January 16, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Jeff Bezos' rocket launch & South Korean President arrested
- The Tiktok ban
- "Highlights" from Biden's farewell speech
- The tale of a drunk pilot
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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 arm Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by a billionaire a
Jeff Bezos, just successfully launched its first orbital rocket into space.
It was a mission to prove its new Glenn rocket
could reach orbit. Blue Origin hopes to guide the rocket's
first stage booster safely back to Earth to be refurbished
and used once again, driving down the costs for future launches.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That is awesome that the technological advances that are being
made in rocketry and all this sort of stuff coming
from private sector. The two richest guys in the world
are doing the best stuff out there, and they've got
their egos and financeel incentives to get better and better.
It's fantastic ahead of Amazon, that's right. I also, I
(01:09):
think it's just enthusiasm for it. I think exploring the
universe is an incredibly attractive proposition for these guys, and
I'm glad they're into it. Jack one report on the
Blue Origin rocket though it's going to get back in
two days, but then we'll be stolen off the launchpad
by the junkie, the reference to Amazon, and they're back
(01:29):
back to you. We aren't going to do politics really
this segment. We're going to do other news. But Joe
Biden last night. The main nut of his speech, the
important part that will be remembered, I think, is him
warning about the oligarchy of the rich that are taking
over this country and blah blah blah tech industrial complex.
You got the two richest men in the world, Jeff
Bezos and Elon Musk, doing this whole thing with the rockets,
(01:53):
which is fantastic, your billionaire on your side. His goal
was not outer space, rocket technology, anything that could benefit mankind.
It was getting Marxist DA's into big cities so crime
can runt rampant.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You write a short defeting Western defeating Western civilization and
reinstituting Marxism wherever he could.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
There's a real freaking hero, mister person that makes me
angry anyway, Oh, I can't stand it. This is not politics.
It does mention a Biden though Hunter Biden two hundred
of his art works destroyed in the fires. I don't
know if you. Oh, what a loss to the world
of ours, he says, valued under it, he says, crank
out like Tenna Day. Somebody who had two hundred of
his paintings. Oh, it's the guy who would that guy
(02:36):
who had loaned him all the money, the weird looking
guy that loaned hunder all the money. They met at
a party. Remember that whole dale paid off his taxes.
That guy's house burnt down. He lived in the Pacific Palisades,
and he had two hundred of Hunter's paintings. Again, you
bought Hunter's paintings, why just because you loved his art?
Any who?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, and he had him at praised at like half
a million each or something ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Like, yeah, millions of dollars. He says, Can you do that?
If I have a fire, can I say, oh, my
string art, my string art worth millions of dollars. I
was going to sell it, and I never got around
to it. But I was making birdhouses worth two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars each. You can try, yeah, please.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Speaking of leadership, this is getting so little attention because
of our domestic politics in the US. But South Korea
finally arrested their president, which is not gonna a thousand
police officers whoa I.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Didn't hear that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So, as we mentioned to you last week, I think
was they went to arrest the guy for his declaring
martial law and the rest of it, and of course
the president and his folks are saying this is unconstitutional.
The court was not did not have the jurisdiction, blah
blah blah. What I know about South Korean jurisprudence will not.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Take long delayout. Okay, who knows which side is right?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But so they went to arrest the guy, and he
had one hundred of security personnel and like city buses
ringing his presidential compound like in a siege, Like he
built himself a castle, and.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's like, come and get me. You never get me alive.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But they didn't fight, right right, They after hours of negotiation,
the authorities backed off.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's the key to these things throughout history, going back
as old as time Shakespeare. It's all about will your
guys fire on countrymen to protect you or not? And
sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. That's what the
book I'm reading about Paris Napoleon the Third he told
his guys, when everybody was coming after him, fire on him.
(04:40):
And they're like, nah, we ain't going to shoot a
bunch of other frenchmen. You gotta go, and he left.
That's what happened with this guy in South Korea.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So the second attempt to arrest the president unfolded differently,
unlike the rushed initial try. Special investigators spent days planning
with police.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Youw and that's the president.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
His security forces out numbered them last time, but when
just three investigators could deliver the arrest warrant, but before
dawn on Wednesday, some eleven hundred police and investigators turned up,
nearly triple the number of UN security personnel. So it's
just physical bulk, and we outnumber you, and we will
whoop up on you. No secret service bodyguards actively blocked
(05:18):
the arrest. No physical confrontations occurred. Instead, dozens of Yun's
ruling party lawmakers and officials blocked the entrance. Thousands of
protesters protested as protesters will. After about six hours, he
finally acquiesced if you're super committed to the guy, you
might take on those odds. I mean, we've seen that before,
people going down to the last to fight for their person,
(05:39):
but not in this case. They weren't like, I'm not
going to die for you, dude, well right, and they're
making the point, and it's worth mentioning. South Korea one
of our closest allies in the region, a really important
bulwark against China and totalitarianism. Perhaps you've heard of their
northern neighbor, fat head Kim Jong lun.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There is a real country.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I was going to say, they have a functioning democracy
just since the eighties, so it's still a little new
and shaky. But he you and his people slammed the
arrest warrant is lacking legal merit. They will fight it,
et cetera. Let's just hope they can. They can shake
this out because I mean, this is used that everybody.
Every time the Trump, you know, is rude to a waiter,
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everybody calls it a constitutional crisis. That in South Korea
is a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
On what an underreported crazy story that is? I know it?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, Oh, speaking of Trump, one more real quick and
then Jack, I'm sure you have more to talk about.
Did you hear Milania Trump's documentary deal with Amazon?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I did not? You give Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Beware the tech kids USh real complex. Anyway, Former and
future First Lady Milania Trump inked an eye popping forty
million dollar deal with Amazon to license a documentary on
her life, which included in the contract apparently cameos from
(07:00):
Donald J and the towering young Baron Trump. The documentary
is going to be directed by Brett Rattner, who you
might know from directing Rush Hour, among other things, set
to be released later this year, with one source close
to the agreement suggestion you could spawn multiple projects. Unlike
the Miserable Megan Markele podcast, for instance, or the Barack
(07:26):
and Michelle Obama projects. This one is thought to be
probably pretty profitable. But forty million bucks. Wow, well, else
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Speaker 1 (08:51):
Maybe I'll just tease this so I can go more
in depth later. The real id might actually become a
thing this spring. I mean, it keeps getting put off,
keeps getting put and you're gonna, you know, if I'm
not ready. This is the sort of thing I would
absolutely do have a big trip plan and get to
the airport and find out do you have your real idea.
We don't take driver's licenses anymore because that's going to
happen at some point. But more on that a little
(09:12):
bit later. The Wall Street Journal with the piece the
other day that got my attention, The bomb is back.
At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached
the consensus that the world would be better off with
fewer nuclear weapons. That era, according to the Wall Street Journal,
is now over. Treaties are collapsing, nuclear powers are strengthening
their arsenals, the risk is growing that nuclear weapons will
(09:33):
spread more widely, and the use of tactical nukes on
battlefields is no longer unimaginably and being regularly contemplated. The
latest estimate is that China has about six hundred INTERCONTINENTA
ballistic missiles and its arsenal, all of which can reach
the US mainland, and they're building more as fast as
they can. So the bomb is back. The fear of
the bomb is not back, though, for whatever reason, younger
(09:59):
people didn't grow up with this as a reality, so
there's no concern. It's concerned that this could actually happen,
It can actually happen, almost certainly will happen someday, but
who knows what. Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I had muscle memory in reading that that peace, which
I saw as well. In that, I thought, oh, sweet
God and nuclear arms race. Then I remembered, Hey, I've
spent my whole life under that to that shadow. Wait,
I remember how this goes. You go about your business,
you try to think about something else. I mean, if
(10:31):
you want to talk about it and how it's dangerous
and awful and the various ways nuclear holocaust might unfold.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's absolutely a valid discussion. The only thing you can
do is vote for people who take this seriously and
realize it could actually happen. Oh yeah, as opposed to
people who never talk about it and talk about wind
farms and crap like that. I almost dropped an S
bomb go ahead, things that aren't going to destroy mankind.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So finally, and we can expand on this later on
when we have time. I came across a piece written
by Christian Schneider which dovetailed quite beautifully in a number
of things I've seen recently, including Joe Biden's utterly life
draining speech last night which I took one for the
team and attempted to watch for a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I did not watch it. That's a first review I've
heard using the term life draining. It was.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It was seriously, yeah, I'm less alive. I will live
a shorter period of time than I would have had
I passed on the speech entirely. But we can hit
you with some quote unquote highlights of that. But the
point is, and there are signs of this everywhere. Haakim
Jeffries the other day the Republicans are trying to pass
this law that says no dudes in girls sports, no
(11:45):
dudes in women's sports, no dudes in locker rooms, okay,
which seventy percent of America agrees with strongly. Hakim Jeffries
the other day said Republicans are trying to pass the
child Predator Availability bill or child old predator. What was
the word he use, you know, a betting bill, And
everybody's like, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, I stand by my words.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So just completely out of step with America. You have
Wisconsin Democratic Chair Bed Wickler, who's currently running to lead
the Democratic National Committee. He issued a statement on x
previewing his tenure, we unite our coalition by making sure
everyone's at the table. LGBTQ minus plus of a black, Latino, Native, ethnic, interfaith, youth, disability,
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just dripping in wokism, a bunch of other examples everything,
Joe Biden saying the Democratic Party has no idea why
they lost, which is great.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
News for conservatives. Yeah, fantastic, glad to hear that. Double
down go further. Make those your lead issues. Oh yeah,
DEI is the most important thing you can do. Preach it,
Preach it all the time, and there's no such thing
as a woman or man. Keep doing it right, love it.
You get to choose more on the way, stay tuned,
Armstrong and.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yetty Well, I'm sure they're hoping for a deal of
some sort or figuring out somethings. They don't have to
shut down, but that's one of their options. And obviously
this whole thing is about leverage and negotiations and the
deal and which of the many things being floated will
be used. There's a lot of things that could happen here.
But the first thing is what the Supreme Court says,
and if they declare the ban constitutional based on national
security grounds, someone has to do something either Apple or
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Google or byte dance.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Maybe one of the I'm sorry, I just jump in.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I wish people would refer to the ban on Chinese
ownership of TikTok.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
There's a ban on TikTok. Yeah, I was about to say.
One of the reasons this thing gets complicated is people's
minds go lots of different directions. And the free speech direction,
the Chinese Communist Party spying on you, stealing information direction,
the kids wasting time on social media apps direction, or
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you know, just a whole bunch of different and they
aren't all part of the legal part, but some of
them are still very, very very important to this point.
This guy Cal Newport, who I've never read any of
his stuff. He's written a couple of books. He's an
anti social media crusader, computer science professor, got a couple
of books out, Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. Anyway, he
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detailed his experience of joining TikTok in an essay for
The New Yorker, and this is what he wrote A
decade ago. I viewed social media as Mannichan. These platforms
could distract and mislead their users, but they could also
topple dictators and enable free expression. But much of the
content on TikTok and on comparable services like Instagram, reels
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and YouTube shorts borders on nihilism. It seems to revel
in meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that
a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are
saying the quiet power out loud that there is no
deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares, and their users
seem to understand and accept this new agreement. I found
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that fascinating. There's some sort of I should ask my
kids about this. There's some sort of like unspoken or
maybe maybe set out loud agreement among young people. Yeah,
this is all about the meaninglessness of life. I get it,
They get it. We all get it. We're all we're
all participating in just this is all just a waste
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of time. We're perfectly fine with amusing ourselves to death
because it's all pointless. Is that actually what's happening?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
There is a vein of that running through society in
the West.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
There's absolutely no doubt.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It's reinforced by you know, low birth rates, people not coupling,
people keeping to themselves.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It's not a healthy trend. I'll have to think about
this today. The nihilistic angle to all this in that
it's just everything is pointless, nothing matters, So why not
sit here? Who I don't care if the Chinese are stealing,
nothing matters, Just gonna sit here and scroll through videos
until it's time to go to bed.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
If I am nineteen years old in a college dorm
and stoned, that conversation will take place, and it's okay.
But if you have a person or a generation of
people who don't grow out of that notion and don't
understand a you only get one chance at life, so
by God fill it, live a good one, live an
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interesting one. And and you know, when you're old and
you don't have enough money to eat nor medicate yourself,
you're gonna wish you hadn't sat around scrolling through TikTok.
Those are indisputable truths. And I think, are we getting
shouted down? Are we sure of that this stuff hasn't
been around long enough? We don't know that there aren't
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going to be fifty year olds perfectly happy with the
fact that they spent decades scrolling through TikTok. I would
assume if you're hungry, you'll you'll care, but because they
live in a socialist society where it doesn't matter, is
that what you're.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Handing at or yeah, yeah, you'll be, you'll be, You'll
have some place to live and have some food. I
don't know if that's true. I hope you're right, but
I'm not sure that we're not going to have people
that are, you know, decades from now, sixty and seventy,
who are fine with continuing to just scroll through videos.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, if socialism continues to grow, you're right, But I
know people right now who've done well in life and
are looking at old age, and people who have not
done well at life looking at old age, and they
have a very different future from each other.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I found that fascinating. Much of the content revels in
its meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that
a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are
saying the quiet part out loud that there is no deep,
deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares, and their users
seem to understand and accept that agreement. That is troubling.
(17:53):
Yeah it is, I get it. A lot of video well, yeah,
I don't know. I'm not bullish on humanity. We'll do
some of the highlights which are worth discussing of Joe
Biden's speech last night, because he said some crazys they do.
Highlights are strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I want to warrn a country some things that give
me a great concern. This is a dangerous concert, and
that's a dangerous conversation of power in the hands of
very few, ultrawealthy people, the dangerous consequences if their abusive
power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape
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in America of extreme wealth, power and influence. That literally
threads our entire democracy are basic rights and freedoms and
a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, man, I don't feel like I'm threatened by an
oligarchy of the private right. It's one thing know how
to manage that. It's one thing for MSNBC to act
like it's a big problem that Elon Musk is at
mar A Lago so much, But for the sitting President
of the United States to go on TV in his
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final address and act like this is a major threat.
We're living under an oligarchy where people can't get ahead anymore.
First of all, how did you combine those two things.
So because the Elon Musk's at mar A Lago, and
once the cut the size of government, people can no
longer become wealthy. And on what are you even talking about?
I know, it was just bizarre.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I watched a fair amount of the speech last night
with my jaw agape, not from sinility, but from being astounded.
Yet that was a complete disconnect. And obviously the hypocrisy
is almost hilarious. The tech leaders they could not put
in their pockets during the Biden years. They browbeat into
censoring free speech for them to make sure they could
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subjugate the American people into utterly ridiculous and scientifically unsupportable
COVID measures. So, yeah, tech guys can be harnessed for evil.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
We noticed, yeah, on the heels of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan
interview in which he said Biden people were screaming at
him when he attempted to put up facts about side
effects from the vaccine screamed up by the Biden administration.
So you are giving us a lecture about oligarchs and
social media and that sort of thing. Also, britt Beher
(20:24):
pointing out last night the Democrats raised and spent two
to one dollars on this presidential election two to one
over the republicantic get dark money out of politics? What again?
What are you talking about? You know, as this is.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
His valedictories on the way out. If I thought Joe
Biden had any beliefs, I could believe that maybe he
was like, yeah, we need to get the Democrat money
out of politics too.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But I don't think he has any actual beliefs.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So I'm just not interested. And so I guess we're
running some of the notable moment. And I refuse to
use the term highlights from the speech just as a
measure of how inept and out of touch Biden and
company are. I don't think any of this is very significant. Honestly,
it's just struck me as sad and pathetic.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It would have been twenty years ago, as I said earlier,
I think a president coming out and saying, look, we're
close to an oligarchy would have been holy crap, this
needs a national discussion. But now we're into the era
of people just say crap all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Though, yeah, yeah, I should have taken a picture a photograph.
I saw a graph on I think it was a
special report with Brett beer last night may not have
been about the approval ratings that Biden is leaving office with,
and they are south of every single president from the
polling era except Dick Nixon, and not by much. Nixon.
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Does Nixon beat Biden to the bottom and give it
to he is vastly less popular than the guy right
ahead of him that I think may have been George H. W.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Bush. And as I said last week, I think because
some people's numbers go up, Harry Truman left with low
numbers and has gone up throughout history. I think Biden's
going to go down in retro. I would agree.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, Yeah, If you're a fan of a horse crap,
you'll enjoy the next clip thirty one Michael.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
I'm meekly concerned about the potential rise of a tech
industrial complex. I could pose real dangers for our country
as well. Americans are being buried under an avalanche of
misinformation and disinformation, enabling an abuse the power. The free
press is crumbling. There's a disappearance social media is giving
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up on fact checking. The truth is smothered by lies
told for power and for profit. We must hold the
social platform and accountable to protect our children.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
This drives families. I know, I know it made me saying,
how do you have the ancient shriveled testicles to say
that on national television? Oh? I know, I would. I'd
like to know what he knows and what he doesn't
at his age. I mean, the combination of being bubbled
the way you are as a president and the fact
that he's dementia ridden. Does he for instance, his polsters
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would not tell him what his polls look like, which
is a shocking example of cocooning old Grandpa. Yeah, the
reason he was going wrong claiming he was winning is
because that's what people were telling him. Why wouldn't he
think that? Does he know that Zuckerberg spilled the beans
on Friday and said the Biden administration was screaming at
us when we had tried to print anything that went
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against their narrative. So now Joe Biden's gonna come on
TV a couple of nights later and warn us about
social media and its ills and how it could mislead
people in misinformation. Are you kidding me? You wouldn't allow
actual facts to come out if they didn't match up
with your version of the truth. You're talking about them
trying to grab power. I mean that to do that,
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But again I don't think he knows what he's doing.
I don't think he knows any of this. Either he
doesn't know or he doesn't know that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We know that ninety eight percent of fact checking is
simply expressing an opinion, and the last thing it is
is fact checking.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
For instance, and.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
The guy who brought us the hunter Biden's laptop is
Russian disinformation and a hundred other lie.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, I'm not going to pardon the boy. Among other things.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The idea that you would stand up as some sort
of Jesus of accurate, truthful information and guide us to
the promised Land is well, it's not even funny, it's
just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Your administration called it that time, the biggest social media
influencer in the world and screamed at them when they
checked fact if you didn't like the fact, and then
last night on TV you said they're giving up on
fact checking. I don't even I don't even where you
go with this conversation.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, it was slurry, was mumbly, it was full of
hypocrisy fiction and also, and this kind of pleased me
in a perverse way, full of repeating affection for the
very policies and beliefs that got the Democrats whacked at
the polls. Not hard enough in my opinion, but just
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another example of Biden, Harrison company have no idea why
they lost.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't know if this clip includes the thing I'm
mostly going to rant about, but it's a good ending.
Here's how Joe Biden ended in something he said towards
the end that just drove me nuts.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Thirty four, Michael, after fifty years of public service, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I gave you my word.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I still believe in the idea for which the nicest
stands nation were. The strands of institutions and the character
of our people matter and must endure. Now it's your
turn to stanguard. May you all be the keeper of
the flame. May you keep the face I love America?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You love it too.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
God bless you all, make God protect her to Sawty.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Thank you for this great honor. I thought it was
a little over the top for him to say, now
it's your turn to stand guard. As he has been
the brave man out there keeping America going this last
half century, and now that he's stepping down, he's laying
the challenge on us to pick up the mantle of
the freedom and democracy and all that is good and
right and honest and march forward. But Joe's heard this
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rent a thousand times. It drives me nuts when these
guys brag about their life dedicated to public service. Dude,
you have four houses, you spend most of your time
living on the beach, You have expensive cars, You and
your whole family are gazillionaires. Don't talk to me about
public service. Give me a world in which you didn't
(26:49):
get into public service, where you would have and your
family would have ended up as wealthy as you did.
Give me a break public service of LLC's laundering your money.
Oh my god, after fifty years of public me serving
the public, That's what I was doing. I wasn't becoming
ungodly rich and leaving a living a life people can
(27:11):
only dream of me and my entire extended family. Can
you gotta be kidding? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, I can't fault the guy for taking a shot
at some sort of eloquence that somebody might write down
on his way out. I mean, because he's leaving office
in days and the earth within months. Judging by the Lugger,
this mortal coil soon oh yeah, yeah, But the idea
that the guy who called very minor post COVID electoral
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reform in Georgia, Jim Crow on steroids, would lecture me
on how much he loves America and how it's my
turn to stand guard. He's not even worth anger. It's
just pathetic.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Go away. I have a niece who is a actually
in public service. She's working, she's actually got a high
paying job now, but she did quite a few years
with a high degree from a high college and very talented,
no pay, no glory, helping homeless people sort of think
that's public service. There are lots of people that do that.
Lots of you do that. That is, you decided you'd
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rather try to help mankind than go after money. That's
not what Joe Biden did. Okay, look at his homes.
Look at him laying there on the beach with his
eyes closed in front of one of his many homes,
and the way his son traveled around the world and
got rich public service. Give me a freaking break. Yeah,
that is what hilarious? How do you say that? Given
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I would think he'd have more self awareness than that.
Everybody knows how rich I am now and how rich
my son is and the lifestyle we've got in the
LL season. My brother got wealthy. I mean, good lord,
I probably better leave out the whole public service thing.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, you've got to remind yourself, though, the percentage of
Americans who've never heard on honest accounting of all of
those things you mentioned because of where they get their news.
You mentioned that on NPR and the mainstream media, the
only critical notes sounded about the hostage deal that Israel
and Homastus reached, which will soon fall apart, by the way,
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the only notes of skepticism or criticism, or that Benjamin Yahoo,
the war criminal monster, resisted it for so long and
is such a bad guy. I mean, if you took
in those news sources, you would think you were well informed,
but you'd be sadly, sadly misinformed, which again gets back
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to Joe Biden worrying about misinformation and its unholy cousin disinformation.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Please, social media companies are gonna stop fact checking. We
needn't hold them accountable. Oh my god, you threatened Mark
Zuckerberg to ruin his business if he didn't print exactly
what you wanted. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Don't let anybody say there might be side effects to
the vaccines. Don't let anybody suggest our active duty troops
don't need the shot. Ban them from your platform, or
we will punish you severely. We will make your life hell.
But misinformation and disinformation shouldn't be allowed.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh my, they've abandon fact checking. Well, he's a scene
eye old man. Yes he is.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yes, he's allegedly Kamala Harris's butt hurt that he's going
around saying that he could have beaten Trump because she
finds it hurtful in a suggestion that she is somehow
lesser than him. I just hope they can mend those
fences before he goes to the Great White House in
the sky.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And the biggest story yet to be written. And maybe
they you've been predicting that maybe the noon on Monday,
people start getting book deals and that sort of thing.
I can't wait. How bad he was he behind the scenes,
How many new people knew for how long? How many
people were slapping their heads thinking, Oh my god, I
can't believe this guy's running agin Oh my god, I
can't believe this guy thinks he's gonna be president again.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, I'm sure the details are going to be really
interesting and incredibly troubling. But I don't need much more
than and this has been established.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I mean, just like not even disputed.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
His polsters were not allowed to tell him what the
polls said by his inner circle, his inner circle to say.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Don't give him any bad news. I mean, that is bizarre.
It's pretty weird. They wanted to keep their jobs because
if he wins, they stay employed. That's the problem you
have with administrations because if they lose, you're out of work.
You're you're out of work. You have to tell your family. Well,
I guess I'm gonna put out some resumes. We might
be moving soon. Yeah, So I guess that's what you do.
It's not very patriotic. You have any thoughts on any
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of this? Text line four one five two nine five
KFTC Armstrong ANDETI.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
The Southwest Airlines pilot was pulled from the flight deck
of a commercial flight and jailed for driving under the influence.
David Alsup allegedly smelled of alcohol when police in Savannah,
Georgia removed him from the plane shortly before scheduled take
off at six h five a m. Southwest says the
pilot has been removed from duty.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Why so he actually was in the cockpit when they
arrested him. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's interesting that Nora O'Donnell there said that he was
arrested for drunken driving just because obviously he'd driven, I
guess to the or just sitting behind the wheel of
the jet, which was the drunken driving getting to the
air corner, sitting there canause most of those guys taken over.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Unless that's his home on base, I don't know. That
doesn't matter. I suppose the fact that he was drunk
sitting in the cockpit about the pilot the plane at
six oh five am. Right, that's drunk from the night before.
That's what that right?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Right, unless he was, you know, just sober and still
you know, had it the smell coming out of his skin.
Guy has not been convicted yet, I need to point
that out.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, there was there anything there about a blood breathweiser.
They didn't mention anything about and this or that he
smelled of booze and was arrested. Yeah, so I don't
know what his blood alcohol was. You can you can
smell booze the next day and not be drunk, I
think sure. I think so. If you're yeah, well it depends.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I know the threshold for flying a passenger jet full
of innocent human beings A couple.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It ain't you're allowed to have on a couple of martine. No, No,
I think point oh one in your career is over. Yeah,
I have a drinker too. I mean, you're flying this
big plane. It's nerve wrecking.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It's like when I did that uh drunk driving education
thing with the California Highway Patrol after a couple of drinks.
I was.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
That was when my scoes peaked. That's when I was
at my best. I have a friend who's a private
pilot man. They do not mess around you. There's all
kinds of things you can do and never fly again,
all kinds of things, all kinds of minor health things
you can have happen to you. Certainly, this drinking thing,
you're done. It's not like your your career is over oof,
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But I'm about the passengers. That's gonna be something you
find out what he was. We were like minutes away
from a grillade. Why minutes away from a drunk guy
flyings around. I saw civic of hears. Anyway, I just
approcab it where we're going? Just if play flies as
Sofia Bushi is this is your pilot. We're supposed to
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be going to Tulsa. Who wants to go to Tulsa?
I got out of Gas. Let's go to Vegas. Who
wants to go to Vegas? Come on, let's go to Vegas.
Past Tulsa. Yolo you live once, Let's go to Vegas.
Nobody wants to go to Tulsa. Come on, I got
I know a good place. I hate poor rank.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
If you could like get out of the way of
the bathroom, I gotta beee.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I know somebody, and I've always wondered about this, or
maybe I've heard stories. I know somebody who just two
weeks ago partied with some stewardesses were doing a layover
and said, holy crap, did they party hard? Like like
it was just shocking, like I couldn't keep up party hard.
And these were women that were like between forty and
forty five and sixty. It's not like they were twenty somethings.
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They just partied hard, like crazy hard. I guess that's
what you do. Of course they're not flying the plane,
but just as a lifestyle always out of town. I
don't know, not for me.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
If God forbid, Judy ever leaves me, I am going
to take to hang around airport hotels and just where
the horny drunk flight crews are.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's an interesting backup plan if the worst should happen.
We're a good book, certainly, and my backup plan if
the worst should happen is to hang around hotel bars
and hope to get some from a drunk stewardess. Wow,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Good We got a better plan, mister perfect Eh, thank god?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
What are we doing next hour? We got to check
in on the fire situation. There's some more governmental kickings
to come.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Oh goodness, sakes, and what happens if you have a
mortgage and your house burns down. I don't know, actually
times thousands and thousands and thousands.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It ain't good. Oh boy, what a mess that would be.
I guess he doesn't like paperwork, I can imagine. And
we're gonna be sorting through this for years and years.
Oh yeah, And I'm sure you have to fight for
everything that you're owed, let alone the other stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by a billionaire a
Jeff Bezos, just successfully launched its first orbital rocket into space.
It was a mission to prove its new Glenn rocket
could reach orbit. Blue Origin hopes to guide the rocket's
first stage booster safely back to Earth to be refurbished
and used once again, driving down the costs for future launches.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That is awesome that the technological advances that are being
made in rocketry and all this sort of stuff coming
from private sector. The two richest guys in the world
are doing the best stuff out there, and they've got
their egos and financeel incentives to get better and better.
It's fantastic ahead of Amazon, that's right. I also, I
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think it's just enthusiasm for it. I think exploring the
universe is an incredibly attractive proposition for these guys, and
I'm glad they're into it. Jack one report on the
Blue Origin rocket though it's going to get back in
two days, but then we'll be stolen off the launchpad
by the junkie, the reference to Amazon, and they're back
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back to you. We aren't going to do politics really
this segment. We're going to do other news. But Joe
Biden last night. The main nut of his speech, the
important part that will be remembered, I think, is him
warning about the oligarchy of the rich that are taking
over this country and blah blah blah tech industrial complex.
You got the two richest men in the world, Jeff
Bezos and Elon Musk, doing this whole thing with the rockets,
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which is fantastic, your billionaire on your side. His goal
was not outer space, rocket technology, anything that could benefit mankind.
It was getting Marxist DA's into big cities so crime
can runt rampant.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You write a short defeting Western defeating Western civilization and
reinstituting Marxism wherever he could.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
There's a real freaking hero, mister person that makes me
angry anyway, Oh, I can't stand it. This is not politics.
It does mention a Biden though Hunter Biden two hundred
of his art works destroyed in the fires. I don't
know if you. Oh, what a loss to the world
of ours, he says, valued under it, he says, crank
out like Tenna Day. Somebody who had two hundred of
his paintings. Oh, it's the guy who would that guy
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who had loaned him all the money, the weird looking
guy that loaned hunder all the money. They met at
a party. Remember that whole dale paid off his taxes.
That guy's house burnt down. He lived in the Pacific Palisades,
and he had two hundred of Hunter's paintings. Again, you
bought Hunter's paintings, why just because you loved his art?
Any who?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, and he had him at praised at like half
a million each or something ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Like, yeah, millions of dollars. He says, Can you do that?
If I have a fire, can I say, oh, my
string art, my string art worth millions of dollars. I
was going to sell it, and I never got around
to it. But I was making birdhouses worth two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars each. You can try, yeah, please.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Speaking of leadership, this is getting so little attention because
of our domestic politics in the US. But South Korea
finally arrested their president, which is not gonna a thousand
police officers whoa I.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Didn't hear that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So, as we mentioned to you last week, I think
was they went to arrest the guy for his declaring
martial law and the rest of it, and of course
the president and his folks are saying this is unconstitutional.
The court was not did not have the jurisdiction, blah
blah blah. What I know about South Korean jurisprudence will not.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Take long delayout. Okay, who knows which side is right?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
But so they went to arrest the guy, and he
had one hundred of security personnel and like city buses
ringing his presidential compound like in a siege, Like he
built himself a castle, and.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
He's like, come and get me. You never get me alive.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But they didn't fight, right right, They after hours of negotiation,
the authorities backed off.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's the key to these things throughout history, going back
as old as time Shakespeare. It's all about will your
guys fire on countrymen to protect you or not? And
sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. That's what the
book I'm reading about Paris Napoleon the Third he told
his guys, when everybody was coming after him, fire on him.
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And they're like, nah, we ain't going to shoot a
bunch of other frenchmen. You gotta go, and he left.
That's what happened with this guy in South Korea.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So the second attempt to arrest the president unfolded differently,
unlike the rushed initial try. Special investigators spent days planning
with police.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Youw and that's the president.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
His security forces out numbered them last time, but when
just three investigators could deliver the arrest warrant, but before
dawn on Wednesday, some eleven hundred police and investigators turned up,
nearly triple the number of UN security personnel. So it's
just physical bulk, and we outnumber you, and we will
whoop up on you. No secret service bodyguards actively blocked
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the arrest. No physical confrontations occurred. Instead, dozens of Yun's
ruling party lawmakers and officials blocked the entrance. Thousands of
protesters protested as protesters will. After about six hours, he
finally acquiesced if you're super committed to the guy, you
might take on those odds. I mean, we've seen that before,
people going down to the last to fight for their person,
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but not in this case. They weren't like, I'm not
going to die for you, dude, well right, and they're
making the point, and it's worth mentioning. South Korea one
of our closest allies in the region, a really important
bulwark against China and totalitarianism. Perhaps you've heard of their
northern neighbor, fat head Kim Jong lun.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
There is a real country.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I was going to say, they have a functioning democracy
just since the eighties, so it's still a little new
and shaky. But he you and his people slammed the
arrest warrant is lacking legal merit. They will fight it,
et cetera. Let's just hope they can. They can shake
this out because I mean, this is used that everybody.
Every time the Trump, you know, is rude to a waiter,
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everybody calls it a constitutional crisis. That in South Korea
is a constitutional crisis.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
On what an underreported crazy story that is? I know it?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, Oh, speaking of Trump, one more real quick and
then Jack, I'm sure you have more to talk about.
Did you hear Milania Trump's documentary deal with Amazon?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I did not? You give Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Beware the tech kids USh real complex. Anyway, Former and
future First Lady Milania Trump inked an eye popping forty
million dollar deal with Amazon to license a documentary on
her life, which included in the contract apparently cameos from
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Donald J and the towering young Baron Trump. The documentary
is going to be directed by Brett Rattner, who you
might know from directing Rush Hour, among other things, set
to be released later this year, with one source close
to the agreement suggestion you could spawn multiple projects. Unlike
the Miserable Megan Markele podcast, for instance, or the Barack
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and Michelle Obama projects. This one is thought to be
probably pretty profitable. But forty million bucks. Wow, well, else
you need.
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Speaker 1 (08:51):
Maybe I'll just tease this so I can go more
in depth later. The real id might actually become a
thing this spring. I mean, it keeps getting put off,
keeps getting put and you're gonna, you know, if I'm
not ready. This is the sort of thing I would
absolutely do have a big trip plan and get to
the airport and find out do you have your real idea.
We don't take driver's licenses anymore because that's going to
happen at some point. But more on that a little
(09:12):
bit later. The Wall Street Journal with the piece the
other day that got my attention, The bomb is back.
At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached
the consensus that the world would be better off with
fewer nuclear weapons. That era, according to the Wall Street Journal,
is now over. Treaties are collapsing, nuclear powers are strengthening
their arsenals, the risk is growing that nuclear weapons will
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spread more widely, and the use of tactical nukes on
battlefields is no longer unimaginably and being regularly contemplated. The
latest estimate is that China has about six hundred INTERCONTINENTA
ballistic missiles and its arsenal, all of which can reach
the US mainland, and they're building more as fast as
they can. So the bomb is back. The fear of
the bomb is not back, though, for whatever reason, younger
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people didn't grow up with this as a reality, so
there's no concern. It's concerned that this could actually happen,
It can actually happen, almost certainly will happen someday, but
who knows what. Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I had muscle memory in reading that that peace, which
I saw as well. In that, I thought, oh, sweet
God and nuclear arms race. Then I remembered, Hey, I've
spent my whole life under that to that shadow. Wait,
I remember how this goes. You go about your business,
you try to think about something else. I mean, if
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you want to talk about it and how it's dangerous
and awful and the various ways nuclear holocaust might unfold.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's absolutely a valid discussion. The only thing you can
do is vote for people who take this seriously and
realize it could actually happen. Oh yeah, as opposed to
people who never talk about it and talk about wind
farms and crap like that. I almost dropped an S
bomb go ahead, things that aren't going to destroy mankind.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So finally, and we can expand on this later on
when we have time. I came across a piece written
by Christian Schneider which dovetailed quite beautifully in a number
of things I've seen recently, including Joe Biden's utterly life
draining speech last night which I took one for the
team and attempted to watch for a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I did not watch it. That's a first review I've
heard using the term life draining. It was.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
It was seriously, yeah, I'm less alive. I will live
a shorter period of time than I would have had
I passed on the speech entirely. But we can hit
you with some quote unquote highlights of that. But the
point is, and there are signs of this everywhere. Haakim
Jeffries the other day the Republicans are trying to pass
this law that says no dudes in girls sports, no
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dudes in women's sports, no dudes in locker rooms, okay,
which seventy percent of America agrees with strongly. Hakim Jeffries
the other day said Republicans are trying to pass the
child Predator Availability bill or child old predator. What was
the word he use, you know, a betting bill, And
everybody's like, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, I stand by my words.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So just completely out of step with America. You have
Wisconsin Democratic Chair Bed Wickler, who's currently running to lead
the Democratic National Committee. He issued a statement on x
previewing his tenure, we unite our coalition by making sure
everyone's at the table. LGBTQ minus plus of a black, Latino, Native, ethnic, interfaith, youth, disability,
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just dripping in wokism, a bunch of other examples everything,
Joe Biden saying the Democratic Party has no idea why
they lost, which is great.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
News for conservatives. Yeah, fantastic, glad to hear that. Double
down go further. Make those your lead issues. Oh yeah,
DEI is the most important thing you can do. Preach it,
Preach it all the time, and there's no such thing
as a woman or man. Keep doing it right, love it.
You get to choose more on the way, stay tuned,
Armstrong and.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yetty Well, I'm sure they're hoping for a deal of
some sort or figuring out somethings. They don't have to
shut down, but that's one of their options. And obviously
this whole thing is about leverage and negotiations and the
deal and which of the many things being floated will
be used. There's a lot of things that could happen here.
But the first thing is what the Supreme Court says,
and if they declare the ban constitutional based on national
security grounds, someone has to do something either Apple or
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Google or byte dance.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Maybe one of the I'm sorry, I just jump in.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I wish people would refer to the ban on Chinese
ownership of TikTok.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
There's a ban on TikTok. Yeah, I was about to say.
One of the reasons this thing gets complicated is people's
minds go lots of different directions. And the free speech direction,
the Chinese Communist Party spying on you, stealing information direction,
the kids wasting time on social media apps direction, or
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you know, just a whole bunch of different and they
aren't all part of the legal part, but some of
them are still very, very very important to this point.
This guy Cal Newport, who I've never read any of
his stuff. He's written a couple of books. He's an
anti social media crusader, computer science professor, got a couple
of books out, Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. Anyway, he
(14:20):
detailed his experience of joining TikTok in an essay for
The New Yorker, and this is what he wrote A
decade ago. I viewed social media as Mannichan. These platforms
could distract and mislead their users, but they could also
topple dictators and enable free expression. But much of the
content on TikTok and on comparable services like Instagram, reels
(14:41):
and YouTube shorts borders on nihilism. It seems to revel
in meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that
a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are
saying the quiet power out loud that there is no
deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares, and their users
seem to understand and accept this new agreement. I found
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that fascinating. There's some sort of I should ask my
kids about this. There's some sort of like unspoken or
maybe maybe set out loud agreement among young people. Yeah,
this is all about the meaninglessness of life. I get it,
They get it. We all get it. We're all we're
all participating in just this is all just a waste
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of time. We're perfectly fine with amusing ourselves to death
because it's all pointless. Is that actually what's happening?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
There is a vein of that running through society in
the West.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
There's absolutely no doubt.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It's reinforced by you know, low birth rates, people not coupling,
people keeping to themselves.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
It's not a healthy trend. I'll have to think about
this today. The nihilistic angle to all this in that
it's just everything is pointless, nothing matters, So why not
sit here? Who I don't care if the Chinese are stealing,
nothing matters, Just gonna sit here and scroll through videos
until it's time to go to bed.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
If I am nineteen years old in a college dorm
and stoned, that conversation will take place, and it's okay.
But if you have a person or a generation of
people who don't grow out of that notion and don't
understand a you only get one chance at life, so
by God fill it, live a good one, live an
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interesting one. And and you know, when you're old and
you don't have enough money to eat nor medicate yourself,
you're gonna wish you hadn't sat around scrolling through TikTok.
Those are indisputable truths. And I think, are we getting
shouted down? Are we sure of that this stuff hasn't
been around long enough? We don't know that there aren't
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going to be fifty year olds perfectly happy with the
fact that they spent decades scrolling through TikTok. I would
assume if you're hungry, you'll you'll care, but because they
live in a socialist society where it doesn't matter, is
that what you're.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Handing at or yeah, yeah, you'll be, you'll be, You'll
have some place to live and have some food. I
don't know if that's true. I hope you're right, but
I'm not sure that we're not going to have people
that are, you know, decades from now, sixty and seventy,
who are fine with continuing to just scroll through videos.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, if socialism continues to grow, you're right, But I
know people right now who've done well in life and
are looking at old age, and people who have not
done well at life looking at old age, and they
have a very different future from each other.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I found that fascinating. Much of the content revels in
its meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that
a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are
saying the quiet part out loud that there is no deep,
deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares, and their users
seem to understand and accept that agreement. That is troubling.
(17:53):
Yeah it is, I get it. A lot of video well, yeah,
I don't know. I'm not bullish on humanity. We'll do
some of the highlights which are worth discussing of Joe
Biden's speech last night, because he said some crazys they do.
Highlights are strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I want to warrn a country some things that give
me a great concern. This is a dangerous concert, and
that's a dangerous conversation of power in the hands of
very few, ultrawealthy people, the dangerous consequences if their abusive
power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape
(18:36):
in America of extreme wealth, power and influence. That literally
threads our entire democracy are basic rights and freedoms and
a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay, man, I don't feel like I'm threatened by an
oligarchy of the private right. It's one thing know how
to manage that. It's one thing for MSNBC to act
like it's a big problem that Elon Musk is at
mar A Lago so much, But for the sitting President
of the United States to go on TV in his
(19:11):
final address and act like this is a major threat.
We're living under an oligarchy where people can't get ahead anymore.
First of all, how did you combine those two things.
So because the Elon Musk's at mar A Lago, and
once the cut the size of government, people can no
longer become wealthy. And on what are you even talking about?
I know, it was just bizarre.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I watched a fair amount of the speech last night
with my jaw agape, not from sinility, but from being astounded.
Yet that was a complete disconnect. And obviously the hypocrisy
is almost hilarious. The tech leaders they could not put
in their pockets during the Biden years. They browbeat into
censoring free speech for them to make sure they could
(19:53):
subjugate the American people into utterly ridiculous and scientifically unsupportable
COVID measures. So, yeah, tech guys can be harnessed for evil.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
We noticed, yeah, on the heels of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan
interview in which he said Biden people were screaming at
him when he attempted to put up facts about side
effects from the vaccine screamed up by the Biden administration.
So you are giving us a lecture about oligarchs and
social media and that sort of thing. Also, britt Beher
(20:24):
pointing out last night the Democrats raised and spent two
to one dollars on this presidential election two to one
over the republicantic get dark money out of politics? What again?
What are you talking about? You know, as this is.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
His valedictories on the way out. If I thought Joe
Biden had any beliefs, I could believe that maybe he
was like, yeah, we need to get the Democrat money
out of politics too.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
But I don't think he has any actual beliefs.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So I'm just not interested. And so I guess we're
running some of the notable moment. And I refuse to
use the term highlights from the speech just as a
measure of how inept and out of touch Biden and
company are. I don't think any of this is very significant. Honestly,
it's just struck me as sad and pathetic.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
It would have been twenty years ago, as I said earlier,
I think a president coming out and saying, look, we're
close to an oligarchy would have been holy crap, this
needs a national discussion. But now we're into the era
of people just say crap all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Though, yeah, yeah, I should have taken a picture a photograph.
I saw a graph on I think it was a
special report with Brett beer last night may not have
been about the approval ratings that Biden is leaving office with,
and they are south of every single president from the
polling era except Dick Nixon, and not by much. Nixon.
(21:50):
Does Nixon beat Biden to the bottom and give it
to he is vastly less popular than the guy right
ahead of him that I think may have been George H. W.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Bush. And as I said last week, I think because
some people's numbers go up, Harry Truman left with low
numbers and has gone up throughout history. I think Biden's
going to go down in retro. I would agree.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, Yeah, If you're a fan of a horse crap,
you'll enjoy the next clip thirty one Michael.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
I'm meekly concerned about the potential rise of a tech
industrial complex. I could pose real dangers for our country
as well. Americans are being buried under an avalanche of
misinformation and disinformation, enabling an abuse the power. The free
press is crumbling. There's a disappearance social media is giving
(22:44):
up on fact checking. The truth is smothered by lies
told for power and for profit. We must hold the
social platform and accountable to protect our children.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
This drives families. I know, I know it made me saying,
how do you have the ancient shriveled testicles to say
that on national television? Oh? I know, I would. I'd
like to know what he knows and what he doesn't
at his age. I mean, the combination of being bubbled
the way you are as a president and the fact
that he's dementia ridden. Does he for instance, his polsters
(23:18):
would not tell him what his polls look like, which
is a shocking example of cocooning old Grandpa. Yeah, the
reason he was going wrong claiming he was winning is
because that's what people were telling him. Why wouldn't he
think that? Does he know that Zuckerberg spilled the beans
on Friday and said the Biden administration was screaming at
us when we had tried to print anything that went
(23:38):
against their narrative. So now Joe Biden's gonna come on
TV a couple of nights later and warn us about
social media and its ills and how it could mislead
people in misinformation. Are you kidding me? You wouldn't allow
actual facts to come out if they didn't match up
with your version of the truth. You're talking about them
trying to grab power. I mean that to do that,
(24:00):
But again I don't think he knows what he's doing.
I don't think he knows any of this. Either he
doesn't know or he doesn't know that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We know that ninety eight percent of fact checking is
simply expressing an opinion, and the last thing it is
is fact checking.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
For instance, and.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
The guy who brought us the hunter Biden's laptop is
Russian disinformation and a hundred other lie.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, I'm not going to pardon the boy. Among other things.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The idea that you would stand up as some sort
of Jesus of accurate, truthful information and guide us to
the promised Land is well, it's not even funny, it's
just disgusting.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Your administration called it that time, the biggest social media
influencer in the world and screamed at them when they
checked fact if you didn't like the fact, and then
last night on TV you said they're giving up on
fact checking. I don't even I don't even where you
go with this conversation.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, it was slurry, was mumbly, it was full of
hypocrisy fiction and also, and this kind of pleased me
in a perverse way, full of repeating affection for the
very policies and beliefs that got the Democrats whacked at
the polls. Not hard enough in my opinion, but just
(25:20):
another example of Biden, Harrison company have no idea why
they lost.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I don't know if this clip includes the thing I'm
mostly going to rant about, but it's a good ending.
Here's how Joe Biden ended in something he said towards
the end that just drove me nuts.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Thirty four, Michael, after fifty years of public service, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I gave you my word.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I still believe in the idea for which the nicest
stands nation were. The strands of institutions and the character
of our people matter and must endure. Now it's your
turn to stanguard. May you all be the keeper of
the flame. May you keep the face I love America?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
You love it too.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
God bless you all, make God protect her to Sawty.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Thank you for this great honor. I thought it was
a little over the top for him to say, now
it's your turn to stand guard. As he has been
the brave man out there keeping America going this last
half century, and now that he's stepping down, he's laying
the challenge on us to pick up the mantle of
the freedom and democracy and all that is good and
right and honest and march forward. But Joe's heard this
(26:29):
rent a thousand times. It drives me nuts when these
guys brag about their life dedicated to public service. Dude,
you have four houses, you spend most of your time
living on the beach, You have expensive cars, You and
your whole family are gazillionaires. Don't talk to me about
public service. Give me a world in which you didn't
(26:49):
get into public service, where you would have and your
family would have ended up as wealthy as you did.
Give me a break public service of LLC's laundering your money.
Oh my god, after fifty years of public me serving
the public, That's what I was doing. I wasn't becoming
ungodly rich and leaving a living a life people can
(27:11):
only dream of me and my entire extended family. Can
you gotta be kidding? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, I can't fault the guy for taking a shot
at some sort of eloquence that somebody might write down
on his way out. I mean, because he's leaving office
in days and the earth within months. Judging by the Lugger,
this mortal coil soon oh yeah, yeah, But the idea
that the guy who called very minor post COVID electoral
(27:45):
reform in Georgia, Jim Crow on steroids, would lecture me
on how much he loves America and how it's my
turn to stand guard. He's not even worth anger. It's
just pathetic.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Go away. I have a niece who is a actually
in public service. She's working, she's actually got a high
paying job now, but she did quite a few years
with a high degree from a high college and very talented,
no pay, no glory, helping homeless people sort of think
that's public service. There are lots of people that do that.
Lots of you do that. That is, you decided you'd
(28:18):
rather try to help mankind than go after money. That's
not what Joe Biden did. Okay, look at his homes.
Look at him laying there on the beach with his
eyes closed in front of one of his many homes,
and the way his son traveled around the world and
got rich public service. Give me a freaking break. Yeah,
that is what hilarious? How do you say that? Given
(28:40):
I would think he'd have more self awareness than that.
Everybody knows how rich I am now and how rich
my son is and the lifestyle we've got in the
LL season. My brother got wealthy. I mean, good lord,
I probably better leave out the whole public service thing.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, you've got to remind yourself, though, the percentage of
Americans who've never heard on honest accounting of all of
those things you mentioned because of where they get their news.
You mentioned that on NPR and the mainstream media, the
only critical notes sounded about the hostage deal that Israel
and Homastus reached, which will soon fall apart, by the way,
(29:16):
the only notes of skepticism or criticism, or that Benjamin Yahoo,
the war criminal monster, resisted it for so long and
is such a bad guy. I mean, if you took
in those news sources, you would think you were well informed,
but you'd be sadly, sadly misinformed, which again gets back
(29:36):
to Joe Biden worrying about misinformation and its unholy cousin disinformation.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Please, social media companies are gonna stop fact checking. We
needn't hold them accountable. Oh my god, you threatened Mark
Zuckerberg to ruin his business if he didn't print exactly
what you wanted. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Don't let anybody say there might be side effects to
the vaccines. Don't let anybody suggest our active duty troops
don't need the shot. Ban them from your platform, or
we will punish you severely. We will make your life hell.
But misinformation and disinformation shouldn't be allowed.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh my, they've abandon fact checking. Well, he's a scene
eye old man. Yes he is.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yes, he's allegedly Kamala Harris's butt hurt that he's going
around saying that he could have beaten Trump because she
finds it hurtful in a suggestion that she is somehow
lesser than him. I just hope they can mend those
fences before he goes to the Great White House in
the sky.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
And the biggest story yet to be written. And maybe
they you've been predicting that maybe the noon on Monday,
people start getting book deals and that sort of thing.
I can't wait. How bad he was he behind the scenes,
How many new people knew for how long? How many
people were slapping their heads thinking, Oh my god, I
can't believe this guy's running agin Oh my god, I
can't believe this guy thinks he's gonna be president again.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, I'm sure the details are going to be really
interesting and incredibly troubling. But I don't need much more
than and this has been established.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I mean, just like not even disputed.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
His polsters were not allowed to tell him what the
polls said by his inner circle, his inner circle to say.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Don't give him any bad news. I mean, that is bizarre.
It's pretty weird. They wanted to keep their jobs because
if he wins, they stay employed. That's the problem you
have with administrations because if they lose, you're out of work.
You're you're out of work. You have to tell your family. Well,
I guess I'm gonna put out some resumes. We might
be moving soon. Yeah, So I guess that's what you do.
It's not very patriotic. You have any thoughts on any
(31:42):
of this? Text line four one five two nine five
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Speaker 6 (31:49):
The Southwest Airlines pilot was pulled from the flight deck
of a commercial flight and jailed for driving under the influence.
David Alsup allegedly smelled of alcohol when police in Savannah,
Georgia removed him from the plane shortly before scheduled take
off at six h five a m. Southwest says the
pilot has been removed from duty.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Why so he actually was in the cockpit when they
arrested him. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's interesting that Nora O'Donnell there said that he was
arrested for drunken driving just because obviously he'd driven, I
guess to the or just sitting behind the wheel of
the jet, which was the drunken driving getting to the
air corner, sitting there canause most of those guys taken over.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Unless that's his home on base, I don't know. That
doesn't matter. I suppose the fact that he was drunk
sitting in the cockpit about the pilot the plane at
six oh five am. Right, that's drunk from the night before.
That's what that right?
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Right, unless he was, you know, just sober and still
you know, had it the smell coming out of his skin.
Guy has not been convicted yet, I need to point
that out.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, there was there anything there about a blood breathweiser.
They didn't mention anything about and this or that he
smelled of booze and was arrested. Yeah, so I don't
know what his blood alcohol was. You can you can
smell booze the next day and not be drunk, I
think sure. I think so. If you're yeah, well it depends.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
I know the threshold for flying a passenger jet full
of innocent human beings A couple.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It ain't you're allowed to have on a couple of martine. No, No,
I think point oh one in your career is over. Yeah,
I have a drinker too. I mean, you're flying this
big plane. It's nerve wrecking.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
It's like when I did that uh drunk driving education
thing with the California Highway Patrol after a couple of drinks.
I was.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
That was when my scoes peaked. That's when I was
at my best. I have a friend who's a private
pilot man. They do not mess around you. There's all
kinds of things you can do and never fly again,
all kinds of things, all kinds of minor health things
you can have happen to you. Certainly, this drinking thing,
you're done. It's not like your your career is over oof,
(33:57):
But I'm about the passengers. That's gonna be something you
find out what he was. We were like minutes away
from a grillade. Why minutes away from a drunk guy
flyings around. I saw civic of hears. Anyway, I just
approcab it where we're going? Just if play flies as
Sofia Bushi is this is your pilot. We're supposed to
(34:19):
be going to Tulsa. Who wants to go to Tulsa?
I got out of Gas. Let's go to Vegas. Who
wants to go to Vegas? Come on, let's go to Vegas.
Past Tulsa. Yolo you live once, Let's go to Vegas.
Nobody wants to go to Tulsa. Come on, I got
I know a good place. I hate poor rank.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
If you could like get out of the way of
the bathroom, I gotta beee.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I know somebody, and I've always wondered about this, or
maybe I've heard stories. I know somebody who just two
weeks ago partied with some stewardesses were doing a layover
and said, holy crap, did they party hard? Like like
it was just shocking, like I couldn't keep up party hard.
And these were women that were like between forty and
forty five and sixty. It's not like they were twenty somethings.
(35:02):
They just partied hard, like crazy hard. I guess that's
what you do. Of course they're not flying the plane,
but just as a lifestyle always out of town. I
don't know, not for me.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
If God forbid, Judy ever leaves me, I am going
to take to hang around airport hotels and just where
the horny drunk flight crews are.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's an interesting backup plan if the worst should happen.
We're a good book, certainly, and my backup plan if
the worst should happen is to hang around hotel bars
and hope to get some from a drunk stewardess. Wow,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Good We got a better plan, mister perfect Eh, thank god?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
What are we doing next hour? We got to check
in on the fire situation. There's some more governmental kickings
to come.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Oh goodness, sakes, and what happens if you have a
mortgage and your house burns down. I don't know, actually
times thousands and thousands and thousands.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It ain't good. Oh boy, what a mess that would be.
I guess he doesn't like paperwork, I can imagine. And
we're gonna be sorting through this for years and years.
Oh yeah, And I'm sure you have to fight for
everything that you're owed, let alone the other stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
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