Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetty and choices we got in life? Those
Speaker 3: were your choices? Who show somebody got shot?
Speaker 2: Oh? How good? Hold on the dirty dead? What on
Speaker 2: one with my da?
Speaker 3: Don't shatby?
Speaker 2: What the hell is this?
Speaker 3: Everybody?
Speaker 2: That is?
Speaker 4: That is Rapper too low? Who is appearing as a
Speaker 4: kiss a guest on a podcast? Who the gun went
Speaker 4: off in his pocket? Apparently somehow?
Speaker 1: Okay, first of all, guests on a podcast. To have
Speaker 1: a podcast, all you need to do is own a
Speaker 1: phone or a computer. So is this a podcast with
Speaker 1: any I mean anyway, So he's sitting around talking to
Speaker 1: a guy and his gun goes off. What's the most
Speaker 1: interesting to me is these people live such a lifestyle.
Speaker 1: The reaction is, Hey, who's gun went off? Somebody's got.
Speaker 2: Somebody's gun went off.
Speaker 1: Whereas most of the company I keep, if there were
Speaker 1: a gun shot in the room, we would all be
Speaker 1: quite flabbergasted.
Speaker 2: Who shot who?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, is that a gun in your pocket?
Speaker 4: Or you're just happy to be on my podcast. Hello,
Speaker 4: play that again, Michael, just the beginning.
Speaker 3: Of it and choices we got in life. Those were
Speaker 3: your choices.
Speaker 2: Somebody show Are they okay? All right? Getting back to
Speaker 2: our topic, motivating ourselves for the new year?
Speaker 1: Rapper too low? If metick to your diet through January.
Speaker 1: Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 4: So there are a couple of things I wanted to
Speaker 4: do yesterday as kind of a kicking off the year thing.
Speaker 2: But we have so much, let's get to it. We
Speaker 2: can't get to all of it. But I love this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hit you with part of it and then
Speaker 2: we'll move on. We got a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 4: But this is written by a guy named Jeff Goldstein,
Speaker 4: who is a writer I really like, and he has
Speaker 4: this redeclaration of independence, and you'll know what he's driving
Speaker 4: at immediately. Be it so understood. This is my vow
Speaker 4: for the new year too. I refuse to unpack white violence.
Speaker 4: I reject the idea that my existence perpetuates white power structures.
Speaker 4: I will not, and in fact cannot, examine my ipplicit biases.
Speaker 2: I'm an individual. I refuse to grant determined interpretive communities
Speaker 2: authority over my being, my meaning is mine. It's what
Speaker 2: makes me me.
Speaker 4: I'm not taking any journey to discover the impact of
Speaker 4: my privilege on black and brown people. I will not
Speaker 4: become anti racist or anti fascist to satisfy your demands.
Speaker 4: I reject cultural Marxism. I am an individual. I'm not
Speaker 4: divined by my color, my lorige, and my sex. I'm
Speaker 4: jeff good to meet you. I will not respect your
Speaker 4: pronouns or celebrate your queerness. I am hostile to your
Speaker 4: sexualization of children. I reject your triggers and your desire
Speaker 4: to control my speech.
Speaker 2: I know who and what you are.
Speaker 4: You are my presumptive master, or else the useful idiot
Speaker 4: who empowers him. But I will grant you and your
Speaker 4: ideology no power over me. There's more you want to
Speaker 4: hear a little more sure. I reject equity because it
Speaker 4: is collectivism disguised as virtue. I reject inclusivity because it
Speaker 4: is inorganic, superficial, and contrived.
Speaker 2: I reject mandated diversity.
Speaker 4: I will not surrender to the crayon box mafia, nor
Speaker 4: do the gender changelings who pretend I am construct answerable
Speaker 4: to the whims.
Speaker 2: Cultural appropriation is merely culture.
Speaker 4: It expands to include and it makes up the very
Speaker 4: fabric of a pluralistic society. No such thing as digital blackface.
Speaker 4: My whiteness is not violent, my sex is not oppressive.
Speaker 4: My religion doesn't concern you, and my children are not
Speaker 4: yours to mold.
Speaker 2: Your beliefs will not be imposed on me.
Speaker 4: The state will not parent my Sonsy Yes.
Speaker 2: Digital blackface, I'd forgotten that term.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and again if you've lost a thread, This
Speaker 4: is a re declaration of independence.
Speaker 2: Queer theory is critical. Race theory is critical.
Speaker 4: Consciousness is the Marxist rejection of the individual as individual.
Speaker 4: I have some stats on how many states queer theory
Speaker 4: is being taught in schools to little children as truth
Speaker 4: and is as shocking. Well, one more time. Queer theory
Speaker 4: is critical. Race theory is critical. Consciousness is the Marxist
Speaker 4: rejection of the individual as individual. Cultural Marxism is determined
Speaker 4: to raise norms so chaos, tear families asunder, and reduce
Speaker 4: being to collective conformity. I reject its premises is fully
Speaker 4: as I reject its adherents. I will not comply. I
Speaker 4: will not mouth your slogans. I will not denounce on command.
Speaker 4: I am not your tool and you are not my minder,
Speaker 4: and he has a little more about my speech is
Speaker 4: my own. I reject each of your excuses to silence me.
Speaker 4: I don't ask for your protections. I can filter information
Speaker 4: without your interference, Mark Zuckerberg, and I despise your presumption
Speaker 4: to protect me from myself. I am your sworn enemy,
Speaker 4: and you are mine. I will not perform for you.
Speaker 4: I will not read from your script or dancing your follies.
Speaker 4: Oh my brother, we'll post this at armstrong igedti dot com.
Speaker 2: It is brilliant and he goes on. But that's the main.
Speaker 1: Party, and it fits in with that Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: article I was reading from last hour. The progressive moment
Speaker 1: in global politics is over. That moment existed mostly online
Speaker 1: and with the high level university set. It was a
Speaker 1: much smaller group than we all fought were feared, thank god.
Speaker 2: But it was.
Speaker 1: Misleading because it was so prevalent in TV, newspapers and
Speaker 1: Twitter in places like that. But it was not near
Speaker 1: as big as we all thought. And the best thing
Speaker 1: that could happen to people that are on the right
Speaker 1: side of that, and you could be a lifelong Democrat
Speaker 1: and be to the right of all that stuff by
Speaker 1: a law shirt like Bill Maherr and lots of people.
Speaker 1: The best thing that could happen for us is if
Speaker 1: they continue to believe that they have the numbers they
Speaker 1: think they have as opposed to the tiny fraction that
Speaker 1: actually agrees with them.
Speaker 2: Right. I'm reminded of something great you've brought to us.
Speaker 4: I think it was last year about how it only
Speaker 4: takes fifteen percent of a population that's dedicated to a
Speaker 4: revolution to make it successful. Because you want to give
Speaker 4: us the nickel version of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to have the fifteen percent really really
Speaker 1: active group that wants to overthrow the current regime. But
Speaker 1: you get a big enough chunk of people who mostly
Speaker 1: agree with you. They're not going to really do much,
Speaker 1: but they're not going to get in the way. And
Speaker 1: then you have the crowd that's scared of you, and
Speaker 1: you can easily get over fifty percent.
Speaker 4: Right, right, And that's how you went. And imagine if
Speaker 4: you were in that hardcore fifteen percent that wanted to,
Speaker 4: I don't know, for the sake of the argument overthrow
Speaker 4: Western society in the name of neo Marxism. Imagine if
Speaker 4: your first step was to capture media and education. I mean,
Speaker 4: that would be an enormous coupe because you could, and
Speaker 4: I'm stating the obvious here, you could project the idea
Speaker 4: that you have way way more mass than you do
Speaker 4: for your radical ideas like radical gender theory, which I will.
Speaker 2: Give you a clue.
Speaker 4: It's like over a third of American states are teaching
Speaker 4: radical gender theory. There's no such thing as a man
Speaker 4: or a woman. You get to choose to little kids
Speaker 4: in schools. So man, these scumbags, And I'm sorry for
Speaker 4: the for the you know, I'm a wardsmith. I can
Speaker 4: do better than that. I apologize these monsters. At least
Speaker 4: it's more adult. The fact that these monsters have gotten
Speaker 4: as far as they have is really really troubling. But
Speaker 4: you know, on we go with the fight Trudeau resigning
Speaker 4: in Canada is a lot of what sparked, For instance,
Speaker 4: the Ulstreet Journal article one on the list of Western
Speaker 4: leaders or parties that have really suffered defeats, trying to
Speaker 4: ride the whole pronouns LATINEX, you should be ashamed of
Speaker 4: yourself for being a white male thang.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, he was huge into that.
Speaker 4: And what's really troubling about this, and we've had a
Speaker 4: bunch of conversations as you got to year. Well, just
Speaker 4: you keep calling it fifteen percent for the sake of
Speaker 4: the argument, you get your hardcore fifteen percent that are activists. Well,
Speaker 4: the genius of neo Marxism developed in the intellectual salons
Speaker 4: of Europe in the forties and fifties, nineteen forties and
Speaker 4: nineteen fifties. They wrote books, they signed their name, they
Speaker 4: told us precisely what they wanted to do. The genius
Speaker 4: of it is they have crafted, and it's an evil genius,
Speaker 4: these moral sounding arguments that convince a certain sort of
Speaker 4: person that they are doing the right thing morally by
Speaker 4: becoming an adherent to Neo Marxism. And it's particularly effective
Speaker 4: among women who want to seek agreement and groups and
Speaker 4: acceptance of that sort of thing. And it's particularly successful
Speaker 4: among your university crowd who want to be on the
Speaker 4: cutting edge of thought. That's how they gratify their egos
Speaker 4: by being the innovator, the new person, the revolutionary. It's
Speaker 4: incredibly I mean, they take practically sexual glee for being
Speaker 4: innovators in the universities, because how are you going to
Speaker 4: justify your big salary if you in any level of education,
Speaker 4: say you know that stuff we've been doing, it's perfect.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't change it at all. Sure you've wasted your PhD.
Speaker 4: So anyway, man, you have heard a lot of gunsh uns.
Speaker 4: If your reaction to a gun shot in a room
Speaker 4: is this.
Speaker 3: And choices we got in life? Those were your choices?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 2: Who could be calmer than that shot? Who did somebody
Speaker 2: get shot?
Speaker 5: Huh what?
Speaker 2: It would be the.
Speaker 1: Most amazing thing that ever happened in my life if
Speaker 1: a gun went off in a room.
Speaker 2: We're sitting there interviewing, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Rich Lowry from the National Review of rich says who
Speaker 4: shot who?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 2: Somebody gets shot? And choices we got in life? Those
Speaker 2: were your choices?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 4: It actually pretty interesting conversation before you know, the gun
Speaker 4: went on. So the other thing I wanted to squeeze
Speaker 4: in a couple more kind of wrapping up the year,
Speaker 4: looking forward to the year things, because I I'll rant
Speaker 4: and rave about the previous story.
Speaker 2: For the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: But uh, Jan Crawford was on CBS's face the Nation Sunday.
Speaker 4: I saw that, and she brought the thunder that the
Speaker 4: most uncovered and underreported topic last year was clearly she said,
Speaker 4: quote that to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline, they
Speaker 4: became undeniable in the televised debate, unquestioned that that's the
Speaker 4: most underreported story of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely true, but will be lost to history.
Speaker 2: It's amazing that there isn't more introspection over that.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the really interesting part, she says, still incredibly,
Speaker 4: we read in the Washington Post that his advisers are
Speaker 4: saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race,
Speaker 4: that he thinks he could have beaten Trump. And I
Speaker 4: think that is either delusional or the gaslighting the American people.
Speaker 2: But CBS's chief Election.
Speaker 4: And campaign correspondent Robert Costa jumped up and said, well,
Speaker 4: President Biden has repeatedly said he was sick during the
Speaker 4: debate in Atlanta, and he's always been fine, and he
Speaker 4: leaves fine. That is his position, the position of many
Speaker 4: of his top stadents as well, is even though there
Speaker 4: is that reporting that Jan was talking to reduce the obvious,
Speaker 4: accepted by everyone reality of Joe Biden's cogg Gold decline,
Speaker 4: as there is that reporting, but he has now Jan
Speaker 4: he has said repeatedly ad a cold Costa's lost to me,
Speaker 4: he's he's lost his mind.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that's for. Eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: America before that debate thought he shouldn't serve again. So
Speaker 1: I don't know who you're serving with that, But enjoy
Speaker 1: your bubble bob. Why haven't I invested in an Invidios stock?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I can't say it pronounce it correctly.
Speaker 2: It was fine. They made a big announcement. Today's jumping again.
Speaker 2: Damn it, damn it late.
Speaker 1: Don't get in now. The announcement's pretty interesting, among other things.
Speaker 1: On the way, stay.
Speaker 2: Here, Okay, why is this happening to me on a Monday.
Speaker 2: I'm in a waymo car to writer support. This may
Speaker 2: be recorded for quality assurance. This car is just going
Speaker 2: in circles either, Mike is a scab. I'm calling from
Speaker 2: Weymouth Support.
Speaker 4: I'm just calling because I receive a notification at your
Speaker 4: car might be experiencing some rotting issue.
Speaker 2: Please scare with me while I am here. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: got a flight to catch. Why is this thing going
Speaker 2: in a circle. I'm getting dizzy and I'm really really sorry.
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 2: We're currently working with the situation on the vehicle.
Speaker 4: Is it circling around a parking lot?
Speaker 2: Rowing around a parking lot? I got my seat belt on,
Speaker 2: I can't get out the car. Has this been hacked?
Speaker 2: What's going on? I feel like I'm in the movies.
Speaker 1: So that's a guy in one of the Waymo cars
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. They're all over the place. I was
Speaker 1: there just a couple of weeks ago, and I've been
Speaker 1: meaning to ride one. The only thing that slowed me
Speaker 1: down is they don't remember to download the app, and
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta download the app and put in
Speaker 1: a credit card and blah blah blah that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: As soon as I remember to do that, I will
Speaker 1: ride one of those Waymouth cars. They're all over the place.
Speaker 1: Say look really cool, And every once in a while
Speaker 1: you have a story like this where a guy is
Speaker 1: trapped inside and it's going in circles?
Speaker 2: Are they they?
Speaker 1: You know, they come to something in the road and
Speaker 1: they don't know what to do, But they're driving constantly
Speaker 1: all over the city, so most of the time it
Speaker 1: must work pretty well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And they're expanding to I can't remember. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to find the article in front of me. It's a
Speaker 4: bunch of different cities in Texas and that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: This is the year that not nationwise certainly, but in
Speaker 4: spots across the country, the self driving cab becomes a reality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that leads me into this story. What is
Speaker 1: the most valuable company in the world. If you're in
Speaker 1: stocks at all, you probably know that it's Nvidia, Nvdia.
Speaker 1: They need another vowel in there. It's surprising that they've
Speaker 1: been as successful as they have. Three and a half
Speaker 1: trillion dollars, outstrips the previous number one, which had been
Speaker 1: for decades, Apple by a lot. And it's ninety percent
Speaker 1: of their businesses these computer chips, well the consumer some
Speaker 1: were An electronic show in Las Vegas is going on
Speaker 1: right now. Remember when you went a couple of years ago, Michael.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a cool thing to go.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had a great time. Yeah, a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I would love to go some year just to check
Speaker 1: it out once. But anyway, the guy that runs in Vidia,
Speaker 1: Jensen Wang.
Speaker 2: Is that how you say his name? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I should know, since he's one of the most powerful
Speaker 1: people in the world. Unveiled their next family of gaming
Speaker 1: chips that he says, is going to make robotics technology
Speaker 1: just explode. These new chips are twice as fast as
Speaker 1: the previous chips, not a marginal increase, ten percent faster,
Speaker 1: twenty percent, fifty percent, twice as fast, wow, as the
Speaker 1: previous chips.
Speaker 2: And what it's going to do about Yeah.
Speaker 1: And he says that in the next couple years, robots
Speaker 1: will be training robots, because that's one of the things
Speaker 1: that's really slowing things down is having people have to
Speaker 1: program all these robots one at a time and it's
Speaker 1: just a laboring ten some slow et cetera.
Speaker 2: Robots.
Speaker 4: So you say goodbye to your internal organs, as they'll
Speaker 4: be ripping them out when they come for you.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they would come and rip out
Speaker 1: my internal organs, but you're a fool.
Speaker 2: But I guess that's the real hold up.
Speaker 1: So when the robots can train the robots, then you'll
Speaker 1: have just an exponential doubling every time explosion of robots everywhere.
Speaker 2: We'll see how that goes. Wow.
Speaker 4: But gaming robots, I mean, that's that's what I need
Speaker 4: to I would like a robot sparring partner, because you
Speaker 4: know how much I love to box. That would I
Speaker 4: don't love to box, but that'd be something though, or
Speaker 4: tennis or what have you. Nobody wants to play golf
Speaker 4: that dad, say, robot, let's go play nine holes.
Speaker 1: We've been kind of sleeping as a as a species
Speaker 1: on this whole AI Robot thaning. But it's coming fast
Speaker 1: and it'll it'll be fun to watch it. And I
Speaker 1: don't know do whatever it's going to do to the world.
Speaker 4: Well, those of us who feel the existent terror will
Speaker 4: be in the woods hiding from our robot overlords. And
Speaker 4: you fools, you naive fools, you'll be the first to
Speaker 4: have your organs yanked.
Speaker 1: At tell you what if I could get one to
Speaker 1: do all my kids laundry, I'll buy it tomorrow. That'd
Speaker 1: be pretty awesome. We got a lot more on the way.
Speaker 1: Text line is four one five nine five kftc Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty. So Mark Zuckerberg, who runs Facebook? Facebook's still
Speaker 1: how big a deal with Facebook?
Speaker 2: Still? I don't have.
Speaker 1: A sense of that when I googled on the wayne right, Well,
Speaker 1: it's not as big as it once was. I realize that,
Speaker 1: but uh, is it still? But you mean Facebook?
Speaker 2: Or Meta? Well?
Speaker 1: I know it's meta. We no I mean Facebook, I
Speaker 1: mean Facebook. How big a deal of Facebook?
Speaker 4: Well, it's still making enormous amounts of revenue, right, It's
Speaker 4: easy to say, well, it's declining. It's declined from a
Speaker 4: zillion dollars a year in revenue to you know whatever,
Speaker 4: slightly less than that.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, or it's declined from every buddies on it
Speaker 1: all day to most people are on it a lot,
Speaker 1: which still makes you very dominant.
Speaker 2: AnyWho.
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg, who runs the thing, made to some big announcements
Speaker 1: today was on Fox to talk about it.
Speaker 6: We're gonna get back to our roots and focus on
Speaker 6: reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on
Speaker 6: our platforms. More specifically, we're going to get rid of
Speaker 6: fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to
Speaker 6: X starting in the US.
Speaker 4: If you're making big changes, does that mean you were
Speaker 4: doing something wrong before?
Speaker 2: Look, this is a great opportunity for us to reset
Speaker 2: the balance in favor of free expression. As Mark says
Speaker 2: in that video, what we're doing today is we're getting
Speaker 2: back to our roots and free expression.
Speaker 1: That is pretty damned interesting. I think it's really good news.
Speaker 1: But it's first of all, it's interesting that He's okay
Speaker 1: with flat out saying in his announcement, We're going to
Speaker 1: do it like Twitter's doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just basically Elon's right and I was wrong.
Speaker 4: I think it's at least my interesting that that second
Speaker 4: voice you heard was Joel Kaplan, who's this spokeshole for
Speaker 4: Meta as opposed to Mark Zuckerberg, because in a very
Speaker 4: politician y way, he refused to acknowledge any mistake.
Speaker 2: You just well, who are going to get back to
Speaker 2: our roots of blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Because Zuckerberg has said not unfactioned friends, I think that
Speaker 4: was he on tape, doesn't matter. He said it's gone
Speaker 4: too far quote We've reached a point where it's just
Speaker 4: too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent elections
Speaker 4: also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again
Speaker 4: prioritizing speech, and he also said the fact checkers have
Speaker 4: become too politically biased.
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg is the dumbest sounding billionaire in the world.
Speaker 1: Now he I assume he's smarter, and I think he's
Speaker 1: just socially awkward. Is that his problem could be just
Speaker 1: comes off as anyway. This is unmistakably good news as
Speaker 1: the whole fact check thing is well, it's we all
Speaker 1: know what it is.
Speaker 2: And has been for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no kidding, it's it's just dressing up my opinion, man,
Speaker 4: is a fact and telling you to be quiet.
Speaker 2: You don't get an opinion because mine is a fact.
Speaker 2: But isn't.
Speaker 1: Wikipedia's model is basically community notes, right, And a lot
Speaker 1: of you feel like it's not.
Speaker 2: Well up and no, no, I would say, no, that's
Speaker 2: not true. It used to be.
Speaker 4: Now it is run top down by a the Wikipedia Foundation,
Speaker 4: which is an extremely progressive organization, and it no longer
Speaker 4: operates the way it grew up.
Speaker 2: That's interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't I never I don't Wikipedia stuff that could
Speaker 1: be controversial very much. And I don't know if it
Speaker 1: seeps into the stuff that I look at, you know,
Speaker 1: like I look up Baye Brute's pitching.
Speaker 2: Record, that sort of stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm being misled by that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff on Wikipedia.
Speaker 2: Wikipedia. No, No, I know what you mean.
Speaker 4: I will occasionally, I'll use it for something quote unquote controversial,
Speaker 4: but I.
Speaker 2: Know what I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, looking at NBC News' version story,
Speaker 1: it's pretty transparent. I feel like, yeah, yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Wikipedia has gone way left from what it was ten
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: I've been sitting on that story for a while. Just
Speaker 2: trust me, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: It used to be left leaning in the way that
Speaker 4: virtually anything involved people who love words and like to
Speaker 4: write and talk and want to change the world, they
Speaker 4: practically all lean left. So in Wikipedia was that. Now
Speaker 4: it's wildly like Marxist.
Speaker 1: So, for instance, if I didn't know much about the
Speaker 1: October seventh massacre in Israel, and I thought a good
Speaker 1: place to learn about it would be Wikipedia, you're saying, no,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Beware, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, it would probably not.
Speaker 4: You know what, I might during the commercial break, actually
Speaker 4: take a look at that very thing. It's an interesting
Speaker 4: question speaking of the progressive end of the scale, and
Speaker 4: good for Zuckerberg. I mean, it's too late, and I'm
Speaker 4: sure in plenty of progressive places, I'm sorry, in conservative places,
Speaker 4: he's getting a hell kicked out of him for doing
Speaker 4: all the damage they did during COVID, for instance, and
Speaker 4: all under pressure from the Biden administration. And now he's
Speaker 4: as much as admitting, well, Trump's down now, so we're
Speaker 4: gonna we're going to be a little more neutral about stuff,
Speaker 4: and it is despicable on one hand.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, they're doing the right thing finally, so.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of your social media platforms and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Big ruling while we were off for
Speaker 1: two weeks, they court shot down that whole rule two
Speaker 1: thirty or section two thirty.
Speaker 2: Or whatever, whatever the heck it was in nine from
Speaker 2: outer space.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was supposed to deal with that, and don't
Speaker 1: I don't even remember if I was supposed to be
Speaker 1: happy about that or sad about that. But anyway, they're
Speaker 1: not going to change the way the relationship between the
Speaker 1: government and those platforms.
Speaker 2: Right right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: There were a couple of cases over break that I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, I probably ought to look into that, but
Speaker 4: it was one of those like a mid level court
Speaker 4: rejected the appeal of the rejection of the action by
Speaker 4: the administration. I'm like, it's going to take me too
Speaker 4: long to figure out what's going on. Let me know
Speaker 4: when the final ruling comes in. Anyway, a couple of
Speaker 4: things really quickly. The folks at the National Review have
Speaker 4: collected a what they call the Wild Blue State Laws
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty four. This is progressive state laws that
Speaker 4: passed at the end of last year while everybody was
Speaker 4: heading off to get drunk on eggnog and exchange gifts
Speaker 4: and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Or honor the birth of Jesus. You don't have to
Speaker 1: just get drunk for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, I have been shamed, publicly shamed, and I deserve it.
Speaker 2: I am ashamed.
Speaker 4: California schools, for instance, barred officials from alerting parents about
Speaker 4: gender dysphoria. Now, school officials aren't allowed to take your
Speaker 4: kid on a field trip or administer tylan all or
Speaker 4: any other over the counter medication without parental a. School
Speaker 4: leaders must notify parents of any pesticides used on campus,
Speaker 4: according to the state code.
Speaker 1: But starting my god, so if at that school they
Speaker 1: use roundup to get rid of the weeds around the
Speaker 1: batting cage, they got to tell you.
Speaker 2: But if you're kidding a pesticide, right for a bug.
Speaker 2: If your kid decides to be a different gender, they
Speaker 2: keep it a secret.
Speaker 4: They're legally barred from alerting parents if their children show
Speaker 4: symptoms of gender dysphoria of whatever sort. So if your
Speaker 4: kid shows evidence of a mental illness, they're not allowed
Speaker 4: to tell you in California not allowed.
Speaker 1: Some spokeshole, not only not forced to, they're not allowed to.
Speaker 2: It's forbidden. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, that beyond you don't have to, it's up to
Speaker 1: you two, you're not allowed to.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Yeah, there ought to be groups of parents
Speaker 2: marching on schools right now and committing completely non violent
Speaker 2: acts of persuasion.
Speaker 1: Has Gavin made a statement on that, because otherwise he
Speaker 1: runs for president, he's going to He's going to be
Speaker 1: up against. Therefore, they them were for you again, just
Speaker 1: like oh did Na Kamala.
Speaker 4: He'll get absolutely electorally murdered. Absolutely. Newsom spokeshole claimed the
Speaker 4: law quote protects the child parent relationship, how by preventing
Speaker 4: politicians and school staff from inappropriately intervening in family matters
Speaker 4: and attempting to control if, when, and how families have
Speaker 4: deeply personal conversations. Wow, how orwellian is that? And people
Speaker 4: don't resort to arguments that or wellian because by accident
Speaker 4: that's full on the ministry of peaces waging war.
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, that is crazy, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: I mean if I were a sincere advocate of that position,
Speaker 4: I'd say I would say, look, parents, and I've heard
Speaker 4: this argument parents might go crazy and beat their child
Speaker 4: or send them off to conversion camp or something, and
Speaker 4: that would be cruel and abusive. I mean, it's a
Speaker 4: terrible argument, but at least it is honest in its way.
Speaker 4: It's perverse, but it's honest to say that the law
Speaker 4: protects the child parent relationship by preventing politicians and school
Speaker 4: staff from inappropriately intervening in family matters. That's incredible. I know,
Speaker 4: it's horrified. That frightens the hell out of me. It's
Speaker 4: a shout that there are people that would.
Speaker 1: Write that sort of language knowing what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Wow. You just said up is down. Believe me, follow me.
Speaker 4: Wow, said a lawyer with the conservative Liberty Justice Center,
Speaker 4: which is challenging the law and court Praise God. Opponents
Speaker 4: of the lass se it violates parents' constitutional rights to
Speaker 4: make decisions involving their children's physical, mental, and emotional well being.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 4: School officials do not have the right to keep secrets
Speaker 4: from parents, but parents do have a constitutional right to
Speaker 4: know what their minor children are doing at school. Oh well,
Speaker 4: I hope the Supreme Court hits this one. In an
Speaker 4: outer space. It is obscene, it is horrifying, and It
Speaker 4: is a shocking just a failure of the media to
Speaker 4: not be digging into how horrific this is. But they're
Speaker 4: so biased they don't I don't know. We could spend
Speaker 4: the entire rest of our careers talking about this.
Speaker 1: That's the most troubling thing I've heard this year. I
Speaker 1: was troubled by the law, but that wording of it, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I'm too stupid to know what you're doing, really
Speaker 1: bothers me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: I I don't know what to suggest to the folks
Speaker 4: other than vote, go to school board meetings, talk to
Speaker 4: your kids teachers and tell them.
Speaker 2: Please tell me and I.
Speaker 4: But if their careers are ended, or if they're prosecuted,
Speaker 4: what are they going to do? So now, conservative teachers, moderatesane, Well,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry anybody but insanely neo Marxist teachers is terrified
Speaker 4: by this law, and.
Speaker 2: It's getting no attention.
Speaker 1: We're keeping the government out of the relationship between the
Speaker 1: parent and child. You are a dangerous human being that I.
Speaker 4: Agree to that I would agree one more from California.
Speaker 4: Last March, Hunting Beach, California gave the thumbs up to
Speaker 4: a ballot measure that said you got to show voter
Speaker 4: ID like most American states, and anybody who's a black
Speaker 4: person who you tell, well, you black people, you have
Speaker 4: trouble getting ideas, would say, who the hell are you
Speaker 4: to insult me?
Speaker 2: It's it's again.
Speaker 4: It's a tiny percentage of Americans who believe voter ida
Speaker 4: is somehow racist. But anyway, Huntington Beach said, no, you
Speaker 4: got to show ideas. The state is suing, claiming the
Speaker 4: voter ID requirement is unlawful. They are trying to prosecute
Speaker 4: Huntington Beach. It's unlawful, right, oh my god, to prevent
Speaker 4: anybody in California for asking for it. Illinois criminals, they said,
Speaker 4: let's move on to the great state of Illinois where
Speaker 4: I grew up. A part of House Bill forty nine
Speaker 4: forty four oh nine, which Governor J. B. Gender Bending
Speaker 4: Pritzker signed in August, a person convicted of a crime
Speaker 4: who participates in an adult reab program will no longer
Speaker 4: be officially referred to as an offender, but rather as
Speaker 4: a justice impacted individual.
Speaker 2: You gotta be kidding.
Speaker 4: The terminology was ridiculed on social media, blasted by Illinois Republicans,
Speaker 4: called a new terminology gift wrapped for Republicans language Orwellian
Speaker 4: and gobbledegook. Noting that justice impacted individuals sounds is more
Speaker 4: like a description of a crime victim than an offender.
Speaker 2: No kidding, unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Colorados have the waiting period for life ending drugs to
Speaker 4: commit suicide, completely ignoring and this is typical of progressive policies.
Speaker 4: The experience in Canada, where assisted suicide is exploded now
Speaker 4: includes people who are just depressed or under financial pressure. Anyway,
Speaker 4: they've cut the waiting period from fifteen days to seven.
Speaker 4: Certainly a week is long enough to decide whether you're
Speaker 4: going to end your life or not. Vermont has approved
Speaker 4: injection sites for deadly drugs, ignoring the models of California
Speaker 4: and Oregon. If it sounds good, pass it, never mind
Speaker 4: that it's been proved a miserable failure. This is good.
Speaker 4: Oregon has forced home care workers to pay SEIU duties.
Speaker 4: That's the Service Employees' International Union, the super powerful mostly
Speaker 4: West Coast union. I don't know that that's true, but
Speaker 4: they're hugely powerful on the West Coast.
Speaker 2: I could explain why.
Speaker 4: But even though they're not members of the union, they've
Speaker 4: found a way in Oregon to force them to pay
Speaker 4: union dues.
Speaker 2: That one's just silly. Oh, this is my favorite.
Speaker 4: Minnesota Democrats took advantage of holding a rare trifect in
Speaker 4: state government. They had the governor in both houses and
Speaker 4: got busy trying to turn their stateue into a frozen
Speaker 4: progressive parasite. They got busy. They've curbed the consumption of
Speaker 4: nuisance beaver meat. Nuisance beaver's my new band, uh for
Speaker 4: reasons that are not yet clear.
Speaker 2: In the National Review, what is nuisance beaver meat?
Speaker 1: Is the Oh it's okay, the beaver was a nuisance Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not describing the meat.
Speaker 2: It's describing the beaver. Okay, of a nuisance beaver might
Speaker 2: be a more clear way to put that. But I
Speaker 2: love this writing.
Speaker 4: For reasons that are not yet clear, Twin Cities Democrats
Speaker 4: added a provision to state statues barring people who killed
Speaker 4: nuisance beavers on their property from then eating the dead rodents.
Speaker 4: According to a report in the Minnesota Star Tribune, Wow Wow,
Speaker 4: a leader with state's Natural Resource Department department, told the
Speaker 4: paper he had not yet received a solid answer about
Speaker 4: the law's purpose. What are we talking about. We're talking
Speaker 4: about the legalities of eating beaver. That's just ridiculous, said
Speaker 4: a Minnesota Republican.
Speaker 1: Coming up, I have got a great list of the
Speaker 1: classic rock, slash oldies slash throwback acts that are touring
Speaker 1: in twenty five and it is pretty entertaining.
Speaker 2: Stay with us, Armstrong, Hetty. Some more political news.
Speaker 5: Today, Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential
Speaker 5: election and Vice President Harris oversaw the process.
Speaker 2: H Harris is like, and with that, my drive January
Speaker 2: is over.
Speaker 5: Even more upsetting, a confused Biden than walked in and
Speaker 5: sang her Happy Birthday.
Speaker 2: Hey, get him out of here. He's not even humming
Speaker 2: them for like they're mocking the president.
Speaker 1: So for the year twenty twenty five, a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of big musical acts are going to tour from the past,
Speaker 1: and here's a list, thanks to the New York Post.
Speaker 1: Acdc's touring, which I actually would like see. I think
Speaker 1: that'd be pretty cool. I saw a clip of them
Speaker 1: the other day.
Speaker 2: Look pretty good.
Speaker 1: At least what's the guy who where's the school Way outfit?
Speaker 1: He was killing young I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: him do that live, so I wouldn't mind seeing that.
Speaker 1: But Ringo Starr and his all star band whoever that
Speaker 1: is featuring members of Aerosmith, Electric Light Orchestra, Toto, Men
Speaker 1: at Work and more. Yes, it's like the world's greatest
Speaker 1: cover band, but there's a member of the bands they
Speaker 1: cover in his big band. Musically speaking, it's really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 1: Ringos one hundred and seventy. But this tour Billy Joel,
Speaker 1: which on his own would be fine, featuring Steven Nick's
Speaker 1: Sting and Rod Stewart, what the hell, it's an odd
Speaker 1: sting odd group. James Taylor, Rod Stewart's One Last Time Tour,
Speaker 1: which is a completely different thing. He's claiming it's his
Speaker 1: last tour. More on that in a second, Heart's Royal
Speaker 1: Flush Tour featuring Squeeze, Cheap Trick and Lucinda Williams. That's
Speaker 1: an odd group of them all. But Elvis Costello, Craft Work.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are still playing its Sphere again. I saw them.
Speaker 1: You heard me talk about that with my son, who
Speaker 1: was freaking awesome. Dead in Company is playing at the Sphere,
Speaker 1: which I'd like to see. Although I paid a ton
Speaker 1: of money to see the final Dead and Company show
Speaker 1: last summer. Apparently apparently it wasn't the final show. Sc
Speaker 1: Santana is playing Joan Jet John Fogerty, What how old
Speaker 1: is John? He's one of my musical heroes. Springsteen and
Speaker 1: the East Street Band are going to tour in twenty five.
Speaker 1: Eric Clapton is going to tour, although he will lecture
Speaker 1: you about vaccines from the stage, so get.
Speaker 2: Ready for it.
Speaker 1: Roger Daltrey of The Who will tour Elo on their
Speaker 1: own Bachman Turner Overdrive taking care of business somewhere in America.
Speaker 1: Earth Wind and Fire were some people that at one
Speaker 1: time were in Earth Win the Fire, Foreigner, Styx, Grand
Speaker 1: Funk Railroad Chicago, Cheap Trick Again America, Three Dog Night,
Speaker 1: John Oates just singing the John Oates parts of Hollan Oaks,
Speaker 1: Sea Dog Night, Toto Supply. I didn't even air supply,
Speaker 1: air supply. Are they alive?
Speaker 2: God? I didn't even get to some of my.
Speaker 4: Favorite ways you wanted an air supply on stage shack
Speaker 4: they got the hose under their noses.
Speaker 1: Hello, heiyo oh oh, that's a good joke to end with.
Speaker 1: And we got more of those groups to mention. Eighty
Speaker 1: plus year olds touring and calling it rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Who the fuck Armstrong and Geeddy