November 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Some campus madness & some refreshing sanity!
- Jake Paul VS Mike Tyson fight
- Excuses for Kamala's campaign loss
- Jack goes to Vegas and sees The Eagles!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty,
I know he Armstrong and Yetty, a.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Man who recorded AOL's email greeting You've got mail, has
died at the age of seventy four, and just before
he passed, he recorded this heartfelt message.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Goodbye, Wow, you've got mail. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We do need to talk about the assassination plot the
Iranians had to take out Trump. We've got more information
over the weekend. They've arrested a couple of dudes. That
was a serious plot.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Well, and if you dip your toe in the water
to run against me, he hates you for the rest
of his life. So an assassination plot, I gotta believe
sticks in his crop. This is not a Oh that's right,
This is not a campus madness update exactly, because there's
some good stuff and some bad stuff going on in education,
which is absolutely the headwaters the well spring of the
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woke lunacy.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Education K through grad school.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I wonder having because the political pros and congress people
and you know, the leaders of the party in the
donor class or whatever, they are doing careful studies of
what lost the election, and the woke, the transgender madness,
all of that is gonna factor a.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Large absolute really I've seen in red. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So though I'm constantly going on about no, this is
not this war is not one. It's not even the
beginning of the end. It's the end of the beginning.
If the hacks who just go with what's popular so
they can maintain their power and their access to the
treasury perceive that that is dead and people aren't into it, it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Might well dry up their.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What's the right metaphor their support network, the flow of
money and energy and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I certainly hope so. But anyway, some ups and.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Downs of what's going on on college campuses right now.
Let's start with Bill Maher the other night. He's talking
to the fabulous Sarah Iger. But you can't scream about
democracy and then have a guy run the table like
this and not.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Say, well, it's a mandate, right, right or wrong?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Is it a mandate?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yes? The Harvard Institute of Politics student president came out
with an op ed today talking about how they weren't
going to forego democracy for the sake of nonpartisanship, but
the idea you're going to be pro democracy by not
giving a voice and allowing other students to hear from
speakers that belong to the party that just won through
a democratic process. Like that's where the left has a problem.
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They become the party of the faculty lounge. They're so condescending,
they're so arrogant, and again keep the met worse. The
whole point is to be exclusionary. They're not accidentally exclusionary.
It's the mission statement.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I love that the Party of the faculty lounge. That
is accurate and withering.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I hope what you said turns out to be true.
That the money people, the power people realize all that
and uh, and that makes all the difference because I
want to wigan this issue. I don't want to just
win elections. I want to win this issue here here
one hundred percent. Yeah, and I am still on war footing.
(03:48):
I am assuming nothing but a couple of quick headlines
from around college campuses. Princeton seems to be edging toward
the cancelation of John Witherspoon, who was the President of
the Universe from seventeen sixty eight until seventeen ninety four,
he rescued Princeton from possible bankruptcy while tutoring Princeton's student
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James Madison, as well as a number of freed slaves.
He was also a member of the Continental Congress.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So the case against the statue of Witherspoon on the
campus is that he owned slaves and opposed the immediate
abolition of slavery. This is again the seventeen sixties and seventies,
and whatever. He was concerned about their ability to thrive
if freed at once, with neither training nor property to
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give them a start. The case in favor of Witherspoon
is he consistently supported total abolition of slavery, but gradually
he tutored freed black men at Princeton in his political life.
As eminent Princeton history professor Shawn Willins stressed at Witherspoon's
symposium a year ago, Witherspoon quot so challenged the pro
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slavery claim that abolition was unlawful the dominant view in
New Jersey politics, and he did so unequivocally as a
member of the New Jersey Assembly. Witherspoon not only upheld
that idea, the pro abolitionist idea.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
He actually acted upon it. So that's how insane these
people are.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Somebody in the seventeen sixties who said, we've got to
get rid of slavery completely, but we've got to ease
that in over time is not good enough to be
on the campus of Princeton University.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
This from the Wall Street Journal Callum Borcher's it's hard
to get a job at this financial advisor firm with
five hundred advisors. I think if you went to the
wrong college like Harvard, Yale or Princeton. The chief exec
who went to Iowa State says he worked with many
graduates of top tier colleges in previous jobs, but they
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too often approached client's challenges like textbook case studies rather
than real world problems. Quote, if I were hiring somebody
to be my right hand person today, there's not a
chance in Hallett.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Would be an IVY League person. Wow, that's interesting, it is,
and that is a growing trend.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Then you had those judges who said we're not hiring
anybody from Columbia Law because of they're too woke and
not to labor the point. But Borcher's writes the skepticism
intensified the last year after Landmark's Supreme Court case exposed
the inner workings of elite college administrations and upended affirmative action.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Evidence presented in the case.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Revealed it, among other things, forty three percent of accepted
white students at Harvard were recruited athletes or children of alumni, donors, faculty,
or staff. Almost half were so called legacy admissions.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That's from the party that claims to hate that sort of.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Thing, right right exactly, And they absolutely get into the
woke attitudes and stuff like that, and how incredibly difficult
it is to manage those people. But want to touch
on a couple more real quickly, Oh why do you reset?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Stop it? Stop it.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
It's a great report on the University of North Carolina,
which has created a new college within the university, trying
to create a free speech culture, and it's taken off
and getting a lot of support. I'm gonna have to
come back to it because it's a blank page in
front of me.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Gosh, dang it.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I hate it when it does that. But anyway, another
quick other update, not as positive. The bright part is
reminding us that US universities are taking billions of dollars
in undisclosed foreign money, much of it from China, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia. And Qatar in articular has
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laid billions and billions of dollars on American universities. And
they are absolutely Islamic supremacists. And there is a direct
line to be drawn between the faculty and staff of
these universities and their attitudes toward Israel and the billions
of dollars they get from the Qataris. They don't dare
piss them off. Speaking of wokism as you were.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Chris Christi was on ABC this Week yesterday and laid
out one of the main reasons he thinks the Democrats lost,
which fits in with this.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
The Democratic Party from twenty seventeen through twenty twenty four went.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Off the dbend.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
The most effective ad that the Trump campaign ran was,
you know, Kamala Harris is for they them and Donald
Trump is for us. That's because most people don't see
themselves as day them. Yet the Democrats have spent more
time talking about a trans issue. It wasn't Republicans who
brought up a transitionue. Initially it was Democrats accusing Republicans
of being insensitive in tall all right, what the.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Election had proved?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, that hadn't edited that I can explain. He was
interrupted when he said that that the Democrats kept talking
about the trans issue, and he was interrupted by the
Democrat on the staff because.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You guys kept talking about No, we were talking about it,
because you are forcing all this weirdness on the world.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So we're responding to it. As Chris Christy pointed out,
no Republican was talking about trans issues, and so he
started having guys in girls' sports, or you started putting
pronouns on everything and blasting people who didn't put pronouns
on their emails or ending their careers right right, And
remember every time you read the phrase transgender rights, understand
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that is that is bullying. The argument a man doesn't
have the right to be in the women's locker room
just because he says I'm a girl. Now, a man
doesn't have the right to play against girls and women's
in sports.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Those are not rights. No, I reject that idea at all.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't know it'll be remembered this way, but that
Trump ad was one of the most effective ads in
presidential history, if not the most effective when you had
Kamala Harris's own words up there talking about paying for
sex change operations with taxpayer money, and then Trump's tagline
of She's for they them, Trump's for you. I mean,
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that is a good freaking ad and it's all the best. Yeah,
the craziness in the direction it's about, not about the
number of people that have affected.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Because it's a tiny, tiny sliver of people.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Although the whole radical gender ideology in our schools, with
the craze of transgenderism among adolescent girls especially and some boys,
that is significant.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I heard Charlie Cook of National Reviews say the other
day that he doesn't think the left understands how crazy
that stuff sounds to most Americans. Like you're you have
like somehow convinced yourself if it's normal.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The rest of the country is like, what like head
spinningly shocked.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
The stuff you're talking about, Like it's crazy, right, You
view it as one hundred percent assumed.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We view it as insane.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Just yeah, like the world has gone nuts. Yeah, you're
the party of the faculty lounge. Got to that headline back.
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I don't want to rush through this stuff about the
University of North Carolina because it's so interesting and so cool.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
One of the main points of it is that.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
It is a left right, left right problem, the craziness
on the campus. But what if it isn't a left
right problem at all. What if the acrimoni and loathing
that animator politics have more to do with class than ideology,
more to do with educational status than any set of
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views on culture and policy. And they point out that
the college campuses are going crazy and everybody thinks the
same thing, or at least, you know, those who disagree
are keeping their mouth shut. But among average working Americans,
nobody behaves like that. I mean, it's practically restricted to
the college campuses or when that sort of kid takes
to the streets of Manhattan. And so they're trying to
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build an actual culture of inclusivity, not when the far
left calls it inclusive, which just means we want to
include everybody who believes what we believe.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
But they want a.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Mix of opinions and classes and cultures and the free
exchange of ideas.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And it's fantastic cool, And.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I want to talk about that a little more plus
this headline also from the Wall Street Journal. Sorry Harvard.
Everyone wants to go to college in the South now.
And they talk about how the number of applications is
plunged at the Ivy League, plunged among the kids of
the northeast population clusters of the country. And now they're
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all heading to Clemson and Georgia Tech and South Carolina, Alabama,
well Tennessee and all the colleges in the South, partly
because they'll have class and get their party on and
maybe meet somebody special and it's not going to be
all politics all the.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Time, right protests and whatnot. Also that I took my
son to his first concert. I want to talk about
that too, So stick around Armstrong Andngetti and.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I'll tell you now on the monkeys that escaped Wednesday
from a research lab in South Carolina. Officials there say
at least twenty five have been recaptured. More than a
dozen others remain on the loose. Many of them have
been spotted just over the labs fence. The monkeys are
all very young and have never been tested. Please insists
there is no threat to public health.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Okay, still got a dozen monkeys out there doing on
your face. Come on, got a.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Dozen monkeys out there doing their thing. A couple of
news items over the weekend that you might not have heard.
Katar ordered the Hamas leaders to get out of the country.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That hole you get to keep your.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Hundreds of millions of dollars you stole from the Palestinians.
Why you claim you care about them and you live
in a high rise penthouse in one of our hotels is.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Over you gotta get so it's funny. Right after Trump
got alive. That's what I wondered. That's what I wondered.
Did have anything to do with the Trump election timing
is a little suspicious.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Also, Justice sodomy Or, who lefties were pushing to step
down as a Supreme Court justice so that Biden could
appoint a progressive and Trump will get to do all
the appointment. Soda Meyer said, I ain't stepping up.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Good for her. She shouldn't because if you get if.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You if you go down that road where you know
everybody from your party steps down at the end of
every turn.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I don't know. Maybe that would be a better way
to run things. I don't know, but she ain't going to.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Still got the whole Biden pardoning is something on the table.
Still have the whole hymn resigning and letting Kamala become
the first female president thing on the table. I suppose
those things happened. I uh, I was in Vegas for
a concert, my son's first concert, which I want to
talk about coming up. But you know what was getting
a tremendous amount of attention in Las Vegas. All the
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giant billboards, I mean, it was everywhere. The Mike Tyson
fight is this Friday with that YouTube star whatever his
name is.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What's his name, Hansen, Michael, what's his name? I think
is it Jake Paul? Yeah, yeah, Jake Paul, one of
the Paul's.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Tyson's fighting that YouTube guy and who's not a professional fighter,
but he is twenty six years old, whereas Mike pretty
close to a professional fight. Mike Tyson's fifty five. And
they're uh so it'll be It's just I'm watching. It's
on Netflix. It's not pay per view. If you have Netflix,
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you have it. It's it's going to be there, So
I guarantee you I'm there. I was getting pretty psyched
up watching all the promotional stuff. Wow, it's really sounds
horrible to me. Why are you? Well do you think's
going to happen?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I think Mike tan an old man who used to
be really great at fighting against a young man who's
not quite as good at fighting, and see what happens.
I want to see the professional boxer Mike Tyson beat
the crap out of one of those loud mouth pain
in the ass YouTube stars who does all kinds of
abhorrent things him getting his face smashed and would be
a very enjoyable way to spend Friday night.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
In my opinion. What if it goes the other way?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Watching an old man get beat down and not near
as finn? Yeah, beat down an old by a young man?
Great again? People are sick, Katie want to be watching
Masterpiece Theater as usually.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
It's been kind of fun to watch online though, because
Jake Paul's been parading himself around in like this fake belly,
like a like a dad bod kind of a thing, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah? Well uh yeah, getting attention is his whole thing.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Yeah, people can't, don't. I don't have any rhyme or
reason for it. They just it's been funny.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah, I ought to be taking it in just as
modern entertainment to see how it works. Never mind that
the again the horrors watching old men.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Beat down it suspected that each are going to make
between twenty and forty million.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Dollars each of them.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Any chance of some sort of three way voute, I
meant you could hit me pretty hard.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
For that Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been
other candidates in the race. Kamala I think still would
have won, but she may have been stronger having taken
her case to the public sooner.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I think people never got to know Kamala Harris during
the time she was in this campaign.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
If the goal is to win elections on Twitter, then
you should embrace movements like defund the police. But if
the goal is to win elections in the real world
where it matters, then you have to appeal to working
class people of color.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
The party itself has increasingly become a smarty pants, suburban,
college educated party.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
That was David Axelrod there at the end, and he
understands the real world of politics and the actual Democratic Party.
As long as Democrats continue to think Twitter's a real world,
it'll be good for Republicans.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I think, how would you like to have to continue
to pitch the steaming pile of bull crap. That is,
if Kamla had been able to go through the primary system,
it would have strengthened her and people would have been
more impressed with her. Her entire career belies that theory, right,
including this campaign. The more people got to know her,
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the more they do I'll pass hard pass. Speaking of
the old Obama people like David Axelrod, a couple of
the dudes that have that podcast that's so popular, Pod Save.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
America or whatever it's called. Anyway, John Favreau's former speech
writer for President Obama who hosts Pod Save America. That
podcast with some other old Obama people said, we found
out that when the Biden campaign became the Harris campaign,
that the Biden campaign's own internal polling at that time
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was telling him that Donald Trump was gonna win four.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Hundred electoral votes.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So at the same time that Biden was trying to
hang on and had to be pushed out at the
point of a humiliation, their internal polling showed Trump was
gonna win four hundred electoral votes. Thank you, Joe, right,
I got a neighborhoo as a thank you Joe flagging
in the front yard.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You're a sap. I don't mean to be uncharitable.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Favre said, Joe Biden's decision to run for president again
was a catastrophic mistake. They refused to acknowledge until very
late that anyone could be upset about inflation, and then
they just kept telling us that his presidency was historic
and it was the greatest economy ever.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And why don't people understand that.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I would love to hear was it doctor Jill behind
the scenes or had Joe just lost his mind because
the idea that after saying specifically that he was going
to be a transitional figure in a one part, one
term president, for him to decide, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Do have it. I'm going to go for it. I mean,
that is tough to explain.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well, Favreau on that podcast with the other Obama people said,
I'm done being generous. So they're you know, being respectful
of the old man who beat Trump and we owe
him and all that sort of stuff apparently is over.
And then Nancy Pelosi did an interview with The New
York Times. You just heard a little bit of it
there the audio, and she was asked by the New
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York Times, should there have been an open primary? And
she said, well, see, we thought that there would be.
The anticipation was that if the president were to step aside,
that there would be an open primary, and then she
said this stuff about I think Kamala would have done
well and would have been stronger going forward, but we
don't know that that didn't happen. We have to live
with what happened. And because the President endorsed Kamala Harris immediately,
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that really made it impossible to have a primary at
the time. If it had been earlier, it would have
been different. But that's not what We're not here to agonize.
We have to organize and go forward. Blah blah blah
blah blah. But she is one I think well, first
of all, she just flat out saying he came out
and endorsed her, so it ruined any chance of having
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an open primary. If he hadn't ha done that, we
could have had an open primary. And I think she
believes and she's not gonna say out loud and now would.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Have weeded freaking week Kamala out and we would have
had to have been saddled with her as a.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Candidate, right right, So I was gonna say, so, is
she just hedging her bets in case Kamala maintains some
sort of role in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party.
Why would eighty plus yr old Nancy Pelosi give a
crap what Kamala Harris thinks at this point?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Why doesn't she throw her under the bus?
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Does she just say what you just said, which is
painfully obvious.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
To like all of America.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, I don't think Kamala plays a role in anything anymore.
She did throw Biden under the bus very clearly, I think.
So she's putting the blame at the foot of Joe Biden,
who you know, politics is the way it is. She
came out and said is the most consequential president of
our lifetimes. And Nancy Pelosi, remember, actually said out loud
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he should be on Mount Rushmore. But she's saying in
the interview with The New York Times basically that if
he hadn't come out and endorsed her, we could have
had a primary.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So does she get behind the scenes with like Jeffreys
and I don't know heard her her family or whatever,
and just guffaw after she says stuff like that, Joe
Biden not to be on Mount Rushmore. I mean, did
they just pack up when they get a couple of
drinks in them or what?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever
heard in the history of politics.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And that's saying something.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Like people are saying, I can't keep up with them
myself behind the scenes, and you go behind closers.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Oh my god, can you look who said that? Hi?
Find me? You bet I wouldn't know it. And I
told you I would, you owe me a hundred dollars
right exactly? Wow? Wow, what a bizarro business to be in.
No kidding, no kidding. I mean, can you imagine, I
don't know you're in the pet food business?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Say absolutely, we can get you a hundred pallets by Tuesday,
and then you don't deliver anything. You just think, ah,
I mean, what kind of business is that?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Good boy?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But I think if we're just five days in the
election was just five days ago, if after five days
were already at Nancy Pelosi saying yeah, if he had
an endorsed her, or a favreau of the old Obama
guy saying yeah, it's a completely Biden's fault. Imagine what
people are going to be saying here in weeks, months,
years in their various memoirs.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I can't wait. It's gonna be so awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
US Steel delivers one hundred steel girders. Meanwhile, at the
job site, US Steel, this is aluminum.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
It's not as steel.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I'm bending it with my hands right now. Oh no,
it's steel. It's good old fashioned steel.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Click. You can't get away with that in anywhere but politics.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You have to get very comfortable saying things that are completely,
completely obviously not true, and you have to say him
with a straight face. I'd be a rough way to
make a living. Everybody remembers their first concert, don't they.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I do? You do?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You probably do. I'll ask you about it. But my
son went to his over the weekend. I want to
talk about that. We were in Vegas and saw lots
of things in Vegas, as you always do.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, my memories are a little vague. The first two
and they're passing around the hippie lettuce. I'm afraid Jack,
really and unfortunately I got a second hand whiff of
that devil.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Sweed and no Lord, Henry and I smoked a tremendous
amount of pot at the Eagles concert stop it.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Did you see Joe Rafi?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
We're gonna ask you about that coming up as it was,
it was RAFFI, Yes, Captain Kangaroo is the opening end
stay here.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
They ended the concert with this the other night at
the Sphere in Las Vegas before they came back out
for their encore, which my ye had never experienced before
because he'd never been to a concert before, so we
didn't know the whole encore thing. So he got excited
like you do when you're at your first concert about
is it over?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They didn't sing blank, you know, and oh no, I
got ripped off. But then they come back out and
you think it's because you're cheering that they came back out,
which is awesome. Katie. What was your first concert ever? Oh,
my first concert ever that I remember.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
I have vivid memories of end sync.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
There you go. That's a good restone. I was really
excited about. I can see that man as a younger
Michael first concert, you know, I honestly cannot remember. It's
probably some sort of classical music.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
It certainly undermines my uh presentation of everybody remembers their
first concert, but nobody knows that but none of you
guys do Joe, do you remember your first.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Concert Doobie Brothers Alpine Valley, Wisconsin, Second one Sticks Chicago
Stadium Maybe is it one of your big holes in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Hanson, do you remember your first concert Rick Springfield?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I saw in what freaking sense at that time? He
was very hot. Sure if you're an adolescent woman. Wow, Judge, Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
My god, Judge Hansen, Hi him disappointed.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I saw the band in Chicago as my first concert
in oh I went with some band geeks, and I
don't know that was the coolest concert, but it would
blow my mind and I was I've tried to think
about why. Why was it so mind blowing? Is it
the sound? Is it the is it the fact that
you're seeing in person? I don't know exactly all.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Of the above, especially back in the day when you
would never see bands that you liked perform right unless
they happen to be on Don Kirshner's Rock Hour at
you know, midnight thirty Saturday night or something. So that
was one of the things I was singing about with
the seeing the Eagles at the Sphere, which if you're
not familiar with what it is, it's this multi multi
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billion dollar structure that they build in Vegas. It's a great, big,
giant ball a sphere if you will. It's like an
IMAX times one hundred in terms of a screen. And
they have lots of video shows there, and then they've
had some concerts. If you remember, you too kicked the
whole thing off. And currently the Eagles are playing there,
and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
What I think about the seeing a live band and
then you're there for the whole video presentation.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's not what drew us there.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
My son he heard the Eagles were ath the sphere
and he wanted to go. He said, it's the only
thing I want for Christmas, my birthday. You don't have
to get me anything else.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I just want to go.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's my favorite band, to see the Eagles. So that's
what we did. But I was thinking what you just said.
They if you've got to come up with a new
way to hook people into entertainment, to get off your
couch for I wonder they got to do that with
sports too, right. I wonder what it'd be like to
watch the Super Bowl the sphere if they could fit
fure out a way to do that. Just because everybody
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says the same thing with a lot of music and
TV shows and everything like that. I got a seventy
five inch HD television with the soundbar. Why am I
leaving my.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
House in my own bathroom? Man?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So you got to prevent something pretty outstanding, like to
get you to go out and pay more money for it.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So I don't know if that's part of where the
future is headed.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, we were discussing before you went, the concept of
the band and its music being a relatively not minor
but not like the totality of the experience.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
What do you think coming away from so I?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
He and I had no interest in watching the video
show that was on there, so I got really close seats,
so we sat like right from the stage and watched
it like any concert. So it wasn't very good for
watching the video stuff. It was fantastic for watching the band,
which we both loved and I loved and they sounded
freaking fantastic, which is mind blowing to me. We got
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this text from somebody about I saw Ozzy Osbourne and
wondered the same thing you're wondering.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Jack.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
He walks and talks like someone who's spoon fed Jello
then a switch is thrown in bam when the songs happen,
and so the members of the Eagles, the original members
that are almost eighty I mean, Don.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Henley's shoffing around, the lead singer for the Eagles, and
he's doing the old man mouth when he touched me.
The reason we're playing here is hi, this is arguably
the best sound system on playet Earth and all that
sort of stuff. But then when he plays in drum,
breaking me out. Stop it.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
When he plays in drums, it did seriously looked like
it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I've seen the videos. This amazing. I don't know how
they were. Joe Wall seemed like he was one hundred
and five years old.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You wouldn't think the guy lived a rough life. You
wouldn't think the guy could dress himself. But then he
was playing life in the fast Lane, just like sounds
on the record, and it was so freaking cool. I
don't gamble so in Las Vegas and I don't gamble,
but I did gamble on the tickets hard, and it
could have been a disaster. I purchased the tickets forty
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five minutes before the first music was played, even though
he'd bought the hotel, told him about the show.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He was so excited about it. He was so thrilled
to go.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
We had to go someplace to buy hair care products
and get a new shirt because he wanted to look
good for his first concert and everything. He was just
he's so into it. Everything I didn't tell I hadn't
purchased tickets.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
What was your reason for waiting until then?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Because I didn't want to pay five thousand dollars to
have floor seats, you know, up close to the stage.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
And I watched the price go down, down, down, down down.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
As it got closer and closer to showtime. I'd been
watching it for several weeks to see how the trends
were on the tickets as it got close to showtime.
If I'd have been by myself, I would have gambled
more and waited until closer to show and saved more money.
But I saved probably. I mean, I would have never
spent this much money. I would have never ever spent
this much money. But I saved at least three thousand
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dollars by waiting until I got that close to showtime.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Wow. Yeah, And I would never spend that much money.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
But that's how much it dropped from what they were
They were asking for it like four in the afternoon
compared to eight point fifteen with the band going on
at eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
So it was it through an app and they just
give you the QR code for your tickets.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
See geeks stub Hub.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Everybody had the tickets, and you know, that's the way
things work in the modern world. I'm sure the band
is making gazillions of dollars. I didn't realize The Eagles
are the biggest money making band in US history.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Don Henley himself is worth two hundred million dollars, which
is pretty wealthy. But what's your theory for the being
so old you can't walk or talk but you can
still play musical instruments and sing. Is there something that
goes on with the brain there? I don't know. The
singing part surprises me. Oh me too, Me too.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
The fact that because I've sat in my car and
sung Eagles songs for.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
An hour and like it strains me out.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And how he did it for two hours sitting there
behind the drums was something to watch in all the
harmony parts of and he didn't bail out on anything.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I just yeah, I was amazed.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
The Eagles also, for years and years have employed like
great backup singers who are behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
That is not what's happening, I guarantee you because I
was sitting there and could watch everybody's mouths. I could
hear when they came in, when they sang seven Bridges Roads,
the six guys in front of you, that was just them,
and it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, I have no theory. That's amazing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
We've seen lots of musicians, those old people that they
can still do their thing.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I don't know. I mean, how can you not? How
are your hands shaky and everything like that, But then
you can play the piano. I've seen Elton John do it. Yeah,
it's the magic of music, jack magic.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
The at places absolutely packed, twenty two thousand people or
something like that. I don't think there was another child there, really, Yeah,
not one other child. There were people in thirties, mostly
people in like their forties and fifties, but I think
he was the only kid in the whole place. And
when I told the people at the front door that
was his first concert, they gave him a VIP badge
and a hat and all kinds of cool stuff. So
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he was absolutely thrilled.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Out of his mind. Yeah, that's great. You know, the
whole how can they pull it off? Thing? I don't
know they can.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
The why they pull it off is an intriguing question
to me. I mean, if you've already got like generational
wealth beyond dreaming about hundreds of millions of dollars, it
must because you love doing it.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Clearly is the case.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
And I wonder if that happens when you get older,
because I've seen bands that are like in their fifties
and they're like going through the motions. I wonder if
when you get older you're back to you're just loving
it again. Because they were clearly digging it hard. They
were so into their own music, and I'll bet they
weren't twenty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I think if that's the best you've ever been at
anything your entire life, it's really difficult to give that up,
especially if you don't have to. I remember hearing Paul
McCartney interviewed I guess it was sixty minutes, and he
just put out his most recent album and was really
concerned about how it was received. And the question, which
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was a good one, was, Dude, you wrote hate Jude,
I mean and Yesterday and like five hundred other amazing songs.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
What do you care?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
And his answer was essentially, well, I want people to
know I can still do it. I'm kind of insecure,
interesting insecure.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I don't know, oh about. It's just fun. What else
you got to.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Do on a Saturday night when you're almost eighty years old?
That's going to be more fun than that? Walking out
understanding people an hour and a half something like that
or two hours? Yeah, but what would be more fun
than a whole bunch of cheer people cheering your name,
singing along the words to your songs on a Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
What else are you going to be doing? I watch him.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
TV right, yeah, exactly. Shuffleboard's fun, though underrated. Pickleball A
lot of pickleball. I don't think any of those guys
could play pickleball. They are old, old af pickleball the
orthopedist's dream. By the way, they are boats being purchased
all over America thanks to pickleball.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
We do need to talk about the assassination plot the
Iranians had to take out Trump. We've got more information
over the weekend. They've arrested a couple of dudes. That
was a serious plot.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Well, and if you dip your toe in the water
to run against me, he hates you for the rest
of his life. So an assassination plot, I gotta believe
sticks in his crop. This is not a Oh that's right,
This is not a campus madness update exactly, because there's
some good stuff and some bad stuff going on in education,
which is absolutely the headwaters the well spring of the
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woke lunacy.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Education K through grad school.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I wonder having because the political pros and congress people
and you know, the leaders of the party in the
donor class or whatever, they are doing careful studies of
what lost the election, and the woke, the transgender madness,
all of that is gonna factor a.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Large absolute really I've seen in red. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So though I'm constantly going on about no, this is
not this war is not one. It's not even the
beginning of the end. It's the end of the beginning.
If the hacks who just go with what's popular so
they can maintain their power and their access to the
treasury perceive that that is dead and people aren't into it, it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Might well dry up their.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What's the right metaphor their support network, the flow of
money and energy and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I certainly hope so. But anyway, some ups and.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Downs of what's going on on college campuses right now.
Let's start with Bill Maher the other night. He's talking
to the fabulous Sarah Iger. But you can't scream about
democracy and then have a guy run the table like
this and not.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Say, well, it's a mandate, right, right or wrong?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Is it a mandate?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yes? The Harvard Institute of Politics student president came out
with an op ed today talking about how they weren't
going to forego democracy for the sake of nonpartisanship, but
the idea you're going to be pro democracy by not
giving a voice and allowing other students to hear from
speakers that belong to the party that just won through
a democratic process. Like that's where the left has a problem.
(03:05):
They become the party of the faculty lounge. They're so condescending,
they're so arrogant, and again keep the met worse. The
whole point is to be exclusionary. They're not accidentally exclusionary.
It's the mission statement.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I love that the Party of the faculty lounge. That
is accurate and withering.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I hope what you said turns out to be true.
That the money people, the power people realize all that
and uh, and that makes all the difference because I
want to wigan this issue. I don't want to just
win elections. I want to win this issue here here
one hundred percent. Yeah, and I am still on war footing.
(03:48):
I am assuming nothing but a couple of quick headlines
from around college campuses. Princeton seems to be edging toward
the cancelation of John Witherspoon, who was the President of
the Universe from seventeen sixty eight until seventeen ninety four,
he rescued Princeton from possible bankruptcy while tutoring Princeton's student
(04:11):
James Madison, as well as a number of freed slaves.
He was also a member of the Continental Congress.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So the case against the statue of Witherspoon on the
campus is that he owned slaves and opposed the immediate
abolition of slavery. This is again the seventeen sixties and seventies,
and whatever. He was concerned about their ability to thrive
if freed at once, with neither training nor property to
(04:39):
give them a start. The case in favor of Witherspoon
is he consistently supported total abolition of slavery, but gradually
he tutored freed black men at Princeton in his political life.
As eminent Princeton history professor Shawn Willins stressed at Witherspoon's
symposium a year ago, Witherspoon quot so challenged the pro
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slavery claim that abolition was unlawful the dominant view in
New Jersey politics, and he did so unequivocally as a
member of the New Jersey Assembly. Witherspoon not only upheld
that idea, the pro abolitionist idea.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
He actually acted upon it. So that's how insane these
people are.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Somebody in the seventeen sixties who said, we've got to
get rid of slavery completely, but we've got to ease
that in over time is not good enough to be
on the campus of Princeton University.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
This from the Wall Street Journal Callum Borcher's it's hard
to get a job at this financial advisor firm with
five hundred advisors. I think if you went to the
wrong college like Harvard, Yale or Princeton. The chief exec
who went to Iowa State says he worked with many
graduates of top tier colleges in previous jobs, but they
(05:58):
too often approached client's challenges like textbook case studies rather
than real world problems. Quote, if I were hiring somebody
to be my right hand person today, there's not a
chance in Hallett.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Would be an IVY League person. Wow, that's interesting, it is,
and that is a growing trend.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Then you had those judges who said we're not hiring
anybody from Columbia Law because of they're too woke and
not to labor the point. But Borcher's writes the skepticism
intensified the last year after Landmark's Supreme Court case exposed
the inner workings of elite college administrations and upended affirmative action.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Evidence presented in the case.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Revealed it, among other things, forty three percent of accepted
white students at Harvard were recruited athletes or children of alumni, donors, faculty,
or staff. Almost half were so called legacy admissions.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That's from the party that claims to hate that sort of.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Thing, right right exactly, And they absolutely get into the
woke attitudes and stuff like that, and how incredibly difficult
it is to manage those people. But want to touch
on a couple more real quickly, Oh why do you reset?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Stop it? Stop it.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
It's a great report on the University of North Carolina,
which has created a new college within the university, trying
to create a free speech culture, and it's taken off
and getting a lot of support. I'm gonna have to
come back to it because it's a blank page in
front of me.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Gosh, dang it.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I hate it when it does that. But anyway, another
quick other update, not as positive. The bright part is
reminding us that US universities are taking billions of dollars
in undisclosed foreign money, much of it from China, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia. And Qatar in articular has
(08:01):
laid billions and billions of dollars on American universities. And
they are absolutely Islamic supremacists. And there is a direct
line to be drawn between the faculty and staff of
these universities and their attitudes toward Israel and the billions
of dollars they get from the Qataris. They don't dare
piss them off. Speaking of wokism as you were.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Chris Christi was on ABC this Week yesterday and laid
out one of the main reasons he thinks the Democrats lost,
which fits in with this.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
The Democratic Party from twenty seventeen through twenty twenty four went.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Off the dbend.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
The most effective ad that the Trump campaign ran was,
you know, Kamala Harris is for they them and Donald
Trump is for us. That's because most people don't see
themselves as day them. Yet the Democrats have spent more
time talking about a trans issue. It wasn't Republicans who
brought up a transitionue. Initially it was Democrats accusing Republicans
of being insensitive in tall all right, what the.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Election had proved?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, that hadn't edited that I can explain. He was
interrupted when he said that that the Democrats kept talking
about the trans issue, and he was interrupted by the
Democrat on the staff because.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You guys kept talking about No, we were talking about it,
because you are forcing all this weirdness on the world.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So we're responding to it. As Chris Christy pointed out,
no Republican was talking about trans issues, and so he
started having guys in girls' sports, or you started putting
pronouns on everything and blasting people who didn't put pronouns
on their emails or ending their careers right right, And
remember every time you read the phrase transgender rights, understand
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that is that is bullying. The argument a man doesn't
have the right to be in the women's locker room
just because he says I'm a girl. Now, a man
doesn't have the right to play against girls and women's
in sports.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Those are not rights. No, I reject that idea at all.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't know it'll be remembered this way, but that
Trump ad was one of the most effective ads in
presidential history, if not the most effective when you had
Kamala Harris's own words up there talking about paying for
sex change operations with taxpayer money, and then Trump's tagline
of She's for they them, Trump's for you. I mean,
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that is a good freaking ad and it's all the best. Yeah,
the craziness in the direction it's about, not about the
number of people that have affected.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Because it's a tiny, tiny sliver of people.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Although the whole radical gender ideology in our schools, with
the craze of transgenderism among adolescent girls especially and some boys,
that is significant.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I heard Charlie Cook of National Reviews say the other
day that he doesn't think the left understands how crazy
that stuff sounds to most Americans. Like you're you have
like somehow convinced yourself if it's normal.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
The rest of the country is like, what like head
spinningly shocked.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
The stuff you're talking about, Like it's crazy, right, You
view it as one hundred percent assumed.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
We view it as insane.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Just yeah, like the world has gone nuts. Yeah, you're
the party of the faculty lounge. Got to that headline back.
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I don't want to rush through this stuff about the
University of North Carolina because it's so interesting and so cool.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
One of the main points of it is that.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
It is a left right, left right problem, the craziness
on the campus. But what if it isn't a left
right problem at all. What if the acrimoni and loathing
that animator politics have more to do with class than ideology,
more to do with educational status than any set of
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views on culture and policy. And they point out that
the college campuses are going crazy and everybody thinks the
same thing, or at least, you know, those who disagree
are keeping their mouth shut. But among average working Americans,
nobody behaves like that. I mean, it's practically restricted to
the college campuses or when that sort of kid takes
to the streets of Manhattan. And so they're trying to
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build an actual culture of inclusivity, not when the far
left calls it inclusive, which just means we want to
include everybody who believes what we believe.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
But they want a.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Mix of opinions and classes and cultures and the free
exchange of ideas.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And it's fantastic cool, And.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I want to talk about that a little more plus
this headline also from the Wall Street Journal. Sorry Harvard.
Everyone wants to go to college in the South now.
And they talk about how the number of applications is
plunged at the Ivy League, plunged among the kids of
the northeast population clusters of the country. And now they're
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all heading to Clemson and Georgia Tech and South Carolina, Alabama,
well Tennessee and all the colleges in the South, partly
because they'll have class and get their party on and
maybe meet somebody special and it's not going to be
all politics all the.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Time, right protests and whatnot. Also that I took my
son to his first concert. I want to talk about
that too, So stick around Armstrong Andngetti and.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I'll tell you now on the monkeys that escaped Wednesday
from a research lab in South Carolina. Officials there say
at least twenty five have been recaptured. More than a
dozen others remain on the loose. Many of them have
been spotted just over the labs fence. The monkeys are
all very young and have never been tested. Please insists
there is no threat to public health.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Okay, still got a dozen monkeys out there doing on
your face. Come on, got a.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Dozen monkeys out there doing their thing. A couple of
news items over the weekend that you might not have heard.
Katar ordered the Hamas leaders to get out of the country.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That hole you get to keep your.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Hundreds of millions of dollars you stole from the Palestinians.
Why you claim you care about them and you live
in a high rise penthouse in one of our hotels is.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Over you gotta get so it's funny. Right after Trump
got alive. That's what I wondered. That's what I wondered.
Did have anything to do with the Trump election timing
is a little suspicious.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Also, Justice sodomy Or, who lefties were pushing to step
down as a Supreme Court justice so that Biden could
appoint a progressive and Trump will get to do all
the appointment. Soda Meyer said, I ain't stepping up.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Good for her. She shouldn't because if you get if.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You if you go down that road where you know
everybody from your party steps down at the end of
every turn.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I don't know. Maybe that would be a better way
to run things. I don't know, but she ain't going to.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Still got the whole Biden pardoning is something on the table.
Still have the whole hymn resigning and letting Kamala become
the first female president thing on the table. I suppose
those things happened. I uh, I was in Vegas for
a concert, my son's first concert, which I want to
talk about coming up. But you know what was getting
a tremendous amount of attention in Las Vegas. All the
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giant billboards, I mean, it was everywhere. The Mike Tyson
fight is this Friday with that YouTube star whatever his
name is.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
What's his name, Hansen, Michael, what's his name? I think
is it Jake Paul? Yeah, yeah, Jake Paul, one of
the Paul's.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Tyson's fighting that YouTube guy and who's not a professional fighter,
but he is twenty six years old, whereas Mike pretty
close to a professional fight. Mike Tyson's fifty five. And
they're uh so it'll be It's just I'm watching. It's
on Netflix. It's not pay per view. If you have Netflix,
(16:49):
you have it. It's it's going to be there, So
I guarantee you I'm there. I was getting pretty psyched
up watching all the promotional stuff. Wow, it's really sounds
horrible to me. Why are you? Well do you think's
going to happen?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I think Mike tan an old man who used to
be really great at fighting against a young man who's
not quite as good at fighting, and see what happens.
I want to see the professional boxer Mike Tyson beat
the crap out of one of those loud mouth pain
in the ass YouTube stars who does all kinds of
abhorrent things him getting his face smashed and would be
a very enjoyable way to spend Friday night.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
In my opinion. What if it goes the other way?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Watching an old man get beat down and not near
as finn? Yeah, beat down an old by a young man?
Great again? People are sick, Katie want to be watching
Masterpiece Theater as usually.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
It's been kind of fun to watch online though, because
Jake Paul's been parading himself around in like this fake belly,
like a like a dad bod kind of a thing, gotcha?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah? Well uh yeah, getting attention is his whole thing.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Yeah, people can't, don't. I don't have any rhyme or
reason for it. They just it's been funny.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah, I ought to be taking it in just as
modern entertainment to see how it works. Never mind that
the again the horrors watching old men.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Beat down it suspected that each are going to make
between twenty and forty million.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Dollars each of them.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Any chance of some sort of three way voute, I
meant you could hit me pretty hard.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
For that Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been
other candidates in the race. Kamala I think still would
have won, but she may have been stronger having taken
her case to the public sooner.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I think people never got to know Kamala Harris during
the time she was in this campaign.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
If the goal is to win elections on Twitter, then
you should embrace movements like defund the police. But if
the goal is to win elections in the real world
where it matters, then you have to appeal to working
class people of color.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
The party itself has increasingly become a smarty pants, suburban,
college educated party.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
That was David Axelrod there at the end, and he
understands the real world of politics and the actual Democratic Party.
As long as Democrats continue to think Twitter's a real world,
it'll be good for Republicans.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I think, how would you like to have to continue
to pitch the steaming pile of bull crap. That is,
if Kamla had been able to go through the primary system,
it would have strengthened her and people would have been
more impressed with her. Her entire career belies that theory, right,
including this campaign. The more people got to know her,
(19:31):
the more they do I'll pass hard pass. Speaking of
the old Obama people like David Axelrod, a couple of
the dudes that have that podcast that's so popular, Pod Save.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
America or whatever it's called. Anyway, John Favreau's former speech
writer for President Obama who hosts Pod Save America. That
podcast with some other old Obama people said, we found
out that when the Biden campaign became the Harris campaign,
that the Biden campaign's own internal polling at that time
(20:08):
was telling him that Donald Trump was gonna win four.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Hundred electoral votes.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So at the same time that Biden was trying to
hang on and had to be pushed out at the
point of a humiliation, their internal polling showed Trump was
gonna win four hundred electoral votes. Thank you, Joe, right,
I got a neighborhoo as a thank you Joe flagging
in the front yard.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You're a sap. I don't mean to be uncharitable.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Favre said, Joe Biden's decision to run for president again
was a catastrophic mistake. They refused to acknowledge until very
late that anyone could be upset about inflation, and then
they just kept telling us that his presidency was historic
and it was the greatest economy ever.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
And why don't people understand that.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
I would love to hear was it doctor Jill behind
the scenes or had Joe just lost his mind because
the idea that after saying specifically that he was going
to be a transitional figure in a one part, one
term president, for him to decide, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Do have it. I'm going to go for it. I mean,
that is tough to explain.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Well, Favreau on that podcast with the other Obama people said,
I'm done being generous. So they're you know, being respectful
of the old man who beat Trump and we owe
him and all that sort of stuff apparently is over.
And then Nancy Pelosi did an interview with The New
York Times. You just heard a little bit of it
there the audio, and she was asked by the New
(21:32):
York Times, should there have been an open primary? And
she said, well, see, we thought that there would be.
The anticipation was that if the president were to step aside,
that there would be an open primary, and then she
said this stuff about I think Kamala would have done
well and would have been stronger going forward, but we
don't know that that didn't happen. We have to live
with what happened. And because the President endorsed Kamala Harris immediately,
(21:55):
that really made it impossible to have a primary at
the time. If it had been earlier, it would have
been different. But that's not what We're not here to agonize.
We have to organize and go forward. Blah blah blah
blah blah. But she is one I think well, first
of all, she just flat out saying he came out
and endorsed her, so it ruined any chance of having
(22:15):
an open primary. If he hadn't ha done that, we
could have had an open primary. And I think she
believes and she's not gonna say out loud and now would.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Have weeded freaking week Kamala out and we would have
had to have been saddled with her as a.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Candidate, right right, So I was gonna say, so, is
she just hedging her bets in case Kamala maintains some
sort of role in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party.
Why would eighty plus yr old Nancy Pelosi give a
crap what Kamala Harris thinks at this point?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Why doesn't she throw her under the bus?
Speaker 10 (22:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Does she just say what you just said, which is
painfully obvious.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
To like all of America.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Well, I don't think Kamala plays a role in anything anymore.
She did throw Biden under the bus very clearly, I think.
So she's putting the blame at the foot of Joe Biden,
who you know, politics is the way it is. She
came out and said is the most consequential president of
our lifetimes. And Nancy Pelosi, remember, actually said out loud
(23:16):
he should be on Mount Rushmore. But she's saying in
the interview with The New York Times basically that if
he hadn't come out and endorsed her, we could have
had a primary.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So does she get behind the scenes with like Jeffreys
and I don't know heard her her family or whatever,
and just guffaw after she says stuff like that, Joe
Biden not to be on Mount Rushmore. I mean, did
they just pack up when they get a couple of
drinks in them or what?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever
heard in the history of politics.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And that's saying something.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Like people are saying, I can't keep up with them
myself behind the scenes, and you go behind closers.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Oh my god, can you look who said that? Hi?
Find me? You bet I wouldn't know it. And I
told you I would, you owe me a hundred dollars
right exactly? Wow? Wow, what a bizarro business to be in.
No kidding, no kidding. I mean, can you imagine, I
don't know you're in the pet food business?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Say absolutely, we can get you a hundred pallets by Tuesday,
and then you don't deliver anything. You just think, ah,
I mean, what kind of business is that?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Good boy?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
But I think if we're just five days in the
election was just five days ago, if after five days
were already at Nancy Pelosi saying yeah, if he had
an endorsed her, or a favreau of the old Obama
guy saying yeah, it's a completely Biden's fault. Imagine what
people are going to be saying here in weeks, months,
years in their various memoirs.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I can't wait. It's gonna be so awesome.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
US Steel delivers one hundred steel girders. Meanwhile, at the
job site, US Steel, this is aluminum.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
It's not as steel.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I'm bending it with my hands right now. Oh no,
it's steel. It's good old fashioned steel.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Click. You can't get away with that in anywhere but politics.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You have to get very comfortable saying things that are completely,
completely obviously not true, and you have to say him
with a straight face. I'd be a rough way to
make a living. Everybody remembers their first concert, don't they.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I do? You do?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You probably do. I'll ask you about it. But my
son went to his over the weekend. I want to
talk about that. We were in Vegas and saw lots
of things in Vegas, as you always do.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Yeah, my memories are a little vague. The first two
and they're passing around the hippie lettuce. I'm afraid Jack,
really and unfortunately I got a second hand whiff of
that devil.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Sweed and no Lord, Henry and I smoked a tremendous
amount of pot at the Eagles concert stop it.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Did you see Joe Rafi?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
We're gonna ask you about that coming up as it was,
it was RAFFI, Yes, Captain Kangaroo is the opening end
stay here.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
They ended the concert with this the other night at
the Sphere in Las Vegas before they came back out
for their encore, which my ye had never experienced before
because he'd never been to a concert before, so we
didn't know the whole encore thing. So he got excited
like you do when you're at your first concert about
is it over?
Speaker 3 (26:09):
They didn't sing blank, you know, and oh no, I
got ripped off. But then they come back out and
you think it's because you're cheering that they came back out,
which is awesome. Katie. What was your first concert ever? Oh,
my first concert ever that I remember.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
I have vivid memories of end sync.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
There you go. That's a good restone. I was really
excited about. I can see that man as a younger
Michael first concert, you know, I honestly cannot remember. It's
probably some sort of classical music.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
It certainly undermines my uh presentation of everybody remembers their
first concert, but nobody knows that but none of you
guys do Joe, do you remember your first.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Concert Doobie Brothers Alpine Valley, Wisconsin, Second one Sticks Chicago
Stadium Maybe is it one of your big holes in Chicago?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Hanson, do you remember your first concert Rick Springfield?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I saw in what freaking sense at that time? He
was very hot. Sure if you're an adolescent woman. Wow, Judge, Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
My god, Judge Hansen, Hi him disappointed.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I saw the band in Chicago as my first concert
in oh I went with some band geeks, and I
don't know that was the coolest concert, but it would
blow my mind and I was I've tried to think
about why. Why was it so mind blowing? Is it
the sound? Is it the is it the fact that
you're seeing in person? I don't know exactly all.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Of the above, especially back in the day when you
would never see bands that you liked perform right unless
they happen to be on Don Kirshner's Rock Hour at
you know, midnight thirty Saturday night or something. So that
was one of the things I was singing about with
the seeing the Eagles at the Sphere, which if you're
not familiar with what it is, it's this multi multi
(28:04):
billion dollar structure that they build in Vegas. It's a great, big,
giant ball a sphere if you will. It's like an
IMAX times one hundred in terms of a screen. And
they have lots of video shows there, and then they've
had some concerts. If you remember, you too kicked the
whole thing off. And currently the Eagles are playing there,
and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
What I think about the seeing a live band and
then you're there for the whole video presentation.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That's not what drew us there.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
My son he heard the Eagles were ath the sphere
and he wanted to go. He said, it's the only
thing I want for Christmas, my birthday. You don't have
to get me anything else.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I just want to go.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's my favorite band, to see the Eagles. So that's
what we did. But I was thinking what you just said.
They if you've got to come up with a new
way to hook people into entertainment, to get off your
couch for I wonder they got to do that with
sports too, right. I wonder what it'd be like to
watch the Super Bowl the sphere if they could fit
fure out a way to do that. Just because everybody
(29:02):
says the same thing with a lot of music and
TV shows and everything like that. I got a seventy
five inch HD television with the soundbar. Why am I
leaving my.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
House in my own bathroom? Man?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So you got to prevent something pretty outstanding, like to
get you to go out and pay more money for it.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So I don't know if that's part of where the
future is headed.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Yeah, we were discussing before you went, the concept of
the band and its music being a relatively not minor
but not like the totality of the experience.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
What do you think coming away from so I?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
He and I had no interest in watching the video
show that was on there, so I got really close seats,
so we sat like right from the stage and watched
it like any concert. So it wasn't very good for
watching the video stuff. It was fantastic for watching the band,
which we both loved and I loved and they sounded
freaking fantastic, which is mind blowing to me. We got
(30:01):
this text from somebody about I saw Ozzy Osbourne and
wondered the same thing you're wondering.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Jack.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
He walks and talks like someone who's spoon fed Jello
then a switch is thrown in bam when the songs happen,
and so the members of the Eagles, the original members
that are almost eighty I mean, Don.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Henley's shoffing around, the lead singer for the Eagles, and
he's doing the old man mouth when he touched me.
The reason we're playing here is hi, this is arguably
the best sound system on playet Earth and all that
sort of stuff. But then when he plays in drum,
breaking me out. Stop it.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
When he plays in drums, it did seriously looked like
it was nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I've seen the videos. This amazing. I don't know how
they were. Joe Wall seemed like he was one hundred
and five years old.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
You wouldn't think the guy lived a rough life. You
wouldn't think the guy could dress himself. But then he
was playing life in the fast Lane, just like sounds
on the record, and it was so freaking cool. I
don't gamble so in Las Vegas and I don't gamble,
but I did gamble on the tickets hard, and it
could have been a disaster. I purchased the tickets forty
(31:05):
five minutes before the first music was played, even though
he'd bought the hotel, told him about the show.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He was so excited about it. He was so thrilled
to go.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
We had to go someplace to buy hair care products
and get a new shirt because he wanted to look
good for his first concert and everything. He was just
he's so into it. Everything I didn't tell I hadn't
purchased tickets.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
What was your reason for waiting until then?
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Because I didn't want to pay five thousand dollars to
have floor seats, you know, up close to the stage.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
And I watched the price go down, down, down, down down.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
As it got closer and closer to showtime. I'd been
watching it for several weeks to see how the trends
were on the tickets as it got close to showtime.
If I'd have been by myself, I would have gambled
more and waited until closer to show and saved more money.
But I saved probably. I mean, I would have never
spent this much money. I would have never ever spent
this much money. But I saved at least three thousand
(31:55):
dollars by waiting until I got that close to showtime.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Wow. Yeah, And I would never spend that much money.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
But that's how much it dropped from what they were
They were asking for it like four in the afternoon
compared to eight point fifteen with the band going on
at eight thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
So it was it through an app and they just
give you the QR code for your tickets.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
See geeks stub Hub.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Everybody had the tickets, and you know, that's the way
things work in the modern world. I'm sure the band
is making gazillions of dollars. I didn't realize The Eagles
are the biggest money making band in US history.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Don Henley himself is worth two hundred million dollars, which
is pretty wealthy. But what's your theory for the being
so old you can't walk or talk but you can
still play musical instruments and sing. Is there something that
goes on with the brain there? I don't know. The
singing part surprises me. Oh me too, Me too.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
The fact that because I've sat in my car and
sung Eagles songs for.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
An hour and like it strains me out.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And how he did it for two hours sitting there
behind the drums was something to watch in all the
harmony parts of and he didn't bail out on anything.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I just yeah, I was amazed.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
The Eagles also, for years and years have employed like
great backup singers who are behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
That is not what's happening, I guarantee you because I
was sitting there and could watch everybody's mouths. I could
hear when they came in, when they sang seven Bridges Roads,
the six guys in front of you, that was just them,
and it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, I have no theory. That's amazing. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
We've seen lots of musicians, those old people that they
can still do their thing.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I don't know. I mean, how can you not? How
are your hands shaky and everything like that, But then
you can play the piano. I've seen Elton John do it. Yeah,
it's the magic of music, jack magic.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
The at places absolutely packed, twenty two thousand people or
something like that. I don't think there was another child there, really, Yeah,
not one other child. There were people in thirties, mostly
people in like their forties and fifties, but I think
he was the only kid in the whole place. And
when I told the people at the front door that
was his first concert, they gave him a VIP badge
and a hat and all kinds of cool stuff. So
(34:12):
he was absolutely thrilled.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Out of his mind. Yeah, that's great. You know, the
whole how can they pull it off? Thing? I don't
know they can.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
The why they pull it off is an intriguing question
to me. I mean, if you've already got like generational
wealth beyond dreaming about hundreds of millions of dollars, it
must because you love doing it.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Clearly is the case.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
And I wonder if that happens when you get older,
because I've seen bands that are like in their fifties
and they're like going through the motions. I wonder if
when you get older you're back to you're just loving
it again. Because they were clearly digging it hard. They
were so into their own music, and I'll bet they
weren't twenty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
I think if that's the best you've ever been at
anything your entire life, it's really difficult to give that up,
especially if you don't have to. I remember hearing Paul
McCartney interviewed I guess it was sixty minutes, and he
just put out his most recent album and was really
concerned about how it was received. And the question, which
(35:14):
was a good one, was, Dude, you wrote hate Jude,
I mean and Yesterday and like five hundred other amazing songs.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
What do you care?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
And his answer was essentially, well, I want people to
know I can still do it. I'm kind of insecure,
interesting insecure.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
I don't know, oh about. It's just fun. What else
you got to.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Do on a Saturday night when you're almost eighty years old?
That's going to be more fun than that? Walking out
understanding people an hour and a half something like that
or two hours? Yeah, but what would be more fun
than a whole bunch of cheer people cheering your name,
singing along the words to your songs on a Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (35:49):
What else are you going to be doing? I watch him.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
TV right, yeah, exactly. Shuffleboard's fun, though underrated. Pickleball A
lot of pickleball. I don't think any of those guys
could play pickleball. They are old, old af pickleball the
orthopedist's dream. By the way, they are boats being purchased
all over America thanks to pickleball.
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