Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. Trump made some new,
Speaker 1: brand new strong statements about the whole Epstein story. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how that lands with some of
Speaker 1: you who think that's, you know, something that needs to
Speaker 1: be pursued. Also, if the apostle Paul had been on
Speaker 1: the road to Damascus today, he would have turned back
Speaker 1: before he ran into Jesus on the road because it
Speaker 1: blew up. Damascus blew up today Israel bombing the crap
Speaker 1: out of the capitalist Syria for some reason. Anyway, just happened.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get to that story later too.
Speaker 2: Excellent biblical setup to that, by the way, well done.
Speaker 3: Two things.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite books I've ever read about politics
Speaker 2: is the Myth of the rational Voter. In the first
Speaker 2: chunk of it, the main argument of it is, and
Speaker 2: it's indisputable by the data, that there are certain economic
Speaker 2: ideas and principles that people get wrong in much greater
Speaker 2: numbers than they get right for some reason, like rent control,
Speaker 2: like that con Man communist, the communist if you will
Speaker 2: zoron Mumdani in New York is trying to pitch you
Speaker 2: hit people young people with rent control. They will, in
Speaker 2: overwhelming numbers say that's a great idea. But then a
Speaker 2: little edumacation, a little life experience, they understand. Oh it's
Speaker 2: a terrible idea. It's like the worst idea. But generation
Speaker 2: after generation people fall for certain economic arguments.
Speaker 3: Over and over again. It's kind of interesting anyway.
Speaker 2: I'm reminded of that when thinking about what we're gonna
Speaker 2: play for you, believe it or not, it's a golfer
Speaker 2: at a press conference. What Scotty Scheffler, Who is the
Speaker 2: greatest golfer on the planet? And more on that in
Speaker 2: a minute. But when it comes to what will make
Speaker 2: me happy? I think a lot of human beings, most
Speaker 2: of us, are like those youngsters who think grant control
Speaker 2: is a good idea. Generation after generation, we chase the
Speaker 2: wrong things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this segment is about life satisfaction, not about golf.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, oh it's not.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was going to go into a
Speaker 2: long discourse over the draw versus the fade. Anyway, those
Speaker 2: are golf terms. Anyway, Yeah, it's about life satisfaction. And
Speaker 2: so Scott Scheffler, who is the greatest golfer on the
Speaker 2: planet currently and very very well liked because he's very
Speaker 2: normal as a dude, happens to be a fairly devout
Speaker 2: Christian and a family manager. You're about to hear very
Speaker 2: much not like Tiger the Assassin. He's a great competitor
Speaker 2: and the rest of it, but he's kind of a
Speaker 2: different guy.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: They were asking him about his superachievements this year in
Speaker 2: previous years at a press conference, and this is what
Speaker 2: he said.
Speaker 3: We'll start with sixteen and go from there. Michael, you know,
Speaker 3: I think it's kind of funny.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, I think I said something after
Speaker 4: the Buyer in this year about like it feels like
Speaker 4: you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament
Speaker 4: for like a few minutes and only lasts a few minutes,
Speaker 4: that kind of euphoric feeling. And I like to win
Speaker 4: the Byer Nelson Championship at home. I literally worked my
Speaker 4: entire life to become good at golf to have an
Speaker 4: opportunity to win that tournament. And you win it, you celebrate,
Speaker 4: get to hug, hug my family, my sister's there at
Speaker 4: such an amazing moment, and then it's like, Okay, now
Speaker 4: what are we gonna eat for dinner?
Speaker 3: You know, life goes on, go ahead, roll on.
Speaker 4: Is it great to be able to win tournaments and
Speaker 4: to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf?
Speaker 4: Yet I mean it it brings tears my eyes just
Speaker 4: to think about because it's literally worked my entire life
Speaker 4: to become good at the sport. And to have that
Speaker 4: kind of sense of accomplishment, I think is is that
Speaker 4: pretty cool feeling, you know, to get to live out
Speaker 4: your dreams.
Speaker 3: It's very special.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it's like, I'm
Speaker 4: not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers.
Speaker 4: I don't I'm not here to inspire somebody else to
Speaker 4: be the best player in the world, because what's the point.
Speaker 4: You know, this is not a fulfilling life. It's it's
Speaker 4: fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling
Speaker 4: from a sense of like the deepest, you know, places
Speaker 4: of your heart. You know, there's a lot of people
Speaker 4: that make it to what they thought was going to
Speaker 4: fulfill them in life, and then you get there and
Speaker 4: all of a sudden you get to number one in
Speaker 4: the world and then they're like, what's the point?
Speaker 3: And you know, I really do believe that.
Speaker 1: I think I think most everybody has had that experience
Speaker 1: or has that experience. At some point you get the
Speaker 1: whatever it is you've been wanting to get and okay, hmm,
Speaker 1: the satisfaction of that didn't last very long, and you
Speaker 1: have to wrestle with what am I? You know, what
Speaker 1: what am I doing? Or what do I enjoy? Or
Speaker 1: why am I? Why am I getting up every morning?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And it's the process and just the daily life. My
Speaker 1: dad was always really good at this and just you know,
Speaker 1: you just use the example of taking out the trash.
Speaker 1: People don't like to complain about doing this and that,
Speaker 1: and that's what life is. Life is taking out the
Speaker 1: trash and doing the dishes and getting up and going
Speaker 1: to work and raising all the things that you do
Speaker 1: that seem like they're in the way of your That's
Speaker 1: what life is, right right, Let's throw along. You know,
Speaker 1: what is the point?
Speaker 4: You're like, why do I want to win this tournament
Speaker 4: so bad? That's something that I wrestle with on a
Speaker 4: daily basis. It's like showed up with the Masters every year.
Speaker 4: It's like, why do I want to win this golf
Speaker 4: tournament so badly? Why do I want to win the
Speaker 4: Open Championship so badly? I don't know, because if I win,
Speaker 4: it's going to be awesome for about two minutes. And
Speaker 4: now we're going to get in the next week and
Speaker 4: it's gonna be like, hey.
Speaker 3: You want two majors this year?
Speaker 4: How important is it for you to win the fext
Speaker 4: Cup playoffs? And it's just like we're back here again,
Speaker 4: you know, So we really do. We work so hard
Speaker 4: for such little moments, and you know, I'm kind of
Speaker 4: sick of I love putting in the work. I love
Speaker 4: being able to practice, I love getting out to live
Speaker 4: out my dreams. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: sometimes I just don't understand the point, you know.
Speaker 3: Because.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm making any sense or not.
Speaker 1: But am I not?
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 2: No, go ahead, okay, yeah, let's go ahead and finish.
Speaker 2: Then we'll discuss.
Speaker 4: It's just one of those deals, you know. I love
Speaker 4: the challenge. I love being able to play this game
Speaker 4: for a living. It's it's one of the greatest joys
Speaker 4: of my life. But does it fill the deepest, you know,
Speaker 4: wants and desires of my heart, absolutely not. I mean,
Speaker 4: I love playing golf. I love being able to compete.
Speaker 4: I love living out my dreams. I love being a father.
Speaker 4: I love being able to take care of my son.
Speaker 4: I love being able to provide for my family out
Speaker 4: here playing golf. And you know, every day when I
Speaker 4: wake up early to go put in the work. You know,
Speaker 4: my wife thanks me for going out and working so hard,
Speaker 4: and when I get home, I try and think her
Speaker 4: every day for taking care of our son. It's just,
Speaker 4: you know, that's why I talk about families being my priority,
Speaker 4: because it really is. You know, I'm blessed to be
Speaker 4: able to come out here and play golf. But if
Speaker 4: my golf ever started affecting my home life, or itever
Speaker 4: affected the relationship I have with my wife or with
Speaker 4: my son, you know that's gonna be the last day
Speaker 4: that I play out here for a living. You know,
Speaker 4: this is not the be all end all. This is
Speaker 4: not the most important thing in my life. And that's
Speaker 4: why I wrestle with why is is so important to me?
Speaker 4: Because you know, I would much rather be a great
Speaker 4: father than I would be a great golfer. You know
Speaker 4: that at the end of the day, that that's what's
Speaker 4: more important to me.
Speaker 2: So just to summarize, I think a lot of us
Speaker 2: and I mean us. Oh, let me put this aside. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the money's pretty good. He's made a hell of a
Speaker 2: lot of money. He lives a great lifestyle. He doesn't
Speaker 2: have to worry about money ever again, which is a
Speaker 2: big deal. If you've ever or are currently worried about money.
Speaker 3: I get that.
Speaker 2: But having said that, I think all of us think
Speaker 2: happiness is the like the triumph or that's what we're
Speaker 2: looking for, or the falling in love, or the big win,
Speaker 2: or the fame or the congratulations from the crowd or
Speaker 2: your contemporaries, your colleagues even but it's not there.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So one thing that popped into my mind is it
Speaker 1: reminded me of Woody Allen talking a lot in his book.
Speaker 1: Woody Allan is a movie director, one of the most
Speaker 1: famous movie directors of all time. If you don't know
Speaker 1: who he is anyway, in his autobiography that he wrote
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, he loved making movies the
Speaker 1: way this guy loves practicing and you know the process,
Speaker 1: but like he'd finish the movie and be like you
Speaker 1: just say what he's done and move on to the
Speaker 1: next one. He's like, no enjoyment in the finished product.
Speaker 1: He'd never watch him, he would never pay any attention
Speaker 1: to the reviews. It was just the the process was
Speaker 1: the only thing that there was an enjoyment. The thing
Speaker 1: that most well, I don't know most people, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people think would be where you get the enjoyment.
Speaker 1: The finished product or the winning the tournament or becoming
Speaker 1: the top salesman or whatever is not what you think
Speaker 1: it was going to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can get quiet satisfaction out of it, like
Speaker 2: he was talking about. But the idea of like constant
Speaker 2: joy is that the right word, you know, happiness slash
Speaker 2: euphoria slash cheerfulness slash excitement. That's just that's not what
Speaker 2: we need to chase because it's illusory. It goes way
Speaker 2: so quickly, you know, it was kind of it passed
Speaker 2: by so quickly. But I can relate to and it's
Speaker 2: a great description. So he wins a super giant golf
Speaker 2: tournament that millions of people around the world just dream
Speaker 2: of being good enough to win that tournament, having the acclaim,
Speaker 2: getting the check, blah, blah blah, and then you know,
Speaker 2: half an hour later it's like, what do you want
Speaker 2: to have for dinner? That's a pretty good description of
Speaker 2: the way life really is. Yes, it's about the people
Speaker 2: you care about. I mean, isn't that just the bottom line?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So, and I get I get. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: the ultimate point would be you have to enjoy the
Speaker 1: process of life, not making a movie or becoming a
Speaker 1: golfer or whatever or whatever it is you do, just
Speaker 1: process of life. The daily grind, which is what it
Speaker 1: feels like a lot of times, is what life is.
Speaker 1: And you gotta find if you're waiting for the payoff,
Speaker 1: it ain't common.
Speaker 2: Oh folks, that was the payoff. The payoff is there's
Speaker 2: no payoff.
Speaker 1: Kurk Blue. That should be taught more. I think that's
Speaker 1: not I think that's the opposite of what our culture
Speaker 1: tends to tell.
Speaker 2: Us, right right right. The movie doesn't end. There's no
Speaker 2: end to the movie. Your part is just written out.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: If you want to get it metaphysical and talk about
Speaker 2: religion and life after death or whatever, that's a completely
Speaker 2: different topic. But no, you don't win, you never you
Speaker 2: never win. You just keep playing. Maybe that's how I
Speaker 2: would sum it up. And if you enjoy it the
Speaker 2: best you can.
Speaker 1: Well, I think part of the reason that a person
Speaker 1: like you know not to bring it back to golf,
Speaker 1: but you could apply this to anybody. A guy like
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods goes off the rails. I think he was
Speaker 1: probably convinced that the payoff was gonna be the payoff
Speaker 1: and the thing, and it wasn't enough, and so he
Speaker 1: needed all the women in the and whatever all of
Speaker 1: other weird things he was doing to try to get
Speaker 1: the high that he needed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wanted that fist pumping, yelling moment to like last.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the goal anyway.
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Speaker 1: So to the idea that there is no payoff, here's
Speaker 1: here's the you know, here's the thing to know about life.
Speaker 1: There is no payoff. Can how many of us can
Speaker 1: you look at the day today and I've got a
Speaker 1: very mundane routine day work, got an appointment with something,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna come fix something on my car, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: take care of the kids, meal for sam uh? Can
Speaker 1: I can you get up every day and think today
Speaker 1: is the payoff? This is the payoff. Today is my payoff?
Speaker 1: Is that motivating is hard?
Speaker 3: That is hard. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I blew my own mind.
Speaker 2: The great philosophers of the world have concerned themselves with
Speaker 2: this very question, and they've come up with different answers.
Speaker 1: I may have immobilized myself. I mean no longer. I
Speaker 1: might not be able to function the rest of the day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lock up and they're gonna carry me out
Speaker 1: of here on a gurney.
Speaker 3: Ironic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be unfortunate, all right, Any thoughts on
Speaker 1: this text line four one, five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 1: Pretty philosophical segment we did, uh, just previously, which we
Speaker 1: do more than practically anybody I've ever heard. On radio podcast,
Speaker 1: Lex Friedman gets into it now and then on his
Speaker 1: podcast is sort of stuff, meaning a life stuff anyway. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you missed it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 1: on demand. It's basically the the things you think are
Speaker 1: going to make you happy aren't going to make you happy,
Speaker 1: and just accepting daily life for what it is is
Speaker 1: going to make you happy, which I find comforting and
Speaker 1: depressing at the same time. Then anyway, Uh, somebody texted
Speaker 1: I recall Spock's quote. Spock, the fictional character from Star
Speaker 1: Trek that's mister Spock to you.
Speaker 3: Boy.
Speaker 1: After a time you may find that having is not
Speaker 1: as pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It's not logical,
Speaker 1: but it's true. Wow, well said Spock.
Speaker 3: Fascinating.
Speaker 1: So we got a bombing going on, Israel bombing the
Speaker 1: cas capital of Syria. Why will Tree angst of Fox,
Speaker 1: explaining that somewhat.
Speaker 5: Now, all of these Israeli strikes taking place in response
Speaker 5: to violence that is erupting in the Swaya province of
Speaker 5: southern Syria. There is a Druze population in southern Syria
Speaker 5: that is supported by the Israeli government. So when violence
Speaker 5: erupted there earlier this week, the Israelis began to carry
Speaker 5: out a series of air strikes against Syrian government tanks
Speaker 5: that were approaching the city. There was concern that they
Speaker 5: would participate in the fighting that was being done between
Speaker 5: the Drus and Siri Assyrian Sunni Bedouin tribe. Now, as
Speaker 5: this was erupting, there were warnings and conversations taking place
Speaker 5: with Israeli officials using back channels to speak with the
Speaker 5: Syrian government telling them not to enter the sway To
Speaker 5: province because it could be a threat not only to
Speaker 5: Israel as these forces got closer to Israeli territory.
Speaker 1: But also it's good Michael, So, yeah, you got this
Speaker 1: Druze population which I barely heard of ever in my life,
Speaker 1: and apparently there's quite a few that live in Israel,
Speaker 1: and Israel said, hey, we're going to protect these people.
Speaker 1: Well they got attacked over the weekend and it's grown
Speaker 1: and grown and grown.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it's that.
Speaker 2: And just as as tree Yngst put it, that they
Speaker 2: have a very uneasy, let's wait and see relationship with
Speaker 2: the former radical Islamist currently suit wearing seemingly reasonable leaders
Speaker 2: of Syria, and they're like, no, don't bring your troops
Speaker 2: that close to us.
Speaker 1: The most serious threat yet to the ability of Syria's
Speaker 1: new rulers to consolidate control of the country, says the AP.
Speaker 1: So remember that Asad where is Asad? Does he live
Speaker 1: in Russia? Now? I don't remember he got out of
Speaker 1: there without being hung by his feet or having to
Speaker 1: ride a bayonet down the street like Kadafi did in Libya,
Speaker 1: which looked unpleasant. He escapes to Russia, and then this guy,
Speaker 1: former isis guy, ends up, renounces, denounces his tie to
Speaker 1: Muslim fundamentalism and ends up in charge of Syria. But
Speaker 1: now that government might be shaky because of these big
Speaker 1: bombings there in the capitol. I don't know there you go, right,
Speaker 1: and separating what's a religion and what's like a political party,
Speaker 1: if you will, is very difficult in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: which is why I despise identity politics. So you got
Speaker 1: a breaking news up there on CNN. Bondi Attorney General
Speaker 1: refuses to answer questions over handling of Epstein. She's answering
Speaker 1: some questions. Somebody brought up Epstein. She said she had
Speaker 1: no more to say about it. Trump just called the
Speaker 1: Epstein matter bull s. Can we get a ruling from
Speaker 1: the FCC that we can say that word? The president
Speaker 1: says it on a regular basis. The idea great word well,
Speaker 1: and the idea that we can't say what the president
Speaker 1: said is crazy in terms of the public airwaves, right
Speaker 1: AnyWho he calls, so, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 1: If you voted for Trump at least partially or maybe
Speaker 1: a lot, because they were going to get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of the Epstein thing. He calls the whole thing bulls.
Speaker 1: More on what bulls that we can't say bulls? More
Speaker 1: on what Trump just said about the Epstein stuff coming
Speaker 1: up Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that Attorney General
Speaker 6: Bondi should come forward and explain her inconsistent statements about
Speaker 6: the Epstein files, and at least two Republican senators close
Speaker 6: to Trump are calling for congressional testimony from Gallaine Maxwell,
Speaker 6: Epstein's longtime associate who is now in prison for conspiring
Speaker 6: with Epstein to sexually abuse young girls.
Speaker 1: So here's an off the air conversation Joe and I
Speaker 1: just had. I just checked in with a correspondent from
Speaker 1: the world of the country's being run by pedophiles and
Speaker 1: Epstein is the keystone. Disappointed in Trump that he's helping
Speaker 1: to cover this up, said to me, how many people
Speaker 1: are there with this point of view? My response would
Speaker 1: be enough to get the Speaker of a House to
Speaker 1: tell the Attorney General she needs to come clean with
Speaker 1: the stuff. He must be hearing from enough people that
Speaker 1: he thinks it's politically important for him to act like
Speaker 1: he's on that.
Speaker 3: I would say, to put out this fire as quickly
Speaker 3: as possible.
Speaker 1: Maybe, Yeah, I find it hard to believe that. Speaker
Speaker 1: Johnson believes this. But anyway, So here's Joe Rogan talking
Speaker 1: about it in his podcast, which represents a lot of MAGA.
Speaker 1: They've got videotape, and all of a sudden, they don't
Speaker 1: you know, you have the director of the FBI on
Speaker 1: this show saying there's no tape. There was nothing you're
Speaker 1: looking for is on those tapes? Like what, why'd they
Speaker 1: say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people
Speaker 1: doing horrible Why did they say that? Didn't Pam Bondy
Speaker 1: say that, I.
Speaker 3: Can tell you why exactly.
Speaker 2: If I have a concern real or imagine, and a
Speaker 2: politician says you're absolutely right about your concern and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna fix it, you vote for them.
Speaker 3: It's as simple as that.
Speaker 2: You've got a certain sub segment of MAGA or Republicans
Speaker 2: or humans who believe this stuff and are fired up
Speaker 2: about it, and you want their votes. Having gotten their
Speaker 2: votes and now being put in a position of power
Speaker 2: where you could actually solve it, now you've got somehow
Speaker 2: to square that circle and say, yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not actually really a thing. I got all the
Speaker 2: files and there's nothing there. Having built their career on
Speaker 2: saying you're right it's real and I'm gonna fix it.
Speaker 1: Well, some of them knew it wasn't real or didn't
Speaker 1: think it was real. Some people believe it's real or
Speaker 1: believed it's real.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know about these House members you're about to
Speaker 1: hear from. I don't know all of them. Norman, Burchett, Bobert,
Speaker 1: you know, listen to what they have to say. These
Speaker 1: are some Republicans who want answers.
Speaker 7: Whatever they have, and I think Van Vondi is turning
Speaker 7: it over somebody else now or whatever they have it.
Speaker 7: They used to be transparent.
Speaker 8: The needs to come out transparent.
Speaker 7: I would say that I don't know what they had
Speaker 7: give me. This all just came to a head and
Speaker 7: we'll see. But I'm on all this. It should be
Speaker 7: transparent to the American people so they don't need to
Speaker 7: see what's in there, and that's not hard.
Speaker 8: Should there be an investigation or a special counsel investigation,
Speaker 8: I don't know. I'm not an attorney. I just find
Speaker 8: them guilty and hang them publicly. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 8: that's not over the top either. I'm ready. I'm over
Speaker 8: it to disgust me. I'm big on clarity and transparency,
Speaker 8: and you know that's a good reason people don't trust government,
Speaker 8: either party.
Speaker 1: But you don't believe what the Justice Department is saying.
Speaker 8: I don't know, you know, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 8: I think, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't trust me.
Speaker 5: I think moving forward, we need a special counsel that
Speaker 5: has got to happen.
Speaker 1: There special a certain segment that wants a special council.
Speaker 1: Whoa will that happen or not? You know how special
Speaker 1: councils work. They start digging into one thing and it
Speaker 1: turns into another thing and who knows where that ever goes.
Speaker 1: That middle guy Burchette or Burchette, I want him hung
Speaker 1: now he publicly it's disgusted me. He is a guy
Speaker 1: that clearly believes it's true that we have a you know,
Speaker 1: a pedophile ring run by business leaders and politicians of
Speaker 1: all stripes. The elite of this country are behind a
Speaker 1: giant child sex trafficking ring that has been going on
Speaker 1: here that has to do with the Masade and the Jews,
Speaker 1: So Hollywood, business leaders, Republicans, and Democrats, mostly Democrats. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that at all that that is happening, but
Speaker 1: some of you do that guy wants him hung. Now see,
Speaker 1: you got that crowd that is influential enough to make
Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House at least to have to
Speaker 1: pretend to care.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, then Trump continues to push back on his biggest supporters.
Speaker 1: You're CNN reporting on the truth social that came out
Speaker 1: while we're on the air today, forty Michael.
Speaker 9: Clearly, this is not dying down in the way that
Speaker 9: the President had hoped. We heard him yesterday saying this
Speaker 9: was uninteresting, but what we're hearing from today is far harsher.
Speaker 9: The President accusing on the one hand, Democrats of manufacturing this,
Speaker 9: saying that it's a Jeffrey Epstein hoax, but then going
Speaker 9: very harshly after those very Republicans who are his supporters
Speaker 9: and are calling for more transparency, saying that his past
Speaker 9: supporters have bought into what he calls bs. He uses
Speaker 9: the actual word, he calls it hook, line and sinker.
Speaker 9: The President going on to say, let these weaklings continue
Speaker 9: forward and do the Democrats work, concluding I don't want
Speaker 9: their support anymore.
Speaker 1: Oooh boy, that's a heck of a thing. So I
Speaker 1: was just reading some tweets from people saying things like
Speaker 1: I'm so disappointed in Donald Trump. I can't believe he's
Speaker 1: part of this. He called them weaklings. I don't want
Speaker 1: their support anymore.
Speaker 3: Well for the BS, hook Line and Sinker right.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if the crowd that's really into
Speaker 1: this is one percent of his support or five or thirty.
Speaker 1: I haven't got the slightest idea, do.
Speaker 2: You No, I'd be guessing it's more than five.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I would.
Speaker 2: I'm tempted to guess, but there's no point in it.
Speaker 2: You know what, play play Mike Johnson for me thirty two.
Speaker 2: I think this explains a lot.
Speaker 10: It's a very delicate subject, but we should we should
Speaker 10: put everything out there and let the people decide it.
Speaker 10: I agree with the sentiment that we need to we
Speaker 10: need to put it out there. And you know, Pam
Speaker 10: BONDI I don't know when she originally made the statement.
Speaker 10: I think she was talking about document as I understood
Speaker 10: it that they were on her desk. I don't know
Speaker 10: that she was specific about a list or whatever. But
Speaker 10: she's to come forward and explain that to everybody.
Speaker 3: All right, So here's exactly what's going on and the
Speaker 3: whole the Great Conspiracy theory thing.
Speaker 2: There are plenty of facts there that really lend themselves
Speaker 2: to spinning a great complicated, nefarious yarn.
Speaker 3: It's not like it's fact free.
Speaker 2: It's just that you know too many dots are connected
Speaker 2: to you know confidently they're not. Really, they don't build
Speaker 2: the case you think they do. I think y'all are wrong.
Speaker 2: But again, as I say many times, we can still
Speaker 2: be friends. And if I'm wrong, I will say so.
Speaker 2: But what Mike Johnson is saying, and a number of
Speaker 2: people are saying, and then Trump put it way more
Speaker 2: strongly than they would have, is look Cash, Betel, Dan Bongino,
Speaker 2: Pam Bondy. You catered to these people in their belief.
Speaker 2: You reinforced it, and you said you were the people
Speaker 2: to get in there and solve it, to get their
Speaker 2: votes and get their support.
Speaker 3: They gave it to you.
Speaker 2: Now you are in the Henhouse, you have access to
Speaker 2: everything you need to fulfill your promise. But you know
Speaker 2: now and you knew then that it wasn't true. This giant,
Speaker 2: mysterious sex masade.
Speaker 3: Cabal doesn't exist and never did.
Speaker 2: And what Mike Johnson is saying is and you just said, no,
Speaker 2: it's fine.
Speaker 3: We've looked at it and there's nothing there.
Speaker 2: That's not good enough you convince these people that it
Speaker 2: was true and you are going to fix it. You
Speaker 2: need to know better than yeah, I've looked at the
Speaker 2: file and there's nothing there. Anyway, moving along, we need
Speaker 2: more and like several people have said, we need more transparency,
Speaker 2: Well you need to do a hell of a lot
Speaker 2: better job of building the case that there's nothing there
Speaker 2: and never was, or it's not going to satisfy anybody.
Speaker 1: Well, before we get to Trump's comments, because they're a
Speaker 1: separate thing, the reason ones what could Bondye or the
Speaker 1: FBI director Patel say at this point, I think coming
Speaker 1: clean and saying, look, we were just jerking you around
Speaker 1: to get vote. No, they wouldn't believe that for one thing.
Speaker 2: Well, that's and that is what could you say at
Speaker 2: this point, Well, that's the hazard of doing what they
Speaker 2: did is undoing it is practically impossible. But man, especially
Speaker 2: because the nature of this and I've read it with
Speaker 2: interest more as a student of human psychology than like
Speaker 2: believing any of it. But the people who like are
Speaker 2: the fuel of this sort of thing. They're very, very creative,
Speaker 2: and as they will identify somebody like Donald Trump is
Speaker 2: the great center by Jesus Christ, hero who's going to
Speaker 2: solve this? And then when he comes out saying stuff
Speaker 2: like you said today or doing the things he's done lately,
Speaker 2: they will invent a very creative, well written scenario of
Speaker 2: why he did that, how they got to him, and
Speaker 2: how that proves X, Y and Z.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Trump probably does know what percentage of his voter support
Speaker 1: are these people. He probably has those numbers. We're guessing
Speaker 1: is it one or thirty percent? He probably not.
Speaker 3: Don Junior knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But so who was it that had the article
Speaker 1: a while back the great Mainstreaming of Donald Trump? And
Speaker 1: it was about how he is really fairly mainstream at
Speaker 1: this point on a whole bunch of different things, and
Speaker 1: maybe this is another one of them where he's thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get more of the middle of the politics
Speaker 1: to come to my side. By casting these people off net,
Speaker 1: we'll have more people. So I'm saying to him, I
Speaker 1: don't want your support anymore. You're crazy, And he's gonna
Speaker 1: handle a bigger chunk.
Speaker 2: He doesn't neither support anymore because he's lame duck and
Speaker 2: he can't run again, so he's like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: done catering to you people.
Speaker 3: Well, he wants to annoying.
Speaker 1: I assume he wants to win the midterms though still
Speaker 1: have the Congress, so he doesn't get himpeach him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the whole coattails thing, I don't know. It's
Speaker 2: it's it's so overrated. As you've you know, said many
Speaker 2: many times. I think it's it reminds me very much
Speaker 2: of And you made this point. You were one of
Speaker 2: the first people I heard made this point, make this
Speaker 2: point during the first campaign.
Speaker 3: Uh, And you can talk about Charlottesville or whatever.
Speaker 2: But when the media and everybody on the left was
Speaker 2: going insane calling Trump a racist, saying the only reason
Speaker 2: to support Trump is because you're a racist. Only racists
Speaker 2: support Trump, blah blah blah, it was just stupid and
Speaker 2: wrong and way overstated and and group think is the
Speaker 2: left off and is But Trump was doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: He wasn't going to say anything to run off the racists.
Speaker 2: He thought, what's the point. It's like angering the plumbers
Speaker 2: union when he's building a hotel. There's no point. It
Speaker 2: doesn't do him any good. And the mainstreamers were saying, no,
Speaker 2: you got to disavow this and that, and you gotta
Speaker 2: condemn him. What about this guy the name of Aim,
Speaker 2: you gotta say you hate him. He's like, I don't
Speaker 2: know the guy. Uh. And this is similar up until
Speaker 2: roughly now, there was no point in running off the
Speaker 2: Epstein conspiracy. Theorist crowd didn't do him any good. But
Speaker 2: I always had enough. But god, dang it, you could
Speaker 2: be more gentle with somebody. I mean, if people honest,
Speaker 2: honestly believe something that emotionally is very important to them,
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, Trump is unnecessarily hurtful on a daily
Speaker 2: basis to friends, allies, supporters, cabinet members. But man, if
Speaker 2: you have people who were who care a lot about
Speaker 2: child sexual abuse and who doesn't but in some cases
Speaker 2: they were abused themselves and whatever motivates them to be
Speaker 2: in the crowd, and they think there's a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, this sex traffic of kids going on and
Speaker 2: Trump can stop it. And he doesn't just say, look,
Speaker 2: I know you care about this. I care about it too.
Speaker 2: It's horrible. I'll do anything I can to lessen that
Speaker 2: in our country. But there's not a giant ring of
Speaker 2: Democrats running.
Speaker 1: He doesn't. He called them weirdos. He says, I don't
Speaker 1: want your.
Speaker 2: Support, right, it's a sincerely held believe Yes exactly, that's
Speaker 2: my point.
Speaker 1: You just said it in forwards instead of my fifty.
Speaker 2: Well this is the guy who called his at the
Speaker 2: time Director of National Intelligence.
Speaker 3: Well he said, I don't care what she thinks.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, she's still the DNI. That's the same guy.
Speaker 2: So it's not that shocking. Wow, it is surprising yet unshocking.
Speaker 2: Shocking yet unsurprising.
Speaker 1: That's the one he wants. The story overs what he wants.
Speaker 1: I don't want this to last another day? What do
Speaker 1: I gotta say to end this freaking Epstein story? That's
Speaker 1: what he's thinking.
Speaker 3: Yes exactly, Okay, Wow.
Speaker 1: I don't want your support anymore.
Speaker 2: Whoooo and for what it's worth, we may differ on this, friends,
Speaker 2: on this specific question, but we are certainly as enthusiastic
Speaker 2: as you are about ending child's sexual exploitation and abuse
Speaker 2: wherever it happens. Oh, speaking of which, next hour and
Speaker 2: if you don't get Next Hour, you can just follow
Speaker 2: us on whatever podcasting service you like. Armstrong getting on
Speaker 2: demand a child porn related story. In another porn related
Speaker 2: story with some troubling. You know, this is the age
Speaker 2: of the Internet implications. But also I've got a very weird,
Speaker 2: probably unwise, contrarian take on an extremely controversial topic. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll probably end both my careers. My career and everybody
Speaker 2: else who works on the show.
Speaker 1: Well, that's something to look forward to an hour Michael
Speaker 1: Yours to Michael. So, uh, coming up is AI? How
Speaker 1: racist is AI? Actress Emma Watson has lost your driver's license?
Speaker 1: Full teams, among other things, the way to hear.
Speaker 6: A nudist group in Pittsburgh over the weekend held its
Speaker 6: annual Balls Out Bowling event.
Speaker 1: Because who hasn't hung out at a bowling alley and thought.
Speaker 9: I wish all these people were naked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just that's a different version. Yep, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump just said in a meeting that he's going
Speaker 1: to fire Fed Chief Powell. So whatever, all right, there
Speaker 1: you go away.
Speaker 2: And that does tariff thing's about to come home to risk.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 2: A couple of oddly related stories. Number one, the future
Speaker 2: farming is entirely automated. It's just reading about it. It
Speaker 2: knocked my socks off. It's clearly the future. Maybe we'll
Speaker 2: talk about it next hour, if not maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Generally, all the tractor driving shit be I mean, what
Speaker 1: a monotonous job that. I mean, there's a reason that
Speaker 1: at least back in the day, like twelve year olds
Speaker 1: drove tractors, because anybody can do the part that's just
Speaker 1: back and forth in a field.
Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, And it's super interesting from a technical
Speaker 2: point of view.
Speaker 3: But more on that to come.
Speaker 2: Speaking of professions that are oddly dominated by people who
Speaker 2: don't seem to be native English speakers, construction. I've been
Speaker 2: observing with great interest the construction part of our remodel
Speaker 2: that we've got going on.
Speaker 3: Judy and me.
Speaker 1: Unge and Joe's getting a dungeon, putting itself a sex dungeon.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm the kind of guy I did not grow up,
Speaker 2: you know, among carpenters and builders and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: I came to it late in life because Judy and
Speaker 2: I will post childhood, because we were young and poor
Speaker 2: and we'd buy crappy houses than do like most of
Speaker 2: the work ourselves to fix them up and make them livable.
Speaker 2: So I learned a fair amount, but I'm still like
Speaker 2: have a newbies fascination with how they.
Speaker 3: Do this stuff.
Speaker 2: And I was watching the guys building our chimney because
Speaker 2: he got a fireplace, and uh, and these guys, first
Speaker 2: of all, they're at the top of this scaffolding that
Speaker 2: I would poop a brick. I mean, I would never
Speaker 2: ever climb up there. I'm glad they're doing it, but
Speaker 2: it struck me. In this age of incredible technology and
Speaker 2: and laser pointers and computers and and and AI and
Speaker 2: the rest of it, the best, most universally useful tool
Speaker 2: for figuring out whether something is level or not is
Speaker 2: a bubble suspended and fluid. Nothing has come close to
Speaker 2: a bubble suspended and fluid.
Speaker 1: Perfect.
Speaker 2: It is perfect. And I just thought, Wow, surround it
Speaker 2: with fancy aluminum and all. But that's still like the
Speaker 2: best ever developed.
Speaker 1: I have a level on my phone. Do you have
Speaker 1: one of those? I use it semi one. I was
Speaker 1: building fences and stuff.
Speaker 3: I would you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's funny. I never think of it. I grabbed
Speaker 2: my actual level. When was the level invented?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's got to be way way, way way back.
Speaker 3: Greekly the internet probably know.
Speaker 1: Egyptians probably had a level for building the periods pyramids.
Speaker 2: The pyramids yeah, you look back, thousands of Archimedes and
Speaker 2: the great mathematicians of old Man. They were way smarter
Speaker 2: than me, and they didn't even have a car.
Speaker 1: So groc Elon's AI outfit, trying to get past the
Speaker 1: anti Semitism thing from last week, has two new characters
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