1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Mike Michael. Oh, I'm so glad I'm listening to your 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: reload program. I'm so glad that they changed the podcast back. 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: I could never get it right news to lowest, almost 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: the newest or whatever that the heck the system was. 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: It made me nervous breakdown because I thought I'd get 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: a taket hold of my phone. I'm trying to figure 7 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 1: it out while I'm driving, so my wife made me stay. 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: At home and and cry. 9 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: Now I don't have to stay at home and cry. 10 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: I can figure it out without this highway control. 11 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 2: Knowing well, you could just try to do a grandchild 12 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 2: or just you know all, you might be a creeper. 13 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 2: You could have gone any like elementary playground and said, hey, 14 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 2: little kid, come here, man, look at my phone, nex 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 2: my phone for me. Would you do that? 16 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 3: I'm just glad we have some people that listen to 17 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 3: the Reload show on six thirty K House. 18 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: Yes, you know, which is a good reminder. If you 19 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 2: missed any of this program and you're listening on your radio, 20 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: you can always switch the dial or to six thirty 21 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: K how from two to four and listen to the 22 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: situation reload or reloaded reloaded reloaded, which is such, I know, 23 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,320 Speaker 2: excruciating pain for you to have to do. 24 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 3: It's more work for me, and I have to at 25 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 3: least pay attention to some part of the show. 26 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 2: Every morning, I mean literally Monday through Friday. Every morning 27 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: I wake up, and you know, you kind of generally 28 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 2: know my routine. But I eventually get to the spot 29 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 2: where I sit down over my laptop and over my email, 30 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 2: and every morning, somewhere between say five and six am, 31 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 2: there's an email from Dragon red Beard. 32 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 3: And we either of us like it or not. I 33 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,639 Speaker 3: am the producer of this show, and how. 34 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: That happened I for the like of me, I still 35 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: don't know. 36 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: We're both being punished from previous, previous lives. 37 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 2: Exactly, and it's always the subject. The subject line is 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: always the same, and the subject line is headlines you 39 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 2: won't read. And what he doesn't know is I do 40 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: read the headlines and then delete email. So I do 41 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 2: read them every single day, and I do think sometimes, oh, 42 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: that one would be good for a Michael Brown minute 43 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: to use on freedom, so I might click on the 44 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: hyperlink that he's included, which I'm surprised that this doesn't 45 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 2: go to my junk spam. Even though it's from an 46 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: internal email, it's from an iHeart domain. 47 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: I personally enjoy the ones that I send that you 48 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 3: use for your Michael Brown minute, because I know those 49 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,679 Speaker 3: ones will piss you off. It's like, oh, this will 50 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 3: piss off Michael. 51 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 2: Send Right. Today, it was slightly different. The subject line 52 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 2: was headlines you won't won't read, ellipse and then but 53 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: should Then in all caps with three exclamation points, is 54 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 2: National No Politics Day? And I thought, yeah, that's what 55 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 2: you think, That's what he thinks. So let's begin with 56 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: a confession. I am a conservative. Some would say right wing, nutjob, 57 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 2: others would say moderate, some would say libertarian. I don't 58 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 2: really care what monik or label you put on me. 59 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 2: But I am a talk show host. My entire professional 60 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: existence depends somewhat on the daily combustion of people who 61 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 2: are politically outraged about something, generally on the left. The careful, 62 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: and I do mean seriously, the careful curation of controversy, 63 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: and I think the study ability to say things that 64 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 2: make people huh think to themselves. Never thought about that. Now. 65 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 2: Politics is not merely my subject matter. It is, to 66 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 2: a certain extent, my oxygen. It is my revenue stream. 67 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 2: And honestly, as I've said many times before, maybe not 68 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: over here on KOA, but in my previous iterations on 69 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 2: I just tend to go back and forth with studios 70 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 2: in this building. I am the By the way, I 71 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: do like to mention that I am the only talent 72 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 2: in the entire building on all three AM stations. So 73 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 2: it is my therapy, my catharsis. So you'll understand the 74 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: particular existential vertigo that I experienced this morning upon discovering, 75 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: thanks to Dragon Redber, that today, February twentieth is apparently 76 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: No Politics Day. This is, to use a very precise 77 00:04:52,240 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 2: legal term, deeply ironic situation. But nonetheless here we are are, 78 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,679 Speaker 2: and because I am nothing if not thorough, and because 79 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: you know, thinking about and putting together notes to tell 80 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 2: you about No Politics Day is itself a form of 81 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 2: political commentary, which means I am already violating the spirit 82 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 2: of the holiday before I've even finished my first night coke. 83 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 2: Let us explore the glorious, messy and deeply American story 84 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,600 Speaker 2: of how this day came to be what it is 85 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 2: supposed to accomplish. It's just really stupid when you get 86 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 2: to it, and why the whole enterprise is simultaneously noble 87 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,679 Speaker 2: to some degree, it is utterly ridiculous and perhaps more 88 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: profound than it deserves to be. Let's talk about the 89 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 2: founding father that nobody's ever heard of? Dragons? Do you 90 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 2: who the founding father of No Politics Day? 91 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: Is? 92 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 2: Dope? 93 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 3: Okay, see because I sent you the link. Do you 94 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 3: even think I went dove into what the what the 95 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 3: day is? 96 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 4: No? 97 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 3: I just found it. What hey this? He'll piss off 98 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 3: Michael Well? 99 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 2: And then I hear coming in, uh Kaminski says something 100 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 2: about is, which I smartly as smart assley responded. He 101 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 2: told me, hey, Michael, is you The day is Love 102 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 2: your Pet Day? And I thought, I instantly thought to myself, 103 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 2: What's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of? I love 104 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 2: my pet every day. In fact, yesterday I spent four 105 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: hundred dollars having two Lienburger's groomed. 106 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 3: He brought them home from the dry cleaners. 107 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 2: Yes, you know how they have different They had the 108 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 2: hangers like you put a suit on, because they had 109 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 2: the plastic bags over them when they were hanging, you know, 110 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 2: by their paws or their front legs over the hangers, 111 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 2: and I hung one up on one side of the 112 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 2: jeep and hung up the other one on the other 113 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: side of the jeep, just you know. But but I 114 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 2: have to admit the four hundred dollars is worth it, 115 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 2: because well they smell. 116 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,919 Speaker 3: Good and they had to use the big heavy duty 117 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 3: hangers because lien Burgers are big dogs. 118 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, four hundred. So my gofund me is at GoFundMe. 119 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 2: It's Michael's Limberger's please contribute to He'll pay for it. 120 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 2: And I think, I don't know if I'm doing something 121 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: a while, but this stupid computer keeps dying on me, 122 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 2: the one in front of me. 123 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 3: Nobody else complains about it, just you well. 124 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 2: Yes see, I noticed that he had come slightly unplugged, 125 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 2: so I'll try. Oh yeah, there it is. It's coming unplugged. 126 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 2: Maybe my heap feet are hitting a cable or something. 127 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 2: I don't know. But here we are no Politics Day. 128 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: Every great American institution requires a founding father, right, and 129 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 2: no Politics Day has one. It's some y'ahoo named Bob 130 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 2: Matthews from Rochester, New York. Now I want you to 131 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 2: appreciate this for a moment. We live in a nation 132 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 2: whose Founding Fathers were a remarkable collection of slaveholders. Yes, 133 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 2: let's get that on the table. They were philosophers, They 134 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 2: were whiskey distillers. They were amateur scientists who flew kites 135 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 2: and thunderstorms to try to prove a point. They wrote 136 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: documents to have shaped civilization for two hundred and fifty 137 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: years or more. They fought wars. They argued so bitterly 138 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 2: about the architecture of government that two of them literally 139 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 2: went to their graves, refusing to speak to each other 140 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 2: before just patching things up in a magnificent you know, 141 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 2: romance that lasted years. And when they both died on 142 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 2: the same day, July fourth, eighteen twenty six. You don't 143 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 2: know who those are, go look it up. I just 144 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 2: find it ironic that they despised each other, they made up, 145 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 2: and they both died on the exact same day, July fourth, 146 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 2: eighteen twenty six, which is either probably the most poetic 147 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 2: thing in American history, or it's proof that God really does, 148 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 2: as I believe, an exceptional sense of both dramatic timing 149 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 2: and amazing humor. So Bob Matthews. Bob Matthews created a 150 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 2: holiday suggesting that we should not talk about politics for 151 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 2: one day. Now. To be clear, this is not a criticism. 152 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 2: Bob Matthews, in fact, may be the most sane person 153 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 2: in the entire history of American public life, because the 154 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 2: guide looked to the state of our national discourse and said, essentially, hey, 155 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: you know what, just stop for one day. Just stop now. 156 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe this is kind of a Buddha 157 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 2: like simplicity, and I kind of generally genuinely kind of 158 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 2: respect that. So he founded No Politics Day in twenty seventeen. Now, 159 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 2: I just want you to keep that year and date 160 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 2: that date, that year, that year in your mind. Twenty seventeen, which, 161 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 2: if you're doing the math, was approximately one year into 162 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 2: what a lot of Americans would describe as probably the 163 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 2: most relentlessly, exhaustingly inescapably political period in modern memory. Because 164 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 2: a guy that everybody kept claiming, you know, we need 165 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 2: to run government like a business. We need a businessman 166 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 2: to run you know, we need a businessman as president. 167 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 2: Well you got what you wanted. And then a year later, 168 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 2: after he started doing business like things, they decided, oh, 169 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 2: we need to no politics thing because we can't think 170 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 2: this anymore. So I don't think the timing is coincidental 171 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 2: at all. The timing was a man looking at his television, 172 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 2: then looking at his phone, then looking at his Facebook 173 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 2: feed and at that time his Twitter feed, then looking 174 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 2: back at the television, maybe tuning into the situation which 175 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 2: Michael Brown ends losing his mind. Rochester, New York, Bob Matthews, 176 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 2: by the way, Rochester, we have to know, that's a 177 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 2: perfectly other than their winters and the lake effects knows 178 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 2: and everything else. It's a perfectly sensible city that has 179 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 2: contributed old Kodak film. Can you still buy Kodak film? 180 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I've still got lots of 181 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 2: like actual film DSLRs, but I don't know that I 182 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 2: can actually buy any film for them. The fact that 183 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 2: Wegman's grocery stores and Frederick Douglas it now also gets 184 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 2: credit for the one man that was brave enough to 185 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 2: say enough already. But here's where things really get delightful, 186 00:10:56,120 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 2: in my opinion, because even a holiday the dedicated to 187 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 2: escaping political controversy cannot itself escape political controversy. And in 188 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 2: a development that will surprise absolutely nobody who's spent more 189 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: than five minutes observing American culture, people can't agree what 190 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 2: or when. No Politics Day actually is. So Bob Matthews 191 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 2: created the holiday on Czechs calendar February twentieth. No, that's incorrect. 192 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 2: He created the holiday on February first. That's according to 193 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 2: Matthews himself, the creator the holiday. You create, you know, 194 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 2: I create a holiday, Michael Brown, you know, Honor Day, 195 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 2: and we'll do that on February twenty first. But if 196 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 2: February first remains the official date, and he has explicitly 197 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 2: said publicly that nobody can rightfully change the date of 198 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: a holiday without the permission of the creator, he is, 199 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 2: as they say, what affirm on that? And yet and 200 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 2: yet the date got moved to February twenty and now 201 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 2: is celebrated by some, at least not in these quarters, 202 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 2: a month after inauguration Day in this country. Now, the 203 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 2: theory is this, that people can debate politics, past, present 204 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: and future before taking a much needed break four weeks 205 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:29,079 Speaker 2: into a new administration. Now, that change, interesting, was not 206 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 2: made by Bob Matthews. It was made by websites. Just websites, 207 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 2: holiday listing websites, you know, specifically, I guess of the 208 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 2: sort that also informed you that February twentieth is now. 209 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 2: I think it's National Cherry Pie Day. It's National Handcuffed 210 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 2: Day for those of you that are either law enforcement 211 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: or into BDSM. I don't know which. You know which 212 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 2: is more pro I actually don't know which it's for. 213 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: And according to Kamenski, it is National Love your Pet Day. Oh, 214 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 2: it's also something called who do You Who? 215 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 3: Day? 216 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 2: Do you know? That dragon is? Who do you Who? Day? 217 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: Who Do You Who? Yeah? 218 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 3: I think that was on the list, but I have 219 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 3: no idea what the heck it is? 220 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 2: Well, I'm not making this up. It's when you go 221 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 2: outside and you yell who do you who? Everybody go 222 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 2: outside today and yell who do you who? Because that's 223 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 2: supposed to scare away winter? Wait? What you're supposed to 224 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: scare away winter? 225 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 3: Huh? Who do you who? 226 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 2: Who do you Who? I dare all of you to 227 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 2: at some point. You can't do it indoors. You have 228 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 2: to do it outside. So go out on your front porch, 229 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 2: your back deck, go out into your office parking lot. 230 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 2: Before you walk into the restaurant, just turn around and 231 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 2: go who do you Who? Just as loudly as you can, 232 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 2: and then watch your friends you call workers or your spouse, 233 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 2: whoever it is, look at you and say, well, don't 234 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 2: you know you have to do that today on February 235 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 2: twentieth to scare away the winter. They will look at 236 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 2: you and think that's either really charming, or it's a 237 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 2: sign of the apocalypse, or it's a sign that well 238 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 2: they need to call the guy in the white coats. Now. 239 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 2: The original February first placement, for what it's worth, had 240 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 2: to be moved because that day was already taken by 241 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 2: National Freedom Day, which I deeply apologized we missed on 242 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 2: this day, and Dragon didn't bring that to my attention. 243 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 2: A far more serious observance commemorating Abraham's Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln's 244 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 2: signing of the Resolution. 245 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 3: Of First was a Sunday, so we weren't on the air, 246 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 3: so I'm not going to talk to you on a 247 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 3: day off. 248 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: So no. Anyway, Well, I think that's a more significant 249 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 2: day because it marks the day that Lincoln signed the 250 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 2: resolution that became the thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. So bumping 251 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 2: no politics day out of the way. 252 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 3: From that teenth. 253 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 2: No, that June teenth is the day that the people 254 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 2: in Texas finally found out that the Thirteenth Amendment had 255 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: or they know that Thencipation Proclamation have been signed and 256 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 2: it finally made its way down to Galveston or something. 257 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: You know, you are such a racist. I cannot believe 258 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 2: that you can't keep straight, you know, the Juneteenth and 259 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 2: National Freedom Day, or the distinction between the Thirteenth Amendment 260 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 2: and the Emancipation Proclamation. You really are some kind of 261 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 2: stupid racist. I've been listening to this show where you 262 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 2: learn everything. I don't know, but it does seem to 263 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: be the bumping no politics day out of the way 264 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 2: for that one. Seems like a reasonable call, right, No, 265 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 2: of course it's not, although I suppose you could appreciate 266 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 2: the unintentional commentary embedded in the original scheduling. Think about 267 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: that freedom and the cessation of political arguing placed on 268 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 2: the exact same day. So to summarize the holiday about 269 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: not fighting with each other, has itself generated a fire 270 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 2: about when it should be observed, with its creator on 271 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 2: one side and the Internet on the other. Bob Matthews, 272 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 2: I probably suppose is either laughing, weeping, or probably doing both. 273 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: Hey, Michael, I was taking the dogs for a walk 274 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden. 275 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: I heard you say something about a hoodie hoo day. Well, 276 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: I yelled hoody who, and you know what happened? The 277 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 2: sun came out. See it's sorry getting warm. See you 278 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 2: think that we feedbs in this program, we give you 279 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 2: the truth. Hoo do who. Now, of course, meteorologists and 280 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 2: the skiers and the ski resorts everybody else are going 281 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 2: to be really pissed off at you, but I can't 282 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 2: help that. I'm just telling you this today is hoodi 283 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 2: Who day, and you need to go out and yell 284 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 2: hoodi who so that we can scare away winter, as 285 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 2: if we need to scare away winter, because I haven't 286 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 2: actually seen winter until this morning. I even drove the 287 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 2: old jeep this morning because I thought I was gonna 288 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 2: snow and I didn't want my clean beamer to get dirty. 289 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 2: I don't want my dogs out in the snow today either, 290 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 2: because I you know, I'd like to have smell nice 291 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 2: for at least one day. And by the way, all 292 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 2: you people that are texting me about, well, how much 293 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 2: you paid to have your Legiamburger's grown? Yeah one guy, 294 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 2: Oh well, my standard put your standard poodle is like 295 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 2: an appetizer to my dogs it's like an old derv 296 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 2: Your dog is pooped bigger things than a poodle exactly. 297 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 2: My dog poops poodles every day. And I got two 298 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 2: of them. You know, they tamer takes. She took them 299 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: in yesterday around ten. Now, I don't think they actually 300 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 2: started on them until party ten thirty or eleven. You 301 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 2: know what time I picked them up yesterday, four four 302 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: forty five, four forty five. Yes, And that's that's the 303 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: one day dry cleaners. That's not like to day dry cleaners. 304 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 2: So humor's side, if there was any humor at all. 305 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 2: The cultural conditions that produce no politics day are kind 306 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,360 Speaker 2: of probably worth understanding because they are real. I think 307 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 2: they're serious, and they kind of illuminate something that's genuinely 308 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 2: important about where we are as a nation. Politics as 309 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 2: a concept and a profession was originally seen as vital 310 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 2: and necessary of a modern society functioning in peace, order 311 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 2: and prosperity. But then as the years go by, the 312 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: collective opinion on politics began to drop way down as 313 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 2: crisis after crisis began to occur. And then you pair 314 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 2: that with the failure of modern day politicians to meet 315 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 2: our expectations and our needs has caused a lot of 316 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 2: people to become disenchanted and disillusioned. This is putting it diplomatically, 317 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 2: I think an understatement. Consider what has happened to the 318 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 2: daily texture of our lives since oh, I don't know, 319 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 2: maybe the don of social media political content has migrated. 320 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 2: It's like all of the you know, the Muslims movie 321 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 2: into Europe. It's like all of the Latinos coming in 322 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 2: from South America. It's moved from the editorial pages and 323 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 2: the evening news contacts that had a defined beginning and 324 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 2: a defined end into an environment with no off switch. 325 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 2: Your phone might mind, doesn't, but your phone might buzz 326 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 2: at two am because there's breaking news. Your uncle's Facebook 327 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 2: posts colonize your holiday dinners, and the algorithm, having identified 328 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 2: that outrage, is the most effective engagement tool that's ever 329 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 2: been devised by man, shovels that political content at you 330 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 2: with the cheerful persistence of a I don't know. I 331 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 2: would say a Liamberger, but that wouldn't work. A Golden 332 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 2: Retriever presenting you at the tennis ball. I've watched people 333 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 2: that own like my son who owns Golden Retrievers, Like 334 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 2: I think that's the definition of eternity, like how long 335 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 2: a golden retriever would just you think, got the those things, now, 336 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 2: those lasting things that hold the tennis ball, you don't 337 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 2: have to pick up. If you've seen those dragon. 338 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, you throw it. It helps you throw the ball 339 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 3: a little further and you don't have to touch the slobbery. 340 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 2: I think, I think that is the epitome of American ingenuity. 341 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 2: You don't have to bend over. You can just pick 342 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 2: up the tennis ball with that and to your point, 343 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 2: it throws it further. And that's the definition of eternity 344 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 2: because that golden retriever will retrieve that ball until the 345 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 2: end of time. 346 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, but ours, uh never really dropped it at our feet. 347 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 3: So we had to walk like five or ten feet forward, 348 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 3: pick up the ball, walk back, and then huck it. 349 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 3: And then she'd just come running back with it and 350 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 3: she just drop it five or ten feet away from us, 351 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 3: come sit right and fires throw the ball again. Throw 352 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 3: the ball again. No, no, bring me the ball and I 353 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 3: will throw the ball again. 354 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 2: Throw the ball. The Limburger's when they were younger, would 355 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 2: you throw the tennis ball? They would go charging it 356 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 2: if it was more than twenty yards. They might go 357 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 2: kind of, you know, lumbering toward it, and then they 358 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 2: would look at it and they sniff it and kind 359 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 2: of move it around with their noses and then look 360 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 2: at you like, what is this? 361 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 3: What do I do? Now? 362 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 2: It's not a tree? Can't eat this? What is it? 363 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 2: What are you supposed to do with this? So the 364 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 2: results of all of this change have really been remarkable, 365 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 2: and I think kind of ugly. Studies have consistently shown 366 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 2: that Americans increasingly dislike and distrust not just our political institutions, 367 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 2: but they actually dislike each other. I can't stand dragon, 368 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 2: he can't stand me. Has nothing to do with politics. 369 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: But then there's a lot of people whose politics I 370 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 2: just tolerate because well, you know, yeah, they just they 371 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 2: are what they are. But people are losing friendships, family 372 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 2: relationships have been severed, and reportedly people are avoiding dating 373 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 2: or hiring people with different political persuasions. Wow, that's pretty bad. 374 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 2: Where you have become, in the phrasing of the social scientists, 375 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 2: where you've become effectively polarized, meaning we don't just disagree 376 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 2: on policy, we actively dislike the humans on the other side. Yeah, 377 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 2: there are a few people in my orbit, in my 378 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,439 Speaker 2: sphere that I actively dislike. There are people that, in 379 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: fact many of them are still in Congress, that yes, 380 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,199 Speaker 2: they're on the other side of the political aisle, and 381 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 2: I actively dislike them because I know them personally. There 382 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 2: are people on my own side of the aisle that 383 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 2: maybe our politics agree, but I actively dislike them. They're 384 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 2: just worthless, totally worthless. I don't think this is how 385 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 2: previous generations experienced political disagreement, Which was vigorous, it was intense, 386 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 2: which would not and did not I don't think typically 387 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 2: preclude having Thanksgiving dinner. Fifty six percent a majority of 388 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 2: people that have been surveyed have little to know confidence 389 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 2: in the political wisdom of their fellow Americans. I might 390 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 2: mean that fifty six percent, which when you think about it, 391 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,360 Speaker 2: is an extraordinary stat when you sit with it. More 392 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 2: than half of us. When asked whether your neighbor can 393 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 2: be trusted to make a good political decision, essentially people 394 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 2: are saying, Nope, can't do it. I think of my neighbors. Now, 395 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 2: one I know absolutely is not listening, but he deliberately 396 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 2: puts whatever Democrat yard sign he can find in his 397 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 2: yard just to irritate me. What I find funny about 398 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 2: it is he does it because he thinks that irritates me, 399 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 2: and I just don't care. I find it funny that 400 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 2: he's doing it trying to irritate me. We are a 401 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 2: republican which the majority of citizens doubt the democrat competence 402 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: of each other. And I don't think you need a 403 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 2: law degree to recognize that this is a structural problem. 404 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 2: People truly believe that governments are unresponsive to their problems, 405 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 2: unresponsive to the nation's problemblems. And many more think that 406 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 2: politicians only cater to giant corporations. And I love that. 407 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 2: Indeed is true. Youth across the country field they have 408 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 2: no political power whatsoever. The machinery of self government is, 409 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 2: for many Americans experience not as an expression of a 410 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: collective agency among all of us. The more is the 411 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 2: spectator sport played by other people with other people's money 412 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 2: into this landscape. Let's go back to Bob Matthews, the 413 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 2: founder of No Politics Day. He tossed his holiday like 414 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 2: a bouquet of flowers into a fire. Symbolic probably practic, yeah, 415 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 2: without a question. But also here's the part I think 416 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 2: deserves some serious consideration. Maybe he's pointing to something true. 417 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: No politics day means no political activities, no political statements 418 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 2: of any kind whatsoever. No Facebook, no Twitter, no X, 419 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 2: no discussions, no debates, no sharing, no spreading political articles, 420 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 2: no comics, no other materials, editorials, anything. The news media 421 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 2: should also participate. According to mister Matthews, the news media 422 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 2: should participate. Let that think into your neurons. The news media, 423 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 2: which operates on a twenty four hour news cycle. 424 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 4: Michael, Michael, Michael, do you think your show is really 425 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 4: worth sitting through a commercial break? I simply just change 426 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 4: the channel and listen to the other station until they 427 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 4: have a commercial break. 428 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 2: But you come back, and that's all I care about. 429 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 2: Just come on back, because you know you can't resist it. 430 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 2: You just can't resist it. You're just hoping at some 431 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 2: point I just implode or explode. You hope at some 432 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 2: point I just dropped an F bomb. You just hope 433 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 2: at some point that I just, you know, say something, 434 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 2: drop dead or yeah. Do you just hope at some 435 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 2: point that you are there on that day when my 436 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 2: forehead finally hits the microphone. 437 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 3: That time Michael died on the air. 438 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,679 Speaker 2: It's right, Oh, it'll be, you know, and then we 439 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 2: can have what can we have? Can I have it? 440 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:10,880 Speaker 2: Can I have a national Day? 441 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 3: No, we'll give you a plaque outside the door, above 442 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 3: the urinal. 443 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 2: They'll give me a plaque above the urinal. That's what 444 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 2: you wanted to be a play exactly. It'll just be 445 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 2: a sticker and after about a couple of years to 446 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 2: start peeling off and fade, you know, and then you'll 447 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 2: have this splatter from the urine and everything on it. 448 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: That'll just that'll be my legacy right there. 449 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 3: The only reason the stickers still there is because it's 450 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 3: holding up the wallpaper. 451 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 2: Right And I would say, what do you think before 452 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,240 Speaker 2: somebody new in the building says, who was that Michael Brown? 453 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 2: I'd say I'd say about three weeks less than a 454 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 2: month before somebody goes, who is that? 455 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 3: What an illustrious twenty year career he had? 456 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 2: Twenty year, twenty minutes, twenty minutes. I got my fifteen 457 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 2: minutes of fame. So if we have no Politics Day, 458 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 2: which is today, then I think the news media ought 459 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 2: to participate in it. You know, we should go ahead 460 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 2: and we should go tell Rob that we want no 461 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 2: news today. Just you can still give the traffic reports. 462 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 2: I don't think that's I would I consider that part 463 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 2: of the news. But that's not news. And we can 464 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 2: still have Dave Frasier tell us about how you know, 465 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 2: it was supposed to snow today, but I'm looking at sunshine, 466 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 2: so it's probably not going to snow today on the 467 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: front range or at least, you know, in the metro area. 468 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 2: And so I think Rob should come in here and 469 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 2: just do what I mean, what could Rob do? This 470 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 2: not news? He could talk about Well, you could interview 471 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 2: me about the Liamburgers. Yeah, we could talk about the 472 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 2: price of grooming or something, you know, or we could 473 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,920 Speaker 2: just we could read. We could have people text in 474 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 2: what they don't like about me, and that would just 475 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 2: blow up the text line and then they could cricket services. Right. 476 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 2: But I want the media. I want the media to participate. 477 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 2: Now that you operate on the twenty four hour cycle, 478 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 2: that's sustained by the production and distribution of political content. 479 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 2: But what if they spent one day not doing that. 480 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 2: Now I worked in the news media, but I am 481 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 2: not a journalist. In fact, I work in what we 482 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 2: call here the news talk part. I don't exactly I 483 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 2: have look on my work day and see what category 484 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: it is. But it's news talk specifically, if we can. 485 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 2: If you think, if you think about political content, political 486 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 2: content and not doing that is like a race card 487 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 2: that's running on high octane fuel. But now you're gonna 488 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: put I don't know something else in it. You're gonna 489 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: put vodka in it? Who knows. I can tell you 490 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: with professional authority that asking cable news to take a 491 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 2: day off from politics, that would be like asking a shark, 492 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 2: I mean a real shark, not a lawyer, to take 493 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: the day off from moving forward through water. It's not 494 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 2: that the shark doesn't want to cooperate, It's that the 495 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 2: shark's literally going to die. The shark has to keep 496 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 2: moving to keep the water going through its gills. And 497 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 2: yet the aspiration of I Know Politics Day is not 498 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 2: without merit because the main mission behind this day, I think, 499 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 2: but I didn't call mister Matthews to interview him, is 500 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: to unite people from all ends. I can't I can't 501 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: even write. I can't even read what I wrote down 502 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 2: without laughing. The main mission behind this day is to 503 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 2: unite people from all ends of the political spectrum in 504 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 2: the spirit of fellowship. Oh and now the choir will 505 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 2: see him number forty seven versus one and four. Yeah, 506 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 2: this is a goal shared by essentially everyone across every 507 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 2: ideological spectrum who isn't actively profiting from the division going 508 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 2: on in the country, which would be fair includes a 509 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 2: significant number of people, but still represents a minority of 510 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 2: the population. So the suggested alternatives to politics, according to 511 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 2: at least some no politics they observers, include the following, 512 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 2: which is a Friday, so this is good. Watch a movie. 513 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 2: I would suggest Blazing Saddles. That's the or Young Frankenstein. Okay, 514 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 2: I know that dates me, but it would cause many 515 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 2: people's heads to explode because they don't understand satire, parity 516 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 2: or anything else. So go watch Blazing Saddles, and that 517 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 2: would eliminate part of the problem, right, heads exploding. Go 518 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 2: cook a meal. I know it's expensive, but cook a meal. Now. 519 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 2: I hate the next suggestion, but this is one of 520 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 2: the suggestions. Play a board game, dragon, Do you play 521 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 2: board games? I used to My family would not let 522 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 2: me play trivial pursuit, and so I started doing something else. 523 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 2: If the family's playing trivial pursuit and they will let 524 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 2: me participate, I'll just yell out the answer just pissed 525 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 2: them off. Call a friend you haven't spoken to in 526 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 2: a while, and talk about something, maybe other than the 527 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 2: midterm elections, or engaging in heated debate about something genuinely inconsequential, 528 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 2: like whether a hot dog is a sandwich or muster 529 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 2: to catch him? And I mean that with complete sincerity. 530 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 2: That's wise advice. The hot dog sandwich debate, for instance, 531 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 2: can be conducted with exactly the same kind of passion 532 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 2: and commitment as any political argument, and it produces no 533 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 2: social damage, and it generates far more interesting conversation. And 534 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 2: it's what if you're going to are you talking to me? 535 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 2: Are you talking in my ear? What are you doing there? 536 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 2: You talk? What are you doing? H that that that 537 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 2: that they can't hear what you're saying to me? You 538 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 2: think that's funny? You think you think it's funny? Uh huh? 539 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: How long before you just cut me off? And what 540 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,239 Speaker 2: if I just keep going, what are you gonna do? 541 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 2: At what point do you just h What are you 542 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 2: gonna do