WEBVTT - Bad, Stupid Children 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.399 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe Getty arm 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:16.920 Strong and and he arms strong and. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:27.760 Yet no one is illegal on stolen land. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:38.760 Yay, thank god, your children stupid children, stupid children, and 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:40.840 hell there's more. 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.280 Yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.479 and what to do right now. And I just I 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.040 feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.280 we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting, 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.720 and our voices really do matter, and the people matter. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.840 And let's see. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:01.680 What did she say? 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:01.840 There? 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.319 Is that f Ice in F the U s A? 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.760 Is that what she said? She said f the U 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.120 s A? Did she really cerify? Yeah, clets clarify that 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.240 f Ice and f Trump is. I don't like that 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.679 because there's some serious slandering coming if we can too much. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.240 Yeah, I think she said f Ice. Okay, it took 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.120 her a while to say more than that. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.920 Yeah, unless she said by the. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.880 Easy now I thought I heard say at the end. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.720 Who knows, who knows? Why did I leap to that? 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:45.360 I don't know? That's musician Billie Eilish or Billie Eilish. 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.440 That no one is I legal and stolen land. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.920 I don't think I could craft a stupid comment on 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.720 this whole thing than that. And the crowd goes crazy, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.000 and she says, I feel so encouraged in this room 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.120 by a bunch of other soft heads who can't articulate 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.440 a reasonable adult statement on what. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:07.279 We're talking about. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.760 She just throws together a bunch of phrases, a little 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.080 greeting carter rhetoric, and on. She goes, as if that's 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.280 any way to administer a country, What is that to 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.400 where the adults are talking? Please sit down? God dang it, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.080 I know I would honestly like to be able to 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.840 talk to her in very calm way and say, you know, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.840 you're a fantastic musician. I don't blame you for not 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.720 paying attention in school. If I had your talent, I 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.560 probably wouldn't either. Now you're a gazillion are and you 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.720 own like nine homes or something. But like France, for instance. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:36.720 Do you know how many do you know how many 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.120 different empires countries people have claimed the ground of France? 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.920 Who do you think it ought to belong to? You 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.799 think what history choosing? 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.760 If you were in France and you won an award. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.359 Would you say the same thing because they're doing the 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:49.760 same thing. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.400 We are, right, yeah, so. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.280 It's different because it's set her little colonial in white 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:58.840 supremacy or something. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.799 D app shat app. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.480 So we're gonna go swiftly story to story here bouncing around, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.920 whip sawing you back and forth like a malfunctioning amusement 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:11.720 park ride. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:13.680 Why don't we start with this? 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.480 We mentioned this briefly, but I thought it deserves a 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.840 more serious tipping of the cap. Three Federal Air Marshals 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.880 these are TSA guys were chased out of an LA 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:27.280 County restaurant after a crowd mistook them for immigration agents 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:32.079 last week. They're having dinner at a Korean barbecue restaurant. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.160 When somebody recognized them, they thought is ice agents, and 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.680 the rumor spread through the restaurant and then on social media, 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.440 and the Air marshals called for help, prompting dozens of 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.880 deputies from two nearby stations to respond. They had to 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.720 separate the Air marshals from the angry crowd, create a 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.280 skirmish line between the two groups and the parking lot. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.400 After a brief time, they walked the federal agents to 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.320 the sidewalk where an unmarked vand picked them up and 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:56.360 whisked them way to safety. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.600 That would make you really despondent about the future of 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:00.720 this kind. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:06.920 I hate that this started, but I have seen enough 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:07.680 of y'all. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.920 I don't know you know, most of you not, but 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.800 some of you, you know, tweet and comment with glee 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.440 whenever this is done to a Democrat. So if you're 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.160 gonna think it's okay for the other side, well then 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.880 guess what it's gonna happen for all sides. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.000 And it's just abhorren. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.039 The idea that you can't go out to a restaurant 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.600 to eat, especially when you're with your family, without people 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.200 hounding you out of your politics is just awful. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.960 Do not share that, no matter who it is. And 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.520 the sheer stupidity of these guys are tsa. 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.120 They try to prevent hijackings, but what do you see 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.720 a blue uniform or something or a badge. 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.000 You know, it's just nice guys, it's ice guys. Let's 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.040 go yell at them at a restaurant. They shouldn't be 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.440 able to eat at a restaurant. You didn't even get 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:49.839 it right. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:54.159 Moving along, President Trump's promised armada has arrived in the 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.240 Middle East, headed by the USS Abraham Lincoln and the 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:04.600 accompanying aircraft Carrier Battle Group. But according to military experts, 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.920 they're going to wait for a while because they want 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.440 to build up US air defenses in get them in 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.200 place to protect Israel as well as American troops in various. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.920 Bases throughout the region. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.120 So it is expected that Iran will kick back, sending 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.640 some of their thousands of serious ballistic missiles at our 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.359 boys and gals. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.839 Abroad, and we want to be ready for it. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.480 Well, yeah, as we talked about last week, there are 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:35.080 a number of outlets now with that story that some 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.880 of our Arab friends are warning this that hey, they 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.440 have way more capability than you might think they do 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:41.440 after that. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:47.640 Attack back in June. So yeah, yeah, fair enough. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.840 So we're in a wait and see pattern on that 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.920 complete change of topic here. This may be my favorite 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.320 headline of the day. To avoid accusations of AI cheating college, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:59.120 you should. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.920 Have drivers, lie is that's the sort of thing I 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:03.680 think you should say it. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.640 No, animals should be illegal to drive in a world 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.400 where they were born, shouldn't have to walk everywhere. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:18.240 They should have drivers' licenses and everybody stands on the Wow. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:23.240 Yeah that's about as sensical just about. Oh that reminds me, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.880 all right, I'll pay off this story. And then there's 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.520 another cat related story, believe it or not that has 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.960 set me on edge. So to avoid accusations of AI cheating, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.400 college students are turning to AI. Students are taking new 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.159 measures such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.560 and using AI humanizer programs to beat accusations of cheating 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.760 with artificial intelligence. So you have AI write your paper, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.239 then you say to AI, hey, this is probably better 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.159 than I can do. Can you dumb it down a 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.520 little bit? And the AI dumbs it down for you. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:07:01.880 Yeah. I don't see how we're going to avoid that. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.960 Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, this is all evolving very very quickly. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.080 The long and short of what I took in on 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.200 a three hour Lex Friedman podcast that I listened to 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:14.520 a little bit over the weekend with a couple of 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.720 your top AI writers thinkers people that follow this. Their 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:24.200 thinking was that AI is going to be superhuman in 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.080 some things, way beyond anything a human could be. 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:27.800 Could do. 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.200 It already is, but it's going to be a long 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.720 time before there are other things that it can do 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:34.480 that humans can do. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:35.200 It just can't. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.440 So that might be the future, like for the next 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.000 fifteen twenty years at least, and that makes more sense 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.480 to me. There's some things like going over medical records 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.000 and connecting dots that no human being could ever do. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:51.080 AI can do that, but like some other relatively simple 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.120 things that humans can do, it's just isn't going to 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:54.000 be able to figure it out. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:55.400 Huh okay. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:08:00.840 Interesting, Yeah, another complete change in topic. This is it's interesting, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.760 and I hope the trend continues. The famously nottted up 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.480 housing market appears to be a nodding at least a 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.360 little bit. Nearly two thirds of home buyers last week 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.120 I'm sorry, last year ended up paying less than the 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.920 original asking price. It's the highest proportion since pre COVID. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.200 It's been creeping up, up, up, up up, indications that 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:28.520 it's it's still a seller's market, but that is it's changing. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.880 It's more and more power to the buyer. So I'm 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:32.720 speaking of podcasts. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.080 I took in some information on this about and it's 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.679 going through all the tentacles of our current you know, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:43.160 locked up housing situation, like people can't take jobs, other places, 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.120 because I mean, you could be offered a really good job, 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.000 but it ain't good enough to make up for the 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.960 fact that you've got a two percent loan on your 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.600 current house, right, I mean, how much extra money would 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.880 you have to make to get a similar home when 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.120 you move someone hell somewhere else at six or seven percent. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.160 Minus to hassle all the emotional costs and blah blah blah. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.240 Yeah, yeah, it's it's just gonna it's gonna take an 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.040 enormous amount of time. Although I think in some families, 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.760 you know, you'll just you'll inherit mom and Dad's house 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.280 because it's got a two point seven percent mortgage, doesn't 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.440 make any sense to sell it. Blah blah blah. Who knows. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.640 But it's gonna take a long time. But it's starting 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.160 to creep back toward normalcy, they think. And finally this, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.280 I told you I had another cat related story. I 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:34.880 saw this in the formerly respectable Wall Street Journal. Mamdannie's 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:40.960 toughest mayoral transition moving a cat into Gracie Mansion. The 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.200 mayor of New York is preparing for what could be 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.920 as prickly as transition. Mamdanni is allergic to cats, but 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.080 his wife Ramo Duaji wants when for the Graci Mansion, 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.199 the couple's now official residence on Manhaanne's Upper East Side. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.200 He started taking weekly shots in December to build up 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.120 to tolerance to felines. Wow, you got a marriage where 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.800 you're allergic to cat and your wife's still gonna make 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.520 you have a cat. Why do you gotta get a 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.560 bunch of shots? Well, no, never mind that you can 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.400 do the marriage counseling. I'm gonna do the media criticism. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.360 The Wall Street Journal with a cute, sweet article about 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:21.800 how the racist Marxist Islamist new mayor, the communist mayor 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.800 of New York City's allergic to cats about his wife 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.120 loves cats. Isn't that sweet that he's doing that the 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.920 next week? It's gonna be Joseph Stalin says, fly fishing 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:37.520 really relaxes him. Oh, it's the it's the rhythmic of 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.680 the casting, the real it just it really unwinds me 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.280 after a long day of starving. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.200 Jews and the gula, the kulos and the rest of it. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:47.079 I get your point. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.240 Paul Pott says, there's nothing like a game of pool 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.160 on a Friday night to forget about you. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:59.600 What the hell Wall Street journal Oh my god, that's 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:00.560 pretty good point. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:06.520 Oh seriously though, Yeah, I'm allergic to cats, and you're 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:11.079 gonna make us have a cat, like severely allergic. What 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.319 I always don't have a cat? His eyes swell shut? 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.040 But she really wants a cat in Gracie mansion. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.800 The hell is going on there? She's a lunatic. You're 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:22.480 a communist? 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.680 The Wall Street journalists doing puff pieces on a bodia. 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.480 As we used to say back in Chicago, What the hell? 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:31.200 Oh that's funny. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:37.679 I think all food should be free a ground. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:42.600 Chairs, restaurants sit in charge for food. Cowsing is a 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.199 human right, Yay, another good one. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.680 Got so many things from the weekend. What do we 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:51.840 get to next? I have to look at that. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.840 I think it might be Hanson. How's it looking for 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.880 my Super Bowl credential? Not to go to the game, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.520 but to go to the media stuff looking great for 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.280 me to be there Friday and check out the biggest 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.439 media scrum practically in the world that occurs every single year. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.040 Because it's only sixty miles from my house, so I 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.400 thought I'd go over there and check that out. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:16.360 We got more on waste to hear Grammy's Last Night. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.120 I don't know which Grammy jelly Roll one for something country. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.520 There's several new categories classic country, pop, country, different stuff. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.400 But anyway, he won so dessert most weight loss by 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.679 Major Starr could have been jelly Roll, but anyway, he 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.600 invoked Jesus in a way you don't nearly hear very 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:37.200 often in the godless communist city of La Here's jelly 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:38.440 Roll the Grammys last Night. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.200 There was a time in my life, y'all that I 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.360 was I was broken. That's why I wrote this album. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:45.880 I didn't think I had a chance all. There was 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.680 days that I thought the darkest things. I was a 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.760 horrible human. There was a moment in my life that 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.439 all I had was a Bible this big in a 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.839 radio the same size, and a six by eight foot 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.560 sale And I believe that those two things could change 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.960 my life. I believe that music had the power to 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.959 change my life. God had the power to change my life. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.320 And I want to tell y'all right now, Jesus is 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.120 for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.640 Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.520 Jesus and anybody can have a relationship with him. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:19.240 I love you Lord. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.960 You know some cheering for that. They're in the you know, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.600 a room full of atheists. Apparently the camera went right 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.040 to Reba McIntyre as they found the one person in 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.920 the hall that wasn't going to roll their eyes at that. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:35.520 Oh boy, wait, quick, find us Christian. There's surely there's 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:36.160 gotta be one. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.200 I can give me a fifteen satanist, sir, find me 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:39.800 a Christian. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.319 Wait, there's Reba. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.480 So a little on the music, and of course music 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.880 is taste, but you know, on me, either like it 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.840 you don't like like I like the Kendrick Lamar song 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.120 that one Record of the Year Luthor about Luther Vanders, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.480 but you gotta like hip hop. The person who won 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.920 Best New Artist, Olivia Dean, I'd never heard of at all, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:57.880 but so I checked out her album last night after 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.640 she won that. Really really liked that. Man, if you're 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.240 ever in a romantic setting, throw on that album. But 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.319 she's being compared to Dion Warwick, which if I'm her, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.319 I'd say, who the Hell's Dion Warwick? But really liked 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.560 that album listening to it yesterday. Uh, I was one 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:18.000 of oh Best Americana Album, whatever that category means. John Batiste, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.400 who won Album of the Year a couple of years ago, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.120 just in general one for Americana Album last night, and 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.000 I was listening to that and that is a cool 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:27.720 freaking album. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.840 He's one amazing musician. But here's the one I want 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.720 to talk about, just because I think it's entertaining. The 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.120 Cure put out an album. I'm a Cure fan from 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.920 the way back in the day. They put out their 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:42.560 first album in like almost twenty years and won some 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.600 Grammy for Best something or other some kind of rock. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.200 In best reward likely to attract older viewers to the show, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.240 The Cure Right. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.760 The Cure's fourteenth studio album, Songs of a Lost World, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.880 deals almost exclusively in death, dying, and the relentless march 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:00.480 of time. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:01.560 Good stuff. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.920 The songs move slowly, and many go on for many 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.240 minutes before Smith opens his mouth at all. No pop hits, 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.880 no hooks, and no fun. That's the review. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:10.520 Wow. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.400 Now on the specific song that won an award, Listen 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:18.600 to this. The glacially paced opener and lead single alone 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.640 is majestic and mournful, with string swells and apocalyptic lyrics 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.720 about birds falling out of the sky. But mostly it's 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.840 about dying alone, the shattered pieces of a regret filled 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.200 life and the foregone conclusion that is our mutual demise. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.000 Wow. Just for the record, I am not ready to rock. Wow. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.040 What do you feel like that? Throwing that on? Where 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.000 are you in the mood for? 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.320 It's mostly about dying alone, the shattered pieces of a 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:51.040 regret filled life. Have some people over, open up some 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.080 bottles of wine. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.200 Sure, beautiful spring day, maybe little road trip music? 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.400 Hey, kids, listen, listen to music. Hey honey, what do 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.920 you want to hear? The cure? Oh? I love the cure. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.160 You kids are too young to have many regrets. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:05.880 But here's what it'll be like when you're older, a 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.440 regret filled life, just waiting for your demise alone. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.640 By the way, alone, you're'd have. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.480 To listen to several minutes of orchestral swells before the 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:15.200 words come on. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.240 But trust me, it's about dying alone. What in the 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.960 hell I haven't heard that? It might be great art. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.520 It's probably That's a hell of a description. It could 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.400 be the best at that. And I'm just not sure 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.200 when I'm exactly going to be in the mood for 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.480 it's a lot different than, like, you know, some of 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.880 the dance tunes that were winning awards. Justin Bieber played 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.920 in his underwear last night, silvery underwear, stripped down to 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.320 his boxer shorts and socks. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.800 For some reason. He also had to throw in a 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.600 little ice out commentary, because you know, you gotta be cool, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.640 all right. Good for him. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.240 I can't say anything about the album of the Year, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.000 Bad Bunny, because I don't speak Spanish and I have no. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.080 Idea what was about. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.720 Well, you get to watch him at the super Bowl 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.480 on Sunday, right, you know he's going to make some 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.160 sort of comment about Ice. He's got something planned. Everybody 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:04.840 sees it coming. There's going to be a shirt or 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.080 a banner or a comment or a change of the lyrics, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.880 and it's going to be a reference to the dead 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.600 people in Minneapolis by name, so annoying and tiring. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.200 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.160 CURRG announced a recall of more than eighty thousand McDonald's 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:26.159 brand Decalf coffee pods because they actually contain caffeine. So 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:38.480 if you brew McDonald's decalf at home, Jesus Man, that's. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.879 A good bunch on except for the fact that McDonald's 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.560 regularly wins various coffee contest things. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.280 Oh yeah, they make fabulous calls. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.280 He probably doesn't know that, but just in general, I 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:57.720 get it. That's pretty funny. So I we have long 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:02.879 mocked these special elections that they have, and then the 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:06.720 political punditry tries to extrapolate them for several days and 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.040 make them mean, oh, it's. 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.160 A bellweather, an indicator of blah blah blah. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.280 Yeah, and you add that to the whole midterm thing, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.600 and then the ongoing conversation which I saw pop up 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.639 several times in the Sunday shows, and I fast forwarded 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.080 through it because I'm not going to listen to any 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.360 conversation about who who might take back the House during 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:23.040 the midterms. 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.240 It's just I don't know. Are there are there people 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.359 who are interested in that outside of the media. Are 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.960 there people who actually, if you're living your life a 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.560 year out, take it in information. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.760 I wonder if they'll get the what is wrong with you? 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.600 Explain to me what difference would be made in anybody's 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.160 life if we just waited ten months before anybody said 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.200 a word and then talked about. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.880 Well not to mention portraying it as a big deal 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.640 if the Democrats take it back. Yeah, that's what happens 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.080 after a president gets elected, Like almost every time. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.879 It's like as predictable as the rain. So it's not 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:01.520 a big. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.639 Rejection of this or embrace of that, or it's just 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:05.720 what always happens. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.760 Yeah, it's a near inevitability. Sure, So I don't know 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.000 why it's even that interesting. 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.159 All that being said, as a setup to this, I 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.720 think it's kind of interesting. Special election last night in 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.920 Texas won by the Democrats. It's getting a fair amount 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.160 of attention because Trump won and with this guy as 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.560 soon as he's sworn in like today or tomorrow or whatever. 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.680 Now the Republicans have a one seat edge in the House. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.200 It's never been this close ever in US history, one 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:38.879 seat advantage this particular district. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:44.720 Trump had won by seventeen, this Democrat won by forty one. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:50.520 So it's a thirty one point swing to the left 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.359 in you know, a year and a couple of months, 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.880 thirty one points. Now, Trump was on the battle. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.840 It wasn't specifically voting for Trump, but going from people 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.200 we're in a you know, a Republican to a Democratic, 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.160 thirty one points is a lot that's really what they thought. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.680 And even Ron DeSantis, who is one of your more 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.879 reasonable people out there, he's not a cable news pundit 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.480 getting all excited about it. However, he said special elections 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.560 are quirky and not necessarily projectable like a general election. 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.359 He said that said a swing of this magnitude is 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.240 not something that can be dismissed. Republicans should be clear 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.560 eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms. The 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:31.000 only thing I would say to that, I mean, he's 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:32.440 right about that. The only thing I would say to 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:36.040 that is yeah, but historically they're supposed to lose, so it's. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.080 Yeah, I think that's That's not a reason not to 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.840 try to win. No, it's meant to try to, you know, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.280 be so good at governing the country that you deserve 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:47.720 to win. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.919 I get that. But again, presenting it is like, Ooh, 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:54.440 if we're not careful, we might lose. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.480