Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. How you doing?
Speaker 2: It's Friday? Work? Done with January? Today's last day. As
Speaker 2: I was saying earlier, if you're a dry January person,
Speaker 2: do you do the one last day when it's a
Speaker 2: Friday night?
Speaker 1: I think you've made your point. If you like to drink,
Speaker 1: drink tonight. Yeah, thirty one days too. How many days
Speaker 1: is enough January? It just seems I think if you
Speaker 1: don't drink tonight, you're not really a drinker. And then
Speaker 1: so therefore you didn't do anything. Yeah for you, I
Speaker 1: liked your illustration earlier. Yeah, I did no yoga January.
Speaker 1: I didn't do yoga once this month.
Speaker 3: That had to be so hard.
Speaker 2: Good for me, I.
Speaker 3: Don't do you you don't drink.
Speaker 1: If you don't like drinking enough to drink on this
Speaker 1: Friday night, you can give on the ride.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: I had a bit of.
Speaker 1: A Friday night last night, so I'll be having a
Speaker 1: bit of a Thursday night tonight.
Speaker 3: That's fun, though.
Speaker 2: I am going to try to do no wine Friday.
Speaker 2: Talk to one of my boys about I haven't talked
Speaker 2: to Sam about it. No, I don't know how well
Speaker 2: we can do, but that's going to be the theme.
Speaker 2: No wine with an h, no whining, No wine Friday
Speaker 2: or February. See see if we can make it through
Speaker 2: the month or some days, or maybe even an hour
Speaker 2: without whining about things.
Speaker 1: If I was your son's gag writer, I would say
Speaker 1: you got to lead with this.
Speaker 2: We don't get to wine, no whining. I'll let you
Speaker 2: know how that goes. It'll probably be a rough weekend.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna do the weave here a bunch of
Speaker 2: different topics. It all kind of fit together on just basically,
Speaker 2: sanity has prevailed, Insanity is on the run on a
Speaker 2: number of fronts, and I hope it's permanent. Very few
Speaker 2: things are permanent. This could be semi permanent, though, that's
Speaker 2: how off track we got. We'll start here, Katie, what
Speaker 2: are we about to hear?
Speaker 4: So this is a man dressed as a woman talking
Speaker 4: about his experience of going into the women's restroom and
Speaker 4: there being a child in there, and I'll let them
Speaker 4: take it from there.
Speaker 5: I was just in the women's room, and when I
Speaker 5: walked in, there was this little girl like three years
Speaker 5: old alone. I sooned, waiting for her parent, who was
Speaker 5: in the stall. All the stalls were full, so like
Speaker 5: I couldn't go in. I just had to wait, and
Speaker 5: it was me and this little girl and no one else.
Speaker 5: It occurred to me, when the parent leaves the stall
Speaker 5: and sees me a trans person and their three year
Speaker 5: old daughter, they might make an assumption, an assumption that
Speaker 5: could be very dangerous for me, unsafe for me. So
Speaker 5: instead of waiting, I left the bathroom. Trans people go
Speaker 5: through this thought process any time there in a bathroom.
Speaker 2: Okay, i'd I'd like to hear the rest of that.
Speaker 2: If he and then what is your solution for this?
Speaker 2: Then having an extra special bathroom built everywhere a great
Speaker 2: for all.
Speaker 3: People to accept.
Speaker 1: Grown men in women's spaces, including child girls' spaces.
Speaker 2: Don't be transphobic. Don't have exactly thoughts that he was
Speaker 2: putting on the mom there.
Speaker 1: Thank you for a fascinating tale, sir. We should also
Speaker 1: point out that this fella is semi famous online for
Speaker 1: going into restaurants dressed.
Speaker 3: In a very a hearing in a very like what's
Speaker 3: the ambiguous way?
Speaker 1: And then when somebody says sir or buddy or whatever,
Speaker 1: he goes crazy and posts it online that he was
Speaker 1: misgendered and now painful.
Speaker 2: That was, Yeah, I remember when that happened. Which direction
Speaker 2: it was with somebody in their little kid. I think
Speaker 2: it was a boy wearing girls clothes with really wrong
Speaker 2: long hair, and I referred to him as her, and
Speaker 2: the parent dignant, it's a sheet. Okay, Well you got
Speaker 2: your little kid, who's too young to you know, be
Speaker 2: able to tell for me, dressed as a girl. So
Speaker 2: I refer to your little boy as she because the
Speaker 2: dresses a girl with long hair.
Speaker 1: I don't know what what am I supposed to do here?
Speaker 1: Go with they for all children for the rest of
Speaker 1: my life, to make sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But but but similar thing. It was
Speaker 2: on purpose. They wanted that sort of thing to happen
Speaker 2: so they could dig about it.
Speaker 1: That's right, right, Being indignant the left's favorite pastime.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the left, maybe leading into this is perfect
Speaker 2: latest gallop pole out. The Democratic Party is the most
Speaker 2: unpopular it has been in modern American history, at thirty
Speaker 2: one fifty seven percent unfavorable, with thirty one percent favorable
Speaker 2: a twenty six point spread fifty seven percent unfavorable. Is
Speaker 2: the most unpopular the Democratic Party has ever been, I think,
Speaker 2: because it's attached to a whole bunch of this stuff.
Speaker 2: And I if I'm a Democrat, and like I'm a
Speaker 2: Bill marstyle Democrat or Mett Tidy or whoever I'm about
Speaker 2: to mention, I would say, can we distance oursef from
Speaker 2: the insane insane stuff and get back to like, you know,
Speaker 2: working class or unions or whatever it is you care about,
Speaker 2: higher taxes, bigger government. To that point, iber MEPs ex
Speaker 2: kendy my main theme here, And I mentioned this the
Speaker 2: other day. It just occurred to me at some point
Speaker 2: this week I almost like shuddered. We were closer to
Speaker 2: going down the point of no return around all this
Speaker 2: insanity than I ever realized. I think, And I think,
Speaker 2: with you know, the benefit of the whole hindsight, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty thing years from now, we'll be able to look
Speaker 2: back on this period and think, what the freaking hell happened?
Speaker 2: Where nobody felt comfortable saying out loud all kinds of
Speaker 2: truths that everybody had agreed upon forever, Like you can't
Speaker 2: just riot in every town and burn down businesses in
Speaker 2: the name of justice and everybody stands back and watches
Speaker 2: it happen. Or have dudes in girls' sports and you
Speaker 2: just let it happen. I mean, there's all kinds of
Speaker 2: examples where you have to go around calling yourself a
Speaker 2: racist because you're born white. In this particular case, Ibram
Speaker 2: x Kendy, who had a lot of power for a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee and no longer does, thank God. One
Speaker 2: he's wrong. Two he's a Charlatan. Ibram X Kenny's center.
Speaker 3: Phrase a racist, but anyway, go go.
Speaker 2: Absolutely a racist. Ibramex Kendy's Center for Anti Racist Research
Speaker 2: is permanently shutting down and laying off its staff. Kendy
Speaker 2: Center hoovered up tens of millions of dollars in grants
Speaker 2: from Wolk corporations who wanted to be on board and
Speaker 2: being able to say we donated to iber Mexkennedy Center
Speaker 2: for Anti Racist Research produced no work at any point.
Speaker 2: Another I'm reading from Christopher Ruffo here, who was one
Speaker 2: of the great anti Wolke warriors out there in America.
Speaker 2: Another BLM eraic grift comes to a close. Ibramex Kendy
Speaker 2: departing Boston University and closing down is center for Anti
Speaker 2: racist Research. And I assume if you listen to your show,
Speaker 2: you know at this point that anti racist is a
Speaker 2: completely made up thing that he came up with, that
Speaker 2: unless you're actively being anti racist at any moment, you
Speaker 2: are racist.
Speaker 1: And the number of dopey, compliant white people who went
Speaker 1: along with this and still go along with it just
Speaker 1: is astonishing, which is a head's eye win entails you
Speaker 1: lose Calvin ball approach to everything that you can't possibly
Speaker 1: come out on the right side of as a white person.
Speaker 1: And then this, quoting Matt Tayebee, who's one of our
Speaker 1: favorite writers and a lefty, but like a normal liberal,
Speaker 1: not a crazy person. Matt Tybee thinks the Libs were
Speaker 1: very close to having things cemented. They had all the
Speaker 1: institutions and were working on impenetrable bureaucratic safeguards for informational control,
Speaker 1: speech restrictions, et cetera. It's interesting to think about how
Speaker 1: they might have done if a couple of more things
Speaker 1: had gone their way in the election.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. If Kamala Harrison this election was
Speaker 2: more important than I realized. If Kamala Harrison won or Biden,
Speaker 2: and we went further down the road of this, as
Speaker 2: Matt Tybee says, and really cemented it for another four years,
Speaker 2: maybe eight, depending what followed of people being unable or
Speaker 2: scared to say true things about racism and trains and
Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: It might have been over. There might have been no
Speaker 1: coming back from that. Another generation's children indoctrinated too. And
Speaker 1: as you've pointed out, Jack, we as human beings, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the first thing we hear we tend to
Speaker 1: cling to, in spite of any countervailing evidence, or even
Speaker 1: the people who came to us with the first piece
Speaker 1: of information saying, forget what I said, that was wrong.
Speaker 1: I apologize. People still cling to that. That's why indoctrinating
Speaker 1: children is such a critical part of every radical movement.
Speaker 3: That's why they work so hard at it.
Speaker 1: And we've already lost many tens of millions of kids
Speaker 1: who we won't get back.
Speaker 3: Some we will, but it's going to be a hard battle.
Speaker 2: But there's so many examples around this nuttiness that I
Speaker 2: almost can't even believe it really happened. Remember the period
Speaker 2: of time where the New York Times got on board
Speaker 2: with this idea that intent doesn't matter. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you accidentally say something, it doesn't matter. If you say, well, no,
Speaker 2: that was my intention, that's not what I meant. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. You're done.
Speaker 1: And all the stuff that happened around me too, and
Speaker 1: everything like that just crazy.
Speaker 2: Crazy, How did that ever happen? COVID played a role
Speaker 2: in it. We're all nutty because of COVID. I guess
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 1: Well that in the Neo Marxists are really really good
Speaker 1: at what they do. They have a carefully developed theory
Speaker 1: of how to take over institutions and societies.
Speaker 3: Here's how you do it.
Speaker 1: You convince everybody that they're racist if they oppose you,
Speaker 1: no matter how bizarre their schemes. And for the millions
Speaker 1: of time, I must point out, we have not won
Speaker 1: this battle, not even close.
Speaker 3: This is not the beginning of the end. It's the
Speaker 3: end of the beginning.
Speaker 1: This stuff is still being expanded in schools and universities.
Speaker 1: Trump administration is working on it, saying God, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be a long battle ahead.
Speaker 2: God. Ibram Kennedy getting tens of millions of dollars to
Speaker 2: do anti racist research and then never do anything. I
Speaker 2: don't think you ever had any employees, just nothing. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just a full on Black Lives Matter sort of
Speaker 2: scam where they took all this money from all these
Speaker 2: corporations and built them themselves fancy houses, which doesn't get
Speaker 2: enough attention. I mean, good way to.
Speaker 1: Go Boston University, by the way, way to give him
Speaker 1: his institute because he's such an important scholar. Anybody could
Speaker 1: see through this Charlatan's fraud from day one. Well, school
Speaker 1: may have used taxpayer money to bring him in to
Speaker 1: speak or bought his books, isn't that right, Michael, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that has happened locally.
Speaker 2: It's probably happened lots of places where you all live.
Speaker 1: Your school bought his books or paid for him to
Speaker 1: come speak at an assembly Robin DiAngelo.
Speaker 3: Likewise, all of those fraudsters do.
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Speaker 2: Final note this segment of all the woke is on
Speaker 2: the run thing that I'm so happy about for today,
Speaker 2: the Pentagon has ended the Bidenaria policy, Biden era policy
Speaker 2: of covering travel costs for troops who need to cross
Speaker 2: state lines for abortions, because that's what we're doing. Taxpayers
Speaker 2: were paying for people in the military to fly to
Speaker 2: another state to get an abortion. What the freaking hell. Anyway,
Speaker 2: the Pentagon has ended that under Pete Hexeth and the
Speaker 2: Trump people.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, call of charity or something if
Speaker 1: you irresponsibly get pregnant and whatever, make the baby daddy.
Speaker 3: Whatever. It's not the taxpayers, all right.
Speaker 2: More on the way.
Speaker 5: Pita has offered to provide a vegan weather reveal cake
Speaker 5: in place of the traditional Groundhog Day ceremony.
Speaker 3: That's so stupid.
Speaker 1: A cake can't predict the weather.
Speaker 2: You need the magic ground exactly. It's a shame we're
Speaker 2: not on the air for Groundhog Day this year, darn it.
Speaker 2: So another Oscar thing for you. I actually saw one
Speaker 2: of the Oscar animated movies this year for Best Picture,
Speaker 2: a Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan thing with Timothy Schallomey.
Speaker 2: So obviously I'm rooting for that movie. But I came
Speaker 2: across some interesting stuff. I didn't know really much at
Speaker 2: Timothy Schalomey's act. He was the host of Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: Saturday Night he hosted and was the musical guest, and
Speaker 2: that's his third time hosting. I didn't even know who
Speaker 2: he was until I saw the Bob Dylan movie last
Speaker 2: Saturday Night. Because I don't I don't pay that much
Speaker 2: attention this sort of stuff. He's a twenty nine year
Speaker 2: old sex symbol, I learned. I didn't realize he was
Speaker 2: a sex symbol. I also learned this because I thought, man,
Speaker 2: that guy is skinny. I noticed on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 2: So I looked up a couple of different places to
Speaker 2: try to nail down his weight. He weighs one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty eight pounds. He's five ten, one forty eight.
Speaker 2: Do you know many women that find that sexy Katie?
Speaker 3: Not a one?
Speaker 4: Actually, that doesn't sound like it can protect me one bit.
Speaker 2: So I was reading from the New York Times Timothy Schallomey,
Speaker 2: who's emerged as a sex symbol and fashion icon with
Speaker 2: his hair, jawline and androgynous looks. Again, I don't know
Speaker 2: that many women. Maybe it's just women. I know that
Speaker 2: dig androgynist looks.
Speaker 1: I'm not really hot for tiny, little androgynous men.
Speaker 4: This is why you're hearing women all the time go
Speaker 4: where are the real men?
Speaker 3: Where did they go?
Speaker 2: I feel like maybe gay men are writing these articles
Speaker 2: about what men should be sex symbols for women. I
Speaker 2: wonder if that's what's going on from you know, New
Speaker 2: Yorker magazine or whatever. Chalomey is a grouped into a
Speaker 2: label called noodle Boys, noted for their sinewy appearance, who
Speaker 2: served as an alternative image of white masculinity in pop culture. Now.
Speaker 2: I'm not blended shalome for this. It's not his fault
Speaker 2: that he's a skinny guy. It's the New York you know,
Speaker 2: a teligentia that is coming up with this whole noodle boys.
Speaker 2: He's a sex symbol, alternative image to white masculinity. Of course,
Speaker 2: you got to have an alternative to masculinity because you
Speaker 2: wouldn't want masculinity.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you, guys, there's nothing hotter than a noodle
Speaker 4: boy sinory.
Speaker 3: Soon can this crack me over?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Vogue named Chalamea the most influential fashion
Speaker 2: man of the last year. Plying the boundary between traditional
Speaker 2: masculinity and femininity. Do you know, do you know any
Speaker 2: women who love the idea of someone who blurs the
Speaker 2: boundaries between masculinity and feminity. I don't know any women
Speaker 2: who have ever thought that personally.
Speaker 3: Lesbian, well and gay dudes.
Speaker 2: It's just ya.
Speaker 1: It's the intelligency and the fashion elite, and we're supposed
Speaker 1: to care what they think or or be cowed into
Speaker 1: silence by their opinions. Is a skinny little fella and
Speaker 1: kind of androgynists. That's fine, it's fine. But the idea
Speaker 1: that that's some sort of great ideal that we all
Speaker 1: need to strive for, good golly well.
Speaker 2: And I just think it's interesting because I don't think
Speaker 2: it's being driven by like ninety percent of women his opinion. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, like if I wrote, I don't know magazine
Speaker 2: articles about what golf courses ought to look like. I
Speaker 2: don't play golf or have any interest in it, but
Speaker 2: this is what I think golf courses ought to.
Speaker 1: Be right right, and it it reminds me of some
Speaker 1: other weird goings on these days with the you know,
Speaker 1: the sexual interaction and sex and couples and the rest
Speaker 1: of it where it strikes me as kind of an
Speaker 1: adolescent girls fantasy of a man because he's half a
Speaker 1: little girl and not masculine, because that whole sex thing
Speaker 1: seems kind of scary and gross, which is fine among
Speaker 1: adolescent girls. It's why like every teen idol in history
Speaker 1: has been pretty and girlish.
Speaker 3: True, but for grown ups.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying, you know, one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: nine pound dude doesn't deserve or anything like ed just
Speaker 2: I don't think it's the ideal for most women.
Speaker 1: Tell you what, if I'm down one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: nine pounds, gather the family around my bedside.
Speaker 3: Things are bad, We've got more all the way, armstrong
Speaker 3: and getty.
Speaker 2: Noodle boys. You say, I've never heard that term before.
Speaker 2: That's what women are into, noodle boys.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, No, no, you know what it
Speaker 1: just very quickly follow up here, good friend texted a woman.
Speaker 1: I meet a lot of women in my line of work,
Speaker 1: and I can't name one, drunk or sober that is
Speaker 1: attracted to noodle boys. Noodle boys are good for one thing,
Speaker 1: being your gay best friend. Now that's something I can
Speaker 1: get behind.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think Timothy Chalam is gay. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's not. But and it's not his fault.
Speaker 2: I'm not complaining about him. It's just interesting that he's
Speaker 2: being held up as the best idea of masculinity by
Speaker 2: the New.
Speaker 1: York crowd, exactly by the same people who want to
Speaker 1: teach your little boys that they can be little girls
Speaker 1: if they want to be, etc.
Speaker 2: So I had that horrible plane crash night before last
Speaker 2: that luckily almost never happens. I mean so close to never,
Speaker 2: you can say never. I never worry about it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's vanishingly rare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Trump decided to do a press conference yesterday.
Speaker 2: Here's a Fox report on that what.
Speaker 6: Began as a somber update.
Speaker 7: I'd like to request a moment of silence for the
Speaker 7: victims and their families.
Speaker 6: Please quickly turn political. President Trump zeroing in on DEI
Speaker 6: hiring by former Democratic presidents for key federal jobs.
Speaker 7: The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities,
Speaker 7: psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a
Speaker 7: diversity and inclusion hiring initiatives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which obviously Trump administration's trying to root out. Here's
Speaker 2: more of that report.
Speaker 6: The president leader said he wasn't sure if DEI played
Speaker 6: a role in the crash, but believes incompetence may have.
Speaker 6: Are you aware of any performance issues or disciplinary actions
Speaker 6: that were taken against anyone who was working the tower
Speaker 6: last night or flying the plane.
Speaker 7: No, and I hope that's not the case in this case,
Speaker 7: but certainly over the years has been the case, and
Speaker 7: it's the case with respect to close calls.
Speaker 6: Trump signed a presidential memorandum to have the FAA assess
Speaker 6: the quote damage done by Biden's woke policies and ensure
Speaker 6: future hiring is based on merit.
Speaker 2: We don't care what race they are.
Speaker 7: We want the most competent people, especially in those positions.
Speaker 2: Well, I haven't heard this particular port. I mean I
Speaker 2: read it, but I haven't heard it play this Please.
Speaker 2: Are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the
Speaker 2: result of diversity hiring?
Speaker 6: And what evidence have you seen to support these plays?
Speaker 2: It just could have been. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 2: how you can come to the conclusion right now or
Speaker 2: diversity had something to do with this crash, because common sense,
Speaker 2: there are a number of people on the right who
Speaker 2: are Trump supporters who think he probably shouldn't have left
Speaker 2: jumped into the what caused this the morning after the
Speaker 2: plane crash?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he undermined his own his own argument because
Speaker 1: if dei hiring had nothing to do with this incident,
Speaker 1: as insidious.
Speaker 3: As it is, he will have.
Speaker 1: He's the boy a cried wolf, right, and then when
Speaker 1: the wolf comes he will be less credible. You've got
Speaker 1: to be more disciplined than that when you're prosecuting a
Speaker 1: really important argument. But you know there's Trump be and
Speaker 1: Trump he has no filter.
Speaker 2: We're all finding out in the last thirty six hours
Speaker 2: that we have half as many air traffic controllers at
Speaker 2: almost every airport in America. They haven't filled the positions,
Speaker 2: and there is plenty of reason to believe that the
Speaker 2: positions are empty because they'll only hire certain races, gen
Speaker 2: sexual orientations to meet various goals. And that's why we've
Speaker 2: got half as many air traffic controllers. That's not good.
Speaker 1: And the FAA under Barack Obama and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta,
Speaker 1: completely changed the hiring standards in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: to make the air traffic controllers more diverse, and they
Speaker 1: eliminated excellence, and they brought on these easily fudgible tests.
Speaker 1: It was just like the college emissions where the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court said you can't admit based on race, and so
Speaker 1: they came up with a writ, say an essay about
Speaker 1: your life experience and how it's you know, prepared you
Speaker 1: for college mentioning in particular what race you are, and
Speaker 1: then we will judge you on your essay. Yes, so
Speaker 1: the FAA went total soft standards in eliminated excellence. Now
Speaker 1: was that a factor here or not, We don't know,
Speaker 1: but it's still an enormous problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, back to the crash itself and what actually happened.
Speaker 2: Here's a former black Hawk pilot talking to Jake Tapper
Speaker 2: on CNN about what she things happened.
Speaker 8: So three is a minimum crew for a black Hawk
Speaker 8: helicopter in my opinion, when you're going into visual flight
Speaker 8: mode in a crowded airspace like this, it should be
Speaker 8: a minimum of four until you have a pilot on
Speaker 8: each side for visibility. Whether they were on night vision
Speaker 8: doggles at that time or not. It is a very
Speaker 8: cluttered airspace with a lot of lighting and the lights
Speaker 8: reflecting on the river, and so with that it's easy
Speaker 8: to kind of get a little disoriented. As far as
Speaker 8: the hype, they were supposed to be at two hundred feet,
Speaker 8: but they were not. Reportedly, the incident happened around three
Speaker 8: hundred and fifty to four hundred feet. As the airliner
Speaker 8: was descending, they were at the wrong height, So that's
Speaker 8: a pilot error.
Speaker 2: The first would be a policy error.
Speaker 8: Air traffic control said, do you have the CRJ in sight? Well,
Speaker 8: there were two aircraft in their field of view, and
Speaker 8: actually only one was really obvious to them, and that
Speaker 8: was the If you watch the video, the aircraft taking
Speaker 8: off in the foreground is probably the one they were facing.
Speaker 8: The pilots were facing and said, yeah, I got it.
Speaker 8: The air traffic control should have said do you have
Speaker 8: the aircraft at five o'clock, so they were looking at
Speaker 8: the rear. If they had done that, the black Hawk
Speaker 8: is maneuverable. The black Hawk could have moved out of
Speaker 8: the way quickly. They can move on a dime and
Speaker 8: make that happen.
Speaker 2: It's wild that they've been doing that for a long time,
Speaker 2: having those helicopters fly around with all those planes coming
Speaker 2: into one of the busier airports in America. That's a
Speaker 2: lot going on in.
Speaker 1: A very very tight space to Reagan National and that's
Speaker 1: been very controversial among airline pilots for a long time.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's tragic, obviously, but there are so
Speaker 1: many things that have gone wrong. You hate that all
Speaker 1: the warnings were ignored until something this horrific. And it
Speaker 1: was a training flight of guys who their job is
Speaker 1: to fly VIPs back and forth around the DC metro
Speaker 1: area for the military, which is is fine work and
Speaker 1: important and the rest of it. They have to have
Speaker 1: a certain number of night flying hours to stay certified.
Speaker 1: This was their training flight to get their night hours.
Speaker 1: In the fact that they were doing it in the
Speaker 1: approach path of one of the narrowest busiest airports in
Speaker 1: the world, it's just I mean, that's just insanity. I
Speaker 1: realized they work in their station round DC, but it's
Speaker 1: just frustrating.
Speaker 2: Well did you see the poor congress person or senator
Speaker 2: from Kansas involved. So I just flew the reverse of
Speaker 2: that flight a couple of weeks ago when we went
Speaker 2: to Washington, d C. We then flew from Reagan to Wichita.
Speaker 2: They now have a NonStop goes back and forth between
Speaker 2: Wichita and Reagan. They didn't and that's what crashed the
Speaker 2: other night. They didn't until a year ago. And this
Speaker 2: congress person fought really hard to get that going and
Speaker 2: he was crying the other night feeling responsible for that. Dude,
Speaker 2: Oh no, he had nothing to do with that whatsoever.
Speaker 1: You know, speaking things that astonish me, the fact that
Speaker 1: there was one air traffic controller dealing with all the
Speaker 1: planes and helicopters when every plane in the sky, including
Speaker 1: the one that God rest their souls, crashed. You've got
Speaker 1: a pilot and copilot. Why because you've got to have
Speaker 1: some redundancy in case the pooh hits the fan and
Speaker 1: the idea that we don't have the staffing or the
Speaker 1: funding or whatever that somebody got sent home early that night,
Speaker 1: and so there's one person in charge of all that.
Speaker 1: I just it reminds me of a couple other stories
Speaker 1: that have surfaced recently. The level of incompetence is so
Speaker 1: astounding it can only exist in government work. Is that
Speaker 1: the sort of thing that AI could take over? Air
Speaker 1: traffic controller? You think to some extent? Yeah, absolutely. There
Speaker 1: are all sorts of automatic sensors and systems that should
Speaker 1: have interceded. And that's one of the things that the
Speaker 1: FAA and the NTSB are going to get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of is how did all that stuff fail? Was
Speaker 1: it turned off because of they were flying so low?
Speaker 1: All sorts of details like that.
Speaker 2: One quick thing came across this yesterday, speaking of that
Speaker 2: Bob Dylan movie. He's got a tour this next this year,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Bob Dylan's going to tour. Okay, do
Speaker 2: you think that'd be worth it? And he's going to
Speaker 2: play some smaller towns. He's going to play Wichita, which
Speaker 2: we were just mentioning. And my brother lives there, and
Speaker 2: my other brother lives there close to there. And I
Speaker 2: was actually texting with my brother yes day and he said,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I've watched some videos over the last
Speaker 2: couple of years and they don't look that great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: i'd be.
Speaker 1: I happen to see Bob Dylan in Wichita many years
Speaker 1: ago during his I Don't give a flying f period,
Speaker 1: and he didn't and it was awful and I love Bob.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what.
Speaker 1: This thought occurred to me, putting aside Bob Dylan's equality
Speaker 1: performance at age seventy whatever he is. You know what
Speaker 1: occurred to me with the Timothy Schallomey thing, uh huh
Speaker 1: and the noodle boys, And he's become a symbol of
Speaker 1: an alternative version of masculinity to the traditional white male
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, make me want to vomit. And you
Speaker 1: pointed out quite correctly that he's tim Schallomey is not
Speaker 1: claiming that.
Speaker 3: No people are claiming that for him.
Speaker 1: And how beautiful a parallel is that to Bob Dylan,
Speaker 1: who said, stop trying to make me something for your use,
Speaker 1: Stop trying to make me a symbol of whatever it
Speaker 1: is you think I ought to be a symbol of.
Speaker 1: I'm a guitar player, right, And as he is always said,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what these songs mean.
Speaker 2: Quit tell me what my songs mean.
Speaker 1: I think Masters Wars clear enough. But once you get
Speaker 1: to you know, some of his wackier rhymeier songs is
Speaker 1: fun with words.
Speaker 2: I'd hate to fly all the way to Wichita and
Speaker 2: pay money for good seats and everything like that. And
Speaker 2: he comes out and does his eh really kivin hear
Speaker 2: not routine?
Speaker 1: Yeah times the yeah change in times they had change
Speaker 1: in times they had change in things.
Speaker 2: Well, he doesn't need the money. Why is he doing it?
Speaker 1: Because he's a guitar player. He's like Keith Richards. Why
Speaker 1: the hell is Keith Richards playing shows? He has more
Speaker 1: money than creases. If you look like you're having a
Speaker 1: good time, I get.
Speaker 2: It's like when I went to the Eagles, they really
Speaker 2: really looked like they were having a good time, like since.
Speaker 2: But I've seen people who look like they're not having
Speaker 2: a good time, like they wish they were somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So then why are you doing it? That's part of
Speaker 1: their art, you fool. You roube looking miserable. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just threw that out there. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I just think he needs so I think that's who
Speaker 1: he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. I've seen Dylan twice. I saw him.
Speaker 2: I don't remember where I saw him. The first time.
Speaker 2: It was an outdoor thing. Would he would he have
Speaker 2: played a state fair? But I've seen him at a
Speaker 2: step fair. I feel like I saw him at something
Speaker 2: like that anyway, and he just it was just it
Speaker 2: was awful. I mean, if it wasn't somebody I love,
Speaker 2: I would have like tried to get my money back.
Speaker 3: It was that horrible.
Speaker 2: But then I saw him in Berkeley at the Greek
Speaker 2: Theater and he sounded rough because he's old, but the
Speaker 2: band was freaking amazing, and uh so that was cool.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: And the review of it I saw is he's touring
Speaker 1: with the idea that he's hot right now because of
Speaker 1: that movie, and lots of people are going to a movie,
Speaker 1: and there's new generations of people discovering Bob Dylan for
Speaker 1: the first time and curious about it and everything. You man,
Speaker 1: if you want to see Timothy Shalome doing Bob Dylan,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a really different thing if you go
Speaker 1: see the eighty year old version.
Speaker 3: Yeah much.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen some of my musical artists who
Speaker 1: are way way past the primes. And I didn't come
Speaker 1: away elated. I came away kind of sad. Yeah, depends depends.
Speaker 1: You've mentioned Don Henley still sounds like Don Henley.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, what the heck?
Speaker 3: You know, a case by case whatever floats your boat.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got a lot more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 2: That's the deal with Emmises running around like as they
Speaker 2: little fellaway, you thought they were all as a as
Speaker 2: a guy who is quite slight. When he was younger,
Speaker 2: I noticed a lot of girls going for the big
Speaker 2: beefy guy a lot and not just oh look a
Speaker 2: skinny wave like guy. Let's fight over each other to
Speaker 2: get to him.
Speaker 1: Barely contain my arousing. Yeah, yeah, well that was back
Speaker 1: when people had the normal hormones in them anyway. True.
Speaker 3: So I told Jack.
Speaker 1: Off the air that I've got a really great think
Speaker 1: piece I want to share part of and then something
Speaker 1: kind of fun at the end.
Speaker 3: I don't trust myself.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start ranting about this and we'll never get
Speaker 1: to the story that I'd really kind of like to
Speaker 1: get to. But it's ultimately it's ultimately frustrating and is
Speaker 1: a great example of how we've gotten to the where
Speaker 1: we are among a lot of American attitudes toward the
Speaker 1: government and then all sorts of stuff. This guy in Bend, Oregon.
Speaker 1: I love Bend Oregon. Judy and I almost decided that
Speaker 1: we ought to settle there. We've spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time there. The high Desert beautiful, wonderful, golf rivers, pine
Speaker 1: tree wonderful. Anyway, and my son lived there for a
Speaker 1: couple of years too, a guy was going around putting
Speaker 1: big googly eyes on sculptures around the city, everything from
Speaker 1: deer to modern art to whatever, and everybody thought it
Speaker 1: was hilarious.
Speaker 2: Googly eyes are funny. My kids went through a googly
Speaker 2: eyes stage where we'd at the dollar store by the
Speaker 2: packages of different sized googly eyes, and they would just
Speaker 2: put them everywhere and it's very fun.
Speaker 1: And and it went kind of viral, and some of
Speaker 1: the folks within the government there and Bend has said,
Speaker 1: we've figured out we're gonna he's gonna we're gonna charge
Speaker 1: him fifteen hundred dollars for the clean up costs of
Speaker 1: these statues.
Speaker 3: You can't be doing this. Bah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Now, in fairness, Bends has recent feeling a backlash, saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounded kind of heavy handed.
Speaker 3: We just don't want people to deface the.
Speaker 2: Arm Sure, I get that too.
Speaker 1: This guy, by the way, he said, look, he has
Speaker 1: a really harrowing job working with people living in very
Speaker 1: difficult circumstances, trafficking victims. And he said, we all need
Speaker 1: a laugh at the end of the day, because man,
Speaker 1: there's some ugly stuff going on in the world. Anyway,
Speaker 1: but again Bend has done the right thing and said, look,
Speaker 1: we don't want to come down on this guy.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's the problem though.
Speaker 1: Whether it was Bend, Oregon or all sorts of other places,
Speaker 1: people burned, they defaced, they painted. Do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about Oregon? How much damage has been done in
Speaker 1: the name of freaking BLM or all cops are bastards
Speaker 1: or up with Marxism or anti racism or whatever that
Speaker 1: nobody was even arrested for because they were afraid to
Speaker 1: or didn't want to for ideological reasons.
Speaker 2: And I don't know what particularly is going on in Bend,
Speaker 2: organ today, but I'm guessing at various times there have
Speaker 2: been many drug addicts lying about making your life very unpleasant.
Speaker 2: And that meth head screaming at the park bench in
Speaker 2: front of the store I want to go into is
Speaker 2: giving me a lower quality of life to a greater
Speaker 2: extent than the googly eyes on the statue over.
Speaker 1: There right exactly. But the one is tolerated and the
Speaker 1: other is cracked down on. That's what people are saying.
Speaker 2: Of Yeah, that's ridiculous. That is what I incentify as Google.
Speaker 2: How about you get all the drug addicts out of
Speaker 2: the park so I can take my kids there. Don't
Speaker 2: worry about the googly eyes yeah on the deer, which
Speaker 2: is pretty freaking funny. Honestly, you know, we don't really
Speaker 2: have time for this, but it's an absolutely brilliant piece
Speaker 2: written by sodanand Doume, and the headline is Foreign Lessons
Speaker 2: in the Perils of DEI in Affirmative Action, the Trump
Speaker 2: administration saves the US from going the way of India,
Speaker 2: South Africa, and Malaysia. And he lays out a very
Speaker 2: very convincing case, quoting some eight thinkers and exams from
Speaker 2: history about how, for instance, as Thomas soul pointed out
Speaker 2: in his two thousand and four book Affirmative Action, around
Speaker 2: the world, most countries roll out preferences and quotas as
Speaker 2: an allegedly temporary problem solver and expedients, as he says,
Speaker 2: but over time they turn out not only to persist,
Speaker 2: but to grow, and then they become virtually impossible to
Speaker 2: end or even alter. And he gives a bunch of
Speaker 2: examples from around the world where not only did it
Speaker 2: become expensive and unjustifiable and discriminatory, but ugly and bloody
Speaker 2: and violent, and the idea of we carve up the
Speaker 2: populace based on their tribal identity or the color of
Speaker 2: their skin, their religion, or whatever, and then we hand
Speaker 2: out the goods and services of a government based on that.
Speaker 2: Its track record in humanity is beyond miserable. It's a
Speaker 2: horrible philosophy. I'm so glad at least for now, the
Speaker 2: tide is rolling back. So we do four hours aver day.
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