Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm Strong
Speaker 1: and KATTETI and he Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 2: Formhouse figure Nancy Pelosi is on the bend after undergoing
Speaker 2: hip replacement surgery at a US military base in Germany.
Speaker 1: The eighty four year.
Speaker 2: Old tripped and fell on Friday while attending the ceremony
Speaker 2: in Luxembourg commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the.
Speaker 3: Battle of the Bulge, which she fought in. Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 3: fell down. I didn't know that happened, Like you fall
Speaker 3: break your hip so bad they replace your hip right
Speaker 3: there at the emergency room.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, and I'm happy. I guess no videos.
Speaker 3: I assumed I would see her falling down the stairs
Speaker 3: with the broken hip put to music, because there had
Speaker 3: to be this video on everything in the modern world.
Speaker 1: But I haven't seen anybod eos. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see an old lady falled.
Speaker 4: Out, old ladies being injured as a well spring for mirth. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I disagree, Yeah, that would happen.
Speaker 1: I rejected.
Speaker 3: Nancy Pelosi from San Francisco, where there was a tornado
Speaker 3: warning over the weekend for the first time ever because
Speaker 3: there was a tornado south of San Francisco. Somebody texted,
Speaker 3: would be a poop Nato, taking from the theme of
Speaker 3: the fabulous movie series Shark Nato, where the tornadoes pick
Speaker 3: up the sharks out of the ocean and you got
Speaker 3: sharks flying through the air.
Speaker 1: That would happen with the streets. Let us go up
Speaker 1: poop Nato. Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, Well clean off the streets anyway. Combine that with
Speaker 4: some nice rain that would be very, very effective. But
Speaker 4: thankfully or regretfully, the tornado states south anyway.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody's okay.
Speaker 4: So perhaps you saw the headline over the weekend that
Speaker 4: ABC News and George Stephanopolis have settled and agreed to
Speaker 4: contribute fifteen million dollars to Donald Trump's presidential foundation or
Speaker 4: museum to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump against
Speaker 4: the network and its star.
Speaker 1: He had.
Speaker 4: It's funny. I'm looking at a couple of different accounts.
Speaker 4: The Wall Street Journal soft pedaling it a little bit.
Speaker 4: Stephanoppolos said on Earl Take two on air earlier this
Speaker 4: year that the president elect had been found civilly liable
Speaker 4: for raping writer E. Gene Carroll, and a federal jury,
Speaker 4: while it determined Trump was liable for sexual abuse, specifically
Speaker 4: rejected the rape allegation.
Speaker 3: Not even sexual assault, sexual abuse is what they went with.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it's it's a civil suit, so it goes
Speaker 4: by different names than criminal stuff. But yeah, and Stephanopolis,
Speaker 4: according to I think it was. Fox News said it
Speaker 4: ten times during an interview with Nancy mace Im that
Speaker 4: either way was beat down by a transgender activist the
Speaker 4: other day got no attention on the dying lie media.
Speaker 3: She's walking around in a sling because she was physically
Speaker 3: attacked by a transactivist.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if a sitting.
Speaker 3: Democrat in our federal government were attacked by some mega person.
Speaker 1: What a story that would be.
Speaker 4: The Capitol would be shut down it via some sort
Speaker 4: of national day of mourning. The President would have given
Speaker 4: a rambling, incoherent speech. Yeah, it's just unbelievable. Excuse me,
Speaker 4: sip of coffee. I'm a bit of an addict, you.
Speaker 1: See, I'm doing the captag in today. I'm so tired. Wow,
Speaker 1: kicking Syrian style.
Speaker 4: Huh that meth substitute that's captured the hearts of Middle Easterners.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 4: Along with the contribution, ABC will pay a million dollars
Speaker 4: in legal field fees for Trump's lawyer, and Disney owned
Speaker 4: ABC News posted a note on its website Saturday that said,
Speaker 4: quote ABC News and George Stephanopolis regret statements regarding President
Speaker 4: Donald J. Trump made during the interview aired March tenth
Speaker 4: on This week, was Stephanopolis misinformed?
Speaker 1: Or what I mean? Because he's a smart guy.
Speaker 3: He knows you can't go around and call people rapists
Speaker 3: who aren't convicted rapists?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, right. People are claiming some people are claiming that, look,
Speaker 4: you know, sexual abuse, including perhaps penetration, fits what a
Speaker 4: lot of people would consider rape. But evidently ABC News
Speaker 4: and their lawyers either thought, now, we're not gonna win
Speaker 4: this or it would be so enormously expensive, both literally
Speaker 4: and in terms of alienating even Trump sympathetic viewers. They thought,
Speaker 4: let's put this behind us. But you've got to feel really,
Speaker 4: really vulnerable to say, yeah, we'll pay sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 4: I would think so. Plus the embarrassment. Are they capable
Speaker 4: of embarrassment? In your opinion?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I gotta believe that that when they see themselves such
Speaker 3: a leading edge the resistance against the evil Trump. To
Speaker 3: have to cut him a big check and apologize has
Speaker 3: got to be really something they hated to do. For
Speaker 3: what it's worth, a CNN is in a different courtroom
Speaker 3: and they've been losing critical motions in a defamation case.
Speaker 3: Anchored Jake Tapper and CNN are being sued by Navy
Speaker 3: veteran Zachary Young after falsely suggesting that he and his
Speaker 3: organization were exploiting desperate Afghan refugees. They discovery uncovered malicious
Speaker 3: and unprofessional emails from producers promising to nail Young and
Speaker 3: make this segment his funeral. It'll be interesting to see
Speaker 3: where that goes. CNN with the opposite of deep pockets.
Speaker 3: By the way, as long as we're talking about this,
Speaker 3: this is stunning.
Speaker 4: Viewers have flocked to Fox News in the wake of
Speaker 4: Donald Trump's election last month, while ratings for MSNBC and
Speaker 4: CNN have tumbled. MSNBC averaged six hundred and three thousand
Speaker 4: primetime viewers WOW from the day after the election through
Speaker 4: December eighth, down by more than half.
Speaker 3: WOW, so even their full ritings were only two million nationwide.
Speaker 3: Cable news channels have outsized influence on the rest of
Speaker 3: the media. I don't think they have much influence on
Speaker 3: human beings.
Speaker 4: Well, CNN dropped a little less, down just forty six percent,
Speaker 4: but they started with less. They dropped down to four
Speaker 4: thousand and one I'm sorry, four hundred and one thousand
Speaker 4: viewers average prime time viewers.
Speaker 1: Now, there are ten podcasts you haven't heard of that
Speaker 1: are a bigger deal than any of those shows on
Speaker 1: CNN or MSNBC.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, listening to this would Fox News was up twelve percent, up,
Speaker 4: averaging two point seven million viewers. In other words, five
Speaker 4: and a half times well six twenty four carry the
Speaker 4: Streek six and a half times as much as CNN
Speaker 4: six and a half and about four and a half
Speaker 4: times word an MSNBC.
Speaker 3: Somebody tweeted out the most important thing you learned by
Speaker 3: going to public school. I want to share that with
Speaker 3: you when we come back, because I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 3: But before we take a break, what do you think
Speaker 3: of Trump's tweet over the weekend that he's going to
Speaker 3: do away with changing the clocks. Does he have the
Speaker 3: power to do that with an executive order or something
Speaker 3: like that? But I could see him finally breaking through
Speaker 3: that whatever that is that keeps us from doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, the second part I agree with. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think he Congress would have to do it.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure that if Trump came out in favor
Speaker 4: of ending daylight saving time, that the anti Trump fanatics,
Speaker 4: the Trump derangement syndrome crowd, would suddenly profess their never
Speaker 4: ending love of Sunday evening way everything goes in this
Speaker 4: silly country.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think we said this last week. Why
Speaker 1: don't we try it? And if we all.
Speaker 3: Decide, oh, this does suck, it's too dark in the
Speaker 3: morning or.
Speaker 1: Something, well, then we'll go back.
Speaker 3: The lack of willingness to try something once it's not
Speaker 3: gonna constanty harm.
Speaker 1: I just don't get.
Speaker 4: It's a weird like subcategory of decadence or you know,
Speaker 4: symptom of decadence in this country.
Speaker 1: We are so not.
Speaker 5: The the strapping young man of a country that's off
Speaker 5: on an adventure and is willing to take on risks
Speaker 5: and defend itself with its fists, just kind of that
Speaker 5: up and coming country.
Speaker 4: We're now such the fat, lazy conservative country that you know,
Speaker 4: somebody with her it's the tax code or this the
Speaker 4: idea of let's try it for two years and see
Speaker 4: how we like it.
Speaker 1: Well, we better not. I don't know. It might not
Speaker 1: go great.
Speaker 4: God, we become the opposite of what made us great.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's inevitable. I don't know the life cycle of empires.
Speaker 4: I've been reading about it lately. You can tweak it,
Speaker 4: but maybe there's just no changing it.
Speaker 3: So I got this thing about public school I came
Speaker 3: across on Twitter I thought was interesting. Also, this comment
Speaker 3: I found intriguing. Katie will have to weigh in on
Speaker 3: whether it's just misogynistic or rings true or not only
Speaker 3: a female point of view.
Speaker 1: Among other things. On the way stay with us, experts.
Speaker 3: Are saying that parents of teenagers should teach them porn literacy,
Speaker 3: particularly stepmothers. Any idea what porn literacy is, I could guess,
Speaker 3: better do so.
Speaker 4: Understand putting it in prospective understanding it's not real.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well I've done that, so I would guess that
Speaker 3: makes sense. So a quick thing on only fans speaking
Speaker 3: of porn, and I've got a bigger thing on only
Speaker 3: fans later in the culture. Worst thing that I can't
Speaker 3: wait to talk about. I've become so much more culturally
Speaker 3: conservative as I got older. As I get older, which
Speaker 3: is common thing people do. But anyway, this tweet, see
Speaker 3: if this makes sense to you, Katie, since you know
Speaker 3: somebody who's successful and only fans OnlyFans era has This
Speaker 3: is from a dude. OnlyFans Era has absolutely obliterated the
Speaker 3: hot waitress restaurant and Gimmick just went to a Twin
Speaker 3: Peaks that's a like sports bar sort of restaurant, and
Speaker 3: I swear to god, it was like they pulled the
Speaker 3: chicks straight from behind the desks of the DMV and
Speaker 3: shoved them into skippy outfits.
Speaker 1: Horrifying. Now, obviously that.
Speaker 3: Is a certain kind of guy, but is there so
Speaker 3: used to be if you're a hot young woman, you
Speaker 3: could go work in a supports bar, you know, certain
Speaker 3: kind of places and probably make really good tips.
Speaker 1: Has only fans done away with that?
Speaker 3: It's like, why would I ever work at a restaurant
Speaker 3: for this wage and hope for tips when I can
Speaker 3: go on only Fanny any guests on that?
Speaker 6: Uh I I can see where he's going with that,
Speaker 6: but I think that's quite the stretch.
Speaker 1: Well, I think I would put it like this.
Speaker 4: You have a young woman who is physically attractive, aware
Speaker 4: of it, and thinks, hmm, I can use this to
Speaker 4: better myself economically. And it used to be the Hooters,
Speaker 4: the Twin Peaks or whatever, the sports bar was the
Speaker 4: most effective way to do that short of becoming a.
Speaker 3: Stripper, which is in into a different area of Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're a different person, you go that work.
Speaker 4: Right, It's it's I understand that being an only fans model,
Speaker 4: particularly if you bear all, is very much like being
Speaker 4: a stripper, except you're in a very very safe environment
Speaker 4: controlled by yourself. So yeah, it's it's a better alternative
Speaker 4: to exploit that economic opportunity.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that.
Speaker 6: I think only fans holds that label though. I mean,
Speaker 6: no matter what you're doing on it, whether it's full
Speaker 6: full nudity or not, you're still on only fans And
Speaker 6: that holds kind of like a I guess there's a
Speaker 6: stigma with it, I would think.
Speaker 4: Or someone else probably an appropriate time to mention, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're aware of that. The British only fans woman who
Speaker 4: had sex with one hundred guys in a day. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's going to fit into the culture war thing. We
Speaker 4: well look forward to chatting about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, just wondered if anybody had any thoughts on that. So,
Speaker 3: since we're gonna go big on that sort of thing later,
Speaker 3: let me skip to this, which I came across I
Speaker 3: thought was really interesting. Just another random tweet from somebody.
Speaker 3: Maybe the most important thing you learn by attending public
Speaker 3: school is that we are all at the mercy of
Speaker 3: the bottom quin tile. The rules you follow in life
Speaker 3: will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile.
Speaker 3: The taxes you pay are to support the bottom quin tile.
Speaker 3: The greatest risks to your life and property will come
Speaker 3: from the bottom quintile. The death of comfortable public spaces
Speaker 3: is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to
Speaker 3: be there. Our zoning laws are developed for fear of
Speaker 3: the bottom quintile. Probably the best best to learn this
Speaker 3: and accept it early in life.
Speaker 4: Wow, that is a bitter and perceptive thing to point out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have either kid in public school at
Speaker 3: this point, but I understand what they what they're driving
Speaker 3: at there the rules. There's particularly this line I liked,
Speaker 3: the rules in life. The rules you have to follow
Speaker 3: in life will be based on the behavior of the
Speaker 3: bottom quintile.
Speaker 1: That has always driven.
Speaker 4: Me crazy, right, right, Wow, I'll talk to any cop
Speaker 4: and the percentages that are different, and it's not twenty percent,
Speaker 4: but they'll tell you I spend ninety percent of my
Speaker 4: time on two percent of the population.
Speaker 3: Right, and so kind of fitting in with that, and
Speaker 3: schools all across the country. The New York Times had
Speaker 3: this horrifying article that I couldn't quite figure out if
Speaker 3: it's one.
Speaker 1: Of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Grab a half a dozen things that
Speaker 3: happened across this giant nation and pretend there's a trend
Speaker 3: occurring or this is a trend, or somewhere in between.
Speaker 1: They're talking about all.
Speaker 3: The videos of brawls at schools, particularly cafeterias, but it
Speaker 3: can happen in any school anywhere, all across the United States,
Speaker 3: and how this has become a thing. Let me read
Speaker 3: a couple of paragraphs from the New York Times article.
Speaker 3: Across the United States, technology centered on cell phones in
Speaker 3: the form of text messages, videos, and social media has
Speaker 3: increasingly fueled and sometimes intensified campus brawls, disrupting schools and
Speaker 3: derailing learning. The school fight videos then often sparked news
Speaker 3: cycles of student cyberbuwling, verbal aggression and violence. A New
Speaker 3: York Times review of more than four hundred fight videos
Speaker 3: from schools in California, Georgia, Texas, and a dozen other states,
Speaker 3: as well as interviews with three dozen leaders, teachers, police officers, pupils,
Speaker 3: parents and researchers, found a pattern of middle and high
Speaker 3: school students exploiting phones and social media to arrange, provoke, capture,
Speaker 3: and spread footage of brutal beatings among their peers, and
Speaker 3: several cases students later died from the injuries.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, I know.
Speaker 3: I saw that headline and I didn't even read the
Speaker 3: article because I didn't want it to be true, and
Speaker 3: I wanted it to be a Okay, it's happening sometimes
Speaker 3: maybe more than it used to or I'm not even
Speaker 3: sure of that. And they turned this into a story.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that's the case, because I don't want it
Speaker 3: to be a growing trend.
Speaker 4: I will keep some details vague to protect the innocent,
Speaker 4: but a longtime friend of the family, career teacher, including
Speaker 4: substitute teaching on and off a lot, landed a long
Speaker 4: term substituting gig in a nice part of the world,
Speaker 4: well fairly nice part of a great state that may
Speaker 4: or may not border the Pacific Ocean, and a week
Speaker 4: or two in said, Nope, I'm out students were uncontrollable
Speaker 4: in a way she'd never seen before.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I have a friend whose wife teaches high school and
Speaker 3: has been afraid for her safety many, many times.
Speaker 1: It just comes with the job.
Speaker 3: When were teachers ever afraid for their safety when I
Speaker 3: was a kid. I don't know if that ever happened.
Speaker 4: Once working class suburb of Chicago where I went to school,
Speaker 4: it was utterly unthinkable. The idea of violence against a
Speaker 4: teacher sure unthinkable.
Speaker 3: Or intimidating them right through threat of violence, no way,
Speaker 3: you can put up without it for obvious reasons.
Speaker 4: No, no happened on our watch, not the kids. No
Speaker 4: that it can't be said enough, can't be said enough.
Speaker 4: The adults make the rules and come up with the punishments.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I realize it sounds like a religent right winger,
Speaker 4: but I happen to be correct on this. It is
Speaker 4: the policies of the left that have brought us this
Speaker 4: this madness. I've got a bunch of stories from schools
Speaker 4: around the country where they well, the kids are way behind.
Speaker 4: The recovery from COVID and the COVID shutdowns in the
Speaker 4: US much worse than other countries.
Speaker 1: And part of the reason.
Speaker 4: Is it's because they're teaching them all sorts of crap
Speaker 4: and not the basics.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We're talking about this when we got drones hovering above
Speaker 3: us doing god knows what.
Speaker 1: We'll check in on a drone story. It was covered
Speaker 1: quite a bit in the media over the weekend. We'll
Speaker 1: see who was saying, what about what?
Speaker 4: If you haven't been probed yet, you will be get ready.
Speaker 1: Just prepare yourself, armstrong, and getty.
Speaker 7: My feeling is, and it's a hunch more than knowledge.
Speaker 7: Because we have yet to receive the briefing that I've demanded.
Speaker 7: The federal government knows a lot less than it should.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a high profile Democratic Senator, Richard Bloomenthal in
Speaker 3: a you know, when you got a White House, a
Speaker 3: Democrat in the White House who's not getting briefings and
Speaker 3: doesn't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: So mean that had the theory earlier about what it
Speaker 1: might be.
Speaker 3: Maybe talk about that again later, But how would that
Speaker 3: leave out a guy like Richard Blumenthal?
Speaker 1: Just that I don't know if that makes sense.
Speaker 3: Anyway, a fair amount of conversation over the weekend, will
Speaker 3: play a couple of clips, then discuss, uh, this is
Speaker 3: waste of skin. Alejandro majorcis, who is the DHS secretary
Speaker 3: on ABC this week, and right after him, Chris Christy
Speaker 3: was on, it is our.
Speaker 8: Job to be vigilant in the federal government on behalf
Speaker 8: of the American public, and we can assure their safety
Speaker 8: by reason of that vigilance. If we identify any foreign
Speaker 8: involvement or criminal activity, we will communicate with the American
Speaker 8: public accordingly.
Speaker 1: That is this a mass hystary of some sort.
Speaker 9: Well, here's why, George, because of answers, like the secretary
Speaker 9: just cave they're not answering the questions.
Speaker 1: Well, he said that they're monitoring it.
Speaker 8: They haven't seen any unusual activity, and they need more authority.
Speaker 9: Let me say something. I agree that they need more authority,
Speaker 9: but to say this is not unusual activity, it's just wrong.
Speaker 3: What he said, we're monitoring it, got I government people
Speaker 3: were keeping an eye on that.
Speaker 1: What is it? Chris Christy goes on.
Speaker 9: I'd want our state police to be able to have
Speaker 9: the authority to bring those drones down, yes, and find
Speaker 9: out why they're doing what they're doing now we're talking,
Speaker 9: and of course we'd have to coordinate with the FAA,
Speaker 9: but we do that kind of coordination.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 9: But the states do not have enough authority now to
Speaker 9: do what they need to do.
Speaker 1: And what we're gonna find.
Speaker 9: Is you're gonna have individuals acting as drone vigilantes and
Speaker 9: they're gonna start taking them down. That's not what we
Speaker 9: want because they're now an important part of commerce, and
Speaker 9: law enforcement uses them frequently for surveillance and other things.
Speaker 9: We need to be able to operate in a safe way,
Speaker 9: and we're not doing that.
Speaker 3: So that is that is I'm surprised that hasn't happened
Speaker 3: already that somebody who operates, you know, decent sized drones
Speaker 3: hasn't brought one of these down somehow.
Speaker 4: First of all, interesting and ironic that you have waste
Speaker 4: of skin. Mayork is followed by excess user of skin
Speaker 4: Chris Christy debating the issues of the day.
Speaker 1: But back to the facts.
Speaker 3: Before we get to the facts, did you say the
Speaker 3: tweet from Doc Trump over the weekend with his explanation
Speaker 3: of the drones in New Jersey they were all delivering
Speaker 3: Chris Christy McDonald's it's got an Ai picture of an
Speaker 3: extra fat Chris Christie sitting there eating French fries and
Speaker 3: Big Max as drones lowered them down to right.
Speaker 4: That's the incoming president of the United States with that
Speaker 4: sophomorec Ai gag, oh my gosh, slash fat joke at
Speaker 4: the expense of arrival, my god. Well to summarize it,
Speaker 4: and then we've got some more good audio. But the
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal Editorial board said, drones and the cost
Speaker 4: of lost trust conspiracy theories fly in public. Anger builds
Speaker 4: when Americans don't believe their government, and they cite this
Speaker 4: joint statement by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Ah,
Speaker 4: they got together to craft an important statement because people
Speaker 4: are really stirred up. I quote, we have no evidence
Speaker 4: at this time that they reported drone sightings post a
Speaker 4: national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.
Speaker 3: So Mayarcus did point out that the FAA changed its
Speaker 3: policy last year to allow drones to fly at night
Speaker 3: as long as they have lights. So part of the
Speaker 3: I've never seen this before, and Chris Christy said, I've
Speaker 3: lived in this house for thirty years. I'm seeing drones
Speaker 3: over my yard. All right, this is new, this is different,
Speaker 3: and what is it, which is a good question. Mayarchus
Speaker 3: is saying, well, you couldn't fly drones until late last
Speaker 3: year at night because they needed lights, and the FA
Speaker 3: cleared that, so there are new rules allowing it. Okay,
Speaker 3: that is one explanation. And as we mentioned earlier, everybody
Speaker 3: is making lots of people are reporting planes. Okay, fine,
Speaker 3: lots of people are reporting planes. But that doesn't have
Speaker 3: any That doesn't answer the question to the original drone story,
Speaker 3: because nobody's denying that there are drones flying around out there.
Speaker 3: And you had congress people like police chiefs and sending
Speaker 3: up drones trying to look at him, or a congress
Speaker 3: person who hired a private I and all kinds of
Speaker 3: different stuff. I mean, Americus doesn't sound like he's in
Speaker 3: on the joke. If it's some sort of government pentagon
Speaker 3: test of some sort of course, he's such a government drone.
Speaker 3: If he were to announce we just executed one hundred
Speaker 3: workers at the department for failing to file their forms
Speaker 3: on time, he would it would be the same total
Speaker 3: voices he says everything.
Speaker 4: You know, I am astounded personally, this is the first
Speaker 4: time I've heard about the FAA rule change about drones.
Speaker 3: I had no idea. Yeah, I'm learning this now as
Speaker 3: we speak. That was the only thing he said yesterday.
Speaker 3: I thought, oh, okay, that actually kind of makes some sense.
Speaker 1: At the same time, you've got a Chinese national.
Speaker 4: He's in jail right now because he was surveiling is
Speaker 4: it Vanderberg's space base in California with a drone? He'd
Speaker 4: been googling drone rules Vandenburg Air Force Bace base, but
Speaker 4: clearly surveilling our military establishments on behalf of the Chinese government,
Speaker 4: as the Chinese spy balloon was. So there's something going on.
Speaker 4: It's not all of the Now every other geek is
Speaker 4: reporting every airplane that flies over their house. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's happening too, But that's not all of it. And
Speaker 4: that's why, you know, I open the show with calling
Speaker 4: it drone mania. Now it's gone so far beyond the
Speaker 4: facts of the case. If there was one evil clown
Speaker 4: lurking at the edge of the woods that we should
Speaker 4: know about, now everybody's fixated on it and it's just
Speaker 4: gotten wild.
Speaker 1: In Williams, all.
Speaker 3: Right, but government officials coming on saying the vast majority
Speaker 3: of the reports turn out to be planes. That is
Speaker 3: not an explanation. That is you obscuring on purpose this conversation.
Speaker 3: Here's more for Richard Bluenthal. I think it's important because
Speaker 3: he's a Democrat, he's a high ranking senator. He's on
Speaker 3: lots of the mine is that you'd think would know
Speaker 3: about this. He goes on, it.
Speaker 7: Isn't a matter of classified information. If there is classified
Speaker 7: data here, it ought to be released to reassure the public.
Speaker 7: But my fear is that the federal government knows little
Speaker 7: or nothing about most of these sightings because there are
Speaker 7: no flight plans and it has not used the drone
Speaker 7: specific technology that is available. We are to deploy those
Speaker 7: resources so that the federal government and our state and
Speaker 7: local officials know a lot more.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is so confusing. Just a little more
Speaker 1: from him on this.
Speaker 7: There is alarm and there's danger. There's real jeopardy at airports,
Speaker 7: military installations. That has to be addressed with the authority
Speaker 7: that the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, the FBI,
Speaker 7: the Department of Defense all have right now. And that's
Speaker 7: why I'm asking for action.
Speaker 10: How do you explain that, How do his words specifically, Well,
Speaker 10: the fact that he clearly thinks it's important and dangerous
Speaker 10: and scary.
Speaker 1: At the level that he's at, he clearly.
Speaker 3: Has no idea what's going on, right, So how do
Speaker 3: you explain it if it's if it's some sort of
Speaker 3: government operation.
Speaker 4: Well, I think number one twenty twenty four is going
Speaker 4: to be looked back on as the ear of the drone,
Speaker 4: not only because of this stuff, but the incredible leap
Speaker 4: forward in unmanned warrior vehicles on the battlefields of Ukraine
Speaker 4: and how that technology is being picked up and enlarged
Speaker 4: upon and innovated all over the world. I was just
Speaker 4: reading about unmanned submarine vehicles. I happen to have a
Speaker 4: close relative who may or may not have been a
Speaker 4: career naval officer who is involved in unmanned arcotic vehicles.
Speaker 4: This is the direction it's all going in, and this
Speaker 4: is the opening moment in they're freaking everywhere doing everything land, air,
Speaker 4: and sea. Having said that, here's what's going on the military,
Speaker 4: and this is you know, like top secret, compartmented. Dick
Speaker 4: Blumenthal does not hear about this stuff. He doesn't have
Speaker 4: that clearance. It's something the military is doing, or the
Speaker 4: or the intelligence services are doing, or they're observing or
Speaker 4: doing countermeasures against China or something like that. At the
Speaker 4: most secret echelonsa government, they know what's going on, and
Speaker 4: they're just figuring, we're gonna keep our mouths shut because
Speaker 4: in two to five days, Travis Kelcey is gonna propose
Speaker 4: to Taylor Swift, or Joe Biden is going to keel
Speaker 4: over dead, or Trump is going to to pardon Hitler
Speaker 4: or something, when somewhere exactly right in America is gonna
Speaker 4: go ape dung over that and forget about this completely.
Speaker 4: In fact, if I was in charge, that would be
Speaker 4: my policy. No, we're not saying it's saying they'll forget
Speaker 4: about it next week.
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
Speaker 3: Well, what about when you're getting to the point that
Speaker 3: you have sitting government officials and former governors saying we
Speaker 3: need to bring these down or about to be President
Speaker 3: Trump said it the.
Speaker 1: Other day, we need to shoot one of these down.
Speaker 4: So we'll just make sure it's the seven o five
Speaker 4: flight from New York to Miami.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But do you continue to keep it a secret knowing
Speaker 3: what it is when you got people starting to uh,
Speaker 3: marshal their resources to bring these down.
Speaker 4: At this point, were I in charge the my Taylor
Speaker 4: Swift strategies, We've taken a calling it around the bureau.
Speaker 4: UH is starting to look like maybe it's taking too long. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm at this point. I'm probably gonna say, Look, we've
Speaker 4: got to give a heads up to the president or something.
Speaker 4: Have somebody make a statement. It's a top secret program
Speaker 4: in the US military. We've got under control. Everybody's fits
Speaker 4: good news, not bad news, just just something like that.
Speaker 4: You'd think they could. Yeah, more to come on that
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Speaker 3: So I think you're right that at some point drones
Speaker 3: are going to be all over the place. Amazon ups,
Speaker 3: government spying on you, keeping taking a look at traffic,
Speaker 3: or for your own good, we're doing this, but they're
Speaker 3: flying over every aighborhood. I'm surprised that hasn't hapened yet.
Speaker 4: My final note on this I came across this fact
Speaker 4: to a jack, brace yourself.
Speaker 1: According to the.
Speaker 4: Twitter account that I'll hold back the important part, but
Speaker 4: it posted we are ft. The drones are Project blue Beam.
Speaker 1: Apparently.
Speaker 4: Project blue Beam Reforms refers to a play by governments
Speaker 4: in the military to stage celestial events as a pretext
Speaker 4: to impose authoritarian rule.
Speaker 1: All right, very q and ho ish.
Speaker 4: That Twitter account has one hundred and ninety two thousand followers.
Speaker 1: Whoa Project blue Beam Jack? That's not what happening or
Speaker 1: is it? No, it's not.
Speaker 4: You'll be part of Project red ass after you look
Speaker 4: at Project blue Beam. Huh okay, something something, Take to
Speaker 4: the straits, hold a demonstration.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Yeah, darn it. Things are getting worse, not better.
Speaker 1: Is anybody noticed that things are getting weird and they're
Speaker 1: getting weird fast? God? No kidding. That was last year's
Speaker 1: clip of the air, and it's still true this year.
Speaker 1: Son of a. Things are getting weird and they getting
Speaker 1: weird fast.
Speaker 4: And generally that doesn't mean things will be placid next year.
Speaker 3: One funny thing about Mayorcis before we take a break,
Speaker 3: is my thirteen year old doesn't have any.
Speaker 1: Idea who the.
Speaker 3: Secretary of Homeland Security is, but I was watching news
Speaker 3: as we drove around, listening to news, and he's kind
Speaker 3: of interested in the drone story, as any thirteen year
Speaker 3: old boy would be. But he's listening to Americans and said,
Speaker 3: who is is that guy? He doesn't say anything. I
Speaker 3: thought it's interesting that a thirteen year old, without going
Speaker 3: into it jaded, had that reaction to a droning bureaucrat.
Speaker 1: Who says nothing. Wisdom, young man, Wisdom to that obvious
Speaker 1: to everyone.
Speaker 3: We've got more on the ways, stay here.
Speaker 1: We got Luigi.
Speaker 4: I really feel sorry for the family.
Speaker 5: Everybody's fixated on how good looking this guy looks.
Speaker 1: If you look like Joana Hill, you no one would care.
Speaker 1: They'd already give him him a chair, already be dead.
Speaker 5: Okay, but he actually killed a man, a young man,
Speaker 5: a man with a family, you know, the healthcare ceo.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a real person. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: also got a you know, sometimes drug dealers get shot.
Speaker 1: Chris Rock on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 3: Obviously that was controversial, although he went farther than a
Speaker 3: lot of people on that side of politics have gone
Speaker 3: in feeling bad about a actual human being, a father, husband,
Speaker 3: being gunned down by.
Speaker 1: A psychopath Luigi has gotten a high profile lawyer.
Speaker 3: I guess because you got all the gofundmes out there
Speaker 3: and rich people who want to support his defense.
Speaker 1: Give me ninety one, Michael.
Speaker 11: He was brilliant his whole life. He comes from this
Speaker 11: great family. I mean something changed, right, significantly, something changed,
Speaker 11: and they're going to, I think, potentially have a not
Speaker 11: guilty by reason of insanity potential defense.
Speaker 3: I think that is not only a good way to
Speaker 3: avoid the worst kind of prison. Probably it might actually
Speaker 3: be true. He might have gone crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is a gal who is on a panel
Speaker 4: on ABC and a high profile defense lawyer, and she
Speaker 4: got hired up by the family who apparently either liked
Speaker 4: the cut of her jib or sar on ABC or
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 3: If I have my act together as the murderous scumbag,
Speaker 3: like my brain's working, what I'm telling my lawyer is
Speaker 3: I'm guilty and there's no way you're going to be
Speaker 3: able to do anything about that. But keep me out
Speaker 3: of one of those horrible prisons where I'm like getting
Speaker 3: beaten to death by some horrible gang.
Speaker 1: You know that My concern So.
Speaker 4: Two interesting theories about what went to south with this
Speaker 4: this young man in his brain. And number one, we
Speaker 4: had a listener who's got some experience with this point
Speaker 4: out that what appeared to be a really serious spine
Speaker 4: injury often goes with traumatic brain injury that is or
Speaker 4: is not always diagnosed properly, and mood changes and personality
Speaker 4: changes can go along with TBI who knows just a
Speaker 4: thought because he has a hell of a lot of
Speaker 4: screws in his spine for a young man of his age.
Speaker 4: Second thing, though, is Fox News was interviewing this Cornell
Speaker 4: law professor about how brutally anti corporate this young man
Speaker 4: appears to be with all of his Ivy League credentials,
Speaker 4: and he said, quote, it's fairly uniform in the Ivy
Speaker 4: League and other so called elite educational institutions that they
Speaker 4: skew extremely heavily to the left among the faculty. The
Speaker 4: Modern Democratic Party leads very heavily to the left, has
Speaker 4: a very strong anti American, anti capitalist wing to it.
Speaker 4: So not surprised me if somebody growing up and getting
Speaker 4: educated in that atmosphere became radicalized. Activism is now considered
Speaker 4: a vital part of the teaching for many professors. He said,
Speaker 4: they do not distinguish between their teaching and their activism.
Speaker 4: Most clearly manifests itself on the anti Israel front, but
Speaker 4: it's elsewhere too, on the anti capitalist front. If you're
Speaker 4: educating yourself in that atmosphere, I certainly could understand why
Speaker 4: someone would have hostile views towards a health insurance company.
Speaker 4: So he got radicalized, right, Yeah, so his whole spine injury,
Speaker 4: brain injury, or maybe win schizophrenic or whatever. That's all possible,
Speaker 4: of course, But there's also an awful lot of people
Speaker 4: that went to the same kind of colleges he went to,
Speaker 4: who think it was a good idea that he killed
Speaker 4: this guy. So you remember that assistant to English professor
Speaker 4: her statement the other day that it was the best
Speaker 4: thing or it made her joyful.
Speaker 1: Or whatever the hell she said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Penn has come out and said antithetical to the values,
Speaker 4: not condoned, inappropriate, inoffensive or offensive. So yeah, but it
Speaker 4: was the classic definition of a gaff. She said the
Speaker 4: quiet part out loud. She accidentally got caught telling the truth.
Speaker 3: So far, there's been no copycat that were aware of
Speaker 3: an attempt. I hope that continues. We've got a lot
Speaker 3: more on the way.
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