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 Jettie I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: The origin dates to the fourth century Rome and has
Speaker 3: been repeated ever since, including by our first Commander in Chief,
Speaker 3: George Washington, the first leader of the War Department. It
Speaker 3: captures a simple yet profound truth. To ensure peace, we
Speaker 3: must prepare for war.
Speaker 4: So clearly, Drew, I think we lost that thinking there
Speaker 4: for a while, certainly through the nineties and especially when
Speaker 4: we thought we were the only power on earth that
Speaker 4: could ever exist, so why would we have to worry
Speaker 4: about it? But now there is a country out there
Speaker 4: called China that actually is going to go to war
Speaker 4: with us at some point.
Speaker 5: And people said things like Pete Hegzeth, the Secretary of Defense,
Speaker 5: or do you say war just said.
Speaker 1: But they didn't really mean it.
Speaker 5: No, they didn't mean in a concrete way like whipping
Speaker 5: our jobs program oriented in some facets military into a true, lean,
Speaker 5: mean fighting force.
Speaker 1: But Pete seems serious about it.
Speaker 5: Here are a couple more clips from his speech today
Speaker 5: sixty one Michael.
Speaker 3: From this moment forward The only mission of the newly
Speaker 3: restored Department of War is this war fighting, preparing for
Speaker 3: war and preparing to win, unrelenting and uncompromising in that pursuit.
Speaker 3: Not because we want war, No one here wants war.
Speaker 1: But it's because we love peace.
Speaker 3: We love peace for our fellow citizens. They just nerve
Speaker 3: piece and they rightfully expect.
Speaker 2: Us to deliver it.
Speaker 5: Then he goes into some stuff about how the troops
Speaker 5: have to have good leaders and how we have promoted
Speaker 5: people for the wrong reasons, whether the gender or race
Speaker 5: or whatever. We've become obsessed with the first ever transgender
Speaker 5: Eskimo woman in charge of a Marine Corps battalion. Was
Speaker 5: no focus on effectiveness, and he said some really good
Speaker 5: stuff about that, and then he kind of summarizes it
Speaker 5: here in Clips sixty five.
Speaker 3: Michael, this administration has done a great deal from day
Speaker 3: one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic
Speaker 3: ideological garbage that had infected our department.
Speaker 2: To rip out the politics.
Speaker 3: No more identity months, dei offices, dudes in dresses, no
Speaker 3: more climate change worship, no more division distraction or gender delusions,
Speaker 3: no more debris. As I've said before, and we'll say again,
Speaker 3: we are done with that.
Speaker 4: We are done with that. S no more identity months.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize the Pentagon was doing that.
Speaker 5: Please Big DEI department too wielded a lot of power.
Speaker 4: So there's a rebuttal to that, and I think it's
Speaker 4: worth playing now as a former sec deaf William Cohen,
Speaker 4: he was the Secretary of Defense under Clinton, I guess
Speaker 4: and I often like what he has to say. But
Speaker 4: he responded to what Pete just said there that that
Speaker 4: S is over with this on CNN today.
Speaker 6: Was it wokeness that said that we should integrate the
Speaker 6: military and Harry Truman did that?
Speaker 1: Was it wokeness?
Speaker 6: We said the tuske yearman contributed mightily to our World
Speaker 6: War two effort? Was it wokeness that allowed Colin Powell
Speaker 6: to become the first black Chairmlin Joint chiefs? Is that
Speaker 6: woke us? Is it wokeness that you had as General
Speaker 6: Charles I'll forget this lasting in a moment. But Charles Brown,
Speaker 6: he was appointed by the president, he had one hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty combat hours, he was top gunner at the station.
Speaker 6: And now he's saying, well, he was just maybe debris.
Speaker 6: Was Charles Brown debris.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, how is this so complicated or
Speaker 4: are they being phony?
Speaker 2: Did they ask?
Speaker 4: This was one of the worst.
Speaker 1: Most stupid arguments I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 2: But that crowd that says that, do they believe that?
Speaker 4: So you actually think that there can't be another Colon
Speaker 4: Powell unless you have some sort of DEI program. That's
Speaker 4: a blessing with her implying sure, that's a very insulting
Speaker 4: thing to say to Colon Powell. There was a time
Speaker 4: in the military where you were not allowed to rise
Speaker 4: up through the ranks if you were black or a woman.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: That was bad. We've did that.
Speaker 4: But but but but doing away with prioritizing someone who's
Speaker 4: black over someone is white, regardless of qualifications is bad.
Speaker 2: Also, how do you not understand that? Like him? Smart guy?
Speaker 2: Does he not understand that?
Speaker 5: And acting as if transgender girls, boys, whatever the hell
Speaker 5: on the front lines is the same as is integrating
Speaker 5: our forces people have different races.
Speaker 7: That's that's a.
Speaker 1: Stupid and insane argument.
Speaker 5: I don't know, he's either old or doesn't know what
Speaker 5: these terms mean something.
Speaker 4: People make that argument all the time, not just him.
Speaker 4: It's it's the you wouldn't have a Colon Powell with
Speaker 4: yes you would, Yes you would. I mean, and then
Speaker 4: do you realize what you just said how insulting that
Speaker 4: is to Colin Powell or Ruth Bader Ginsburg or whoever, whoever.
Speaker 4: Whenever you're trying to make the argument that you've got
Speaker 4: to prioritize women, black trends, whatever to get people to
Speaker 4: rise up, you're claiming they're not qualified to get there
Speaker 4: on their own.
Speaker 5: Well, in the first idiotic part of it, was it
Speaker 5: wokeness when Truman integrated the force? No, of course not no,
Speaker 5: that was reasonable. Was it wokeness to recognize the Tuskegee Airman? No,
Speaker 5: of course not no. That has nothing to do with
Speaker 5: wokeness there or heroes? Is it wokeness that Colin Powell
Speaker 5: will never have another one? To? Seriously, I don't even
Speaker 5: have the breath to address that argument. That was one
Speaker 5: of the most moronic, idiotic things I've ever heard a
Speaker 5: human being express. From the age of three on toddlers,
Speaker 5: I will excuse William Cohen has banned from our air
Speaker 5: waves henceforth, well forever. Again, It's not just him.
Speaker 4: That's the whole DEI argument of why it needs to
Speaker 4: exist that people will not You won't have anybody but
Speaker 4: straight white males if you don't have DEI what are
Speaker 4: you saying when you say that? Yeah, okay, you're saying
Speaker 4: that in nobody but straight white miles, white males is
Speaker 4: qualified to.
Speaker 5: Do any of these things. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying, man crazy, Only lefties say that. So
Speaker 5: Pete Hegzeth goes on to say, he explains what he
Speaker 5: called the Golden rule, the new Golden rule for the military.
Speaker 5: You will give to your unit what you expect your
Speaker 5: unit to give to you. There will be no weak
Speaker 5: links or weak links or lowered standards, so that you know,
Speaker 5: one hundred and twelve pound women who couldn't possibly carry
Speaker 5: a big, strong trooper out of harm's way are part
Speaker 5: of the unit. No, everybody's going to be fit to serve.
Speaker 5: And he summarizes it here in clips sixty seven.
Speaker 3: This means at the war department, first and foremost, we
Speaker 3: must restore a ruthless, dispassionate, and common sense application of standards.
Speaker 3: I don't want my son serving alongside troops or out
Speaker 3: of shape or in combat unit females who can't meet
Speaker 3: the same combat arms physical standards as men. Our troops
Speaker 3: who are not fully proficient on their assigned weapons, platform
Speaker 3: or task, or under a leader who was the first
Speaker 3: but not the best standards must be uniform, gender neutral,
Speaker 3: and high. If not, they're not standards, they're just suggestions,
Speaker 3: suggestions that get our sons.
Speaker 4: And daughters killed. If we can't understand how obviously that
Speaker 4: is the right thing to do, then we deserve to
Speaker 4: be taken over by China.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree. I'm scrolling through email really quickly.
Speaker 4: I think I know for a fact, I know people
Speaker 4: who have told me for a fact that women got
Speaker 4: put into positions that they couldn't come close to doing
Speaker 4: the physical job that they needed to do cops and military. Actually,
Speaker 4: i've heard these stories. That's no knock on any woman
Speaker 4: who can do the same physical thing as a man,
Speaker 4: because something some can.
Speaker 2: But if you can't understand the difference, then you're just
Speaker 2: an idiot.
Speaker 5: Well right, exactly, you're an idiot, and I have no
Speaker 5: time for your idiotic arguments.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find somebody blasted back in the media.
Speaker 5: If Pete Heggsth believes women don't have a role in
Speaker 5: armed forces as I've said more than once people don't
Speaker 5: resort to stupid arguments because they're keeping their good ones
Speaker 5: safeer tomorrow. No, it's because that's all they have. That's
Speaker 5: some weak tea blah blah blah blah, ruthless application of standards. Dan,
Speaker 5: He takes a shot at the fat generals. Enjoy this
Speaker 5: sixty eight.
Speaker 3: I'm also directing that warfighters in combat jobs execute their
Speaker 3: service fitness test at a gender neutral age normed male
Speaker 3: standard scored above seventy percent. Frankly, it's tiring to look
Speaker 3: out combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. Likewise,
Speaker 3: it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in
Speaker 3: the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country.
Speaker 4: In the world, there's gotta be some fat generals and
Speaker 4: admirals in the crowd that were like, Hey, I am
Speaker 4: big bone.
Speaker 5: Fat island ozempic right now?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 4: Are there fat generals and admirals walking the halls of
Speaker 4: the Pentagon. It beatza insinuating that there is I suspect
Speaker 4: there are yes.
Speaker 5: And finally the final trip, he sums it up for
Speaker 5: you with a bafo finish.
Speaker 3: I have prayed this prayer time since I've had the
Speaker 3: privilege of being your secretary, and I will continue to
Speaker 3: pray this prayer for each of you as you command
Speaker 3: and lead our nation's finest. Go forth and do good things,
Speaker 3: hard things. President Trump has your back, and so do I,
Speaker 3: and you'll hear from them shortly.
Speaker 2: Move out and draw.
Speaker 3: Fire, because we are the war Department.
Speaker 2: God speaking wolf, move out and draw fire. We are
Speaker 2: the war Department.
Speaker 5: The soft, debauched, fat and happy US syndrome. At least
Speaker 5: there are some people fighting it or aware of it.
Speaker 1: This will kill us. Our laziness and softness will be
Speaker 1: our undoing.
Speaker 4: The only disappointing thing to me about any of this
Speaker 4: is that in three years you could have somebody who
Speaker 4: takes us.
Speaker 2: Back to where we were.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they can try. It took us a long time
Speaker 5: to get to where we were, you know, a few
Speaker 5: years ago. And and I would hope, because I have
Speaker 5: it on a reasonable authority, that when woke, idiotic cram
Speaker 5: downs come from Washington, DC, sometimes their implementation is a
Speaker 5: little slowish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, a bunch of people rose through
Speaker 4: the ranks who believe that crap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what you do with them.
Speaker 1: From them out fast as you can.
Speaker 4: And you know, Kamala Harris would be saying, we need
Speaker 4: a military that looks like America.
Speaker 2: No we don't. We need a military that looks scary
Speaker 2: af to China. That's what we need.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: If that's seventy six percent black guys, you know, find
Speaker 5: twelve Mexicans and the rest white people.
Speaker 4: Fine, sorry Asians right right? Who gives a crap? Nobody
Speaker 4: or nobody should. That's really interesting stuff. Good for Pete
Speaker 4: m any thoughts on that text line four one KFTC.
Speaker 8: And finally, China just opened the world's highest bridge and
Speaker 8: it's being hailed as an infrastructure miracle. That's sure, I
Speaker 8: want to drive on something that's described as a miracle,
Speaker 8: But China says it's totally safe and made from the
Speaker 8: finest steal from Temu.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the world's biggest suspension bridge I was talking
Speaker 4: about the other day. They parked all those semi trucks
Speaker 4: on to show how incredibly strong it is. It is
Speaker 4: quite the achievement and the speed with which they built it.
Speaker 2: That was the point.
Speaker 4: It was to say to the rest of the world,
Speaker 4: you see how efficient we are compared to the United States,
Speaker 4: for instance, and they are right about that.
Speaker 5: Sure if I was comparing two consumer products in terms
Speaker 5: of efficiency and effectiveness, Oh yeah, clear.
Speaker 1: Edge over there.
Speaker 4: Linel Richie's on one of your talk shows right now, man,
Speaker 4: as he had a lot of work done. Yeah, how
Speaker 4: old is Linel Richie? Can somebody look that up for
Speaker 4: me real quick? His HEYDI was the seventies and early eighties.
Speaker 4: And his skin, his face is as tight as a
Speaker 4: snare drum.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 4: I know he's got a big thing out about We
Speaker 4: Are the World song that he co wrote.
Speaker 1: It's seventy six.
Speaker 5: Seventy six, served in our military, rose to the rank
Speaker 5: of commodore.
Speaker 4: Recall, I need to get my head tightened like that.
Speaker 4: See if I could keep me looking young. Speaking of entertainment,
Speaker 4: I saw three trailers the other day. It's somehow I
Speaker 4: got fed on my YouTube feed and causing me to
Speaker 4: scroll and waste time as opposed to accomplishing anything with
Speaker 4: my life. But I mentioned one of them. Nuremberg new
Speaker 4: movie about Gurring, the Nazi general who was put on trial.
Speaker 4: And the guy who played Freddie Mercury in the Queen
Speaker 4: movie is the lawyer going up against him and Gurring
Speaker 4: is played by Russell Cruwe and it looks flipping fantastic
Speaker 4: if you're you know, like most men in America and
Speaker 4: like World War two stuff.
Speaker 2: It looks really really great.
Speaker 4: Another movie I'm looking forward too, there's a new Daniel
Speaker 4: day Lewis movie, and he retired. He retires every time
Speaker 4: he does a big movie. He's out in a new
Speaker 4: movie that I can't pronounce the name of, but it's
Speaker 4: about some guy who runs off into the woods after
Speaker 4: some sort of horrifying ordeal. But anyway, everything he does
Speaker 4: is amazing, So I look forward to that. And then
Speaker 4: there's a John Candy documentary coming out that looks really
Speaker 4: really good if you're a.
Speaker 2: John Candy fan, so I'm gonna check that out.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have guessed there was that much to the
Speaker 5: John Candy story, but I'm not saying there isn't.
Speaker 4: And just part of it is all the people they interview,
Speaker 4: and it's just tons of people, Martin Shorten's, Bill Murray
Speaker 4: and Steve Martin, all these different people talking about how
Speaker 4: he was the funniest person they ever met in their lives.
Speaker 4: He is one of those people that's like funny in
Speaker 4: real life. Some people who are funny are not funny
Speaker 4: in real life. Some people are, and John Kennedy apparently
Speaker 4: is one of them. It made me really wish I
Speaker 4: could have hung out with him sometime in a bar,
Speaker 4: because he did that a lot. But I want to
Speaker 4: get back to the Daniel day Lewis So I was
Speaker 4: written about this the other day on about his method
Speaker 4: at acting.
Speaker 2: He's a method actor.
Speaker 4: He's one of those people, crazy, hardcore crazy, like whenever
Speaker 4: he decides he's going to be in a movie, which
Speaker 4: is rare, he becomes that character for months and then
Speaker 4: never deviates from it. I was watching the Leonardo DiCaprio
Speaker 4: talk about when he was the butcher in Gangs of
Speaker 4: New York and how you just you couldn't talk to
Speaker 4: him anytime the lunch room, you know, the weekend, anytime
Speaker 4: he was in character all the time, and how weird
Speaker 4: it was, and Leonardo DiCaprio saying he had to drop
Speaker 4: it sometime, right, like putting his kids to bed or
Speaker 4: something that would freak them out. But do you know
Speaker 4: much about that? I mean, does that work? Is it important?
Speaker 8: Not?
Speaker 2: Everybody?
Speaker 9: Does it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it does really work for some people.
Speaker 1: I get it to just.
Speaker 4: Try to be that person all the time, so that
Speaker 4: when the camera's flipped on it, you're not acting all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, You're just being what you've been.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: You don't have to work at it, and therefore you
Speaker 5: can't fail at it, because you're just it by default.
Speaker 5: You are that person. Although that'll make you a looney
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 4: He's retired several times because he said, it does make
Speaker 4: you crazy, like it just takes too much of your
Speaker 4: soul to do that, too much of your real humanity,
Speaker 4: which is an interesting thing.
Speaker 2: Got a lot more in the way. I hope you
Speaker 2: can stay armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3: President Trump says he is sending federal troops to quote
Speaker 3: protect war.
Speaker 10: Ravaged Portland at the requests of the Department of Homeland.
Speaker 1: What it was, I'll give you the wrong number. That
Speaker 1: was fifty. Okay, this is a failure.
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately that was not.
Speaker 4: Joe Scarborough talking about how only Trump could have gotten
Speaker 4: those Arab leaders to agree to the deal that he
Speaker 4: put forward yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh, I got to hear.
Speaker 10: The one thing that's important to understand is Arab leaders
Speaker 10: like dealing with Donald Trump. They say he understands us.
Speaker 10: We understand him, and they're ready.
Speaker 1: For this to come to an end.
Speaker 7: So if somebody is out there sitting going, oh wait,
Speaker 7: this guy is saying, you know, I alone can bring
Speaker 7: peace to the region. Usually when he says I alone,
Speaker 7: just cut it off, don't listen because what he's going
Speaker 7: to say after that probably not going to be completely accurate.
Speaker 1: In this case, it's.
Speaker 10: Other than hamas he is the one person that the
Speaker 10: Arab countries are willing to get behind and do things with.
Speaker 4: So that's the point I've been making all day long.
Speaker 4: That you have Joe Scarborough on MSNBCU of NPR, you
Speaker 4: have Tom Friedman in the New York Times and Fox
Speaker 4: and Friends all liking this deal that Trump is put forward.
Speaker 4: Tom Friedman in the New York Times, who hates everything
Speaker 4: about Trump, said, Trump's twenty point peace plan for Gaza
Speaker 4: is a smart plan for turning a bomb crater into
Speaker 4: a launch pad for peace, for taking a terrible war
Speaker 4: in Gaza and leveraging it to create a new foundation
Speaker 4: for solving the Israeli Palestinian conflict, for normalization between Israel,
Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, and maybe even a raq And
Speaker 4: it could set in motion of much needed transformation in Iran.
Speaker 4: It is unprecedented in its creativity.
Speaker 1: That is amazing, I know it. That's four stars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and obviously the uh, the Trump crowd, the Fox
Speaker 4: crowd likes it. So we'll see where this goes.
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 5: I wonder what BB net and Yahoo would say if
Speaker 5: you asked him, Hey, what are the chances that Hamas
Speaker 5: accepts this and it works?
Speaker 1: Even like mostly works? How optimistic are you?
Speaker 2: Well, there's no other option.
Speaker 4: And as bb and Trump made clear yesterday, if Hamas
Speaker 4: says no to this, do what you gotta do you
Speaker 4: have our full backing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's what I'm asking. What which way does
Speaker 5: Bbe think it's gonna go?
Speaker 4: I would guess, based on his entire life experience, he
Speaker 4: thinks Hamas is not gonna agree to it.
Speaker 5: Right, or pretend to, and then immediately start violating it.
Speaker 5: You know what, if this is probably not the sort
Speaker 5: of thing a fellow ought to say out loud. If
Speaker 5: I were the leader of Hamas, that would be my plan.
Speaker 5: I agree to it, then immediately begin undermining it in
Speaker 5: ways just toes to the line it's gonna be doesn't
Speaker 5: bring in the full Pooh storm.
Speaker 4: It's going to be harder with all those Arab countries involved,
Speaker 4: though then if it was just the United States.
Speaker 5: But if you are sworn to your soul to obliterate Israel,
Speaker 5: you just think, well, that's part of what I've got
Speaker 5: to fight against, since those betrayers in the Arab world,
Speaker 5: those Muslims who have betrayed Allah. Anyway, speaking of radical violence,
Speaker 5: a radical Marxist cop killer just died in Cuba. Asata
Speaker 5: Shakur was her assumed super cool look at.
Speaker 1: Me, I'm a revolutionary name.
Speaker 2: I saw this story over the weekend as something.
Speaker 5: And she's being lionized by the left. She's a hero
Speaker 5: to a lot of people. Evidently, was your fairly typical
Speaker 5: late sixties, early seventies militant Marxist black panther. It's our
Speaker 5: duty to fight for freedom, our duty to win, throw
Speaker 5: off our change.
Speaker 2: She murdered a cop.
Speaker 4: The Chicago Teachers' Union put out a statement of you know,
Speaker 4: love and respect in her passing and how we should
Speaker 4: all honor her.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah. She murdered a cop a father.
Speaker 1: Right, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: And there have been various centers opened in her honor
Speaker 5: on university campuses. Noel Rothman, writing in The National Review
Speaker 5: about how her story is long endeared her to America's
Speaker 5: radicals culture personality. City College briefly named a community center
Speaker 5: after the cop killer. Twenty seventeen social media post by
Speaker 5: the Women's March organization hailing her accomplishments on her birthday,
Speaker 5: that is so crazy. Yeah, yeah, it really is. New
Speaker 5: York Times matter of factly declared to many black people
Speaker 5: she was a folk hero.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So they were using the example of the National Review
Speaker 4: that old Luigi what's his name that murdered the u
Speaker 4: United Healthcare CEO, he could get out of prison in
Speaker 4: thirty years and be a college professor who has buildings
Speaker 4: named after him, because that's what we did with the
Speaker 4: radicals murderers of the sixties.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: She actually escaped prison with the help of her cohort
Speaker 5: and ended up in Cuba, where they trotted her out
Speaker 5: as a writer and thinker and America hater. So that
Speaker 5: made her a hero there in the brutally repressive communist
Speaker 5: dictatorship of Cuba. Really really interesting, and I don't think
Speaker 5: it's of any great significance other than taking the temperature
Speaker 5: of certain folks on the left, and when they say,
Speaker 5: you know, they decry political violence, do they really thought
Speaker 5: this was interesting? I was actually aware of this partly
Speaker 5: through conversations with Tim Sandefer and other people in the
Speaker 5: legal profession. But Free Beacon reporting Big Law shifts further
Speaker 5: left as the American electorate does the opposite in new
Speaker 5: study shows this is a study by a Notre Dame
Speaker 5: Law School professor found that lawyers at America's top firms
Speaker 5: donated twelve times as much to Democrats as they did
Speaker 5: to Republicans.
Speaker 1: Twenty twelve times.
Speaker 5: Now, it was six to one in twenty twenty four
Speaker 5: years later, it was twelve to one.
Speaker 4: Now is that as simple as like the way it
Speaker 4: is in California? You Democrats like bigger government, which means
Speaker 4: more regulations and laws which you have to hire lawyers
Speaker 4: to deal with.
Speaker 5: So it's you know, it's a job program. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: and litigators try to lawyers love the Democratic Party for
Speaker 5: that reason.
Speaker 2: Well that's horrifying though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Derek Muller, prof at Notre Dame Law School, found that
Speaker 5: firms within the am Law one hundred and an annual
Speaker 5: ranking of the largest legal practices is in the States
Speaker 5: donated fifty two million to Democrats and four millions to
Speaker 5: four million to Republicans in twenty twenty four election cycle.
Speaker 1: It's actually more than twelve to one. Blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: blah blah.
Speaker 5: Muller told lawyer and legal writer David Ladd, who first
Speaker 5: reported on his research, that he was surprised to see
Speaker 5: such a stark shift in only four years. Now that
Speaker 5: was before Trump or was it when did Trump first
Speaker 5: start talking about cracking down on big law and making
Speaker 5: them suffer for coming after him?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't remember that because that, you know, could motivate
Speaker 5: you a little bit, so that, yeah, that might be
Speaker 5: artificially chused up. But I know Tim has said that
Speaker 5: the law schools of America, a lot of them are
Speaker 5: as far left as like the Sociology Department or the
Speaker 5: Black Studies.
Speaker 2: Depart That's absolutely horrifying.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 5: So you know, as I often say, this is not
Speaker 5: the you know, the woke things seems to have peaked
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 1: This is not the beginning of the end. It's the
Speaker 1: end of the beginning.
Speaker 5: The real wrestling match is probably just starting.
Speaker 4: Was it after your last kid left the house that
Speaker 4: you did your little rant about nature has no use
Speaker 4: for you anymore.
Speaker 5: I think it was probably Yeah, it's definitely after there's
Speaker 5: no reason for your existence anymore.
Speaker 2: You've done what nature wanted you to do.
Speaker 5: Raise with the possible exception of being a village elder
Speaker 5: and saying I wouldn't go to war with that tribe.
Speaker 1: Last time we tried, we got our asses kicked.
Speaker 4: Haven raised the next you know, generation of your species,
Speaker 4: and once you get them out to where they are
Speaker 4: of procreation age, nature is done with you. Anyway, you're
Speaker 4: taking up resources. It can be better years, I should say,
Speaker 4: I am. I guess that was a complicated transition to
Speaker 4: Katie's not here today, And I was going to ask
Speaker 4: her because she's still young and she's with child and
Speaker 4: going to uh so she still cares about Halloween and
Speaker 4: everything that goes on with Halloween and tomorrow's October first,
Speaker 4: and I was just wondering, maybe, you know, Michael, what's
Speaker 4: the hot decoration that you're not going to be able
Speaker 4: to find this year? You know, it's like the thirty
Speaker 4: foot skeleton that they have at home depot or the
Speaker 4: twenty foot the cackling witch that they had at Low's
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 11: I don't know, but usually they have a weird Halloween
Speaker 11: costumes like the Manjoni, guy who killed the Yeah, you know,
Speaker 11: stuff like that.
Speaker 4: But the last several years there's been one big, hot,
Speaker 4: giant thing that you get at your home depot or something.
Speaker 4: We'll have to look into that so I can get
Speaker 4: it this year. But I just think it it's time
Speaker 4: for me to put up the stupid, enormous inflatable pumpkin
Speaker 4: that I've been putting it up and now for quite
Speaker 4: a few years. And uh, I got young kids in
Speaker 4: my neighborhood. I think they're gonna like it. But it's
Speaker 4: a lot of work. It's a lot of work putting
Speaker 4: that thing out and tethering it down.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the key.
Speaker 1: Tether it down.
Speaker 4: Well, I tether it down. But there's usually at least
Speaker 4: one or two windy days where it blows loose and
Speaker 4: it goes down the street and somebody says, knocks on
Speaker 4: my door, Hey, your giant inflatable pumpkin is down the street.
Speaker 4: Am I gonna go chase it down and bring it back.
Speaker 5: Maybe the thing to do is you invest in one
Speaker 5: of those and you use it for two years then
Speaker 5: you sell it takes the depreciation, but then you swap
Speaker 5: it out. It's like a Carle's you swap it out
Speaker 5: for you know, twenty foot pumpkins are no longer hot.
Speaker 5: It's all about you know, twenty three foot frankenstein.
Speaker 4: Yasters exactly, exactly. Yeah, that's what I like about the
Speaker 4: really giant frankstein or whatever. They're very solid. They're not
Speaker 4: gonna blow out the window. The inflatable things and come
Speaker 4: with their own set of problems. The Frankenstein's are solid. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a wooden thing, big giant wooden thing.
Speaker 1: How big? Twenty feet high? What the yeah?
Speaker 4: I know, it's quite amazing. I always wonder where do
Speaker 4: you store the damn thing? I guess you have to
Speaker 4: take it apart. Which is it weigh like a thousand pounds?
Speaker 2: It might I don't know.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a big wooden thing
Speaker 4: the last couple of years from Home Depot.
Speaker 1: Home Depot sells. Would you know, Michael Reagan.
Speaker 11: Say something, Well, first, Hanson wants to say that if
Speaker 11: it's not two stories tall, it's not good enough.
Speaker 4: I agree, everything's got to be two stories tall er.
Speaker 4: What's the point of even having it in near yard.
Speaker 4: Are you even trying? Have you forgotten the true meaning
Speaker 4: of Halloween? That would be my.
Speaker 1: Question, Joe, didn't you get a fog machine? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, back in the day, I was super into it.
Speaker 5: I had the fake spider webs, I had the fog machine,
Speaker 5: the artificial thunder and lightning, various creepy figures on a
Speaker 5: porch that may or may not have been me in costume,
Speaker 5: ready to leap up and frighten the little kids.
Speaker 1: Ye really really into it.
Speaker 4: Give the kids a little PTSD. My kids are too
Speaker 4: old to give a crap. But I do have some
Speaker 4: neighbor kid that I think will really enjoy me having
Speaker 4: the big pumpkin up, so I'll probably do it for them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2: They're cuter.
Speaker 4: Heck, that's the perfect family that I always talk about.
Speaker 4: They are the perfect family. It's just they set a
Speaker 4: standard that nobody can live up to with their exercise
Speaker 4: and diet and bilingual and they always making the church
Speaker 4: on that they do everything perfect, and it's just it's
Speaker 4: they're very, very, very nice people.
Speaker 2: It's just a I feel ashamed, I know, I feel.
Speaker 5: Like they don't even have the decency to gloat and
Speaker 5: be obnoxious about it.
Speaker 4: They're the exercise in this group of people. They go
Speaker 4: for family walks like four times a day. They're all
Speaker 4: thin and attractive. Yeah, and I feel like they're not
Speaker 4: trying to, but they're lording it over me, making me
Speaker 4: feel bad about myself.
Speaker 5: A little round up on the lawn. That's a classic.
Speaker 2: We will finish strong.
Speaker 8: Next Congress has to agree on a new spending deal
Speaker 8: in the next twenty four hours or the government will
Speaker 8: shut down tomorrow at midnight. You know, these are crazy
Speaker 8: times when the government is about to shut down and
Speaker 8: Americans are.
Speaker 1: Like, honestly, maybe we could all use a break.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Let's just take a day no news, no
Speaker 2: news for one day. I'm good.
Speaker 4: I don't care about the government shutdown. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to talk about it in any reality. But it is
Speaker 4: a sign that our politics are dysfunctional, that we can't
Speaker 4: just figure these things out before deadlines like grown ups.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a near annual occurrence, they pointed out. I
Speaker 5: think it was in the New York Times going back
Speaker 5: like fifty years now fifteen Now, it's practically well, it
Speaker 5: was a rarity back then, but yeah, it was a possibility,
Speaker 5: but now it's every year, the jabbering about a possible
Speaker 5: shut down and the media desperately trying to get you interested,
Speaker 5: like a four touchdown deficit football game.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they did the thing yesterday that they always do.
Speaker 4: Here's a military wife with her two babies, and they're
Speaker 4: not going to get their paycheckhnce, you'll you'll get on
Speaker 4: time or a day later when they figured this all
Speaker 4: out and everything will be fine.
Speaker 2: So whatever.
Speaker 4: So I just saw I don't follow the WNBA. That's
Speaker 4: the women's NBA basketball. The Indiana Fever are a game
Speaker 4: away from the finals. That's the team that Caitlin Kark
Speaker 4: Clark based for, and she got hurt, like what a
Speaker 4: month and a half ago. For the season, she's not
Speaker 4: on the team. What are they gonna do for the
Speaker 4: whole that whole vibe because they weren't doing that well.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's kind of an interesting thing.
Speaker 4: Your best player goes down and you do well, you
Speaker 4: do better, you're playing better without her.
Speaker 1: Whoops whoops.
Speaker 4: In real sports, the Major League Baseball playoff starts day.
Speaker 4: In playoff baseball is completely different than regular season baseball,
Speaker 4: and it's so exciting and they got three games series,
Speaker 4: which is fun because the games really really matter in the.
Speaker 2: Three game series. And you got some good ones.
Speaker 4: You got Podres, Cubs, whoever, Dodgers, Reds, Red Sox, Yankees,
Speaker 4: all starting today, So that'll be some fun baseball. And
Speaker 4: it's going all day long. If you're a baseball fan,
Speaker 4: you can flip around and find it somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was thinking about that the other day because I've
Speaker 5: loved baseball since i was a little kid, and I've
Speaker 5: kind of drifted away from Major League Baseball watching it,
Speaker 5: and I was thinking, there needs to be and you
Speaker 5: can probably get this, I know, on like YouTube TV
Speaker 5: if you tune into a sports game.
Speaker 1: One of the.
Speaker 5: Options it's a start from the beginning, join it live,
Speaker 5: or catch up through key plays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, if.
Speaker 5: I could just get like key plays and then watch
Speaker 5: the last three innings, and I realized, this is twenty
Speaker 5: first century schizoid man with no yeah, because sometimes it's
Speaker 5: banning the rest of them because sometimes he.
Speaker 2: And you know what at the time is the fifth inning?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: Right, That's one of the things I've always liked about
Speaker 5: baseball as opposed to the NBA. You could literally just
Speaker 5: tune in the last five minutes of every NBA.
Speaker 1: Or as in baseball or football.
Speaker 5: For that matter, hockey, you might have missed the most exciting,
Speaker 5: crucial part.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4: It's also interesting the difference of the NFL has and
Speaker 4: the hole it has on America of not being a
Speaker 4: regional sport. It doesn't matter that the two teams that
Speaker 4: are on Monday night or Sunday Night are eight hundred
Speaker 4: miles from you. It's still an interesting game with playoff
Speaker 4: implications that you watch if you're a football plan fan,
Speaker 4: which it's just not true for baseball. Baseball people almost
Speaker 4: entirely follow if their local.
Speaker 2: Team is in it. Otherwise they don't.
Speaker 9: That's just the way the ratings work.
Speaker 4: I'm fully jumping on the Mariners bandwagon, though I'm going
Speaker 4: to follow them absolutely. They're not in the playoff in
Speaker 4: the wild card round, but I'm all over that team.
Speaker 4: Let's get some final thoughts. Here's your host to Joe Getty.
Speaker 5: Let's goot a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 5: to wrap up the show for the day. There is
Speaker 5: pressing the buttons in the control room. Our technical director
Speaker 5: of Michael Ashleoll, Michael what's you final thought?
Speaker 11: Yeah, we were talking about Halloween costumes.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I didn't think about this.
Speaker 11: If you're a couple, you got to go as Taylor
Speaker 11: Swift and Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 2: Oh, Taylor's such a great idea. Wears a wedding dress,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey in a tucks.
Speaker 11: Then you have groom's men or bridesmaids along side.
Speaker 5: Do you know, well, if they're standard wedding garb, how would.
Speaker 1: You know who they are? No? I would go with
Speaker 1: Chief's jersey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I disagree with For my final thought, this is
Speaker 4: the perfect one. As a dude, you get to wear
Speaker 4: a football jersey, right and be comfortable. As the chick.
Speaker 4: You get to wear a short skirt me boots because
Speaker 4: you want to look hot on Halloween.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's perfect custom perfect costume for young people.
Speaker 2: You're right, Michael.
Speaker 5: Yes, And if I had a time machine and could
Speaker 5: take it back twenty five years, I.
Speaker 1: Would maybe probably not do that anyway.
Speaker 5: My final thought is speaking of couples, turns out people
Speaker 5: are much more likely.
Speaker 1: To marry someone.
Speaker 5: With the same or similar psychiatric diagnoses as themselves. Really depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism,
Speaker 5: bipolar disorder OCD, anorexia. People tend to marry people who
Speaker 5: have the same challenge, and that's.
Speaker 2: Probably a good thing, right, because you can understand each other.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes it is. Yeah, we could get into
Speaker 1: this little more in depth tomorrow.
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