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 Getty and he Armstrong and Yeddy Michael. You're gonna
Speaker 1: post your cheese dip or whatever your recipe, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually make that this year. Henry and I
Speaker 1: are gonna eat cheese dip. Matter of fact, it's already posted.
Speaker 1: Henry's gonna wear his Mahomes jersey. I'm gonna wear my
Speaker 1: original Chief's Joe Montana jersey from way back in the day.
Speaker 1: Watch the Big Game.
Speaker 2: You'll always be a forty nine er to me or
Speaker 2: something irrelevant. So the Super Bowl is coming up Sunday, Shirley,
Speaker 2: you know that. And this is a list of things
Speaker 2: the NFL requires your city has if you want to
Speaker 2: host one.
Speaker 3: NFL requires access to two top tier boys alleys.
Speaker 1: No clue why.
Speaker 3: Maybe Roger Goodell is a bowling enthusiast, but who knows.
Speaker 3: The league also requires access to three top tier golf
Speaker 3: courses no costs luss. The city must be able to
Speaker 3: provide free apartment housing to NFL staff for over a
Speaker 3: month before the actual game. Thirty five thousand free parking
Speaker 3: spaces at the stadium, and twenty three billboards for promotional
Speaker 3: use around the city. Not to mention the team. Hotels
Speaker 3: must agree to televise the NFL network or a year
Speaker 3: leading up to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Wow. Well that's an interesting one to jam in the
Speaker 1: They have to be there for a month before the game,
Speaker 1: NFL officials. Yeah, golf courses doesn't surprise me. I guess
Speaker 1: bowling alleys.
Speaker 2: Okay, you probably have various parties for the owners and
Speaker 2: sponsors and all sorts of stuffies. Actually surprised. Strip clubs
Speaker 2: is not on that list. I wonder if that's in
Speaker 2: the fine prints. Probably with a non disclosure agreement to
Speaker 2: attack don rightly.
Speaker 1: So in some sort of gentleman's entertainment.
Speaker 2: Uh, gentlemen, I thought this is interesting if you're new
Speaker 2: to the show. Jack and I both have railed long
Speaker 2: and hard against critical theory and DEI it's neo Marxism.
Speaker 1: Will explain a little more about that.
Speaker 2: It maskerrades quite successfully, though, as we just want everybody
Speaker 2: to get a fair shot in America, and a lot
Speaker 2: of people think DEI actually is just we want more diversity.
Speaker 2: We want people to be able to apply for jobs
Speaker 2: and get them. No, everybody wants that DEI is in
Speaker 2: cities plot that mascarades as civil rights. Having said that
Speaker 2: the headline the journal America is abandoning DEI, the NFL
Speaker 2: remains all in. Everyone from the federal government of the
Speaker 2: Fortune five hundred are dialing back diversity efforts DEI efforts,
Speaker 2: but America's most popular sport is standing its ground. I'm
Speaker 2: not shocked by this. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I don't like the fact that journalism regularly fudges the
Speaker 1: difference between DEI, which is a specific thing, and diversity,
Speaker 1: acting like they're the same thing. They don't know.
Speaker 2: I honestly believe the percentage of Americans who understand that
Speaker 2: that DEI is part of critical theory comes from the
Speaker 2: Frankfurt School of philosophy. It's a method of taking over institutions. Essentially,
Speaker 2: you call everybody a racist unless they agree with you.
Speaker 2: Perhaps you went to a delightful training session where this happened,
Speaker 2: and obviously, if you're a racist, according to the nice
Speaker 2: people who are running your DEI department, you can't be
Speaker 2: in charge, and so they get rid of you and
Speaker 2: they bring in somebody who believes what they do, which
Speaker 2: is Neo Marxism, equity, etc. DEI is Marxism. It's not diversity.
Speaker 1: That reminds me. I read a great piece yesterday on
Speaker 1: how ibramx Kenny is one of the great sisters of
Speaker 1: all time. Now that his run is over, I think
Speaker 1: had to shut down his anti racist institute. He got
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. Where's I think in donations from companies.
Speaker 1: Never did anything. No people were falling all over themselves
Speaker 1: to give money. I'm not a racist. Don't call me
Speaker 1: a racist. Don't call me a racist.
Speaker 2: And you remember, no matter how you intended what you said,
Speaker 2: if I say you're a racist, you are a racist.
Speaker 2: It's a method of capture, of taking over institutions. And
Speaker 2: he and Robin DiAngelo and that whole ridiculous scam which
Speaker 2: is still going on. They knew precisely what they were doing.
Speaker 2: But back to my main point, I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people don't understand it. Yeah, I see even in
Speaker 2: fairly conservative publications, I still see people talk about DEI
Speaker 2: as if it's just an honest and open hearted desire
Speaker 2: to have, you know, like a black kid have the
Speaker 2: same opportunities in America as a white kid. Again, everybody
Speaker 2: wants that DEI is not that anyway. Having said that,
Speaker 2: back to the journal thing, the NFL is a TV show.
Speaker 2: Never forget that it's an entertainment product from top to bottom.
Speaker 1: Not actually an effort to see which city has the
Speaker 1: best forty guys to play football. Hired bmuths.
Speaker 2: No, it's a TV show, and it is an incredibly popular,
Speaker 2: profitable TV show, and a huge percentage of the cast
Speaker 2: are young black men and are incredibly important to the
Speaker 2: game and its popularity.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that, and given the fact.
Speaker 2: That most people don't understand what DEI really is and
Speaker 2: what it is not, including young black men who run,
Speaker 2: you know, receiving routes and get tackled hard and stay
Speaker 2: in incredible physical condition and memorize playbooks that would boggle
Speaker 2: the mind of an MIT physicist, that they don't spend
Speaker 2: a lot of time acquainting themselves with the subtleties of
Speaker 2: sociological issues is not shocking. So I get why Roger
Speaker 2: Goodell has said, no, we're still up with diversity, up
Speaker 2: with DEI. We're continuing all our programs. I get why
Speaker 2: he does that. It annoys me, but I get it.
Speaker 2: I thought this was more interesting and revealing. This is
Speaker 2: a piece written by Callum Borcher's what happens when a
Speaker 2: former NFL player becomes your office coworker. And I've got
Speaker 2: to admit I haven't thought about this much. Oh and
Speaker 2: he mentions, did we find the audio, guys from the
Speaker 2: two thousand and three that was.
Speaker 1: Twenty two years ago?
Speaker 2: A Super Bowl commercial featuring was it Terry Tait office
Speaker 2: linebacker or something like that?
Speaker 1: Do we have that? Oh?
Speaker 2: Okay, if you saw the commercial, you certainly remember it now.
Speaker 2: Absolutely hilarious. They hired a linebacker to root out inefficiency
Speaker 2: at their office. It's kind of like Doge, except if
Speaker 2: you weren't doing your job right, he would level you
Speaker 2: wearing his football gear. Anyway, back to the threat of
Speaker 2: the thing. I thought this was super interesting. Turns out
Speaker 2: real NFL retirees who entered the business world learned to
Speaker 2: make an impact in different ways. Quote Will Rackley, a
Speaker 2: former offensive lineman for the Jaguars and Ravens. He's a
Speaker 2: couple of months into a job as a business operations
Speaker 2: analyst at the staffing firm Atrium. He said it can
Speaker 2: be a culture shock when stepping into a corporate setting
Speaker 2: as opposed to the locker room. But manager after manager
Speaker 2: was telling callum borchers that they struggle to recruit people
Speaker 2: who can take and deliver candid feedback, especially these days.
Speaker 1: We've all heard stories of the.
Speaker 2: Snowflakes and the gen Zers and millennials and gen zers
Speaker 2: especially who if you say, you know that report wasn't
Speaker 2: quite up to snuff, they will break down.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're crutching my spirit.
Speaker 2: I need a spirit day, I need a mental health day.
Speaker 1: They have trouble with people that can deliver the candid feedback.
Speaker 1: Though you smell funny, everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 2: No, not that sort of candid about job performance specifically
Speaker 2: a lot of people, particularly given the first thing I
Speaker 2: was talking about, People who can't take candid feedback are
Speaker 2: extremely uncomfortable giving it. You gotta stop eating with your
Speaker 2: mouth open. You're gonna make somebody kill you. Wow, now
Speaker 2: we're talking about business performance again. But a former gridiron
Speaker 2: pro accustomed to coaches a yell, cuss, and call out
Speaker 2: mistakes in postgame film sessions every week of their careers
Speaker 2: is not likely to will to under a little constructive criticism.
Speaker 1: That's funny. My son just said this is his first
Speaker 1: real sport. I think he's playing volleyball. He said. The
Speaker 1: coach is yelling at me all the time. I said,
Speaker 1: that's what coaches do. Yes, good or bad, no matter
Speaker 1: what's happening, the coaches yell at you. That's the way
Speaker 1: it works.
Speaker 2: This is the candid feedback we're discussing. And while there
Speaker 2: are some truth to the cliche that athletes can bring
Speaker 2: winning mindsets to business, it is actually their ability to
Speaker 2: handle losing that stands out.
Speaker 1: According to bosses and the former.
Speaker 2: NFL players are talking about are like the vast majority
Speaker 2: you leave the game, not hall of famers with set
Speaker 2: for life money. They are often men who are pushed
Speaker 2: out of the game by injuries or a younger, cheaper
Speaker 2: draft pick who could play about as well.
Speaker 1: Which is which is almost everybody who gets in the NFL. Right.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, vast majority they've dealt with disappointment and regrouped,
Speaker 2: said an associate director of non traditional talent programs at Verizon.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 2: The ability to pick yourself up and get back into
Speaker 2: the game is really what business is all about. And
Speaker 2: he's found these guys to be much more resilient. I
Speaker 2: don't they understand, Wow, that went badly. What can we learn?
Speaker 1: I don't doubt that that should be focused on more
Speaker 1: for all professional athletes, the vast majority of them. Even
Speaker 1: if you've reached your dreams, made it to that league,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a little money and be there a
Speaker 1: couple of years, and then you're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: regular life and you're gonna be twenty five years old, right,
Speaker 1: and that that would be an interesting mindset. I was
Speaker 1: good enough to play in that league. I worked my
Speaker 1: it's off ten hours a day, like my whole life.
Speaker 1: But that's over now and I'm only twenty five, and
Speaker 1: I got to do something different, right. But I think
Speaker 1: the other aspects of it, because that's important, though, But
Speaker 1: the idea of somebody, well, they make another point. NFL
Speaker 1: players are completely unfazed by the arduous process of interviewing
Speaker 1: for white collar jobs and or preparing for presentations and
Speaker 1: interviews and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It's what they've done their whole lives. It's a different
Speaker 2: skill set that they're preparing for. But the idea of
Speaker 2: we're gonna have to go really really hard to get
Speaker 2: rid or get ready for this one particular meeting or
Speaker 2: something they're completely in that mode, So I thought that
Speaker 2: was interesting. It also reminds me of the New York Times.
Speaker 2: There's a great piece they did. Yeah, I know, when
Speaker 2: they're not completely biased, they do really good journalism once
Speaker 2: in a while. That the single most important characteristic for
Speaker 2: a child to predict their success in life is resilience.
Speaker 2: Can they are they afraid of failure? Or do they
Speaker 2: understand had happened sometime? Let's plunge on number one predictor,
Speaker 2: and I could see why NFL players would be really
Speaker 2: good at that. I mean, even the Chiefs, who are
Speaker 2: on the brink of a third consecutive Super Bowl, got
Speaker 2: to help us.
Speaker 1: They lose games, not Sunday. They won't all right.
Speaker 2: Looking, it's, oh yeah, we get to Terry Tate office linebacker.
Speaker 2: Why not Michael Again? This was twenty two years ago.
Speaker 1: Good God.
Speaker 4: When we asked Rebuk to send us Terry Tate, some
Speaker 4: people thought we were crazy. But I'm a firm believer
Speaker 4: in paradigm, breaking outside the box.
Speaker 1: Thinking anyway, break was over fifteen minutes ago match.
Speaker 4: And since Terry has been with us, our productivity has
Speaker 4: gone up forty six percent. We're getting more from our
Speaker 4: employees than ever before.
Speaker 1: You know, you need a come a seat or your
Speaker 1: TPS reports, Richie. That ain't new baby, hey Janis.
Speaker 4: But what's really impressed me is how Terry has become
Speaker 4: part of the Felcher family.
Speaker 1: He fits right in here. This is little thiss call Doug.
Speaker 4: To be honest.
Speaker 1: I wish Reebucks sent us ten. Terry takes you want
Speaker 1: to pay games day time? His pay time?
Speaker 3: Baby?
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Speaker 1: the federal government at breakneck speed. Now, why you've gotten
Speaker 1: many Democratic leaders screaming. You'll hear some of that screaming
Speaker 1: coming up.
Speaker 4: In the United States Senate.
Speaker 1: We will not cooperate. We will cooperate with no appointments.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the State Department. There should be
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands and millions of people to send Washington
Speaker 1: d C. We must resisked, We must be in the streets,
Speaker 1: all right. Part of it might be this is a
Speaker 1: pushback against Doge and shrinking the government and cutting costs
Speaker 1: and aid and all this different sort of stuff from
Speaker 1: the Democrats. Some of it might be they just they're
Speaker 1: so demoralized on the left, and it's just part of
Speaker 1: a cycle. They'll be back in the right, will be
Speaker 1: demoralized in the blink of an eye, because I've lived
Speaker 1: through this enough times. But they're so demoralized, Joe Wall,
Speaker 1: it lasts. They're so demoralized on the left they have
Speaker 1: to show some like fight to their crowd, like we're
Speaker 1: fighting something. I guess, look at us. We're confident, we
Speaker 1: know what we're doing.
Speaker 2: We're fighting for you by keeping the bloat in the
Speaker 2: federal government.
Speaker 1: Here's a little more of that sort of thing. What
Speaker 1: is doing is illegal. It is a cupe. Elon ms
Speaker 1: makes unsafe cause and now he wants to create an
Speaker 1: unsafe world. We will not shut up. We will stand up.
Speaker 1: We will speak up that same spirit the Elon Musk
Speaker 1: has coming from South Africa. We're not gonna have apart
Speaker 1: time in America. Oh boy, who the hell is Musk
Speaker 1: think he is? He has absolutely no right. He's shutting
Speaker 1: down USA. I d we cannot allow that. We've got
Speaker 1: to take to the streets.
Speaker 4: Tss.
Speaker 2: Wow, they tried to turn it racial with an apartheid reference.
Speaker 1: There. He builds unsafe cars, all right, Yeah, you loved
Speaker 1: his cars until he became a Trump guy.
Speaker 2: And look, we've we've met John Germundy's a longtime congressman
Speaker 2: from northern California. He's one of Congressman Joe John. Look around,
Speaker 2: look at the company you're keeping. You are so much
Speaker 2: better than that, and.
Speaker 1: You gotta say something. Yeah. We got a couple of
Speaker 1: texts about things we've talked about. One we got a
Speaker 1: number of texts about people had funny experiences with either
Speaker 1: handyman or home improvement. People showing up drunk or not
Speaker 1: having tools or a ladder or whatever like I experienced yesterday.
Speaker 1: I remember the one time somebody, it was somebody who's
Speaker 1: out there and they asked me, I think, for a
Speaker 1: tool of some sort and I said no, And I
Speaker 1: said you live on a farm and you don't have that.
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, cool, so you can come out here
Speaker 1: without tools and shame me for not having the tool
Speaker 1: you need. This is fantastic, four stars. It's on me,
Speaker 1: I guess uh. And then earlier I was talking about
Speaker 1: I'm having the biggest sleep crisis of my life out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. I just can't sleep and it's making me insane.
Speaker 1: A lot of people recognizing recommending magnesium I have jackets
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Speaker 1: It is essential to help, he said. Lots of people
Speaker 1: are big on the magnesium. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: a hot thing right now. Yes, Kate, it is a
Speaker 1: hot thing. And one of the guys at my gym say,
Speaker 1: because I was having trouble sleeping, he goes, you gotta
Speaker 1: try this. But the only thing I'll tell you is
Speaker 1: that it gives you like acid dreams. Cool. I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't try it, But well, you take magaza. I
Speaker 1: don't have any problem at all. How's your stool? Everything's final.
Speaker 1: Have you tried vitamin B? That's what I call bourbon dad?
Speaker 1: He needs his vitamin B. Magnesium might one percent be okay.
Speaker 1: But it's funny how various supplements come in and out
Speaker 1: of favor, and they're they're you know, for a year
Speaker 1: they're the hot thing. Well you're not getting enough whatever,
Speaker 1: and every store in America sells a bottle of it,
Speaker 1: and noverybody takes it.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, if I can buy a bottle
Speaker 2: of it for five dollars and I've convinced myself it'll work,
Speaker 2: and I fall asleep like.
Speaker 1: A baby, bingo I'm one hundred percent in favor of Placebia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that works. It works. I'll take magnesium until I oh,
Speaker 1: until my stool's okay, you know, I'm Michael like yours.
Speaker 1: Good lord, Yeah, that's stop. So Kamala Harris was on
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. You remember that big interview. They edited her
Speaker 1: answer Trump is suing. We have what the actual answer was.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting case for those of us in the media.
Speaker 1: Pretty interesting. So stay stay here, Armstrong and Getty. This
Speaker 1: is already a win for Trump and it will continue
Speaker 1: to be a win for most people. I think the
Speaker 1: way most people will well, we'll hear this story about
Speaker 1: the sixty minutes editing Kamala Harris's interview, whether whether it's
Speaker 1: accurate or not, this is the way it's going to
Speaker 1: be come off, I think.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: The New York Times headline is FCC releases sixty minutes
Speaker 1: interview with Kamala Harris. Remember she did a big sit
Speaker 1: down in sixty minutes leading up to the election. Got
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of scrutiny because well, she
Speaker 1: very rarely answered questions, and when she did, it was nonsensical.
Speaker 1: So it always got a lot of scrutiny, and then
Speaker 1: we all found out, like the next day or very
Speaker 1: soon there after, that there was some editing and the
Speaker 1: promos and this and that, and did they cut one
Speaker 1: of our answers to make her seem less crazy and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff that was out there in
Speaker 1: the world. But so this sixty minute, this story from
Speaker 1: the New York Times Today again FCC, the FCC released this,
Speaker 1: not c the mean they made CBS get it. FCC
Speaker 1: releases sixty minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The complete interview,
Speaker 1: which is at the center of a lawsuit filed by
Speaker 1: President Trump, shows that sixty Minutes aired a concise version
Speaker 1: of Miss Harris's answer on Israel. Thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: that The New York Times went with that is kind
Speaker 1: of the subheadline, because if all you look at is that,
Speaker 1: you certainly come away with the Trump was right, they
Speaker 1: were wrong. They were trying to screw him. I think
Speaker 1: that's the way most people are gonna take that story.
Speaker 1: This is the way CBS presented it.
Speaker 5: Now have some news about CBS itself. Sixty Minutes has
Speaker 5: posted on cbsnews dot com transcripts and videos from its
Speaker 5: interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris at aired back
Speaker 5: in October. The SCC had requested these materials as part
Speaker 5: of an investigation into a complaint alleging quote intentional news
Speaker 5: distortion close quote. The issue concerns one question about whether
Speaker 5: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahoo was listening to the
Speaker 5: Biden administration. CBS News broadcast a longer portion of Harris's
Speaker 5: answer on Face the Nation, and then a shorter excerpt
Speaker 5: of the same answer on sixty Minutes. In a statement,
Speaker 5: sixty Minutes said the transcripts and video show quote the
Speaker 5: sixty Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful close quote,
Speaker 5: adding that each.
Speaker 1: Excerpt reflects the.
Speaker 5: Substance of the Vice President's.
Speaker 1: Answer, which is a better story, a better explanation of
Speaker 1: it than They're probably not happy at CBS the way
Speaker 1: The New York Times boiled it down to one sentence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I mean more concise is and it
Speaker 2: doesn't strike me that judgmental either way.
Speaker 1: Honestly, New York Post version uncut. Now we're about to
Speaker 1: play the actual clips, but uncut sixty minutes Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: interview reveals word salad responses were heavily edited by sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: UH snipped Israel answer to just twenty words. Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: gave a one hundred and seventy nine word meandering answer
Speaker 1: on Israel that sixty minutes cut to twenty words, according
Speaker 1: to the transcripts released yesterday. Wow, that's some editing. One
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine word answer to twenty words. Now,
Speaker 1: as executive producer, Hanson has been talking about as a
Speaker 1: guy who's produced lots of different kinds of radio shows
Speaker 1: and sports highlights and all kinds of different stuff. That's
Speaker 1: what we do all the time the media business. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to. You have to for all kinds of reasons,
Speaker 1: time keeping people's attention, jazzing it up, making it punchy.
Speaker 1: The issue really seems to be to me that in
Speaker 1: this particular case, the number one knock on the candidate
Speaker 1: was they couldn't answer a question without going into word
Speaker 1: solid mode.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was like one of the key questions
Speaker 2: with her, right a campaign issue. But what question are
Speaker 2: we asking here? And I'll tell you the reason I
Speaker 2: asked that. I mean, CBS is wildly biased, wildly and
Speaker 2: I think most people know it. This lawsuit is nuts.
Speaker 2: It'll be dismissed very very quickly. Well, so you're going
Speaker 2: to the legal thing. I don't care about the legal thing.
Speaker 1: I think politically it's going to be damaging, absolutely damaging
Speaker 1: to the media. Slash sixty minutes and vic st to
Speaker 1: win for Trump, I think. And Trump doesn't think he's
Speaker 1: going to win the lawsuit. I don't think. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I think he just wants to people to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Although getting back to the New York Times article, right,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about it in a way that suggests
Speaker 1: that sixty Minutes did edit the answer to make her
Speaker 1: look better, which you know, I'm sure he's very happy with.
Speaker 1: But farther down in the New York Times article about this,
Speaker 1: sixty Minutes argues that it did nothing wrong. It's common
Speaker 1: practice for news organizations to edit for a blah blah bah.
Speaker 1: Getting into the legal part of it. I want to
Speaker 1: get this because this is really good sue. For the
Speaker 1: legal part of it. Yeah, I should have highlighted this,
Speaker 1: mister Troops. Lawsuit has led to angst at CBS, where
Speaker 1: many staff members believe that any settlement would be a
Speaker 1: symbolic concession to the President and an acknowledgment of wrongdoing
Speaker 1: by sixty Minutes. Bill Owens, the executive producer of sixty Minutes,
Speaker 1: said Monday in a meeting with staff that he would
Speaker 1: not apologize to Trump as part of any settlement with
Speaker 1: the network. But it looks like that's probably what going
Speaker 1: to happen. CBS is going to pay something to get
Speaker 1: this over with and wants to include an apology, but
Speaker 1: the guy involves it. I'm not apologizing. And the staff
Speaker 1: that works there, We've heard this over and over again,
Speaker 1: right New York Times, sixty Minutes, all these different left
Speaker 1: leaning organizations. The staff gets all upset. We can't have
Speaker 1: we can't give an inch on any of these things.
Speaker 1: The people at the top or the lawyers often have
Speaker 1: a different point of view of we need to settle this.
Speaker 1: It's only going to get more expensive. People settle these
Speaker 1: kind of things all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, if they do, I'll be really
Speaker 2: disappointed you can't settle it.
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see if they do or not.
Speaker 1: I'm having this conversation with my kids the other day
Speaker 1: about why lawyers recommend settling things when you did nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: It's just a dollars and cents question often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I were a smarter lawyer than their lawyers,
Speaker 2: I'd say, you're going to be handling one of these
Speaker 2: suits every week and a half to I don't know,
Speaker 2: four days. If you settle this oh you edited it
Speaker 2: made me look bad or made me unhappy. No, you
Speaker 2: can't settle this suit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder, I wonder where it's going or how
Speaker 1: it's going to turn out. But anyway, let's play the clips,
Speaker 1: the actual clips. So this is one version of the
Speaker 1: question in answer clip seventy one there between Bill Whitaker
Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris. But it seems that Prime Minister in
Speaker 1: net and Yah who is not listening.
Speaker 6: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted
Speaker 6: in a number of movements in that region by Israel
Speaker 6: that we're very much prompted by or a result of
Speaker 6: many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen
Speaker 6: in the region.
Speaker 1: I'm mostly reminded listening to that what a dope she is.
Speaker 1: She was a dope. But here's the same question, different answer.
Speaker 1: But it seems that Prime Minister net and Yah who
Speaker 1: is not listening, We're not.
Speaker 6: Going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United
Speaker 6: States to be clear about where we stand on the
Speaker 6: need for this war to end.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a tough one. I mean, not the legal part.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in that part. But that's a tough
Speaker 1: one from a like even a news standpoint, because normally, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're interviewing, whether it's a politician or a coach or whoever.
Speaker 1: You tried it, you just try to get it down
Speaker 1: to the answer. You had a question and you want
Speaker 1: the answer, and you want to give the answer to
Speaker 1: the people who are watching or listening, and you want
Speaker 1: to be short and interesting and easily understood. But in
Speaker 1: the case of Kamala Harris, because she was such a
Speaker 1: meandering dope. God, the story is the long, meandering dopiness.
Speaker 1: That is the story. What she she doesn't say anything. Ever,
Speaker 1: I don't know from a like even a journalistic standpoint,
Speaker 1: would I think how you should handle that? I mean,
Speaker 1: if you had, unlike all other politicians, editing her at all,
Speaker 1: was significant to the interview, Yeah, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, what was the total on the words there
Speaker 1: that I mentioned? This is from the New York Post's
Speaker 1: counting of it. She gave the total answer, which I
Speaker 1: don't think we you can. The whole thing is out now.
Speaker 1: I started watching yesterday. It's like an hour long. But
Speaker 1: the whole thing is out there, and I'll have to
Speaker 1: watch this later. They didn't air it in the sixty
Speaker 1: minutes interview, the whole thing at all, but Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: gave a one hundred and seventy nine word answer to
Speaker 1: that question, and then sixty minutes cut it down to
Speaker 1: twenty words, which still sounds dumb. She still sounds like
Speaker 1: she has no idea what she's talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, that first version was I was like, oh, that's right. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 2: she's that dumb.
Speaker 1: But that's the trip. That's the twenty one that's the
Speaker 1: twenty word version that they edited it out to. I
Speaker 1: want to hear the whole ard seventy nine words? How
Speaker 1: does she say good Lord?
Speaker 2: Keeping in mind she only lost because of misogyny and
Speaker 2: racism according to the new head of the DNC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think what's going to come out
Speaker 1: of this? And like, looking at that New York Times
Speaker 1: subhad people are gonna hear see Trump sues sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: Turns out sixty minutes did edit it. I think that's
Speaker 1: what's going to be in the ether of the conversation
Speaker 1: about this. Yeah, if if it becomes against the law
Speaker 1: to edit answers at all, I don't know how we
Speaker 1: would even move forward as a species, those of us
Speaker 1: who play clips for a living.
Speaker 2: And if you're not familiar with this, politicians, especially if
Speaker 2: they're in an even semi hostile forum, we'll try to
Speaker 2: filibuster you. Yeah, you'll ask them are you going to
Speaker 2: vote for the Jones Amendment? And five and a half
Speaker 2: minutes of rambling later, you'll find finally be like.
Speaker 1: Can we readirect plays? And they do that intentionally, so
Speaker 1: you have to edit. Yeah, that's a good point right there.
Speaker 1: It's often to not have to answer the question and
Speaker 1: bor you to death, or knowing that you're going to
Speaker 1: have to get to a break at some point. I'm
Speaker 1: not a big fan of horror movies. I just I
Speaker 1: don't dig them.
Speaker 2: But if I want to be horrified, I'll sit around
Speaker 2: in daydream for five minutes.
Speaker 1: About what it would have been like if Kamala had won.
Speaker 2: And we were going one hundred miles per hour down
Speaker 2: the road of DEI and white guilt and men playing
Speaker 2: women sports and squandering money and the ridiculous USAID programs,
Speaker 2: one hundred different examples. It's too terrible to contemplate.
Speaker 1: We you know, I believe in the parallel universe thing.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want Elon to put me on
Speaker 1: a spaceship to go to the parallel universe where she
Speaker 1: won and see how it's playing out. Holy cow, no kidding, man,
Speaker 1: You talk about a different next four years.
Speaker 2: Well, in foreign policy wise, what are our adversaries going
Speaker 2: to do with President kamalaw in charge?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I would liked her super Bowl interview, or she
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have done it. She'd have done like Biden
Speaker 1: and just skipped it. Yeah, Trump's doing it. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be interviewed by Brett Baer before the super Bowl. If
Speaker 1: you want more politics on your Super Bowl Sunday, I don't.
Speaker 1: We've got more on the way next. What's the most
Speaker 1: sought after beer in America? Of that? For you in
Speaker 1: a moment? Sought after? Yeah, people can't wait till it
Speaker 1: shows up. The annual delivery of what arguably the most
Speaker 1: sought after beer in America. Well, I'll tell you now,
Speaker 1: Pliny the Younger, which I've never had. Are you familiar
Speaker 1: with that?
Speaker 4: Beer.
Speaker 2: I remember it was Pliny the Elder for a long time. Okay,
Speaker 2: they've evolved.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess when it shows up and it's going
Speaker 1: to at least in the San Francisco Bayry at the
Speaker 1: bars this weekend. It's a hot thing and it doesn't
Speaker 1: last long. Okay. Our former producer Scott was a big fan.
Speaker 1: Oh really. In fact, I think he brought a six
Speaker 1: pack in. Yep. Yeah, so we got more texts about
Speaker 1: the whole sixty minutes Kamala edited thing than we get
Speaker 1: on most topics. So again, I think it's gonna end
Speaker 1: up being a win for Trump overall. But somebody pointed
Speaker 1: out the sixty minutes interview was mostly Bill Whittaker talking
Speaker 1: over the video of Kamala summarizing her answers, which is
Speaker 1: true if you remember that they do that all the time.
Speaker 1: They'll just show a picture of her walking through the
Speaker 1: White House or something, say Kamala hars. He went on
Speaker 1: to say that she believes that because she couldn't say
Speaker 1: it herself. Yeah, of course, they talk so freaking slow
Speaker 1: in sixty minutes. It is one of your big complaints
Speaker 1: and they repeat every question. Have you tried doing audio
Speaker 1: books or podcasts at more than one time speed, like
Speaker 1: faster or twice. Yeah, I don't think it's good for me.
Speaker 1: I was listened to Elon on a podcast the other day.
Speaker 1: He does his at like one and a half to two.
Speaker 1: Everything he takes in. He thinks our brains can take
Speaker 1: in information much faster, and that you know, we just
Speaker 1: need to we need just to like acclimate ourselves to
Speaker 1: it and wrap ourselves up, and that we could and
Speaker 1: that we'll be able to take in stuff so we
Speaker 1: can just take in so much more information. I think
Speaker 1: he's got like one of the more special brains in
Speaker 1: world history, and he thinks everybody else's brain's like his.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm willing to consider it and give it a try.
Speaker 2: But he's an autistic super genius right exactly. But man
Speaker 2: like a greyhound looking at my Labrador retriever and saying
Speaker 2: you could run.
Speaker 1: Faster than that. You know. I tried one point two
Speaker 1: on this book, and if you look at the it
Speaker 1: really saves you a ton of time. I mean, the
Speaker 1: math's pretty simple. But I had like three hours left
Speaker 1: on this book and I clicked up the speed, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden I got two hours and twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: I thought, Wow, I could get through it that much faster,
Speaker 1: but it was making me insane trying to pay attention
Speaker 1: to was like, ah, is it making me nervous? Because
Speaker 1: you can't you can't let your mind drift for a
Speaker 1: little bit. If when they're talking this fast all the time,
Speaker 1: you got to be right on top of it, right right.
Speaker 2: And you know, the stuff I listened to is like
Speaker 2: full of ideas. That's why I'm listening to it, and
Speaker 2: I'd like to be able to absorb them and kind
Speaker 2: of kick them around a little bit. Anyway, Speaking of media,
Speaker 2: a couple more quick notes. The FCC has launched an
Speaker 2: investigation into radio stations backed by leftist billionaire George Sorows
Speaker 2: for broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Live locations about the cover immigration.
Speaker 2: Right for broadcasting live locations of undercovered immigration and Customs
Speaker 2: Enforcement agents UH. One of those stations, case CBS in
Speaker 2: San France, California's, come under scrutiny for revealing live locations
Speaker 2: of undercover ice vehicles and agents conducting operations outrageous. They've
Speaker 2: sent a formal letter letter of inquiry to the radio
Speaker 2: station as part of the FCC investigation.
Speaker 1: This is really serious stuff and it should be. How
Speaker 1: much trouble is our friend in who has done news
Speaker 1: for us many, many, many times over the years, how
Speaker 1: much trouble is he in? Like, legally speaking, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I've heard a couple of people say, like
Speaker 1: he could actually be in bad trouble. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2: I'd have to look into that because the First Amendment
Speaker 2: is a powerful son of a gun protecting the media.
Speaker 1: But I'm not saying he should be. I just don't know.
Speaker 2: But we'll be covering it, I mean, because it affects
Speaker 2: us in a rather fundamental way. Not that we're going
Speaker 2: to out undercover operations anytime soon, because we're not I
Speaker 2: don't know, commie jackasses.
Speaker 1: Well, what if it was something we agreed with, though
Speaker 1: we should be able to do that, right, What would
Speaker 1: be a good example. I don't know. If the Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris administration was gonna come get you if you misgendered somebody,
Speaker 1: which is against the law in California. So let's say
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom was gonna come arrest you because you misgendered somebody,
Speaker 1: And we decided to go on the radio and say
Speaker 1: where the misgender police were so you could look out
Speaker 1: for them. We might do that.
Speaker 2: I would do that one hundred percent, and I would
Speaker 2: expect to endure the consequences. I don't know, and then
Speaker 2: I would get a lawyer and fight it, and that
Speaker 2: would be my thing, and I'd be really excited.
Speaker 1: I guess your question is, should there be consequences as
Speaker 1: a free speech issue? I don't know. I never thought
Speaker 1: at that angle. It just seems so unconsciable to me
Speaker 1: to tip off criminals. And I don't mean they're here
Speaker 1: illegally criminals, they're criminals on top of that right to
Speaker 1: try to protect them seems so crazy to me. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at.
Speaker 2: It purely as the First Amendment press issue, not whether
Speaker 2: it was right or wrong. I mean, that's that's self
Speaker 2: evident to me. It's funny I just wrote a thing.
Speaker 2: It had to do with the idea of a brave
Speaker 2: revolutionary college student, for instance, who considers himself a Jay Guavera.
Speaker 2: They're wearing the caffia, which I heard referred to as
Speaker 2: a terror scarf the other day.
Speaker 1: I kind of like that kind of chilli. Honey, do
Speaker 1: you know where my terror scarf is?
Speaker 2: My next exactly? But anyway, the brave little revolutionary who's
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 1: And you need to fight the power and bring revolution
Speaker 1: from the river to the sea. And then they break
Speaker 1: windows and get arrested, and it's oh, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You're hurting my wrist? What are you doing? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't rescue I have class tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you people are so pathetic. OI don't
Speaker 2: have much time for this, and it's a damn shame.
Speaker 2: But I'll give you a touch of it. The Trump
Speaker 2: administration is turning their gaze as soon as possible to
Speaker 2: NPR friends and the people who run NPR, and they're
Speaker 2: eighty seven to zero Democrats to Republicans at NPR in DC,
Speaker 2: for instance, how that process is going to work, and
Speaker 2: some great questions that ought to be asked. Next hour.
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