Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jati and he Armstrong and Yetty. So
Speaker 2: I've been thinking it might be time to hang it
Speaker 2: up about one last time together. I love to call boy.
Speaker 2: So that's the one that set me off.
Speaker 1: There the old farmer and his daughter and then you
Speaker 1: got that cool acoustic guitar music and the singing and
Speaker 1: when she has a little girl, he taught her how
Speaker 1: to grow crops and they work together and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Now he's given her the farm because he's retired and everything,
Speaker 1: and it's love.
Speaker 2: For lais potato chips.
Speaker 3: Such gigantic industrial potato chip manufacturer, And.
Speaker 1: There's just lots of ads like that, And I just
Speaker 1: am I to cynical? Or is it appropriate for me
Speaker 1: to not like you trying to make me cry about
Speaker 1: a flipping potato chip or a dog food or a
Speaker 1: soda or anything else like that some but now commercial product,
Speaker 1: I just I find that I don't like.
Speaker 3: It, or a beer which is about making me forget
Speaker 3: my problems, not cry about yours.
Speaker 1: I just don't And does it work? Is there anybody
Speaker 1: that eats one more chip? Because they yeah, fathers and
Speaker 1: daughters coming together and this and that, and.
Speaker 3: You know, in truth the butt ad with the eagle
Speaker 3: riding the clients tale. At least they winked at the
Speaker 3: audience at the.
Speaker 2: End of that one. The audio you crying, there's suns
Speaker 2: in my eyes. What were they see?
Speaker 1: It's hard to tell because the tugue at your heartstrings
Speaker 1: trying to make you cry about a potato chip is
Speaker 1: not many notches away from willing to be willing to
Speaker 1: put a bald eagle on your on your product, AMRCA. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the halftime show sent a different message, Budweiser.
Speaker 2: Everything's ruined in the modern world.
Speaker 1: I finally saw the video of the streaker that ran
Speaker 1: on the field, which of course they did not show
Speaker 1: during the broadcast during the second half of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: But because every plenty in Knudedy it's a half time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, but because everybody there's got a cell phone,
Speaker 1: there's lots of videos.
Speaker 2: So I just finally looked at him. He's wearing pants.
Speaker 1: That's how bad things are in America right now. Our
Speaker 1: streakers wear pants. What's happened to what has happened.
Speaker 2: In this country?
Speaker 1: So it's just a shirtless guy running in his pants
Speaker 1: and socks, and then one of and they can't catch
Speaker 1: him because he's pretty fast. And then one of the
Speaker 1: defensive backs for the Patriots goes screaming after him, and
Speaker 1: he closes fast as you would expect him to, yes,
Speaker 1: and then the guy slides on the ground like a
Speaker 1: quarterback trying to avoid getting hit because he realizes, oh,
Speaker 1: I cannot run this guy. And then a bunch of
Speaker 1: people jump on him, so he didn't get the whoopan man,
Speaker 1: if he had taken one more step, that Patriot was
Speaker 1: gonna put a serious I'm frustrated at.
Speaker 3: This game, right whooping on him? You would wait for
Speaker 3: you to run around the field, jackass.
Speaker 1: You would not want a twenty two year old professional
Speaker 1: defensive back to hit you at full speed while you're
Speaker 1: running across the field.
Speaker 2: That one.
Speaker 1: We're wearing a helmet and shoulder pads that can hurt
Speaker 1: the rest of your life.
Speaker 2: So you ever walked again? Yeah? No kidding. I want
Speaker 2: to get this off my chest.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it in Spanish so the new fans
Speaker 1: of the NFL can understand me.
Speaker 2: L NFL Esta muerta parami. The NFL is dead to me, Well,
Speaker 2: I doubt it. You're gonna keep watching games.
Speaker 3: I took a couple of years off after the George
Speaker 3: Floyd madness, but then I kind of came back like
Speaker 3: a junkie and put up with the idiotic. It takes
Speaker 3: all of us on the backs of helmets, meaningless greeting card, rhetoric,
Speaker 3: gesturing to the woke.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: But no, now they've punched me in the face again.
Speaker 3: Ghose times is too many.
Speaker 1: So we got a number of texts agreeing with us
Speaker 1: about a halftime show, and brief version is, I'm not
Speaker 1: complaining about the music, because that's every year. You know,
Speaker 1: different people have different tastes in music, and it is
Speaker 1: the worst because you don't like that kind of music.
Speaker 2: I don't do that kind of complaining. It's just, you know, whatever,
Speaker 2: different tastes.
Speaker 1: But to have it in a different language and not
Speaker 1: even make an effort to have me involved, I found
Speaker 1: really actually offensive. And we got this text, I love
Speaker 1: how much the halftime show bothered you to poor fragile
Speaker 1: Joe and Jack. It was your worst nightmare Multicultural America.
Speaker 2: The horror.
Speaker 1: My suggestion to help you feel better, go watch Trump's
Speaker 1: video depicting Obama and Michelle as apes. That should soothe
Speaker 1: your racist ditch. Can't wait until the midterms.
Speaker 3: So that's a trolling, a non argument, and see a
Speaker 3: false comparison. So to reject Trump's Obama video is to
Speaker 3: embrace an entirely Spanish super Bowl halftime show. You, my friend,
Speaker 3: have only anger and vitriol and not the capacity to
Speaker 3: think with your brain.
Speaker 2: I pity you, sore.
Speaker 1: There was some sort of effort message going with the
Speaker 1: super Bowl halftime show, obviously, because I did some research.
Speaker 1: I thought, how many people in America speak only Spanish?
Speaker 1: Because lots and lots of people speak Spanish, but they
Speaker 1: also speak English. And the best at I could come
Speaker 1: up with, from Gallup to Census Bureau and everything like that,
Speaker 1: putting it all together, the most generous is eight percent.
Speaker 1: It's single digits. It's probably closer to like two or
Speaker 1: three percent. And as Joe said, that crowd probably wasn't
Speaker 1: watching the super Bowl, so that I must point out,
Speaker 1: you could have watched it on Telemundo. True, so there's
Speaker 1: like practically nobody watching that halftime show that only speaks Spanish.
Speaker 1: Yet they put it in Spanish only, including the little
Speaker 1: still picture at the beginning of the musical play, that
Speaker 1: would have described for me what I was about to see,
Speaker 1: so at least I could try to follow along. But
Speaker 1: you put that in Spanish without subtitles. You wouldn't even
Speaker 1: put subtitles on that for ninety eight percent of your
Speaker 1: audience who doesn't speak Spanish.
Speaker 2: So what is the message there? I think it's unmistakable, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing videos popping up of shots from inside the
Speaker 4: stadium during the halftime show, and everybody has is just
Speaker 4: standing there with their arms crossed. Most of them, I
Speaker 4: would imagine, I'd say a good eighty percent of them.
Speaker 3: Are probably because the vast majority of them are English speakers.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Well again, you'd have to be a Spanish
Speaker 1: only speaker too to.
Speaker 2: Think that was necessary. I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Interestingly, Jim Garritty of the National Review, who's a very
Speaker 3: reasonable chap points out that there is Daddy. You may
Speaker 3: recall we talked about this showing the Taylor Swift effect
Speaker 3: on viewership of Chiefs games and advertising rates and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, and she generated hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 3: for the NFL across all equivalent brand values. I don't
Speaker 3: doubt that a bit radio, digital, news, print, news, et cetera.
Speaker 3: And he goes into a bit of detail on that.
Speaker 3: Now you can quibble with the particular numbers, but there's
Speaker 3: no doubt that a whole lot of Taylor Swift fans
Speaker 3: start buying Travis Kelce jerseys and watching the game who
Speaker 3: otherwise would not have made those purchases or watched those games.
Speaker 3: Whether we like football, whether we football fans like it
Speaker 3: or not, Goodell in the league are going to continue
Speaker 3: to try to sell the game to people who aren't
Speaker 3: that into football. Next year, the NFL is going to
Speaker 3: play nine regular season games in overseas stadiums Australia, Brazil, Paris, Munich, Spain,
Speaker 3: Mexico City, three games in London. Goodell, seemingly with the
Speaker 3: consent of the owners, is determined to turn the NFL
Speaker 3: into a global game. And he doesn't just mean geographically,
Speaker 3: it means across all demographics and corners of society.
Speaker 2: So that's it.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a parable involving a goose that
Speaker 1: could lay golden eggs that because they're counting on you
Speaker 1: won't care that one of your team's home games that
Speaker 1: you would have gone to won't exist because it'll be
Speaker 1: in another country.
Speaker 2: You'll still watch because you love.
Speaker 1: Football so much. That's what they're counting on, and they
Speaker 1: might be right. They might be right, and they'll turn
Speaker 1: it into a you know, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: numbers are. It's huge, but they'll turn it into a
Speaker 1: five billion dollar business per year to a fifty billion
Speaker 1: by expanding.
Speaker 2: And you know, if they think they can do that,
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good wager.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those games are kind of sucky and weird because
Speaker 3: the stadiums are pretty quiet, generally speaking, and the teams
Speaker 3: have been traveling for hours an hours well.
Speaker 1: And if you go to games, you're missing out on
Speaker 1: a game you could go to right right, but or
Speaker 1: at least home field advantage for one of the teams,
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Roger Goodell, who's a very very smart man, said to himself,
Speaker 3: all right, what percentage of the current audience will we
Speaker 3: like so offend we will lose them as opposed to
Speaker 3: the Spanish speaking world, How many of them will take
Speaker 3: this as a big wet kiss? And he did the
Speaker 3: numbers and thought, it's with the riskless do it.
Speaker 2: That's it period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd see it more culturally where well do you
Speaker 1: have to Hillary Clinton clip?
Speaker 2: Wherever that is? Can you figure out what number that is?
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton? We played the whole clip of this last week.
Speaker 1: When Hillary was running for president in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight against Barack Obama, she gave a strong speech about
Speaker 1: illegal immigration. Now illegally they need to get in line.
Speaker 1: They committed a crime, they need to pay their back.
Speaker 1: The visor needs to be a penalty and this.
Speaker 2: And you have to try to learn English.
Speaker 1: So as recently as two thousand and eight, you could
Speaker 1: go around saying and if you're here, you need to
Speaker 1: learn English because in this country we speak English. To
Speaker 1: the halftime show yesterday without a word of English and
Speaker 1: not even the slightest help.
Speaker 2: With understanding what was going on. He's there are a lot,
Speaker 2: a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I gotta believe the majority of people who didn't dig
Speaker 1: that being in all Spanish.
Speaker 2: And our idiot troll who text you at.
Speaker 1: Early racism to want your entertainment to be in your
Speaker 1: own language?
Speaker 2: How is that racism?
Speaker 1: I mean, good lord, if I go to a movie
Speaker 1: and it's in a different language and there's no subtitles,
Speaker 1: why am I here?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, anybody who had claim that is just again, I'm moron,
Speaker 3: and I'm not going to waste my time arguing with them.
Speaker 3: You know, all of a sudden, the branch having a
Speaker 3: halftime show.
Speaker 2: That's entirely in Mandarin. I mean, what are they supposed
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 3: Cheer for the diversity of it and the idea that
Speaker 3: here it comes multicultural America.
Speaker 2: Good luck with that. Yeah, No shared values, no shared history.
Speaker 1: Not a show language that's never worked anywhere in the
Speaker 1: history of the planet.
Speaker 3: No common reverence for the principles of the country. No,
Speaker 3: just everybody does their own thing. Good luck with that, friend,
Speaker 3: good luck. And it's not a xenophobia thing at all.
Speaker 3: I like to travel, I like exploring. I've been studying
Speaker 3: foreign foreign cultures and governments since I was a kid.
Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by it.
Speaker 3: But the idea that you can have a multi cultural
Speaker 3: country is foolish.
Speaker 1: You're threatened by the browning of America. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: have some of the lyrics for us when we come back?
Speaker 1: I do, absolutely charming. I actually don't know anything about
Speaker 1: the lyrics of any of the songs.
Speaker 3: Children, Hid your wives, Hide your hosband and tied your grandparents.
Speaker 1: Okay, your and your text four one, five, two nine KFTC.
Speaker 5: This is your favorite president and this message is for
Speaker 5: bad Bunny, whereas I call him the nasty rabbit Elkanejo
Speaker 5: desa gradable. He's a nasty rabbit and a stupid rabbit.
Speaker 1: That is not actually Donald Trump, but Donald Trump did
Speaker 1: put out a post very similar to that. By the way,
Speaker 1: we got several texts from people who say, my wife
Speaker 1: or husband speaks fluent Spanish and couldn't understand it what
Speaker 1: he said, Well that that certainly could be true. I
Speaker 1: watched Kendrick Lamar last year and I don't know if
Speaker 1: I understood a word of that, and it was in.
Speaker 2: English, so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and again, taste in music varies. I don't
Speaker 3: happen to love hip hop. I'm never going to love it.
Speaker 3: Some's very very clever and smart, but it's just not
Speaker 3: my thing, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: A lot of people like it. I'm not threatened by that.
Speaker 3: It's it's great, but the specifics of it the entirely Spanish,
Speaker 3: with not a single effort to bring around or bring
Speaker 3: along the English speaking audience, and the particulars of the
Speaker 3: lyrics which had to be bleeped out a fair amount,
Speaker 3: as you may have noticed. For instance, Tito mi pragunto.
Speaker 3: And he asked me, if I have a lot of girlfriends, ay,
Speaker 3: a lot of girlfriends. Today I have won. Tomorrow I'll
Speaker 3: have another hat. But there's no wedding. And he asked me,
Speaker 3: if I have a lot of girlfriends, repeat, I'm going
Speaker 3: to take them all to the VIP the vip. Hey
Speaker 3: say hello to Auntie. Let's take a selfie, say cheese.
Speaker 3: Let the ones already f smile in a vip va
Speaker 3: a p ai and it goes on in that manner.
Speaker 2: Well, and he lists all the girls.
Speaker 3: He's stopping the one from Barcelona that came by plane
Speaker 3: and says that my D is on fire.
Speaker 1: See a doctor, get a shot. They got a shot. Now. Well,
Speaker 1: I've always been confused by why halftime music is so sexual,
Speaker 1: given it's the middle of the day.
Speaker 2: Are watching, Well, he's been surprised by that. Uh, got
Speaker 2: another good one for you.
Speaker 3: My D is being chased and I want you to
Speaker 3: hide it, grab it like a bonga. She took a
Speaker 3: pill that made her horny. She blanks in the audi
Speaker 3: not in the Honda E.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start saying that grab it like a bonga.
Speaker 2: See if that gets me in here? Smooth smooth, Oh yes,
Speaker 2: so clever.
Speaker 1: Now to those of you who are saying, why didn't
Speaker 1: you switch over to the Turning Point USA halftime show, Well,
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. One, I didn't order to find it,
Speaker 1: and it would have taken me three seconds to figure
Speaker 1: it out, which is more than I was willing to take. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to watch what you know, the vast
Speaker 1: majority of America was watching one hundred and thirty five
Speaker 1: million people.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know what songs Kid Rock
Speaker 1: saying yesterday. I did see that he came out in
Speaker 1: a fur quote quote in gene Shorts, which I.
Speaker 2: Really didn't perfect.
Speaker 1: But you know his lyrics aren't exactly family friendly throughout
Speaker 1: the years either. I mean, come on, I wasn't a
Speaker 1: big Kid Rock fan when he was b and not
Speaker 1: just a cultural gesture right right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So no, I didn't bother, but.
Speaker 1: It is why does everything have to be? Are you
Speaker 1: a fort Trumper against drumpa cut in a halftime show?
Speaker 2: You can't just.
Speaker 1: Ascertain how you feel about it other than through the
Speaker 1: lens of politics.
Speaker 2: Which side am I on here right perfectly? Okay? If
Speaker 2: on your left to think, you know, I don't speak English, I.
Speaker 1: Didn't really dig the music or whatever, or on the
Speaker 1: right to think, yeah I didn't. I'm not in a
Speaker 1: bad bunny, But I didn't need to see kid Rock
Speaker 1: screaming either, So I mean, it's okay, doesn't really mean
Speaker 1: what you feel about the country, and you'll be happier
Speaker 1: that way too, Take it from me. Just the never
Speaker 1: ending culture war. Oh, it's exhausting. I should have watched
Speaker 1: the Puppy Bull. Very clever, though all those little trees
Speaker 1: on the field were people. Did you notice at the
Speaker 1: end of it when the little trees stood up and
Speaker 1: ran off?
Speaker 2: What a great idea for moving.
Speaker 1: Props in and off of stage right, put humans in
Speaker 1: all of them instead of having five hundred people run
Speaker 1: out on the field and have to carry them off.
Speaker 1: They all stood up, and the plants stood up and
Speaker 1: ran off themselves.
Speaker 3: So you just stand there and in the middle of
Speaker 3: your what is that sugar cane or something?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't speak Spanish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just stand there twiddling your thumbs. Second, about
Speaker 1: five minutes in I guess five more minutes to go,
Speaker 1: and then you run off when they tell you run off.
Speaker 1: And as Mark Alpern wrote this morning in his newsletter,
Speaker 1: was I supposed to know that that was Lady Gaga
Speaker 1: and Ricky Martin because I didn't. I didn't either till
Speaker 1: I heard it this morning. I had no idea that
Speaker 1: was Lady Gaga, and I had no idea that that
Speaker 1: one dude.
Speaker 2: Was Ricky Martin. So I guess that was a bruner.
Speaker 2: I identified her by her tattoos.
Speaker 1: Well, good for you, No, but I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how to fit into the story
Speaker 1: because I don't know what the story was because I
Speaker 1: don't speak Spanish.
Speaker 2: So that's an interesting development.
Speaker 1: And why is Green Day singing American idiot before the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Green Day? I don't know. But do you know the
Speaker 2: words of that song? They're America haters.
Speaker 1: That's not really an America hating song for the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: the biggest audience.
Speaker 2: Of the year. That's not sometimes George Bush, what Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty.
Speaker 1: So I was trying to find the audio clip of
Speaker 1: Lindsey Vaughn crashing, but I know that was a really
Speaker 1: big story. Yes, today as she attempted to ski down
Speaker 1: that dang hill, having completely blown on her ACL a
Speaker 1: week ago.
Speaker 2: Man, oh man? Was that was that? Uh?
Speaker 1: Was that bravery and guts? Or was that just really
Speaker 1: really ill advised?
Speaker 3: She did two successful training runs, but when she was,
Speaker 3: you know, hell bent for speed in the official competition,
Speaker 3: she wiped out bad So a.
Speaker 1: Week after blow up completely blowing on her acls, she
Speaker 1: skis in a couple of seconds into her run, she
Speaker 1: crashes breaks a bone in her leg. Report say she
Speaker 1: was screaming as she slid down the hill in pain.
Speaker 1: Then was helicoptered out of there, and they keep reporting
Speaker 1: it as and she had surgery and things are looking good.
Speaker 1: Well that's good to hear.
Speaker 2: Good forward. Can you imagine how painful that'd be?
Speaker 1: Your your blown ACL had to hurt like hell because
Speaker 1: your legs got all twisted every which direction. And then
Speaker 1: the additional broken bone which caused her to scream as
Speaker 1: she slid down the hill. I watched it live during
Speaker 1: during the day actually, and the NBC actually hit the
Speaker 1: delay because they didn't want to show the crash. I
Speaker 1: didn't haven't seen the crash, and they're not replaying it
Speaker 1: on NBC News. But some of the pictures I've seen
Speaker 1: with her legs twist a different direction. It looks pretty gruesome.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, man, So here's a nice transition. This is
Speaker 1: substantially more charming. I happened to play golf yesterday with
Speaker 1: a friend who has a close family slash friend relationship
Speaker 1: with a figure skating coach of great Renn has worked
Speaker 1: with champions and stuff like that, and worked with the
Speaker 1: ice dancing team, the American ice dancing team that's done
Speaker 1: so beautifully so far at the Olympics, and was talking
Speaker 1: to the gal.
Speaker 3: It's a husband wife team. Interestingly, it's kind of a
Speaker 3: funny story. The guy and my friend's wife were dancing
Speaker 3: at this bar they were at, and he was popping
Speaker 3: down in drinks with a little ice skating gal who
Speaker 3: was hanging with him anyway. But he was asking her
Speaker 3: about her career because if you watch the ice age
Speaker 3: dancing or the pairs figure skating there, they just throw
Speaker 3: the woman in the air, she spins and he catches
Speaker 3: her and blah blah blah, what does that look like
Speaker 3: when you're not very good at it? When you're trying
Speaker 3: to get good at it? And she was telling stories
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 1: She said, I spent my entire youth black and blue.
Speaker 2: I'd have to imagine.
Speaker 1: I saw a clip a quad God talking about like
Speaker 1: the backflip stuff that he did in competition last night,
Speaker 1: and he said, you have to completely commit to it
Speaker 1: every time, because if you even just a tiny bit
Speaker 1: don't completely commit to it, you're gonna land on your
Speaker 1: head and break your neck.
Speaker 2: Wow, And I'm sure that's true. I've always wondered that
Speaker 2: on a lot of that stuff. How do you work
Speaker 2: up to it?
Speaker 1: Like the big ski jump? What's the what's the I
Speaker 1: can't do this so you can do it? The in
Speaker 1: between part?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 3: I'm guessing they've got different sizes right skill levels. At
Speaker 3: the few places around the globe where they would have
Speaker 3: that sort of thing, there must be or you're you're
Speaker 3: attached to wires or something like that, because otherwise you'd
Speaker 3: try it, break both your legs, recover for a year, miss.
Speaker 1: Your concussion, then try it again that right eye, Yeah,
Speaker 1: then try it again.
Speaker 2: It'd be very slow process. Can't even imagine.
Speaker 1: I got to read this one text just because we've
Speaker 1: been talking about a halftime show so much. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of these, Hey guys, The Turning Point halftime
Speaker 1: show was so nice. If he didn't know this Turning
Speaker 1: Point USA, the group that Charlie Kirk started and then
Speaker 1: he got assassinated and now his wife is running. They
Speaker 1: put on a show and it had Kid Rock and
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other people, a few country artists sang.
Speaker 1: Kid Rock did one short number in his Crazy Outfit
Speaker 1: beautiful ballad, very patriotic, very touching. You should have watched that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know. I'd rather not have any
Speaker 1: politics of any kind. Of course, you know I wasn't
Speaker 1: getting away from politics by staying at the super.
Speaker 2: Bowl obviously, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did think it was pretty funny that the two
Speaker 1: Polar Bears got caught on the camera at the concert
Speaker 1: hugging each other and kiss.
Speaker 2: Oh that was pretty funny. Yeah, yeah, that was good.
Speaker 3: So on a couple of completely different topics, I found
Speaker 3: this back to back pretty interesting headlines in the Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal, America reclaims its dominance in space. First man
Speaker 3: moon missions since nineteen seventy two will launched next month. China, meanwhile,
Speaker 3: is struggling. We've got a really nice edge in dominating space,
Speaker 3: which we'd sure as held better, because if China's dominating it,
Speaker 3: it will be to the detriment of mankind.
Speaker 2: Let's see, we want to say.
Speaker 3: It sees the resource rich areas near the lunar South
Speaker 3: Pole Bill Nelson, then administrator of NASA in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: So the Chinese might assert sovereignty over the Moon itself.
Speaker 3: Stopping them didn't seem a Biden administration priority, especially when
Speaker 3: space capsule safety programs stranded to American astronauts at the
Speaker 3: International Space Station for more than nine months. Trump famously
Speaker 3: came in with Elon munksk and got everybody back.
Speaker 1: But China is really struggling. So this is a nice
Speaker 1: area of dominance, and I hope you exploit it. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be a bold move if China just declares the
Speaker 1: Moon is theirs, or if we just declare the moon
Speaker 1: is ours?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then this headline the Chinese factory that opened in
Speaker 3: the US and clobbered its rivals. And it's about this
Speaker 3: glass company that supplies like windshield glass and window glass
Speaker 3: to the big automakers. And it started by a Chinese company,
Speaker 3: it came to the US. When do they say it's
Speaker 3: like fifteen years ago and was cited as just a
Speaker 3: great thing to revive the economy and the Chinese. Look,
Speaker 3: the Chinese are investing in the US since they opened
Speaker 3: allegedly with illegal immigrant labor from China and illegal government
Speaker 3: subsidies from the communist Chinese. They put a bunch of
Speaker 3: American companies out of business, putting tons and tons of
Speaker 3: people out of work in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana. Says
Speaker 3: who is this being quoted? He's an industry expert. The
Speaker 3: entry of Chinese firms in the US auto industry not
Speaker 3: only threatens the safety and security of domestic supply chains,
Speaker 3: but jeopardize entire communities that rely on American manufacturing jobs.
Speaker 3: So it's just it's yet another example. And this is,
Speaker 3: you know, back to our previous discussion. We need national
Speaker 3: unity because we are in a century long preme wrestling
Speaker 3: match with China and they have complete unity.
Speaker 2: And so what do we do with this?
Speaker 3: China says, your principles are open society, excellent. We're gonna
Speaker 3: spread our propaganda. We're going to give you TikTok. We're
Speaker 3: going to invest in companies, then ruin your industries. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: their society is completely closed and inflamingly racist by the way,
Speaker 3: and secretive in a police state.
Speaker 2: How do we deal with that? We need unity to
Speaker 2: deal with that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of TikTok, I heard there are a couple of
Speaker 1: your big TikTok influencers she made a lot of money
Speaker 1: on TikTok trying to put together some sort of legal
Speaker 1: complaint or something, saying the algorithm is not the same.
Speaker 1: Their views have dropped off substantially since the new TikTok
Speaker 1: hit and it being sold to them as the same
Speaker 1: product is.
Speaker 2: A violation of this or that or something. I don't
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 3: That's interesting because I've been reading conservatives saying, hey, Beijing
Speaker 3: areas from the National Review, the algorithm remains under Beijing's
Speaker 3: watchful eye, and byte Dance is the strongest ownership position
Speaker 3: inside the new consortium.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 3: This isn't a divestment, it's a smoke screen. TikTok will
Speaker 3: remain under byte Dance's effective control.
Speaker 2: Wow. What if it's the worst of two worlds.
Speaker 1: They still have the same amount of spying on you,
Speaker 1: but the algorithm for just feeding you stuff and making
Speaker 1: money is not as good.
Speaker 2: Could be both.
Speaker 3: Well, that'll week in the spying, I would sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: we should have bootered them out completely. And for what
Speaker 3: it's worth, this is a factor in what Trump will
Speaker 3: be impeached for when the Democrats take the House. It's
Speaker 3: the three way relationship between Trump's company and his sons,
Speaker 3: the UAE, and China.
Speaker 1: You should break that down for us maybe next segment,
Speaker 1: like in full or impartial, just so it's on our
Speaker 1: radar speaking of TikTok and influencers. Not to make everything
Speaker 1: about the super Bowl, but it is how I spent
Speaker 1: most of my day yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was amazed at this.
Speaker 1: And you wouldn't know unless you're hanging out with the teenager.
Speaker 1: How many of the commercials that came on where there's
Speaker 1: a person who I just think is like, you know,
Speaker 1: a bit player in the commercial, they're nobody, They're just,
Speaker 1: you know, every man, somebody standing at the counter of a.
Speaker 2: Cell phone store. Oh my god, I can't believe that.
Speaker 1: My son would say is a giant star in the
Speaker 1: YouTube world or TikTok world that I didn't even like,
Speaker 1: didn't even know was anybody. And that happened over and
Speaker 1: over and over with various commercials, and I thought, Wow,
Speaker 1: they're reaching people on multiple levels, so they'd have some
Speaker 1: star there that my son is probably like, that's just
Speaker 1: some good looking guy announcer, not a giant movie star.
Speaker 1: And then the other dude over there, some young black guy,
Speaker 1: is a huge star.
Speaker 2: Among people in my kids world, and I didn't even
Speaker 2: know it was anybody. It reminds me of nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2: I was watching the Super Bowl and my children said,
Speaker 2: who's that?
Speaker 3: I said, that's Lola Falana, the Great Lola Falana.
Speaker 2: Oh do you not know the Great Lola Falana?
Speaker 1: Even We were at Target a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: and we were in the uh uh men's grooming uh
Speaker 1: section because my teenage boys have started to decide they
Speaker 1: really care how they look and smell and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But they're always a welcome development, isn't it.
Speaker 1: There was an ad there and I thought it was
Speaker 1: just you know, when you have regular people, you know,
Speaker 1: holding your products on a sign for Kmart or JC
Speaker 1: Penny or whatever, it is not a star anyway. Is
Speaker 1: some group of like the biggest influencers on YouTube that myself,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't believe so and so is
Speaker 1: doing Target commercials. I wonder how often that happens, right,
Speaker 1: and it's getting so niche for all these different things
Speaker 1: that I don't know. We're probably all exposed to it
Speaker 1: every single day, where you recognize the influencer.
Speaker 2: And I don't, and vice versa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my twenty five year old daughters into that sort
Speaker 1: of thing and will send me stuff she really likes
Speaker 1: occasionally and I'll check it out and the number.
Speaker 2: Of views would be the envy of CBS videws. Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one group I wish I could remember the name.
Speaker 2: I wrote it down.
Speaker 1: Of these guys who just they basically watch videos and
Speaker 1: then make snarky comments about them.
Speaker 2: That's what they do.
Speaker 1: And they are huge, Like you just said, they get
Speaker 1: so many more views than anything on cable could even help.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're a bigger star than any cable news host.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not even worth mentioning. And then you
Speaker 1: get to the big networks and they dominate that in
Speaker 1: terms of eyeballs or recognition, and they're lost on me
Speaker 1: com lately. That's a good thing if you can get it,
Speaker 1: although it's kind of similar to what we do. You
Speaker 1: just observe the world and make snarky comments.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that divide it reminds me a little bit of
Speaker 3: what we've been talking about in reference to the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl and the halftime showing Bad Bunny and the rest
Speaker 3: of it. The Roger Goodell the world are looking at
Speaker 3: that as the future, including the Spanish speaking world, and
Speaker 3: you know, we've said plenty about that, and probably we'll
Speaker 3: say some more. But yeah, they're realizing that's where the
Speaker 3: eyes are, that's where the money is, that's where we're going.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I agree with that, and I'm
Speaker 1: in the advertising world myself, obviously, How could there be
Speaker 1: a bigger market? Everybody wants to get into the US
Speaker 1: market because it is such a great market. We were
Speaker 1: the richest country on Earth. We spend money like crazy.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants American eyeballs, and we got the NFL thinking now,
Speaker 1: we don't want that, we want some mills. Venezuelan's yeah,
Speaker 1: for some reason. Right, interesting. Well, I guess we'll wait
Speaker 1: twenty years and see who's right. Joe's going to explain
Speaker 1: to us what Trump's going to get impeached about if
Speaker 1: the Democrats take the House, and they almost certainly will,
Speaker 1: among other things we got coming up on the show
Speaker 1: Stay here.
Speaker 2: I just know the years of watching her at sheievil Ski,
Speaker 2: at her limit. The tone is set right here.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, that's Lindsey vonn crashing.
Speaker 2: That was not good. That was not good. Michael played
Speaker 2: forty four and I have an excuse for this. I
Speaker 2: hope for the best for her. I hope that it's
Speaker 2: that it's not too bad.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean my heart aches for her.
Speaker 2: It's it's such a brutal sport.
Speaker 3: Sometimes that's us skier. Breezy Johnson. Can I call myself
Speaker 3: Breezy Johnson or would that seem weird?
Speaker 1: So many of these Olympic athletes have super cool names,
Speaker 1: like the parents knew they were going to be something.
Speaker 2: Breezy Johnson is the gold medal winner. It's a cool name. Hey.
Speaker 2: By the way, real quick, I just came across this.
Speaker 1: Uh. Ricky Martin's uh song during halftime was a warning
Speaker 1: about modern day colonialism.
Speaker 2: In case you weren't where super.
Speaker 1: Got that from the New York Times critic. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: read more of that later, so you have the slightest
Speaker 1: idea what happened.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at the clock.
Speaker 3: We can scratch the surface of this, which is probably
Speaker 3: enough for now. Andy McCarthy of the National Review and
Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal and other places is a rock solid,
Speaker 3: very serious, fair minded conservative, former federal prosecutor writes about
Speaker 3: the law and that sort of thing generally, and he's
Speaker 3: you know, we're fans. He has unleashed a five part
Speaker 3: series most I think three or four parts of it
Speaker 3: so far in National Review, originally about the ties between
Speaker 3: the Trump family and Steve Whitkoff, by the way, and
Speaker 3: Jared Kushner and the uaes trillions of dollars in free
Speaker 3: cash and the communist Chinese And here is the thumbnail
Speaker 3: sketch of what Trump will be impeached for as soon
Speaker 3: as the Democrats take that out.
Speaker 1: Keeping in mind Andrew McCarthy, because we read a lot
Speaker 1: of it over the years, has come to Trump's defense
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of bogus lawsuits and stuff like
Speaker 1: that over the years when nobody else was.
Speaker 3: He was absolutely the most persuasive and powerful caller out
Speaker 3: of the law fare that was going after Trump while
Speaker 3: it was going after completely fair Anyway says it's a
Speaker 3: long story, but let's cut to the chase. In autumn
Speaker 3: of twenty four, when it became Cleari'd likely went back
Speaker 3: to White House. In about six weeks, Donald Trump and
Speaker 3: his friend Steve Whitcoff founded a crypto business called World
Speaker 3: Liberty Financial WLF was and remains an ideal vehicle for
Speaker 3: leveraging political power in search of financial game. Crypto's shrouded
Speaker 3: mystery and intrigue. The public generally doesn't understand it. The
Speaker 3: Federal Reserves has just two percent of Americans use crypto
Speaker 3: to pay for anything in.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: The value that investors promote and customers purchase at VEIG
Speaker 1: is vague. Hence, a crypto business, whether in token's currency
Speaker 1: or other iterations, is an ideal way to disguise political
Speaker 1: payoffs as financial transactions. Because they have sons who do
Speaker 1: not hold government positions and could Austin ostensibly run the
Speaker 1: crypto business. Trump at his Middle East endvoy Witkoff would
Speaker 1: be poised to claim that WLF is a private enterprise
Speaker 1: waldoff from Trump's political influence, even though that influence was
Speaker 1: a magnet for foreign investment and consumer purchases. And it
Speaker 1: has to do with the Chinese board and Canadian billionaire
Speaker 1: Felon Chang pen Joao who ran Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange,
Speaker 1: who is desperately seeking a presidential pardon, and contributed valuable
Speaker 1: technical expertise for building wlf's infrastructure. So did Jow's close associate,
Speaker 1: Shaik Tanun bin Zayed al Nayan, a top intelligence operative
Speaker 1: and the second highest ranking royal member of the United
Speaker 1: Arab Emirates, a tiny rich Gulf monarchy. Just for chuckles,
Speaker 1: their sovereign wealth fund that they invest is valued at
Speaker 1: I think it's one point two trillion dollars, and it
Speaker 1: was a three way. You scratch my back and we'll
Speaker 1: all make billions of dollars, making Hunter Biden look like
Speaker 1: the punky is. So if that is the impeachment, and
Speaker 1: that'd be a hard impeachment to sell to the people
Speaker 1: that don't already hate Trump. You could any impeachment work
Speaker 1: for the people who really really hate Trump, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a hard one to sell to the other
Speaker 1: crowd because this is gonna be very complicated.
Speaker 3: It's a I wouldn't say it's very complicated, but it's
Speaker 3: complicated enough to be a challenge, especially given the fact
Speaker 3: that people's eyes glaze over as soon as you start
Speaker 3: talking about crypto and crypto exchanges. What's what's the difference
Speaker 3: between a meme coin and a stable coin.
Speaker 2: I don't know, for instance. Well, you gotta figure it out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think I do. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh So, anyway, House Republicans even opening in Peach. Oh,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. They're talking about the Biden family. Andy's thumbnail
Speaker 3: is everything that Bidens did. Add two zero's to it,
Speaker 3: and you start to get an idea of what the
Speaker 3: Trump family's doing.
Speaker 1: Well, that'll sure be fun to follow if that ever happens. Okay,
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