Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong,
Speaker 1: Andy and he Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Christmas is Getting Closed live from Studio c C S
Speaker 2: or a dimly lit room deep with from the powers
Speaker 2: of the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Hey, y'all, kicking
Speaker 2: off a brand new week. We're under the tutelage of
Speaker 2: our general manager. The Syrian rebels, those rebels and those were,
Speaker 2: but not those rebels except those rebels up there, Yes,
Speaker 2: up with them, and not the other ones. HTF is
Speaker 2: that the new letters we're supposed to know HTS isaid?
Speaker 1: Is it HTS?
Speaker 2: And it is not a K pop band. It's not
Speaker 2: a boy band HTS. That's different. Yes, that's our new
Speaker 2: group we got to know about.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one one's kind of tough looking and the other
Speaker 2: ones like effeminate and the ones really athletic.
Speaker 1: It's not like that. It's not a boy band. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a.
Speaker 2: Group of people that overthrew Bashar Assad in Syria. And
Speaker 2: here's one thing I think what the world has learned.
Speaker 2: You can't see these things coming. Apparently that is not
Speaker 2: a noble thing when a revolution is about to happen,
Speaker 2: because I've never seen one predicted anywhere close to accurately
Speaker 2: thus far in my life. They come out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: and in retrospect everybody points to all the little things, Well,
Speaker 2: this has happened.
Speaker 1: Then then then this is will let to do it.
Speaker 1: But nobody saw it coming.
Speaker 2: Right well, and when people do see it coming, like
Speaker 2: in the case of a Russian invading Ukraine, nobody believes
Speaker 2: you well because it's it seems so crazy. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: The CIA gets regularly blamed for not catching the fall
Speaker 2: of the Soviet.
Speaker 1: Union well after watching I don't know how many.
Speaker 2: Different regimes fall since then in my life, nobody predicted
Speaker 2: those either. They're just something goes on eternally. There's something
Speaker 2: in the wind, there's some there's something happens where everybody says,
Speaker 2: are you over this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm over it too. Are you thinking the same thing?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking? That happens on.
Speaker 2: Some level apparently, and all the fighters in Syria thought, nah,
Speaker 2: I'm not fighting back anymore, forget it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: And I've heard it described by somebody who took in
Speaker 2: intelligence briefings that one of the problems with it that
Speaker 2: don't that doesn't often come up, is that you will
Speaker 2: have a certain number of people saying it's absolutely rock solid,
Speaker 2: a certain number of people saying it's about fifty to fifty,
Speaker 2: and a certain number of people saying, oh, the other
Speaker 2: things absolutely certainly happened. And so yes, people did predict it,
Speaker 2: but other people said it absolutely won't happen.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: I was watching Bob Richard Haas, who used to run
Speaker 2: the Council on Foreign Relations, on MSNBC today. He said
Speaker 2: he was in Syria recently talking to or in the
Speaker 2: Middle East recently and leaders from various countries telling him
Speaker 2: one of the things you Americans need to do is
Speaker 2: get over your hatred of sod. He's not going anywhere
Speaker 2: and you need to learn to work with him. So
Speaker 2: you can blah blah blah, this is just weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Good call.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it goes to show you there's no predicting
Speaker 2: this stuff.
Speaker 1: Apparently, well, Assad didn't predict it.
Speaker 2: Evidently is he didn't have time to get a lot
Speaker 2: of his swag out of the country.
Speaker 1: Oh, my collection of cars, among other things.
Speaker 2: I really would like to have seen him riding a
Speaker 2: bayonet down the street like happened to Gaddafi in Libya,
Speaker 2: or hanging upside down by his heels or something like that,
Speaker 2: one of those gruesome deaths.
Speaker 1: A lust for the moment.
Speaker 2: Abs a freaking lutely that guy is responsible for the
Speaker 2: deaths of at least a half a million people. Awful
Speaker 2: human beings should meet a violent end. He shouldn't get
Speaker 2: to live in some villa in Russia until his old age,
Speaker 2: like he's probably gonna get to do.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting.
Speaker 2: And maybe it's because I watched least the first part
Speaker 2: of the movie Napoleon over the weekend, and the movie
Speaker 2: opens with Marie Antoinette getting her head cut off. That's
Speaker 2: what usually happens to despised king's dictators when they're overthrown.
Speaker 2: And Aside was able to escape somehow in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night and get to Russia. And yeah, he
Speaker 2: did run fast. They were in his I saw some video.
Speaker 2: They were in his kitchen and there was like pots
Speaker 2: boiling on the stove. I mean they were cooking him
Speaker 2: dinner when they all ran out of the place.
Speaker 1: That's that's how little time they had.
Speaker 2: So speaking of which, my favorite bit of video that's
Speaker 2: emerged from this whole thing is folks are going through
Speaker 2: the presidential palace and ransacking it, mostly just being tourists
Speaker 2: and posting for selfies at his desk and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But my favorite clip was this guy's walking through looking around.
Speaker 2: He's munching on an apple.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: It just struck me as so amusing. Hey, you want
Speaker 2: to go down and check out the old dictator's palace.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but I'm a little peckish. Let me grab
Speaker 2: a little snack enjoy on the way.
Speaker 1: So she's just looking around at the palace, munched an apple.
Speaker 2: Well, I love this sort of stuff and took in
Speaker 2: a tremendous amount of news coverage yesterday. The La Times
Speaker 2: got an interesting story out today in Syria, militias armed
Speaker 2: by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA. That
Speaker 2: is going on to a certain extent, as you have
Speaker 2: different parts of the country controlled by different people, and
Speaker 2: in some cases.
Speaker 1: We're very different goals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in some cases we're back in all of the
Speaker 2: groups against each other, at least more currently until we
Speaker 2: change our mind. So that's where it gets very complicated.
Speaker 2: Trump put out a strong statement yesterday that even Ian
Speaker 2: Bremmer agreed with about how devastating this was to Russia
Speaker 2: and how devastating it was to Iran, and how we
Speaker 2: should stay out of this for at least the time
Speaker 2: being until you see how things sort out. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: could absolutely turn into a pit of chaos like Libya.
Speaker 2: But HTS again not a K pop band, their leader,
Speaker 2: and they were considered they are considered a terrorist group.
Speaker 2: He formerly had ties to al Qaeda in ISIS. He
Speaker 2: broke those off years and years ago. He's going around saying, look,
Speaker 2: we got to have diversity in this country. We're gonna
Speaker 2: protect religious minorities. We're gonna keep it cool, all right,
Speaker 2: there's not some sort of crazy ass Islamis thing, which
Speaker 2: is exactly what you'd say if you're a crazy ass
Speaker 2: is lambist and wanted to get supportive more martyr factions.
Speaker 1: Or he might be sincere.
Speaker 2: I don't agree with that take, just because I was
Speaker 2: thinking about I don't remember al Qaeda leaders, ISIS leaders,
Speaker 2: Hamas has bought any of those people ever, saying Iranian,
Speaker 2: I don't remember those people ever saying anything like that.
Speaker 2: All they ever say is death to all infidels. The
Speaker 2: one in true religion is Islam. They just never I
Speaker 2: don't remember those people ever saying we will be open
Speaker 2: to all sex and religions. And in the West they
Speaker 2: do all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Not in the Middle East though, Well right, but see
Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying. It's possible this guy's more sophisticated.
Speaker 2: He understands the game better than the wild eyed lunatics. Well, well, see,
Speaker 2: we do have a as of today, like as of
Speaker 2: this minute, the United States has a ten million dollar
Speaker 2: bounty on his head because we consider him one of the.
Speaker 1: World's leading awful people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I would think we need to
Speaker 2: figure out fairly quickly whether we want to change that
Speaker 2: stance or not. He are good friends. The Turks, of course,
Speaker 2: are backing some of the people who we oppose the
Speaker 2: most vehemently. This new guy, Muhammaduah what's his name, who
Speaker 2: I had never heard of and most of you haven't
Speaker 2: hadn't either before yesterday. Another thing that he mentioned in
Speaker 2: his speech, I was completely unaware of this. He said,
Speaker 2: we are going to get rid of captigen. I had
Speaker 2: never heard that word in my life. It is the
Speaker 2: drug that has just devastated the Middle East. It's they're fentanyl.
Speaker 2: It's a lot like mel and Asad was making a
Speaker 2: tremendous amount of money on it and had a lot
Speaker 2: to do with it spreading all around the Middle East.
Speaker 2: All countries in the Middle East are just being wiped
Speaker 2: out by this captigen drug.
Speaker 1: Their youth.
Speaker 2: They're you know, people are selling it and it's getting
Speaker 2: into regular drugs and people are dying. I was completely
Speaker 2: unaware of that story. Yeah, and your Islamist groups are
Speaker 2: using it to make money too. Of course their fighters
Speaker 2: aren't allowed to take it. It's you know, it reminds
Speaker 2: me of various things happening in the West where they're
Speaker 2: more than willing, well, like China's more than willing to
Speaker 2: poison our people. But you get caught with it in China.
Speaker 1: They'll kill you. But anyway, Yeah, yeah, an evil guy
Speaker 1: a sod.
Speaker 2: It's just stunning that people like that can still exist
Speaker 2: on planet Earth. And I, you know, at some point
Speaker 2: I should get over it. I suppose it's because it's
Speaker 2: never going to change.
Speaker 1: How about strapped to a post in the sun, let
Speaker 1: the crows pack out his eyes. I'd be perfectly fine
Speaker 1: with that. I'd be perfectly fine with that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, but there's lots of guys like that around
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 1: You know, He's not the only one. There's lots of
Speaker 1: In fact, the people that took over might be just
Speaker 1: like that. So who knows Africa is thick with them?
Speaker 1: For instance? Now, I just.
Speaker 2: Saw a former diplomat of some sort I don't remember
Speaker 2: which stripe on one of the cable news channels saying
Speaker 2: this is as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Speaker 1: That seems like a heck of a lot to say.
Speaker 1: It might be.
Speaker 2: With the idea that it could be the end of
Speaker 2: Iran at least as we know it. And if it's
Speaker 2: the end of Iran as we know it, then it
Speaker 2: could be the end of Putin.
Speaker 1: And Russia as we know it.
Speaker 2: Combination of factors, including the devastation of Hamas and Hesbela
Speaker 2: and then cutting off the landline to supply Hesbelah in Lebanon,
Speaker 2: has seriously seriously weakened Iran, not to mention Israel, exposing
Speaker 2: them as a paper tiger in terms of air defenses
Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it could. It could be really really big
Speaker 1: in that way.
Speaker 2: It could be a huge step toward peace in the
Speaker 2: Middle East and an alliance between.
Speaker 1: Israel and the Gulf States or not. What I've got.
Speaker 2: A great quote somewhere learned and wizened hand in the
Speaker 2: Middle East who says, who said, essentially good news has
Speaker 2: a way of turning into bad news very very quickly
Speaker 2: in this part of the world. Yeah, it's too bad
Speaker 2: that that is the case. Well, that's just the truth
Speaker 2: of the history of the world. It's very difficult to
Speaker 2: end up with what we ended up with. After you
Speaker 2: have a revolution of some sort where you end up
Speaker 2: with a stable, safe democracy. The French revolution didn't go
Speaker 2: that way, the Russian revolution didn't go that way, and
Speaker 2: a gazillion other revolutions and tiny countries that you've never
Speaker 2: heard of, it didn't go that way. Somebody's got to
Speaker 2: be in charge, and it's a battle to see who's
Speaker 2: going to be in charge, right. Final note, this is
Speaker 2: a hell of a blow toward to putin in Russia,
Speaker 2: which had tried to portray itself as a stalwart and
Speaker 2: dependable ally. If you cast in with Russia, we never
Speaker 2: let you down, we never leave you on your own.
Speaker 2: And an assad faced an attack in Russia's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: busy in Ukraine, can't help click and the down goes
Speaker 2: a Soad but opened the door to Asad and his
Speaker 2: family to come live there in Moscow. And so maybe
Speaker 2: the dream is for Putin to fall and then he
Speaker 2: dies and Assad dies all in one wonderful afternoon one
Speaker 2: of these days.
Speaker 1: Wow, well it's worth hoping. I'd be fan. So Christmas miracle.
Speaker 2: We're hoping to talk to at least one, if not two,
Speaker 2: of our military analysts about what's going on over there.
Speaker 2: We do have nine hundred US troops in Syria. We
Speaker 2: bombed seventy five different sites yesterday in Syria, so to
Speaker 2: say we're not involved at all, obviously would be a lie.
Speaker 1: That's a fair amount of bombing.
Speaker 2: Well, right, with the Assad regime gone and no defense
Speaker 2: of their territory, anybody who's got a gripe, including us
Speaker 2: with ISIS is saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well maybe now is a good time.
Speaker 2: And as I just said, the fact that we're backing
Speaker 2: the CIA's back in one side and the Pentagon's back
Speaker 2: in another side with some of those rebels, that's a
Speaker 2: pretty complicated thing. How ABOUTNY, how about we start the
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Speaker 3: I think if you run the numbers here, you know,
Speaker 3: twenty five percent chance it turns out really well and
Speaker 3: there's a secular country kind of emerges. I think twenty
Speaker 3: five percent it shuts down pretty quickly as Chiahatas takeover.
Speaker 3: Maybe a fifty percent chance it looks like Libya, which
Speaker 3: is an ongoing state of conflict.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: That's seventy five percent bad news, twenty five percent likelihood
Speaker 2: of good news. Hello, even the bad news is bad
Speaker 2: for Iran and Russia. So sure how good news is good?
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Speaker 1: It's good? Good for Monday? Very strong.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about the decent people of Syria who
Speaker 2: just want to have a live, good lives. But you
Speaker 2: were only interested in America first because you're wearing your
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Speaker 2: I feel better now? Yeah, daddy needs his medicine. Ryan
Speaker 2: from Houston, guys seeing how on? So social media apparently
Speaker 2: vigilante justice and assassination are back on the menu. Talking
Speaker 2: about that healthcare executive? Can we get the official okay list? Clearly,
Speaker 2: white male healthcare CEOs are cool, But if they are
Speaker 2: a woman or another race.
Speaker 1: Does it have to be healthcare bureaucrats? We are doomed.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, we'll have to talk more about that later.
Speaker 2: First of all, it's an interesting who done it? And
Speaker 2: then secondly, the sociological aspect of people happy about assassinations
Speaker 2: now being a thing.
Speaker 1: Right, let's see do we have time for this.
Speaker 2: Don't blame Joe Biden for not getting out and for
Speaker 2: pardoning his son the way he did, writes JT and Livermore.
Speaker 2: Blaming Joe Biden for being Joe Biden is insanity. The
Speaker 2: left leadership knew what and who Joe Biden was when
Speaker 2: they put him to the top of the ticket in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. They did so because the communist brend Sanders
Speaker 2: was actually on track to get the nomination, and they
Speaker 2: had Trump derangement syndrome. But I want to get to
Speaker 2: the good part. But none of that was a mystery
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. Was Biden a known corrupt politician twenty
Speaker 2: twenty that might need to pardon somemmer all of his family?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 2: Was Joe Biden a serial liar chased out of the
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden doing what he everyone thought he'd do and
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Speaker 4: Two new photos of a man police are calling a
Speaker 4: person of interest in the murder of United Healthcare CEO
Speaker 4: Ryan Thompson on a midtown Manhattan street. They're from a
Speaker 4: taxi cab the same cab. Police say he took to
Speaker 4: a bus terminal after the murder, Police saying they think
Speaker 4: he's left New York City. This weekend, police found new
Speaker 4: evidence a backpack they believe belongs to the suspect. When
Speaker 4: they revealed what was inside a jacket and monopoly money.
Speaker 2: So nobody knows if that's because he's a crazy person
Speaker 2: or if that was some sort of clever comment on Yeah,
Speaker 2: it sounds it feels like that to me. It was
Speaker 2: going to be part of the whole messages on the
Speaker 2: Bullets Theater. Several things about this story are interesting. Will
Speaker 2: delve into the glee at the assassination of a guy
Speaker 2: who runs a health insurance company. We'll get into that
Speaker 2: whole thing later because that is just freaking horrifying if
Speaker 2: we go down that road. But New York is one
Speaker 2: of the most surveiled cities on planet Earth, certainly outside
Speaker 2: of China. I didn't know you could shoot somebody in
Speaker 2: the middle of the day on a major street in
Speaker 2: New York and get away. I wouldn't have guessed you could. No, No,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised at that. And then also the fact, as
Speaker 2: a libertarian who worries about government power, a lot, because
Speaker 2: what we got now is nice, but you can end
Speaker 2: up with something closer to asad pretty easily over a
Speaker 2: couple of decades. And having the infrastructure to be surveilled
Speaker 2: at this level where there's just cameras flipping everywhere getting
Speaker 2: pictures of you or a video of you in major cities,
Speaker 2: it's just ah, who ever end up with a government
Speaker 2: that really wants to keep a track of a certain
Speaker 2: kind of person. We've certainly put the infrastructure in place
Speaker 2: right right. It's frustrating because some of the things we
Speaker 2: talk about a lot, which involve cultural norms and policing
Speaker 2: small things, so people never get the idea that they
Speaker 2: can do big crimes. For instance, letting go of that
Speaker 2: culture of lawfulness leads you to a spot where you
Speaker 2: have so much damn crime. People think, yeah, I want cameras, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want the what's it called the shot spot or
Speaker 2: the audio system. Yeah, we need these things to keep
Speaker 2: ourselves alive. Government intrusion, Yeah I get that, but I
Speaker 2: want to be alive. So yeah, you just paint yourself
Speaker 2: into a corner where your solutions are bad. Oh and
Speaker 2: also there's breaking news today that there are NYPD in
Speaker 2: Atlanta for some reason on this story, So maybe something
Speaker 2: will come out of that Later today, I do want
Speaker 2: to talk more about the assassination of that healthcare guy
Speaker 2: and the reaction to it online, but also in terms
Speaker 2: of how much ignorance is being displayed. And I excuse
Speaker 2: people for this because the media never writes about this
Speaker 2: or very very rarely does, the unholy horrific interaction between
Speaker 2: government and specifically Obamacare and Congress and private healthcare and insurance.
Speaker 2: It is an unholy relationship which forces the private insurance
Speaker 2: companies to do things that they would not normally do.
Speaker 2: So if you think, you know, I got denied or
Speaker 2: whatever and it sucks and I'm angry, well yeah, you've
Speaker 2: got to look at Congress and people don't understand that.
Speaker 2: So maybe we'll get Craig gott Wallace on to talk
Speaker 2: about that later this week or talking about our anyway,
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to a couple of our favorite
Speaker 2: military analysts about what's going on in the Middle East,
Speaker 2: because the United States is involved. Absolutely, we have troops
Speaker 2: there and did a lot of bombing yesterday in Syria,
Speaker 2: for instance. So that'll be at least an hour two.
Speaker 2: I hope you can catch that an economic thing that
Speaker 2: I find interesting. Last week I was bemoaning the fact
Speaker 2: that I did not buy bitcoin. Even if I had
Speaker 2: bought bitcoin after the first time I bemoined bitcoin.
Speaker 1: After the election, I still would have done well.
Speaker 2: And then I hit one hundred thousand dollars last week
Speaker 2: and whatever. But this article on the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: young men are making risky bets on crypto and politics
Speaker 2: and raking it in right now, I thought was an
Speaker 2: more interesting sociological story than financial story about the way
Speaker 2: young men feel in this country. And as a guy
Speaker 2: who's raising a couple of young men, it worries me
Speaker 2: a lot. And did you know this if you had
Speaker 2: a hypothetical portfolio.
Speaker 1: Of course nobody would have this, so it's a little unfair.
Speaker 2: But if you had a hypothetical portfolio hole equal amounts
Speaker 2: of bitcoin, gold, the meme stock game stop, and the
Speaker 2: sports betting stock draft kings, you were to return sixty
Speaker 2: two percent so far this year.
Speaker 1: That has tripled the.
Speaker 2: Returns of a traditional portfolio that most of us have.
Speaker 2: Sixty percent stocks, forty percent bonds, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Sixty two percent, that'd be a pretty good year if
Speaker 2: you had those faith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2: Mostly young men that are doing this thing, these things,
Speaker 2: these kind of stocks. Some forty two percent of men's
Speaker 2: ages ages eighteen to twenty nine invested in or used crypto,
Speaker 2: versus only seventeen percent of women.
Speaker 1: In that age group.
Speaker 2: A Pew Research Center said almost eleven percent of men
Speaker 2: say they are well, I'll skip that, I'll get to
Speaker 2: this because I don't want to. I want to use
Speaker 2: a part time. I want to get to the part
Speaker 2: that I think is actually most important. Some men say
Speaker 2: they have little choice but to roll the dice in
Speaker 2: a world they believe is stacked against them. Their participation
Speaker 2: in the labor force is falling while it's growing for
Speaker 2: women their age. Young men is less likely to enroll
Speaker 2: in college. Men out earn women in the workplace and
Speaker 2: are more likely to reach executive level positions, But some
Speaker 2: forty five percent of young men said in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three they face gender discrimination. Only a third of men
Speaker 2: said that in twenty nineteen. It's now almost half. That's
Speaker 2: how much it's grown in just a few years, according
Speaker 2: to recent surveys. And then it goes through how many
Speaker 2: women are in college campuses, and are this percentage of
Speaker 2: that and that percentage of the I think the view
Speaker 2: that younger men have of themselves in their role in society. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's an underappreciated problem we have in the country, and
Speaker 2: I don't know what we do to fix it. I
Speaker 2: agree completely absolutely, you combine, you know, the things you
Speaker 2: mentioned with people are not coupling, partly because so many
Speaker 2: women are radical leftists who won't couple with anybody who's
Speaker 2: not a radical leftist. You got to just the value
Speaker 2: of the nuclear family being diminished in society, and just
Speaker 2: all of the things that all of the most fundamental
Speaker 2: and primal things that drive men I will provide and
Speaker 2: I will protect have been taken away. We've talked about
Speaker 2: this for a couple of years about how the percentage
Speaker 2: of working age males that are not in the workforce
Speaker 2: is as high as it was during the Great Depression.
Speaker 2: That's horrifying, Yeah it is, and strange, Yes, it is
Speaker 2: very strange in a society that's not, like, really focused
Speaker 2: on what's going on. There is gonna pay price for
Speaker 2: it at some point. No, because of the utterly moronic
Speaker 2: whatever they say. It was the second phase of feminism
Speaker 2: or something where to be pro woman meant to be
Speaker 2: anti man, which is just an idiotic notion, But that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean it wasn't really popular. But does this surprise
Speaker 2: anybody that more women come out of high school thinking, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: here are the many opportunities for me in America of
Speaker 2: ways to make a living and make a go of
Speaker 2: it in the world. And it's much much less so
Speaker 2: for young men to feel like, you know, college is
Speaker 2: for me, welcoming for me, or this career path or whatever.
Speaker 2: I have no data to prove this point, but I
Speaker 2: suspect that it's true. I think a lot of young
Speaker 2: men also emerge from their schooling beaten down right because
Speaker 2: they have been systematically given the message there is something
Speaker 2: wrong with you merely because you are male, but also
Speaker 2: because like as a little boy, you acted like a male.
Speaker 2: Masculinity of any sort, including boyish energy, is pathologized in
Speaker 2: our sick, sick communist government schools, combined with an attitude
Speaker 2: that is changing thanks to Mike Row and lots of people,
Speaker 2: but an attitude of the kind of jobs that a
Speaker 2: lot of men would like to do are belittled, and
Speaker 2: you know, paper pushing jobs that more women would be
Speaker 2: more interested in are seen as fantastic, well, and just
Speaker 2: the whole Obama era smugness about of course everything he
Speaker 2: did had smugness about it, but the idea that college
Speaker 2: is the only route for the respectable and those unwashed
Speaker 2: idiot brutes who don't go to college and work their
Speaker 2: menial jobs building HVAC companies and being carpenters and whatever.
Speaker 1: That's just sad, so sad. Do they even have the
Speaker 1: power of speech, those brutes? I mean, that was the attitude.
Speaker 2: So if the takeaway from that article in the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal was supposed to be that men feel like
Speaker 2: they either do or just feel like they have no
Speaker 2: route to success in America, they're going to take these
Speaker 2: higher risk bets on crypto and some of these other stocks,
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal of all publications shouldn't go with
Speaker 2: if you had this imaginary portfolio.
Speaker 1: Well, nobody does so.
Speaker 2: And even if you have that imaginary portfolio, you'd have
Speaker 2: to get in at the right time and get out
Speaker 2: the right time to take advantage of that. So, I mean, again,
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal of all places shouldn't shouldn't play.
Speaker 1: That kind of game, right, right exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I uh, well, yeah, I've had more to say on that,
Speaker 2: but that's probably enough for now. Well, would you say,
Speaker 2: am I right or wrong about this? Maybe I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to soothe my hurt feelings over the fact that
Speaker 2: I don't understand cryptocurrency. Is it just a very small
Speaker 2: percentage of people that are actually getting in and getting
Speaker 2: out at the right times too? Oh yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean every time it goes up, it goes down again,
Speaker 2: and those people take a bath. But that's not very
Speaker 2: exciting to write or read about. So it's like people
Speaker 2: who lose at Vegas. They don't come home and tell
Speaker 2: their friends the other part of it. And this is
Speaker 2: the part that I decided not to say, but I'll
Speaker 2: go ahead. I lost four thousand dollars. Then I got Chlymythia.
Speaker 2: Nobody ever told me that. So I used to play
Speaker 2: a fair amount of poker. I play less now. And
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting that what is one of the
Speaker 2: big financial places has all of their new associates take
Speaker 2: one hundred hours of poker training and playing and all
Speaker 2: so they start to understand risk and levels of risk
Speaker 2: and that sort of thing. And I don't get frustrated
Speaker 2: about missing these meme stocks.
Speaker 1: And stuff like that.
Speaker 2: More than a little because and I hope this makes
Speaker 2: sense to if you play poker, it certainly does. You
Speaker 2: have a policy depending on where you are in the game,
Speaker 2: how many chips you have, whatever. If I have like
Speaker 2: a decent hand, I will roll the dice and pay
Speaker 2: some to see, like in Texas, hold them the flop.
Speaker 2: Those are the three community cards that come out first.
Speaker 2: But if I have a crap hand, I have a
Speaker 2: three and a seven, for instance, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: pay anything to see that flop because it's just unlikely
Speaker 2: as a percentage, it's not likely enough that it would
Speaker 2: bear out for me.
Speaker 1: And sometimes so you fold your hand.
Speaker 2: Then sometimes the flop is three three, I'd have had
Speaker 2: quad threes and taken everybody's.
Speaker 1: Money, but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: My policy is I do the math in my head,
Speaker 2: and I don't gamble on things not worth gambling on.
Speaker 2: So as long as you have like a method to
Speaker 2: the madness of your investing in your financial moves and
Speaker 2: don't beat and maybe it is maybe you're young and
Speaker 2: untethered and you chase meme stocks and bitcoin and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, good for you, kind of fun. I'm kind
Speaker 2: of jealous. But why does the Wall Street Journal crowd
Speaker 2: talk up crypto like it is solid sound investment strategy.
Speaker 1: They don't believe that.
Speaker 2: There's no way. Most of the people in the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal believe that. No, it's almost just purely speculation.
Speaker 2: So it's exciting. It gets clicks, So it's just like
Speaker 2: any other newspaper. It's just yeah, I see those articles.
Speaker 2: I read them too, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I kick myself right in the ass. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I try not to because that that whole Foma thing. Oh,
Speaker 2: it comes on strong, doesn't it. Like you run into
Speaker 2: a guy who says, yeah, I bought Apple in nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety one at four dollars.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up, you're right.
Speaker 2: Nobody ever says I got into bitcoin late, thought I
Speaker 2: would jump on it. I lost a bunch of money
Speaker 2: and I got chmydia once again. I don't know how
Speaker 2: this guy got clividio and my stories everybody gets chomydia.
Speaker 1: Well, it's everywhere pretty careful.
Speaker 2: We've got Katie's headlines on the wais stay here. Congratulations
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams fans.
Speaker 1: They beat the Billies as yesterday, even.
Speaker 2: Though Josh Allen had one of the most amazing performances
Speaker 2: in the history of the NFL. He is clearly your
Speaker 2: league MVP. Six touchdowns through for three, ran for three.
Speaker 2: Who does that?
Speaker 1: Nobody? Did he win or lose? He lost. He's a loser,
Speaker 1: That's what I say, all right.
Speaker 2: Actually, the playoffs are shaping up to be a really
Speaker 2: interesting a lot of really good, exciting teams. The Chiefs
Speaker 2: once again one on the last play of the game,
Speaker 2: bounced one through the uprights.
Speaker 1: I mean, stumble bumps.
Speaker 2: No team in any sport has ever on this ever
Speaker 2: in the history of sports.
Speaker 1: See tumble bombs. Stumble bombs. Yeah, that's a good old
Speaker 1: timey one for you. Katie glad she enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, they're winning ugly, as they used to say,
Speaker 2: beyond winning ugly, I'm.
Speaker 1: The last play of the game.
Speaker 2: Nobody's ever even come close to this number of last
Speaker 2: play the game wins. They could easily be like seven
Speaker 2: and seven. It's just I'm misster old timey reference now.
Speaker 2: But they're mister magooing their way to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: How did he not fall off the cliff get hit
Speaker 1: by a car. It's God protects fools and drunks and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I guess that is Michael, there will be a team
Speaker 2: that goes to kneel, the ball will fumble it.
Speaker 1: And the sheets will pick it up and win. Right
Speaker 1: time for the victory formation. Jim, is this one's all
Speaker 1: but world? Oh it's Coblows. Yeah, beautiful, Michael love it. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's figure out who's reporting what it's the lead story.
Speaker 1: What's Katie Green? Katie?
Speaker 5: Thank you, guys, the Associated Press. Trump calls for immediate
Speaker 5: ceasefire in Ukraine and says a US withdrawal from NATO
Speaker 5: is possible.
Speaker 2: I read this morning that Russia is hammering Ukraine with
Speaker 2: like double the number of drones and missiles that they.
Speaker 1: Have of any time in the war.
Speaker 2: Huge escalation as they're trying to get to a better
Speaker 2: spot to you know, sit down at the bargaining table.
Speaker 1: But he's got to be.
Speaker 2: Feeling a little weekend after the Syria falling apart, so panicked.
Speaker 1: More on that next hour.
Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with this, Russia had a couple
Speaker 2: of it has a couple of key bases in Syria.
Speaker 1: NBC News.
Speaker 5: Trump aims to end birthright citizenships, as American citizens with
Speaker 5: family here illegally.
Speaker 1: May be deported.
Speaker 2: I don't understand how this is even controversial. I don't
Speaker 2: get why it's controversial. It was just a Trump derangement crowd.
Speaker 2: And the immigrants are better than us because they're from
Speaker 2: somewhere else, lunatics.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this later.
Speaker 5: As you guys mentioned, ABC putin giving a sod asylum
Speaker 5: in Russia.
Speaker 1: That's a good look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm stealing this from my I think it was
Speaker 2: jt Or one of our frequent correspondence. How long before
Speaker 2: a sod gets a little annoying and he stands too
Speaker 2: close to an open window?
Speaker 1: Oooo?
Speaker 5: From The New York Times, Taylor Swift's Eras tour grand
Speaker 5: total two billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's doing our last concert tonight. I have to
Speaker 2: run through some of the final numbers on that tour.
Speaker 2: It's the most successful tour in the history of music.
Speaker 2: But what it did financially, just as a business story
Speaker 2: is steined. Then she put out that book that sold
Speaker 2: like three quarters of a million in the first two
Speaker 2: minutes in targets.
Speaker 1: What's her book? I didn't know she had a book.
Speaker 2: It's like a tour memorobilia book with all sorts of
Speaker 2: pictures and stories.
Speaker 5: From the New York post Juan Soto signing with Mets
Speaker 5: On Garganjuan's seven hundred and sixty five million dollar contract.
Speaker 1: Did he win the World Series, Katie or did he
Speaker 1: lose it? He's a loser to.
Speaker 2: So he's leaving the Yankees going to the Mets for
Speaker 2: the biggest contract in the history of sports. And it's
Speaker 2: actually significantly bigger than sho Heyo Tani's because Otani's in
Speaker 2: real dollars was like mid four hundreds mm hm, and
Speaker 2: this one is actually guaranteed to be three quarters of
Speaker 2: a billion dollars.
Speaker 1: It's cuckoo nuts. It is also from the New York Post.
Speaker 5: I love this quote defund the police activist goes viral
Speaker 5: after begging for help when everything she owned.
Speaker 1: Was stolen in San Francisco. I love that story.
Speaker 2: The cops didn't do s I love that story.
Speaker 1: These people I just want to slap them so badly.
Speaker 1: But I'm a non violent man. I'm a peaceful man.
Speaker 5: And finally, from the Babylon Bee Prosecutors born Daniel Penny,
Speaker 5: acquittal could lead to rampant acts of heroism.
Speaker 1: Oh I like that. Yeah, that is good. The number
Speaker 1: of utterly.
Speaker 2: Cuckoo for Cocoa Puff's notions all out of academia that
Speaker 2: were like the rage for a while, defund the police
Speaker 2: can just decide he's a woman and that makes him
Speaker 2: as much of a woman as a woman. I mean,
Speaker 2: this stuff is lunacy, but you have the intelligencia shouting
Speaker 2: and then punishing you if you say, excuse me, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: We're gonna check in on the revolution that occurred in
Speaker 2: Syria over the weekend with Jeff mccosum, one of her
Speaker 2: favorite military analysts, in hour two. So if you don't
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