1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty arm Strong 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: and Jetty and he Armstrong and Htty. Trump and Elon's 4 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: feud has calmed down a bit. 5 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 2: The two still aren't speaking, but they did release this 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: music video today. 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: Check this out. You didn't have. 8 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 2: To make out like it doesn't happen and that we 9 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 2: were nothing. 10 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: It's just that I don't need that boat now. 11 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 2: You're just somebody that I used to no get out. 12 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: I'm I'm assuming that's a take on some popular song. 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. And I also I'm assuming the visuals 14 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: were great on that. Oh it's correct. Did you see 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: the and there's probably fifty of them out there, but 16 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 1: I saw one AI production that was amazing. It was 17 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: quite long too, about Trump and Elon coming apart and 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: growing older, and then throughout the video they both aged 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: and became old men. Elon was on Mars as an 20 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: old man missing Trump. Trump was an old man golfing 21 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: and watching Fox TV, and he missed an old man 22 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: golfing now this week watching Fox TV. Trump was an 23 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: old man. And then they about how they miss each 24 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: other the thing must have been three minutes long. And 25 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: then they then then Elon comes back to Earth and 26 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: they get back together and skip down the road together. 27 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: But I mean, it was incredible. It would like it 28 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: would have cost it had it would have cost fifty 29 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: million dollars to make that, you know, five years ago. 30 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: It's just it was amazing. 31 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny, just as in aside. A 32 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 3: listener recommended a particular video creation AI thing to play 33 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 3: around with, and I was tempted. But we happen to 34 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 3: have an internet outage last night at the house kind 35 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 3: of a local probel. My god, is everybody okay? 36 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: Yeah? I know? 37 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 3: And my evening was planned out. I was going to 38 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 3: watch the news, then I was going to watch some 39 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 3: fun stuff. And I thought, oh my god, what do 40 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 3: I do? 41 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: What do I do? And I'll tell you what I did. 42 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: I had a glass of Pinot noir and I read 43 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 3: a book about the Battle of Port Royal, a naval 44 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 3: battle in the Civil War, and I was, oh, And 45 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 3: when my eyes were kind of tired and I didn't 46 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 3: want to read anymore, I reenacted my teenage years. I 47 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 3: put on some headphones and listened to one of my 48 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 3: favorite albums with my eyes closed, and I was as 49 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 3: happy as a person can be. 50 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: Ah, that can't be better than scrolling through Twitter. Oh, 51 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: looking at stuff you don't even care about, just kind 52 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: of out a habit, taking in plenty kind of makes 53 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: you mad, or kind of taken in a bunch of 54 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: blue light that will help your sleep be bad. God, 55 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: dang it, stop, I've got to stop this. Yeah, I know. 56 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: I think about most of my life like up until 57 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, when it was always always, 58 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: always quiet in a room with a book reading until 59 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: I got sleepy enough to go to sleep. And just 60 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: when I think of it, it's like relaxing to think 61 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: about compared to what I do every night now. Like 62 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: you said earlier, it's almost like it's an addiction. Anyway, 63 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: enough of that, these two clips will bring you up 64 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: to speed on where we are with the Elon Trump 65 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: relationship if you care. 66 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 4: The real switch up from last week's very public social 67 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 4: media sparring match, Elon Musk now saying his comments went 68 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 4: too far. Overnight around three am Eastern really in the 69 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 4: middle of the night, Musk posted this on x saying 70 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 4: he regrets some of his posts about President Donald Trump. 71 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: I haven't really thought about it. Actually, I would imagine 72 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: and he wants to speak to me, I would think 73 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 2: so if I were, I'd want to speak to me. 74 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 2: But I maybe it's already called. You'd have to ask him, 75 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: ask him whether or not he's already called. But I'd 76 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 2: have no problem with it. 77 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 3: I thought, I'm sorry, I want him to speak to me. 78 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 3: I can't be the only one who that struck is 79 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: you come to me on the day of my daughter's 80 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 3: wedding and you asked me. 81 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: For a favor. I was thinking about this the other 82 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: day before this even happened. Of I'm sure they both 83 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: have to It's like it's like laying down a meeting 84 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: between Gorbachev and Reagan, the amount of groundwork that would 85 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: have to be laid, because you couldn't have either one 86 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: of them in a situation where you called and didn't 87 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: get through and word comes out that you tried to 88 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: call and they didn't take your call. Cannot have that 89 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: on either end. That's the one thing I'm not having. 90 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: If I'm Elan or Trump, the news story is not 91 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: going to be I tried to call and he wouldn't 92 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: take my call. No right line needs to be open. 93 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,919 Speaker 1: Ten different people need to test the line that it 94 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: is open. We need to have visuals on us both 95 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: walking toward the phone, like it's a hostage exchange or something. 96 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: We both come to phone at the same time, so 97 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: that one person can't back out and the other end claim. 98 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: He tried to call me and apologized, but I didn't 99 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: take his call. So let me reread the tweet. 100 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 3: I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump 101 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 3: last week. 102 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: They went too far. 103 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 3: I'm picturing Elon Musk tied to a chair in a 104 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 3: basement room with the combined boards of directors of SpaceX 105 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 3: and Tesla with like hammers and blowtorches, saying you're sending 106 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 3: that that tweet. 107 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,799 Speaker 1: It could be or he could just plain have thought 108 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said that. That whole Epstein thing was 109 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: probably too much. He set that out at midnight last night. Man, 110 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: what is his lifestyle? And with all those cat do 111 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: you have? I went up at all. He was a 112 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: feeding He's got that new baby. See that, giving his 113 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: wife a break and feeding that new baby. 114 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 3: You think, Hey, are you in the mood for a 115 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 3: little conspiratorial speculation. 116 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: As long as we're going down that road. Are we 117 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 1: talking chemtrails? No? 118 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 3: No, I have heard nobody talking about this, but Barton 119 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 3: Swam whose young buck, who rights for the Wall Street 120 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 3: Journal a tweet jd Vance put out the other day 121 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 3: in support of Trump, and it was during the height 122 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: of the Trump Musk feud and swam rights It wasn't 123 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 3: the cleverest pronouncement blah blah blah, but the most absorbing. 124 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: I refer to J. D Vance's two sentence tweet quote. 125 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 3: President Trump has done more than any person in my 126 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 3: lifetime to earn the trust of the movement, he leads, 127 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 3: I'm proud to stand behind him, and Barton points out 128 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,839 Speaker 3: that message was posted Thursday, the day of the breakup, 129 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 3: but not till ten thirty at night, seven hours after 130 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: Elon Musk replied yes to a post calling for mister 131 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 3: Trump's impeachment, which he later deleted. And of course that 132 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 3: impeachment would have led to J. D. Evans being the president, 133 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 3: and that's Harder says, that's a very good point. It's 134 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 3: funny I'd had to escaped me. Of course, that's what 135 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 3: would happen. How many Democrats what JD Vance as president 136 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: with a full head of steem as he runs for 137 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 3: reelection in twenty eight I would have counseled the Vice 138 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: president to say nothing. The spat didn't involve him, and 139 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: the unseerious message about impeachment plainly didn't deserve a vice 140 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 3: presidential statement. Yet he evidently consulted AIDS and pondered the 141 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 3: matter for seven hours. The resulting declaration was perfect in 142 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 3: its impropriety and meladroitness, meaning uselessness. Essentially, start with the 143 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 3: first sentence. All seems conventional until you're almost through it. 144 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 3: What do you expect mister Vance to say? What you 145 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 3: expect mister Vance to say is that Trump has done 146 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 3: more than anyone to earn the trust of the American people, 147 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 3: or the nation or some such. Instead, he says, the 148 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 3: president has earned the trust of the movement. Which movement 149 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 3: not I think what used to be called a conservative movement, 150 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 3: which was Reagan and I to blah blah blah blah. 151 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 3: The only movement mister Trump has led is the Mega movement. 152 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 3: Mister Trump created the MAGA movement, and there's some doubt 153 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 3: it would survive without him. How odd then, for the 154 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 3: Vice president to say, mister Trump has done more than 155 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 3: any person in my lifetime to earn that movement's trust 156 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 3: is if there were a range of competitors for that distinction. 157 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 3: The second sentence also sounds off key. Mister Vance isn't 158 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 3: a political ally or a supporter of the president. He's 159 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 3: mister Trump's constitutionally designated successor. Why would he need to 160 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 3: tell us that he's proud to stand behind beside the president? 161 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: Is his pride relevant? For some reason? 162 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 3: Did mister Trump say or do something requiring mister Vance 163 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 3: to affirm his loyalty? What's remarkable about the post is 164 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 3: how coldly measured it is. 165 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 1: He it was I thought, I thought because he went 166 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: to did he go to a Yale Law school or 167 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: Harvard Law School, Harvard Law. 168 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 3: Harvard undergrad, Yale Law. Maybe I don't know, something like that, 169 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 3: but anyway, he's an ivy league lawyer. That was written 170 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 3: like a lawyer. Yeah, I mean the words were chosen carefully. 171 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh. 172 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 3: And then many quotes Proverbs ten nineteen in a multitude 173 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 3: of words there wanteth not sin, which is a verse 174 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 3: I'd never heard before. I don't recall it, and it's 175 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 3: ironic given the way we make our living. But to 176 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 3: translate at Jack, your hostital to your new translations. 177 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: I'm a King James version. If they're a bunch, that's right, sir. 178 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 3: If there are lots and lots of words, you're gonna 179 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 3: find sin in there, or there's probably bull crap in there. 180 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 3: What's the phrase in a multitude of words there, wanteth 181 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 3: not sin? 182 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: Interesting? That is one of the problems the King James 183 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: version of the Bible is regularly have no idea what 184 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: it's said. That's a criticism. But the words are flowery, okay, cool, 185 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: coming up. I have breaking BTS news, that's right. The 186 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: k pop band Good Lord. Also the saddest thing I 187 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: is so sad. I only read like the first paragraph 188 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: and I had to stop. Oh and and not like, 189 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: you know, a horrible crime or something, and just it'll 190 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: make sense when I tell you, among other things, on 191 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: the way to stay here, I told you I had 192 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: breaking VTS news, the k pop band. I've tried to 193 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: listen to k pop and give it a you know, 194 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: a decent shake, just not my thing, which is fine. 195 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: Different what do they say, strokes for folks or something 196 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: like that. But I did think this was damned interesting. 197 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: They finished their mandatory military service there in South Korea, 198 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: that's why you haven't heard much about them for the 199 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: past two years, and now are going to get to 200 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: go back to doing their music now. I don't know 201 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: if because they've like aged by two years, that there's 202 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: another K pop band that is much more popular and 203 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,719 Speaker 1: a bigger deal. But I mean, they like have the 204 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: biggest selling albums of all time worldwide and all kinds 205 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: of ridiculous records, but they that had I'm sure I'd 206 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: known that at some point, but I'd forgotten. They have 207 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: mandatory military service for I think a year and a 208 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 1: half for all young people coming out of high school, 209 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: which has been you know, discussed many times in this country. 210 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: I think it'd be great for everybody for all kinds 211 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 1: of things. 212 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 3: Oh my god, libertarians hate you for saying that they'rerible 213 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 3: compulsory service. Oh my, I just hope their drill sergeants 214 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 3: didn't beat the cutely am triagonousness out of them. 215 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: Two members of the K pop Sensation BTS have completed 216 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: their mandatory year and a half military service in South Korea, 217 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: leaving their base to the roars of fans counting down 218 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 1: for the supergroup's reunion. Yeah, well, obviously that's where it 219 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: gets difficult. Is the whole mandatory government anything? But I 220 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: wonder if you could get it going culturally. Probably not, 221 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: but it wouldn't have to be military service, just some 222 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: sort of service, you know you, I don't know, Yeah, 223 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: serve meals at an old folks home, or pick up 224 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: traction the dishes. I don't know what it would be, 225 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: but it's worth brainstorming on. Yeah, why not some point 226 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 1: we probably out of truck. I definitely want to talk 227 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 1: about the military parade that Trump's going to have this weekend. 228 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: It's not something we've normally done in this country, and 229 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: whether you're forard or against it, and some people coming 230 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: out on both sides. Also Trump ordering the renaming of 231 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: the military bases back to the old names, including you know, 232 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: military base named after Robert E. Lee, all that sort 233 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: of stuff. Announce it, Confederate generals, Yeah, announce that. Thank you. 234 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: We got to get back. What's the other thing I 235 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,599 Speaker 1: teased that I definitely wanted to get on. Do you 236 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: remember what it was? Anybody? 237 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: Oh? 238 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the Simone Biles thing? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 239 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find that. Simone Biles 240 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: and Riley Gaines have been at it with each other 241 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: started last week. We talked about it here on the air, 242 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: and basically, Simone Biles came out in favor of well, 243 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 1: blasting Riley Gaines for being a hater in transphone make 244 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: and transphobic and back, bad for sports and everything. 245 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,599 Speaker 3: And a sore loser because she got beat by a 246 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 3: six foot four inch mail. 247 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: By wanting to get dudes out of girls sports and 248 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: can't understand what's going on. Riley Gaines blasted back with 249 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: her usual, to my mind, very reasonable comments about why 250 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: you can't have dudes competing against girls anyway, and a 251 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,559 Speaker 1: lengthy post and it's some people believe really done a 252 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: lot of damage Simone Bio's ability to make money as 253 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: a pitch person going forward. I happen to know something 254 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: about her agents, and I think they pooped a brick. 255 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: Whether you know it's pitching at and T cell phone 256 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: service or Tide or whatever she's going to do. 257 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 3: You will think of this every time I hear her 258 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 3: name or see her face for years. I wouldn't touch her. 259 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 3: There's too many other options. There's too many other options 260 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 3: that don't have baggage. Why would you choose her? So 261 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 3: she might be trying to clean that up. 262 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: I think she wanted to address how the current because 263 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: last week she addressed how the current system doesn't adequately 264 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: balance principles such as well, I'll just read it. I 265 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: wanted to follow up from my last tweets. I've always 266 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: believed competitive equity and inclusivity are both essential in sport, 267 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: meaningless words you have when did you spend a lot 268 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: of time twisting to gy rting through in the air 269 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: trying to beat other people? Thinking I sure hope there's 270 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: competitive equity and inclusivity going on here? Really didn't come 271 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: up a lot in my life. But anyway, the current 272 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: system doesn't adequately balance these important principles, which often leads 273 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn't help for 274 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for. 275 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 3: So first you blame the circumstance for causing heated exchanges, 276 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 3: you don't take responsibility for it, and then you apologize 277 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 3: for something that was caused by something else than wasn't 278 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 3: your fault. She claims she's standing up for fair competition. 279 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 3: Dudes whooping up on girls in sports? Okay, someone. 280 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 1: That's so weak. 281 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 5: I just. 282 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: I just I try to understand that point of view, 283 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: and I just don't under I don't. I can't get there. 284 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: Here's what you lack. And I've been trying to get 285 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: fully get. 286 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 3: A lot of these people. And I don't think Simone 287 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 3: Biles is a bad person at all. I think, you know, 288 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 3: if you were to put her through ten different moral tests, 289 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 3: I think she'd do just fine. The thing people like 290 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 3: us can't feel, and I think a lot of y'all 291 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 3: answer to this description too, is the desperate need to 292 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 3: say what you think you're supposed to say, the social 293 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 3: pressure you feel to go along with the conventional opinion 294 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 3: of your social group. 295 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean I would. 296 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 3: You might force me to mouth the words of some 297 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 3: of this stuff, but man, it would come out of 298 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 3: my mouth. 299 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: I would be sickened. 300 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 3: I think somebody like Simone Biles is so enthusiastic about 301 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 3: going along with her peer group and the bubbles she's in. 302 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 3: She doesn't feel any particular shame or feel bad about 303 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 3: saying something she knows to be illogical. 304 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: Yesh, she feels it so intensely, the need to go along. 305 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know how intelligent she is or isn't. 306 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: She might be super super bright. But I'm sure because 307 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: to be that kind of athlete, she's dedicated every moment 308 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: of her life to gymnastics, not you know, cultural political issues. Right. Yeah, 309 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: I didn't get to the saddest thing I've ever read. 310 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: I will get to it in the next half hour. 311 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: Oh something to look forward to. 312 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 3: Speaking of hyperbole, the most deluded man in America, completely delusional. 313 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: We'll share his thoughts, Armstrong and getty. 314 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 6: When I asked yesterday if borders are Tom Holman should 315 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 6: arrest California Governor Gavin Ussen, President Trump said he would 316 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 6: do it and added, quote, I like Gavin Newssen. He's 317 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 6: a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent. 318 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 5: Ah. 319 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 6: Yes, the old compliment, compliment, searing insult. Imagine Trump giving 320 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 6: a eulogy super guy will be greatly miss world's tiniest penis. 321 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 7: Uh. 322 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: That is his pattern, which I'd never completely noticed before. Compliment, compliment, 323 00:17:54,680 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: searing insult. Yeah, well that in the whole we get along, well, 324 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: we get along well, I like him. Nobody cares if 325 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: you get along well or you like somebody. It's not anyway. 326 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: Coming up's me crazy, coming up. The saddest thing I've 327 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: ever read about summertime and Elon with a huge TESLA 328 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: announcement got nothing to do with politics at all, which, man, 329 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: if he's not, that's not a coincidence. Oh interesting, we'll 330 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: talk about that then. I guess. Yeah, let's see, Michael. 331 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: You know what I need? I really need some Gavin 332 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: Newsom give me sixty. 333 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 5: This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed 334 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 5: a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even 335 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 5: our National Guard at risk. 336 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 3: And especially so because everything was going fine and it 337 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 3: was perfectly peaceful. According to one of America's leading inflexts, 338 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 3: Maxine Waters. 339 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: Don't think that somehow because they called out the National Guard, 340 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: there was violence. There was no violence. I was on 341 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: the street. I know. 342 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 3: Maxine Waters claiming there was no violence in Los Angeles. 343 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: Zero. Good lord. Anyway, moving along, I mentioned earlier that 344 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: the current, the talking point of the last twenty four 345 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: hours is it's just a tiny part of LA It 346 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: was a very small part of La. La is five 347 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: hundred square miles. This is one square mile where they 348 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: had a rest, to which my response is Washington, d C. 349 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: January sixth, Washington, d C was Placid one building, people 350 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: were beaten down, cops with flag poles and trying to 351 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: go in and kill Nancy Belosi one building. The rest 352 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: of DC was fine. 353 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 3: Oh it was calm as the reflecting pools there, everything 354 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 3: that was fine. So a couple of things of note. 355 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 3: Molly Ball on the Wall Street Journal interviewing Gavey knew 356 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 3: some about how he clearly is using this to steer 357 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 3: toward the twenty eight, twenty twenty eight candidacy for president. 358 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: And I love Gabby's quote daring Trump to arrest him. 359 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: Let's go. 360 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 3: You need a scalp, You need to show your tough guy, 361 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 3: need to show your base. You're going to own the Libs. 362 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 3: Why don't you just get it over with. Arrest me, 363 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:16,679 Speaker 3: but stop attacking these vulnerable people. Then, surveying the landscape 364 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 3: from the cross he'd hauled himself up on, Gavin Newsom 365 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 3: announced his candidacy, absolutely hilarious, saying his usual stuff. Tom 366 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 3: Cotton responding with an editorial, send in the troops for real. 367 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,159 Speaker 3: When local police can't restore order, the federal government has 368 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 3: a duty to do so with a show of force. 369 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 3: One hundred percent appropriate, one hundred percent legal. Andy McCarthy 370 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 3: the National Review, who is a great legal commentator, agrees 371 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 3: with him. There's going to be hearing tomorrow. I guess 372 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 3: about the legality of this. 373 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: You moved on too fast from Gavin up on the cross. 374 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: I was going to say, the thief next to him 375 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: said nice hair. That's really good. That's really good. 376 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 3: Which brings us to the most delusional man in America. 377 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 3: And I was thinking of setting this up by telling 378 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 3: you why I'm bringing this to you, but I thought, no, no, 379 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 3: I think you'll get there on your own. And this 380 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 3: is both for cal Unicornians and the rest of the country. 381 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 3: And it'll take a second. 382 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: But bear with me. 383 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 3: This is written by a fellow by the name of 384 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 3: Jim Newton, who worked at the La Times for twenty 385 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 3: five years as a reporter, editor and columnist. Currently edits 386 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 3: the Some magazine at UCLA. So he's moved into academia 387 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 3: and he's got an upcoming book about the Grateful Dead. 388 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: Okay, not that that matters, but twenty five years at 389 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 1: the La Times. 390 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 3: The title of his piece for Politico is why Donald 391 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 3: Trump had to attack California. There's much more at stake 392 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 3: for Trump and Californians than deportations, and Jack, you got it. 393 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,719 Speaker 1: You gotta tune into this now. 394 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 3: President Donald Trump and his supporters are right about what 395 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 3: thing in this explosive clash between California federal government. It's 396 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 3: not just a fight over position or even public safety. 397 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,199 Speaker 3: It's about values, and it's been a long time building 398 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 3: for Trump. 399 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: It's a battle of. 400 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 3: His choosing, giving him the opportunity to escalate a conflict 401 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 3: on a signature issue, immigration in the city and state 402 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 3: governed by political adversaries so far, absolutely true for California. 403 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 3: It is the logical result of a long and profound 404 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,640 Speaker 3: transformation from the days of Republican Party dominance to Democratic 405 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 3: party control, one I've watched and chronicled for more than 406 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 3: thirty years, in that I now see culminating in literal 407 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 3: fighting in the streets. Californians are turning out against forces 408 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,159 Speaker 3: sent here by guardians of a value system that the 409 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 3: state has rejected. And then he goes how not very 410 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 3: long ago California was a solid Republican state. Hiram Johnson, 411 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 3: Earl Warren, Ronald Reagan, stalwarts of the GOP. 412 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,160 Speaker 1: WOW. I don't know if I agree with not very 413 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: long ago, but I mean it's not eons ago. 414 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, seventy five years, yeah, sixty years, depending on 415 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 3: who you're talking about. But a few years later, when 416 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 3: Pat Brown was re selected to his second term in 417 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 3: nineteen sixty two, he was the first Democrat ever to 418 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 3: win the governorship twice, that changed. And then he goes 419 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 3: into how staunchly Democrat California. 420 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: Is now except for the great, the honored Devis. 421 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 3: And he goes in Arnold, who was an anomaly and 422 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 3: he really was a celebrity during a weird recall election. 423 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 3: Governor is a centrist kind of And now he gets 424 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 3: into how there are no Republicans who are mayors of 425 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 3: any city, no Republicans in any statewide office. 426 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: None. 427 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 3: Many forces have propelled that shift, but chief among them 428 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 3: are the party's divergent approaches to environmental and immigration, shifting demographics, 429 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 3: blah blah blah, reverence for the coastlines, and I wish 430 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 3: I had time to read this whole thing. 431 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: He gets into changing demographics. His argument is essentially. 432 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 3: All that is true, and thank god, the California of 433 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five is so much better than the California 434 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 3: of the fifties, the sixties, the California dream the seventies, expansion, prosperity, innovation, 435 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 3: the eighties, that was a nightmare, the streets of Los 436 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 3: Angeles and San Francisco and Sacramento and San Diego, which 437 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 3: is decaying. We don't talk about that much. The currents 438 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 3: in California is so much better now. This is the 439 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 3: California of our dreams. That's his point. And I see 440 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 3: the wide eyes and slack jaws of people who've either 441 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 3: who live in California, visit California, know of California, thinking, 442 00:24:54,119 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 3: whoa dude, this is your ideal. Yes, he's proudly right that. 443 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: With people moving out for the first time in the 444 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: state's history. 445 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, crime rampant in the streets, needles everywhere, human feces, 446 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 3: junkie camps, felon's being released from prisons, the schools indoctrinating 447 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 3: your children about radical transsexual theory in the third grade. Finally, 448 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 3: the era of Reagan's California has been put to bed 449 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 3: and our utopia is here. 450 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 1: Holy crap. We should decide as a show whether it 451 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: does us more harm or could to mention the human 452 00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: feces on the sidewalks in California, because while it's true 453 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: and a significant problems and uh, you know, is definitely 454 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 1: a sign of things aren't going well in your town. 455 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: I mean, yes, most of you listening have never seen 456 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: that on the sidewalk ever in your life. 457 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 3: You are really making the case for why we ought 458 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 3: to mention it. Where's the flip side? 459 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 1: Disgusting Every time someone says that, that's why we're talking 460 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: about it's horrified. I almost unswallow. Yeah, poop, poop, poop poop. 461 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 3: That's right, Johnny Depp. Johnny's man enough to take on 462 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 3: the challenges of today, Jack, are you? 463 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: Sam and I walked around some in San Francisco last 464 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: time we were there, and I was just remarking to 465 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: him on how that is just so crazy that in 466 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: the modern world that would ever happen. 467 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 3: California is a staunchly Democrat has it was republic and 468 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 3: a flip and orientation and it has become what it's 469 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 3: always meant to be, says Jim Newton in Politico. 470 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: You know, I'm about to talk about Elon in some 471 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: big announcement he made about Tesla. I wish we could 472 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: do some sort of counterfactual, uh, you know, parallel universe 473 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: where Silicon Valley had happened completely in Austin instead of 474 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, more or less by acts, because 475 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: that has propped up so much of the finances of 476 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,360 Speaker 1: this state. If it had just happened to happen in California, 477 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 1: where were we of bed. 478 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 3: The revenue from Google and Meta and a couple other 479 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 3: super giants Apple, they prop up the socialist government of California. 480 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: Right. Absolutely a sad piece I read about summers that 481 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 1: I'm not going to dwell on, but it's worth pointing out, 482 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: among other things on the way stay here. 483 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 7: Just days after the horrific fire bombing targeting Jewish demonstrators 484 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 7: in Boulder, Colorado, and the deadly shooting of two Israeli 485 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 7: embassy employees in Washington, d C. Tonight, authorities unsealing new 486 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 7: charges in an alleged plot targeting Jews in New York City. 487 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 7: Federal prosecutors say a twenty year old Pakistani national wanted 488 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 7: to carry out a coordinator attack with AR fifteen style 489 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 7: rifles on a Jewish center in Brooklyn in the name 490 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 7: of ice. The FBI, quoting the suspect, Mohammed Khan, is 491 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 7: saying New York is perfect to target Jews. Even if 492 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,959 Speaker 7: we don't attack an event, we could rack up easily 493 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 7: a lot of Jews. 494 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: We are going to NYC to slaughter them, Mohammed. You 495 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: say there was a terrorist plot they stopped. Also a 496 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,239 Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, guy who was gonna shoot up 497 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of kids at a school. He hated 498 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: these Jewish kids, and they stopped him. So, man, it's 499 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: it's who. It could be a lot worse than it's Ben. 500 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 3: England is trying to deal with this by giving in. 501 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 3: There's now in effect an anti blasphemy law in England. 502 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 3: Man who burned a koran was convicted of a religiously 503 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 3: aggravated public order offense because the man's actions were intended 504 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 3: to cause harassment, alarm or distress. And as one writer 505 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 3: points out, it's a very slippery slope. You do realize 506 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 3: that among serious Muslims, a woman showing her hair can 507 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 3: cause alarm in distress, right, m good one. 508 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: England is trying to submit. So Elon was tweeting about 509 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: Tesla last night. You think that that's not a coincidence 510 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 1: that he apologized basically for his behavior against Trump and 511 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: is tweeting about the UH. Some of the advances in Tesla. 512 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 3: I think his boards of directors mentioned your shareholders, dude. 513 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: But they had breaking first ever Tesla model y robotaxi 514 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: with no one in the driver's seat spotted testing on 515 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: public roads in Austin, and Elon tweeted out, these are 516 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: unmodified Tesla cars coming straight from the factory, meaning that 517 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: every Tesla coming out of our factory is capable of 518 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: unsupervised self driving. It'll be ready sometime later this year 519 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: or next if that actually happens, all of us who 520 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: have I think any Tesla in like the twenty three 521 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: and on, certainly twenty four and on, is then able 522 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: to be completely autonomous driving. That will be a major 523 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: change maybe in world history. Yeah. I mean one out 524 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: of ten people drive in some aspect for a living, 525 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: and that would mean the technology is here for that 526 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: to be I just don't know if the you know, 527 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: the insurance companies or the states are going to allow 528 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: it to happen the way he's thinking. I don't know 529 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: if he thought that through or not. Yeah, it'll be 530 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: complicated in Thorny for sure. I just think he was 531 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: trying to juice Tesla stock in excitement and that sort 532 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, he's yeah, I mean that they change 533 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: the cameras. He's working toward it. He's been working toward 534 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: it forever. I just don't know when it will actually 535 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: be ready to go. Last night, walking into the grocery 536 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: store with my son because we're out of milk, walking 537 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: down the aisle and I say, yes, they've got woolight here, 538 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: one bottle left, and I grabbed the bottle of woolight, 539 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: and my thirteen year old said, is this what it's 540 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: like to be an adult? 541 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 5: Oh? 542 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: My god, he's hilarious, and I thought, yeah, this is 543 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: what gets me excited. They had at a woolite left 544 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: at the grocery store. He's a thirteen year old son 545 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: about to enjoy summertime. And I had come across this 546 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: piece yesterday in the National Review, which I could only 547 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: read a couple of sentences of it's probably really well written, 548 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: and I just thought I can't go there. Michael Brendan 549 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: Doherty of National Review writing and he's got kids also 550 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: school age summers before screens and he gets into I 551 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 1: don't know why this bothers me so much. It almost 552 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: chokes me up to think about it. He talks about 553 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: his summers and his kids summers and just how it's 554 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 1: never coming back, and you know they don't know what 555 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: they're missing, And he didn't. I don't know if he 556 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: makes the point because I said I didn't read the 557 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: whole thing because I thought it was too sad that 558 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: soon those of us who had summers before screens will 559 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: be dead and there will be nobody to even comment 560 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: on comparing the two. But to summers after screens. We 561 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: all know everything after screens is different. And the we're 562 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: outside board and we make up a game with a 563 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: ball and some basses and some rules is gone forever. 564 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: It just is wow, and we play all day and 565 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: get sweaty and tired and laugh and argue. Yeah. And 566 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: it was head in that direction already because of the 567 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: weird worried our kids are going to be abducted or 568 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: whatever the hell happened in the eighties and nineties and 569 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: two thousands, where I've told this story gazillion times. I 570 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: lived and this was twenty years ago. This is pre screens. 571 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: I used to say this smartphones, and this was true. 572 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: Then I lived near a giant park. I drove by 573 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: that park multiple times a day for years. I never 574 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: one time, not once ever saw two kids out there 575 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,200 Speaker 1: playing catch. Never or anybody's yard. Now. I saw organized 576 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: soccer matches with all the parents on the sidelines with 577 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: the pop up tents, but I never saw two kids 578 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: playing catch or shooting hoops ever. It just it's gone away. 579 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: And then you add in screens with you know you're 580 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna play video games or stare at your screen, 581 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: and I just and what I was wondering, is is 582 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: it just nostalgia? Is it just you know, my youth 583 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: was better than your youth for some weird way, a 584 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: way we glorify the past or something, or is it 585 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: actually a step backwards. Oh, I think there's plenty of 586 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: objective data. 587 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 3: I mean there're none of this, like in isolation is 588 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,600 Speaker 3: a fatal disease, if you will, Because if you had 589 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 3: screens but also lots of free play, you know, lots 590 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 3: of autonomy, free range kids things, it'd be fine, it'd 591 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 3: work itself out. But it all, it all congeals into 592 00:33:51,400 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 3: this sort of passive directed by adults, non inventive, no risk, 593 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 3: you know activity. I think it's cool that your son 594 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:12,760 Speaker 3: and others like him skateboard or did and risk injury 595 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,920 Speaker 3: and get all bloody and scraped up and stuff like that. 596 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,279 Speaker 1: I think that's fantastic. Yeah. My oldest, luckily, is no 597 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: interest in video games and is super into riding his 598 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 1: bike and doing wheelies and stuff like that. But my 599 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: youngest is more typical of the genre, likes video games 600 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. So the title was 601 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 1: Summer's Before Screens, and I just again text the text line, 602 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: I'd be interested? Am I just you know, romanticizing in 603 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: a nostalgic sort of way or has something been lost 604 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 1: with childhood? That's enough of that and weirds me out. 605 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 1: Tony Hawk, the most famous skateboarder of all time, showed 606 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: up to a Texas skateboard park yesterday and started skating boarding, 607 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 1: and people started recognize who he was and needed a 608 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: bunch of cool stuff. 609 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 3: How cool would that be, your young skateboarder kid? I 610 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 3: saw a commercial with him the other day and he's 611 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:08,959 Speaker 3: getting on in yours. 612 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 1: He's old, but he's still known in the same way 613 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,360 Speaker 1: that like Michael Jordan's known because of his products and 614 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: his name and his branding. He's still really known. But yeah, 615 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,880 Speaker 1: that'd be quite the charge. You're skateboarding on a summer 616 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: afternoon and Tony Hawk is whipping around next to you. 617 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be like Jack Nicholas standing next to me 618 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 3: on the driving range. I think it would just put 619 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 3: my clubs away. 620 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not doing this. 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