Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe Getty arm
Speaker 1: Strong and and he arms strong and.
Speaker 2: Yet no one is illegal on stolen land.
Speaker 1: Yay, thank god, your children stupid children, stupid children, and
Speaker 1: hell there's more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say
Speaker 2: and what to do right now. And I just I
Speaker 2: feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like
Speaker 2: we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting,
Speaker 2: and our voices really do matter, and the people matter.
Speaker 3: And let's see.
Speaker 1: What did she say?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 3: Is that f Ice in F the U s A?
Speaker 3: Is that what she said? She said f the U
Speaker 3: s A? Did she really cerify? Yeah, clets clarify that
Speaker 3: f Ice and f Trump is. I don't like that
Speaker 3: because there's some serious slandering coming if we can too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she said f Ice. Okay, it took
Speaker 1: her a while to say more than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unless she said by the.
Speaker 1: Easy now I thought I heard say at the end.
Speaker 1: Who knows, who knows? Why did I leap to that?
Speaker 1: I don't know? That's musician Billie Eilish or Billie Eilish.
Speaker 1: That no one is I legal and stolen land.
Speaker 3: I don't think I could craft a stupid comment on
Speaker 3: this whole thing than that. And the crowd goes crazy,
Speaker 3: and she says, I feel so encouraged in this room
Speaker 3: by a bunch of other soft heads who can't articulate
Speaker 3: a reasonable adult statement on what.
Speaker 1: We're talking about.
Speaker 3: She just throws together a bunch of phrases, a little
Speaker 3: greeting carter rhetoric, and on. She goes, as if that's
Speaker 3: any way to administer a country, What is that to
Speaker 3: where the adults are talking? Please sit down? God dang it,
Speaker 3: I know I would honestly like to be able to
Speaker 3: talk to her in very calm way and say, you know,
Speaker 3: you're a fantastic musician. I don't blame you for not
Speaker 3: paying attention in school. If I had your talent, I
Speaker 3: probably wouldn't either. Now you're a gazillion are and you
Speaker 3: own like nine homes or something. But like France, for instance.
Speaker 4: Do you know how many do you know how many
Speaker 4: different empires countries people have claimed the ground of France?
Speaker 1: Who do you think it ought to belong to? You
Speaker 1: think what history choosing?
Speaker 3: If you were in France and you won an award.
Speaker 3: Would you say the same thing because they're doing the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 1: We are, right, yeah, so.
Speaker 3: It's different because it's set her little colonial in white
Speaker 3: supremacy or something.
Speaker 1: D app shat app.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna go swiftly story to story here bouncing around,
Speaker 3: whip sawing you back and forth like a malfunctioning amusement
Speaker 3: park ride.
Speaker 1: Why don't we start with this?
Speaker 3: We mentioned this briefly, but I thought it deserves a
Speaker 3: more serious tipping of the cap. Three Federal Air Marshals
Speaker 3: these are TSA guys were chased out of an LA
Speaker 3: County restaurant after a crowd mistook them for immigration agents
Speaker 3: last week. They're having dinner at a Korean barbecue restaurant.
Speaker 3: When somebody recognized them, they thought is ice agents, and
Speaker 3: the rumor spread through the restaurant and then on social media,
Speaker 3: and the Air marshals called for help, prompting dozens of
Speaker 3: deputies from two nearby stations to respond. They had to
Speaker 3: separate the Air marshals from the angry crowd, create a
Speaker 3: skirmish line between the two groups and the parking lot.
Speaker 3: After a brief time, they walked the federal agents to
Speaker 3: the sidewalk where an unmarked vand picked them up and
Speaker 3: whisked them way to safety.
Speaker 4: That would make you really despondent about the future of
Speaker 4: this kind.
Speaker 1: I hate that this started, but I have seen enough
Speaker 1: of y'all.
Speaker 4: I don't know you know, most of you not, but
Speaker 4: some of you, you know, tweet and comment with glee
Speaker 4: whenever this is done to a Democrat. So if you're
Speaker 4: gonna think it's okay for the other side, well then
Speaker 4: guess what it's gonna happen for all sides.
Speaker 1: And it's just abhorren.
Speaker 4: The idea that you can't go out to a restaurant
Speaker 4: to eat, especially when you're with your family, without people
Speaker 4: hounding you out of your politics is just awful.
Speaker 1: Do not share that, no matter who it is. And
Speaker 1: the sheer stupidity of these guys are tsa.
Speaker 3: They try to prevent hijackings, but what do you see
Speaker 3: a blue uniform or something or a badge.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just nice guys, it's ice guys. Let's
Speaker 1: go yell at them at a restaurant. They shouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to eat at a restaurant. You didn't even get
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 3: Moving along, President Trump's promised armada has arrived in the
Speaker 3: Middle East, headed by the USS Abraham Lincoln and the
Speaker 3: accompanying aircraft Carrier Battle Group. But according to military experts,
Speaker 3: they're going to wait for a while because they want
Speaker 3: to build up US air defenses in get them in
Speaker 3: place to protect Israel as well as American troops in various.
Speaker 1: Bases throughout the region.
Speaker 3: So it is expected that Iran will kick back, sending
Speaker 3: some of their thousands of serious ballistic missiles at our
Speaker 3: boys and gals.
Speaker 1: Abroad, and we want to be ready for it.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, as we talked about last week, there are
Speaker 4: a number of outlets now with that story that some
Speaker 4: of our Arab friends are warning this that hey, they
Speaker 4: have way more capability than you might think they do
Speaker 4: after that.
Speaker 1: Attack back in June. So yeah, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 3: So we're in a wait and see pattern on that
Speaker 3: complete change of topic here. This may be my favorite
Speaker 3: headline of the day. To avoid accusations of AI cheating college,
Speaker 3: you should.
Speaker 1: Have drivers, lie is that's the sort of thing I
Speaker 1: think you should say it.
Speaker 3: No, animals should be illegal to drive in a world
Speaker 3: where they were born, shouldn't have to walk everywhere.
Speaker 1: They should have drivers' licenses and everybody stands on the Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's about as sensical just about. Oh that reminds me,
Speaker 3: all right, I'll pay off this story. And then there's
Speaker 3: another cat related story, believe it or not that has
Speaker 3: set me on edge. So to avoid accusations of AI cheating,
Speaker 3: college students are turning to AI. Students are taking new
Speaker 3: measures such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves,
Speaker 3: and using AI humanizer programs to beat accusations of cheating
Speaker 3: with artificial intelligence. So you have AI write your paper,
Speaker 3: then you say to AI, hey, this is probably better
Speaker 3: than I can do. Can you dumb it down a
Speaker 3: little bit? And the AI dumbs it down for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't see how we're going to avoid that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, this is all evolving very very quickly.
Speaker 4: The long and short of what I took in on
Speaker 4: a three hour Lex Friedman podcast that I listened to
Speaker 4: a little bit over the weekend with a couple of
Speaker 4: your top AI writers thinkers people that follow this. Their
Speaker 4: thinking was that AI is going to be superhuman in
Speaker 4: some things, way beyond anything a human could be.
Speaker 1: Could do.
Speaker 4: It already is, but it's going to be a long
Speaker 4: time before there are other things that it can do
Speaker 4: that humans can do.
Speaker 1: It just can't.
Speaker 4: So that might be the future, like for the next
Speaker 4: fifteen twenty years at least, and that makes more sense
Speaker 4: to me. There's some things like going over medical records
Speaker 4: and connecting dots that no human being could ever do.
Speaker 4: AI can do that, but like some other relatively simple
Speaker 4: things that humans can do, it's just isn't going to
Speaker 4: be able to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Huh okay.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Yeah, another complete change in topic. This is it's interesting,
Speaker 3: and I hope the trend continues. The famously nottted up
Speaker 3: housing market appears to be a nodding at least a
Speaker 3: little bit. Nearly two thirds of home buyers last week
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, last year ended up paying less than the
Speaker 3: original asking price. It's the highest proportion since pre COVID.
Speaker 3: It's been creeping up, up, up, up up, indications that
Speaker 3: it's it's still a seller's market, but that is it's changing.
Speaker 1: It's more and more power to the buyer. So I'm
Speaker 1: speaking of podcasts.
Speaker 4: I took in some information on this about and it's
Speaker 4: going through all the tentacles of our current you know,
Speaker 4: locked up housing situation, like people can't take jobs, other places,
Speaker 4: because I mean, you could be offered a really good job,
Speaker 4: but it ain't good enough to make up for the
Speaker 4: fact that you've got a two percent loan on your
Speaker 4: current house, right, I mean, how much extra money would
Speaker 4: you have to make to get a similar home when
Speaker 4: you move someone hell somewhere else at six or seven percent.
Speaker 1: Minus to hassle all the emotional costs and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's just gonna it's gonna take an
Speaker 3: enormous amount of time. Although I think in some families,
Speaker 3: you know, you'll just you'll inherit mom and Dad's house
Speaker 3: because it's got a two point seven percent mortgage, doesn't
Speaker 3: make any sense to sell it. Blah blah blah. Who knows.
Speaker 3: But it's gonna take a long time. But it's starting
Speaker 3: to creep back toward normalcy, they think. And finally this,
Speaker 3: I told you I had another cat related story. I
Speaker 3: saw this in the formerly respectable Wall Street Journal. Mamdannie's
Speaker 3: toughest mayoral transition moving a cat into Gracie Mansion. The
Speaker 3: mayor of New York is preparing for what could be
Speaker 3: as prickly as transition. Mamdanni is allergic to cats, but
Speaker 3: his wife Ramo Duaji wants when for the Graci Mansion,
Speaker 3: the couple's now official residence on Manhaanne's Upper East Side.
Speaker 3: He started taking weekly shots in December to build up
Speaker 3: to tolerance to felines. Wow, you got a marriage where
Speaker 3: you're allergic to cat and your wife's still gonna make
Speaker 3: you have a cat. Why do you gotta get a
Speaker 3: bunch of shots? Well, no, never mind that you can
Speaker 3: do the marriage counseling. I'm gonna do the media criticism.
Speaker 5: The Wall Street Journal with a cute, sweet article about
Speaker 5: how the racist Marxist Islamist new mayor, the communist mayor
Speaker 5: of New York City's allergic to cats about his wife
Speaker 5: loves cats. Isn't that sweet that he's doing that the
Speaker 5: next week? It's gonna be Joseph Stalin says, fly fishing
Speaker 5: really relaxes him. Oh, it's the it's the rhythmic of
Speaker 5: the casting, the real it just it really unwinds me
Speaker 5: after a long day of starving.
Speaker 1: Jews and the gula, the kulos and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: I get your point.
Speaker 3: Paul Pott says, there's nothing like a game of pool
Speaker 3: on a Friday night to forget about you.
Speaker 1: What the hell Wall Street journal Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: pretty good point.
Speaker 3: Oh seriously though, Yeah, I'm allergic to cats, and you're
Speaker 3: gonna make us have a cat, like severely allergic. What
Speaker 3: I always don't have a cat? His eyes swell shut?
Speaker 3: But she really wants a cat in Gracie mansion.
Speaker 1: The hell is going on there? She's a lunatic. You're
Speaker 1: a communist?
Speaker 3: The Wall Street journalists doing puff pieces on a bodia.
Speaker 1: As we used to say back in Chicago, What the hell?
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3: I think all food should be free a ground.
Speaker 1: Chairs, restaurants sit in charge for food. Cowsing is a
Speaker 1: human right, Yay, another good one.
Speaker 4: Got so many things from the weekend. What do we
Speaker 4: get to next? I have to look at that.
Speaker 3: I think it might be Hanson. How's it looking for
Speaker 3: my Super Bowl credential? Not to go to the game,
Speaker 3: but to go to the media stuff looking great for
Speaker 3: me to be there Friday and check out the biggest
Speaker 3: media scrum practically in the world that occurs every single year.
Speaker 3: Because it's only sixty miles from my house, so I
Speaker 3: thought I'd go over there and check that out.
Speaker 1: We got more on waste to hear Grammy's Last Night.
Speaker 3: I don't know which Grammy jelly Roll one for something country.
Speaker 3: There's several new categories classic country, pop, country, different stuff.
Speaker 3: But anyway, he won so dessert most weight loss by
Speaker 3: Major Starr could have been jelly Roll, but anyway, he
Speaker 3: invoked Jesus in a way you don't nearly hear very
Speaker 3: often in the godless communist city of La Here's jelly
Speaker 3: Roll the Grammys last Night.
Speaker 6: There was a time in my life, y'all that I
Speaker 6: was I was broken. That's why I wrote this album.
Speaker 6: I didn't think I had a chance all. There was
Speaker 6: days that I thought the darkest things. I was a
Speaker 6: horrible human. There was a moment in my life that
Speaker 6: all I had was a Bible this big in a
Speaker 6: radio the same size, and a six by eight foot
Speaker 6: sale And I believe that those two things could change
Speaker 6: my life. I believe that music had the power to
Speaker 6: change my life. God had the power to change my life.
Speaker 6: And I want to tell y'all right now, Jesus is
Speaker 6: for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party.
Speaker 6: Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is
Speaker 6: Jesus and anybody can have a relationship with him.
Speaker 1: I love you Lord.
Speaker 3: You know some cheering for that. They're in the you know,
Speaker 3: a room full of atheists. Apparently the camera went right
Speaker 3: to Reba McIntyre as they found the one person in
Speaker 3: the hall that wasn't going to roll their eyes at that.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, wait, quick, find us Christian. There's surely there's
Speaker 1: gotta be one.
Speaker 3: I can give me a fifteen satanist, sir, find me
Speaker 3: a Christian.
Speaker 1: Wait, there's Reba.
Speaker 3: So a little on the music, and of course music
Speaker 3: is taste, but you know, on me, either like it
Speaker 3: you don't like like I like the Kendrick Lamar song
Speaker 3: that one Record of the Year Luthor about Luther Vanders,
Speaker 3: but you gotta like hip hop. The person who won
Speaker 3: Best New Artist, Olivia Dean, I'd never heard of at all,
Speaker 3: but so I checked out her album last night after
Speaker 3: she won that. Really really liked that. Man, if you're
Speaker 3: ever in a romantic setting, throw on that album. But
Speaker 3: she's being compared to Dion Warwick, which if I'm her,
Speaker 3: I'd say, who the Hell's Dion Warwick? But really liked
Speaker 3: that album listening to it yesterday. Uh, I was one
Speaker 3: of oh Best Americana Album, whatever that category means. John Batiste,
Speaker 3: who won Album of the Year a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: just in general one for Americana Album last night, and
Speaker 3: I was listening to that and that is a cool
Speaker 3: freaking album.
Speaker 4: He's one amazing musician. But here's the one I want
Speaker 4: to talk about, just because I think it's entertaining. The
Speaker 4: Cure put out an album. I'm a Cure fan from
Speaker 4: the way back in the day. They put out their
Speaker 4: first album in like almost twenty years and won some
Speaker 4: Grammy for Best something or other some kind of rock.
Speaker 3: In best reward likely to attract older viewers to the show,
Speaker 3: The Cure Right.
Speaker 4: The Cure's fourteenth studio album, Songs of a Lost World,
Speaker 4: deals almost exclusively in death, dying, and the relentless march
Speaker 4: of time.
Speaker 1: Good stuff.
Speaker 4: The songs move slowly, and many go on for many
Speaker 4: minutes before Smith opens his mouth at all. No pop hits,
Speaker 4: no hooks, and no fun. That's the review.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Now on the specific song that won an award, Listen
Speaker 4: to this. The glacially paced opener and lead single alone
Speaker 4: is majestic and mournful, with string swells and apocalyptic lyrics
Speaker 4: about birds falling out of the sky. But mostly it's
Speaker 4: about dying alone, the shattered pieces of a regret filled
Speaker 4: life and the foregone conclusion that is our mutual demise.
Speaker 1: Wow. Just for the record, I am not ready to rock. Wow.
Speaker 1: What do you feel like that? Throwing that on? Where
Speaker 1: are you in the mood for?
Speaker 4: It's mostly about dying alone, the shattered pieces of a
Speaker 4: regret filled life. Have some people over, open up some
Speaker 4: bottles of wine.
Speaker 3: Sure, beautiful spring day, maybe little road trip music?
Speaker 1: Hey, kids, listen, listen to music. Hey honey, what do
Speaker 1: you want to hear? The cure? Oh? I love the cure.
Speaker 1: You kids are too young to have many regrets.
Speaker 3: But here's what it'll be like when you're older, a
Speaker 3: regret filled life, just waiting for your demise alone.
Speaker 1: By the way, alone, you're'd have.
Speaker 4: To listen to several minutes of orchestral swells before the
Speaker 4: words come on.
Speaker 3: But trust me, it's about dying alone. What in the
Speaker 3: hell I haven't heard that? It might be great art.
Speaker 3: It's probably That's a hell of a description. It could
Speaker 3: be the best at that. And I'm just not sure
Speaker 3: when I'm exactly going to be in the mood for
Speaker 3: it's a lot different than, like, you know, some of
Speaker 3: the dance tunes that were winning awards. Justin Bieber played
Speaker 3: in his underwear last night, silvery underwear, stripped down to
Speaker 3: his boxer shorts and socks.
Speaker 1: For some reason. He also had to throw in a
Speaker 1: little ice out commentary, because you know, you gotta be cool,
Speaker 1: all right. Good for him.
Speaker 3: I can't say anything about the album of the Year,
Speaker 3: Bad Bunny, because I don't speak Spanish and I have no.
Speaker 1: Idea what was about.
Speaker 3: Well, you get to watch him at the super Bowl
Speaker 3: on Sunday, right, you know he's going to make some
Speaker 3: sort of comment about Ice. He's got something planned. Everybody
Speaker 3: sees it coming. There's going to be a shirt or
Speaker 3: a banner or a comment or a change of the lyrics,
Speaker 3: and it's going to be a reference to the dead
Speaker 3: people in Minneapolis by name, so annoying and tiring.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: CURRG announced a recall of more than eighty thousand McDonald's
Speaker 7: brand Decalf coffee pods because they actually contain caffeine. So
Speaker 7: if you brew McDonald's decalf at home, Jesus Man, that's.
Speaker 4: A good bunch on except for the fact that McDonald's
Speaker 4: regularly wins various coffee contest things.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they make fabulous calls.
Speaker 3: He probably doesn't know that, but just in general, I
Speaker 3: get it. That's pretty funny. So I we have long
Speaker 3: mocked these special elections that they have, and then the
Speaker 3: political punditry tries to extrapolate them for several days and
Speaker 3: make them mean, oh, it's.
Speaker 1: A bellweather, an indicator of blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you add that to the whole midterm thing,
Speaker 4: and then the ongoing conversation which I saw pop up
Speaker 4: several times in the Sunday shows, and I fast forwarded
Speaker 4: through it because I'm not going to listen to any
Speaker 4: conversation about who who might take back the House during
Speaker 4: the midterms.
Speaker 3: It's just I don't know. Are there are there people
Speaker 3: who are interested in that outside of the media. Are
Speaker 3: there people who actually, if you're living your life a
Speaker 3: year out, take it in information.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they'll get the what is wrong with you?
Speaker 3: Explain to me what difference would be made in anybody's
Speaker 3: life if we just waited ten months before anybody said
Speaker 3: a word and then talked about.
Speaker 4: Well not to mention portraying it as a big deal
Speaker 4: if the Democrats take it back. Yeah, that's what happens
Speaker 4: after a president gets elected, Like almost every time.
Speaker 1: It's like as predictable as the rain. So it's not
Speaker 1: a big.
Speaker 3: Rejection of this or embrace of that, or it's just
Speaker 3: what always happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a near inevitability. Sure, So I don't know
Speaker 1: why it's even that interesting.
Speaker 4: All that being said, as a setup to this, I
Speaker 4: think it's kind of interesting. Special election last night in
Speaker 4: Texas won by the Democrats. It's getting a fair amount
Speaker 4: of attention because Trump won and with this guy as
Speaker 4: soon as he's sworn in like today or tomorrow or whatever.
Speaker 4: Now the Republicans have a one seat edge in the House.
Speaker 4: It's never been this close ever in US history, one
Speaker 4: seat advantage this particular district.
Speaker 3: Trump had won by seventeen, this Democrat won by forty one.
Speaker 3: So it's a thirty one point swing to the left
Speaker 3: in you know, a year and a couple of months,
Speaker 3: thirty one points. Now, Trump was on the battle.
Speaker 4: It wasn't specifically voting for Trump, but going from people
Speaker 4: we're in a you know, a Republican to a Democratic,
Speaker 4: thirty one points is a lot that's really what they thought.
Speaker 4: And even Ron DeSantis, who is one of your more
Speaker 4: reasonable people out there, he's not a cable news pundit
Speaker 4: getting all excited about it. However, he said special elections
Speaker 4: are quirky and not necessarily projectable like a general election.
Speaker 4: He said that said a swing of this magnitude is
Speaker 4: not something that can be dismissed. Republicans should be clear
Speaker 4: eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms. The
Speaker 4: only thing I would say to that, I mean, he's
Speaker 4: right about that. The only thing I would say to
Speaker 4: that is yeah, but historically they're supposed to lose, so it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's That's not a reason not to
Speaker 3: try to win. No, it's meant to try to, you know,
Speaker 3: be so good at governing the country that you deserve
Speaker 3: to win.
Speaker 1: I get that. But again, presenting it is like, Ooh,
Speaker 1: if we're not careful, we might lose.
Speaker 4: No, that's the opposite. It would take an aberration to
Speaker 4: not lose, regardless of all kinds of headwinds around immigration
Speaker 4: or whatever. So now I set all that up to
Speaker 4: get to some good news that Mark Alprin pointed out
Speaker 4: for the Republicans.
Speaker 1: Oh, I got one more bad news, but you.
Speaker 3: Throw him this is wait, you know what, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: just just real quick. This is a tiny election. This
Speaker 3: is a special election with a tiny turnout. I agree,
Speaker 3: it's getting attention way beyond I'm not a person who
Speaker 3: pays attention to that sort of thing, But a thirty
Speaker 3: one point swing.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 4: Democrats topped Republicans in a generic congressional ballot by six points,
Speaker 4: scoring the highest of any party on that metric in
Speaker 4: the history of the survey that Fox has done for
Speaker 4: many decades.
Speaker 1: So the Democrats.
Speaker 3: No party has ever had a lead like this ever
Speaker 3: since fo Democratic Party was.
Speaker 1: Dead six months ago. Dead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it's the immigration stuff and the economy.
Speaker 3: The economy is a big one because things aren't cheaper.
Speaker 3: They were never lack of coherent messaging around the economy.
Speaker 3: I often point out things were never going to be cheaper.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't have said they were going to be cheaper. But
Speaker 3: so back to the good news.
Speaker 4: So Mark Alpin writ and his newsletter over the weekend,
Speaker 4: he said, here's a couple of things that could happen.
Speaker 4: First and foremost, Scott Bessett turns out to be right,
Speaker 4: and the economy booms so much in quarter two and
Speaker 4: three that the voters actually start to feel it at home.
Speaker 1: That could happen.
Speaker 3: The Republicans have a fundraising advantage that nobody has ever
Speaker 3: seen before in politics. It's pronounced an important. Money matters
Speaker 3: way more in down ballot races than in presidential contests.
Speaker 3: Lots of people, including us me, mock the money thing
Speaker 3: in presidential contests because it's never shown to mean anything.
Speaker 4: But in your small races where people got no money,
Speaker 4: like this district here. If you know, if you got
Speaker 4: a bunch of those and Republicans could come in and
Speaker 4: throw in a ton of money, maybe it could make
Speaker 4: the difference.
Speaker 1: According to the people who claim to know about this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, and.
Speaker 4: Also in terms of fundraising going on, the Democrats have
Speaker 4: no equal to Trump's ability to raise money. This is
Speaker 4: from the Washington Post. I believe over the weekend, Donald
Speaker 4: Trump's political war chest grew dramatically in the second half
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty five, according to new campaign finance disclosures
Speaker 4: that just came out late Saturday, giving him an unprecedented
Speaker 4: amount of money for a term a limited president to
Speaker 4: influence the midterms and beyond.
Speaker 1: Trump raised twenty six million dollars.
Speaker 4: They're always different this and that, and then another eight
Speaker 4: for this, and then blah blah blah, which and then
Speaker 4: the super pac that has more than three hundred million
Speaker 4: dollars in the bank to spend. Altogether, a web of
Speaker 4: campaign accounts, some of which Trump controls directly, in others
Speaker 4: under the care of close allies within the president's orbit,
Speaker 4: have three one hundred and seventy five million dollars in
Speaker 4: the coffer. The funds far outstripped those of any other
Speaker 4: political figure, Republican or Democrat entering twenty twenty six, and
Speaker 4: have no historical precedent as an amount.
Speaker 3: Wow, there's never been anything like this before. So it
Speaker 3: depends on whether how much money matters in those races.
Speaker 3: I guess is that just the Trump effect? Yet again,
Speaker 3: both pro and con everything gets extra jacked up and
Speaker 3: impassioned because Trump's involved.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and you know, and they mentioned later
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 3: We're extra divided, and the division is very very big
Speaker 3: right now between the radical left and normal people.
Speaker 4: I want to get into the weeds butt on like
Speaker 4: a lot of measures. The Republicans have a ton of
Speaker 4: money and the Democrats are actually in the red they
Speaker 4: have more bills than money.
Speaker 1: And Elon has sworn to.
Speaker 3: What did he say, he'd spend a BILLIONAI or whatever
Speaker 3: he'd send, he'd spend on the on the midterms to
Speaker 3: make sure the Republicans hold onto the House.
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be plenty of money.
Speaker 3: As I think Dick Morris or somebody told us one time,
Speaker 3: many many years ago, if you got the wrong message,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter how much money you have. If you
Speaker 3: got the right message, Heaven or Hell can't stop you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and if the.
Speaker 1: Message is baking so expensive, I don't know, there might
Speaker 1: not be any getting around that.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's at least slightly difficult to reconcile this with
Speaker 3: what we were talking about earlier, which was the first half
Speaker 3: of the twenty twenties. Is in the books now, and
Speaker 3: the census from numbers have come out, and not the
Speaker 3: it's the once every ten years census, but just the
Speaker 3: stuff they keep track of year to year, and the
Speaker 3: population flow from blue states to red states for native
Speaker 3: born citizens is unmistakable. I mean, it's it's well, it's
Speaker 3: one of the great demographic trends in American history. And
Speaker 3: yet the generic Democrat has a has a lead, and
Speaker 3: they're expected to take back the House and everything.
Speaker 1: It's just interesting.
Speaker 4: Well, Halprin and other pundits have declared Trump's presidency over
Speaker 4: if the Democrats take back the House, which historically they will,
Speaker 4: just in that he won't be able to get anything
Speaker 4: through and they're going to muck everything up the last
Speaker 4: two years with impeachments.
Speaker 1: They'll be that'll free him up to battle Trevor Noah, though.
Speaker 4: There'll be one or two impeachments, and it will it
Speaker 4: will all just come to a halt, which, you know,
Speaker 4: if you're a Democrat, that's awesome. You want him to
Speaker 4: not be able to.
Speaker 3: Pursue all these different things he's been pursuing, I guess,
Speaker 3: but that'll be more or less the end of it.
Speaker 3: Trump fleew of controversial executive orders as we slide further
Speaker 3: and further down into that sort of governance, I would guess.
Speaker 1: God living through another impeachment, which everyone says is inevitable.
Speaker 1: Do you think it is.
Speaker 3: I would bet money that it will happen. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 3: Probably around some of his money he's getting in crypto
Speaker 3: financial dealings. Yeah, probably crypto and the meme coin scams.
Speaker 1: Which in some cases might have legs.
Speaker 3: All meme coins are scams, by the way, all of them. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Do you think that stuff has legs, some of that
Speaker 3: financial stuff. Hmmm. They'll sure try to run it up
Speaker 3: the flagpole, he says, metaphors.
Speaker 1: They'll try like crazy.
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Speaker 1: Oh, the impeachment. That's right.
Speaker 3: There'll be plenty of time to talk about that when
Speaker 3: it inevitably happens. Won't that be fun?
Speaker 4: Some interesting AI stuff I came across over the weekend,
Speaker 4: among other things on the way, say right here, looking
Speaker 4: up at CNN sources say US moving additional air defenses
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: If I were a betting man, wait I am, I
Speaker 3: would say, yeah, it's going to happen. So I found
Speaker 3: this interesting. Elon Musk is burning a bridge, and it's
Speaker 3: not calling Trump a chump or anything like that. It's
Speaker 3: that they're not going to build the Model s anymore
Speaker 3: as part of their pivot toward robots. He's serious, Tesla
Speaker 3: is going to be all about building robots.
Speaker 4: That's kind of interesting. The Model ass was their flagship car,
Speaker 4: and they redesigned it last year and it looks awful.
Speaker 4: It went from being I thought a pretty cool looking
Speaker 4: sports car too really ugly in my opinion. Okay, it's
Speaker 4: they're phasing it out, so.
Speaker 1: That's why they did. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, by narrowing the company's money making lineup, he's giving
Speaker 3: himself even less room for air, according to the Journal,
Speaker 3: But it's it's.
Speaker 1: A real gamble. The robots are cool looking.
Speaker 3: They put out a online commercial whatever you want to
Speaker 3: call it, of a robot being a caregiver to an
Speaker 3: oldster that was pretty good. I mean, making sure grandma
Speaker 3: takes her pills and holding an arm out for her
Speaker 3: to hold on to, and you know, and not turning
Speaker 3: off then and not ripping off Grandma's arm and beating
Speaker 3: her with the bloody stump. They're still working on that
Speaker 3: be realistic. It's a new technology.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this ad. I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know Elon's gone on. He says there'll
Speaker 3: be more robots and people within and I don't forget
Speaker 3: how many years, but it seems like send me a
Speaker 3: long time for there more robots and people on Earth.
Speaker 1: Why do the robots need to have faces? Though?
Speaker 4: That's what bothers my son, that's what freaks him out.
Speaker 4: He thinks he thinks that's what freaks most people out there.
Speaker 3: There's a term for that, the uncanny valley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uncanny valley thing.
Speaker 4: And who decided, you know, somebody decided in science fiction
Speaker 4: the way back in the day that robot should have faces.
Speaker 3: But there's no reason for them to actually have a face,
Speaker 3: or he'd be even shaped like a human. I don't think,
Speaker 3: because I've read a lot about evolutionary I would argue
Speaker 3: that from a human being's point of view, it's it's worse.
Speaker 3: It's better that it's just a machine.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's got like whimsical cartoon eyes or something like that,
Speaker 3: but don't make it nearly human.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the worst thing you can do.
Speaker 4: I don't understand why it's gott to have like a
Speaker 4: head neck looking situation at all. And then I've read
Speaker 4: a lot from an evolution standpoint about how impractical in
Speaker 4: many ways the development of the human being was. So
Speaker 4: why have it have two legs and two arms and
Speaker 4: then a neck and a head.
Speaker 3: It just don't make it look anything like a human.
Speaker 3: Maybe I have three legs or like R two DE
Speaker 3: two makes more sense than C three po in my opinion,
Speaker 3: or like an octopus with glowing your red eyes and
Speaker 3: long things.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe that the kids would enjoy that, or
Speaker 1: maybe not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder. I wonder at what point we will
Speaker 3: all have a robot in our house. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's going to be that long.
Speaker 4: We touched on the Grammys a bunch of different times
Speaker 4: because of some stupid things that were said last night.
Speaker 4: Who uh, let's get another one of those these are good?
Speaker 3: How about well, let's go with bad Bunny. He won
Speaker 3: the Album of the Year as Joseph Subpar Bunny. Subpar
Speaker 3: Bunny wins Album of the Year. And here he is
Speaker 3: when he goes up to you to do his acceptance speech.
Speaker 1: Before I say thanks to God, I'm gonna say eyes
Speaker 1: out and listening to the problem yay.
Speaker 3: Just from the awards standpoint, when they announced his name,
Speaker 3: he sat there for a long time. He looked like
Speaker 3: he was actually quite emotionally affected by winning that album,
Speaker 3: which I don't think he probably expected to since it's
Speaker 3: not even in English. I don't get that kind of music,
Speaker 3: so I like lots of different kind of music. The
Speaker 3: whole Latin beat thing I've just never liked for some reason.
Speaker 3: But that's just my personal taste. Let's do another one
Speaker 3: of these just whoever Klani is Clip thirty seven.
Speaker 8: Everybody is so powerful in this room and in this
Speaker 8: room later and together, we're stronger in numbers to speak
Speaker 8: against all the injustice going on in the world right now. Yeah,
Speaker 8: So instead of letting it be just a couple of
Speaker 8: you here and there, I hope everybody's inspired to join
Speaker 8: together as a community of artists and speak out against
Speaker 8: what's going on. And I'm gonna leave it and safe ice.
Speaker 3: I hope they take some sort of joy and comfort
Speaker 3: from all agreeing with each other over and over again
Speaker 3: and acting as if they're being brave.
Speaker 1: It just strikes me as silly.
Speaker 4: It's a whole bunch of people who, like Ricky Gervais
Speaker 4: said at the Golden Globes, you have the least perspective
Speaker 4: of anybody on anything. Your lives are so different from
Speaker 4: any normal human being. Your opinion matters significantly less than
Speaker 4: like anybody out there watching a grocer, a guy who
Speaker 4: chains oil for a living, your insurance, all those people,
Speaker 4: their perspectives make more sense than somebody who is really
Speaker 4: hot and can dance and became famous at age seventeen.
Speaker 4: But they're convinced for some reason. And I don't know
Speaker 4: who tells them this. I guess they tell each other
Speaker 4: that their opinion is more valuable and we an artists
Speaker 4: can band together and change the world or something.
Speaker 1: It's think.
Speaker 3: It may be as simple as I'm getting a lot
Speaker 3: of attention, so I must be deserving of a lot
Speaker 3: of attention. And then just for something of different and
Speaker 3: just for anybody who hasn't heard it yet, just the
Speaker 3: beginning of Billie Eilish hearth thing again, which is the
Speaker 3: dumbest thing said last night.
Speaker 2: No one is illegal on Stolen Land.
Speaker 1: I can't listen to crowd or oh you're a man.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: What would be nice too is if I've seen that
Speaker 4: played on fifteen different shows.
Speaker 3: Other than Fox, which I didn't see it played on Fox,
Speaker 3: So I don't know what they're coming out with, but
Speaker 3: it'd be nice off on any show, you know, even
Speaker 3: left leaning ABC News or whatever, if somebody would jump
Speaker 3: in and say, well, you know, there's actually problems with
Speaker 3: that notion and that the land has changed hands many
Speaker 3: many times, including with Indian tribes before we even arrived here,
Speaker 3: So who would belong to originally would be problematic at best.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it would be.
Speaker 3: Nice if somebody threw that in and just didn't play
Speaker 3: it as a look, how wonderful this is. Listen to
Speaker 3: the crowd cheer leading other stupid people who are watching
Speaker 3: your stupid morning television show. Probably stupid if you are
Speaker 3: watching a morning television show because it means you don't
Speaker 3: have a job or you don't have kids to take
Speaker 3: care of us. You're probably more on. But you're being
Speaker 3: very critical. You're being led by these stupid clips. And
Speaker 3: when you hear those people get cheered, there it is
Speaker 3: right now, and see it. N I can see it,
Speaker 3: so I know they're playing it, and they're gonna play
Speaker 3: the crowd cheering, and morons are gonna see that and think, well,
Speaker 3: I guess that's wise and deep and what everybody thinks,
Speaker 3: because listen to everybody cheer.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it makes me so angry that they think
Speaker 1: they're so smart.
Speaker 3: Michael, play me the beginning of thirty seven again, just
Speaker 3: the beginning.
Speaker 8: Everybody is so powerful.
Speaker 1: In this room and in this and anything.
Speaker 3: I wanted more of that, but virtually everything she said
Speaker 3: was just meaningless greeting card rhetoric as I like to
Speaker 3: call it.
Speaker 1: And then people cheered like crazy.
Speaker 3: We're so together and we're feeling powerful and we're having
Speaker 3: a real effect.
Speaker 1: No no, If.
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