Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and get and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: The question is, is are APEX goals shaped by the
Speaker 2: goals of the Israeli government to any extent?
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a.
Speaker 2: Really simple lobbying on behalf of It's a simple question,
Speaker 2: that is ape Are APEX goals shaped by the goals
Speaker 2: of the Israeli government?
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna ask you a question straightforwardly. And
Speaker 1: if you say no, I think we both know that's
Speaker 1: not true. Hey, are they shaped by is that?
Speaker 3: It is?
Speaker 2: Are they coordinating with the Israeli government? Are they talking? Directing?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 1: What you want to talk about? Farah? The law on
Speaker 1: lobbying on behalf of someone? It is I hire you,
Speaker 1: and you lobby on behalf of me? I direct you?
Speaker 1: Does Israel direct APEC know they are not lobbying on
Speaker 1: behalf of them? Do they care about them? Yes?
Speaker 4: Tucker Carlson in one of his less unfair grillings of
Speaker 4: Ted Cruz, there an interview we discussion we featured yesterday
Speaker 4: on the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we played a lot of it. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 4: As much as we've admired Tucker through the years, he's
Speaker 4: he's become a forceful advocate for something I'm sure exactly what.
Speaker 4: He's one of the most unfair arguers in the history
Speaker 4: of arguing. And Jack discussing that yesterday offered to argue
Speaker 4: like Tucker Carlson and it was a tour to force
Speaker 4: nineteen Michael. He senses when you are at all a
Speaker 4: rhetorical threat to you, and that's when he employs his
Speaker 4: various trickeries.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by threat if you're just threatening me?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're doing? No, No, is that what
Speaker 1: you're doing? Threat? Well, you just said threat? Would you
Speaker 1: like to rewind the tape? And by the way, why
Speaker 1: are you being so defensive all of a sudden, gotten
Speaker 1: very very defensive? And I just wonder it must I
Speaker 1: must have hit a hot spot with you or something
Speaker 1: to be so defensive and then to threaten me.
Speaker 4: Jack arguing like Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a Tangents are the key. You want
Speaker 1: to drive someone crazy. You're trying to have a conversation
Speaker 1: about a particular topic, and Tucker takes it off into
Speaker 1: left field and he bates people into like defending something
Speaker 1: that they weren't even wanting to talk about.
Speaker 4: Important, Right, he bates them into defending his twisted version
Speaker 4: of what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, we just called a fleazy feline.
Speaker 4: Oh that's out of bounds. Right there, we're told this
Speaker 4: is very amusing. Let's find out together. It's a comedian
Speaker 4: Ami Kozak Tucker Carlson versus Tucker Carlson, which number twelve?
Speaker 5: Michael, didn't you support Donald Trump? Of course I did, Yes,
Speaker 5: I can't paign for him. And you know he's been
Speaker 5: very pro Israel. He supports Israel. Doesn't that mean by
Speaker 5: extension you support his role?
Speaker 1: Why does that? It doesn't mean that at all? Like
Speaker 1: at all? Why don't you support Donald Trump if he
Speaker 1: supported his roll? Why would you do that?
Speaker 5: I don't see why you would do that if it's
Speaker 5: against your values as an American?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, what do you what do you want?
Speaker 1: I mean, you support your candidate who probably supports is Roe.
Speaker 1: I would think you was supported his roll.
Speaker 5: Why would you support a candidate's supports is Roel If
Speaker 5: you don't support his wrong, why would you contradict yourself? Well,
Speaker 5: not as much as you're contradicting yourself. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: speaking on both sides of your mouth. I mean, do
Speaker 5: you have two moules?
Speaker 1: I don't. Well, there's two miles you're talking. But once
Speaker 1: I's being consistent one size now and then they explode.
Speaker 1: Like the clip we played yesterday where Ted Cruz mentions
Speaker 1: a Bible verse that like is one of his guiding
Speaker 1: principles and Tucker says, you know, where where is it
Speaker 1: in the Bible? Ted's a I don't remember, But you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're so you're guiding philosophy. You don't
Speaker 1: know where in the Bible that is. I mean, so
Speaker 1: like that sort of thing. Yeah, right, I we're through here.
Speaker 1: But I see what you're doing. No, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 4: You can't even cite the chapter. What's the context it's in?
Speaker 4: What the chapter of the Bible?
Speaker 1: The Bible? I don't know. You don't even know the context.
Speaker 4: So you take a random verse from the Bible out
Speaker 4: of context, and you based your entire world view on it.
Speaker 1: My entire world view it you just said it? What Wait,
Speaker 1: you don't know the population of Iran? How could you
Speaker 1: possibly want to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon?
Speaker 1: When you don't know the population. Yeah, yep, yep. Well.
Speaker 4: In other news, an appeals court has let Trump keep
Speaker 4: control of the California National Guard troops in LA, quickly
Speaker 4: overturning the San Francisco hippie judges in defensible decision the
Speaker 4: other day saying, we conclude it as likely that the
Speaker 4: President lawfully exercise statutory authority.
Speaker 1: And have had it. Does that doesn't the whole LA
Speaker 1: riots thing. So it was last Saturday that I drove
Speaker 1: through Los Angeles to take my son to the boy
Speaker 1: Scout camp and I'm picking him up tomorrow, and it
Speaker 1: was all the talk and I was like, what is
Speaker 1: it going to be like at the protests and the
Speaker 1: no kings? That seems like that was six years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was six days ago. Yeah, their ace of news
Speaker 1: and what's important is just it's too much to handle, right,
Speaker 1: no kidding.
Speaker 4: And there's still unrest and there will be more demonstrations
Speaker 4: and violence, you know at some point.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not in the mood today, but some of the
Speaker 4: poll numbers coming out about Americans' willingness to see law
Speaker 4: abiding illegal immigrants rounded up and set out sent out
Speaker 4: is not high.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, then you better change the law because the
Speaker 1: losses that they need to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what I called earlier the Armstrong doctrine, which is
Speaker 4: logically absolutely correct, but there's not the will to make
Speaker 4: it happen.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can't get far enough down that road. Hey
Speaker 1: find that. I want a list of the other federal
Speaker 1: laws we get to ignore. Oh yeah, yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with you completely. All right.
Speaker 4: I'm just politics is the art of the possible jack,
Speaker 4: and I'm telling you, judging by what I see, it's
Speaker 4: not going to be possible to push it as far
Speaker 4: as you're talking about, even though that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Want to hear my favorite headline from today? Yeah, there
Speaker 1: are many good ones, but I like this one. Pope
Speaker 1: Leo the fourteenth has many famous cousins, including Madonna, Justin Bieber,
Speaker 1: and Moore. Why does why is the pope cousins with
Speaker 1: the Madonna, Justin Bieber and Moore? What why is that?
Speaker 4: I'm not cousins with anybody famous that you know of.
Speaker 4: It's probably a distant cousin thing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'll bet you're right. Somebody did some sort
Speaker 1: of twenty three and me thing. And like, if you
Speaker 1: go far enough out We're all related to Madonna at.
Speaker 4: Some point, right, yeah, God help us. So getting back
Speaker 4: to the unrest in LA. Uh, this is a great
Speaker 4: piece by Heather McDonald. She's talking about, well, the headline
Speaker 4: is rioting acceptable? If so, how much a judge shrugged
Speaker 4: off some stray, isolent incidents LA Police sources still a
Speaker 4: very different story. We don't have s under control. An
Speaker 4: LAPD commander told me on Sunday, it's a godsend that
Speaker 4: the National Guard and the Marines are here. Officers on
Speaker 4: the street felt the same way, though the LAPD forbids
Speaker 4: them to express that view in public.
Speaker 1: The commander said, I must say that an inside source
Speaker 1: told me someone with a great deal of knowledge about
Speaker 1: this for a very long time, that LAPD is pretty
Speaker 1: unhappy with the lack of funny than beginning. We had
Speaker 1: an ex LAPD guy on I don't remember the guest's
Speaker 1: name day after the riots started talking about how many
Speaker 1: people they're down from their peak a few years ago.
Speaker 1: I mean, like thousands fewer police officers on the street
Speaker 1: than they had a few years ago, and this we're overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: We need the National Guard. We don't have it under control.
Speaker 1: Is really a political plea for see, we need more officers,
Speaker 1: we need more funding. Is what's driving that, which doesn't
Speaker 1: make it phony in any way whatsoever. But that could
Speaker 1: be the willingness to say to people we don't have
Speaker 1: s under control or we're overwhelmed. We want as many
Speaker 1: officers as we used.
Speaker 4: To have, right, right, And that could just be the
Speaker 4: union talking sure, because they want the payroll and the
Speaker 4: rest of it. You know what it reminds me of,
Speaker 4: in a funny way is whenever any like US military
Speaker 4: action is discussed, you have a certain segment of the
Speaker 4: chattering classes that say, oh so, Ray Theon and McDonald,
Speaker 4: douglas and all, look at the military industrial complex can
Speaker 4: get more money, right as if that's a reaction or
Speaker 4: a rejection for every possible military action.
Speaker 1: Money and war are in separable.
Speaker 4: And what you have to figure out is okay, is
Speaker 4: that the defense contractors talking through their mouthpieces on Capitol
Speaker 4: Hill or is there actually a legitimate national defense need
Speaker 4: here just to say, oh so the military industrial complex
Speaker 4: can make more money. That's that's that's not a good argument, yeah,
Speaker 4: because that's a constant. There are multiple big city police
Speaker 4: forces that are way way down in personnel and completely demoralized.
Speaker 1: I believe that to my bone. Sure.
Speaker 4: And do the unions also have an interest in beefing
Speaker 4: up the roles for financial reason?
Speaker 1: Of course? Yeah? Would they be to have more than
Speaker 1: they need? You damn right, they would, right exactly.
Speaker 4: That's why you have to look at it as an
Speaker 4: outside of observer or a civilian in charge of those
Speaker 4: things and make those judgments.
Speaker 1: Combining the military cost thing with Tucker Tuck. One of
Speaker 1: the things Tucker said to Ted Cruz on that two
Speaker 1: hour long thing that I watch was talking about the
Speaker 1: amount of money. You don't know how much money we've
Speaker 1: already spent in sending aircraft carriers. I mean, it's got
Speaker 1: to be millions of dollars, and I thought, I'm sure
Speaker 1: somebody could come up with that number. But our aircraft
Speaker 1: carriers are cruising around the sea somewhere, so now they're
Speaker 1: there instead of there. I don't understand how that's an
Speaker 1: extra cost.
Speaker 4: Did they burn x amount of extra fuel getting over
Speaker 4: there instead of saying over here? Yeah, but it's like
Speaker 4: you see that all the time. To make things over dramatic,
Speaker 4: that it cost five million dollars in firefighting time and equipment,
Speaker 4: which would have just been at the station house earning
Speaker 4: that same amount of money if that hadn't happened. So,
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, gotta be careful with that stuff.
Speaker 1: Got a new poll the latest numbers on where people
Speaker 1: are meeting in the dating world, going back to nineteen thirty.
Speaker 1: We talked about this last year, but there are new
Speaker 1: numbers out now. It turns out in nineteen thirty nobody
Speaker 1: met online. Nobody. Wow, it's changed that much. It's changed
Speaker 1: that much. Yes, we have that other stuff on the way. Well,
Speaker 1: some big sports news.
Speaker 6: The LA Lakers have been sold for a record ten
Speaker 6: billion dollars ten billion for the Lakers. Meanwhile, the Utah
Speaker 6: Jazz are on eBay and nobody's bid anything.
Speaker 4: Still waiting for the opening bid was that I can't
Speaker 4: imagine why the well, how did jazz come in for
Speaker 4: a kicking there?
Speaker 1: Well, and small market teams look at Indiana and Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City here you're a little rated NBA Finals. So it
Speaker 1: finally happened.
Speaker 4: I've I've read these I brought these articles to the
Speaker 4: show a couple of times about how young hipsters use
Speaker 4: emojis differently than old folks and that the old people
Speaker 4: need to get hip to it because you're freaking out
Speaker 4: your your young workers by giving him a thumbs up.
Speaker 4: Thumbs up means that's terrible. It's the equivalent of oh great, apparently, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Remember we talked about this before, but thumbs up is
Speaker 1: like sarcastic. Well that's great, yes, because my son sends
Speaker 1: me completely inappropriately based on my like a grown up
Speaker 1: friend set the emoji of the tears streaming down the
Speaker 1: face yes, which usually when adults send it to me,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I'm really touched by that or
Speaker 1: sad about that or whatever. He sends it, like when
Speaker 1: he's he sends it when something's funny. He's laughing so hard,
Speaker 1: he's crying, and it's.
Speaker 4: So it's beyond the tears, just the tears are streaming out.
Speaker 4: He's laughing so hard. Yes, exactly. Well, it's finally happened
Speaker 4: to me. In my real life, my daughter got some
Speaker 4: very good news academically and then included the snorting with
Speaker 4: anger emoji, and I said, isn't that an angry emoji?
Speaker 4: Because that's cool news, and she said, yeah, in this context, it's.
Speaker 1: F Yeah, I don't know the snorting with anger emoji,
Speaker 1: what's it look like? I'll send it to the group.
Speaker 1: It's a round yellow faces, Katie, if you could. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll send it to the group.
Speaker 3: I haven't heard that one yet, though, I've only known
Speaker 3: that to be like, augh.
Speaker 4: No, yeah, that's that's it. You're just so exasperated, you're
Speaker 4: snorting with anger. Yeah, apparently.
Speaker 1: Not like I said, I sent an egg plant to
Speaker 1: Linda in accounting because I thought her.
Speaker 4: Report was good, god, accurate. That's how I denote good work.
Speaker 4: There's the emoji in question. O, Katie just sent it
Speaker 4: to the group.
Speaker 1: I wondered why my phone just went off. I'm quickly
Speaker 1: for that. I had never seen that exactly. I had
Speaker 1: never seen that one before. Ever.
Speaker 4: That's the first time I've ever seen that emoji. Yeah,
Speaker 4: oh really, you're an anti emojis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, emojis apparently, I remember I don't send emojis and
Speaker 1: I don't text very much, so I guess that's the outside.
Speaker 1: But so what do you use that one for? If
Speaker 1: somebody had sent that to me, I.
Speaker 4: Thought, what the hell is that? Yeah, to me, it's
Speaker 4: I'm really pissed off. But no, it's a LFG. As
Speaker 4: the kids say, let's a blanket go.
Speaker 3: I'm fired up, you go out on a lemon, just
Speaker 3: say no, it's not that's not what it's for.
Speaker 1: Well, we can't have if we're gonna use the cartoons
Speaker 1: like we're children to communicate, we have to have an
Speaker 1: agreed upon meaning, just like we do with words. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'm gonna get slammed into on the
Speaker 1: driver's side door of my car, and some fifteen year
Speaker 1: old's gonna say no stop signs to us mean hurry up.
Speaker 1: Yeah again. Here's here's the deal.
Speaker 4: Okay, we old, as you youngsters like to call us,
Speaker 4: we own everything and we run and everything.
Speaker 1: So am I going to adapt to you or you
Speaker 1: that to me? Mmmmmmm. You can't come to me three
Speaker 1: times a week and say I need some money for food.
Speaker 1: I'm going to my friends and then tell me what
Speaker 1: emojis mean. That's not the way it works around here, exactly.
Speaker 1: Well said you want money to eat a Cane's chicken
Speaker 1: from now on. The tears streaming down means you're sad,
Speaker 1: all right, thumbs up means it's good. The thumbs down
Speaker 1: means it's bad. All right, ps, get off my lawn
Speaker 1: right right.
Speaker 4: Tell your friends to here's the sidewalk, Look at the lawn,
Speaker 4: look at it.
Speaker 1: I have really entered the teenagers coming to me for
Speaker 1: money phase of my life, which I knew what happened
Speaker 1: because I I've seen it portrayed on television my whole life.
Speaker 1: But oh boy, me and my friends are gonna go eat.
Speaker 1: Is there any chance you.
Speaker 4: Could coming up later? Guess who's urging Congress to defund
Speaker 4: the National Museum of the American Latino Latino scholars who
Speaker 4: say it's ridiculous and insulting.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, I like the sound of that. There is
Speaker 1: a new The latest data is out on how people
Speaker 1: meet in the dating world, which I'm not exactly sure
Speaker 1: what that even means, giving the factors up. People don't
Speaker 1: date or couple or have kids, so that that factors
Speaker 1: into the whole thing too. But the latest, the latest
Speaker 1: stats on there, and then my anecdotal evidence from people
Speaker 1: I know who do that sort of thing. So that'd
Speaker 1: be good on a Friday if you're if you're lonely
Speaker 1: and sad. Wow, Wow, that ruined it. That brought me down.
Speaker 1: I ruined it. I wish I hadn't said. I didn't
Speaker 1: have to say sad. I could have just said, well, lonely,
Speaker 1: it's kind of sad, alone and happy. I don't send
Speaker 1: you an emoji right now, sad face emoji. But what
Speaker 1: just a second, then there's a cute duck emoji. Why
Speaker 1: did you send me an egg plant?
Speaker 4: Because that means I don't appreciate what you just said
Speaker 4: because it's the least think it's the least popular vegetable,
Speaker 4: So it means I.
Speaker 1: Don't like that. That's why understanding. Yes, So get into
Speaker 1: those statistics and a bunch of other stuff on the way.
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Speaker 6: Tinder just added a new feature that let's use this
Speaker 6: coordinate double dates.
Speaker 1: You meet three people you don't like. Well, that's interesting
Speaker 1: is negative joke about tender and online dating app and
Speaker 1: then people laughing and everything like that. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything like I don't have I have no practical knowledge
Speaker 1: of online dating because I've never done it or seen
Speaker 1: a website or I mean, I only know what I've
Speaker 1: heard people talk about. But I've I've heard almost entirely
Speaker 1: negative stuff, at least in the last couple of years
Speaker 1: about how awful it is, and and and the number
Speaker 1: of people I've heard who deleted all their apps and
Speaker 1: have given up on it because it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's only you know a handful of guys trying
Speaker 1: to have sex and the end. Yes, Katie, UH drama
Speaker 1: makes the stories.
Speaker 3: I have several friends that have met the loves of
Speaker 3: their lives and been gotten married thanks.
Speaker 4: To quite a few listeners who've commented, you know what,
Speaker 4: Jacket's what you described the big story, this is hot,
Speaker 4: this is hot. You see the story everywhere it's hot,
Speaker 4: and then backlash against what's hot.
Speaker 1: It's actually terrible, It's terrible, over and over. But I
Speaker 1: only know my own personal experience with just people I know,
Speaker 1: and it's anecdotal, one hundred percent anecdotal, and the plural
Speaker 1: anecdote is not data, but anecdotally. I know lots of
Speaker 1: people who say and and it's all it was good.
Speaker 1: What happened? Well, I can tell you one thing that
Speaker 1: did happen that you might not know. Of match dot com,
Speaker 1: but every single one of the other UH forums they own,
Speaker 1: like practically all of them now. Match dot Com owns Tender,
Speaker 1: and I've I've heard of these in the news, okay,
Speaker 1: cubid and and I think Hinge and a bunch of
Speaker 1: other stuff, maybe e harmony, but they own almost all
Speaker 1: of them now, And there's some belief that they have
Speaker 1: a reason to not have you match because if you
Speaker 1: match with somebody you stay with, you're done as a customer.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, costs purposes, So there is well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there is some reason to you know, just string you along,
Speaker 1: get you kind of close or not give you many
Speaker 1: and you stay desperate and you stay on the.
Speaker 4: I mean, of course there's an incentive for that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's funny. I'm surprised the SEC hasn't stepped in and say,
Speaker 4: you've got a monopoly uncoupling. We can't have this. Of course,
Speaker 4: you could just meet somebody at the library or something
Speaker 4: like that. Right the library, it's likely to be a junkie.
Speaker 4: But anyway, depending where you live, you meet somebody at
Speaker 4: the library is a particularly bad choice in the modern world.
Speaker 1: Who's sleep upped in my head? Who meeting someone at
Speaker 1: the library? People who read books, sir. The library is
Speaker 1: for washing your feet in the sink, and we all
Speaker 1: know that, or looking at porn on a taxpayer funded computer,
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: Researching how do I hide a body? Not on your
Speaker 4: own computer?
Speaker 1: Right, But looking at the charts through the years, back
Speaker 1: in the nineteen thirties, nobody met online. I think that's
Speaker 1: an interesting piece of trivia, so revealing. But for all
Speaker 1: of mankind time, it was the ice cream social and
Speaker 1: friends and then church and that. So that was big
Speaker 1: enough to think like. But the way online has exploded,
Speaker 1: it dwarfs every other way of people meeting currently, at
Speaker 1: least according to all these studies. So you know that
Speaker 1: contradicts my anecdotal evidence, although it could have gotten a
Speaker 1: lot worse just in the last couple of years, and
Speaker 1: these charts would still be true, especially if Match dot
Speaker 1: Com bought all the companies and has some reason to
Speaker 1: you have zero reason to like perfect your algorithm, you know,
Speaker 1: like TikTok perfected the algorithm to keep you engaged. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Match dot com or well, they're all
Speaker 1: match dot com now, but if Match dot com could
Speaker 1: do that, even if somebody came in boss, I've done it.
Speaker 1: I've figured out the algorithm that uh, nine times out
Speaker 1: of ten will put people together that they'll be happy
Speaker 1: the rest of their lives. Would you use that. I
Speaker 1: think you probably wouldn't.
Speaker 4: No, not only would you fire them, you'd shoot them
Speaker 4: so they and hide their corpse, having researched it at
Speaker 4: the library online, of course, to make sure that that
Speaker 4: did not get out.
Speaker 1: No, at the very least, change them radiator in the basement.
Speaker 1: There are many options to keep this from coming out,
Speaker 1: but we don't have to go through the various macob
Speaker 1: examples exactly.
Speaker 4: There are several hipop to mind. Oh right, wow, okay,
Speaker 4: well it makes intuitive sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw the New York Times article a while back.
Speaker 1: I think I talked about this on their breakdown was
Speaker 1: it's it's it's like I don't remember the exact numbers,
Speaker 1: but this is close enough to write. It's like ten
Speaker 1: to one women to men, first of all on there
Speaker 1: and secondly, of the men, it's like the same ten
Speaker 1: percent best looking guys who get all the dates with
Speaker 1: like ninety percent of the women, and they're not interested
Speaker 1: in a in a relationship past like you know, a
Speaker 1: night or two, and so I mean that's and that's
Speaker 1: what most of it is, at least according to that
Speaker 1: New York Times article.
Speaker 4: Maybe they have perfected the algorithm to do that right right, right, right,
Speaker 4: right right, or to you know, continually match you up
Speaker 4: with somebody who you're never going to connect with full time,
Speaker 4: but close.
Speaker 1: Boy, that would be a stroke of evil genius. Huh,
Speaker 1: that would be evil. Yeah, yeah, And then they they
Speaker 1: very being And then this article had a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff in there. This all sounds horrible to me,
Speaker 1: and I can't imagine it. Just it just sounds like
Speaker 1: setting yourself up for the worst rejection you can imagine
Speaker 1: in your life, to to like, you know, to put
Speaker 1: all this effort and everything like that and get like
Speaker 1: no results. In some of the websites, people can give
Speaker 1: you thumbs down and stuff. It's like, right, why am
Speaker 1: I going back to high school? Are you gonna make
Speaker 1: me go back to high school and live this again?
Speaker 4: Or you could just approach a comely gal there in
Speaker 4: the nonfiction section of the library, say, I see you're
Speaker 4: looking at a book about fungus.
Speaker 1: I too, am interested in the fungus for instance. You know,
Speaker 1: let me transition quickly to my favorite library story before
Speaker 1: we do something differently. I once was in the library, Gladys,
Speaker 1: this is my one of my favorite stories. I've told
Speaker 1: them many times but we have a lot of new noises.
Speaker 1: Katie's never heard this story. I'm sure I'm in the library.
Speaker 1: It matters.
Speaker 4: It wasn't when you were in the stacks of the
Speaker 4: college library in the toil.
Speaker 1: This is a different story. It's totally different. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I've got good library stories that I've told many times.
Speaker 1: The other one was somebody trying to have a male
Speaker 1: hookup is a very complicated I talked about it on
Speaker 1: the One More Thing podcast the other night. I'm telling
Speaker 1: all my library stories this week. For some reason. This one,
Speaker 1: I'm in the library dressed like me, but me is
Speaker 1: shaved head and I'm wearing Doc Martin's which is a
Speaker 1: very common look for me. I'm in the library and
Speaker 1: I'm in the World War Two section, which is not
Speaker 1: uncommon either. I was talking about a book form World
Speaker 1: War Two earlier in the show. I'm constantly reading books
Speaker 1: about World War Two. But I'm in the World War
Speaker 1: two section, shaved head, black Doc Martins, and a guy
Speaker 1: walks by me and kind of gives me the look. Now,
Speaker 1: having had the previous library experience that I mentioned on
Speaker 1: One More Thing, I think he's just interested in me,
Speaker 1: and I'm not interested in him because I'm teterossect and
Speaker 1: I don't think much beyond it. I walk out of
Speaker 1: the library. He's waiting for me outside, sitting on the
Speaker 1: like the cement railing. He said, see you like World
Speaker 1: War two books? Huh? You like? Uh? You like like
Speaker 1: reading about hit Ler and stuff like that. We're having
Speaker 1: a meeting Tuesday night. Just let you know. It's at
Speaker 1: seven o'clock and it's at the whatever he thought I
Speaker 1: was a neo Nazi. I got invited by a neo
Speaker 1: Nazi to a Nazi party. My god, I know, in retrospect,
Speaker 1: I told this on the air like the next day.
Speaker 1: In retrospect, I kind of wish I'd have gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just could have investigated get out, but I was
Speaker 1: so weirded out. I was so weirded out, oh you know.
Speaker 1: And then I get my picture taken and somebody recognized me.
Speaker 1: It's on the evening news, no one talk shows, but
Speaker 1: that's how they start the meeting. Uh. But yeah, guy
Speaker 1: actually invited me to a neo NATS party. Just got
Speaker 1: add short hair and war Doc Martins like, you know,
Speaker 1: like every lesbian in America, I mean, so what are
Speaker 1: they all Nazis. No, Look, what did he look like?
Speaker 1: He looked like me. He was in a T shirt, doc,
Speaker 1: short hair, except he's a Nazi. Did he have the
Speaker 1: white laces in his? Doc? Martins that he wasn't? I
Speaker 1: think that's two. I mean, you're really outing yourself if
Speaker 1: you go there, are you okay? I'm aware of this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's a full on I'm a racist Nazi if
Speaker 1: you have white lace supremacist? But oh really, I did
Speaker 1: not know that. Yeah, I've always I've always kind of
Speaker 1: wished I have checked it out. But you know, it
Speaker 1: might be one of those things you get in and
Speaker 1: you know some people, and and and and it's it's
Speaker 1: harder to untangle yourself from that than you think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 4: I can think of all sorts of things that would
Speaker 4: go wrong there. I mean not like like deadly wrong,
Speaker 4: but just really really wrong.
Speaker 1: If you're campus, all the Nazis are waving at you,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Oh, hey Jack, hey, well somebody recognizes here or whatever.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's they were doomed. Yeah, they're walking down
Speaker 1: through the park with their big swastika fleck. Hey Jack, Hey,
Speaker 1: that was fun the other night.
Speaker 4: And you're saying you know as the news shows up
Speaker 4: at your front door. I just went out of curiosity.
Speaker 4: You were curious about near Nazism. Well, yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: it's it's it's terrible, obviously, but I wanted to go
Speaker 4: to the meeting and meet some of the fellows.
Speaker 1: I like the footwear.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to say, fortunate.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but you're right. You get to the meeting
Speaker 1: and like, right off the bat, it's you got to
Speaker 1: put your arm in the air and say, we blame
Speaker 1: the Jews, we hate the Jews. Our goal is to
Speaker 1: have the Jews annihilated and immediately and mean and I
Speaker 1: are like, I can't be here, and then what are
Speaker 1: you gonna just turn around and walk out the door?
Speaker 1: And where are you going? Yeah? Again, so I probably
Speaker 1: made the right decision, and just getting wide eyed and
Speaker 1: uh no and walking away from the guy. Sell you
Speaker 1: like World War two books, don't you? Yeah, me and
Speaker 1: every other male in America. What the hell is this?
Speaker 1: You're casting a pretty quill in that garb? Please, I
Speaker 1: male pattern baldness. I keep my hair short. Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: made it popular. That's not make doesn't make it a Nazi.
Speaker 1: You doubled down with the Doc Martins.
Speaker 4: True, Yeah, I tell you what I'm you know, hanging
Speaker 4: around in Oregon wearing a pink tutu and some guy
Speaker 4: assumes I swing his way.
Speaker 1: You can't fault him more in the uniform, huh, were
Speaker 1: in heels in a short skirt and they made all
Speaker 1: kinds of assumptions. Right, we wanted to get to the
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Speaker 1: Homeland Secretary and then being pushed back by Secret Service.
Speaker 1: He's lucky he didn't get a rifle button in the
Speaker 1: face or something, but he got pushed to the ground
Speaker 1: and then he acted like it was some sort of oppressive.
Speaker 1: Clearly Hitler Trump is Hitler sort of thing. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Ashley is the term fascist.
Speaker 4: He so clearly tried to haul himself up on the
Speaker 4: cross and become the savior of brave Latino voters everywhere
Speaker 4: by his like fake getting arrested drama. It's just pathetic.
Speaker 4: And then he comes out afterward and gives this on
Speaker 4: the very verge of tears statement about how terrible an
Speaker 4: experience it was.
Speaker 1: And then you com bin with this. Katie hipped us
Speaker 1: to the fact that there's a meme, now is it?
Speaker 1: High school kids are great school kids. I think this
Speaker 1: was like an elementary school thing. Yeah, playing my Heart
Speaker 1: will go on on the fourth grade recorder, remember that
Speaker 1: musical instrument poorly? And you put this under things you
Speaker 1: want to mock the seriousness of, and it sounds like this.
Speaker 7: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees
Speaker 7: and then flat on my chest and its handcuffed and
Speaker 7: marched down a hallway, repeatedly asking why am I being detained?
Speaker 1: That is so good? That is really really that you
Speaker 1: could not write words that would be better mockery than that.
Speaker 4: Oh that is perfect and exactly what he deserves.
Speaker 1: It's justice. And hilarity. I love that.
Speaker 4: So, a coalition of more than twenty Latino scholars and
Speaker 4: community leaders are asking Speaker of the House of Mike
Speaker 4: Johnson to defund the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Speaker 4: Latino has outlined the president's discretionary budget request.
Speaker 1: Uh said Alfonso at is that on the part of
Speaker 1: the Smithsonian mall thing, is it not built yet? Okay,
Speaker 1: because there's a bunch of those now that didn't exist
Speaker 1: years ago the last time I'd been to DC. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 4: The African American Museum that rose up in the wake
Speaker 4: of various cultural moments American there was a bunch of them, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: It hasn't yet been built, but it was going to
Speaker 4: be funded for many millions of dollars in Alfonso Aguilar,
Speaker 4: director of Hispanic Engagement at the American Principles Project, said, quote,
Speaker 4: President Trump is right, it's time to take back our
Speaker 4: institutions of culture. That's why he wants to defund this
Speaker 4: woke travesty. Congress should now not allow the development of
Speaker 4: a museum that's going to be used to push a
Speaker 4: radical agenda of grievances and anti American ideologies.
Speaker 1: The letter goes on to state.
Speaker 4: Ah, oh, it's a permanent exhibition right now in the
Speaker 4: National Museum of American History entitled present Day, a Latino.
Speaker 1: History of the United States.
Speaker 4: Sadly, the letter states, quote, this museum is being used
Speaker 4: to present to the public a culturally Marxist depiction of
Speaker 4: the experiences of Hispanics in America. The museum's flagship exhibit,
Speaker 4: in fact, proposes that the history of Americans of Hispanic
Speaker 4: origin should be reduced to a quote struggle for justice
Speaker 4: to achieve a mostly leftist agendon labor or education, access, fairhousing,
Speaker 4: and more recently immigration justice from LGBT plus Q rights, etc.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Accordingly, Hispanics are pervasively portrayed as an oppressed people in
Speaker 4: their Spanish era and Christian roots ignored or disparaged.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Spanish got over on a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: other cultures, like wiped them out, murdered them so that
Speaker 1: they could be the dominant culture for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember, so there was a variety of things like that.
Speaker 1: I was just at that museum not that long ago
Speaker 1: with my kids, if you remember me talking about it,
Speaker 1: And I didn't visit that stuff. But then even in
Speaker 1: the natural history part where it was just, you know,
Speaker 1: here's a stuffed saber tooth tiger or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Constant climate change is why this animal got wiped out
Speaker 1: in Mankind's the love of the automobile and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It's just never ending, that sort of thing. Yeah. One
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 4: Guys at the National Review, I can't remember if it
Speaker 4: was Rich Lowry, wrote a piece a number of months
Speaker 4: ago that it was right at the beginning of Trump's
Speaker 4: term that if Trump wanted to be successful in beating
Speaker 4: back the whole woke insanity movement, that he had to focus.
Speaker 4: There were like four points, and obviously one was education
Speaker 4: in the universities, but one of them was saying, people
Speaker 4: need to get hold of our cultural institution, specifically our
Speaker 4: museums again, because the museums on the National Mall are
Speaker 4: all run I shouldn't say all. They are heavily heavily
Speaker 4: run by a heavily leftist point of view, to the
Speaker 4: point that even you know, mastodons somehow, you know, involved
Speaker 4: global warming and the racism of African elephants or something
Speaker 4: like that and the immigrant elephants or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just ridiculous. We got a text from somebody
Speaker 1: getting back to the story last segments. We got a
Speaker 1: text from somebody who says they got invited to a
Speaker 1: barbecue one time and they got there and it was
Speaker 1: a neo Nazi meeting. Oh boy, they had made assumptions
Speaker 1: about them.
Speaker 4: Well, how was the food? As long as I'm here?
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