Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettati and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1: The President did tell reporters about a major development out
Speaker 1: of the Middle East, the Hoothy's agreeing.
Speaker 2: To stop targeting US vessels.
Speaker 1: The Iran backed militia had snarled global trade by attacking
Speaker 1: ships in the Red Sea for more than a year,
Speaker 1: saying it was in protest of the war in Gaza.
Speaker 1: The President announcing in exchange, He'll suspend the US strikes
Speaker 1: against the Houthies.
Speaker 3: We will stop the bombings, and they have capitulated, but
Speaker 3: more importantly they we will take their word.
Speaker 1: But the Houthy's vout is still targeted. Is real overnight
Speaker 1: bond and airporting Yemen after a Hoothy strike, you're tel.
Speaker 4: Aviv, Okay. So that's kind of interesting. What I really
Speaker 4: wanted to play is the way this played out there.
Speaker 4: So this is Trump sitting in the Oval Office with
Speaker 4: the Canadian Prime Minister sitting there wishing the whole thing
Speaker 4: was over. Trump was taking questions about the Hoofy thing
Speaker 4: because the story had just broken and this is the
Speaker 4: way it went.
Speaker 3: We had some very good news last night. The Hooties
Speaker 3: have announced that they are not or they've announced to
Speaker 3: us at least, that they don't want to fight anymore.
Speaker 3: They just don't want to fight, and we will honor that,
Speaker 3: and we will we will stop the bombings and they
Speaker 3: have capitulated. But more importantly they we will take their word.
Speaker 3: They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore.
Speaker 3: And that's what the purpose of what we were doing.
Speaker 4: So that's an interesting way to announce that, I thought.
Speaker 4: And then this question from a reporter.
Speaker 2: He talks a thing more about.
Speaker 4: The deal if you fetch.
Speaker 2: No, it's not a deal.
Speaker 3: They've said, please don't bomb us anymore, and we're not
Speaker 3: going to attack your ships.
Speaker 2: Wait did you hear about that?
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter where I hear the very good source.
Speaker 3: I could, very very good source. Would you say, Marco,
Speaker 3: I would say pretty good, right, j D A very
Speaker 3: good source.
Speaker 2: Trump He's a he's unique. Yeah, I'd say, yeah. The
Speaker 2: Huthis are going to continue to lob ordnance at Israel.
Speaker 2: By the way, in Israeli ships.
Speaker 4: I wonder what we told him, like, probably something along
Speaker 4: the lines of look you can shoot at Israel.
Speaker 2: That's what you do. I get it. You can't be
Speaker 2: stopping shipping. We can't put up with that. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: got fifty thousand more of those missiles we've sent your way,
Speaker 2: So up to you. I'll bet, I'll bet that's close
Speaker 2: to what we said. Yeah, essentially, Yeah, And I was
Speaker 2: just reading. I hope it holds. I think if I'm
Speaker 2: a HOUTHI.
Speaker 4: I agree with Trump because I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 4: let that go on.
Speaker 2: You're not going to interrupt international shipping anymore. That's over now.
Speaker 2: I just read a piece where this frees us up
Speaker 2: for the whole attack in Iran, which is still coming.
Speaker 2: One of these days.
Speaker 4: One of these days, we're all going to wake up
Speaker 4: in Israel with our help, is going to attack Iran
Speaker 4: and it's going to be the biggest military thing we've
Speaker 4: done in this country in a quarter century.
Speaker 2: That's gonna happen one of these days. Right. Meanwhile, Israel
Speaker 2: has the green light to lob ordinance back of the
Speaker 2: hoothies if they want, with our support and the you know, encouragement.
Speaker 2: So a different topic.
Speaker 4: I wanted to get to this. This is the most
Speaker 4: interesting thing I came across yesterday. I sent it to Joe.
Speaker 4: I found it so interesting. So I don't have a
Speaker 4: full handed grasp on woke right in what's going on there.
Speaker 4: It's a little slippery for me, so I don't want
Speaker 4: to like get into that argument completely. But James Lindsay,
Speaker 4: who we like on this show, he gave a little
Speaker 4: speech yesterday and a bunch of people were tweeting part
Speaker 4: of it, saying this.
Speaker 2: About our kids out there today.
Speaker 4: Conservative parents all over the country, who, by the grace
Speaker 4: of God didn't lose their daughters to trans because of
Speaker 4: the woke left, are now seeing their sons lured toward
Speaker 4: Nazism by.
Speaker 2: The woke right.
Speaker 4: You can leave woke right out of it if that
Speaker 4: term bothers you, and the justifications are just as bad
Speaker 4: in resentment and on the other side. And Jordan Peterson,
Speaker 4: who either you know or don't, his response to that
Speaker 4: was beware of any of these movements that are motivated
Speaker 4: by resentment, And that really struck me as like a
Speaker 4: measuring stick for all this stuff going forward. If the
Speaker 4: motivation of the movement as you're so resentful of the
Speaker 4: way you're being attacked, as opposed to a more. Even
Speaker 4: if you are being attacked as opposed to a more
Speaker 4: positive here's what we can accomplish, spin that tends to
Speaker 4: drive you to do bad things.
Speaker 2: Right, right if your motivation is the grievance as opposed
Speaker 2: to a goal an ideal. Yeah, there's subtlety in this,
Speaker 2: Yeah there is.
Speaker 4: But I do think that we're maybe in the midst
Speaker 4: of this, and it is a problem. The idea that
Speaker 4: your daughters in high school and college they were They're
Speaker 4: coming at them hard with the whole hayar trans and
Speaker 4: men are evil and all the different things, and it's
Speaker 4: so popular in college, and it worked on a lot
Speaker 4: of people, unfortunately.
Speaker 2: But now the.
Speaker 4: Guys who have been attacked I kind of see this
Speaker 4: in my own kids and they're friends. Guys who have
Speaker 4: been attacked for so long as being you know, toxic
Speaker 4: masculinity and all these different sort of stuff have built
Speaker 4: up a pretty big head esteem of resentment themselves.
Speaker 2: And are well earned, well earned.
Speaker 4: But resentment politics or resentment movements aren't good for society,
Speaker 4: and I don't know how we get ourselves.
Speaker 2: They're not good for you as an individual either, No,
Speaker 2: absolutely not.
Speaker 4: I don't know how we get ourselves out of this,
Speaker 4: but it is something to be on the watch for.
Speaker 4: I know I'm going to It really struck a chord
Speaker 4: with me because, like I said, I see this in
Speaker 4: my kids and some of their friends, and how resentful
Speaker 4: they are and a lot of that stuff that gets
Speaker 4: pushed toward them. Yeah, which makes you susceptible to a
Speaker 4: you know, some crazy ideas.
Speaker 2: Right, It's happened over and over in history. We don't
Speaker 2: need to point out the most obvious examples of it,
Speaker 2: but yeah, and to watch the other side, whatever that
Speaker 2: other side is, break the laws of God and man
Speaker 2: and decency over and over again, and then be told
Speaker 2: we don't break the laws of God, men decency. And
Speaker 2: you're being told by your gurus, your recruiters that well,
Speaker 2: you're just gonna lose. Then you're gonna lose and lose
Speaker 2: like the oldsters do. Like the oldsters did, they got
Speaker 2: their institutions taken over you. You're gonna cling to your
Speaker 2: marquis of Queensberry rules, to your classical liberal principles. You're
Speaker 2: gonna lose. So hey, we're dropping the gloves and we're
Speaker 2: gonna fight dirty, and all these old principles are out
Speaker 2: the window. We're gonna beat the other side, you know,
Speaker 2: the problem being the old, old old saying, be careful
Speaker 2: when ye fight monsters, that ye do not become a
Speaker 2: monster yourself, right, And it ends up definitely a race
Speaker 2: to the bottom. Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, it's easy to understand.
Speaker 2: And my god, if I were a college student right
Speaker 2: now enduring what even moderately left to conservative young men,
Speaker 2: particularly white young men, are having to put up with,
Speaker 2: I could see myself being an angry militant. I really could, right.
Speaker 4: And then there's plenty of people out there who make
Speaker 4: a lot of money by the way, or power and
Speaker 4: or money off of convincing you you need to go
Speaker 4: scorched earth again to the other side after all these
Speaker 4: years of them saying bad things about you, And I
Speaker 4: am concerned about that as the future. I don't know
Speaker 4: if there's any stopping this.
Speaker 2: There's perhaps tapping the brake and steering it a little
Speaker 2: bit and just persisting in the message of again, you
Speaker 2: don't want to become the very sort of monster that
Speaker 2: you're decrying, because you will become that monster. You will
Speaker 2: lose all sense of proportion, you will lose all sense
Speaker 2: of decency, and you will not in any way accomplish
Speaker 2: anything except defeat your enemies. But it'll be a new
Speaker 2: horror and you will then be absolutely deserving of the decapitation,
Speaker 2: not literally obviously that comes your way. That's the problem
Speaker 2: with giving in to that temptation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm somewhat concerned that I or we are being
Speaker 4: so cloaked in this conversation that some of you aren't
Speaker 4: following it.
Speaker 2: I don't, I just don't.
Speaker 4: I just don't want to use specific examples of people
Speaker 4: or things because they're so hot in some cases.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and frankly I don't. I don't need the headache
Speaker 2: of dealing with it, right, I just h Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's inviting, you know, it's kicking hornets nests. There's no
Speaker 2: point we can we can accomplish what we're trying to
Speaker 2: accomplish a different way.
Speaker 4: But we got to find a way to keep our
Speaker 4: young males from being as you know, red faced screaming
Speaker 4: on the streets with just vile hatred against the left,
Speaker 4: as the crazy woke left has been at you know,
Speaker 4: our young men for the past quite a few years. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it's funny. I just retweeted something that
Speaker 2: was that's the wrong one. Uh. A member of the
Speaker 2: so called uh alt right? Uh what do we just
Speaker 2: call them? A?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well right? Whatever? You know? They the name morphs every
Speaker 2: so often and it doesn't really matter. But has this
Speaker 2: meme going uh? And it's from the Lord of the
Speaker 2: Rings and instead of the Ring of power, somebody's grasping
Speaker 2: the ring of winning. And the conservative says, cast it
Speaker 2: into the fire, destroy it. The wolkrit says no, the
Speaker 2: point of retweeting, well, James lindsay you got to Lindsey says, uh,
Speaker 2: weird self own lmao. The entire point of the movie
Speaker 2: and the Ring is that no human being can be
Speaker 2: trusted with that sort of power because it will pervert
Speaker 2: you and turn you into a monster. Did you watch
Speaker 2: the movie? Do you get that? That's not a cool
Speaker 2: statement of defiance. That's a statement that I am so wildly,
Speaker 2: blindly lacking in wisdom. I've completely missed the point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you're if you're a young male that
Speaker 4: feels like the world's against you and you're on employed
Speaker 4: or underemployed.
Speaker 2: Can't get laid constantly berated by people for being born
Speaker 2: a bad person? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right, it's a lot easier to be viciously angry at
Speaker 4: that crowd than to have any sort of positive outlook
Speaker 4: on trying to overcome it. I mean, I certainly understand
Speaker 4: that it's human nature, agree completely, but we.
Speaker 2: Got understanding something is not the same as condoning it.
Speaker 2: I think it's important we do both. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: I have worked very, very hard to actually understand the
Speaker 2: process by which in the mindset in which confused adolescent
Speaker 2: girls get swayed to the whole. I'm gender queer, I'm bisexual,
Speaker 2: I'm transgender. Even when they're pre sexual, they're like pre
Speaker 2: adolescent to adolescent to teenagers. Not just I just don't
Speaker 2: want to condemn it. I want to understand it because
Speaker 2: that's the only way to fight it effectively. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: we have to understand that urge and which one is it.
Speaker 2: Sympathize or empathize with it. Sympathize with it, I get it.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean I approve of it. But if you
Speaker 2: don't get it, you're not gonna be able to help
Speaker 2: people with it. I don't know if that made any sense.
Speaker 4: If it did, and you have any comment, our text
Speaker 4: line is four one five, two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 6: Reason I stop here you are, you are suspended with
Speaker 6: a warrant for your arrest. And the raccoon her meth pipe.
Speaker 6: That's right, her mes pipe. He's playing with a meth
Speaker 6: pipe right now. There's no trying to smoke it. Hurry,
Speaker 6: there's no one.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, enough fun in games. So who
Speaker 2: grabbed that video? Is that yours? Katie?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 2: Do I understand it right?
Speaker 4: That the the the creeps who are driving on meth
Speaker 4: when they get pulled by the cops are laughing about
Speaker 4: the fact that there's a raccoon trying to smoke the
Speaker 4: meth pipe.
Speaker 2: Or is that the cops laughing? That was the cop
Speaker 2: laughing meth pipe raccoon wait back to his room only
Speaker 2: to smoke some more ja hugs. Yeah.
Speaker 5: He pulled the woman over for a traffic violation, told
Speaker 5: her she had a warrant, gets her out of the
Speaker 5: car and looks in and there's a raccoon with a
Speaker 5: meth pipe.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. You don't often see well, a raccoon
Speaker 2: with a meth pipe.
Speaker 4: If you haven't seen the picture, it looks exactly like
Speaker 4: if you told AI create a picture of me a
Speaker 4: raccoon sitting in the front seat of a car smoking myth.
Speaker 2: It's it's exactly what it looks like now. I once
Speaker 2: came across a b of us smoking marijuana and wants
Speaker 2: us on a possum snorting blow. But I've never seen
Speaker 2: raccoon with a methpipe.
Speaker 4: These are odd times, Chick. This has got to be
Speaker 4: the reckoning or was something.
Speaker 2: Checked the Book of Revelations? Is uh raccoon mentioned in there?
Speaker 2: And obliquely very end times ish? Yeah, we're talking about
Speaker 2: this briefly earlier. I feel like there is a generalized
Speaker 2: anxiety slash anger that's like infected everything dealing with it
Speaker 2: in my personal life, societally in the United States, college campuses, globally,
Speaker 2: UH incumbents, the standard political parties being tossed, extremist ideologies
Speaker 2: being embraced, like all over, birth rates plunging. I think
Speaker 2: it's a symptom of the same thing. I just don't
Speaker 2: know what the thing is. Is it we've gone away
Speaker 2: from God. I'm not a very religious guy, but is
Speaker 2: it something like that? I don't know.
Speaker 4: And COVID exacerbations, yes, yeah, yeah, I think there's something there.
Speaker 4: There should be more like bigger picture than just individual
Speaker 4: countries or whatever, just like a global what's going on here?
Speaker 4: Everybody's everybody's depressed, angry, doesn't think their government works, stopped
Speaker 4: having kids.
Speaker 2: What the hell right used to be? You know, for generations,
Speaker 2: raccoons had get up when the sun went down, they'd
Speaker 2: rifle through your trash. They'd take what they needed, they'd
Speaker 2: go back to their kids. Now you got them wasted
Speaker 2: high on people's front seats, right, Seane, what's the point right,
Speaker 2: living in their stone raccoon camps stealing people's bicycles? All right?
Speaker 2: That was half incredibly serious and half ridiculous. I just see,
Speaker 2: I got a laugh to keep from crying, like poor
Speaker 2: Abe Lincoln. Huh, So we're not for laughter?
Speaker 4: I think I would go mad as a guy who
Speaker 4: drives a Tesla cyber truck. I like the videos of
Speaker 4: raccoons trying to get into cyber trucks because they think
Speaker 4: they're trash dumpsters.
Speaker 2: Now that's a subgenre. I find those entertaining because they
Speaker 2: look like trash dumpsters. Oh, you want to talk about
Speaker 2: the inexplicable. We probably don't have time for this, but
Speaker 2: I've given up caring. Uh, how do you like this headline.
Speaker 2: They spend hours decorating their fridge shelves. It's the new
Speaker 2: online trend of refrigerator decorating.
Speaker 4: Well, you don't have kids, you gotta low you gotta
Speaker 4: kill a lot of time doing something.
Speaker 2: It started with emptying the contents of a refrigerator, followed
Speaker 2: by a deep clean than the staging. Mustard, soy, sauce,
Speaker 2: and other condiments were artfully repackaged in stylish containers. Baby
Speaker 2: carrots were submerged in water, arranged in a decorative container,
Speaker 2: and given pride of place on the top shelf. Small
Speaker 2: pumpkins were scattered here and there.
Speaker 4: How am I so busy? And there are people with
Speaker 4: time to do this? It's called fridge scaping, jack, That's
Speaker 4: what I heard. Doesn't that make you just want to
Speaker 4: effing punch somebody?
Speaker 2: It sure does mean folks, I don't know about you.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I want to slap somebody hard.
Speaker 2: Fridge scaping now, Oh oh's right. That took the wind
Speaker 2: out of me. We got to take a break just
Speaker 2: to catch our winds. We'll be back with more.
Speaker 7: Armstrong and Geeddy Motown legend Smoky Robinson facing allegations of
Speaker 7: sexual misconduct for women coming forward to final a fifty
Speaker 7: million dollar lossuit against him. The complaint accusing the eighty
Speaker 7: five year old singer of alleged sexual battery, false imprisonment,
Speaker 7: and a hostile work environment.
Speaker 2: Robinson and his representatives have yet to comment.
Speaker 4: Smokey Robinson tears of a clown. I've got sunshine on
Speaker 4: a cloudy day. That Smokey Robinson, eighty.
Speaker 2: Five years old, false imprisonment in the sexual battery and all.
Speaker 2: That's very troubling. Yeah, I'd say my girl was the temptations,
Speaker 2: wasn't it?
Speaker 5: He was?
Speaker 2: Wasn't that? Okay? I don't think many classics though many.
Speaker 2: The point remains, so many what else? Has he got?
Speaker 4: Tears?
Speaker 2: Mcclown, what else? Many other hits think would leap to mind?
Speaker 2: And yeah, wonderful anyway, So, uh, great piece just came across.
Speaker 2: John Fund, whose name may be familiar, is a national
Speaker 2: affairs columnists for the National Review, longtime conservative commentator. And
Speaker 2: Wendall Cox, who's a think tank guy. Uh, free enterprise,
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. And the headline is California's toy
Speaker 2: train hobbyists won't give up. It's about the sad and
Speaker 2: horrifying high speed rail project in California. And it's funny
Speaker 2: because at this point I'm torn between continuing to fight
Speaker 2: the unholy beast that is this theft from the taxpayers
Speaker 2: and a feeling like it's such an old topic and
Speaker 2: everything's been said, there's no point, and yet it continues.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The lesson is.
Speaker 4: There are plenty of people in and out of government
Speaker 4: that will continue something as long as you know money
Speaker 4: is changing hands. The goal disappeared years ago, and we
Speaker 4: should all be more aware of that. Yeah, are there
Speaker 4: people that still pretend they're ever going to have a
Speaker 4: bullet train? I mean, I'm they are pretending, but I
Speaker 4: don't think anybody who actually believes it.
Speaker 2: They just know this.
Speaker 4: No, this is a never ending money spicgott. If I
Speaker 4: can keep it going for like three more years, I
Speaker 4: can pay off my house and put my kids to college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, essentially, and reward our cronies and win the next
Speaker 2: couple of elections. Yeah exactly. I'll just give you a
Speaker 2: bit of it. And twenty oh eight they got there,
Speaker 2: not even fifty three percent of California voters to approve
Speaker 2: a ten stupid dollars voters. I'm looking at you geez
Speaker 2: you SAPs. Well, they got they got to had they
Speaker 2: were had they were they were conned, they got less
Speaker 2: than for fifty three percent of California voters to approve
Speaker 2: a ten billion dollar bond issue to jump start the project,
Speaker 2: which fromoters claimed would cost thirty three billion dollars, with
Speaker 2: service LA to San Francisco starting in twenty twenty. That's
Speaker 2: five years ago, folcus. And you know, the fastest trains
Speaker 2: two hundred miles per hour finish the trip and no
Speaker 2: more than two hours forty minutes tickets affordable. A full
Speaker 2: seventeen years later, the project looks more like a con
Speaker 2: artists stream than a futuristic transportation service. Boy, that is
Speaker 2: a good sentence. Yeah. Last Sunday, even the New York
Speaker 2: Times ran a lengthy piece about it, titled A Scenic
Speaker 2: Tale of Red Tape, tracking the slowest high speed train
Speaker 2: in the country. Construction is inching long on a third
Speaker 2: of the route, a mere stub between the non metropolis
Speaker 2: of Merced and Baker's feet.
Speaker 4: The fact that there is somebody right now as we speak,
Speaker 4: with a shovel working on something in theory to continue
Speaker 4: this nonsense is really amazing. But yet dollars and trade hands.
Speaker 2: Earlier today, I retweeted I think it was Bill Malugin
Speaker 2: of Fox News who retweeted and commented sarcastically on the
Speaker 2: high speed ripoff authority, saying, California high speed Rail, real progress,
Speaker 2: real jobs, real results, fifty plus major structures complete, fifteen
Speaker 2: thousand plus good paying jobs created, and the largest clean
Speaker 2: energy transportation project in the nation. Here it is California
Speaker 2: is proving that we can still build big things in America.
Speaker 2: Hashtag build California, and Bill tweeted, not one piece of
Speaker 2: track has been laid, not one, and I had an
Speaker 2: on self declownment reaches new heights. So anyway, the project
Speaker 2: is now projected to cost at least one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty eight billion dollars, and it'll be far far more.
Speaker 4: Man's progressives, I realize, are in progressive probably listening to us.
Speaker 2: But hey, progressives, why doesn't this make you mad?
Speaker 4: Doesn't this make you mad that this money isn't going
Speaker 4: to I don't know, transsurgeries are illegal something or other.
Speaker 2: Don't you have other causes you care more about that? Well,
Speaker 2: you could actually do something with you didn't exactly steal
Speaker 2: man their argument, but yes, I see your point completely.
Speaker 2: Government waste SAPs money from the programs you support. So
Speaker 2: it'll cost two hundred billion if it ever exists, and
Speaker 2: it will never exist. But officials no longer even bother
Speaker 2: predicting when San Francisco and LA will be linked? Did
Speaker 2: you know that? Friends? They won't even throw out a
Speaker 2: fake number anymore. Meanwhile, the California High Speed Ripoff Authority
Speaker 2: is virtually out of money. The funding shortfaut is nearly
Speaker 2: one hundred billion. It was supposed to cost was it
Speaker 2: supposed to cost? Total thirteen billion? I can't remember.
Speaker 4: Thirty No, thirty three, thirty three billion, and then the
Speaker 4: original thing was for ten billion, Yeah right, yeah, So
Speaker 4: now that thirty three has become one hundred and twenty
Speaker 4: eight and they lack one hundred billion of it, and
Speaker 4: federal taxpayers have already chipped in seven billion dollars to
Speaker 4: get trains boosts. The trains boosters are counting on more,
Speaker 4: but within days of being sworn in, Donald J cut
Speaker 4: off more federal funding. Good uh anyway, So now they're
Speaker 4: trying to sucker the private sector into.
Speaker 2: Investing in the Mad scheme. It's not gonna happen nobody's
Speaker 2: that stupid. You'd have to be just so profoundly stupid.
Speaker 4: Well, where are they're building using my finger quotes, where
Speaker 4: they're laying the track right now? I mean puts a
Speaker 4: light of the original plan anyway, So, as you've been
Speaker 4: pointing out for years, even if they finished it under
Speaker 4: its current plan, which god I hope they don't, it
Speaker 4: would be a regular speed train that meanders through California.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, exactly, at the cost of I mean unthinkable
Speaker 2: amounts of money.
Speaker 4: Nobody would ride it to commute from San Francisco to
Speaker 4: La and back. You might ride it because you want
Speaker 4: to ride a train through California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like Amtrak. I have a good friend who
Speaker 2: recently took a fairly significant trek on Amtrak. Sounds awesome,
Speaker 2: it is. It's a sight scene sure, no hurrying. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like if you took a dinner cruise on San
Speaker 2: Francisco Bay. It's not transportation per se. It's not efficient transportation.
Speaker 2: It's a sight seeing thing. And that's about as good
Speaker 2: as it gets. Honestly. You know, I wanted to get
Speaker 2: into but I've misplaced there. Really interesting we.
Speaker 4: Get stolen from such a it's amazing we don't have
Speaker 4: revolutions in the street.
Speaker 2: Of course, this is because the tax base is so narrow.
Speaker 2: Most people don't pay much taxes, so they don't get
Speaker 2: worked up about this. This is the only explanation. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's part of it, or or I think you know,
Speaker 2: and I've advocated that point of view a lot. But
Speaker 2: the more I think about it, I think it has
Speaker 2: more to do with the fact that people are just
Speaker 2: completely blindly unaware of the facts of what's happening and
Speaker 2: the rip off nature of it.
Speaker 4: Mean, I'm an anti violence, I don't want to, but
Speaker 4: this is you should be in the streets throwing rocks
Speaker 4: through windows sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeah. If anything would justify that sort of
Speaker 2: anger on the part of taxpayers, this would be it.
Speaker 2: But people just don't notice or they don't get riled up.
Speaker 2: I came across another study speaking of transportation, of how
Speaker 2: ludicrous it is that NASA continues to waste enormous amounts
Speaker 2: of money. They're still building like multi billion dollar per
Speaker 2: launch permanent rocket one single use rockets, while SpaceX and
Speaker 2: other companies are getting Katie Perry into spacem No no, no,
Speaker 2: are developing these multi use rockets that are a fraction
Speaker 2: of the cost and much more efficient, and blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and we.
Speaker 4: Really need to This is like the bullet train. It's
Speaker 4: the same sort of thing. It's just a people are
Speaker 4: getting money. The spending is the point. The spending is
Speaker 4: the pointing.
Speaker 2: Well, and they make the point that there are things
Speaker 2: that NASA does very well, but we really need to
Speaker 2: embrace the public private partnership thing because the and I'd
Speaker 2: like to go into detail maybe another time, but NASA
Speaker 2: has been enormously slow, bound by reams of regulations, not innovative,
Speaker 2: and once they get started down a long, slow, red
Speaker 2: tape choked road, they find it nearly impossible to abandon it.
Speaker 2: Ending something in government might be the hardest thing you
Speaker 2: could possibly accomplish. Meanwhile, over at SpaceX, they say that
Speaker 2: didn't work, Let's try this, and in about three days
Speaker 2: they've caught NASSA past them and then vaulted far into
Speaker 2: the future. So anyway, I don't know, probably preaching to
Speaker 2: the choir, but.
Speaker 5: I think you.
Speaker 2: Oh he did, Yeah, I think he wrote my Girl.
Speaker 2: Smokey Robinson wrote my Girl. It has a smoky sound. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it does. Yeah, yeah, and what an astounding singer he was,
Speaker 2: and uh what are the other hits? Perhaps a little
Speaker 2: kidnappy in his older years. No, no, I will not
Speaker 2: leap to that. I'd probably take it. I didn't Stil
Speaker 2: proven guilty for once in my life. Uh no, I
Speaker 2: have no idea.
Speaker 4: I will tell you this being with You, which was
Speaker 4: a hit like an eighty one, like long after his prime.
Speaker 2: But I love that song. Yeah, it's a good song too.
Speaker 2: What else? What else you got? You really got a
Speaker 2: hold on me? Uh Prusian? Oh baby baby, good tune
Speaker 2: tracks my tears? Oh that was? That was the one
Speaker 2: I knew is yeah?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: I second that emotion? Oh winner, Yeah, you know what
Speaker 2: witness for the prosecution Jack Loose with his accusations Armstrong.
Speaker 2: You know what I heard the other day because I
Speaker 2: geek out on this stuff a lot. It was. I
Speaker 2: wish I could remember what record it was. Was it
Speaker 2: Superstition or what a Stevie Wonders Hits? It was Stevie
Speaker 2: playing the bass guitar on that song, and it was
Speaker 2: some of the best bass playing I've ever heard in
Speaker 2: my many decades as being a bassist. It was crazy good.
Speaker 2: I mean, like nuanced and fast and cool. You know
Speaker 2: what he's like over celebrated in certain ways. So Stevie Wonder,
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder. I don't think people understand what a miraculous
Speaker 2: musician he was. Is I wonder if there could be
Speaker 2: a Smokey Robinson Diddy? Oh okay, I do you know what?
Speaker 2: I'm checking out? Michael let let captain irresponsible here, babble
Speaker 2: is nonsense? Is poor victimizing the ancient Smokey Robinson nonsense?
Speaker 2: I'm checking out, all right, We'll finish strong next. That's
Speaker 2: pretty good. And ye rarely mentioned among yacht rock classics,
Speaker 2: are very politterally cruising in that song.
Speaker 4: So we like Jason Riley around here, writes for the
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal mostly, and he's got a new book
Speaker 4: out that I have a feeling we are going to
Speaker 4: be interviewing him about at some point and somebody. A
Speaker 4: number of reviewers have said this might be the definitive
Speaker 4: book on this topic, the affirmative action myth why blacks
Speaker 4: don't need racial preferences to succeed, And it's basically a
Speaker 4: breakdown of how all of that legislation that got passed
Speaker 4: in the mid sixties mostly to try to help the
Speaker 4: black community has clearly hurt the black community, not help
Speaker 4: the black community. And this might be the book that
Speaker 4: really drives that home. But he's got all kinds of
Speaker 4: statistics to back it up. I mean, a lot of you,
Speaker 4: if you're into this topic, have been aware of it,
Speaker 4: and you remember Patrick moynahan and when he put all
Speaker 4: this stuff together. It's a tough one for a lot
Speaker 4: of people to swallow the idea that if you give
Speaker 4: people a little government help, it can often lead to
Speaker 4: the opposite outcomes that you want. But it just seems
Speaker 4: statistically true. You know, whether you're doing it with your
Speaker 4: own kids that won't leave the house, or whatever the
Speaker 4: situation is.
Speaker 2: It's just it just seems to be human nature. One
Speaker 2: of the most intriguing and troubling bits of wisdom that
Speaker 2: I think a lot of us ever learned is the
Speaker 2: idea of that it is much easier to fool people
Speaker 2: than to convince them they've been fooled. And one of
Speaker 2: the hardest things, and I've seen this so many times,
Speaker 2: and politics runs on this, especially progressive politics. It is
Speaker 2: so difficult if somebody advocates something for the right reasons
Speaker 2: with a I had the phrase in my mind a
Speaker 2: second ago. But their motivations are good, and they advocate
Speaker 2: something and they're wrong, and it doesn't work or it backfires.
Speaker 2: It's so hard to get people to admit my heart
Speaker 2: was in the right place, but that was wrong.
Speaker 4: Well, Jason Riley, as a black man, is making this
Speaker 4: about the black family and going back to the sixties.
Speaker 4: I think it might get more traction if you included,
Speaker 4: you know, white America now and seeing the exact same
Speaker 4: thing happen in Appalachia or wherever you want to look,
Speaker 4: and how government dependency is destroying those families and making
Speaker 4: things worse not better. Riley rattles off statistics in his book.
Speaker 4: Between nineteen forty and nineteen sixty, the black poverty rate
Speaker 4: in the country fell forty points from eighty seven percent
Speaker 4: to forty seven percent.
Speaker 2: Nineteen sixty.
Speaker 4: Is not only before any affirmative action started, It's during
Speaker 4: Jim Crow. It's before any major civil rights acts of
Speaker 4: the sixties had passed.
Speaker 2: It's before the DEI programs.
Speaker 4: And then they started with all the various handouts to
Speaker 4: try to make things better, and it just turned around
Speaker 4: and started going the other direction at a very fast rate.
Speaker 2: And it's horrifying. It's horrifying what it does to families.
Speaker 4: It's horrifying, waste of tax payer money because you get
Speaker 4: the opposite of what you want, a better society.
Speaker 2: It's I don't know. I hope this book gets some traction, right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and your point about black people and white people is
Speaker 2: a good one, because there are way more poor white people.
Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, if you're arguing about government programs
Speaker 2: for poverty, any objection to them always gets hauled up
Speaker 2: on the witness stand of your You're just racist against
Speaker 2: black people and helping them or something. For some reason,
Speaker 2: you're blaming them whatever. Right, you're ready with Katie Green
Speaker 2: And yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 2: to wrap things up for the day. We're the whole
Speaker 2: teams together again. Finally, Michaelangelo in the control room. Michael
Speaker 2: final thought. You know that clip about the raccoon smoking
Speaker 2: the crack pipe. Maybe I can't get one of my
Speaker 2: cats to uh like smoke a cigar or something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's worth a try. Sure, that'd be very amusing,
Speaker 2: great for Instagram. Uh, Katie Green or steven Us Woman.
Speaker 2: As a final thought, Katie, Well, I know it.
Speaker 5: Set you off earlier, but Joe, just think of all
Speaker 5: the fridgeescaping you could do with your impressive amount of confidence.
Speaker 2: I think about you got a gun, you lead me
Speaker 2: to the fridge, tell me the fridge escape. Just go
Speaker 2: ahead and shoot me Jack a final thought for us,
Speaker 2: we all know it's about balance.
Speaker 4: Balance is so hard to achieve, though, But like I
Speaker 4: never watch anything frivolous on television, like never, And I've
Speaker 4: been into the NBA the last week or so, and
Speaker 4: guess what, It's made me happier. I watch an NBA
Speaker 4: game and enjoy it instead of like some roundtable news show.
Speaker 2: And I go to bed happier. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: You gotta let the brain rest now and again, But
Speaker 2: no time for my final thought. Ah, it's a conspiracy.
Speaker 2: They're all against me, folks, all of them. I had
Speaker 2: a good one too, Oh man, I know. Armstrong and
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Speaker 2: has been hijacked by the tape Ca puff.
Speaker 7: That's what people, that's not hyperbolic, that's academically even a
Speaker 7: Washington That math doesn't work.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. There are haters. There's always gonna be heres.
Speaker 2: Man have been called worse. Okay for those of you
Speaker 2: that don't understand, you can still get on the plane.
Speaker 2: But it's a full body cavity search. It's the old
Speaker 2: squatt and cough delouse you in your hair. That's de
Speaker 2: lousing sheep dip.
Speaker 5: That I note.
Speaker 2: Thanks you all very much, Armstrong and Getty.