Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Just days before the two year anniversary of the October
Speaker 3: seventh attacks, potential breakthrough one President Trump's twenty point peace proposal,
Speaker 3: Hama's agreeing to release all of the hostages, and Israel
Speaker 3: vowing to halt bombing in Gaza, but with key details
Speaker 3: still lingering, can the nearly two year war come to
Speaker 3: an end?
Speaker 1: So I was Meet the Press yesterday in which Andrew
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trump Peyton Andry Mitchell went on to say this.
Speaker 4: For the first time, we're seeing President Trump really putting
Speaker 4: pressure in at Genyahu to stop the bombing. When he
Speaker 4: said that, it was very significant. So this could be transformational.
Speaker 4: And you know, if this were to work out, and
Speaker 4: you know it was, it would be the Abraham Accords,
Speaker 4: it would be recognition of Israel, transform the whole region,
Speaker 4: and President Trump would deserve that Nobel Prize.
Speaker 1: The media coverage for mainstream media was more positive on
Speaker 1: this thing than boy, anything I've heard about a Trump
Speaker 1: idea in a very long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 5: The other interesting, you know, aspect of the media coverage
Speaker 5: I think is that more people are embracing the idea
Speaker 5: that nothing was happening diplomatically. It was all fake until
Speaker 5: the missiles landed in Cutter, Oh.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, the Arab world was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we could actually do something about this, and in
Speaker 1: fact we probably should. One really stupid thing, Andrew Mitchell said,
Speaker 1: She said, bib Met Netanya, who the big mistake he made,
Speaker 1: an unforced air of huge proportions was that strike in Qatar,
Speaker 1: which united all the Arab countries. And I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: united all the Arab countries around what Israel wants to do?
Speaker 1: What are you freaking talking about, old lady.
Speaker 5: Andrea, You are one hundred and eighty degrees off of
Speaker 5: the truth. Congratulations, that's difficult to achieve being perfectly wrong,
Speaker 5: completely wrong.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is clearly the best thing he did in
Speaker 1: terms of galvanizing the Arab countries, like we said last week,
Speaker 1: into thinking, Okay, we can't have this happening, so let's
Speaker 1: get on board with putting an end to this thing.
Speaker 2: Somehow.
Speaker 5: They point out that Cutter was furious and demanded Israel
Speaker 5: set things right, blah blah blah. But then a kabala
Speaker 5: reporters in the Wall Street Journal points out, and Trump
Speaker 5: just decided to try to turn the crisis.
Speaker 2: To his advantage.
Speaker 5: The attack was a sobering reminder to Arab countries of
Speaker 5: the risk of regional escalation, focusing their minds on peace.
Speaker 1: Right, That's a fancy way to put it. As always
Speaker 1: with anything in the Middle East. I mean, if you're old,
Speaker 1: you've heard this sort of thing many, many, menu many times.
Speaker 1: These things rarely work out. But this has got more
Speaker 1: support from more different political quarters than anything I can
Speaker 1: remember again when NPR and Fox both think it's a
Speaker 1: good idea, that's wild and.
Speaker 2: What pundit was I talking about.
Speaker 1: Trump is the most popular politician in Israel of anybody
Speaker 1: in the world. Nobody pulls higher than Donald Trump in Israel,
Speaker 1: and he has all these Arab leaders who like him
Speaker 1: more than any president we've had in forever.
Speaker 2: How do you pull that trick off? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Were the Arab leaders like you and you're the most
Speaker 1: popular person in Israel. But anyway, this is what Mark
Speaker 1: Alpernrode wrote today. This is how it's how to uh
Speaker 1: look at the next week a deal which will lead
Speaker 1: to implement implementation challenges. Then it's going to be how
Speaker 1: BB reacts after Hamas breaks the deal, Then how Trump
Speaker 1: reacts when BB reacts after Hamas breaks the deal, Then
Speaker 1: how BB reacts to Trump's reaction when BB reacts after
Speaker 1: Hamas breaks the deal. That's probably quite accurate about how
Speaker 1: it's going to play.
Speaker 5: Out, right, which is kind of what I was driving
Speaker 5: at last week. Even if they arrive at a deal.
Speaker 5: Oh and now's an apropos time to point out I
Speaker 5: tweeted this. It's a quote from I think it was
Speaker 5: in the New York Times or journal, doesn't matter. The
Speaker 5: quote was, while Israel and Hamas have each said they
Speaker 5: accept the hostage release deal, both hinted at significant points
Speaker 5: of disagreement, and as I said, in every other context
Speaker 5: in the world, that means we don't have a deal.
Speaker 2: My goodness, can we stop pretending we have a deal?
Speaker 1: We just have significant points of disagreement on key.
Speaker 2: Aspects of the deal.
Speaker 1: But yes, we have a deal, right, And then to
Speaker 1: the if the deal ever does happen, to get back
Speaker 1: to the original thread, yeah, Hamas is going to start
Speaker 1: violating it the moment they can, so well, that's that
Speaker 1: comes with the territory though that Yeah, of course, they
Speaker 1: they're they're they're whatever they are. But if this deal
Speaker 1: gets put in place, they're going to be in a
Speaker 1: really rough position to try to really get their thing
Speaker 1: going again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like this couple of sentences.
Speaker 1: Uh, but the deal doesn't happen and it falls apart,
Speaker 1: Israel is going to, with Trump's backing, absolutely lay waste
Speaker 1: to Gaza.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they mentioned that Hamas bristles it fully disarming,
Speaker 5: wants better guarantees Israel withdraw. Arab governments are concerned that
Speaker 5: the deal is so tough on Hamas and so weak
Speaker 5: on a path to a Palestinian state. There's not gonna
Speaker 5: be one that they can't sell it to their citizens.
Speaker 5: The result is a risky game of chicken, where no
Speaker 5: one wants to publicly shoot down a plan that privately
Speaker 5: many don't think they can accept in full. Trump is
Speaker 5: steaming ahead, calling everyone's bluff by accepting their statements of
Speaker 5: support without acknowledging their reservations.
Speaker 2: Oh that's an interesting way to go about it.
Speaker 5: You got old Jared Kushner head into Egypt, though in
Speaker 5: fact he's probably there already with Witkoff showing real seriousness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is gonna be something to watch. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio is on all the shows yesterday being pressed
Speaker 1: very hard, and he kept bringing it back to well,
Speaker 1: look at Hamas if they don't you know, if they're
Speaker 1: not trustworthy. We know what Hamas is. What are we
Speaker 1: supposed to do dealing with a viper?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Right? I would agree?
Speaker 5: Oh and a final note from me anyway, the speaking
Speaker 5: of the Journal, they had a really interesting piece where
Speaker 5: they were trying to figure out what public sentiment was
Speaker 5: in Gaza and there are no reliable public opinion surveys
Speaker 5: in Gaza, and people are afraid of Hamas. But they
Speaker 5: were able to reach out to I think it was
Speaker 5: half a dozen different people, and the interesting part was
Speaker 5: they were absolutely unanimous Hamas should accept the US Broker
Speaker 5: deal despite what they see as the shortcomings. Different people
Speaker 5: with different life circumstances and you know, different places in society,
Speaker 5: but they all said stop the killing. And I don't
Speaker 5: think Hamas cares about our suffering. I'm very upset by
Speaker 5: their statements. We've had enough of Hamas. Please end the
Speaker 5: fighting for me, anything that ends the war is good,
Speaker 5: said a mother of a day's old premature baby. I
Speaker 5: don't care about Hamas's weapons. It's leaders they're fate or
Speaker 5: their prisoners. My husband, my son and I we are
Speaker 5: the ones paying the price.
Speaker 2: Stop it the people with guns win.
Speaker 1: Did you want to get that one other clip on
Speaker 1: before we move on to something else.
Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, we certainly can. This is what I say.
Speaker 5: What Yeah, No, it's a fellow by the name of
Speaker 5: Nate Friedman. He's at and speaking of things. I tweeted it.
Speaker 5: There was a big demonstration. I can't remember what city
Speaker 5: it was, but it was one of those queers for
Speaker 5: Palestine with a bunch of like transgender and flaming gay
Speaker 5: people wearing rainbow clothes, jumping up and down and chanting
Speaker 5: in favor of Hamas and Palestine. And the caption was
Speaker 5: how insane are these effing people? They would be executed
Speaker 5: the minute they hit the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then you had this reporter going into a demonstration
Speaker 5: in favor of the permanent Omni cause, and he asked
Speaker 5: this question.
Speaker 2: What did you think of the Trump peace plan that
Speaker 2: was submitted? What did you think of it? Honestly, I
Speaker 2: haven't been paying much attention to it. But do you
Speaker 2: think that they should take the deal? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think they should, I don't know. So they're not
Speaker 2: paying any attention.
Speaker 1: Oh no, No, so your queers for Hamas protesters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not paying any attention to the biggest peace effort in
Speaker 1: the Middle East in fifty years.
Speaker 5: Right, that everybody on the planet is talking about. They
Speaker 5: have no idea it even exists. Well, that's that, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of covers that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We will move on from this for now unless there's
Speaker 1: some breaking news on it, which it happened because they're
Speaker 1: meeting for the peace talks right now. But what do
Speaker 1: you do You think you think that it's going to
Speaker 1: at least be attempted to be implemented, or do you
Speaker 1: think it falls apart and there's it never even gets
Speaker 1: a chance. If I'm a leader of Hamas, I've got
Speaker 1: to at least make a show of agreeing to the deal,
Speaker 1: in complying with it, to try to get world opinion
Speaker 1: on my side.
Speaker 2: I think it's your only hope.
Speaker 5: If they openly defy Trump, they will get obliterated by
Speaker 5: the full weight of the Israeli military effort. And I
Speaker 5: don't believe for a minute that they're going to fully
Speaker 5: accept it and live up to it. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: really think, you know, outcome Number one that we mentioned
Speaker 5: is what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: then the court's saying, knowing all that, we got to
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Speaker 1: everything you doing.
Speaker 2: Okay, I hope so.
Speaker 1: Supreme Court is that's sarcasm.
Speaker 5: The isn't it siphoning car gas out of my neighbor's cars?
Speaker 5: Just you know, extreme times, extreme measures, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Just crazy.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is back in session. We'll take a
Speaker 1: look at the what the it's on their docket for
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Speaker 5: What do you think of the whole ri Odd Comedy
Speaker 5: Festival controversy? Jack I said earlier, I don't have a
Speaker 5: strong opinion on it. The more I think about it,
Speaker 5: the more I think I do, I definitely have a
Speaker 5: strong opinion on it. I read the piece last week
Speaker 5: when we a Friday from a comedian David Cross, really
Speaker 5: blast in a lot of his friends, which was interesting.
Speaker 5: He can't believe that they're going over there. Apparently the
Speaker 5: contracts are out on the internet. Somebody leaked them.
Speaker 1: They're getting crazy money. We're talking big comedians, Dave Chappelle,
Speaker 1: Louis c k among others, but David Cross, Bill Burr.
Speaker 1: But David Cross's blast was you guys, you know, are
Speaker 1: politics lecturing the country all the time, usually on the
Speaker 1: side of you know, how awful America is on these
Speaker 1: issues or whatever.
Speaker 2: And then you go over to where country where they
Speaker 2: have freaking.
Speaker 1: Slaves and they stone women to death because they got raped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he said that the comedians that don't do politics,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, you don't have any it's a different deal.
Speaker 2: But and that that's what bothers me.
Speaker 1: A lot of these comedians have their act is lecturing
Speaker 1: everybody about how awful the country is. Right, Saudi Radia
Speaker 1: is a thousand times a million times worse than we
Speaker 1: are on all these issues. And you're gonna go take
Speaker 1: a giant check from these people and you're already wealthy.
Speaker 1: That was David Cross's argument. Dave Chappelle, Luisa, K, what
Speaker 1: do you need another boat? So you're really to throw
Speaker 1: away all your credibility for more money which you don't need.
Speaker 2: I think it's incredibly.
Speaker 5: Weak, right, And you know I don't care about the
Speaker 5: live golf tour for instance.
Speaker 2: Now that's different to me.
Speaker 5: Saudi's are behind that because you know, people gripe about
Speaker 5: that as they do trillions of dollars.
Speaker 2: Of business with China. Yeah, I know, and truly loathsommergime.
Speaker 1: But the nature of comedy is, you know, we call
Speaker 1: it speaking truth to power or the whole point of
Speaker 1: comedy is it gets at truth, often uncomfortable truths.
Speaker 2: But you can get away with it because it's comedy.
Speaker 5: That's why every dictator in the world they can often
Speaker 5: they can take being criticized to a certain point, at
Speaker 5: a certain point, they can take being opposed. The one
Speaker 5: thing they can't take is being mocked being laughed at.
Speaker 1: Well, how about if your comedy act is specifically taking
Speaker 1: on the idiots in this country. You don't believe in
Speaker 1: transgenderism or climate change or whatever the heck the issue
Speaker 1: is right, and you're going over.
Speaker 2: To Saudi Arabia to take money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a real bird they mentioned in this one piece.
Speaker 5: Just murdered Joe Rogan for his distrust of max masks
Speaker 5: and vaccines during the COVID pandemic. He's derided America's epidemic
Speaker 5: of billionaires, gleefully ridiculed the insurance industry's terrified reaction to
Speaker 5: Luigi Mangioni's assassination of a young father who happened to
Speaker 5: be a healthcare CEO. He's had some real fun with that.
Speaker 5: But he towed the line, and he got on his
Speaker 5: leash when it came to the Saudi's telling him you
Speaker 5: can't mention, you can't make fun of our regime or
Speaker 5: religion in any way.
Speaker 2: Well, right that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's like written or spoken or
Speaker 1: you just know that, but oh it's part of the contract. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Well then forget it. I have no respect for you whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna strut around the stage, is the big
Speaker 1: tough guy. I'll say whatever I want, nobody can stop me.
Speaker 1: And then you'll go to Saudi Arabia and sign a
Speaker 1: piece of paper where they tell you all of these
Speaker 1: things are off limits and you say sure for enough money.
Speaker 1: That is freaking week. Man, I've lost all respect. I'm
Speaker 1: like David Cross, I've lost all respect for Chappelle and
Speaker 1: Burr and Luis c K and I love those people.
Speaker 2: But that is just unbelievable. And Chappelle, my god, I'm
Speaker 2: so disappointed to him.
Speaker 5: He made the worst comment because he made some sort
Speaker 5: of crack about transgender this or that and and and
Speaker 5: he says, in Saudi Arabia, this is great. We got
Speaker 5: more freedom of speech here than we do in America.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Truly horrifying he's dead to me.
Speaker 2: He's dead to me.
Speaker 5: Now it's a country where this blogger, his name is
Speaker 5: Raif Badawi. He received a thousand lashes and ten years
Speaker 5: in prison recently for insulting Islam quote unquote and founding
Speaker 5: an online site for political debate. And Chappelle's over there
Speaker 5: saying you got more freedom of speech here than in America.
Speaker 5: F you. Sorry, you're brilliant, but f you eh and
Speaker 5: those comedians about Chappelle. But I know h Burr Luisk
Speaker 5: regularly love to make fun of religious people in the
Speaker 5: United States, Christians, Okay, so you want to make fun
Speaker 5: of Christians, You're gonna make fun of anybody in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 2: No, you're not. That's a freaking weak team man. Let's
Speaker 2: let Luis c. K speak for himself. You got that
Speaker 2: Cliffhandy Michael. So, so you're going to Saudi Arabia. You're
Speaker 2: big festival over there.
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean people have been playing Saudi Arabia for years,
Speaker 7: like comedians have been going and playing Arab countries. They said,
Speaker 7: there's only two restrictions. It's their religion and their government.
Speaker 7: I don't have jokes about those two things.
Speaker 2: It used to be when you.
Speaker 7: Got When I got offers from places like that, that'd
Speaker 7: be a long list and I just say, no, I
Speaker 7: don't need that. But when I heard it's opening, I thought,
Speaker 7: that's awfully interesting. That just feels like a good opportunity.
Speaker 7: And I just think comedy is a great way to
Speaker 7: get in and start talking. And there's Saudi Arabian comedians there,
Speaker 7: and I'm going to a comedy club in Saudi Arabia
Speaker 7: the first that I get there to just see what's
Speaker 7: going on. I love stand up comedy and I love comedians.
Speaker 7: So the fact that that's opening up and starting to, Bud,
Speaker 7: I want to see it.
Speaker 2: I want to be part of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you like being controversial and getting to say whatever
Speaker 1: you want. You just said no religion, no government, that's
Speaker 1: the whole country.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they are liberalizing, and I get his point about
Speaker 5: I want to be part of that and help that, Bud.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting counter argument too.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to see them do some sort of edgy
Speaker 1: joke where they take this on or are you gonna
Speaker 1: toe the line in a way that you don't have
Speaker 1: to in the United States. Of course, you have more
Speaker 1: free speech in Saudi Arabia. And then bad mouth America's
Speaker 1: good lord Artrong.
Speaker 6: And our third and short first down, de Martana off
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Speaker 2: Oh did he drop it early? Boy, that's gonna be closed.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Point he extended it with his hand
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: With that guy from the Cardinals, he does a seventy
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run, drops the ball right before the goal line,
Speaker 1: except he was strutting in and kind of just dropped it.
Speaker 1: Dropped it now like intentionally job he does the cool guy,
Speaker 1: look at me run the Okay.
Speaker 5: Not only that, but that would have cemented the game
Speaker 5: for the Cardinals. And and so they coughed up the ball.
Speaker 5: Who are they playing? I can't even remember. But anyway,
Speaker 5: the other lowly team was at Tennessee. It was one
Speaker 5: of your lowly teams. Yeah yeah, rallied and came back in.
Speaker 1: Won, and Eagles and Bill's Lows both lost. So no
Speaker 1: one beating teams right now in the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's that. On that.
Speaker 1: So we talked last week about Barry Wise, who runs
Speaker 1: Free Press, got she got offered a deal several weeks
Speaker 1: ago from CBS, and everybody knew about it, Paramount and
Speaker 1: a lot of talk in the world of media whether
Speaker 1: she would talk take it or not, because she is
Speaker 1: a hardcore honest broker, tries to be an honest broker
Speaker 1: in the media. That's why she left The New York
Speaker 1: Times in the first place, and she ended up taking
Speaker 1: the deal CBS. The story is one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars to acquire her free press thing, which is
Speaker 1: which is quite the story, and commentary magazine writing about
Speaker 1: what an amazing media story this really is, and it
Speaker 1: is it is, and then Joe is going to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about what the future might look like.
Speaker 1: But a couple of notes about Barry Weiss's announcement last
Speaker 1: week about the joining together of the Free Press and Paramount. First,
Speaker 1: this makes the Free Press one of the most amazing,
Speaker 1: entirely organic successes in media history. Barry didn't know that
Speaker 1: this was how it was going to turn out, or
Speaker 1: what was going to turn out when she quit the
Speaker 1: New York Times because she felt like they were not
Speaker 1: being honest brokers. When in the news that they're putting
Speaker 1: their thumb on the scale for progressivism or liberalism or whatever.
Speaker 5: Well, and she believed that there was a market for
Speaker 5: being a media traditionalist that is traditional.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm excited about this story because that's kind
Speaker 1: of what we try to do and to know that
Speaker 1: there's enough of a market out there. She did it
Speaker 1: with three people, including her wife and her sister, and
Speaker 1: then the response to what she was doing dictate its
Speaker 1: growth like any great startup, but moved with the consumers
Speaker 1: who were responding to it and made it its own market.
Speaker 1: In our announcement video, Berry says the Free Press had
Speaker 1: one point five million subscribers who pay ten dollars a month.
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Speaker 1: more than one hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue
Speaker 1: per year. That is quite an amazing and that's been
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Speaker 2: Right? Right?
Speaker 5: So, fans of the free press are a little concerned about,
Speaker 5: you know, sell it out going for the corporate record deal,
Speaker 5: you know, back in the day in rock and roll
Speaker 5: fans know what I'm talking about. But her statements are
Speaker 5: terrific about it. Before we get to that though, speaking
Speaker 5: of free speech, I gotta tell you this. So we're
Speaker 5: getting our house remodeled, and our kitchen hasn't existed for
Speaker 5: months and so, and they're doing the floors, and the
Speaker 5: fumes are terrible, and so we've been eating out a
Speaker 5: lot and rented a place near our house because we
Speaker 5: just can't take the fumes.
Speaker 2: But so anyway, we go out for dinner.
Speaker 1: The other night, and in the table right next to us,
Speaker 1: and it was a fairly quiet place, real near the house,
Speaker 1: two couples and one of the women talked constantly, oddly enough.
Speaker 1: And this col at least sixty at least sixty loud voice,
Speaker 1: the kind of voice you can hear two tables way
Speaker 1: in a loud place. And this is a quiet restaurant,
Speaker 1: never stop talking oddly enough about college football. Okay, And
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, are you the sort of person
Speaker 1: that if you can hear overhear other people, you can't
Speaker 1: not pay attention to them.
Speaker 5: It is very, very difficult for me to ignore it
Speaker 5: because my brain keeps engaging in what they're saying.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because some people are like that, like one
Speaker 1: of my sons that way. I'm not that way at all.
Speaker 1: Somebody can be having a conversation next to me. I'm
Speaker 1: just blocking out completely. But I know, like my sometimes
Speaker 1: people are having a conversation with you.
Speaker 2: Because I'm not interested in what you're saying.
Speaker 1: But my son and his mom they cannot not they
Speaker 1: can't listen to you while you're talking to them if
Speaker 1: somebody else is talking behind right, Yeah, yeah, so I've
Speaker 1: got a bit of that too. But so and there's
Speaker 1: four people at this table.
Speaker 5: Seriously, this woman was responsible for ninety six percent of
Speaker 5: the verbiage expressed. Okay, just on and on and on,
Speaker 5: so loud, and I was doing my best to ignore it.
Speaker 5: It's okay, you know, it's not like she was espousing
Speaker 5: you know, Nazism or anything horrible. It's just so much
Speaker 5: noise that'd be more interesting. So finally, you know, they
Speaker 5: get done, they leave. We finish our dinner in peace,
Speaker 5: but because we have no kitchen, the next night we
Speaker 5: go out to our favorite Mexican place not far from
Speaker 5: the house, and we sit down and the waitress comes over,
Speaker 5: and Judy looks to our right and says, oh my god,
Speaker 5: no way, yes, really, same two couples, same woman, prattling on.
Speaker 1: At the top of hermo I know. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's impossible.
Speaker 2: That they would go out to eat again.
Speaker 1: At a different restaurant the same night as you, and
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 2: I mean, well it is.
Speaker 5: It's not like back when we had our cabin up
Speaker 5: in the mountains and there are effectively four restaurants in town.
Speaker 2: No, there're dozens of.
Speaker 1: Them, and they're right at the next table, and she's
Speaker 1: prattling on and on this time, oddly enough, about pro football,
Speaker 1: and again it is extremely knowledgeable. She's talking about Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousin's character and why that mattered. But again, I'm at
Speaker 1: top volume, supplying ninety five percent of the verbiage at
Speaker 1: the table.
Speaker 2: I I don't know.
Speaker 1: If other parents do this, and maybe I shouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing it myself, But because I'm so annoyed by people
Speaker 1: who dominate conversations like that, I really have been in
Speaker 1: tune with that with I got one kid in particular
Speaker 1: where I say now, now, I just want you to
Speaker 1: realize that we all been sitting here and you've done
Speaker 1: like ninety percent of the talking since we that down.
Speaker 1: So how about you let other people talk a little
Speaker 1: bit because you don't want to be that person.
Speaker 2: Right now, I've absolutely done that.
Speaker 1: I always wonder when I meet people like that, like,
Speaker 1: did nobody ever tell you to look around? There's seven
Speaker 1: people at this table. Has anybody else said a word
Speaker 1: other than you? Do you think everybody else wants it
Speaker 1: that way, that you're the only one who talks. I mean,
Speaker 1: nobody ever said that to them their whole lives.
Speaker 5: Ellen, one of the handful of people I love more
Speaker 5: than anything on earth, had a habit of expecting your
Speaker 5: rapt attention, but was visibly uninterested the moment anyone else
Speaker 5: started talking.
Speaker 2: And we have worked on that as well. Yes, but
Speaker 2: again that's no.
Speaker 5: I think that's that's good parenting, that's good good to mentoring.
Speaker 2: All right, So back to the Free Press.
Speaker 5: Let's see, it's rather a long email that Barry Rice
Speaker 5: Owiss wrote. If you're not familiar, it's be a r
Speaker 5: I by the way.
Speaker 2: Before you get into it.
Speaker 1: Like I said last week, I haven't been worried about
Speaker 1: because I think her whole shtick. I mean, she risked
Speaker 1: her entire career leaving The New York Times. She is
Speaker 1: not going to all of a sudden roll over and
Speaker 1: not do what she's been doing, in my opinion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And she goes into the philosophy behind the free press.
Speaker 5: We would marry the quality of the old world to
Speaker 5: the freedom of the new. We would seek the truth
Speaker 5: and tell it plainly, and we would treat readers like
Speaker 5: adults capable of making their own choices. Again the Armstrong
Speaker 5: and Getty formula as well. At least that's what we
Speaker 5: try to do. And she gets into the fact that
Speaker 5: she was told over and over that's impossible. The only
Speaker 5: way to go is just complete, flaming, one hundred percent partisanship,
Speaker 5: and she mentions as of today, I am editor in chief. Oh,
Speaker 5: she says, I'll continue to lead this incredible community alongside
Speaker 5: my tireless team, remaining CEO and editor in chief, but
Speaker 5: I'll be taking on another title too. As of today,
Speaker 5: I'm an editor in chief of CBS News, working with
Speaker 5: new colleagues on the programs that have impacted American culture
Speaker 5: for generations, like sixty Minutes Sunday morning, shaping how millions
Speaker 5: of Americans read, listen, watch, and more importantly, understand the
Speaker 5: news in the twenty first century. And as I speculated
Speaker 5: last week, she's absolutely hardcore, remaining true to her principles.
Speaker 5: But she points out, excuse me, that this new partnership
Speaker 5: and the money involved gives the free press, which will
Speaker 5: continue to be the free press, even more resources to
Speaker 5: do big.
Speaker 2: You know, like long term reporting.
Speaker 1: You work on this for six months and bring us
Speaker 1: the big story stuff that's vanishing from today's news.
Speaker 2: And she is.
Speaker 5: Going to work like crazy to turn CBS News back
Speaker 5: into a news organization and not a partisanship organization.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if you saw the first story
Speaker 1: on sixty minutes last night, but the first story was
Speaker 1: about featuring parents whose kids have these horrible lives. Now
Speaker 1: it looks like because of vaccinations they got.
Speaker 2: Oh that they didn't interact well with.
Speaker 1: Now that's I don't think that's a story sixty minutes
Speaker 1: would have done last year.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: No, So final note from Barry I think for now
Speaker 5: is she says, as proud as we are of the
Speaker 5: one point five million subscribers who've joined under the banner
Speaker 5: of the free press, and we are astonished at that number.
Speaker 5: This is a country with three hundred and forty million people.
Speaker 5: We want our work to reach more of them as
Speaker 5: quickly as possible. That is I actually believe she means that.
Speaker 1: That is something though to start out now, she had
Speaker 1: a very high profile start because of leaving the New
Speaker 1: York Times. He got so much attention. So it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, just any random persons with a startup media empire.
Speaker 1: But that's still amazingly impressive growth.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And if you're not a subscriber, you know you
Speaker 5: hear some of their content here. But it's it's terrific
Speaker 5: old style journalism. They say stuff that challenges my beliefs
Speaker 5: all the time. They frequently frequently challenge the views of
Speaker 5: the half wit progressive, incurious media. I mean, every single day.
Speaker 1: Right, and I'm sure are wrong sometimes I don't care
Speaker 1: if you're wrong. If if I believe that you're at
Speaker 1: least trying to get the story out correctly, that's you're.
Speaker 2: Going right well.
Speaker 5: And to their credit, if they are quote unquote wrong
Speaker 5: about something either, beholder what of their other people will
Speaker 5: write a piece saying, hey, Jim, you're wrong about this,
Speaker 5: and here's why I think so. And they'll publish it, yeah,
Speaker 5: with a link to the original piece, and then often
Speaker 5: they'll have a little dialogue between the two. Trust again,
Speaker 5: trusting adults to way ideas Like adults, what do.
Speaker 1: You think of people who dominate conversations? Like you're at
Speaker 1: a restaurant, You got a table full of ten people
Speaker 1: and one person does all the talking without noticing.
Speaker 2: What are you what are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: Our text line four one five two nine five KFTC
Speaker 1: wile the Washington Post with an interesting piece about the
Speaker 1: shutdown and the specific of the Affordable Care Act and
Speaker 1: what's going on there and the wrangling over there. Uh
Speaker 1: with this line, the real problem is that the Affordable
Speaker 1: Care Act was never actually affordable.
Speaker 2: Wow. In the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: We'll have to get into that more an hour three
Speaker 1: because that's an interesting topic. We have been mentioning how
Speaker 1: nobody in the real world brings up the shutdown to us. Ever,
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about the shutdown. However, several people were bringing
Speaker 1: this up story, this story up in real life.
Speaker 2: In case you didn't hear.
Speaker 8: It, A secuters alleged Fox Sports analyst and former NFL
Speaker 8: quarterback Mark Sanchez approached the sixty nine year old box
Speaker 8: truck driver and escalated a dispute about the victim's parked vehicle.
Speaker 8: According to the probable cause affidavit, after Sanchez allegedly shoved
Speaker 8: the driver, the driver believed he was now in physical danger,
Speaker 8: grabbed his pepper spray and sprayed mister Sanchez in the face.
Speaker 8: The affidavit says Sanchez again advanced towards the driver, saying
Speaker 8: the driver thought this guy's trying to kill me, so
Speaker 8: he pulled his knife and when mister Sanchez came at him,
Speaker 8: ultimately striking him multiple times. Polis say when a detective
Speaker 8: tried to get a statement from Sanchez at the hospital,
Speaker 8: mister Sanchez said he did not know who did this
Speaker 8: to him or where it happened. Sanchez is now facing
Speaker 8: multiple criminal charges, including battery resulting in injury, public intoxication,
Speaker 8: and unlawful entry.
Speaker 2: Of a motor vehicle.
Speaker 1: If you're not a sports fan, that's a pretty well
Speaker 1: known former NFL quarterback who's now part of the broadcast
Speaker 1: team for Fox and The story broke on Saturday that
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez had been stabbed and then there are very
Speaker 1: few details at the time, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: that night in an alley near a bar. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that could have happened here.
Speaker 1: Let's not immediately jump to the how awful it is
Speaker 1: for Mark Sanchez side of things.
Speaker 2: I want to know what happened, right well, if it's
Speaker 2: the way it was described there, he's.
Speaker 5: A story as it was presented to me on Sunday morning,
Speaker 5: I think, was that Mark Sanchez had been stabbed several
Speaker 5: times and he got arrested and the stabber did not
Speaker 5: get arrested. And as I was talking to one of
Speaker 5: my golf buddies as an attorney, I said, Wow, something
Speaker 5: really interesting happened, and the authorities are sure about it,
Speaker 5: because that just that doesn't happen sure enough. Was all
Speaker 5: on video, as you know the reporter at just described.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know if you've ever been around
Speaker 1: an NFL football player, but they are giant, freaking human beings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the small ones are huge, and.
Speaker 1: If one of them was angry at you and physically
Speaker 1: coming after you, you would be.
Speaker 2: Scared for your life. And I guess he was hammered,
Speaker 2: So he's the he's the angry drunk.
Speaker 1: Apparently if he well, for one thing, if he legit
Speaker 1: does not know who stabbed him, then yeah, he's got
Speaker 1: a bit of a problem there with that situation, or
Speaker 1: that was a good dodge. I have no idea, but yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: if it would. I've known a couple of football players
Speaker 1: my life who liked to beat up smaller people. I
Speaker 1: thought it was despicable, but they like to do it.
Speaker 1: They like to get drunk and beat up smaller people.
Speaker 1: They loved it. They looked for any opportunity. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's one of those guys, but he
Speaker 1: could be. Yeah, well, his career is bye bye. I
Speaker 1: would I suspect absolutely his only chance and his publicist
Speaker 1: is working on this right now. Is a tearful and
Speaker 1: sincere taking a full responsibility announcing that he's an alcoholic
Speaker 1: in going to rehab.
Speaker 2: Well, he needs to get a hold of P Diddy.
Speaker 1: Apparently that works, so P Diddy did his whole I
Speaker 1: am ashamed.
Speaker 2: I take full responsibility.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I was thinking, having a decade
Speaker 1: worth of forced violent orgies.
Speaker 2: I just you know, it's a mistake. And he got
Speaker 2: four years. He only got four years.
Speaker 1: And then the victim statement didn't happen because the victim
Speaker 1: didn't show up, and according to her people, she got
Speaker 1: a pretty nasty letter from his lawyers. I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: there weren't some other communications that weren't the legal kind,
Speaker 1: because she was supposed to testify Friday and do the
Speaker 1: whole victim statement. This is how it ruined my life.
Speaker 1: This is how awful it was. And she didn't show.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Fear absolutely fear they got to her somehow. Hey, by
Speaker 1: the way, we know where your kids live. You know
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. I'll bet you it's absolutely a
Speaker 1: p diddy.
Speaker 2: Sort of thing to do, right. He got four years
Speaker 2: for that. You gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't remember what all he got convicted of. Honestly,
Speaker 5: I didn't have a strong opinion about that because I
Speaker 5: knee again. Well, he's a freaking monster.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: He'll go out and do it again. Don't you think
Speaker 1: I'd be shocked if he doesn't do that sort of
Speaker 1: thing again in his life? What sort of thing? Just
Speaker 1: drug abuse women? Yes, I think maybe he's learned his lesson.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Don't kick him across state lines. Make sure that that's
Speaker 1: the lesson something like.
Speaker 5: Freak unless oh oh, speaking of which, that to me again,
Speaker 5: I don't remember specifically what he got convicted of, so
Speaker 5: I didn't really have an opinion on that. But you
Speaker 5: remember the twenty two year old guy who tried to
Speaker 5: kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It was half a
Speaker 5: nut job and was outside his house with burglary tools
Speaker 5: and weapons and said, yeah, I'm here to break into
Speaker 5: the Kavanaugh Well.
Speaker 2: About the ro versus Wede decision, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: A Biden appointed judge spent seven hours Friday justifying a
Speaker 5: shocking departure from sentencing guidelines. She sends them to a
Speaker 5: very very slight sentence. I don't have in front of me,
Speaker 5: but among this judge's speech.
Speaker 1: Or within it was Judge Boardman said miss Rosky came
Speaker 1: out to herself as transgender in twenty twenty, but kept
Speaker 1: it secret.
Speaker 2: This is the offender.
Speaker 5: Ms Roski's sister came out his day two years prior,
Speaker 5: but mis Roski saw that their pay and struggled to
Speaker 5: reconcile her sexuality with their religious beliefs. I am heartened
Speaker 5: that this terrible infraction has helped the Rosky family accept
Speaker 5: their daughter for who she is.
Speaker 2: Wow, the judge said, of this man, Wow, that's that.
Speaker 2: Next hour, Yeah, crazy Armstrong and Getty