Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, I'm strong and Jettiete, I know
Speaker 2: he armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: It was the underpaying of the Democratic campaign that Donald
Speaker 3: Trump is a fascist. And what I see in this,
Speaker 3: what it tells me and what it ought to tell
Speaker 3: Democrats is they didn't mean any of it. It totally
Speaker 3: blows up the way they ran this campaign.
Speaker 4: At the end of the camp you know, I'm glad
Speaker 4: it's a peaceful transition to power, But what happened to
Speaker 4: the threat of democracy talk?
Speaker 2: What happened to the fascist talk? By the way, how
Speaker 2: do you go from he's an extension threat to democracy?
Speaker 2: So welcome back. He was smiling, and.
Speaker 5: I do think that the public sea some of the
Speaker 5: public sees this and they're like, okay, So was that
Speaker 5: all totally overstated or was he just saying not to
Speaker 5: win or to scare tell about trying it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I said the other day. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: kind of happy that this next generation of voters got
Speaker 2: their first dose of oh, this is all phony. Now,
Speaker 2: I get it, because that happened to a lot of
Speaker 2: US many many years ago, and we realize that people
Speaker 2: say all kinds of crazy crap during campaigns that they
Speaker 2: don't mean at all, but the next round of young
Speaker 2: people or new voters always buy it and think it's
Speaker 2: real until you see, you know, commonly get up there
Speaker 2: and give her speech and say, the fight goes on.
Speaker 2: We'll get him next time. What what do you mean
Speaker 2: get him next time? He said last night there will
Speaker 2: never be another vote if Trump wins. Shouldn't we be
Speaker 2: like marshaling our forces to figure out how to fight
Speaker 2: the fascist before he gets in office? Why are we
Speaker 2: not crafting swords and shields out of old auto parts?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is an existential wall. Like Margaret Brennan asked,
Speaker 2: or Okana on Face the Nation, are you, you know,
Speaker 2: working on legislation to deal with the fascist take over
Speaker 2: or or or was that just talk?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: Hyperbole like well, like a lot of things, has to
Speaker 1: increase over time, because yesterday's hyperbole is is kind of quaint, right, And.
Speaker 2: So I surely.
Speaker 1: I'm about to say something that I will regret. Surely
Speaker 1: we're like at the top of the hyperbole scale. We'll
Speaker 1: never have another election, and you will be enslaved, and.
Speaker 2: What's beyond that, you'll be eaten. What's beyond He's Hitler,
Speaker 2: He's Jeffrey, He's Jeffrey Dahmer. He will go home to
Speaker 2: home and eat you. He will drug you, have sex
Speaker 2: with you, your sex zombie body, and then eat.
Speaker 1: Eat all right, exactly, I guess that's all that's left anyway.
Speaker 1: We look forward to that in twenty twenty eight, if
Speaker 1: not the midterms.
Speaker 2: Right, speaking of.
Speaker 1: The over and lunatic reaction to the recent election, boy,
Speaker 1: I would like to dig more into white women losing
Speaker 1: their freaking minds over the election and cutting off family
Speaker 1: members and having psychological meltdowns and what does it mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I would like to have a
Speaker 1: fun and entertaining conversation about it.
Speaker 2: I would also like to.
Speaker 1: Learn to hear learned, you know, sages try to explain
Speaker 1: the phenomenon because it's disturbing.
Speaker 2: Our politics should not be like this?
Speaker 1: Or is it before we get into the bulk of
Speaker 1: what we wanted to talk about this segment?
Speaker 2: Or is it?
Speaker 1: And I have to remind myself constantly, nutjobs.
Speaker 2: Cuckoo birds, whatever you want to call.
Speaker 1: Them, have always existed. But unless one live next door
Speaker 1: to you. You never knew about it in the past.
Speaker 1: But with the Internet, everybody is their own publishing company,
Speaker 1: and because of what is it called notability bias or
Speaker 1: something like that, if somebody says something completely fruit loops,
Speaker 1: you are much much much more are likely to hear it.
Speaker 1: Then if somebody says something perfectly reasonable. Is that why
Speaker 1: it seems like more people are having absolute inexplicable meltdowns
Speaker 1: online or.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you just said is true, but
Speaker 2: I personally know people. Not a lot of people just
Speaker 2: because the circles are run in, but I personally know
Speaker 2: people that are pretty crazy over this stuff. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: it never runs both ways, and I never did before.
Speaker 1: It runs both ways now that I think about it
Speaker 1: for five seconds, the inputs of the crazy ideas are
Speaker 1: much more common and they're more easily reinforced. It's like
Speaker 1: every other crazy ass Internet thing we've talked about. If
Speaker 1: you were, you know, not very many years ago at all,
Speaker 1: and you were in your hometown and you said, you know,
Speaker 1: if Trump wins, I think he's going to impose a
Speaker 1: Hitler like Nazi regime and will never have another election,
Speaker 1: everybody would say, dude, no, he was president for a
Speaker 1: while and January sixth sucked in all but no, like
Speaker 1: everybody came together and said, no, we preserved the union customer.
Speaker 1: It'll be fine, Jim, It'll be fine, And you would
Speaker 1: be dissuaded. Now you get online and you might have
Speaker 1: to cover the entire globe to find ten thousand people
Speaker 1: who agreed with you. But you'd find ten thousand and
Speaker 1: it would feel like a lot, right, Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: humankind can't take the internet anyway, speaking.
Speaker 2: Of go ahead, was it? Or more on that? Or no,
Speaker 2: I can't and I don't want to use the b
Speaker 2: all o time. But I've been making my way through
Speaker 2: the book Sapiens, and wow, is that a good book
Speaker 2: into the what we know about Homo sapiens and our
Speaker 2: ability to gather together over ideas and how important it
Speaker 2: is to our survival and why we beat out all
Speaker 2: the other human species because they couldn't do That fits
Speaker 2: in with this perfectly, and the Internet exploits that and
Speaker 2: the same way that candy bars exploit our desire for sweet.
Speaker 2: But the only suite that used to exist is fruit
Speaker 2: our desire to take in information and band together it
Speaker 2: around around. It used to only be pretty real. Information
Speaker 2: from our village is now being exploited like a candy
Speaker 2: bar by the internet.
Speaker 1: Yeah for profit, Yeah, perfect, perfect, perfect bridge clip here
Speaker 1: to get us into the main theme of things. Speaking
Speaker 1: of freakouts, the brilliant Riley Gains Mike Glenn in seventy one.
Speaker 5: When your political party or your ideology calls for you
Speaker 5: to shave your head, block your friends on social media,
Speaker 5: and cut off family members, you are no longer dealing
Speaker 5: with a political party. You are in a cult. I
Speaker 5: think the irony of this is that this is the
Speaker 5: crowd that claims to be tolerant and accepting and welcoming
Speaker 5: to diverse groups.
Speaker 2: But clearly they're not welcoming.
Speaker 5: They're not welcoming to diverse thought, and that's been made
Speaker 5: very clear over the past four years. That's the environment
Speaker 5: that the previous the current I guess administration has created.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's like the great lie of DEI. They
Speaker 1: don't mean diverse, they mean us. You have to let
Speaker 1: us in. Then the moment they control it, there's zero diversity.
Speaker 1: But cult is thrown around too often. But if you're
Speaker 1: claiming my side's a cult, but you're banding together by
Speaker 1: shaving your heads.
Speaker 2: That's kind of a cult. Go to the whole shave
Speaker 2: in your heads thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the media has been in on it because
Speaker 1: they're mostly soft heads, are way lefty, or just go
Speaker 1: along to get along. But their coverage of a lot
Speaker 1: of the gender bending madness stuff which Riley Gains is
Speaker 1: a big activist on. She's incredibly courageous because she wants
Speaker 1: get this hit, this craziness.
Speaker 2: She wants only women and women's sports.
Speaker 1: So anyway, you got Seth Moulton, the Democratic congress MANU
Speaker 1: was doing an autopsy of the election, said, look, Democrats
Speaker 1: spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone
Speaker 1: rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face.
Speaker 2: I have two little girls.
Speaker 1: I don't want them getting run over on a playing
Speaker 1: field by a male or formerly male athlete.
Speaker 2: But as a.
Speaker 1: Democrat, I'm supposed to be afraid to say that. Well,
Speaker 1: one of his top aides resigned, essentially calling him a
Speaker 1: bigot and a transphobe for even saying that. Who's in
Speaker 1: a cult And you didn't hear this because the incredible
Speaker 1: bias of the media. But an Indiana law banning gender
Speaker 1: affirming care for miners. Hey, Newsmax, why do you use
Speaker 1: that term? That is an incredibly prejudicial term intended to
Speaker 1: prejudge the question.
Speaker 2: Sure, gender affirming care means there's such thing as that. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: more than half of the country thinks there isn't such
Speaker 2: thing as that. No, you're you're signing on a radical
Speaker 2: gender theory that a boy, well, a boy is a boy, maybe,
Speaker 2: but can choose their gender whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 1: It doesn't anything with the right care and brutal, horrific
Speaker 1: experimental surgeries and drug treatments on those confued youths is
Speaker 1: gender affirming Again, You're letting them win the argument with
Speaker 1: the very words you're using.
Speaker 2: Stop it.
Speaker 1: But a panel of judges on the Seventh US Circuit
Speaker 1: Court of Appeals ruled two to one Wednesday that the
Speaker 1: laws restrictions are absolutely within the purview of the Indiana
Speaker 1: General Assembly and do not infringe on the constitutional rights
Speaker 1: of quote unquote transgender children.
Speaker 2: There ought to be quotes around that.
Speaker 1: It's a radical gender theory, whack a doodle, unsupportable theory
Speaker 1: of quote unquote gender. Anybody who uses the term transgender
Speaker 1: for children. It ought to be in quotes, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't infringe on anybody's rights in the Circuit Court of
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Speaker 2: Run your game. I'm taking the over on one ear
Speaker 2: schewed off by Mike Tyson. I think Jake Paul will
Speaker 2: leave the ring with zero ears?
Speaker 1: Wow, you think he'll both shoot off completely off? Boy,
Speaker 1: that's not only more but logistically challenged. Yeah no, Well
Speaker 1: he's got to get in there and start chewing anyway.
Speaker 1: The whole transgender thing is a cult. It's absolutely a cult,
Speaker 1: and it's sad that the poor adolescent girls in particular
Speaker 1: and some gay boys or effeminate boys are getting whisked
Speaker 1: down this road by activists oppose it everywhere, no cruel
Speaker 1: experiments on children. But CNN the other day had j Michaelson,
Speaker 1: who's a left LGBTQ plus minus over the Power for
Speaker 1: a BBQ activist and Shemichael Singleton, who is a youngish
Speaker 1: black man who is a moderately conservative fella, and they
Speaker 1: were talking about boys playing girl sports. And I just
Speaker 1: heard the audio and I hadn't seen the video, and
Speaker 1: so I lost a lot of significance of it. But
Speaker 1: go ahead and play it. First of all, Michael seventy, I.
Speaker 6: Think there are a lot of families out there who
Speaker 6: don't don't believe boys should play girls sports.
Speaker 2: They're not boys. I'm not going to listen to transphobia.
Speaker 2: I am not going to trans girl a boy when
Speaker 2: you use the.
Speaker 3: Changed they're not boys, they're not playing girl I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna sit there listen a second.
Speaker 2: But that's why Republicans kept running those ads over and
Speaker 2: over and over again, because they saw the metrics suggestion
Speaker 2: that lying in those ads over and over again and
Speaker 2: using rhetoric like you just use saying this is boys
Speaker 2: playing girl sports, which we were talking about, would prefer.
Speaker 3: Talking about trans girls playing playing being allowed to play.
Speaker 2: With the people who are in their gender. And if
Speaker 2: we don't believe, you don't have to listen to me,
Speaker 2: listen to the American Medical Association, the American Psychological.
Speaker 1: All right, so there's so much cross talk.
Speaker 2: You missed some of it.
Speaker 1: First of all, the whiteweight empty headed hostess there whose
Speaker 1: name I don't recall.
Speaker 2: Maybe somebody can pipe in. It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: During the Well, let's start with the fact that Shermichael
Speaker 1: Singleton said we can't have boys playing girls sports, and
Speaker 1: the Jay Michaelson character said.
Speaker 2: They're not boys, they're girls.
Speaker 1: No, they're not. You're a lunatic. You're in a cult.
Speaker 1: You can't change your sex by declaring it.
Speaker 2: That's just.
Speaker 1: And what's interesting is the hostess jumps in and says,
Speaker 1: Sher Michael, let's be respectful and asks him not to
Speaker 1: use the terms that Jay Michaelson is objecting to. Don't
Speaker 1: say they're boys. Wait a minute, that's the entire question.
Speaker 1: So here on CNN, you're saying, is Charlie Cook pointed
Speaker 1: out on The National Review, I'm seeing their apples, you're
Speaker 1: saying they're oranges, and you're telling me I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to say they're apples because that offends the guy saying
Speaker 1: they're oranges.
Speaker 2: What the hell kind of show is this?
Speaker 1: Secondly, CNN's seemed just perfectly content with a white guy
Speaker 1: shouting down a black guy and saying you don't get
Speaker 1: to talk because you're offending me. Oh, that's kind of funny, CNN.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny that you're fine with that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. Wow, no kidding on any other topic.
Speaker 1: That's the whole not boys. Yes, they are you crazy person,
Speaker 1: and folks, we got to stand up and say that.
Speaker 1: Don't let them force you to say something you know
Speaker 1: not to be true.
Speaker 2: My mom, for the first time, weighed in on presidential
Speaker 2: cabinet picks in an email. You stay for some reason,
Speaker 2: and I think she's right, among other things. On the
Speaker 2: way stay tuned.
Speaker 7: The morning of your flight, you're going to text yourself
Speaker 7: your flight number, Okay, but the key is you have
Speaker 7: to include your airline code. So, for example, if I'm
Speaker 7: flying American Airlines flight six eighty six, I'm gonna type
Speaker 7: AA six eighty six. That text will become a link
Speaker 7: to tell you everything you need to know about your flight.
Speaker 7: Click on your link and oh, I'm Gate D six.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 7: Whoever's picking you up? Can what do I see you?
Speaker 7: A little airplane flying across the screen you know, when
Speaker 7: you take off, you're supposed to land at eight thirty
Speaker 7: in the morning, and then mid fight it's like there's
Speaker 7: a great tail wind or something and you end up
Speaker 7: landing at eight o six. It'll update on that Lincoln,
Speaker 7: whoever's picking you up can see exactly when that fight
Speaker 7: satis changes.
Speaker 1: I was flying not terribly long ago, and I can't remember.
Speaker 2: It was somebody in the airline.
Speaker 1: I had a question and they said, yeah, just type
Speaker 1: the flight number into your browser and hit return. It'll
Speaker 1: automatically go to our like not super public facing website
Speaker 1: and you'll have all the info.
Speaker 2: You naw, wow, that's a handy. How do I just
Speaker 2: know this now, right? Or do they not want everybody
Speaker 2: to know it? Don't know. I would think that that
Speaker 2: that'd be signs everywhere saying that.
Speaker 1: I would save them, you know, people calling and I
Speaker 1: don't know. Why did I dig the moon drive in
Speaker 1: a week of work Today? Last night, when the boys
Speaker 1: and I went out to eat.
Speaker 2: Super Bright, Big Round, obviously full moon, I didn't realize
Speaker 2: this though. It's an extra special beaver moon. It's the
Speaker 2: last super moon of the year, so enjoy it tonight again.
Speaker 2: An extra special beaver moon. Yeah, if you're into the
Speaker 2: fancy moons. So Alena Habba, my mom sent me the
Speaker 2: other which is very out of character for her. She said,
Speaker 2: Alena Habba, Trump's lawyer and all his court cases. That's
Speaker 2: the super hot lawyer you'd always see any court case. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she was being considered for his press secretary. Then she
Speaker 2: withdrew her name the same day Matt Gates was named.
Speaker 2: And my mom's theory is that Matt Gates won't get
Speaker 2: confirmed and then he's going to put her in for
Speaker 2: Attorney General, his personal lawyer. I have no idea, but
Speaker 2: I did look into her background a little bit, and
Speaker 2: she is a very religious, very respected, upstanding citizen, kind
Speaker 2: of the opposite of Matt Gates in terms of her
Speaker 2: personal life. But whether or not she BDAG, I have
Speaker 2: no idea. Here's one interesting thing from her background, though,
Speaker 2: and I didn't know anything about her. She's married to
Speaker 2: a guy. She's from New Jersey. Her and her husband
Speaker 2: are both from New Jersey. Her husband is a businessman
Speaker 2: in parking lot in the parking lot management industry in
Speaker 2: New Jersey for good about it. So she's a lawyer
Speaker 2: for Donald Trump and he's in the parking lot management
Speaker 2: industry in New Jersey. No can forget about it. Hell
Speaker 2: Jersey is that.
Speaker 1: Well parking lot Sir, handy service to do something. Hey,
Speaker 1: you don't manage themselves right exactly. You gotta be proactive
Speaker 1: about that craft.
Speaker 2: Huh r FK Junior gonna be the secretary of HHS
Speaker 2: for better or worse. His name was put up yesterday officially.
Speaker 2: We can talk more about that at some point.
Speaker 1: Or is Trump just establishing, as he often does, a
Speaker 1: kind of wildly aggressive open position that he's more than
Speaker 1: willing to back off of with some of these appointments.
Speaker 2: It just demands. Yeah. Mike Tyson gave it in an
Speaker 2: interesting interview I'd like to play a portion of at
Speaker 2: some point. Also stay tuned Armstrong and Getdy. Fifty eight year.
Speaker 4: Old boxing legend Mike Tyson is coming out of retirement
Speaker 4: to fight twenty seven year.
Speaker 2: Old YouTuber Jake Paul. I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 4: Because there's a thirty year age gap between Jake Paul
Speaker 4: and Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: I mean, think of it the other way around.
Speaker 4: If Mike Tyson was boxing Al Pacino would be.
Speaker 2: Okay with us. I mean, he says.
Speaker 4: The big fight is tomorrow, and fans are already making
Speaker 4: signs to hold up at the arena, and we saw
Speaker 4: some earlier. We have some right here for Look at
Speaker 4: this sign. It says, these punches are softer than the
Speaker 4: food Biden eats.
Speaker 2: These signs are holding up, gearing up.
Speaker 4: Wow, look at this other time, This sun says my
Speaker 4: girlfriend who lives in Canada is.
Speaker 2: More real than this. Oh my, it's very cynical. That's good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: look at it. These are the signs people are old enough.
Speaker 2: I did just see. So Katie hipped us to the
Speaker 2: fact that there's some supposed controversy around Jake Paul crawling
Speaker 2: like a monkey on stage and that was racist or
Speaker 2: something like that. I would have never thought of that,
Speaker 2: because I don't think about the world in those terms.
Speaker 2: But it was a weird way. I just saw it,
Speaker 2: the way he monkey crawled onto the stage. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think he's just trying to be entertaining in a
Speaker 2: goofy on a YouTube star sort of way. But hmmm,
Speaker 2: it'll be a pretty old school sort of comment, wouldn't it. Well,
Speaker 2: he's a provocateur and offender. Uh, I'm going to try
Speaker 2: to pretend that I think there's something somewhat interesting about this,
Speaker 2: like on a deeper level rather than just kind of funny.
Speaker 2: Mike Tyson did an interview with some young reporter yesterday
Speaker 2: and she was asking him about his legacy or whether
Speaker 2: this will damage his legacy or whatever. And the key
Speaker 2: to the visual is that she looks like she well,
Speaker 2: she's like five four and a half feet tall, eighty pounds,
Speaker 2: and like looks like she's sixteen years old, which she
Speaker 2: looked horrified by talking to this giant old man. But
Speaker 2: this is how the interview.
Speaker 8: Went well and your return to the ring for this fight,
Speaker 8: you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age
Speaker 8: to see the legend Mike Tyson in the ring for
Speaker 8: the first time. So, after such a successful career, what
Speaker 8: type of legacy would you like to leave behind when
Speaker 8: it's all said and done.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know. I don't believe in the word legacy.
Speaker 6: I think that's another word for ego. Legacy doesn't mean nothing.
Speaker 6: That's just some word everybody grabbed on to. Some One
Speaker 6: said that word, and everyone grabbed on the words, and
Speaker 6: I was used every five seconds. It means absolutely nothing
Speaker 6: to me. I'm just passing through. I'm gonna die and
Speaker 6: it's gonna be over. Who cares about legacy after that?
Speaker 6: With a big ego? So I'm gonna die. I want
Speaker 6: people to think that I'm this, I'm great, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: way nothing. Well, you're dead with dust, absolutely nothing. That
Speaker 6: legacy is nothing.
Speaker 8: Well, thank you so much for sharing that. That is
Speaker 8: something that I have not heard before someone say that
Speaker 8: as an answer.
Speaker 6: Can you really imagine somebody thing? I want my legacy
Speaker 6: to be this way when I get dead? Well, do
Speaker 6: you want to think I really want to think about you?
Speaker 2: How? What's good that that thing?
Speaker 6: I want you to think about me when I'm gone?
Speaker 6: Who the kids about me when I'm gone? My kids
Speaker 6: made me a grandkid.
Speaker 2: And she cried herself just and she just says, well,
Speaker 2: thank you for that answer. And he's got this very
Speaker 2: serious look on his face. He's looking down at her.
Speaker 2: If you die, you're just dead, you're dust. Nobody cares
Speaker 2: you're dead.
Speaker 1: Uh. Thanks, you know that she handled it with a plum,
Speaker 1: no doubt.
Speaker 2: I do think that's interesting though. I've thought about that
Speaker 2: since I read Woody Allen's autobiography that he put up
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago that he has. He doesn't
Speaker 2: care at all what mark he left on the movie industry.
Speaker 2: He enjoyed making movies. But beyond that, you know, I'll
Speaker 2: be gone and eventually he'll never be remembered again. I
Speaker 2: just I never think about it, he said, I never
Speaker 2: think about it ever, like whether people liked it or not,
Speaker 2: or it's the groundbreaking or whatever. So the whole legacy
Speaker 2: thing is another word for ego, is actually a pretty
Speaker 2: interesting view of life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for all of the easy jokes that come when
Speaker 1: you're discussing Mike Tyson, he really is an interesting guy
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. His life path, what he's
Speaker 1: lived through, the heights, the depths, his combination of like brutality,
Speaker 1: and he's no intellectual, but he is a thoughtful guy
Speaker 1: in a very unique way. His sort of thoughtful guy
Speaker 1: generally doesn't get quoted and looked at and listened to.
Speaker 1: He's a complicated guy, no doubt.
Speaker 2: What do you think that in general? And I think
Speaker 2: I would do a carve out for I would like
Speaker 2: my legacy to live on with my children will feel
Speaker 2: like they were well raised, or I will have some
Speaker 2: influence on their parenting or whatever.
Speaker 1: That sort of showing, but in terms of, like, you know,
Speaker 1: all kinds of other stuff, what difference does it make? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is the kind of question that you
Speaker 1: might change your mind depending on what mood you're in.
Speaker 1: But I totally see his point. I mean that, poor girl,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for that answer. When you die,
Speaker 1: you're dead, You're having dead, Nobody eving cares you're dust.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I go home now, I'm fourteen. Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1: So I guess my answer briefly would be I completely
Speaker 1: get the idea of you want to be remembered fondly
Speaker 1: or with respect, and maybe you have a project whatever
Speaker 1: it is, a book, symphony, whatever, and you would like
Speaker 1: that to endure as.
Speaker 2: Really good work.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, as the great philosopher Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: you pointed out, you're going to be gone and will
Speaker 1: be totally unaware of it, at least depending on your
Speaker 1: conception of the afterlife and whatever.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to get into that.
Speaker 1: Is it just a desperate effort to deny mortality. It
Speaker 1: feels like you will keep living on because people are
Speaker 1: still reading your book. Well, does anybody's view of the
Speaker 1: afterlife include your financial successes or fame having a role.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, no, But is it worth producing something or sharing
Speaker 1: an idea or introducing compassion even that influences people after
Speaker 1: you're gone. I think if you think you're truly I mean,
Speaker 1: if you like some brilliant constitutional scholar who helps people
Speaker 1: understand why. For instance, even though Donald Jay wants all
Speaker 1: of his appointees appointed without Senate approval, if he can't
Speaker 1: get it why, that's probably not a good idea. If
Speaker 1: you can communicate that in a way that persuades people
Speaker 1: three generations down the line and keeps the Constitution intact,
Speaker 1: that's really really cool.
Speaker 2: Sure, absolutely, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Have you just a good question, especially as post by
Speaker 1: a man who punched other people in the head for
Speaker 1: a living.
Speaker 2: And demand's ear off. Have you seen any of the
Speaker 2: videos of RFK Junior lifting weight shirtless? I think I
Speaker 2: did once. I think he was. I think he was
Speaker 2: in that famous where they lift weight on Venice Beach
Speaker 2: in LA and he's walking around the shirt off, or
Speaker 2: he walking around regular clothes and he took off his
Speaker 2: suit jacket his shirt, so he's in jeans and he's like,
Speaker 2: he looks like a bodybuilder. I mean, he looks like
Speaker 2: a Flip and Barbie bodybuilder, and he does some bench prices.
Speaker 2: He's seventy years old. He is a freak of nature
Speaker 2: in terms of you. He's a roid guy, isn't he. Hey,
Speaker 2: I don't know if he does Royd's. He admits to testosterone,
Speaker 2: but I don't know if he does Royds it on.
Speaker 2: He's quite large, yeah, quite a bit larger than he
Speaker 2: was when he was much younger. And I don't know
Speaker 2: if he's gonna prescribe that for everyone. If he's HHS secretary,
Speaker 2: all may almost will get a free prescription. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Sounds gonna make it's quick on RFA Junior.
Speaker 1: There are several stances he has I'd like to hear
Speaker 1: him flesh out. Maybe they've been overstated or twisted by
Speaker 1: the mainstream media and big farm or whatever. I'm willing
Speaker 1: to give the guy a full hearing completely. The bear
Speaker 1: prank was funny. That is not evidence that he's unfit
Speaker 1: for anything. He comes across a dead bear, he thinks, hmm,
Speaker 1: one doesn't come across a dead bear every day.
Speaker 2: What profit might there be in this dead bear?
Speaker 1: There's certainly none for the bear, and he thought, you know,
Speaker 1: it'd be funny if I left this in Central Park
Speaker 1: and people had, say, a bear got run over a
Speaker 1: by a bike. Hey, you know what, that's ged funny.
Speaker 1: I do it for a living. That's funny. How about
Speaker 1: he's qualifying the fact that the guy thinks out of
Speaker 1: the box and he's got kind of a nutty sense
Speaker 1: of humor.
Speaker 2: Good for you, RFK. How about the chain sawing off
Speaker 2: the dead whale's head and strapping it to your van
Speaker 2: with the juices running down the windows. That's so gross.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, to have it a fully intact
Speaker 1: whales skull would be kind of.
Speaker 2: Cool, quirky, but not disqualifying in my mind in terms
Speaker 2: of being ahhs secret.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would think of it. But he was
Speaker 1: with his wife and children at the time, wasn't he.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, his daughter tells that story. He himself toward
Speaker 1: the bear story, and then his daughter tells the whalehead story.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I would think that of the whale, but
Speaker 1: I would be vetoed so vehemently by the particularly the
Speaker 1: women in my life, that I would not have chainsawed
Speaker 1: off the whales head and put it on the roof.
Speaker 2: Of my car just in case. I don't know what
Speaker 2: all y'all's media flow is. But every media outlet talking
Speaker 2: about RFK Junior calls him anti vax. He specifically said
Speaker 2: to every microphone he could come in contact with yesterday
Speaker 2: that he's not anti vacked. So that will have to be,
Speaker 2: you know, fleshed out, as Joe said, figure out where
Speaker 2: he is on what kind of vaccinations and all that
Speaker 2: sort of thing. But don't take the mainstream media's word
Speaker 2: for it that he's officially anti vaccinations across the board.
Speaker 2: And one more quick note.
Speaker 1: H Pete Hegseath, Trump's pick for Defense secretary was investigated
Speaker 1: for alleged sexual assault in twenty seventeen, and now all
Speaker 1: the mainstream media guys are reporting on that he was
Speaker 1: almost immediately cleared. There was nothing there as far as
Speaker 1: they could tell. Some late night incident somebody got mad
Speaker 1: and called the cops. But anyway, so there's I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything to be uncovered there.
Speaker 2: But it's getting a lot of attention. Liften, little girl,
Speaker 2: when you die, you're dead. You're having dead life is pointless,
Speaker 2: so right, thank thank thank you. What a funny thing
Speaker 2: to say with his debate. To say it to me,
Speaker 2: say it to me, I'll be dead to a child.
Speaker 1: Journalist like enjoy life for a little bit there.
Speaker 2: So Elon put out an interesting tweet yesterday with his
Speaker 2: preliminary look at all the waste in government. It's not
Speaker 2: hard to find. It's a rich vein of opportunities. We
Speaker 2: can hit some of those. I mean, some of the
Speaker 2: stuff we spend money on, by the billions is just.
Speaker 1: People who are going after them? Elon, is this to
Speaker 1: thank is that? I tell you what, Let's have a try.
Speaker 1: Let's give it a try. Let's see what happens. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's half successful, maybe it's a tenth successful. How is
Speaker 1: that worse than not trying go get them? That's what
Speaker 1: I say.
Speaker 2: Yep. More on the way. Just wanted you talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about something that matters to Joe and I.
Speaker 2: We both have been in the radio business our whole
Speaker 2: lives and cared about radio our whole lives, and one
Speaker 2: of our favorite radio hosts got fired. He was calling
Speaker 2: it yesterday in the Bay area of San Francisco. We've
Speaker 2: been on the air in San Francisco. We were on
Speaker 2: a couple different stations, KGO, now KSFO, over twenty one
Speaker 2: years that we've been on in San Francisco, and a
Speaker 2: little longer than us. Tom Tolbert was doing sports in
Speaker 2: the afternoon on K and BR in San Francisco, and
Speaker 2: I loved his show, and for whatever reason, Cumulus let
Speaker 2: him go and he they let him do a final
Speaker 2: show yesterday, and I was just hoping mentioning on this
Speaker 2: year it somehow would seep back to him at some
Speaker 2: point that the Armstrong and Getty Show is a big
Speaker 2: fan and supporter of Tom Tolbert and his show in
Speaker 2: the afternoon. Great great radio. I admire people who do
Speaker 2: great radio. I have since I was a little kid,
Speaker 2: before I ever even knew i'd be in the industry.
Speaker 1: There's nothing like mister t is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: personalities of any sort of radio.
Speaker 2: It's just absolutely terrific. Loved him.
Speaker 1: It was one of the high points of my day
Speaker 1: flipping on his show whenever I could through the years
Speaker 1: with various co hosts. But budget cuts, it's the you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of traditional media is really really struggling.
Speaker 2: CNN's about to layoff hundreds of people.
Speaker 1: Of course they suck unlike mister t uh, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's challenging times, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes depending on the situation with the company, if
Speaker 2: you're successful and have a high salary, you're first because
Speaker 2: they got a cut salary. So yeah, to the cable
Speaker 2: news industry. On Tuesday, one week after the election, CNN
Speaker 2: and MSNBC drew their lowest in demo ratings in a
Speaker 2: quarter of a century, CNN with the lowest ratings they'd
Speaker 2: had since two thousand, MSNBC the lowest since two thousand
Speaker 2: and one, going down. So that's why you're seeing a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of people get fired there. So yeah, it's
Speaker 2: the newspaper industry got hit hard. The radio industry. I
Speaker 2: will make it clear since we're in it's still very
Speaker 2: very effective for advertireers and everything like that, but it's
Speaker 2: a different dynamic with the way stations are structured, and
Speaker 2: we're on many and many stations across the country and
Speaker 2: just anyway, it's a different structured business than it used
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, with podcasting and everything else. You know, the
Speaker 1: luxury you don't have anymore in broadcasting or cable news
Speaker 1: is to be sucky. You don't have the luxury of
Speaker 1: being bad at your job. And CNN is sometimes pretty good,
Speaker 1: but they're often terrible and a waste of your time.
Speaker 1: And you know, I would watch now and again, and
Speaker 1: we've played some clips even today where.
Speaker 2: This is a difficult screen to put together, you know,
Speaker 2: in brief but.
Speaker 1: Either they had the wrong people if they were going
Speaker 1: to trust the instincts of their hosts and their creative people.
Speaker 1: Either they had the wrong people in charge, or they
Speaker 1: had some sort of consultant driven view of what the
Speaker 1: people want, and that almost never works.
Speaker 2: No, no, it does not. Getting back to Tom Tolbert
Speaker 2: Afternoon Sports Guy San Francisco, I listened to for all
Speaker 2: these years. No consultant built that show. Oh no, nobody
Speaker 2: told him to talk about WWE wrestling or cooking ribs
Speaker 2: or whatever as much as he did. That was just
Speaker 2: his personality and his ability to relate to an audience. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's you know, And again, I just I like good
Speaker 2: radio so much what I listened to his final show
Speaker 2: yesterday and just there there's a relationship and intimacy that
Speaker 2: comes with live radio that you can't get any way else,
Speaker 2: just like a magic thing that happens sometimes. And I
Speaker 2: know some of you feel that way about this show,
Speaker 2: which I really really appreciate, but I hated to see
Speaker 2: another one of the shows that I really like go away. Yeah, yeah, agreed.
Speaker 2: Also kind of get into Mike Tyson's thing earlier about
Speaker 2: legacy and all that sort of stuff. Time goes by,
Speaker 2: time's change. Everybody has their time in the sun and
Speaker 2: it ends, and it's just it's just the way the
Speaker 2: way it is, just the way it is, always has been,
Speaker 2: always will be right.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for that moment to come, and I've got
Speaker 1: a list of those I'm gonna take with me. I
Speaker 1: think is the healthy way to look at it.
Speaker 2: So vengeance on your way out the door is a
Speaker 2: picture it. Of course, of course.
Speaker 1: What clip we need that we used to play occasionally.
Speaker 1: Michael ages Ago was Schwarzenegger in uh uh? What was
Speaker 1: his first big role Conan the Barbarian Where he's talking
Speaker 1: about is.
Speaker 2: Their greatest pleasure is to drive your enemies before you
Speaker 2: and hear the lamentations of their women.
Speaker 1: I've always loved the greatest pleasure. Yeah, I kind of
Speaker 1: like a sunny afternoon with a good end and a
Speaker 1: cold drink. But you know, to each their own.
Speaker 3: Did you like that?
Speaker 2: Huh? Drive your enemies before you and hear the lamentations
Speaker 2: of their wound.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, well perhaps you and your women are lamenting
Speaker 1: the fact that you don't get our four of the
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Speaker 1: to it so you never miss a bit.
Speaker 2: So, for instance, Elon and vevaig their first target six
Speaker 2: point seventy five trillion dollars of government waste. They're doing
Speaker 2: a deep dive into federal spending and have come up
Speaker 2: with some jaw dropping examples of waste. Yeah, we got
Speaker 2: one point three billion dollars that we're sending to dead
Speaker 2: people that we've known. We've been sending to dead people
Speaker 2: for a while, but for some reason just can't stop
Speaker 2: the machinery of sending out checks. It turns out Tyson
Speaker 2: was wrong. You keep getting government money after you're dead.
Speaker 2: Last year, one hundred and seventy one million dollars went
Speaker 2: and benefits to prisoners that weren't supposed to go. One
Speaker 2: hundred and one billion in improper medicare that they know
Speaker 2: is improper. But we'll continue again next year unless somebody
Speaker 2: steps in and stops it somehow. Oh yeah, there's so
Speaker 2: much fraud. Yeah, let's try everybody.
Speaker 1: Hey America, somebody might be slightly uncomfortable for a week,
Speaker 1: they might make a mistake, but can we try.
Speaker 2: We got a lot more on the way again. Get
Speaker 2: the podcast a few minutes an hour Armstrong and Getty