Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Katty and he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty your hometown Thanksgiving. Chicago is going to
Speaker 1: have the coldest Thanksgiving since eighteen seventy two.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Yes, saw snow on the on Michigan Avenue on
Speaker 3: the news last night.
Speaker 1: Did anybody watch Thursday night football with the Browns and
Speaker 1: the Steelers in the snow? Why is that so enjoyable
Speaker 1: for men of a certain age. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: or maybe you had to grow up in the Midwest
Speaker 1: where it snows and it reminds you of munigates football
Speaker 1: in the snow all the time. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: there's something it's just super awesome and charming about that.
Speaker 2: But that was cool. I agree.
Speaker 1: Another development in the Trump hush money trial. It's going
Speaker 1: to be delayed even longer for some reason. So once
Speaker 1: again that sort of thing is going away, I guess.
Speaker 1: And I had one more news thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: throw And oh, North Korean general badly wounded in an
Speaker 1: air strike yesterday. I don't know what that does to
Speaker 1: the war. If Kim Jung un thinks, hey, I didn't
Speaker 1: know my generals were going to get killed or anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it means anything.
Speaker 3: Kim Jong un sent a rather stark message to the
Speaker 3: incoming Trump administration the other day too, essentially saying, yeah,
Speaker 3: you remember how it was last time. Not interested. I
Speaker 3: don't care what you think. I don't need your help.
Speaker 3: We're fine.
Speaker 2: South Korea reporting that all along.
Speaker 1: It's been a trade of weapons for money or there's
Speaker 1: oil involved getting around the sanctions between North Korea and Russia. Well,
Speaker 1: Rushia's out of a lot of things, including humans. That's
Speaker 1: why North Korea is sending one hundred thousand troops over there.
Speaker 1: Russia's gonna send air defense systems to North Korea, and
Speaker 1: South Korea is really really unhappy about that. Oh boy
Speaker 1: said that is there has always been their biggest fear
Speaker 1: is North Korea having an air defense system if things
Speaker 1: ever went down between them.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, there's there's drip drips of.
Speaker 1: I'll say it, World War III out there, so we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll keep it eye on it. So Matt Gates is gone.
Speaker 1: The reporting is there's a couple of different reasons. One
Speaker 1: they jd vance and him, went around, talked to all
Speaker 1: the Republican senators, and it would seem according to reporting,
Speaker 1: there were at least ten hard nos, which is more
Speaker 1: than double the number of hard nos you could get.
Speaker 2: And then there's just no point in continuing.
Speaker 1: You might continue to fight it and hope to turn
Speaker 1: it around if you didn't have reports of either a
Speaker 1: different seventeen year old or you had with the same
Speaker 1: seventeen year old twice. I've heard two different reports on that,
Speaker 1: but either way, another report of additional sex with the
Speaker 1: seventeen year old. So do you want that out there
Speaker 1: in the news for the next couple of months of
Speaker 1: your Matt Gates And there's very little chance of you
Speaker 1: getting confirmed anyway.
Speaker 3: And for what it's worth, speaking for myself, I'm well
Speaker 3: aware of his scumbag friends. Greenberg was at his name
Speaker 3: and that whole phrakus and how their accusations flying around
Speaker 3: and a lot of it's little cloudy.
Speaker 1: Look, the guy has no supporters, he has no friends.
Speaker 1: Everybody hates him. Do you think that's there's no reason
Speaker 1: for that? It's all deep state, every Republican hating him.
Speaker 3: And look, it's mostly been that sort of guy in
Speaker 3: my experience who ends up in a situation where scumbags
Speaker 3: are telling lies about him, and some of it's true,
Speaker 3: some of it's not. Everybody's covering their own ass, nobody's
Speaker 3: behaving honorably, so yeah, some of it is kind of
Speaker 3: cloudy and murky.
Speaker 2: But he's got to go, and he went.
Speaker 1: And there's some belief that Trump uh with the specially
Speaker 1: the seventeen year old girl another sex thing, and then
Speaker 1: find out out the Republicans told him. Yeah, yet let's uh,
Speaker 1: you got a you gotta call it good? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: say you're bound out. So Trump maybe called the shot
Speaker 1: on that. But headline, Trump maintained support for Hegzeth. That's
Speaker 1: Pete haig Zeth, who he named as his nominee for
Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense, who has his own sex scandal. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to listen to this ABC report about it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what details will include or not, and
Speaker 1: then we'll fill in the rest of them.
Speaker 4: In the police report from Monterey, California, a woman who
Speaker 4: met haig Set at a conservative conference told authorities he
Speaker 4: cornered her in a hotel room, took her phone, and
Speaker 4: quote blocked the door with his body, preventing her from leaving.
Speaker 4: She said he sexually assaulted her and that she remembered
Speaker 4: saying no a lot. Except denied the allegations and told
Speaker 4: police what happened in the hotel that night was consensual.
Speaker 3: The matter was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared.
Speaker 4: According to the report, Police recommended this case before to
Speaker 4: to the local district attorney for review and possible pros
Speaker 4: Section accept was never charged with a crime.
Speaker 1: You know why because they got all kinds of videos
Speaker 1: for one thing of her all over him at the bar.
Speaker 1: If you've ever seen that sort of thing before, it's
Speaker 1: pretty obvious who's coming on to who sometimes, And they
Speaker 1: had videos of that and a number of other things
Speaker 1: that caused it to part it. She was blackout drunk.
Speaker 1: It's a bad story all the way around. So he
Speaker 1: had and I've heard two reports on this. It was
Speaker 1: either his wife at the time or was about to be.
Speaker 1: His wife home with their newborn. And he goes to
Speaker 1: speak at this conference, meets a woman. They're both drunk.
Speaker 1: Woman's blackout drunk all over him. He's a very good
Speaker 1: looking guy, all over him. They end up in the
Speaker 1: hotel room having sex this woman at the conference. He
Speaker 1: has sex with her husband and kids are there.
Speaker 2: What. Yeah, so he's got a woman at home with
Speaker 2: their kid. At least he's at home and not at
Speaker 2: the hotel.
Speaker 1: This woman, husband and kids are at the hotel and
Speaker 1: doesn't come to the room that night and has to
Speaker 1: come up with some sort of story why I didn't
Speaker 1: come back to the room.
Speaker 2: Holy crap.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine being in a hotel on vacation with
Speaker 1: your wife and kids and your wife goes down to
Speaker 1: the bar for drinks and doesn't come back to the room.
Speaker 2: Holy crap.
Speaker 3: I would be up scouring the hotel unless I guess
Speaker 3: he slept through everything. But yes, and evidently she claimed
Speaker 3: I fell asleep on Jenny's couch in her room, and
Speaker 3: it has every sign of she woke up full of regret,
Speaker 3: which is understandable. But then to call it rape. You
Speaker 3: know I wasn't there. Well, people were drunk. I have
Speaker 3: no idea.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, as a guy who's known my
Speaker 1: way around a you know, a drinking too much liaison.
Speaker 1: That's the problem with them. That's the problem with them.
Speaker 1: Everybody's hammered out of their mind. Neither party can remember
Speaker 1: any or portions of it. And then what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do with that information? How are you gonna nail
Speaker 1: down anything? And when you got that situation going on.
Speaker 3: Right, And she had a vague memory of saying no
Speaker 3: a lot, she claimed, Yeah that I've read through the
Speaker 3: parts of the police report and it's all very vague
Speaker 3: and wishy washy. You know, Pete doesn't live his life
Speaker 3: the way I lived mine, and I suggest you don't either.
Speaker 2: But it's up to you. You end up in situations
Speaker 2: like this. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all tawdry for sure, But the prosecutors at
Speaker 3: the time said, now, no, just passed on it.
Speaker 1: The concern from some of my favorite pundits, who wouldn't
Speaker 1: be making this up just for the hell of it
Speaker 1: is that and some of them actually know him, saying
Speaker 1: his personal life is quite messy and has been for
Speaker 1: a long time time. So in you know, based on
Speaker 1: my experience, my life experience, probably wasn't the only time
Speaker 1: this sort of thing has happened in his life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that everybody who has a a sexual
Speaker 3: life that is outside the strict confines of standard morality
Speaker 3: or whatever that means, they are bad at everything or
Speaker 3: evil at everything. Or untrustworthy about everything. I think there
Speaker 3: are brilliant leaders of business who you would be smart
Speaker 3: to hire as your CEO, who can't keep it in
Speaker 3: their pants or don't aren't you know, faithful of the
Speaker 3: spouses or whatever. I don't admire it, but I get it.
Speaker 3: The sexual thing is just kind of out there in
Speaker 3: a different area to make clearly is clearly is there
Speaker 3: are all kinds of people that are upstanding in every
Speaker 3: single other aspect of their life.
Speaker 2: Except that it's kind of whatever it is.
Speaker 3: And again I'm not approving of it. It just it
Speaker 3: strikes me that that is true. And some of my
Speaker 3: favorite thinkers say that Pete is extremely bright and extremely
Speaker 3: serious about his purposes with reforming the military and the
Speaker 3: Pentagon and standing up for our troops and making sure
Speaker 3: they have their fighting capabilities. He could not be more
Speaker 3: serious and have more fidelity to those issues.
Speaker 2: So it's an interesting choice.
Speaker 3: Can you find somebody who fits that bill and also
Speaker 3: brings no baggage?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Probably? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Am I right or wrong on this? Did do I
Speaker 1: remember this being true? Or did I make this up
Speaker 1: in my head? That many of our European allies think
Speaker 1: it's odd that in the United States, we hold this
Speaker 1: against people, yeah, oh yeah, because they just accept it
Speaker 1: as a different part of your life. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's good or not. I find this topic fascinating.
Speaker 1: If you're going to go backwards through history, you to
Speaker 1: eliminate a lot of men, especially as you go back
Speaker 1: through history it's more men. You would eliminate a lot
Speaker 1: of the greatest men in US history if you were
Speaker 1: going to hold them to a standard of being decent
Speaker 1: people around the world of you know, fidelity and sex.
Speaker 1: Some of our most revered presidents, Martin Luther King Junior.
Speaker 2: I mean, just all kinds of people.
Speaker 1: And do you want those people not in public life
Speaker 1: because of the things they do in the bedroom or not.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I think of that. Now
Speaker 1: if the guy's a rapist, I don't it's different.
Speaker 3: That's different, right right, Just getting back to Pete bug, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: And how do we how do we solve this? So
Speaker 1: people knew John F. Kennedy Jr. Was the kind of
Speaker 1: guy was People knew FDR was doing that, people knew
Speaker 1: LBJ was doing that, And it just was an agreement
Speaker 1: with the press that you didn't report on that sort
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 2: Were we better when it was that way? Yes? And worse,
Speaker 2: it's a mixed bag. Worse in what way?
Speaker 3: Oh, sexual assault, exploitation, you know, all sorts.
Speaker 2: Of stuff went along.
Speaker 1: Man, that's where that's where it gets really difficult. Gray
Speaker 1: area of harassment and all that sort of stuff, or
Speaker 1: power dynamics and all those kind of things. That's it's very,
Speaker 1: very difficult. But there's no getting around the fact that
Speaker 1: if you're gonna have a standard of people who have
Speaker 1: these kind of things in their background, affairs and whatnot
Speaker 1: and drunken one night stands, all sort of stuff, they
Speaker 1: can't be in high office. Well, you would eliminate a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Yeah, And do you want to do
Speaker 1: that or not?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3: At some point you've got to just look at what
Speaker 3: was said by the various parties and then what the
Speaker 3: prosecutor decided. And you know, regretful drunk women who have
Speaker 3: torrid one night ers often regretted terribly, and some times,
Speaker 3: especially in the modern era, make claims that are unsupportable
Speaker 3: and horrible in themselves.
Speaker 1: Well, the party that cares the most about morality and religion,
Speaker 1: at least in theory has elected Donald Trump twice, Yes,
Speaker 1: knowing very well.
Speaker 2: What his life is like. So yeah, maybe we've made
Speaker 2: our decision.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The whole history this is.
Speaker 3: So interesting too, because it was viewed differently, you know,
Speaker 3: prior to the Great Protestant Reform of the early I
Speaker 3: guess the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Speaker 2: When do they cite that it doesn't matter? I don't
Speaker 2: know to each there on. I suppose you can be
Speaker 2: judging these things.
Speaker 1: You can go back to Gary Hart in eighty what
Speaker 1: year was the Gary Hart scandal? But he would have
Speaker 1: been the nominee for the Democratic Party abs frequently maybe
Speaker 1: president of the United States. But they found out he
Speaker 1: was having an affair and that was the end of
Speaker 1: it because he hadn't he was having an affair. Really wow, okay,
Speaker 1: that we wouldn't do that now I don't think.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, and that wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, completely end your political career because you had a
Speaker 1: consensual affair. There wasn't even even a hint of any
Speaker 1: sort of gray area, you know, assault, rape, anything like.
Speaker 2: That at all.
Speaker 3: Well, and nobody went to the you know, missus Hart
Speaker 3: who probably said I'm actually seeing a dude too, It's fine.
Speaker 1: That is the way we do it.
Speaker 2: We're very, very wealthy. You wouldn't understand, right exactly.
Speaker 3: That's a good So she's in ping is absolutely right
Speaker 3: about a couple of things. And Kim Jong un, oh boy,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump with the colin his ex booty call and
Speaker 3: Kim Jong is saying, no, thank you all that to
Speaker 3: come stay with us.
Speaker 1: So we have a San Jose State Spartan volleyball update,
Speaker 1: because we're really big on women's volleyball here on the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: Longtime listeners know that, well, mostly the women part of it.
Speaker 1: Uh Well, according to the Washington Post article I'm reading today,
Speaker 1: they have an alleged transgender player on the San Jose
Speaker 1: State Spartans. I suppose that's fair to say alleged, since
Speaker 1: if you're a reporter and you haven't seen the penis
Speaker 1: in question, you get taken somebody's word for it, and
Speaker 1: the player has not come out and said that they're transgender,
Speaker 1: so you're going off the I don't know reports of
Speaker 1: people who have seen them in the locker.
Speaker 2: Room, I guess anyway.
Speaker 1: The reason this is in the news today, a couple
Speaker 1: of things A judge is about to make a ruling,
Speaker 1: could be any minute. Hasn't happened as of yet this morning,
Speaker 1: cause the conference tournament is this weekend in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and there are two things that need to be determined
Speaker 1: by a judge. One because there are lawsuits going on.
Speaker 1: One does the San Jose State player in question get
Speaker 1: the play or not? And two do those fourfoots count
Speaker 1: as losses or not? Because there's an effort to say, hey,
Speaker 1: all those forfeits don't count as a loss for the
Speaker 1: other teams because the transgender blah blah blah, everything like that.
Speaker 2: And it has to do with a Settle nine lawsuit.
Speaker 1: And whether or not you get to count it as
Speaker 1: a win, that's the more important thing. Do you get
Speaker 1: to do San Jose State get to count it as
Speaker 1: a win to help their record in the conference tournament.
Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting to see what that ruling is.
Speaker 1: If the transgender player plays and they go in with
Speaker 1: a really great record all those forfeits being wins, there'll
Speaker 1: be a high seed and they could dominate.
Speaker 3: This feels to me very much like two years from
Speaker 3: now the NCAA will announce that indeed the conference champion
Speaker 3: was X and they will mail the gals medals. And
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, if some running back is discovered
Speaker 3: who have been given a Cadillac, you know back in
Speaker 3: the day, recruiting scandal, blah blah blah, you would you
Speaker 3: lose your national championship.
Speaker 2: Whatever. They'll rectify it in reverse.
Speaker 3: Secondly, and I said this not to quibble, but because
Speaker 3: it's very, very important. This simple truth shall set ye free.
Speaker 3: The absence of a penis does not mean that a
Speaker 3: man is a woman. A man cannot become a woman
Speaker 3: by getting a surgery nor taking hormones. A low testosterone
Speaker 3: man is not a woman.
Speaker 2: Trust me.
Speaker 3: A man who's been surgically altered is not a woman.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Having said that, well, here's some great stuff from the
Speaker 3: California Globe about trans women or the latest chapter in
Speaker 3: the Emperor's New Clothes. Here is a Montana representative saying
Speaker 3: trans women are women full stop, where every bit is
Speaker 3: biologically female as cis women.
Speaker 1: Well, that the last part is definitely crazy. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're really off the reservation there.
Speaker 2: Dogs are dogs.
Speaker 1: Get the hot dogs our dog's t shirt at Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty dot com.
Speaker 3: I'm more sympathetic towards shijin Ping than I've been at
Speaker 3: a very long time. You're gonna like his new policy,
Speaker 3: trust me, I know that sounds crazy.
Speaker 2: Has Joe gone coming?
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty?
Speaker 5: Some business news I saw the Targets stock just fell
Speaker 5: to a yearly low, while Walmart's soar to an all
Speaker 5: time high.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: Now Target execs are shopping at Walmart and Walmart execs
Speaker 5: are shopping at Target.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But again, I have read a couple of articles about
Speaker 1: that twenty percent drop and Target stock the other day
Speaker 1: after the report came out.
Speaker 2: None of them.
Speaker 1: None of the articles trying to describe why Target stock
Speaker 1: is down so much included their choices culturally.
Speaker 2: Yes, how do you leave that out where?
Speaker 3: Selling tuck bathing suits for your little boy who thinks
Speaker 3: he's a little girl and aggressively marketing them up with
Speaker 3: trans as you walk in the front now changed my
Speaker 3: perception of Target forever.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, not an exaggeration. I saw it at my local
Speaker 2: Target store. I walked in the front door.
Speaker 1: The first thing you saw they set it up there
Speaker 1: so you couldn't avoid it, was their display of rainbow stuff,
Speaker 1: including trans stuff for kids. Yes, that changed my perception
Speaker 1: of Target forever. I personally know a handful of people
Speaker 1: who stop shopping there forever because of that. So how
Speaker 1: do you leave that out of the conversation, Whereas what's
Speaker 1: Walmart's brand culturally? Completely one hundred percent the opposite up
Speaker 1: with America blah blah.
Speaker 3: Blah, much more Trumpian. Yeah, no doubt about it. There's
Speaker 3: all general shape.
Speaker 1: There's also the fact that Walmart makes something like sixty
Speaker 1: percent of the money on groceries and they have a
Speaker 1: real big edge on groceries over Target.
Speaker 2: But you can't you can't leave out the cultural stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't claim that that was all of it, but to
Speaker 3: pretend that it's not part of it, it's just foolish.
Speaker 3: But the media is just the media is the media.
Speaker 3: We were talking earlier about how the various post mortems
Speaker 3: that the Democratic Party and their media friends are conducting
Speaker 3: on the election completely miss a lot of the obvious stuff,
Speaker 3: to which I say, it's fine, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: point it out to you anyway. I would love to
Speaker 3: talk at greater length about the situation with North Korea.
Speaker 3: As Donald Trump comes back into office, everything has changed,
Speaker 3: the levers have changed, the alliances have changed. North Korea's
Speaker 3: place in the world has changed. Their nuclear weapon development
Speaker 3: has changed. And if you think Donnie's going to drop
Speaker 3: a note to his old buddy Kim Jong and just
Speaker 3: rev things up again, it's just not going to happen.
Speaker 3: And we could get into that maybe next hour. It's interesting,
Speaker 3: but it's a little dry, and I'd rather talk about
Speaker 3: this frankly. Chijin Ping is an evil, rotten son of
Speaker 3: a bit. She's a communist, he's a genocidal dictator. He's
Speaker 3: a crusher of the human spirit. I mean, he's a
Speaker 3: thousand different evil, evil things run. I will loathe communism
Speaker 3: with my last breath. He runs a country with a
Speaker 3: million slaves.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, if you study the Chinese economy
Speaker 3: at all, in Chinese cultures, I do you know that
Speaker 3: there's all sorts of talk about various ways to fire
Speaker 3: up their economy because it is floundering.
Speaker 2: It's it's propped up.
Speaker 3: By artificial spending on giant government projects and housing developments
Speaker 3: that will never have people in them, and it's just
Speaker 3: it's a bit of a house of cards. And the
Speaker 3: various policymakers have been hoping for massive stimulus or cuts
Speaker 3: in this or that and the other.
Speaker 2: But here's the point of this.
Speaker 3: One of the ways Shijin Ping wants to bring the
Speaker 3: economy back to life. He has said, you gotta slash
Speaker 3: red tape. His directive to supervisors, hold fewer meetings, make
Speaker 3: them shorter, cut superfluous paperwork.
Speaker 2: Do you hear that?
Speaker 1: Management all across the country, even Sheshing Ping realizes that
Speaker 1: most meetings are a waste of time.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody's caught on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, don't burden the grassroots at your local levernment
Speaker 3: level of commedy government workers with cumbersome and unproductive tasks.
Speaker 3: Stop using phone apps to track your staff and bombard
Speaker 3: them with instructions. Don't overwhelm them with performance reviews lest
Speaker 3: they focus on pleasing their bosses rather than getting work done.
Speaker 3: Here I need to pause and point out that in
Speaker 3: the Chinese Communist Party, they expect government workers to accomplish
Speaker 3: something to the point that they're being hounded by their
Speaker 3: supervisors if they're not productive enough.
Speaker 2: How much does that contrast with that email we read.
Speaker 3: Yesterday about the dude who works for the State of California.
Speaker 3: It's nothing to do, Ah, This supervisor's got nothing to do.
Speaker 2: And a co workers have nothing to do.
Speaker 1: There aren't enough books, movies, speeches. There should be folk
Speaker 1: songs about bureaucracies and what they do. I mean, if
Speaker 1: the most libertarian free market person realizes most meetings are
Speaker 1: a waste of time, and the most autocratic dictator realizes
Speaker 1: most meetings are a waste of time.
Speaker 2: How do they still continue to be so much of
Speaker 2: everybody's life.
Speaker 1: As I've always said, I think I've been to two
Speaker 1: meetings in my life that needed to happen.
Speaker 2: All the rest of them could have been an email
Speaker 2: or a phone call.
Speaker 3: Well, and open that question to meetings that justified the
Speaker 3: amount of times expended.
Speaker 2: Huh right anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 3: If Steve Jobs and me and you and Chesan being
Speaker 3: all agree on, I mean elon. Sure, yeah, there's more
Speaker 3: and this will really ring true to a lot of you,
Speaker 3: especially in the private sector. But many local bureaucrats are
Speaker 3: required to a bit weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports, sapping
Speaker 3: their time and energy. One official lamented quote the job
Speaker 3: must be done well, but more important, the reports must
Speaker 3: be written beautifully. If the word counts in the document
Speaker 3: are lower than that of the other departments, we get
Speaker 3: in trouble.
Speaker 1: Wow, that happens the private sector, similar sort of thing.
Speaker 1: The reports are more important than the actual result. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some weird belief in it drives me. Not that
Speaker 1: there's some weird belief that, like somebody will come in
Speaker 1: and so you have quarterly reports. We're gonna have monthly reports. There,
Speaker 1: I've done something productive, right, We're really gonna hold our
Speaker 1: people accountable.
Speaker 2: Well, and it.
Speaker 3: Metastasizes depending on how local control is. If controls very local.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm running Ah, I'm thinking of our various sponsors.
Speaker 3: I'm running a ten man HVAC company. All right, it's me.
Speaker 3: I'm the boss. My wife does the accounting, and we've
Speaker 3: got you know, like eight techs out in the field.
Speaker 3: Nobody's filing any damn reports. And then when you become bigger,
Speaker 3: and then you're bought by a corporation, and then you're
Speaker 3: taking over by some venture capital, then there's reports constantly.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Funny you talking about President she I was just looking
Speaker 1: at some video from this morning at the G twenty
Speaker 1: summit and all those world leaders, and it's interesting that
Speaker 1: we do it this way.
Speaker 2: Maybe it makes sense, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But you got all these world leaders, including some really
Speaker 1: awful human beings, all shaking hands and laughing and joking
Speaker 1: about who's gonna stand where for the picture and everything
Speaker 1: like that with the President She who tortures and kills people,
Speaker 1: or the guy in the headdress from one of the
Speaker 1: Middle Eastern countries who does the same thing, you know,
Speaker 1: talking with the President Italy where you care about human
Speaker 1: beings and everybody just we're all leader of our countries. Huh.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting way to.
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably necessary, Probably is, But I don't
Speaker 1: know that I could just backslap President She knowing what
Speaker 1: he does to people.
Speaker 2: Until recently, Putin would have.
Speaker 3: Been there, right right, Katie, feel free to jump in
Speaker 3: if you feel like getting back to the main theme
Speaker 3: of chesin ping efficiency expert, and there are aspects of
Speaker 3: totalitarianism that are very, very efficient. But this reminds me
Speaker 3: of a certain industry. I may have some familiarity with
Speaker 3: government workers. Oh excessive inspections. Oh no, that's not the
Speaker 3: Oh there it is, let's see. Oh yeah, they're talking
Speaker 3: about people who spend all their time not doing their job,
Speaker 3: but doing writing reports on their job, and how well
Speaker 3: they're doing it. We know salespeople who have no time
Speaker 3: to sell because they're filling out sales reports.
Speaker 1: We know great salespeople who have left because they spent
Speaker 1: more time filling out reports than selling, so they went
Speaker 1: somewhere where they could spend more time selling.
Speaker 3: Uh, you got to fill out these reports every day.
Speaker 3: I kick ass every single day. It's there on the
Speaker 3: bottom line. I don't care. You got to fill out
Speaker 3: their reports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's in the dollar amount.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't it's but that's why they think there
Speaker 1: need to be more books, movies, and folk songs about bureaucracies,
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Speaker 1: same thing no matter what is wild. It's it's like gravity.
Speaker 1: It takes a big company, takes over a little company,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, meetings and reports and.
Speaker 2: Crap like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, there is something unique to communism that that uh,
Speaker 3: that causes us to become a huge problem. Even Stalin
Speaker 3: fretted over excessive bureaucracy and how you know everybody's so
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be at Arrowhead for the Chiefs game
Speaker 1: next Friday. They started this last year having the NFL
Speaker 1: on the Friday after Thanksgiving, so there's games on Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day and then the Chiefs are playing the Raiders at
Speaker 1: Arrowhead on Friday.
Speaker 2: Anyway, it is supposed to be thirty five for a
Speaker 2: high that day.
Speaker 1: This can be a little chilly. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this or not.
Speaker 2: We're not. We're We're a Californians, me and my kids.
Speaker 2: We're not. We're not cold. Other people.
Speaker 3: You got the thin blood of the soft, soft Californian.
Speaker 3: Do they have the proper gloves.
Speaker 1: And hats and suck? I don't think we have any
Speaker 1: of that stuff. Now that the fits, you know it
Speaker 1: is with kids. They fit last year. Oh so we
Speaker 1: don't have this year's version of that stuff. You got
Speaker 1: to do a lineup this afternoon, an inspection, right, Throw
Speaker 1: on your beaany, throw on your gloves, throw on your coat,
Speaker 1: all right, now stand at attention. I have a feeling
Speaker 1: they're going to be saying, because of football NFL games
Speaker 1: at least three hours long, like an hour and a
Speaker 1: half in, they're gonna be thinking, why are we doing
Speaker 1: this again?
Speaker 2: I'm miserable? Oh well, it's a ride a passage, right huh?
Speaker 2: Part of that? Sure, sure it is.
Speaker 1: You got see these other eighty thousand people. Yeah, huh,
Speaker 1: they know what they're doing, right huh. I think they're crazy.
Speaker 3: Sometimes fun comes with being fearful of your life, all right, son,
Speaker 3: that's part of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Being miserably uncomfortable is what we paid for, and it
Speaker 1: was very expensive to do this. So sit there and
Speaker 1: be uncomfortable and enjoy it. Put a smile on your face, Sarl,
Speaker 1: take away your video games. That's what I'll say.
Speaker 2: Who are the racist chiefs playing Oland Raiders?
Speaker 3: The Raiders right, which is soft on crime to me? Raiders, pirates, buccaneers,
Speaker 3: et ceterac. Soft on crime, which is right for Oakland? Well, Vegas.
Speaker 3: Now same thing in Vegas, mobsters versus a racist.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm gonna be doing Indian stereotype.
Speaker 2: Mana O, my god, smell the racism.
Speaker 1: You know. Maybe I'll stand up and give a speech
Speaker 1: to the eighty thousand people doing their arm wave, including
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift up in the box this year. We're playing
Speaker 1: this game on the land they used to belong to
Speaker 1: the Rappa hole, you know what?
Speaker 2: Yell let between every play? Yeah, that would go. Well,
Speaker 2: see how long it takes before you get beat up?
Speaker 1: We've got more on the way.
Speaker 2: Do you follow this rule? Do you do here? Do
Speaker 2: I have?
Speaker 6: I have already said that I will not use multi
Speaker 6: style women's restrooms in the capital, But again, that is
Speaker 6: my choice here. I always knew that there would be
Speaker 6: an effort to politicize my use of restroom, and if
Speaker 6: anyone had thought to ask me about what I was
Speaker 6: planning on doing I would have been happy to tell.
Speaker 1: Them, Okay, that's the first transgender congress person being asked
Speaker 1: about the whole restroom thing that needs to get figured out.
Speaker 2: What is that politicized? You're literally in politics, well, and
Speaker 2: who politicized it? Dudes going into women's restrooms?
Speaker 1: Though you didn't politicize it, those of us who are
Speaker 1: pushing back against it politicized it. Okay, ridiculous. The lie
Speaker 1: is obvious, which leads me into this. I thought this
Speaker 1: was really good writing, so I wanted to read a
Speaker 1: little bit of It's from Rich Lowry of National Review.
Speaker 1: But he's writing in the New York Post about whispered conversations.
Speaker 1: That has so much to do with why Trump won,
Speaker 1: and if the left can't figure it out, they're gonna
Speaker 1: lose a lot of elections. We live in an age
Speaker 1: of whispered conversations. There are aspects of American life that
Speaker 1: everyone or nearly everyone knows are absurd, but it's too
Speaker 1: afraid to speak out against and feels powerless to reverse.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 1: Used to be said that if someone looked over his shoulder,
Speaker 1: he was about to tell an insensive joke. Now people
Speaker 1: are worried about being overheard making what should be common
Speaker 1: sensical observations. Below are the kinds of conversations that are
Speaker 1: happening all the time. And then I'll run through these
Speaker 1: because I thought it was so good. It's been true
Speaker 1: in my life. The maternity ward nurse in a low voice, saying,
Speaker 1: where the forms is birthing parent? That means mother. They
Speaker 1: just changed it. I know it's crazy. The staff are
Speaker 1: in a medical office explaining that the ethic boxes need
Speaker 1: to be checked on another form, even though the categories
Speaker 1: make no sense, and confiding maybe I should have checked
Speaker 1: hispanic myself. At some point, I think we had a
Speaker 1: relative from Spain somewhere along the line. The group of
Speaker 1: moms together at the local coffee shop making sure that
Speaker 1: no one else can hear from a nearby able. Did
Speaker 1: you see what happened in the high school track competition?
Speaker 1: Why are guys competing against girls? The staff at a
Speaker 1: bank to a friend he or she can completely trust
Speaker 1: near the water cooler when there are absolutely certain no
Speaker 1: one else is around. That training was ridiculous, wasn't it?
Speaker 2: What a waste of time.
Speaker 1: It's a little like what it must have been like
Speaker 1: in say, East Germany, when no one believed in the system,
Speaker 1: but no one dared let on what they were actually thinking.
Speaker 1: This phenomenon surely had an influence on the outcome of
Speaker 1: the election. As the Financial Times is documented, progressive elites
Speaker 1: hold views often well to the left of the average voter,
Speaker 1: even the average Democratic voter. On cultural issues, America's decades
Speaker 1: long progress toward racial and sexual talents and equality, to
Speaker 1: paper notes, has been a gradual shift led by progressives,
Speaker 1: with the center and right quickly following. The new cultural
Speaker 1: shifts are different, largely driven by activists and nonprofit staffers
Speaker 1: that surround the Democratic Party. They've been abrupt and left
Speaker 1: the majority behind.
Speaker 3: Abrupt is right, I mean, came out of nowhere, and
Speaker 3: it went from I've never heard of that too. If
Speaker 3: I dare say I think this is crazy, I will
Speaker 3: lose my career in the blink of an eye.
Speaker 2: And people are pissed.
Speaker 1: People know that Wolkeness has been pushed into their lives
Speaker 1: as a deliberate choice by authorities, HR departments and the
Speaker 1: like who don't care what they think, or worse, will
Speaker 1: punish them for thinking the wrong thing. Uh And he
Speaker 1: says the Trump vote was a pushback against that.
Speaker 2: Absolu freaklutely it was.
Speaker 1: I like the example of the how about that training
Speaker 1: session we just spend an hour on being a waste
Speaker 1: of time?
Speaker 2: What percentage of people agree with that? Ninety more? How
Speaker 2: many people walk out of that?
Speaker 3: All white people are racist and evil and you must
Speaker 3: divide everyone by race training sessions angry and resentful versus.
Speaker 2: Oh, now I see the.
Speaker 3: Truth might be ten to one or the over the top,
Speaker 3: soft headed, over educated white women.
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you white women? Or the over the.
Speaker 1: Top sexual harassment training are pronoun training or whatever?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Which party made that happen? If you're of a certain age,
Speaker 1: you didn't used to have to do this. You didn't
Speaker 1: used to spend god, what is it now, ten twelve
Speaker 1: hours a year. You didn't used to spend all those
Speaker 1: hours doing that, and life seemed to be fine, and
Speaker 1: now you do.
Speaker 2: Which party's pushing that? I mean, it's clear.
Speaker 3: Lowry's making a great point too, that the whispered stuff
Speaker 3: is widely, widely agreed upon, right, but you dare not
Speaker 3: say it. And it reminds me, actually it's worse in
Speaker 3: East Germany. It's more like Orwell's nineteen eighty four in
Speaker 3: that since you were constantly under surveillance, if even an
Speaker 3: eye roll or a look of boredom crossed your face,
Speaker 3: the authorities would notice it, and they would punish you
Speaker 3: for it. Think about one of those training sessions. If
Speaker 3: the trainer saw you rolling your eyes at all white
Speaker 3: people are born and racists, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: Well, I think they're not as whispered now as they
Speaker 1: were prior to two and a half weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Well, and I tell you what not to make myself
Speaker 3: out of some Jonah Varker a hero of some sort.
Speaker 3: But one of the reasons I enjoy saying the stuff
Speaker 3: that we all know to be true but you're not
Speaker 3: supposed to say. One of the reasons I enjoy it
Speaker 3: so much is because I know a lot of y'all can't,
Speaker 3: and so if for no other reason, it's kind of
Speaker 3: fun to do it for you.
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