Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2: your we kid? Looking good? Fantastic? Glad to hear it.
Speaker 2: My son doesn't my birthday boy. He doesn't like cake,
Speaker 2: doesn't want a birthday cake his first year. He's old
Speaker 2: enough to just say out loud, don't give me a cake.
Speaker 2: I don't like like cake. I've never really liked cake either.
Speaker 2: I like it, I'll eat it, but.
Speaker 1: Let me eat cake. To paraphrase Marie Antoinette, who if.
Speaker 2: I got it? Ten choices for assert and one of
Speaker 2: them's cake, probably going to be a bunch of other things.
Speaker 2: I choose ahead a cake. I think my mom made
Speaker 2: a birthday pie a couple times. Mmm, the ultimate dessert. Yes,
Speaker 2: a cake would not be at the top of my list,
Speaker 2: right would. It would probably be a pie, A pie
Speaker 2: dressed up by ice cream even better.
Speaker 1: I like cheesecake, but that's not really cake. I love
Speaker 1: cheesecake cheesecakes. A pie, isn't it, folks? Or is it
Speaker 1: like the taco which I've long maintained as a sandwich.
Speaker 1: It's a hybrid, it's an in between her. Nobody knows.
Speaker 2: I will almost always order bread pudding if that's an option.
Speaker 2: You have never had any idea what you're gonna get
Speaker 2: because it varies so much.
Speaker 1: But bread pudding with a nice sauce drizzled on it,
Speaker 1: that's that's top of the heap, right there.
Speaker 2: Man, Yes, sir, oh that's right. We're doing a show.
Speaker 1: Let's get down to business to deal with I was
Speaker 1: talking about this with my kids the other day because
Speaker 1: we were at a fancy restaurant and we're talking about
Speaker 1: getting dessert.
Speaker 2: This was for my birthday, and my seventh grader said,
Speaker 2: I'd really I'd rather have a mcflory because there was
Speaker 2: a McDonald's we passed on the whole of the restaurant,
Speaker 2: and I was having the conversation that I often have.
Speaker 2: There's lots of desserts like that that if you serve
Speaker 2: that at a fancy restaurant and up the price and
Speaker 2: gave it a different name, people say, oh, this is good.
Speaker 2: Have you had the you know, give it an Italian
Speaker 2: name something or other at a fancy restaurant, mcflury's freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I haven't had one in many years because I'm
Speaker 1: not a child, so I don't know that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, man, remember our old sales guy friend Tim,
Speaker 2: who used to say he always wished they'd offer the back.
Speaker 2: Then he called it the one dollar dessert. Maybe now
Speaker 2: you need to call it the three dollar dessert, but
Speaker 2: just a smaller portion. I'd like dessert, but I don't
Speaker 2: need a piece of cake the sides of my head
Speaker 2: or whatever it is you're going to bring me that
Speaker 2: costs fifteen dollars. So if we all get dessert, you know,
Speaker 2: we've just increased the bill by fifty bucks. Can we
Speaker 2: just get, like, you know, a couple of bytes of
Speaker 2: one of these things for a couple bucks.
Speaker 1: Well, a dessert and dessert in three forks or four
Speaker 1: forks or whatever it is one way to approach it.
Speaker 2: But hey, Katy, you got to help me with this.
Speaker 2: What's what's the cake that's.
Speaker 1: Got like the chocolate sauce and stuff, the volcano cake
Speaker 1: or lava cakes? Yeah, yeah, oh now that's a good cake, right.
Speaker 2: I'm I was afraid to burn my tongue. I've never
Speaker 2: had it just sounds so hot. But is the reason
Speaker 2: they don't offer just a little nibble of everything. It's
Speaker 2: just that it'd be it's such a profit center to
Speaker 2: have people order the dessert and charge a lot for it.
Speaker 1: And now I'll bet there's data on its a guy
Speaker 1: who's in the like the umbrella management of restaurants world,
Speaker 1: and how it's amazing to me. It's you know, it's
Speaker 1: obvious when you think about it, but I never thought
Speaker 1: about how data driven it all is. How they have
Speaker 1: built in expectations about various days of the week, and
Speaker 1: the number of covers that they're going to serve, which
Speaker 1: is just restaurant term for people plates, and how carefully all.
Speaker 2: Of that is studied.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they absolutely could show you the spreadsheet of
Speaker 1: you know, percentage of diners who ordered desserts, how many
Speaker 1: are multiple desserts per table? And if you ordered the
Speaker 1: if you offered the little fellas, would you lose the
Speaker 1: profit from three different people wanting three different things?
Speaker 2: But I'm guessing that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So another thing I want to get to speaking
Speaker 1: of food this hour, is a little more on that
Speaker 1: whole ultra processed food thing. What does that mean? How
Speaker 1: can you tell of what your feed in your family
Speaker 1: is that? And also it's funny partly because of the
Speaker 1: Trump fever pitch of changes and orders and policies and
Speaker 1: tariffs and all. Did you realize the college CAMPI the
Speaker 1: alleged elite universities are every bit as cuckoo nuts pro
Speaker 1: hamas this year as they were last year.
Speaker 2: It's just not getting as much coverage.
Speaker 1: We could touch on that if we wanted, but first
Speaker 1: let's take a fond look back at the week there was.
Speaker 2: It's cow clips of the week, and we don't have
Speaker 2: time to kiss each those.
Speaker 3: Asses, which for the weak.
Speaker 2: America is back.
Speaker 3: Million dollars to promote lgbt q I plus in the
Speaker 3: African nation of Lesuto, which nobody has ever heard of.
Speaker 2: From the table, Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness is bad.
Speaker 3: It's gone, it's gone, and we feel so much better
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 2: Only don't we feel better? And now I want.
Speaker 3: Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex
Speaker 3: changes on children.
Speaker 4: Make no mistake that this is just another version of
Speaker 4: state sanctioned bullying and genocide.
Speaker 2: Would you do something like that? Would you say no?
Speaker 2: Men and female sports? Well, it's I think it's an
Speaker 2: issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that.
Speaker 2: Have you said thank you once?
Speaker 1: That is, he found every opportunity to try to Ukraine's
Speaker 1: plain on every issue.
Speaker 2: So I'm not hearing from you, mister president. Thought that
Speaker 2: you owe the president and apology.
Speaker 1: I think that we have to be very open and
Speaker 1: very honest. Are the Europeans willing to stand up for themselves?
Speaker 2: We must not give in to any exist.
Speaker 5: Pray, listen, this trend, if you all trying to get
Speaker 5: thrown out of committee so you can get on.
Speaker 2: ABC is going to end more. We're not gonna put
Speaker 2: up with it. What's the problem is that Democrats are
Speaker 2: on the wrong side of normal and you're going to
Speaker 2: continue to speak lies to his truth that ain't true.
Speaker 2: That's what you just heard. That's what you just heard.
Speaker 2: That's what you just saw.
Speaker 6: Trump adding a twenty five percent tax on all goods
Speaker 6: coming across the border, because if you've.
Speaker 3: Been influencing those decisions because of them are reaction. I'm
Speaker 3: not even looking at the market shallow me.
Speaker 7: You know, winning for Best Picture and the Oscar goes
Speaker 7: to Honora's.
Speaker 3: Fifty thousand and two points.
Speaker 1: Far better is it to dare mighty things to win
Speaker 1: glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank
Speaker 1: with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much
Speaker 1: because they live in a gray twilight that knows not
Speaker 1: victory nor defeat.
Speaker 2: Checkered by failure. The Armstrong and Giddy Show, that's that's
Speaker 2: a good.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So a couple of things on the oscars which I
Speaker 2: couldn't have told you for money, that were just this
Speaker 2: past Sunday. Adam Sandler is funny when he said hold
Speaker 2: on a second and he runs down to Timothy Shallowy Shallowy.
Speaker 2: Its just such an that means nothing but as funny.
Speaker 2: But that Anora movie. So, I haven't watched it. It's
Speaker 2: two hours long and it's about the sex industry. It's
Speaker 2: a dramedy, that's all I know about it. And it's
Speaker 2: about a yeah, sex worker who marries a retresh. Well,
Speaker 2: have you watch it? Uh? No, I just read it
Speaker 2: for it. So somebody told me the other day they
Speaker 2: watched it and the it's an The first hour is
Speaker 2: like watching a pornal, they said. It's just basically nothing
Speaker 2: but sex for an hour. They said, buck black because
Speaker 2: it's just an hour of sex. Then they really get
Speaker 2: into the you know, the plot. Yeah. One reviewer, a
Speaker 2: guy who I really respect.
Speaker 1: The one thing he said is, you know, if you
Speaker 1: like that sort of movie, it's a it's a pretty
Speaker 1: good one. But the idea that that's the best picture
Speaker 1: is just an indictment of movie making right now.
Speaker 2: Well, is it just they're thrilled with the idea of
Speaker 2: having something so sexual? Is I don't know. I'd have
Speaker 2: to watch it.
Speaker 1: I well, And a lot of the statements by people
Speaker 1: in support of it was all about humanizing sex work
Speaker 1: and sex work promoting their point of view. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. So a couple couple of shat app is right.
Speaker 1: A couple of thoughts on cow. First of all, on language,
Speaker 1: loved Trump not adopting the language of the woke left
Speaker 1: and saying we're not going to have sex changes. On children,
Speaker 1: don't ever use terms like gender affirming care.
Speaker 2: Hell, don't even use gender unless.
Speaker 1: You're in front of kids, and saying there are only
Speaker 1: two sexes will make them giggle because the word sex
Speaker 1: sex changes for children is the terminology to you. Secondly,
Speaker 1: that one woke moron talking about the transgender thing saying
Speaker 1: it's it's bullying and genocide. Those people are gonna do
Speaker 1: for the word genocide what they did for the word racist,
Speaker 1: render it completely meaningless by calling everything genocide all the time.
Speaker 1: Thank them for doing my work for me. Yeah, exactly
Speaker 1: exactly the same thing. And secondly I appreciate it, or
Speaker 1: thirdly I appreciated James Comer in that hearing saying, look
Speaker 1: this thing where you get thrown out of a committee
Speaker 1: hearing so you can get on an MSNBC. It's got
Speaker 1: to end. Call it for what it is, Well done,
Speaker 1: James Charley. I gotta watch the Dylan movie. When's it
Speaker 1: gonna be on my TV? I don't want to go
Speaker 1: to a theater?
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, dug that.
Speaker 1: Favorite Bob Dylanton. People don't know, uh huh.
Speaker 2: Favorite Bob Dylan. I think unless you're not an obvious
Speaker 2: hit almost all of them. Yeah I suppose so, yeah,
Speaker 2: obvious hit and have I hit you mean popular Bob
Speaker 2: Doylon because he didn't really have many hits?
Speaker 1: No, No, but like saying the times they are changing, No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm highly annoyed by the early they got, you know,
Speaker 2: used in the civil rights movement.
Speaker 1: That really you can't appreciate them as song craft, even
Speaker 1: so soured by life.
Speaker 2: He didn't even he drove him nuts. So all he
Speaker 2: drives me is a fan nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, mine's joker man. Love that song?
Speaker 1: Oh what time is it? Yeah, we gotta take a break,
Speaker 1: trying to think of my favorite deserted arrestaurant.
Speaker 2: Flowerless cake is a different kind of cake I will
Speaker 2: usually get if there's a chocolate flowerless cake. I love it.
Speaker 2: Dense as uranium. One bite and you need a cup
Speaker 2: of coffee or you're gonna die. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I take one bite and say, hey, take this back
Speaker 1: to the kitchen, put some flour in it.
Speaker 2: This is garbage. Okay, we got more on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here. Coming up, We got to read from this
Speaker 2: New York Times story that just hit about this explosive
Speaker 2: meeting that happened to the White House where people had
Speaker 2: had enough of Elon Musk and a cabinet members and
Speaker 2: Times makes crap up all the time. But this is
Speaker 2: Maggie Haberman who's made some stuff up through Russia hoax,
Speaker 2: but Jonathan Swan, who I usually trust. And also it
Speaker 2: just rings true. It just sounds like I can believe
Speaker 2: it actually happened Rubio has had enough of your musk
Speaker 2: and you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Marco, isn't some big donor or Johnny come
Speaker 1: lately appointed at the first task, you know, and kind
Speaker 1: of obsequious.
Speaker 2: For a cable news show.
Speaker 1: No right, So, speaking of breaking new stuff, I was
Speaker 1: just jumped on Twitter to check something and the first
Speaker 1: thing I come across is this. This is the last
Speaker 1: time I'll ask, seriously, does anyone know what happened to
Speaker 1: Anne Hash?
Speaker 8: What this is?
Speaker 1: Set the top of your mind of all the topics,
Speaker 1: or you could google it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some information out there somewhere, but you
Speaker 2: can't gather by the radio every day hoping someday we'll
Speaker 2: talk about whatever happened Anne.
Speaker 1: Hash, unless you're Anne Hash's sibling or mother of what
Speaker 1: the hell show you?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: Mention mentioned this earlier that more than half of American's
Speaker 1: diets are these ultra processed foods and it's really not
Speaker 1: good for you, and a big news study says that
Speaker 1: it's just about it's not I can't remember, it's it's
Speaker 1: more than half at home as well as eating out,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people assume it's all fast food
Speaker 1: that is the problem here, but it's not, and they
Speaker 1: hand along a healthy definition. Ultra Processed foods are industrial formulations.
Speaker 2: Oh, industrial formulations, mom.
Speaker 8: That's yummy.
Speaker 1: That contain substances with little or no nutritional values, such
Speaker 1: as colorings, immulsifiers, artificial flavors, and sweeteners. Examples include packaged snacks,
Speaker 1: sugary cereals, chips, hot dogs, prepackaged hot dogs.
Speaker 2: No, now, yes, now, you hurt my feelings. Look at
Speaker 2: nitrate rockets. They've called them that for twenty years.
Speaker 1: Beef, isn't there some No? No, no, well, yes, there's
Speaker 1: the one hundred percent of the meat in it is beef,
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Of the hot dog. The rest of it is emulcients
Speaker 2: or whatever that word was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, colorings and multifiers, artificial flavors, sweeteners, preservatives, rocket fuel,
Speaker 1: whatever else so helps.
Speaker 2: And you know worse, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Examples include package snacks, sugar, cereals, chips, hot dogs, prepackaged meats,
Speaker 1: prepackaged meals, and many types of bread.
Speaker 2: I contrast you, Yes, I can't tell you how many
Speaker 2: days of my life I have eaten only probably ultra
Speaker 2: processed food, maybe, like certainly as an adult, maybe two
Speaker 2: thirds of my days on earth. Yeah, yeah, not good.
Speaker 1: My contrast, minimally processed foods include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, eggs, milk,
Speaker 1: and other foods that undergo minimal processing like freezing or
Speaker 1: simple packaging without adding substantial ingredies.
Speaker 2: My brother said, the last time we all got together
Speaker 2: as a family, he said, I think I had a
Speaker 2: vegetable once in the nineties. He ate some vegetable just
Speaker 2: so Sam might eat vegetables when Sam was little, But
Speaker 2: other than that, he hasn't had a vegetable since the
Speaker 2: early nineties. And he's alive for his colon.
Speaker 1: And they make the point that minimally processed foods, this
Speaker 1: is the good stuff, tend to be more expensive, more perishable,
Speaker 1: less available in some communities, and require more cooking skills
Speaker 1: or pre planning. By contrast, ultra processed foods are easier
Speaker 1: and faster to prepare, often less expensive, and more shelf stable.
Speaker 2: Yeah. For me, it's the last longer stable part that
Speaker 2: sucks me in. I don't live in a food desert,
Speaker 2: thank god, where I don't have access because I'm a
Speaker 2: white guy. They made sure any white guys in this neighborhood,
Speaker 2: and let's put a grocery store in here.
Speaker 8: Yay.
Speaker 2: And it's not the expense, because it's only slightly more,
Speaker 2: but the fact that you know, it can sit in
Speaker 2: a box in the pantry for two months and you
Speaker 2: open the plastic bag and it's still perfectly fine. It's
Speaker 2: pretty handy, and you buy fruits and vegetables. You gotta
Speaker 2: eat them this weekend nor they're ruined.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Or the stuff can sit in the freezer
Speaker 1: for the rest of your natural life and your grandchildren
Speaker 1: in the year twenty You know, with twenty one forty,
Speaker 1: you'll open it up and say, hey, these hot pockets
Speaker 1: are pretty good. They haven't been manufactured for one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten years, but they're tasty tastes just like pepperoni. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the college kids are still completely nuts. Maybe we can
Speaker 1: get to that. You want to do the crypto thing?
Speaker 2: I don't know. We got a week and stuff into
Speaker 2: the rest of the show. Elosive New York Times story
Speaker 2: I want to read from, well, the explosive New York Times.
Speaker 2: It's gossip mostly, although not completely, because it hasn't everybody
Speaker 2: been wondering when's the Trump thing? The Elon Trump thing
Speaker 2: blow up. It's got to it at some point, right,
Speaker 2: doesn't it sure to? Anyway, this is some pretty good
Speaker 2: gossip among the things we got on coming up. If
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Speaker 9: Elon has been really teaching everybody about the numbers that
Speaker 9: you can do. But what I want is I want
Speaker 9: the numbers, but I also want.
Speaker 2: To keep the good people.
Speaker 9: We want to get rid of the people that aren't working,
Speaker 9: that aren't showing up and have a lot of problems.
Speaker 9: And so they're working together with Elon, and I think
Speaker 9: we're doing a really great job.
Speaker 2: Trump announcing yesterday that cabinet secretaries can keep whoever they
Speaker 2: want to keep if they're doing a good job. That's
Speaker 2: being read by some people as a bit of reigning
Speaker 2: in Elon's power. Elon, as I've said many times, is
Speaker 2: the only name in the last ten years that can
Speaker 2: rival Trump's for its ubiquitousness. At least in the last
Speaker 2: three weeks. I hear about Elon multiple times a day.
Speaker 2: Got an article in the Wall Street Journal today about
Speaker 2: how Tesla stock is down. They have a bunch of
Speaker 2: anecdotal quotes from people who are talking about selling their
Speaker 2: Tesla's as lefties because they're so embarrassed. It's like where
Speaker 2: it's like driving a giant MAGA hat, said one liberal.
Speaker 1: Okay, whatever, Yeah, you're some statistics that made us seem
Speaker 1: pretty significant. That yeah, change in the marketplace. I don't
Speaker 1: doubt it. I mean it was, well, it was a
Speaker 1: virtue signal to start with.
Speaker 2: There's no reason Tesla should be the most valuable car
Speaker 2: company in the world, no reason whatsoever, but it is
Speaker 2: even today. And so much of that was I want
Speaker 2: to be on the side of green energy and blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. And if it was a virtue signal, now
Speaker 2: that Elon is the number one MAGA supporter financially on
Speaker 2: planet Earth, you know, took a lot of the fun
Speaker 2: out for some people. Then you got Elon come in
Speaker 2: and run doge and everything like that, and trying to
Speaker 2: figure out, you know, just in his observer what his
Speaker 2: role is. He's not a cabinet secretary, how much power
Speaker 2: does he have. Well, maybe we learned a little something
Speaker 2: in the last couple of days. New York Times with
Speaker 2: an article today, and you got to take everything the
Speaker 2: New York Times writes with a grain of salt, because
Speaker 2: they've had a lot of crap over the years, but
Speaker 2: this is not surprising. Inside the explosive meeting where Trump
Speaker 2: officials clashed with Elon Musk, simmering anger at the billionaire's
Speaker 2: unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable cabinet room meeting.
Speaker 2: The President quickly moved to rain in, mister Musk, I
Speaker 2: just think that opening phrase unchecked power. According to who,
Speaker 2: he doesn't have any legitimate unchecked power. It doesn't even
Speaker 2: legitimate power whatsoever. So how do you call it unchecked
Speaker 2: if he doesn't actually have any power?
Speaker 1: Well, and how do you know it's not being checked?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a crocker crap it is.
Speaker 2: I'll read from the article Marco Rubio and sensed here
Speaker 2: he was in the cabinet room of the White House,
Speaker 2: the Secretary of State, seated beside the President and listening
Speaker 2: to a litany of attacks from the richest man in
Speaker 2: the world. All right, already, I'm pissed off at the
Speaker 2: New York Times. Why do you always have to put
Speaker 2: why does everybody who hates Elon always have to point
Speaker 2: out he's the richest man in the world. Why, I mean,
Speaker 2: what are you trying to say with that phrase? I
Speaker 2: think we all know, we do all know, and it's dumb.
Speaker 2: You're trying to claim that because he's the richest man
Speaker 2: in the world, we should be extra skeptical of his
Speaker 2: opinion or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, what the or assum's evil actually more interested? Well,
Speaker 1: it's a very interesting thing, I'll grant that, But is
Speaker 1: it really more interesting and more descriptive than the most
Speaker 1: innovative engineer of our generation, Oh, the most important figure
Speaker 1: in space exploration since NASA? How about the man who
Speaker 1: built the most valuable car company on Earth. The sheer
Speaker 1: fact of his wealth ain't the significant part to me.
Speaker 2: No, I was telling and it's interesting, my uh, I
Speaker 2: have to keep my voice done because he's right out there.
Speaker 2: My seventh grader doesn't like Elon because of Elon's got
Speaker 2: all these kids, and he has picked up on the
Speaker 2: fat that the fact that Elon is clearly not being
Speaker 2: a dad, yeah, and doesn't like him for that reason,
Speaker 2: which you know, I understand, knocking him on that. I
Speaker 2: was trying to explain to him, how yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: like that at all either, But I think ultimately I
Speaker 2: think Elon will be remembered hundreds of years from now
Speaker 2: in the same way that like Da Vinci's remembered, or
Speaker 2: Isaac Newton or a variety of people. I think he
Speaker 2: is that level of person. Where was I going with this? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 2: the whole richest man in the world. Whatever, Unless I'm
Speaker 2: just reading too much into it, I feel like it's
Speaker 2: always used as a pejorative, like he's the richest man
Speaker 2: in the world, So give him extra scrutiny, because there's
Speaker 2: no way you'd become the richest man in the world
Speaker 2: without being evil on some level. You weird anti capitalist
Speaker 2: nut jobs. Anyway, back to the article. Seated diagonally opposite
Speaker 2: from Marco Rubio across the elliptical mahogany table, Elon Musk
Speaker 2: was letting mister Rubio have it, accusing him of failing
Speaker 2: to slash his staff. You have fired nobody, mister Musk
Speaker 2: told Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person
Speaker 2: he had fired was a staff member from his Department
Speaker 2: of Government Efficiency. Mister Rubio had been privately furious with
Speaker 2: mister Musk for weeks, ever since his DOGE team effectively
Speaker 2: shuddered an entired agency that was supposedly under mister Rubio's control.
Speaker 2: That's the United States Agency for International Development, that USAID thing,
Speaker 2: because that's supposed to be run by Rubio in the
Speaker 2: State Department. But in the extraordinary cabinet meeting in front
Speaker 2: of the President around twenty others, details of which have
Speaker 2: not been reported before since the New York Times, mister
Speaker 2: Rubio got his grievances off his chest. Mister Musk was
Speaker 2: not being truthful. Rubio said, what about the more than
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts?
Speaker 2: Didn't they count his layoffs? He asks, sarcastically whether mister
Speaker 2: Musk wanted him to rehire all those people just so
Speaker 2: he could make a show of firing them again. Then
Speaker 2: he laid out his detailed plans for reorganizing the State Department.
Speaker 2: Musk was unimpressed. He told mister Rubio he was good
Speaker 2: on TV, with clear subtext being that he wasn't good
Speaker 2: for much else. Throughout all this, the President sat back
Speaker 2: in his chair, arms folded, as if he were watching
Speaker 2: a tennis match. Wow, which is sometimes good bosson as
Speaker 2: he let you know, people fight it out, kind of
Speaker 2: observe what's going on here.
Speaker 1: Let's let off steam and then talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that part does not.
Speaker 2: Ring fictional to me. I believe all of this.
Speaker 1: Part of the totality of Elon Musk is undoubtedly his
Speaker 1: autism and his quirks. He is not like Steve Jobs
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. But some of the great
Speaker 1: geniuses who've altered history and technology have been extremely difficult
Speaker 1: to work with. And not just because you couldn't keep
Speaker 1: up with their genius. No, it's because they're a holes.
Speaker 1: It's because they either don't care about other people's lives
Speaker 1: and feelings and the rest of it, or they're not
Speaker 1: capable of it.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, this does not strike me as nutty. After
Speaker 2: the argument dragged on for an uncomfortable time, mister Trump
Speaker 2: finally intervened to defend mister Rubio is doing a great job.
Speaker 2: Mister Rubio has a lot to deal with, the President said,
Speaker 2: he's very busy, he's always traveling on TV, and he
Speaker 2: had an agency to run, so everyone just needs to
Speaker 2: work together. The meeting was a potential inflection point after
Speaker 2: the frenetic first weeks of mister Trump's second term. It
Speaker 2: yielded the first significant indication that mister Trump is willing
Speaker 2: to put some limits on mister Musk. Again, I think
Speaker 2: that's I think you on the left were acting like
Speaker 2: he had free reign to do whatever he wanted. I'm
Speaker 2: sure Trumpet never at any point thought Elon gets to
Speaker 2: do whatever he wants. Musk, whose efforts have become the
Speaker 2: subject of several lawsuits and prompted concerns from Republican lawmakers.
Speaker 2: Cabinet officials almost uniformly like the concept of what mister
Speaker 2: Musk set out to do reducing waste, fraud and abusing government,
Speaker 2: but had been frustrated by the hacksaw approach to up
Speaker 2: ending the government and the lack of consistent coordination. We
Speaker 2: have hailed his approach to rocketry in that they fail
Speaker 2: fast and learn faster. It's a different thing approaching government,
Speaker 2: though for a variety of reasons. And there are aspects
Speaker 2: of what he's done and how he's done it that
Speaker 2: remind me of his rocketry stuff. And you can't always
Speaker 2: adapt a methodology from one thing to another completely smoothly.
Speaker 2: So again this strikes me is it sounds true and
Speaker 2: it's not shocking, But the other reality of Elon Musk
Speaker 2: in the way he does things is he learns from
Speaker 2: it and adjusts. Last part I'll read Thursday's meeting, which
Speaker 2: was abruptly scheduled on Wednesday evening, was it's a sign
Speaker 2: that mister Trump is mindful of the growing complaints. I'll
Speaker 2: bet all these people have gone to him said, dude,
Speaker 2: you gotta do something about Elon being up my shorts. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Trump tried to offer each side something by praising both
Speaker 2: mister Musk and his cabinet secretaries. At least one treachery secretary,
Speaker 2: Scott Bessant, who has had tents encounters related to mister
Speaker 2: Musk's team, was not president. The President made clear he
Speaker 2: still supported Dog's mission, but now was the time, he said,
Speaker 2: to be a bit more refined in the approach. From
Speaker 2: now on, Trump said the secretaries would be in charge,
Speaker 2: as you just heard in that last clip, and the
Speaker 2: Musk team would only advise. So he said that out
Speaker 2: loud in front of Musk and all the secretaries. From
Speaker 2: now on, Doge advises secretaries are in charge of who
Speaker 2: gets laid off, fired, lectured, whatever.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Right, Yeah, yeah, all right, I am not troubled
Speaker 1: by all right, a little too much, too fast, rained
Speaker 1: it in a little bit as oppose to the exact opposite, which.
Speaker 2: Has existed for a generation. Doesn't bother me either. Mister Musk,
Speaker 2: who wore a suit and tie to Thursday's meeting instead
Speaker 2: of his usual T shirt after mister Trump publicly ribbed
Speaker 2: him about his sloppy appearance, defended himself by saying that
Speaker 2: he has three companies with a market cap of tens
Speaker 2: of billions of dollars and that his results speak for themselves.
Speaker 2: He must have been feeling a little cornered to have
Speaker 2: to throw that out there. Yes, yeah, I My guess
Speaker 2: would be just from what I know of Elon, And
Speaker 2: I keep meaning to read that Walter Isacson book, because
Speaker 2: Walter Isacson got to follow Elon around for weeks and months,
Speaker 2: and I just want to know more about the way
Speaker 2: Elon works. Elon seems to flip from thing to thing,
Speaker 2: which he gets to do, and like he gets super
Speaker 2: into like the new Tesla thing, and then I think
Speaker 2: he gets bored with it. Now I wonder what's going
Speaker 2: on with the Rocket company, and then I wonder how
Speaker 2: are doing with the chips and the monkey brains, And
Speaker 2: I just think either out of Okay, fine, you don't
Speaker 2: like the way I'm doing it, I'm gonna go over
Speaker 2: here and work on chips and monkey brains. I just
Speaker 2: think at some point he's gonna be He's gonna hand
Speaker 2: it off to somebody, and you're not gonna hear much
Speaker 2: from Elon. He ain't gonna be around DC all the time. Right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I suspect so too. You know, another way
Speaker 1: to look at this couple of things. I remember in
Speaker 1: school I used to hate when we had to do
Speaker 1: group projects. And this is this is not some sort
Speaker 1: of weird, humble brag, but it always was the case
Speaker 1: that it would slow me down.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Later in life, as you know, I got to choose
Speaker 1: who I worked with and all it became like a
Speaker 1: privilege and great to work with other people with great ideas,
Speaker 1: and but in school, especially when you're randomly assigned, you know,
Speaker 1: I can do this a lot faster and a lot
Speaker 1: better if I don't have to, you know, include you. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk has that personality to his core because he's
Speaker 1: like unspeakably brilliant and mind bogglingly energetic. So I get
Speaker 1: that one hundred percent, and you can make that work
Speaker 1: Steve jobs in a private corporation. But the very nature
Speaker 1: of our government, with the three branches of government, and
Speaker 1: then the layers of how they function within each branch,
Speaker 1: and then how they interrelate. You cannot have a mad
Speaker 1: genius run that the way he runs SpaceX.
Speaker 2: You just can't. Those of us. On the other end
Speaker 2: of the personality spectrum, you get into a group setting
Speaker 2: and you got some gung hole person like Joe, and
Speaker 2: you think he usually gets good greates feel free. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you knock yourself out, and I'll sit here and stare
Speaker 2: at my zipper while you do all the work and
Speaker 2: are going to be also and awesome, not even out
Speaker 2: the window at the birds. We all finish strong next.
Speaker 6: Pro Palestinian protesters really think they're in charge.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: They think they can go to the Dean, go to
Speaker 6: the president of these Ivy League universities and tell them
Speaker 6: they have a long list of demands, saying they're not
Speaker 6: going to stop until they get what they want. Even
Speaker 6: though President Trump is threatened to pull that funding and
Speaker 6: throw those agitators behind bars, the chaos continues. The students
Speaker 6: who have their faces covered all the time with the
Speaker 6: headscarf set up what they called a liberation zone inside
Speaker 6: of the library at Barnard College, chanting Free Palestine and
Speaker 6: blocking the doors for how long? At least four hours.
Speaker 2: Students who pay.
Speaker 6: Big money intuition couldn't even get inside to studies.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm always going on about how badly we need
Speaker 1: to reform the university system.
Speaker 2: Maybe we just stand back. Yeah, no kidding, let it
Speaker 2: tear itself down. My first thought on hearing that if
Speaker 2: I was the dean, you see, the thing you always
Speaker 2: got to remember about these stories is the dean agrees
Speaker 2: with them. That's why this goes on. But if I
Speaker 2: were the dean, they come in there and they say,
Speaker 2: here's our list of demands.
Speaker 1: I think, okay, good for you, and here's my list
Speaker 1: of responses. One middle finger, two middle fingers, knock yourself out,
Speaker 1: hand me the demands, and if you don't meet them
Speaker 1: by midnight tonight, we're gonna okay, well, if you block
Speaker 1: the doors of the library, we're gonna kick out of school.
Speaker 8: The end.
Speaker 2: That's the end of the.
Speaker 1: Discussion, right right, Stephen Miller, We've got the clip, But
Speaker 1: why bother, he says, Look, Trump's made it clear, expel
Speaker 1: these students are you're gonna lose the funding. And I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what that enforcement mechanism looks like, but
Speaker 1: by Gully, we have let our university system go completely
Speaker 1: seeking up.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't say so if you got students going to
Speaker 2: the dean and say here's our list of demands and
Speaker 2: you must meet them, and the dan acts like he
Speaker 2: needs to like that. If you saw the video, is
Speaker 2: this I think the same dean from Barnard asking permission
Speaker 2: to go to the bathroom when he was being held
Speaker 2: against his will a couple of weeks ago. What that
Speaker 2: ought to be known from coast to coast.
Speaker 1: People ought to know in every burg in America that
Speaker 1: that happened and and understand what it means, because that's
Speaker 1: a power symbol, but powerful symbol. But so much of
Speaker 1: the media is uncomfortable reporting this. Oh and on that topic,
Speaker 1: I have laid out a couple of times the thought,
Speaker 1: the question the request that I can't picture any result
Speaker 1: to the Israel Hamas thing other than the complete annihilation
Speaker 1: of Hamas and Israeli control over the Palestinian territories or
Speaker 1: a massive change in the leadership among Palestinians. And nobody's
Speaker 1: ever said no, Joe, here's what you're missing. Nobody has
Speaker 1: ever responded to that. If you'd like to mail bag
Speaker 1: at armstrong ineddy dot com.
Speaker 2: I believe in a two states solution.
Speaker 8: Oh strong Strong Strong.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's good. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Hey, le's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: To wrap things up for the day. In the week,
Speaker 1: there is our technical director, Michelangelo.
Speaker 2: Michael.
Speaker 4: Well, my dad shared the same birthday as your son, Jack,
Speaker 4: And as a tribute to my dad, I'm gonna eat
Speaker 4: some maybe prime reb or Mexican food. I'm just glad
Speaker 4: he had good taste that you know, he didn't eat
Speaker 4: liver or something that would have been a bummer.
Speaker 1: Oh, agreed, Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman As a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 6: Just opened my new slip on knee braces for the gym,
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Speaker 2: Relieved that they came with a user manual, actually instructions
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Speaker 2: Huh okay, Jack, a final thought? Uh yeah, make it
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Speaker 1: App up and thinking about the university system because I'm
Speaker 1: so bothered by it.
Speaker 2: I didn't get to it mentally, Joe Getty worn down
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Speaker 1: I'm frustrated my golf game got canceled tomorrow. I'm not
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Speaker 1: screwed up.
Speaker 2: I'm taking my birthday boy oldest son and a couple
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Speaker 2: Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 3: You know what, everybody knows it.
Speaker 2: They need to tone it down. And I think I
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