June 5, 2025 • 35 mins
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- Elon's comments on the Big Beautiful Bill]
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- KJP is releasing a book...
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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, I'm strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up
the bill. But senators I've spoken to say they do
not have time to start on Oliver, especially because the
President wants this bill on his desk by July fourth.
As for now, President Trump, we still have not heard
from him directly on these comments by Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Senior White House official says, well, they were caught off guard.
They weren't entirely surprised by Musk's increasing attacks on the
so called Big Beautiful Bill, and a source telling me
people in the president's orbit are furious about Musk's posts,
including where he said lawmakers should be fired for voting
for the bill, calling it a betrayal, saying it suggests
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is open to funding democratic campaigns.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Things are getting weird, a they getting weird fast, a betrayal.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So here's here's where I went before we get into
the analysis.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I'm pretty sure that first reporter said, especially, okay, we
got to run that again. First clip.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up
the bill, but senators I've spoken to say they do
not have time to start of olliver, especially because the
President wants this.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Move on his desk.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Ye accusation, I retracted Rachel Scott of ABC at pros
pro and I back to you.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
So this is what's bothering me about this. The coverage
and then well the attitude of the politicians, I suppose
should make sense because that's the way they do things.
The coverage in the news of it has been driving
me crazy. So you think it's really like a deep,
complicated story that deserves explanation and like so unusual and
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hard to imagine that Elon, who campaigned for Donald Trump
now is against one of his pieces of a legislation.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You can't accept the fact that.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Almost all voters outside of people who are in Washington,
d c. And work for the government and maybe some
people the media, have things they believe in and believe them,
whether or not they're the politician that they voted for
or their friend or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Goes the other direction. What are you trying to suggest, sir?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Elon has been talking about the debt being unsustainable in
the biggest threat to America for years, and you think.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's why he did the whole Doge business. That's why
he got involved in Trump in the first place. He
thought the Republican Party was the best route to do
something about the debt. And you think it's odd that
he's sticking with principal he believes in, rather than turning
over everything he believes in and going with Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That, to you would be the normal thing to do.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
That's how cynical we are, or how whatever it is
to phony all of politics is. You think the normal
thing to do would have been to just go along
with Trump. The abnormal thing to do is to continue
to believe what you've been saying for years.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That bothers me, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I think what that is is the the media no
longer notices the tribalism, the naked like una mitigated tribalism
they've It's just it's the air around them, so they
don't even bother to notice its presence.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And I guess think it used to be that way.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I'd have to think more. I feel like there used
to be politicians, for instance, that were known for and
there still are a few like Rand Paul is known
as a fiscal conservative that's not gonna go with you know,
this bill, which he's not. But in general, it's all
about no, no, no, you stick with your tribe, and if
somebody breaks away from the tribe, that's really really weird
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as opposed to well.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The guy's been saying this about, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Pick your topic immigration or tariffs or whatever for you know.
I guess because we've seen so many people flip their
opinion completely to go along with Joe Biden or Donald
Trump or whoever, that that's become the norm.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm looking at Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You could easily write the headline or the story from
the point of view. Elon Musk has such serious concerns
about the bill. He has suggested revamping it. That's not
very good soap opera stuff, but that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Well, he called it a what a disgusting abomination or
something like that. That's a little stronger than I have
some concerns about this.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, I'm a middle child and everybody who voted for
it should be ashamed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, I think that's stronger than he has serious concerns.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I like that the Wall Street Journal their words were.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I thought I captured him maybe I didn't.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I believe the Wall Street Journal called Trump and Musk
the two most powerful men in the world. If you
look at it that way. If they aren't, they're close.
They're in the top five. Yeah, if they're if if
you look at it that way, it's pretty interesting. I mean,
you know, on its own, but from Elon Musk's Twitter feed,
I thought this was an interesting His pinned tweet at
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the top today and Elon has two hundred and twenty
million followers by the way he runs the thing he
retweeted somebody in journalism, Fox News Comments is a great
place to understand conservative views since it gets so much traffic.
I was curious what people were saying about Elon s
talking the Big Beautiful Bill, and I'm shocked. Almost every
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comment on the Fox News Comments is in agreement with Elon.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Wow. I thought that was fascinating, especially because.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Fox News has gone way out of its way to
be Trump friendly. I think right Elon Musk, this was
a year and a half ago. He was at some
speech and he said the Defense Department budget is a
very big budget. It's a trillion dollars a year, and
interest payments on the National jet just exceeded the Defense
Department budget. They're over a trillion dollars a year just
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in interest in rising. We're adding a trillion dollars to
our debt, which our kids and grad kids are going
to have to pay somehow every three months, and then
soon it's going to be every two months, and then
every month, and then the only thing we'll be able
to pay is interest. And it's just like a person
at scale that has racked up too much credit card debt.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
This does not have a good ending. We have to
reduce spending. He said that a year and a half ago.
He's been talking about that forever.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So when he.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Sticks with his principles. The odd thing is that he's
stuck with his principles. I find that disgusting. But that's
the end of my point on that. Well said, well said.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Indeed. Elon is also.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Allegedly highly annoyed that a good friend, associate teammate of
his was yanked from the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Nomination to be the head of NASA.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This Isaacson, what's his first name, mister Isaacson, whatever his
name is, because the Trump administration says, because he donated
to Democrats in the.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Past, yeah, we should run this clip this news clip,
because that hits to what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Some Republicans suggest Musk maybe motivated by his own self interest,
sources telling us he's frustrated the bill cuts the electric
Vehicle tax credit, which benefits Tesla owners. They say he's
also annoyed Trump struck deals with rival AI companies, and
that Trump withdrew his choice for NASA administrator.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
So the pushback from the Republicans in some cases is
to try to make Elon look like he's just a
self serving, you know whatever, like any other politician, which you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Know could absolutely be in there.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
But like I just read, he is saying things that
are indisputably.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
True about our debt.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
There is no arguing that how did he go broke
gradually then suddenly that's what we're doing? When he points
that out, he doesn't there don't. I would believe that
even if the ev tax credits were in there, he'd
still be against this.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Uh yeah, I think so. I think so.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
He has shown no or very very few signs of
being a go along to get along guy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
In a dozen different areas.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So yeah, again, it's the soap opera deliciousness of this
that is driving most of the coverage. It's no good
for the country. But the mainstream media doesn't care what's
good for the country. They don't spend a single second
thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
He is going to lose this argument, I think.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
So what do you think about him, you know, basically
trying to whip senators against the big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's saying, don't vote for it. Kill the bill, Kill
the bill.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
He was running that all day long yesterday on his
Twitter feed, in every interview he could do. Kill the bill,
Kill the bill. Do you think he's got the power
to have any swam on that. A's listening to one
news report where it's a senators have the tough choice
to deciding between Elon Musk and Trump. I think they're
gonna go with the guy who leads their party.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I would agree.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I could see it emboldening another one or two Senators
to push a little harder, maybe another one or two
congress people to hold the line a little bit longer,
and some of the reforms they need as a major
change driver. No, I don't think so, which is too bad. Honestly,
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I mean, I really really appreciate him saying this stuff.
As anybody who's been listening to the show for an
extended period. Nos, We've been howling this stuff for a
long time now. It is the world's most predictable disaster.
Unless as we were discussing yesterday, I believe is now
ur three of the show. If you aren't listening, you
can grab it viboodcast Armstrong and getting on demand, or
(10:01):
I'll just recap it here very briefly. It is increasingly
believed in some circles, including the that the plan is
because there is no will among the electorate to raise
taxes and there is no will among the electorate to
cut services. We are going to solve this through rampant inflation.
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The twenty trillion dollars we owe today won't be worth
very much after a lot of inflation for ten years,
so we get paid off fairly easily with our new
super cheap, worthless currency.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Our old friend David Drucker, who we've met on the
air many times, he usually has his finger on the
pulse of Congress when they're trying to work their way
through bills and talk to a lot of people about
how they're going to vote. Here's his current thinking on that, and.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
So there just isn't a lot of support for the
kind of fiscal restraint that used to sort of characterize
the Republican Party, at least philosophically.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, four or five conservative Republicans left in the
House that say no to.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
This, well, yea, if it's saying it's not saying no
to this, it's saying no to President Donald Trump, and
their voters trust Trump more than they trust them. So
as long as Trump wants this bill, this bill is
likely to pass. One way or the other.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Bill is likely to pass.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
According to David Drucker, who's as good as anybody on
reporting on the Hill.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
One way or the other, what bill though? What bill
will pass?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Because the Senate still hasn't responded to the House is
the pogle with their own.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I understand your point, but it's going to be more
or less what it is now. There aren't going to
be any major changes. It's going to be it's going
to be a disgusting abomination. It's going to be spending.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, maybe it ends up not being two point seven trillion,
it's two point six and.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
A half trillion or whatever, but it's going to be mostly.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This Executive producer Hanson urging us to play clip forty seven,
Senator John Kennedy, we will play it, Hanson, if you
assure me this there will be.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No forced homespun charm. If you haven't heard this, this
is really good. Let's do it.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Here's what's driving and this is ultimately why I think
the bill will patch. We're in uncharted waters here with
the tears. Well, I think the markets should tell us
that we don't know what impact they're going to have
in the economy, but if we don't extend those tax cuts,
we're going into a recession and our economy is going
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to be on a journey to the center of the Earth.
And ultimately, I think that's why the bill passed.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Ah, that was dangerously close at the end, Ye then
to the center of the earth.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I absolved myself in that. That's not the clip I
was thinking of that I saw yesterday. He did some
grilling in Congress about this that I thought was very
very honest, like shockingly honest from a senator.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Although the first.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Ninety percent of it you're saying, look, we got to
extend the tax cuts, no matter, Oh my.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
God, and the Democrats are going huge on the whole
tax once again, tax cuts for the rich well punish
the poor. Everybody, the Washington Post, whoever you want to
talk to, from the twenty seventeen tax cuts have looked
into it and made the point. The fact checker in
the Washington Post, it's mostly middle class tax cuts. It
just is you're lying when you claim it's tax cuts
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for the rich.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's just a lie.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Maybe you still think it's a bad idea because we're
going broke, but don't claim it's for the rich.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
One of the most sobering and disappointing realities of politics
that we all learn sooner or later is that a
lot of a lot of it revolves around the lowest information.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Voters, and everyone knows it.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Thank you, Marjorie, who's now against the bill Handsome for
interesting AI reasons we'll have to talk about later. Hanson
made a new song with the AI that he played
for me yesterday. We've got to get on the air.
It's so good, among other things.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
On the way Strong So, our executive producer.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Versus this speaker, Mike Johnson says he's going to talk
to elon today. There is a chance, by the way,
that this turns really fun in terms of the soap opera.
I care about, you know, fiscal sanity and not going
broke as a country mostly and not the soap opera
that DC is obsessed with. But it could turn with
Elon and Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Those two guys are capable of if one of them
fires the first shot of Oh boy, you're an ass hat,
and then Elon says, why don't you go f yourself
in the face? Oh wow, wow, hey ho. That was
a That is something he said to a major figure
in the news on his Twitter feed. I think that
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is newsworthy. He called Mark Zuckerberg a pedophile, didn't he?
I mean he has said things like that two big
deals in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
On his Twitter.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So what you're saying is if the country's going to
go to hell, at least make it entertaining. So it's
not beyond either one of them, especially if they both
start in.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
It could turn crazy entertaining. So look forward to that.
So our exec executive duce Our Hansen has started crafting
songs with the help of AI. This one is based
on we have a tendency after the show is over,
Joe and Ida to say things like, you know, well
that one sucked, but we'll try to be better tomorrow
or that sort of thing. It's just kind of a
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like a running joke of I don't know, lighthearted bans. Yeah,
start the music, Michael, I forgot to tell you to
start the music because there's a long piano rampop, and
so Mike Hanson gave the cue to the AI to
do kind of a seventies soft rock based on some
things we said yesterday after the show.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
In that spirit, let's try to put this one behind.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Nice.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Just tamp down the shame early John five. Maybe we
do better tomorrow unless we continue to be so lame.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
This kind of that.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Drum film coming from a mile away and this kind
of guitar solo before it gets into the chorus. I mean,
it is amazing that with like just a few prompts
seventy soft rock couple of phrases.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It crafts this song. It's frightening and horrifying. We got
the chorus coming up that I think he'll enjoy it. Oh,
there's more strong and any show. Just tap down, just
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tamp down the shade. Maybe we do. We're all swaying
back and forth in the arms in the air. So
it is absolutely clear that in.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Putting together it's stick, it's seventies soft rock style. They
absolutely studied Elton John's songs. There are a couple of
characteristics a chordal in straight.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Out of old Reg Dwight's songbook.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's amazing. I don't know where all of this is going.
We do need to talk about AI though. I started
reading a new book that has me scared to death.
But maybe we'll get to that later, so we don't
go all the world's coming to an end on you,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
This book Independent, It's about looking outside of boxes, not
just always being in a partisan stance, and how do
we move forward together in a compassionate way, in a
way that really truly cares about people.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So little KJP is putting a book out. Let's hear
that next clip, Michael an era.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
Of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we're
seeing currently right now. What I have decided to do,
and I really have thought long and hard about this,
is to follow my own compass. And here's the truth,
and here's how I will lay it out to you.
I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and
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think outside of our boxes and not be so partisan.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
You know, so the way this struck me, and I
think I have a different take on it than most
of conservative media about this.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
If it might set it up very quickly. Little KJP
has a new book out about her experiences in the
White House and also has announced she's leaving the Democratic
Party and is becoming an independent, hence her charting her
own courses.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
First, some of the clips I heard, she sounded way
more intelligent, thoughtful, and believable herself in all the clips
that I heard than she ever did at the White
House podium. I do still think that she was not
cut out for that job for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But she had two choices doing that job.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
She was either going to go out there and tell
the lies the best she could that she was told
to tell, or resign. Those were her two options, no
other fudgerom whatsoever. You were either gonna go out there
and sell those lies the best you could.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Seeing the guy every day she is watching news, she
had c span she is in the White House and
to go out there and claim, no, he's got more energety.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I mean, she was either gonna do.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
The bagdad bob thing, or she was gonna resign.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Those were her two choices. I don't know what you
would have done. I'm not sure. Well I think I
don't think I could do it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But no, no, you couldn't for for reasons that are admirable.
I said many times that at the time when she
was the press secretary, she's terrible at her job, just
absolutely terrible. On the other hand, as I pointed out
many times, she is sent out there to defend the
indefensible on a daily basis, and that is not easy work.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So both are true.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Now she's gonna we need to be less partisan and
outside the boxes.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I agree completely with her on that I have.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That might be her particular box would not suit me
very much, true.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But that might be her true belief.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Sure, she just had was got that job somehow, and then,
you know, did it the best you could. I mean, so,
I don't know what she actually believes. But if you're
her agent and trying to make you help her make
money coming off of this gig of a lifetime, These
these white House press people often come out and go
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on to great lives of you know, a cable news
show or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They make a lot of money. What would you tell her?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I thought it was interesting she decided not to be
a Democrat anymore, to go no party. That doesn't seem
like the best way to land an MSNBC show, which
is kind of where I thought she would end up, right.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Unless from her point of view, and I see her
as a pretty progressive, far lefty who knows what her
true colors are, like her true hair color, who knows?
But I think she's a far lefty, So she might
be fine if she's gonna say that the Democratic Party
is too centrist, we need a revolution in this country,
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which she might say, but it is absolutely a terrible
look for the Democratic Party in the brand that their
press secretary, their.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
White House press. That's a good point, flees their party.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's a good you know, within a few months of
being out of the White House.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That was lost on me, And of course the lefty
media did not make a big deal out of that.
If if what's his name, Spencer Spicer, Spiser Spicer, if
Sean Spicer, how could I not come up with his name?
I watch him almost every day because he's on Mark
Alpern's show.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
If Sean Spicer.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Had come out a couple of months, like ninety days
after he left his job and said I'm leaving the
Republican Party. What an earthquake of a news story that
would have been and seen as a rejection of trump Ism.
Little KGP comes out and says, I'm leaving the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That's that's a pretty big story.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, Unfortunately, Jack and I hate this. People are saying
snarky things like this one well known White House reporter
who said, did she when what's told she was writing
a book? Did she find the manuscript somewhere in that
fat binder she toed it around. If I were a
historian writing about the White House, I wouldn't ignore what
Karine has to say. But it's not an account in
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which much weight will be invested, just like her briefings,
said the reporter.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I wonder if she's CNN's trying to have the you know,
we're we're not part of any party brand, which is
kind of hilarious given their coverage. But maybe she's already
got a show lined up on CNN and part of
the deal was come out, say you're not with any party,
do the book to her, and then he got your
you know, your evening slot on CNN or news that
might be the place. You know, you land there and
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you do a show after Andrew Cuomo for what it's worth,
and this will be Chris Cloma. I get the Clomo's
mixed up. Everybody, which one lifts weights and which one
gropes women and kills old people?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Andrew and Chris respectively. Honey, my sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I listened to a an hour and a half long
interview with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about there Joe Bidel,
but Joe Biden's senile as can be. Who Barry Weiss
of the Free Press. Yeah, and it was. It was very,
very interesting. Jake is still just trying so hard to
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thread the needle of Yes, everybody noticed it, and yes
everybody knew it, but we didn't know it because we
were misled by our sources.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And I'm sticking to that. And I look back with
humble nuts or whatever he's been saying. It was uncomfortable
to listen to because it's so weasily.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But the extent to which everybody close to the president
was one hundred cognizant of his non cognizance is just
it's now completely beyond dispute. Nobody could even hint that
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people anywhere close to them were unaware of his decline.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, I don't give a pass to Jake Tepper for
the reasons we've stated a thousand times. If two thirds
or more of the American people knew it with no.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Sources, come on.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
But I could see that if because according to the book,
you know, it was just like five people, like the
closest handful of people that controlled everything. And if you
were friends with these people and you trusted and believed him,
and you knew him for years, and they were lying
to your face, oh no, no, behind the scenes, he's fine,
trust me, which is what they were.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Doing, right, That was actually what I was working toward.
It struck me that.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Because they have the access that they do, that's where
their attention is toward their sources, toward their cool. I'm
close to power sources, and they're they are muscles of
just everyday dopes like ourselves, observation atrophy. They become dependent
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on the pipelines that they're dependent on, and it struck me.
I'm not expressing this very well, but it struck me
that they are so close, well, they can't see the
forest for the trees. Maybe that's the best way to
put it that all of the rest of us didn't
have any problems seeing the shape of the forest, and
it was unmistakable that shape and what it meant just unmistakable.
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But those who are close to the halls of power,
and you know, and I'm trying to be at least
somewhat charitable here, dependent on and they have the privilege
of getting really great insider information, they are much much
more easily misled than people like us.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And I'm talking about you, good folks as well as Jackets.
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You could have the entire cabinet stand up and sing
in luscious three part harmony that Joe Biden was as
sharp as hell and we were gratified to have him
as president.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And I'd laughed.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
But if I spend my life and career listening to
these people and trusting them and writing, a source close
to the president said, I guess I could see where
you get misled, right, But it's sad you're a journalist,
which is, you know, part of the reason we've never
really pursued being among the I mean, they wouldn't have
us anyway, but being among the power in the elite
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and the Beltway crowd and all that idea just disgusts me.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I took that from imas listening to Imus back in
the day early on, he would say, and I mean
he ended up being very powerful in the news world
at the height of his powers. You can't go to
those parties.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You can't. You can't, you can't go. You just can't
do that. You gotta stay away from most people. I
think he's right.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So coming up, among other things, we got another you know,
high school sports are coming to an end. My son's
high school. They got some state championship stuff going on.
Another trans story. You got girls softball trans pitcher dominates
and wins the state championship.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
A boy, you mean a young man? Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And also the Washington Post with an article of maybe
ice bads aren't a good idea. And I hadn't jumped
in one yet, but.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I was thinking about it. I just ordered my.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Ice pool among other things on the way stay here.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well some more business news.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
So the Jet Blue and United Airlines are forming a
new partnership that will link their two companies.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
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Speaker 11 (27:47):
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new partnership. Now you'll be able to choose for more flights,
transfer miles, and enjoy your reward status on both airlines.
Jet Blue in United it's time to fly.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
It turns out it's inspired two other airlines to partner up.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Really look at this that I saw. Hey, get a
load of it. Spirited Frontier hooking up this summer. Now
you'll be able to do shots with the pilot. Smoke
in the bathroom can bring you emotional support. Raccoon on
both airlines, Spirited Frontier. Bring something to watch on your
phone because your flights getting delayed. No, I can to
the point, it's very to the point.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I got my real ID in the mail, so I
can now fly again like an adult in the United
States of America if I need to. So that's very exciting.
I now have a real ideation because of nine to eleven,
I've got my real ID.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Right and immigration or something. Anyway, congratulation.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
A couple of stories for you. I'll go with this
sports one first w NBA without Caitlin Clark feeling the hurt.
She has been hurt for the first time in her
career college or pro. Then out for a couple of weeks,
ratings have tanked, attendances tanked immediate. It's tough when you're
the league's barely perceptible. You know, hot streak is all based.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
On one player.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
That makes it rough different sports story. And you might
remember Minnesota attempted to, or at least some people in
Minnesota attempted to a couple of months back, pass a
no Dudes in Girls' Sports Act. That's not what it
was called, but they tried to pass in it. It
didn't make it. And now you have the results of that,
in that you've got this girls softball team with a
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dude pitcher that is going to the state championship.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
The picture has been dominating all season at.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Well done, sir, well done as a pitcher and a
hitter and a bunch of key hits that allowed the
team to move on through.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The state championship, probably because he's a dude. I'm looking
at the picture. This this, this picture is huge compared
to the other girls. I mean, like way bigger compared
to the girls. You mean, yeah, you know, if you
want to.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Be technical it, Minnesota, Minnesota, I do, I really do.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, he might remember that name.
He's come up many times with many stories over the years.
He is the attorney general there in Minnesota. He said,
in addition to getting exercise and the fun of competition,
playing sports comes with so many benefits to young people.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's the first thing he said on this story.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Oh wow, and then and then I believe it is
wrong to single out one group of students who already
face higher levels of bullying harassment and tell these kids
they cannot be on the team because of who they are.
I will continue to defend their rights. I will continue
to defend the rights of all students to play sports
with their friends and peers. There's been a lot of
idiotic There's been a lawsuit from one of the girls
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on one of the teams that lost. You might remember
Trump did the executive order of no Dudes in Girls'
Sports or whatever it was called. Minnesota is openly defying it,
and now it's being challenging. It's got to make its
way through the courts to see if President Trump can do.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That for states or not.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Whack him upside the head with Title nine. Baby, let's
do it.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
One of the players involved in the lawsuit said this
in a statement It is upsetting to see a male
athlete dominating our sport and taking opportunities away from girls
who have worked hard all season to make it to
the championship game in the state tournament. On top of
the unfairness, it oftentimes is a risk to play a
physical sport like softball against a male athlete.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Can you go back to that.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Quote from Keith Ellison, that's the response to that the
first part or the yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
In addition to getting exercise in the fun of competition,
playing sports comes with so many benefits for young people.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Well right, or I don't believe in discriminating against people
who already face a high level of something or other. NOI, Keith, Hello,
it's a dude playing in girls sports and he's big,
and he's strong, and he's dominating. You know. I think
back to my new slogan, which was going to be
cut the crap. This is a perfect example for America,
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Keith Ellison, cut the crap.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Quit with that. You're not fooling anybody.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
You're not bullying anybody with that garbage, that greeting card,
rhetoric about inclusion and crap. It's a dude playing sports
and whooping up on the girls.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's what it is, Call it what it is and
cut the crap. So a different story.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
We've got a long time client, Steve lomof Good Dude,
who've known for a long time, who we are talking
to a while back, and he swears by cold plunges,
ice baths or whatever you want to call them. They're
not literally ice, but it's like really cold water that
you get into early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
He hates it.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
He's not the sort of person that likes it anymore
than you would like it. He says, he absolutely hates it.
Every morning he thinks he's not going to do it
and forces himself to do it because he's gotten such
great results out of it and sleeping better, all kinds
of different things. And this has been a hot story
for a while. The Washington posts out today are cold
plunges good for you? Here's what the science says. Cold
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plunges are very popular, but in a new study shows
they may interfere with blah blah blah blah blah. I
just wanted to bring up I haven't read the article,
but I wanted to bring up this phenomenon that happens
in the media all the time. Just so you can
spot it, and it's just as tired as could be
if you're a person who reads headlines all the time.
So they'll be a new diet like intermittent fasting, and
then every newspaper you read or news show, we'll talk
(33:21):
about how great it is. And then once that's like
saturated and kind of like it's tired, then they got
to come out, Yeah, you got to come out a
week later with why intermittent fasting might not be as
good as you think it is. So and then you
get all the clicks on that, and everybody does that
for a while, and usually both sides of it are
(33:42):
crap or mostly crap. So now get ready for the
why ice plunges aren't everything people claim they are stories
for a while, and whether they are or not, I
haven't got the slightest idea, and you're probably not going
to learn it from reading any of those.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Articles, ah right right indeed, and actually on that topic,
to sort of more or less, I suspect very strongly
that the ice plunges or whatever you want to call them,
cold plunges are probably really good for some people and
not really good for others, and maybe bad for others
and it might depend on genetics or other factors. I
(34:17):
was just reading that they've figured out the gene mutation,
and I always figured it was that let some people
function perfectly well on say, four hours of sleep.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Uh wow, talk about we're going to get into AI
crossing paths with you know, chrispur and everything else happening
at the same time, gene editing. I wonder if you
can edit your genes to where you're you're you know,
you're a five hour a night person. Your kid is
going to be a five hour a night person for sleep?
Would you do well for your baby?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Sleep?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
We all sleep. Why don't we get into this next hour?
It's pretty interesting. Heck yeah, that's the first one I've
come across where I thought I might be willing to
do that.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I have to put more thought into it, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And now Jack's playing God. We knew he was an egomaniac,
didn't we?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Folks? Now it's theur of your proof.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Why wouldn't Why wouldn't you want to have a kid
who can get by in five hours of sleep a
day like some people can't?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Can I do it to me? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
It is it too late to edit my jeans, my
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And Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up
the bill. But senators I've spoken to say they do
not have time to start on Oliver, especially because the
President wants this bill on his desk by July fourth.
As for now, President Trump, we still have not heard
from him directly on these comments by Elon Musk.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Senior White House official says, well, they were caught off guard.
They weren't entirely surprised by Musk's increasing attacks on the
so called Big Beautiful Bill, and a source telling me
people in the president's orbit are furious about Musk's posts,
including where he said lawmakers should be fired for voting
for the bill, calling it a betrayal, saying it suggests
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is open to funding democratic campaigns.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Things are getting weird, a they getting weird fast, a betrayal.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So here's here's where I went before we get into
the analysis.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I'm pretty sure that first reporter said, especially, okay, we
got to run that again. First clip.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So Musk is also calling on Republicans to rip up
the bill, but senators I've spoken to say they do
not have time to start of olliver, especially because the
President wants this.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Move on his desk.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Ye accusation, I retracted Rachel Scott of ABC at pros
pro and I back to you.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
So this is what's bothering me about this. The coverage
and then well the attitude of the politicians, I suppose
should make sense because that's the way they do things.
The coverage in the news of it has been driving
me crazy. So you think it's really like a deep,
complicated story that deserves explanation and like so unusual and
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hard to imagine that Elon, who campaigned for Donald Trump
now is against one of his pieces of a legislation.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You can't accept the fact that.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Almost all voters outside of people who are in Washington,
d c. And work for the government and maybe some
people the media, have things they believe in and believe them,
whether or not they're the politician that they voted for
or their friend or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Goes the other direction. What are you trying to suggest, sir?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Elon has been talking about the debt being unsustainable in
the biggest threat to America for years, and you think.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's why he did the whole Doge business. That's why
he got involved in Trump in the first place. He
thought the Republican Party was the best route to do
something about the debt. And you think it's odd that
he's sticking with principal he believes in, rather than turning
over everything he believes in and going with Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That, to you would be the normal thing to do.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
That's how cynical we are, or how whatever it is
to phony all of politics is. You think the normal
thing to do would have been to just go along
with Trump. The abnormal thing to do is to continue
to believe what you've been saying for years.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That bothers me, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I think what that is is the the media no
longer notices the tribalism, the naked like una mitigated tribalism
they've It's just it's the air around them, so they
don't even bother to notice its presence.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And I guess think it used to be that way.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I'd have to think more. I feel like there used
to be politicians, for instance, that were known for and
there still are a few like Rand Paul is known
as a fiscal conservative that's not gonna go with you know,
this bill, which he's not. But in general, it's all
about no, no, no, you stick with your tribe, and if
somebody breaks away from the tribe, that's really really weird
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as opposed to well.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
The guy's been saying this about, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Pick your topic immigration or tariffs or whatever for you know.
I guess because we've seen so many people flip their
opinion completely to go along with Joe Biden or Donald
Trump or whoever, that that's become the norm.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm looking at Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You could easily write the headline or the story from
the point of view. Elon Musk has such serious concerns
about the bill. He has suggested revamping it. That's not
very good soap opera stuff, but that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Well, he called it a what a disgusting abomination or
something like that. That's a little stronger than I have
some concerns about this.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, I'm a middle child and everybody who voted for
it should be ashamed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, I think that's stronger than he has serious concerns.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
I like that the Wall Street Journal their words were.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I thought I captured him maybe I didn't.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I believe the Wall Street Journal called Trump and Musk
the two most powerful men in the world. If you
look at it that way. If they aren't, they're close.
They're in the top five. Yeah, if they're if if
you look at it that way, it's pretty interesting. I mean,
you know, on its own, but from Elon Musk's Twitter feed,
I thought this was an interesting His pinned tweet at
(05:20):
the top today and Elon has two hundred and twenty
million followers by the way he runs the thing he
retweeted somebody in journalism, Fox News Comments is a great
place to understand conservative views since it gets so much traffic.
I was curious what people were saying about Elon s
talking the Big Beautiful Bill, and I'm shocked. Almost every
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comment on the Fox News Comments is in agreement with Elon.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Wow. I thought that was fascinating, especially because.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Fox News has gone way out of its way to
be Trump friendly. I think right Elon Musk, this was
a year and a half ago. He was at some
speech and he said the Defense Department budget is a
very big budget. It's a trillion dollars a year, and
interest payments on the National jet just exceeded the Defense
Department budget. They're over a trillion dollars a year just
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in interest in rising. We're adding a trillion dollars to
our debt, which our kids and grad kids are going
to have to pay somehow every three months, and then
soon it's going to be every two months, and then
every month, and then the only thing we'll be able
to pay is interest. And it's just like a person
at scale that has racked up too much credit card debt.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
This does not have a good ending. We have to
reduce spending. He said that a year and a half ago.
He's been talking about that forever.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So when he.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Sticks with his principles. The odd thing is that he's
stuck with his principles. I find that disgusting. But that's
the end of my point on that. Well said, well said.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Indeed. Elon is also.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Allegedly highly annoyed that a good friend, associate teammate of
his was yanked from the.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Nomination to be the head of NASA.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This Isaacson, what's his first name, mister Isaacson, whatever his
name is, because the Trump administration says, because he donated
to Democrats in the.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Past, yeah, we should run this clip this news clip,
because that hits to what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Some Republicans suggest Musk maybe motivated by his own self interest,
sources telling us he's frustrated the bill cuts the electric
Vehicle tax credit, which benefits Tesla owners. They say he's
also annoyed Trump struck deals with rival AI companies, and
that Trump withdrew his choice for NASA administrator.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
So the pushback from the Republicans in some cases is
to try to make Elon look like he's just a
self serving, you know whatever, like any other politician, which you.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Know could absolutely be in there.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
But like I just read, he is saying things that
are indisputably.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
True about our debt.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
There is no arguing that how did he go broke
gradually then suddenly that's what we're doing? When he points
that out, he doesn't there don't. I would believe that
even if the ev tax credits were in there, he'd
still be against this.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Uh yeah, I think so. I think so.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
He has shown no or very very few signs of
being a go along to get along guy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
In a dozen different areas.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So yeah, again, it's the soap opera deliciousness of this
that is driving most of the coverage. It's no good
for the country. But the mainstream media doesn't care what's
good for the country. They don't spend a single second
thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
He is going to lose this argument, I think.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
So what do you think about him, you know, basically
trying to whip senators against the big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He's saying, don't vote for it. Kill the bill, Kill
the bill.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
He was running that all day long yesterday on his
Twitter feed, in every interview he could do. Kill the bill,
Kill the bill. Do you think he's got the power
to have any swam on that. A's listening to one
news report where it's a senators have the tough choice
to deciding between Elon Musk and Trump. I think they're
gonna go with the guy who leads their party.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I would agree.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I could see it emboldening another one or two Senators
to push a little harder, maybe another one or two
congress people to hold the line a little bit longer,
and some of the reforms they need as a major
change driver. No, I don't think so, which is too bad. Honestly,
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I mean, I really really appreciate him saying this stuff.
As anybody who's been listening to the show for an
extended period. Nos, We've been howling this stuff for a
long time now. It is the world's most predictable disaster.
Unless as we were discussing yesterday, I believe is now
ur three of the show. If you aren't listening, you
can grab it viboodcast Armstrong and getting on demand, or
(10:01):
I'll just recap it here very briefly. It is increasingly
believed in some circles, including the that the plan is
because there is no will among the electorate to raise
taxes and there is no will among the electorate to
cut services. We are going to solve this through rampant inflation.
(10:24):
The twenty trillion dollars we owe today won't be worth
very much after a lot of inflation for ten years,
so we get paid off fairly easily with our new
super cheap, worthless currency.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Our old friend David Drucker, who we've met on the
air many times, he usually has his finger on the
pulse of Congress when they're trying to work their way
through bills and talk to a lot of people about
how they're going to vote. Here's his current thinking on that, and.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
So there just isn't a lot of support for the
kind of fiscal restraint that used to sort of characterize
the Republican Party, at least philosophically.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, four or five conservative Republicans left in the
House that say no to.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
This, well, yea, if it's saying it's not saying no
to this, it's saying no to President Donald Trump, and
their voters trust Trump more than they trust them. So
as long as Trump wants this bill, this bill is
likely to pass. One way or the other.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Bill is likely to pass.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
According to David Drucker, who's as good as anybody on
reporting on the Hill.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
One way or the other, what bill though? What bill
will pass?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Because the Senate still hasn't responded to the House is
the pogle with their own.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I understand your point, but it's going to be more
or less what it is now. There aren't going to
be any major changes. It's going to be it's going
to be a disgusting abomination. It's going to be spending.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Okay, maybe it ends up not being two point seven trillion,
it's two point six and.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
A half trillion or whatever, but it's going to be mostly.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
This Executive producer Hanson urging us to play clip forty seven,
Senator John Kennedy, we will play it, Hanson, if you
assure me this there will be.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
No forced homespun charm. If you haven't heard this, this
is really good. Let's do it.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Here's what's driving and this is ultimately why I think
the bill will patch. We're in uncharted waters here with
the tears. Well, I think the markets should tell us
that we don't know what impact they're going to have
in the economy, but if we don't extend those tax cuts,
we're going into a recession and our economy is going
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to be on a journey to the center of the Earth.
And ultimately, I think that's why the bill passed.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Ah, that was dangerously close at the end, Ye then
to the center of the earth.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I absolved myself in that. That's not the clip I
was thinking of that I saw yesterday. He did some
grilling in Congress about this that I thought was very
very honest, like shockingly honest from a senator.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Although the first.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Ninety percent of it you're saying, look, we got to
extend the tax cuts, no matter, Oh my.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
God, and the Democrats are going huge on the whole
tax once again, tax cuts for the rich well punish
the poor. Everybody, the Washington Post, whoever you want to
talk to, from the twenty seventeen tax cuts have looked
into it and made the point. The fact checker in
the Washington Post, it's mostly middle class tax cuts. It
just is you're lying when you claim it's tax cuts
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for the rich.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's just a lie.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Maybe you still think it's a bad idea because we're
going broke, but don't claim it's for the rich.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
One of the most sobering and disappointing realities of politics
that we all learn sooner or later is that a
lot of a lot of it revolves around the lowest information.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Voters, and everyone knows it.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Thank you, Marjorie, who's now against the bill Handsome for
interesting AI reasons we'll have to talk about later. Hanson
made a new song with the AI that he played
for me yesterday. We've got to get on the air.
It's so good, among other things.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
On the way Strong So, our executive producer.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Versus this speaker, Mike Johnson says he's going to talk
to elon today. There is a chance, by the way,
that this turns really fun in terms of the soap opera.
I care about, you know, fiscal sanity and not going
broke as a country mostly and not the soap opera
that DC is obsessed with. But it could turn with
Elon and Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Those two guys are capable of if one of them
fires the first shot of Oh boy, you're an ass hat,
and then Elon says, why don't you go f yourself
in the face? Oh wow, wow, hey ho. That was
a That is something he said to a major figure
in the news on his Twitter feed. I think that
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is newsworthy. He called Mark Zuckerberg a pedophile, didn't he?
I mean he has said things like that two big
deals in the past.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
On his Twitter.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
So what you're saying is if the country's going to
go to hell, at least make it entertaining. So it's
not beyond either one of them, especially if they both
start in.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
It could turn crazy entertaining. So look forward to that.
So our exec executive duce Our Hansen has started crafting
songs with the help of AI. This one is based
on we have a tendency after the show is over,
Joe and Ida to say things like, you know, well
that one sucked, but we'll try to be better tomorrow
or that sort of thing. It's just kind of a
(15:15):
like a running joke of I don't know, lighthearted bans. Yeah,
start the music, Michael, I forgot to tell you to
start the music because there's a long piano rampop, and
so Mike Hanson gave the cue to the AI to
do kind of a seventies soft rock based on some
things we said yesterday after the show.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
In that spirit, let's try to put this one behind.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Nice.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Just tamp down the shame early John five. Maybe we
do better tomorrow unless we continue to be so lame.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
This kind of that.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Drum film coming from a mile away and this kind
of guitar solo before it gets into the chorus. I mean,
it is amazing that with like just a few prompts
seventy soft rock couple of phrases.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
It crafts this song. It's frightening and horrifying. We got
the chorus coming up that I think he'll enjoy it. Oh,
there's more strong and any show. Just tap down, just
(16:34):
tamp down the shade. Maybe we do. We're all swaying
back and forth in the arms in the air. So
it is absolutely clear that in.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Putting together it's stick, it's seventies soft rock style. They
absolutely studied Elton John's songs. There are a couple of
characteristics a chordal in straight.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Out of old Reg Dwight's songbook.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's amazing. I don't know where all of this is going.
We do need to talk about AI though. I started
reading a new book that has me scared to death.
But maybe we'll get to that later, so we don't
go all the world's coming to an end on you,
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
This book Independent, It's about looking outside of boxes, not
just always being in a partisan stance, and how do
we move forward together in a compassionate way, in a
way that really truly cares about people.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So little KJP is putting a book out. Let's hear
that next clip, Michael an era.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
Of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we're
seeing currently right now. What I have decided to do,
and I really have thought long and hard about this,
is to follow my own compass. And here's the truth,
and here's how I will lay it out to you.
I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and
(18:03):
think outside of our boxes and not be so partisan.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
You know, so the way this struck me, and I
think I have a different take on it than most
of conservative media about this.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
If it might set it up very quickly. Little KJP
has a new book out about her experiences in the
White House and also has announced she's leaving the Democratic
Party and is becoming an independent, hence her charting her
own courses.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
First, some of the clips I heard, she sounded way
more intelligent, thoughtful, and believable herself in all the clips
that I heard than she ever did at the White
House podium. I do still think that she was not
cut out for that job for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But she had two choices doing that job.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
She was either going to go out there and tell
the lies the best she could that she was told
to tell, or resign. Those were her two options, no
other fudgerom whatsoever. You were either gonna go out there
and sell those lies the best you could.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Seeing the guy every day she is watching news, she
had c span she is in the White House and
to go out there and claim, no, he's got more energety.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I mean, she was either gonna do.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
The bagdad bob thing, or she was gonna resign.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Those were her two choices. I don't know what you
would have done. I'm not sure. Well I think I
don't think I could do it.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But no, no, you couldn't for for reasons that are admirable.
I said many times that at the time when she
was the press secretary, she's terrible at her job, just
absolutely terrible. On the other hand, as I pointed out
many times, she is sent out there to defend the
indefensible on a daily basis, and that is not easy work.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So both are true.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Now she's gonna we need to be less partisan and
outside the boxes.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I agree completely with her on that I have.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That might be her particular box would not suit me
very much, true.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
But that might be her true belief.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Sure, she just had was got that job somehow, and then,
you know, did it the best you could. I mean, so,
I don't know what she actually believes. But if you're
her agent and trying to make you help her make
money coming off of this gig of a lifetime, These
these white House press people often come out and go
(20:27):
on to great lives of you know, a cable news
show or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
They make a lot of money. What would you tell her?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I thought it was interesting she decided not to be
a Democrat anymore, to go no party. That doesn't seem
like the best way to land an MSNBC show, which
is kind of where I thought she would end up, right.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Unless from her point of view, and I see her
as a pretty progressive, far lefty who knows what her
true colors are, like her true hair color, who knows?
But I think she's a far lefty, So she might
be fine if she's gonna say that the Democratic Party
is too centrist, we need a revolution in this country,
(21:08):
which she might say, but it is absolutely a terrible
look for the Democratic Party in the brand that their
press secretary, their.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
White House press. That's a good point, flees their party.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
That's a good you know, within a few months of
being out of the White House.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That was lost on me, And of course the lefty
media did not make a big deal out of that.
If if what's his name, Spencer Spicer, Spiser Spicer, if
Sean Spicer, how could I not come up with his name?
I watch him almost every day because he's on Mark
Alpern's show.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
If Sean Spicer.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Had come out a couple of months, like ninety days
after he left his job and said I'm leaving the
Republican Party. What an earthquake of a news story that
would have been and seen as a rejection of trump Ism.
Little KGP comes out and says, I'm leaving the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
That's that's a pretty big story.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, Unfortunately, Jack and I hate this. People are saying
snarky things like this one well known White House reporter
who said, did she when what's told she was writing
a book? Did she find the manuscript somewhere in that
fat binder she toed it around. If I were a
historian writing about the White House, I wouldn't ignore what
Karine has to say. But it's not an account in
(22:21):
which much weight will be invested, just like her briefings,
said the reporter.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
I wonder if she's CNN's trying to have the you know,
we're we're not part of any party brand, which is
kind of hilarious given their coverage. But maybe she's already
got a show lined up on CNN and part of
the deal was come out, say you're not with any party,
do the book to her, and then he got your
you know, your evening slot on CNN or news that
might be the place. You know, you land there and
(22:48):
you do a show after Andrew Cuomo for what it's worth,
and this will be Chris Cloma. I get the Clomo's
mixed up. Everybody, which one lifts weights and which one
gropes women and kills old people?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Andrew and Chris respectively. Honey, my sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I listened to a an hour and a half long
interview with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about there Joe Bidel,
but Joe Biden's senile as can be. Who Barry Weiss
of the Free Press. Yeah, and it was. It was very,
very interesting. Jake is still just trying so hard to
(23:26):
thread the needle of Yes, everybody noticed it, and yes
everybody knew it, but we didn't know it because we
were misled by our sources.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And I'm sticking to that. And I look back with
humble nuts or whatever he's been saying. It was uncomfortable
to listen to because it's so weasily.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
But the extent to which everybody close to the president
was one hundred cognizant of his non cognizance is just
it's now completely beyond dispute. Nobody could even hint that
(24:03):
people anywhere close to them were unaware of his decline.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, I don't give a pass to Jake Tepper for
the reasons we've stated a thousand times. If two thirds
or more of the American people knew it with no.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Sources, come on.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
But I could see that if because according to the book,
you know, it was just like five people, like the
closest handful of people that controlled everything. And if you
were friends with these people and you trusted and believed him,
and you knew him for years, and they were lying
to your face, oh no, no, behind the scenes, he's fine,
trust me, which is what they were.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Doing, right, That was actually what I was working toward.
It struck me that.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Because they have the access that they do, that's where
their attention is toward their sources, toward their cool. I'm
close to power sources, and they're they are muscles of
just everyday dopes like ourselves, observation atrophy. They become dependent
(25:10):
on the pipelines that they're dependent on, and it struck me.
I'm not expressing this very well, but it struck me
that they are so close, well, they can't see the
forest for the trees. Maybe that's the best way to
put it that all of the rest of us didn't
have any problems seeing the shape of the forest, and
it was unmistakable that shape and what it meant just unmistakable.
(25:33):
But those who are close to the halls of power,
and you know, and I'm trying to be at least
somewhat charitable here, dependent on and they have the privilege
of getting really great insider information, they are much much
more easily misled than people like us.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And I'm talking about you, good folks as well as Jackets.
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You could have the entire cabinet stand up and sing
in luscious three part harmony that Joe Biden was as
sharp as hell and we were gratified to have him
as president.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And I'd laughed.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
But if I spend my life and career listening to
these people and trusting them and writing, a source close
to the president said, I guess I could see where
you get misled, right, But it's sad you're a journalist,
which is, you know, part of the reason we've never
really pursued being among the I mean, they wouldn't have
us anyway, but being among the power in the elite
(26:37):
and the Beltway crowd and all that idea just disgusts me.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I don't want that.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I took that from imas listening to Imus back in
the day early on, he would say, and I mean
he ended up being very powerful in the news world
at the height of his powers. You can't go to
those parties.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You can't. You can't, you can't go. You just can't
do that. You gotta stay away from most people. I
think he's right.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
So coming up, among other things, we got another you know,
high school sports are coming to an end. My son's
high school. They got some state championship stuff going on.
Another trans story. You got girls softball trans pitcher dominates
and wins the state championship.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
A boy, you mean a young man? Uh huh.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
And also the Washington Post with an article of maybe
ice bads aren't a good idea. And I hadn't jumped
in one yet, but.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I was thinking about it. I just ordered my.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Ice pool among other things on the way stay here.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Well some more business news.
Speaker 9 (27:39):
So the Jet Blue and United Airlines are forming a
new partnership that will link their two companies.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
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Speaker 11 (27:47):
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new partnership. Now you'll be able to choose for more flights,
transfer miles, and enjoy your reward status on both airlines.
Jet Blue in United it's time to fly.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
It turns out it's inspired two other airlines to partner up.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Really look at this that I saw. Hey, get a
load of it. Spirited Frontier hooking up this summer. Now
you'll be able to do shots with the pilot. Smoke
in the bathroom can bring you emotional support. Raccoon on
both airlines, Spirited Frontier. Bring something to watch on your
phone because your flights getting delayed. No, I can to
the point, it's very to the point.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
I got my real ID in the mail, so I
can now fly again like an adult in the United
States of America if I need to. So that's very exciting.
I now have a real ideation because of nine to eleven,
I've got my real ID.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Right and immigration or something. Anyway, congratulation.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
A couple of stories for you. I'll go with this
sports one first w NBA without Caitlin Clark feeling the hurt.
She has been hurt for the first time in her
career college or pro. Then out for a couple of weeks,
ratings have tanked, attendances tanked immediate. It's tough when you're
the league's barely perceptible. You know, hot streak is all based.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
On one player.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
That makes it rough different sports story. And you might
remember Minnesota attempted to, or at least some people in
Minnesota attempted to a couple of months back, pass a
no Dudes in Girls' Sports Act. That's not what it
was called, but they tried to pass in it. It
didn't make it. And now you have the results of that,
in that you've got this girls softball team with a
(29:31):
dude pitcher that is going to the state championship.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
The picture has been dominating all season at.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Well done, sir, well done as a pitcher and a
hitter and a bunch of key hits that allowed the
team to move on through.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
The state championship, probably because he's a dude. I'm looking
at the picture. This this, this picture is huge compared
to the other girls. I mean, like way bigger compared
to the girls. You mean, yeah, you know, if you
want to.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Be technical it, Minnesota, Minnesota, I do, I really do.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, he might remember that name.
He's come up many times with many stories over the years.
He is the attorney general there in Minnesota. He said,
in addition to getting exercise and the fun of competition,
playing sports comes with so many benefits to young people.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's the first thing he said on this story.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Oh wow, and then and then I believe it is
wrong to single out one group of students who already
face higher levels of bullying harassment and tell these kids
they cannot be on the team because of who they are.
I will continue to defend their rights. I will continue
to defend the rights of all students to play sports
with their friends and peers. There's been a lot of
idiotic There's been a lawsuit from one of the girls
(30:44):
on one of the teams that lost. You might remember
Trump did the executive order of no Dudes in Girls'
Sports or whatever it was called. Minnesota is openly defying it,
and now it's being challenging. It's got to make its
way through the courts to see if President Trump can do.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That for states or not.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Whack him upside the head with Title nine. Baby, let's
do it.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
One of the players involved in the lawsuit said this
in a statement It is upsetting to see a male
athlete dominating our sport and taking opportunities away from girls
who have worked hard all season to make it to
the championship game in the state tournament. On top of
the unfairness, it oftentimes is a risk to play a
physical sport like softball against a male athlete.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Can you go back to that.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Quote from Keith Ellison, that's the response to that the
first part or the yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
In addition to getting exercise in the fun of competition,
playing sports comes with so many benefits for young people.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Well right, or I don't believe in discriminating against people
who already face a high level of something or other. NOI, Keith, Hello,
it's a dude playing in girls sports and he's big,
and he's strong, and he's dominating. You know. I think
back to my new slogan, which was going to be
cut the crap. This is a perfect example for America,
(32:02):
Keith Ellison, cut the crap.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Quit with that. You're not fooling anybody.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
You're not bullying anybody with that garbage, that greeting card,
rhetoric about inclusion and crap. It's a dude playing sports
and whooping up on the girls.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
That's what it is, Call it what it is and
cut the crap. So a different story.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
We've got a long time client, Steve lomof Good Dude,
who've known for a long time, who we are talking
to a while back, and he swears by cold plunges,
ice baths or whatever you want to call them. They're
not literally ice, but it's like really cold water that
you get into early in the morning.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
He hates it.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
He's not the sort of person that likes it anymore
than you would like it. He says, he absolutely hates it.
Every morning he thinks he's not going to do it
and forces himself to do it because he's gotten such
great results out of it and sleeping better, all kinds
of different things. And this has been a hot story
for a while. The Washington posts out today are cold
plunges good for you? Here's what the science says. Cold
(33:00):
plunges are very popular, but in a new study shows
they may interfere with blah blah blah blah blah. I
just wanted to bring up I haven't read the article,
but I wanted to bring up this phenomenon that happens
in the media all the time. Just so you can
spot it, and it's just as tired as could be
if you're a person who reads headlines all the time.
So they'll be a new diet like intermittent fasting, and
then every newspaper you read or news show, we'll talk
(33:21):
about how great it is. And then once that's like
saturated and kind of like it's tired, then they got
to come out, Yeah, you got to come out a
week later with why intermittent fasting might not be as
good as you think it is. So and then you
get all the clicks on that, and everybody does that
for a while, and usually both sides of it are
(33:42):
crap or mostly crap. So now get ready for the
why ice plunges aren't everything people claim they are stories
for a while, and whether they are or not, I
haven't got the slightest idea, and you're probably not going
to learn it from reading any of those.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Articles, ah right right indeed, and actually on that topic,
to sort of more or less, I suspect very strongly
that the ice plunges or whatever you want to call them,
cold plunges are probably really good for some people and
not really good for others, and maybe bad for others
and it might depend on genetics or other factors. I
(34:17):
was just reading that they've figured out the gene mutation,
and I always figured it was that let some people
function perfectly well on say, four hours of sleep.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Uh wow, talk about we're going to get into AI
crossing paths with you know, chrispur and everything else happening
at the same time, gene editing. I wonder if you
can edit your genes to where you're you're you know,
you're a five hour a night person. Your kid is
going to be a five hour a night person for sleep?
Would you do well for your baby?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Sleep?
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
We all sleep. Why don't we get into this next hour?
It's pretty interesting. Heck yeah, that's the first one I've
come across where I thought I might be willing to
do that.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I have to put more thought into it, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And now Jack's playing God. We knew he was an egomaniac,
didn't we?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Folks? Now it's theur of your proof.
Speaker 5 (35:03):
Why wouldn't Why wouldn't you want to have a kid
who can get by in five hours of sleep a
day like some people can't?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Can I do it to me? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
It is it too late to edit my jeans, my
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