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 Jack Katy and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Now, the one thing that everyone seemed to agree on
Speaker 3: is that Bondi is qualified after three decades as a
Speaker 3: state prosecutor. But Democrats still appear skeptical that she will
Speaker 3: be able to resist the kind of pressure that President
Speaker 3: electromp has put on his previous attorneys general when he
Speaker 3: wanted to use the Department of Justice to pursue his
Speaker 3: own aims.
Speaker 4: All right, whatever, But so the main thing there is
Speaker 4: that there's agreement Pam Bondi is going to be the
Speaker 4: next attorney General quite easily.
Speaker 5: So, mister chairman, I would like to introduce a tangent.
Speaker 5: Places why you have a call for a tangent? Can
Speaker 5: I get a second? I'd like to hear his tangent.
Speaker 5: Here's your tangent. So that was some galon paulid on CNN,
Speaker 5: And I feel a little the way I feel about
Speaker 5: kicking CNN is a little bit like how I feel
Speaker 5: about kicking the president from his miserable attempt at a
Speaker 5: farewell address last night. It's increasingly irrelevant CNN. Nobody's watching
Speaker 5: fewer every day. They're they're a vestige of the past.
Speaker 5: And I will you know, I don't pun we probably
Speaker 5: shouldn't be talking about it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be.
Speaker 5: The old guy saying Truman was a Demi crag, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, nobody cares exactly. But I was reading about
Speaker 5: that billion dollar defamation suit that the guy filed against
Speaker 5: CNN for well for defaming him, Joe, that's what a
Speaker 5: defamation suit is, but having to do with him trying
Speaker 5: to get people out of Afghanistan, and they called him
Speaker 5: a black marketeer and a ripoff artist and all, and
Speaker 5: with no evidence. Reading the depositions and the behind the
Speaker 5: scenes email and stuff that have been subpoenaed by the court,
Speaker 5: they had all sorts of people at CNN saying, WHOA,
Speaker 5: there are enormous holes in this story. This is terrible
Speaker 5: and unfair. I realized it's exciting, but what about this,
Speaker 5: that and the other? They had good people at CNN
Speaker 5: trying desperately to say we can't air this, but air
Speaker 5: it they did because it sounded exciting, I mean, just
Speaker 5: morally and journalistically ethically bankrupt, really amazing.
Speaker 4: I just saw the headline today. They're moving wolf Blitzer
Speaker 4: to mornings to try to save that. But again, we're
Speaker 4: talking about something nobody watches. We learned early on in
Speaker 4: our talk career there could be a story and you
Speaker 4: can't go on the air and say, why does no
Speaker 4: one care about this story. We'll take your calls. You
Speaker 4: don't get any calls. It's right because nobody cares. It's
Speaker 4: in the definition so premise. It's similar about CNN.
Speaker 5: Yeah, boy are they terrible. They deserve to go away,
Speaker 5: and I wish them well. I don't wish them anything.
Speaker 4: I didn't hear well. We were on the air for
Speaker 4: a lot of it. The back and forth of the
Speaker 4: hearing with our new attorney general easily could be the
Speaker 4: next female president. Oh wow, never even thought about that.
Speaker 4: Very very bright and and tough, too hot. I think
Speaker 4: I don't think you can get elected to be in
Speaker 4: the hole you and your I think it holds you
Speaker 4: back as a woman. It shouldn't. It's unfair. Well, I
Speaker 4: think it does both. It helps you and holds you
Speaker 4: back in certain ways. Anyway, this is her back and
Speaker 4: forth with our actual senator, and I can't believe it's true,
Speaker 4: Adam Schiff.
Speaker 6: I'm asking you, sitting here today, whether you are aware
Speaker 6: of a factual predicate to investigate Liz Cheney.
Speaker 2: Senator. No one has to investigate Liz Cheney. That is
Speaker 2: a high.
Speaker 6: President has called for it publicly. You are aware of that,
Speaker 6: aren't you.
Speaker 2: No one has asked me to investigate. But we're also worried.
Speaker 2: You know, whats to be worried about? MS Bondy. Please,
Speaker 2: you're right now, you are aware of the root.
Speaker 6: MS Bondy.
Speaker 2: Your robbery is a higher than the national question.
Speaker 7: That's what I want.
Speaker 5: To Adam Shift show later videotaped slumbering soundly during that
Speaker 5: same hearing.
Speaker 4: They're so meaningless. These things they just they just are
Speaker 4: just and they get more so. Uh throughout my lifetime
Speaker 4: so far they.
Speaker 2: Just a grand standy and dumb.
Speaker 4: I got one more eighty five we want to play.
Speaker 4: This was seen by people who like her as one
Speaker 4: of her highlights. You speaking, I hope you answer, misspid.
Speaker 7: Senator.
Speaker 2: Let me answer my question.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to be bullied pause of the United
Speaker 4: States of America, which was deeply disappointing.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 4: Today you're not going to be bullied by me, Senator,
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 5: Going to be bullied by you either way.
Speaker 4: I got it wrong either way, it doesn't really make
Speaker 4: any of You're not going to be bullied by me?
Speaker 2: Yes? True? Why are you shouting at me? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2: I got it backwards.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she handled all of the I mean, would you
Speaker 5: hire some are you gonna have an enemy's list? And
Speaker 5: she made it clear I wouldn't take any job in
Speaker 5: which anybody asked me to do anything unethical.
Speaker 2: Look at my career. You Putts? She didn't say you Potts,
Speaker 2: but she could have. So will she will coast him?
Speaker 4: Nancy Pelosi not going to go to the Trump inauguration.
Speaker 4: It could be health reasons, right, she's still hurt from
Speaker 4: when she fell down the stairs as an old lady
Speaker 4: in her high heels and broke her ankle. No idea
Speaker 4: that might be it. They're making a big deal out
Speaker 4: of Michelle. Obama's not gonna be there. It's also unclear
Speaker 4: if that's a health thing or not.
Speaker 2: Well. And who cares?
Speaker 4: All the former presidents? Well, is it a diss or
Speaker 4: something like that? I ge?
Speaker 2: Is it a measure of Yeah, Washington's contempt for Trump? Blah,
Speaker 2: blah blah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess that's a semi legitimate conversation. But uh,
Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess the part of me that
Speaker 5: is revolted by Washington's self obsession.
Speaker 2: Who's in, who's out, who has power, who's hot? Right?
Speaker 2: I just I don't care. How are you going to govern?
Speaker 2: How's it going to affect Americans?
Speaker 4: We will be on the air on Monday. It's a
Speaker 4: company holiday. We could have taken the day off, but
Speaker 4: we did not when we realized it's inauguration Day. So
Speaker 4: we will actually be on the air when the nuclear
Speaker 4: codes are handed over from ancient Joe Biden to Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: who is at least sentient compared to the current president,
Speaker 4: but also ancient.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are. We are truly public servants.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: So I was I'm reading some MLK stuff right now
Speaker 4: because it's his holiday is on Monday, and I do
Speaker 4: that every year for some reason. And I'm getting into
Speaker 4: the David Garrow book something the cross, Carrying the cross?
Speaker 4: What's it a burden? When you have a burden, there's
Speaker 4: the name. I gotta now, I gotta know.
Speaker 2: I wish I could help.
Speaker 4: That's a very very famous but bearing the Cross, very
Speaker 4: famous book When the Fold Surprise back in the day.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so I was reading about Martin Luther King Junior,
Speaker 4: and I lived in Memphis around that time when he
Speaker 4: was shot as a little kid. So I was sent
Speaker 4: in my mom an email about that, like when did
Speaker 4: when was? When did we move to Memphis and where
Speaker 4: exactly did we live? The reason I bring this up
Speaker 4: is my mom is the same age as Joe Biden,
Speaker 4: the guy we saw on TV last night. They were
Speaker 4: within a week of each other. On her birthday. My
Speaker 4: mom was asked about something from a half a century ago,
Speaker 4: someplace we lived for like nine months. She knew exactly
Speaker 4: when we moved there and the name of the place
Speaker 4: and the address off the top of her head. Joe
Speaker 4: Biden was asked, when were you vice president? And he
Speaker 4: couldn't come up with it, and the mainstream media excuse that, well,
Speaker 4: you can't expect a guy to remember when he was
Speaker 4: vice frid My mom's the same age.
Speaker 2: She remembers where.
Speaker 4: We lived briefly a half a century ago. He doesn't
Speaker 4: remember when he was vice president. I can't wait. I
Speaker 4: hope there's a reckoning on this. But how crazy it
Speaker 4: is that everybody covered up for how badly that guy's
Speaker 4: brain works.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, on the right side of the aisle, we'll
Speaker 5: certainly reckon with it, and some reasonable moderates will as well.
Speaker 5: But there's gonna be no mia culpa. There's gonna be
Speaker 5: no great.
Speaker 4: Horrified Well, of course, did I mention the Washington Post
Speaker 4: new slogan.
Speaker 2: Oh you told us that there is one, but you
Speaker 2: did not reveal it.
Speaker 5: Democracy dies in darkness, so self important and ironic.
Speaker 2: Just it'd be hard to do worse.
Speaker 4: I don't think I can find it. It's something like
Speaker 4: telling the story to all of America. It's basically that. Okay,
Speaker 4: So it's not like, yeah, well it's Jeff Bezos is
Speaker 4: trying to go that direction, as you know, by by
Speaker 4: not endorsing a candidate and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: So I'm I'm optimistic about a whole bunch of different
Speaker 4: things that have been ushered in with Trump's pretty dominant win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is exciting.
Speaker 4: One other story that just came across the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: is not far away. We got a lot of playoff
Speaker 4: football this weekend. State Farm has scrapped their Super Bowl
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five commercial as outrage Mounts over LA fires.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing they were thinking it just wasn't a good
Speaker 4: idea to just raise our heads up and remind people
Speaker 4: they just didn't want to have insurance company as a
Speaker 4: topic at Super Bowl parties.
Speaker 5: I'm guessing Yeah, I think so, right. Yeah, Yeah, that's
Speaker 5: probably a decent move.
Speaker 4: I'll bet there's going to be a lot of fairly
Speaker 4: heartfelt commercials. People are probably scrambling right now to come
Speaker 4: up with something that's here at Budweiser, we care about
Speaker 4: this and that and are donating something or other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably so, Yeah, particularly if the Rams were to.
Speaker 2: Make it the big contest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. Would do you think they would a
Speaker 4: little of the everybody's rooting for him because attached to
Speaker 4: Los Angeles thing that happens sometimes with teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think the Chiefs are one Super Bowl went away
Speaker 5: from being the team everybody hates.
Speaker 4: Them, hates based on my life. Yeah, well, if they
Speaker 4: win three in a row.
Speaker 2: Good lord.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe chief if they won three in a row,
Speaker 4: they would be one Josh Allen amazing play away from
Speaker 4: an undefeated season and a three peat in the NFL,
Speaker 4: which would definitely solidify you as the greatest team of
Speaker 4: all time. That's insane. Yeah, Oh, we got a bunch
Speaker 4: of other stuff on the way, stay with us.
Speaker 8: In honor of Valentine's Day, Appleby's has launched two new cocktails.
Speaker 2: But if you've been taken to Appleby's on Valentine's Date,
Speaker 2: you're gonna need way more than two.
Speaker 4: Oh kind of like date at Applebe's, huh, with the
Speaker 4: bourbon streak steak and a whatever kind of chocolate shake,
Speaker 4: that song, and don't ne me to knock an appleby
Speaker 4: It's perfectly fine place to spend your Valentine's.
Speaker 5: I don't go anywhere on Valentine's Day, and I don't
Speaker 5: often go to Applebee's, but I don't judge others who do.
Speaker 2: Jack to each their own. I say, I'm.
Speaker 5: Trying to think if there is an Applebee's anywhere, handy anyway,
Speaker 5: it doesn't matter. Coming up a couple of interesting aspects
Speaker 5: of the current political scene, including a list of quotes
Speaker 5: from Democrats that make it, you know, in escapable clear
Speaker 5: they have no idea why they lost the election and
Speaker 5: how unpopular some of their ideas are. AOC is a
Speaker 5: fruit loop. There's a hint, so a couple of non
Speaker 5: political notes here. Fake job postings are becoming a real problem.
Speaker 5: At least one in five jobs advertised is fake or
Speaker 5: never to be filled with no intention of filling it.
Speaker 4: Ah, well that's a problem. But I also know the
Speaker 4: flip side, trying to hire sitters. I don't know what
Speaker 4: percentage of those are fake so that they can claim
Speaker 4: that they're looking for a job, because it allows you
Speaker 4: to get various checks from the government. All kinds of
Speaker 4: people I've come across that have no interest in actually
Speaker 4: taking a job. So if you're fake job listings and
Speaker 4: fake im i'm for hire listings, makes it very difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just just nutty.
Speaker 5: They mentioned that this is dispiriting for workers, obviously leading
Speaker 5: to distrust in citicism, feeling like it's rigged against them.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a horror show, said a personnel company
Speaker 5: president co founder. With the job markets become more sole
Speaker 5: crushing than ever, companies have a number of nefarious and
Speaker 5: normal reasons for posting not quite real jobs. They may
Speaker 5: want to suggest they're growing even when they aren't, or
Speaker 5: may keep postings up in case they get a candidate
Speaker 5: who's too good to pass up people who like have
Speaker 5: their house permanently for sale for like a laughable amount
Speaker 5: of money. Oh yeah, in case, you know, some Chinese
Speaker 5: oligarch decides I want a home and name your town.
Speaker 4: If you're in a certain neighborhood in San Francisco or Carmel.
Speaker 4: I've seen that sort of thing, that those houses are
Speaker 4: always for sale in case Brad Pitt walks by and
Speaker 4: decides he wants to live there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but wall Man, it's got to be discouraging.
Speaker 4: Maybe I shouldn't be saying this a lot, but I
Speaker 4: don't know. We've been involved in situations where you need
Speaker 4: to hire somebody you know who it's going to be,
Speaker 4: and then they have to post a job opening for
Speaker 4: a certain amount of time before you go with the
Speaker 4: person that you already know you want, right just to
Speaker 4: satisfy all kinds of legal things.
Speaker 2: Yea, including egal opportunity that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, obviously the assistant who's been doing a
Speaker 5: brilliant job and everybody knows should have the gig.
Speaker 2: Probably now you're gonna give him the job. Anyway.
Speaker 5: Here's a young woman who graduated from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper
Speaker 5: school of thisiness. Oh, that's a fine school of business,
Speaker 5: and she's a scientist and now has an MBA and
Speaker 5: the rest of it. Out of more than two hundred
Speaker 5: and sixty applications, she received one hundred and twenty four
Speaker 5: rejection letters and ultimately never heard back from one hundred
Speaker 5: and sixteen companies, including several where she had already made
Speaker 5: it through two or three rounds of interviews, flown in
Speaker 5: to meet with executives, or tackled take home assignments that
Speaker 5: required several hours of work to prove that she was
Speaker 5: up to it.
Speaker 4: Do you most is just shocking getting ghosted like that?
Speaker 4: You got adult kids? Do you mostly apply for jobs online? Now?
Speaker 4: Almost entirely?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 5: At one point I would say, you know, go in person,
Speaker 5: shake a hand, look in their eye, tell them how
Speaker 5: much you'd like to work there. And I eventually became
Speaker 5: convinced if you do that, they will run you out
Speaker 5: of the store because you are a crack pot. Nobody's
Speaker 5: there who goes through the applications. They're busy. That's not
Speaker 5: the way it works. But now I understand because of
Speaker 5: the imperfections of internet hiring. Depending on you're talking about,
Speaker 5: it's it's flowed back the other way. Some Oh really
Speaker 5: you should go in. Yeah, I just I feel for people.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is this is terrible.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but I I've applied for jobs before in
Speaker 4: person and you fill out the form there in the
Speaker 4: little lobby and you hand it to the person and
Speaker 4: you just okay, well, well I'll show this to whoever
Speaker 4: put it on file or some means. No, I'm never
Speaker 4: going to hear from these people in my life. What
Speaker 4: am I doing? How am I going to eat?
Speaker 5: I do enjoy filling out the street address of my
Speaker 5: high school over and over again back in the day.
Speaker 4: Do they still ask that sort of question?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't actually know. Uh.
Speaker 5: There's another article kind of similar in a way that
Speaker 5: we can all relate to. It is harder than ever
Speaker 5: to find real product recommendations online.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The Great World War between fake reviews and trying to
Speaker 5: get rid of fake reviews, it's not going well.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Where are the Nazis in this situation? And we're calling
Speaker 5: on Steiner to turn back the Russians when Steiner's off
Speaker 5: the battlefield, it's it's miserable. Sorry, that's too bad. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it is, And it's frustrating.
Speaker 2: I've been.
Speaker 5: And I'm a skeptical guy, and I think I've got
Speaker 5: a really good eye for bullless. But man, is it
Speaker 5: getting tough and time consuming Because you get to something
Speaker 5: that looks, you know, really reliable. They spend a lot
Speaker 5: of timeline of energy, They have a video, they go
Speaker 5: through it and all, and then you find out that
Speaker 5: now they're sponsored by.
Speaker 4: These people, right yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: And if I have a brand that does X amount
Speaker 5: of revenue, yeah, I'm going to pay somebody twenty five
Speaker 5: grand to spend two days putting together a video where
Speaker 5: they pretend to be a neutral, I don't know, guitar
Speaker 5: string appraiser or whatever.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, I put together this barbecue grill AND's the
Speaker 4: best one I've ever had. And that's how they're getting paid.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Further complicating things is that search engines, including are particularly Google,
Speaker 5: often probably oritize the less reliable lists. In many cases,
Speaker 5: that's because, oh, we don't have time to explain bribery.
Speaker 5: In essence, Joe.
Speaker 4: Biden made me so angry last night, among other things,
Speaker 4: only wrong. And get first of all, this one of
Speaker 4: your major polls has Trumpet fifty percent approval. Now the
Speaker 4: highest he's ever been ever at any point since he
Speaker 4: got into politics in this particular poll, as is true
Speaker 4: with a whole bunch of other polls Gallup and others,
Speaker 4: Isn't that wow? Nobody predicted that? Indeed, TikTok. The whole
Speaker 4: story continues to be something. It's supposed to come to
Speaker 4: an end kind of this weekend, unless something intervenes or whatever.
Speaker 4: But anyway, young people have to espouse their opinions online.
Speaker 4: Here's one of those young people.
Speaker 1: So I downloaded red Note, and I'm no longer convinced
Speaker 1: that we are living in a first world country seeing
Speaker 1: the everyday lives of Chinese people, like obviously certain Chinese
Speaker 1: people are not sing everybody's lives, but it's just like
Speaker 1: insanely eye opening. There's something really remarkable that I had
Speaker 1: known about most of these Chinese people, even older people
Speaker 1: like people in their forties, fifty sixties, they look so
Speaker 1: much less traumatized than most Americans.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't fully understand Chinese culture at all, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure it varies a lot. It's a very very big place,
Speaker 1: but it's interesting seeing how lighthearted and kind and gentle
Speaker 1: these people are, especially in comparison to Americans.
Speaker 4: Can somebody put her in contact with the Some people
Speaker 4: don't have maps, a girl.
Speaker 5: There was one sentence in there that was unintentionally hilarious,
Speaker 5: and I hate to miss quote her because it was
Speaker 5: it was perfectly idiotic. I'm not completely up what, Michael,
Speaker 5: you got to play for me again, I've got to
Speaker 5: have this just right. I should have jotted it down,
Speaker 5: so I.
Speaker 1: Downloaded red note. And I'm no longer convinced that we
Speaker 1: are living in a first world country seeing the everyday
Speaker 1: lives of Chinese people, Like obviously they're Chinese people are
Speaker 1: not sting everybody's lives, but it's just like insanely eye opening.
Speaker 1: There's something really remarkable that I have noticed about most
Speaker 1: of these Chinese people, even older people, like people in
Speaker 1: their forty fifty sixties, they look so much less traumatized
Speaker 1: than most Americans. Now, I don't fully understand Chinese culture
Speaker 1: at all, and I'm sure there are a lot don't
Speaker 1: fully understand Chinese culture at all at all.
Speaker 4: But here's my opinion.
Speaker 2: What was the word fully doing in there.
Speaker 4: I don't fully understand Chinese culture at all, meaning you
Speaker 4: don't understand Chinese culture at all.
Speaker 2: You have no.
Speaker 5: Basis, no factual but no experience, no perspective, no education
Speaker 5: on which to base any opinion whatsoever. Well, not fully
Speaker 5: like I don't watch or play golf at all, but
Speaker 5: I think that I mean.
Speaker 2: Exactly my opinion.
Speaker 4: Course design emphasizes a bunker play.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Great, people out there in our nation don't have that.
Speaker 7: And I believe that our education, like such as in
Speaker 7: South Africa and Iraq everywhere, like such as.
Speaker 4: And the Iraq everywhere such as are not as traumatized
Speaker 4: as most Americans.
Speaker 5: Well, you're you're traumatized because you're raised like a veal
Speaker 5: calf and you're terrified of life.
Speaker 4: Now my uh, one of my really smart nieces who's
Speaker 4: in graduate school is that they're they're all TikTok people.
Speaker 4: And uh, when I'm mentioned the whole Chinese Communist Party thing,
Speaker 4: she said, that's a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 5: That the Chinese Communist Party can influence TikTok has anything
Speaker 5: to do with it, can yank bite dance is spying
Speaker 5: on your compiracy theory.
Speaker 4: Is spying on your information. That's but if that's what
Speaker 4: people think, then that's uh yeah, well that's what.
Speaker 2: They heard on TikTok exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where it gets complicated.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't.
Speaker 1: Fully understand Chinese culture at all.
Speaker 2: That's a funny sentence.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not fully acquainted with ceramics engineering at all.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love that sentence. Now I don't.
Speaker 1: Fully understand Chinese culture at all.
Speaker 2: But here's what I think.
Speaker 4: Clearly, we all live in a first world country in
Speaker 4: China does because look at how less traumatized their people.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm not thoroughly qualified for abdominal surgery at all.
Speaker 4: Boss, he still hand me that scalful. We can get
Speaker 4: started if you'll hold still.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Pretty funny.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have never fully done ie surgery at all.
Speaker 4: But try not to flinch here.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: So Joe Biden gave a speech last night. I didn't
Speaker 4: watch it. I kind of thought I tried. I tried
Speaker 4: for a while. It was a soul suck man. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I knew it would be. I knew he'd be old
Speaker 4: and slurry and everything like that, and I expected it
Speaker 4: to be a nothing burger. I thought it would be
Speaker 4: kind of just the normal Joe bideny platitudes about this,
Speaker 4: and that it wasn't. Though he got into some grievances
Speaker 4: and warnings that were weird, Like the President of the
Speaker 4: United States shouldn't be saying this stuff unless he can
Speaker 4: back it up with some real evidence. For instance, this I.
Speaker 8: Want to warn the country some things and give me
Speaker 8: a great concern. This is a dangerous content, and that's
Speaker 8: a dangerous conversation of power in the hands of a
Speaker 8: few ultrawealthy people, the dangerous consequences if their abusive power
Speaker 8: is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in
Speaker 8: America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threads
Speaker 8: our entire democracy are basic rights and freedoms and a
Speaker 8: fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
Speaker 4: He stated, as if it's obviously fact to him and
Speaker 4: his kind that an oligarchy has formed that is stopping
Speaker 4: people from being able to live out their lives. Okay,
Speaker 4: I haven't noticed that. Back that up with anything, dude.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's a hell of a thing to say. Luckily,
Speaker 4: we're into such the age of hyperbole and people saying
Speaker 4: crap all the time, it doesn't really land. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's not like it's a discussion today like it would
Speaker 4: have been if Bill Clinton had said that on his
Speaker 4: last day of office. We now live in an oligarchy
Speaker 4: would have been everybody talking about it the next day.
Speaker 2: What how? Where? Why? What do we do?
Speaker 5: But please the hilarity of Joe Biden. The Democrats suddenly
Speaker 5: highly concerned that billionaires are acting politically right.
Speaker 4: Yeah again, he gave George Soros the Medal of Freedom
Speaker 4: last week. Now the richest guy, Elon Musk, tweets things
Speaker 4: favorable to Trump, and we should all be frightened to death.
Speaker 5: I guess electric car, space exploration guy bad, Marxism guy good.
Speaker 5: That's your billionaire review from Joe Biden. Okay, And then
Speaker 5: this part was just crazy.
Speaker 8: I'm equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech
Speaker 8: industrial complex. I could pose real dangers for our country
Speaker 8: as well. Americans are being buried under an avalanche of
Speaker 8: misinformation and disinformation, enabling to abuse the power. The free
Speaker 8: press is crumbling. There's a disappearance social media is giving
Speaker 8: up on fact checking.
Speaker 2: The truth is.
Speaker 8: Sma, lies told for power and for profit. We must
Speaker 8: hold the social platform and accountable to protect our children,
Speaker 8: our families, and our very democracy from the abusive power.
Speaker 4: You literally bribed and browbeat people into lying and offering
Speaker 4: disinformation and misinformation and calling it fact checking you and
Speaker 4: your administration, and now you're weeping bitter tears over the decline.
Speaker 2: Of quote unquote fact checking. It's just too much. It
Speaker 2: really is.
Speaker 4: If I wanted to be somewhat partisan, although I don't
Speaker 4: think there's this partisan. The thing you just described as
Speaker 4: a horror was going on when you were in charge,
Speaker 4: and now we're moving away from.
Speaker 2: It, right because it was so awful, So you.
Speaker 4: Come up to threaten us or alert us to the
Speaker 4: horror of it going away from what you wanted. So
Speaker 4: my question I guess is does he understand that or not?
Speaker 4: Is he just a partisan? I mean, does he think
Speaker 4: when when he had people In case you haven't heard this,
Speaker 4: Mark Zuckerberg did Joe Rogan's podcast on Friday. In an interview,
Speaker 4: said to Joe Rogan that Biden White House people would
Speaker 4: call them up at Facebook and scream at them. Sometimes
Speaker 4: we're posting things that were flat out fact or satire
Speaker 4: or humor. Right, and Joe Biden's last night saying, and
Speaker 4: they're doing away with fact checking too much concentrated power.
Speaker 4: You misinformation. People are swamped in misinformation. You weren't allowing
Speaker 4: facts to be on Facebook when you were in charge, dude,
Speaker 4: So does he know that or not?
Speaker 5: We are fact checking and ending the careers of people
Speaker 5: who have said we should reopen the school sooner.
Speaker 2: We're helping America.
Speaker 5: I don't know, honestly, it's so outrageous it deserves a response.
Speaker 2: But a senile, miserable has been.
Speaker 5: Just voted out of office, leaving office with the lowest
Speaker 5: approval ratings of anybody but Dick Nixon.
Speaker 2: It's just just go away, just go away and shut.
Speaker 4: Up for that bat caur god. I was trying to
Speaker 4: find he say rest in peace, but he's been resting
Speaker 4: in peace for like the last three and a half years.
Speaker 4: I was trying to find. It happened over the weekend,
Speaker 4: so we haven't talked about it. This week. He did
Speaker 4: one of those shuffling you can't hardly hear him interview
Speaker 4: things where he said, yeah, on facebooks, do it a
Speaker 4: way of fact checking. This is awful for the country.
Speaker 4: It's just can you believe that? No fact checking?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: Checking facts like natural immunities as good as vaccinated immunity.
Speaker 5: You couldn't say that thanks to the Biden administration. Thanks
Speaker 5: for the fact check, uncle, Joe.
Speaker 4: And so that's just nuts. He's either so out of
Speaker 4: it he doesn't understand, or he's even more partisan than
Speaker 4: I realized. And then he ended with an evil and
Speaker 4: then he ended with after fifty years of public service,
Speaker 4: and that just drove me nuts because he's he and
Speaker 4: his entire extended family got insanely wealthy. Do you get
Speaker 4: to call that public service if you got insanely wealthy?
Speaker 4: So it's just a coincidental byproduct of your public service.
Speaker 5: If you have the world's smartest crackhead lawyer making millions
Speaker 5: and millions of dollars from fourig and oligarchs, everybody's gonna
Speaker 5: get wealthy.
Speaker 4: Jack, I don't know you and your brother and everybody
Speaker 4: else extended on down to grandchildren. Everybody lives in all
Speaker 4: these different compounds, and the money gets spread around with
Speaker 4: all the LLC's. Thanks for your public service.
Speaker 2: Got so many shell companies.
Speaker 5: I can't remember the names of half of them, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: public service lovely. Oh that reminds me. Here's a headline
Speaker 5: for you. I'm not sure we'll have time to get
Speaker 5: into this.
Speaker 2: Ah, there it is.
Speaker 4: Congressional Democrats portfolios spiked thirty one percent in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Well I didn't do that well, which that which out
Speaker 4: did the S and P by seven percent or almost
Speaker 4: a third. Could you make the argument, well, those are
Speaker 4: you know, Congress people, they're they're they're smart, they're acquainted,
Speaker 4: they read the journal and the wappo, so they make
Speaker 4: better investment decisions than most of us. Or to make
Speaker 4: that argument, or they know about things that are going
Speaker 4: to happen before we know about them and can adjust
Speaker 4: their stocks accordingly.
Speaker 2: Take you because I don't want to rush through this.
Speaker 5: Got a report on the top stock gainers and what
Speaker 5: they invested in, plus what committees they sit on.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I put all my money in those gold Trump tennis shoes. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm hold onto them. I still think they're going to
Speaker 4: go up.
Speaker 2: I bought four roast to the Trump Bibles.
Speaker 4: For God's sake, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 9: College athletes can now make millions before ever going pro
Speaker 9: thanks to a set of NCAA rules called the NIL,
Speaker 9: which stands for Name, Image and Likeness. Since twenty twenty one,
Speaker 9: any athlete can profit from commercial endorsements, jersey sales, even
Speaker 9: autograph sessions. What's really changing the game, though, is another
Speaker 9: part of the program that's morphed into a monster athletes
Speaker 9: getting paid just to play. Schools are tapping deep pocketed
Speaker 9: alums and donors to pay millions to high level athletes,
Speaker 9: launching bidding wars for recruits, and raids by schools on
Speaker 9: each other's rosters. In twenty twenty four and estimated one
Speaker 9: point sixty seven billion dollars was spent on student athletes,
Speaker 9: and most of it on men's sports, more than a
Speaker 9: billion dollars estimated on college football, in about three hundred
Speaker 9: ninety million dollars for college basketball.
Speaker 4: So we've talked about this a lot. Do you think
Speaker 4: college sports is going to eat itself with this? Not
Speaker 4: that I think they have any option legally speaking, but
Speaker 4: or is it going to continue to be? Okay, I
Speaker 4: just I forget which Tiamo was, but one of the
Speaker 4: football teams had seventeen players that didn't play in their
Speaker 4: big bowl game.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, Well, and the stuff that that report was
Speaker 5: talking about specifically to your question, I don't know, And
Speaker 5: I wish I had a strong opinion on this because
Speaker 5: it's so interesting. But I have a number of buddies,
Speaker 5: golf buddies and other friends who are really big college
Speaker 5: sports fans, and their passion is undiminished.
Speaker 2: They talk about it all the time.
Speaker 4: Seems to be Yeah, that's basically right.
Speaker 5: For they're all in the matters and all. They're aware
Speaker 5: of it in all, but they're still super into it.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: And so what we've decided legally speaking, is all those
Speaker 4: years it was incredibly unfair to those college athletes that
Speaker 4: they weren't making any money. In some cases extreme examples.
Speaker 4: I mean, you think about some of the football players
Speaker 4: in basketball players particularly that went through back in the
Speaker 4: day three or four years at college is the biggest
Speaker 4: star in America and didn't get a cent.
Speaker 5: Right, and then you would lose your heisman for you know,
Speaker 5: accepting whatever.
Speaker 4: They drive a car, somebody lets you drop a car, Yeah,
Speaker 4: something like that.
Speaker 5: It's just ridiculous. You know, we didn't have time for
Speaker 5: another thing. We can get to tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Maybe is there's this big lawsuit about college admissions that
Speaker 4: reveals how the big elite universities really talk about the
Speaker 4: rich kids. They've had to give up emails and memos
Speaker 4: and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I would love to hear that.
Speaker 4: Sameritocracy Well, there's Jack again, there's Joe Man. It's time
Speaker 4: to put the show out with the couple Kade Green
Speaker 4: and Michael Langelo.
Speaker 2: It's Stabby the clown Evan. There a radio, so let's
Speaker 2: hear they're final class people. They have to go.
Speaker 4: What is it about that makes us all so creeped out?
Speaker 4: Which sounder? Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 5: Let's get a finals off from everybody on the crew
Speaker 5: to wrap up the show for the day. There is
Speaker 5: our technical director, Michael Aigel. Michael final thought.
Speaker 2: All right, maybe you guys can help me out.
Speaker 4: Is it a tradition for them to the previous president
Speaker 4: to prank the incoming president, like by gluing the desk
Speaker 4: in the White House? Or I don't think so? Now No,
Speaker 4: I don't think there are any pranks involved. I should No,
Speaker 4: I think Obama's people did that, but they're snitty little beaches.
Speaker 4: Well remember when Clinton left and Bush came in, they
Speaker 4: took all the w's off all the keyboards, which is
Speaker 4: seen as horrible annoying. Katie Green has a final thought, Katie,
Speaker 4: on one more thing. Yesterday we talked about homemade butter,
Speaker 4: so I made it yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'll never buy butter again.
Speaker 4: Homemade butter's pretty so good. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: The flavor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got to look that up. Fabulous though on
Speaker 5: homemade Brad please please, you can die happy Jack. A
Speaker 5: final thought.
Speaker 4: My son beat me twice in chess last night so badly.
Speaker 4: I was in bed watching YouTube videos on chess, instructional
Speaker 4: videos and reading books to try to figure out how
Speaker 4: to get better. It was horribly embarrassing.
Speaker 5: My final thought is the percentage of people who say
Speaker 5: I'll let you know first thing tomorrow who actually let
Speaker 5: you know anything first thing tomorrow is roughly four percent.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to do a couple of deals in my god,
Speaker 5: it just look text me and say, hey, it's going
Speaker 5: to be another couple hours.
Speaker 4: I say, this is common courtesy.
Speaker 2: Whatever happened to common courtesy?
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday,
Speaker 4: so many people to thank, so a little time, be
Speaker 4: courteous and go to Armstrong in getdy dot com. See tomorrow,
Speaker 4: got bless America. I will not be a party to this, folk,
Speaker 4: holy cow, so.
Speaker 2: Say it with me. See say wad way, folks, I'm
Speaker 2: going with this. No no, all right, well.
Speaker 8: It was bright idea?
Speaker 4: Was it to put every idiot in the world in
Speaker 4: touch with every other idiot?
Speaker 2: Idiot? Man, I hope this is behind this. Everything was
Speaker 2: This is not a Kumbaya moment that I know. Thank
Speaker 2: you all very much, Armstrong and Getty