1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 3: We will absolutely target you, go after you if you 5 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 3: are targeting anyone with hate speech anything. 6 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 2: And that's across the aisle. 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 4: That is the Attorney General of the United States validating 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 4: the term hate speech, which is anathema to conservatives. 9 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: The whole hate speech concept that was dead wrong and stupid, 10 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 2: utterly unsupportable, a huge failure, and we condemn it. 11 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 4: Well, let's start with here's a couple of people on 12 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 4: opposite side of the aisles, Senators Chuck Schumer and Ted Cruz, 13 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 4: who's pretty maga, didn't like that. 14 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 2: That is censorship. It is disgusting. It is a violation 15 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: of the First Amendment. 16 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 5: I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put 17 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 5: itself in the position of saying we're going to decide 18 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 5: what speech we like and what we don't, and we're 19 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 5: going to threaten to take you off air if we 20 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 5: don't like what you're saying. 21 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 4: That's around the whole FCC thing broadcast license stuff that 22 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 4: played a role in Jimmy Kimmel a role, not the 23 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 4: whole role in Jimmy Kimmel not being on the air 24 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 4: at ABC, but the I. 25 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: Would like a formal apology from Pam Bondy for putting 26 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 2: me in a position where I have to agree with 27 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer. This is disgusting. Now fine to me. I 28 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 2: may not recover well. 29 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 4: He obviously is being his usual Chuck Schumer self. This 30 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 4: is a handy version. He would not mean hippo. He 31 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 4: would not be agreeing. 32 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: With this if the shoe were on the other foot 33 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 2: because his side agrees with the whole hate speech concept completely. 34 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 2: Speech is violence, and saying something negative about a protective 35 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: group is the same as violence and it should be censored. 36 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 2: He believes that he's just a mind misinformation and disinformation 37 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 2: which they regularly run up the flagpole as a reason 38 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 2: to censor speech. And we don't have the clip of 39 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson, but you mean you got Tucker Carlson and 40 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: Ted Cruz. Tucker Carlson said the same thing over the weekend. 41 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 2: He said, Pam bond He's just wrong. 42 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,119 Speaker 4: There's no such thing as hate speech, and you can't 43 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 4: be policing it and censoring it because who gets decide 44 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 4: what's hate speech? That's the obvious part of this that 45 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 4: it just blows my mind that intellectuals can miss. Who 46 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 4: are you gonna let decide what's hate speech? 47 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 2: Well, we all agree here at the university what's hate speech. 48 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: I don't understand why you're making it sound difficult, which 49 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 2: I'm pointing out that Rand Paul predictably joined Ted Cruz. 50 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 2: They're more above a mark. Wayne Mullen said he believes 51 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,119 Speaker 2: in free speech. He was concerned about insendi a rhetoric. 52 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 2: But free speech is free speech. Hateful speech is also 53 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 2: free speech, only when it leads to violence. Is there 54 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: a crossover? Tom Massey of Kentucky also said no, no, no, no, no, 55 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 2: we don't say that over here. So a lot of 56 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 2: conservatives and Republicans are rejecting this terrible, terrible idea. We 57 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: do have. Tucker, here's what he said. 58 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 6: There's no sentence that Charlie Kirk would have objected to 59 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 6: more than that any attempt to impose hate speech laws 60 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 6: in this country is a denial of the humanity of 61 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 6: American citizens and cannot be allowed under any circumstances. 62 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 2: That's got to be the red line. 63 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, Tucker is a smart guy, and when he's not 64 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 4: being whatever it is he is, I can really agree 65 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 4: with him. 66 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: He's right, He's absolutely right. 67 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 4: That is so incredibly dangerous and the opposite of anything 68 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk believed in obviously that something could be declared 69 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 4: hate speech and the government will come after you. Play 70 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 4: that Pam Bondy clip again. I'm sorry, I'm all over 71 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 4: the place here, Michael, but play eighty again. 72 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 3: We will absolutely target you, go after you if you 73 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 3: are targeting anyone with hate speech anything. 74 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 2: And that's across the aisle. 75 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 7: What. 76 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: Yes, she walked that back somewhat, but to get those 77 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: words to come out of your mouth is kind of disturbing, 78 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 2: all right, How you can't accept the attorney general walking 79 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 2: it back if she were the I don't know, the 80 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 2: secretary of lawnmowers or something that's completely different from the law. 81 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 4: But yes, but you know, not on you to understand 82 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 4: everything about free speech. It is on her to understand 83 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 4: everything about free speech as the attorney General, the top 84 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 4: of the Justice Department, and for her to say that 85 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 4: it's just not and Trump double down on it. Here's 86 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 4: a little bit from ABC this week. 87 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 8: An extraordinary statement from President and Trump. It appeared to 88 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 8: be a direct message to his Attorney General, Pam Bondy, 89 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 8: but it was posted on truth Social for the world 90 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 8: to see. The president wrote, in part, Pam, I have 91 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 8: reviewed over thirty statements and posts saying that essentially same 92 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 8: old story as last time. All talk, no action, nothing 93 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 8: is being done. We can't delay any longer. It's killing 94 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 8: our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, they indicted 95 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 8: me five times over nothing. Justice must be served now. 96 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 4: Trump saying to Pam Bondy, and he goes on to say, 97 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 4: I think we have that, yeah, play eighty two. 98 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 99 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 9: They have to show honesty and integrity and who takes 100 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 9: when they take a goods well, I think the people decide. 101 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 2: That's why I'm president. When they take a means you 102 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 2: and they take with. 103 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 8: A great success like you often do, and you make 104 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 8: it into like it's a loser, or you put a 105 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 8: negative spin on it. 106 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 2: I don't think that that's right. 107 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 9: So I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot. 108 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 2: So I disagree with Ted prison. 109 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 4: The Trump characterizing people, and it happens all the time, 110 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 4: distorting his results as hate speech, and that that's something 111 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 4: the FCC. 112 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 2: And Pam BONDI should go after and or yeah, go 113 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 2: after in terms of broadcast licenses or just prosecutions of 114 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 2: some sort or another. One of the great things about 115 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 2: Trump is that he doesn't have a lot of regard 116 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 2: for tradition and you know, the way things happen in Washington. 117 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,119 Speaker 2: That's one of his great strengths. One of his great 118 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:43,799 Speaker 2: weaknesses is what I just said, he doesn't understand or care. 119 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: And I think it's more to understand that there are 120 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 2: certain things that a president must never do, or certainly 121 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 2: must never do openly, because then the doors are just 122 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 2: wide open to the very sort of law fair and 123 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 2: speech restrictions that he rightfully despised, whether it was COVID 124 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 2: or the Russian collusion hoax. And you can't say the 125 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 2: other side is committing crimes against the constitution. Therefore we 126 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 2: get to too. No, you've got to stop people from 127 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 2: committing crimes against the constitution, you know, outlawing hate, misinformation 128 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: and disinformation because you say, you know, I don't think 129 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: the COVID vaccine actually prevents transmission. No, we need to 130 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 2: fight against even doing that, not do it ourselves. Good lord. 131 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was happy to see Governor Josh Shapiro, Democrat 132 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 4: of Pennsylvania over the weekend saying, the antidote to the 133 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 4: bad speech is more free speech that you know, you 134 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: make better arguments or whatever. 135 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 2: So what do you think is up here? 136 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 4: I mean, who's Donald Trump playing to or who does 137 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 4: he think his constituency is. Is there a constituency for 138 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 4: let's go after with broadcast license or whatever crime you 139 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 4: would call hate speech? H I mean, because that is 140 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 4: such a bedrock of conservatism, it seems to me. Yeah, 141 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 4: I think he has voices in his ear. And boy, 142 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 4: I hate to use the effort on the air, but 143 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 4: I have to brace yourselves. There are neo fascists who 144 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 4: have Trump's ear, and I'm not using the I call 145 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 4: everybody that don't like a fascist, like I'm some sort 146 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 4: of pathetic lefty. I'm talking about a set of political 147 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 4: belief that says, there are threats against our nation and 148 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 4: our people so great, generally from the outside or the 149 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 4: enemy within. Blah blah blah, but the threat is so 150 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 4: acute that we must throw aside our principles to fight it. 151 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 4: Much as we love freedom, the risk to the nation 152 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 4: is too much. We are canceling freedom for a time 153 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 4: to root out this threat. 154 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 2: And Trump passed people in his ear telling him, yes, 155 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 2: that it's justified, we can do it, we can pass 156 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: the laws, we can do this legally. And he doesn't 157 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 2: understand who they are and what they're trying to convince 158 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: him to do. I believe that I'm giving him the 159 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt that he just doesn't understand it. 160 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 2: But no, the answer is no, just because ABC News 161 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 2: is blatantly ridiculously unfair against you all the time. No, 162 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 2: the answer is not to have your Chairmany the FCC say, 163 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 2: be a shamed of something happen to your network there. 164 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: You want to do a single deal, Yeah, you better 165 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 2: come around and say what we like. No, that is 166 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 2: not what we do. Or the Attorney General for crying 167 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 2: out loud and you know, look, some of you are 168 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 2: tempted by this. Our ideas are better. They will win. 169 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk turning point. This is a turning point. The 170 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 2: eighty percent of the population that doesn't want a dude 171 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 2: playing girls' sports or a man leering at your thirteen 172 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 2: year old daughter in a locker room. We're the eighty 173 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: percent maybe the ninety percent. Maybe they had to convinced 174 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 2: that we're in the minority there for a minute, but 175 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 2: we're not. And if you've listened to the show, you 176 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: would know that. So, no, we don't need to resort 177 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,719 Speaker 2: to crapping on the Constitution. And I almost used a 178 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 2: very bad word. We don't need the resort to that. 179 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:33,439 Speaker 2: We're better than that. Be better than that. Are you 180 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 2: going to use a verb for defecating? I was that 181 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 2: is fairly coarse. Okay, yes, wow, similar to shipping, but 182 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: a little different. I guess I think we're tracking. Let's 183 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 2: end with something more erudite than that. Sarah is Ger 184 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 2: who's really really smart, on ABC this week, showing us 185 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 2: how we got here. 186 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: This is bad for the Department of Justice, it's bad 187 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: for the country. But I do think we should take 188 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 1: a bigger view here when you look at during the 189 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 1: Obama administration using the power of the presidency to target 190 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: TEA party groups through the IRS, during the Biden administration 191 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: using the power of the presidency to target social media 192 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: companies Mark Zuckerberg saying they were threatened if they didn't 193 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 1: take down information on COVID origins, and now using the 194 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: power of the presidency, whether through the FCC or the 195 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: Department of Justice, to limit criticism. We should be talking 196 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: about the power of the presidency because frankly, there is 197 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: no legislation that is going to prevent abuses of power 198 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: by the president. We have to take away that power. 199 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: The FCC shouldn't have this power, the IRS shouldn't have 200 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: this power. And until we're willing to talk about that, 201 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,199 Speaker 1: this is just going to turn into a tit for 202 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: tat and it's going nowhere. 203 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 4: Good excellent point. Sarah Ezger of The Dispatch. Yes, what 204 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 4: she said, why is the mainstream media, boy, you know 205 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 4: why but ever say anything about that actually happened. The 206 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 4: IRS commissioner from that time apologized for that in public 207 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 4: in Congress that they did target Tea Party people for 208 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,119 Speaker 4: their beliefs. And then the example under the Biden administration, 209 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 4: Mark Zuckerberg is set out loud. He got leaned on 210 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 4: by the federal government to not have stuff on Facebook 211 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 4: about vaccines and the spread of the virus and all 212 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 4: that sort of stuff. 213 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 2: But you don't care about the lab lake. That stuff 214 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 2: all is fine. 215 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 4: It's just when Trump says he wants to control hate 216 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 4: speech or misinformation is it a problem. 217 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 2: That's why we got to call him on that and 218 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 2: keep calling them on that. And if we do it, 219 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 2: we got to call us on that. It's called principles. 220 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 2: They actually make your life better. Try them. 221 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 4: Any thoughts on any of that because that's an interesting topic. 222 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 4: Text Line four one five two nine five KFTC. 223 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 9: A passenger on a cruise ship jumped overboard to avoid 224 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 9: a sixteen thousand dollars gambling debt. But being smart, he 225 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 9: just bets someone's seventeen thousand that he would jump off 226 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 9: a cruise ship. 227 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 4: We had that story last week. Seemed like a poorly 228 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 4: thought out plan and a poor lifestyle as well. 229 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 2: Coming up, really interesting clip from a well known lefty 230 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 2: about the passing of Charlie Kirk. The murder of Charlie Kirk. 231 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 2: Great email on the topic I want to get to 232 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: as well. And also, there are a couple of things 233 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: the rich can do that the rest of us can't. 234 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 2: A fly private and b get married. According to young people, 235 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 2: there's been a giant cultural shift around marriage. Interesting. Yeah, 236 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 2: it's really weird. This is our once a month update 237 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,599 Speaker 2: on whether people are actually returning to the office or not. 238 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journal for obvious reasons is definitely on 239 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 2: this story and continues to be long story short. You 240 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 2: got big companies all over the country, everything from Microsoft 241 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 2: to Paramount to they name a bunch who are all saying, 242 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 2: all right, you got to be in the office three 243 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 2: days a week, or four days a week or five 244 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 2: days a week. They're making various you know, statements, different standards, 245 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 2: different people, different company. What is it around here? Do 246 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 2: you know, Michael? Is it three? 247 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 6: Yeah? 248 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,079 Speaker 2: I think so, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I think Anyway, the 249 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 2: interesting part is that there's a huge lack of compliance 250 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 2: all across all sorts of industries. And I'm not gonna 251 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 2: is that what people are saying well and or yep, 252 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 2: absolutely planning on doing that. I'm happy to be back. 253 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 2: Got to settle that the situation with the babysitting, So 254 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 2: it's probably gonna be in two weeks, but in two 255 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: weeks i'll see you then making excuses, kicking the can 256 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 2: down the road. And essentially the compliance has been pretty low, 257 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 2: and I thought this Anglo was pretty funny. Unenthusiastic bosses 258 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: don't help. They might shield top performers to keep them 259 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 2: from leaving. Well, of course they would not nearly half 260 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 2: of senior managers say they would take a pay cut 261 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 2: to work from home, so they're not really in the 262 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: mood to crack the whip. So it's interesting and it's 263 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 2: just a it's a beautiful illustration of how labor is 264 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 2: a market and how you can say these are my terms. 265 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 2: But if the other side of the equation says, eh, 266 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: my terms are just a little different than your terms, 267 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: and unless you're willing to say, well, go to hell, 268 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 2: we have no deal, those terms will change. 269 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 4: But this will work itself out over time. It's interesting 270 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 4: that prior to COVID, it would have just been a 271 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 4: non starter for most people to say to their boss, 272 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 4: I think I'd like to only come into work four 273 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 4: days a week. 274 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 2: I'll work from home the other day. They'd be like, no, 275 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 2: that's not an option, if even in one day, right, 276 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden it became a you know, 277 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 2: I think you're just as productive at home all the 278 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 2: time as you are when you're here. I mean, how 279 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 2: did it change that drastically? And if I make you 280 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: schlep into the office, you're going to quit. Well, you're 281 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 2: making your numbers, eh, do whatever you want. 282 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 4: The difference that I love, and I think all of 283 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 4: us love is the meeting situation. Why did we all 284 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 4: think we needed to meet in person? Let's all drive 285 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 4: somewhere between thirty minutes and an hour to be in 286 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 4: a room together, as opposed to joining on zoom for 287 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 4: this fifteen minute meeting. 288 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: Thank god that changed. Yeah, there are situations where an 289 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 2: in person meeting is useful, but not all of them, 290 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 2: not all, not most of them. Yeah, I would agree 291 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 2: with that absolutely. You know what, I don't think we 292 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 2: have time for this. You may have heard that Trump 293 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: was kicking around this idea of limiting ticket resales sports, concerts, whatever, 294 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 2: to just twenty percent above face value to protect the 295 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 2: consumer no scalping. Right. You know who's pushing for that, 296 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: the big ticket companies. It's not a good idea for consumers, 297 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: not at all. And yeah, if you think about it 298 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 2: for two seconds, I get that, I think, and they would. 299 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 4: They would. 300 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 2: They also want to monopolize the resale market themselves. 301 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 4: You're probably going to explaining that in case you feel 302 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 4: like you've already have. But yeah, we had a lot 303 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 4: of stuff on the way, including what something all the same, 304 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 4: it was something else. I had another I have a 305 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 4: great thing, trust me, It's a great thing. 306 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 10: Armstrong and Getty. 307 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk built a movement. 308 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 7: He transformed the face of conservatism in our own time, 309 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 7: and in doing so, he changed the course of American history. 310 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 7: Charlie suffered a terrible fate. My friends, we all know it, 311 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 7: we all saw it, but think it is not the 312 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 7: worst fate. It is better to face a gunman than 313 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 7: to live your life afraid to speak the truth. 314 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 2: Jd. 315 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 4: Vance at the big Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday that was 316 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 4: seen by one hundred million people on television. 317 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 2: Two hundred thousand people showed up in person. Yeah, really 318 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 2: an amazing event in aspiring and we'll talk about it 319 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 2: more and play you more audio from the actual memorial 320 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 2: service an hour four of the show. If you don't 321 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 2: get all four hours, or you got something to do, 322 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 2: that's fine, grab it via podcast, subscribe to Armstrong you 323 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 2: Getty on demand. I wanted to play this. He's a lefty, 324 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 2: He's wrong a lot, He's a smart guy, and I 325 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 2: think he has a tick in human heart. And that 326 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 2: would be Van Jones, famously in Obama Aid and media commentator. 327 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 2: It's a clip sixty seven, Michael. He said this just 328 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 2: the other day. 329 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 10: Hey, guys, I've decided I'm gonna do something. 330 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 11: I'm going to share something, something personal that I wasn't 331 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 11: sure I was going to share, but I think it's important. 332 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 10: Charlie Kirk and I were not friends at all. 333 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 11: In fact, the last week of his life, we were 334 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 11: beefing hard, beefing online, beefing on air. 335 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 10: But the day before he died, he did something that 336 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 10: shocked me. 337 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,360 Speaker 11: He sent me a personal message calling for personal dialogue, 338 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 11: wanted me to come on the show. He said we 339 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 11: could be gentlemen together. He said we could deal with 340 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 11: our disagreements agreeably. And in the past week and a half, 341 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 11: just watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and 342 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 11: all this stuff coming out of his death, I just 343 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 11: thought it was important to let people know don't put 344 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 11: that on Charlie Kurt, because the last day of his 345 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 11: life he was reaching out to have not more censorship, 346 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 11: more conversation, more dialogue with somebody who honestly was one 347 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 11: of his adversaries. 348 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 10: Me and I just want to share that with. 349 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 11: The world, and I hope that maybe it might help 350 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 11: somebody on both sides deal with issues. 351 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 10: More like he did. 352 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 2: I thought that was nice, and I thank Van Jones 353 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 2: for posting that. It is a gentle criticism. But if 354 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 2: it surprised you that Charlie reached out to you, you 355 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:04,159 Speaker 2: still didn't get it, and you probably don't get me, Van, No, 356 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 2: I'm more than willing to listen to your opinion. I 357 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 2: hear it all the time. I'm surrounded by it. I 358 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: just want there to be a little dialogue and we 359 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 2: can disagree, agreeably, agree one hundred percent with that. 360 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 4: So you think there's any chance that, well, there's always 361 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 4: some chance of them. Do you think there's a realistic 362 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 4: chance that good comes out of Charlie Kirk's assassination? 363 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 2: Yes? 364 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, for our national politics, like there could be a 365 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 4: change and people could point back to this. 366 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 5: Yeah. 367 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 2: And I don't want to be discouraging because I want 368 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 2: that very much to be true. There's an okay chance 369 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 2: that it will have a positive effect, I hope. So 370 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 2: how long that lasts, I hope. So, I just I 371 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 2: don't know if that can happen in the modern world. 372 00:20:55,520 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 2: It's just things. Everything moves so fast. 373 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, And the worst among us have such a platform, right, 374 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 4: and they're good at their jobs and they're good at 375 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,920 Speaker 4: their jobs at being bad. We're discussing earlier and will 376 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,159 Speaker 4: again the idea that turning point USA is now, and 377 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 4: I guarantee this turning point is a giant, lucrative, juicy 378 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 4: target for the greed heads and the phonies and the 379 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 4: online grifters that controls so much of our politics right now. Well, 380 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 4: I'm glad his wife's going to be running it. She 381 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 4: seems pretty sharp, and I'm sure it's not the first 382 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 4: running up against greedheads that has happened since Charlie Kirk 383 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 4: caught fire. 384 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 2: Yeah. So, got this note from Alan Idaho. I've mentioned 385 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,120 Speaker 2: it a couple of times. I'm finally paying it off. 386 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 2: He's been listening since he was a little lad. 387 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 4: Thanks, thank you. Yeah, since he was a I realized 388 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 4: it's supposed to be a compliment. But all you did 389 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 4: was make my knees hurt, so he said. 390 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,360 Speaker 2: I watched Charlie Kirk memorial on Sunday, and with many 391 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 2: of the speakers, the common theme I heard was that 392 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 2: I should not be afraid to have discussions and to 393 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 2: battle with words. I used to not have this problem 394 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 2: growing up, and often debated some of my friends in 395 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 2: high school but in recent years, specifically after my college 396 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 2: experience and the attempted brainwashing from the California State University system, 397 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 2: I find myself much too cautious about what I say 398 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 2: for fear of losing friends my reputation, due to me 399 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 2: being generally too scared or lazy to start an argument 400 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 2: or a conversation to begin with. As someone wants to 401 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 2: begin having these discussions again, what would be your suggestions 402 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 2: to break out of my shell again and to stop 403 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 2: overthinking about how others may react. Thanks for taking the time, Well, 404 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 2: thank you for the note. 405 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 4: I would say one sentence, stop worrying how others react. Yeah, 406 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, that's funny. 407 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 2: I wasn't going to go in that direction, but you 408 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 2: could certainly make the argument al that if you come 409 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 2: I'm at this in a respectful way and they reject 410 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 2: you for that, that's a good thing. It may be 411 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 2: a painful thing at least initially, but you don't want 412 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 2: that sort of energy surrounding you. Yeah. 413 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 4: I shouldn't be so flippant about people who are not 414 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 4: used to getting hated upon on a regular basis. When 415 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,160 Speaker 4: you have the job we have gets so much hate, 416 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 4: like really personal, awful sometimes violence threatening hate that you 417 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 4: have to get a thick skin about it. 418 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: And I realize if you're not used to that, it 419 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 2: can be, you know, pretty rough. But I loved getting 420 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 2: this note. I've been thinking about it for a while now. 421 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 2: I would make this suggestion to you. Don't worry about 422 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 2: winning arguments or even having arguments per se. Here is 423 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 2: your starter kit. This is your gorilla warfare. Al and 424 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 2: anybody like hel. When you're confronted with some of the 425 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 2: arguments of the left, again, don't go up against them. 426 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 2: Hit them with honest sincere questions. Like, for instance, if 427 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 2: they advocate some sort of policy that you think's bad, 428 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 2: you can say, you know, I wonder if that actually 429 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:26,119 Speaker 2: works in progress and in reality, because there are a 430 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 2: lot of things that sound good that you know, in 431 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 2: the real world don't really pan out. I wonder if 432 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,959 Speaker 2: there's data to support that policy being a good one. 433 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 4: Okay, that's one way to go about it. Or you 434 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 4: could yell, shut up, you communist. Yeah, well, it depends 435 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 4: on my mood. But because you've planted the seed, al 436 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 4: that wait a minute. 437 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 2: A good way to figure out if policy is good 438 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 2: policy is to figure out whether it works or not. 439 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 2: And you haven't argued with anybody. If somebody's arguing in 440 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 2: favor of quote unquote trans rights or whatever, you can 441 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 2: I just say it should mean that again, that's one alternative. 442 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 2: Or you could say it seems to me there are 443 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 2: two sexes and just saying you've changed it doesn't change it. 444 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 2: And they'll say, well, sex is just a gender because 445 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 2: they use gender, because if you use sex, then it 446 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 2: gets to biology and then nobody can deny it. But 447 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 2: tell them, yeah, I just I think you can be 448 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 2: whatever sort of man or woman you want to be, 449 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 2: but you're still a woman. And if they want to 450 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 2: blather on again, you've planted the seed of a very basic, 451 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 2: very easily understood reality. Think about, you know, three or 452 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 2: four of the issues that you hear people blather on about, 453 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 2: and just think about ar What can I say? That's 454 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 2: non threatening, that's just kind of a light over here. 455 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 2: It's not even a spotlight. It's more like a Christmas light, 456 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 2: but it's shining on the truth. Just mention it and say, 457 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 2: I don't know, I think about these things and you'll 458 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 2: get used to it. It'll be fine, you'll be good. 459 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 2: Al Yeah, you Why do you think people bother governments, 460 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 2: bother indoctrinating and intimidating. It's because it works, because you 461 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 2: have a speaking of biological realities, you have an aversion 462 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 2: to pain and fear. And if you have suffered pain 463 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 2: and fear over and over again in the California State 464 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 2: University system, for instance, for believing what you believe, yeah, 465 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 2: that's why they do that. So it'll take you a 466 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: while to claw your way back, but you'll get there. 467 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 4: See you say all that, and then you say, have 468 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 4: a good day, you dirty footed communists. 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You add that to somewhat disapprove, you're at 499 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 4: fifty percent. You only have in the somewhat approve or 500 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 4: a nine percent and strongly approved. 501 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:19,919 Speaker 2: Twenty six percent. 502 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 4: So the vast majority of Americans, and I got to 503 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 4: believe that includes lots of big jungle Republicans are against 504 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 4: Kimmel being fired. 505 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 2: So there's that. And like so many of these issues, 506 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 2: polls give me about sixty seconds to explain to some 507 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 2: of the people who love it, and I'd say, oh, yeah, 508 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 2: I think he's a smug just awful, wrong about everything, sarcastic, prick, 509 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 2: and I wouldn't want him on my TV station. The 510 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 2: problem is the administration pressuring his company to fire him. 511 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 2: That's uncool. 512 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, And as we talked about last week when you 513 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 4: were earned here, it is a stew of a number 514 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 4: of things. I mean, the people at the top are 515 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 4: being quoted. They were pretty uncomfortable with how far he 516 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 4: had been going for a long time, just in terms 517 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 4: of having an audience, his audience was very small. The 518 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 4: ratings have been going down like all of those shows 519 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 4: for a very long time. So on the shows are 520 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 4: so expensive to put on. 521 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, And as a conservative, if the many TV stations 522 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 2: in the middle of America had said, look, we don't 523 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 2: want air this guy anymore, yeah awful. What he said 524 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 2: was unforgivable, and the freaking government could have just stayed 525 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 2: out of it. Yeah, that would have been righteous and powerful. Yeah. 526 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 4: One other poll to hit you with before we take 527 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 4: a break. Do you view socialism positively? Two thirds of 528 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 4: Democrats say yes, thirty eight percent of independence, which is 529 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 4: still too dang high, and fourteen percent of Republicans. What 530 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 4: kind of a Republican are you that you have as 531 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 4: positive view as socialism? Anyway, that's fourteen percent. 532 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 2: But how about we don't want you. 533 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 4: How about two thirds of Democrats have a positive view 534 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 4: of socialism based on well, based on what your damn 535 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 4: teacher told you. My son who is no longer in 536 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 4: the history class, the American history class, I'd been complaining 537 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 4: about his last class he attended. The entire hour was 538 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 4: spent on the evils of settler colonialism, which is a 539 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 4: term only Marxists yews at all. By the way, let 540 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 4: alone discuss it for an hour in your American history class. 541 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 4: How crazy is that? What a bunch of crap? 542 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 2: I wish people had any grasp of how much of 543 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 2: what they hear is neo Marxist. 544 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 4: But my point was, that's why you have two thirds 545 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 4: of Democrats having a positiveview of socialism because their high school, 546 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 4: their grade school and high school and college teachers all 547 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 4: told them it was cool. 548 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 2: All right, here's an essay question for you, and we 549 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 2: don't really have time to talk about it, but you 550 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 2: can stew on it for a while. Is socialism slash 551 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 2: communism the best slash most successful fraud ever sold a man? Absolutely? 552 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 2: I don't have to think of that. The only one 553 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 2: that I think is worse is living a life of 554 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 2: sin and pleasure will make you happy. But that's non political. Right. 555 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 4: Well, well, we'll see what Mayor Mom Dammi has to 556 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 4: say about it when he when he takes. 557 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 2: Office in New York. 558 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 4: Thirty comy, We've got more on the way you stay here, 559 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 4: Joshua Cardyan. This time Jan Davis, the big man, looks 560 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 4: for the I said on one big Cake. Eagles hang on, 561 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 4: Eagles block a field goal attempts or run it back, 562 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 4: win the game, stay undefeated with about a half dozen 563 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 4: other teams that are three and zero in the NFL. 564 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,320 Speaker 2: No offense to our brilliant agent, Eric and Eagles fans 565 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 2: all across America. But boy, I hate the Eagles. That 566 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 2: that guy Davis weighs three hundred and thirty six pounds, 567 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 2: quick as a cat, that's unfair. Say it is. 568 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, and as only we have been saying the tush 569 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 4: push should be banned because it's boring. It's just boring. 570 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 4: It makes up for a boring TV show. Yeah a great, 571 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 4: Yeah it's terrible. Don't get me started. 572 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 2: So I did a bunch of flying over the weekend, 573 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 2: and one thing I noticed in every airport and you 574 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 2: do too, in every airport is you walk by the Starbucks, 575 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 2: and generally, at least in the morning, there's an enormous 576 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 2: eye line. Oh yeah, I ain't waiting in that line, 577 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 2: and then you got like three other places domed out, 578 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 2: fresh hot, really good coffee with maybe two people in line. 579 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 2: Now I get they don't sell the same fancy milkshakes, 580 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 2: but boy is Starbucks done a brilliant job of branding, 581 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 2: no kidding, but they've struggled lately. And so if you 582 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 2: feel like your local baristas like extra sweet and friendly 583 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 2: to you, it's because that's the new strategy. They've got 584 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 2: a whole new playbook out. I think I had that 585 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 2: experience yesterday. Well that's great. Interesting. You walk in the door, 586 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 2: the barista looks you in the eye, smiles and says, 587 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 2: welcome to Starbucks. They may call you by name if 588 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 2: you're a regular. When your drink is ready in four 589 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 2: minutes or less, the barrist is there again, handing it 590 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 2: to you. Your caramel machiato looks so good. It's one 591 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 2: of my favorites, they say. Making your way to a 592 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 2: comfy chair, you notice a smiley face and I have 593 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 2: a nice day, scrawled and sharpie across your cop It's 594 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 2: all according to a carefully written script, you know, was 595 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 2: the rifted. Pleasantness is better than no pleasantness. 596 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 4: I guess is there a belief that they weren't being 597 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 4: friendly enough at Starbucks? 598 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 6: Uh? 599 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I guess. The chief executive, Brian Nickel, is 600 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 2: a year and to hit that job, and he's betting 601 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 2: that the company's future lies in making its cafes warm 602 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 2: and inviting. Okay, And you know, and it's a good point. 603 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 2: The difference between one, you know, bar in another is 604 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 2: not like that beer. That guy's beers make me intoxicated. 605 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 2: This guy's peers don't, for instance. Right, It's all about 606 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 2: atmosphere and just the way it makes you feel. Uh So, 607 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 2: the world's largest coffee company mounting a new effort to 608 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 2: choreograph the way it's hundreds of thousands of briests to 609 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 2: speak in America. The way they make drinks. They head 610 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 2: off orders their coach to read customer's moods, choose the 611 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 2: right gestures, call correct tone of. 612 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 4: Voice, coached to read moods. I'd like to be involved 613 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,399 Speaker 4: in that. That's an interesting thought. You're going to read 614 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:38,360 Speaker 4: my mood and then react accordingly. Like if I'm angry 615 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 4: at the world, you're going to what embrace that or 616 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 4: try to turn it around? 617 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 2: I hate the world you. I'd like to kill these 618 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 2: mm for savat you. Here's your machiato. Yeah, well, it 619 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,279 Speaker 2: doesn't have something to do with I was just reading 620 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 2: about the gen z stare with their you know, digital 621 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 2: natives staring at a screen since there were kids, lack 622 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,959 Speaker 2: of social skill, inability to read face. 623 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 4: So Barista's gonna read my mood every days the same 624 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 4: and then you die you with me, I am. 625 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 2: Here's your carmel, latte, machi yo, pumpkin spice fla pumpkin 626 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,240 Speaker 2: spice thing. Pause for a second to make eye contact. 627 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 2: Don't rush the moment. That reads the That's how the 628 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:28,720 Speaker 2: thank with eye contact contact section of the new training 629 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 2: Manual reads employees should be present with customers, even while multitasking. 630 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 2: If there's a mishapa burritas, I'm sorry. I read much 631 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 2: more quickly than I can speak, and so my tongue 632 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 2: is behind the times. Anyway, if there's a mishap baristas 633 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 2: need to latte latte jack. They've come up with an acronym, 634 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:55,840 Speaker 2: but happens to be one of the most popular products. Listen, apologize, 635 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 2: take action, thank, and ensure satisfied. That's try and do hard. 636 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 2: So if they steam extra pleasant for you, that's that's fine. 637 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 2: I'm glad you told me this. If I come across 638 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 2: a surly barista, I'm going to call him or her out. 639 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 2: Do you know that if you come across a pleasant one, 640 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 2: I accuse them of photios I'll ask him if do 641 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 2: you know what the letters in latta mean? Listen, activate, 642 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 2: tertiary or something that in a way, something armstrong and getty.