Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and now he I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 3: As you know, twelve days ago, I had dinner with
Speaker 3: President Trump, a dinner that was set up by my
Speaker 3: friend Kid Rock because we share a belief that there's
Speaker 3: got to be something better than hurling insults from three
Speaker 3: thousand miles away. And let me first say that to
Speaker 3: all the people who treated this like it was some
Speaker 3: kind of summit meeting. You're ridiculous, like I was going
Speaker 3: to sign a treaty or something.
Speaker 2: I have no power, and he's.
Speaker 3: The most powerful leader in the world. I'm not the
Speaker 3: leader of anything except maybe a contingent of centrist minded
Speaker 3: people who think there's got to be a better way
Speaker 3: of running this country than hating each other every minute.
Speaker 1: Oh man, your lips to God's ears, even though you're
Speaker 1: an atheist.
Speaker 2: That combay uh before we.
Speaker 1: Get to that's Bill Maher from his HBO show on Friday,
Speaker 1: and he had dinner with Trump and Kid Rock and
Speaker 1: Dana White and a couple other people at the White House,
Speaker 1: which would be about the coolest thing that ever happened
Speaker 1: in your life, if you ever got to do it,
Speaker 1: it's a hell of a guest list. But Bill Maher
Speaker 1: with his whole I'm a centrist. He's a centrist left,
Speaker 1: but I mean compared to you know, the politics of
Speaker 1: what you'll hear on the news all day long, he's
Speaker 1: a centrist. No doubt there anyway that crowd us can
Speaker 1: take back over. Is there any chance of that.
Speaker 2: We have to be specific about what we want to
Speaker 2: do and attack it in an organized way.
Speaker 1: I think he got I think rules need I think
Speaker 1: laws and rules need to change. I think the current
Speaker 1: structure of campaign finance and that sort of stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't think rhetoric could change it. I think he had
Speaker 1: change that.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm well, yeah, I'm not talking about rhetoric necessarily,
Speaker 2: But in our school system, which is, as we've outlined
Speaker 2: many times, completely infected with far left ideology, needs to
Speaker 2: be dealt with. Pretty much.
Speaker 1: The only way you lose your seat as a Senator,
Speaker 1: as a House member is from someone in your own
Speaker 1: party who's further to the extreme than you. That's almost
Speaker 1: the only way you lose. So as long as that's true,
Speaker 1: we continue down the road we are. But I'm off
Speaker 1: track already. Here's Bill Maher talking a little about what
Speaker 1: it was like to eat Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: In the Oval office. He was showing me the portraits
Speaker 3: of presidents, and he pointed to Reagan and said, in
Speaker 3: all seriousness, you know the best thing about him his hair.
Speaker 3: I said, well, there was also that whole bringing down
Speaker 3: communism thing. Waiting for the button next to the diet
Speaker 3: coke button to get pushed and I go through the
Speaker 3: trap door.
Speaker 2: He laughed. He got it.
Speaker 3: He didn't get mad. He's much more self aware and
Speaker 3: he lets on in public. Look, I get it. It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner with
Speaker 3: a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage.
Speaker 3: I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists,
Speaker 3: because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I
Speaker 3: swear to God absent at least on this night with
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting? It really is?
Speaker 1: And Bill Maher's a hardcore trumpeter. Everything I've ever not
Speaker 1: liked about him was absent on this night.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I mean we all have our public facing persona,
Speaker 2: what we do and how we act, and we're a
Speaker 2: little different among friends or a more intimate setting. Trump
Speaker 2: seems to have his front is very different than how
Speaker 2: he's described by everybody who spent time with him. Friends
Speaker 2: of ours, Bill mar.
Speaker 1: Of course, a lot of the things Bill Maher hates
Speaker 1: about the public Trump we love when we see it,
Speaker 1: you know, we laugh up, roar Easley or whatever. Let's
Speaker 1: hear a little more from the lefty Bill Maher.
Speaker 3: There were so many moments when I hit him with
Speaker 3: a joke or contradicted something, and no problem. At dinner,
Speaker 3: he was asking me about the nuclear situation in Iran
Speaker 3: in a very genuine, hey, I think you're a smart guy.
Speaker 3: I want your opinion sort of way. He didn't get
Speaker 3: mad or call me a left wing lunatic.
Speaker 2: He took it in.
Speaker 3: I told him I thought parts of his plan for
Speaker 3: Gaza were whacky, but that I had supported him in
Speaker 3: the idea that Gaza could be Dubai.
Speaker 2: Instead of Hell.
Speaker 3: I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him,
Speaker 3: And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I
Speaker 3: would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I
Speaker 3: was able to talk with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: That's just how it went down. Make of it what
Speaker 2: you will. I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: I would have never been able to talk to Clinton
Speaker 1: or Obama the way I talked to Trump, but just
Speaker 1: feeling so comfortable and like you're having a real, you know,
Speaker 1: human interaction.
Speaker 2: They're actually listening to you, that sort of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's describing the other side of the coin, that is
Speaker 2: Trump's ability to connect with people in general, but like
Speaker 2: working people, that lack of projecting that I'm better than you.
Speaker 2: Which is interesting is he's almost certainly the richest guy
Speaker 2: who's ever been president or perhaps ever will be. I
Speaker 2: don't know. The common touch they used to call it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Bill Maher talks about how he looks
Speaker 1: you in the eye and seems to actually be listening
Speaker 1: to what you're saying. I mean, that's really really interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not surprised because, like Joe said, we
Speaker 1: know people who've worked for him, like worked for him,
Speaker 1: saw him every day. That was the one woman that
Speaker 1: we knew that was before he was president, when he
Speaker 1: was like, you know, a TV star.
Speaker 2: She worked with him and said, no, he's not like
Speaker 2: that at all. I said, yeah, that's not surprising to me.
Speaker 1: That's a personality trait. Though we've all known successful people.
Speaker 2: Who don't listen to you and not successful.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's not like you have to have
Speaker 1: that trait to be successful. I think it's probably helpful.
Speaker 1: It's just it's some sort of personality trait.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is less about politics or hating Trump
Speaker 2: or loving Trump or anything like that. It's just trying
Speaker 2: to understand human beings. Trump is famously the guy who
Speaker 2: follows his gut, and he trusts his gutten and it's
Speaker 2: served him well in a lot of ways, undeniably. I
Speaker 2: think sometimes it gets him in completely unnecessary jams. But
Speaker 2: you know, that's my opinion. What's interesting is he comes off,
Speaker 2: you know, in that clip by Bill Maher for instance,
Speaker 2: and describing Obama and Clinton, he comes off as a
Speaker 2: guy who's much more open to listening to other people's opinions,
Speaker 2: right than a lot of powerful men.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mar says, I've had so many conversations with prominent
Speaker 1: people who are much less connected than Trump was. People
Speaker 1: who don't look in the eye, people who don't really
Speaker 1: listen because they just want to get to their next thing,
Speaker 1: people who's response to things you just say that you
Speaker 1: say you can tell doesn't track none of that with him,
Speaker 1: and he mostly steered the conversation to what do you
Speaker 1: think about this, which is interesting, and Bill Mars.
Speaker 2: Says, I know your mind is blown. Mine mind is blown.
Speaker 2: But that's what it was like. Yeah, yeah, I liked
Speaker 2: where he was. He compiled a list of the terrible
Speaker 2: things Trump had said about him throughout the years. We'll
Speaker 2: have to play that later and had Trump sign the
Speaker 2: list for him, which he cheerfully did. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: So getting back to the whole WWE, Trump's got a
Speaker 2: wrestler persona, but behind the scenes he's happy to sign
Speaker 2: the picture where he was getting beat down by Black
Speaker 2: bart or whatever that right, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: Just to wrap this up, not to be Trump obsessed,
Speaker 1: but he did have his physical over the weekend. I
Speaker 1: needed physical sounds like I'm dying, t allergies, some sort
Speaker 1: of weird plant as in a blue Apparently. Trump deemed
Speaker 1: an excellent health and robust neurological condition by the White
Speaker 1: House physician. The seventy eight year old Trump. It's hard
Speaker 1: to remember that he's seventy eight because he's so energetic
Speaker 1: as a seventy eight year old six three two twenty
Speaker 1: four he's lost a significant amount of weight since his
Speaker 1: first term when he was two forty three, So he's
Speaker 1: lost twenty pounds since when he was eight years younger,
Speaker 1: which is good.
Speaker 2: Other vital signs.
Speaker 1: Listen to this as a seventy eight year old fat
Speaker 1: guy who eats fast food and has the most stressful.
Speaker 2: Job on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: Trump's blood pressure clocked in at one twenty eight over
Speaker 1: seventy four, which is great, uh, and his resting heart
Speaker 1: rate is sixty two. He's only on two medications, one
Speaker 1: for both of them for his cholesterol to keep it
Speaker 1: in the optimal level.
Speaker 2: No, it's the only medications he takes. Wow, that is well,
Speaker 2: it's a gift. It's yeah.
Speaker 1: He You know, doctors will tell you what's the Don't
Speaker 1: smoke and have good jeans. Those are your best tips
Speaker 1: for uh, being healthy, laid into age. Don't smoke and
Speaker 1: have good jeans. And he clearly has good jeans and
Speaker 1: he doesn't smoke, so.
Speaker 2: Right, right, So coming up trying to untangle what the
Speaker 2: heck's going on with the tariffs, and also and I
Speaker 2: want to get to this. I think it's important we
Speaker 2: reckon with it. There's a hell of a lot more
Speaker 2: to the media's Biden cover up than just group think,
Speaker 2: and Jack was right all along. Hey, as I do
Speaker 2: to admit it, Doctor Jill was the engine. She was
Speaker 2: the evildoer behind the scenes. We have lots of great
Speaker 2: information on that. I got a question.
Speaker 1: I got a question for you, because she's speaking live
Speaker 1: now and Hanson congrab it. How much do you want
Speaker 1: to hear from Katy Perry about how going into space
Speaker 1: changed her as a person?
Speaker 2: I want very much to hear that for the purpose
Speaker 2: of hating it. So we've got a lot on the
Speaker 2: ways they here.
Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, puffect dust, last milliseconds air cushing that will
Speaker 4: kick up the dust. It's a very soft, soft landing,
Speaker 4: despite the sporty uh percept.
Speaker 5: The it is.
Speaker 2: And they're home. Oh my god, like that the screaming,
Speaker 2: terrible suffrenching. That's the chicks into space.
Speaker 1: I think they're calling it Katy Perry and Bezos's uh
Speaker 1: hatty fiance and Gail King what was that?
Speaker 2: It's a very soft light landing, despite what the sporty
Speaker 2: something dust because it looked like.
Speaker 1: A hard landing. But maybe there's springs in there that
Speaker 1: makes it feel soft.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm trying to care, but I just don't.
Speaker 2: As long as everybody's okay, I'm happy.
Speaker 1: It took them a long time to come out. They
Speaker 1: came out, their hair was perfect. I guarantee you the
Speaker 1: time spent sitting there was some sort of stylist making
Speaker 1: sure their hair was okay because they gotta wear helmets
Speaker 1: and stuff.
Speaker 2: All right, you're right, that's odd.
Speaker 1: I mean, d Perry looked like she looks on the
Speaker 1: cover of a magazine when she's selling her shamboo.
Speaker 2: Speaking of behind the scenes the true story of the
Speaker 2: Biden sinility cover up coming up later on. Plus my
Speaker 2: experience is at Augusta National Golf Club. Wow whoop. So
Speaker 2: we need the theme music to play anyway, So I
Speaker 2: thought this was really interesting. Justin Lehart in the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal talking about how the US lost its place
Speaker 2: as the world's manufacturing powerhouse, and well, I'll just launch
Speaker 2: into it. They mentioned that in the fifties there was
Speaker 2: over a third of the private sector jobs in the
Speaker 2: US were manufacturing, a little over third thirty five percent.
Speaker 2: Today it's about nine and a half percent. Of course,
Speaker 2: the population is more than doubled since the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 2: but still the raw number of manufacturing jobs has got
Speaker 2: to be down a little bit, if my numbers are correct,
Speaker 2: and I believe they are. Yeah, but it's almost exactly
Speaker 2: the same President Trumps as the sweeping tariffs is aimed
Speaker 2: at bringing manufacturing back to the US. Economists, as I'm
Speaker 2: sure you've heard, are skeptical that tariffs could do that successfully,
Speaker 2: and they were that the damage that they do will
Speaker 2: outweigh any benefits. Not here to talk about that, at
Speaker 2: least not right now. I just thought it was interesting
Speaker 2: to go through some of the steps that we went
Speaker 2: through to become not a manufacturing powerhouse. Now they go
Speaker 2: through how in the early nineteen hundreds we Americans pioneered
Speaker 2: the use of interchangeable parts and organizing factories for mass
Speaker 2: production Henry Ford the assembly line. We all learned that
Speaker 2: in school, back when we weren't being taught to hate
Speaker 2: our country and to love how innovative and energetic we
Speaker 2: are as a people. Remember that good times anyway, So
Speaker 2: we had the infrastructure in place and the techniques and
Speaker 2: the technology, and then World War two came along and
Speaker 2: it was like, you know, gobbling up steroids to become
Speaker 2: the best manufacturers we could possibly be, to beat back
Speaker 2: the Nazis and the imperial Japanese. It's interesting now you
Speaker 2: can call the Nazis anything you want, the crowds, the Jerry's,
Speaker 2: the fascists, whatever. You can't say anything rude about the
Speaker 2: Japanese though, because why Because Japanese people look slightly different
Speaker 2: than Caucasians, whereas Germans are Caucasians. So you can say
Speaker 2: anything you want about them. Anyway, That's a good question, son.
Speaker 2: We're at war with both of them, slaughtering each other
Speaker 2: as fast as we were in Germany. Didn't attack us,
Speaker 2: or at least not in that way. No, no, really.
Speaker 2: In the postwar years, many more Americans joined the middle
Speaker 2: class dry and that drove jumps in spending on long lasting,
Speaker 2: durable goods, cars, appliances, homes, that sort of thing. And
Speaker 2: America is our best customer. We were our best customer
Speaker 2: for manufactured goods. But you can only buy so many
Speaker 2: of them. And after a while, more and more services
Speaker 2: were demanded, and more and more places opened up, at
Speaker 2: least like rudimentary manufacturing across the world, Asian particular, and
Speaker 2: so the service economy grew in America, more people more spending,
Speaker 2: more jobs in the service economy and that sort of
Speaker 2: thing because we're so much more affluent after World War Two.
Speaker 2: What's all I keep hearing the term service economy. What's
Speaker 2: all included in service economy everything that you can't hold
Speaker 2: in your hand and look at travel, banking, financial advice, advertising,
Speaker 2: banking is considered service. Okay, that's interesting, Yeah, absolutely, Technology,
Speaker 2: software is so, insurance agent, all that so yeah okay, yeah, restaurants, hotels,
Speaker 2: you know, just all that stuff. So practically, so everything
Speaker 2: I'm going to interact with today, I'll interact with. No manufacturing,
Speaker 2: right yeah, yeah, practically other than the goods you use,
Speaker 2: but most of those you probably owned for a while.
Speaker 2: But in the nineteen eighties things began to change. American
Speaker 2: manufacturers of non durable goods, that's like clothes and paper
Speaker 2: products and just anything you're not going to have in
Speaker 2: in a dozen years, ten years, whatever. American manufacturers of
Speaker 2: non durable goods had an increasingly difficult time competing with
Speaker 2: countries where labor costs were lower. That intensified in the
Speaker 2: nineties in part as a result of the North American
Speaker 2: Free Trade Agreement NAFTA, lowering the duties on Mexican goods
Speaker 2: that was ross Perro's giant sucking sound, you remember that,
Speaker 2: sucking all the jobs out to south of the border.
Speaker 2: He was right then, steel producers in developing countries like
Speaker 2: South Korea, you got to remind yourself. In the eighties
Speaker 2: and nineties, South Korea was just a tiny miniature version
Speaker 2: of what it is today as an economy. But they
Speaker 2: built up their steel industries and subsidized them and left
Speaker 2: the world awash in excess capacity, and we couldn't compete,
Speaker 2: so so much of our steel industry went away then.
Speaker 2: But what happened in the eighties and nineties pales in
Speaker 2: comparison to what happened after the China Shock, when we
Speaker 2: naively and stupidly thought China would be our buddies if
Speaker 2: we opened up to them economically and they would reform politically.
Speaker 2: They joined the WTO in twenty oh one, opened the
Speaker 2: country to foreign investment, gained access to the global markets.
Speaker 2: And the US had faced import competition from other countries before,
Speaker 2: but never one that dwarfed its population. So instead of
Speaker 2: Japan coming on first, it was cheap transistor radios then
Speaker 2: made in Japan was code for cheap and crappy. When
Speaker 2: our kids, when I yeah, exactly when when we're when
Speaker 2: we were kids, that was a joke. You turn the
Speaker 2: soil made in Japan, right, Yeah, it's probably gonna break
Speaker 2: by turning it over. But anyway, China came on the
Speaker 2: scene super suddenly, and in nineteen ninety nine, for instance,
Speaker 2: value of Chinese goods exports came to a tenth of
Speaker 2: the US's exports. We had ten times as many exports
Speaker 2: as China nineteen ninety nine. Nine years later, China surpassed
Speaker 2: US as an exporter of goods. Wow. That's something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And that is together with a couple other minor trade
Speaker 2: that's why we where we are. China is a huge
Speaker 2: part of that. Hence trumps emphasis on China. Another thing
Speaker 2: we're going to get to, why do you like to
Speaker 2: rewatch TV shows or movies you've seen before? Science is
Speaker 2: in It's interesting. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Preto Watts, the richest guy on earth running all over Washington, DC,
Speaker 6: throwing tens of thousands of dedicated federal workers out on
Speaker 6: the street.
Speaker 2: That is Bernie.
Speaker 1: Oh, we don't have any cheering for Nard Sanders pay
Speaker 1: just a little bit of sixty two so you realize
Speaker 1: how popular it is.
Speaker 2: That's Coachella.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Bernie Bernie speaking at the big Coachella
Speaker 1: Musical festival where it was one hundred and two degrees
Speaker 1: and the weight to get in in your vehicle because
Speaker 1: of the security checktion every like that was twelve hours long.
Speaker 1: Twelve home, honey, twelve hours in line to get into
Speaker 1: one hundred and two degree music festival.
Speaker 2: Man, that's a long time, but it's worth it to
Speaker 2: hear me yelling about holagauchs. Right.
Speaker 1: So I got this funny thing. We'll get the audio
Speaker 1: for you later. Elon tweeted it out. Somebody put together
Speaker 1: this montage. Bernie has been so complaining about oligarchs have
Speaker 1: taken over since the early nineties, so thirty three years.
Speaker 1: I think the first one's nineteen ninety two where he says.
Speaker 2: I have bad news. Oligarchs have taken over our country.
Speaker 1: And he says every year for the past thirty some years,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. Well, here's a little of it right here.
Speaker 5: This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in
Speaker 5: the direction of oligg that's in the United States of
Speaker 5: America today is increasingly becoming.
Speaker 7: More and more moving toward in oligo in the direction
Speaker 7: of oligachy, even more rapidly in the direction of an
Speaker 7: oligos twenty.
Speaker 5: Great country is evolving into an oligaut twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: Evidently it is called.
Speaker 5: Olia, and that is the system we are rapidly moving, Todd,
Speaker 5: this is a bunch of twenty our country rapidly into
Speaker 5: the direction of olig Here's twenty eight of billionaires on
Speaker 5: moving this entire planet seven years to get an oligauchic society's.
Speaker 8: But you get the point, Sanders, How great is that?
Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, play the hits, man, get up there
Speaker 8: and for Coachella. You're a band playing at Coachella. Don't
Speaker 8: play some new track from your album.
Speaker 2: They haven't heard. Play the hits, right, Like I said,
Speaker 2: that's his free bird. He's not gonna send you home
Speaker 2: without playing and down with the olig Come on, hilarious.
Speaker 2: It is hilarious, hilarious. So this is more than dissecting
Speaker 2: the recent past Joe Biden's senility in the cover up
Speaker 2: of it. It's understanding media to a large extent, and
Speaker 2: it was funny. In going through this piece by Beckett Adams,
Speaker 2: I was reminded of a couple of things that have
Speaker 2: guided us through the years, and it's you know, I'm
Speaker 2: not patting ourselves on the back. It's like blind pigs
Speaker 2: finding acorns. But he starts talking about how Mike Allen,
Speaker 2: who co founded Axios, did a podcast with Barry Weiss,
Speaker 2: the Fabulous Berry Weiss of the Free Press, talking about
Speaker 2: the cover up of the senility, and he talks a
Speaker 2: lot about it, and it's worth pointing out that Axios
Speaker 2: actually had one of their best reporters, Alex Thompson, who
Speaker 2: was reporting accurately on Biden's deterioration, which is fairly unique.
Speaker 2: So I'm not here to kick Axios, But so Alan says,
Speaker 2: the medius coverage of Biden's health was quote all the
Speaker 2: worst parts of reporter brains coming together. And there's the
Speaker 2: group thing, monothink and the cluelessness. And this is where
Speaker 2: the American people see something, sense something, and they're not
Speaker 2: seeing it reflected in news outlets that they used to trust.
Speaker 2: And so specifically with the Biden health, people discounted what
Speaker 2: they saw with their own eyes, ignored it. And this
Speaker 2: is the reporter group think part of it. There's this
Speaker 2: insecurity herd mentality. You don't want to be separate. It's
Speaker 2: like crazy the typical reporter instinct, which is, I mean,
Speaker 2: like the opposite of what a reporter ought to be.
Speaker 2: You'd think, Yeah, so I've been yelling for years. No, No,
Speaker 2: I've been yelling about how the media moves in a herd.
Speaker 2: And it's remarkable the extent to which, like a herd
Speaker 2: of cattle, they don't dare find themselves outside of the
Speaker 2: perimeter of the group in a way that's just really again,
Speaker 2: it's antithetical to what a reporter ought to be. They
Speaker 2: ought to be an independent thinker who follows the facts
Speaker 2: and doesn't give a good gd whether other people are
Speaker 2: seeing it the same way. And the other thing that
Speaker 2: we've kind of used to guide us through the years,
Speaker 2: and it's Beckett Adams point in this article that it
Speaker 2: was a lot more than group think. It was that
Speaker 2: the media so wanted access to the Biden administration because
Speaker 2: they were the folks in power. They were sent the
Speaker 2: message that the one thing you don't write about is
Speaker 2: Biden being senile. That's a conspiracy stutter. You do that
Speaker 2: and you're on the outs. The New York Times told
Speaker 2: us it was a conspiracy theory to notice Biden's tendencies
Speaker 2: to stumble and verbally and physically, and we were told
Speaker 2: Biden struggled to articulate his thoughts was merely a stutter,
Speaker 2: long dormant but resurface just in time as a convenient explanation.
Speaker 2: And he quotes a bunch of The Guardian Bloomberg News
Speaker 2: just the ap was stumped by polling data that showed
Speaker 2: voters believe Biden was too old for the job, but
Speaker 2: not Donald Trump, who's only three years younger. Quote, Americans
Speaker 2: actually agree on something in this time of raw discord.
Speaker 2: Joe Biden is too old to be an effective president.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. It's oddly they noted. The public is
Speaker 2: oddly united and sizing up the one trait Biden cannot change. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's because Americans have eyeballs. Anyway, So Jack, I remember
Speaker 2: years ago, I think it was when Arnold Schwarzenegger was
Speaker 2: the governor of California and as the leading lights. Sure, yes,
Speaker 2: what Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor. Yeah, the movie actor,
Speaker 2: the weightlifter, Yes he was, I'm certain of it. But anyway,
Speaker 2: you know, we were feted and invited to stuff and
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. And Jack, you made a comment
Speaker 2: about how you're really uneasy about being I can't remember
Speaker 2: how you put it, but being seduced by the lure
Speaker 2: of being in the inside. Sure, it's cool, it's cool,
Speaker 2: flattered into cooperation.
Speaker 1: I was standing out on the patio at a hotel
Speaker 1: smoking us AGAR with Arnold Swarzenegger at one point.
Speaker 8: It is cool.
Speaker 1: It's a cool feeling. It makes you feel cool. It
Speaker 1: makes you feel like an insider. And do you want
Speaker 1: to say something negative that's going to end that. I'm
Speaker 1: more likely to than most people, But a lot of
Speaker 1: people would never do that.
Speaker 2: Right, And we talked about it and we decided now
Speaker 2: we're going to be the outsiders, which is why we are,
Speaker 2: which is fine. That's why you know a lot of
Speaker 2: government people hate us. But that's fine. It's badge of honor, honestly.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I thought that was pretty good analysis by
Speaker 2: Beckett Adams about how it was a combination of a
Speaker 2: bunch of cattle who don't think independently and just they're
Speaker 2: such ass kickers and boot lickers because they want to
Speaker 2: be close to power. Part of it is for access,
Speaker 2: because then you can do better reporter. Sure, I mean
Speaker 2: that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a problem if Donald Trump says to
Speaker 1: Associated Press, for instance, I'm not gonna let you on
Speaker 1: the plane if you're going to call it the Gulf
Speaker 1: of Mexico. Yeah, and you know they can complain about that,
Speaker 1: But then what are they going to write about the
Speaker 1: presidency which is whole segment of the reporting because they
Speaker 1: have no access.
Speaker 2: Right right. So, and then you read Mark Leebovich's brilliant
Speaker 2: book This Town if you haven't ever about how they're
Speaker 2: all part of the same industry and they know it,
Speaker 2: the media and the lobbyists and the politicians and the
Speaker 2: aids and the rest of it. Anyway, So I thought
Speaker 2: that that was really interesting. But then this Andrew Styles
Speaker 2: writing for The Free Beacon in his usual snarky style,
Speaker 2: which I really enjoy. Many have suspected that doctor Jill Biden,
Speaker 2: not a real doctor, played a key role in saving
Speaker 2: the country by facilitating Donald Trump's long awaited return to
Speaker 2: the White House. His point of view obvious in this piece,
Speaker 2: but many of have assumed the former First Lady and
Speaker 2: acting President was possessed of an insatiable lust for power,
Speaker 2: which Drover to insist that her enfeebled husband run for reelection,
Speaker 2: and the ill advised decision nearly destroyed the Democratic Party, etc.
Speaker 2: Forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, who's just
Speaker 2: utterly incompetent and talentless. And then he goes through some
Speaker 2: of the accounts from the many Tell All books that
Speaker 2: are now out, and a couple of key quotes Biden
Speaker 2: now I told journalists Jonathan Allen and Arnie Amy Parnes, sorry,
Speaker 2: author of Fight Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, quote,
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, Jill was one thousand percent behind this.
Speaker 2: So she was pushing it. The staff was all pushing it.
Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, I don't think
Speaker 2: anyone that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary
Speaker 2: advice that this is not going to be easier, maybe
Speaker 2: this is not the best thing for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: So doctor Jill was running the pro camp and the
Speaker 2: anti camp didn't really exist, right And continuing on the
Speaker 2: theme of insiders and being close to power, Alan and
Speaker 2: Parnes note that many of Biden's longtime aids were also
Speaker 2: desperate to cling to power and refused to consider advising
Speaker 2: the president to retire after a single term. Quote, this
Speaker 2: is senior advisor Mike Donnellan, who's a heavyweight in democratic circles. Quote.
Speaker 2: Nobody walks away from this. Nobody walks away from the house,
Speaker 2: the plane, the helicopter. This burning desire to retain the
Speaker 2: perks of the White House, the authors explained, was double
Speaker 2: true for the first lady, doctor Jill It enjoyed them
Speaker 2: for nearly a decade quote, and the trappings of the
Speaker 2: most elite levels of Washington power had grown on her.
Speaker 2: She likes power. She wants to say stay, said Douglas Brinkley,
Speaker 2: the historian, She wants some sense of revenge.
Speaker 1: You know, I used to say for years, this is
Speaker 1: a bit of a tangent, But I used to say
Speaker 1: for years, I don't understand the whole power thing, people
Speaker 1: wanting power.
Speaker 2: I've never wanted power in my life. I've never felt
Speaker 2: like I lusted for power. Blah blah blah. I lost
Speaker 2: for it on a daily basis, moment to moment, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, and I will wield it with an iron fist.
Speaker 1: And I guess I didn't have the right perception of
Speaker 1: what power is. I was thinking of it as like being,
Speaker 1: you know, the power to pass a law. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously a president has a power. You know, see Trump
Speaker 1: up in the world economy with the stroke of a pen.
Speaker 1: That is, like, you know, very easy to understand power,
Speaker 1: but I've never understood the whole lust for power and
Speaker 1: everything like that. And this person explained to me how
Speaker 1: you have power, You have power, and you like your power,
Speaker 1: and it is just, you know, it's more theoretical than real,
Speaker 1: but like to have some influence on the discussion of
Speaker 1: the world, and that's power.
Speaker 2: And this job ends for me.
Speaker 1: And the one of the things that I will feel
Speaker 1: so empty about and weird about and I don't know
Speaker 1: how I'll adjust to.
Speaker 2: Is having no say in anything. That's power.
Speaker 1: And so I guess I do have a lust for
Speaker 1: power because I don't want to give this up, all
Speaker 1: ate it when I have to give it up. And
Speaker 1: so having any influence on the world over anything, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's your staff or the White House kitchen, or
Speaker 1: who gets to play at the Kennedy Center, if you're
Speaker 1: Jill Biden or you know, the president, one's easy. But
Speaker 1: all this other stuff I don't know makes more sense
Speaker 1: to me now. And of course you wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: give that up. And so not only would the President
Speaker 1: and Jill Biden not want to give it up. If
Speaker 1: you're in the Biden administration and you tell him I
Speaker 1: don't think you should run again, and he says, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're out of a job.
Speaker 2: You no longer work in the White House. The coolest
Speaker 2: thing you'll ever do in your life, career wise is
Speaker 2: now over.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna go teach it at college somewhere or
Speaker 1: get a job with a law firm or something. But
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna be anything near what you got. Now,
Speaker 1: who among us would would sign up for ending that?
Speaker 1: I mean, you might be real down the pavement.
Speaker 2: To get some sort of dim wit elected in the
Speaker 2: forty third district of Ohio, right instead of being in
Speaker 2: the White House now, So I'm cutting some slack to
Speaker 2: a lot of these people who are not wanting to
Speaker 2: end their careers well, right. What this all boils down
Speaker 2: to to me is not like a moral judgment exactly.
Speaker 2: And press is a different question. The media is a
Speaker 2: completely different question. Yes, yeah, But again, to me, all
Speaker 2: of this does not boil down to a moral judgment,
Speaker 2: although there certainly can be one made, for instance, about
Speaker 2: clinging to power even when it could be devastating to
Speaker 2: the United States, like doctor Jill here. It's helping people
Speaker 2: understand what quote unquote the government is. It's not what
Speaker 2: you read about in textbooks. Although the Civics education is
Speaker 2: really important. You have to understand that these people, from
Speaker 2: the Assistant Undersecretary of Agriculture to Jill Biden to even
Speaker 2: guys like us. Theoretically, although I want to talk about
Speaker 2: that more later, they are not looking out for you
Speaker 2: they claim to be. They have a dozen ulterior motives,
Speaker 2: which is why the founding Papa's God Bless their eternal wisdom,
Speaker 2: told us over and over again. We're designing a system
Speaker 2: to protect the people from the power of the government
Speaker 2: because you can't trust people who have power. You must
Speaker 2: watch them like a hawk all of the time because
Speaker 2: they will abuse their power, all of them, and ways
Speaker 2: small and large. Those who don't, holy crap, that's great,
Speaker 2: it's an exception. But assume they will have selfish motives.
Speaker 2: That's the point of our country. That's my point in
Speaker 2: bringing this stuff up. It's okay to be suspicious of power.
Speaker 2: You're supposed to be. That's your job.
Speaker 1: So CNN is calling it the Edge of Space. The
Speaker 1: all female space flight returns from the edge of space,
Speaker 1: which is much more accurate. Katie Perry did not go
Speaker 1: up into space. She just went really high, somewhat higher
Speaker 1: than you've gone in a plane.
Speaker 2: Big deal. What but what is it with you and this,
Speaker 2: this spaceflight in a gigantic vibrator. If you've not seen
Speaker 2: the picture of the rocket, as soon as you do,
Speaker 2: you'll understand Gail King should have rethought the whole kissing
Speaker 2: the ground thing. Good idea if you're young, Not so
Speaker 2: good idea if you're old. The video it's like, whoa,
Speaker 2: it takes her a long time to get down. Hold
Speaker 2: on a second, I'm gonna go down here. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll be back up. I can't anyway. We got more
Speaker 2: on the way, a bunch of stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 9: A educcasion department has launched a website in which students
Speaker 9: can report public school teachers who violate anti DEI rules.
Speaker 9: So remember, teachers, you got to sleep with the white
Speaker 9: ones too.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a cynical joke there. I don't remember if
Speaker 2: you were here when we talked about this last week.
Speaker 2: The latest teacher.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you were the latest teacher, Hotty who slept
Speaker 1: with a high school student at their house.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the poor husband. I was here all
Speaker 2: week Jack last week except for Friday when I was
Speaker 2: at Augusta National Golf Club. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was just looking on that next hour. I
Speaker 1: was just looking at a clip from that What was
Speaker 1: the weather like idyllic, fantastic. It's funny because my allergies
Speaker 1: are so bad. That's why I sound like this. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at that picture of the guy who won the
Speaker 1: Masters in the background, and all I see all those
Speaker 1: things in bloom, and I think.
Speaker 2: That looks awful. It just looks awful because my allergies.
Speaker 1: It's funny, how you know your body tries to your
Speaker 1: brain tries to protect you from stuff that's trying to
Speaker 1: kill you. So over the weekend, me and both my
Speaker 1: boys we are like, oh my god, look at that.
Speaker 1: You know, you see a bunch of flowers. It shouldn't beautiful.
Speaker 2: It just looks like.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm nothing but negative reactions to those blooms because
Speaker 1: it seems to be trying to kill me.
Speaker 2: More on that experience next hour. There are some fairly
Speaker 2: interesting aspects of it, even if you're not a golf fan.
Speaker 2: In fact, I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Here's I am going to get to the story at
Speaker 1: some point, because it came cross this yesterday.
Speaker 2: It's a study. It's really kind of interesting why some
Speaker 2: people most people watch TV shows or movies they've already
Speaker 2: seen again, why we do that.
Speaker 1: There's a psychological reason. My dad doesn't, and it fits
Speaker 1: in perfect with the science on it. So maybe I'll
Speaker 1: try to get that into our three. Listen to this
Speaker 1: headline from the New York Post. I haven't read the story.
Speaker 1: I probably should have. It sounds interesting.
Speaker 2: Decapitated woman's head successfully reattached after freak gym class accident.
Speaker 2: What there's a lot there. First of all, what were
Speaker 2: you doing in gym class where you end up losing
Speaker 2: your knocking? We usually did like set ups and push ups.
Speaker 2: Was there some school district in America? Or they're jousting
Speaker 2: outside on the football field or full on gallop on
Speaker 2: a stallion with the jousting lands. I don't know what
Speaker 2: they were doing where you could lose your head. We
Speaker 2: didn't know volleyball. I'm trying to think of anything we
Speaker 2: did in gym class where you could have your head
Speaker 2: taken off. Both ends of the story are fascinating. Soon
Speaker 2: lost the head, then you say it was reattached decapitated
Speaker 2: woman's head. This is the New York Post. Decapitated woman's
Speaker 2: head successfully reattached after freak gym class accident.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm calling BS on this story, but I'll look
Speaker 1: into the details get them for you later.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm no surgent Jack. My understanding of hen re
Speaker 2: attachment is that it's not quite ready for prime time.
Speaker 1: Zelensky was on sixty Minutes last night said some really
Speaker 1: interesting things. I don't know if it helped his cause
Speaker 1: any Everything he said was true in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff. As Joe said, tales from
Speaker 1: the most exclusive sporting event in the world.
Speaker 2: Isn't it am that in a way? Yeah, Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty