1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,640 Speaker 1: I asked you Toith Collins if you were listening, and 2 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: I'm assuming you where I asked you Toith Collins yesterday? 3 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: What's become of us? The user I was referring to 4 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: as this country, but I amended that in my mind 5 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, when I read the first review of Jake 6 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: Tapper's book on Joe Biden, what's become of all of us? 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: Is now the question? As in globally Biden didn't recognize 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: George Clooney at a fundraiser. Was your headline? Tapper is 9 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: making money out of a book on a subject he 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: should have been all over four years ago, but wasn't. 11 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,959 Speaker 1: Most of the American media, in particular weren't either. They 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: knew Biden was what he was, but it didn't seem 13 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: to matter then, But now they can make a dollar 14 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: out of it. It's a story. Apparently this was raised, 15 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: indeed at the White House correspondents dinner, so it's not 16 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: like they are aware of how this looks. Jasindra Duone 17 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: falls into the same category. Of course, destroy the country, 18 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: runaway to Boston, write a book, collect the money. I 19 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: mean as shocking Sinner, the tennis player in name and 20 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: act meets the Pope, having cut a deal with the 21 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: doping authorities not to miss any mags, and return to 22 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: his home tournament. A hero and daddy of them all 23 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: is current American President. He offers white house tours and 24 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: a dinner if you buys crypto. I mean house is possible. 25 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: He tells you it's a good time to buy, before 26 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: he makes an announcement that he knows will move the markets. 27 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: No one seemingly doing anything about that. He's about to 28 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: collect a plane for God's sake that is quite obviously illegal, 29 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: and yet who is it that's going to do anything 30 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: about that either. Winston Peters had his head in his 31 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: hands this week when Brook let the big word fly 32 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 1: and he lamented the lack of standards. All around us 33 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: are seemingly new norms, more and more indicators that what 34 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: was once the right way to go about business now 35 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Punishments that once addressed in discretions are now 36 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: laughed at or negotiated away. Moral five that kept you 37 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: on the straight and narrow not just gone, but jettisoned 38 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: and replaced by contempt and arrogance. If the President of 39 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: America can bribe your crypto purchases while flying on an 40 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: illegal plane, and former leaders can profit from negligence, and 41 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: the fourth estate can pretend to be unbiased while ignoring 42 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: the news and then cash in on their ineptitude. Is 43 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: it any wonder? More and more of us long for 44 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: the good Old Day. For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, 45 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: listen live to News Talks at B from six am weekdays, 46 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.