1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty. 3 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jattie and He Armstrong and Ytty. 4 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 3: I hope we don't have to do the work, but 5 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 3: we may have to give him another big hit. We 6 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 3: may have to give him another big hit. I'm not 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 3: sure yet. You'll know very soon. I was an hour away. 8 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 3: We're all set to go. 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: Trump. 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 4: I don't like the media always uses the word claims 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 4: with Trump to suggest he's lying. 12 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 2: I'm going to use it in this case. 13 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 4: Trump claiming we were an hour away from striking around. 14 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 4: I doubt that's true, but maybe it was coming up 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 4: pretty soon when he called it off. Gingri shout with 16 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 4: the peace today and he was a Republican Leader of 17 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 4: the House many many many years ago. He's pretty trumpy, 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 4: but he doesn't like this delay delay delay stuff. He 19 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 4: explains why. We'll get to that a little bit. But 20 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 4: here's Trey Yankster's great reporter in the UH in that 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 4: part of the world for Fox. 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 5: Every Day's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a new threat overnight, 23 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 5: warning the United States and Israel against launching a fresh 24 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 5: bombing campaign. The IRGC said in a statement quote, if 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 5: the aggression against Iran is repeated, the regional war that 26 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 5: was promised, will this time go beyond the borders of 27 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 5: the region, and you will be dealt crushing blows in 28 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 5: places you do not expect, and you will fall into 29 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 5: the abyss of defeat and destruction. The threat comes as 30 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 5: President Trump says he was just an hour away from 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 5: deciding to strike Iran earlier this week. 32 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 4: You hate to fall into a manhole or the abyss 33 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 4: of defeat and destruction, either one. 34 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: That's a rough day, no doubt, that's no good. 35 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 4: Gonna hit them in places you don't expect, right in 36 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 4: the five. 37 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: Hole, if that's true. 38 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 4: If Iran like really lashes out at all their neighbors 39 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 4: like they did before, but even more this time and again. 40 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: As they vowed beyond the region. 41 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 4: Yeah, and they got as they demonstrated, they got rockets, missiles, 42 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 4: whatever you call them, that can reach a long, long way, 43 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 4: including Europe. 44 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: So well, not only that, but I was just reading 45 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: about this. Iran backed a militant outfit that's ooching around 46 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: in Great Britain and is behind a lot of the 47 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: attacks on Jews in that country. They're financed by Iran, 48 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: so asymmetrical warfare, terrorist attacks, I think it's practically inevitable. Luckily, Trey, 49 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: like me, was wondering what ancient to Greek war is 50 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: this similar to. 51 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 5: So we've seen these threats from Iran's IRGC, and it 52 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 5: reminds me of the ancient Battle of Thermopyla in four ADYBC, 53 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 5: when then the Persian army threatened to use so many 54 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 5: arrows that they would blot out the sun, and the 55 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 5: Greek forces responded, then we will fight in the shade. 56 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 5: And this has been a source of strength for the 57 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 5: Israeli people because they understand there is a joint defense 58 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 5: here when it comes to the Americans and the Israelis. 59 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 5: There are US forces still on the ground. They have 60 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 5: bad and patriot missile defense systems, and they are preparing 61 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 5: for the possibility that the Iranian regime, if they are targeted, 62 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 5: works to overwhelm those systems. 63 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 4: That's some pretty good pre Jesus smack right there. 64 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 2: That was good. Tray is so good. Well, then we'll 65 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 2: fight you in the shade. 66 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh no, yeah, that's some ancient world heart 67 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: assi ish neists right there, heard Assery that. 68 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: Is a good one. I love that. I don't know 69 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: if I'd ever heard that before. That's a good one. 70 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 4: Fire so many areas that it will blot out the sun. 71 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 2: Okay, bring it. 72 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 4: I'm kind of I'm interested in the battle stuff from 73 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 4: New Ulysses movie coming out. 74 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: Have you seen any of the trailers? 75 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: No? 76 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 4: Oh, it's a Nolan film, and if you've ever watched 77 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 4: any of his movies, I mean, he can do the 78 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 4: big screen epic thing better than maybe anybody ever has. 79 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 4: But they've got the scenes about the trojan horse dragging 80 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 4: that across the desert and getting that in there, and 81 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 4: the whole trojan horse thing looks awesome. 82 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. The one thing I read that really stuck 83 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: with me about the movie was and I think I've 84 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: got it around here somewhere. But if you like black 85 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: Helen of Troy, well yeah, see that's the thing. It 86 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: kinda is related to that, but not really. 87 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 2: I don't care. 88 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: It is so obsessed with who they cast and what 89 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: numbers of each you know whatever. And to win an 90 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: Oscar you've got to have accurate and you can't have 91 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: a straight guy playing a gay guy and blah blah blah. 92 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: Well Evidently Greek Americans have noticed you haven't cast any 93 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: Greeks is Greek, so Greek people don't count in your 94 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: identity obsession. Okay, all right, great, we don't actually care. 95 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: But y'all are stupid, flipping hypocrites. 96 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, famous black actress I don't know her name is 97 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 4: playing Hella of Troy, who's a legendary hatty as described 98 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 4: to be many historians that changed. She was so hot 99 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 4: she changed world history. People thought for her. But I 100 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 4: don't care. It just it just seems like a okay, fine, 101 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 4: trying too hard to either be controversial or yeah or 102 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 4: or or soothe might have just been to Okay, Now 103 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 4: I'm eligible for an oscar because now I gotta because 104 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 4: if I was gonna cast it the way the people 105 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 4: probably were at the time, I wasn't gonna have any 106 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 4: black people. 107 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: Now I gotta brandt or this gal's terrific and people 108 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: will talk about the movie more if I do this. 109 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't. I don't like Matt Damon as 110 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 2: a choice. 111 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 4: As I mentioned, Yes, David, whatever, nobody cares back to 112 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 4: the war, the actual war, this current war. 113 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 2: Nuke. Gingrich wrote this former. 114 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 4: Speak of the House back in the day, back in 115 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 4: the Clinton day, President Trump keeps finding reasons not to 116 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 4: reopen the bombing campaign. The Iranians are using this time 117 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 4: to rebuild their anti aircraft defenses and replenish their drone 118 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 4: and missile stockpiles. We should not have any doubts about 119 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 4: the dictatorship using the truce periods to repair damage and 120 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 4: rebuild their forces. There's also no question that the Russians 121 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 4: are shipping weapons and supplies across the Caspian Sea to 122 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 4: help the Ranians rebuild the capacity for war. There is 123 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 4: a dominant and wrong view in Washington, says Nuke Gingrich, 124 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 4: that the combination of economic and diplomatic pressure will force 125 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 4: the Iranians to agree to abandon forty seven years of 126 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 4: history and sign a truce which strips them of everything 127 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 4: for which they've been working their whole lives. This is 128 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 4: a deeply anti historic view. Newt uh reminding myself and 129 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 4: you is that's what his thing was before he got 130 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 4: into politics, as a historian history professor. This is a 131 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 4: deeply antihistoric view. Why would you expect a dictatorship which 132 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 4: survived one million casualties fighting Iraq to be intimidated by 133 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 4: a few weeks of bombing. 134 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 2: Why would you think. 135 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 4: A dictatorship which killed forty two thousand of its own 136 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 4: citizens earlier this year would worry about economic pressure and blockades. 137 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 4: We keep applying values and principles which would affect us, 138 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 4: but the Iranian dictatorship is not us. 139 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: Wow, that's some great clearheaded thinking right there. 140 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 4: I think he's right, by the way, everybody seems to 141 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 4: have settled on this forty two thousand number based on 142 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 4: reports and everything like that. 143 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 2: Think about that. 144 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 4: All those young people in the streets protesting, trying to 145 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 4: take their country back from a bunch of nut jobs, 146 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 4: zealot religious crazy people, and they machine gunned and beat 147 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: in the street to death forty two thousand people, and 148 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 4: how many more like you know had an eye taken 149 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 4: out or whatever. 150 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: Dragged him out of hospital beds, God killed him. 151 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 4: It's amazing that you can still do that in the 152 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 4: modern world and get away with it for a variety 153 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 4: of reasons. Part of it is who's gonna stop them. 154 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 4: Part of it is a willingness to overlook that because 155 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 4: it seems multicultural to not attack Iran for doing this 156 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 4: sort of thing. 157 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: I guess, oh, among like the left yeah. Yeah, they 158 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: don't dare hesitate a foreign regime because their entire identity 159 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: is based on self hatred. Yeah yeah, unless that regime 160 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: is Israel, right. Yeah, that's because the whole settler colonial thing. 161 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 4: Eye any who, I think I agree with Nut on 162 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 4: that stuff. I God, I would think somebody'd be in 163 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 4: Trump's here saying all this delaying is allowing, it's making 164 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 4: it harder for us in the military. I think Pete 165 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 4: or somebody be telling him this. We had them pretty 166 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 4: beaten down. If we were going to continue at that point, 167 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 4: it was going to be a lot easier. Now Russia's 168 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 4: shipped them this and that, and they've had a chance 169 00:08:58,880 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 4: to rebuild this or that. 170 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: I seriously worry that cutter is in Trump's here and 171 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: has cutting him some sort of giant deal or whatever. 172 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. 173 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 2: I sure hope you're wrong about that. 174 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: I hope, I am. 175 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 2: I haven't gotten that cynical yet. 176 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 4: Well wait up, I do agree with I've heard Noah Rothman, 177 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 4: who's got a book out about left wing violence right now, 178 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 4: and hope we get to talk to him in the 179 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 4: near future. He's with a National Review. But I've heard 180 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 4: Noah rothmam. To make this point. The people who are 181 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 4: talking about and now now they're even more hard line 182 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 4: because of our attack of Iran and what we've come on. 183 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: They've been the. 184 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 4: Number one supporter of terror. 185 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 2: In the world my entire adult life. 186 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 1: How much more hard. 187 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 2: Line can you get? 188 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 1: They killed people in the streets before Trump jumped ugly. 189 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 4: Spattered forty two thousand people before of their own citizens. 190 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 2: Before the war started. 191 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: Gee, I hope the real hardliners don't take over, right, Yeah, 192 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: just see Billy, Yeah, yeah, trouble time. 193 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 2: But when we do open can I who'll pass back 194 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 2: up again? 195 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 4: Which I think is gonna happen Man Iran strikes out 196 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 4: to southern Europe or. 197 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 2: All the countries around them or whatever. 198 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: This could get crazy, crazy fast. 199 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 4: Everything that was disgusted early on in this war about 200 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 4: how it could tumble out of control like wars often do, 201 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 4: is still one hundred percent on the table, maybe even 202 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 4: more so. 203 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, bigger doesn't necessarily mean out of control. It might 204 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: take that escalation to de escalate it eventually to defeat 205 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: the evildoers. But it's a tough nut to crack. I mean, 206 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:36,599 Speaker 1: there's just there's no gung ho uh we got a 207 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: whoop pass and send them back to the Stone Age. 208 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. No, they are entrenched, they are serious, 209 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 1: and they are dead enders. 210 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 211 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 4: Well, and I assume when we attack this time, they'll 212 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 4: really have the there's no point in holding anything back 213 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 4: mood going. Yes, I'm talking about them, not us, cornered beast. 214 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. 215 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 4: Any thoughts on a text line four one k f TC. 216 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: Armstrong And I know what you're asking yourself. What would 217 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: it sound like if Dolly Parton's Joe Lene was done 218 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: in the style of Dire Straits. 219 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 2: Joy Joy Joy Joy. 220 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: Of you please? OK, that's pretty good. Mark knop. 221 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 2: J ai Or said, I think it's a dude. 222 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: It's a real dude. Michael. You nodded yes to both 223 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: of those possibilities, But either doesn't make any difference, doesn't 224 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: make any difference. It does to me, it matters very much. 225 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: I don't know, I really don't. Did that guy make 226 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: a cent off of that? He's getting YouTube clicks? I 227 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: assume that's for YouTube. 228 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 4: I don't know. 229 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 2: Too much entertainment. 230 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, speaking of which, where is that? Uh? 231 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 2: I got it? I got it? 232 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 4: So like that would have been really something thirty years ago, 233 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 4: maybe even ten years ago, but just now since anybody 234 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 4: could do it. Hanson, our producer, does songs at the 235 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 4: end of our show every day. Maybe you hear him. 236 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 4: I'm sure he could have had do Joe Lean like 237 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 4: Dire Straits would have done it, and he would have 238 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 4: had five different versions to choose from, and one of 239 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 4: the would have been similar to that or maybe better, 240 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 4: and and what And we've accomplished what. I don't know 241 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 4: where this is going. 242 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: I have entertained the good people for five seconds of 243 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: their lives. 244 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: Well for us. 245 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, But in terms of people doing that sort of thing, 246 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: I just don't. Oh no, I really worry about that 247 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: sort of thing. And I don't think it's just, you know, 248 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: the standard old guy resists change. It's these fundamental changes 249 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: in the way that information is exchanged or creativity is expressed, 250 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: or you know, here's a somewhat related topic. I actually 251 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: had never heard the term dad books. I get it, 252 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: the go to gifts for Father's Day book about some 253 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: little known chapter of World War Two, the sweeping narrative 254 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: of a shipwreck, perhaps the latest presidential biography or history book. 255 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 2: Gotcha. 256 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: These days, dad books are a dying breed, they say. 257 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: Non Fiction book sales have been in decline for the 258 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: past four years. We've talked to our good friend Tim 259 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: Sanderfer about that people just don't read books like they 260 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: did a few years ago, and nonfiction is now the 261 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: most challenged segment of the print book market. Celebrity memoirs 262 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: are still doing well. Slap's foreheads just to size and 263 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: really literally going to. 264 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 2: Take a knee. 265 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: I know I were more flexible, I would. Religious titles 266 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: are still doing well. Its people crave something to fill 267 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: the God shaped hole, as they say. 268 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 2: But in recent years there's no meaning in life anymore. 269 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 4: So yes, I'm sure, I'm sure religious books aren't doing well. 270 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: The right but in recent years, print sales in such 271 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: categories as biography, current affairs, business economics, what publishers refer 272 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: to as serious non fiction and which tend to resonate 273 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: especially with men, they have fallen considerably well. Nonfiction titles 274 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: were down nearly eight percent this year. 275 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 4: So one of my favorite jokes ever on television about 276 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 4: books was from thirty Rock and the character Tina Fey 277 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 4: played on thirty Rock had written a new book and 278 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 4: Alec Baldwin hilariously as everything is with him said, is 279 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 4: your book still number one? And she said not got 280 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 4: knocked out of number one by the founding Father's Diet, 281 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 4: which I thought was a hilarious joke, combining two of 282 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 4: the most popular genres in the history of writing. But 283 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 4: the people like you're Ron chernow who wrote Alexander Hamilton 284 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 4: and Grant in Washington. But you know, the people will 285 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 4: write those really big, long, thick Joseph Ellis, well researched 286 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 4: nonfiction books do it because they get paid millions of dollars. Well, 287 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 4: when that goes away, and I think it's gonna go away, are. 288 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 2: They gonna write them anymore? 289 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: I mean, would anybody go to that much work. Here's 290 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: here's what the publishers believe is behind this. It's not 291 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: a lack of interest in the topics, but they're calling 292 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: it this Morgasbord factor. The days when dad books reigned 293 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: supreme are gone because you've got audio books, endless supplies 294 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: of substack newsletters, netflix, documentaries, YouTube videos, podcasts, that sort 295 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: of thing that used to be limited to, as they 296 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: describe them, doorstop sized books. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's so interesting. 297 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny I have this impulse to write, 298 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: and I do still some but I like get to 299 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: links and turned onto various substack thinkers. Some of these 300 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: people are brilliant, just brilliant. The poor how God knows 301 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: how much research into some of these things, and they're 302 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: incredibly smart and long and blah blah blah. But there's 303 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: so much. 304 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 4: Well, okay, so part of what you presented there is 305 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 4: not the death of reading. It's just the death of 306 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 4: reading a certain kind of reading that has existed all 307 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 4: of our lives. If people are reading from yeah, other 308 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 4: deep stuff that's maybe shorter, but more specific to the 309 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 4: issue on substack or where or listening, well, let you 310 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 4: walk their dog. 311 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:04,360 Speaker 2: That's not a bad thing. 312 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, back when Baxter was still kicking, that's what I 313 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: did when I walked him. I would listen to history 314 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: podcasts mostly. 315 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 2: Yeah. So Trump had a pretty good day in the 316 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 2: primaries yesterday. 317 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 4: A lot of his backed candidates or hated candidates, depending 318 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 4: on how you looked at it, got the result he wanted. 319 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty. 320 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 3: Thomas Massey's a terrible congressman. He's been a terrible congressman 321 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 3: from day one. 322 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 2: Dealing with him is just horrible. I don't think he's 323 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 2: a Republican. I think he's. 324 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,679 Speaker 3: Actually I think he's actually a Democrat. 325 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 2: He's not a libertarian. 326 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 3: You know, sometimes they say he's really a Democrat. 327 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 2: He votes against us all the time. 328 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 4: His vote actually, Thomas Massey, a Republican House Representative from Kentucky, 329 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 4: voted with what Trump wanted I think ninety five percent 330 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 4: of the time. And his conservative record was in the 331 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 4: high nineties or whatever for most of his career. But 332 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 4: he is all over the map on stuff. He started 333 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 4: out as a libertarian, which which a lot of us 334 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 4: really really liked, but turned out to be kind of 335 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 4: phony because then he went in a different direction with 336 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 4: COVID for a while. Then he then he decided to 337 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 4: and what turned Trump off the reason. Trump said the 338 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 4: other day that he backed Massy's opponent and that Massy's 339 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 4: the worst congressman in our country's history. Because that's what 340 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 4: everything has got to be with Donald Trump. Everything's got 341 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 4: to be the best thing ever or the worst thing ever. 342 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 4: Nothing could be pretty bad or just you should vote 343 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 4: him out. It's got to be the worst member in 344 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 4: the history of House. 345 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 1: Uh, we get it, all right. 346 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 4: Massey went really big on Epstein, including like talking in 347 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 4: committee hearings about victims that don't exist. I mean, just 348 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 4: like really out there wacky stuff and blaming everything in 349 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 4: Epstein and then tying in the Jews to it. More recently, 350 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 4: and we played the clip a couple of weeks ago 351 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 4: where I remember my reaction was, Okay, this guy's a 352 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 4: nut job AND's got to go where he talked about 353 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 4: the Department of Homeland Securities IP addressed for their website 354 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 4: actually is based in Tel Aviv. 355 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,199 Speaker 2: That's how tied into Israel they are. 356 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 4: He said that on Tucker Carlson's show for crying out 357 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 4: freaking loud. Anyway, when he lost last night, he got 358 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 4: primaried by Trump's preferred candidate. 359 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 2: This is what he said at his consolation rally. Listen. 360 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 3: I would have come out sooner, but I had to call. 361 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: My opponent and concede. And it took a while to 362 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: find ed Gal Ryan and Tel Aviv. Noh, he's a 363 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: secret Jew. He's controlled by the Jews. 364 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 2: So holy crap. I never thought I'd live to see this. 365 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: I know. 366 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 4: So even as he lost, he had to take the 367 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 4: shot of the Jews control my opponent or whatever. I 368 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 4: tweeted out, you know, thank god he lost. Trump got 369 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 4: this one right. Some of you pushed back that Trump 370 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 4: turned on him because of Epstein, not because of his 371 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 4: anti Israel take true enough, although Massey tied those two 372 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 4: things together, as people often do. But probably I haven't 373 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 4: looked today, but probably a fifth to a quarter of 374 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 4: the responses where f you guys, or I'm never listening 375 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 4: to you guys anymore, or whatever from those of you 376 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 4: who think we're too pro Israel or think anybody who's 377 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 4: pro Israel. 378 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 2: Is a tool of Israel? 379 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: Right, which is really really interesting. Yeah, I've blasted people 380 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: who think that, and I've tried to reach a more 381 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 1: conciliatory tone that the best con men, the best grifters 382 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: on earth are pitching the anti Semitism rationale and a 383 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 1: certain number of people are falling for it. It's worked 384 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: over and over and over again in history. It's wrong, 385 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: it's ugly, it's dangerous, and it's despicable. But God, for 386 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: some reason, it reminds me of socialism slash communism. You 387 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: can pitch it to generation after generation and certain number 388 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: of folks that will take up on the offer. It 389 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: has a brutal ugly appeal to it. 390 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 391 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 4: And what's bad news for Israel and Jewish people in 392 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 4: general in the United States is on the left, they 393 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 4: hate you because of the whole oppress or oppressed settler 394 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 4: colonialism bs. And on the right there's a lot of 395 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 4: the Jews control everything, just flat out old fashioned anti Semitism. 396 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: Protocols of the Elders of Zion and style garbage. 397 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 2: Yeah. 398 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 4: And we got a text the other day I meant 399 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 4: to read where she basically said that I used to 400 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 4: not understand how this happened in Germany and why nobody 401 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 4: did anything, and now I understand it. And Joe and 402 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 4: I have said the same thing. I never understood really 403 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 4: the cultural revolution in China how that got going, or 404 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 4: the whole Jewish thing in Nazi Germany in the thirties, 405 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 4: long before you know, you got to World War two 406 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 4: and death camps. 407 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 2: Now I get it. 408 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 4: It happens and kind of slowly and then suddenly, as 409 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 4: the old saying goes, and then to a certain extent, 410 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 4: some people stay quiet because you don't know who gets 411 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 4: all riled up when you come to the support of 412 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 4: whatever crowded and it just it's's wild. 413 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: It's wild. 414 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 2: We lived through. 415 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw the dynamic in you know, the most 416 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 1: obvious situation, like you're a school teacher in California, for instance, 417 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: during the whole woke madness and the gender bending madness. 418 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: You knew it was madness, but if you spoke out, 419 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: you doubted enough people would back you up to defend 420 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: you that you wouldn't lose your job or be ostracized 421 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: or whatever. Now, picture if the downside wasn't to be 422 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: ostracized or even lose your job, it would be to 423 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: be beaten down the street and maybe killed, and you 424 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: weren't sure who's with you. And the energy is on 425 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: that militant side. A lot of people keep their mouths shut. 426 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: One in the militants win. 427 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 4: One disturbing aspect of this that I guarantee you we're 428 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 4: going to see soon is in the president dential election, 429 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 4: Democratic candidates are going to have to bend over backwards 430 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 4: to make it clear they have not taken a dollar 431 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 4: from Israel, right, And. 432 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 2: That's going to be a new thing. 433 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 4: That's going to be a new thing that all the 434 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 4: Democratic candidates have to make sure they've never taken a 435 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 4: single dollar from Israel to have a shot at getting 436 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 4: the nomination in that party. That's a troubling development. So 437 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 4: I wanted to get to these numbers just because it's interesting. 438 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 4: What's the group that the initials for the group that 439 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 4: lobbies for Israel? Oh apec apec Gavin Newsom the other day, 440 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,239 Speaker 4: I've never taken a dollar, Okay, why why is that? 441 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 2: You take a. 442 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 1: Dollar from anybody you'll offer it, you crook. 443 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 4: China lobbying lobbying dollars spent in America by country here, 444 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,159 Speaker 4: I got your top ten. Israel is tenth, by the way, 445 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 4: they don't exactly control the country. They're tenth China between 446 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 4: twenty sixteen twenty twenty four. These are the last numbers 447 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 4: they have, so it's spread out over eight years. China 448 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 4: spent almost half a trillion dollars, two and a half 449 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 4: times what Israel spent. I'm more worried about politicians taking 450 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 4: money from China than Israel by far. 451 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: Anyway. 452 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 4: Japan spends about double what Israel spends. So does Liberia. 453 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 4: Anybody ever think about how much money have you taken 454 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 4: from Liberia? South Korea spends way more. Marshall Islands, Saudi Arabia. 455 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 4: Listen to the Saudi Arabian Katar six and seven spend 456 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 4: significantly more than Israel spends lobbying in the United States 457 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 4: of America, the Bahamas two hundred and forty million. 458 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 2: UAE got So you got fur your. 459 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 4: Middle Eastern Arab Muslim countries that are spending tons more 460 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 4: money than Israel, and who's making sure no politician took 461 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 4: a single dollar from them? And then Israel is in 462 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 4: tenth place one hundred. 463 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 2: And eighty million dollars, So to me, that should end 464 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 2: the whole. 465 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 4: They run our politics, and it's outrageous that they have 466 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 4: a lobby and spend so much money. Lots of countries do. 467 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 4: And it turns out lots of countries spend a hell 468 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 4: of a lot more, including among. 469 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 2: Sworn enemies of the United States. 470 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, or Islamists. Yeah yeah, But logic does not have 471 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: a chance against somebody who's just looking for someone to 472 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,160 Speaker 1: hate as an explanation of the way the world works, 473 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 1: or why their lives aren't what they want them to be, 474 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: or what have you. 475 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 4: So I haven't watched Hunter Biden on Candae Owens yet. 476 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 2: I don't think it comfreed. 477 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: My eyes might burst into flames. 478 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 2: I don't think it. 479 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,679 Speaker 4: Comes out till tomorrow. She's just she's good at She 480 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 4: and Tucker are good at this sort of thing for 481 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 4: building anticipation, putting out some clips, letting you know when 482 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 4: it comes out. But I'll probably watch at least some 483 00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 4: of the interview. I've seen some of the highlights in which. 484 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 2: It appears. 485 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 4: Now, she may have edited it in this way to 486 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 4: make it more jazzy than it turns out to be. 487 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 4: In fact, she almost certainly did. But it sounds like 488 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 4: Hunter blames a lot of why everybody turned on his 489 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 4: dad is because we weren't tied in with the Epstein class. 490 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: I've seen that particular. Oh my god, nice try. Everybody's 491 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 1: a grifter. Uh excuse me. I wanted to talk about 492 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: the endorsement thing back to Trump very briefly, mark my words. 493 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: Trump has gone full herschel Walker on Texas. He endorsed 494 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 1: last minute Attorney General Walker. Remember herschel Walker was the 495 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: running back who he propped up to run in Georgia 496 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,399 Speaker 1: for a Senate seat. Yeah, I'm sorry that was a 497 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: little obscure. 498 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 4: Trump who picked so picking a bad candidates that guarantees 499 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 4: you lose. 500 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, he picked a couple of loyal boot licking trumpy 501 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: people in Georgia who lost two utterly winnable seats because 502 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: his only standard is who licks my boots the most thoroughly. 503 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: That is one of. 504 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 4: The most overlooked things bad things that Trump has done 505 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 4: on his two terms, as that he turned Georgia from 506 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 4: a two guaranteed republic and senators, which he'd have two 507 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 4: more senators so when it's been tied and well it 508 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 4: wouldn't be tied, he got two extra senators plus the 509 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 4: vice president and turned to both blue out of just stupidity, 510 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 4: I mean, just uh. 511 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: The fact that he gets a pass for that is. 512 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: Amazing, and he might accomplish the super human achievement of 513 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: turning Texas one of Texas's seats blue in the Senate 514 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 1: because he did this last minute endorsement of Ken Paxton, 515 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: who's the attorney general. He's half a dozen sorts of 516 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: crooked and company. He's been impeached by his own party, 517 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: and he got rid of John Cornan, who's been voting 518 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: along with the Trump agenda. Well, he's trying to get 519 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 1: rid of Cornan in favorite Paxton. Corn has been a 520 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: reliable conservative vote. He's voted with Trump over and over 521 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: and over again. But as the Wall Street Journal Editorial 522 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: Board points out, Trump chose to ignore Majority Leader John 523 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: Thune and go along with mister Pacton's supporters in the 524 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: plaintiff's bar who love his lawsuits against business. And you know, 525 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: all politics is personal for Trump, and he explained on 526 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: truth Social Tuesday that mister Cornan quote was not supportive 527 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: of me when times were tough, citing the fact that 528 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: Cornyan was late with a presidential endorsement. 529 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,239 Speaker 4: I don't know, Well, a Senator Cassidy got primaried and 530 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 4: lost the other day. He was one of the what 531 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 4: seven Republican votes to remove Trump from office after January sixth, 532 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 4: So all of those people are out of office now 533 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 4: that voted to remove Trump from Yeah, and you could 534 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 4: you could make the case that that's not an insane 535 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 4: piece of political retribution. 536 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a pretty strong, you know, making an 537 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: enemy thing. But Corman was just a Corman was just 538 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: a little and endorsing Trump, and Paxton again licked his 539 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 1: boots more thoroughly. It's just terrible. 540 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 2: That's a good point. 541 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 4: I don't know why I hadn't thought about that, But 542 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 4: the whole Senator Cassidy who voted to you know, guilty 543 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 4: basically in the impeachment of Donald Trump. Yeah, I mean, 544 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 4: so the media is presenting that is just horrific that 545 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 4: Trump ran somebody against him, But it is somebody who's 546 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 4: trying to end your career. So you being against them 547 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 4: and wanting them gone only makes political sense. Even though 548 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 4: I tend to agree with Cassidy's vote on that. That 549 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 4: was the j six one, right, Yeah, the January sixth trial, 550 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 4: the actual Yeah, the only good news. And I don't 551 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 4: follow this midterm stuff hardly at all. If you want 552 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 4: to do that's if that's why you want to spend 553 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 4: your hours on Earth, feel free. I'm not going to 554 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 4: spend my life on this stuff. But I will listen 555 00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 4: to some podcasts where they talk about it a little bit. 556 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 4: And I was listening to Gusts the other day, and 557 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 4: I've heard several people say that across the country. 558 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 2: This is kind of. 559 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 4: Like during the Tea Party fever back in twenty ten, 560 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 4: where Republicans ran a bunch of horrible candidates because they 561 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 4: declared themselves tea party people. I was we were tea 562 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 4: party people. We spoke at rallies. I was on board 563 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 4: with the overall general national message. 564 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: Sure till the drifters moved in. But people got so caught. 565 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 2: Up in it. If somebody ran against a. 566 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 4: Like a you know, primary to somebody or whatever, because 567 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 4: I'm a Tea Party guy, and everybody voted for him 568 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 4: because we're all in favor of the Tea Party thing, 569 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 4: and some horrible candidates that ended up losing some once again, 570 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,200 Speaker 4: very winnable seats got lost because of these bad candidates. 571 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 4: The Democrats are repeating that now, according to the people 572 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 4: I listened to all across the country running like woke 573 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 4: nonsense pro trans this and that and all kinds of 574 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 4: open border stuff, that they're gonna lose win seats for 575 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 4: Democrats by going into Lombists in some cases. Yeah, so 576 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 4: that's the good news if you lean Republican, I. 577 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: Guess good good. Yeah. 578 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 4: In fact, Mark Alprin said, the idea that the House 579 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 4: is absolutely gonna go the way of the Democrats is 580 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 4: no longer true. Still the most likely result, but it's 581 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 4: much closer than it was a month or. 582 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: So ago unless the Republicans completely screw it up, and 583 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: they will, and. 584 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 4: There's a hell of a lot of things that are 585 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 4: going to happen between now November, including a war that 586 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 4: will probably end one way or another. 587 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 2: You know, in a way we like her away, don't. 588 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 2: We will finish strong next stage. 589 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: Letterman, one of your last guests. Letterman was our last guest, 590 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: very last, very last guest. 591 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 2: He said to me something very profound. 592 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 4: He said, don't confuse cancelation with failure. 593 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: And I thought that was profound. He said, don't don't 594 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 1: cancelation with failure. But then he said, but in this case, 595 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: it is also a failure. 596 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 2: That's a very Letterman thing. 597 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it is. 598 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 2: H That was Jon Stewart on Colbert last night. He was, 599 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 2: is this Colbert's last week this week? 600 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's got his tomorrow's last Yeah, last show tomorrow. 601 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 4: And so uh Colbert is uh you know, he took 602 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 4: over from Letterman, and Letterman went over from NBC to 603 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 4: CBS back in the day, and it was like a 604 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 4: really really big deal because those shows still brought in 605 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 4: tons of audiences and tons of money at the time, 606 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 4: and as before they became political, and Letterman was like 607 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 4: the biggest thing ever. Anyway, So Letterman was on Friday 608 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 4: Night with Colbert and complaining about CBS because I mean, 609 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 4: he revamped the Ed Sullivan Theater for his and it's 610 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 4: still he still feels like, you know, he's some ownership 611 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 4: in that time slot in that show. And anyway, he 612 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 4: was angry at CBS and everything like that. They took 613 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 4: a bunch of the furniture up on the roof and 614 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 4: throw it off the roof of the street. 615 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 2: Do you see any of the video of that. 616 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 4: It's such a classic old timey eighties Letterman thing to do, 617 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 4: to take the CBS chairs and tables and. 618 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 2: Throw them off the roof, watch them smash onto the 619 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 2: street below. Oh, that was funny. 620 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 4: God Letterman back in the day. If you missed that, 621 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 4: you're too young or whatever, that was so amazing. Letterman 622 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 4: of the eighties was amazing. Yeah, a different time though. Yeah, 623 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 4: when it was just it just chokes and celebrities and 624 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 4: fun and snark and stuff. But it had nothing to 625 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 4: do with hateful politics. Yeah, they You wouldn't do that. No, 626 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to dirty yourself in it. 627 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 2: And your audience wouldn't have been interested. 628 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: They'd have been bored to tears by that, right. 629 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. 630 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: If he had read themselves as their politics all the time. 631 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 2: No, Letterman in the eighties saying I've got house members 632 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 2: so and so on. You'd be like, what why his 633 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 2: final thoughts? 634 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 6: News so well comments and tins yas closure for the show. 635 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 1: Is they were directed by Paul Shaffer. 636 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 2: Here's your final thoughts, Joe Getty. 637 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,319 Speaker 1: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the 638 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: crew to wrap up the show for the day. There 639 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: is Michaelangelow pressing the buttons. Michael, what's your final thought? 640 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, I still missed the early early Letterman shows and 641 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 5: also Conan O'Brien's staring contest with Andy Richter. 642 00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: They just stary shuts it down simpler times. Yes, Jack, 643 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: a final thought. 644 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 2: For us, and if you have any interest in that. 645 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 4: I read the book as a big Letterman fan, old 646 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,320 Speaker 4: Letterman fan from the early days, the last King of 647 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 4: Late Night, fantastic book about his rye and behind the 648 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 4: scenes was so interesting. 649 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna seed my final thought to the great 650 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: hl Menka and the only proper way to look at 651 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: a politician is down. 652 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 4: I'd say that is accurate ninety nine times out. 653 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 2: Of one hundred. 654 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:21,959 Speaker 1: So ten and tomorrow for an update on Punched the Monkey. 655 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 2: Let's listen to that is that a flute. Can you 656 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 2: crank that up a little, Michael? Is that actually a flute? 657 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 2: Oh yeah? 658 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: Or is it an organ voice that's supposed to sound 659 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: like a flute. 660 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. I often get fooled by like a shell. 661 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 1: There was a slide up that sounded like a real 662 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: flute to me. 663 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty rap Radio. 664 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,520 Speaker 1: Four Worthday, Welcome to Is that a flute? 665 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:54,240 Speaker 2: Guys? 666 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 1: So many people who thanks so a little time. 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