WEBVTT - Has Joe Gone Commie?? 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.520 Armstrong and Katty and he. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:29.080 Armstrong and Getty your hometown Thanksgiving. Chicago is going to 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.280 have the coldest Thanksgiving since eighteen seventy two. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.720 Sorry, Yes, saw snow on the on Michigan Avenue on 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:38.639 the news last night. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.800 Did anybody watch Thursday night football with the Browns and 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.160 the Steelers in the snow? Why is that so enjoyable 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.120 for men of a certain age. I don't know why, 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.040 or maybe you had to grow up in the Midwest 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.680 where it snows and it reminds you of munigates football 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.360 in the snow all the time. I don't know, but 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.520 there's something it's just super awesome and charming about that. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.840 But that was cool. I agree. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.680 Another development in the Trump hush money trial. It's going 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.640 to be delayed even longer for some reason. So once 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.480 again that sort of thing is going away, I guess. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.880 And I had one more news thing I wanted to 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:18.119 throw And oh, North Korean general badly wounded in an 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:22.320 air strike yesterday. I don't know what that does to 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.479 the war. If Kim Jung un thinks, hey, I didn't 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.240 know my generals were going to get killed or anything. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.440 I don't know if it means anything. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.160 Kim Jong un sent a rather stark message to the 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:38.040 incoming Trump administration the other day too, essentially saying, yeah, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.800 you remember how it was last time. Not interested. I 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.920 don't care what you think. I don't need your help. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:44.199 We're fine. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:49.240 South Korea reporting that all along. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.680 It's been a trade of weapons for money or there's 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.120 oil involved getting around the sanctions between North Korea and Russia. Well, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.080 Rushia's out of a lot of things, including humans. That's 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.920 why North Korea is sending one hundred thousand troops over there. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.800 Russia's gonna send air defense systems to North Korea, and 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.800 South Korea is really really unhappy about that. Oh boy 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.720 said that is there has always been their biggest fear 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.240 is North Korea having an air defense system if things 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:19.280 ever went down between them. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.000 So, yeah, there's there's drip drips of. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.480 I'll say it, World War III out there, so we'll see, 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:33.280 we'll keep it eye on it. So Matt Gates is gone. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.600 The reporting is there's a couple of different reasons. One 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.360 they jd vance and him, went around, talked to all 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.800 the Republican senators, and it would seem according to reporting, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.320 there were at least ten hard nos, which is more 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.920 than double the number of hard nos you could get. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.360 And then there's just no point in continuing. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.839 You might continue to fight it and hope to turn 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.440 it around if you didn't have reports of either a 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.679 different seventeen year old or you had with the same 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.000 seventeen year old twice. I've heard two different reports on that, 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.840 but either way, another report of additional sex with the 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.120 seventeen year old. So do you want that out there 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:10.480 in the news for the next couple of months of 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.480 your Matt Gates And there's very little chance of you 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.480 getting confirmed anyway. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.880 And for what it's worth, speaking for myself, I'm well 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.480 aware of his scumbag friends. Greenberg was at his name 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.720 and that whole phrakus and how their accusations flying around 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.079 and a lot of it's little cloudy. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.680 Look, the guy has no supporters, he has no friends. 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.080 Everybody hates him. Do you think that's there's no reason 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.480 for that? It's all deep state, every Republican hating him. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:42.800 And look, it's mostly been that sort of guy in 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.160 my experience who ends up in a situation where scumbags 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.520 are telling lies about him, and some of it's true, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.720 some of it's not. Everybody's covering their own ass, nobody's 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.280 behaving honorably, so yeah, some of it is kind of 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.080 cloudy and murky. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.440 But he's got to go, and he went. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.279 And there's some belief that Trump uh with the specially 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.520 the seventeen year old girl another sex thing, and then 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.080 find out out the Republicans told him. Yeah, yet let's uh, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.119 you got a you gotta call it good? Oh yeah, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.600 say you're bound out. So Trump maybe called the shot 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.720 on that. But headline, Trump maintained support for Hegzeth. That's 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.240 Pete haig Zeth, who he named as his nominee for 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.320 Secretary of Defense, who has his own sex scandal. Now 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.360 we're going to listen to this ABC report about it. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.800 I don't know what details will include or not, and 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.599 then we'll fill in the rest of them. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.080 In the police report from Monterey, California, a woman who 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.280 met haig Set at a conservative conference told authorities he 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.120 cornered her in a hotel room, took her phone, and 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.600 quote blocked the door with his body, preventing her from leaving. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.640 She said he sexually assaulted her and that she remembered 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.560 saying no a lot. Except denied the allegations and told 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.440 police what happened in the hotel that night was consensual. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.480 The matter was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.720 According to the report, Police recommended this case before to 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.800 to the local district attorney for review and possible pros 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.640 Section accept was never charged with a crime. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.760 You know why because they got all kinds of videos 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.159 for one thing of her all over him at the bar. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.480 If you've ever seen that sort of thing before, it's 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:14.280 pretty obvious who's coming on to who sometimes, And they 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.239 had videos of that and a number of other things 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.240 that caused it to part it. She was blackout drunk. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.680 It's a bad story all the way around. So he 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.159 had and I've heard two reports on this. It was 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.640 either his wife at the time or was about to be. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.919 His wife home with their newborn. And he goes to 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.800 speak at this conference, meets a woman. They're both drunk. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.480 Woman's blackout drunk all over him. He's a very good 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.640 looking guy, all over him. They end up in the 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.640 hotel room having sex this woman at the conference. He 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:48.320 has sex with her husband and kids are there. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.719 What. Yeah, so he's got a woman at home with 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.360 their kid. At least he's at home and not at 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:55.920 the hotel. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.400 This woman, husband and kids are at the hotel and 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.960 doesn't come to the room that night and has to 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.000 come up with some sort of story why I didn't 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:04.800 come back to the room. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:05.600 Holy crap. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:10.040 Can you imagine being in a hotel on vacation with 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.800 your wife and kids and your wife goes down to 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.640 the bar for drinks and doesn't come back to the room. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:16.960 Holy crap. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.960 I would be up scouring the hotel unless I guess 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:25.039 he slept through everything. But yes, and evidently she claimed 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.480 I fell asleep on Jenny's couch in her room, and 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:36.599 it has every sign of she woke up full of regret, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:42.359 which is understandable. But then to call it rape. You 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.320 know I wasn't there. Well, people were drunk. I have 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:46.360 no idea. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.279 I was gonna say, as a guy who's known my 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.839 way around a you know, a drinking too much liaison. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.400 That's the problem with them. That's the problem with them. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.960 Everybody's hammered out of their mind. Neither party can remember 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.200 any or portions of it. And then what are you 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.440 gonna do with that information? How are you gonna nail 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.200 down anything? And when you got that situation going on. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.840 Right, And she had a vague memory of saying no 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.480 a lot, she claimed, Yeah that I've read through the 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.440 parts of the police report and it's all very vague 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.840 and wishy washy. You know, Pete doesn't live his life 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.760 the way I lived mine, and I suggest you don't either. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.360 But it's up to you. You end up in situations 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.080 like this. Yeah. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:38.840 Yeah, it's all tawdry for sure, But the prosecutors at 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.560 the time said, now, no, just passed on it. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:49.800 The concern from some of my favorite pundits, who wouldn't 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.520 be making this up just for the hell of it 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.320 is that and some of them actually know him, saying 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.640 his personal life is quite messy and has been for 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.560 a long time time. So in you know, based on 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.720 my experience, my life experience, probably wasn't the only time 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.320 this sort of thing has happened in his life. 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:10.640 Yeah, who knows. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:19.320 I don't believe that everybody who has a a sexual 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:27.000 life that is outside the strict confines of standard morality 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:32.679 or whatever that means, they are bad at everything or 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:37.880 evil at everything. Or untrustworthy about everything. I think there 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.720 are brilliant leaders of business who you would be smart 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.040 to hire as your CEO, who can't keep it in 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:47.240 their pants or don't aren't you know, faithful of the 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:51.840 spouses or whatever. I don't admire it, but I get it. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.880 The sexual thing is just kind of out there in 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.880 a different area to make clearly is clearly is there 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.160 are all kinds of people that are upstanding in every 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.480 single other aspect of their life. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.559 Except that it's kind of whatever it is. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.240 And again I'm not approving of it. It just it 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.320 strikes me that that is true. And some of my 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.400 favorite thinkers say that Pete is extremely bright and extremely 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.840 serious about his purposes with reforming the military and the 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.000 Pentagon and standing up for our troops and making sure 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.720 they have their fighting capabilities. He could not be more 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.840 serious and have more fidelity to those issues. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.440 So it's an interesting choice. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.800 Can you find somebody who fits that bill and also 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.320 brings no baggage? 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:39.959 Yeah? Probably? Maybe? 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.720 Am I right or wrong on this? Did do I 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.560 remember this being true? Or did I make this up 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.320 in my head? That many of our European allies think 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.360 it's odd that in the United States, we hold this 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:55.080 against people, yeah, oh yeah, because they just accept it 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.959 as a different part of your life. And I don't 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.079 know if that's good or not. I find this topic fascinating. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.680 If you're going to go backwards through history, you to 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.360 eliminate a lot of men, especially as you go back 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.000 through history it's more men. You would eliminate a lot 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.640 of the greatest men in US history if you were 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.360 going to hold them to a standard of being decent 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.600 people around the world of you know, fidelity and sex. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.320 Some of our most revered presidents, Martin Luther King Junior. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.080 I mean, just all kinds of people. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:31.120 And do you want those people not in public life 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.600 because of the things they do in the bedroom or not. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.120 I don't even know what I think of that. Now 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.280 if the guy's a rapist, I don't it's different. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.719 That's different, right right, Just getting back to Pete bug, Yeah, 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:44.199 I don't. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:45.000 I don't know. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.120 And how do we how do we solve this? So 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.920 people knew John F. Kennedy Jr. Was the kind of 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.120 guy was People knew FDR was doing that, people knew 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.319 LBJ was doing that, And it just was an agreement 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.000 with the press that you didn't report on that sort 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:57.280 of thing. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:03.400 Were we better when it was that way? Yes? And worse, 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.600 it's a mixed bag. Worse in what way? 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.800 Oh, sexual assault, exploitation, you know, all sorts. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:12.520 Of stuff went along. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.920 Man, that's where that's where it gets really difficult. Gray 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.880 area of harassment and all that sort of stuff, or 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.800 power dynamics and all those kind of things. That's it's very, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.160 very difficult. But there's no getting around the fact that 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.400 if you're gonna have a standard of people who have 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.720 these kind of things in their background, affairs and whatnot 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.480 and drunken one night stands, all sort of stuff, they 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.600 can't be in high office. Well, you would eliminate a 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:40.320 lot of people. Yeah, And do you want to do 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:40.720 that or not? 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.960 Yeah? Yeah. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.040 At some point you've got to just look at what 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.920 was said by the various parties and then what the 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:55.600 prosecutor decided. And you know, regretful drunk women who have 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:00.559 torrid one night ers often regretted terribly, and some times, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.359 especially in the modern era, make claims that are unsupportable 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.480 and horrible in themselves. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:11.559 Well, the party that cares the most about morality and religion, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.680 at least in theory has elected Donald Trump twice, Yes, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:18.800 knowing very well. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.679 What his life is like. So yeah, maybe we've made 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:22.200 our decision. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:23.280 Yeah. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:24.280 The whole history this is. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.760 So interesting too, because it was viewed differently, you know, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.320 prior to the Great Protestant Reform of the early I 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.480 guess the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.720 When do they cite that it doesn't matter? I don't 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.319 know to each there on. I suppose you can be 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.000 judging these things. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.800 You can go back to Gary Hart in eighty what 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.920 year was the Gary Hart scandal? But he would have 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.400 been the nominee for the Democratic Party abs frequently maybe 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.160 president of the United States. But they found out he 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.880 was having an affair and that was the end of 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.679 it because he hadn't he was having an affair. Really wow, okay, 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.520 that we wouldn't do that now I don't think. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.600 Like yeah, yeah, and that wasn't that long ago. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.880 Yeah, completely end your political career because you had a 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.000 consensual affair. There wasn't even even a hint of any 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:17.520 sort of gray area, you know, assault, rape, anything like. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:17.920 That at all. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.520 Well, and nobody went to the you know, missus Hart 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.120 who probably said I'm actually seeing a dude too, It's fine. 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:24.360 That is the way we do it. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.320 We're very, very wealthy. You wouldn't understand, right exactly. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.760 That's a good So she's in ping is absolutely right 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.680 about a couple of things. And Kim Jong un, oh boy, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.960 Donald Trump with the colin his ex booty call and 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.080 Kim Jong is saying, no, thank you all that to 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.199 come stay with us. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.040 So we have a San Jose State Spartan volleyball update, 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.199 because we're really big on women's volleyball here on the 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:52.320 Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.360 Longtime listeners know that, well, mostly the women part of it. 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.000 Uh Well, according to the Washington Post article I'm reading today, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.079 they have an alleged transgender player on the San Jose 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.880 State Spartans. I suppose that's fair to say alleged, since 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.240 if you're a reporter and you haven't seen the penis 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.120 in question, you get taken somebody's word for it, and 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.920 the player has not come out and said that they're transgender, 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.360 so you're going off the I don't know reports of 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.000 people who have seen them in the locker. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.560 Room, I guess anyway. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.320 The reason this is in the news today, a couple 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.160 of things A judge is about to make a ruling, 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.840 could be any minute. Hasn't happened as of yet this morning, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:35.400 cause the conference tournament is this weekend in Las Vegas, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.400 and there are two things that need to be determined 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.640 by a judge. One because there are lawsuits going on. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:46.520 One does the San Jose State player in question get 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:51.320 the play or not? And two do those fourfoots count 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:55.720 as losses or not? Because there's an effort to say, hey, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.080 all those forfeits don't count as a loss for the 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.840 other teams because the transgender blah blah blah, everything like that. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.880 And it has to do with a Settle nine lawsuit. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.000 And whether or not you get to count it as 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.760 a win, that's the more important thing. Do you get 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.560 to do San Jose State get to count it as 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.880 a win to help their record in the conference tournament. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.840 So that'll be interesting to see what that ruling is. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.720 If the transgender player plays and they go in with 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.880 a really great record all those forfeits being wins, there'll 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.200 be a high seed and they could dominate. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.800 This feels to me very much like two years from 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.520 now the NCAA will announce that indeed the conference champion 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.680 was X and they will mail the gals medals. And 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.440 it's like, you know, if some running back is discovered 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.720 who have been given a Cadillac, you know back in 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.360 the day, recruiting scandal, blah blah blah, you would you 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:45.920 lose your national championship. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.040 Whatever. They'll rectify it in reverse. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.880 Secondly, and I said this not to quibble, but because 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:56.200 it's very, very important. This simple truth shall set ye free. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.640 The absence of a penis does not mean that a 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:06.360 man is a woman. A man cannot become a woman 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:15.600 by getting a surgery nor taking hormones. A low testosterone 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.280 man is not a woman. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:18.800 Trust me. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.840 A man who's been surgically altered is not a woman. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:25.640 Anyway. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.600 Having said that, well, here's some great stuff from the 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.400 California Globe about trans women or the latest chapter in 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:40.000 the Emperor's New Clothes. Here is a Montana representative saying 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.960 trans women are women full stop, where every bit is 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.240 biologically female as cis women. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.600 Well, that the last part is definitely crazy. I mean, 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.320 you're really off the reservation there. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:55.200 Dogs are dogs. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.840 Get the hot dogs our dog's t shirt at Armstrong 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:58.920 and Getty dot com. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.040 I'm more sympathetic towards shijin Ping than I've been at 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.600 a very long time. You're gonna like his new policy, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.200 trust me, I know that sounds crazy. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:08.240 Has Joe gone coming? 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:10.760 Armstrong and Getty? 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.440 Some business news I saw the Targets stock just fell 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.880 to a yearly low, while Walmart's soar to an all 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:20.280 time high. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:21.240 Yep. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.040 Now Target execs are shopping at Walmart and Walmart execs 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:25.760 are shopping at Target. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:28.360 That's pretty good. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.760 But again, I have read a couple of articles about 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.560 that twenty percent drop and Target stock the other day 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:35.720 after the report came out. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:37.840 None of them. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.960 None of the articles trying to describe why Target stock 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:45.840 is down so much included their choices culturally. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.320 Yes, how do you leave that out where? 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.240 Selling tuck bathing suits for your little boy who thinks 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.879 he's a little girl and aggressively marketing them up with 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.080 trans as you walk in the front now changed my 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:02.600 perception of Target forever. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.440 Absolutely, not an exaggeration. I saw it at my local 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.480 Target store. I walked in the front door. 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.120 The first thing you saw they set it up there 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:14.080 so you couldn't avoid it, was their display of rainbow stuff, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.160 including trans stuff for kids. Yes, that changed my perception 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.080 of Target forever. I personally know a handful of people 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.760 who stop shopping there forever because of that. So how 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.120 do you leave that out of the conversation, Whereas what's 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:33.320 Walmart's brand culturally? Completely one hundred percent the opposite up 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:34.920 with America blah blah. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.240 Blah, much more Trumpian. Yeah, no doubt about it. There's 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:39.280 all general shape. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.000 There's also the fact that Walmart makes something like sixty 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.880 percent of the money on groceries and they have a 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.560 real big edge on groceries over Target. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.800 But you can't you can't leave out the cultural stuff. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:51.520 Oh yeah, I. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.159 Wouldn't claim that that was all of it, but to 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.400 pretend that it's not part of it, it's just foolish. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.680 But the media is just the media is the media. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.439 We were talking earlier about how the various post mortems 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.640 that the Democratic Party and their media friends are conducting 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.920 on the election completely miss a lot of the obvious stuff, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.080 to which I say, it's fine, I'm not going to 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.000 point it out to you anyway. I would love to 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.000 talk at greater length about the situation with North Korea. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.399 As Donald Trump comes back into office, everything has changed, 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.280 the levers have changed, the alliances have changed. North Korea's 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.359 place in the world has changed. Their nuclear weapon development 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.880 has changed. And if you think Donnie's going to drop 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.080 a note to his old buddy Kim Jong and just 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.800 rev things up again, it's just not going to happen. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.320 And we could get into that maybe next hour. It's interesting, 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.120 but it's a little dry, and I'd rather talk about 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.760 this frankly. Chijin Ping is an evil, rotten son of 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.440 a bit. She's a communist, he's a genocidal dictator. He's 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.600 a crusher of the human spirit. I mean, he's a 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.760 thousand different evil, evil things run. I will loathe communism 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.840 with my last breath. He runs a country with a 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:04.119 million slaves. 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:05.200 Yes. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:06.400 Yes. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.680 On the other hand, if you study the Chinese economy 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.840 at all, in Chinese cultures, I do you know that 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.920 there's all sorts of talk about various ways to fire 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:20.080 up their economy because it is floundering. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:21.960 It's it's propped up. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.240 By artificial spending on giant government projects and housing developments 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:26.919 that will never have people in them, and it's just 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.720 it's a bit of a house of cards. And the 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:33.960 various policymakers have been hoping for massive stimulus or cuts 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:35.120 in this or that and the other. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:36.719 But here's the point of this. 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.440 One of the ways Shijin Ping wants to bring the 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:47.080 economy back to life. He has said, you gotta slash 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:53.600 red tape. His directive to supervisors, hold fewer meetings, make 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:58.240 them shorter, cut superfluous paperwork. 0:20:58.480 --> 0:20:59.320 Do you hear that? 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:06.919 Management all across the country, even Sheshing Ping realizes that 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:08.800