Why Cheating at a Coldplay Concert Is a Bad Idea

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's so many fun little stories, so many fun little
stories I could start the show off with.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Today, we got a.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
CEO cheating on his wife at a Coldplay concert. We've
got an alleged birthday note that Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Sent to Jeff Epstein, which seems completely not trumpy.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
If you will, it's allegedly this poem type thing that
allegedly Donald Trump wrote and sent to Epstein on the
occasion of Epstein's fifty fiftieth birthday. It does not sound
even one iota like Trump at all. And then we
got Stephen Colbert getting canceled. I might talk about Stephen

(00:50):
Coleber getting canceled and a little bit about the liberal
attitude towards it.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
All. Right, So Stephen Colbert, CBS late night.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Host, his show is apparently gonna get canceled next It's
gonna end next May. And as a result of this,
as a result of this, all these liberals are really upset.
Because of all the late night hosts, I think, in

(01:27):
the spectrum of most liberal to least liberal, Colbert was
obviously the most liberal, and he made liberal causes like
the cornerstone of his show to such an extent that
he was basically I mean he basically his show became

(01:52):
just like political stuff all the time. He was having
like random I mean, people would show graphics of different
nights of his show where our guests tonight are Elizabeth
Warren and some of the secretary the assistant sub secretary
during the Biden administration of Health and Human Services, like

(02:13):
literally tonight or last night. Rather on the show the
day they are announcing that his show is being canceled
in May, they have Adam Schiff of all people on
definitely a barrel of laughs, California senator, former congressman who
was on the Intelligence Committee. Now there's CBS releases this

(02:38):
ridiculous statement about it in which they say, now I
hadn't really I hadn't heard that his ratings were actually
that bad. Actually I had heard that he had done
a little when he really started with super heavy anti
Trump stuff that that actually propelled his ratings a little bit.

(03:00):
But CBS had this statement out that says this is
purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late
night television. Top CBS executive said in a statement announcing
the news, it is not related in any way to
the show's performance, content or other matters happening at paramount, which,

(03:24):
of course it's related to the show's performance.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's not doing that well.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
If it were doing better, it would make more money
and they wouldn't cancel it, Like, of course it's due
to performance. Now, I'll admit, Yeah, there are some trends
in that fewer people watch the late night comedy shows.
They just aren't as important as they used to be
when it was Johnny Carson, or even when it was

(03:53):
Jay Leno versus David Letterman or whatever. The late night
shows are just not as important in a world where
YouTube exists and you don't have to stay up until
one o'clock in the morning, or you don't have to
stay up until you know, eleven thirty twelve thirty at night.
I'm actually somewhat baffled by, like how did people watch

(04:16):
those shows? I'm tired, I'm falling asleep on the couch
at ten. I think those shows come on at like
eleven thirty. I've never fathom, like how did people Well,
it is also a thing I do think people on
the East Coast just stay up later than people on
the West Coast. I mean, you know, NFL football games,

(04:37):
you know Sunday night football games are wrapping up at like,
you know, almost midnight on the East Coast. So at
any rate, late night television is just not as important
as it used to be. Most people are now consuming
bits from whether it's Jimmy Kimmel's show, whether it's it's

(05:00):
Colbert's show, whether it's Jimmy Fallon's show. They're consuming it
the morning after with YouTube clips. In fact, it's clear
that the most popular late night comedian is Greg Guttfeldt,
the guy on Fox News. But because he's on Fox

(05:20):
News and he's conservative, it seems like no one wants
to like factor him in as like part of late
night TV when it's like, well, I don't know, it's
a show, it's comedic, it's on late at night in
this timeframe. He and he has better ratings than all
of you. Why is he not? Why is he not

(05:43):
part of the discussion. So anyway, this is purely a
financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night, Top
CBS executive said in a statement announcing the news. It
is not related in any way to the show's performance, content,
or other matters happening up. Paramount which someone on Twitter
that Bill Simmons is this sports commentator guy. He posted

(06:06):
a thing on Twitter about it with It's the a
clip from one of the Naked Gun movies where Leslie
Nielson is standing in front of a building that's completely
exploding and saying, there's nothing to say here, nothing to
say here, Please disperse. So I'm I mean, I think

(06:29):
a lot of conservatives are experiencing a good bit of
schadenfreud that finally the networks are maybe starting to realize,
you know, more Americans voted for Donald Trump than voted
for Kamala Harris, and a lot of Americans approve of

(06:51):
a lot of things Donald Trump's doing. And the idea
that all of the late night shows on network TV
apparently have to be unifically left wing in their orientation,
that really there's not room for one on network TV.

(07:15):
There is not room for one late night comedian who's
like actually a validly conservative, but room for, however, many
who are openly and a validly liberal.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's what I don't get. Like, I mean, on a
certain level, I.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Get, yes, media people are tend to be more liberal. Yes,
people in the arts tend to be more liberal. Okay,
I get that, But you're.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Also I mean, at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
What's the point of a television show. The point of
a television show is to get eyeballs on the television
show so that they can attract advertisers and charge advertisers
extortionate amounts of money.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
That's the point of a television show.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's not to vindicate a worldview. It's to get an audience.
That's the point of it. And the idea is if
the idea is that this is a comedy show, but
it's a comedy show where we want to just completely
exclude half of America, I don't understand that that's not

(08:33):
a winning formula, especially when all the other late night
shows align that way. Jimmy Kimmel is super big, fat lefty.
Jimmy Fallon is I think kind of leans lefty. But
is that's why I kind of like Jimmy Fallon the
best out of all of them. I think he is
the least politically minded of all of them and is like, Yeah,

(08:58):
I'd rather just do fun funny like game shows and
skits and things like that. Yeah, Like that's kind of
what this is supposed to be. It's comedy, it's escapism.
It's not supposed to be like a place for inveighing
against half the country and their deep immorality. It's not
supposed to be a moral you know, center place or something.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
No, it's comedy. And CBS just couldn't.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I think the fact that none of the networks have
realized what Fox has realized, what Fox News is realized,
which is, hey, you know, forty nine percent of the
country likes to laugh too, Like, there's clearly a niche here,
is nobody none of you guys want to pursue that
niche is you know, do Republican dollars not work the

(09:52):
same way that Democrat dollars due?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
It seems kind of silly to me.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I mean, it just seems like this is an obvious
you know, seems like a very obvious win. Gear yourself
towards a more conservative leaning audience and maybe you could
capture some of that.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Audience at any rate.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's it marks the end of things for Stephen Colbert,
whom you know I've been watching. I watched Colbert a
bunch in college when Colbert had his show on Comedy Central.
And the thing with Colbert was his show on Comedy
Central was pretty darn funny because he was just doing
a big spoof of Bill O'Reilly. That was why his

(10:40):
show on Comedy Central was actually really clever and really funny.
It was him pretending to be a conservative talking head blowhard,
and that was super funny. It was kind of clever,
there was a stick to it, and then he just

(11:01):
became a blowhard. Instead of making fun of talking head blowhards,
he just became a self important blowhard himself, just a
self important blowhard for the left. He was actually super
funny on that Comedy Central show. And here we are

(11:23):
now he's just now he's interviewing Adam Schiff, interviewing Adam
Shift while studiously.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I don't I guess, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Seems didn't seem like there was much back and forth
about the mortgage fraud accusations against Shift, or if there was,
I'm sure Colbert treated it with kid gloves.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
By the way, Adam Shiff seemingly a very similar thing
to t J.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Cox.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Adam Shift, US Senator from California, is accused of misleading
mortgage lenders about his primary residence being in Washington, d
C's suburbs, rather than in California. A Fanning May investigation. Basically,
there's some discrepancy that Donald Trump just shot off about
on truth Social about shift seeming to do some shenanigans

(12:14):
about what his actual permanent residence is. He's a California senator,
but he's saying his Maryland residence as his primary residence,
et cetera, which.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Is what TJ. Cox. And one of the many sleazy
things TJ.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Cox did that got him in trouble was trying to
pretend like he sort of being sleazy about did he
live in Maryland?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Did he not?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Anyway, The thing that finally just kind of makes me
laugh is both Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff send out
these very self important tweets.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
If there's a political reason why Stephen Colbert's show was canceled,
then CBS needs to give an explanation the country deserves
to know.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Which is like, all right, so you guys are hyper
fixated about the idea of a conservative leaning or anti
liberal leaning bias at CBS canceling a very left wing.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Show that they've allowed to thrive for years.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
But no concern about any political bias at PBS, which
also got defunded.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Okay, that's fine, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Like, why would CBS need to say, hey, he's a
little too political. It's late night comedy. We don't you
know he's a little too political. He turns off half
the country. The show's not doing as well for what
we pay for it, so we're going to cancel the show. Like,
why does CBS need to provide the country with with notice?

(13:54):
I heard someone say we should be frightened about CBS's
decision to cancel SCEP in Colbert. Oh what am I
going to lose my late night talk show because Stephen
Colbert lost his? Are we all at risk now of
getting our late night talk shows canceled?

Speaker 2 (14:08):
No one in America needs to be scared about the
censorship of America. That's happening because of Steven Cole.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Late night television don't get doesn't get enough ratings to
justify the amount of money that networks pay for it.
They pay these guys enormous salaries, they pay the house
enormous salaries. They pay a lot of money for production
and everything, and it's not where the juice is not
worth the squeeze as far as what.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Actual ratings they get. That's it. That's that's the main
reason why.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Now, could Colbert tried to buck that national trend with
a really funny show? I mean sure, and I mean
guess what, it's probably really really hard to write a
show that's that funny. But he clearly pursued a strategy
that he knew was going to turn off half of
America and half of America. All right, challenge accepted. You

(15:03):
say this is not a show for us, we won't
watch it.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
At any rate. It's a uh, it's a it's a real.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Moment of shaden freud because I've been so annoyed with
this turn Colbert, especially having liked him before. For him
to just turn into just another boring anti Trump shill
was really disappointing. And it seems as if that experiment
is going to come to an end. And maybe again,

(15:34):
this is one of the lessons, maybe that we learn
from the twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Election that hey, like more people.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
At least in twenty twenty four, more people liked Trump
than liked Kamala. Harris, you're talking about half the country
when you bad mouth that base. So there were more
people in the Trump camp than the Kamala camp.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Sorry, Like, why would you do that?

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Why would you cut off half of your audience from
wanting them to listen? All right, when we return, will
shift gears a little bit to talking about PBS and
its defunding. Finally, finally, under the Trump administration, that is
next on The John Gerardi Show. In addition to Stephen

(16:23):
Colbert getting canceled, perhaps more significantly, the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting is losing its federal funding. The House and the
Senate passed the bill, the Recision Bill, to cut back
federal spending on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The President's
going to sign it. America will no longer be funding PBS,

(16:45):
and it's kind of a testament the arguments that the
Left had to resort to to keep funding PBS, which
if PBS was genuinely neutral, presumably you would have had
one Republican step up in their defense and say, well, okay,

(17:08):
they do provide really valuable information and alerts during storms
and for the arts, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
All the left was able.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
The Left had to resort to stuff about like storm
warnings that PBS or NPR allegedly provide, which is preposterous.
Nobody is going to turn on their radio during a storm.
It's like some severe natural disaster, storm, warning, tornado, whatever.
No one's turning it on to NPR. They're turning it

(17:38):
on to any other news and talk station before they're
turning to NPR. And if NPR disappeared from the face
of the earth, even the people who would turn on.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
NPR would go somewhere else. Literally, no one's turning on
PBS for information. Guarantee you that.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I mean, Chip Roy, who's a congress Member of the
House from Texas, was giving this story about how Texas
Public Broadcasting didn't turn didn't provide any on TV live
info about some recent bout of Texas flooding until like
nineteen hours after it started. He said, you know, all

(18:24):
the local network news stations, all the private companies with
local network news stations, they all had coverage.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And that's one hundred percent true.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
I mean, I think of VALLEYPBS, you know nothing against
Valley PBS. I don't know that they've got I don't
think they've got a meteorologist. I don't know that they
have a local do they have a local anchor? Even
I don't think they do. I don't know that they
even have a local news broadcast so there's no that's
not going to be useful at all. It's not like

(18:55):
we live in some prehistoric time where or some you know,
old folks see backwoods of the nineteen twenties, where the
public broadcasting signals the only radio shortwave that we can
get for any news about, you know, the plague coming
in or something.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
I mean, forget it. It's just not that useful.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
All PBS is really useful for is it provides high
status liberals with programming they like. NPR is mostly listened
to by affluent, white liberal you know, urban dwellers in

(19:38):
DC and college towns. They play classical music and jazz
and have political insight, political insight in news that is
overwhelmingly left wing. Yesterday, Raoul Martinez and his two husbands,

(19:58):
we're facing serious challenges about whether or not they were
going to be deported.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Et cetera.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I mean, that's that's the kind of wackiness that happens
at NPR. In addition to these broad editorial decisions that
are just solidly left wing all the freaking time and
funded by us, with no shame on the part of

(20:24):
the left that, like, yeah, NPR is obviously a super
left leaning outlet as left leaning as MSNBC.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Probably more left leaning even than CNN.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
And there's no shame at the notion of making the
American taxpayer pay for it. No. So look, if BBS
and NPR can stand on their own two feet, great.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
God bless them. More power to them.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
They don't need me to pay for them when we
return some light content. That stupid ceo who was hugging
his HR coordinator at a cold Play concert because they
were having an affair.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Next, on The John Girardi Show.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
There was a funny moment that got played and replayed
and is playing out with tons of jokes all day
on Twitter, and.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
It just fills me with delight.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
There's this company called Astronomer, which is a tech company
that specializes in data operations.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
According to.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
According to the Internet, and the CEO of this company
that the company is valued at over one point three
billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay, so this is a big company.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
And the CEO of this company is married and went
to a cold Play concert. Coldplay, which if you're a
fifty year old man going to a cold Play content,
I got to ask some real questions about you.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
You've got to be the most annoying human being.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Ever, Coldplay is just one of these bands that their
music was so broad and generic that it's sort of
I don't know, it's like saying you like vanilla ice
cream kind of. But this is my mid two thousands
listening to indie rock and roll sort of opinion about Coldplay.

(22:27):
I just cannot don't like them that much. They did
write some decent songs, but the idea of being like,
oh yeah, I'm really into Coldplay, it's like saying, all right,
you're really into cheese pizza. Also, anyway, so this multi
bazillionaire corporate dude, which, by the way, it's also this

(22:51):
funny thing how gen xers nowadays this is the current
day reality of gen xers. When gen Xers were like
nineteen or twenty in like nineteen ninety, okay, young gen xers,
there was nothing gen xers were more afraid of than

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the concept of and I quote selling out. Gen Xers
were so terrified of that concept. Like you will see
like gen x aged rock and roll bands who are
like like people like.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Metallica, people said you sold out because you used an
acoustic guitar in a song. We're not selling out, Oh,
they signed with that big record LIB. Oh no, we're
not gonna sign with a big record LIB. We're not
selling out.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
And there was this weird gen X like hyper fixation
on quote authenticity and not selling out. Well, fast forward
thirty years. No one wants to sell out harder than
gen xers. Gen xers are just doing fine now that
they're all senior man management age.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Basically, they're all doing just swell anyway.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
No such concerns about selling out currently among the gen
X set.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Maybe they just all grew up.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
I will note that the fear of quote selling out
is not a fear at all that afflicts Zoomers, or
especially Zoomers and millennials a bit by extension, Zoomers are
basically like.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Hey, can you subscribe to my to my video game stream?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Like they're so No, general, Millennials and Zoomers have never
been more desperate. No generation has been more desperate to
sell out. Hey can I be an Instagram influencer? Yeah,
I'll do a marketing deal with Walmart whatever.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, I mean yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
No one is more eager to sell out than millennials
and Zoomers. No such concerns anyway. So the CEO of
this company goes to a Coldplay concert and it looks
like it's him the head of HR, and some other

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gal who I think works in HR, and it's him
in the head of HR. So this fifty something year
old man getting all cozy with the forty something year
old head of HR. He's having an affair. This married
man who's the CEO is having an affair with his
also married head of HR. And they're at the Coldplay concert.

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And it seems that Coldplay during the concert, they have
this thing called the kiss cam, which if any of
you been to a baseball game or a basketball game
of football game, you know, the kiss cam is a
camera that pans over to some couple who's sitting in
the crowd and with little hearts around it. And then
when the couple sees that, hey, we're on the jumbo

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trun then they kiss each other.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Okay, you find you know.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Cute couple husband and wife or girlfriend, boyfriend whatever. Put
the camera on them and they say, oh, there we are.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
We kiss each other.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, these two people are having an affair and they're
at a Coldplay concert. He's like hugging her from behind,
like he's got his arms wrapped around her, and they're
all snug as a bug in a rug, you know,
in there horrific, adulterous liaison, and the kiss cam goes
on them. But the thing is it's a Coldplay concert.

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Coldplay is like an internationally known band. There are a
million cameras. The two of them immediately react to the
camera being on them. The guy just drops down to
the floor under the view of the camera. Basically, the
woman turns around, her employee is standing next to her, laughing,

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and this gets blown all over the internet. Everyone immediately identifies, Oh, yeah,
that's the CEO of Astronomer, this big billion dollar data company,
and yeah, I mean now, there's a part of it
that's horrible that these two ruined their marriages, and this
is horrific for their families.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
And it makes me think about a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Made me think about a couple of things involving like
the Me Too movement, and makes me think of a
little bit about my dad.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
So there's sort of two extreme.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Moronic sides to the Me too movement debate arguments cultural phenomenon,
if you will. On the one side was liberals who
and it was basically the phrase believe all women full

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stop end of sentence. Well, we should hear everybody out.
We should give due process to everybody. Yes, I acknowledge
there have been cases in the past in American law
where women making reports of sexual harassment or rape, et cetera,
were not taken seriously, not heard out, Their cases weren't examined,

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the perpetrators were not punished, et cetera. Powerful people got
away with bad behavior because they were powerful or rich
or valuable for their companies.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Okay, we should hear people out when they make accusations.
We should weigh the accusations. Get to give everyone their
due process and due process being this great American the
due process protections of the American judicial system being really
this brilliant, ultimate fair arbiter of these kinds of disputes,

(28:48):
a model, whether it's within the actual judicial system itself,
as our guiding light for resolving these issues, or as
the load star for guiding private.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Dispute resolution. When someone is making a claim of sexual.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Harassment, if a student, for example, in a college or
university setting, is being accused of some sort of sexual harassment.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Or something like that.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
For if a college or university is going to decide
whether or not to initiate disciplinary proceedings against a student.
Look to the American judicial system, Look to its system
of due process, giving people a chance to defend themselves,
giving both parties the ability to question witnesses and hear
evidence presented against them, and blah blah, blah, blah blah.
The American judicial system, its system of due process, is

(29:37):
remarkably fair. It is in many ways and envied in
many parts of the world for being an extremely fair,
orderly judicial system for getting at the truth.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
The problem is.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
That people on the left who were sort of pushing
the me to narrative didn't want it to end there.
They just wanted it to be you believe what women
say and that's it. No cross examination, no dispute, no
questions asking of well is this testimony internally logically consistent?

(30:16):
Made me think back to the Brett Kavanaugh.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Days, like.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Basically they there was just this chorus of people who
were just like, well, no, we have to believe Christine
blasi Ford because she said this happened like she had
no corroborating evidence whatsoever to her testimony. She hadn't mentioned
this for forty years. She all of a sudden sees

(30:46):
Brett Kavanaugh and decides that, yes, this person rape me.
I don't know when, I don't know what year, I
don't know what place, I don't know why, no information,
but yeah, you definitely raped her. That's the only thing
we have to believe. Nothing else we can remember, but
that's the thing we have to.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Believe with one hundred percent certitude. Now, on the other hand,
there were some morons on the right.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Who I don't think we're ever very precise about it,
but I think they just sort of felt like me too.
The me too movement whatever was coming from the left
and ergo was bad and agreed. Some aspects of it
were I think the way that a lot of university,
for example, what I was saying about, you know, the
American judicial system and its systems and safeguards and due

(31:37):
process proceed you know, it's mechanisms of due process should
be the load star for other areas of life where
we have some sort of proceeding to determine disciplinary actions,
whether that's within an HR system at a business, or
whether that's within a college or university or some other setting.

(31:59):
And what happened in sort of the height of the
me too era was particularly at a lot of college campuses,
young men got railroaded by with the blessing of the
Obama administration and its various of its organs that were
intersecting with this, a bunch of universities had internal disciplinary

(32:23):
mechanisms for usually boy male students accused of sexual impropriety
who got railroaded, who basically had no opportunity for due process,
weren't able to cross examine witnesses, weren't able to see
all the evidence presented against them, and just got railroaded
kicked out of college's universities on the basis of spurious accusations,

(32:48):
some of which turned out to be totally false. However,
there were some of the dopier guys on the right
who're saying, oh, you can't even make you.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Can't even you know, can't even uh, can't even flirt
with someone, can't even say anything nice about a girl
without it being sexual harassment.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Now, and I'm sure there are some examples of people
being a little overzealous about that, but it is also
I don't know, I don't think it's that hard to
work in corporate America and not cross the line. And
it leads me to this CEO guy, and it makes

(33:34):
me think about him and comparing contrast with for example,
my dad. Okay, my dad was a surgeon at Falley
Children's Hospital. He worked there for thirty one years. He
was a very successful surgeon. He interacted with people all

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the time, every day, day in day, and I don't
know how many attractive young nurses came across his path
in his thirty one years of working at Valley Children's Hospital.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
My guess is there were hundreds.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
And my dad didn't do anything, was never accused of
doing anything. My dad never had like a single hr
complaint against him his entire career, and a lot of
doctors did not so much like sexual harassment stuff, but
just like doctors like you know, surgeon's yelling at nurses
and making them cry, surgeon's blowing up at people like

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my dad never had a single thing like that his
whole time working at Children's And I remember talking with
him about it, my dad, who passed away last year.
I remember talking with him about it as the me
too thing was blowing up, and I was saying to him,
you know, I just don't think it's that hard to
not sexually harass people at work, and he's like, yeah,

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it's really easy. Just don't do this is not hard,
Like what are we talking about? So and it leads
me to this dope who cheated on his wife. I
just can't fathom it. My wife and I talk about
this a lot about like how like we're tired by

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the time we get around at ten thirty at night.
Who are these people that find the time and the
mental energy to like go have affairs? Who are these
people like I can't fathom it, Like like I barely
have enough energy. I'm busy enough, and I barely have

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enough energy after I'm done with work.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
You know what, I don't want to do. I don't
want to like go to some other rendezvous. Geez, Louise.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Maybe I just have a happy marriage and that's part
of it. But I cannot fathom the mindset of someone
being like, yes, gonna cheat on my wife with someone
from work. And by the way, for the woman who
did this, there's too many people who are like all
focused on the poor wife of this CEO that he

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was stepping out on, not enough focus on the poor
husband of the HR director that she was stepping out on.
And a lot of criticism of the CEO, dude, not
enough criticism of the head of HR having an affair
at the workplace, the head of HR for the company,

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and just in general.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
I want to bring in. I think we should be
more condemnatory.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Of adultery, more throw around, more words like home wrecker,
like I think we need more shame.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
This is my Catholic advice for all of you.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
I don't think Catholic guilt is I sort of don't
think that Catholic guilt is real thing.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
I think it's a thing that Martin Scorsese made up.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Although it is interesting that the only people who talk
about Catholic guilt are like Catholics who have stopped going
to church and are not actually very good Catholics and
are not very good practicing Catholics.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
They're the ones who talk about Catholic guilt all the time.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
I don't know, I don't think about it that much,
so at any rate, I find the story to be
somewhat hilarious. All right, when we return, we'll have just
quick thoughts to close out the week. John julready show
one last thought before we leave. This note that Donald

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Trump allegedly gave to Jeffrey Epstein. Come on, that's not
how Trump writes. That's not how Trump talks. The idea
that Trump is drawing pictures of naked women and giving
Jeffrey Epstein a note with like some poem.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
I mean, like, look, it's not above me to think
Donald Trump was friendly with Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
I don't think he went to the island or anything
like that.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
There's no record, no evidence he did that, And there's
nothing for me to think Donald Trump isn't kind of sleazy.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
It just doesn't sound like him. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I think that whole story is gonna blow over and
be nothing that'll do it. John Girardi Show, See you
next time on Power Talk