February 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Flu season, Jim Acosta's Trump boycott & AP's Style Book
- AP Style Book: Gender identity '
- Elon's "what did you do last week" email & his baby mama drama
- New putting technique
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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 Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Respiratory illness activity remains high across much of the country.
Twenty three states are listed as high.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Or very high.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The CDC says flu activity is elevated nationwide and this
is now classified as a high severity flu season for
all age groups for the first time in seven years.
Officials estimate there have been nineteen thousand flu deaths so
far this season.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wow, I just did a little trip, so I was
in airports, I was on planes, I was in ubers,
I was in restaurants, et cetera. And I don't feel
I have a sore throat today and a couple other
symptoms I won't mention anyway. I google them and and
it says unmentionable symptoms. Is anybody else's mind going wild
(01:04):
right now? Show a handy you know what it is.
If it's unmentionable, you know what it is. And I'm
not going to mention it. But it's definitely enough, Uh,
the symptoms I have. It says I could have the flu.
I mean like the first five hits where if I
have a sore throat and the things that I'm not
going to mention, it's the flu.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So we'll see.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's the gallup of trotz, folks, that's what I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, emailed.
Your guess is the mail bagget I'm drunk and getting
don't don't.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So we'll see.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh boy, yeah, I've got a good friend. He and
his wife laid low low for week ten days.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Now I got too much to do. My son had
My son had a sore throat last night.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not good.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So he had a sore throat. Now I've got a
sore throat. And I told him he can't be sick.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We got school, got a bunch of things going on
in school, volleyball games, practice.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Can't be sick. But we'll see.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Well, talk to the microbes, not your son. They're in charge. Ah,
my only complaint, and then we can move on. Do
we have to name everything these days? So you got
your flu, you got your RSV, you got your COVID,
and there's a fourth one. They're calling it a quademic
right now. They don't but they don't need to. You
don't need a clever name for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Who decided that every every hobby has to hot girl
summer or I'm a I'm a downsizer, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Just stop it, Just say what, say what you want
to say. You don't need to name it.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You know, I'm sorry Tangent On Tangent, we really don't
have time. But my son sent me a great think
piece about how what you do is what you are.
Don't accept the label of what you are. Then do that,
you know, don't be a type, do what you think
(02:56):
is important, live your life, and then you know, if
it turns out your a certain sort of person, great.
But everybody is so anxious online to declare what sort
of person they are, and generally it has so do.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You think people hear a label and then like adjust
their lives to fit into that label, Yes, to get
along interest that course, it might be true that might
like happen to a lot of us. Were well, I'm
I'm I'm kind of I think maybe I do that,
like I've got like a vision of the thing I
am or my brand in my head or other people's heads,
(03:30):
and then I got to fit into that which is
weird because I don't have to.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Nobody's making me. Yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm big on freedom.
But you know, I've just including freedom from your own
like dopey limitations on yourself because they don't have there's
no good reason for them, right. But we all work
on it every day. I mean, I'm not claiming it'd
be some sort of guru anyway. So this is important, friends,
(03:54):
important and interesting and in a way amusing. Perhaps you
heard last week that the AP and Jim Acosta, who
is just a dick weed. Sorry, I'm sorry that was rude,
trying to organize some sort of let it drop. I'm
just I'm an angry man. I've got them seething under
(04:16):
the surface. But they are trying to organize this absolutely
idiotic boycott of the Trump administration as journalists and or
some sort of organized resistance where if Trump does something
naughty or Elon Musk is something that makes us mad,
all of us will write editorials on our editorial page
(04:36):
condemning it at once, and we will join together as
a collectivist media controlled by one agenda that's got kind
of a bad reputation.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And then they could have their own headlines saying a
majority of media have decided to boycott the Trump administration
due to its lies or something like that, so they
could do something then report, but they're doing it like
like it's outside of their cho or something.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
But the White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowitch
was talking to Axios the other day and summed it
up in a great way. I think this isn't just
about the Gulf of.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
AP refused to say the Gulf of America, and they
put out their style book bulletin which we'll explain the
second but saying no, it's the Gulf of Mexico, has
been for four hundred years. Keep calling it the Gulf
of Mexico. But it's not about that, said budh Witch.
Or is that quote. This is about AP weaponizing language
(05:33):
through their style book to push a partisan worldview in
contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many
Americans and many people around the world. Here's what they mean,
and if you're not in journalism, you might not know this.
The Associated Press, which has been around for a very
long time and used to be a rigorously non partisan,
(05:57):
serious journalism pit outfit, puts out their style book, which
is literally a big, thick book, and then lots and
lots of updates throughout the year, saying, hey, the Associated
Press refers to this in this way. And sometimes it's
like grammatical stuff. Do you hyphenate email like people did
in the early days.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Do you capitalize this or that?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Or do you write like Beijing or pee King to
refer to the capital of China. A lot of stuff
like that, which is fine. It was a handy because
I used to do some of that stuff, and it
was handy to just as.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A you know, objective source. How am I supposed to
do this?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But in recent years the AP has gone full on
woke activist Julie Pace is saying that what did she say,
she's the head of the AP, that this is a
challenged independent journalists. Well, contrary to missus Pace and what
she had to say, the White House is not objecting
(06:59):
to the AP independent journalism, but to the way it
imposes its worldview on journalists, according from The Wall Street Journal,
As Julie Pace herself notes in her statement, AP reporting
reaches billions of people around the world, which she calls factual,
non partisan journalism, But the style book is incredibly influential.
(07:20):
Here's the problem. The AP style book, writes, the Wall
Street Journal is the wellspring of journalistic group think.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Since it went online.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
In twenty oh two, the flood of conformity has intensified
to creese and dogmas propagate far more rapidly than they
did when the style book was a spiral brown volume
with new editions every couple of years. One of the
most prominent examples looks deceptively like a question of pure style.
Few years ago, the AP began capitalizing black when used
as a racial designation.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Not white, by the way, not white, just black.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
This was a telling change, because, in contrast with the
Gulf of Mexico thing, the AP did not stick with
tradition the opposite, nor did it bow to a change
in common usage. It wasn't like they said, hey, most
Americans use a capital B now, so we ought to
reflect that. No, they bow to activist demands.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, right, So they're trying to push it out as
opposed to reflect on a change.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So, with some exceptions, liberals, including most news organizations, fell
into line with the AP, while conservatives didn't. The Supreme Court,
for instance, has split with the three Democratic appointees and
Justice Core such for some reason, opting for capital black
the non partisan AP's attempt to position itself at the
vanguard of history and succeeded in stranding itself on one
(08:43):
side of America's ideological gulf. Moving on, there's a lot
more blah blah blah. This one guy reports that the
White House aids grievances against the AP extend to immigration.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
The style book bans the term alien.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's racist to talk about illegal aliens, the actual legal term.
If you are an AP newspaper or you know, there
are articles up here in newspapers all over the world.
They've banned the word alien. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
They've banned the term illegal immigrant. That is absolutely ridiculous.
I had no idea of this. That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
This it's not about the freaking Gulf of America, which
is funny, and nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You can't use the term illegal immigrant in a news story.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
According to the AP.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That's correct. Yeah, it's rights all young journalists out there.
The christ are probably lefties anyway. But you're a young
journalist working in a newspaper, radio station, TV station, sometimes
small town wherever it is. You get the AP s
foul book because that's the way you do it. You
can't use the term illegal immigrant. That's nuts.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
But wait, there's more chain migration for voting anchor babies.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Terrible racist term. Can't use it.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
And when you're discussing political violence, I suspect on only
one side of the aisle. It discourages using riot and
terrorism is more the nine terms for the protests, the
mostly peaceful protests after George Floyd, for instance. But the
style Book, we're warming up now, everybody stretched out, everybody ready.
(10:17):
The style Book descends from bias into delusion with its
quote transgender coverage topical guide. This is a twenty nine
hundred word ideological manifesto.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The AP put out quote, do not use.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
The term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity. Is an ideology,
and it's filled with bizarre assertions and jargon which reporters
are mandated to accept if they supersede the facts of life.
According to the guide, a child and this is why
you see this. I almost used a very bad word, folks.
I'm glad I didn't. According to the guide, a child
(10:56):
isn't born a boy or a girl quote rather sexist quote.
Usually it's assigned at birth by parents or attendants and
can turn out to be inaccurate.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well, it's nice that whoever writes the AP style book
has nailed down the facts on that and told us
all that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know what, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
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a little break and then come back with the rest
of this. The AP is as bad as the Southern
Poverty Law Center or the you know, the the former
not NAACP.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
What's the what's that? I used to be a AARP. No,
that's not it. I was a card carrying member of
the ACLU.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
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(12:42):
the critical theory stuff, critical race theory, radical gender theory,
radical queer theory.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
All of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
The AP has hoovered up all of it and insists
that every journalist in America tow the radical neo Marxist line.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
More examples in a minute. I am concerned. I have
the flu.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I got a question for those of you know something
about the flu. Also, we got to get to and
a bunch of other stuff. News of the day, catch
up from the weekend. Macrone's visiting with Trump right now
to talk about Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Stay with us, going.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
To say, DEI you know what it means, as that's
heard somebody to say earlier today, they have substitute in
these acronyms for the N word.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Go?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
That's James Clyburn, who got Joe Biden elected the president,
our first ever mummy President. Cliburn is saying, if you
use the term dei, that's a dei hier, I'm dei.
You're saying, I'm against N word, I'm against enners. It's
the same thing. Yeah, nice job, James. Way to just
make the country worse and more racist.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Go away.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Anyway, we were talking about how the AP has incredible
influence over journalism with their AP Style Book and the
current fight with the Trump administration. They're trying to pretend
is about the Gulf of America, which is just silly,
but it's really about the AP Stylebook having hoovered up
all of critical theory, all of that radical theory that's
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got men in women's locker rooms, and the idea that
there are seventy seven different genders and a boy who
dons a wig ought to be able to beat the
crap out of girls on sports fields. It's all just
so sick, but so according to the AP's style book,
it says, according to the child the guide, a child
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isn't bored a boy or a girl. Rather, sex is
quote usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants, and
ken turn out to be inaccurate. Yeah, like one time
out of ten thousand. Examples of gender identities include non
binary by gender a gender, gender fluid, gender queer, and
combinations of identities such as non binary woman. Please read
(15:00):
pluck Rose and Lindsay's cynical theories. They explain what all
of this is and what it's doing anyway. They go
on to say, quote dead naming a transgender person that
is accurately reporting such a person's given name quote, even
posthumously in obituaries or other coverage, is often considered disrespectful
to the deceased, their survivors, and any transgender people. So
(15:24):
you're supposed to say, Caitlin Jenner won the men's to
Caathlon in nineteen seventy six. How idiotic is that? Now
all of this is cloaked in an appeal to authorities.
Quote experts from organizations including the American Medical Association, American
Psychiatric Association, an American Psychological Association, whatever that was, say,
(15:45):
gender is a spectrum Yeah, they're all captured by critical theorists,
by Marxists. Quote reporters are instructed to squelch any challenge
to the accepted authorities. Don't quote people speaking about biology
or athletic regulations unless they have the proper background. That's
why Katanji Brown Jackson made the hilariously idiotic assertion that
(16:05):
she couldn't define a woman on the grounds that I'm
not a biologist.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Right, and again, I've got the polling from the New
York Times on the trans athlete Trump thing coming up.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Right, and as they we got two minutes. Okay, good.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
These editorial dictats have real world effects. Sports teams, locker rooms,
public restrooms, and prisons are segregated by sex, obviously to
protect women. When many women object when a transgender woman,
a man who conceives of himself as a female or
claims it intrude into these areas, good luck if you
want fair treatment of the question from your local newspaper
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TV station, which is almost certainly an AP member. Sure,
and the AP's policy is that those men are women.
Because they said so, trans women are women. Hot dogs
are dogs anyway, The Trump administration said there are two sexes.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Male and female not changeable.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Blah blah blah, And as James Toronto writes in the
Wall Street Journal quote, this has been the case at
least since sexual dimorphism emerged in trilobites some five hundred
and forty million years ago. If the AP is willing
to deny the primordial truth about sex on the say
so of some authority figure, the Gulf of Mexico is
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a strange hill for it to die on.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But I hope it.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Does, or at least I hope both sides stand their
ground after the AP loses in court, and the result
is a diminuation of its influence on American journalism.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Amen, Hey, law.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So as I have the symptoms, is it too late
to take a flu shot? Can you take a flu shot?
Once you've got the floors that?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Do you know? Good? Yes you can take one, and
yes it does you no good.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah right, nobody's gonna stop me from getting one, but
it would do me no good with my current situation.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Now, your antibodies are already on alert and rushing to
their battle stations.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
All right, we'll get to that, uh polling in a
bunch of other stories we got to catch up on
coming up, stay here.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I think we should all do what Elon asks. Let's
all make a list of five things we did last
week that could justify our jobs. I watched a lot
of news. I did some things I planned to talk about.
It's about I have a unique job. That's it's unfair
for our job.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's out.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Pyle is looking pretty tempting for your little memo, son,
I say.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
No, he's through. He's fired.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I personally know people and work in the federal government
who have made their lists that if you haven't heard
this news story, Elon put that out to all federal employees.
You got to you gotta write him an email, send
it to him, the five things you did last week
that show that you're your job is necessary. And then
I don't know, good lord, how many millions of emails
would he get. Who's gonna go through all those? I
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don't know how they would determine, if any but he's
being honest or not?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Right right, let's see you know the list four mundane
things in five. I'm in charge of considering the annexation
of Greenland.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I feel like you could. You could.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I met with the King of Arabia and I flew
in a rocket to Mars. I think I think you
can send the email. I don't think anybody's ever going
to read it. I just can't imagine they're gonna get
down to it.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But personally stamped out all the mice and grain silos
in Nebraska, right, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Not anti doing this.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I would love to be able to justify all these
government jobs and whether or not they or needed.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But I just I just don't know if this is workable. Well,
no it's not.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I mean, in principle it's wonderful, but it's just it's
silly because even the departments had hads Trump appointed or
saying no, don't do that, or like RFK Junior said yeah,
go ahead and do it that. Then he put it
out a memo saying let's hold off to like noon Monday,
so we.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Get the a look at this. It's just silly.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It's Elon trolling, and I wish he would and this
is just me.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Maybe if he lost his trolling, we'd lose Elon.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
But I would like him to be sober and serious
like he is about getting rocket ships up into the
air to make criticism more difficult. I wish he was
more buttoned up about this because I wanted to succeed.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Well, you're now famous quote of uh oh, you can't
order human beings without onions. Is the Elon thing. I mean, oh,
we got to get to his baby mama and that
whole thing.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Wow, My life, though, is testament to the fact that
you can get people to be stupid less often.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
So.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The most recent kid that we became aware of kid
number thirteen, the twenty four year old Hotty that he
had the baby with. Some emails or texts surfaced over
the weekend where she's texting other somebody else, a friend
of hers, about how she was she's somehow, she was
working somewhere where she had access to Elon.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
She's hot.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
She she texted this friend about how she was gonna
seduce Elon and trap him and have a baby with him,
and that was her plan. And not surprising that happens
with NBA stars and you know, movie stars and all
kinds of rich people. I mean, that story's over over.
What I didn't like is it was portrayed most places.
I saught of ha ha ha to Elon like he's
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the ridiculous figure here and not the sort of freaking
woman who goes out and gets pregnant on purpose for cash. Yeah,
you pretended to be in love with a guy or
like him and he had sex with you.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That doesn't make him the bad guy.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Manhattan and Washington, DC are full of those couples, for instance.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But you pretend to like somebody and they fall for it,
they're not. They didn't do something wrong. You're a creepo
and a like low life with no conscience for doing that.
Don't portray it the other way around. That's weird, right, Yeah,
congratulations rock stars, congratulations on seducing a guy just for money.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yay for you, Yahoe. I mean, what is that? Wow?
That's harsh. If that's what she did, that's pretty accurate,
isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I just I can't get too up in arms about
it because Elon obviously has no problem with that sort
of thing. No, I'm not, And again I'm not making
it about Elon. I'm making it about the portrayal of
if you got If you got a guy who fall
who believes you when you come on to him, and
then she acts like she likes you, that's not a
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deficit in him, right, It's like it's like our thing
we always say, like, if you know, if somebody breaks
into your car, you left it unlocked. I mean you
should have locked it. But the scumbag is the criminal
who broke into your car, right. I don't go around
trying door handles.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
To you, right AnyWho?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Uh oh, we got to get this joke on. We
got a joke from Greg Guttfeld that I know some
of our audience will like.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And that's not it's not my sort of joke. But
here you go. Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Divorce rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Hopefully they can settle it like men.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Okay, there you go. I know some of you like that.
Based on the texts we get. She's big bone, she's
a woman. I understand why that persists in some quarters.
We probably ought to get some of the audio that
exists of Trump arguing with some governors over the weekend
about uh, men and women's sports, that whole issue.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And it became quite a thing.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
And there are still some governors of your blue states
who are willing to, if not die on that hill,
fight on that hill for you know, a high school
boy breaking the state track record and winning the gold
medal or whatever.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I just I don't get why you're so into this issue.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
But the New York Times reading how Maine has decided
this is the civil rights issue of our time.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Boys being able to beat the crap out of girls
on the sports. Yeah, that's who Trump got into it
with over the weekend, the governor of Maine.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
They had a back and forth over this.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Here's the national polling from the New York Times on this. Overall,
the question being at the top, transgender athletes should not
be allowed to compete in women's sports just as a
blanket statement. It doesn't even say for high school sports.
I gotta believe the number goes up for that probably,
but overall seventy nine percent call it eighty. Since it's
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within the plus or minus eighty percent of Americans think
transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete women's sports.
It's an eighty twenty issue. I mean, it's not even
flipping close.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
And I would guess the twenty that's left is includes
at least a small measure of don't knows, And so
the support for this is in the teens. Yeah, and
it's self evidently perverse and everybody knows it. What's disturbing
to me is the incredible influence of a tiny minority
of lunatics.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Right. If you break it down by party, of course,
for Republicans it's ninety four percent, but even for Democrats
it's two thirds, two thirds, and independence two thirds of
Democrats say.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Two thirds of Democrats say no, hold on, no, oh no,
it might be bird flu. Did you hear that?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Probably we've got a quindemic going on?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I might have all four? Could that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Where I have RSV, bird flu, cod covid.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The flu gunnrhea? Is that the other one? The fifth?
I don't hope I don't have all of them at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
But if two thirds of Democrats say dudes shouldn't be
competing in women's sports, how is this even a controversy?
We're so misled by the Hollywood in the mainstream media.
Who is their outsized influence of making people think, well,
you know, it's not the sort of thing I should
stay out loud. It's an It's a sixty point win.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
For your side. It's not even close. You could you should?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You don't call an eighty twenty issue controversial issue. It's
so no yes, and and yet you know it's funny
just as in the side. I heard a really interesting
podcast with a libertarian type author who's talking about the
kind of the dumb side of tribalism and how it
makes you do and say things that you probably shouldn't
be proud of when you know, we're all countrymen and
(26:43):
we ought to be cooperating and let you know, forming coalitions.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Got fell in a joke about what'll settles like men.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
An excellent for instance, anyway, and I thought, you know,
as far as you know what he said, he's right.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Well.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Part of his message was we're not meant to be
political all the time. It's okay to just have relationships
in that sort, and I agree completely with that. On
the other hand, we have allowed ourselves to get into
a situation we're duped, honestly, where virtually the entire public
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government educational complex is preaching a radical ideology that's believed
by a.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Teen's percentage of Americans.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
And so, oh my lord, this train has gone way
way down the track. And so I don't think the
option of being well, it's unfortunate, but we can work
on it together. I don't think we're at that point.
We let it get way, way, way too farther. I
give the neo Marxist credit as a political scientist for
(27:49):
being as incredibly effective as they've been. They did it
under the cloak of darkness of misleading everybody about what
they're actually doing.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
So we've gotten a couple of texts from people who
are in government who got the email from Elon about
how you got to come up with five things to
justify your job. Nobody is going to read them, says
this texter. They're just fishing to see who doesn't reply,
because Elon did include if you don't want to do this,
I we'll take that as a resignation, and which is fine.
(28:23):
Maybe you get several thousand people across the country or
tens of thousands of people to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Somebody has to make their list Number one, snappy dresser,
number two, taller than average, Number three.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I make a mean onion dip number four.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You know, I've got most of the plots of Seinfelds memorized.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Or I just make the workplace a funnier place to
be right, with my jokes and witticisms.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Humor makes the workplace more productive, and I'm very very amusing.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, that's an interesting idea.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You asked the question earlier, and I can't wait till books,
until books are written about this.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Did Trump have any idea Elon was doing that? Or
did Elon fire that off?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Judging by the reaction from a number of Trump appointees,
I would say no, he didn't know, because a lot
of the prominent names you've heard just got approved by
the Senate and all are like, what, wait, No, no,
our people don't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
What so like cash Btel specifically said of the FBI, no,
do don't respond to that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You don't have to.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, yeah, And I believe a Secretary of Treasury said
the same. But the the Department of Transportation, guy whose
name I don't have memorized yet, he was out today.
He said, I told all employees they need to do that,
and here are my five things I did last week.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So he's on board.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Here's the Cabinet secretary. You don't have to fill out
the list he did. This is all very silly. Oh,
speaking of which, you know, pretty big headline. Cash Bateel
had told Republican senators in private, my deputy head of
the FBI, whatever the title is, will be a career
officer who knows how the FBI works, and because that's
(30:01):
been the tradition the entire time the fbis existed. Well,
for whatever reason, probably because Trump pushed him on it,
he appointed Dan Bongino as his second in command instead
former Secret Service agent Hard Ass and big time radio
host slash podcaster Dan Bongino. So there are a number
of Republican senators who are leaking. We were told this
(30:23):
would not happen, so that you know, there could be
a little attention there. We'll say one more thing from
the Q crowd, which I'm in touch with. The Q
and on crowd are where whatever your news sources are
in the Q and on crowd. Apparently the belief is
that step number one for Cash Mattel, now that he
has been sworn in as a director of the FBI,
(30:44):
is going after Hillary Clinton, the whole pedophile ring. And
so that whole thing is going to be unearthed very quickly. No,
he isn't to know. It won't here on earth. We're
worried about Hillary bilking the world for the Foundation and
just good old fashioned thievery.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Okay, we got more of the ways to hear Armstrong, Heyetty,
when I'm told we have a celebrity death related to
this song. I don't know who sad is.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Dion Warwick, ROBERTA Flack, ROBERTA Flack as a Flack, so
sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
She's very very old. One side?
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Do we do minor celebrity deaths some.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Major celebrity If you're ROBERTA Flack fan, what are we doing? Yes, Katie,
no minor celebrities.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
She had multiple top Billboard hits and she died eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
What's her biggest hit? She Killing Me Softly? Yep, killing
me softly.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Also, I'm a big jazz fan and I was watching
a video the other day with these uh instructors I
really like Top ten jazz albums of all time, and
they had a ROBERTA Flack album on there that I'd
never heard of before.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
And as I was saying, the nation is reeling from
the loss of the great ROBERTA Fly and it's right,
and we take a moment to reflect in.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Her life, she's dead as a hammer. Okay. Interesting, Wow,
great jazz singer. Huh. I guess did not know that.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Okay, you know what, My cynicism has been kicked right
where it deserved.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
To be and has doubled over now and rethinking its ways.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Oh speaking speaking of careers and being in the public eye,
and that a quick indulge me a quick tip of
the cap to my friend Brian Campbell, who won a
PGA Tour event Professional Golf Association Tour event yesterday. He
is an incredible story and an example young phenom, great
(32:46):
college player, got his tour card, which meant he got
to play on the PGA Tour, lost it almost immediately.
He just didn't play well enough to stick around, and
for seven years or so he has been grinding to
get back on the PGA Tour. He finally did. We
had a big party and then but this season has
(33:08):
been very rocky. He like, if you know how golf works,
if you don't play well enough on Thursday and Friday,
you get cut. You don't play on the weekend. And
his first eight tournaments this year or something, I cut cut, cut,
cut fifty first, sixty second cut than he won for
the first time in his entire career. Great guy has
worked like a maniac. I mean beyond when people were
(33:29):
telling him, yeah, I'm not sure it's going to work out,
but it was great to see I yelled louder than
I have for any sports event in twenty years. In
my living room yesterday I couldn't sit down for the
last hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Perfect that you brought up golf because I've been meaning
to ask this question. I came across this headline in
the Wall Street Journal yesterday. I don't play golf, but
the weird new putting technique that's driving the golf world nuts.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I can't even imagine you hold the club in your mouth?
Or is it worse than that?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
It's worse than that jacket involves a good deal of vaseline.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh no, we all think it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It No, I hinted at something and then you like
drew the picture for some reason, like we're children, couldn't
get my hint.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
It's thinter the mind exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, Michael, thank you for I can't decide which side
he's on. Uh No, it's called it's something called aim point.
If you ever watch golf, the guys, instead of like
just using their eyes to figure out which way a
pot is going to break, which means curve, they like
use their feet to try to assess the slope, and
then they assess what degree of slope. Then they hold
(34:36):
two fingers up next to the cup to pick their
It's time consuming.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Okay, that's not as controversial if they were suitcasing the
butter and making that.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Wow, the pot calls the kettle black. Right now, it's
dopey within golf and it's fine.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
The the thing you know, with the golf friend you
just mentioned, I was telling my kids about this over
the weekend because I'm trying to motivate them to try
harder at various things.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
It seems to be it seemed to be having.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Trouble with that, but that probably got my genetics is
the problem. But one thing I've learned from YouTube that
it has helped give a glimpse into the world of athletes, musicians, writers,
all kinds artists, all kinds of different people of how
much effort they put into being successful. They weren't just
(35:25):
born talented, well, they weren't born talented, But then the
amount of work that you have to put in. Most
of us, even given the talent by God to be
that artist, musician, you, golfer, whatever, wouldn't put in the
time that it takes to ever utilize it.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Two quick bits of wisdom.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Number one, the thing that takes more effort than anything
else is to appear effortless. Takes a tremendous amount of effort. Secondly,
one of the great pianists, I can't remember which one, Rubinstein,
one of those guys. Somebody once said to him, I
would give my life to play piano, give my life
to play the piano like you do.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
And he said I did, right.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
And most of us, like even given the talent, wouldn't
do that. And I think that's helpful to know how
much effort you've got to put in to be successful.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Hopefully, Man, it takes a while to pan out.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yeah, if you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Respiratory illness activity remains high across much of the country.
Twenty three states are listed as high.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Or very high.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The CDC says flu activity is elevated nationwide and this
is now classified as a high severity flu season for
all age groups for the first time in seven years.
Officials estimate there have been nineteen thousand flu deaths so
far this season.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Wow, I just did a little trip, so I was
in airports, I was on planes, I was in ubers,
I was in restaurants, et cetera. And I don't feel
I have a sore throat today and a couple other
symptoms I won't mention anyway. I google them and and
it says unmentionable symptoms. Is anybody else's mind going wild
(01:04):
right now? Show a handy you know what it is.
If it's unmentionable, you know what it is. And I'm
not going to mention it. But it's definitely enough, Uh,
the symptoms I have. It says I could have the flu.
I mean like the first five hits where if I
have a sore throat and the things that I'm not
going to mention, it's the flu.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So we'll see.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's the gallup of trotz, folks, that's what I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, emailed.
Your guess is the mail bagget I'm drunk and getting
don't don't.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So we'll see.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh boy, yeah, I've got a good friend. He and
his wife laid low low for week ten days.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Now I got too much to do. My son had
My son had a sore throat last night.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Not good.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
So he had a sore throat. Now I've got a
sore throat. And I told him he can't be sick.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We got school, got a bunch of things going on
in school, volleyball games, practice.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Can't be sick. But we'll see.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Well, talk to the microbes, not your son. They're in charge. Ah,
my only complaint, and then we can move on. Do
we have to name everything these days? So you got
your flu, you got your RSV, you got your COVID,
and there's a fourth one. They're calling it a quademic
right now. They don't but they don't need to. You
don't need a clever name for everything.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's a good point.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Who decided that every every hobby has to hot girl
summer or I'm a I'm a downsizer, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Just stop it, Just say what, say what you want
to say. You don't need to name it.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
You know, I'm sorry Tangent On Tangent, we really don't
have time. But my son sent me a great think
piece about how what you do is what you are.
Don't accept the label of what you are. Then do that,
you know, don't be a type, do what you think
(02:56):
is important, live your life, and then you know, if
it turns out your a certain sort of person, great.
But everybody is so anxious online to declare what sort
of person they are, and generally it has so do.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You think people hear a label and then like adjust
their lives to fit into that label, Yes, to get
along interest that course, it might be true that might
like happen to a lot of us. Were well, I'm
I'm I'm kind of I think maybe I do that,
like I've got like a vision of the thing I
am or my brand in my head or other people's heads,
(03:30):
and then I got to fit into that which is
weird because I don't have to.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Nobody's making me. Yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm big on freedom.
But you know, I've just including freedom from your own
like dopey limitations on yourself because they don't have there's
no good reason for them, right. But we all work
on it every day. I mean, I'm not claiming it'd
be some sort of guru anyway. So this is important, friends,
(03:54):
important and interesting and in a way amusing. Perhaps you
heard last week that the AP and Jim Acosta, who
is just a dick weed. Sorry, I'm sorry that was rude,
trying to organize some sort of let it drop. I'm
just I'm an angry man. I've got them seething under
(04:16):
the surface. But they are trying to organize this absolutely
idiotic boycott of the Trump administration as journalists and or
some sort of organized resistance where if Trump does something
naughty or Elon Musk is something that makes us mad,
all of us will write editorials on our editorial page
(04:36):
condemning it at once, and we will join together as
a collectivist media controlled by one agenda that's got kind
of a bad reputation.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
And then they could have their own headlines saying a
majority of media have decided to boycott the Trump administration
due to its lies or something like that, so they
could do something then report, but they're doing it like
like it's outside of their cho or something.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
But the White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowitch
was talking to Axios the other day and summed it
up in a great way. I think this isn't just
about the Gulf of.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh, that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
AP refused to say the Gulf of America, and they
put out their style book bulletin which we'll explain the
second but saying no, it's the Gulf of Mexico, has
been for four hundred years. Keep calling it the Gulf
of Mexico. But it's not about that, said budh Witch.
Or is that quote. This is about AP weaponizing language
(05:33):
through their style book to push a partisan worldview in
contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many
Americans and many people around the world. Here's what they mean,
and if you're not in journalism, you might not know this.
The Associated Press, which has been around for a very
long time and used to be a rigorously non partisan,
(05:57):
serious journalism pit outfit, puts out their style book, which
is literally a big, thick book, and then lots and
lots of updates throughout the year, saying, hey, the Associated
Press refers to this in this way. And sometimes it's
like grammatical stuff. Do you hyphenate email like people did
in the early days.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Do you capitalize this or that?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Or do you write like Beijing or pee King to
refer to the capital of China. A lot of stuff
like that, which is fine. It was a handy because
I used to do some of that stuff, and it
was handy to just as.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
A you know, objective source. How am I supposed to
do this?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But in recent years the AP has gone full on
woke activist Julie Pace is saying that what did she say,
she's the head of the AP, that this is a
challenged independent journalists. Well, contrary to missus Pace and what
she had to say, the White House is not objecting
(06:59):
to the AP independent journalism, but to the way it
imposes its worldview on journalists, according from The Wall Street Journal,
As Julie Pace herself notes in her statement, AP reporting
reaches billions of people around the world, which she calls factual,
non partisan journalism, But the style book is incredibly influential.
(07:20):
Here's the problem. The AP style book, writes, the Wall
Street Journal is the wellspring of journalistic group think.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Since it went online.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
In twenty oh two, the flood of conformity has intensified
to creese and dogmas propagate far more rapidly than they
did when the style book was a spiral brown volume
with new editions every couple of years. One of the
most prominent examples looks deceptively like a question of pure style.
Few years ago, the AP began capitalizing black when used
as a racial designation.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Not white, by the way, not white, just black.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
This was a telling change, because, in contrast with the
Gulf of Mexico thing, the AP did not stick with
tradition the opposite, nor did it bow to a change
in common usage. It wasn't like they said, hey, most
Americans use a capital B now, so we ought to
reflect that. No, they bow to activist demands.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, right, So they're trying to push it out as
opposed to reflect on a change.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
So, with some exceptions, liberals, including most news organizations, fell
into line with the AP, while conservatives didn't. The Supreme Court,
for instance, has split with the three Democratic appointees and
Justice Core such for some reason, opting for capital black
the non partisan AP's attempt to position itself at the
vanguard of history and succeeded in stranding itself on one
(08:43):
side of America's ideological gulf. Moving on, there's a lot
more blah blah blah. This one guy reports that the
White House aids grievances against the AP extend to immigration.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
The style book bans the term alien.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's racist to talk about illegal aliens, the actual legal term.
If you are an AP newspaper or you know, there
are articles up here in newspapers all over the world.
They've banned the word alien. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
They've banned the term illegal immigrant. That is absolutely ridiculous.
I had no idea of this. That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
This it's not about the freaking Gulf of America, which
is funny, and nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
You can't use the term illegal immigrant in a news story.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
According to the AP.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That's correct. Yeah, it's rights all young journalists out there.
The christ are probably lefties anyway. But you're a young
journalist working in a newspaper, radio station, TV station, sometimes
small town wherever it is. You get the AP s
foul book because that's the way you do it. You
can't use the term illegal immigrant. That's nuts.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
But wait, there's more chain migration for voting anchor babies.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Terrible racist term. Can't use it.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
And when you're discussing political violence, I suspect on only
one side of the aisle. It discourages using riot and
terrorism is more the nine terms for the protests, the
mostly peaceful protests after George Floyd, for instance. But the
style Book, we're warming up now, everybody stretched out, everybody ready.
(10:17):
The style Book descends from bias into delusion with its
quote transgender coverage topical guide. This is a twenty nine
hundred word ideological manifesto.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The AP put out quote, do not use.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
The term transgenderism, which frames transgender identity. Is an ideology,
and it's filled with bizarre assertions and jargon which reporters
are mandated to accept if they supersede the facts of life.
According to the guide, a child and this is why
you see this. I almost used a very bad word, folks.
I'm glad I didn't. According to the guide, a child
(10:56):
isn't born a boy or a girl quote rather sexist quote.
Usually it's assigned at birth by parents or attendants and
can turn out to be inaccurate.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Well, it's nice that whoever writes the AP style book
has nailed down the facts on that and told us
all that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
You know what, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Rush through all this. We need to bring you a
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a little break and then come back with the rest
of this. The AP is as bad as the Southern
Poverty Law Center or the you know, the the former
not NAACP.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
What's the what's that? I used to be a AARP. No,
that's not it. I was a card carrying member of
the ACLU.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
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(12:42):
the critical theory stuff, critical race theory, radical gender theory,
radical queer theory.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
All of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
The AP has hoovered up all of it and insists
that every journalist in America tow the radical neo Marxist line.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
More examples in a minute. I am concerned. I have
the flu.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I got a question for those of you know something
about the flu. Also, we got to get to and
a bunch of other stuff. News of the day, catch
up from the weekend. Macrone's visiting with Trump right now
to talk about Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Stay with us, going.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
To say, DEI you know what it means, as that's
heard somebody to say earlier today, they have substitute in
these acronyms for the N word.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Go?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
That's James Clyburn, who got Joe Biden elected the president,
our first ever mummy President. Cliburn is saying, if you
use the term dei, that's a dei hier, I'm dei.
You're saying, I'm against N word, I'm against enners. It's
the same thing. Yeah, nice job, James. Way to just
make the country worse and more racist.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Go away.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Anyway, we were talking about how the AP has incredible
influence over journalism with their AP Style Book and the
current fight with the Trump administration. They're trying to pretend
is about the Gulf of America, which is just silly,
but it's really about the AP Stylebook having hoovered up
all of critical theory, all of that radical theory that's
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got men in women's locker rooms, and the idea that
there are seventy seven different genders and a boy who
dons a wig ought to be able to beat the
crap out of girls on sports fields. It's all just
so sick, but so according to the AP's style book,
it says, according to the child the guide, a child
(14:38):
isn't bored a boy or a girl. Rather, sex is
quote usually assigned at birth by parents or attendants, and
ken turn out to be inaccurate. Yeah, like one time
out of ten thousand. Examples of gender identities include non
binary by gender a gender, gender fluid, gender queer, and
combinations of identities such as non binary woman. Please read
(15:00):
pluck Rose and Lindsay's cynical theories. They explain what all
of this is and what it's doing anyway. They go
on to say, quote dead naming a transgender person that
is accurately reporting such a person's given name quote, even
posthumously in obituaries or other coverage, is often considered disrespectful
to the deceased, their survivors, and any transgender people. So
(15:24):
you're supposed to say, Caitlin Jenner won the men's to
Caathlon in nineteen seventy six. How idiotic is that? Now
all of this is cloaked in an appeal to authorities.
Quote experts from organizations including the American Medical Association, American
Psychiatric Association, an American Psychological Association, whatever that was, say,
(15:45):
gender is a spectrum Yeah, they're all captured by critical theorists,
by Marxists. Quote reporters are instructed to squelch any challenge
to the accepted authorities. Don't quote people speaking about biology
or athletic regulations unless they have the proper background. That's
why Katanji Brown Jackson made the hilariously idiotic assertion that
(16:05):
she couldn't define a woman on the grounds that I'm
not a biologist.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Right, and again, I've got the polling from the New
York Times on the trans athlete Trump thing coming up.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Right, and as they we got two minutes. Okay, good.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
These editorial dictats have real world effects. Sports teams, locker rooms,
public restrooms, and prisons are segregated by sex, obviously to
protect women. When many women object when a transgender woman,
a man who conceives of himself as a female or
claims it intrude into these areas, good luck if you
want fair treatment of the question from your local newspaper
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TV station, which is almost certainly an AP member. Sure,
and the AP's policy is that those men are women.
Because they said so, trans women are women. Hot dogs
are dogs anyway, The Trump administration said there are two sexes.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Male and female not changeable.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Blah blah blah, And as James Toronto writes in the
Wall Street Journal quote, this has been the case at
least since sexual dimorphism emerged in trilobites some five hundred
and forty million years ago. If the AP is willing
to deny the primordial truth about sex on the say
so of some authority figure, the Gulf of Mexico is
(17:22):
a strange hill for it to die on.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But I hope it.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Does, or at least I hope both sides stand their
ground after the AP loses in court, and the result
is a diminuation of its influence on American journalism.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Amen, Hey, law.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So as I have the symptoms, is it too late
to take a flu shot? Can you take a flu shot?
Once you've got the floors that?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Do you know? Good? Yes you can take one, and
yes it does you no good.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah right, nobody's gonna stop me from getting one, but
it would do me no good with my current situation.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Now, your antibodies are already on alert and rushing to
their battle stations.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
All right, we'll get to that, uh polling in a
bunch of other stories we got to catch up on
coming up, stay here.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I think we should all do what Elon asks. Let's
all make a list of five things we did last
week that could justify our jobs. I watched a lot
of news. I did some things I planned to talk about.
It's about I have a unique job. That's it's unfair
for our job.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That's out.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Pyle is looking pretty tempting for your little memo, son,
I say.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
No, he's through. He's fired.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I personally know people and work in the federal government
who have made their lists that if you haven't heard
this news story, Elon put that out to all federal employees.
You got to you gotta write him an email, send
it to him, the five things you did last week
that show that you're your job is necessary. And then
I don't know, good lord, how many millions of emails
would he get. Who's gonna go through all those? I
(18:58):
don't know how they would determine, if any but he's
being honest or not?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Right right, let's see you know the list four mundane
things in five. I'm in charge of considering the annexation
of Greenland.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I feel like you could. You could.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I met with the King of Arabia and I flew
in a rocket to Mars. I think I think you
can send the email. I don't think anybody's ever going
to read it. I just can't imagine they're gonna get
down to it.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But personally stamped out all the mice and grain silos
in Nebraska, right, I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Not anti doing this.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I would love to be able to justify all these
government jobs and whether or not they or needed.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But I just I just don't know if this is workable. Well,
no it's not.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I mean, in principle it's wonderful, but it's just it's
silly because even the departments had hads Trump appointed or
saying no, don't do that, or like RFK Junior said yeah,
go ahead and do it that. Then he put it
out a memo saying let's hold off to like noon Monday,
so we.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Get the a look at this. It's just silly.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It's Elon trolling, and I wish he would and this
is just me.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Maybe if he lost his trolling, we'd lose Elon.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
But I would like him to be sober and serious
like he is about getting rocket ships up into the
air to make criticism more difficult. I wish he was
more buttoned up about this because I wanted to succeed.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Well, you're now famous quote of uh oh, you can't
order human beings without onions. Is the Elon thing. I mean, oh,
we got to get to his baby mama and that
whole thing.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Wow, My life, though, is testament to the fact that
you can get people to be stupid less often.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
So.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The most recent kid that we became aware of kid
number thirteen, the twenty four year old Hotty that he
had the baby with. Some emails or texts surfaced over
the weekend where she's texting other somebody else, a friend
of hers, about how she was she's somehow, she was
working somewhere where she had access to Elon.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
She's hot.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
She she texted this friend about how she was gonna
seduce Elon and trap him and have a baby with him,
and that was her plan. And not surprising that happens
with NBA stars and you know, movie stars and all
kinds of rich people. I mean, that story's over over.
What I didn't like is it was portrayed most places.
I saught of ha ha ha to Elon like he's
(21:38):
the ridiculous figure here and not the sort of freaking
woman who goes out and gets pregnant on purpose for cash. Yeah,
you pretended to be in love with a guy or
like him and he had sex with you.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That doesn't make him the bad guy.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Manhattan and Washington, DC are full of those couples, for instance.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
But you pretend to like somebody and they fall for it,
they're not. They didn't do something wrong. You're a creepo
and a like low life with no conscience for doing that.
Don't portray it the other way around. That's weird, right, Yeah,
congratulations rock stars, congratulations on seducing a guy just for money.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yay for you, Yahoe. I mean, what is that? Wow?
That's harsh. If that's what she did, that's pretty accurate,
isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I just I can't get too up in arms about
it because Elon obviously has no problem with that sort
of thing. No, I'm not, And again I'm not making
it about Elon. I'm making it about the portrayal of
if you got If you got a guy who fall
who believes you when you come on to him, and
then she acts like she likes you, that's not a
(22:55):
deficit in him, right, It's like it's like our thing
we always say, like, if you know, if somebody breaks
into your car, you left it unlocked. I mean you
should have locked it. But the scumbag is the criminal
who broke into your car, right. I don't go around
trying door handles.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
To you, right AnyWho?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Uh oh, we got to get this joke on. We
got a joke from Greg Guttfeld that I know some
of our audience will like.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And that's not it's not my sort of joke. But
here you go. Oh boy.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Divorce rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Hopefully they can settle it like men.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Okay, there you go. I know some of you like that.
Based on the texts we get. She's big bone, she's
a woman. I understand why that persists in some quarters.
We probably ought to get some of the audio that
exists of Trump arguing with some governors over the weekend
about uh, men and women's sports, that whole issue.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And it became quite a thing.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
And there are still some governors of your blue states
who are willing to, if not die on that hill,
fight on that hill for you know, a high school
boy breaking the state track record and winning the gold
medal or whatever.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I just I don't get why you're so into this issue.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
But the New York Times reading how Maine has decided
this is the civil rights issue of our time.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Boys being able to beat the crap out of girls
on the sports. Yeah, that's who Trump got into it
with over the weekend, the governor of Maine.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
They had a back and forth over this.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Here's the national polling from the New York Times on this. Overall,
the question being at the top, transgender athletes should not
be allowed to compete in women's sports just as a
blanket statement. It doesn't even say for high school sports.
I gotta believe the number goes up for that probably,
but overall seventy nine percent call it eighty. Since it's
(24:52):
within the plus or minus eighty percent of Americans think
transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete women's sports.
It's an eighty twenty issue. I mean, it's not even
flipping close.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
And I would guess the twenty that's left is includes
at least a small measure of don't knows, And so
the support for this is in the teens. Yeah, and
it's self evidently perverse and everybody knows it. What's disturbing
to me is the incredible influence of a tiny minority
of lunatics.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Right. If you break it down by party, of course,
for Republicans it's ninety four percent, but even for Democrats
it's two thirds, two thirds, and independence two thirds of
Democrats say.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Two thirds of Democrats say no, hold on, no, oh no,
it might be bird flu. Did you hear that?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Probably we've got a quindemic going on?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I might have all four? Could that happen?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Where I have RSV, bird flu, cod covid.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The flu gunnrhea? Is that the other one? The fifth?
I don't hope I don't have all of them at
the same time.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
But if two thirds of Democrats say dudes shouldn't be
competing in women's sports, how is this even a controversy?
We're so misled by the Hollywood in the mainstream media.
Who is their outsized influence of making people think, well,
you know, it's not the sort of thing I should
stay out loud. It's an It's a sixty point win.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
For your side. It's not even close. You could you should?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
You don't call an eighty twenty issue controversial issue. It's
so no yes, and and yet you know it's funny
just as in the side. I heard a really interesting
podcast with a libertarian type author who's talking about the
kind of the dumb side of tribalism and how it
makes you do and say things that you probably shouldn't
be proud of when you know, we're all countrymen and
(26:43):
we ought to be cooperating and let you know, forming coalitions.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Got fell in a joke about what'll settles like men.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
An excellent for instance, anyway, and I thought, you know,
as far as you know what he said, he's right.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Well.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Part of his message was we're not meant to be
political all the time. It's okay to just have relationships
in that sort, and I agree completely with that. On
the other hand, we have allowed ourselves to get into
a situation we're duped, honestly, where virtually the entire public
(27:19):
government educational complex is preaching a radical ideology that's believed
by a.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Teen's percentage of Americans.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
And so, oh my lord, this train has gone way
way down the track. And so I don't think the
option of being well, it's unfortunate, but we can work
on it together. I don't think we're at that point.
We let it get way, way, way too farther. I
give the neo Marxist credit as a political scientist for
(27:49):
being as incredibly effective as they've been. They did it
under the cloak of darkness of misleading everybody about what
they're actually doing.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
So we've gotten a couple of texts from people who
are in government who got the email from Elon about
how you got to come up with five things to
justify your job. Nobody is going to read them, says
this texter. They're just fishing to see who doesn't reply,
because Elon did include if you don't want to do this,
I we'll take that as a resignation, and which is fine.
(28:23):
Maybe you get several thousand people across the country or
tens of thousands of people to do that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
Somebody has to make their list Number one, snappy dresser,
number two, taller than average, Number three.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I make a mean onion dip number four.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You know, I've got most of the plots of Seinfelds memorized.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Or I just make the workplace a funnier place to
be right, with my jokes and witticisms.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Humor makes the workplace more productive, and I'm very very amusing.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, that's an interesting idea.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
You asked the question earlier, and I can't wait till books,
until books are written about this.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Did Trump have any idea Elon was doing that? Or
did Elon fire that off?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Judging by the reaction from a number of Trump appointees,
I would say no, he didn't know, because a lot
of the prominent names you've heard just got approved by
the Senate and all are like, what, wait, No, no,
our people don't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
What so like cash Btel specifically said of the FBI, no,
do don't respond to that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You don't have to.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, yeah, And I believe a Secretary of Treasury said
the same. But the the Department of Transportation, guy whose
name I don't have memorized yet, he was out today.
He said, I told all employees they need to do that,
and here are my five things I did last week.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
So he's on board.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Here's the Cabinet secretary. You don't have to fill out
the list he did. This is all very silly. Oh,
speaking of which, you know, pretty big headline. Cash Bateel
had told Republican senators in private, my deputy head of
the FBI, whatever the title is, will be a career
officer who knows how the FBI works, and because that's
(30:01):
been the tradition the entire time the fbis existed. Well,
for whatever reason, probably because Trump pushed him on it,
he appointed Dan Bongino as his second in command instead
former Secret Service agent Hard Ass and big time radio
host slash podcaster Dan Bongino. So there are a number
of Republican senators who are leaking. We were told this
(30:23):
would not happen, so that you know, there could be
a little attention there. We'll say one more thing from
the Q crowd, which I'm in touch with. The Q
and on crowd are where whatever your news sources are
in the Q and on crowd. Apparently the belief is
that step number one for Cash Mattel, now that he
has been sworn in as a director of the FBI,
(30:44):
is going after Hillary Clinton, the whole pedophile ring. And
so that whole thing is going to be unearthed very quickly. No,
he isn't to know. It won't here on earth. We're
worried about Hillary bilking the world for the Foundation and
just good old fashioned thievery.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Okay, we got more of the ways to hear Armstrong, Heyetty,
when I'm told we have a celebrity death related to
this song. I don't know who sad is.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Dion Warwick, ROBERTA Flack, ROBERTA Flack as a Flack, so
sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
She's very very old. One side?
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Do we do minor celebrity deaths some.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Major celebrity If you're ROBERTA Flack fan, what are we doing? Yes, Katie,
no minor celebrities.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
She had multiple top Billboard hits and she died eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
What's her biggest hit? She Killing Me Softly? Yep, killing
me softly.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Also, I'm a big jazz fan and I was watching
a video the other day with these uh instructors I
really like Top ten jazz albums of all time, and
they had a ROBERTA Flack album on there that I'd
never heard of before.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
And as I was saying, the nation is reeling from
the loss of the great ROBERTA Fly and it's right,
and we take a moment to reflect in.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Her life, she's dead as a hammer. Okay. Interesting, Wow,
great jazz singer. Huh. I guess did not know that.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Okay, you know what, My cynicism has been kicked right
where it deserved.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
To be and has doubled over now and rethinking its ways.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Oh speaking speaking of careers and being in the public eye,
and that a quick indulge me a quick tip of
the cap to my friend Brian Campbell, who won a
PGA Tour event Professional Golf Association Tour event yesterday. He
is an incredible story and an example young phenom, great
(32:46):
college player, got his tour card, which meant he got
to play on the PGA Tour, lost it almost immediately.
He just didn't play well enough to stick around, and
for seven years or so he has been grinding to
get back on the PGA Tour. He finally did. We
had a big party and then but this season has
(33:08):
been very rocky. He like, if you know how golf works,
if you don't play well enough on Thursday and Friday,
you get cut. You don't play on the weekend. And
his first eight tournaments this year or something, I cut cut, cut,
cut fifty first, sixty second cut than he won for
the first time in his entire career. Great guy has
worked like a maniac. I mean beyond when people were
(33:29):
telling him, yeah, I'm not sure it's going to work out,
but it was great to see I yelled louder than
I have for any sports event in twenty years. In
my living room yesterday I couldn't sit down for the
last hour and a half.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Perfect that you brought up golf because I've been meaning
to ask this question. I came across this headline in
the Wall Street Journal yesterday. I don't play golf, but
the weird new putting technique that's driving the golf world nuts.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I can't even imagine you hold the club in your mouth?
Or is it worse than that?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
It's worse than that jacket involves a good deal of vaseline.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh no, we all think it.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
It No, I hinted at something and then you like
drew the picture for some reason, like we're children, couldn't
get my hint.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
It's thinter the mind exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, Michael, thank you for I can't decide which side
he's on. Uh No, it's called it's something called aim point.
If you ever watch golf, the guys, instead of like
just using their eyes to figure out which way a
pot is going to break, which means curve, they like
use their feet to try to assess the slope, and
then they assess what degree of slope. Then they hold
(34:36):
two fingers up next to the cup to pick their
It's time consuming.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Okay, that's not as controversial if they were suitcasing the
butter and making that.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Wow, the pot calls the kettle black. Right now, it's
dopey within golf and it's fine.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
The the thing you know, with the golf friend you
just mentioned, I was telling my kids about this over
the weekend because I'm trying to motivate them to try
harder at various things.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
It seems to be it seemed to be having.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Trouble with that, but that probably got my genetics is
the problem. But one thing I've learned from YouTube that
it has helped give a glimpse into the world of athletes, musicians, writers,
all kinds artists, all kinds of different people of how
much effort they put into being successful. They weren't just
(35:25):
born talented, well, they weren't born talented, But then the
amount of work that you have to put in. Most
of us, even given the talent by God to be
that artist, musician, you, golfer, whatever, wouldn't put in the
time that it takes to ever utilize it.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Two quick bits of wisdom.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Number one, the thing that takes more effort than anything
else is to appear effortless. Takes a tremendous amount of effort. Secondly,
one of the great pianists, I can't remember which one, Rubinstein,
one of those guys. Somebody once said to him, I
would give my life to play piano, give my life
to play the piano like you do.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
And he said I did, right.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
And most of us, like even given the talent, wouldn't
do that. And I think that's helpful to know how
much effort you've got to put in to be successful.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Hopefully, Man, it takes a while to pan out.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Yeah, if you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong
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Speaker 1 (36:16):
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