WEBVTT - Looking For A Ball In There Is A Slippery Slope 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.640 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.720 Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty. I'm strong and Jetty and 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:21.840 he armstrong and Yetty. She Now those awards shows, how 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.480 they give you like twenty seconds to say something and 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.560 then they start playing music to tell you you gotta go. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.200 Oh yeah, I know, I'd always hated that. Really they'd 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.879 started into something interesting. Well now I guess I know 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:34.519 the producers know a lot of these people don't have 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.159 much to say. So Adrian Brody actor. I loved him 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.000 in The Pianist. Is that what he won? The oscar? 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.040 For years and years ago, the piano whatever it was. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.680 I really liked him, but god, he won an oscar. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.960 Last night. He gets up there and he drones on forever, 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:49.640 and they tried to play the music. So you're not 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.760 playing me off. You're not playing me off. This isn't 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.960 my first rodeo. And then he continues to drone on 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.400 about nothing. It was so boring anyway. Here Hanson has 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.960 edited it down his five and hour half minutes of 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.920 droning on about mulling. I know, I kept saying to 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.880 the TV, Henry and I are playing chess while we 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.560 got it on TV, and I'm like, shut up, dude, geez, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.160 somebody pulled. Give them the five and a half minutes 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.480 of drowning on nothing. This is edited down to just 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:14.760 the ums and ohs. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:30.800 Uh, you know, winning and and and and I'm oddly 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.479 just brilliant and I'm wrapping up. Please please please, I'm 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:36.000 wrapping up. 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:36.679 I will wrap up. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:37.800 Please turn the music up. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.360 Okay, I'll get out here. And if you heard the 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.280 entire five and a half minutes, it was not more 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:49.880 meaningful than what you just heard. Yikes, yikes. He also 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.120 did a reason to watch the Oscar. I also did 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.120 the weird thing, so he's you know, they announced the 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.760 Oscar and then everybody acts like they just won the 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.680 Nobel Peace Prize or something. The reverence that everybody has 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.880 in the crowd, I guess they all feel like they 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.960 owe each other that, or they want to receive that 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.720 if they win someday or whatever the way they it's 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.959 just it's weird, the reverence for such a not that 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.400 big a deal. Craft to me, Okay, you can act, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.480 good for you, that guy's really good at bill bird Houses, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.720 good for him and whatever. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.120 But the only thing they're better at than making movies 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.399 is self importance. Got no, and you know obviously their 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.000 awards are. It's a festival of self importance. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.639 Eh. So hard to watch, which you would wonder why 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.000 did I watch? But he gets announced when the bad 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.079 saskar he's kissing her hugging him a and he heads 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.880 up and he really he realizes he's got gum in 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.040 his mouth. He turns around, he yells to his girlfriend, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.360 throws his gum at her, and she kind of on 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.880 her high heels stra reach over and catches it. Boy, thought, 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:51.800 that wasn't the classiest move I've ever seen. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.880 It's just wrong to check it to tucket in your cheese, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.040 shy savage swallow it. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.799 No, it's disgusting. I've swallowed about five pounds of gum 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:02.360 in my life. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.760 Probably Katie one more reason to judge Jack if she 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:06.920 keeps the list for us. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.519 At this point, I have a scroll that's nineteen feet long. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.920 I just yeah, yeah, that was a mistake, going with 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.400 a scroll instead of a notebook. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:15.160 Anyway. 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.959 So, speaking of status and that sort of thing, briefly, 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.919 I had a very busy day yesterday. I volunteered at 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.200 the golf tournament that my community slash home course hosts. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.320 It's a college golf tournament. Teams from around the country. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.720 It's wonderful, it's great fun. But I had an eleven 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.000 hour workday on my day off yesterday, I was a 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.960 spotter slash Marshall. And also, because you know, it's a 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.160 charity tournament, we don't have money or anything, I was 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:49.320 a divot filler, so I have binoculars on and these 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.560 guys who hit the ball a mile, it's just ridiculous. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:52.920 I watch them hit I try to follow it in 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.760 the binoculars and oh, it's over there in the trees, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.400 and we go try to find it or whatever. And 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.440 then sometimes it's in the middle of the fairway whatever. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.960 But after they hit their shot, I've got my little 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:04.320 sand container and I go in. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.840 I fill the divot. It's part of my job. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:12.160 And some of the teams, some of the guys will 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.720 say thanks and thank you all for being here and 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.720 helping as you fill the. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.400 Divot, which is nice. 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.720 They've obviously been coached by their coaches you know you 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.880 will do this, and they probably say it, you know, 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:25.760 thirty seven times in the course of the tournament. But 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.120 it's really nice. Other guys, particularly if they've hit a 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.000 bad shot or whatever, just walk off grumbling as you 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.680 fill the divot. And I want to say to some 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.920 of these guys, kid, I get it, they're passionate young men, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.120 and you hit a bad shot, you're kind of seeing 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.720 your scholarship and your dreams maybe go a couple of 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.479 inches further away or whatever. I get it. I've competed myself. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.120 But I want to say to them, Look, there's people 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.279 out here with a net worth they could buy a 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.520 golf course and they're not me. But and they're filling 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.840 your divots. You can't give them a little thanks as 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.839 you walk away. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:04:59.960 What does that cause? 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.240 Just say appreciate it, thanks, something like that. But I've 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.360 never said anything, and and I won't. But that's fun though. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.800 If you love a game, for you to pick up 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:12.839 another skill. And the way the radio things going. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:14.039 Oh yeah yeah. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.560 I don't know what divot filling pays in general, but 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.160 it's not the best work for an old fellow with 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.080 as long as it has health insurance. Yeah yeah, no kidding. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.839 So anyway, that was big fun. But speaking of working 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.640 and getting things done, one of the more hilarious and 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:33.560 flailing aspects of the anti Doge resistance, as personified by 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.680 Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobach, are bellowing at demonstrations. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.720 Oh did you know so tomorrow night Trump is addressing 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.200 both houses of Congress. It's not right. It's not a 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.440 State of the Union address when your first first one 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.720 is not yeah whatever, it's a State of the Union 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.040 dress and uh. And he's gonna go out there and 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:54.960 see a bunch of things. But the Democrats are all 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.080 bringing people that have been laid off by Doge as 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.800 their guests. So they're gonna go aheadack that house for 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.600 our government employees who've lost their jobs. And after that, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.560 I think most of America is going to say, oh 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.320 my god, you lost your job, How awful for you. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.440 They just are misreading the country. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.640 I think, yeah, I was gonna say, as those the 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:17.239 aforementioned villains and others are bellowing and demonstrating in favor 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.760 of government waste and bloat, which is an odd way 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.240 to go, you know, an odd philosophy to advocate. I 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:24.960 came across this. I believe it was one of our 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.440 beloved listeners. Clip number fifteen, Michael, This is Dianne Feinstein. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.360 Back when she was coherent and significantly with us. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.400 She died. Uh yeah, I have trouble remember and who's 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.800 alive and who's dead after being clearly dementia ridden for 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:45.719 last year more of her career. It's just sad puppet anyway. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.880 This was Diane in nineteen seventy one, is a moderate 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:56.000 Democrat city councilwoman in San Francisco, talking about government workers 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.560 and how if you let them, they don't do anything. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.200 They are serving an enormous public trust, and this public 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.120 trust must be honored in the deepest sense of the word. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:09.600 And I believe that very deeply. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.360 The number one topic of conversation right now is whether 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.760 Diane Feinstein is serious about looking in on city employees 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.440 to find out how hard they're working. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.440 I received a number of comments from people who are 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:25.280 concerned that many city employees don't keep regular hours or 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.640 their various infringements. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.600 How do you feel about Supervisor Einstein walking in on 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:31.920 announced to see whether you're working. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.840 I don't appreciate people coming down here to looking on. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.360 Us, you know, And I think that city employees, of 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.880 course should realize that they are a public body and 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.800 that they're subject to the scrutiny of the public at 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.120 all times, and that this is quite proper. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.080 Oh, it's all right with me, doesn't matter. I don't 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.880 worry about it. Because we are busy. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.640 We're going to have to look towards some management studies 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.000 of individual department. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.600 I think she can come here anytime she is, She'll 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:03.160 be welcome. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.400 How busy are you in this department? 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.880 Well, we never have too much rest, but we could 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.520 use roller skates sometime. A part of the thing that's 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.880 become difficult now is because of the press. It's very 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.400 difficult for me to go in and out on an 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:22.920 unobserved basis. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.880 This much can be said without exaggeration. If there are 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.640 a popularity contest to be held in city Hall today, 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.240 Diane Feinstein would scarcely take first place. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.640 So my favorite aspect to that video, and it's partly 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.319 a visual, but she asks three different the reporter ask 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.880 three different people, is that cool with you? And the 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.800 first guy's like, no, no, I don't appreciate that at all. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.319 And he had the look and the office he was 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.079 in had the look of we do stuff sometimes if 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.320 we have to, but not much and nobody cares because 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:57.240 nobody ever checks. And the two other gals. It's not 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.160 a great data set. But the reason why they didn't 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.320 mind it was because they're busy as hell. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.440 They're like, hey, drop in any time, we don't care, right, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.080 And clearly. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.960 Guy number one, the reason he objected was because she 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.760 would drop in and say, what are you doing right now? 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.000 Well, that's exactly what Elon has said. His experience has 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.439 been at Tesla and Twitter and other places. The people 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.320 that complain the loudest are the people that can be 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:29.360 easily replaced. Yeah, which is not surprising. I couldn't stop thinking. 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.559 I mean, San Francisco has always been a lefty town. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.880 Diane Feinstein's always been a Democrat. How did the party 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.959 move so far to the left of that? 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.280 Well, exactly, it's the classic I didn't leave the party. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:50.720 The party left me to be liberal in nineteen seventy one. Meant, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.520 you know, we got to make sure black kids have 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.360 as good as schools as white kids, and there's no 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.640 segregation and that sort of thing. Now it means if 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.280 a dude don it's a wig, you should be able 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.439 to beat the hell out of girls on the sports field, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:04.640 which is a bizarre notion. 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.200 Or if you played that for people and said it was. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.520 Now they would assume it. It must be the mayor of 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:14.360 some super right wing red county and you know, red America, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.400 because it certainly couldn't be a Democrat. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.760 Right, When was the last time you heard a Democrats say, well, yeah, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.800 a public employee is being paid by the taxpayer, and yeah, 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.080 constant accountability is part of the deal. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:30.360 If you don't like constantcountability, maybe public service isn't for you, right, exactly? 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.040 That is wild. That's really good. Where'd you come across 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.920 the well the internet in effect? 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.360 But a beloved listener sent the link along and said, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:40.760 I think you'll find this interesting. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:49.400 Thanks for that. That's a good one. Charming. Wow, wonder 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.640 what this diseases I have? I do not feel good. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:57.520 I'm on day nine. Yeah, cold lasts ten days though, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:03.280 so yay to be sickered in the cold, the underappreciated cold. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.880 Cold's very though, right every time you have when it's 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.240 a little different. Yeah, and different people suffer differently than others. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:14.120 Yeah, the soft, for instance, suffer differently than the strong 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:14.760 and resilient. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.040 The kind of person that puts cream in his coffee 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.600 tends to succumb the golds more than the more Hearty 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.040 of Us, More on the Way, Stay Here. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:25.880 Strong. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.200 Two people at a movie theater in Washington State watching 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.800 Captain America Brave New World were surprised when we theater's 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:42.960 ceiling collapsed on them. Surprised but grateful. What a steam 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:47.160 and pile? Why are sequels so often bad and they 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.840 get so far away from like the original goodness? 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.199 What is that? Oh, it's a different impulse. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.080 I have art I want to create, and then I 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.360 want to capitalize on the money my last start made. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.400 So I'm going if I can come up with a 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.680 different story. And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.640 But aside from that, the fact that a movie was 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.320 just way too long and convoluted, and Harrison Ford is 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:14.240 too old. God he's my mom's age. I like my mom. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.720 She probably shouldn't be an action movie star. But the 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.600 other thing that happened at the theater that was new 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.360 to me. There were a couple of previews. The movie 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:29.280 started thirty two minutes after start time. Movie was at six. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.400 I got there at six, actually started at six thirty two. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.600 You always expect some previews. Fine previews in general tend 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.360 to be worth watching. Yeah, fun, There are a couple 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.640 of previews. There were about I tried to count between 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.080 fifteen and twenty just flat out commercials. I mean like 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:53.760 TV commercials for a soda, for medicine, for a car, 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.280 for just like TV commercials you see anywhere. When did 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.360 this become a thing. It's the first time I'd seen 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.200 it in a movie. How freaking annoying is that? And 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.320 I guarantee you what's gonna happen. People are gonna start 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.319 showing up at six thirty for the six o'clock movie 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.240 and you're gonna accomplish nothing. So whatever. Yeah, i'd be 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:17.160 like skipping the opening band. Oh wow, so and so loud. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.440 So for years and years and years movie theaters, if 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.280 you're old that they had kind of poor sound and 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.480 sometimes it's even kind of hard to hear. Now it's 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:28.760 just deafenitely loud all the time, so damned loud. Both 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:33.840 My kids were your protection, like you're going to a concert. Wow. 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.880 I was starting to get tempted to go back and 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.360 maybe see a movie in the theaters, the h Dylan movie, 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.040 for instance. Now you've convinced never mind, I'll wait. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.440 Running through a couple of things from the weekend, I 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.960 came across some Tesla owners feel buyer's remorse and get 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.600 egged as Elon Musk tears through the government and they 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.040 quote a bunch of people who loved their Tesla when 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.440 they first bought it and wanted to stand up for 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.320 this or that, and now they're embarrassed, all right, buying whatever? 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:02.640 Fine whatever? This was around the internet. How many countries 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.559 tax their citizens and send money to the United States. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.920 I realize there's a difference between a poor country and 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.880 the richest country that has ever existed. But true, true 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.560 that you taxing those people after a day's work and 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.720 sending the money here like we do all over the world. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.600 Yeah, I guess I see some point to that, but 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.280 it's like me yelling at my kids. I don't see 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.560 you paying my tuition. I mean, it's just not the position. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.600 Problem to me is what do you get any credit 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.680 for it? We don't get any credit for it. The 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.760 world hates us. A lot of the world hates us. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.200 Half the country or all the young people hate It's 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.480 like we're terrible. Those countries aren't sending us money. We're 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:42.880 sending them money. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.800 Right, And it does become well, it's the classic taking 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.520 something for granted thing It's like hereah benefits programs in 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.960 the US, whether the benefit is deserved or not, or 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.280 necessary not, or good fiscal policy or not, you try 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.320 to take it away, then you're the bad guy speaking 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.120 yes exactly, speaking of AID. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.640 I didn't see this episode of Tucker Carlson's show, but 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.960 he had this guy on named Bob Amsterdam. How USA 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.960 it is helping Zelensky destroy Christianity with fake churches and violence. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:18.480 It had three million views on Twitter and I'm sure 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.600 many more million views on his own website, so a 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.800 lot of people very interested in that point of view. 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.600 I do not believe at all that Zelenski is out 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.160 to destroy Christianity, but it's very popular. And then this 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.200 thing that I came across, and. 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.280 It's directly out of the Kremlin's messaging. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.720 Yeah. Wall Street Journal had an essay from a woman. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:43.520 Can white men finally stop complaining? For fifty years we've 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.800 been hearing from men who feel threatened by the gains 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.200 of women and minorities. Now that the manosphere is in charge, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.600 the victim mentality has got to go. Surprised to see 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.440 this in the Wall Street Journal seems like a WAPO 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.440 New York Times sort of piece anyway. Matt Walls, Remember 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.680 Matt Wall, she did the couple of different things that 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.000 we like. What is a woman? What is a woman? 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.320 He tweeted in response to that article. The woman who 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.840 wrote this article is, of course too stupid to understand 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.680 that its very existence is proof of exactly the kind 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:15.240 of anti white male bias that she's denying. No mainstream 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.440 publication would ever in a million years publish an article 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:22.080 titled can women finally stop complaining? Or can Black people 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.400 finally stop complaining? This is the kind of open contempt 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.760 that can only be expressed toward one demographic group and 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.520 no other white man. Correct. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.400 There was a headline out of the USA today I 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.760 was going to talk about in rant about last week 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.840 that we never got to. The headline was, and I 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.560 quote as I found it, a Supreme Court appears likely 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:54.080 to side with straight women in reverse discrimination case. Reverse 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.000 discrimination or reverse racism whatever is an invented term that 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:04.880 doesn't make any sense. Is racism? Discrimination is discrimination? One 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.440 is because for a while, in one place on Earth 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.119 it tended to be one person and another sort of 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.080 person doesn't change the meaning of the terms. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.000 Join in on any of these things. On the text 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:20.000 line four one five k ftc Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.560 The Oscar campaign for Best Picture nominee Emilia Perez was 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:30.640 badly damaged after problematic old tweets about George Floyd surfaced 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.800 from transgender star Carla Sophia Gascon. And I think we 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:50.040 can all agree what. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:51.440 That's a convoluted premise, Yes, amusing. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:52.520 I was speaking of amusing. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.479 I left that one part of my experience as a 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.560 golf tournament marshal. There's this on the whole that I 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.760 was patrolling. There's like a a hazard that's a fairly 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.200 steep incline covered with plants down to a little lake, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:09.680 and a couple of times guys hit it in there, 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.359 and I bravely ventured in to find their ball so 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.560 they could decide whether they could hit it or whatever. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.199 It was part of my job, but I wanted to 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.880 say to the guys, tell you what, looking for a. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.520 Ball in there is a slippery slope. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.480 But I just couldn't figure out exactly how to perfect 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.280 and they just looked at me. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.720 Anyway, I got a question for you. This is on 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.640 a theme we talked about last week. I don't remember 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.880 how it came up. And then how to protect yourself 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.600 from hackers. This is about the journey versus the destination 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.520 or the point of life, or accomplishment in our effort, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.080 or what it means to be human or something. But wow, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.639 let's do it. What if you could take a pill 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.120 that would make you five strokes better at golf? Would 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:52.440 you do. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.800 It five strokes better? 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.720 Or make it ten strokes if you want? Would you 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:01.800 take a pill that would make it ten strokes golf? 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.080 Would you take it? I would hope not. I would 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.720 hope not. If I were a couple of drinks in 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:09.360 I might. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:17.560 Well, yeah, I would hope not, because that it devalues, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.000 you know, the whole point. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.480 Right, I think that I think that means something. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.720 Although I think all mediocre golfers like myself hate the 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.840 kid who he just picked up a golf club a 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.639 month ago and he shot four under par for the 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.920 third time today. You know, I hate people like that. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.840 That's crazy because he didn't work at all. He just 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.080 happens to have the muscle memory and the talent and 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:42.160 a good teacher or whatever. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.640 But the efforts the whole thing, right, it's a lot 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.480 of it. I feel like if there was a pill 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.680 that would make me play guitar like John Mayer today. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.440 I don't think I would take it. What would be 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:57.560 the point? Yeah? Yeah. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.560 If on the other hand, you're on the back nine, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:00.880 you're down, I'm like a hundred bucks. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.600 I would take the pill. This would make me rich 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:06.960 and get me a lot of girls. Okay, where's the 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:07.560 pill now, I. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.320 Don't worry about the water. I'll choke it down. Yeah, yeah, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.560 probably not. I'd like to think I wouldn't so. Uh. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.800 First of all, a quick a couple of technoes, including 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.160 on AI broadly. I've never heard of this guy before, 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.360 but he's well known in tech circles. Shake Tanun bin 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:30.360 Zayed all nyon how many names? Right off, he's from 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:36.560 the UAE. He's sometimes called the spy Shake. Interesting guy. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:42.000 He is Richard and God as they say, and has 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.080 enough money to indulge every one of his passions. So 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:46.919 he you know, he decides I want to be a 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.720 martial arts expert, and he becomes one, then a chess master, 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.920 then a video gamer and whatever. And he's a really 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:57.560 interesting fellow. But he's also decided that the UAE needs 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:02.080 to get heavily, heavily into AI, and he is. 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:04.360 The chairman. 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.520 As the chairman of two Abu Dhabi wealth funds, he 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.720 controls more than more money than almost anyone on the planet. 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:18.120 The Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Funds have an estimated one 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.959 point four trillion dollars in assets. And this guy has 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.760