Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and Getty,
Speaker 1: and he Armstrong and Yetty. So I guess the thing
Speaker 1: we're all gonna have to determine here after we hear
Speaker 1: from this young gentleman is uh. I guess he would
Speaker 1: call himself a young woman because he at some point
Speaker 1: states he's trans all the way he looks just like
Speaker 1: a dude, like a regular dude, like he's not making
Speaker 1: any effort to look like a woman, but he says
Speaker 1: he's a trans woman anyway, hear a dude, dude?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Is he crazy? Is he stupid? Is he ignorant? Because
Speaker 1: those are all three different things? Or is he a
Speaker 1: mixture of all three or whatever? But so there's this guy.
Speaker 3: Almost you almost need like the little scales like he's
Speaker 3: a video game character.
Speaker 1: You know, his speed rating is six, out rating is
Speaker 1: aid maneuverability's only a three. So you got to have
Speaker 1: the crazy meter, the stupid meter, and the ignorant meter.
Speaker 1: You mentioned video games. I want to get this joke
Speaker 1: on because I heard this. This is a meme. My
Speaker 1: son said, I thought this was funny yesterday the idea
Speaker 1: that you know, the world is just a video game,
Speaker 1: Life is just a video game or a simulation or whatever.
Speaker 1: You hear that now and then life is just a
Speaker 1: video game. And the rating on a life being a
Speaker 1: video game is the animation is amazing, but the storyline
Speaker 1: and characters suck. I would agree, Wow, that's good. So
Speaker 1: this guy Nate Friedman, maybe you've seen him on the YouTube.
Speaker 1: He shows up at various things and sticks microphone in
Speaker 1: people's faces and ask some questions in a very friendly way,
Speaker 1: and they beclown themselves. And you know, it's like the
Speaker 1: libs of TikTok thing. It's just the people on the
Speaker 1: left get upset about this, but hey, nothing untoward is
Speaker 1: happening here. This is This is your people spouting their nonsense.
Speaker 1: This guy is just and lips of TikTok just airs it.
Speaker 1: This guy, Nate Friedman is just airing it. That's all
Speaker 1: he's doing. And an interesting thing during this interview. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we have it in the clips, but people,
Speaker 1: a couple of people came up to Nate while he
Speaker 1: was interviewing this guy. This woman who kept saying, hey,
Speaker 1: don't talk to him, he's a Zionist. He's on YouTube
Speaker 1: all the time. Like I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means. But this is the giant pro Palestinian pro
Speaker 1: Homas protest in New York which was huge and should
Speaker 1: have gotten more news coverage, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: people there are just flat out pro Homas or flat
Speaker 1: out anti jew And like this guy that was being interviewed,
Speaker 1: Nate Friedman doing a man on the street at the
Speaker 1: big protest in New York City yesterday. We got a
Speaker 1: bunch of this. But here we go.
Speaker 4: So is this this is the translac this is the
Speaker 4: Palestinian flag mixed with the tan. Okay, what do you
Speaker 4: say to those who who say that trans people would
Speaker 4: be killed in Palestine?
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know about that, but I know
Speaker 5: that I'm standing here today. At least fifty percent of
Speaker 5: the Gazan government needs to be trans women like Muhammad himself.
Speaker 5: Mohammad herself was herd sacked, a trans lesbian.
Speaker 4: Mohammad was a woman.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Islam is a trans idea, it's a trans religion.
Speaker 5: It Mohammad herself was a proud trans lesbian.
Speaker 4: And Iran the morality police and also in Gaza, they
Speaker 4: kill trans people, Like do you think that that's not
Speaker 4: true or.
Speaker 5: I mean I think they're secretly Jews if they do that,
Speaker 5: they because no Muslim would actually do that, like Islam
Speaker 5: is a gay religion.
Speaker 4: They asked Muslims in Gaza what you would do with
Speaker 4: trans people.
Speaker 1: They say that we don't have that here, we kill
Speaker 1: those people.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know, but that's why we need
Speaker 5: to protest harder, that we need at least fifty percent
Speaker 5: of the Palestinian government to be trans women.
Speaker 4: How do I.
Speaker 1: So he's one of those people that has got the
Speaker 1: trans flag, whatever that is. I didn't know they had
Speaker 1: their own flag, But is that you know, trans people
Speaker 1: for Palestine, which, as a lot of us have pointed out,
Speaker 1: that's like a combination, an anomaly, non sequitor, contradiction. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all kinds of things. I mean, there's not a
Speaker 1: more anti lgbt Q group in the world than your
Speaker 1: Islamic fundamentalists, right right.
Speaker 3: You know, I hate to always lean on the obvious example,
Speaker 3: but it's a lot like Jews.
Speaker 1: For Hitler, that was.
Speaker 3: Those club meetings were sparsely attended, but so is that
Speaker 3: would be insane but this was an a wrinkle.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people believe that that Islam
Speaker 1: is a that Muhammad was a woman, and Islam is
Speaker 1: gay friendly. And then when you hear the stuff about
Speaker 1: Islamists going after eight people and kill him, well, those
Speaker 1: are actually Jews. Wow, Okay, this guy goes on.
Speaker 4: How do we make that happen?
Speaker 5: I mean, we have to protest, we have to push
Speaker 5: put pressure on the Jews who control the world to
Speaker 5: make this happen. Like they own everything, we have to
Speaker 5: make this.
Speaker 4: Are you Jewish?
Speaker 5: No, I'm Italian and Muslim.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Jews own everything? Yeah, how do you think?
Speaker 4: How do you think that happened? How did Jews start
Speaker 4: owning everything?
Speaker 5: I don't know. They use their dark magic. I guess like.
Speaker 4: I'm Jewish and I would like to have some magic,
Speaker 4: but I don't feel like I have any magic. How
Speaker 4: do you think I can access this dark magic?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: If you're maybe using your magic on me right now?
Speaker 4: No, if I am the first time ever hearing about magic,
Speaker 4: because we used to.
Speaker 5: Have like the thing where you would tie a stone
Speaker 5: to the leg of a witch and dunk her in
Speaker 5: the water and if she floated, she was a witch.
Speaker 1: Should we do that with Jews?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, should we do that with Jews across the
Speaker 4: whole world everywhere?
Speaker 5: And there's the other one where you like, put the
Speaker 5: Bible on one scale and the Jew on the other,
Speaker 5: and if they're lighter than the Bible, they're a witch.
Speaker 1: Okay. So his argument that the new government of Gaza
Speaker 1: needs to be half trans women, Yes, again, how much
Speaker 1: is this is nutpicking in that this is one individual kook.
Speaker 1: Well and wait a minute, wait, that's blatantly discriminatory against
Speaker 1: trans dudes. Don't they get a say in Gaza in
Speaker 1: his world? What the hell? I'm sorry he was saying, Well,
Speaker 1: he is carrying a trans people for Hamas flag or band.
Speaker 1: I mean, what the hell. And it doesn't appear that
Speaker 1: people that have those are being shouted down by others saying, hey,
Speaker 1: that does doesn't make any sense. They would stone us
Speaker 1: to death. It seems to be some support for that
Speaker 1: attitude right in that crowd, right, Yeah, you know, it
Speaker 1: reminds me of the great piece by Eli Lake that
Speaker 1: we featured from the Free Press about the Red Green Alliance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and how that really took shape in the seventies in Iran,
Speaker 1: where the Marxists and the Islamists realized that they both
Speaker 1: wanted the overthrow of the establishment. We're gonna hear. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from a guy because I came across this
Speaker 1: last night so that the protests. You know, yesterday was
Speaker 1: the second anniversary of October seventh, so there were a
Speaker 1: lot of protests around the country, and there were some
Speaker 1: counter protests. And we got a guy who moved here
Speaker 1: from Iran. We'll play it later, but that's exactly what
Speaker 1: he said. Look, I'm worried about what's happening here in
Speaker 1: the United States. I moved here from Iran. I have
Speaker 1: seen this before. The college crowd, the college crowd and
Speaker 1: the Islamists always get bond together, the woke crowd in
Speaker 1: the Islamists gathered together and become a powerful force. And
Speaker 1: he said, I see that happening here. That is exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. Anyway, Look, let's get back to this
Speaker 1: one kooky man woman.
Speaker 5: So we just kill all the Jews, though, I think so, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: we need to throw.
Speaker 4: Yeah, am I I'm a zion talk to about well
Speaker 4: we're we're we're.
Speaker 1: On YouTube too.
Speaker 5: Can I look up what you do on YouTube like
Speaker 5: us having a conversation. Yeah, I'll do it later.
Speaker 4: So okay, so we should call a jus, how should
Speaker 4: we kill all the Jews?
Speaker 5: We should throw the Jew down the well so that
Speaker 5: my country at least can be free.
Speaker 4: And what cheer is their country?
Speaker 5: Well, America, America is the country, but also Palestine.
Speaker 1: I mean I stand, but also Palestine.
Speaker 5: I'm not from there, I've been there.
Speaker 1: Okay. The reason I want to play that no matter
Speaker 1: how crazy he is, there isn't or how many people
Speaker 1: he represents, he just said out loud, we should kill
Speaker 1: all the Jews. Joe Biden claims he ran for president
Speaker 1: because people were saying less than that at Charlottesville. Uh,
Speaker 1: in that big protest there that a person ended up
Speaker 1: dying because of job, drove a car into the crowd
Speaker 1: and it was horrible. But they will not replace us
Speaker 1: was their chant that got everybody all worked up. They
Speaker 1: weren't bold enough to just flat out and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: we ought to kill them all like this guy did,
Speaker 1: and everybody just ignores it. Well, you know, he's just
Speaker 1: a college kid, and what does he know. Well, he's
Speaker 1: one of many people are saying that now systematically ignored Okay,
Speaker 1: I want I want to wrap up his little conversation
Speaker 1: here before before we move on to talk more about it.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Are you trans?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: So do you believe that you could stand in Palestine
Speaker 4: safely as a transperson?
Speaker 5: If we succeed, I would be one of the first
Speaker 5: trans members of the new Palestinian Parliament.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 1: See that's clearly a crazy person. How many, simpleton? But
Speaker 1: how many people believe that? I mean, if you're carrying
Speaker 1: if you're specifically, not many, but that's general in general,
Speaker 1: the whole trans well, I mean, the trans for Palestine.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Okay, one more and then
Speaker 1: we'll be done.
Speaker 4: Dunking all the Jews in the world in a well
Speaker 4: seems inefficient. Is there a faster way to kill all
Speaker 4: the Jews? I mean Hitler was pretty good at it, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: he was. Okay, so we should do it similarly the
Speaker 4: way Hitler did it.
Speaker 5: I mean he wasn't quite fast enough, but because like
Speaker 5: they were able to end the war before he was finished.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so he should have built more concentration camps.
Speaker 5: I think that and like now that we have like
Speaker 5: all these like fast food chains with their own ovens
Speaker 5: like pizza huh, McDonald's. We could repurpose fast food chain
Speaker 5: rovens to be the new ovens to do this, and
Speaker 5: it would go so much faster.
Speaker 3: And so there are conservatives that are the fascists, and there.
Speaker 1: Are people gathered around watching this interview that have the
Speaker 1: same flags and everything like that, and like nobody's jumping
Speaker 1: in and saying whoa dude? That? I mean, Like, if
Speaker 1: I'm protesting for something and there's somebody who's like Wayne,
Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt my cause what I believe in, I
Speaker 1: would jump in. I think most people would. No, they're
Speaker 1: perfectly fine with him spouting that sort of stuff because
Speaker 1: I think they agree, Yeah, yeah, I would agree. That's
Speaker 1: so nuts. And the fact that it gets zero coverage
Speaker 1: in the news versus if you got you know, you
Speaker 1: have a preacher somewhere, say one thing, or a military
Speaker 1: dude or whoever, giant national story representing millions of mega
Speaker 1: people's thoughts, right, and the danger they pose, right, the
Speaker 1: big danger in America's white supremacy. Wow, we've got some
Speaker 1: much more serious people than him spouting the same attitudes.
Speaker 1: A little bit later on, half the government of Gaza
Speaker 1: should be trans people have a rally, and I think
Speaker 1: it was New York where the guy's saying, we need
Speaker 1: to do another October seventh, but stronger, more and more yea,
Speaker 1: and again a bunch of people gathered around and listening,
Speaker 1: and everybody, you know, nodding their heads. It's not like
Speaker 1: people are saying whoa, whoa, whoa, that's too much. I
Speaker 1: think Godza, the Gosins are being treated unfairly in Israel's
Speaker 1: gone too far. But another oct nobody's saying that, no, no,
Speaker 1: And it's.
Speaker 3: Right down the street from the New York Times, And
Speaker 3: funnily enough, they didn't have a reporter available to cover it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Any thoughts on any of this? Text line four
Speaker 1: one five KFTC some business news. Costco announced that they're
Speaker 1: gonna start selling ozempic and wigovi. So now you can
Speaker 1: go to Costco, get a hot dog, some ozempic and
Speaker 1: see who wins. Anybody know what it's gonna cost it Costco?
Speaker 1: Do they mean it the pharmacy or just like in
Speaker 1: the aisle with the medicine. Do you know that? I
Speaker 1: don't know the current state of it.
Speaker 3: I know that the companies are working very hard on
Speaker 3: getting a pill form of those drugs out because the
Speaker 3: is it a weekly jab or a monthly jab?
Speaker 1: Hey, it's not over the counter yet, surely not. No, no, no, no, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's the costco pharmacy, okay, right right. Hey.
Speaker 3: By the way, I was just reminded that the Nobel
Speaker 3: Prize in Physics went to a trio of guys for
Speaker 3: their work mostly in the eighties, I think, but quantum physics.
Speaker 1: We talked about that yesterday. Yeah, yeah, quantum mechanics. And
Speaker 1: you're going to try to explain that to me. Well,
Speaker 1: what was interesting to me is that, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: stuff from the eighties, which usually your Nobel Prizes other
Speaker 1: than literature are not like, you know, lifetime achievement awards.
Speaker 1: They're more something that happened this year, a big discovery.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of interesting to me that this was
Speaker 1: based on stuff that they discovered way back in the
Speaker 1: eighties that has allowed us to have all of the
Speaker 1: AI computing power U Practically everything that we're doing is
Speaker 1: because of stuff that they invented or came up with
Speaker 1: in the eighties around quantum mechanics. I think these guys
Speaker 1: ought to be prosecuted, not given awards. As witches. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: bring the Internet on us. Yeah, you're right, thanks for nothing.
Speaker 3: Also worth noting there's some economic stuff out, including the
Speaker 3: fact that gold prices rose to four thousand dollars per
Speaker 3: troy ounce for the first time in history.
Speaker 1: A troy ounce. You say, oh, that's my favorite kind
Speaker 1: of ounce.
Speaker 3: The Russia gold likely signals increasing doubts about the stability
Speaker 3: of the US economy as investors scramble for alternatives to
Speaker 3: the dollar. Meanwhile, the Republicans just saying, look, you said
Speaker 3: these COVID subsidies were temporary. We're just saying, yes, they
Speaker 3: were temporary. Let's go back to the other numbers. And
Speaker 3: Democrats are acting like it's a betrayal of all that
Speaker 3: is good and holy, even as you know, globally people
Speaker 3: are looking at the US economy and saying, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Gold at four thousand douns, man, if I had being
Speaker 1: gold fillings, i'd be prying amount Oh yeah, heck yeah,
Speaker 1: palling them.
Speaker 3: And then you know, the other somewhat concerning figures that
Speaker 3: are floating around these days is that the hiring numbers
Speaker 3: as best as they can figure them out with the
Speaker 3: private organizations, because that perhaps you've heard this. The federal
Speaker 3: government is on a bit of a vacation. They don't
Speaker 3: look good.
Speaker 1: And the narrative that we have two economies AI and
Speaker 1: the rest of it I think is true. And at
Speaker 1: least you know, these numbers are difficult to put together
Speaker 1: with any great accuracy, but half of the economic growth
Speaker 1: we've seen over the last year has been AI stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: and that's like half a dozen companies. Well, remember the
Speaker 1: stats I had last week. One of them was like
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the growth in the Nasdaq. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were just stunning, stunning percentages for your AI part
Speaker 1: of the stock market. The problem being it could be
Speaker 1: a bubble. So if it is, then well wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll be wacky. Yeah, I'd say. Yeah. So coming up
Speaker 1: next half hour, Pam Bondi, America's toughest middle aged hottie,
Speaker 1: goes before Congress and swings both of her pretty fists
Speaker 1: and it lands blow after blow more or less, and
Speaker 1: the media be clowns itself. Yeah that's a daily story,
Speaker 1: no kidding. One of those stories is that des Moines
Speaker 1: superintendent of schools, who was I mean, he was like
Speaker 1: a fake everything. He claimed he had a PhD.
Speaker 3: But didn't right, and he claimed he had a degree
Speaker 3: from one place and it was maybe from another place
Speaker 3: or maybe not at all.
Speaker 1: Claimed he was like teacher of the Year of some
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and then found out that award doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: I wish i'd have done that. I'm only jealous that
Speaker 1: I didn't pad my resume that way. When I was
Speaker 1: out there, I.
Speaker 3: Read the rest of that email from the guy talking
Speaker 3: about a really important engineer in California who at some point,
Speaker 3: for credentialing reasons, one of the junior engineers had to
Speaker 3: like list him as a reference or whatever, and he
Speaker 3: couldn't find any record of this guy's engineering degree. And
Speaker 3: it turns out this guy was one of a really
Speaker 3: important engineer in the twentieth century in California.
Speaker 1: He never had a degree.
Speaker 3: He was also a brilliant engineer, and they went back
Speaker 3: over all of his work.
Speaker 1: It was flawless. He just hadn't bothered with the academic rigmarole. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel patience for it. I feel like you'd be
Speaker 1: outed in something like that if you didn't have the
Speaker 1: actual skills. Whereas being a superintendent or something, I mean,
Speaker 1: you could pull that off forever. Armstrong and getty. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be he knew about a topic.
Speaker 7: At being in the military, just to be elected as senator. Senator,
Speaker 7: I don't think a lot of people like you were
Speaker 7: out protesting with antifi.
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer, said, you do know the answer.
Speaker 1: Call me a liar. You work for me.
Speaker 7: You would have been fired because you were censored by Congress.
Speaker 1: You're lying? Will you support that request? Will you apologize?
Speaker 1: To Donald Trump? And Bondy Feisty in front of the
Speaker 1: Senate yesterday, grilled about Trump's retribution campaign, the weaponization of
Speaker 1: the Justice Department Jack some call lawfair. I noticed like
Speaker 1: ABC News said the White House pleased with Bondi's performance,
Speaker 1: I thought, which is code for them saying she did
Speaker 1: pretty well. She just stood up pretty well to the grilling.
Speaker 1: To the extent that it matters. None of these hearings
Speaker 1: matter freaking at all. They are barely a story. The
Speaker 1: day they happen, they disappear into the ether and then
Speaker 1: that's it. So they matter because they entertain me. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're entertaining, but they have no political lasting effects. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 1: unless you know, you get a particularly good singer and
Speaker 1: then they run it on your local news for a
Speaker 1: while and you see poll numbers go up by one
Speaker 1: and a half percent, or it's so good you get
Speaker 1: to use it in an ad for your next campaign. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it usually is a standalone event. As you pointed,
Speaker 1: it's not like we have uncovered something very intriguing here
Speaker 1: today and a subcommittee will be investigating it all. Even
Speaker 1: if that happens, nothing really comes of it. But I
Speaker 1: did appreciate this exchange though with Senator Blumenthal, the congenital liar.
Speaker 7: I can finish answering the question topic being in the
Speaker 7: military just to be elected as.
Speaker 1: Senator, and of course to a reference to the story
Speaker 1: that indeed, that is what Dick Blumenthal did. Here's good
Speaker 1: old Brian Williams. Whatever happened to Brian Williams got back
Speaker 1: being a fabulous And this is from back in the
Speaker 1: day when Bloomenthal got caught what BONDI was referring to
Speaker 1: at a.
Speaker 2: Big US Senate race in Connecticut got blown sky high
Speaker 2: today when the leading Democrat in the race got caught
Speaker 2: in a lie over his military service. Richard Blumenthal, as
Speaker 2: the state Attorney General, has said in the past he
Speaker 2: served in Vietnam.
Speaker 1: He did not he served during Vietnam.
Speaker 2: The New York Times reports he received five wartime deferments
Speaker 2: and he served stateside in the Marine Reserves. Today, Blumenthal
Speaker 2: said he misspoken.
Speaker 6: And I will not allow anyone to take a few
Speaker 6: misplaced words and impugne my record of service to our country.
Speaker 2: The problem with that is there's videotape of Bloomenthal saying
Speaker 2: that he was in Vietnam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing that he went on to win, is
Speaker 1: still a US Senator and is regularly on committees where
Speaker 1: he lectures people about this and that about the military
Speaker 1: when he was out there completely lying about having fought
Speaker 1: in the biggest war of his generation. It's just that's
Speaker 1: the politics couldn't be worse, I know, and you hear
Speaker 1: crap like that. You people want more government, bigger government,
Speaker 1: the government to have more power, be in charge of
Speaker 1: more things. Who do you think the government is.
Speaker 3: It's Dick Blumenthal and many many like him.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Is incredible, That is incredible. I mean, there are
Speaker 1: really hum misplaced words. There are zero standards for anything.
Speaker 1: You get to lecture people about patriotism or honesty or
Speaker 1: the military this or that when you were out there
Speaker 1: completely lying about that. It's amazing anyway, whatever, that's an
Speaker 1: old story, that one that ship. That ship has left
Speaker 1: the station. What's interesting is that the guy still in
Speaker 1: the Senate and has power and people who just kind
Speaker 1: of let it go by the wayside. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That train has sailed. I mean that people apparently don't
Speaker 1: care about that. Well.
Speaker 3: And it's not like he claimed he played for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: He claimed he served in Vietnam.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh, for God's sake, anyway, this was an odd
Speaker 1: moment with Ted Cruz and good hold Homespun, John Kennedy
Speaker 1: and Pam Bondi.
Speaker 2: And I'll point out Senator Kennedy has a new book
Speaker 2: about testing negative for stupid.
Speaker 1: So I hope I test negative for stupid. I hope
Speaker 1: I meet the threshold of you Do you meet it?
Speaker 2: And I'm talk in the book about the tattoo of
Speaker 2: the Backstreet Boys on your back.
Speaker 1: Look, I can't help that you don't want to reach
Speaker 1: young people. I think young people of the future, damn it.
Speaker 2: And I'll do whatever steps are being Backstreet.
Speaker 7: Boys that would be on Vice President Vance's playlist.
Speaker 1: I heard that got hacked yesterday. Yeah, yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: just entertaining us all get out. Wow. Wow. So to
Speaker 1: the topic of the hearing.
Speaker 3: I've been trying to decide because there there is a
Speaker 3: certain amount of the Justice Department weaponization that's more open
Speaker 3: and aggressive than it's been in the past. On the
Speaker 3: other hand, there's been plenty of open aggressive weaponization of
Speaker 3: the Justice Department in the past, just the media ignored it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mentioned, agreed it. I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: allowed to post it. I know I'm not allowed to
Speaker 1: post it. But so Mark Halprin in his newsletter a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, when this story first bubbled up,
Speaker 1: he laid out all of the lawfare that has gone
Speaker 1: on from the Justice Department at the behest of a
Speaker 1: president since the early nineties. I mean, it's just a
Speaker 1: common thing. It doesn't mean it's good. It's just getting
Speaker 1: more and more common over the years. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's more blatant now, but it's been happening for a very,
Speaker 1: very long time. It is not a new phenomenon, right right.
Speaker 3: And it's difficult as conservatives because the referee is on
Speaker 3: one team's side, meaning, you know, the mainstream media. Although
Speaker 3: it's worth repeating every so often that if you're under forty, especially,
Speaker 3: you do not get your news from mainstream media.
Speaker 1: You get it online from TikTok and and whatever the
Speaker 1: algorithms feed you, which is probably worse. But anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you have the refs just calling penalties on one side,
Speaker 1: and I can't. There's part of me that thinks, you know,
Speaker 1: Trump is almost doing us a service by bringing this
Speaker 1: out into the open and saying, all right, you did
Speaker 1: it to me, now I'm going to do it to you.
Speaker 1: How do you like it? Because if sanity prevailed, if
Speaker 1: there were adults in charge, we'd all say, okay, all right, everybody,
Speaker 1: it's time to back off. Let's all agree this is unproductive,
Speaker 1: it's bad for the country, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But I don't think those adults are in the room anymore,
Speaker 3: with especially with the greatest Satan, perhaps the greatest devil
Speaker 3: that was ever unleashed on the American politics. Small dollar
Speaker 3: donations online, you get nothing donated to you for saying, hey,
Speaker 3: it's time for us to remember our principles and and
Speaker 3: and this weaponization of the Justice Department or the justice system.
Speaker 1: We need to have a high bar separation blah blah.
Speaker 1: You'll get twenty dollars chi chain donated online. But if
Speaker 1: you say Donald Trump is hitler and he needs to
Speaker 1: be in jail somebody, you'll pour in. Or if you
Speaker 1: said I think you should die, and I'd crap on
Speaker 1: your grave, you'd take thousands and thousands of dollars, Yes,
Speaker 1: and you'd run for attorney general in Virginia. Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just I don't know where the salvation is.
Speaker 3: I don't mean to be discouraging. You are you're discovered. No,
Speaker 3: I am, Well I'm discouraged. I can't help it. So
Speaker 3: I'm going up the media big clowns itself. Yes, and
Speaker 3: I want to mention this every hour.
Speaker 1: So one of the lead stories everywhere is how lots
Speaker 1: of flights are being canceled or delayed. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: they're going to talk to people in airports. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: wife had to drive up and get me because they
Speaker 1: canceled this flight blah blah blah because the air traffic controllers
Speaker 1: government shut down blah blah blah, without ever mentioning they
Speaker 1: haven't missed a paycheck, they haven't missed a set yet.
Speaker 1: If they're not going to work, it's purely a political move,
Speaker 1: all right, It is not because you can you can
Speaker 1: have the air traffic controller on there talking about child cared.
Speaker 1: I got kids and my wife and house payment cover.
Speaker 1: You haven't missed any money yet, all right, and not
Speaker 1: until the fourteenth when the next check comes out. Has
Speaker 1: anybody missed a dime? That's an important part of the
Speaker 1: story in my opinion, right right, yeah, So that excuse me.
Speaker 3: Also, we need to get to some of the more
Speaker 3: serious speeches and chants at the pro Hamas rallies around
Speaker 3: the country yesterday on the anniversary of the brutal murder, torture, rape, abduction,
Speaker 3: slaughter of innocent kids at a music festival. The side
Speaker 3: that did that was supported by lots of young people
Speaker 3: in the street, Queer's for Palestine.
Speaker 1: Among other things. The things they said, we'll get to
Speaker 1: that before long as well. Cool. All that's on the way.
Speaker 1: Got to put on my Dodger's at Dodgers play today
Speaker 1: at home. I got to get my Dodgers at I'm
Speaker 1: on the bandwagon bandwagon jumper. Fake fan boo oo a
Speaker 1: term I do not recognize fake fan as opposed to
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Why the Brewers are
Speaker 1: beating up on my cubbies. I think Brewers are headed
Speaker 1: for the World Series, but we shall see. It's not
Speaker 1: they play the games. Jack, not good for ratings, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that. Uh no, no good Baal team though,
Speaker 1: So welcome to the major media. Be clown themselves. That's
Speaker 1: enough of that music, Michael is annoying.
Speaker 3: So I came across a couple of stories in a
Speaker 3: row during my rigorous preparations for the show today, Jack.
Speaker 1: That for some reason, that music and the circus and
Speaker 1: everything like that reminded me of the Jerry Seinfeld bit
Speaker 1: where he says, what is this? What is going on here?
Speaker 1: Right right? Describing the acts? Is anybody enjoying this? Katie
Speaker 1: mentioned to us off the air, Katie, are you a
Speaker 1: handy that her ex went to clown college or something? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went to clown school. Your excellent school boyfriend went
Speaker 1: to clown school. He could juggle like nobody's business. Is
Speaker 1: that what attracted you to him? Or did he do
Speaker 1: this after you? Well, you dumped him and he just
Speaker 1: he went off on a bender and ended up in
Speaker 1: clown school.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: This was something I learned while we were dating, okay,
Speaker 1: and was that a red flag, as they say, it
Speaker 1: was just kind of it was more like a why
Speaker 1: didn't really any further? Was it an ongoing effort at
Speaker 1: the time? Or yeah? Was that in his hazy past?
Speaker 1: It was. It went to a bunch of different kind
Speaker 1: of like art schools, and clown school was one of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did he wear the college clown grad school? Did he
Speaker 1: wear use red nose, all of it? Well, he was committed.
Speaker 1: You got to admire that. Nice. You got a dream big? Yeah? Interesting,
Speaker 1: Well you wanted to be a circus performer as a kid, right, Jack?
Speaker 1: I did. I did, But I was a child. I
Speaker 1: was not a grown man, not a twenty one year
Speaker 1: old man. No, would he like put his hand upon
Speaker 1: his back and all of a sudden give a book
Speaker 1: of roses that was made out of a balloon? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and like thirty eight handkerchiefs coming out of his pants.
Speaker 1: You know it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, speaking of Wisconsin, as we were, I roadied
Speaker 3: for a summer for a band called Jugular that with
Speaker 3: two g's and they played.
Speaker 1: Like, ah, what would you call like Kenny g Jazz,
Speaker 1: but more upbeat than that, more rockin than that, And
Speaker 1: had a couple of jugglers what a musical juggling act.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, is this a real story? And how
Speaker 1: if I've never heard this before? You roaded for a
Speaker 1: combination Kenny G juggling act? Well, Kenny G, if you
Speaker 1: had balls man? Yes? Yes? What? Yeah? And they were
Speaker 1: nice people too, and I near the year around listens
Speaker 1: to the show drank free beer. What was the audience like?
Speaker 1: They played music festivals like we did. They played the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Summerfest but like middies women are walking to tie
Speaker 1: in which I had failed to make and I apologize
Speaker 1: for that. Who was digging these slightly more up tempo
Speaker 1: Kenny G with juggling act the Drunks in the sun?
Speaker 1: It appeared okay people in a music for us. They
Speaker 1: were very very good, but again more more like your
Speaker 1: fusion funk jazz kind of melodic. So Wisconsin was home
Speaker 1: of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey circus summer. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's where they camped in the summer and getting ready
Speaker 1: for the year. And we went a couple of times,
Speaker 1: I think when I was a kid, and you'd watch
Speaker 1: them practice and do other stuff, and that that's where
Speaker 1: they would like, you know, it's like training camp for
Speaker 1: football teams was like training camp for the circus, And
Speaker 1: they would do their high wire act and they're juggling
Speaker 1: and all their different things. They're getting ready to yeh.
Speaker 1: Little did the bearded lady know that Bearded Ladies would
Speaker 1: soon be a diamond dozen poor confused kids. Anyway, Ah,
Speaker 1: sock to the media thing.
Speaker 3: You've probably heard the story about the des Moines, Iowa
Speaker 3: superintendent who turned out to be an illegal immigrant and
Speaker 3: a gun total nut, and also didn't have the degrees
Speaker 3: he claimed to. Well, the New York Times had a
Speaker 3: big featured story on it, and I thought, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: The headline that caught me. The superintendent's bio seemed too
Speaker 3: good to be true. It was Ian Roberts rose through
Speaker 3: the ranks of American education with talent charman a riveting backstory.
Speaker 3: He was also hiding a shocking secret. I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: this is remarkable for the New York Times, and then
Speaker 3: I read their unintentionally self beclowning story.
Speaker 1: I'm going to read you the lead here.
Speaker 3: School district leaders in Des Moines drew up a detailed
Speaker 3: wish list when they set out to hire a new
Speaker 3: superintendent in twenty twenty three. They wanted someone who could
Speaker 3: increase reading scores. That's great, perfect prove the math skills
Speaker 3: of black boys. Why black boys in particular, Probably because
Speaker 3: they were bad.
Speaker 1: You'd think they would be worried about everybody. But that's fine,
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: But in their three point description of what they're looking for,
Speaker 3: point number three is adhere to an affirmative action plan.
Speaker 1: And much more.
Speaker 3: Most of all, you've got a short list of qualities
Speaker 3: the person must bring to education, and item number three
Speaker 3: is adhere to an affirmative action plan. Wow, most of all,
Speaker 3: and well, ironically you know this guy's story. But most
Speaker 3: of all, des Moines Public Schools needed a galvanizing leader
Speaker 3: who could meet a moment shaped by the aftermath of
Speaker 3: COVID and the racial justice movement of twenty twenty. Wait
Speaker 3: a minute, Wait a minute, Why does any school district
Speaker 3: in America worry about affirmative action plans and the racial
Speaker 3: justice movement of twenty twenty. This is an indictment of
Speaker 3: des Moines Schools. Anyway, his application seemed almost too perfect.
Speaker 3: Spent most of his career in urban school systems.
Speaker 1: Charismatic HANDSID administrator, wrote books, gave speeches, boasted of degrees
Speaker 1: from brand name universities. His life story was compelling, an
Speaker 1: immigrant from Guiana who competed in the Olympics and spoke
Speaker 1: bluntly about his experiences as a black man in the
Speaker 1: United States. But then the next weird part, they were
Speaker 1: in love with this guy. I wanted to hire him. Ah,
Speaker 1: red flags would pop up.
Speaker 3: The district learned about a past brush with law enforcement
Speaker 3: and a misstatement on his resume about where he had
Speaker 3: earned a doctorate.
Speaker 1: He just completely lied about his degrees. How New York
Speaker 1: Times is that a misstatement on your resume? Wow?
Speaker 3: So did they do this story like apples? But the
Speaker 3: Moines officials moved ahead to hire him anyway. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: the punchline to the story.
Speaker 1: As they found out that his PhD was fake and
Speaker 1: then he was a liar and scam artist and they
Speaker 1: fired him anyway, which is just crazy. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: said he was a US citizen, turns out he was not,
Speaker 1: which to me is the least of the problems here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in this story, it's just amazing. Then this story from
Speaker 1: Yes how much time we got Michael one minute? Can
Speaker 1: we jam this in here real quick? This clip from
Speaker 1: Stephen Pinker, it's really short, Hero to the left, Finker,
Speaker 1: Stephen Pinker on DEI. That's Clip ten.
Speaker 8: You know, I have nothing against diversity, equity and inclusion,
Speaker 8: but you know, as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire,
Speaker 8: it was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. And
Speaker 8: diversity equity inclusion is imposes an intellectual monoculture. It favors
Speaker 8: certain groups over others, and it has a long list
Speaker 8: of offenses that mean you can be excluded.
Speaker 1: Good for Stephen Pinker saying that out loud to an
Speaker 1: audience that didn't want to hear it, because that leads
Speaker 1: to the sort of crap you just heard with that
Speaker 1: Des Moines educator, and.
Speaker 3: He was clearly a DEI higher himself. Diversity means more Marxists,
Speaker 3: Equity means Marxism. Inclusion means including more Marxists. I didn't
Speaker 3: get to story number two in the media be clowning
Speaker 3: themselves the Wall Street Journal writing about the government shutdown.
Speaker 3: It is ironic and amusing. We'll get to it next hour.
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