Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty and Key Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: On its website, Massachusetts Easy Past Warrants, the overdue toll
Speaker 3: message is a scam and it's happening across the country
Speaker 3: criminals posing as totaling authorities. Cybersecurity pro say the scam
Speaker 3: software was built in China and sold to criminal gangs
Speaker 3: around the world, called a smshine scheme using SMS messaging.
Speaker 3: Cyber pro say it's the latest twist to a scam
Speaker 3: telling Americans they owe money for a postal delivery. The
Speaker 3: expert device be suspicious of any message from a totaling agency.
Speaker 3: Call the agency's published number if you're not sure, and
Speaker 3: never click on the link or accept a one time
Speaker 3: code that could open your bank account.
Speaker 2: Did he say smishing?
Speaker 1: Yes to smishing operations, so it's like phishing, but it's
Speaker 1: SMS texting, so they're calling it smishing. All right, everything's
Speaker 1: gonna have a cute name. Uck, everything's branding these days.
Speaker 1: Do you know anything more about this, Katie. I've had
Speaker 1: I've been I've had this coming in my text line
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean this, this is pretty common.
Speaker 1: Any anytime you get a text message with a link,
Speaker 1: my rules just don't click it. The problem is that
Speaker 1: the times when it's true then called. Well, if you
Speaker 1: have endless time, you can call every single one of
Speaker 1: these and try to track down do I actually have
Speaker 1: a package. I'll wait on hold here at the ups
Speaker 1: one eyed undered line to figure out if I actually
Speaker 1: have a package or if this is a scam. And
Speaker 1: I get ten of these a day, so I just
Speaker 1: ignore them all. And then every once while you get
Speaker 1: a letter in the mail. No, that one, that medical bill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn it over to the collection agency if
Speaker 1: you don't pay it. Oh that's a real one. Oh okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: They're usually signs that it's phony. The the the actual
Speaker 1: U r L will be Funky or what have you.
Speaker 2: L that's right.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's your stage name during your hip hop days.
Speaker 1: That's right for smishing schemes. Speaking of scams, it was funny.
Speaker 1: I was going to bring this up later, but now's
Speaker 1: a fine time. You know, it's one of the greatest
Speaker 1: scams in the workplace.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The concept of unlimited paid time off. Here at Jones Tech,
Speaker 1: we have unlimited vacation as long as you.
Speaker 2: Take care of your stuff.
Speaker 1: If you need to take time off, you just take
Speaker 1: it here at Jones Technology. Well, big study, and I've
Speaker 1: I actually I've known a couple of people who have
Speaker 1: this situation. It's generally the what it ought to be
Speaker 1: called is non specified time off because it's usually in
Speaker 1: go go companies with a you gotta give it all
Speaker 1: to the company culture, and the idea of taking any
Speaker 1: time off, much less like two and a half weeks
Speaker 1: to go to Australia is completely out of the question.
Speaker 1: I think I might like this. Maybe it's a way
Speaker 1: to get around a variety of things and start punishing
Speaker 1: or overlooking the people that you know abuse vacation days
Speaker 1: and spirit days and sick days and all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. You do this, and it's like, Okay, here,
Speaker 1: he is a lot of time off, We'll overlook them.
Speaker 1: How about we give it to Fred or Janine who
Speaker 1: is not taken all the time off, move her up
Speaker 1: to the next job. Well yeah, but the functional the
Speaker 1: result of this is nobody gets any vacation. You'd have
Speaker 1: to have some sort of unlimited time off after two
Speaker 1: weeks or something I think would be the only way
Speaker 1: to work, or however, many weeks vacation would be normal,
Speaker 1: So everybody gets a certain amount, yeah for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then beyond that, you know you want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and be the person who never shows up for work.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and see how that works out. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's the way a lot of companies work. But anyway,
Speaker 1: if you accept a job like that, thinking oh, this
Speaker 1: is great, I can take time off whenever I want.
Speaker 2: No, it's the opposite.
Speaker 1: The people at these companies that have unlimited PTO as
Speaker 1: they call it, take less vacation than normal workers.
Speaker 2: I would have assumed that's the case. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: I assumed when I first heard the whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's very insightful, here's regulations, here's good news from DOGE.
Speaker 2: I'm very excited about this. One of their first things.
Speaker 1: They're taking aim at the humble penny pennies. Gotta go
Speaker 1: elon and people said the other day this has made
Speaker 1: no sense for years. We're spending four cents to make
Speaker 1: a penny or whatever it is. I think it's three cents,
Speaker 1: three and a half cents. It costs to make a penny.
Speaker 1: You don't need pennies, especially after inflation. Pennies were stupid
Speaker 1: before inflation. Post inflation, it's insane that we have the penny.
Speaker 1: But so they're gonna finally get rid of it, or
Speaker 1: at least they're gonna yet they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna recommend it.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny and ironic is I'm always mindful
Speaker 1: of Chesterton's fence. Don't take down a fence until you
Speaker 1: fully understand why it is there. And so that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's one of your ancient, time honored explanations of conservatism.
Speaker 1: But the progressive side, mostly when it comes to government,
Speaker 1: are among the most conservative people on earth. If a
Speaker 1: government program exists, it must always exist. If something that
Speaker 1: is paid for by taxpayers ever happens, it must always
Speaker 1: happen and can never not happen again, no matter how
Speaker 1: wasteful or ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Isn't that odd? Goodbye penny? Yeah, fine, good riddance, And
Speaker 2: I like this.
Speaker 1: Representative darryl Isa of California tweeted out yesterday, I've seen enough.
Speaker 1: I'm calling for a congressional investigation of the White House staff.
Speaker 1: Elected Democrats in mainstream media who knew about Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: decline and covered it up from the American people, I
Speaker 1: think that's perfectly appropriate to have a full investigation on that.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's grandstanding or show voting or just
Speaker 1: trying to create a spectacle. I think that's a that
Speaker 1: really ought to be looked into. Yeah, on what basis?
Speaker 2: Though? What are we looking for? Violations of the law?
Speaker 2: What law? Here's senile? How senile? Does it have to
Speaker 2: be a violation of the law to have a congressional inquiry?
Speaker 1: No? No, But that's what I'm asking. Why are we
Speaker 1: doing this? What are we hoping to accomplish? Well, if
Speaker 1: it's just too embarrassed democrats, I'm not for it. If
Speaker 1: it's to let people know though, you don't get to
Speaker 1: do this, You don't get to just lie at that
Speaker 1: level and not be honest with the American people, you've
Speaker 1: crossed the line, then I'm for it. Because they did
Speaker 1: cross the line. They crossed the line, I would agree.
Speaker 1: I just again, I'm not sure what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: Condemning lying about senile presidents, I'm already there. And again
Speaker 1: I'm not against this, I'm just not sure what shape
Speaker 1: it would take anyway.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: So remember Vivek Murphy was that his name the woossy
Speaker 1: don't do anything ever, Surgeon General under Biden, who's now gone,
Speaker 1: thank goodness, along with the rest of that rabble. Ah,
Speaker 1: he put out that you can't ever drink anything. It's
Speaker 1: bad for you. Any level will raise your chance of
Speaker 1: this cancer from one in a million to one point
Speaker 1: three in a million. And well, there's another giant study
Speaker 1: that's coming out of this week. I think that that
Speaker 1: is much more nuanced and different and says, yeah, for
Speaker 1: if you're a low to moderate drinker, you're less likely
Speaker 1: to die of all causes.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. This reminds me now of.
Speaker 1: The dueling coffee studies that our beloved old newsman Marshall
Speaker 1: Phillips would bring us. Look, the more you drink, the
Speaker 1: worse it is for your health. All right, don't drink
Speaker 1: a lot, drink some. This is media reporting on media.
Speaker 1: As we all know, cable news is really struggling worse
Speaker 1: than you thought. CNN is laying off two hundred employees,
Speaker 1: or they did yesterday as its TV audience continues to tank.
Speaker 1: Here are some numbers Inauguration day coverage on CNN was
Speaker 1: down eighty three percent compared to four years earlier. Woof,
Speaker 1: Not only is Trump stronger than he's ever been, his
Speaker 1: political career may well have killed legacy media, says Clay
Speaker 1: Travis of Travis and Buck, who replaced Rush Limbaugh. As
Speaker 1: you know, that is quite a drop eighty three percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, I realized it wasn't their boy Biden getting inaugurated,
Speaker 1: it was Trump. But that's quite the best. They must
Speaker 1: have had hundreds of people watching nationwide. I think getting
Speaker 1: back to Biden's senility, I think the damage done to
Speaker 1: people and institutions who were in on the scam that
Speaker 1: Biden is sharp and he's not senile, and inflation is
Speaker 1: it's been Trump caused it and it's transitory and it's
Speaker 1: not that bad, and the economy is great, and don't
Speaker 1: believe your eyes and ears believe us. I think they
Speaker 1: did themselves fatal damage. I think CNN is a poster
Speaker 1: child for that. Yeah, they may kill themselves and good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh it's too bad. eBay sellers are listing iPhones with
Speaker 1: TikTok already installed for thousands of dollars for anybody out
Speaker 1: there who I don't know who wanted TikTok but didn't
Speaker 1: download it before. I don't quite understand who the what
Speaker 1: the market is on that, or don't understand that it's
Speaker 1: the the upkeep, the updates to the app that are
Speaker 1: going to be the problem. Having the app is not
Speaker 1: really the problem. Okay, but you know buyer b ware.
Speaker 1: A pay penalty is keeping men out of classrooms. According
Speaker 1: to the Wall Street journals Matt Barnam and Paul Overberg,
Speaker 1: it's funny a pay penalty because teachers make less than
Speaker 1: the average male profession. It's interesting how and this is
Speaker 1: clearly written from a fairly progressive point of view, although
Speaker 1: it makes some great points about male teachers are much
Speaker 1: less likely to see boys acting like boys is somehow
Speaker 1: a problem the way you know women are more likely
Speaker 1: to And I want to get off on that tangent
Speaker 1: because that's soon to be the main point. But I
Speaker 1: like the way they call the fact that a certain
Speaker 1: profession makes less than another one a pay penalty, as
Speaker 1: if it's somehow unjust and harsh and unfair, the way
Speaker 1: all progressives look at economics like a price is of
Speaker 1: value judgment, and we should all decide how much should
Speaker 1: the bacon cost.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's not the way it works, you know.
Speaker 1: I was saying about this the other day when I
Speaker 1: was watching my son, he plays drums in the drumline,
Speaker 1: and they're playing at the high school basketball game, and
Speaker 1: how many of the like practically all the teacher were there,
Speaker 1: and just thinking what a vocation that is as opposed
Speaker 1: to a job. When you're a teacher somewhere and just
Speaker 1: you know, how much of your life you have to
Speaker 1: give to it because you teach all day and they
Speaker 1: go to all the events. If you go to anything
Speaker 1: with your school, as you know, you know all the
Speaker 1: teachers are there, and the number of hours you would
Speaker 1: have to put in to do that.
Speaker 2: It's really impressive. It is.
Speaker 1: Indeed now most teachers get the summer off, or at
Speaker 1: least a substantial part is that there are trade offs,
Speaker 1: and is free human beings. They can make whatever choice
Speaker 1: they want. It's not a pay penalty. It's the pros
Speaker 1: and cons.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I wasn't making the argument they aren't paid enough. I
Speaker 2: think they are.
Speaker 1: I just thought that that's something, you know, because I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind teaching high school history. I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: go to all the girls high school basketball. I gotta admit, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, I know. I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 1: I'm just just getting back to the gist of the
Speaker 1: article here. The thing that I did appreciate partly was
Speaker 1: the ideas that, well, we've gone from roughly one in three,
Speaker 1: almost one in three teachers being male in the seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties to fewer than one in four now, and
Speaker 1: that is a problem. And they make the point that
Speaker 1: men are less likely than women to look at a
Speaker 1: boy's natural boyish behavior as a problem and expect little
Speaker 1: boys to sit there like little girls and behave like
Speaker 1: little girls. It's awful and just it's towering stupidity. How
Speaker 1: many you expect? How many men men are in teaching
Speaker 1: in the modern world as opposed to the document? What
Speaker 1: does that mean? You know exactly what it means. I
Speaker 1: just I'm shocked at what you're trying to imply. Noah,
Speaker 1: is there are money of manly men are teachers?
Speaker 2: Not as many as used to be. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot more of the men. Go ahead, Katie,
Speaker 1: say what you got to say. I you've silenced me.
Speaker 1: I just I think it's I think it's a lot
Speaker 1: of the men crowd that get into teaching now are
Speaker 1: the I'm kind of ashamed of being a man. I
Speaker 1: really wish I was a woman, and I'm go along
Speaker 1: with whatever women want and think. Certainly not the great
Speaker 1: male teachers who are listening now though, same time, friends
Speaker 1: of Armstrong and Getdye, you have painted with a broadbrush, sir.
Speaker 1: Now there are way fewer manly men in teaching now
Speaker 1: than there ever were before. Garren freaking teed men in teaching. Yes,
Speaker 1: mail bag at Armstrong and getdy dot com.
Speaker 2: Yeah no kidding, I'm moon washing right now. We gotta
Speaker 2: take a break. There's more of this I want to
Speaker 2: get into. Stay with us, guys.
Speaker 1: There was another brutally cold day across the country.
Speaker 2: Wasn't it cold?
Speaker 1: It was so cold in New York City on my
Speaker 1: way into work, I sat in my uber driver's lap.
Speaker 2: You guys, the time of year in the city. I
Speaker 2: like to play a fun game called guess which bottleby
Speaker 2: fluid made that patch of ice that one has his
Speaker 2: inn pouch in it. Holy cell growsed.
Speaker 1: So, getting back to the discussion of teachers and pay
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. The thing that bothered me
Speaker 1: about this article, A couple of things did, but they
Speaker 1: mention that what's the specific quote that men would be
Speaker 1: less likely to see rambunctious boys as a problem.
Speaker 2: You know, boys just acting like boys, right right?
Speaker 1: And although I have a point to make, here's a
Speaker 1: quote not that I think about. Maybe it does surprise
Speaker 1: me how many teachers or parents, if you've raised boys,
Speaker 1: whether you're a man or a woman, you know what
Speaker 1: boys are like. Well, yeah, give me a second, we're
Speaker 1: getting there. So this guy says he thinks he's successful
Speaker 1: with boys because he doesn't write them off as rambunctious
Speaker 1: or hyperactive, but he sees them fully as students in
Speaker 1: humans who may express their needs differently than girls. Well
Speaker 1: that is self evidently true. But how the hell is
Speaker 1: that some sort of insight that's worthy of even noticing?
Speaker 1: That's what you do for a living. Now I'm not
Speaker 1: yelling at this guy, I'm yelling at everybody else. You
Speaker 1: teach young human males and females. That is your job,
Speaker 1: it's your mission in life. It's what you do. How
Speaker 1: can you not know that little boys behave differently than
Speaker 1: little girls because of their way they're made?
Speaker 2: How is that some sort of insight that's shocking.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm supposed to talk into this end of the
Speaker 1: microphone I discover in the twenty third year of my
Speaker 1: radio career.
Speaker 2: No, that would make me a freaking moron, or.
Speaker 1: Or, in the case of the teachers, and this is
Speaker 1: the root of the problem, a political extremist, a nutjob,
Speaker 1: somebody who goes around talking about toxic masculinity, who thinks
Speaker 1: boys will be boys is an expression that's meant to
Speaker 1: excuse sexual assault. No, that's not what that expression means,
Speaker 1: or any of the things you see is negative about
Speaker 1: boys are well one a flaw and two it's something
Speaker 1: that they learned through our wrong society and can be
Speaker 1: the patriarchy can be corrected out of them. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about somebody I heard the other day, real nice person,
Speaker 1: I really like, but they're talking about how their young
Speaker 1: son was running around at the playground with sticks with
Speaker 1: some other boys, pretending to shoot each other.
Speaker 2: And she thought, Oh my god, where have I gone wrong?
Speaker 1: I just I was trying to think, what have I
Speaker 1: done that would lead him to think that that was okay,
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 2: I'm talking faking talking about. Oh my lord, Oh, I
Speaker 2: am so troubled by that.
Speaker 1: I have my society gets so far off track and
Speaker 1: to have the outward whatever five percent in terms of
Speaker 1: attitudes in this country be seventy five to ninety percent
Speaker 1: of teachers, that's a scary thing.
Speaker 2: That's not healthy.
Speaker 1: If you've got any comment on any of that, because
Speaker 1: we'd like to hear from you, if you're in the
Speaker 1: profession text line four one two nine five KFTC. Trump
Speaker 1: announced yesterday he signed some sort of order he's going
Speaker 1: to release the files on the Kennedy assassination and the
Speaker 1: MLK assassination. Which brings me to wanting to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about MLK Junior. His birthday was Monday, and
Speaker 1: we didn't get around to it. There's a big thing
Speaker 1: happening in two years that needs to be discussed.
Speaker 2: As a nation. Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 5: He has been urged by a number of people, but
Speaker 5: especially Robert F. Kennedy Junior, that he he should release everything,
Speaker 5: he should make everything public.
Speaker 2: You know, Robert F.
Speaker 5: Kennedy Junior has privately told a number of people, and
Speaker 5: he has you know, alluded to this publicly that he
Speaker 5: believes that there is, you know, some information that the
Speaker 5: government has that the government had some role in what
Speaker 5: happened to his uncle. You know, his father was also assassinated,
Speaker 5: and so I think that that is why President Trump
Speaker 5: is going ahead with this yet.
Speaker 1: Trump's going to release information that previously hasn't been reliefed
Speaker 1: about the JFK assassination, RFK assassination, LKA Junior assassination, which
Speaker 1: I like we were talking about earlier. I don't think
Speaker 1: is gonna be major blockbusters. I just don't like the
Speaker 1: idea of the government keeping secrets. It's better better we
Speaker 1: hang onto this. I just did that tendency of the government.
Speaker 2: Is not good.
Speaker 1: And as we learned with Biden, Obama, and Trump and
Speaker 1: all their top secret documents that they keep around, there's
Speaker 1: just way too many top secret things that don't.
Speaker 2: We're the government. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't get to keep everything secret all the time
Speaker 1: forever just because you're you're better off that you have
Speaker 1: the information.
Speaker 2: I've never liked that.
Speaker 1: Last night, I was running back and forth. My oldest
Speaker 1: son was upstairs doing a paper on the civil rights
Speaker 1: movement for some class in school.
Speaker 2: He's in high school, and.
Speaker 1: Then my youngest was doing math, and I was running
Speaker 1: back and forth helping them. Multiplied decimals and I going
Speaker 1: up to help that going down there, and at some
Speaker 1: point I said, hey, you're wearing me out with this.
Speaker 1: I think you can handle this on your own. Henry,
Speaker 1: my thirteen year old, said, you're a parent. You signed
Speaker 1: up for this. This is what parents do. They help
Speaker 1: their kids with their homework.
Speaker 2: Wow, what the hell?
Speaker 1: Anyway? For better or worse? I hope for better at
Speaker 1: least over time. The idea that my son was working
Speaker 1: on a paper about the civil rights movement came up
Speaker 1: while we were eating, and then I and then I
Speaker 1: went off on a long rant as I often do,
Speaker 1: about the civil rights movement and MLK Junior and a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different things, asking them, well, which part
Speaker 1: of it you think you're going to write about this?
Speaker 2: And this and this.
Speaker 1: And I'm in the midst of reading yet another MLK
Speaker 1: Junior biography, the one that came out last year won
Speaker 1: the Pulser Prize for Biography. And it's really great and
Speaker 1: one of the reasons. First of all, it's really well written,
Speaker 1: like it's got a real it's not dry, it's not
Speaker 1: like a textbook. It's written with a little more drama
Speaker 1: than that. But there's so many things to Trump releasing
Speaker 1: those files, that files that have come out since the
Speaker 1: last major MLK Junior biography, and so we now know
Speaker 1: more about what was going on with him with the government,
Speaker 1: between him and the government and everything like that, and
Speaker 1: we need to know all that stuff right right, more
Speaker 1: on that second, as you know, and I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: getting there, and there's going to be some rough stuff too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in those directions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm more thinking about the FBI ought to come
Speaker 1: in for a kicking. But before we get to that,
Speaker 1: one part of the book I thought was really interesting.
Speaker 1: So as I was pointing not to my son because
Speaker 1: he was going to do the Montgomery bus boycott, really
Speaker 1: the first giant civil rights thing that happened and started
Speaker 1: in fifty five went through fifty six.
Speaker 2: That's the Rosa Parks story. If you know what. MLK Jr.
Speaker 2: Was twenty six, twenty six.
Speaker 1: Years old, and I've always found it interesting he'd had
Speaker 1: no interest in being a civil rights leader. Zero wasn't
Speaker 1: on his mind at all. He just wanted to be
Speaker 1: He had his Phdology and he got this church with
Speaker 1: the help of his dad that he was a minister
Speaker 1: at in his twenties and he's got a wife and
Speaker 1: kids and he just wanted to do that. He had
Speaker 1: no interest. Even after the Rosa Parks thing happened. He
Speaker 1: wasn't thinking I'm gonna lead this. He had no interest whatsoever.
Speaker 1: They have their first big meeting after Rosa Parks. He
Speaker 1: gets arrested on the bus and if you don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, I don't even know why you're listening.
Speaker 1: But uh, they have their first big meeting and all
Speaker 1: the ministers are there and you know how we're gonna
Speaker 1: handle this some like and the guy that wanted to
Speaker 1: be the leader, the aggressive, you know, alpha, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be in charge of this sort of thing, gave this
Speaker 1: long winded speech in which people started filing out of
Speaker 1: the church. They were so bored, and they are all
Speaker 1: the other ministers standing around said we can't let him
Speaker 1: be in charge. This is just not gonna work. He
Speaker 1: goes on forever and he just nobody's interested in what
Speaker 1: he has to say. And eventually somebody asked MLK to
Speaker 1: speak because they thought he was a pretty good speaker.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to do this. I got to
Speaker 1: get home, you know that sort of thing. But he
Speaker 1: started talking, and it caught on and it grew from there.
Speaker 1: But wow, greatness thrust upon him, as they say now,
Speaker 1: and he emerged as a national figure within months of
Speaker 1: I got to get home. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: be a part of this. He's on the cover of
Speaker 1: Time magazine and meet with President Eisenhower and stuff, so
Speaker 1: then it's off to the races. But I thought that
Speaker 1: was interesting. Everybody knows his big sixty three Lincoln Memorial
Speaker 1: speech where there's half a million people there, the I
Speaker 1: have a dream speech.
Speaker 2: But he gave a speech in fifty seven.
Speaker 1: After the Montgomery bus boycott, also at the Lincoln Memorial.
Speaker 1: And I'll just read from the new book because I
Speaker 1: thought this was pretty interesting. He stood atop the stairs
Speaker 1: of the Lincoln Memorial wearing a clergyman's robe over his
Speaker 1: suit and tie, facing the biggest audience of his life.
Speaker 1: Estimated it somewhere between fifteen twenty seven thousand. His voice
Speaker 1: rang like a deep bell. One felt it as he
Speaker 1: heard it. So that was the biggest crowd he'd ever
Speaker 1: spoken before at that point fifteen thousand, having no idea
Speaker 1: that a few years later he'd be talking to half
Speaker 1: a million and be one of the most famous speeches ever.
Speaker 1: Bayard Rustin, if you read any civil rights stuff, is
Speaker 1: really the key guide to the whole thing. He should
Speaker 1: have giant statues every year everywhere. Everybody should know him.
Speaker 1: The only reason he's not a household name because he
Speaker 1: wrote almost all the speeches that King and everyone else
Speaker 1: gave or had a hand in writing them. He organized
Speaker 1: all this stuff. But he was gay, so they had
Speaker 1: to hide him behind everything all the time because he
Speaker 1: had been arrested in Pasadena, California for having sex with
Speaker 1: a dude when being gay was against the law, and
Speaker 1: so they had to hide him from everything, even though
Speaker 1: he was the driving force behind almost everything. Fascinating figure.
Speaker 1: But Rustin was watching the speech that he had helped write.
Speaker 1: Russell was impressed, but also puzzled. There's nothing extraordinary in
Speaker 1: the text of the speech. Rustin had written his speech.
Speaker 1: King didn't like it, rewrote it, and Russell was like,
Speaker 1: this is cramp. You can't go out there and say this.
Speaker 1: This is sets got no this or that. And in
Speaker 1: MLK just saw it. Yeah, but it sounds better when
Speaker 1: I say it. So Russell was figuring out why had
Speaker 1: this worked. King had moved his listeners to rapture black
Speaker 1: and white listener listeners, this is the part I really liked,
Speaker 1: and I want to Trump's got some of this. Years later,
Speaker 1: scholars would analyze the elements of King's speeches and conclude
Speaker 1: that he employed many of the same skills as the
Speaker 1: finest professional singers he can. He controlled his tempo, picking
Speaker 1: up speed in a way that made his audience feel
Speaker 1: as if they were moving with him, as if they
Speaker 1: wanted to sing along. He used harmonics, varying his pitch
Speaker 1: to make his speech melodic and never monotonous, and he
Speaker 1: controlled his rhythm masterfully, pausing when he wanted his audience
Speaker 1: to contemplate his words, and repeating phrases without pause when
Speaker 1: he wanted listeners.
Speaker 2: To feel those same words.
Speaker 1: The idea of the delivery, the showbiz of it, being
Speaker 1: more important than the text of it, I find interesting,
Speaker 1: or at the very least, understanding that the tune is
Speaker 1: what gets the words into people's heads. If you will
Speaker 1: could be and then if you can combine both, if
Speaker 1: you can combine great words with the mastery of delivery,
Speaker 1: and I suppose that's when you have the one hundred
Speaker 1: percent home run. And I have a dream people play
Speaker 1: it for sixty years.
Speaker 2: Speech.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean lyrics and musical lyrics are much
Speaker 1: easier to remember if they're tied to a great melody.
Speaker 2: In fact, you can't forget them if you want it,
Speaker 2: no doubt.
Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting that the guy right now
Speaker 1: the speeches was watching people react to his speech and thinking,
Speaker 1: why is this working though it's not.
Speaker 2: A very good speech, because people are really into it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, I see everything through the lens of music,
Speaker 1: but I've run into people. There are people who are
Speaker 1: better musicians and quote unquote better composers of music, but
Speaker 1: they don't connect to people like this other guy can.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, that's such an interesting relationship. Fascinating to me
Speaker 1: is both a professional speaker and a guy who loves music.
Speaker 1: But even at the age of twenty seven to twenty eight,
Speaker 1: it gets in the book nobody's exactly sure when King
Speaker 1: when Martin started cheating on his wife, started running around
Speaker 1: having the affairs, nobody's exactly sure, but he did. And
Speaker 1: then they specify how into morality he was, and how
Speaker 1: many of his sermons to his congregation we're all about morality.
Speaker 1: And he wrote a column for Essence magazine for a
Speaker 1: long time, often lecturing people about the importance of being
Speaker 1: faithful and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: And the author of.
Speaker 1: This New king a life book includes a private conversation
Speaker 1: that I don't think anybody had ever seen before.
Speaker 2: It might be one of the recorded FBI tapes. Actually,
Speaker 2: ill bet it is.
Speaker 1: I'll bet that's where it came from, when they were
Speaker 1: recording all his phone calls, where he's telling a friend
Speaker 1: about how everybody, all of us, have something evil in us,
Speaker 1: and we're all a mixture of good and bad. And
Speaker 1: he said, I feel like sometimes like I'm a doctor Jekro,
Speaker 1: mister Hyde, and it almost makes me crazy trying to
Speaker 1: figure out which part of me is the real part,
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Even he was dealing with that.
Speaker 1: In his own mind, you know, being the great moral
Speaker 1: leader of the country while he's running around on his wife.
Speaker 1: Sure that was part of why I had that owned spine,
Speaker 1: because I had even came up as we were driving
Speaker 1: in the car, I mentioned the FBI spying on him
Speaker 1: and recording all of his affairs. The FBI j Edgar
Speaker 1: Hooper would put microphones in the hotel rooms and record
Speaker 1: MLK Junior having sex, and they have hours and hours
Speaker 1: and hours of him, you know, bang inside pieces if
Speaker 1: I could be coarse, and there are hours and hours
Speaker 1: hours of that audio that's going to come out in
Speaker 1: two years, by the way. But so my youngest said,
Speaker 1: so he was a bad guy, and I said, no, No,
Speaker 1: he wasn't a bad guy. But then we got into
Speaker 1: the you know the complexity of human nature and just
Speaker 1: there's good and bad in everybody, and there's percentages and
Speaker 1: degrees and it's it's all complicated, fascinating stuff. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: whole fidelity sex thing. I mean, there are all sorts
Speaker 1: of different ways to judge it, and not sure if
Speaker 1: any of them are right or any of them are wrong.
Speaker 1: But I get the idea of somebody who understands the
Speaker 1: moral issue with clarity and is too weak to do
Speaker 1: what's right.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean he doesn't understand right. So there's
Speaker 2: two kinds.
Speaker 1: Does that make him a hypocrit or does that just
Speaker 1: make him weak or just a human being?
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, there's also the crowd, as we know, that believes
Speaker 1: fidelity is ridiculous and that's just not the way we're built,
Speaker 1: and so they don't have a moral problem with it,
Speaker 1: but he, since he was lecturing the congregation about it,
Speaker 1: did think it was a problem, as you're saying, and
Speaker 1: still did it anyway. But anyway, so in two years,
Speaker 1: and have been saying this for years. It was far
Speaker 1: off in the distance. But now we're just two years
Speaker 1: away twenty twenty seven, all those audio tapes are going
Speaker 1: to come out, or they're supposed to come out, unless
Speaker 1: I don't know if the President would sign an executive order,
Speaker 1: you know, President j d Vance twenty seven trumpets the Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I'm willing, if Trump will
Speaker 1: stop him from coming out or what. But I'm not
Speaker 1: so much interested in the it'd be embarrassing to MLK JR.
Speaker 1: I think most people are into MLK JR. No, he
Speaker 1: was cheating on his wife, and I.
Speaker 2: Think it's more interesting that the FBI.
Speaker 1: Was spying on him the way he was with very
Speaker 1: flimsy reason. And the guy who ordered that name is
Speaker 1: on the FBI building. I think that should be more
Speaker 1: of the discussion. That is ridiculous skipping to the end
Speaker 1: part j Edgar Hoover Building. I mean, it's just crazy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's a question and so I said, why were they
Speaker 1: spying him? And I said, because they thought he was
Speaker 1: a communist, or at least they claimed they thought he
Speaker 1: was a communist.
Speaker 2: He was not.
Speaker 1: And there are always lots of communists in the left
Speaker 1: wing movements, as I was explaining to my kids. So
Speaker 1: that's something we were really worried about all the time,
Speaker 1: because there were tons of communists in the civil rights movement.
Speaker 2: MLK Junior was not a communist, right, So is the.
Speaker 1: Release of the tapes a little bit like the release
Speaker 1: of a nine to one to one call, though, where
Speaker 1: just give me the substance of it. I don't need
Speaker 1: to hear the actual thing for my entertainment.
Speaker 2: It's funny. I was just talking a little bit ago.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump signing the executive order around the assassinations.
Speaker 1: Let us know, you don't get to hide this stuff.
Speaker 1: On the other one, the MLK June, I don't see
Speaker 1: how that benefits anybody.
Speaker 2: Why do we need to audio?
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if you, if you would to decide, the
Speaker 1: FBI shouldn't have been recording him in the first place.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, that troubles me too.
Speaker 1: And just one thing, this one undred percent certain, is
Speaker 1: the reaction of those tapes will be disappointing and idiotic
Speaker 1: all the way around if they are actually released on
Speaker 1: all fronts. And of course, with this nugget before I
Speaker 1: take a break, then j Edgar Hoover sends a letter
Speaker 1: to MLK Junior, who we have a road named after
Speaker 1: in every city and had a national holiday on Monday,
Speaker 1: A guy we have a national holiday for. The FBI
Speaker 1: director sent a letter to him saying, you better kill
Speaker 1: yourself or I'm gonna give these tapes to your wife?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? And that guy's name is on
Speaker 1: the FBI building. That's what should be discussed. Incredible anyway,
Speaker 1: any comment on that text line four one KFTC. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be targeting some extremely violent offenders today.
Speaker 4: The White House is reacting tonight to Fox News is
Speaker 4: exclusive MBED with ICE deportation officers in the sanctuary city
Speaker 4: of Boston.
Speaker 2: I'm not going back to Hayden, you feel me.
Speaker 4: During that MBED, we witnessed Ice arresting this combative Haitian man,
Speaker 4: who I says is a gang member with seventeen criminal convictions,
Speaker 4: and he had this to say.
Speaker 2: You feel me, go fighting forever?
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 2: Thank Obama for everything that he picked for me. Both
Speaker 2: they speak English and Haiti some people do apparently.
Speaker 1: Well, he's been in the country long enough to accumulate
Speaker 1: seventeen convictions and he hasn't been deported.
Speaker 2: What sort of insanity is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to get hung up on that,
Speaker 1: even though that's the important part, and I want to
Speaker 1: feature what he actually said seventy six.
Speaker 2: I'm not going back to Hayden.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, Biden, thank Obama for everything that he
Speaker 1: paid for me both. I'm just sad that both Biden
Speaker 1: and Obama are done politically because to have a Haitian
Speaker 1: gang member felon saying f Trump, Biden forever, thanks for
Speaker 1: everything Obama of this perfect who wrote that? Newt Gingrich
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good ad. Oh my gosh, that's terrific.
Speaker 1: You know, it occurs to me we ought to hear
Speaker 1: a little more from Bill Malugin because there's some more
Speaker 1: amusement in here.
Speaker 2: Seventy one, Mike, if.
Speaker 4: You WoT President jd Vance reacting to that today writing
Speaker 4: on X quote an illegal alien with seventeen criminal convictions
Speaker 4: really hates President Trump for sending him back to Haiti.
Speaker 4: He's grateful to Biden for letting him come here. I'm
Speaker 4: glad we're deporting him. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
Speaker 4: also responding, posting on X quote, bye.
Speaker 1: Bye, that's a little dismissive of the migrant whose family
Speaker 1: I'm sure is sad and now afraid, not knowing what.
Speaker 2: Oh shut up.
Speaker 1: Doesn't Donald Trump know about the polm at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the statue of liberty? Oh that was good. Oh
Speaker 1: you doubled me over. Oof ah dur oh. A. Mulligin
Speaker 1: later goes on in the report to list a bunch
Speaker 1: of the scumbags that got apprehended and are about to
Speaker 1: get deported, and the various rapes and child molestations and
Speaker 1: armed robberies they took part in.
Speaker 2: And again, it just it.
Speaker 1: It's beyond comprehension that any administration would allow violent.
Speaker 2: Gang member rapists in the country. I legal in his state.
Speaker 1: I just I feel like I have lost my mind
Speaker 1: that it actually happened.
Speaker 2: Gutfeldt had a joke. Let's hear that as.
Speaker 1: Ice hauled off a Haitian gang member, he said, f
Speaker 1: Trump bide in forever.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that wasn't a Haitian gang member. That was Jill Biden.
Speaker 2: They all think, get confused, that was a non joke.
Speaker 2: This will take a real doctor. By the way, This.
Speaker 1: Will take quite a while though, so they're at five hundred.
Speaker 1: They're really only a couple of days in. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it will pick up speed or if it's
Speaker 1: going to go at about this pace. To arrest the
Speaker 1: illegals with criminal records, there are seven hundred thousand of
Speaker 1: them that take a long time to get through. There's
Speaker 1: tremendous public support, as we've been saying, eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of Americans are in agreement with this.
Speaker 2: It's not controversial at all.
Speaker 1: But once you get through this and you start to
Speaker 1: get to the you know, the family it's been picking
Speaker 1: strawberries in your county for the last ten years, then
Speaker 1: it's going to get a little more difficult, right, And
Speaker 1: I think this will be self regulating because by the
Speaker 1: time we get down to, you know, the dad whose
Speaker 1: family has been picking strawberries and Monterey Forerans, is that
Speaker 1: sort of thing who was once arrested for public drunkenness
Speaker 1: or you know, that sort of minor offense. I think
Speaker 1: the will to keep it going will diminish. I just
Speaker 1: think it has its own set of breaks. It'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Interesting, could be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't talked about the meme coin Trump launched.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about this barely. I just saw
Speaker 2: the headlines. It's not great.
Speaker 1: I want to discuss with you briefly what Tom Brady
Speaker 1: said about quarterbacks running in the NFL, because that really
Speaker 1: could play a role in the dangerous GAGN