1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: John Cobalt and Ken Champoo live everywhere on the iHeartRadio 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: app We're on from one until four. Now after four 3 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: o'clock you can hear us on the iHeartRadio app our 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: podcast John and Kenn on demand. We're always there. I mean, 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: the show's just go on infinitem. You could hear us continuously. 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: You could play old shows. You Yeah, I know. We 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: should be the background noise in everyone's home constantly, the 8 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: hum of your life. Oh, I thought of you this morning. 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: I too bad. The vegans not here. The headline was 10 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: half of America's kids, on a daily basis do not 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: have any fruit or vegetables right. I was all surprised, 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: because it does. Some parents try to sneak it in, 13 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 1: but well they serve it. Yeah, probably not eating. I 14 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: don't think I ever ate a single vegetable served to 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: me off my mother's dinner plates. Not once. I guess 16 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: once to know that I hated it when I was 17 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: left it there or you hit it somewhere, or you 18 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: I left it there. For the most part. I remember 19 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: one time I had to go to the hospital. I'd 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: gotten sick and gashtrow intestinal thing, and they served me 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: carrots every day, and I kept sliding the carrots into 22 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: the hospital. Bad harrots. I mean they were cooked carrots, 23 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: cooked carrots. Carrots. Yeah, so you know, not good. I 24 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: have a hierarchy of by the way of vegetables and 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: fruits too, if you wanted to know, you have a 26 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: lot of hierarchies. You're right. Anything and cooking versus raw, 27 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: there's a big difference. Your carrots you can't have cooked. Yeah, 28 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: it was like it was like steam carrots, which may 29 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: be the single worst day. They get old, soggy and 30 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: goopy and the flavor gets really foul. Carrots, okay, but yeah, 31 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: cook carrots. So so I never had one, was having 32 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: in soup or certain things. But yeah, I don't know 33 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: by if I if I see anything with even a 34 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: little bit of a carrot, I only need the whole plate. 35 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: You might as well have thrown a cockroach on my plate. 36 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: That's so much I hate carrots. I we're going to 37 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: start the show today with the octagenarians. It's a tough word, 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: isn't John. You got that one figured out. I can 39 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: handle that. One of them is eighty. That's old show 40 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: a couple of hours ago. I don't know why at 41 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 1: two o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday Eastern time. 42 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: I'm going to speak to the nation about the unidentified 43 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: objects in the sky. I saw that really by accidents. 44 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: Usually they did that later when people are more home 45 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: or around. This was It was a nothing speech. He 46 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: didn't say anything that we already knew. There was no 47 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: new information whatsoever. The only entertaining part was at the 48 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: end of the speech when all the reporters started screaming 49 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: at him. Yeah, we'll have that, but first, let's play 50 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: you about thirty seconds of some of the gobbledegook. We 51 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but 52 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: nothing nothing right now suggests they were related to China's 53 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: spy balloon program, or that there were surveillance vehicles from 54 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,679 Speaker 1: other any other country. The Intelligence Committee's current assessment is 55 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to 56 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: private companies, recreation or research institutions studying whether or conducting 57 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: other scientific research. But so that's it. These were the 58 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: three objects that were shot down in quick Water last weekend. 59 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: That answers the Chinese by balloon. That answers none of 60 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: the main questions, though they tripped the Chinese spy balloon 61 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: all the way from China and they let it enter 62 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: American airspace. Why why didn't they shoot it down off 63 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: the coast of Alaska immediately? That would that would that 64 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: was not explained. And I know that story we saw 65 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: yesterday the Washington Post said they didn't think it was 66 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: going to take an unexpected turn towards the mainland. Yeah, 67 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: to our nuclear sites. It was supposed to go to Guam. 68 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: Remember it's usually what their balloons do. I don't believe 69 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: them because it went ended up right over one of 70 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: our nuclear sites. How could the wind randomly bul blow 71 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: a balloon all the way across the Pacific Ocean all 72 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: the way up to Alaska and then all the way 73 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: down to Montana and well look, look look up on 74 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: the sky. Hey, that's a Chinese balloon. It's a spy 75 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: balloon over our nuclear site. Wow. Mine. You know, there's 76 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: such liars. They really are a bunch of liars. They're 77 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: trying to sell something that's preposterous and they know it's preposterous. 78 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: But I guess he only did this because they said 79 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: you should. People are expecting you to say something about 80 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: the flying objects. Well, I'd rather he say nothing. Because 81 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: it was just it was just a babble, It was nothing. 82 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: And the second thing is, how did they know? How 83 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: did they know there wasn't a weapon on board that balloon? 84 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 1: They haven't explained that. I heard some talk today that 85 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: what the Chinese could float over us is an EMP 86 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: an electro magnetic pulse which would wipe out our electrical system. 87 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: Country would be completely shut down with a few of those. 88 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: How did they know that wasn't on board? How do 89 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 1: they know there wasn't a missile? How do they know 90 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: there wasn't a little hatch that was going to unleash 91 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: the next biological virus? I don't understand how, And they 92 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: wouldn't explain how they knew this. But those little benign 93 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: weather balloons, where the hell they were that we did 94 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 1: go through the trouble of shooting down spending four hundred 95 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: thousand dollars per missile. Yeah, those we blew up. That's 96 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: only because of the fallout from not shooting down the 97 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: Chinese balloon. It isn't that kind of a stupid pound 98 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: of the poll show your should have shot it down sooner? 99 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: So all right, we're gonna do that this weekend now, 100 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: But do you find something and shoot it down to 101 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,679 Speaker 1: show people will do that. One of them they shot 102 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: at and they missed. Nobody explained how that happened, and 103 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: they had to shoot two missiles four hundred thousand dollars 104 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: a missile, it's called a sidewinder, said eight hundred thousand 105 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: dollars to shoot a benign balloon and drop it into 106 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: Lake Huron. In case you wonder why we have a 107 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: thirty one trillion dollar deficit. But this is all the 108 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: actions of stupid people. And answer to your first question, 109 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: I think China launches balloons all the time, so they 110 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: don't really get too excited about it because it's just 111 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: China up there again trying to I don't know, collect information. 112 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: We remember we talked about that Chinese program. They're big 113 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: on these balloons. They love the balloons. I like to 114 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: launch them all the time to collect data. Well, is 115 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: it a problem or is it not? Because eventually they 116 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: shot it down and now they've recovered the equipment and 117 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: they're certain it is spy equipment. So why isn't spy 118 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: equipment over our nuclear and military sites a problem that 119 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: somebody should explain that one. They're acting like it's not 120 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: a problem. Well, it was a problem, you would think, right, Well, 121 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 1: it's like you said, yesterday was so tight into them economically. 122 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: They want to stoke an international incident by making a 123 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: big deal about a balloon passing by. Do you know 124 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: what questions drove Biden out of the room. Might be 125 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 1: hard to make out on the tape, but one reporter said, 126 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: it's when somebody said, is your business, the Chinese business 127 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: dealings with your son have anything to do with the reaction? 128 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 1: Your administration had an I'm paraphrasing the question, but it 129 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: was along those light and Biden responded, give me a break, 130 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: and then he and then he left. But we had 131 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 1: that audio. Let's play that, Thank you very much. There's 132 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: been there's been criticism. There's been criticism that this wasn't 133 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: there's been criticism that this sir, mister president, mister president, 134 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: there has been criticism, mister President. There has been criticism 135 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: that this was an overreaction that was done because of 136 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: political pressure to turn off and a question we had 137 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: more poy people present, why hadn't chosen Poland for your 138 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: cheek to mark anniversary of the war, and looks your message, Well, 139 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: you're off topic, sir, polastical. Oh yeah, yeah, it's an 140 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: interesting dynamic. The reporters all shout at once, some of 141 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: them give up, some of them don't, and eventually there's 142 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: like two or three left still shouting their questions loudly. 143 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: And Biden picked on the one that John mentioned was 144 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: asking about the relations with China and the business dealings 145 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: compromised by your family. That's what he said, give me 146 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: a break. The other guy that was closer to the 147 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,239 Speaker 1: microphone that we heard was asking a different question. But yeah, 148 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: that's why Biden got a little upset. And then I 149 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: think he turned to the other guy and said, we can, 150 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: you can come to my office and privately asked, there 151 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: your question, Well, why didn't they have an orderly press 152 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: conference like they often do, and go one by one 153 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: and have him stand there for half an hour or 154 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: an hour? I mean, we're paying the guy. I don't 155 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: want to hear he's too tired, because then you ought 156 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: to you ought to resign. But he should stand there 157 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: and answer all the questions. Yeah, the exact question was 158 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: are you compromised by your family's business relations with China? 159 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: And that's when Biden, give me a break, man, that's 160 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: not an answer that's a plea for mercy, but it's 161 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: not an answer. Well, what it is is it's brushing 162 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: the question aside as if it's ridiculous, few ask not ridiculous? 163 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: Is families up to their noses. We're gonna have plenty 164 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: of hearings now at the Republicans own the House, so yeah, 165 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna be hearing a lot more about this in 166 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: the next two years. They're gonna have tons of hearings 167 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: over the Bidens in China and all their business dealings 168 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: around the world. You can bet the people are going 169 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: to hear more about that. How much coverage he gets, 170 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: I don't know, because most of the media won't. They'll 171 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: ignore it. Well, it exists, though, Whatever corruption Biden family 172 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: was involved in with China exists, whether the media coverage 173 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: or or not. Stuff has been going on for a 174 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: long time, and Jim and Hunter and Joe have made 175 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: a lot of money dealing with China. All right, when 176 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: we come back the other octogenarian, yeah, even older than Biden. 177 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 1: There's another good Diane Feinstein's story the week where apparently 178 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: we believe she's not running for reelection, although she seemed 179 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: confused about the release of that announcement. Your chance for 180 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: money is next. The keyword will be revealed in a 181 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: few minutes. 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His annual physical was this morning, 191 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: not the one where they look at his mental state. Yeah, 192 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: it's just the one to check your heart and your 193 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: lungs and all that kind of stuff. The mental state. 194 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: That's what the world wants to know, I guess. Yeah, 195 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: it would be nice to know, right. Yeah. That Montreal test, 196 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 1: the Montreal cognitive test, Yeah, yeah, doesn't It takes just 197 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: a few minutes and you got a good reading on 198 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: how much decays in your brain. Trump had a doctor. 199 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: It was a physician to Obama too, This doctor Ronnie Jackson, 200 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: who once said after taking a physical of Trump and 201 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, hy might live to be two hundred if 202 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 1: he had a better diet. He had a better diet, Yeah, 203 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: I don't know, but he makes fun of his diet, 204 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: but he's still rolling along. I think Trump is probably 205 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,079 Speaker 1: one of those people like youth, probably never had a 206 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: vegetable for a fruit. Yeah, I think you could have 207 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: a very long healthy life without ever tasting a vegetable. 208 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,599 Speaker 1: Now we move over to the other octogenarian, who, of 209 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 1: course has been in the news this week, first time 210 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: in a long time. Feinstein. US Senator Diane Feinstein eighty 211 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: nine years old, of course big time in the news 212 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: two days ago because her staff released a statement that 213 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: she was not going to run for another term in 214 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: the Senate next year, and then when meeting up with 215 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: reporters later, she seemed to not be aware of that. 216 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 1: Now I was being generous and saying that she didn't 217 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: know the statement went out already, that she knew there 218 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: was a prepared statement and she knew she's not running, 219 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: but she didn't think they released it. Still bizarre, but 220 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: uh could be the explent, Sure it could be. Yeah, 221 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: whenever that statement was drafted, she forgot that completely forgot 222 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: that they had actually written it up. Yeah, because there's 223 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: video evidence that she forgets things that happened seconds before. 224 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: Because and because those brain cells don't no longer exist 225 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: to store the memory. Yes, as you get this old 226 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: short term memory is a real issue for people, sal Moore. 227 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: Proof of this popped up yesterday business insider dot com 228 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: as a story that yesterday she emerged from the Senate 229 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: chamber and was confused about what she had done during 230 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: a two vote series. She started to question her longtime 231 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: chief of staff, David Grannis. This guy must have some 232 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: stories to tell. Don't you think it's a long day? 233 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: Did I vote for that? He had just finished explaining 234 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 1: to her that the six Senate votes scheduled throughout the 235 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: day would be on Biden appointees, and he then shook 236 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: his head and simply said no, So she didn't vote 237 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: for that. An Insider review of the floor proceedings confirmed 238 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: that Feinstein did not vote on the nomination of a 239 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: judge to serve on the US District Court for the 240 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 1: District of Oregon. That person was confirmed by a vote 241 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: of fifty two to forty six. Feinstein voted to invoke 242 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: clotes are on another judge to serve on another court 243 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: in Washington to her vote was missing. There were ninety 244 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: nine votes for the second judge, but only ninety eight 245 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: votes for the first judge, so she didn't even reach 246 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: the button to press yes. Oh that could be the case. Yeah, yeah, 247 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: oh no, it was Judge Nelson she didn't vote on. 248 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: She voted on Judge Rays and the first vote was 249 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: fifty two forty six. Second vote fifty two forty seven. 250 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: She missed out. Got confused. Yeah, I vote for that, So, 251 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: I mean it must be difficult. Staffers is supposed to 252 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: be constantly at the senator sides, hoefing them on everything 253 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: going on during the day. And if she doesn't have 254 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: short term memory, that's, uh, that's pretty bad. That's uh yeah, 255 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: that's what I That's what I read about strom Thurman 256 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: and he was one hundred and his staff was doing that. 257 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: That's like it was a dory the fish and finding nemo. Yes, 258 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: that's what it's like. The voice by Ellen DeGeneres would 259 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,119 Speaker 1: not know something you said ten seconds earlier. So because 260 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: she shouldn't be the senator. Well, here's that's the thing 261 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: that's coming up. Now, should she finish this term. We've 262 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: still got all of the rest of this year and 263 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: next year that she's still going to be in the 264 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: US Senate. There is no other job that you could hold. 265 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: Imagine being an airline pilot with that memory span. Oh yeah, 266 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: but that's people's lives are at risk as you fly 267 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 1: around the country. No, that's much worse. I mean, but 268 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: but the we like to say, what these hack polits 269 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: ais do anyway? Right, Well, they don't. We've talked about 270 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: it in the past, some older ones just continuing on 271 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: and their staff covered up for them. Maybe this is 272 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: the only job you could have, because it's such a 273 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: silly job, right, You just sit there and vote exactly 274 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: how your party instructs you to do. Every day, everybody 275 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: votes the same. Now one party votes yes, the other 276 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: party votes know, So why not just get a hundred 277 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: monkeys in there. See. The thing that would be kay 278 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: is if she does step down before her term ends, 279 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: dippity due Newsome would appoint the replacement. That person would 280 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: have an inside track, just because that's the way it 281 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: works with people. Oh they're already a senator, Okay, vote 282 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: for them. I guess they know the job because they 283 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: don't pay any attention. Well he's gonna make they'll see 284 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 1: you on the ballot as a senator. Whoever that is. 285 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: He's gonna make a bad pick no matter what, because 286 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: he doesn't he doesn't pick people based on qualifications and experience. 287 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: Well he already said it's gonna be a black woman. 288 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: Well that's not qualifications and experience. That's because the color 289 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: and gender. Because this quota crowd was not happy when 290 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: he replaced to Kamala Harris with a Latino man. You see, 291 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: so I wait a minute, wait a minute, that was 292 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: a black female seat. What did you just do, Latino? 293 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: That's not bad, but that's not right. He's still a man, 294 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: So next time, it's better be a black woman. He has, 295 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: and he said he would. He has. He has a 296 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: male sexual Oregan. That's what we're going to decide. Who's this. 297 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: Everything now is about quotas, everything is about diversity representation. 298 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: It's really out. You know, how could you take the 299 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: being a senator seriously if they're picking based on how 300 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: much melanin you have in your skin and what kind 301 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: of sexual part you have between that. White males ruled 302 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: the world for too long, so now they want to 303 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: catch up. With you. If you put two white guys 304 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: in there are two black women or whoever, you'd get 305 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: the same set of votes. Anyway, this is all nonsense. 306 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: I wish all the reverence for everything in Washington and 307 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: everyone in Washington would just end before I die. Stop 308 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: with the reverence for all these clowns. Please God, she's senile, 309 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: Biden snile. Everybody knows their senile. No other job would 310 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: they be allowed to show up for work right they'd 311 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: had their they'd had their security clearances should be taken away. 312 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: Their key cards should be nullified, and they should be 313 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: sitting in rocking chairs at the rest home. And we 314 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: all know this. There's a couple of stories we're gonna 315 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: do on today's show. I thought were jokes again parody. 316 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 1: Somebody was writing something what an early April fool thanks 317 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: to a listener named Lisa. When we come back, we're 318 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: going to read from a column that apparently is real. 319 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: Where else would it appear but the El Segundo Times 320 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: by a woman who I looked her up. She exists. 321 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: Her name is Astra Lincoln. I looked her up too. 322 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe she exists, and she can't write. She 323 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 1: writes horribly. But the title of this piece essay, like 324 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: they say, essay. By the way, she's award winning. John 325 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: you saw that she's a winning essayist. When climate change looms, 326 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 1: how are you supposed to fall in love? That was 327 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 1: her Valentine's column for the ELSA is one of the 328 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 1: all times silliest columns. I know we've said this before, 329 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: but really, really, this is unbelievable. In factor we were 330 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: we should have some kind of sappy, sabby music to play, Eric, 331 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: if you could find it, just because it's piano's violins 332 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: can usually dig something up, anything that would. This is real, folks. 333 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll read it. It's hard to believe, 334 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: but apparently this woman cannot even go about a love 335 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: life because the climate is in danger. Johnny ken caf 336 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: I am six forty live everywhere in the iHeart Radio 337 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: app All right, don't forgot next doll you know the 338 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: chance of money. The keyword will be revealed and today 339 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 1: and tomorrow are the last days for this contest for 340 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: a while. As okay, if I cash refilled contest with 341 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: a thousand dollars up for grabs. Astra Lincoln on her 342 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: own web page is an award winning essayists based in Portland, Oregon, 343 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: by way of Paya Huanana do in parentheses Owen's Valley, California. 344 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 1: So I guess she's using the original Native American name 345 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 1: maybe for the area. Yeah, I don't know. Her work 346 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: focuses on the intersections of people, power, and place. What 347 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 1: if that means She writes about disability, climate change, disaster management. 348 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: So the reason we're talking about her is because she 349 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,919 Speaker 1: has written one of the all time fantastic essays for 350 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: the Al Sagondo Times, and it is for Valentine's Day. 351 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: There's a big heart displayed at the top of the 352 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: column and it's titled When Climate Change Looms, How You 353 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: Supposed to Fall in Love? We have some background music 354 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: please is this is very emotional and you may weep. 355 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 1: What we read are her actual words. We are not 356 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 1: making this up. I asked a man to marry me once. 357 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: Until I met him, I had never known the way 358 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: that love could provide the magnetic pull of a bearing, 359 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: like a pulse through the air. I felt the idea 360 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: of him everywhere. For three years we'd been living in 361 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: the eastern Sierra Nevada. I was as enchanted by our 362 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: mountain home as I was by him, But it was 363 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: a demanding affair. Each summer there were little losses. A 364 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: camper left without realizing his fires embers remained warm, and 365 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: what was started for s'mores spread, igniting nearby brush. An 366 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: acre burned. A mountain biker leaned too far to the 367 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: right into a tight turn. Their pedals struck a rock 368 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: and sparked. One hundred acres burned. My favorite trail was 369 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: buried in a landslide. I set out to climb a glacier, 370 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: only to find that it had melted and was gone. 371 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: To love that landscape was to maintain a desperate intimacy 372 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: with its disappearance. I couldn't bear it. I wanted us 373 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: to run away from Atop the high ridge we walked 374 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: one evening, I stretched out my finger and traced along 375 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: the horizon a part of the valley most likely to 376 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,719 Speaker 1: be destroyed when the inevitable wildfire came. Don't you think 377 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 1: there are better places to live through this? I asked him, 378 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: touching my nose to his nose. It would be hard 379 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: for him to leave our tiny town. He was an immigrant, 380 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 1: His status was tied to his work. We could get married, 381 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: I offered. Kicking up snow, little crystals sprayed around his knees. 382 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: At home, later, we finished two bottles of Gruner a 383 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: vent lighter. Maps unfolded around us, pointing out new places 384 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: we could go. Oh but by the next morning he 385 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: had changed his mind. He asked me to leave without him. 386 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 1: To leave him, I fled for the coast, better to 387 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: see the sea rise on a land I hadn't learned 388 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: to love yet. I figured, all the breakups are hard, 389 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: but they're worse if you're stupid. My mistake that was, 390 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: instead of indulging in a series of sloppy rebounds to 391 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: recalibrate my aching heart, I threw myself headlong into a 392 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: new career writing about global warming. I joined a research collective. 393 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: I became a journalist. By now, I've heard so many 394 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: well articulated versions of what the landscape might soon look like. 395 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: I can nearly see their flickering edges hoving over above 396 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: the world that remains like a holograph on the brink 397 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 1: of being realized. I run through the pines, knowing that 398 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: some forest scientists expect California's mountains will soon be deforested 399 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: from the joint forces of fire, drought, and invasive tests. 400 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: I hear the threatened sparrow's chorus in the yard and 401 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: wonder how long their song will last, knowing that if 402 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: all the currently endangered mammals were to go extinct, it 403 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: would take twenty three million years for evolution to replet ars. 404 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: An increasing body of research affirms the worry that human 405 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: cause global warming. They rob us of a future, or 406 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 1: one that is pleasant and survivable for most species anyway, 407 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: depending on who you ask, we have somewhere between six 408 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: and ten years left until the planet's atmosphere will as 409 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: an atmospheric tipping point, beyond which there is no return. 410 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: Some argue with the line we've already crossed. It does 411 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: not spark joy. The climate crisis takes so much from 412 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,400 Speaker 1: us cool summer nights and the ability to chit chat 413 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: with Trader Joe's cashiers about the weather without wanting to 414 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: suddenly weep. That was one of my favorite parts. Oh yeah, 415 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: I gotta say that again. The ability to chit chat 416 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: with Trader Joe's cashier is about the weather without wanting 417 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: to suddenly weep. Imagine you're shooting the crap with somebody 418 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: and like people do about the weather. It's a pretty 419 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 1: nice sunny day to long they'll be gone. But there's 420 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 1: also a bigger, harder to dame thing. What do we 421 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: do if our love cannot withstand these ever worsening storms 422 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: that disrupt our dreams and uproot our lives? Wow? Today 423 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: three quarters of Americans experienced some degree of anxiety about 424 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: climate change. Really, for people unto twenty five, it's mark worse. 425 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: I wonder how many of them will get to revel 426 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: in use capaciousness like I did for a few good 427 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: years in my twenties. I knew climate change was coming, 428 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: but yet I had not yet come to believe it 429 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: would change everything about my life. The hopes I held 430 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: then now feel like a twenty century relic. Angular light 431 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: pouring through the narrow alleyways of European cities. Market baskets 432 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: heavy with exotic imported fruits, but their juice is staining 433 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: my chin. Endless travel but unencumbered by guilt over airline 434 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: emissions or fear about how to build emergency plans into 435 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,159 Speaker 1: a holiday. This is real, folks. We're not making this up. 436 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: I no longer expect a future full of ease, whimsy, 437 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 1: or fruit plucked from the branch again with the fruit. 438 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: A threshold has been crossed. I'm not sure when when 439 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: was was it? Was it when my last love ended, 440 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,399 Speaker 1: or at some moment in the intervening years when I 441 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: have failed to find another. Because you're crazy, lady, Oh, 442 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: I hope we get to it. I want to move 443 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: ahead here because I love this is my favorite paragraph. Recently, 444 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 1: I fell into bed with a stranger. In the moments 445 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: after tangled up in each other, we pecked away at 446 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: the awkward small talk of people who still didn't know 447 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 1: each other's names. When he asked me what I was 448 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: thinking about, I'm monologue for ten interruptive minutes about the 449 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,360 Speaker 1: agronomic insecurities that will mean one day soon we will 450 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: have no ripe tomatoes lining our ships. But I'm bad 451 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: to going over a woman. You're asking it, what's on 452 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: your mind? No ripe tomatoes. I'm climbing out the bedroom window, 453 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,479 Speaker 1: or I'm going in the closet, and that's what happened. 454 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: You're right, I have no ripe tomatoes lying shelves midwinter, 455 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: and how I therefore always bulk by heirlooms I can't afford. 456 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: I left soon after and I never saw him again. 457 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: Oh that must have been the worst backup been history 458 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: for the guy. Like everyone else, I'm just searching for 459 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: somewhere stable to leap and then land. In this, I'm 460 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: no different than any more conventional climate naive friends. Love 461 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: has always stood in contrast to life's existential threats. Okay, wow, 462 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: this woman must be a lot of fun to hang 463 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: out with. What's on your miah, tomatoes? I will be 464 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: able to buy tomatoes anymore. I can't stay my chin. 465 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: Connection is a tiny revolt against everything we are up against. 466 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: This is true even of trysts and other temporary flirtations. 467 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: A love affair Catherine Davis Rotner memoir, A really A 468 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: really confers motion, faring you through time within the high 469 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: of a good one, I can feel the gasping propulsion 470 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 1: towards something sweet in each of my cells. But this 471 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: one is also classic. On one of the final egg 472 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,640 Speaker 1: yolk afternoons of last Fall, never anybody describe an afternoon's 473 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,680 Speaker 1: an egg yolk egg yolk afternoon. I asked my new 474 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: cry shift they thought climate change was impacting their dating. 475 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: That's not a question again every day? I asked it 476 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: as coyly as I imagine another person might casually mention 477 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: the name of the child that they one day hoped 478 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: to have, which is to say, with no subtlety whatsoever, 479 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: they paused rustling maple leaves that at Chrisp brown from 480 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: drought rather than turning yellow. I see she's tuck another 481 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: one in there. No, not more than it's changed every 482 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: other one of my relationships. Wow, my solar plexus warmed 483 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: in the familiar way, then, as though here too might 484 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 1: be an opening for me to see my way to 485 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: a life populated with more desire than dread. There are 486 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: other people, lots of them, still trying to find portals 487 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 1: that will carry us to futures in which we survive 488 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: Like them, I am still looking. I still want to 489 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: take that leaf. Well, you know, at least you know 490 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: if you run into this lady at a bar or restaurant. 491 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: Her name is Asta Lincoln. May be pretty, she may 492 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 1: be very articulate, she may be very interesting. There is 493 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,360 Speaker 1: a picture of her on the website Run for Your Life, 494 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: and apparently her award that she won was for something 495 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: she did on mountaineering some essays she wrote, So it's 496 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 1: not like she's Oh my goodness, how did they find her. Eric, 497 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: how long would you last in bed with this girl 498 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: if she brought up tomatoes in bed? I'm getting out 499 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: like that. I'm just upset that he took her home 500 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: to his place and he had to kick her out. Well, 501 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: I guess that's actually not bad. Then she left, but 502 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 1: she never heard from him again. Yeah, but if he 503 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,959 Speaker 1: ended up at her place, imagine getting stuck there. I mean, 504 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 1: she's got to be a story. Anyone who dated her 505 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,400 Speaker 1: must be talking about this woman a lot of time. 506 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: Of course, the La Times Print publishes this. Oh yeah, 507 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: very serious out of Times day stuff. Holy geez, thanks 508 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: for having her letting us enjoy the holiday, all right, 509 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,959 Speaker 1: Johnny ken k if I am six forty live everywhere 510 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app Chick fil A is going to test 511 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: a plant based sandwich with cauliflower. Oh Chick fil A, 512 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: Oh come on, These test sandwiches usually die. Not that 513 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: higher on my hierarchy of vegetables is the cauliflower. And 514 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: that's there, that's Stanley with carrots. Oh. This news just 515 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: came in in the last hour or so. Of course, 516 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: Old Joe a couple hours ago spoke to the nation 517 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: about these objects that were shot out of the sky 518 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: last weekend, one over Canada, a couple of over Alaska, 519 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: one over Michigan, actually in Yukon Huron. So we now understand, 520 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: thanks to an outfit called aviation week dot Com, that 521 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: it's very possible that one of the objects we shot 522 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: out of the sky, and Biden wanted to make it 523 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,479 Speaker 1: clear today they're not part of a Chinese surveillance program. 524 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: It may have been a twelve dollars balloon. Yeah, there's 525 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: a balloon club called the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, 526 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: and they enjoy ballooning and ham radio. They're a hobbyist 527 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: club and they built apparently was some kind of something 528 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: called a Pico balloon, which you can buy for twelve 529 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: to one hundred eighty dollars each, depending on the type. 530 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: And they reported its last position on February tenth, thirty 531 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: eight thousand, nine hundred and ten feet off the west 532 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: coast of Alaska. So that gives you an idea. It 533 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: seems to have been in the region right, And the 534 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has this computer model. I 535 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: guess you could send up a balloon and then use 536 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: the NOAH software and track where the balloon is likely 537 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: to go, and it was projected that it would be 538 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: floating high over the Yukon Territory in Canada on February eleventh, 539 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: That is the same day that we spent four hundred 540 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: thousand dollars on a missile to shoot down twelve dollars. 541 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: Twelve dollars. Well, we're all safer for it. Because I 542 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: was wondering why he was Biden was battling today is 543 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: by now people should know if a balloon is missing 544 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: from their company or their restarch out fit. Right, I 545 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: said this the other day. I'll bet you some type 546 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: of geek who enjoys floating these things and collecting data. 547 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: There is a community of pico ballooning enthusiasts. Did you 548 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: know that John which combines ham radio and high altitude 549 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: ballooning into a single affordable hobby. I'm sure there are 550 00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: a lot of fun now. The explanation we got from 551 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: one of the pico balloon enthusiasts launching high altitude circumnavigational 552 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: pico balloons has emerged only within the past decade. It 553 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: is possible to calculate the amount of helium gas necessary 554 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: to make a common latex balloon neutrally buoyant at altitudes 555 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: above forty three thousand feet. The balloons carried an eleven 556 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: Graham tracker on a tether along with these antennas to 557 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: update their positions to Ham radio receivers around the world. 558 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: This is very exciting, isn't it. I got it, I 559 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: tracked it. At any given moment, several dozen touch balloons 560 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: are aloft, some circling the globe several times before they 561 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: malfunction or fail. These are probably retired guys. They got 562 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: nothing to do, so they stand out on a field 563 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,720 Speaker 1: with their hand. Again. It might see the guy on 564 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: the beach with the metal detect the big headphones on. 565 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 1: And I've seen our get a life, and I've seen 566 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: them in a park. They're the guys like to fly drones. Yes, right, 567 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: they're still children, but they're little flying airplanes. They have 568 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: nothing to do, and they don't They can't deal with 569 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: their wife anymore. They don't have a job. So yeah, 570 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: you go back to being you're eight years old again. 571 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: You're flying a balloon. You're flying a drone now. One 572 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: guy says he uses a foil balloon sold by a 573 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: Japanese company known as Yokohama twelve bucks. Yeah, because the 574 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: thing is some use mylar party balloons, but the round 575 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: shape milar balloons often can't get higher than twenty to 576 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet, So that's where the thing that John mentioned. 577 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: Apparently some Japanese company called Yokohama will sell this foil 578 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: balloon for twelve bucks, and apparently the materials proven to 579 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: be resilient for long periods of high altitudes. So that's 580 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: why some of the Pico balloon enthusiasts use this particular 581 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 1: type of balloon to send it up there with its 582 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: little equipment on it. Let's just review. Joe Biden let 583 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: a Chinese balloon that was two hundred feet high with 584 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: a payload of spy equipment the size of three school 585 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: buses flow all the way from Alaska to South Carolina 586 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: before shooting it down. However, he decides to shoot down 587 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: immediately a twelve dollar balloon run by a Ham radio group. 588 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: Pico Balloons wagh less than six pounds that are therefore 589 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: exempt from most FAA airspace restrictions. So that's another aspect 590 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: of this. Three countries North Korea, Yemen, and the UK 591 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: restrict transmissions from balloons in their airspace. Four hundred thousand 592 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: dollars missile, twelve dollars balloon. Yeah, what's the payoff there? 593 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: I think we're safe for he said, an abundance of caution. 594 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: Well that is an abundance. Well, remember they said they 595 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 1: weren't sure what they had after they shot it him. 596 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,240 Speaker 1: I thought, though, this doesn't sound very big, these Pico balloons. 597 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: And I know, I forget what they said the size 598 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: of those objects that were shot down over Alaska, And 599 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,719 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, how many balloons could there 600 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: be floating over the Yukon at that moment, And they're 601 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: the only one saying, hey, we're missing a balloon. I 602 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 1: feel bad for the hobbyists. They lost their twelve dollars 603 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: balloon in it's little tracking payload. If I was pouting, 604 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,919 Speaker 1: now's the time, is that right? Yeah? Now's the time? 605 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,800 Speaker 1: All right? We got more covered up. John and kenkfi 606 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: A six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio. You can have 607 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 1: a lasket. About five minutes, we'll just be watching Debora 608 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: Mark is off today Jason Middleton live in the twenty 609 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:07,799 Speaker 1: four hour CAMPI News Room