Speaker 1: Before we get to three. The stupidest things ever said.
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 1: Could qualify if he had said it rather than posting it,
Speaker 1: So this could fit. So last night, a judge says, yeah,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump could send the National Guard out in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles to protect federal buildings, but apparently also said he
Speaker 1: doesn't have unlimited ability to do that. So Gavin Newsom
Speaker 1: has jumped on that with this statement, the court rightly
Speaker 1: rejected Trump's claim that he can do whatever he wants
Speaker 1: with the National Guard and not have to explain himself
Speaker 1: to a court.
Speaker 2: We will continue to take on the president.
Speaker 1: So he lost, but he's struggling on a post to
Speaker 1: try to make it sound like he won, right, which
Speaker 1: is pretty funny, you know what. I appreciate the effort.
Speaker 1: It's plucky, you know what. It's ridiculous, but it's pretty clever.
Speaker 1: Just some spirit that's great. So yeah, it occurs to
Speaker 1: me the bad take of the Week could be a
Speaker 1: new feature at Going Forward and the Armstrong He getdy
Speaker 1: sh I like the idea. We have three candidates today,
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd of Meet the Press fame who explained America
Speaker 1: to Washington and Washington America, Oh my god, every time
Speaker 1: I hear that phrase, I want to vomit. An anonymous
Speaker 1: Instagram woman who has clawed her way up to contend
Speaker 1: with celebrities due to the stupidity of her take, and
Speaker 1: then really one of the all time greats in this category,
Speaker 1: Whoopee Goldberg, with a truly profoundly stupid take, And I
Speaker 1: like how these are all so different. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: like semi consequential from a media standpoint, probably nutpicking, but
Speaker 1: still hilarious and amazing, and then means something is important
Speaker 1: but dumb. Yeah, it's It's a lot like the Westminster
Speaker 1: Dog Show. How do you judge the Schnauzer against the
Speaker 1: Irish wolf?
Speaker 2: Found?
Speaker 1: It is a task. It's very much like the wen
Speaker 1: Sminster Show. I am wearing a short skirt, a long
Speaker 1: skirt down below the knees, with sensible shoes and hose,
Speaker 1: so I can jog along next to these.
Speaker 2: Clips trotting along.
Speaker 1: All right, let's begin with the Caesar haircutted just so
Speaker 1: full of himself it hurts Chuck Todd for the stupidest
Speaker 1: take of the week.
Speaker 3: I will go to my grave believing that the debate
Speaker 3: was intentional. Good for that, I neda done and general
Speaker 3: Maley Dellan will deny it till they're blowing the faith.
Speaker 3: They knew when the nomination was going to be and
Speaker 3: they knew they needed to deal with this with an
Speaker 3: opportunity to make a change if it was necessary.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Biden's inner circle intentionally trotted him out to
Speaker 1: make a fool of himself in the debate to get
Speaker 1: rid of him, even though they were, according to Chuck
Speaker 1: Todd's Jake Tapper's book, and everyone else, lying to everyone,
Speaker 1: including good friends, about the president's mental abilities as they
Speaker 1: desperately clung to power, knowing that even Kamala Harris would
Speaker 1: heave them all out on their ears.
Speaker 2: So they intentionally exploded. That's a dumb take.
Speaker 1: I yeah, I find that really hard to believe. And
Speaker 1: that's Chuck Todd. He's on some sort of podcast with
Speaker 1: uh and his name flits out of my head. The
Speaker 1: guy who wrote this down that we tend to like,
Speaker 1: Mark Lebovitch, Mark Lepovich, mark Levich.
Speaker 2: Is not in the long seeing yep, yep. So he agrees.
Speaker 1: And I mean, those guys know Washington DC insider stuff
Speaker 1: better than you know practically anybody. It just it just
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it fits with the rest of
Speaker 1: the cover up. No, yeah, eah, just clank all right.
Speaker 1: Intrant number two, anonymous Instagram woman.
Speaker 2: This is twenty one.
Speaker 4: Michael, who voted for Trump and all these moments I
Speaker 4: want the immigrants, Khan. They literally go on vacation to Mexico,
Speaker 4: gang gun, they go take a break from their reality
Speaker 4: and our reality and our land where we struggled for
Speaker 4: a better future. And nobody calls zip aliens or terrorists
Speaker 4: when they're on our land, right, we welcome them with
Speaker 4: open arm. Let them explore our land peacefully. They enjoy
Speaker 4: our beaches, our foods, our traditions, videotape everything that goes
Speaker 4: on in our communities in our country, like we're exotic
Speaker 4: animals to them. And yet where terrists aliens, criminal for
Speaker 4: living on stolen land.
Speaker 1: So when you go to Mexico to visit on vacation,
Speaker 1: nobody's calling you an illegal alien. Right.
Speaker 2: Wow? How old was she was? She eight?
Speaker 1: Because if she's eight, I'll give her a pass. If
Speaker 1: she's older than eight, I won't. And then just when
Speaker 1: you think, wow, this is a really strong entry, she
Speaker 1: just bam finishes with the whole stolen land Canard that's
Speaker 1: a pretty strong offering there, you m efforts. Nobody calls
Speaker 1: you aliens when you're on the beach at Cancun. No,
Speaker 1: you're you're literally tourists. Is why you haven't established them.
Speaker 1: It's not even worth arguing about. That is a dumb take,
Speaker 1: really dumb. And are you willing to give the land
Speaker 1: back to the Mayans and the Aztecs that the Spanish stole?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like that idiotic argument we were talking about yesterday
Speaker 1: on the show. Hey, look at all the cities in
Speaker 1: California that had Spanish names.
Speaker 2: It's proof that stole the land.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because a bunch of lights, Bisku and Spaniards are
Speaker 1: the native peoples of Mexico?
Speaker 2: Are they the hell?
Speaker 1: Well, if you fall for that argument, well you haven't
Speaker 1: studied history or you just dumb. All right, but those
Speaker 1: two entrant strong, they're up against again a legend Wollop
Speaker 1: be Goldberg.
Speaker 5: Let's just remember too, the Iranians literally throw gay people
Speaker 5: off of buildings.
Speaker 6: They don't have to share the basic human Listen, let's
Speaker 6: let's not do that. Let's not do that because if
Speaker 6: we start with that, we have we have been known
Speaker 6: in this country to tie gay folks to.
Speaker 2: The wed Hey, I know, but where the Iran this.
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Are just black people?
Speaker 3: So is it not even the same?
Speaker 2: I couldn't step No, that's not what you mean to say.
Speaker 2: It is the same.
Speaker 4: No, it's not the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: The United States is nothing like if I stepped foot
Speaker 5: wearing this, young.
Speaker 2: People, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's very different to live in
Speaker 5: the United States in twenty twenty five than it is
Speaker 5: to live in a lot if you're.
Speaker 1: Black, for everybody, not if you're black, And if you
Speaker 1: are black in America, it's like being a woman in Iran.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a bad take.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm worried about how many people would buy that.
Speaker 2: Idea.
Speaker 1: And again setting this up, I thought, uh, interesting from
Speaker 1: a journalistic standpoint, I don't agree with the second one,
Speaker 1: kind of nut picking, but hilarious that somebody believes that
Speaker 1: third one important. I think this one is actually important.
Speaker 1: Noah Rothman of The National Review wrote a whole piece
Speaker 1: on it. Moral relativism. Relativism is the watchword of the
Speaker 1: day thanks to Senator Ted Kruz because he and Tucker
Speaker 1: Carlson got into it on that long video cast we
Speaker 1: didn't play that chunk of it. But Tucker said, all
Speaker 1: leaders kill people, as if when we take out Solimani,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing as putin bomb in a hospital
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. All leaders kill people moral relativism, putting them
Speaker 1: all in the same category. Back to Nora Rothman, he
Speaker 1: made an example of one of the American rights more
Speaker 1: prominent proponents of the notion that there are few ethical
Speaker 1: distinctions between the United States and its allies and the
Speaker 1: despotic criminal regimes that are devoted to remaking the US
Speaker 1: led world order on their terms.
Speaker 2: And all it took was.
Speaker 1: For the view's co host, Whoopee Goldberg, to become visibly agitated,
Speaker 1: was for her to be confronted with the fact that
Speaker 1: the Islamic Republican of Iran mercilessly abuses the minority groups
Speaker 1: that enjoy protected status here in the West. She said,
Speaker 1: as you heard there, let's not do that, because if
Speaker 1: we start with that, we have been known in this
Speaker 1: country to tie gay folks to car Listen, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: they used to just keep hanging black people. Horrible story
Speaker 1: of you might remember from years ago gay people being
Speaker 1: gay people.
Speaker 2: Have been abused, but it wasn't the government.
Speaker 1: Policy to hang to drag gay people behind cars.
Speaker 2: It was a horrible, homophobic.
Speaker 1: Weirdo, nutjob, murderous lunatic who did that or lunatics.
Speaker 2: That's not our government policy in Iran.
Speaker 1: It's the government policy to hang gay people from cranes
Speaker 1: in the middle of Tehran, right to beat women down
Speaker 1: if they dare show their hair or talk back to
Speaker 1: the secret police. Yeah, it's just it's a profoundly evil
Speaker 1: take on top of it being just stupid. Noah points
Speaker 1: out in The National Review. Iran executes women out of a
Speaker 1: scene numbers, often for political offenses and sins against religious dogma.
Speaker 1: It executes children in similar numbers. It ruthlessly black males
Speaker 1: and courses families of women and children, intimidates, harasses in prison, tortures,
Speaker 1: and too many cases murders, so they will keep their
Speaker 1: dissension to a minimum. The Islamic Republic allows girls to
Speaker 1: be married in quotes off at thirteen, does not protect
Speaker 1: them from violent and abusive husbands, and then sentence them
Speaker 1: to death after they commit desperate acts to escape the
Speaker 1: crimes committed against them. This is all well known and
Speaker 1: well documented. For Whoopi Goldberg to claim that it's worse
Speaker 1: to be a black woman in America than to be
Speaker 1: a woman in Iran is a horrific thing to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it bothers me that there might be a lot
Speaker 1: of people who believe that well, and it undervalues it
Speaker 1: spits on all the great good that's been done through
Speaker 1: the history of the country too, and all the progress.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's horrible. That's winner to me.
Speaker 1: It is obscene to try to portray the United States
Speaker 1: is as as awful as Iran or worse. That's so
Speaker 1: bad for our politics. Yeah, that was idiotic, just terrible.
Speaker 1: Do you think she believes that, You think she's just so.
Speaker 2: Separately.
Speaker 1: No, she's desperately motivated to be the victim. That is
Speaker 1: her status. She is so steeped in the victim culture,
Speaker 1: the oppressor of victim culture, and gains power from it
Speaker 1: that she in the in the hierarchy. You know, they
Speaker 1: actually teach it in universities, the whole intersectional thing in
Speaker 1: the hierarchy of grievance. Somebody suggested Iranian woman have it
Speaker 1: really bad, worse than whoopy has it in America, and
Speaker 1: she could not sit still for that. Well, Tucker's saying
Speaker 1: all leaders kill people, so I don't pay any attention
Speaker 1: to that is the same thing. Yeah, you got African
Speaker 1: leaders torturing and murdering Christians. It's not the same thing
Speaker 1: as things we've done or France does or no, no.
Speaker 2: No, we're running out of time.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's a horrible suggestion, and that somebody
Speaker 1: as smart as Tucker would go with so horrible an
Speaker 1: argument to say something any any response to that text
Speaker 1: line four one five two nine five KFDC.
Speaker 2: Marstrong.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 6: According to a new poll, more people are getting news
Speaker 6: from AI bots like chat GPT, but it's not that reliable,
Speaker 6: and there's so much news happening that AI is actually confusing.
Speaker 2: Stories in details. For instance, here's some real news headlines
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 6: Okay, one hundred and ten year old lobster released Megan
Speaker 6: Marco responds to tworking video and ms McConnell's skull's red
Speaker 6: faced Pete hagg sat on Russia, but AI reported one
Speaker 6: hundred and ten year old miss.
Speaker 1: McConnell tworks in a Russian red loots.
Speaker 2: That shouldn't that shouldn't.
Speaker 1: I feel like they had an idea for a joke
Speaker 1: and had to force a premise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was going to bring up, that
Speaker 1: people are increasingly turning to AI chat bots like chat
Speaker 1: GPT for day to day news, especially younger people.
Speaker 2: And so I just did it.
Speaker 1: Well, and what way did you get news from a
Speaker 1: chat gpt for instance?
Speaker 2: Well, I just asked what are the most important news
Speaker 2: stories today? Okay?
Speaker 1: And it spat out a handful, and you know that
Speaker 1: they are indeed big news stories, but they are all
Speaker 1: from liberal outlets, from the Guardian to Wikipedia to there's
Speaker 1: the Guardian again, Reuters. Wow, there's a big headline from Australia.
Speaker 2: Well, and we had.
Speaker 1: So yesterday. I believe Joe used the course expression as
Speaker 1: he has wont to do of when the S hits
Speaker 1: the fan, S being a letter denoting a really disgusting word.
Speaker 2: And I'm not.
Speaker 1: Familiar with these phrases that Joe traffics in, but apparently
Speaker 1: it's common when the S hits the fan.
Speaker 2: And so I chat GP why are you laughing.
Speaker 1: Katie because you are so full of what it's the fan?
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well said what she said. Huh.
Speaker 1: So I asked chat GPT where that phrase came from
Speaker 1: and it gave me a little history, and I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: that is really really interesting. But then one of our
Speaker 1: listeners looked up the explanation that chat GPT gave and
Speaker 1: claims it's fake. The novel that they cited doesn't exist. Now,
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to verify that, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to assume it's true. If that's true, it's one
Speaker 1: of those hallucinations that we've all heard of where people
Speaker 1: have gotten trouble in court, for instance, where you cite
Speaker 1: a court case that chet GPT gave you it's completely
Speaker 1: made up. AI, for some reason, every once in a while,
Speaker 1: completely fabricate something like my son used to do when
Speaker 1: he was little, and I'd ask him a question and
Speaker 1: he felt like he had to have an answer instead
Speaker 1: of just saying I don't know, he would make something up.
Speaker 1: Apparently AI does that for some reason, and nobody has
Speaker 1: the idea why or how to stop it.
Speaker 2: But like, this is funny.
Speaker 1: I was just googling it to see if I could
Speaker 1: find that novel and the first citation is a Reddit
Speaker 1: comment from the very listener who dropped us a note.
Speaker 2: Okay, but if.
Speaker 1: That's true, I mean that's that kind of takes the
Speaker 1: fun out of the way.
Speaker 2: I've been using.
Speaker 1: Chet GPT for the last couple of weeks. If every
Speaker 1: once in a while it's completely made up, what is
Speaker 1: your takeaway on that? I mean, I don't do I
Speaker 1: continue to use chat GPT. That was pretty wounding to
Speaker 1: find out that is.
Speaker 2: Just completely made up. Yeah, I can't. I can't find
Speaker 2: any evidence that it exists. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it created a novel from the thirties that
Speaker 1: uses the phrase as it's the fan to have an
Speaker 1: answer for where that phrase comes from. I am as
Speaker 1: mystified as Elon musk and the other tech gurus are
Speaker 1: by this phenomenon. It's it's dizzying. I can't imagine how
Speaker 1: that happens. Well, I don't know if I can still
Speaker 1: go to to to these AI bots for information if
Speaker 1: it's going to be I don't know how often it
Speaker 1: makes stuff up. Somebody needs to put their arm around
Speaker 1: chat GPT and say it's okay to say I don't know, right. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's troubling. I don't even know what to say to that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Elon musk Man, did he get what's the
Speaker 1: opposite of a come up? And big sums? Up justified
Speaker 1: big Elon story coming up next.
Speaker 2: Are strong and getty.
Speaker 5: I don't think you will hear any explicit criticism or
Speaker 5: even attempts to persuade a President Trump to take a
Speaker 5: more decisive and a quicker action. They have been very
Speaker 5: clear though the Israelis that they are not remotely interested
Speaker 5: in pursuing a diplomatic option, and they are even less
Speaker 5: interested in trying to be persuaded, for example, to stop
Speaker 5: the bombs.
Speaker 2: Or stop the.
Speaker 5: Strikes, while those diplomatic negotiations would would go on.
Speaker 1: That's Clariss Award of She with CNN now. But Trump
Speaker 1: is not interested in a diplomatic solution. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess he is. If it's total surrender. That's what he's
Speaker 1: calling for, complete surrender, Like we get to look everywhere,
Speaker 1: all nuclear facilities need to be completely destroyed. That's what
Speaker 1: complete surrender would be. A couple of updates and then
Speaker 1: maybe an hour three we'll get into it more. The
Speaker 1: big headline being Trump announced yesterday is going to take
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks to think this over. Could be
Speaker 1: completely true, could be the best way to get your
Speaker 1: opponent to let down their guard and you attack today.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Whether Israel's okay with waiting a couple of weeks, I
Speaker 1: don't know, because they're running out of air defense.
Speaker 2: Well, this is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: From open source Defender on Twitter, which has lots of
Speaker 1: cool information, A whole bunch of stuff just showed up
Speaker 1: in the Middle East from European US air bases, additional
Speaker 1: air defense systems, munition support equipment, up, et cetera. So
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of air defense stuff is just shown
Speaker 1: up in.
Speaker 2: The Middle East.
Speaker 1: That's ours that maybe we're gonna eat Israel or use
Speaker 1: in case we go to war. I don't know, right,
Speaker 1: It's certainly possible that the defense planners told Trump that
Speaker 1: to get like the next layer of preparedness is going
Speaker 1: to take five to fourteen days, right President, and he said,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll do it within two weeks, which is
Speaker 1: the specific phrase he used. Also from open source so it,
Speaker 1: I guess used satellite images of our air base in Katar,
Speaker 1: one of the US Air Force's most important bases in
Speaker 1: the entire Middle East, appears to show the base completely empty,
Speaker 1: completely abandoned. Usually has dozens of military aircraft, many many people,
Speaker 1: air fueling tankers, et cetera, et cetera. It's completely empty
Speaker 1: because it's within range of Iran shooting Matus and also
Speaker 1: an indication that we might be getting jiggy withitted.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See, yeah, indeed, yeah.
Speaker 1: We will see a couple of Elon Musk related stories,
Speaker 1: one which dovetails nicely with our last segment about AI
Speaker 1: Elon in the second one is much more impactful, by
Speaker 1: the way, But the first story, Elon Musk lashed out
Speaker 1: at his own AI chatbot Grock after it stated that
Speaker 1: right wing violence has become quote more frequent and deadly
Speaker 1: than left wing attacks. How on that listener asked that question?
Speaker 1: Pardon me, How the hell would you nail that down? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be tough, but Groc tried. Since twenty sixteen, data
Speaker 1: suggests right wing political violence has become more frequent and deadly,
Speaker 1: with incidents like the January sixth Capitol riot and mass shootings.
Speaker 1: He learned significant fatalities. Maybe this is where you're going,
Speaker 1: But we learned last week from documents obtained by Republicans
Speaker 1: that those stats that were being put out by the government,
Speaker 1: they used each individual case on January sixth, when they
Speaker 1: would say we have ninety examples of right wing extremists violence.
Speaker 1: They were all the same riot January sixth, and they
Speaker 1: use those like individual cases to pad the numbers. So
Speaker 1: Elon lashed out at his own chatbot. He posted on
Speaker 1: xt quote major fail. This is objectively false. Groc is
Speaker 1: parroting legacy media working on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's the other problem with some of these systems is
Speaker 1: they they are parrots. I mean, they're very sophisticated parrots.
Speaker 1: The Norwegian blue beautiful plumage in that ther your bigfoot
Speaker 1: media will call out the political ramific or the political
Speaker 1: origin of right wing violence, but it will act like
Speaker 1: left wing violence is just violence. Well that's the problem
Speaker 1: with the whole AI is is woke.
Speaker 2: Well if it takes.
Speaker 1: In information from the world, and so much of the
Speaker 1: world is woke, well then that's what it's gonna spit
Speaker 1: back out.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you do about that so much
Speaker 2: of the media world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, ask plumbers, not the New York Times.
Speaker 2: I'd give you a more accurate response. Anyway. This story
Speaker 2: about Elon is.
Speaker 1: Much more important, and it illustrates the depths to which
Speaker 1: the UK specifically has sunk. Elon called out the Brits
Speaker 1: on the grooming gang's scandal not long ago. If you're
Speaker 1: not familiar with this, I'm actually going to quote a
Speaker 1: fair amount from the Wall Street Journal editorial board from
Speaker 1: earlier this week. Elite progressive conformity is a problem across
Speaker 1: the Western world, and a telling example.
Speaker 2: Was exposed this week in the UK.
Speaker 1: Had tiped Elon Musk for prodding the Brits to confront
Speaker 1: the scandal is so called grooming gangs. These are men
Speaker 1: who shower adolescents with attention and gifts before coercing them
Speaker 1: into having sex and then worse from there. Louise Casey,
Speaker 1: a member of the House of the Lords, released an
Speaker 1: audit Monday that confirms with the public had long suspected,
Speaker 1: though the government denied it. The gangs are disproportionately Asian,
Speaker 1: such as Pakistani mostly Pakistani, and the government has tried
Speaker 1: actively to obfuscate this fact. Prime Minister Keir Starmer commissioned
Speaker 1: the audit in February after Musk called attention of the scandal.
Speaker 1: Monday's report suggests that an appalling lack of data about
Speaker 1: the perpetrator's ethnicity is one major failing of the UK's efforts.
Speaker 1: Starmer is now announced to nationwide probe. The audit says
Speaker 1: it is not to want to examine the ethnicity of offenders.
Speaker 1: Authorities need to understand who the perpetrators are or quote.
Speaker 1: It will be less easy to identify cultural and other
Speaker 1: drivers behind particular patterns of offending. The report notes, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, somebody in the British government, and you know
Speaker 1: it's fairly rare. In the United States government has said
Speaker 1: there are cultural norms in different cultures that differ from
Speaker 1: ours in the West, and some.
Speaker 2: Of them are repugnant. I'm paraphrasing.
Speaker 1: The report cites many examples where authorities deliberately avoided looking
Speaker 1: at ethnicity or culture quote for fear of appearing racist,
Speaker 1: raising community tensions, or causing community cohesion problems. That is well,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's suicide as a culture to do
Speaker 1: that correct. Secondly, it's just disgusting. How do you get this,
Speaker 1: how do you get there logically? Well, we're talking about
Speaker 1: underage girls being raped here. It's not like shoplifting, which
Speaker 1: is bad enough that I don't want to look like
Speaker 1: a racist or something or erase engines in the community. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because these are mostly poor and working class girls who
Speaker 1: are being raped and and forced to turn tricks and
Speaker 1: once they're in the clutches of the gang. Uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's not raise community tensions. There's so much of Europe,
Speaker 1: not all of it, but so much of it that
Speaker 1: is allowed in damnation upon the generational leaders that allowed
Speaker 1: the rampant immigration from uh, you know, the Middle East
Speaker 1: and Africa and the rest of it. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: lost my train of thought. Well they oh, that's right.
Speaker 1: And having done this and being confronted with a cultural bully,
Speaker 1: their strategy has been don't make the bully man. Please,
Speaker 1: don't make the bullymad. They have gangs raping girls, well,
Speaker 1: we don't want to make them mad. That is just shocking.
Speaker 1: Information about ethnicity was missing in two thirds of the
Speaker 1: cases recorded in national data. Some local police departments had
Speaker 1: complete demographic data, and the auditors also looked at convictions.
Speaker 1: They found that men Ofvasi ethnicity made up a larger
Speaker 1: share of the grooming gang perpetrators and suspects than the
Speaker 1: local populations. The auditor's caution limited data may not be
Speaker 1: nationally representative, but it merits broader investigation. The audit is
Speaker 1: especially critical of a twenty twenty government report that suggested
Speaker 1: quote the majority of offenders in sexual grooming gangs were
Speaker 1: likely white. That report was quoted and re quoted in
Speaker 1: official reports, the media and elsewhere as proof that claims
Speaker 1: made about Asian grooming gangs are sensationalized or untrue. How
Speaker 1: similar is that to the whole you know, transgender youth
Speaker 1: will kill themselves and the w path study points out
Speaker 1: the gender affirming care helps kids completely fictional.
Speaker 2: Well that's highly troubling.
Speaker 1: Way, and Elon got murdered by the British press and
Speaker 1: the lefty politicians in UK for pointing out how the
Speaker 1: grooming gang scandal has been covered up. But then the
Speaker 1: lefty Prime Minister's own audit said, uh yeah, it turns
Speaker 1: out it's right man. Good for Elon in that one,
Speaker 1: because the press wasn't going to do that story.
Speaker 2: That's pretty heavy for a Friday.
Speaker 1: You know, what would be fun is a lot of
Speaker 1: snark about one of the world's richest mens ridiculously over
Speaker 1: the top wedding that he's planning for this month. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's the fella. I'm still waiting for the invitation. It's
Speaker 1: probably just stuck in the mail. The Bezos super wedding,
Speaker 1: The details have leaked. If I get invited, do I
Speaker 1: have to intend all of the many multi day events.
Speaker 2: For like it'll cost you six figures? Probably? Yeah, I
Speaker 2: couldn't handle it. I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't pretend to be excited about this every day,
Speaker 1: day after day, same thing. Oh so much pomp, stay
Speaker 1: with us?
Speaker 2: Will I get free shipping in my wedding gift? That's
Speaker 2: a good question, right there? Wow, wow, two day prim Yes,
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's become more of a cultural touchstone. Speaking of culture,
Speaker 1: this is something now I may have over promised a
Speaker 1: little bit. Some of the details are leaking about the
Speaker 1: bezos super wedding, but just a few. It's if they're
Speaker 1: very tight lipped. It's going to happen on an island
Speaker 1: in Venice. Already, alright, already, I mean that's all righty okay,
Speaker 1: good for you. And it is said to be raising
Speaker 1: the bar significantly over some of the other recent super weddings.
Speaker 2: For instance, here's this sit you.
Speaker 1: Feel the need to compete at stuff like that. I
Speaker 1: just find so incredibly off putting, says the pauper moving
Speaker 1: along today. The new normal is a super wedding for
Speaker 1: the wealthiest people on Earth, akin to a music festival
Speaker 1: in size, with costs running into the millions. And they
Speaker 1: mentioned this power couple in India. Their wedding included a
Speaker 1: custom built glass palace and a performance by Rihanna. Then
Speaker 1: you got Lionel Richie's gal a daughter and The Atlantic
Speaker 1: Record chief executive Elliott Grange in twenty twenty three. Their
Speaker 1: weddings spend multiple days in Antibbi's France, featuring Hope culture,
Speaker 1: Chanelle gowns, and an after party headlined by rock band
Speaker 1: Good Charlotte and again the Bezos. Sanchaz union is said
Speaker 1: to be raising the bar, says one planner, a luxury
Speaker 1: wedding planner. It used to be about fireworks, then it
Speaker 1: was about drones. Now it's shooting fireworks from drones. She's
Speaker 1: done weddings for celembs like Jennifer Lopez. A multi day
Speaker 1: luxury wedding with two hundred guests now carries a price
Speaker 1: tag of about four million dollars, according to Jamie Simon,
Speaker 1: director of events at luxury planning firm Banana Split, which
Speaker 1: brought the Grange wedding to life. Cowie says, he's oh,
Speaker 1: that's another guy that was quoted earlier has worked on
Speaker 1: weddings that cost eight figures, that would be ten million plus.
Speaker 2: Why why don't.
Speaker 1: You just print out your financial statement and hand it
Speaker 1: around because that's what you're doing, isn't it showing people
Speaker 1: how wealthy you are, well, yeah, but you are with
Speaker 1: those people having a really good time, and so it
Speaker 1: gains you even more cachet and probably invites this similar thing.
Speaker 1: I understand a good time, but there are diminishing returns
Speaker 1: after a certain amount of money, Like I don't I
Speaker 1: think anything past couple thousand dollars, And you can't get
Speaker 1: that much more fun going, can you?
Speaker 2: Oh you lack imagine?
Speaker 1: It's you, simple, simple to the beautiful, simple little man.
Speaker 2: Well, listen to some of this stuff.
Speaker 1: The costs include upscale vendors for everything from cocktail our
Speaker 1: caviar to seventy five thousand dollars hanging installations to nightclub
Speaker 1: worthy sound and lighting. Well, I guess it depends on
Speaker 1: who you are. I would get no enjoyment out of
Speaker 1: your seventy five thousand dollars hanging something or others. You're
Speaker 1: not invited a bartender's tap mixologist to craft bespoke cocktails.
Speaker 2: You have food stylists.
Speaker 1: Florists are working with drapery artists who add huge swaths
Speaker 1: of fabric for additional layers of drama. See I find this,
Speaker 1: I actually do. This is not jealousy. I find it disgusting.
Speaker 1: I find that sort of opulent, self indulgent, conspicuous consumption
Speaker 1: disgusting and immoral.
Speaker 2: I really do. I'm not a socialist.
Speaker 1: I don't want, you know, anybody to take their money
Speaker 1: or for anything like that, but I find it immoral
Speaker 1: to do that sort of thing. I think it's like
Speaker 1: gluttony or lust or anything else. It's just it's too much.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: The bride has asked me to tell you to get
Speaker 1: on your mule and go, Clem.
Speaker 2: You're not welcome here, all right, Get on your mule, Clem.
Speaker 1: A luxury destination wedding takes a village to produce. Heywood
Speaker 1: in London, works with teams as large as five hundred
Speaker 1: people for the event. She plans, We've got eighty thousand
Speaker 1: rose stems here. Can you imagine how many people it
Speaker 1: takes to condition those flowers. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: that means beyond manpower to set up hey What also
Speaker 1: maintains a twenty person team to assist some small details
Speaker 1: like steaming bridesmaid's dresses. They also look after family VIPs,
Speaker 1: make sure the grandparents have a drink at all times.
Speaker 2: Ba ba bah.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember we had this story a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago about how many days are involved. There's like
Speaker 1: an all day some sort of reception, and then another
Speaker 1: whole day different kind of reception, and then an entire
Speaker 1: day of that kind of reception. It's just like in
Speaker 1: a dance party at night, And even if I was invited,
Speaker 1: I think, how many of these freaking things do I
Speaker 1: have to get dressed up for? Actually, there was one
Speaker 1: of those things dramatized beautifully in at What's the Star
Speaker 1: Wars Show? I was so excited about Mandalorian and Or
Speaker 1: and Or and Or. Yeah, it was a multi day
Speaker 1: upper krusty wedding, But this planner says typical clients typically
Speaker 1: hope to show guests something they've never experienced before. She's
Speaker 1: built six hundred thousand dollars structures for wedding, rented ten
Speaker 1: foot candelabras, and ordered custom furniture from Egypt. This guy
Speaker 1: typically works with silk Flowers for overhead installations, which can
Speaker 1: cost twenty five to seventy five thousand dollars. I would
Speaker 1: like to know first the ratio of dollars spent to
Speaker 1: likely hood, marriage lasts, or or even just happiness, Like
Speaker 1: you're happy together? Okay, here here are my favorite ones.
Speaker 1: More wealthy couples are opting for video mapping, where lighting
Speaker 1: artists project three D images throughout a venue, immersive like
Speaker 1: you're in different parts of the world. And this planner
Speaker 1: recently commissioned a half million dollar holograph of the bride's
Speaker 1: deceased grandfather to share well wishes to the couple. Maybe
Speaker 1: Alkita is right, Maybe we are decadent in the list.
Speaker 2: Maybe al Qaeda's right.
Speaker 1: You can get Paul McCartney, John Rolling Stones, Lionel Richie, anybody,
Speaker 1: but Adele. Adele won't do weddings good to humiliating, good
Speaker 1: for I would agree if I got enough money, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go be your dancing monkey. If I'm Riana
Speaker 1: or whoever, I don't need more money, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go perform the way you want me to perform for
Speaker 1: your wedding. Oh, I didn't even get into the dancing monkeys.
Speaker 1: They're fifteen hundred bucks a pop and it's a minimum
Speaker 1: of ten. So anyway, well, I'm sure we'll see lots
Speaker 1: of pictures and videos from the Big Bezos wedding. We
Speaker 1: got more to come in our three. If you miss it,
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