WEBVTT - Nonstop Absurdity 0:00:01.870 --> 0:00:05.710 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.750 --> 0:00:10.770 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.850 --> 0:00:19.869 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. You were 0:00:19.890 --> 0:00:22.150 off the campaign for more than a week, roughly nine days, 0:00:22.210 --> 0:00:25.210 I believe. Your campaign said you had the flu. What happened? 0:00:25.550 --> 0:00:28.110 Yeah, I got the flu and I'm feeling much better. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.540 And I'm glad I had a chance to recover. You know, 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.159 if you don't take the opportunity to get well, sometimes 0:00:33.180 --> 0:00:36.000 you can get even sicker. And so I'm glad we 0:00:36.020 --> 0:00:38.480 made the decision to just take the week, get better. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:40.550 And now I'm glad to be back on the trail. 0:00:40.690 --> 0:00:43.970 That's the non-story around James Tallarico, the Democrat running for 0:00:43.990 --> 0:00:46.490 the Senate in Texas, who has a shot at winning, 0:00:47.190 --> 0:00:49.050 or at least did until today. 0:00:49.659 --> 0:00:53.240 You look confused before I get to the breaking news. Well, no, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.080 I just like the conversation of your campaign says you 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:58.340 had the flu. What happened? Well, I got the flu 0:00:58.420 --> 0:01:00.380 and I was sick and I thought I should recover. 0:01:00.860 --> 0:01:05.720 So I stayed at home. It's a little weird that 0:01:05.740 --> 0:01:06.899 he went dark, though. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.319 I mean, just like not talking to anybody. And nobody 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:11.440 seemed to know where he was. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.410 Including not saying, hey, by the way, James has the flu, 0:01:14.470 --> 0:01:15.950 so he's going to take a few minutes or a 0:01:16.030 --> 0:01:17.209 few days to recoup. 0:01:17.330 --> 0:01:19.569 When have you ever in your life been so sick 0:01:19.670 --> 0:01:22.590 for a dozen days that you wouldn't have been able 0:01:22.630 --> 0:01:25.350 to record a YouTube video or jump on the phone 0:01:25.390 --> 0:01:28.820 or something? I never have, including when I had cancer. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.520 Not for 12 straight days of I couldn't have had 0:01:31.540 --> 0:01:34.810 a phone call. But didn't his campaign not even say 0:01:34.870 --> 0:01:36.929 anything until people started asking questions? 0:01:36.970 --> 0:01:37.490 That's weird. 0:01:37.610 --> 0:01:37.910 I know. 0:01:38.010 --> 0:01:39.310 That's why it is a strange story. 0:01:39.390 --> 0:01:42.640 But anyway, the Senate race in Texas, which is way 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.340 closer than it should be, Elon Musk is about to 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:50.120 jump into it big. Mark Halpern reporting that he's got 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.550 four sources that Elon Musk and his people are now 0:01:53.610 --> 0:01:57.890 talking about spending a lot with all capital letters of 0:01:57.990 --> 0:02:02.590 money in Texas. Just in Texas, they're looking to spend between. 0:02:02.230 --> 0:02:07.140 $ 50 and $ 200 million just in Texas. 0:02:07.140 --> 0:02:11.820 $ 50 million from a guy in one state would be stunning. 0:02:11.820 --> 0:02:16.880 $ 200 is just, I don't know what we're doing here. Right, right. Yeah, well, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:17.980 Elon lives in Texas. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.609 And probably is specifically appalled because he lives there with 0:02:23.650 --> 0:02:27.030 the idea of a Democrat getting elected. And then I 0:02:27.070 --> 0:02:31.570 just saw a piece where someplace about what's on the line. Oh, 0:02:31.610 --> 0:02:34.940 Matthew Continetti, who's really, really good, writing about what's on 0:02:34.980 --> 0:02:37.720 the line if the Republicans, he's going with the assumed 0:02:38.100 --> 0:02:40.880 Democrats are going to take the House. But what if 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.320 the Democrats have the House and the Senate? And, man, 0:02:43.340 --> 0:02:45.340 there's a lot of things that flow from that. 0:02:45.970 --> 0:02:49.440 Sure. So the whole Senate thing's. A big deal. And 0:02:49.500 --> 0:02:52.800 Elon Musk was that. Yeah. Yeah. By the way. I 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.220 want to point out that, you know, Tallarico is no, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.190 he's not like Josh Shapiro. I mean, he's woke. He's 0:02:58.210 --> 0:03:00.030 a lefty. Oh, right. 0:03:05.330 --> 0:03:07.609 So for the one more thing podcast, I think we're 0:03:07.630 --> 0:03:10.240 going to play some Shane Gillis, the comedian who was 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.340 the host of Saturday Night Live and some of his. 0:03:14.389 --> 0:03:16.850 Monologue, which apparently is controversial. 0:03:16.970 --> 0:03:18.829 I don't even know what that means in the modern world, 0:03:18.930 --> 0:03:23.209 because if six people complain about something on Twitter, then 0:03:23.230 --> 0:03:24.510 the New York Post will say, you. 0:03:26.830 --> 0:03:30.110 Know, Twitter angry at, and you pick two people and 0:03:30.450 --> 0:03:32.570 craft a story. The internet went crazy when, yeah, sure. 0:03:32.790 --> 0:03:36.760 But anyway, I just saw that National Review responded to it, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.960 so it's reached some sort of level. Well, Shane Gill 0:03:40.020 --> 0:03:44.910 is talking about women at gym dressed like whores. And 0:03:45.290 --> 0:03:47.430 he used to look like a fat lesbian and a 0:03:47.470 --> 0:03:51.060 bunch of different things that people found inappropriate. And what's 0:03:51.090 --> 0:03:54.380 interesting about that is Shane Gillis is the biggest comedian 0:03:54.540 --> 0:03:57.320 in the world. I was watching a I watch a 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.260 lot of YouTube stuff on stand up for whatever reason. 0:04:00.780 --> 0:04:03.010 And I saw one with a roundtable the other day 0:04:03.050 --> 0:04:05.150 of all the biggest stand up comedians around that aren't 0:04:05.170 --> 0:04:05.630 Shane Gillis. 0:04:05.670 --> 0:04:06.350 And they are asking. 0:04:06.700 --> 0:04:09.460 They're going through how various comedians have had this moment 0:04:09.500 --> 0:04:12.240 where they just dominate comedy like Eddie Murphy did one 0:04:12.300 --> 0:04:15.100 point and Seinfeld has. And they said, who's the biggest 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.800 comedian right now? And everybody agreed Shane Gillis is by 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.760 far the biggest thing on earth. And he sold out 0:04:21.260 --> 0:04:24.529 where the Eagles play three nights in a row. Nobody's 0:04:24.710 --> 0:04:27.050 ever done anything like that as a comedian before. 0:04:27.210 --> 0:04:27.609 Wow. 0:04:27.770 --> 0:04:30.790 And football stadiums for college football where it just he 0:04:30.810 --> 0:04:34.310 just sells out instantly. And it's because of the politically 0:04:34.390 --> 0:04:35.310 incorrect stuff. 0:04:35.350 --> 0:04:36.469 That's what people love. 0:04:37.100 --> 0:04:38.900 So the fact that he goes on Saturday Night Live 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.180 and does it, and it's not like Lorne Michaels didn't 0:04:41.339 --> 0:04:43.900 know what he was getting when you have Shane Gillis 0:04:43.940 --> 0:04:48.870 as your comedian. And his whole persona of jeans, pocket. 0:04:48.589 --> 0:04:51.560 Tee, and tennis shoes... And. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.560 Just saying whatever the hell he wants is so appealing, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.839 particularly to young people. I've seen him walk out on 0:04:57.860 --> 0:05:01.380 the stage in football stadiums for colleges and just people 0:05:01.420 --> 0:05:02.219 go wild. 0:05:02.339 --> 0:05:04.640 And it's basically just reinforcing. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.060 We should be able to say whatever we want about 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:07.940 whatever we want. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.280 I think that's just the message. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. It's 0:05:11.339 --> 0:05:15.760 a reaction to the suffocation these youngsters are living under 0:05:16.510 --> 0:05:19.330 in their schools. Well, school is like your whole life 0:05:19.370 --> 0:05:22.760 when you're young. Yeah, I think it's great. It's wonderful. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.140 Well, we'll play some of that in the One More 0:05:24.180 --> 0:05:27.910 Thing podcast. Here's something to be angry about. That's what 0:05:27.950 --> 0:05:34.820 you want. I'd forgotten that Berkeley, California, invented the soda tax, 0:05:34.980 --> 0:05:39.839 which other people have since adopted. The ridiculous, ridiculous, there 0:05:39.860 --> 0:05:42.039 are too many obese people, so we're going to put 0:05:42.060 --> 0:05:47.120 an extra tax on pop as if there aren't 8 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.580 million other fattening things that you can eat or drink 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:56.409 that make us all overweight. French fries, donuts, whatever the hell. 0:05:56.730 --> 0:06:00.870 Everything at Starbucks. which is worse than drinking a Coca-Cola. 0:06:01.089 --> 0:06:04.540 But anyway, Berkeley invented the soda tax, and now they're 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.680 going to double it, they've announced. 0:06:06.700 --> 0:06:09.659 Oh my gosh. I thought they were going to repeal 0:06:09.700 --> 0:06:14.580 it because it's useless. No. I'm reading the California Post 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.340 version of this story. They're against it, of course. 0:06:16.690 --> 0:06:19.049 Voters in Berkeley are being asked to double the city's 0:06:19.170 --> 0:06:22.630 tax on soda, even as local businesses say they're already 0:06:22.690 --> 0:06:26.159 struggling with basic city services that go unmet. And questions 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.520 are being raised about how do the money get spent 0:06:28.580 --> 0:06:32.210 and monitored? I can answer that without even reading the 0:06:32.250 --> 0:06:35.630 rest of this before I did, is how's the money 0:06:35.650 --> 0:06:36.169 being spent? 0:06:36.589 --> 0:06:40.590 Poorly. How's it being monitored? It ain't. It's the answer 0:06:40.610 --> 0:06:42.870 to that question pretty much always. Right. 0:06:43.770 --> 0:06:47.070 A financial review by the California Post identified serious financial 0:06:47.330 --> 0:06:52.250 irregularities involving the Berkeley Soda Tax's top recipient. Who's been 0:06:52.270 --> 0:06:55.480 getting the most money since, geez, when did they first 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:56.100 pass this? 0:06:56.100 --> 0:07:00.720 2000, whatever it was, a decade ago or something. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.020 Health Black Families, which is a good name because it's got, 0:07:07.220 --> 0:07:08.600 you like all three of those words, right? 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:09.370 I like health. 0:07:09.810 --> 0:07:11.990 Oh, black, we got to help out the black people. Families, 0:07:12.030 --> 0:07:14.870 who's not for families? So you just take three positive 0:07:14.910 --> 0:07:17.830 sounding words and put them together. Health Black Families, a 0:07:17.950 --> 0:07:21.570 nonprofit that has been awarded more than $ 2. 2 million in 0:07:21.610 --> 0:07:25.730 taxpayer money since the soda tax went into effect. The 0:07:25.790 --> 0:07:29.950 organization provides a number of community services targeting the African-American community, 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.760 including a program called Thirsty for Change, as well as 0:07:34.220 --> 0:07:37.100 cooking seminars and tours of farmers markets. 0:07:37.740 --> 0:07:41.580 Wow. Wow. There you have the lettuce section. As you 0:07:41.620 --> 0:07:44.260 can see, there's a great deal of Of, well, lettuce. 0:07:46.220 --> 0:07:48.460 I mean, before you even get to the fact that 0:07:48.500 --> 0:07:51.309 they aren't even doing this, I don't think. The fact 0:07:51.390 --> 0:07:55.090 that you should be taxed so that the money could 0:07:55.110 --> 0:08:00.190 be spent on tours of farmers markets for black families. 0:08:00.310 --> 0:08:02.610 I mean, I don't know what the hell that is. 0:08:02.990 --> 0:08:07.370 Spreading the money to their cronies. Yeah. All right, everybody, 0:08:07.470 --> 0:08:10.330 keep together now. Let's move along. Here in this section, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.960 you'll see both arts and crafts. We'll take a moment 0:08:13.980 --> 0:08:17.660 to look around. There's some potholders with amusing slogans printed 0:08:17.740 --> 0:08:20.190 on them, for instance. Hope everybody's enjoying it. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.920 If anybody would like a macrame potholder and a caramel apple, 0:08:25.100 --> 0:08:28.620 step over here. But in filings with the IRS, healthy 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:34.420 black families' accounting records contain conflicting compensation figures, massive expenses 0:08:34.450 --> 0:08:36.970 that don't add up, and hundreds of thousands of dollars 0:08:37.030 --> 0:08:41.350 in unexplained legal fees. Raising questions about how carefully Berkeley 0:08:41.390 --> 0:08:43.490 officials are tracking the money it doles out. I can 0:08:43.510 --> 0:08:44.470 tell you how carefully. 0:08:44.770 --> 0:08:46.830 Not. Right. 0:08:47.230 --> 0:08:49.310 A partner with this accounting firm who looked over the 0:08:49.429 --> 0:08:51.750 IRS records for the Post said that healthy black families' 0:08:51.809 --> 0:08:59.670 returns show repeated failures in basic financial reporting. Another accounting 0:08:59.730 --> 0:09:03.220 professor they hired called the filings incompetent. Healthy black families 0:09:03.260 --> 0:09:05.720 listed more than $ 300, 000 in. 0:09:05.700 --> 0:09:08.540 Miscellany expenses in 2024. 0:09:08.540 --> 0:09:12.150 Roughly a third of their total spending without any required 0:09:12.270 --> 0:09:13.490 itemization whatsoever. 0:09:13.790 --> 0:09:19.750 You see... We're handing out money to our relatives and 0:09:19.850 --> 0:09:24.179 our friends and just using paper-thin pretexts for it. That's 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.000 what we're doing. I think it can save us all 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.559 a lot of time if we just agree on that. 0:09:28.660 --> 0:09:31.950 And we've all been in around this sort of scam world. 0:09:32.390 --> 0:09:34.750 so much of our lives we realize we don't even 0:09:34.830 --> 0:09:38.130 have to pretend at this point to like itemize these 0:09:38.150 --> 0:09:39.670 things we don't even have to make make it up 0:09:39.929 --> 0:09:42.510 because if you wanted to spend 10 minutes you could 0:09:42.590 --> 0:09:44.870 come up with a piece of paper that says uh 0:09:44.929 --> 0:09:47.830 forty thousand dollars for this and thirty two thousand dollars 0:09:47.850 --> 0:09:50.150 for this and kind of try to pretend to justify 0:09:50.170 --> 0:09:54.070 it you know we needed a printer and we needed Wi-Fi, 0:09:54.390 --> 0:09:56.240 and we needed phones. 0:09:56.300 --> 0:09:59.200 But they don't even try, because they know nobody's ever 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.320 going to look. Just call it miscellaneous. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.179 From 21 to 24, the organization reported no independent voting 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:06.820 board members. 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:08.520 Nobody's voting on this stuff. 0:10:09.230 --> 0:10:12.150 Again, they've reached a point where they don't even pretend 0:10:12.510 --> 0:10:15.410 to have members who are getting tons of money, so 0:10:15.429 --> 0:10:16.010 they lie. 0:10:16.290 --> 0:10:17.050 But they don't even do it. 0:10:17.730 --> 0:10:20.640 No tax return review and no written conflict of interest 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:23.640 whistleblower or document retention policies. 0:10:23.740 --> 0:10:25.920 So they don't have any policies around this. They got 0:10:25.940 --> 0:10:31.000 to be thinking, come on, the bullet train. Right. Medicare fraud. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.490 Home assistance fraud. I mean, it's billions and billions. We're just, 0:10:34.850 --> 0:10:36.010 we're a few million. 0:10:36.590 --> 0:10:40.290 They reported a quarter million dollars in legal expenses in 0:10:40.290 --> 0:10:43.929 2021 with no documentation that it went to a lawyer 0:10:43.950 --> 0:10:44.910 or what it would be for or. 0:10:44.910 --> 0:10:45.510 Anything like that. 0:10:46.860 --> 0:10:55.849 Um, The nonprofit's nonprofit, the CEO, Wilhelminia, that's a lot 0:10:55.890 --> 0:10:59.910 of syllables, Wilson, who draws a salary of roughly $ 120, 000, 0:10:59.270 --> 0:11:01.189 did not respond to requests for comment. 0:11:02.690 --> 0:11:03.490 She's too busy. 0:11:03.809 --> 0:11:07.010 In her tax filings, her name and title were misspelled 0:11:07.170 --> 0:11:08.030 multiple times. 0:11:09.860 --> 0:11:13.679 You aren't even trying because you know you don't have to. 0:11:15.650 --> 0:11:17.940 You got to get additional funding for literacy so you 0:11:17.980 --> 0:11:20.459 can spell your own name on your forms. Of course, 0:11:20.500 --> 0:11:21.900 that'll cost the taxpayers more. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.990 You get there step by step, though, as people that 0:11:25.020 --> 0:11:28.189 are in the stealing taxpayer money business, as I said already, 0:11:28.570 --> 0:11:30.790 they catch on to the fact that nobody's even looking. 0:11:30.870 --> 0:11:31.890 Don't waste your time. 0:11:32.330 --> 0:11:34.230 It take a while to come up with all these 0:11:34.290 --> 0:11:35.980 expenses and pretend what they are. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.339 Don't worry about it. Nobody ever looks. Yeah, yeah. I've 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.340 told this story more than once. As a child, a youngster, Gladys, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.490 there I was at my father's knee. Jesse Jackson was 0:11:45.530 --> 0:11:47.770 in the news. We lived in Chicagoland. It's where I 0:11:47.790 --> 0:11:50.090 grew up. He was a big deal in Chicago politics. 0:11:50.210 --> 0:11:52.559 My dad explained how it works. He said to me, son... 0:11:53.620 --> 0:11:57.199 Here's what happens is you get these organizations that are 0:11:57.260 --> 0:12:00.400 just cronies of Jesse and the company. They claim to 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.380 be doing something good or worthwhile. So they get a 0:12:03.380 --> 0:12:05.939 bunch of tax money. And really the only thing they 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.800 do for the money is make sure all the folks 0:12:08.820 --> 0:12:11.300 in the neighborhood show up and vote for Democrats again. 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.020 That's how the system works. It's been true forever. It's 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.650 true now. The fact that most Americans don't understand that 0:12:17.690 --> 0:12:21.490 that is government. That's not like a weird something that 0:12:21.530 --> 0:12:25.370 went wrong with government. No, that's the scam. That's the 0:12:25.550 --> 0:12:26.530 business theorem. 0:12:26.630 --> 0:12:28.719 And I'll do my jihad one more time, even though 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:29.699 it's never going to do any good. 0:12:30.100 --> 0:12:31.240 Hey, liberals! 0:12:32.330 --> 0:12:36.310 You're the ones that like these programs. Why aren't you 0:12:36.350 --> 0:12:40.100 the ones that are kicking ass and suing people and 0:12:40.170 --> 0:12:43.580 sending people to jail? We wanted the soda tax because 0:12:43.620 --> 0:12:46.240 we care about black families and obesity and all that 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.000 sort of stuff. So we want programs that actually spend 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.760 the money on those things. You're the ones that should care. 0:12:52.140 --> 0:12:53.980 I want to eliminate all the programs because I think 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.300 they're all stupid. I don't think they work even when 0:12:56.340 --> 0:12:58.120 you try. So I want them all to go away 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.189 as a conservative. But you like them liberals, so why 0:13:01.230 --> 0:13:02.390 don't you police them? 0:13:03.610 --> 0:13:07.270 Dealing with facts gives me headaches. I don't even want 0:13:07.290 --> 0:13:15.860 to try. I seriously don't get it. It's an unwillingness 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:22.180 to do the hard, realistic work of appraising costs and benefits. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:27.140 Intentions versus results. It just, there's something in the progressive personality. 0:13:27.420 --> 0:13:31.390 They can't even take that on because their entire ego 0:13:31.490 --> 0:13:34.740 is tied up in the intentions. You're right. There is 0:13:34.780 --> 0:13:36.780 a certain amount of, well, we went to the parade today. 0:13:36.860 --> 0:13:39.080 We carried a sign. Done and done. 0:13:39.140 --> 0:13:41.730 We've accomplished what we need to accomplish. No, you didn't 0:13:41.750 --> 0:13:43.870 accomplish anything. You went to a parade with a sign. 0:13:43.910 --> 0:13:45.709 That didn't actually change any policy. 0:13:45.970 --> 0:13:49.930 We passed funding taxing soda for the very black families 0:13:49.950 --> 0:13:54.860 that are most affected by diversity. Done and done. Right. Right. Wow, 0:13:54.940 --> 0:13:59.319 that's wild. More on the way, sir. Armstrong and Getty. 0:14:02.020 --> 0:14:09.290 Metallica's not here like some other entertainers to influence you. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.679 with their bulls * * t, okay? We are here. 0:14:16.179 --> 0:14:19.680 No bulls * * t. We're here to forget about 0:14:19.780 --> 0:14:24.940 all the outside s * * t, okay? 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.920 Metallica's agenda is love, energy. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:37.390 And heavy music, baby! Gotta love that. James Hetfield of Metallica. 0:14:38.110 --> 0:14:40.390 So if I go to a Metallica concert, what's the 0:14:40.530 --> 0:14:41.670 average age of the audience? 0:14:41.750 --> 0:14:45.350 Is it getting older now? Oh, the last one I 0:14:45.390 --> 0:14:48.369 was at, which was a while back, it was a 0:14:48.390 --> 0:14:52.460 huge range. Yeah, old. Yeah, I mean, the OGs are 0:14:52.580 --> 0:14:56.040 well in the middle, you know, gray hair territory. But 0:14:56.220 --> 0:14:59.980 kids come along every generation, too. Yeah, it was a 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.970 pretty good span. I saw them in 2023 in L.A., 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:08.470 and there were... I'd say like the young crowd that 0:15:08.490 --> 0:15:11.190 was in the mosh pit and whatnot were probably all mid-30s. 0:15:11.350 --> 0:15:15.670 Yeah, I just wondered what, because I hope that, similar 0:15:15.710 --> 0:15:18.450 to the Shane Gillis being so popular, look, there's a 0:15:18.630 --> 0:15:23.400 real appetite for non-political correctness. And I hope there's a 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:29.100 real appetite across ages for concerts where they don't. feel 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.280 obligated to take a side in the Palestine issue or 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:33.500 whatever other issue. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:34.300 Right. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.120 Like they convinced somehow Ed Sheeran that you're a coward 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.730 if you don't take a position on this stuff. 0:15:40.150 --> 0:15:43.430 F you, I'm a musician. Yeah, it's that whole distorted 0:15:43.530 --> 0:15:48.190 funhouse mirror of media and education. They're just so far left. 0:15:48.710 --> 0:15:51.640 And they teach everybody to be as obsessed with their obsessions. 0:15:51.700 --> 0:15:54.010 And out here in the real world, We're all living 0:15:54.030 --> 0:15:55.670 our lives, and we're going to a concert. We want 0:15:55.690 --> 0:15:57.340 to hear some music. We don't want to be hit 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.240 over the head with politics. My premise doesn't make any 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:00.940 sense anyway. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.780 I was kind of hoping that, I was thinking that, well, 0:16:02.820 --> 0:16:04.960 maybe it's an older audience that didn't grow up with 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.900 political concerts as much. But no, I went to the 0:16:07.940 --> 0:16:10.470 Springsteen concert, and trust me, it was nothing but hoka 0:16:10.490 --> 0:16:15.030 shoes at that thing. And it was lots of politics. 0:16:15.190 --> 0:16:20.760 Ugh. Ugh. So we don't really have time to do 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.540 this right now, but maybe in a couple of minutes 0:16:22.590 --> 0:16:26.590 we can. It dovetails beautifully with the healthy black family story. 0:16:27.130 --> 0:16:29.730 And that is yet another study has come out that 0:16:29.770 --> 0:16:32.850 makes it inescapably clear. You'll love this in blue cities. 0:16:34.630 --> 0:16:39.840 Virtually all recycling is a complete waste of time and money. Well, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.170 it's not doing anything. Yes. Yes. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.280 It's not a waste of time, as I tell my 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.610 son all the time, because he knows this. And so 0:16:48.620 --> 0:16:51.170 he throws everything just in random bins. I say, I'm 0:16:51.190 --> 0:16:53.690 going to get a fine. I know people who've gotten fined. 0:16:53.810 --> 0:16:56.330 In my town, they fine you if they find plastic 0:16:56.370 --> 0:16:58.210 bottles in the thing where it's supposed to be paper. 0:16:58.830 --> 0:17:01.370 I'm talking in a macro sense. It's a complete waste 0:17:01.450 --> 0:17:03.000 of time. So how dumb is that? 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.820 Now you're getting to real Soviet Union sort of lifestyle 0:17:06.859 --> 0:17:09.380 here where you're just following government rules for no reason 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.660 whatsoever because the government will punish you if you don't. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.140 I would suggest that at this point, recycling is like 0:17:15.220 --> 0:17:20.670 a religious ritual. It's done with no good end. 0:17:20.930 --> 0:17:24.830 Have you decided whether to join the Saudi strikes on the. 0:17:24.850 --> 0:17:26.910 We may. We're going to look at it. How soon? 0:17:27.010 --> 0:17:30.600 We just found out about the recent attack. So we'll 0:17:30.619 --> 0:17:33.760 make a decision. We move very quickly. So the Houthis 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:39.160 blasted the hell out of the... Big, shiny, modern, beautiful 0:17:39.220 --> 0:17:41.920 airport they got in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 0:17:42.380 --> 0:17:44.480 Killed a whole bunch of people. Injured a whole bunch 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.740 of people. And I've got to assume Saudi Arabia ain't 0:17:47.770 --> 0:17:48.610 going to put up with that? 0:17:49.869 --> 0:17:51.950 No, there's a limited amount they can do, though. They've 0:17:51.970 --> 0:17:54.129 been battling the Houthis on and off for a long time. 0:17:55.010 --> 0:17:58.250 You can't have your airport and your capital city demolished 0:17:58.350 --> 0:18:02.750 like that. You're at war. Yeah, but you're up against 0:18:02.830 --> 0:18:09.590 battle-hardened religious fanatics. And with weaponry, good, cheap, modern weaponry 0:18:09.630 --> 0:18:12.189 that can blast an airport, for instance. And the Saudis, 0:18:12.210 --> 0:18:14.520 like everybody, are getting low on interceptors. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.660 Yeah, one analysis piece I read said there isn't much 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.520 Saudi Arabia can do if we don't do it for 0:18:19.540 --> 0:18:20.219 them or with them. 0:18:21.380 --> 0:18:23.520 And there's some limit to what we can do from 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.500 the air. Wow. Somebody's going to have to deal with 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:28.590 this at some point, aren't they? 0:18:29.350 --> 0:18:32.150 Like put an army on the ground and wipe these 0:18:32.270 --> 0:18:32.889 MFers out? 0:18:34.010 --> 0:18:36.429 How many folks do the Houthis have under arms? It's 0:18:36.470 --> 0:18:40.060 an enormous number. It's like a national army. A small 0:18:40.220 --> 0:18:42.399 national army, but a national army. You want me to 0:18:42.460 --> 0:18:46.179 ask Grok? Ask Grok. You ask the hard questions that 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.000 need to be asked. How many soldiers do the Houthis 0:18:49.020 --> 0:18:56.020 have under arms? Here comes the answer via super intelligence. Actually, 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.720 this is just regular AI. I don't know if I 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:02.270 speak with a lisp or what, but the voice texting 0:19:02.330 --> 0:19:06.030 often doesn't work. Yeah. But here it goes. I'm waiting 0:19:06.070 --> 0:19:09.689 for the answer. I did Grok. Grok's the slowest of them. Oh, please. 0:19:09.750 --> 0:19:14.590 Grok is really dialed back. Elon's not willing to spend 0:19:14.630 --> 0:19:16.390 enough on tokens. I don't know. 0:19:16.430 --> 0:19:20.330 Grok is dialed back about a quarter of a million. 0:19:20.350 --> 0:19:24.310 That's a lot. Yeah, I was going to guess 300K, 0:19:24.350 --> 0:19:26.100 but anyway, it's a lot. Wow. 0:19:26.170 --> 0:19:33.220 Houthi sources claim they have more like 500,000. So, yeah, somebody, like, 0:19:33.460 --> 0:19:36.020 there's hardly anybody on Earth other than us that could 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:36.820 even do that. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.330 Yeah, and I suspect, you know, I don't know if 0:19:41.330 --> 0:19:46.130 500,000 is correct, but they're a, you know, quasi-national religious 0:19:46.210 --> 0:19:49.470 fanatic militia. And so, yeah, I'm sure they have recruiting 0:19:49.550 --> 0:19:52.180 arms out there. the hinterlands of the various hell holes 0:19:52.260 --> 0:19:56.780 in which they operate, Yemen. So, yeah, yeah. Speaking of 0:19:56.820 --> 0:19:59.240 religious fanatics, I was thinking about this the other day, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.909 having come across this analysis about how recycling is a 0:20:02.950 --> 0:20:05.890 complete waste of time. Well, I'm sorry, that's an overstatement. 0:20:06.330 --> 0:20:10.070 Most recycling is a waste. It's ridiculous. It doesn't serve 0:20:10.109 --> 0:20:12.090 the purposes it claims to. In fact, it doesn't really 0:20:12.109 --> 0:20:16.070 accomplish anything. It's more like a religious ritual than anything else. 0:20:16.330 --> 0:20:20.350 I like... I live in a town where this is popular. 0:20:20.390 --> 0:20:22.649 It's popular in lots of places in California, where you 0:20:22.670 --> 0:20:26.010 go to throw something away, and there's like five choices 0:20:26.490 --> 0:20:29.100 of which garbage can to put it in. And I 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:36.950 regularly have no idea. Is this landfill? Compost? Recyclable... I 0:20:36.990 --> 0:20:41.590 don't know. Yeah, this guy actually, this guy writing this 0:20:41.650 --> 0:20:45.640 analysis lives in Denmark. He was in Copenhagen, and he 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:51.100 finished an ice cream. It's pronounced Copenhagen. It's actually not. 0:20:52.100 --> 0:20:55.880 So he was standing there looking at the 10 official categories. 0:20:56.740 --> 0:21:00.590 In Denmark, with his ice cream wrapper, not knowing what 0:21:00.630 --> 0:21:03.150 to do. Yeah, that's what I've done. Is it a container? 0:21:03.310 --> 0:21:06.449 Kind of. Is it recyclable? What if it's recyclable and 0:21:06.490 --> 0:21:09.820 a container? Which one do I choose? The bins embody 0:21:09.859 --> 0:21:12.080 an idea that's gone too far, that more recycling is 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.179 always better. And he goes into the origin of the 0:21:14.660 --> 0:21:17.159 1970s panic that the world is running out of resources. 0:21:17.869 --> 0:21:22.250 And then the case for recycling shifted to protecting the environment, 0:21:22.310 --> 0:21:25.170 and he says that argument has some merit. Recycling plastic 0:21:25.210 --> 0:21:30.190 can save oil, but heavy glass has to be collected, trucked, cleaned, 0:21:30.310 --> 0:21:33.310 and remelted. Almost anything can be recycled if you throw 0:21:33.350 --> 0:21:37.170 enough money and energy at it, but are the benefits 0:21:37.230 --> 0:21:42.780