Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty because
Speaker 2: I was feeling good. Well, that feels good. Look out,
Speaker 2: this may lead the park.
Speaker 3: Wow, oh tonni second of the night and the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are feeling great.
Speaker 2: It is eight nothing yeah, and he is something else?
Speaker 4: Okay, so the uh that was four hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: feet or something like that? That home run from Shoeyotani
Speaker 4: of the Dodgers. Who's going to be the playoff pitcher
Speaker 4: for Game three if there's a Game three.
Speaker 2: So that's just amazing. He's the leadoff hitter. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: he's the pitcher.
Speaker 4: There are only I forget how many players that have
Speaker 4: ever hit one that far at Dodger Stadium, and then
Speaker 4: they've all done it.
Speaker 2: Once he's done it. I think seventeen times they said, wow,
Speaker 2: it's just stunning. His stats are incredible.
Speaker 4: He had fifty five home runs this year. Nobody talks
Speaker 4: about it because the damn steroid era. He really got
Speaker 4: cheated on that, because that would have been a household
Speaker 4: conversation if it weren't for the steroid era.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it just changed everybody's perception of the numbers.
Speaker 2: Right. Anyhow, I was enjoying watching some baseball instead of
Speaker 2: paying attention.
Speaker 4: At well, the news was all shut down talk, and
Speaker 4: I just do not care about that story.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I know, watch baseball.
Speaker 1: My wife is calling me again for more reassurance during
Speaker 1: the government's shutdown. She's like so many people, just so upset,
Speaker 1: so fearful, just so I'm sure of what the future
Speaker 1: may hold for us.
Speaker 4: You know, she's probably thinking, why did I bring children
Speaker 4: into a world where there would be a temporary government
Speaker 4: shut down that nobody notices this here's one of my
Speaker 4: favorite things. Trump tweeted out a picture from the conversations
Speaker 4: they were having late last night that amounted to nothing,
Speaker 4: So Trump sitting there. He took it himself with his
Speaker 4: own phone and posted, But Trump sitting there at his
Speaker 4: desk with Schumer and Jeffries and Johnson.
Speaker 2: The Leader of the House and everything.
Speaker 4: But he's got Trump twenty twenty eight hats sitting on
Speaker 4: its desk, right. I mean, that is unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's a guy whose supporters stormed the Capitol once.
Speaker 4: Maybe you remember that because they didn't like the result
Speaker 4: of that election. And he's got a hat suggesting he's
Speaker 4: going to run for a third term as just a
Speaker 4: broken people.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the world we live in now
Speaker 2: is just amazing.
Speaker 1: I just read a brilliant piece by Holman Jenkins in
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. It was just pointing out how
Speaker 1: many of the freakises Trump gets involved in, like the
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel thing.
Speaker 2: It's pro wrestling.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, Jimmy Kimmel is a pro wrestling opponent. Just
Speaker 1: Trump understands. Okay, here's another great chapter in the the
Speaker 1: you know, the the drama that we're unwinding here.
Speaker 2: And it's good. Kimmel wins and Trump wins, and we
Speaker 2: I'll move on.
Speaker 4: Here's the story I wanted to get on, and this
Speaker 4: is from the San Francisco Chronicle, and I couldn't. I'm
Speaker 4: not wearing a hat, but if I were, I would
Speaker 4: tip it as high as I could tipp it, or
Speaker 4: however you tip a hat for them doing this story headline.
Speaker 4: San Francisco's first equity weed store was an epic failure.
Speaker 4: City hall insiders still may pocket millions.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And the reason I wanted to do this story is
Speaker 4: it's a classic socialism story. It's a classic the reason
Speaker 4: socialism doesn't work will never work. And idiots like the
Speaker 4: people that are supporting Mom Dami in New York just well,
Speaker 4: you're just too young to know this or stupid or something.
Speaker 2: The cannabis shop on.
Speaker 4: Storied Hate Street had it all real estate, star power,
Speaker 4: political clout, and social justice. Then things got ugly. The
Speaker 4: idea of it to start with is amazing. This was
Speaker 4: going to be the first permit holder. Remember when weed
Speaker 4: became legal, it was all about, you know, who gets
Speaker 4: to have the permits to open up weed stores? And
Speaker 4: they're going to be limited on you know how many
Speaker 4: per street and all that sort of stuff, just like
Speaker 4: a liquor store or anything like that. And Hate in
Speaker 4: the Hate Ashbury area big tourist area. If you've never
Speaker 4: been to San Francisco, tons of foot traffic. This would
Speaker 4: be a big hippieville. This would be a big deal.
Speaker 4: I mean, how many people would be coming from around
Speaker 4: the world that would love buying weed on Hate in
Speaker 4: San Francisco?
Speaker 1: Right, sad people who imagine some sort of hippie utopia
Speaker 1: and just want to absorb a little bit of that,
Speaker 1: you know. Three and a half generation later, the first
Speaker 1: permit holder in the city's Social Equity program, which reserved
Speaker 1: cannabis business licenses for people unfairly burdened by the War
Speaker 1: on drugs. So the only way you could get a
Speaker 1: license to open up one of these gold mine weed
Speaker 1: stores was if you were part of the crowd unfairly
Speaker 1: burdened by the War on drugs, a drug dealer, so
Speaker 1: they had experience. I liked the policy makes sense.
Speaker 4: Well, it was just you had to be black because
Speaker 4: the idea or of a pock a person of color,
Speaker 4: because throughout history, according to this, people of color have
Speaker 4: been unfairly targeted in the War on drugs and suffered
Speaker 4: and to and this social equity weird situation for people
Speaker 4: who believe this is true that by helping some dude
Speaker 4: today that had nothing to do with what was going
Speaker 4: on thirty years ago, you've somehow fixed the world.
Speaker 2: I just I don't even understand that concept.
Speaker 1: So people of color, how about like dudes and dresses,
Speaker 1: trans crowd, did they get pot licenses too?
Speaker 4: This would be an experiment the store on hate to
Speaker 4: see if legalization could atone for decades of racist law
Speaker 4: enforcement accesses and empower small businesses, some owned by members
Speaker 4: of the city's dwindling black populace.
Speaker 2: You gotta like it already, right, this social experiment.
Speaker 1: There's another great example of luxury beliefs coming up in
Speaker 1: a gender bending madness update next hour, stay tuned.
Speaker 4: So this dude got the license and didn't sell it.
Speaker 4: As the only weed retailer that was going to be
Speaker 4: allowed on the main drag of hate Asbury thanks to
Speaker 4: the strict zoning laws, he resisted temptation to sell out.
Speaker 4: He said, he rejected cash offers from some really big
Speaker 4: dogs out there that wanted to buy his permit once
Speaker 4: he got it. Well, he ended up being a big dog.
Speaker 4: Is the reason they hang hung onto it. We find
Speaker 4: out at the end of this. I hope every other
Speaker 4: person of color can look at this and see that
Speaker 4: it can really happen. Yeah, if you grew up with
Speaker 4: the mayor of San Francisco. So he literally was friends
Speaker 4: with Mayor Breed since he was a kid.
Speaker 2: Their whole lives in his funny coincidence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and his contacts in the in the uh Mayor's office,
Speaker 4: and so they're trying to figure out how are they
Speaker 4: going to dole out these permits in a fair way,
Speaker 4: and they came up with all kinds of different ways,
Speaker 4: how you could do it and a lottery. Know somebody
Speaker 4: could rig a lottery. No, we could do it this way. No,
Speaker 4: somebody could rig that. I know what we'll do. We'll
Speaker 4: just make it whoever fills out the form the fastest
Speaker 4: they get the license.
Speaker 2: And unbelievably, believe it or not, they opened.
Speaker 4: Up the applications online in the city of San Francisco
Speaker 4: for the form showed up at whatever it was, ten
Speaker 4: am on April first or whatever it was, and immediately,
Speaker 4: you know, everybody is waiting around to click on the
Speaker 4: computer and get the forms and download them and fill
Speaker 4: them out and get them.
Speaker 2: Back in his fast they can.
Speaker 4: And just the craziest coincidence of all times, this guy
Speaker 4: who grew up with the mayor and is knowner his
Speaker 4: entire life and his friends got third application.
Speaker 1: In first Wow, those high school type and classes really paid.
Speaker 4: Off, and they got the license and they opened the store.
Speaker 4: And then the I'm not gonna go through all because
Speaker 4: it's a very very art long article, but the ending
Speaker 4: is they made millions while the place went bankrupt and
Speaker 4: it ended up closing. But they got millions and millions
Speaker 4: of dollars through all kinds of different government things that
Speaker 4: went on, and.
Speaker 1: The cronyism and the connected get rich. That is socialism,
Speaker 1: every single every single time. Amid the good vibes, there
Speaker 1: was little to indicate what was to come.
Speaker 4: That the store would go belly up in little more
Speaker 4: than four years, that the great expectations of the equity
Speaker 4: program and legal cannabis would crumble along with it, and
Speaker 4: that despite the failure, Richard that's the guy's name who
Speaker 4: grew up with Meyer Breed and his partners would still
Speaker 4: be poised to pocket millions with taxpayers footing the bill.
Speaker 4: Good for the Chronicle for doing that story, But that
Speaker 4: is what happens every single time. And socialism, the people
Speaker 4: that claim that it's all about fairness and equity and
Speaker 4: the downtrodden, it's always their buddies or somebody who bribes
Speaker 4: them that gets the cool deal and gets rich, and
Speaker 4: it doesn't help anybody.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The whole argument of the reality of equity is it
Speaker 1: is a quasi faith. It's a fake moral argument for
Speaker 1: why some people should get special treatment from the government,
Speaker 1: and that always turns out to be the people well
Speaker 1: connected with those in power for whatever reason, for whatever kinship,
Speaker 1: whether it's skin color or political philosophy, or they're just cronies.
Speaker 1: But yeah, equity is a fake argument for special favors.
Speaker 2: From the government.
Speaker 4: They interviewed a whole bunch of people because there were
Speaker 4: some big time of people that were trying to get
Speaker 4: that particular license to open up a weed store. And
Speaker 4: so they were ready to log on and they had,
Speaker 4: you know, all kinds of smart people there to jump
Speaker 4: into filling out the forms and get the men as
Speaker 4: fasts possible like that, and they didn't even come close
Speaker 4: to getting it in as fast as this other guy did.
Speaker 4: And they're all like telling the San Francisco Cronald, they're
Speaker 4: all telling them, like, please give me a break.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't even pretend this was on the up
Speaker 2: and up.
Speaker 1: Well, right, No, we can't have a lottery because you
Speaker 1: could rig a lottery. Let's have a speed typing context
Speaker 1: that our friends and family happened to win. Yeah, good lord,
Speaker 1: and that something. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 4: And they're the people that preach equity all the time,
Speaker 4: and how the systemic this and that. It's just it's amazing.
Speaker 2: And again who got screwed tax pairs? They all got rich.
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Speaker 2: Why does the term crony capitalism exist but not the
Speaker 2: term crony socialism? Maybe because you don't need it, because
Speaker 2: all socialism is crony. It's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're right, that is that is useful though,
Speaker 1: because that's exactly what that's to be tattooed with. That
Speaker 1: that was crony socialism. Yeah, it is redundant.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 1: But obviously we're in a situation right now for reasons
Speaker 1: we've discussed many times where our young people are absolutely
Speaker 1: primed to fall for the giant scam that is socialism.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so we got to talk about of it.
Speaker 4: Oh and wait, you see what happens in New York
Speaker 4: when mom dommy wins. And I was listening to some
Speaker 4: people who follow this closely. He is going to win,
Speaker 4: even with Eric Adams getting out, He's gonna win when
Speaker 4: you have government grocery stores check and see who got
Speaker 4: the license to open up the grocery store and see
Speaker 4: what their connection is to the powerful. Will probably be
Speaker 4: just like this weed story we told you from San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams twelve billion dollars blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Please we got more.
Speaker 4: Pete Hegzeth that you haven't heard from his big speech
Speaker 4: to the fat generals yesterday, that we want to play
Speaker 4: for you. It's pretty interesting, a conversation starter. I definitely
Speaker 4: want to talk about the lift driver I had from Syria, Libya,
Speaker 4: Libya a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: Is really interesting about the whole immigrant thing. Anyway, lots
Speaker 2: on the way stay here post.
Speaker 5: Yesterday on truth Social President Trump announced that he will
Speaker 5: impose a tariff on any country that does not make
Speaker 5: its furniture in the US, which explains why Ikea is
Speaker 5: now selling meatballs for ninety nine bucks apiece.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Kind of got lost in the hole.
Speaker 4: There's been so much going on the tariffs on furniture
Speaker 4: and movies, tariff on foreign made movies that's unimplementable.
Speaker 1: A couple of not like hardcore newsy notes can't wait
Speaker 1: to hear the pete hexits stuff.
Speaker 2: Next segment, which is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Hearing from a bunch of active duty folks from you know,
Speaker 1: privates in corporals to to read an email from a
Speaker 1: colonel who solutely love it. Actual soldier, sailors, Marines, Airman,
Speaker 1: Coast Guard haven't forgotten about you, guys and gals.
Speaker 2: They love this stuff. So number one.
Speaker 1: Once in a while, I come across emails that say, essentially, guys,
Speaker 1: I wrote you this, or I asked you this, and
Speaker 1: I know you have different priorities or your corporate fathers,
Speaker 1: or I think you stop. Stop stop, I didn't see it. Okay,
Speaker 1: we get hundreds of emails. Don't be but hurt that
Speaker 1: I missed yours.
Speaker 2: I just missed it. Follow up if it's important.
Speaker 1: Secondly, I'm looking at speaking of email, we I am
Speaker 1: on a bunch of different news newsletters from our favorite
Speaker 1: news coverage organizations, from the National Review to the Free Press,
Speaker 1: to the Washington Free Beacon to the even you know,
Speaker 1: the bigfoot Media, the New York Times, Washington Post, et cetera,
Speaker 1: and every damn one of them. They're big newsletter. Their
Speaker 1: headline was welcome to another Shutdown from the excellent Jim
Speaker 1: Garritty at the Morning Jolt, at the National Review. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find the rest of them, but you get
Speaker 1: the idea. Every single one of them was government shut down.
Speaker 1: What to expect with the government shut down? The stakes
Speaker 1: for the GOP every single.
Speaker 4: What's interesting because you write this stuff with the idea
Speaker 4: that your reader's viewers, you know, get up in the
Speaker 4: morning and you know, want to know what's going on.
Speaker 4: I don't think people in real life give a crap
Speaker 4: about this, right right.
Speaker 1: Here's even the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, He's a genius.
Speaker 1: His outfit Government shutdown follow live updates? What and here's
Speaker 1: my philosophical takeaway from this.
Speaker 2: Live updates? Oh my god, the media.
Speaker 1: Thinks the government is the United States of America.
Speaker 2: I think they the media reports on the government.
Speaker 1: The government has become so omnipresent in our lives. The
Speaker 1: news is now about the government. I've years it's always
Speaker 1: going to be about it somewhat, But I've thought this
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 4: They regularly think that people are paying attention to stuff,
Speaker 4: but that they aren't. But this is the biggest disconnect
Speaker 4: between the performative politicians in the media and the people
Speaker 4: of all it's the shutdown thing. They apparently think that
Speaker 4: out in the country people are discussing this and are
Speaker 4: worried about. Like I've lived through several of these. I've
Speaker 4: never had a single human being ever bring it up.
Speaker 1: Ever. Yeah, definitely worth a read of Mark Levivich's again
Speaker 1: that name is Livevivihitch his book This Town about Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And the government media complex and how they're
Speaker 1: all part of one big industry and the unholy, unhealthy
Speaker 1: part of it is people. They grow up with it,
Speaker 1: they hear it, they see it, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people start to think the government is the country, and
Speaker 1: they don't understand that we should bump up against the
Speaker 1: government once every couple of weeks, maybe not like four
Speaker 1: times a day every day.
Speaker 2: That's not what we're supposed to be.
Speaker 4: It's interesting you mentioned all those conservative publications that wrote
Speaker 4: about the shutdown, because that ruins what I'm about to say,
Speaker 4: because it doesn't fit without I'm a bug to say,
Speaker 4: but I've been thinking that most of the mainstream media
Speaker 4: coverage is based on if you're the sort of person
Speaker 4: that when you hear the government word government, you think,
Speaker 4: oh cool, an entity that helps me and gives me stuff,
Speaker 4: as opposed to the way. When I hear the word government,
Speaker 4: I think something that gets in my way and takes things.
Speaker 4: The word government to me means makes it harder for
Speaker 4: me to do something I want to do and take
Speaker 4: stuff away from me.
Speaker 1: Get out of the way, Boomer, even though you're an
Speaker 1: actual gen X guy. Ah, Because it used to be
Speaker 1: we had on small government, small spending party, and then
Speaker 1: one big spending party.
Speaker 2: We now have two big spending parties.
Speaker 4: Pete Haggzeth, Secretary of War, gave a heck of a
Speaker 4: speech yesterday. Some of the stuff you haven't heard it's really.
Speaker 2: Good Armstrong and Geeddy, So lots of things we want
Speaker 2: to get to.
Speaker 4: We're gonna play some Pete hagg Zeth from his big
Speaker 4: speech he gave to the generals yesterday, which has gotten
Speaker 4: a heck of a lot of attention and gotten a
Speaker 4: bunch of emails and texts about that. I want to
Speaker 4: talk about my immigrant lift driver that I had and
Speaker 4: why this can't be the focus of our whole immigration
Speaker 4: discussion to a greater extent, and a bunch of other
Speaker 4: stuff I hope you can stick around for, yeah.
Speaker 1: Including a exciting celebrity gender bending Madness.
Speaker 2: Update celebrity version.
Speaker 1: Yes, Harry Potter fans Harmione Granger gets a right cross
Speaker 1: to the chops from JK. Rowling, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 2: Okay, fictional character gets punched by the author of the book.
Speaker 2: It's a metaphor. You know what a metaphor is. It's
Speaker 2: it's not literally true anyway. So we're we're gonna do
Speaker 2: Pete here, some more pete stuff. Yeah, I just I
Speaker 2: thought these were different. I was. I was misled by
Speaker 2: my own something or other.
Speaker 1: I hate when that happens. I've been scanning our email reaction. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it is among actual fighting people universally positive. Just
Speaker 1: came across another one a career Army Army and Army Reserve.
Speaker 1: When I first came back from my basic training, a
Speaker 1: report to my unit, all fit and ready to be
Speaker 1: all I can be. But we had a captain who's
Speaker 1: the one in charge calling the shots for our training.
Speaker 1: I can only see even back then, they found ways
Speaker 1: around the fitness requirements. Just he's making the point that's
Speaker 1: very lax, very slack. What I'm trying to say is
Speaker 1: this fitness, this thing is nothing new. But they need
Speaker 1: to get it done. I'm summarizing.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's hear a little pete from yesterday.
Speaker 6: This means at the War Department, first and foremost, we
Speaker 6: must restore a ruthless, dispassionate, and common sense application of standards.
Speaker 2: I don't want my.
Speaker 6: Son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or
Speaker 6: in combat unit with females who can't meet the same
Speaker 6: combat arms physical standards as men. Our troops who are
Speaker 6: not fully proficient on their assigned weapons, platform or task,
Speaker 6: or under a.
Speaker 2: Leader who was the first but not the best.
Speaker 6: Standards must be uniform, gender neutral.
Speaker 2: And high.
Speaker 6: If not, they're not standards, They're just suggestions, suggestions that
Speaker 6: get our sons and daughters killed.
Speaker 4: How did we get so off track that we ever
Speaker 4: allowed I know they do this for cops and firefighters,
Speaker 4: but how did we ever get so off track that
Speaker 4: we ever allowed different standards based on your gender.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it makes no sense in a ra
Speaker 1: Are you doing the same job, yes, same standards?
Speaker 2: Next topic? Please?
Speaker 4: Does that come out of the whole Clinton era nineties
Speaker 4: whatever vibe.
Speaker 2: It's just it's.
Speaker 1: Nuts, and we always look at like the side of
Speaker 1: the coin. That is the positive, the strength, the fitness,
Speaker 1: the capability. Let's look at the other side of the coin.
Speaker 1: If you have somebody who's too small and weak to
Speaker 1: do the job to the standards that it's always, you know,
Speaker 1: been held to. What the hell do I care if
Speaker 1: it's a man or woman, Right, that's the other side
Speaker 1: of the coin. If there's some scrawny person or in
Speaker 1: shape person, no fault of their own because they're lack
Speaker 1: of muscle mass and size. They cannot drag me out
Speaker 1: of a burning building. What do I care? If it's
Speaker 1: a weedy guy or a really fit woman. I'm dead
Speaker 1: either way. So at both ends of the scale, it
Speaker 1: makes no sense.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: We played this yesterday, but everybody should hear it in
Speaker 4: case you didn't, because this was the home run, the
Speaker 4: home run ball from beat exit.
Speaker 6: This administration has done a great deal from day one
Speaker 6: to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological
Speaker 6: garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics.
Speaker 6: No more identity months, dei offices, dudes in dresses, no
Speaker 6: more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions,
Speaker 6: no more debris. As I've said before and we'll say again,
Speaker 6: we are done with that.
Speaker 2: We are done with that.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, Identity months for the Pentagon, DEI offices for
Speaker 1: the Pentagon. Keeping in mind, friends, DEI is near is
Speaker 1: neo Marxism. Not everybody involved in the effort knows that,
Speaker 1: but at its core it's one hundred percent Marxism in
Speaker 1: our Pentagon.
Speaker 2: We are done with that, by men.
Speaker 4: Brother, I did see it portrayed by every single outlet
Speaker 4: I took in yesterday, broadcast outlet other than Fox as
Speaker 4: a horror what Pete said yesterday. Either it was completely
Speaker 4: unnecessary or it was you know, beyond unnecessary into just
Speaker 4: awful that we aren't going to have, you know, a
Speaker 4: military that looks like America, and women will be denied this,
Speaker 4: and black people will be denied that. I don't know
Speaker 4: how you take that out of that speech that I
Speaker 4: don't know where you how you get there from there.
Speaker 1: But one aspect of why that's true is that it's
Speaker 1: been you know, well observed that there's like a subset
Speaker 1: of American society that comprises military families, including both of ours.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then there's this part of America that the military
Speaker 1: is just like an abstraction to them. They've heard about it,
Speaker 1: they've seen it on TV. They hear about the equity
Speaker 1: programs and say, yeah, that's good, because equity is good.
Speaker 1: But they really don't have any experience of the military
Speaker 1: or military life, and they are heavily i should say,
Speaker 1: the media is heavily populated with those people.
Speaker 4: Well, there will be fewer women in combat roles, right
Speaker 4: if they're going to hold it. And the answer to
Speaker 4: that has got to be, so what who cares? If
Speaker 4: your answer to that is not who cares? I do
Speaker 4: not understand the way you look at the world. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, this reminds me. I think it's just a
Speaker 4: historical thing.
Speaker 1: I'm always, not always frequently talking about the the spectrum
Speaker 1: between necessity and nicety, where if a guy is coming
Speaker 1: at you with a knife, good manners don't really factor
Speaker 1: into the way you're going to react. Okay, you have
Speaker 1: no time for nicety because you're one hundred percent in
Speaker 1: a moment of necessity. Well, post Cold War, moving through
Speaker 1: the nineties into the two thousands, there.
Speaker 2: Was a pretty widespread attitude.
Speaker 1: Spoken and unspoken in America that we don't need a
Speaker 1: big military that kills people and breaks stuff. What do
Speaker 1: we You know, there are several famous bond mows from
Speaker 1: campaign Trails Earth to Matt Fong. You know, I remember
Speaker 1: Diane Feinstein running for the Senate made fun of a
Speaker 1: guy who said we still need a strong military because
Speaker 1: we have the peace dividend now, and Barack Obama mocking
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney for saying that Russia was still a geopolitical threat.
Speaker 1: We were in a time where the need for the
Speaker 1: military was purely theoretical. And since that's true, it's just
Speaker 1: a big institution with a lot of jobs. So let's
Speaker 1: make sure everybody gets their fair quota, and there's plenty
Speaker 1: of equity in the rest of it because we're fighting
Speaker 1: and killing people. That's what the military used to be.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine how they choose the who gets to
Speaker 4: be in combat units in China?
Speaker 2: It would be very fairness. Is that what the lens
Speaker 2: of fairness?
Speaker 4: It would be very clear cut on a combination of
Speaker 4: physical and mental abilities. The end they no concern whatsoever
Speaker 4: about First of all, you probably can't even be in
Speaker 4: the military unless you're the right race. They are incredibly
Speaker 4: racist in China. But yeah, which you know, lens cohesion.
Speaker 4: I'm not in favor of it. But you know it does. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a while. The wild that this was met with
Speaker 4: any that was controversial on any level. We don't want
Speaker 4: people to be fair, and we don't want people who
Speaker 4: can't do the you know, the same number of push
Speaker 4: ups or whatever you need to do.
Speaker 2: We are done with that, right.
Speaker 1: It's like we're designing a gun and all of our
Speaker 1: tension is to how pretty it is.
Speaker 4: Identity months, Yeah, will those come back immediately?
Speaker 2: Like if Gavin Newsom as president.
Speaker 1: For Better or Worse number one, don't you threaten me
Speaker 1: for better or worse? The Pentagon when it doesn't want
Speaker 1: to go along with stuff, drags its feet. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: Pete and Donald J can really really inject that fighting
Speaker 1: force spirit, that warrior spirit into the Pentagon so that
Speaker 1: it'll have some resistance, It'll have some natural immunity for
Speaker 1: a while to toward to any effort to drag it
Speaker 1: back into the whole you know, diversity, equity and inclusion,
Speaker 1: jobs program sirenessed Pentagon.
Speaker 4: We got a funny text that I want to read. WTF, Jack,
Speaker 4: I've been listening since the show started, and your lift
Speaker 4: driver has been from Lebanon, then Syria and now Libya.
Speaker 4: I was thinking the same thing, the correct from Morocco.
Speaker 2: What did he say?
Speaker 4: The correct answer is Libya, and I do want to
Speaker 4: talk about my lyft driver from Libya, not those other
Speaker 4: two places.
Speaker 2: Among other things coming up, stay here.
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Speaker 4: Trump just signed some sort of AI childhood cancer thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but it reminded me.
Speaker 4: There's a story out about uh a canary in the
Speaker 4: coal mine about how many jobs AI will destroy or
Speaker 4: not around radiologists that I want to get to next hour.
Speaker 4: That's pretty interesting. But since I've teased this like five times,
Speaker 4: I should probably mention it. So I needed to get
Speaker 4: a ride from a lyft.
Speaker 2: The other day because I had a truck that was
Speaker 2: getting repaired. So I need to get a ride from
Speaker 2: my house there.
Speaker 4: And I get picked up by this guy and uh,
Speaker 4: We're talking a little bit, and he's got a very
Speaker 4: thick accent, and I asked him where he's from. Older dude,
Speaker 4: quite a bit older, like seventies, and he said that
Speaker 4: he was from.
Speaker 2: Libya.
Speaker 4: And he started talking about his I asked him about
Speaker 4: his car.
Speaker 2: That's how originally started.
Speaker 4: I said, what, yere's your camera and he said, oh,
Speaker 4: it's a twenty four and blah blah blah blah. I said,
Speaker 4: my brother drives in ninety nine and he said, good
Speaker 4: for him, he said, because I had I had a
Speaker 4: two thousand and three that I put two hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy five thousand miles on it, and there's no reason
Speaker 4: to get rid of one unless you have to. And
Speaker 4: then he started talking about this is a sidebar. I
Speaker 4: didn't know this, but with Lyft and Uber, they prioritize
Speaker 4: rides based on how new year car is, which is
Speaker 4: an incentive for if you're a Lyft driver your car
Speaker 4: is getting older, to replace it with a newer one,
Speaker 4: because you get way more rides.
Speaker 2: Set your way if you have a newer vehicle.
Speaker 4: He said, it wasn't anything wrong with his older Camra,
Speaker 4: but he gets way more rides with a twenty four
Speaker 4: than he did with a with a two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and two or whatever. It was interesting. I did
Speaker 2: not know that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny having taken a lot of rides
Speaker 1: in London that virtually every car I was in was
Speaker 1: brand spanking new.
Speaker 2: That explains it, huh.
Speaker 4: But he said, he said, I didn't buy this. My
Speaker 4: daughter bought it for me. She's a I forget something
Speaker 4: in the medical field. He had three daughters that he
Speaker 4: had brought to this country that all went to universities
Speaker 4: and got degrees and are doing really really well. And
Speaker 4: he is just he was just so optimistic about the
Speaker 4: United States. And I started to ask him about why.
Speaker 4: I ask him where he's from. Then he said, and
Speaker 4: I said, so were you there during momark And he said,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, my entire life was momarked OFFI ruined the country.
Speaker 4: And he said it's worse now. The new guy is
Speaker 4: worse than mo market Off he was, which was interesting
Speaker 4: to me. I wasn't not aware of that story. But
Speaker 4: you know that's the guy, the Muslim brotherhood, guy that
Speaker 4: took over, you know that whole thing.
Speaker 2: That's serious.
Speaker 4: Oh, you're right, So who took over in who took
Speaker 4: over in Libya? It doesn't matter to every question about
Speaker 4: Libya as whole country.
Speaker 1: Job Hillary Obama, way to take out the leader with
Speaker 1: no plan of succession.
Speaker 4: But the main threat of this whole thing is what
Speaker 4: is the deal with so many immigrants that come from
Speaker 4: really awful countries, so happy to be here, get their
Speaker 4: kids here, do well, versus the crowd that marches in
Speaker 4: the street with the flag from the former country and
Speaker 4: is angry about the way we're treating.
Speaker 2: Them and lecture us about how you can't get ahead.
Speaker 4: And is there any way because I got a leave.
Speaker 4: There are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of
Speaker 4: people around this world that are like this guy, who
Speaker 4: would love to get here and would be happier and
Speaker 4: craft the Raiser family here. Is there any way we
Speaker 4: can make sure those people get in here and the
Speaker 4: people that want to get here and complain about it
Speaker 4: stay the f out.
Speaker 2: You know, we get.
Speaker 1: Used to stuff that is so abhorrent that you'd think
Speaker 1: you couldn't possibly get used to it. Picture me as
Speaker 1: an immigrant to pick a country.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Germany. As a young person, I thought
Speaker 2: I might live there, so I usually use it as
Speaker 2: an example.
Speaker 1: And I was somewhat annoyed with German immigration policy, and
Speaker 1: I organized a bunch of American expats to protest that policy,
Speaker 1: and we marched through the streets waving American flags, and
Speaker 1: thought that would do us any good? And maybe throwing
Speaker 1: rocks at cops and setting things on fire exactly that
Speaker 1: would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive.
Speaker 2: And the people at Germany should probably.
Speaker 1: Oh, I almost said something unfortunate, They should probably move
Speaker 1: swiftly to export my ass back to where I came from. Uh,
Speaker 1: and how could any country not react that way because
Speaker 1: we've gotten used to that it's absurd.
Speaker 4: Well, my point is, since there's I think there are
Speaker 4: plenty of the other kind of immigrant that would love
Speaker 4: to be here and would work really hard and do well,
Speaker 4: let's just prioritize them. You don't like here, to swap
Speaker 4: them out. Fee, I endorse your plan. I'll pay for
Speaker 4: your damn ticket. Get out, don't ever come back. I
Speaker 4: don't care what you don't like about the country. It
Speaker 4: doesn't get any better than this. If you can't make
Speaker 4: it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the f
Speaker 4: out and bring in the hundreds of millions of people
Speaker 4: that would love to come here and raise their kids
Speaker 4: and be really successful.
Speaker 2: Like this guy, run America like a hot nightclub.
Speaker 1: Two people leave, two more come in you too, Come
Speaker 1: on in, Come on in. You're hard workers. You love
Speaker 1: this country. Glad to have your welcome friends.
Speaker 4: This guy had not a time thing negative to say
Speaker 4: about his situation in the United States of America. He's
Speaker 4: thrilled to be here and raise his kids here, talking
Speaker 4: about the opportunities that they would have never had back
Speaker 4: in his home country of Syria.
Speaker 2: Liberty or Lebanon, whichever one it was, and maybe Latvia.
Speaker 2: Nobody's sure.
Speaker 4: He's certainly not going to be waiving his country's flag
Speaker 4: and attacking cops and complaining about it.
Speaker 2: God, why wouldn't we put up with that? Why didn't
Speaker 2: we put up with that? You don't like it? Go
Speaker 2: the freak back right, God, that makes me mad. We're
Speaker 2: off track, We're so off track. And then we're trying
Speaker 2: to get closer to on track. But it's going to
Speaker 2: take him minute.
Speaker 4: The fact that the media so often sympathizes with the
Speaker 4: people from other countries complaining about being here, then leave.
Speaker 2: There are plenty of people that want to be here,
Speaker 2: that would love it.
Speaker 1: Excuse frank talk, but we live in a world where
Speaker 1: if you're six foot four, you have a beard, a penis,
Speaker 1: and text testicles and you call yourself a woman, about
Speaker 1: a third of the electorate, well at least twenty percent of.
Speaker 2: It, say that's a woman right there, that's a woman.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: And if you say that's not a woman, you're you're
Speaker 1: a biggest, the terrible person to the transfom Gender bending
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