Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, arm Strong and Gatty,
Speaker 1: and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Chapotle has announced that it plans to open a restaurant
Speaker 2: in Mexico next year. Meanwhile, the Olive Garden in Italy
Speaker 2: was just burned to the ground.
Speaker 1: Is snata Basta?
Speaker 3: I mentioned taking my son to Kentucky Fried Chicken and
Speaker 3: how incredibly expensive it was the other night, and we
Speaker 3: have had some stuff on people pulling back on those
Speaker 3: kind of purchases as combination of inflation and people maxing
Speaker 3: out credit cards and consumer confidence and all that sort
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 1: I was shocked. It's not cheap. Yeah, yeah, it's it
Speaker 1: is shocking.
Speaker 4: I was just thinking about my experience of Olive Garden
Speaker 4: is almost entirely through pop culture. I think I've eaten
Speaker 4: at them twice, but twenty five years ago was the most.
Speaker 1: Recent trip I made.
Speaker 3: Probably I don't know, quite a few times at the OG,
Speaker 3: but not not for decades.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I could be way off in what it's like. Well,
Speaker 1: in my memory of it is it was like Arby's
Speaker 1: undeserving of the never ending mockery. That was perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: I mean it.
Speaker 4: Wasn't like authentic Italian fair like you were in Tuscany.
Speaker 1: Well, if you were expecting that, you're an idiot exactly.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. It's good enough grub.
Speaker 4: If you're looking to get obese for a reasonable amount
Speaker 4: of money, they'll serve you three thousand calories and pretend
Speaker 4: it's just one meal.
Speaker 3: If you're looking to get obese for a reasonable amount
Speaker 3: of money.
Speaker 1: That's what we usually are doing back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, yeah, Oh that's you know, why didn't I
Speaker 4: save this?
Speaker 1: I was reading over.
Speaker 4: The weekend about how the GP one drugs whatever, the
Speaker 4: brand new weight loss drugs everybody's talking about how Munjaro
Speaker 4: and zep bound uh. But they're they're going to be
Speaker 4: more and more and more in common as they turn
Speaker 4: out to be like good for all sorts of different
Speaker 4: conditions really anything related to weight obviously, from sleep apnea
Speaker 4: to cancer, to heart disease to just a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: Wow. Also some surprising things.
Speaker 4: Seem to be responding to it because because they reduce inflammation.
Speaker 3: Well, viager it was a blood pressure medicine, so that's
Speaker 3: you know, these are the way things can work with
Speaker 3: these medicines.
Speaker 1: But that would be something.
Speaker 3: So it's all about whether the insurance company covers it, right,
Speaker 3: because it's pretty damned expensive. But if the insurance company
Speaker 3: thinks I gotta buy your seapack machine and treat your
Speaker 3: for sleep apnear or replace a knee or whatever, it is,
Speaker 3: all the different things that could cost or I can
Speaker 3: pay for this drug.
Speaker 1: I wonder if I wonder if like it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: It's actually a lovely little listicle. You're right, because all
Speaker 4: of the thing's directly affected by weight, including a joint replacement.
Speaker 1: I wonder if like eighty percent of us are going
Speaker 1: to be on you know, some dosage of that soon. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well I got fat as hell over the weekend by
Speaker 4: my standards. Yes, so nice job I was. I was
Speaker 4: really particularly receptive to that article. Yeah, just ate like
Speaker 4: a hog back. I got on the scale yesterday. I
Speaker 4: was like, wait, what.
Speaker 3: That's what's always funny to me is when there's the
Speaker 3: it's like spending. It's like when I feel like I've
Speaker 3: been buying a lot lately, then you look at your
Speaker 3: credit card bill.
Speaker 1: Nah, there's a cost effect. The same thing with the weight.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, I like I I often feel
Speaker 3: like I'm slipping it past my body, or like sneaking
Speaker 3: it in there and my body won't notice, or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: It's all hilarious the way the mind does that.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, it's late at night, maybe my body
Speaker 3: didn't notice me eat that or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: But then you get on a scale, think, yeah, I
Speaker 3: crap all week and guess what I'm up a couple
Speaker 3: of pounds.
Speaker 4: Are you watching me eat a slice of lemon merangue
Speaker 4: pie at eleven o'clock at night Saturday night?
Speaker 1: Nice job, lemon meringue. Yes, my love, lemon coming up.
Speaker 1: Woman gets married.
Speaker 3: At the reception, everybody's saying, jeez, where's your uh, where's
Speaker 3: your new husband?
Speaker 1: He takes off. Wow, she doesn't see him for months.
Speaker 1: Good stories?
Speaker 4: Wow, Wow, this is not a good story. Can I
Speaker 4: just say it out loud? The big beautiful bill is terrible.
Speaker 4: It's it's a it's a I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, it's a horrible, horrendous.
Speaker 3: You apparently did not watch Mike Johnson Speaker of the
Speaker 3: House on whichever show I was watching.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was a.
Speaker 3: Shannon Breem on Fox First She had ran Paul on
Speaker 3: bad Mouth and the bill and saying this is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then she had Mike Johnson on the Speaker of the
Speaker 3: House saying, look, Rand and I are both fiscal conservatives.
Speaker 3: This is good for the country. I'm a fyscal conservative
Speaker 3: to my bones, said Mike Johnson.
Speaker 1: And I thought, Doki, I.
Speaker 4: Will absolutely grant him, because he is a skilled cat herder.
Speaker 4: To get this passed at all was quite the act
Speaker 4: of of you know, legislative whatever he does. But it's
Speaker 4: it's it's a horror. Oh that's right. I was gonna
Speaker 4: I will grant him that this is as good as
Speaker 4: he can get. Yes, is as good as the fiscal
Speaker 4: conservatives can get.
Speaker 3: I think that's what he was leaving out of the conversation.
Speaker 3: It would be I am a physcal conservative to my bones.
Speaker 3: This is fiscally as conservative a thing we can get through.
Speaker 3: And I hate it, but it's the best we can do.
Speaker 3: So what would you like?
Speaker 1: Right? Right?
Speaker 4: I just I think it's important for the American people,
Speaker 4: including ourselves, to recognize whether it is raining or our
Speaker 4: legs are being peed upon, which is back to the
Speaker 4: freak off. Really, too many references to that sort of
Speaker 4: thing in a single show today, if you've been listening
Speaker 4: the whole show, and I apologize.
Speaker 1: I really really do.
Speaker 4: It shouldn't come up once an hour, But understand whether
Speaker 4: what Mike Johnson said, and he's still in the sales
Speaker 4: part of the sales process because the Senate's going to
Speaker 4: weigh in with their version of it, then the real
Speaker 4: work begins. And so I get why he would say
Speaker 4: what he's saying, but I don't want anybody to believe it.
Speaker 3: Well, Ramza know there are at least a couple of
Speaker 3: no's and they can only lose two or three. I
Speaker 3: think corninsa known in Texas, and so then it goes
Speaker 3: back to the house. Whatever do they take out of it? Well,
Speaker 3: I know you're about to get into the details. But
Speaker 3: one thing that happens in all these bills that they
Speaker 3: pointed out on the I think the National Review podcast
Speaker 3: the other day, they always put the spending is always
Speaker 3: the beginning. The paying for it is always like ten
Speaker 3: years later, and that part never happens. The rice gets
Speaker 3: changed by a different you know, the Congress or president
Speaker 3: right right, And there's plenty to say about this, the
Speaker 3: fiscal incontinence I'm gonna quote Gerard Baker now from Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal that will see the addition of three trillion
Speaker 3: dollars to the government's thirty six trillion dollars in the
Speaker 3: next ten years.
Speaker 1: It grows the deficit.
Speaker 4: The failure to produce anything more than a cosmetic reversal
Speaker 4: of the spending extravaganza over the past five years, with
Speaker 4: cuts of less than two percent of the projected outlays
Speaker 4: over the next decade. He also mentions there's the recomplexification
Speaker 4: of the tax code that the twenty seventeen Tax Cut
Speaker 4: Act had admirably simplified. There's a smorgas board of new
Speaker 4: deductions and exemptions that in the quadrupling of the state
Speaker 4: and local tax deduction, the infamoussault deduction absolutely terrible and
Speaker 4: like the one of the most egregious parts to me.
Speaker 4: And I'm not going to drawn on on about this
Speaker 4: because it's not in its final form yet. I just
Speaker 4: want people to know is that the very very modest
Speaker 4: cuts to Medicare, and remember Medicare is the one that
Speaker 4: was supposed to be for the very poorest and most
Speaker 4: needy Americans, that disabled, the blind, the extremely poor, poverty
Speaker 4: stricken woman and her baby. It now covers like forty
Speaker 4: percent of Americans, including millions of able bodied young men
Speaker 4: who just don't want to work. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 4: it's a it's giveaways to freeloader, lazy bastards, lazy bad lbs. Anyway,
Speaker 4: the cuts, the incredibly modest cuts to it phase in
Speaker 4: in like the year twenty thirty or something like that,
Speaker 4: what at twenty twenty eight, maybe three years from now,
Speaker 4: and those will be rescinded.
Speaker 1: It won't happen the.
Speaker 4: Best the Republican Party, with both houses in the White
Speaker 4: House can do.
Speaker 1: God help us. And these bills.
Speaker 3: Always, if there is any savings, you have to pay
Speaker 3: attention because the spending happens immediately. The cutting happens at
Speaker 3: the end. And as we've pointed out, the cutting always
Speaker 3: gets cut by the time you get there by a
Speaker 3: different president or Congress.
Speaker 1: Right right.
Speaker 3: So that's enough of that, But I want to hit
Speaker 3: you this go ahead on that topic, because I got
Speaker 3: Rand boiled this down pretty simply. He said that this
Speaker 3: should be said. All the time, we take in about
Speaker 3: five trillion a year, we spend seven trillion a year.
Speaker 3: You can't keep that up. That's one sentence that should
Speaker 3: be said every day, all day.
Speaker 4: Yes, I agree, one hundred percent, But I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm standing there telling my neighbor, Hey, if you drive
Speaker 4: a nail into your hand, it's really gonna hurt.
Speaker 1: Whatnot.
Speaker 4: And he's now driven seventeen nails into his hands, feet,
Speaker 4: and arms and legs, and he's got another one out.
Speaker 1: What am I gonna say? He don't drive that nail
Speaker 1: into your hand. It's really going to hurt.
Speaker 4: We can't spend more than we're taking in Lai da,
Speaker 4: I just please. The world has gone mad. The most
Speaker 4: basic realities are no longer discussed. I'm done good, I
Speaker 4: am too. I thought this was speaking of and of
Speaker 4: speaking of the Wall Street Journal. Do we have time
Speaker 4: for this? We really don't, Andy Kessler. He's talking about
Speaker 4: how ridiculous the FAA's technology is.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about that, and everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 4: Fum discs, they're exactly and their plan to fix it.
Speaker 1: And I love this.
Speaker 4: The FAA has been working on a modernized next gen
Speaker 4: air traffic control system conceived in two thousand and three
Speaker 4: that's set out to roll out.
Speaker 1: Set the rollout in twenty twenty five. Oops.
Speaker 4: Check that twenty thirty, but really more like twenty forty.
Speaker 4: And then he describes how the FAA tracks and manages
Speaker 4: more than forty five thousand flights every day, almost three
Speaker 4: million passengers every day, with analog two D strips of paper.
Speaker 4: And the exciting new update is gonna like turn those
Speaker 4: strips of paper into essentially a strip of paper on
Speaker 4: a video screen, right, and that's like the big update. Well,
Speaker 4: he points out almost all commercial and many private planes
Speaker 4: already broadcast their GPS location, direction and speed via something
Speaker 4: called Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast ad ADSB.
Speaker 1: Why not harness that data? This is? This is so cool.
Speaker 4: I recently saw a video of a passenger playing the
Speaker 4: three D multiplayer video game Fortnite on a Qatar Airways
Speaker 4: jet equipped with starlink. That's better technology than pilots or
Speaker 4: controllers have.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the solution.
Speaker 4: Retrofit these three D worlds with live GPS data to
Speaker 4: track aircraft with realistic visuals.
Speaker 1: How big a job is this?
Speaker 4: And they go into how the FAA system outage grounded
Speaker 4: more than eleven thousand US flights the other day. Fortnite's
Speaker 4: Battle Royale typically has around one hundred and seventy thousand
Speaker 4: concurrent players with a peak of around three million people
Speaker 4: playing at once. Running on Amazon Web services, it can
Speaker 4: handle ninety two million events a minute. Beyond flight details,
Speaker 4: it could track every passenger's drink order. You would have
Speaker 4: a three D world of where every plane is at
Speaker 4: every second digitally, and just hire some tech bros. Have
Speaker 4: Elon Musk headed up because to get tech bros, they
Speaker 4: got to be excited about it.
Speaker 1: They're not going to sign up for government drudgery.
Speaker 4: I bet with the right data feed, the doge bros
Speaker 4: could track every US flight in three dimensions and in
Speaker 4: living color this year and with weather.
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. That's funny.
Speaker 3: When you compare it to the technology of Fortnite or
Speaker 3: a Nintendo switch, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's going to take somebody who just doesn't
Speaker 4: give a crap about what is And that's Trump's greatest strength.
Speaker 4: He's like, I don't care if this has been going
Speaker 4: on for thirty years, it's stupid. We're changing it.
Speaker 3: Maybe the only thing worse than being left at the
Speaker 3: altar would be being left right after the altar.
Speaker 1: Weird development than that marriage. Stay tuned, Hetty President Trump.
Speaker 5: He is keeping the pressure up on Apple, warning that
Speaker 5: they'll get hit with twenty five percent tariffs if they
Speaker 5: don't make the iPhone here in the US, something that
Speaker 5: analysts say is unrealistic.
Speaker 1: I I'm not going to talk about this. This is uh.
Speaker 3: I just played that so I could mention. I don't
Speaker 3: know where we are on tariffs now. I saw some
Speaker 3: of the headlines. We're off for four days over he
Speaker 3: had punted for another couple of months, some tariffs that
Speaker 3: I'm not paying any attention.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, I don't know. If you run a business,
Speaker 1: how you plan. That's got to be difficult. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really tough.
Speaker 3: So back when we used to do this kind of
Speaker 3: talk radio show, we would do topics like, you know,
Speaker 3: did you get married and want to pull the plug?
Speaker 3: Or did you pull the plug right at the altar?
Speaker 3: That that sort of thing. When do you pull the
Speaker 3: plug if you think it's a bad idea, probably sooner the.
Speaker 1: Better, yes, But if you know it's bad.
Speaker 3: That's the problem, do you know, versus just the cold
Speaker 3: feet that can happen with you know, do I really
Speaker 3: want to take this job? I mean it's got all
Speaker 3: the positives, but on you know, just you know, the
Speaker 3: doubt that that can sink in buying a car.
Speaker 1: First big fight. I knew this was a mistake. No,
Speaker 1: it's not. You're both human. You had to fight. It's fine.
Speaker 3: So and I've known a few people that got divorced
Speaker 3: that knew when they're getting married it was a bad
Speaker 3: idea and still did it because you just get on
Speaker 3: the momentum train. And once the tuxes are rented in,
Speaker 3: the honeymoon's booked, and Uncle Ed's flying in from Florida,
Speaker 3: that's a hard time to pull the plug. But god,
Speaker 3: it's easier than later, trust me. But this one had
Speaker 3: I don't think i'd ever heard this one. Before they
Speaker 3: get married, they've been dating for six years, because that
Speaker 3: was going to be your first question. That was one
Speaker 3: of my first questions, like how long did you know
Speaker 3: you they'd been dating for six years. Everything was great,
Speaker 3: They get married, ceremony is good, they do the pictures.
Speaker 3: That goes really good. He's in a really good mood.
Speaker 3: They do all the photos. Then she doesn't see him again,
Speaker 3: like he doesn't do the dance part or the meal part,
Speaker 3: and everybody's asking where he is, and it becomes really weird,
Speaker 3: really really fast. She didn't hear from him four months now.
Speaker 4: During the wedding day slash night, she had to be
Speaker 4: panic stricken. Did he have a heart attack and he's
Speaker 4: lying dead in the bushes? Was he abducted?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't know.
Speaker 3: She doesn't say that. But anyway, everything was going good,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, you would. I don't know what I
Speaker 3: would think. I think I would first thought would be
Speaker 3: they freaked out, But I don't know, just maybe because
Speaker 3: I've done so many of these stories in my life,
Speaker 3: radio stories.
Speaker 4: Are you nnoft? To quote the great old brother? Where
Speaker 4: aren't they.
Speaker 1: Run off? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Anyway, she found out a couple of months later, and
Speaker 3: I wish there were more details of this story. He
Speaker 3: just disappeared and had to cancel the honeymoon, very embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Family and friends kept asking where the husband was. She
Speaker 3: just kept saying, I don't know, not here.
Speaker 1: That's really the operative answer.
Speaker 3: Turns out he yet another chick. Oh he went that
Speaker 3: far through it, past the pictures. He didn't even pull
Speaker 3: the plug prior to the pictures until after the photos.
Speaker 1: Before he decided, Nah, I like the other one better.
Speaker 1: What the hell? Yeah, that's some weird.
Speaker 4: I'd hate to awe fair in love and war, except that,
Speaker 4: oh it's not fair.
Speaker 3: God, the emotional turmoil of that on both ends, but
Speaker 3: even his end, like what dude, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: My god, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: So I haven't heard this yet, this is a uh.
Speaker 3: They took a moment before a w NBA game the
Speaker 3: other night.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for taking a.
Speaker 6: Minute to honor the life and George Floyd. George was
Speaker 6: a father, a brother, and his son, and his life,
Speaker 6: like every life called meeting, his dead exposed the holes
Speaker 6: that are son our justice in criminal institutions today, and
Speaker 6: his five year anniversary reminds us of every one that
Speaker 6: gets criminal, racial, and social injustices.
Speaker 3: All Right, take a moment to honor the death of
Speaker 3: George Floyd, father, husband, son, lifelong criminal, drug addicts who
Speaker 3: fought the cops. I mean, you don't get to kill
Speaker 3: a guy for that, don't get to kneel on his
Speaker 3: neck and kill him.
Speaker 1: But it just seems like an odd choice to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we know drug induced whatever it is, delirium
Speaker 4: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: You're right, that was part of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, the turning him into a hero and
Speaker 4: building statues and like memorial walls and.
Speaker 1: Stuff like that.
Speaker 3: God, I saw a list. I gotta dig that up.
Speaker 3: I have it on my phone somewhere over the weekend.
Speaker 3: It had to do with the why we don't believe
Speaker 3: median narratives anymore? But that had a list of them,
Speaker 3: hands up, don't shoot. Never happened. Yeah, Trump colluding Withrussia
Speaker 3: never happened. There was a list of them. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: it was like, yeah, when.
Speaker 4: You're reminded by looking at the actual list, because these
Speaker 4: things fade from our memory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how did the media's trust level get so low? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's obvious.
Speaker 3: Oh and an earlier Fox we haven't talked about this today,
Speaker 3: the whole Jake Tapper book, and he's done a bunch
Speaker 3: of more interviews, and that topic continues of the.
Speaker 1: Media cover up.
Speaker 3: It's kind of shifted more toward the amazing White House
Speaker 3: that we were living with that the media should have
Speaker 3: told us about, where you had like five people controlling
Speaker 3: everything in the White House.
Speaker 1: And the President wasn't one of them. That's the key.
Speaker 3: Well, as one of the sources told Alec Thompson on
Speaker 3: Shannon Breems Show Sunday, he was like one of the
Speaker 3: five or six that were running the White House when
Speaker 3: he was capable.
Speaker 1: Yea.
Speaker 3: And one of the people told Alec Thompson, he's the
Speaker 3: other one that wrote the book, not Jake. Tapper told
Speaker 3: him that, look, the only thing worse than this is
Speaker 3: Trump being president. They justified their actions with the idea
Speaker 3: that if they didn't protect Biden, Biden would lose and
Speaker 3: Trump would end up president.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember one of the sources said he was
Speaker 4: like a senior member of the Board of Directors Biden was.
Speaker 1: He wasn't the CEO, he wasn't the CFO or the COO.
Speaker 1: He was like an important member of the board.
Speaker 3: So you have cabinet, a cabinet at least one cabinet
Speaker 3: member that told Tapper and Thompson that they didn't think
Speaker 3: Biden was up for a two am emergency. Sure, many
Speaker 3: days you can't justify that with you think Trump is hitler.
Speaker 3: You can't have a president of the United States. And
Speaker 3: by the way, if Biden, if you had twenty fifth Amendment, Biden,
Speaker 3: Trump doesn't become president, Kamala becomes president. But maybe he
Speaker 3: thought Kamala is worse at two am. So that's where
Speaker 3: it gets scary. They thought, we're better off controlling this
Speaker 3: ourselves than having Biden stepped down and Kamala airsby president.
Speaker 3: So now you're just usurping power. It's practically a coup.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was just gonna say, the only saving grace
Speaker 4: that these people had is that something truly horrific didn't happen,
Speaker 4: because if that were laid bare, that they thought, hey,
Speaker 4: we're the president's advisors. Now the president isn't around. Look,
Speaker 4: we'll just advise each other and we'll run the show.
Speaker 3: I meant to grab this audio because some of the
Speaker 3: stuff Alec Thompson said was horrifying.
Speaker 1: I'm still reading the book.
Speaker 3: I gotta make my way through to it, and I
Speaker 3: will say, even with everything we know, there are revelations
Speaker 3: on practically each page that are interesting.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting book.
Speaker 3: But Alec Thompson said, one of those advisors told him, hey,
Speaker 3: because he pushed back on the idea that you.
Speaker 1: Guys are running, we're running the White House.
Speaker 3: When people thought Joe Biden, in one of the the
Speaker 3: pullet Bewer Bureau they call him in the book, the
Speaker 3: Five running the White House, said well, when you vote
Speaker 3: for a president, you're voting for his advisors. Everybody knows
Speaker 3: that that.
Speaker 1: Is not true. Well, that is true, but it's all right.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have advice that he listens to and then
Speaker 3: makes his own decisions. If the guy's brain doesn't work,
Speaker 3: he's not making the decisions based on input from his advisors.
Speaker 3: You were making the decisions. We didn't vote for that, right,
Speaker 3: That's well, that's how you end up in really bad places,
Speaker 3: you know. Can you Andrew imagine if China had moved
Speaker 3: on Taiwan on one of the days where Biden's standing
Speaker 3: around with his mouth hanging open, and Jake Sullivan and well, Jake,
Speaker 3: I don't think Jake Sullivan.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he's one of the five.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I thought, well, you read the book.
Speaker 4: He was listed in the description I saw with with
Speaker 4: blancoln But I don't know.
Speaker 3: If it's Zince science science, then you got and I'm
Speaker 3: not good with these names. Off the top of my head,
Speaker 3: it'll pop into my head, the other guy, and then
Speaker 3: missus Biden, doctor Jill's guy who's turned out to be
Speaker 3: quite evil.
Speaker 1: But those people, those people.
Speaker 3: Were going to decide how we respond to China invading
Speaker 3: Taiwan because Biden's standing there with his mouth hanging open.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's horrifying. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: So Andrew Styles in the Free Beacon, who's just great,
Speaker 4: what a great writer he is that.
Speaker 1: If you know, he's I want to be him when
Speaker 1: I grew up.
Speaker 4: He digs into the whole the media, saying, in fact,
Speaker 4: his theme is trying to claim at this point that
Speaker 4: you were just fooled by the clever.
Speaker 1: Dishonest White House the media.
Speaker 4: Look at how they fooled us with their lying and
Speaker 4: the rest of it, and it does mention, as you
Speaker 4: pointed out last week, whenever it is is that.
Speaker 1: Their defense is that while we were.
Speaker 4: To I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought, but
Speaker 4: the idea that yeah, we had, we didn't have the
Speaker 4: inside sources, we couldn't tell, and they lied to us.
Speaker 4: Our sources lied to us, and that's our defense. Well,
Speaker 4: Styles digs into that. Meanwhile, the reporters who failed to
Speaker 4: expose the scandal when the stakes were higher are generally
Speaker 4: portrayed as sympathetic, well meaning professionals with poor bull s detectors.
Speaker 4: Many reporters took the White House denials at face value.
Speaker 4: The author's right and Styles, and finally getting to what
Speaker 4: needs to be said or asked, says, yeah, we know,
Speaker 4: but why our journalists just lazy and competent? Was there
Speaker 4: some other? So many of them were willing to parrot
Speaker 4: democratic talking points that defied credulity and Alex Thompson explained
Speaker 4: while promoting the book that even the people orchestrating the
Speaker 4: cover up were shocked at how easy it was to
Speaker 4: manipulate the self appointed guardians of democracy. We are sort
Speaker 4: of amazed at some of the stuff we were able
Speaker 4: to spend reporters on this source said, you guys should
Speaker 4: not have believed us so easily.
Speaker 1: But that quote is not in the book, right.
Speaker 4: They're saying that now, and Styles writes that should have
Speaker 4: been the opening line in the book.
Speaker 1: Correct. Correct, the book is about the media. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't know that.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. Over the weekend, Jake Tapper told
Speaker 3: British guy, popped out of my head. It'll pop back
Speaker 3: into my head. Yeah, Piers Morgan, here's Morgan. He told
Speaker 3: Piers Morgan. He thinks this is bigger than Watergate. Of
Speaker 3: course he's selling a book puts more money in his pocket.
Speaker 3: If you believe it's bigger than Watergate, So you think
Speaker 3: it's bigger than Watergate. It was going on while you
Speaker 3: had connections that could let you know this was happening,
Speaker 3: and you kept it a secret.
Speaker 4: Now Woodward and Bernstein in this situation were denying that
Speaker 4: there was a break in, right, and that Nixon had
Speaker 4: anything to do with it.
Speaker 1: So it was driving me crazy.
Speaker 3: Yesterday I was listening to the Dispatch podcast, which I
Speaker 3: really like, and Jonah Goldberg was making an argument I've
Speaker 3: seen some places.
Speaker 1: Look, you don't get to have it both ways.
Speaker 3: You can't say everybody knew and the media is all powerful.
Speaker 3: So the all powerful media was not telling us this
Speaker 3: yet everybody figured it out, and two thirds of Americans
Speaker 3: you don't get.
Speaker 1: To have it. And I think that's a crazy way
Speaker 1: to look at this.
Speaker 3: It's insane. No, it's it's you're making your own case.
Speaker 3: Two thirds of Americans knew what was actually going on,
Speaker 3: while the media told them they were wrong. You don't
Speaker 3: think that's a big story, right, that's a huge story.
Speaker 4: Well, who claimed that the media is all powerful? They
Speaker 4: have a large influence. But it was a straw man.
Speaker 3: Well, what's you Well, I don't know what's your argument
Speaker 3: on the other side, So we shouldn't have a media.
Speaker 3: You're in the media. You don't think it matters what
Speaker 3: the media says. Is that what you're just saying telling me, well.
Speaker 4: That's an idiotic argument by a really bright guy. Jonas
Speaker 4: lost his mind. Okay, so you've got I don't know,
Speaker 4: roughly a third of America that did believe the media.
Speaker 4: Those poll numbers you're talking about, No, and he said
Speaker 4: nobody believed that. No, the numbers are known. You don't
Speaker 4: have to characterize them. That broadly, roughly two thirds of
Speaker 4: America America thought he no longer had the mental capacity.
Speaker 4: About eighty percent thought he was too old, whatever that means.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so.
Speaker 4: There were twenty to thirty percent who believed the media,
Speaker 4: then there is probably twenty percent that had the gut
Speaker 4: feeling that something was wrong. But well, Scott Pelley and
Speaker 4: all these other media people and Jake Tapper telling me
Speaker 4: that it is okay, So I guess it's okay.
Speaker 3: So right, so those numbers could have been driven up
Speaker 3: to what kind of reminds me of Watergate. Is a
Speaker 3: guy who's ridden read a lot about Watergate even though
Speaker 3: it happened while I was alive.
Speaker 1: I was a little kid.
Speaker 3: The poll numbers for Nixon were pretty strong up to
Speaker 3: the end, when then it just become became completely outed.
Speaker 3: They found out about the taping system and they're erasing
Speaker 3: the tapes and everything like that. It's because woodwork and
Speaker 3: the damning stayed on it. So yeah, in the dam burst.
Speaker 3: So this is what would have happened. If the media
Speaker 3: pursued this at all, it would have gone from two
Speaker 3: thirds of America thinking he's told to be president to
Speaker 3: everybody thinking he had to step down now, which would
Speaker 3: be one of the biggest stories in our nation's history.
Speaker 1: You don't think that's worth pursuing, or.
Speaker 3: You don't think the media should be ashamed of itself
Speaker 3: because they didn't do that.
Speaker 1: That's a weak ass argument.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if the media hadn't been doing that, Jonah, the
Speaker 4: sentiment that Biden had to go now would have gone
Speaker 4: from follow me now underwhelming to overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Not all or nothing as he was phrasing it.
Speaker 3: It's the biggest failure of media in our nation's history,
Speaker 3: without a doubt, and they and they deserve a tremendous
Speaker 3: amount of blame and they'll be paying the price for it. Well,
Speaker 3: for the rest of my life for longer.
Speaker 4: I haven't gotten into much of the how afraid everybody
Speaker 4: was of Jill Biden. Yeah, and Anthony Bernall Bernal, one
Speaker 4: person of the book, described as the worst person they
Speaker 4: had ever met.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3: So they had Jake Tapper had a quote in there
Speaker 3: from Joe Biden saying at one point, and I remember
Speaker 3: us covering this, Joe Biden saying, this is my word
Speaker 3: is a Biden one rule we got around here. I
Speaker 3: hear anybody talk down to anybody, yell at anybody, bad
Speaker 3: mouth anybody, They're gone.
Speaker 1: Now we do not allow that in the White House.
Speaker 3: So Jake Tapper's got that quote in the book, along
Speaker 3: with the information that Bernal, who is doctor Jill's guy,
Speaker 3: would scream it people all the time and everybody hated him.
Speaker 3: Multiple people said he was the worst person they ever met.
Speaker 3: Don't let him come to my funeral, that sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: because he was so mean to them. Well, Joe Biden saying,
Speaker 3: if anybody talks down to anybody other than you know,
Speaker 3: my wife's guy, who yells at everybody, to keep this
Speaker 3: all a secret. Wow, they are one of the more
Speaker 3: corrupt off the rails administrations in our entire country's history. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how many people are waking up to
Speaker 3: that yet.
Speaker 4: And then finally, Styles mentions another motivating factor was the
Speaker 4: general agreement among party elites that Kamala Harris, the most
Speaker 4: likely alternative, was even less capable than a walking corpse.
Speaker 3: I hate the term perfect storm, but you do have
Speaker 3: a lot of elements coming together. The hatred of Trump,
Speaker 3: the lack of trust in Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all at the same time. Okay, we'll finish strong. Next,
Speaker 1: let us.
Speaker 7: Rededicate ourselves to God and country, to our great republic
Speaker 7: two hundred and forty nine years on. We stand on
Speaker 7: the shoulders of great men, and on the shoulders of
Speaker 7: those great men in those graves, and may we live
Speaker 7: worthy of it.
Speaker 2: The families who have lost a son, a daughter, a husband,
Speaker 2: or a wife. To every child here who misses your
Speaker 2: dad or your mom, know that your loved one to
Speaker 2: us is a hero.
Speaker 7: They gave everything and we owe them everything and much
Speaker 7: much more.
Speaker 3: That was uh sec def Hegzeth, followed by Marine jd
Speaker 3: Vance and bone spurs.
Speaker 1: Trump. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. Wow, I couldn't know. Wow,
Speaker 1: who is that for?
Speaker 4: Anyway, there's some beautiful words though spoken there at the
Speaker 4: Tomb of the Unknown. Yeah, in Washington, d C. It's fabulous.
Speaker 4: So this almost sounds like an opening to a joke.
Speaker 4: But Geene Simmons and Kiss of Kiss and a one
Speaker 4: hundred year old World War Two veteran walk into a bar.
Speaker 4: They didn't actually walk into a bar. They were together
Speaker 4: at an event in Washington, D C.
Speaker 1: What's that list again?
Speaker 4: Gene Simmons of Kiss and a one hundred year old
Speaker 4: World War two veteran. Wow, And the reason they were
Speaker 4: together is that Hal Urban, wearing the same dress wool
Speaker 4: jacket that he wore after liberating a concentration camp eighty
Speaker 4: years ago, met Gene Simmons who wanted to thank him
Speaker 4: because Gene Simmons' mom was liberated from that concentration camp.
Speaker 1: Wow, did not know that.
Speaker 4: And the famous rocker who is actually a brilliant and
Speaker 4: very brilliant thoughtful guy. Not thoughtful like he'll give you
Speaker 4: flowers on your birthday, but he thinks a lot. He
Speaker 4: said to the guy and thanking him, I would not exist,
Speaker 4: my children would not exist, millions of people would not
Speaker 4: exist except for the heroism of the troops who defeated
Speaker 4: the Nazis and liberated the camps.
Speaker 3: And we had quite zero chance of rock and rolling
Speaker 3: all night and partying all day.
Speaker 1: Well right, every day.
Speaker 4: But his mother was in the concentration camp as from
Speaker 4: age fourteen to nineteen.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was really quite a beautiful thing, nice event.
Speaker 4: This guy was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge
Speaker 4: and still bleeding occasionally from his shrapnel wound when he
Speaker 4: went back to work in battle manning a fifty caliber
Speaker 4: machine gun.
Speaker 1: I got something good to say on that, but we
Speaker 1: don't have time. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned earlier, my son and the boy Scouts.
Speaker 3: He and his Scout troop planted little flags at the
Speaker 3: cemetery yesterday before the big Memorial Day ceremony. Did they
Speaker 3: do every Memorial Day? I get Yes, I had never
Speaker 3: been before with a band and singers and speeches and stuff.
Speaker 1: It was really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy's gonna be one hundred and one in July.
Speaker 4: He still has nightmares about the things he saw liberating
Speaker 4: in the concentration camps.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Chick Kiss, Tom Sta, Jack and Joe live God go.
Speaker 6: And if they don't give candalpbacks in.
Speaker 3: My for an overused expression, and I gotta believe that
Speaker 3: guy did not have on his bagical card hanging out
Speaker 3: with Gene Simmons of Kiss in nineteen seventy seven. You
Speaker 3: know my final thought, I'm gonna lead It was actually
Speaker 3: he said, he's the one who sticks his tongue out,
Speaker 3: not really my music. I like bing Crosby and Laurisville
Speaker 3: as you should, sir. Let's get a final thought from
Speaker 3: everybody on the crew. Let's begin with Michael Angelo. Michael
Speaker 3: final thought.
Speaker 6: You know, the most troubling thing that I thought of
Speaker 6: today was the only fans women that are now texting
Speaker 6: guys that are watching him.
Speaker 4: I just thought that's gonna be a relationship killer. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: the few that remained. Katie Green is off this week.
Speaker 4: Jack a final thought for us.
Speaker 3: I was just watching a video of my brother in
Speaker 3: his military fatigues. My brother, who served in a couple
Speaker 3: of wars, him and another guy tasing each other to
Speaker 3: see what would feel like.
Speaker 1: So it wasn't part of training. This was just the
Speaker 1: having fun.
Speaker 4: This is freelance dasy, Yes exactly. Wow, Wow, Wow, I've
Speaker 4: already given my my final thought. But you know, thanks
Speaker 4: to the veterans, and God blessed the families of those
Speaker 4: who've lost in wars throughout I never did tell about
Speaker 4: my great.
Speaker 1: Visit to the fort. Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: hour workday.
Speaker 4: Like to do something historical every Memorial Day weekend. So
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Speaker 3: Did something historical. I did something hysterical. Me attempting to
Speaker 3: grill on Memorial Day did not go well.
Speaker 1: See tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and gatchy. It's Oliver.
Speaker 1: We need to adapt our approach. Who do gissy. I
Speaker 1: hope you'll stand up and stop this madness. You kind
Speaker 1: of damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: My point was mad.
Speaker 3: That's the Also, there's a hole in the sky where
Speaker 3: a tree you once stood. Somebody's making money on your
Speaker 3: feet there.
Speaker 1: Your time has expired. They very much armstrong and getty