Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty and Honor Halloween.
Speaker 2: Chipotle has announced that it will offer burritos to customers
Speaker 2: and costume for six dollars.
Speaker 1: After three pm.
Speaker 3: Good news for the front of the horse, but horrible
Speaker 3: news for the back.
Speaker 4: I had Mexican food last night, my son and I,
Speaker 4: and we both regretted it afterwards, even though it was
Speaker 4: perfectly good food. It wasn't Chipotle, but you know, big greasy,
Speaker 4: heavy meal. You know how it is a hot day,
Speaker 4: and I've been wanting to do this for years. I
Speaker 4: just don't know if I could ever pull it off.
Speaker 4: I would like to eat healthy well for a day,
Speaker 4: it would be a good start, but like for a
Speaker 4: whole week, and just see how I felt like if
Speaker 4: I just ate really good light, non greasy, not fatty
Speaker 4: and sugary, just like healthy for a whole week.
Speaker 1: I think it'd be shocking how good I would feel.
Speaker 1: I assume.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish I had a nutritionist. Please don't write
Speaker 3: if offering your services, I know where to find them.
Speaker 3: But just you know, like Tom Brady has a cook.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's somebody, very fit, attractive, blonde woman offered to
Speaker 4: do that for me and I I have not taken
Speaker 4: her up on that offer because it just you don't
Speaker 4: want to do that, trust me, you don't want to
Speaker 4: get involved in my life, but trying to feed me
Speaker 4: because I just I have bad I have horrible habits.
Speaker 4: There's no fixing them. But there there are very few
Speaker 4: super rich things I wish I could do. Like if
Speaker 4: I was super rich, like I don't need a nicer
Speaker 4: car or bigger house or any of that stuff, but
Speaker 4: the whole haveven Like a cook nutrition thing would be
Speaker 4: pretty damn cool. Somebody that crafts you a meal, snacks
Speaker 4: everything around you all the time, makes it super easy,
Speaker 4: takes care of all that that I would dig I
Speaker 4: think I could do it then, or maybe maybe I'm
Speaker 4: lying to myself. Maybe I'd be putting on a fake
Speaker 4: mustache and a hat and slipping out the back door, going.
Speaker 3: To the convinced indoor, brow beating them, saying, listen, damn it.
Speaker 1: You work for me. I don't care what I hold you.
Speaker 1: You're making me a big Gracie bacon burrito right now.
Speaker 4: Say, it'd be like one of those things we've all
Speaker 4: seen in sitcoms or whatever. Okay, don't let me out,
Speaker 4: no matter how hard I beg, do not let me out.
Speaker 3: The young Frankenstein see it exactly.
Speaker 4: It'd be one of those Okay, I'm telling you right
Speaker 4: now to start the week, no matter how hard I
Speaker 4: beg or threaten you or whatever, do not let.
Speaker 1: Me eat crap.
Speaker 3: Just makes the good stuff coming up later this hour
Speaker 3: can't wait. A really well, at least somewhat encouraging update
Speaker 3: to the whole CBS News Tony de couple a ton
Speaker 3: of Hashi coats flap and that that awful skin crawling
Speaker 3: afraid of their own staff meeting that we played to
Speaker 3: the audio for yesterday.
Speaker 1: A little update on that story.
Speaker 3: A couple of stories worth just touching on, at least briefly.
Speaker 3: Taiwan's new leader has taken office and made a speech
Speaker 3: saying essentially Taiwan Well. He reasserted his stance on Taiwan's
Speaker 3: sovereignty and that Beijing had no right to represent it
Speaker 3: or claim it.
Speaker 1: But he also called.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Taiwan is determined to maintain piece and stability across
Speaker 3: the Taiwan straight and achieve global security and prosperity. Taiwanese
Speaker 3: security officials said this week that they expected China to
Speaker 3: launch new drills in response to the speech, regardless of
Speaker 3: what the leader said. Chinese military said it's drills in
Speaker 3: May were a strong punishment for separatist acts, to which
Speaker 3: I would be tempted to reply, um.
Speaker 1: Were separate is the thing? Lii I said.
Speaker 3: The People's Republic of China has no right to represent
Speaker 3: Taiwan in Beijing. Mao Nang, spokeswoman for China's communist totalitarian
Speaker 3: Foreign Ministry, shot back at president lie quote. Taiwan has
Speaker 3: never been a country and will never be a country,
Speaker 3: she said during a regular daily briefing. Wellly, she's way
Speaker 3: better than KGP because you understand what she's trying to say.
Speaker 3: That is a flashpoint totalitarian biash. Moving along headline from
Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, Companies are scrapping or rolling back
Speaker 3: DEI grants, pullback an aid for black and Hispanic owned
Speaker 3: businesses follows litigation from activists. They made a commitment, it
Speaker 3: went away. That's some of the activists talking about it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the companies, the universities, the state of California.
Speaker 3: There's a big program in San Francisco that's gotten a
Speaker 3: lot of scrutiny too recently. They are all flagrantly violating
Speaker 3: federal law through racial preferences.
Speaker 4: Well, that's one of the great examples of the difference
Speaker 4: you get between a a Republican or Trump led white
Speaker 4: House and Kamala Harris DEI continues to be out there
Speaker 4: and grow if Kamala's in the White House, or at
Speaker 4: least that's what I should be trying to pull off,
Speaker 4: and it runt if Trump's.
Speaker 1: In the white House.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's I get I suppose they are activists
Speaker 3: in a way that people who are fighting against this stuff.
Speaker 3: But to say, hey, federal law says says this, and
Speaker 3: you're violating it like all the time, does that make
Speaker 3: me an quote unquote activist? I suppose am I active
Speaker 3: in this scenario? I think you know what I'm driving at.
Speaker 3: Don't don't portray me as some sort of you know,
Speaker 3: is zealot for wanting federal law that's voted upon and
Speaker 3: judged by the judges. And we have elections and you're
Speaker 3: familiar with the whole thing. Let's go ahead and follow it.
Speaker 3: Says me, But anyway, corporate America is waking up to
Speaker 3: the fact that their desperate attempts to seem woke so
Speaker 3: nobody would tear them down the way could George Floyd
Speaker 3: went badly awry, both in terms of law and ethics
Speaker 3: and race and everything else. Now this is when you
Speaker 3: can sink your teeth into jack Porch. Pirates are stealing
Speaker 3: AT and T I fies delivered by FedEx. Thieves appear
Speaker 3: within minutes or seconds to grab packages.
Speaker 1: Police say the heists.
Speaker 3: Use tracking numbers the key to these swift crimes. Investigators
Speaker 3: say the thieves are armed with tracking numbers.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 4: I'll bring this up because I was just about to order.
Speaker 4: I decided I was just going to order the sixteen
Speaker 4: promacs and have it shipped to my house through Best
Speaker 4: buy or whoever.
Speaker 1: But so they have a way to track it.
Speaker 3: Another factor that makes packages from AT and T particularly
Speaker 3: vulnerable is that AT and T typically doesn't require signature
Speaker 3: on delivery.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want the signature. I'll never get my package.
Speaker 4: That makes me so angry.
Speaker 3: Let me know, I know, I know it. I agree
Speaker 3: with you completely. If you work during the day, what
Speaker 3: are you supposed to I don't know. At the same time, though,
Speaker 3: I ordered rather a zoomy MacBook Pro for music recording purposes,
Speaker 3: and they just dropped it on the porch.
Speaker 1: Now I live in a hood where it's okay, But well,
Speaker 1: I like it as an option. Yeah, that's an option.
Speaker 4: I've had it before where you can't get out of it.
Speaker 4: It's very manding.
Speaker 3: So doorbell video cameras show the thefts in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Michigan, Georgia, Florida, Texas.
Speaker 3: In short to the United States, the details are similar.
Speaker 3: A FedEx driver drops off a box with an iPhone
Speaker 3: from at and t that a person walks up, sometimes
Speaker 3: wearing an Amazon delivery vest, and plucks the package off
Speaker 3: the front step.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: The heightst can be so quick that in some videos
Speaker 3: the FedEx driver and thief cross paths. Wow, they know
Speaker 3: what's getting delivered in location. According to detective in Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: they meet the delivery driver at the front door and
Speaker 3: take it. But I still don't get how are they
Speaker 3: getting the tracking numbers or how are they knowing because
Speaker 3: that seems like the root of the problem.
Speaker 1: You got to keep that private more privately.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the two companies are say they're working with law
Speaker 3: enforcement to investigate. Declined to disclose how many packages have
Speaker 3: been stolen. Uh, it's not clear to me where they're
Speaker 3: getting these tracking numbers inside information.
Speaker 4: I think it's Apple themselves that won't let you order
Speaker 4: anything without doing that. And I had something I got
Speaker 4: for my son and they delivered it. I wasn't home,
Speaker 4: of course, and I called them and said, no, that's
Speaker 4: the only way we do it. And I said, well,
Speaker 4: then I can't purchase from you, and they said, well,
Speaker 4: I don't know what to do about it. I said, okay,
Speaker 4: we'll send it back. I'll buy it somewhere else. There
Speaker 4: was no getting it delivered without right right and the
Speaker 4: hole You got to be home and it's going to
Speaker 4: come between eight in the morning eight at night.
Speaker 1: Sure, that's my lifestyle. Perfect. Yes, have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of a job sir? Or or kids are running them around.
Speaker 3: They mentioned that signatures are legally required for shipments of alcohol,
Speaker 3: dangerous goods, hazardous materials, and pharmaceuticals. For other types of goods,
Speaker 3: shipper typically decides whether it offer the signature option, which
Speaker 3: costs the shipper seven dollars and fifteen cents extra per
Speaker 3: deliver right, darn so. Chris Brown, who's a lieutenant with
Speaker 3: the cops in Deer Park, Texas, said the suspects were
Speaker 3: armed with inside information AT and T parcel tracking numbers.
Speaker 1: They're working with AT and T.
Speaker 3: To investigate how the suspects got that information.
Speaker 1: That's the key to the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got We have no evidence of a breach
Speaker 3: or a hack, said AT and T. Two teens who
Speaker 3: they busted in Texas, a seventeen year old boy and
Speaker 3: an eighteen year old woman. A seventeen year old serial
Speaker 3: thief is not a boy, rented a car and spent
Speaker 3: hours circling neighborhoods around Houston. Video from the dash can
Speaker 3: of the reunld car viewed by the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 3: shows a young woman picking a package, jogging back to
Speaker 3: the car, driving away over and over it over.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And those are like fourteen hour dollars apiece. Yeah wow,
Speaker 4: and easy to sell. I'm sure.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at all the videos of this because they
Speaker 3: have all sorts of porch videos, surveillance videos, and I
Speaker 3: just I really want to take a ball back to
Speaker 3: these people.
Speaker 1: It's maddening. The whole delivery thing though, depending on what
Speaker 1: your neighborhood is.
Speaker 4: I like, I guess, but I've seen it before where
Speaker 4: there's like it's constant a UPS truck and an Amazon
Speaker 4: truck and then there's a fed X and the I've
Speaker 4: had door dash people walking past an Amazon person, you know,
Speaker 4: on the sitewalking right.
Speaker 1: It's just it never ending.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie, you had a package thief incident, didn't you,
Speaker 3: not too long ago?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it just got it got snatched because they
Speaker 2: take the picture and it shows you it was delivered
Speaker 2: and so it was obviously on my doorstep and then
Speaker 2: no longer. But so at least I know with Apple products,
Speaker 2: if you report it's stolen, Apple can actually make that
Speaker 2: phone so it can't be used. So I don't know
Speaker 2: how much benefit they would have from me. I don't
Speaker 2: know much about Android, but I don't know the benefit
Speaker 2: of stealing any Apple product and then trying to resell it.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want if I haven't yet received the phone,
Speaker 3: I could give the order number, I suppose, and they
Speaker 3: would have that information at Apple.
Speaker 1: But I wonder how cumbersome that is. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ran into that problem buying a phone off
Speaker 2: of Craigslist like an idiot, and when I picked it
Speaker 2: up and tried to activate it, they said, we're sorry,
Speaker 2: this phone's stolen.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, ohodh.
Speaker 3: At the risk of coming off as an angry lunatic,
Speaker 3: oh we're running a little late, aren't we. I was
Speaker 3: gonna say, if you've ever done any reading about why
Speaker 3: they hanged people for stealing horses in the Old West,
Speaker 3: because you need your horse, because your horse is really important,
Speaker 3: and it's really really easy to steal you.
Speaker 1: You just climb on them and they ride you away.
Speaker 3: It's your own escape, your getaway vehicle, right, And it's
Speaker 3: such a good deterrent to be hung for that. Well exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they made the punishment so draconian people wouldn't wouldn't do it.
Speaker 3: Do I want to hang people for stealing iPhones off torches? Yes,
Speaker 3: but I'm not going to say so how loud. Maybe
Speaker 3: how how you have order in a society is known.
Speaker 3: This is not a mystery.
Speaker 1: One of the few Sharia things that I'm into. You
Speaker 1: didn't have to go there.
Speaker 4: If you're going to take a hand, I think twice
Speaker 4: before grab my iPhone.
Speaker 1: We're a ball bat. Let's let we can talk over
Speaker 1: the various possibilities.
Speaker 4: Barbaric thought I was over the top, all right, who.
Speaker 1: Had solved the problem? Though there's no getting around that. Okay,
Speaker 1: more on the way, Hi, y'all doing.
Speaker 4: Glad the hurricane wasn't worse, but it does take it
Speaker 4: off the table as a presidential issue. I thought it
Speaker 4: was going to be really, really bad. It might be
Speaker 4: the thing for next week or so. I'm sure some
Speaker 4: other stupid, stupid topic will end up being the thing
Speaker 4: that we they talk about in political circles for the
Speaker 4: rest of the presidential election. But Kevin McCarthy, former Speaker
Speaker 4: of the House, Republican and Californian, who is the same
Speaker 4: age as us in Kamala Harris and came up through
Speaker 4: the ranks in California politics the same time as Kamala Harris,
Speaker 4: so he knows her well even though he's a Republican
Speaker 4: and she's a Democrat, was on Greg Gutfeld the other
Speaker 4: night on Fox and they were Greg Guttfeld was asking
Speaker 4: him about you know, you know Kamala Harris, you know,
Speaker 4: how smart is she or whatever, and he had a
Speaker 4: variety of things to say that we found amusing, including this.
Speaker 6: If you watch Kamala's history. She starts really strong on
Speaker 6: a campaign. When she ran for president, she had the
Speaker 6: best opening, forty thousand people in Oakland, the most people online,
Speaker 6: and she never made it to Iowa when she ran
Speaker 6: for US Senate and California, it's the top two. She
Speaker 6: ran against another Democrat and they had to retool their
Speaker 6: campaign even when the party in Doorster. When she ran
Speaker 6: for attorney general, it was the one seat. On election night,
Speaker 6: Republicans thought we won. We actually came close, but they
Speaker 6: took up. And what I'm finding now is she started
Speaker 6: strong here and you watch she's being outworked.
Speaker 1: She can't talk to the press.
Speaker 6: No way can you become the leader of the free
Speaker 6: world and be afraid where a city council member takes
Speaker 6: more questions than you do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just not right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that was interesting pointing out her history
Speaker 4: of running. Yeah remember her, Well, you mate probably don't
Speaker 4: remember her launch. When she decided to run in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 4: it was massive. I mean, she had as much winded
Speaker 4: her back as you can ever get to kick off
Speaker 4: a campaign and she didn't even make it to the
Speaker 4: first contest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if she ends up.
Speaker 4: Being elected president, the most interesting story to history will
Speaker 4: be if she'd had to go through a primary, there's
Speaker 4: zero chance she would have.
Speaker 1: Been the nominee, let alone president of the United States. Zero.
Speaker 4: The only way Kamala Harris the human being, was ever
Speaker 4: going to end up president the United States. Isn't some
Speaker 4: weird deal like this where she's appointed the nominee?
Speaker 3: Yeah, over and over and over again, is Kevin indicated
Speaker 3: she is. I'm trying to come up with the right metaphors.
Speaker 3: She's like those Hollywood movie facades. If you squint your
Speaker 3: eyes from the right angle, it looks really good and interesting,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't bear up to any scrutiny at all.
Speaker 1: She doesn't. Over and over again, when.
Speaker 3: People get a little better look at her, they said,
Speaker 3: oh boy, I'll pass she is.
Speaker 4: I remember they used to say this about Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton would go out on the campaign trail and
Speaker 4: her numbers would go down in states the more she visited.
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris seems to have that problem too, which I
Speaker 4: suppose is why they're not letting her, you know, do
Speaker 4: any press conferences or real interviews or anything like that,
Speaker 4: or answering any tough questions.
Speaker 3: If she were capable of answering questions. She would be
Speaker 3: answering questions. She doesn't answer questions. What does that tell
Speaker 3: you she's incapable of it?
Speaker 4: Hey, we haven't mentioned this yet. That poor cake maker
Speaker 4: in Colorado. God, dang it, he's been in the news
Speaker 4: now for a dozen years. He got another three the
Speaker 4: other day. You want to finally leave him alone. I
Speaker 4: just wanted my cakes.
Speaker 1: Didn't seem like that controversial choice of work. When I
Speaker 1: started right Armstrong and Getty, I was.
Speaker 4: Just watching some Erron de Santas, he's still doing a
Speaker 4: press conference right now.
Speaker 1: Life.
Speaker 4: He is so much more competent than practically anybody we've
Speaker 4: had run for president in the last the quarter century.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm a fool. If I were his campaign manager,
Speaker 3: I'd say, Ron, you do you don't think?
Speaker 1: Just you do you? And we'll run twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which I bet will happen anyway, although who knows.
Speaker 3: So you may recall us talking about this yesterday, the
Speaker 3: flap where Tony the couple of CBS News actually asked
Speaker 3: some hard questions of Tan of Hashy coats the activists.
Speaker 3: You know, a white supremacy guy, he's a genius. He's
Speaker 3: just wrong about a lot of stuff. But it was
Speaker 3: a great exchange of views. But it freaked out the
Speaker 3: CBS newsroom that anybody'd ask hard questions of one of
Speaker 3: the godheads of progressivism.
Speaker 4: I'd forgotten. I don't remember if I'd heard this or not.
Speaker 4: The beginning of his book that made him the most famous.
Speaker 4: Do you know that whole story he tells. He tells
Speaker 4: of getting into an elevator with his young son who
Speaker 4: was like four or six or something like that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and some older white man saying hello to him, And
Speaker 4: how I saw in that person's eyes the four hundred
Speaker 4: years of racial abuse and systemic racism in the way
Speaker 4: he looked at my son. It all played out right
Speaker 4: there on his face. The person didn't say or do anything.
Speaker 4: He just like interpreted a white person saying a load
Speaker 4: to his son as the centuries of white supremacy in
Speaker 4: the United States.
Speaker 3: Hey, ton of Haji, Why don't you look up projecting
Speaker 3: in the psychological dictionary? Look up take it down a notch. Yeah,
Speaker 3: send a load to your kid. This is a part
Speaker 3: of the inner the initial interview.
Speaker 7: Why is there no agency in this book for the Palestinians?
Speaker 7: They exist in your narrative merely as victims of the Israelis,
Speaker 7: as though they were not offered peace at any juncture,
Speaker 7: as though they don't have a stake in this as well,
Speaker 7: what is their role in the lack of.
Speaker 5: A pel have a very very moral compass about this,
Speaker 5: And again perhaps it's because of my ancestry. Either apartheid
Speaker 5: is right or it's wrong. It's really really simple. Either
Speaker 5: what I saw was right or what's wrong. I am
Speaker 5: fascist against the death penalty. What the person did to
Speaker 5: get the death penalty, it.
Speaker 1: Really doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 5: I don't care if they were selling a nickel bag
Speaker 5: of marijuana or if they were a serial killer.
Speaker 1: I am against the death penalty.
Speaker 5: I am against a state that discriminates against people on
Speaker 5: the base of ethnicity. I'm against that. There is nothing
Speaker 5: the Palestinians could do that would make that okay for me.
Speaker 5: My book is not based on the hyper moralesys the
Speaker 5: Palestinian people.
Speaker 3: So he's against that when it's Jews, not when it's
Speaker 3: Muslims or other people of color. He's conditionally outraged by
Speaker 3: that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But that's fine.
Speaker 3: It was frank exchange views, as they say, and a
Speaker 3: good one. But the CBS newsroom freaked out and had
Speaker 3: this just Skin Crawley meeting.
Speaker 1: You may recall we will still want I want.
Speaker 8: To be clear, we will still ask tough questions. We
Speaker 8: will still hold people accountable. That's part of our job too,
Speaker 8: but we will do so objectively and that means, are
Speaker 8: you plain. We have to check up bias.
Speaker 1: And opinions at the door and you can bare out, Michael.
Speaker 3: That was Adrianne Rourke and then the brilliant Jan Crawford said, ah,
Speaker 3: he did precisely what you're talking about, and it was
Speaker 3: really good reporting. And as somebody who does interviews, I
Speaker 3: don't know what the hell I'm allowed to do and
Speaker 3: what I can't do now you're freaking us all out.
Speaker 3: And the boss lady said, yeah, I'd like to talk
Speaker 3: to you privately about this. Wouldn't even answer the question.
Speaker 3: So amazing cowardice. Anyway, a couple of things developments were
Speaker 3: or less. Matthew Hennessy in the Journal with a great
Speaker 3: piece CBS to Tony Diacoppel, you.
Speaker 1: Can't report in the newsroom.
Speaker 3: The network subjects the anchor to a struggle session after
Speaker 3: he dares to commit journalism on the air. You mentioned
Speaker 3: Edward Murrow's admonition of young journalists, don't tell me what
Speaker 3: you think, tell me what you know. And he goes
Speaker 3: through the uh, you know, the particulars of the interview
Speaker 3: and forcefully but respectfully, and how it was actually just
Speaker 3: really good journalism and it was an absolutely fair chance
Speaker 3: for mister Coates to defend his point of view. Details
Speaker 3: are scant, but it seems that some staffers complained up
Speaker 3: to chain about Decouple's treatment of mister Coates. Networks Brass agreed,
Speaker 3: and the revered author of the case for reparations in
Speaker 3: between the World and me should not have had to
Speaker 3: answer tough and fair questions. But why that should be
Speaker 3: the case wasn't explained. In the call, Miss Rourke assured
Speaker 3: her colleagues that a strong rebuke had been delivered to
Speaker 3: mister de Copple. He was reportedly upbraided for his tone
Speaker 3: and body language during the interview and apologized. It had
Speaker 3: taken a week to organize the call, and Decopel told
Speaker 3: colleagues on Tuesday he regretted the position he'd put them in.
Speaker 3: What position is that exactly proximity to real journalism? And
Speaker 3: then this is the part that I like because this
Speaker 3: is a journalism, a big time journalism.
Speaker 1: Insider writing.
Speaker 3: These self flagellating, penitential statements called to mind similar recent
Speaker 3: staff revolts of other news organizations. Young staffers at brand
Speaker 3: name outlets have hoo died it veteran colleagues for their
Speaker 3: commitments to the old fashioned values of objectivity and neutrality.
Speaker 3: Many gen z and millennial reporters don't think that's what
Speaker 3: journalism is supposed to be. They don't want to report
Speaker 3: on the world. They want to change it. The bad
Speaker 3: news is too many executives are cowed by these upstarts
Speaker 3: who are motivated by quasi religious fervor and convinced they're
Speaker 3: on the right side of history. They're expert at stoking
Speaker 3: outrage on social media and love nothing more than claiming
Speaker 3: a scalp and your editors at many outlets live in
Speaker 3: fear of their own staff.
Speaker 1: I don't get that, but it's clearly the case.
Speaker 3: This reminds me in an odd way of of all things.
Speaker 1: It's I guess it's a thing.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I don't get that, and I don't,
Speaker 4: but I have seen people that seem to be scared
Speaker 4: of their kids, So it must be a thing, but
Speaker 4: a mindset.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's an interesting point. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: I'll get back to the point I was about to make.
Speaker 3: They how she paid Rourke paid lip service to CBS
Speaker 3: News editorial standards than the brave Jen Crawford asked the questions,
Speaker 3: uh that she asked Those in positions of power, He
Speaker 3: writes in the American media should know better than a
Speaker 3: cowtow to the cancel mob. If they won't stand up,
Speaker 3: they should stop calling themselves journalists and stop invoking the
Speaker 3: hallowed names of their predecessors. But in a weird way,
Speaker 3: it reminds me of a discussion we had an hour
Speaker 3: ago or whenever. It was about how the forces of
Speaker 3: non escalation in American foreign policy forbade Israel time after
Speaker 3: time from eliminating their enemies, their adversaries in the name
Speaker 3: of negotiation and letting Hamas rule peacefully in Gaza and
Speaker 3: the rest of it.
Speaker 1: And what that has wrought.
Speaker 3: And I'm quoting Douglas Murray more or less, here is
Speaker 3: war after war after war because we have forbidden them
Speaker 3: to win. And it's a similar sort of moral cowardice
Speaker 3: that you're seeing among the brass in the newsrooms. And
Speaker 3: maybe you know I haven't worked in a big time newsroom.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I cherish the independence that we have. But
Speaker 3: why don't you go ahead and stand up for what
Speaker 3: you know to be right and and deal with the consequences.
Speaker 3: If you're good at what you do, you'll find another
Speaker 3: gig if your newsroom indeed rises up in like that
Speaker 3: poor son of a go for the New York Times
Speaker 3: who dared to run an editorial from a sitting Senator
Speaker 3: Tom Cotton, and he got forced out.
Speaker 4: I don't know, good lord, I didn't hurt Barry Wise,
Speaker 4: she went from Kyle Jon to practically a household name
Speaker 4: and a hero.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, love Barry and love the free press. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: just that I have no truck for that sort of cowardice. Anyway,
Speaker 3: this is an interesting development, and then I'll shut up
Speaker 3: about this. I just I think this is so fundamental
Speaker 3: to what it would take to straighten out the United States.
Speaker 3: If we don't have journalists who whose greatest principle is
Speaker 3: that I will tell the truth, not my truth, the truth,
Speaker 3: and if the truth is kind of sixty percent supporting
Speaker 3: my side, but you know the other side. As a
Speaker 3: forty percent point yep, do it. I think that's the
Speaker 3: only way we straighten our society. But anyway, I thought
Speaker 3: this was quite the development. Sherry Redstone, who's the controlling
Speaker 3: shareholder of CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, told well. A
Speaker 3: source close to Redstone told the Free Press that Miss
Speaker 3: Redstone thought that quote. Tony gave a great interview and
Speaker 3: modeled what civil discourse should look like, and she disagreed
Speaker 3: with the action the company took. She's working with the
Speaker 3: CEOs to address this issue.
Speaker 1: Love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great. Somebody linked this yesterday on Twitter. So
Speaker 4: part of the pushback phony pushback was we should let
Speaker 4: people come on with their books and just let them,
Speaker 4: you know, explain what they're doing and not you know,
Speaker 4: try to get in their faces about it. And somebody
Speaker 4: linked this. So Gail King, who is the highest paid
Speaker 4: person on that CBS Early show.
Speaker 1: There at CBS, it was.
Speaker 4: Her interviewing the father of an eight year old Israeli
Speaker 4: girl being held hostage by Hamas and he was on
Speaker 4: there and tearful and upset and everything like that, and
Speaker 4: Gail King pushed him hard. Innocent children, Palestinian children are
Speaker 4: dying too. You call your child innocent, But they're also
Speaker 4: innocent Palestinian children. Should we be concerned about them?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: So she's gonna push that guy whose whose little girls
Speaker 4: being held by murderous rapists?
Speaker 1: Right, She's given some good, strong pushback to him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Make sure he claims that he's heartbroken.
Speaker 4: Yeah, make sure he doesn't just get away with me
Speaker 4: and all heartbroken as a father.
Speaker 3: Not only that, but so In a trailer for an
Speaker 3: appearance on Trevor Noah's podcast, Coats accused Dakople of comment
Speaker 3: during the interview and said a couple of stupid things.
Speaker 3: But then as he was praising Gail King as a
Speaker 3: great journalist and great interviewer, he said, Gail came beyond
Speaker 3: the stage before we went on.
Speaker 1: She had gone through the book.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying she agreed with the book, but
Speaker 3: she was like, I'm gonna ask you about this, and
Speaker 3: then i'm gonna ask.
Speaker 1: You about that. So let's get this straight.
Speaker 3: Writes The Free Press, one journalist is raked over the
Speaker 3: calls for asking tough questions, while another journalist previews her
Speaker 3: questions and faces no repercussions, which poses a few questions.
Speaker 1: Chief among them.
Speaker 3: Are their different rules for different journalists at CBS. A
Speaker 3: former CBS journalist told The Free Press that if she
Speaker 3: was showing him specific lines of questioning in advance, that
Speaker 3: would violate journalistic standards. Are they going to investigate her
Speaker 3: and say what she did was not in keeping with
Speaker 3: CBS standards?
Speaker 1: I suspect not. Well, they weren't.
Speaker 4: She wasn't planning on doing a journalistic piece. She was
Speaker 4: planning on doing a book promotion piece. It's like when
Speaker 4: we have our friend Tim sanderfer On, we don't like
Speaker 4: come up with ways to really stick it to him
Speaker 4: on his book, trip him off, and so we might
Speaker 4: tell him beforehand, I said, a forehand, we might tell
Speaker 4: him beforehand that yeah, we're going to talk about this
Speaker 4: part in this part, that's what we think would be
Speaker 4: interesting to our audience.
Speaker 1: But we're there to help him promote his book. What
Speaker 1: she get to do.
Speaker 4: But clearly that's what Gail King's intention was was to
Speaker 4: help He.
Speaker 1: Agrees with him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as opposed to how you then you show the
Speaker 4: other side of the whole Israeli Palestinian argument.
Speaker 3: Well, and as coach said, I'm just here to present
Speaker 3: the Palestinian side, which he's allowed to do, and Jakoppel said, well,
Speaker 3: there's a lot more to it than that, and they
Speaker 3: parted in a gentlemanly way. One last thing, says the
Speaker 3: Free Press. Let's just say we have pattern recognition around
Speaker 3: stories like this. So when two sources at CBS told
Speaker 3: us that this whole dust up involved the network's networks
Speaker 3: Race and Culture unit, we weren't shocked. So they have
Speaker 3: a DEI anti racism unit at CBS that was deeply
Speaker 3: involved in all of this.
Speaker 4: Well, they're going to do some training around this. Did
Speaker 4: you hear that there's gonna be DEI training for everyone?
Speaker 4: Including I suppose the head guy there that did the interview.
Speaker 3: Quit, Tony Quit. There are a number of outlets that
Speaker 3: would be delighted to have you. You're a serious journalist and
Speaker 3: a good one.
Speaker 4: A special Now, so the poor cake maker in Colorado,
Speaker 4: is he finally going to be left alone?
Speaker 1: Unless?
Speaker 4: In case you didn't hear how this turned out the
Speaker 4: other day and a couple other things, we'll finish strong,
Speaker 4: coming up.
Speaker 3: Strong.
Speaker 4: Well, that's groovy. That's Cage the Elephant too. I just
Speaker 4: saw up on the CBS News. Apparently they got over
Speaker 4: some hatred of each other.
Speaker 1: And some other and it can be a band again
Speaker 1: that people go out and watch. That's cool.
Speaker 3: I didn't know there was hatred. I didn't know that
Speaker 3: any age fans in my house, I.
Speaker 1: Didn't know that either.
Speaker 4: But that's I'm glad that works out for a number
Speaker 4: of bands that if there's enough dollars involved, you decide, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I guess I don't hate you that much.
Speaker 1: Let's make this m.
Speaker 3: I know one of the key guys left because he
Speaker 3: didn't particularly dig the touring lifestyle, but I don't know love.
Speaker 4: That might be the sort of thing you say, if
Speaker 4: actually blind the scenes, you don't dig the touring lifestyle
Speaker 4: because you hate that guy so much, right exactly?
Speaker 1: Touring with him because I hate him.
Speaker 4: Yes, that reminds me of you ever actually listen to
Speaker 4: the audio from the Eagles, like at the end of
Speaker 4: their run before they broke up, and how much they
Speaker 4: hated each other. Have you ever heard that? The one
Speaker 4: where Glenn Fries and Uh and Uh and Felder are
Speaker 4: talking about fighting each other. Oh yeah, it's hilarious and
Speaker 4: it's hard to believe it's real. They're talking in the
Speaker 4: mics but to each other in their ears while the
Speaker 4: concert's going on about meeting each other after the concert
Speaker 4: and fighting in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: That's how a little counseling here fellas. That's how bad
Speaker 4: it had gotten with Eagles. And then they broke up,
Speaker 4: and then they decided for money reasons. They did fourteen
Speaker 4: years later. I think they came back and made gazillions
Speaker 4: of dollars. But they were I mean Glenn.
Speaker 1: Fryes, like in the microhone. Oh yeah, a few, a few, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be there, you gonna be there.
Speaker 4: I mean, while they're playing the guitars, like well, Joe
Speaker 4: Walsh is soloing, they're talking about I'm gonna beat the
Speaker 4: hell out of you.
Speaker 1: Still playing the song though. Hey, they got a job
Speaker 1: to do, professionals.
Speaker 3: I ran out of time for what I was gonna
Speaker 3: do with my Eagle story, which was probably better anyway.
Speaker 3: The Baker thing may be able to mention that during
Speaker 3: the podcast, among other things, when will he tastes.
Speaker 1: The sweet icing of satisfaction?
Speaker 3: How about the sweet icing of being left alone?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Jack Clarks, Tom stop, Jack and Jose go And if
Speaker 8: they don't get can they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I got another thought about the Eagles KG elephant thing,
Speaker 4: but I'll put it in my final thought.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 3: crew to wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 1: There he is, Michael Angelo leading the way.
Speaker 3: Michael, Jack, I really liked the idea of a hot
Speaker 3: woman living with you just to control your eating.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 3: She'd be great for the show, and I think you're
Speaker 3: selfish if you don't do it.
Speaker 1: She's a married person with a family.
Speaker 4: But I still just didn't like the idea of just
Speaker 4: you know, you're thinking you're going to take on this
Speaker 4: project of helping me eat right.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you're getting into. Indeed, it could
Speaker 1: be a burly fellow or anybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on now, Katie Green are esteemed to Newswoman
Speaker 3: as a final thought, Katie, since.
Speaker 2: That's probably not going to happen, I do challenge you
Speaker 2: to just eat clean next week.
Speaker 1: Jack, I would like to do it for a whole
Speaker 1: week to see how it.
Speaker 2: This week, go crazy this weekend, then just do it
Speaker 2: next week?
Speaker 1: Uh Jack? Final thought for us?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So back on the cage elephant, getting back together,
Speaker 4: putting their problems aside. The Eagles, Oasis did it recently.
Speaker 4: Lots of bands have done that. You got artists who
Speaker 4: are crazy. They're often young, which makes you more you know,
Speaker 4: whatever you are when you're young, and.
Speaker 1: Drugs or alcohols. That has a lot to it too.
Speaker 1: You're out of your minds.
Speaker 4: Hi, You're more likely to have a crazy argument over
Speaker 4: something stupid when you're out of your mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed.
Speaker 3: You know, as long as we're talking about music, my
Speaker 3: final thought will be I've always said of putting together
Speaker 3: and running a band, getting the music right is hard,
Speaker 3: getting the people right is way harder.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's amazing, especially when you're dealing with musicians.
Speaker 1: It's not like you're some sort of troop of accountants.
Speaker 4: That's what I liked about that Bono book that came
Speaker 4: out last year. Year before explaining that whole thing is
Speaker 4: really interesting about you too. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up
Speaker 4: another grueling four hour workday, So.
Speaker 3: Many people to thanks, so little time. Go to Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty dot com. You can get a link to
Speaker 3: the podcast there, grab them wherever you like to get
Speaker 3: podcasts Armstrong and Getty on demand. And one more thing,
Speaker 3: better yet, subscribe.
Speaker 1: We will see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 8: Is an untradictable beast.
Speaker 1: I'm huge. There's nothing wrong with you really, aside and
Speaker 1: I was wondering you know what you felt about that
Speaker 1: tossing yachts on to the waterfront.
Speaker 3: Yeahst Tossed Yachts is my new yacht rock band. Wow,
Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. You know, probably not the right time
Speaker 3: for mercy. Go to that bar that's on the water
Speaker 3: toss yatas playing tonight. Oh they're fantastic.
Speaker 1: Thanks all very much, Armstrong and Getty.