Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arms Strong.
Speaker 2: And Katty and He Armstrong and Eddy ladye BC's Saturday.
Speaker 3: Night starring Shirts Colin.
Speaker 2: With Genese, I'm Philly, Christen and Ladies and Jo.
Speaker 1: They aired that in place of their normal live show
Speaker 1: on Saturday Night. The very first EPISO of Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live aired this past Saturday night as they were headed
Speaker 1: into Sunday Night for their actual live show, which was
Speaker 1: a fifty year anniversary of the program, and all kinds
Speaker 1: of former cast members and stars, and man, that was
Speaker 1: some star studded crowd there. Every time they go to
Speaker 1: a crowd shot thingy and do stuff is like, look,
Speaker 1: there's so and so, and there's Kevin Cosner, and there's
Speaker 1: there's Robert de Niro and there's It was just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: A lot of people wondering about why Kevin Costner looked
Speaker 1: so angry and off put. Everybody else was kind of
Speaker 1: watching and laughing, and he looked crazed. I've read a
Speaker 1: couple of different theories about that. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: actors that are apparently that were there sitting near him
Speaker 1: and were ripping him off financially, and he's in a
Speaker 1: big court case with Maybe that's why he was acting
Speaker 1: that way, or maybe he was drunk. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but at one point he ended up holding an Elmo head.
Speaker 1: Toward the end during a musical number, he looked angry night.
Speaker 1: He wasn't playing along at all, an angry very tan
Speaker 1: chomping his gum Vian costner for some reason. Did you
Speaker 1: see the Adam Sandler song he did toward the end
Speaker 1: fifty years So I was thinking about that and wondering
Speaker 1: just from a crafting entertainment standpoint. So Jack Nicholson introduced him,
Speaker 1: which is cool. Jack Nicholson was in the crowd and
Speaker 1: he hadn't been seen in public in years. Nobody know
Speaker 1: if he'd ever be seen again. He's incredibly old, eighty
Speaker 1: seven or something like that. He's my dad's age.
Speaker 2: But so there he was.
Speaker 1: He introduced Adam Sandler, and Adam Sandler does one of
Speaker 1: his songs, and I was thinking, Adam Sandler has a
Speaker 1: special talent for and this is probably why he has
Speaker 1: sold a billion dollars worth of movie tickets in his life.
Speaker 1: He has a talent for schmaltz and funny that doesn't
Speaker 1: cross the line into too schmaltzy or too ridiculous to
Speaker 1: be schmat I don't know, but he has got a
Speaker 1: talent for that that's obviously unique, which is why he's
Speaker 1: so incredibly successful and made so much money.
Speaker 2: So I always think, is this too much?
Speaker 1: And it always kind of gets me emotionally speaking, Yet
Speaker 1: it's funny.
Speaker 2: That's a tough balance, that thing right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't Yeah, yeah, I might quibble over the
Speaker 4: term schmalts okay sentimental differently, yeah, sentimental, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Touching okay, Schmaltz is wrong because Schmaltz implies negative sentimental
Speaker 1: and touching with funny.
Speaker 2: To pull that off the way he does is incredibly.
Speaker 1: Unique, and I guess that's what he did in all
Speaker 1: his movies that he wrote that were so successful. But
Speaker 1: I thought that was really good. But this happened toward
Speaker 1: the end of the show, and thought it would be
Speaker 1: a good point of discussion, So they had Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: come out there and set up a bunch of highlight
Speaker 1: clips from stuff that there's no way you could air
Speaker 1: anymore on Saturday Night Live, and whether or not that's
Speaker 1: good or not is its own discussion.
Speaker 2: But this is this is what the setup sounded like.
Speaker 5: As we celebrate the achievements of the past fifty years,
Speaker 5: we must also take a moment to honor those who
Speaker 5: we've lost, countless members of the SNL family taken from
Speaker 5: us too soon. I'm speaking, of course, about SNL characters
Speaker 5: and sketches.
Speaker 2: That have aged horribly.
Speaker 5: But even though these characters, accents and let's just call
Speaker 5: them ethnic whigs, were unquestionably in poor taste, you all
Speaker 5: laughed at them. So if anyone should be canceled, shouldn't
Speaker 5: it be you?
Speaker 2: The eyes something to think about.
Speaker 1: So I had friends that reacted to the whole thing,
Speaker 1: and then they ran a montage of a bunch of
Speaker 1: clips like lots Eclipse over many decades. It's been on
Speaker 1: for fifty years. That were some of the funniest things
Speaker 1: and most memorable things I've ever done in Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live history, but including bleeping things and blurring things out.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, like some of my friends
Speaker 1: were highly offended that they treated it that way. I
Speaker 1: thought it was Lorne Michael's doing what he does with
Speaker 1: the colin Jos Michael cha bit where they write each
Speaker 1: other jokes and they act like they're so disgusted by
Speaker 1: the jokes, but it's.
Speaker 2: An opportunity to get the jokes on. I just felt
Speaker 2: like I just felt like it was the same thing.
Speaker 1: We're going to pretend that was just so wrong that
Speaker 1: we did this, and now are a bunch of the
Speaker 1: stuff that you really liked.
Speaker 2: I think so, I think you've nail it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think Lorne probably understands pretty well. Where some standards
Speaker 4: have changed, maybe appropriately, A lot of standards have changed
Speaker 4: completely inappropriately, right.
Speaker 1: I mean for Tom Hanks to say that we're in
Speaker 1: questionably in poor taste, as if in poor taste makes
Speaker 1: something out of bounds for comedy. When when did that
Speaker 1: become a thing something poor taste can't be funny or
Speaker 1: for the public.
Speaker 2: I mean that, come on, now, that's hilarious. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: But it included a few things that I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Why ethnic accents are off limit. Now. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like Hankazaria retiring Apuh's voice from the Simpsons because you
Speaker 1: can't sound like somebody from India.
Speaker 4: Why, yeah, I consider it completely absurd. They would say, well,
Speaker 4: you're reducing it to a stereotype and lampooning them merely
Speaker 4: for their nationality and the rest of it. It's an
Speaker 4: absolutely universal human truth that when we hear languages and
Speaker 4: accents unlike our own, we notice them and they are
Speaker 4: odd or amusing to us.
Speaker 2: It's universally true.
Speaker 1: Well, going way way back, John Belushi, Chieberger, Chea Berger,
Speaker 1: you know ethnic immigrants in Chicago running a diner.
Speaker 2: Are the people that are offended by Then?
Speaker 1: No, no, don't is that every thing but the the
Speaker 1: and then body shaming had some body shaming there, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: fat jokes, and then you know, the ambiguously gay duol.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that actually was a thing for a while,
Speaker 1: but I'm just surprised it was a thing, because I
Speaker 1: don't know, gay is just so accepted now. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: that ever worked. But the most famous one, and it's
Speaker 1: definitely an interesting point of discussion, is Chevy Chase calling
Speaker 1: Richard Pryor the N word on Saturday Night Live, which
Speaker 1: aired in the seventies on network television. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: really even that big a deal. Is are we in
Speaker 1: a better place now by not doing that or a
Speaker 1: worse place? And I would think we're in a worse place,
Speaker 1: but obvious.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent because we've gone from that was a
Speaker 4: really good, insightful use of comedy to make a serious
Speaker 4: point to a point now where we're just so paranoid
Speaker 4: about it and it becoming less so because the Ebram
Speaker 4: Kendy garbage era is on the way, and at least
Speaker 4: in normal society, not academia. But and so we're all,
Speaker 4: especially white people, just terrified to say anything at all.
Speaker 4: So you just tell us what to say and take
Speaker 4: control of our institutions and we will obey you, so
Speaker 4: you don't call us racists.
Speaker 2: So you can't have an honest discussion like that. Okay,
Speaker 2: do you have a question?
Speaker 6: No, I don't have a question. I was just in
Speaker 6: watching this whole thing. I was it was cool to
Speaker 6: see stuff that I had heard of but I had
Speaker 6: never seen before. I did appreciate them bringing back some
Speaker 6: of the older skits.
Speaker 1: All right, because you're young enough, Sarah, I've started before
Speaker 1: you were born, as Sabrina Carpenter said Saturday, and I've
Speaker 1: started before her parents were born, which is really something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't I what percentage of America if you
Speaker 1: had all of those clips that were in poor taste,
Speaker 1: and you know, the death of these characters because obviously
Speaker 1: they can't be heard anymore. I would love to see
Speaker 1: polling on each and every aspect of those because I.
Speaker 2: Think they're majority okay. Majority of people would say they're okay.
Speaker 1: M of course, then the pushback would be all the
Speaker 1: majority of the country's white and so of course you
Speaker 1: think it's okay to be racist or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, kiss my ass would be my response. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Comedy exists to push limits and to call out authority
Speaker 4: and to make people uncomfortable at times. That's its purpose,
Speaker 4: and I despise efforts to censor it, to preemptively censor it.
Speaker 4: There are jokes and comedy that I hear that I
Speaker 4: think are awful, They're stupid, they're mean, they are actually
Speaker 4: racist or whatever, and I'll gladly tell you when I
Speaker 4: think that, But the idea that they need to be
Speaker 4: preemptively censored so they never offend anybody all crack.
Speaker 1: Well, and most of the time, as Ricky Gervasi's pointed
Speaker 1: out before, we're all laughing because our laughter is us
Speaker 1: in agreement that that is not okay.
Speaker 2: That's what the joke is so.
Speaker 1: It real reinforces norms. It reinforces that it's not okay,
Speaker 1: which is interesting. I noticed that, and I was looking
Speaker 1: for it. One thing that they used to do regularly
Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live in the nineties, I guess because
Speaker 1: I know Chris Farley was involved, probably late eighties old
Speaker 1: in the early nineties was Pat the you couldn't tell
Speaker 1: if it was a dude or a chick. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was an ongoing bit, and she'd go into a
Speaker 1: barber he or she. Nobody knows if Pat was a
Speaker 1: man or a woman. We'll just say Pat. Pat would
Speaker 1: go into a barbershop to get their haircut, and the
Speaker 1: barber would keep asking questions to try to get a
Speaker 1: hint is whether this is a male or a female,
Speaker 1: and everybody would howl with laughter. They didn't include that
Speaker 1: because apparently they feel like that one's too dangerous or toxic.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's right. They didn't have any Pat. No.
Speaker 6: That was actually a code at one of my old jobs,
Speaker 6: because you know, you'd have somebody.
Speaker 2: Come through and you'd want to be like, oh, hello,
Speaker 2: miss oh wait a minute, yeah we had a Pat
Speaker 2: come from today. Yeah, miile three, which is fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that was a common phrase to observe it
Speaker 4: and and and make reference to how that makes you
Speaker 4: feel uncomfortable because we're used to responding to people's sex
Speaker 4: that there's nothing wrong with that, anybody, you're hurting them.
Speaker 1: So the bit was you're not sure if this is
Speaker 1: a man or a woman, and then you're going to
Speaker 1: politely ask questions to try to determine that so you
Speaker 1: can be more comfortable.
Speaker 2: How is that bad? Nobody?
Speaker 1: The bit was never I'm mean to them or going
Speaker 1: to hate them or something. It was always I'm politely
Speaker 1: asking questions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we can't have that because that's hurtful. And
Speaker 4: and if you're offended, you're always right, you know. It
Speaker 4: strikes me the ultimate oil and water. The things that
Speaker 4: don't mix is hypocritical, crusading do gooders, and a sense
Speaker 4: of humor. They just do not intersect.
Speaker 1: Right, And Saturday Night Live, which launched as like the
Speaker 1: counter culture dangerous, you know, we stick it to the
Speaker 1: man edgy, then becomes kind of the like leader in
Speaker 1: enforcing political correctness over time is something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly becomes a tool of conformity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got some more breaking news out of that
Speaker 1: big meeting in Saudi Arabia over trying to wind down
Speaker 1: the war in.
Speaker 2: Ukraine that is either good or not or not. A
Speaker 2: whole bunch of other stuff. On the way. Stay here.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about test driving the Tesla cyber truck.
Speaker 2: With my kids and why I can't why I can't
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: Some updates from the Middle East on the peace talks
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to call them, negotiations about inn
Speaker 1: and the war in Ukraine. Just got a tip from
Speaker 1: somebody I know who works in the federal government about
Speaker 1: the federal government layoffs and how people are taking it,
Speaker 1: among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way, let's.
Speaker 4: Talk about state government jack in state policy around two
Speaker 4: of the compare and contrasts between California and Florida's homeowners
Speaker 4: insurance situation. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara last week announced
Speaker 4: a one billion dollar surcharge on private insurers meaning they're
Speaker 4: policy holders, to prop up the state's insure of last resort,
Speaker 4: which is now wobbling. Fair The Fair Plan or whatever
Speaker 4: it's called means. Meantime, State Farm is asking regulators for
Speaker 4: an emergency twenty two percent rate increase to avoid a
Speaker 4: dire situation in two.
Speaker 2: It's on top of right, it's already insane. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, in Florida, where Governor Ron de santiss is announcing
Speaker 4: lower rates thanks to their legal reforms, that's right. Several
Speaker 4: of the major insurers in Florida have filed for rate
Speaker 4: decreases and it doesn't have It's not about fires and storms,
Speaker 4: it's about policy. Democratic insurance regulators in the Golden State
Speaker 4: for years suppressed rates even as home values ballooned. State Farm,
Speaker 4: which is the state's largest fire insurer, said earlier this
Speaker 4: month it's paid a buck twenty six in claims for
Speaker 4: every dollar it's collected in premiums over the last nine years,
Speaker 4: resulting in five billion dollars in losses.
Speaker 2: And California until.
Speaker 4: Recently, was the only state to prohibit insurers from pricing reinsurance. That's,
Speaker 4: an insurance company has insurance itself, that's part of their costs. Well, California,
Speaker 4: for reasons that defy any explanation, don't let State Farm,
Speaker 4: for instance, factor that into their cost basis and so,
Speaker 4: and they don't allow them to use catastrophe models to
Speaker 4: adjust rates. The state also bars insurers from dropping policies
Speaker 4: and areas affected by fires for a year thereafter, which
Speaker 4: has made it hard to limit exposure. And when they
Speaker 4: do approve a rate increase is usually less than what's
Speaker 4: asked for.
Speaker 2: And so companies are just.
Speaker 4: Fleeing the state, leaving hundreds of thousands of people with
Speaker 4: no option but the fare plan, which is about to
Speaker 4: become completely insolvent.
Speaker 2: And why a lot of people talked about this back
Speaker 2: when I was looking for a house.
Speaker 1: Why a lot of people are choosing to rent rather
Speaker 1: than buy, like practically for the first time ever, just
Speaker 1: because the map between the price of homes, the energy bills,
Speaker 1: and the insurance, it's quite the deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely true. So meanwhile, in Florida, DeSantis Ronda Santis
Speaker 4: spearheaded a serious a litigation reforms in twenty two and
Speaker 4: twenty three that have headed off an insurance disaster. Insurance
Speaker 4: had been raising rates by double digits annually in fleeing
Speaker 4: the market because of rampant lawsuit abuse, which ballooned their
Speaker 4: insure of last resort, which was called Citizens Property. But
Speaker 4: now that they've reformed that, eleven new insurers have entered
Speaker 4: the market in Florida as the last as the result
Speaker 4: of the last two years of tort reforms, and in fact,
Speaker 4: again I think it's three of the Big seven. Don't
Speaker 4: sue me if that's off. Oh, it's four of the
Speaker 4: top ten have filed for rate decreases. And they just
Speaker 4: took about half a million policies out of citizens property
Speaker 4: and they now have better, cheaper private insurance that those
Speaker 4: half a million homes.
Speaker 1: That's quite the comparing contrast from two different models.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just the Golden State. Everybody wants no lever.
Speaker 2: I'm leading the way. Like it or not.
Speaker 1: It's just frustrating leading the way in one way U
Speaker 1: haul rentals, which is true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you gonna do? Change policy? Nah? Try
Speaker 2: something different?
Speaker 7: Nah.
Speaker 2: Year, it's a mob. It's a criminal gang. They do.
Speaker 2: It's best for the mob, not the voters. Sons of
Speaker 2: update you on some stories that are going on today.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: In this little piece of information I got about the
Speaker 1: federal employees that are being laid off is kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: It's an inside source source.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned, Armstrong, Andy, we've lost the late great Norm
Speaker 3: McDonald who hosted Weekend Up days. That's right, Norm McDonald
Speaker 3: who hosted Weekend Update until he was fired for making
Speaker 3: jokes about OJ Simpson and he's obviously one of my heroes.
Speaker 3: So if you're watching up there, I just want to say,
Speaker 3: we love you, oj.
Speaker 2: Oh. That's right.
Speaker 1: How's one of the Tom Hanks is uh? Looking back
Speaker 1: on things that were mistakes having OJ is host? Boy
Speaker 1: p did he is a musical guest or anything? We
Speaker 1: didn't know exactly who knew?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Norm McDonald got fired from Saturday Night Live because he
Speaker 1: refused to stop making jokes about OJ being the murderer.
Speaker 1: They finally fired him, then they had him back a
Speaker 1: year later to host the show, which is weird. If
Speaker 1: you've ever watched that on YouTube, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Damn, Where do I start? First? This the government workers
Speaker 2: being so upset about being fired, nigga, and I'm not
Speaker 2: happy you got fired.
Speaker 1: I just I would like it if everybody who worked
Speaker 1: for the government knew what it was like for the
Speaker 1: rest of us in the private sector. I just think
Speaker 1: that'd be helpful for the whole relationship between we the
Speaker 1: taxpayer and you, the government.
Speaker 2: Worker public servant. You mean you brute right.
Speaker 1: Dedicated my life to public service. Somebody I know who
Speaker 1: works in the federal government, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: told this story. I don't think you were here last
Speaker 1: week and I told this story. So the boss was
Speaker 1: super upset about having to let go of about a
Speaker 1: half a dozen people and saying they'd moved here for
Speaker 1: this job. Oh yeah, and I was losing a job,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it happens a lot in the real world,
Speaker 1: but here here it is. Apparently there was a call
Speaker 1: probably all around the country for people who work in
Speaker 1: the federal government, and they gave out a phone number
Speaker 1: for a government funded therapy. Government funded what a term
Speaker 1: taxpayer paid for therapy. So I'm glad I can pay
Speaker 1: for your therapy. Are you paying for my therapy? No,
Speaker 1: I'm paying here for your therapy, and said it's available
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven for six months after termination or
Speaker 1: for anyone struggling to come to terms with losing a coworker.
Speaker 1: So not only are the taxpayer's paying therapy because you
Speaker 1: lost your job, anybody else ever lose their job out
Speaker 1: there and nobody paid for therapy on how to deal
Speaker 1: with it or not even that one of your coworkers
Speaker 1: got fired, so you lost a friend at work, So
Speaker 1: now the taxpayer is going to pay for your therapy.
Speaker 2: Good Lord, we are far far down a road and
Speaker 2: clon our way back is going to be uncomfortable or impossible.
Speaker 1: That's what I've been saying for a couple of weeks now.
Speaker 1: The pushback to Elon, the vilification of Elon, the chanting
Speaker 1: in the streets, and all that sort of stuff shows
Speaker 1: you just how much they'd feel like, No, they're owed,
Speaker 1: they're owed a lifetime job, and nobody should pay any
Speaker 1: attention to whether they're needed or not. It's really out
Speaker 1: of bounds to question this stuff.
Speaker 4: And that's the folks in the street. And I can
Speaker 4: forgive them for having formed certain attitudes over the years.
Speaker 4: I mean, they need to come correct and wake up
Speaker 4: to the reality, but I don't resent them coming to
Speaker 4: those conclusions because they've been told that for years and generations. Really,
Speaker 4: the people I really want to kick where it hurts
Speaker 4: is the union heads who have realized, and they realized
Speaker 4: a number of decades ago, if we could organize government
Speaker 4: workers and make it permissible for them to unionize, that
Speaker 4: is the most permanent industry that has ever existed. We
Speaker 4: will get crazy rich, and we will get crazy powerful.
Speaker 4: And then the politicians who are propped up by those
Speaker 4: union heads. And this is the story of California politics obviously,
Speaker 4: but increasingly federal too.
Speaker 2: That is the true evil there. They are unholy.
Speaker 4: They they work counter to the interests of taxpayers, even
Speaker 4: as they howl that the only thing they care about
Speaker 4: is the taxpayers and quote unquote public servants.
Speaker 2: It's a scam.
Speaker 1: Well, this federal worker that I know said that is
Speaker 1: one of the reasons they're upset is they are told
Speaker 1: when they're hired, you know, you'll have to work this
Speaker 1: many hours, this will be your pay, but you can't
Speaker 1: get fired.
Speaker 2: Really, so you're you know, that's one thing you can
Speaker 2: count on.
Speaker 1: So you know, if I took a job and I
Speaker 1: was told I couldn't get fired, when I got fired,
Speaker 1: I would be, you know, unhappy about it.
Speaker 2: The uh, the.
Speaker 1: Problem is we shouldn't have jobs, and why would you
Speaker 1: Why would there be such a thing as telling somebody
Speaker 1: you can't be fired?
Speaker 2: Why would that?
Speaker 1: Why would those civil service protections exist? Last week we
Speaker 1: were talking about how most of the people that are
Speaker 1: being let go so far fall within that first year
Speaker 1: or two of probationary period where you don't before you
Speaker 1: get the civil service protections.
Speaker 3: Why do those protections exist, how do you get.
Speaker 2: Rid of them? Yeah? Why why would you have them?
Speaker 4: Well, because the union, you know, government official scam. It
Speaker 4: was sold to us as something good. It's insidious, it's
Speaker 4: it's a scam. It's a mob, it's a it's a racket.
Speaker 2: That's the term. I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: Different thing I wanted to talk about. And really my
Speaker 1: ultimate point is going to be I don't know, my
Speaker 1: ultimate point is going to be complaining about customer service
Speaker 1: or AI not being where it ought to be yet
Speaker 1: or something like that. But I test drove a Tesla
Speaker 1: cyber truck over the weekend because I was kind of
Speaker 1: interested in maybe one of those, And man, that's the
Speaker 1: most controversial vehicle out there. People either like them or
Speaker 1: they just absolutely loathe them. It is, and it's the
Speaker 1: most striking vehicle on the world road. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: nothing as weird looking at as that. Maybe ever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I try to keep an open mind. I've seen them
Speaker 1: in the wild.
Speaker 2: Not a fan. Yeah, well but there's not a fan.
Speaker 1: And then there's like loath, which I don't really get
Speaker 1: for any car.
Speaker 2: I can't get that worked up about when you drive on.
Speaker 6: But yes, Katie, they're making all of these wraps for
Speaker 6: the cyber trucks, and I saw one online the other day.
Speaker 2: Someone wrapped it like a Ford f one fifty. That's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really wanted like the sort of person who
Speaker 1: would do that.
Speaker 2: I think we would get along.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to get When I drove it, and
Speaker 1: I absolutely freaking loved it. Many the steer by where
Speaker 1: a wire steering that they call it is unlike anything
Speaker 1: I've ever driven in my life.
Speaker 2: It's so cool.
Speaker 1: Does a U turn on a dime and you hardly
Speaker 1: have to move the steering law. Very cool, smoothest riding
Speaker 1: vehicle I've ever been in my life. Really really liked it.
Speaker 1: But my son said, I will walk home from school.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna pick me up in that, I will
Speaker 1: just go ahead and walk the home. It'll take me
Speaker 1: an hour, but I'll just walk home from school. I
Speaker 1: can't have you picking me up for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fine, he'd get over that. A friend of his said,
Speaker 1: I can't be friends with you anymore if your dad.
Speaker 2: Drives a cyber drunk wow. Wow Wait a minute. And
Speaker 2: then how to resist the oppression of today's youth.
Speaker 1: And then I tweeted out a picture of me standing
Speaker 1: in front of it after I did the test drive,
Speaker 1: and the number of people saying you're single, You really
Speaker 1: think you're ever gonna not be single?
Speaker 2: If you drive that? Oh well, you know blow.
Speaker 1: You would have the situation if you drive one of
Speaker 1: those of if you're going on a date, pulling up
Speaker 1: and thinking coin flip, They're either gonna think oh cool
Speaker 1: or think ah.
Speaker 2: My stomach's feeling kind of funny. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I should go out to eat.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a deal breaker. I think that would
Speaker 1: be a deal breaker for a lot of people. So
Speaker 1: weird looking. I do love the videos you can see
Speaker 1: on YouTube of raccoons and bears trying to get into
Speaker 1: them because they think they're a trash dumpster.
Speaker 2: Those are fun. I didn't that's hilarious.
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm trying to picture myself as somebody being picked
Speaker 4: up for a date, and that appears. I think I
Speaker 4: would My curiosity would overcome any.
Speaker 2: Jees that's an ugly truck.
Speaker 4: This is I can only assume the person driving it
Speaker 4: is not to my taste.
Speaker 2: I would just think, eh, let's take a ride.
Speaker 1: But that aside, and this speaks to lots of different
Speaker 1: areas of life and kind of Elon himself. So Elon
Speaker 1: such an interesting thinker, as we're seeing with Doge and
Speaker 1: the rockets and the electric car, the most successful electric
Speaker 1: car of all time.
Speaker 2: But he decided we're not going to have human beings.
Speaker 1: It's all going to be you do everything online for everything,
Speaker 1: and that's one of the reasons why we're going to
Speaker 1: streamline this. And it just flat doesn't work. It just
Speaker 1: flat does not work at all. So I find that's
Speaker 1: interesting and it makes me a little concerned about Elon
Speaker 1: where he is on trying to pare down the government,
Speaker 1: because if he thinks that works, it doesn't. And if
Speaker 1: he thinks he can do that in a government office
Speaker 1: by eliminating human beings because we'll just have computers and
Speaker 1: they can go online.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work. Hey, Elon, you're the world's riches man.
Speaker 1: Hire somebody at minimum wage to answer phones and all
Speaker 1: your dealerships so somebody could call and ask a question. Ever,
Speaker 1: I think that'd be a great move. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you put him to the internet energy to get lost
Speaker 1: into the world of sent to this page and that page,
Speaker 1: and you can't ever ever figure anything out. It just
Speaker 1: flat doesn't work. And I find that juxtaposition of brilliant, innovative,
Speaker 1: groundbreaking change the world with kind of basic tried something new,
Speaker 1: non functional, an interesting thing that goes together in his brain.
Speaker 4: Maybe faith in technology being a little too right enthusiastic.
Speaker 4: Yet you know, it's funny. I hadn't even thought of it,
Speaker 4: but I bought a vehicle not long ago and was
Speaker 4: trying to get Judy's phone connected, and you know her,
Speaker 4: it's just that whole tech hookup thing. And I kept
Speaker 4: running into a problem, and I had the number of
Speaker 4: the tech guy at the dealership.
Speaker 2: I just called him. I said, hey, Zach here, Yeah,
Speaker 2: how do I do this? He said, yeah, go to
Speaker 2: the phone instead of the and it's two stacked. Actually
Speaker 2: said thanks, dude. I actually said to it to some
Speaker 2: employee inside the building.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, all other car makers, and especially
Speaker 1: luxury car makers, because these are expensive vehicles. I said,
Speaker 1: you know, you buy a Mercedes, you've got the guys
Speaker 1: like home cell phone, you can call and talk to
Speaker 1: him anytime you want. You got a question. You can't
Speaker 1: get a hold of a single human being for this car.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a big blind spot for y'all.
Speaker 1: But I said, you know, just my opinion, if you're
Speaker 1: ever in a meeting, I think that's.
Speaker 2: A great point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if he thinks he can take over, and
Speaker 1: I'm all for cutting government agencies that don't work and
Speaker 1: employees and all this sort of stuff. But if he
Speaker 1: thinks you can just replace it all with computers where
Speaker 1: you're going to try to get out checks.
Speaker 2: To people or something like that.
Speaker 1: Eh, you haven't proved it works with your big car
Speaker 1: company yet at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead and figure out that text question online.
Speaker 4: Have fun, let me know how it goes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and go into the rabbit hole of you can't
Speaker 1: find your answer and very very frustrating. Anyway, maybe AI
Speaker 1: will figure that out in the future.
Speaker 2: I have no idea nice job a rabbit hole.
Speaker 4: Oh that reminds me, you know, it was kind of
Speaker 4: hot to trot to play Clip fifteen.
Speaker 2: Can we play this? Come on? This is going back.
Speaker 4: This is not the Saturday Night Live fifty year retrospective,
Speaker 4: but it's a little looking back through the.
Speaker 2: Sands of time. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 7: A report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape,
Speaker 7: streamline the bureaucracy, al Gore and create a government that
Speaker 7: works better and costs less by.
Speaker 5: Paying for these plans, first with cuts and government waste
Speaker 5: and efficiency.
Speaker 7: Second, with cuts not gimmicks and government spending.
Speaker 2: Will prove that we can spend the money we have
Speaker 2: in an appropriate way and stop wasting so much.
Speaker 7: We will be looking at every other agency and program
Speaker 7: asking the direct question, do we really need this agency?
Speaker 2: Do we really need this program?
Speaker 5: One of the commitments that I made of American people
Speaker 5: was that we would do a better job here in
Speaker 5: Washington and rooting out a wasteful spending.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all. That's all Democrats in those clips. I
Speaker 1: think they probably meant it, or at least I remember
Speaker 1: when al Gore Ran Memori was on Letterman with the
Speaker 1: hammer and he put on his goggles to smash an
Speaker 1: astray and he said, this hammer cost taxpayers twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars because.
Speaker 2: Of blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: I believe they wanted to do it. It's just impossible,
Speaker 1: especially if you're not.
Speaker 4: Well. Modern Democratic party though, is suggesting that to even
Speaker 4: try it is evil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they wrong, and they would never consider getting
Speaker 1: rid of anybody part of the package. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know that's going to work. Then we got a lot
Speaker 1: more on the way. We'll finished Strong. Stay here, I'm
Speaker 1: going to be following what happens out of Saudi Arabia today,
Speaker 1: the big meetings between the United States and Russia. Rubio
Speaker 1: and Lavrov see what happens there. And you got Zelensky
Speaker 1: hanging out in Turkey seeing, hey, if you need me,
Speaker 1: if you want me involved, since it's my country that
Speaker 1: got attacked, I'm right here.
Speaker 4: We went big, big, big, big big on free speech issues,
Speaker 4: including CBS on sixty Minutes just enamored with the Germans
Speaker 4: censoring of insults online and that they just were enthusiastic
Speaker 4: about the new German way, and then Margaret Brennan with
Speaker 4: an idiotic comment to Marco Rubio on Face the Nation
Speaker 4: about how Nazi Germany got started because of weaponized free
Speaker 4: speech and isn't that proof that's free speech is not good?
Speaker 4: I mean, it was just insane. We went really big
Speaker 4: on that hour two of the show. If you weren't
Speaker 4: here Gravit via podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand, you
Speaker 4: probably ought to subscribe. But I didn't get a chance
Speaker 4: to squeeze in my favorite part of and what launched
Speaker 4: a lot of this, or at least part of it is.
Speaker 4: Jadvans gave a big speech in front of Europe talking
Speaker 4: about how, hey, y'all got to stop suppressing the speech
Speaker 4: of your voters or it's going to explode. And the
Speaker 4: Germans says this is not acceptable, which is proof that
Speaker 4: he was right. They didn't say you're wrong, and here's
Speaker 4: why they said, it's not acceptable for you to say that,
Speaker 4: which is really really something. Thank you for proving my point.
Speaker 4: But I wanted to get to this. I absolutely love
Speaker 4: this National Review editorial board. There is nothing because a
Speaker 4: lot of people squealed, oh, it's improperly, he shouldn't have
Speaker 4: done that. He insulted our allies, some of the useral
Speaker 4: suspects of that. There's nothing incongruous or unwise about the
Speaker 4: American government reminding our allies in Europe that an organization
Speaker 4: that exists to protect liberty and democracy ought to be
Speaker 4: filled with members who believe in liberty and democracy, especially
Speaker 4: when those allies pride themselves on being the enlightened figures
Speaker 4: in the room. It's reminding them, hey, we protect democracies.
Speaker 4: That's the point, so you gotta be one. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't think that's improper or out a line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see where this goes.
Speaker 1: What do you have a guess as to what percentage
Speaker 1: of people think free speech is.
Speaker 2: Dangerous in what country? This country? Yeah, in the United States? No,
Speaker 2: I know. The figures I saw recently among young people
Speaker 2: are just shocking.
Speaker 1: Well, it must shocking. It must be higher than I
Speaker 1: think it is for CBS to present it is. Clearly
Speaker 1: they're on the right side of history here by putting
Speaker 1: all these limits on free speech. I mean, we can't
Speaker 1: have people insulted on the streets, are on the internet
Speaker 1: for crying out loud.
Speaker 4: It's so easy to demagog it because you present a
Speaker 4: single instance and say, wouldn't it have been better if
Speaker 4: this idiot hadn't said this to that nicely?
Speaker 2: And it's true, well, right of course it is.
Speaker 4: But then when you extrapolate it even a little bit
Speaker 4: to a society and you give people the power to
Speaker 4: censor and the power to decide what should be censored,
Speaker 4: it ends up as a nightmare every single time. I
Speaker 4: would rather attend to the problems of too much liberty
Speaker 4: than too little.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much who said that? Uh TJ.
Speaker 4: Tom Jefferson, maybe you've heard of them. I don't blame
Speaker 4: the young people because they've been indoctrinated to believe something terrible.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, if their high school and college teachers have
Speaker 1: told them free speech is wrong.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was weaponized to uh exterminate Jews in Germany, for instance.
Speaker 2: Well then why would they think any different? But well,
Speaker 2: and then they'll hit them with you.
Speaker 4: You can't yell fire in a crowd at theater, which
Speaker 4: of course is a quote from a Supreme Court case
Speaker 4: saying just because that's true doesn't mean you get to
Speaker 4: stretch it, But people use it as an excuse to
Speaker 4: stretch it.
Speaker 2: I'm strong, I'm strong.
Speaker 1: Ready.
Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts.
Speaker 4: Jokay, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be fun? Michaelangelo lead the way. You know,
Speaker 2: I really enjoy the SNL stuff. But my wife and
Speaker 2: I were watching together.
Speaker 6: We kept saying, oh my gosh, he looks old now,
Speaker 6: and oh my gosh, she looks old now.
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of that. When did David
Speaker 1: Spade become seventy?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 4: Katie Green our final thor esteem Newswoman with final thought, Katie.
Speaker 2: I will forever think that Norm M.
Speaker 6: MacDonald was the greatest thing on SNL and I got
Speaker 6: to meet him and he was such a nice guy
Speaker 6: and I miss him.
Speaker 4: Dearly Minnesota nice right, yeah, Canada. Oh that's right, that's
Speaker 4: northern Minnesota. It's the name of the new state. Jack
Speaker 4: final thought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am definitely gonna keep my eye on this
Speaker 1: whole free speech thing.
Speaker 2: It's way worse than I thought it was.
Speaker 1: For sixty minutes to not even have an opposing point
Speaker 1: of view a free speech warrior on at all, highly troubling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And it would be easy to just dismiss
Speaker 4: sixty minutes is a relic of the past, were it
Speaker 4: not reinforced by what the kids are learning in school.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a fight, and I've been saying this
Speaker 4: for years and other people have two. We got so
Speaker 4: lazy about advocating for why our principles are important and good.
Speaker 4: We just assumed everybody loves liberty and always would. We
Speaker 4: don't need to teach our kids about it. Yeah, well
Speaker 4: we got We got bested by the Marxists.
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Speaker 1: Bill Murray looked a hundred, didn't he, Michael, because he's
Speaker 1: really old.
Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 1: God bless America.
Speaker 3: I'm Strong and Getty not my captain America.
Speaker 2: I think your star spangled Max. So is this a
Speaker 2: real thing? Yeah? It is? So no, Joe, Let's go
Speaker 2: with a bang. And it was like they got shot
Speaker 2: with a dart in the jugular that contained like the
Speaker 2: methamphatamine and rabies okay, and like wow, I'm like, what
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