WEBVTT - When I'm Elected Emperor 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:24.640 Armstrong and Getty and no Hee Armstrong and Yahetty. Some 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:25.439 business news. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.880 The maker of Nutter butters, Chips, Ahoy, and Oreos is 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.440 chewing Aldi for allegedly using packaging that blatantly copies their products. Yeah, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.800 all the apologize and as a peace offering sent in 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:39.880 Tobisco a bunch of delicious prongles. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.280 That's interesting. You don't want to be eaten counterfeit Nutter butters, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:47.520 That's okay. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:48.879 I don't want to get off on this, but I've 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.559 always wondered about like like you can get raisin bran, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.680 you can get post raisin bran or cologgs raisin bran. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.520 The boxes look almost exactly the same, the product is 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:58.000 the same. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.000 Yeah, I have a feeling the court's rules that no, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.000 that's just a simple statement of the two ingredients, and 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:12.880 you can't copyright that. You could have like brand raising Crunch, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.280 that would probably be a copyrightable name. That's my guess. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.280 You know what I'm enjoying right now is the weedy, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.560 the old timey whedy that's a good Wow, that's a 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:23.679 good serial right there. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.600 Like your boyhood hero Bruce Jenner. You're not sure if 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:31.640 you've heard about him. Yes, speaking of that sort of madness, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.240 we give you a news report featuring radical leftist Marxist 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.400 California politician Scott Wiener. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.880 State Senator Scott Wiener is certain his bill will pass 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:47.120 allowing San Francisco police officers to cite these illegal vendors. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.120 This is for folks who are selling goods that have 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.760 been placed on a placed on a list of commonly 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.280 stolen goods, who don't have a permit and don't have 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.560 proof of purchase. Then the police will be able to 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.720 cite them, and on the third offense they can get 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:01.360 a misdemeanor. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.000 So I want to make sure you understand what happened there. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.000 So it's a regular thing, especially in California, to go 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.520 into a CBS or whatever store you want to go 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.840 into and just take your arm on the shelf and 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.840 sweep stuff into a grocery bag and walk out the 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.360 door and nobody arrests you. And then you set up 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.919 card tables out on the street and sell the stuff 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.839 right in front of the store. Sometimes and this Wiener, Dude, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:26.919 Scott Wiener. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.960 He's gonna crack down on these people. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.519 We're gonna get tough on him starting now. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:37.040 A policeman can excite them and on the third citation 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:38.839 they will get a misdemeanor. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.840 That is so hilarious. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.360 That is so hilarious it would be impossible for me 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.600 running one of these rings to tell my various junkie friends, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.840 all right, you've been busted for selling twice. You go 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.000 back to boosting from stores. Ew Hey, boostin, Jimmy, you 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:56.880 man the table. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:02.120 Now, if you wonder why California is completely lawless, and 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.760 you've seen those videos flying around social media where they 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.160 just rob stores blind, and why so many CBS's and 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.560 Walgreens have had to close in LA and San Francisco 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.760 and Oakland and those that are open, everything costing more 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.360 than seventy five cents is locked up behind glass and 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.200 you have to bother somebody to get it out for you. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.440 You want to get some freaking deodorant, you have to 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.080 find some unhappy employee to come unlock it for you. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.960 Excuse me, I need three dollars worth of band aids please. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.120 Is because this counts as getting tough on crime. And 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.200 the third time we catch you selling this stuff, we're 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.680 gonna give y'all misdemeanor. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.760 And he said that with that like tough guy voice. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:41.920 That's hilarious. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.000 Scott Wiener is not only a Marxist, he is a 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.440 encourager of reaching across the generations for man boy love 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.280 and that sort of thing. He's sexual radical, he is 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.160 a He's a damn communist and has done enormous damage. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.720 And he is the poster child for what got the 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:07.800 Democratic Parties heine kicked in the last election, certainly on 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.880 a national level. So the Democratic Party is trying to 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.360 figure out what to do with their left flank. The 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.800 lunatics like Scott Wiener and arrive at a message that 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.440 somebody might be willing to vote for. And what they've 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.880 come up with is the Abundance Agenda, which is based 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.080 on a book by Ezra Klein and who's the co author, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.599 Derek Thompson Surprise Hit Jack. Hundreds of thousands of copies sold. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.360 The idea is kind of cut through all the red 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.560 tape and the regulations. They're well meaning, but it's metastasized 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.000 into choking the economy and making people's lives worse, we've 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.520 got to deregulate and free up the economy blah blah blah. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.640 So they've to a large extent become moderate Republicans. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.520 Yeah, well, to a certain extent. It's the sort of 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.520 thing Bill Maher's been talking about for a long time. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.840 I think that's why I had Ezra clent On right 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.200 away to talk about this book. Is the idea that 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:01.120 lefties come up with in the These are their words, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.159 not necessarily my thoughts on all these topics, but that 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.839 they Democrats come up with good ideas, but their ideas 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.080 never reach the end point, and that's why people have 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.800 turned against the Democratic Party. Like bullet train, good idea, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.560 but all of the waste and mess and everything like that, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.159 they didn't actually get a bullet train. Spending money on 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.160 dealing with homelessness a good idea, but it gets all 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.039 wrapped up in waste and everything like that, and you 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.680 don't solve the homeless problem, you know, through all the 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.200 money at housing and you build, you spend one hundred 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.800 million dollars to build five apartments, all that sort of stuff. Right, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.800 they say their goal is okay, they just never get 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.400 to the end result. And they got to cut out 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.320 all the crap in between that stops them from accomplishing 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:44.480 what they want to accomplish. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.640 So, now as I'm trying to get a grasp of this, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:52.560 they're trying to advocate for effective policies as opposed to 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.120 ineffective ones. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.120 Hmm, now you have my attention. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.599 But still the same policies that they say people on 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.320 their side want. But that's that's the deal. 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:07.200 Right, right, So the idea of efficient leftism. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.080 They're the thinking is of some people in the Democratic 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.680 Party is that our ideas are not unpopular, we just 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.719 don't implement them in a way that ever yields in results. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.160 Which is certainly true. The second part is definitely true. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.640 Right, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I would argue the 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.320 first part obviously, but the second part is absolutely unquestionably true, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:35.000 particularly as you look at cal Unicornia. And interestingly enough, 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.279 Gavin Newsom was on or I'm Sorry, he had Ezra 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.279 Cline on his podcast for a ninety minute discussion about 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.000 the book and Gavey, who is trying desperately to thread 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.400 the needle between running away from his record as the 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.000 ruiner of California, together with his political great granddad Jerry Brown, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.240 trying to pretend he's not that, but indeed is the 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.120 brave knight in shining. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.040 Armor who will confront the ills that have just been 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.160 visited upon him. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.280 So he was defensive about the way the book actually 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:15.840 depicts California's exhibit A for democratic dysfunction. Yes, as it 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.800 should be, but I'm quoting now from the Wall Street Journal. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.600 A Newsom nonetheless proclaimed. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.320 The book essential reading for Democrats, and he said he's 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.720 been handing out copies of the leaders of the state 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.160 legislature because they got to get effective cut those regulations 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:33.800 that I've been pushing my entire career. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:40.880 That's interesting. Here are some more quotes Richie Torus, Democrat, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.360 New York. The system is broken. The government is too inefficient, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.320 ineffective to meet the challenges of the twenty first century. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:47.760 But the answer is not doge. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:52.720 It's abundance in all caps, cut red tape, unleashed the 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.880 state as a stimulant to growth and innovation, private enterprise 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:58.640 with the state. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.920 I am not unhappy to have them come to this conclusion, 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.040 and then we can argue about policies, but at least 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:10.120 they won't be all bogged down in worthlessness. 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.160 Right if you say you're going to spend a billion 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.520 dollars to accomplish something, please accomplish it. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.600 At least that's not a lot to ask. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.080 They're big on the yimbi push yes in my backyard, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.640 you know, strict housing rules and zoning and clustering high 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.160 rises near train stations and all that. We want to 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.040 stick with those policies, as Jack was saying, good policies, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.360 but we've got to eliminate the nimby types. We're looking 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.160 at you Malibu by the way, and and. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.720 Scarsdale and fair Fax, Virgin yach. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.160 Where they're as blue as the sapphire, and yet they 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.400 will Well, I'm in favor of multi family housing, just 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:52.920 not here. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.240 All the people that go to all the super expensive 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.240 A plate fundraisers and give the money, they don't want 0:08:59.240 --> 0:08:59.959 it in their backyard. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.360 I guarantee you right. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.920 The protected class who advocate for these policies but are 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.160 never affected. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.320 By Yeah, does a teacher at your super expensive private school. 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.200 They're super rich, lefty have to speak nine different languages 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.280 to accommodate all the immigrations. Oh they don't, that's interesting. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:18.800 Could they have to in the public schools? 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.080 Josh Harder, who is a non lunatic Democrat from a 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.080 swing district in California, says the book has given voice 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.079 to a feeling people have had for a while that's 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.680 just too hard to build things. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.120 That's absolutely true. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.280 It is, you know, if this is a notable tech 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:44.720 to the center more or less certainly to effectiveness. Yeah, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.280 that's a good thing, sure, absolutely, as opposed to AOC 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:55.079 you know, the Chae Guavera with the nicely formed boosoms 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.600 leading the Democratic Party into a socialist future. If this 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.520 is the all, bring it on, fellows, good luck. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.800 I'm pretty sure I heard Ezra or somebody who is 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.520 a proponent of this saying, like a lot of our 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.000 green stuff has not panned out the way we said 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:10.400 it would. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.439 You know that sort of thing. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.480 That's good. That's hey, that is good. That's absolutely good. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.320 It was phony from the beginning, but at least you're 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.480 admitting it. I was amused by a couple of things. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.400 First of all, there is a backlash on the left 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.800 jack who've attacked the book in many essays, podcasts, and 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.600 book reviews. Critics argue the authors are blind to are 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.240 stooges of the corporate power that is the true culprit 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:37.040 for the problems. The book lays out abundance right, a 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:43.000 couple of morons for the rolling Stone, encourages democrats to 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:47.080 focus on the wrong solutions, and elevates deregulatory narratives already 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.640 being weaponized by the right. Okay, we need more regulations 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.720 and then this kind of and you're right, Ezra obviously 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:54.520 a tool of the right. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.960 Yeah. Yeah. Fascist. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.840 Oh here's the other problem I got. Thirteen year old 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:01.960 asked me what's a fascist? 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.080 The other day? So, anybody you don't like? 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:10.200 So, mostly because he's fighting fascists in his new video game, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.480 the Indiana Jones video Game, you fight fascists, He's fighting 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:14.800 Mussolini's fascists. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.320 Well, now, wait, did they actually did they identify them 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.600 as as like Italian fascists or they're just kind of yeah, 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:24.880 black uniforms. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.800 Oh really yeah? Yeah, well, okay, I brought. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:30.160 Up Mussolini said, yeah's Mussolini. They mentioned that in the game. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.880 He said, okay, cool, he said, you see him learning 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.040 something we ought to pass. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.200 And I will over regulate the video game industry when 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.240 I am elected emperor. But you'll be fighting Chinese communists. No, kids, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.880 not freaking Nazis no kidding anyway, I found. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:48.240 This very amusing. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.839 Let me squeeze this, and they mentioned in the journal 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.720 in our short lived twenty twenty four campaign, Kamala Harris's 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.760 promised to build three million new homes in America was 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.880 the best testing of our several proposed I've got a 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.160 really funny note on that later too. But according to 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.840 both her campaign and Trump's a Yimbi's for Harris Zoom fundraiser, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.160 they're talking about how popular this was. A Yimbi's for 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.880 Harris Zoom fundraiser drew thirty thousand participants and raised more 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:21.280 than one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Uh point of order, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.080 mister chairman. It's like four dollars and fifty cents. 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.760 Per at ten d wow. I mean, if that's a 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.880 success story, what does a failure look like. 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.560 I got a Kamala thing, a brief Kamala thing, because 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.079 I am sick of ever talking about her and hoping 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.760 she'll go away, though she's not. She's going to be 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.240 governor of California some more. I'll get to that at 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.520 some point. We also have a good nut picking thing. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.400 It's nut picking, but it's entertaining, among other things, we 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:51.280 can get to stay here. So is this nut picking? 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:51.760 I don't know. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.920 Nut picking as if you pick out a nut on 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.760 the other side and try to, you know, make blanket 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:03.440 judgments against a certain group of people. There are quite 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.000 a few people that think that this is. Like a 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.440 middle aged woman posted this on social media. She was 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:10.560 in her local target. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.439 I'd be Pride month in my target that used to 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.719 have the pride section. It's now all USA. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:17.640 Yay. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.720 It's it's an American summer except for tourism because tourism 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.120 is down because no one wants to come here USA woo. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.880 And honestly, my dad serves the military and I'd love 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.559 to be really proud of this nation, but it's hard 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.360 to be proud. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.680 Of it under Donald Trump. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.880 But hey, you know, while you're here, pick up a 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.040 USA bikini. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:36.240 Yeah? 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:36.880 Why not? 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:37.760 Yeah. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.480 Target's really taken this anti DEI thing. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:41.120 To another level. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.880 It's a woman who was very unhappy that her target 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.600 had a lot of red, white, blue stuff for Fourth 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.720 of July by the front door instead of all the 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.760 pride and trans stuff that they've had in previous years 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.000 and gotten some blowback for. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:00.320 You now. She was less obnoxious than I expected I would. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.280 I think the most notable thing she said, and the 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.319 only thing I want to respond to is the idea 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.600 that the country is the president. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.800 Yes, that's absurd. Where the country is. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:15.319 The constitution and it's people and your town, your county, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.280 your state, your region. I mean, the federal government certainly 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.440 has a role in the country, but the government isn't 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.440 the country, and the president certainly isn't the country. Sweetheart, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.480 your dad is the country, Your. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:35.040 Next or neighbor is the country. These are odd times. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.240 Rap wars are going on. I don't know if you're 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.560 aware of the rap wars. So much conflict around the globe. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.240 And I don't mean rap ribitty rou said a rip 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.240 rap riberty roo. I don't mean singing. I mean wr ap, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.680 as in the kind of rap you eat in fast 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.560 food joints. Apparently McDonald's is bringing back They're very popular, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.200 though I'd never heard of it, snack rap that was huge, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:01.960 and so their competitors are uh combating that. Popeyes has 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.080 launched a new chicken rap that actually in the picture 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.320 looks pretty freaking good. But anyway, so if you're into 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:09.960 that sort of thing, lots of restaurants are going to 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.680 have them. I don't know why, why things catch on 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.280 and some things don't. I'm a big fan of the 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:15.160 rap for the record. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.520 This headline from The Oregonian. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.920 How hookup apps help fuel the meth crisis. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:25.800 Among gay men. What's your guests on that? There's a 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:26.320 lot there. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.360 How hookup apps fuel the meth crisis among gay men. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:31.960 I'm sure they have little. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.280 Code words that they use for this is actually connecting 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.920 for drugs, not to fornication and are both. I mean, 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.440 because tweakers famously want to fornicate all day and all night. Right. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.440 I remember one guy I knew who was a meth guy, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.840 and he said it's like orgasm times with thousand or 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.680 something like that, which I thought, I don't know if. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:50.320 I can agnal that. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.520 Yeah, I know I can't. And I remember talking to 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.960 to dea guys who said, I tell you what, you 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.120 bust a house that's producing bathroom people are using math, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:08.120 You're gonna find three things porn and sex toys, clutter 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.360 and more porn and sex toys. You just turns you 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.560 into it's just a flaming horn dog. I guess if 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.280 you know the average guy needs. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.080 Any help American men are having a friend crisis. We'll 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.280 get to that story later in the show. I look 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.960 forward to it, but I came across this yesterday and 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:29.000 I found it was kind of hilarious. It was about 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.640 Kamala Harris and the decisions she needs to make. This 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.400 is Mark Calpern's newsletter, and he said all sources suggest 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.320 she remains undecided about running for governor, running for president, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:44.680 or neither, to which I say, I think she'll If 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.320 she wants to run for governor, she'll be governor. I 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.920 Thinkamala Harris can be governor of California. And who wouldn't 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.080 want to be governor of the biggest state in the Union. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:56.920 If you're a politician, run for president. That is hilarious. Oh, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.600 I know that is hilarious. Are you kidding? 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.920 That would be so gratifying if she did. Pro chance 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.280 of getting your own nomination, your own party zero. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.720 And is governor California, You've got a pipeline of chardonay 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:12.320 coming your way. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.800 Come on, arm Strong and. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:21.320 Bill Mahr the other night, waxing hilarious on the Democratic 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.679 Party's efforts to get back to the American mainstream. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.600 Then we'll move on from politics. How many know what 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.359 SAM stands for. It's a new phrase. It stands for 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.520 speaking with American men. Sam. This is the new movement 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.159 by the Democratic Party. They lost the men vote a 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.040 lot last time, and they have these these seminars. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:40.800 Would you like to hear? 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.560 What was sammy? 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.680 Ok? These are ways that they want to. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.960 Seminars that they had to try to win back the 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.400 typical American Now, like how to keep your liberal base 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:53.640 while putting guns. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.119 On your Christmas card? That was warmer the best. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.840 Protein powder for a clean bulk. An other dude conversation started. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:11.560 Bud light etiquette, when to drink it, when to shoot it, fishing, 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:13.760 the bizarre hobby working class. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:21.840 Men enjoy instead of pickleball, Bruce Lee versus Bigfoot, mythical 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.240 fight scenarios to man up here, Joe Rogan appearance. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.040 That's pretty funny, speaking of the whole manly thing. Why 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.480 is Tim Walls on my television like every day somewhere? 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.960 What a nothing burger he is? Why is he around 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:40.720 in various things? 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.639 Any I don't want to talk about ball famous for 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.000 being famous at this point. 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.600 Coming up, I'm a knucklehead at times. Coming up, return 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.520 policies are such a big, a bigger part of retail 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.640 than I realized, and the way. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:56.480 We use and sometimes abuse them. And two, just a 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:00.000 quick question. I'll have the answer next segment. What percentage 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.560 of us want to live to one hundred? It's surprisingly low. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.800 So I promised we'd move on from politics, and we 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.800 certainly will after this mention because it's Kamala Harris related. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.120 We were just talking about Kamala and I'd like not 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.840 to bring her up again later. Nelly Bowles, writing in 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.679 The Free Press a post mortem on Kamala Harris's campaign, 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.040 cited up perception gap as one of the reasons she lost, 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:24.119 saying voters believe she held positions that she didn't. And 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.720 this is a quote from the post mortem. Over eighty 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.520 percent of swing voters who chose Trump believed Harris held 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.640 positions she did not campaign on in twenty twenty four, 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.000 supporting what I'm already troubled by that phrase, but go on, 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:45.000 including supporting taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries for undocumented immigrants. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.080 Eighty three percent believe that yeah, mandatory election. 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.199 She didn't run on it, but she said it and 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.679 then years ago and never denounced it during a campaign. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.040 An eighty two percent misperceived that she was backing mandatory 0:19:58.080 --> 0:19:59.000 electric vehicles. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:00.560 By twenty thirty five. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.199 Seventy seven percent believed erroneously that she believed in decriminalizing 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.600 border crossings and defunding the police. That's seventy two percent, 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.600 she said, getting back to Nelly Bowles. But Harris had 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.679 in fact supported all of these positions, like she is 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.840 on the record supporting every one of them here, here, here, 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.120 and here, and all of those are links. Of course 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.720 they're saying that, So it's not really a perception problem 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.400 so much as a reception problem, like these ideas are 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.960 not popular even though I support them. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.040 Yeah, it's true she didn't run on them. I've heard 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.240 though the Harris people say that before. We didn't run 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.480 on them. Well, no, but you said them before, and 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.159 you never explained that you don't believe them anymore. So, yes, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.280 you were painted with your own words. 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:50.000 Advocated for them forcefully for years. All right, now we'll 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.880 move on from politic handful of things that are good news, 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.119 some of them somewhat politically related. But it's been a 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.000 little gloomy and doomy so far, and I didn't want 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.760 to go all negative story in who is right, and 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.480 this might be the free press too, come to think 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:07.080 of it. Unbelievable story begins with a couple who faced 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:11.600 a parents' nightmare. Their son kJ was born and when 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.480 he was just days old, doctors diagnosed kJ with an 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.479 incredibly rare genetic disorder that had to do with breaking 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.359