Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty,
Speaker 1: I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: The Zoo in Iowa had African Lions make their Super
Speaker 2: Bowl picks. Deuce went first, decided to defer. Then Zorina
Speaker 2: was up. She sniffed both barrels before choosing Seahawks. It's
Speaker 2: might be a prediction worth banking on. The zoo says
Speaker 2: its animals have been correct for nearly eighty percent of
Speaker 2: the time over the years.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lion's going to go for the NFC team,
Speaker 1: So a zoo in Iowa says they're African Lions can
Speaker 1: make Super Bowl predictions and are correct eighty percent of
Speaker 1: the time. Like, how many years in a row have
Speaker 1: you done this? Since it takes let's talk about the
Speaker 1: data sets. It's a fifty to fifty shot. He started
Speaker 1: fifty percent, okay, and if you just do it a
Speaker 1: couple of years, you could know very easily by just guessing,
Speaker 1: do a lot better than fifty percent. This is always
Speaker 1: one of my favorite stories every single year, and things
Speaker 1: that predict and he could come up with anything. The
Speaker 1: stock market has a down week the week before a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the AFC team wins. And this has been
Speaker 1: true seventy five percent of the time over the last
Speaker 1: decade or whatever. You can make up anything, right, right
Speaker 1: the correlation Bowl. So we're all excited about substandard Rabbit
Speaker 1: entertaining us at halftime? Right, will he do something political
Speaker 1: and controversial? Roger Goodell, the godfather of the NFL commenting listen.
Speaker 3: Bet Benny was is it? And I think that was
Speaker 3: demonstrated last night. One of the great artists in the world,
Speaker 3: and that's one of the reasons to be chosen. But
Speaker 3: the other reasons he underst said the platform he was on,
Speaker 3: and that was this platform is used to unite people
Speaker 3: and to be able to bring people together with their creativity,
Speaker 3: with their talents, and to be able to use this
Speaker 3: moment to do that. And I think artists in the
Speaker 3: past have done that. I think Bad Bunny understands it,
Speaker 3: and I think you'll have a great performance.
Speaker 1: And we did not bring Bad Bunny in because it
Speaker 1: reaches a Hispanic audience and we're trying to expand the
Speaker 1: NFL into Mexico. It has nothing in South America, has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with that, right. I like your theory.
Speaker 1: I never thought of this, but makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny gets paid. I don't know when he gets
Speaker 1: paid two million dollars to be the halftime act. A
Speaker 1: million of it you get now, and then the other
Speaker 1: million you get after you do a performance in which
Speaker 1: you have no stunts, no political stunts, no sex stunts,
Speaker 1: no stunts, keep your nipples to yourself. And if you
Speaker 1: do that, you get the other million. You come out
Speaker 1: and rip off your T shirt that says ice are
Speaker 1: your shirt and it says ice out underneath, you don't
Speaker 1: get your million dollars. That's the way I handle it.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Yeah, I'll bet they do. Because there
Speaker 1: has not been an incident since Janet, right since the
Speaker 1: nipple and justin Timberlake, who was clearly a compatriot, it's
Speaker 1: complicit in the crime. Katie, have you ever heard my
Speaker 1: story about nipple Gate? I don't think you probably have.
Speaker 1: That's one of the great things about having Katie on
Speaker 1: the show in the last couple of years. I get
Speaker 1: to retell stories. Soaple Gate. You remember the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: where we saw the nipple. You were probably like four
Speaker 1: years old or something. No, I remember it. Yes, So
Speaker 1: this was long before I had children. I was single
Speaker 1: and childless. In retrospect, it's not a big deal, but
Speaker 1: I was horrified at the time. I'm watching the super
Speaker 1: Bowl by myself. I get a phone call. My next
Speaker 1: door neighbor got pulled over driving drunk on that Sunday morning. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: hammered drunk gets thrown in Sunday morning, getting your drink on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a sign we're left over from the
Speaker 1: night before or whatever. But anyway, and so I get
Speaker 1: a call from his wife who was out of town.
Speaker 1: Their seven year old daughter was home by herself because
Speaker 1: dad just got thrown in jail coming back from the
Speaker 1: grocery store or whatever. And I know these people pretty well,
Speaker 1: and could you keep an eye on her until, you know,
Speaker 1: three this afternoon when I get off work or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. And so I go over knock and they, hey,
Speaker 1: your mom called one. Who can I have her come
Speaker 1: over to my house? And me, not being a parent,
Speaker 1: I would have never done this now that I've been
Speaker 1: a parent, but I e her watching the super Bowl
Speaker 1: with me? What a boring thing for a seven year
Speaker 1: old girl to two? Yeah, I could have come with
Speaker 1: so much other things. I just I didn't know I would.
Speaker 1: You didn't have barbies, you didn't have coloring books. I'm
Speaker 1: a single whatever. I was thirty eight year old guy
Speaker 1: drinking beer watching the Super Bowl. Yeah, I didn't have
Speaker 1: barbaries are coloring. But now I would have screwed the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. We'd have gone for a walk or gone
Speaker 1: to the park or whatever. I can't believe I did this. Anyway,
Speaker 1: We sit there and watched the Super Bowl and the
Speaker 1: halftime showing, No, there's a boob.
Speaker 4: So I'm showing a seventy year old girl ball the
Speaker 4: only time I've ever had a kid over at my house,
Speaker 4: and I'm showing them porn or total grinding. Better off
Speaker 4: with your drunk dad than over at my house seeing.
Speaker 1: Boobs looking at boobs. It doesn't seem like it probably
Speaker 1: did that much. Dimm She's probably won't she beat You
Speaker 1: might be in her mid thirties now, so it was
Speaker 1: a long time ago, right, So she might let on
Speaker 1: the couch talking to a therapist. And then this weird
Speaker 1: neighbor had me come over and look at booms on TV? Right, right?
Speaker 1: What else did he do? Well? He just watched the
Speaker 1: football game. But I'm certain something untoward was happening. You
Speaker 1: know what this is? This is so out of date,
Speaker 1: and yet it continues to fascinate me. I want America's
Speaker 1: greatest writers all to give me. I don't know a
Speaker 1: thousand words on how Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake pig
Speaker 1: he gets let off the hook all the time, kind
Speaker 1: of sort of bearing a nipple more or less led
Speaker 1: to you can't play Steve Miller bands, you know, with
Speaker 1: a whatever? This song was any of that funky s
Speaker 1: going down the city, big old jet airliner, jet air
Speaker 1: liner right, and why Pink Floyd's money couldn't have do
Speaker 1: goody good bulls in it anymore? On FM radio, there
Speaker 1: are a dozen examples of that. Is that one we
Speaker 1: got a delay because we did our talk radio without
Speaker 1: a delay for a long time, and we took a
Speaker 1: lot of calls too. We did live talk radio no
Speaker 1: delay for like a decade, but then Janet Jackson's boob
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now we got like a seven
Speaker 1: minute delay going on. Yes day.
Speaker 5: It was February first, two thousand and four.
Speaker 6: Yeah, twenty two years ago, a dark dark day.
Speaker 1: Whoa so that girl is thirty now, Wow, day that
Speaker 1: will live an infamy.
Speaker 6: She let them let the nips slip and all went
Speaker 6: to hell that day.
Speaker 1: But just continuing on the discussion. Once every I don't know,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks months, somebody drop an s bahn,
Speaker 1: we'd cut them off real quick and say, hey, don't
Speaker 1: be an idiot. If you're going to be an idiot,
Speaker 1: don't call. And that was and nobody was ever hurt
Speaker 1: by it. Nobody ever drove off the road and died
Speaker 1: in a fiery No kids ever turned to drugs or
Speaker 1: prostitution because they heard an s bomb on the Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty show on the way to work. It was utterly, utterly,
Speaker 1: obviously harmless. But after the boob everybody was so uptight
Speaker 1: about it. We had to get a you know, like
Speaker 1: a ten and a twenty and then a thirty second delay,
Speaker 1: and if anything slipped through, everybody acted like a child
Speaker 1: had been grievously injured, right or or you know, somebody
Speaker 1: had lost their life on the factory floor, or the
Speaker 1: accountant had been caught embezzling all the prophets. Everybody would
Speaker 1: act like something terrible had happened in the wake of
Speaker 1: the boob. What does that say about human beings, Americans
Speaker 1: in particular morality. I don't know. We're we're blank and stupid.
Speaker 1: It is my essay. It's brief. You saw a portion
Speaker 1: of not even one of the really jazzy body parts.
Speaker 1: I mean there's more jazzy body part. It's in the
Speaker 1: top few, but it's in the top three, but it's
Speaker 1: not the top to I mean, if he had dropped
Speaker 1: his pants and showed his wang, that would have been
Speaker 1: a much bigger deal.
Speaker 6: Boy, and you would have had a seven year old
Speaker 6: girl sitting on your couch.
Speaker 1: That would have been Yeah, then you might have been charged. Wow,
Speaker 1: we saw part of a boob for a tenth of
Speaker 1: a second and the world shuddered.
Speaker 5: I remember that was when DVRs were just coming in,
Speaker 5: and that was like the most tv O moment or
Speaker 5: whatever launched.
Speaker 1: Is that much launched YouTube? That's what launched YouTube? Was it? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's the famous story. YouTube existed, but everybody wanted to
Speaker 1: see that video and it was on YouTube, So everybody
Speaker 1: became aware of YouTube because of that, and that was
Speaker 1: the big giant. Oh yeah, YouTube's kind of a cool thing,
Speaker 1: and it took off from there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because the boob wasn't on TV long enough for
Speaker 6: anyone to actually really register it, so they had to
Speaker 6: go back and rewatch to be severely damaged.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember watching it with my wife and saying,
Speaker 1: did she just show her? Uh? I can't remember what
Speaker 1: he You mean? You said that after you had Donet crying? Well, right,
Speaker 1: that guy saw hold me? I think I just thought
Speaker 1: part of it. I saw a pun, but part of
Speaker 1: body part for tenth of a second? Are yet it
Speaker 1: undeniably cost major changes to American media? What does that say?
Speaker 3: God?
Speaker 1: So I was a was I single that I don't remember?
Speaker 1: But I was in the house by myself. I was
Speaker 1: thirty two years old, drinking beer watching the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I was in no position to watch a seven year old.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, and I do not mean this in an
Speaker 1: offensive way at all. It is interesting that you were
Speaker 1: the person they called. That doesn't mean granted it sounds
Speaker 1: offensive even if you didn't mean it to be offensive.
Speaker 1: Well points for proximity. But got all the people you
Speaker 1: could call, you, got that random guy over there, you'd
Speaker 1: be better off. Yeah, really, yeah, just pick somebody off
Speaker 1: the street. No, come on, come on, you got a
Speaker 1: seven year old kid. Oh my god, who do we call?
Speaker 1: How about that single guy who lives down on the street.
Speaker 1: It's just an odd why it was mean because relative
Speaker 1: trusted parents. All the other neighbors around there had kids, yes,
Speaker 1: so they must not have been I'll bet they called
Speaker 1: ten people before they got to me, including like just
Speaker 1: random payphones, hoping to see if somebody would answer. Right, God,
Speaker 1: we gotta call that Jack. Well, Jack last always drunk. Jack.
Speaker 1: We'll call him. Maybe he's less drunk than her dad.
Speaker 1: And oh boy, that was an interesting situation. But I
Speaker 1: just thought, what are the chances of this. I have
Speaker 1: this kid here and all of a sudden, there's nudity
Speaker 1: on intelligence, Your dad's in jail, you're sharing your porn
Speaker 1: or Kimpton. Something tells me in the landscape of her
Speaker 1: life as she looks back, that was not a major
Speaker 1: peak nor Valley. He was a super successful guy. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: drinking on a Sunday morning for whatever reason. Yeah, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm distracted by something happening in her my real life.
Speaker 1: I wonder if she remembers it at all. I'd love
Speaker 1: to know that. I hope she's not, you know, dancing
Speaker 1: on the pole in her thirties, because she's still so
Speaker 1: horrified by that event. Seems unlikely, probably.
Speaker 6: Just to ask Janet Jackson that day exactly.
Speaker 1: She's never moved on from that moment. Dad get his
Speaker 1: back together. Do you know? I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: I moved out of that neighborhood and never never really
Speaker 1: found out. Bite of your go to status is childcare?
Speaker 1: Neighborhood childcare? Right, the single guy down the street who
Speaker 1: always has a beer in his hand, that's the guy
Speaker 1: call if you ever have a you just randomly need
Speaker 1: somebody to watch you get marking the honor, stay care,
Speaker 1: No kidding, Hey kid, you want a beer? It's funny.
Speaker 1: I've never thought of this, and it was so many
Speaker 1: years ago, but clearly I had to be like the
Speaker 1: eighth option of people to call. There's no way. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: like I said, I didn't mean to be hurtful, but
Speaker 1: it's an odd choice. That was a great neighborhood too,
Speaker 1: because my other neighbors, they had a couple of daughters
Speaker 1: in the one who did the neighborhood newspaper. Do you
Speaker 1: remember that I would read it on the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was a little gir she's a journalist now, actually
Speaker 1: writes for a newspaper, but she would do the neighborhood
Speaker 1: newspaper and say, interesting news with the Armstrong family. It
Speaker 1: looks like they got a new car. You know that.
Speaker 1: I remember it was so cute. Why didn't you call
Speaker 1: that family instead of me? They were out of town? Clearly?
Speaker 1: Ah right, New York Times. Oh oh, go ahead, I
Speaker 1: got to tease that. New York Times Brett Steven thinks
Speaker 1: the Democrats will be making a huge mistake if they
Speaker 1: pick Gavin Newsom. He's not the only one, and bad
Speaker 1: news if you were hoping to get a reparations program going.
Speaker 1: San Francisco's given it a try, and surprisingly it's going
Speaker 1: really poorly. We didn't predict that at all, So stay
Speaker 1: tuned for all that stuff. Stay here. So at least
Speaker 1: one columnist with the New York Times thinks it would
Speaker 1: be a huge mistake for the Democrats nominate Gavin newsoman
Speaker 1: Is logic is pretty sound, as we'll get to that
Speaker 1: coming up. Speaking of progressive hopes and dreams. In December,
Speaker 1: we mentioned this and I was surprised at the time.
Speaker 1: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lourie, who's a very reasonable guy
Speaker 1: and has done a lot of good things for San Francisco.
Speaker 1: He signed an ordinance establishing a reparations fund for black
Speaker 1: residents in San Francisco, but it was never clear who
Speaker 1: would fund the program. He Lauri Lourie, who signed the
Speaker 1: ordinance after it was unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors,
Speaker 1: stressed that no city funds will go toward the initiative. Instead,
Speaker 1: the fund is open to private donations. The mayor said,
Speaker 1: if money becomes a billable, the city would work to
Speaker 1: distribute it to eligible recipients. However, no nonprofit groups or
Speaker 1: wealthy individuals appear to have come forward with plans to
Speaker 1: donate to the fund. So reparations are unworkable with anybody
Speaker 1: with the brain knows. And we've talked about it over
Speaker 1: the years, but we always liked the angle of each
Speaker 1: committee or Assembly or Senate or whatever passes it because
Speaker 1: they know it's unworkable, but they don't want to be
Speaker 1: the ones to say no, because then you get attacked
Speaker 1: like being anti reparations. So you're some council or committee
Speaker 1: of three people. We voted two to one to move
Speaker 1: forward to the reparations. Then the next level says yes,
Speaker 1: and the next level, all of them knowing it can't
Speaker 1: ever happen. How would you possibly do it well? And
Speaker 1: people who think it's a good idea are crackpots and
Speaker 1: ignoramuses or race baters. But I'm sure some of them
Speaker 1: are sincerely crack pots. And it's got to be frustrating
Speaker 1: to go to the government say this needs to happen
Speaker 1: and the government says, yes, it does. I'm with ya.
Speaker 1: Does everybody know what reparations are so you don't have
Speaker 1: to like, Okay, I think so, don't they? Yeah? But
Speaker 1: you know, everybody at every point says yes, I agree
Speaker 1: with you, we're going to get it passed. And indeed
Speaker 1: sometimes they pass it and they're like, hey, where the
Speaker 1: reparations we're working out of funding mechanism? Well, you've got
Speaker 1: the where's the money come from? Then? How do you
Speaker 1: hand the money out to? Who? Who gets included? Who
Speaker 1: doesn't get included? Right? And then remember, at one point
Speaker 1: they were passing legislation or ordinances or whatever they were
Speaker 1: that included anybody who's a descendant of a slave gets
Speaker 1: a free home, for instance. Okay, well, or three million
Speaker 1: dollars or some absurd amount of money. Were you going
Speaker 1: to go grab a home and give it to people,
Speaker 1: or I mean, where's the home going to come from? Taxpayers?
Speaker 1: The wretch tax The writs they got to pay their
Speaker 1: fair share, right, right? And what about recent immigrants from Africa?
Speaker 1: And oh that, well that's your wouldn't you just mentioned
Speaker 1: California wasn't a slave state, right, so why are the
Speaker 1: white people of California on the hook for it? Not
Speaker 1: that it is. It doesn't make sense even in a
Speaker 1: slave state, but especially doesn't make sense in California, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's interesting that a guy as reasonable as
Speaker 1: Dan Lurie would say, yeah, okay, sure, I'll sign it,
Speaker 1: and the National Review says he shouldn't have signed it
Speaker 1: because now it creates this, at least a smallish bureaucracy
Speaker 1: to distribute this money that will never exist. And I
Speaker 1: wonder the people who are part of the Reparations Office
Speaker 1: or whatever they're calling it, who are part of what
Speaker 1: are they doing all day? No kidding, he's collecting a
Speaker 1: no show paycheck.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So Brett Stevens, he's the conservative by New York Times
Speaker 1: Standards columnist who says the Democrats better think twice before
Speaker 1: they nominate Gavin newsomone, and he gets through some of
Speaker 1: the reasons why bill Board showed up in New York.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom the Jets of Democrats New York Jets of Democrats,
Speaker 1: which is kind of funny, like a loser. But we
Speaker 1: got more on the way. I hope you can stay.
Speaker 6: Here, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: Former First Lady Jill Biden's ex husband now facing murder
Speaker 7: charges in the death of his current wife.
Speaker 1: WILLIAMS.
Speaker 7: Stevenson accused of killing his wife during a domestic dispute
Speaker 7: in Wilmington, Delaware in December. William Stephenson and Jill Biden
Speaker 7: divorced in nineteen seventy five. There's no comment from the Bidens.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't need to comment on some of you
Speaker 1: divorced half a century ago. But Jill Biden's ex husband
Speaker 1: killed his current wife. Wow, yeah, yeah. What's interesting, if
Speaker 1: you want to spill a little tea, is that back
Speaker 1: in the day, Joe and Jill both claimed that yeah,
Speaker 1: we we just we were introduced after the split and
Speaker 1: husbands like bulls. Me and Jill both worked on Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's first campaign. The tool clearly hit her off. I
Speaker 1: could see sparks fly and wondered what was going on,
Speaker 1: and she announces she's leaving, and then they end up together.
Speaker 1: But Joe Jill's version is, oh no, it all happened
Speaker 1: after the splitter is completely innocent. Well, that particular story
Speaker 1: only happens about ninety five percent of the time, so
Speaker 1: signor fairly common. Will Newsom be the democrats next mistake?
Speaker 1: Brett Stevens Rights in the New York Times talks about
Speaker 1: all the fawning coverage which we went heavy on the
Speaker 1: last couple of days from Vogue and other places, and
Speaker 1: then he goes on to write Democrats should be careful
Speaker 1: whom they crush on. Newsom's record as governor of California
Speaker 1: is a Republican strategist, perfect foil, and he gets into
Speaker 1: the more salient points. But we've talked about this for
Speaker 1: a long time, you know, living in California, he's got
Speaker 1: so many like giant targets. It's just, I mean, it's stick.
Speaker 1: I can't remember a time somebody was talking about running
Speaker 1: for president who had this many giant targets on them. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he goes through them, and you know, just briefly on
Speaker 1: a bunch of affordability California is incredibly unaffordable, a dead
Speaker 1: last in affordability. So explain that prices for mid tier
Speaker 1: homes about twice as expensive as the typical US mid
Speaker 1: tier home. Poverty and income inequality sort of thing he
Speaker 1: talks about all the time. Got a ton of poor
Speaker 1: in California, tied with Louisiana for the country's highest poverty
Speaker 1: rate and inequality. California has one of the highest rates
Speaker 1: of income inequality. Also, so both of those in the
Speaker 1: toilet in the entire country knew some twenty twenty eight
Speaker 1: no kidding, homelessness. We all know this one. In this
Speaker 1: particular study, California alone accounted for forty four percent of
Speaker 1: all the homeless people in the entire country. There's been
Speaker 1: other stats that say it's half whatever. Forty fifty percent
Speaker 1: for one state is just absolutely unbelievable, right right, And
Speaker 1: I think it's the magnet is mainly the most thing
Speaker 1: people always talk about the weather. There's lots of places
Speaker 1: with nice weather, name full of homeless people. Flight. Maybe
Speaker 1: the best measure of a state's success or failure is
Speaker 1: how people vote with their feet. In California, as we
Speaker 1: all know, we've talked about it a lot is bleeding
Speaker 1: people like crazy housing prices and all kinds of reasons,
Speaker 1: highest income tax rate, state income tax rate in the
Speaker 1: entire country, slow job growth, all that different sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So California perversity, Yeah, you got that. California had a
Speaker 1: total net loss of almost one point three million people
Speaker 1: who moved to other states, according to the Coastal Moving Services. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Oh I like this stat. I hadn't heard this one before.
Speaker 1: Last year, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation found that another
Speaker 1: Californian leaves the state every minute and forty four seconds.
Speaker 1: One minute and forty four seconds, another California leaves the state. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's incredible net right. Yeah. Yeah. Education, even though the
Speaker 1: University of California continues to be a jewel of American
Speaker 1: higher education, he writes less and less, so maybe by
Speaker 1: the standards of higher education, I don't know. K through
Speaker 1: twelve though not so much. And here's the stat that
Speaker 1: matters a lot to me as a guy raising two
Speaker 1: kids and trying to educate them in the state of California.
Speaker 1: While the state increased per pupil spending by one hundred
Speaker 1: and two percent since just twenty thirteen, reading comprehension has
Speaker 1: remained flat. Matt skills have dropped. I didn't realize we've
Speaker 1: increased spending per pupil one hundred and two percent. You
Speaker 1: know what's interesting about kids? Yeah, what's interesting about that
Speaker 1: statistic is the very name of the statistic is misleading.
Speaker 1: What if I were to describe my expenditures on liquor
Speaker 1: and golf as now on a per child, what would
Speaker 1: I say my per child spending, Honey has risen thirty percent,
Speaker 1: And she would be quite legitimate in saying, why are
Speaker 1: you calling it per child spending? That's not where the
Speaker 1: spending is going. Per pupil spending, The money gushing at
Speaker 1: California schools. Why are you mentioning the pupils. That's going
Speaker 1: to middle management and DEI programs and lobbyists and film
Speaker 1: strips about how you can change your sex and the
Speaker 1: rest of it. It's not flowing to the children. That's
Speaker 1: the wrong measure, it really is. It's kind of funny,
Speaker 1: what a great trick that is. My per salad spending
Speaker 1: is very very high. I don't need any salads. It's
Speaker 1: all going to other food. No, Wow, that is really clever.
Speaker 1: Whoever came up with that. Yeah, yeah, so dishonest he
Speaker 1: really is. AnyWho, Yeah, they're spending more money on the
Speaker 1: schools and not getting any bang for the buck, in fact,
Speaker 1: less bang for the buck in some case energy costs.
Speaker 1: Americans hate high energy prices. Average retail price for electricity
Speaker 1: in California is twice the national average. Crime got all
Speaker 1: kinds of crime because Newsom was really behind that whole
Speaker 1: Prop forty seven, which reclassified shoplifting, which led to the
Speaker 1: endless TikTok and YouTube videos you've always seen of people
Speaker 1: going into stores and with one arm swiping the shelf
Speaker 1: off into a trash bag and walking out the door.
Speaker 1: Newsom was behind that. He thought it was great and wokeness.
Speaker 1: California tremendously woke, being the sanctuary state for trans children,
Speaker 1: surgeries and all illegals should get free healthcare and all
Speaker 1: that different sort of stuff. Just endless that. So with
Speaker 1: all of those California not being like not only in
Speaker 1: the red on a lot of those topics, but dead last,
Speaker 1: how does he get through the nomination process? Well, that's
Speaker 1: a great question. And I think Rui tischera who is
Speaker 1: a moderate Democratic. I think he writes for the Free
Speaker 1: Press he addresses that very question before we get there, though,
Speaker 1: before I forget, I want to mention something that will
Speaker 1: help Gavin. And I study Gavin now the fact, and
Speaker 1: he's so incredibly handsled with his salt speckled hair, and
Speaker 1: let's get this out of the way, and he is
Speaker 1: embarrassingly handsome, the lithe and eedamant, the strident confidence of
Speaker 1: a self made millionaire who's molecular something or other. We
Speaker 1: read yesterday he was live and ardent. That was it. Yes, yes, interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I study him now the way I study the
Speaker 1: third Reicher, the the Mao regime in China. Unquestionably evil,
Speaker 1: but really really capable, And so I like to study
Speaker 1: how evil prevails. And the one thing he's really good
Speaker 1: at is he will he and his party and his
Speaker 1: policies will cause an enormous problem, a disastrous problem. And
Speaker 1: then he will say.
Speaker 8: We are attacking that problem with every resource we can find.
Speaker 8: We're looking to the future, we're being creative, we're spending
Speaker 8: the money, we're innovating.
Speaker 1: California is gonna lead the country into the future. And
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, wow, he's really attacking that problem energetically.
Speaker 1: To repeat myself, because I've said this many times. He's
Speaker 1: figured out the time we live in. He's watched what Trump.
Speaker 1: Trump oftentimes will get up and say something that is
Speaker 1: just opposite of what is occurring in terms of results
Speaker 1: of a various policy, like his tariff stuff sometimes. But
Speaker 1: you know, most people aren't paying attention to that. They
Speaker 1: take it through their own news outlet, and here the
Speaker 1: person that they like say it and run with it.
Speaker 1: And Gavin Newsom, to his credit, I guess, has figured
Speaker 1: out the times we live in. Yeah, and the way
Speaker 1: you can work that whole thing right, much as Hitler,
Speaker 1: that's right, I think that's fair, laugh, much as did so.
Speaker 1: Ruy Cher is talking about how gave. He seems to
Speaker 1: be having a moment, and he writes, what accounts for
Speaker 1: this remarkable surge? How did a liberal California Democrat win
Speaker 1: so much support a year after Democrats got walloped when
Speaker 1: their candidate was another liberal California Democrat. The answer lies
Speaker 1: in Newsom's ability to be everything to well, not quite everybody,
Speaker 1: but every Democrat think of him not as an ordinary politician,
Speaker 1: but as a message delivery system, and a very effective one.
Speaker 1: All politicians fit that description to some degree, but newsom
Speaker 1: lets absolutely nothing stand in the way, not principles, not beliefs,
Speaker 1: not prior positions. He reliably presents whatever message he deems
Speaker 1: most politically effective at any given time, to any given audience.
Speaker 1: That has enabled him to appeal to nearly every Democratic faction. Well,
Speaker 1: then he goes through the very fact. Come on, and
Speaker 1: I I preferred Trump in both elections. All right, But
Speaker 1: doesn't that isn't that a perfect description of Trump's method?
Speaker 1: I don't think so nothing, So no, no, Because Trump
Speaker 1: had certain principles that he stuck with no matter what,
Speaker 1: no matter who he offended. That's true, only a couple.
Speaker 1: But the couple that he had he has been very,
Speaker 1: very solid on and never backed down, even in the
Speaker 1: face of great, great resistance. And I don't think Gavin's
Speaker 1: got a single one. I mean, Trump would not go
Speaker 1: to the Chamber of Commerce types and say, look, we
Speaker 1: need lots and lots of immigration for our labor. For lah.
Speaker 1: No heavy will say anything at any time to anybody
Speaker 1: unrestrained by any values, positions, principles, beliefs. Look, I'm right
Speaker 1: there with you. I remember, I remember the times with
Speaker 1: the stacks of whitebread. What are you talking about? Hey,
Speaker 1: you know there, but for the grace of God, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Yeah? Yeah, he's a different version
Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris when it comes to answering questions, like
Speaker 1: a more clever version of not answering the questions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kamala would string together nonsense, you know, strings of words,
Speaker 1: whereas Gavin resorts to like chuckles and half formed thoughts
Speaker 1: and well. He benefits also from fawning media. Will he
Speaker 1: run into media? Sometimes it will follow up and say,
Speaker 1: what do you mean there? But for the grace of God,
Speaker 1: I still don't understand which side of this year on.
Speaker 1: You just stopped your sentence before you got to the subject. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't, I think for the grace of God. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be after he gets the nomination that he faces
Speaker 1: anything approaching critical media. And honestly, if he's running against
Speaker 1: somebody who is particularly objectionable to the liberal media, maybe Trumpy,
Speaker 1: maybe JD, he will get the Barack Obama I almost
Speaker 1: use the F word, not that F word, the other
Speaker 1: F word rhymes with horatio. They will get. He will
Speaker 1: get the full Barack Obama horatio. It's just interesting a
Speaker 1: press corps that would treat Kamala Harris like she's not
Speaker 1: a joke, would be absolutely frothing at the mouth to
Speaker 1: service Gaven news a good who is evil but he's smart.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. The same press corps that was
Speaker 1: willing to pretend they didn't notice Joe Biden seen now
Speaker 1: and pretend that Kamala has made sense that I love
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom. You're making it rhyme louder than it's ever
Speaker 1: rhymed before.
Speaker 7: That.
Speaker 1: I had a FK but his did you take any
Speaker 1: money from Apex? Oh, it's interesting that you bring that up.
Speaker 1: It's just interesting that you bring that up, which is
Speaker 1: just interesting. Did you take any money or not? Should
Speaker 1: have been the follow up, but that hasn't been a
Speaker 1: part of my life things I've thought about. It's just
Speaker 1: so interesting that at this moment you would bring that up.
Speaker 1: That's that's been you know there. But for the grace
Speaker 1: of God. Hey, I mean, you're overwhelming me with how
Speaker 1: ardent you are. But did you take a dollar or not? Live?
Speaker 1: So live? Why don't you take your self confident, self
Speaker 1: made millionaire strut and walk on out of this room
Speaker 1: If you're not willing to answer that question, or are
Speaker 1: you too ardent whatever that means. Okay, we will finish
Speaker 1: strong next.
Speaker 9: Strong twitching gears to some business news pepsi, and that's
Speaker 9: that they are cutting prices on a lot of their
Speaker 9: snacks like Dorito's and Cheetos.
Speaker 1: That's great, that's great. It's really gonna say the president
Speaker 1: a lot of money on makeup. Ended up being or
Speaker 1: I was using flaming hot talkies. Ro Whiles had not
Speaker 1: being a Trump joke. I was really looking forward to
Speaker 1: a Dorino's joke. But breaking trade us fallin betrayed us.
Speaker 1: Breaking news. A judge has sentenced Ryan Ruth to life
Speaker 1: in prison. If you don't remember the name, he was
Speaker 1: the nut job who was laying in the bushes with
Speaker 1: the rifle hoping to kill Donald Trump on a golf
Speaker 1: course in Florida in September twenty twenty four. Luckily, somebody
Speaker 1: saw the barrel of the gun, so he wasn't successful,
Speaker 1: but he's going to spend the rest of his life
Speaker 1: in jail. I would assume he looks like he's fairly old,
Speaker 1: so that reminds me and crazier than hell. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you happen to see on britt Bear last night? He
Speaker 1: was talking a cash Betel about the Pennsylvania will be assassin,
Speaker 1: the young misfit who shot Trump in the air, and
Speaker 1: Brett was making the case that why don't we know
Speaker 1: more about that day, that case, that kid who would
Speaker 1: be talked to on the cell phone? Why isn't that
Speaker 1: stuff out? And cash Betel gave him a non answer,
Speaker 1: very dodgy answer. Wow, that fuels conspiracy and speculation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was odd and Brett was frustrated, which
Speaker 1: I thought was interesting because he's no conspiracy theorist. If anything,
Speaker 1: he's a little mainstreamy. That's a good point. Don't you
Speaker 1: feel like if somebody had almost killed Barack Obama, we
Speaker 1: would know every single thing about that human being by name. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And what was really curious about it was it wasn't
Speaker 1: kind of a you know, a very official sounding explanation
Speaker 1: of why some of the information can't come out or
Speaker 1: as part of an ongoing blah blah blah. No, it's
Speaker 1: just very dodgy. I wonder if any of it has
Speaker 1: to do with failures of a couple of agencies that
Speaker 1: really are stonewalling. It certainly could. Yeah, because we all
Speaker 1: learned a lot about the Secret Service or something. But
Speaker 1: you know, on the roof of a rifle with the
Speaker 1: best angle to kill a president is not supposed to happen. Ah,
Speaker 1: I'd say not. This is an interesting story. We don't
Speaker 1: have much time to get into the dispatch riding today
Speaker 1: with all the stuff going on everywhere in Minneapolis and
Speaker 1: there and there, and you know, whatever story you want
Speaker 1: to emphasize. The biggest story may have unfolded seven thousand
Speaker 1: miles away this week when Chairman She of China started
Speaker 1: arresting various heads of his military, including the very very
Speaker 1: top guy right the other day. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to pronounce his name, but the most senior general in
Speaker 1: the Chinese People's Liberation Army came up with She through
Speaker 1: the ranks. He was a childhood friend. Yeah, going back
Speaker 1: to when they were kids. Both of them worked with
Speaker 1: Mao And if there isn't all these years together and
Speaker 1: he got accused of selling nuclear secretcy the United States,
Speaker 1: which he almost certainly did not do, and arrested. Wow.
Speaker 9: I have some final thoughts, and some people say they
Speaker 9: are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if
Speaker 9: you look at what's happening, I would have to say
Speaker 9: Armstrong and Geddy have some wonderful final thoughts. They are
Speaker 9: right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that more tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 1: That whole dictatorship purge thing is always interested me. Man,
Speaker 1: it's game of throne stuff right there. Here's your host
Speaker 1: for final thoughts, Joe Getty. I was good. A final
Speaker 1: thought from everybody on the crew. To wrap of the show,
Speaker 1: Let's begin with our technical director Michael Angelo. Michael, what's
Speaker 1: your final thought? Yeah?
Speaker 5: My final thought is that story Jack about you taking
Speaker 5: that little girl during the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That was funny. I was laughing back here so hard.
Speaker 1: Well do you remember when that happened? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I forgot how funny that was. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: It's a different perspective now that I'm a parent. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I was doing. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 1: As a final thought, Katie, it's.
Speaker 6: Kind of a final question. But speaking of Super Bowl,
Speaker 6: we have Michelangelo's cheese dip. What on the on the website?
Speaker 6: What was the chip you suggested, Michael, the.
Speaker 1: Freedo's with the scoop, Yeah, Freedo scoopdo scoop. You gotta
Speaker 1: have a tough chip otherwise they just break off. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you're standing there with a shard of chip in
Speaker 1: your hands, a chunk of chip in the dip, and
Speaker 1: everybody's unhappy. Like I said, the hoover dam and the
Speaker 1: scoopy chip the two greatest achievements of American engineering. Jack
Speaker 1: A quick, Finally, mine, I got used up all my time.
Speaker 1: My fault, uh mine serious as hell. It would probably
Speaker 1: be a mistake to share it. We'll talk about Russia's
Speaker 1: death toll in Ukraine tomorrow. Yeah, it's the anniversary of
Speaker 1: it starting four years ago. How do you feel about
Speaker 1: at least six times as many guys as we lost
Speaker 1: in Vietnam and already amazing? I'm strong. You get a
Speaker 1: wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. We will see tomorrow.
Speaker 1: God bless America. I'm strong and get you. Shut off
Speaker 1: the lights, clear out the floor, the show thou over.
Speaker 1: Time to hit the door. Jack and Joe.
Speaker 6: Dive for the day, to take them.
Speaker 1: With you on the parcastle. Armstrong and Geddy Man, Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Geddy