Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and and he drawn and seeing hand waving confusion.
Speaker 2: Thanks's some sort of audio difficulty there.
Speaker 3: It has been corrected. Okay, this is going well so far.
Speaker 1: It's a good start.
Speaker 3: It's a good Thank God.
Speaker 4: The spaceflight with the chickstra went off more smoothly than this. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we've been to imagine if we lost Gail King.
Speaker 1: We'd been mocking that, and look, if we had been
Speaker 1: in charge, that's what would have happened.
Speaker 3: We would have lost Gail King and Katy Perry.
Speaker 1: Okay, today much to contemplate today Wednesday, we're under the
Speaker 1: tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 3: I'm going with autism researchers.
Speaker 4: Okay, of attention and discussion lately about autism and its causes.
Speaker 4: Our FK Junior made a hell of a statement, But
Speaker 4: that's just part of the discussion as we try to
Speaker 4: understand what it is, where it's coming from, and if
Speaker 4: there's any thing that can be done to prevent it.
Speaker 3: Is that why it's in the news so much because
Speaker 3: of what r FK Junior.
Speaker 1: Said Oh that's part of it. Yeah, okay, cool, And
Speaker 1: I'm all for talking about that. It doesn't get talked
Speaker 1: about enough.
Speaker 3: Do you have?
Speaker 1: And we don't have to talk about this here. I
Speaker 1: just I'm it bothers me a little bit that I
Speaker 1: don't feel like I've got my head wrapped around the
Speaker 1: Is he a gang member? Is he not a gang member?
Speaker 1: Sent to El Salvador court? Thing coming back? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I got head wrapped around that.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you have your head wrapped increasingly?
Speaker 3: Yes, Although it's funny.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say on that topic, the more
Speaker 4: I learn about it, the more interesting it becomes and
Speaker 4: the less clear it becomes. As most stories, the way
Speaker 4: it's presented in most of the media is oversimplified, and really,
Speaker 4: you know, the conflict the Trump versus somebody else's.
Speaker 3: Aspect of its really played.
Speaker 4: I can opposed to the Wow, this is really an
Speaker 4: interesting question before the courts?
Speaker 1: All right? Can we start here before we get into
Speaker 1: even the complicated part. Is he an MS thirteen gang
Speaker 1: member or not?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 1: Court?
Speaker 3: From what I understand? Tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I was watching MSNBC last night as I've been trying
Speaker 1: to understand the story. More story more, saying the Trump
Speaker 1: administration claiming he's a gang member without evidence. Fox and
Speaker 1: Friends watching it this morning says, two courts have said
Speaker 1: he's an MS thirteen gang member.
Speaker 3: I don't know that to be true.
Speaker 1: It could be, it could be the See this is
Speaker 1: where it gets fishy.
Speaker 3: It's like saying.
Speaker 4: The court's found Trump guilty of molesting that gal in
Speaker 4: the department store. No, it's a very different standard of
Speaker 4: proof for a civil trials.
Speaker 3: He was found civilly liable. Okay.
Speaker 4: There's a very different standard of proof for like a
Speaker 4: conviction for gang activity as opposed to immigration naturalization, saying, look,
Speaker 4: dudes here illegally, we have reasonably he's an MS thirteen guy.
Speaker 4: We want to heave his ass out, and the court says, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: go ahead. It's a very different standard proof. So I
Speaker 4: want to be careful about how I state various things.
Speaker 4: And is him being a gang member merely a political question?
Speaker 4: As in practically everybody in America wants MS thirteen gang
Speaker 4: members kicked out, and they don't unfortunately or unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Don't care about the method that is used to do that.
Speaker 1: But politically. I'm just talking politically here. It was a
Speaker 1: it would be a win to kick out gang members.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, But legally speaking, is it make a difference
Speaker 1: with due process or anything whether or not he's a
Speaker 1: gang member?
Speaker 3: No? Is.
Speaker 4: He's a good person. I wouldn't think so. But yeah,
Speaker 4: and again, and this is where it gets so fudgy.
Speaker 4: You said, if he is a gang member, what do
Speaker 4: you mean by he is? Depends on what the meaning
Speaker 4: of his is, Monica. So he could have been a
Speaker 4: gang member and he could say I quit two years ago.
Speaker 3: I'm right, or you say I am. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I demand a hearing. I've never been any damn gang.
Speaker 4: But if to courts say he is, he is, isn't
Speaker 4: he legally speaking? Well no, That's what I'm trying to
Speaker 4: say is they didn't necessarily find O wee hairby rule
Speaker 4: this man is an MS thirteen member. They just said
Speaker 4: to the ins, okay, if you want to go and
Speaker 4: kick him out. There was no finding whatsoever, because I
Speaker 4: don't know what the process is if you're an illegal.
Speaker 4: He had a final deportation order. He just wasn't supposed
Speaker 4: to be deported to El Salvador for what was a
Speaker 4: fairly weak from what I understand, claim that a gang
Speaker 4: will take you know, they'll knock my head in if
Speaker 4: I show back up in El Salvador.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: And according to commentators who I know and trust and
Speaker 1: aren't like always on Trump's side, in fact off and
Speaker 1: against it, have said his asylum claim was pretty weak.
Speaker 1: So if you watch Fox, he's always referred to as
Speaker 1: an MS thirteen gang member. Democrats are trying to get
Speaker 1: an MS thirteen gang member back into the country blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, or said. If you watch anything else mainstream
Speaker 1: news or other cable channels, they refer to the person
Speaker 1: as a Maryland father and Little League coach, right, because
Speaker 1: of course one could never be both. I mean, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. Certainly couches it differently. Oh yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's ridiculous. Yeah, I don't know. I get
Speaker 1: so tired of the the pandury media.
Speaker 3: Uh maybe I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's age or cynicism, but I
Speaker 4: find the actual questions so much more interesting than.
Speaker 1: My ij You're fine, dumb, I mean, I just I'm
Speaker 1: tired of it, right, Yeah, I agree, it's a more
Speaker 1: interesting question to say he was a member of a really,
Speaker 1: really bad gang. But everybody gets due process, so we
Speaker 1: were figuring that that makes it a more interesting story,
Speaker 1: not less. So, yeah, what are our standards for kicking
Speaker 1: somebody out of the country? And I know a lot
Speaker 1: of folks listening right now would say he's an illegal immigrant.
Speaker 1: You know what, just prove that I don't care if
Speaker 1: he's an MS thirteen guy or or volunteers.
Speaker 3: At his local orphanage. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: And I have a fair amount of sympathy for that argument.
Speaker 4: Here here's one part I've had very very interesting because
Speaker 4: I hadn't understood it until yesterday that Trump and Marco
Speaker 4: Rubio was being quite forceful in saying a judge has
Speaker 4: no role in dictating this country's foreign policy. And at
Speaker 4: the time I thought that sounds kind of like a stretch,
Speaker 4: because the judges said you deported him wrongly.
Speaker 3: One of your lawyers admitted it.
Speaker 4: Although that guy's on leave now and so you got
Speaker 4: to undeport him.
Speaker 3: But now I get the argument that Marco was.
Speaker 4: Making, which is, so I have a judge telling me
Speaker 4: I need to contact a foreign government and negotiate some
Speaker 4: sort of compromise. In our relationship with that country, which
Speaker 4: is expressly foreign policy, which is exclusively given to the
Speaker 4: executive branch to execute.
Speaker 1: And the president of that country saying I have got
Speaker 1: I haven't got the power to grab somebody out of
Speaker 1: prison and ship him to another country. That's what it
Speaker 1: probably does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a bit of kabooki theater going on there
Speaker 4: too politically, But like I said, that's I find all
Speaker 4: that much more interesting than just my side, yea, your
Speaker 4: side boom.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But at the base very beginning of the story of
Speaker 1: whether or not we can grab somebody like that and
Speaker 1: boot him out without due process, that ought to be
Speaker 1: figured out. Sure, yeah, I'm all for that. But and
Speaker 1: the reason.
Speaker 4: Being, in case you're not hip to this sort of thing,
Speaker 4: so very briefly, is if people like us say no,
Speaker 4: the president can do whatever he wants because he's right. Well,
Speaker 4: when President AOC is in office, God help us, and starts,
Speaker 4: you know, deporting anybody who loves this country, you know,
Speaker 4: and and come here illegally but as a or just
Speaker 4: there are a thousand different examples of suspending you know,
Speaker 4: the due process that we're guaranteed by the Constitution. Let's
Speaker 4: tiptoe very carefully into that minefield. That's all we're saying,
Speaker 4: because the shoe is going to be on the other
Speaker 4: foot soon.
Speaker 3: Sure, he's inevitable always happen.
Speaker 1: Declared Trump supporters a terrorist group, and so give them
Speaker 1: lesser rights than everyone else.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, you got some jackass or riots or shoot
Speaker 4: somebody in the name of up with Trump, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, the greatest terrorist threat. You remember when
Speaker 4: when Biden in company, we're saying, the greatest terrorist threat
Speaker 4: against the United States is these right wingers. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: because we've seen a lot of that. Huh. Anyway, think
Speaker 4: what they could do if you know, they could get
Speaker 4: played really fast and loose with due process, but politically,
Speaker 4: just politically.
Speaker 1: So you got some Democrats that are going to go
Speaker 1: over there and visit the guy in prison, is the plan.
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I don't think that's a win
Speaker 1: for you. I think the average barely paying attention to
Speaker 1: American is just going to see you standing up for
Speaker 1: MS thirteen when nine out of ten Americans want them
Speaker 1: booted out of the country.
Speaker 3: So I don't think that's going to work for him
Speaker 3: the way they think it is going to.
Speaker 4: I agree completely like the boys whooping up on girls
Speaker 4: in sports thing. They are on by far, I mean
Speaker 4: by a million miles the wrong side of that issue.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And you know, we gotta move on because
Speaker 1: because I'm dying and I won't be here for the
Speaker 1: rest of it. But also Britain's Supreme Court just hours
Speaker 1: ago ruled that trans women do not fall within the
Speaker 1: legal definition of women under the country's equality legislation. And
Speaker 1: they're all kinds of ripples that come out of that ruling.
Speaker 1: And it was women fighting it and standing up and
Speaker 1: saying is particularly in Ireland, a women's group saying, you
Speaker 1: can't have they passed a law that you had fifty
Speaker 1: you had to have fifty to fifty men women on
Speaker 1: these various boards or trans women on there. Regular women
Speaker 1: said that doesn't count, that's not cool, and fought that,
Speaker 1: And now Britain has ruled no, no, no, you got to
Speaker 1: be a born a woman, biological woman.
Speaker 3: Woman.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's only one kind of woman, biological woman. I
Speaker 4: consider that term redundant, and that's gonna ripple out into
Speaker 4: bathrooms and all that other stuff. So we got to
Speaker 4: talk about that later. Let's start officially. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this it is Wednesday, April sixteenth,
Speaker 1: they or twenty twenty five or Armstrong and gettying, and
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Speaker 4: Let's begin then officially according to FCC rules and regulations,
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, here we go at Mark.
Speaker 5: I really resent that people are calling it a ride.
Speaker 5: We duplicated the trajectory of Alan Shepherd's flight back in
Speaker 5: the day. No one called that a ride. A ride
Speaker 5: sounds frivolous, it sounds insignificant.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 5: This was a bona fide flight. So you know, I say,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. There are haters.
Speaker 1: There's always gonna got the clown show is over.
Speaker 5: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's let me in that camp. A lot of people
Speaker 1: are bothered by the whole crew fighting as a crew,
Speaker 1: Like when you take Southwest from San Francisco to La
Speaker 1: are you a part of the crew, a flight crew, No,
Speaker 1: you're a passenger. It was a ride there, sorry, Gail King,
Speaker 1: it was a ride. You just looked out the window.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 1: Some people think this is just a ride, and inconsequential, yes,
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: I think it was a ride.
Speaker 4: And in cut and then and then Alan Shepherd sang,
Speaker 4: what a wonderful world to John Glenn.
Speaker 1: He did, Oh my God, didn't cry. Everyone cried.
Speaker 4: Get very reminiscent of those early space flights, the Mercury Mission.
Speaker 1: That is funny. Okay, we've got Katie's headlines on the way. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Katy Perry. Let's go to space perfect. All that's
Speaker 1: on the waist to hear. I'm interested to see if
Speaker 1: this ruling by the Supreme Court in Great Britain gets
Speaker 1: any traction here in the United States. It was a
Speaker 1: nine to nothing ruling. By the way, this The New
Speaker 1: York Times doesn't mention that until the last paragraph. It
Speaker 1: was a unanimous decision. No, no, trans women don't count.
Speaker 3: So no, you don't get to do that as a
Speaker 3: regular woman. Yeah. I just I don't even like to
Speaker 3: term trans women.
Speaker 4: I think it begs the question in the classical meaning
Speaker 4: of that phrase. It the very statement says that they
Speaker 4: are women. Anyway, who's reporting what's the lead story with
Speaker 4: Katie Green?
Speaker 6: Katie Fireway starting with ABC News, China says it's quote
Speaker 6: never afraid to fight amid tariff throats.
Speaker 4: There you go, all right, yeah, yeah, we know you're
Speaker 4: always saying stuff like that we'll fight till the end.
Speaker 3: We'll fight.
Speaker 1: You can't take as we're mighty, we're powerful, we'll fight.
Speaker 3: Okay, great.
Speaker 6: From the Washington Post. Judge says Department Justice. Department must
Speaker 6: provide details of attempts to return accidentally illegally deported man.
Speaker 1: So the Supreme Court says, you gotta bring him back,
Speaker 1: but it's not clear you have to make the effort
Speaker 1: to bring him back, or what's enough effort to bring
Speaker 1: him back.
Speaker 4: And the initial order, which was supported by the Supreme Court,
Speaker 4: said you must facilitate him coming back. And Trump said,
Speaker 4: so if he comes back, we won't keep him out.
Speaker 4: That's facilitating And the judge said that's not facilitating enough.
Speaker 1: And this is probably going back to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 6: From the cal Globe, Harvard now offers remedial math, acknowledging
Speaker 6: America's math collapse.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the whole battle with Harvard and.
Speaker 4: The Trump and the administration trying to become like a
Speaker 4: papa to Harvard and supervise their hiring, their curriculum and
Speaker 4: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Not really comfortable with that. So you can get into
Speaker 1: Harvard and need remedial math, Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, and
Speaker 1: writing too from the Free Beacon, the Geezer is back.
Speaker 6: Biden says, quote, roughly thirty percent of Americans.
Speaker 1: Have no heart.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: From the Wall Street Journal. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys are talking about this on the air off the air,
Speaker 1: but from the.
Speaker 6: Wall Street Journal, Trump and his is gold guy are
Speaker 6: redecorating the White House.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know set one. The other day we saw
Speaker 1: a picture Trump sitting there and behind him. Wow, where'd
Speaker 1: all the gold come from? It's already happened there in
Speaker 1: the oval. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just saw the headline read like a sentence of it.
Speaker 4: But his guy who gold plates everything for him at
Speaker 4: mar A Lago, has been turned loose on the White House,
Speaker 4: I guess more or less.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's lots of gold trimming edges, stuff that looks
Speaker 1: like you're in a Chinese restaurant.
Speaker 3: It's the Gold House now. Yes.
Speaker 6: From page six. Katie Perry dissed by fast food giant
Speaker 6: Wendy's after Blue Origin spaceflight quote can we send her back?
Speaker 3: Oh what?
Speaker 6: They also tweeted a photo of her kissing the ground afterwards,
Speaker 6: with the caption I kissed the ground and I liked it.
Speaker 1: I'm Katy Perry.
Speaker 3: All right, Katie, So that's just.
Speaker 4: Wendy's, which has become famous, fairly famous for its snarky
Speaker 4: and funny social media presence, has nothing to do with
Speaker 4: it whatsoever.
Speaker 6: Right now from the New York Post, bride under fire
Speaker 6: for picking ugly bridesmaids quote, you don't want people who
Speaker 6: will outshine you?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: What that a thing?
Speaker 1: I didn't worry about how good looking your bid is.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this until I read this article.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've heard that.
Speaker 4: I'm just is it a specific woman who's getting bashed?
Speaker 6: This is a specific bride? Yes, but it's bringing the
Speaker 6: trend to attention.
Speaker 3: Oh okay.
Speaker 6: And finally the battleon b California mandates homeowners install wheelchair
Speaker 6: ramps on porches for disabled burglars.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 1: That's almost place has to have a sense of humor.
Speaker 3: By the way, yes, it's almost believable that California would
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 1: You have to have ramps in case somebody wants to
Speaker 1: steal the packages off your porch.
Speaker 3: We'll get into some more.
Speaker 1: News of the day.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: And get the price of coffee is higher than ever
Speaker 1: and this is before the terriffs hit. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: the mental health.
Speaker 3: Crisis we are going to have in this country.
Speaker 1: If people can't afford coffee in the morning, the number
Speaker 1: of workplace stabbings is about to go through the room
Speaker 1: workplace stabbings.
Speaker 3: No kidding.
Speaker 1: I know someone who wears a T shirt regularly that says,
Speaker 1: coffee makes me less murdery. It's amazing how ramped up
Speaker 1: you can be if you're a caffeine addict and haven't
Speaker 1: had your caffeine yet. It's quite something.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, it's been so long since I've been denied,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how I would be.
Speaker 1: I would act oh good for you, really just grumpy?
Speaker 1: You know who can tell the difference. We're going to
Speaker 1: get into some of the autism stuff that's been in
Speaker 1: the news a lot, and we will a little bit later.
Speaker 1: RFK Junior, in his very unique way, has brought autism
Speaker 1: back into the world as a topic, which it's surprising
Speaker 1: that he ever left, but has been said about trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what causes it and how we deal
Speaker 1: with it and diagnose it and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: So we'll be getting into that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this big announcement that Britain Supreme Court rule
Speaker 1: that trans women do not fall within the legal definition
Speaker 1: of women under the country's equality legislation. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's going to have any ripples in the United States.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how it would not. I can read
Speaker 1: a little bit from it. The landmark judgment, which said
Speaker 1: that the legal definition of a woman is based on
Speaker 1: biological sex, is a blow to campaigners for transgender rights.
Speaker 1: This is The New York Times writing, and could have
Speaker 1: far reaching consequences for how the law is applied in
Speaker 1: Britain to single sex spaces, equal pay claims, and maternity policies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd say far reaching consequences, as in, if you were
Speaker 1: if you're calling yourself a trans woman, you're not going
Speaker 1: to get to go into the women's bathroom under the
Speaker 1: current rulings. Almost certainly, yes, Katie, I saw.
Speaker 6: I saw this great meme earlier that said having men
Speaker 6: in women's locker rooms?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 6: I don't even like it when my husband's in the
Speaker 6: bathroom with me, which is so true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something we men would not understand. This follows
Speaker 1: a year's long battle over whether trains women can be
Speaker 1: regarded as female under Britain's twenty ten Equality Act, which
Speaker 1: aims to prevent discrimination. But it was a nine nothing
Speaker 1: decision of the court that the terms woman and sex
Speaker 1: and the Equality Act twenty ten refer to biological women
Speaker 1: and biological sex only, so they can if a place
Speaker 1: wants to, certainly can expand that very easily to bathroom sports,
Speaker 1: whatever the heck you want to apply it to nine nothing.
Speaker 1: I can't even believe this is a conversation.
Speaker 3: And well, I think that's where most Americans are.
Speaker 1: In fact, polling shows it is like eighty twenty ninety
Speaker 1: ten that say, yes, I can't believe.
Speaker 3: This is even a conversation. I believe this even had
Speaker 3: to go to the.
Speaker 1: But it's it's the only time that I can think
Speaker 1: of in my life that Europe has been to the
Speaker 1: right of us on an issue, and the liberal left
Speaker 1: has to feel like Europe is out of step and
Speaker 1: that we're more enlightened than they are by continuing to
Speaker 1: push this whole trans thing because Europe has been against
Speaker 1: the operating on kids and everything for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know, It's funny though, on COVID Europe was the
Speaker 1: same way. Europe was more reasonable than us on COVID.
Speaker 1: Mm hm wow, a bunch of bigots. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: little problematic anyway, this is something that happened overnight, and
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see what kind of news coverage
Speaker 1: that gets. Speaking of COVID, which I rarely do and
Speaker 1: don't want to, it just occurred to me. I was
Speaker 1: talking to our executive producer Hansen, whose kid is sick
Speaker 1: with the same symptoms I have. I have full on
Speaker 1: COVID symptoms. I went to the doctor I had and
Speaker 1: I didn't even cross my mind that I'm I'd have
Speaker 1: COVID and I haven't taken a COVID test. And I
Speaker 1: went to the doctor and the word COVID was never mentioned.
Speaker 1: They didn't even test me, which doesn't take but like
Speaker 1: five seconds, and lost anything. No test for COVID. So
Speaker 1: I go in with a sore throat, running nose and
Speaker 1: a cough and nobody mentions COVID or does a swab,
Speaker 1: just real quick to find out. I guess that's where
Speaker 1: we are, which is good. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: about it or think about it, but COVID is so
Speaker 1: Last week, Jack apparently even at a doctor's office in California,
Speaker 1: didn't even come up as an option. I can't believe.
Speaker 1: I can't believe they didn't test you right off the bat.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. Also, Wow, So I guess we're done. I
Speaker 1: think that's when we're officially done when in the town
Speaker 1: I live in California, you go to the doctor with
Speaker 1: my symptoms and nobody even thinks about it. Right, it's finally,
Speaker 1: thank God over.
Speaker 3: I'll move on with our lives.
Speaker 6: Please inform those that I still see driving alone in
Speaker 6: their car wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: Although I did have COVID once to do the Paxslavid
Speaker 1: and it got me over it like immediately. So if
Speaker 1: I have COVID, I wouldn't mind, you know, knowing and
Speaker 1: jumping on the packs of Lovid so that I could
Speaker 1: get over this disease. Yeah, I did the exact same thing.
Speaker 6: The only problem I have is packs Lovid made everything.
Speaker 1: Tastes horrible for how long.
Speaker 6: The entire time I was on it, plus probably a
Speaker 6: day or two afterwards.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, Well, Hanson brought it up because his son has
Speaker 1: lost his sense of smell or taste whichever you said, Hanson,
Speaker 1: And yeah, COVID d not even mentioned.
Speaker 3: I'll be darned really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I went, I go to the doctor with these symptoms.
Speaker 1: The word never mentioned, no test.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm especially shocked by but the loss of smell
Speaker 4: and taste, and it didn't well that comes, that's hands
Speaker 4: and skit.
Speaker 3: I don't have any idea what's going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I didn't know that's where we were.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1: Oh we got mail bag coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 1: We've got to get into some of the stuff that's
Speaker 1: going on with Iran. There's talk out today that they're
Speaker 1: like seventy two hours away from being able to build
Speaker 1: a bomb or something like that. You know, we're always
Speaker 1: seeing that sort of thing and getting ready to bomb
Speaker 1: the but Jesus out of something. And then we'll get
Speaker 1: to all that autism stuff, which I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm speaking of COVID.
Speaker 4: Mike Gallagher, who is one of my favorite Congress people,
Speaker 4: is out with an article calling for accountability and declassification
Speaker 4: of everything connected to the Wuhan Institute and Anthony Fauci
Speaker 4: and the COVID cover up and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Love it fantastic, all on the way. I hope you
Speaker 1: can stay here. I don't think this is higher getting
Speaker 1: too much attention the fact that Stephen A. Smith, the
Speaker 1: most famous sports reporter in America, is talking about seriously
Speaker 1: looking at running for president.
Speaker 3: I think that's a I think that's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 3: And we can talk about that later.
Speaker 1: Later as in mid twenty seven, late twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I'm a reasonable man.
Speaker 3: I'll compromise.
Speaker 1: Hey, presidential election, Well, the old one's over. That means
Speaker 1: we'd start talking about the new one.
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom of me quote of the day.
Speaker 4: Oh in next hour, continuing on with our series of
Speaker 4: neighbors screaming at each other like lunatics, Oh boy, Voltaire
Speaker 4: said this, Jack, it is difficult to free fools from
Speaker 4: the chains they revere. Then, as long as we're quoting Euros,
Speaker 4: how about this from Johann Wolfgang van Getta. Okay, none
Speaker 4: are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
Speaker 4: are free.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna sure I fully understand.
Speaker 3: Either of those quotes. Not sophisticated enough.
Speaker 4: I think Voltaire was talking about how and the founding
Speaker 4: Papa has understood this.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of folks who don't want liberty.
Speaker 4: They don't want freedom because freedom and responsibility are twins?
Speaker 3: Yeah Truett, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mailbag not strusting old enough is definitely my brand. I
Speaker 1: that was just an unfair shot because I have not air.
Speaker 1: That's a completely accurate shot.
Speaker 4: I mean we could go into the quote if you'd like,
Speaker 4: maybe next hour. Let's see this from bad Tim Did
Speaker 4: I give the email address Mailbag?
Speaker 3: And I'm string to get it dot com guys.
Speaker 4: I wish AI was advanced enough to make a reboot
Speaker 4: of the.
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks classic Apollo thirteen.
Speaker 4: But with Katy Perry and Gail King dealing with the problems,
Speaker 4: it could be awesome. Yeah, that's funny, Houston, we have
Speaker 4: a problem, says Katie Perry.
Speaker 1: Let's see Gail King claps back at criticism, writes Daniel Yes,
Speaker 1: it is criticism served up with finely tuned mockery and ridicule.
Speaker 1: The wealth of material surrounding the Blue Origin flight has
Speaker 1: enabled these ask oats to turn average people on social
Speaker 1: media into world class comedians. It is fertile, fertile ground.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, this is from John. You guys are talking
Speaker 1: about how much you would pay to go on a
Speaker 1: fifteen minute trip to the edge of space. I would
Speaker 1: drain my four to one K and sell all my possessions.
Speaker 4: If I could never leave my house again and still
Speaker 4: have beer and food handy, I guess I'm cut from
Speaker 4: a different cloth.
Speaker 1: Nice My brother emailed, that's funny.
Speaker 4: How about Tommy in Texas on the topic of April
Speaker 4: fifteenth tax Day. Whenever I get into discussion about taxes
Speaker 4: with my liberal friends, they always start with the rich
Speaker 4: should pay their fair share eventually and eventually get around
Speaker 4: to Warren Buffett and that.
Speaker 3: Ridiculous point he wants made.
Speaker 4: When we get to that point, I always say, sounds
Speaker 4: like what we need is a flat tax. That usually
Speaker 4: stops them because they don't like.
Speaker 1: That at all. How About everybody just pays ten percent
Speaker 1: of their own unless you're very, very poor.
Speaker 3: How about that something like that twenty percent?
Speaker 1: Boy, you have a lot more people caring how money
Speaker 1: was spent, which is the last thing.
Speaker 4: Really Both parties, but especially the Democrats want Ryan from
Speaker 4: Houston Boy Texas way and in today heavily on the
Speaker 4: question of tariff steer Jack and Joe. Can President Trump
Speaker 4: treat his tariff policy less like he is turning in
Speaker 4: a rough draft to his freshman English class. M Yeah,
Speaker 4: it does seem to be kind of forming up as
Speaker 4: it goes kind of thing. I think that's fair criticism
Speaker 4: from Ryan. Totally different topic. Mikey Luke Jack Joe watched
Speaker 4: the snippet of Biden's what in the same hill is
Speaker 4: going on here?
Speaker 3: Speech from Chicago. Oh that's funny, It's just sad.
Speaker 4: I don't know why the Democrats keep pushing them out there.
Speaker 4: The Democrats have fundamentally destroyed their party by enacting the
Speaker 4: policies of this suck puppet of a man.
Speaker 1: And this is what they've got said is meaningless. We'll
Speaker 1: play a clip or two later completely meaningless. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter at all. But why did hear his
Speaker 1: wife feelix? We need to stay relevant, we need to
Speaker 1: get out there. What are you doing? Why is it her?
Speaker 1: It's got to be her? Yeah, I guess I don't
Speaker 1: or his ego.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's having a good week, he's a little more
Speaker 4: cogent than normal, and so he figured he'd go up.
Speaker 1: Nobody needs to hear from the former president if he's
Speaker 1: forty five and lucid, we just don't need it, I
Speaker 1: would agree, bar Rock.
Speaker 4: Anyway, there's one point of his speech that I think
Speaker 4: is significant, which we'll talk about next hour. But I
Speaker 4: love this note from Jody. So many immigrants come here
Speaker 4: and do not want to embrace the American culture or
Speaker 4: obey our laws. We're going to play you a clip
Speaker 4: of a Muslim fella from a Michigan who's openly calling
Speaker 4: for the overthrow of the American experiment, for instance, and
Speaker 4: Jody writes, I remember when Hung k How spoke at
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty four Republican National Convention. I especially like
Speaker 4: this quote from him on becoming an American and this
Speaker 4: could have been our freedom loving quote of the day.
Speaker 3: Actually, as an.
Speaker 4: Immigrant to this great country, let me be very clear
Speaker 4: to everyone who comes here, don't ask for the American
Speaker 4: dream if you're not willing to obey the American laws
Speaker 4: and embrace the American culture.
Speaker 3: Because I did love that.
Speaker 4: And Jody said, any illegal immigrant who breaks our laws
Speaker 4: should be deported. Any foreign students here on visas that
Speaker 4: align with terrorist organizations should have their visas revoked. The
Speaker 4: visas are a privileged and should be revoked if they
Speaker 4: break our laws. Clearly, yep, we're going to be talking
Speaker 4: about autism later. Some people believe it's tied to vaccines.
Speaker 4: I don't as a parent of an autistic child. But
Speaker 4: we can get into that. But let's see, this is
Speaker 4: Jim who points out it's the chart Jack, the immunization
Speaker 4: schedule that they had for their kid, and indeed there
Speaker 4: are forty four shots.
Speaker 3: That seems like a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, No, thirty three by four years of age.
Speaker 3: That seems like a lot. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And sometimes, take it from a cocktail enthusiast like myself,
Speaker 4: sometimes if you do a thing and that's not very bad,
Speaker 4: many many times in too short a time, that can
Speaker 4: cause problems. I've not seen solid evidence that it does,
Speaker 4: but it's not an insane thought.
Speaker 1: Well, the problem with the requiring all those this is
Speaker 1: what I said all through COVID, is if there are
Speaker 1: billions of dollars, there's certainly tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: on the line. How are you gonna tell me that
Speaker 1: Sometimes somebody doesn't put their thumb on the scale of
Speaker 1: making that a required inoculation just for money reasons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it might even be a good idea, but now
Speaker 4: it's a required idea. And you're right that if that
Speaker 4: is a factor, people ought to know that's a factor.
Speaker 4: And that ought to be taken into consideration when these
Speaker 4: things are improved. And I'm not anti VAXX or like
Speaker 4: a vaccine skeptical or anything, but as you point out,
Speaker 4: during COVID, we learned that sometimes the health authorities don't tell.
Speaker 1: Us the truth.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, that's a lot of shots. Yes, it is.
Speaker 1: Holy cow. We're gonna get into some more of the
Speaker 1: news of the day in hour two, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, including the report on autism research and what RFK
Speaker 4: Junior said the other day, which I thought was fairly ridiculous.
Speaker 4: But it's a it's a mysterious issue. The research is
Speaker 4: ongoing and fairly promising in some ways, but it's it's
Speaker 4: difficult to get your hands on because there's such a
Speaker 4: spectrum of what is autism, and you know, the skyrocketing rate. Well,
Speaker 4: a lot of that's just more diagnosis. People are recognized.
Speaker 4: And your kid isn't weird, he's on the autism spectrum.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Most researchers I know really
Speaker 3: hate that idea.
Speaker 1: What's that that it's just more.
Speaker 3: We're just recognizing it more.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I was gonna say, I didn't say it's
Speaker 4: just that, And if I implied that I didn't mean to,
Speaker 4: but that's absolutely part of it.
Speaker 3: It's got to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess the problem with throwing that out there
Speaker 1: is it just it's a distraction from the fact that
Speaker 1: something new has come along, or if it's not new,
Speaker 1: at a much greater level than it ever existed. Right,
Speaker 1: And it's a crisis. I mean, it is a freaking crisis.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a middle child. I bring people together. I
Speaker 1: would put it like this.
Speaker 4: If there's any chance it is something new, something environmental,
Speaker 4: something going on, and not just an increase in diagnosis,
Speaker 4: we ought to be feverishly trying to figure out what
Speaker 4: the hell it is.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I know so few families that don't
Speaker 1: have a kid at least who's dealing with this. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just astounding.
Speaker 3: It is rather shocking.
Speaker 1: We also need to talk about the whole Harvard thing
Speaker 1: because the coverage it's getting is driving me nuts. On
Speaker 1: the federal government pulling funding that trying to run the colleges.
Speaker 1: Trump may have overplayed it, as he often does. We
Speaker 1: can get into that, but the idea that the federal
Speaker 1: government hasn't been forcing schooling to do all kinds of
Speaker 1: things I hate with the threat of yanking they're funding
Speaker 1: for years.
Speaker 3: Come on now.
Speaker 1: A lot of that DEI stuff that they jammed into
Speaker 1: schools at every level was you need to do this
Speaker 1: or you're going to lose your federal funding. Well you
Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with that, did you.
Speaker 3: Nope?
Speaker 4: No, because that's good and right and true. This conservative
Speaker 4: stuff is evil and they're trying to control us.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It's the best example of that.
Speaker 1: I was trying to think of this yesterday, but because
Speaker 1: of the cold mists, I couldn't. So this whole concept
Speaker 1: of the progressives do something that had never happened before.
Speaker 1: It gets no reaction in the mainstream media, and then
Speaker 1: when conservatives try to yank it back out, it gets
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. My favorite one being the water
Speaker 1: pressure in your shower heads thing. Why does the federal
Speaker 1: government have any role whatsoever on what your water pressure
Speaker 1: is in your shower head? I mean, that's absolutely insane,
Speaker 1: but it got passed through executive orders, all this sort
Speaker 1: of stuff, so you don't you have bad water pressure
Speaker 1: on the country. When conservatives get in and try to
Speaker 1: yank it out, all of a sudden, it's a joke.
Speaker 1: It's treated as a joke. Can you believe Donald Trump
Speaker 1: cares about the water pressure in your shower heads? Uh? Hello,
Speaker 1: you cared about the water pressure in the shower heads.
Speaker 1: You're the one that got involved in it, not.
Speaker 3: Us, completely dishonest.
Speaker 1: So when we try to clot back and make it
Speaker 1: more freedom, like you can have whatever you want, whatever state,
Speaker 1: county you have, it's seen as a joke. Of all
Speaker 1: the things to worry about water pressure. I hate this game.
Speaker 1: It drives me nuts. Well, we must win it, I hope.
Speaker 1: So it's with me, I hope. So if you miss
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