WEBVTT - With His Wang & His Gun 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:23.840 Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:24.919 Well, we're very honored. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.400 Oh well, it's crazy just because of him here. You're 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.280 the only reason I'm here. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:33.360 Are you free to talk a little bit? 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:35.839 I'm not speaking cameras. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.280 That's seen Alexander. He was a hostage of Hamas for 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.320 three years. How long has it been. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.199 Four hundred and fifty days or something? I don't remember exactly, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.440 since October of twenty three. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.520 Uh. He was on the phone with Trump yesterday saying, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.840 the only reason I'm here, You're the only reason I'm here. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:01.120 You saved my life, Trumpet negotiating with somebody in Hamas 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.360 and bypassing Israel on that whole thing and getting the 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.200 guy out. So Uh, that was a good story. Over 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:14.880 the weekend, we mentioned on Friday how Bruce Springsteen had 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.440 bad mouthed Trump in the United States while he was 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.600 kicking off his world tour in Great Britain. We are 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.760 annoyed by that. It was after we got off the 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.120 air on Friday that Trump truth to this out about 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:30.119 Bruce Springsteen. I see that highly overrated Bruce Springsteen goes 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.360 to a foreign country to speak badly about the president 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.200 of the United States. Never liked him, never liked his 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.200 music or his radical left politics, and importantly, he's not 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:40.240 a talented guy. 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.080 I love stuff like low. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.200 He's just a pushy of notxious jerk all caps who 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.400 fervently supported crook and Joe Biden and mentally incompetent fool 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.240 and our worst ever president who came close to destroying 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.600 our country. If I wasn't elected, it would have been 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.960 gone by now. Sleepy dough Joe didn't have a clue 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.080 as to what he was doing. But Springsteen is quote dumb, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.720 is a rock unquote. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.600 I like how he puts quotes. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.480 I don't even know exactly what that means, and couldn't 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.480 see what was going on, or could he which is 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.000 even worse, This dried out prune of a rocker. Prune 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.760 also in quotes his skin is all atrophied. Trump right, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.239 let me close with the sentence. I'll say it again 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.560 because it's just too good. This dried out prune of 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.200 a rocker, his skin is all atrophied. Ought to keep 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.600 his mouth shut until he gets back into the country. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.359 That's just standard fair also in quotes. Then we'll see 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.760 how it goes for him. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.280 All right, I'm glad you find it so amusing. I 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.600 just I find it very amusing. On what level? Help 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.239 me understand? His skin is atrophied. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.160 I think it's hilarious that the president of the United 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.639 States is making fun of an old rock and roller 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.480 for having saying his skin. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.680 I just can't believe it's even happening, right, And we 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.359 can't be held responsible for what we find amusing. That's fine. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.240 I just find it troubling. It's just weird. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:03.960 It's weird. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.279 Uh So anyway, although none of that's really of any consequence. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:14.080 And uh and and and Bruce is obnoxious and a 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.560 blow hard and a limousine liberal and how to shut 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.519 up and plays damn music. Anyway, Having said. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.520 That, one of the own quotes, why do you think 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.680 he puts word of random words in quotes That happens 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:27.560 a lot online. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.520 It's just a way to emphasize that word. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:35.600 Oh, it's like a capitalizing it or okay, gotcha, okay, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:36.560 I didn't get you onto that. 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.200 There you go. Yeah, And you know, Hunter Thompson used 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.720 to do this way back in the day, and people 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.880 do it online too. They capitalize a word like all caps, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.280 but just capitalize it to emphasize I do that. I've 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.720 never used a quote as an amateur linguist. I think 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.320 it's interesting how you know, print language evolves to imitate 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.560 speaking language. Anyway. Uh so, Yeah, and the other thing 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.000 Trump tweeted out. And for the record, I've got a 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.120 couple of things that I've been wanting to talk about 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.320 how Trump, the Trump administration has essentially put out the 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:16.320 word disparate impact. The theory of disparate impact, meaning if 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.320 a lower percentage of black people get accepted to be cops, 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:25.520 that's proof that the test is racist. They've said that's wrong, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.839 it's racist, and it no longer will guide any federal policy. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.880 Huge victory for common sense, for meritocracy, the rest of it. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.360 Nobody's talking about that move. It's incredibly important. I say, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.800 well done. So the Trump's Energy Department. So the Trump 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:45.760 government said that that's the way they're going to look 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:46.040 at it. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.760 Yeah, the administration, because the Supreme Court unfortunately has said 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.080 disparate impact of the thing. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.640 Bring it up again. That was an obscene couple of 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.920 rulings just idiotic, indefensible anyway, And another thing, I love 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.600 this headline, free the gas stove. Trump's Energy Department has 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.360 acted dozens of Biden appliances and regulations, like one hundred 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:15.279 thousand pages of phony green new scam regulations are gone. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.200 God I heard a good one the other day because 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.240 I have this last two dishwashers, I've had your modern 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:25.000 dishwasher because of all the dumb regulations they As has 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.440 been pointed out by many people, you practically have to 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.120 wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.039 because they don't do what they used to do because 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.240 of all these different environmental regulations. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.680 Yeah, so before I kicked Trump, I just wanted to 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.400 mention that. I mean, for instance, let's dig into this 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.159 a little bit. Gone are rules banning a wide swath 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.440 of gas stoves. Gone are the strict water standards governing 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.040 dishwashers and shower and articular chick. Gone is the government 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:57.160 wide effort to force electrification of the economy through appliance regulations, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.400 all part of a historic action the Trump administration nounced 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.880 today reversing dozens of energy regulations, saving consumers more than 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.800 eleven billion dollars and cutting more than one hundred and 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.640 twenty five thousand words from the United States Code of Regulations. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.280 Great stuff, great, great, great, save you money. Hallelujah. Amen. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.440 Okay, I like when Trump says things like in Bruce 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.839 Brington he has no talent. What. I just find that 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:28.799 so bizarre. It's like screaming that Kareem ab Duel Jabbar wasn't. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:35.839 Even tall, right, That's just absurd anyway, So he was 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.800 tweeting truthing out a bunch of stuff the other day, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.479 including and I'll just go ahead and shout the stuff 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.080 that's in all caps. Walmart should stop trying to blame 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.920 tariffs is the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.840 Walmart made billions of dollars. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.719 Last year, far more than expected between Walmart and China. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.680 They should eat the tariffs and not charge valued customers anything. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.600 I'll be why, and so will your customers. Well many 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.480 exclamation points as usual. I agree with Bernie Sanders or 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.880 disagree with Bernie Sanders. I don't like Bernie when he 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.440 does this sort of thing. Oh that was Trump, you'd say, yes, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:16.760 this was also Trump. After causing catastrophic inflation. Comrade kamalaw 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.240 announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls. Her 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.200 plan is very dangerous because it may sound good politically. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:27.400 This is communist, this is Marxist, this is fascist. Yes, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.880 both statements by Donald Trump. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.480 Last year, he blasted Kamala Harris's proposal for price controls 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.600 on groceries. Now he's attacking Walmart for warning that it 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.800 will have to raise prices in the wake of the tariffs. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.560 Well, and you know, in claiming that Walmart would only 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.360 raise prices to make more profit made, you made enough 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.800 money last year, basically is what he's saying. He made 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.040 billions last year. Okay, when does this become a conservative thing? 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.440 You tell companies you've made enough money. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.080 Yeah, I'll be going to play your golf courts for free, sir, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:06.480 because you made enough money last year. So, and the 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.120 other part of it is, you know, it's it's a 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.600 rebuttal of what he's claimed himself for months. He said 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.040 the foreign producers will pay the full cost to tariffs, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.200 But now he's admitting that Walmart and American retailer will 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.160 have to eat some of the costs or pass them 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.280 on to their customers. And Walmart's net profit margin is 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.880 less than three percent. Now, it's an enormous company, so 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.640 if you have two point eight percent profit on you know, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.880 a company of that size, that's a hell of a number. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.880 But it doesn't have a bunch of room to absorb 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:41.400 the higher costs caused by tariffs. Retail competition is incredibly intense, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:47.280 and Walmart's longtime comparative advantages advantage has been lower prices. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.800 And what bothers me is Number one Trump trying to 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.960 tell Walmart how to run its business and number two 0:08:54.360 --> 0:09:00.000 like that vague threat of retribution. Yeah, yeah, that's not cool. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.800 I'm I'm against that no matter who's the president. Sorry, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.760 if you're just a hardcore you know, Trump fan, or 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.760 are you figure if admitting anything is wrong, that will 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.080 weaken the case and Democrats will win and the rest 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.320 of it. You know, I see your point, but I 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:16.720 just can't. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.480 Very very bernie aoc. You could imagine either one of 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.640 them shouting that on the no Oligarchs tour, right. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.120 Yeah, Walmart's plenty of money, they have too much profit. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.079 Will hold the Walmart accountable if they raise prices. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.040 That's a very Bernie Sanders thing to say. And as always, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.320 my real concern. And the reason I bring this up 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:43.479 is the dumb stuff Trump does might derail the fabulous 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.960 stuff he does, and that would kill me. Do you 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:50.160 mean dumb politically or for the way conservatism out of 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:55.000 work politically? 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Let the party roll on. You know, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:43.480 Trump would probably make the argument, So Biden wasn't going 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.720 to take the hit. George Bush didn't want to. Nobody, nobody, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.600 Republican or Democrat, wants to take that. You want me 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:53.560 to take the political hit for finally like cutting services 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:54.480 or raising taxes? 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:55.000 Right? 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:55.600 Why? 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.680 I mean, all the Congress people say what he said, right, 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.199 I don't know how you get out of this. I 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.840 suppose by monarchy. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.360 By finally collapsing. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:14.600 Or a wise and benevolent philosopher king. Who's who's picking 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.000 that person? I'll go ahead if you'd like. Is that 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.320 you've got a few names in mind? Okay, okay, we 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.960 got a lot on the way. Stay here, Eddie. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:45.840 Multiple cameras rolling as a ship strikes the Brooklyn Bridge. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.840 Why is the Mexican navy attacking our bridges? And why 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:55.960 have we not fired back? 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.760 They're not very good at it, Great Scott. Anybody who's 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.760 seen the video? Man, I just saw one from a 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:09.760 different angle. Ooh, grizzly. There are a bunch of guys 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.960 Mexican sailors up in the riggings. They got knocked down 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.400 when they hit the Brooklyn Bridge. Oh they so it was. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.560 A really tall ship. So as they were heading toward it, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.920 weren't there people weren't there. Weren't the people up there saying, well, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.400 that looks like that's about eye level. I'm getting held down. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.120 I don't care if I got ordered to or not. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.520 Have we thought this through because that looks like we're 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.520 not going to fit under there. Yeah, I think they 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.840 lost power or something like that. Just her sketchy reports. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.400 It's a lot like when that cargo ship bashed into 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:40.760 the bridge in Baltimore. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:47.160 Speaking of boats, are you familiar with the premise of 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:52.320 the television show Gilligan's Island from the sixties, because some 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.160 of you might not be, as a bunch of helpfully 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:55.000 laid out. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.240 In the theme song every week if you needed a reminder. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.880 Back in the old days, they would tell you what 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.320 I don't remember, why these people were on there, what 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.480 circumstances caused them to be so stranded. Just sit right 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.280 back and you'll hear a tale. Back in the old days, 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.240 they would lay out the premise of the show every 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:12.280 week in the song for you. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:13.680 That was very, very handy. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.760 You take the take, you good, you take the bad, 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.680 the facts of life, whatever the show was, they would 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.640 tell you. But anyway, here's the story of a man 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:25.440 named Brady exactly. But so you got this boat that 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.000 ran into an island and they got stuck there, and 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.920 the whole show is about they're stuck on this island 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.400 and dealing with each other, and you got cannibals and. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.720 They're just concertingly ineffective efforts to leave. Anyway. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.680 I thought this was really good from James Lindsay, who 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.760 were big intellectual fans of on Twitter, he said, I 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.360 think we often overestimate how much worse some things are 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.160 now than they were in the past, and he linked 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:55.000 this story about Gilligan's Island which says at the height 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.920 of Gilligan's Island popularity, which was nineteen sixty six, the 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.440 US Coast Guard received twenty five hundred letters a week 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.440 asking why the castaways hadn't been rescued yet. Oh wow, 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.280 with James'sa's point being, see, we've always been a bunch 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.680 of morons, or I had a lot of morons. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.880 What I've got to take a moment to absorb that. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:26.520 And I assume they mean sincere letters, not like trolling 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.800 by mail. I don't think trolling was a thing back then. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.240 Certainly you wouldn't take the time by mail. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.200 Twenty five hundred a week a week asking the Coastguard 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:41.120 why they hadn't rescued Gilligan the Skipper and oh, in particular, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.000 if I'm a Coastguard mail a young twenty two year 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.440 old in the Coastguard, I'm rescuing Marianne and Ginger right 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:46.000 off the bat. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.680 Sure women and children first, Florius, that. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.600 Guy from that seventies, what's that that Twitter feed. Everybody 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.280 likes the seventies. Something wrong? 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.040 Oh oh super seventy sports. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.960 He said, as you get older, you look at missus 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.720 how and realize there's a third viable option on that alley. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.600 She was an attractive woman. Yeah, absolutely, ages, yeah, exactly. Well, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.800 so many questions, how was the skipper still a peace 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.240 after being stranded at an island for years? 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:18.240 Going on? 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:19.760 There metabolism problem? 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.320 But so he did some wagovi the ultimate point being, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.239 and I think James makes a good point, we do 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:31.160 overestimate the the percentage of people that are dumb or 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:36.080 don't pay attention or whatever. It's not like everybody in 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.000 the sixties or the eighteen fifties or whenever. We're learning 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.200 Latin and studying the constitution, like Thomas Jefferson. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.280 Yeah right right, yeah, yeah, so true. Deer Coast Guard, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:48.400 why haven't you rescued? 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:53.879 Gilligan signed for people are desperate and desperately incompetent. 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.359 They can't even build a raft. What is my tax 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:56.880 money going? 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.280 So you thought every TV show you were watching was 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.440 a reality show in the sixties. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.200 And they didn't like ask why don't the camera people 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:10.240 rescue them? That didn't even occur to them. No, boy, 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:11.800 that is really dumb. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.120 Or the orchestra playing the music when you come back 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.200 from commercials, they could have die helped goodly. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.680 Armstrong and Blue. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.840 Research shows that too much sitting could damage your brain, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.120 which explains why Stephen Hawking was such a dumb ass. 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.040 Wow. Wow, I know I feel about that A little 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:34.440 uncomfortable with that one. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:39.320 Too much sitting can damnage your brain. So the big 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:43.040 story of the day is not exactly what I thought 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:48.360 it was originally when I heard it. By the way, 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.119 my son has whooping cough. Now, oh no, I was 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:51.760 afraid of that. 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.840 Yeah. Uh. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.840 Took him to Digery Carry yesterday though, got him on 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:04.639 some medicine so waited out. Wasn't obvious to me right 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.480 away when the news broke that Joe Biden has not 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:15.080 just prostate cancer, which is the most curable all the 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.960 cancers out there that we regularly talk about, but just 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.960 that he's got a pretty bad version of it, and 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.480 all the timing around this that hadn't occurred to me. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.480 But before we get to that, here is jd Vance. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.480 I guess he was asked a question about the breaking 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.040 story in Joe Biden's health today. Here's what he had 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:35.360 to say. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.399 We really do need to be honest about whether the 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.760 former president was capable of doing the job. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.000 And that's no. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.720 You know that you can separate the desire for him 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.720 to have the right health outcome with a recognition that 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.280 whether it was doctors or whether there were staffers around 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.159 the former president, I don't think he was able to 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.280 do a good job for the American people. And that's 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.840 not politics. That's not because I disagree with him on policy. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.600 That's because I don't think that he was in good 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.439 enough health. In some ways, I blame him less than 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:07.399 I blame the people around him. And why didn't the 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.560 American people have a better sense of his health picture? 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.840 Why didn't the American people have more accurate information about 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.760 what he was actually dealing with? This is serious stuff, 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:17.600 But this is the guy who carries around the nuclear 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.960 football for the world's largest nuclear arsenal. This is not 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.760 child's play, and we can pray for good health but 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.240 also recognize that if you're not in good enough health 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:28.760 to do the job, you shouldn't be doing the job. 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.040 I don't know that seems a little You're not gonna 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:36.520 run against Joe Biden again. So but I am interested. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.560 I am interested in this angle of Oh. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:42.840 Well, I'll read what Mark Halpern wrote. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.920 Among other people that are saying this today, including Joe 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:52.520 Scarborough on Morning Joe, This Morning, Stelter on CNN, Mark 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.639 Halperin writing, if the intention was to make it if 0:20:55.680 --> 0:21:00.000 the intention of this medical reveal was to make it less, 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.480 it's likely that the Bidens would be accused of lying, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.280 engaging in a cover up built on falsehoods during the presidency. Well, 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.080 the impact maybe one hundred and eighty degrees of that, 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:10.640 he's suggesting. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.000 It's completely a possibility. 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.879 That they let us know about the cancer now because 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:20.800 of these books that are coming out, because of the 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.480 Hurt report that came out on Friday, the actual audio. 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.920 That's a heck of an accusation. And it's coming out 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.320 of mainstream media. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:34.200 Yeah, including even MSNBC, who are saying, essentially, wait a minute, 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.320 given the quality of medical care that the president gets, 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.280 only now at a very very late stage, he's become 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:42.959 aware that he has prostate cancer. 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:44.920 He's probably had this for ten years, according to the 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:46.600 doctor on Mourning Joe Today. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.080 Right, Yeah, come on, it's just no, it's not so 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:53.760 it hadn't even occurred to me either that this was 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.000 some sort of bizarre misdirect. Look over here, look over here. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.600 So people wouldn't be talking about how Biden and Jill 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.000 Biden and everybody around them knew how Seniley was and 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.320 still tried to trot him out for election twenty four. 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.600 They're just trying to distract. It's shameful. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:13.560 Well, like I said, nobody's running against Joe Biden again. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.000 So I don't know, is there a point in showing 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:21.520 how because I'm interested in the media. Thing that continues 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.920