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Speaker 2: Felsey Gabart has been confirmed as a Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 1: No no, no experience whatsoever in intelligence.
Speaker 3: One of the least.
Speaker 2: Expected votes, I believe, and that's saying something. She didn't
Speaker 2: even have to have JD Vance come home to the
Speaker 2: Senate to break the tie like Pete Hegseth did, and
Speaker 2: going into it, everybody was suggesting that she was the
Speaker 2: least likely to be confirmed, and she was confirmed today
Speaker 2: by the full Senate. The Senate also in a few
Speaker 2: minutes is going to vote on whether to advance the
Speaker 2: nomination of RFK. Junior as Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Speaker 2: and that means that his final vote would come in
Speaker 2: just a few days. So it's spitting outside.
Speaker 3: It's not rain.
Speaker 2: This is not rain yet in pretty much anywhere in
Speaker 2: southern California, but it will be coming later today into tonight.
Speaker 2: That's when we expect to see the heaviest rains. Probably
Speaker 2: by the time you're asleep is when the heaviest rains
Speaker 2: will start. They'll continue through most of the day tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Oh and to add a little precursor to all of this,
Speaker 2: one of the water mains broke over in the Pacific
Speaker 2: Palisades last night. Okay, that's probably how in the world
Speaker 2: does that? I mean, is there a lot of water anyhow?
Speaker 2: They're old, that's the They're old, and I guess when
Speaker 2: you restart everything, it's just well, the old seems.
Speaker 1: This is just the infrastructure of Los Angeles. You know this,
Speaker 1: All of the water pipes are They don't even make
Speaker 1: the material used that was used to create the water
Speaker 1: infrastructure in La anymore. I mean, it's all aging, it's
Speaker 1: all a mess, and all these water mains are just
Speaker 1: one storm away from breaking.
Speaker 3: So yay, hey, I have.
Speaker 2: Some interesting international news. We'll actually talk about it a little
Speaker 2: bit later, but Anyan, President Zelenski has said that Ukraine
Speaker 2: will offer to swap territory with Russia in any potential
Speaker 2: peace negotiations, which was a hard line that he refused
Speaker 2: to acknowledge what territory. Well, that's part of the discussion
Speaker 2: is exactly which territory?
Speaker 3: Is it the cursed.
Speaker 1: Paris California or is it Paris France? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: In an interview with the Guardian newspapers. Zolenski also said
Speaker 2: that Europe alone would not be able to shoulder the
Speaker 2: war effort, and he says that the United States has
Speaker 2: to be involved with this. He is an interesting meeting
Speaker 2: coming up on Friday. He and Vice President J. D.
Speaker 2: Vance are supposed to both be at the Munich Security Conference,
Speaker 2: according to Zelenski's spokesman, which means that they'll have a
Speaker 2: meeting face to face meeting. I had an awful I
Speaker 2: had an awful, awful moment last night facetiming our daughter
Speaker 2: in college.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 2: She's PhDs. I didn't even say college. College is so
Speaker 2: beneath her right now. She's a PhD student and she
Speaker 2: was talking to my wife and I walked into the
Speaker 2: room and I see her a face on the little
Speaker 2: phone and they're talking about, you know, the stuff in
Speaker 2: the lab and day to day stuff.
Speaker 3: And I had this moment of that is my daughter's face.
Speaker 2: Her face has not changed since she was four years old.
Speaker 2: But she was talking about columnar chemical reactions and how
Speaker 2: that guy doesn't know what he's doing and this person
Speaker 2: is a potential safety risk in the thing. And I
Speaker 2: could not My brain started like doing that fizzle and
Speaker 2: pop thing where it starts to just fade away, like
Speaker 2: you feel like you're having a stroke when something like
Speaker 2: that happens.
Speaker 3: It was so weird.
Speaker 1: Well, a couple things are happening. You are bearing your
Speaker 1: parents this weekend, right officially, so.
Speaker 2: There's afually, it's raining so that the soil is a
Speaker 2: little easier to dig into.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there are things that are not soil maintenance
Speaker 1: that are going on in your mind probably, and a
Speaker 1: lot of things about family and what does it all mean.
Speaker 1: And you're thinking of growing up, and you're thinking of
Speaker 1: growing up with your sisters, and you're thinking of raising
Speaker 1: your kids, and all of this comes full circle when
Speaker 1: things like this happen. So it's not out of the
Speaker 1: ordinary that you had a reaction like that to something
Speaker 1: that probably happens twice a week in your house where
Speaker 1: your wife is talking to your daughter on FaceTime about
Speaker 1: school and about smart things. And the other thing is
Speaker 1: that you're never going to be that smart and that's
Speaker 1: part of it.
Speaker 2: Well that and that is no, that is one hundred
Speaker 2: percent truth. But I noticed I recognize that like four
Speaker 2: or five years.
Speaker 1: Ago nearly because you haven't gone to school for it.
Speaker 1: I have full I have full confidence that if you
Speaker 1: had gone to school for chemistry, biochemistry, all of that
Speaker 1: and entered a PhD program, you would have just the
Speaker 1: knowledge and the aptitude that your daughter does.
Speaker 2: That was not your path. I yes, that is also
Speaker 2: thank you for that. I take that as a vote
Speaker 2: of confidence on your part. But it was just it
Speaker 2: was It was one of those weird It was just
Speaker 2: a moment. It was just an odd, uncomfortable almost uncomfortab well.
Speaker 3: It was very pride and a.
Speaker 1: Lot of different emotions. Pride, a little bit of for
Speaker 1: alornment to the past, a warnment you miss the fact
Speaker 1: that this is your baby that has completely grown up,
Speaker 1: and all of the things.
Speaker 2: I also had a moment where I texted my one
Speaker 2: of my sisters yesterday because up at my parents' house,
Speaker 2: we were there a couple of weeks ago, we threw
Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff away, and there's a dumpster and
Speaker 2: I don't know when the garbage company comes to take
Speaker 2: the dumpster, and I don't know what day of the
Speaker 2: week it is, and I started getting concerned that my
Speaker 2: sister would be there and wreck it and see that
Speaker 2: I threw away a bunch of stuff that I didn't
Speaker 2: get her approval on. And she's the oldest sister and
Speaker 2: she usually gets the approval on those things. And I
Speaker 2: just went through and my wife and we tore through
Speaker 2: some stuff and just threw it all out. And I'm
Speaker 2: hoping that that dumpster is empty, but I'm not going
Speaker 2: to go into the dumpster.
Speaker 3: You don't know that. Oh really you don't know that?
Speaker 1: Interesting? Yeah, well, I think everyone's emotions are a little raw,
Speaker 1: probably more than you, more than would be usual this week.
Speaker 1: So I think everything's going to be fine. You are
Speaker 1: a gentle family. You'll treat each other gently. If she
Speaker 1: finds something in the dumpster that she doesn't think should
Speaker 1: have been thrown out, she's not going to go dumpster
Speaker 1: diving for it and then yell at you about it
Speaker 1: and excoriate you and your wife.
Speaker 3: I'll say this, it's in her genes. I don't know
Speaker 3: if she's.
Speaker 1: They would not gone into the dumpster to retrieve something.
Speaker 2: That is one thousand percent incorrect. Really, my parents would
Speaker 2: absolutely take it out if they thought it was valuable.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 2: I've again, it's it's an episode of Hoarders, a slow
Speaker 2: motion version. It's not the edited down, you know, forty
Speaker 2: four minutes plus commercials thing.
Speaker 3: But it is a slow motion version.
Speaker 1: Of my husband his family. His father likes to keep
Speaker 1: things in the garage, I mean, like canoes and things
Speaker 1: like everything for forever, like from when they were growing up,
Speaker 1: from like when my husband's great And my husband has
Speaker 1: been like that for men years since we've been together.
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how much pride and happiness
Speaker 1: I felt a couple of weeks ago when he said,
Speaker 1: you know, the linen closet is really crowded. Could you
Speaker 1: I don't know what's important what to keep? Could you
Speaker 1: go in?
Speaker 4: And I was like, like, I get to get rid
Speaker 4: of something, Like I was so excited, which just shows
Speaker 4: how boring I am, but like I was so excited
Speaker 4: to go in and just goodwill the hell out of
Speaker 4: that linen closet. And I did, and he came home
Speaker 4: that nine He's like, oh, the little closet looks so tidy.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I love you, Like, thank you
Speaker 1: for letting me throw things. Not that I'm throwing them away,
Speaker 1: I'm donating them. They're perfectly fine, but they're things that
Speaker 1: we don't even use that like, we don't even have
Speaker 1: a use for in terms of betting, like that was
Speaker 1: a beta go or that.
Speaker 2: Was like you don't even have that size mattress you.
Speaker 2: You know, my wife looks at me after I take
Speaker 2: clothes out of the closet, like old T shirts and
Speaker 2: sweatshirts and stuff that I don't with.
Speaker 3: She looks at me different.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, immediately, yeah, for that than at any
Speaker 2: other point in our life.
Speaker 3: Yes, she sees me carrying a box.
Speaker 1: When do you do it on your own? Y? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's prompt cleaning out his own closet. It's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I love.
Speaker 2: You just that you wave yourself like you something's hot
Speaker 2: in the here, all right? Speaking of hot, inflation is
Speaker 2: heating up. That is taking a toll on Wall Street. Sorry,
Speaker 2: that was really stupid. Wid Yeah, this is dumb. I
Speaker 2: hope the boss has some good words for us later.
Speaker 2: We have a meeting today. Eating very often we haven't
Speaker 2: meeting anyway. We'll talk about some prayers for however, at
Speaker 2: that meeting, inflation the whole Gulf of America BS. That happened,
Speaker 2: and I thought one of the most endearing Oval Office
Speaker 2: press conferences I think I've ever seen Elon Musk brought
Speaker 2: his kid to that. It was a little a little distracting,
Speaker 2: but to me it was an endearing thing.
Speaker 1: Well, you better not pick your nose in front of
Speaker 1: the president. Loved it, I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram urging users to stay vigilant because of
Speaker 1: romance scams ahead of Valentine's Day, unsolicited messages through its apps,
Speaker 1: other social media platforms, as well as general text messages.
Speaker 1: Scammers tend to pose as attractive, single, and successful individuals.
Speaker 1: They build trust over a period of time before asking
Speaker 1: the targets for money.
Speaker 3: Young, attractive, single, successful.
Speaker 1: It didn't say young, it just said attractive, single and successful.
Speaker 3: Okay, you don't have to be young.
Speaker 1: No, everybody of all ages needs love. True, like when
Speaker 1: your wife leaves.
Speaker 3: You, Right, you're going to have to find somebody new.
Speaker 1: You're going to be prey for those social media scammers.
Speaker 1: I will fall for every one of them. I know
Speaker 1: you will. You fall for the traveling dynacologists to the gasto.
Speaker 1: That's why you have me in your life. I will.
Speaker 2: I'd have to run everybody by Oh my god, what
Speaker 2: hell their lives?
Speaker 5: Speaking?
Speaker 3: Did jacket?
Speaker 1: Did you lose a button. You lost a button? Do
Speaker 1: you have an extra button in that jacket? In the
Speaker 1: jacket sometimes it's so they're sewn in. Now, Oh, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna have to get you a button. Oh that's
Speaker 1: all right, it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 3: Well for you, it's not.
Speaker 1: My jacket stucks on Wall Street slumped at the start
Speaker 1: of trading today. Consumer prices rose more than expected in January,
Speaker 1: so basically, inflation is up hotter than expected inflation. And
Speaker 1: this flies in the face of the Trump campaign promise
Speaker 1: to lower inflation. Is anybody still paying attention now that
Speaker 1: Biden is out of the White House? This was a
Speaker 1: big Biden whistle cry of Biden's in the White House
Speaker 1: inflations to the roof. They're doing nothing. It seems like
Speaker 1: all of the handwringing and the pearl clutching over inflation
Speaker 1: kind of went by the wayside with Trump and the
Speaker 1: White House.
Speaker 2: Well, and this is also one of those issues where
Speaker 2: you know, Trump is president on the twentieth, so he
Speaker 2: gets a third of the month basically, and nobody expects
Speaker 2: any I'm for either president. Nobody expects the turnaround to
Speaker 2: come so quickly. So even if inflation goes up to
Speaker 2: now three percent, up from the two point nine in December,
Speaker 2: and actually slightly above what everybody was expecting.
Speaker 3: I get, I just get.
Speaker 2: I get frustrated when people blame it on a person,
Speaker 2: whether it's a president or a Treasury secretary or whatever.
Speaker 2: It just seems everybody wants to have a target to
Speaker 2: put their anger upon. And you're not gonna blame Joe
Speaker 2: Biden for the price of eggs. You're not going to
Speaker 2: blame President Trump for the inflation rate at three percent.
Speaker 2: It's just such a weak, intellectually lazy argument. I feel, yeah,
Speaker 2: he has promised to bring inflation down, and if he doesn't,
Speaker 2: he's gonna get stuck with it like the tail on
Speaker 2: a donkey.
Speaker 3: But at this point, the Dow was down.
Speaker 2: I think it was down three hundred points at the
Speaker 2: trade start of trading this morning. Right now, the Dow
Speaker 2: is down about one hundred and seventy points. Investors right
Speaker 2: now are pretty much feeling the Fed is going to
Speaker 2: keep interest rates at their current level, probably for the year,
Speaker 2: basically until December. It's a pretty shift in the expectation
Speaker 2: since last year. Traders were expecting as many as four
Speaker 2: cuts this year, even just a few weeks ago, investigators, Investors,
Speaker 2: I should say we're expecting the next rate cut as
Speaker 2: soon as June, but with inflation still taking along higher
Speaker 2: than it should, then looks like they're going to have
Speaker 2: to be They're going to have.
Speaker 3: To keep rates at the current rate right now.
Speaker 1: February twelfth, Abraham Lincoln's birthday today?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Today? Did you know that Abraham Lincoln is the only
Speaker 1: president is to obtained a patent? Of course Benjamin Franklin
Speaker 1: political leader in his own right, but Lincoln the only
Speaker 1: president who obtained a patent. Do you want to know
Speaker 1: the story behind the patent?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: What do you think it is?
Speaker 4: In?
Speaker 1: No? But I have more fun facts about that hat
Speaker 1: coming up, So that's something to look forward to.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize what we were doing Lincoln trivia to
Speaker 3: we are?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The schools don't teach the kids anymore? Why not this
Speaker 1: show that?
Speaker 3: You know what?
Speaker 2: That's an excellent point. Yeah, we pick up where lausd
Speaker 2: leaves off and in that vein we're going to start
Speaker 2: a hefty load of geography coming to you next week.
Speaker 1: Geography, well, it needs to be taught more in these schools,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna addis Ababa. That was a great start.
Speaker 1: Well that's what we'll call our geography curriculum found Elahan
Speaker 1: as a human shield.
Speaker 2: As in theory relax, what you use the kids use
Speaker 2: the kid as a human shield.
Speaker 3: During his news conference.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, I didn't watch it. I'd much rather listen to
Speaker 2: Elon Musk talk than Donald Trump. To see the two
Speaker 2: of them in that weird picture of Elon Musk standing
Speaker 2: up and Trump sitting at the resolute desk and the
Speaker 2: kid picking his nose, it was to me it was
Speaker 2: kind of a funny image considering this seriousness with which
Speaker 2: this are seriousness of the subject that they were talking about.
Speaker 1: I like it when in the anytime politicians bring their
Speaker 1: kids into the mix, if it looks like they know
Speaker 1: their kids, it humanizes them.
Speaker 2: His kid has been everywhere with him, which is weird
Speaker 2: because which he's got from which mother?
Speaker 3: Exactly. That's what I was going to say, is there's
Speaker 3: so many of these like.
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon of this realm. Well, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: there's a lot of baby makers and a lot of babies,
Speaker 1: and how do you spend time with all of them?
Speaker 1: Not a good dad?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: So back to the patent. I didn't tell you about
Speaker 1: the patents, get it. Abraham Lincoln was aboard a steamboat
Speaker 1: that ran aground low shoal had to unload its cargo.
Speaker 3: It did.
Speaker 1: Lincoln, if you didn't know it, love tinkering with machines,
Speaker 1: and he designed a method for keeping vessels afloat to
Speaker 1: when traversing shallow waters through the use of empty metal
Speaker 1: air chambers attached to their sides. For his design, Lincoln
Speaker 1: obtained patent number six four and sixty nine back in
Speaker 1: eighteen forty nine.
Speaker 3: Empty metal chambers.
Speaker 1: Yes, air chambers.
Speaker 2: I like it, like ballast, the yostly ballast, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, excellent. Speaking of President Trump changed the name
Speaker 2: of Gulf of Mexico and the AP said, yeah, but
Speaker 2: we're not going.
Speaker 1: To do that. This is a big First Amendment issue.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention. It was like
Speaker 1: barring the Associated Press from covering the White.
Speaker 3: House for something as dumb as this.
Speaker 1: That's not, you know, some sort of weird news. You
Speaker 1: can use dot com website press access being revoked.
Speaker 3: Excellent point.
Speaker 1: Wednesday, February twelve, twenty twenty five. Abraham Lincoln's birthday? Did
Speaker 1: you know the Lincoln Motor Company was named after Abraham
Speaker 1: Lincoln by its founder Henry Leland.
Speaker 3: Not a surprise, but I didn't realize there was a connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The first Lincoln car, the model L introduced in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 3: That seems like it would be worth a lot of
Speaker 3: money right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know where that would still exist.
Speaker 3: Someone's got one somewhere.
Speaker 2: A group of inspectors general fired by President Trump last
Speaker 2: month or suing to be reinstated, asserting that he violated
Speaker 2: federal law by firing them without notifying Congress or outlining
Speaker 2: any reasons for their ouster. These former government watchdogs at
Speaker 2: the Pentagon and Departments of HHS, Agriculture, State, Education, Labor,
Speaker 2: and VA filed that lawsuit yesterday. This action came less
Speaker 2: than three weeks after the officials received emails notifying them
Speaker 2: of their firings late on the first Friday after Trump
Speaker 2: took office.
Speaker 3: There is a developing story out of DC.
Speaker 2: President Trump did say that he had a lengthy call
Speaker 2: with Russian President Vladimir Putin today, which included agreeing to
Speaker 2: immediately begin negotiations over the war in Ukraine. He posted
Speaker 2: on truth social we agreed to work together closely, including
Speaker 2: visiting each other's nations. We've also agreed to have our
Speaker 2: respective team start negotiations immediately, and we will be and
Speaker 2: we will begin by calling President Zelenski of Ukraine to
Speaker 2: inform him, inform him of the conversation, something which I
Speaker 2: will be doing right now.
Speaker 1: I've tracked down in nineteen twenty nine Lincoln Model l
Speaker 1: Roadster Classic in Classic in Fullerton for fifty nine to.
Speaker 3: Five for you fifty nine.
Speaker 1: So the best I could do with the closest location
Speaker 1: I could do.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: The Associated Press has pushed back. The Trump administration has
Speaker 1: blocked one of its reporters from an event. This is
Speaker 1: because of the AP's guidance on the continued use of
Speaker 1: Golf of Mexico in its coverage, they say, and I
Speaker 1: would argue that they are correct. This is a violation
Speaker 1: of the First Amendment. The White House is demanded this
Speaker 1: week that the AP alter its style guidance to use
Speaker 1: the name Gulf of America versus using the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 1: Of course, Trump renamed the body of water to Gulf
Speaker 1: of America through an executive order last month. The AP
Speaker 1: style guide is something that the AP takes very seriously.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a governing document. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the constitution for the AP. The style Guide, it's
Speaker 1: all important. It's been edited, it's been revised through the years,
Speaker 1: but it is the bible for how things should be
Speaker 1: written and how things should be reported.
Speaker 3: Right. As an example, if you're referring to.
Speaker 2: The state of Pennsylvania, they may have very specific language
Speaker 2: that describes it as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And then
Speaker 2: if you're writing a story about Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth,
Speaker 2: thereof how to do it, how to refer to it,
Speaker 2: how you explain it, how you so that there is
Speaker 2: some amount of consistency when it comes to journalism. And again,
Speaker 2: you don't have to follow the AP Style Guide, but
Speaker 2: it is one of those things that when you're early
Speaker 2: on in a news career, that's the best way for
Speaker 2: you to start your start your writing well.
Speaker 1: And because you learn it early on, it kind of
Speaker 1: is indoctrinated into you, so that's how you write. The
Speaker 1: AP Style Guide states that the order only carries carries
Speaker 1: authority within the United States, and other countries do not
Speaker 1: have to recognize the change because it's by executive order.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, right. The AP says that as a
Speaker 1: global news agency, the AP must ensure that place names
Speaker 1: and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences. It's not
Speaker 1: just written for the United States, It's written for the
Speaker 1: entire globe. And if the entire globe is not recognizing
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, then
Speaker 1: it's going to keep that name in place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what I don't get is that the Trump
Speaker 2: administration sees this as an antagonistic move on behalf of
Speaker 2: the AP. There's a million other things that the AP
Speaker 2: does that would be considered antagonism.
Speaker 3: This is not right.
Speaker 1: For example, they will be referring to Denali as Mount McKinley.
Speaker 1: It will be referred AP's guidance says it will be
Speaker 1: referring to it as Mount McKinley because it's in the
Speaker 1: United States, and so it's under the purview of whatever
Speaker 1: that executive order re Mount McKinley would be. Yeah. There's
Speaker 1: a million things I've called out the AP for stylistic
Speaker 1: writing in recent years that I think is completely biased,
Speaker 1: totally Yeah, which I have said every time I pointed
Speaker 1: it out. Makes me sad because usually you go to
Speaker 1: the AP for unbiased writing, and it has been biased
Speaker 1: with regard to the Trump administration and the prior Trump administration.
Speaker 1: But this is not the hill to die on.
Speaker 3: LISTA.
Speaker 2: The government or the government, the President has every right
Speaker 2: to come up with an executive order to change the
Speaker 2: name of the Golf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Speaker 3: I think it's silly. I think it's a waste of time,
Speaker 3: but he has every right to do it.
Speaker 2: The thing he can't do is require a private company,
Speaker 2: an international company, to change the name on its style
Speaker 2: guide because it is an international company and anyone outside
Speaker 2: of the three hundred and forty million Americans, no one
Speaker 2: is required to refer to the Golf of Mexico as
Speaker 2: anything other than the Golf of Mexico. It just it
Speaker 2: seems like a silly It was a strange flex on
Speaker 2: his part to sign this executive order and then assume
Speaker 2: that the world was just going to kind of fall
Speaker 2: in line.
Speaker 1: Well, to go so far as to ban the AP
Speaker 1: from proffering the White House because of their style guide,
Speaker 1: it just sounds juvenile. I mean, the whole thing sounds juvenile.
Speaker 1: The whole like, we want Greenland, we want Canada. We're
Speaker 1: going to change this to Gulf of America. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just it sounds silly. It's like, there's obviously big
Speaker 1: things that are being addressed in the Oval Office and
Speaker 1: with this administration, but when you die on these hills,
Speaker 1: very silly.
Speaker 2: Up next, speaking of there is some developing story coming
Speaker 2: out of Ukraine, out of Moscow, where the United States,
Speaker 2: Moscow and Ukraine may be making some progress and ending
Speaker 2: that war. Plus, the White House has just announced the
Speaker 2: release of yet another American hostage, this time apparently from Belarus.
Speaker 1: And you won't believe the Lincoln fun fact I've got
Speaker 1: coming back.
Speaker 3: At you, Gari and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 1: It involves wrestling.
Speaker 3: He was I knew he was a wrestler, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of a little bit of a coincidence,
Speaker 1: is it not. That President Trump has said he spoke
Speaker 1: with Vladimir Putin today they will immediately start negotiations related
Speaker 1: to ending the Russia Ukraine War. It was a post
Speaker 1: on truth Social where Trump said the call was highly productive,
Speaker 1: that they discussed the Middle East and Ai, among other things.
Speaker 1: He said he'd be calling Zelenski to inform him. He
Speaker 1: spoke with Putin. That's going to be a fun conversation.
Speaker 1: They say that they will visit each other's countries at
Speaker 1: some point. This on the same day that Tulsi Gabbered,
Speaker 1: seen as an ally to dictators and or Russia, was
Speaker 1: confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. She'll be overseeing over
Speaker 1: eighteen intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the FBI. I
Speaker 1: think the fact that she's critical of intelligence agencies has
Speaker 1: played more in her favor, along with her loyalty to Trump,
Speaker 1: than the whole cozing up to dictators and Bashar al
Speaker 1: Assad traits of her past.
Speaker 2: There is also speaking of this Ukraine Russia thing. There
Speaker 2: was an interview that Vladimir Zelensky did with the Guardian
Speaker 2: newspaper and suggested that Ukraine would offer to swap some
Speaker 2: territory with Russia in any potential peace negotiations. It didn't
Speaker 2: describe exactly which areas of land, but also Defense Secretary
Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth today said the desire to recover all of
Speaker 2: its territory that it lost to Russia would be an
Speaker 2: unrealistic objective.
Speaker 3: So there is some movement in all of this.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that there appears to be also at least
Speaker 2: one American hostage that was released from Belarus, so there's
Speaker 2: a lot of activity going on in that area at
Speaker 2: this time.
Speaker 5: Did you guys not hear that Biden signed an executive
Speaker 5: order to ban drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. So
Speaker 5: that's why he's changing the name to Gulf of America.
Speaker 5: So we can drill, baby, drill. Love you guys, bye,
Speaker 5: have a good day.
Speaker 2: Quick clarification, Yes, Biden did ban some offshore oil drilling
Speaker 2: in specific areas, but it wasn't the quotes Gulf of
Speaker 2: Mexico and changing the name of said Gulf of Mexico
Speaker 2: does not impact.
Speaker 3: That's okay, but it makes a good story.
Speaker 1: Sure, speaking of a good story, tell me some Lincoln stuff,
Speaker 1: all right, I feel like we should have some Lincoln music.
Speaker 3: Well, we don't really have Lincoln music.
Speaker 1: What do you mean we don't Lincoln?
Speaker 3: I mean we can get close.
Speaker 1: Oh that's pretty good. I like that. Now, when you
Speaker 1: think of Abraham Lincoln, your mind probably does not go
Speaker 1: to the WWE. But he was quite the accomplished wrestler.
Speaker 1: As a young man. He was defeated in three hundred matches.
Speaker 1: How many times would.
Speaker 2: You say, in three hundred matches, yeah, twenty five, only once?
Speaker 1: Really, yes, only once out of three hundred.
Speaker 3: Apparently all guy.
Speaker 1: He was six ' four, the tallest president, and that
Speaker 1: top hat only added to his longevity. He apparently was
Speaker 1: quite the smack talker in the wrestling ring.
Speaker 3: I can see that.
Speaker 1: According to the biography by Carl Samberg of Lincoln, honest
Speaker 1: Abe once challenged an entire crowd of on lurkers after
Speaker 1: dispatching an opponent throwing him to the ropes. He said
Speaker 1: to the crowd, I'm the big buck of this lick.
Speaker 1: If any of you want to try it, come on
Speaker 1: and wet your horns, to which no one wanted to
Speaker 1: wet their horns to face Big Abe Lincoln.
Speaker 3: That wouldn't be the one that gets me in the ring.
Speaker 1: His grappling exploits earned him an Outstanding American honor in
Speaker 1: the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. He is in the
Speaker 1: National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Well, interesting, do you often
Speaker 1: think of tall people as wrestling? No, That's what I
Speaker 1: mean is I don't know enough about wrestling to know.
Speaker 1: I mean, the smartest people will tell you I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I don't know when it comes to wrestling to
Speaker 1: tall people do well.
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking of the wrestlers that I knew, the
Speaker 2: friends that I had on the wrestling team.
Speaker 3: In high school.
Speaker 1: They were smaller guys.
Speaker 2: Were small guys, yeah, ripped, I mean right, really strong
Speaker 2: the s out of you, but shorter in stature.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Okay, But they were also not heavyweights. It's not like
Speaker 2: these guys were also just got word out of DC.
Speaker 2: It looks like the Senate has advanced the nomination of RFK.
Speaker 2: Junior as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, So
Speaker 2: a final confirmation vote is going to come in just
Speaker 2: a couple of days.
Speaker 3: There on the floor of the Senate.
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant was seven for very different.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's more of the entertaining version of the wrestlings.
Speaker 1: H you tell that to Andre the Giant, kick your ass.
Speaker 3: He's long dead. He died long dead.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about long. It's been dead for
Speaker 1: ten years, twelve years, like thirty years, thirty, ninety thirty,
Speaker 1: that's right, I thought. Okay, I didn't know he was
Speaker 1: so old. We're all really old old time.
Speaker 2: Once you hit seven feet, you don't have to be
Speaker 2: that old to die like that's there's there's a lot
Speaker 2: of wear and tear on your body.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at seven.
Speaker 2: Feet, that's why you're probably glad you're five to nine.
Speaker 2: I have been five to nine for thirty years, but
Speaker 2: maybe one day again I will be.
Speaker 1: My sister's husband said, he's shrinking, is he? He said,
Speaker 1: I go, what's new at your super Bowl party? And
Speaker 1: he goes, I'm shrinking. I said, what do you mean,
Speaker 1: I'm you're shrinking? He says, I'm shrinking, like five four.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what used to be? He's like five five.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you gotta get some new shoes.
Speaker 3: It's the shoes.
Speaker 2: The shoes, all right, we'll talk about what's going on
Speaker 2: rain wise, and also, yeah, the fire insurance, the last
Speaker 2: ditch fire insurance run by the state.
Speaker 3: They don't have any money left.
Speaker 1: And wait till you hear this abling oh one fat oh.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Gavin Newsom, which we weren't.
Speaker 2: You saw him yesterday, right, No, when he was on
Speaker 2: that news conference in Alta, Dina didn't watch it. He
Speaker 2: was wearing that funny looking jacket the bear no bear
Speaker 2: on this one, but it was like a weird, like
Speaker 2: all wool jacket. It's just a strange looking jacket. Okay,
Speaker 2: just under six thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: For that jacket.
Speaker 1: See that's the thing. I don't understand. The tone deafness.
Speaker 1: We got raked over the coals for saying Tom Brady
Speaker 1: looked ridiculous in a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars watch.
Speaker 3: Because it's just you know, again, he's not a politician,
Speaker 3: so he's not like.
Speaker 5: I have to.
Speaker 1: But it's tone flaunting your wealth, which I think is.
Speaker 2: Ghosts right, Yeah, Gavin Newsom appealing to the now you know,
Speaker 2: destitute people who've lost their homes wearing a six thousand
Speaker 2: dollars Least, if you're.
Speaker 1: Going to wear that jacket, go to the Palisades, Am
Speaker 1: I right?
Speaker 2: That would make more sense. Gary Shannon will continue right
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