WEBVTT - We Still Use Floppies 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:10.719 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:17.560 and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.160 Were just under forty eight hours until the first votes 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.880 are cast. The most powerful men of the Catholic Church 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.199 are focusing their minds and mostly keeping their silence. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:37.440 Eminence. Hello, what I said? How is today's meeting? Eminence? 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:38.880 How is today's meeting? 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.840 It's the daily dance of the cardinals and the journalists. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:43.599 But the countdown is on. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.199 How many of these journalists give a crap who the 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:46.879 next pope is? 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:49.680 And I don't know, they're told to go cover it. I 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.920 guess is this touch with this? 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.160 I feel like I care more about the Catholic Church 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.840 than the average person I know, and I'm not hanging 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:58.840 on every moment. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.480 Yeah, I'm not contemptuous of it, but like, I don't 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.200 care who wins the NBA Final, but people enjoy it, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:06.199 so that's okay. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.080 I do care who's the NBA Final. I'm rooting for 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.880 the next I think, assuming the Warriors. I'm a Warrior 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.119 band wagon wagon jumper, fake fan, That's what I say. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.160 In the brunts and jersey today, you're the pope a 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.520 bandwagon jumpin' Well, I was I gonna say, but it's 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.119 got a bit of a combination of the met Gala 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.520 and royal family in terms of covering it, doesn't it. 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.120 It's just that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, certainly the 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:35.360 direction doctrine wise of the Catholic Church going forward has 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.720 significance to mankind. I just definitely I don't have the 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.920 bandwidth to understand who these people are and root for 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:43.280 one thing or another. Just let me know who you 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.600 choose to be pope and I'll go from there. I 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.880 thought this was funny, though funny interesting. ABC News last 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.520 night was breathless and taking it one hundred percent seriously 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.480 and looking desperately for clues in the next Climichael. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.480 But the Archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia did stop to offer 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.880 a clue. He's one of the one hundred and thirty 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.160 three cardinals who will choose the next pope. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:10.359 What kind of leader would you like? You can't hear 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.680 the rest of it. He's murmuring, but he's saying, Francis's 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:19.560 name has come up many times. What does that mean? Simplicity? 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.000 Simplicity of doctrine of lifestyle and then he wandered off 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.880 and ABC News they teased like four times a clue 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.840 from one of the archbishops. I just thought the whole 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.920 thing was a little overcooked. And I believe they overegged 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:37.680 the pudding. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.040 And if you found out today who the Pope was 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.360 going to be two days before they announced it, what 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:44.720 would you do with that information? 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:51.040 And markets I'd attempt to profit coming up some hilarious 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:56.320 and bizarre historical notes from the conclaves back in history. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:00.799 But first, what about the pope meme put out by 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.600 the White House? S Dounnell J. Trump in Pope garb 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.400 Ai generated? What of that? Ninety three? Michael, Yes, ma'am, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.520 thank you Cathic. We're not so happy about the image 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.200 of you looking like the Pope. Oh I see. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.960 You mean they can't take a joke. You don't mean 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.400 the Catholics, you mean the fake news media, not. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.960 The Catholics loved it. I had nothing to do with it. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.080 Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.120 Pope and they put it out on the internet. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.520 That's not me that did it. I have no idea 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:36.160 where it came from. Maybe it was Ai maybe yeah, yeah, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:41.560 just silly. Okay, we're outraged or pretending to be anyway, 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.840 because yeah, there are various Catholic officials and said I 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.680 didn't think that was appropriate, and some have said that 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.480 was really funny. So we're fine. The world is fine. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.280 We have like one thousand and seventy seven bigger problems 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.280 than that. Why don't we concentrate on those? I thought 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:01.280 this was amazing looking back to you yesteryear, and when 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.240 I'm talking really yesteryear. The year twelve sixty eight, jack, Wow. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.440 The conclave in the town of Faturbo near Rome was 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.200 the longest in history. The cardinals were bitterly divided over 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.000 the next pope. The Italian prelates wanted an Italian pope, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.320 the French wanted a Frenchman, and neither side budged for 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:23.040 nearly three years. Wow. So to break the deadlock, the 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.200 local population I guess they were sick of all the 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.920 cardinals in town or something, sucking up the good hotel 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.640 rooms and crowding the restaurants, like having the Super Bowl 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.840 in your town for three straight years. I don't know. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.680 They locked the cardinals in the hall of the papal palace, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.920 reduced their diet to bread and water, and bricked up 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.480 all the windows. That's the way they even Oh, they 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.640 even removed the roof, which they said was to allow 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.479 the Holy Spirit direct access, but in truth was to 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.800 expose all the cardinals to the elements, so they'd be 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.000 so miserable they'd come to a damned decision. That conclave 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.279 was the longest in history, and it actually gave papal 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.719 elections their modern name comclave Latin for with key. Well, 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.840 back meeting, you're not coming out of there until we 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:14.799 let you. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.600 Back in the day, though, who the pope was and 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:23.600 from what country, and that carried so much important economical, political, political, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.320 and military power. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.000 I mean it was, you know, it's a big deal. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.640 That's not the case now. So the eventual winner, Pope 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.400 Gregory the tenth, sought to avoid a repeat by imposing 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.360 some ground rules that still governed conclaves today from the 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.920 year twelve sixty well seventy one, I guess, including strict seclusion, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.640 daily voting, and some degree of discomfort and roof. This 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.479 is not going to be one of those junkets like 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.360 your local political hacks go on to Hawaii where they 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.320 go to like one meeting a day for an hour 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:54.920 and spend the rest of the time on the beach. No, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:01.040 it's the kind of the opposite. A couple more tales 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.200 from history from the book behind Locked Door is a 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.840 history of papal elections. Let's see, that's only mildly interesting. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.279 In early Christianity, this election of the Bishop of Rome 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.279 was a fluid process, often involving local clergy, powerful notables, 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.960 and popular acclaim. Cardinals didn't even exist until the eleventh century. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.400 Initially there were only twelve of them. I tell you 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.919 what one thing to know, because there is power in 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.080 the papacy, whether it's you know, it's kind of the 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:42.080 modern version, which is still pretty significant, or the more 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:47.720 ancient version, which was ginormous power political, financial, economic, et CETERA. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.320 First conclave in the Sistine Chapel took place in fourteen 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.200 ninety two, the year Christopher Columbus launched the debut election 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.279 in the chapel, marred by scandal. Jack Pope Alexander, the 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.280 sixth member of the wealthy Borgia family, known for his 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:07.320 lavish lifestyle and many children Wait a minute, many children, yeah, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.760 secured his election by bribing fellow cardinals with land money, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:16.480 and lucrative positions in the Vatican's bureaucracy. There you go, yeah, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.080 so uh anyway, uh so oh one more note. After 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.040 the Assistine Chapel became the fixed setting for conclaves, cardinals 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.240 shared sleeping quarters in what used to be Alexander the 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.640 Fourth's Fresco department in the Vatican. It was not comfortable. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.480 It's mean he has six cardinals shared a room with 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.120 makeshift partitions for privacy, bathrooms were few, and cardinals were 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.600 given commode chairs essentially wooden potties to keep next to 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.800 their beds. It's a seat with a hole. When cardinals 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.960 were voting in the Sistine Chapel, staff were coming to 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.960 clean and prepare the rooms for the day after clean 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.000 and dumping their their their bed pots or what any 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.560 of chamber pots. Holy it was a very hot year. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.360 Let's just say they didn't enjoy staying in these rooms, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:08:00.880 said the historian. You you is right, Jack. At least 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.120 they're not locking them in a church and breaking up 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.920 all the windows, taking the road. You're staying in there 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:13.520 for you anyway, There you have the conclave, which is 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.120 apparently going on now or something. Wake me when it's over. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.920 A combination of the Met Gala and the royal family 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:20.720 and the Kardashians. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.600 You know, I did actually scroll through the inevitable New 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.800 York Times incredibly long photo gallery of the Met Gala. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.160 I am horribly embarrassed and connected and celebrities go do 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.760 what they do whatever. It was horribly embarrassed to say 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:36.960 that I did the same. I can't. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:38.680 And while I was doing it, I thought, why are 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.920 you thumbing through pictures of people you don't even know 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.199 who they are to see what they wore, which you 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.920 don't care about, to an event you despise. Why are 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.400 you doing this? But I did it anyway. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.160 Earlier in the show, I compared it to the capitol 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.400 in the Hunger Games movies, and Jack has not seen those. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:58.000 Number one, absolutely appropriate for your teenage boys. It's shockingly 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:07.079 brutal for a PG thirteen movie. It's not horribly graphic, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:15.160 but the themes are very, very mature. It's about a republic, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.440 if you will and stop me if this sounds familiar, friends, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.880 a republic where the capital has become so rich and 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:27.040 so isolated from the lives of normal people. It's become 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:32.240 utterly divorced from them. Abusive of them exploits their riches, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.480 and the people, the denizens of that capital, dress an 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:40.720 incredibly elaborate showy self regarding fashion and congratulate each other 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.400 for being a superior race of human beings. Again, if 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.079 that sounds oddly familiar, I'll give you a second and 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.520 make the connection in your own brain. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.280 Yeah, well, that's what's interesting about something like the met galawhich, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.840 of course, happens in New York City. So New York City, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.320 which is as lefty and progressive as you can get 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.280 as a city in America. And you know, AOC got 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.679 so much attention for eat the rich on her dress 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.160 at the metal. They aren't doing this in Omaha. They 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.679 aren't dressing up like this and owing and aweing over 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.960 who's there and in their clothes. They're doing it in 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.680 the progressive town. Doesn't that strike you as odd that 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:18.360 you're fawning over, you know, conspicuous consumption and wealth and 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:22.320 fame in your progressive areas where they don't do it 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.880 in the conservative Doesn't that seem backwards to you somehow? 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.319 Well, it all to you, But they're utterly without, you know, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.760 self perception. Progressivism wants to gather as much power as 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:39.000 it conceivably can, and then direct everything. Who gets into schools, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.079 how the economy works, who can say what, who gets 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.040 to keep their job, who teaches at my university. We 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.200 want to control everything absolutely. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.439 I started reading Joonah Goldberg's book from years ago, Liberal Fascism, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.400 last night, and that's exactly what he talks about. Fascism 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.040 is way more of a left thing than it is 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.120 a right thing. How it got tagged is a right thing? 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.440 I don't know. Yeah, you know, there's a great quote. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.040 I think it's I think it's Ein rand Er, somebody 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.960 quoting her, thinking that the difference between communism and fascism 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:17.520 is absolutely negligible. They both believe in subjugating the individual 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.480 rights of human beings to serve the state, which is 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.680 always the party in charge those with power there. You know, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.840 they have like interesting doctrinal differences, but to the average 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.559 human being being trampled, those doctrinal differences don't amount to 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:38.040 a hill of beans. It's all about exploiting the working 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.079 people and trampling on individual rights. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.199 Well, one of the main points early is that the 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.520 term fascism is almost useless. So here we are throwing 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:50.160 it around much to come stay here. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.320 And finally, a Brazilian nun died last week, just several 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.600 weeks shy of our one hundred and seventeenth birthday. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.240 There's a lesson for everyone there. Always pack your own shoot. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.360 Funny, it would be a dying joke there, Michael, because 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:16.599 that's what I was going to talk about, is I 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.440 don't think I'm going to reach my next birthday with 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:23.400 this disease I've got. I'm a sickly man and I'm 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.000 not long for this world. Actually got some texts from 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.319 people who have got this or they've got family members 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.400 who gotten it, and I hope this is some news 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.480 you can use rather than me just complaining about being. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:33.120 Sick for so long. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:39.959 There's some sort of cold something going around that lasts 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.040 way longer than these things usually. 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.679 At last, we like, we got this text. This is 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:45.080 for Jack. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.320 I'm a healthy woman, rarely sick, but I've had the 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.240 same thing that you have. It's taken me seven weeks 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.120 for my cough to leave. The doctor said the cough 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.280 with last six to eight weeks. He was right, wow, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.920 And the doctors told me, and the doctors are struggling 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.360 with it because everybody's naturally, you know, calling them up 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.679 after a month or a month and a half and saying, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:05.240 what's the. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.280 Deal, Why do I still feel so crappy? 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.719 And Doctor's having to say it's just something that's going 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.440 around that takes like two months to kick. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.360 So I don't know what to do with that information. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.640 The Uri Djore upper respiratory infection. Is doctor Fauci behind it? 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.920 Has he been working in some secret lab in the 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.440 congo or something gain a function. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.760 I haven't read a word about this, and I'm surprised 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:32.360 I haven't. It's that it's not some mutant strain of 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.160 something that combined with something, or our immune systems got 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.679 affected or something. Doesn't seem odd that all of a 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.440 sudden we've got some two month cold that is hanging around. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.080 It doesn't feel like anything else I've ever had in 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:47.280 my life. Yeah, we got on the topic of last 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.439 words earlier, as I think I might. I was worried 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:50.760 that I'm going to die during the show and my 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.280 last words are going to be coming up next details 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.280 from the Diddy trial, and then I'll die and those 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:56.760 will be my last words. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.040 Right That would be humiliating. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.960 Yeah, a lot of people's last words are similar to 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.559 that in that they weren't expecting. You know, some people 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.440 have last words laying in bed, knowing they're likely to 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.320 be their last words, and they're often very profound or 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.760 touching or interesting or whatever. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.000 And actually or whether those were actually the last ones, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.160 or if you just agreed with your good bodies, can 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.080 you say these are my last words? I'll bet that 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:20.760 happens a lot. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.080 Yeah, which is fine because a lot of the last words, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.960 at least on this list that I'm looking to, or 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.520 just the last thing you said, Like Benjamin Franklin said 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.840 something about I can't get it comfortable in no matter 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.320 what I try to do, you know, something like that 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.720 his daughter roll over on his side, and I can't 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.320 get comfortable no matter how I lay. Well, that's not 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.920 a good last word from one of the great wordsmiths 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:48.560 of all time. Agreed, Yeah, Or you get to choose 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.240 not literally your last word. That's a silly you know, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.680 I think about it at my advanced stage. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:58.920 That's just a silly way to silly thing to even 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.400 call it. How about you last message? Yeah, that makes 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:09.120 more sense. Yeah, I mean common. You could be Abraham 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.840 Damn Lincoln and your last words might be I need 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.080 to pee. I mean, Ryan, what that's going to echo 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.640 through the ages? Oh? 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.600 Yeah, did I already mention the one one of your 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.760 great thinkers who said dying is boring? I think that 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.240 was George Orwell dying is boring, which I'm. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:24.600 Sure it is. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 I like this one from some murderer that got the 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.520 firing squad. Here's probably a horrible person. They said, do 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:33.960 you have any last words? He said, bring me a 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:41.000 bulletproof vest. I'm here all night. Well for the next 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:41.520 five minutes. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:47.960 I salute you in hell wherever you are, sir. That's funny. Yeah. So, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.440 coming up a couple of governmental issues that I am 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.880 going to work diligently to make not dry, not overly dry. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.080 Number one, the air traffic control system in our country 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.640 is an embarrassment. Needs to be fixed, and to its credit, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.960 the Trump administration is going to try like hell to 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:12.440 fix it. Also, if you think you understand what medicaid is, weld, yes, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.080 that is the medical aid program for the poor. You 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:22.520 have no idea. It is a gigantic scam, which we 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.320 will explain I'm thinking during our three of the show. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.320 And part of the reason it's important to know that 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.680 is that as the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.680 are trying to fix it, they will be accused over 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.200 and over again of trying to balance the budget on 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.720 the back of the poor and take away people's medicaid benefits, 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.920 when that is the polar opposite of what they're trying 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:50.600 to do. That's frustrating. Oh yeah, yeah. Democracy is a 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.280 terrible system. It can't work. 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.240 What's going on with Ukraine and Russia. There's the latest 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.880 turn on that. Man I Trump is sending him some 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:05.880 of the most advanced air defense systems from Israel to Ukraine. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.760 Now that's interesting, It is interesting. Don't I have no 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.040 idea what's going on behind the scenes on that. Neither's 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.560 anybody else. Anyway, We've got a lot on the way. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:19.960 Stay here, Armstrong and Getty growing. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.400 Alarm at Noork's Liberty Airport tonight, ABC News learning air 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.760 traffic controllers lost radar and communications with planes packed with 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.560 passengers for sixty to ninety seconds last week. A system 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.880 wide outage last Monday at a Philadelphia facility that manages 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.720 the airspace around Newark Airport caused controllers to lose the 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.399 ability to see, hear, or talk to all arriving and 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.920 departing aircraft at one of the busiest airports in the country. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:51.320 Ninety seconds is a long time. Yeah, really shocking. A 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.959 one more note on how it unfolded next clip. Then 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.920 we'll discuss pilots can be heard learning of the outage 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.639 over the radio. I discusshold it approach loss. All the radars. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.400 Three of the core radar screens wet black, and they have. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:09.040 No frequency controllers from another tower advising pilots that radio frequencies. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.760 Have failed, and they want you to be advising. They 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.480 may not be able to raid our contact to you 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.760 because of the radar issues, and they may lose you 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.399 on for certain times of when you're applying. I have 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.120 a handful of friends and neighbors who are frequent flyers, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:27.439 business people, and we have agreed number one, air travel 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:32.440 is degenerated significantly in its pleasantness over the last you 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:33.359 know number of years. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.000 Luckily that I won't have to deal with it anymore 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.600 because I didn't get the real ID, so it'll no 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:39.080 longer be. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.679 A problem for me. Hey, it's the curse, that's a 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:42.760 blessing exactly. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:43.760 Ah. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.679 And we've also agreed that even when it goes well, 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.280 it goes poorly right the air travel these days. So 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.159 I thought this was really interesting. I mean, putting aside 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.240 that incident, which is terrible, We'll not putting it aside. 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.920 Let's just put it over there and we'll talk about it. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.439 The Wall Street Journal editorial board with a great piece 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:09.119 about the America's air traffic fiasco, and they focus on 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.880 Newark Airport. And if you've never had the pleasure quote 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.760 unquote of flying into Newark, I suggest you never do. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.359 If you're going to New York and Jfkin Laguardi are 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.040 booked up, why don't you fly to Bridgeport, Connecticut and 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.560 walk into New York City before you go to Newark. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.040 So thousands of flights in and out of Newark in 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.919 recent days have been delayed, diverted, or canceled because of 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:41.040 air traffic control failures. And President Trump and his transportations 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.479 are actually taking steps to fix this, which we'll talk 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.880 about in a minute. But the headaches at Newark began 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.840 last Monday when the Philadelphia Air Traffic Control facility what 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.920 they were just saying, had equipment malfunctions. So the FAA 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.200 finally resolved the technical snaffoos, but flight disruptions persisted because 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.879 of a shortage of controllers. How is there a short controllers? 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.320 How do we not have I mean, given the priority 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.960 that that is, how do we not pay them en 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.280 off and treat them well enough to have enough of them? 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.560 Bureaucracy is the answer, honestly. But United Airlines on Friday 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.680 canceled thirty five daily round trip flights at the airport. 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.160 For instance, the CEO said he decided to walk out 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.560 by more than twenty percent of the controllers at the site. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.159 Flight delays at Newark averaged four hours on some day. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.720 My god, that was the average, and it continued Monday, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.720 and such delays could be the new normal this summer. 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:38.520 But then they credit Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for at 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:43.240 least acknowledging government is to blame, unlike his Biden predecessor 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:47.879 Pete Buddhage Edge and Edge who blamed airlines well doing 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.919 little to nothing to fix long standing problems. Then they 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.920 describe what the long standing problems are. And folks in 0:20:55.040 --> 0:21:00.840 private enterprise, particularly anybody who leans on tech deals with tech, 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.800 you're gonna if you don't already know about this, you're 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:11.960 gonna just be astounded. Congress in twenty oh three. Those 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.600 not gifted in the arts of mathematics, it's twenty two 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:19.520 years ago directed the FAA to modernize its systems, so 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.720 they started the next gen overhaul, which is set to 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.960 be completed in the year twenty thirty. Wow, all you 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.440 tech guys and gals are saying the same thing. Whoa whoa, whoa, 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.080 whoa whoa whoa. No, No, that's not a thing. You 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.560 don't start something in twenty oh three and stick with 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:41.359 it through twenty thirty. You've overhauled the system sixty nine 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:45.480 times in that period, not stuck with the same quote 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:49.360 unquote overhaul that was started in oh three. Well, we're right. 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:55.320 You're talking about a tech overhaul that started before smartphones existed. 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.000 I mean, that's how much technology has changed since night. 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:00.960 It's like you and your your wife looking at your 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:04.240 three month old child and saying, we need bigger clothes 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.960 because the kid is growing fast. Let's study the problem 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.240 and will implement a bigger closed plan when he's twenty four. 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:15.320 I mean, your kid's gonna be naked for a long time. Yeah. 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.680 Yeah, except clothes don't change that much. The whole tech thing. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.760 Tech has changed so much in that amount of time. 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:22.879 What about tsking they laid out in the beginning is 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:24.040 pointless now. 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.080 Oh yeah, it's utterly irrelevant. So as mister Duffy the 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:33.720 sectrans notes, the FAA literally still uses floppy discs. Does 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.239 gen Z even know what those are? Few technicians can 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.399 even repair its aging systems, some of which are more 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.119 than sixty years old. It's like trying to find some 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:48.520 handyman to fix your Victrola that you inherited from your 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:49.400 great grandma. 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:51.240