Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Shoe, Getty Armstrong and Getty,
Speaker 1: and no Kee Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: President Trump was set to hold a private dinner tonight
Speaker 2: with finance industry executives at the White House, and the
Speaker 2: guest list reportedly included the CEOs of JP Morgan, Chase,
Speaker 2: Nastac Blackstone, Blackrock, Morgan, Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. In a
Speaker 2: related story, Bernie Sanders exploded, So.
Speaker 1: I have some breaking news.
Speaker 3: Ish senior military officials just presented Trump with updated options
Speaker 3: for potential operations of Venezuela, including land strikes, sources tell
Speaker 3: CBS News. Secretary of War heg zep and Tim Kaine
Speaker 3: was there. So Tim Kane must be the head of
Speaker 3: one of your big military arms Forced services. Something earler
Speaker 3: for the demographic ranking member because he's a Democrat. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know why he's interesting unless they mean a
Speaker 3: different Kane. We're at a White House for briefings, no
Speaker 3: final decision made. Well, those are those things are always
Speaker 3: a little misleading. I mean, you're for your job, you've
Speaker 3: got to give all kinds of options. Including ones that
Speaker 3: are incredibly unlikely, and keeps them updated. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 3: could be something.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 3: As we said in hour three, neither one of us
Speaker 3: have the slightest idea where this whole Venezuela thing is
Speaker 3: going or how it's going to play it. Well, let's
Speaker 3: get this on first before I start talking about our
Speaker 3: obesity rate has dropped for the first time in a
Speaker 3: very very long time, and I think we all know why.
Speaker 3: But before we get to that BBC coming under fire,
Speaker 3: Oh about sneeze. Probably a b oh boy boy freaking
Speaker 3: avian flu.
Speaker 1: That's how you know you've got it quick blank In
Speaker 1: that chicken huh all that reminds me the KFTC aprons
Speaker 1: at the Armstrong and Getty Superstar vying for position number
Speaker 1: one in my favorite swag item. It's either those very
Speaker 1: amusing looking aprons perfect for your favorite barbecue chef for Christmas.
Speaker 1: Perhaps either that or the great new T shirts ruin
Speaker 1: the Whole Country Newsome twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I got the last of the pickleball paddles,
Speaker 3: the Armstrong and Getty pickleball pedals, which have.
Speaker 1: Sold out collectible. Yeah they are the BBC is undergoing
Speaker 1: for four hundred and fifty bucks on eBay with those
Speaker 1: stupid Starbucks bearer cups and labuboos or whatever those things
Speaker 1: are called. Whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, BBC is coming under fire this week as they
Speaker 3: should be top person and number two person both stepped
Speaker 3: down because they absolutely the freaking materially lied in a
Speaker 3: documentary about Donald Trump. Nobody should have any respect for
Speaker 3: the BBC until they've done mega formal apologies and cleaned house.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, just and they're so rageous top to
Speaker 3: bottle outrageous anyway. To give an idea how woke BBC is,
Speaker 3: somebody had this clip floating around. This is from a
Speaker 3: report where they claimed that a trans woman's breast milk
Speaker 3: is every bit as healthy for a baby as a
Speaker 3: natural one.
Speaker 4: Here you go, now, transgender woman's milk is just as
Speaker 4: good for babies as breast milk. That's according to a
Speaker 4: letter from the medical director her University Hospital Sussex NHS
Speaker 4: Foundation Trust. The claim was made as part of a
Speaker 4: response against campaign groups. The Trust referred to studies and
Speaker 4: the World Health Organization guidance, including one case which found
Speaker 4: what it called no observable effects in babies fed by
Speaker 4: induced lactation.
Speaker 1: Oh great, right, so you pump a dude full of
Speaker 1: enough chemicals he'll start to lactate. And then the woke,
Speaker 1: woke medical authority say it's every bit as good as
Speaker 1: a milk from a woman.
Speaker 3: Katie who's having observed it for a week, we can
Speaker 3: stay with authority. Yeah, Katie, who's working on becoming a
Speaker 3: mom right now, has head in her hands over this story,
Speaker 3: because I.
Speaker 1: Mean, what planet are we on? No kidding, what planet
Speaker 1: are we on?
Speaker 3: And the fact that she mentioned in that new story
Speaker 3: they did it in response to, So it was in
Speaker 3: response to, in response to people that can make this
Speaker 3: whole trans thing is nuts, They put out a study
Speaker 3: that says trans women's milk is every bit is healthy
Speaker 3: for your baby.
Speaker 1: That is so on its face crazy right right now,
Speaker 1: if I had a time machine, Jack some would have
Speaker 1: lunch with Lincoln or ask Jesus questions about spirituality. I
Speaker 1: would shuttle woke.
Speaker 3: People back ten years and tell them what they're currently saying,
Speaker 3: but not tell them they were saying it, and have
Speaker 3: every single one of them saying, are you out of.
Speaker 1: Your fing mind? Just for my own personal satisfaction in
Speaker 1: that little exercise, you people are out of your efing minds. Yes.
Speaker 5: Just one more note about BBC. This woman, she's one
Speaker 5: of their news reporters. Last week she quote broke the
Speaker 5: rules because the teleprompter said pregnant person and she stopped
Speaker 5: and said woman afterwards, and she got in trouble for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she got disciplined for that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Speaking of time machines, I got into a conversation with
Speaker 3: somebody the other day. This should have happened more often.
Speaker 3: Everybody's got their top time machine thing, but I'd like
Speaker 3: to know no numbers like five through ten. Those are
Speaker 3: really interesting with somebody coming up with the idea like
Speaker 3: I'll use me a time machine and be there when
Speaker 3: your mom and dad and get to witness that. Wouldn't
Speaker 3: that be something?
Speaker 1: And then play a Chuck Berry guitar solo and impress everybody.
Speaker 1: But it was too loud. Oh sorry, that was back
Speaker 1: to the future. Wouldn't that be something?
Speaker 3: Though? I wouldn't shoot that over, you know, walking with
Speaker 3: the Disciples or whatever else I'm gonna do in my
Speaker 3: time machine, but it'd be a pretty good one on
Speaker 3: the list. Yeah, man, I would love to go back
Speaker 3: to the night my wife and I really met where
Speaker 3: they started to get to to tell each other. I
Speaker 3: don't know the rules of the time machine. Can you
Speaker 3: go back to something that you did and look, observe yourself.
Speaker 1: I'd put on like a theatrical beard and be the
Speaker 1: waiter or something, the bus boy.
Speaker 3: I've never thought of time machines were like that. You
Speaker 3: can go back and see yourself. That changes everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's one of the great you know, mind
Speaker 1: blanks of time machines, amusingly dealt with in one of
Speaker 1: the Harry Potter movies. By the way, Yeah, nobody, nobody
Speaker 1: sure Jackson's Well, for one thing, time machines don't exist
Speaker 1: and probably never will. Well, they never have.
Speaker 3: If they have had in the past, somebody would have
Speaker 3: visited us.
Speaker 1: But maybe they were under deep cover. They'd signed the
Speaker 1: time machine agreement and had it notarized. How would that
Speaker 1: sets you to No, No, that's not proof of anything.
Speaker 1: I would go back. I would have lunch with Lincoln
Speaker 1: and I would tell him, Look, whatever you do, don't
Speaker 1: go see a play. Don't care how hard your crazy
Speaker 1: white begs you. Tell her you got a headache or something.
Speaker 1: Stay home. Tell her. Look, honey, I'm gonna clean the kitchen,
Speaker 1: you go to the play.
Speaker 3: Of course, the crazy thing about the unfolding of history
Speaker 3: is you don't have any idea if that'd make things
Speaker 3: much much worse for some reason.
Speaker 1: You have no idea mm hmm, if he hadn't been shot.
Speaker 3: My biggest question, my son at least once a month,
Speaker 3: asks what superpower would you like to have?
Speaker 1: And we have to have that conversation again. Well, he's
Speaker 1: tracking you across time for a longitudinal and I always
Speaker 1: say it depends. I would go invisible if I get
Speaker 1: to have clothes and shoes, but if I'm naked, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be invisible.
Speaker 3: If I have to try to trail around completely naked
Speaker 3: and barefoot, that would be no advantage whatsoever. You'd get
Speaker 3: cold exactly. So to me, that's why he's been the
Speaker 3: big one. I'd love to be invisible. I mean to
Speaker 3: like go to the White House and hang in on
Speaker 3: watch all those meetings, like, but I need to have
Speaker 3: shoes on to get there, get to the airport, sneak
Speaker 3: on a plane.
Speaker 1: My recollection of the classic Invisible Man movies of the fifties.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you usually get to whatever clothes you're wearing. You
Speaker 3: become invisible at the time.
Speaker 1: All well, now, I was gonna say, because he like
Speaker 1: wrapped his face in a scarf so he could be seen.
Speaker 1: And then I think he would actually shed his clothes
Speaker 1: when he wanted to be invisible. So you'd get to
Speaker 1: the White House, you'd say, yeah, John Smith to her
Speaker 1: to see the Secretary of the Interior or something, and
Speaker 1: then he got oh no, you'd probably just you know,
Speaker 1: drop your clothes. Half a block from the White House,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand in the way on the sidewalks, try
Speaker 1: not to step on a sharp rock.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stand in the corner of your oval office
Speaker 3: completely naked, even though nobody can see me. It's just
Speaker 3: not that comfortable. I have to sit down on their
Speaker 3: furniture with my bear ask them.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't. I don't want to do that. It's
Speaker 1: their problem. That sounds like a them problem. I mean,
Speaker 1: you'd get used to it. I think you'd walk by
Speaker 1: the marine there at the door, say, you know, give
Speaker 1: him a little salute that he doesn't see. Of course, Uh,
Speaker 1: you sneak in, listen to the deliberations. Yeah, I hate
Speaker 1: being barefooted more than most people.
Speaker 3: I hope you don't step on something sharp. I don't
Speaker 3: have to spend my whole life like that. Well, okay,
Speaker 3: so have stretch your arms then or fly.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Nobody's making you be invisible.
Speaker 3: Another thing, I went to Jim and oh, so we uh,
Speaker 3: we've shrunk three percent. Obesity is down three percent. We
Speaker 3: haven't shrunk three percent. Obesity is down three percent.
Speaker 1: First time.
Speaker 3: It hasn't gone up in a very very long time,
Speaker 3: for the obvious reasons. Those weight loss drugs that are
Speaker 3: out there. For instance, the uh use percentage of people
Speaker 3: using these injectables. In February of twenty twenty four, it
Speaker 3: was five point eight percent. It's now up to twelve percent.
Speaker 3: It's more than doubled in that amount of time, and
Speaker 3: it could easily be twice that a year from now
Speaker 3: if the price went it's.
Speaker 1: A pill when it's a weekly pill, please, and the
Speaker 1: price has come down the way Trump's talking about, So
Speaker 1: all right, and the price is going to be what
Speaker 1: one seventh of what it is or something like that.
Speaker 1: Place Everybody's good, I'm gonna do it. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. Hello, man, I got some nice
Speaker 1: golf clothes that are just not gonna fit anymore.
Speaker 3: But I've never heard anybody do that before. Say I'd
Speaker 3: rather stay fat because I got some nice clothes. Well,
Speaker 3: I mean i'd have to like totally restock.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, Well I didn't say I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do it, but it'd be a bit of a downside.
Speaker 1: You can get them altered, yeah, get them, ol. You
Speaker 1: can't get golf shirts altered, Michael, that's not a thing,
Speaker 1: as the kids say. Nonetheless, I mean with all the
Speaker 1: health benefits, unless they you know, people start growing a
Speaker 1: second head or you know, developed horrific cancers or something
Speaker 1: like that, I think you.
Speaker 3: Almost have to Yeah, no kidding, that's going to be
Speaker 3: awesome to witness. We're down three percent in obesity. What's
Speaker 3: it going to be next year? Probably double digits?
Speaker 1: Wow, certainly couldn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a couple of things you probably should know, whether
Speaker 3: you believe it's a big deal or not. About the
Speaker 3: whole Epstein controversy, which is the first thing they voted
Speaker 3: on when they opened the government up, and it's the
Speaker 3: first big bill they're going to vote on next week.
Speaker 3: And speaking of perversion, this is one of my favorite
Speaker 3: headlines of the day. I'll pay it off Furry, who
Speaker 3: celebrated Charlie kirk assassination and said us deserved nine to
Speaker 3: eleven running for Congress in Michigan.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, All on the way stay here.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I vote with my party ninety one
Speaker 6: percent of the time, and which means I agree with
Speaker 6: the I have agreed with the president ninety one percent
Speaker 6: of the time. But they when they're protecting pedophiles, when
Speaker 6: they are blowing our budget, when they are starting wars overseas,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I can't go along with that. And back home,
Speaker 6: people agree with me. They understand. Even the most ardent
Speaker 6: Trump supporters understand sometimes he gets bad advice. Sometimes he
Speaker 6: gives bad advice, and we wouldn't model our lives after
Speaker 6: him his personal life. And they're okay with that. I
Speaker 6: mean they can still you can still like Donald Trump
Speaker 6: in Kentucky and like what I'm doing and what Rocana
Speaker 6: is doing, which is trying to get transparency.
Speaker 3: So that's representative Thomas Massey. He is a Republican and
Speaker 3: he is out there. He's in Kentucky. He's out there
Speaker 3: saying if you vote against the Epstein Transparency Act, which
Speaker 3: Speaker Mike Johnson has said is going to come up
Speaker 3: to a full House vote next week, then you are
Speaker 3: protecting pedophiles. So you got the Democrats who want to
Speaker 3: vote for it because they think somehow it's going to
Speaker 3: embarrass Trump, even though still even after yesterday, there's nothing
Speaker 3: really that has come out that's very exciting. And Massie says,
Speaker 3: if you don't vote for it, you're protecting pedophiles. I
Speaker 3: don't know what he thinks is going to come out.
Speaker 3: The hell is Thomas Massey doing anything with Rocana for
Speaker 3: Massy is best known for his advocacy of limited government,
Speaker 3: fiscal responsibility, and individual liberties.
Speaker 1: Sounds like my kind of guy. I don't know.
Speaker 3: He rose up through the tea party top tea party.
Speaker 3: That's how he ended up in Congress. I don't know
Speaker 3: why he's so convinced that this child pedo ring exists
Speaker 3: with all the main players in America at the top
Speaker 3: of it, and we're all going to find out through
Speaker 3: the Epstein files, or if he does believe it, and
Speaker 3: he just enough of his voters believe it that he
Speaker 3: has to pretend.
Speaker 1: To believe it, right right, Well, Well, he's no. Sam Smeltzer,
Speaker 1: also known as Eleon Badger, who is a furry who
Speaker 1: identifies as a honey Badger. He celebrated the assassinations of
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirkin United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He was banned
Speaker 1: from X for saying America deserved nine to eleven. He's
Speaker 1: running in the Democratic primary for a competitive House seat
Speaker 1: in Michigan.
Speaker 3: You can't be on Twitter if you say America deserved
Speaker 3: nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: I thought that Elon was more specifically encouraging violence. I
Speaker 1: think I'd have to read the actual rules. But he
Speaker 1: goes by the alias Eleon Badger, dresses as a honey
Speaker 1: Badger at political events and furry conventions. Filed his candidate
Speaker 1: to represent Michigan's seventh though his fundraising his lag behind
Speaker 1: the front runner. I wonder why his campaign has drawn
Speaker 1: drawn local buzz, including an October front page photo shoot
Speaker 1: in Michigan's Between the Lines LGBT newspaper that his house
Speaker 1: is honey Badger energy, whatever the hell that means. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a series of just obscenely you know any
Speaker 1: stupidly snarky tweets? Do you know any furries? Katie. I've
Speaker 1: never been able to wrap my head around this. I
Speaker 1: hate the fact that I do. I mean good yea.
Speaker 5: I went to school with a guy who now identifies
Speaker 5: as a female fox.
Speaker 3: A female fox, And how does that exhibit itself? Does
Speaker 3: he dress like a fox?
Speaker 5: Occasionally wears corsets and whatnot, and wears furry ears and
Speaker 5: a tail from what I can see online, so like
Speaker 5: a transgenderish fox.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right, and I'm the one with the
Speaker 1: problem if I call you a weirdo? Fair enough?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Remember I saw a guy in the parking lot
Speaker 3: at the grocery store last year. He had a tail
Speaker 3: and ears, and I wanted to try buying a nice,
Speaker 3: nice tail.
Speaker 1: You got there. Here's a picture of the guy in
Speaker 1: a full badger regalia with the caption I hate America
Speaker 1: and I love China. All right, got us a suggestion.
Speaker 1: I'll bet you can guess what it is. Son, My
Speaker 1: goal in life is to somehow.
Speaker 3: Parent my teenage boys to a place where they're not
Speaker 3: so desperate for attention that they need to do these
Speaker 3: sorts of things.
Speaker 1: Keep your daughters off the pole, keep your sons out
Speaker 1: of free conventions. That's parenting. One oh one. It's chapter
Speaker 1: one of my new parenting book. I got a free
Speaker 1: speech conversation I want to have. I listened to.
Speaker 3: You're kind of an absolutist on free speech. Close close,
Speaker 3: but not not really. I might be pairing back based
Speaker 3: on a podcast I listened to the other day. Oh really,
Speaker 3: gone fascist? Have you okay? Well, I'll be fair about it. Fascist,
Speaker 3: I'll be fair about it. Nice tale you got there,
Speaker 3: Dude's cool that daily Thank you?
Speaker 1: You know, I just had it brushed out. It looks
Speaker 1: so fluffy. I'm so proud just that it broader noticing.
Speaker 1: That's a really cool tale. Feel pretty, oh.
Speaker 5: Man, Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 7: The vehicle entered the second hole here at Venetian Bay
Speaker 7: off course, and they basically destroyed seven thousand square feet
Speaker 7: of the second hole, causing about one hundred and sixty
Speaker 7: thousand dollars in damage and based on LPR evidence anonymous tips,
Speaker 7: we were able to get the person who drive the
Speaker 7: truck onto the greens. Keller Atkins, seventeen year old Atlantic
Speaker 7: high school student, confessed to causing the damage because they
Speaker 7: were bored.
Speaker 1: Didn't think there's anything else to do with two thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning.
Speaker 7: I'll use a line that my grandmother relayed on me.
Speaker 7: Nothing good happens after ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 3: As getting in his pickup was doing donuts in his
Speaker 3: truck on the green of a golf course.
Speaker 1: What was the RPL coverage or open I assume some
Speaker 1: sort of cameras, I wonder. Yeah, I assumed it was
Speaker 1: like tire evidence. I don't know why, but yeah, well
Speaker 1: he and his family ought to be on the hook
Speaker 1: for that entire amount plus penalties.
Speaker 3: Wow, the parents got to pay it. I mean, who
Speaker 3: else would I suppose that makes sense. But oh then
Speaker 3: that's their charge.
Speaker 1: Sucks. Yeah, and the more you make it suck, the
Speaker 1: less of that you get. It's pretty easy math.
Speaker 3: I had to explain them that to my kids a
Speaker 3: couple of times with various things that they were wanting
Speaker 3: to do. You know who gets the ticket or the
Speaker 3: cops come talk to me, that's who. Although I have
Speaker 3: instructed my kids, like my son rides an electric dirt
Speaker 3: bike all over town, which is technically illegal, but everybody
Speaker 3: does it. If you get pulled over, say your trans
Speaker 3: They only you only pulled me over because I'm trans.
Speaker 1: Right in your communist enclave. It's a good idea. You know,
Speaker 1: there's got to be a saying somewhere out there a
Speaker 1: bromide a truism and aphorism that says, essentially, it takes
Speaker 1: work and intelligence to build something. Any stupid animal can
Speaker 1: break something. Yeah, because the number of people who think,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm too stupid and lazy to build anything,
Speaker 1: but I'm cool because I could break something. Well, otomy
Speaker 1: just generally agreed on anxiety that that is absolutely you
Speaker 1: have tattooed on your forehead. I'm a loser. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That fits in a little bit with me getting more
Speaker 3: culturally conservative as I get older and want to talk
Speaker 3: about free speech.
Speaker 1: But before I get to that, couple of news items
Speaker 1: that are worth mentioning.
Speaker 3: Senator Chris Murphy, who's a Democrat from New Hampshire, and
Speaker 3: he is the worst of that bunch. He says the
Speaker 3: most ridiculous things. He's worse than Adam Schiff. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's just so. He was on a radio show yesterday
Speaker 3: and said he's criticizing the Democrats who caved and voted
Speaker 3: to reopen the government, who, coincidentally, as John Stewart pointed out,
Speaker 3: all eight of them are not up for reelection, right,
Speaker 3: just a coincidence anyway, Chris Murphy, the Senator on a
Speaker 3: radio station said I certainly I'm not here as a
Speaker 3: presidential candid. They were asking me if he was going
Speaker 3: to run. In fact, I think it'd be a big
Speaker 3: mistake for anybody to assume right now that there's going
Speaker 3: to be a free and fair election in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I think Donald Trump is serious about running, wanting to
Speaker 3: run for a third term. That's a US senator, US
Speaker 3: senator claiming there is not going to allow a presidential election.
Speaker 1: That's where we are.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I mean, I can fully understand
Speaker 3: if you don't like Trump him wearing a Trump twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight hat, you know, eggs on this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: Although he said specific t's epically the other day no,
Speaker 1: I'm not running.
Speaker 3: That whole conversation is well, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Then you got this Ukraine story, which I don't like
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal. Two of Ukraine's top ministers resigned yesterday
Speaker 3: amid allegations of corruption in the country's energy sector, the
Speaker 3: fallout from which is becoming a challenger for the Ukrainian
Speaker 3: President of Vladimir desild Zelenski. Of course, and that's the
Speaker 3: knock on Ukraine by a lot of you that don't
Speaker 3: want us funding the war is that.
Speaker 1: Is a corrupt country.
Speaker 3: And as Byron York wrote in The Washington Examiner today,
Speaker 3: Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries when this
Speaker 3: war started. And you can't root that out overnight, which
Speaker 3: is certainly true.
Speaker 1: Every single former Soviet Republic has had to fight an
Speaker 1: existential battle against corruption. It's just it's endemic in the
Speaker 1: communist systems, and trying to leave communism behind is a
Speaker 1: long slog.
Speaker 3: But how about I think as a dude and a woman,
Speaker 3: but how about these two people. You're at war literally
Speaker 3: for your survival, kids being killed and abducted daily, and
Speaker 3: you're stealing.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, it's sickening. But profiteering has been part of
Speaker 1: war as long as blood has been part of war.
Speaker 1: It's the constant fight. It's part of the constant fight
Speaker 1: to stop that. Lincoln dealt with it like crazy. He
Speaker 1: and Stanton pulled out their hair trying to stop the
Speaker 1: profiteers and the thieves during the Civil Wars. Just endemic.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know how many of you know
Speaker 1: who you've all Levin is.
Speaker 3: He is considered one of the greatest thinkers in all
Speaker 3: of conservatism. If you haven't read any of his books
Speaker 3: or regular pieces that he puts out every single week.
Speaker 1: He's brilliant, really really brilliant guy.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I already him talking the other day, and he
Speaker 3: wasn't presenting this as his argument as so much as
Speaker 3: presenting it as an argument the fact that we've gone
Speaker 3: too far with free speech absolutism, and conservatives particularly should
Speaker 3: be for reining it back in that he was talking
Speaker 3: about He's written a lot about the Founding Fathers and
Speaker 3: their intent and the Constitutional Convention and all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff, that the intent was really around free speech
Speaker 3: for anything political. You got to be able to say
Speaker 3: whatever the hell you want and the government can't stop
Speaker 3: you from saying that.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true, absolutely, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3: But he doesn't see any reason why that needs to
Speaker 3: extend to pornography, for instance, when people make the argument
Speaker 3: that that is a free speech violation for the government
Speaker 3: to say you can have porn and a variety of
Speaker 3: other things, And I thought, yeah, what is the problem
Speaker 3: with that is the concern that it's a slippery slope
Speaker 3: from banning porn to banning a political speech. I don't
Speaker 3: think that would have to be.
Speaker 1: No offense I'd like to hear his argument from his
Speaker 1: mouth undistilled, because I've got an immediate answer to it.
Speaker 1: But go ahead, I'd like to hear him mixed median answer. Well,
Speaker 1: if the government is intent on regulating something, for instance, pornography,
Speaker 1: then it's become a political issue. But the actual showing
Speaker 1: of porn, I could talk about regular noddling this through.
Speaker 1: I could talk politically about porn. I don't need to
Speaker 1: show porn. No, I'm thinking no, I'm thinking no, there's
Speaker 1: no constitutional right to show two people fornicating.
Speaker 3: But isn't that the argument that's made for why you
Speaker 3: can't stop a lot of porn is the free speech?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, people versus Larry Flint?
Speaker 1: What do you what do you write right right tonight?
Speaker 1: My favorite streaming service? Yeah, I saw that movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I uh, somebody have to talk me out of
Speaker 3: why I don't have why I should care that the
Speaker 3: government would say, no, we're not going to have pornography.
Speaker 3: What's pornography? I'll when I see it. You get into
Speaker 3: that whole thing. But there's plenty you could come up,
Speaker 3: well short of what anybody would say, Wait, that's not pornography.
Speaker 1: And get rid of that and we'd all be fine. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The absolutist argument, and this is it's actually a pretty
Speaker 1: good argument, is you write for me the justification for
Speaker 1: limiting pornography, okay, and give me five minutes. I will
Speaker 1: take that same standard and misapply it in multiple ways.
Speaker 3: Well, then we would We would get into Supreme Court
Speaker 3: decisions the same way we do with gun laws, and
Speaker 3: you apply this or that and you try to get
Speaker 3: around them, and then sometimes you didn't get around it,
Speaker 3: and sometimes you do.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: In a case by case basis, we come to a
Speaker 3: point we seem to agree on.
Speaker 1: Right. So if the case was human beings in a
Speaker 1: sexual contest performing incredible tests of human elasticity and endurance,
Speaker 1: the answer would be and the flexibility the answer would
Speaker 1: be no. If, on the other hand, I were hauled
Speaker 1: into the docket or before the venture or whatever because
Speaker 1: I was advocating.
Speaker 3: For a woman breastfeeding a kid, it's always that one
Speaker 3: gay marriage or what in public, no on what's pornography
Speaker 3: and what's not. As soon as you do that, then
Speaker 3: you won't be able to have a woman breastfeeding a
Speaker 3: Kid's right?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's got to be away, to keep pornography in a
Speaker 3: variety of other really horrifying things out of society.
Speaker 1: There just has to be right, especially children. Yeah, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and this is a great illustration of what happens when
Speaker 1: a society loses its common cultural assumptions and agreements and
Speaker 1: has to go with written laws. Lawyers, you didn't need
Speaker 1: to feal code forty three dot s dot one as
Speaker 1: opposed to No, that's disgusting. You can't show that to children,
Speaker 1: to jail.
Speaker 3: That's what I was talking about yesterday and the One
Speaker 3: More Thing podcast. If you didn't listen to it, or
Speaker 3: you don't listen to it, we do another segment after
Speaker 3: this radio show called the One More Thing that doesn't
Speaker 3: air on the radio. But we were talking about when
Speaker 3: Elvis showed up and the Beatles showed up and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, now the long hair and rock and
Speaker 3: roll and sex and whatever and fighting back against your
Speaker 3: parents and stodgy old people won't let us have fun.
Speaker 3: But what you were just talking about, culturally, we would
Speaker 3: have not accept it. Anything within one hundred miles of
Speaker 3: pornography as prevalent as it is. And when people say
Speaker 3: it existed, yeah, it existed in dark corners of big
Speaker 3: cities and if you knew somebody who could find it.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't everywhere.
Speaker 1: All the time. Right again, certainly not perverting the poor
Speaker 1: kids sexual development. They're neurological sexual development.
Speaker 3: I've been continuing to say, think and I've been wrong
Speaker 3: that women at some point would lead the charge against
Speaker 3: pornography when they'd finally realize this hasn't done us any good,
Speaker 3: This hasn't made my life better, this hasn't made my
Speaker 3: dating life better. That guys think this is what sex is.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to be on the side of limiting
Speaker 3: pornography and lead together.
Speaker 1: They're too busy screaming in favor of amas in the
Speaker 1: streets and screaming in favor of letting dudes into their
Speaker 1: own locker rooms. Right, Yeah, I don't know. It's an
Speaker 1: interesting question, but again I think the highly unsatisfactory answer
Speaker 1: is that sort of thing is enforced by cultural norms,
Speaker 1: not carefully written laws, and once you've lost your cultural norms,
Speaker 1: well you're onto a whole nother thing.
Speaker 3: She had the Roaring twenties, so much roaring and women
Speaker 3: were wearing short skirts and being all sexy and smoking
Speaker 3: and drinking. But then the Great Depression comes along? But
Speaker 3: is that a realistic view of it? And I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Like in Iowa, where my family is from, they were
Speaker 3: living like they were in the Great Gatsby.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I was then, as now that's that
Speaker 1: they were the Kardashians of the time, you know that
Speaker 1: sort of people. They were the urban wealthy and like
Speaker 1: they're imitators in other places that were doing all that
Speaker 1: and living like that. It's like, how many what percentage
Speaker 1: of Americans were actually freaking hippies in nineteen sixty seven?
Speaker 1: I know, I thought so. Your insurance salesman had longer
Speaker 1: hair than he'd had a few years ago. Your sportscasters
Speaker 1: you see him now. It's kind of funny they've all
Speaker 1: got shaggy beetle hair. But I mean they weren't hippies.
Speaker 3: Well right, And uh, it's funny growing up taking in
Speaker 3: pop culture with the feeling that Woodstock was just such
Speaker 3: a giant event, all encompassing event. I remember my dad
Speaker 3: telling me on dumbin Zung you didn't even know what happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, showed it, so did.
Speaker 3: Most people had no idea even was happening, let alone
Speaker 3: we're there and it was a major cultural moment in
Speaker 3: their lives.
Speaker 1: Now it's going to work. I didn't even know what
Speaker 1: was happening. Yeah, yeah, huh.
Speaker 3: I think I'm for limiting free speech. I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to read more about this.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's you want to talk about. The devil
Speaker 1: is in the details. It's like a Ghostbusters style seventy
Speaker 1: five foot tall fire breathing devil.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it gets into the thing we talked about years ago.
Speaker 3: I should dig that back up because it's so entertaining
Speaker 3: when Facebook tried to decide what sort of new doy
Speaker 3: they wouldn't allow wood or wouldn't allow on Facebook, and
Speaker 3: how crazy it got with well, a woman breastfeeding a child,
Speaker 3: that's okay, Okay, we got a woman breastfeeding a thirteen
Speaker 3: year old and it's a sexual thing.
Speaker 1: Is that okay? How are you going to tell the
Speaker 1: difference of all that sort of stuff? Right? Remember that
Speaker 1: it was one of the funniest things you've ever brought us,
Speaker 1: And I just the history of censors is awful. Balancing
Speaker 1: that against the moral decay of a society. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: tough stuff.
Speaker 3: God, I'd say we will finish strong next time.
Speaker 8: I just want to apologize to any Americans who are
Speaker 8: out there who still have flight cancelations or delays today.
Speaker 8: I want to apologize to the many American families who
Speaker 8: are made to go hungry over the last several weeks,
Speaker 8: our troops and other federal employees who are wondering where
Speaker 8: their next paycheck would come from. All of that's on
Speaker 8: the Democrats.
Speaker 1: What I have the rods get off my loans? Did
Speaker 1: he start by saying I apolog the airlines?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Was that fifty three? Okay?
Speaker 3: Well, the fifty three on my sheet is NBC Nightly
Speaker 3: News report that the airlines would be back to normal
Speaker 3: by Friday or Saturday, which is pretty big news.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thank goodness. Yeah so crazy. So I've read
Speaker 1: about this Wolf River Electric, which is, you know, a
Speaker 1: fairly small company in Minnesota. It does solar and that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. They're getting a bunch of canceled contracts
Speaker 1: late last year, and so they started calling the people
Speaker 1: who canceled the contracts, the former customers, and say, hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on. We enjoyed working with you people, and
Speaker 1: the answer, as they say, left them floored. The clients
Speaker 1: said they bailed after learning from Google search is that
Speaker 1: the company settled the lawsuit with the state attorney general
Speaker 1: over deceptive sales practices, but the company had never been
Speaker 1: sued by the government, let alone settled a case. Turns
Speaker 1: out that Gemini, Google's artificial intelligence intelligence technology hallucinated it. Wow,
Speaker 1: made it up completely. We're never in any sort of
Speaker 1: legal jeopardy from that sort of thing, not even a
Speaker 1: hint of it. And so the question is, all right,
Speaker 1: they're suing now Google for defamation? Who pays when AI
Speaker 1: make stuff up? And we'll talk about that a little
Speaker 1: more tomorrow.
Speaker 7: My little thoughts, I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 1: The world's shortest rave. It's about the length I like.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. How about
Speaker 1: a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap
Speaker 1: things up for the day. There is our technical director,
Speaker 1: Michael Angelo. Michael final thought.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that story about the seventeen year old doing donuts
Speaker 6: on the golf course reminds me of my dad telling me, Yeah,
Speaker 6: if you do something and you get yourself in jail,
Speaker 6: you're gonna sit in there for a little while.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yep. Katie Green, I'm sure you've got a
Speaker 1: similar speech. You have a final thought.
Speaker 5: That is exactly along those lines. My dad used to say,
Speaker 5: think of everything that I've worked for and that can
Speaker 5: all go out the window if you screw up.
Speaker 1: Ooh that's a good and I will kill you for it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Jackie, final thoughts. And I used to.
Speaker 3: Scoff like all younger people at the whole nothing good
Speaker 3: happens after midnight thing.
Speaker 1: But you know what, even though there's.
Speaker 3: Some things that I had enjoy it that have happened
Speaker 3: after midnight, there's a whole pretty good idea to keep
Speaker 3: your life on tracking right doing everything on the other
Speaker 3: side of midnight. So, speaking of AI, my final thought
Speaker 3: is it reminds me a little bit of free speech
Speaker 3: and some of the societal things we've been talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm aware of some unbelievably cool, important, valuable stuff that's
Speaker 1: happening in the world of AI, and also some stupid, damaging,
Speaker 1: moronic stuff. AI is like a human being. It's just
Speaker 1: capable of great beauty and just utter idiocy. Joe Getty says,
Speaker 1: AI is like a human being.
Speaker 3: Interesting Armstrong in Getty wrapping up another ruling four hour workday.
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Speaker 1: a couple of years. See you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 1: I'm strong and getty after a hard day's work in
Speaker 1: front of a hot mike.
Speaker 3: If your name is Jack, then take this advice.
Speaker 1: Clean out the length and set your dryer too high.
Speaker 1: Your betting should be crisp and dry. Don't sleep on
Speaker 1: the wet sheets. Sleep on the wet sheets. If your
Speaker 1: name is Jack, don't sleep on the wet sheets. Are
Speaker 1: strong and getty.