1 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: How to deal with masked me, among other important things 2 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: will be dealing with this hour. I'm sorry, did you 3 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: just make up a word mask me? It's like acne, 4 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: but it's a skin irritation due to wearing your mask 5 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: all the time, so they call it mask me. I 6 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: think you're tracking mask I think you're tracking with I don't. 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: I don't like that. Um As masks become, it looks 8 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: like even more more prevalent around the country. UM More 9 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: on that later. Also, a Supreme Court opinion has just 10 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: come out on young undocumented immigrants. I'm seeing breaking news 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: banners around on my phone and stuff like that. I 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to look at what that is. Yeah, 13 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 1: I'm trying to go to the places that actually know 14 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: what they're taught thinking about it, because virtually everything you 15 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: hear for the next forty minutes or so on mainstream 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: media will be incorrect or badly interpreted. We will have 17 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: to dip back into the Joe Biden came out of 18 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: his spiky hole yesterday and did a little talking and 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: we'll see how that went. Thank you, Oh boy, I'm 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 1: telling you that has an emotional effect on me. Hearing 21 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: that you're hearing a man who is near the end. 22 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. He can barely get his breath out. 23 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: Check him for the COVID. Oh, that reminds me. We 24 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: got a note from a bloke in Phoenix. Where is 25 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: it there? It is, I'll just keep him anonymous. You 26 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: had to do some flying and uh. And he flew 27 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: back and forth um from Phoenix to Salt Lake City, 28 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: and not long after he starts feeling sicker than he's 29 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: ever felt. And while his email is ridiculously long al 30 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: cheese three full pages, he describes the drama of trying 31 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: to get a COVID test and he's he's trying to 32 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: deal with his county, he's trying to deal with the 33 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 1: CVS that is allegedly allegedly doing tests, and his efforts 34 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: to to just line up a test going for hours, 35 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: days and he's getting the run around. Finally shows up 36 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: at the CVS. It's empty, there's nobody there, but they 37 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: say you have to have an appointment. It's like, well, 38 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: can you just do me now you're didn't. Now you've 39 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: gotta make an appointment. So he tries to make an 40 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: appointment and they say and and then he gets kicked 41 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: out of the system and he goes back and they say, yeah, 42 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: the system is not working, and it was just it 43 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: was like your your worst government healthcare nightmare. You can't 44 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: go to the doctor. I thought they were. I thought 45 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: if you had symptoms, they would like run you to 46 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: the tests. I don't think that's enough to depend a 47 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: pretty solid email. I think he would be able to 48 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: exploit the uh, you know the opportunities that are out there. Um, 49 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: but it sounds like a nightmare to me. Other places 50 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 1: you just drive up, I guess. Um. There was an 51 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: attempt in the city of Portland to get a chairs 52 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: going apparently late last night and early this morning, and 53 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: it was broken up quickly by authorities, even in Portland 54 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: because I think they realized if you if they if 55 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: they get a toe hold, then it's just it's a 56 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,839 Speaker 1: nightmare and we don't want to deal with that, even 57 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: if we agree with some of their stuff, that'd be 58 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: my guess. Uh, you just you just don't want what 59 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: Seattle is dealing with. And so it was broken up 60 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: very quickly into Portland doesn't at least as of now, 61 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: has no chairs. Wow, but they still have a chairs 62 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: Where Chaz exists in Seattle, it is Chaz, it's somewhat 63 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: surprising that that Portland would move so swiftly. Could it 64 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: be that they witnessed Freeattle's descent into psychosis? And even 65 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: the way lefties who were in Portland said, that's a 66 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: bridge too far. We don't have autonomous zones in Portland. 67 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: We have ten cities and crazy people in bums shooting 68 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: up on corners, stopping traffic regularly, and we let them 69 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: get away with it, right right, But that that would 70 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: be too much apparently, well, okay, that's fine. I mean, 71 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: I prefer they are even less crazy than they are 72 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: because I love Portland. But um, anyway, that's an interesting development. 73 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: So according to our friends at Scotus blog, uh docca oh, 74 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: the majority said The majority of the Supreme Court said 75 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 1: the decision to determine to terminate DOCCA was arbitrary and 76 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: capricious because the Acting Secretary's decision to terminate the program 77 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: discussed the legality of the benefits associated with DOCCA, but 78 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: didn't discuss forbearance the decision to defer removal or whether 79 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: there was legitimate reliance on the DOCCA memory blah blah blah. Legally, 80 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: so this DOCCA stands for now and what is its 81 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: current situation. It's uh, you don't get deported if you 82 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: were brought to the country as a kid, Okay, And 83 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: that will law. And the acting Secretary of Homeland Security, 84 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 1: I think, had called for the end of DOCCA and 85 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 1: the soup said no, and that will continue to be 86 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: the law of the day. Yeah for now. Um. Clarence 87 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: Thomas descended he's unhappy under the auspices of today's decision. 88 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,559 Speaker 1: Administrations can bind their successors by unlawfully adopting significant legal 89 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: changes through executive branch agency memoranda. Oh listen to him. 90 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: Bring it. This is a little more pithy. Today's decision 91 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: must be recognized for what it is, an effort to 92 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision. That's old, 93 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas. Interesting the number out today, This happens every Thursday. 94 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: One point five million workers claimed jobless benefits last week, 95 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: marking eleventh straight week of declines, which is a positive 96 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: spin and and it is true, but it's still an 97 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: extraordinary number. Um. Yeah, that's new, claims the feel or 98 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: at least you know in my part of the world. 99 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 1: And from what I read, is that okay, we're opening 100 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: back up. The economy is going again. Um, you know, 101 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: we're we're figuring out the social distancing and masks and 102 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 1: the rest of it. We're trying to do it smart. 103 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: But we're absolutely now moving forward. The idea that one 104 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: point five million new people filed that's rough man, that's 105 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: businesses that just ran out of gas. How probably, the 106 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: Fed Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said today he's already said 107 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: that the worst of the economic crisis caused by the 108 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: coronavirus could nearly be over as businesses are reopening across 109 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: the country. We may be reaching a bottom on that 110 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: that now. So we're at the bottom right now. I 111 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: hope he's right along the bottom lasts. I don't know, Yeah, yeah, 112 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: that's that's the question. The V shape recovery versus the 113 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: U shaped jack or the feared hockey stick, or it 114 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: just goes straight for a long time at a low level. 115 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: We don't know. We'll have to find out. Can can 116 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: I hear our Joe Biden clip again? Wake Up? Obviously 117 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: hands that wake up needs to be a regular part 118 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: of the intro to the show. I used to get 119 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: in there. Wake Up, wake Up, wake Up is that. 120 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm trying to understand. The scenario was that 121 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: one man who didn't quite succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning 122 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: urging another man who has to wake up? Is that 123 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: the first guy near death apparently wake up. That's a 124 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: gentleman who has found asleep in his car in the garage, 125 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: right exactly. Yeah, he hed falling asleep after starting his car, 126 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: and he's at the risk of death. And I'm telling you, 127 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: I'm having a gut caveman reaction to that. I hear 128 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: a man near death, I'm serious, and what I want 129 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: to make sure I got his final wishes. What I'd 130 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: really like to know is was there a decision made 131 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: like you talked about tow like really low key at 132 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: things are frantic Pole Show people are being exhausted by 133 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: the new cycle. I am. I just talking about it 134 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: with my wife last night. Yes, I said, I just 135 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: can't handle this anymore. The new cycle is killing me. 136 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: She said, I don't even look anymore. I know. It's 137 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: just your your brain reaches a point where you just 138 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: can't take any more stimulus, and it's it's a protective 139 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: mechanism um to to ignore it and shut it down 140 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: if it's not like a bear trying to eat one 141 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: of my children. Right now, I have to block it out. 142 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: I want to can you do of a sabbatical in 143 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: the the entertainment business where you just go away for 144 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: six months? How about folks, listen, we'll be back in 145 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: late October. We're just gonna take a couple of months off. 146 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: But so so we don't go psychotic. But my question is, 147 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: did they coach Biden on that and say extra low 148 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: key yes, or did he just come out and that's 149 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: just what he sounded like yesterday. Well they give him 150 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: a pep talk and say high energy, and he came 151 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: out like this, thank you. I tell you what. It 152 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: is clear his strategy is to be old, calming, Joe, 153 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: old bipartisan, middle of the road Gio all this craziness 154 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: Donald Trump place, come on, everybody, return to normal times. 155 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: Remember the sixties. Those were a good time, right? Maybe not? 156 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: Maybe that's a bad example. It was the sixties when 157 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: I got elected to the Senate for the first time. 158 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: Because I'm a hundred anyway, it's it's clearly a strategy. 159 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: But I don't know whether he just went a little 160 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: too far there, or if he's actually got to one 161 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: foot in the grave. He sounds like he's dying, you know, 162 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: a tangent um. I've heard a couple of people point 163 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: this out recently, and it's absolutely true, and I think 164 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: it's worth keeping in mind when we have all these 165 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: discussions when people refer to the sixties, what they really 166 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: mean is like sixties seven through seventy three. That's people 167 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: mean when they refer to the sixties. I think you're right. 168 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 1: The bulk of the sixties, sixty through sixty seven, we're 169 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: quite placid um and like old tiny America here summer 170 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,719 Speaker 1: a of nineteen sixty seven thing was mostly amusing. It's 171 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: really like sixties seven through the early seventies is what 172 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,119 Speaker 1: people mean by the turbulent, chaotic hippie music, drugs, craziness, 173 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: right bombing sixties. Yeah, yep, agreed um. But I thought 174 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: another thing on the interview with Robert Gates yesterday, former 175 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: SEC deaf, former CIA chief worked under geez what seven 176 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: different presidents or something like that, old guy being around 177 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: a long time, and asked, is this as crazy as 178 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: has ever been? And he said, yeah, absolutely, So it's 179 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: not just you know, in the imagination of the young, 180 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: No wonder I'm so exhausted. Yeah, it's as crazy as 181 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: it's been in a very very long time. Um. I 182 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: found this kind of calming. A Fortune survey of CEOs 183 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: and some of their attitudes right now about changing their 184 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: companies for racial stuff or the economy in different things 185 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: I found quite interesting. Among other things we could get to, 186 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: we also had a number of people weighing in about 187 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: their wives or husbands in the way they react when 188 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: they're doing the uh, the non driving portion of going somewhere, 189 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: the backseat driver. Oh no, myrtle strife. I hate to 190 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 1: hear that. Our text line is four one to nine 191 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: five k f TC art Strong and the Armstrong and 192 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: Getty Show. I suppose at some point out to mention 193 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: the Bolton book, that is, is it's Outer or not Outer? Well, 194 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: it's not out officially, but all sorts of copies have been. 195 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Nobody reads these books. People dig through 196 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: to get the juicy chunks the back of their narrative, 197 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: and everybody talks about them like crazy for two days, 198 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: for for a day and a half, and then nobody 199 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: reads a minute. It goes away. That's what happens book 200 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: after book after book, yeah, so yeah, we'll talk about 201 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: that maybe next segment. Okay, there's some interesting stuff in there. 202 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: And and the fact, well what's most notable to me 203 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: is that everybody on all sides is kicking John Bolton 204 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: for being a weasel. Um. But anyway, more of that 205 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: to come quick aside, The left is so good at 206 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: at imposing um, how we talk about things. Uh, they're 207 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: way better than the right. And it's bothered me for 208 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: a long time. For instance, I'm in the the lunch 209 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: room getting some caffeine juice and Fox News is reporting 210 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: on the docket decision that just came down, and they 211 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: refer to the docket recipients as dreamers, dreamers get to 212 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: stay or whatever. That That is a term, that's a 213 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: pr spin term invented by the left to make all 214 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: of this could be against a dreamer of this brilliant. 215 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: By the way, we suggested calling doctor recipients precious fairy 216 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: dust angels. I mean, that's only slightly more ridiculous than dreamers. 217 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: Fox News has adopted that in that verbiage, that nomenclature. 218 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: That is a win if you're that belief. Yep, Michael 219 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: mentioned his fiancee, uh, making noises while he was driving, 220 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: and he was afraid something horrible had happened. We got 221 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: this text my wife taught me. Gasping and grasping the 222 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: dash with both hands without explanation, unnerves every driver, including 223 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: this great one. So she's a gasp and grasp the 224 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: dash with both hands. My wife does that fairly regularly. 225 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: My wife has done that too. I have urged her repeatedly. Sweetheart, 226 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: if we are in danger, the last thing in the 227 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: world you want to do is lean forward, all right, 228 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,839 Speaker 1: let your let your belt keep you in place. Oh 229 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: and not danger, by the way. Uh oh, my gosh. 230 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: And then you look around everything like that, and somebody 231 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: spilled an ice cream car ice cream cone. I've had 232 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: that experience anytime we're about to be hit by a track. 233 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: Oh no, somebody spilled something in the backseat. Yeah, we 234 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: need we need different sound effects for these things. Exactly 235 00:13:54,679 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 1: internal issue, not external threat. Um Fortune Survey of eos 236 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: planned policy changes in response to the current calls for 237 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: racial justice. This is a survey of CEOs around the 238 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 1: country on a number of topics, but six policy changes. 239 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: Due to the social unrest. There's hardly a website. I've 240 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: been to whether it's genes or music or whatever, where 241 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: they don't have some sort of hashtag we're with the 242 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: protests or lots of we support Black Lives Matter, which 243 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: shocks me because if you go to Black Lives Matter website, 244 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: there's all kinds of stuff on there that the majority 245 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: of the country absolutely does not support UM. So it's 246 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: interesting to me that mainstream outlets are so free with 247 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: their support of of that. Well, I think just to 248 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: stay out of trouble. Every stovetop stuffing and running shoe 249 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: and gene and guitar string is just making it clear 250 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: we're down with it. Are there are people that actually 251 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: look for that and won't do business with a corporation 252 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: that hasn't posted something like because I don't even think 253 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: of it. If I need to buy something, that's all 254 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: that's privilege. Maybe it is the numbers in white gene, 255 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: is that any wears them tight. That percentage goes up 256 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: as the age goes down. The younger the consumer, the 257 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: more likely they already care about they're looking on the 258 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: website to see if they've made a stand. They have 259 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: really internalized the voting with your dollar mantra of a 260 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: lot of things that's why you see the targeting of advertisers. 261 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: They're they're aware of the financial power of collective. But 262 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: that's interesting. That's a change, you know, and maybe I 263 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: have Is it for the better? Where I I never 264 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: have an I doubt that I'm going to change At 265 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: this point in my life. I don't think about the 266 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: politics of the company's I do business with. I just 267 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: it never crosses my mind. But the next generation it 268 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: might be very important to them. Uh of ceo say 269 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: revenues have already recovered or never dropped. Well, this is 270 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: Fortune magazine, so they're trying to have a positive spin, right, Um, 271 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: thirty percent of ceo say revenues have recovered were never dropped. Well, 272 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: that's only that leaves out an awful lot of companies 273 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: said they didn't drop them, have not recovered it. Some 274 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: say won't recover in the foreseeable future only four per cent, 275 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: but almost half expect the recovery to recur between January 276 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: twenty one in June, so they put the bad news 277 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: at the bottom. But almost half of the cd CEOs 278 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: think the recovery won't occur for like a year and 279 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: a half. Not good, No, No, I thought this was 280 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: interesting seventies seven percent of ceo say their company's digital 281 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: transformation was significantly accelerated during the economic crisis. That rings 282 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: so true. Sure, so you were headed toward this with 283 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: computers and skyping and all this sort of stuff, and 284 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the highest priority get this 285 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: going right now. Well and listen, there's there's a lot 286 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: of inertia, or call it momentum if you want, in 287 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: businessmum momentum. That's right, the president, I'm playing in a 288 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: golf tournament this weekend. That's our team slogan. Momentum. But 289 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: you gotta shout it or write it in all caps 290 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: like the president is. But there's a certain amount of 291 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: momentum in business. Things exist just because they have existed. 292 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: They're going to do tomorrow what they did yesterday just 293 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: because they did it yesterday. And with lots of people 294 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: either furloughed or or at home, is a little less significant. 295 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: But a lot of businesses are finding out. You know, 296 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: it was a little better with the furloughed people here, 297 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: but not that much better. I think we just won't 298 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: bring them back. You're gonna see sustained unemployment for that 299 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: reason for a long time, and you could argue that 300 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: it's making businesses lean or mean or more effective in 301 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,439 Speaker 1: some cases. Um, but yeah, I think that's really going 302 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: to delay the bounce back because they had to find 303 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: out just how important all of us were and some 304 00:17:38,080 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: of us not so much. I'm talking about us. You 305 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: guys need a cool off, because this is not the time. 306 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,959 Speaker 1: We can't handle a world war right now. We're already 307 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: dealing with so many things. Coronavirus, economies are tanking, global 308 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 1: protests are happening, and at any minute more Hollywood actors 309 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: could release one of those black and white videos. Nah. Um, yeah, 310 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: that's right, I've got one of those. That's just terrible. 311 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: We need to play later, one of those I'm a celebrity, 312 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: you should take me seriously videos. Apparently word has not 313 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: penetrated their thick, thick film of self importance that nobody 314 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: wants that China versus India, it seems calmish for right now. 315 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: I hope the third and fourth biggest military in the 316 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: world squaring off killing each other over the weekend. Well, 317 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: this common time is when they put more nails in 318 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: the bats. Yeah, apparently heard up for the next battle. 319 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: Well yeah, I heard it. Described by a pretty sober 320 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: commentator as a gang war, that they're just they they patrol, 321 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: they see each other occasionally, they you know, maybe shout 322 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: stuff at each other, and they hate each other just 323 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: because they're on the other side. And these guys just 324 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: they interrupted into fists and sticks and whatever, and they 325 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: beat the hell out of each other. And I was 326 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: listening to in the Chinese side one. I don't know 327 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: if the Indians were out numbered or just aren't good 328 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: enough fight or what. I hadn't meant to talk about this, 329 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 1: but I was listening to a podcast yesterday with one 330 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 1: of what I'm told the best Chinese experts in in 331 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: America aren't think tanks constantly in communication with with the Chinese. Uh, 332 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: you know, military, etcetera, etcetera, and uh. And this woman said, 333 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 1: they are going to move on Taiwan. It's just a 334 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: matter of when she is gonna move on Taiwan. And 335 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: she said she's talked to people in the Chinese military 336 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 1: who have said, what's America gonna do? They can't stop 337 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: us at this point. Their belief is we don't have 338 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: the will or the ability to stop them from do 339 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: doing that. They don't think we've got the military might 340 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: to stop them from doing something like that, honestly on 341 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: both counts. And she said, whether they're right or wrong, 342 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: it's a big dilemma because they could be wrong, but 343 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: that means they're still going to do it and uh right, 344 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: and it'd be a heck of a thing to find out, 345 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: you know, who's right. One of our emailers referred to 346 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 1: a president she is Winnie the Poo's stunt double stunt 347 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: double uh, which I thought was very funny. Um. Yeah, 348 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 1: the idea, well, in terms of could we stop them, 349 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: I say no, because, with all due respect to the 350 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: might of the American Navy, it's like, um, if if 351 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, uh, Staten Island were a rebel territory 352 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: of the United States, I mean we could we could 353 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: decide all right, let's take it all right now, and 354 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: ten minutes later we'd be overrunning it. And if some 355 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: other country was unhappy about it, well they wouldn't be 356 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: able to get there in time. It'd be fatal complete. 357 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: Then you'd have to like invade it get it back, 358 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: and there's no way we have the will to do that. 359 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: You know, this fits in a little bit. We're we 360 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 1: would just sanction uh, the Beijing out of them for 361 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,479 Speaker 1: the next ten years or whatever. That could be our 362 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: only response if I'm gonna be honest about it, boy, 363 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: And then what does that look like? The crazy cyber warfare? 364 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: And what does that say to the world? What does 365 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: that look like in the world stage? That is an 366 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: announcement that, Okay, there are two coequal militaries out there. 367 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: Isn't that just a statement of that? No, I don't 368 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: think so, just because of the geographic reality of it. 369 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: If you ever look at a map, I mean, China 370 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: is this enormous country and then you squint your eyes 371 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 1: and you see Taiwan is this little island that's right 372 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: next to I mean, right there, and they go, but 373 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: just gobble it up? Now? Will we let them fully 374 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: militarize the South China? See? No way, They've wanted Taiwan 375 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 1: for seventy five years. It's always been a tiny speck 376 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: right off of China. They didn't take it before because 377 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: they didn't think they could. According to this person's interviews 378 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: with military people, they can now. So that's a that's 379 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: a change in uh in situation um. And it kind 380 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: of fits in with the Bolton book. We're gonna talk 381 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: about little bit the Wall Street Journal. Of course, they 382 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: picked out part of the Bolton book where he said, oh, 383 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: some things that were somewhat flattering the President Trump. Don't 384 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: want those to sneak into the media. But on how 385 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: you know, he's happy that Trump recognizes the situation with 386 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: China um and Bolton is way more you know, hawk 387 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 1: ish that direction, and he talks about past presidents and 388 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, But he was, he was on 389 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: how we everybody understands this now. Secretary Gates talked about 390 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: it yesterday in an interview. The world made a bet 391 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: that if we let China run run free their econot 392 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 1: with their economics, screwing everybody around the world, at least 393 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: as their economy grows, they'll become nicer and all that 394 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: sort of stuff didn't work. Bad idea it's over didn't 395 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: help at all. All they did was build a very 396 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: frightening military with a very frightening attitude. But this expert, 397 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,239 Speaker 1: this expert, she said, the idea that they would uh 398 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: that they that the middle class would take over and 399 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: they'd open up and they'd get calmer, was was wrong. 400 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 1: She said. What was also wrong, and in retrospect really wrong. 401 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: Is this idea that you can tell somebody, we're going 402 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 1: to allow you to be number two as long as 403 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,280 Speaker 1: you want, you can be a good, solid number two. 404 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. Doesn't that make you feel good. 405 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: Nobody feels good being told we're going to allow you 406 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: to be second best. Nobody actually wants to be vice president. 407 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 1: I hadn't take that deal in a second. I had 408 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,479 Speaker 1: never thought of it that way before, But that was 409 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: what what the United States was saying to China. We're 410 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: absolutely in favor of you becoming number two, the second 411 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: best economy and the second best of this, and the 412 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: second best that. And then they thought, when we're not 413 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: interested in big number two, we want to be number one. 414 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, I suppose maybe, you know, I'm not sure 415 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: I buy that argument, because there are plenty of countries 416 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 1: that seem fine with being number seventeen. But maybe if 417 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: you're number two, you smell number one and sure, and 418 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: you want to be it. But what's interesting is China's 419 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: wealth enabled it to double down on its aggressive totalitarian impulses. 420 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: It was the opposite of what all of us hoped 421 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: would happen. You know, back in the great opening of China, 422 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: Uh dialogue, um or you know the narrative. So the 423 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: Bolton's book is coming out any day, although the Justice 424 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: Department is suing. I'm saying he violated his nondisclosure agreements 425 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: in the rest of it, but so much of it 426 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: is leaked out it's it's become a moot point anyway. Uh. 427 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 1: So you know, a couple of things bother me about 428 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: the coverage. Number One, Bolton thinks Trump isn't good at 429 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 1: foreign policy and doesn't know enough about it. Okay, if 430 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: if you either agree or you don't agree, or you think, well, 431 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 1: he's still better in the alternative, that's fine. What bothers 432 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 1: me about the coverage of it is that it's it's 433 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: like a game of telephone it. The things that the 434 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: book actually says are getting characterized and recharacterized um in 435 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: the media. For instance, UM. One passage that's just getting 436 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 1: flogged is uh. Bolton writes that Trump was quote pleading 437 00:24:55,720 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 1: with she to ensure he'd win the reelection. But Bolton 438 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: said he could not print the president's exact words because 439 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: of the government's prepublication review process. So pleading with she 440 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: to ensure he'd win what do you actually say. I mean, 441 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 1: if if he said, you know, it would really help 442 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: our farmers, that would help me politically. I could get reelected. 443 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: We could keep going down that path. I don't find 444 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,959 Speaker 1: that a particularly obnoxious or or wrong. Bolton says Trump 445 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: was was obsessed with getting re elected to the exclusion of, 446 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: like America's good, what would really serve America? I don't 447 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: know that's Bolton's opinion. That would be in the ivy 448 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: beholder on an instant by instant basis. But you remember 449 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: the famous Obama video of I'll have more freedom after 450 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: the election. He was not doing something that would hurt 451 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: his re election chances and tell him the leader of Russia, 452 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: that I'll do I can do it after the election, 453 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: but I can't do it now because it would hurt 454 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: my chance of getting reelected. Lots of presidents have done that. 455 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,360 Speaker 1: That's a very common thing to do, might be unfortunate, 456 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: might be an stream. You might cross a line where 457 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: it's extreme, But I don't know. I'd have to know 458 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: the instance by instance, right decision right um. And the 459 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 1: other one that that bothered me is that in the book, 460 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: Bolton says he's asked, what did Putin think of Trump, 461 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: and Bolton says, I think Putin thought he could play 462 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 1: Trump like a fiddle, which evolved on NBC News and 463 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: NPR This Morning to Bolton thought Putin could play Trump 464 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: like a fiddle. When Bolton was describing what he thought, 465 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: Putin thought, and Putin thought he could play Obama like 466 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: a fiddle. And he thought he could play George W. 467 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: Bush like a fiddle. He's a pretty good fiddler too, 468 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,360 Speaker 1: by the way, Putin, I'll put a fiddle of gold 469 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,199 Speaker 1: against your soul. If you think you're better than me, 470 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: I don't. I'm pretty bad. Um. Here's the part that 471 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: I hate and why I don't really want to discuss this. Yeah, 472 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't that be incredibly heavy? Even think you'd be resonant 473 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: at all? Can we just do like a cash bed? 474 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: I mean, if if I'm getting into some if I'm like, 475 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 1: come up again, some golf hustler he thinks he can 476 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: beat me, I'm not gonna play for solid gold golf clubs. 477 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: They'd be heavy. Here's what I hate about all these books, though, 478 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 1: and I hate slippery when you're sweating. I hate discussing 479 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: these books. I hate all these books, and not just 480 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: the political ones, because there's been lots of them, people 481 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: who only do the right thing when they're going to 482 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: profit from it. And it happens all the freaking time, 483 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: whether you were on the bicycling team with Lance Armstrong 484 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: or or your FBI director Ray and uh you remember 485 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: he said in the sixty Minutes interview they were considering 486 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: invoking the amendment or whatever that is to remove the 487 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 1: president because he's crazy, which wasn't even in the book, 488 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,399 Speaker 1: but you said it on television to sell the book. 489 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: So and and then Bolton saying the impeachment inquiry missed 490 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: other troubling episod then show up to the impeachment inquiry 491 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 1: and tell the people trying to impeach the president what happened. 492 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: You think these things are so damaging, you think the 493 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: guy is so unqualified, you had the opportunity to play 494 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: a role in removing him, then do it, you freaking weasel. 495 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 1: These people are such low lives. Yeah, well, even if 496 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: you want to make all the arguments that what he 497 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: says is true, fine, go ahead, I don't care. But 498 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 1: he is a weasel of the most weaseling character. He's saying, 499 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: the most powerful man in the world is not fit 500 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: for the office. It's obvious you had a chance to 501 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: play a role in removing him and you didn't. Why 502 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: because you're gonna make more money if you waited and 503 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: put it in a book that is so that is 504 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: so unpatriotic. You shouldn't be held up as anything but 505 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 1: a disgrace. That's embarrassing. It is fairly amusing the way 506 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: the Democrats are holding their nose while they tout the 507 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: book and what he says, because they are so angry 508 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: at him for holding off, holding back until his book 509 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: was out, because they wanted him to testify at the 510 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: ridiculously rushed and show body impeachment thing, and he just no, 511 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: not I'm busy that day. He just wouldn't cooperate in 512 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: any way, wouldn't test it. We didn't say a word. 513 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: Comy did the same thing lots and have done the 514 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: same thing. If you have something so Tyllerson did the 515 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: same thing as Secretarist State, you have something so damaging 516 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: that's going on behind the scenes, then you you call 517 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: the Washington Post, or you get a bunch of microphones 518 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: around you and you say it out loud, You resign 519 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: in protest, or something be a freaking patriot if that's 520 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: what you actually believe, or did you not think it 521 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: was that big a deal and you've ooked it up 522 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: a little bit to sell a book now that one, Well, 523 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: what's the disconnect is the portrayals are so dramatic in 524 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: the books and so black and white and so horrifying. 525 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: If they were that way, you would have said something 526 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: or done something if you're a real patriot as a 527 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: those to a you know, would be a star author. 528 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: And so either these people are morally reprehensible, as you 529 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: were suggesting, or the stuff in a book is jazzed 530 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: up and made extra exciting and at the time you 531 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: were thinking, I don't think this is a good decision, 532 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: but he's the president. We'll see how it goes. Man, 533 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: if it's true, you gotta you gotta resign and go 534 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: to a microphone and tell people. I just I don't. 535 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: I don't get that. You know, I suppose if a well, 536 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: I think you do get it. I think you've explained 537 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: it quite nicely. You can't relate to it. It's not 538 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: more complicated than that. No, No, I don't think it 539 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: is at all. Book publisher calls you and says, you know, 540 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: if you laid this out in book for him, and 541 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: we had a real big build up to it, and 542 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: we time it right. You can make six million dollars. 543 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: Oh boy. I'm working on my Jack Armstrongs Are Rotten 544 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: Human Being book right now. I'm gonna get my first 545 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: draft started. Uh Taco Bell employee fired over Black Lives 546 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: Matter mask. I think this is wearing it or not 547 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: wearing it or employee employee war. It got fired because 548 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: it goes goes against her policy. But the manager who 549 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: intervened is in big trouble and political trouble. And so 550 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: the reason I think this is a story is because 551 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: every company in America could be dealing with this situation 552 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: which day or next week. Why they're frantically virtue signal. 553 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: A little more on that coming up the Armstrong and 554 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: Getting Show. Some of our favorite syrups are under the gun. 555 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 1: I hadn't. I don't believe I'd ever thought for a 556 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: second about and Jemima and it going away is fine 557 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: with me. I don't care. I just I've I've I've 558 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: had Jemima serp in my whole life, but I'd never 559 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: put any thought into any of it. Name your corn syrup, 560 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: something else that's fine. Um, but if it has racist 561 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,960 Speaker 1: origins or whatever, you get rid of it or whatever. 562 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: But so um. Then I heard Mr Mrs Mrs Butterworth's 563 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: is under pressure now and Canagara Brands this is, according 564 00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: to Chicago Business is reviewing Mrs Butterworth's imagery. And I thought, 565 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: what's Mrs Buttersworth? I mean I could picture Aunt Jemima 566 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 1: and I thought, okay, I guess that is that racist 567 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: or Rachel Ruter word's a black woman on there. I 568 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 1: don't even know what it is. I've never thought about it. 569 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: I don't think about these things. Maybe some of you do. Well, 570 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: here's what it says in the in the Business report 571 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 1: about this. Uh. ConAgra Brands announced the review of its 572 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: Mrs Butterworth's brand hours after rival syrup and pancake mixed 573 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 1: brand Aunt Jemima said it was removing the imagery of 574 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: a black woman from its packaging. Mrs Butterworth's origin and 575 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: race have never been specified by the brand, but the 576 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: dark coloring of the of the syrup in the clear 577 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 1: bottle gives many people the idea she is meant to 578 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: represent a black woman, as clearly syrup blackish dark is 579 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: kind of yes, obviously, because it's a clear bottle and 580 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: syrup is the color it is, there's an assumption that 581 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: it might be a black woman. And if it were 582 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: a black woman, why can't it be a black woman? 583 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: I feel like some of this, like I said yesterday, 584 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 1: I feel like if you introduced ant Jemima today, you 585 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: could spin it as or what we're saying is, you know, 586 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: black moms had great recipes back in the day too, right. 587 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: It's it's not affirmative action, but it's I feel like 588 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: if Mrs Butterworth was obviously white, there'll be pressure for 589 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: only white moms can have great syrup because there's there's 590 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: no claim of Mrs Butterworth venus slave or anything. Man, 591 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: I don't claim of it being anything. I've eaten in 592 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: a couple of black run diners in d C. That 593 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: is the best food I've ever had in my life, 594 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: So yeah, I would think, yeah, heck yeah, is that 595 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 1: what they're going for? I don't know what you know, Jack, 596 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: have always assumed that the honey bear, which is you know, 597 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 1: the honey container that she squeeze the honey out of, 598 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: that's bear shaped. I've always assumed it was a grizzly 599 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: because it was roughly honeycoat. No, I haven't assumed anything. 600 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: I used to do a hilarious bit for my kids 601 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: with the honey bear. Though, yeah, I wish I had 602 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: a video of it. It's like that movie with which 603 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: movie is that with the talking bear ted O? No, 604 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,359 Speaker 1: like The Revenant where Leo fought a bear? No, No, 605 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: not really. I would the honey bear. It's important that 606 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: some of the honey was missing from it, and uh 607 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,280 Speaker 1: and I would have the honey bear walking and talking 608 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 1: on the table and doing a character voice and all, 609 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 1: and then I'd say, then I'd have the honey bear 610 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,960 Speaker 1: whirl on one of my kids. You're looking at me? 611 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: Are you looking at me? That makes me so mad? 612 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: And then I'd squeeze it in. The honey would rise 613 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,799 Speaker 1: up and cover his face like he was turning wreck 614 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 1: with anger. Great looking at me cracked him up. Honey 615 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,040 Speaker 1: bear bit. Mrs Butterworth Syrup was introduced in ninete. The 616 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 1: syrup comes in a bottle shaped like a woman. The 617 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: character talks and seemingly a woman shaped like that needs 618 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 1: to get to the gym shaped like a woman. Wow, 619 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 1: now body shape not know? Plenty of women are not 620 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 1: shaped like that bottle piling on the racism with body shape. 621 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: Not wake up, thank you, that's Joe Biden there, folks. 622 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: Um Mrs Butterworth claims that they're just trying to evoke 623 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: the images of a loving grandmother. We stand and that 624 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: we stand in solidarity with black and brown communities. The 625 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: fact that they feel the need to even respond to this. 626 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 1: It's not even a it's not a person who. It 627 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,640 Speaker 1: doesn't have a color, it's not in anything. Right. Might 628 00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,279 Speaker 1: somebody think we might have thought maybe back in the day, 629 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: is the color of syrup a right? So I'm trying 630 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: to decide. Uh. One of our beloved listeners turned us 631 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 1: on too well the email this mail bag and I'm 632 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 1: strong in getty dot com to a Tracy Morgan bit 633 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live a number of years ago, Uncle 634 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: Jemima's pure mesh liquor. I haven't, but it's funny. I 635 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:15,400 Speaker 1: just I just watched it, and it is indeed funny. 636 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: What year think, double lot? I think the year two 637 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: thousand and it's still on YouTube and and Saturday Night 638 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 1: Live controls all your SNL clips on your day. They 639 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,320 Speaker 1: only allow them on there if they want them on 640 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,880 Speaker 1: their right. Um and it it seems partly to be 641 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,879 Speaker 1: mocking the like Disney Song of the South, image of 642 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: black folk in the South, but it's also rather a 643 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: hard edged like, well, how do I how do I 644 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 1: put this without ending my career? It's rather critical of 645 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:56,879 Speaker 1: old black drunks too, in that Tracy Morgan way. Um 646 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,359 Speaker 1: and it's it's quite funny, but I don't know if 647 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,480 Speaker 1: we do it our helves any good. Maybe google it, 648 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: Uncle Jemima, I'm sorry bing it. Google is evil. Uncle 649 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:10,040 Speaker 1: Jemima's pure mash liquor. So we'll get to Joe Biden 650 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 1: came out of his spidy hole yesterday and gave a 651 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,279 Speaker 1: little speech and some people think he sounded a little 652 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: low energy. Will let you decide. And uh, the taco 653 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,440 Speaker 1: bell thing. We have audio from the manager dealing with 654 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: the employee with the mask. Is that what that is? Sean? 655 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 1: And boy, you might be dealing with this at your workplace. 656 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty