Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek. A
Speaker 3: real winner, that's the guy. He's a real winner. You
Speaker 3: know how badly everything's run since he's run the Department
Speaker 3: of Transportation. He's a disaster. He was a disaster as
Speaker 3: a mayor. He ran his city into the ground, and
Speaker 3: he's a disaster now. He's just got a good line
Speaker 3: of both the Department of Transportation, his government agency charged
Speaker 3: with regulating civil aviation. Well, he runs it forty five
Speaker 3: thousand people and he's run it right into the ground
Speaker 3: with his diverse There you go.
Speaker 4: So it got personal between Trump and Mayor Pete yesterday
Speaker 4: what he did in Indiana.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, we're dipping way back.
Speaker 1: And now Mayor Pete has migrated to Michigan where he
Speaker 1: wants to run for the Senate. Right, he's going to
Speaker 1: be based on his achievements and you know things.
Speaker 4: So the headline around the flying thing, just the brief
Speaker 4: headline is.
Speaker 2: Lots of acknowledgment that.
Speaker 4: Reagan Airport, like every airport in the country, has like
Speaker 4: half as many air traffic controllers as they're supposed to,
Speaker 4: including the night of the crash, and right leaning media
Speaker 4: is willing to say, is that because di I and
Speaker 4: left leaning media is pretending.
Speaker 2: I wonder why that is. So that's kind of where
Speaker 2: we are today.
Speaker 4: But before we get to more of that, here's a
Speaker 4: former black Hawk pilot yesterday laying out on CNN a
Speaker 4: few things that they think went wrong that caused the crash.
Speaker 5: So three is a minimum crew for a black Hawk
Speaker 5: helicopter in my opinion, when you're going into visual flight
Speaker 5: mode in a crowded airspace like this, it should be
Speaker 5: a minimum of four, so you have a pilot on
Speaker 5: each side for visibility. Whether they were on night vision
Speaker 5: goggles at that time or not. It is a very
Speaker 5: cluttered airspace with a lot of lighting and the lights
Speaker 5: reflecting on the river, and so with that it's easy
Speaker 5: to kind of get a little disoriented. As far as
Speaker 5: the hype, they were supposed to be at two hundred feet,
Speaker 5: but they were not. Reportedly, the incident happened around three
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty to four hundred feet. As the airliner
Speaker 5: was descending. They were at the wrong height, so that's
Speaker 5: a pilot error. The first would be a policy error.
Speaker 5: Air traffic control said, do you have the CRJ in sight? Well,
Speaker 5: there were two aircraft in their field of view, and
Speaker 5: actually only one was really obvious to them, and that
Speaker 5: was the If you watch the video, the aircraft taking
Speaker 5: off in the foreground is probably the one they were facing.
Speaker 5: The pilots were facing and said, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 5: Air Traffic control should have said do you have the
Speaker 5: aircraft at five o'clock, so they were looking at the rear.
Speaker 5: If they had done that, the black Hawk is maneuverable.
Speaker 5: The black Hawk could have moved out of the way quickly.
Speaker 5: They can move on a dime and make that happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've seen there was go ahead.
Speaker 4: If you've seen that new video that came out, that
Speaker 4: helicopters flying for a long time straight toward the plane,
Speaker 4: and as that woman just went out there, they were
Speaker 4: looking at a different plane. When you see the plane,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, I see it, they were looking at a
Speaker 4: different one. And a couple other factors.
Speaker 1: There was quite literally half the number of air traffic
Speaker 1: controllers there usually is that time of night, there was
Speaker 1: one instead of two that are supposed to be, one
Speaker 1: dealing with helicopters, one with planes. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: the supervisor let somebody go home early. Second thing that
Speaker 1: I learned yesterday, and it's funny. I learned this quite
Speaker 1: early in the day from an associate who is ex military,
Speaker 1: and he announced to me with great certainty that innition.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure where he got it, but that these
Speaker 1: were VIP pilots whose job is to ferry VIPs back
Speaker 1: and forth from the Pentagon to the local air base and.
Speaker 2: Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: They have to have a certain number of minimum night
Speaker 1: flying hours to stay certified, and that was the training mission.
Speaker 1: It was VIP pilots getting their night flying in so
Speaker 1: they could stay certified. It seems insane to me that
Speaker 1: you would do that in one of the most crowded
Speaker 1: airspaces on Earth and most protected. But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that policy will be looked into.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: This may not have contributed to it, but if anything
Speaker 4: comes out of this crash, the why do we have
Speaker 4: half as many air traffic controllers as we're supposed to.
Speaker 4: Let's get to the bottom of that, and if it
Speaker 4: turns out that a lawsuit from last year by one
Speaker 4: thousand people joining together saying they applied for the job
Speaker 4: but got turned down because of race. If it turns
Speaker 4: out it wasn't going to look enough, it wasn't gonna
Speaker 4: look enough like the rainbow up there in the control tower,
Speaker 4: so we turned these people down, that's a big problem.
Speaker 2: I believe that is exactly true.
Speaker 1: News Nation with a story where a former Aviation FAA
Speaker 1: official said diversity has nothing to do with hiring in
Speaker 1: air traffic controlling and it had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the crash. And let's see, we hire a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but it's all about merit.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you have this from an independent
Speaker 1: journalist who mentions that the air traffic control lapse is
Speaker 1: categorized as significant are up sixty five percent in just
Speaker 1: over a year.
Speaker 2: What has gone wrong? Allow me to explain.
Speaker 1: Then he goes into the statistics the number of significant
Speaker 1: air traffic control lapses its rise. Just take my word
Speaker 1: for it. I don't want to get bogged down in
Speaker 1: the statistics. But previously, the FAA's CTI program, that's their
Speaker 1: certification program, essentially worked with thirty six colleges to educate
Speaker 1: future air traffic controllers. These colleges offer two and four
Speaker 1: year degrees requiring courses in air traffic control and aviation administration.
Speaker 1: It also employed a rigorous skills test. The graduates of
Speaker 1: these programs became qualified candidates for training as air traffic
Speaker 1: control specialists. The FAA gave hiring preferences to veterans, those
Speaker 1: with the ATCTI program degrees, references from administrators and high
Speaker 1: test scores. Now those programs still exist, but as we'll see,
Speaker 1: he writes, other selection criteria.
Speaker 2: Have been introduced in order to promote diversity.
Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, Obama appointed Michael Huerta to the position
Speaker 1: of FAA Administrator, where to criticize the existing standards on
Speaker 1: the grounds that they did not promote diversity. He announced
Speaker 1: plans to, and this is a quote, transform the FAA
Speaker 1: into a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects, understands,
Speaker 1: and relates to the diverse customers. In other words, the
Speaker 1: FBA was the FAA was hiring too many white guys,
Speaker 1: and you'll never guess what the proposed solution was. Holding
Speaker 1: your breath. In twenty thirteen, President Barack Obama appointed. They
Speaker 1: reset what I just said. He announced plans. Okay, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he just restates it with different type. Under Huerta, the
Speaker 1: FAA stopped prioritizing CTI graduates and introduced a behavioral questionnaire.
Speaker 1: When this happened, a pool of three thousand qualified candidates,
Speaker 1: most of them CTI grads who passed the skills test,
Speaker 1: were purged. Three thousand graduated this test that the training
Speaker 1: program were fully qualified and were told sit down, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get hired.
Speaker 4: Boy, would that be maddening in addition to its dangers
Speaker 4: for us all? But how maddening would that be? You're qualified,
Speaker 4: you took the school all of a sudden, a change
Speaker 4: in the political weather, and you gotta find a new career.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know multiple people in multiple industries who were told,
Speaker 1: point blank, Jim, you're gonna have to wait another year.
Speaker 1: We're getting real pressure on the diversity front.
Speaker 2: Ooh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So this behavioral questionnaire under Huerta, this new program,
Speaker 1: the BQ will call it.
Speaker 2: It's ambiguous for a reason.
Speaker 1: Its purpose is to select for diverse applicants as where
Speaker 1: to said questions include the number of high school sports
Speaker 1: I participated in was how would you describe your ideal job?
Speaker 2: What has been the major cause of your failures?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 1: Why would you ever ask that? Would more classmates remember
Speaker 1: me as humble or dominant?
Speaker 2: Stuff like that?
Speaker 4: It's harmless, I'm sure, but it just might be harmless.
Speaker 4: But what's it accomplish? Do you have the training to
Speaker 4: be an air traffic controller? Are you sober? Here's your
Speaker 4: job to make things worse.
Speaker 1: The BQ actually gives more points to applicants who answered
Speaker 1: that they have not been employed in the previous three
Speaker 1: years than it does to those who respond that they've
Speaker 1: been a pilot or a veteran with air traffic control
Speaker 1: experience complete insanity.
Speaker 2: That's an equity thing.
Speaker 1: I've been out of work for three years. I was
Speaker 1: an air traffic control specialist in the Air Force. Out
Speaker 1: of work, guy, you get the job, sweet mother of God.
Speaker 4: Because we believe in equity, We're going to try to
Speaker 4: balance out the world. Because we're so cor so smart,
Speaker 4: we can figure out how.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, Peter Kersonow, then a member of the
Speaker 1: US Commission on Civil Rights, wrote a letter to the FAA.
Speaker 1: He accused the FAA of diluting its quote objective standards
Speaker 1: of evaluating competence because it didn't like the racial and
Speaker 1: gender composition of its ATC applicant. Pool A says it's
Speaker 1: particularly odd that the FAA would change its selection procedures
Speaker 1: when its own studies found that the ATSAT score was
Speaker 1: the only piece of biodata other than age, that was
Speaker 1: a useful predictor of whether an individual would successfully complete
Speaker 1: air traf controller training. In other words, ju jettison the
Speaker 1: only thing that was a significant standard. Later in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: lawsuit was filed on behalf of the more than three
Speaker 1: thousand qualified applicants rejected by the FAA. Jack has mentioned
Speaker 1: that an attorney for the PLANEFF said, we have a
Speaker 1: statement from a leading FAA official that they made this
Speaker 1: decision in order to increase diversity the BQ. That questionnaire
Speaker 1: was purportedly discontinued in twenty eighteen thanks to Representative Randy
Speaker 1: Hultgron of Illinois, who introduced legislation to eliminate the questionnaire
Speaker 1: under the first Trump administration. However, a twenty nineteen class
Speaker 1: action lawsuit representing twenty five hundred aspiring air traffic controllers
Speaker 1: claims it still exists, much like the colleges are still
Speaker 1: using racial preferences for admission. They're just couching it in
Speaker 1: different language. The FAA found a way to do this
Speaker 1: the career bureaucrats, and then they go into some of
Speaker 1: the details behind the scenes of congressional actions that make
Speaker 1: clear that yes, they are continuing to do the BQ
Speaker 1: and use it actively.
Speaker 2: It's a little in the weeds.
Speaker 1: The FAAA is clearly focused on recruiting from quote underrepresented
Speaker 1: groups instead of finding the right person for the job.
Speaker 1: According to its DEI page, the FAS twenty two to
Speaker 1: twenty six goals included an emphasis on the importance of
Speaker 1: recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce. There's more detail. This
Speaker 1: goes on for some time. If anybody says, are you here,
Speaker 1: anybody say the FAA hires strictly on merit, they are
Speaker 1: lying to you. That is utterly dishonest. Remember, Marxists lie
Speaker 1: all the time. They don't expect you to call them
Speaker 1: on it. And this is a problem.
Speaker 4: Whether this is what caused the crash night before last
Speaker 4: or not.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, even if that was not a part of
Speaker 1: it at all, it's still patently insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, Uh.
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Speaker 4: So that poor crime Selena Gomez is in that trans
Speaker 4: movie that got the most Oscar nominations, and if you
Speaker 4: don't know the whole story around that, it is hilarious.
Speaker 4: It's really entertaining. So I hope you can stick around
Speaker 4: for that this hour.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong.
Speaker 6: So that Netflix just added a new button that lets
Speaker 6: you download an entire season of the show at once.
Speaker 6: Houses other rolling out a bunch of other new buttons
Speaker 6: to improve the user experience. This next button says fast
Speaker 6: forward past sex scene because.
Speaker 2: Watching with parents. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: Next tip, This one says fast forward to sex scene
Speaker 6: because watching alone. This next one says auto replay every
Speaker 6: thirty seconds because got distracted by TikTok again. The one
Speaker 6: that says make separate profile from mom. So my algorithm
Speaker 6: isn't all Virgin River. This button says, fine, take money
Speaker 6: from my kids' college fund so I can avoid ads.
Speaker 2: And finally, this.
Speaker 6: Button says, for the love of God, skip all intros
Speaker 6: forever and stop asking me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Netflix is in trouble because they had a once
Speaker 4: in one hundred years thing happened, and there were really
Speaker 4: no streaming services during the nineteen eighteen pandemic. But when
Speaker 4: everybody was stuck at home and watching binge, watching all
Speaker 4: these shows, and they got like stars in their eyes
Speaker 4: and thought this was going to go on forever and
Speaker 4: it didn't. AnyWho, speaking of technology, so my son says
Speaker 4: yes to me. Yesterday when I pick him up in
Speaker 4: high school, he said, hey, have you downloaded the new
Speaker 4: Apple update because he's got the cheapest iPhone. I said, no,
Speaker 4: I have not, And he said, all the texting is
Speaker 4: so much better on this and he said, it guesses
Speaker 4: your words so much better. And I are always complaining
Speaker 4: about how you you know you text, or you were
Speaker 4: always complaining on the show you Know it. It will
Speaker 4: it will act like some of the words you're using
Speaker 4: are just unheard of, and fill it in with some
Speaker 4: strange words.
Speaker 2: Right, whatever is anyway that is better?
Speaker 4: But so so I downloaded the new thing that includes
Speaker 4: a I and one of the things it does now
Speaker 4: on the camera, you press the camera button and like
Speaker 4: you could walk up to any dog, press the camera
Speaker 4: button and then it will tell you what kind of
Speaker 4: dog that is, which is kind of cam or any animal,
Speaker 4: So you can do that with any animal or plant.
Speaker 2: And but like Sweena, I'm sorry, how what do you
Speaker 2: have to do?
Speaker 4: Just in the camera, just press the side button on
Speaker 4: it and just automatically comes up and then there's something
Speaker 4: down there at the bottom of button. AnyWho it tells you.
Speaker 4: So I did it first with pup Puppleig, go over
Speaker 4: to them, press the camera there, it says, pug. No,
Speaker 4: how handy you know, I alread knew it. But so
Speaker 4: Henry and I were having fun with that when we
Speaker 4: came back from eating. I gotta still have a pumpkin
Speaker 4: because it's wintertime, sitting out in front of my house
Speaker 4: house because it kind of has a fall look. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I walk up to it, I press the camera button,
Speaker 4: and it says A pumpkin, commonly associated with autumn, is
Speaker 4: often used for decorating or cooking to the fall season.
Speaker 4: It belongs to the squash family and is popular in
Speaker 4: pies and soups.
Speaker 2: Have that information.
Speaker 1: Boy, anybody walk in with me is going to get
Speaker 1: an ear Poe right right. You could go full Cliff
Speaker 1: Claven on him. Oh yeah, excuse, excuse the old reference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the daisy a popular flower, you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Oh God, can we just look at the daisies?
Speaker 4: But I was thinking, Man, if it can so quickly
Speaker 4: identify identify every plant and animal, obviously it's going to
Speaker 4: be identifying faces very soon. And everybody you walk by,
Speaker 4: it's gonna meet there's Joe, you know, or well Joe
Speaker 4: would be about example, it'd be there's Fred. You worked
Speaker 4: with Fred in nineteen ninety six. He has a wife
Speaker 4: and two kids or whatever. That is so quickly going
Speaker 4: to happen, for better or worse.
Speaker 1: I was at a social gathering just last night in
Speaker 1: which there were many interactions with people I run into
Speaker 1: once every six weeks, and my chance of like remembering
Speaker 1: names and biographical details of somebody I run into once
Speaker 1: every six.
Speaker 2: Weeks is practically nil.
Speaker 1: It's not that I don't want to remember it, I
Speaker 1: just lack the capacity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So starting in like a month, probably you're gonna
Speaker 4: be able to be at a party. You get out
Speaker 4: your phone, kind of hold it up where they can't
Speaker 4: see it, click the camera button. It gets Fred's face.
Speaker 4: It immediately goes to Fred's LinkedIn and Facebook page. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't know his wife, his kid's name, all the
Speaker 4: places he's worked, where he went to high school.
Speaker 1: Fred, how's the semi autographical novel coming along?
Speaker 2: How's work?
Speaker 4: Sure better than when you were over there at that
Speaker 4: other place from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: Eight as vice president of sales.
Speaker 1: Huh they think you're a witch.
Speaker 2: That is going to happen though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Judy especially has enjoyed the apps where you can identify
Speaker 1: insects and plants and and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But it's a little cumbersome to have to find it
Speaker 2: and open it.
Speaker 4: Have you dont know what the stars? Oh, that's those
Speaker 4: are amazing, amazing. You hold it up to the sky
Speaker 4: and it shows you all the what everything.
Speaker 2: Is so cool? Yep, bunch of planets lined up right now.
Speaker 2: Check it out. Look at the sky. It's beautiful. We
Speaker 2: got some fun oscar talk. You haven't seen Amelia Perez
Speaker 2: the movie.
Speaker 4: Nobody has even though It's been nominated for the second
Speaker 4: most oscars of any movie in motion picture history and
Speaker 4: is up for Best Picture, and according to Vulture magazine
Speaker 4: or website, it's currently the most likely movie to win
Speaker 4: Best Picture. Of course it is it stars a trans person.
Speaker 4: The Hollywood's not gonna give a trans movie Best Picture?
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Currently twenty four on Rotten Tomatoes twenty four percent ranking,
Speaker 1: which is abusiness, Moal.
Speaker 2: You tried too hard with this one.
Speaker 1: Well, it's being hailed jack as the greatest most nakedly
Speaker 1: Oscar baby movie ever produced.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they went too far, Like I said, Yeah, they
Speaker 4: dished a way over the top with it.
Speaker 1: But not only that. The real and this is let
Speaker 1: me depart for a second. This is the final fatal
Speaker 1: self beclownment of Hollywood, and I am more delighted than
Speaker 1: I can tell. Yeah, that's awesome anyway, So half of
Speaker 1: the story is that it is the most blatantly Oscar
Speaker 1: baby woke movie Hollywood has ever come up with. But
Speaker 1: the hilarious part is it's also terrible, but they've still
Speaker 1: rewarded it with the stunning number of nominations, including the
Speaker 1: first ever nomination for Best Actress for a trans woman.
Speaker 2: That's a dude. By the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna get me to watch the Oscars because
Speaker 4: I want to hate watch it. When they stand up
Speaker 4: there and give their acceptance speeches and everybody just standing
Speaker 4: ovations all over the place.
Speaker 2: It's good.
Speaker 4: Remember that one year the Super Bowl where all the
Speaker 4: ads were so woke and you got some little girl
Speaker 4: climbing over the border wall to get a Coca cola
Speaker 4: or what right?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Charlie Cook of The National Review recently unleashed a screed
Speaker 1: that contained roughly these words. The idea that we should
Speaker 1: restructure our constitutional order because George Floyd died is a
Speaker 1: is it not a very compelling or argument anyway? But
Speaker 1: pop culture is more than willing.
Speaker 2: It's there.
Speaker 1: They're feverish to win the approval of their their lefty overlords. Anyway,
Speaker 1: where was I? So it is just nakedly Oscar bade.
Speaker 1: It's unwatchable, it's hilarious. It's bombed in Mexico. Here is
Speaker 1: the plot. Friends, Oh, oh, you know what I wanted
Speaker 1: to say. You were talking about? You want to watch
Speaker 1: the Oscars the Oscar night. Here's your drinking game. You
Speaker 1: have to take a shot every time someone utters the
Speaker 1: word brave, Oh good one about to have emt standing by,
Speaker 1: you gotta do a keg stand for every standing ovation.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be knee walking drunk. All right, So here's
Speaker 2: the deal.
Speaker 1: The movie, if you haven't heard this, or even if
Speaker 1: you have, is about a Mexican drug cartel head, an
Speaker 1: el Chapo type who is secretly a woman inside it
Speaker 1: becomes to be and longs to become transgender and.
Speaker 2: Has been tortured by it their entire lives, right.
Speaker 1: And his her girl boss Mexican lawyer who helps her
Speaker 1: achieve quote unquote her her true you know, calling as
Speaker 1: a crusading feminist Mexican drug cartel transgender person ho Ham
Speaker 1: another one of the hose come on, boy.
Speaker 2: Meets Girl place formula.
Speaker 1: Anyway, anyway, as if the coffin needed another nail.
Speaker 2: It's a freaking musical, that's right.
Speaker 1: And not only is it a musical, is it a
Speaker 1: foreign language film. It was made by French filmmakers in
Speaker 1: Spanish Mexican audience. Is one of the reasons poor little
Speaker 1: confused fame was the worst thing that could have happened
Speaker 1: to her.
Speaker 2: What's her face?
Speaker 4: Remember she had a meltdown. Earlier in the week, posted
Speaker 4: a video about kids being deported or something like that
Speaker 4: by the evil Trump administration, and she.
Speaker 2: Cried right exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh, anyway, she's she's she was born in Texas. She's
Speaker 1: of Mexican heritage, but doesn't really speak Spanish Spanish or didn't,
Speaker 1: and Mexican audiences were laughing at her Spanish. And there's
Speaker 1: some speculation that the crying jag was to to kind
Speaker 1: of regain her bona fides as an up with Mexicans person.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just think she's a young woman with mental health
Speaker 1: health issues.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: Having said that, so you get your transgender cartel boss,
Speaker 1: girl Boss, crusading feminist something or other musical And if
Speaker 1: the songs were any damn good, that might save it.
Speaker 2: But this is what it sounds like. Hello, very nice
Speaker 2: to meet.
Speaker 7: I'd like to know about sex change operation see I see,
Speaker 7: I see men two women, a woman, two men, men,
Speaker 7: two women from penis two vagina?
Speaker 2: Is it for you?
Speaker 1: For me?
Speaker 7: What would you like to know about it?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: I want to know it all.
Speaker 8: What is the protocol, the techniques under risks?
Speaker 2: How many operations? How much I do you need.
Speaker 7: Mammo blasty, Yes, blasty, yes, pen no blessing lavino blasty, Yes,
Speaker 7: mammo blasty, adam reduction, Yes what that is?
Speaker 1: The Great Zoe Saldana, by the way, known for the
Speaker 1: Garden Guardians of the Galaxy movies. But and yes, I
Speaker 1: was doing the trump dance during the song to Yeah
Speaker 1: were You Off the.
Speaker 4: Day we played this, Katie, because we played this earlier
Speaker 4: in the week. It's hilarious. It's like it's a It's
Speaker 4: like it's a joke.
Speaker 2: That I was just gonna say.
Speaker 4: That sounds like something I would have heard on Family Guy. Yes,
Speaker 4: what sounds exactly like Family Guy. When Seth McFarlane mocks
Speaker 4: musicals by just basically, you know, talking.
Speaker 2: Through songs about what the what the plot is. I
Speaker 2: can't believe that's real.
Speaker 1: I know, getting back to the final fatal self decloinement
Speaker 1: of Hollywood, that song is impossible to parody. You cannot
Speaker 1: do an exaggerated version of its, of its ridiculousness and terribleness.
Speaker 4: Big of getting a sex change, do you know what
Speaker 4: that means? Yes, it's getting rid of my vagina and
Speaker 4: getting a penis. I mean kind of lyrics of those
Speaker 4: you give it an Oscar, Yes, second most nominations of
Speaker 4: any movie in movie history. In other words, it's one
Speaker 4: of the all time great pieces of cinematic art. It's
Speaker 4: just a coincidence that at this moment of trans hysteria
Speaker 4: this movie has come along, and that's just unbelievable, you know,
Speaker 4: Thank God, and this moment of.
Speaker 1: Great sympathy for drug cartel bosses as well.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I went to Hollywood and said I'd
Speaker 1: like to I'd like to finally kill your cultural influence,
Speaker 1: and Hollywood said, oh, we'll commit suicide.
Speaker 4: If I was at a less busy point of my life,
Speaker 4: I would go to that movie and sit through the
Speaker 4: whole thing, just for just to talk be able to
Speaker 4: talk about it on the radio.
Speaker 1: I will go if I can find it playing anywhere. God,
Speaker 1: but I've got to go incognito. I don't want to
Speaker 1: be seen in it.
Speaker 4: So I don't know if you know this aspect of
Speaker 4: the whole Oscar thing. I didn't in late in life
Speaker 4: when I became aware of how Dog eat Dog vying
Speaker 4: for the awards it gets leading up to Oscars. They
Speaker 4: all take out ads and then try to knife each
Speaker 4: other to try to get the votes of the Academy
Speaker 4: and everything like that. So that star who is singing
Speaker 4: the song there, the trans star, the Amelia Perez star
Speaker 4: currently campaigning for an oscar, apologized yesterday after her islamophobic,
Speaker 4: anti Asian, and anti black former Twitter posts resurfaced. So
Speaker 4: somebody dug up some old stuff they could damage her
Speaker 4: with and got it out, and then she had to
Speaker 4: apologize yesterday, hoping not to lose the.
Speaker 2: Oh darn it, now we got a problem.
Speaker 4: Trent singing about a trans person but has islama? Oh
Speaker 4: big Twitter posts from the past. Oh, how do I
Speaker 4: vote as in an enlightened, woke member of the Academy.
Speaker 2: Damn it.
Speaker 1: It just keeps getting better and better. That is a
Speaker 1: delightful development.
Speaker 7: What would delight to know about it?
Speaker 1: By the way, Zoe Saldana stars as the Girl Boss
Speaker 1: lawyer standing up for her transgender cartel crusading feminist transgender boss.
Speaker 2: Man, you went too far with your so funny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like when the hurt Locker came out in the
Speaker 4: midst of our wars and our conversations over wars, and
Speaker 4: it had a you know, a fair amount of America
Speaker 4: causes as many enemies as as friends you know, at
Speaker 4: least it was subtle enough.
Speaker 2: It was a good war movie.
Speaker 4: I mean, you were't hitting me over the head with it.
Speaker 4: But during the trend's discussion that's going on in America
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 2: To come out with this is just too much.
Speaker 1: I want this pacifics on what the the nominated newly
Speaker 1: minted quote unquote woman said about these various groups, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want my uh. I hate when quotes
Speaker 1: are characterized, because then the characterizer is in charge of
Speaker 1: you know what I think about them. But the fact
Speaker 1: that the leading light, who is probably counting on standing
Speaker 1: ovations at the Oscars as tears streamed down their face
Speaker 1: for being so brave.
Speaker 2: Having this show up yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yah crap, that's right, I said some bad things about
Speaker 4: the Asians.
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's it's great. The beast is eating itself.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's why I'm enjoying it so much.
Speaker 1: It's it's I went there to kill it and it's
Speaker 1: in the midst of self destruction.
Speaker 4: Has anybody actually seen this movie? If you have, and
Speaker 4: I doubt you have, but if you have, you could
Speaker 4: text us at four one, five, two, nine five kftc
Speaker 4: uh is that song nominated for Best It's got it.
Speaker 2: They have to have a song nominated for Best Song.
Speaker 4: There's no way you get the most Oscar nominations, second
Speaker 4: most ever without best song being in there somewhere.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Katie, can you look that up? That'd
Speaker 2: be great. But that song is hilarious. I mean I
Speaker 2: can't even wrap my head around it.
Speaker 7: Give us a little more, Michael Mamo, Prestine, yes, no, Prestie, yes, no,
Speaker 7: PSI yes.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: What I take from that song is that wait a minute,
Speaker 1: that many surgical interventions are required to make me who
Speaker 1: I really am. That does not make sense. Why did
Speaker 1: they decide to go with a cartel leader. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine asking me to crawl inside their crazy heads.
Speaker 2: I don't like it in here.
Speaker 4: Were they just trying to bring too many different things together?
Speaker 4: It's like the way back. If you remember the Sopranos,
Speaker 4: Christoph wanted to be a you know, a movie maker,
Speaker 4: and he makes a combine saw with the Godfather too.
Speaker 4: It seems kind of like that you're combining whatever, a cartel,
Speaker 4: some sort of immigration thing with the tram story and
Speaker 4: putting them together.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Jack, the way I interpret it is
Speaker 1: that a cartel boss would have to be so brave,
Speaker 1: so brave.
Speaker 2: All right. That's that's two.
Speaker 1: Shots to embrace their real transgender self in spite of
Speaker 1: the pressures given to a put upon them by Mexican
Speaker 1: society and their tough guy image. But it's important that
Speaker 1: you go ahead and have fifty surgeries if you feel like.
Speaker 4: A girl, yep, standing up to the macho culture. What
Speaker 4: do you know about this, Katie?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: I actually pop back in because I need to know
Speaker 5: what I need to be looking.
Speaker 2: Up whatever for you guys?
Speaker 1: Whatever are the Oscar nominated best Songs? Other anything from
Speaker 1: this horror show are included.
Speaker 4: A speaking of being Woke, a not surprising development from
Speaker 4: the Ebram x Kendy Center for Anti Racist Research. If
Speaker 4: you haven't heard this, it's also delicious, Everything's going our
Speaker 4: way lately and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 1: I like to know racious. I see.
Speaker 4: Man WOCHUSM has had a rough couple of weeks basically
Speaker 4: since Trump got elected and certainly since he got inaugurated.
Speaker 4: We'll get into a variety of things that have occurred
Speaker 4: around that issue to kick off our three. If you
Speaker 4: don't get that, grab the podcast Armstrong.
Speaker 1: And Get You on Demand, Cannot Wait, and in a
Speaker 1: related story, follow up on the Oscar Bait transgender drug
Speaker 1: cartel movie musical Amelia Perez. Looking at rotten tomatoes, you
Speaker 1: want to recognize Oscar bait. Look at the difference between
Speaker 1: the critics poll and the audience polled the tomato meter,
Speaker 1: which is critics seventy four percent positive. That's that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: The popcorn meter actual movie viewers nineteen percent.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: From Renegade Autour, Jacques Audiard comes Amelia for as an
Speaker 1: auditious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. I do
Speaker 1: like artsy movies, but through liberating songs and dance and
Speaker 1: bold visuals. Liberating wasn't the word that came to mind
Speaker 1: when we listened to that last song. This odyssey follows
Speaker 1: the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing
Speaker 1: their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Amelia, and let's Riata,
Speaker 1: an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead end job to
Speaker 1: help her fake her death so that Amelia can finally
Speaker 1: live authentically as her true self.
Speaker 2: There you go. No, I love art movies.
Speaker 4: Last Year's Winter I saw on one of my favorite
Speaker 4: movies ever, the everything all at once, all the time, whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: You can't get much more ARTI than that movie that
Speaker 4: is not a mainstream film.
Speaker 2: You got some force, Katie.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, just to let you know if you don't
Speaker 4: want to be seen going into her out of the theater.
Speaker 2: This gem is on Netflix. Oh you can watch it
Speaker 2: at home. Okay. Oh yeah, that's better. That is good
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll be sure to draw my drape. This story
Speaker 4: is getting a lot of attention. We haven't commented on
Speaker 4: it yet.
Speaker 8: The President today also moving to create a migrant facility
Speaker 8: at Guantanamo that can hold thirty thousand.
Speaker 2: This is not the camps.
Speaker 5: You're not putting criminals in camps where isis and other
Speaker 5: criminals there's This is a temporary transit to humanely move
Speaker 5: illegals out of our country.
Speaker 8: The president's memo says the space at Guantanamo US Naval
Speaker 8: base should go to high priority criminal aliens. DHS Secretary
Speaker 8: Christy Nome described it as a site for the worst
Speaker 8: of the worst. The Cuban president criticized this decision, calling
Speaker 8: it an act of brutality in an illegally occupied territory.
Speaker 4: Shut up, you COMI so so obviously it was an
Speaker 4: opportunity for mainstream media, who's completely out of touch with
Speaker 4: Americans feelings on this topic. I'll say, for the one
Speaker 4: thousandth time, eighty five percent of Americans want criminal illegals
Speaker 4: booted out. Anyway, the media pretending and now we're treating
Speaker 4: them like terrorists by putting them in Getmo. Well, you
Speaker 4: gotta put them somewhere until we can get them to
Speaker 4: their own countries.
Speaker 1: It's a spit of land, all right, it's a place.
Speaker 4: Ian Bremer, who I think was trying to make a
Speaker 4: point with this, tweeted out some reiters numbers cost of
Speaker 4: a one way first class ticket on American airlines from
Speaker 4: Texas to Guatemala around eight hundred bucks. Cost to fly
Speaker 4: the same migrant on military deportation flights almost five thousand
Speaker 4: dollars per Well, the problem would be, I don't think
Speaker 4: you can take known child rapists and put them on
Speaker 4: a United flight with a ticket and uh and and
Speaker 4: just send them to wherever they're going and say sorry
Speaker 4: passengers for making you sit next to a known child rapist.
Speaker 2: Well, at the very least make them fly coach right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a good point.
Speaker 4: Well, how come I got it stand in line for
Speaker 4: the regular time bathroom and child rapist up there, it
Speaker 4: gets the first class bathroom.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem right anyway.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say any sort of they're treating them
Speaker 1: like terrorists. They're bringing them to the same place as
Speaker 1: al kinda is the analysis of idiots. And we don't
Speaker 1: have time for you people anymore. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: subject to the scrutiny that all government actions should be.
Speaker 1: Is this the best most cost effective solution?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: If it's just grand standing, then it's dumb, And it
Speaker 1: makes sense.
Speaker 2: It makes sense.
Speaker 4: And the fact that you know you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: break some eggs to make this omelet in all kinds
Speaker 4: of different ways, expense or people getting caught up who
Speaker 4: don't deserve it, or all kinds of different things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we laid the groundwork for a really big mess
Speaker 4: to clean up.
Speaker 2: And you either clean up the mess you don't.
Speaker 4: But if you clean up this mess, and it is
Speaker 4: a mess, there's gonna be a lot of unfortunate things happen.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't allowed it in the first place. Is the whole thing.
Speaker 1: If you create a disaster. It's going to be disastrous.
Speaker 1: It's not a difficult concept to grasp. We'll try to
Speaker 1: make it as non disastrous as possible, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be nasty.
Speaker 5: Boy.
Speaker 4: We've got some good stuff to kick off our three
Speaker 4: Bad News from Ibram x Kendy which I hate to
Speaker 4: see that happen, but I hope you can catch our three.
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