Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm.
Speaker 2: Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: The Grammy nominations around and Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga and
Speaker 3: Bad Bunny. They're among the artists with the most nominations.
Speaker 3: Bad Bunny, who's playing in the Super Bowl, right, I
Speaker 3: congratulate him her or it. My son is old school
Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamar. He doesn't like the newer Kendrick Lamar. And
Speaker 3: all I knew was from what I saw of him
Speaker 3: on the Super Bowl last year, and I didn't really
Speaker 3: get it. But he was playing me the like original
Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamar that made him famous, and it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I really dug it.
Speaker 3: The CNN chirn up there says no deal appears imminent
Speaker 3: as long as ever shut down keeps going. I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's accurate or not. Often these things are
Speaker 3: being put together behind the scenes and it doesn't look
Speaker 3: in it until it happens practically, right, Yeah, So I
Speaker 3: wouldn't be shocked if you heard today that the shutdown
Speaker 3: is going to go going to continue. But Mark Alpern
Speaker 3: was writing in his newsletter today that his inside sources
Speaker 3: say both sides think they're winning. So there's not a
Speaker 3: lot of political movement to end the shutdown. That's both
Speaker 3: sides outside of Trump, because Trump announced the other day
Speaker 3: we're losing.
Speaker 2: We need to end this now.
Speaker 1: But well, that's exactly why I formed the f Yolikin
Speaker 1: Party ef y'all, and we formed a political party. And
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Speaker 2: We now have pickleball paddles. H I'm not against it, no, no, okay,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Super helps keep everybody on the payroll during these challenging times.
Speaker 1: So we've got a lot to squeeze in this last
Speaker 1: hour of the week. But first Friday, traditional time to
Speaker 1: take a fine look back of the week. That was
Speaker 1: it's cow clips of the week.
Speaker 2: If clips up.
Speaker 3: The week, the greatest and most dramatic eight seven in
Speaker 3: the World series history, and that.
Speaker 4: One is tak bye Pas. I'm ready to get another rings.
Speaker 3: Here's Japan is grappling with a grizzly problem, deadly bear
Speaker 3: attacks and Paris prosecutors now say amateurs, not professionals, carried
Speaker 3: out the heist at.
Speaker 2: The Loup Panick at a Louisiana fair.
Speaker 5: Rescuer scaling of Ferris will to reach a woman clinging
Speaker 5: to an overtipped carriage.
Speaker 2: God woking me up to six forty five Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: He goes wrong. Get your boots on, let's go walking.
Speaker 2: I'm a woman and every right to not one a
Speaker 2: man in the restroom.
Speaker 4: I'm naked.
Speaker 3: Americans will lose one hundred and thirty five billion pounds
Speaker 3: by the midterms.
Speaker 2: I don't measure it in pounds. I measure it and
Speaker 2: save lives. It's actually funny. It was December eighteenth.
Speaker 3: I remember because that's an important date to me, as
Speaker 3: Joseph Stalin's birthday.
Speaker 2: I'm a fan.
Speaker 3: Character AI, a bot generating app that connects users with
Speaker 3: fictional bought friends, ended up.
Speaker 2: With the bots initiating romantic kissing. We also have to
Speaker 2: work those sort of the dark side, if you will.
Speaker 3: When the day starts with Dick trading and being dead,
Speaker 3: it ends with Mom Donnie winning.
Speaker 4: Yes, so hear me, President Trump, when I say this,
Speaker 4: to get to any of.
Speaker 2: Us, you will have to get through all of us.
Speaker 2: Every twenty years or so. We need a conspicuous, confined
Speaker 2: experiment with socialism so we can cry it up again.
Speaker 4: I'm a democratic socialist who's also a democrat.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 5: I just like more than the politician that sits there
Speaker 5: and lies to you.
Speaker 2: It's just a vital creature. The worst thing among face
Speaker 2: of the earth.
Speaker 3: Tread.
Speaker 6: Dread.
Speaker 1: When someone branded people inhaling, they're exhaling what they're done inhaling.
Speaker 2: It's a dread doctor clips of a wish.
Speaker 3: There's no way Nick Buinas actually admires Stalin. He's just
Speaker 3: trolling and he's an edge lord. What's an ex lord.
Speaker 1: It's somebody who's constantly pushing to the very limits of
Speaker 1: acceptability to get attention, to be provocative. Particularly it attracts
Speaker 1: young men. All young men are like that. They like
Speaker 1: the risky and the dangerous and the I'm not supposed
Speaker 1: to say this, but I get it.
Speaker 2: There's something else there. He's a piece of crap, but
Speaker 2: a moral.
Speaker 3: There's something else in the clips of the weekend on
Speaker 3: to comment on, but I don't remember what it was anyway,
Speaker 3: Maybe it'll pop into my head at much. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: you were going to try to tell us what the
Speaker 3: government shut down is actually about.
Speaker 2: Do you is it? Is it Obamacare? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's continuing the subsidies. I've got
Speaker 1: a d.
Speaker 3: Now, have the Republicans not done a better job of
Speaker 3: saying no, no, no, no, no, we're not We're not cutting Obamacare.
Speaker 3: We're going back to the pre COVID. They we changed
Speaker 3: all the medical policies because of COVID. Not COVID's over
Speaker 3: and we're going back to the old that's.
Speaker 2: Worth following the law that the Democrats passed.
Speaker 3: What's crazy about that? You were going back to the
Speaker 3: original Democratic law?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Their messaging is terrible. I haven't heard anybody say it.
Speaker 3: That's succinctly.
Speaker 2: It's an F minus the Republican party's messaging. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, of everybody you got f's, you're the worst.
Speaker 1: I am actually mystified by it. I don't get it
Speaker 1: how their messaging can be as bad as it is.
Speaker 1: Who wrote this? It's really good, Rick oh Rick Scott.
Speaker 1: Congressional Democrats have said the quiet part out loud. They
Speaker 1: want the federal government to keep cutting massive checks to
Speaker 1: insurance companies, forever, using your tax dollars to show up
Speaker 1: the sinking ship of Obamacare, even shut down the government
Speaker 1: to make sure it happens. Obamacare did not deliver on
Speaker 1: its promise of health care affordability and stability. If you
Speaker 1: like your health care plan, you're screwed, was the truth.
Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, promised to bring down health care costs
Speaker 1: savings of twenty five hundred dollars a year for every
Speaker 1: American family and two hundred billion dollars for the federal government.
Speaker 2: Was a complete fiction by Obamacare.
Speaker 1: And to keep Obamacare float, the federal government has propped
Speaker 1: it up with hundreds of billions of dollars in handouts
Speaker 1: directly to the insurance industry, while failing to lower costs.
Speaker 1: And these handouts lacked any accountability or eligibility requirements, opening
Speaker 1: them up to fraud, waste, and mass confusion that line
Speaker 1: the pockets of insurance companies and brokers and failed Americans
Speaker 1: who need help. The whole system is misconceived, he writes,
Speaker 1: but Washington has done its best to hide that from
Speaker 1: the American people.
Speaker 2: That's all true and interesting.
Speaker 3: I still think it's too complicated, though, so when the
Speaker 3: shutdown started, they were making air they want to give
Speaker 3: your tax money to illegals for their healthcare, which is true,
Speaker 3: but I still think it's too complicated. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: we just want to go back to the pre COVID situation.
Speaker 3: That's the law the Democrats passed that they were so
Speaker 3: proud of. You're not proud of it anymore, or what.
Speaker 3: We're just going to go back to the pre COVID law, right,
Speaker 3: we had you ought to be in charge of the
Speaker 3: Republican Party's messaging. COVID was the biggest health emergency in
Speaker 3: a century, so we adjusted our sales. Of course, now
Speaker 3: we're going back to the pre emergency numbers. Why is
Speaker 3: this so complicated? It frustrates me. No end they can't
Speaker 3: get that.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I think you'd have a fair amount of agreement if
Speaker 3: people knew that, because when you position it at well,
Speaker 3: anything more complex or a cut, which is an easy
Speaker 3: way to position of your Democrats, people react negatively to that.
Speaker 2: Often.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've felt at times rooting for various
Speaker 1: sports teams that just flat sucked, and I thought, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be emotionally invested in you anymore.
Speaker 1: I might watch because I enjoy the sport, and I
Speaker 1: might be I've got to readjust my sales. I might
Speaker 1: be thinking, Okay, I wonder if that kid's going to
Speaker 1: be any good. Maybe they can help us in future seasons.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna have any emotional investment anymore. I
Speaker 1: feel that way about the Republican Party. Some days you're
Speaker 1: just so bad at what you do, and yet against
Speaker 1: all of the media and academia and entertainment, Republicans still
Speaker 1: win elections because their ideas are so much better.
Speaker 2: Generally speaking, I.
Speaker 3: Might look over the I might look over the Grammy
Speaker 3: nominations and just came out say, if there's anything I
Speaker 3: think is interesting to you our audience, But what's your
Speaker 3: least favorite kind of music that like, you just have
Speaker 3: no toleration for you can't really listen to it. I
Speaker 3: say this, of course, because I've got one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, popular like pop country makes my skin crawl.
Speaker 2: It's funny what my son said last night when we
Speaker 2: were talking about this.
Speaker 3: My oldest he said, I like pretty much all kinds
Speaker 3: of music, and he does have a very varied, varied taste,
Speaker 3: mostly hip hop, but it kind of listen to everything.
Speaker 3: Every once in a while he surprises me with something.
Speaker 3: He said, I just can't do modern country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like a lot of like twangy music,
Speaker 1: Americana and traditional American music and stuff like that, but
Speaker 1: it's just so formulaic, and it's just it's so formulaic,
Speaker 1: it just it bothers me. Yeah, It's like it's the
Speaker 1: musical equivalent of a rom com where you know the
Speaker 1: entire plot in the first ten minutes.
Speaker 3: I don't dig it, but if it's on, it doesn't
Speaker 3: bother me. Like the only genre I can't really get
Speaker 3: into his metal. I just I don't even want it
Speaker 3: to on around me.
Speaker 1: I do not.
Speaker 2: I've tried many.
Speaker 3: Times because I like so many different kinds of music,
Speaker 3: and my son was talking to me about how I
Speaker 3: go through phases, and I do.
Speaker 2: I go through a classical phase.
Speaker 3: Then I'll be on jazz, and then I'll be on
Speaker 3: Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie and then I'll just I'll
Speaker 3: do him each for a week or two. But I've
Speaker 3: tried with metal, and I just can't find any enjoyment
Speaker 3: in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know, my son, who is practically a musical genius,
Speaker 1: is super into it, and he is a huge Robert
Speaker 1: Earl Keene fan and Bob Dylan and Rush and a
Speaker 1: hundred other things. But he says it gets all of
Speaker 1: the angst and all the frustration.
Speaker 2: Out of him.
Speaker 1: Hmm, it's just a dragic bang in your head and
Speaker 1: all it's just it just it flushes it all the way.
Speaker 2: Katie.
Speaker 1: You're a metal fan, right, at least you know so
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of different genres of metal.
Speaker 2: It's like country people here.
Speaker 1: I don't like country and might think I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear you know whatever, a great American act, And
Speaker 1: that's not true.
Speaker 2: Right, Haggard as opposed to whoever's popular.
Speaker 1: I want to listen to the old ninety sevens all day,
Speaker 1: but I have no desire and what's on the radio screaming?
Speaker 2: It gets a little rough in the metal sometimes. But
Speaker 2: I felt about the Cookie Monster thing.
Speaker 3: What amazes me is that Drew can understand what they're saying,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, we translate because I have no idea
Speaker 3: what they're saying. I I got plenty of anngst and frustration.
Speaker 3: So you think it would work for me? Mmm, we'll
Speaker 3: teach their own, Michael. Any kind of music you just
Speaker 3: don't like?
Speaker 2: Polka? Polka? Yeah, too many clarinets?
Speaker 3: I like some polka, I like some yoldling. I mean
Speaker 3: I could listen to yodling more than I could.
Speaker 2: Listen to metal today. If I had to listen to one.
Speaker 3: Thing, like classic yieldling. It was always on TV when
Speaker 3: Joe and I. Joe and I are old, we're eaching
Speaker 3: our nineties. But when we were kids, on television, there's
Speaker 3: every once in a while they'd have a yodler on.
Speaker 3: I don't know who they were trying to satisfy with that,
Speaker 3: like what the hell, Well, you.
Speaker 2: Couldn't tune out. I mean, it was like, what the
Speaker 2: hell is that?
Speaker 3: And then they'd hit that part towards the end where
Speaker 3: they'd go yeah really really fast, and the crowd had
Speaker 3: like come to their feet with amazement.
Speaker 2: Let's see yodling equivalent of.
Speaker 1: Right right, yeah, right, Oh my god, good times.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we got a little update on all the flights
Speaker 3: being canceled, on how much that's disrupting air traffic today.
Speaker 3: I just got a funny text from somebody who's at
Speaker 3: the airport. Would all have to read to you is
Speaker 3: quite humorous.
Speaker 1: So I'm absolutely drowning in things I really want to
Speaker 1: talk about, but I feel the need to at least
Speaker 1: tip our cap to the great Peggy Noonan who's out
Speaker 1: with her column or weekly column. And it's entitled ahem,
Speaker 1: take Momdanni seriously and literally.
Speaker 2: Well that's a good one. I want to hear that.
Speaker 2: So all that stuff's on the way, you stay here, Hetty.
Speaker 7: Trump announcing new deals drastically lowering the prices of g
Speaker 7: LP one obesity drugs like ozempic, even bringing reporters back
Speaker 7: into the room to hear more about the impact after
Speaker 7: being ushered out.
Speaker 2: When a man in the back face.
Speaker 3: Americas will lose one hundred and thirty five billion pounds
Speaker 3: by the midterms.
Speaker 2: I don't measure it in pounds. I measure it and
Speaker 2: save lives. Yeah, that wasn't a number to me. I
Speaker 2: didn't see it till this morning where Trump explained, one
Speaker 2: of your big name will go VI or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: One of your big names is going to go from
Speaker 3: thirteen to fifty a month to two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: dollars a month.
Speaker 2: Thirteen hundred and fifty. Yeah, thirteen hundred and fifty a
Speaker 2: month to two hundred and fifty a month.
Speaker 3: So it went from man, you got to really need
Speaker 3: it or have a lot of money before you're going
Speaker 3: to do that to lots of people could figure out
Speaker 3: a way to pay two fifty a month.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a lot of people have spent that more
Speaker 1: on various diet planes and gyms and the rest of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's intriguing for sure, and it could pay enormous health dividends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the theory is that that's what's going to
Speaker 3: drive lowering the cost. Is insurance companies are going to
Speaker 3: quickly figure out this is the best investment we've ever
Speaker 3: made because there are one hundred or more diseases. I
Speaker 3: heard a doctor this morning on News Nation that obesity
Speaker 3: is a huge contributed to and that's way more expensive
Speaker 3: than subsidizing these drugs.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 1: Obese to rates, by the way, have fallen in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years for the first time in many
Speaker 1: many years, and I thought it's probably mostly the weight
Speaker 1: loss drugs.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah wow.
Speaker 3: So also the idea that they'll be prescribed to more
Speaker 3: people that aren't, you know, profoundly obese, like was the beginning,
Speaker 3: it'd be just people that got twenty five pounds to lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, you know, I'm not profoundly obese. But
Speaker 1: I'm certainly heavier than I need to be in it
Speaker 1: has its health effects. You know, it's funny I close
Speaker 1: this tab because it's the same old, same old. But
Speaker 1: the ten least and most obese states in America, you're obese.
Speaker 1: Five are Alabama, Louisas In Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and West Virginia.
Speaker 1: It's the usual suspects and the fittest states allegedly Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, Utah,
Speaker 1: in Colorado, the usual suspects.
Speaker 2: And what do you attribute that to? Uh?
Speaker 1: Culture, culture and diet, and diet is part of culture.
Speaker 1: Southern cooking is absolutely freaking delicious, but you got to
Speaker 1: burn a hell of a lot of glories. Yeah, whereas
Speaker 1: in Colorado you get your your kales and your keen wahs,
Speaker 1: your whatever the heck you people eat.
Speaker 3: My son hates red meat, my oldest. It's really tough,
Speaker 3: makes it tough to go out there.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just because that's my favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 3: I love the red meat, like chicken. He will eat chicken,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't like uh, he doesn't like anything steak burgers,
Speaker 3: anything like that.
Speaker 2: And those are my favorite places.
Speaker 3: And then often they're chicken offering is kind of excuse
Speaker 3: me for weirdos who won't eat a.
Speaker 2: Steak or burgers.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't think this personally, but he's, say
Speaker 1: a Chinese spot.
Speaker 3: He thinks steak is discussing. I know, I say, I
Speaker 3: told he we get out of the car. And then
Speaker 3: I look at the son of my I'm what do
Speaker 3: you call?
Speaker 2: Well? He barely is.
Speaker 3: My dad was in the cattle business' entire life when
Speaker 3: we grew up, eating state and it's my favorite thing anyway,
Speaker 3: all our favorite restaurants that I've ever gone to. I
Speaker 3: don't like any of this stuff, so I looked it up.
Speaker 3: I asked, Grox, So what do you call somebody who
Speaker 3: only eats chicken?
Speaker 1: Does?
Speaker 3: He doesn't like fish either, only eats chicken, no red meat.
Speaker 3: It's an apollo or an apolitarian. A politarian, that's what
Speaker 3: you are.
Speaker 2: You're a I believe in anarchy, but with a strong
Speaker 2: fire department exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of radical politics, the Great Peggy Noon and
Speaker 1: weighing in on morom Momkami uh and uh. Actually, oddly enough,
Speaker 1: Stephen Smith and Victor Davis Hansen on Mamdanie. Oh really,
Speaker 1: last time you heard those three human beings in the
Speaker 1: same sentence. I haven't paragraph anyway, so I look forward
Speaker 1: to that fantastic little Danny wrap up. He doesn't take
Speaker 1: office till January. You realize he can't do anything yet.
Speaker 1: So it's there's still time to buy a new hammer
Speaker 1: and poliship your sickle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get that sickle sharp. You got to start stabbing
Speaker 3: the economy until it bleeds out dark glad aunt of time.
Speaker 3: So I don't take this any further.
Speaker 2: I give stuff, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4: Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics
Speaker 4: of our city who made this movement their own. I
Speaker 4: speak of Yemeny bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi
Speaker 4: drivers and who's beck nurses, Trinidadian lime coach and Ethiopian aunties, Yes, aunties.
Speaker 1: Let the inevitable lying begin so typical of Marxists, claiming
Speaker 1: that he was representing the working poor, the minorities, the immigrants.
Speaker 1: The numbers do not bear that sentiment out at all.
Speaker 3: I saw this yesterday, meant to bring it up. It's
Speaker 3: really interesting, and more than the fact that he lied
Speaker 3: about it, who he's representing, the media completely unaware of
Speaker 3: who he's representing, or.
Speaker 2: They don't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cuomo won the I don't have a high school
Speaker 1: degree vote by eight points.
Speaker 2: Cuomo did.
Speaker 1: Voters who his education ended with a high school diploma
Speaker 1: backed Cuomo over Mndami to the tune of forty six
Speaker 1: to forty percent, and forty seven percent of those with
Speaker 1: some college voted for Cuomo, compared with forty one percent
Speaker 1: who backed Mamdanni.
Speaker 3: Mamdannie's strength was with the city's elite. Mamdanni lost everybody
Speaker 3: but college educated.
Speaker 1: Right, so you don't get to standands degree. People went
Speaker 1: in droves from Mamdani.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't get to stand up in front of
Speaker 3: a crowd and yell, I represent the working class. No
Speaker 3: you don't. You represent the college educated. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just factually true. These are the numbers. But again, to me,
Speaker 3: I wish the media would have, you know, understood that
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: Right, radical ideology is almost always the product of the elite,
Speaker 1: the young, wealthy, comfortable elite. It happens over and over
Speaker 1: and over again in history, and it's happened again. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, people the media pretend that's not the case.
Speaker 1: They fall they just lap up the rhetoric and never
Speaker 1: question it.
Speaker 3: And we all know how it has just generally been
Speaker 3: true broadly that the more education you have, the more
Speaker 3: money you make throughout your life. So the people that
Speaker 3: could benefit for the most in theory from rent control
Speaker 3: and free buses and right in the subway for free
Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff, they voted for Homo.
Speaker 1: Right, right, that's the narrative here, that's the narrative. Everybody
Speaker 1: ought to be talkingly. That's the most interesting part of
Speaker 1: the whole story. I know, I know, and we we
Speaker 1: kind of buried it too. Here we are an hour
Speaker 1: or four, but at least we're getting to it. Let's
Speaker 1: hear from a couple more voices before we get to
Speaker 1: the fabulous Peggy Noon. And this is a basketball commentator
Speaker 1: and budding politician, Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith.
Speaker 6: I'm very concerned about what he once said about defunding
Speaker 6: the police. I don't want to see left police officers.
Speaker 6: I want to see more police officers. I heard him
Speaker 6: talk about mental health experts in the subway system.
Speaker 2: I don't care about that. I want cops in the subways,
Speaker 2: pre buses, pre grocery stores in each borough.
Speaker 6: I really think that's gonna wear, which means that rent freezes,
Speaker 6: which is also something that my'm Donnie push. Is that
Speaker 6: really going to be plausible? Are you really going to
Speaker 6: be able to freeze rent? Or are you gonna end
Speaker 6: up hiking it because you don't have enough people here
Speaker 6: to pay it. The people who love Mom Donnie the
Speaker 6: most are not people who pay bills every day.
Speaker 2: Why does Steven All know that?
Speaker 3: And the media doesn't know that, or or any commentators
Speaker 3: on the race, right, the polling probably showed that leading
Speaker 3: up to this, nobody was telling that story. Now, look,
Speaker 3: he's he's winning overwhelmingly among the college educated.
Speaker 2: The downtrodden don't want him. That that should.
Speaker 3: Have been evident in the polling, and nobody was talking
Speaker 3: about that. Oh my god, isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry. It's like I'm punched in the face.
Speaker 1: Every time somebody brings up rent control. It's like somebody
Speaker 1: runs into the room and says, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: just got an email from a Nigerian prince. I won
Speaker 1: the Nigerian lottery and all I have to do is
Speaker 1: dot Rent Control is a scam, just one notch below that.
Speaker 1: It never ever works. It removes units from the market,
Speaker 1: and it makes landlords not maintain their properties anymore because
Speaker 1: they can't charge a rent commensurate with their costs.
Speaker 2: It's a nightmare anyway. From Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith to this is pro probably the first time the
Speaker 1: sentence has ever been uttered in the English language.
Speaker 2: From Stephen A. Smith to Victor Davis Hansen.
Speaker 8: People forget that New York was already in a physical
Speaker 8: crisis because it had too much socialism. People were not
Speaker 8: paying their fares on the subway or the bus anyway.
Speaker 8: So he's going to the next step of neolism. And
Speaker 8: you know, he's on the back of a communist tiger
Speaker 8: because you hear Linda Sarsour and these other radical Muslims
Speaker 8: and Islamises, his anti Semites that he's he's written and
Speaker 8: now he can't if he gets off, they're going to devour,
Speaker 8: you know, devour him. So he's going to ride that
Speaker 8: all the way to the most extreme logical end, and
Speaker 8: it doesn't look good for New York. I don't see
Speaker 8: a way out for it right now.
Speaker 1: As an aside, I've been really gratified that VDH who
Speaker 1: is the dean of conservative historians and a brilliant man,
Speaker 1: has not won second of patients for the wolfkwrite anti
Speaker 1: Semite thing. He's really come out strongly. Well done, VDH.
Speaker 1: Anyway to Peggy Noonan, who as usual wrote a wonderful
Speaker 1: column in this case about Zoron Mndami and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: skip around a little bit, but she writes, Mumdanni got
Speaker 1: the mandate he wanted and it was big. He broke
Speaker 1: past fifty percent in a three man race as a
Speaker 1: declared not hidden socialist, the first such mayor in New York. Oh,
Speaker 1: I should tell you that the title of this piece
Speaker 1: is take Mumdanni seriously and literally. He did this at
Speaker 1: age thirty four, with no real resume, and as a Muslim,
Speaker 1: again a first. It is a most extraordinary achievement. And
Speaker 1: he didn't come to do nothing. Alexandria Casio Cortez was
Speaker 1: elected to Congress in twenty eighteen and went to Washington,
Speaker 1: where she posed for magazine covers and did TikTok rants.
Speaker 1: She didn't accomplish much after she ran into a little
Speaker 1: iceberg named Nancy Pelosi. Mister Mumdanni won't take a page
Speaker 1: from that book. He's as serious as a heart attack.
Speaker 1: He told us in his victory speech. This is a
Speaker 1: man who's six months ago was un to the vast
Speaker 1: majority of New Yorkers and ten months ago was pulling
Speaker 1: at one percent. Was he humbled by new York's open minded,
Speaker 1: open hearted, embraced embraced Not in the least. He delivered
Speaker 1: a declaration of dominance. And we've played some of these clips.
Speaker 1: To get to any of us, you'll have to get
Speaker 1: through all of us. Billionaires can play by the same
Speaker 1: rules as the rest of us. We have toppled a
Speaker 1: political dynasty. We will put an end to the culture
Speaker 1: of corruption with communism.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
Speaker 1: We will prove that there's no problem too large for
Speaker 1: government to solve and no concern too small for it
Speaker 1: to care about.
Speaker 2: He declared a new age.
Speaker 1: He made Barack Obama look modest and self effacing, perhaps
Speaker 1: the most horrifying of those statements, departing from the text.
Speaker 1: To me, we'll prove that there is no problem too
Speaker 1: large for government to solve and no concern too small
Speaker 1: for it to care about.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a different worldview than I've got.
Speaker 1: Meaning government now has the right to get involved in
Speaker 1: everything you do and say, probably think.
Speaker 2: Because that's who's going to solve your problems?
Speaker 1: Van Jones, watching it live on TV, we played you
Speaker 1: this clip said, I felt like he was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a character switch here. During the campaign, mister
Speaker 1: Mamdani was the warm, embracing fellow with the dimpled smile,
Speaker 1: who loved everyone with undifferentiated warmth. The night he won,
Speaker 1: he showed who he was, a serious id log who
Speaker 1: means it. In the day after interview in The New
Speaker 1: York Times, he spoke of the size of his win.
Speaker 1: It is a mandate to deliver on the agenda that
Speaker 1: we ran on. The conversation turned to his plan to
Speaker 1: raise taxes on the wealthy. In the past, he implied
Speaker 1: that there might be other ways to raise funds for
Speaker 1: his programs, but not now. I think that our tax
Speaker 1: system is an example of the many ways in which
Speaker 1: working people have been betrayed. The Times headline, an emboldened
Speaker 1: Mundanni sheds conciliatory tone. Everybody noticed it. A good guess,
Speaker 1: writes Peggy Noonan. He won't start he won't start out moderate,
Speaker 1: but he will be clever because he is. And here's
Speaker 1: the nut of what she wanted to write about. He'll
Speaker 1: focus first on city services, is such as garbage collection,
Speaker 1: knowing he can lose it all if he shows incompetence
Speaker 1: on the basics. He won't quit impose the Democratic Socialists
Speaker 1: of America criminal justice agenda and allow crime to spike.
Speaker 1: He won't wear down popular and respected police Commissioner Jessica
Speaker 1: Tish right away. He'll wait, but as months go by
Speaker 1: he'll be an inch by inch bulldozer. And then this
Speaker 1: is kind of an a side, but it's so good.
Speaker 1: His economic agenda is to hike taxes on millionaires, billionaires,
Speaker 1: and corporations. Nobody minds if he gets another five million
Speaker 1: bucks out a year out of a billionaire. Even the
Speaker 1: billionaire will hardly notice. I wonder if the Mundanian administration
Speaker 1: is going to find out that billionaires and corporations have
Speaker 1: many legal ways to protect their wealth and profits, but
Speaker 1: high salary quote unquote millionaires people who own a one
Speaker 1: point four million dollar apartment and earn a joint six
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year and have two kids in
Speaker 1: Catholic school, each with tuition, and are highly taxed already,
Speaker 1: that they're going to get clobbered. I wonder if socialists
Speaker 1: care about these fine points or just want to raise
Speaker 1: taxes on the rich Eddie rich and get the credit
Speaker 1: with their followers.
Speaker 2: I suspect the latter.
Speaker 1: I suspect they think, why should anyone have a million
Speaker 1: dollar apartment when the homeless sleep in the streets anyway, Uh.
Speaker 2: And is not what the non college educated are worried about, apparently.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. No, They're like, no, these are junkies
Speaker 1: and crazy people. And then she gets into one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand volunteers who are underemployed and will try to help
Speaker 1: him by volunteering at his communist grocery stores. All right,
Speaker 1: here is the part that really brings it home. And
Speaker 1: this is uh, this is the message to conservatives. Republicans
Speaker 1: should understand. Mister Mumdanni, isn't your boogeyman to use for
Speaker 1: your electoral amusement. You think you're going to make him
Speaker 1: the face of the Democratic Party in that stupid phrase,
Speaker 1: and everyone will hate Democrats and you'll profit without even trying.
Speaker 2: But he's cleverer than you.
Speaker 1: He understands the world of right now better and in
Speaker 1: any case, he has an ideology. He swallowed whole at
Speaker 1: his father's knee with mother's milk and is fully absorbed
Speaker 1: and digested. He thinks he knows his historical meaning you.
Speaker 1: It isn't necessarily true that mister Mumdannie, unless he is
Speaker 1: an utter failure, will sour those outside New York on
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Americans think New York is a place
Speaker 1: apart a liberal city that will always be New Yorking.
Speaker 1: In the coming AI crisis, his brand of leftism may
Speaker 1: start to look good to some people. Mister Trump can't
Speaker 1: moderate himself for his policies and will continue to rouse
Speaker 1: wild opposition. He is the face of his party. Mumdannie
Speaker 1: can't do anything alone. He needs the governor. Kathy Hokel
Speaker 1: is up for re election, faces a primary challenge from
Speaker 1: the left, and is surrounded by progressive legislators. She's your
Speaker 1: bulwark against him. Take him both literally and seriously.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's interesting. So that's two people.
Speaker 3: That we've read saying a not so fast with that
Speaker 3: this is going to be good for conservatism. Peggy Noonan
Speaker 3: and Douglas Murray. Those are two people you ought to
Speaker 3: pay attention to. They're two of my favor smartest people
Speaker 3: I know who are both saying, yeah, this is not
Speaker 3: gonna help.
Speaker 1: And both are serious people, because that's what other story said,
Speaker 1: shuckers and click grabbers.
Speaker 3: His piece from a couple a month or so ago
Speaker 3: was was very similar. He could do a lot of
Speaker 3: damage and he could catch on with a lot of people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because the scam is an attractive scam.
Speaker 1: Socialism is to you know, George will putting out the
Speaker 1: other day, seems like we have to have an experiment
Speaker 1: in it that fails miserably about once every twenty years,
Speaker 1: because it's so seductive and I hate to sung sue
Speaker 1: you to death, but the worst thing we could possibly
Speaker 1: do is underestimate this extremely clever enemy of the Western world,
Speaker 1: because I believe firmly he is that boy.
Speaker 3: Her point about AI was true. So with the shutdown
Speaker 3: going on, we didn't get our normal government numbers. But
Speaker 3: I was listening to a newscast today where they were
Speaker 3: using private numbers to try to get a guess where
Speaker 3: we are on jobs right now. And it was a
Speaker 3: horrible month October, something like one hundred fifty thousand jobs lost,
Speaker 3: almost all attributed to AI. If AI does anything close
Speaker 3: to what it's supposed to do with people losing their jobs, man,
Speaker 3: the seductive siren of social socialism is going to be
Speaker 3: more attractive than ever.
Speaker 2: The Francification of the United States continues.
Speaker 3: Don't you think you have you have millions of college
Speaker 3: graduates how to work out there, because AI, they're all
Speaker 3: going to be mom DAMMI type voters.
Speaker 2: It's entirely possible. Yes, that'll be fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Ah, we're in a what was the line from the
Speaker 1: classical brother Where aren't though?
Speaker 2: My god, we're in a tight spot. Yeah? Yeah, or
Speaker 2: I always liked the line from No Country for Old Men.
Speaker 2: This is a mess, isn't the sheriff? Well if it ain't,
Speaker 2: it'll do to the mess. Gets here, Amen to that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll finish strong next farm strong and getty.
Speaker 5: At eighty years old, Natalie Graybow is all about to
Speaker 5: find the ovs as the oldest woman to ever complete
Speaker 5: the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. Graybow powered through a
Speaker 5: two point four mile swim, then a one hundred and
Speaker 5: twelve mile bike ride, and then she ran a full marathon,
Speaker 5: beating the seventeen hour cutoff and more than sixty other athletes.
Speaker 2: That's impossible.
Speaker 3: So when I heard a triathl a triathlon because they
Speaker 3: vary and some of the triathlons are you know, you
Speaker 3: swim a half a mile, you run a five k,
Speaker 3: and you bike ride for five months, which is fine, that's,
Speaker 3: you know, good athletic, But not the big one, the
Speaker 3: full marathon, one hundred mile bike ride and a couple
Speaker 3: mile swim. I don't know how anybody does that period.
Speaker 3: I ran a marathon once. It almost killed me. The
Speaker 3: idea of getting on a bike afterwards or before and
Speaker 3: riding one hundred miles is insane.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 1: That's if everybody trained their whole lives to do that.
Speaker 1: What percentage of us could still do that at age
Speaker 1: eighty be small or ever ever, but.
Speaker 2: Eighty Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's going
Speaker 2: on there.
Speaker 3: Of course, how long to take her? Did she start
Speaker 3: it in twenty sixteen? You just finished yesterday?
Speaker 2: No, she was better than the seventeen hour cutoff.
Speaker 3: They said, Oh right, God, dang it. That is really something.
Speaker 3: That's got to be a genetics thing.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 3: Still a large extent, sure, he says, wanting to discount
Speaker 3: his lazy ass.
Speaker 1: Right, it's not sloth and lack of ambition that holds
Speaker 1: me back, it's genetics.
Speaker 2: Donuts.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Katie Green, are seeing Newswoman As a final thought.
Speaker 2: Katie, I lost it with that. I'm sorry following that.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, that whole segment.
Speaker 3: Really it was a mixture of emotions like sad and disturbed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what hour was that? Get the podcast?
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Speaker 1: One of my favorite things we talked about today was
Speaker 1: that Craig Abbott threatened date one hundred percent tariff on
Speaker 1: New Yorker's moving to Texas, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: took him seriously and started screeching online about how that
Speaker 1: was constitutional and you can't have tariffs on people.
Speaker 2: And didn't get the joke. That's a funny thing to say.
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Speaker 2: People are angry. Thinks that happened a few days ago.
Speaker 2: Did it back up and run over the thing? You
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