Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and he Armstrong and Htty. Trump and Elon's
Speaker 1: feud has calmed down a bit.
Speaker 2: The two still aren't speaking, but they did release this
Speaker 2: music video today.
Speaker 1: Check this out. You didn't have.
Speaker 2: To make out like it doesn't happen and that we
Speaker 2: were nothing.
Speaker 1: It's just that I don't need that boat now.
Speaker 2: You're just somebody that I used to no get out.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm assuming that's a take on some popular song.
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I also I'm assuming the visuals
Speaker 1: were great on that. Oh it's correct. Did you see
Speaker 1: the and there's probably fifty of them out there, but
Speaker 1: I saw one AI production that was amazing. It was
Speaker 1: quite long too, about Trump and Elon coming apart and
Speaker 1: growing older, and then throughout the video they both aged
Speaker 1: and became old men. Elon was on Mars as an
Speaker 1: old man missing Trump. Trump was an old man golfing
Speaker 1: and watching Fox TV, and he missed an old man
Speaker 1: golfing now this week watching Fox TV. Trump was an
Speaker 1: old man. And then they about how they miss each
Speaker 1: other the thing must have been three minutes long. And
Speaker 1: then they then then Elon comes back to Earth and
Speaker 1: they get back together and skip down the road together.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it was incredible. It would like it
Speaker 1: would have cost it had it would have cost fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars to make that, you know, five years ago.
Speaker 1: It's just it was amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny, just as in aside. A
Speaker 3: listener recommended a particular video creation AI thing to play
Speaker 3: around with, and I was tempted. But we happen to
Speaker 3: have an internet outage last night at the house kind
Speaker 3: of a local probel. My god, is everybody okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I know?
Speaker 3: And my evening was planned out. I was going to
Speaker 3: watch the news, then I was going to watch some
Speaker 3: fun stuff. And I thought, oh my god, what do
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 1: What do I do? And I'll tell you what I did.
Speaker 3: I had a glass of Pinot noir and I read
Speaker 3: a book about the Battle of Port Royal, a naval
Speaker 3: battle in the Civil War, and I was, oh, And
Speaker 3: when my eyes were kind of tired and I didn't
Speaker 3: want to read anymore, I reenacted my teenage years. I
Speaker 3: put on some headphones and listened to one of my
Speaker 3: favorite albums with my eyes closed, and I was as
Speaker 3: happy as a person can be.
Speaker 1: Ah, that can't be better than scrolling through Twitter. Oh,
Speaker 1: looking at stuff you don't even care about, just kind
Speaker 1: of out a habit, taking in plenty kind of makes
Speaker 1: you mad, or kind of taken in a bunch of
Speaker 1: blue light that will help your sleep be bad. God,
Speaker 1: dang it, stop, I've got to stop this. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I think about most of my life like up until
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, when it was always always,
Speaker 1: always quiet in a room with a book reading until
Speaker 1: I got sleepy enough to go to sleep. And just
Speaker 1: when I think of it, it's like relaxing to think
Speaker 1: about compared to what I do every night now. Like
Speaker 1: you said earlier, it's almost like it's an addiction. Anyway,
Speaker 1: enough of that, these two clips will bring you up
Speaker 1: to speed on where we are with the Elon Trump
Speaker 1: relationship if you care.
Speaker 4: The real switch up from last week's very public social
Speaker 4: media sparring match, Elon Musk now saying his comments went
Speaker 4: too far. Overnight around three am Eastern really in the
Speaker 4: middle of the night, Musk posted this on x saying
Speaker 4: he regrets some of his posts about President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I haven't really thought about it. Actually, I would imagine
Speaker 2: and he wants to speak to me, I would think
Speaker 2: so if I were, I'd want to speak to me.
Speaker 2: But I maybe it's already called. You'd have to ask him,
Speaker 2: ask him whether or not he's already called. But I'd
Speaker 2: have no problem with it.
Speaker 3: I thought, I'm sorry, I want him to speak to me.
Speaker 3: I can't be the only one who that struck is
Speaker 3: you come to me on the day of my daughter's
Speaker 3: wedding and you asked me.
Speaker 1: For a favor. I was thinking about this the other
Speaker 1: day before this even happened. Of I'm sure they both
Speaker 1: have to It's like it's like laying down a meeting
Speaker 1: between Gorbachev and Reagan, the amount of groundwork that would
Speaker 1: have to be laid, because you couldn't have either one
Speaker 1: of them in a situation where you called and didn't
Speaker 1: get through and word comes out that you tried to
Speaker 1: call and they didn't take your call. Cannot have that
Speaker 1: on either end. That's the one thing I'm not having.
Speaker 1: If I'm Elan or Trump, the news story is not
Speaker 1: going to be I tried to call and he wouldn't
Speaker 1: take my call. No right line needs to be open.
Speaker 1: Ten different people need to test the line that it
Speaker 1: is open. We need to have visuals on us both
Speaker 1: walking toward the phone, like it's a hostage exchange or something.
Speaker 1: We both come to phone at the same time, so
Speaker 1: that one person can't back out and the other end claim.
Speaker 1: He tried to call me and apologized, but I didn't
Speaker 1: take his call. So let me reread the tweet.
Speaker 3: I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump
Speaker 3: last week.
Speaker 1: They went too far.
Speaker 3: I'm picturing Elon Musk tied to a chair in a
Speaker 3: basement room with the combined boards of directors of SpaceX
Speaker 3: and Tesla with like hammers and blowtorches, saying you're sending
Speaker 3: that that tweet.
Speaker 1: It could be or he could just plain have thought
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said that. That whole Epstein thing was
Speaker 1: probably too much. He set that out at midnight last night. Man,
Speaker 1: what is his lifestyle? And with all those cat do
Speaker 1: you have? I went up at all. He was a
Speaker 1: feeding He's got that new baby. See that, giving his
Speaker 1: wife a break and feeding that new baby.
Speaker 3: You think, Hey, are you in the mood for a
Speaker 3: little conspiratorial speculation.
Speaker 1: As long as we're going down that road. Are we
Speaker 1: talking chemtrails? No?
Speaker 3: No, I have heard nobody talking about this, but Barton
Speaker 3: Swam whose young buck, who rights for the Wall Street
Speaker 3: Journal a tweet jd Vance put out the other day
Speaker 3: in support of Trump, and it was during the height
Speaker 3: of the Trump Musk feud and swam rights It wasn't
Speaker 3: the cleverest pronouncement blah blah blah, but the most absorbing.
Speaker 1: I refer to J. D Vance's two sentence tweet quote.
Speaker 3: President Trump has done more than any person in my
Speaker 3: lifetime to earn the trust of the movement, he leads,
Speaker 3: I'm proud to stand behind him, and Barton points out
Speaker 3: that message was posted Thursday, the day of the breakup,
Speaker 3: but not till ten thirty at night, seven hours after
Speaker 3: Elon Musk replied yes to a post calling for mister
Speaker 3: Trump's impeachment, which he later deleted. And of course that
Speaker 3: impeachment would have led to J. D. Evans being the president,
Speaker 3: and that's Harder says, that's a very good point. It's
Speaker 3: funny I'd had to escaped me. Of course, that's what
Speaker 3: would happen. How many Democrats what JD Vance as president
Speaker 3: with a full head of steem as he runs for
Speaker 3: reelection in twenty eight I would have counseled the Vice
Speaker 3: president to say nothing. The spat didn't involve him, and
Speaker 3: the unseerious message about impeachment plainly didn't deserve a vice
Speaker 3: presidential statement. Yet he evidently consulted AIDS and pondered the
Speaker 3: matter for seven hours. The resulting declaration was perfect in
Speaker 3: its impropriety and meladroitness, meaning uselessness. Essentially, start with the
Speaker 3: first sentence. All seems conventional until you're almost through it.
Speaker 3: What do you expect mister Vance to say? What you
Speaker 3: expect mister Vance to say is that Trump has done
Speaker 3: more than anyone to earn the trust of the American people,
Speaker 3: or the nation or some such. Instead, he says, the
Speaker 3: president has earned the trust of the movement. Which movement
Speaker 3: not I think what used to be called a conservative movement,
Speaker 3: which was Reagan and I to blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: The only movement mister Trump has led is the Mega movement.
Speaker 3: Mister Trump created the MAGA movement, and there's some doubt
Speaker 3: it would survive without him. How odd then, for the
Speaker 3: Vice president to say, mister Trump has done more than
Speaker 3: any person in my lifetime to earn that movement's trust
Speaker 3: is if there were a range of competitors for that distinction.
Speaker 3: The second sentence also sounds off key. Mister Vance isn't
Speaker 3: a political ally or a supporter of the president. He's
Speaker 3: mister Trump's constitutionally designated successor. Why would he need to
Speaker 3: tell us that he's proud to stand behind beside the president?
Speaker 1: Is his pride relevant? For some reason?
Speaker 3: Did mister Trump say or do something requiring mister Vance
Speaker 3: to affirm his loyalty? What's remarkable about the post is
Speaker 3: how coldly measured it is.
Speaker 1: He it was I thought, I thought because he went
Speaker 1: to did he go to a Yale Law school or
Speaker 1: Harvard Law School, Harvard Law.
Speaker 3: Harvard undergrad, Yale Law. Maybe I don't know, something like that,
Speaker 3: but anyway, he's an ivy league lawyer. That was written
Speaker 3: like a lawyer. Yeah, I mean the words were chosen carefully.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 3: And then many quotes Proverbs ten nineteen in a multitude
Speaker 3: of words there wanteth not sin, which is a verse
Speaker 3: I'd never heard before. I don't recall it, and it's
Speaker 3: ironic given the way we make our living. But to
Speaker 3: translate at Jack, your hostital to your new translations.
Speaker 1: I'm a King James version. If they're a bunch, that's right, sir.
Speaker 3: If there are lots and lots of words, you're gonna
Speaker 3: find sin in there, or there's probably bull crap in there.
Speaker 3: What's the phrase in a multitude of words there, wanteth
Speaker 3: not sin?
Speaker 1: Interesting? That is one of the problems the King James
Speaker 1: version of the Bible is regularly have no idea what
Speaker 1: it's said. That's a criticism. But the words are flowery, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: coming up. I have breaking BTS news, that's right. The
Speaker 1: k pop band Good Lord. Also the saddest thing I
Speaker 1: is so sad. I only read like the first paragraph
Speaker 1: and I had to stop. Oh and and not like,
Speaker 1: you know, a horrible crime or something, and just it'll
Speaker 1: make sense when I tell you, among other things, on
Speaker 1: the way to stay here, I told you I had
Speaker 1: breaking VTS news, the k pop band. I've tried to
Speaker 1: listen to k pop and give it a you know,
Speaker 1: a decent shake, just not my thing, which is fine.
Speaker 1: Different what do they say, strokes for folks or something
Speaker 1: like that. But I did think this was damned interesting.
Speaker 1: They finished their mandatory military service there in South Korea,
Speaker 1: that's why you haven't heard much about them for the
Speaker 1: past two years, and now are going to get to
Speaker 1: go back to doing their music now. I don't know
Speaker 1: if because they've like aged by two years, that there's
Speaker 1: another K pop band that is much more popular and
Speaker 1: a bigger deal. But I mean, they like have the
Speaker 1: biggest selling albums of all time worldwide and all kinds
Speaker 1: of ridiculous records, but they that had I'm sure I'd
Speaker 1: known that at some point, but I'd forgotten. They have
Speaker 1: mandatory military service for I think a year and a
Speaker 1: half for all young people coming out of high school,
Speaker 1: which has been you know, discussed many times in this country.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be great for everybody for all kinds
Speaker 1: of things.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, libertarians hate you for saying that they'rerible
Speaker 3: compulsory service. Oh my, I just hope their drill sergeants
Speaker 3: didn't beat the cutely am triagonousness out of them.
Speaker 1: Two members of the K pop Sensation BTS have completed
Speaker 1: their mandatory year and a half military service in South Korea,
Speaker 1: leaving their base to the roars of fans counting down
Speaker 1: for the supergroup's reunion. Yeah, well, obviously that's where it
Speaker 1: gets difficult. Is the whole mandatory government anything? But I
Speaker 1: wonder if you could get it going culturally. Probably not,
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't have to be military service, just some
Speaker 1: sort of service, you know you, I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: serve meals at an old folks home, or pick up
Speaker 1: traction the dishes. I don't know what it would be,
Speaker 1: but it's worth brainstorming on. Yeah, why not some point
Speaker 1: we probably out of truck. I definitely want to talk
Speaker 1: about the military parade that Trump's going to have this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's not something we've normally done in this country, and
Speaker 1: whether you're forard or against it, and some people coming
Speaker 1: out on both sides. Also Trump ordering the renaming of
Speaker 1: the military bases back to the old names, including you know,
Speaker 1: military base named after Robert E. Lee, all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. Announce it, Confederate generals, Yeah, announce that. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We got to get back. What's the other thing I
Speaker 1: teased that I definitely wanted to get on. Do you
Speaker 1: remember what it was? Anybody?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the Simone Biles thing? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find that. Simone Biles
Speaker 1: and Riley Gaines have been at it with each other
Speaker 1: started last week. We talked about it here on the air,
Speaker 1: and basically, Simone Biles came out in favor of well,
Speaker 1: blasting Riley Gaines for being a hater in transphone make
Speaker 1: and transphobic and back, bad for sports and everything.
Speaker 3: And a sore loser because she got beat by a
Speaker 3: six foot four inch mail.
Speaker 1: By wanting to get dudes out of girls sports and
Speaker 1: can't understand what's going on. Riley Gaines blasted back with
Speaker 1: her usual, to my mind, very reasonable comments about why
Speaker 1: you can't have dudes competing against girls anyway, and a
Speaker 1: lengthy post and it's some people believe really done a
Speaker 1: lot of damage Simone Bio's ability to make money as
Speaker 1: a pitch person going forward. I happen to know something
Speaker 1: about her agents, and I think they pooped a brick.
Speaker 1: Whether you know it's pitching at and T cell phone
Speaker 1: service or Tide or whatever she's going to do.
Speaker 3: You will think of this every time I hear her
Speaker 3: name or see her face for years. I wouldn't touch her.
Speaker 3: There's too many other options. There's too many other options
Speaker 3: that don't have baggage. Why would you choose her? So
Speaker 3: she might be trying to clean that up.
Speaker 1: I think she wanted to address how the current because
Speaker 1: last week she addressed how the current system doesn't adequately
Speaker 1: balance principles such as well, I'll just read it. I
Speaker 1: wanted to follow up from my last tweets. I've always
Speaker 1: believed competitive equity and inclusivity are both essential in sport,
Speaker 1: meaningless words you have when did you spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time twisting to gy rting through in the air
Speaker 1: trying to beat other people? Thinking I sure hope there's
Speaker 1: competitive equity and inclusivity going on here? Really didn't come
Speaker 1: up a lot in my life. But anyway, the current
Speaker 1: system doesn't adequately balance these important principles, which often leads
Speaker 1: to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn't help for
Speaker 1: me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for.
Speaker 3: So first you blame the circumstance for causing heated exchanges,
Speaker 3: you don't take responsibility for it, and then you apologize
Speaker 3: for something that was caused by something else than wasn't
Speaker 3: your fault. She claims she's standing up for fair competition.
Speaker 3: Dudes whooping up on girls in sports? Okay, someone.
Speaker 1: That's so weak.
Speaker 5: I just.
Speaker 1: I just I try to understand that point of view,
Speaker 1: and I just don't under I don't. I can't get there.
Speaker 1: Here's what you lack. And I've been trying to get
Speaker 1: fully get.
Speaker 3: A lot of these people. And I don't think Simone
Speaker 3: Biles is a bad person at all. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: if you were to put her through ten different moral tests,
Speaker 3: I think she'd do just fine. The thing people like
Speaker 3: us can't feel, and I think a lot of y'all
Speaker 3: answer to this description too, is the desperate need to
Speaker 3: say what you think you're supposed to say, the social
Speaker 3: pressure you feel to go along with the conventional opinion
Speaker 3: of your social group.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean I would.
Speaker 3: You might force me to mouth the words of some
Speaker 3: of this stuff, but man, it would come out of
Speaker 3: my mouth.
Speaker 1: I would be sickened.
Speaker 3: I think somebody like Simone Biles is so enthusiastic about
Speaker 3: going along with her peer group and the bubbles she's in.
Speaker 3: She doesn't feel any particular shame or feel bad about
Speaker 3: saying something she knows to be illogical.
Speaker 1: Yesh, she feels it so intensely, the need to go along.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how intelligent she is or isn't.
Speaker 1: She might be super super bright. But I'm sure because
Speaker 1: to be that kind of athlete, she's dedicated every moment
Speaker 1: of her life to gymnastics, not you know, cultural political issues. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to the saddest thing I've ever read.
Speaker 1: I will get to it in the next half hour.
Speaker 1: Oh something to look forward to.
Speaker 3: Speaking of hyperbole, the most deluded man in America, completely delusional.
Speaker 1: We'll share his thoughts, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6: When I asked yesterday if borders are Tom Holman should
Speaker 6: arrest California Governor Gavin Ussen, President Trump said he would
Speaker 6: do it and added, quote, I like Gavin Newssen. He's
Speaker 6: a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 6: Yes, the old compliment, compliment, searing insult. Imagine Trump giving
Speaker 6: a eulogy super guy will be greatly miss world's tiniest penis.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: That is his pattern, which I'd never completely noticed before. Compliment, compliment,
Speaker 1: searing insult. Yeah, well that in the whole we get along, well,
Speaker 1: we get along well, I like him. Nobody cares if
Speaker 1: you get along well or you like somebody. It's not anyway.
Speaker 1: Coming up's me crazy, coming up. The saddest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever read about summertime and Elon with a huge TESLA
Speaker 1: announcement got nothing to do with politics at all, which, man,
Speaker 1: if he's not, that's not a coincidence. Oh interesting, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that then. I guess. Yeah, let's see, Michael.
Speaker 1: You know what I need? I really need some Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom give me sixty.
Speaker 5: This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed
Speaker 5: a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even
Speaker 5: our National Guard at risk.
Speaker 3: And especially so because everything was going fine and it
Speaker 3: was perfectly peaceful. According to one of America's leading inflexts,
Speaker 3: Maxine Waters.
Speaker 1: Don't think that somehow because they called out the National Guard,
Speaker 1: there was violence. There was no violence. I was on
Speaker 1: the street. I know.
Speaker 3: Maxine Waters claiming there was no violence in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Zero. Good lord. Anyway, moving along, I mentioned earlier that
Speaker 1: the current, the talking point of the last twenty four
Speaker 1: hours is it's just a tiny part of LA It
Speaker 1: was a very small part of La. La is five
Speaker 1: hundred square miles. This is one square mile where they
Speaker 1: had a rest, to which my response is Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: January sixth, Washington, d C was Placid one building, people
Speaker 1: were beaten down, cops with flag poles and trying to
Speaker 1: go in and kill Nancy Belosi one building. The rest
Speaker 1: of DC was fine.
Speaker 3: Oh it was calm as the reflecting pools there, everything
Speaker 3: that was fine. So a couple of things of note.
Speaker 3: Molly Ball on the Wall Street Journal interviewing Gavey knew
Speaker 3: some about how he clearly is using this to steer
Speaker 3: toward the twenty eight, twenty twenty eight candidacy for president.
Speaker 1: And I love Gabby's quote daring Trump to arrest him.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: You need a scalp, You need to show your tough guy,
Speaker 3: need to show your base. You're going to own the Libs.
Speaker 3: Why don't you just get it over with. Arrest me,
Speaker 3: but stop attacking these vulnerable people. Then, surveying the landscape
Speaker 3: from the cross he'd hauled himself up on, Gavin Newsom
Speaker 3: announced his candidacy, absolutely hilarious, saying his usual stuff. Tom
Speaker 3: Cotton responding with an editorial, send in the troops for real.
Speaker 3: When local police can't restore order, the federal government has
Speaker 3: a duty to do so with a show of force.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent appropriate, one hundred percent legal. Andy McCarthy
Speaker 3: the National Review, who is a great legal commentator, agrees
Speaker 3: with him. There's going to be hearing tomorrow. I guess
Speaker 3: about the legality of this.
Speaker 1: You moved on too fast from Gavin up on the cross.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, the thief next to him
Speaker 1: said nice hair. That's really good. That's really good.
Speaker 3: Which brings us to the most delusional man in America.
Speaker 3: And I was thinking of setting this up by telling
Speaker 3: you why I'm bringing this to you, but I thought, no, no,
Speaker 3: I think you'll get there on your own. And this
Speaker 3: is both for cal Unicornians and the rest of the country.
Speaker 3: And it'll take a second.
Speaker 1: But bear with me.
Speaker 3: This is written by a fellow by the name of
Speaker 3: Jim Newton, who worked at the La Times for twenty
Speaker 3: five years as a reporter, editor and columnist. Currently edits
Speaker 3: the Some magazine at UCLA. So he's moved into academia
Speaker 3: and he's got an upcoming book about the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1: Okay, not that that matters, but twenty five years at
Speaker 1: the La Times.
Speaker 3: The title of his piece for Politico is why Donald
Speaker 3: Trump had to attack California. There's much more at stake
Speaker 3: for Trump and Californians than deportations, and Jack, you got it.
Speaker 1: You gotta tune into this now.
Speaker 3: President Donald Trump and his supporters are right about what
Speaker 3: thing in this explosive clash between California federal government. It's
Speaker 3: not just a fight over position or even public safety.
Speaker 3: It's about values, and it's been a long time building
Speaker 3: for Trump.
Speaker 1: It's a battle of.
Speaker 3: His choosing, giving him the opportunity to escalate a conflict
Speaker 3: on a signature issue, immigration in the city and state
Speaker 3: governed by political adversaries so far, absolutely true for California.
Speaker 3: It is the logical result of a long and profound
Speaker 3: transformation from the days of Republican Party dominance to Democratic
Speaker 3: party control, one I've watched and chronicled for more than
Speaker 3: thirty years, in that I now see culminating in literal
Speaker 3: fighting in the streets. Californians are turning out against forces
Speaker 3: sent here by guardians of a value system that the
Speaker 3: state has rejected. And then he goes how not very
Speaker 3: long ago California was a solid Republican state. Hiram Johnson,
Speaker 3: Earl Warren, Ronald Reagan, stalwarts of the GOP.
Speaker 1: WOW. I don't know if I agree with not very
Speaker 1: long ago, but I mean it's not eons ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, seventy five years, yeah, sixty years, depending on
Speaker 3: who you're talking about. But a few years later, when
Speaker 3: Pat Brown was re selected to his second term in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty two, he was the first Democrat ever to
Speaker 3: win the governorship twice, that changed. And then he goes
Speaker 3: into how staunchly Democrat California.
Speaker 1: Is now except for the great, the honored Devis.
Speaker 3: And he goes in Arnold, who was an anomaly and
Speaker 3: he really was a celebrity during a weird recall election.
Speaker 3: Governor is a centrist kind of And now he gets
Speaker 3: into how there are no Republicans who are mayors of
Speaker 3: any city, no Republicans in any statewide office.
Speaker 1: None.
Speaker 3: Many forces have propelled that shift, but chief among them
Speaker 3: are the party's divergent approaches to environmental and immigration, shifting demographics,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, reverence for the coastlines, and I wish
Speaker 3: I had time to read this whole thing.
Speaker 1: He gets into changing demographics. His argument is essentially.
Speaker 3: All that is true, and thank god, the California of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five is so much better than the California
Speaker 3: of the fifties, the sixties, the California dream the seventies, expansion, prosperity, innovation,
Speaker 3: the eighties, that was a nightmare, the streets of Los
Speaker 3: Angeles and San Francisco and Sacramento and San Diego, which
Speaker 3: is decaying. We don't talk about that much. The currents
Speaker 3: in California is so much better now. This is the
Speaker 3: California of our dreams. That's his point. And I see
Speaker 3: the wide eyes and slack jaws of people who've either
Speaker 3: who live in California, visit California, know of California, thinking,
Speaker 3: whoa dude, this is your ideal. Yes, he's proudly right that.
Speaker 1: With people moving out for the first time in the
Speaker 1: state's history.
Speaker 3: Yeah, crime rampant in the streets, needles everywhere, human feces,
Speaker 3: junkie camps, felon's being released from prisons, the schools indoctrinating
Speaker 3: your children about radical transsexual theory in the third grade. Finally,
Speaker 3: the era of Reagan's California has been put to bed
Speaker 3: and our utopia is here.
Speaker 1: Holy crap. We should decide as a show whether it
Speaker 1: does us more harm or could to mention the human
Speaker 1: feces on the sidewalks in California, because while it's true
Speaker 1: and a significant problems and uh, you know, is definitely
Speaker 1: a sign of things aren't going well in your town.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, most of you listening have never seen
Speaker 1: that on the sidewalk ever in your life.
Speaker 3: You are really making the case for why we ought
Speaker 3: to mention it. Where's the flip side?
Speaker 1: Disgusting Every time someone says that, that's why we're talking
Speaker 1: about it's horrified. I almost unswallow. Yeah, poop, poop, poop poop.
Speaker 3: That's right, Johnny Depp. Johnny's man enough to take on
Speaker 3: the challenges of today, Jack, are you?
Speaker 1: Sam and I walked around some in San Francisco last
Speaker 1: time we were there, and I was just remarking to
Speaker 1: him on how that is just so crazy that in
Speaker 1: the modern world that would ever happen.
Speaker 3: California is a staunchly Democrat has it was republic and
Speaker 3: a flip and orientation and it has become what it's
Speaker 3: always meant to be, says Jim Newton in Politico.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm about to talk about Elon in some
Speaker 1: big announcement he made about Tesla. I wish we could
Speaker 1: do some sort of counterfactual, uh, you know, parallel universe
Speaker 1: where Silicon Valley had happened completely in Austin instead of
Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, more or less by acts, because
Speaker 1: that has propped up so much of the finances of
Speaker 1: this state. If it had just happened to happen in California,
Speaker 1: where were we of bed.
Speaker 3: The revenue from Google and Meta and a couple other
Speaker 3: super giants Apple, they prop up the socialist government of California.
Speaker 1: Right. Absolutely a sad piece I read about summers that
Speaker 1: I'm not going to dwell on, but it's worth pointing out,
Speaker 1: among other things on the way stay here.
Speaker 7: Just days after the horrific fire bombing targeting Jewish demonstrators
Speaker 7: in Boulder, Colorado, and the deadly shooting of two Israeli
Speaker 7: embassy employees in Washington, d C. Tonight, authorities unsealing new
Speaker 7: charges in an alleged plot targeting Jews in New York City.
Speaker 7: Federal prosecutors say a twenty year old Pakistani national wanted
Speaker 7: to carry out a coordinator attack with AR fifteen style
Speaker 7: rifles on a Jewish center in Brooklyn in the name
Speaker 7: of ice. The FBI, quoting the suspect, Mohammed Khan, is
Speaker 7: saying New York is perfect to target Jews. Even if
Speaker 7: we don't attack an event, we could rack up easily
Speaker 7: a lot of Jews.
Speaker 1: We are going to NYC to slaughter them, Mohammed. You
Speaker 1: say there was a terrorist plot they stopped. Also a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, guy who was gonna shoot up
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of kids at a school. He hated
Speaker 1: these Jewish kids, and they stopped him. So, man, it's
Speaker 1: it's who. It could be a lot worse than it's Ben.
Speaker 3: England is trying to deal with this by giving in.
Speaker 3: There's now in effect an anti blasphemy law in England.
Speaker 3: Man who burned a koran was convicted of a religiously
Speaker 3: aggravated public order offense because the man's actions were intended
Speaker 3: to cause harassment, alarm or distress. And as one writer
Speaker 3: points out, it's a very slippery slope. You do realize
Speaker 3: that among serious Muslims, a woman showing her hair can
Speaker 3: cause alarm in distress, right, m good one.
Speaker 1: England is trying to submit. So Elon was tweeting about
Speaker 1: Tesla last night. You think that that's not a coincidence
Speaker 1: that he apologized basically for his behavior against Trump and
Speaker 1: is tweeting about the UH. Some of the advances in Tesla.
Speaker 3: I think his boards of directors mentioned your shareholders, dude.
Speaker 1: But they had breaking first ever Tesla model y robotaxi
Speaker 1: with no one in the driver's seat spotted testing on
Speaker 1: public roads in Austin, and Elon tweeted out, these are
Speaker 1: unmodified Tesla cars coming straight from the factory, meaning that
Speaker 1: every Tesla coming out of our factory is capable of
Speaker 1: unsupervised self driving. It'll be ready sometime later this year
Speaker 1: or next if that actually happens, all of us who
Speaker 1: have I think any Tesla in like the twenty three
Speaker 1: and on, certainly twenty four and on, is then able
Speaker 1: to be completely autonomous driving. That will be a major
Speaker 1: change maybe in world history. Yeah. I mean one out
Speaker 1: of ten people drive in some aspect for a living,
Speaker 1: and that would mean the technology is here for that
Speaker 1: to be I just don't know if the you know,
Speaker 1: the insurance companies or the states are going to allow
Speaker 1: it to happen the way he's thinking. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he thought that through or not. Yeah, it'll be
Speaker 1: complicated in Thorny for sure. I just think he was
Speaker 1: trying to juice Tesla stock in excitement and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, he's yeah, I mean that they change
Speaker 1: the cameras. He's working toward it. He's been working toward
Speaker 1: it forever. I just don't know when it will actually
Speaker 1: be ready to go. Last night, walking into the grocery
Speaker 1: store with my son because we're out of milk, walking
Speaker 1: down the aisle and I say, yes, they've got woolight here,
Speaker 1: one bottle left, and I grabbed the bottle of woolight,
Speaker 1: and my thirteen year old said, is this what it's
Speaker 1: like to be an adult?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: My god, he's hilarious, and I thought, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: what gets me excited. They had at a woolite left
Speaker 1: at the grocery store. He's a thirteen year old son
Speaker 1: about to enjoy summertime. And I had come across this
Speaker 1: piece yesterday in the National Review, which I could only
Speaker 1: read a couple of sentences of it's probably really well written,
Speaker 1: and I just thought I can't go there. Michael Brendan
Speaker 1: Doherty of National Review writing and he's got kids also
Speaker 1: school age summers before screens and he gets into I
Speaker 1: don't know why this bothers me so much. It almost
Speaker 1: chokes me up to think about it. He talks about
Speaker 1: his summers and his kids summers and just how it's
Speaker 1: never coming back, and you know they don't know what
Speaker 1: they're missing, And he didn't. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: makes the point because I said I didn't read the
Speaker 1: whole thing because I thought it was too sad that
Speaker 1: soon those of us who had summers before screens will
Speaker 1: be dead and there will be nobody to even comment
Speaker 1: on comparing the two. But to summers after screens. We
Speaker 1: all know everything after screens is different. And the we're
Speaker 1: outside board and we make up a game with a
Speaker 1: ball and some basses and some rules is gone forever.
Speaker 1: It just is wow, and we play all day and
Speaker 1: get sweaty and tired and laugh and argue. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: it was head in that direction already because of the
Speaker 1: weird worried our kids are going to be abducted or
Speaker 1: whatever the hell happened in the eighties and nineties and
Speaker 1: two thousands, where I've told this story gazillion times. I
Speaker 1: lived and this was twenty years ago. This is pre screens.
Speaker 1: I used to say this smartphones, and this was true.
Speaker 1: Then I lived near a giant park. I drove by
Speaker 1: that park multiple times a day for years. I never
Speaker 1: one time, not once ever saw two kids out there
Speaker 1: playing catch. Never or anybody's yard. Now. I saw organized
Speaker 1: soccer matches with all the parents on the sidelines with
Speaker 1: the pop up tents, but I never saw two kids
Speaker 1: playing catch or shooting hoops ever. It just it's gone away.
Speaker 1: And then you add in screens with you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna play video games or stare at your screen,
Speaker 1: and I just and what I was wondering, is is
Speaker 1: it just nostalgia? Is it just you know, my youth
Speaker 1: was better than your youth for some weird way, a
Speaker 1: way we glorify the past or something, or is it
Speaker 1: actually a step backwards. Oh, I think there's plenty of
Speaker 1: objective data.
Speaker 3: I mean there're none of this, like in isolation is
Speaker 3: a fatal disease, if you will, Because if you had
Speaker 3: screens but also lots of free play, you know, lots
Speaker 3: of autonomy, free range kids things, it'd be fine, it'd
Speaker 3: work itself out. But it all, it all congeals into
Speaker 3: this sort of passive directed by adults, non inventive, no risk,
Speaker 3: you know activity. I think it's cool that your son
Speaker 3: and others like him skateboard or did and risk injury
Speaker 3: and get all bloody and scraped up and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think that's fantastic. Yeah. My oldest, luckily, is no
Speaker 1: interest in video games and is super into riding his
Speaker 1: bike and doing wheelies and stuff like that. But my
Speaker 1: youngest is more typical of the genre, likes video games
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. So the title was
Speaker 1: Summer's Before Screens, and I just again text the text line,
Speaker 1: I'd be interested? Am I just you know, romanticizing in
Speaker 1: a nostalgic sort of way or has something been lost
Speaker 1: with childhood? That's enough of that and weirds me out.
Speaker 1: Tony Hawk, the most famous skateboarder of all time, showed
Speaker 1: up to a Texas skateboard park yesterday and started skating boarding,
Speaker 1: and people started recognize who he was and needed a
Speaker 1: bunch of cool stuff.
Speaker 3: How cool would that be, your young skateboarder kid? I
Speaker 3: saw a commercial with him the other day and he's
Speaker 3: getting on in yours.
Speaker 1: He's old, but he's still known in the same way
Speaker 1: that like Michael Jordan's known because of his products and
Speaker 1: his name and his branding. He's still really known. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that'd be quite the charge. You're skateboarding on a summer
Speaker 1: afternoon and Tony Hawk is whipping around next to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be like Jack Nicholas standing next to me
Speaker 3: on the driving range. I think it would just put
Speaker 3: my clubs away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not doing this. I'm not gonna let you
Speaker 1: see me swing. But we do four hours every day.
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