1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty I'm Strong 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: and Getty and he I'm Strong and Getty. 4 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 2: The Read Comedy Festival is pulling some of the biggest 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: names in stand up to Saudi Arabia, including Dave Chappelle 6 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: and Kevin Hart. 7 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,639 Speaker 1: Your majesty Me, you friends, you here next. 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 2: Time, the Saudi governments reportedly paying some of them over 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 2: a million dollars each to perform. It may seem incongruous 10 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:50,199 Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia, an ultra conservative Islamic kingdom, but in 11 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 2: recent years the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has 12 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 2: tried to reshape his country's. 13 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 3: Image, investing billions in sporting events and entertainment, including the 14 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 3: recent takeover of Electronic Arts, an American video game powerhouse. 15 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,639 Speaker 1: And occasionally bone sawing a journalist if they say something 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: negative about the kingdom barbaric. Yeah, so this is an 17 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 1: interesting story. We've talked about it a couple of times. 18 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: David Cross, comedian I really like I hate David Cross's politics, 19 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: but I like his comedy. But he doesn't like that 20 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: some of his favorite liberal progressive comedians are over there 21 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: taking a million dollars from the Saudis when they abuse women, gays, everything. 22 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 4: And they're against everything progressive comedians claim to be four. 23 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you sign a contract. I want bad 24 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: mouth Islam or the government here. Do jokes about camels. 25 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: What's the one hump or two huh or whatever they 26 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: do comedy about, but particularly the fire jokes about sand, 27 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: sand in your cross and in your ice cream, a 28 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: lot of sand humor. Particularly the fact that Dave Chappelle 29 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: made some comment about free speech in Saudi Arabia. Well, 30 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: let's play this clip. This is from CBS News. 31 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 2: We reached out to Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle for comment, 32 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 2: but they didn't respond. Chappelle apparently said on stage in 33 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia that it's quote easier to talk. 34 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: Here than it is in America. Now, many Saudis I've 35 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: met on. 36 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: Reporting trips to the country would disagree with that claim 37 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 2: about freedom of speech inside the kingdom. 38 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for that, Hallie Williams. 39 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 4: Is the most idiotic things I have ever heard in 40 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 4: my life, and I've heard some idiotic things. 41 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 1: Hally Williams of CBS News, I think being pretty kind 42 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: with that the way she put that. Yeah, my years 43 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: of reporting here in Saudi Arabia, a lot of people 44 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: would disagree with that whole there's more free speech here. 45 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: What a whard. 46 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 4: Dave Chappelle, one of the great truth tellers in America, 47 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 4: goes over and says that somebody pointed out that he 48 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 4: converted to Islam and his teens, and you know, he's 49 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 4: been making jokes about the trans thing, which land better 50 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 4: in Saudi Ira. But that's just again, that is one 51 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 4: of the most idiotic things I've ever heard. 52 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: You're free to speak here than in America. Good lord, 53 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: Well how about this? So take it out of the 54 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: realm of this, Just like, what about the musical acts 55 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: that go over there. You know, whether you're Mariah carry 56 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: or what was the billionaire Rihanna, you're those going of people, 57 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 1: and you go over there and you do a birthday 58 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: party for a Saudi prince. Do you have any problem 59 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: with that? You know, I wouldn't do it if I'm 60 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: already ungodly wealthy. No, I'm not gonna go freaking be 61 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: your dancing monkey in a country with no freedom whatsoever. 62 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,119 Speaker 1: Because you can afford it. I'm not doing it. Well. 63 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 4: First of all, they actually have dancing monkeys, so that 64 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 4: would be redundant. But you know, on one level, if 65 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 4: these celebrities are obnoxious, you know, ideological presences online and 66 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 4: spout off in their concerts about progressive values, then they 67 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 4: go take money from the Saudis. I really don't have 68 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 4: a lot of interest in them. Of course, I didn't 69 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 4: have any interest in them spouting their opinion already. So yes, 70 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 4: they're hypocrites and jackasses. But America does trillions of dollars 71 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 4: of business with China, not to mention several other loathsome regimes, 72 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 4: and it seems to me that the Saudis get singled 73 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 4: out in kind of a weird way. And I'm as 74 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,239 Speaker 4: hardcore anti radical Islam as anybody on the air, I think, 75 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 4: And I just I don't get how you have a 76 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 4: gigantic contract with China and it's hunky dory, but it's 77 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 4: awful to. 78 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: Do business with the Saudis. I don't see the difference. Okay, 79 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: Joe would go perform for the Crown Prince and bend 80 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: the knee, all right. 81 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 4: Well that's a bit much, but it and it depends 82 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 4: on the nature of what you do too. If I'm 83 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 4: like a concrete contractor and they want me to consult 84 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 4: on the foundation of some building they're building, yeah I'd 85 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,600 Speaker 4: go take that gig. I would too, But would I, 86 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 4: as a talk show host go over there and horror 87 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 4: for the Saudis Well, it depends on the number. Frankly, 88 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 4: I'm just surprised though, Like, if you're already wealthy, I just. 89 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: Why for? Like David Cross, the comedian said, what so 90 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: Luis k and Dave Chappelle can get another boat or 91 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: what you why do you even doing this? I don't know. 92 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 4: To me, you're either working or you're not working. There's 93 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 4: plenty of places to work that aren't freaking Saudi Arabia 94 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 4: not paying what the not paying what MBS pays? 95 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: Okay, well, I have standards and apparently anyonebody else does. 96 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 5: No. 97 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: I'm just saying I get it. 98 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 4: It's just the thing that bothers me about comedians is 99 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 4: the nature of what they do. A concrete a contractor 100 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 4: designer or whatever. It doesn't spend their entire life trying 101 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 4: to root out hypocrisy and and bring people to the 102 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 4: truth through humor or whatever. It's a it's a different 103 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 4: beast that the comedians do bother me. But a singer 104 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 4: who goes up there and does a forty minute SAT 105 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 4: and gets an enormous amount of money, I don't I 106 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 4: don't care. As long as Nike has factories in China, 107 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 4: I just don't see the distinction. 108 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: But I repeat myself, I own Nikes. Who's the hypocrite? 109 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: Now right? Thank you? The trouble, I don't know if 110 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: that's I don't think this. Me having Nikes because it 111 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: fits my narrow foot is the same as Dave Chappelle 112 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: going and perform. 113 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 4: Narrow foot narrow foot, Yeah, oh yeah, I embraced Hitler 114 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 4: back in the thirties because you know, I had narrow 115 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 4: feet and he has. He had good narrow footed shoes 116 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 4: that the Chinese are. 117 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: Loathsome perfectly's the matter with you? Perfectly fair response anyway? 118 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 4: Oh okay, how welcome to armstrong and get he's how 119 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 4: to argue unfairly? Smmar so speaking of hipocrisy and the 120 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 4: media and that sort of saying, this is just it's 121 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 4: so delicious. I'm a bad person. I'm enjoying this much 122 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 4: more than I should. All of the freak outs at 123 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 4: CBS News over a moderate left lesbian woman becoming the 124 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 4: news director. Absolute freakouts by staffers posting online three different 125 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 4: editorials in the New York Times, three really saying how 126 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 4: bad and ugly this is so Barry Weiss is the 127 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 4: gonna be the news director at CBS, and they think 128 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 4: it's just awful for she's well, I don't even know 129 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 4: what you'd describe her politics. I mean, she's pro choice, 130 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,679 Speaker 4: she's she's married to a woman. Yeah, she's center left. 131 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 4: So center left is just two. 132 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: That's funny. I ran into this situation just the other 133 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: day in my personal life, where uh like, center left 134 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't be good enough for this person. You're either full 135 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: on progressive or a Nazi. 136 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 4: New York Times columnist Jammel Bowie, who is a Marxist 137 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 4: quote looking forward to Barry Weiss restoring trust in news, 138 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 4: where trust in news means pumping out propaganda for your 139 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 4: oligarch boss. New York Times magazine writer and professional liar 140 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 4: and race baiting racist Nicole Hannah Jones quote In case 141 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 4: it wasn't clear, the anti Dei crusade has never been 142 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 4: about merit, zero news experience, never been a reporter elevated 143 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 4: to editor in chief of CBS News, one of the 144 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,199 Speaker 4: most storied institutions. 145 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: You not to be kidding me one more, because I 146 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: know what you're about to say. 147 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 4: New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen not to be a pedant, 148 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 4: but Barry Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote 149 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 4: opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist. 150 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 1: And she just said, we were talking about this yesterday, 151 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: how commentary magazine was wrote a piece about It's one 152 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: of the most amazing media success stories ever. She started 153 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: with three people and built an empire in a couple 154 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: of years where she's got a revenue of one hundred 155 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars a year. 156 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 4: Doing some of the best journalism with the best writers 157 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 4: and researchers and reporters. 158 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: That have ever been assembled. 159 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 4: But no, she shouldn't be running CBS News because you know, 160 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 4: she was really just a junior editor occasionally wrote opinion piece. 161 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 4: Is not even a columnist and the oligarch boss thing 162 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 4: was ridiculous. But Nicole Henner Jrun's never been a reporter, 163 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,239 Speaker 4: zero news experience. She just built an effing news empire 164 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 4: that blows the New York Times out of the water. 165 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 4: How do people get themselves to say this garbage? They're 166 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 4: actually crazy? 167 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: And there's been. 168 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 4: More Seriously, it's like a conservative like me saying Barack 169 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 4: Obama has zero talent as a politician. 170 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:58,319 Speaker 1: Mean, that's just stupid. Oh well, so there's been talk about, 171 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: you know, how much influence will she have on the 172 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: Golden Prize? That is sixty minutes probably the most prized 173 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: news thing anywhere. And I came across this from Mary 174 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: Catherine Ham of Fox reminding us we talked about this 175 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: a lot last year. Sixty minutes last year did oh god, 176 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: you got distracted because their names, Am, that's just fantastic. 177 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: I can't talk to you about anybody whose name sounds 178 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: like anything that's food related because you go Homer season. 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Oh 217 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 4: my god, fears of political interference in layoffs. 218 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: So you think the job CBS was doing was fantastic. 219 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 4: Anonymous CBF staffer talked to The Guardian. A throwing up 220 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 4: emoji is not enough of a reflection of the feeling 221 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 4: in here. What the f Another CBS source posted, people 222 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 4: are using words like depressing in doomsday, wrote another feels 223 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 4: like some sort of doomsday. 224 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, you people need to quit. You need to go. 225 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: If you were at CBS and you have that attitude 226 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,559 Speaker 1: and good on paramount, because imagine and the heat that 227 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: they're taking. They're getting lots of emails and texts and 228 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: schneide comments at to cocktail parties and whatnot, and they 229 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: went ahead and did this. Here's a priceless one. 230 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 4: There's more, but from CNN chief media analyst, the Eunuch 231 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 4: Brian Stelter, CBS News desperately needs someone to supercharge its 232 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 4: digital strategy. Maybe the free press can help. But staffers 233 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 4: reading this morning's memos are left to wonder, what exactly 234 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 4: do the new bosses think we're doing wrong? What do 235 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 4: they think you're doing wrong? You're entirely one sided. You 236 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 4: are an advocacy wing of the Democratic Party. You don't 237 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 4: do journalism anymore, that's what Brian Stelter, chief media analyst. 238 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a waste of skin he is. 239 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 4: He needs to donate his skin to burn victims because 240 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 4: he's wasting it. 241 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 1: Oh my god. All right, we'll recover from that and 242 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: have more later. 243 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 6: Democrats are adamant that we must protect the healthcare of 244 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 6: the American people. 245 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 1: But if you would stop there, that would be great. 246 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: But you're gonna keep talking, aren't you, aren't you. 247 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 6: New data came out today from KFF, and that is 248 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 6: not Kentucky Fried French Fries. KFF could be Kentucky French Fries. 249 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: I know aren't. Who is that joke? Even for six 250 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: year olds that watch c SPAN, How are you doing? Truck? 251 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: Shumer is a human flat tire. That's a good lie. 252 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: He's a human flat tire. 253 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 4: The prospect of AOC, for goodness sakes, with all the 254 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 4: legislation she's passed, and now that doesn't. 255 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 1: Matter anymore that your year, what your year, coalition she's built. 256 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: You're talking about a different generation, that's all. It's exactly now. 257 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 4: Being a senator running against Chuck Schumer. Oh my gosh, 258 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 4: these are some strange times. 259 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. The shutdown, Oh, the the thing. I want to 260 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: mention that at least once an hour because you're going 261 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: to hear it a lot. The shutdown is finally going 262 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: to reach you as air traffic controllers aren't going to 263 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: work since they're not being paid, and so you might 264 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: want to check on your flights. Blah blah blah blah. 265 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: Nobody's missed a paycheck. 266 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 4: We're at least a week away from missing a single 267 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 4: dime of what you make. 268 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: So traffic controls, you're gonna go over to work today. 269 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: That's a political stance. It's not a I have to 270 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: stay home with my kids because I can't afford something 271 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: or other. I don't even know what the argument would be. 272 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's got to be the Democratic Party putting 273 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 4: out the words of the employee of public employee unions. Hey, 274 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 4: we've got to make this hurt to swing people at 275 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 4: our sides. So you got to start calling in for 276 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 4: work or or whatever. More quotes of people freaking out 277 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 4: at CBS News and all over the liberal media about 278 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 4: Barry Wysey, center left Jewish lesbian taking the helmet, CBS 279 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 4: portraying her like she's Hermann goering or something like that. 280 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it is just astonishing. We'll get to that. Oh. 281 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: Also the. 282 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 4: Controversy over the guy running for attorney general in Virginia. 283 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 4: I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, I don't even 284 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 4: pay attention to my own states races other governor wiring 285 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 4: in a torture us. With that, there's some really interesting 286 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 4: dynamics at play there. This guy is an enthusiastic spreader 287 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 4: of really disgusting violent rhetoric toward Republicans, including Republicans he 288 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 4: knows and works with, And in this era of Charlie Kirk' 289 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 4: assassination and political violence, his party is rushing to embrace 290 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 4: him and saying, oh, he took full responsibility. 291 00:16:58,160 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: He's fine. 292 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 4: We got to keep him on the ticket. Have no principles, 293 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 4: so or on that to come as well. I can't 294 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 4: remember what else were we going to talk about here? 295 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 1: Do you doom scroll? 296 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:09,879 Speaker 5: No? 297 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: I try to stop describe, define doom scrolling. What counts 298 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: as doom scrolling because I don't think I'm looking author 299 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: I don't think I'm looking for doom when I start scrolling. 300 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 4: No, But so much of what's online that you can 301 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 4: scroll through ends up being I would call it more 302 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 4: anger scrolling because everybody's angry all the time online. 303 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: Excuse me. You know I had something as on my 304 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: watch or my phone or somewhere that would have would 305 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: tell me every day how many hours I spent looking 306 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: at my phone, and I turned that off at some 307 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 1: point because I thought, what's the point. Maybe I'd turn 308 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: that back on. I don't know how often I stare 309 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: at my phone, And then at the end of the day, 310 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: thank you, Really, you spent that many hours a day. 311 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: That's not the way you want to live your life. 312 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 4: It'd be nice if it's pointed out which app for 313 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 4: which amount of time. 314 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, or which site. That would be handy, right, if. 315 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 4: You're reading classic literature, that's different than just flipping through 316 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 4: Twitter getting angry or and angry. 317 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, and most of it's fake anyway, not even real. 318 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty coming up. 319 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:20,479 Speaker 2: An attorney general candidate in Virginia is apologizing for his text. 320 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: It's about a state lawmaker. We'll go through men, probably 321 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: be forced to withdraw from the rest and probably is 322 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 1: doing a lot there. 323 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 2: All right, morning, Joe, We'll be right back. 324 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I saw that live yesterday. I didn't 325 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: have any idea what they were talking about. 326 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, Kevin corka Fox News is going to give us 327 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 4: some of the facts. It has to do with Democratic 328 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:45,479 Speaker 4: Attorney general nominee Jay Jones in Virginia. And to me, 329 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 4: a beautiful test case of all right, you said we've 330 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,679 Speaker 4: got to calm down the rhetoric. Do you actually believe that? 331 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 4: Are you willing to call out your own side or not? 332 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 4: Democratic Party? Kevin cork Fox News Here. 333 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 7: Sometimes political ads really cut through and they changed the 334 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 7: tone and tenor of a race. And that will may 335 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 7: be the case tonight and the race for attorney general 336 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 7: and the state of Virginia Democrat J Jones is under increasing. 337 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: Pressure to bow out. It was his August. 338 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 7: Twenty twenty two text messages about then State House Speaker 339 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 7: Republican Todd Gilbert, which included the phrase three people, two bullets, 340 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 7: Gilbert Hitler and Paul Pott Gilbert gets two bullets to 341 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 7: the head. 342 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 1: What so what? 343 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy wrote to a colleague, among other things, 344 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 4: if these guys go before me, I will go to 345 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 4: their funeral to piss on their graves and send them 346 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 4: out a wash in something. He then suggested, three people, 347 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 4: two bullets, Gilbert. 348 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: That's House Delegate Todd Gilbert. 349 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 4: Three people, two bullets, Gilbert Hitler and Paul Pott Gilbert. 350 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 4: Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Oiler, He writes, 351 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 4: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people 352 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 4: you know, and he receives both bullets every time. And 353 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 4: the colleague that's a crazy person. Oh yeah, Oh it 354 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 4: gets worse. The colleague who he was sending that text to, 355 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 4: said Jay, please stop, and he said, lol, okay, okay, 356 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 4: And she said it really bothers me. When you talk 357 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 4: about hurting people or wishing death on them. It isn't okay, 358 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 4: no matter who they are, and he called her up 359 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 4: and berated her and said maybe he would change his mind. 360 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 4: They were talking about ben guns or some gun control thing. 361 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 4: He said, I'd like to see their kid die in 362 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 4: his mother's arms. Maybe then he would change his mind. 363 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:49,959 Speaker 4: I'd like to see that. 364 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I whatever. Scarborough said. Yeah, he's got a 365 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: drop out of the race yesterday. Oh yeah, that's crazy 366 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: for completely. So here is the ad that's running. 367 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 5: The Washington Post confirmed j Jones sent texts that imagine 368 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 5: shooting the Republican Speaker of the House j Jones, which 369 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,119 Speaker 5: the speaker's wife could watch her own child die in 370 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 5: her arms. It's so disgusting, it's hard to believe, but 371 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 5: it's true. 372 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 4: One more bit from Kevin Cork than I have comments, obviously. 373 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 1: Wow Well. 374 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 7: Jones, for his part, has issued a statement apologizing for 375 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 7: the text, writing in part, I've reached out to Speaker 376 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 7: Gilbert to apologize directly to him, his wife, Jennifer, and 377 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 7: their children. 378 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: I cannot take back what I said. 379 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 7: I can only take full accountability and offer my sincere 380 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 7: apology or still for Jones. The negative spillover could also 381 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 7: impact the governor's race in the Commonwealth, where fellow Democrat 382 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 7: Abigail Spenberger has expressed disgust with the comments, but has 383 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 7: yet to call on Jones to step aside, opening her 384 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 7: up for criticism from Lieutenant Governor Win, some seers, or opponent, 385 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 7: and even President Trump, who has demanded Jones step out 386 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 7: of that race. 387 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: Okay, on a macro level, before we get to the 388 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: specifics of this, we've got to decide as a society, 389 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 1: can you do something completely abhorrent and then just say 390 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I take full responsibility. 391 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 4: And get any now that it's causing negative consequences, I 392 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 4: would like to apologize. 393 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 1: And get any credit for. Like P Diddy on Friday, 394 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: I'm very sorry that I did that. I take full responsibility. 395 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: You're a monster. 396 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 4: You need to have some sort of I have come 397 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,479 Speaker 4: to God or I got therapy, or I was on 398 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 4: drugs or something to make me believe you've changed. 399 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: You can't just take it to you and this guy too. 400 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: I'm you know, I take full responsibility for calling for 401 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: the death of my opponent. I apologize, Well. 402 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 4: What fantasizing about his wife watching their children die in 403 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,239 Speaker 4: her arms because they deserve it? 404 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: No, you need to if it's me, you're not that 405 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: kind of guy anymore, or wasn't then, or something. 406 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't need to apologize for saying something like that, 407 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 4: because I never have and I never would. You did 408 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 4: help me understand that if I were incing, that's what 409 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 4: I would say. And he said something about, yeah, people 410 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 4: need to feel consequences to change their policies or something's terrible. 411 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 1: But why does this matter? 412 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 4: Number One, Attorneys general, county prosecutors, we've learned, have enormous 413 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 4: power to either implement woke policies or not implement woke policies, 414 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 4: and Virginia is a big important state. Second, the gallo 415 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 4: was running for governor, Spanburger was a hardcore woke up 416 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 4: with transgender boys in girls bathrooms, boys in girls' locker rooms, 417 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 4: boys in girls' sports, and win some seers. The charming 418 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,239 Speaker 4: lieutenant governor who's running against her pointed that out, and 419 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 4: so this Spanburger liars running ads with her. 420 00:23:59,200 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: I think it's two. 421 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 4: In the ad and saying people are my opponent is 422 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 4: spreading lies about me. I love my daughters, and I've 423 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 4: worked to protect girls in schools and protect their rights 424 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 4: my whole career. I stand up for little girls like 425 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 4: my daughters. I'm what's her face, spam Burger. I mean, 426 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 4: it's just it is the far left with boys and girls' 427 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 4: locker rooms and fantasizing about shooting their opponents in the head, 428 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 4: masquerading as mainstream democrats. And these people, and there are 429 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 4: probably people like them in your state too, they need 430 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 4: to be defeated. 431 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: So is there anything controversy about this Gilbert person that 432 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: he believes should be shot. 433 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 4: Well, it was My understanding was it was over there 434 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 4: had been some sort of school shooting or something like that, 435 00:24:54,080 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 4: and this J. Jones lunatic wanted to pass some sweeping 436 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 4: gun control legislation, and Gilbert said, essentially, no, you can't 437 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,719 Speaker 4: do that. We've got Second Amendment issues. And the problem is, 438 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 4: you know, crazy people want to hurt people, blah blah blah, 439 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 4: and so he went into this fantasy about murdering Jones. 440 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 1: Okay, so Gilbert, here's the question. And I don't actually 441 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: know the answer to this. I really want to be 442 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 1: an honest broker, fair arbiter of this thing of how 443 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: much of the left is crazy versus how much of 444 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: the right is crazy. But it sure seems to me 445 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: that lefty lunatics are way quicker to the either disown, 446 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: you can't marry, you think you should be dead one 447 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: hundred percent. 448 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 4: There was a major poll that we talked a lot 449 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 4: about where it was something like seven times as many 450 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 4: Democrats that said they'd ended friendships over politics as Republicans did. 451 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 4: It was over well sure feels and if that number 452 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 4: is wrong, I apologize. I don't have it in front 453 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 4: of me, but it was an overwhelming difference. 454 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: But it sure feels that way to me. I don't. 455 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I most people I'm family members, close friends, 456 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: or their politics are similar to me, and I don't 457 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 1: hear them saying things like I would never date of this, 458 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: or I would you know that person should be shot 459 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: or in this. But I hear that a lefty people 460 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: that I know right all the time. 461 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 4: Leftist politics tend to be much more emotional and emotionalistic, 462 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 4: meaning they're based on emotion as opposed to fact or 463 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 4: like a sober analysis of what policies work better. 464 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: I remember that poin. 465 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 4: You combine that with the longtime narrative that Republicans aren't wrong, 466 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 4: they're evil, they're fascists, they want to oppress you, they 467 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 4: want to kill you if you're transgender. I mean, if 468 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 4: you get people overly emotional people or mentally disturbed people 469 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 4: to believe that they will commit acts of violence, believe 470 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 4: they're one hundred percent justified. 471 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: We should try to dig that pullback up again. I 472 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,199 Speaker 1: kind of remember it. But man, I just I've bumped 473 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 1: into that sort of thing recently a number of times 474 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 1: and just seems like you're way overreacting to the fact 475 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: that you don't agree politically with my side. 476 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 4: The other side, right, Well, it always shocks me, well, 477 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 4: it used to shock me as a fairly cynical longtime 478 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 4: observer of political language, that there are people who believe 479 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 4: their sides propaganda or messaging, whatever you want to call it. 480 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 4: I mean, they fully believe it. They think it's one 481 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 4: hundred percent sincere and accurate. I even hear people I 482 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 4: agree with going over the top, and I think you know, 483 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 4: same holds, amil. I separate the part that's true from 484 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 4: the part that's just meant to fire people up and 485 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 4: get their donations and stuff. But there are a lot 486 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 4: of people on the left who believe every word they 487 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 4: actually believe. 488 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 1: Conservatives who for instance. 489 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 4: Don't want a boy in a girl's locker room, that 490 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 4: they want to kill transgender people because they've heard it 491 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 4: over and over again. 492 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 1: Yeah. So today is a fifteen year anniversary of one 493 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,200 Speaker 1: of the most mocked things that has happened in sports, 494 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: Lebron James big prime time television announcement of he was 495 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: living his team and going to a different team, but 496 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: he made a last night, said he had another giant 497 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: announcement to make today and it just came out, and uh, well, 498 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: let me tell you what it was. Mary Taylor Swift. 499 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: If you're a Lakers, got a new sports drink that 500 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: would be pretty huge. I'm marrying Taylor's Swift. 501 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 4: We met, we hit it off, we realized we were 502 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 4: both with the wrong person. 503 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: We're getting married. Wait, I assume Travis Kelsey would have 504 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: something to say about that. 505 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 4: Oh, he's heartbreak broken obviously. 506 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll do that briefly and other things when we 507 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: come back. 508 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 8: Those two trained Hawks, Alice and Bubba, were stolen outside 509 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 8: so Far Stadium during a Rams game last weekend. They 510 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 8: fly above NFL games to keep other birds away. Well, 511 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 8: neither falcon or tells us Bubba was recovered about thirty 512 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 8: miles away. He says he's hopeful they'll find Alice soon. 513 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: So Sofi Stadium has trained hawks to keep other birds 514 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: away during Chargers and Rams games. 515 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 4: Because of the poop and because of the poopin because 516 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 4: of the poopen. 517 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: Is that a problem that people have? Do they get 518 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: to I was gonna use the past tense word for 519 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: but do they get to dropped upon by birds at 520 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 1: football games? 521 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 4: I'm not really familiar with it as an issue, but yeah, 522 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 4: that's that's the problem. Does every so many buildings have 523 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 4: the pigeon spikes and you know whatever? 524 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: Does every stadium have trained hawks to keep birds away? 525 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: This is all new to me. I don't know. It 526 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: depends on the shape of it. 527 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 4: I think the problem with some of the new like 528 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 4: semi domes, is that the birds would be over the 529 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 4: field or over the fans. You like, got an old 530 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 4: timey football stadium. No, it's just it's kind of a 531 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 4: rectangle and the birds would sit and just you know. 532 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: Thank god, Bubba the hawk is all right, and thank 533 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: god you're all right. Even though you haven't gotten the 534 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: most recent COVID shot. I know you're all thinking about 535 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine. Is it time for my next shot? 536 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: Where can I get it? A topic of conversation with 537 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 1: me and all my friends constantly. This is the way 538 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: David Muir approached it on the ABC Evening News last night. 539 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 9: A confusion over getting a COVID shot this year. The 540 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 9: CDC is now urging what they're calling quote individual based 541 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 9: decision making, pushing people to consult with their doctor or 542 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 9: pharmacists before getting the vaccine. The CDC also saying for 543 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 9: those who want the shot, saying the strongest risk benefit 544 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 9: in their words, for people at high risk for severe 545 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 9: COVID includes those over sixty five. Most insurance still covers 546 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 9: the cost of COVID shots. 547 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody who's been paying attention has known that since 548 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 4: like late twenty twenty. 549 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: Right, and play the beginning part there again. 550 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 9: Fusion over getting a COVID shot this year the sea. 551 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 4: And keep going only good among you people, still you cultists, 552 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 4: still wearing masks? 553 00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: Good again, because I want that second line too. 554 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 9: Confusion over getting a COVID shot this year. The CDC 555 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 9: is now urging what they're calling quote individual based decision making. 556 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: That's the post. That's what I like, That's what I like. 557 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 4: We've gotten away from I just for all of us 558 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 4: who are just strictly following the CDC guidelines no matter what, 559 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 4: and the CDC was still saying we should get Now 560 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 4: we're doing whatever it's called individual base You mean making 561 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 4: up my own mind based on my own information and 562 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 4: what I think is a good idea. 563 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I've been doing it the whole time. 564 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: I do what the government tells me. I just always 565 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: do it they tell me. Now they're asking me to 566 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: make decisions as an individual. I feel abandon anybody who's 567 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 1: so into the government being in charge that thinks that 568 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: they should the government should make an announcement. We're now 569 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: in favor of what we call individual based decision making. 570 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in favor of that all day, every day. 571 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: My whole freaking line. Yeah, no kidding, individual based decision making. 572 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: I will make my decisions what I think is a 573 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: good idea or not. You don't need to tell me. 574 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 4: I would end a friendship over a mask wearing COVID cultist. 575 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: And by the way, it's it's triple. 576 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 4: It was triple the number of Democrats than Republicans who 577 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 4: have ended a friendship over politics, and among younger lefties 578 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 4: it's shocking numbers, like a third of them say they 579 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 4: would not want to be friends with someone who voted 580 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 4: for a different presidential candidate. That COVID thing, I mean 581 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 4: to me, you're a way to vote until you're twenty five. 582 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 4: I'm firmly I will march on that cause on the 583 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 4: David Muir COVID thing. 584 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: You're a certain sort of person that could ever even 585 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: utter the phrased individual based decision trees or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, 586 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: you mean. 587 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 4: The way I'm teaching my kids to live their lives, 588 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 4: take in information and make your own decisions. 589 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: That's the way I think. What are you even talking. 590 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 9: About individual based decision making? 591 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 10: I would much rather just get in a pen, be fed, 592 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 10: be sheared every so often to exactly what the government 593 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 10: tells me to do, or they're pe Making my own 594 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 10: decisions is so confusing, tell me what to do, Joe Biden, Right, Kamala, 595 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 10: you hero the first thing he said, they're all the confusion. 596 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: Who is confused? I mean, who's confusing? Are there people 597 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,959 Speaker 1: to get up in the morning and log on the 598 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: CDC website to see what they're recommending for me? Well, 599 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like I ought to get another COVID vaccine, 600 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: But the government website says I should. But now I'm 601 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 1: moving into individual based decision making, to where you can 602 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: decide on your own. Oh that's fantastic. What about sawing 603 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: off that's right? What about sawing off my ear with 604 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 1: a steak knife. There's no guidance on that either. I 605 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: don't know what to do, honey, guidance. I was all 606 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: these individual based decisions. They're killing me for some reason. 607 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: I was just offended by that very phrase last night, 608 00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: when I based decision making. 609 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 4: I think that's what the Trump administration is calling it. 610 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 4: They're encouraging people to decide as individuals if it's important 611 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 4: and right for you. And yes, you're most at risk 612 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 4: if you're old or otherwise ill. Everybody has known that 613 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 4: since twenty twenty, David. Everyone, unless you are a robot 614 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,360 Speaker 4: just sucking in left wing news and you're still wearing 615 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,080 Speaker 4: a mask alone in a park because you're nuts. 616 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 1: Okay, so different topic. If you're a sports fan, you 617 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: knew this fifteen years ago. Today, Lebron James made this 618 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,719 Speaker 1: big thing about he was gonna He started with the 619 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavalaries. He grew up in that town. He was 620 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: playing for his hometown team and then he was gonna 621 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: leave somewhere else and he made this big primetime special announcement. 622 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: Then they made a big hilarious and it got mocked endlessly, 623 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: and it should have. It was just ridiculous. It was 624 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: so look at me, I'm the focus of everybody's attention, 625 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: just as It's just it was the most off putting thing. 626 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 4: One of the most self congratulatory acts I have ever 627 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 4: witnessed in any realm sports, politics, yeah, medicine, anything. 628 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 1: It really was. Yeah, it was such a bad look. Anyway, 629 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 1: it's a fifteen year anniversary. In last night he said, 630 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 1: I've got it the second decision to make the next 631 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: big announcement, And there was a lot of speculation because 632 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: he is forty, in his forties and is in his 633 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,840 Speaker 1: last year's contract that he announced is going to retire, 634 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,280 Speaker 1: and of course that would also be kind of a pathetic. Hey, everybody, 635 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,040 Speaker 1: look at me. This needs to be a giant show 636 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: with everybody staring at me, with the spotlight on me 637 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: or whatever. AnyWho, his announcement apparently that's coming in like 638 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 1: three minutes, is he's teaming up with Hennessy for some 639 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,760 Speaker 1: sort of limited What is Hennessy a drink. It's a liquor, 640 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: a booze. It's gonna be a liqueur. There's gonna be 641 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:54,359 Speaker 1: a Lebron James branded Hennessy God's sake. Yeah, it's hard 642 00:35:54,360 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: to take you seriously, dude. Anyway, I know it's suck 643 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 1: the wild alone. I think that's the way it's going 644 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: to be met. I don't think he knows that that's 645 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: the way it's going to be met, but that's the 646 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:07,919 Speaker 1: way it's going to be met. 647 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,879 Speaker 4: Hey, mainstream media, the guy who went to kill Bret 648 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,719 Speaker 4: Kavanaugh is a dude. He is a man. We'll talk 649 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,279 Speaker 4: about that next hour. If you don't get next hour, 650 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 4: oh no, you can just subscribe to our podcast, Armstrong 651 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:21,440 Speaker 4: and Getty on demand. 652 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: Everything's okay against Armstrong and Getty.