Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: We will absolutely target you, go after you if you
Speaker 3: are targeting anyone with hate speech anything.
Speaker 2: And that's across the aisle.
Speaker 4: That is the Attorney General of the United States validating
Speaker 4: the term hate speech, which is anathema to conservatives.
Speaker 2: The whole hate speech concept that was dead wrong and stupid,
Speaker 2: utterly unsupportable, a huge failure, and we condemn it.
Speaker 4: Well, let's start with here's a couple of people on
Speaker 4: opposite side of the aisles, Senators Chuck Schumer and Ted Cruz,
Speaker 4: who's pretty maga, didn't like that.
Speaker 2: That is censorship. It is disgusting. It is a violation
Speaker 2: of the First Amendment.
Speaker 5: I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put
Speaker 5: itself in the position of saying we're going to decide
Speaker 5: what speech we like and what we don't, and we're
Speaker 5: going to threaten to take you off air if we
Speaker 5: don't like what you're saying.
Speaker 4: That's around the whole FCC thing broadcast license stuff that
Speaker 4: played a role in Jimmy Kimmel a role, not the
Speaker 4: whole role in Jimmy Kimmel not being on the air
Speaker 4: at ABC, but the I.
Speaker 2: Would like a formal apology from Pam Bondy for putting
Speaker 2: me in a position where I have to agree with
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer. This is disgusting. Now fine to me. I
Speaker 2: may not recover well.
Speaker 4: He obviously is being his usual Chuck Schumer self. This
Speaker 4: is a handy version. He would not mean hippo. He
Speaker 4: would not be agreeing.
Speaker 2: With this if the shoe were on the other foot
Speaker 2: because his side agrees with the whole hate speech concept completely.
Speaker 2: Speech is violence, and saying something negative about a protective
Speaker 2: group is the same as violence and it should be censored.
Speaker 2: He believes that he's just a mind misinformation and disinformation
Speaker 2: which they regularly run up the flagpole as a reason
Speaker 2: to censor speech. And we don't have the clip of
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson, but you mean you got Tucker Carlson and
Speaker 2: Ted Cruz. Tucker Carlson said the same thing over the weekend.
Speaker 2: He said, Pam bond He's just wrong.
Speaker 4: There's no such thing as hate speech, and you can't
Speaker 4: be policing it and censoring it because who gets decide
Speaker 4: what's hate speech? That's the obvious part of this that
Speaker 4: it just blows my mind that intellectuals can miss. Who
Speaker 4: are you gonna let decide what's hate speech?
Speaker 2: Well, we all agree here at the university what's hate speech.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why you're making it sound difficult, which
Speaker 2: I'm pointing out that Rand Paul predictably joined Ted Cruz.
Speaker 2: They're more above a mark. Wayne Mullen said he believes
Speaker 2: in free speech. He was concerned about insendi a rhetoric.
Speaker 2: But free speech is free speech. Hateful speech is also
Speaker 2: free speech, only when it leads to violence. Is there
Speaker 2: a crossover? Tom Massey of Kentucky also said no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: we don't say that over here. So a lot of
Speaker 2: conservatives and Republicans are rejecting this terrible, terrible idea. We
Speaker 2: do have. Tucker, here's what he said.
Speaker 6: There's no sentence that Charlie Kirk would have objected to
Speaker 6: more than that any attempt to impose hate speech laws
Speaker 6: in this country is a denial of the humanity of
Speaker 6: American citizens and cannot be allowed under any circumstances.
Speaker 2: That's got to be the red line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tucker is a smart guy, and when he's not
Speaker 4: being whatever it is he is, I can really agree
Speaker 4: with him.
Speaker 2: He's right, He's absolutely right.
Speaker 4: That is so incredibly dangerous and the opposite of anything
Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk believed in obviously that something could be declared
Speaker 4: hate speech and the government will come after you. Play
Speaker 4: that Pam Bondy clip again. I'm sorry, I'm all over
Speaker 4: the place here, Michael, but play eighty again.
Speaker 3: We will absolutely target you, go after you if you
Speaker 3: are targeting anyone with hate speech anything.
Speaker 2: And that's across the aisle.
Speaker 7: What.
Speaker 2: Yes, she walked that back somewhat, but to get those
Speaker 2: words to come out of your mouth is kind of disturbing,
Speaker 2: all right, How you can't accept the attorney general walking
Speaker 2: it back if she were the I don't know, the
Speaker 2: secretary of lawnmowers or something that's completely different from the law.
Speaker 4: But yes, but you know, not on you to understand
Speaker 4: everything about free speech. It is on her to understand
Speaker 4: everything about free speech as the attorney General, the top
Speaker 4: of the Justice Department, and for her to say that
Speaker 4: it's just not and Trump double down on it. Here's
Speaker 4: a little bit from ABC this week.
Speaker 8: An extraordinary statement from President and Trump. It appeared to
Speaker 8: be a direct message to his Attorney General, Pam Bondy,
Speaker 8: but it was posted on truth Social for the world
Speaker 8: to see. The president wrote, in part, Pam, I have
Speaker 8: reviewed over thirty statements and posts saying that essentially same
Speaker 8: old story as last time. All talk, no action, nothing
Speaker 8: is being done. We can't delay any longer. It's killing
Speaker 8: our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, they indicted
Speaker 8: me five times over nothing. Justice must be served now.
Speaker 4: Trump saying to Pam Bondy, and he goes on to say,
Speaker 4: I think we have that, yeah, play eighty two.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: They have to show honesty and integrity and who takes
Speaker 9: when they take a goods well, I think the people decide.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm president. When they take a means you
Speaker 2: and they take with.
Speaker 8: A great success like you often do, and you make
Speaker 8: it into like it's a loser, or you put a
Speaker 8: negative spin on it.
Speaker 2: I don't think that that's right.
Speaker 9: So I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot.
Speaker 2: So I disagree with Ted prison.
Speaker 4: The Trump characterizing people, and it happens all the time,
Speaker 4: distorting his results as hate speech, and that that's something
Speaker 4: the FCC.
Speaker 2: And Pam BONDI should go after and or yeah, go
Speaker 2: after in terms of broadcast licenses or just prosecutions of
Speaker 2: some sort or another. One of the great things about
Speaker 2: Trump is that he doesn't have a lot of regard
Speaker 2: for tradition and you know, the way things happen in Washington.
Speaker 2: That's one of his great strengths. One of his great
Speaker 2: weaknesses is what I just said, he doesn't understand or care.
Speaker 2: And I think it's more to understand that there are
Speaker 2: certain things that a president must never do, or certainly
Speaker 2: must never do openly, because then the doors are just
Speaker 2: wide open to the very sort of law fair and
Speaker 2: speech restrictions that he rightfully despised, whether it was COVID
Speaker 2: or the Russian collusion hoax. And you can't say the
Speaker 2: other side is committing crimes against the constitution. Therefore we
Speaker 2: get to too. No, you've got to stop people from
Speaker 2: committing crimes against the constitution, you know, outlawing hate, misinformation
Speaker 2: and disinformation because you say, you know, I don't think
Speaker 2: the COVID vaccine actually prevents transmission. No, we need to
Speaker 2: fight against even doing that, not do it ourselves. Good lord.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was happy to see Governor Josh Shapiro, Democrat
Speaker 4: of Pennsylvania over the weekend saying, the antidote to the
Speaker 4: bad speech is more free speech that you know, you
Speaker 4: make better arguments or whatever.
Speaker 2: So what do you think is up here?
Speaker 4: I mean, who's Donald Trump playing to or who does
Speaker 4: he think his constituency is. Is there a constituency for
Speaker 4: let's go after with broadcast license or whatever crime you
Speaker 4: would call hate speech? H I mean, because that is
Speaker 4: such a bedrock of conservatism, it seems to me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think he has voices in his ear. And boy,
Speaker 4: I hate to use the effort on the air, but
Speaker 4: I have to brace yourselves. There are neo fascists who
Speaker 4: have Trump's ear, and I'm not using the I call
Speaker 4: everybody that don't like a fascist, like I'm some sort
Speaker 4: of pathetic lefty. I'm talking about a set of political
Speaker 4: belief that says, there are threats against our nation and
Speaker 4: our people so great, generally from the outside or the
Speaker 4: enemy within. Blah blah blah, but the threat is so
Speaker 4: acute that we must throw aside our principles to fight it.
Speaker 4: Much as we love freedom, the risk to the nation
Speaker 4: is too much. We are canceling freedom for a time
Speaker 4: to root out this threat.
Speaker 2: And Trump passed people in his ear telling him, yes,
Speaker 2: that it's justified, we can do it, we can pass
Speaker 2: the laws, we can do this legally. And he doesn't
Speaker 2: understand who they are and what they're trying to convince
Speaker 2: him to do. I believe that I'm giving him the
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt that he just doesn't understand it.
Speaker 2: But no, the answer is no, just because ABC News
Speaker 2: is blatantly ridiculously unfair against you all the time. No,
Speaker 2: the answer is not to have your Chairmany the FCC say,
Speaker 2: be a shamed of something happen to your network there.
Speaker 2: You want to do a single deal, Yeah, you better
Speaker 2: come around and say what we like. No, that is
Speaker 2: not what we do. Or the Attorney General for crying
Speaker 2: out loud and you know, look, some of you are
Speaker 2: tempted by this. Our ideas are better. They will win.
Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk turning point. This is a turning point. The
Speaker 2: eighty percent of the population that doesn't want a dude
Speaker 2: playing girls' sports or a man leering at your thirteen
Speaker 2: year old daughter in a locker room. We're the eighty
Speaker 2: percent maybe the ninety percent. Maybe they had to convinced
Speaker 2: that we're in the minority there for a minute, but
Speaker 2: we're not. And if you've listened to the show, you
Speaker 2: would know that. So, no, we don't need to resort
Speaker 2: to crapping on the Constitution. And I almost used a
Speaker 2: very bad word. We don't need the resort to that.
Speaker 2: We're better than that. Be better than that. Are you
Speaker 2: going to use a verb for defecating? I was that
Speaker 2: is fairly coarse. Okay, yes, wow, similar to shipping, but
Speaker 2: a little different. I guess I think we're tracking. Let's
Speaker 2: end with something more erudite than that. Sarah is Ger
Speaker 2: who's really really smart, on ABC this week, showing us
Speaker 2: how we got here.
Speaker 1: This is bad for the Department of Justice, it's bad
Speaker 1: for the country. But I do think we should take
Speaker 1: a bigger view here when you look at during the
Speaker 1: Obama administration using the power of the presidency to target
Speaker 1: TEA party groups through the IRS, during the Biden administration
Speaker 1: using the power of the presidency to target social media
Speaker 1: companies Mark Zuckerberg saying they were threatened if they didn't
Speaker 1: take down information on COVID origins, and now using the
Speaker 1: power of the presidency, whether through the FCC or the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice, to limit criticism. We should be talking
Speaker 1: about the power of the presidency because frankly, there is
Speaker 1: no legislation that is going to prevent abuses of power
Speaker 1: by the president. We have to take away that power.
Speaker 1: The FCC shouldn't have this power, the IRS shouldn't have
Speaker 1: this power. And until we're willing to talk about that,
Speaker 1: this is just going to turn into a tit for
Speaker 1: tat and it's going nowhere.
Speaker 4: Good excellent point. Sarah Ezger of The Dispatch. Yes, what
Speaker 4: she said, why is the mainstream media, boy, you know
Speaker 4: why but ever say anything about that actually happened. The
Speaker 4: IRS commissioner from that time apologized for that in public
Speaker 4: in Congress that they did target Tea Party people for
Speaker 4: their beliefs. And then the example under the Biden administration,
Speaker 4: Mark Zuckerberg is set out loud. He got leaned on
Speaker 4: by the federal government to not have stuff on Facebook
Speaker 4: about vaccines and the spread of the virus and all
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: But you don't care about the lab lake. That stuff
Speaker 2: all is fine.
Speaker 4: It's just when Trump says he wants to control hate
Speaker 4: speech or misinformation is it a problem.
Speaker 2: That's why we got to call him on that and
Speaker 2: keep calling them on that. And if we do it,
Speaker 2: we got to call us on that. It's called principles.
Speaker 2: They actually make your life better. Try them.
Speaker 4: Any thoughts on any of that because that's an interesting topic.
Speaker 4: Text Line four one five two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 9: A passenger on a cruise ship jumped overboard to avoid
Speaker 9: a sixteen thousand dollars gambling debt. But being smart, he
Speaker 9: just bets someone's seventeen thousand that he would jump off
Speaker 9: a cruise ship.
Speaker 4: We had that story last week. Seemed like a poorly
Speaker 4: thought out plan and a poor lifestyle as well.
Speaker 2: Coming up, really interesting clip from a well known lefty
Speaker 2: about the passing of Charlie Kirk. The murder of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2: Great email on the topic I want to get to
Speaker 2: as well. And also, there are a couple of things
Speaker 2: the rich can do that the rest of us can't.
Speaker 2: A fly private and b get married. According to young people,
Speaker 2: there's been a giant cultural shift around marriage. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's really weird. This is our once a month update
Speaker 2: on whether people are actually returning to the office or not.
Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journal for obvious reasons is definitely on
Speaker 2: this story and continues to be long story short. You
Speaker 2: got big companies all over the country, everything from Microsoft
Speaker 2: to Paramount to they name a bunch who are all saying,
Speaker 2: all right, you got to be in the office three
Speaker 2: days a week, or four days a week or five
Speaker 2: days a week. They're making various you know, statements, different standards,
Speaker 2: different people, different company. What is it around here? Do
Speaker 2: you know, Michael? Is it three?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I think Anyway, the
Speaker 2: interesting part is that there's a huge lack of compliance
Speaker 2: all across all sorts of industries. And I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: is that what people are saying well and or yep,
Speaker 2: absolutely planning on doing that. I'm happy to be back.
Speaker 2: Got to settle that the situation with the babysitting, So
Speaker 2: it's probably gonna be in two weeks, but in two
Speaker 2: weeks i'll see you then making excuses, kicking the can
Speaker 2: down the road. And essentially the compliance has been pretty low,
Speaker 2: and I thought this Anglo was pretty funny. Unenthusiastic bosses
Speaker 2: don't help. They might shield top performers to keep them
Speaker 2: from leaving. Well, of course they would not nearly half
Speaker 2: of senior managers say they would take a pay cut
Speaker 2: to work from home, so they're not really in the
Speaker 2: mood to crack the whip. So it's interesting and it's
Speaker 2: just a it's a beautiful illustration of how labor is
Speaker 2: a market and how you can say these are my terms.
Speaker 2: But if the other side of the equation says, eh,
Speaker 2: my terms are just a little different than your terms,
Speaker 2: and unless you're willing to say, well, go to hell,
Speaker 2: we have no deal, those terms will change.
Speaker 4: But this will work itself out over time. It's interesting
Speaker 4: that prior to COVID, it would have just been a
Speaker 4: non starter for most people to say to their boss,
Speaker 4: I think I'd like to only come into work four
Speaker 4: days a week.
Speaker 2: I'll work from home the other day. They'd be like, no,
Speaker 2: that's not an option, if even in one day, right,
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden it became a you know,
Speaker 2: I think you're just as productive at home all the
Speaker 2: time as you are when you're here. I mean, how
Speaker 2: did it change that drastically? And if I make you
Speaker 2: schlep into the office, you're going to quit. Well, you're
Speaker 2: making your numbers, eh, do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: The difference that I love, and I think all of
Speaker 4: us love is the meeting situation. Why did we all
Speaker 4: think we needed to meet in person? Let's all drive
Speaker 4: somewhere between thirty minutes and an hour to be in
Speaker 4: a room together, as opposed to joining on zoom for
Speaker 4: this fifteen minute meeting.
Speaker 2: Thank god that changed. Yeah, there are situations where an
Speaker 2: in person meeting is useful, but not all of them,
Speaker 2: not all, not most of them. Yeah, I would agree
Speaker 2: with that absolutely. You know what, I don't think we
Speaker 2: have time for this. You may have heard that Trump
Speaker 2: was kicking around this idea of limiting ticket resales sports, concerts, whatever,
Speaker 2: to just twenty percent above face value to protect the
Speaker 2: consumer no scalping. Right. You know who's pushing for that,
Speaker 2: the big ticket companies. It's not a good idea for consumers,
Speaker 2: not at all. And yeah, if you think about it
Speaker 2: for two seconds, I get that, I think, and they would.
Speaker 4: They would.
Speaker 2: They also want to monopolize the resale market themselves.
Speaker 4: You're probably going to explaining that in case you feel
Speaker 4: like you've already have. But yeah, we had a lot
Speaker 4: of stuff on the way, including what something all the same,
Speaker 4: it was something else. I had another I have a
Speaker 4: great thing, trust me, It's a great thing.
Speaker 10: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk built a movement.
Speaker 7: He transformed the face of conservatism in our own time,
Speaker 7: and in doing so, he changed the course of American history.
Speaker 7: Charlie suffered a terrible fate. My friends, we all know it,
Speaker 7: we all saw it, but think it is not the
Speaker 7: worst fate. It is better to face a gunman than
Speaker 7: to live your life afraid to speak the truth.
Speaker 2: Jd.
Speaker 4: Vance at the big Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday that was
Speaker 4: seen by one hundred million people on television.
Speaker 2: Two hundred thousand people showed up in person. Yeah, really
Speaker 2: an amazing event in aspiring and we'll talk about it
Speaker 2: more and play you more audio from the actual memorial
Speaker 2: service an hour four of the show. If you don't
Speaker 2: get all four hours, or you got something to do,
Speaker 2: that's fine, grab it via podcast, subscribe to Armstrong you
Speaker 2: Getty on demand. I wanted to play this. He's a lefty,
Speaker 2: He's wrong a lot, He's a smart guy, and I
Speaker 2: think he has a tick in human heart. And that
Speaker 2: would be Van Jones, famously in Obama Aid and media commentator.
Speaker 2: It's a clip sixty seven, Michael. He said this just
Speaker 2: the other day.
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, I've decided I'm gonna do something.
Speaker 11: I'm going to share something, something personal that I wasn't
Speaker 11: sure I was going to share, but I think it's important.
Speaker 10: Charlie Kirk and I were not friends at all.
Speaker 11: In fact, the last week of his life, we were
Speaker 11: beefing hard, beefing online, beefing on air.
Speaker 10: But the day before he died, he did something that
Speaker 10: shocked me.
Speaker 11: He sent me a personal message calling for personal dialogue,
Speaker 11: wanted me to come on the show. He said we
Speaker 11: could be gentlemen together. He said we could deal with
Speaker 11: our disagreements agreeably. And in the past week and a half,
Speaker 11: just watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and
Speaker 11: all this stuff coming out of his death, I just
Speaker 11: thought it was important to let people know don't put
Speaker 11: that on Charlie Kurt, because the last day of his
Speaker 11: life he was reaching out to have not more censorship,
Speaker 11: more conversation, more dialogue with somebody who honestly was one
Speaker 11: of his adversaries.
Speaker 10: Me and I just want to share that with.
Speaker 11: The world, and I hope that maybe it might help
Speaker 11: somebody on both sides deal with issues.
Speaker 10: More like he did.
Speaker 2: I thought that was nice, and I thank Van Jones
Speaker 2: for posting that. It is a gentle criticism. But if
Speaker 2: it surprised you that Charlie reached out to you, you
Speaker 2: still didn't get it, and you probably don't get me, Van, No,
Speaker 2: I'm more than willing to listen to your opinion. I
Speaker 2: hear it all the time. I'm surrounded by it. I
Speaker 2: just want there to be a little dialogue and we
Speaker 2: can disagree, agreeably, agree one hundred percent with that.
Speaker 4: So you think there's any chance that, well, there's always
Speaker 4: some chance of them. Do you think there's a realistic
Speaker 4: chance that good comes out of Charlie Kirk's assassination?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, for our national politics, like there could be a
Speaker 4: change and people could point back to this.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to be discouraging because I want
Speaker 2: that very much to be true. There's an okay chance
Speaker 2: that it will have a positive effect, I hope. So
Speaker 2: how long that lasts, I hope. So, I just I
Speaker 2: don't know if that can happen in the modern world.
Speaker 2: It's just things. Everything moves so fast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And the worst among us have such a platform, right,
Speaker 4: and they're good at their jobs and they're good at
Speaker 4: their jobs at being bad. We're discussing earlier and will
Speaker 4: again the idea that turning point USA is now, and
Speaker 4: I guarantee this turning point is a giant, lucrative, juicy
Speaker 4: target for the greed heads and the phonies and the
Speaker 4: online grifters that controls so much of our politics right now. Well,
Speaker 4: I'm glad his wife's going to be running it. She
Speaker 4: seems pretty sharp, and I'm sure it's not the first
Speaker 4: running up against greedheads that has happened since Charlie Kirk
Speaker 4: caught fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, got this note from Alan Idaho. I've mentioned
Speaker 2: it a couple of times. I'm finally paying it off.
Speaker 2: He's been listening since he was a little lad.
Speaker 4: Thanks, thank you. Yeah, since he was a I realized
Speaker 4: it's supposed to be a compliment. But all you did
Speaker 4: was make my knees hurt, so he said.
Speaker 2: I watched Charlie Kirk memorial on Sunday, and with many
Speaker 2: of the speakers, the common theme I heard was that
Speaker 2: I should not be afraid to have discussions and to
Speaker 2: battle with words. I used to not have this problem
Speaker 2: growing up, and often debated some of my friends in
Speaker 2: high school but in recent years, specifically after my college
Speaker 2: experience and the attempted brainwashing from the California State University system,
Speaker 2: I find myself much too cautious about what I say
Speaker 2: for fear of losing friends my reputation, due to me
Speaker 2: being generally too scared or lazy to start an argument
Speaker 2: or a conversation to begin with. As someone wants to
Speaker 2: begin having these discussions again, what would be your suggestions
Speaker 2: to break out of my shell again and to stop
Speaker 2: overthinking about how others may react. Thanks for taking the time, Well,
Speaker 2: thank you for the note.
Speaker 4: I would say one sentence, stop worrying how others react. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to go in that direction, but you
Speaker 2: could certainly make the argument al that if you come
Speaker 2: I'm at this in a respectful way and they reject
Speaker 2: you for that, that's a good thing. It may be
Speaker 2: a painful thing at least initially, but you don't want
Speaker 2: that sort of energy surrounding you. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't be so flippant about people who are not
Speaker 4: used to getting hated upon on a regular basis. When
Speaker 4: you have the job we have gets so much hate,
Speaker 4: like really personal, awful sometimes violence threatening hate that you
Speaker 4: have to get a thick skin about it.
Speaker 2: And I realize if you're not used to that, it
Speaker 2: can be, you know, pretty rough. But I loved getting
Speaker 2: this note. I've been thinking about it for a while now.
Speaker 2: I would make this suggestion to you. Don't worry about
Speaker 2: winning arguments or even having arguments per se. Here is
Speaker 2: your starter kit. This is your gorilla warfare. Al and
Speaker 2: anybody like hel. When you're confronted with some of the
Speaker 2: arguments of the left, again, don't go up against them.
Speaker 2: Hit them with honest sincere questions. Like, for instance, if
Speaker 2: they advocate some sort of policy that you think's bad,
Speaker 2: you can say, you know, I wonder if that actually
Speaker 2: works in progress and in reality, because there are a
Speaker 2: lot of things that sound good that you know, in
Speaker 2: the real world don't really pan out. I wonder if
Speaker 2: there's data to support that policy being a good one.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's one way to go about it. Or you
Speaker 4: could yell, shut up, you communist. Yeah, well, it depends
Speaker 4: on my mood. But because you've planted the seed, al
Speaker 4: that wait a minute.
Speaker 2: A good way to figure out if policy is good
Speaker 2: policy is to figure out whether it works or not.
Speaker 2: And you haven't argued with anybody. If somebody's arguing in
Speaker 2: favor of quote unquote trans rights or whatever, you can
Speaker 2: I just say it should mean that again, that's one alternative.
Speaker 2: Or you could say it seems to me there are
Speaker 2: two sexes and just saying you've changed it doesn't change it.
Speaker 2: And they'll say, well, sex is just a gender because
Speaker 2: they use gender, because if you use sex, then it
Speaker 2: gets to biology and then nobody can deny it. But
Speaker 2: tell them, yeah, I just I think you can be
Speaker 2: whatever sort of man or woman you want to be,
Speaker 2: but you're still a woman. And if they want to
Speaker 2: blather on again, you've planted the seed of a very basic,
Speaker 2: very easily understood reality. Think about, you know, three or
Speaker 2: four of the issues that you hear people blather on about,
Speaker 2: and just think about ar What can I say? That's
Speaker 2: non threatening, that's just kind of a light over here.
Speaker 2: It's not even a spotlight. It's more like a Christmas light,
Speaker 2: but it's shining on the truth. Just mention it and say,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I think about these things and you'll
Speaker 2: get used to it. It'll be fine, you'll be good.
Speaker 2: Al Yeah, you Why do you think people bother governments,
Speaker 2: bother indoctrinating and intimidating. It's because it works, because you
Speaker 2: have a speaking of biological realities, you have an aversion
Speaker 2: to pain and fear. And if you have suffered pain
Speaker 2: and fear over and over again in the California State
Speaker 2: University system, for instance, for believing what you believe, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why they do that. So it'll take you a
Speaker 2: while to claw your way back, but you'll get there.
Speaker 4: See you say all that, and then you say, have
Speaker 4: a good day, you dirty footed communists. And if you're
Speaker 4: not on the air throwing enough bomb or two, a
Speaker 4: couple of poll numbers that came across over the weekend,
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Speaker 2: which group here you gov poll around Kimmel getting fired
Speaker 2: the plurality.
Speaker 4: The biggest number is strongly disapprove Kimmel being fired forty
Speaker 4: two percent. You add that to somewhat disapprove, you're at
Speaker 4: fifty percent. You only have in the somewhat approve or
Speaker 4: a nine percent and strongly approved.
Speaker 2: Twenty six percent.
Speaker 4: So the vast majority of Americans, and I got to
Speaker 4: believe that includes lots of big jungle Republicans are against
Speaker 4: Kimmel being fired.
Speaker 2: So there's that. And like so many of these issues,
Speaker 2: polls give me about sixty seconds to explain to some
Speaker 2: of the people who love it, and I'd say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think he's a smug just awful, wrong about everything, sarcastic, prick,
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't want him on my TV station. The
Speaker 2: problem is the administration pressuring his company to fire him.
Speaker 2: That's uncool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And as we talked about last week when you
Speaker 4: were earned here, it is a stew of a number
Speaker 4: of things. I mean, the people at the top are
Speaker 4: being quoted. They were pretty uncomfortable with how far he
Speaker 4: had been going for a long time, just in terms
Speaker 4: of having an audience, his audience was very small. The
Speaker 4: ratings have been going down like all of those shows
Speaker 4: for a very long time. So on the shows are
Speaker 4: so expensive to put on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And as a conservative, if the many TV stations
Speaker 2: in the middle of America had said, look, we don't
Speaker 2: want air this guy anymore, yeah awful. What he said
Speaker 2: was unforgivable, and the freaking government could have just stayed
Speaker 2: out of it. Yeah, that would have been righteous and powerful. Yeah.
Speaker 4: One other poll to hit you with before we take
Speaker 4: a break. Do you view socialism positively? Two thirds of
Speaker 4: Democrats say yes, thirty eight percent of independence, which is
Speaker 4: still too dang high, and fourteen percent of Republicans. What
Speaker 4: kind of a Republican are you that you have as
Speaker 4: positive view as socialism? Anyway, that's fourteen percent.
Speaker 2: But how about we don't want you.
Speaker 4: How about two thirds of Democrats have a positive view
Speaker 4: of socialism based on well, based on what your damn
Speaker 4: teacher told you. My son who is no longer in
Speaker 4: the history class, the American history class, I'd been complaining
Speaker 4: about his last class he attended. The entire hour was
Speaker 4: spent on the evils of settler colonialism, which is a
Speaker 4: term only Marxists yews at all. By the way, let
Speaker 4: alone discuss it for an hour in your American history class.
Speaker 4: How crazy is that? What a bunch of crap?
Speaker 2: I wish people had any grasp of how much of
Speaker 2: what they hear is neo Marxist.
Speaker 4: But my point was, that's why you have two thirds
Speaker 4: of Democrats having a positiveview of socialism because their high school,
Speaker 4: their grade school and high school and college teachers all
Speaker 4: told them it was cool.
Speaker 2: All right, here's an essay question for you, and we
Speaker 2: don't really have time to talk about it, but you
Speaker 2: can stew on it for a while. Is socialism slash
Speaker 2: communism the best slash most successful fraud ever sold a man? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: I don't have to think of that. The only one
Speaker 2: that I think is worse is living a life of
Speaker 2: sin and pleasure will make you happy. But that's non political. Right.
Speaker 4: Well, well, we'll see what Mayor Mom Dammi has to
Speaker 4: say about it when he when he takes.
Speaker 2: Office in New York.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and as only we have been saying the tush
Speaker 4: push should be banned because it's boring. It's just boring.
Speaker 4: It makes up for a boring TV show. Yeah a great,
Speaker 4: Yeah it's terrible. Don't get me started.
Speaker 2: So I did a bunch of flying over the weekend,
Speaker 2: and one thing I noticed in every airport and you
Speaker 2: do too, in every airport is you walk by the Starbucks,
Speaker 2: and generally, at least in the morning, there's an enormous
Speaker 2: eye line. Oh yeah, I ain't waiting in that line,
Speaker 2: and then you got like three other places domed out,
Speaker 2: fresh hot, really good coffee with maybe two people in line.
Speaker 2: Now I get they don't sell the same fancy milkshakes,
Speaker 2: but boy is Starbucks done a brilliant job of branding,
Speaker 2: no kidding, but they've struggled lately. And so if you
Speaker 2: feel like your local baristas like extra sweet and friendly
Speaker 2: to you, it's because that's the new strategy. They've got
Speaker 2: a whole new playbook out. I think I had that
Speaker 2: experience yesterday. Well that's great. Interesting. You walk in the door,
Speaker 2: the barista looks you in the eye, smiles and says,
Speaker 2: welcome to Starbucks. They may call you by name if
Speaker 2: you're a regular. When your drink is ready in four
Speaker 2: minutes or less, the barrist is there again, handing it
Speaker 2: to you. Your caramel machiato looks so good. It's one
Speaker 2: of my favorites, they say. Making your way to a
Speaker 2: comfy chair, you notice a smiley face and I have
Speaker 2: a nice day, scrawled and sharpie across your cop It's
Speaker 2: all according to a carefully written script, you know, was
Speaker 2: the rifted. Pleasantness is better than no pleasantness.
Speaker 4: I guess is there a belief that they weren't being
Speaker 4: friendly enough at Starbucks?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I guess. The chief executive, Brian Nickel, is
Speaker 2: a year and to hit that job, and he's betting
Speaker 2: that the company's future lies in making its cafes warm
Speaker 2: and inviting. Okay, And you know, and it's a good point.
Speaker 2: The difference between one, you know, bar in another is
Speaker 2: not like that beer. That guy's beers make me intoxicated.
Speaker 2: This guy's peers don't, for instance. Right, It's all about
Speaker 2: atmosphere and just the way it makes you feel. Uh So,
Speaker 2: the world's largest coffee company mounting a new effort to
Speaker 2: choreograph the way it's hundreds of thousands of briests to
Speaker 2: speak in America. The way they make drinks. They head
Speaker 2: off orders their coach to read customer's moods, choose the
Speaker 2: right gestures, call correct tone of.
Speaker 4: Voice, coached to read moods. I'd like to be involved
Speaker 4: in that. That's an interesting thought. You're going to read
Speaker 4: my mood and then react accordingly. Like if I'm angry
Speaker 4: at the world, you're going to what embrace that or
Speaker 4: try to turn it around?
Speaker 2: I hate the world you. I'd like to kill these
Speaker 2: mm for savat you. Here's your machiato. Yeah, well, it
Speaker 2: doesn't have something to do with I was just reading
Speaker 2: about the gen z stare with their you know, digital
Speaker 2: natives staring at a screen since there were kids, lack
Speaker 2: of social skill, inability to read face.
Speaker 4: So Barista's gonna read my mood every days the same
Speaker 4: and then you die you with me, I am.
Speaker 2: Here's your carmel, latte, machi yo, pumpkin spice fla pumpkin
Speaker 2: spice thing. Pause for a second to make eye contact.
Speaker 2: Don't rush the moment. That reads the That's how the
Speaker 2: thank with eye contact contact section of the new training
Speaker 2: Manual reads employees should be present with customers, even while multitasking.
Speaker 2: If there's a mishapa burritas, I'm sorry. I read much
Speaker 2: more quickly than I can speak, and so my tongue
Speaker 2: is behind the times. Anyway, if there's a mishap baristas
Speaker 2: need to latte latte jack. They've come up with an acronym,
Speaker 2: but happens to be one of the most popular products. Listen, apologize,
Speaker 2: take action, thank, and ensure satisfied. That's try and do hard.
Speaker 2: So if they steam extra pleasant for you, that's that's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you told me this. If I come across
Speaker 2: a surly barista, I'm going to call him or her out.
Speaker 2: Do you know that if you come across a pleasant one,
Speaker 2: I accuse them of photios I'll ask him if do
Speaker 2: you know what the letters in latta mean? Listen, activate,
Speaker 2: tertiary or something that in a way, something armstrong and getty.