WEBVTT - Like Shipping But A Little Different 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.880 We will absolutely target you, go after you if you 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.640 are targeting anyone with hate speech anything. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:33.800 And that's across the aisle. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:39.760 That is the Attorney General of the United States validating 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:46.879 the term hate speech, which is anathema to conservatives. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:53.000 The whole hate speech concept that was dead wrong and stupid, 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.880 utterly unsupportable, a huge failure, and we condemn it. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.440 Well, let's start with here's a couple of people on 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.920 opposite side of the aisles, Senators Chuck Schumer and Ted Cruz, 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.840 who's pretty maga, didn't like that. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:13.040 That is censorship. It is disgusting. It is a violation 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.800 of the First Amendment. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:20.080 I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:23.320 itself in the position of saying we're going to decide 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.440 what speech we like and what we don't, and we're 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.600 going to threaten to take you off air if we 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.920 don't like what you're saying. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.399 That's around the whole FCC thing broadcast license stuff that 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.319 played a role in Jimmy Kimmel a role, not the 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.760 whole role in Jimmy Kimmel not being on the air 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.280 at ABC, but the I. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.640 Would like a formal apology from Pam Bondy for putting 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.440 me in a position where I have to agree with 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.000 Chuck Schumer. This is disgusting. Now fine to me. I 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.280 may not recover well. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:54.240 He obviously is being his usual Chuck Schumer self. This 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.920 is a handy version. He would not mean hippo. He 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:58.480 would not be agreeing. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.720 With this if the shoe were on the other foot 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.960 because his side agrees with the whole hate speech concept completely. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:09.119 Speech is violence, and saying something negative about a protective 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.080 group is the same as violence and it should be censored. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.160 He believes that he's just a mind misinformation and disinformation 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.040 which they regularly run up the flagpole as a reason 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.720 to censor speech. And we don't have the clip of 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.200 Tucker Carlson, but you mean you got Tucker Carlson and 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.480 Ted Cruz. Tucker Carlson said the same thing over the weekend. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.880 He said, Pam bond He's just wrong. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.119 There's no such thing as hate speech, and you can't 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.880 be policing it and censoring it because who gets decide 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.320 what's hate speech? That's the obvious part of this that 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.520 it just blows my mind that intellectuals can miss. Who 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.680 are you gonna let decide what's hate speech? 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.960 Well, we all agree here at the university what's hate speech. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.280 I don't understand why you're making it sound difficult, which 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.760 I'm pointing out that Rand Paul predictably joined Ted Cruz. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:03.079 They're more above a mark. Wayne Mullen said he believes 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.119 in free speech. He was concerned about insendi a rhetoric. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.239 But free speech is free speech. Hateful speech is also 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.600 free speech, only when it leads to violence. Is there 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:18.480 a crossover? Tom Massey of Kentucky also said no, no, no, no, no, 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.200 we don't say that over here. So a lot of 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.840 conservatives and Republicans are rejecting this terrible, terrible idea. We 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.400 do have. Tucker, here's what he said. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.600 There's no sentence that Charlie Kirk would have objected to 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.840 more than that any attempt to impose hate speech laws 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.240 in this country is a denial of the humanity of 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.760 American citizens and cannot be allowed under any circumstances. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:43.440 That's got to be the red line. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.600 Yeah, Tucker is a smart guy, and when he's not 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.800 being whatever it is he is, I can really agree 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:50.120 with him. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.040 He's right, He's absolutely right. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:56.520 That is so incredibly dangerous and the opposite of anything 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.000 Charlie Kirk believed in obviously that something could be declared 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.520 hate speech and the government will come after you. Play 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.480 that Pam Bondy clip again. I'm sorry, I'm all over 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.480 the place here, Michael, but play eighty again. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.880 We will absolutely target you, go after you if you 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.680 are targeting anyone with hate speech anything. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:16.839 And that's across the aisle. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:18.240 What. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.000 Yes, she walked that back somewhat, but to get those 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.440 words to come out of your mouth is kind of disturbing, 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.719 all right, How you can't accept the attorney general walking 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.560 it back if she were the I don't know, the 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:36.200 secretary of lawnmowers or something that's completely different from the law. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.760 But yes, but you know, not on you to understand 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.000 everything about free speech. It is on her to understand 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.440 everything about free speech as the attorney General, the top 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.680 of the Justice Department, and for her to say that 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:53.120 it's just not and Trump double down on it. Here's 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.719 a little bit from ABC this week. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.560 An extraordinary statement from President and Trump. It appeared to 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.120 be a direct message to his Attorney General, Pam Bondy, 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.960 but it was posted on truth Social for the world 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.599 to see. The president wrote, in part, Pam, I have 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.640 reviewed over thirty statements and posts saying that essentially same 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.360 old story as last time. All talk, no action, nothing 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.480 is being done. We can't delay any longer. It's killing 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:25.240 our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, they indicted 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:30.520 me five times over nothing. Justice must be served now. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.839 Trump saying to Pam Bondy, and he goes on to say, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.200 I think we have that, yeah, play eighty two. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:39.800 I'm sorry. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:45.760 They have to show honesty and integrity and who takes 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.400 when they take a goods well, I think the people decide. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.400 That's why I'm president. When they take a means you 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:52.080 and they take with. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.680 A great success like you often do, and you make 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.159 it into like it's a loser, or you put a 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:59.280 negative spin on it. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:00.360 I don't think that that's right. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.320 So I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.039 So I disagree with Ted prison. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.719 The Trump characterizing people, and it happens all the time, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:14.760 distorting his results as hate speech, and that that's something 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:15.760 the FCC. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.880 And Pam BONDI should go after and or yeah, go 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.400 after in terms of broadcast licenses or just prosecutions of 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.920 some sort or another. One of the great things about 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.599 Trump is that he doesn't have a lot of regard 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:35.760 for tradition and you know, the way things happen in Washington. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.119 That's one of his great strengths. One of his great 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:43.799 weaknesses is what I just said, he doesn't understand or care. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.760 And I think it's more to understand that there are 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:53.760 certain things that a president must never do, or certainly 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.960 must never do openly, because then the doors are just 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:01.280 wide open to the very sort of law fair and 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:07.560 speech restrictions that he rightfully despised, whether it was COVID 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.920 or the Russian collusion hoax. And you can't say the 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:17.480 other side is committing crimes against the constitution. Therefore we 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.080 get to too. No, you've got to stop people from 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:26.040 committing crimes against the constitution, you know, outlawing hate, misinformation 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.080 and disinformation because you say, you know, I don't think 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.760 the COVID vaccine actually prevents transmission. No, we need to 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:37.360 fight against even doing that, not do it ourselves. Good lord. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:43.360 Yeah, I was happy to see Governor Josh Shapiro, Democrat 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:49.120 of Pennsylvania over the weekend saying, the antidote to the 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.320 bad speech is more free speech that you know, you 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:53.640 make better arguments or whatever. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:56.400 So what do you think is up here? 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:03.160 I mean, who's Donald Trump playing to or who does 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.360 he think his constituency is. Is there a constituency for 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.440 let's go after with broadcast license or whatever crime you 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.720 would call hate speech? H I mean, because that is 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.360 such a bedrock of conservatism, it seems to me. Yeah, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.080 I think he has voices in his ear. And boy, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.360 I hate to use the effort on the air, but 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:31.240 I have to brace yourselves. There are neo fascists who 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.040 have Trump's ear, and I'm not using the I call 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.560 everybody that don't like a fascist, like I'm some sort 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.440 of pathetic lefty. I'm talking about a set of political 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.400 belief that says, there are threats against our nation and 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.800 our people so great, generally from the outside or the 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.520 enemy within. Blah blah blah, but the threat is so 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.959 acute that we must throw aside our principles to fight it. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.760 Much as we love freedom, the risk to the nation 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.040 is too much. We are canceling freedom for a time 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.160 to root out this threat. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.000 And Trump passed people in his ear telling him, yes, 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.240 that it's justified, we can do it, we can pass 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.800 the laws, we can do this legally. And he doesn't 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.400 understand who they are and what they're trying to convince 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.760 him to do. I believe that I'm giving him the 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.559 benefit of the doubt that he just doesn't understand it. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.880 But no, the answer is no, just because ABC News 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.760 is blatantly ridiculously unfair against you all the time. No, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.120 the answer is not to have your Chairmany the FCC say, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.079 be a shamed of something happen to your network there. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.560 You want to do a single deal, Yeah, you better 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.439 come around and say what we like. No, that is 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.720 not what we do. Or the Attorney General for crying 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.320 out loud and you know, look, some of you are 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:56.000 tempted by this. Our ideas are better. They will win. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.480 Charlie Kirk turning point. This is a turning point. The 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.200 eighty percent of the population that doesn't want a dude 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.560 playing girls' sports or a man leering at your thirteen 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.840 year old daughter in a locker room. We're the eighty 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.800 percent maybe the ninety percent. Maybe they had to convinced 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.160 that we're in the minority there for a minute, but 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.319 we're not. And if you've listened to the show, you 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.000 would know that. So, no, we don't need to resort 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.719 to crapping on the Constitution. And I almost used a 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.640 very bad word. We don't need the resort to that. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:33.439 We're better than that. Be better than that. Are you 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.319 going to use a verb for defecating? I was that 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.439 is fairly coarse. Okay, yes, wow, similar to shipping, but 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.120 a little different. I guess I think we're tracking. Let's 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.319 end with something more erudite than that. Sarah is Ger 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.560 who's really really smart, on ABC this week, showing us 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:51.240 how we got here. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.880 This is bad for the Department of Justice, it's bad 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.920 for the country. But I do think we should take 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.319 a bigger view here when you look at during the 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.319 Obama administration using the power of the presidency to target 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.360 TEA party groups through the IRS, during the Biden administration 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.040 using the power of the presidency to target social media 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.560 companies Mark Zuckerberg saying they were threatened if they didn't 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.839 take down information on COVID origins, and now using the 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.120 power of the presidency, whether through the FCC or the 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.280 Department of Justice, to limit criticism. We should be talking 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.959 about the power of the presidency because frankly, there is 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.800 no legislation that is going to prevent abuses of power 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.000 by the president. We have to take away that power. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.480 The FCC shouldn't have this power, the IRS shouldn't have 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.240 this power. And until we're willing to talk about that, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.199 this is just going to turn into a tit for 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:36.400 tat and it's going nowhere. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.760 Good excellent point. Sarah Ezger of The Dispatch. Yes, what 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.679 she said, why is the mainstream media, boy, you know 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.000 why but ever say anything about that actually happened. The 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.280 IRS commissioner from that time apologized for that in public 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.679 in Congress that they did target Tea Party people for 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.119 their beliefs. And then the example under the Biden administration, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.040 Mark Zuckerberg is set out loud. He got leaned on 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.440 by the federal government to not have stuff on Facebook 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.560 about vaccines and the spread of the virus and all 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:09.199 that sort of stuff. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.679 But you don't care about the lab lake. That stuff 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:12.520 all is fine. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.120 It's just when Trump says he wants to control hate 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.160 speech or misinformation is it a problem. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.439 That's why we got to call him on that and 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.920 keep calling them on that. And if we do it, 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.160 we got to call us on that. It's called principles. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.280 They actually make your life better. Try them. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.520 Any thoughts on any of that because that's an interesting topic. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.240 Text Line four one five two nine five KFTC. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.440 A passenger on a cruise ship jumped overboard to avoid 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.640 a sixteen thousand dollars gambling debt. But being smart, he 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.480 just bets someone's seventeen thousand that he would jump off 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:50.080 a cruise ship. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.079 We had that story last week. Seemed like a poorly 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:02.079 thought out plan and a poor lifestyle as well. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.360 Coming up, really interesting clip from a well known lefty 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.080 about the passing of Charlie Kirk. The murder of Charlie Kirk. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.079 Great email on the topic I want to get to 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.400 as well. And also, there are a couple of things 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.240 the rich can do that the rest of us can't. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:24.960 A fly private and b get married. According to young people, 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.800 there's been a giant cultural shift around marriage. Interesting. Yeah, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.880 it's really weird. This is our once a month update 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.599 on whether people are actually returning to the office or not. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.679 The Wall Street Journal for obvious reasons is definitely on 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.480 this story and continues to be long story short. You 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.200 got big companies all over the country, everything from Microsoft 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.720 to Paramount to they name a bunch who are all saying, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.679 all right, you got to be in the office three 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.800 days a week, or four days a week or five 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.720 days a week. They're making various you know, statements, different standards, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.160 different people, different company. What is it around here? Do 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:02.160 you know, Michael? Is it three? 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:03.080 Yeah? 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:07.079 I think so, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I think Anyway, the 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.080 interesting part is that there's a huge lack of compliance 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:17.000 all across all sorts of industries. And I'm not gonna 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.840 is that what people are saying well and or yep, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.600 absolutely planning on doing that. I'm happy to be back. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.440 Got to settle that the situation with the babysitting, So 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.240 it's probably gonna be in two weeks, but in two 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.360 weeks i'll see you then making excuses, kicking the can 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:39.440 down the road. And essentially the compliance has been pretty low, 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.120 and I thought this Anglo was pretty funny. Unenthusiastic bosses 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.520 don't help. They might shield top performers to keep them 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.080 from leaving. Well, of course they would not nearly half 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.480 of senior managers say they would take a pay cut 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.360 to work from home, so they're not really in the 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:02.360 mood to crack the whip. So it's interesting and it's 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.440 just a it's a beautiful illustration of how labor is 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:10.120 a market and how you can say these are my terms. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.720 But if the other side of the equation says, eh, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.440 my terms are just a little different than your terms, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.280 and unless you're willing to say, well, go to hell, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.720 we have no deal, those terms will change. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:26.880 But this will work itself out over time. It's interesting 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.720 that prior to COVID, it would have just been a 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.080 non starter for most people to say to their boss, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.560 I think I'd like to only come into work four 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:36.120 days a week. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:37.840 I'll work from home the other day. They'd be like, no, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.800 that's not an option, if even in one day, right, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.840 And then all of a sudden it became a you know, 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.080 I think you're just as productive at home all the 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.720 time as you are when you're here. I mean, how 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.560 did it change that drastically? And if I make you 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.600 schlep into the office, you're going to quit. Well, you're 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.520 making your numbers, eh, do whatever you want. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.600 The difference that I love, and I think all of 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.840 us love is the meeting situation. Why did we all 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.880 think we needed to meet in person? Let's all drive 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.680 somewhere between thirty minutes and an hour to be in 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.120 a room together, as opposed to joining on zoom for 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:13.560 this fifteen minute meeting. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.000 Thank god that changed. Yeah, there are situations where an 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.000 in person meeting is useful, but not all of them, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.240 not all, not most of them. Yeah, I would agree 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.600 with that absolutely. You know what, I don't think we 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.320 have time for this. You may have heard that Trump 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:36.680 was kicking around this idea of limiting ticket resales sports, concerts, whatever, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.520 to just twenty percent above face value to protect the 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.920 consumer no scalping. Right. You know who's pushing for that, 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.960 the big ticket companies. It's not a good idea for consumers, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.280 not at all. And yeah, if you think about it 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.040 for two seconds, I get that, I think, and they would. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:56.480 They would. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.120 They also want to monopolize the resale market themselves. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.400 You're probably going to explaining that in case you feel 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.440 like you've already have. But yeah, we had a lot 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.040 of stuff on the way, including what something all the same, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.480 it was something else. I had another I have a 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.400 great thing, trust me, It's a great thing. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.280 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.520 Charlie Kirk built a movement. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.840 He transformed the face of conservatism in our own time, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:29.000 and in doing so, he changed the course of American history. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.879 Charlie suffered a terrible fate. My friends, we all know it, 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.840 we all saw it, but think it is not the 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:43.280 worst fate. It is better to face a gunman than 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.840 to live your life afraid to speak the truth. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:46.800 Jd. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.800 Vance at the big Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday that was 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.080 seen by one hundred million people on television. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:58.200 Two hundred thousand people showed up in person. Yeah, really 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.800 an amazing event in aspiring and we'll talk about it 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.440 more and play you more audio from the actual memorial 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.120 service an hour four of the show. If you don't 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.200 get all four hours, or you got something to do, 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.800 that's fine, grab it via podcast, subscribe to Armstrong you 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.760 Getty on demand. I wanted to play this. He's a lefty, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.080 He's wrong a lot, He's a smart guy, and I 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.320 think he has a tick in human heart. And that 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:29.439 would be Van Jones, famously in Obama Aid and media commentator. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.879 It's a clip sixty seven, Michael. He said this just 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:33.480 the other day. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.440 Hey, guys, I've decided I'm gonna do something. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.760 I'm going to share something, something personal that I wasn't 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.600 sure I was going to share, but I think it's important. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.639 Charlie Kirk and I were not friends at all. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.679 In fact, the last week of his life, we were 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.960 beefing hard, beefing online, beefing on air. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.159 But the day before he died, he did something that 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:56.680 shocked me. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.360 He sent me a personal message calling for personal dialogue, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:02.879 wanted me to come on the show. He said we 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.600 could be gentlemen together. He said we could deal with 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:12.520 our disagreements agreeably. And in the past week and a half, 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.399 just watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.399 all this stuff coming out of his death, I just 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.320 thought it was important to let people know don't put 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.399 that on Charlie Kurt, because the last day of his 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.359 life he was reaching out to have not more censorship, 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:33.359 more conversation, more dialogue with somebody who honestly was one 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:34.200 of his adversaries. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.560 Me and I just want to share that with. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:42.680 The world, and I hope that maybe it might help 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.920 somebody on both sides deal with issues. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:47.359 More like he did. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.040 I thought that was nice, and I thank Van Jones 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.960 for posting that. It is a gentle criticism. But if 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.840 it surprised you that Charlie reached out to you, you 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:04.159 still didn't get it, and you probably don't get me, Van, No, 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.200 I'm more than willing to listen to your opinion. I 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.240 hear it all the time. I'm surrounded by it. I 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.240 just want there to be a little dialogue and we 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.200 can disagree, agreeably, agree one hundred percent with that. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:23.080 So you think there's any chance that, well, there's always 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.280 some chance of them. Do you think there's a realistic 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.520 chance that good comes out of Charlie Kirk's assassination? 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:32.160 Yes? 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.040 Yeah, for our national politics, like there could be a 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:36.960 change and people could point back to this. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:39.120 Yeah. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.200 And I don't want to be discouraging because I want 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:46.200 that very much to be true. There's an okay chance 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.159 that it will have a positive effect, I hope. So 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.280 how long that lasts, I hope. So, I just I 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.399 don't know if that can happen in the modern world. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:21:00.439 It's just things. Everything moves so fast. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:05.680 Yeah, And the worst among us have such a platform, right, 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.280 and they're good at their jobs and they're good at 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.920 their jobs at being bad. We're discussing earlier and will 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:16.159 again the idea that turning point USA is now, and 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:22.439 I guarantee this turning point is a giant, lucrative, juicy 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:26.720 target for the greed heads and the phonies and the 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:31.080 online grifters that controls so much of our politics right now. Well, 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:32.760 I'm glad his wife's going to be running it. She 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:38.119 seems pretty sharp, and I'm sure it's not the first 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.640 running up against greedheads that has happened since Charlie Kirk 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:44.320 caught fire. 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.359 Yeah. So, got this note from Alan Idaho. I've mentioned 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.120 it a couple of times. I'm finally paying it off. 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.400 He's been listening since he was a little lad. 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.480 Thanks, thank you. Yeah, since he was a I realized 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.119 it's supposed to be a compliment. But all you did 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.960 was make my knees hurt, so he said. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.360 I watched Charlie Kirk memorial on Sunday, and with many 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:04.119 of the speakers, the common theme I heard was that 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:06.399 I should not be afraid to have discussions and to 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.320 battle with words. I used to not have this problem 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.840 growing up, and often debated some of my friends in 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:15.320 high school but in recent years, specifically after my college 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.240 experience and the attempted brainwashing from the California State University system, 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.480 I find myself much too cautious about what I say 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:27.359 for fear of losing friends my reputation, due to me 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.320 being generally too scared or lazy to start an argument 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:32.920 or a conversation to begin with. As someone wants to 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.159