1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and no Hee Armstrong and Yahetty. Some 4 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 2: business news. 5 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 3: The maker of Nutter butters, Chips, Ahoy, and Oreos is 6 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: chewing Aldi for allegedly using packaging that blatantly copies their products. Yeah, 7 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 3: all the apologize and as a peace offering sent in 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 3: Tobisco a bunch of delicious prongles. 9 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 2: That's interesting. You don't want to be eaten counterfeit Nutter butters, 10 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 2: That's okay. 11 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 4: I don't want to get off on this, but I've 12 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 4: always wondered about like like you can get raisin bran, 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 4: you can get post raisin bran or cologgs raisin bran. 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 4: The boxes look almost exactly the same, the product is 15 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 4: the same. 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a feeling the court's rules that no, 17 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: that's just a simple statement of the two ingredients, and 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: you can't copyright that. You could have like brand raising Crunch, 19 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: that would probably be a copyrightable name. That's my guess. 20 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 4: You know what I'm enjoying right now is the weedy, 21 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 4: the old timey whedy that's a good Wow, that's a 22 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 4: good serial right there. 23 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: Like your boyhood hero Bruce Jenner. You're not sure if 24 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: you've heard about him. Yes, speaking of that sort of madness, 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: we give you a news report featuring radical leftist Marxist 26 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: California politician Scott Wiener. 27 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 5: State Senator Scott Wiener is certain his bill will pass 28 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 5: allowing San Francisco police officers to cite these illegal vendors. 29 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 6: This is for folks who are selling goods that have 30 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 6: been placed on a placed on a list of commonly 31 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 6: stolen goods, who don't have a permit and don't have 32 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 6: proof of purchase. Then the police will be able to 33 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 6: cite them, and on the third offense they can get 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 6: a misdemeanor. 35 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: So I want to make sure you understand what happened there. 36 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 4: So it's a regular thing, especially in California, to go 37 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 4: into a CBS or whatever store you want to go 38 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 4: into and just take your arm on the shelf and 39 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 4: sweep stuff into a grocery bag and walk out the 40 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 4: door and nobody arrests you. And then you set up 41 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 4: card tables out on the street and sell the stuff 42 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,839 Speaker 4: right in front of the store. Sometimes and this Wiener, Dude, 43 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 4: Scott Wiener. 44 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 7: He's gonna crack down on these people. 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 2: We're gonna get tough on him starting now. 46 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 4: A policeman can excite them and on the third citation 47 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:38,839 Speaker 4: they will get a misdemeanor. 48 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: That is so hilarious. 49 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: That is so hilarious it would be impossible for me 50 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: running one of these rings to tell my various junkie friends, 51 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: all right, you've been busted for selling twice. You go 52 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: back to boosting from stores. Ew Hey, boostin, Jimmy, you 53 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: man the table. 54 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 4: Now, if you wonder why California is completely lawless, and 55 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 4: you've seen those videos flying around social media where they 56 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 4: just rob stores blind, and why so many CBS's and 57 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 4: Walgreens have had to close in LA and San Francisco 58 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 4: and Oakland and those that are open, everything costing more 59 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 4: than seventy five cents is locked up behind glass and 60 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 4: you have to bother somebody to get it out for you. 61 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 4: You want to get some freaking deodorant, you have to 62 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 4: find some unhappy employee to come unlock it for you. 63 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: Excuse me, I need three dollars worth of band aids please. 64 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 4: Is because this counts as getting tough on crime. And 65 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 4: the third time we catch you selling this stuff, we're 66 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 4: gonna give y'all misdemeanor. 67 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 2: And he said that with that like tough guy voice. 68 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 2: That's hilarious. 69 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: Scott Wiener is not only a Marxist, he is a 70 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: encourager of reaching across the generations for man boy love 71 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. He's sexual radical, he is 72 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: a He's a damn communist and has done enormous damage. 73 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: And he is the poster child for what got the 74 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: Democratic Parties heine kicked in the last election, certainly on 75 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: a national level. So the Democratic Party is trying to 76 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: figure out what to do with their left flank. The 77 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: lunatics like Scott Wiener and arrive at a message that 78 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: somebody might be willing to vote for. And what they've 79 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 1: come up with is the Abundance Agenda, which is based 80 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: on a book by Ezra Klein and who's the co author, 81 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: Derek Thompson Surprise Hit Jack. Hundreds of thousands of copies sold. 82 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: The idea is kind of cut through all the red 83 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: tape and the regulations. They're well meaning, but it's metastasized 84 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: into choking the economy and making people's lives worse, we've 85 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: got to deregulate and free up the economy blah blah blah. 86 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: So they've to a large extent become moderate Republicans. 87 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, to a certain extent. It's the sort of 88 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 4: thing Bill Maher's been talking about for a long time. 89 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 4: I think that's why I had Ezra clent On right 90 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 4: away to talk about this book. Is the idea that 91 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 4: lefties come up with in the These are their words, 92 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 4: not necessarily my thoughts on all these topics, but that 93 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 4: they Democrats come up with good ideas, but their ideas 94 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 4: never reach the end point, and that's why people have 95 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 4: turned against the Democratic Party. Like bullet train, good idea, 96 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 4: but all of the waste and mess and everything like that, 97 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 4: they didn't actually get a bullet train. Spending money on 98 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 4: dealing with homelessness a good idea, but it gets all 99 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 4: wrapped up in waste and everything like that, and you 100 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 4: don't solve the homeless problem, you know, through all the 101 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 4: money at housing and you build, you spend one hundred 102 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 4: million dollars to build five apartments, all that sort of stuff. Right, 103 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 4: they say their goal is okay, they just never get 104 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 4: to the end result. And they got to cut out 105 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 4: all the crap in between that stops them from accomplishing 106 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 4: what they want to accomplish. 107 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: So, now as I'm trying to get a grasp of this, 108 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 1: they're trying to advocate for effective policies as opposed to 109 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: ineffective ones. 110 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 2: Hmm, now you have my attention. 111 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 4: But still the same policies that they say people on 112 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 4: their side want. But that's that's the deal. 113 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: Right, right, So the idea of efficient leftism. 114 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 4: They're the thinking is of some people in the Democratic 115 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 4: Party is that our ideas are not unpopular, we just 116 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 4: don't implement them in a way that ever yields in results. 117 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,160 Speaker 2: Which is certainly true. The second part is definitely true. 118 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: Right, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I would argue the 119 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: first part obviously, but the second part is absolutely unquestionably true, 120 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: particularly as you look at cal Unicornia. And interestingly enough, 121 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom was on or I'm Sorry, he had Ezra 122 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: Cline on his podcast for a ninety minute discussion about 123 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: the book and Gavey, who is trying desperately to thread 124 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: the needle between running away from his record as the 125 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: ruiner of California, together with his political great granddad Jerry Brown, 126 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: trying to pretend he's not that, but indeed is the 127 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: brave knight in shining. 128 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 2: Armor who will confront the ills that have just been 129 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 2: visited upon him. 130 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 4: So he was defensive about the way the book actually 131 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 4: depicts California's exhibit A for democratic dysfunction. Yes, as it 132 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 4: should be, but I'm quoting now from the Wall Street Journal. 133 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: A Newsom nonetheless proclaimed. 134 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 7: The book essential reading for Democrats, and he said he's 135 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 7: been handing out copies of the leaders of the state 136 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 7: legislature because they got to get effective cut those regulations 137 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 7: that I've been pushing my entire career. 138 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: That's interesting. Here are some more quotes Richie Torus, Democrat, 139 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: New York. The system is broken. The government is too inefficient, 140 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: ineffective to meet the challenges of the twenty first century. 141 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: But the answer is not doge. 142 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: It's abundance in all caps, cut red tape, unleashed the 143 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: state as a stimulant to growth and innovation, private enterprise 144 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: with the state. 145 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 4: I am not unhappy to have them come to this conclusion, 146 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 4: and then we can argue about policies, but at least 147 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 4: they won't be all bogged down in worthlessness. 148 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: Right if you say you're going to spend a billion 149 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: dollars to accomplish something, please accomplish it. 150 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 2: At least that's not a lot to ask. 151 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: They're big on the yimbi push yes in my backyard, 152 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: you know, strict housing rules and zoning and clustering high 153 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: rises near train stations and all that. We want to 154 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: stick with those policies, as Jack was saying, good policies, 155 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: but we've got to eliminate the nimby types. We're looking 156 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: at you Malibu by the way, and and. 157 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 7: Scarsdale and fair Fax, Virgin yach. 158 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: Where they're as blue as the sapphire, and yet they 159 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: will Well, I'm in favor of multi family housing, just 160 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: not here. 161 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 4: All the people that go to all the super expensive 162 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 4: A plate fundraisers and give the money, they don't want 163 00:08:59,240 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 4: it in their backyard. 164 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 2: I guarantee you right. 165 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: The protected class who advocate for these policies but are 166 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: never affected. 167 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 4: By Yeah, does a teacher at your super expensive private school. 168 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 4: They're super rich, lefty have to speak nine different languages 169 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 4: to accommodate all the immigrations. Oh they don't, that's interesting. 170 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 4: Could they have to in the public schools? 171 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: Josh Harder, who is a non lunatic Democrat from a 172 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: swing district in California, says the book has given voice 173 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,079 Speaker 1: to a feeling people have had for a while that's 174 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: just too hard to build things. 175 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 2: That's absolutely true. 176 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: It is, you know, if this is a notable tech 177 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: to the center more or less certainly to effectiveness. Yeah, 178 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: that's a good thing, sure, absolutely, as opposed to AOC 179 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 1: you know, the Chae Guavera with the nicely formed boosoms 180 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: leading the Democratic Party into a socialist future. If this 181 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: is the all, bring it on, fellows, good luck. 182 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure I heard Ezra or somebody who is 183 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 4: a proponent of this saying, like a lot of our 184 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 4: green stuff has not panned out the way we said 185 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 4: it would. 186 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 2: You know that sort of thing. 187 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: That's good. That's hey, that is good. That's absolutely good. 188 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: It was phony from the beginning, but at least you're 189 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: admitting it. I was amused by a couple of things. 190 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: First of all, there is a backlash on the left 191 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: jack who've attacked the book in many essays, podcasts, and 192 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: book reviews. Critics argue the authors are blind to are 193 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: stooges of the corporate power that is the true culprit 194 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: for the problems. The book lays out abundance right, a 195 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: couple of morons for the rolling Stone, encourages democrats to 196 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: focus on the wrong solutions, and elevates deregulatory narratives already 197 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: being weaponized by the right. Okay, we need more regulations 198 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: and then this kind of and you're right, Ezra obviously 199 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: a tool of the right. 200 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Fascist. 201 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 4: Oh here's the other problem I got. Thirteen year old 202 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 4: asked me what's a fascist? 203 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 2: The other day? So, anybody you don't like? 204 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 4: So, mostly because he's fighting fascists in his new video game, 205 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 4: the Indiana Jones video Game, you fight fascists, He's fighting 206 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 4: Mussolini's fascists. 207 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: Well, now, wait, did they actually did they identify them 208 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: as as like Italian fascists or they're just kind of yeah, 209 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: black uniforms. 210 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 2: Oh really yeah? Yeah, well, okay, I brought. 211 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 4: Up Mussolini said, yeah's Mussolini. They mentioned that in the game. 212 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 4: He said, okay, cool, he said, you see him learning 213 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 4: something we ought to pass. 214 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: And I will over regulate the video game industry when 215 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: I am elected emperor. But you'll be fighting Chinese communists. No, kids, 216 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: not freaking Nazis no kidding anyway, I found. 217 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 2: This very amusing. 218 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 1: Let me squeeze this, and they mentioned in the journal 219 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: in our short lived twenty twenty four campaign, Kamala Harris's 220 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: promised to build three million new homes in America was 221 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: the best testing of our several proposed I've got a 222 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: really funny note on that later too. But according to 223 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: both her campaign and Trump's a Yimbi's for Harris Zoom fundraiser, 224 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: they're talking about how popular this was. A Yimbi's for 225 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: Harris Zoom fundraiser drew thirty thousand participants and raised more 226 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 1: than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Uh point of order, 227 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: mister chairman. It's like four dollars and fifty cents. 228 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 2: Per at ten d wow. I mean, if that's a 229 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 2: success story, what does a failure look like. 230 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 4: I got a Kamala thing, a brief Kamala thing, because 231 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,079 Speaker 4: I am sick of ever talking about her and hoping 232 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 4: she'll go away, though she's not. She's going to be 233 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 4: governor of California some more. I'll get to that at 234 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 4: some point. We also have a good nut picking thing. 235 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 4: It's nut picking, but it's entertaining, among other things, we 236 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 4: can get to stay here. So is this nut picking? 237 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 2: I don't know. 238 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 4: Nut picking as if you pick out a nut on 239 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 4: the other side and try to, you know, make blanket 240 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 4: judgments against a certain group of people. There are quite 241 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 4: a few people that think that this is. Like a 242 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,440 Speaker 4: middle aged woman posted this on social media. She was 243 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 4: in her local target. 244 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 5: I'd be Pride month in my target that used to 245 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 5: have the pride section. It's now all USA. 246 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: Yay. 247 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 5: It's it's an American summer except for tourism because tourism 248 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 5: is down because no one wants to come here USA woo. 249 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 5: And honestly, my dad serves the military and I'd love 250 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:29,559 Speaker 5: to be really proud of this nation, but it's hard 251 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 5: to be proud. 252 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 2: Of it under Donald Trump. 253 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 5: But hey, you know, while you're here, pick up a 254 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 5: USA bikini. 255 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 7: Yeah? 256 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 5: Why not? 257 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 258 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 5: Target's really taken this anti DEI thing. 259 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: To another level. 260 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 4: It's a woman who was very unhappy that her target 261 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 4: had a lot of red, white, blue stuff for Fourth 262 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 4: of July by the front door instead of all the 263 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 4: pride and trans stuff that they've had in previous years 264 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 4: and gotten some blowback for. 265 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: You now. She was less obnoxious than I expected I would. 266 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: I think the most notable thing she said, and the 267 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 1: only thing I want to respond to is the idea 268 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: that the country is the president. 269 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: Yes, that's absurd. Where the country is. 270 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 1: The constitution and it's people and your town, your county, 271 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: your state, your region. I mean, the federal government certainly 272 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: has a role in the country, but the government isn't 273 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: the country, and the president certainly isn't the country. Sweetheart, 274 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: your dad is the country, Your. 275 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: Next or neighbor is the country. These are odd times. 276 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 4: Rap wars are going on. I don't know if you're 277 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 4: aware of the rap wars. So much conflict around the globe. 278 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 4: And I don't mean rap ribitty rou said a rip 279 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 4: rap riberty roo. I don't mean singing. I mean wr ap, 280 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 4: as in the kind of rap you eat in fast 281 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 4: food joints. Apparently McDonald's is bringing back They're very popular, 282 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 4: though I'd never heard of it, snack rap that was huge, 283 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 4: and so their competitors are uh combating that. Popeyes has 284 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 4: launched a new chicken rap that actually in the picture 285 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 4: looks pretty freaking good. But anyway, so if you're into 286 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 4: that sort of thing, lots of restaurants are going to 287 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 4: have them. I don't know why, why things catch on 288 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 4: and some things don't. I'm a big fan of the 289 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 4: rap for the record. 290 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 2: This headline from The Oregonian. 291 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 4: How hookup apps help fuel the meth crisis. 292 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 2: Among gay men. What's your guests on that? There's a 293 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: lot there. 294 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 4: How hookup apps fuel the meth crisis among gay men. 295 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 2: I'm sure they have little. 296 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: Code words that they use for this is actually connecting 297 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: for drugs, not to fornication and are both. I mean, 298 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: because tweakers famously want to fornicate all day and all night. Right. 299 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 4: I remember one guy I knew who was a meth guy, 300 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 4: and he said it's like orgasm times with thousand or 301 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 4: something like that, which I thought, I don't know if. 302 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 2: I can agnal that. 303 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know I can't. And I remember talking to 304 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: to dea guys who said, I tell you what, you 305 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: bust a house that's producing bathroom people are using math, 306 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: You're gonna find three things porn and sex toys, clutter 307 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: and more porn and sex toys. You just turns you 308 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: into it's just a flaming horn dog. I guess if 309 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: you know the average guy needs. 310 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 4: Any help American men are having a friend crisis. We'll 311 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 4: get to that story later in the show. I look 312 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 4: forward to it, but I came across this yesterday and 313 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 4: I found it was kind of hilarious. It was about 314 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 4: Kamala Harris and the decisions she needs to make. This 315 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 4: is Mark Calpern's newsletter, and he said all sources suggest 316 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 4: she remains undecided about running for governor, running for president, 317 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 4: or neither, to which I say, I think she'll If 318 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 4: she wants to run for governor, she'll be governor. I 319 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 4: Thinkamala Harris can be governor of California. And who wouldn't 320 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 4: want to be governor of the biggest state in the Union. 321 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 4: If you're a politician, run for president. That is hilarious. Oh, 322 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 4: I know that is hilarious. Are you kidding? 323 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 2: That would be so gratifying if she did. Pro chance 324 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 2: of getting your own nomination, your own party zero. 325 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: And is governor California, You've got a pipeline of chardonay 326 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: coming your way. 327 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 2: Come on, arm Strong and. 328 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: Bill Mahr the other night, waxing hilarious on the Democratic 329 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,679 Speaker 1: Party's efforts to get back to the American mainstream. 330 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 8: Then we'll move on from politics. How many know what 331 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 8: SAM stands for. It's a new phrase. It stands for 332 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 8: speaking with American men. Sam. This is the new movement 333 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 8: by the Democratic Party. They lost the men vote a 334 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 8: lot last time, and they have these these seminars. 335 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: Would you like to hear? 336 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 8: What was sammy? 337 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 2: Ok? These are ways that they want to. 338 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 9: Seminars that they had to try to win back the 339 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 9: typical American Now, like how to keep your liberal base 340 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 9: while putting guns. 341 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 2: On your Christmas card? That was warmer the best. 342 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 10: Protein powder for a clean bulk. An other dude conversation started. 343 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 10: Bud light etiquette, when to drink it, when to shoot it, fishing, 344 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 10: the bizarre hobby working class. 345 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 9: Men enjoy instead of pickleball, Bruce Lee versus Bigfoot, mythical 346 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 9: fight scenarios to man up here, Joe Rogan appearance. 347 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 4: That's pretty funny, speaking of the whole manly thing. Why 348 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 4: is Tim Walls on my television like every day somewhere? 349 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 4: What a nothing burger he is? Why is he around 350 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 4: in various things? 351 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: Any I don't want to talk about ball famous for 352 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: being famous at this point. 353 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 2: Coming up, I'm a knucklehead at times. Coming up, return 354 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: policies are such a big, a bigger part of retail 355 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 2: than I realized, and the way. 356 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 4: We use and sometimes abuse them. And two, just a 357 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 4: quick question. I'll have the answer next segment. What percentage 358 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 4: of us want to live to one hundred? It's surprisingly low. 359 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: So I promised we'd move on from politics, and we 360 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: certainly will after this mention because it's Kamala Harris related. 361 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,120 Speaker 1: We were just talking about Kamala and I'd like not 362 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: to bring her up again later. Nelly Bowles, writing in 363 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: The Free Press a post mortem on Kamala Harris's campaign, 364 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: cited up perception gap as one of the reasons she lost, 365 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:24,119 Speaker 1: saying voters believe she held positions that she didn't. And 366 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: this is a quote from the post mortem. Over eighty 367 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 1: percent of swing voters who chose Trump believed Harris held 368 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: positions she did not campaign on in twenty twenty four, 369 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: supporting what I'm already troubled by that phrase, but go on, 370 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: including supporting taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries for undocumented immigrants. 371 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: Eighty three percent believe that yeah, mandatory election. 372 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 4: She didn't run on it, but she said it and 373 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 4: then years ago and never denounced it during a campaign. 374 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 1: An eighty two percent misperceived that she was backing mandatory 375 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: electric vehicles. 376 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 2: By twenty thirty five. 377 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 1: Seventy seven percent believed erroneously that she believed in decriminalizing 378 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: border crossings and defunding the police. That's seventy two percent, 379 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: she said, getting back to Nelly Bowles. But Harris had 380 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: in fact supported all of these positions, like she is 381 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: on the record supporting every one of them here, here, here, 382 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: and here, and all of those are links. Of course 383 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: they're saying that, So it's not really a perception problem 384 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 1: so much as a reception problem, like these ideas are 385 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: not popular even though I support them. 386 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true she didn't run on them. I've heard 387 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 4: though the Harris people say that before. We didn't run 388 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 4: on them. Well, no, but you said them before, and 389 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 4: you never explained that you don't believe them anymore. So, yes, 390 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 4: you were painted with your own words. 391 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: Advocated for them forcefully for years. All right, now we'll 392 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: move on from politic handful of things that are good news, 393 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 1: some of them somewhat politically related. But it's been a 394 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: little gloomy and doomy so far, and I didn't want 395 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: to go all negative story in who is right, and 396 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: this might be the free press too, come to think 397 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: of it. Unbelievable story begins with a couple who faced 398 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: a parents' nightmare. Their son kJ was born and when 399 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: he was just days old, doctors diagnosed kJ with an 400 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,479 Speaker 1: incredibly rare genetic disorder that had to do with breaking 401 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: down proteins and they build up in the body in 402 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: a toxic level. Babies like kJ lacked the necessary enzyme 403 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: to convert ammonia to urea that's then excreted in the 404 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: europe urine and it doesn't breathe. It doesn't, I'm sorry, 405 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: build up in your bloodstream. Very very very rare. But 406 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: because of leaps forward in the Crisper gene editing world, 407 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: kJ became the first patient to ever receive a Crisper 408 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: treatment customized specifically for him, done by a team of 409 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: doctors and researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perlman School 410 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and UC Berkeley, among several 411 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: other institutions. After ten months and three courses of the treatment, 412 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: kJ is doing well and able to handle more protein 413 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: in his diet, heading in a really good direction. 414 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 4: That's awesome and miraculous. But the whole Crisper thing is 415 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 4: a lot like AI. There are all kinds of examples 416 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 4: of wonderful positive you can't argue with them things it 417 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 4: can do. But then people are gonna use Crisper to 418 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 4: have taller, blue eyed only boy or only girl or 419 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 4: whatever is popular at the time. You know, all kinds 420 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 4: of different things that are going to ruin mankind. 421 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: Hollywood types are going to say, can you give me 422 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: a kid that decides he's a boy in about sixth grade? 423 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 1: Can we have a gender bending Madnesteine. 424 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 2: No, it is. It's amazing, But yeah, I didn't. I would. 425 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 2: I'm trying to be positive, folks. 426 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: Just for the record, positive scientific breakthrough saving the life 427 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: of a baby, and Jack took it negative. 428 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 2: Just if you're keeping score at home, that's true. 429 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: Moving along, headline from the National Review, Progressive activists broke 430 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 1: Corporate America, shareholders putting it back together. There's now a 431 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: cottage industry, which is kind of funny of guys like 432 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: this David Boonsen, who's a financial advisor who worked to 433 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: reel companies back from the brinks of woke madness and 434 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: is now advising them on how to be normal again. 435 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 1: He's leaned into the authority that shareholders have to help 436 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: keep major companies focused on what they're supposed to be 437 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: focused on financial returns as opposed to social justice issues 438 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: that are not core to their business. The lead of 439 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: this article is at the height of the COVID pandemic 440 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: in America's so called racial reckoning, Marxism, activist groups infiltrated 441 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: major corporations and pressured executives to promote niche, left wing 442 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: social causes. But in the years since, consumers and shareholders, 443 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: sick of having progressive dogma forced on them, have begun 444 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: to exert pressure of their own and it is working, 445 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: and he is reeling a bunch of companies back from 446 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: the brank who are now saying and doing normal things again. 447 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: Bowyer Research Macroeconomic Consulting f him this recently taken on 448 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: the role of helping shareholders push this sort of thing. 449 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 2: In short, said quote, the. 450 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: Thing we're countering was a crazy social mania which came 451 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: up very quickly and formed a bubble, and corporations fell 452 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: all over themselves to embrace unpopular policies promoted by activists. 453 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: After a few years of corporate backlash, think bud Light, 454 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: Disney Target, coupled with Supreme Court ruling. 455 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 2: Every story I was in there for a while. 456 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 4: I remember there was a period of time you couldn't 457 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 4: go in a store that didn't have you know, black 458 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 4: lives matter, or we stand with this or that. Somewhere. 459 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 4: It was a craze that that writing is exactly right. 460 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 2: Here. 461 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: He says, quote, it's become obvious to companies that they 462 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: probably should not have made these commitments and political gestures 463 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: in this pandering in the first place. So they were 464 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: ready to get back to sanity because they saw what 465 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: they had done was not in their interests or their shareholders' interests. 466 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: And one thing, he's had a big victory at Pepsi Co, 467 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: the food giant filed a shareholders solution calling on the 468 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: company to account for its discriminatory ad buying under the 469 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: Global Alliance for Responsible Media. 470 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard of them. 471 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: GARM left wing group formed in twenty nineteen to promote 472 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: digital safety and combat disinformation, misinformation, hate speech. And what 473 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: these GARM people did was label anybody to the right 474 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: of The New York Times as hate speech outlets and 475 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: misinformation disinformation outlets. So Pepsi COO would not advertise on 476 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Show. They wouldn't advertise on Fox 477 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: News or News Nation or the or the Washington Free 478 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: Beacon or anything like that. And they finally convinced Pepsi 479 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: Coo this isn't has nothing to do with misinformation. Disinformation. 480 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: It's trying to unplatform anybody to the right of Jimmy Carter. 481 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,199 Speaker 4: Right and all kinds of people you might not like 482 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 4: their politics, like syrupy sugar water that they shouldn't drink. 483 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 2: Right. So again, this is a little political, but this 484 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 2: is positive. 485 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: The Justice Department has expanded its efforts against discrimination by 486 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: invoking the False Claims Act. It announced in May the 487 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,640 Speaker 1: Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims Act, 488 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 1: which encourage encourages whistleblowers to come forward with evidence of 489 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: illegal activity. Specifically, universities, corporations, and nonprofits have established diversity, equity, 490 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 1: and inclusion policies that violate the plain language of civil 491 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: rights laws. All racism is racism, All discrimination is discrimination. 492 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: So if you see discrimination against Asian people or white 493 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: people or whomever, you can let the Justice Department know 494 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: these entities. The corporations, the universities and nonprofits have received 495 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: billions of dollars in federal funding by falsely certifying that 496 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,640 Speaker 1: they are in compliance with federal law. 497 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:53,479 Speaker 2: They are not. 498 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 1: They are violating the plain language of civil rights laws. 499 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: And they've got a hotline established and going to bring 500 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: them to hill that way too. Progress is being made, 501 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: my friends. 502 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 4: That thing on the company is you know, losing their 503 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 4: their their woke messaging. And that's a good example of 504 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 4: the free market reflecting what almost everybody feels. 505 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 2: That that was a good result right there. 506 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's interesting to have observed what we're 507 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,719 Speaker 1: just talking about. And I wonder if now a lot 508 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: of these companies will be inoculated from doing it again. 509 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 1: Kind of a knee jerk. Oh this is hot. People 510 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: are mad, people are threatening. We got to do this, 511 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: We got to do this and a little more. All right, 512 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: Steady as she goes. We make fun of saw drinks, 513 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: Let's make food and soft drinks, and just everybody keep going. 514 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 4: I would hope that the next time there's some big thing, 515 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 4: you know, Nike says, we sell shoes. We're not getting 516 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 4: involved with this. You want to hear about our new 517 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 4: running shoe. It's really springy. But we're not going to 518 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 4: get involved in the political issue. 519 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: Or when some twenty nine year old you know, marketing exects. Hey, 520 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 1: I tell you what, show that you're down with the 521 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: people will sell more workout clothes and running shoes if 522 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: you like, come out and favor of black lives matter. Nike, 523 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: for instance, although Nike's unforgivably woke, but some of the 524 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: other companies we've talked about might say, yeah, yeah, yeah, 525 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: there's an upside, but there's a downside. 526 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 7: Why don't you call bud Light and ask them about 527 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 7: that doutside you get out of this baby. 528 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 2: You know, HW to their core purpose. 529 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 4: Like Chris Rock talking about Lulu Lemon. We don't discriminate. 530 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 4: What the hell are you talking about? And yes, you 531 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 4: do discriminate against the poor. You're here, how many people 532 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 4: want to live to be one hundred not nere as 533 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 4: many as you would think. I need to think about 534 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 4: that for a second myself, among other things coming up, 535 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 4: stay here. 536 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 11: Strong he YETIDNN is announceable air live performance of the 537 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 11: play good Night and Good Luck, which will be the 538 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 11: first time the Broadway show will be televised live and 539 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 11: simulate the experience of seeing it live. An old person 540 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 11: will come here and forget to turn off the. 541 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 2: Ringer on their phone. Here for the show. I brought 542 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 2: tiny candies. 543 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 4: I'm constantly amazed how many people can't you know to 544 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 4: forget and leave your ringer ons? One thing, I don't 545 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 4: think I've ever done it one time in my life 546 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 4: where my phone has gone off in a situation where 547 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 4: you wouldn't want your phone to go off. But I'm 548 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 4: amazed by when people's phone does go off. I don't 549 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 4: think that's, you know, immediately like a capital offense or 550 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 4: anything like that. But not knowing how to turn it 551 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 4: off drives me crazy that people who just like look 552 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 4: at their phone confused and pressing a million buttons. You 553 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 4: don't know how to turn it off. You don't know 554 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 4: what there's one button, just hit it once and it's off. 555 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 2: Crazy. Please silence your devices? Right? Do you want to 556 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: live to be one hundred years old? Only about a 557 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 2: quarter of. 558 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 4: A stew which is kind of surprising to me, And 559 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 4: the number goes down as you get older. If you 560 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 4: ask people when they're older, how interesting, h I wonder 561 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 4: what that's all about. It's not that unlikely that will 562 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 4: happen if you're in good health at sixty five and 563 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 4: you financially can pull it off, I mean, your decent 564 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 4: financial shape. For a woman, it's a thirteen percent chance 565 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,479 Speaker 4: you'll make it to one hundred, for a man it's 566 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 4: an eight percent chance, and for a couple, so it's 567 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 4: a twenty percent chance one in five that one of 568 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 4: you will make it to one hundred. Doesn't that seem 569 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,400 Speaker 4: surprising to you that only a quarter of people want 570 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 4: to live to be one hundred. I'm not exactly sure 571 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 4: what my answer is that I think I'm enough to 572 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 4: see the same question asked of ninety five or ninety 573 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 4: or eighty five. 574 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: I think you'd find a sweet spot somewhere around ninety, 575 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:52,479 Speaker 1: that's my guess. 576 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 2: That's interesting. 577 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm a definite yes on ninety and 578 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 4: I'd probably go with no. One one hundred, which is 579 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 4: just an assumption that I wouldn't be that enjoying life 580 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 4: that much. 581 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: Right, you're basing it on the averages. Yeah, and when 582 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: you don't really have any idea no, no, indeed, because 583 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: you know your health could failure. You know, a younger 584 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: age doesn't have to be one hundred. 585 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 4: But at that you know, like, like I've repeated many times, 586 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 4: my doctor's saying to me. One time we were having a 587 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 4: discussion about this and that in medicine everything. He said, 588 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 4: sometimes I wonder. 589 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 2: What the goal is here? 590 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 4: What is the goal, like just to extend your life, 591 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,640 Speaker 4: even though in many cases it's not you know that great? 592 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 4: What what what are we trying to pull off? Interesting? 593 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: I've got a great doctor, a general practitioner or primary 594 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: care doctor, whatever you call him. These days I live 595 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: in fear that he's going to leave or go do 596 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: something else. But he once said to me, Joe, our 597 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: goal is to get you to ninety nine years of 598 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: age healthy, with using as little medication as possible. Well, yeah, 599 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: which in my case is more than a little. But yeah, 600 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,360 Speaker 1: of course that is the goal. 601 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 4: But if for in reality most people are not that 602 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 4: healthy toward the end, what extending that? 603 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 2: What is that all about? Oh? 604 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: It's about defying what's natural and unavoidable, I think, or 605 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: being pushed by a train that makes a profit. 606 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 2: I mean there's got to be some of that in there, right. 607 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, I mean our health system and how 608 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: doctors in hospitals and you know, big pharma whomever how 609 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: they're compensated is just horrific, unholy, dishonest, twisted, complex, incomprehensible. 610 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 4: I didn't mean to get off on that. I want 611 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,560 Speaker 4: to mention this. So, yeah, kids had to start paying 612 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 4: their student loans back. I shouldn't say kid. Just plenty 613 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 4: of forty year olds out there who had student loans 614 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 4: and they got delayed for what four or five years, 615 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 4: a really long time, and they were lied to by 616 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 4: the President of the United States who said, I'm gonna 617 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 4: wipe them out and you're not going to have to 618 00:32:59,120 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 4: pay them. 619 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 2: Because there was a bad flu from China for a 620 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 2: little while. 621 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 4: Unfortunately, in my mind, that did happen for a whole 622 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 4: bunch of people, Like to the tune of gazillions of dollars, 623 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 4: we redistributed wealth to the most privileged among US, people 624 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 4: with college degrees. AnyWho not to get off on that. 625 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 4: One out of four student loan borrowers are behind on 626 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 4: their payments since they started back up here not too 627 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 4: long ago. One out of wow wow hadn't planned ahead 628 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 4: or thought it they would. You know, you can't blame 629 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,000 Speaker 4: a young person for thinking, cool, I'm never gonna have 630 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 4: to pay this again, because that guy ran for president 631 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 4: on this issue and told me that I was not 632 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 4: going to have to pay for right. 633 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had to tell my kids in their 634 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: twenties and thirties, Look, this is not going to happen. 635 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 1: It's it's false, it's just politicking. The courts are going 636 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: to overturn it. Don't make plans. 637 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, if you didn't have a wise parent, if you 638 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 4: had a parent, you know, lean's left who thinks, yes, 639 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 4: the government not only should, but is going to pay 640 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 4: off those student loans because you got ripped off some Wow, 641 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 4: as opposed to those people over there who have a 642 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 4: car payment and didn't go to college. Have never understood 643 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 4: the argument on this. But yeah, one out of four 644 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 4: and rising. Speaking of COVID, I got a question for you. 645 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 4: It's an ethical question. 646 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: We both don't believe in harassing public figures like senators 647 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: or whatever when they're out to eat you harass them 648 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: while they're at work, if they're with their family or 649 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: whatever that did, leave them alone, just be decent. On 650 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 1: the other hand, there's part of me, and this is 651 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,760 Speaker 1: what you need to rule on, Jack that wants every 652 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: time Anthony Fauci is out in public for the rest 653 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 1: of his life. He hears gain a function, gain of 654 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: function everywhere he goes, every single time. 655 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 2: I got to admit there are murdered millions and then 656 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:55,319 Speaker 2: denied it. 657 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,120 Speaker 4: Worse than that what's her name that ran the schools, 658 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 4: that kept them closed for so many years, Brandy Garden. 659 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 4: I don't know if I could keep my mouth shut 660 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 4: if I see her and her husband over there in 661 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 4: the corner of the restaurant. You don't actually care about children, 662 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,080 Speaker 4: You destroyed their lives for profit. 663 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 2: How do you sleep at night? You horrible, horrible human. 664 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,879 Speaker 4: I don't think I could keep myself from saying that 665 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,120 Speaker 4: that's a good rough draft, perfect Armstrong and Getty