Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Respiratory illness activity remains high across much of the country.
Speaker 2: Twenty three states are listed as high.
Speaker 1: Or very high.
Speaker 2: The CDC says flu activity is elevated nationwide and this
Speaker 2: is now classified as a high severity flu season for
Speaker 2: all age groups for the first time in seven years.
Speaker 2: Officials estimate there have been nineteen thousand flu deaths so
Speaker 2: far this season.
Speaker 3: Wow, I just did a little trip, so I was
Speaker 3: in airports, I was on planes, I was in ubers,
Speaker 3: I was in restaurants, et cetera. And I don't feel
Speaker 3: I have a sore throat today and a couple other
Speaker 3: symptoms I won't mention anyway. I google them and and
Speaker 3: it says unmentionable symptoms. Is anybody else's mind going wild
Speaker 3: right now? Show a handy you know what it is.
Speaker 3: If it's unmentionable, you know what it is. And I'm
Speaker 3: not going to mention it. But it's definitely enough, Uh,
Speaker 3: the symptoms I have. It says I could have the flu.
Speaker 3: I mean like the first five hits where if I
Speaker 3: have a sore throat and the things that I'm not
Speaker 3: going to mention, it's the flu.
Speaker 1: So we'll see.
Speaker 4: It's the gallup of trotz, folks, that's what I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, emailed.
Speaker 4: Your guess is the mail bagget I'm drunk and getting
Speaker 4: don't don't.
Speaker 1: So we'll see.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, yeah, I've got a good friend. He and
Speaker 4: his wife laid low low for week ten days.
Speaker 3: Now I got too much to do. My son had
Speaker 3: My son had a sore throat last night.
Speaker 1: Not good.
Speaker 3: So he had a sore throat. Now I've got a
Speaker 3: sore throat. And I told him he can't be sick.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 3: We got school, got a bunch of things going on
Speaker 3: in school, volleyball games, practice.
Speaker 1: Can't be sick. But we'll see.
Speaker 4: Well, talk to the microbes, not your son. They're in charge. Ah,
Speaker 4: my only complaint, and then we can move on. Do
Speaker 4: we have to name everything these days? So you got
Speaker 4: your flu, you got your RSV, you got your COVID,
Speaker 4: and there's a fourth one. They're calling it a quademic
Speaker 4: right now. They don't but they don't need to. You
Speaker 4: don't need a clever name for everything.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 4: Who decided that every every hobby has to hot girl
Speaker 4: summer or I'm a I'm a downsizer, I'm a.
Speaker 1: Just stop it, Just say what, say what you want
Speaker 1: to say. You don't need to name it.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm sorry Tangent On Tangent, we really don't
Speaker 4: have time. But my son sent me a great think
Speaker 4: piece about how what you do is what you are.
Speaker 4: Don't accept the label of what you are. Then do that,
Speaker 4: you know, don't be a type, do what you think
Speaker 4: is important, live your life, and then you know, if
Speaker 4: it turns out your a certain sort of person, great.
Speaker 4: But everybody is so anxious online to declare what sort
Speaker 4: of person they are, and generally it has so do.
Speaker 3: You think people hear a label and then like adjust
Speaker 3: their lives to fit into that label, Yes, to get
Speaker 3: along interest that course, it might be true that might
Speaker 3: like happen to a lot of us. Were well, I'm
Speaker 3: I'm I'm kind of I think maybe I do that,
Speaker 3: like I've got like a vision of the thing I
Speaker 3: am or my brand in my head or other people's heads,
Speaker 3: and then I got to fit into that which is
Speaker 3: weird because I don't have to.
Speaker 4: Nobody's making me. Yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm big on freedom.
Speaker 4: But you know, I've just including freedom from your own
Speaker 4: like dopey limitations on yourself because they don't have there's
Speaker 4: no good reason for them, right. But we all work
Speaker 4: on it every day. I mean, I'm not claiming it'd
Speaker 4: be some sort of guru anyway. So this is important, friends,
Speaker 4: important and interesting and in a way amusing. Perhaps you
Speaker 4: heard last week that the AP and Jim Acosta, who
Speaker 4: is just a dick weed. Sorry, I'm sorry that was rude,
Speaker 4: trying to organize some sort of let it drop. I'm
Speaker 4: just I'm an angry man. I've got them seething under
Speaker 4: the surface. But they are trying to organize this absolutely
Speaker 4: idiotic boycott of the Trump administration as journalists and or
Speaker 4: some sort of organized resistance where if Trump does something
Speaker 4: naughty or Elon Musk is something that makes us mad,
Speaker 4: all of us will write editorials on our editorial page
Speaker 4: condemning it at once, and we will join together as
Speaker 4: a collectivist media controlled by one agenda that's got kind
Speaker 4: of a bad reputation.
Speaker 3: And then they could have their own headlines saying a
Speaker 3: majority of media have decided to boycott the Trump administration
Speaker 3: due to its lies or something like that, so they
Speaker 3: could do something then report, but they're doing it like
Speaker 3: like it's outside of their cho or something.
Speaker 4: But the White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowitch
Speaker 4: was talking to Axios the other day and summed it
Speaker 4: up in a great way. I think this isn't just
Speaker 4: about the Gulf of.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 4: AP refused to say the Gulf of America, and they
Speaker 4: put out their style book bulletin which we'll explain the
Speaker 4: second but saying no, it's the Gulf of Mexico, has
Speaker 4: been for four hundred years. Keep calling it the Gulf
Speaker 4: of Mexico. But it's not about that, said budh Witch.
Speaker 4: Or is that quote. This is about AP weaponizing language
Speaker 4: through their style book to push a partisan worldview in
Speaker 4: contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many
Speaker 4: Americans and many people around the world. Here's what they mean,
Speaker 4: and if you're not in journalism, you might not know this.
Speaker 4: The Associated Press, which has been around for a very
Speaker 4: long time and used to be a rigorously non partisan,
Speaker 4: serious journalism pit outfit, puts out their style book, which
Speaker 4: is literally a big, thick book, and then lots and
Speaker 4: lots of updates throughout the year, saying, hey, the Associated
Speaker 4: Press refers to this in this way. And sometimes it's
Speaker 4: like grammatical stuff. Do you hyphenate email like people did
Speaker 4: in the early days.
Speaker 1: Do you capitalize this or that?
Speaker 4: Or do you write like Beijing or pee King to
Speaker 4: refer to the capital of China. A lot of stuff
Speaker 4: like that, which is fine. It was a handy because
Speaker 4: I used to do some of that stuff, and it
Speaker 4: was handy to just as.
Speaker 1: A you know, objective source. How am I supposed to
Speaker 1: do this?
Speaker 4: But in recent years the AP has gone full on
Speaker 4: woke activist Julie Pace is saying that what did she say,
Speaker 4: she's the head of the AP, that this is a
Speaker 4: challenged independent journalists. Well, contrary to missus Pace and what
Speaker 4: she had to say, the White House is not objecting
Speaker 4: to the AP independent journalism, but to the way it
Speaker 4: imposes its worldview on journalists, according from The Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 4: As Julie Pace herself notes in her statement, AP reporting
Speaker 4: reaches billions of people around the world, which she calls factual,
Speaker 4: non partisan journalism, But the style book is incredibly influential.
Speaker 4: Here's the problem. The AP style book, writes, the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal is the wellspring of journalistic group think.
Speaker 1: Since it went online.
Speaker 4: In twenty oh two, the flood of conformity has intensified
Speaker 4: to creese and dogmas propagate far more rapidly than they
Speaker 4: did when the style book was a spiral brown volume
Speaker 4: with new editions every couple of years. One of the
Speaker 4: most prominent examples looks deceptively like a question of pure style.
Speaker 4: Few years ago, the AP began capitalizing black when used
Speaker 4: as a racial designation.
Speaker 1: Not white, by the way, not white, just black.
Speaker 4: This was a telling change, because, in contrast with the
Speaker 4: Gulf of Mexico thing, the AP did not stick with
Speaker 4: tradition the opposite, nor did it bow to a change
Speaker 4: in common usage. It wasn't like they said, hey, most
Speaker 4: Americans use a capital B now, so we ought to
Speaker 4: reflect that. No, they bow to activist demands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, So they're trying to push it out as
Speaker 3: opposed to reflect on a change.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So, with some exceptions, liberals, including most news organizations, fell
Speaker 4: into line with the AP, while conservatives didn't. The Supreme Court,
Speaker 4: for instance, has split with the three Democratic appointees and
Speaker 4: Justice Core such for some reason, opting for capital black
Speaker 4: the non partisan AP's attempt to position itself at the
Speaker 4: vanguard of history and succeeded in stranding itself on one
Speaker 4: side of America's ideological gulf. Moving on, there's a lot
Speaker 4: more blah blah blah. This one guy reports that the
Speaker 4: White House aids grievances against the AP extend to immigration.
Speaker 1: The style book bans the term alien.
Speaker 4: That's racist to talk about illegal aliens, the actual legal term.
Speaker 4: If you are an AP newspaper or you know, there
Speaker 4: are articles up here in newspapers all over the world.
Speaker 4: They've banned the word alien. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: They've banned the term illegal immigrant. That is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I had no idea of this. That's crazy.
Speaker 4: This it's not about the freaking Gulf of America, which
Speaker 4: is funny, and nobody cares.
Speaker 3: You can't use the term illegal immigrant in a news story.
Speaker 1: According to the AP.
Speaker 3: That's correct. Yeah, it's rights all young journalists out there.
Speaker 3: The christ are probably lefties anyway. But you're a young
Speaker 3: journalist working in a newspaper, radio station, TV station, sometimes
Speaker 3: small town wherever it is. You get the AP s
Speaker 3: foul book because that's the way you do it. You
Speaker 3: can't use the term illegal immigrant. That's nuts.
Speaker 4: But wait, there's more chain migration for voting anchor babies.
Speaker 1: Terrible racist term. Can't use it.
Speaker 4: And when you're discussing political violence, I suspect on only
Speaker 4: one side of the aisle. It discourages using riot and
Speaker 4: terrorism is more the nine terms for the protests, the
Speaker 4: mostly peaceful protests after George Floyd, for instance. But the
Speaker 4: style Book, we're warming up now, everybody stretched out, everybody ready.
Speaker 4: The style Book descends from bias into delusion with its
Speaker 4: quote transgender coverage topical guide. This is a twenty nine
Speaker 4: hundred word ideological manifesto.
Speaker 1: The AP put out quote, do not use.
Speaker 4: The term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity. Is an ideology,
Speaker 4: and it's filled with bizarre assertions and jargon which reporters
Speaker 4: are mandated to accept if they supersede the facts of life.
Speaker 4: According to the guide, a child and this is why
Speaker 4: you see this. I almost used a very bad word, folks.
Speaker 4: I'm glad I didn't. According to the guide, a child
Speaker 4: isn't born a boy or a girl quote rather sexist quote.
Speaker 4: Usually it's assigned at birth by parents or attendants and
Speaker 4: can turn out to be inaccurate.
Speaker 3: Well, it's nice that whoever writes the AP style book
Speaker 3: has nailed down the facts on that and told us
Speaker 3: all that's interesting.
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Speaker 4: There's no safe like simply safe. So the radical theory,
Speaker 4: the critical theory stuff, critical race theory, radical gender theory,
Speaker 4: radical queer theory.
Speaker 1: All of that stuff.
Speaker 3: The AP has hoovered up all of it and insists
Speaker 3: that every journalist in America tow the radical neo Marxist line.
Speaker 1: More examples in a minute. I am concerned. I have
Speaker 1: the flu.
Speaker 3: I got a question for those of you know something
Speaker 3: about the flu. Also, we got to get to and
Speaker 3: a bunch of other stuff. News of the day, catch
Speaker 3: up from the weekend. Macrone's visiting with Trump right now
Speaker 3: to talk about Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Stay with us, going.
Speaker 5: To say, DEI you know what it means, as that's
Speaker 5: heard somebody to say earlier today, they have substitute in
Speaker 5: these acronyms for the N word.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: Go?
Speaker 4: That's James Clyburn, who got Joe Biden elected the president,
Speaker 4: our first ever mummy President. Cliburn is saying, if you
Speaker 4: use the term dei, that's a dei hier, I'm dei.
Speaker 4: You're saying, I'm against N word, I'm against enners. It's
Speaker 4: the same thing. Yeah, nice job, James. Way to just
Speaker 4: make the country worse and more racist.
Speaker 1: Go away.
Speaker 4: Anyway, we were talking about how the AP has incredible
Speaker 4: influence over journalism with their AP Style Book and the
Speaker 4: current fight with the Trump administration. They're trying to pretend
Speaker 4: is about the Gulf of America, which is just silly,
Speaker 4: but it's really about the AP Stylebook having hoovered up
Speaker 4: all of critical theory, all of that radical theory that's
Speaker 4: got men in women's locker rooms, and the idea that
Speaker 4: there are seventy seven different genders and a boy who
Speaker 4: dons a wig ought to be able to beat the
Speaker 4: crap out of girls on sports fields. It's all just
Speaker 4: so sick, but so according to the AP's style book,
Speaker 4: it says, according to the child the guide, a child
Speaker 4: isn't bored a boy or a girl. Rather, sex is
Speaker 4: quote usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants, and
Speaker 4: ken turn out to be inaccurate. Yeah, like one time
Speaker 4: out of ten thousand. Examples of gender identities include non
Speaker 4: binary by gender a gender, gender fluid, gender queer, and
Speaker 4: combinations of identities such as non binary woman. Please read
Speaker 4: pluck Rose and Lindsay's cynical theories. They explain what all
Speaker 4: of this is and what it's doing anyway. They go
Speaker 4: on to say, quote dead naming a transgender person that
Speaker 4: is accurately reporting such a person's given name quote, even
Speaker 4: posthumously in obituaries or other coverage, is often considered disrespectful
Speaker 4: to the deceased, their survivors, and any transgender people. So
Speaker 4: you're supposed to say, Caitlin Jenner won the men's to
Speaker 4: Caathlon in nineteen seventy six. How idiotic is that? Now
Speaker 4: all of this is cloaked in an appeal to authorities.
Speaker 4: Quote experts from organizations including the American Medical Association, American
Speaker 4: Psychiatric Association, an American Psychological Association, whatever that was, say,
Speaker 4: gender is a spectrum Yeah, they're all captured by critical theorists,
Speaker 4: by Marxists. Quote reporters are instructed to squelch any challenge
Speaker 4: to the accepted authorities. Don't quote people speaking about biology
Speaker 4: or athletic regulations unless they have the proper background. That's
Speaker 4: why Katanji Brown Jackson made the hilariously idiotic assertion that
Speaker 4: she couldn't define a woman on the grounds that I'm
Speaker 4: not a biologist.
Speaker 3: Right, and again, I've got the polling from the New
Speaker 3: York Times on the trans athlete Trump thing coming up.
Speaker 1: Right, and as they we got two minutes. Okay, good.
Speaker 4: These editorial dictats have real world effects. Sports teams, locker rooms,
Speaker 4: public restrooms, and prisons are segregated by sex, obviously to
Speaker 4: protect women. When many women object when a transgender woman,
Speaker 4: a man who conceives of himself as a female or
Speaker 4: claims it intrude into these areas, good luck if you
Speaker 4: want fair treatment of the question from your local newspaper
Speaker 4: TV station, which is almost certainly an AP member. Sure,
Speaker 4: and the AP's policy is that those men are women.
Speaker 4: Because they said so, trans women are women. Hot dogs
Speaker 4: are dogs anyway, The Trump administration said there are two sexes.
Speaker 1: Male and female not changeable.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah, And as James Toronto writes in the
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal quote, this has been the case at
Speaker 4: least since sexual dimorphism emerged in trilobites some five hundred
Speaker 4: and forty million years ago. If the AP is willing
Speaker 4: to deny the primordial truth about sex on the say
Speaker 4: so of some authority figure, the Gulf of Mexico is
Speaker 4: a strange hill for it to die on.
Speaker 1: But I hope it.
Speaker 4: Does, or at least I hope both sides stand their
Speaker 4: ground after the AP loses in court, and the result
Speaker 4: is a diminuation of its influence on American journalism.
Speaker 1: Amen, Hey, law.
Speaker 3: So as I have the symptoms, is it too late
Speaker 3: to take a flu shot? Can you take a flu shot?
Speaker 3: Once you've got the floors that?
Speaker 1: Do you know? Good? Yes you can take one, and
Speaker 1: yes it does you no good.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, nobody's gonna stop me from getting one, but
Speaker 3: it would do me no good with my current situation.
Speaker 4: Now, your antibodies are already on alert and rushing to
Speaker 4: their battle stations.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get to that, uh polling in a
Speaker 3: bunch of other stories we got to catch up on
Speaker 3: coming up, stay here.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3: I think we should all do what Elon asks. Let's
Speaker 3: all make a list of five things we did last
Speaker 3: week that could justify our jobs. I watched a lot
Speaker 3: of news. I did some things I planned to talk about.
Speaker 3: It's about I have a unique job. That's it's unfair
Speaker 3: for our job.
Speaker 1: That's out.
Speaker 4: Pyle is looking pretty tempting for your little memo, son,
Speaker 4: I say.
Speaker 1: No, he's through. He's fired.
Speaker 3: I personally know people and work in the federal government
Speaker 3: who have made their lists that if you haven't heard
Speaker 3: this news story, Elon put that out to all federal employees.
Speaker 3: You got to you gotta write him an email, send
Speaker 3: it to him, the five things you did last week
Speaker 3: that show that you're your job is necessary. And then
Speaker 3: I don't know, good lord, how many millions of emails
Speaker 3: would he get. Who's gonna go through all those? I
Speaker 3: don't know how they would determine, if any but he's
Speaker 3: being honest or not?
Speaker 4: Right right, let's see you know the list four mundane
Speaker 4: things in five. I'm in charge of considering the annexation
Speaker 4: of Greenland.
Speaker 1: I feel like you could. You could.
Speaker 3: I met with the King of Arabia and I flew
Speaker 3: in a rocket to Mars. I think I think you
Speaker 3: can send the email. I don't think anybody's ever going
Speaker 3: to read it. I just can't imagine they're gonna get
Speaker 3: down to it.
Speaker 4: But personally stamped out all the mice and grain silos
Speaker 4: in Nebraska, right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Not anti doing this.
Speaker 3: I would love to be able to justify all these
Speaker 3: government jobs and whether or not they or needed.
Speaker 1: But I just I just don't know if this is workable. Well,
Speaker 1: no it's not.
Speaker 4: I mean, in principle it's wonderful, but it's just it's
Speaker 4: silly because even the departments had hads Trump appointed or
Speaker 4: saying no, don't do that, or like RFK Junior said yeah,
Speaker 4: go ahead and do it that. Then he put it
Speaker 4: out a memo saying let's hold off to like noon Monday,
Speaker 4: so we.
Speaker 1: Get the a look at this. It's just silly.
Speaker 4: It's Elon trolling, and I wish he would and this
Speaker 4: is just me.
Speaker 1: Maybe if he lost his trolling, we'd lose Elon.
Speaker 4: But I would like him to be sober and serious
Speaker 4: like he is about getting rocket ships up into the
Speaker 4: air to make criticism more difficult. I wish he was
Speaker 4: more buttoned up about this because I wanted to succeed.
Speaker 3: Well, you're now famous quote of uh oh, you can't
Speaker 3: order human beings without onions. Is the Elon thing. I mean, oh,
Speaker 3: we got to get to his baby mama and that
Speaker 3: whole thing.
Speaker 4: Wow, My life, though, is testament to the fact that
Speaker 4: you can get people to be stupid less often.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 3: The most recent kid that we became aware of kid
Speaker 3: number thirteen, the twenty four year old Hotty that he
Speaker 3: had the baby with. Some emails or texts surfaced over
Speaker 3: the weekend where she's texting other somebody else, a friend
Speaker 3: of hers, about how she was she's somehow, she was
Speaker 3: working somewhere where she had access to Elon.
Speaker 1: She's hot.
Speaker 3: She she texted this friend about how she was gonna
Speaker 3: seduce Elon and trap him and have a baby with him,
Speaker 3: and that was her plan. And not surprising that happens
Speaker 3: with NBA stars and you know, movie stars and all
Speaker 3: kinds of rich people. I mean, that story's over over.
Speaker 3: What I didn't like is it was portrayed most places.
Speaker 3: I saught of ha ha ha to Elon like he's
Speaker 3: the ridiculous figure here and not the sort of freaking
Speaker 3: woman who goes out and gets pregnant on purpose for cash. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you pretended to be in love with a guy or
Speaker 3: like him and he had sex with you.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make him the bad guy.
Speaker 4: Manhattan and Washington, DC are full of those couples, for instance.
Speaker 3: But you pretend to like somebody and they fall for it,
Speaker 3: they're not. They didn't do something wrong. You're a creepo
Speaker 3: and a like low life with no conscience for doing that.
Speaker 3: Don't portray it the other way around. That's weird, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: congratulations rock stars, congratulations on seducing a guy just for money.
Speaker 1: Yay for you, Yahoe. I mean, what is that? Wow?
Speaker 1: That's harsh. If that's what she did, that's pretty accurate,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 3: I just I can't get too up in arms about
Speaker 3: it because Elon obviously has no problem with that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. No, I'm not, And again I'm not making
Speaker 3: it about Elon. I'm making it about the portrayal of
Speaker 3: if you got If you got a guy who fall
Speaker 3: who believes you when you come on to him, and
Speaker 3: then she acts like she likes you, that's not a
Speaker 3: deficit in him, right, It's like it's like our thing
Speaker 3: we always say, like, if you know, if somebody breaks
Speaker 3: into your car, you left it unlocked. I mean you
Speaker 3: should have locked it. But the scumbag is the criminal
Speaker 3: who broke into your car, right. I don't go around
Speaker 3: trying door handles.
Speaker 1: To you, right AnyWho?
Speaker 3: Uh oh, we got to get this joke on. We
Speaker 3: got a joke from Greg Guttfeld that I know some
Speaker 3: of our audience will like.
Speaker 1: And that's not it's not my sort of joke. But
Speaker 1: here you go. Oh boy.
Speaker 4: Divorce rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they can settle it like men.
Speaker 3: Okay, there you go. I know some of you like that.
Speaker 3: Based on the texts we get. She's big bone, she's
Speaker 3: a woman. I understand why that persists in some quarters.
Speaker 3: We probably ought to get some of the audio that
Speaker 3: exists of Trump arguing with some governors over the weekend
Speaker 3: about uh, men and women's sports, that whole issue.
Speaker 1: And it became quite a thing.
Speaker 3: And there are still some governors of your blue states
Speaker 3: who are willing to, if not die on that hill,
Speaker 3: fight on that hill for you know, a high school
Speaker 3: boy breaking the state track record and winning the gold
Speaker 3: medal or whatever.
Speaker 1: I just I don't get why you're so into this issue.
Speaker 4: But the New York Times reading how Maine has decided
Speaker 4: this is the civil rights issue of our time.
Speaker 3: Boys being able to beat the crap out of girls
Speaker 3: on the sports. Yeah, that's who Trump got into it
Speaker 3: with over the weekend, the governor of Maine.
Speaker 1: They had a back and forth over this.
Speaker 3: Here's the national polling from the New York Times on this. Overall,
Speaker 3: the question being at the top, transgender athletes should not
Speaker 3: be allowed to compete in women's sports just as a
Speaker 3: blanket statement. It doesn't even say for high school sports.
Speaker 3: I gotta believe the number goes up for that probably,
Speaker 3: but overall seventy nine percent call it eighty. Since it's
Speaker 3: within the plus or minus eighty percent of Americans think
Speaker 3: transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete women's sports.
Speaker 3: It's an eighty twenty issue. I mean, it's not even
Speaker 3: flipping close.
Speaker 4: And I would guess the twenty that's left is includes
Speaker 4: at least a small measure of don't knows, And so
Speaker 4: the support for this is in the teens. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: it's self evidently perverse and everybody knows it. What's disturbing
Speaker 4: to me is the incredible influence of a tiny minority
Speaker 4: of lunatics.
Speaker 3: Right. If you break it down by party, of course,
Speaker 3: for Republicans it's ninety four percent, but even for Democrats
Speaker 3: it's two thirds, two thirds, and independence two thirds of
Speaker 3: Democrats say.
Speaker 1: Two thirds of Democrats say no, hold on, no, oh no,
Speaker 1: it might be bird flu. Did you hear that?
Speaker 4: Probably we've got a quindemic going on?
Speaker 1: I might have all four? Could that happen?
Speaker 3: Where I have RSV, bird flu, cod covid.
Speaker 1: The flu gunnrhea? Is that the other one? The fifth?
Speaker 1: I don't hope I don't have all of them at
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 3: But if two thirds of Democrats say dudes shouldn't be
Speaker 3: competing in women's sports, how is this even a controversy?
Speaker 3: We're so misled by the Hollywood in the mainstream media.
Speaker 3: Who is their outsized influence of making people think, well,
Speaker 3: you know, it's not the sort of thing I should
Speaker 3: stay out loud. It's an It's a sixty point win.
Speaker 1: For your side. It's not even close. You could you should?
Speaker 3: You don't call an eighty twenty issue controversial issue. It's
Speaker 3: so no yes, and and yet you know it's funny
Speaker 3: just as in the side. I heard a really interesting
Speaker 3: podcast with a libertarian type author who's talking about the
Speaker 3: kind of the dumb side of tribalism and how it
Speaker 3: makes you do and say things that you probably shouldn't
Speaker 3: be proud of when you know, we're all countrymen and
Speaker 3: we ought to be cooperating and let you know, forming coalitions.
Speaker 1: Got fell in a joke about what'll settles like men.
Speaker 4: An excellent for instance, anyway, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 4: as far as you know what he said, he's right.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: Part of his message was we're not meant to be
Speaker 4: political all the time. It's okay to just have relationships
Speaker 4: in that sort, and I agree completely with that. On
Speaker 4: the other hand, we have allowed ourselves to get into
Speaker 4: a situation we're duped, honestly, where virtually the entire public
Speaker 4: government educational complex is preaching a radical ideology that's believed
Speaker 4: by a.
Speaker 1: Teen's percentage of Americans.
Speaker 4: And so, oh my lord, this train has gone way
Speaker 4: way down the track. And so I don't think the
Speaker 4: option of being well, it's unfortunate, but we can work
Speaker 4: on it together. I don't think we're at that point.
Speaker 4: We let it get way, way, way too farther. I
Speaker 4: give the neo Marxist credit as a political scientist for
Speaker 4: being as incredibly effective as they've been. They did it
Speaker 4: under the cloak of darkness of misleading everybody about what
Speaker 4: they're actually doing.
Speaker 3: So we've gotten a couple of texts from people who
Speaker 3: are in government who got the email from Elon about
Speaker 3: how you got to come up with five things to
Speaker 3: justify your job. Nobody is going to read them, says
Speaker 3: this texter. They're just fishing to see who doesn't reply,
Speaker 3: because Elon did include if you don't want to do this,
Speaker 3: I we'll take that as a resignation, and which is fine.
Speaker 3: Maybe you get several thousand people across the country or
Speaker 3: tens of thousands of people to do that.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: Somebody has to make their list Number one, snappy dresser,
Speaker 4: number two, taller than average, Number three.
Speaker 1: I make a mean onion dip number four.
Speaker 4: You know, I've got most of the plots of Seinfelds memorized.
Speaker 3: Or I just make the workplace a funnier place to
Speaker 3: be right, with my jokes and witticisms.
Speaker 4: Humor makes the workplace more productive, and I'm very very amusing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting idea.
Speaker 3: You asked the question earlier, and I can't wait till books,
Speaker 3: until books are written about this.
Speaker 1: Did Trump have any idea Elon was doing that? Or
Speaker 1: did Elon fire that off?
Speaker 4: Judging by the reaction from a number of Trump appointees,
Speaker 4: I would say no, he didn't know, because a lot
Speaker 4: of the prominent names you've heard just got approved by
Speaker 4: the Senate and all are like, what, wait, No, no,
Speaker 4: our people don't have to do that.
Speaker 3: What so like cash Btel specifically said of the FBI, no,
Speaker 3: do don't respond to that.
Speaker 1: You don't have to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I believe a Secretary of Treasury said
Speaker 3: the same. But the the Department of Transportation, guy whose
Speaker 3: name I don't have memorized yet, he was out today.
Speaker 3: He said, I told all employees they need to do that,
Speaker 3: and here are my five things I did last week.
Speaker 1: So he's on board.
Speaker 4: Here's the Cabinet secretary. You don't have to fill out
Speaker 4: the list he did. This is all very silly. Oh,
Speaker 4: speaking of which, you know, pretty big headline. Cash Bateel
Speaker 4: had told Republican senators in private, my deputy head of
Speaker 4: the FBI, whatever the title is, will be a career
Speaker 4: officer who knows how the FBI works, and because that's
Speaker 4: been the tradition the entire time the fbis existed. Well,
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, probably because Trump pushed him on it,
Speaker 4: he appointed Dan Bongino as his second in command instead
Speaker 4: former Secret Service agent Hard Ass and big time radio
Speaker 4: host slash podcaster Dan Bongino. So there are a number
Speaker 4: of Republican senators who are leaking. We were told this
Speaker 4: would not happen, so that you know, there could be
Speaker 4: a little attention there. We'll say one more thing from
Speaker 4: the Q crowd, which I'm in touch with. The Q
Speaker 4: and on crowd are where whatever your news sources are
Speaker 4: in the Q and on crowd. Apparently the belief is
Speaker 4: that step number one for Cash Mattel, now that he
Speaker 4: has been sworn in as a director of the FBI,
Speaker 4: is going after Hillary Clinton, the whole pedophile ring. And
Speaker 4: so that whole thing is going to be unearthed very quickly. No,
Speaker 4: he isn't to know. It won't here on earth. We're
Speaker 4: worried about Hillary bilking the world for the Foundation and
Speaker 4: just good old fashioned thievery.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got more of the ways to hear Armstrong, Heyetty,
Speaker 1: when I'm told we have a celebrity death related to
Speaker 1: this song. I don't know who sad is.
Speaker 4: Dion Warwick, ROBERTA Flack, ROBERTA Flack as a Flack, so
Speaker 4: sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1: She's very very old. One side?
Speaker 4: Do we do minor celebrity deaths some.
Speaker 1: Major celebrity If you're ROBERTA Flack fan, what are we doing? Yes, Katie,
Speaker 1: no minor celebrities.
Speaker 3: She had multiple top Billboard hits and she died eighty eight.
Speaker 1: What's her biggest hit? She Killing Me Softly? Yep, killing
Speaker 1: me softly.
Speaker 3: Also, I'm a big jazz fan and I was watching
Speaker 3: a video the other day with these uh instructors I
Speaker 3: really like Top ten jazz albums of all time, and
Speaker 3: they had a ROBERTA Flack album on there that I'd
Speaker 3: never heard of before.
Speaker 4: And as I was saying, the nation is reeling from
Speaker 4: the loss of the great ROBERTA Fly and it's right,
Speaker 4: and we take a moment to reflect in.
Speaker 1: Her life, she's dead as a hammer. Okay. Interesting, Wow,
Speaker 1: great jazz singer. Huh. I guess did not know that.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what, My cynicism has been kicked right
Speaker 4: where it deserved.
Speaker 1: To be and has doubled over now and rethinking its ways.
Speaker 4: Oh speaking speaking of careers and being in the public eye,
Speaker 4: and that a quick indulge me a quick tip of
Speaker 4: the cap to my friend Brian Campbell, who won a
Speaker 4: PGA Tour event Professional Golf Association Tour event yesterday. He
Speaker 4: is an incredible story and an example young phenom, great
Speaker 4: college player, got his tour card, which meant he got
Speaker 4: to play on the PGA Tour, lost it almost immediately.
Speaker 4: He just didn't play well enough to stick around, and
Speaker 4: for seven years or so he has been grinding to
Speaker 4: get back on the PGA Tour. He finally did. We
Speaker 4: had a big party and then but this season has
Speaker 4: been very rocky. He like, if you know how golf works,
Speaker 4: if you don't play well enough on Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 4: you get cut. You don't play on the weekend. And
Speaker 4: his first eight tournaments this year or something, I cut cut, cut,
Speaker 4: cut fifty first, sixty second cut than he won for
Speaker 4: the first time in his entire career. Great guy has
Speaker 4: worked like a maniac. I mean beyond when people were
Speaker 4: telling him, yeah, I'm not sure it's going to work out,
Speaker 4: but it was great to see I yelled louder than
Speaker 4: I have for any sports event in twenty years. In
Speaker 4: my living room yesterday I couldn't sit down for the
Speaker 4: last hour and a half.
Speaker 3: Perfect that you brought up golf because I've been meaning
Speaker 3: to ask this question. I came across this headline in
Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal yesterday. I don't play golf, but
Speaker 3: the weird new putting technique that's driving the golf world nuts.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine you hold the club in your mouth?
Speaker 3: Or is it worse than that?
Speaker 4: It's worse than that jacket involves a good deal of vaseline.
Speaker 1: Oh no, we all think it.
Speaker 3: It No, I hinted at something and then you like
Speaker 3: drew the picture for some reason, like we're children, couldn't
Speaker 3: get my hint.
Speaker 1: It's thinter the mind exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael, thank you for I can't decide which side
Speaker 4: he's on. Uh No, it's called it's something called aim point.
Speaker 4: If you ever watch golf, the guys, instead of like
Speaker 4: just using their eyes to figure out which way a
Speaker 4: pot is going to break, which means curve, they like
Speaker 4: use their feet to try to assess the slope, and
Speaker 4: then they assess what degree of slope. Then they hold
Speaker 4: two fingers up next to the cup to pick their
Speaker 4: It's time consuming.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's not as controversial if they were suitcasing the
Speaker 3: butter and making that.
Speaker 4: Wow, the pot calls the kettle black. Right now, it's
Speaker 4: dopey within golf and it's fine.
Speaker 3: The the thing you know, with the golf friend you
Speaker 3: just mentioned, I was telling my kids about this over
Speaker 3: the weekend because I'm trying to motivate them to try
Speaker 3: harder at various things.
Speaker 1: It seems to be it seemed to be having.
Speaker 3: Trouble with that, but that probably got my genetics is
Speaker 3: the problem. But one thing I've learned from YouTube that
Speaker 3: it has helped give a glimpse into the world of athletes, musicians, writers,
Speaker 3: all kinds artists, all kinds of different people of how
Speaker 3: much effort they put into being successful. They weren't just
Speaker 3: born talented, well, they weren't born talented, But then the
Speaker 3: amount of work that you have to put in. Most
Speaker 3: of us, even given the talent by God to be
Speaker 3: that artist, musician, you, golfer, whatever, wouldn't put in the
Speaker 3: time that it takes to ever utilize it.
Speaker 1: Two quick bits of wisdom.
Speaker 4: Number one, the thing that takes more effort than anything
Speaker 4: else is to appear effortless. Takes a tremendous amount of effort. Secondly,
Speaker 4: one of the great pianists, I can't remember which one, Rubinstein,
Speaker 4: one of those guys. Somebody once said to him, I
Speaker 4: would give my life to play piano, give my life
Speaker 4: to play the piano like you do.
Speaker 1: And he said I did, right.
Speaker 3: And most of us, like even given the talent, wouldn't
Speaker 3: do that. And I think that's helpful to know how
Speaker 3: much effort you've got to put in to be successful.
Speaker 1: Hopefully, Man, it takes a while to pan out.
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