each accused each other of domestic violence.
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Speaker 5: McKenzie had also faced two charges of misdemeanor child abuse for which he pleaded not guilty.
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Speaker 4: Police say still no word on a motive. All right. Just for the record on a motive. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Just for the record on air meeting. I would have told the story five times better than that. That was terrible storytelling. I'm offended as a consumer of the human experience.
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Speaker 4: I would agree that you're right. Go ahead and tell your version of the story. And Katie, if you got something... Well, actually, I wanted it to be a bad version because that's the way I'm hearing it everywhere without them making clear what happened here. Wow, so terrible. Am I wrong that clear what happened is you got some parents... who their daughter and grandchild was being abused by a dude. There was no legal way to deal with this. He was still being abusive. So they did what I would do myself is murdered the son of a bitch. Now, I don't know if this is true. You know, they could be wrong. They could be misled by their daughter. All kinds of things happen in these divorce disputes. But if there was a story, we had a story like this a couple of weeks ago. Who was who was that in that case? High profile. One of these. Anyway, it'll pop into my head. It was a high profile news story where somebody couldn't get justice for... It's not ringing a bell. It'll pop into my head. But yeah, if my daughter and grandchild was... This guy allegedly had punched the six-year-old grandchild in the face. And if there's no way to stop him and he's still abusive and I'm 77 years old, I'm going to kill you. That's what I'm going to do.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 4: I heard somewhat different facts, but all right.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's why I threw in the caveat of depends on what the details turn out to be. But if that's, I have a feeling that's what the grandparents believed.
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Speaker 1: Right. Okay. All right.
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Speaker 2: So dude is walking across a parking lot in a park in a very nice part of the Bay Area of California. Elderly dude walks up to him, shoots him a bunch of times, hands the gun to the old lady to his right, who empties the magazine into dude who bleeds out in the parking lot. They stand around, get arrested by the cops who show up. Turns out it's his in-laws. It's his mother and father-in-law, elderly in their late 70s. Now, allegedly, this guy was, well, not allegedly accused. He was accused of allegedly slapping his child upside the head. And his wife called the cops and claimed that he had also bruised her arm a couple of years prior. And the cops actually investigated that. And when they went to the home, they found the two-year-old child in a room upstairs by himself while the dude was out shopping. It certainly seems like mom and dad were pretty horrified by this guy as a husband and father of their grandchild and decided the world would be better off without him.
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Speaker 4: And they probably figured we're old, we're willing to, you know, fall on a grenade to stop this from happening. Right, right. You always have to throw in the caveat in these divorce situations of who knows what the facts are because people claim all kinds of crap in divorce disputes. Now, Katie, is there a trans thing going on? Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot that aspect of it. Dude's trans. Female to male trans. So he is originally a she.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So somebody with some pretty significant mental problems. They buried that in the story that I saw. That was like in the last paragraph. And I thought, how? That seems I suppose you could make the argument that it's not. germane to the discussion, but I'm going to claim it is.
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Speaker 2: I think somebody who thinks they're living in the wrong body has mental problems. Even if actual gender dysphoria is a thing in very rare cases, that's.
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Speaker 4: A hell of a mental problem. If I'm a juror, whether I like it or not, I'm leaning toward thinking, okay, I'm more likely to believe this guy's capable of weird behavior. Whether that's fair or not. When I find out that he's trans. I appreciate your candor.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of us would think the same thing. This guy, person, thing, guy, fella, woman, guy, was the, like, one of the head engineers for the New York Times games section, of which I am an enthusiastic participant, tech guy, person. Was he behind, like, making Wordle work?
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Speaker 4: That's his department.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Connections. Oh, so good for the brain. I need to do that every day, but I don't. I should. Et cetera.
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Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of cross play. I feel like we've gotten off track.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's right. A guy was gunned down by his in-laws in a parking lot. Right. Oh, but have you played Spelling Bee? Because that's a good one. Judy is into it. I don't have the time. I don't have any interest in any of those. I've never played Wordle. I don't even know what it is. That's why your brain is turned to motion. It's so good. That's why you're a jittering old fool. That's why I have to wear a bib drool running down my chin. Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: A guy was murdered.
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Speaker 2: Sorry.
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Speaker 4: Back to the thread of the thing. You got to admit, before you know what happened to me, once you know what I think the grandparents think is true, whether it's true or not, once you know that, I think it's pretty easy to understand this story to me. But prior to that detail, it's like, what the hell? A couple of really old people taking tremendous glee in shooting this guy in cold blood. What the hell is that? And not even trying to get away with it. Where'd you get glee from?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: Glee?
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Speaker 2: Glee.
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Speaker 4: Glee might be the wrong word, but but certainly probably they're probably horrified that they had to make this sacrifice, but they made it nonetheless. The standing there, he hands a gun to her and she finishes out the clip. I don't know what the word would be. Maybe Glee is not the right word, but it's certainly a tremendous enthusiasm. Willingness. Yes.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Uh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: And they decided to share that sacrifice, uh, between the two of them.
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Speaker 4: Right. Yeah. That's, that's a good point. Clearly on purpose. They wanted to both go down for this. Hmm. I don't know if I would do that. I would think, you know what? I'll go to prison. You stay out of prison so you can help take care of the granddaughter or grandson. Right, right, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's a heck of a story though. We don't know.
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Speaker 2: Or, you know, the wife who I think was the second shooter, uh, her lawyer's going to say, dude was already dead.
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Speaker 4: She was just shooting a gun into a dead guy. You got to let her off. The husband's thinking, wait, what? Nobody told me about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe he really hated Wordle.
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Speaker 2: This is neither here nor there, but there's, do you know the legendary weird L.A. band Sparks? They've got a song. It's Romeo sings the song to the living Juliette. And it's extremely bitchy because they were both supposed.
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Speaker 4: To take the poison. And she doesn't. And right. Well, she doesn't.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 4: And and he's guilting her through the whole song. Anyway, it's very funny. What's the name of that? Anyway, I don't know. Figure it out. Ask your local chat bot. So, yeah.
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Speaker 2: So I guess these two old Chinese folks, Chinese American folks are just going to go to prison for the rest of their days.
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Speaker 4: They clearly were OK with that. Because they did not try to get away at all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: They knew what was going to happen. God, I wish I could remember that story. We had it just like a week ago. We had this discussion. I even said the same thing on the air. If I was a dad, I would do the same thing probably. None of us remember that? We all have Alzheimer's. Or you're having a psychotic episode. Or you're making things up again. Because your brain's gone soft from not doing puzzles.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Right. No wordles ever. The lack of word all this, it's probably a, you know, it's like a vitamin deficiency. My brain's gone soft. I'll remember it. What story it was. Gosh, that was high profile. It fits into a big story.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of crime and, and Lord activities and justice and that sort of thing, the Cornell rape case. I do want to touch on that at some point. Um, It's turned very Duke lacrosse ugly.
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Speaker 4: It was the I know what the story was. You're right that that Cornell gang rape story is compelling. We'll have to get that at some point, maybe separate it from this by a segment or two. I remember the story. The congressman who was allegedly sure looked like it was true, abusing his wife and kid. And you had his daughter. Father-in-law, the U.S. senator, talking about how awful it was to have to drop off the grandkid with this monster all the time and wanting justice for that. And we were having the discussion of what would you do when you can't get any justice from the cops? And I said, I think I might kill the guy as a dad who was getting justice no other way. That's what I think happened in this story in the Bay Area. So it would seem.
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, with all due respect, and I mean that too, Your statement about how all sorts of wild and dishonest stuff gets thrown around, sometimes in divorce proceedings and custody battles. Mom and dad had to be 100% convinced of what the truth was to do what they did.
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Speaker 4: They probably have pretty good reason to feel the way they felt. Unless they're nuts. Both of them. Their brains went to mush because they didn't do enough crossword puzzles or whatever your theory was. Yeah, or connections, even better.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Any thoughts on this? Text line 415-295-KFTC. Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 7: The two giant pandas are now settling into their new home at Zoo Atlanta. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang were loaded into custom crates onto a plane dubbed the Panda Express, bound for their new life 8,000 miles away. Amid tensions between the two countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping called this latest arrival an envoy of friendship. Visitors can't see the pandas just yet. They have to quarantine for 30 days before the zoo can introduce them to the public.
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Speaker 4: I think panda diplomacy is stupid. I'm perfectly fine with pandas at the zoo, and I'm sure your kids would like to see them. But the idea that it has any effect on world peace, I think, is silly. It's the opposite.
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Speaker 2: It's a measure that, OK, things are reasonably friendly, so they'll lend us their money.
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Speaker 4: Colorful bears. Do you think it slows down China's intent to take over the world by even this much?
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 4: How about you also free a couple of dissidents?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll take the pandas. Yeah, it's just silly.
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Speaker 4: And I'm pro-panda.
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Speaker 2: Strongly pro-panda. Why do they have to quarantine for 30 days? Do they got the COVID? They've been hanging around the Wuhan lab where it leaked from?
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Speaker 4: Coming up, we're going to talk about the terrorists arrested then let go in Great Britain, what that story was about. And I don't know if it has anything to do with the whole Muslim extremists taking over Great Britain thing. But I don't know if you've been following this. Marine Le Pen now leads in the new French presidential poll by a lot. So we might see another big move by... what they call the far right in mainstream media, which is all a reaction to just insane levels of immigration.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And specifically, immigration from a culture that is extremely unlikely to integrate well with Western civilization and our norms of democracy, free speech, freedom of religion, etc. I tell you one thing, you good people, If you're bad, I'm leaving you out of this. But you good people, you need to absolutely flush somehow from your consciousness the idea that criticism of Islam is a bigoted thing, is bigotry, it's ugly, as opposed to comparing and contrasting to political systems. Never mind its religious component. It's irrelevant. Well, it's not irrelevant, but it's less relevant to the question than the sociological and political questions. It's not bigotry to compare communism with the free market. It's not bigotry to compare a parliamentary system to a bicameral legislature like we have. It's not bigotry to compare Western liberal democracies with with islam it's not bigotry compare away and we shall.
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Speaker 4: And then in addition to that if you let in a whole bunch of people from a different culture even if it's not islam as seen in the united states people don't like it it's just true i mean you're going to drive them into certain political factions yeah if you do that it's just it's just to me it's just human.
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Speaker 2: Nature Yeah, Germany, another great example of that. The mainstream pretended that the concerns of the people either didn't exist or weren't legitimate until somebody said, hey, we're listening to you. And that happened to be the the AFD.
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Speaker 4: Is that it? Another so-called right wing party.
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Speaker 2: Also, we probably ought to get to the superhuman baby of color who ate a live mouse. and the controversy over that online.
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Speaker 4: Superhuman baby of color who ate a live mouse. There's a lot in that sentence.
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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 6: Five British men are out on bail tonight after a suspected bomb plot against a U.K. air base used by American forces in the war against Iran, a move President Trump is questioning.
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised that they released him.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done that. Look, they've been very good. They worked with us very closely. We know everything about him.
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Speaker 6: Police say the suspects, age 23 to 25, are from London. They were initially taken into custody on suspicion of plotting a terrorist act.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of inquiry.
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Speaker 4: I am highly confused by this story. I hope you have a way to unconfuse me. Maybe not. I, too, am confused.
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Speaker 2: Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, said a foreign actor was behind the incident over the weekend at a British airbase. He called it a very serious situation. He did not provide details or evidence, which is fine at this point. But he was unequivocal, saying it was a foreign actor. He praised British officials for working closely with the U.S. He said that a lot of people are disturbed, quote, by the news that the suspects were released on bail, but indicating that the release did not minimize the severity of what happened at the base.
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Speaker 4: Here's what he said. I have to be careful.
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Speaker 2: There's some things I cannot say on the air for a lot of different reasons. Suffice it to say that what happened, what almost happened, what could have happened in the U.K. over the weekend is a very serious situation. It's one that clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor. Okay, then there's no way that these people should have been let out. And he did mention Iran like two sentences later. Well, yeah, that makes it all the more surprising and mystifying that the men were let go. Bomb detection robots searched three white vans. Officials said the men were suspected of violating the Explosives Act.
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Speaker 4: Does this have anything to do with Great Britain's laws are just so different than ours in ways that I don't know?
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Speaker 2: Well, even the New York Times is saying, and I'm not an expert on... on British law, but the New York Times points out that the Britain's head counterterrorism guy said in a brief statement that the men would remain under investigation would be subject to, quote, stringent conditions on their movement and contact with others. You can really accomplish that in jail, sir. But anyway, I like the way the New York Times put this. Their release raised new questions about what happened near the base, how the men managed to drive three vans so close to an area where American bombers are stationed, and whether the British Army's bomb disposal unit had failed to find any evidence after examining the vehicles for more than 24 hours. Britain's national security laws give the authorities widespread latitude to detain terror suspects, so the decision to grant the five-man bail suggests the police may not have found enough to link them to a specific act.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so they can do what... what I was talking about yesterday about what we do in the United States, we come up with a reason to hold people. If we need to, we just hold them until we figure out what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Trump said some stuff, but Trump says all sorts of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Um, and so I don't think it necessarily indicates anything substantial. He said they'd intended to do big damage to the air base.
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Speaker 4: Well, do you have the sense that we did have our eye on them for a while? And it wasn't just the, uh, a cow lady up late at night, partying, seeing a couple of guys running around with masks on calling nine one, one. All I know is I.
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Speaker 2: Want to party with that British farmer lady who gets it on and drives home at night.
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Speaker 4: Um, uh, yeah, I, something's going on.
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Speaker 2: Cause Rubio was unequivocal that they're the hands of a foreign regime. Two sentences later, he mentioned Iran and, On Monday, Trump was asked whether the men might be connected to Iran. He refused to elaborate, adding, quote, I know the answer. I can be very specific, but I'd rather not say it. He also expressed surprise at the decision to release the men.
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Speaker 4: So Rubio saying it was a foreign actor means we we did have our eyes on them because there's no way you would know that if it unfolded as farmer ladies coming home from the bar. three milk cans to the wind, and sees a couple of guys running around in masks and calls 911, you wouldn't have the information that it was a foreign actor get to the U.S. Secretary of State within 18 hours.
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Speaker 2: No, especially given the lack of evidence. A couple more lines, then we'll hear from Sally, the party in Milkmaid. According to the New York Times, public details about the incident remain murky at best. Investigators arrested the five men in the early hours of Sunday morning, Bomb disposal units spent most of Sunday examining the white vans while 85 families living anywhere nearby were evacuated from their homes.
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Speaker 4: 85 families.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Wow. So here's the anonymous farmer lady.
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Speaker 8: First thing I noticed was there's a vehicle on our farm drive.
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Speaker 5: And then I.
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Speaker 8: Realized there's three of them and they're parked in a really strange formation. It's such a flash moment of seeing them, but they were, Definitely more than five. We think maybe between eight and ten of them were.
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Speaker 4: There at that point.
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Speaker 8: And a lot of them had their faces covered.
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Speaker 2: She sounds like she has a couple of Boddingtons in right now, but a key statement there, there were at least eight to ten men, she said.
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Speaker 4: Not five.
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Speaker 2: So they scattered into the hinterlands, half of them, and the five who got arrested, you know, not as fleet of foot or something, but So, mystery piled upon mystery.
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Speaker 4: Well, if I may continue to pull on the teat of the story and try to milk more information out of it, not knowing exactly the details. Is there any chance it's got something to do with the bad relationship between the current British government and the United States government? They just, like, hate Trump and the idea that our, maybe, State Department was... watching these people and pushing them, and Great Britain now has this, one, they hate Trump, and two, they're just, they lean over so far to try to protect their Muslim population right now.
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Speaker 2: There's no evidence that any of that is true, but as harebrained conspiracy theories.
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Speaker 4: Go, those are decent. Those are decent ones. For instance, let me give you this. I've been following John Cleese's Twitter feed. Comedy legend from Monty Python back in the day, John Cleese. And perhaps the best sitcom ever, Fawlty Towers. Right, right.
00:24:38
Speaker 2: A Fish Called Wanda, a number of great comedy films as well.
00:24:42
Speaker 4: He tweeted out yesterday, the rule of law no longer exists in the UK and connected this story. A British man stated on social media that he does not want to see Palestinian flags displayed all across the UK. Police officers came to his house at 4 a.m. and arrested him. He got arrested for saying he doesn't like seeing Palestinian flags around his country.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: How crazy is that?
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Speaker 2: We need to go big on this topic soon, whether today or tomorrow or whatever.
00:25:14
Speaker 4: So keep that story handy. The cops come in the middle of the night and haul you off for that?
00:25:19
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:25:20
Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly what's going on. They have imported so many Muslims who have zero intention of assimilating into Western society and or who are religious fundamentalists enough that that is their be all and end all is Islam, the Koran. And so the British authorities looking around saying, seeing that they have passed critical mass, they they they're past the point of no return on this. have decided the only thing they can do is bend over backwards and then through their legs, then backwards again like a corkscrew, saying, we're not hostile to you. Please don't hurt us. Please don't be angry at us. We can all get along. Look, we'll show you how respectful we are for your religion. In fact, if anybody even criticizes it, we'll jail.
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Speaker 4: Them for you. It's pathetic. It's Stockholm Syndrome. We've always had more free speech than any other country on the planet, but it used to be the gap between us and Great Britain was like this much. Now we're not even close. Oh, no.
00:26:27
Speaker 2: Great Britain is sprinting backwards in terms of free speech.
00:26:32
Speaker 4: And it's all about fear of Islam.
00:26:35
Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: Which is why I tweeted at Ian Bremmer last night the cover of the book Submission, which I've talked about for years. uh by michelle welbach is that that the name of the guy i think it is um he was part of the whole a terrorist shooting back in the day anyway um that book features and i always wondered if this would actually happen marine le pen actually getting elected because of the A reaction to way too many fundamentalist Muslims being led into France. And it looks like that is now going to happen. That's how that that's the whole plot of the book. And then there's a reaction to her becoming a right wing president that goes the other direction on the other side. And you end up with a real mess there in France. And I think we're actually going to see it play out. with the idea of fundamentalist Muslims taking over their colleges and a lot of the governments in the smaller towns and everybody being afraid of them, just like you're seeing in Great Britain.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the election of Mamdani was in large measure because of the controversy over Israel's.
00:27:47
Speaker 4: Counterattack against Hamas.
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Speaker 2: That's another example of what Hollebeck was writing about, that there's that backlash and the progressives, the intellectuals of society say, In order to demonstrate how we're so enlightened and not bigoted, please take this seat of power and this seat of power.
00:28:08
Speaker 4: And of course you can run the university. We're not bigoted. Don't hurt us. Right. Wow, that is really interesting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. You know, I was hoping to pay off the superhuman baby of color who ate a live mouse.
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00:30:09
Speaker 3: So the MTV Video Music Awards aired last night. Snoop Dogg was the host, which means they had to stop midway through the show to open the windows. And I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Madonna's performance, but my TV now has crabs.
00:30:27
Speaker 4: Oh, unfortunate. I like the second joke. First joke was just dumb, Greg. That was just dumb. Yeah, that was weak, yeah.
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Speaker 2: New York Times, I happen to be closing a window from yesterday's morning newsletter that they put out. And the best and worst moments of the VMAs.
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Speaker 4: What the hell? Why does this even exist?
00:30:45
Speaker 2: They thought Madonna was fantastic. Every second she was on screen was amazing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you subscribe to I'm Strong and Getting On Demand, you get the one more thing automatically. It downloads so you'll never miss a segment. So a couple of things to talk about, including the superhuman baby of color story. So this began, as so many things do, online. This gal tweets, you think you've seen the worst, but this week my friend turned her back on her seven-month-old for one second, and the baby managed to find and catch a live mouse, then eat most of it, the tail and entrails dangling out.
00:31:33
Speaker 4: OK, there's a lot there. There is a lot there. You turn your back for a second. Where do you live? Well, yeah.
00:31:43
Speaker 2: Well, you have many of the questions the world had. So one of the responses to this was this is such an insane take. This child is being neglected. No baby should be in a position where they could consume a dead animal that is in no way they're physically able to catch. I actually it was worded better than I read it. This baby found a rotting mouse corpse and started to eat it. And the mother was too distracted. Call CPS. All right.
00:32:10
Speaker 4: So I didn't catch it. The mouse was dead. No, no.
00:32:13
Speaker 2: Because the original post said a live mouse. And this person says no baby can catch a live mouse. It was obviously dead.
00:32:21
Speaker 4: Seven month old. How old is your baby there, Katie?
00:32:24
Speaker 5: Four months.
00:32:26
Speaker 4: Okay. Has he caught any rodents? Just a possum, but we got to get away from them pretty quick. They're slow afoot, though. Possum! I don't remember the faculties of a seven-month-old, but I don't think they could catch a mouse. I don't remember.
00:32:41
Speaker 2: Well, that's all right. So here's the reply. People are projecting their own white experiences onto this story.
00:32:48
Speaker 1: Ah, okay.
00:32:48
Speaker 4: It's got a race angle. Yeah.
00:32:50
Speaker 2: I won't divulge private information, but the baby wasn't white, wasn't living in squalor, was.
00:32:56
Speaker 4: Born with teeth.
00:32:57
Speaker 2: walked by six months, is very agile and strong and well cared for, and lives rurally with no indoor pets.
00:33:04
Speaker 4: Reads Latin and can ride a unicycle. Born with teeth. Yes. Yes, it happens. It happens. And you know what you got on your hands if you get a baby born with teeth? You got a mouse eater on your hands. Hide your mice.
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Speaker 2: So this one person who posted this whole string, her comment was the superhuman baby of color who hunted and ate a live mouse simply defies white people's limited understanding is a very rare discourse. I don't think we've seen before. And then somebody commented to that, we are losing our last remaining novel English sentences with alarming rapidity. Let me read that to you again. The superhuman baby of color who hunted and ate a live mouse simply defies white people's limited understanding, close quote, is a very rare discourse I don't think we've seen before.
00:34:05
Speaker 4: The novel sentence. Oh, that's funny.
00:34:11
Speaker 2: People are projecting their own white experiences onto this story.
00:34:14
Speaker 4: You got to have a camera on this baby like we did Jackie the Eagle. I mean, you got to have a camera full time so we can check in on the mouse eating super baby with teeth so we can see what it's up to at any given time. Oh, yeah.
00:34:28
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:34:28
Speaker 4: There should be a national mouse eating super baby of color cam. Definitely.
00:34:34
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:34:35
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:34:36
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:34:36
Speaker 4: That's a good story. So every day we record little promos.
00:34:41
Speaker 2: They're promotional announcements for the show that run on radio stations all across America. And one of them included me saying that we would talk about Rachel Dolezal and her porn career. Remember, she was the fake black lady who's now defending the fake Palestinian lady who's come to our attention briefly and will vanish again into obscurity as quickly as possible. But the most interesting part of this article, I thought, and they talked to Rachel, who is a crazy person.
00:35:07
Speaker 4: Um, she's a foot porn specialist by the way.
00:35:11
Speaker 2: Uh, but they talk to her about the fact that she's down with the whole transgender thing. In fact, a day-to-day transgender person and said, well, since, since sex is just a social construct.
00:35:26
Speaker 4: You know, blah, blah, blah, the whole, uh, critical theory thing, woke thing.
00:35:30
Speaker 2: Um, And then the interviewer says, well, you just told me a couple of minutes ago, race is just a social construct. So can this other person identify as a different race?
00:35:43
Speaker 4: And they go back and forth. Then they ask another expert.
00:35:46
Speaker 2: And the other expert says, well, no, no, you can't adopt a black racial identity because white people have always had the power. So race is just a social construct. But white people can't use that logic because they're white people. The whole critical theory thing is merely Marxism trying to take over Western civilization.
00:36:09
Speaker 4: If it goes one way, it's got to go the other.
00:36:12
Speaker 2: If they're both social constructs, so if I claim I'm a woman, I'm a woman, then I can claim to be black or Hispanic or whatever else because that's a social construct too. But no, that wouldn't aid your taking over of institutions. So it's completely phony.
00:36:26
Speaker 4: I remember my brother... When he was about two and a half years younger than me, and he would crawl around on the floor and catch crickets and eat them when I was a little kid. He would hold them up and drop them into his mouth. And I remember I have a vivid memory of their little black legs sticking out of his mouth, wiggling around. But never a mouse, as far as I know. And your son was a drain licker. Is it genetic, maybe? Yeah.
00:36:55
Speaker 2: Was your brother born with teeth?
00:36:58
Speaker 4: So many questions. I'll have to ask him. If you missed the segment, get the podcast.
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