1
00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,160
Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

2
00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,760
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong

3
00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,240
Speaker 1: and Katty and He Armstrong and Yetty.

4
00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,560
Speaker 2: Panera has partnered with the beauty brand Holler and Glow

5
00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,400
Speaker 2: to offer two lip bombs inspired by the restaurant chains

6
00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,520
Speaker 2: mac and Cheese and signature bread balls. Less popular, they're

7
00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:35,560
Speaker 2: broccoli and cheddar.

8
00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:41,199
Speaker 1: Breath Min's lip balm based on their macaroni and cheese.

9
00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:47,680
Speaker 1: Huh what does that even mean? Don't know mac and

10
00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,760
Speaker 1: cheese flavored? Does you kiss someone then you think I

11
00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:57,360
Speaker 1: am starving all of a sudden. So, Mark, any of

12
00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,600
Speaker 1: you sampled any of these wares? Are you aware of this?

13
00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:00,240
Speaker 3: No?

14
00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,280
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking you kiss a girl and you're like

15
00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:10,520
Speaker 1: macaronian cheese. Uh So, Mark Alprin writes in his Lose

16
00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:15,280
Speaker 1: letter Today, think twice if you think the mayoral race

17
00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,720
Speaker 1: in New York City is over for a couple of reasons.

18
00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,960
Speaker 1: The New York Times suddenly favorable Cuomo coverage after they

19
00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,720
Speaker 1: pounded him all primary season. Maybe the New York Times

20
00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,960
Speaker 1: has decided it's not good for us in New York

21
00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,880
Speaker 1: and politically for the Democratic Party. To have this guy wins.

22
00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:38,080
Speaker 1: Now they're Booston Cuomo and it's Ron Mamdani. Yes, and

23
00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,399
Speaker 1: this new Harris X pole that came out that had

24
00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,240
Speaker 1: Mandani at twenty six, Cuomo at twenty three. Slee, what

25
00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:53,200
Speaker 1: a twenty two? Interesting? The problem being is sleeve with

26
00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,120
Speaker 1: the Republican candidate. Yeah, he's the perennial Republican Okay, So

27
00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,080
Speaker 1: that doesn't have anything to do with the independent then,

28
00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:04,760
Speaker 1: so Adams is at thirteen. So Cuomo the scumbag, the

29
00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,880
Speaker 1: skuy I mean, there's a scumbag through it through, ethically, politically, sexually,

30
00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,640
Speaker 1: every kind and then his politics, every manner of being.

31
00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,400
Speaker 1: He's a horrible human being, but he'd better be better

32
00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,280
Speaker 1: than Mumdani. He's trying to get a deal going that. Hey,

33
00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,000
Speaker 1: come like a month out, whoever's leading among independents, everybody

34
00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,160
Speaker 1: else get out of the race, all right, so you

35
00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,120
Speaker 1: have a chance to win, so he don't split the vote,

36
00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,800
Speaker 1: and then Mumdanni cruises to victory. I don't know if

37
00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,640
Speaker 1: he can get Eric Adams to agree with that, but

38
00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,840
Speaker 1: if he did, obviously, because Adams is an independent too,

39
00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,280
Speaker 1: you add those two independent numbers together and you're at

40
00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,720
Speaker 1: thirty four, and you'd be in first place. Right.

41
00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,359
Speaker 4: I hear a lot of you. I have a psychic

42
00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,520
Speaker 4: connection with you, and you're like, oh, for God's sake,

43
00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,639
Speaker 4: he's the mayor of a city. It doesn't matter number one.

44
00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,560
Speaker 4: It's the most important city in America. It is probably

45
00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:04,120
Speaker 4: the most important city on Earth Earth. Secondly, just a

46
00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:13,919
Speaker 4: quick rewind, if you're killed by politics, broadly speaking, you're

47
00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,440
Speaker 4: much much more likely history would tell you to be

48
00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,919
Speaker 4: killed by your own government than a foreign invading force

49
00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,120
Speaker 4: or whatever. And the twentieth century where more people were

50
00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,360
Speaker 4: killed by governments, and ever before it was quite a century.

51
00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:32,480
Speaker 4: Communism was unquestionably by far the leader in snuffing people

52
00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,040
Speaker 4: over politics, by the tens of millions.

53
00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,320
Speaker 1: Okay, the Democratic Party.

54
00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,200
Speaker 4: Is, to some extent, and to what extent is the question,

55
00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,480
Speaker 4: to some extent embracing communism, and to some extent young

56
00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,680
Speaker 4: Democratic voters are shouting in the streets up with communism.

57
00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:54,839
Speaker 4: They call it by different names, but that's what they mean.

58
00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,360
Speaker 4: This is of enormous importance, just to see how far

59
00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,960
Speaker 4: this has got and if it can be stopped off,

60
00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,880
Speaker 4: our young people can be reached anyway.

61
00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,360
Speaker 1: End of screen. Do you have more on the polling,

62
00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:10,560
Speaker 1: or shall we leap into face two. Nope, that's just

63
00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,840
Speaker 1: pretty interesting that it's that tight. I mean so within

64
00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:15,720
Speaker 1: three points.

65
00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,240
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's that's completely up in the air, especially

66
00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,839
Speaker 4: if even two of those candidates can come up with

67
00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,479
Speaker 4: some sort of deal. Yeah, if you've got the edge,

68
00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,359
Speaker 4: you know, an x amount of time before the election,

69
00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,160
Speaker 4: I'll drop out.

70
00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,640
Speaker 1: Then it's it's definitely in play.

71
00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,000
Speaker 4: Anyway, the great Nelly Bowls of the Free Press, doing

72
00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,960
Speaker 4: some very amusing writing is well on this topic, I

73
00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:41,560
Speaker 4: should say. She starts with how some Donnie mom Donnie

74
00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,760
Speaker 4: claimed to be both Asian and black or African American

75
00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:53,200
Speaker 4: on his application to Columbia, And it's very amusing, but

76
00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,920
Speaker 4: I'll skip ahead. She writes, Zorn Mumdami is the perfect

77
00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,960
Speaker 4: millennial because our people know that you can't get into

78
00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,240
Speaker 4: college identifying as white, and even worse than white, even

79
00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,400
Speaker 4: more damning is that you identify his Asian. If you

80
00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,200
Speaker 4: identify as Asian on a college application, your sat has

81
00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,400
Speaker 4: to be entirely perfect. You have to have personally physically

82
00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,440
Speaker 4: saved fifteen thousand orphans, and your dad needs to have

83
00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,480
Speaker 4: lifted the body in boldly in libraries onto a cargo

84
00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,800
Speaker 4: ship and delivered it to Princeton's campus. A very intellectual

85
00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,880
Speaker 4: reference there, historical blah blah blah. But you need to

86
00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,120
Speaker 4: be a miracle worker anyway, you still probably won't get in.

87
00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:32,080
Speaker 4: It's a personality fit thing.

88
00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:32,640
Speaker 1: You see.

89
00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,640
Speaker 4: So he would have been a fool to check the

90
00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,839
Speaker 4: Asian box. He goes into the details. But he's the

91
00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:43,000
Speaker 4: perfect millennial because he supports this sort of system but

92
00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,880
Speaker 4: then exploits it however he can, which is the key

93
00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,920
Speaker 4: to communism. The people at the top know how to

94
00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,440
Speaker 4: exploit the system or gain the system exactly anyway. Some

95
00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,240
Speaker 4: other choice tidbits from New York City's future mayor. Policing

96
00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,839
Speaker 4: is something that does not create safety, says Zoron. He's

97
00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,640
Speaker 4: big on defund the police. He's big on we need

98
00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,760
Speaker 4: social workers not cops. Okay, great.

99
00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:07,600
Speaker 1: Uh.

100
00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,880
Speaker 4: The end goal is seizing the means of production, he said,

101
00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,039
Speaker 4: that's just Marx, that's pretty communism.

102
00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,760
Speaker 1: Here's another quote.

103
00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,320
Speaker 4: We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up

104
00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,960
Speaker 4: housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership,

105
00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,360
Speaker 4: says Zoron. Remember that one, and remember he's a proud

106
00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,599
Speaker 4: democratic socialist of America and their platform does say, quote,

107
00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:37,000
Speaker 4: we fight for the abolition of capitalism. So yeah, it's

108
00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,640
Speaker 4: no surprise that he's fighting for the abolition of capitalism.

109
00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,000
Speaker 4: Now I found this really really interesting.

110
00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:45,840
Speaker 1: Oh did I lose it?

111
00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,640
Speaker 4: Gosh dang, and I've got too complicated a thingam and

112
00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:49,479
Speaker 4: jigger here.

113
00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:51,320
Speaker 1: Oh here it is.

114
00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,520
Speaker 4: So that thing about they're going to buy up housing

115
00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,440
Speaker 4: and have communal housing. The government's going to run housing.

116
00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,480
Speaker 4: This is super interesting. This is from the Free Beacon.

117
00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:08,240
Speaker 4: New York City public housing is known for dreadful living

118
00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,160
Speaker 4: conditions and high violent crime rates, and they describe a

119
00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,880
Speaker 4: visit Hillary Clinton made to New York City housing authority

120
00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:18,920
Speaker 4: units in twenty sixteen in which he's just horrified that

121
00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,760
Speaker 4: hasn't stopped Zorn Mumdani from pledging to expand public housing

122
00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,480
Speaker 4: by targeting negligent quote unquote landlords and placing their properties

123
00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,080
Speaker 4: under public control. Mumdannie says the policy will turn poor

124
00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:37,000
Speaker 4: quality housing into safe homes, So you're gonna seize up

125
00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,920
Speaker 4: anything he says is poor quality and put the government

126
00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:40,720
Speaker 4: in charge of it.

127
00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,840
Speaker 1: Does he have any power to do most of these

128
00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,120
Speaker 1: things he wants to do as.

129
00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,840
Speaker 4: The mayor boy, the constitution or by laws of New

130
00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:49,000
Speaker 4: York City's mayored him.

131
00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know he has a lot of

132
00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,600
Speaker 1: discretion witness Giuliani and the good things he did. The

133
00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,840
Speaker 1: fact that that's his inclination is bad enough. But I

134
00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,680
Speaker 1: haven't heard much about what the mayor of New York

135
00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,440
Speaker 1: has done power do in terms of can you kick

136
00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,200
Speaker 1: out the grocery stores and make them government run as

137
00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,560
Speaker 1: the mayor. But here's the.

138
00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,200
Speaker 4: Really interesting part to me, and it's the reason I

139
00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,120
Speaker 4: brought this up. It's just another example of how classroom,

140
00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:20,160
Speaker 4: particularly leftist classroom theories sound great to a nineteen year

141
00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,560
Speaker 4: old with no life experience and certainly no business experience

142
00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,520
Speaker 4: and no understanding of how business works or how real

143
00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:32,000
Speaker 4: estate works. They are really great cons Communism is a

144
00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:33,640
Speaker 4: giant con job.

145
00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:34,720
Speaker 1: Socialism is too.

146
00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,120
Speaker 4: But they get into our local real estate pros say,

147
00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,720
Speaker 4: what Donnie's talking about will make already subpar housing even

148
00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,920
Speaker 4: worse New York City. Let's see, I'm quoting an article

149
00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,960
Speaker 4: by John Levigne here. The New York City government already

150
00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,320
Speaker 4: acts as landlord to more than five hundred and twenty

151
00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,520
Speaker 4: thousand residents who live in the city's famously decrepit public housing.

152
00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,600
Speaker 4: The municipal government's own New York City Housing Authority Watchdog

153
00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:06,000
Speaker 4: noted last year that the NY Housing Authority remains substantially

154
00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,440
Speaker 4: out of compliance with several mold and leak requirements, adding

155
00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,319
Speaker 4: that eighty three percent of verified mold complaints involve large

156
00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:17,520
Speaker 4: mold growth. The watchdog also deemed Housing Authority buildings quote

157
00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:23,640
Speaker 4: out of compliance in waste management and pest control. Thomas

158
00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:28,320
Speaker 4: Sowell would be yes, I know, or Tim Sandifer or

159
00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:33,760
Speaker 4: Milton Friedman. There's no competitive pressure on the government housing

160
00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:38,360
Speaker 4: authorities to be better than anything, so they suck. They're

161
00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:43,880
Speaker 4: the worst mold rats bugs. Oh no, you better clean

162
00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,200
Speaker 4: that up or you'll go out of business. Except they

163
00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,160
Speaker 4: can't possibly go out of business.

164
00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:49,319
Speaker 1: One more little bit.

165
00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,199
Speaker 4: Supercharging that authority will only exacerbate the problem. New York

166
00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,000
Speaker 4: Apartment Association CEO Kenny Burgos added, quote, the buildings that

167
00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,480
Speaker 4: are in the worst shape right now are co owned

168
00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,240
Speaker 4: by the city, and I think Mumdanni will soon learn

169
00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,720
Speaker 4: that these high violation counts are typically a product of

170
00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,800
Speaker 4: the lack of revenue to cover the cost, and not

171
00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,040
Speaker 4: because and he's talking about private units, not because owners

172
00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,560
Speaker 4: decided to run buildings poorly. So you've got these what

173
00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,360
Speaker 4: he called them, negligent landlords. And this guy's saying, look,

174
00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,920
Speaker 4: you have fixed the prices, you've installed rent controls. You

175
00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,520
Speaker 4: haven't let us taken enough revenue to do the fixes

176
00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,280
Speaker 4: you want us to do. And Mmdonni's solution is to

177
00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,360
Speaker 4: let the government take it over and run it. Good lord,

178
00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,760
Speaker 4: it's a great con in the classroom. Anybody who's lived

179
00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,320
Speaker 4: a couple of years knows, oh, that'll never happen.

180
00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,960
Speaker 1: So AOC invited him to d C today to try

181
00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,679
Speaker 1: to get more big Dems on his side. It'll be

182
00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,880
Speaker 1: interesting to see if the power in the Democratic Party

183
00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,960
Speaker 1: is able to stop him because they realize it's not

184
00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,720
Speaker 1: good for them nationally to have him as the poster

185
00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,040
Speaker 1: child for the party, or if the AOC wing, which

186
00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,760
Speaker 1: is you know, highly motivated by a lot of energetic

187
00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,160
Speaker 1: young people, wins the day.

188
00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,480
Speaker 4: So, mom, Donnie had this big meeting with a bunch

189
00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,640
Speaker 4: of New York movers and shakers. I think it was yesterday,

190
00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,160
Speaker 4: maybe the day before, But he said he will discourage

191
00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,839
Speaker 4: the term globalize the Intifada because there are a lot

192
00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,640
Speaker 4: of folks there who had a lot of trouble with it,

193
00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,520
Speaker 4: and evidently got a huge backlash from his own side

194
00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:32,480
Speaker 4: for even saying that. But he said, no, all it

195
00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,880
Speaker 4: means is that we need to everybody around the world

196
00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,760
Speaker 4: to stand up for the poor Palestinian people.

197
00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:45,559
Speaker 1: That's all it means. Okay. Major League Baseball had its

198
00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,120
Speaker 1: All Star Game last night. They had their first ever

199
00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,480
Speaker 1: swing off, which sounds like something Diddy would do. What

200
00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,880
Speaker 1: is this swing off? They also used robot umpire for

201
00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,800
Speaker 1: the first time, the robot umpire which comes out on

202
00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,439
Speaker 1: the field and waves its arms. That isn't out. You

203
00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:04,960
Speaker 1: get out of here, and then you kick sand on

204
00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,079
Speaker 1: its metal feet and then that was a strike. One

205
00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:14,240
Speaker 1: more word out of you. You get the thumb because

206
00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,679
Speaker 1: that's the way robots talk. So anyway, that and other

207
00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:18,800
Speaker 1: stuff on the way, stay here.

208
00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,520
Speaker 2: Shore bird in the air to center field, headed towards

209
00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:27,400
Speaker 2: the wall.

210
00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,960
Speaker 1: Dead center. That's huge for the Factional.

211
00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,319
Speaker 2: League swar bums.

212
00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:44,120
Speaker 1: In the All Star Game, the swing off track look

213
00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:51,640
Speaker 1: outs top House Nationally takes the lead four to three. Unbelievable.

214
00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,240
Speaker 1: So new rule in the Major League All Star Game

215
00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,320
Speaker 1: as they continue to try to make that something people

216
00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,120
Speaker 1: will watch. Or League Baseball in general, because it's been

217
00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,720
Speaker 1: struggling for years. Even though I love the sport, it's

218
00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:10,040
Speaker 1: just pretty slow paced by modern standards, and people seem

219
00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,360
Speaker 1: to really, really like lots of offense in their sports.

220
00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,840
Speaker 1: See the NFL. AnyWho now they have if you're tied

221
00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,439
Speaker 1: at the end of the night, at the end of

222
00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,640
Speaker 1: nine innings, instead of you just keep playing, which I

223
00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,160
Speaker 1: always loved, you have a swing off and you get

224
00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,120
Speaker 1: your best hitters out there and try to hit home runs.

225
00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,559
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the home run derby at the

226
00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,120
Speaker 1: end of a game. And the National League prevailed over

227
00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:29,000
Speaker 1: the American League.

228
00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,720
Speaker 4: I've always thought that was ridiculous in sports that did it,

229
00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,160
Speaker 4: like soccer, all right, we're tired of playing this game.

230
00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,440
Speaker 4: Let's play an entirely different game, just with the same equipment.

231
00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,400
Speaker 1: And a hockey does it with their shootouts, which are exciting,

232
00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,120
Speaker 1: but you're right, it is a kind of a different

233
00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,199
Speaker 1: sport at that point, and not in the playoffs. Hockey

234
00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,360
Speaker 1: would never do that in the playoffs. Oh they don't.

235
00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,760
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. One other cool thing that they

236
00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,600
Speaker 1: did is they had the pitcher miked while he's on

237
00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,040
Speaker 1: the mound. In this particular instance, Clayton Kershaw, who I

238
00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,520
Speaker 1: just saw pitch at Dodger Stadium a couple of weeks ago.

239
00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,200
Speaker 1: I had really good seats I got to he came

240
00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:06,199
Speaker 1: out and stretched on the field. I God, I thought

241
00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:07,880
Speaker 1: it was interesting because you could stretch anywhere. I don't

242
00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,400
Speaker 1: know why he came out and stretched right in the

243
00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:11,800
Speaker 1: Is it the only person out there on the field

244
00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,680
Speaker 1: rolling around pulling his head, leg behind his head and stuff.

245
00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,960
Speaker 1: Hey you they had him miked on the mound. Here's

246
00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,840
Speaker 1: just a little bit of that. What do you want, smoltzy,

247
00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:21,360
Speaker 1: what do you want?

248
00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:22,400
Speaker 5: Cut her in?

249
00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:23,080
Speaker 1: Slider in?

250
00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:23,520
Speaker 3: I don't.

251
00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:34,040
Speaker 2: Can make a mess o shortbout he's splitty break out this.

252
00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,960
Speaker 3: This is so weird talking to you guys.

253
00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,320
Speaker 1: I would like to have seen more of that. I'll

254
00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,200
Speaker 1: have to check that out. That's funny. I got it

255
00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,160
Speaker 1: on the DVR. I can't wait to watch it. Oh,

256
00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,640
Speaker 1: that's wild. And then last night they tried for the

257
00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,640
Speaker 1: first time something that might be a regular part of

258
00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:55,600
Speaker 1: every game starting next year. Your robot empires. So I

259
00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,120
Speaker 1: think it happened as early as the second inning. There

260
00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,040
Speaker 1: was a pitch called a and the catcher tapped to

261
00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,000
Speaker 1: the top of his head, which is how you signal

262
00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,640
Speaker 1: any player can do this. You signal that you want

263
00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,520
Speaker 1: the robot umpire to take a look at it. You

264
00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,400
Speaker 1: get so many challenges per game. Catcher taps his head,

265
00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,840
Speaker 1: robot umpire says that was a strike, not a ball.

266
00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,600
Speaker 1: Guy gets sent to the dugout. And there were five challenges,

267
00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:24,680
Speaker 1: four successful throughout the game. So four times the umpire

268
00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,680
Speaker 1: called a ball or strike and then the robot said sorry, blind,

269
00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:28,760
Speaker 1: oh you got it wrong.

270
00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,880
Speaker 4: Wow, wow, Wow. There's no need to go with that

271
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,160
Speaker 4: sort of insulting you know verbiage. But how does thank

272
00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,520
Speaker 4: you much much higher than it was in the regular

273
00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:38,440
Speaker 4: season so far?

274
00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,800
Speaker 1: I don't have that stat in front. How does that

275
00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,080
Speaker 1: make you feel as the umpire when the robots is now,

276
00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,800
Speaker 1: you got that one wrong. Isn't that gonna give them

277
00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,560
Speaker 1: the yips like it does in the NFL, where they're

278
00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:51,360
Speaker 1: all afraid to call anything because how it's gonna come out? It?

279
00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,480
Speaker 4: Certainly could. They're moving in the direction of only robot.

280
00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:59,840
Speaker 4: I'm sure this is a transitional period, but yeah, it could.

281
00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:01,920
Speaker 1: Give you eat the yips. God, I would think so.

282
00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,520
Speaker 4: Of course, last night, the umpster like it's a freaking

283
00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,040
Speaker 4: all Star Game. Nobody cares.

284
00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,280
Speaker 1: Did they do it quickly? Though? That's what I hate

285
00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,000
Speaker 1: about challenges in all sports. Oh yeah, it's very quickly

286
00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,920
Speaker 1: because you have an exciting play in the crowd cheers

287
00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,120
Speaker 1: and under review, and then you wait ten minutes and

288
00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,880
Speaker 1: find out, Yes, what were we cheering about? I remember

289
00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:19,480
Speaker 1: what happened?

290
00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did the ball contact that imaginary you know,

291
00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,080
Speaker 4: parallelogram or not. It's a lot simpler than did the

292
00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,080
Speaker 4: defensive back contact that you receive such as that that

293
00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:33,880
Speaker 4: would materially blah blah blah or was it mutual blah

294
00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:34,440
Speaker 4: blah blah blah?

295
00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,080
Speaker 1: Was the ball out before his knee hit the ground? Uh?

296
00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,760
Speaker 1: So you might. They might go all robot umpires. Interesting,

297
00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:46,120
Speaker 1: then it just be instantaneous ball or strike. I like

298
00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,120
Speaker 1: the idea of requesting a pitch.

299
00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,160
Speaker 4: All right, Clayton, nail him right in the back, fastball,

300
00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,440
Speaker 4: high and tight, show the moose boss inside of the place.

301
00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,640
Speaker 1: Hears babe boy see him in person, right in front

302
00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,560
Speaker 1: of me, a Dodger staium. I realize how big these

303
00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,600
Speaker 1: guys are. He is a huge dude. Indeed, Uh, we

304
00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,840
Speaker 1: got some interesting news to get to. We probably should

305
00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,640
Speaker 1: that's coming up Next to You Miss a segment gets

306
00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,159
Speaker 1: podcast Armstrong and Geddy.

307
00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,840
Speaker 6: President Trump flatley denying reports he asked President Zelensky whether

308
00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,640
Speaker 6: he could strike deeper into Russia. Trump's saying Zelensky shouldn't

309
00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,320
Speaker 6: target Moscow and that the US isn't plan to give

310
00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:24,919
Speaker 6: him long range missiles.

311
00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,680
Speaker 1: Who knows what's true and what's not there, So somehow

312
00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,040
Speaker 1: it leaked out yesterday with the actual transcription of the

313
00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,600
Speaker 1: phone call between Trump and Zolensky on July fourth, in

314
00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,720
Speaker 1: which Trump asks Zelensky, could you hit Moscow or Saint Petersburg,

315
00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,600
Speaker 1: which I don't quite understand the question, and Zelensky said, yeah,

316
00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:49,199
Speaker 1: if I had the right weapons. Well, of course, I

317
00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,679
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like you're buying an airplane from somebody,

318
00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,480
Speaker 1: he says, can you fly to Florida? Uh, that's why

319
00:17:55,520 --> 00:18:01,360
Speaker 1: I'm here, That's what we're doing here. Well, I think

320
00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:07,040
Speaker 1: it's more like could you eat a steak for breakfast? Yeah?

321
00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,360
Speaker 1: If somebody gave me one? Yeah, I mean I don't

322
00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:14,920
Speaker 1: have one, handy. I don't understand that question. But anyway,

323
00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,399
Speaker 1: so Trump was asked about it later because it seems

324
00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:22,119
Speaker 1: like a pretty big deal given that Biden was hardcore

325
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,520
Speaker 1: no strikes into Russia and then some limited with Trump.

326
00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,280
Speaker 1: But we haven't been big in the United States on

327
00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,000
Speaker 1: pushing them going on the offense. And that would really

328
00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,560
Speaker 1: be going on the offense if you start striking the

329
00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,760
Speaker 1: capital h and we provide them that equipment. But Trump

330
00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:39,560
Speaker 1: was asked about it and denied it and said he

331
00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,000
Speaker 1: didn't But whether that's true or not, who flipping notes.

332
00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,040
Speaker 1: I'm reading this book I keep mentioning by an author

333
00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,360
Speaker 1: named tol It's the third trilogy about World War Two

334
00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,119
Speaker 1: ending in the Pacific, because we're coming up on the

335
00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,760
Speaker 1: eightieth anniversary and I just thought I would look into that.

336
00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,760
Speaker 1: But there's so much stuff even now in the twenty twenties,

337
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,320
Speaker 1: new information that is looked at differently, and how decisions

338
00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,280
Speaker 1: were made, and what was known and what was true

339
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,680
Speaker 1: and what was a feint and what was an argument

340
00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,919
Speaker 1: between It's similar to the pause and was it Hegzeth

341
00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,199
Speaker 1: or Elbridge, Colby or whoever behind it or did Trump order?

342
00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,359
Speaker 1: Those sorts of things aren't even known about eighty years ago.

343
00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,400
Speaker 1: With FDR in the Pentagon then, right, it's really hard

344
00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:26,240
Speaker 1: to nail this stuff down, and context matters a lot.

345
00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,520
Speaker 4: I mean, that conversation between Trump and Zelensky, if that

346
00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,720
Speaker 4: was in the midst of a bunch of hypotheticals, just

347
00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,640
Speaker 4: trying to get the idea of.

348
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,480
Speaker 1: You know, just each other are in the possibilities. And

349
00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,880
Speaker 1: that's very different than I have a plan to or

350
00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,600
Speaker 1: I want to help you too. Sure he denied it

351
00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,359
Speaker 1: pretty strongly though, Right. And then one more this, this

352
00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,880
Speaker 1: is some analysis on the whole fifty day pause.

353
00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,000
Speaker 7: Despite what President Trump says about the length of that

354
00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 7: time being significant, he does provide a sort of quite

355
00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,480
Speaker 7: a lengthy period in which the Kremlin can continue to

356
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 7: pursue its military tactics in Ukraine without facing any immediate

357
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,720
Speaker 7: consequences or any further consequences. It won't until after that

358
00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,679
Speaker 7: fifty day period is over that it faces tariffs or

359
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,560
Speaker 7: secondary sanctions on countries that do trade in its oil.

360
00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,560
Speaker 7: And if you're in Kiev right now, facing a daily,

361
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,360
Speaker 7: nightly barrage of drone strikes and missile attacks, it must

362
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,679
Speaker 7: seem like an eternity.

363
00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a common critique of a lot of

364
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 1: people that does fifty day pause for Putin is like,

365
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,720
Speaker 1: all right, I can keep doing this for fifty more days.

366
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 4: Well, particularly given that really disdainful stuff that Lavrov said

367
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,600
Speaker 4: the other day. I mean, that doesn't sound like goodwill

368
00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:46,399
Speaker 4: to me or good faith.

369
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 1: Rather, Lavrov came out and said, I was asked about

370
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,880
Speaker 1: the fifty the fifty day pause, and after fifty days

371
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,639
Speaker 1: you'll get hit with the big sanctions. And he said,

372
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,159
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, one hundred days. We've heard it all,

373
00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 1: fifty days whatever, right, right. The point made yesterday I

374
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,199
Speaker 1: thought it was a good one. The idea that this

375
00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 1: is showing China something or scaring China, the idea that

376
00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: we're willing to push back or supply weaponry to Ukraine,

377
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,680
Speaker 1: you know, and we would do the same for Taiwan

378
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 1: in that China might be looking at this and saying, Wow,

379
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 1: they're going to use even more of their depleted Patriot

380
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 1: missiles to fight that war. Cool, good luck, keep it up,

381
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,600
Speaker 1: keep it up, Yeah, good luck when you're taking us

382
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: on in Taiwan. Right exactly.

383
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,119
Speaker 4: I happened to hear that commentary, and it was an

384
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,879
Speaker 4: excellent point. We can expand arms in a week that

385
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 4: would take us three four years to replace.

386
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 1: Why does it take our industrial capacity?

387
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 4: Well, because we've been at relative peace for so long,

388
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 4: haven't needed this stuff. Our shipbuilding is the best and

389
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:58,480
Speaker 4: most extreme example. It's completely atrophied as an industry. We

390
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,119
Speaker 4: can hardly build ships at all.

391
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the bunker Busters we dropped on Israel, A

392
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: little take a couple of years to replace those, Right,

393
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: we didn't drop them on Israel, that'd be a news story.

394
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: We dropped them on Iran. Oh, I'd misunderstood the directions. Whoops.

395
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, that's a very dark joke, which brings me

396
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,719
Speaker 4: to a broader topic.

397
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 1: Unless you have more on that you want to hit.

398
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 1: It was funny.

399
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 4: I was thinking about how to present this, and it

400
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 4: was amusing to me and a little frustrating during certain

401
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:36,480
Speaker 4: periods of the Maga movement that traditional Republicans would be

402
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 4: accused of being Rhinos because they weren't sufficiently supportive of Trump,

403
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 4: when in fact they were like literally espousing the principles

404
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 4: of the Republican Party for the last one hundred and

405
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,959
Speaker 4: fifty years. I'm not a Rhino, I'm an actual Republican,

406
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,719
Speaker 4: but it's just become an all purpose insult, like neocon

407
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 4: for instance. But a lot of the battles over foreign

408
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 4: whether it's the the expansive American involvement people. What would

409
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 4: you call Is there a nickname for that? That's not neocon,

410
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,159
Speaker 4: which has become like fascist. It just means everything I

411
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 4: don't like.

412
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: I don't know what to a lot of I don't

413
00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 1: know what the term is. For the people that want

414
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: to get involved, We'll call them involvementists. On the other

415
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: side they call restrainers now, but I don't want you

416
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: to call the involvementists.

417
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 4: Restrainers as opposed to isolationists or somebody used a different

418
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 4: term for like your Elbridge Colby people, they're like selectivists.

419
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 4: They're like, no, we have to deal with the big

420
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 4: problem first. Then the big problem is China. We can't

421
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 4: get distracted by all these lesser theaters and get depleted

422
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 4: to deal with China.

423
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the chest lesson. Your son got

424
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: in the party with the gorilla, Henry. That's right, don't

425
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: deal with the two yapping dogs. Deal with the gorilla Henry.

426
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 4: And Elbridge Colby is saying China is the grill. So

427
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 4: what is conservatism in foreign policy? What does it mean

428
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 4: to be a conservative? A patriot?

429
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's tough.

430
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 4: There are different interpretations of what that means I came

431
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 4: across a domestic example of that same conundrum. And occasionally

432
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 4: I get hits with this stuff, and it makes me

433
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 4: feel bad because I just can't decide Manchester, Kentucky, which

434
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 4: is right like smack Dad, between Nashville and Chattanooga and Huntsville, Alabama.

435
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,879
Speaker 1: How far cher is it from hogs Nipple.

436
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 4: It's uh, you can't get there from here and take

437
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 4: you all day, pack your lunch.

438
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: But so it's it's pois.

439
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 4: It's in the perfect position between a bunch of boomtowns

440
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:53,720
Speaker 4: to become a boom town itself, heavy agricultural. It's a

441
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 4: town of I can't remember a couple of thousand people,

442
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, few thousand people and a place

443
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 4: I grew up, Yeah, exactly. And just in a weird twist, well,

444
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 4: here's here's the problem. You've got like half the town

445
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 4: that is staunchly pro growth. If farmers want to sell

446
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 4: their farm to a developer and the developer is going

447
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 4: to put up a subdivision, there is no more conservative

448
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 4: value than property rights and the free market, absolutely, and

449
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 4: for instance, and it's divided into these two camps. And

450
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 4: there's a weird twist where the mayor may have gotten

451
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 4: rubbed out. Whoa, we'll get wow twist in a second.

452
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 4: So there's a moratorium against development. Anti moratorium signs at

453
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 4: a local meeting read vote like a conservative, less government,

454
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 4: less rules. It ought to be fewer rules, fewer regulations,

455
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 4: lower taxes. That's a pretty damn good description of conservatism.

456
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 4: Oh but wait a minute, the other side responds with, Historically,

457
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 4: conservatism is emphasized order, prudence, stewardish stewardship, a deep respect

458
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:09,360
Speaker 4: for heritage.

459
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: It's about preserving.

460
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 4: Traditional values and communities, not selling them off for short

461
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 4: term gain.

462
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: It's about being more careful. True, and that's not a

463
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: bad description of conservatism either. Yeah. I don't know if

464
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: it's got to fit a definition, but I've lived in

465
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: towns where this sort of thing was going on, and

466
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: I always thought, after the fact, because this stuff almost

467
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: always happened because there's so much money involved, didn't we

468
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: like the town? The reason we liked living here is

469
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: because it was this small, little bird without traffic and

470
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: the big walmart at the edge of town that put

471
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: everybody out of business. Now, why was everybody so excited

472
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: about this? Well?

473
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, and to that point, about the Walmart. These towns

474
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 4: are dying. A lot of these towns are dying. Young

475
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 4: people are moving away. There are no jobs, there's no growth,

476
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 4: there's no prospects, and so the pro growth people are saying, look,

477
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 4: this is just the way of the modern world.

478
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: Esthetically, it's sickening to me.

479
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 4: I just speak the words farmland being you know, plowed

480
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 4: to build subdivisions, and it makes my heart hurt.

481
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: I know me too. It's happening right now in the

482
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: town I live in. I'm anti growth even though it

483
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: doesn't really make sense. But the hospital where both my

484
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: kids were born, where I walked out of where they

485
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: were born in the morning and looked out over this

486
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: field and thought, wow, I'm a father now, or I'm

487
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: a father again or whatever. That field is now all

488
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: houses and apartments as of like six months ago, And

489
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: it just makes my heart hurt. Yeah.

490
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's They're a range of every political philosophy. Like

491
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 4: in conservatism, are you a libertarian conservative or are you

492
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 4: a you know what? Would you read more about this

493
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 4: stuff these days than I do? But are you more

494
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 4: a birk or a I don't know.

495
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: Well, there's also a kind of a and I can

496
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: easily fall into this just kind of a knee jerk

497
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 1: to keep things the same. Sure, that doesn't really have

498
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: a strong argument other than I like the way it

499
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: is now or was. Yeah.

500
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 4: I mean, here's a guy who speaks eloquently about this

501
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 4: land here. I'm attached to it one hundred percent. Generations.

502
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 4: His families farmed the country since the eighteen hundreds. I

503
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 4: don't know how much of my family's blood, sweat and

504
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 4: tears are in this land. And you know, you could say, well,

505
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 4: that's some real nice poetry there, son, but you know,

506
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 4: it's just land. Here's a guy whose family's farmed there

507
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 4: for generations, who's fought to build a subdivision near the

508
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 4: other guy's property. He's incensed by the new rules. Quote,

509
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 4: they took all the landowners' rights away.

510
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: It's tough. If I had a chunk of land, I

511
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: actually do have a junk of land. If I had

512
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: a chunk of land that somebody wanted to buy, uh

513
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: for a hell of a lot of money to put

514
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: up houses, it'd be hard to say no. So the

515
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: mayor who.

516
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 4: Was pro growth, Oh, if you're a deep thinker or

517
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 4: a shallow thinker, you'd just like to shoot off your

518
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 4: mouth drop us to know what do you think of

519
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 4: this battle? Where do you see where do you see

520
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 4: yourself coming down on that question? Mail Bag at Armstrong

521
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 4: e geddy dot com is the email address. Mail bag

522
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 4: at Armstrong you geddy dot com because this is a

523
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 4: tough one. Or if you prefer to text four one

524
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 4: five two nine five KFTC one more time this four

525
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 4: one five two nine five KFTC.

526
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: I remember we had this conversation. So, uh, business people

527
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: tend to you know, they they you know, like Trump developers.

528
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: They like to see buildings go up and everything like that.

529
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: So Joe and I had moved to Charlotte, North Carolina

530
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: thirty years ago or whatever it was, jeez, thirty thirty

531
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,239
Speaker 1: two years ago, thirty three years ago. But uh we

532
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: got there and our new boss was driving by this

533
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: big new mall that had gone and he said, this

534
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: was just a cowfield like two years ago. Isn't this amazing?

535
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: And I was like, I like cowfields. I don't like malls.

536
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: He was so excited that it was a mall in

537
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: a giant parking lot. He thought that was cool as

538
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: a business guy and made my heart hurt that that

539
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: used to be a beautiful cow pasture.

540
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 4: By the way, a memo to America. Charlotte is now gigantic.

541
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: It is a massive, important to banking and other things

542
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: metro area.

543
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 4: There's no need to say North Carolina anymore. It'd be

544
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: like saying New York, New York. People know what you're

545
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,959
Speaker 4: talking about. It is an important place anyway. It wouldn't

546
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 4: have become that if you'd hung on to all those

547
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 4: cow pastures.

548
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: Right right, so good or bad. Fifty three year old

549
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: former mayor was pro growth found dead in the back

550
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: seat of his car in his driveway.

551
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 3: Wow.

552
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 4: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation took over, confiscating evidence and quietly

553
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 4: closed the case.

554
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: They're not required to release investigative material.

555
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 4: The medical examiner ruled the death accidental, citing cocaine and

556
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 4: kratom in the mayor's heart blood plus heart disease.

557
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: What's kratom? Is this a new drug? I don't know about?

558
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: Is that that artificial marijuana stuff k R A t

559
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: O M. Can somebody look that up? K R A

560
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: t O M in the backseat of his car.

561
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 4: He died of coke and whatever the hell less is

562
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 4: in the backseat of his car in his driveway.

563
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: Sounds suspicious to me, Katie.

564
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 5: Cratam is or kratim, I'm not really sure how you're

565
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 5: pronounce it. But it's being used to mimic opiates. Okay,

566
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 5: if you go into like smoke shops, you'll see all

567
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 5: these different brands and they say percoset, hydrocordo and oxycotton,

568
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 5: and it's like, if you buy that particular combination of chemicals,

569
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 5: it mimics whatever.

570
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: Those pillars so similar to jencum look that up. Very similar.

571
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 4: Well, Plus there are various like CBD formulations that in

572
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 4: places where pot is still illegal, chemists have figured out

573
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 4: how to change the chemistry just enough that it no.

574
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: Longer is illegal.

575
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 4: Oh and I wonder if this craton or whatever it

576
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 4: is is a similar dot.

577
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: It's not similar to jenkam And don't let.

578
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 5: That and I don't do jakim kids.

579
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't do that one, Katie, I already did. It's

580
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: too late. I think it's a long time.

581
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 5: I will say, Jack, I'm gonna hit you dude for

582
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 5: a second time this week.

583
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: Okay, more on the hero.

584
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 8: So that Trump's tariffs will also cause tomato prices to skyrocket.

585
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 8: A lot of people are concerned, so Hines put out

586
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 8: a new commercial to address the situation.

587
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: Well, watch this.

588
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 4: Hines wants all our loyal customers to know that as

589
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 4: the cost of tomatoes rises, will try to keep our

590
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 4: prices as low as possible.

591
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: We're all in this together. Kind that's nice. Yeah.

592
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 8: Well, here's another ad, and this one's from a Hunt's Ketchup.

593
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: Check this out. Good news.

594
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 3: Our prices are staying put because Hunts Ketchup is and

595
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 3: has always been, tomato free. That's right, zero percent tomato

596
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 3: a hundred percent. Don't worry about it. It's so healthier

597
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 3: than that hot dog you're putting it on. Oh a

598
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 3: fun fact, that little squore to ketchup water we invented

599
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 3: that Hunts.

600
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: Thanks for buying is by mistake. No, okay, wow, thanks

601
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: for buying his by mistake. Oh my kids hate the

602
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: squirt of ketchup water that comes out of the bottle first.

603
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 4: It's so disappointing and disgusting. Mustard too, It's terrible, it's

604
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,239
Speaker 4: gross and you can shake the bottle as much as

605
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 4: you want, but it's hard to avoid. So I remember,

606
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 4: if you're of a certain age, you remember the Drudge Report.

607
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 4: That was the first thing I checked every morning for

608
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 4: like a decade. I haven't looked at it in years. Actually,

609
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 4: why is Drudge so anti Trump?

610
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what he is falling out of some

611
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: sort I don't remember AnyWho. His big story today Matt

612
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: Drudge doesn't even run it anymore? Does he? Then he

613
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: sell it doesn't matter. Yeah, he saw that. The big

614
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 1: story un drudged today is alarming bruise on Trump hand

615
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: and swollen ankles. Have you seen this which got a

616
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: picture of It looks like a bruise on his hand.

617
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: It actually looks like the bruise you can get if

618
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: they stick that needle on top to get sort of

619
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: a routine thing done if you're an old person. That

620
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: is what it looks like to me. The swollen ankles.

621
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: If this is not a doctored photo, he's sitting down.

622
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: His ankles are quite large. I don't know what's going on.

623
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 1: There could be a doctored photo, though, be very easy

624
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: to do retaining one. Yeah, yeah, it could be a

625
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: number of things. I'm not a doctor jack anyway.

626
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Trump's swollen ankles, Let's see if they get

627
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 4: some more coverage.

628
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, go ahead. No, I was gonna say, speaking

629
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: of fluid, this very weird transition. That's one of my worst. Yeah,

630
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: just thirty, Michael. I don't have time. I don't have

631
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: time for my wordsmith three. I'm not going to s

632
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 1: cut it short and just spout it out. I can't

633
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: a pro a pro athlete talking about basically the meaning

634
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: of life or what makes you happy, or if you

635
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: think X, Y or Z is going to bring you happiness,

636
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: you might want to listen to his words. Yeah, you

637
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: don't have to be a sports fan for to be

638
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: applicable to your life. So we'll get to that in

639
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: coming hours. I hope you catch it. Armstrong and Getty