1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong. 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: And Joe Getty arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 2: and Yetty. I am Cole Jr. 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: A thirty year old white man from the DC Suburbs, 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: is charged with transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce 7 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: and with malicious destruction. Now, if you follow the story 8 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: throughout today, it was not a white man white. Jake 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: Tapper went with he was a white guy. Now, I 10 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: got to admit I was expecting a white guy. The 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: whole pipe. 12 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: Kind of felt like a white dude to me. 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: Pipe bombs left at the rn C and the d 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: NC is a bearded, fat white guy in a Carhart 15 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: jacket crime or a skinny Seattle. 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 3: You're right hoodie guy and tefa hoodie right radical Marxist 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 3: politics baba. 18 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: Either way, Yeah a has a master's degree in something 19 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. But yeah, that's a white guy crime. 20 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: So I wasn't expecting a black guy. So so Jake did. 21 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 3: Jake ed live that because he wanted everyone to make 22 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 3: sure that they knew that he knows that white people 23 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 3: are bad. Or was that on his teleprompter for his 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 3: talking Eric had to repeat, or why. 25 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: Mention the race at all if you're not sure, or 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: even if you are sure, I'm not sure why it 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: makes any difference whatsoever. 28 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 2: I think it actually might for reasons that we can 29 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 2: get into. 30 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: Well, let's listen to the ABC report on the finally 31 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: catching the guy five years later, and then we'll talk 32 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: about it. 33 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 4: Brian Cole Junior was arrested and charged with placing the 34 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 4: pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC. 35 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 5: Law enforcement swarming the home where he lives with his parents. 36 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 5: Authority said the arrest came not from a new tip, 37 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 5: but coming back through mill pieces of evidence, including cell 38 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 5: phone data that allegedly places a phone used by Cole 39 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 5: along the route the day the bombs were planted, a 40 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 5: photo that allegedly places his vehicle near the crime scene, 41 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 5: and financial transactions they say show Cole bought materials from 42 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 5: an area home depot that could be used to make bombs. 43 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: And he's a thirty year old dude that lives at 44 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: home and is described as he works for the family 45 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: business but only a couple hours a day, doesn't really 46 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: have any friends, walks around with headphones a lot picks 47 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: a dog. 48 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 2: Boats on his jiwawa jack. 49 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: According to one report, I'm wondering if maybe he's, for 50 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: whatever reason, a youngster that's not cut out to go 51 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: out into the world to make a living, and then 52 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: they'd let him work at the family business a couple 53 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: hours a day. 54 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy. 55 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 3: Look, he was twenty five when he allegedly committed a crime. 56 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 3: You know, it sure looks to me like it's going 57 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 3: to be a disaffected, alienated young man with no attachment, 58 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:03,679 Speaker 3: no partner, isolated, decided to get into radical politics. He 59 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: was and we've talked about this in the context of 60 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 3: the Charlie Kirk thing. Experts in the sort of thing 61 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 3: will tell you these people often they're angry and they 62 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,679 Speaker 3: want to hurt somebody. Then they latch onto an ideology 63 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 3: quite late in the game and then commit an act 64 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: of violence almost immediately. They don't spend years campaigning for 65 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 3: that cause or whatever, sacrificing and thinking. 66 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 2: In Oregon. 67 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 3: No, they just think I would have hurt somebody. Here's 68 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: a cause. Yeah, I'm into that, let's hurt somebody. 69 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: It's quite possible that at this point five years later, 70 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: he wishes he hadn't or has a completely different view 71 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: of the world or who knows. 72 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 3: Well, Yeah, sure, the growth from twenty five to thirty 73 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 3: is a lot, you know, the case by case obviously, 74 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: but that's a lot of insuring. So and I'm not 75 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: defending the guy. He did something abhorrent and terrible. Here's 76 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 3: a question for you. Because he was trying to bomb, 77 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 3: allegedly both the RNC and the dance twenty five year 78 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 3: old black man seven months after George Floyd got killed. 79 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,119 Speaker 3: I'm thinking he was a Swede by the Neo Marxist 80 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 3: systemic racism. This country's corrupted needs to be brought down. 81 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: Guy. 82 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 1: And the fact that it happened so close to the 83 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: January sixth ride is just a coincidence. 84 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, except that he might have known there was going 85 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 3: to be a big gathering in d C. Because he lived, 86 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 3: you know, in the suburbs. He might have thought, oh, hey, 87 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 3: this is perfect, this is perfect timing. 88 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: Do you think he was hoping those bombs would go 89 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: off and hurt her kill people. 90 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: I don't know. 91 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 3: That's one of the great questions to this case, because 92 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 3: it is said by the authorities they were both capable 93 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 3: of going off and causing terrible damage. 94 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 2: But didn't. Yeah, yeah, I think it's it's not a coincidence. 95 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,240 Speaker 3: It was the January sixth, because there's a big rally 96 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 3: that day, but it had nothing to do with Stop 97 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 3: to Steal or the rally itself, I suspect, So I 98 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: think it's interesting. 99 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: So my my taking in of this information throughout the 100 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: day yesterday through mainstream media led me to believe that 101 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 1: it was a whole There was no new information that 102 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: was found. They took information that had already been gathered 103 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: and pieced it together and figured out who the guy was. 104 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: Now that's the way it was presented to me. It 105 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: was like, you know, it's not super easy if you 106 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,679 Speaker 1: got a million different things to bring them all together 107 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: in a way that aha, you figure out who it is, 108 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: and that they just threw reopening the case and relooking 109 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: at it, figured it out. But you're saying cash Ptel says, no, 110 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: that's not what happened. 111 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, do we have that audio ready, I've got the 112 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 2: quote in front of me, but yeah, we do. Go ahead. Yeah. 113 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 6: As to this specific case, the pipe bomber, you're right, 114 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 6: the prior administration sat on the evidence for four years. 115 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 6: There wasn't any production of new evidence from five years ago. 116 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 2: Here's what we did. 117 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 6: We went out to the country, brought in our experts, 118 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 6: and Deputy Director Bongino led the charge and said, we're 119 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 6: going to look at every single piece of evidence again trace. 120 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 6: We looked at three million lines of evidence. We went 121 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 6: back and looked at the cell phone tower data dumps. 122 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 6: We went back and looked at the providers and what 123 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,559 Speaker 6: information they provided, pursued to search warrant at the time 124 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 6: and asked questions such as why weren't all the phone 125 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 6: numbers scrubbed, and why weren't they connected? And why wasn't 126 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 6: there any geolocational data done? Now, that is either sheering 127 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 6: competence or complete intentional negligence, and neither of which is 128 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 6: acceptable for this FBI. 129 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 2: That's a heck of a thing to say. 130 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 3: That is really, really strong and presuming he was beaten 131 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 3: truthful with the they didn't scrub the phone numbers go 132 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 3: through them, you know anyway, why wasn't there any geolocational 133 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 3: data done? That's how they got the butcher of Idaho, 134 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 3: the killer of those poor college kids. 135 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: So hard to imagine why the Biden administration wouldn't have 136 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: been really hot to try to figure out who this was, 137 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: because I think they would have assumed it was a 138 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: Maga person that they could have you know, piled on 139 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: to that whole story. 140 00:06:59,400 --> 00:06:59,679 Speaker 2: Right. 141 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 3: So well, either Cash Mattel is wrong about what he 142 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 3: just said, or if he's right, this is an enormous 143 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 3: scandal slash question because sometimes, you. 144 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: Know, when we all watch crime shows, we do, everybody does, movies, whatever, 145 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: sometimes a new detective can come along and look at 146 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: the same evidence and figure out something. It doesn't mean 147 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: that people before them were incompetent or corrupt, they just 148 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: didn't see it for whatever reason. 149 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, but although he's just absolutely unequivocal, Yeah, no, he is. 150 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: I mean, that was a scathing accusation. But like I said, 151 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense to me. I doubt that they 152 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: assumed that this would protect them in some way. 153 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 3: One possible explanation, and I don't think this is true. 154 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 3: Probably it was that they figured out that it was 155 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 3: not a Maga person, that it was you know, a 156 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 3: young black democrat, but then covered it up. 157 00:07:57,800 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: That's that's a stretch. Yeah, that is really a stretch. 158 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: I mean, you'd have somebody in the FBI who would 159 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 3: leak the truth because most the vast majority of the 160 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 3: people in the FBI are serious patriotic Americans who are 161 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 3: trying to enforce the law and protect everybody. 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There's got to be an explanation to that question. 165 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 3: What happened in the last five years, So he didn't 166 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 3: he didn't have much of a footprint computer, social media wise, 167 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 3: or anything like that, so it's hard to know what 168 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 3: he was thinking, right this pipe bomber. 169 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 2: Dude, Mm hmm, yeah, huh, yeah, I would miss. 170 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: The biggest question to me is did he intend to 171 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: have those go off and hurt a bunch of people? 172 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: Or does he was he kind of like practically a 173 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: vandal in a real troll in a yeah, in a 174 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: really pathetic. 175 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 2: Sort of way. 176 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I certainly hope he has a good attorney 177 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 3: in the atturne and he's telling them look plead guilty 178 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 3: to everything and tell him everything they want to know 179 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 3: as your only hope anyway. 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The winter band concert 202 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 3: last night at my son's high school, and they had 203 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 3: the middle school play, then the junior high and then 204 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 3: the high school, all the band in in order, and 205 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 3: it got progressively better as it went along, of course, 206 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 3: as they got older and more talented and practiced up. 207 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 2: But it's just it's so so so charming. 208 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: The whole kids get dressed up in a way that 209 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: you never see them, and they're all nervous, and they're 210 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: up there and all the parents are there with their 211 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: phones out, and it's just so fantastic and they're focusing 212 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: on something for a pretty significant period of time, right 213 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: playing the songs that occurs to me, you know, just 214 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: in the wake of our conversation last hour about endorphin 215 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: hits and smartphone addictions. 216 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,359 Speaker 2: I love that sort of thing. It was great. Yeah, 217 00:10:54,400 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 2: here we go. So's what it sounded like. Yep, there 218 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 2: you go. Yeah, the tempo, tempo tempo, what. 219 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 3: That's If you don't know, that's me Joe Getty playing 220 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 3: trombone years ago. 221 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 2: We might be doing that again next week. You still 222 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: have your trombone? 223 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, we might have to break out 224 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: the trombone next week because you're gon we're gonna raise 225 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: some money. No, we're gonna raise some of that always 226 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: raises money. No, and then uh and then we all 227 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: have a really good time. You know it hurts my lips. 228 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 2: You don't want to, No, I don't want to. That's funny. 229 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 2: I was watching the band last night. 230 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: They get out to buy a trumpet, get back into 231 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: trumpet play and I haven't done it since high school? 232 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 2: Would it be pretty hard? But thank you? Pretty hard 233 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 2: to do? 234 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: You're umba, sure is it's it's getting your your lips 235 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 3: back in shape and your the muscles of your mouth 236 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 3: and face. 237 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: That's it's a challenge, is it? So it sound insurmountable. 238 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: I mean you you play the piano every day. That's 239 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: that's harder than blowing into But I don't play it 240 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: with my lips. I gotta admit good. Yeah, So we 241 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: got other news we got to catch you up on. Oh, 242 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: I do want to get to the Josh Shapiro getting 243 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: so angry at Kamala Harris for lying about him in 244 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: her book. We have to get to that at some point. 245 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: But lots of other stuff on the way, stay here. 246 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: Armstrong, Heyyetty you Brook The Hunters. 247 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 4: That is a clip from the most popular movie in 248 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 4: the world this year, K Pop Demon Hunters. It is 249 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 4: the most watched film ever on Netflix, with more than 250 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 4: three hundred million views. It's the second most searched term 251 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 4: on Google the entire year. The soundtrack nominated for five Grammys. 252 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 4: There have been four top ten hits on Billboard's Hot 253 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 4: one hundred. 254 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 1: Wow nominated for Grammys. I didn't know that. I don't 255 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: know anything about it. I just have heard about it, 256 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: and I've heard my kids, who are teenage boys, so 257 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: they particularly hate this sort of thing excellent and the 258 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: that it ever even gets brought up makes them angry. 259 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: But I did not realize that K Pop Demon Hunters 260 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: was the most streamed movie in Netflix history. That's something 261 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: I feel like I got to at least watch the 262 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: first fifteen minutes to have an idea of what the 263 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: hell it is. 264 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 2: Go ahead, tell me how you like it. You know. 265 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 3: I was just thinking about movie reviews because I read 266 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 3: a long review by a pretentious bastard who writes about 267 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 3: movies that got sucked in just because the movie and 268 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 3: the premise of the movie and all were really interesting 269 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 3: to me. And then I went and watched the trailer, 270 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 3: and the trailer that the review was long, like in 271 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 3: pretentious and negative, and then I watched the trailer and 272 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 3: I thought I'd watch that. 273 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 2: That looks enjoyable to me. 274 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 3: Movie reviews should not be more than say, fifty words long, 275 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 3: and they shouldn't be about the reviewer, you know, pleasuring 276 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 3: himself or herself and showing how smart they are, and 277 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 3: oh man, that annoys me. 278 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: Well, And as you always point, it should be through 279 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: the lens of for people who like this sort of thing. Right, 280 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: If you like that sort of thing, you're gonna love 281 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: this movie. I don't like that sort of thing, so 282 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: I didn't like it, but you would love this because 283 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: it's a really good one. 284 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 2: Of these, right, exactly. 285 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 3: Don't have the classical music writer review the latest punk album, 286 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: just don't anyway. 287 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: In news about Netflix, they're trying to acquire Warner Brothers 288 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: Film Studio and the stream service HBO Max would make, 289 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: which would make them even more of a behemoth than 290 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: they are. They're looking to just dominate that whole space 291 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: Netflix is and they're always already a five hundred pound 292 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: gorilla for whatever reason in the last hour that Donald 293 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: Trump has come out and said he's very got heavy 294 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: skepticism about whether or not this deal should happen. And 295 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if it gets into the world of 296 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: monopolies or what they're I haven't seen there, gets into 297 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: the world of the Trump administration is way too willing 298 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: to interfere with commerce in my opinion. 299 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 3: You know, I've got another hot take about Trump screwing 300 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 3: something up, and you know, here's here's the deal. 301 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: Are you for Trump or against him? I'm for you, 302 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 1: I'm for taxpayers. He's for the America. Kil Getty's for you. Yeah. 303 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 304 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 3: Speaking of Kamala Harris, some great Kamala Harris stuff coming up, 305 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 3: stay with us, Yeah. 306 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 2: I just you know what it is. 307 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 3: It's about the Somali thing in Minneapolis. This is an enormous, shining, 308 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 3: bipartisan admission that our welfare systems are utterly corrupt and 309 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 3: waste money. There's rampant fraud. It's absolutely disgusting, and it 310 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 3: is a horrific betrayal of the American taxpayer. And Trump 311 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 3: is making it about immigration. 312 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, the Republicans should hammer this all the 313 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: way up to the election. Make it their issue welfare 314 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: fraud or all kinds of fraud, and but making it 315 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: specifically about the somalies is just only about the somomy. 316 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: It's just too easy to refute it as racism or whatever. 317 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 2: Well, right, yeah, and I'm not saying there's no issue. 318 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 3: There absolutely is an issue with you know, allowing a 319 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 3: hostile culture to come in their tens of thousands. They 320 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 3: hate us, they hate our cultor they hate our world. 321 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one hundred percent an. 322 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 3: Issue, but it's not like the most useful issue here, 323 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 3: and it's not the core issue. 324 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: So Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers following that blah blah 325 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: blah blah blah value of eighty two point seven billion dollars. 326 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: I mean, these are some really big, giant companies that 327 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: are coming together. As a lot of people have pointed out, 328 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: there's a certain amount of bundling that's going on with 329 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: all these companies into one thing that's very similar to 330 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: what Cable used to be or you know, you got 331 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: it through dish or or whatever. 332 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. 333 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 3: Although media is changing so fast, the idea that this 334 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 3: is a monopoly or that that is it's just no 335 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 3: it'll change so quickly. What's true today won't be true tomorrow. 336 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 3: It's like calling my Space a monopoly. You know, a 337 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 3: week later, nobody it's gone. 338 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: I tried to wean myself off a bunch of subscriptions 339 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: Hulu and Netflix and HBO, Max and Peacock and all 340 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: these other I've canceled liked them all six months, nine 341 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: months ago, and I've slowly added them back in as 342 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 1: a show comes along or a movie that you know, 343 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: me and my kids want to see, and it's only 344 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: on this one, so I sign up next thing. You know, 345 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: I got them all again. They got you, they got me, woof, 346 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 1: they got me. It's hard to get away. So Kamala 347 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: Harris wrote a really stupid book and went on a 348 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: stupid tour, and it got heavy reviews of how stupid 349 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: the whole thing was. She apparently lied about Governor Josh 350 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: Shapiro Pennsylvania. He did not dig that at all. We 351 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 1: have some quotes from him we can get to coming up. 352 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 3: The famously measured Josh Shapiro lost his s and was 353 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,919 Speaker 3: immediately regretful for it. 354 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 2: Hilarious. 355 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably running for president. I don't know that 356 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 1: she is. Gavin definitely is. 357 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 3: And the idea that that half what would run again, 358 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's too good to be true. 359 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 2: Christmas President. So we've got all that on the way. 360 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 1: Stay with us if you missed a second to get 361 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: the podcast, Armstrong and Getty. It is time for us 362 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: to do what we have been doing in that time 363 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: as every day there. 364 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 2: You go, her greatest hit. That's her, uh, that's her, her. 365 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: Emmy, her Oscar, her everything for Kamala Harris. And that's 366 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about here. 367 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 3: To call Kamala Harris a mediocrity is to pay her 368 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 3: a compliment. 369 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 2: She does not deserve. 370 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 3: You think about it, You think about Kamala Halfwit Harris 371 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 3: and Tim open Wallet Waltz. If that is not the 372 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 3: weakest ticket in American history, it is in the top five. 373 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 2: Eh. 374 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 1: She is the most qualified person to ever run for 375 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: president and America wasn't ready for a black female president. 376 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: Those are both absolutely hilarious. 377 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 3: So the Atlantic in the person of this Chap's named 378 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 3: Tim Alberta. 379 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 2: That's a cool name. 380 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: He sounds like he ought to be some sort of 381 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: Americana singer, you know, acoustic guitar cowboy hat. 382 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 2: Tim Alberta. Yeah. Anyway, So he goes to. 383 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 3: Talk to Josh Shapiro about a couple of things, and 384 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 3: he says, I knew, from speaking to people close to 385 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 3: Josh Shapiro, the governor of Minister of Pennsylvania off the 386 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 3: rumored presidential candidate. He was looked at very seriously to 387 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 3: be Kamala Harris's running mate. 388 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 2: But he's a Jew. It's a good point anyway. 389 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 3: That was the view of a lot of the left 390 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 3: wing of the Democratic Party who are flaming anti Semite. Anyway, 391 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 3: the guy writes, from speaking to people close to Shapiro, 392 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 3: I knew that he'd lost some respect for the former 393 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 3: vice president during the campaign, not simply because she shows 394 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 3: someone else as a running mate. In Shapiro's view, given 395 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: the near existential stakes for both the Democratic Party and 396 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 3: America Democracy, please, Harris's lapses during the election, in particularly 397 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,679 Speaker 3: ignoring Joe Biden's obviously decline, were unforgivable, but he had 398 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 3: been careful not to say so publicly. Shapiro's kind of 399 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 3: the anti Trump, and that he's very measured and very strategic, 400 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 3: and he only plays his cards when he thinks it's 401 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 3: best to play them. Anyway, Uh, Shapiro knew I was 402 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: gonna ask him about Harris. What he didn't know is 403 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 3: that early copies of her book were then making the 404 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 3: rounds among reporters, having obtained the relevant sections of one 405 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 3: hundred and seven Days. And that morning I asked Shapiro 406 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 3: if Harris had given him and he heads up about 407 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 3: her books. She had not, he said, And I told him, 408 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 3: you know, Harris took some shots at you. Shapiro furred 409 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 3: his brow and crossed his arms. Okay, he said, I 410 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 3: love that. 411 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have crossed my arms because that's just too 412 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: much of a giveaway. 413 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 3: The man I observed over the next several minutes was unrecognizable. 414 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 2: Gone was his equilibrium. 415 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 3: He moved between outrage and exasperation as I relaid the excerpts. 416 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: You know why Harris, You know why he's so angry 417 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: before we even get into him. He has so little 418 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: respect for her. That's what makes him so mad. So 419 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: this dunderpate is coming at me. Oh, give me a break. 420 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 3: This intellectual, lightweight, single party state slept her way to 421 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 3: the top. 422 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 2: Half wit who is coming at me? Ouch? Hey, if 423 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:28,880 Speaker 2: the panties fit wear them? 424 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: Wow, that's right, another misogyny Friday the armstrong again. 425 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: No, no, it's an accuracy. Truth is an absolute defense 426 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 3: against misogyny. Anyway, let's see, all right, the man I 427 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 3: observed unrecognizable. Gone was his equilibrium. He moved between outrage 428 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 3: and exasperation as that relayed the excerpts Harris had accused 429 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 3: him in essence of measuring the drapes, even inquiring about 430 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 3: featuring Pennsylvania artists and the vice presidential residence, of insisting 431 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 3: quote that he would want to be in the room 432 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 3: for every decision Harris might make, and more generally, of 433 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 3: hijacking the conversation when she interviewed him for the job, 434 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 3: to the point where she reminded them that you will 435 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 3: not be a co president. 436 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 2: She wrote that in her book, he said, in response 437 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 2: to the claim, blah blah. 438 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 3: Blah, that's complete and utter a bulls fed, using the 439 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 3: actual word, obviously, I can tell you that her accounts 440 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 3: are just blatant lies. 441 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 4: Wow. 442 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 2: Wow, that's not measured. Yeah. Yeah. 443 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 3: After reading Harris's book, talking with people from both camps, 444 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 3: I found descriptions of the meeting could be mostly consistent. 445 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 3: Shapiro arrived in an edgy mood, chafing at efforts among 446 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:47,679 Speaker 3: fellow Democrats to Sabotagees tryout Shapiro is Jewish, was specially 447 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 3: irked by anti Semitic innuendo from the left. The two 448 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 3: skip past any semblance of small talk in Shapiro proceeded 449 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 3: to interview Harris rather than the other way around. I 450 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 3: did ask a bunch of questions, Shapiro told me, sounding exasperated. 451 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 3: Wouldn't you ask questions if someone was talking to you 452 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 3: about forming a partnership and working together? 453 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: Well, wait, you kind of YadA YadA, YadA this so 454 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 1: you're saying the interviewer from the Atlantic. The writer from 455 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,880 Speaker 1: the Atlantic says, other people have told them that her 456 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: account is pretty consistent with what happened. Yes, okay, that's interesting. 457 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,959 Speaker 1: Well that he was, he interviewed her. Yeah, well, I've 458 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: been in that sort of situation before. It really turns 459 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: me off. No, no, no, no, you've got this backwards. 460 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 2: Uh yeah. 461 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 3: And then he was annoyed because Harris was portraying him 462 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 3: in ways consistent with the whispers that had dogged him 463 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 3: throughout the vetting process and throughout his career that he 464 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 3: was selfish, petty, and monomoniacally ambitious given the fact that 465 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 3: they'd known each other for twenty years, Shapiro said with 466 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 3: a groan. I asked whether he felt betrayed. I mean, 467 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 3: she's trying to sell books and cover her ass, Shapiro snapped. 468 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 3: So Mitt stared past me, now shaking his head, blah 469 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 3: blah blah. Then quickly, I shouldn't say cover her ass. 470 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,719 Speaker 3: I think that's not appropriate. She's trying to sell books, period. 471 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 3: He collected it too late. 472 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: Sorry, you just said to a reporter in an interview 473 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: on the record. At that point, there's no fixing. So 474 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,919 Speaker 1: I was about to say, is he angry because she 475 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: let out what actually happened or angry? But no, he 476 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: says blatant lies. So he's claiming that that's not the 477 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: way I went down. Uh yeah, the blatant lies part. 478 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:28,400 Speaker 2: What was that? 479 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 3: Referring to well, complete and utter bull spit that he 480 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 3: was practically measuring the drapes and inquired about featuring Pennsylvania 481 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 3: artists and the vice presidential residence and the rest of it. 482 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 2: Who knows, who knows? Well? 483 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: Did he actually say I need to be in the 484 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: room for every decision. 485 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. I wasn't there. 486 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 3: Okay, I have nothing more to say about Josh Shapiro 487 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 3: and his prospects. 488 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 2: Honestly, I didn't care. 489 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 3: I just thought it was funny that he caught out 490 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 3: Kamala Harris so forcefully and interview on the record. 491 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I'd like to know what actually happened there. 492 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 2: I could see him going led it though you nailed it. 493 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 2: He has no respect. 494 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: He went in with that attitude with no respect for her, 495 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: so he probably was a little over the top. He 496 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: went in with the you're kind of an accidental You're 497 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: like a gerald Ford style president, just like the all 498 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: these dominoes fell in such a way that you might 499 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:22,959 Speaker 1: end up president. 500 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 3: I would be doing you a favor by lending you 501 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 3: my gravitas, right, and you're too stupid to understand. 502 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 2: That's how I feel. Well, as it. 503 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 3: Turns out, she's not quite that stupid, and in her 504 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 3: book she calls him out for coming in with some tude. 505 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 3: So now we know precisely how stupid she is and 506 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 3: how stupid she's not. 507 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:46,239 Speaker 2: She noticed that. 508 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: Hmm. Well, remember, and this is getting into the weeds 509 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,359 Speaker 1: a little bit on this sort of thing, but remember 510 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: the way she ended up being the running mate was 511 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: a couple of different things. But when Biden was looking 512 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: for his vice presidential running mate, a lot of the 513 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,880 Speaker 1: names that floated up all of a sudden appo research 514 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: would get dumped on these people, and Biden knew it 515 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: was coming from Kamala, and he liked the fact that, Okay, 516 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: she understands how this game is played, and she and 517 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: she is ready to throw elbows to get what she wants. 518 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 2: That's what he liked about her. 519 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: So it's possible that she is incompetent in all kinds 520 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: of different ways, and she clearly is, but not in 521 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: the ways of fighting dirty in politics to get ahead, 522 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 1: which is how she rose to the you know that, 523 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: and maybe being a little hot and a little willing 524 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: to be friends to certain people. 525 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 2: Billy Brown was charming. I met Willie Brown, I was. 526 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 3: Charmed or uh, yeah, oh, she's unquestionably a skilled climber. 527 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 3: I mean, look at what she's you know, the jobs 528 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 3: she's held and done very badly at. 529 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 2: But yeah, skilled climber. You got to give her that. 530 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: One of the reasons I'd never make it in politics, 531 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: and there's like a million reasons, is uh, you've got 532 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: to be willing to just realize it's part of the deal. 533 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: Everybody screws everybody. Nobody's friends with anybody. You're friendly to 534 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 1: somebody on a moment by moment basis, if it helps you, 535 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: you'll turn on them a second later, and then you 536 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 1: go back to being friends five minutes later. If you've 537 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 1: switched to a different topic. And I couldn't. I would 538 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: never be able to live like that. We're we're either 539 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: friends or we're not. 540 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 3: But plus, Michael and I have been compiling a catalog 541 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 3: of your you know, your missteps for years. 542 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 2: In fact, we had to start a second volume, so yeah, 543 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 2: there might be a third. 544 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 3: Give it a while anyway, Thank god, we don't have 545 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 3: to worry about presidential politics for a Oh, Gavin Newsom 546 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 3: just gave a speech in South Carolina. Yeah what, Yeah, 547 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 3: I know. I mean I need to pay attention to it. 548 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: I am paying attention to this because I get them 549 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: every single day, these emails when I open up my 550 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: emails in the morning, that are fake PayPal, fake ups, 551 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: fake shipping orders, all kinds of stuff. Luckily I catch them, 552 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: I think all the time. With the help of web Root, 553 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 1: it makes it a lot easier so that these fishing 554 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: scams and all kinds of different scams to try to 555 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: steal your info and rip you off. 556 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 2: If you have. 557 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: Webroote, you don't have to worry about it. 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Live a better digital life with webroots. 570 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: Remember when I was interacting with that woman who was 571 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: claiming we were in a relationship, and I was just 572 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: trying to see how far the scam would go or 573 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: when she would ask me for money or whatever. 574 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, the email thing. Yeah, where was she was? 575 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: She was were Ukrainian or Russian or something like that anyway, 576 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: And I still don't know how she I got my 577 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: email address originally, but at some point I don't know. 578 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: It's just the mood I was in that day. I 579 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,719 Speaker 1: just was tired of dealing with it because I had 580 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: played along for quite some time, and she'd send me 581 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: these pictures and talk about how in love we were beautiful. 582 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: I finally sent her I said, hey, you know, I 583 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: just have gotten busy and I don't have time to 584 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: go along with this anymore. So I've been playing along 585 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: with this just to see when you were going to 586 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: finally ask for money. 587 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 2: And I said, I'm just curious, like it. 588 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: Doesn't bother you at all, that you play upon people's 589 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: emotions and like lonely desperate people think you actually like them, 590 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: and then you make some money off of it, that 591 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: you sleep okay at night with that act. 592 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 2: And then I just never heard anything back from her. 593 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 3: Of course, what do you think they might have replied, 594 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 3: as I've brought this story to you that look, I'm 595 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 3: an Indonesian fisherman. I was snatched up by the Chinese. 596 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 3: I'm being held against my will. Hmmm, they make me 597 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 3: do this all day long? 598 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 2: How do you feel about that? Huh, that's what I think. Thought. Now, 599 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,680 Speaker 2: if you'll excuse me, I'm off to scam somebody else. 600 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 2: Oh so, no, I'm supposed to feel bad. 601 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: Right, Yes, should think about somebody other thane of yourself 602 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: for once, fisherman, how about that? 603 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh boy. 604 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 3: So the whole multi zillion dollar climate scam is on 605 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 3: the rocks and for a good reason, but the climate 606 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,400 Speaker 3: activists seem to have no concept of why that is. 607 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 3: It's not that people have woken up to the giant 608 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 3: scam and how it's crippled economies without doing any good. 609 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 3: It's misinformation and disinformation by evildoers has swayed the minds 610 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 3: of people. 611 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: Hopefully that ruse is over, we'll talk about that. No 612 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: stuff on the way. 613 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 2: Stay here. 614 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 7: Well, guys, we've eventually kicked off the holiday season, and 615 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 7: they're always filled with little highs and lows. The high 616 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 7: when your child enjoys a candy cane, and a low 617 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 7: when they suck it down to a ship and say. 618 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 2: Get me a little boo boo. Or else. 619 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 7: There's a high when opening an advent calendar and a 620 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 7: low when realizing all the chocolate expired during. 621 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 2: The Reagan administration. So it be great, I said. 622 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 7: There's a high wind seeing Santa at the mall, and 623 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 7: the low when the whiskey and Santa's breast singes. 624 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 2: Your nose hair. And finally there's a high. 625 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 7: When attending your office Christmas party, and then there's a 626 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 7: low when attending a private party the next day. 627 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 2: In hr it all evens out. Do we have any 628 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 2: kind of Christmas party? Yeah? 629 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 7: We do. 630 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 2: We have some sort of lunch. When is that next week? 631 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 2: That's a check that's jack to date. But yeah, okay, 632 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 2: I should go to that a Christmas lunch. Nothing says 633 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 2: festivities more than lunch. Is in the building? Is it 634 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 2: here in the building? 635 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 4: Yeah? 636 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: I remember back in the old days when you had 637 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: real Christmas parties and people bring their spouses and get 638 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: dressed up. 639 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:03,200 Speaker 2: Those are awesome good times. Yeah. 640 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: I have no interest in the who's a better basketball player, 641 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: Lebron James or Michael Jordan. You can't drag me into 642 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: that conversation. But an interesting record came to an end 643 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: last night for Lebron James, who might finally be old 644 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: at age forty. He had a Hall of Fame level 645 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: season last year. If he'd averaged what he averaged last 646 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: year his whole career, he'd be in the Hall of 647 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: Fame at age thirty nine. This year, he's dropped off 648 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: quite a bit, and last night, for the first time 649 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: in many, many years, he scored less than ten points 650 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: in a game, ending his record streak of almost thirteen 651 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: hundred consecutive games of scoring at least ten points in 652 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: a game. 653 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 2: He scored eight last night. 654 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: He did, to his credit, by the way, have a 655 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: chance to make ten points at the Veria in the game, 656 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: but he passed the ball to somebody else. They scored 657 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,719 Speaker 1: the winning basket. He was asked afterwards, you have any regrets, 658 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: He said, no, we won. 659 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 2: That's the whole goal. 660 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: Twelve hundred and ninety seven consecutive games. Second place by 661 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan is eight sixty six, four. 662 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 2: Hundred games shorter. I mean, that's stunning. 663 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,880 Speaker 1: Some of the numbers that Lebron has are just amazing, 664 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: you know, for how long he's played at such a 665 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: high level. But he might finally be old, So this 666 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: has got to be his last season. I would assume, 667 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: although time is undefeated, but it sure had to fight hard. 668 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: In his case, God, I would say, so had to 669 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 1: hang in there. I don't know why this story didn't 670 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: get more attention. 671 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 2: I just became aware of it myself. 672 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: There was an effort, it looks like, to assassinate President 673 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: Zelensky on his trip to Dublin the other day, as 674 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: four drones converged in his flight path after he had 675 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: flown through so his plane arrived early, and it really 676 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: looks like that four drones and nobody's exactly sure where 677 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: they came from, please converted right where his plane was 678 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: going to be coming into the landing strip there, and 679 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 1: they're still trying to figure that all that out plane 680 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: got there earlier, and it was supposed to him the 681 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,760 Speaker 1: drones would would have gotten there right when his plane 682 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,240 Speaker 1: had gotten there and shot. 683 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:17,240 Speaker 2: Him out of this guy possibly. 684 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: And I was reading one of my favorite thinkers saying, 685 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,040 Speaker 1: this is where we are, that there's just so much 686 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: stuff going on all the time that a close call 687 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 1: assassination attempt on a world leader in the middle of 688 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: a war with all these peace negotiations happening doesn't even really. 689 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,799 Speaker 3: Make the news right right, Well, there are a lot 690 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 3: of examples of that. It's just got to kind of 691 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 3: catch on, like this Somali ripoff in Minnesota story. Yeah, 692 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 3: that story's a couple of years old. Hell, we had 693 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 3: it eighteen months ago, I think. But now all of 694 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,319 Speaker 3: a sudden it's the biggest thing in politics, partly because 695 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 3: Trump latched onto it and is talking about it, and 696 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 3: all of a sudden, like the New York Times has decided, Yeah, 697 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 3: we probably ought to write about this. So's just too 698 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:04,920 Speaker 3: much going on, it's too wild. 699 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday that one of the great AI thinkers 700 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: predicting what it's going to be like in the future, 701 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,240 Speaker 1: the way AI is gonna destroy civilization, if not destroy 702 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: you know, all human beings, is everything is just gonna 703 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 1: become so confusing. We're just gonna be so inundated with 704 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,280 Speaker 1: crap all the time that you don't know what's true 705 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,399 Speaker 1: and what's not and what's really happening, and just there's 706 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:33,280 Speaker 1: just so much blah constantly, And I, like Joe said, 707 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 1: it feels like we're halfway there already. 708 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:36,839 Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. 709 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 3: I have two completely contradictory thoughts on that. The first 710 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 3: one is the becoming zen or confusion or praying ceaselessly 711 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 3: or whatever. A lot more people are gonna embrace that, 712 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 3: they're gonna check out completely from the information economy and 713 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 3: try to live simple lives. My completely oppositional thought to 714 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:01,280 Speaker 3: that is that the evil doers will have enormous powers 715 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,359 Speaker 3: and we all need to be on our guard. Yeah, 716 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 3: it's definitely a fever pitch confusing age we're moving into. 717 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 1: Well, so you mean, like checking out individually really good 718 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 1: for you, but not is not going to help society 719 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,719 Speaker 1: if people that checked out can't really be motivated to 720 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,240 Speaker 1: get in to do anything. 721 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure they could do anything anyway, depending 722 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,839 Speaker 3: on which way the AI thing goes and who gets 723 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 3: it and how they use it. I realized this is 724 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 3: all kind of terrifying and dislocating. I would concentrate on 725 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 3: the world close to you. 726 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 2: That's what I do. 727 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:41,960 Speaker 3: There's nothing much I can do about this stuff, so 728 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 3: I don't worry about it? 729 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:45,239 Speaker 2: Or is there? 730 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 3: It creeps into my dream sometimes and I wake up 731 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 3: screaming and weeping. 732 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 2: But what are you gonna do? 733 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 1: Could we get regulations in place to slow down this train? 734 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,120 Speaker 1: Or is it just impossible? No? No, okay, well then 735 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 1: you have any other question in sports and weather exactly? 736 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,320 Speaker 2: No, what about the Chinese. 737 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 1: As I always say, if you missed a segment of 738 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: an hour get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. 739 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 4: More coming an hour three Armstrong and Getty