Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty I'm Strong
Speaker 1: and Getty and he I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 2: The Read Comedy Festival is pulling some of the biggest
Speaker 2: names in stand up to Saudi Arabia, including Dave Chappelle
Speaker 2: and Kevin Hart.
Speaker 1: Your majesty Me, you friends, you here next.
Speaker 2: Time, the Saudi governments reportedly paying some of them over
Speaker 2: a million dollars each to perform. It may seem incongruous
Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia, an ultra conservative Islamic kingdom, but in
Speaker 2: recent years the Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has
Speaker 2: tried to reshape his country's.
Speaker 3: Image, investing billions in sporting events and entertainment, including the
Speaker 3: recent takeover of Electronic Arts, an American video game powerhouse.
Speaker 1: And occasionally bone sawing a journalist if they say something
Speaker 1: negative about the kingdom barbaric. Yeah, so this is an
Speaker 1: interesting story. We've talked about it a couple of times.
Speaker 1: David Cross, comedian I really like I hate David Cross's politics,
Speaker 1: but I like his comedy. But he doesn't like that
Speaker 1: some of his favorite liberal progressive comedians are over there
Speaker 1: taking a million dollars from the Saudis when they abuse women, gays, everything.
Speaker 4: And they're against everything progressive comedians claim to be four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you sign a contract. I want bad
Speaker 1: mouth Islam or the government here. Do jokes about camels.
Speaker 1: What's the one hump or two huh or whatever they
Speaker 1: do comedy about, but particularly the fire jokes about sand,
Speaker 1: sand in your cross and in your ice cream, a
Speaker 1: lot of sand humor. Particularly the fact that Dave Chappelle
Speaker 1: made some comment about free speech in Saudi Arabia. Well,
Speaker 1: let's play this clip. This is from CBS News.
Speaker 2: We reached out to Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle for comment,
Speaker 2: but they didn't respond. Chappelle apparently said on stage in
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia that it's quote easier to talk.
Speaker 1: Here than it is in America. Now, many Saudis I've
Speaker 1: met on.
Speaker 2: Reporting trips to the country would disagree with that claim
Speaker 2: about freedom of speech inside the kingdom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for that, Hallie Williams.
Speaker 4: Is the most idiotic things I have ever heard in
Speaker 4: my life, and I've heard some idiotic things.
Speaker 1: Hally Williams of CBS News, I think being pretty kind
Speaker 1: with that the way she put that. Yeah, my years
Speaker 1: of reporting here in Saudi Arabia, a lot of people
Speaker 1: would disagree with that whole there's more free speech here.
Speaker 1: What a whard.
Speaker 4: Dave Chappelle, one of the great truth tellers in America,
Speaker 4: goes over and says that somebody pointed out that he
Speaker 4: converted to Islam and his teens, and you know, he's
Speaker 4: been making jokes about the trans thing, which land better
Speaker 4: in Saudi Ira. But that's just again, that is one
Speaker 4: of the most idiotic things I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: You're free to speak here than in America. Good lord,
Speaker 1: Well how about this? So take it out of the
Speaker 1: realm of this, Just like, what about the musical acts
Speaker 1: that go over there. You know, whether you're Mariah carry
Speaker 1: or what was the billionaire Rihanna, you're those going of people,
Speaker 1: and you go over there and you do a birthday
Speaker 1: party for a Saudi prince. Do you have any problem
Speaker 1: with that? You know, I wouldn't do it if I'm
Speaker 1: already ungodly wealthy. No, I'm not gonna go freaking be
Speaker 1: your dancing monkey in a country with no freedom whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Because you can afford it. I'm not doing it. Well.
Speaker 4: First of all, they actually have dancing monkeys, so that
Speaker 4: would be redundant. But you know, on one level, if
Speaker 4: these celebrities are obnoxious, you know, ideological presences online and
Speaker 4: spout off in their concerts about progressive values, then they
Speaker 4: go take money from the Saudis. I really don't have
Speaker 4: a lot of interest in them. Of course, I didn't
Speaker 4: have any interest in them spouting their opinion already. So yes,
Speaker 4: they're hypocrites and jackasses. But America does trillions of dollars
Speaker 4: of business with China, not to mention several other loathsome regimes,
Speaker 4: and it seems to me that the Saudis get singled
Speaker 4: out in kind of a weird way. And I'm as
Speaker 4: hardcore anti radical Islam as anybody on the air, I think,
Speaker 4: And I just I don't get how you have a
Speaker 4: gigantic contract with China and it's hunky dory, but it's
Speaker 4: awful to.
Speaker 1: Do business with the Saudis. I don't see the difference. Okay,
Speaker 1: Joe would go perform for the Crown Prince and bend
Speaker 1: the knee, all right.
Speaker 4: Well that's a bit much, but it and it depends
Speaker 4: on the nature of what you do too. If I'm
Speaker 4: like a concrete contractor and they want me to consult
Speaker 4: on the foundation of some building they're building, yeah I'd
Speaker 4: go take that gig. I would too, But would I,
Speaker 4: as a talk show host go over there and horror
Speaker 4: for the Saudis Well, it depends on the number. Frankly,
Speaker 4: I'm just surprised though, Like, if you're already wealthy, I just.
Speaker 1: Why for? Like David Cross, the comedian said, what so
Speaker 1: Luis k and Dave Chappelle can get another boat or
Speaker 1: what you why do you even doing this? I don't know.
Speaker 4: To me, you're either working or you're not working. There's
Speaker 4: plenty of places to work that aren't freaking Saudi Arabia
Speaker 4: not paying what the not paying what MBS pays?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I have standards and apparently anyonebody else does.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I get it.
Speaker 4: It's just the thing that bothers me about comedians is
Speaker 4: the nature of what they do. A concrete a contractor
Speaker 4: designer or whatever. It doesn't spend their entire life trying
Speaker 4: to root out hypocrisy and and bring people to the
Speaker 4: truth through humor or whatever. It's a it's a different
Speaker 4: beast that the comedians do bother me. But a singer
Speaker 4: who goes up there and does a forty minute SAT
Speaker 4: and gets an enormous amount of money, I don't I
Speaker 4: don't care. As long as Nike has factories in China,
Speaker 4: I just don't see the distinction.
Speaker 1: But I repeat myself, I own Nikes. Who's the hypocrite?
Speaker 1: Now right? Thank you? The trouble, I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's I don't think this. Me having Nikes because it
Speaker 1: fits my narrow foot is the same as Dave Chappelle
Speaker 1: going and perform.
Speaker 4: Narrow foot narrow foot, Yeah, oh yeah, I embraced Hitler
Speaker 4: back in the thirties because you know, I had narrow
Speaker 4: feet and he has. He had good narrow footed shoes
Speaker 4: that the Chinese are.
Speaker 1: Loathsome perfectly's the matter with you? Perfectly fair response anyway?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, how welcome to armstrong and get he's how
Speaker 4: to argue unfairly? Smmar so speaking of hipocrisy and the
Speaker 4: media and that sort of saying, this is just it's
Speaker 4: so delicious. I'm a bad person. I'm enjoying this much
Speaker 4: more than I should. All of the freak outs at
Speaker 4: CBS News over a moderate left lesbian woman becoming the
Speaker 4: news director. Absolute freakouts by staffers posting online three different
Speaker 4: editorials in the New York Times, three really saying how
Speaker 4: bad and ugly this is so Barry Weiss is the
Speaker 4: gonna be the news director at CBS, and they think
Speaker 4: it's just awful for she's well, I don't even know
Speaker 4: what you'd describe her politics. I mean, she's pro choice,
Speaker 4: she's she's married to a woman. Yeah, she's center left.
Speaker 4: So center left is just two.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I ran into this situation just the other
Speaker 1: day in my personal life, where uh like, center left
Speaker 1: wouldn't be good enough for this person. You're either full
Speaker 1: on progressive or a Nazi.
Speaker 4: New York Times columnist Jammel Bowie, who is a Marxist
Speaker 4: quote looking forward to Barry Weiss restoring trust in news,
Speaker 4: where trust in news means pumping out propaganda for your
Speaker 4: oligarch boss. New York Times magazine writer and professional liar
Speaker 4: and race baiting racist Nicole Hannah Jones quote In case
Speaker 4: it wasn't clear, the anti Dei crusade has never been
Speaker 4: about merit, zero news experience, never been a reporter elevated
Speaker 4: to editor in chief of CBS News, one of the
Speaker 4: most storied institutions.
Speaker 1: You not to be kidding me one more, because I
Speaker 1: know what you're about to say.
Speaker 4: New York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen not to be a pedant,
Speaker 4: but Barry Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote
Speaker 4: opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.
Speaker 1: And she just said, we were talking about this yesterday,
Speaker 1: how commentary magazine was wrote a piece about It's one
Speaker 1: of the most amazing media success stories ever. She started
Speaker 1: with three people and built an empire in a couple
Speaker 1: of years where she's got a revenue of one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars a year.
Speaker 4: Doing some of the best journalism with the best writers
Speaker 4: and researchers and reporters.
Speaker 1: That have ever been assembled.
Speaker 4: But no, she shouldn't be running CBS News because you know,
Speaker 4: she was really just a junior editor occasionally wrote opinion piece.
Speaker 4: Is not even a columnist and the oligarch boss thing
Speaker 4: was ridiculous. But Nicole Henner Jrun's never been a reporter,
Speaker 4: zero news experience. She just built an effing news empire
Speaker 4: that blows the New York Times out of the water.
Speaker 4: How do people get themselves to say this garbage? They're
Speaker 4: actually crazy?
Speaker 1: And there's been.
Speaker 4: More Seriously, it's like a conservative like me saying Barack
Speaker 4: Obama has zero talent as a politician.
Speaker 1: Mean, that's just stupid. Oh well, so there's been talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, how much influence will she have on the
Speaker 1: Golden Prize? That is sixty minutes probably the most prized
Speaker 1: news thing anywhere. And I came across this from Mary
Speaker 1: Catherine Ham of Fox reminding us we talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot last year. Sixty minutes last year did oh god,
Speaker 1: you got distracted because their names, Am, that's just fantastic.
Speaker 1: I can't talk to you about anybody whose name sounds
Speaker 1: like anything that's food related because you go Homer season. Anyway,
Speaker 1: she reminded everybody, and we talked about this at the time.
Speaker 1: Remember that story sixty Minutes did last year, that glowing
Speaker 1: thirteen minute profile of German speech police with the police
Speaker 1: officers raiding a guy's home and his computer because of
Speaker 1: a cartoon they didn't like, and sixty Minutes presented of
Speaker 1: isn't this fantastic? People are scared to save various things
Speaker 1: because the government keeps track of misinformation and disinformation, and
Speaker 1: they presented that as a good thing. So hope berry
Speaker 1: Wise has some influence on that sort of news story.
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Speaker 1: Well they're jokers, please.
Speaker 4: Two decades after Dan Rather warned that corporate control would
Speaker 4: erode journalism, CBS News may be proving him right. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, fears of political interference in layoffs.
Speaker 1: So you think the job CBS was doing was fantastic.
Speaker 4: Anonymous CBF staffer talked to The Guardian. A throwing up
Speaker 4: emoji is not enough of a reflection of the feeling
Speaker 4: in here. What the f Another CBS source posted, people
Speaker 4: are using words like depressing in doomsday, wrote another feels
Speaker 4: like some sort of doomsday.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, you people need to quit. You need to go.
Speaker 1: If you were at CBS and you have that attitude
Speaker 1: and good on paramount, because imagine and the heat that
Speaker 1: they're taking. They're getting lots of emails and texts and
Speaker 1: schneide comments at to cocktail parties and whatnot, and they
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Speaker 4: There's more, but from CNN chief media analyst, the Eunuch
Speaker 4: Brian Stelter, CBS News desperately needs someone to supercharge its
Speaker 4: digital strategy. Maybe the free press can help. But staffers
Speaker 4: reading this morning's memos are left to wonder, what exactly
Speaker 4: do the new bosses think we're doing wrong? What do
Speaker 4: they think you're doing wrong? You're entirely one sided. You
Speaker 4: are an advocacy wing of the Democratic Party. You don't
Speaker 4: do journalism anymore, that's what Brian Stelter, chief media analyst.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a waste of skin he is.
Speaker 4: He needs to donate his skin to burn victims because
Speaker 4: he's wasting it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. All right, we'll recover from that and
Speaker 1: have more later.
Speaker 6: Democrats are adamant that we must protect the healthcare of
Speaker 6: the American people.
Speaker 1: But if you would stop there, that would be great.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna keep talking, aren't you, aren't you.
Speaker 6: New data came out today from KFF, and that is
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Speaker 1: I know aren't. Who is that joke? Even for six
Speaker 1: year olds that watch c SPAN, How are you doing? Truck?
Speaker 1: Shumer is a human flat tire. That's a good lie.
Speaker 1: He's a human flat tire.
Speaker 4: The prospect of AOC, for goodness sakes, with all the
Speaker 4: legislation she's passed, and now that doesn't.
Speaker 1: Matter anymore that your year, what your year, coalition she's built.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a different generation, that's all. It's exactly now.
Speaker 4: Being a senator running against Chuck Schumer. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: these are some strange times.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The shutdown, Oh, the the thing. I want to
Speaker 1: mention that at least once an hour because you're going
Speaker 1: to hear it a lot. The shutdown is finally going
Speaker 1: to reach you as air traffic controllers aren't going to
Speaker 1: work since they're not being paid, and so you might
Speaker 1: want to check on your flights. Blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Nobody's missed a paycheck.
Speaker 4: We're at least a week away from missing a single
Speaker 4: dime of what you make.
Speaker 1: So traffic controls, you're gonna go over to work today.
Speaker 1: That's a political stance. It's not a I have to
Speaker 1: stay home with my kids because I can't afford something
Speaker 1: or other. I don't even know what the argument would be.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's got to be the Democratic Party putting
Speaker 4: out the words of the employee of public employee unions. Hey,
Speaker 4: we've got to make this hurt to swing people at
Speaker 4: our sides. So you got to start calling in for
Speaker 4: work or or whatever. More quotes of people freaking out
Speaker 4: at CBS News and all over the liberal media about
Speaker 4: Barry Wysey, center left Jewish lesbian taking the helmet, CBS
Speaker 4: portraying her like she's Hermann goering or something like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is just astonishing. We'll get to that. Oh.
Speaker 1: Also the.
Speaker 4: Controversy over the guy running for attorney general in Virginia.
Speaker 4: I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, I don't even
Speaker 4: pay attention to my own states races other governor wiring
Speaker 4: in a torture us. With that, there's some really interesting
Speaker 4: dynamics at play there. This guy is an enthusiastic spreader
Speaker 4: of really disgusting violent rhetoric toward Republicans, including Republicans he
Speaker 4: knows and works with, And in this era of Charlie Kirk'
Speaker 4: assassination and political violence, his party is rushing to embrace
Speaker 4: him and saying, oh, he took full responsibility.
Speaker 1: He's fine.
Speaker 4: We got to keep him on the ticket. Have no principles,
Speaker 4: so or on that to come as well. I can't
Speaker 4: remember what else were we going to talk about here?
Speaker 1: Do you doom scroll?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I try to stop describe, define doom scrolling. What counts
Speaker 1: as doom scrolling because I don't think I'm looking author
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm looking for doom when I start scrolling.
Speaker 4: No, But so much of what's online that you can
Speaker 4: scroll through ends up being I would call it more
Speaker 4: anger scrolling because everybody's angry all the time online.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. You know I had something as on my
Speaker 1: watch or my phone or somewhere that would have would
Speaker 1: tell me every day how many hours I spent looking
Speaker 1: at my phone, and I turned that off at some
Speaker 1: point because I thought, what's the point. Maybe I'd turn
Speaker 1: that back on. I don't know how often I stare
Speaker 1: at my phone, And then at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: thank you, Really, you spent that many hours a day.
Speaker 1: That's not the way you want to live your life.
Speaker 4: It'd be nice if it's pointed out which app for
Speaker 4: which amount of time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or which site. That would be handy, right, if.
Speaker 4: You're reading classic literature, that's different than just flipping through
Speaker 4: Twitter getting angry or and angry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and most of it's fake anyway, not even real.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty coming up.
Speaker 2: An attorney general candidate in Virginia is apologizing for his text.
Speaker 1: It's about a state lawmaker. We'll go through men, probably
Speaker 1: be forced to withdraw from the rest and probably is
Speaker 1: doing a lot there.
Speaker 2: All right, morning, Joe, We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I saw that live yesterday. I didn't
Speaker 1: have any idea what they were talking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kevin corka Fox News is going to give us
Speaker 4: some of the facts. It has to do with Democratic
Speaker 4: Attorney general nominee Jay Jones in Virginia. And to me,
Speaker 4: a beautiful test case of all right, you said we've
Speaker 4: got to calm down the rhetoric. Do you actually believe that?
Speaker 4: Are you willing to call out your own side or not?
Speaker 4: Democratic Party? Kevin cork Fox News Here.
Speaker 7: Sometimes political ads really cut through and they changed the
Speaker 7: tone and tenor of a race. And that will may
Speaker 7: be the case tonight and the race for attorney general
Speaker 7: and the state of Virginia Democrat J Jones is under increasing.
Speaker 1: Pressure to bow out. It was his August.
Speaker 7: Twenty twenty two text messages about then State House Speaker
Speaker 7: Republican Todd Gilbert, which included the phrase three people, two bullets,
Speaker 7: Gilbert Hitler and Paul Pott Gilbert gets two bullets to
Speaker 7: the head.
Speaker 1: What so what?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this guy wrote to a colleague, among other things,
Speaker 4: if these guys go before me, I will go to
Speaker 4: their funeral to piss on their graves and send them
Speaker 4: out a wash in something. He then suggested, three people,
Speaker 4: two bullets, Gilbert.
Speaker 1: That's House Delegate Todd Gilbert.
Speaker 4: Three people, two bullets, Gilbert Hitler and Paul Pott Gilbert.
Speaker 4: Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. Oiler, He writes,
Speaker 4: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people
Speaker 4: you know, and he receives both bullets every time. And
Speaker 4: the colleague that's a crazy person. Oh yeah, Oh it
Speaker 4: gets worse. The colleague who he was sending that text to,
Speaker 4: said Jay, please stop, and he said, lol, okay, okay,
Speaker 4: And she said it really bothers me. When you talk
Speaker 4: about hurting people or wishing death on them. It isn't okay,
Speaker 4: no matter who they are, and he called her up
Speaker 4: and berated her and said maybe he would change his mind.
Speaker 4: They were talking about ben guns or some gun control thing.
Speaker 4: He said, I'd like to see their kid die in
Speaker 4: his mother's arms. Maybe then he would change his mind.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see that.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I whatever. Scarborough said. Yeah, he's got a
Speaker 1: drop out of the race yesterday. Oh yeah, that's crazy
Speaker 1: for completely. So here is the ad that's running.
Speaker 5: The Washington Post confirmed j Jones sent texts that imagine
Speaker 5: shooting the Republican Speaker of the House j Jones, which
Speaker 5: the speaker's wife could watch her own child die in
Speaker 5: her arms. It's so disgusting, it's hard to believe, but
Speaker 5: it's true.
Speaker 4: One more bit from Kevin Cork than I have comments, obviously.
Speaker 1: Wow Well.
Speaker 7: Jones, for his part, has issued a statement apologizing for
Speaker 7: the text, writing in part, I've reached out to Speaker
Speaker 7: Gilbert to apologize directly to him, his wife, Jennifer, and
Speaker 7: their children.
Speaker 1: I cannot take back what I said.
Speaker 7: I can only take full accountability and offer my sincere
Speaker 7: apology or still for Jones. The negative spillover could also
Speaker 7: impact the governor's race in the Commonwealth, where fellow Democrat
Speaker 7: Abigail Spenberger has expressed disgust with the comments, but has
Speaker 7: yet to call on Jones to step aside, opening her
Speaker 7: up for criticism from Lieutenant Governor Win, some seers, or opponent,
Speaker 7: and even President Trump, who has demanded Jones step out
Speaker 7: of that race.
Speaker 1: Okay, on a macro level, before we get to the
Speaker 1: specifics of this, we've got to decide as a society,
Speaker 1: can you do something completely abhorrent and then just say
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I take full responsibility.
Speaker 4: And get any now that it's causing negative consequences, I
Speaker 4: would like to apologize.
Speaker 1: And get any credit for. Like P Diddy on Friday,
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry that I did that. I take full responsibility.
Speaker 1: You're a monster.
Speaker 4: You need to have some sort of I have come
Speaker 4: to God or I got therapy, or I was on
Speaker 4: drugs or something to make me believe you've changed.
Speaker 1: You can't just take it to you and this guy too.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I take full responsibility for calling for
Speaker 1: the death of my opponent. I apologize, Well.
Speaker 4: What fantasizing about his wife watching their children die in
Speaker 4: her arms because they deserve it?
Speaker 1: No, you need to if it's me, you're not that
Speaker 1: kind of guy anymore, or wasn't then, or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't need to apologize for saying something like that,
Speaker 4: because I never have and I never would. You did
Speaker 4: help me understand that if I were incing, that's what
Speaker 4: I would say. And he said something about, yeah, people
Speaker 4: need to feel consequences to change their policies or something's terrible.
Speaker 1: But why does this matter?
Speaker 4: Number One, Attorneys general, county prosecutors, we've learned, have enormous
Speaker 4: power to either implement woke policies or not implement woke policies,
Speaker 4: and Virginia is a big important state. Second, the gallo
Speaker 4: was running for governor, Spanburger was a hardcore woke up
Speaker 4: with transgender boys in girls bathrooms, boys in girls' locker rooms,
Speaker 4: boys in girls' sports, and win some seers. The charming
Speaker 4: lieutenant governor who's running against her pointed that out, and
Speaker 4: so this Spanburger liars running ads with her.
Speaker 1: I think it's two.
Speaker 4: In the ad and saying people are my opponent is
Speaker 4: spreading lies about me. I love my daughters, and I've
Speaker 4: worked to protect girls in schools and protect their rights
Speaker 4: my whole career. I stand up for little girls like
Speaker 4: my daughters. I'm what's her face, spam Burger. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just it is the far left with boys and girls'
Speaker 4: locker rooms and fantasizing about shooting their opponents in the head,
Speaker 4: masquerading as mainstream democrats. And these people, and there are
Speaker 4: probably people like them in your state too, they need
Speaker 4: to be defeated.
Speaker 1: So is there anything controversy about this Gilbert person that
Speaker 1: he believes should be shot.
Speaker 4: Well, it was My understanding was it was over there
Speaker 4: had been some sort of school shooting or something like that,
Speaker 4: and this J. Jones lunatic wanted to pass some sweeping
Speaker 4: gun control legislation, and Gilbert said, essentially, no, you can't
Speaker 4: do that. We've got Second Amendment issues. And the problem is,
Speaker 4: you know, crazy people want to hurt people, blah blah blah,
Speaker 4: and so he went into this fantasy about murdering Jones.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Gilbert, here's the question. And I don't actually
Speaker 1: know the answer to this. I really want to be
Speaker 1: an honest broker, fair arbiter of this thing of how
Speaker 1: much of the left is crazy versus how much of
Speaker 1: the right is crazy. But it sure seems to me
Speaker 1: that lefty lunatics are way quicker to the either disown,
Speaker 1: you can't marry, you think you should be dead one
Speaker 1: hundred percent.
Speaker 4: There was a major poll that we talked a lot
Speaker 4: about where it was something like seven times as many
Speaker 4: Democrats that said they'd ended friendships over politics as Republicans did.
Speaker 4: It was over well sure feels and if that number
Speaker 4: is wrong, I apologize. I don't have it in front
Speaker 4: of me, but it was an overwhelming difference.
Speaker 1: But it sure feels that way to me. I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I most people I'm family members, close friends,
Speaker 1: or their politics are similar to me, and I don't
Speaker 1: hear them saying things like I would never date of this,
Speaker 1: or I would you know that person should be shot
Speaker 1: or in this. But I hear that a lefty people
Speaker 1: that I know right all the time.
Speaker 4: Leftist politics tend to be much more emotional and emotionalistic,
Speaker 4: meaning they're based on emotion as opposed to fact or
Speaker 4: like a sober analysis of what policies work better.
Speaker 1: I remember that poin.
Speaker 4: You combine that with the longtime narrative that Republicans aren't wrong,
Speaker 4: they're evil, they're fascists, they want to oppress you, they
Speaker 4: want to kill you if you're transgender. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you get people overly emotional people or mentally disturbed people
Speaker 4: to believe that they will commit acts of violence, believe
Speaker 4: they're one hundred percent justified.
Speaker 1: We should try to dig that pullback up again. I
Speaker 1: kind of remember it. But man, I just I've bumped
Speaker 1: into that sort of thing recently a number of times
Speaker 1: and just seems like you're way overreacting to the fact
Speaker 1: that you don't agree politically with my side.
Speaker 4: The other side, right, Well, it always shocks me, well,
Speaker 4: it used to shock me as a fairly cynical longtime
Speaker 4: observer of political language, that there are people who believe
Speaker 4: their sides propaganda or messaging, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 4: I mean, they fully believe it. They think it's one
Speaker 4: hundred percent sincere and accurate. I even hear people I
Speaker 4: agree with going over the top, and I think you know,
Speaker 4: same holds, amil. I separate the part that's true from
Speaker 4: the part that's just meant to fire people up and
Speaker 4: get their donations and stuff. But there are a lot
Speaker 4: of people on the left who believe every word they
Speaker 4: actually believe.
Speaker 1: Conservatives who for instance.
Speaker 4: Don't want a boy in a girl's locker room, that
Speaker 4: they want to kill transgender people because they've heard it
Speaker 4: over and over again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So today is a fifteen year anniversary of one
Speaker 1: of the most mocked things that has happened in sports,
Speaker 1: Lebron James big prime time television announcement of he was
Speaker 1: living his team and going to a different team, but
Speaker 1: he made a last night, said he had another giant
Speaker 1: announcement to make today and it just came out, and uh, well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what it was. Mary Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: If you're a Lakers, got a new sports drink that
Speaker 1: would be pretty huge. I'm marrying Taylor's Swift.
Speaker 4: We met, we hit it off, we realized we were
Speaker 4: both with the wrong person.
Speaker 1: We're getting married. Wait, I assume Travis Kelsey would have
Speaker 1: something to say about that.
Speaker 4: Oh, he's heartbreak broken obviously.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll do that briefly and other things when we
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 8: Those two trained Hawks, Alice and Bubba, were stolen outside
Speaker 8: so Far Stadium during a Rams game last weekend. They
Speaker 8: fly above NFL games to keep other birds away. Well,
Speaker 8: neither falcon or tells us Bubba was recovered about thirty
Speaker 8: miles away. He says he's hopeful they'll find Alice soon.
Speaker 1: So Sofi Stadium has trained hawks to keep other birds
Speaker 1: away during Chargers and Rams games.
Speaker 4: Because of the poop and because of the poopin because
Speaker 4: of the poopen.
Speaker 1: Is that a problem that people have? Do they get
Speaker 1: to I was gonna use the past tense word for
Speaker 1: but do they get to dropped upon by birds at
Speaker 1: football games?
Speaker 4: I'm not really familiar with it as an issue, but yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that's the problem. Does every so many buildings have
Speaker 4: the pigeon spikes and you know whatever?
Speaker 1: Does every stadium have trained hawks to keep birds away?
Speaker 1: This is all new to me. I don't know. It
Speaker 1: depends on the shape of it.
Speaker 4: I think the problem with some of the new like
Speaker 4: semi domes, is that the birds would be over the
Speaker 4: field or over the fans. You like, got an old
Speaker 4: timey football stadium. No, it's just it's kind of a
Speaker 4: rectangle and the birds would sit and just you know.
Speaker 1: Thank god, Bubba the hawk is all right, and thank
Speaker 1: god you're all right. Even though you haven't gotten the
Speaker 1: most recent COVID shot. I know you're all thinking about
Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine. Is it time for my next shot?
Speaker 1: Where can I get it? A topic of conversation with
Speaker 1: me and all my friends constantly. This is the way
Speaker 1: David Muir approached it on the ABC Evening News last night.
Speaker 9: A confusion over getting a COVID shot this year. The
Speaker 9: CDC is now urging what they're calling quote individual based
Speaker 9: decision making, pushing people to consult with their doctor or
Speaker 9: pharmacists before getting the vaccine. The CDC also saying for
Speaker 9: those who want the shot, saying the strongest risk benefit
Speaker 9: in their words, for people at high risk for severe
Speaker 9: COVID includes those over sixty five. Most insurance still covers
Speaker 9: the cost of COVID shots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anybody who's been paying attention has known that since
Speaker 4: like late twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Right, and play the beginning part there again.
Speaker 9: Fusion over getting a COVID shot this year the sea.
Speaker 4: And keep going only good among you people, still you cultists,
Speaker 4: still wearing masks?
Speaker 1: Good again, because I want that second line too.
Speaker 9: Confusion over getting a COVID shot this year. The CDC
Speaker 9: is now urging what they're calling quote individual based decision making.
Speaker 1: That's the post. That's what I like, That's what I like.
Speaker 4: We've gotten away from I just for all of us
Speaker 4: who are just strictly following the CDC guidelines no matter what,
Speaker 4: and the CDC was still saying we should get Now
Speaker 4: we're doing whatever it's called individual base You mean making
Speaker 4: up my own mind based on my own information and
Speaker 4: what I think is a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I've been doing it the whole time.
Speaker 1: I do what the government tells me. I just always
Speaker 1: do it they tell me. Now they're asking me to
Speaker 1: make decisions as an individual. I feel abandon anybody who's
Speaker 1: so into the government being in charge that thinks that
Speaker 1: they should the government should make an announcement. We're now
Speaker 1: in favor of what we call individual based decision making.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in favor of that all day, every day.
Speaker 1: My whole freaking line. Yeah, no kidding, individual based decision making.
Speaker 1: I will make my decisions what I think is a
Speaker 1: good idea or not. You don't need to tell me.
Speaker 4: I would end a friendship over a mask wearing COVID cultist.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's it's triple.
Speaker 4: It was triple the number of Democrats than Republicans who
Speaker 4: have ended a friendship over politics, and among younger lefties
Speaker 4: it's shocking numbers, like a third of them say they
Speaker 4: would not want to be friends with someone who voted
Speaker 4: for a different presidential candidate. That COVID thing, I mean
Speaker 4: to me, you're a way to vote until you're twenty five.
Speaker 4: I'm firmly I will march on that cause on the
Speaker 4: David Muir COVID thing.
Speaker 1: You're a certain sort of person that could ever even
Speaker 1: utter the phrased individual based decision trees or whatever it is. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you mean.
Speaker 4: The way I'm teaching my kids to live their lives,
Speaker 4: take in information and make your own decisions.
Speaker 1: That's the way I think. What are you even talking.
Speaker 9: About individual based decision making?
Speaker 10: I would much rather just get in a pen, be fed,
Speaker 10: be sheared every so often to exactly what the government
Speaker 10: tells me to do, or they're pe Making my own
Speaker 10: decisions is so confusing, tell me what to do, Joe Biden, Right, Kamala,
Speaker 10: you hero the first thing he said, they're all the confusion.
Speaker 1: Who is confused? I mean, who's confusing? Are there people
Speaker 1: to get up in the morning and log on the
Speaker 1: CDC website to see what they're recommending for me? Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like I ought to get another COVID vaccine,
Speaker 1: But the government website says I should. But now I'm
Speaker 1: moving into individual based decision making, to where you can
Speaker 1: decide on your own. Oh that's fantastic. What about sawing
Speaker 1: off that's right? What about sawing off my ear with
Speaker 1: a steak knife. There's no guidance on that either. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do, honey, guidance. I was all
Speaker 1: these individual based decisions. They're killing me for some reason.
Speaker 1: I was just offended by that very phrase last night,
Speaker 1: when I based decision making.
Speaker 4: I think that's what the Trump administration is calling it.
Speaker 4: They're encouraging people to decide as individuals if it's important
Speaker 4: and right for you. And yes, you're most at risk
Speaker 4: if you're old or otherwise ill. Everybody has known that
Speaker 4: since twenty twenty, David. Everyone, unless you are a robot
Speaker 4: just sucking in left wing news and you're still wearing
Speaker 4: a mask alone in a park because you're nuts.
Speaker 1: Okay, so different topic. If you're a sports fan, you
Speaker 1: knew this fifteen years ago. Today, Lebron James made this
Speaker 1: big thing about he was gonna He started with the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavalaries. He grew up in that town. He was
Speaker 1: playing for his hometown team and then he was gonna
Speaker 1: leave somewhere else and he made this big primetime special announcement.
Speaker 1: Then they made a big hilarious and it got mocked endlessly,
Speaker 1: and it should have. It was just ridiculous. It was
Speaker 1: so look at me, I'm the focus of everybody's attention,
Speaker 1: just as It's just it was the most off putting thing.
Speaker 4: One of the most self congratulatory acts I have ever
Speaker 4: witnessed in any realm sports, politics, yeah, medicine, anything.
Speaker 1: It really was. Yeah, it was such a bad look. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's a fifteen year anniversary. In last night he said,
Speaker 1: I've got it the second decision to make the next
Speaker 1: big announcement, And there was a lot of speculation because
Speaker 1: he is forty, in his forties and is in his
Speaker 1: last year's contract that he announced is going to retire,
Speaker 1: and of course that would also be kind of a pathetic. Hey, everybody,
Speaker 1: look at me. This needs to be a giant show
Speaker 1: with everybody staring at me, with the spotlight on me
Speaker 1: or whatever. AnyWho, his announcement apparently that's coming in like
Speaker 1: three minutes, is he's teaming up with Hennessy for some
Speaker 1: sort of limited What is Hennessy a drink. It's a liquor,
Speaker 1: a booze. It's gonna be a liqueur. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a Lebron James branded Hennessy God's sake. Yeah, it's hard
Speaker 1: to take you seriously, dude. Anyway, I know it's suck
Speaker 1: the wild alone. I think that's the way it's going
Speaker 1: to be met. I don't think he knows that that's
Speaker 1: the way it's going to be met, but that's the
Speaker 1: way it's going to be met.
Speaker 4: Hey, mainstream media, the guy who went to kill Bret
Speaker 4: Kavanaugh is a dude. He is a man. We'll talk
Speaker 4: about that next hour. If you don't get next hour,
Speaker 4: oh no, you can just subscribe to our podcast, Armstrong
Speaker 4: and Getty on demand.
Speaker 1: Everything's okay against Armstrong and Getty.