WEBVTT - Who's A Good Little Hippo? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.640 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.479 Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty and He 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:26.520 Armstrong and Yetty. Mortgages, car loans, credit cards. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.920 Americans are borrowing more than ever US household debt now 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.800 at seventeen point ninety four trillion dollars for credit cards. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.120 That debt has never cost more. The average interest rate 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.720 almost twenty two percent, way higher than auto loans and 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:41.520 mortgage rates. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.479 Yeah, so I was about to jump in with what 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.520 the amounts with inflation, that just kind of makes sense 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.400 because everything is, you know, relative to whatever things used 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.720 to cost. But the interest rates don't change. The way 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.800 math works doesn't change, and those higher interest rates in 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.240 there or ever are brutal for the highest load anybody's 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:08.280 ever carried. Yeah, and you're absolutely right about you know, inflation, 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.000 that sort of thing. But man, seventeen point ninety four 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.000 trillion dollars on a card if you're in post revolution Bolivia, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.320 that sounds like a lot. And you got somewhere between 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.800 twenty and thirty percent interest on your credit card based 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:20.959 on your credit situation. 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:21.800 Yeah, that's rough. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.480 The biggest political story in America by far obviously, is 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.760 Trump nominating Matt Gates and some other conversial people to 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.120 important positions. We talked about that a lot in Hour one. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.280 We'll get back to that again later. I mean, it's 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.000 dominating all news coverage except for Fox, where they're treating 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.720 it as like a third tier story. For instance, this 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.679 is a third tier story. Did you see there's a 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:48.520 new pigmy baby hippo that is the world's favorite new animal, 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.960 the new baby pigmy a because we had one a 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.080 couple of weeks ago, right, and everybody loved it, And 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:54.360 there's a new one out today and I just saw 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.960 it hopping around in the grass. That's the cutest dang thing. Ever, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.880 how do I not have one? I gotta get one? 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.160 Yeah, enjoy your fifteen minutes signed meerkats? 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.240 Yeah, yeah, exactly, or dwarf goats or whatever was cute 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.959 last time. But big me hippos are super cute. I 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.000 wonder if you say pigs, is it like a pop 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.720 belly pig. You get one and you think it's really cute. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.480 In the next thing, you know, it's seven hundred pounds 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.239 and has to live in your garage and you can't 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:19.280 park your car in there anymore. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:24.360 Disreputable breeders start selling regular hippos. Is damn, I've got 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.919 a regular, full sized, three thousand pound hippo. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.359 This is not working for me, Katie. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.720 Yes, I was just wondering what this one's name was, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.200 because last time we had moo mood dung. 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.480 Or mood dang moo dang. I think was it? Yeah? 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.000 Very cute, very cute little hippo. Dig up a picture. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.880 I mean you'll you'll think, aw, I'll be the first 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:43.399 thing you say. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.480 You know, I'm more interested in the Marxist under currents 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.360 in American society. But if you want to work the cute, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.360 fat faced animal beat, that's somebody needs to. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.240 The new one is a Scottish apparently. Its name is 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:05.760 Haggis Ah, Haggage, laggage. Who's a good Who's I wish 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.960 you could see my face? Friends, I wish you could 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.720 put a little kilt on it. Put exactly, put a 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:11.880 little killed on it. Please. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.840 Michael Brilliant played bagpipe music because it waddles out into 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.359 its enclosure for the people. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:23.639 AH plays the little bagpipe exactly. This is so stupid, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.000 please can we move on? 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:26.080 So? 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.600 Uh Chris Ruffo, you'll know him, you love him with 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:35.120 a great piece. Why Boeing killed Dei? And and the 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.480 lead is the important part of reckoning is underway in 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.320 corporate America. You remember, after the death of George Floyd 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.360 in twenty twenty, like every Fortune, five hundred company launched 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.840 a diversity, equity and inclusion program with very serious faces 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.839 as they were running terrified from the Marxists who claimed 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:56.000 racial justice was their motivation. But now four short years later, 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.279 many companies are quietly acknowledging the failure of these initiatives, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.320 in some cases is winding them down. And Rufo has 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.360 been writing about DEI at Boeing for a while. He's 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.440 got an inside source, well placed, high up, that described 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.600 it this way quote, I thought this is really good. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.280 DEI is the drop you put in the bucket and 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.400 the whole bucket changes. It is anti excellence and because 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.040 it is ill defined, it becomes part of the culture. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:29.960 That is some of the most evocative phrasing I've ever heard. Yeah, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.679 the drop you put in the bucket and it changes 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.159 the whole bucket. That's interesting, folks, You've become. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.160 Aware that the whole woke thing DEI anti racism thing. 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.400 You can't win. It's a constantly moving target. If you 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.400 say you're not a racist, you're a racist. And if 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.480 you say you're a racist, you're racist. But either way 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.960 you shut up. We're in charge. There's no way to 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.920 win against the woke people. That's not part of it. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.800 They're not talking to you to come to an understanding. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.719 They're talking to you to rule you. And more people 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.080 are on nderstanding that. And then the context of Boeing 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.240 obviously you know the doors are falling off your planes 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.840 for instance. Yeah, earlier this month, Boeing installed new CEO 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.279 Kelly Ortberg, quietly dismantled the DEI department and accepted the 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.120 resignation of the office's vice president. So Rufo reached out 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.360 to the same insider to get insight onto what happened 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.279 and how it happened. And he says, tell us, what 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.719 happened with DEI went from dominant to extinct in a 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.839 very short period of time. The insider says, we're shifting 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.159 from a company whose culture is simply the average of 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.600 corporate America to a distinct and deliberate vision of leadership. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.800 The new boss wants Boeing focused on being an airplane 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.760 company with our own culture and vision. The resulting cash 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.520 crunch from the crunch from the strike accelerated this culture shift. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.240 When you start to focus on delivering value instead of 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.400 preserving status, it becomes obvious what drives value and it's 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:02.279 not DEI. And then he gets into he asked my 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.680 senses that many executives are not genuinely committed to DEIS 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.040 and ideology. They simply want to build airplanes or create software, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.400 for instance, but they feel social pressure to maintain these departments. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.440 Is that true at Boeing and if so, when did 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.080 the calculus change? And the answer is DEI is lazy 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.719 thought leadership best practiced by companies in smooth waters with 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.120 margins large enough to afford the associated inefficiency. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.000 That isn't Boeing today. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.200 When the new boss prioritized results over fitting in with 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.240 other CEOs, it sends a strong signal to the culture 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.640 and builds trust because employees know the rules and it's 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.960 clear how to succeed through hard work and results. McKinsey's 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.520 at the Consulting Group now debunked analysis was the standard 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.400 driver in corporate boardrooms. But even if DEI has to 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.080 defend itself on purely logical grounds. It doesn't stand up bowing. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.360 More than anything needs an aligned workforce focused on building airplanes. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.080 And it's an easy decision to reject the divisive and 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.480 US centric language of DEI in favor of unified vision 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.200 for a diverse global company. Anyway, I thought that that 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.880 was really good just as a description of how it works. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.760 And DEI could go away under a Trump administration, which 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.720 won't be you know, working to push that on corporate America, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.760 whereas if Kamala Harris administration, there would have been so 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.800 much pressure on all these companies to continue that or 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.480 add it if they hadn't already. 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.280 Right, and it's it's a bludgeon again. It's not about 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.400 racial justice or any of the things that claims to 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.120 be about. Like in jackscenario, which is a good one, 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:36.360 the Harris administration wanted Boeing to suddenly, you know, unionize 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.960 its last three facilities or something like that. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.560 Well, then they could hammer them with DEI. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.880 Stuff or through their DEI executives and get them on 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.160 their knees begging for mercy because they're being accused of racism. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.960 It's the old Jesse Jackson operation push blackmail scam. You 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.440 don't want racial justice, you want something else, but you 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.040 use claims of racial injustice to get there. It's the 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.840 race hustler thing. Anyway, I thought this was good too. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.400 From the National Review Lathan Watts. DEI is a corporate bust, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.160 and he starts about the He starts with the wild 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.920 overreaction to the death of George Floyd and how all 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:19.040 the corporations were terrified, and how Robbie Starbuck, the filmmaker, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.960 has been using sunlight as the best disinfectant. And he's 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.280 brought failed policies that are legally questionable and highly unpopular 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.280 with consumers to the attention the general public and the 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.000 shareholders of these corporations. As a result, some of the 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.120 best known brands in the country have hastily canceled their 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.480 DEI programs and cut ties with the far left Human 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.800 Rights Campaign, which pressures companies to do things like cover 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:46.240 sex hormones and puberty blockers for miners. Wow, monstrous Nazia 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.920 like experiments on children. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.440 Your company has to cover that stuff and their insurance plan. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:56.200 Wow yeah yeah. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.679 And I thought this was interesting. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.880 Unwilling to let the practical failure of a policy distract 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.320 from the political fervor. Forty nine members of Congress, keeping 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.720 in mind their four hundred and thirty five of these geeks, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.200 spurred on, signed an open letter to Fortune one thousand 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:15.920 businesses demanding that they doubled down on DEI. But these 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.079 companies have recently received two more open letters encouraging them 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.160 to hold the line in favor of healthy ROI return 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.120 on investment over feeble DEI ideology. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:27.920 I like that. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:32.480 Slogan, AREI not DEI for the companies I want to 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:33.040 invest in? 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.599 I love that the second of those two letters. 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.440 Came from seventeen state treasurers and other financial officials, state 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.880 of financial officials who are responsible for the gigantic state 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.640 investment vehicles that hold billions of dollars in ownership positions 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.240 in these companies for their retirees, and that sort of thing. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.200 And unlike the partisan gamesmanship paraphrasing the piece of the 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:03.600 National Review, here the forty nine Congress geeks liberal CULTI 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.800 jackasses are saying, you've got to double down on DII. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.600 These people are saying, Hey, we. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.600 Don't have the luxury of you and your virtue signaling 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.200 crap which you run your company for efficiency, please not 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.360 to please AOC and so it's good to see you. 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.720 Remember it was what a year ago I started saying. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:27.560 And all DEI programs now wherever they exist, and it's 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.560 happening in spades. Hurrah, hourrah, better for black people, better 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:33.560 for white and Hispanic people as people. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.200 In short, go get them awesome. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:46.120 Man that Dylan mulvany disagrees, noted American Anheuser Bush spokesperson. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.080 I apologize if I have offended him. The tide shure 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:55.560 turned on that whole thing fast. Yeah, although it is 0:10:55.679 --> 0:11:02.800 still monstrous in academia, media, Hollywood, and in government itself, friends, 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.120 which is why I am always saying this is just 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:06.040 the end of the beginning. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.640 Have you seen any of the trailers for the new 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.920 Gladiator movie? I have Gladiator too. It looks freaking fantastic 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.200 and the reviews are starting to come out, and Denzel 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.440 Washington is supposed to be his best role ever, which 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:20.160 is saying something. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:21.400 Oh wow. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:28.160 Although he said that they his gay kiss got left 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:33.000 on the cutting room floor, that's something. And I'm sure 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.720 everybody America was ready to see Denzel Washington kiss some other. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.240 Dude mashing with it. Dude, I don't need it, but 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:41.560 looks awesome. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.079 And that's the kind of movie you got to see 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.640 in a theater, the big giant colosseum and the fighting 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:47.400 and everything like that. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.040 I'll take the kids of that, probably unless it's too gruesome. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:50.800 I don't know. I don't know. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.600 Yeah, maybe, And I think we're going to play this trailer. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.560 In fact, we could play it next. There is a 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.640 hot new documentary coming out that I want to see. Okay, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.440 it's a documentary on well, I'm not gonna tell you what. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.160 And we're already gearing up for the Tyson Paul fight 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.560 that is Friday night on Netflix with the kids, and 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:10.839 we're gonna gather around for that. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:11.800 We can't wait. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.440 You're having your children watch an elderly man beaten kind 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:16.240 of monster, are you? 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.440 That's not the way we think it's gonna go. That's 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:19.840 not the way we think it's gonna go. But we 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.719 could be wrong. Uh, And then we got to get 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.280 back into the hole. Matt Gates is it gonna be 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.360 Attorney General? Or at least he's been nominated. What a 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:27.120 bomb that was? 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:33.520 Stay here, it rocks, but it doesn't wrong too hard. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.560 The singers all seem to be saying, Hey, it's gonna 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:45.440 be okay, it's perfect sitting down dancing music. Also known 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.520 as Ya Rocks, Steely Dan. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.360 The Doobie Brothers, Toto, Kenny Longins, Christopher Cross. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:57.719 Michael McDonald. I expected to be totally forgotten. By the 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.439 end of the eighties, the. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.440 Term yacht rock merged from comedy show. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.600 All of a sudden, this new genre we started to 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.640 get embraced by the world. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:11.400 Rock. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.200 I always thought it was kind of flattering to be 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:14.520 made fun of. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.040 We did a whole show on yacht rock or a 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.959 lot of one a couple of years ago, playing various 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.920 songs and everything like that, and discussing it because it's 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.240 not well defined, but it's defined enough that, like in 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.559 my Tesla anyway, there's a yacht rock option for. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.559 Your music choices. It's like pornography, you know what when you. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:31.760 Hear it. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:33.760 Exactly? 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.319 Who was that saying I expected to be forgotten? Was 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.720 that Christopher Cross? That is hilarious? 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.199 Who knows, yeh, I could have been any one of 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:42.480 those guys. I guess. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.119 Rock not too. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.000 Hard, perfect for dancing sitting down. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.840 I was skeptical of a documentary about yacht rock, but 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:59.880 that sounds pretty entertaining. Yeah, and it's just everybody can 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.400 and most of that music was popular when I was 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.880 alive and a young person, but it seems to have 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:13.480 some purchase with like the younger crowd that was born 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.800 well after these songs for whatever reason. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:17.000 Oh definitely. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.720 I read once an unnecessarily long piece about how love 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.240 of Steely Dan went from ironic to sincere among the young. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.600 Well right, and Steely Dan's a brilliant band, by the way, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.680 I will brook no making fun of Steely Dan. I 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.960 have walked by fratthouses in the college town I live 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.520 in blasting Toto, which I would have never guessed when 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:40.240 it was actually popular in the eighties that forty years 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.000 in the future, college dudes would be blasting it in 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.920 a party with their shirts off, playing beer pong. I mean, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.440 it's just I would have bet you had any money 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:49.720 that wasn't gonna happen. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.680 But it did go figure. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.120 I read a book by Chuck Klosterman lent to me 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.040 by a good friend, and I can't remember the title 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:03.280 of it, but it was really like two hundred and 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.680 fifty page think piece on what art will endure from 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.440 our current time, specifically musical, and he goes into what 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.640 art endured from various other times, and what is it 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.560 that makes it endure? Is it merely quality? No, definitely not. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.600 Is it like quirkiness? Is it first in? 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.160 Is it a It's just a really interesting series of thoughts. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.280 It's certainly not just popularity. As a guy who is 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.040 a music disc jockey in the eighties, I hear stuff 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:35.240 on eighties stations that I remember were minor hits at 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.520 the time that are still getting on regular rotation on 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.560 eighty stations now for reasons. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.200 I can't quite explain. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.640 Yeah, what endures. It's kind of a mysterious question. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.160 Man on music. I have this. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.000 I'm sure this is a very common with a lot 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.560 of parents. But my my, I'm gonna have two teenagers 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.720 here in a month. But my youngest teenager, for whatever reason, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.680 he's an interesting dude, Henry. He likes class rock, so 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.720 it's very easy for me to drive around with him. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.720 He wants to hear Bachman Turner, Overdrive and the Eagles 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.080 we went to last weekend in Vegas and stuff like that. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.920 He wants to hear Sweet Home Alabama. That's the music 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.480 he wants to hear, and he chose it himself. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:13.640 I didn't choose it. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.080 But my oldest only wants to listen to rap music, 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.120 and particular rap music, and I try. I picked him 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.080 up from school yesterday and dialed up some of his 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.040 favorite stuff to listen to while we're driving home, and 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.000 I just, oh, it's punishing to me. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:26.880 I just I don't. 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.040 I do not understand the appeal, like to some stuff 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.280 I like. I like Kanye, I'll listen to tons of you. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:33.400 But he doesn't like Kanye. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.280 He likes he. I always say this makes him laugh 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:45.080 every time. Where's the melody? What's row Sinatra? I always say, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.360 I just I do not get the appeal. But I try. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.440 Maybe it'll I don't know, maybe it'll click in my 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:50.080 head someday. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:51.440 Yeah. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.280 Or to each their own, But wouldn't it be something 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.600 of five hundred years from now? Historians say, and then 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.600 there was a musical development and that they called rock 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:03.760 and music, and they play you know, Christopher Cross or 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.840 something right as an example, Shaggar is spinning in his 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.639 five hundred year old grave. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:09.919 Or he's still alive touring. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:15.280 You don't know, Matt Gates, Attorney General, what WTF is 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:16.119 the response for. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.439 Bost of America, Artrong, and Getty. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.680 I will tonight discuss Matt Gate. Some of you will 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.880 think I'm too hard on him. Some of you will 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.159 think I'm much too easy on him. And this is 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.960 in the context of what is one of the most 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.800 jaw dropping days in the last ten years of Trump. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.600 I mean, it's I would describe it as God to 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:42.800 your level trolley to just trigger a full on China syndrome, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.240 to own the lives in perpetuity. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.880 So that's Mark Alprin saying it's one of the most 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.040 jaw dropping days in the decade of Trump, which is 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.159 saying something obviously. And then that's John Fetterman, Senator of 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:00.639 Pennsylvania saying this is God level trolling, which is China 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.560 syndrome miltown, which it might be God level trolling. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.760 I'm not sure. I really don't know. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.359 And everybody's guessing that's Trump nominating Matt Gates to be 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:11.479 the Attorney general. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.840 Fetterman is so much more likable than he used to be. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.800 Maybe a stroke helped him. I don't know anyway. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.840 Uh, yes, Matt Gates, you say, is what attorney general? 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:25.800 Went right? 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:32.160 And uh with the news part of it, that should 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:39.639 be mentioned that Republican sources told news outlets yesterday that 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:44.280 a committee report was coming out tomorrow on Matt Gates 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.040 was already planned to come out tomorrow on Matt Gates. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.680 That was going to be quite explosive about all those 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.399 sex drug allegations that he's had for quite a few years. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.199 So you gotta factor that in. 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.199 And again it's he's got so enemy, so many enemies 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.440 in the House and the Senate, Republican enemies, that it's 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.600 not shocking that Republicans went to the press with that news, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.320 and there's not a chance that it doesn't leak out 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.160 of that committee tomorrow, probably by some Republican who hates 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.360 Matt Gates. I'll be interesting to see what's in there 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.120 and how damaging it is, and whether or not Matt 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.040 Gates or Trump care at all. Right to question what 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.240 was Trump thinking is the really interesting one to me, 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:30.560 But I don't want to get ahead. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:31.520 That was it just trolling? 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.439 He just likes to see people's heads explode and he 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.399 doesn't care if Matt Gates gets confirmed or not. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:38.480 Was it the. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:45.440 Five dimensional chess play of you'll spend all your time 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.680 and effort on taking down Matt Gates, and I'll get 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.880 my other kind of controversial people. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:54.600 Through, right, the sacrificial lamb strategy is it? I really 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.760 wanted to throw a hand grenade into the Justice Department 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.720 because of the incredible injustice of how they they've traded 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.480 me over the last quite a few years, which is 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:08.960 undeniably true. I would argue that's not a good strategy 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:10.479 if you want to reform the Justice Department. 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:11.119 Yeah, somebody. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:12.960 I did want to get this on because somebody brought 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:20.040 this up and I had forgotten this. The FBI and 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.760 d OJY previously tried to frame Matt Gates. I don't 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:24.720 know if this is all true, but I remember this story. 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.679 Tried to frame Matt Gates with the help of a 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.720 con artist. That's the guy he was friends with. Now 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.639 was he friends or did he get calmed by this 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.840 guy who was trying to extort Gates's family out of 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:38.399 tens of millions of dollars? 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.400 Do you remember that whole aspect of the story vaguely? 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.560 I can't think of a more perfect choice to tear 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.159 the most corrupt agency on Earth down to its studs. Bravo, 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.480 President Trump. That's from Sean Davis. If you know his act. Now, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.280 I don't know if I buy all that stuff, but 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.320 it's possible that Gates got involved with some people that 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:56.920 tried to extort him and then tried to ruin him 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:01.040 with that whole underage girl thing, because you know, the 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.600 investigation was dropped a couple of years back. Now you 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.080 got the so called explosive details of a new committee 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.760 report coming out tomorrow, and maybe. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.400 That will make it more clear what's going on there. 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.840 Yeah, and remember, in the same way that the legitimate 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:21.719 women's rights movement pointed out that sometimes promiscuous women get raped. 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.919