Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and Getty and
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Speaker 3: Walmart is testing new technology that allows workers to remotely
Speaker 3: unlock anti shoplifting displays, while CBS is just giving every
Speaker 3: customer a brick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting that that's such a universal You can make
Speaker 1: a joke nationally about that.
Speaker 2: Welcome, how y'all doing so? And yes and yes sorry.
Speaker 4: The perception one would come to from most media is
Speaker 4: that only lying right wingers are claiming crime is going up,
Speaker 4: and just now, as you said, as you said last
Speaker 4: hour about some other topic. Apparently people saw through all
Speaker 4: that based on the results of the election. Every once
Speaker 4: in a while, an argument seems to be one in
Speaker 4: the world of politics or lost, depending on which side
Speaker 4: of it you were on.
Speaker 2: Not a lot most elections.
Speaker 1: We seem to just go back and forth between an
Speaker 1: R or D and we keep having the same arguments.
Speaker 2: But every once in a while argument is one or lost.
Speaker 1: One of the best examples in my lifetime being gay marriage.
Speaker 1: So thoroughly drubbed by the idea of gay marriage, Republicans
Speaker 1: just ceased fighting it at all when it became clear
Speaker 1: that the country had decided that that's what they want,
Speaker 1: and so that then that argument was over and it
Speaker 1: just doesn't exist anymore. And I'm hoping that maybe that
Speaker 1: has happened, or we're close to it happening with the
Speaker 1: whole identity politics thing that took off in the mid
Speaker 1: nineties and has been running this country for a long time.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe because there's a lot of people on
Speaker 1: the left saying this is not working for us, starting
Speaker 1: with well, not starting with a whole bunch of different people.
Speaker 2: Well, this isn't it.
Speaker 1: James Carvil's he ran Clinton's campaign, really pre identity politics
Speaker 1: taking hold of the Democratic Party way back in the
Speaker 1: early nineties. But this is what James Carvill has to
Speaker 1: say about the current state of things.
Speaker 5: With reference to exotic positions which our identity politics. If
Speaker 5: you read to Arkle in your Times, I said, I
Speaker 5: give Harris credit, she does not bring this up. But
Speaker 5: this stuff is like smoke on your clothes. I was fireplace.
Speaker 5: You can't wash it off. And those ideas, well, it's true,
Speaker 5: they never said it. You know how many millions of
Speaker 5: dollars that the Republicans ran on anti identity politics positions
Speaker 5: that people had taken in a Democratic party in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty to hancy has a lot because you're
Speaker 5: see it politics the other side play, and you've got
Speaker 5: to understand that it is going to take another four
Speaker 5: years before we wash the stitch of this off of
Speaker 5: our clothes.
Speaker 1: At least, So identity to politics being your politics are
Speaker 1: all about your immutable things, like your skin color, whether
Speaker 1: your man or woman, what you know, your hispanic or
Speaker 1: white or black or all those kind of things are identity.
Speaker 4: Justics your politics, but your place in the world. Are
Speaker 4: you a good person or a bad person? Can you
Speaker 4: work here or not? That's all about your immutable characteristics.
Speaker 1: Sam Harris, who is a lefty, super smart guy, best known,
Speaker 1: I guess for being an outspoken atheist. But anyway, he
Speaker 1: wrote in sub stack yesterday, I think there are some
Speaker 1: lessons that the Democrats really must absorb for what is
Speaker 1: undeniably a total political defeat. They simply must recognize that
Speaker 1: several planks of their platform are thoroughly rotten.
Speaker 2: Identity politics is over. No one wants it.
Speaker 1: Latinos and blacks don't even want it, as witnessed by
Speaker 1: the fact that they moved to Trump record numbers. Trump
Speaker 1: got a majority of Latino men nationwide, and some counties
Speaker 1: got a majority of Latino men and women, even with
Speaker 1: all that he has said about immigrants from Latin America
Speaker 1: over the years, things like they're poisoning the blood of
Speaker 1: our people. A comedian called Puerto Rico a pilot garbage
Speaker 1: at a Trump rally, and the entire Democratic machine, all
Speaker 1: of the liberal media seized upon it as though a
Speaker 1: nuclear bomb had just vaporized in an American city and
Speaker 1: nobody cared because it was practically the closing argument of
Speaker 1: the campaign, right that that will be looked back on
Speaker 1: him as a mistake. Puerto Rican voters moved strongly toward
Speaker 1: Trump in a number of different strongholds because in Florida,
Speaker 1: because the point is, and then I'll get back to
Speaker 1: this Sam Harris thing is, they cared more about what
Speaker 1: my rent is, what my wages are, how good my
Speaker 1: school is for my kid, rather than comments about my
Speaker 1: skin color, race.
Speaker 4: Gender, whatever, what particular Caribbean island I'm from.
Speaker 1: Right, there's one species of identity politics that had an
Speaker 1: enormous effect on this election, and most Democrats don't seem
Speaker 1: to realize it. Around half a percent of American adults
Speaker 1: identify as transgender or non binary. That's one in two
Speaker 1: hundred people, and yet the activism around the identity has
Speaker 1: drained our politics for as long as Trump has been
Speaker 1: in politics. One lesson that I would be quick to
Speaker 1: draw from this election is that Americans aren't really fond
Speaker 1: of seeing biological men punch women in the face of
Speaker 1: the Olympics. And if that sounds like transphobia to you,
Speaker 1: you're the problem. Political equality, which should we should want
Speaker 1: for everyone, does not mean that trans women are women.
Speaker 1: When Sam Harris is writing that, I gotta believe that
Speaker 1: that issue is done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta believe.
Speaker 4: There are people like Sam and the many many others
Speaker 4: who are coming out of the woodwork Bill Maher among
Speaker 4: others that have been on the left and have hesitated
Speaker 4: at least somewhat to criticize the excesses of their ideological
Speaker 4: brothers and sisters. But they've been chafing because they know
Speaker 4: how insane it is, you know. To get back to
Speaker 4: Carville's point real quickly, he talked about the Democrats didn't
Speaker 4: really run on identity politics.
Speaker 2: Exactly. They kind of off pedaled it. I would suggest.
Speaker 4: That the Republicans weren't running against what the Democrats were
Speaker 4: running on. The Republicans were running against what the Democrats
Speaker 4: have done. What people see in their elementary schools and
Speaker 4: their kids' sports, and the college campuses, and the insanity
Speaker 4: and they or whatever in your workplace, in the training
Speaker 4: you have to take every year, oh my god, the
Speaker 4: humiliating DEI training. Folks, trust me when I say, with
Speaker 4: some exceptions, the momentum is on your side.
Speaker 2: Don't consent to that, because it's still.
Speaker 4: Going on in some corporations, government offices where you have
Speaker 4: to sit there and listen to somebody who's getting five
Speaker 4: thousand dollars an hour tell you all white people are evil,
Speaker 4: get up and walk out of that s Anyway, and
Speaker 4: I've been wanting to get to this. I came across
Speaker 4: an article and it was in the Wall Street Journal, which, granted,
Speaker 4: if you're employing lots and lots of journalists, you have
Speaker 4: lots and lots of lefties. It's just inevitable, even if
Speaker 4: you're the Wall Street Journal. And it's and it's an
Speaker 4: article about you know, and politics and quote unquote transgender rights,
Speaker 4: which means a guy can play in women's sports, or
Speaker 4: a male rapist can go into a women's prison and
Speaker 4: rape some more women, and that's portrayed as transgender rights.
Speaker 4: That's a prejudicial term. Nobody has a right to do that.
Speaker 1: As sam Aris said, Americans aren't fond of seeing biological
Speaker 1: men punch women in the face at the Olympics, either
Speaker 1: spike volleyballs into their face or what have you, or
Speaker 1: win eight hundred and fifty and counting different medals and
Speaker 1: awards and college championships and high school championships and the
Speaker 1: rest of it. It's I tell you what, folks, it is,
Speaker 1: for better or worse, an unbelievable example of how a
Speaker 1: very small but vicious group of people can twist society
Speaker 1: in ways that you wouldn't think were possible. Well, I
Speaker 1: was listening to the National Review podcasts the other day.
Speaker 1: They're making the point that the the same crowd that
Speaker 1: managed to turn the tide on gay marriage took a
Speaker 1: hold of this and thought they could do it again.
Speaker 1: I mean, because gay marriage was incredibly unpopular not that
Speaker 1: long ago. I always point out that in the two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight election, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party running against each other, both stated what
Speaker 1: marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Speaker 2: That's not that long ago.
Speaker 1: In the Democratic Party, the great Barack Obama was against
Speaker 1: gay marriage, but the tide turned by pushing because there
Speaker 1: was it.
Speaker 2: You know, it was the right side of history.
Speaker 1: I mean it turned out, I think we all agree
Speaker 1: now on all but most people agree that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And they thought they could do the same thing with
Speaker 1: the trans thing. No, you can't, This is nuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it professional like you know, anything goes sexually. Activists
Speaker 4: were part of it, but also the postmodern neo Marxist
Speaker 4: movement excuse me, got ahead of it or got a
Speaker 4: hold of it and decided that they could use that
Speaker 4: energy to overthrow Western civilization in the same way that
Speaker 4: you know, Lives Matter is trying to and the rest
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: So that, yeah, they tried to seize that.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of that sort of mission creep in
Speaker 4: nonprofits like the NAACP. They've won all their victories. I mean,
Speaker 4: what else do you want? The Southern Poverty Law Center,
Speaker 4: they want all their victories. But they got a staff
Speaker 4: and they got lots of people making lots of money.
Speaker 4: So they kind of morphed into the yeah, we're anti hate,
Speaker 4: and then we.
Speaker 2: Raised tons of money.
Speaker 4: And by the way, we're gonna identify like half of
Speaker 4: America as a hate group no matter what they stand for.
Speaker 4: And so they just what are they now? They're a
Speaker 4: weird mutated beast to what they used to be. And
Speaker 4: the quote unquote gay rights movement, which used to be
Speaker 4: LGB lesbians, gays, bisexual people, which is a very small
Speaker 4: number of people. But anyway, you know, I ought to
Speaker 4: be able to do what I want to do and
Speaker 4: marry who I want to marry. Okay, great, And then
Speaker 4: they added the T and oh oh, And that was
Speaker 4: the point I wanted to get to in the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal article, is they used quotes around certain phrases
Speaker 4: that I believed in, and I wish I hadn't in
Speaker 4: front of me.
Speaker 2: I'll find it. But they didn't use quotes.
Speaker 4: Around transgender, including talking about transgender kids. And I wish
Speaker 4: I could remember what perfectly reasonable thing they used quotes around.
Speaker 4: But we now accept that there is such a thing
Speaker 4: as a twelve year old girl being quote unquote transgender.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Is there an agreed upon meaning of that or is
Speaker 4: that an activist's effort to prejudice the argument, and therefore
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal ought to be in quotes. There's no
Speaker 4: agreed upon meaning of that term at all. I'll find
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Speaker 1: I just saw up in the Business Channel twenty three
Speaker 1: and me is laying off a bunch of people. Not
Speaker 1: enough people spitting in tubes anymore. Got everybody that wants
Speaker 1: to spit in the tube, or it turns out once
Speaker 1: you're spit in the tube, you're uh. The fund's kind
Speaker 1: of gone out of it because so they have like
Speaker 1: no repeat business. How would you, oh, right, exactly, you
Speaker 1: get me as a client one time. I've done it once.
Speaker 1: It's not a yeah, you're right right? I wonder am
Speaker 1: I still a white fella? I better spit in the
Speaker 1: tube again. No, nobody said that was my great great grandmother.
Speaker 1: Still kind of really not that interesting. Just a person's
Speaker 1: one hundred years ago.
Speaker 4: Sixteen generations ago there was a Spaniard in the family.
Speaker 2: I'll be damn yeah, oh here it is. That's right.
Speaker 4: Uh. The article was how Trump is gearing up for
Speaker 4: assault on wokeness with the education overhaul, which I do
Speaker 4: want to talk about, but it uses it continually puts
Speaker 4: votes around the term woke. But then transgender, including talking
Speaker 4: about little.
Speaker 2: Kids, is not in quotes. Why is that? Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal strikes me as odd? Why as a word? Smith? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's interesting.
Speaker 1: So CNN's laying off a ton of people today because
Speaker 1: their ratings have gone down so much. That's happening with
Speaker 1: media all across the country a bunch of different ways.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll touch on that since we are in the
Speaker 1: media and a bunch of other things.
Speaker 2: Stay with US.
Speaker 3: Officials to South Carolina and now as they've captured twenty
Speaker 3: five of the forty three monkeys that escape from a lab,
Speaker 3: which is a very positive way to say we lost
Speaker 3: eighteen monkeys.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Good point.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, South Carolina, which is growing rapidly,
Speaker 4: huge tourism industry, you got monkeys in the trees. I've
Speaker 4: been to Costa Rica. People spend lots of time looking
Speaker 4: at the monkeys and washing them, chatter and taking pictures
Speaker 4: and stuff.
Speaker 2: Monkeys is just what South Carolina. The dads.
Speaker 1: Hanson, our executive producer's, got a couple of kids like
Speaker 1: me at home, and we were just discussing how the uh,
Speaker 1: it's not always enjoyable to have the mirror around the
Speaker 1: mirror that is your children. I mean, sometimes it is
Speaker 1: when you see them the mirror image of some of
Speaker 1: your good traits. But when you see the mirror image
Speaker 1: of some of your bad traits, you think, oh crap.
Speaker 1: Either genetically I passed that along to you, or my
Speaker 1: behavior has passed that along to you one or the other.
Speaker 2: One of the most painful and.
Speaker 4: Valuable experiences of my entire life, no doubt, seeing that mirror, yeah.
Speaker 1: And yeah, And then you do wonder is this was
Speaker 1: this a genetic thing? Or is my behavior, you know,
Speaker 1: my living with me done this. I don't know, and
Speaker 1: nobody really knows. But on all of this, but on
Speaker 1: this particular one, I got to relive the experience of
Speaker 1: trying to help him last night, of trying to get
Speaker 1: your big giant high school english paper done that you've
Speaker 1: known about for weeks but really didn't start until yesterday and.
Speaker 2: Is due today.
Speaker 1: And I mean, that's got to be a genetic thing,
Speaker 1: because he hasn't seen me try to get a high
Speaker 1: school term paper done.
Speaker 2: But it's just amazing. It was just amazing. It was
Speaker 2: like sitting with young me last night. It was just hilarious. Yes, Katie,
Speaker 2: I used to do that, and when I would do that.
Speaker 2: Now as an adult, I have nightmares. Yeah, oh yeah
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, apparently I had said to him at some
Speaker 1: point when he was younger, I shouldn't have said this
Speaker 1: out loud. It was that I've been this way my
Speaker 1: whole life, and it's I've just accepted that it's never
Speaker 1: going to change. So he's already just embraced the idea
Speaker 1: that the way he is and he.
Speaker 2: Can't change, which might be true actually, But.
Speaker 1: For instance, he had to record this speech that he's
Speaker 1: supposed to do on his computer and I said, well,
Speaker 1: how are you going to do that? He said, well,
Speaker 1: recorded on the computer, I know, but specifically, how like,
Speaker 1: is there an app or is there something I don't
Speaker 1: know all figured out? So you haven't looked into it yet,
Speaker 1: you don't know how you're going to regard the speech
Speaker 1: on the computer, so then we had to google that.
Speaker 1: And you use your quick time player and your QuickTime
Speaker 1: player is not updated because you haven't updated your software,
Speaker 1: and we need to update the software. Oh, it's one
Speaker 1: of the big software updates. It takes like an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. It's something on your commit Oh, these
Speaker 1: I said, you see, these are the things that multiply
Speaker 1: when you wait to the last minute.
Speaker 4: But who am I talking to him or me? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I hate to admit that I had that same tendency
Speaker 4: growing up. It sickens me to even think about it.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, and Sam, if you're listening now,
Speaker 4: it would be a good time to turn off the rate.
Speaker 4: Old Uncle Joe is going to say something completely irrelevant
Speaker 4: in a waste of your time. That would be It
Speaker 4: made me very good at churning out rough drafts of
Speaker 4: high quality, which I do for a living.
Speaker 1: Now, right, there's some I mean, I'm really trying to
Speaker 1: spin this. It's like the talking about the monkeys you
Speaker 1: found is the post of the monkeys that are still
Speaker 1: out there? Really spinning the facts of this case. But
Speaker 1: there's some advantage to having a skill set of you know,
Speaker 1: shoestering catches and flying by the seat of your pants,
Speaker 1: because sometimes life throws you those situations.
Speaker 2: We need a solution, We need a solution. I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: give me a second, give me a second. This is why,
Speaker 2: because that's been my entire life.
Speaker 4: Not I'm going to need several weeks at several drafts
Speaker 4: not to mention footnotes. I mean, I absolutely respect those folks.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm jealous. I'm so jealousy of you folks.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, takes all kinds.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, your life looks so much easier than mine.
Speaker 1: The way you do it, where you worked on your
Speaker 1: paper a little bit at a time and got it
Speaker 1: done this past weekend. That looks much more enjoyable than
Speaker 1: no way I did it.
Speaker 4: Some people have the old seat of the pants gene,
Speaker 4: a little old I got ten minutes. I can probably
Speaker 4: figure it out. Oh my god, it was some to relive. Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I sympathize some.
Speaker 1: Of Trump's appointments, getting a lot of attention. Happy with
Speaker 1: the think all of them. Really a lot more stuff
Speaker 1: on the way. I hope you can stay with us,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getty. Yo yo yo. I got some more
Speaker 1: information about what my Friday Night's going to be watching
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson kick Jake Paul's ass on Netflix. But more
Speaker 1: on that coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 4: Wow, Wow, that sounds like a wager waiting to happen.
Speaker 4: M He says, Tyson's still a beast, but he's an
Speaker 4: older man.
Speaker 2: I have more to say on that, but coming up.
Speaker 4: All right, Fine, So a strange bedfellow's department here, Exxon
Speaker 4: is saying Trump should keep the US in the Paris
Speaker 4: Climate Pact.
Speaker 2: I saw that. That's surprising to me.
Speaker 4: The CEO of Exxon Mobile, Darren Woods, says it's a
Speaker 4: bad idea to pull out of the pat He said,
Speaker 4: the stops and starts right now. That's not good for
Speaker 4: the business. It's extremely inefficient. It creates a lot of uncertainty.
Speaker 1: How about we are certain and that we withdraw and
Speaker 1: stay out. That's certainty.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I would agree. Woods is currently and Azerbaijan,
Speaker 4: of all places, where he's set to rub elbows with
Speaker 4: world leaders at the annual United Nations Climate Conference. Well,
Speaker 4: you got the combination of the steadiness and the complete
Speaker 4: sincerity of the United Nations with the whole climate change thing.
Speaker 4: There's no way that ends up in just a enormous
Speaker 4: load of bull crap.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about this story, but is it
Speaker 1: possible that it just makes his life easier to be
Speaker 1: in favor of the parent CLIMAC Accords while continuing to
Speaker 1: do what they do as the exon oil company.
Speaker 2: I was just yes, Yes.
Speaker 4: The US oil major company has recently expanded to outreach
Speaker 4: to government officials, touting its carbon cutting investments in advising
Speaker 4: them to pursue global carbon accounting measures. It's also engaged
Speaker 4: more frequently some officials critical of the oil industry's contributions
Speaker 4: to the greenhouse gast missions blah blah blah. So they
Speaker 4: obviously are trying to position themselves as part.
Speaker 2: Of the solution. Right.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, I don't mean to get
Speaker 1: off track, but this will get us off track. But
Speaker 1: I think about the climate change thing, you know how
Speaker 1: some people say it's like a religion, and then the
Speaker 1: same thing around the trans thing, and then there's a
Speaker 1: couple of other issues. Cause we're gonna play audio coming
Speaker 1: up later. Maybe you've seen this already on CNN. It's
Speaker 1: somebody melting down on CNN the other day when somebody
Speaker 1: commented that men shouldn't be in women's sports, and then
Speaker 1: they had misgendered someone in this guest on there just
Speaker 1: like lost their s over the idea of somebody being
Speaker 1: transphobic or whatever. I mean, just like you could tell
Speaker 1: how upset they were over just having the conversation. And
Speaker 1: it reminded me of the Greta Funberg climate change stuff
Speaker 1: that we played.
Speaker 2: You've stoned my childhood and all that sort of.
Speaker 1: So dad the all these different things, but they get
Speaker 1: so crazed about them. I mean, they can't even have
Speaker 1: normal conversations about them.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 1: It's like you've attacked them or you're burning down their
Speaker 1: house or something. They get so wild about it. And
Speaker 1: what is going on there psychologically? Is it like a religion?
Speaker 1: I mean like you're just getting attacking their very essence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've removed family and religion from most people's lives,
Speaker 4: and so they they and it's a human need. It's
Speaker 4: not like our need for transcendence into higher power only
Speaker 4: happens when we discover religion.
Speaker 2: It's in there. It's like your need.
Speaker 4: For a family and close ties and human beings that
Speaker 4: doesn't develop when you meet someone special. It was there
Speaker 4: already and So these people who've spit on religion and family,
Speaker 4: they have this this burning, burning need to be utterly
Speaker 4: loyal to something.
Speaker 2: Right, and it's their ideology.
Speaker 1: And I was just thinking as you were saying that,
Speaker 1: So you when you are a parent and you are
Speaker 1: in a family, Uh, your overwhelming thing is protecting that.
Speaker 1: I got to protect that financially, you know, physically from crime,
Speaker 1: just an all disease. Always my job is to protect
Speaker 1: the family. Well, if you don't have that, you got
Speaker 1: to protect the climate or trans people, or you got
Speaker 1: to get to come up with something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, interesting bedfellows here. Bill mcgern, who wrote writes mostly
Speaker 4: for The Wall Street Journal, wrote a piece recently entitled
Speaker 4: the Democrats Religion, and Matt Tayebee weighed in with a
Speaker 4: great piece a couple of days ago entitled ding Dong
Speaker 4: The cult is Dead. And Tayebe's a man of the
Speaker 4: left without question. So back to that theme maybe next
Speaker 4: hour when you have when we have some more time,
Speaker 4: because I find it really interesting. I mean, never mind
Speaker 4: on a republic's good Democrats bad level, just you know, sociologically,
Speaker 4: trying to understand the human beast, I think is a
Speaker 4: really interesting topic.
Speaker 2: Anyway, We'll get to that.
Speaker 4: But the other half of the climate stuff I wanted
Speaker 4: to talk about. So you got the guy from Exan
Speaker 4: that the CEO of Exan is there. So's the blank
Speaker 4: and Taliban friends. Wo representatives of the Taliban terrorist organization
Speaker 4: ruling Afghanistan landed in Baku, Iserbaijan Monday to attend the
Speaker 4: COP twenty nine, the annual U N waste of money
Speaker 4: sorry climate alarmist summit. Excuse me, uh climate policy meeting
Speaker 4: where environmentalists are agitating to secure up to one trillion
Speaker 4: dollars in climate finance.
Speaker 2: Why is the Taliban there?
Speaker 1: Taliban the other day past their latest qu were crazy
Speaker 1: law where women are not allowed to be heard speaking
Speaker 1: in public, their voices are not allowed to be heard.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so tempted to make a really sexist joke,
Speaker 4: but I'm not going to because the Taliban is reprehensible.
Speaker 2: Place you can sign up for that. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: indeed yes sir oh da. Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 4: Here's another story you will never ever hear from the
Speaker 4: mainstream media. A bunch of videos have surfaced of Hamas
Speaker 4: torturing Palestinians. We're either suspected of being soft on Israel
Speaker 4: or collaborating or not sufficiently vamented our or whatever. I
Speaker 4: mean awful, awful tortures. So but again that's not that
Speaker 4: interesting a story according to the lamestream media. Back to
Speaker 4: the Taliban, they're the official representatives of the government of Afghanistan,
Speaker 4: so they will be there recognized by the UN as
Speaker 4: the uncontested government authority of Afghanistan, shall be angling for
Speaker 4: zillions of dollars in the finance, you know, climate finance.
Speaker 2: And then right, there's why the UN can't work.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're going to treat all countries are legitimate,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't judge different You're not going to judge a
Speaker 1: country who's ruled by people who doesn't allow women to
Speaker 1: be heard speaking.
Speaker 2: Their voices should not be heard in public.
Speaker 1: Your punishment could be being tortured or killed in a
Speaker 1: brutal way. If you're heard speaking as a female, you're
Speaker 1: just going to a step. There are different ways to
Speaker 1: run a country. Everybody gets to be part of the UN,
Speaker 1: the global community.
Speaker 2: That is such crap.
Speaker 4: Now they haven't been officially recognized as the government of Afghanistan,
Speaker 4: but they are being allowed to participate as quote unquote observers.
Speaker 4: The Taliban had previously attempted repeatedly to intend to other
Speaker 4: events but didn't get invitations, but Iserbaijan was fine with that.
Speaker 1: And you crazy people believe the Taliban is concerned about
Speaker 1: climate change, You've led yourself to believe that.
Speaker 4: Wow, Well they have the National Environmental Protection Agency an
Speaker 4: EPA run by ziin a lubit of abide quota to
Speaker 4: saying climate change is a humanitarian subject. The Taliban all
Speaker 4: about humanitarians.
Speaker 1: Because they're not dumb, and they realize there's money swashing
Speaker 1: around and we're going to get some of it by
Speaker 1: claiming to pretend to care about this. That's so crazy, right, right, Well,
Speaker 1: they have perceived because you have to remember the Taliban
Speaker 1: guys are ideologically completely nuts, but a lot of them
Speaker 1: are very very bright. Yeah, I mean they outlasted, nowt
Speaker 1: smarted the greatest superpower on earth for reasons we've litigated many,
Speaker 1: many times. But they're not idiots, and they realize, hey,
Speaker 1: if we like, you know, keep torturing gay people and
Speaker 1: killing them and beating women if they dare speak a word,
Speaker 1: and and you know, all of the rest of our
Speaker 1: unspeakable activities but we start yelling about climate change and
Speaker 1: how we're on board the left, and a lot of
Speaker 1: Western countries are going to say these are good guys.
Speaker 2: Right, Wow, that is.
Speaker 4: I could read to you some of the quotes, but
Speaker 4: here's a Taliban Foreign Ministry spokesman. We believe the world
Speaker 4: has a unique opportunity of reproachmentt and coming together to
Speaker 4: tackle the challenges not only facing us, but the entirety
Speaker 4: of humanity. And these challenges range from world security and
Speaker 4: climate change, and they need the collective efforts of all.
Speaker 2: So anyway, Wow, that's just that's just cute.
Speaker 4: Speaking of hazardous substances, have you heard about the big
Speaker 4: butter recall.
Speaker 2: No, but now you're recalling eighty pounds of cost Co butter.
Speaker 4: Woe of my favorite foods because the label didn't say
Speaker 4: contains milk.
Speaker 2: I hope my butter contains milk. It did better if
Speaker 2: it doesn't, otherwise it's not butter. Feel like it's mislabeled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, butter is what did in my gallbladder. That's
Speaker 1: how I ended up having an organ quit on me
Speaker 1: too much butter that night. Yeah, some sort of butter overtose.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I had a whole bunch of mashed potatoes
Speaker 1: and I just buttered the heck out of them.
Speaker 2: Guy, that was delicious.
Speaker 1: But I woke up in the middle of the night's
Speaker 1: screaming and ended up on morphine with my gallbladder being removed.
Speaker 4: I'm somewhat skeptical, though I am not a gallbladder expert,
Speaker 4: that you could in one night diffeat out.
Speaker 2: Your gall bladder. No, no, it was.
Speaker 1: As the doctor said, they'd never seen an angry gallbladder.
Speaker 1: I had been abusing it for quite some time, and
Speaker 1: it finally said if you don't care, I don't care,
Speaker 1: and it quit. So the USFDA has ordered the recall
Speaker 1: nearly eighty thousand pounds of butter produced in Texas for
Speaker 1: Costco because it doesn't say contains milk. They reported that
Speaker 1: the FDA is a class to recall on November seventh
Speaker 1: for a Kirkland signature of sweet cream butter, salted and
Speaker 1: done salted. The FDA claims the butter package lists cream
Speaker 1: as an ingredient but does not bear the contains milk
Speaker 1: allergy statement. Several critics pointed out that that's about the
Speaker 1: dumbest possible reason for recalling butter, since that's what butter is.
Speaker 1: Another said this illustrated the quote stupidity that Elon Musk
Speaker 1: talks about. Yeah, they hope, see, they hope he can
Speaker 1: get that under control.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about that more later. The
Speaker 1: doge thing, Department of Government. What efficiency that Elon and
Speaker 1: Ramaswami are going to run and man, there's a fertile
Speaker 1: ground out there, no doubt about it. Oh yeah, sporting
Speaker 1: event Friday night that I'm really looking forward to tell
Speaker 1: you about it coming up, Yo, yo yo, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty Show. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the odd sporting event on Netflix tomorrow night. Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: versus a YouTube star a little bit later, and.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Idiocracy, Man, idiocracy You got an old
Speaker 2: guy fighting a young guy for money. I like it.
Speaker 2: I like to feel of.
Speaker 4: Its perfect for our post about politic world speaking of
Speaker 4: brain injury. A couple of stories, one much more relevant
Speaker 4: than the other. Oh you know what I left out
Speaker 4: the best part of the butter recall. The EPA has
Speaker 4: issued suggestions on how to dispose of it. How about
Speaker 4: on toast? How about I put it on a nice
Speaker 4: warm biscuit. Just thinking out loud in my mac and cheese.
Speaker 4: I can come up with many ways to dispose of
Speaker 4: my butter. Lord, this is our federal government.
Speaker 2: This is why we need the vacant and elon.
Speaker 1: How much tax money went into just the employees that
Speaker 1: came up with the butter recall and the guidelines. Probably
Speaker 1: somebody worked all day, every day for days coming up
Speaker 1: with the guidelines on how to dispose of your butter
Speaker 1: from Costco.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, it's probably an entire department working for for weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But speaking of people.
Speaker 4: Getting pounded on the head, do we have what we're
Speaker 4: hoping to do?
Speaker 2: We had a bit of a technical glitch.
Speaker 4: I was just gonna say, the competitive slap fighting that
Speaker 4: you've heard about. Oh yeah, the doctors who are like
Speaker 4: in charge of looking at this have just come out
Speaker 4: and said, seventy eight percent of our participants show.
Speaker 2: Sign of brain injury. Seventy eight percent.
Speaker 4: And then maybe next hour are Navy's elite speedboat crews.
Speaker 4: They're starting to test them and all that slamming down
Speaker 4: on waves, a lot of them have brain injury.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, it's come.
Speaker 1: There might be some brain injuries tomorrow night because of
Speaker 1: this from the moment.
Speaker 2: You started getting into camp for this fight. What did
Speaker 2: you learn about yourself so far? I'm wow.
Speaker 6: When I get you this fight, I started training, what
Speaker 6: the finished, the proces and now the fight to fight
Speaker 6: the pond.
Speaker 1: So in Vegas last weekend and every billboard, every giant
Speaker 1: TV screen the size of a ten story building had
Speaker 1: ads for the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight. If you're
Speaker 1: of a certain age, Mike Tyson was the biggest sports
Speaker 1: star on the planet and the baddest man in the world.
Speaker 1: And I went down a rabbit hole with my kids
Speaker 1: last night trying to explain to them who Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: was as opposed to who he is. Uh currently watching
Speaker 1: light so did Tiger Owner, among other things.
Speaker 2: Like we watched.
Speaker 1: All of Mike Tyson's first round knockouts on a YouTube
Speaker 1: video and stuff like, jeez, he was a ferocious beast.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Anyway, that's back when he was twenty
Speaker 1: years old. He's now in his mid fifties and he's
Speaker 1: fighting a YouTube star tomorrow night. And I assumed it
Speaker 1: was in Vegas because of all the advertising. It's not
Speaker 1: my brother who's super into this sort of stuff. Sent
Speaker 1: me a text. It's at at and T Stadium in Dallas.
Speaker 1: My brother said, I've watched all the Netflix pre fight episodes.
Speaker 1: I originally thought Tyson would kill him, and still think
Speaker 1: he might. But Jake Paul looks like a guy who's
Speaker 1: boxed more than four years based on his skill, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything Jake Paul.
Speaker 2: He's huge. I know that he's young and huge.
Speaker 1: And then you got an old man, formerly ferocious, old man,
Speaker 1: maybe still ferocious, but an old man the same.
Speaker 4: And you have to remember and this is getting a
Speaker 4: little sportsy and boxy for you. But I was a
Speaker 4: big fan of watching Mike Tyson's fights just because they
Speaker 4: are so crazy. He would charge across the ring and
Speaker 4: batter a guy until he begged for mercy. I mean
Speaker 4: it rarely went to the second round for his first
Speaker 4: bunch of fights. But then people figured out how to
Speaker 4: neutralize him. Well, so the second half of his career
Speaker 4: was a great deal of mediocrity.
Speaker 1: There's also the psychological edge that you get for a while.
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor had this, and but once it's blown up,
Speaker 1: I mean, well it's blown up, it doesn't ever come back.
Speaker 1: But for a while Mike Tyson had the hole. I
Speaker 1: come out to no music, with no robe and no
Speaker 1: socks and walk in the ring and stare at you,
Speaker 1: and you wet yourself and you know you're gonna lose
Speaker 1: in your mind before the bell even rings.
Speaker 2: But once that was blown up, then it's blown up.
Speaker 2: But yeah, for a long time it was that.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many of those fighters actually believed they
Speaker 1: were going to win?
Speaker 2: Not very many of them all bet right. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: had such a.
Speaker 1: His freaking neck when he was young was ridiculous. Who
Speaker 1: has a neck like that?
Speaker 2: Plus he also grew up.
Speaker 1: In a bad neighborhood and like fought his whole life
Speaker 1: and he had that he had that actual anger survival
Speaker 1: thing going on.
Speaker 2: That not I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: Jake Paul's background is my son said he's a TikTok dancer.
Speaker 2: That's how he became famous.
Speaker 1: I don't know if a TikTok dancer has the edge
Speaker 1: you need, no matter how big you are, against somebody
Speaker 1: who might have the whole fighting for my life and
Speaker 1: my bad neighborhood thing going I don't know.
Speaker 2: It'll be fun to watch.
Speaker 4: Between Rooyd's and rockstar energy, he drank maybe he finds
Speaker 4: that edge. But I wonder if the tyson has talked
Speaker 4: to his tigers to try to get that edge back.
Speaker 2: What Michael, how do you? How do you stay so mean?
Speaker 2: Your clip? I couldn't hear you. You've got a great
Speaker 2: interview clip. Okay, another clip? Go ahead? How long do
Speaker 2: you think this thing will last?
Speaker 6: Not long so as I catch him, because he's gonna
Speaker 6: run like a thief. I don't I don't see how
Speaker 6: he's going to make an exciting fight by running all day.
Speaker 2: You know, he's.
Speaker 6: Supposed to be the young guy. He's supposed to walk
Speaker 6: right through me. I'm an old man. He's gonna run
Speaker 6: over good night.
Speaker 2: So he can't stand toe to toe and punch with you, Well,
Speaker 2: I think he should try it. He's a younger man.
Speaker 6: He should be able to handle punches from an old,
Speaker 6: withering man like me.
Speaker 5: You sound like you're insulted by the suggestion that you're
Speaker 5: too old for this?
Speaker 2: Is that Is that a fair statement?
Speaker 6: Hey, listen, you can't compare me with other people my
Speaker 6: age because other people at my age haven't been training
Speaker 6: as long as me, consistent as me, and I'm just
Speaker 6: a different.
Speaker 1: We're about time. I've watched ano of the videos. He's
Speaker 1: in shape and but as a man also in his fifties,
Speaker 1: I tire and I was Jake Paul. If I feel like,
Speaker 1: if I can make it through the first couple of rounds,
Speaker 1: I'm okay.
Speaker 4: Melissa is an old dodge try Tyson's trying to tempt
Speaker 4: him into standing in the middle of the ring and
Speaker 4: exchanging blows because he has to chase.
Speaker 2: Him all night.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be on his knee, taking a knee and
Speaker 4: give me a minute, Give me a minute by the
Speaker 4: third round like I would.
Speaker 2: Be kings X King's X. Can we bring in a
Speaker 2: sub coach? Well, you can't. You don't do that in boxing.
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