WEBVTT - We'll Go Swinging! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:17.280 Arm Strong and Getty and He Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.320 He was a two time Oscar winner, nominated five times 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.040 over a career spanning forty years. Hollywood This Morning remembering 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.120 Gene Hackman, found dead alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa, and 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.280 their dog at their New Mexico home yesterday, the sheriff 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.920 saying overnight, I want to assure the community and the 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.760 neighborhood that there's no immediate danger to anyone, the sheriff, 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.920 not providing details on cause of death. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.519 Yeah, unless you don't have your radar detector up to 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.280 speed or something. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:51.880 Right. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.120 Yeah, there have been a couple of cases lately were 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.000 the cop shops. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.480 There's no TURL threat too, yeah, right, And it was 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.800 a murderer. You're right, that had just a targeted murderer. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.880 But I don't think that happened here, No, I suspect not. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.680 You know, it's interesting. So Gene Hackman my favorite actor 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.760 of all time, and in his early nineties, his wife 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.160 in her early sixties. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:19.679 And I was just reading because he. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.240 Retired from acting a long time ago. I'll bet not 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.440 realized he was. He was past ninety her I bet 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.039 her life had early on when they got together. He 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.760 was like early sixties and she was thirty. At that 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.720 point she was marrying one of the biggest movie stars 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.360 in the world. But I gotta believe for the last 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.160 quite a few years, decades, maybe it was just like 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.480 it had. His acting life had nothing to do with 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:45.720 their life at all. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:47.040 Yeah. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.160 I mean, everybody's talking about him is acting in his 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.400 acting roles, but I bet it played no, no, had 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.720 no purchase in their lives on a daily basis, right, Yeah, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.920 walk by an arm past. Yeah he's got on the 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.360 fireplace maybe somewhere, but they probably didn't even talk about 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.080 it or anything like that. He's been his sculpting and 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.760 painting mostly good for him, Yeah, good for the soul. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.400 The only other thing I had to say about Gene Hackman, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.120 who is a genius actor, but we don't you know, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.080 we don't lionize actors really much around here, but that 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.800 he told the story that was incredibly touching on the 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.440 what the inside the actor's studio or whatever it is called. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.440 The show I used to watch fair amount. He explained 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.000 that when he was a very young boy. I think 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.680 he might have been five. His father drove away and 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.960 never came back. Yeah yeah, And his father gave him 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.079 a casual wave outside the window, and he said he 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:44.040 knew at that moment his father was never coming back somehow, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.600 And as he told the story, sixty years later he 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.640 had to choke back tears, or sixty five years later, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.239 something like that got But he said he he realized 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.560 as he thought about it, the power of one small gesture, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.040 and he thought that may be one of the reasons 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.360 he was a very good actor, because that made a 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.000 real impression on him that small things can yeah, sick 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:06.960 meaning interesting. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.120 I was reading about that last night. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.000 He was thirteen years old and he's playing in the 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.320 street with his friends and his dad pulls out of 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.799 the driveway. He's getting a wave and drives away and 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.960 never comes back. Can you imagine anything horrible? 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:18.320 Is that? 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.920 Three years later he joins the Marines, lies about his age. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.320 Joins the Marines as a sixteen year old and is 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.320 in the Marine Corps for four years. He didn't try 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.880 his hand at acting until he was dang near thirty. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.160 Yeah, yeah, you know. Just for the record, my son 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.880 is a trained and gifted actor, and the. 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.600 Art of it is really interesting to me, like a 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.720 lot of arts are. It's the self aggrandizement and self 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:51.080 congratulations and lecturing people on moral questions that Hollywood does 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.200 that's repugnant. I have nothing against acting anymore than I 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.040 have against playing the obow. Just don't do it around me, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.200 okay the oboe. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.080 Specifically this in the New York Times about Gene Hackman, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.120 which I thought was good. He seemed to have been 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:10.240 born middle aged, slightly balding, with strong but unremarkable features, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:14.640 neither plane nor handsome, more likely to melt into a 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.520 crowd than to stand out in one. That is not 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.640 usually what makes you, you know, at the very highest 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.920 level of being a movie star, the kind of person 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.159 that would blend into a crowd rather than stand out 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.839 in one. And he did seem to be born middle aged. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.240 You can't find any even really early roles of him 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.719 where he doesn't seem like he's fifty. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.880 Yeah, yeah, I had that I'm a real human being 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.200 quality about him that sometimes the pretty boys don't. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.400 My first introduction to Gene Hackman was The Poseidon Adventure. Oh, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.760 if you're old enough to remember, that movie from the seventies. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.480 There was a period in the seventies where disaster movies 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:53.160 were just so big. Airplane disasters, boat disasters, trained disasters, earthquakes, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.159 all that sort of thing, and all your biggest stars 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.560 would be in these films. Anyway, Beside Adventure was a 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.680 sort of a Titanic like movie, and he was a 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:00.960 He played. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:01.560 A major role in that. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.479 Yes, yes, anyway, he will be missed. And I had 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.039 no idea he was in his nineties, soone time marching on. 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:15.000 Speaking of celebrities, Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, teased yesterday 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.920 on Jesse Waters Show that the Justice Department will likely 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.240 release the documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein today as we 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.520 speak on Thursday, the twenty seventh of February, the year 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:32.120 of our Lord twenty twenty five, including the plane logs 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.559 of who was on his planes to his pleasure Island 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:35.520 as pervert Island. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.480 Right, So, well, first of all, I'll ask you, do 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.840 you think that much of any interest is going to 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.800 come out of that gossip? 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.560 Lots of really great gossip. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.440 Yeah, I know people, and because I float around in 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.279 social media, I've read some of the stuff. But I 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:55.640 personally know people who are just convinced that Hillary Clinton's 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.039 about to go to jail, the whole movie star pedophile 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.200 thing is about to be blown up, or about to 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.600 find out all the details on this, Yeah, the Democratic 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.800 Party pedophile ring thing. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.200 You're being manipulated, and it makes me sad. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.520 There may be some significant revelations because they're absolutely rich 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.760 and powerful people that go along with perverse stuff. But 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.280 the only note of caution I would strike is that 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:29.120 we have all or most of us been involved in 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.960 say an organization or even like a golf club or 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.320 a friend group or whatever, and we you know, play 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.880 golf and have a few drinks or whatever, and turns 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.960 out that some of the guys you know on that 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.400 level are off doing something else. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:45.280 You're not included in it. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.159 You're not part of that subgroup that's doing you know, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.360 crazy stuff with drug sex, white swapping, whatever. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:57.039 And wife some of these people might have what do 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:58.560 you call it these days? Swinging? 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.680 Yeah, because the wife has agency too. I mean, my god, 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.120 what an antiquated term. Swinging is the term? 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.400 Right? It makes it seem like. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.840 Yeah, hey, sorry, dear, I just I've swapped you with 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:12.400 Bill over there. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.000 I deal I just made a deal with Bill. You 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.000 need to go to his house tonight. What exactly, so 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:19.800 we'll go swinging. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.920 But anyway, because it's conceivable, because this was a rich 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.920 guy who lived a super rich guy life which included 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:32.080 underage girl porno, sick sexual exploitation. But not everybody who 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.239 had lunch with him was part of the super pervos stuff, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.000 That's what I'm saying. But because he was a super 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.960 rich financier and a mover and a shaker. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.880 Well, I think he killed himself in jail because he 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.440 lived the life of luxury and wealth and nothing good 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:46.960 was going to happen at his life at that point. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.000 I think he killed himself. I don't think somebody slipped 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.920 in and stuffed him or something like that. That personally, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.000 but it's kind of weird how those cameras didn't work, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.440 that is. But the weirdest thing of the whole Epstein's 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.680 story has always been, what in the hell was that 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.600 giant painting of Bill Clinton in a dress right in 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.000 the doorway when you walk into Epstein's house, pointing. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.720 At you, What the hell is that? 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.080 I'm worried about the victims Jack, not the painting, But 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:20.760 that was an odd piece of heart. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.360 Well, it means something. It gets to the victims, it 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:28.400 means something. What the hell is that? Help me understand? 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:29.080 What do you mean? 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.000 Well, I don't know, but I've always I've always thought 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:33.240 it was. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.720 I mean, you're a mover and a shaker in Manhattan, 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:42.600 where the Clintons are idolized and Bill Clinton was their god, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.840 and you have in your home. What how would you 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.520 describe it as anything other than mocking of Bill Clinton? 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.240 You got him in a dress? Right, I remember your 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.080 old theory? Do you remember your old theory? 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.280 And he's pointing at you. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.840 I think it's a I've got something on this guy 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.200 and he knows it, and he better remember I got 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:03.080 something on this guy. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.040 I think that's what it is. And many many other 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:10.160 guys too, right, Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I would agree. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.760 I don't know if we're going to find anything out 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.760 about that from the paperwork that Pam Bondi releases today. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:17.439 Yeah. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.600 Yeah, So so many directions we could go. I've been 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 wanting to get to the story of this awful broad 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.560 daylight assault in La on the street. This gang of 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:35.520 twenty to thirty bicyclists, late teens men. They're young men. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.319 They rove around like a gang. They intimidate drivers, they 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:45.199 kick their cars, whatever, and terrorize pedestrians. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.119 The rest of it almost got yeah. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.480 Almost certainly riding s E bikes because that said, like 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.000 the bike my son rides. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.679 The bike crowds do this sort of stuff. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.440 I'll ride that brand for some reason, and they wheeling 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.720 around and intimidate you. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.119 I've been in the midst. 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.880 Of oh yeah, interesting so But anyway, this guy got 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.040 out of his car to confront some of them after 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.320 they struck and kicked his vehicle. Yea, and the startling 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.160 video preps you've seen it showed the teens ganging up 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.160 on the man, relentlessly punching, kicking, and stomping him as 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.600 he laid defenseless on the ground. Other suspects rode up, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.040 leafed off, leaped off their bikes, threw them off in 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.880 the excitement to join in the attack. The hoodie wearing 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.480 teens rode off after beating the man to a pulp 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.440 scene lying motionless on the ground. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:30.439 That's horrible. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.240 So one time I'm in Old Sacramento and a bunch 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.600 of bikes come at me as I'm driving down the street, 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.559 and I'm like they're coming straight at me, so I 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.600 hit the brakes and they ride. They continue to ride 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.319 toward me until they're like on top of me. They're 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.800 doing wheelies the whole time on their se bikes, and 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.920 they have the ability to swerve. Like the last second 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.120 before they hit your car, I thought they were gonna 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.520 run right into me. I didn't think they were even 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.360 seeing me, And they swerve, and then they go on 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.680 around me and they just they all go around really 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.640 close your car. Nobody was kicking the car or anything 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.240 like that, but I didn't know what to do. It was. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.160 It was intimidating in a way, like what is this? 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.600 And of course, because the victim was white and many 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.880 of the attackers young men of color, we will not 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.360 be describing the race of anyone involved. Of course, according 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.760 to our policy, if the roles had been reversed, we 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.079 would make it all about. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:22.680 That for weeks at a time back town. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:24.719 And the only reason I bring up the brand of 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.200 bikes is I know a store, a very popular bike store, 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.280 that won't sell that brand because it's associated with this 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.600 kind of bad activity, even though it's a great bicycle. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:33.319 Wow. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.439 I had no idea of that crazy coming up later 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:43.000 in the hour, the most obvious, egregious, instructive example of 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:48.240 the homeless industrial complex and how it squanders money you've 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.000 ever heard stay with us on the. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:58.120 Way, Michael Moore warns that America could be deporting illegals 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.319 that might one day cure cancer or stop an incoming asteroid, 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.000 or even more troubling, they may fail to deliver his 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.280 meat lover's pizza. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:14.839 He's a big man, Michael Moore. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:21.560 Got you see the whole deal of us getting some 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.520 of the money and rights to rare earth metals in 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.520 Ukraine and whether or not that's come to come together. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.840 Wall Street Journal with some interesting reporting on that. Maybe 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.920 we'll get to later this hour. I know, Joe, you've 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.319 got some homeless updates for. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.839 US homeless industrial complex. Yes, the profit that is there 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.400 for pretending to deal with transient drug addicts. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.240 So my son's got a big science project. This is 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.000 like one of the big parts of your grade for 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:52.760 the whole semester, my seventh grader, And it's one of 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.880 those they give you like a six weeks to do it. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.000 And he, unlike his old man, has started the project 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.320 weeks before it's due, whereas I would have turned my 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.760 attention to what the project was going to be in 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.760 roughly five and a half weeks. But so we went 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.840 to the hardware story yesterday and here's what he's going 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:18.120 to do. Is hypothesis is that plants grow better being 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.320 nurtured by water than they will with coca cola. And 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:26.320 so we bought eight different little tiny pots. It's going 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.000 to plant strawberry seeds in each one, but four of 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.520 them will only get coca cola and four of them 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.680 will get water. They all get the same amount of sun, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.160 have the same amount of soil, all that sort of 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:41.280 stuff a single variable. The only variable is water versus 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.120 coca cola. The problem, of course, is what if the 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.120 strawberries grow better on coca cola? Then what do we 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.760 do do I have I discovered something important and I 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:49.720 need to figure out a way. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.680 To become rich. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.280 Try Brono. Next, they got that gatorade like a drink. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.360 In the thought it was a comedy. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:03.199 It's a documentary idiocracy exactly like what if the strawberries 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:09.440 are like deliciously sweet and just a bit fizzy. Yeah, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.920 the whole science experiment thing, it's fantastic. What a great 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.480 idea to teach people the scientific method, which is amazing 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.960 that it was such a breakthrough for humanity to come 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:24.000 up with. You know, you try something, Yeah, you have 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.880 a you know, non variables, and you have as few 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.520 variables as you can one variable as best and compare 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.200 it and then you can move on forward. I mean 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.240 it got us out of, you know, quite the jam 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.440 human beings were in, what laying around in their own filth? 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.000 Sure of the dark ages. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:44.480 Yeah, although the woke crowd want to take us back 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.960 to pre enlightenment, two plus two does not necessarily equal four. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.280 If they can get you to repeat that, they can 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:52.360 get you to repeat anything. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.040 So Zelensky might become into Washington, d C. To sign 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.240 the rare Earth's Metal deal that Donald Trump is writing up. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.000 Wallstre Journal reported yesterday that Zelensky said he wasn't sure 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.840 if he would go or not. The financial benefits of 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.720 the deal remain up in the air, right to the 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.960 Wall Street Journal. The text of the deal, which has 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.160 been viewed by the Wall Street Journal, includes the creation 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.280 of a fund co owned by the two countries, with 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.760 the details of the financial arrangement to be determined down 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.960 the line. That's interesting those details seem to be the 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.120 whole thing to me, the details of the financial It's 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.800 like taking a job. The details of the financial arrangement 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.360 will be determined down the line, like what you get 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:32.760 paid and how often you have to work. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.320 Yeah, that's the whole enchilada right there. That's the way 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.480 the whole thing has struck me all along. There are 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.240 so many gigantic question marks. I don't what in what 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.280 sense is there an agreement? How are you going to 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:43.800 sign it? 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:44.440 I don't know. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.960 Is it one of those frameworks to proceed on the 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:49.160 framework of an agreement? 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.600 Well, I wouldn't fly to DC for something that skimpy. Yet, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.880 the agreement lacks explicit security guarantees for Ukraine, which Zelensky 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.960 had previously said would be necessary for any mineral right now, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.000 and nods toward Kiev's need for such assurances. One clause 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.160 of the agreement says the US supports Ukraine's efforts to 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.280 obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting piece, which of 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.480 course is meaningless language. But Mark Alpern writes of this 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.120 today in his newsletter. If Trump hass to negotiate the 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.880 final details with Zelenski in the room right before the 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.480 pack is signed, he's fine with that, But as important 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.600 as the US Ukraine agreement is, keep your eyes on 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.680 the real prize, which is the US Russia deal. Trump 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.320 is sequencing all this to position himself to drive a 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.400 harder bargain with Putin, much harder than many people seem 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:35.040 to realize. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.840 Rights Mark Alprin m. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:43.960 We will see, Yeah, the whole Uh, what can we 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.640 offer Putin? To what extent can we pry him from China? 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.200 Is there anything we can offer? How is an agreement 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.760 going to be enforced? That is such a kettle of fish? 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.440 These are question marks piled on question marks. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.040 Although yesterday in that press conference Cabinet meeting thingy, Trump 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.520 made some noises out, well, if we're invested in the 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.720 minerals and we got people and trucks in there, then 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:04.400 I mean that's some. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:05.359 Security right there. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.320 Isn't because nobody's going to mess with our stuff, Trump said, 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:15.280 which I think might be true explicitly or not. Armstrong 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.760 and Getty, we need to. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:18.720 Change the conversation. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.760 And that's why I'm launching a new podcast, and this 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.840 is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.320 I'm going to be talking to people directly that I 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.600 disagree with as well as people I look up to. Look, 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.280 there's an onslaught of information that we take in, So 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.960 let's take it to the sources without the typical political 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.440 mumbo jumble. In the first few weeks, we're going to 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.240 be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.119 architects in the Mega movement. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.760 That's a Gavin Newsom, maybe you don't recognize voice governor California. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.679 He's got a site set on being the nominee for 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.960 the Democratic Party in someday president of the United States. 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.520 I think that's a great idea his new podcast. As 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.600 we know, as we are in the business, it's all 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.879 in the execution, and we'll see how that goes. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:08.240 Right. Indeed, he got credit for sparring with Ron DeSantis 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.240 on Hannity's show, and he obviously fancies that if he's 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.320 seen as the brave defender of progressive values against the 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.199 mean old mega people, it will vault him into, you know, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.560 the presidential race. As I've said many times, I hope 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.679 he runs because his humiliation will be delicious to observe. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.360 If indeed there is a God for a number of reasons, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:33.600 including as any cal Unicornian knows, pouring billions and billions 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:39.399 of dollars into so called homeless programs, and not only 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:45.400 without any accountability, without even a mechanism for accountability, there 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.080 was no mechanism for even asking is any of this 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:50.520 stuff doing any good? 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.160 But it is enormous scandal and the bullet train. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:54.879 Of course, first of all, Hanson, I don't know if 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:56.840 anybody knows that is he is this going to be 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.879 a like every weekday or once a month, or do 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:01.800 we have any idea on how often he's doing his podcast? 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:03.040 Unknown? 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.639 Perhaps weekly huh, yeah, yeah, it's got to be a 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.639 periodic thing. But I just wanted to mention Gavy and 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.000 the homeless thing to get us into the next discussion, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.120 and I mentioned I think it was yesterday the Biden 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.439 EPA on the way out the door announced that it 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:25.000 had selected an organization named Young Gifted and Green that 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.959 was run by Latricia Adams, who was simultaneously serving as 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.840 a member of the top White House Advisory Council. But 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.960 twenty million dollars to Young Gifted and Green. How sweet 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.639 a name is that under it so called Environmental and 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.879 Climate Justice community change program. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.480 God, some people get thrilled when they hear names like 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.679 that I hold onto my wallet and think what a 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.800 wasted time and money as soon as I. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:53.480 Hear anything with those words. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.680 If we had more time, we could play a game 0:19:55.720 --> 0:20:00.359 where Jack would name like, I don't know, spending uh 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.920 fifty thousand dollars on sail boats sail repairs, and then 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:11.040 I would have to justify that within environmental and climate 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.720 justice community change programs, which could mean anything. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.320 The point is to dole out as. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:22.800 Horrific amounts of money to your cronies always, which brings 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:27.320 us to this city journal doing a really good story. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:32.679 Interesting is Longish but Son John Friedman. Urban Anarchy, a 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:38.280 San Francisco's nonprofits rise, illustrates the unaccountable growth of homeless services. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.679 And this is about the so called homeless industrial complex, 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.680 which is not probably a big deal in some places. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:51.880 It's a ginormous deal in Blue states and ambition in California. 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:56.040 And they focus on this group Urban Alchemy, a San 0:20:56.040 --> 0:21:00.840