Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 3: seeing a rare black squirrel with a white tail and
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Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm looking at my bank of televisions like
Speaker 2: I wanted to before five televisions, and we're fortunate that
Speaker 2: we can do whatever we want. We can talk about
Speaker 2: whatever we want, although obviously we have the goal of
Speaker 2: talking about things you're interested in. That's kind of how
Speaker 2: the business works. But everybody but Fox is leading the
Speaker 2: hour with some version of the Epstein story, and there's
Speaker 2: a lot of new stuff. There's a lot of new
Speaker 2: stuff that I find somewhat interesting actually for the first
Speaker 2: time maybe ever in this whole saga. But everybody and
Speaker 2: Fox is going with the new revelations about the crazy
Speaker 2: kid that tried to assassinate Trump and almost did the
Speaker 2: crooks person. So Fox has decided not to lead with Epstein.
Speaker 2: I guess because Trump's Name's attached to it. I don't
Speaker 2: know AnyWho more on that later. So this Thomas Crooks person,
Speaker 2: you remember, he climbed up on the roof there in Butler, Pennsylvania. Amazingly,
Speaker 2: he was able to climb up on a roof with
Speaker 2: a high powered rifle. People everywhere, people saw him, perfect
Speaker 2: line of sight to the President of the United States
Speaker 2: and squeeze off quite a few shots. And it's just
Speaker 2: freaking luck that he didn't blow Donald Trump's head off
Speaker 2: in front of all of us and change world history.
Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, change world history. All of the Middle
Speaker 2: East stuff would be completely different. Obviously, the economy, tariffs,
Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff, completely different. Sure, one hundred examples, yeah,
Speaker 2: a hundred examples, and then playing out in ways that
Speaker 2: we'll never know AnyWho. Thomas Crooks. We now know more
Speaker 2: about him. And the big question from Miranda Divine of
Speaker 2: the New York Post is one of their lead reporters,
Speaker 2: she broke the hundred laptop story. The big question is
Speaker 2: why was this stuff kept from us earlier? Is there
Speaker 2: a reason for that? Some of the stuff that is
Speaker 2: out from Miranda Divines reporting Thomas Crooks had all kinds
Speaker 2: of different accounts out there and platforms that he was
Speaker 2: going on a lot of this reporting has been done
Speaker 2: by people just like regular people out there figuring this
Speaker 2: stuff out and why the ect mean if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: The official word in the wake of his arrest and identification,
Speaker 4: well and death, was that he really had no online presence, mysterious.
Speaker 2: He was ghost, they called him. He had no online previence, presence,
Speaker 2: and not really any political any of this or that.
Speaker 2: It turns out actually he was a hardcore Trump supporter,
Speaker 2: I mean, like really a big Trump supporter. We'll talk
Speaker 2: more about that in a second. Some of these posts
Speaker 2: and then flipped at some point. Nobody's exactly sure why
Speaker 2: to a Trump hater, but sources use publicly available research
Speaker 2: tools to link multiple email addresses to crooks and then
Speaker 2: found usernames associated with those emails on all kinds of sites,
Speaker 2: including YouTube, Snapchat, PayPal, discord, chess, dot com, Korra, deviant Art,
Speaker 2: and others. So he had quite a presence on lots
Speaker 2: of different sites, used in different names, and it didn't
Speaker 2: sound like it took super geniuses to figure out was him.
Speaker 2: Why the multi gazillion dollar FBI Secret Service investigation into
Speaker 2: this after he almost killed the president didn't uncover this
Speaker 2: stuff well, That's what the question is here, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure a lot of people would answer yelling at their
Speaker 2: uh listening device because the authorities didn't want to know
Speaker 2: that or didn't want to tell you that.
Speaker 4: Although having gotten to the end of this, I'm not
Speaker 4: sure what narrative to take away other than this guy
Speaker 4: was nuts.
Speaker 2: But the FBI has not confirmed the details of Kirk's
Speaker 2: possible social media accounts and did not respond to a request.
Speaker 2: Does he have to remember the investigation would have happened
Speaker 2: under the Biden administration FBI. Well, the Trump FBI is
Speaker 2: not commenting on it, and it might just be because
Speaker 2: they don't know what to say yet. But well, to
Speaker 2: your point, though, is there anything satisfying the whole What
Speaker 2: was his motive? Thing almost always turns out to be
Speaker 2: they were a crazy, angry person, was their motive. But
Speaker 2: we still should have known all this stuff. His early
Speaker 2: online presence, when he would have been in high school
Speaker 2: was almost exclusively plote pro Trump, while he also made
Speaker 2: a number of violently anti Semitic comments and racist remarks
Speaker 2: about Hispanic immigrants. I'll quote him now. I've always believed
Speaker 2: being patriotic was lining up a bunch of socialists, Jews
Speaker 2: like the ones that booed Trump and blasting their useless
Speaker 2: brains out with an ar You don't think that that's
Speaker 2: something that the we should have heard about the guy
Speaker 2: if he's out there saying that in social media. A
Speaker 2: YouTube account featuring Crooks's full name posted in the comments
Speaker 2: under a clip of Trump being booed during the twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen World Series in Washington. That's where he made that post.
Speaker 2: So he did obscure it by having his entire name
Speaker 2: on the comment on YouTube, the most used platform in
Speaker 2: the world, right right, nobody. That's quite a trail too
Speaker 2: under Israel name. Every one of the Trump hating Democrats
Speaker 2: deserves to have their heads chopped off and put on
Speaker 2: stakes for the world to see what happens when you
Speaker 2: f with America, he said on one comment under an
Speaker 2: MSNBC clip from July at twenty nineteen. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is a guy spewing threats and violence. Shouldn't have been
Speaker 2: on somebody's radar. I don't know how much I'm gonna
Speaker 2: how I don't know how any violent threats you can
Speaker 2: make on social media without in and up on some
Speaker 2: sort of FBI watch list or secret service this or
Speaker 2: that or whatever I don't actually know.
Speaker 4: And specifically political assassination under his real name, flagged by
Speaker 4: users who mentioned law enforcement in their replies.
Speaker 2: He also described in detail how he would use an
Speaker 2: assault rifle against a crowd of political opponents, frequently quoting
Speaker 2: the line the only true political power comes from the
Speaker 2: barrel of a gun. That's from Chairman mau and crooks
Speaker 2: made violent threats against Democratic members of the Squad, Well,
Speaker 2: you're thinking a Democrat led White House and a squad
Speaker 2: friendly media. If somebody was out there making violent threats
Speaker 2: against the squad, that would have bubbled up somehow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess the internet is just too vast. Nobody
Speaker 4: with any connections noticed.
Speaker 2: I guess. I hope a quick and painful death to
Speaker 2: all the deplorable immigrants and anti Trump cong women who
Speaker 2: don't deserve anything this country has given them, he wrote
Speaker 2: in July of twenty nineteen, But in twenty twenty, in
Speaker 2: the middle of the COVID pandemic, he appeared to make
Speaker 2: a one hundred and eighty degree turn in his views
Speaker 2: on Trump. I'm pretty sure people are just racist, and
Speaker 2: Trump is one of them. There does not need to
Speaker 2: be a deep state for that, he said on a
Speaker 2: YouTube comment, Okay, there wasn't any reasonable defense for Trump,
Speaker 2: he said. It's around this time that he started posting
Speaker 2: violent artworks, According to sources, One piece titled how He
Speaker 2: Lost his Eye from June to twenty twenty three and
Speaker 2: shared on deviant Art, shows a figured clad in black
Speaker 2: executing another figure in front of a blue and pink
Speaker 2: backdrop matching the colors of the trans Pride flag. He
Speaker 2: had his pronouns in some various things, ay them. I'm
Speaker 2: told that doesn't really mean anything, though I know plenty
Speaker 2: of people that I know for a fact aren't really
Speaker 2: down with the trans thing, but have their pronouns on
Speaker 2: headline stuff because they can't ask.
Speaker 4: Well, he wouldn't be, but he wouldn't be listing in
Speaker 4: his pronouns as they them.
Speaker 2: Of course. You know, again the takeaway because.
Speaker 4: He flipped then and was just vicious to Trump supporters
Speaker 4: called him sheep and cult and your two brainwashed to
Speaker 4: realize how dumb you are.
Speaker 2: This is in twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: So you know, he's just an angry, angry, disturbed young man.
Speaker 2: His personal YouTube and Google searches also reveal a pattern
Speaker 2: of violence and an obsession with guns and famous assassinations,
Speaker 2: which is often common with assassins. Between twenty nineteen and
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, he made searches for Lee Harvey Oswald's killer
Speaker 2: Jack Ruby, the Oklahoma bombing, the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando,
Speaker 2: among other attacks. He also searched how to fire an
Speaker 2: AR fifteen as fast as possible, as well as how
Speaker 2: to make a fertilizer bomb in a moll of cocktail.
Speaker 2: He repeatedly looked for information related to body armor, high
Speaker 2: velocity AMMO, and riot control. He was probably thinking about
Speaker 2: doing something. He wasn't just quite sure why yet. And
Speaker 2: then I'm guessing he heard, Hey, the President's coming to town.
Speaker 2: I know what I'll do, right exactly?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think maybe the fundamental question here is
Speaker 4: and I don't know the answer, but it's well, I'll
Speaker 4: just ask the question, how did why did the authorities
Speaker 4: claim that this guy was an online ghost and there's
Speaker 4: nothing knowable about him when you know amateur sleuths.
Speaker 2: Granted some time has passed.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure why this is coming out now, frankly,
Speaker 4: but when there is all sorts of information about this guy,
Speaker 4: it might not lead you in a helpful direction per se.
Speaker 2: Because I don't think it does.
Speaker 4: Although he's a big fan of terrorism, sneaking bombs in
Speaker 4: and shooting people and the rest of it. Looking at
Speaker 4: another one of his quotes, how is it that that
Speaker 4: was not found fairly quickly by our authorities?
Speaker 2: That's troubling. I naively have this view of if somebody
Speaker 2: almost kills the former president about to be next president,
Speaker 2: there is no rock unturned in terms of figuring this out.
Speaker 2: Apparently there were lots of rocks that were unturned. We
Speaker 2: got to get to this before we run out of time.
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Speaker 2: Krook apparently had a muscle mommy fetish and repeatedly searched
Speaker 2: for videos about female bodybuilders and muscular women. So like
Speaker 2: older women who are really big and really muscular, and
Speaker 2: then in some of the art where it's not real women,
Speaker 2: they're like ten feet tall and giant, towering over him,
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. This is also from The New
Speaker 2: York Post's Miranda Divine. Krook's had two possible accounts on
Speaker 2: deviant Art for people who identify as anthropomorphized animal characters
Speaker 2: that'd be furries and are sexually attracted to them. And
Speaker 2: then he's got one post repost of a towering muscular
Speaker 2: female bodybuilder and a slight man in his underwear looking
Speaker 2: up at her, multiple searches for muscular women and female bodybuilders.
Speaker 2: That's known as muscle mommies, and he apparently had a
Speaker 2: fanger obsession with that and the furries and furries. So
Speaker 2: maybe God went back and forth between kind of tonight,
Speaker 2: I'm into muscle mommies, tomorrow furry or maybe maybe like
Speaker 2: a muscle mommy dressed up as a grizzly bear. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: He's like a two sport athlete in terms of perversion
Speaker 4: or variation.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the actual muscle mommy picture? I have
Speaker 2: not set they post on there. It's a very large,
Speaker 2: very large woman in a bikini, attractive but like the
Speaker 2: size of an NFL football player. He was a slightly
Speaker 2: built little fella too. Yeah. And then this picture she
Speaker 2: is flexing in her bikini over this slight man. That
Speaker 2: could be him, I guess, And that's wonder what that
Speaker 2: is and be like lifted up and bench pressed by
Speaker 2: a muscular checker. I think he goes beyond that, probably,
Speaker 2: and then used as her personal pleasurement device, as it were,
Speaker 2: and then in completely different categories the whole furry thing.
Speaker 2: I guess. I don't know. I'm I don't know, journey
Speaker 2: overlapping that ven diagram between muscle mommies and furries. Why
Speaker 2: are you asking me? I just assume you know these things.
Speaker 2: Do you like that? Huh? Just this thing? I just
Speaker 2: assume you know lots of these things. Wow, wow, sick,
Speaker 2: oh crazy? If you know anything about it, maybe you do.
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Speaker 5: More than thirty years after the murders of Nicole Brown
Speaker 5: Simpson and Ron Goldman, attorneys for O. J. Simpson's estate
Speaker 5: finally agreeing to accept a nearly the eight million dollar
Speaker 5: claim from the Goldman family.
Speaker 2: Wow. Damn fifty eight me. Of course OJ is dead.
Speaker 2: I think Goldman going after his money all those years
Speaker 2: was to make OJ miserable because he feels like OJ
Speaker 2: got away with murdering his daughter.
Speaker 4: But son, yeah, her son, sorry, yeah Goldman. Yeah, although
Speaker 4: the Brown family was after him too. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 4: How much money is there in the estate. I don't
Speaker 4: know coming up. Jonathan Martin, the dean of political writers
Speaker 4: at Politico, says Gavvy boy is the clear front runner
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Speaker 2: So Katie's wearing an armstrong and getdy sweatshirt today, a hoodie,
Speaker 2: one of my favorites. That's great, so comfortable. So we
Speaker 2: were told by Hansen, you have a news headline for us.
Speaker 2: Is this true? Do you know anything about that? No? Okay,
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 4: If you're most story of the day, he says, I
Speaker 4: do what I do? Is it better not be idiotic
Speaker 4: because I'm not in the.
Speaker 2: Mood because we do not like people just messing around
Speaker 2: saying weird crap. We a salary? Erry Michael hed it?
Speaker 2: What is our story? Multi? Okay?
Speaker 1: There are twenty six letters in the alphabet, but one
Speaker 1: is just not getting in off love. Linguists say the
Speaker 1: letter T is being dropped from words like kitten, mountain
Speaker 1: and interview coast to coast, and no one know why,
Speaker 1: but they have named it. It's called te glottalization, and
Speaker 1: it's a speech error that's happening mostly in the under
Speaker 1: twenty five age range.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. My son does that, and I have no idea.
Speaker 2: So it's it's so annoying. It's it's a it's a well,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like up talk originally was highly annoying,
Speaker 2: but it's just so common now I don't even notice it.
Speaker 2: It's like everybody does it. So yeah, the dropping the
Speaker 2: tee thing, my son has done that since he was younger,
Speaker 2: but I didn't realize maybe he picked that up from
Speaker 2: other youth. You know, it's a Southern California thing. I think.
Speaker 4: Originally, like so many annoying speaking trends, whether the Valley girl,
Speaker 4: the up talk in general. Now this I happen to
Speaker 4: notice it from a couple of bands out of the
Speaker 4: LA area who like, there's a one line was weight in,
Speaker 4: And I'm like, wait, why did you say weight in?
Speaker 4: Instead of waiting?
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm waiting for executive producer Mike Han and joins
Speaker 2: his hands and yeah, this.
Speaker 6: Has been a problem in our society for quite some time,
Speaker 6: and it needs to come to an end.
Speaker 2: And it's not just the twenty somethings.
Speaker 6: This has crept up into people in their late thirties
Speaker 6: and early forties taking over our society. I've been bothered
Speaker 6: by it for years. It needs to come to an
Speaker 6: end immediately. My children are being effected.
Speaker 2: I don't like it. Bring back the tea. You've noticed
Speaker 2: it in your kids. I've noticed that my kids.
Speaker 6: One of our beloved colleagues is the first person that
Speaker 6: started doing it.
Speaker 2: It was such a bother and I couldn't understand why
Speaker 2: are you dropping your teas? Yeah, any names off the
Speaker 2: air and that, what are you doing? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2: We have cats? And he says, oh, it's a kitten
Speaker 2: in what I've never said anything about it? That is
Speaker 2: so great ing. Oh goodness, lord hell, I want to
Speaker 2: hit them. Wow. Okay, Well it's not just my son.
Speaker 2: I thought, actually thought maybe he had like a speech
Speaker 2: embediment or something with his tongue or something that kind
Speaker 2: of sounds like it doesn't it, stop it stop it,
Speaker 2: But it's just picked up a social trend. Oh be darn.
Speaker 2: Thanks for bringing that to our attention. That is an
Speaker 2: important story. You were right, good armstrong and getdy Okay,
Speaker 2: to show how incredibly ignorant I am on this topic.
Speaker 2: Like many, I thought cloud Flair was like a Sunflair.
Speaker 2: It's a company. Yeah, oh okay, I thought you said
Speaker 2: dot when you said cloud Flare, I thought it was
Speaker 2: like one. You know, there's a Sunflair or something like that.
Speaker 2: So there's a company that has a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: distribution of podcasts, things going on around it, including us,
Speaker 2: but like Twitter and all kinds of different things, and
Speaker 2: they're having an outage today.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's a web security conglomerate.
Speaker 2: Okay, but I know nothing about that, And it's fascinating
Speaker 2: from the whole so many things tied together. If the
Speaker 2: Chinese ever decide to hack us, what's gonna happen thang
Speaker 2: that we'll all get to live through someday And won't
Speaker 2: it be exciting?
Speaker 4: Well, I think that whether it was one big outage,
Speaker 4: it feels like it was probably a year ago or so.
Speaker 4: That was a fairly insignificant company in the delivery chain
Speaker 4: of web services, that sort of thing that updated its software,
Speaker 4: that you tech folks that know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: And well, right, it's just it's all so tied together.
Speaker 4: It's not like you can, you know, go around a
Speaker 4: leak in a water main by attaching a hose or
Speaker 4: something like that. It's a little more difficult to get
Speaker 4: around problems.
Speaker 2: Well, if you listen to the show, you know I'm
Speaker 2: a big reader. I love reading. I love keeping track
Speaker 2: of what new books are coming out. I got a
Speaker 2: list of books a thousand long books I want to read.
Speaker 2: This probably won't make the list, but it's coming out
Speaker 2: right after the first of the year. Gavin Newsome young
Speaker 2: man in a hurry a Memoir of Discovery with him
Speaker 2: on the cover as looking very young Kennedy Like, this
Speaker 2: is not an accident. It's a black and white picture.
Speaker 2: I mean, it seems clear to me to're trying to
Speaker 2: give him Kennedy vibes. Yeah, black and white picture. He's
Speaker 2: in just a shirt and tie walking down a city street,
Speaker 2: like you know, he's probably mayor at the time, like
Speaker 2: a guy, you know, I'm really working hard for the
Speaker 2: people of San Francisco. Young Man in a hurry a
Speaker 2: Memoir of Discovery. That title makes me want to vomit,
Speaker 2: but probably not what they're going for. I was reading
Speaker 2: Mark Calprin's column over the weekend, and he has gone
Speaker 2: from kind of high issue Gavin Newssom but not that high,
Speaker 2: to full on high on Gavin Newsom. Thinks Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: is a major, major force to be reckoned with in
Speaker 2: terms of running for president. So I don't know what's
Speaker 2: made people change their views on this, but that's where
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 4: Jonathan Martin is Politico's senior Political Commonists columnist. Wow, that's
Speaker 4: a funny Freudian slip politics bureau chief. He's really the
Speaker 4: head writer there and his pieces admit it. Gavin Newsom
Speaker 4: is the twenty twenty eight front runner, of course his subhead.
Speaker 4: For years, Democrats and pundits have rolled their eyes at
Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom, but he's positioned better than anyone else for
Speaker 4: the future of politics. The opening sentence, which is a
Speaker 4: bit of a run on, Jonathan, is an absolute statement
Speaker 4: of how big the divide is between politics and governance.
Speaker 4: Politics being in for the purpose of this discussion, running
Speaker 4: for off his gaining votes, raising money, governance being what
Speaker 4: the hell are you going to do in office?
Speaker 2: And then you get the whole. Then you got the whole.
Speaker 2: Run you run in poetry and government prose thing. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 2: So here's your run on sentence. No Democrat has had
Speaker 2: a better two years than Gavin Newsom. And because all
Speaker 2: we could start right there, that is purely about politics,
Speaker 2: not governance. Governance wise nightmare.
Speaker 4: Ask any cal Unicornian, including Democrats.
Speaker 2: The last two of all human we all fall short.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when all the Walgreens had to close in all
Speaker 2: the cities because there's so much crime and homeless people
Speaker 2: and your toothpaste is locked up, energy bills skyrocketing, and
Speaker 2: then the horrifying fires and people can't get any help
Speaker 2: because of the red tape in California. Yeah, it's been
Speaker 2: a great two years.
Speaker 4: Test results coming out showing this kids know nothing, have
Speaker 4: learned nothing. It's terrible bottomed out anyway, I'll read the
Speaker 4: whole sentence. Now, no Democrat has had a better two
Speaker 4: years than Gavin Newsom, and because of it, the California governor,
Speaker 4: a national figure since he was a thirty six year
Speaker 4: old boy mayor, has claimed a new title front runner.
Speaker 2: It's easy to find Newsome naysayers.
Speaker 4: In fact, there may not be a modern political figure
Speaker 4: who was simultaneously so well positioned to be his party's
Speaker 4: nominee and so doubted by the smart set since well,
Speaker 4: Joe Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Will how that turnout?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he won barely, and then Jess became one of
Speaker 4: the worst presidents in American history. But Jonathan will let
Speaker 4: that go. But he says, let's not make the mistake
Speaker 4: of ignoring what's in plain view and give the governor's
Speaker 4: due by the old rules of Democratic nominations. Newsom fits
Speaker 4: neatly in the tradition of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama,
Speaker 4: younger outsider candidates who could credibly run fresh campaigns against
Speaker 4: the Washington status quo while claiming enough insider credentials to
Speaker 4: reassure party mandarins who care about such things.
Speaker 2: As we've talked about a lot over many years. Because
Speaker 2: this is applied to Arnold for whatever reason, three thousand
Speaker 2: miles away here in California from DC and New York,
Speaker 2: they just have no idea what's going on out here.
Speaker 4: No, they invent narratives and they run with them, and
Speaker 4: just everybody repeats it in East Coast media about the
Speaker 4: West Coast all, you know, the entire West Coast.
Speaker 2: That's why I hope that the New York Post actually
Speaker 2: ends up with a California bureau like they're talking about.
Speaker 2: Maybe you could get some reporters in California that actually
Speaker 2: know what's happening, because they reported stuff about Arnold all
Speaker 2: the time that just wasn't true. Yeah, we thought it
Speaker 2: was hilarious reading, you know what.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I need to reassess my discussion of the out
Speaker 4: of touchedness of the Eastern media.
Speaker 2: I don't think they have a single effing.
Speaker 4: Idea what's going on west of Ohio, because I was
Speaker 4: about to include Nevada and Arizona in the West coast,
Speaker 4: because you know, I know the politics of those states
Speaker 4: fairly well, and the East coast media has no idea
Speaker 4: what's going on. But then Illinois, even they just I've
Speaker 4: never read any good analysis of Illinois politics out of
Speaker 4: the East Coast media anyway.
Speaker 2: Newsom, this part is true and troubling.
Speaker 4: Newsom is also the bet position Democrat according to the
Speaker 4: new rules of politics, namely, whether you can, whether you
Speaker 4: are or can become famous by breaking through on social media.
Speaker 4: How many other potential candidates are plausible celebrities who can
Speaker 4: transcend the political pop culture divide.
Speaker 2: I'll Abama and Trump if.
Speaker 4: You believe the phone in your hand will more than
Speaker 4: any factor determine the next Democratic nominee. It's hard not
Speaker 4: to grasp new some strength. As the kids say, he
Speaker 4: gives main character energy.
Speaker 2: He laugh, I laughed, main character energy, all right. Actually
Speaker 2: the kids would say main character or energy because they
Speaker 2: don't say teas anymore. That's right, laziness. Yeah, yeah, Well,
Speaker 2: it's so my youngest last night I said he's just
Speaker 2: going to live off the government. It's oh. I was
Speaker 2: talking about his grades and various things. I'll just what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do when you're eighteen? And I've given
Speaker 2: a very I mean, it could have been straight out
Speaker 2: of a sitcom. I was given such a classic dad speech.
Speaker 2: But his answer was I'll just live off the government.
Speaker 2: Frankfully made me laugh. Moral arguments about that. He knows
Speaker 2: how I feel about that, So he was trying to anyway.
Speaker 4: So the thing about Gaffy and this is not a
Speaker 4: political liability in a especially a pre primary period, which
Speaker 4: we're talking about right now. Good god, it's only twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five and we're actually contemplating on even a little
Speaker 4: bit the twenty twenty eight race. But on which side
Speaker 4: of the party's liberal versus moderate divide will knew some
Speaker 4: position himself.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Martin asks, neither I wanted to be the mansion
Speaker 2: to Mamdani party. I wanted to be inclusive.
Speaker 4: The government told the governor told him last week, well
Speaker 4: good luck with that.
Speaker 2: Mad mansion.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's clever because it's got two m's in it.
Speaker 4: What would that look like, because I don't think the
Speaker 4: mansion or mansion adjacent Democrats of today have any patients
Speaker 4: at all with the Mumdani super woke crowd anymore because
Speaker 4: they realize it's dragging him down. In fact, the Free
Speaker 4: Press had a great piece by this young woman who
Speaker 4: is a you know, San Francisco based fundraiser and mover
Speaker 4: and shaker and the Democratic Party and left it and
Speaker 4: it's an interesting essay about what happens to you personally
Speaker 4: when you do that and online it's brutal, absolutely brutal.
Speaker 4: But Gavin is nothing, But he is nothing if not calculating,
Speaker 4: and he does not want to run off a single
Speaker 4: you know, cohort of the Democratic vote at this point,
Speaker 4: which is probably smart.
Speaker 2: So all right, he's officially.
Speaker 4: On the uh well, he's been on the radar screen
Speaker 4: for a long time, but he has now been christened
Speaker 4: anointed by several media heavyweights as the Democrat.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, all depends on who runs against him, of course,
Speaker 2: and then events make a very big deal. As John
Speaker 2: McCain was the nominee for the Republicans when we thought
Speaker 2: the main issue was going to be the war in
Speaker 2: Iraq and Barack Obama was his opponent, and the main
Speaker 2: issue ended up being the financial crisis and the collapse
Speaker 2: and turning to a war veteran with strong opinions on
Speaker 2: the war in Iraq. Nobody cared because it was all
Speaker 2: about the economy. You just you never know, You never know, right.
Speaker 4: You want to hear my favorite headline of the day,
Speaker 4: woman pleads guilty to lying about astronaut wife accessing bank
Speaker 4: account from space station. That is definitely one of those headlines. Wait,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I need to hear that one more time.
Speaker 4: There's a lot happening here. Woman pleads guilty to lying
Speaker 4: about astronaut wife accessing bank account from space stage.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'd missed the first part. The woman pled guilty
Speaker 2: to lying it never.
Speaker 4: Abowed her lesbian astronaut wife draining the accounts from outer space.
Speaker 4: I guess it's is it near space?
Speaker 2: Where did she drain the accounts herself and try to
Speaker 2: blame it on her astronaut? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the midst of a divorce, Yeah, and a
Speaker 4: bitter custody battle.
Speaker 2: Over kids or a Cordese French.
Speaker 4: Bulldogs they're referring to their son. I believe it is
Speaker 4: a human still could be a French bulldog conceived through
Speaker 4: ivy fertilization, carried by a surrogate. Mishaw, you got two
Speaker 4: women in this relationship, Why do you need a surrogate?
Speaker 2: He is lazy? I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get angry emails for that. Maybe you
Speaker 4: weren't biologically, physically anatomically able to carry a child.
Speaker 2: Were you just lazy? Well, you got two.
Speaker 4: Women's in this relationship, granted the ones in ounter space.
Speaker 4: I get this so that it eliminates the one. Eh boy. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I hope those two crazy kids can work out their
Speaker 4: problems and co parents successfully.
Speaker 2: We're not going to get to it till our three
Speaker 2: actually came across some I think interesting stuff about the
Speaker 2: Epstein vote today. What's actually in that bill that I
Speaker 2: didn't know?
Speaker 4: Uh? Can you imagine going to the bank manager and saying, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think it's my wife where strange she's draining our
Speaker 4: accounts from space. Okay, I'll be right back, says the
Speaker 4: bank manager, and he walks out of the office, not
Speaker 4: knowing where to go or who to call, but just
Speaker 4: needing a moment of time to think.
Speaker 2: Walks out, gets in his car and drives at the
Speaker 2: bar and that's what he does. Okay, we got more
Speaker 2: on the way, stay here.
Speaker 4: Tonight.
Speaker 2: New details about the list of perks that Glleene Maxwell
Speaker 2: is getting behind bars.
Speaker 4: The warden helps her send documents and emails the warden.
Speaker 2: Hello, warden, it's game. I'm having just an awful time
Speaker 2: converting this file to PDS. Dear, Yeah, I'll send the
Speaker 2: it g I. Oh, no, you want attend to this personally?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Yes, miss, I'm sorry. Am I still on
Speaker 2: the phone?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, Miss Maxwell?
Speaker 2: And scene all right, Yeah, I've heard about that. Uh,
Speaker 2: the whole her in prison thing. What's going on there?
Speaker 2: That kind of prison? If I ever commit a crime,
Speaker 2: I got to commit a crime that gets me sent
Speaker 2: to one of those prisons, sounds awesome. I'd feel like
Speaker 2: it's more of it keeps people away from me, then
Speaker 2: keeps me away from people like I'm hearing, nobody can
Speaker 2: come bother me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely it'd be a white collar crime guy.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I see a little chance for you to,
Speaker 4: you know, go to the big house.
Speaker 2: I don't know it just the real kind, yes, Michael.
Speaker 4: Just more of a copyright in Frenchman type right, that's
Speaker 4: about as dangerous as high role.
Speaker 2: You're so right, Michael. So I just saw up on
Speaker 2: Fox they're interviewing Walter Isaacson, author who's written some great
Speaker 2: great books Ben Franklin's book. Right, He's got a new
Speaker 2: book about the Declaration of Independence come out. That sounds fantastic.
Speaker 2: There's gotta be a lot of good old timey revolutionary
Speaker 2: stuff coming because of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 2: of our country, which happens this next July fourth, two thousands.
Speaker 4: Jim Sanderfers has got a fabulous new book coming out.
Speaker 2: True the obviously twenty twenty six is two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty years after seventeen seventy six. And so can you
Speaker 2: look this up, Katie? Did ken Byrne Revolutionary Wars series
Speaker 2: start already? I thought I heard a tease that it
Speaker 2: started Sunday night, but I forgot to look into it
Speaker 2: or whatever. I want to watch that with my son.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's gonna be great. I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: of ken Burns documentaries. I love Founding Father's stuff, absolutely
Speaker 2: love it. So that's cool. I hope, you know, I
Speaker 2: hope wherever your kids are they can get a decent
Speaker 2: dose of founding Father's stuff. That isn't all about them
Speaker 2: being slaveholders and this and that, which is highly annoying.
Speaker 2: The penny. You tweeted this out, I think, Joe, so
Speaker 2: we got rid of the penny. We made the last
Speaker 2: two pennies the other day. Yes, compared to its value
Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty six, the penny is now worth a
Speaker 2: tenth of a cent, the nickel is worth a half
Speaker 2: a cent, and the dime is the same as what
Speaker 2: a penny was in nineteen sixty six. Correct. That's not
Speaker 2: a bad little lesson about inflation, because inflation isn't just
Speaker 2: a thing that happened during COVID. After Joe Biden, inflation
Speaker 2: is ongoing. At its best, it's around two percent. But
Speaker 2: we had a period there in the late seventies early
Speaker 2: eighties where it was horribly high, and we had a
Speaker 2: period during COVID where it was horribly high. But so
Speaker 2: a dime is worth what a penny was in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty six. That's a good thing to know and keep
Speaker 2: in mind. Well, and it points out the absurdity of
Speaker 2: having a penny. How many people between nineteen sixty six
Speaker 2: and today would have said, it makes sense to have
Speaker 2: a tenth of a cent piece. Nobody, No, ridiculous, No,
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure we need the nickel that is
Speaker 2: worth a half of a cent from nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 4: For what it's worth, I did all that research on
Speaker 4: my own, using an inflation calculator and actually found and
Speaker 4: clipped a illustration of a nineteen sixty six penny for
Speaker 4: that tweet. I'm practically ken Burns. You did that whole
Speaker 4: thing that was my documentary about the value of the
Speaker 4: penny as it was.
Speaker 2: Compared to nineteen sixty six a random hear you chose
Speaker 2: el America. No, not at all.
Speaker 4: I found the precise year that a penny was almost
Speaker 4: was more or less exactly a tenth of what is
Speaker 4: worth right now.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, that's who you're shooting for. We us, Katie.
Speaker 2: The American Revolution started Sunday and it goes all week. Okay.
Speaker 2: So it's on now, and I'm sure you can find
Speaker 2: the older episodes somewhere. So i gotta watch out with
Speaker 2: my son. I'd love to sit down and watch out
Speaker 2: with my son. I've seen some of the previews of
Speaker 2: it and looks absolutely fantastic And despite what you might think,
Speaker 2: having watched the interviews with Ken Burns going around, sounds
Speaker 2: like he's gonna give up pretty good, just general like
Speaker 2: it was, you know, me as a kid lesson in
Speaker 2: the Revolutionary War, and it's importance in the Founding Fathers,
Speaker 2: not some sort of new sixteen nineteen project we should
Speaker 2: be ashamed of ourselves version exactly.
Speaker 4: That's what everybody's asking, particularly because Ken is a man
Speaker 4: of the left. Yeah, is there gonna be Howard Zinn
Speaker 4: wokeism in it? From what I've heard, no, which is wild.
Speaker 4: How does he keep that out?
Speaker 2: How does he think it's important to keep that out
Speaker 2: of his documentaries which he seems to have Yet in
Speaker 2: his personal life he goes around doing all these interviews
Speaker 2: talking like a progressive. I don't know, we'll have to see.
Speaker 2: Wonder what that is. I wonder why he does that. Anyway.
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