1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:00,800 Speaker 1: Michael. 2 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 2: It's almost five point thirty on ASH Wednesday, and as 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 2: I'm looking through social media, I notice on the official 4 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 2: New York City Fire Department's Facebook page they wished everyone 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 2: a happy Chinese New Year yesterday and a Ramadan Mubarik today. 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: Not a word about Ash Wednesday and Lent. We've become 7 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: so inclusive. Shame on the nWay FD for that. I 8 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: can't tell you what my morning's been like, but if 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: the rest of the day goes like it has so 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: far this morning, then I just give up. I just 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: get totally give up. 12 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 3: Have you been able to keep an eye on your 13 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 3: laptop though, right. 14 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: Well, I've I've I've turned on the fine Mi from 15 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: my laptop so I can find it at all times. 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: So in case anybody tries to ei inter steal it, 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: you know, or rummage through it, then I'll know where 18 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: to go to find it. Of course, I know where 19 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: to go to find it anyway, which is wherever you are? 20 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 3: Where was it hidden? Where was it hit him? 21 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 4: Oh? 22 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: Oh, the first time it was in my backpack in 23 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: the wrong pocket, but it was in your back The 24 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: second time it was in my backpack in the correct pocket. However, 25 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: I know that the person who took my laptop that 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: was sitting on my little cubicle was you, So I'm 27 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: assuming that you would not put it in my backpack 28 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: you hit it. In fact, I honestly thought you took 29 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: it with you. But I was going to check every 30 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: other place before I finally tracked you down in the 31 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: other studio to find out where the hell is my laptop. 32 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: So I'm digging around trying to find it. I can't 33 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: find it anywhere. 34 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 3: It was beautiful. 35 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 1: I'm looking through other people's drawers, I'm looking at other 36 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: people's desks. I'm looking there. I'm going to the studios 37 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: looking for my laptop. I finally come to you, and and. 38 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 3: And you know, desperation mode, all right, I give up. 39 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: Where are they? 40 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: Bleep beep beep. 41 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: My backpacking there it is. So that was kind of 42 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: yesterday in the day before this morning, I get up 43 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna ready take the Lienburger's on a walk. 44 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: I know it's just my wine time, so just shut 45 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: up and listen to my wine time. And the we're 46 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: just getting started. I've got the text line open because 47 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: I expect a deluge of text messages, so I'm getting 48 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: ready to take the two Limburger's for a walk. The 49 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: older girl won't go because she's just she she doesn't 50 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 1: want to go. Tamer has already left the house because 51 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: she's going to mcmcdonald's because she wants to diet coke 52 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: and she's going to get a couple of sausage biscuits 53 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: for the for the dogs. That's her little routine. So 54 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: I take the younger Lianberger and I'm walking across the 55 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: crosswalk when who appears in the street but Tamra in 56 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: her car, and the Lienburger recognizes the car, beautiful knows 57 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: that she must have sausage biscuits in the car it's 58 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: sausage top and refuses to budge. So I have to 59 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: walk all the way back to the house drop her off. 60 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: So you need her damn biscuit. I go walk by 61 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: myself this morning. 62 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 3: And for those that don't know who Lilienburgers, they are big, 63 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 3: hefty dogs. You don't get them to do something that 64 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 3: they don't want. 65 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: When they put the brakes on. The brakes are on, 66 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: that's it. You're just not going anywhere. And when you're 67 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: in the middle of the street, you gotta go because 68 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: you know, people don't pay attention to the crosswalks, even 69 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: though there's a flashing, you know, yellow light. They don't 70 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: care if they's gonna go. They're gonna mow me down anyway. So, 71 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: in hopes of getting in to do what I enjoy doing, 72 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 1: which is radio, I take her back to the house, 73 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: drop her off, and I go for a walk and 74 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: then I I decide, you know, I fast every morning, 75 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: but this morning I decided I would just like to 76 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: have a bagel. So I stopped buy a bagel shop 77 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: named after a famous you know, famous scientist, and I 78 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: want a peebe. I want a plain bagel and PEB 79 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: and J. Right, I don't want SCHMEI or anything. I 80 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: just want PB and J. They no longer spread the 81 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,679 Speaker 1: peanut butter for you. They put it in a little 82 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: plastic container because of allergens. So now I'm with a 83 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: bagel and a plastic knife and I'm supposed to spread. 84 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: I mean, life is tough. Life is tough. 85 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 3: They put the jelly on it though, right, No. 86 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: They just give you a little the little package Denny's 87 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: or something. You know that that's what they give you. 88 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, well, this is a waste of time 89 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: if you've done a w so that's a waste of time. 90 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: And so now I'm running a little bit late. So 91 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: then I get on the highway and I think, oh, 92 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: this isn't bad. Traffic's pretty good. So I'm zipping along 93 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: and saying, I come to a stop over here at Orchard. 94 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: Just come to a stop. But I've got to get 95 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: my diet coat because you know, I've got my addictions. 96 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: I I gotta fulfill my you know, my chemical addiction. 97 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: So I run around the Sonic and I'm running late. 98 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: I finally get into here rather than getting in here 99 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: a little between eight and eight thirty. It's past eight 100 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: thirty before I get here, and so I'm opening up 101 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: all my tabs that I have. You know, I got 102 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: my history down, I got my notes, and I'm opening 103 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: my tabs. And then I walk in ready to do 104 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: the program, and something I hear Kamenski say something about 105 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: two play one ply, and I'm like, oh my god, 106 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: I don't know what that's about. I don't care. I've 107 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: got I've got something I really seriously want to talk about. 108 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: So I sit down and Dufa's head back there says, 109 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: did you get the digital support email from yesterday. I said, no, 110 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. He said, let me forward it 111 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: to you, and so I go through and oh, it 112 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: is in my trash. So I'm doing what Dragon normally does, 113 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: which is when something comes from corporate, I'm just deleting 114 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: it because I said it's digital. So I just told 115 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: this is very odd. 116 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 3: The roles have certainly reversed. I read an iHeart corporate 117 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 3: email and you just throw it away, right, And. 118 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: Of all the ones for me to throw away and 119 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: for you to read is absolutely freaking hilarious. 120 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 3: Beautiful. 121 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: It is beautiful. Now the text line is open, so 122 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: we are ready for to hear. 123 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 3: I'm a talk back. It feels free. 124 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: Leave a talk back. But whatever you want to do, 125 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: we don't care. And if you want to email, you 126 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: know I would. I'd give out Temper's email, but that 127 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 1: would just be cruel. But if you go to the KOA, 128 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: if you go to the page on Kowa, there may 129 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: be a contact. 130 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 3: Page, but it goes to uh, there's Jojo, doesn't it. 131 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so don't waste your time doing that. 132 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 3: Don't don't waste time if it's relevant or he even 133 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 3: reads it, he'll forward it to us. 134 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: Forces US anyway. Yeah, so don't even waste your time 135 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: doing that. But if you would like to text or 136 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: leave a talk back about what I'm about to read 137 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,239 Speaker 1: to you, then please feel free to do so, because 138 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: this is completely screwing up my mental rundown. I have 139 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: what I plan to do today Digital support at iHeartMedia 140 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: dot com February eighteen. That would me yesterday at two 141 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: thirty four pm to Michael Brown at iHeartMedia dot com. Hi, Michael, 142 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: you never get an email from corporate that is personalized. 143 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 3: I got a little nervous when it had my name 144 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 3: in there. 145 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: So I did not even know that anybody in New 146 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: York and San Antonio knew how to do mass emailing 147 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: and personalize it. I mean, it's fairly easy to do, 148 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: but I just didn't imagine anybody at corporate level knew 149 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: how to do that. So, yes, I'm now reading this. 150 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: Of course, I read one that says, I brad one, 151 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to mister Dragon Redbeard, and I find my 152 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: name trash Men, and I think it's different from what 153 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: Dragon got. But then I realized it's just the formatting. 154 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: It's the same word. It's just the formatting, and I 155 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: think that's because I printed it is why it looks different. Hi, Michael. 156 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: On February second, that teen days. No, actually this is 157 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: sixteen day because this came in yesterday, so sixteen days ago. 158 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: On February second, we Digital Support updated the iHeartRadio apps 159 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: default podcast playback to run newest to oldest. To align 160 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: with that change, we suggested publishing your hourly episodes in 161 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: chronological order parentheses our one an hour, two hour, three, 162 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: et cetera close Brian period new paragraph. After closely monitoring 163 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: the performance and the technical side of things over the 164 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: last few weeks, I might insert a footnote here, or 165 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 1: perhaps having listened to Michael Brown and Dragon Redbeard. After 166 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: closely monitoring the performance and the technical side of things 167 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: over the last few weeks, the decision was made to 168 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: revert to our original playback order of oldest to newest. 169 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? For the foreseeable future, This 170 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: change will occur on February twentieth tomorrow. What this means 171 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: for you For shows that publish hourly that would be 172 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: us to best align publishing with our app, we suggest 173 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: switching your daily publishing to reverse chronological order and then 174 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: they explain how to do that. Publish hour three first, 175 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: which we always did, followed by hour two and then 176 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: hour one. We appreciate your flexibility as we fine tune 177 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: the app to create the best possible experience for our listeners, 178 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: and let us know if you have any questions, still 179 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: have questions, were questions regarding the above, contact Bob and 180 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: for all things digital, please reach out and to visit 181 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: our SharePoint site. Thank you iHeartMedia Digital Support. You're receiving 182 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: this email because you have access to radio edit content 183 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: management primarily intended by iHeart Media and US employees. However, 184 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: email content maybe uh at various edit tools and or 185 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: iHeart Media partner apps unsubscribed. So after all, that's the 186 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: hullabaloo about how bad is not how you do it, 187 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: that you need to do it because most people do 188 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: it the way we were originally doing it. They decide 189 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: six days later, we're gonna go back to the originally. 190 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 3: We spent almost a week are you and back and 191 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 3: forth with the listeners and talkbacks and text messages saying 192 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 3: that this is the right way, this is the wrong way, 193 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 3: this is the right way, this is the wrong way. 194 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 3: We're just gonna go back to what we were doing 195 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 3: to begin with, but not until tomorrow. 196 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: I don't what's that about, Not until to which I 197 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: you know, you do whatever you want to do. Because 198 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: I know you're the producer. I have no control over that. 199 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: But if I were you going to go ahead and 200 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 1: i'd start, I'd put I put it right back today. 201 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,079 Speaker 1: Now of course, now I've got to email Los Angeles 202 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: and tell my producer in Sherman Oaks that, oh, by 203 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: the way, just in case you didn't get this email, 204 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: and after you having to go back and look what 205 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 1: Dragon's doing to understand why are we doing this? Now, 206 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: I got to tell you never mind, like Emmy Littel 207 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live Guild alright, never mind, never mind, 208 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: go back to the old way. 209 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 3: So for those of you that have America adjusted your 210 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 3: app playback ability, you're screwed. Yeah, yeah, hand it to 211 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 3: your teenager, hand it to your child, and yes, they'll 212 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 3: they'll fix it back for you tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, because 213 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: today I'll still have to publish it that the way 214 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 3: we're supposed to publish it. 215 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: So enjoy seven my Oh no, no, no, don't reverse. Yeah, 216 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: well trust me on this one. You want to take 217 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: odds that by let's say equal time here about March first, Hi, Michael, 218 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: this is digital support weeks ago. 219 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 3: I mean, it's either really my. 220 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 1: Heart where we make listening difficult, it's either a corporate model. 221 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 3: Is it a brilliant decision or an incredibly stupid decision 222 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 3: that somebody got fired over. Brilliant because we're talking about 223 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 3: making sure that you listen to the podcast, right, and 224 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 3: you open the app and you put it the direction 225 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 3: that you're supposed to put it for whatever reason that 226 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 3: is happens to be for you, or somebody's getting fired 227 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 3: over it because they majorly screwed. 228 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: It, right, because they screwed it to begin with. I've 229 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: never understood, I truly don't understand. Now there are days 230 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: when I do carry topics over from hour to hour, 231 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: but I've never understood why anyone would listen to anything 232 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: in reverse order. Oh, let's listen to the eleven o'clock 233 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: hour from eleven to twelve. Let's listen to that first, 234 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: and then listen to ten to eleven next, and then 235 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: nine to ten last. I don't understand why anybody would 236 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: do that. 237 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 3: I'm an eleven, nine ten kind of guy. 238 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: Of course you are eleven nine ten. That's what you did. Well. 239 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: First of all, you don't listen to anything, so I 240 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: know better than this. I know, I know you're not 241 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 1: listening to squad, but here we are. And you know, 242 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: it's kind of funny too, because yesterday a Rod was 243 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: in here doing that little thing on Instagram and x 244 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: and stuff, and we were talking about podcast numbers, because 245 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: I pride myself on the fact that when it comes 246 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 1: to podcasts downloads, I'm knocking the socks off everybody, everybody, 247 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 1: and I thanks to every single individual within the sound 248 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: of my voice that downloads my podcast. Whether you download. 249 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: First of all, you probably download all three hours, but 250 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: I really don't care whether you listen to one hour, 251 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: two hour, three hours, or zero hours. You are downloading it. 252 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 3: There's an individual podcast for the talkbacks that are left that. 253 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: Oh that's right, the talk back. We got the individual talkbacks. 254 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: We got taxpayer relief shots every Friday over here. And 255 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: so thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and 256 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: my apologies apologies apologies for iHeart where we make listening difficult, Oh. 257 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 3: Listening live is pretty easy. You just opened the eyeheart 258 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 3: app and hit ka. 259 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: And that's right. Yeah, let's go. That's easy. That's easy. 260 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: Although I do I haven't heard so much since we 261 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: moved over here about on the streaming the uh advertisements 262 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 1: being in Spanish. 263 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 3: I think that still happens, but I don't think it's 264 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 3: not as much because I don't think we have separate inventories. 265 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, so you think the streams the same 266 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 1: inventory as everybody else. Okay, all right, well, okay, well 267 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: I could start the next segment, I can start what 268 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: I was planning to do, or we just continue to 269 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: bitch about the company, which you know, fortunately is something 270 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 1: that comes. 271 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 3: By heroatively easily for us for. 272 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: Four one six. Wow, sounds like you need a tranquilizer. Yes, 273 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 1: I expected any moment that the medical director for iHeart, 274 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: do we have a medical director will come in with 275 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: a blow dark gun kind of you know, the door 276 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: will just barely crack open, and I'll just see like 277 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: a straw kind of just peek through, and then I'll 278 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: just kind of feel a little tingling in my like 279 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: in my side or in my arm or something, and 280 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: then pretty soon we'll be in my head will just 281 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: hit the microphone. 282 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 3: I've seen a medical director's office is right next to 283 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:58,600 Speaker 3: the HR department. 284 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: We we do have a medical office, even I don't. 285 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: I don't think we do anymore. Do we still have 286 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: the first aid kids anywhere? 287 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 3: They're there on the wall, they're there. 288 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: You have you looked in one lately? Yeah? They're empty? 289 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: Oh is it empty? Oh? 290 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're bone dry. 291 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: Also, seven five ninety two, now, taking me consideration, seven 292 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: five ninety two is a retired cop. So between all 293 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: the doughnuts and coffee he's consumed for his entire life 294 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: and all the dumbasses he's had to deal with, you know, 295 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: stopping people, dealing with you know, thugs and criminals, everything else, 296 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: there's probably not many brain cells left in him. Plus 297 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: he's from an area where he's he's from a town 298 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: close to my hometown, Michael. So they're presuming that we 299 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: listeners are too stupid to differentiate our one from our two, 300 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: et cetera. He's got a brain cell left he's got 301 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: to figure out wit. 302 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 3: Arguably, we don't listen as our one, two and three. 303 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 3: It's nine am, ten am and eleven, that's what we do. 304 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 3: But on the podcast it is our one hour, two 305 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 3: hour three right, yeah, uh, zero five five three Mike, 306 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 3: I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, 307 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 3: which means that the test we take each Friday on 308 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 3: what we learned during the week will now take place 309 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 3: on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, 310 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 3: it doesn't matter in the slightest. Pretty much, we have everybody. 311 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: When we first came over here, I've been using the 312 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: term goober from like my entire life, and there are 313 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: a lot of people here that were offended by the 314 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 1: use of the term goober. And now that right there 315 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: is proof that all the goober's listening to this program, 316 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: their IQ is well above room temperature. A man, you're 317 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: doing okay? Man o man, I'm so confused. Maam, Yeah, man, 318 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: I know what you mean. 319 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 3: Many do you think we could. 320 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: Get some of whatever those guys that I hard are smoking? 321 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: It made me feel better. Yeah, man, I hear you. 322 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to I don't want to 323 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: give too much away except to say that those happen 324 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 1: to be one of our sponsors. 325 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 3: Chris is a funny guy. I love him. 326 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 1: Because I don't know whether it's a good thing or 327 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: a bad thing to tell people. Those are the kind 328 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 1: of people that I work with. Oh, I want to 329 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: tell you about a children's book. We'll just let's just 330 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: go down the path of the children's book. It's called Yeah, 331 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: the actual name of the book is Zoe ran Walks 332 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: New York. The way I looked at it when I 333 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 1: saw the book, it was Zoe fran Walks, New York. 334 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: It's a graphic novel, very crapy, fake. Apparently. It stars 335 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: New York City's brand new mayor, Zoefram, mom Donnie going 336 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: around all of New York City, all the five girls. 337 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: He's meeting people who are just overjoyed to see him, 338 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: gigantic smiles, pure unadulterated joy, just like when Dragon sees 339 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: me walking in the mornings, that kind of joy. It's 340 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: actually the kind of book that politicians commissioned about themselves 341 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: when they really genuinely believe their own press releases. Now 342 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: here's the thing. In a Barnes and Noble in Brooklyn, 343 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 1: the book was displayed in the window right there for 344 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: everybody to see. But touched away in the basement corner 345 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: was George Orwell's Animal Farm. Yeah, yeah, great, we have 346 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: to dig find it. You know, George Orwell's masterpiece about 347 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: how socialist revolutions work and how they end. In my world, 348 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: I call that irony. Let's put the socialist in the 349 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: window and the book that describes how socialism fails down 350 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: in the basement where nobody can find it, because what 351 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: Zoepram is doing to New York City right now reads 352 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: like one of George Orwell's plot outlines. Here's where New 353 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: Yorkers are now, mom. Donnie has proposed a one hundred 354 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: and twenty seven billion dollar budget for New York City, 355 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: larger than the budget of Tokyo, for example, one hundred 356 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 1: twenty seven billion dollars. And to pay for that, of course, 357 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: he wants to do what he wants to tax the rich. Specifically, 358 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: he wants higher income taxes on both the so called 359 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: ultra wealthy, which you know, relatively speaking, that could be 360 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: any of us because compared to anybody else, we might 361 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: be ultra wealthy, and of course corporations, because you and 362 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: I both know who pays corporate taxes. Oh, I know 363 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: the corporations write the checks. But where do you think 364 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: corporations get the money to write the checks to pay 365 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: for their corporate income taxes? Yes, from the goods and 366 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: the services that they produced that you and I built 367 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: by that just built into the pricing structure of whatever 368 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: that good or service is. And Governor Kathy Hokl of 369 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: New York, who is obviously no conservative, she pushed back 370 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,959 Speaker 1: on that, and so Mom donnion said, as oldfram decided 371 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: that instead, well, if you're not going to because New 372 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: York has to have the approval of the Assembly in 373 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 1: Albany to raise these taxes, And the governor said, no, 374 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,119 Speaker 1: we're not going to do that. So he threatened to 375 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: raise property taxes instead by nine point five percent ten percent. 376 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: He just said, you know, that's like when you buy 377 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: something and it's on sale for nine ninety nine, doesn't 378 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: nine ninety nine sound better than ten dollars and twenty 379 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 1: five cents because all you hear is the nine versus 380 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: the ten. So he's going to raise property taxes by 381 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: essentially ten percent. Now here's what I think, although I'm 382 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: questioning it, what a first year accounting student would tell you, 383 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: when you raised property taxes, landlords pass that onto the 384 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: to the renters. So the people that Mamdani that Zofran 385 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: claims he's protecting the renters, are actually going to be 386 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 1: the ones that are getting squeezed. Now, economists and real 387 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: estate experts are falling all over the themselves at this 388 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: point because none of that matters to Zofran. The math 389 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: is not the point. The point is the narrative, good 390 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,479 Speaker 1: versus evil, the mayor versus the rich, the people versus 391 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: the property owning class. That's classic George Orwell. And wait 392 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: a minute, there was also going to be a rental freeze. 393 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: So you're going to freeze rents, you know, price controls, 394 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: and then you're going to increase the amount of taxes 395 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 1: so there's no additional income coming in. So that means 396 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: that probably one of two things are going to happen. 397 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: The landlords that are now in a tight squeeze will 398 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: have to absorb that additional cost themselves, so they they'll 399 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: end up on the on the welfare roles, or they'll 400 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 1: end up abandoning their property or selling the property or 401 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: whatever because they can't afford it anymore, which will further 402 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: increase housing costs. But you know that, and I know that. 403 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: But here's what's actually in this budget, because the details 404 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,719 Speaker 1: is where the real story is two point three billion 405 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: dollars in rental assistance. So you're going to freeze rents 406 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: and then you're going to provide me. I want this deal. 407 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: I want to live in the mindset of these dumbass liberals. 408 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: This somehow believe that. Listen, this, this mayor is fantastic. 409 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: Jared Polison. The people at the politic bureauught to take 410 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: some advice from them. Right, let's let's freeze. Let's freeze 411 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: rents and then let's provide rental assistance so your rent's 412 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: not going to go up. Plus the government's going to 413 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: give you some money and it's free money because it's 414 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 1: from the government. Right, Oh my gosh, you the insanity 415 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: in this country is actually getting to the point where 416 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 1: it's not even funny anymore. Two point three billion dollars 417 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: in new rental assistance. That's on top of what they 418 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: already do one billion dollars and what they're calling cash assistance. 419 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: You know what that is, You know, cash, let's just cash, 420 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: hand it out. And the mayor wants to hire hundreds 421 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: of lawyers to go after local businesses in order to 422 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: protect consumers. He wants fifty new tax auditors to enhance 423 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 1: revenue collection. And just to make sure that you understand 424 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: what enhance means in terms of bureaucrats, it means, but 425 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: squeeze on harder. He's proposing another one point two billion 426 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: for services for illegal aliens, bringing New York City's total 427 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:19,360 Speaker 1: total immigration services tab to ten billion dollars. And he's 428 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: scrapping the two out of one in rule for new 429 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: public sector hires, which means the government payroll is going 430 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: to explode. Meanwhile, and this is one of my personal favorites, 431 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: he wants to cut the NYPD budget, not by much, 432 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: just twenty two million dollars, but twenty two million dollars 433 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: effectively cancels the order that the former mayor Eric Adams 434 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: had placed it or had put in place to hire 435 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: five thousand new cops, because why would you need more 436 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: cops when you've got one hundred and twenty seven billion 437 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: dollar government protecting you from everything and providing you cash assistance. Hey, 438 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: we haven't gotten to schools yet. He wants to hand 439 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 1: the New York City Department of Education a half billion 440 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 1: dollars five hundred and forty three million, and there's no require, 441 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: there's zero requirement to improve student performance. Zero. Education already 442 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: accounts for forty percent of New York City's budget and 443 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: here's the fact I think worth sharing with your progressive friends. 444 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: Louisiana and Mississippi, to the poorest, reddest states in the country, 445 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 1: spend considerably less per pupil, but they achieved better results 446 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: in math and reading than New York. That's not me 447 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: just saying that, that's the New York Times, that's their 448 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: analysis from earlier this month. But good results, we know, 449 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: not the point. Building the bureaucracy is the point, and 450 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 1: that's where Animal Farm becomes so useful. 451 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 4: Hey, Michael, A couple of weeks ago, I called and 452 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 4: I gave you a little bit of a hard time 453 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 4: via talk back about how the new way of publishing 454 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 4: the podcast was really not very useful to me as 455 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 4: I was listening to it. But I got to tell you, 456 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 4: over the last week or two, I've kind of gotten 457 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 4: used to it, and I can see it's okay. The 458 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,719 Speaker 4: new way is fine. I'm used to it. My apologies 459 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 4: for giving you a hard time. 460 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: You know, he's being smart as of course, of course, 461 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: which I love because I mean, just just hang tight, 462 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: everybody that's now busy on your podcast app trying to 463 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 1: you know, reverse the order in which they were downloaded 464 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: and played back to you just hold tight, because well, 465 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: just give us two weeks and I heart Corporate will 466 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: decide to flip it back the other way. I would 467 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: just have them play randomly, kind of like my brain works, 468 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: just randomly. Just just do it randomly. So back to 469 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: New York for a moment. So, as I said, he went, 470 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: Zofran wants to give the Department of the five hundred 471 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: and forty three million dollars, but there's zero requirement for 472 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: any improvement in test scores or student performance or anything. 473 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: That's already forty percent of New York City's budget. And 474 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: Louisiana and Mississippi not exactly bastions of intellectualism, right, I mean, 475 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: that's the stereotype to the poorest. Yet most Republican states 476 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: in the country spend less per pupil and have better 477 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 1: results in math and reading than New York. That's not me, 478 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: that's the New York Times. And as I said before 479 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,479 Speaker 1: the break, this is where animal farm and George Orwell 480 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: becomes so useful. Napoleon the pig consolidates power, not through 481 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: force at first, but through dependency. You make enough people 482 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: reliant and dependent on the government, You make the government 483 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: big enough and it becomes nearly impossible to dismantle even 484 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: when the voters wake up and go, holy cal this 485 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 1: is not what we wanted. Well, Zoefram even telegraphed that 486 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: in his inauguration speech, because he talked about they'll remember 487 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: this the warmth of collectivism and his promised to govern 488 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: expansively and audaciously. Well, guess what he's delivering on that promise. 489 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 2: Now. 490 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,719 Speaker 1: Former mayor Eric Adams, again not exactly a sterling conservative, 491 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: has been saying that Zofram manufactured the entire crisis. Now, 492 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: Eric Adams claims that he left the city with eight 493 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: billion dollars in reserves and on solid financial footing. But 494 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: if manufactured crisis, remember that's a feature in progressive Marxist programming. 495 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: That's not a bug in their code. That's a feature 496 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: because the crisis justifies audacious expansion. Zofram knows his voter base. 497 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: They're the renters. They're not the property owners at tax 498 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 1: on landlords. Oh that sounds great when you write a 499 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: check every month. The fact that your rent goes up 500 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: as a direct result, well, we'll worry about that later. 501 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: Maybe you won't notice that. Do you know that mom 502 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: Donnie was a rapper before he became a politician. He's 503 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 1: never run a lawger organization, he has never worked outside 504 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: the public sector. He has no frame of reference for 505 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: how an economy actually functions. I don't think he has 506 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: any earthy idea how businesses make decisions, or he knows 507 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 1: what happens when you treat private capital like a pinata. 508 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: But he's been very clear ideological. He's got a clear 509 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: ideological vision, and that is a super state that's built 510 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: on dependency, and that gets funded by punishing productivity, protected 511 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: by the narrative of all the Marxists in Albany or 512 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: DC or all around the country. And then once you 513 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: build a government that side, once you hook enough of 514 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: people on the pig and the benefits that that pig gives, 515 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: and then you hire enough bureaucrats to administer the pig, 516 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: you can't just vote it away in four years. Orwell's 517 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 1: Animal Farm doesn't end well if you remember that. And again, 518 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 1: if you've not read the book in a long time, 519 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: you can still get it on Amazon for I don't know, 520 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 1: eight bucks or five, but I don't know. You really 521 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,239 Speaker 1: ought to order it, read it yourself, and they give 522 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: it to someone that you think is being sucked in 523 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: by all this Marxism. The pigs, if you remember, eventually 524 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: become indistinguishable from the humans that they replaced because the 525 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: revolution of ours itself. The lesson of the book is 526 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: that that is always what happens in New York City. 527 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: They're living that lesson in real time. You go back 528 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: to Barnes and Noble, the children's book about the Smiling 529 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: mayor is in the window, orwell is in the basement. 530 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: Get onto Amazon or wherever books are sold, buy the Orwell, 531 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: read it again, share it with someone who needs to 532 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: hear that message, particularly some young rugrat that doesn't understand 533 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: and has been sucked in by the pig and the 534 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: pig's narrative.