WEBVTT - Could We Just Look At The Daisies!? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.599 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:30.159 The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek. A 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:31.960 real winner, that's the guy. He's a real winner. You 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.879 know how badly everything's run since he's run the Department 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.960 of Transportation. He's a disaster. He was a disaster as 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.720 a mayor. He ran his city into the ground, and 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.920 he's a disaster now. He's just got a good line 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:52.640 of both the Department of Transportation, his government agency charged 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.480 with regulating civil aviation. Well, he runs it forty five 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.880 thousand people and he's run it right into the ground 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.840 with his diverse There you go. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.720 So it got personal between Trump and Mayor Pete yesterday 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:08.400 what he did in Indiana. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:09.839 Oh wow, we're dipping way back. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.080 And now Mayor Pete has migrated to Michigan where he 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.680 wants to run for the Senate. Right, he's going to 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.800 be based on his achievements and you know things. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.400 So the headline around the flying thing, just the brief 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:25.360 headline is. 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:28.440 Lots of acknowledgment that. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.800 Reagan Airport, like every airport in the country, has like 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.760 half as many air traffic controllers as they're supposed to, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:44.040 including the night of the crash, and right leaning media 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.039 is willing to say, is that because di I and 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:48.520 left leaning media is pretending. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.200 I wonder why that is. So that's kind of where 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:51.800 we are today. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.120 But before we get to more of that, here's a 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.920 former black Hawk pilot yesterday laying out on CNN a 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.880 few things that they think went wrong that caused the crash. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.200 So three is a minimum crew for a black Hawk 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.960 helicopter in my opinion, when you're going into visual flight 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.079 mode in a crowded airspace like this, it should be 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.160 a minimum of four, so you have a pilot on 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.080 each side for visibility. Whether they were on night vision 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.520 goggles at that time or not. It is a very 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.560 cluttered airspace with a lot of lighting and the lights 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.600 reflecting on the river, and so with that it's easy 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.600 to kind of get a little disoriented. As far as 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.880 the hype, they were supposed to be at two hundred feet, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.600 but they were not. Reportedly, the incident happened around three 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.320 hundred and fifty to four hundred feet. As the airliner 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.200 was descending. They were at the wrong height, so that's 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.480 a pilot error. The first would be a policy error. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.280 Air traffic control said, do you have the CRJ in sight? Well, 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.680 there were two aircraft in their field of view, and 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.120 actually only one was really obvious to them, and that 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.960 was the If you watch the video, the aircraft taking 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.600 off in the foreground is probably the one they were facing. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.480 The pilots were facing and said, yeah, I got it. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.079 Air Traffic control should have said do you have the 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.080 aircraft at five o'clock, so they were looking at the rear. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.360 If they had done that, the black Hawk is maneuverable. 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.720 The black Hawk could have moved out of the way quickly. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.079 They can move on a dime and make that happen. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.480 Yeah, if you've seen there was go ahead. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.880 If you've seen that new video that came out, that 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.720 helicopters flying for a long time straight toward the plane, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.000 and as that woman just went out there, they were 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.400 looking at a different plane. When you see the plane, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:30.919 oh yeah, I see it, they were looking at a 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.160 different one. And a couple other factors. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.640 There was quite literally half the number of air traffic 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.680 controllers there usually is that time of night, there was 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.720 one instead of two that are supposed to be, one 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.440 dealing with helicopters, one with planes. But for some reason, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.960 the supervisor let somebody go home early. Second thing that 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.960 I learned yesterday, and it's funny. I learned this quite 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.840 early in the day from an associate who is ex military, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.000 and he announced to me with great certainty that innition. 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.480 I wasn't sure where he got it, but that these 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.320 were VIP pilots whose job is to ferry VIPs back 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.560 and forth from the Pentagon to the local air base and. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:10.640 Et cetera, et cetera. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.800 They have to have a certain number of minimum night 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:18.000 flying hours to stay certified, and that was the training mission. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.560 It was VIP pilots getting their night flying in so 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.320 they could stay certified. It seems insane to me that 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:25.960 you would do that in one of the most crowded 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:31.280 airspaces on Earth and most protected. But you know, I'm 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.320 sure that policy will be looked into. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:34.599 Right. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.200 This may not have contributed to it, but if anything 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.560 comes out of this crash, the why do we have 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.080 half as many air traffic controllers as we're supposed to. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.320 Let's get to the bottom of that, and if it 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.200 turns out that a lawsuit from last year by one 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.520 thousand people joining together saying they applied for the job 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.440 but got turned down because of race. If it turns 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.640 out it wasn't going to look enough, it wasn't gonna 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.359 look enough like the rainbow up there in the control tower, 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.360 so we turned these people down, that's a big problem. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.400 I believe that is exactly true. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.479 News Nation with a story where a former Aviation FAA 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.080 official said diversity has nothing to do with hiring in 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.880 air traffic controlling and it had nothing to do with 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.640 the crash. And let's see, we hire a lot of people, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:22.840 but it's all about merit. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:23.320 Okay. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.520 On the other hand, you have this from an independent 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:31.039 journalist who mentions that the air traffic control lapse is 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.720 categorized as significant are up sixty five percent in just 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:36.640 over a year. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.760 What has gone wrong? Allow me to explain. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.880 Then he goes into the statistics the number of significant 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.880 air traffic control lapses its rise. Just take my word 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.440 for it. I don't want to get bogged down in 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:56.160 the statistics. But previously, the FAA's CTI program, that's their 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.840 certification program, essentially worked with thirty six colleges to educate 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.120 future air traffic controllers. These colleges offer two and four 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.839 year degrees requiring courses in air traffic control and aviation administration. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:15.560 It also employed a rigorous skills test. The graduates of 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.480 these programs became qualified candidates for training as air traffic 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.760 control specialists. The FAA gave hiring preferences to veterans, those 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.839 with the ATCTI program degrees, references from administrators and high 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:34.320 test scores. Now those programs still exist, but as we'll see, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.479 he writes, other selection criteria. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.480 Have been introduced in order to promote diversity. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.279 In twenty thirteen, Obama appointed Michael Huerta to the position 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.520 of FAA Administrator, where to criticize the existing standards on 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.520 the grounds that they did not promote diversity. He announced 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.880 plans to, and this is a quote, transform the FAA 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.520 into a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects, understands, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.640 and relates to the diverse customers. In other words, the 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.360 FBA was the FAA was hiring too many white guys, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.000 and you'll never guess what the proposed solution was. Holding 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:14.320 your breath. In twenty thirteen, President Barack Obama appointed. They 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:19.640 reset what I just said. He announced plans. Okay, I'm sorry, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.200 he just restates it with different type. Under Huerta, the 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:28.120 FAA stopped prioritizing CTI graduates and introduced a behavioral questionnaire. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.280 When this happened, a pool of three thousand qualified candidates, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.360 most of them CTI grads who passed the skills test, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:43.360 were purged. Three thousand graduated this test that the training 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.040 program were fully qualified and were told sit down, you're 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.400 not going to get hired. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.040 Boy, would that be maddening in addition to its dangers 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.200 for us all? But how maddening would that be? You're qualified, 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.640 you took the school all of a sudden, a change 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:02.480 in the political weather, and you gotta find a new career. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.000 Yeah. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.160 I know multiple people in multiple industries who were told, 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.720 point blank, Jim, you're gonna have to wait another year. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.160 We're getting real pressure on the diversity front. 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:15.600 Ooh. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:21.160 Anyway, So this behavioral questionnaire under Huerta, this new program, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.240 the BQ will call it. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.880 It's ambiguous for a reason. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.600 Its purpose is to select for diverse applicants as where 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.680 to said questions include the number of high school sports 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.079 I participated in was how would you describe your ideal job? 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.760 What has been the major cause of your failures? 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:39.280 Ah? 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.520 Why would you ever ask that? Would more classmates remember 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:44.880 me as humble or dominant? 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:45.480 Stuff like that? 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.360 It's harmless, I'm sure, but it just might be harmless. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.400 But what's it accomplish? Do you have the training to 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.520 be an air traffic controller? Are you sober? Here's your 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.600 job to make things worse. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.680 The BQ actually gives more points to applicants who answered 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.560 that they have not been employed in the previous three 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.920 years than it does to those who respond that they've 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.720 been a pilot or a veteran with air traffic control 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.880 experience complete insanity. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.320 That's an equity thing. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.280 I've been out of work for three years. I was 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.960 an air traffic control specialist in the Air Force. Out 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.120 of work, guy, you get the job, sweet mother of God. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.600 Because we believe in equity, We're going to try to 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.680 balance out the world. Because we're so cor so smart, 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:27.560 we can figure out how. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:27.760 To do it. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.280 In twenty fifteen, Peter Kersonow, then a member of the 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.720 US Commission on Civil Rights, wrote a letter to the FAA. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.120 He accused the FAA of diluting its quote objective standards 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.400 of evaluating competence because it didn't like the racial and 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:47.160 gender composition of its ATC applicant. Pool A says it's 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.600 particularly odd that the FAA would change its selection procedures 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.800 when its own studies found that the ATSAT score was 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.199 the only piece of biodata other than age, that was 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.439 a useful predictor of whether an individual would successfully complete 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.680 air traf controller training. In other words, ju jettison the 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.320 only thing that was a significant standard. Later in twenty fifteen, 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.520 lawsuit was filed on behalf of the more than three 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.760 thousand qualified applicants rejected by the FAA. Jack has mentioned 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.200 that an attorney for the PLANEFF said, we have a 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.120 statement from a leading FAA official that they made this 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:22.599 decision in order to increase diversity the BQ. That questionnaire 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.360 was purportedly discontinued in twenty eighteen thanks to Representative Randy 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:30.400 Hultgron of Illinois, who introduced legislation to eliminate the questionnaire 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.280 under the first Trump administration. However, a twenty nineteen class 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.760 action lawsuit representing twenty five hundred aspiring air traffic controllers 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:43.080 claims it still exists, much like the colleges are still 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.439 using racial preferences for admission. They're just couching it in 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.280 different language. The FAA found a way to do this 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:56.800 the career bureaucrats, and then they go into some of 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.320 the details behind the scenes of congressional actions that make 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.680 clear that yes, they are continuing to do the BQ 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.199 and use it actively. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:04.880 It's a little in the weeds. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.240 The FAAA is clearly focused on recruiting from quote underrepresented 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.760 groups instead of finding the right person for the job. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.880 According to its DEI page, the FAS twenty two to 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.360 twenty six goals included an emphasis on the importance of 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.960 recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce. There's more detail. This 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.320 goes on for some time. If anybody says, are you here, 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:31.240 anybody say the FAA hires strictly on merit, they are 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:36.360 lying to you. That is utterly dishonest. Remember, Marxists lie 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.679 all the time. They don't expect you to call them 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.320 on it. And this is a problem. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.640 Whether this is what caused the crash night before last 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:45.920 or not. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:47.040 Sure. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.199 Yeah, yeah, even if that was not a part of 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.240 it at all, it's still patently insane. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.840 Yeah, anyway, Uh. 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.320 A friend was telling me a charming tale about a 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.319 crazy mishap in his neighborhood and how it was caught 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.960 on video and he was really glad it did. And 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.120 I said, you know, that's great. 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But when 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.560 everybody was stuck at home and watching binge, watching all 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.560 these shows, and they got like stars in their eyes 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.200 and thought this was going to go on forever and 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.640 it didn't. AnyWho, speaking of technology, so my son says 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.360 yes to me. Yesterday when I pick him up in 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.240 high school, he said, hey, have you downloaded the new 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.200 Apple update because he's got the cheapest iPhone. I said, no, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:54.840 I have not, And he said, all the texting is 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.680 so much better on this and he said, it guesses 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.080 your words so much better. And I are always complaining 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.960 about how you you know you text, or you were 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:08.680 always complaining on the show you Know it. It will 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.320 it will act like some of the words you're using 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.120 are just unheard of, and fill it in with some 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:14.200 strange words. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.520 Right, whatever is anyway that is better? 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.640 But so so I downloaded the new thing that includes 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.640 a I and one of the things it does now 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.440 on the camera, you press the camera button and like 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.440 you could walk up to any dog, press the camera 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.280 button and then it will tell you what kind of 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.320 dog that is, which is kind of cam or any animal, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.440 So you can do that with any animal or plant. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.480 And but like Sweena, I'm sorry, how what do you 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:37.000 have to do? 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.240 Just in the camera, just press the side button on 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.400 it and just automatically comes up and then there's something 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.640 down there at the bottom of button. AnyWho it tells you. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.800 So I did it first with pup Puppleig, go over 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.000 to them, press the camera there, it says, pug. No, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.000 how handy you know, I alread knew it. But so 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.480 Henry and I were having fun with that when we 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.080 came back from eating. I gotta still have a pumpkin 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.000 because it's wintertime, sitting out in front of my house 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.040 house because it kind of has a fall look. Anyway, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.840 I walk up to it, I press the camera button, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.920 and it says A pumpkin, commonly associated with autumn, is 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.320 often used for decorating or cooking to the fall season. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.680 It belongs to the squash family and is popular in 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:12.480 pies and soups. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:14.640 Have that information. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.680 Boy, anybody walk in with me is going to get 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.800 an ear Poe right right. You could go full Cliff 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.200 Claven on him. Oh yeah, excuse, excuse the old reference. Yeah, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.080 the daisy a popular flower, you know that sort of thing. 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.320 Oh God, can we just look at the daisies? 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.280 But I was thinking, Man, if it can so quickly 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.000 identify identify every plant and animal, obviously it's going to 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.480 be identifying faces very soon. And everybody you walk by, 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.160 it's gonna meet there's Joe, you know, or well Joe 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.880 would be about example, it'd be there's Fred. You worked 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.360 with Fred in nineteen ninety six. He has a wife 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:54.600 and two kids or whatever. That is so quickly going 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.520 to happen, for better or worse. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.480 I was at a social gathering just last night in 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.600 which there were many interactions with people I run into 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.520 once every six weeks, and my chance of like remembering 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.040 names and biographical details of somebody I run into once 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:11.720 every six. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.040 Weeks is practically nil. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.000 It's not that I don't want to remember it, I 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.280 just lack the capacity. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.200 Yeah, So starting in like a month, probably you're gonna 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.520 be able to be at a party. You get out 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.800 your phone, kind of hold it up where they can't 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.400 see it, click the camera button. It gets Fred's face. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.480 It immediately goes to Fred's LinkedIn and Facebook page. You know, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.480 I don't know his wife, his kid's name, all the 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.359 places he's worked, where he went to high school. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.680 Fred, how's the semi autographical novel coming along? 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:41.160 How's work? 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.000 Sure better than when you were over there at that 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.840 other place from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.240 Eight as vice president of sales. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.000 Huh they think you're a witch. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.920 That is going to happen though. Yeah. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.159 Judy especially has enjoyed the apps where you can identify 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.800 insects and plants and and stuff like that. 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.879 But it's a little cumbersome to have to find it 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:03.280 and open it. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.880 Have you dont know what the stars? Oh, that's those 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.720 are amazing, amazing. You hold it up to the sky 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.000 and it shows you all the what everything. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.760 Is so cool? Yep, bunch of planets lined up right now. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.720 Check it out. Look at the sky. It's beautiful. We 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:20.160 got some fun oscar talk. You haven't seen Amelia Perez 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:20.800 the movie. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:26.159 Nobody has even though It's been nominated for the second 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:32.199 most oscars of any movie in motion picture history and 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.640 is up for Best Picture, and according to Vulture magazine 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.560 or website, it's currently the most likely movie to win 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.080 Best Picture. Of course it is it stars a trans person. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.399 The Hollywood's not gonna give a trans movie Best Picture? 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:46.159 Are you kidding me? 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:51.680 Currently twenty four on Rotten Tomatoes twenty four percent ranking, 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.200 which is abusiness, Moal. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.480 You tried too hard with this one. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:02.920 Well, it's being hailed jack as the greatest most nakedly 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.600 Oscar baby movie ever produced. 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.480 Yeah, they went too far, Like I said, Yeah, they 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.119 dished a way over the top with it. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:14.359 But not only that. The real and this is let 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.280 me depart for a second. This is the final fatal 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:23.680 self beclownment of Hollywood, and I am more delighted than 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:27.320 I can tell. Yeah, that's awesome anyway, So half of 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.160 the story is that it is the most blatantly Oscar 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.679 baby woke movie Hollywood has ever come up with. But 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.840 the hilarious part is it's also terrible, but they've still 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.320 rewarded it with the stunning number of nominations, including the 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.240 first ever nomination for Best Actress for a trans woman. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:48.320 That's a dude. By the way. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.560 Yeah, it's gonna get me to watch the Oscars because 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.320 I want to hate watch it. When they stand up 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.120 there and give their acceptance speeches and everybody just standing 0:19:58.160 --> 0:19:59.520 ovations all over the place. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:19:59.960 It's good. 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.919 Remember that one year the Super Bowl where all the 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.639 ads were so woke and you got some little girl 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.600 climbing over the border wall to get a Coca cola 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:10.480 or what right? 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.320 Oh my god. Yeah. 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.560 Charlie Cook of The National Review recently unleashed a screed 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.720 that contained roughly these words. The idea that we should 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:25.600 restructure our constitutional order because George Floyd died is a 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.280 is it not a very compelling or argument anyway? But 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.560 pop culture is more than willing. 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:32.080 It's there. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:36.679 They're feverish to win the approval of their their lefty overlords. Anyway, 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.800 where was I? So it is just nakedly Oscar bade. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.159 It's unwatchable, it's hilarious. It's bombed in Mexico. Here is 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.760