Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe Caddy, I'm strong and Jettie and he
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Eddie.
Speaker 3: I'm going over the president. Joe Batten. Something that you're
Speaker 3: keeping your glovebox.
Speaker 2: I like to buy a vow.
Speaker 1: That is.
Speaker 2: That's the wrong game. Plea, Come on, Conan, what are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 1: It's me.
Speaker 2: I'm still the president. I'm Joe. I may be older.
Speaker 2: I'll beat the hell out of you. I'll pop you.
Speaker 2: I'll give you an uncle sandwich. You know how to
Speaker 2: do it. I can make sandwiches. And guess what, here's
Speaker 2: the deal. I'm not the old one now. Trump is
Speaker 2: the only difference.
Speaker 4: I know when to walk away about six months too late?
Speaker 2: Okay, show me whatever that was? Oh man, that was
Speaker 2: the answer.
Speaker 5: So bad.
Speaker 2: They gave you a double X.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: So once again, if you didn't watch Sara High Live,
Speaker 4: Dana Carvey there went to his blank stare like when
Speaker 4: Biden locks up. But this week they cut away immediately
Speaker 4: with the camera. They didn't hang on that. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: I think it's interesting. They didn't tell Carvey to stop,
Speaker 4: but they cut away from it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you nailed it earlier, the great, the
Speaker 1: legendary Dana Carvey. They don't want to step on his bit,
Speaker 1: like tell him not to do it, but they just
Speaker 1: cut away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hmmm yeah.
Speaker 1: If you didn't watch it, and a lot of y'all
Speaker 1: don't it. It was unsparing in its mockery of Kamala
Speaker 1: and Walls and Joe Biden. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, which good.
Speaker 1: So I point this out just because I think, and
Speaker 1: there's there's an old joke that war is how Americans
Speaker 1: learned geography, and Africa is more than simmering. It's boiling
Speaker 1: with violence and extremism and instability. I mean, just to
Speaker 1: give you an idea, welcome to you. What's up with Africa?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Indeed, I can't believe that this song
Speaker 2: made a comeback. I hated it when it originally came out.
Speaker 1: Don't bless the rains down in Africa. You're a monster.
Speaker 1: I've loved it since the first time I heard it.
Speaker 1: This is one of our great points of disagreements.
Speaker 2: I've always hated it and how can you dislike that hook?
Speaker 2: Dorminy's Frat Rock loves it. Though it's hugely popular among
Speaker 2: my college kids. How can it not be. It's a
Speaker 2: great song. Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: So and I realize you're going to be atial Jino
Speaker 1: about twenty two seconds into this, you're gonna be thinking
Speaker 1: where's he going with this?
Speaker 2: And that's kind of the point.
Speaker 1: A surprise deal that could allow Ethiopia to base warships
Speaker 1: in a breakaway region of Somalia is stoking tensions throughout
Speaker 1: a corner of Africa already ablaze with militant violence. Under
Speaker 1: the agreement, Somaliland, which is an independent, self declared state
Speaker 1: within Somalia's recognized borders, they would grant landlocked Ethiopia the
Speaker 1: rights to naval and commercial port facilities on the Red Sea.
Speaker 4: So did Somaliland do what northern Californian part of Oregon
Speaker 4: been wanting to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did a state of Jefferson. Yeah exactly, although
Speaker 1: with a hell of a lot of blood letting. So
Speaker 1: in return, Ethiopia would be the first country in the
Speaker 1: world to recognize Somaliland is actually its own country, an
Speaker 1: independent state. Obviously, this is angered Somalia. International players from
Speaker 1: Cairo to Washington are getting involved. Let's see, Egypt is
Speaker 1: furious over a giant dam Ethiopia built on the Blue Nile?
Speaker 1: Are there two niles? The Blue Nile? Blue Nile sounds
Speaker 1: like a good I don't know, liquor.
Speaker 4: This is like what they're doing with the moons. Got
Speaker 4: the Harvest supermoon and all the different moons. Now we
Speaker 4: got different niles.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so Egypt is so pissed off about this
Speaker 1: giant dam. They've joined Somalia's camp and delivered a shipload
Speaker 1: of artillery and anti tank weapons to Somalia. The US,
Speaker 1: which has four hundred and fifty commandos and defense personnel
Speaker 1: stationed in Somalia, how many knew that? As I mentioned
Speaker 1: referred to last hour to advise local troops. But advise, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard from guys who've come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Often the advising is shoot like this, bam bam, bam,
Speaker 1: bam bam as they exchange fire. Anyway, they're advising local
Speaker 1: troops fighting al Shabab and the Islamic State. The US
Speaker 1: is worried that this battle is distracting Mogadishu from the
Speaker 1: eighteen year old counter insurgency war.
Speaker 2: Easy to breeze through that sentence.
Speaker 1: Eighteen years now they've been fighting various Islamist lunatic groups.
Speaker 2: Isn't that something?
Speaker 4: There are so many parts of the world, A lot
Speaker 4: of them in Africa, most of them in Africa where
Speaker 4: it's like those apocalyptic movies, yes that you watch, where
Speaker 4: it's just but worse. Yeah, the human suffering.
Speaker 1: Very few of those apocalyptic movies show children being machetied
Speaker 1: to death, for instance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the whole world could become that way easily if
Speaker 4: you don't have oh yeah, you know, oh yeah, the
Speaker 4: natural tendency is toward chaos. In August, militants launched a
Speaker 4: suicide attack on Mogadishu's Lido Beach, killing thirty seven civilians
Speaker 4: and injuring more than two hundred and ten. Did you
Speaker 4: even hear about that?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 1: Might have, you know, kind of passed on your internet feed.
Speaker 1: Small force of Islamic state fighters is also gaining strength. Okay,
Speaker 1: Western officials believe Yemen based who the militis, Oh, we're
Speaker 1: in Yemen now, who have been launching missiles at shipping
Speaker 1: in the Red Sea purportedly to support the Palestinians, have
Speaker 1: made contact with al Shabab, which is a bit of
Speaker 1: a nightmare scenario.
Speaker 4: All the college kids marching in the street about these
Speaker 4: horrors in Africa.
Speaker 1: Too, not so much so providing various militants with armed
Speaker 1: drones that might enable al Shabab to mount deadlier attacks
Speaker 1: on us and allied positions in Somalia. Now, we haven't
Speaker 1: even mentioned Eritrea, which split off from Thiopia after a
Speaker 1: thirty year freaking civil war, taking Ethiopia's only seacoast with it.
Speaker 1: So Ethiopia needs the Somaliland sea coast that used to
Speaker 1: be Somalia's sea coast because Eritrea shot and killed enough
Speaker 1: people that they split off to clear their own damn country.
Speaker 1: None of this is fully settled, and everybody's ready to
Speaker 1: start slaughtering each other as quickly as possible if they can.
Speaker 1: They mentioned that Somali and Somali Land actually were united
Speaker 1: when Somalia got its independence in nineteen sixty, but they
Speaker 1: fell out when Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Bar oversaw the
Speaker 1: slaughter of tens of thousands of Somali Landers in the
Speaker 1: late nineteen eighties.
Speaker 2: I have a narrow Eritrea. I have to take a
Speaker 2: pill for it.
Speaker 1: So everybody's familiar with the Great Tutsies and what was
Speaker 1: it in that's right, in Rwanda. Everybody's familiar with that
Speaker 1: one because they made a movie. Well, right, but there's
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people getting slaughtered right now.
Speaker 2: In two or three different conflicts.
Speaker 4: And again, our college campuses are royaled with people protesting
Speaker 4: the variety of the war.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Israel is defending its elf, and they call
Speaker 1: it a genocide even though it's nothing like that. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the problem with all of this is, of course that
Speaker 1: China is trying to take advantage and raise its geopolitical
Speaker 1: power to wield against us, and the idea of just
Speaker 1: staying at home and letting Africa go to hell is
Speaker 1: not a practical one, especially because the world is so tiny. Now,
Speaker 1: you got some militant group like al Shabab. The moment
Speaker 1: they can strike the US, they'll do it.
Speaker 4: Sure, it's not appreciated enough that the whole world could
Speaker 4: look like Africa. Yes, in one hundred years, if you
Speaker 4: don't still have a US World Order, led World Order,
Speaker 4: or Europe or Western civilization or somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, every part of the world has looked like Africa
Speaker 1: more or less at some point. Sure, until some great
Speaker 1: power said y'all are going to settle down, or we'll
Speaker 1: kill you.
Speaker 2: Quicker than those guys can. Whether it's Rome or.
Speaker 4: Various Chinese princedoms, prince whatever they call them.
Speaker 1: Ottoman Empire invited the foot rest. Yeah, lots and lots
Speaker 1: of inventeds.
Speaker 2: Did I say invited? I'm an invented. That was close? Yeah,
Speaker 2: got Yeah. That whole thing, the whole Africa thing is fascinating. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the state of human kind.
Speaker 1: Uh. They would tell you in the universities that's because
Speaker 1: of colonialism, settler colonialism, and they're not completely wrong, but
Speaker 1: they way overstated. And that's what's up with Africa.
Speaker 4: It sounds a lot scharier in the song the harmony
Speaker 4: right here, because a harmony takes over the melody.
Speaker 2: It's this brilliant songwriting. Bless You've gotta.
Speaker 1: Bless the rings down in Africa, or you'll get more violence.
Speaker 2: I rest my case, We'll use rape as a weapon
Speaker 2: down in Africa. Is that one of the lyrics?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 1: Na Geez's really grim man grim.
Speaker 4: It was the one thing I want to jamming synthesizer
Speaker 4: before he took a break.
Speaker 2: Oh, I get this is our teas. This is a
Speaker 2: good teas.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm happy when this happens that it turns
Speaker 4: out that y'all all, y'all Americans, human beings are paying
Speaker 4: enough attention that you get this result. Gallup shows a
Speaker 4: record low approval and they've been doing this for many,
Speaker 4: many decades. Record low approval of the media in terms
Speaker 4: of believing what they tell you. Yeah, that ain't good,
Speaker 4: but it's accurate. It's heartening, isn't it to see that
Speaker 4: people perceive.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 4: It is heartening that people understand that it's true. It's bad,
Speaker 4: that it's actually happening, very bad.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm beyond the point of wishing things were better. I
Speaker 1: just want people to understand so they can join us
Speaker 1: in the fight.
Speaker 4: Some of them are just amazing that and other stuff
Speaker 4: on the way.
Speaker 3: Okay, don't let the people survey top six answers on
Speaker 3: the board name something that you're keeping your glove compartment,
Speaker 3: oh dp, Harris Steve.
Speaker 6: Look, I was raised in a middle class family.
Speaker 2: All right, Oh, here we go.
Speaker 6: Okay. My mother raised my sister and me, all right,
Speaker 6: she worked hard and saved up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, and we had a second mother too.
Speaker 3: Okay, did that mother have a global compartment?
Speaker 6: A small business? Owner named Miss Shelton.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got that something that you keep in your
Speaker 3: local apartment.
Speaker 6: Oh a glock? See if a big old clock? Oh oh.
Speaker 2: Stamp? Okay, so you strapped like that?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Show me the blip black wicket.
Speaker 3: Number two answer the Democrats is controlling the boards.
Speaker 2: That's from the opening Saturday Night Life.
Speaker 4: There's not a chance that the people running Kamala Harris's
Speaker 4: campaign don't watch Saturday Night Live for q's m or
Speaker 4: or just watch it in general, but watch it for q's.
Speaker 2: You know, what's their take on things?
Speaker 4: Do they do they watch that and think, oh, damn,
Speaker 4: we've done the whole middle class family thing too much?
Speaker 4: Or do think they think perfect, We've hit it enough times.
Speaker 4: It's like advertising. I remember it in radio. We used
Speaker 4: to complain to our bosses, I can't stand this concert
Speaker 4: promo that we're running.
Speaker 2: It's killing me. When you're tired of it, the listener
Speaker 2: has just heard it for the first time, just comprehended it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So is that the way they steal question?
Speaker 4: I wonder if the campaign people think good, we've we've
Speaker 4: we've got that solidly in people's minds that you come
Speaker 4: from a middle class fan.
Speaker 2: What I want to know.
Speaker 1: Is is blip bland and blicky?
Speaker 2: I don't know a known term.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it made me laugh, made me laugh.
Speaker 4: I love the way they portray her husband too. The
Speaker 4: Andy Samberg kind of just really weak guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, spineless.
Speaker 4: That's awesome. If she wins, I hope that hangs around.
Speaker 4: This is not shocking.
Speaker 2: Well, isn't he the guy who allegedly slapped down a girlfriend?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, that's a contrasting image.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good point.
Speaker 4: Confidence in the media has fallen to a new low.
Speaker 4: According to Gallup, who has been asking this question for
Speaker 4: a very long time. New polling shows a record low
Speaker 4: thirty one percent of adults have a great deal or
Speaker 4: fair amount of confidence in the media to report the news.
Speaker 2: Oh that includes fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the flip side of it is amazing. The biggest number,
Speaker 4: what they call the plurality. Thirty six percent have no
Speaker 4: trust at all in newspaper, television and radio outlets. Thirty
Speaker 4: six percent zero trust, yeah, and then another thirty three
Speaker 4: percent not very much.
Speaker 2: So if you add zero to not very.
Speaker 4: Much, you're at call it seventy percent at sixty nine
Speaker 4: giggay gg wow. Wow, Well that's about appropriate it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, how do you argue with that? I mean,
Speaker 4: I kind of am. I guess my question would be
Speaker 4: those of you who have some confidence, what is your deal?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm we're both at the point that we're old
Speaker 1: enough that we see the arc of history Jack, which
Speaker 1: bends toward more crap in my experience. But you've got
Speaker 1: a problem, like an awful, dishonest, biased activist media. You
Speaker 1: gotta get through the whole people become aware of it
Speaker 1: stage before you can really get serious about fixing it.
Speaker 1: And whether it's the transgender sports thing, dudes playing in
Speaker 1: women's sports, I'm just gonna start calling it that, or
Speaker 1: awareness of how corrupt the media is. We're at the
Speaker 1: people recognizing it. It's a pretty big problem. So that's encouraging.
Speaker 4: Does that leave a hole for like some of the
Speaker 4: stuff I take in the Dispatch, Mark Halpern's newsletter, people
Speaker 4: that I trust are really really trying hard to get
Speaker 4: it right.
Speaker 1: The Free Press, the Armstrong and Getty Show. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we have a point of view, but we're
Speaker 1: and that's the difference. Sometimes people say, you guys, I
Speaker 1: like you because you're right down the middle. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're avowed conservatives, but try to be fair. I always
Speaker 1: tried to be fair and honest and not pander, which
Speaker 1: I think is fine. If those of not just she
Speaker 1: Devils who moderated the debate, we're to come out.
Speaker 4: That's you being fair and charitable. That's Joe being fair
Speaker 4: and charitable. It's not just she Devils.
Speaker 1: I had a much worse term right there in Beckham,
Speaker 1: a tongue ready to climb out into their front room. Anyway,
Speaker 1: if they came out and said, look, obviously we come
Speaker 1: at this from a progressive point of view, they would
Speaker 1: get partial credit from me. Of course, that's not their job,
Speaker 1: and that's not what they claim to be. They're utterly
Speaker 1: dishonest about it. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well you'd have to come out and say we're
Speaker 4: only going to fact check one side right because we
Speaker 4: hate the other side.
Speaker 1: Well, then why would I watch? And I don't care
Speaker 1: how much she lies, just as long as she beats
Speaker 1: that guy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So let's get started. So we should have played this
Speaker 4: last week when it happened. We didn't get around to it.
Speaker 4: Barack Obama lecture in a bunch of black dudes about
Speaker 4: them not voting for Kamala Harris, like lecturing them like
Speaker 4: they're like.
Speaker 2: He's their dad, shaming them. Yes, and it was in the.
Speaker 4: Hallway outside the event, but he canna he was on camera.
Speaker 4: This was clearly designed to go viral, which it did. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I don't know how. I don't know how male
Speaker 4: black voters reacted to it. I don't have any idea,
Speaker 4: but we'll play that for you coming.
Speaker 2: Up Armstrong and Getty and my numbers with the black
Speaker 2: and especially black men. I love black men. I love them.
Speaker 2: I love them. I have gone through the roof with
Speaker 2: black men, black men.
Speaker 4: Speaking of hammering messages kind of like we were talking
Speaker 4: about earlier with the Kamala Harris. I come from a
Speaker 4: middle class family. I mean, Trump is in the sales
Speaker 4: business and he and he clearly feels like hammering the
Speaker 4: just hammering the phrase over and over and over and
Speaker 4: over again is.
Speaker 2: To make sure is the way to get it to
Speaker 2: stick in people's heads.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Somebody told me that he references that in the Art
Speaker 1: of the Deal. Yeah, the power of repetition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does. I haven't read it.
Speaker 4: And on the whole uh black men thing, which has
Speaker 4: become a bit of a topic, and we're about to
Speaker 4: hear Barack Obama lecturing black men about that. So Democrats
Speaker 4: won the black vote in general, this isn't just men,
Speaker 4: but uh and he's even and it's worse among men
Speaker 4: than women, But among all black voters, Democrats won by
Speaker 4: eighty five in twenty sixteen, Hillary won that vote by
Speaker 4: eighty five points. In twenty twenty, Biden won it by
Speaker 4: eighty one points. Kamala currently leads it by sixty three.
Speaker 4: Now still obviously that's a giant win. But that's a
Speaker 4: twenty two point drop, yeah, from.
Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen, and an unmistakable trend. And when you're dealing
Speaker 1: with something as culturally entrenched as the idea that black
Speaker 1: folks vote for Democrats, the fact that you could unstick
Speaker 1: it that much, that's really significant.
Speaker 4: I gotta believe it's the same issues, whatever they are,
Speaker 4: and we're all guessing that's caused the Hispanic vote to
Speaker 4: turn so much. The New York Times with their analysis
Speaker 4: that Trump's doing better with his Hispanics than any other
Speaker 4: Republican ever, has Kamala Harris is doing worse than a
Speaker 4: Democrat ever has.
Speaker 2: I gotta believe it's the same stuff anyway.
Speaker 4: So Barack Obama gave a speech the other day, big
Speaker 4: one in Pennsylvania in front of a giant crowd. Then
Speaker 4: he was like in the hallway of the arena later
Speaker 4: talking to some black guys. Clearly this was designed to
Speaker 4: go viral. Somebody who's there with the camera out talking,
Speaker 4: you know, recording him. I mean, it's not like he
Speaker 4: got caught. It's not an open mic thing, right, this
Speaker 4: is on purpose.
Speaker 2: We had not yet.
Speaker 5: See the same kinds of energy had turnout in all courts.
Speaker 2: How our neighborhoods, and to get musicism solve.
Speaker 5: Now, I also want to say that that seems to
Speaker 5: be more pronounced with the brothers. So if you don't
Speaker 5: mind just for a second, I'm gonna speak to y'all
Speaker 5: and say that when you have a choice that is
Speaker 5: this clean. And on one hand, you have somebody who
Speaker 5: grew up like you, knows you went to college, would
Speaker 5: you understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes
Speaker 5: from those experiences.
Speaker 2: Of living in Montreal.
Speaker 4: Well, he goes on to say, and I thought that's
Speaker 4: actually what the clip was going to be. He goes
Speaker 4: on to say, basically, I'm disappointed in you? What's wrong
Speaker 4: with you? Come on, get your act together, I mean,
Speaker 4: like really lecturing tone.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and that part about it's because some of
Speaker 1: y'all aren't good with a woman being president.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we actually will have to grab that because that's
Speaker 4: the whole point. I mean, yeah, so you won't vote
Speaker 4: for a woman? I am disappointed in you?
Speaker 2: What yeah?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Wow? I can't believe that.
Speaker 4: He immediately assumes that if black men aren't voting for
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris, it's because they won't they don't believe a
Speaker 4: woman should be president.
Speaker 2: A few dude, it would be my thought.
Speaker 4: Wow, I could have all kinds of reasons for choosing
Speaker 4: one candidate over another, got nothing to do with whether
Speaker 4: it's a woman or not. But you're smart, Harvard former
Speaker 4: president godfather is here to tell you the only reason
Speaker 4: you'd vote against her is because you're sexist, and you're
Speaker 4: too dumb to.
Speaker 2: Overcome that argument.
Speaker 1: And then that's the argument essentially, because for me to
Speaker 1: fall for that, I would have to be so easily
Speaker 1: cowed that any any accusation whatsoever would change my mind.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'll do what you say, or I'm so
Speaker 1: dumb I can't think a policy.
Speaker 2: So that's an incredibly insulting argument.
Speaker 4: All right, and then throw in a dose of I'm
Speaker 4: disappointed in you or you're letting me down.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, whatever, Yeah, sorry. I was amazed by that.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: And like I said, I really think they put that
Speaker 4: out there to go viral. I mean, they wanted to
Speaker 4: be seen in all quarters, and I thought it was
Speaker 4: I generally think Barack Obama is, you know, your top
Speaker 4: tier of politicians.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a horrible look.
Speaker 1: I think he is post needing anything from anybody, and
Speaker 1: he has never lacked for confidence. No, but the very
Speaker 1: very pleased with himself to the point of being insufferably
Speaker 1: smug at times. And now he doesn't have to pretend otherwise. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we're only seeing the beginning of the brand
Speaker 1: new I'm better than you, I'm better than everybody.
Speaker 2: I am a god.
Speaker 1: Part of a portion of Barack Obama's life.
Speaker 4: What what is what will the left do if Trump
Speaker 4: wins and it's with you know, the biggest chunk of
Speaker 4: black and Hispanic votes that any Republicans ever gotten and
Speaker 4: the smallest group that any.
Speaker 2: Democrats have been gone?
Speaker 4: What are they gonna what are you gonna do with
Speaker 4: that for your autopsy on the left after the election,
Speaker 4: You're probably.
Speaker 1: Going to do a fair amount of polling to figure
Speaker 1: out why that is, obviously, and when they discover it
Speaker 1: is the far left madness, they will attempt to rein
Speaker 1: it in and soft pedal it. But the problem is
Speaker 1: they didn't create the monster. They're just trying to win
Speaker 1: its votes. And so if the Democratic Party turns against
Speaker 1: the entire education establishment of the US and a lot
Speaker 1: of the media who believe what they learned at Columbia
Speaker 1: Journalism or whatever, it's going to.
Speaker 2: Be a war for the ages and some of the issues.
Speaker 4: Somebody on the text line pointed out the abortion issue,
Speaker 4: which is Kamala Harris feels like that's her, you know,
Speaker 4: biggest strength as the abortant edition.
Speaker 2: A lot of the Hispanic vote ain't down with that.
Speaker 1: No, certainly not up until the moment of conception or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, birth and beyond if it's a botched abortion.
Speaker 2: No, they don't like that a bit.
Speaker 4: God, this reminds me of a conversation I had with
Speaker 4: somebody over the weekend trying to figure out whether I
Speaker 4: want to go here or not. If Michelangelo is here.
Speaker 4: What would he say, go ahead?
Speaker 2: Do it makes you grin?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I don't know if this would make you a grin.
Speaker 2: I should think this.
Speaker 1: If it improves the show, let it flow.
Speaker 4: It doesn't look favorably upon the Mormon religion, oh, which
Speaker 4: I I've always been pro. But I talked to somebody
Speaker 4: who would know, as they were a Mormon for twenty
Speaker 4: years married to a a Mormon gentleman who was gay
Speaker 4: but hiding it. Finally came out after twenty years of
Speaker 4: marriage and explained why he had no interest in her
Speaker 4: for twenty years. That's painful, but she became a Mormon
Speaker 4: to get married to the guy. And the questions about
Speaker 4: whether you've ever masturbated and how you went about masturbating
Speaker 4: and them writing it down?
Speaker 1: Do you mean like today? You mean on the way
Speaker 1: to work, like I didn't, I know nothing about it.
Speaker 2: I didn't neither.
Speaker 4: I didn't either. And they got married in the big
Speaker 4: Temple and everything. I mean, just you know that, the whole,
Speaker 4: the whole. Not I'm not talking about like some of
Speaker 4: those little enclaves in Utah where people have eight y
Speaker 4: you know, like the factions of oarm. This was like
Speaker 4: mainstream and I was shocked by this, and and and
Speaker 4: and then tell me a story.
Speaker 2: I gotta be vague here.
Speaker 4: I hope I don't get anybody in trouble, but I
Speaker 4: was shocked by all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Dude who he and his wife.
Speaker 4: Their divorce got married anyway, he was asked if he
Speaker 4: had masturbated, and he said yes and got excommunicated, and
Speaker 4: it had spent the last couple of years working his
Speaker 4: way back into the church.
Speaker 2: Wow, so that they can get married in the church. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: I know. Wow.
Speaker 1: Huh. Now that's a strict regulation there.
Speaker 4: My only experience with Mormon families Mormon religion has been
Speaker 4: one hundred percent positive, like the like seriously like best
Speaker 4: people I've ever been around, like something to model your
Speaker 4: life after, prize the family. So I only know this
Speaker 4: anecdotal stuff that sounds yes, Hanson, you feel like I
Speaker 4: just I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: I should have said if they call it a sin,
Speaker 2: I leave it in. That's now I feel like I
Speaker 2: screwed up, So you grin leave it. But if called
Speaker 2: that is, and don't leave it, but put it in
Speaker 2: the bin.
Speaker 4: If anybody can speak to whether or not that's like
Speaker 4: common or is this just like somebody that was off
Speaker 4: the reservation, wacky?
Speaker 1: But in telling that story, I have no idea, and
Speaker 1: I'm intensely uncomfortable with this.
Speaker 2: I am too well, Okay, explain why you're intensely uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 1: I if I am going to criticize or make sport
Speaker 1: or whatever of a religious doctrine, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure I have the facts right. Otherwise I'm just hurting
Speaker 1: people's feelings in an unjustifiable way. Like I was very
Speaker 1: very careful about making sure I was on solid ground
Speaker 1: talking about Islam and radical Islam, because there are plenty
Speaker 1: of Muslim people who viewed as a personal faith that
Speaker 1: the whole political quest domination aspect of Islam, the fundamentalist
Speaker 1: part of it. A lot of people don't embrace that,
Speaker 1: and I have no argument with them at all. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot within Islam that is incompatible with a
Speaker 1: peaceful world, fundamentalist Islam in my opinion, And I'm right.
Speaker 4: I tell you, I was talking to these successful, normal
Speaker 4: people we're telling this story, yeah, and I was like,
Speaker 4: mouth open.
Speaker 1: Well, the Catholic Church was staunchly against self pleasurement. You know,
Speaker 1: during a lot of the twentieth century, the boys were
Speaker 1: taught it would make them go blind. Yeah, but anybody
Speaker 1: saying that now in.
Speaker 2: The Catholic Church, I don't not as much. This was now.
Speaker 4: This is like in like two years ago, you get
Speaker 4: kicked out of church because I just thought of a
Speaker 4: really inappropriate change. It just seems so crazy. It seems
Speaker 4: crazy to me that you'd ever answered the question, why
Speaker 4: would I tell you?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I can't even imagine answering that question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about you handle your deal your life and
Speaker 1: how you handle sex and sexuality with your partner, who
Speaker 1: is very different than mine. Everybody's a little different, And yeah,
Speaker 1: why don't we just worry about other stuff? Some people
Speaker 1: think that is somehow fundamental to sin and self, you know, pleasure. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a sin, that's an indulgence. It's a being undisciplined.
Speaker 1: And see that I don't get.
Speaker 2: I get.
Speaker 4: I get some of the stuff, like the ungodly, the
Speaker 4: hardcore sex before marriage.
Speaker 2: You're not going to accomplish it. But I understand the reason.
Speaker 4: There's all kinds of ways you can screw up your
Speaker 4: life forever by you know, getting involved in too much
Speaker 4: sex before marriage. And get somebody pregnantllity sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: But I'm not sure about the masturbating part. I don't
Speaker 4: understand where's the crime there.
Speaker 2: It's has to do with lust. I think actualization. I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 4: See like on that I would be I'd be fine
Speaker 4: with lecturing people about the evils of internet porn.
Speaker 2: I'd be fine with that, yeah, because it is awful.
Speaker 2: It's terrible for you. But just you know, first of all,
Speaker 2: if so.
Speaker 4: You're telling me, all the guys are going in there
Speaker 4: and saying no or they get excommunity.
Speaker 2: Then they're lying. Well, true, So what have you accomplished? Right?
Speaker 2: That's the old joke.
Speaker 1: Seventy percent of men say they have master made in
Speaker 1: thirty percent or liars anyway, So this is this is
Speaker 1: I would rather talk about Mogadishu's port deal with.
Speaker 2: The I'm sure.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get a bunch of texts about this
Speaker 4: because I'm fascinated by this. I had never heard that
Speaker 4: in my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish.
Speaker 1: I'd taken a comparative religions class in college.
Speaker 2: I never did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if in college would be the
Speaker 4: best place to get the straight scoop.
Speaker 2: That's your professor. Probably every single religion he was talking.
Speaker 2: He's gotten that idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, we will finish strong our text line, Yeah,
Speaker 4: join in text line four one, five, two, nine five
Speaker 4: k FTC will finish strong, next strong.
Speaker 7: According to a new study, South Burlington, Vermont, is the
Speaker 7: safest city in the country, while the least safe city
Speaker 7: is Diddy freak Off Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a good joke. Yeah, they're a couple to trade.
Speaker 2: Did he jokes? And nothing he did was funny.
Speaker 1: But boy, the whole he's clearly guilty attitude is settled
Speaker 1: across the land.
Speaker 4: I gotta assume if you engage in a freak off
Speaker 4: you get excommunicated. For many churches, yes, most so on
Speaker 4: that topic, which I'm not going to restate, please, but
Speaker 4: we got a number of texts, mostly from the that's
Speaker 4: the craziest thing I've ever heard. I've been in the
Speaker 4: church my whole life. My husband's a bishop, I'm a bishop.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 4: That's a bunch of crap. You shouldn't be saying it.
Speaker 4: Got a handful though, a couple, only well a handful
Speaker 4: two two people like yes I am in the church
Speaker 4: or I was in the church, and that's absolutely true.
Speaker 4: I don't have the slightest idea other than what I
Speaker 4: heard from successful normal people who this happened to me,
Speaker 4: happened to them.
Speaker 2: So this is what I'd like to hear.
Speaker 4: If you're knowledgeable about this, explain to me why they
Speaker 4: would have had that experience, because I believe their experience,
Speaker 4: Like is it a weird like offshoot, or is it
Speaker 4: like one crazy bishop just like they're bad priests, or sure,
Speaker 4: what do you think happened there?
Speaker 2: On text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 4: I'm pro organized religion, so I'm never trying to bring
Speaker 4: down any organized religion.
Speaker 2: Just be good at what you do.
Speaker 1: A couple of quick notes left this out last week,
Speaker 1: and I was kicking myself for it over the weekend
Speaker 1: that whole flap at CBS News where Tony Decouple dared
Speaker 1: to do journalism and challenge one of the saints of
Speaker 1: the left, Tana Hashi you pronounce it turns out coats
Speaker 1: how you get out of his anyway? That one of
Speaker 1: the things the network brass did was they said they
Speaker 1: were bringing in a mental health expert DEI strategist and
Speaker 1: trauma trainer, a trauma.
Speaker 4: Trainer to help people deal with the regular interview, right,
Speaker 4: just good solid journalism, challenging a one sided view.
Speaker 1: But then it turned out that this guy, doctor Donald Grant,
Speaker 1: who's the anti racist type, is completely racist, because that's
Speaker 1: what anti racism is. It's racism, but good racism. For instance,
Speaker 1: he posted an altered cover of the classic Uncle Tom's
Speaker 1: Cabin with Tim Scott's face on it, Uncle Tim's Cabin.
Speaker 2: He called it.
Speaker 1: That's fair calling Tim Scott an Uncle Tom for being
Speaker 1: a Republican. So CBS quickly shuffled their feet, cleared their throat,
Speaker 1: and disinvited the guy.
Speaker 2: I guess, and then I want to throw this in
Speaker 2: real quick. Oh we don't have time.
Speaker 4: We ought to hit it on it to get tomorrow.
Speaker 4: This is a good topic. It's a good topic. And
Speaker 4: and my question still like is this good news or
Speaker 4: bad news?
Speaker 2: Like is this headed the right direction or the wrong direction?
Speaker 2: It's the end of the beginning.
Speaker 4: Okayw Hey, Rocky, what should we pull a final thought
Speaker 4: out of my hat?
Speaker 6: Again?
Speaker 2: That trick never works. Nothing up with sleeve pristo throwback there?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: I like Rocky and bowlwegle you gotta be kind of old,
Speaker 4: remember it. But here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 2: Joe Gedden must get Moose and squirrel.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew,
Speaker 1: beginning with our technical director who is not here, segueing
Speaker 1: over to our esteemed newswoman.
Speaker 2: Who is not available.
Speaker 1: Our technical I'm sorry, our executive producer, Mike Hanson is
Speaker 1: filling in running the board today.
Speaker 2: Hanson, you got a final thought.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure you're angst about Columbus stage, Jack, but for
Speaker 4: a very different reason.
Speaker 2: It was late ericson.
Speaker 7: 'gus never knowing the mad Dagon stooool.
Speaker 2: Anti Viking bias.
Speaker 4: You're right, Jack in final thought, Yes, we are getting
Speaker 4: tons of texts on this particular topic about religion, and
Speaker 4: it sounds like it may be an out of control
Speaker 4: particular bishop in one particular church.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Hmmm, shouldn't that bishop take a meeting?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wowly not wow.
Speaker 1: My final thought was I was completely convinced yesterday I
Speaker 1: was gonna be mugged. I should have told this story
Speaker 1: one percent. I was thinking, oh, man, getting my phone replaced,
Speaker 1: and oh I'm going into but uh, I tried to
Speaker 1: look very mean and angry. The guy looked at me,
Speaker 1: turned around and walked away. Did you do a flying
Speaker 1: scissor kick? I did, but it can neither fly nor scissors,
Speaker 1: so it didn't really come out right. Kind of came
Speaker 1: off with laying down. Yes see tomorrow, God meliss America.
Speaker 2: I am proudly casting my vote from Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine a more beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: Good life, he said, wow, and boom goes to dynamite.
Speaker 4: What now.
Speaker 1: My pro tip of the day is this, let's go
Speaker 1: in particular and you know what, deadly, precise and above
Speaker 1: all surprises.
Speaker 2: And by the way, it's
Speaker 4: Oh girl, baby girl, Great Friday Mother, Armstrong and Geddy