Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jaggy and he arms get drug fueled orgy. Well, when
Speaker 1: you put it that way, it doesn't sound very nice.
Speaker 1: I just heard that on the news as a description
Speaker 1: of what Matt Gates was attending, drug fueled sex orgies.
Speaker 1: I'm always opposed to, like, sober and morally upright orgies
Speaker 1: seem hey, hey, hey, you put put that joint out.
Speaker 1: What do you think this is some sort of drug orgy?
Speaker 1: The regular count doesn't sound good when you describe my
Speaker 1: gatherings as drug fueled sex orgies. It doesn't paint some
Speaker 1: untworn live from the studio cee see Senior, A dimly
Speaker 1: led room deep with them the bowels of the Armstrong
Speaker 1: in Getty Communications Compound. We are a week from Thanksgiving, people,
Speaker 1: and today we're under the tutelage of our general manager. Google.
Speaker 1: Google the search engine, Yes, indeed, well, oh oh, If
Speaker 1: only it were just a search engine, that would be okay.
Speaker 1: But it's like the world's most popular browser, and they
Speaker 1: automatically go to their search engine from that browser. Then
Speaker 1: they pay billions of dollars that you always go to
Speaker 1: Google from everybody's browsers, and that's too much for the
Speaker 1: Justice Apartment, and they say you gotta break it up.
Speaker 1: Whether that will happen or not, who knows. Interesting do
Speaker 1: you think they're going to bring it and learn more
Speaker 1: and bring it to you? Do you think that's correct
Speaker 1: or not? Is that side to go it? Yeah? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is one of those I just it's
Speaker 1: it's somewhat interesting, but I don't find it that compell
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though. I I hate Google because
Speaker 1: of the way they steal information. And I managed to
Speaker 1: stay away from Google for most of my life. You know,
Speaker 1: Google came on whatever it was thirty years ago and
Speaker 1: uh twenty five years ago, and then I I didn't.
Speaker 1: I never had a Gmail account. I never did a
Speaker 1: Google anything, never had any of that stuff my kids
Speaker 1: got in school, you got no choice.
Speaker 2: Everybody uses Google classroom.
Speaker 1: You're forced into your whole family having different Google accounts
Speaker 1: and passwords and all kind of You got a click.
Speaker 1: I agree to all the stuff, which means they're stealing
Speaker 1: everything you got. So from that standpoint, the schools are
Speaker 1: run by the government. I'm forced to use Google by
Speaker 1: the government that bothers me. I don't think you could
Speaker 1: not be. It'd be very, very difficult to have your
Speaker 1: kid in a public school and not be a Google person. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 1: you'd have to be some sort of conscientious objective. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would be a It would really be a cost
Speaker 1: yourself a great deal of time and effort. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's not cool, is it? The government needs to
Speaker 1: sue public schools. Government should sue itself and spend itself broke.
Speaker 1: Maybe U Matt Gates, when he gets done with his
Speaker 1: drug fueled sex orgies as Attorney General can look at
Speaker 1: the whole Google thing and see if it's okay with
Speaker 1: all that?
Speaker 2: Does the does the administration want?
Speaker 1: I just and I don't want to talk about it anymore,
Speaker 1: But flipping on all the newscasts leading with some new
Speaker 1: Matt Gates revelation today?
Speaker 2: Does does Trump want that?
Speaker 1: Every day for the next three months, four months, however
Speaker 1: long it takes, every day some new Matt Gates story.
Speaker 1: Even the Wall Street Journal and The New York Post,
Speaker 1: two very different kinds of Republicans, both their editorial boards
Speaker 1: say drop the Matt Gates thing. Interesting I'd missed that.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well, I'm not shocked by it. Trump's thinking
Speaker 1: in strategies and and trolling are sometimes so different than
Speaker 1: certainly the conventional approach, but the way I would approach it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I have to think about it for a while,
Speaker 1: what the hell is he trying to pull off? And
Speaker 1: sometimes it makes sense eventually, and sometimes it's just dumb,
Speaker 1: bad strategy. Why don't I say that, Well, the Senate's
Speaker 1: claiming they're going to do a full hearing, and if
Speaker 1: they don't get the report from the House, they have
Speaker 1: the ability to call the same witnesses if they want
Speaker 1: to to get the information that way, So that'll be
Speaker 1: a fun That'll be a fun hearing. I'm sure that
Speaker 1: would be behind closed doors, I assume. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually think Matt Gates is an amoral scumbag. But I'm
Speaker 1: also at least intrigued by thinking about all of the
Speaker 1: moral failings of so many high officials of the government
Speaker 1: and how they're selectively called out, you know, depending on
Speaker 1: the circumstance. On the other hand, that's just because the
Speaker 1: one thing is true doesn't mean the other isn't true.
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you're calling my sores that I
Speaker 2: attend to drug fueled sex s orgies. It's prejudicial and
Speaker 2: drug fueled.
Speaker 1: That is that a prejudicial term. It's not fueled by drugs.
Speaker 1: It's fueled by lust. It's enhanced by drugs. Well, it's
Speaker 1: a party we're having. What is it? What do you
Speaker 1: do at a party? You all get together and I
Speaker 1: have a good time. That's fueled by fun. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. Well, yeah, exactly, we're here for the fun.
Speaker 1: The drugs are there as well, but it's not drug
Speaker 1: fueled per se. It's fun fueled, come your honor. I
Speaker 1: prefer to call it fun fueled camaraderie with drugs, with
Speaker 1: drugs and that proportification and prostitutes. And now we have
Speaker 1: a bunch of canceled checks for many thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: that appear to be to these girls. So anyway, that's
Speaker 1: part of the fun. Few, that's that's what fuels the fun,
Speaker 1: me paying these girls to you know, do what I want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the checks coming out yesterday didn't help.
Speaker 2: No, No, I suppose not.
Speaker 1: I think the response from a lot of big Trump
Speaker 1: fans would be, well, Merrick Garland is perverted to Justice Department.
Speaker 1: Beyond all recognitions. So a guy who gets with prostitutes
Speaker 1: now and again is small potatoes. My counter counter argument
Speaker 1: would be, all right, get rid of that, don't have
Speaker 1: either of them. Let's continue asking for better than both
Speaker 1: of them. Right, And then I realized, because I'm on Twitter,
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of you don't believe any of
Speaker 1: that stuff anyway. It's just deep state trying to keep
Speaker 1: him from being an Interney general. So checks are fake,
Speaker 1: the accusations are fake. All the Republicans who are claiming
Speaker 1: these things are part of the deep state. And that's
Speaker 1: where that is. Have you known any scumbags? Have you
Speaker 1: lived a little Have you bumped around and the you know,
Speaker 1: the alleys of life, walked on the wild side a
Speaker 1: little bit. It's it's like a big gold colored cat
Speaker 1: with a huge mane is walking across Africa and somebody says,
Speaker 1: that's not a lion. The deep state says it's a lion. No,
Speaker 1: it's a lion. There are actual lions. Even if the
Speaker 1: deep state says it's a lion. You've never known a smarmy,
Speaker 1: good looking kid whose dad was powerful, and so the
Speaker 1: kid lived a really uncool life. You've never known one
Speaker 1: of those.
Speaker 2: I've known a lot of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and again you can there look at this
Speaker 1: fur at the end of the tail. Yet that's a
Speaker 1: lion or if you prefer the well worn duck metaphor
Speaker 1: either way, and I know the Justice Apartment needs to
Speaker 1: shake it up. But again both things can be true.
Speaker 1: One thing I was considering a nominating for general manager
Speaker 1: was unsubscribing day. Were already there? Somebody told me a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Black Friday for them is unsubscribed day.
Speaker 1: You go into all your emails, man, the number of
Speaker 1: emails I'm getting now you wake up in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's just like I didn't know you had my account,
Speaker 1: but I guess you do, like some clothing store or
Speaker 1: whatever they hold back till now. And now you just
Speaker 1: get up a thousand of those. Then you got to
Speaker 1: unsubscribe on all of them. Of course, there's always the
Speaker 1: danger of is this do you actually have my accountman?
Speaker 1: Or on am I just clicking on a fishing thing?
Speaker 1: And now I've really made my life difficult. You don't know,
Speaker 1: But there's no other way to unsubscribe. I'm going I'm
Speaker 1: big into block sender now. I haven't been doing it
Speaker 1: long enough to really get a feel for if it's working. Yes,
Speaker 1: an email, and so you don't unsubscribe, you block the sender, Uh,
Speaker 1: those that I know to be legitimate. But I think
Speaker 1: you know I'm not gonna buy another one of your things.
Speaker 1: I will, I will unsubscribe. But like you know, I've
Speaker 1: been getting all these stupid cooking made easy and fun
Speaker 1: recipes and stuff I have. I've never signed up for
Speaker 1: anything like that, right, and so some bastard and I'd
Speaker 1: like to know what store it is because I'll put
Speaker 1: a brick through their window. It won't do me any good,
Speaker 1: but it'll it'll feel good.
Speaker 2: A reasonable reaction anyway.
Speaker 1: That's that's my only rad carse brickmates window treatment. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'd like to figure out who's which one of you
Speaker 1: sons of guns are are selling my stuff all over
Speaker 1: the place like that. Yes, it's just terrible. We gotta
Speaker 1: we've got to figure out a way to get our
Speaker 1: arms around this without violating uh you know, commerce or
Speaker 1: something then something that I wouldn't like as a libertarian
Speaker 1: leaning guy. But but just the I fill out your
Speaker 1: thing that you make me fill out to buy something
Speaker 1: at Macy's shouldn't mean that I get emails and phone
Speaker 1: calls and texts from, you know, completely unrelated organizations that
Speaker 1: you sold the information to for profit. That somehow that's
Speaker 1: got to come to an end. Well, yeah, except you
Speaker 1: click the accept the terms, which included we will sell
Speaker 1: your information anybody who's got a nickel.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what's got to be figured out, is the
Speaker 1: whole terms thing. And I know people have taken various
Speaker 1: swipes at that that if it's whatever we talked with
Speaker 1: I think I did when you weren't here, talked with
Speaker 1: Tim Sandfer about this, and his belief is, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: perfectly okay, And if you wanted to do your due diligence,
Speaker 1: you should get a lawyer and print it all out
Speaker 1: and read all those things.
Speaker 2: And they have every right to do that, and there's
Speaker 2: no stop in it.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be some sort of it's completely unrealistic.
Speaker 2: That too do this. To have my kid in fifth.
Speaker 1: Grade, click in the I agree for Google classroom that
Speaker 1: to have my kid in fifth grade, I should sit
Speaker 1: down and read seventy five pages of legal documents that
Speaker 1: I'm not qualified to read. That's it's utterly untenable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I forget it top it sure existed for a
Speaker 1: long time. On the other hand, because you know me,
Speaker 1: I'm about solutions. You can buy a palette of bricks
Speaker 1: for as little as one hundred and forty dollars. You
Speaker 1: could throw that to a lot of windows. Palette of bricks. I'round,
Speaker 1: my dad is about to a lot of windows. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of evil doers who are gonna taste your disdain. Friends.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show officially real quick. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 1: He's Joe Getty on this it is? How did it
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Speaker 1: on Thursday, November twenty first, the year twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: At Mark went to the store where people can donate
Speaker 3: their garbage, and then the store organizes the garbage and
Speaker 3: then resells it to people who would do crafts. Right
Speaker 3: when I walked in, I saw this bucket full of
Speaker 3: bread tabs for twenty five cents per handful. You can
Speaker 3: also buy handfuls of bottle caps. You can buy people's
Speaker 3: old used paint. You can buy bits of broken trophies.
Speaker 3: You can also buy people's award ribbons that they don't
Speaker 3: want anymore. They also have a bucket full of erasers
Speaker 3: that gave me fourth grade desk drawer flashbacks.
Speaker 1: And it's a guy reporting from a store in Portland,
Speaker 1: Oregon that sells garbage.
Speaker 2: It's called scrap Wrap.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw this on the news the other days
Speaker 1: and I was trying to I thought that sounds kind
Speaker 1: of cool. My son would love that thing as a
Speaker 1: guy who's really into various art stuff. But I don't
Speaker 1: know how they turn a profit. I was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how the with the with the mechanics of
Speaker 1: it staying afloat would be at a quarter for a
Speaker 1: handful of those bread tabs things, and you had somebody
Speaker 1: go through like a bag of junk and pick out
Speaker 1: all the bread ties and put them together and then
Speaker 1: and I don't see how you turn profit on that.
Speaker 1: And so that's it's a very Portland it is phenomenon
Speaker 1: on It is that it reminds me back when Portland
Speaker 1: was funky and not horrible. How there's fun fun funky,
Speaker 1: not good. God get me out of here, funky not
Speaker 1: I saw someone urinating in the street with my son
Speaker 1: last time I was there. Funky Yes, how does mailbag
Speaker 1: look very good? Full of insight and wit?
Speaker 2: Cool? That is on the way.
Speaker 1: Here's our text line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2: Now I woke up to the.
Speaker 1: News that Russia had fired an ICBM into Western Ukraine,
Speaker 1: which was be incredibly provocative and a new thing and
Speaker 1: a flexing of hey, we can send icems around with
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. Their reporting now is that it was not
Speaker 1: an ICBM, but that's not still nailed down, but that'd
Speaker 1: be it'd be a pretty bold move from Putin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as a signal, I guess, but don't we know they
Speaker 1: have missiles that can write. But he's just conting to
Speaker 1: like be more belligerent than he needs to be for
Speaker 1: some reason. Yeah, okay, here's your freedom love and code
Speaker 1: of the day, sent along by Alert frequent guest Tim
Speaker 1: Sanderfer the Goldwater Foundation, says, I just ran across this.
Speaker 1: The problem being of an ICBM is flying through the air,
Speaker 1: you don't have much time to decide is it headed
Speaker 1: to Paris or is it headed to Western Ukraine? Rozzi, Well,
Speaker 1: it's an intercontinental ballistic missile seems odd to lobb it
Speaker 1: from right over here to right over there.
Speaker 2: Right, that's why, Yeah, don't want to just be throwing
Speaker 2: those things around.
Speaker 1: Provocative. This is from Samuel Adams seventeen seventy two. If
Speaker 1: I am to have a master, let me have a
Speaker 1: severe one that I may always have the mortifying sense
Speaker 1: of it. I shall then always be disposed to take
Speaker 1: the first fair opportunity of ridding myself of slavery. Oh
Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's a good one, as opposed
Speaker 1: to the just slow seeps into your life, controls everything.
Speaker 1: You don't even know who to be mad at, frog boilings. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It just slowly gets swallowed up by the suffocating bureaucracy
Speaker 1: and yep, yeah wow. Both inspiring and discouraging. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Samuel Adams. Maybe I'll have a couple of sam Adams
Speaker 1: and be inspired anew this evening mailbag, drop us a
Speaker 1: note mail bag and armstrong Yeddy dot com if you like. Uh, Julie,
Speaker 1: he's been listening since like day one. Thanks you. Thanks
Speaker 1: Julie with a great article on the jazzy moon names
Speaker 1: everybody's supposed to be talking about these days explaining it
Speaker 1: all and uh and the longest short of it is,
Speaker 1: it's it's virtue signaling, is she explains, it's to honor
Speaker 1: the native tribes who use the names for crop planning
Speaker 1: and harvesting cycles. Now that I know it's a virtue signal,
Speaker 1: can I'll continue to not use the descriptors?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I didn't know that, all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and actually the article is somewhat interesting. But it's
Speaker 1: the Native people that didn't have charts and whatever.
Speaker 2: Get in January. Get a calendar, native people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's January. You got the big old full moon.
Speaker 1: Unless they instead of saying, hey, there's that big full
Speaker 1: moon kind of like the one we had last year
Speaker 1: when it was super called out, to call it a
Speaker 1: wolf moon because that's when the wolves come out and
Speaker 1: they howl and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It's just a jazzy nickname.
Speaker 1: So they know what to call it instead of, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: you remember last summer, there's a big moon. Look here's
Speaker 1: another big moon this summer. That's not a good name
Speaker 1: for it, so they call it the beaver moon or
Speaker 1: the jackal moon, or the one Eyed Man is king
Speaker 1: in the Land of the Blind moon, or whatever.
Speaker 2: That Upper Blue Harvest moon my favorite.
Speaker 1: Exactly, Oh fantastic. Al Sharpton is misinformed, rights rich in
Speaker 1: beautiful green Oregan no way criticizing Trump's nominees for cabinet
Speaker 1: positions and not being diverse enough. Really, Al Trump nominating
Speaker 1: one of America's favorite African Americans to the government efficiency drive.
Speaker 2: Elon, come on, come on man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man. It's a bit of an old joke, but
Speaker 1: I kind of like it, just because the whole the
Speaker 1: various names for people of dark skin in America has
Speaker 1: evolved like three or four times in my lifetime. And
Speaker 1: the one that you absolutely must say, or we will
Speaker 1: ruin you becomes the one you absolutely must not say,
Speaker 1: or we will ruin you. And the new one that
Speaker 1: you must say or we will ruin you quickly becomes
Speaker 1: the one you cannot say, or we will ruin you.
Speaker 1: And there's a brand new one. An African American will
Speaker 1: soon be on the way out. I have a feeling,
Speaker 1: let's see, Mike says, gentlemen. I hope that you, too,
Speaker 1: along with Alex Soros and Nancy Pelosi, are still correct
Speaker 1: about putin bluffing is based on the ICBM story. That's
Speaker 1: not an argument. Alex Soros and Nancy Pelosi believe the
Speaker 1: sun rises in the east, and I agree with him
Speaker 1: on that as well. Hillary Clinton is laughing because the
Speaker 1: last minute chaos is de licious. For I don't care
Speaker 1: what Hillary thinks. He's a bitter old hag who should
Speaker 1: have hurled herself off the top of the Washington Monument
Speaker 1: when she lost to Trump. Apparently we are going to
Speaker 1: defeat the Russian Federation at last. This will be even
Speaker 1: more brilliant than Biden's Afghanistan. No, that's not the goal
Speaker 1: at all. It's to prevent the continued aggressive conquests in Europe.
Speaker 1: Can't have that. But thanks for the note. Anyway, We're
Speaker 1: gonna catch up on the news. Stay arm strong and Geddy.
Speaker 1: It's the end of an era for The Simpsons.
Speaker 4: Pamela Hayden, who voices the character in Milhouse among many others,
Speaker 4: is retiring from the show after thirty five years. This
Speaker 4: Sunday's episode will mark her final performance.
Speaker 2: The lady who does a voice for Millhouse's quick.
Speaker 1: Shinder bending Madness. She started when she was thirty five
Speaker 1: years old and probably thought, oh my god, I got
Speaker 1: a job as a voice actor and he's been doing
Speaker 1: it ever since. She's now seventy. Wow, that's amazing. I
Speaker 1: wonder if she I ended up rich out of that?
Speaker 2: Is it barred?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: The great Millhouse will be voiced no more?
Speaker 1: Or they'll find somebody who sounds like Millhouse, which, uh,
Speaker 1: which reminds me my my son is the number one
Speaker 1: Simpsons expert on planet Earth. I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: Uh. But so, we were watching an episode last night.
Speaker 1: It was one of those where they they have a
Speaker 1: quick shot of the crowd, and the crowd is always
Speaker 1: everybody who lives in the Springfield, like it's every every
Speaker 1: character that's ever been on the show.
Speaker 2: And he paused, and he went through one by one.
Speaker 1: He knows they're actual names of every single character, which
Speaker 1: is really hilarious because they all have real names. They're
Speaker 1: Jeff albertson Comic Book Guy. There's like Kidis Kleidus in
Speaker 1: his last name and his wife and his last name.
Speaker 1: For some reason, he just has them all memorized. Has
Speaker 1: the last name other than the slack John Yokel. Right,
Speaker 1: and there's a real name for Disco Stu and uh, everybody,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, no more Millhouse. What a gig? You
Speaker 1: good on the show like that and it hits and
Speaker 1: then how much does she suppose she works a week
Speaker 1: or a month going in and doing however many lines
Speaker 1: she's got, or maybe.
Speaker 2: Probably the only character she's voice, some others, but that's
Speaker 2: the big one.
Speaker 1: But probably does it from home now anyway, See you
Speaker 1: do it in your home studio, zap them off and
Speaker 1: go back to doing whatever you do, play pickleball or
Speaker 1: I don't know, drug field, sex or geez or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Wow, wow, good lifestyle. So mentioned the hole
Speaker 1: woke up to the news that Russia had fired an
Speaker 1: ICBM into Ukraine, which is a very provocative thing, obviously
Speaker 1: on the world stage, having the fact the fact that
Speaker 1: they announced the other day that they lowered their threshold for.
Speaker 2: Using nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1: Then two days later you fire an ICBM, which for
Speaker 1: at least a couple of seconds, we and I'm assuming
Speaker 1: Great Britain and fre Rants in Germany and probably China
Speaker 1: and everybody else picked up on the radars and thought,
Speaker 1: holy crap, Russias fired ICBM, wars it headed. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's scary crap right there where you could
Speaker 1: end up with a mistake. But anyway, The latest reporting
Speaker 1: is maybe it wasn't ICBM. Ukraine claims Russia fired ic
Speaker 1: ICBM and recent attack. Fox is saying, CNN is saying
Speaker 1: Western leaders say it wasn't an ICBM. But that would
Speaker 1: be a very provocative move if it was different story. Funny,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the big news sites and they've got
Speaker 1: it buried if they're reporting it at all. Everybody thinks
Speaker 1: it's a big ideal that the International Criminal Court has
Speaker 1: issued war crimes. The rest worns for Net and Yahou
Speaker 1: and Right and Gallant, but it's a phony court. It's
Speaker 1: got no authority, yes, but better for your politics if
Speaker 1: you're a mainstream media out fine. The other story is
Speaker 1: this has been going on for a couple of days.
Speaker 1: Two big Internet cables in the Baltic Sea were cut,
Speaker 1: causing huge disruptions.
Speaker 2: And a Chinese ship was seen nearby. So what's going
Speaker 2: on there?
Speaker 1: Oh, more than nearby. They've got it. Radar tracked directly
Speaker 1: over the one cable two minutes before the cable stopped working,
Speaker 1: and then that second cable, same ship was right above
Speaker 1: it two minutes before it stopped working.
Speaker 2: Well, g whiz, all right, Well that takes care of that.
Speaker 1: Then now, come on China, Ukraine, and this might be
Speaker 1: what caused Russia to fire this big rocket missile whatever
Speaker 1: it was. Ukraine fired British long range missiles into Russia yesterday,
Speaker 1: so after the attackers we gave them, Britain said yeah,
Speaker 1: you can use ours also and fired some of those
Speaker 1: into Russia. So that might be why Russia reacted the
Speaker 1: way they did. I get it. It's kind of an
Speaker 1: everybody's in. You can't single out anybody is because we
Speaker 1: all agree. Of course, I don't know if France even
Speaker 1: has missiles. Maybe they can heave a cheese at the Russians. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like I was an ad hominem attack against
Speaker 1: France for some reason. Out of nowhere, Joe brought us
Speaker 1: the story of the Banana Taped to the wall.
Speaker 2: The price came in yesterday.
Speaker 1: It sold for six point two million dollars, Good Lord,
Speaker 1: six point two million dollars. The artwork called Comedian It's
Speaker 1: a banana tape to a wall. Don't you feel like
Speaker 1: you're being jerked around? If somebody puts a banana, tapes
Speaker 1: a banana to the wall and sells it to you
Speaker 1: for six point two million dollars and calls it comedian.
Speaker 2: Don't you think you're the joke? Apparently not, And.
Speaker 1: They then they say congratulations and close the door and think,
Speaker 1: oh my god, is that person stupid? Well, I read
Speaker 1: you the description by the art expert that it's a
Speaker 1: It symbolizes colonialism and the effects of hyper capitalization on something.
Speaker 1: It's a banana taped to a wall. It's a statement.
Speaker 1: The New York Times said it's arguably the most expensive
Speaker 1: fruit in the world. I would say arguably it is.
Speaker 1: I have no counter argument, right, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the count argument would be.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: I think all of us wish we could come up
Speaker 1: with something like that. So do you have to be
Speaker 1: a famous Do you have to become a famous artist
Speaker 1: first and then do something like that? Because you can't
Speaker 1: start with that because anybody could do it, right, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've laid this chair on its side. This
Speaker 1: chair laying on its side is the disruption of the
Speaker 1: global order. Wow. I would like a million dollars for this.
Speaker 1: That's powerful, powerful, you know. I don't I can't get
Speaker 1: in the side. I can't get inside the heads of
Speaker 1: somebody who takes this stuff seriously and can tell you
Speaker 1: with the straight face that a freaking banana taped to
Speaker 1: wall symbolizes the effect of colonialism on Native cultures, and
Speaker 1: how it is at once making a joke of art
Speaker 1: while making a very serious statement about art. And what now,
Speaker 1: I gotta get back to work.
Speaker 2: So if you buy so, I can't I can't relate
Speaker 2: to those people.
Speaker 1: So maybe yes, some young firebrand could do that, and
Speaker 1: and the phony, boloney, pretentious rich jackasses the art world
Speaker 1: would say, yes, this is a genius, a budding genius
Speaker 1: who knows well, I've got a tangerine nailed to the
Speaker 1: floor and it's a got similar, similar, similar cachet. So
Speaker 1: the person who buys that for six two point two
Speaker 1: million dollars is that two because they think it's worth
Speaker 1: that much and you'll be able to sell it someday,
Speaker 1: or is it they want to display it in their
Speaker 1: home and people will think, oh my god, you own
Speaker 1: the I didn't realize you owned the original comedian. You
Speaker 1: know what? And this thought just occurred to me. First
Speaker 1: of all, it's tangerine nailed to the floor is a
Speaker 1: statement on permanence and impermanence. Wow, that's very good, thank you.
Speaker 1: What was the other thing we were talking about, Oh, oh,
Speaker 1: do what they want to do with it. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: have a theory, and I don't know that it's right,
Speaker 1: but it just popped into my head. If you fly
Speaker 1: a lot, the airline is really good to you, and
Speaker 1: you get to go in the nice lounges and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You're a frequent flyer. If you get if
Speaker 1: you're known as a guy who goes on like expensive
Speaker 1: golf vacations, you have all the really nice place is
Speaker 1: reaching out to you.
Speaker 2: Perfect, They treat.
Speaker 1: You really well. Oh yeah, perfect example your high roller.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling if you drop that sort of
Speaker 1: coin in the art world, you are an instant celebrity
Speaker 1: yourself and you are sought after your mind and dined
Speaker 1: and that. If you're super rich and you don't care
Speaker 1: about the money, that it might be worth a six
Speaker 1: point two million dollars, right, Yeah, If I have eight
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars in the bank, I can spend six
Speaker 1: million dollars. Never think of it again.
Speaker 2: Right, I'll bet that is quite the lifestyle.
Speaker 1: They probably fly it to all the big art shows
Speaker 1: and put you up in a fancy place and the
Speaker 1: limo comes picks you up and they sit you in
Speaker 1: the front row to see if you'll be stupid enough
Speaker 1: to buy. You know, the tangerine nailed to the floor,
Speaker 1: signaling permanence and impermanence.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get to say it without laughing.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean because the tangerine, it will wither
Speaker 1: away and be gone, and yet is nailed to the floor.
Speaker 1: It cannot be moved. It is permanently on the floor,
Speaker 1: and yet it is impermanent, just like just like life.
Speaker 1: It's a statement about life. If you haven't seen this picture,
Speaker 1: it is exactly as described. There's nothing else to it.
Speaker 1: It is a banana like every banana you've ever seen,
Speaker 1: only this one's got a few more bruises, and there's
Speaker 1: duct tape holding it on the wall, the end, gray
Speaker 1: duct tape. They didn't even like spring for the fancy
Speaker 1: red kind or something the colored guy, which would be
Speaker 1: a nice contrast with the yellow of the banana and
Speaker 1: soon to be the brown in the black of the banana.
Speaker 1: But anyways, is there is there anything? Do they like
Speaker 1: shellac the banana or does it just like turn into
Speaker 1: that gross withered thing that attracts little flies. The phrase
Speaker 1: shellac in the banana is not something we need at all,
Speaker 1: not during the holiday season. Wow it he's drug fueled
Speaker 1: door Jesus with Matt case Oh my god, jacket all
Speaker 1: pales in comparison to the Aztec Death Whistle. More on
Speaker 1: that to come. Matt Gates would have been much better
Speaker 1: off shellac in the banana and going to that party
Speaker 1: and maybe ruin his life and his chance to be
Speaker 1: Attorney General. Wow. Wow. And finally, I want to get
Speaker 1: to this a little bit later. This is actually you
Speaker 1: glossed over the as tech death Whistle. I've got to
Speaker 1: jump in here. Imagine an object so terrifying that its
Speaker 1: mere sound could it could make you insane? The as
Speaker 1: Tech death Whistle. Next hour, I to stay it was
Speaker 1: going to be a drink or something. Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: an actual sound, Oh yeah it is. It is a band,
Speaker 1: a tool. It's my nineties esque as tech camera sounding band,
Speaker 1: but updated for the twenty first century as tech death whistle.
Speaker 1: A sound, a tool that could actually make people insane.
Speaker 1: Wow cool, I thought, And we will play you the
Speaker 1: terrifying audio of it if you dare stay tuned, I thought,
Speaker 1: as Tech Whistle Death Whistle was playing behind Jelly Roll
Speaker 1: last night at the Country Music Awards, but that was
Speaker 1: not them. And one more thing from the New Times,
Speaker 1: an opinion piece that I want to read later that
Speaker 1: I thought was really really interesting and good for the
Speaker 1: NYT to bring it to us because they're pre purveyors
Speaker 1: of this sort of thing. But the headline being if
Speaker 1: everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis, and how
Speaker 1: the world of public health deems so many things a
Speaker 1: crisis or has gotten locked into this. If we don't
Speaker 1: say this is a crisis, it'll get no attention. Thing.
Speaker 1: And they go through all the you know, obviously infectious
Speaker 1: diseases where they want to get your attention about monkey pocks,
Speaker 1: bird flu, all these different sorts of things, loneliness, social media,
Speaker 1: all these things are problems they but briefly, like for
Speaker 1: a week, you have to elevate it to the biggest
Speaker 1: crisis in America, loneliness or whatever to try to get
Speaker 1: any attention or funding or on TV or something. And
Speaker 1: they're concerned that and the valid concern that they've called
Speaker 1: so many things the biggest crisis that everybody's tuning out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're getting nobody's attention.
Speaker 1: Speaking of things making people insane, never mind the Aztec
Speaker 1: death whistle. It's the age of hyperbole and being constantly
Speaker 1: barraged with urgency. Yeah, you know, everything, everything's a crisis,
Speaker 1: everything's a threat, everything's an outrage all the time, which
Speaker 1: is interesting because I feel like, uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: was surprised that it wasn't the lead story in the
Speaker 1: evening news the other night that Ukraine fired those long
Speaker 1: range missiles into Russia and Russia's nuclear whatever. That's a
Speaker 1: real story. That's a pretty damned big story. But we
Speaker 1: don't have time for those, I guess because we're into
Speaker 1: the whole loneliness is an epidemic that is killing people
Speaker 1: all across America sort of crisis. I don't know. You
Speaker 1: got a thousand things competing for your attention or a
Speaker 1: thousand stories, right.
Speaker 2: We tend to be more.
Speaker 1: Inward looking though, definitely, for whatever crisis is our attention
Speaker 1: at the time. Definitely. We've got Katie's headlines on the
Speaker 1: way and those will be good. Stay here. Before we
Speaker 1: get to Katie's headlines, here's a headline from Mark Alpern's
Speaker 1: newsletter today, or just a sentence anyway about how amazing
Speaker 1: it is that Joe Biden is not taking reporters questions
Speaker 1: during a time of high international tensions and also confusion
Speaker 1: for his party, his parties, and maybe the biggest turmoil
Speaker 1: I've seen in my lifetime, and also the world. What
Speaker 1: you got nothing to say to all these reporters, with
Speaker 1: all these international leaders around, you got nothing to say
Speaker 1: about why you allowed Ukraine to fire these missiles or
Speaker 1: Russia's response or Israel or net Yahoo being arrested or
Speaker 1: he hasn't been arrested in the Bubba, but any of
Speaker 1: that really, And as your various spokes twits are loudly
Speaker 1: proclaiming that there's only one president at a time, and
Speaker 1: President Biden is build the president.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, prove it. Yeah, I'm doing a little president.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's figure out who's reporting what it's lead story.
Speaker 1: It's Katie Green, Katie, thank you guys.
Speaker 6: Starting with CNN judge sentences Lake and Riley's murderer to
Speaker 6: life in prison.
Speaker 1: Good man.
Speaker 2: That trial got a lot of attention. All your evening
Speaker 2: newscasts led with it last night.
Speaker 1: And then NPR with a nice story today about a
Speaker 1: memorial being built in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as a memorial to
Speaker 1: the people mowed down two years ago at Christmas time
Speaker 1: by a lunatic who was a black guy who hated
Speaker 1: white people and killed them for racial animus. They didn't
Speaker 1: mention that NPR. It was just a guy who That's
Speaker 1: funny how that cuts only one way in a desperate
Speaker 1: effort to build a certain narrative. You people are so dishonest.
Speaker 6: Nbc ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister net
Speaker 6: and Yahoo for war crimes in Gaza.
Speaker 2: Does this mean anything at all?
Speaker 1: No, not functionally No. No. I am going to found
Speaker 1: the International Court of Justice. My Canadian friend Gordy and
Speaker 1: I will be in charge. We will start sending out memos,
Speaker 1: we will design a letterhead or have AI to it,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to start sending out subpoenas which will
Speaker 1: have virtually roughly the same weight as this lead story
Speaker 1: in all sorts of news.
Speaker 6: Outlets from Axios, Ukraine's lame duck Danger, Biden and Putin
Speaker 6: escalate before Trump arrives.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to describe it. Well, he might
Speaker 1: actually have the be the force of nature because he's
Speaker 1: continually talking about we're gonna wrap this thing up, We're
Speaker 1: gonna end it, and both sides realize, okay, this thing's
Speaker 1: probably gonna wrap up soon instead of trying to get,
Speaker 1: you know, the best hand they can before it wraps up.
Speaker 1: It's interesting.
Speaker 6: From the Wall Street Journal Musk and Ramaswami. You want
Speaker 6: federal workers in the office full time?
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I want to get into that article a little bit
Speaker 1: because they put out But there's a catch, coll There's
Speaker 1: more to be discussed, and we will.
Speaker 2: ABC News.
Speaker 6: US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome.
Speaker 2: Sale as part of monopoly punishment.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: We talked about this a little bit earlier. I'm not
Speaker 2: smart enough to know.
Speaker 1: Whether I'm I think this is a good idea or not,
Speaker 1: but man, it Google is.
Speaker 2: It's impossible to not.
Speaker 1: You can't live your life without Google, really, and we
Speaker 1: use it as a platform at work, to my horror,
Speaker 1: although it works really well.
Speaker 6: From Forbes, update now warning issued to all iPhone users.
Speaker 6: There's an emergency update that was released this morning because
Speaker 6: apparently there's some security vulnerabilities. So if you have an iPhone,
Speaker 6: make sure you update it asap.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do that right now. Yes.
Speaker 2: From Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 6: Ellen Degenerous leaves United States, flees to England after Trump election.
Speaker 1: I saw that she's one of the few celebrities putting
Speaker 1: her money where her mouth is and actually leaving the country.
Speaker 5: That is so crazy, though, it's so crazy as a gesture,
Speaker 5: what are you afraid of? It's entirely a gesture. It's
Speaker 5: only a.
Speaker 1: Gesture, you think, I don't know. Listen at NPR this
Speaker 1: morning and they had a couple on where she thinks
Speaker 1: that we'll be okay and can soldier through the Trump years?
Speaker 1: He said, he said, this is where we disagree. I
Speaker 1: think this is going to be a very very difficult time.
Speaker 1: Our lives are going to be s for the next
Speaker 1: four years. I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Crazy person?
Speaker 1: So Ellen de Jenneres might actually believe that it's just
Speaker 1: too frightening and oppressive to be here. I'd buy that
Speaker 1: guy's got to be strapped to a chair and forced
Speaker 1: to view seventy two straight hours at John Wayne Movies
Speaker 1: until he finds his his cajones.
Speaker 2: All right, your mean?
Speaker 6: At the day Trump still needs to appoint a new
Speaker 6: leader for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this would be
Speaker 6: his opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. And then
Speaker 6: there's a picture of Elizabeth Warren.
Speaker 1: There you go, it would be funny.
Speaker 6: And finally, the Babylon Bee. Before Doge starts cuts funding,
Speaker 6: NIH working feverishly to complete the study on the effects
Speaker 6: of giving meth to jetpack wearing hamsters.
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