Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm Strong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: Well, guys, the White House is doing damage control over
Speaker 2: the military group chat scandal, and today the reporter who
Speaker 2: broke the story published all these screenshots from the chat YEP.
Speaker 2: The most humiliating part of the group chat is that
Speaker 2: some of the text messages were Green who was an Android? Yes,
Speaker 2: say what you want. This never would have happened under Biden.
Speaker 2: For starters, he didn't know how to text, So I mean.
Speaker 3: That would never hurt. And we can hear from a
Speaker 3: lot of people. Get a little montage of Republicans who
Speaker 3: are in office who aren't happy with the way this
Speaker 3: thing is played out. How would you be particularly this one.
Speaker 3: This is Roger Wicker. If you don't know who that is,
Speaker 3: Senator Roger Wicker. He is the chairman of the Armed
Speaker 3: Services Committee, which is a pretty big position, and he's
Speaker 3: a Republican from Mississippi, that is Trump country. And he said,
Speaker 3: the information is published recently appears to me to be
Speaker 3: of such a sensitive nature that, based on my knowledge,
Speaker 3: I would have wanted it classified. If mistakes were made,
Speaker 3: they should be acknowledged. It's hard to look at that
Speaker 3: list that came out yesterday and think that's not classified,
Speaker 3: or those aren't war plans as opposed to battle plans,
Speaker 3: or however you're parsing it if you're the Secretary of Defense, right,
Speaker 3: which is only keeping this story alive, which leads to this.
Speaker 3: This is Brit Hume. He's their senior political analyst over
Speaker 3: there at Fox. On how to handle a scandal.
Speaker 4: There as some fairly well established rules, if you can
Speaker 4: call them that, for how to deal with a situation
Speaker 4: like this, and the first is get the facts out
Speaker 4: as fast as you can and don't be afraid to
Speaker 4: take responsibility. I actually think in the early going the
Speaker 4: administration did pretty well on that score. You know, Mike
Speaker 4: Waltz was the fourth right saying that he took responsibility,
Speaker 4: and the president was as well, go on. But then
Speaker 4: the second rule is don't feed the story. So you know,
Speaker 4: once you've got you've made your case about what happened
Speaker 4: and you're maybe waiting for the information to service, just
Speaker 4: stop talking about it. But this administration got itself bogged
Speaker 4: down in this debate. About whether there was war plans
Speaker 4: in there or not, whether there was classified information there
Speaker 4: or not. And then you had Telsey Gabbert on Capitol
Speaker 4: Hill Force to say that, well, you know, this is
Speaker 4: the kind of information that was in that conversation that
Speaker 4: should be classified, and so that just kept the story going.
Speaker 4: And the Democrats, of course, are having a field day,
Speaker 4: and so.
Speaker 1: Are the media.
Speaker 4: And the other thing they did is they attacked the journalist. Look,
Speaker 4: I'm not a particular fan of of Goldberg or of
Speaker 4: his magazine, but he didn't do anything wrong here. He
Speaker 4: got that thing sent to him passively, he didn't do
Speaker 4: anything to get it, and then when he reported on it,
Speaker 4: he left out a lot of the details. So then
Speaker 4: they attacked him and said that he wasn't telling the
Speaker 4: truth about it, which just gave him a reason to
Speaker 4: release the details, as he did this morning. So Rule
Speaker 4: one doing okay, Rule two not so much.
Speaker 1: I have a number of thoughts on that.
Speaker 5: Number one addressed to the people who are thinking or writing, emailing, texting, Well,
Speaker 5: you guys are part of the problem. If you'd stop
Speaker 5: talking about it, it would go away. That's not true.
Speaker 5: It's just factually not true. It's a big story and
Speaker 5: there is some substance to it. And as Jack put
Speaker 5: it earlier in the show, we talked about stuff because
Speaker 5: it's interesting. I mean, it's not one hundred percent cheerleading
Speaker 5: all the time, and this is a really interesting story
Speaker 5: on a number of different levels. And secondly, what brit
Speaker 5: Hume said, the the the title to that screen is
Speaker 5: how you make scandals go away so you can do
Speaker 5: the important stuff and handling it completely wrong. But Armstrong
Speaker 5: and Getty just don't mention it. That's not going to
Speaker 5: do any good.
Speaker 3: I thought this was an interesting take from Mark Alpern
Speaker 3: in his newsletter today. However, Jeff Goldberg got on that chat.
Speaker 3: The impact has been to give the White House a
Speaker 3: full week to do stuff effectively below the radar, as
Speaker 3: distracted democrats in the dominant media focus almost entirely on
Speaker 3: the signal stuff.
Speaker 5: Oh wait a minute, eleven dimensional chess. Well, I don't
Speaker 5: think it was there feeding this intentionally. Now, I don't know.
Speaker 3: They certainly didn't do it originally on purpose. I don't
Speaker 3: believe that at all. But at this point does it
Speaker 3: bother them to have it the number one story with
Speaker 3: it probably can't go any further damage is done, and
Speaker 3: then you do other stuff below the radar, whether it's
Speaker 3: you know, doge stuff, or Department of Education or whatever.
Speaker 5: Defund NPR, turn the screws on the college's.
Speaker 3: Doge stuff. Like you said, Yeah, interesting thought, Grab up
Speaker 3: more Venezuelan's and ship them out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, judge said no to that. More on that topic later,
Speaker 5: yet another judge. So, I don't do you want to
Speaker 5: play some clips. I don't want to hijack this. I've
Speaker 5: got a couple other takes that I found interesting.
Speaker 1: No go ahead.
Speaker 5: I mean, like Miranda Devine, who writes for The New
Speaker 5: York Post, really smart, really funny, snarky, very pro Trump headline,
Speaker 5: Mike Waltz's Signal Gate blunder is a hard lesson to
Speaker 5: be learned for Trump's winning team. There's no getting around
Speaker 5: the fact that Signal Gate was a blunder in soccer terms.
Speaker 5: It was an old goal, totally unnecessary screw up that
Speaker 5: set back the Trump team. But the team is still
Speaker 5: winning and the opposition is still in total disarray and
Speaker 5: fighting among themselves. Let's hope lessons have been learned. And
Speaker 5: then she goes into a fair amount of detail. But
Speaker 5: that's the long short of it. This is a piece
Speaker 5: from townhall dot com. Avoudly conservative, is it?
Speaker 1: Phil? Or Kurt Schlichter, who's.
Speaker 5: Always dependable for some good magas stuff, understand that no
Speaker 5: one outside of Washington, DC or Twitter cares about some
Speaker 5: journalists getting mistakenly admitted into a signal thread at all.
Speaker 5: The Democrats think they've finally found something they can seek
Speaker 5: their teeth into after two months of unbroken failure and humiliation.
Speaker 5: But it's a pretty pathetic morsel. Real people don't care
Speaker 5: about it. I think that's true.
Speaker 1: What do you think to a large extent it is?
Speaker 5: I think the part of America that pays attention to
Speaker 5: news is aware of it.
Speaker 1: Well, I think they're aware of it.
Speaker 3: But do you think most of America's just gotta have
Speaker 3: a scalp? I mean, if Hegsift doesn't go, whor Walls
Speaker 3: doesn't go, they're just not gonna be I know. I
Speaker 3: don't think so.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: I would agree completely, And that's Phil's main point. Actually
Speaker 5: anticipated it beautifully. The issue here is not about operational security.
Speaker 5: Our enemies want to pretend it is because they can
Speaker 5: think they can use that to hurt the Trump administration
Speaker 5: and strip out one or more of his close advisors.
Speaker 5: That's one hundred percent trough. They want a trophied amount
Speaker 5: on their wall, and they're demanding firings and resignations. I
Speaker 5: demand the pound, Sand and you should too. We're done
Speaker 5: playing the two tier system of accountability where Democrats do
Speaker 5: whatever they want while Republicans eagerly submit when our enemies
Speaker 5: demand their heads. Nope, not doing that anymore. The two
Speaker 5: tier system accountability is done. The way you make sure
Speaker 5: it's done for good is you don't play along with it.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, screw with us, you get screwed with back. They're
Speaker 5: bad actors and they don't get to win. I would
Speaker 5: agree completely, and I've never called for anybody's head. I
Speaker 5: think Mike Wilis is a good, decent and very smart
Speaker 5: guy who has nothing but America's best interests at heart.
Speaker 1: And all they have to say is, yeah, we screwed up.
Speaker 5: We were investigating how Goldberg got on the thread. We're
Speaker 5: going to increase our communications security, apologize for the mistake.
Speaker 5: It was a great strike against some evildoers. Let's get
Speaker 5: on with protecting this great country.
Speaker 3: We're done well to the double standard of being held
Speaker 3: accountable for various things. This from the Babylon Bee who
Speaker 3: often really gets it to the truth through humor.
Speaker 1: What a crazy approach, It'll never work.
Speaker 3: Hag Zeth kicking himself for not just getting thirteen soldiers
Speaker 3: killed and giving eighty billion dollars in weapons to terrorists. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for instance as a scandal where sec death didn't get fired.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, kidding in the mainstream media wasn't in quite
Speaker 5: the feeding frenzy they are right now, It's absolutely true,
Speaker 5: And so I get it when people are frustrated that
Speaker 5: we're talking about what a screw up it is, because
Speaker 5: they feel like, you know, of course we are screaming
Speaker 5: about the Afghanistan stuff too at the time.
Speaker 1: Now it's we want to win.
Speaker 5: We want the good stuff to happen, and for our
Speaker 5: side or the Republicans or Trump or whatever not to
Speaker 5: screw it up.
Speaker 1: Anyway, We've got a good flip side.
Speaker 5: I'm told, Oh, Mark Meadows, bring in the heat and
Speaker 5: clip number forty four, Michael.
Speaker 6: The Democrats are in no position to lecture anybody on
Speaker 6: national security. It's not just about the southern border though,
Speaker 6: when you look at what they've allowed to happen and
Speaker 6: to be complicit in it. They're in no position to
Speaker 6: lecture President Trump, Secretary Hegsaff or anyone else that was
Speaker 6: involved in this particular successful mission.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 5: I think Trump is just temperamentally completely unable to admit
Speaker 5: a mistake and move on. He's on attack, attack, attack
Speaker 5: mode always, whether he's accused of, you know, touching somebody
Speaker 5: in a department store or whatever. I just I don't
Speaker 5: think it's productive here unless it's the smokescreen thing that
Speaker 5: you're bringing up.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I get the double standard thing, and
Speaker 1: it's very, very frustrating, but I would like to just
Speaker 1: have better governance. So hey, secdef don't come out and
Speaker 1: say these.
Speaker 3: Aren't war plans and act like how dare you even
Speaker 3: suggests they are when they clearly are right for the
Speaker 3: people of.
Speaker 1: The United States.
Speaker 5: Let's put down the partisan fight, because again, if conservative
Speaker 5: America and the people who represent us don't screw up,
Speaker 5: we're gonna win many, many great victories.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're saying around here. Hey, quit screwing up.
Speaker 1: Got some good economic news that just broke. We'll get
Speaker 1: to that in a second.
Speaker 5: But that's bad news, because good news is bad States
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Speaker 1: Stay here to Supreme Court.
Speaker 7: In a major ruling trying to stop suspected felons from
Speaker 7: getting untraceable so called ghost guns. In a seven to
Speaker 7: two decision, the High Court upholding the Biden administration policy
Speaker 7: the such guns can be regulated by the federal government.
Speaker 7: The regulations for some companies that manufacture gun part kits
Speaker 7: to place serial numbers on their products and to require
Speaker 7: background checks on customers trying to purchase them. It also
Speaker 7: mandates that people buying such kits be at least eighteen
Speaker 7: years of age.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Supreme Court ruling seven to the out of control
Speaker 3: maga illegitimate court going with the gun rights or the
Speaker 3: anti gun advocates.
Speaker 5: I think you know all you need to know about
Speaker 5: the West when or the left rather, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 5: trying to read and talk at the same time about
Speaker 5: the left when they howled and gnashed their teeth about
Speaker 5: how Trump was tearing down the institutions of our country.
Speaker 5: As Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate the Democrats,
Speaker 5: was screaming that the Supreme Court court was out of
Speaker 5: control and Kavanaugh would reap the whirlwind in the rest
Speaker 5: when they are perhaps the smartest, most decent, reasonable, constitutionally
Speaker 5: loyal Supreme Court we've had, maybe ever.
Speaker 1: That's all you need to.
Speaker 5: Know coming up? Are you boomer asking your friends?
Speaker 3: They resent you for it and wish you would stop,
Speaker 3: and you don't even know you're doing it? What is
Speaker 3: boomer asking? I guarantee I don't know I'm doing it.
Speaker 5: So has nothing to do with being a boomer, by
Speaker 5: the way, it has to do with boomerrangs.
Speaker 3: So I was just reading the Wall Street Journal's version
Speaker 3: of the so called peace talks between Ukraine in Russia
Speaker 3: and their breakdown leads me to believe that there ain't
Speaker 3: really hardly anything there at all.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I had the same take.
Speaker 5: It's like when I would go over, you know, fairly
Speaker 5: thoroughly the analysis of the two state solution and the
Speaker 5: talks between Israel and Hamas and all, and I would say,
Speaker 5: this math does not work.
Speaker 3: There is no solution here. One dale exactly the same,
Speaker 3: one paragraph. Quite a weighs down in the story in
Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged
Speaker 3: the difficulty yesterday, saying that the talks over a ceasefire
Speaker 3: are still exploratory and that the US wasn't able to
Speaker 3: fulfill Russia's demands. Okay, so then we're nowhere. Sounds like
Speaker 3: the meat. No, no, we're uh.
Speaker 5: It's a meeting of people who are pretending to be
Speaker 5: serious about negotiating.
Speaker 1: That's how I would describe it.
Speaker 5: I think Ukraine is serious, given certain pretty reasonable param
Speaker 5: meters in my mind, and putin says of those parameters, no,
Speaker 5: not for a second. So there's the math doesn't work.
Speaker 5: There will not be a solution. There hit you with
Speaker 5: this real quick.
Speaker 3: The US economy expanded at a healthy according to ABC News,
Speaker 3: a healthy two point four percent pace during the last
Speaker 3: three months of twenty twenty four, supported by a year
Speaker 3: insurgent consumer spending.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 5: I was hoping to do a little kids these days. Bengo, bango, bongo.
Speaker 5: I don't think we really have time, but uh, interesting
Speaker 5: coverage on espionage, betrayal, and water guns inside the game
Speaker 5: driving high schoolers mad Jack Senior Assassin. It's become a
Speaker 5: rite of passage for students across the country and a
Speaker 5: headache for almost everyone else. It's a game where and
Speaker 5: there is an app now where you have a team
Speaker 5: of people and you target another individual and you quote
Speaker 5: unquote assassinate them with a water pistol.
Speaker 1: I've heard only speaking, I've heard of this happening, and it's.
Speaker 5: Become such a craze and a major headache for school administrators.
Speaker 5: And one kid got shot. The shop saw him lurking
Speaker 5: outside the house with a water pistol and thought it
Speaker 5: was a gun. The kid got shot in the armies. Okay,
Speaker 5: but that could have been tragic. Confiously, oh no, this
Speaker 5: sounds like pretty normal. Run of the mill could have
Speaker 5: been in the fifties. Hijinks to me, you decide.
Speaker 1: You're gonna were their apps in the fifties.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not worried about this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's disruptive. And how about the fact that
Speaker 5: the kids you're not teaching the kids to read? You know,
Speaker 5: among my concerns, that outranks wearing goggles or swim floaties,
Speaker 5: because sometimes if you're wearing goggles or swim floaties, that
Speaker 5: gives you protection against being shot with the water pistol.
Speaker 1: You're not dead.
Speaker 5: But sometimes the administrators of the app turn off those
Speaker 5: protections to liven things up.
Speaker 1: And get the action gun. That's pretty funny. It actually
Speaker 1: sounds like a lot of fun. But I don't approve.
Speaker 1: I don't approve.
Speaker 5: Disabilities allowances the best of intentions. The Americans with Disabilities
Speaker 5: Act nineteen ninety required schools to offer examinations quote in
Speaker 5: a place and manner accessible to persons with disabilities, or
Speaker 5: offer alternative accessible arrangements for such individuals, which can mean
Speaker 5: more time to take exams than other students. You can
Speaker 5: use reference sheets, sit outside the classroom to avoid distraction,
Speaker 5: among other things, and truly disabled students need that support
Speaker 5: to help them succeed, but where there is an allowance,
Speaker 5: it will be abused. Twenty nineteen journal investigation revealed that
Speaker 5: many wealthy parents pay thousands of dollars for their children
Speaker 5: to be tested for learning disabilities by private psychologists who
Speaker 5: have an incentive to give the diagnosis their clients want
Speaker 5: and do it. Your rich high schools have one and
Speaker 5: a half to two times the rate of disabilities than
Speaker 5: your poor high schools.
Speaker 3: Your kids got add or whatever the heck they diagnose
Speaker 3: them with, and they got to get to take their
Speaker 3: test in the hallway away from everybody, or at home,
Speaker 3: or with an extra hour.
Speaker 1: So they can get into Yale. Yep, so armstrong and
Speaker 1: getty say Taplines like this that make me want to
Speaker 1: get out of the business.
Speaker 3: Coffee from office machines could be a health hazard.
Speaker 1: Just be that desperate for clicks. Let's just put a
Speaker 1: boob up there.
Speaker 5: It's just they come in pairs generally. Yeah, so, uh yeah,
Speaker 5: I would agree. I ran into a heart break the
Speaker 5: last during the last segment talking about the how the
Speaker 5: accommodations for disabilities has become away for rich.
Speaker 1: People to cheat in school.
Speaker 5: That's certainly not to detract from the actual need of
Speaker 5: folks with disabilities, but at public high schools in wealthy areas,
Speaker 5: the percentage of students with access to accommodations is about
Speaker 5: four point two percent compared to two point eight nationally.
Speaker 5: So that's another you know, what is it fifty percent?
Speaker 5: But those stats obscure the worst examples. The rate was
Speaker 5: one in five twenty percent at Scarsdale High School in
Speaker 5: New York, the famous one in four at Weston High
Speaker 5: School in Connecticut, and one in three at Newton North
Speaker 5: High School in Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: Well, you got two things going. The thing you already
Speaker 3: mentioned that rich parents, you know, perhaps doctor shopping until
Speaker 3: they find one that diagnoses their kid with something so
Speaker 3: that they can get special treatment.
Speaker 1: There's that, right.
Speaker 3: There's also, as we've talked about a gazillion times, is
Speaker 3: there just way more kids that got more problems than
Speaker 3: used to exist.
Speaker 1: And nobody knows.
Speaker 3: Why, cell phones, plastics, whatever the hell the deal is.
Speaker 3: And if you can if you got a kid with
Speaker 3: problems and you can get them, if you can afford
Speaker 3: a doctor, you're more likely to get a well, you're
Speaker 3: only going to a diagnosis.
Speaker 1: As suppose if you can't afford a doctor.
Speaker 5: Final note on this tenth grader at a private high
Speaker 5: school in Massachusetts, the Northeast.
Speaker 1: If you've never spend any time in the.
Speaker 5: Northeast or no Northeastern nurse, you don't understand how obsessed
Speaker 5: everybody is with getting their kid in the right school,
Speaker 5: from kindergarten through.
Speaker 3: I read this at grad school. I read that stuff
Speaker 3: in the New York Times all the time. I think,
Speaker 3: what a weird world you live in where you think
Speaker 3: about this all the time.
Speaker 1: So here's a.
Speaker 5: Tenth grader at a private high school in Massachusetts who
Speaker 5: requested anonymity, estimates that the percentage at her school who
Speaker 5: get these accommodations is closer to half. In a math
Speaker 5: class with nine students, she's the only one who doesn't
Speaker 5: receive extra time on tests. When the period is up,
Speaker 5: she's called by name to hand in her exam. The
Speaker 5: other students keep working. How's that even possible?
Speaker 1: She asks one.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine being a teacher. I know my kid's class,
Speaker 3: and my kid has had some special accommodations with various
Speaker 3: things when he was in public school. Can you imagine
Speaker 3: being a teacher and dealing with that? I mean, how
Speaker 3: do you do your job, whether it's the kids that
Speaker 3: actually needed are the kids you think.
Speaker 1: I don't think that kid needs any help.
Speaker 3: But it is a long but just the amount of
Speaker 3: time and effort it would take, though, make it so
Speaker 3: much harder to do your job right right now, speaking
Speaker 3: of doing our job, here it is a look in
Speaker 3: the China cabinet. We're gonna take it and look at
Speaker 3: a number of important stories involving our greatest geopolitical adversary, China.
Speaker 1: China. China cabinet usually insinuating that it's like plates and cups.
Speaker 5: And bowls, and yet in this cabinet jacket's important stories
Speaker 5: about China.
Speaker 1: It's correct, it's the giant communist nation China, right, sir,
Speaker 1: China's it that's undeniable. I'm just gonna hit a few headlines. Jack.
Speaker 5: You may request more information if you like. There are
Speaker 5: several to hit. The US MISSI launcher that is enraging China.
Speaker 5: The land based Typhoon weapons system has been deployed in
Speaker 5: the north of the Philippines. It puts key Chinese military
Speaker 5: and commercial hubs within striking distance, and hence President Trump
Speaker 5: an early test of his commitment to deterring Chinese aggression
Speaker 5: against our allies in Asia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a big deal. I remember when we mentioned
Speaker 3: this several weeks back. It didn't get any news coverage.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear it anywhere but where I read it
Speaker 3: in here. But it's a big deal for China.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, it's huge. They're enraged.
Speaker 3: It's not quite Soviet Union put in nukes in Cuba,
Speaker 3: but it's it's in that ballpark.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: In the event of a conflict with China, land based
Speaker 5: missile systems such as the Typhon could be central excuse me,
Speaker 5: to defending US allies such as the Philippines, which is
Speaker 5: classed with China, over Beijing's claims to nearly all of
Speaker 5: the South China Sea, including like a mile off the
Speaker 5: Philippines shores, and Taiwan obviously, which they've threatened to take
Speaker 5: by force if necessary. The Chinese government has responded to
Speaker 5: Typhon's deployments with alarm, rebuking the US and Philippines for
Speaker 5: feeling what it called an arms race.
Speaker 3: Shut up, COMMI devils. We got to get Mike Lions
Speaker 3: on to talk about us in China. We always get
Speaker 3: him on when there's like a news of the day crisis,
Speaker 3: and we don't get to talk to the big picture,
Speaker 3: probably going to define the century story of US versus China,
Speaker 3: because remember a couple of years ago he said, I
Speaker 3: believe we in China will be swapping ordinance over in
Speaker 3: their area within a couple of years.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I would love to do that. Yeah, let's
Speaker 5: not just do the headlines. Let's take a broad look
Speaker 5: at it. Speaking of which, Trump takes tough new approach
Speaker 5: to choking off China's access to US tech. Dozens of
Speaker 5: entities were added to a trade blacklist, as Silicon Valley
Speaker 5: threts it will lose business from Washington's curbs. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what, Trump so far, at least in terms of China,
Speaker 5: is not isolationisty at all. He's going right at the
Speaker 5: Chinese and in this case trying to deny them computer
Speaker 5: chips and other technologies that the military and intelligence services
Speaker 5: can use.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, can you imagine dealing with this stuff
Speaker 3: every single day when you're president of the United States,
Speaker 3: and then you have to go out and answer questions
Speaker 3: about in comparison such minor issues. It reminds me, and
Speaker 3: this was I referenced the Cuban missile crisis earlier. In
Speaker 3: case you didn't notice it, It reminds me of a
Speaker 3: quote from John F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy.
Speaker 3: I heard Chris Matthews talk about this one time, but
Speaker 3: jfk saying, this is the only thing that matters. I mean,
Speaker 3: who gives an s about the minimum wage? This is
Speaker 3: what matters. I mean, you know that the various domestic
Speaker 3: wranglings and this and that, no, whether or not we
Speaker 3: blow up the whole freaking world.
Speaker 1: Is what we got to deal with every single day.
Speaker 5: So in the Biden administration's final days, it imposed limits
Speaker 5: on third countries buying cutting edge American ships, hoping to
Speaker 5: prevent those from getting eventually to China. US tech executive
Speaker 5: executives have asked President Trump to roll back the limits
Speaker 5: before they take effect in May, but Trump is appearing
Speaker 5: to go in the opposite direction China story. According to
Speaker 5: new report, Chinese nationals are reportedly using the largely unre
Speaker 5: regulated surrogacy industry in the US, specifically cal Unicornia, to
Speaker 5: rent the wombs of American women to have babies and
Speaker 5: take them backs little US citizens to China.
Speaker 1: According to the News Nation renting wombs womb for.
Speaker 5: Rent right in a practice that it's dubbed concerning, not illegal.
Speaker 5: Unlike other underground industries in the state, like the baby
Speaker 5: brokers who bring pregnant Chinese women into the country just
Speaker 5: so the babies are born US citizens, this is paying
Speaker 5: an American woman to be the surrogate the resulting child
Speaker 5: automatically US citizen, even if the family immediately returns to
Speaker 5: China and the US. Acting US Attorney for the Central
Speaker 5: District of California, Joseph McNally, told the outlet the practice
Speaker 5: is gravely concerning, and pointed to a case in Irvine
Speaker 5: where a baby born to a Chinese national end up
Speaker 5: joining the Chinese military but still had a US passport.
Speaker 5: If you think the Chinese government isn't subsidizing this, encouraging
Speaker 5: it getting as many little loyal Chinese communists with American
Speaker 5: passports as it can, you're a fool because they are
Speaker 5: fast as they can. It's another one of the forms
Speaker 5: of all all out, all industry or I'm sorry, all
Speaker 5: of society war. Another national security story. I wonder if
Speaker 5: you'll get Paywalled Wall Street Journal had a great piece
Speaker 5: on China is ready now to blockade Taiwan and here's
Speaker 5: how they're going to do it, and they have various
Speaker 5: you know the modern news story whereas you scroll your
Speaker 5: mouse it overlays different things on the map and has
Speaker 5: explainers and stuff like that. It's clear that they're ready
Speaker 5: to go. They're just trying to figure out when they're.
Speaker 1: Going to do it. Wow. Yeah, Yeah, means the world
Speaker 1: is going to change overnight when all that goes down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and rather how old Jeffrey Goldberg.
Speaker 5: Got on the signal list is going to seem trivial.
Speaker 1: Indeed.
Speaker 5: And then finally this the dirty commies are decent at
Speaker 5: stealing technology and then using it, and they may have
Speaker 5: come up with something innovative. The Chinese ev maker by
Speaker 5: D not a K pop band, but a Chinese electrical
Speaker 5: vehicle maker, has unveiled a new charging system that it
Speaker 5: says it could make it possible for evs to charge
Speaker 5: as quickly as it takes to refill with gas.
Speaker 3: Wow, five minutes full recharge. I go over every day
Speaker 3: after work.
Speaker 1: I drive.
Speaker 3: My Tesla over to the charging station behind the radio
Speaker 3: station and I do my meditation or return emails or
Speaker 3: whatever for a half hour while it charges. But it's
Speaker 3: not the most handy thing in the world at all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is going to be something like twice as
Speaker 5: fast as Tesla's superchargers.
Speaker 1: Wow, it could.
Speaker 5: Be a thousand kilowatts. You can into your car, you know,
Speaker 5: right at once and charged up. That would make a
Speaker 5: big difference to a lot of people. But then you
Speaker 5: would need a network of charging stations extensive enough to
Speaker 5: I mean, okay, so I can charge in five minutes
Speaker 5: one hundred and seventy five miles from.
Speaker 1: Here, I don't that's great.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what the appeal of electric cars is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I have one because it's it's super duper fast.
Speaker 3: I wanted the fastest car in the world. That's what
Speaker 3: appealed to me. The electric part, I don't get any benefit,
Speaker 3: it's only negatives. I mean, if you really care about
Speaker 3: the climate, I mean, if that's your thing, Okay, it's
Speaker 3: cheaper than gas. It is cheaper than gas, and I
Speaker 3: commute every single day. I bought it during the pandemic
Speaker 3: when gas was seven dollars a gallon, and I did
Speaker 3: the math, and I mean it was, you know, gonna
Speaker 3: make a fairly big difference. So there's that it's cheaper
Speaker 3: than gas. That is not enoughing. But I just other
Speaker 3: than that, I don't get what the appeal is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's for certain lifestyles, it makes sense. The environmental effect,
Speaker 3: as I always point out, is far from.
Speaker 1: Indisputably positive.
Speaker 5: In fact, based on the reading I've done, it's it's
Speaker 5: neutral to negative between the mining, the extraction of materials,
Speaker 5: the energy that's used to create all of the components
Speaker 5: in the car.
Speaker 3: Okay, sotly worse for the earth. Okay, So then you're
Speaker 3: just down to is it cheaper than gas? And you
Speaker 3: got to do the math on how much you drive
Speaker 3: and the factor in the pain in the ass of
Speaker 3: charging and all that sort of stuff to figure out
Speaker 3: if that's worth it or not.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, to each throne, I say, But I again,
Speaker 5: I think it's absolutely bitterly, stupidly hilarious that the Left
Speaker 5: has gone from, especially in terms of Tesla's. Oh yeah,
Speaker 5: everyone should be mandated to buy one too. I'm set
Speaker 5: fire to it in the course of six months. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you people don't come off as insane at all. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't worry about it now. That doesn't strike people as
Speaker 5: you're completely out of.
Speaker 1: Your effing mind, no kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 3: Hybrids I could see that catching on with like lots
Speaker 3: of people having one of their cars being a hybrid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like crazy great fuel economy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And if you run out of electricity while you're picking
Speaker 3: up kids and go to the grocery store, is winging
Speaker 3: to a gas station, put some gas into it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sure, why not? Again to each their own? Just no
Speaker 5: freaking mandates. What's boomer asking?
Speaker 1: Do you do this to your friends? They hate you
Speaker 1: for it and you don't even know you're doing it?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 1: This is oh my.
Speaker 3: The tenth time I've heard you say this, and I
Speaker 3: still haven't got the boomer asking Jack.
Speaker 1: That's what we'll be talking about the slightest it's on
Speaker 1: the way state.
Speaker 3: Johnny Mathis has announced he's retired from touring.
Speaker 1: He was touring, he was alive.
Speaker 3: News to me, and I barely know who that is.
Speaker 3: I just I remember when I was a kid. They
Speaker 3: would be selling his greatest hits on cassette or vinyl
Speaker 3: for nineteen ninety nine, featuring hits such as this.
Speaker 1: When you were a Kid's going back a few yees. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Wow, Well he'll be missed on the contract trail fit
Speaker 5: suring this year.
Speaker 3: I told Janni we should have gone last year, but
Speaker 3: your sister was in town.
Speaker 1: He called at the farewell tour. I didn't believe him.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Johnny gone but not forgotten. So boomer asking has
Speaker 5: nothing to do with boomer boomers. Maybe boomers. It has
Speaker 5: to do with boomerangs. Boomer asking is asking a question
Speaker 5: just to talk about yourself.
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
Speaker 5: And people think it makes them seem polite or socially skillful,
Speaker 5: but it's not. People find it irritating because they feel ignored,
Speaker 5: irritating or unimportant when their answers are brushed aside, and
Speaker 5: it's much better to be direct.
Speaker 1: Here's how it works.
Speaker 3: I well, first of all, I don't like when I've
Speaker 3: done this, and I know that I have. But I'm
Speaker 3: also a jerk in that when I can tell somebody's
Speaker 3: doing it to me, I don't play.
Speaker 1: Along because I know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: All right, let me set it up and then I
Speaker 5: want to know how that works. Okay, So let's say
Speaker 5: you're grabbing coffee with a coworker and they ask what
Speaker 5: did you do this weekend? And you respond, and without
Speaker 5: missing a beat or really listening, you can tell they're
Speaker 5: not listening. They launched into a long winded retelling of
Speaker 5: their weekend. Yeah, wait a minute, did you ask me
Speaker 5: because you care? That was just a setup for your
Speaker 5: own story. That's right, you've been boomer asked. So it's
Speaker 5: a three part move. First, someone ask a question, then
Speaker 5: they wait for your answer, but instead of building on
Speaker 5: it or engaging with it, asking you follow ups, they
Speaker 5: simply switch and answer their own question, turning the conversation
Speaker 5: back to themselves. There are three categories they've identified. Ask bragging,
Speaker 5: how's your quickly followed by mine was amazing, we were
Speaker 5: in Tuscany for two weeks. Oh my god, the food,
Speaker 5: the sunsets, and off you go. Ask bragging bragging. Then
Speaker 5: there's ask complaining, how's we're going, followed quickly by oh
Speaker 5: I've had the worst week, Oh my god, my boss
Speaker 5: just never stops blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: And finally ask sharing in neutral disclosure, like talking about
Speaker 5: a dream or a casual opinion. Right ask after asking
Speaker 5: you about yours. At least people who do that are
Speaker 5: somewhat aware of what.
Speaker 3: They're doing, I guess, as opposed to people that you
Speaker 3: know they're not even going to do that preliminary thing.
Speaker 3: They're just going to launch into their story because they
Speaker 3: can't imagine you have anything to say.
Speaker 5: Ever, Yes, yeah, And that's so You've got like three
Speaker 5: distinct groups of people. You got the boomer askers who
Speaker 5: think they're being clever, but they're causing resentment. You've got
Speaker 5: the bores who just talk and talk and talk about
Speaker 5: the most mundane aspects of their lives. You know, I've
Speaker 5: run into some people. They seem to be pretty nice people,
Speaker 5: but I don't give a single ask what happening at
Speaker 5: the grocery store. There's nothing here for me. There's nothing entertaining,
Speaker 5: there's nothing clever, there's nothing revealing, there's nothing shocking.
Speaker 1: There's just nothing.
Speaker 5: And then you got people who try to you know,
Speaker 5: if I'm going to tell you a story, I try
Speaker 5: to sweeten the deal by making it, you know, one
Speaker 5: of the above mentioned the hooks.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I know a boomerasque kids annoying.
Speaker 3: I know a guy I haven't talked to him in years,
Speaker 3: super nice guy. So I almost hate to tell this
Speaker 3: story about super nice guy. But he would regularly work
Speaker 3: into conversations like, yeah, when I was going to college
Speaker 3: in New Haven, Connecticut, and I know, just because I
Speaker 3: happen to know this sort of thing, that's where Yale is.
Speaker 3: And he was always angling toward being able to say
Speaker 3: he went to Yale. But he was sophisticated enough he
Speaker 3: wasn't just gonna say I went to Yale, but he
Speaker 3: was there. I was working the Connecticut New Haven thing,
Speaker 3: trying to get to some sort of why were you
Speaker 3: new Haven or Connecticut you say, or whatever? And I
Speaker 3: know a bit and he never, out of like a
Speaker 3: dozen times of bringing that up, got the opportunity tell
Speaker 3: me he went to Yale.
Speaker 1: Not high five, Jack high five. I think that was
Speaker 1: his whole goal.
Speaker 5: If you ever get stuck behind one of these stories,
Speaker 5: just drop the famous Jo Getti line.
Speaker 1: Wow that was a great story. Gee shame it's over.
Speaker 5: Well, it's like the old joke, how do you know
Speaker 5: your new acquaintance went to Harvard? They'll tell you, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I really took great pride in finding a way to
Speaker 5: fnaggle my way out of He never got to tell me,
Speaker 5: even though I know it there I was in New Haven.
Speaker 5: I mean camps so crowded. I mean, oh my god,
Speaker 5: you went to in college? Was it crowded?
Speaker 3: Boy, it wasn't New Haven, not particularly exactly.
Speaker 1: That's what I want. I love that man.
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