Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty, and now he Armstrong and Getty. And
Speaker 2: this may seem a little bit right.
Speaker 3: I made us clear there's there's nothing out there that's
Speaker 3: actually concerning. People will make everything seem very concerning, because
Speaker 3: that's one people in politics.
Speaker 4: So rugged, so manly, so handsome. Graham Platner, who's running
Speaker 4: was not was yet but it soon to be, was
Speaker 4: running for Senate in Maine.
Speaker 2: This is a big deal.
Speaker 4: This is not just one of those pick a race
Speaker 4: somewhere and because you're obsessed with politics, focus on it.
Speaker 4: This is a big deal because the US Senate is
Speaker 4: basically a fifty to fifty tie and one Senate or
Speaker 4: this way or that for the Republicans or Democrats could
Speaker 4: control who's in charge of the US Senate, and that
Speaker 4: makes all kinds of difference for all kinds of legislation and.
Speaker 2: This and that. I mean, it's a very very big deal.
Speaker 4: So Graham Platner, Democrat, he won the nomination up in
Speaker 4: Maine and he was going to run against Susan Collins,
Speaker 4: and he is in theory, although not in actuality, a
Speaker 4: working class, regular guy who wants to fight the system. Well,
Speaker 4: theyre you know, he's got the Nazi tattoo. I'm going
Speaker 4: to assume you've been following this story somewhat because we've
Speaker 4: talked about it a lot. He's got the Nazi tattoo
Speaker 4: that he's had his whole adult life, that he explained away,
Speaker 4: and the fact that he's never had a real job
Speaker 4: that he's explained away. And then The New York Times
Speaker 4: did a story several weeks back that had all kinds
Speaker 4: of ougie ish but not horrible stories about his dating life.
Speaker 4: For some reason, the New York Times did a softball
Speaker 4: piece about Graham Platner not being a good guy to date,
Speaker 4: with nothing that was like over the top disqualifying. And
Speaker 4: not only that, the story was written in such a way.
Speaker 4: I remember Joe counting the paragraphs they buried. The most
Speaker 4: explosive thing about the guy, where he was twisting the
Speaker 4: woman's arm behind her back.
Speaker 2: One woman that he was dating.
Speaker 4: They buried that in like paragraph twenty three, after doing
Speaker 4: a puff piece around him. So the New York Times
Speaker 4: several weeks ago had quotes from a bunch of different
Speaker 4: women of stuff that's like, okay, that sounds kind of bad,
Speaker 4: but that's not I don't know, he said. She said, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: it just kind of went away. And so that clip
Speaker 4: we just played a Graham Platner saying there's nothing out
Speaker 4: that's actually concerning. That clip was him being interviewed on
Speaker 4: MSNBC after that New York Times piece came out. Well,
Speaker 4: one of the women featured in that New York Times piece,
Speaker 4: Jenny Rackacott, she had more to say. She did not
Speaker 4: tell the New York Times that she had been raped
Speaker 4: by Graham Plattner, but she did tell her some more
Speaker 4: horrifying stuff that, for whatever reason, the New York Times
Speaker 4: didn't put in the piece. The New York Times also
Speaker 4: didn't contact any of her friends who were easily gotten
Speaker 4: to well. Politico and CNN, among other news outlets, have
Speaker 4: dug into this story more over the last couple of days,
Speaker 4: and this Jenny Rackacott is now out on the record
Speaker 4: talking about having been flat out no wishy washy this
Speaker 4: or that, no kind of alluding to something bad but
Speaker 4: not saying it out loud. She just flat out saying
Speaker 4: she was raped. She told Jake Tapper on CNN the
Speaker 4: other day, and Political is out with more details around that,
Speaker 4: which we can get into. We'll lay this out for
Speaker 4: if you haven't heard it. What it's going to mean
Speaker 4: is that this grand Platner guy is going to have
Speaker 4: to get out of the race. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: that's almost guaranteed, which means the Republicans most likely will
Speaker 4: hold onto that seat, which means the Republicans have a
Speaker 4: really good chance of holding onto the Senate even if
Speaker 4: the Democrats take the House, which matters a lot for
Speaker 4: legislation and for Donald Trump. Okay, let's start here. This
Speaker 4: is Jenny Ractcott on CNN with Jake Tapper telling the
Speaker 4: story just a couple of days ago.
Speaker 5: So he had kind of like jumped on top of
Speaker 5: me and indicated that he had intentions that were sexual
Speaker 5: in nature. And I remember just at first being like, hey,
Speaker 5: I'm not into this, Like I'm not in the mood
Speaker 5: like don't what whatever. And it got to the point
Speaker 5: where I was like, Okay, I feel like I've said
Speaker 5: this enough times, like he's not listening to me or
Speaker 5: he's not hearing me. And I looked at him and
Speaker 5: I remember this very specific look in his eyes and
Speaker 5: I could smell alcohol, and I was like, this.
Speaker 4: Is different, uh Rasicott, I guess is the way you
Speaker 4: pronounce her name? Sorry about that. Jenny Rasicott goes on
Speaker 4: with Jake Tapper.
Speaker 5: I remember specifically him like grabbing at my chest and
Speaker 5: I like hit his hand and I said, don't touch me.
Speaker 5: And I remember that during the altercation specifically, he kept
Speaker 5: going yeah, and it was this weird mix of like
Speaker 5: coming in and out of I don't think consciousness is
Speaker 5: the word, but like coming to and kind of falling
Speaker 5: back into that drunken I don't know what I'm doing
Speaker 5: state and yeah, and he just he would apologize in
Speaker 5: those moments and then go back to doing what he
Speaker 5: was doing.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 1: Grand Platt rejects these claims. He released a video responding
Speaker 1: on social media.
Speaker 4: She U By the way, so that clip where she's
Speaker 4: talking to Jake Tapper, she's talking about him that wasn't
Speaker 4: completely clear. She's talking about him coming in and out
Speaker 4: of consciousness because he was so hammered drunk. She thinks
Speaker 4: that he was like blacking out, which he very well
Speaker 4: may have. Jake Tapper and Jenny Resact go on way
Speaker 4: that he.
Speaker 7: Thought this was consensual or no, just because I don't.
Speaker 5: Believe that you can think that that scenario is consensual,
Speaker 5: you have to understand that that wasn't when some of
Speaker 5: these repeatedly, I mean, when somebody in the middle of
Speaker 5: it says, don't touch me, like, that's obviously not consensual.
Speaker 2: Uh one.
Speaker 4: And this is no way to judge these sorts of things, really,
Speaker 4: But sometimes these accusers sound like whack jobs. Whack Jobs
Speaker 4: get raped also, so that's not proof of it, but
Speaker 4: sometimes the whack jobs sound like whack jobs because they're
Speaker 4: whack jobs. Like the accuser with Brett Kavanaugh, she was
Speaker 4: all kinds of a whack job. I don't think what
Speaker 4: she claimed happened. You know, she never told her friends
Speaker 4: about it, blah blah blah, all the different sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: This woman, Jenny Rascott, clearly does not sound like a
Speaker 4: whack job. And to the is there some sort of
Speaker 4: political reason you've come forward? Jake Tapper gets into that.
Speaker 3: Just to underlin the point you're not coming forward.
Speaker 7: Because you have any political motivation.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 5: That was actually one of the huge reasons that I
Speaker 5: didn't come forward and still struggled like that was a
Speaker 5: huge moral conflict to feel like because.
Speaker 3: You'd like a Democrat to be in the Senate.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like the things that he speaks about. They're important,
Speaker 5: They're important to people. I'm one of those people.
Speaker 4: She didn't want to derail his candidacy because she believes
Speaker 4: in the sorts of things that he does. She likes
Speaker 4: his ads, she likes his policies, but she didn't like
Speaker 4: the idea of a rapist becoming a US senator. One
Speaker 4: more clip of her with Jake Tapper, and.
Speaker 3: The New York Times story came out. You were in it,
Speaker 3: but you didn't.
Speaker 1: Go as far in that story as you are today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why not.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to. I didn't want to have to
Speaker 5: violate this huge level of privacy to my own life
Speaker 5: to be able to infer that this person is not
Speaker 5: honest and trustworthy. I felt really protective of my own
Speaker 5: privacy throughout this whole process, and it got to a
Speaker 5: point where my privacy was no longer going to happen.
Speaker 5: And that was when I kind of just made the
Speaker 5: decision that, like, I'm going to say my piece and
Speaker 5: get it out there.
Speaker 4: There are lots We got a text earlier saying If
Speaker 4: he's guilty, then how come nobody's going to jail.
Speaker 2: She's not.
Speaker 4: She didn't go to the cops. She's not trying to
Speaker 4: have him arrested for rape. And it's not well, it's
Speaker 4: not uncommon, and it's not hard to imagine that there
Speaker 4: are lots of women that just they want to try
Speaker 4: to move on with their lives.
Speaker 2: They don't want.
Speaker 4: To go through the incredible hassle that it would be
Speaker 4: to actually confront somebody charge them with rape, all the
Speaker 4: different things, the trial, reliving it, the pushback you're going
Speaker 4: to get in the courtroom.
Speaker 2: Not everybody wants to deal with that.
Speaker 4: And I can understand why now filling in some of
Speaker 4: the gaps from Politico. Oh, by the way, Graham Platner
Speaker 4: swears up and down that this didn't happen. He didn't
Speaker 4: do it. He's innocent and now be proved. Although he
Speaker 4: has suspended his campaign, Chuck Schumer, the leader of the
Speaker 4: Democrats in the Senate, has come out and said Platner
Speaker 4: needs to get out of the race. So I have
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of other prominent Democrats who had stood
Speaker 4: by him through all these other kind of whispers and accusations,
Speaker 4: light that have been going on for several weeks. A
Speaker 4: bunch of politicians, including most importantly Chuck Schumer, had stood
Speaker 4: by him. Now they're calling for him to get out,
Speaker 4: which means it's over. It's just a matter of time
Speaker 4: before he gets out of the race. But filling in
Speaker 4: some more of the details from Politico because I think
Speaker 4: this is important to the whole thing. That night in
Speaker 4: late twenty twenty one, she said she had exchanged text
Speaker 4: messages with him and told him not to come over.
Speaker 4: So he did the classic booty call or booty text.
Speaker 4: He's drunk and here's somebody that he had dated for
Speaker 4: a while and they'd had con sexual sex in the past,
Speaker 4: and he texts her late at night because he's hoping
Speaker 4: to have sex again. I mean, that's you know, it's
Speaker 4: in all kinds of sitcoms, TV shows, everything.
Speaker 2: It's a thing.
Speaker 4: She said, do not come over. I'm not in the
Speaker 4: mood for company. Later that evening, she realized when she
Speaker 4: heard a sound on the stairs that he had come
Speaker 4: into her house. She didn't have her door locked. Common thing,
Speaker 4: if you live in certain kinds of neighborhoods, you don't
Speaker 4: lock your door. If you live in big cities, maybe
Speaker 4: you can't imagine that, But in lots of the world,
Speaker 4: maybe most of the country, it's perfectly normal to have
Speaker 4: your house unlocked. He just came in. She told him specifically,
Speaker 4: don't come over, and he came into his house. Now
Speaker 4: I've seen it as force his way into his house.
Speaker 4: I'm perfectly fine with that language. That's what he did.
Speaker 4: She said, don't come in, and he came out without
Speaker 4: came into her house without her approval. Then he sits
Speaker 4: down on the couch. Platner comes up the stairs, Rasacot said,
Speaker 4: to where she was on the couch. He got on
Speaker 4: top of her and kept grabbing her, she said, while
Speaker 4: she repeatedly told him to stop and that she wasn't interested.
Speaker 4: She said that he smelled out. She smelled alcohol in
Speaker 4: his breath and believed he was almost blackout drunk because
Speaker 4: he ignored her protests and continued to grab after knocked
Speaker 4: over some stuff in the in the room, spilling things everywhere,
Speaker 4: making a big mess. I had been telling him these
Speaker 4: words like no, don't, she recalled, and the look on
Speaker 4: his face and realizing what was happening. I just realized,
Speaker 4: like that, I'm in a situation where there is no
Speaker 4: consent here, she said. She tried to separate herself from
Speaker 4: Platner by telling him she couldn't be in that room anymore,
Speaker 4: after which he followed her to her bedroom and had
Speaker 4: sex with her against her will. Uh he completed the act.
Speaker 4: I won't go into the details, but she was not
Speaker 4: using birth controls, so she was worried that she was
Speaker 4: going to be pregnant when she returned to the room.
Speaker 4: She left the room. After that he was done because
Speaker 4: he fell asleep. She came back, he was completely passed out.
Speaker 4: She contemplated waking up to kick him out, but worried
Speaker 4: he could hurt someone driving in the state.
Speaker 2: He was in.
Speaker 4: All right, I don't know if I would do that,
Speaker 4: but she gets to make these decisions. The following morning,
Speaker 4: Platner tried to put his arm around her. She pushed
Speaker 4: him away.
Speaker 2: She said. She asked him.
Speaker 4: Whether he remembered what had happened the previous night. Platner
Speaker 4: said he didn't remember. She said she told him to
Speaker 4: leave and never contact her again. She waited several weeks
Speaker 4: until she got her period to ensure she wasn't pregnant,
Speaker 4: then sent Platner a private message on Instagram saying that
Speaker 4: the encounter was not consensual and she did not want
Speaker 4: to hear from him ever. Again, she had no further
Speaker 4: contact with him after that. Now, she deleted all her
Speaker 4: texts in her social media correspondence with Platner, so she
Speaker 4: can't prove bring back that Instagram post where she told
Speaker 4: him that.
Speaker 2: But and I think this is key stuff.
Speaker 4: She told friends, including her best friend at the time,
Speaker 4: about the sexual assault, who have testified too well, testified
Speaker 4: is not the right term because that's a legal term.
Speaker 4: But they have told Politico and CNN and other outlets
Speaker 4: that yes, these friends said, yes, she did tell us
Speaker 4: about this five years ago, right after it happened. And
Speaker 4: the next guy that she dated in a serious relationship,
Speaker 4: she told all about this incident, and he passed that
Speaker 4: fact along to Politico. That's the sort of evidence they
Speaker 4: use in rape cases like this, when you've got, you know,
Speaker 4: happened at the time, testimony from people who say, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is the story she told me. That's the sort
Speaker 4: of thing that, for instance, didn't exist with that crackpot
Speaker 4: woman in the Kavanaugh case. But yeah, I think it,
Speaker 4: I think this happened. She's a very credible witness. Those
Speaker 4: are very credible pieces of information for our friends and
Speaker 4: her ex boyfriend and et cetera.
Speaker 2: And he's going to have to get out of the race.
Speaker 2: It's over for him.
Speaker 4: The fact that the New York Times soft pedal this story,
Speaker 4: didn't dig into it more that they're not the ones
Speaker 4: that broke the story. What the hell is going on there?
Speaker 4: That's a question that still needs to be answered. But
Speaker 4: wonder what you think about all this text line four
Speaker 4: one five two nine five k FTC more on the way.
Speaker 7: I wanted to directly address the troubling, serious and false
Speaker 7: allegations against me. Any accusation of non consensual behavior is
Speaker 7: categorically false, regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but
Speaker 7: mindful of political reality it will inflect, we are taking
Speaker 7: the time to reflect on the best path forward for
Speaker 7: the state that I love, the people that I love,
Speaker 7: the I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins.
Speaker 4: Has anybody ever paused their campaign during a controversy and
Speaker 4: then restarted it in one? I don't even know if
Speaker 4: I can remember anybody ever pausing their campaign and not
Speaker 4: dropping out. That's Graham Plattner, the guy it's running for
Speaker 4: the Senate in main woman came forward quite credibly accusing
Speaker 4: him of rape, as being reported lots of different places,
Speaker 4: and now he's starting to lose support among Democrats who
Speaker 4: had previously supported him through other bad news. There's an
Speaker 4: example of the reporting on.
Speaker 1: That Democratic California Congressman Rocanna, who campaigned with Platner for
Speaker 1: a while. Among those telling him to drop out, he
Speaker 1: posted this Brett. I've been very clear that sexual assault
Speaker 1: or violence against women is a red line. These allegations
Speaker 1: are very serious and credible. Grand Platner should drop out
Speaker 1: from the race. I'm with drawing my endorsement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the fact that Rocana is out and Chuck Schumer's
Speaker 4: out and so he's done, Grand Platner will get out
Speaker 4: of the race. We just wanted to tell you the
Speaker 4: story in case she didn't catch it over the long
Speaker 4: holiday weekend. Oh Rasacotter. We've heard her name pronounce three
Speaker 4: different ways. We're not sure which is correct, But she
Speaker 4: showed political emails with her therapist in which she explained
Speaker 4: she was talking to the media about her relationship. So
Speaker 4: she's been dealing with this with her therapist, and she
Speaker 4: had been emailing her therapist before, long before Plattner ever
Speaker 4: got into politics about this. In fact, she reached out
Speaker 4: to a friend who was thinking about dating the guy
Speaker 4: and she said, don't date a me'se bad news. And
Speaker 4: again this is before any of the political stuff came out.
Speaker 4: And to repeat again, she likes his politics. She just
Speaker 4: doesn't like him as a guy because he's a rapist allegedly,
Speaker 4: and factually she likes his politics. She hates to derail
Speaker 4: his candidacy. She doesn't want a Republican to win the Senate,
Speaker 4: but she decided that she needed to come for So
Speaker 4: I just want to get that out there because it's
Speaker 4: going to be worthless news by tomorrow when he has
Speaker 4: gotten out of the race, which I think will be
Speaker 4: the case, and we don't need rapists or perhaps more
Speaker 4: rapists in the Senate. More stuff on the way. If
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Speaker 9: What do what you doing?
Speaker 2: Tear boy? And so what was that, Michael? What did
Speaker 2: we just hear?
Speaker 8: Hey, gentleman who is in a wheelchair, He goes and
Speaker 8: lights a firework. Okay, but instead of backing up, he
Speaker 8: just lets the same go off, and so he just
Speaker 8: basically stands around it and they're telling him back up,
Speaker 8: back up, back up.
Speaker 2: Well he's in a wheelchair. Is he sitting around it?
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's just kind of sitting around it, but he's
Speaker 8: enjoying it. But the sparks are going around. Luckily he's
Speaker 8: not getting burned or anything. They're yelling the guys, I'll Terry,
Speaker 8: back up, Terry back up.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Did he end up in a wheelchair because of that
Speaker 2: level of decision making? I have no idea, but it's
Speaker 2: a funny video. Yeah, that's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I would like to know the background on whie he's
Speaker 4: a wheelchair? There might be a backstory there that would
Speaker 4: you know, be self explanatory there. So we're back after
Speaker 4: a vacation. Joe's not back yet. He's still doing his
Speaker 4: fortieth wedding anniversary, longest vacation of his life thing, and
Speaker 4: he'll be back in a couple of days.
Speaker 2: I am back and happy to be back into my
Speaker 2: regular routine.
Speaker 4: I my youngest, my fourteen year old, is doing three
Speaker 4: boy Scout camps in a row. He's doing three weeks
Speaker 4: with boy Scout camps in like twenty four days. He's
Speaker 4: only going to be home like long enough to do
Speaker 4: some laundry and repack and then had to head out
Speaker 4: on another trip. So good for him, and he's having
Speaker 4: a really good time so far, and that's awesome. It's
Speaker 4: been very, very weird not having him around because he's
Speaker 4: been around because he's homeschool practically every minute of his life,
Speaker 4: my last fourteen years of my life. So it's very
Speaker 4: weird having him gone. But so it leaves me and
Speaker 4: my sixteen year old. I've had time to do some
Speaker 4: stuff and we did a vacation kind of just the
Speaker 4: two of us, which was really fun. We loaded our
Speaker 4: dirt butt bikes in the back of my truck and
Speaker 4: we went over to Nevada and we got a place
Speaker 4: we ride south of Carson City that's really fun, and
Speaker 4: then we drove down to just north of Vegas is
Speaker 4: a really cool off road place to ride motorcycles, and
Speaker 4: we were in Vegas. We used Vegas as our home
Speaker 4: base for about three days and stayed in a hotel
Speaker 4: and ran around there, eating and looking at the sights
Speaker 4: and seeing street performers and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: But one of the things I did in Las Vegas
Speaker 4: was rent a car. Now, I had decided to rent
Speaker 4: some sort of cool car. That's a popular thing to
Speaker 4: do in Vegas, and you can rent Lamborghinis and Ferraris
Speaker 4: and classic cars and all kinds of different stuff. And
Speaker 4: I didn't know what I was gonna rent. I went
Speaker 4: to this place and I was thinking about maybe getting
Speaker 4: a Lamborghini because my son's really into him, just from
Speaker 4: videos he watches and stuff like that, and all of
Speaker 4: his favorite rappers drive Lamborghinis. Have you ever sat in
Speaker 4: a Lamborghini if you're over five ten, I don't know
Speaker 4: how you could possibly drive a Lamborghini and not be miserable.
Speaker 4: There is no back seat, the seats up against the wall,
Speaker 4: and with the seat as far back as it go.
Speaker 4: I'm a little over six foot tall. My knees were
Speaker 4: in my neck, and just plus getting out of there.
Speaker 4: At my age, I kind of had to roll out
Speaker 4: onto the pavement and crawl out of the car, and
Speaker 4: I thought, I don't want to do this for several days,
Speaker 4: so the Lamborghini thing was off, and I ended up
Speaker 4: renting a nineteen sixty six Mustang GT three fifty, which
Speaker 4: is a very very cool car. It's got the Cobra
Speaker 4: symbol on the back, and the place that rents them
Speaker 4: out they try all kinds of different exhaust systems on
Speaker 4: them to find the one that sounds the coolest. And
Speaker 4: so not only does it look super badass, but it
Speaker 4: sounded just amazing when you romped on it. I mean
Speaker 4: it had the throat of just I mean, it was fantastic.
Speaker 4: So we drove around Vegas in that for every place
Speaker 4: we're going, and we drug the strip at night. We'd
Speaker 4: drive up and down Las Vegas Boulevard where all the
Speaker 4: people are in front of all the and everybody giving
Speaker 4: me thumbs up and high fives at the window and
Speaker 4: at every crosswalk they're just all excited, and people taking
Speaker 4: pictures and people asking me about it. And I didn't
Speaker 4: tell anybody. If people got into a conversation with me,
Speaker 4: I would tell it, tell them it was a rental.
Speaker 4: But most people I didn't say, hey, it's a rental.
Speaker 2: I didn't do that. I just took in the glory.
Speaker 2: Is that okay?
Speaker 4: Because I just thought, what's the point of making this
Speaker 4: a complicated interaction?
Speaker 9: For two, So he lived a lie. Right, I lived
Speaker 9: a lie for several days. But I mean, it's so
Speaker 9: much cool car. Man, I didn't say it's a rental.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't feel that like that was necessary.
Speaker 4: I didn't feel like that helped their experience, my experience,
Speaker 4: anybody's experience. So you're right, I lived a lie. I
Speaker 4: pretended a guy who had that cool car. I have
Speaker 4: no idea what one of those is worth, but man,
Speaker 4: the amount of attention you get. I mean I couldn't
Speaker 4: go anywhere. I just go to a parking lot and
Speaker 4: pull into parks so we could go into the Walgreens
Speaker 4: and get some ibuprofen or something like that. And people
Speaker 4: are wanting to get selfies with it. And I can
Speaker 4: see why, especially if you're a single guy. I suppose
Speaker 4: I didn't even think about that why people get cars
Speaker 4: like that, because this is just it was just a
Speaker 4: person magnet. It was amazing, and uh, somebody, I know,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say I did this because it would
Speaker 4: be highly illegal and break the contract and get me
Speaker 4: in all kinds of trouble because I have to sign
Speaker 4: like nineteen different pieces of paper when you rent one
Speaker 4: of these cars in terms of responsibility and in terms
Speaker 4: of hurting anybody or hurting the car or anything like that.
Speaker 4: Somebody I know who rented a similar car, who has
Speaker 4: a sixteen year old, let their sixteen year old drive it,
Speaker 4: and he thought it was the coolest experience of his life. Obviously,
Speaker 4: getting to drive one of these cars. I'd never driven
Speaker 4: one in my life, and he's sixteen, and I let
Speaker 4: him drive around and romp on it and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And man, if he'd erect that thing, I would I.
Speaker 4: Would have had this, Or if we got pulled over,
Speaker 4: we'd have had to switch seats before the cops got
Speaker 4: in the car. I mean, I can't even imagine how
Speaker 4: much trouble I would be in if that happened.
Speaker 2: But man, did he love that.
Speaker 4: We went down to If you're a Vegas person, you
Speaker 4: know they've got a racetrack south of Vegas where you
Speaker 4: can rent Ferraris and Lamborghinis and stuff like that and
Speaker 4: drive them around a racetrack if you want as fast
Speaker 4: as you can go. I've never done that. It's real expensive,
Speaker 4: and I'm just I'm not into driving cars that much.
Speaker 4: But you can also have a guy take you out
Speaker 4: in a Highway Patrol Dodge Charger hellcat and you just
Speaker 4: ride in the car and it's an expert driver, and
Speaker 4: he goes flying around the track and drifting around the
Speaker 4: corners and doing three six sees.
Speaker 2: And stuff like that.
Speaker 4: I paid for that, and he and I did that.
Speaker 4: I got hellnauseious because I'm an old man, but that
Speaker 4: was very very cool. This guy just smokes his tires
Speaker 4: all the way around this racetrack. We're going one hundred
Speaker 4: and ten. When he was on the straightaways then sliding
Speaker 4: around the corners. That was a very very cool thing
Speaker 4: to do. I'm glad we did that. That's fun.
Speaker 2: That's South Vegas if you've never been.
Speaker 4: Like I said earlier, people that don't know, Vegas is
Speaker 4: a family vacation destination number two only tour or Orlando.
Speaker 2: There's tons of stuff do there.
Speaker 4: I feel like swimming, if you like VR, if you
Speaker 4: like those escape rooms, if you any of that kind
Speaker 4: of stuff that people do for fun, they've got it
Speaker 4: in Las Vegas. They also have hors and gambling. But
Speaker 4: if you don't want a horse and gambling, you can
Speaker 4: do something else. Lots of hors and gambling, street performers
Speaker 4: all over the place, super entertaining love that sort of thing,
Speaker 4: you know, you see people doing acrobatics or musicians or
Speaker 4: whatever that whatever the heck you want to see. Oh,
Speaker 4: and my son, he went out walking around. I went
Speaker 4: to bed, and he went out walking around this trip
Speaker 4: late one night, and he saw Connor McGregor going down
Speaker 4: the street with his posse. Because Connor McGregor's got a
Speaker 4: big fight coming up in Vegasy, he must be training
Speaker 4: in in uh in Las Vegas, because he was out
Speaker 4: doing any and and uh, Sam my son said, he
Speaker 4: walks in real life just like he does on TV.
Speaker 4: When you see him, he struts and swings his arm
Speaker 4: back and forth like he wants to fight everybody he
Speaker 4: walks by. It's just Connor McGray that's that's really him.
Speaker 2: Apparently he didn't ask for an autograph.
Speaker 8: Divity.
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't get very close to Connor McGregor because
Speaker 4: you catch him in the wrong mood and he's gonna
Speaker 4: sucker punch you because he's a coward and a punk
Speaker 4: and I hate him, but he is quite the personality.
Speaker 4: One news thing. We have to get to him. Trying
Speaker 4: to decide whether I do it next segment or next hour.
Speaker 4: Mayor Mom Donnie of New York did a anti America
Speaker 4: video for the fourth of July. On this two hundred
Speaker 4: and fiftieth anniversary of this country. People say we're an
Speaker 4: exceptional country. We're not exceptional. Look at all these things
Speaker 4: that are wrong with us. Blow to crap. That got
Speaker 4: a lot of attention and a lot of pushback online
Speaker 4: that I want to get into a little bit.
Speaker 2: That whole crowd that hates America. I've got a new
Speaker 2: theory about that. Get there.
Speaker 4: You're so annoying, Please leave, And yeah, I get the
Speaker 4: First Amendment and you're allowed to say it, and it's
Speaker 4: what I don't care. Leave if you hate it, leave,
Speaker 4: just leave what you just We'll all do gofundmes.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of that.
Speaker 4: We're a rich enough country to afford plane tickets for
Speaker 4: every freaking one of you a holes.
Speaker 2: To fly out of the country.
Speaker 4: You hate it so much, go where you think it's
Speaker 4: better and live your life there and shot app more.
Speaker 2: On that later. Get hell out of here, I agree wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 4: More than I got so many things to talk about.
Speaker 4: I got so many notes that have taken over the
Speaker 4: last week and a half. As we've been off. Here's
Speaker 4: one of the things that happened a while we're off,
Speaker 4: because June was Pride month and there are some big
Speaker 4: Pride events going on all of June and the week
Speaker 4: we are off. I'll set this up this way. David
Speaker 4: Brooks is he still what the New York Times used
Speaker 4: to be?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 4: He was on PBS and he identified what's going on
Speaker 4: with the new democratic socialist wing of the Democrats. As
Speaker 4: we all know before we went on vacation, the socialist
Speaker 4: crowd beat out some mainstream Democrats and are now going
Speaker 4: to end up in Congress. And another one one just
Speaker 4: the other day in Michigan, another socialist one. And what
Speaker 4: David Brooks pointed out is that the party's energy has
Speaker 4: shifted from unions to the universities, in particular, from the
Speaker 4: working class to the woke world there. And then even
Speaker 4: within that, there has been a shift just recently from
Speaker 4: sexuality stuff being the focus of the woke wing of
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party to Israel Gaza being the focus of
Speaker 4: the woke wing of the Democratic Party. And here's some
Speaker 4: proof of this right now. Because it used to be
Speaker 4: if you wanted to be in good favor with that crowd,
Speaker 4: the loudest, craziest, to my mind, part of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 4: You just had to be good on all the trans
Speaker 4: stuff and you know the you know, all that sort
Speaker 4: of stuff, and you were fine. That's not the case anymore.
Speaker 4: See here Scott Wiener, who we've been talking about forever
Speaker 4: because city council member in San Francisco. He's been San
Speaker 4: Francisco politics forever, gay man like on the most outer
Speaker 4: edge of pro all kinds of weird sexual behavior. And
Speaker 4: I'm not calling being gay weird sexual behavior. I'm calling
Speaker 4: being naked in front of a school weird sexual behavior.
Speaker 4: He's been in favor of that for very, very many
Speaker 4: many years. And he used to be fine with the
Speaker 4: woke left because he was so pro trans, pro this,
Speaker 4: pro that, pro everything that had to do with sexual stuff.
Speaker 4: But he was not on the right right side of
Speaker 4: Israel in Gaza. And so he shows up to the
Speaker 4: big uh gay pride parade, trans this or that thing
Speaker 4: they had in San Francisco, and he got met with
Speaker 4: some protesters.
Speaker 2: Here's what it sounded like.
Speaker 6: You've been wonderful for trans people, and you've been terrible.
Speaker 2: When you've been terrible, you've been terrible. You've been terrible, Gaza.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had a whole bunch of people screaming at
Speaker 4: him about how he was killing brown people, and you know,
Speaker 4: all the sort of stuff that that crowd yells at people.
Speaker 4: They were yelling at what used to be one of
Speaker 4: their own, Scott Wiener, because he has been in favor
Speaker 4: of Israel all these years and taking money from their
Speaker 4: various supporting groups and all that sort of thing. So
Speaker 4: who cares that you're on the right side of the
Speaker 4: trans issue. You're on the wrong side of the Israel thing.
Speaker 4: Here's Scott Wiener explaining what that was like.
Speaker 6: This went beyond free speech. You know, I represent San Francisco.
Speaker 6: We have a very robust democracy, and people do not
Speaker 6: hesitate to tell me when they agree or disagree with me.
Speaker 6: People will challenge my views, will have conversations, people will
Speaker 6: sometimes record me. And that's all fine, that's all protected
Speaker 6: First Amendment speech.
Speaker 2: Here it was different.
Speaker 6: I went to the park to attend the trans march,
Speaker 6: attending a trans led pride Shabbat first, and I was
Speaker 6: and these folks ran towards me and swarmed around me.
Speaker 6: They were a few of them touched me, and they
Speaker 6: were you know, screaming at me while they were doing
Speaker 6: it and trying to bully me and intimidate me out
Speaker 6: of the park, and I ended up leaving because it
Speaker 6: wasn't safe for me to remain.
Speaker 4: Really, that must be really awful. It was awful for
Speaker 4: people who opposed some of the various trans things that
Speaker 4: were going on, like trans athletes, you know, winning competitions
Speaker 4: and schools and whatnot. And when they would try to
Speaker 4: stand up at a city council meeting and say, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't think boys should be playing girls' sports, they.
Speaker 2: Would have that sort of thing happen to them.
Speaker 4: Swarmed me, touched me, screamed at me, bullied me, forced
Speaker 4: me out of the room, wouldn't let me speak. Sorry
Speaker 4: that happened to you, Scott, but that sort of thing
Speaker 4: has been happening to people trying to speak up about
Speaker 4: against some of the craziness in the trans world. You
Speaker 4: were fine with that, though, because then you were one
Speaker 4: of the favored children of that group. Now you're on
Speaker 4: the wrong side of this Israel Gaza issue and you're
Speaker 4: finding out what it's like to be shouted down by
Speaker 4: crazy Anyway, the main point of this to me is
Speaker 4: that the center of gravity for the woke crowd has
Speaker 4: moved from the sexual orientation stuff to the gaza stuff,
Speaker 4: as you have seen with AOC or a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of these people who have won as socialist. Mamdani himself
Speaker 4: there in New York City, that's the topic that he
Speaker 4: got to be on the right side of right now,
Speaker 4: and it's going to be interesting to see how that
Speaker 4: plays out through the next election. Got a little more
Speaker 4: on that coming up later. Bill Maher started talking about
Speaker 4: some of these new socialists that won elections, talking about
Speaker 4: the woke mind virus. I've become convinced that that America
Speaker 4: hateen crowd, and it doesn't matter which subject they pick,
Speaker 4: that's more of just an excuse, whether it's a trans thing,
Speaker 4: or you decide it's Israel and Gazo or whatever it is, inequality, billionaires, whatever,
Speaker 4: that weird self hating thing.
Speaker 2: I think it is.
Speaker 4: A mental illness of some sort. I think it should
Speaker 4: be in the DSM, that's the big book that they
Speaker 4: put out.
Speaker 2: Every couple of years, a new edition with mental illnesses
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 4: I think there actually is some sort of mental illness
Speaker 4: or flaw or psychosis or something that goes on with
Speaker 4: that crowd where they need to hate their own tribe
Speaker 4: to be okay. And I'm not exactly sure what drives it,
Speaker 4: but I don't think it's the particulars that we argue
Speaker 4: about all the time. I think it's that mental problem.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: I got some more examples of that, maybe I can
Speaker 4: get to an hour or four, including Mayor Mamdani of
Speaker 4: New York and his weird anti American two hundred and
Speaker 4: fiftieth Birthday video he put out actually sitting at George
Speaker 4: Washington's desk as he delivered this anti American screed. We're
Speaker 4: gonna check in on the Supreme Court with Anastasia Boden,
Speaker 4: who he really really like an hour four though, a
Speaker 4: couple of big rulings that came down while we were
Speaker 4: on vacation, speaking of trans the whole ken high schools
Speaker 4: say no, boys can't participate in girls' sports.
Speaker 2: Well, the Supreme Court says, Yep, you're allowed.
Speaker 7: To do that.
Speaker 4: It was misreported in a lot of places, but that's
Speaker 4: what the ruling was. We'll talk about that in some
Speaker 4: of the other big Supreme Court rulings that came down
Speaker 4: in hour four. If you miss a segment get the
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Speaker 4: catch up on. Do you know people with hangovers to
Speaker 4: get ived drips in Vegas? Do you know that's a
Speaker 4: common thing. That's one of the things I want to
Speaker 4: talk about. You can do it in the mall. You
Speaker 4: can go into the mall and get an IV drip
Speaker 4: if you're two hungover anyway, join us for hour four,
Speaker 4: won't you?
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