Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong in Shoe, Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and Key Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will reportedly
Speaker 3: not be voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: during his first year of eligibility, but he still plans
Speaker 3: to continue dating women during their first year of eligibility.
Speaker 1: Is the dating shot? That is such a dumb thing,
Speaker 1: Such a dumb thing. Now, I guess the whoever's in
Speaker 1: charge of the Hall of Fame is looking at booting
Speaker 1: out members that didn't vote for Belichick.
Speaker 2: It's just just really dumb. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're doing
Speaker 2: some sort It was.
Speaker 4: A protest against the cheating jack deflate gate. How could
Speaker 4: you forget that video taping gate or whatever. The guy
Speaker 4: has eight Super Bowl rings. He has double the next
Speaker 4: closest coach in NFL history eight super Bowl rings six
Speaker 4: six is the head coach, and too his an assistant.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's just dumb. It's dumb.
Speaker 1: They didn't They don't like him for variety of reasons,
Speaker 1: because he treated the press poorly and and didn't give
Speaker 1: him answers and didn't play the game, and the whatever
Speaker 1: grumpy lobster boat captain.
Speaker 4: Deserves to be in the h o f Come on,
Speaker 4: of course, come on, it's a hilarious question.
Speaker 2: I've never been to the Hall of Fame. Have you
Speaker 2: been to the Hall of Fame?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should go sometime. I always wanted to as
Speaker 1: a kid. Watkins's underwhelming as the rock I found the
Speaker 1: rock and Roll.
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but
Speaker 4: you know I wouldn't like go to Cleveland to see it.
Speaker 4: And hell no, if you're in Cleveland, go ahead. What
Speaker 4: else are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Anyway? So, speaking of grumpy older men Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump, William Holman writes for the Wall Street Journal, and
Speaker 4: he was actually writing about a handful of things, but
Speaker 4: he addressed in a way that I found enlightening. Your
Speaker 4: the answer to your frequent question, Jack, will we get
Speaker 4: back to a more normal feel of politics in the
Speaker 4: post Trump era inevitably comes?
Speaker 2: I now believe No, I'm beginning to believe. Yes. Oh,
Speaker 2: I hope you're right and we'll be wrong.
Speaker 4: Will lead up to that, he's writing about the whole
Speaker 4: Davos thing, and he said, lacking in last week's Davos
Speaker 4: hysteria is any sense of politics in that Trump's address
Speaker 4: was a stump speech for channel flickers at home on
Speaker 4: the way to dropping the Greenland threat that he so
Speaker 4: typically parlayed into global attention.
Speaker 2: Guess who else is a politician?
Speaker 4: Every national leader in the room in Davos, who all
Speaker 4: have voters back home. Mark Carney could not have bothered
Speaker 4: getting back on his plane unless he found a suitably
Speaker 4: viral way to express what Canadian voters were feeling about
Speaker 4: mister Trump at the moment. So that's what he did.
Speaker 4: He unloaded a blast of a speech. And yet NATO
Speaker 4: will survive and stronger because the Allies are worth having
Speaker 4: now because they're beating their game up William Rich. But anyway,
Speaker 4: say what you will about the Davosites, they are worldly
Speaker 4: types to understand regression to the mean, which is a
Speaker 4: fancy term for getting back to normal. More or less,
Speaker 4: the next US president won't be anything like mister Trump,
Speaker 4: most importantly, lacking the license he gave himself to behave
Speaker 4: the way he does by being Donald Trump in public.
Speaker 2: For forty years before he became president.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if I buy that. I mean true,
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to come into office with the persona that
Speaker 1: Trump built up over many, many, many many years. But
Speaker 1: Jade Vance could be pretty close and behavior. Yeah, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: let's let's get to that. Let me lay out his reasoning.
Speaker 1: Then we'll we'll analyze some of the players. B Oh,
Speaker 1: here it is.
Speaker 4: Nor will the next president's way be paid by the
Speaker 4: political gold that mister Trump got from the idiocies of
Speaker 4: Adam Schiff, Rachel Medeow, James Comy, and the Biden's Joe
Speaker 4: and Hunter, who might as well have been on the Trump.
Speaker 2: Payroll, No kidding.
Speaker 4: Nor will he or she benefit from the nakedly commercial
Speaker 4: ratings based codependency of mister Trump and his cable TV detractors,
Speaker 4: also a product of his unique career path. Here, every
Speaker 4: waa a second, he or she you need to have
Speaker 4: a pause for laugh after that? Oh stah, will you
Speaker 4: pig shit pig peg peg female president. At every opportunity,
Speaker 4: headline writers to find mister Trump as an outlier, a
Speaker 4: norm breaker, an offender against all that is holy, That is,
Speaker 4: until he opens his mouth at Davos. Then he becomes
Speaker 4: alarmingly synonymous with the US. But Dava's sites aren't fulled.
Speaker 4: They know that Trump is not a country of three
Speaker 4: hundred and forty million people. They may even know a
Speaker 4: bit of electoral history blah blah, b not worth going
Speaker 4: into the history. Essentially, the US will return too close
Speaker 4: to the mean soon.
Speaker 2: I hope, see I'm saying, And it's not on all things.
Speaker 4: Anybody who well right, whipping up hate and fear and
Speaker 4: indignation to raise money online will not change. But his
Speaker 4: argument is essentially, and anybody who's like actually taking physics
Speaker 4: could probably explain this better than I can. But I
Speaker 4: was doing a little medicine ball stuff at the Jim
Speaker 4: the other day, you know, And if you throw the
Speaker 4: medicine ball at the wall at twenty miles per hour,
Speaker 4: it comes back with a certain amount of energy. If
Speaker 4: you throw it at the wall at fifty miles per hour,
Speaker 4: it comes back with much more energy. I think it
Speaker 4: takes Trumpian energy to generate anti Trumpian energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I meant is I hope some things don't
Speaker 1: return to the mean. I'd like calmer, more gentlemanly conversations.
Speaker 2: I would like to go back to that. I think
Speaker 2: that'd be good for everybody.
Speaker 1: But I don't like returning to the mean means and
Speaker 1: NATO goes back to not funding their militaries and counting
Speaker 1: on the United States to do all that depends.
Speaker 2: I don't want to return to that mean for instance.
Speaker 4: Right, my hope, which will probably be dashed, but I'll
Speaker 4: hold on to it. I'll cuddle it at night to
Speaker 4: help me go to sleep, is that there are very
Speaker 4: smart people.
Speaker 2: And JD. Vance is a great example.
Speaker 4: Of this, who is watching and listening and learning and
Speaker 4: saying to himself, if I can do the seventy five
Speaker 4: percent that's productive and lead off, leave off the undisciplined
Speaker 4: twenty five percent of Trump's Act.
Speaker 2: I hit a home run.
Speaker 4: Marco Rubio could pull it off. Jade Vance could pull
Speaker 4: it off. I think I hope that that's what's happening well,
Speaker 4: and again, this my wishes might be the father of
Speaker 4: my thoughts here. But I'm seeing a lot greater visibility
Speaker 4: of the Josh Shapiros and the Rams Immanuel and moderate
Speaker 4: sane Democrats who are convinced that a return to something like,
Speaker 4: you know, gentle minliness and reaching across the island is
Speaker 4: what the American people want, I hope, so, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know if you go ahead. Well, I was gonna say,
Speaker 4: speaking to Joshapiro, We've got a pretty amusing clip from
Speaker 4: him as long as his name came up.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, why don't we go ahead and do it?
Speaker 4: He was being interviewed on the Raging Moderates podcast, speaking
Speaker 4: of moderates, and it was he was asked about the
Speaker 4: Biden administration and big government programs and that sort of
Speaker 4: Thing's thirty five Michael Josh.
Speaker 5: Biden Harrison administration didn't provide those specific tangible things that
Speaker 5: people could see or feel. I'll give you a very specific,
Speaker 5: concrete example. One of the biggest things holding back our
Speaker 5: rural communities is a lack of high speed affordable internet.
Speaker 5: Some people call that broadband. I've got two hundred and
Speaker 5: forty six thousand homes and businesses without it. I was
Speaker 5: incredibly proud of President Biden when they got that Infrastructure
Speaker 5: Bill passed to provide the billions of dollars that were
Speaker 5: needed to plug everybody and connect everybody in Pennsylvania. And
Speaker 5: do you know how many people Scott this many years
Speaker 5: later have been connected to high speed affordable internet thanks
Speaker 5: to President Biden's law in Pennsylvania zero because the dollars
Speaker 5: were never driven out.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the whole abundance thing that some Democrats are
Speaker 1: working that you know, we have lots, but we need
Speaker 1: to figure out it's not the programs are bad, we
Speaker 1: don't implement them.
Speaker 4: Properly, right and or you know, something we're railing about
Speaker 4: all the time. Josh Shapiro, who's the governor of Pennsylvania
Speaker 4: if you don't really follow politics, is saying, yeah, we
Speaker 4: like spray out this money, but it doesn't help the people.
Speaker 2: We're just handing out the money to hand out the money. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that abundance book.
Speaker 1: That's one of the main things is that we you know,
Speaker 1: we're not being effective. We have these policies and then
Speaker 1: nothing ever actually gets fixed, which is not a bad argument,
Speaker 1: but it you know, I'm not on board with all
Speaker 1: these pulsa.
Speaker 2: I don't think WiFi is a.
Speaker 1: Human right, so not you know, don't know that I
Speaker 1: need to pay for everybody else's WiFi.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the general principle though, is I right love,
Speaker 4: I love to hear people, absolutely.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's also a problem if you go to the gym
Speaker 1: and you have a coregasm, the danger of coorgasms and
Speaker 1: more importantly, the danger of clickbait and stupid stories coming up.
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Speaker 1: This is one of those dumb clickbait articles I want
Speaker 1: to talk about and with a greater significance. I think
Speaker 1: that I've seen three times already today because I guess
Speaker 1: you'll work your core at the gym and it rhymes
Speaker 1: with ore, which is the first part of orgasm, and
Speaker 1: then you got a hot chick and claiming that you know,
Speaker 1: you know how this holg baang works.
Speaker 4: Yesterday at choir practice, I almost had coral. I mean,
Speaker 4: what are you doing here? What is this New York Post?
Speaker 4: I assume it's the.
Speaker 2: New York Yeah, and the California and the New California Post.
Speaker 1: We got that another not so dumb stuff on the way.
Speaker 6: He's going to face serious charges and the fact that
Speaker 6: the spray may have been harmless, it doesn't amount to
Speaker 6: it not being a threat. Someone who comes in with
Speaker 6: a fake bomb is still charged with serious criminal charges.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was saying yesterday.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have, especially since nine to eleven, we
Speaker 1: have so many different sorts of terrorism and charges against
Speaker 1: a you know, threatening or attacking public officials. That guy
Speaker 1: could spend if they decided to prosecute.
Speaker 2: It, a long time in jail. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a seriously stupid move. Bet he's completely
Speaker 1: nuts an they nuts or a half whit?
Speaker 2: Yeah an idiot?
Speaker 1: Yeah, coorgasms aren't as rare as you.
Speaker 2: Think, Joe. They are.
Speaker 1: So you got this obviously hot young woman because that's
Speaker 1: the only part sort of person that starts this sort
Speaker 1: of thing, and she has hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: who follow her on Instagram, and you people are morons.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely paste eating. Don't ever talk to me morons.
Speaker 2: If you follow.
Speaker 1: Influencers like this, you only get one life.
Speaker 2: Are you aware of that?
Speaker 1: And you spend any of your time looking at pictures
Speaker 1: of somebody like.
Speaker 2: This to see what she thinks about things? The hell
Speaker 2: is wrong with people?
Speaker 4: Well, they're a certain percentage of the population are dim wits. God,
Speaker 4: i'd say, but but why are you offended by that?
Speaker 2: Tim Witz need dim witted entertainment because I think it
Speaker 2: gives us that right.
Speaker 1: I think it gives us the culture and politics that
Speaker 1: we have. That people are too dumb and spend and
Speaker 1: paying attention.
Speaker 2: To crap like this.
Speaker 4: I would like to have an honest discussion with UH,
Speaker 4: and you'd never you could never get it going. But
Speaker 4: ask you know, democratic activists, really, any activist, any political consultants.
Speaker 2: Do you think people who are really dumb should vote?
Speaker 4: I mean people who, through no fault of their own,
Speaker 4: do not have the intellectual capacity to understand any of
Speaker 4: the issues or how governance works.
Speaker 2: Should they vote? No, they should not.
Speaker 1: So this UH leads this hot young chick who was
Speaker 1: an influencer, says she was at the gym doing leg raises,
Speaker 1: and after doing about ten leg raises, you know, like
Speaker 1: for your year year year, you're well your core. H.
Speaker 1: I started to feel a tingle in my body. I thought,
Speaker 1: surely that's not how it's meant to feel. I was
Speaker 1: sweating and could feel a similar sensation to what I'd
Speaker 1: normally experienced in the bedroom. As I noticed the climax building,
Speaker 1: I panicked and had to stop. I don't know if
Speaker 1: my heavy breathing was a giveaway to everyone around me.
Speaker 1: Nicknamed coorgasms, exercise induced orgasms are fairly rare, but certainly
Speaker 1: not unheard of. According to doctor Debbie Hebernik, a sex
Speaker 1: researcher and the author of the Coregasm War, estimates that
Speaker 1: roughly ten percent of people have orgasms. Have you either
Speaker 1: had one, Katie, or been in a gym and heard
Speaker 1: one obviously happening?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Two rows over? No, No, I have not, I'll have
Speaker 2: what she's having.
Speaker 4: As the joke goes, there was not a single sentence
Speaker 4: of that that wasn't bold.
Speaker 1: They generally feel similar to orgasms from vaginal intercourse, but
Speaker 1: they tend to be more dull, less intense, and more tingly. Well,
Speaker 1: apparently you've been with me, says the sex researcher, who
Speaker 1: has a workout book going right anyway, So just the
Speaker 1: existence of this sort of thing makes me so sad.
Speaker 1: Was it Barnum who said a fool and his money
Speaker 1: are soon parted?
Speaker 2: Or is that like an ancient I think he was?
Speaker 2: He was a sucker is born every minute. Wasn't that
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But anyway, a fool and their attention are soon parted
Speaker 4: ought to be the modern expression, which might be more time,
Speaker 4: which is actually more valuable than your money, because you
Speaker 4: don't get the in your time limited don't spend it
Speaker 4: on in influencers.
Speaker 2: How much time have I got right here, Michael, I'd
Speaker 2: say you got about three months looking at you? Okay,
Speaker 2: how about now three minutes in this segment.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I don't think I've talked about this on the air.
Speaker 1: It's turned out to be just such a pain. So
Speaker 1: when we left New Orleans, we traveled. We each had
Speaker 1: backpacks we took on the plane, and then we had
Speaker 1: one great, big giant bag for our other stuff that
Speaker 1: I actually checked as we were traveling around over our
Speaker 1: Christmas break. And then when we left our fabulous hotel
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, for whatever reason, left the giant bag
Speaker 1: in the hotel, got it all packed up and everything,
Speaker 1: and left it there. We got we got out of
Speaker 1: the uber at the airport, I was like, who's got
Speaker 1: the big bag? I thought you had the big bag
Speaker 1: because my son and sons I'd always have my son's pullet,
Speaker 1: and neither one of them had, so anyway, it's on me.
Speaker 1: But so none of us had grabbed it out of
Speaker 1: the hotel. I felt like a complete idiot. Was hoping
Speaker 1: that this was not something that couldn't be dealt with
Speaker 1: if I called the hotel and I said, I feel
Speaker 1: like any and it said, you know, it happens. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't believe it happens all the time. Every single day
Speaker 1: we deal with this. We have a routine, so we
Speaker 1: we we FedEx is right downstairs, so you know, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, FedEx will contact to you, paying me.
Speaker 2: You get it shipped home.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, not a big problem. Doesn't arrive when it's supposed
Speaker 1: to arrive. The tracking is weird. It's like, looks like
Speaker 1: it's going places and it's not supposed to go. I
Speaker 1: probably should have intervened there, but anyway, never shows up.
Speaker 1: Call FedEx and uh start asking about the tracking number
Speaker 1: and they say, uh, we we don't know where it is.
Speaker 1: I said, what do you mean you don't know where
Speaker 1: it is? We don't know where it is. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to contact the shipper. Why do you have
Speaker 1: to contact the shipper. You're gonna have to have the shipper.
Speaker 1: Shipper look into this. Well, I'm kind of the shipper.
Speaker 1: I paid for it, But did you drop it off? No? Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have the person that dropped it
Speaker 1: off call. Why do I need to do that? Because
Speaker 1: they're the ones that instigated the shipping, but you had
Speaker 1: it at one point. It's right here in your information.
Speaker 1: You had it, and you have the tracking number, and
Speaker 1: you were sending in around places. So the thing that
Speaker 1: had that tracking number where it is, You'll have to
Speaker 1: ask the shipper. And it just kept saying over by
Speaker 1: the way, in a thick accent from some other land.
Speaker 1: So think that I could barely understand what was going on.
Speaker 1: And it took me like twenty minutes to finally get
Speaker 1: to the person, and I went, I've gone through this
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. And I contact the
Speaker 1: hotel and they're like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: We said, what do you want us to do? Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 2: The Hotel's like, what am I supposed to do about this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: We did our part, yeah, yeah exactly. And I paid
Speaker 2: for the shipper and I can just get no.
Speaker 1: And so then you do a claim and I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've ever done this in before, but a
Speaker 1: claim and I could get a maximum.
Speaker 2: I've got like probably in.
Speaker 1: Terms of clothes, shoes, the bag, about three grand invested
Speaker 1: in this. I can get a maximum of one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars back if I have the receipts for everything in
Speaker 1: the bag.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I don't have.
Speaker 1: The receipts from my boots that I bought four years ago,
Speaker 1: or my jeans that I bought last year.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine the stacks of receipts in the filing
Speaker 4: system you would have to have to actually have done that.
Speaker 4: That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I have to post the receipts to get anything back,
Speaker 1: to even get the one hundred dollars. So it's basically
Speaker 1: service good luck. It's what they say to you if
Speaker 1: you ever lose something. Just a heads up if you
Speaker 1: ever do that.
Speaker 7: Armstrong and getty. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Palell on the
Speaker 7: Central Bank's first interest rate decision of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: In support of our goals today, the Federal Open Market
Speaker 4: Committee decided to leave our policy rate unchanged.
Speaker 7: The Federal Reserve taking its time bringing interest rates down
Speaker 7: and seeing little urgency with government data pointing to slower
Speaker 7: job growth but a relatively low unemployment.
Speaker 2: Rate and inflation EBBG.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the whole interest rate thing, and then you know,
Speaker 1: you still see the independence of the Fed because Trump
Speaker 1: has obviously pressured the guy a lot, and they didn't
Speaker 1: do what he wanted. He wants to lower interust rates
Speaker 1: interest rates because that tends to fire up the economy.
Speaker 1: Funny thing about and we won't get off on this
Speaker 1: because it's a long boring thing. But I've been taking
Speaker 1: any more information about the whole FED and how there's
Speaker 1: just no justification for it. Constitutionally, it shouldn't exist. Yet
Speaker 1: everybody thinks it's a weird beast, but everybody thinks it
Speaker 1: works really well, and it has worked well, and the
Speaker 1: world really respects it.
Speaker 2: So but it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 4: And monetary policy really shouldn't be in the hands of politicians.
Speaker 1: Well, it definitely doesn't make sense that it's part of
Speaker 1: the executive branch.
Speaker 2: But Trump can't fire him.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense, and it reminds me weirly
Speaker 1: he can actually legally probably, but just traditionally it would
Speaker 1: be breaking with the independence, which it.
Speaker 4: Would cause enormous economic shots like all over the world.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of like, you know, the French system,
Speaker 4: where you know you're married, but you have a lover
Speaker 4: and it's just not spoken of, but everybody knows what's going.
Speaker 2: It's a lot like the FED is. Since what's the
Speaker 2: justification for that? Should we don't talk about that?
Speaker 1: There are very few things in life, and it's tough
Speaker 1: because you know, you got to have you gotta have boundaries,
Speaker 1: You gotta this to make everything work. But I can't
Speaker 1: think of hardly anything in life where there's not one
Speaker 1: squishy area where there are exceptions that that are hard
Speaker 1: to justify within all the older rules and boundaries you have, sure,
Speaker 1: and it's just the way life works.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gray areas and exceptions to the rule. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: makes the world go around. So does literature. Folks. That
Speaker 4: was a clumsy transition, but Jack, I knew you'd be
Speaker 4: thrilled by this. I came across a rather whimsical article
Speaker 4: in The Atlantic written by a fellow who participated in
Speaker 4: get this a twenty five hour live reading marathon. Marathon
Speaker 4: live reading of Moby Dick. Oh wow, hundreds of volunteers
Speaker 4: who did five minutes each.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 2: I'm rolling on and on for twenty five hours. I
Speaker 2: think that's awesome. I would participate in that.
Speaker 4: I would watch sentenced an inmate to listen to that.
Speaker 4: The Supreme Court would knock you down, well and unusual.
Speaker 2: I love literature too.
Speaker 1: It's dying, so I would like to fight for keeping
Speaker 1: it alive, maybe one more day. None of these books
Speaker 1: are going to be read in the future. And by
Speaker 1: the future, I mean like in five years.
Speaker 2: None of them.
Speaker 4: By the way, charmingly, it's this takes place at the.
Speaker 2: Whaling Museum in New Bedford. Is that a state? Is
Speaker 2: a mass I think? Yeah? Probably? Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm not super good at my Northeastern Yeah yeah, Massachusetts. Uh.
Speaker 4: And just one final note on Moby Dick for anybody
Speaker 4: who's ever read it or tried to read it, is
Speaker 4: there another book at once so good and so bad,
Speaker 4: so thrilling and so boring, so authentic to the currents
Speaker 4: of the soul, and so hideously contrived, so stunningly patrolled
Speaker 4: by dream like visions, and so crushed by its own
Speaker 4: intellectual baggage. Who's that's I agree with them? Who's I
Speaker 4: agree with them completely? That's the guy writt in this
Speaker 4: article of jam Yeah. Anyway, another note from the world
Speaker 4: of literature before we move on to earthier matters.
Speaker 2: Oh, this piece of crap. Hang on a second.
Speaker 4: Let's see Shakespeare was a black woman Jack. As it
Speaker 4: turns out, I'll be darned the whole Stratford on Avon
Speaker 4: White Fellow with the funky beard thing.
Speaker 2: No, not correct.
Speaker 4: According to this new we're supposed to take it seriously.
Speaker 4: Intellectual university something or other, which is life FROs out my.
Speaker 1: Computer sun Hamnet, which is a movie that's coming out
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Oh about Shakespeare's Son, Yeah, gosh, dang it, all the particulars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't get the computer to work. There is a shame,
Speaker 2: a crime, shame.
Speaker 1: My plug for literature, and you know, to each their own,
Speaker 1: but there. I don't know if there's anything I get
Speaker 1: more enjoyment out of than good literature. I don't don't
Speaker 1: know if there's a single thing that I get more
Speaker 1: like feeds my soul and wanting to be alive than
Speaker 1: good literature. M But it is a dying thing. Nobody's
Speaker 1: going to read in the future, except for maybe the
Speaker 1: very quick sub titles on your TikTok video. If you
Speaker 1: can't quite understand what the person's saying, Yeah, you have literature.
Speaker 1: I like to doom scroll through Twitter. I get the
Speaker 1: same thing exactly. Nothing feeds my soul like doom scrolling
Speaker 1: through Twitter.
Speaker 4: Nothing makes me more in touch with why it's great
Speaker 4: to be alive than doom.
Speaker 2: Scrolling through Twitter a.
Speaker 1: Series of inaccurate, overwrought opinions of people with malfeasance on
Speaker 1: their mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah for profit, carefully selected by algorithms to piss me off.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Nothing feeds my soul like that, right, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: so this stupid thing finally open.
Speaker 4: This new book entitled The Real Shakespeare, identifies the Real
Speaker 4: Shakespeare as the historical figure Emilia Possano, a poet with
Speaker 4: connections to the Tudor court, who is a mixed race
Speaker 4: Jewish woman. Apparently, but because mankind insists on white men
Speaker 4: being credited with the great works of art, she was
Speaker 4: shunted aside in the credit given to an uneducated interloper
Speaker 4: from Stratford upon Avon, the halfwit William Shakespeare, who was
Speaker 4: then revered by posterity, because the idea of a white
Speaker 4: genius was preferred to a black female playwright, the book argues.
Speaker 4: The book's author, Irene Coslt, is a feminist historian, and
Speaker 4: she says if Shakespeare was a female of color, this
Speaker 4: would draw attention to issues of peace and justice in society.
Speaker 4: What if women had a pivotal role in civilizing impact
Speaker 4: in history? But they've been silenced, belittled, and erased from
Speaker 4: the dominant narrative.
Speaker 1: This fits in with something I've talked about many times.
Speaker 1: I think he's dead now. Harold Bloom, who is one
Speaker 1: of the leading scholars of Shakespeare in the world and
Speaker 1: was a Yale professor, and he had said back in
Speaker 1: the nineties he was going around given speeches that there's
Speaker 1: literally nobody teaching Shakespeare anymore except through the lens of
Speaker 1: how it was racist or you know, anti woman, or
Speaker 1: that nobody's actually just teaching it as great literature and art,
Speaker 1: which it has been the dominant form of for you know,
Speaker 1: half a thousand years. But now it's only being torn
Speaker 1: apart in a way of how awful it was because
Speaker 1: it was a white, straight male And that was in
Speaker 1: the nineties. And so that's why I'm saying this sort
Speaker 1: of thing is dead for a variety of reasons, not
Speaker 1: only our attention span, but none of the great literature.
Speaker 1: You can't teach it in college because most of the
Speaker 1: time it's white straight men for a variety of reasons. Right,
Speaker 1: it's held up only for ridicule in that amazing what
Speaker 1: cultures have ever done this? Were they themselves like this.
Speaker 4: Right, And the point of critical theory, if you've ever
Speaker 4: read about it, is to destroy everything through completely unfair
Speaker 4: critiques of it. You know, Shakespeare was a black woman,
Speaker 4: and people are like completely befuddled, and then you say,
Speaker 4: but it's known he was a white man. What do
Speaker 4: you mean by known? I find the term known problematic.
Speaker 4: So the white narrative is what you know. That's all
Speaker 4: you know, isn't it. And people are like, uh, um
Speaker 4: um um, why are you yelling at me? And that's
Speaker 4: the way critical theory gets over. It just criticizes everything
Speaker 4: until people are either exhausted or completely flabbergasted and they
Speaker 4: pull back.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Did you have more on that topic? I could talk
Speaker 4: about this crap all day, but I.
Speaker 1: Could a couple of I think I think that matches
Speaker 1: up that what you just said. I think it matches
Speaker 1: up with some sort of thing when people become successful enough,
Speaker 1: apparently you can just start to feel guilty about the
Speaker 1: fact that I'm kind of comfortable and successful and way
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the world aren't. So it
Speaker 1: makes me feel a little uncomfortable, and so you marry
Speaker 1: those two things to get for some reason, you end
Speaker 1: up where we.
Speaker 4: Are right, Yeah, that's a good point, and you know,
Speaker 4: it's especially prevalent. We've seen this over and over and
Speaker 4: over again among people. People who grew up with money
Speaker 4: went to the seventy five thousand dollars a year boarding
Speaker 4: school in upstate New York or whatever.
Speaker 2: Like when we went through Mamdani's cabinet the other day.
Speaker 4: They all went to schools that were, like, you know,
Speaker 4: even adjusted for inflation, like five times the tuition of
Speaker 4: the college I went to.
Speaker 2: For like their fourth grade.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just these incredibly expensive elite boarding schools or whatever,
Speaker 4: you know, Eastern private schools. Because I know, speaking speaking
Speaker 4: for myself as a guy who you know, we had
Speaker 4: food on the table and all and a roof over
Speaker 4: our heads, but we're not wealthy at all. I don't
Speaker 4: have any guilt whatsoever that I made fairly comfortable, not
Speaker 4: even like for a second. No, no, ever, those kids
Speaker 4: who grew up that way, a lot of them, shame
Speaker 4: not feeling like water off a duck's back, Michael.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that should be studied more. More people should speak
Speaker 2: out about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel guilty because I was a rich kid
Speaker 1: and I've always had it easy, and now like I
Speaker 1: just fight every day, the fact that I feel guilty
Speaker 1: about I didn't have to earn this, so now I'm
Speaker 1: trying to tear down the system for some reason.
Speaker 4: Right right, Yeah, that is an interesting psychological malady that
Speaker 4: those people haven't.
Speaker 2: Very common, oh, incredibly common throughout history. Yeah, oh interesting.
Speaker 2: I actually I'm looking at the clock. I've got some.
Speaker 4: Good news about Americans in America are a lot more
Speaker 4: sane than you'd get the idea from the media. A
Speaker 4: great victory in court for free enterprise, and a poll
Speaker 4: that reveals you could people were never really in the
Speaker 4: minority at all speaking sanity during the woke apocalypse. So
Speaker 4: we'll get to those two things in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: That dude, they got shot the other day, a new
Speaker 1: video came out. If you haven't heard about this, we
Speaker 1: should like describe it in detail, because we haven't done that.
Speaker 1: I think it lends a lot of interesting information to
Speaker 1: the whole conversation and the way it's looked at. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's the hot spot that is Minneapolis. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll get to that now or three. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: Got some texts about my situation with having my package
Speaker 1: lost basically and how little they care the shipping company,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 4: So the Free Beacon polled the twenty Democrats who were
Speaker 4: most likely to run for president recently. We talked about
Speaker 4: this earlier, asking basic questions including should transgender girls be
Speaker 4: able to participate in girls' sports? They phrased it that
Speaker 4: way so they you know, I never used that term,
Speaker 4: but so that they might get answers. You leave, transgender
Speaker 4: youth under eighteen should be able to be placed on
Speaker 4: puberty blockers and hormones. What's your response to the question
Speaker 4: can a man become a woman? That sort of thing?
Speaker 4: And almost all of them declined to comment at all.
Speaker 4: Only three responded, Joshapiro, Ram Emmanuel and Pete boodh Edge
Speaker 4: Edge and their answers are not particularly interesting. But the
Speaker 4: Economist YouGov poll just came out and sixty seven percent
Speaker 4: of voters oppose biological men competing in women's sports and
Speaker 4: only twenty two percent support it. At twenty two percent
Speaker 4: or delusional obviously, But if I.
Speaker 1: Think those twenty think they have to say that, I'll
Speaker 1: maybe give you eight percent of people who actually believe that.
Speaker 4: So at the very very least, it's three to one.
Speaker 4: At the very least. And indeed they found out that
Speaker 4: forty three percent of Kamala Harri voters oppose allowing men
Speaker 4: in women's sports. It's a plurality, it's forty three to
Speaker 4: thirty nine. So it's not a majority of anybody who
Speaker 4: thinks that that that's right. It's amazing idea right.
Speaker 1: Given the coverage of it, or how scared politicians on
Speaker 1: the left are to say that out loud, it certainly
Speaker 1: doesn't fit in with a national opinion on it.
Speaker 4: Virtually, I mean practically, all the coverage of girls having
Speaker 4: balls spiked in their faces on the volleyball court and
Speaker 4: being badly injured, of getting bullied and hurt on the
Speaker 4: basketball courts, of all the examples that losing out on
Speaker 4: the medals in the track meets in Connecticut and other states,
Speaker 4: in California, blah blah blah. Virtually all of that coverage
Speaker 4: of those injustices was in conservative media.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of what I used to say about
Speaker 1: illegal immigration many years ago, long before Trump ran for president.
Speaker 2: I'd say, because we'd look at the polling on it,
Speaker 2: and even close people hated it. Legal immigration absolutely hated it.
Speaker 1: And but but everybody, including Republicans were we're scared to
Speaker 1: say it out loud.
Speaker 2: Because you'd get the whole racist thing and you anti
Speaker 2: brown person.
Speaker 1: And then finally when somebody came along who was willing
Speaker 1: to say it out loud, freaking legal immigration's awful, we
Speaker 1: need to stop it.
Speaker 2: Big gets a.
Speaker 1: Nomination, gets elected easily. I think there's gonna be similar.
Speaker 1: Maybe Rama Manuel's a Democrat who's just gonna say out
Speaker 1: loud what practically you know easily the majority of Democrats
Speaker 1: think no, no, no, no, you can't have boys and
Speaker 1: girls sports.
Speaker 2: That's nuts, right, And he's gonna get the nomination easily, right, right.
Speaker 4: It's interesting that dynamic of the vicious, vocal activist minority
Speaker 4: cowing others into silence, not us, as you may have noticed,
Speaker 4: but others. Uh. And then a stray thought to connect
Speaker 4: to the next story. When we were talking about, you know,
Speaker 4: being successful, having more money than you need, and some
Speaker 4: people feel guilt over that and decide to become a
Speaker 4: Marxist for some crazy ass reason, and we don't what
Speaker 4: I'd meant to throw in. One cool thing about having
Speaker 4: more than you need to pay your bills is that
Speaker 4: you can support things and people and organizations that are
Speaker 4: doing good in the world.
Speaker 2: It's one of the great pleasures.
Speaker 4: And you know, among those organizations, we love the Pacific
Speaker 4: Legal Foundation, the Goldwater Institute. They're a handful of others
Speaker 4: that are doing great, great work around the country advocating
Speaker 4: for liberty. And the Pacific Legal Foundation are longtime friends.
Speaker 4: Had a great, great victory that I've been meaning to
Speaker 4: talk about. Here's your story. A fellow by the name
Speaker 4: of Parker Noland. He was in the Army, had a
Speaker 4: medical discharge, and he's a go getter. He set his
Speaker 4: sights on starting a small debris hauling business, targeting underserved
Speaker 4: construction sites in his county of Montana, Kallispell, Montana.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I go so much. I don't go or
Speaker 2: get so somebody who does both is amazing to me.
Speaker 2: I'm a come giver. Come give me something. Anyway.
Speaker 4: He secured alone. He bought a few dumpsters and a
Speaker 4: specialized truck. He posted ads, he made the rounds, he
Speaker 4: worked tirelessly, and of course, in the land of the
Speaker 4: Free in the United States of America, within a few days,
Speaker 4: the state shut him down because and this is something
Speaker 4: Tim Sander for our friend has been fighting against for
Speaker 4: his entire adult life. The Montana Public Services Commission issued
Speaker 4: a cease and desist letter, telling Parker he couldn't haul
Speaker 4: construction debris without first obtaining the infamous Certificate of Public
Speaker 4: Convenience and Necessity, a con a government permission slip that,
Speaker 4: in practice gives the current waste companies the power to
Speaker 4: block any new competition. Yeah, in case you don't understand this,
Speaker 4: and he can look at all different realms of life.
Speaker 4: A couple of companies that are established and successful and wealthy,
Speaker 4: they get laws passed or restrictions passed that are barriers
Speaker 4: to entry for any new guy to come compete against them,
Speaker 4: right right, And I don't think the public needs another
Speaker 4: hauling company that'll be a no hard working Army veteran.
Speaker 4: And you cannot open a business in America. Nothing makes
Speaker 4: me insane.
Speaker 1: It just because it's just so epathetical to everything we
Speaker 1: supposedly believe in in this country. So mister Parker turned
Speaker 1: to the courts and lost in the district court. He
Speaker 1: sued them, saying Montana's con laws were unconstitutional under the
Speaker 1: Montana Constitution fourteenth Amendment. Lost at the district court, but
Speaker 1: helped by the Legal the Pacific Legal Foundation for Them
Speaker 1: free of charge, appealed his case, and the Montana Supreme
Speaker 1: Court delivered a major win. It revived Parker's constitutional challenge,
Speaker 1: sent the case back to the district court to fernal
Speaker 1: further analyze each constitutional provision. He hasn't won, but the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court of Montana said, yeah, this is a serious deal.
Speaker 2: We need to take that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, and you lower courts. Throw yourself off a
Speaker 1: cliff today. That's what I would like you to do,
Speaker 1: or a high building. If you can't get near a
Speaker 1: cliff because you're.
Speaker 2: A brand of.
Speaker 4: Or under the stampeding hooves of the Bison of Montana
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 2: The point is end yourself. You suck. We hate you.
Speaker 2: The point is end yourself, you suck.
Speaker 4: Throw yourself in one of those boiling cauldrons at the
Speaker 4: what do you call it?
Speaker 2: Yellow Stone? Yeah, that'd be that. Do it. There you go.
Speaker 2: That's a rough way to go.
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