WEBVTT - Blood on the Stage 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.240 Arm Strong and Jattie and he Armstrong and Hetty. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.400 My new study has revealed that by quieting down certain 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:32.120 neuronal networks, bees sleep like humans, so they lie awake 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.199 until two am. Wondering if they said hi in a 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.720 weird way to Brenda from Accounting. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.080 Yeah, I saw that study. The headline was intriguing, and 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:43.839 I haven't looked into it. Perhaps I will look into it. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.080 That sounds like something we could talk about. The whole 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.280 bees sleep like humans thing. I'm blown away, and I 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.560 myself wondered if they wake up at two o'clock in 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.040 the morning, thinking, I just don't think I rank as 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.640 high in the high as I should. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.040 Right right, Oh my god, the hive is leaking, and 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:04.960 I know I need to deal with it because it'll 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:06.360 just get worse, right or. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.399 All this buzzing, where is it getting me? 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.199 I've got to admit I've invested far too little time 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.399 considering the sleep habits of bees. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.399 Not to go back to the academic stuff, but I 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.120 was for some reason this popped into my mind. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:21.840 In this bee thing. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:28.920 I have known a number of people, like academics, PhD 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.760 type people who had such narrow areas of study, and 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.960 I'm amazed that you can focus on such a narrow 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.840 thing for your whole career and not go crazy or 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:43.080 lose interest. It's bees, yeah, or just bees in general, 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:48.160 I mean, yeah, AnyWho More importantly, Wow, this could be huge. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:49.400 Just report here from Fox. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.840 Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are ready in subpoenas 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.600 in case former President Biden's White House physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor, 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.320 and four Keystone offers don't agree to a request for 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.960 congressional interviews by the Thursday deadline. The committee is investigating 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.160 the Biden administration's use of the auto pen to sign 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.640 pardons and executive orders, some. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.240 Still being challenged in court. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.839 Chairman James Comer tells Fox the committee could even call 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.480 in former First Lady Jill Biden, the president's son Hunter, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.160 and former White House Press Secretary Kareem Jehan Pierre. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.600 If the trail leads us to the next step, which 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.760 many believe would be perhaps Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.680 then we will go there. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.960 So James Comber's got a bit of Adam Schiff in 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.919 him in that he promises a number of things or 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.280 suggests a number of things that don't happen. I mean 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.239 he's done that in number quite a few times. Actually, yeah, 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:49.519 you got there before I did. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:50.040 You're right. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:56.360 But if for whatever reason, God, I gotta believe, Well, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.359 it's the Trump White House. I was about to say, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.320 I got to believe that there would be a certain 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:00.960 amount of. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:04.920 Norm breaking. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.720 That quite a few people don't want to do in 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.760 terms of bringing up the former first Lady and growing 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.560 here about what happened in the White House, and then 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:18.120 that becoming a regular thing. After every president leaves, you 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.399 bring in their spouse and try to embarrass them. Did 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.040 he ever confide in you that he planned to bomb 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.000 that the weapons site? 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:26.320 Right? 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:28.840 Yeah, I don't love it. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:33.000 But if they did, this is obviously in unique case, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.160 there's a decent chance that well, let's listen to James Comer. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:37.240 He kind of explains it here. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:43.480 Someone got documents and manually placed them in the machine 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.280 and pressed the power button to sign Joe Biden's signature. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.440 That was not Joe Biden. That was done by Staffords. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.680 That would be done by any staffords. So we want 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.440 to ask them who gave you the authority to use 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.880 Joe Biden's signature, and we'll go from there. Obviously, we 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.280 believe that some of the names, the chief of staff 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.200 and perhaps the First Lady, were involved in a lot 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.720 of the decision making. If that's where the trail leads, 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.400 then we'll bring them in as well. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.360 As I said, this is mancuffs. This is a unique 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.400 situation here. We'll bring the first Lady in in manacles 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.040 if necessary. Did you see the hood over did you 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.679 see Hannibal elector? Yes, she'll have the hand of elector masks. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.160 She'll be on a dolly from home Depot will rull 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.200 her a strap to a dolly, yes, if necessary, if 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.560 that's where the trail lead. But as I said, it's 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.520 a unique situation because of this, and I'll read from 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.440 the Jake Tapper book. We've mentioned this several times, but 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.760 I'm reading from it now. Five people were running the country. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.839 Now this is quoting one of their high level democratic 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:49.279 sources in the Tapper Thompson book. Five people were running 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.359 the country and Joe Biden was at best a senior 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.120 member of the board. Said one person familiar with the 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.840 internal dynamic. A cabinet secretary. A cabinet secretary told them 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:03.880 that expressed a similar sentiment about that group. I've never 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.000 seen a situation like this before, with so few people 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.680 having so much power, they would make huge economic decisions 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:20.559 without calling the Treasury Secretary Yellen. That's worth investigating, isn't it. Yes, 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:22.520 I think so. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.000 And the question of the autopen as well, I think 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.839 is legitimate. I'd like to know more about the conventional 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.880 use of the autopen. But yeah, who was in charge? 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.720 To what extent were we not following the constitution? 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.000 You know. The more I think about it and where Yet, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.280 Tim the lawyer on later he would probably point this out. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.919 Constitutionally speaking, those cabinet secretaries give advice to the president. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.360 He still gets to do what he wants. So if 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.960 he decides to take his advice from that group of 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.440 five people instead of Secretary Yellen on an economic matter, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.160 he gets to that's not unconstitutional. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.440 It's not the way things are. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.400 We have a cabinet secretary, we don't know which one 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.120 saying I'd never seen anything like this before, major economic 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.000 decisions being made without even talking to. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.720 The Secretary of the Treasury, right, But you read my mind. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.080 Other than a couple of narrow questions that they might 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.920 be able to answer about either the autopen or something 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.080 like that. You're never going to get any satisfaction because 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.760 you can just go with no. Joe Biden preferred to 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.680 give his cabinet secretaries a more free hand, and. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.559 That's where the discussion ends. Well, no, he wasn't really 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:34.400 calling the shots. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:34.839 They were. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:35.280 No. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.120 He that's his management style. You'll never get any satisfaction. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.480 You know, he's an oligator. He delegates. That makes him 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.440 a good leader. Yeah, knowing more is always better than 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.680 knowing less. But yeah, this trail, other than a couple 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.120 of fairly narrow questions, is not going to be satisfying. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.360 But you got to admit if they had doctor Jill. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.320 First of all, doctor it hurts when to do this 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.960 fake doctors. They had doctor John, a doctor, and you 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.919 know the way these hearings go, where the whole point 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.520 is to you know, grandstand and make a moment that's 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.000 gonna get on the news or you can retweet. Uh, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.080 it would be pretty it'd be pretty juicy, almost guaranteed. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.320 Oh to have doctor Jill in there, Oh my god, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:19.400 I would cancel everything. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.880 I would cancel, like major heart surgery to watch that. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:27.400 He is known to have not recognized George Clooney, who 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.200 he knows very well, when he saw him at a fundraiser. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.120 He did not recognize or remember the name of his 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.160 secretary of State, so ms Biden. Did he ever forget 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.640 who you are? Did he ever look at you and 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.239 seem to not recognize who you are? Hey? 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:49.240 Those would be? My name is not Esther. Oh my god, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:50.200 that's Fuddy Michael. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.760 She's a congenital liar in a in a nutshet. You 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.600 gotta admit that'd be. That'd be pretty good? Oh pretty 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:01.680 good again? Please birth of I'll see in a couple hours. Honey, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.840 doctor Jill's getting grilled on TV. James Komer is really 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.080 sticking it to doctor Joe. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:11.040 So I keep promising that I'm done with discussing the 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.040 Tapper book. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.200 The Tapper Alex what's his name? 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.960 Thompson? Who's the real reporter in this story? I really 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.280 ought to try to remember his name. 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We have listener favorite 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.600 Tim M. Lawyer on this hour. It's gonna be good 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:39.440 at gour stay here. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:41.360 Armstrong. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.640 Kamala Harris recently told a crowd in Orange County that 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.280 I'm not going anywhere that's because she was too drunk 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:54.680 to drive. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.959 That ongoing theme, continue to read the Jake Tapper Alex 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:06.240 Thompson book at night. I haven't gotten any stuff about 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:07.720 Kamala yet. 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:09.160 I'm not that far into the book. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.800 That has to be one of the driving forces is 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.400 that they didn't trust Kamala being president. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.600 Right, has to be. Yeah. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.880 I've seen quotes to that effect from the book, so 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.679 I believe them to be there. So, as I said earlier, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.119 I keep saying, Okay, that's the end of this discussion 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.480 about the book and Biden being seen island the rest 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.120 of it. But the continued attempt to spin it by 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.439 the authors is just too delicious to pass up. And 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.640 the particularly Jake Tapper Alex Thompson, I think is a 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:43.120 pretty straight shooter. But my favorite writers keep engaging and 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.080 I can't pass it up. Like the brilliant Matt Tayebe, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:51.520 Jake Tapper's Biden book is hilarious and insane is his headline. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.200 Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's mass media apologia is leaps 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.080 and bounds more demented than. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.280 The book subject Joe Biden. And then he talked about 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:02.360 how he wasn't gonna do it. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.560 He wasn't gonna do it, but in the moment of 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.200 late night weakness, he was reading from chapter one and 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.160 talking about how is all Joe Biden's fault. He screwed 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.000 Kamala Harrison, the Democratic Party and David Pluff is all 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:15.960 mad and the rest of them He. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.280 Totally afked us. Holy catfish Tye, he writes. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.800 I thought from online buzz that original Sin was a 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.400 Mia Koppa. It would own the press's failures to cover 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.760 Joe Biden's infirmity in a super belated blah blah blah. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.960 But original Sin isn't that as you indicate, Jack. It's 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.839 much crazier. Instead of a dreary and predictable book length 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.200 excuse for thousands of media professionals simultaneously whiffing on the 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.480 most obvious story in history. It's an ambitious book length 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:50.319 effort to absolve all concerned pin and industry's coverage mistake 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.000 on its president drool cup subject, all while additionally swirling 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.360 a new storm system of bull less storylines key part 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.600 to lay more serious questions about things like who was 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.160 president for four years? 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.120 Yeah, the excellent point. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.319 It's the opposite of a mea culpa, and the literary 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.520 degree of difficulty is awesome, equivalent to a blind unicyclist 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.920 trying to juggle six chains. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.360 To Jake and Alex pull it off. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.040 They don't, but they sure leave a hell of a 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.400 lot of blood on stage. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.000 It's probably that it struck him the same way from 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:33.480 page one. It's like, it's it's it's dizzying that what 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:34.880 is happening here? 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:40.280 What is this book right right right? Trying to thread 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:40.840 that needle? 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.200 The book's opening lines tell us we're supposed to be 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.400 shocked by Biden's delusional state, and then he gets into 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.280 some quotes from the book. Reading this, you may experience 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.760 a memory double take. Wasn't the public told repeatedly after 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.120 that after last year's infamous debate that very little had 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.960 changed And these are all quotes from the mainstream media. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.880 There was less polling damage than expected, and few of 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.319 the results reflected or radically altered race. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.160 As NBC put it. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.559 Didn't we see high profile polls telling us that it's 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.840 a dead heat Biden than the lead. Blah blah blah. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:18.600 There are less optimistic takes, but the idea that Joe 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.160 Biden may have thought he had a chance is not 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.880 that insane right after the debate, because the polls had 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:31.920 not really changed. Let's see, in the introduction, Tapper and 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.160 Thompson explained, there's is a literary porridge not too old 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.400 and hot, not too cold, but just right. Those who 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.160 were convinced that Joe Biden was little more than a 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.480 husk from the beginning, barely capable of stringing two sentences together, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.400 will not find support for that view here, they write. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.800 Those who assist he was unaddled to the end are 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.400 also just as wrong. And then he goes into his 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:58.680 own history, writing for Rolling Stone, among others before the election, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.760 that Biden quote, on multiple occasions look close to grabbing 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:06.200 prospective voters by their ears and speed eating their faces off. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.880 And often he looks around like he expects this a 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.320 thumb up for giving into his rage response just just 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.760 his terrible and we we described this at the time. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.440 He would go off on angry, red faced rants at voters, 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.000 or hold women's arms and pull them close for way 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:33.760 too long. Just a mess anyway, Let's see. Uh, anyone 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.760 who recalls this will find it very hard to take 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.200 the Tap for Thompson line that Biden was fine at 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.840 the start, but not at the end. And at some 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.240 point in between his incapacity became obvious enough to be 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.000 melting before our eyes, not only so obvious that anyone 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.360 but Biden could be blamed for lying about it. It 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.720 hurts my brain to think about the math of that one. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.000 And anyway, he goes into some detail on that. There 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.040 was one more. 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.720 Well, like I said, the page before chapter one, whatever 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.800 you call that page, had some long Latin quote and 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.400 then a big quote from Shakespeare like this was some 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:11.800 sort of deep, interesting psychological who saw this coming part 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:16.760 of history and human nature? It's like, get over yourself important, 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.280 Explain to me why you didn't report on what everybody 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.440 knew but they don't yew that no, no, and then 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.520 you know final note, And this is in Matt's style, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.160 quite long, but he talks about in the Dean Phillips 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:37.840 chapter they blame Biden entirely for running again and they're 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.760 not being a primary. But Taivi writes, Thompson and Tapper 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.400 know well that the entire party vetoed the idea of 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.680 an open primary. There's a long chapter titled Dean Phillips. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.720 The Chronicles Weirdly and incompetently the abject process by which 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:56.960 challenge were excluded from any kind of primary process, though 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.880 a lot of the worst shenanigans are left out. The 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.000 two authors less note it was quote it was machine 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.640 style politics to ensure that Biden would be the nominee 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.280 if the entire Democratic Party apparatus went along with spiking 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.800 a robust primary. How can it be all Biden who 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.359 fed us by refusing to acknowledge his decay and quit. Yeah, 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:24.280 it's it is a fake job of accounting. It is 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.200 going an inch toward accounting to avoid having to go 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.280 the next eleven inches. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.840 That would would really, you know, show the deal. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.720 Uh coming up on a talk a little bit about 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:42.000 Elon and the coverage and how angering it is. You 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.920 said it a week ago, Michael, Nobody is going to 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.280 beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. Nobody They moved on to 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.119 the NBA Finals. They're just awaiting their opponent with a 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.639 win by thirty points last night, and they are unstoppable. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.480 They might be the first NBA champion that practically nobody 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.639 could name a player on in NBA history at the 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.040 end of this although there was an article the other 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.159 day that the ratings are up quite a bit with 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:09.240 the smaller markets. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.360 That defies logic. I don't know if that will last 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:11.639 or not. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.000 Armstrong and Getty. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.600 Elon Musk roll as a special government employee coming to 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.040 an end, posting on AX, I would like to thank 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.520 President Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. In 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.840 his last hours working for the Trump administration, Musk breaking 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.680 with the President on his massive spending bill, arguing it 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.560 would undo their own efforts to shrink the federal government. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:36.520 Yeah. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.000 The reporting around Elon Musk stepping away from government and 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:47.639 going back to his old wife, which is incredible. His 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.159 old life was incredible. It's amazing that he took on 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.639 this giant task for a while. But the reporting on 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:58.399 this has been driving me crazy. The combination of a 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:04.399 gloating over how little he accomplished, like that's something to 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.879 be happy about, right, But you're happy about it because 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.959 it was somebody in Trump's orbit failing, even though it's 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.560 going to ruin your kids' lives. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:20.720 Correct. That combination of that and UH and the. 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.360 Dismissing, the dismissing the effort or what was accomplished, just 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.359 it makes me insane. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:27.560 And still to be accomplished. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.760 Yeah, First of all, here's Elon talking about the big 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:32.440 beautiful bill. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.160 You know, I was like disappointed to see the massive 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:41.720 spending bill, frankly, which increases the bunch deps that not 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.359 does decrease it, and that reminds the work that the 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:45.280 Noche team is doing. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.280 I actually thought that when this big beautiful bill came along. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.399 I mean, like everything he's done on Dose gets wiped 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:52.359 out in the first year. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.280 I think, I think a bill can be can be 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.320 can be big, or it can be beautiful, but I 0:19:58.320 --> 0:19:59.440 don't know if it could be both. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.359 So that clip struck me as while he you know, 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.440 he was disappointed in the bill, not nearly the way 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.680 it was portrayed all day long yesterday before I finally 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:10.720 heard it his. 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.280 Last Trump or Musk breaks with Trump right criticize it. 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.040 Finally the bromance is over. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.200 Yeah, it doesn't exactly sound like it to me, especially 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.720 considering the fact that Elon tweeted out I really will. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.200 I can read the tweet to you if you want. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.040 As my scheduled time as special government employee comes to 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.199 an end, I would like to thank President Trump for 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.240 the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE mission will 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.800 only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.560 life throughout the government, which is true to a certain extent, 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:43.280 as they've put a number of things in place. For instance, 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.360 he mentions in that same interview from Sunday morning, there 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:52.040 were all kinds of places in the government where spending 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.760 automatically got signed off without any review whatsoever. You just 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.440 submitted a bill and said, yeah, I need five million 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.760 dollars for this, and somebody just signed whatever I had 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.919 to be signed, and he got it without any thinking 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.480 about it whatsoever. And that's why there's a long list 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.520 of crazy crap. I almost dropped it as bumb crazy 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:12.560 grap that money gets spent on and that is now 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.480 in place and will continue. Is it well short of 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.040 the two trillion dollars he was hoping to cut? Hell, Yeah, 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:22.040 which is very disappointing to me, should be disappointing to everyone. 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:23.440 Yeah, I know it. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.280 And what especially annoys me about the media and which 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.280 is ninety percent half wits and liars anyway, and we 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:34.760 all know it. But they criticize DOGE bitterly, the activities 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.760