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Speaker 2: a brand new week of intermation for you, coming in
Speaker 2: fast and furiously from so many different angles, and today
Speaker 2: swallowing from story to story. If I might further torture
Speaker 2: the metaphor or jumping in the air and doing a
Speaker 2: backflip and landing on one foot of enfotainment. But today
Speaker 2: we're toiling under this title, Roger Goodell says, learn Spanish, gringos,
Speaker 2: or which do you prefer?
Speaker 1: Stuper Bowl or Puper Bowl?
Speaker 2: What is the message that I'm being sent by the
Speaker 2: NFL by having a forty minute show that's not in
Speaker 2: my language?
Speaker 1: What is the message being sent to me?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 4: Step aside white people, the Hispanic multicultural America is here
Speaker 4: and you're gonna take it.
Speaker 1: I knew that his songs are all in Spanish.
Speaker 2: That didn't catch me by surprise, But when it turned
Speaker 2: out it was some sort of like play that opened
Speaker 2: with a still screen with words on there to like
Speaker 2: set it up for you, and no subtitles.
Speaker 1: I was like, what the frig is this?
Speaker 2: So I'm lost from the from jump, I mean from
Speaker 2: the opening segment. Okay, this is a play about something,
Speaker 2: but they're not willing to tell me what it's about.
Speaker 2: So I did a little homework after the game, annoyed
Speaker 2: by this. So many Spanish only people live in the
Speaker 2: United States. There's a lot of people to speak Spanish,
Speaker 2: but most people speak Spanish and English. And the number
Speaker 2: it's hard to nail it down for a variety of reasons,
Speaker 2: but it's single digits. It's so there are a number
Speaker 2: of folks who have immigrated without documents go on, so
Speaker 2: tough to compile yet, but it's somewhere between like two
Speaker 2: and eight percent of people speak Spanish fluently only at home.
Speaker 2: So it's for that crowd for four percent of the
Speaker 2: country that only speak Spanish. The rest of us who
Speaker 2: don't only speak Spanish. You had no interest in figuring
Speaker 2: out a way to make that entertaining for us. You
Speaker 2: didn't even try.
Speaker 4: No, no, no subtitles to me, like I said, I wasn't.
Speaker 4: I knew it was going to be in Spanish, but
Speaker 4: I thought there'd be some sort of you know, tip
Speaker 4: of the cap to the fact that ninety three percent
Speaker 4: of the audience would benefit.
Speaker 1: From a little help here.
Speaker 4: Well of the population, how about the audience of the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl? What are those percentages? And there were a
Speaker 4: number point of not very subtle political messages in the
Speaker 4: show too. God bless America. I don't have any nezuela Colombia.
Speaker 4: I don't because America is all of those countries. I
Speaker 4: don't know what a suckers because I don't speak that language. Well,
Speaker 4: you had to go after and dig up the translations
Speaker 4: to know that it was leftist politics and sacks being
Speaker 4: sold in the halftime show.
Speaker 2: Well, sex is always being sold in the halftime show.
Speaker 2: My son was my oldest son. Like, when did they
Speaker 2: start having strippers as dancers? I said, a long time ago.
Speaker 2: You were too young to remember Beyonce or many many
Speaker 2: other halftime shows from which crotches are being shoved in
Speaker 2: the cameras. So that's on the other hand, for sheer
Speaker 2: numbers of asses shaken, that was a pretty impressive display.
Speaker 2: I hate to beat up on the halftime show because
Speaker 2: it's like a It's like the I don't know the
Speaker 2: tiredest take on the Super Bowl there is. But this
Speaker 2: is a level for one thing, and this is this
Speaker 2: is artistic taste. I don't get bad. Bunny doesn't dance
Speaker 2: or sing. Usually these people sing.
Speaker 1: He shouts sings. He just shouts words. I was listening
Speaker 1: for singing.
Speaker 2: There was maybe one word you could have called possibly
Speaker 2: attempting to sing a note. The ReFood is just shouting words. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of rap. Is shouting words with fine.
Speaker 1: But he else doesn't dance.
Speaker 2: Usually these people that are the kind of popular artists
Speaker 2: that you know you beat up on their singing, like
Speaker 2: Brittany or whatever. They're part of the dance core and
Speaker 2: they're just as good a dance as all the professional dances.
Speaker 2: But he doesn't do that either, So he just stops
Speaker 2: around shouting things at me in Spanish. Now you cannot
Speaker 2: possibly criticize me for not finding that entertaining. Some guy
Speaker 2: stomping around shouting Spanish at me. Why in the world
Speaker 2: would I get any enjoyment of that whatsoever?
Speaker 1: I mean, even the tiniest bit.
Speaker 2: If you costumes were nice, like every year, like Kendrick Labar.
Speaker 2: A lot of people didn't. You didn't like Kendrick Lammar. Fine,
Speaker 2: you don't like Wrap the Head rap? I liked it,
Speaker 2: or Beyonce. You don't like pop music?
Speaker 1: It was pop, muan. But this somebody's stomping and shouting
Speaker 1: Spanish at me.
Speaker 2: Come up with one thing even like in just one
Speaker 2: poem frond that they had many of their that I
Speaker 2: could grasp onto for entertainment.
Speaker 4: I'm hearing some racism here, folks, plenty of it. I
Speaker 4: mean the New York Times Bad Bunny delivers joyful Super
Speaker 4: Bowl halftime show the Let's see Where's the Wall Street
Speaker 4: Journal's delightful account.
Speaker 2: I saw the word historic thrown around this morning. Yeah
Speaker 2: it was historic. You crafted a halftime show for the
Speaker 2: by four most watched TV show in America, and uh
Speaker 2: and crafted it for five percent of your audience. And
Speaker 2: again you might make a good point there. I was
Speaker 2: going with the population. I gotta believe a lot of
Speaker 2: Spanish only households ain't watching the Super Bowl. No, they
Speaker 2: like football, not football, so period Street Journal headline Bad
Speaker 2: Bunny uses joy to put out political firestorm at Super
Speaker 2: Bowl halftime We're still here, Puerto Rican superstar says in
Speaker 2: Spanish while spiking a football, that's right, we're still here,
Speaker 2: and then spikes a football in America's face. Bad Bunny
Speaker 2: uses joy to put out political firestorm at Super Bowl halftime.
Speaker 2: That's not Bad Bunny's fault. He gets to have that opinion.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why the National Football League. Besides, that's
Speaker 2: what their audience wants. That's so crazy.
Speaker 4: Now, they calculated that their current audience would not get it,
Speaker 4: or ignore it or get over it the way they
Speaker 4: got over the whole mccollin Kaepernick politicized sidelines thing, and
Speaker 4: their new audience, younger Hispanic international, would dig it. That
Speaker 4: was Roger Goodell's completely mathematical calculation that the.
Speaker 1: Old people, the old white people, would get over it.
Speaker 2: I was trying to think if there's any other you know,
Speaker 2: I'm always talking about, how has any other empire ever
Speaker 2: done this turned on itself and like educated its children
Speaker 2: to hate their own empire. I mean, has this ever
Speaker 2: happened in world history? And I don't know if it has,
Speaker 2: but on this one, are there any other countries where
Speaker 2: they would take the most popular thing they have in
Speaker 2: their country and put it in a language that practically
Speaker 2: nobody understands others. No, it's it's unthinkable, and they obviously
Speaker 2: wouldn't do it in China or Russia or any North
Speaker 2: Korea round, any of those countries obviously, but even in
Speaker 2: like when France, would you and I don't know what
Speaker 2: language you would choose, but would they have whatever the
Speaker 2: number one thing is in France? Maybe World Cup soccer?
Speaker 2: Would you have the would you have the show be
Speaker 2: in some language Flemish?
Speaker 4: The three percent of the population speaks and everybody in
Speaker 4: Paris Stadium is just looking around.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: No, it's absolutely unthinkable unless Roger Goodell in the NFL
Speaker 4: are saying fu too, the vast majority of their current
Speaker 4: audience to go for that international audience.
Speaker 2: Wow, I was shocked by that, And again it was
Speaker 2: it was the opening still to set up the play.
Speaker 2: That being in Spanish was like, Wow, you really really
Speaker 2: have no interest in me?
Speaker 1: Following along with this, I mean that's that's like minimal effort. Subtitles. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: Wait a second, I'm sorry, I'm incorrect, You're incorrect.
Speaker 4: Bad Buddy delivers joyful Super Bowl halftime show, historic and joyful.
Speaker 1: That's right, and we'll talk about that more. I'm a
Speaker 1: magician or a clean stand up comic for the whole family.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying bunch different.
Speaker 2: I actually saw somebody was posting halftime shows from the
Speaker 2: seventies there and there was like motorcycle jumpers and guys
Speaker 2: training taming a lion and.
Speaker 1: Dogs doing tricks. Looked way more entertaining than what I
Speaker 1: saw yesterday. At least it was in English. Yes, Katie,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 5: I was a huge fan of the puppy Ball.
Speaker 2: You know what I for first year I've ever forgotten
Speaker 2: to tune in the Pippy Pupy bwl and I always
Speaker 2: love the puppy Ball.
Speaker 1: Oh you get that camera down in the in the
Speaker 1: water where they come over and take a drink of water.
Speaker 1: The camera, the water cam.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good shot right there. Yeah, we got
Speaker 2: lots to talk about. It was also the most boring
Speaker 2: Super Bowl in many, many years in terms of just
Speaker 2: watching a football game. Let's start to show officially, I'm
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is? How
Speaker 2: did it already get to be Monday February ninth, They're
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six where I'm strong in getting and we
Speaker 2: approve of this program.
Speaker 4: All right, let's kick off officially now according to CC
Speaker 4: rules regulations, here we go at El Marco.
Speaker 1: This is your.
Speaker 6: Favorite president and this message is for bad Bunny, where
Speaker 6: as I call him the nasty rabbit, El Canejo desagradable.
Speaker 6: He's a nasty rabbit and a stupid rabbit.
Speaker 1: That's not actually Trump, though Trump was not pleased with
Speaker 1: the show either.
Speaker 2: No his truth social post from the actual president. The
Speaker 2: Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible. One of the
Speaker 2: worst ever exclamation point. It makes no sense. What doesn't
Speaker 2: if you don't speak Spanish is an effort, is an
Speaker 2: affront to the greatness of American doesn't represents our standards
Speaker 2: of success, creativity, experience, ba boh.
Speaker 1: No, nobody understands a word.
Speaker 7: This guy is saying. What a funny old man thing
Speaker 7: to say right there. It's true, nobody understands the word
Speaker 7: he's saying. That's in Spanish.
Speaker 1: Pop in Spanish. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: The dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are
Speaker 2: watching from throughout the USA. I've always wondered why they
Speaker 2: have such sexual dancing.
Speaker 1: During the halftime of the super Bowl.
Speaker 4: But what I wondered why substandard Rabbit was grabbing at
Speaker 4: his crank so often that I saw the lyrics to
Speaker 4: his song.
Speaker 1: Oh I got that. It fits.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all about intercourse. Yeah, and intercourse with lots
Speaker 4: of different women. Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You know, I have to I have to be offended,
Speaker 2: like in absentia or something about the lyrics.
Speaker 1: Since I don't speak Spanish, I just I sat.
Speaker 2: There befuddled for a while, and then I thought, maybe
Speaker 2: I'll put to Michael's cheese dip in the fridge since
Speaker 2: I've eaten so much I'm about to throw up.
Speaker 4: Well, it's although I think it's worth contemplating that. In
Speaker 4: English speaking America, the reaction was what the hell? And
Speaker 4: in Spanish speaking America, it's like cover the kid's ears.
Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, that is interesting. Okay, any thoughts on that
Speaker 2: text line? Four one five nine five KFTC. We've got
Speaker 2: Katie's headlines on the way, lots to talk about today,
Speaker 2: stick around, and I want to discuss the phenomenon of
Speaker 2: trying to make me cry about potato chips. Is this
Speaker 2: okay or not? Is this okay or not?
Speaker 4: I think I know what you're driving at. Yes, yes,
Speaker 4: don't tug at my.
Speaker 2: Heart strings with the sort of thing that gets to me.
Speaker 2: And then it's about flipping potato chips. Lads, that's my
Speaker 2: favorite potato chip too. But oh, he's given his farm
Speaker 2: over to his daughter because they work together and she
Speaker 2: learned as a kid a girl potato.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is such a touching potato chips. This
Speaker 1: is an ad for potato chips.
Speaker 4: And then I will keep this anonymous. It uses an
Speaker 4: unfortunate term for a transgender community. But nothing says our
Speaker 4: beer isn't for trainees like a bald eagle riding a horse, sir,
Speaker 4: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: All right, so much to talk about. Who's supporting what?
Speaker 1: It's lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 8: Katie, Well, the lead story seems to be Bad Bunny,
Speaker 8: so we'll start with those.
Speaker 1: ABC.
Speaker 5: Trump calls Bad Bunny.
Speaker 8: Super Bowl halftime show a quote slap in the face
Speaker 8: to our country, NBC that wedding during Bad Bunnies half
Speaker 8: to show it was real, and CNN Bad Bunny super
Speaker 8: Bowl halftime show performance redefined what it means to be
Speaker 8: an American patriot.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Now you tell me which emotion lands
Speaker 2: with a majority of people that redefined what to be
Speaker 2: it means to be a patriot, or Trump saying that sucked.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand a word he said.
Speaker 2: I percent at least people who hate Trump say he's
Speaker 2: right about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you could.
Speaker 4: You could practically substitute Kamalas for bad Bunny Trump's for
Speaker 4: what the hell was that?
Speaker 1: And it would win the election.
Speaker 2: Well, and forgive me for being so uh, you know, non,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of the right word cosmopolitan.
Speaker 1: That I want my entertainment in my language. God, what
Speaker 1: whose headline was that last one?
Speaker 4: The Patriot won CNN CNN unfreaking believable.
Speaker 8: Fox got three family vows to pay rants him as
Speaker 8: desperate search for Nancy Guthrie enters day nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk about that. So uh.
Speaker 2: Family addressing the kidnapper or hoping they're addressing the kidnapper yesterday.
Speaker 1: Probably not to my guests, but we'll see.
Speaker 8: New York Times lawmakers to view three million unredacted Epstein.
Speaker 2: Files behind closed doors. Now we're going to get to finally,
Speaker 2: finally get to the truth. Many people are saying.
Speaker 9: Uh, okay, yeah, ESPN, the quad, God, let's USA to
Speaker 9: Gold in figure skating easily the most dramatic sports thing
Speaker 9: that happened yesterday, with the.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl being what it was. I wish I had
Speaker 2: watched that in real time. They needed it was so
Speaker 2: close with the Japanese. We needed like a practically a
Speaker 2: perfect performance to beat the Japanese. He goes out there
Speaker 2: and does like seven things nobody had ever done ever
Speaker 2: in the history of skating.
Speaker 4: Oh, I wish I'd seen it live and say, and
Speaker 4: it scores lands a.
Speaker 2: Backflip on one foot after doing five or six quads.
Speaker 2: Nobody never landed one ever. He does five or six
Speaker 2: of them in one route.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 8: From Reuters as Ai enters the operating room, reports a
Speaker 8: rise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts.
Speaker 1: That's a foot, No, it's not. Wow, I'd like to
Speaker 1: know more.
Speaker 5: From The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 8: Elderly lawmakers won't step aside, prompting new debate over age limits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm for having this debate.
Speaker 4: Probably the age limits are absolutely probably not constitutional unless
Speaker 4: you put them in the Constitution.
Speaker 1: But I'd like which maybe we should debate? Which maybe we.
Speaker 8: Should From The New York Post, Vague posting trend sparks
Speaker 8: social media fury with intentionally confusing.
Speaker 1: Posts, say that.
Speaker 5: What's the va vague posting?
Speaker 8: I have someone who does the does this all the
Speaker 8: time on Facebook where the day, Oh my gosh, I've
Speaker 8: never been this upset. That's their status update, and everybody's like,
Speaker 8: so it's friends with clickbait.
Speaker 5: Yeah pretty much?
Speaker 1: Wow, wow wow, No, too bad, but we're friends.
Speaker 5: Sorry to hear it, Sorry, sorry to hear it.
Speaker 8: And finally, the Babylon Bee NBC suffers bizarre technical glitch.
Speaker 8: His entire halftime show broadcast.
Speaker 5: Is in Spanish.
Speaker 2: You don't have to go back many years where it
Speaker 2: would have been im just not even an option.
Speaker 1: People would have thought it was insane. I still think
Speaker 1: it's insane.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that and read some of your
Speaker 2: texts and get into some of the news of the day.
Speaker 1: I hope you can stick around. Armstrong and Getty. It's
Speaker 1: your favorite bad bunny song. I already got WoT by that.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. I've never heard of
Speaker 1: bad Bunnies. Yeah, oh no, no bad bunnies. Do you
Speaker 1: think they made a mistake? I believe I ain't never
Speaker 1: heard of broad too. No, I don't have one.
Speaker 5: I don't listen to.
Speaker 1: I don't know any song. I'm already listened about Buddy.
Speaker 2: That was a quite a number of Seattle Seahawks players, yeah,
Speaker 2: who had no idea who bad Bunny was or good
Speaker 2: name of a song, weren't quite as excited about the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl halftime show, becoming more and more clear that
Speaker 2: this was like a not a u a cultural phenomenon
Speaker 2: that reached the point to justify being on the halftime
Speaker 2: is rather the shoving it upon us, hoping that we'll
Speaker 2: like get on board or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: No, no, I'll tell you precisely what it is. First
Speaker 4: a note, the Seahawks players a bunch of young black
Speaker 4: men primarily, and a couple of white guys too. I
Speaker 4: think of that montage, and an American born I think
Speaker 4: all of them. Roger Goodell said, We're going to give
Speaker 4: it enormous wet kiss to the Spanish speaking world one
Speaker 4: hundred percent and to me like insanely not even given
Speaker 4: a tip of the cap. Here's some subtitles for the
Speaker 4: English speaking world. We're gonna say to the Spanish speaking world,
Speaker 4: we love you, we are you, this game is you,
Speaker 4: and the English speaking people will forgive us in.
Speaker 2: The way that's calculation, In the way that the opening
Speaker 2: game of the year, Cheap Chargers.
Speaker 1: Was in South America.
Speaker 4: Well yeah, but it's it's not like they had some
Speaker 4: Spanish speaking announcer and we were just sitting there saying,
Speaker 4: I think it's third and two. I can't tell because
Speaker 4: they're speaking in Spanish. But yeah, it's it's part of
Speaker 4: the same thing. I just I get the calculation as
Speaker 4: a cold blooded business decision. I do not understand the
Speaker 4: utter lack of any I'm going to help you out
Speaker 4: a little bit. To his enormous English speaking audience. That
Speaker 4: is that is.
Speaker 1: That you know what it is. It's it's an fu
Speaker 1: That's the way I took it.
Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty five million people tuned into the halftime,
Speaker 2: most watched in decades or something. Yes, Michael, they know
Speaker 2: they got us for the football, and so it's sort
Speaker 2: of like we know you're gonna keep watching.
Speaker 1: At least that's their calculation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not like I'm gonna boycott the NFL all
Speaker 2: over this, but I'm highly annoyed that you just don't
Speaker 2: even care at all whether or not I get anything
Speaker 2: out of that time show. I mean just like, like
Speaker 2: Jo said, didn't even throw me a bone. Hey, here's
Speaker 2: what this is about. You know, the play. They're gonna
Speaker 2: do a little play here, like a musical sort of thing.
Speaker 2: This is what it's about. No, it's not no help.
Speaker 1: What's on?
Speaker 2: Okay, We're gonna talk about that more later, including some
Speaker 2: of you who just think we're old racists on the
Speaker 2: text line, which is perhaps trolling. But we'll get into
Speaker 2: that more an hour two. So, the whole Savannah Guthries
Speaker 2: mom story, I'm glad this happened. Some former FBI bigwig
Speaker 2: went on Fox yesterday and said something I've been thinking
Speaker 2: all weekend, and so it makes me feel better saying it.
Speaker 2: But first, here's a little rundown of where we are
Speaker 2: on that story.
Speaker 10: When Savannah Guthrie references receiving a message, she's talking about
Speaker 10: a note that was received from a Tucson television station
Speaker 10: on Friday evening, and the FBI and the Pima County
Speaker 10: Sheriff's Department have been analyzing that message from Nancy Guthrie's
Speaker 10: supposed kidnapper. As yet, they have not been able to
Speaker 10: validate its authenticity, and Savannah's post included carefully calibrated, deliberate language,
Speaker 10: not to antagonize any captors, but to show a degree
Speaker 10: of seriousness. They promised to pay to bring their mother home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably didn't do this in the right order. Here's
Speaker 2: Savana Guthrie from the little tape that they released over
Speaker 2: the weekend that was analysis of it.
Speaker 3: We've received your message and we understand. We beg you
Speaker 3: now to return our mother to us so that we
Speaker 3: can celebrate with her. This is the only way we
Speaker 3: want peace. This is very valuable to us, and we
Speaker 3: will pay.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of people on the cable
Speaker 2: news channels are have been dancing around a number of
Speaker 2: things out of you know, being respectful or whatever, and that's.
Speaker 1: Good they should be.
Speaker 2: I've always felt like our radio show is more like
Speaker 2: what people say in real life sitting around talking, and
Speaker 2: in real life sitting around talking, people say much archer
Speaker 2: things than you would say as the host of a
Speaker 2: cable news show.
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, you know, I need to remind myself
Speaker 4: of that occasionally. This is designed to be people friends
Speaker 4: sitting around drinking coffee and shooting the bowl in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, when you're sitting around with friends
Speaker 2: talking about this sort of stuff, people say lots of
Speaker 2: things you would never say on the you know they
Speaker 2: cable officially, but some FBI guys said it in gentle
Speaker 2: terms yesterday. This doesn't seem like any kidnapping I've ever
Speaker 2: heard of. I don't think they're they kidnapped her for ransom.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is the kidnappers reaching out. I
Speaker 2: think who knows what crazy s happened here? He didn't
Speaker 2: say that, but who knows what crazy plan this person had.
Speaker 2: But this is going to be a mix of crazy
Speaker 2: slash stupid. We don't know which percentages. But yeah, and
Speaker 2: also I don't I don't blame the family for Well,
Speaker 2: if there's a one percent chance it is the kidnappers,
Speaker 2: let's let them know we're willing to do business or
Speaker 2: whatever you.
Speaker 1: Might as well. There's no arm in it.
Speaker 2: But they're probably not negotiating with the actual kidnappers, because
Speaker 2: the kidnappers have kidnappers using my finger quotes, have given no, hey,
Speaker 2: we got her, here's you know, here's something only she
Speaker 2: would know about your childhood or whatever.
Speaker 1: Nothing, because they're not the actual kidnappers.
Speaker 2: And some trolls or losers who think they can rip
Speaker 2: them off or whatever out there. The poor woman is
Speaker 2: dead somewhere, and uh, that's almost certainly the case.
Speaker 1: I hope it's not. I hope I'm wrong, of course,
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we all know that the chances of
Speaker 4: her still being around are exceedingly small at this point,
Speaker 4: and it's very sad. Yeah, I don't want to go ahead,
Speaker 4: and I think it's becoming more evident or more people
Speaker 4: who are willing to say out loud, this doesn't look
Speaker 4: like a kidnapping case. This isn't the way they unfold
Speaker 4: when you've got professional kidnappers. My only fear is if
Speaker 4: we aren't all freaked out enough about the modern world
Speaker 4: and the postmodern world and the soon to be post
Speaker 4: postmodern world, there are going to be a fair number
Speaker 4: of people who think, huh, kidnapping cryptocurrency, and we're going
Speaker 4: to see an increase of it copycats, although they're not
Speaker 4: copying probably an actual four ransom kidnapping, but more scumbags
Speaker 4: and idiots will think, you know, I could pull.
Speaker 2: That off, Yeah, so that we're willing to pay from
Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie and the reporting is and who knows what
Speaker 2: all is going on with various trolls sending all kinds
Speaker 2: of ransom demands from I'm sure they've gotten ten, probably
Speaker 2: tens of thousands at this point, flowing into various places
Speaker 2: from trolls around the world. I'd be really time consuming
Speaker 2: to try to wade through those see if any of
Speaker 2: them mean anything. But it started at a million dollars
Speaker 2: and went to six million dollars over the weekend, which
Speaker 2: is another thing that the experts say is not common
Speaker 2: among professional And the deadline is today, and the deadline
Speaker 2: will come and go, and they won't hear anything from
Speaker 2: the kidnapperson. Right back to my fear of copycats, etc.
Speaker 2: When you see the abject powerlessness of the family and
Speaker 2: their willingness to pay generously for the return of their
Speaker 2: loved one. If and this is one of my favorite
Speaker 2: metaphors I've come across, the whole most majority is sheep.
Speaker 2: There is a small but significant number of wolves and
Speaker 2: a small but significant number of sheep dogs that protect
Speaker 2: the sheep. If the wolves out there are looking at this,
Speaker 2: they're saying, this is a really good idea.
Speaker 1: Kidnapping for ransom in the age of cryptocurrency.
Speaker 2: I hope you're wrong about that. But I don't think
Speaker 2: you are yeah kidding. I have never been in this position.
Speaker 2: I hope I never am, so I don't know how
Speaker 2: i'd act, But just based on people I've known who
Speaker 2: are scumbags, watching TV shows and movies throughout my life,
Speaker 2: reading lots of true crime books or whatever the whole
Speaker 2: you know, please give her back. We really care about her,
Speaker 2: you know, or him, your loved one. Those kind of
Speaker 2: people love that, I mean that appealing to their sympathy
Speaker 2: and victims always do. And I'm always surprised by that,
Speaker 2: because the scumbag trolls that I've that I've known in
Speaker 2: my life, they they love that. That makes them happy.
Speaker 2: That doesn't make it. Oh okay, I didn't realize this
Speaker 2: means so much to you. I suppose I should get no. No,
Speaker 2: they want you to be damaged because they're damaged and
Speaker 2: they're lashing out at the world.
Speaker 4: And right, yeah, well said, yeah. I've got to admit
Speaker 4: a cringe when I hear please like that. I'm thinking, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're dealing with a predator, a sociopath. There are again,
Speaker 4: a small but significant number of them out there, and
Speaker 4: you just have to recognize that they are evil and
Speaker 4: they exist, and you know, for a long time in
Speaker 4: America we did recognize that. And when we came across
Speaker 4: somebody who proved over and over again that they were
Speaker 4: evil and could not or would not repent, we put
Speaker 4: them away for good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now progressives think that's a bad idea, I respectfully disagree.
Speaker 2: Before we take a break and get to the mailbag,
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Speaker 2: tell you what Mark Alpern wrote in his newsletter over
Speaker 2: the weekend, which I thought was really good about our
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Speaker 2: Gonna use my finger quotes racist cartoon that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: tweeted out on Friday with the Obama's Monkeys, And I
Speaker 2: was interested to read on Saturday morning Mark Halprin and
Speaker 2: his little newsletter, And I'll quote from a little bit
Speaker 2: later in the show because I thought it was really
Speaker 2: really good. But just how difficult the news cycle is
Speaker 2: and where we are in the modern news cycle, and
Speaker 2: what gets the most attention and he said, and he
Speaker 2: was making the point that there are several last week
Speaker 2: giant stories going on. I mean, the United States looks
Speaker 2: to be very close to going to war with a
Speaker 2: major country, Iran, and got he had the numbers, Almost
Speaker 2: no coverage on your evening newscasts.
Speaker 1: Or anything all week long.
Speaker 2: And then how the racist cartoon and he said, this
Speaker 2: is yeah, it's probably racist. It's one of like a
Speaker 2: half a dozen things Trump has done in the last
Speaker 2: couple of years that he shouldn't have done. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But it's nowhere near as important as the fact that
Speaker 2: we might be going to war with Iran. Right, Well,
Speaker 2: the piece talks with Russian Ukraine that could blow up
Speaker 2: in anything, or a number of other stories that are
Speaker 2: going on, and we just don't focus on the important
Speaker 2: stuff anymore, right at all?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's clearly true.
Speaker 4: There's another ggnormous story Jack and I were discussing before
Speaker 4: the show that is.
Speaker 1: Out in the open, but nobody's aware of it.
Speaker 4: But the minute the Democrats take the House, the representatives,
Speaker 4: I think Trump is going to be impeached, like maybe
Speaker 4: that week over cryptocurrency and the UAE. Wow, tell you
Speaker 4: a little more about that to come. But oh, it's enormous.
Speaker 4: It's an enormous story. The New York Times, the left
Speaker 4: media has been on a big time. But anybody who
Speaker 4: doesn't read them is unaware of it. And we'll continue
Speaker 4: to whine about. I'm not gonna call it whining.
Speaker 2: I think it's a legitimate criticism of the halftime show
Speaker 2: from the Super Bowl an hour or two and some
Speaker 2: of your texts, which are really really interesting. So we
Speaker 2: got mail bag on the way, lots of stuff stay here.
Speaker 2: I would actually listen to some sports talk if it
Speaker 2: was people who knew what they were talking about, ranking
Speaker 2: where Seattle's defense comes in among the all time great
Speaker 2: defenses in NFL history, because it's got to be up there.
Speaker 1: Very high.
Speaker 4: Yeah, suffocating defense, which makes for a boring football game. Unfortunately, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it wins championships. I don't know how you beat up
Speaker 4: on poor what's his name, the quarterback for the Patriots.
Speaker 4: Oh May, Yeah, may want to see a doctor, Blake,
Speaker 4: may want to look into a different line of work, Drake.
Speaker 2: But he didn't have he didn't have a half a
Speaker 2: second to do anything.
Speaker 1: What was he supposed to do? No? I mean when
Speaker 1: he think he was beset by zombies or wolves or something.
Speaker 1: And then when someone is open, he doesn't make the throw.
Speaker 2: That's because the previous fifty throws he almost got.
Speaker 1: His head caped, and he's a little nervous.
Speaker 4: He's a little shaky back there. Right, Yeah, poor kid, Well,
Speaker 4: what are you gonna do? Here's your freedom of hating
Speaker 4: Quote of the day continuing, great communist leaders and the
Speaker 4: way they think.
Speaker 1: Vladimir Lenin.
Speaker 2: Under socialism, all will govern in turn and will soon
Speaker 2: become accustomed to no one governing. So, Jack, you know
Speaker 2: more about Lenin than I, well, I know more about
Speaker 2: John Lennon. You know more about Vladimir Iliach Lenin. Did
Speaker 2: he actually.
Speaker 4: Believe that or was that part of the snow job
Speaker 4: to try to calm the proletariat? He actually believed it,
Speaker 4: According to Stephen Kotkin, who are referenced last week, he
Speaker 4: got into all the Soviet files when they finally were
Speaker 4: opened up, and wrote a couple of great, great biographies.
Speaker 2: But one of his revelations was they were actually communists.
Speaker 2: Stalin and Lenin actually believed that crap, wow, which I
Speaker 2: know is amazing.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I always assumed that they weren't or like you know
Speaker 2: the Ietola is not actually what he claims to be,
Speaker 2: or you know any of these they're just crooks or
Speaker 2: they want to be in charge.
Speaker 4: But right Madness Mailbag feel free to reach out to
Speaker 4: via email. Mail Bag at Armstrong E Geddy dot com.
Speaker 1: Good morning, writes Eric in Texas. Big kudo.
Speaker 4: Oh the headline is cheese tip brings families together.
Speaker 2: Oh God, I hate so much of your dip, Michael,
Speaker 2: I was near vomiting by the end of the first quarner.
Speaker 1: Glad you enjoyed it.
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Speaker 4: my wife and I disagree on most things political, we
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Speaker 4: Speaking of the Super Bowl, Jared the stunt actor writes,
Speaker 4: waking up to the commentary on the Big Games halftime show,
Speaker 4: just as split as everything else in this country right
Speaker 4: now looks to me like the left loves it because
Speaker 4: it seemed like it's a stick in the eye of
Speaker 4: America lovers, right, Hey said, because well he didn't speak English.
Speaker 4: He actually found it fairly entertaining and a lovely story
Speaker 4: about Puerto Ricans who are still America.
Speaker 2: Ohoho, how did you know what the story was? See,
Speaker 2: I'd have been all for following the story if I
Speaker 2: could have.
Speaker 4: It seemed to be about people at home and in
Speaker 4: the neighborhood, and then women shaking their asses and something
Speaker 4: about sugarcane. Then Eric, I'm sorry, Jared says for his
Speaker 4: last number, even said God bless America, then followed with
Speaker 4: a sign of unity, although what you missed was the translation.
Speaker 1: It was God bless America.
Speaker 4: Then he mentioned all the Spanish speaking countries in the Americas,
Speaker 4: hinting that either you know, could call in yourselves America
Speaker 4: because there's a lot of countries, or open your borders,
Speaker 4: you racist gringos.
Speaker 1: What was the climb in the telephone poles?
Speaker 4: What was that about hurricanes in Puerto Rico and how
Speaker 4: they're constantly having to rebuild the telephone poles.
Speaker 1: That's what I took from it.
Speaker 4: I guess I don't speak Spanish, as the rub John Right, Hey, guys,
Speaker 4: In addition to the worst super Bowl I've ever seen,
Speaker 4: I just watched the worst halftime show I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: I understand music is art and not everybody's gonna like
Speaker 4: the same thing, but who is that music for? He's
Speaker 4: the number one streaming artist on.
Speaker 1: The globe right well.
Speaker 4: As we've said many times, if craft cells sell crap,
Speaker 4: I don't love it, but a lot of people do.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's crap at all, but it's not
Speaker 2: for me, and I don't understand why America's number one
Speaker 2: television show for English speaking audiences would feature something in Spanish.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense. But I have gathered this
Speaker 2: morning from listening to some people that it has become
Speaker 2: like wearing masks. It's a sign of where you are,
Speaker 2: and saying oh, I love the halftime show is a
Speaker 2: gesture toward I hate America and everything the.
Speaker 4: People that hated this show love I hate like everything else.
Speaker 4: That's a tribal signal. To that point, John goes on.
Speaker 4: The thing that really stood out though, was the response
Speaker 4: to substandard Drabbit. The super Bowl party I was at
Speaker 4: had a good cross section of conservatives, some of whom
Speaker 4: left the house to watch Kid Rock elsewhere and liberals.
Speaker 4: The liberals either like to have time show or gave
Speaker 4: substandard Rabbit a pass. The conservatives were laughing at how
Speaker 4: bad it was. When I complained about the music, I
Speaker 4: was called privileged. I responded, it's not about politics. This
Speaker 4: music is really bad. I was reassured that I am privileged.
Speaker 2: I don't feel like I'm in a position to judge
Speaker 2: music if I don't understand a single word.
Speaker 1: It's being said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't tend to like hip hop, but I
Speaker 4: understand some people do. It doesn't threaten me that people
Speaker 4: like different things. It's the all Spanish, as Jack put
Speaker 4: it out earlier, no subtitles even for the written stuff.
Speaker 4: The NFL is like no no subtitles for the English speakers.
Speaker 4: F them Wow okay. Message received, Roger Goodell. Message received.
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