Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and now he Armstrong and Jetty in
Speaker 2: Central New Jersey.
Speaker 3: The FBI is now investigating multiple sightings of swarms of
Speaker 3: drones hovering menacingly overhead night after night for the last
Speaker 3: several weeks. The drones have been described as larger than
Speaker 3: what a hobbyist might fly. Some of the drones have
Speaker 3: been spotted close to a military installation and President elect
Speaker 3: Trump's Bedminster golf club, where he frequently stays. The FAA says,
Speaker 3: at the request of Federal Security partners, it is prohibiting
Speaker 3: drone flights over Picatinny Arsenal Military Base and Trump's golf course.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope we're on top of this. Whatever it is.
Speaker 4: Can you say Picatinny on the air. This definitely has
Speaker 4: the feel of it's absolutely nothing or nothing else matters.
Speaker 4: It's either something unbelievable or it'll go away and it'll
Speaker 4: turn out to em.
Speaker 2: I hope we're on top of it.
Speaker 4: Like I said, why that's crazy, Okay. Jason Riley is
Speaker 4: a brilliant man. He writes for The Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 4: among other places. He's an editorialist. He happens to be
Speaker 4: a black man, and he wrote a column recently. He's
Speaker 4: talking about President Biden venturing to Angola, Africa, fleeing the
Speaker 4: country after the utterly indefensible, dishonest, bipartisan, damaging pardon of
Speaker 4: his boy and he mentions that many black Americans trace
Speaker 4: their ancestry to Angola, former Portuguese colony, and mister Biden
Speaker 4: spoke of the country's quote shared history an evil of
Speaker 4: human bondage during his remarks, we remember the stolen men
Speaker 4: and women and children who were brought to our shores
Speaker 4: and chains and subjected to unimaginable cruelty.
Speaker 2: So far, absolutely true.
Speaker 4: The horrors of slavery, whenever and wherever it's existed, are
Speaker 4: undeniable and horrific to anybody with the beating heart, as
Speaker 4: far as I'm concerned, particularly as a lover of liberty.
Speaker 4: But let us plunge on. And one of my favorite
Speaker 4: parts about this column is that it is it utterly
Speaker 4: refutes so much of the sixteen nineteen project and its premises,
Speaker 4: and that got so much currency. It's still being taught
Speaker 4: in school systems around, and it's, you know, like all
Speaker 4: great frauds, it's like three quarters true and then that
Speaker 4: last quarter, though, including the premise of the whole damn thing,
Speaker 4: is utterly farcical. The idea that the US was we
Speaker 4: broke away from Britain to make sure we could keep
Speaker 4: having slaves, and then we wrote a constitution to make
Speaker 4: sure we had lots of slaves, and the whole part
Speaker 4: of the country is to keep slavery going. Nothing could
Speaker 4: be more dishonest. But anyway, Jason Riley, in writing about Oh,
Speaker 4: his title is will we ever hear the end of
Speaker 4: slavery reparations?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding. You mentioned that later, But Biden thinks
Speaker 4: the issue needs further study. But few issues in history
Speaker 4: have received more attention. Yeah, the whole further study thing. Seriously,
Speaker 4: I wish I could give me five minutes with Black America.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 4: This is the carrot dangled in front of your nose
Speaker 4: that you will never taste its delicious orange goodness. It
Speaker 4: is a political fraud designed to keep you voting in
Speaker 4: one particular way.
Speaker 2: There are going to be no.
Speaker 4: Reparations of any significant scale in any significant area.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 1: The funny thing about the carrot as a metaphor for
Speaker 1: an enticement is I'm not doing anything for a carrot.
Speaker 2: Nothing. I mean, I won't get up out of my
Speaker 2: chair for a carrot.
Speaker 4: Well, you're not a donkey, are you? All right, here's
Speaker 4: where it gets really really interesting to me. You want
Speaker 4: to talk about the African slave trade to our part
Speaker 4: of the world. More than ninety percent of enslaved Africans
Speaker 4: were sent to the Caribbean and South America between the
Speaker 4: sixteenth and nineteenth centuries a year fifteen hundreds to year
Speaker 4: eighteen hundreds, more than nine more than ninety percent. Wow,
Speaker 4: while about six percent of African captives were sent directly
Speaker 4: directly to British North America, about six percent.
Speaker 1: It's definitely true that slave I mean, I'm going way
Speaker 1: back to my grade school years. But slavery was portrayed
Speaker 1: is like a uniquely American thing.
Speaker 4: Correct, Yeah? Yeah, a horror that we and we alone committed.
Speaker 4: And you know, I don't answer for the sins of
Speaker 4: my forefathers anymore than they would answer for my sins
Speaker 4: somehow if they had a time machine. And again, none
Speaker 4: of this is ever to deny the horrors of slavery.
Speaker 4: That's not the point at all. But and although the
Speaker 4: trans Atlantic slave trade receives far, far more attention today,
Speaker 4: the trans Saharan slave trade have you even heard of? That,
Speaker 4: which involved Arabs transporting captives from Black Africa across the
Speaker 4: Sahara Desert and the Persian Gulf to the Islamic world
Speaker 4: of North Africa and the Middle East, involved a larger
Speaker 4: number of African slaves and lasted for a much longer period.
Speaker 2: It is striking.
Speaker 4: Harvard scholar Orlando Patterson wrote that quote, the total volume
Speaker 4: of African slaves acquired by Muslim masters is greater than
Speaker 4: the total acquired by Europeans and the Americans. Nor mister
Speaker 4: Patterson stress with slavery unique to Africa, Europe, and the
Speaker 4: Islamic world or to a particular stretch of time. Quote,
Speaker 4: there is nothing notable peculiar, notably peculiar about the institution
Speaker 4: of slavery. It has existed from before the dawn of
Speaker 4: human history right down to the twentieth century, in the
Speaker 4: most primitive of human societies and in the most civilized.
Speaker 4: There is no region of the earth that has not
Speaker 4: at some time harbored the institution. Probably there is no
Speaker 4: group of people on Earth whose ancestors were not at
Speaker 4: one time slaves or slaveholders.
Speaker 2: Oh, almost certainly. Man a lot of human beings throughout history.
Speaker 2: I saw the number the other day, the total number
Speaker 2: of humans that have lived on Earth, forty billion or something,
Speaker 2: whatever it was. Man, most of them had awful lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just awful. Whether it's healthcare or being a slave,
Speaker 1: is just awful.
Speaker 4: And I just read an account. I'm not going to
Speaker 4: lay it on you, but the premise of the thing
Speaker 4: was about how the world community and the UN and
Speaker 4: all sorts of people are doing nothing to hold some
Speaker 4: of the Islamist groups to account for their slavery right now,
Speaker 4: including the slavery of women as has forced brides and
Speaker 4: the rest of it. I'm going to spare you the
Speaker 4: worst parts of it, but there is wide spread, horrible
Speaker 4: slavery going on as we speak and breathe on earth
Speaker 4: right now. Oh sure, right now, China, millions of people, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I was talking over you, China, right. This
Speaker 4: is interesting. Earlier this year, Portuguese President Marcello Rebello di
Speaker 4: Suza suggested that his country should pay slavery reparations to
Speaker 4: Angola is the former Portuguese colonies and I mentioned, but
Speaker 4: the current Angolan president shot down the idea. He said,
Speaker 4: it's impossible to make up for what happened in the past.
Speaker 4: It only creates conflicts, he told reporters. Mister Biden, by contrast,
Speaker 4: has insisted the issue needs further study. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: That's so weak, the opposite of leadership.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pretend to make some noises for something that
Speaker 1: will never happen, to make sure the wokest people out
Speaker 1: there feel like I'm on their side.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 4: And he goes into California, New York have set up preparations,
Speaker 4: task forces, a couple other things, and then he says,
Speaker 4: California was never a slave state.
Speaker 1: Oh and Titam is just south of San Francisco. Shiloh's
Speaker 1: outside of La Sure.
Speaker 4: And its black population didn't reach two percent until the
Speaker 4: nineteen forties. Oh wow, Today California is a majority minority
Speaker 4: state where Latinos forty percent and Asians fifteen percent far
Speaker 4: outnumber Blacks five percent. Why should Asians and Latinos whose
Speaker 4: ancestors were never slave owners, well not slave owners in
Speaker 4: the United States of Africans.
Speaker 2: I got to depart.
Speaker 4: Here from Jason's brilliance and say, whoa dude, so called
Speaker 4: Latinos were probably Spanish, had Spanish ancestors. They came to
Speaker 4: the New World and enslaved craploads of people Mayans and
Speaker 4: Aztecs and whoever, or or anybody else, or maybe they
Speaker 4: were enslaved.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh, but anyway, why should Asians and Latinos, as ancestors
Speaker 4: maybe never own slaves and who themselves have been subject
Speaker 4: to discrimination, be forced to compensate Black people today who
Speaker 4: are never slaves.
Speaker 1: Well, and I don't know how much of this we've
Speaker 1: talked about for our whole Armstrong and Getty network, because
Speaker 1: we talk about it locally in California a lot. But
Speaker 1: the proposal that is out there in California is giving
Speaker 1: everybody who's a descend who's black house, you get a
Speaker 1: free house.
Speaker 2: What is the other stuff? You get?
Speaker 4: Two hundred thousand and eight dollars a year job forever,
Speaker 4: just all kinds of.
Speaker 1: Like nutty nutty stuff, like so crazy you can't believe
Speaker 1: anybody's even talking about it out loud.
Speaker 4: Jason Riley goes on to say, moreover, those blacks who
Speaker 4: did migrate to the Golden State in the middle decades
Speaker 4: of the twentieth century did relatively well on average urban
Speaker 4: as Fred Siegel wrote, Blacks have long been better off
Speaker 4: materially in LA than in the rest of the country.
Speaker 4: As early as the nineteen thirties, Watts had the highest
Speaker 4: rated black home ownership in the country. Blacks benefited from
Speaker 4: the World War two boom Blah blah law nineteen sixty
Speaker 4: four National Urban League Survey rank Los Angeles is the
Speaker 4: best big city in the nation for black employment, housing,
Speaker 4: and income. Earlier this week, California Assemblyman Kammie mcmarxy said
Speaker 4: he would introduce legislation require University California and the state
Speaker 4: University to give admissions preferences to the descendants of slaves.
Speaker 4: He says, we have a moral responsibility to do what
Speaker 4: we can to write those wrongs, but the real obligation
Speaker 4: is to stop discriminating by race altogether, not char change
Speaker 4: who's on the receiving end, which is what his legislation
Speaker 4: would do. Mister Brian and others seeking reparations need to
Speaker 4: decide whether they want justice or payback.
Speaker 2: Jason Riley, Tip.
Speaker 1: Of the Cap my friend well someday in California We'll
Speaker 1: have a bullet train that takes you from Gettysburg to.
Speaker 4: Appomattox and black folks can ride for free. Is reparations
Speaker 4: from something from Asians, from Muslims snatching up more Africans
Speaker 4: than went to the entire Western Hema fear, of which
Speaker 4: the US had six percent.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a.
Speaker 1: Big day for the whole trans conversation at the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court came across the latest numbers on how many people
Speaker 1: consider themselves LGBTQ plus in each generation. Oh boy, which
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting. And they have a guess. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty easy to guess. Stay tuned as listening to a
Speaker 1: podcast the other day was all about how things culturally
Speaker 1: lead to legally almost every law, not almost, I'm sure
Speaker 1: every law. It was culturally a thing before it was
Speaker 1: legally a thing. And that's kind of where where we
Speaker 1: are with this Supreme Court taking up the trans stuff today.
Speaker 1: The question is, culturally, do we think children should be
Speaker 1: deciding whether they're boys or girls and then parents having
Speaker 1: up operations done on them?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Then? I think ninety percent of us think no, they shouldn't.
Speaker 1: But Jam Crawford of CBS News, the Legal correspondent she's
Speaker 1: really good. She was outside the Supreme Court building and
Speaker 1: talked to a couple of moms.
Speaker 5: School teacher Arion Adam Chakhova said her son was sixteen
Speaker 5: when he came out as a trans girl.
Speaker 6: His dad and I were very open to different gender expressions,
Speaker 6: and we just figured that this was an experimental phase,
Speaker 6: and so I was like, yeah, you know, what dress
Speaker 6: however you want, like cool, that's great.
Speaker 2: I was open to all of it.
Speaker 6: But then I realized if he went to the doctor,
Speaker 6: they were going to prescribe him hormones, and he was
Speaker 6: begging for the hormones.
Speaker 2: He was begging for puberty blockers. The doctors told me
Speaker 2: my daughter would commit suicide if I didn't transition her.
Speaker 5: The doctors told you that they did. Both women, self
Speaker 5: described liberals, did not let their children take medication, which
Speaker 5: can be irreversible. They said their kids went through intensive psychotherapy,
Speaker 5: and after about eighteen months both children de transitioned.
Speaker 6: When you're twenty five, if you decide that's the pathway
Speaker 6: you need, then we will of course love you and
Speaker 6: support you and your decision.
Speaker 2: Those doctors are evil. It reminds me.
Speaker 1: I said this a couple of weeks ago of the therapist.
Speaker 1: I know that said a lot of the therapists. If
Speaker 1: they get a teen who says, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I'm a girl, they send them to a doctor, she argues,
Speaker 1: convinces and had two teenage people who were talking about
Speaker 1: that and talk to them out of it in like
Speaker 1: two minutes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you can either vastly last majority of kids
Speaker 4: grow out of it.
Speaker 1: So you either immediately jump on board with the Okay,
Speaker 1: you see you might be a girl, you're probably a girl,
Speaker 1: let's go to the doctor, or no, here's what you're probably.
Speaker 2: Going through and then they say, oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's astounding that. I mean, the quote unquote success
Speaker 4: rate of hey, let's talk about this is enormously high.
Speaker 4: Is that that a large majority of the counseling community
Speaker 4: and these perverse doctors they don't even do that well?
Speaker 1: Fitting in with the whole culturally thing that I mentioned
Speaker 1: by generation, what percentage of people identify as LGBTQ plus
Speaker 1: the silent generation?
Speaker 2: How do you know? You ask him, they don't say anything,
Speaker 2: but you're saying nothing.
Speaker 1: Of the silent generation identifies as lgbtqos. Now, of course
Speaker 1: you can make the argument that they come from a
Speaker 1: time where it wasn't okay, and a lot of them
Speaker 1: are not saying they.
Speaker 2: Are gay when they are blah blah blah, which might
Speaker 2: be true.
Speaker 1: Baby Boomers, it's two point three percent, which is close
Speaker 1: to the right number. Generation X four point five percent. Again,
Speaker 1: kind of close to the right number based on like
Speaker 1: gallop poles of what percentage of people are gay or bisexual,
Speaker 1: it's around three percent, they think. Millennials it's ten percent.
Speaker 1: Generation Z twenty three percent.
Speaker 4: Right. Well, that's the problem with the alphabet soup and
Speaker 4: particularly the Q part of it, because queer doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 4: It just means I'm against the status quo man. That's
Speaker 4: the that's it means, oppositional to the powers that be.
Speaker 4: That's all it means, or the expectations of society. I'm queer, man,
Speaker 4: it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: Came across this Twitter feed from a fellow by the
Speaker 4: name of Chad Green.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's a gay fellow.
Speaker 4: He says, an older trans woman talk to me when
Speaker 4: I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning.
Speaker 2: Did we mention that Supreme Court is hearing Yeah.
Speaker 4: The case at Tennessee a Tennessee case where Tennessee is
Speaker 4: trying to outlaw these experimental sex change treatments on children,
Speaker 4: and they're hearing the oral arguments today. Anyway, So this
Speaker 4: guy says, an older trans woman talk to me when
Speaker 4: I was twenty one or so about my interest in transitioning.
Speaker 4: She said, quote, You'll spend the rest of your life
Speaker 4: asking yourself why you gave up being a cute but
Speaker 4: insecure gay man and trapped yourself in the body of
Speaker 4: someone who kind of looks like a woman. Oh, every
Speaker 4: day you'll stare in the mirror, studying every shadow, every
Speaker 4: hint of your former face, convinced that it's shining through.
Speaker 4: You'll try to hide it with makeup, long hair, and
Speaker 4: more makeup, but you'll always see him. Your clothes won't
Speaker 4: fit right. You're too tall, too lanky. Every person you pass,
Speaker 4: you'll imagine is wondering about you. Your voice will always
Speaker 4: feel too deep, too loud, too heavy, but faking it
Speaker 4: will sound fake. You'll notice, they'll notice. You will always
Speaker 4: feel naked in public. If you can't believe it, how
Speaker 4: will a man I'm talking about a lover. Over time,
Speaker 4: you'll find the right tricks, right makeup, right tone right movement,
Speaker 4: you'll forget more and won't notice the I am certain
Speaker 4: something awe is off looks, but he'll always be there waiting.
Speaker 4: You need the whole world to believe, but you never will.
Speaker 4: And he says, she saved me. The solution for me
Speaker 4: was accepting what I could not change. I was still struggling.
Speaker 4: I was still living with anxiety. I still hated my body.
Speaker 4: But was this the answer? Was it really the answer?
Speaker 4: It wasn't. I needed time to time and to prioritize
Speaker 4: my life more important. Chatlenges came. Part of growing up
Speaker 4: is real resalizing. Sometimes things hurt your life can't stop
Speaker 4: when things are difficult. Gender affirming treatment keeps you stuck
Speaker 4: in never ending acceptance and validation, trying to be what
Speaker 4: you cannot be, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7: Well, guys, a lot of people are getting excited because
Speaker 7: Spotify is sent to release their Spotify Wrapped playlist.
Speaker 2: Any day now, Yeah, which will tell everyone what they
Speaker 2: listen to most this year.
Speaker 7: In fact, the company releases all sorts of data about
Speaker 7: their users.
Speaker 2: It's pretty interesting. Check this out first out.
Speaker 7: Sixty percent make a Christmas playlist to enjoy at home.
Speaker 7: Forty percent just take a seat on the floor at
Speaker 7: CBS in September and listen. Thirty percent have a Spotify
Speaker 7: family plan.
Speaker 2: Seventy percent told their dad to use it.
Speaker 7: A month later, he said, I can't find the Eagles
Speaker 7: on Shopify that day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids are on my Spotify, so all our
Speaker 1: listening gets jumbled together, so I get fed stuff I
Speaker 1: never want to listen to, and vice versa. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: is an Apple shaped music service that I have the
Speaker 1: same problem with this. I get my daughter's musical tastes
Speaker 1: sent my way.
Speaker 2: Hey Joe, we've compiled a playlist just for you.
Speaker 4: Do a Lippa and Taylor Swift. Oh great, thanks, thanks
Speaker 4: for nothing. As problems go, this is a relatively minor one.
Speaker 4: But the way our clock works here, we have to
Speaker 4: take breaks at a mandatory time at the bottom of
Speaker 4: the hour. And so I had a restaurant and I
Speaker 4: couldn't finish. This guy's incredibly moving, personalized why I didn't transition?
Speaker 4: How glad I am Twitter thread, an older trans person
Speaker 4: counseled him not to do it, and he didn't, and
Speaker 4: he writes, m M, I'll skip to the end. The
Speaker 4: solution for me was accepting what I could not change.
Speaker 4: I was still struggling, I was still living with anxiety.
Speaker 4: I still hated my body. But was this the answer?
Speaker 4: Was it really the answer? It wasn't. I needed time
Speaker 4: and to prioritize my life. More important challenges came. There's
Speaker 4: no right way to handle this experience. But transition is
Speaker 4: such a permanent and drastic solution, one that is no
Speaker 4: guarantee of peace. The longer you wait, the more difficult
Speaker 4: it is. The faster you rush it, the more likely
Speaker 4: you'll regret it. There's a better way. Part of growing
Speaker 4: up is realizing sometimes things hurt. Your life can't stop.
Speaker 4: When things are difficult, You've got to find a way forward.
Speaker 4: Gender affirming treatment quote unquote keeps you stuck in never
Speaker 4: ending acceptance and validation and trying to be what you
Speaker 4: cannot be. I'm grateful every day I did not transition.
Speaker 4: I didn't give up a future I could never have
Speaker 4: imagined for myself. I didn't trap myself. I didn't find
Speaker 4: out too late that it wasn't the answer to my pain.
Speaker 4: Someone who knew told me the truth. That's why I
Speaker 4: speak out today. And well done, sir, I appreciate your
Speaker 4: candor and your courage.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what the Supreme Court justices
Speaker 1: think of this. I don't know how up on the
Speaker 1: whole trans thing they are. I mean, a lot of
Speaker 1: them are pretty old. It's got to be pretty shocking
Speaker 1: to them, the fact that it's happening.
Speaker 4: In Yeah, and there are a lot of these things,
Speaker 4: like the critical race theory, the Black Lives Matter deal,
Speaker 4: it's all related. It's all postmodernism neomarks as well, and
Speaker 4: the radical gender theory stuff that the folks who are
Speaker 4: trying to promote this are good at selling it. They
Speaker 4: soft pedal the ugly stuff, and they really twist and
Speaker 4: sugar coat either the data or the good it does,
Speaker 4: or that sort of thing. And so if you just
Speaker 4: do a drive by look at some of these issues,
Speaker 4: you can really get led down the garden path. And
Speaker 4: I'm kind of concerned that that might happen with the justices.
Speaker 4: Once you start digging into the stuff, you realize how
Speaker 4: insitious it is. Speaking of which, The New York Times
Speaker 4: Jeremy Peters wrote a piece, and he happened to say,
Speaker 4: to get on the wrong side of transgender activists is
Speaker 4: often to endure their unsparing criticism. You're a Nazi, You're
Speaker 4: a hater. Blah blah blah uh, and then he mentions
Speaker 4: When JK. Rowling said that denying any relationship between sex
Speaker 4: and biology was deeply misogynistic and regressive, a prominent group
Speaker 4: accused her of betraying real feminism. Angry critics posted videos
Speaker 4: of themselves burning her books. Blah blah blah. Well, Jake
Speaker 4: came out and wrote, the rewriting of history begins. Opponents
Speaker 4: of gender ideology haven't merely quote endured unsparing criticism. I
Speaker 4: haven't simply been told I betrayed real feminism or received
Speaker 4: a few book burning videos. I've been sent thousands of
Speaker 4: threats of murder, rape and violence. She talks about her
Speaker 4: children being doxed, Oh, my god, threatened. I could write
Speaker 4: a twenty thousand word essay on what the consequences have
Speaker 4: been to me and my family, and what we've endured
Speaker 4: is nothing compared to the harm done to others.
Speaker 2: That essay would include a wizard and a magical young
Speaker 2: boy and be incredibly readable.
Speaker 4: Yes, by standing up to the movement that relies on
Speaker 4: threats of violence, ostracization, and guilt by association, all of
Speaker 4: us have been smeared and defamed, and many have lost
Speaker 4: their livelihoods. Some have been physically assaulted by transactivists. Female
Speaker 4: politicians have been forced to hire personal security on the
Speaker 4: advice of police. The news that one of the leading's
Speaker 4: UK ender chronologists, doctor Hillary cass, was advised not to
Speaker 4: travel by public transport for her own safety, should shame
Speaker 4: anyone who let this insanity.
Speaker 2: Run a mock.
Speaker 4: Insanity is correct, Yeah, yeah, Now the political landscape has
Speaker 4: shifted and some have been riding high on their own supplier,
Speaker 4: waking up with a hell of a hangover. They've started
Speaker 4: wondering whether calling left wing feminists who wanted all female
Speaker 4: rape centers calling them.
Speaker 2: Nazis was such a smart strategy.
Speaker 4: Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing
Speaker 4: their daughters of sporting opportunities might sort of have a point.
Speaker 4: Possibly letting any man who says I'm a woman into
Speaker 4: the locker room with twelve year old girls could have
Speaker 4: a downside.
Speaker 1: After all, when this is all over and I think
Speaker 1: the end is coming of it having the power that
Speaker 1: it has, it'll it'll still live on in you know,
Speaker 1: tiny segments.
Speaker 4: But growing in democratic run government circles for instance.
Speaker 2: Oh, it can't last. At least it's going to be
Speaker 2: agree with you.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a pariah of an ideology soon,
Speaker 1: I think, and that will doom Gavin Newsom ever running
Speaker 1: for president because the whole Kamala Harris ad where she
Speaker 1: sits there and says, yeah, I think sex changes for
Speaker 1: illegals is a good idea, and she wouldn't never walked
Speaker 1: away from that. Gavin Newsom's got like ten of those. Yes,
Speaker 1: the banning parents from finding out about their kids at school,
Speaker 1: or you know, taxpayer funded paying for it, and all
Speaker 1: kinds women in sports, men and women's sports, all this
Speaker 1: stuff he'd have to answer.
Speaker 2: For, like a whole bunch of these. He's dooming. You're
Speaker 2: right at a time when people are gonna be like,
Speaker 2: no way. Yeah.
Speaker 4: This is why I always say run gaff go ahead
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 1: Speak of a Democratic party and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I just saw Chuck Todd of formerly Meet the Press
Speaker 1: NBC their political analysts saying it was a terrible mistake
Speaker 1: for Joe Biden to pardon Hunder the way he did.
Speaker 2: And to that this is out today.
Speaker 1: Whatever group it is, it keeps track of the percentage
Speaker 1: of people that call themselves Republicans or Democrats out with
Speaker 1: their latest numbers, and for the first time since Watergate,
Speaker 1: Independents are in number two. There are most of the
Speaker 1: highest number mid thirties Republicans. Then you got kind of
Speaker 1: lower thirties independence Democrats in third place. One of the
Speaker 1: major parties is in third place for the first time
Speaker 1: since Watergate because of the analysis from the Washington Examiner. Anyway,
Speaker 1: is that's the sort of damage the Biden administration did
Speaker 1: with all their crazy s over the last four years.
Speaker 1: These people didn't leave the party. The party left them.
Speaker 1: They are the third party now is the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: That won't last, but for now that's where it is interesting,
Speaker 1: not surprising. Nice job, Joe Biden, who should be on
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore driving your party into third party status.
Speaker 4: What's the opposite of Mount Rushmore? We need to have
Speaker 4: an opposite of that Mount crap more.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday that I'd canceled all my streaming services
Speaker 1: to try to get my kids, particularly one kid, watching
Speaker 1: less stuff on those and finding other things to do
Speaker 1: with his life. And I'd been threatening that for a
Speaker 1: long time, and he hadn't been very motivated to come
Speaker 1: up with some other things.
Speaker 4: To do.
Speaker 1: And I said, I'll just cancel the mom We did
Speaker 1: get an email from somebody who said, there are other
Speaker 1: ways to do it. I just you know, change the
Speaker 1: password and not give them the password and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. I like the giant gesture. Just we
Speaker 1: don't have them anymore. We just don't have them anymore.
Speaker 1: We don't have to do we don't have Hulu, we
Speaker 1: don't we just don't have that stuff anymore.
Speaker 4: It's it's got some real dramatic weight too. Y. Plus
Speaker 4: it's gonna save you like a median salary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sure, I was going.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: I knew it was a lot.
Speaker 1: Remember there was a study last year so it said
Speaker 1: people underestimate by like two thirds how much they're spending
Speaker 1: on the streaming services.
Speaker 2: And it's true.
Speaker 1: When I canceled them all, I was like, I've got
Speaker 1: this one and that one and that one and that.
Speaker 4: One, and what does that add up to. I'm laughing
Speaker 4: with regret, and I need to do this. I really
Speaker 4: need to do this.
Speaker 2: The other thing, I just do it.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying I'm gonna cancel anything, but I've got
Speaker 4: to reckon with this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well it's a clever ploy plan strategy they all came
Speaker 1: up with, and it works pretty well. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a low enough amount of money that you think, eh,
Speaker 1: where was that eighteen dollars a month, fifty cents a
Speaker 1: day when I'm not going to have this for fifty
Speaker 1: cents a day. But there's just like ninety different things
Speaker 1: like that out there. You know, your gym membership and
Speaker 1: your Netflix, and your subscription for whatever's in your car
Speaker 1: so you can listen to satellite radio. It's just there's
Speaker 1: so many of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, Michael, you can.
Speaker 8: I give your son a chance to earn the services back,
Speaker 8: like one at a time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did say, you know, we find some
Speaker 2: other things to do.
Speaker 1: He's he's close to paniced about it.
Speaker 2: It'll be good, though, It'll be good.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The psychological addiction of the things we do and
Speaker 4: enjoy from glancing at our smartphones constantly for that little
Speaker 4: shot of endorphins on the oh horrible screens and all,
Speaker 4: it's undeniable. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He watches long form shows on NETFL so I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's the little shot of endorphin. Thing. Addiction
Speaker 1: is just like easy, but I the little shot of
Speaker 1: endorphin thing. I've got so bad. I don't recognize that
Speaker 1: in him, but man, I've got it bad. And they're
Speaker 1: so good at the freaking algorithms. If I open up
Speaker 1: my phone to YouTube and I'm gonna watch a news segment,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna search on it, but it's got right in
Speaker 1: front of me. Oh, a Bob Dylan interview I've never
Speaker 1: seen before. It's only forty five seconds long. Me let
Speaker 1: me click on that, or just it knows what I want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And across all the different platforms, it's stealing the information
Speaker 1: to figure out, oh, you shop for what?
Speaker 2: The other day, here's a.
Speaker 1: YouTube video about that. God damn it's it's it's good.
Speaker 1: They're good at that, bastards. Yeah, it really, it really
Speaker 1: troubles me. On the flight the other day, I tweeted
Speaker 1: out a picture I had a heart an actual paper
Speaker 1: book with me for the first time in years, because
Speaker 1: I read everything on my phone, but I had an
Speaker 1: actual paper book. Part of it is because of the
Speaker 1: CLR that I got at. I got done a while
Speaker 1: back to get my eyesight better, and so now it's
Speaker 1: just easier to read paper books. And but somebody I
Speaker 1: tweeted that out and somebody responded with, I give you
Speaker 1: ten minutes before you grab your phone to say I
Speaker 1: wonder what's going on. And I'm glad I read that
Speaker 1: because it stopped me. But I was fighting that. I
Speaker 1: was fighting that the whole time I was reading the book.
Speaker 1: Is Ah, jeez, I could just grab this phone and
Speaker 1: I would get and it's just kind of like a
Speaker 1: comfortable feeling of something good would happen. And it's those
Speaker 1: endorphins and dopamine and everything like that. But it's just
Speaker 1: like it's right there. It's like a donut or something.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing how powerful that is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've always said that the whole people pretending shame
Speaker 4: is a bad saying. I mean, it can be a
Speaker 4: bad thing if it's in excess or company.
Speaker 2: We need more shame.
Speaker 4: I've been saying that, Yes, exactly, Shame is the only
Speaker 4: reason I'm not in prison.
Speaker 2: Up with shame. More shame.
Speaker 4: If you're not ashamed, to be ashamed of that, if
Speaker 4: you're not ashamed, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I absolutely need more shame.
Speaker 1: I hope it becomes like smoking to where you would
Speaker 1: kind of want to hide that from people because it's
Speaker 1: a bad look.
Speaker 2: Staring at your phone.
Speaker 1: That would be nice if that became like smoking, or
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to be seeing a person
Speaker 1: on the plane just staring at your phone. No, you
Speaker 1: want to have a book or a magazine, or you're
Speaker 1: practicing your cello or whatever it is you're doing.
Speaker 4: But I think if you're not ashamed, you should be
Speaker 4: ashamed of that is right up there with if you
Speaker 4: don't know what introspection is, you should take a long,
Speaker 4: hard look at yourself.
Speaker 2: We will finish strong. Next.
Speaker 9: We're getting some new details about that Trump Trudeau dinner
Speaker 9: from two people who were at the table. We are
Speaker 9: told that when Trudeau told President like Trump that new
Speaker 9: tariffs would kill the Canadian economy, Trump joked to him
Speaker 9: that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the US
Speaker 9: to the tune of one hundred billion dollars a year,
Speaker 9: then maybe Canada should become the fifty first state and
Speaker 9: Trudeau could become its governor.
Speaker 2: I love that story.
Speaker 1: You have to picture it with Trump saying it the
Speaker 1: way Trump would say it, not the way Peter Deucey
Speaker 1: presented it, like it was the Magna carta or something.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: And I'm told that Trudeau laughed uneasily.
Speaker 2: Sure he did.
Speaker 1: So another major nominee of Donald Trump might pull out.
Speaker 1: That would be Pete Hegzeth, Secretary of Defense. I don't
Speaker 1: have any idea if that's good or bad. But Lindsey
Speaker 1: Graham made some noises yesterday that we need a secretary
Speaker 1: Defense that women joining the military can respect. And it
Speaker 1: didn't sound good, and only four Republican senators need to
Speaker 1: say no for it to go down in flames. And
Speaker 1: so the news that's out from the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: is that Trump's looking at Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida.
Speaker 2: Do you think Ron de Santis wants it?
Speaker 4: I think he would think seriously about it. Military guy, yeah,
Speaker 4: very bright and capable as an administrator, but running your
Speaker 4: home state the second term is, you know, pretty cool job.
Speaker 4: He seems to be pretty into making his home state
Speaker 4: as good as possible.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he wants it.
Speaker 4: And it's been incredibly effective at it too. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know. That's an interesting question. I know there are
Speaker 4: other people who are who are also being considered.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to say.
Speaker 4: I guess they're talking about Jony Ernst, maybe the Senator
Speaker 4: or Eldridge Colby, who was a former Pentagon official and
Speaker 4: an ally of JD Vance. They all sound you capable,
Speaker 4: and Sammart, Have we ever elected I don't think we
Speaker 4: have ever elected a secretary of defense president, but that
Speaker 4: seems like a pretty good thing to have on your resume.
Speaker 4: Two term governor of Florida and Secretary of Defense running
Speaker 4: for pres then is run DeSantis?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I would agree.
Speaker 4: Uh, and answer to your first question, not that I'm
Speaker 4: aware of George hw Bush ran the CIA, correct, but
Speaker 4: he wasn't sec deaf Nope. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, and I I like, I don't know that much
Speaker 1: about Hezeth, but I would feel pretty comfortable with Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio's secretary of State and DeSantis secretary of Defense if
Speaker 1: things could continue to be as ugly as they are
Speaker 1: for the next four years.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: One of Trump's problems is that he appoints people like
Speaker 4: I buy stuff after two cocktails at night on the internet.
Speaker 2: It's you gotta wait till the next day.
Speaker 4: If it seemed like a good idea, now, it'll be
Speaker 4: a good idea in the morning.
Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thought from everybody. On the crew
Speaker 4: to wrap things up for the day. There is our
Speaker 4: technical director of Michael Angelo. Michael talked to us, I'm.
Speaker 8: Just trying to think of things that Jack's sons could
Speaker 8: do instead of watching TV. I've come up with Jack's puppetry,
Speaker 8: board games, any old timey thing, a slinky about a slinky.
Speaker 1: I'm going to convince them to give up Netflix for
Speaker 1: board games.
Speaker 4: Katie Greener esteemed musewoman as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7: I will be starting an OnlyFans page where I step
Speaker 7: on cockroaches and low first.
Speaker 2: So awesome, offers the hottest footwear. Good choice, Jack.
Speaker 1: A final thought for us, I think is a good
Speaker 1: one for the eating season that we're in right now.
Speaker 1: Is everybody what is they say every year the average
Speaker 1: person gains five pounds or something like that. I gained
Speaker 1: three and a half. I had to move to a
Speaker 1: different hole on my belt. I weigh myself every day.
Speaker 1: That's one stark reality. But the fact that I had
Speaker 1: to go to a brand new hole on my belt
Speaker 1: that clearly had never had the little thing through the
Speaker 1: hole before, that's a message.
Speaker 2: My final thought is a little breaking news.
Speaker 4: According to the media, it appears that the Supreme Court
Speaker 4: is inclined to uphold the Tennis Lee law banning cruel
Speaker 4: experiments on confused children who momentarily think they're the other sex.
Speaker 1: But that would only mean that states can do that.
Speaker 1: States like California could still allow it. Yes, until people
Speaker 1: wake up to the horror of it. Yes, it will
Speaker 1: claim more victims, and that's the shame. Armstrong and Getty
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Speaker 1: We will see you tomorrow with more news of the day.
Speaker 1: God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong in Getty. Their behavior there has been nothing
Speaker 2: short of thuggish.
Speaker 4: Yah.
Speaker 8: I don't think you go through that type of experience
Speaker 8: in doing emerged change.
Speaker 1: I expected more pathetic spectacle.
Speaker 2: You're locking up my toothpaste. What in the hell heck
Speaker 2: are we talking about? So let's go with a bang.
Speaker 2: God is a Republican? Take two? God is a republic
Speaker 2: Take three? Michael. How much tape do we have? Probably
Speaker 2: on a check and that I note. Thanks you all
Speaker 2: very much. Armstrong and Getty