Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and.
Speaker 2: Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: They lost a lot of faith in certain people, and yeah,
Speaker 3: they got duped by the Democrats.
Speaker 4: President Trump's wiping at what he calls his past supporters,
Speaker 4: calling them weaklings for falling prey to quote Democratic bs
Speaker 4: over what he's now branded the Epstein hoax.
Speaker 3: Look at the Steele dossier that turned out to be
Speaker 3: a total hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats, and some
Speaker 3: stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.
Speaker 4: You're stupid if you believe the whole Epstein thing. And
Speaker 4: he doesn't want your vote anymore. So we talked about
Speaker 4: this yesterday because it happened while we were on the air,
Speaker 4: and we played all the clips for you. It's kind
Speaker 4: of hard to explain you would use this tact to
Speaker 4: try to deal with getting out of this mess. So
Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk, he is a huge MAGA leader among particularly
Speaker 4: the young crowd. He had that event the other day
Speaker 4: where a number of right wing hosts say, who thinks
Speaker 4: there's a cover up in the crowd, cheers wily wildly
Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff. So then Charlie Kirk
Speaker 4: put out a statement, what like the next day, Joe
Speaker 4: that it seemed like Trump had given him a call
Speaker 4: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Because he said it's own that Trump called him.
Speaker 4: Okay, and he and Charlie we're going out of a
Speaker 4: statement where he basically said, look, there there's nothing there.
Speaker 4: Let's all move on and make America great again or
Speaker 4: I'm something. He was ready to turn the page. And
Speaker 4: then I don't know if he got huge blowback from
Speaker 4: his audience or what, but he has sounded different since then,
Speaker 4: and yesterday this Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, on
Speaker 4: his podcast yesterday attempted some damage can on Trump's behalf
Speaker 4: don't take too seriously the whole truth social Here, Kirk
Speaker 4: told his audience, I know some people are getting fired
Speaker 4: up about this. I don't believe he was trying to
Speaker 4: insult anybody personally. All right, well, you know, if you
Speaker 4: call me, if you call me stupid and a dupe,
Speaker 4: it seems fairly personal.
Speaker 1: But and Charlie Kirk, counting on the fact that those
Speaker 1: people are stupid and dupes.
Speaker 4: Apparently Still, he expressed frustration about the administration's handling of
Speaker 4: the issue himself. We are now Wednesday, going into Thursday.
Speaker 4: People are very very confused, and some people are very
Speaker 4: disappointed and mad. Charlie Kirk said, we made so much
Speaker 4: progress with gen Z and this is a big vulnerability
Speaker 4: online on TikTok, this story is not landing.
Speaker 2: Well, let's fix this and we can.
Speaker 4: He does make a good point the Republican Party doing
Speaker 4: better with young people than it has in my going
Speaker 4: back to Reagan, right, and if this is the thing
Speaker 4: that blows it up. But I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Guess where I break down on this story all the time.
Speaker 4: Is it seems so obvious to me what's happened that
Speaker 4: I don't There was never any there there there's not
Speaker 4: a child sex ring being run by Democrats in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Podcasters were saying it to get clicks and listeners.
Speaker 2: That's what I assumed all along.
Speaker 4: It's true. It turns out to be true. They're even
Speaker 4: saying it's true. Right, and it's over. And maybe you
Speaker 4: can be mad at them. If you fell for it
Speaker 4: fell forward as a prejudicial you don't fall for something.
Speaker 2: It's not on you.
Speaker 4: If somebody you trust lies to you, that's not your fault.
Speaker 4: You're not a dupe or week or any of those things.
Speaker 4: You trusted somebody and they lied to you. You trusted
Speaker 4: Dan Bongino or Pam Bondi and they lied to you.
Speaker 4: Now you know, I don't know what you.
Speaker 2: Do with that, but right, right, yeah, gosh, dang it.
Speaker 1: This thing has so many tentacles. I think one of
Speaker 1: the more interesting aspects of this is that the sort
Speaker 1: of people that would pitch this sort of infotainment, they're
Speaker 1: so much closer to power than they've ever been before.
Speaker 1: On the right in Republican circles, that sort of which
Speaker 1: Hunty all Republicans are racist, bigot, evil, you know, beer swinging,
Speaker 1: cross burning.
Speaker 2: You know, fictions existed on the left very very close
Speaker 2: to power for a very long time.
Speaker 1: But the Republican Party, for you know, try to be
Speaker 1: the party of realists and grown ups and the rest
Speaker 1: of it. You know. I've been reading more about this
Speaker 1: sort of thing, not necessarily the Epstein conspiracy theory in general,
Speaker 1: and it's called it's referred to as.
Speaker 2: What's it.
Speaker 1: There's a term for it, pedo critical pedo theory. That's
Speaker 1: got the fair history on the right going back probably
Speaker 1: fifteen years and stuff. It is just those who would
Speaker 1: hook you have realized that certain elements, it's like writing
Speaker 1: a hit song, certain elements like child victims, you know,
Speaker 1: the powerful in the government, evil doers who are fairly
Speaker 1: easily identified, like the Jews, which doesn't factor into every
Speaker 1: version of this, but it factors into a hell of
Speaker 1: a lot of them.
Speaker 2: That's the that's the markers of a hit song.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, all pop music now is completely
Speaker 1: formulaa computer generator. They've realized what trips your triggers. This
Speaker 1: has all of it, and so it's it's super compelling.
Speaker 1: And then you've got people now who are very very
Speaker 1: close to power who used to be pitching it.
Speaker 4: We're working up to the latest polling which will show
Speaker 4: you if your attitude is where most of Americas is.
Speaker 4: We did get this text yesterday just to represent a
Speaker 4: chunk of you that we know are out there YouTube
Speaker 4: protecting and siding with Petos is shocking and horrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not, and never would. That's the point.
Speaker 4: I would be calling for the death penalty for all
Speaker 4: of them. If I thought that was happening if hundreds
Speaker 4: of thousands of children were being sex trafficked by the
Speaker 4: Democratic Party and business leaders and maybe some Republicans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what again, Charlie Kirkin turning point, USA
Speaker 1: have done some great stuff among young people.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a shame.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of certain people I've known who have
Speaker 1: been wonderful in some ways and just utterly corrosive in others.
Speaker 1: But they've done some fabulous things, giving conservative kids, young
Speaker 1: people confidence to speak their beliefs, etc. On the other hand, Charlie,
Speaker 1: I think in the last several days has been the
Speaker 1: perfect illustration of my point of view. This was the
Speaker 1: most important thing in the world, and it must be
Speaker 1: exposed and it must be brought down. Until Donald said, hey,
Speaker 1: would you cool your jets on this? Is this cause
Speaker 1: on Maggus some real problems. And he said, I'm done
Speaker 1: talking about this for now, and I think everybody should
Speaker 1: be and everything's fine. And then he got a backlash
Speaker 1: like later that day from his audience who said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: And so he came out and changed his mind again
Speaker 1: and said, I demand these fifteen things because we've got
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of this some entertainment.
Speaker 4: Two things that get conflated a lot, which I think
Speaker 4: confused the conversation and maybe some of this polling. I'm
Speaker 4: about to tell you is the difference between documents, the
Speaker 4: case files, and a list. Sometimes those get used interchangeably.
Speaker 4: Is there an Epstein file, Well, of course there is.
Speaker 4: There was an investigation, So there's a file showing an
Speaker 4: investigation that ultimately led nowhere is there a list apparently
Speaker 4: of clients and blackmail?
Speaker 2: No, there is not, so.
Speaker 4: According to people inside and outside and people leaking and
Speaker 4: everything else. But people conflate those two regularly. They said
Speaker 4: there wasn't a file. There is a file, so there
Speaker 4: where's the list? Well, those two different things.
Speaker 1: And as Alan Dershowitz pointed out, lots and lots of
Speaker 1: names come up in an investigation, so you could say
Speaker 1: there's a list of names, but those are being kept
Speaker 1: secret for the reason they always.
Speaker 2: Are, as we discussed earlier.
Speaker 1: If you're not being charged and you just happen to
Speaker 1: be somewhere, the Feds aren't going to come out and say, hey,
Speaker 1: Joe Getty was at that party, by the way, just
Speaker 1: saying they're not in that business.
Speaker 2: Except when James Comey's in charge.
Speaker 4: But when you're firing people up about a list, you mean,
Speaker 4: is there a list of clients? And the listing, you know,
Speaker 4: is proof of blackmail for child molestation, right, and the
Speaker 4: blackmail and all that. So here's the polling from Morning consult,
Speaker 4: a respected polling organization, the statement there's no evidence of
Speaker 4: a client list or blackmail scheme involving Epstein and prominent people.
Speaker 4: The plurality the biggest number no, at fifty one percent
Speaker 4: only so so you know, I don't know why they
Speaker 4: present it is no. But so over half or roughly
Speaker 4: half of America says yes, there is there is a
Speaker 4: blackmail list.
Speaker 2: It exists.
Speaker 4: Only twenty five percent of people say no, There isn't
Speaker 4: a quarter people say I don't have any idea, But
Speaker 4: so a plurality of America thinks there is a blackmail
Speaker 4: list out there. You want to break it down by party, Democrats,
Speaker 4: it's sixty percent of Democrats think there's a list, which
Speaker 4: is interesting given the fact that the prevailing thought is
Speaker 4: that it's a Democrats in Hollywood running the child trafficking scheme.
Speaker 4: And sixty percent of Democrats think there is a blackmail
Speaker 4: list of that it's only forty one percent of Republicans
Speaker 4: that think it is. So that's where it gets confusing
Speaker 4: on this whole thing. But I guess it could completely fuddled.
Speaker 4: But I guess they're all the young crowd and very
Speaker 4: worked up about it. And that's why Charlie Kirk speakin
Speaker 4: to it, right. But overall, it's half of America now
Speaker 4: on just this question Epstein committed suicide in prison? No
Speaker 4: is the plurality forty two biggest chunk of voters say no,
Speaker 4: twenty three percent say I don't know, only thirty five
Speaker 4: percent say only a thirty people say yes, he committed suicide.
Speaker 2: I'd be in that crowd. I believe he committed suicide.
Speaker 4: But the biggest chunk of people, and again you break
Speaker 4: it down by Republicans and Democrats, and the theory is that,
Speaker 4: like if he was killed, it's the Democrats that did it. Right,
Speaker 4: the jokes about Hillary Clinton's sensible shoes click clacking away
Speaker 4: through the prison. I don't think Hillary Clinton stuffed him.
Speaker 4: But that's the biggest chunk that believes he didn't commit suicide. Democrats.
Speaker 4: Half of Democrats think he did not commit suicide.
Speaker 1: Right, Virtually all of the big names you ever hear
Speaker 1: whispered well spoken out loud these days that it might
Speaker 1: have been partying with him are Democrats, virtually all of them.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this again, I'm completely befuddled. And only thirty.
Speaker 4: Seven percent are Republicans think he commit didn't commit suicide.
Speaker 4: So it doesn't fit with the narrative of everything we're
Speaker 4: hearing the last couple of times, right, except that shouldn't
Speaker 4: Trump be in shouldn't Trump be talking about all the
Speaker 4: Democrat dupes have felt for it based on this polling.
Speaker 1: Yes, one hundred percent, And shouldn't be addressing his followers
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 2: Why would he?
Speaker 1: Again? I get his frustration, but it was dumb politics.
Speaker 1: So what I was about to say was the thing
Speaker 1: you have to remember, because they're just pulling Democrats and Republicans,
Speaker 1: is that there are subsets of both of those parties.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's obvious within the Democratic Party because it's
Speaker 1: just a mosaic of completely unrelated grievance groups that have said,
Speaker 1: all right, i'll yell about your grievance if you'll yell
Speaker 1: about mine, okay, And we're all borderline Marxists, so everybody
Speaker 1: knows that that's a patchwork. But within conservatism, within the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, I should say, now you have classic conservatives
Speaker 1: have salted the earth's red state, maga folks, you have
Speaker 1: online Pizzagate types, you have you know, to various other
Speaker 1: you know, stripes of Republicanism. So yeah, it's a plurality
Speaker 1: of Republicans that say now that it's more or less
Speaker 1: unfolded the way it seems it unfolded. But there is
Speaker 1: a substantial minority that thinks very very differently.
Speaker 4: But you know, and I'm ready to be done talking
Speaker 4: about this, but the media narrative of the last several days,
Speaker 4: since its mainstream media and left media that loves this
Speaker 4: story so much, and talking about conspiracy minded Republicans, it
Speaker 4: would appear there are more conspiracy minded Democrats than there
Speaker 4: are Republicans. And since they probably weren't listening to Dan
Speaker 4: Bongino or Pam Bondi, where did they come by their
Speaker 4: conspiracy That's what I'm confused by.
Speaker 2: They're not listening to the Dan Bongino podcast every day.
Speaker 1: Right, So other plank in the conspiracy platform coming up
Speaker 1: in a little bit, got a great email about it too.
Speaker 1: What it boils down to, it's because it become a symbol.
Speaker 1: Pretty good insight. We'll get to that in a little
Speaker 1: bit too.
Speaker 4: If you can figure out the confusion around this where
Speaker 4: it seems to be more Democrats and Republicans that are
Speaker 4: into this story text line four one five two nine
Speaker 4: five k ftcar.
Speaker 2: Some more political news. Trump is so facing criticism for
Speaker 2: his handling of the Epstein files.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the excuses are getting worse and worse today. Trump
Speaker 3: was like a doug ate the Epstein files.
Speaker 2: Then people in Ohio ate the dog. That's pretty funny joke.
Speaker 4: Here's the story for you will get to do. You
Speaker 4: know who Steve Miller is. Some people call what is
Speaker 4: the Pomptous of Love. Some people call me the space cowboy.
Speaker 4: That Steve Miller has canceled his tour because of climate change,
Speaker 4: and his statement is ridiculous, even though I'm a giant fan.
Speaker 2: Of his music, He's an ignoramus. So we got that
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 1: The number of guitar heroes who are morons is surprising.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: A couple of things very quickly, A couple of emails.
Speaker 1: Robert Julaine Maxwell wasn't even arrested until a year after
Speaker 1: Epstein's death. Yes, I got that timeline wrong. I apologize
Speaker 1: deeply and humbly thank you for the email. I like
Speaker 1: this from a frequent correspondent to me to the initials,
Speaker 1: I just thought I would chime in about the whole
Speaker 1: Epstein infatuation. Way I see it, Epstein is transcended being
Speaker 1: the image of a person and become a symbol, my opinion,
Speaker 1: symbolizes two things that deeply unnerve the right, if not all,
Speaker 1: of America. One, we American citizens never get answers anymore
Speaker 1: on things like this, like pervos in power. There's always
Speaker 1: some investigation that manages to find nothing but relevant facts
Speaker 1: are locked away behind a court order. Sure too, the
Speaker 1: belief to the belief that there's a two tier system
Speaker 1: of justice. We all know there is has Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: and convicted of anything? Well, actually he was, but that
Speaker 1: he was pardoned. Did Jesse Smollett serve any time? Did
Speaker 1: he as innocent of everything? Right? Remember oj Simpson? Of
Speaker 1: course there's old Ted Kennedy. You never answered for anything.
Speaker 1: Epstein is a symbol of the idea that no matter
Speaker 1: how bad you are, as long as you're well connected,
Speaker 1: you'll never truly have to answer to the American people.
Speaker 2: There is that failing out there.
Speaker 4: Who leaked the Supreme Court decision to try to discredit
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: No answer, right, right, yeah, yeah. It's really frustrating.
Speaker 1: So if I were in the business of like perpetuating QAnon, Pizzagate,
Speaker 1: Epstein conspiracy theory type stuff, I would be going heavy
Speaker 1: on this, and they probably will be by noon today
Speaker 1: if they aren't already. The Justice Department just fired a
Speaker 1: prosecutor in Manhattan, a woman by the name of Maureen Komy.
Speaker 1: My last name sound vaguely familiar. She's the daughter of
Speaker 1: James Comy. I hope dot dot cover up, dot dot
Speaker 1: dot something something just it writes itself.
Speaker 4: I don't know about a cover up, but I hope
Speaker 4: that she was fired just as part of the They're
Speaker 4: firing people in Justice Apartment and lots of different departments.
Speaker 2: And not specifically because he hates James call me so much. Wait,
Speaker 2: there's more, Jack.
Speaker 1: She was also a prosecutor who worked on the and
Speaker 1: she took a leading role in the Julane Maxwell case
Speaker 1: and was part of the Epstein investigation.
Speaker 4: All right, so were one hundred FBI officers according to
Speaker 4: hundreds of FBI officers, which is nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But my point it is, indeed I have one,
Speaker 1: is is that you would have to work as hard
Speaker 1: to debunk all of this as the people are working
Speaker 1: to bunk it. In other words, James Freaking Comy's daughter,
Speaker 1: who was investigating both of these scumbags, just get fired
Speaker 1: by the Trump administration. I don't have enough time in
Speaker 1: my day to build a case where that has an
Speaker 1: innocent explanation because it sounds thirty as.
Speaker 2: L it does.
Speaker 4: You don't get to see Steve Miller on tour because
Speaker 4: of climate change, among other things.
Speaker 1: On the way Armstrong and Getty, Stevie Wonder denied rumors
Speaker 1: that he's not really blind.
Speaker 2: True, the guy had nine kids with five.
Speaker 4: Different women and he thought he was being faithful.
Speaker 2: We did that whole story the other day.
Speaker 4: Stevie Wonder apparently is blind, but has played into that
Speaker 4: joke for many, many years, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 4: He does have nine kids with five women, which lots
Speaker 4: of musicians, athletes, etc. Do and we just kind of
Speaker 4: turn a blind eye to that very odd lifestyle. I'm
Speaker 4: speaking of musicians named Steve a different one Steve Miller.
Speaker 4: What's your favorite Steve Miller band song? Had to beat
Speaker 4: the Joker.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's like you're asking me
Speaker 1: to pick my favorite kid. I don't.
Speaker 2: I love them all.
Speaker 4: Steve Miller, whose Greatest Hits album was like the number
Speaker 4: one selling album in the in the world for years
Speaker 4: and years and years and years because all his giant
Speaker 4: hits were on there. Interesting story. I remember when he
Speaker 4: was on Charlie Rose a couple of years back and
Speaker 4: he played the Joker alone with a guitar for Charlie Rose,
Speaker 4: and it was very, very good. But you see, some
Speaker 4: people call him the space cowboy. But he told the
Speaker 4: story about how he he had he put out an
Speaker 4: album giant hits. He was like the biggest thing in
Speaker 4: all of music, and then the record company tried to
Speaker 4: tell him what to do and he just said no
Speaker 4: and had to leave music. He left the music business
Speaker 4: rather than do what they told him to do because
Speaker 4: he's just like, I.
Speaker 2: Don't have to I'm rich now, screw you.
Speaker 1: Well, and he was an actual like kippie yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean nonformist hippie.
Speaker 4: Well, he has canceled this tour. I would have actually
Speaker 4: paid to go see Steve Miller, but he's not going
Speaker 4: to tour because of it's not safe, the unacceptable risks
Speaker 4: of natural disasters. What yes, you put out this post yesterday.
Speaker 4: He's supposed to tour starting like in August, in a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks and for many, many months around the country.
Speaker 4: He cannot put his people in the band and the
Speaker 4: crowd who would come to see him in harm's way
Speaker 4: with all the natural disasters that are happening due to
Speaker 4: climate change.
Speaker 2: Here's his statement.
Speaker 4: You make music with your instincts, You live life by
Speaker 4: your instincts. Always trust your instincts. The Steve Miller Band
Speaker 4: is canceled all of our upcoming dates. The combination of
Speaker 4: extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, massive forest fires. A
Speaker 4: forest fire was going to get your concert made these
Speaker 4: risks for the audience and my band and crew unacceptable.
Speaker 1: So when was the last time of flood canceled a
Speaker 1: concert like in progress?
Speaker 4: Steve, So you can blame it on the weather. The
Speaker 4: tour is canceled. I don't know where, I don't know when.
Speaker 4: We hope to see you again. Wishing you peace, love
Speaker 4: and happiness. Please take care of each other, Steve, the
Speaker 4: band and crew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my instincts say you're an octagenarian hippie whose mind
Speaker 1: doesn't work right anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're here an eighty something hippie who's like, really,
Speaker 4: you're probably taking in the most ridiculous Twitter feeds yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Chrissy Hind, also an ancient rocker of The Pretenders, set
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago at an outdoor concert. Outdoor
Speaker 4: concerts will be coming to a close soon. We won't
Speaker 4: be able to do it anymore because it's so hot.
Speaker 4: I've had to stripe ass ice packs to my waist
Speaker 4: to survive this. It's because you're an old woman. You're
Speaker 4: now an old woman out of heat. It's not the
Speaker 4: same as being twenty five. Those are hot flashes, she's
Speaker 4: feeling exactly. Yeah, she's a little old fraud flashes. But anyway,
Speaker 4: that's pretty funny, these old hippies.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's you.
Speaker 4: Can believe climate change all you want, but the idea
Speaker 4: that it's not safe for your crew because of the
Speaker 4: floods that happen in Texas or earthquake somewhere, whatever the
Speaker 4: hell I mean, it's just what is how when's the
Speaker 4: last time anybody died at a concert in America because
Speaker 4: of anything? Climate change? Related, or you could even claim
Speaker 4: was climate change related.
Speaker 1: I know, that's that's hilarious. I know, and it's so
Speaker 1: wildly disconnected from reality. It's it's it's almost beyond hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's troubling. And I'll bet there's somebody listening. And if
Speaker 1: that's you, feel free to email us mail bag at
Speaker 1: armstrong andgeddi dot com. But there has got to be
Speaker 1: like a known psychological profile about the sort of person
Speaker 1: who defines themselves so completely with being cause oriented that they'll,
Speaker 1: you know, even at their advanced age, sees onto what
Speaker 1: seems to be the hot cause of the day and
Speaker 1: throw themselves into it with one hundred percent a conviction,
Speaker 1: but more importantly, one hundred percent belief in whatever they
Speaker 1: have to believe to make that conviction seem righteous all
Speaker 1: of them that it defines them completely.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine what all goes into scheduling a major tour,
Speaker 4: the logistics, the venues, the ticket sales, the sponsors. There
Speaker 4: had to be tons of sponsors like Ford and Verizon Wireless.
Speaker 4: Last night they were like, what, yeah, you're canceling, but
Speaker 4: there are like eight thousand concert tours that are gonna
Speaker 4: be going on this summer of various sizes and they're
Speaker 4: all gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good lord, that is just loney tunes. You can't
Speaker 1: you can't argue logically to somebody who comes to that conclusion.
Speaker 1: That's like the ancient Armstrong and Getting principle of if
Speaker 1: you see somebody doing something so incredibly crazy, you can't
Speaker 1: explain to them why it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Forget it, you're wasting your time.
Speaker 1: The doing of the act is evidence that it's that
Speaker 1: you can't reason with them. Monni slightly less Steve Miller,
Speaker 1: although your your sponsors, look, you're doing business with the
Speaker 1: crazed old hippie do crazy things, all right, You just
Speaker 1: got to accept that the probably ought to have a
Speaker 1: rider in the contract or insurance or something.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I found this so interesting.
Speaker 1: Katie Grime's doing some great writing for the California Globe
Speaker 1: as usual, and it's about cal Unicornia and Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: and the shameless climate grift and how many trillions of
Speaker 1: dollars have been spent needlessly.
Speaker 2: And one of the more interesting.
Speaker 1: Aspects of it is and she quotes Gavey, who's just
Speaker 1: been a average cheerleader for this grift, but she points
Speaker 1: out that one of the main parts of it is
Speaker 1: that we've got to replace all of the like fossil
Speaker 1: fuel generated electric power with green electric power, windmills, unicorn farts,
Speaker 1: you know, solar or whatever.
Speaker 2: But as this couple of.
Speaker 1: Scientists are recording in this article, but as one of
Speaker 1: them points out, only twenty percent of the world's energy
Speaker 1: consumption is electrical at all. So if that were entirely green,
Speaker 1: well thanks, I mean that helped a little bit, but
Speaker 1: very very little. Supplying eighty percent of the world's primary energy, coal, oil,
Speaker 1: and natural gas make up the lifeblood of modern civilization.
Speaker 1: They power everything that's not electrical, and so it's just
Speaker 1: a myth that if we can go green on the
Speaker 1: electric grid, we will have won the battle and we
Speaker 1: can eliminate fossil fuels. It's not even close. It's a tiny,
Speaker 1: tiny fraction. And then let's see who is this VJ
Speaker 1: jaijiraal Giraj writes, consensus on climate change is become a
Speaker 1: form of bullying, intimidation, and censorship. Katie rites, which is
Speaker 1: exactly what Julie from Canada tried to do. A blah
Speaker 1: blah bah. It's been used to bludget and attack the
Speaker 1: character of anyone who questions the very shallow claims. It
Speaker 1: is a cult completely forced from science and reality. And
Speaker 1: the larger problem with these climate change cultists is they
Speaker 1: lack humility and any interest in self reflection. And it
Speaker 1: goes into a great deal of detail on that and
Speaker 1: how it's an excuse just to control things, which is
Speaker 1: usually what the left wants to do. But they're one
Speaker 1: other update. This is also in the Californian Globe, written
Speaker 1: by somebody else. You know California's vaunted famous cap and
Speaker 1: trade program where corporations have to pay for the right
Speaker 1: to pollute, and if some other company isn't polluting, they
Speaker 1: can sell their shares on the free market cap and
Speaker 1: trade program, and that is going to take care of
Speaker 1: climate change and also raise a bunch of money for California. Well,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of that internet meme. How it started,
Speaker 1: how it's going. So there's an auction every year, and
Speaker 1: in past years the state has actually turned a profit
Speaker 1: with these auctions, offset with business revenue. Ten years ago,
Speaker 1: the state made one and a half billion dollars with
Speaker 1: cap and trade auctions. But the market for it has
Speaker 1: gone down, down, down, as fewer and fewer companies are
Speaker 1: interested in participating in it, and California is going to
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Speaker 4: So why don't you jump on your big jet airliner
Speaker 4: fly like an eagle, you joker, take the money and
Speaker 4: run back to your jungle hideout. It be not very
Speaker 4: well crafted. I'll bet Steve Miller does. I'll bet if
Speaker 4: he flies southwest he checks the little box of I
Speaker 4: need to offset my carbon credits and donate one hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: What do you think they're doing with that money, you joker? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's hilarious. It kind of makes me sad that a
Speaker 4: lot of things make me sad with the modern world
Speaker 4: in the Internet.
Speaker 1: But it used to be I didn't know a damn
Speaker 1: thing about what Steve Miller thought. Any of my musical heroes,
Speaker 1: you can guess, like between the lines of the lyrics.
Speaker 1: Maybe they do an interview with the Rolling Stone and
Speaker 1: they say something. But you know they're smart, they're savvy there,
Speaker 1: Like Michael Jordan. They're like, hey, I make music. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to lecture people about who ought to be
Speaker 1: in Congress. Why would I do that. It's getting in
Speaker 1: the way of my thing. Uh.
Speaker 4: One of the best developments to happen yet between the
Speaker 4: United States and Ukraine. Absolutely, I don't see how you
Speaker 4: could argue with this thing that Trump and Zolensky are
Speaker 4: trying to get a deal going. If this is true,
Speaker 4: I hope it is. Tell you about that, among other things,
Speaker 4: stay with us.
Speaker 2: Armstrong Hetty.
Speaker 5: Doctor say gaming for older Americans has benefits, allowing them
Speaker 5: to use the brain, stay engaged, and maintain cognition. Research
Speaker 5: shows puzzles, Skill and Chance, and arcade video games are
Speaker 5: the most popular with older players.
Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about video games for old people to
Speaker 2: help their minds stay engaged. Yeah, Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I heard gaming and I thought gambling, because the gambling
Speaker 1: industry is tried to rename it gaming because it sounds better.
Speaker 4: I guess because I have teenagers, I hear gaming and
Speaker 4: I think Call of Duty. Yeah, which, speaking of just
Speaker 4: came across is this stat Thanks to our friend Tim
Speaker 4: Sanderfer who tweeted it out, gamers specifically playing Call of
Speaker 4: Duty have logged more than twenty five billion hours since
Speaker 4: it first came out, equivalent to two point eight five
Speaker 4: million years, surpassing the entire timeline of human history.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow. Meanwhile, a few of those people, well, you know
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, a few of the people
Speaker 1: have actually answered a call to duty, although I'll bet
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of our military guys play
Speaker 1: those games in their free time.
Speaker 2: Probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, we played a clip earlier of Shane Gillis, the comedian.
Speaker 4: He hosted the sp Awards last night. He was the
Speaker 4: MC and he had some funny stuff. We'll play have
Speaker 4: more clips later, but one of his jokes that he
Speaker 4: does in his stand up routine is how it's one
Speaker 4: of his problems is like he really loves his girlfriend
Speaker 4: and they have a great relationship, But as soon as
Speaker 4: they're done having sex, he just wants her to leave,
Speaker 4: and the crowd always groans and and he says, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm the only guy that likes play an Xbox alone,
Speaker 4: and then all the dudes cheer. I guess that is
Speaker 4: a thing, play an Xbox alone by yourself. I'm I
Speaker 4: got one kid who loves video games and one that
Speaker 4: doesn't like them at all, for better or worse. So
Speaker 4: another thing you can do that's supposed to be helpful
Speaker 4: is journaling.
Speaker 2: Have you ever journaled consistently for a couple of months?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Really? And and why did you do it? When you
Speaker 2: did it years and years ago?
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be delivering my drivel
Speaker 1: in print as opposed to verbally for a living.
Speaker 2: And you just trying to write more good practice?
Speaker 4: Okay, interesting, Yeah, it's a lot of people claim it's
Speaker 4: good for your mental health, get thoughts out of your
Speaker 4: head or whatever. New York Times has a thing today
Speaker 4: how to start journaling and actually stick with it, and
Speaker 4: it's setting goals and all these different things. I'm still
Speaker 4: very interested in whether handwriting is necessary for this stuff
Speaker 4: or if typing counts. This particular person in the New
Speaker 4: York Times says just do whatever, it doesn't make any difference,
Speaker 4: and I'm not sure that's true.
Speaker 1: Well, given the fascinating discoveries scientists have made about the
Speaker 1: way handwriting connects various centers in your brain and gets
Speaker 1: them to work in concert, it's really intriguing and discouraging.
Speaker 1: Since I'm left handed and I despise handwriting.
Speaker 4: But one of the things I want to bring up
Speaker 4: about handwriting somebody mentioned this to me. Well, I had
Speaker 4: noticed this in myself, but just kind of blown it off.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe it was age or something.
Speaker 4: I got to write, which I very rarely do, like
Speaker 4: I fill it out a check or whatever. My handwriting
Speaker 4: is so horrible, and I didn't know if it was
Speaker 4: just age or like I need a new pen or what.
Speaker 4: But somebody had pointed out to me that they thought
Speaker 4: they had gotten real their handwriting had gotten really bad,
Speaker 4: worse just from lack of doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's it.
Speaker 2: You're out of I'm out of practice.
Speaker 4: I haven't I haven't written regularly in decades, and so
Speaker 4: I go to do it now and I look like
Speaker 4: a third grader. That wasn't that bad when I was
Speaker 4: in third grade. But man, I am now. It's just
Speaker 4: it looks like there's no way an adult wrote.
Speaker 1: This check third grader or a maniac exactly the pinched,
Speaker 1: angry handwriting of the maniac. We've received those letters back
Speaker 1: when we used to get letters.
Speaker 4: I know how you're going to react to this. I
Speaker 4: had a teacher who I really really like say the
Speaker 4: other day and I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: Well, I won't say this particular student doesn't spell well
Speaker 4: and it's not their fault, but they can't spell. And
Speaker 4: the teacher said, doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. I don't
Speaker 4: care about spelling anymore. That's never going to be a
Speaker 4: thing again. You just got to get close and the
Speaker 4: computer tells you you fix it, and you move on.
Speaker 4: So I don't drill spelling anymore. Do you think that
Speaker 4: makes sense or not?
Speaker 1: No? No, because you the various autocorrect stuff is cumbersome. Well,
Speaker 1: and I don't as certain autocorrects are pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: It depends what platform you're using.
Speaker 1: It's I tell you what if somebody really struggled with
Speaker 1: spelling and it would take an enormous amount of time
Speaker 1: and energy to get them up to speed. No, I
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't devote that time and energy. I think it's
Speaker 1: a real time saver to be a good speller. But
Speaker 1: I see their point. You know what's funny is I
Speaker 1: mentioned I'm a lefty, and and I always reacted horribly
Speaker 1: to stories of back in the day parents would force
Speaker 1: their kids to write right handed. They'd even, like, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, put a mitten on the left hand and
Speaker 1: make them right handed, or you know. Certainly I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be in favor of beating a kid or whatever. But
Speaker 1: recently I've been on this kick of I will occasionally
Speaker 1: because I do things I'm partially I'm ambidextrous. It's practically
Speaker 1: at random what I do with my right hand what
Speaker 1: I do with my left, and I will occasionally realize, oh,
Speaker 1: that's funny, I use my right hand for that. I'm
Speaker 1: going to try it left handed for a week, and
Speaker 1: so I'll try to do that because I've heard that's
Speaker 1: good for the brain too.
Speaker 4: I've interesting new corrections, and I've never tried to do
Speaker 4: things left handed. Maybe I will, but I got I
Speaker 4: got really good.
Speaker 1: I got pretty damn good at brushing my teeth with
Speaker 1: the opposite hand.
Speaker 2: And I thought, you know, what.
Speaker 1: Writing right handed is much more efficient than left handed,
Speaker 1: and if I put a little time into it, I
Speaker 1: can learn to do that. As a kid, it would
Speaker 1: have been, you know, a little more difficult than learning
Speaker 1: to write left handed, which was what my brain wanted.
Speaker 2: But it would have been fine.
Speaker 4: I'll try brushing my teeth with my left hand a nine.
Speaker 4: See if I or a Saturday. I brushed my teeth
Speaker 4: every Saturday.
Speaker 1: Fair warning, you will jab yourself in the gums, right
Speaker 1: in the eye. Brush it.
Speaker 2: Well, that happened too.
Speaker 1: I have had the thing come out of my mouth
Speaker 1: and smeared toothpaste toothpaste all over my cheek.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 4: Gently gently Trump's making a deal with Zelensky that I
Speaker 4: think everybody will be on board with, no matter how
Speaker 4: interventionists or non interventionous you are. That's that I'm pretty
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