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Speaker 4: are bringing hope over fear, democracy over saritarianism, the rule
Speaker 4: of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, unity over division,
Speaker 4: and peace.
Speaker 2: Over Are you gonna play any music?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So that's Bruce Springsteen announcing him and the East
Speaker 1: Street Band are going to tour the United States a
Speaker 1: bunch of angry eighty year olds. But if you were
Speaker 1: bringing like all the greatest hits of Bruce Springsteen in
Speaker 1: the Eastreet Band, I'd be really excited. If you're bringing
Speaker 1: speeches of freedom over fear or whatever, I'm not interested.
Speaker 1: I will pay a lot of money to not have
Speaker 1: to go to that. Yeah, no kidding, what's the ticket price?
Speaker 1: I'll pay you that if you'll stay away.
Speaker 2: From me, and we're both huge Bruce fans as a
Speaker 2: songwriter and musician, but more than I've ever been.
Speaker 1: I did such a deep dive on him and listened
Speaker 1: to his autobiography, got into a lot of his old
Speaker 1: stuff and rarity clips that he's been putting on albums.
Speaker 1: He is underrated and he's pretty highly rated. Yeah, agreed,
Speaker 1: he is freaking unbelievable. But he went off the rails
Speaker 1: politically and he cares more about that now than music,
Speaker 1: which I guess is the old man disease or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a hell of a promotion of
Speaker 2: your tour, no kidding, And you know it's funny. Hanson
Speaker 2: was describing the video of that as they're all staring
Speaker 2: in the camera like a gang. What are you gonna
Speaker 2: hit me with your walker?
Speaker 1: It's gotta be like you don't get that much enjoyment
Speaker 1: out of the music thing anymore, Yeah, or something, because
Speaker 1: like Eric Clapton, I just actually came across this yesterday
Speaker 1: by accident, because I was gonna find an old Clapton
Speaker 1: song to play for my son, who's taken guitar lessons.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite Clapton solos of all time and
Speaker 1: his most recent album, which is mostly his anger about
Speaker 1: COVID restrictions. It's like it's like he gave up on
Speaker 1: wanting to be a rock star or a blues legend
Speaker 1: and cat like COVID restrictions.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, he's done that, he's checked that box.
Speaker 2: And I get as a human being being rescless to
Speaker 2: move on to your next chapter and to have renewed purpose.
Speaker 2: I mean, Bruce and Clapton don't need more money, they
Speaker 2: don't need more adoration. That they're looking for satisfaction. I
Speaker 2: get that. On the other hand, it ruins that other
Speaker 2: thing that got you in front of me, and so
Speaker 2: go away. I don't want to hear it, COVID restrictions.
Speaker 2: I'm with there on that too.
Speaker 1: Any Who, this is good news. This is breaking news.
Speaker 1: The Olympic Committee has made a big announcement. You know,
Speaker 1: the next Summer Olympics is in Los Angeles. It's the
Speaker 1: United States in LA. Twenty twenty eight Summer Games. Ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be no trans women playing though they have been banned.
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Men?
Speaker 1: Transgender women athletes are now excluded for the Olympics after
Speaker 1: the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy just a
Speaker 1: couple of hours ago that audio ens with men. That
Speaker 1: aligns with what US President Donald Trump wanted and his
Speaker 1: executive order on women's sports. And they actually say at
Speaker 1: one point keep this in mind California high schools. There
Speaker 1: are lots of high schools around the country actually, according
Speaker 1: to the IOC, and they're corrupt and they're socialists and
Speaker 1: all kinds of things to not like. Also with three heads,
Speaker 1: what they said, the eligibility policy that will apply from
Speaker 1: the LA Olympics protects fairness, safety, and integrity in the
Speaker 1: female category.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, good for you. Yep, good for you. Love that. Oh.
Speaker 2: One other note from the world of sports. Well done, Michael.
Speaker 2: We were talking about the first Major League Baseball game
Speaker 2: of the year. It was last night Giants and Yankees,
Speaker 2: and how the Netflix broadcast, yes it was on Netflix,
Speaker 2: was so weird because there's like an internet show or
Speaker 2: an interview show rather with a baseball game in the
Speaker 2: background for a significant part. A good friend with ties
Speaker 2: to Major League baseball just pointed out that they missed
Speaker 2: the first ball strike challenge in Major League history. So
Speaker 2: they were talking because they didn't realize it was happening.
Speaker 2: And cut to a live interview with a manager in
Speaker 2: the dugout, which is always stupid anyway.
Speaker 1: They must have decided that baseball, the actual game, is
Speaker 1: too boring, and so we need to get you know,
Speaker 1: former stars up here in the booth and interview them
Speaker 1: and go down and talk to players on the field, but.
Speaker 2: And pro wrestlers too. The whole broadcast was like a
Speaker 2: hyper teen TikTok dream.
Speaker 1: In other sports news, we didn't give this enough shrift
Speaker 1: the other day when we had the headline from the
Speaker 1: World of Professional Cornhole.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, quadruple this head is now we're on the
Speaker 2: major sports Good This is one of the great headlines
Speaker 2: of all time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, quadruple amputee Comma pro corn hole player allegedly
Speaker 1: shot and killed acquaintance during argument, then drove off with
Speaker 1: the body.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, you want to talk about more questions than answers.
Speaker 2: Where do you? Where do you go in order or
Speaker 2: like or order of importance? Or do you start with
Speaker 2: the cornhole or the murder? It's up to you.
Speaker 1: He's twenty seven years old. I've seen the videos of
Speaker 1: him playing corn hole. Oh you have yeah, okay, he
Speaker 1: got no legs or arms.
Speaker 2: Clearly get to how he hurls the bag.
Speaker 1: Who's the Southern comedian with the podcast Theovon. Theovon has
Speaker 1: got a bit about uh kiddy new in high school
Speaker 1: who used to win all these fights and he didn't
Speaker 1: have any arms, and I know, and he always says,
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, zero arms.
Speaker 2: That was a funny line.
Speaker 1: But this guy's got zero arms and legs, but he's
Speaker 1: got he's got arms down to like just past his shoulders.
Speaker 1: He's got enough to like put the bean bag on there,
Speaker 1: and he hurls it toward the thing, and he's really
Speaker 1: good at get.
Speaker 2: It in the right spot. They are I believe the
Speaker 2: board's twenty nine feet apart. That's quite a hurl, yeah,
Speaker 2: and he can do it resourceful, evidently quick to anger, however,
Speaker 2: which brings us back to the whole Well murder. He'd
Speaker 2: been thriving as a professional cornhole player, getting a lot
Speaker 2: of attention because of the fact that he's a quaded
Speaker 2: group of amputee and had posted a lot of videos
Speaker 2: of firing handguns. That's another thing he manages to do
Speaker 2: with with barely any arms and no legs. So he's
Speaker 2: into shooting guns anyway.
Speaker 1: He was driving three pals in his Tesla SUV during
Speaker 1: a late night joy ride in Maryland Sunday when he
Speaker 1: got into a heated argument with his front passenger. So
Speaker 1: the guy sitting next to you, M, no, we're not
Speaker 1: playing that song again, just we played it five times
Speaker 1: in a row or whatever it was. The argument turned violent,
Speaker 1: and he allegedly shot and killed the dude sitting next
Speaker 1: to him, and then he kept driving with the body
Speaker 1: and then eventually dumped it somewhere.
Speaker 2: Wow, well he must have color that song. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't really I'm tired of about but yeah, well that
Speaker 2: is a colorful human being right there.
Speaker 1: God, And he had overcome so much and now he's
Speaker 1: going to spend the rest of his life in prisons,
Speaker 1: which will not be an easy thing, I assume not
Speaker 1: unless he gets a cornhole league going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a professional athlete, I've got a car, I
Speaker 2: got friends in spite of my handicaps.
Speaker 1: But man, do I have a temper. Yeah, there's got
Speaker 1: to be something. There's got to be a documentary there
Speaker 1: with this guy's life. I mean, all the things he
Speaker 1: had to overcome, just period, without ever being a cornhole champion,
Speaker 1: just getting through life to age twenty seven.
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about like a crappy dateline documentary.
Speaker 2: I want ken Burns involved, right, six parts, at least
Speaker 2: six parts with famous actors doing voiceovers exactly Tom Hanks explaining,
Speaker 2: and then I lost my other arm. Do we have
Speaker 2: any idea how he came to be in the state
Speaker 2: he's in. I mean, it's none of my business, but.
Speaker 1: It appears to be birth defect.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, but I don't know that. Wow, Wow, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe he fought an alligator. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: got a temper problem, fought it unsuccessfully. That depends how
Speaker 2: you look at it. I guess.
Speaker 1: Moving along, So Trump said some stuff just now about
Speaker 1: Iran in a big cabinet meeting and other stuff on
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 5: They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to
Speaker 5: make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say
Speaker 5: it because they figured they'll be.
Speaker 2: Killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be
Speaker 2: killed by us.
Speaker 5: There's never been ahead of a country it wanted that
Speaker 5: job less than being the head of Iran.
Speaker 2: I don't want it. Well, listen to some of the
Speaker 2: things they say. We have very clearly. They say, I
Speaker 2: don't want it.
Speaker 5: You'd like to make you the next Supreme leader.
Speaker 2: No, thank you, I don't want it.
Speaker 1: So that's a live event yesterday.
Speaker 2: That was Trump.
Speaker 1: But he just had a cabinet meeting, you know where.
Speaker 1: He's sitting there at the long table and he's got
Speaker 1: Marco on one side and Pete on the other. He said,
Speaker 1: some danged interesting things. Just roll onto the next one, Michael.
Speaker 6: But they say, oh, we're not talking to him. Anybody
Speaker 6: would know that time, and only a total friend. They're
Speaker 6: our fools. They're very smart actually in a certain way.
Speaker 6: And they're great negotiators. I say they're lousy fighters, but
Speaker 6: they're great negotiators, and they're big into work out a deal.
Speaker 6: I don't know if we'll be able to do that.
Speaker 6: I don't know if we're willing to do that. They
Speaker 6: should have done that four weeks ago. They should have
Speaker 6: done it years ago.
Speaker 2: I had a friend who was Iranian American and he
Speaker 2: talked very frankly about it, that it's part of the
Speaker 2: culture to be a brutal, no holds barred negotiator. It's
Speaker 2: admired there. It's not bullying or cheating or anything. No
Speaker 2: that's that's that's what you're supposed to be good at.
Speaker 1: Well. Cultural for the other guy, cultural differences are interesting.
Speaker 1: So like if we use this example yesterday, like you're
Speaker 1: trying to sell a car, and a guy's opening bit
Speaker 1: is not only am I not going to pay you
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars for your car, You're gonna pay me
Speaker 1: a couple of hundred dollars and I get the car.
Speaker 1: And you'd think you're a crazy person, but you're saying, culturally,
Speaker 1: they go really.
Speaker 2: Really hard, right, that's right, just part of the way
Speaker 2: you do it. So we would be shocked. And if
Speaker 2: you said you're not arguing, you're not bargaining in good faith,
Speaker 2: they would they would say, could be in a baby. Okay,
Speaker 2: well the game is played.
Speaker 1: Well that's worth knowing that because they're opening gambit of
Speaker 1: the United States has to pay reparations for everything.
Speaker 2: They mommed. I mean that's silly, but that's just the
Speaker 2: way paying you five hundred dollars to take my car. Right,
Speaker 2: This is a good point Trump makes next.
Speaker 6: And you know that because why did they shoot all
Speaker 6: these countries that weren't even really involved with them? They
Speaker 6: weren't involved, They had no big problems because they're sick,
Speaker 6: because they want to take over the Middle East, not
Speaker 6: just Israel. Certainly Israel would have been the first on
Speaker 6: the list. They would have used nuclear weapons. A nuclear
Speaker 6: you don't need too many of them, but they would
Speaker 6: have used a nuclear weapon on Israel, and they would
Speaker 6: have used it on the other in the neighbors, and
Speaker 6: then they would have come after us, and we had
Speaker 6: a week president. They would have done great damage. But
Speaker 6: fortunately you don't have a week president and I knew
Speaker 6: what was happening.
Speaker 1: Boy, there's one of the great counter history or whatever
Speaker 1: you call that, of all time. If Kamala had won
Speaker 1: four years, does Iran get into Yes, Horan probably.
Speaker 2: Gets a new nuke and then what do they do
Speaker 2: with it? Did they use it? Hey, let me let
Speaker 2: me dovetail off that real quickly. Why do they shoot
Speaker 2: at neighbors? They're sick, They would have used nukes, et cetera. Michael,
Speaker 2: give me fifty six. This is back to Lenin to
Speaker 2: Cyba again. She's the foreign minister from the UAE on
Speaker 2: special report with Brett Bear last night.
Speaker 7: Why diplomat diplomacy hasn't worked. They told us they didn't
Speaker 7: have a nuclear enrichment program. Today we know they have
Speaker 7: enough enriched uranium to make up to twelve bonds. They
Speaker 7: told us they didn't have a blistic missile's weapons program
Speaker 7: that could threaten anyone. They can now reach most capitals
Speaker 7: in Europe, including also the Gulf, which they've demonstrated they're
Speaker 7: willing to do. Eighty nine percent of their targets have
Speaker 7: been civilian infrastructure in my country.
Speaker 2: This has to stop again.
Speaker 1: I say, why am I not hearing this on any
Speaker 1: mainstream news outlet? Oh, you're so right, only on Fox
Speaker 1: M and then Trump bashes Natole. It's here that sixty four.
Speaker 6: I said twenty five years ago that NATO's a paper tiger,
Speaker 6: but more importantly, that we'll come to their rescue, but
Speaker 6: they will never come to ours.
Speaker 2: And I want you to remember that we said this.
Speaker 6: It didn't come to our rescue. Now they all want
Speaker 6: to help when they're annihilated. The other side is annihilated.
Speaker 6: They said we'd love to send ships. Actually made a
Speaker 6: statement a couple of them that we want to get
Speaker 6: involved when the war's over. No, it's supposed to get
Speaker 6: involved with the wars beginning or even before it begins.
Speaker 2: I actually disagree with Trump's take on all of that.
Speaker 2: I mean is useless, but.
Speaker 1: Europe is much useless. But they did come to our
Speaker 1: aid after nine to eleven. They helped a lot with
Speaker 1: a rack. They got involved in Afghanistan.
Speaker 2: And it's just it's not a situation where you call
Speaker 2: them and say, hey, you heard we bombed Iran last night,
Speaker 2: can you be in the Gulf tomorrow? It just it
Speaker 2: doesn't really work like that.
Speaker 1: And then why it is I think appalling. Neil Ferguson
Speaker 1: was making this point the other day. He had a
Speaker 1: quote from Margaret Thatcher from way back in the day
Speaker 1: because she was getting some pressure.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what the campaign was.
Speaker 1: But Reagan used their military basis for something that the
Speaker 1: population didn't like in Britain, and Margaret Thatcher said, they're
Speaker 1: our best friend. If the United States wants to use
Speaker 1: our military bass, we let them. Well, Caro Starmer went
Speaker 1: the opposite direction. He didn't let us use the military basis,
Speaker 1: and Neil Ferguson thought that was awful, and I think
Speaker 1: it's awful also, But yep, I still think it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: to turn down help.
Speaker 2: Now. Why well, right, yeah, the post war reality's got
Speaker 2: to be enforced. The more friends the better. Yeah, Trump
Speaker 2: is way too earsily easily butt hurt. But you know
Speaker 2: that's not exactly news.
Speaker 1: I think this thing is gonna explode more. I certainly,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe behind the scenes it's completely different, and
Speaker 1: none of us have any information on that. But unless
Speaker 1: it's very, very different behind the scenes, Ran sounds like
Speaker 1: they have no interest in giving up, and Trump sounds
Speaker 1: like he's got every intention of Okay, if you're not
Speaker 1: going to give up, we're going to take what we
Speaker 1: need to take to get where we need to get.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think a lot of us were really hoping
Speaker 2: that there were much more transactional, practical, forward looking forces
Speaker 2: within the IRGC that could be bargained with. They haven't
Speaker 2: come forward yet. It appears they are as hardcore as
Speaker 2: you know, as their reputation hardcore is lomist death cultists
Speaker 2: or those that.
Speaker 1: Are are in charge. Somehow we killed a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people, but they can't hardly communicate with each other
Speaker 1: and everything like that. Whatever the hardliners in charge and
Speaker 1: this next step, I mean, this is going to turn
Speaker 1: into a completely different looking war here, Like maybe by
Speaker 1: this weekend, the deadline of the five day pause is
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, and all of.
Speaker 2: The Marines and the eighty second Airborne are going to
Speaker 2: be in place at some point on Friday tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the deadline Saturday morning, so at least that
Speaker 1: this could be a much different or to follow on
Speaker 1: cable news and on Twitter within seventy two hours.
Speaker 2: I think you mean on the Armstrong and Getty show,
Speaker 2: I'm not working this weekend. You're working this weekend. Mom, Monday,
Speaker 2: come back Monday. I met much farm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson just tweeted out it's worth remembering that ground
Speaker 1: troops are often followed by tyranny in the country that
Speaker 1: sends them to those of you who live the whole
Speaker 1: every single day, were on the verge of you know whatever,
Speaker 1: don't you get tired of it? I find it exhaust
Speaker 1: I don't even believe the stuff you say. I get
Speaker 1: exhausted just reading it. Don't you get exhausted being we're
Speaker 1: under so much threat every day from all the different things, Israel, pedophiles, Epstein, whatever.
Speaker 2: I think he gives a lot of people a sense
Speaker 2: of purpose and like they're living They're living a life
Speaker 2: of importance because they're quote unquote in this fight on
Speaker 2: the internet.
Speaker 1: And all the dummies who aren't paying attention. Yeah, coming up,
Speaker 1: our tribute to Chuck Norris or something.
Speaker 2: Our musical tribute to Chuck Norris not to be missed
Speaker 2: in moments actually, But first, speaking of big personalities physically,
Speaker 2: a very different fellow, Bill Maher, we were talking about
Speaker 2: following the war on cable news, perhaps over the weekend
Speaker 2: or Twitter or wherever you'd like to follow it. He
Speaker 2: had a couple of thoughts about cable news and the
Speaker 2: super into politics culture.
Speaker 8: Less than one percent of the country is watching Fox News, CNN,
Speaker 8: and ms NOW combined.
Speaker 2: Combined.
Speaker 8: A guy in TikTok pressure washing his driveway gets bigger ratings.
Speaker 8: Seventy six percent of Americans watched less than one hour
Speaker 8: of any cable news in a month. You thought opera
Speaker 8: was getting its ass kick.
Speaker 2: That's stat was something. Yeah, it is. It's not as
Speaker 2: simple as therefore, it doesn't matter because people who are
Speaker 2: involved in the movers and shakers of the world, they
Speaker 2: are watching that stuff. I don't think that'll lack much
Speaker 2: walking points from that's an age thing.
Speaker 1: I think I would agree, like Trump watches the cable
Speaker 1: news channels because when he was younger, they were a
Speaker 1: big deal. But when that crowd is gone, the next
Speaker 1: crowd not going to have any interest in whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Little more mare.
Speaker 8: If you ask most Americans what their opinion of Tulsi
Speaker 8: Gabbard is, their answer is going to be, what's it?
Speaker 2: Tulsi Gabbard?
Speaker 8: And they're completely unaware that they're supposed to be boycotting Target.
Speaker 2: Or Chick fil A. Here's the criteria.
Speaker 8: They use when deciding where to go for chicken? How's
Speaker 8: the chicken? And if they had to guess, they'd say
Speaker 8: ms now is a multiple sclerosis charity. And Fox Friends
Speaker 8: is a children's cartoon show. Their lives don't revolve around
Speaker 8: having a hot take on every stupid thing. Katie Perry
Speaker 8: went to space and now she's the worst person on Earth.
Speaker 8: Pineapple doesn't belong on pizza. You know what you're arguing
Speaker 8: about these things? Here's the hottest take of all? Who
Speaker 8: gives it?
Speaker 2: Oh? Bill brilliant as always?
Speaker 1: Well, have you seen the you know, the in the
Speaker 1: in the Basement show whatever he calls that where he
Speaker 1: interviews people. Have you seen the one with John Cougar Mellencamp?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, it's really good. I'll tell a good yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: interesting guy. Anyway, both of them a couple of stories
Speaker 2: for you real quickly. Then we'll pay off the Chuck
Speaker 2: Norris The Loving Musical Tribute to Chuck Norris. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to get into the details of this. You can
Speaker 2: find them yourself if you're super into it. But I'm
Speaker 2: so amused they're fighting over affordable housing in Naple Valley,
Speaker 2: like right next door to the world's fanciest restaurant, the
Speaker 2: French Laundry, where Gavin Newsom likes to enjoy a late
Speaker 2: evening dinner. I believe, am I correct on that time,
Speaker 2: mister Governor sir in the middle of COVID when everybody
Speaker 2: else is locked down by his oppressive and utterly unscientific rules.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I actually have a calendar alert set for next
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say when, for when they open
Speaker 1: up the next batch of reservations for the French Laundry,
Speaker 1: to see if I can get in. I think I
Speaker 1: ate there once, but I was so hammered I don't
Speaker 1: remember it. I'm pretty sure I ate there because I
Speaker 1: remember an NFL quarterback being there and we met in
Speaker 1: the bathroom, but by accident.
Speaker 2: I'm not like on purpose, bloom, What the hell is
Speaker 2: going on? Three times on the stall? How does that work? Huh?
Speaker 1: Anyway back to the French laundry in those rich arguing
Speaker 1: about things.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so, and the head chef, the guy who
Speaker 2: runs it is coming to city council meetings and all,
Speaker 2: and it's absolutely hilarious. They don't want affordable, cheap, like
Speaker 2: working class worker housing in the midst of their beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful place, and they come up with all sorts of
Speaker 2: creative like explanations of no, no, no, it's not that
Speaker 2: we don't want to poor people or ugly houses or anything.
Speaker 2: It's that it's inappropriate. The unit size is not proper.
Speaker 2: And it's so so funny.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of we did this story a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago about Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2: They did exactly the same thing.
Speaker 1: They got around all of the rules for that stuff
Speaker 1: with mainly because they got enough money to have lawyers
Speaker 1: and buy city council members. They get around all those rules.
Speaker 1: And it's exactly what you said. That crowd loves this
Speaker 1: sort of thing. You got to have afordable housing in
Speaker 1: every neighborhood. It's not fair that just the rich get
Speaker 1: to live in a nice neighborhood. You need to have
Speaker 1: affordable housing there too, a certain number of units. Except
Speaker 1: for me. That's not true for me because I didn't
Speaker 1: mean here. I mean here, I'm at other places.
Speaker 2: Oh it's so funny, and hell, they've got my sympathy.
Speaker 2: You know what. I live in a really nice place.
Speaker 2: I don't want a big apartment building to go up
Speaker 2: on my block.
Speaker 1: It would be horrible.
Speaker 2: I would hate that. I would find any bulls excuse
Speaker 2: I could to explain why it's a bad idea. You
Speaker 2: know why, because I don't want it there. But I
Speaker 2: admit it. These people are lecturing the rest of us.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely hilarious. Anyway, change the topic, kind of back
Speaker 2: to real estate. La Miami, and San Diego are shrinking
Speaker 2: as immigration slows. Some of the biggest US metro areas
Speaker 2: are shrinking. According to new government data. It's a drawing.
Speaker 2: It's driven rather by a sharp slowdown on immigration, coupled
Speaker 2: with losses from people leaving for other parts of the country.
Speaker 2: The result is La San Diego and Miami areas, which
Speaker 2: are three of the biggest twenty in the country. Alsaw
Speaker 2: a population decline in the year through June through twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Blah blah blah. Re least Thursday Dead also
Speaker 2: shows New York City shrank for the first time in
Speaker 2: a few years, although the much larger metro area grew.
Speaker 2: Well did you hear this stat? Hit me?
Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of US counties the population growth either
Speaker 1: slowed or turned negative. Seventy five percent of US counties.
Speaker 1: That's never happened before.
Speaker 2: Wow. And do they attribute that to slow down in
Speaker 2: immigration too? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, and we're not having babies, right, oh, right,
Speaker 1: of course they didn't need immigration back in the day
Speaker 1: because we had babies. People, you know, you got to
Speaker 1: be about eighteen, you found some on you started a family,
Speaker 1: and you had some kids.
Speaker 2: People don't on grandpa past. But we have three kids, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Let's see the numbers show in closer detail how immigration
Speaker 2: and restrictions of significant significantly slow to US population growth.
Speaker 2: There's the part I wanted to get to. Strong growth
Speaker 2: continues in many metro areas, too often in mid sized
Speaker 2: and smaller ones across the Carolinas, Texas and the Mountain West.
Speaker 2: To the horror of a lot of the people in
Speaker 2: the Mountain West in particular, among those growing at four
Speaker 2: times the national rate or more so. That's growth Austin,
Speaker 2: Texas still, although I know that real estate market is
Speaker 2: cooled off because they build so fast in Texas. They
Speaker 2: respond to demand for housing in Texas, Gavin, you fake anyway?
Speaker 2: Also Raleigh, North Carolina, Okalla, Florida, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Wilmington,
Speaker 2: North Carolina, Boise, Idaho, and Saint George, Utah quadruple the
Speaker 2: national growth rate or more. Wow. Interesting Yeah, and they
Speaker 2: can actually build infrastructure in a lot of those states.
Speaker 2: I've been to them. So interesting anyway, Yes, more time
Speaker 2: for our musical tribune. It's time for our musical tribute. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 2: somebody has taken all the best Chuck Norris song jokes
Speaker 2: and made them into a song. We'll start with the
Speaker 2: first half, Michael, although I'm told perhaps the second half
Speaker 2: is better. Oh, it's been edited. Good, it's nice and
Speaker 2: charge all right. Thirteen did you know that I got
Speaker 2: bit by King Cobra?
Speaker 8: But after five days of agonizing pain, the cobra died.
Speaker 4: Chuck Norris once counted two infinity twice.
Speaker 1: Chuck Norris wants to two stones with.
Speaker 2: One word, Shuck Norse wants to miss two days of school.
Speaker 2: Those days are now called the week. Go ahead, Shut
Speaker 2: Norris doesn't dial long. Norris doesn't plus better not to
Speaker 2: miss Chuck nor Table bidies and the element to surprise.
Speaker 2: Chuck Norsey the only person revolving door.
Speaker 1: Chuck Norse gave a.
Speaker 2: Chuck Norrise cuts knife butter.
Speaker 1: When Chuck Norris was born, he from his parents home
Speaker 1: from the hospital.
Speaker 2: He cuts knives with his butter. Mom his parents over
Speaker 2: off when he was born. H that is pretty good.
Speaker 2: That is so good.
Speaker 1: He just stroyed at the periodic table with the element
Speaker 1: of surprise.
Speaker 2: And that first one that was a little hard to hear.
Speaker 2: Chuck Norris doesn't dial wrong numbers, You axert the wrong phone.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, that's good. The great Chuck Norris who apparently
Speaker 2: had an eighteen year old girlfriend at age forty nine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the pictures right here.
Speaker 1: It became a thing on Facebook in the Turlock area,
Speaker 1: which is not far from here, because apparently, when he
Speaker 1: was forty nine years old, he attended this high school
Speaker 1: graduation because his girlfriend was graduating.
Speaker 2: Not his niece, not his granddaughter. Girlfriend.
Speaker 1: According to these people that were in that class and
Speaker 1: posted pictures on Facebook yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was kind of a topic and everybody.
Speaker 1: Was saying, because this is a younger crowd, they're saying, well,
Speaker 1: it was more acceptable back then. I'm of the age
Speaker 1: I graduated before that from high school, and it was
Speaker 1: not okay for forty nine year olds to be waiting
Speaker 1: for their eighteen year old girlfriend to cross the stage.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't have been considered well, we're all doing it. No, no, no.
Speaker 2: It was more acceptable then, but not much more and
Speaker 2: not acceptable. Yeah. Wow, do you.
Speaker 1: Think she do you think Chuck did a leg kick
Speaker 1: as she went across the stage?
Speaker 2: I don't think she'd graduated? Yeh, I know he was
Speaker 2: married to his second wife for a very long time.
Speaker 2: Was that the I think this is her? The teen? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think? Well if it lasted, yeah, so it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know when that happens, do you give
Speaker 1: it a pass? It's like wood, he and his and
Speaker 1: his wife, they've been together for decades and there and
Speaker 1: and and she's happy.
Speaker 2: Right right, what are you allen? Yeah? Uh yeah, I
Speaker 2: give it a pass. But that's that's not like a
Speaker 2: different answer. You view it with suspicion and caution at
Speaker 2: first because it sounds like thing A. It turns out
Speaker 2: to be thing B. You think, okay, all right, fair enough,
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean you shouldn't look upon suspicion with
Speaker 2: near fifty year olds hanging out outside of high school.
Speaker 1: I can think of a couple of relationships I know
Speaker 1: in my personal life that started to not the best
Speaker 1: of ways, and they've been together for decades and had
Speaker 1: kids and are happy together and so.
Speaker 2: Not in the best ways. What do you mean, spill
Speaker 2: spill of beans.
Speaker 1: Both were having an affair on their other marriage, and
Speaker 1: you would think, well, this is just rebound bad blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Nope, they both were unhappily married young, found
Speaker 1: someone else and been together now for thirty eight years
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I don't talk about this much.
Speaker 2: I think I think my kids have heard it at
Speaker 2: least once. My wife and I when we got together
Speaker 2: and we were quite young, it was purely physical. I mean,
Speaker 2: we liked each other, but it was it was you're
Speaker 2: young and hot, I'm young and hot. Let's let's get together.
Speaker 2: This will be fun. And it was, and then we
Speaker 2: did well. It was great fun, and then we subsequently learned, Oh,
Speaker 2: we get along better than like any two human beings
Speaker 2: on earth, and I'm madly in love with her after
Speaker 2: forty five years of being together. Lucky. But you know, Audrey, Oh,
Speaker 2: it was lust. It's absolutely animal love.
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, life is funny.
Speaker 1: Life is funny. Well is that what are we designed for?
Speaker 1: To have the lust to bring us together first? Or
Speaker 1: the fallen in love part first?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think that's all part of one package. Kind
Speaker 2: of happens at the same time. Yeah, yeah, it just
Speaker 2: don't don't mistake one for the other. Well, that's good advice.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry because I just said it's one thing that
Speaker 2: I said one or the other. You're an idiot, Joseph.
Speaker 2: H don't mistake the physical aspect of attraction for what's
Speaker 2: going to yield long term joy.
Speaker 1: Well, the problem with the physical part is it can
Speaker 1: blind you once that gets going really never noticed to everything.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the weather, your job, basic eating and drinking hygiene, yes, yes, oh,
Speaker 2: good thing, right exactly, it's a good thing. Breathing is automatic,
Speaker 2: or you might forget right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is why you know, the ancient wisdom of
Speaker 1: waiting is probably a good.
Speaker 2: Idea waiting, Oh, not rushing Americans because oh wow, oh okay,
Speaker 2: so you're not blinded by that part, right right, yeah,
Speaker 2: because once the Bengo bango starts, you know, it is this,
Speaker 2: you know again, very enjoyable. Though in your case it
Speaker 2: worked out. Yeah, and you did announce to the world
Speaker 2: that it was fantastic. Yeah. Oh it was yeah, utterly satisfying. Yes,
Speaker 2: is that what you'd say afterwards? Well, that was utterly satisfied. Okay,
Speaker 2: we got to take a break more after this.
Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier that Elon put out a new trailer tease
Speaker 1: ad thing for his Tesla robot.
Speaker 2: What's it called?
Speaker 1: The Tesla Robot's got a name anyway, doesn't I can't
Speaker 1: remember ad for that? And uh, yesterday Milania Trump came
Speaker 1: walking down the hallway there in the White House the
Speaker 1: red carpet with a robot at her side, and we
Speaker 1: mentioned that on the air well. She gave a speech
Speaker 1: afterwards that got a fair amount of attention. This is
Speaker 1: Milania Trump pitching the whole robot thing as if it's
Speaker 1: obviously going to be great for all all of us.
Speaker 9: Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato access to the classical
Speaker 9: studies is now instantaneous literature, science, art, philosophy, mathematics, and history.
Speaker 9: Humanity is entire corpus of information is available in the
Speaker 9: comfort of your home. Plato will provide a personalized experience
Speaker 9: adaptive to the needs of each student. Plato is always
Speaker 9: patient and always available. Predictably, our children we develop deep
Speaker 9: critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities.
Speaker 2: Oh, we hope, So we don't know that that's going
Speaker 2: to happen. Wasn't she just describing the Internet?
Speaker 1: And I was going to say, all that stuff is
Speaker 1: available to be in my home right now if I
Speaker 1: want access it now. The idea that the teacher will,
Speaker 1: as she said there, the robot will adjust its teaching
Speaker 1: style for each individual person. You know, if it gets
Speaker 1: really good at that, that'd be pretty awesome. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an amazing thought. I hope everybody has access to it.
Speaker 1: Why is the White House pitching the whole robot thing
Speaker 1: is an obvious good for humanity though, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's all kinds of naysayers about this.
Speaker 2: Is it undermining the rot or trying to diminish the
Speaker 2: effect of the rot in government schools? Less at a
Speaker 2: union goons, there might be less of a reason to
Speaker 2: have teachers in schools, even more of a reason to
Speaker 2: not have that once these robots get going, Yeah, well
Speaker 2: everybody have access to them again, I ask. You know
Speaker 2: David French who writes for the New York Times these days,
Speaker 2: among other places outlets. He's a dispatch guy too. I
Speaker 2: think I disagree with him all the time. He's a
Speaker 2: very smart guy. I think he's a thoroughly in a
Speaker 2: decent human being. I think he's wrong a lot. But
Speaker 2: he's talking about how we are such a miserable country,
Speaker 2: how we how can we be such a miserable country
Speaker 2: when we're so wealthy and successful? And I think he
Speaker 2: nailed it.
Speaker 1: Oh really, I want to hear that an hour four.
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