Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Tonight's speculation mounting over whether Taylor Swift will perform at
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying maybe when
Speaker 3: asked about it, referring questions to jay Z, the show's producer,
Speaker 3: Stay tuned.
Speaker 4: I love that David Vier uses as serious foot I know, stuff.
Speaker 2: Like using the same voice as he uses for hamas Israel.
Speaker 2: Talk about Taylor Swift, whether or not she'll be the
Speaker 2: super Bowl. I like the way Goodell handlet Yes, she
Speaker 2: could be. I don't know. Jay Z's producing, that's him.
Speaker 2: The super Bowl is this year, seventy miles from my
Speaker 2: house at Levi Stadium. I'm gonna go commit to going
Speaker 2: no matter who's in it, because I've never been to
Speaker 2: a super Bowl, and I've always wanted to have the
Speaker 2: experience just to talk about, like on the show and
Speaker 2: everything like that. So I'm going to commit to going
Speaker 2: this year. I love that idea great idea. One way
Speaker 2: or another, I'm gonna figure it out. Speaking of the NFL.
Speaker 4: Why are the Eagles so good and have stayed good
Speaker 4: and are going to be great again this year?
Speaker 2: It's because then a counting trick we can tell you about.
Speaker 2: And with the season starting tonight, who does Vegas think
Speaker 2: are the best locks for being in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: We'll hate you with those odds. Excellent. So I came
Speaker 2: across the Wall Street Journal's editorial board writing about, as
Speaker 2: the headline puts it, Trump's gun boat war on drugs,
Speaker 2: the blowing up of that Narco boat and it's eleven
Speaker 2: crew members the other day, and we were talking about
Speaker 2: it yesterday in case you missed it, and how it's
Speaker 2: interesting as his maneuvers go, because you know, there's not
Speaker 2: the death penalty for transporting drugs, but we blew that
Speaker 2: boat out of the water. And before we get to
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal, let's see a couple of notes.
Speaker 2: First of all, listen, let me throw in a couple
Speaker 2: of the facts from Marco Rubio that might be helpful
Speaker 2: before the people start replying to what happened. Secretary Start
Speaker 2: Market Groupe, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. We're not in
Speaker 2: a hurry. We have four hours. I don't have to
Speaker 2: fit all the words into one sentence in one second.
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio said yesterday that Trump chose to destroy it.
Speaker 2: We could have arrested him, but Trump decided to instead
Speaker 2: of interdicting it on the president's orders. We blew it
Speaker 2: up and it'll happen again. Rubio said yesterday, Ah, interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he said that the vessel, like others carrying drugs,
Speaker 2: posed an immediate threat to the United States, which gave
Speaker 2: the United States the right to destroy it. The president
Speaker 2: has a right to eliminate immediate threats to our country.
Speaker 2: The President's not a talker, he's a doer, and he's
Speaker 2: going to do it. Rubio argued the strike was justified
Speaker 2: because use anytime we just stopped stopped drug smuggling boats,
Speaker 2: it yields in sufficient results. It hasn't worked Cartel's factor
Speaker 2: in a two percent loss from interdictions, he said, arguing
Speaker 2: that drug seizures won't stop them. What will stop them
Speaker 2: is if you blow them up. The president, the president
Speaker 2: is going to wage war on narco terrorist organizations.
Speaker 4: I need to get that on a T shirt. What
Speaker 4: will stop them is if you blow them up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure I'd buy all of his argument. There
Speaker 4: are flaws there and assumptions, but I like the maneuver,
Speaker 4: and I thought I didn't know what the Wall Street
Speaker 4: Journal board, which side of this they would weigh in on.
Speaker 2: And I was very very curious in reading it.
Speaker 4: And long story short is they're like, yeah, it's kind
Speaker 4: of interesting. For the reasons we mentioned, you could go
Speaker 4: aboard for search and seizure, making arrest for a trial
Speaker 4: little later date.
Speaker 2: That's the way civilized countries do things, to mister Trump's critics,
Speaker 2: but Venezuelan coppos don't follow the Marcus of Queensbury rules,
Speaker 2: and the US does not have to refrain from sending
Speaker 2: them a more convincing kinetic message. Wow. And speaking of
Speaker 2: facts that ought to be known, they point out that
Speaker 2: in Venezuela, the transnational criminal cartels, in their range of
Speaker 2: grizzly businesses which include kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, and murder
Speaker 2: lots and lots of murder, are also the tools of
Speaker 2: the Maduro dictatorship. Maduro uses the cartels and that stuff
Speaker 2: to repress the population, gives them impunity for their organized crime,
Speaker 2: profits from them, and in fact, the Maduro regime owns
Speaker 2: the cartel. The Cartel delos Sules or Cartel of the
Speaker 2: Suns named for get this, the Insignia Venezuelan generals earn
Speaker 2: as they move up in rank. Wow, it's like if
Speaker 2: a the branch of the mafia referred to themselves as
Speaker 2: the four star Mafia because all the generals in our
Speaker 2: army were in on it. That's all interesting, but it's
Speaker 2: not supposed to be. According to a lot of us,
Speaker 2: our role to determine that that country's leadership sucks, so
Speaker 2: we should play a role in overthrowing it or hurting them.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, we're not supposed to do that. Well, according
Speaker 4: to whom you innocent boy, come on anyway. So the
Speaker 4: US is designating to a foreign terrorist group and it's
Speaker 4: known to run cocaine operations from coca leaf to distribution
Speaker 4: on the American streets. They're in league with Trendy Arragua,
Speaker 4: and beyond drugs, they specialize in extortion, human trafficking. Is
Speaker 4: there evil, evil, violent scumbags?
Speaker 2: I don't doubt it. But man, there's lots of evil
Speaker 2: scumbags around the world, and we don't and we got
Speaker 2: to kill them all. Are you against that? We don't bris, Larry,
Speaker 2: We don't drone all of them. I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna lose it any minute. I Am not going
Speaker 2: to lose any sleep over these eleven people that got
Speaker 2: obliterated on their drug boat. At all. Of all the
Speaker 2: things I got to worry about, this is way way
Speaker 2: down the list. But it seems like if you're going
Speaker 2: to go with bringing drugs into the United States counts
Speaker 2: as a death penalty threat, where we can just drone
Speaker 2: you out of nowhere. Can't you expand that to a
Speaker 2: bunch of different stuff. Yeah?
Speaker 4: Possibly, And that was the part of the Rubio argument
Speaker 4: that I wasn't buying.
Speaker 2: Do you have that in front of you still? It
Speaker 2: was the very first part. Okay, and this was in
Speaker 2: Mexico yesterday when he said this. He did it again.
Speaker 4: I just I don't like bad arguments, even if I
Speaker 4: agree with the policy.
Speaker 2: US forces could have stopped the boat that officials say
Speaker 2: was carrying illegal drugs from Venezuela, according to Marco Rubio,
Speaker 2: but President Donald Trump chose and said to destroy it,
Speaker 2: killing eleven people instead of interdicting it on the president's orders.
Speaker 2: We blew it up and it'll happen again. When asked
Speaker 2: if they warned the crew, Rubio said, the best, like
Speaker 2: other carrying drugs, posed an immediate threat to the United States,
Speaker 2: giving the country the right to destroy it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's the rub right there, in immediate indirect weeks later, probably.
Speaker 4: When the drugs got distributed on the streets. Threat that
Speaker 4: might kill people.
Speaker 2: That might kill people, right, or it might just make
Speaker 2: them really high, so they hang over at the waist
Speaker 2: on the streets of Seattle, drooling from the mouth and
Speaker 2: ruining their lives. These people are evil and horrible. And
Speaker 2: as we're discussing yesterday, if somebody does precisely the same
Speaker 2: things as say, an Islamist extremist organization, they kill, they maim,
Speaker 2: they bomb, but they're doing it in the name of profit,
Speaker 2: like the cartels, or control like Maduro in league with
Speaker 2: the cartels. Terrorist isn't the right name for them. But
Speaker 2: in terms of moral, legal justifytion for snuffing them, I'm
Speaker 2: pretty comfortable with it. Well, I don't want to sound
Speaker 2: like I'm on the that I'm really concerned about this,
Speaker 2: because I'm not. But the Islamo fascists their goal is
Speaker 2: to kill people. I would assume the drug dealer's goal
Speaker 2: is not to kill people. They would love it if
Speaker 2: you all stayed alive and get buying their drugs. So
Speaker 2: their intent isn't to kill people like the Islama fashions is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but what if it is reckless endangerment the size
Speaker 4: of Mount everest fully knowing that what they do will
Speaker 4: kill It's not their intent per se, but it's the
Speaker 4: inevitable result, and they know it sure well, clearly this
Speaker 4: administration decided, Yeah, that counts for us. Also, as I
Speaker 4: mentioned yesterday, and again, we don't want China to set
Speaker 4: the standard. But you think China allows other countries to
Speaker 4: mess with China if they can stop it. If anybody
Speaker 4: who's sending anything into China that she didn't like, they
Speaker 4: would freaking destroy them.
Speaker 2: Obviously, right, right?
Speaker 4: Have we gotten a little too sweet and gentle and
Speaker 4: principled to survive as a republic. That's actually a question
Speaker 4: worth asking. It's kind of uncomfortable for an American to
Speaker 4: ask that question because that's sort of right to kill
Speaker 4: people because well, they're a danger well the world.
Speaker 2: But that's always abused. The world is heading toward uglier,
Speaker 2: not more peaceful.
Speaker 4: A couple more notes. We got some emails this from
Speaker 4: some connection of letters. Once again, you've not done the research.
Speaker 4: I will enlighten you.
Speaker 2: I like the tone. I like the tone right off
Speaker 2: the bat. Oh it gets better. Please read the DoD
Speaker 2: Department of Defense Law of Law of War Manual, Chapters
Speaker 2: ten and eleven provides the authority. By the way, yes,
Speaker 2: before you go further, i'd like anybody who didn't hear.
Speaker 2: So this person's responding to what we said yesterday. And
Speaker 2: if you weren't listening, yesterday, we had a discussion just
Speaker 2: like we did. Now we we're going back and forth
Speaker 2: and neither one of us are sure. So this person's
Speaker 2: responding to us having a discussion where I don't know,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe this may be that it's not like
Speaker 2: we came off hardcore one way or the other.
Speaker 4: And testing each other's arguments, because that's what you do.
Speaker 4: For instance, and I've said this many times, if you
Speaker 4: send us an email and say, guys, I think you
Speaker 4: miss this because it's really important we remember blah blah blah,
Speaker 4: that's not insulting or hurtful.
Speaker 2: You've done me a favor. You've helped me form a
Speaker 2: better argument. And so we were going back and forth
Speaker 2: just as we were trying to think. All right, where
Speaker 2: do we come down on this? Anyway? So, once again
Speaker 2: you've not done the research. I will enlighten you. Please
Speaker 2: read the DoD Department of Defense Law War Manual, Chapters
Speaker 2: ten eleven. It provides the authorities and duties of our President,
Speaker 2: Donald J. Trumpe in times of war. We are at war, guys.
Speaker 2: I don't I know you two may not believe it,
Speaker 2: but martiall law was declared in his first term. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we're question the question of when we are actually
Speaker 2: at war? Given the Constitution, Congress is right to declare war,
Speaker 2: military opp special military opera, police actions, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Is a decades, practically centuries long fascinating conversations that Americans
Speaker 2: have had. But you, my friend, have figured all of
Speaker 2: that out. And anybody who doesn't is a stupid idiot
Speaker 2: who should be lectured. I congratulate you on your solemnnic wisdom,
Speaker 2: you mouthy prig. I shouldn't I retract that I aspologize?
Speaker 2: So which war is he referring to the war on terror?
Speaker 2: The war are on drugs. But that's not a war
Speaker 2: on worduro. The war on drugs is a rhetorical war.
Speaker 2: The war on terror is an actual war, is it? Well,
Speaker 2: there is the uh that Armed Forces Agreement thing that
Speaker 2: got passed after nine to eleven that they use for
Speaker 2: every attack on any country in the world for the
Speaker 2: last quarter century. But at least that's legislation. There's no
Speaker 2: military legislation about a war on drugs that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2: That was just verbiage, like the war on cancer. On
Speaker 2: I don't really.
Speaker 4: Even want to talk about it anymore because it's impossible
Speaker 4: to come to an answer of whether we are in fact,
Speaker 4: quote unquote at war with these people unless you're this
Speaker 4: guy who knows it with certainty.
Speaker 2: And then are you gonna use his logic the war
Speaker 2: on drugs? You could? You could drone strike Nestley because
Speaker 2: chocolate has sugar in it and leads to more cancer.
Speaker 4: Or obliterate immigrants as they line up at the border, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, if we have a war on immigration or whatever,
Speaker 4: let's see. I found this interesting from Byron Watch for
Speaker 4: Maduro his next movie. He'll begin placing innocence on his
Speaker 4: drug boats, whether for real or simple statements suggesting that
Speaker 4: they've been placed, a simple way to draw soft heads
Speaker 4: into a rebellious position against Trump's attempt to well do
Speaker 4: what he's obviously doing.
Speaker 2: Is opening move yesterday was to say it's fake. It
Speaker 2: was ai it didn't actually happen. Byron sums up with
Speaker 2: to hell with the soft heads, grow a pair and
Speaker 2: realize what the face of war looks like? Well again
Speaker 2: the war? Who are we on war with? At work?
Speaker 4: So harden up your head, grow some testicles, do the research,
Speaker 4: and read the DoD Law War Manual, Chapters ten and eleven.
Speaker 2: Man, I got a busy afternoon, so I'll have a
Speaker 2: really hard head and two sets of testicles. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's gonna help my life. Oh, like you
Speaker 2: already have a nobody that believes that, shild Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: I'm to talk a little bit about the NFL season
Speaker 2: and a couple other things. Stay tuned. Hey do you
Speaker 2: see this? A c Span announced that they will start
Speaker 2: streaming on YouTube TV and Hulu. People who watch YouTube
Speaker 2: TV and Hulu are like, what the hell is he span? Well,
Speaker 2: people who watch sea Span are like, what the hell
Speaker 2: is YouTube t It's a good point we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 2: We're gonna break down the NFL season coming up. We
Speaker 2: all actually, what the Vegas odds are for Uh, who
Speaker 2: do they think are going to be the best teams? Excellent?
Speaker 2: And uh and I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: to the super Bowl this year, So I'm looking into that.
Speaker 4: Young men of America. Does it seem like all the
Speaker 4: chicks you know are on drugs? It's because they probably are,
Speaker 4: but not like the drugs, drugs we used to enjoy
Speaker 4: back in the day. Uh, they're all on beta blockers.
Speaker 4: Specifically this drug pro proanolo.
Speaker 2: Ask for by name.
Speaker 4: It looks like pro pro pranolol. That's how you've probably pronounced.
Speaker 2: Is that what Michael Jackson took to get to sleep? No,
Speaker 2: that was the milk, silly? Which one was that?
Speaker 4: That was?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: What? What is this drug women are taking? What do
Speaker 2: they take it for? It's a beta blocker originally developed
Speaker 2: for dealing with cardiovascular disease. It lowers your heart rate
Speaker 2: and your blood pressure, and it can reduce the physical
Speaker 2: symptoms of anxiety, although it is not approved by the
Speaker 2: FDA for that. I wish Katie was hero, but she
Speaker 2: knows all about that. Yeah, so it's interesting.
Speaker 4: This article opens up with as Erica's Fisher's Erica Fisher's
Speaker 4: nuptials approach. She's trying to decide should she take a
Speaker 4: beta blocker before she walks down the aisle.
Speaker 2: You're going to drug yourself at your wedding. You're going
Speaker 2: to drug yourself at your wedding because you don't want
Speaker 2: to feel the feelings that a company getting married. Some
Speaker 2: of them completely natural that everybody's had throughout history.
Speaker 4: Which is my objection to a lot of this, honestly,
Speaker 4: is well, Well, they talk about how loads and loads
Speaker 4: of people are taking this. Most people take it situationally.
Speaker 4: Musicians and actors, for instance, have long relied on beta blockers,
Speaker 4: like pro pronologue.
Speaker 2: That's funny because I was just about to say, there
Speaker 2: are things you're suppose You're supposed to be anxious before
Speaker 2: the game starts, before you walk on stage. That's the
Speaker 2: normal reaction. That's what gets you all geared up to
Speaker 2: perform so or your wedding day or whatever. So people
Speaker 2: are taking drugs to not have the normal human reaction. Well,
Speaker 2: that's interesting.
Speaker 4: And they talk about Robert Downey Junior during the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four Golden Globe said I took a beta blocker,
Speaker 4: So this is going to be a breeze, and at
Speaker 4: this year's Academy Awards, actress Rachel Sinot's red carpet advice
Speaker 4: was take that beta blocker, girl, swallow it down and
Speaker 4: lock it in, and their sound bite became sort of
Speaker 4: a rallying cry for women who report experiencing anxiety disorders
Speaker 4: at higher rates than men.
Speaker 2: Now, I can see that it would be helpful if,
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, you have paralyzing anxiety at the idea
Speaker 2: of just walking into work or something like that. But
Speaker 2: but for things that are you know, legit anxious, you know,
Speaker 2: and events that are gonna make you anxious, why would
Speaker 2: you want to block that?
Speaker 4: I could name a couple of like, truly gifted musicians
Speaker 4: who stopped performing because they were so miserable they couldn't
Speaker 4: walk out on stage.
Speaker 2: Miles Davis used to throw up before he'd play he
Speaker 2: gets so nervous. Mmm, I do that before every show?
Speaker 4: Should I guess?
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty? Well, listen, we've got to do this.
Speaker 2: Let me hear you all saying he ow ge s meggs,
Speaker 2: let's go birds. We enjoyed that last year's Timeless when
Speaker 2: it was the Eagles were going to be in the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, which a lot of people predict they will
Speaker 2: be again. And they played tonight against the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 2: to kick off the NFL football season. They're supposed to
Speaker 2: be really good again. Would say, are they so good?
Speaker 2: And how do they last?
Speaker 4: How they continue to be so good? You want me
Speaker 4: to talk about that here?
Speaker 2: Why not? All right? I'm kind of interested in that.
Speaker 4: It's an accounting trick essentially that everybody can do, but
Speaker 4: the Eagles do it way more than others for reasons
Speaker 4: I will trot out in a moment or two. It's
Speaker 4: the basic formula has to do with the salary cap.
Speaker 4: Every dollar paid to a player has to be accounted
Speaker 4: for on the team's books. But you can get creative
Speaker 4: on when that cost hits. And so what they're doing
Speaker 4: now is they add dummy or void years at the
Speaker 4: end of a player's contract. They might be on the
Speaker 4: team or not, they might be retired or not, but
Speaker 4: they have these dummy years at the end, and they
Speaker 4: spread the bonus money out along the entire structure of
Speaker 4: the contract, the entire entire time of the contract.
Speaker 2: Here's how it works.
Speaker 4: When you sign a contract, two primary components your salary
Speaker 4: and your bonuses.
Speaker 2: The salary counts. Again, it's the cap for the year
Speaker 2: it's paid, obviously, but the hit from a signing bonus
Speaker 2: is spread over the length of a contract, which is
Speaker 2: then super stretched by these dummy years. I mean, in
Speaker 2: the case of how did you have that handy wow,
Speaker 2: And in the case of Jalen Hurts, I want to
Speaker 2: make sure I get this right. He's one of the
Speaker 2: highest paid quarterbacks, highest paid athletes in the history of
Speaker 2: the world. But his salary is the NFL minimum. Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay for a player of his years, but he has
Speaker 2: a ginormous signing bonus. Okay, that's pretty interesting. And the
Speaker 2: NBA's got its own scandal going on if you haven't
Speaker 2: seen that in the last twenty four hours, one of
Speaker 2: the best players in all of the NBA, Kawhi Leonard,
Speaker 2: he's got like a reasonable salary even though he's one
Speaker 2: of the best players. It turns out he they crafted
Speaker 2: some sort of deal where the twe he's getting twenty
Speaker 2: five million dollars from a local endorsement. That and the
Speaker 2: team kind of figured out a way to do the
Speaker 2: accounting where the money goes to that endorser who's paying him,
Speaker 2: so it doesn't show up as a salary cap. So
Speaker 2: they learned from the Philadelphia Eagles that you come up
Speaker 2: with the counting tricks because you if you had if
Speaker 2: you if you didn't have various salary caps, the richest
Speaker 2: team would usually win, usually not always, but usually win.
Speaker 2: Yeah enough to want to make them want to go
Speaker 2: ahead and do it. I will quibble.
Speaker 4: The Kawhi Leonard thing is just flat cheating. This is
Speaker 4: something everybody can do and does openly. But you have
Speaker 4: to have an owner who's willing to part with enormous
Speaker 4: amounts of cash up front. And also much like the
Speaker 4: United States government say, well, what the.
Speaker 2: Hell's gonna happen when we've got all of this stuff,
Speaker 2: all these obligations pile up in seven or eight years.
Speaker 2: You gotta have an owner who says, I don't care,
Speaker 2: let's just win a Super Bowl. I'm surprised that doesn't
Speaker 2: happen more often. Where you got the billionaire owners like
Speaker 2: Paul Allen and the Portland trail billers, the Portland team
Speaker 2: where they just have so much money that you know
Speaker 2: you're over the salary caps. You have to pay the penalty.
Speaker 2: I don't care what I care, Yeah, I want to
Speaker 2: win I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often, but it
Speaker 2: has been proven over and over at the Yankees and
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and different teams that haven't the most expensive
Speaker 2: payroll doesn't guarantee you win it all. It gives you
Speaker 2: much better shot. Obviously. By the way, Philadelphia is tied
Speaker 2: in Vegas for the best odds of winning the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl again with the Baltimore Ravens. So the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 2: and the Eagles both have the two best odds according
Speaker 2: to Vegas, who is often very right, followed by your Packers,
Speaker 2: your Lions. Then you get down to your Chiefs and Bills.
Speaker 2: Those are the teams with the best options. Although as
Speaker 2: we pointed out yesterday, there's no way to factor in injuries,
Speaker 2: and that always plays a huge role because in this sport,
Speaker 2: some star players are going to get really hurt.
Speaker 4: What size, it's a different team six weeks into the season.
Speaker 2: What sucks is if you root for a team that
Speaker 2: the ownership doesn't actually care about trying to win. I
Speaker 2: mean they're running it as a business rather than as
Speaker 2: like a fan who wants to have the best team.
Speaker 2: And the Dallas Cowboys who played tonight America's team. There
Speaker 2: are more Dallas Cowboys fans than anybody. Troikman called out
Speaker 2: Jerry Jones, the owner, for clearly not being set on winning,
Speaker 2: at least in the immediate future, as they traded away
Speaker 2: their very best player over the summer, and then another
Speaker 2: player just like last week, one of their top players.
Speaker 2: So they're just and then that's tough when you're a fan,
Speaker 2: and you know that because there are other teams that
Speaker 2: are hell bent on winning all the time.
Speaker 4: Speaking of tough, I think we're all really excited looking
Speaker 4: forward to the release of ESPN and Spike Lee's Colin
Speaker 4: Kaepernick documentary series.
Speaker 2: I know I was.
Speaker 4: I was gonna watch every minute of it, but it
Speaker 4: has been quashed. It has been dropped because, according to
Speaker 4: his statement, ESPN, Colin Kaepernick Spike Leeve collectively decided to
Speaker 4: no longer proceed with this project as a result is
Speaker 4: certain creative differences. In essence, Kaepernick hated what Spike Lee
Speaker 4: was doing, Spike Lee hated what ESPN was doing. ESPN
Speaker 4: couldn't stand Colin Kaepernick, and nobody could agree on anything,
Speaker 4: and so they just said to hell with it and
Speaker 4: buried it.
Speaker 2: Hey, where is the game tonight Philadelphia. Doubts not where
Speaker 2: they're playing, but he no, But where do you find
Speaker 2: it to watch it? Can you look that up Michael
Speaker 2: while I'm talking. Maybe it's on ESPN. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I know this year it's going to be harder
Speaker 2: to find your your games, and in some case you
Speaker 2: might not have the channel that is carrying the game
Speaker 2: of your favorite team, and you're gonna have to pay
Speaker 2: more for it. And that's just what the future of
Speaker 2: everything is becoming. Obviously, I had another football thing is
Speaker 2: going to throw out their persis. Oh so you told
Speaker 2: us not that long ago that they outlawed the tush push, right,
Speaker 2: the fact that the Eagles have the most big giant asses.
Speaker 2: They can't do that anymore. Uh yeah, I think that
Speaker 2: was the ruling, right, So being the team with the
Speaker 2: biggest asses is no longer. It's not the size of
Speaker 2: their asses that's fundamental to the success. You're a non fan.
Speaker 2: You sound like a chick.
Speaker 4: Oh that was sexist, and I apologize deeply. There are
Speaker 4: many women who are hardcore sports fans and they have
Speaker 4: my respect.
Speaker 2: Showing it on ABC right now, the toush push, the
Speaker 2: big giant asses pushing everybody over and then not the ass.
Speaker 2: It's the push that's the problem anyway, It's not the
Speaker 2: relative size of their glutes. So they they they they
Speaker 2: they outlawn that though, right, yes, okay, so now because
Speaker 2: it's dangerous and it's impossible to stop, and we talked
Speaker 2: about that. When they so are smaller, ashed teams will
Speaker 2: have shot. Okay, yes, Michael, you have the switch for
Speaker 2: his microphone. Michael, you know what? Yeah, where do I
Speaker 2: find out now? NBC tonight, NBC. Okay, it's on a
Speaker 2: regular network that I get. Don't have to pay extra.
Speaker 2: I don't have to go find it on like Amazon
Speaker 2: three and pay forty dollars a month to have it
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 4: This one's on BritBox. You have to be subscribed to
Speaker 4: Paramount and then the BBC to watch the Kings.
Speaker 2: All right, come on. It is by far the number
Speaker 2: one TV show in America, though I remember at the
Speaker 2: end of last year, I think nineteen at the top
Speaker 2: twenty shows were all NFL games, maybe a presidential debate
Speaker 2: in there or something. So in terms of everybody, in
Speaker 2: terms of a community thing that people watch, this is
Speaker 2: about the last of it. Yes, yes, I would like
Speaker 2: anybody who has any tips about going to the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl to email or text, because I am going to
Speaker 2: commit to going this year since it's at Levi Stadium
Speaker 2: in San Francisco Santa Clair, not that far from where
Speaker 2: I live. Because the travel. One of the things always
Speaker 2: stopped me from going is the travel, because he got
Speaker 2: to travel there, and you got to get a hotel,
Speaker 2: and that adds many, many more thousands of dollars. If
Speaker 2: I can have that, Since it's not that far from
Speaker 2: my house, I'm just a freaking get a ticket and
Speaker 2: figure out a way to get there. But I just
Speaker 2: still think it. I was talking to some of the
Speaker 2: other day who's gone to many Super Bowls, and they
Speaker 2: would They said it cost many tens of thousands of
Speaker 2: dollars each time. They went, Wow, that's a lot. Wow
Speaker 2: to see your favorite team play a football game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: guess why.
Speaker 4: I'd be tempted to just stand around the stadium, wait
Speaker 4: for the game to start and see if anybody wants
Speaker 4: to give them away.
Speaker 2: You know, I have scalped tickets for a lot of
Speaker 2: supposedly you can't get a ticket events in my life.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that works for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Or not though, right, Yeah, I've I've just failed completely
Speaker 4: once at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think me too. No tickets, but I think
Speaker 2: me too. And I went to a bar across the
Speaker 2: street and watch it on TV. Now that's perfectly fine.
Speaker 2: Ruined my life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm mostly different about going to the super
Speaker 4: Bowl because the actual experience washing the game is so
Speaker 4: much better at home.
Speaker 2: Did you go to a Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: No? I was going to, but yeah, the tickets yanked
Speaker 4: away from me in Ah.
Speaker 2: I remember that story, and it was your team that
Speaker 2: was playing. I almost would like it better to go
Speaker 2: on a year where I don't care who wins than
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Speaker 2: The amount of betting that goes on around the NFL,
Speaker 2: in terms of legal and illegal wagering, is just insane.
Speaker 2: I was listening to the numbers this morning and it's
Speaker 2: a growing thing. It still is growing more and more
Speaker 2: people every year that are that get into that and
Speaker 2: enjoy it. So that's its own kind of side sport.
Speaker 2: I've never done that, but for some people, that's what
Speaker 2: the NFL season brings, is all the fun of the betting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll spice it up depending on your preferences. So
Speaker 4: we ought to talk about Florida moving toward to end
Speaker 4: vaccine mandates for school children at some point.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I want to, but we certainly can.
Speaker 2: And that looks like that's actually going to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah. DeSantis is on board with it,
Speaker 4: as is his surgeon general. I'm kind of surprised by that.
Speaker 4: I am too. I am too, So it's probably worth
Speaker 4: talking about.
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Speaker 4: We bring you the scintillating and revealing discussion between incredibly
Speaker 4: annoying Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and RFK junior Senator.
Speaker 1: I didn't politicize. There's Congress, but he's all.
Speaker 5: Over the country, mister secretary, scientists and doctors are saying otherwise.
Speaker 5: They're all wrong too, They're all lying.
Speaker 1: According to you, a scientist, doctors are supporting me all
Speaker 1: over the country. Oh there is division on opinion.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't get letters from thousands of people
Speaker 5: who are not political saying that this set of changes
Speaker 5: is going to damage American healthcare and particularly these healthcare
Speaker 5: agencies for decades to come.
Speaker 2: I don't get any.
Speaker 5: Letters, so I'll say, Oh, they're going to make a
Speaker 5: big difference forever.
Speaker 1: And maybe you're listening to a selective group of people.
Speaker 2: You get, you get me.
Speaker 1: And I will find I will tell you what Senator got.
Speaker 1: I will put my mail bag against your mail bag.
Speaker 4: I got a day way thirty seconds, you know, and
Speaker 4: we ought to use that clip before mailbag every morning.
Speaker 2: Hanson an hour one of the show. I don't want you.
Speaker 2: I don't want to watch you two guys put your
Speaker 2: mail bags against each other. But it's not his fault.
Speaker 2: I realize whatever happened with his voice RFK Junior, I
Speaker 2: find impossible to listen to just because of his voice.
Speaker 2: I just I can't. It's so distracting, and I just ah. Anyway,
Speaker 2: a doctor friend of mine texted, so we're gonna get
Speaker 2: into the whole. Looks like Florida is gonna do way
Speaker 2: with the mandates for vaccines for school. Wow, entirely. I
Speaker 2: thought they would just narrow it down to like the
Speaker 2: Big ten or something like that of the stuff that
Speaker 2: everybody agrees on. But they're just gonna do it away
Speaker 2: with mandates. But anyway, a doctor friend of mine texted,
Speaker 2: there are now seventy two vaccines required from birth to
Speaker 2: age eighteen. Seventy two vaccines you get between birth and eighteen.
Speaker 2: That seems like a lot. Yeah, are all of those
Speaker 2: strictly necessary? Can't be? It's impossible that they are. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: And it's also of those boosters or that's a lot
Speaker 4: of shots.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of shots, I know. I was always
Speaker 2: said during COVID's It just it just strange credulity to
Speaker 2: think that when there are billions and billions of dollars
Speaker 2: on the line for somebody to check the box. Yes,
Speaker 2: let's make this mandated, as opposed to know that, right,
Speaker 2: that doesn't play a role. Right.
Speaker 4: There are some childhood diseases that are mostly just annoying.
Speaker 4: But you know, as long as you get in seventy shots,
Speaker 4: how about let's have another one in a booster. Seventy
Speaker 4: two billions of dollars will change hands. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 4: And as we were discussing earlier, having utterly shredded their credibility, Yeah,
Speaker 4: during and after COVID, the CDC and the other you know,
Speaker 4: vaunted institutes of health, a lot of people are either
Speaker 4: neutral or negative about hearing what they have to say
Speaker 4: about anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Did we make it clear that are RFK Junior
Speaker 2: is being questioned by a committee right now as we speak,
Speaker 2: and we'll have more highlights from that if there are any.
Speaker 2: But part of RFK Junior's opening statement was the CDC
Speaker 2: lied about all kinds of things during COVID. Why do
Speaker 2: you believe them now? Yeah, well, fair enough.
Speaker 4: That's why you don't want to chuck your credibility if
Speaker 4: you can avoid it. So, Florida is proposing to eliminate
Speaker 4: all vaccine mandates, including for school children. It would make
Speaker 4: it the first state in the US to end immunization requirements.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound very rond desantasy.
Speaker 4: It does not. His Surgeon general and I should have
Speaker 4: asked for this audio because the Surgeon General, Joseph Vlatipoe,
Speaker 4: who I'm sure is a fine fellow and a fine physician,
Speaker 4: goes a bit al Sharpton on us with every la
Speaker 4: is talking about the vaccine directives issued by.
Speaker 2: Or a Department of health. Every last one of them
Speaker 2: is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery. Who am I,
Speaker 2: as a government or anyone else, is a man standing
Speaker 2: here now to tell you what you should put in
Speaker 2: your body? Yeah, the drop.
Speaker 4: Outfits safely and effectively eliminates deadly childhood diseases and protects
Speaker 4: other children from getting it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, and then just don't be using the slavery
Speaker 2: thing as a don't disdain and slavery. See, yeah, no
Speaker 2: it doesn't. We're throwing out that. Probably the most libertarian
Speaker 2: the government has no right doing anything person I know
Speaker 2: in my life is Tim Sanderfer, and he's fully on
Speaker 2: board with mandates for various vaccines because of the way
Speaker 2: it affects the overall population.
Speaker 4: Right on the other hand, having shredded their credibility and
Speaker 4: perhaps over required an unreasonable number of vaccinations, here we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, on a slightly different topic, watch the hearings today.
Speaker 4: If you're into politics, an interesting subplot is what's Bill
Speaker 4: Cassidy going to say, the Louisiana Republican senator who's a
Speaker 4: highly respected physician, he's a liver expert of all things.
Speaker 2: But he was one of two I.
Speaker 4: Can't remember how many senators Republican senators voted to convict
Speaker 4: Trump over the January sixth attacks. But since then he's
Speaker 4: been quite a loyal supporter of Trump's programs and policies
Speaker 4: and that sort of thing. And so they have a
Speaker 4: detant and he's running for re election I think is
Speaker 4: it next year? And there's been a ceasefire between Trump
Speaker 4: and Senator Cassidy. And if he goes too hard after
Speaker 4: RFK Junior, what will that mean politically? And also, because
Speaker 4: Cassidy's a smart guy and a respected and caring doctor,
Speaker 4: I'd like to know what tack he takes.
Speaker 2: Even more than that, he was a holdout vote and
Speaker 2: they needed all the Republican votes to get RFK Junior approved.
Speaker 2: He was a holdout vote and got RFK Junior to
Speaker 2: swear that he would not go anti vaccine if he
Speaker 2: got the job. And RFK Junior's gone pretty anti vaccine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and both he and Susan Collins in particular have said, hey,
Speaker 4: he has not done what he promised me he would do, so.
Speaker 2: This could be interesting. Yeah, and we'll bring it to
Speaker 2: if it happened Armstrong and Getty