WEBVTT - The Conversation Pit! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:07.600 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:12.040 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and get enough, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:21.000 he Armstrong and Hetty. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.759 Republicans here in Texas are just one step closer to 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.840 getting those new congressional maps past. These Texas House Democrats 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.560 returned after that fifteen days stay away in part because 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.840 there's not much more that they can do to try 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:41.159 to block this piece of legislation now. Instead, their attention 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.000 is going to turn to the upcoming lawsuits that will 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.760 be pursued now. GOP lawmakers have not set a timeline 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.440 for when these new congressional maps could be passed, but 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.040 it could be as soon as this week, and that 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.880 is when these Texas House Democrats plan to make their 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.760 arguments that can be used in those legal cases. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.520 Paid this close attention to this dang story. But is 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.800 this almost entirely performative? From what I understand, they have 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.319 the legal right in Texas to do this correct? 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.360 Yeah, okay, well, and the Democrats have jerrymandered their states 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.880 pretty much as far as they can already go. I 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.720 want to get into the California situation in a second 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.360 or two why not have a friend of the Armstrong 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.640 and Getty Show, Kevin Kyleie lead us their next clip. 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.600 Michael, I think it is a very unhealthy thing for democracy. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.280 I think it's bad for representative goverment. I don't think 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.600 it's particularly good for either party. In fact, members of 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.920 Congress and both parties hate it. The voters certainly don't 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.520 like it. So that's why I've actually introduced a bill 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.800 in the House to bring this whole thing to an end, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.120 saying that you don't redistrict, you can't jerrymander in the 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.680 middle of the decade, or. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:56.480 Well, okay, but how about ever, I don't, well, be 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.639 nice if you could get rid of it. I realized 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.800 it'd be a possible to completely get rid of it. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:06.080 But surely you can come up with some legislation where 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.359 you can't have a snake that curls around be a district. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.720 Ever. Yeah, well, a couple of things. Number One, when 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.320 Eldridge Gary was Gary mandering it in the beginning was 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:18.280 like the year eighteen o. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.919 One, right, Yeah, he was a designer to the Declaration 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.240 of Independence. It's just part of what we do or 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.320 love it or hate it, and what it is is 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.240 congress people choosing their voters as opposed to voters choosing 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:32.119 their congressperson. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.240 Yeah, and I wish I had the Twitter thread in 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:36.760 front of me. I thought I'd send it to myself. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:41.760 Maybe it didn't. But so Gaviy Newsome has a floated 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.160 the idea of redrawing the map in California to change 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:52.359 it from completely gerrymandered for Democrats to like obscenely stacked 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.880 in favor of Democrats, even though the vast majority of 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.200 Californians like the allegedly nonpartisan Citizens Commission that does it 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.240 right now. But Gavey's trying desperately to look like a 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.400 hero to the left. And that's most of what this is. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:10.160 But the analysis looked at his proposed map and it 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.480 was hilarious. I mean, number one, like it went down 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.400 to Orange County, where you know there are actually a 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.680 fair number of Republicans and Republican seats, and like the 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.000 city of Huntington Beach was divided slivers of it into 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:28.160 three different districts and Garden Grove was cut in half, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.080 and one of the districts the comment was, oh, look 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.720 an elephant, because it was just this weird shaped district, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.720 like an elephant's head and then a trunk that extended 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.280 like into and around other districts and just completely ridiculous. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.400 But as pointed out last week, while short term that 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:54.640 would give Democrats more seats, long term it weakens you're 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.480 hold on a whole bunch of different Democratic seats, and 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.760 if people ever got fed up, you could have a 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:02.880 fee change occur. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.520 Right because you've you know, you got a safe, you know, 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.240 twenty point win in this district, so you think, you know, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.320 why don't we peel off ten percent and put it 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.680 in those two districts and we'll have sway there. But 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.000 you know, as you point out, if there's a change election, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.280 you can have an enormous change. Well, not only that, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.320 but has been pointed out by several folks, the Republican 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.039 states are less gerrymandered than the Democrat states, and so 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.000 they have more if it becomes a game of screw 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.919 your neighbor, the Republicans have a lot more screw than 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.760 they can do than the Democrats, because the Democrats have 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.880 pushed it so far already. I don't know if I 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.919 like that name, but it's it's colorful, isn't it anyway? 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.800 So yeah, Gavy is completely phony, trying desperately to be 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:55.160 the hero of the left. Oh oh, meanwhile, JB. Pritzker 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:02.599 fat child mutilator. JB. Pritzker. Wow, is he going to 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.960 run to the center as so many sane Democrats are saying. Look, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.960 we got to abandon the wok thing. We got to 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.360 talk about what people care about. What happened. What we 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.839 used to like, the working class around here, normal people. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:20.000 What happened Now it's all like grad student assistant lecturers 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.799 that are our party. Anyway, JB's running in the other direction. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:30.400 Even though Illinois is drowning in debt. JB. Pritzker signed 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.000 a bill into law opening student financial aid to all 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.159 residents regardless of immigration status, opening a pathway for illegal 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.840 immigrants resigning in the state to receive educational financial benefits. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:48.120 The bill purports to establish quote equitable eligibility for financial 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.640 aid and benefits. The bill reads that a student who 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.320 is an Illinois resident but is not otherwise eligible for 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.600 federal financial aid, including but not limited to a transgender 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.840 student who is disqualified for failure to register for selective 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:10.000 service because there are millions of those. Right, some boy 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.120 you feels who thinks he's gay but he thinks maybe 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.920 that means I'm a girl because his teacher has been 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.520 lecturing on him and lecturing him on it, now comes 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.920 off his transgender and then doesn't register for selective service. Again, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.320 we've heard about the millions of cases. Of those are 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.800 a non citizen student who has not obtained lawful permanent residence. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.520 Nobody like that shall be kept away from financial aid 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:36.960 and benefits. So illegal, I'm sorry, college scholarships for illegal 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:46.719 immigrants and non selective service. Registering transgender boys is his platform. Okays? 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:47.240 The good fight? 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.200 Oh yeah, whoa, people are going to be flocking to 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:57.240 your side. So Trump jumped into the whole mail in 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.159 ballot thing. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.800 Oh yeah, that's right, right, that's right. Why don't we 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.359 just play the audio? Michael, you got that thirty one? 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.360 Mail in ballots are corrupt. Mail in ballots. You can 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:14.120 never have a real democracy with mail in ballots. And 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.880 we as a Republican party, are going to do everything 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.000 possible that we get rid of mail in ballots. We're 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.400 going to start with an executive order that's being written 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.120 right now by the best lawyers of the country to 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:31.040 end mail in ballots because they're corrupt. And do you 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.600 know that we're the only country. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:32.720 In the world. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.040 I believe I may be wrong, but just about the 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.960 only country in the world that uses it because of 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.280 what's happened massive fraud all over the place. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.640 Is that true? Do you have any idea other does 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.679 Europe use mail in ballots for their elections. I don't 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.520 actually know that there has not been massive fraud. I 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.720 guess it's all in the determination of the word massive. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.200 But I don't know if I'm pretty sure there's never 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.880 been an election that we thought would gone the other 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:05.840 based on known mail in ballot fraud. But I do 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.760 know as a renter, I got fifteen ballots last election 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.640 to different names who lived there. I mean a lot 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.120 for everybody, bitches, everybody that ever lived there in the 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:18.000 last five years. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.800 I got a ballot. The screen trunk unleashed on true 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.040 Social was actually his longest ever. They think I could 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.320 read it to you, but it's quite. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.120 Long and has a lot of capital letters, which starts 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.080 with call me ishmail. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.640 It's very long. But as Jeff Blair points out in 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:43.400 the National Review d D, I can read Article one, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.920 Section four of the US Constitution as well as you can, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.960 and I know that none of these changes can be 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.920 commanded via executive order. As the Constitution spells it out 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.800 quite clearly, the times, places, and manner of holding elections 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.520 for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.520 by the legislature thereof. But the Congress may at any time, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.680 by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.080 the place of choosing senators. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.440 So I'm never gonna get my wish, so I've just 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:12.920 given up on it. I would like it to go 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:17.320 back to voting day. It's ad day and we all 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.720 go vote. That's what I would like. I would feel. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.200 I would just make me feel way more comfortable with 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.400 the outcome of all my elections. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.160 And eliminate a couple of the dope dope y woke 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.439 holidays and make election day holiday if you want, or 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.679 a mandatory time off, which is already the law. Come 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:34.080 to seven. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:35.480 Yep, No, I'd be fine with that and make it 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.360 a holiday. But whatever, it seemed to work pretty good 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:43.720 for a couple hundred years there. I'm all for it. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.240 I just I don't think it'll happen though. Now it's election. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.600 It's election several months depending on where you live. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.560 Yeah, I will agree with you. Though, for the record 0:09:54.600 --> 0:10:01.520 that mail in ballots are absolutely fraud central. I mean 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.240 they enable fraud to take place, especially in Blue states 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.800 that have legalized ballot harvesting. So you just wallpaper an 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:14.200 apartment complex with mail in ballots, hundreds and hundreds and 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.040 hundreds of them. So that's the bigger threat than well. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.480 And then the volunteers, the activists, they go they take 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.559 them out of mailboxes. They just knock on doors, say hey, 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.040 I can fill that out for you. Sometimes they even 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.800 hand out money under the table, of course, and then 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.280 they turn in because you can ballot harvest they turn 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.240 in dozens and dozens or hundreds of ballots, many of 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.520 whom of which were not you know, signed and certified 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.640 by the person they're sent to, and nobody ever checks 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:43.480 in a lot of Blue states. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.120 Yeah, the whole ballot harvesting thing, I believe is a problem, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:47.319 and I wish there was a way to do a 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.920 way that the I don't know how many people are 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.280 filling out you know, you live somewhere and you get 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.600 six ballots and you're filling it out with a fake 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.040 name and sending it in. But the ballot harvesting is 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:58.600 a problem. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.560 Yeah, Yeah, So if Congress wants to pass a law 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.120 that tightens all this stuff up, Constitution says they can. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.840 You know, as soon as a Democrat Congress comes in, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.880 they'll loosen it up again because they're in favor of 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.720 fraud and half wits and the brain dead voting. But 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.199 that's the best you can do in our democracy. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.960 And of course it's interesting that until Trump jumped into it, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:27.080 the people who used mail in ballots were way heavy 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.439 on the Republican side until Trump jumped into the issue, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.800 and then Democrats started thinking, no, this is our deal, 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.320 and so then they overtook Republicans for people who do 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.400 mail in balloting as a way to fight back. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.280 But it used to be. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.680 Older and rural people who are way more likely to 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.160 be Republican that used mail in ballots. Yeah, I'm not 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.960 sure I would blame Trump for the change. I just 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.080 think the Democrats saw an opportunity. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.079 AnyWho, So that's that. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:57.240 Uh. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.800 One of our favorite news anchors, Brett Pair of Fox, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.959 got ticketed for distracted driving good during the during the 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.920 crime crackdown in Washington DC. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.000 Finally justice, he's probably looking at his phone. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.800 How dairy you ever? You ever actually look into other 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.520 people's cars. When you're in traffic, it's like nine people 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:19.520 are looking at their phone. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:20.920 They glanced up occasionally. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.000 It's amazing. There isn't There aren't more res really, okay, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:30.400 we got more on the way. Stay here. So this 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.840 is an interior decorator with a list of things we 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.000 should not have in our home. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.320 Number one a TV. Everybody places their furniture to face 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.440 that ugly black box, and I don't want it in 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:44.360 my house to disturb the beauty. Number two a microwave 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.240 similar to the TV. I'm somebody who cooks every day 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.760 and I never need to use a microwave. Three is 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.240 laundry drying all over the house. It just kills the vibe. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.360 Four is overhead lighting. It makes everybody look a lot 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.920 less attractive. The best thing to do is have lamps 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.320 all around the room. Is unused candles that light them 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.200 just for an hour or so. It looks used. It 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.960 looks a lot better, all right. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:08.480 Whatever. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.720 If I'm a childless, pretentious person with lots of free time, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.120 that would be a one way to live. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.719 His point about lamps was a good one. It is 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.360 more flattering lighting the light one. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.480 I agree with the rest of it, just don't don't 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.440 have laundry around. Well, that'd be nice, but I got 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.800 kids in laundry, and I gotta try it somewhere, so 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.360 i'll pick it up when I get home. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.480 You have your couches facing the ugly black box. Yeah, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.720 I agree, here's supposed to face. I agree. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.120 It looks cool rooms that you can have the furniture. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.240 You don't have a television, but I have a television. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:47.240 We watch television, so We're gonna do a couple of 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.200 things that I wanted. We got to combo it up 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:55.080 so that it's also a conversation pit Comly a pit 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.600 is not a good term, but for conversation it is 0:13:58.640 --> 0:13:59.520 for some reason. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.360 So I got a question for you. You have a cold, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.439 you said, I do rahinovirus. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:06.840 I believe. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.160 Where are you currently on your belief in various things 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.600 that will help with a cold. Do you immediately jump 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.079 on zinc or echinaesia or vitamin C or any of 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:18.880 those things? 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.640 Funny, you should mention that my wife suggested I hit 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.200 the uh zinc I can't remember the name of it. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:29.560 Dissolve in your mouth orange flavored thingies every few hours. Yeah, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:30.480 I try that. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.320 Airborne's a combination of zinc and vitamin C, which I 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:37.440 don't know if it does you any good at that 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.880 point or not hour on the idea, but I feel 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.880 like the zinc does. It might be I might be 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.960 suffering from what's that where you believe, Yeah, I might 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:51.080 be suffering from placbia, but I feel like the zinc 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.800 does help. And man, if you can cut the length 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.520 and severity of a cold by half, like they claim, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.800 that's not nothing. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.240 I hope I started sooner because it says, excuse me, 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.280 started it like the earliest sign of a cold, and 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.160 I think I waited a day. But what the heck 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.320 damn it? I know slow on the uptake. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.760 I read that review you sent me from somebody, the 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.240 funny review of the book Ulysses, since I'm still in 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.920 the midst of reading Ulysses Ulysses, if you listen to it, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.680 I just realized, so reading it's very difficult, as I've 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.000 been listening to it on audiobook much easier because the 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.120 person who reads it with their tone of voice can 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.760 let you know when you're doing inner mind dialogue, which 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:38.400 is if you. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.400 Can't tell, it's really really hard. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.800 Oh yeah, But anyway, I've been listening to it and 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:44.960 reading it at the same time. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:46.760 It says it'll take forty hours. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.240 That's a lot of time, and I don't have a 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.360 lot of spare time, so it could take me roughly 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.160 till I'm ninety six to get through the book. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.920 But this review, you set aside an entire work week 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.520 for it, nine to five with an hour for lunch 0:15:58.680 --> 0:15:59.240 every day. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.240 Got a couple of days off next week. I'm really 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.720 looking forward to really diving into it. But this review, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.120 this one star review of it, is pretty funny. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.440 I'm sorry it'd be eight to five. Yes, back to you. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.040 Yeah, the person did not like it, did not enjoy 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.520 reading Ulysses. Have you ever attempted to read the other 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.640 James Joyce book that makes Ulysses seem like reading Rundick 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.040 Run Finnegans Wake? Have you ever even attempted to read 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:25.720 Finnegans Way. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.000 I dove into it once and thought, this is completely mystifying, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.080 and I'm hating it that. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.520 I feel likes a joke that's like a Andy Warhol 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.520 sort of Let's see if I can throw this crap 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.720 at people and some people will pretend to get it. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.560 Yeah, that's what I think it is. Yeah, there. I've 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.600 just conceded there are things that I am bad enough 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.200 at that I'd be wasting my time because there are 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.640 lots of other things I could be doing instead. And 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.400 I don't turn my nose up it like theoretical physics. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.720 Lord knows string theory whatever that is. That stuff I 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.160 just I don't get it, so I leave it to others, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:03.000 I would say. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.639 On the other side of the coin, though, I'm enjoying 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.840 reading Ulysses so much. It's my favorite thing to do. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.640 I can't wait to get to it every single night. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.440 It's just really loving it so much. Some interesting new 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.800 stuff about the war Ukraine and Russian and Trump and 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.560 boots on the ground and all that sort of stuff, 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:19.080 among other. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.000 Things on the limp Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.680 But if these two people can't sit in a room 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.960 without killing each other, we're not going to end the war. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.640 So Trump is a peacemaker. But you gotta have willing partners. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.320 You can only expect so much from a single man. 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.560 Does that say, if they can get in a room, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.119 not kill each other and come out willing to talk again? 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:48.360 Wow, I mean he doesn't mean literally. But Zelensky, if 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:53.280 he could, would kill Putin and should and vice versa 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.440 and should Well, yeah, Putin is desperate to be rid 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.360 of Zelensky in his entire government. In a different sort 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.480 of way, Putin, I wouldn't want to like walk out 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.320 of there with bloody hands and be known as the 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.600 guy who killed him. He's been trying to kill Zelenski 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.760 for years, and that is well documented. Zelensky would kill 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.760 Trump Putting with his bare hands and be fine to 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.560 walk out of the room with blood on his hands. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:15.280 Uh. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.159 And you know, arrest me to whatever you want. I 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.400 did a service to my country. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.000 But uh. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.840 Yeah, So Putin's literally trying to kill Liz Zelensky every 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.679 single day, every single day. If he ever gets a 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.160 clear shot or the chance to poison him or whatever, 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.600 he will uh. And Zelensky would like to kill Putin 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.560 if he could. So that is an interesting situation. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.680 I'd say, where it goes from here? And nobody knows. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:42.800 The hard work is yet to begin. I was talking 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:43.480 to somebody yesterday. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.879 I got to ask somebody I know in uh in 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:50.000 security about Putin getting in the car with Trump because 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.720 Putin's a known killer, and did the Secret Service check 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:55.960 him for weapons. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:19:01.120 Or anything like that? I know. No, so you let 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.840 a known killer get alone in a car with Trump? 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:06.720 And how about the hole? 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.760 You know the Putin has killed people, not with his 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.600 own hands, but he's ordered people killed with those tiny 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:19.399 amounts of the super awful poison. Yeah, so he could have, like, 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.080 you know, just clapped Trump on the back with a 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.000 little bit of that poison. He secretly took the antidote 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.000 to the poison on the plane before he got a 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.280 clever Russian bastard. Right, Trump keels over dead. Well, he's 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.520 an old, fat guy, not surprising. He had a heart attack. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:38.640 He'll be missed, says Putin. And you know, well, thank 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.199 god that didn't happen. Jack, Well, thanks for warning us. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.240 I had something more serious, but I've lost heart for it. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.880 But maybe we'll do that later. Oh my main theme 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.000 of the day, And I've been reading some more stuff 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:54.520 about that. Does Putin have the slightest interest in any 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.600 of this? Does he have any interest whatsoever in what 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.520 Europe and Trump come up with? Or just like, I'm 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:04.640 going to continue the war no matter what you say 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.840 or do. I feel like I can win this thing. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:08.680 I feel like you're gonna give up. I feel like 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:09.800 things are going pretty. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:10.040 Well for me. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.160 So yeah, there's one of me and like a dozen 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.160 of you, and you don't even agree with each other 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.400 most of the time. So yeah, I'm just waiting out. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.320 I'm messing with you and waiting. Yeah. You know, I 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.840 liked your metaphor early in the show that everybody's going 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.840 on and on about the flower arrangements and the guest 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.240 list and the venue and then the reception venue, and 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:31.720 one of the people who's party to it is like, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.800 I'm not getting married, not getting married to anybody. But 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:37.919 you know, the other side really wants a marriage, so 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.840 they just keep planning and they're going to have a 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.600 meeting at some point between the bride and the utterly 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.000 unwilling to be a groom. 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:49.919 Groom, let's present him with a honeymoon that is, instead 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.720 of Hawaii Europe. It doesn't make any difference. He ain't 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:56.040 getting married. He's never said yes. 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.320 That could be the case. Yeah, we'll have to see. 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.600 So enough of Ukraine. We haven't and many people haven't 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.160 talked about Israel much in Gaza and the rest of it, 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.080 although if you flip on NPR, they are just absolutely 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:16.080 obsessed with Gaza and Israel and that whole thing just 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.360 because well we've discussed why it's a victim oppressor thing 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:25.560