Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong.
Speaker 2: And Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up
Speaker 3: the bill. But senators I've spoken to say they do
Speaker 3: not have time to start on Oliver, especially because the
Speaker 3: President wants this bill on his desk by July fourth.
Speaker 3: As for now, President Trump, we still have not heard
Speaker 3: from him directly on these comments by Elon Musk.
Speaker 4: Senior White House official says, well, they were caught off guard.
Speaker 4: They weren't entirely surprised by Musk's increasing attacks on the
Speaker 4: so called Big Beautiful Bill, and a source telling me
Speaker 4: people in the president's orbit are furious about Musk's posts,
Speaker 4: including where he said lawmakers should be fired for voting
Speaker 4: for the bill, calling it a betrayal, saying it suggests
Speaker 4: is open to funding democratic campaigns.
Speaker 2: Things are getting weird, a they getting weird fast, a betrayal.
Speaker 1: So here's here's where I went before we get into
Speaker 1: the analysis.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure that first reporter said, especially, okay, we
Speaker 5: got to run that again. First clip.
Speaker 3: So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up
Speaker 3: the bill, but senators I've spoken to say they do
Speaker 3: not have time to start of olliver, especially because the
Speaker 3: President wants this.
Speaker 2: Move on his desk.
Speaker 1: Ye accusation, I retracted Rachel Scott of ABC at pros
Speaker 1: pro and I back to you.
Speaker 5: So this is what's bothering me about this. The coverage
Speaker 5: and then well the attitude of the politicians, I suppose
Speaker 5: should make sense because that's the way they do things.
Speaker 5: The coverage in the news of it has been driving
Speaker 5: me crazy. So you think it's really like a deep,
Speaker 5: complicated story that deserves explanation and like so unusual and
Speaker 5: hard to imagine that Elon, who campaigned for Donald Trump
Speaker 5: now is against one of his pieces of a legislation.
Speaker 2: You can't accept the fact that.
Speaker 5: Almost all voters outside of people who are in Washington,
Speaker 5: d c. And work for the government and maybe some
Speaker 5: people the media, have things they believe in and believe them,
Speaker 5: whether or not they're the politician that they voted for
Speaker 5: or their friend or whatever.
Speaker 2: Goes the other direction. What are you trying to suggest, sir?
Speaker 5: Elon has been talking about the debt being unsustainable in
Speaker 5: the biggest threat to America for years, and you think.
Speaker 1: It's why he did the whole Doge business. That's why
Speaker 1: he got involved in Trump in the first place. He
Speaker 1: thought the Republican Party was the best route to do
Speaker 1: something about the debt. And you think it's odd that
Speaker 1: he's sticking with principal he believes in, rather than turning
Speaker 1: over everything he believes in and going with Trump.
Speaker 2: That, to you would be the normal thing to do.
Speaker 5: That's how cynical we are, or how whatever it is
Speaker 5: to phony all of politics is. You think the normal
Speaker 5: thing to do would have been to just go along
Speaker 5: with Trump. The abnormal thing to do is to continue
Speaker 5: to believe what you've been saying for years.
Speaker 2: That bothers me, you know.
Speaker 1: I think what that is is the the media no
Speaker 1: longer notices the tribalism, the naked like una mitigated tribalism
Speaker 1: they've It's just it's the air around them, so they
Speaker 1: don't even bother to notice its presence.
Speaker 2: And I guess think it used to be that way.
Speaker 5: I'd have to think more. I feel like there used
Speaker 5: to be politicians, for instance, that were known for and
Speaker 5: there still are a few like Rand Paul is known
Speaker 5: as a fiscal conservative that's not gonna go with you know,
Speaker 5: this bill, which he's not. But in general, it's all
Speaker 5: about no, no, no, you stick with your tribe, and if
Speaker 5: somebody breaks away from the tribe, that's really really weird
Speaker 5: as opposed to well.
Speaker 2: The guy's been saying this about, you know.
Speaker 5: Pick your topic immigration or tariffs or whatever for you know.
Speaker 5: I guess because we've seen so many people flip their
Speaker 5: opinion completely to go along with Joe Biden or Donald
Speaker 5: Trump or whoever, that that's become the norm.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: You could easily write the headline or the story from
Speaker 1: the point of view. Elon Musk has such serious concerns
Speaker 1: about the bill. He has suggested revamping it. That's not
Speaker 1: very good soap opera stuff, but that's what happened.
Speaker 5: Well, he called it a what a disgusting abomination or
Speaker 5: something like that. That's a little stronger than I have
Speaker 5: some concerns about this.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a middle child and everybody who voted for
Speaker 1: it should be ashamed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's stronger than he has serious concerns.
Speaker 5: I like that the Wall Street Journal their words were.
Speaker 2: I thought I captured him maybe I didn't.
Speaker 5: I believe the Wall Street Journal called Trump and Musk
Speaker 5: the two most powerful men in the world. If you
Speaker 5: look at it that way. If they aren't, they're close.
Speaker 5: They're in the top five. Yeah, if they're if if
Speaker 5: you look at it that way, it's pretty interesting. I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, on its own, but from Elon Musk's Twitter feed,
Speaker 5: I thought this was an interesting His pinned tweet at
Speaker 5: the top today and Elon has two hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: million followers by the way he runs the thing he
Speaker 5: retweeted somebody in journalism, Fox News Comments is a great
Speaker 5: place to understand conservative views since it gets so much traffic.
Speaker 5: I was curious what people were saying about Elon s
Speaker 5: talking the Big Beautiful Bill, and I'm shocked. Almost every
Speaker 5: comment on the Fox News Comments is in agreement with Elon.
Speaker 2: Wow. I thought that was fascinating, especially because.
Speaker 1: Fox News has gone way out of its way to
Speaker 1: be Trump friendly. I think right Elon Musk, this was
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. He was at some
Speaker 1: speech and he said the Defense Department budget is a
Speaker 1: very big budget. It's a trillion dollars a year, and
Speaker 1: interest payments on the National jet just exceeded the Defense
Speaker 1: Department budget. They're over a trillion dollars a year just
Speaker 1: in interest in rising. We're adding a trillion dollars to
Speaker 1: our debt, which our kids and grad kids are going
Speaker 1: to have to pay somehow every three months, and then
Speaker 1: soon it's going to be every two months, and then
Speaker 1: every month, and then the only thing we'll be able
Speaker 1: to pay is interest. And it's just like a person
Speaker 1: at scale that has racked up too much credit card debt.
Speaker 5: This does not have a good ending. We have to
Speaker 5: reduce spending. He said that a year and a half ago.
Speaker 5: He's been talking about that forever.
Speaker 2: So when he.
Speaker 5: Sticks with his principles. The odd thing is that he's
Speaker 5: stuck with his principles. I find that disgusting. But that's
Speaker 5: the end of my point on that. Well said, well said.
Speaker 2: Indeed. Elon is also.
Speaker 1: Allegedly highly annoyed that a good friend, associate teammate of
Speaker 1: his was yanked from the.
Speaker 2: Nomination to be the head of NASA.
Speaker 1: This Isaacson, what's his first name, mister Isaacson, whatever his
Speaker 1: name is, because the Trump administration says, because he donated
Speaker 1: to Democrats in the.
Speaker 5: Past, yeah, we should run this clip this news clip,
Speaker 5: because that hits to what you're talking about.
Speaker 6: Some Republicans suggest Musk maybe motivated by his own self interest,
Speaker 6: sources telling us he's frustrated the bill cuts the electric
Speaker 6: Vehicle tax credit, which benefits Tesla owners. They say he's
Speaker 6: also annoyed Trump struck deals with rival AI companies, and
Speaker 6: that Trump withdrew his choice for NASA administrator.
Speaker 5: So the pushback from the Republicans in some cases is
Speaker 5: to try to make Elon look like he's just a
Speaker 5: self serving, you know whatever, like any other politician, which you.
Speaker 2: Know could absolutely be in there.
Speaker 5: But like I just read, he is saying things that
Speaker 5: are indisputably.
Speaker 2: True about our debt.
Speaker 5: There is no arguing that how did he go broke
Speaker 5: gradually then suddenly that's what we're doing? When he points
Speaker 5: that out, he doesn't there don't. I would believe that
Speaker 5: even if the ev tax credits were in there, he'd
Speaker 5: still be against this.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I think so. I think so.
Speaker 1: He has shown no or very very few signs of
Speaker 1: being a go along to get along guy.
Speaker 2: In a dozen different areas.
Speaker 1: So yeah, again, it's the soap opera deliciousness of this
Speaker 1: that is driving most of the coverage. It's no good
Speaker 1: for the country. But the mainstream media doesn't care what's
Speaker 1: good for the country. They don't spend a single second
Speaker 1: thinking about it.
Speaker 2: He is going to lose this argument, I think.
Speaker 5: So what do you think about him, you know, basically
Speaker 5: trying to whip senators against the big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 2: He's saying, don't vote for it. Kill the bill, Kill
Speaker 2: the bill.
Speaker 5: He was running that all day long yesterday on his
Speaker 5: Twitter feed, in every interview he could do. Kill the bill,
Speaker 5: Kill the bill. Do you think he's got the power
Speaker 5: to have any swam on that. A's listening to one
Speaker 5: news report where it's a senators have the tough choice
Speaker 5: to deciding between Elon Musk and Trump. I think they're
Speaker 5: gonna go with the guy who leads their party.
Speaker 2: I would agree.
Speaker 1: I could see it emboldening another one or two Senators
Speaker 1: to push a little harder, maybe another one or two
Speaker 1: congress people to hold the line a little bit longer,
Speaker 1: and some of the reforms they need as a major
Speaker 1: change driver. No, I don't think so, which is too bad. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean, I really really appreciate him saying this stuff.
Speaker 1: As anybody who's been listening to the show for an
Speaker 1: extended period. Nos, We've been howling this stuff for a
Speaker 1: long time now. It is the world's most predictable disaster.
Speaker 1: Unless as we were discussing yesterday, I believe is now
Speaker 1: ur three of the show. If you aren't listening, you
Speaker 1: can grab it viboodcast Armstrong and getting on demand, or
Speaker 1: I'll just recap it here very briefly. It is increasingly
Speaker 1: believed in some circles, including the that the plan is
Speaker 1: because there is no will among the electorate to raise
Speaker 1: taxes and there is no will among the electorate to
Speaker 1: cut services. We are going to solve this through rampant inflation.
Speaker 1: The twenty trillion dollars we owe today won't be worth
Speaker 1: very much after a lot of inflation for ten years,
Speaker 1: so we get paid off fairly easily with our new
Speaker 1: super cheap, worthless currency.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 5: Our old friend David Drucker, who we've met on the
Speaker 5: air many times, he usually has his finger on the
Speaker 5: pulse of Congress when they're trying to work their way
Speaker 5: through bills and talk to a lot of people about
Speaker 5: how they're going to vote. Here's his current thinking on that, and.
Speaker 7: So there just isn't a lot of support for the
Speaker 7: kind of fiscal restraint that used to sort of characterize
Speaker 7: the Republican Party, at least philosophically.
Speaker 1: I mean, four or five conservative Republicans left in the
Speaker 1: House that say no to.
Speaker 7: This, well, yea, if it's saying it's not saying no
Speaker 7: to this, it's saying no to President Donald Trump, and
Speaker 7: their voters trust Trump more than they trust them. So
Speaker 7: as long as Trump wants this bill, this bill is
Speaker 7: likely to pass. One way or the other.
Speaker 2: Bill is likely to pass.
Speaker 5: According to David Drucker, who's as good as anybody on
Speaker 5: reporting on the Hill.
Speaker 2: One way or the other, what bill though? What bill
Speaker 2: will pass?
Speaker 1: Because the Senate still hasn't responded to the House is
Speaker 1: the pogle with their own.
Speaker 5: I understand your point, but it's going to be more
Speaker 5: or less what it is now. There aren't going to
Speaker 5: be any major changes. It's going to be it's going
Speaker 5: to be a disgusting abomination. It's going to be spending.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe it ends up not being two point seven trillion,
Speaker 1: it's two point six and.
Speaker 2: A half trillion or whatever, but it's going to be mostly.
Speaker 1: This Executive producer Hanson urging us to play clip forty seven,
Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy, we will play it, Hanson, if you
Speaker 1: assure me this there will be.
Speaker 2: No forced homespun charm. If you haven't heard this, this
Speaker 2: is really good. Let's do it.
Speaker 8: Here's what's driving and this is ultimately why I think
Speaker 8: the bill will patch. We're in uncharted waters here with
Speaker 8: the tears. Well, I think the markets should tell us
Speaker 8: that we don't know what impact they're going to have
Speaker 8: in the economy, but if we don't extend those tax cuts,
Speaker 8: we're going into a recession and our economy is going
Speaker 8: to be on a journey to the center of the Earth.
Speaker 8: And ultimately, I think that's why the bill passed.
Speaker 1: Ah, that was dangerously close at the end, Ye then
Speaker 1: to the center of the earth.
Speaker 5: I absolved myself in that. That's not the clip I
Speaker 5: was thinking of that I saw yesterday. He did some
Speaker 5: grilling in Congress about this that I thought was very
Speaker 5: very honest, like shockingly honest from a senator.
Speaker 2: Although the first.
Speaker 1: Ninety percent of it you're saying, look, we got to
Speaker 1: extend the tax cuts, no matter, Oh my.
Speaker 5: God, and the Democrats are going huge on the whole
Speaker 5: tax once again, tax cuts for the rich well punish
Speaker 5: the poor. Everybody, the Washington Post, whoever you want to
Speaker 5: talk to, from the twenty seventeen tax cuts have looked
Speaker 5: into it and made the point. The fact checker in
Speaker 5: the Washington Post, it's mostly middle class tax cuts. It
Speaker 5: just is you're lying when you claim it's tax cuts
Speaker 5: for the rich.
Speaker 2: It's just a lie.
Speaker 5: Maybe you still think it's a bad idea because we're
Speaker 5: going broke, but don't claim it's for the rich.
Speaker 1: One of the most sobering and disappointing realities of politics
Speaker 1: that we all learn sooner or later is that a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of it revolves around the lowest information.
Speaker 2: Voters, and everyone knows it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Marjorie, who's now against the bill Handsome for
Speaker 5: interesting AI reasons we'll have to talk about later. Hanson
Speaker 5: made a new song with the AI that he played
Speaker 5: for me yesterday. We've got to get on the air.
Speaker 5: It's so good, among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way Strong So, our executive producer.
Speaker 5: Versus this speaker, Mike Johnson says he's going to talk
Speaker 5: to elon today. There is a chance, by the way,
Speaker 5: that this turns really fun in terms of the soap opera.
Speaker 5: I care about, you know, fiscal sanity and not going
Speaker 5: broke as a country mostly and not the soap opera
Speaker 5: that DC is obsessed with. But it could turn with
Speaker 5: Elon and Trump.
Speaker 1: Those two guys are capable of if one of them
Speaker 1: fires the first shot of Oh boy, you're an ass hat,
Speaker 1: and then Elon says, why don't you go f yourself
Speaker 1: in the face? Oh wow, wow, hey ho. That was
Speaker 1: a That is something he said to a major figure
Speaker 1: in the news on his Twitter feed. I think that
Speaker 1: is newsworthy. He called Mark Zuckerberg a pedophile, didn't he?
Speaker 1: I mean he has said things like that two big
Speaker 1: deals in the past.
Speaker 2: On his Twitter.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is if the country's going to
Speaker 1: go to hell, at least make it entertaining. So it's
Speaker 1: not beyond either one of them, especially if they both
Speaker 1: start in.
Speaker 5: It could turn crazy entertaining. So look forward to that.
Speaker 5: So our exec executive duce Our Hansen has started crafting
Speaker 5: songs with the help of AI. This one is based
Speaker 5: on we have a tendency after the show is over,
Speaker 5: Joe and Ida to say things like, you know, well
Speaker 5: that one sucked, but we'll try to be better tomorrow
Speaker 5: or that sort of thing. It's just kind of a
Speaker 5: like a running joke of I don't know, lighthearted bans. Yeah,
Speaker 5: start the music, Michael, I forgot to tell you to
Speaker 5: start the music because there's a long piano rampop, and
Speaker 5: so Mike Hanson gave the cue to the AI to
Speaker 5: do kind of a seventies soft rock based on some
Speaker 5: things we said yesterday after the show.
Speaker 9: In that spirit, let's try to put this one behind.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 9: Just tamp down the shame early John five. Maybe we
Speaker 9: do better tomorrow unless we continue to be so lame.
Speaker 2: This kind of that.
Speaker 1: Drum film coming from a mile away and this kind
Speaker 1: of guitar solo before it gets into the chorus. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is amazing that with like just a few prompts
Speaker 1: seventy soft rock couple of phrases.
Speaker 2: It crafts this song. It's frightening and horrifying. We got
Speaker 2: the chorus coming up that I think he'll enjoy it. Oh,
Speaker 2: there's more strong and any show. Just tap down, just
Speaker 2: tamp down the shade. Maybe we do. We're all swaying
Speaker 2: back and forth in the arms in the air. So
Speaker 2: it is absolutely clear that in.
Speaker 1: Putting together it's stick, it's seventies soft rock style. They
Speaker 1: absolutely studied Elton John's songs. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: characteristics a chordal in straight.
Speaker 2: Out of old Reg Dwight's songbook.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I don't know where all of this is going.
Speaker 1: We do need to talk about AI though. I started
Speaker 1: reading a new book that has me scared to death.
Speaker 1: But maybe we'll get to that later, so we don't
Speaker 1: go all the world's coming to an end on you,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10: This book Independent, It's about looking outside of boxes, not
Speaker 10: just always being in a partisan stance, and how do
Speaker 10: we move forward together in a compassionate way, in a
Speaker 10: way that really truly cares about people.
Speaker 1: So little KJP is putting a book out. Let's hear
Speaker 1: that next clip, Michael an era.
Speaker 10: Of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we're
Speaker 10: seeing currently right now. What I have decided to do,
Speaker 10: and I really have thought long and hard about this,
Speaker 10: is to follow my own compass. And here's the truth,
Speaker 10: and here's how I will lay it out to you.
Speaker 10: I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and
Speaker 10: think outside of our boxes and not be so partisan.
Speaker 5: You know, so the way this struck me, and I
Speaker 5: think I have a different take on it than most
Speaker 5: of conservative media about this.
Speaker 1: If it might set it up very quickly. Little KJP
Speaker 1: has a new book out about her experiences in the
Speaker 1: White House and also has announced she's leaving the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party and is becoming an independent, hence her charting her
Speaker 1: own courses.
Speaker 5: First, some of the clips I heard, she sounded way
Speaker 5: more intelligent, thoughtful, and believable herself in all the clips
Speaker 5: that I heard than she ever did at the White
Speaker 5: House podium. I do still think that she was not
Speaker 5: cut out for that job for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2: But she had two choices doing that job.
Speaker 5: She was either going to go out there and tell
Speaker 5: the lies the best she could that she was told
Speaker 5: to tell, or resign. Those were her two options, no
Speaker 5: other fudgerom whatsoever. You were either gonna go out there
Speaker 5: and sell those lies the best you could.
Speaker 1: Seeing the guy every day she is watching news, she
Speaker 1: had c span she is in the White House and
Speaker 1: to go out there and claim, no, he's got more energety.
Speaker 2: I mean, she was either gonna do.
Speaker 1: The bagdad bob thing, or she was gonna resign.
Speaker 2: Those were her two choices. I don't know what you
Speaker 2: would have done. I'm not sure. Well I think I
Speaker 2: don't think I could do it.
Speaker 1: But no, no, you couldn't for for reasons that are admirable.
Speaker 1: I said many times that at the time when she
Speaker 1: was the press secretary, she's terrible at her job, just
Speaker 1: absolutely terrible. On the other hand, as I pointed out
Speaker 1: many times, she is sent out there to defend the
Speaker 1: indefensible on a daily basis, and that is not easy work.
Speaker 2: So both are true.
Speaker 1: Now she's gonna we need to be less partisan and
Speaker 1: outside the boxes.
Speaker 2: I agree completely with her on that I have.
Speaker 1: That might be her particular box would not suit me
Speaker 1: very much, true.
Speaker 2: But that might be her true belief.
Speaker 5: Sure, she just had was got that job somehow, and then,
Speaker 5: you know, did it the best you could. I mean, so,
Speaker 5: I don't know what she actually believes. But if you're
Speaker 5: her agent and trying to make you help her make
Speaker 5: money coming off of this gig of a lifetime, These
Speaker 5: these white House press people often come out and go
Speaker 5: on to great lives of you know, a cable news
Speaker 5: show or whatever.
Speaker 2: They make a lot of money. What would you tell her?
Speaker 5: I thought it was interesting she decided not to be
Speaker 5: a Democrat anymore, to go no party. That doesn't seem
Speaker 5: like the best way to land an MSNBC show, which
Speaker 5: is kind of where I thought she would end up, right.
Speaker 1: Unless from her point of view, and I see her
Speaker 1: as a pretty progressive, far lefty who knows what her
Speaker 1: true colors are, like her true hair color, who knows?
Speaker 1: But I think she's a far lefty, So she might
Speaker 1: be fine if she's gonna say that the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is too centrist, we need a revolution in this country,
Speaker 1: which she might say, but it is absolutely a terrible
Speaker 1: look for the Democratic Party in the brand that their
Speaker 1: press secretary, their.
Speaker 2: White House press. That's a good point, flees their party.
Speaker 1: That's a good you know, within a few months of
Speaker 1: being out of the White House.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 5: That was lost on me, And of course the lefty
Speaker 5: media did not make a big deal out of that.
Speaker 5: If if what's his name, Spencer Spicer, Spiser Spicer, if
Speaker 5: Sean Spicer, how could I not come up with his name?
Speaker 5: I watch him almost every day because he's on Mark
Speaker 5: Alpern's show.
Speaker 2: If Sean Spicer.
Speaker 5: Had come out a couple of months, like ninety days
Speaker 5: after he left his job and said I'm leaving the
Speaker 5: Republican Party. What an earthquake of a news story that
Speaker 5: would have been and seen as a rejection of trump Ism.
Speaker 5: Little KGP comes out and says, I'm leaving the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: That's that's a pretty big story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Unfortunately, Jack and I hate this. People are saying
Speaker 1: snarky things like this one well known White House reporter
Speaker 1: who said, did she when what's told she was writing
Speaker 1: a book? Did she find the manuscript somewhere in that
Speaker 1: fat binder she toed it around. If I were a
Speaker 1: historian writing about the White House, I wouldn't ignore what
Speaker 1: Karine has to say. But it's not an account in
Speaker 1: which much weight will be invested, just like her briefings,
Speaker 1: said the reporter.
Speaker 5: I wonder if she's CNN's trying to have the you know,
Speaker 5: we're we're not part of any party brand, which is
Speaker 5: kind of hilarious given their coverage. But maybe she's already
Speaker 5: got a show lined up on CNN and part of
Speaker 5: the deal was come out, say you're not with any party,
Speaker 5: do the book to her, and then he got your
Speaker 5: you know, your evening slot on CNN or news that
Speaker 5: might be the place. You know, you land there and
Speaker 5: you do a show after Andrew Cuomo for what it's worth,
Speaker 5: and this will be Chris Cloma. I get the Clomo's
Speaker 5: mixed up. Everybody, which one lifts weights and which one
Speaker 5: gropes women and kills old people?
Speaker 2: Andrew and Chris respectively. Honey, my sweetheart.
Speaker 1: I listened to a an hour and a half long
Speaker 1: interview with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about there Joe Bidel,
Speaker 1: but Joe Biden's senile as can be. Who Barry Weiss
Speaker 1: of the Free Press. Yeah, and it was. It was very,
Speaker 1: very interesting. Jake is still just trying so hard to
Speaker 1: thread the needle of Yes, everybody noticed it, and yes
Speaker 1: everybody knew it, but we didn't know it because we
Speaker 1: were misled by our sources.
Speaker 2: And I'm sticking to that. And I look back with
Speaker 2: humble nuts or whatever he's been saying. It was uncomfortable
Speaker 2: to listen to because it's so weasily.
Speaker 1: But the extent to which everybody close to the president
Speaker 1: was one hundred cognizant of his non cognizance is just
Speaker 1: it's now completely beyond dispute. Nobody could even hint that
Speaker 1: people anywhere close to them were unaware of his decline.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't give a pass to Jake Tepper for
Speaker 5: the reasons we've stated a thousand times. If two thirds
Speaker 5: or more of the American people knew it with no.
Speaker 2: Sources, come on.
Speaker 1: But I could see that if because according to the book,
Speaker 1: you know, it was just like five people, like the
Speaker 1: closest handful of people that controlled everything. And if you
Speaker 1: were friends with these people and you trusted and believed him,
Speaker 1: and you knew him for years, and they were lying
Speaker 1: to your face, oh no, no, behind the scenes, he's fine,
Speaker 1: trust me, which is what they were.
Speaker 2: Doing, right, That was actually what I was working toward.
Speaker 2: It struck me that.
Speaker 1: Because they have the access that they do, that's where
Speaker 1: their attention is toward their sources, toward their cool. I'm
Speaker 1: close to power sources, and they're they are muscles of
Speaker 1: just everyday dopes like ourselves, observation atrophy. They become dependent
Speaker 1: on the pipelines that they're dependent on, and it struck me.
Speaker 1: I'm not expressing this very well, but it struck me
Speaker 1: that they are so close, well, they can't see the
Speaker 1: forest for the trees. Maybe that's the best way to
Speaker 1: put it that all of the rest of us didn't
Speaker 1: have any problems seeing the shape of the forest, and
Speaker 1: it was unmistakable that shape and what it meant just unmistakable.
Speaker 1: But those who are close to the halls of power,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I'm trying to be at least
Speaker 1: somewhat charitable here, dependent on and they have the privilege
Speaker 1: of getting really great insider information, they are much much
Speaker 1: more easily misled than people like us.
Speaker 2: And I'm talking about you, good folks as well as Jackets.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: You could have the entire cabinet stand up and sing
Speaker 1: in luscious three part harmony that Joe Biden was as
Speaker 1: sharp as hell and we were gratified to have him
Speaker 1: as president.
Speaker 2: And I'd laughed.
Speaker 1: But if I spend my life and career listening to
Speaker 1: these people and trusting them and writing, a source close
Speaker 1: to the president said, I guess I could see where
Speaker 1: you get misled, right, But it's sad you're a journalist,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, part of the reason we've never
Speaker 1: really pursued being among the I mean, they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: us anyway, but being among the power in the elite
Speaker 1: and the Beltway crowd and all that idea just disgusts me.
Speaker 2: I don't want that.
Speaker 5: I took that from imas listening to Imus back in
Speaker 5: the day early on, he would say, and I mean
Speaker 5: he ended up being very powerful in the news world
Speaker 5: at the height of his powers. You can't go to
Speaker 5: those parties.
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't, you can't go. You just can't
Speaker 2: do that. You gotta stay away from most people. I
Speaker 2: think he's right.
Speaker 5: So coming up, among other things, we got another you know,
Speaker 5: high school sports are coming to an end. My son's
Speaker 5: high school. They got some state championship stuff going on.
Speaker 5: Another trans story. You got girls softball trans pitcher dominates
Speaker 5: and wins the state championship.
Speaker 2: A boy, you mean a young man? Uh huh.
Speaker 5: And also the Washington Post with an article of maybe
Speaker 5: ice bads aren't a good idea. And I hadn't jumped
Speaker 5: in one yet, but.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about it. I just ordered my.
Speaker 1: Ice pool among other things on the way stay here.
Speaker 2: Well some more business news.
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Speaker 2: Really look at this that I saw. Hey, get a
Speaker 2: load of it. Spirited Frontier hooking up this summer. Now
Speaker 2: you'll be able to do shots with the pilot. Smoke
Speaker 2: in the bathroom can bring you emotional support. Raccoon on
Speaker 2: both airlines, Spirited Frontier. Bring something to watch on your
Speaker 2: phone because your flights getting delayed. No, I can to
Speaker 2: the point, it's very to the point.
Speaker 5: I got my real ID in the mail, so I
Speaker 5: can now fly again like an adult in the United
Speaker 5: States of America if I need to. So that's very exciting.
Speaker 5: I now have a real ideation because of nine to eleven,
Speaker 5: I've got my real ID.
Speaker 1: Right and immigration or something. Anyway, congratulation.
Speaker 5: A couple of stories for you. I'll go with this
Speaker 5: sports one first w NBA without Caitlin Clark feeling the hurt.
Speaker 5: She has been hurt for the first time in her
Speaker 5: career college or pro. Then out for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: ratings have tanked, attendances tanked immediate. It's tough when you're
Speaker 5: the league's barely perceptible. You know, hot streak is all based.
Speaker 2: On one player.
Speaker 5: That makes it rough different sports story. And you might
Speaker 5: remember Minnesota attempted to, or at least some people in
Speaker 5: Minnesota attempted to a couple of months back, pass a
Speaker 5: no Dudes in Girls' Sports Act. That's not what it
Speaker 5: was called, but they tried to pass in it. It
Speaker 5: didn't make it. And now you have the results of that,
Speaker 5: in that you've got this girls softball team with a
Speaker 5: dude pitcher that is going to the state championship.
Speaker 2: The picture has been dominating all season at.
Speaker 5: Well done, sir, well done as a pitcher and a
Speaker 5: hitter and a bunch of key hits that allowed the
Speaker 5: team to move on through.
Speaker 2: The state championship, probably because he's a dude. I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the picture. This this, this picture is huge compared
Speaker 2: to the other girls. I mean, like way bigger compared
Speaker 2: to the girls. You mean, yeah, you know, if you
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 5: Be technical it, Minnesota, Minnesota, I do, I really do.
Speaker 5: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, he might remember that name.
Speaker 5: He's come up many times with many stories over the years.
Speaker 5: He is the attorney general there in Minnesota. He said,
Speaker 5: in addition to getting exercise and the fun of competition,
Speaker 5: playing sports comes with so many benefits to young people.
Speaker 2: It's the first thing he said on this story.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, and then and then I believe it is
Speaker 5: wrong to single out one group of students who already
Speaker 5: face higher levels of bullying harassment and tell these kids
Speaker 5: they cannot be on the team because of who they are.
Speaker 5: I will continue to defend their rights. I will continue
Speaker 5: to defend the rights of all students to play sports
Speaker 5: with their friends and peers. There's been a lot of
Speaker 5: idiotic There's been a lawsuit from one of the girls
Speaker 5: on one of the teams that lost. You might remember
Speaker 5: Trump did the executive order of no Dudes in Girls'
Speaker 5: Sports or whatever it was called. Minnesota is openly defying it,
Speaker 5: and now it's being challenging. It's got to make its
Speaker 5: way through the courts to see if President Trump can do.
Speaker 2: That for states or not.
Speaker 1: Whack him upside the head with Title nine. Baby, let's
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 5: One of the players involved in the lawsuit said this
Speaker 5: in a statement It is upsetting to see a male
Speaker 5: athlete dominating our sport and taking opportunities away from girls
Speaker 5: who have worked hard all season to make it to
Speaker 5: the championship game in the state tournament. On top of
Speaker 5: the unfairness, it oftentimes is a risk to play a
Speaker 5: physical sport like softball against a male athlete.
Speaker 2: Can you go back to that.
Speaker 1: Quote from Keith Ellison, that's the response to that the
Speaker 1: first part or the yeah.
Speaker 5: In addition to getting exercise in the fun of competition,
Speaker 5: playing sports comes with so many benefits for young people.
Speaker 1: Well right, or I don't believe in discriminating against people
Speaker 1: who already face a high level of something or other. NOI, Keith, Hello,
Speaker 1: it's a dude playing in girls sports and he's big,
Speaker 1: and he's strong, and he's dominating. You know. I think
Speaker 1: back to my new slogan, which was going to be
Speaker 1: cut the crap. This is a perfect example for America,
Speaker 1: Keith Ellison, cut the crap.
Speaker 2: Quit with that. You're not fooling anybody.
Speaker 1: You're not bullying anybody with that garbage, that greeting card,
Speaker 1: rhetoric about inclusion and crap. It's a dude playing sports
Speaker 1: and whooping up on the girls.
Speaker 2: That's what it is, Call it what it is and
Speaker 2: cut the crap. So a different story.
Speaker 5: We've got a long time client, Steve lomof Good Dude,
Speaker 5: who've known for a long time, who we are talking
Speaker 5: to a while back, and he swears by cold plunges,
Speaker 5: ice baths or whatever you want to call them. They're
Speaker 5: not literally ice, but it's like really cold water that
Speaker 5: you get into early in the morning.
Speaker 2: He hates it.
Speaker 5: He's not the sort of person that likes it anymore
Speaker 5: than you would like it. He says, he absolutely hates it.
Speaker 5: Every morning he thinks he's not going to do it
Speaker 5: and forces himself to do it because he's gotten such
Speaker 5: great results out of it and sleeping better, all kinds
Speaker 5: of different things. And this has been a hot story
Speaker 5: for a while. The Washington posts out today are cold
Speaker 5: plunges good for you? Here's what the science says. Cold
Speaker 5: plunges are very popular, but in a new study shows
Speaker 5: they may interfere with blah blah blah blah blah. I
Speaker 5: just wanted to bring up I haven't read the article,
Speaker 5: but I wanted to bring up this phenomenon that happens
Speaker 5: in the media all the time. Just so you can
Speaker 5: spot it, and it's just as tired as could be
Speaker 5: if you're a person who reads headlines all the time.
Speaker 5: So they'll be a new diet like intermittent fasting, and
Speaker 5: then every newspaper you read or news show, we'll talk
Speaker 5: about how great it is. And then once that's like
Speaker 5: saturated and kind of like it's tired, then they got
Speaker 5: to come out, Yeah, you got to come out a
Speaker 5: week later with why intermittent fasting might not be as
Speaker 5: good as you think it is. So and then you
Speaker 5: get all the clicks on that, and everybody does that
Speaker 5: for a while, and usually both sides of it are
Speaker 5: crap or mostly crap. So now get ready for the
Speaker 5: why ice plunges aren't everything people claim they are stories
Speaker 5: for a while, and whether they are or not, I
Speaker 5: haven't got the slightest idea, and you're probably not going
Speaker 5: to learn it from reading any of those.
Speaker 1: Articles, ah right right indeed, and actually on that topic,
Speaker 1: to sort of more or less, I suspect very strongly
Speaker 1: that the ice plunges or whatever you want to call them,
Speaker 1: cold plunges are probably really good for some people and
Speaker 1: not really good for others, and maybe bad for others
Speaker 1: and it might depend on genetics or other factors. I
Speaker 1: was just reading that they've figured out the gene mutation,
Speaker 1: and I always figured it was that let some people
Speaker 1: function perfectly well on say, four hours of sleep.
Speaker 5: Uh wow, talk about we're going to get into AI
Speaker 5: crossing paths with you know, chrispur and everything else happening
Speaker 5: at the same time, gene editing. I wonder if you
Speaker 5: can edit your genes to where you're you're you know,
Speaker 5: you're a five hour a night person. Your kid is
Speaker 5: going to be a five hour a night person for sleep?
Speaker 5: Would you do well for your baby?
Speaker 1: Sleep?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: We all sleep. Why don't we get into this next hour?
Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting. Heck yeah, that's the first one I've
Speaker 1: come across where I thought I might be willing to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: I have to put more thought into it, you know.
Speaker 1: And now Jack's playing God. We knew he was an egomaniac,
Speaker 1: didn't we?
Speaker 2: Folks? Now it's theur of your proof.
Speaker 5: Why wouldn't Why wouldn't you want to have a kid
Speaker 5: who can get by in five hours of sleep a
Speaker 5: day like some people can't?
Speaker 2: Can I do it to me? Yeah?
Speaker 5: It is it too late to edit my jeans, my
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