WEBVTT - Ah... They're Fighting Again! 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.800 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty arm Strong 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:27.000 and Katty en He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.520 Has just announced that seven to eleven will close six 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.240 hundred and forty five US stores this year. The company 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.280 explained that personal consumption had softened, particularly among low income households, 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.680 as inflation continued to weigh on spending. Yes, that's how 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.800 bad things are in America. Folks can't afford to eat 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.320 at seven to eleven. What's next? Are Americans be forced 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.040 to limit themselves to a sensible gulp? 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:50.560 Damn it, this is America. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.120 I do not believe I should have to drink from 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.160 any cup I couldn't possibly. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:01:00.400 Also drown in. Oh my god, I saw somebody, several 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.800 people over the week, but I saw somebody carrying around 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.840 this trash can of coal of some sort. I mean 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.480 the size of these things. And we have a seven eleven, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.480 a brand new one that opened near us like a 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:14.920 year or so ago. It's nice. It's in a nicer 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.440 area town next to us, and is new and clean, 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.959 and it's fantastic. My view of seven elevens is often 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.440 because it's been in a bad neighborhood and it's been 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.240 there for so long, and it's grimy. Yeah that I 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.520 kind of associated seven eleven with well, grime, but grime 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.280 and crime. I used to love me as slurpe. I 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.000 had a girlfriend who would like her drink was we 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.360 were like eighteen years old. Her drink was slow gin 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.679 in a some flavor of slurpy. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.400 Good Lord, that was her favorite drink. Nice sip round 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.000 a summer day though, slurpy that. Yeah, you're at a 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.120 park or a ballgame or whatever. Yeah, you get that 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.200 little little not that I approved certainly of drinking in 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.960 any form, but you get that just little summertime bozzgoing. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.359 You are gonna like this, I think. Supreme Court Justice 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.799 Clarence Thomas blasts progressivism as a threat to of them 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.760 America yesterday in a speech probably because it is, probably 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.240 because it is. He doesn't talk much when he's on 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.919 the bench, but he gave a speech yesterday. I'll read 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.760 ABC News' version of this. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.160 on Wednesday delivered a televised broadside against progressivism, a political 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.640 philosophy he described as an existential threat to America. And 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.120 the principles it was founded on two hundred and fifty 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.960 years ago, once again to Joe Getty. Probably because it 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:48.640 is quote. Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.720 the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.800 Thomas said in a speech at the University of Texas 0:02:54.800 --> 0:03:01.760 Austin Law School yesterday. A spirit of cynicism, rejection, hostility, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:06.800 and animus toward America by Americans has taken hold, he said, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.440 and the remarks carried on c Span once again. That's 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.480 because that has happened, is why he was saying that. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.600 He said, the values enshrined in the seventeen seventy six 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.960 Declaration of Independence have fallen out of favor among Americans, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:26.160 a trend perpetrated, he argued, by intellectuals and the nation's 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.080 colleges and universities. Well, stop me, stop me if he 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:35.400 says anything even close to not obviously true. Thomas also 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.400 said he believes many people no longer believe all men 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.760 are created equal and deserving of unalienable rights protected by 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.880 limited government. Progressivism holds that our rights and our dignities 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.600 come not from God but from government. It requires of 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.360 the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with the Constitution 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:58.640 premised on the transcendent origin of our rights. Correct. Still correct. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:00.760 It occurs to me when Judy and I are on 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.080 vacation this summery to have Clarence Thomas fill in tinshit 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:04.400 for me. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.720 Thomas said, Washington has been overrun by elected and appointed 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.000 officials who lack commitment to righteous cause, to traditional morality, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.800 to national defense, to free enterprise, to religious piety, or 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:21.400 the original meaning of the Constitution. They recast themselves as institutionalists, pragmatists, 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.720 or thoughtful moderates, all as a way of justifying their 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:29.200 failure to themselves. I like that part, their failures to themselves, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.320 their consciousness, and their country. Yeah, there is a lot 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:37.280 of that I have failed. So what is wrong with 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.080 this country that I am not doing well? 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.880 I would suggest that those are the useful idiots who 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.480 are used by the activists who are trying straight out 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.560 of Soviet propaganda and George Orwell and the rest of it, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.520 to separate us from our history, separate us from our 0:04:53.800 --> 0:05:02.520 principles and our perception of ourselves in place of self hatred. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.840 Because a nation that hates itself will not defend. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:10.440 Itself Thomas called on Americans to stand up for their 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.120 principles and endure personal sacrifices if necessary, to preserve the 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.599 nation's democracy. Final quote. In my view, we must find 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.520 in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.240 of the declaration have so that we can do for 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.680 our future what they did for theirs. Obviously, he takes 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.440 this as a pretty big threat to the country. What 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:35.520 the fact that we're educating everyone from K through graduate 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.520 degree to hate their country. Yeah, I do think that 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.839 is a problem and then pave the way for a 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.560 neo Marxist takeover you. This leads me into something that 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:49.400 our friend Tim retweeted over the weekend, faculty ideology in 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.040 the United States. This is the ideology of you know, 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.880 are you a liberal, a far left liberal, a far 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.960 right conservative, or middle of the road in our university 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.440 systems across the canar colleges across the country, going way 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.840 back to nineteen sixty nine. Giggity giggity, So in nineteen 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:12.640 sixty nine you had even back then it was forty 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.159 five percent liberal compared to twenty seven percent conservative. That's, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.760 you know, nineteen sixty nine is quite a bit further 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:24.440 on from when Bill Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.000 Could you look up that, Katie. I think that came 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.320 out in fifty two or fifty three. I think, if 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.760 I remember right, young William F. Buckley was at Yale 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.200 and like nobody here believes in God, and was just 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:35.960 shocked by it and wrote a book about it. He 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.000 thought it was so stunning. I mean, it was already 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.760 to the point that because imagine that that had to 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.160 strike him as pretty amazing. At that time, we were 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.800 a lot of church going people in this country, and 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.920 the fact that he could find nobody in the faculty 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.560 that believed in God made you think, well, this is 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.359 not representative of our country. Yes, Katie, e book it 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.520 was in nineteen fifty one, Okay, I was closed. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.839 So let me throw in very briefly, it is undeniable 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.960 that universities have always been left, including in nineteen sixty nine. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.840 As it turns out, but what was defined as left now, 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.000 what is defined left now as left is very very 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.520 different than what was then. So I mean, our lefties 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.320 now are miles to the left of a nineteen sixty 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:19.840 nine lefty right. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.560 And but trying to you can't see this chart, but 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.440 it's just the line for far left liberal very steep 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.320 up over the years, not surprising. The line for far 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.240 right conservative very steep down, and it started at a 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.480 low number, and middle of the road also down. The 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.600 only number that is up at all is far left liberal, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.560 and it's up a lot. So it's gone from forty 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:47.360 five percent of the faculty of our you know, one 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.320 of your college university system across the country, it is 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:57.200 now seventy five percent far left liberal, only ten percent conservative. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.160 And that's what the whole country, and you know, at 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.280 the elite universe, it's more like ninety eight to two. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.679 Or we had that story. Was it Harvard or Yale 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.680 that had completely one hundred percent? There wasn't a single 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.640 conservative that showed up last time they did this survey. Yeah, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.640 it was in one major department. Yeah, but see, you 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.600 include all the countries across the colleges across the country, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.920 where you got some that are you know, probably, oh 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.000 my god, seventy thirty liberal to conservative, you end up 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.480 with an average across the country of a seventy five 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.400 to ten with fifteen percent middle of the road, and 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.000 both those are trending down, by the way, as liberal 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.200 trends up. That's nuts. Why would you have it? I wouldn't. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.120 I wouldn't like it. If it was the other way around, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.560 that wouldn't be good. If our university system was three 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:46.319 quarters conservative and like ignoring the other political philosophies, that 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.880 wouldn't be good either. And I have a question. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.760 This is not quippling exactly, but someone on a university 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.880 campus who describes themselves as middle of the road, Yeah, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.000 what did they believe? 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.760 Right? Yeah? 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.320 Anyway, Yeah, this is undeniably true. I happen to have 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.800 a featurette of a handful of different stories I could 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.880 do any time on a similar topic. But one headline 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.320 that just got published. DEI is live and well at 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.920 the University of Michigan. It just goes by a different name. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:21.640 Not surprisingly, the people we've talked about now and will 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.680 for the rest of my career and life, they have 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.640 not given up at all on taking over the universities, 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.000 haven't been called out by the Trump administration. They've just 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:39.160 orchestrated a strategic retreat so that they're under the radar screen. 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.000 And we could get into this in a little while. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.800 But yeah, all those DEI programs and the woke crap, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:44.920 they're still there. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:51.079 They've just disguised themselves cleverly. Question for America, do America 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.600 do we want our pilots making animal noises? A couple 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.640 of pilots who have been scolded for mooing and I 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:04.920 think quacking while at the stick of a commercial airline. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.160 We'll get to that context. To me, very very scary 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.600 story coming up. It's all about the context. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.719 Yeah, Are they like mooing at people as they get 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.880 on the plane, folks who may be struggling with. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.880 Them look at him? Yeah, that would fight over the intercom, right, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.439 That's I wouldn't approve of that. Did they merely fly 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.440 over the Midwest? Look out the window and. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.079 In the time on our tradition, if you go by 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.040 I herd of cows, at least one person in the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:33.600 car must move. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.040 All right, So that and other stuff all the way. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.040 We were talking about academia moments ago. Let's not leave 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.959 out the media. Secretary of War Pete Hegsaths calling them 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.000 out for their relentless anti American coverage. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:57.640 Of the war, speaking of choosing wisely, a note to 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:02.280 the press, to the press corps, the American media, as 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:07.280 I just can't help but notice the endless stream of garbage, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:13.960 the relentlessly negative coverage. You cannot resist pedaling despite the 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:18.880 historic and important success of this effort and the success 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:23.760 of our troops. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.679 side some of you are actually on. 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.680 It's incredibly on patriotic. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.600 This same press corps, not this exact same press corps, 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.280 but at least an older press corps bent over backwards 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.960 during the Biden administration to explain away. You explained away 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:46.240 the disastrous and disgraceful Afghanistan withdrawal. You called it the 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:51.319 greatest airlift in American history. It's almost like you're cheering 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.000 only for one side. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.960 Yeah, those people would sneer at any notion, any notion 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.959 of patriotism. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.920 You think us. Oh yeah, the crowd that finds patriotism 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.480 kind of Uh, I don't know, what would the word 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:13.160 be embarrassing? Stupid? Yeah, yeah, only stupid people are patriotic. Yeah. Uh. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.800 Speaking about by the way, on that topic briefly, So 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.600 yesterday I had to have a notary public sign something 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:26.480 for me, and uh, somehow it came up that he 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.680 was in the Navy stuff like that. So I asked 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.480 him on how much he liked it, and I said, so, 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.320 do you wish you're in the Middle East or not 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.760 right now? And he said hell yeah. I said, so 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.120 you'd go, and he said if they asked me, I'd 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.880 be there Tomorrow. My country asks I'm going, And I 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.720 thought I had that exact same conversation with my brother 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.160 over the weekend. I said, do you wish you're in 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.520 the Middle East? He said, hell yeah, yeah the military 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.320 guys who wish they were there. And then you got 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:54.400 you know, unfortunately, so many young people that under no 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.240 circumstances would be willing to help defend our country. No, well, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:59.240 they've been taught to hate it. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.720 It's not their fault, but we need to somehow deprogram 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.840 them if we can. Speaking of progressivism, a really amusing 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:10.160 piece I came across by Todd Myers in the Dispatch 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.120 posing the question, and this goes out to our beloved 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.439 friends in the great Northwest. Is Washington State the most 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:22.560 embarrassing state in the nation. Now California is like, hold 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.520 my chardonnay, but wait, there is a case to be 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.800 made for Washington. As Todd puts it, a combination of 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.040 incompetence and arrogance at least put it in the running. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.480 He's lived in Washington practically his entire life. He explains 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.920 and appreciates the many wonderful things about it. I love 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.360 Washington State in many ways, including the people of mostly 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.000 eastern Washington. But the decision he goes into the new 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.320 income tax, driving entrepreneurs out of the state, demonizing the 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.480 job creators. Politicians and government bureaucracies across the country make 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.120 decisions that are self destructive, But in Washington, we find 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.959 a way to make mistakes that go beyond ordinary incompetence 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.520 or political hackery. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.200 And then, and there's some delightful audio to this. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.160 For example, Washington Department of Licensing recently upgraded its helpline, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.800 allowing people to choose the language to get a business 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.520 license or whatever when user but when users chose Spanish 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:21.040 instead of hearing the information in that language, well, let's 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:21.720 play the audio. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.360 You have reached the Driver Licensing Service line. If you're 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.000 calling about a vehicle or both, please press one. 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The very 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.960 real problem is that much of the government's climate policy 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.400 is quite literally fake. Last November, the state Department of 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.240 Ecology released a report detailing what it said and is 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.080 picked up in the made media. All over the country, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.080 detailing what it said was were amazing environmental benefits from 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.840 the one and a half billion dollars in projects funded 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.560 by the state's carbon tax. The agency claimed the resultant 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.480 admissions reduction was equivalent to removing forty percent of all 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.080 cars and trucks in the state from. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.960 The roads for an entire year. That's quite quite an achievement. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.720 But then, Todd Wrights, after looking at the press release, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.600 I instantly knew it was false. Within two hours, I'd 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:29.600 found and verified a problem that made virtually all of 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:30.960 the claim benefits disappear. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:32.639 The department was forced. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.680 To admit, and it did that the true amount was 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.400 just one percent of what it had originally claimed. Again, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.320 it's absolutely astounding an error of that magnitude could occur, 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.680 especially on an issue that state leaders loved to lecture 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.159 others about. But none of the so called experts at 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.399 the agency noticed the massive error that was immediately obvious 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:49.639 to me. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.600 Well, yeah, as soon as you said that, I thought, well, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.399 that's complete, Bs. It has to be. 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.720 There's a lot more to this too. Maybe we'll sprinkle 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.879 some in as the hour goes by. 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.480 Who killed Charlie Kirk? It's not really an open question. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.800 But there's some info out today that I ask people talking. 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.840 Oh god, so we talked about this while back. There's 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.840 a documentary out about Jerry Springer's show on that sort 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.480 of stuff, and here's a little bit from that. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.679 I noticed pretty quick what the secret was. Here's how 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.200 we got him to fight. In the beginning, on Springer, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.320 let's say that I have two brothers in a conflict. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.840 When you were prepping the guests, you tell one of them. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:36.119 If your brother says something you don't like, you can 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.879 yell at him, get up in his face, you can 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.639 even spit on him. But whatever you do, don't hit him. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.000 Then you don't tell the other person any of that. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.520 Once you produce one person to get up and spit 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.600 in someone's face, and then you don't give any instruction 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:51.920 to the other one, the other one is going to 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:53.239 haul off and knock the hell out of the one 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.360 who did it, and boom, you gotta fight. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.880 What So there are stags in bum fights with most 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:05.680 non BOMs. What wow? Well, so, first of all, I 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.840 think most of us thought it was all completely phony. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:15.920 He's suggest is that Jerry Springer himself, Oh it was 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.480 really It sounded like Springer to me. But Houston Curtis 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.639 is his name. Yeah, okay, Jerry Springer, impersonator, Houston Curtis, 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.600 he got the job. He's suggesting the fights were real. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.960 They just prodded them a little to get to the fight. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.960 But that's an interesting theory, that's an ingenious technique. So 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.160 if you tell me, if he insults, you feel free 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.240 to spit on it. I mean, you could tell me 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.679 that all day long. I'm still not gonna spit on someone. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:44.720 So you got to have a certain kind of person, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:49.600 don't you. Yeah, i'd say IQ of eighty two or below. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.200 In fact, you could. Someone could say pretty much anything 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.800 to me and I'm not gonna even get up out 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:57.960 of my chair, let alone spit on them. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.119 Well, and or they could offer me five thousand dollars 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.359 if I did spit on someone, and I would tell. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.480 Them, no, thank you. No, I'm not gonna spit on anyone. Right, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.240 But so they tell one guy that and then they 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:10.320 don't tell the other guy. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.080 Yeah, you can do anything you want, anything the way 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.840 we do it around here, up to including spitting on somebody, 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:20.080 but just don't throw a punch. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:21.720 And the other guy has no idea Joe and I 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.120 had been doing this for so long that way back 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:25.639 in the day, we used to have TV's on in 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.200 the studio and Springer'd beyond remember like last hour of 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.520 the show, where was that was that in which Tar Charlotte? 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.560 Wherever we were at the time, But Springer'd be on 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:37.000 and to be like, ah, they're fighting again. The chairs 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:38.879 would be knocked over and they'd be rolling around on 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:40.359 the floor, and the crowds chanting. 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.359 Jerry and we're a kind of amateur anthropologists watching it 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.200 with the SoundOff because you know, he couldn't see what's 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.680 being said. But people constantly removing their shirts too, to 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.600 show their anger or or as a preparation fight or something. 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:55.119 That's the thing. I've known a couple of guys like 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.920 that for whatever reason at the bar. At some point 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:59.119 I'm gonna look over, They'll be in a fight and 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.399 they got their shirt off. It's just the kind of person. Yes, Katie, 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.160 just if we were homesick from school, it was Jerry Springer. 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.359 So you're young enough that that was your home from school. 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:13.920 Oh yeah, that's funny. Then we talk about it the 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:16.200 next day and you see that fight. No wonder your 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.439 generations the way it is. When I was homesick from 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:20.639 school as an old person, we watched like, you know, 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:24.200 let's make a deal or something. You're watching people fight 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.159 on Jerry Springer. Oh, it was the best. It explains everything. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.600 I remember watching the soaps occasionally when I was homesick, 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:32.719 I watched a lot of soupper I remember I got 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:34.920 so sucked into Days of our lives one time where 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:36.560 I spent a week in the hospital as a kid, 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:38.760 that I'd come home from school and ask my mom, 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:40.440 you know what happened with John and Charlotte. 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:40.639 You know. 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:49.200 That also explains a lot, it sure does. Wow. Okay, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.280 So Joe just brought up a little bit ag a 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:55.920 conversation you heard about the whole Charlie Kirk assassination. I thought, 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:57.720 why is that? Oh, it's because there's some new information 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:07.159 out today from the atl They're unable to identify the 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:12.879 thirty caliber class fragment bullet that they recovered from the 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:18.040 scene of Charlie Kirk's murder, and that has caused people 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.360 to think, you see, it wasn't him, as somebody else 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.920 shot him. He's being framed or whatever. The ATF is. 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.080 The rest of the ATF his report is, but the 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:32.040 bullet jagment, the bullet jacket fragment did have the stuff 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:35.480 inscribed on it, and it matches the tooling of what 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:38.200 he used at his home. So he had a certain 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:40.520