1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty because 4 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: I was feeling good. Well, that feels good. Look out, 5 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: this may lead the park. 6 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 3: Wow, oh tonni second of the night and the Dodgers 7 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 3: are feeling great. 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 2: It is eight nothing yeah, and he is something else? 9 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 4: Okay, so the uh that was four hundred and fifty 10 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 4: feet or something like that? That home run from Shoeyotani 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 4: of the Dodgers. Who's going to be the playoff pitcher 12 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 4: for Game three if there's a Game three. 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: So that's just amazing. He's the leadoff hitter. Yeah, and 14 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: he's the pitcher. 15 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 4: There are only I forget how many players that have 16 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 4: ever hit one that far at Dodger Stadium, and then 17 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 4: they've all done it. 18 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: Once he's done it. I think seventeen times they said, wow, 19 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 2: it's just stunning. His stats are incredible. 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 4: He had fifty five home runs this year. Nobody talks 21 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 4: about it because the damn steroid era. He really got 22 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 4: cheated on that, because that would have been a household 23 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 4: conversation if it weren't for the steroid era. 24 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it just changed everybody's perception of the numbers. 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 2: Right. Anyhow, I was enjoying watching some baseball instead of 26 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 2: paying attention. 27 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 4: At well, the news was all shut down talk, and 28 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 4: I just do not care about that story. 29 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 2: So I don't know, I know, watch baseball. 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: My wife is calling me again for more reassurance during 31 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: the government's shutdown. She's like so many people, just so upset, 32 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: so fearful, just so I'm sure of what the future 33 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 1: may hold for us. 34 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 4: You know, she's probably thinking, why did I bring children 35 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 4: into a world where there would be a temporary government 36 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 4: shut down that nobody notices this here's one of my 37 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 4: favorite things. Trump tweeted out a picture from the conversations 38 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,959 Speaker 4: they were having late last night that amounted to nothing, 39 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 4: So Trump sitting there. He took it himself with his 40 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 4: own phone and posted, But Trump sitting there at his 41 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 4: desk with Schumer and Jeffries and Johnson. 42 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 2: The Leader of the House and everything. 43 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 4: But he's got Trump twenty twenty eight hats sitting on 44 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:32,679 Speaker 4: its desk, right. I mean, that is unbelievable. It's unbelievable. 45 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 4: I mean, he's a guy whose supporters stormed the Capitol once. 46 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 4: Maybe you remember that because they didn't like the result 47 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 4: of that election. And he's got a hat suggesting he's 48 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 4: going to run for a third term as just a 49 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 4: broken people. 50 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the world we live in now 51 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: is just amazing. 52 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: I just read a brilliant piece by Holman Jenkins in 53 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. It was just pointing out how 54 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: many of the freakises Trump gets involved in, like the 55 00:02:58,520 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel thing. 56 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 2: It's pro wrestling. 57 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, Jimmy Kimmel is a pro wrestling opponent. Just 58 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: Trump understands. Okay, here's another great chapter in the the 59 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: you know, the the drama that we're unwinding here. 60 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: And it's good. Kimmel wins and Trump wins, and we 61 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: I'll move on. 62 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 4: Here's the story I wanted to get on, and this 63 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 4: is from the San Francisco Chronicle, and I couldn't. I'm 64 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 4: not wearing a hat, but if I were, I would 65 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 4: tip it as high as I could tipp it, or 66 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 4: however you tip a hat for them doing this story headline. 67 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 4: San Francisco's first equity weed store was an epic failure. 68 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 4: City hall insiders still may pocket millions. 69 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 2: Wow. 70 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 4: And the reason I wanted to do this story is 71 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 4: it's a classic socialism story. It's a classic the reason 72 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 4: socialism doesn't work will never work. And idiots like the 73 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 4: people that are supporting Mom Dami in New York just well, 74 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: you're just too young to know this or stupid or something. 75 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 2: The cannabis shop on. 76 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 4: Storied Hate Street had it all real estate, star power, 77 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 4: political clout, and social justice. Then things got ugly. The 78 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 4: idea of it to start with is amazing. This was 79 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 4: going to be the first permit holder. Remember when weed 80 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 4: became legal, it was all about, you know, who gets 81 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 4: to have the permits to open up weed stores? And 82 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 4: they're going to be limited on you know how many 83 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 4: per street and all that sort of stuff, just like 84 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 4: a liquor store or anything like that. And Hate in 85 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 4: the Hate Ashbury area big tourist area. If you've never 86 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 4: been to San Francisco, tons of foot traffic. This would 87 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 4: be a big hippieville. This would be a big deal. 88 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 4: I mean, how many people would be coming from around 89 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 4: the world that would love buying weed on Hate in 90 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 4: San Francisco? 91 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: Right, sad people who imagine some sort of hippie utopia 92 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: and just want to absorb a little bit of that, 93 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,559 Speaker 1: you know. Three and a half generation later, the first 94 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: permit holder in the city's Social Equity program, which reserved 95 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: cannabis business licenses for people unfairly burdened by the War 96 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: on drugs. So the only way you could get a 97 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: license to open up one of these gold mine weed 98 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: stores was if you were part of the crowd unfairly 99 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: burdened by the War on drugs, a drug dealer, so 100 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: they had experience. I liked the policy makes sense. 101 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 4: Well, it was just you had to be black because 102 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 4: the idea or of a pock a person of color, 103 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 4: because throughout history, according to this, people of color have 104 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 4: been unfairly targeted in the War on drugs and suffered 105 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 4: and to and this social equity weird situation for people 106 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 4: who believe this is true that by helping some dude 107 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 4: today that had nothing to do with what was going 108 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 4: on thirty years ago, you've somehow fixed the world. 109 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 2: I just I don't even understand that concept. 110 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: So people of color, how about like dudes and dresses, 111 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: trans crowd, did they get pot licenses too? 112 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 4: This would be an experiment the store on hate to 113 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 4: see if legalization could atone for decades of racist law 114 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 4: enforcement accesses and empower small businesses, some owned by members 115 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 4: of the city's dwindling black populace. 116 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 2: You gotta like it already, right, this social experiment. 117 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: There's another great example of luxury beliefs coming up in 118 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: a gender bending madness update next hour, stay tuned. 119 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 4: So this dude got the license and didn't sell it. 120 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 4: As the only weed retailer that was going to be 121 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 4: allowed on the main drag of hate Asbury thanks to 122 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 4: the strict zoning laws, he resisted temptation to sell out. 123 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 4: He said, he rejected cash offers from some really big 124 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 4: dogs out there that wanted to buy his permit once 125 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 4: he got it. Well, he ended up being a big dog. 126 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 4: Is the reason they hang hung onto it. We find 127 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 4: out at the end of this. I hope every other 128 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 4: person of color can look at this and see that 129 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 4: it can really happen. Yeah, if you grew up with 130 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 4: the mayor of San Francisco. So he literally was friends 131 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 4: with Mayor Breed since he was a kid. 132 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: Their whole lives in his funny coincidence. 133 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, and his contacts in the in the uh Mayor's office, 134 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 4: and so they're trying to figure out how are they 135 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 4: going to dole out these permits in a fair way, 136 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 4: and they came up with all kinds of different ways, 137 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 4: how you could do it and a lottery. Know somebody 138 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 4: could rig a lottery. No, we could do it this way. No, 139 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 4: somebody could rig that. I know what we'll do. We'll 140 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 4: just make it whoever fills out the form the fastest 141 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 4: they get the license. 142 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 2: And unbelievably, believe it or not, they opened. 143 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 4: Up the applications online in the city of San Francisco 144 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 4: for the form showed up at whatever it was, ten 145 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 4: am on April first or whatever it was, and immediately, 146 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 4: you know, everybody is waiting around to click on the 147 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 4: computer and get the forms and download them and fill 148 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 4: them out and get them. 149 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: Back in his fast they can. 150 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 4: And just the craziest coincidence of all times, this guy 151 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 4: who grew up with the mayor and is knowner his 152 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 4: entire life and his friends got third application. 153 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: In first Wow, those high school type and classes really paid. 154 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 4: Off, and they got the license and they opened the store. 155 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 4: And then the I'm not gonna go through all because 156 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 4: it's a very very art long article, but the ending 157 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 4: is they made millions while the place went bankrupt and 158 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 4: it ended up closing. But they got millions and millions 159 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 4: of dollars through all kinds of different government things that 160 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 4: went on, and. 161 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: The cronyism and the connected get rich. That is socialism, 162 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: every single every single time. Amid the good vibes, there 163 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: was little to indicate what was to come. 164 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 4: That the store would go belly up in little more 165 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 4: than four years, that the great expectations of the equity 166 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 4: program and legal cannabis would crumble along with it, and 167 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 4: that despite the failure, Richard that's the guy's name who 168 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,839 Speaker 4: grew up with Meyer Breed and his partners would still 169 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 4: be poised to pocket millions with taxpayers footing the bill. 170 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 4: Good for the Chronicle for doing that story, But that 171 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 4: is what happens every single time. And socialism, the people 172 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 4: that claim that it's all about fairness and equity and 173 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 4: the downtrodden, it's always their buddies or somebody who bribes 174 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 4: them that gets the cool deal and gets rich, and 175 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 4: it doesn't help anybody. 176 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 2: Right. 177 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: The whole argument of the reality of equity is it 178 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: is a quasi faith. It's a fake moral argument for 179 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: why some people should get special treatment from the government, 180 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: and that always turns out to be the people well 181 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: connected with those in power for whatever reason, for whatever kinship, 182 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: whether it's skin color or political philosophy, or they're just cronies. 183 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:49,359 Speaker 1: But yeah, equity is a fake argument for special favors. 184 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 2: From the government. 185 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 4: They interviewed a whole bunch of people because there were 186 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 4: some big time of people that were trying to get 187 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 4: that particular license to open up a weed store. And 188 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 4: so they were ready to log on and they had, 189 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 4: you know, all kinds of smart people there to jump 190 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 4: into filling out the forms and get the men as 191 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 4: fasts possible like that, and they didn't even come close 192 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 4: to getting it in as fast as this other guy did. 193 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 4: And they're all like telling the San Francisco Cronald, they're 194 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 4: all telling them, like, please give me a break. 195 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 2: I mean, don't even pretend this was on the up 196 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 2: and up. 197 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: Well, right, No, we can't have a lottery because you 198 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 1: could rig a lottery. Let's have a speed typing context 199 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: that our friends and family happened to win. Yeah, good lord, 200 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: and that something. They don't even try to hide it anymore. 201 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: They don't. 202 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 4: And they're the people that preach equity all the time, 203 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 4: and how the systemic this and that. It's just it's amazing. 204 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 2: And again who got screwed tax pairs? 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Maybe because you don't need it, because 231 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 2: all socialism is crony. It's the whole thing. 232 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're right, that is that is useful though, 233 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: because that's exactly what that's to be tattooed with. That 234 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: that was crony socialism. Yeah, it is redundant. 235 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 2: You're right. 236 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: But obviously we're in a situation right now for reasons 237 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: we've discussed many times where our young people are absolutely 238 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 1: primed to fall for the giant scam that is socialism. 239 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so we got to talk about of it. 240 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 4: Oh and wait, you see what happens in New York 241 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 4: when mom dommy wins. And I was listening to some 242 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,319 Speaker 4: people who follow this closely. He is going to win, 243 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 4: even with Eric Adams getting out, He's gonna win when 244 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 4: you have government grocery stores check and see who got 245 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 4: the license to open up the grocery store and see 246 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 4: what their connection is to the powerful. Will probably be 247 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 4: just like this weed story we told you from San Francisco. 248 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, blah blah blah. 249 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams twelve billion dollars blah blah blah. 250 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 2: Please we got more. 251 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 4: Pete Hegzeth that you haven't heard from his big speech 252 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 4: to the fat generals yesterday, that we want to play 253 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 4: for you. It's pretty interesting, a conversation starter. I definitely 254 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 4: want to talk about the lift driver I had from Syria, Libya, 255 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 4: Libya a couple of days ago. 256 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 2: Is really interesting about the whole immigrant thing. Anyway, lots 257 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 2: on the way stay here post. 258 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 5: Yesterday on truth Social President Trump announced that he will 259 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 5: impose a tariff on any country that does not make 260 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 5: its furniture in the US, which explains why Ikea is 261 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 5: now selling meatballs for ninety nine bucks apiece. 262 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 2: That's funny. Kind of got lost in the hole. 263 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 4: There's been so much going on the tariffs on furniture 264 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 4: and movies, tariff on foreign made movies that's unimplementable. 265 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: A couple of not like hardcore newsy notes can't wait 266 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: to hear the pete hexits stuff. 267 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 2: Next segment, which is what we're gonna do. 268 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 1: Hearing from a bunch of active duty folks from you know, 269 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: privates in corporals to to read an email from a 270 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: colonel who solutely love it. Actual soldier, sailors, Marines, Airman, 271 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: Coast Guard haven't forgotten about you, guys and gals. 272 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 2: They love this stuff. So number one. 273 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: Once in a while, I come across emails that say, essentially, guys, 274 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: I wrote you this, or I asked you this, and 275 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: I know you have different priorities or your corporate fathers, 276 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: or I think you stop. Stop stop, I didn't see it. Okay, 277 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: we get hundreds of emails. Don't be but hurt that 278 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: I missed yours. 279 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 2: I just missed it. Follow up if it's important. 280 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: Secondly, I'm looking at speaking of email, we I am 281 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: on a bunch of different news newsletters from our favorite 282 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: news coverage organizations, from the National Review to the Free Press, 283 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: to the Washington Free Beacon to the even you know, 284 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: the bigfoot Media, the New York Times, Washington Post, et cetera, 285 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: and every damn one of them. They're big newsletter. Their 286 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: headline was welcome to another Shutdown from the excellent Jim 287 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: Garritty at the Morning Jolt, at the National Review. I'm 288 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: trying to find the rest of them, but you get 289 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: the idea. Every single one of them was government shut down. 290 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: What to expect with the government shut down? The stakes 291 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: for the GOP every single. 292 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 4: What's interesting because you write this stuff with the idea 293 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 4: that your reader's viewers, you know, get up in the 294 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 4: morning and you know, want to know what's going on. 295 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 4: I don't think people in real life give a crap 296 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: about this, right right. 297 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: Here's even the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, He's a genius. 298 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: His outfit Government shutdown follow live updates? What and here's 299 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: my philosophical takeaway from this. 300 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: Live updates? Oh my god, the media. 301 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: Thinks the government is the United States of America. 302 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 2: I think they the media reports on the government. 303 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: The government has become so omnipresent in our lives. The 304 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: news is now about the government. I've years it's always 305 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: going to be about it somewhat, But I've thought this 306 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: for years. 307 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 4: They regularly think that people are paying attention to stuff, 308 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 4: but that they aren't. But this is the biggest disconnect 309 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 4: between the performative politicians in the media and the people 310 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 4: of all it's the shutdown thing. They apparently think that 311 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 4: out in the country people are discussing this and are 312 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 4: worried about. Like I've lived through several of these. I've 313 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 4: never had a single human being ever bring it up. 314 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: Ever. Yeah, definitely worth a read of Mark Levivich's again 315 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: that name is Livevivihitch his book This Town about Washington, 316 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: d C. And the government media complex and how they're 317 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: all part of one big industry and the unholy, unhealthy 318 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: part of it is people. They grow up with it, 319 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: they hear it, they see it, and a lot of 320 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: people start to think the government is the country, and 321 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: they don't understand that we should bump up against the 322 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: government once every couple of weeks, maybe not like four 323 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: times a day every day. 324 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: That's not what we're supposed to be. 325 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 4: It's interesting you mentioned all those conservative publications that wrote 326 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 4: about the shutdown, because that ruins what I'm about to say, 327 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 4: because it doesn't fit without I'm a bug to say, 328 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 4: but I've been thinking that most of the mainstream media 329 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 4: coverage is based on if you're the sort of person 330 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 4: that when you hear the government word government, you think, 331 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 4: oh cool, an entity that helps me and gives me stuff, 332 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 4: as opposed to the way. When I hear the word government, 333 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 4: I think something that gets in my way and takes things. 334 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 4: The word government to me means makes it harder for 335 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 4: me to do something I want to do and take 336 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 4: stuff away from me. 337 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: Get out of the way, Boomer, even though you're an 338 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 1: actual gen X guy. Ah, Because it used to be 339 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: we had on small government, small spending party, and then 340 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: one big spending party. 341 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 2: We now have two big spending parties. 342 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 4: Pete Haggzeth, Secretary of War, gave a heck of a 343 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 4: speech yesterday. Some of the stuff you haven't heard it's really. 344 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 2: Good Armstrong and Geeddy, So lots of things we want 345 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:18,119 Speaker 2: to get to. 346 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 4: We're gonna play some Pete hagg Zeth from his big 347 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 4: speech he gave to the generals yesterday, which has gotten 348 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 4: a heck of a lot of attention and gotten a 349 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 4: bunch of emails and texts about that. I want to 350 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,159 Speaker 4: talk about my immigrant lift driver that I had and 351 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 4: why this can't be the focus of our whole immigration 352 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 4: discussion to a greater extent, and a bunch of other 353 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 4: stuff I hope you can stick around for, yeah. 354 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: Including a exciting celebrity gender bending Madness. 355 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 2: Update celebrity version. 356 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: Yes, Harry Potter fans Harmione Granger gets a right cross 357 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: to the chops from JK. Rowling, so stay tuned for that. 358 00:18:55,119 --> 00:19:01,199 Speaker 2: Okay, fictional character gets punched by the author of the book. 359 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 2: It's a metaphor. You know what a metaphor is. It's 360 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 2: it's not literally true anyway. So we're we're gonna do 361 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 2: Pete here, some more pete stuff. Yeah, I just I 362 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 2: thought these were different. I was. I was misled by 363 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 2: my own something or other. 364 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: I hate when that happens. I've been scanning our email reaction. Uh, 365 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 1: and it is among actual fighting people universally positive. Just 366 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 1: came across another one a career Army Army and Army Reserve. 367 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 1: When I first came back from my basic training, a 368 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: report to my unit, all fit and ready to be 369 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: all I can be. But we had a captain who's 370 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 1: the one in charge calling the shots for our training. 371 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: I can only see even back then, they found ways 372 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: around the fitness requirements. Just he's making the point that's 373 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: very lax, very slack. What I'm trying to say is 374 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: this fitness, this thing is nothing new. But they need 375 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: to get it done. I'm summarizing. 376 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 2: Okay, let's hear a little pete from yesterday. 377 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 6: This means at the War Department, first and foremost, we 378 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 6: must restore a ruthless, dispassionate, and common sense application of standards. 379 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 2: I don't want my. 380 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 6: Son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or 381 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 6: in combat unit with females who can't meet the same 382 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 6: combat arms physical standards as men. Our troops who are 383 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 6: not fully proficient on their assigned weapons, platform or task, 384 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 6: or under a. 385 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,119 Speaker 2: Leader who was the first but not the best. 386 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 6: Standards must be uniform, gender neutral. 387 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 2: And high. 388 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 6: If not, they're not standards, They're just suggestions, suggestions that 389 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 6: get our sons and daughters killed. 390 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 4: How did we get so off track that we ever 391 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 4: allowed I know they do this for cops and firefighters, 392 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 4: but how did we ever get so off track that 393 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 4: we ever allowed different standards based on your gender. 394 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 2: That's insane. 395 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it makes no sense in a ra 396 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: Are you doing the same job, yes, same standards? 397 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 2: Next topic? Please? 398 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 4: Does that come out of the whole Clinton era nineties 399 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 4: whatever vibe. 400 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 2: It's just it's. 401 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: Nuts, and we always look at like the side of 402 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,479 Speaker 1: the coin. That is the positive, the strength, the fitness, 403 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: the capability. Let's look at the other side of the coin. 404 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: If you have somebody who's too small and weak to 405 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: do the job to the standards that it's always, you know, 406 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: been held to. What the hell do I care if 407 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: it's a man or woman, Right, that's the other side 408 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: of the coin. If there's some scrawny person or in 409 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: shape person, no fault of their own because they're lack 410 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 1: of muscle mass and size. They cannot drag me out 411 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: of a burning building. What do I care? If it's 412 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 1: a weedy guy or a really fit woman. I'm dead 413 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: either way. So at both ends of the scale, it 414 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: makes no sense. 415 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 2: Right. 416 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 4: We played this yesterday, but everybody should hear it in 417 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 4: case you didn't, because this was the home run, the 418 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 4: home run ball from beat exit. 419 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 6: This administration has done a great deal from day one 420 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 6: to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological 421 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 6: garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics. 422 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 6: No more identity months, dei offices, dudes in dresses, no 423 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 6: more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions, 424 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 6: no more debris. As I've said before and we'll say again, 425 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 6: we are done with that. 426 00:22:58,720 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 2: We are done with that. 427 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 1: Yes, right, Identity months for the Pentagon, DEI offices for 428 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:13,479 Speaker 1: the Pentagon. Keeping in mind, friends, DEI is near is 429 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: neo Marxism. Not everybody involved in the effort knows that, 430 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: but at its core it's one hundred percent Marxism in 431 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: our Pentagon. 432 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 2: We are done with that, by men. 433 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 4: Brother, I did see it portrayed by every single outlet 434 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 4: I took in yesterday, broadcast outlet other than Fox as 435 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 4: a horror what Pete said yesterday. Either it was completely 436 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 4: unnecessary or it was you know, beyond unnecessary into just 437 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 4: awful that we aren't going to have, you know, a 438 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 4: military that looks like America, and women will be denied this, 439 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 4: and black people will be denied that. I don't know 440 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 4: how you take that out of that speech that I 441 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 4: don't know where you how you get there from there. 442 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: But one aspect of why that's true is that it's 443 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: been you know, well observed that there's like a subset 444 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: of American society that comprises military families, including both of ours. 445 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 2: Uh. 446 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: And then there's this part of America that the military 447 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: is just like an abstraction to them. They've heard about it, 448 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: they've seen it on TV. They hear about the equity 449 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 1: programs and say, yeah, that's good, because equity is good. 450 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: But they really don't have any experience of the military 451 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: or military life, and they are heavily i should say, 452 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: the media is heavily populated with those people. 453 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 4: Well, there will be fewer women in combat roles, right 454 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 4: if they're going to hold it. And the answer to 455 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,719 Speaker 4: that has got to be, so what who cares? If 456 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 4: your answer to that is not who cares? I do 457 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 4: not understand the way you look at the world. Yeah, 458 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 4: you know, this reminds me. I think it's just a 459 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 4: historical thing. 460 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm always, not always frequently talking about the the spectrum 461 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: between necessity and nicety, where if a guy is coming 462 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: at you with a knife, good manners don't really factor 463 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,719 Speaker 1: into the way you're going to react. Okay, you have 464 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: no time for nicety because you're one hundred percent in 465 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: a moment of necessity. Well, post Cold War, moving through 466 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: the nineties into the two thousands, there. 467 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 2: Was a pretty widespread attitude. 468 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,719 Speaker 1: Spoken and unspoken in America that we don't need a 469 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 1: big military that kills people and breaks stuff. What do 470 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 1: we You know, there are several famous bond mows from 471 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 1: campaign Trails Earth to Matt Fong. You know, I remember 472 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: Diane Feinstein running for the Senate made fun of a 473 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 1: guy who said we still need a strong military because 474 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 1: we have the peace dividend now, and Barack Obama mocking 475 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney for saying that Russia was still a geopolitical threat. 476 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: We were in a time where the need for the 477 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: military was purely theoretical. And since that's true, it's just 478 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 1: a big institution with a lot of jobs. So let's 479 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: make sure everybody gets their fair quota, and there's plenty 480 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,679 Speaker 1: of equity in the rest of it because we're fighting 481 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 1: and killing people. That's what the military used to be. 482 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 4: Can you imagine how they choose the who gets to 483 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 4: be in combat units in China? 484 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 2: It would be very fairness. Is that what the lens 485 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 2: of fairness? 486 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 4: It would be very clear cut on a combination of 487 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 4: physical and mental abilities. The end they no concern whatsoever 488 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 4: about First of all, you probably can't even be in 489 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 4: the military unless you're the right race. They are incredibly 490 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 4: racist in China. But yeah, which you know, lens cohesion. 491 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 4: I'm not in favor of it. But you know it does. Yeah, 492 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 4: that's a while. The wild that this was met with 493 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 4: any that was controversial on any level. We don't want 494 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 4: people to be fair, and we don't want people who 495 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 4: can't do the you know, the same number of push 496 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 4: ups or whatever you need to do. 497 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 2: We are done with that, right. 498 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: It's like we're designing a gun and all of our 499 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 1: tension is to how pretty it is. 500 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 4: Identity months, Yeah, will those come back immediately? 501 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 2: Like if Gavin Newsom as president. 502 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: For Better or Worse number one, don't you threaten me 503 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 1: for better or worse? The Pentagon when it doesn't want 504 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,360 Speaker 1: to go along with stuff, drags its feet. I'm hoping 505 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: Pete and Donald J can really really inject that fighting 506 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: force spirit, that warrior spirit into the Pentagon so that 507 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: it'll have some resistance, It'll have some natural immunity for 508 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,159 Speaker 1: a while to toward to any effort to drag it 509 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: back into the whole you know, diversity, equity and inclusion, 510 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 1: jobs program sirenessed Pentagon. 511 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 4: We got a funny text that I want to read. WTF, Jack, 512 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 4: I've been listening since the show started, and your lift 513 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 4: driver has been from Lebanon, then Syria and now Libya. 514 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 4: I was thinking the same thing, the correct from Morocco. 515 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 2: What did he say? 516 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 4: The correct answer is Libya, and I do want to 517 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 4: talk about my lyft driver from Libya, not those other 518 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 4: two places. 519 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 2: Among other things coming up, stay here. 520 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 3: Finally, I'd like to take a quick moment to thank 521 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 3: some of our smaller sponsors. Today's show is brought to 522 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 3: you by the Official Animal of Long Island, tis ticks. 523 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 2: Get it off me, Get it off me. 524 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 3: Also driveway weight bench where your adult son works out. 525 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 3: I don't forget high school graduation air horns for ten. 526 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 3: This is some big accomplishment with high school graduation air horns. 527 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 2: And finally, tail and all tile and all. 528 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: No, it doesn't if Colin Jost doing a broadcast from 529 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: Bethpage Black during the Ryder Cup, that didn't sound like him. 530 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 2: Official Animal of Long Island. The tick get it off 531 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 2: me to take a tick off my wife the other day? 532 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, you want to live in the woods, you're 533 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: gonna get ticks now and again. 534 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 4: Where if you have a big furriyed dog, where on 535 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 4: her was the tick? Or is that private? That's a 536 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 4: little personal. 537 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: That they generally go where like an article of clothing 538 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: stops so like a shoulder, not to what do you 539 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: call it your collar bone? 540 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 4: Trump just signed some sort of AI childhood cancer thing. 541 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but it reminded me. 542 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 4: There's a story out about uh a canary in the 543 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 4: coal mine about how many jobs AI will destroy or 544 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 4: not around radiologists that I want to get to next hour. 545 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 4: That's pretty interesting. But since I've teased this like five times, 546 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 4: I should probably mention it. So I needed to get 547 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 4: a ride from a lyft. 548 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 2: The other day because I had a truck that was 549 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 2: getting repaired. So I need to get a ride from 550 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,520 Speaker 2: my house there. 551 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 4: And I get picked up by this guy and uh, 552 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 4: We're talking a little bit, and he's got a very 553 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 4: thick accent, and I asked him where he's from. Older dude, 554 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 4: quite a bit older, like seventies, and he said that 555 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 4: he was from. 556 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 2: Libya. 557 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 4: And he started talking about his I asked him about 558 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 4: his car. 559 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 2: That's how originally started. 560 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 4: I said, what, yere's your camera and he said, oh, 561 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 4: it's a twenty four and blah blah blah blah. I said, 562 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 4: my brother drives in ninety nine and he said, good 563 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 4: for him, he said, because I had I had a 564 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 4: two thousand and three that I put two hundred and 565 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 4: seventy five thousand miles on it, and there's no reason 566 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 4: to get rid of one unless you have to. And 567 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 4: then he started talking about this is a sidebar. I 568 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 4: didn't know this, but with Lyft and Uber, they prioritize 569 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 4: rides based on how new year car is, which is 570 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 4: an incentive for if you're a Lyft driver your car 571 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 4: is getting older, to replace it with a newer one, 572 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 4: because you get way more rides. 573 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 2: Set your way if you have a newer vehicle. 574 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 4: He said, it wasn't anything wrong with his older Camra, 575 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 4: but he gets way more rides with a twenty four 576 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 4: than he did with a with a two. 577 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 2: Thousand and two or whatever. It was interesting. I did 578 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:27,239 Speaker 2: not know that. 579 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny having taken a lot of rides 580 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: in London that virtually every car I was in was 581 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: brand spanking new. 582 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 2: That explains it, huh. 583 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 4: But he said, he said, I didn't buy this. My 584 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 4: daughter bought it for me. She's a I forget something 585 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 4: in the medical field. He had three daughters that he 586 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 4: had brought to this country that all went to universities 587 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 4: and got degrees and are doing really really well. And 588 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 4: he is just he was just so optimistic about the 589 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 4: United States. And I started to ask him about why. 590 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 4: I ask him where he's from. Then he said, and 591 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 4: I said, so were you there during momark And he said, 592 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 4: oh yeah, my entire life was momarked OFFI ruined the country. 593 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 4: And he said it's worse now. The new guy is 594 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 4: worse than mo market Off he was, which was interesting 595 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 4: to me. I wasn't not aware of that story. But 596 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 4: you know that's the guy, the Muslim brotherhood, guy that 597 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 4: took over, you know that whole thing. 598 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 2: That's serious. 599 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 4: Oh, you're right, So who took over in who took 600 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 4: over in Libya? It doesn't matter to every question about 601 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 4: Libya as whole country. 602 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: Job Hillary Obama, way to take out the leader with 603 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: no plan of succession. 604 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 4: But the main threat of this whole thing is what 605 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 4: is the deal with so many immigrants that come from 606 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 4: really awful countries, so happy to be here, get their 607 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 4: kids here, do well, versus the crowd that marches in 608 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 4: the street with the flag from the former country and 609 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 4: is angry about the way we're treating. 610 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 2: Them and lecture us about how you can't get ahead. 611 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 4: And is there any way because I got a leave. 612 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 4: There are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of 613 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 4: people around this world that are like this guy, who 614 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 4: would love to get here and would be happier and 615 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 4: craft the Raiser family here. Is there any way we 616 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 4: can make sure those people get in here and the 617 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,719 Speaker 4: people that want to get here and complain about it 618 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 4: stay the f out. 619 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 2: You know, we get. 620 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: Used to stuff that is so abhorrent that you'd think 621 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: you couldn't possibly get used to it. Picture me as 622 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: an immigrant to pick a country. 623 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 2: I don't know. Germany. As a young person, I thought 624 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 2: I might live there, so I usually use it as 625 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 2: an example. 626 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,239 Speaker 1: And I was somewhat annoyed with German immigration policy, and 627 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: I organized a bunch of American expats to protest that policy, 628 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,440 Speaker 1: and we marched through the streets waving American flags, and 629 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: thought that would do us any good? And maybe throwing 630 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 1: rocks at cops and setting things on fire exactly that 631 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 1: would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive. 632 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 2: And the people at Germany should probably. 633 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: Oh, I almost said something unfortunate, They should probably move 634 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,359 Speaker 1: swiftly to export my ass back to where I came from. Uh, 635 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: and how could any country not react that way because 636 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,040 Speaker 1: we've gotten used to that it's absurd. 637 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 4: Well, my point is, since there's I think there are 638 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 4: plenty of the other kind of immigrant that would love 639 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 4: to be here and would work really hard and do well, 640 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,839 Speaker 4: let's just prioritize them. You don't like here, to swap 641 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 4: them out. Fee, I endorse your plan. I'll pay for 642 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 4: your damn ticket. Get out, don't ever come back. I 643 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,759 Speaker 4: don't care what you don't like about the country. It 644 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 4: doesn't get any better than this. If you can't make 645 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 4: it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the f 646 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 4: out and bring in the hundreds of millions of people 647 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 4: that would love to come here and raise their kids 648 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:47,560 Speaker 4: and be really successful. 649 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 2: Like this guy, run America like a hot nightclub. 650 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: Two people leave, two more come in you too, Come 651 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: on in, Come on in. You're hard workers. You love 652 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,800 Speaker 1: this country. Glad to have your welcome friends. 653 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 4: This guy had not a time thing negative to say 654 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 4: about his situation in the United States of America. He's 655 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 4: thrilled to be here and raise his kids here, talking 656 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 4: about the opportunities that they would have never had back 657 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 4: in his home country of Syria. 658 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 2: Liberty or Lebanon, whichever one it was, and maybe Latvia. 659 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 2: Nobody's sure. 660 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 4: He's certainly not going to be waiving his country's flag 661 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,359 Speaker 4: and attacking cops and complaining about it. 662 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 2: God, why wouldn't we put up with that? Why didn't 663 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 2: we put up with that? You don't like it? Go 664 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 2: the freak back right, God, that makes me mad. We're 665 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,799 Speaker 2: off track, We're so off track. And then we're trying 666 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 2: to get closer to on track. But it's going to 667 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,319 Speaker 2: take him minute. 668 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 4: The fact that the media so often sympathizes with the 669 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 4: people from other countries complaining about being here, then leave. 670 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,960 Speaker 2: There are plenty of people that want to be here, 671 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 2: that would love it. 672 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 1: Excuse frank talk, but we live in a world where 673 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,320 Speaker 1: if you're six foot four, you have a beard, a penis, 674 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 1: and text testicles and you call yourself a woman, about 675 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: a third of the electorate, well at least twenty percent of. 676 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,839 Speaker 2: It, say that's a woman right there, that's a woman. 677 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 3: Yes. 678 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: And if you say that's not a woman, you're you're 679 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: a biggest, the terrible person to the transfom Gender bending 680 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,319 Speaker 1: Madness update coming up next hour, special celebrity edition, don't 681 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 1: miss it. 682 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:13,240 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty