Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Billy Joel's wife alexis thanking fans for all of their
Speaker 3: support amid the piano Man's new health struggle, writing on Instagram,
Speaker 3: the family is hoping for his recovery and looks forward
Speaker 3: to seeing everyone in the future. The seventy six year
Speaker 3: old music legend canceled all of his upcoming concert dates
Speaker 3: last week, saying he's been diagnosed with NPH normal pressure hydrocephalus,
Speaker 3: a very rare brain disorder, his ex wife, Christy Brinkley, saying,
Speaker 3: you're our piano man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never had heard of that. Billy Joel announced
Speaker 1: that last week. Is he ever going to be able
Speaker 1: to perform again?
Speaker 2: Do you think? Is he probably done forever? No idea.
Speaker 1: He canceled his tour And it's interesting about him at
Speaker 1: his age. Most stars at that age are doing sort
Speaker 1: of embarrassing final grasps it money too. He's as popular
Speaker 1: as he's ever been. Yeah, Having done his whole record
Speaker 1: breaking Madison Square Garden thing that he wrapped up and touring.
Speaker 1: He's huge, and that's got to be quite a disappointment.
Speaker 1: I wonder if I had anything to do with his lifestyle.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know that it did. Oh no,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I've never heard of this disease. Rare brain diseases rarely
Speaker 4: come from lifestyle.
Speaker 2: But who knows. I don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: I will tell you this, Yeah, he is not one
Speaker 4: of those guys going through the motions at this point.
Speaker 4: I'm always interested in people, whether it's a Billy Joel
Speaker 4: or even Bruce Springsteen who's been so obnoxious lately, or
Speaker 4: the Rolling Stones, who are richer than Crisus of Old
Speaker 4: and certainly can do anything they want, and what if
Speaker 4: they want to do is play right.
Speaker 1: Particularly if you're not putting out new music. It's always
Speaker 1: interesting to me because Bruce still puts out a new
Speaker 1: album fairly regularly, so he's writing songs, recording songs, and
Speaker 1: then wants to get them out there and see how
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: But if you're going around playing your your jukebox of
Speaker 1: greatest hits, it's interesting to me that you're still motivated
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was listened to Adam Dirtz Accounting Crows on a
Speaker 1: thing the other day and he's talking about how sick
Speaker 1: he gets to some of the songs that he's got
Speaker 1: to sing, you know, like, you know, mister Jones going
Speaker 1: out there, and I could, I would think, like a
Speaker 1: night four thirty years later of a week, you know,
Speaker 1: you might think I can't freaking sing this song again
Speaker 1: and pretend like I care, But apparently they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as I've often said of this profession, and I've
Speaker 4: got important stuff to get to here, but we'll get
Speaker 4: to it eventually. You know, a lot of people get
Speaker 4: into this business or the big media companies and executives
Speaker 4: think like a David Lee Roth can take over for
Speaker 4: a Howard Stern or people start podcasts all the time,
Speaker 4: and it's fine, go ahead, you should. It's it's fun,
Speaker 4: it's interesting, challenging. But yeah, go ahead, do that first show,
Speaker 4: then do the second show. Now tell me what you're
Speaker 4: gonna do on the two hundred.
Speaker 2: And fiftieth show. That's when it gets to be it's
Speaker 2: a job.
Speaker 4: And yeah, playing mister Jones thirty years later his job,
Speaker 4: it's not joy it's what you do for a.
Speaker 1: Living, but if you don't need the money, so that's
Speaker 1: where the question comes in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, anyway, So one more note on the Secret
Speaker 4: Service cat fight which we were describing at the end
Speaker 4: of last hour. This is two Secret Service gals who
Speaker 4: went to beating on each other, well not quite beating
Speaker 4: on each other, just short of it. They were wrestling
Speaker 4: and shoving. I want to know if it was a
Speaker 4: proclaiming to be ready to whoop each other's ass.
Speaker 1: I want to know if it was over professional stuff. No,
Speaker 1: you're not keeping an eye and sego.
Speaker 2: No Quadrant four isis couldn't get in or it was
Speaker 2: over a dude or something.
Speaker 4: Did you just say I need a bigger size of
Speaker 4: uniform pants? Is that what you just said? A second,
Speaker 4: they're going out with Jim Friday night?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 4: A source said that a fight broke out after the
Speaker 4: officer arrived in a Dodge Durango rather than a Ford Explorer,
Speaker 4: which was allegedly requested by the agent who is about
Speaker 4: to clock off. So they criping at each other over
Speaker 4: choice of vehicle and about ended up eating each other
Speaker 4: on the head at two thirty in the morning in
Speaker 4: front of Barack.
Speaker 2: Obama's Washington d C. Home.
Speaker 1: Ah right, I think by definition you're not secret service material.
Speaker 2: If while on duty the two of you get in
Speaker 2: a fight.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I would agree. I would agree you enough
Speaker 4: this hard walk away? Please you get in a fight
Speaker 4: at the bar later.
Speaker 1: As we have talked about many times, the sort of
Speaker 1: person that probably they probably came up through the military.
Speaker 2: I don't know this, but often they do. You're the
Speaker 2: kind of person that does it.
Speaker 1: Then those kind of people are pretty high strung and
Speaker 1: like to fight good.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of person you want. Perhaps, But if
Speaker 2: if you can't not do it when you're on duty, no, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: agreed completely.
Speaker 4: So as I look at the clock, I think we
Speaker 4: need to break on time for once in our lives,
Speaker 4: and then do what we're going to do after the break,
Speaker 4: which is fine, have something else important to squeeze in
Speaker 4: this segment.
Speaker 2: I just saw the video finally. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They were very close to full on beating each other's
Speaker 1: brains out.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, just I mean, fists were cocked, but cooler
Speaker 4: heads prevailed.
Speaker 2: Thank god. Find a different line of work, ladies.
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Speaker 1: Joe teased, that's right.
Speaker 4: So it is a very very common technique of conquest
Speaker 4: of takeover that you co opt the holidays of the
Speaker 4: culture that you're trying to take over. Christianity did it
Speaker 4: with the various pagan festivals in the winter, Pagan spring
Speaker 4: and in an effort to spread Christianity. It's it's fair game,
Speaker 4: but you have to understand that's what's happening. It's a
Speaker 4: tool of conquest. With that, I give you Mayor Brandon
Speaker 4: Johnson on Memorial Day.
Speaker 5: Hello, I am Mayor Brandon Johnson, and I'm proud to
Speaker 5: join you in recognizing and celebrating Africa Day. The continent
Speaker 5: of Africa is made up of one point two billion people,
Speaker 5: with diverse countries full of rich traditions, cultures, and heritage.
Speaker 4: The African The failing mayor of Chicago is doing that.
Speaker 4: That was Monday on day, Well was all right, check
Speaker 4: in my calendar here, you're a stickler for accuracy. It
Speaker 4: was on Sunday. But he's talking about Memorial Memorial Day weekend. Okay, yeah, wow,
Speaker 4: it's Africa Day. We're all celebrating Africa Day. It's absolutely
Speaker 4: a Marxist effort to raise up race consciousness because it's
Speaker 4: not workers of the world unite, it's black people and
Speaker 4: trans people and queer people in whatever of the world unite.
Speaker 4: Now in Marxism, an effort to co op Memorial Day
Speaker 4: weekend into Africa Day. It's disgusting, which brings us to
Speaker 4: a persistent and important question. How pervasive is the whole
Speaker 4: woke thing in education right now? Is it just California, Oregon,
Speaker 4: in Connecticut or not. We will answer that question coming
Speaker 4: up next.
Speaker 1: Later, I want to tell about my son getting into
Speaker 1: a political argument, which he does a lot. When I
Speaker 1: was thirteen, I got into roughly zero political arguments.
Speaker 2: But LifeWise seventeen and nineteen.
Speaker 1: And maybe even twenty five, I mean, but politics all
Speaker 1: the time, everywhere, every age.
Speaker 2: Now, more on that later.
Speaker 4: We mentioned earlier, perhaps you were here that the state
Speaker 4: of California has come up with a pathetic transitional policy
Speaker 4: for high school sports where there could be three winners
Speaker 4: of sporting events, the girls winner, the boys winner, and
Speaker 4: the transgender boy who's pretending to be a girl winner
Speaker 4: because they've realized it's just utterly untenable and everybody hates it.
Speaker 4: The idea that when a dude whoops up on the
Speaker 4: girls in sports and stands there holding where I'm number
Speaker 4: one as they receive the medal and denying the record,
Speaker 4: the meddle, the scholarship, whatever to a n actual girl.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we're talking about that later. Yeah, sure, we'll get
Speaker 2: back into that later.
Speaker 4: I have comments, okay, yeah, but I thought this was
Speaker 4: really interesting as rape someone who is beschlonged, I have
Speaker 4: comments elegant. I'm reasonably self aware, and I understand that
Speaker 4: some people think the stories about the crazy woke education
Speaker 4: thing might be nut picking, overstated, or that's happening in
Speaker 4: a couple of wacky school districts. Great piece by Daniel Buck. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe that's true. One question persists in American education. How
Speaker 4: pervasive are the stories of kindergartener's learning about transgenderism, or
Speaker 4: high schoolers waving hamas flags and hallways.
Speaker 1: I wonder about that a lot because I live in
Speaker 1: like one of the leading school districts in America for
Speaker 1: this sort of progressive stuff, So I always wonder what
Speaker 1: it's like for the rest of the country.
Speaker 4: Well, and interestingly enough, my kids grew up about an
Speaker 4: hour forty five minute drive from where Jack kids are
Speaker 4: growing up at, in a very conservative part of California,
Speaker 4: the school district of which has swung way left in
Speaker 4: the last ten years. But he points out, among the
Speaker 4: four million teachers in the US, there will inevitably be
Speaker 4: cranks and id logs who try to turn the classroom
Speaker 4: into a pulpit. Examination of a typical American school district
Speaker 4: and a typical American town reveals that the progressive mismanagement
Speaker 4: school districts extends beyond the dark blue borders of San
Speaker 4: Francisco and Portland, Oregon. They look at Wawa Tosa, Wisconsin,
Speaker 4: a suburb of Milwaukee about as average as it gets,
Speaker 4: politically split, very average, Midwestern median home value, middle class.
Speaker 4: In other words, Wahwatosa is that fabled real America. What
Speaker 4: happens in San Francisco may be an outlier, but what
Speaker 4: happens in Wamwatosa likely happens in countless other districts.
Speaker 2: So what happens there? Well.
Speaker 4: Three years ago, the wawata A School Board proved a
Speaker 4: new sex education curriculum, among other things, that expect sixth
Speaker 4: graders to define different types of sexual intercourse.
Speaker 2: Oh my, kindergarteners learn about.
Speaker 1: Genitalia, past the whoever, throughout the bad idea phase? How
Speaker 1: does it get actually two? All the steps you have
Speaker 1: to go before this ends.
Speaker 2: Up in a classroom?
Speaker 4: Good freaking god, I didn't even get halfway through the list.
Speaker 2: Well, let's see the kids.
Speaker 4: The kindergarteners are learning about genitalia with the help of
Speaker 4: cartoon drawings third graders and inform that no matter their
Speaker 4: body parts, they may feel like another gender, just like.
Speaker 1: The founding fathers intended. The schools are teaching sixth graders
Speaker 1: about sex positions.
Speaker 4: Notably, the newly adopted units are based on the National
Speaker 4: Sex Education Standards, which encourage teaching third graders about puberty blockers.
Speaker 4: That's right, third graders need to know about puberty blockers
Speaker 4: and how to get them. Sixth graders need to know
Speaker 4: about abortions and how to get them, and students as
Speaker 4: young as kindergarten need to know about gender identity.
Speaker 1: Obviously, this explains my son getting into political arguments at
Speaker 1: age thirteen because this stuff comes up in class all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 4: Well, and to that point, the red flags appear in
Speaker 4: more than the curriculum. Wauwatosa is one of thousands of
Speaker 4: districts who have adopted a restorative justice policy useless. This
Speaker 4: is an alternative to traditional discipline structures that emphasize dialogue
Speaker 4: over punishment and focuses on revising school policy rather than
Speaker 4: changing student behavior.
Speaker 1: Which I have called the golden age of bullying. While
Speaker 1: we have more first ladies spouting speeches and PSAs on
Speaker 1: the radio about ending bullying, restorative justice is the golden
Speaker 1: age of being a bully.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's great. There are no repercussions.
Speaker 4: And in fact, this school district retained a consultant to
Speaker 4: investigate that sort of thing and to make it better.
Speaker 4: And the final report dated May ninth reveals just a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago that disruptive students received traits in
Speaker 4: the form of food and beverages and a chance to
Speaker 4: play games in the office instead of a standard detention
Speaker 4: to know. In surprise, Wawooto's schools have developed a reputation
Speaker 4: for permissive discipline and frequent fights.
Speaker 2: That chaos results.
Speaker 4: The chaos that results from leniency has led to more
Speaker 4: expulsion notices than is typical. And then this author goes
Speaker 4: into various other racial balancing moves. Elimination of high achievement programs.
Speaker 4: They closed a high performing STEMS school in the district.
Speaker 4: I mean, the list goes on and on, eliminating advanced
Speaker 4: math tracks, consolidating high school algebra, offering sixth graders a
Speaker 4: chance to do accelerated course works, the highly problematic.
Speaker 2: This is the equity part of DEI right exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know this is a guy who's a
Speaker 4: fellow for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. But
Speaker 4: there it is in the heartland of America. This stuff
Speaker 4: running wild. And a final note, final ish a story
Speaker 4: out of Connecticut. You remember that horrifying deal where the
Speaker 4: guy was held prisoner in his home for years and
Speaker 4: years till he lit his room on fire and escaped.
Speaker 4: Where the house where his step mother allegedly held him
Speaker 4: captive and starved him for decades, horrible activists and teachers'
Speaker 4: unions in Connecticut are trying to make this about homeschooling,
Speaker 4: because if he'd been at school, the teachers could have
Speaker 4: observed it and reported it.
Speaker 2: Here's the truth, though, this kid was in.
Speaker 4: School for a long time, being starved and beaten, with
Speaker 4: obvious signs of it, obvious documented over and over again,
Speaker 4: and the state agency in charge of protecting kids failed
Speaker 4: over and over again to protect him.
Speaker 2: But they're using this as a club to.
Speaker 4: Beat homeschoolers with utterly inexplicable If you think these monsters
Speaker 4: are going to give up their turf easily, these cultists
Speaker 4: and greed heads at the teachers' unions, you're just so wrong.
Speaker 2: Final note.
Speaker 4: Supreme Court temporarily restored the right of a duly elected
Speaker 4: main lawmaker's speak and vote in the state house. She
Speaker 4: was censured over a Facebook post that included photos of
Speaker 4: a transgender high school athlete. She said, this isn't right
Speaker 4: particular sports, and so the way left Maine legislature censured
Speaker 4: her and told her you don't get to vote on
Speaker 4: legislation anymore. The Supreme Court response was swift and decisive,
Speaker 4: saying no, this is all squarely, completely horrifyingly clearly inside
Speaker 4: the First Amendment. Stop it main These people are nuts
Speaker 4: and we're going to have to fight him for a
Speaker 4: long time. Back to you, I get so frustrated with
Speaker 4: uh So. My youngest takes one class at the in
Speaker 4: the school district right now.
Speaker 2: Anyway, he's talking about how the.
Speaker 1: Kids are on their phones all the time, how they
Speaker 1: had a little quiz in line and some of the
Speaker 1: kids didn't know the answers to some simple questions. And
Speaker 1: he said, they're on their phones all the time. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, doesn't the teacher do anything about it?
Speaker 1: And he said, well, the teacher announces every once in
Speaker 1: a while, you're not allowed to look at your phone,
Speaker 1: but the kids do anyway. And I just I that
Speaker 1: made me insane. I mean, I was so upset by that.
Speaker 1: I said to my son, I said, that's so easily solved.
Speaker 1: You can solve it in like a minute. If you
Speaker 1: look at your phone again, I'm taking it, and when
Speaker 1: the kid gets out their phone, you take it.
Speaker 2: The end. Then no more kids do it for the
Speaker 2: rest of the year. Problem solved.
Speaker 4: Ideology can blind people to the most obvious and massive truths.
Speaker 1: I guess that's some sort of afraid the discipline kids
Speaker 1: or they'll get suited the tea.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that is. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 4: Well, once you go down the progressive road, Yes, that's
Speaker 4: the sort of problem you're inviting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that makes me insane. I know that's a
Speaker 1: problem all over the country. Good Ford, a bunch of
Speaker 1: that stuff that we talked about earlier. We will get
Speaker 1: to stay here.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6: Olympic legend Mary lou Rettin was arrested for duy in
Speaker 6: West Virginia.
Speaker 2: I know she blew a point.
Speaker 6: Zero eight, would have been a point zero nine, but
Speaker 6: the cop was from East Germany.
Speaker 4: That's a good old time the Olympic joke. I was
Speaker 4: just reading in the journal about this. This lawyer on
Speaker 4: in the Hamptons. I think one of those East Coast
Speaker 4: risk guy enclaves that he makes pretty good living year round,
Speaker 4: but in the three months of the summer he does
Speaker 4: big time dui cases all summer long and rakes in
Speaker 4: high six figures.
Speaker 2: He's the I represented justin Timberlake.
Speaker 1: Oh really, And probably Mary loud Ruttin now because she
Speaker 1: was in several other stars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: She was a big giant gold medal winning on the
Speaker 1: Wheaties box household name way back in the day. Because
Speaker 1: she's fifty seven now all around gold gymnast winner, I wonder,
Speaker 1: so she's not famous enough to get out of a
Speaker 1: dui at this point, and maybe she didn't want to.
Speaker 1: You know, she didn't have to do the don't you
Speaker 1: know who I am? Or drop her name. She should
Speaker 1: have jumped on the air, done a little somersault, landed
Speaker 1: on the hood of her car with her legs splayed
Speaker 1: outright and said, ring a bell? Huh, what not walk
Speaker 1: heel to toe? How about this?
Speaker 4: Well, she got arrested in charge. That doesn't mean she's
Speaker 4: going to pay for it. She hires this guy, she
Speaker 4: probably will plead it down to a traffic ticket.
Speaker 1: Although if you're famous, she'd like to avoid the whole
Speaker 1: I've heard the story eight thousand times in the last
Speaker 1: week situation. If you can, I thought you might like this.
Speaker 1: If you're a Trump fan, you'll probably like this. Maybe
Speaker 1: if you're a Trump Peter, it'll be a good reminder
Speaker 1: for you. So Mark Halprin, writing in his newsletter today,
Speaker 1: he's breaking down all of the different news stories we
Speaker 1: got going on at the same time into different categories
Speaker 1: of incompletes, completes or achievements that Donald Trump is actually done.
Speaker 1: I'll read how he's categorizing these things that I'm about
Speaker 1: to list off. Some achievements from America that are clearly
Speaker 1: net good and the fulfillment of clear campaign promises that
Speaker 1: are much more popular than the dominant media and the
Speaker 1: Democrats seem to appreciate, even if there are some downsides
Speaker 1: to them. And at minimum the final chapters are not
Speaker 1: written yet. And here's a list of some of the
Speaker 1: things that have occurred, he says, here's my score guard
Speaker 1: and the big ones in that category.
Speaker 2: NATO.
Speaker 1: Members of NATO on track to contribute five percent of
Speaker 1: their GDPD the alliance. It did not happen by accident,
Speaker 1: rights Mark Albert huge win, huge win, and was never
Speaker 1: gonna happen unless you made the kind of noises about
Speaker 1: NATO that Trump made and got killed for in the
Speaker 1: mainstream media of not believing the most important alliance in
Speaker 1: world history, and all this different sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: He's undermining NATO. But they are going to now.
Speaker 1: They used to have to contribute two percent and they didn't,
Speaker 1: and nobody held their feet to the fire on that.
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna have to contribute five percent and people
Speaker 1: are going to be paying attention. That's a big deal.
Speaker 1: Second one, he puts she as in president. She using
Speaker 1: the stick of tariffs to get the Chinese dictator to
Speaker 1: see the pain he might have in his future has
Speaker 1: given this American president more leverage over his Beijing counterpart
Speaker 1: than any of his recent predecessors have had.
Speaker 4: Number three. True, I would call it kind of incomplete.
Speaker 4: It's still ongoing, but his point is a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one is the squishiest one to me. Remaking trade.
Speaker 1: Trump now has the potential to use America's unmatched leverage
Speaker 1: to secure more favorable trade terms with nations around the world,
Speaker 1: even as the markets are now in on the joke
Speaker 1: at a price to I like that part. That does
Speaker 1: seem to be the case where the markets have decided,
Speaker 1: oh oh, I can't I get it. You will push
Speaker 1: and push and then you'll back up. Okay, well never mind,
Speaker 1: then markets go up, all right.
Speaker 4: So the recent vowve fifty percent tariffs against Europe, who,
Speaker 4: in Trump's defense, are incredibly frustrating to negotiate with the
Speaker 4: markets and the big money guy said, oh fifty percent.
Speaker 2: Good one, good one. Tell those Euros.
Speaker 1: This is the number one for me in terms of
Speaker 1: what Halpern wrote about. Even if the dominant media doesn't
Speaker 1: want to talk about it, these are hugely popular with
Speaker 1: the vast amount of America. Number four in the list,
Speaker 1: securing the US Mexico border. Nuff said, yes, no doubt, Yes, historic,
Speaker 1: gigantic King Kong sized win doge.
Speaker 2: I like this.
Speaker 1: The culture of government has now fundamentally changed, where eliminating
Speaker 1: jobs programs and some inefficiencies is a higher priority than
Speaker 1: maintaining the status quo interests. Please water that delicate little flower. Maha,
Speaker 1: that's make America healthy again. There's never been an administration
Speaker 1: that has put public health for all, especially children, as
Speaker 1: direct directly front and center. I don't know, I man,
Speaker 1: I really think that's an incomplete Yeah.
Speaker 4: But at least discussions are being had about ultra processed
Speaker 4: foods and diet and obesity and.
Speaker 1: Truth sort of stuff. True, but this is what I
Speaker 1: really wanted to get to. And he writes the longest
Speaker 1: about reversing the momentum of woke Rich Lowry writing a
Speaker 1: column about that for National Review. Trump has shifted the
Speaker 1: Overton Window and the culture away from woke, and it's
Speaker 1: hard to imagine it's shifting all.
Speaker 2: The way back ever again.
Speaker 1: Corporations aren't going to play ball again the way they
Speaker 1: did after the death of George Floyd. Trump could well
Speaker 1: lose his legal battle with Harvard and other schools, but
Speaker 1: they've admitted they need to change. DEI and other race
Speaker 1: conscious policies may go subterranean under different rubrics, although that
Speaker 1: in itself is a sign of their weakness. True Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter has been discredited by scandal, and anti racism
Speaker 1: now feels more like a relic than a hot new thing.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you who hasn't given up on the
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter thing is your non denominational were not
Speaker 1: really Christian churches. I know two of them that have
Speaker 1: the giant Black Lives Matter banners on the churches and
Speaker 1: the big sign out front, like what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You can be in favor of that notion, but that
Speaker 1: movement one. They were all crooks too. Even if they
Speaker 1: weren't crooks, they were Marxists. Of course, most Marxists turn
Speaker 1: out to be crooks. That's one of the problems with Marxism.
Speaker 1: Whoa they were crooks. Do you not read the paper.
Speaker 1: You've got a giant banner on your church. I saw
Speaker 1: this in San Francisco and in my town. Giant banner
Speaker 1: on your church for an organization where they raised money
Speaker 1: off you, crying crocodile tears, claiming they're helping downtrodden black
Speaker 1: people and they bought houses with that money. You want
Speaker 1: to represent that organization? Are you crazy?
Speaker 4: I think they would tell you, well, that was the
Speaker 4: national organization. Our local Black Lives Matter is doing great
Speaker 4: work for anti racism, but they still are down with
Speaker 4: that post modern view of race relations.
Speaker 2: Which is poisonous, insidious, and racist. Back to the Trump
Speaker 2: kill and woke.
Speaker 1: Trump's executive orders and funding decisions can eventually be reversed,
Speaker 1: but re radicalizing every institution in America will be difficult
Speaker 1: for any future Democratic president. Shrewd ambitious Democrats realize how
Speaker 1: the ground is shifting, even if the left of the
Speaker 1: party isn't going away. I think that's true. You were
Speaker 1: talking yesterday about rama Manuel maybe running. Bill Maher constantly
Speaker 1: talking about on his HBO show about how they need
Speaker 1: a Democrat who isn't all woke, recognizing of elites on
Speaker 1: the left that.
Speaker 2: Those days are over, and they are over. You have
Speaker 2: a very.
Speaker 4: Small, very vocal radical element within your ranks. You will
Speaker 4: not live with that infection. Democrats ram Emmanuel's and one
Speaker 4: hundred percent right the brand. The Democratic brand is viewed
Speaker 4: as toxic and woke.
Speaker 2: I interesting to see.
Speaker 4: Whether he and his ilk run win the day, you know,
Speaker 4: I would love to see it. Not that you know,
Speaker 4: ro Manuel is some saint, but I just need the
Speaker 4: radical left to go away forever. Then we can wrestle over,
Speaker 4: you know, policies a little right, a little left, and.
Speaker 2: Go back to something close to normal.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we're definitely beyond peaque woke, and it's
Speaker 1: not coming back in my lifetime, which I'm very happy for.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was a scary period there for
Speaker 1: about a year or two, where it seemed like everything
Speaker 1: had completely gone nuts.
Speaker 4: Right, and nobody was recognizing that the emperor not only
Speaker 4: had no clothes, but that he was a vicious racist
Speaker 4: and was ruining people's lives if they dared speak out
Speaker 4: at all against the campaign of terror.
Speaker 1: Whether it was mostly peaceful protesting, as businesses were burned
Speaker 1: and looted, and everybody pretended that was okay, or all
Speaker 1: the trend stuff where you couldn't even hint at you
Speaker 1: disagreed with it or it would ruin your career.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh my god, that was nuts.
Speaker 1: So and then all the microaggression stuff and the pronouns
Speaker 1: and the just all that stuff that had its moment,
Speaker 1: and thank.
Speaker 4: God it's over all right. Sobering note, and you know
Speaker 4: how I hate to be sober. They're still teaching your
Speaker 4: little kids this every single day in school. They are
Speaker 4: breeding another generational warriors.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, it's not over in a
Speaker 1: fifth grade classroom, right, practically everywhere which fight this s folks,
Speaker 1: which reminds me of a political discussion my son got
Speaker 1: into yesterday which was a bit of a problem among other.
Speaker 2: Things, when he listed over medicare.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. Cutbacks in medicare. He is staunchly against or
Speaker 1: four I don't remember which. No, we got more stuff
Speaker 1: on the ways to hear.
Speaker 7: It's the end of an era for free check bags
Speaker 7: on Southwest Airlines. The airline will charge many passengers to
Speaker 7: check luggage for the first time in over a half
Speaker 7: a century. Customers can expect to pay thirty five dollars
Speaker 7: for their first check bag and forty five dollars for
Speaker 7: the second I've.
Speaker 1: Seen this story everywhere today. I have to assume it's
Speaker 1: a big deal for a lot of you. And that
Speaker 1: was the appeal of Southwest Airlines. I check a bag
Speaker 1: like once a year, so it just it means nothing
Speaker 1: to me. But it's getting coverage like it's significant. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess. So I generally try not to check bags.
Speaker 1: When I do, it's liberating just to have a little
Speaker 1: back pack. It is ever going through the airport, I'll admit,
Speaker 1: whenever I do it, I think this is kind of nice.
Speaker 1: I'm just walking around my hands for you, with my
Speaker 1: cup of coffee.
Speaker 2: Two things I wanted to get to.
Speaker 1: Oh one, I just saw get your tickets now for
Speaker 1: Dead In Company playing at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I paid a lot of money to see Dead End
Speaker 1: Company's final concert. It's a final if you're a grateful
Speaker 1: dead fight It's a final chance to see Bob Weir
Speaker 1: and the other people job ever play ever in history.
Speaker 1: And we packed the place and it was expensive, but
Speaker 1: it was cool. It was worth it was a historic moment.
Speaker 1: And they've played roughly one hundred and eighty times since
Speaker 1: then in the last two years. I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: even one of those comeback years later. They're like a
Speaker 1: week later played. It was the worst final concert I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, worst effort at even trying to conceal that
Speaker 1: nice money grab.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can think is that maybe Bob Whare,
Speaker 1: he's a current lead singer really of Dead the Grateful
Speaker 1: Dead Act, that he had some serious health problems and
Speaker 1: maybe he overcame them or.
Speaker 2: Got better or something.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I can think, because he looked horrible,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Okay, that's why they're quitting.
Speaker 2: As old as the Hills. Oh my god. I don't
Speaker 2: know how he can play. He can barely walk. Two
Speaker 2: other things. First to Mick Jagger as the kid, right.
Speaker 1: So I won't go into a lot of detail in
Speaker 1: this because I don't want to get anybody in trouble,
Speaker 1: including my son. But he got into a He gets
Speaker 1: into political argans all the time. He cannot walk away
Speaker 1: from a political comment he doesn't agree with. And I
Speaker 1: talked to him about that quite a bit last night.
Speaker 1: I said I do it all the time. I said,
Speaker 1: people say things all the time that make me crazy,
Speaker 1: and I just let it go. And the main reason
Speaker 1: is it makes me happier than to get into an
Speaker 1: argument with him, because he was talking about how it
Speaker 1: just makes me mad. I said, but you're madder now
Speaker 1: because of the argument you engaged in, then if you'd
Speaker 1: just let him say it. And I understand the downside
Speaker 1: of that. You don't want an ideology to win because
Speaker 1: nobody ever pushes back or whatever, but.
Speaker 4: Or smuggly obnoxious people to get away with their smug obnoxiousness.
Speaker 1: But if you engage all the time, especially when you
Speaker 1: live in California, you're gonna spend all day every day
Speaker 1: arguing and mad. And it's just that there's no way
Speaker 1: to live. You're rarely gonna change anybody's point of view.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they were on a boy scout march and
Speaker 1: they marched past a bunch of Tesla chargers, and several
Speaker 1: of the scouts got into we used to drive a
Speaker 1: Tesl would be sold it because we hate Elon Musk
Speaker 1: and Trump and Elon and Trump and Elon and how
Speaker 1: much they hate him and everything like that.
Speaker 2: My son was pushing back hard on that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's just like I was just more amazed that
Speaker 1: this is a thing that was never gonna be it
Speaker 1: When I was his age, there was no chance I
Speaker 1: was gonna like walk by a cornfield and say farm
Speaker 1: somebody's subs the Jimmy Carter, don't you hate? And then
Speaker 1: started an argument with somebody. It just wasn't gonna happen. Boy,
Speaker 1: it's so crazy.
Speaker 4: You're right, young teenagers getting in political arguments all the time.
Speaker 2: Yikes, what have we done.
Speaker 1: To our children? And he said one of the kids.
Speaker 1: He said, Elon Musk recommended the firing of a mom
Speaker 1: who had been working in this government and she was
Speaker 1: a single mom.
Speaker 2: And I thought, wow, you.
Speaker 1: Even have the gran granular details on your argument for
Speaker 1: how you hate Elon Musk as a thirteen year old.
Speaker 2: What is going on in this country? Wow? Wow? I
Speaker 2: had to tell my son.
Speaker 1: You know, single moms with kids who've worked someplace a
Speaker 1: long time get fired all the time from non government jobs,
Speaker 1: and nobody seems to care.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just part of the deal. Sometimes you get fired.
Speaker 4: My autistic daughter or daughter very high functioning. There's just
Speaker 4: a big layoff at her company, and she got laid
Speaker 4: off with a bunch of other people. It's more US
Speaker 4: a disaster, but I'm not seeing a lot of headlines
Speaker 4: about it. By the way, if you're in the p
Speaker 4: and need a hard worker, reach out to me. Perfect example,
Speaker 4: how long should you work there? How hard was she trying?
Speaker 4: Your daughter, how hard was she trying?
Speaker 2: Always showed up? How important was this job to her?
Speaker 1: All that sort of stuff that they'd say any sustaining
Speaker 1: anytime a government worker, they were counting on this job
Speaker 1: for their summer.
Speaker 2: What are your summer vacations plans going to be now?
Speaker 1: I don't even know if we're going to be able
Speaker 1: to feed ourselves, let alone a summer vacation. Back to you, Jim, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true when people lose their jobs in the private
Speaker 1: sector too, but you only report on it if it's
Speaker 1: a government job, right, makes just.
Speaker 4: The whole The kids having all those talking points, I
Speaker 4: think political. Hey, that's got to be coming from their teachers.
Speaker 4: I mean their parents too, because you live in a
Speaker 4: very activisty area. But the teachers are politicizing the kids
Speaker 4: because they want them on their side of politics.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you public slash government schools are diseased.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't actually know what it's like in the
Speaker 1: household of the average progressive family. But I don't talk
Speaker 1: politics at home now. Part of it might be because
Speaker 1: I got this job, and I don't know. My parents
Speaker 1: didn't talk politics much at home, so I don't no.
Speaker 4: I would ask questions, but they would, you know, try
Speaker 4: answer in a fairly even handed way, and I would
Speaker 4: go back to playing baseball all day long and chasing
Speaker 4: girls later.
Speaker 2: And even with my.
Speaker 1: Point of view, if I ever do talk politics, I
Speaker 1: prevent I present both sides, and then why I lean
Speaker 1: one direction? Oh my god, that, like having that MSNBC
Speaker 1: screed ready to go as a kid is just what
Speaker 1: the hell.
Speaker 4: We've got to have the kids. We've got to get
Speaker 4: the kids signed every radical movement and dictator in human history.
Speaker 1: One more thing I wanted to get to. So I
Speaker 1: mentioned last hour that Tinder has got a new person
Speaker 1: running it and they want to change their the way
Speaker 1: they do their dating a because it's not working for
Speaker 1: the new generation, which is not as interested in the
Speaker 1: hookup culture. They claim. Blah blah blah blah blah. Here's
Speaker 1: what I think is going to be the problem. Like,
Speaker 1: and I have no personal experience in dating apps. I've
Speaker 1: never tried it. Or anything like that online dating. But
Speaker 1: from what I hear from people and what I've read
Speaker 1: about it, I don't see how you're going to change
Speaker 1: this reality. Ten percent of the dudes get ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the dates. The ten percent either best looking or
Speaker 1: combination of looks and talking or whatever, get ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the dates. And most of them aren't interested in
Speaker 1: a relationship, though they're good pretending they are, and then
Speaker 1: they do their thing and move on. There's no way
Speaker 1: you can change that. I don't care what your what
Speaker 1: your app does. That's going to be true, just over
Speaker 1: and over again. That's why people are leaving the apps.
Speaker 1: Based on everything I hear from conversations and what I
Speaker 1: read is that they've caught on to that that's just
Speaker 1: the way it works.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, this seems very bright and he's recognized
Speaker 4: a problem. I don't know exactly how you fix that.
Speaker 4: Different features, products within the app, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I wish him lucky. I don't
Speaker 2: see how you're gonna fix that reality.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be something though, and this might be happening
Speaker 1: that online dating had its moment for a decade or so,
Speaker 1: and then it goes back to that doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Everybody lies, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to meeting somebody at work
Speaker 1: or church or you know, college, or through friends at
Speaker 1: a back to yard barbecue.
Speaker 2: Et cetera. I recommend it highly
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