Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 3: And there are a rare few in media who are
Speaker 3: actually standing up for a liberty and be responsible governance
Speaker 3: and media. John Stossel is highly placed among them. Came
Speaker 3: across some work he did the other day his website,
Speaker 3: I believes John stossel dot com. There's all sorts of
Speaker 3: good content there. And if you don't know John Stossel's act,
Speaker 3: it's it's absolutely worth knowing him is He is a
Speaker 3: good egg. He's one of those guys on the rare
Speaker 3: occasions I disagree with him, his opinion is always worth
Speaker 3: hearing because it helps you, you know, wrestle with your
Speaker 3: own and make your own stronger.
Speaker 2: At any rate, this first clip is a.
Speaker 3: Little bit long ish, but there was no natural breaking in,
Speaker 3: and it's very very good talking about the unbelievably dishonest
Speaker 3: media we have right now, which you know it's not
Speaker 3: news to anybody, but I thought he'd put it pretty eloquently.
Speaker 2: We'll start with seventy Michael, have.
Speaker 4: You noticed how some in the media just suck up
Speaker 4: to some politicians.
Speaker 2: I'm struck just in your presence, struck in her presence,
Speaker 2: looking you in the eye, with your passion that you
Speaker 2: were displaying. Republicans are treated differently, if I may.
Speaker 5: Finished this answer, Well, let me just I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go ahead and interrupt you here.
Speaker 2: In the FBI.
Speaker 5: I mean, we have just my question, though, governor, excuse me.
Speaker 4: Aggressive interviews are easy to notice, but some bias is
Speaker 4: more subtle.
Speaker 2: For example, what a great campaign.
Speaker 4: Media have always covered Iowa caucus victory speeches.
Speaker 2: We're gonna want to listen in very very closely, thank
Speaker 2: you all.
Speaker 4: But this year when Trump won, thank you wet, CNN
Speaker 4: cut away from his speech.
Speaker 2: Here he is right now under my voice. You hear
Speaker 2: him repeating his anti immigrant rhetoric. Actually, no, Jake, you
Speaker 2: hear him. We don't.
Speaker 4: CNN wouldn't let us actually listen to Trump and decide
Speaker 4: for ourselves. MSNBC showed one of Trump's speech. Rachel Maddow said, we.
Speaker 2: Will let you know if there's any news made.
Speaker 4: Madows says it's not responsible to broadcast Trump live because
Speaker 4: he lies so much. Wow, we reporters can point that
Speaker 4: out instead of cutting away when he talks. I've repeatedly
Speaker 4: reported on Trump's lies. Trump lies even about unimportant things
Speaker 4: like the crowd at his inauguration.
Speaker 2: The ratings of his TV show. But Biden lies too.
Speaker 2: Here he lies about doing well in law school. Get
Speaker 2: it up in the top half of my class.
Speaker 3: Biden now concedes he did not graduate in the top
Speaker 3: half of his law school class.
Speaker 2: He also lied when he said I.
Speaker 1: Have never discussed if my son were on my brother
Speaker 1: or anyone else having to do with their businesses.
Speaker 5: And that's good stuff right there, and appalling. I'd be
Speaker 5: interested to look into who lies the most and how
Speaker 5: consequential they are. I think Biden's in the in the
Speaker 5: running with Donald Trump for exaggerations or lies, absolutely, but
Speaker 5: they would never consider cutting away from Biden's not involved anymore,
Speaker 5: but back in the day cutting away from his big
Speaker 5: speech because he lies so much.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's appalling you, mainstream media.
Speaker 5: You want to drive Trump's skeptical voters into Trump's arms.
Speaker 2: Keep doing that. God, that's so damned maddening.
Speaker 3: How'd you like Jake Tapper, who I used to think
Speaker 3: more highly of with his well, you hear as his
Speaker 3: anti immigrant rhetoric. Oh yeah, because it's only like, what
Speaker 3: a ten percent or so of the racist, hateful Americans
Speaker 3: who want the border secure?
Speaker 2: Right, Jake?
Speaker 5: Why so between sixty and ninety percent of Americans agree
Speaker 5: with Trump on the border stuff, depending on which question
Speaker 5: you're talking about. But that's anti immigrant rhetoric, So we
Speaker 5: won't even run the speech. That's freaking insane from a
Speaker 5: journalistic standpoint.
Speaker 3: More good stuff from the great John Stossel. Next clip
Speaker 3: seventy one.
Speaker 4: Shouldn't be surprised that the media treat Republicans differently. For
Speaker 4: every Republican in newsrooms, there are ten Democrats. And now
Speaker 4: NPR has actually hired this woman to be its new CEO.
Speaker 4: She not only tweeted Trump's a racist, but during BLM
Speaker 4: looting said sure, looting is counterproductive, but it's fine because
Speaker 4: what they're looting comes from a system of oppression.
Speaker 2: She's now the boss of government funded radio. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yes, wow, yeah, yeah, she that chick is a This
Speaker 3: is far about her when she got hired.
Speaker 2: If you miss it, we're.
Speaker 5: Further down this road than we've been in my lifetime,
Speaker 5: don't you think?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, one hundred percent yeah. Absolutely. Next clip,
Speaker 2: here's another example.
Speaker 5: The governor of Texas refuses to give in to federal law.
Speaker 4: Recently, reporters suddenly got very upset about rule of law.
Speaker 4: The governor of Texas refuses to give.
Speaker 2: In to federal law.
Speaker 4: The media can't believe that Texas politicians put up a
Speaker 4: fence and won't remove it even after the Feds told
Speaker 4: them to. But when it comes to sanctuary cities, the
Speaker 4: tone is very different.
Speaker 6: Communities that shield undocumented immigrants by not reporting offenses to
Speaker 6: immigration enforcement.
Speaker 5: They choose not to follow federal immigration laws.
Speaker 2: They simply choose not to follow the law. They don't
Speaker 2: refuse like Texas does. The governor of Texas refuses to
Speaker 2: give in to federal law.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yep. Egregious and obvious. One more from Ostocles
Speaker 3: is a seventy six Michael.
Speaker 4: Libertarians get trashed, Republicans get interrupted and their speech is
Speaker 4: cut off, but Democrats largely get a pass, even if you.
Speaker 2: Can't tell what they say. Beer brute. Here it is
Speaker 2: used to make to prove Beard in his fine oooh
Speaker 2: Worth riders. Thanks for the great legs, But there is
Speaker 2: some good news today.
Speaker 4: More people ignore leftist media c a n's primetime viewership
Speaker 4: fell behind the history channels. Recently, more people now get
Speaker 4: their news from independent journalists who publishing places like substack
Speaker 4: and YouTube.
Speaker 2: Like us.
Speaker 4: It's a good trend because we're more thoughtful than the
Speaker 4: silly people on TV.
Speaker 2: The chalk and chocolate chip. Nah good, clip good, John Stossel.
Speaker 2: When do they ever ask Donald Trump?
Speaker 5: What did you order? If they get a chance to
Speaker 5: ask him a question outside a restaurant or something, give
Speaker 5: me a break.
Speaker 2: I know who is it that was pointing this out
Speaker 2: from the convention? Oh?
Speaker 5: Mark Halpern in his newsletter, he said, it's just true.
Speaker 5: When reporters see a big player who's a Democrat at
Speaker 5: the convention, they run up. So how do you think
Speaker 5: it's gone so far? If they see a Republican they
Speaker 5: run up?
Speaker 2: You said, JD.
Speaker 5: Vance was right about blah blah blahs.
Speaker 2: Just the way it is. Mm hmm yep. We have
Speaker 2: to be better on the right side of the aisle.
Speaker 2: It just is the world we live in. Is it fair?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Is it honorable? Is it patriotic? No? None of the above,
Speaker 2: And yet it is.
Speaker 5: I realized Biden's well, I keep saying he's no longer anything.
Speaker 5: He's the freaking president of the United States. He's the
Speaker 5: most powerful man on planet Earth. Maybe number two, but
Speaker 5: certainly in the top two. And you know he's an afterthought.
Speaker 5: But anyway, that particular clip of him being indecipherable I
Speaker 5: hadn't heard before.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a goodness, some serious garblage.
Speaker 5: The fact that he would have still been the candidate
Speaker 5: today and for another two months outside of that debate. God,
Speaker 5: I wish I could do the parallel universe where he
Speaker 5: didn't debate until September or October like they normally do, right, right,
Speaker 5: And how the media would still be saying things like
Speaker 5: cheap fakes, I can't keep up with him, or behind
Speaker 5: the scenes, he's better than I've ever seen him. I'd
Speaker 5: still be saying that, and you know, they would.
Speaker 2: Be right right.
Speaker 3: And imagine the panic that would have set in after
Speaker 3: the disastrous debate, because it was inevitable that it would
Speaker 3: be disastrous and his senile.
Speaker 5: And part of the panic was because Kamala Harris was
Speaker 5: a know nothing who couldn't possibly win. But now that's
Speaker 5: all thrown aside. She's the greatest thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wild again.
Speaker 3: If you'd gone into a coma in June and walking
Speaker 3: up now you'd say.
Speaker 2: Wait, what they yet, we're all just supposed to say yes,
Speaker 2: yes with his trade face.
Speaker 5: Since we're probably gonna move away from presidential politics after this,
Speaker 5: I'll say I used to say, I think Trump understands
Speaker 5: the modern moment we're in better than anybody else, certainly
Speaker 5: when he was running against Hillary and maybe against Biden.
Speaker 5: I think right now, and this is none of this
Speaker 5: is good, but I think he realized where we are
Speaker 5: with celebrity culture and what people pay attention to and
Speaker 5: what we don't. I think he just understood that intuitively
Speaker 5: different the Democrats might be onto it now, positions on
Speaker 5: your website, Hey grandpa nice do want interviews?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 5: They might just understand where we are culturally media wise
Speaker 5: in a way that now Trump doesn't quite understand.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: Kamo's campaign isn't studying Bill Clinton. They're studying the Kardashians, right,
Speaker 3: or Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, Michael, people want to be entertained, not informed.
Speaker 5: Don't got time for that or don't or yeah, all
Speaker 5: kinds of different things. Just you know, like my side,
Speaker 5: I don't want to hear any negative the thing about
Speaker 5: my side. So I'm fine with no interview. In fact,
Speaker 5: I've heard people say out loud, I think it's a
Speaker 5: good idea for not doing interviews. It's the most important
Speaker 5: thing is that we defeat Donald Trump. So I'm fine
Speaker 5: with the Democrats are saying this. I'm fine with the
Speaker 5: fact that she has taken no positions because it's that
Speaker 5: important that we beat Trump. Wow, that's where we are.
Speaker 5: She What if she gets elected president without having a
Speaker 5: position on our website or having done an interview? What
Speaker 5: does that say for where we are is the world's
Speaker 5: oldest democracy.
Speaker 3: I hope Lincoln and Douglas rise from their graves and
Speaker 3: rain heavy blows down upon anybody who thinks that way.
Speaker 5: See, I hope people are beaten by skeletons in the street.
Speaker 3: That's your answer, Well, ghosts, you know, ghost scot haunted,
Speaker 3: bipartisan ghosts.
Speaker 5: Though, all right, I was looking for you. You're a
Speaker 5: political science major. I was hoping for more, But.
Speaker 3: No, I want to go with ghost ghostly patriots to
Speaker 3: to to haunt the living.
Speaker 2: Yes, I got at least I have a policy.
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Speaker 6: So it's not pretty good to just see how many
Speaker 6: people are behind us. Caleb Horse went to school with
Speaker 6: the support of the community Monday morning and is left
Speaker 6: wondering if he'll be punished for flying the American flag.
Speaker 6: Corset says he was told last week by adding public
Speaker 6: schools to have the flag off by Monday. Instead, an
Speaker 6: entourage of the Red, white, and Blue showed up beside him.
Speaker 6: The students I talked to told me they haven't heard
Speaker 6: anything about punishment yet and they think with all the support,
Speaker 6: it's not likely.
Speaker 2: One senior I.
Speaker 6: Talk to says it's not over for them and they're
Speaker 6: going to continue flying their flags daily. Right now, it's
Speaker 6: unclear what's next for these students, but they did tell
Speaker 6: me they help. Other students will join in as they
Speaker 6: continue to keep their flags on their trucks.
Speaker 3: First of all, the kid's name is Horsed, not Horse.
Speaker 3: Sounds like he's a character in a child's book Ethan
Speaker 3: Horse and Caleb Horse anyway, So that's Edmund Oklahoma, and
Speaker 3: I will skip to the end. This is brilliant proof
Speaker 3: once again that there is a rot in America's school systems.
Speaker 3: And if you think you live in a red state,
Speaker 3: a red city, whatever your local schools, damn good chance
Speaker 3: they are a deep, deep blue region. Teaching your kids
Speaker 3: you don't occurred to me the way to pitch this
Speaker 3: to you, because I believe this to my heart to
Speaker 3: be true. In fact, I know it to be true.
Speaker 3: Getting the kids is the lynch pin. It is the critical,
Speaker 3: critical part of the progressive plan to take over America
Speaker 3: and to get rid of Western civilization, bring in a
Speaker 3: new Neo Marxist utopia. It is the one indispensable strategy
Speaker 3: that they must be successful at.
Speaker 2: That's the way they look at its.
Speaker 5: Plus the constantly pushing it's had an effect on me,
Speaker 5: Like I talked about when I got back from my vacation,
Speaker 5: driving through thousands of miles of what I would call
Speaker 5: normal America as opposed to the part I live.
Speaker 2: In, it was like.
Speaker 5: It shouldn't have been shocking to me, and it shouldn't
Speaker 5: have made me like slightly weirdly uncomfortable overt displays of
Speaker 5: patriotism or religious belief or whatever. I've been hammered on
Speaker 5: it so often that it's had an effect, even as
Speaker 5: like a grown man who came into it with, you know,
Speaker 5: some solid beliefs. So you're young. Of course it would
Speaker 5: to where it just it would. It would get to
Speaker 5: where un American flag is a little in your face,
Speaker 5: so I probably shouldn't, right.
Speaker 2: So they're in Edmund, Oklahoma, of all places.
Speaker 3: This kid had an American flag on the back of
Speaker 3: his pickup truck, which happens to be red, white and blue,
Speaker 3: and he was told, as you heard, you got till
Speaker 3: Monday to take that off because well, according to an
Speaker 3: Edmund Public Schools spokesperson, students are not allowed to display
Speaker 3: or bring any kind of flag on campus to limit
Speaker 3: distraction and create a safe environment. And because they're progressives
Speaker 3: and neo Marxists, whether they know it or not, they
Speaker 3: do not consider the flag of the United States of
Speaker 3: America to be any different from a Pride flag or
Speaker 3: a you know, Broncos flag or whatever else.
Speaker 5: It's a perfectly good rule with the exclusion of the
Speaker 5: US flag and the state flag of Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Well, how can you make an exception for one flag
Speaker 2: because that's you're anaty or nation. My answer is you're
Speaker 2: an idiot. You know what I'm going with his argument,
Speaker 2: it's better than mine.
Speaker 3: And so instead of taking down the flag, he showed
Speaker 3: up with one hundred or more other trucks in car
Speaker 3: flying American flags a protest there at the school.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 3: In a video posted Monday, and I should have asked
Speaker 3: for this audio. We don't have the audio of Ryan Walters,
Speaker 3: do he?
Speaker 2: I don't think we do. I have praised him lavishly
Speaker 2: in the past.
Speaker 3: He's the Oklahoma state Superintendent of Schools who is an
Speaker 3: avowed saying patriotic conservative, an American. He says, no school
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma should tell students they can't wave an American flag.
Speaker 3: We've had Americans die for that flag, die for students
Speaker 3: to have the right to carry the flag, to wave
Speaker 3: the flag, to be proud of the flag. My department
Speaker 3: right now is working on guidelines that will be issuing
Speaker 3: to districts to ensure that no student is ever targeted
Speaker 3: for having an American flag, and also that our schools
Speaker 3: will promote patriotism. We want our young people to be patriotic,
Speaker 3: we want them to love this country, and we're going
Speaker 3: to continue to support our young people to have the
Speaker 3: greatest understanding of American history in the country and to
Speaker 3: be proud of our country.
Speaker 5: That is so dumb on so many levels. See, we've
Speaker 5: got a government school run by the federal government that
Speaker 5: set the standards and fund the school. But you're not
Speaker 5: allowed to have the flag of that government.
Speaker 3: That's crazy because that's co equals any other symbol or
Speaker 3: flag or sign. You people are stupid. Needs to quote
Speaker 3: my partner or idiots. I don't want to quit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's unbelievable, and I've got so much more information on
Speaker 3: the rot in America's schools, but you know that'll be
Speaker 3: a thing that will certainly continue on.
Speaker 5: There's a short story for you. It doesn't take very long.
Speaker 5: Every parent is worried about this. Family takes their four
Speaker 5: year old to a museum. Kid accidentally smashes a thirty
Speaker 5: five hundred year old priceless jar.
Speaker 2: Doh.
Speaker 5: Four year old just grabs hold of a jar to
Speaker 5: look inside it tips over, smashes into pieces.
Speaker 2: Yesh, you gotta put that thing behind glass or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of cool museums don't because it's kind
Speaker 5: of cool to not have everything sure protecting them behind glass.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's unfortunate. What happened they jailed the kid?
Speaker 2: Arrest him? I don't know, I'd have to read the
Speaker 2: whole thing. And who's got the time?
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Speaker 7: If I love company holiday parties, you can get to
Speaker 7: be with people that you work with all day long
Speaker 7: for more hours, and you get to say I love
Speaker 7: your ugly Christmas sweater and they're like, that's just my
Speaker 7: sweater and you get to be like, hey, remind me,
Speaker 7: do you go buy Steve or Steven?
Speaker 2: And he's like it's Mark.
Speaker 7: And your boss tries to crack a joke and everyone
Speaker 7: around them does the employment laughter like and you get
Speaker 7: to say no work talk, and then you realize that
Speaker 7: you have nothing to talk about, and you get to
Speaker 7: station yourself right in front of the food platter so
Speaker 7: that if you don't want to talk to the person
Speaker 7: standing in front of you anymore, you just shove something
Speaker 7: into your mouth. And at the end of the night
Speaker 7: you get to do an Irish exit where everyone's like,
Speaker 7: where's Paul's he gett us drinks up at the bar. Nope,
Speaker 7: Paul's at home.
Speaker 5: I have had a great, great time at many a
Speaker 5: company Christmas party in my life, like great time. I
Speaker 5: don't know who started the idea that they're miserable, and
Speaker 5: then of course the trend toward well, we can't have
Speaker 5: them anymore because all the awful things that happen. What
Speaker 5: I went to a million Christmas parties one time, something
Speaker 5: that happened and everybody's better for it having happened.
Speaker 2: It was hilarious. Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They ranged from great to okay? Were you hammered at
Speaker 3: some of them? Most of them that were great? Do
Speaker 3: you think?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: I'm sure I was, But they but they used to
Speaker 5: throw a lot of places I worked through real Christmas
Speaker 5: parties like nice restaurant, nicer than I would have gone
Speaker 5: to on my own. With nicer drinks than I was
Speaker 5: going to get on my own. And then that, at
Speaker 5: least in our industry, dribbled away over time, and then
Speaker 5: over that hole, that whole ridiculousness of it's just too
Speaker 5: dangerous with people getting out of hand and the sexual
Speaker 5: harassment really liability blob right right, So that choked it out.
Speaker 5: That I just happened to run into somebody twice this week,
Speaker 5: two different people who had real company Christmas parties, and
Speaker 5: I thought, okay, those still exists certain certain industries.
Speaker 2: That's that's nice to hear.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you get to see your coworkers in a
Speaker 5: completely different setting and meet their families and have some
Speaker 5: human relationship with them.
Speaker 2: That helps the business. It helps the business, it really does. Yeah. Yep.
Speaker 2: A couple of things for you.
Speaker 5: Rob Schneider, you know Rob Schneider from Sarah Ive way
Speaker 5: back in the day making copies, the copy of Guy
Speaker 5: and then his friends with Adam Sandler, so Adam Sandler
Speaker 5: put him in a whole bunch of his movies, so
Speaker 5: that helped make him richer. Also, Rob Schneider announced he's
Speaker 5: launching a new all woman talk show, which will be
Speaker 5: the opposite of the view and will not shame people
Speaker 5: for their politics. It's supposed to be an all inclusive
Speaker 5: they actually have different points of view.
Speaker 2: The view well, I love that.
Speaker 3: Rob Schneider's a really interesting guy. He's a solid thinker.
Speaker 3: He is good presence online search.
Speaker 5: Him and Bill Maher as he sat in Bill Maher's
Speaker 5: basement and talked for like an hour and a half
Speaker 5: about politics a couple weeks ago is really interesting. The
Speaker 5: Lincoln Project, which I like to bring up just because
Speaker 5: I hate those people so much, is a bunch of
Speaker 5: Republican hacks who decided to be anti Trump and run
Speaker 5: a scam to make money, and a whole bunch of
Speaker 5: you probably are anti Trump, probably gave him money. Never Trump.
Speaker 5: Lincoln Project paid millions in twenty twenty four to companies
Speaker 5: owned by themselves.
Speaker 2: Shocking. Oh wow, that's weird.
Speaker 5: So much of politics, you really need to spend a
Speaker 5: lot of time on any charity or political group of
Speaker 5: any kind to figure out if they're doing what you
Speaker 5: think they're doing with your money, because they appeal to
Speaker 5: your emotion and then they keep a lot of it,
Speaker 5: whether it's Black Lives Matter, the Lincoln Project, Al Sharpen
Speaker 5: what he's trying to do for the guy that dangle
Speaker 5: penny choked or or whatever.
Speaker 3: So many of the packs that ask for your money
Speaker 3: because if you're with Trump like we are, if you
Speaker 3: think Trump is hitler like we do, give twenty dollars
Speaker 3: now and all the relatives are on the payroll and
Speaker 3: they all get rich.
Speaker 2: Yeah, U, this is too long. Better save that for
Speaker 2: next hour.
Speaker 5: Next hour. You say there's another hour, You're darn right
Speaker 5: there is. We do four hours every single day.
Speaker 2: Are you sure?
Speaker 5: If you missed it the podcast Armstrong and getting on demand.
Speaker 5: Go into an all Spanish Catholic Mass tonight, which will
Speaker 5: be interesting. My son's doing it. My son's doing it
Speaker 5: for extra credit in his Spanish class. And uh, I
Speaker 5: have a feeling I'll hear a lot of Spanish Spanish
Speaker 5: Spanish Jesus Spanish Spanish Spanish Jesus. And that's little God. See,
Speaker 5: I didn't even know that word. I know, I know
Speaker 5: very little Spanish unless they say casada or.
Speaker 2: Wow. This is heading in a really objectionable time. For
Speaker 2: some reason, I'm not going to I'm not going to
Speaker 2: understand anything other than Jesus.
Speaker 3: And the Lord is the sombrero over us they'll be
Speaker 3: explaining in Spanish and you'll say, wait a minute, sombrero,
Speaker 3: I get that's good. Uh, you gotta open Google Transfer
Speaker 3: all right, right, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 5: Via condos English God, even when it's in English, a
Speaker 5: Catholic mass is difficult. You gotta like, look around, we
Speaker 5: kneeling now, were standing up. We're not standing up.
Speaker 2: We're standing. They can tell you're an outsider. Then they
Speaker 2: give you the hairy eyeball.
Speaker 5: You know what your cats sitting?
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, my daughter has two absolutely delightful cats. They
Speaker 3: are kind of adolescent age. They haven't quite mellowed out
Speaker 3: into super chill cats lay on top of the sofa
Speaker 3: and just look at you. They still want to play
Speaker 3: a lot and stuff, so they're they're a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: Do they pee on things? That's always my concern if
Speaker 5: I'm watching.
Speaker 2: Anybody, No, no, no, no, they're very very well littered
Speaker 2: boxy train. Naturally.
Speaker 3: The cats do that naturally, really, unless they have some
Speaker 3: sort of problem. But they've been delightful. They're a lot
Speaker 3: of fun. They're so sweet, and I'm not allergic to
Speaker 3: them by some miracle. But Judy and I have agreed
Speaker 3: that like the last evening, I walk the dog, I
Speaker 3: run up, I play with the cats because they need
Speaker 3: some interaction stuff like that. I go downstairs and I
Speaker 3: feed the dog. Then I take a shower, and then
Speaker 3: I blah blah blah. Then I got to go to
Speaker 3: deal with the cats because Judy is out, and and
Speaker 3: then I go out to the garage and this frog
Speaker 3: or toad or something's jumping around.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm living.
Speaker 3: I'm Doctor Doolittle over here. But it's a lot of work,
Speaker 3: it's a lot of responsibility, having two more beasts in
Speaker 3: the house. Yeah, or Paxster is so old and I
Speaker 3: don't know if he's hard at hearing or whatever.
Speaker 2: They don't meow.
Speaker 3: Upstairs because they're the restrict restricted to one upstairs bedroom.
Speaker 3: And they meow and we look at Pastor and he's like,
Speaker 3: what what are you looking at me for? So he's
Speaker 3: totally unaware.
Speaker 5: I'm a pet fan in general, but Jesus, the pet
Speaker 5: thing is just it. It's beyond where it was thirty
Speaker 5: years ago, twenty years ago. It's just And yes, can
Speaker 5: you afford it? Do you have time for it? Does
Speaker 5: your lifestyle allow for this? And the traveling with the pets.
Speaker 5: While I was staying in a hotel over Thanksgiving, nice
Speaker 5: hotel that allows dogs, and most of the people I
Speaker 5: saw having their dogs in the hotel, they looked miserable, trying.
Speaker 2: To deal with it. Is stressed out, stressed out.
Speaker 5: And I saw mom and dad trying to get the
Speaker 5: dog out of the room with the kids, and you
Speaker 5: hold that, you hold the dog, I'll bring them. He's like,
Speaker 5: is this fun for anybody having the dog with you
Speaker 5: on this trip or or would have been just fine
Speaker 5: to have.
Speaker 2: The dog at home or not have a dog.
Speaker 3: You talk about facets of modern life. I don't get
Speaker 3: I love dogs. I love my dog, but he's not
Speaker 3: coming on any damn trip. Sorry, he's not coming to the.
Speaker 2: Store with me.
Speaker 5: I've talked to my son about this. I said, you
Speaker 5: got to get this early in the relationship. I mean,
Speaker 5: are they dog rides in the truck with you wherever
Speaker 5: you go, person sleeps in the bed with you, person
Speaker 5: goes to the restaurant or not? And are you because
Speaker 5: he's a no way and uh, because that's it, that's it.
Speaker 5: That could be a deal breaker because one of you
Speaker 5: has to give on something that's obviously very important to
Speaker 5: you right, animals in the car. I hate it absolutely, Oh.
Speaker 2: Really I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't mind that for some reason, but I just
Speaker 3: the logistics of trying to do things and tend to
Speaker 3: a dog.
Speaker 2: Katie, what the side of this are you on? Are
Speaker 2: you the dog goes everywhere? Person? Oh, my dog has
Speaker 2: a car seat. Sure, that's absolutely fine, But I don't
Speaker 2: want to do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He actually went to a restaurant with us and was
Speaker 2: very well behaved. It was amazing, cool, it's fantastic. I
Speaker 2: just I don't want to do it. Miss Now, I
Speaker 2: don't on what it's not on something else to worry about. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's funny, little he's your best friend.
Speaker 5: You do have the situation though, where you upset on
Speaker 5: the air that you were working toward a family and
Speaker 5: so you got the whole messing thing going that that
Speaker 5: that's that's different too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little baby crazy? Yeah, exactly. You've got sweaters
Speaker 2: and stuff, that's what that's what? Oh lord?
Speaker 3: Yeah, my daughter in the cats place place. It's it's
Speaker 3: so clearly rehearsing.
Speaker 2: Really cool. Fine, but yeah, that's awesome. I think that's natural.
Speaker 2: Cart sure, right, quick question for Katie, when you took
Speaker 2: the dog to the restaurant. Did you guys order him
Speaker 2: a meal?
Speaker 5: I did order him a plain beef patty, and he
Speaker 5: thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: All right, So we're dealing with a nut job here, folks.
Speaker 3: She's sweet, kind of nutty.
Speaker 5: Do you take him through the drive through at Starbucks
Speaker 5: where they have.
Speaker 2: What do they call him? Puppet pop?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, I have not done that. Yeah, you're well you
Speaker 2: don't love them, then I guess, Oh wod.
Speaker 5: I was watching that family fight their dog at the
Speaker 5: at the hotel, trying to get the kids and the
Speaker 5: dog and all the stuff, and I thought that freaking
Speaker 5: looks miserable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they look miserable.
Speaker 5: Oh you know, I mean mine twelve pounds, so I
Speaker 5: can just pick him up.
Speaker 2: That's easy. That is a difference.
Speaker 5: I've always been a big dog person. Joe and I
Speaker 5: have talked about this over the years. I've always liked
Speaker 5: big dogs, always had big dogs. Then Henry won to pug.
Speaker 5: We got a pug. Here's something awful handy about the
Speaker 5: tiny little dog. You just pick up here, come here,
Speaker 5: setting you over here for now?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, And housing and feeding and cleaning up
Speaker 3: after a seventy five pound dog as well.
Speaker 2: It's many multiples of the little fella.
Speaker 3: Although I did love who's that against a chihuam owner,
Speaker 3: But either you heard about that or you didn't, you know.
Speaker 3: On the other end of the lifespan Katie to various
Speaker 3: people who may or may not be like rehearsing parenthood.
Speaker 3: When Delaney left the house, it was when she, you know,
Speaker 3: went off to college. It was a couple of years
Speaker 3: after our dog Onyx had died, who was a black
Speaker 3: lab too, and I was so disoriented by not having
Speaker 3: another beast to care for.
Speaker 2: We got a dog.
Speaker 3: And whoever you are, I should remember your name. Some
Speaker 3: emailer wrote, Joe, are you out of your friggin mind?
Speaker 3: You finally got an empty nest, You got all this
Speaker 3: freedom and you got a big dog.
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you? And he was right on
Speaker 2: one level.
Speaker 3: Although Backster is my buddy and I love him, But yeah,
Speaker 3: this time, and Judy has put her foot down and
Speaker 3: it's fine. I need some sort of dad detox program
Speaker 3: so I can just get used to it's just the
Speaker 3: two of us, and I'm not caring for another beast
Speaker 3: who needs my attention.
Speaker 2: Does free you up a lot? When you don't have
Speaker 2: a pet. Yeah, and let's go here or there or whatever.
Speaker 3: But you know, as some listeners know, I had a
Speaker 3: minor child under my roof for twenty five consecutive years,
Speaker 3: and it's not easy to transition out of that life.
Speaker 2: Sound it's not effortless. I can't even imagine. I will
Speaker 2: have to imagine in about ten years, eight years. I guess,
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Speaker 2: I'm Strong and get each Other.
Speaker 5: You've certainly heard of the Jurassic period of time because
Speaker 5: you got all those movies right, or maybe in school
Speaker 5: at some point had to memorize all the different periods
Speaker 5: of world history?
Speaker 2: Did you have to do that?
Speaker 5: I remember having that memorized at one point, and I'd
Speaker 5: be another one of those that I would look back
Speaker 5: on and think, was that just an epis an experiment
Speaker 5: in memorization? Or was I supposed to hang on to
Speaker 5: that for the rest of my life when the Pleocene
Speaker 5: era ended, in the Jurassic era began, and.
Speaker 3: How long that was just going to say, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: placed to scene man any other eras a waste of time.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to look at your bones if
Speaker 3: you're from a different era.
Speaker 5: But usually there hundreds of millions of years long, these
Speaker 5: different periods of time, And there was a group of
Speaker 5: scientists that were trying to get a new one going
Speaker 5: for now, because man has so changed the planet that we.
Speaker 2: Needed a new name.
Speaker 5: But before we get to that, the Earth is about
Speaker 5: four point six billion years old, And there is actually
Speaker 5: a particular group of scientists that decide these things. The
Speaker 5: grandly named chapters of our planet's history are governed by
Speaker 5: a body of scientists, the International Union of Geological Sciences,
Speaker 5: And they get together and talk about this and vote
Speaker 5: now and then as to when what, when one era
Speaker 5: began another one ended, in why and that sort of stuff. Well,
Speaker 5: they had to vote the other day, and of the
Speaker 5: seventeen scientists who vote on this sort of thing, only
Speaker 5: a handful voted for calling our current age the anthroposine
Speaker 5: era the human age. Overwhelming to surprise, a lot of
Speaker 5: your like climate activists, to the big surprise of a
Speaker 5: lot of climate activists, overwhelmingly the scientists said, now, you know,
Speaker 5: it's just too new. I've read a whole bunch of
Speaker 5: the different quotes, too new to too many criteria involved.
Speaker 5: I don't know scientists, but seems pretty clear to me
Speaker 5: that when we've had all these different ages that have
Speaker 5: been hundreds of millions of years long, to all of
Speaker 5: the sudden decide that the human the most recent human age,
Speaker 5: which really only goes back, you know, a couple hundred
Speaker 5: years of really perhaps affecting the planet, is clearly a
Speaker 5: new age. Seems like a bad idea and would have
Speaker 5: been a political move and an effort to get the
Speaker 5: climate change crowd all whipped up and have an argument.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to see that. The scientist said, Nah, not
Speaker 2: even close.
Speaker 3: Really, yeah, yeah, I uh, I'm just looking at the
Speaker 3: Wikipedia for this, and there are different systems and scales
Speaker 3: and stuff, and way more ages than I was aware of. Yeah,
Speaker 3: how do you feel about the hollow scene age? That's
Speaker 3: what we're currently living in, right, it's a hollow scene man.
Speaker 3: Well now that was uh, well wait or is it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right, it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's where we're currently living through the Hollow Scene age,
Speaker 5: and so the debate was over whether or not that
Speaker 5: had come to a close in the Anthropocene age, where
Speaker 5: human beings at affected the planet so much that the
Speaker 5: human age would be declared, but they decided to not,
Speaker 5: and it wasn't even closed again.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I'm happy to hear that.
Speaker 3: Judy and I just bought a vacation home in Upper Triassic.
Speaker 3: By the way, it is so beautiful, the views amazing.
Speaker 5: Everybody's had this experiment experience. Who's ever been to a
Speaker 5: museum or looked into this sort of thing or watched
Speaker 5: a National geographic show. The planet is so damned old,
Speaker 5: and these various periods of time are so long. A
Speaker 5: lot of your favorite dinosaurs didn't live within one hundred
Speaker 5: million years.
Speaker 2: Of each other.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just it's a mind boggling to think
Speaker 5: of the amount of time, and then to start getting
Speaker 5: into an age that you're concerned about, going back to
Speaker 5: the late eighteen hundreds when we started having gas powered engines.
Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, yeah, So I'm just troubled.
Speaker 3: You're saying my kids TV shows of the of Saturday morning,
Speaker 3: we're inaccurate in their portrayal of all your major hot
Speaker 3: dinosaurs ganging up on say a family that had been
Speaker 3: mysteriously transported to that era. You're saying that was inaccurate.
Speaker 5: The period of time that human beings have been the
Speaker 5: dominant beast on Earth is so short, it's just a
Speaker 5: blink of an eye. And then the period of that
Speaker 5: blink of an eye where we have, you know, been
Speaker 5: really pumping plastics into the landfills and using combustable engineses tiny.
Speaker 5: In that blink of an eye.
Speaker 3: One could argue that given that the damage that's been
Speaker 3: done is spectacular, although you know, I always maintain I
Speaker 3: think there are probably geological forces at work that we
Speaker 3: don't understand until they start. I mean, for instance, people
Speaker 3: have commented that some of the particulate matter in the
Speaker 3: atmosphere actually reflects sunlight out and lowers the temperature, and
Speaker 3: if we were to clean it all up, there'd be
Speaker 3: much more direct s and it would raise the heat.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: So I just wonder if some of this stuff is
Speaker 3: self correcting. There is no positive to plastics in the ocean,
Speaker 3: for instance. No, no, I'm super anti that. But having
Speaker 3: said that, ninety percent of it or a huge percentage
Speaker 3: of it comes from Asia. So what am I gonna
Speaker 3: do about it? Towed around my disgusting canvas bag to
Speaker 3: my infrequent grocery store trips.
Speaker 2: No, give me a damn bag.
Speaker 5: Plus we only all get what is it? Three score
Speaker 5: and ten years? The Bible says, roughly seventy eighty years
Speaker 5: on Earth.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I can only worry about so many things.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping for four score in seven years, just in
Speaker 3: honor of Lincoln as a Lincoln File eighty seven.
Speaker 2: You can do that. Maybe have you ever hung out
Speaker 2: with me?
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