WEBVTT - Like Leading A Sheep To A Trough 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm Strong 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:22.360 and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.920 Anybody that knows anything about the intelligence world knows that one. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.000 We're going to strip it completely down because the only 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.600 thing we need is the frame. The interior and the 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.920 electronics on a standard seven four seven will never work 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.080 for the Presidential Air Force one. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:40.160 It doesn't work. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.240 We have some air defense technology that doesn't come from Boeing. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.600 We have a lot of technology that's on there for 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.320 the president to be connected, so it can be the 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.240 White House in the air. No chance that anything inside 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.239 that plane stays inside that plane. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.480 If they strip it completely down to the frame, is 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.880 it then worth what it's worth? Is the big beautiful plane. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:01.480 I don't have any idea. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.120 I don't know either. What would be the point of 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.639 accepting a shell from Cutter and Engines, I guess? 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:15.000 But yeah, any okay, all right, here is a WTF story. 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.360 Has WTF gone mainstream? I noticed the old guy on 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.000 sixty minutes used to Sunday Night. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.480 Did you see that? Oh? Yeah, yeah? I think it 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.840 has to a large extent apparently. Anyway, here's a WTF story. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:29.319 Do you see this? 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.920 The kind of crazy people, how crazy people can get 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.000 this Texas mom has been arrested. It looked like she 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:45.240 was attempting to supply her middle schooler with guns, ammo 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.880 and tactical gears so he could pull off a mass 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.240 violence episode at his school. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:55.080 Oh lord, that is profoundly nuts. How insane is that? 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.440 And I just saw the picture of her and she 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:58.880 looks completely greatly. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:07.400 Wow. They call yeah the wh is fairly popular to 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.200 your iPhone, for instance, will auto fill that if you like. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:15.960 My youngest Delaney, age twenty five, decided she was swearing 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.519 too much, so uses heck in a lot. That's a 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:20.640 heck in good time, right. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.639 Trying to bring my kids down a little bit in there, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.120 cursing my high schooler, particularly him and his friends. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.240 It's just you know how it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.400 which is fun. I have it. It's a crutch. We 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.799 all have them. But I have friends who cannot express 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.640 to you the time of day without an F bomb. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.359 I think it's a I'm looking at it as a 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.240 practicing code switching. I know you and your high school 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.640 buddies talk like that so did mine. It's part of 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.360 a we're grown up or we're bonding or whatever you 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:51.440 got to do as a teenager. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.520 We're dangerous, yes, but you have. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.239 To have that switch in your brain, that code switches 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.760 so that you don't talk the same way at the 0:02:58.800 --> 0:02:59.680 dinner table. 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:06.120 And right right, speaking of which I think you're absolutely right. Yeah, 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:10.800 I you know, it's funny. Especially earlier in our careers, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.480 friends and even family would ask, how do you remember 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.000 not to swear on the air? I mean, because that 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.840 would be very bad, And I always said the same way, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.600 I remember not to drop an F bomb and from 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:23.520 my grandmother. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.640 Yeah, or culture with your boss, depending on your boss 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:27.200 or whatever. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:32.280 Right, Yeah, it's actually remarkably easy, although I still, you know, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.120 will die on the Hill of bs ought to be 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.400 able to be set on the air, and some people have. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.480 I think I think I mus don iMOS did a 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.640 handful of times, at least in New York. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.880 You're gonna scream bulls at the top of your lungs 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.640 when you die, like Mel Gibson in Brave Art. You 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.280 want to say it so badly out loud, it'll be 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:53.360 my rosebud. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.960 If you're a fan of classics, cinema. Yeah, bulls kind 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.720 of overrated movies. It's a perfect yeah, I tell you what, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.119 it's a perfect word. I love it. Anyway. What were 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.480 you talking about? Oh, I've got a couple of technology 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.360 studies a story speaking of code switching. You know, I 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:19.240 spent hours and hours yesterday deciding where Judy and I 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:20.800 are going to stay in London when we go to 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.640 London in August. Airb and be in it, which is 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.279 my preference. I'm not going to spend seven eight days 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.320 in a hotel room. I just and I know I'll 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.400 be out and about, but I like to find a 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.880 living room, a little kitchen in a little bedroom. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:40.680 And European hotel rooms are so freaking tiny, right, ridiculous? 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.720 Yeah, and you know I can afford a bit of 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.919 an airbnb with's a living room, as I said, So 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.120 I'm going to do it anyway. But committee, hello, committing 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.400 to which one? I found so stressful? What do you 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.840 got going around and around and around? What's that? What 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.560 if you got it wrong? What would happen? You can 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.200 get you killed in your sleeper quoter? Now it'd be 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.839 maybe a little noisier than the other one, or it's 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:08.240 just five blocks to walk to Buckingham Parish instead of 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:09.960 three blocks or whatever, and I just I found it 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.320 too stressful. But anyway, I finally pulled the trigger and 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:17.080 looking forward to it. But speaking of technology, yet another 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.640 one of these Do they run this quarterly? Is it 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.880 some sort of requirement warning issue to anyone using this 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:29.040 smiley face emoji to older people, not gen Z. A 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.599 smile face means you're conveying that you're happy. Yeah, but 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.520 gen Z he takes this grinning face to convey sarcasm 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.240 or irony. And then it has the inevitable twenty three 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.880 year old employee who says, at first I thought my 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.160 coarchers were being called and sarcastic to me, and then 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.480 I realized when they said a thumbs up, they really 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.719 mean thumbs up because he is a sarcastically and the 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.480 tone of the article is always therefore, you're you. Older 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.560 people really ought to be careful in a finger and out. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.160 They should switch to the way we do it as 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.719 opposed the other way around. Yes, I would say to 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.279 Hovey's at BESHI, twenty one year old intern, excuse me, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.000 I run this place. I own this place. People like 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.440 me run the world. So you figured out. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:21.360 My son sends me the emoji with the tears streaming 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.719 down the face. Yes, at what seemed to me inappropriate times, 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.960 So it clearly means something different to him as a. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.840 Is he a sophomore or a freshman? This is early 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.600 high school. Did he seem to go to high school 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.279 last year? I don't remember. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:45.080 I think he's a freshman anyway, the ass weapon cause 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.080 he's a freshman in high school. It seems to mean 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.320 something different to freshmen in high school than all the 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.920 other adults who ever send me the emoji with tears 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:53.680 streaming down the face. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.040 Yes, kay, Katie, you're not old and bitter. Well, don't 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:57.600 go that better. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.560 But several of my young her friends send me that, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.800 which usually would mean like you're crying legitimately, like you were. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.560 Really touched by something, or you know my dog just died, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.320 or I heard about your mom or whatever. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.000 Yeah, it means something's hilarious now, like you're crying you're laughing. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.880 Song Okay, that's what I kind of picked up on. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.280 I thought this is highly inappropriate. Does this mean you're laughing? 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.360 Well, yeah, I cracked. You have a laughing till you're crying, right. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:25.360 They do. Yeah. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.160 I cracked a joke to one of my girlfriends and 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.000 I sent her that and she sent me one of 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.080 those back, and I was like, did something just happen? 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:31.480 What's wrong? 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.200 Like, that's exactly that what I have. And I thought, oh, geez, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.280 I hurt somebody's feelings. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.120 Yeah, exact same thing came over me. I was like, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.760 what did I do? No, that's just their laughing face. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.040 Now are were talking about the tears streaming down? Yeah? See, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.000 we used that in my family a lot. Like I 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:50.440 didn't get the wordle so really upset. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.280 Yeah, but you're you're, you're, you're, you're being sarcastic about 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.600 how upset you are. Yes, exaggerating, but it's kind of 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.480 the opposite meaning for my son. Okay, now I get it. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.640 I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying even though they've got 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:03.480 one of those already. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.320 My favorite texting story of all time, and it will 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.720 be for the rest of my life, was the woman 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.400 who said, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.960 My mom just passed away, and her friend replied, lol, 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.840 thinking it meant lots of love to me. They no 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:23.040 longer speak and I'm l olling now is the ironic 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:28.240 concluded I'm sorry anyway. So to get like this, I 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.680 feel like lol is. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:39.199 Like charity laugh or you know what is that term 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.160 where you you laugh, you know somebody sympathy sympathy laugh 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.080 at this point and I and then I don't know 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.559 how to respond with a that actually is freaking funny. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.720 Yeah I will. I don't know. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.760 I usually write out because I don't use emoji's because 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.119 I'm a grown up. I usually write out. I actually 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.199 laughed out loud at that. That was very like that much. 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:02.760 If it's something really. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.480 Long tedious, you're such a boomer, or you just send 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.199 the word funny with zero punctuations, so you can't tell 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.280 if you're being serious or not. 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:14.160 I have done that. I will frequently respond ha, because 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.400 I was laughing lots of oz. Yeah. So, but there's 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:24.480 more linguists studying emojis emoji, I think I'm supposed to say, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.360 I'm not Japanese all right. Have also pointed out that 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.360 the symbols new meetings can often emerge from slang that 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.480 older users might not be aware of. For example, older 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.640 social media users might see the skull emoji as a 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.920 literal symbol of death or a sign that someone is 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.880 figuratively dead, isn't dead, tired or dead to me whatever. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.200 But for the younger users, the skull is used to 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.440 say I'm dead, which means that they found something hilarious 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:49.280 and have died laughing. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.800 Oh okay, the skull is that was really funny. I'm 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:55.480 gonna hit somebody. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.000 I can. I can think of people i'd hit with 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.600 that today would be very confused, while the spark emoji 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.720 is frequently someone being sarcastic about how something, how good 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.880 something is, and too much sarcasm. But here's the part 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.200 I found really interesting. So I like, I send to like. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.880 If somebody says, hey, I got that promotion at work, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.680 I respond with an eggplant and then sprays of water. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.840 Is that the proper thing? Good lord? Yes, yes, do that? Yeah, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:28.960 that's perfect. Oh my god. Or if you give a 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.440 thumbs up and a sparkle, they'll think you're mocking them, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.400 which is again, we run the world. We old people 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.640 run the world. You adapt us. But is your youngster 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:43.160 texting about cannabis, for instance, sometimes known as pot or marijuana, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:49.920 the shamrock, the leaf, the maple leaf, the lemon, the grape, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.839 the watermelon, the strawberry, the cherry, the pineapple, the dog face, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.000 the candy, the cake, the ice cream cone, and the 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.800 cookie can all be references to cannabis. 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.280 Because I understand it. The egg plant is the traditional 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.119 vegetable of success, and so if somebody has some good news. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.640 Keep believing that jack and use it frequently. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:17.520 Jack. These emoji can be references to cocaine, a rocket ship, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:22.040 a fish, a gas pump, a snowman or a snowflake. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:31.640 They're all sorts of drugs. Uh sexting. The peach which 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:38.040 looks like God forgive me a woman's hind end, or 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:44.839 the eggplant, the water you mentioned, or cherries. Let's see. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.480 I was embarrassingly baffled the other day when I got 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.480 a text message from a friend that said kiss my 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.760 and then there was a peach emoji, and I'm going, this, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.880 my peach, What do you mean? 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.160 I said, somebody with a cherries tattoo on them? What 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:58.840 does that mean? 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.800 You, Katie? Is that a girl? What's that mean? A 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:02.720 woman's cherry? 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:04.880 Cherries were trendy. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.800 Late nineties early two thousands, but I don't know if 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:09.679 that is meaning. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.760 What was the message, delicious fruit? It was just a 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:15.640 cute package. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.400 Okay, so okay, it didn't mean anything. All right, that's fine, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:19.600 doesn't need to. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.520 We're looking it up. Oh. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.280 Often associated with sensuality, feminine power, innocence, and use. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.800 Okay. According to an Instagram post, that's a stupid tattoo. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.800 Don't get that and if you haven't, get it removed? 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:38.720 Coming up? Jack in a story related to the bullspit train, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.839 the incredible theft that we were talking about earlier today. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.240 If you didn't hear it, grab our three armstrong you 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:51.280 getty on demand from today? How did trial attorneys factor 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.960 into that? They're a huge factor. Nobody ever talks about this. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.319 Don't get me started. He's going to get us started, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.800 all of us. Stay tuned art. 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:07.079 Today was former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski's thirty sixth birthday. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.800 I can't believe you remembered sent his friends to him. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:19.120 He's a probably guy h man And I didn't like that. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.600 You just point in the joke. Would you like another one? Yes? Well. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.480 Speaking at the Saudi US investment for him this week, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.400 Elon Musk said that the goal of his artificial intelligence 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.120 company XAI is to answer questions like, quote, where is 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.200 a universe going. Though for most people who use AI, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:42.319 they to ask questions like what if a giraffe had boobs? 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:47.240 Silly questions. In other words, yes, yes, I would agree. Boy. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.760 I've continued to just love using chat GPT planning a 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.920 trip and just it's just so much better than what 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.360 came before it. Anyway, if you have a favorite, I 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.920 respect that too. I would like to get into groc Friends, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:05.600 which comes via the Twitter machine, among others. So we've 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.600 been talking on and off today about the bullspit Train 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.480 in cal Unicornia, which is one of the greatest thefts 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.120 of taxpayer dollars in the history of the universe and 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.760 one of the great failures of democracy and one thing 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.560 that people don't talk about. And I'm not sure why exactly. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.960 Maybe it's just a little less sooteric, little dry. Is 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.640 the incredible power trial lawyers have in California in particular 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:34.400 wherever Democrats hold sway. In short, but the bullspit Train 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:40.840 has been the Enriching Lawyers Act of whenever it passed. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:47.160 In that there are so many eminent domain cases and 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.160 where the government takes your property but has to compensate 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:55.160 you fairly. Between eminent domain and real environmental suits and 0:14:55.280 --> 0:15:00.240 fake environmental suits, and labor disputes, and you know a 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.920 dozen other things I can't think of. It has been 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:08.200 an incredible, just fire hose of money to trial attorneys. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.320 Came across this from Caleb BArch in The National Review. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.520 Due to the beneficial relationship try lawyers and their packs 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:22.920 share with democratic causes, most try lawsuits only back progressive issues. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:29.320 Major trial lawyer packs have spent twenty nine million dollars 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:34.360 in the last eight years, twenty nine million dollars on 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.680 political action committees and that sort of thing, ninety nine 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.760 percent of it to support Democratic candidates and committees. Since 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:50.720 twenty seventeen, ninety nine percent. The consumer advocacy group Alliance 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:56.400 for Consumers revealed and report released Wednesday, AFC outlines the 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.000 web of federal political action committees funded by major trial lawyers, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.400 including they name a bunch that if you've not heard 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.480 of them, you haven't heard of them all together. Since 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.160 twenty seventeen, these packs have put more than ten million 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.560 dollars towards supporting Democratic candidates for the Senate, around eight 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.640 million more towards supporting Democratic candidates for the House, and 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.600 substantial sums to support other major progressive entities, and most 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.320 try lawyers supporting Democratic candidates and causes enjoy a positive 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.880 feedback loop. More regulations mean more tender for lucrative lawsuits, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.440 and more Democrats in power mean more public contracts to 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.200 represent plaintiffs and said lucrative lawsuits. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.000 I don't know why this fits in also, but as 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.640 a guy who's dealt with divorce laws in California, the 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.360 lawyers get together and write laws to where you have 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.760 to have lawyers to do things to get divorced, so 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.040 you have to hire more lawyers, and that seems to 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.520 happen more in blue states. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:51.720 Yeah, I'm sure people in the know could come up 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.960 with twenty different examples. But like the death penalty in California, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.280 we still give the death penalty, but we never execute anybody, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.520 So you get all the expense which goes to the 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.159 lawyers of a death penalty trial, and then all the 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.120 appeals and the rest of it's all designed to enrich them. Fantastic. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.520 Well that's a happy note. What are you gonna do? 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:18.399 Armstrong and Getty got a possible explanation for why Sean P. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.960 Didy Combs is the guy he is. We've learned in 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.840 a courtroom today trying to decide how to discuss this 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.240 on the air bit. But before we get to that, 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.639 so I am going to read at least some of 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.800 that new Jake Tapper book about the Biden presidency that 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:40.720 I unfortunately already paid for months ago before I decided 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.159 that I'm angry at Jake Tapper for lying to us 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:43.920 all these years. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.440 Boy, and you're not a drunk, so you can't even 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:47.680 plead drunk purchase. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.240 Well, I just thought it would be good for the show. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:50.600 I thought, man, there's gonna be stuff in there, and 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.639 it still might be. For instance, I've got one for 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:57.120 you here just a minute. But well, let's start with this. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:03.919 This is Jake Tapper finally copping to the fact that 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.679 maybe he didn't go as far as he should have 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.160 and trying to dig into the president's mental health. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.359 I think some of the criticism is fair, to be 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.600 honest of me, certainly, I'm not going to speak for 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.760 anybody else, but knowing then what I know now, I 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.480 look back at my coverage during the Biden years, and 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.800 I did cover some of these issues, but not enough. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.639 I look back on it with humility. 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.400 Molly Hemingway tweets out that Jake Tapper hired a crisis 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:38.359 PR group that has repped Elizabeth Holmes, Jeffrey Tuban, Anthony Wieners, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.560 and others to teach him how to be nicer to 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:45.600 his critics during this thing. So they apparently, he and 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.879 the publisher apparently believe they're in such a bad spot 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:55.520 with the whole The British are coming, the British coming. Yeah, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.240 they're already here. What are you talking about. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.840 Everybody's been talking about this for months. You don't get 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:01.920 to be Paul Revere on this, all right? Well, and 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.439 not only was he not Paul Revere, I mean he 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.400 was like King George. He would I should have covered 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:14.720 it more. Uh No, you forcefully defended the opposite point 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.919 of view and belittled people who are trying to speak 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.399 the plain truth. Right, So yeah, I get it. So 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.920 they've gone from thinking, oh, this is going to be 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.359 an exciting book of revelations that will be praised on 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.080 both sides of the aisle, now realizing, oh my god, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.919 we're a punchline to some people. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.680 Yeah, and I'll be interested to see how it lands 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.640 when it comes out next week. It's possible it doesn't 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.720 make much noise when it comes out next week because 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.320 all the talking. But for instance, I'm a big fan 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.760 of Jonah Goldberger the Dispatch, though I do think he 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.120 actually has Trump derangement syndrome, which he would yell at 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.080 me for. He wrote a long piece yesterday about how 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.240 I think Jake Tapper's being unfairly attacked, and Jake Tapper 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.119 did a good job of blah blah blah and this 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.760 and that and whatever. You work at CNN and you 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.280 guys are friends. Fine, yeah, fine. Jonah might be the 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:11.600 classic example of somebody I think is extremely bright, and 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:15.160 when I agree with them, I agree wholeheartedly. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.680 But at least thirty to forty percent of the time, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.000 I think he's a just I almost use an unfortunate term. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.000 I think he is misguided. 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:28.159 Wow, you really think in all those interviews where he 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.280 would tepidly bring up a poll number shows many voters 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.560 don't think Joe Biden should be president again, and then 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.919 he credits that for really challenging the White House, he 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.960 would take their spin at face value and move on. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:43.760 When everybody in America was looking at Joe Biden on 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.200 a daily basis and saying that guy should not be president. 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:52.040 Yeah, I think Jonah needs to maybe leave the elite 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.679 intellectual circles he's been running in for a lifetime and 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:57.720 maybe hang out with some people whose hands get dirty 0:20:57.720 --> 0:20:59.600 at work for ten minutes. I think that would help. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.800 Them any Jonah did say that he had read the 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.880 first five chapters of the book and it's really interesting, 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.200 and I thought, okay, gool, maybe there is interesting stuff 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.879 in there, like this that came out yesterday from the 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:12.679 Jake Tapper book about Joe Biden. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.320 Some members of Biden's cabinet didn't. 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.360 Believe he could be relied on to perform at two 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.480 am during an emergency in the final year of his presidency, 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:27.639 and that their access to him had dropped off considerably. Now, 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.919 I gotta believe that's some of the more major secretaries 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.080 that count, because I doubt some of the minor secretaries 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.280 had much access to him. Ever, so for it to 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:42.000 drop off considerably, that means you once had considerable contact. 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:44.119 So I I just wonder if it's not like some 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.639 of your you know, your secretaries of State, you know, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.240 your secretary's of Defense, that sort of thing, that maybe 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:53.439 their access dropped off quite a bit. And thought I 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.240 don't know if he could handle an emergency if he 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.680 shows up. And as you pointed out earlier, two am, 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.520 how about noon on any given day, based on the 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.120 way he sometimes was, and all the times they canceled meetings, 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.840 That's what Mark Alpern was talking about. Said, all the 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.080 times that they would just out of nowhere counsel a 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:10.879 meeting that he was supposed to have it one in 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:11.400 the afternoon. 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:15.680 Why do you think that was? Yeah, yeah, well there was. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.920 There is no question that he was. Biden was completely 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:23.960 hidden from anybody but the inner circle, the inner inner 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:25.040 circle by the end. 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:28.600 And so mentioned this earlier in the show, I'm trying 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.520 to change my I wish America would change their their 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.680 thinking on this from I'm angry at Jake Tapper to hey, 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:38.880