Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty and He
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty. Mortgages, car loans, credit cards.
Speaker 3: Americans are borrowing more than ever US household debt now
Speaker 3: at seventeen point ninety four trillion dollars for credit cards.
Speaker 3: That debt has never cost more. The average interest rate
Speaker 3: almost twenty two percent, way higher than auto loans and
Speaker 3: mortgage rates.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I was about to jump in with what
Speaker 4: the amounts with inflation, that just kind of makes sense
Speaker 4: because everything is, you know, relative to whatever things used
Speaker 4: to cost. But the interest rates don't change. The way
Speaker 4: math works doesn't change, and those higher interest rates in
Speaker 4: there or ever are brutal for the highest load anybody's
Speaker 4: ever carried. Yeah, and you're absolutely right about you know, inflation,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing. But man, seventeen point ninety four
Speaker 4: trillion dollars on a card if you're in post revolution Bolivia,
Speaker 4: that sounds like a lot. And you got somewhere between
Speaker 4: twenty and thirty percent interest on your credit card based
Speaker 4: on your credit situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's rough.
Speaker 4: The biggest political story in America by far obviously, is
Speaker 4: Trump nominating Matt Gates and some other conversial people to
Speaker 4: important positions. We talked about that a lot in Hour one.
Speaker 4: We'll get back to that again later. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: dominating all news coverage except for Fox, where they're treating
Speaker 4: it as like a third tier story. For instance, this
Speaker 4: is a third tier story. Did you see there's a
Speaker 4: new pigmy baby hippo that is the world's favorite new animal,
Speaker 4: the new baby pigmy a because we had one a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, right, and everybody loved it, And
Speaker 4: there's a new one out today and I just saw
Speaker 4: it hopping around in the grass. That's the cutest dang thing. Ever,
Speaker 4: how do I not have one? I gotta get one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, enjoy your fifteen minutes signed meerkats?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, or dwarf goats or whatever was cute
Speaker 4: last time. But big me hippos are super cute. I
Speaker 4: wonder if you say pigs, is it like a pop
Speaker 4: belly pig. You get one and you think it's really cute.
Speaker 4: In the next thing, you know, it's seven hundred pounds
Speaker 4: and has to live in your garage and you can't
Speaker 4: park your car in there anymore.
Speaker 1: Disreputable breeders start selling regular hippos. Is damn, I've got
Speaker 1: a regular, full sized, three thousand pound hippo.
Speaker 2: This is not working for me, Katie.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was just wondering what this one's name was,
Speaker 4: because last time we had moo mood dung.
Speaker 2: Or mood dang moo dang. I think was it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Very cute, very cute little hippo. Dig up a picture.
Speaker 4: I mean you'll you'll think, aw, I'll be the first
Speaker 4: thing you say.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm more interested in the Marxist under currents
Speaker 1: in American society. But if you want to work the cute,
Speaker 1: fat faced animal beat, that's somebody needs to.
Speaker 2: The new one is a Scottish apparently. Its name is
Speaker 2: Haggis Ah, Haggage, laggage. Who's a good Who's I wish
Speaker 2: you could see my face? Friends, I wish you could
Speaker 2: put a little kilt on it. Put exactly, put a
Speaker 2: little killed on it. Please.
Speaker 1: Michael Brilliant played bagpipe music because it waddles out into
Speaker 1: its enclosure for the people.
Speaker 2: AH plays the little bagpipe exactly. This is so stupid,
Speaker 2: please can we move on?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: Uh Chris Ruffo, you'll know him, you love him with
Speaker 1: a great piece. Why Boeing killed Dei? And and the
Speaker 1: lead is the important part of reckoning is underway in
Speaker 1: corporate America. You remember, after the death of George Floyd
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, like every Fortune, five hundred company launched
Speaker 1: a diversity, equity and inclusion program with very serious faces
Speaker 1: as they were running terrified from the Marxists who claimed
Speaker 1: racial justice was their motivation. But now four short years later,
Speaker 1: many companies are quietly acknowledging the failure of these initiatives,
Speaker 1: in some cases is winding them down. And Rufo has
Speaker 1: been writing about DEI at Boeing for a while. He's
Speaker 1: got an inside source, well placed, high up, that described
Speaker 1: it this way quote, I thought this is really good.
Speaker 1: DEI is the drop you put in the bucket and
Speaker 1: the whole bucket changes. It is anti excellence and because
Speaker 1: it is ill defined, it becomes part of the culture.
Speaker 4: That is some of the most evocative phrasing I've ever heard. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the drop you put in the bucket and it changes
Speaker 4: the whole bucket. That's interesting, folks, You've become.
Speaker 1: Aware that the whole woke thing DEI anti racism thing.
Speaker 1: You can't win. It's a constantly moving target. If you
Speaker 1: say you're not a racist, you're a racist. And if
Speaker 1: you say you're a racist, you're racist. But either way
Speaker 1: you shut up. We're in charge. There's no way to
Speaker 1: win against the woke people. That's not part of it.
Speaker 1: They're not talking to you to come to an understanding.
Speaker 1: They're talking to you to rule you. And more people
Speaker 1: are on nderstanding that. And then the context of Boeing
Speaker 1: obviously you know the doors are falling off your planes
Speaker 1: for instance. Yeah, earlier this month, Boeing installed new CEO
Speaker 1: Kelly Ortberg, quietly dismantled the DEI department and accepted the
Speaker 1: resignation of the office's vice president. So Rufo reached out
Speaker 1: to the same insider to get insight onto what happened
Speaker 1: and how it happened. And he says, tell us, what
Speaker 1: happened with DEI went from dominant to extinct in a
Speaker 1: very short period of time. The insider says, we're shifting
Speaker 1: from a company whose culture is simply the average of
Speaker 1: corporate America to a distinct and deliberate vision of leadership.
Speaker 1: The new boss wants Boeing focused on being an airplane
Speaker 1: company with our own culture and vision. The resulting cash
Speaker 1: crunch from the crunch from the strike accelerated this culture shift.
Speaker 1: When you start to focus on delivering value instead of
Speaker 1: preserving status, it becomes obvious what drives value and it's
Speaker 1: not DEI. And then he gets into he asked my
Speaker 1: senses that many executives are not genuinely committed to DEIS
Speaker 1: and ideology. They simply want to build airplanes or create software,
Speaker 1: for instance, but they feel social pressure to maintain these departments.
Speaker 1: Is that true at Boeing and if so, when did
Speaker 1: the calculus change? And the answer is DEI is lazy
Speaker 1: thought leadership best practiced by companies in smooth waters with
Speaker 1: margins large enough to afford the associated inefficiency.
Speaker 2: That isn't Boeing today.
Speaker 1: When the new boss prioritized results over fitting in with
Speaker 1: other CEOs, it sends a strong signal to the culture
Speaker 1: and builds trust because employees know the rules and it's
Speaker 1: clear how to succeed through hard work and results. McKinsey's
Speaker 1: at the Consulting Group now debunked analysis was the standard
Speaker 1: driver in corporate boardrooms. But even if DEI has to
Speaker 1: defend itself on purely logical grounds. It doesn't stand up bowing.
Speaker 1: More than anything needs an aligned workforce focused on building airplanes.
Speaker 1: And it's an easy decision to reject the divisive and
Speaker 1: US centric language of DEI in favor of unified vision
Speaker 1: for a diverse global company. Anyway, I thought that that
Speaker 1: was really good just as a description of how it works.
Speaker 4: And DEI could go away under a Trump administration, which
Speaker 4: won't be you know, working to push that on corporate America,
Speaker 4: whereas if Kamala Harris administration, there would have been so
Speaker 4: much pressure on all these companies to continue that or
Speaker 4: add it if they hadn't already.
Speaker 1: Right, and it's it's a bludgeon again. It's not about
Speaker 1: racial justice or any of the things that claims to
Speaker 1: be about. Like in jackscenario, which is a good one,
Speaker 1: the Harris administration wanted Boeing to suddenly, you know, unionize
Speaker 1: its last three facilities or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, then they could hammer them with DEI.
Speaker 1: Stuff or through their DEI executives and get them on
Speaker 1: their knees begging for mercy because they're being accused of racism.
Speaker 1: It's the old Jesse Jackson operation push blackmail scam. You
Speaker 1: don't want racial justice, you want something else, but you
Speaker 1: use claims of racial injustice to get there. It's the
Speaker 1: race hustler thing. Anyway, I thought this was good too.
Speaker 1: From the National Review Lathan Watts. DEI is a corporate bust,
Speaker 1: and he starts about the He starts with the wild
Speaker 1: overreaction to the death of George Floyd and how all
Speaker 1: the corporations were terrified, and how Robbie Starbuck, the filmmaker,
Speaker 1: has been using sunlight as the best disinfectant. And he's
Speaker 1: brought failed policies that are legally questionable and highly unpopular
Speaker 1: with consumers to the attention the general public and the
Speaker 1: shareholders of these corporations. As a result, some of the
Speaker 1: best known brands in the country have hastily canceled their
Speaker 1: DEI programs and cut ties with the far left Human
Speaker 1: Rights Campaign, which pressures companies to do things like cover
Speaker 1: sex hormones and puberty blockers for miners. Wow, monstrous Nazia
Speaker 1: like experiments on children.
Speaker 4: Your company has to cover that stuff and their insurance plan.
Speaker 1: Wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: Unwilling to let the practical failure of a policy distract
Speaker 1: from the political fervor. Forty nine members of Congress, keeping
Speaker 1: in mind their four hundred and thirty five of these geeks,
Speaker 1: spurred on, signed an open letter to Fortune one thousand
Speaker 1: businesses demanding that they doubled down on DEI. But these
Speaker 1: companies have recently received two more open letters encouraging them
Speaker 1: to hold the line in favor of healthy ROI return
Speaker 1: on investment over feeble DEI ideology.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: Slogan, AREI not DEI for the companies I want to
Speaker 4: invest in?
Speaker 2: I love that the second of those two letters.
Speaker 1: Came from seventeen state treasurers and other financial officials, state
Speaker 1: of financial officials who are responsible for the gigantic state
Speaker 1: investment vehicles that hold billions of dollars in ownership positions
Speaker 1: in these companies for their retirees, and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And unlike the partisan gamesmanship paraphrasing the piece of the
Speaker 1: National Review, here the forty nine Congress geeks liberal CULTI
Speaker 1: jackasses are saying, you've got to double down on DII.
Speaker 2: These people are saying, Hey, we.
Speaker 1: Don't have the luxury of you and your virtue signaling
Speaker 1: crap which you run your company for efficiency, please not
Speaker 1: to please AOC and so it's good to see you.
Speaker 1: Remember it was what a year ago I started saying.
Speaker 1: And all DEI programs now wherever they exist, and it's
Speaker 1: happening in spades. Hurrah, hourrah, better for black people, better
Speaker 1: for white and Hispanic people as people.
Speaker 2: In short, go get them awesome.
Speaker 1: Man that Dylan mulvany disagrees, noted American Anheuser Bush spokesperson.
Speaker 1: I apologize if I have offended him. The tide shure
Speaker 1: turned on that whole thing fast. Yeah, although it is
Speaker 1: still monstrous in academia, media, Hollywood, and in government itself, friends,
Speaker 1: which is why I am always saying this is just
Speaker 1: the end of the beginning.
Speaker 4: Have you seen any of the trailers for the new
Speaker 4: Gladiator movie? I have Gladiator too. It looks freaking fantastic
Speaker 4: and the reviews are starting to come out, and Denzel
Speaker 4: Washington is supposed to be his best role ever, which
Speaker 4: is saying something.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 4: Although he said that they his gay kiss got left
Speaker 4: on the cutting room floor, that's something. And I'm sure
Speaker 4: everybody America was ready to see Denzel Washington kiss some other.
Speaker 2: Dude mashing with it. Dude, I don't need it, but
Speaker 2: looks awesome.
Speaker 4: And that's the kind of movie you got to see
Speaker 4: in a theater, the big giant colosseum and the fighting
Speaker 4: and everything like that.
Speaker 2: I'll take the kids of that, probably unless it's too gruesome.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, And I think we're going to play this trailer.
Speaker 1: In fact, we could play it next. There is a
Speaker 1: hot new documentary coming out that I want to see. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a documentary on well, I'm not gonna tell you what.
Speaker 4: And we're already gearing up for the Tyson Paul fight
Speaker 4: that is Friday night on Netflix with the kids, and
Speaker 4: we're gonna gather around for that.
Speaker 2: We can't wait.
Speaker 1: You're having your children watch an elderly man beaten kind
Speaker 1: of monster, are you?
Speaker 4: That's not the way we think it's gonna go. That's
Speaker 4: not the way we think it's gonna go. But we
Speaker 4: could be wrong. Uh, And then we got to get
Speaker 4: back into the hole. Matt Gates is it gonna be
Speaker 4: Attorney General? Or at least he's been nominated. What a
Speaker 4: bomb that was?
Speaker 2: Stay here, it rocks, but it doesn't wrong too hard.
Speaker 2: The singers all seem to be saying, Hey, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be okay, it's perfect sitting down dancing music. Also known
Speaker 2: as Ya Rocks, Steely Dan.
Speaker 4: The Doobie Brothers, Toto, Kenny Longins, Christopher Cross.
Speaker 2: Michael McDonald. I expected to be totally forgotten. By the
Speaker 2: end of the eighties, the.
Speaker 3: Term yacht rock merged from comedy show.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, this new genre we started to
Speaker 1: get embraced by the world.
Speaker 5: Rock.
Speaker 2: I always thought it was kind of flattering to be
Speaker 2: made fun of.
Speaker 4: We did a whole show on yacht rock or a
Speaker 4: lot of one a couple of years ago, playing various
Speaker 4: songs and everything like that, and discussing it because it's
Speaker 4: not well defined, but it's defined enough that, like in
Speaker 4: my Tesla anyway, there's a yacht rock option for.
Speaker 2: Your music choices. It's like pornography, you know what when you.
Speaker 4: Hear it.
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Who was that saying I expected to be forgotten? Was
Speaker 4: that Christopher Cross? That is hilarious?
Speaker 2: Who knows, yeh, I could have been any one of
Speaker 2: those guys. I guess.
Speaker 1: Rock not too.
Speaker 2: Hard, perfect for dancing sitting down.
Speaker 4: I was skeptical of a documentary about yacht rock, but
Speaker 4: that sounds pretty entertaining. Yeah, and it's just everybody can
Speaker 4: and most of that music was popular when I was
Speaker 4: alive and a young person, but it seems to have
Speaker 4: some purchase with like the younger crowd that was born
Speaker 4: well after these songs for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: Oh definitely.
Speaker 1: I read once an unnecessarily long piece about how love
Speaker 1: of Steely Dan went from ironic to sincere among the young.
Speaker 1: Well right, and Steely Dan's a brilliant band, by the way,
Speaker 1: I will brook no making fun of Steely Dan. I
Speaker 1: have walked by fratthouses in the college town I live
Speaker 1: in blasting Toto, which I would have never guessed when
Speaker 1: it was actually popular in the eighties that forty years
Speaker 1: in the future, college dudes would be blasting it in
Speaker 1: a party with their shirts off, playing beer pong. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just I would have bet you had any money
Speaker 1: that wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But it did go figure.
Speaker 1: I read a book by Chuck Klosterman lent to me
Speaker 1: by a good friend, and I can't remember the title
Speaker 1: of it, but it was really like two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty page think piece on what art will endure from
Speaker 1: our current time, specifically musical, and he goes into what
Speaker 1: art endured from various other times, and what is it
Speaker 1: that makes it endure? Is it merely quality? No, definitely not.
Speaker 1: Is it like quirkiness? Is it first in?
Speaker 4: Is it a It's just a really interesting series of thoughts.
Speaker 4: It's certainly not just popularity. As a guy who is
Speaker 4: a music disc jockey in the eighties, I hear stuff
Speaker 4: on eighties stations that I remember were minor hits at
Speaker 4: the time that are still getting on regular rotation on
Speaker 4: eighty stations now for reasons.
Speaker 2: I can't quite explain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what endures. It's kind of a mysterious question.
Speaker 2: Man on music. I have this.
Speaker 4: I'm sure this is a very common with a lot
Speaker 4: of parents. But my my, I'm gonna have two teenagers
Speaker 4: here in a month. But my youngest teenager, for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: he's an interesting dude, Henry. He likes class rock, so
Speaker 4: it's very easy for me to drive around with him.
Speaker 4: He wants to hear Bachman Turner, Overdrive and the Eagles
Speaker 4: we went to last weekend in Vegas and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: He wants to hear Sweet Home Alabama. That's the music
Speaker 4: he wants to hear, and he chose it himself.
Speaker 2: I didn't choose it.
Speaker 4: But my oldest only wants to listen to rap music,
Speaker 4: and particular rap music, and I try. I picked him
Speaker 4: up from school yesterday and dialed up some of his
Speaker 4: favorite stuff to listen to while we're driving home, and
Speaker 4: I just, oh, it's punishing to me.
Speaker 2: I just I don't.
Speaker 4: I do not understand the appeal, like to some stuff
Speaker 4: I like. I like Kanye, I'll listen to tons of you.
Speaker 4: But he doesn't like Kanye.
Speaker 2: He likes he. I always say this makes him laugh
Speaker 2: every time. Where's the melody? What's row Sinatra? I always say,
Speaker 2: I just I do not get the appeal. But I try.
Speaker 2: Maybe it'll I don't know, maybe it'll click in my
Speaker 2: head someday.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or to each their own, But wouldn't it be something
Speaker 1: of five hundred years from now? Historians say, and then
Speaker 1: there was a musical development and that they called rock
Speaker 1: and music, and they play you know, Christopher Cross or
Speaker 1: something right as an example, Shaggar is spinning in his
Speaker 1: five hundred year old grave.
Speaker 2: Or he's still alive touring.
Speaker 4: You don't know, Matt Gates, Attorney General, what WTF is
Speaker 4: the response for.
Speaker 2: Bost of America, Artrong, and Getty.
Speaker 5: I will tonight discuss Matt Gate. Some of you will
Speaker 5: think I'm too hard on him. Some of you will
Speaker 5: think I'm much too easy on him. And this is
Speaker 5: in the context of what is one of the most
Speaker 5: jaw dropping days in the last ten years of Trump.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's I would describe it as God to
Speaker 6: your level trolley to just trigger a full on China syndrome,
Speaker 6: to own the lives in perpetuity.
Speaker 4: So that's Mark Alprin saying it's one of the most
Speaker 4: jaw dropping days in the decade of Trump, which is
Speaker 4: saying something obviously. And then that's John Fetterman, Senator of
Speaker 4: Pennsylvania saying this is God level trolling, which is China
Speaker 4: syndrome miltown, which it might be God level trolling.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I really don't know.
Speaker 4: And everybody's guessing that's Trump nominating Matt Gates to be
Speaker 4: the Attorney general.
Speaker 2: Fetterman is so much more likable than he used to be.
Speaker 2: Maybe a stroke helped him. I don't know anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh, yes, Matt Gates, you say, is what attorney general?
Speaker 2: Went right?
Speaker 4: And uh with the news part of it, that should
Speaker 4: be mentioned that Republican sources told news outlets yesterday that
Speaker 4: a committee report was coming out tomorrow on Matt Gates
Speaker 4: was already planned to come out tomorrow on Matt Gates.
Speaker 4: That was going to be quite explosive about all those
Speaker 4: sex drug allegations that he's had for quite a few years.
Speaker 2: So you gotta factor that in.
Speaker 4: And again it's he's got so enemy, so many enemies
Speaker 4: in the House and the Senate, Republican enemies, that it's
Speaker 4: not shocking that Republicans went to the press with that news,
Speaker 4: and there's not a chance that it doesn't leak out
Speaker 4: of that committee tomorrow, probably by some Republican who hates
Speaker 4: Matt Gates. I'll be interesting to see what's in there
Speaker 4: and how damaging it is, and whether or not Matt
Speaker 4: Gates or Trump care at all. Right to question what
Speaker 4: was Trump thinking is the really interesting one to me,
Speaker 4: But I don't want to get ahead.
Speaker 2: That was it just trolling?
Speaker 4: He just likes to see people's heads explode and he
Speaker 4: doesn't care if Matt Gates gets confirmed or not.
Speaker 2: Was it the.
Speaker 4: Five dimensional chess play of you'll spend all your time
Speaker 4: and effort on taking down Matt Gates, and I'll get
Speaker 4: my other kind of controversial people.
Speaker 1: Through, right, the sacrificial lamb strategy is it? I really
Speaker 1: wanted to throw a hand grenade into the Justice Department
Speaker 1: because of the incredible injustice of how they they've traded
Speaker 1: me over the last quite a few years, which is
Speaker 1: undeniably true. I would argue that's not a good strategy
Speaker 1: if you want to reform the Justice Department.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody.
Speaker 4: I did want to get this on because somebody brought
Speaker 4: this up and I had forgotten this. The FBI and
Speaker 4: d OJY previously tried to frame Matt Gates. I don't
Speaker 4: know if this is all true, but I remember this story.
Speaker 4: Tried to frame Matt Gates with the help of a
Speaker 4: con artist. That's the guy he was friends with. Now
Speaker 4: was he friends or did he get calmed by this
Speaker 4: guy who was trying to extort Gates's family out of
Speaker 4: tens of millions of dollars?
Speaker 2: Do you remember that whole aspect of the story vaguely?
Speaker 4: I can't think of a more perfect choice to tear
Speaker 4: the most corrupt agency on Earth down to its studs. Bravo,
Speaker 4: President Trump. That's from Sean Davis. If you know his act. Now,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I buy all that stuff, but
Speaker 4: it's possible that Gates got involved with some people that
Speaker 4: tried to extort him and then tried to ruin him
Speaker 4: with that whole underage girl thing, because you know, the
Speaker 4: investigation was dropped a couple of years back. Now you
Speaker 4: got the so called explosive details of a new committee
Speaker 4: report coming out tomorrow, and maybe.
Speaker 2: That will make it more clear what's going on there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and remember, in the same way that the legitimate
Speaker 1: women's rights movement pointed out that sometimes promiscuous women get raped.
Speaker 1: She's somewhat promiscuous is not an excuse for rape. In
Speaker 1: the same way, sometimes scum bags get blackmailed. But even
Speaker 1: with that, that's the easiest blackmail to get going.
Speaker 4: But even with that that I'm I'm I'm more in
Speaker 4: line with Lisa Murkowski, the Republican Senator for Alaska, who's
Speaker 4: already in no, who's saying he's not.
Speaker 2: A serious person. I don't think he's a serious person. No.
Speaker 2: I would like a serious person to be Attorney general.
Speaker 4: Here's what the Wall Street Journal editorial board writes today,
Speaker 4: after praising Donald Trump for a bunch of his choices,
Speaker 4: including Marco Rubio. They write, this is a bad choice
Speaker 4: for ag that would undermine confidence in the law.
Speaker 2: Mister Trump lawed. Mister Gates's law degree from.
Speaker 4: William and Mary, but it might as well be a
Speaker 4: doctorate and outraged theater. He's a performer and provocateur. In
Speaker 4: his view is that the more explosions he can cause,
Speaker 4: the more attention he can get. It is impossible to
Speaker 4: get canceled if you're on every channel, he once said.
Speaker 4: And if you aren't making news, you aren't governing. Gates
Speaker 4: has said on multiple occasions. Yeah, he's part of the
Speaker 4: Instagram caucus.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal editorial board goes on to say, mister
Speaker 4: Gates has no interest in governing. When Republicans took control
Speaker 4: the House in twenty twenty two, is with a small margin.
Speaker 2: Rather than work to get things done.
Speaker 4: Gates sabotage Speaker Kevin McCarthy before fought, before finally leading
Speaker 4: a rebellion to oust him, and for no good outcome.
Speaker 4: Eight Republican malcontents plunged the GOP into weeks of embarrassing
Speaker 4: paralysis since mister Gates had no alternative that could command
Speaker 4: a majority. Finally, speaker Johnson emerged, but again there is
Speaker 4: no point to it other than unless he just personally
Speaker 4: hated McCarthy so much to bring him down, which he did,
Speaker 4: absolutely did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, my argument with like the ultramagotype that just
Speaker 1: wants to chuck grenades is that you're not going to
Speaker 1: be successful if you just want to punch somebody in
Speaker 1: the face, great, okay, super But if you want to
Speaker 1: reform agencies or bodies the government that you consider to
Speaker 1: be corrupt and full of duplicity and scumbaggery and anti
Speaker 1: Trump activism which is legit, I'm with you on a
Speaker 1: lot of that. But you're not going to be successful
Speaker 1: with Matt Gates. That's the problem.
Speaker 2: It will fail.
Speaker 1: You've got to get somebody who's smart and savvy and
Speaker 1: clean enough that they can't undermine him by saying, you know,
Speaker 1: all the things they would say about Gates, well, a
Speaker 1: lot of which is true.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: That's the last paragraph from the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
Speaker 4: The larger objections to mister Gates concerned judgment and credibility.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about, more than the whether he
Speaker 4: had sex with a seventeen year old. The US Attorney
Speaker 4: general has to make calls them countless difficult questions of
Speaker 4: whom to investigate and indict. Gates's decisions simply won't be
Speaker 4: trusted by any Democrats, and about half the Republican's that
Speaker 4: will think he's just doing this for whatever personal reasons,
Speaker 4: or he just wants to be provocative or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's no good. They've got anything.
Speaker 1: Sacrificial lamb or sincere grenade chucked at the DOJ.
Speaker 4: I remember when we had Bill O'Reilly on, back when
Speaker 4: Bill O'Reilly was the biggest deal in all of media
Speaker 4: back in I think it was probably still twenty fifteen
Speaker 4: after Trump had announced and asking Bill O'Reilly is a
Speaker 4: three dimensional chests and Bill rising, there's no three dimensional
Speaker 4: chests going on.
Speaker 2: Trump just wings it.
Speaker 4: I think it's probably closer to he just he just
Speaker 4: knew it would make people's heads explode, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: the way Trump is built, he loves that more than anything. Yes,
Speaker 4: flipping on MSNBC and watching people go crazy with enemies, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he just loves that. So I think it's probably more that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I hope there.
Speaker 4: May never be a great book written by a two
Speaker 4: term president about a two term president, because nobody knows
Speaker 4: how he makes his decisions but him.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure he's going to write a book
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: We may know less about him for history than any
Speaker 4: president we've ever had.
Speaker 2: Interesting though, was.
Speaker 4: It three dimensional chess or just bomb checking or whatever?
Speaker 4: And I have no idea. Ah, so a more reaction.
Speaker 4: Are we gonna play some audio with people freaking out?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: What's the plan? I don't know, but it'll happen after this.
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Speaker 4: So I thought this was pretty insightful from Noah Rothman
Speaker 4: of a National Review. As he is tweeting out yesterday
Speaker 4: as all the news was breaking. Gabbard and Getz are
Speaker 4: probably better understood less as endorsements of their respective worldviews
Speaker 4: than an expression of Trump's mistrust of the DOJ and
Speaker 4: the intelligence services. Less an appetite for a sad Putin
Speaker 4: and permanent anti establishment revolution, then a thumb in the
Speaker 4: eye of those institutions. In other words, yeah, he wanted
Speaker 4: He liked making people mad about this more than he's
Speaker 4: on board with.
Speaker 1: Their philosophies, whatever they are. Yeah, he wanted to punch
Speaker 1: him in the face. I get that. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a good long term strategy. But I really really
Speaker 1: really don't.
Speaker 2: Think Matt Gates will get through. Elsie Gabbert.
Speaker 1: I'm just astonished by that choice. No rewarding a loyalist.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 4: Noah Rothman also said not sure if Gates will win
Speaker 4: confirmation or not, but the vetting process will test his
Speaker 4: tolerance for embarrassment. Yeah, I would say so again with
Speaker 4: this report coming out tomorrow and the most thorough background
Speaker 4: check by far he's ever gone through. Because to become
Speaker 4: Attorney General, you're getting the highest level of course. Because
Speaker 4: you are, you get to know all kinds of stuff
Speaker 4: that very few people should know about lots of people
Speaker 4: that might result in investigations or not. And so you know,
Speaker 4: it's gotta be somebody you really really trust, and he's
Speaker 4: gonna get that thorough background check, and well see it comes.
Speaker 2: Out of that.
Speaker 1: Just you know. My final thought on the subject will
Speaker 1: probably be that Andrew McCarthy, who has been perhaps the
Speaker 1: most eloquent, knowledgeable, and forceful a voice attacker against the
Speaker 1: law fair waged against Trump. He has been brilliant, thorough,
Speaker 1: and merciless in pointing out how corrupt all of this
Speaker 1: has been right. Okay, so he's no never Trumper. His
Speaker 1: headline is on Trump's foolish, futile Matt Gates AG nomination.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's spending, you know, some goodwill you
Speaker 4: had even with the mainstream media because of such a
Speaker 4: big win and a lot of political capital on nothing like,
Speaker 4: on nothing other than a couple of days early enjoying.
Speaker 2: How upset Joe Scarborough is. Yeah, I guess he doesn't care.
Speaker 1: And honestly, after the Gates nomination is swept away and
Speaker 1: trumputt nominates somebody more reasonable or clean or whatever, honestly
Speaker 1: it'll be forgotten in the mails from the dust storm
Speaker 1: of dust ups over Donald.
Speaker 4: J Another yet another thing that is leading to social
Speaker 4: isolation in our modern society. I see this every single day.
Speaker 4: I deal with it in my own family. I do
Speaker 4: want to talk about that, among other things.
Speaker 2: Stay with us.
Speaker 7: On successive nights last month, potase Say burglars broke into
Speaker 7: the homes of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in Missouri and
Speaker 7: Travis Kelsey in Kansas. On Sunday, October sixth, police were
Speaker 7: dispatched to a burglary where Mahomes lives hours after Mahomes
Speaker 7: was targeted and with the Chiefs about to kick off
Speaker 7: Monday night. Police say burglars stole twenty thousand dollars in
Speaker 7: cash from Kelsey's home and damaged the back door. Taylor
Speaker 7: Swift was at that game, but afterwards she and Kelsey
Speaker 7: reportedly did not returned to his house.
Speaker 2: I spoke to police a little while ago.
Speaker 7: That seems they know who they're looking for and they're
Speaker 7: confident they will catch them.
Speaker 4: That's interesting that two of the most famous football players
Speaker 4: in America, knowing they were, you know, not home because
Speaker 4: of the game, broke in.
Speaker 2: Somebody broke into their homes. And you would assume, I mean.
Speaker 4: I had seen pictures of both of their homes for
Speaker 4: a variety of reasons, reading newspaper articles.
Speaker 2: You would have sucker.
Speaker 4: You would assume people who have houses like that have
Speaker 4: a security system or a house sitter or a maybe
Speaker 4: even an armed guard.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're freaking have.
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift coming over and stay in the night. Half
Speaker 4: a dozen mastiffs.
Speaker 1: Who just roam around looking for flesh to sink their
Speaker 1: mighty fangs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, teams of pit bulls and Chiefs Jerseys. Yes, well,
Speaker 2: that would be so cute.
Speaker 4: But I'm just surprised you could even break into Travis
Speaker 4: Kelsey's home and rummage around and find cash.
Speaker 2: And leave what. I'm not kidding, They need to simply
Speaker 2: say use that coat armstrong.
Speaker 4: Yeah, speaking of crimes, just came across this one down
Speaker 4: in Mexico. I won't spend much time on it because
Speaker 4: it's gruesome. But so this woman picks up a hitchhiker
Speaker 4: down in Mexico and he opens up a bag and
Speaker 4: starts tossing bones out the window, and she thinks those
Speaker 4: look like human.
Speaker 2: Bones, say pal.
Speaker 4: She doesn't say anything, as you'd be quite disturbed as
Speaker 4: the person you've picked up to give her ride is
Speaker 4: throwing bones out the window of your van and is
Speaker 4: also a person.
Speaker 1: Who's willing to throw bones out of a van while
Speaker 1: you watch.
Speaker 4: I can't help but ask there, Pedro, why you got
Speaker 4: a bag of human bones?
Speaker 1: That's some serious level up psychopathy right there, right?
Speaker 4: Why are you throwing them out now? With me sitting
Speaker 4: here and hum.
Speaker 1: Seems like you got a lot of bones there, chum,
Speaker 1: more bones than the average hiker.
Speaker 2: Don't mean overstep my bounds, but.
Speaker 1: I found myself wondering where'd you come by all those bones.
Speaker 2: What's the deal with all the human bones?
Speaker 4: So she drops him off, probably heart pounding, thank god,
Speaker 4: and it calls the cops.
Speaker 2: The cops find the guy. He's got a house.
Speaker 4: They go to his house and they've found twenty skulls
Speaker 4: so far, Oh my buried.
Speaker 2: In the yard. So oof l serial killer. Same publication
Speaker 2: New York Posts that brought me that story.
Speaker 4: I was just reading this story about yet another reason
Speaker 4: why we are living such isolated lives. And I fear
Speaker 4: for the next generation that will have grown up knowing
Speaker 4: no different. And that's the And I do this quite
Speaker 4: a bit myself too, the omnipresence of having one or
Speaker 4: more earbuds in walking around either or listening to music
Speaker 4: or podcasts or whatever.
Speaker 2: And how many people do that.
Speaker 4: And my son my high school, this has been a
Speaker 4: real point of contention because he really hates that I
Speaker 4: do this. But I don't take that out of your ear. No,
Speaker 4: we're riding in the car, I'm talking to you. You
Speaker 4: don't need to be listening to music while we're having
Speaker 4: a conversation. And I mean, it's just he just he'll
Speaker 4: put it back in and I try to get his attention.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 4: Let's all, let's all hang out here at dinner and talk,
Speaker 4: or at least be listening to each other, or the
Speaker 4: potential to listen to each other.
Speaker 2: You don't need to whatever you're listening to right.
Speaker 4: Now, but just Constant and him and all his friends
Speaker 4: when they come out of the classroom. I mean, every
Speaker 4: single person staring at a phone and or the earbuddy
Speaker 4: in always and I mostly music, I guess. But that's
Speaker 4: a different lifestyle than Homo sapiens have had for all
Speaker 4: of our existence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say, I remember reading about the NBA players,
Speaker 1: the young players who have their headphones on their beats
Speaker 1: or what have you all the time on the team bus,
Speaker 1: then in the locker room, and these guys are lonely,
Speaker 1: they're freaked out.
Speaker 2: They don't get a long and.
Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking about, you know, as you
Speaker 1: start to talk about it, how young people are not
Speaker 1: coupling there, they're not finding girlfriends, boyfriends, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And I think part of it's got to be By
Speaker 1: the time that you know, I was sixteen years old, say,
Speaker 1: I had interacted with young women tens of thousands of times,
Speaker 1: and the idea that Oh it's a girl. I'm talking
Speaker 1: to a girl. Was like, No, that's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe as it turned romantic. Okay, that's some
Speaker 1: interesting slippery slope ground ron But yeah, I would be
Speaker 1: weird and intimidated not know what to do either if
Speaker 1: I'd spend all my time in a little cocoon of
Speaker 1: my own making.
Speaker 4: Well, we all know the the attention thing that we
Speaker 4: all have from staring our phones or anything like that,
Speaker 4: but definitely the next level is the having the earbud
Speaker 4: in all the time. And I don't know if you
Speaker 4: get kind of like addicted to needing some stimulus of
Speaker 4: some sort, or if it's because so many people have
Speaker 4: eighty ADD or ADHD, because I know somebody, full on
Speaker 4: grown up, she's fifty has a d ADD whichever one
Speaker 4: it is, that she has to have some music going
Speaker 4: to be able to pay attention. It like quiets down
Speaker 4: the whatever causes you to be distracted and allows you
Speaker 4: to pay attention. So I don't know how many of
Speaker 4: our young people, so many of them have you know,
Speaker 4: those things add or something maybe that helps them listen
Speaker 4: to you or other people. I don't even know, but
Speaker 4: it's definitely new and how would it not leave to isolation?
Speaker 2: I told him he was.
Speaker 4: He was going to ride on a bus to a
Speaker 4: band trip the other day, and I said, you know,
Speaker 4: you're riding with this kid, and you know some parents
Speaker 4: nice enough to drive them. Don't sit there with your
Speaker 4: earbuds in there and ignore them all the whole time,
Speaker 4: you know, can you like interact with them for a while,
Speaker 4: just please for me? Yeah, because I know they do that.
Speaker 4: They just they all sit there in the van with
Speaker 4: their earbuds in, nobody talking to anybody. Wow, how different
Speaker 4: is that?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: The way I know it is man has invented his doom.
Speaker 4: It hurts my soul to see that. And if you've
Speaker 4: never had anything different, you don't know what you're missing.
Speaker 4: I guess time for a planet of the apes or beavers.
Speaker 2: Well, they're starting it in South Carolina. I can pick
Speaker 2: a favorite, Armstrong and Getty