July 22, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour two of A&G features...
- A couple of stories from the world of education...
- The Biting Intern...
- The Colbert Firing...
- CA Gov. Gavin Newsom asked about sex change operations for kids...
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Getty arm Strong and Jackietie and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
And finally, after finding out Stephen Colbert was canceled, Stacy
Abrams posted.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Photos from her many appearances on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
She alluded that those were happier times which you could
still fit in a chair.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh, I'm not making her twinkies.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Wow, I don't appreciate your complicity and putting that on
the air, Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He really's traffic. So I wanted something Colbert related because
I was gonna do tease. But yeah, so you say
Jack's to blame, Michael, I am go ahead. Guttfeld really
traffics and just like fat jokes or your ugly joke,
a very.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Fourteen year old schoolboy as shit times. Stacy a very
bright guy, don't get me wrong, and it a show
dominates late night. But Stacy Abrams, the hero of the left.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
If you don't know who she was, doesn't matter, don't
look it up, was on Colbert so many times, and
somebody used that as that's because last week she tweeted out,
here's all the Times. The fact that you were on
Colbert like fifteen times is proof that that show was
way to the left, because she would never be on
once if it was aimed at all of America and.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Way too political too. Charles C. W.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Cook at The National Review wrote a great takedown of
how one sided and political and self serious it had become.
Oh true, but it was getting good ratings compared to
the other shows. So you know, I just think those
shows don't.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Work financially anymore, those big shows, and they're going to
go away, and they're a pretty big mouthpiece for the left.
Maybe we can talk more about that a little bit later.
Colbert went big on attacking Trump last night, and we've
got some of those clips. Law firm in entertaining on
one way, all right, great law firm intern fired after
biting ten coworkers.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That is how is this should be.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
This is your own story, and not like it's some
sort of one time biting spree.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
This was over the course of something.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
You'd think after the first six or seven somebody might say, hey, look,
well you're doing a good job. Okay, so we'll pay
off that story coming up in a moment or two.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I also learned thanks to my daughter some hipster slang
that went completely over my head. In reading the account,
a couple of stories from the world of education, and
I had a brainstorm. First of all, I think reforming
American education might be my greatest jihad, a desire to
help anyway. I we can do that personally, professionally, financially, whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's a good one. You might have to narrow down
your jihads. I feel like you've got a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
That's why I'm trying to struck sure my whole jihad day.
You know, got to take care of the important jihad first,
right anyway, And I was thinking, I don't know whether
we can have like an educational reformer of the week
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I want to recognize the.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
People, the schools who are doing it right, who are
trying to rest American education back from the neo Marxists
and lunatics, because there are some great schools out there
and great people and great teachers who are doing their best.
And you know, I don't just want to bash the evildoers,
although I will do that with great energy and enthusiasm
(03:38):
till the day I croak, But I want to be
able to support the people who are doing it right too.
So anyway, if you want to ever nominate somebody, drop
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot
com and I don't know in all caps education reform
or something whatever, I'll keep an eye out.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So a couple of stories.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
First of all, school choice advocates, and we certainly are
one of big victory in President Trump's big beautiful bill
to tax megabill.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It comes with a bit of a catch.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
The federal government will now subsidize private school tuition via
unusually generous tax credits for donations to nonprofits who do that.
But governors must opt into the program, and Blue states
may well reject it, as they are absolutely on the
(04:26):
choke chain of the teachers unions. And so you're going
to see a situation where in blue states, which frequently
have a lot of the poor people in crappy schools
getting no education, continuing the cycle of poverty, you're gonna
have those governors saying no, no, no, no, we don't
want federal money to enhance school choice and innovation that
(04:48):
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
We're turning it down.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
So that will be an interesting political dynamic to witness
it's got some dynamics that are similar to red states
turning down Obamacare, although that was for specific financial reasons
which I don't want to go over again. We did
some good stuff with Craig, the Obama care guru back
(05:12):
in the day. He was absolutely right about everything, but
that was putting yourself into a financial trap, whereas this
is just freeing up funds for school innovation. Anyway, it'll
be interesting to see that develop.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
This is a headline you will not get.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Anywhere except you know, US or conservative media. The Biden
Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the White House conspired to
chill local parents school board protests, damning revelations and federal
documents obtained by a conservative watch dog group.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It was a FEISA request, not PISA.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The Foyer request showed that the Biden administration's Justice Department
sought a federal hawk so they could investigate and criminally
charged parents protesting school policies related to COVID, transgenderism, critical.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Race theory, and other issues.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I want you to keep that short list in mind, COVID, transgenderism,
and critical race theories.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So here's what they discovered. In one letter by the.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Afl OH America First Legal, an aid to the Attorney General,
wrote to a colleague in response to an email saying, Hey,
is there anything we can do about these protests at
school board meetings? And he is like, yeah, We're aware
of the issue. The challenge here is finding a federal hook.
But the White House has been in touch about whether
(06:41):
we can assist in some form or fashion. Now Fox
News has reported that Merrick Garland issued a directive on
October fourth of twenty one that directed the FBI to
assist local law enforcement partners quote with a disturbing spike
in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Now you remember that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
List out of the short list before, here's another short
list harassment.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What is harassment exactly?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
If you're keeping schools closed purely because you're at the
end of the teacher's union choke chain, and the private
school of Blockaway is open and the public schools in
red states are open, what does harassment or intimidation mean
if you're a parent at the end of your rope.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
How about if.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
They've convinced your nine year old boy that he's a
little girl, or your confused adolescent daughter that she ought
to be called Jimmy, and we're not gonna tell mom
and dad.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They don't need to know.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Can you picture some vehemence that might be called harassment
or intimidation, you'd.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Get it out of me?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, sure as hell. Now, threats of violence, nobody's in
favor of that. I certainly am not either. And then
the critical race theory where they dragged.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
All the it's into class and told them it's all
about race and the white kids are bad kids and
they need to shut up and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Can you picture people be in a little.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Vehement about that, and just you know, there's more to this,
and I'm gonna keep it around. But one strategy you
have to understand that the neo Marxists or whatever you
want to call them, the Wokes the progressives use is
they will introduce something just crazy like the stuff I
(08:30):
just described, or put porn in your kids' libraries, right,
And then when you react like any human being would
react to the things I've described, they say, oh, calm down,
calm down, you're harassing me, you're intimidating me, you're you're
a book canceler. They count that's conscious that they do
that that's a strategy that they do that they put
(08:54):
their finger in your face than when you slap it away.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They say, look, those people are violent. The are violent.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And so this is actual documents where the DOJ and
the White House are talking about how we really want
to help you out, but we've got to come up
with some hook that enables the federal government to get
involved in this, because there isn't one. Obviously, there's nothing
more local than education. Anyway, it's despicable.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Famed social scientist taking heat for his comments about the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
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Speaker 2 (10:42):
So apparently Charles.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Murray, I don't know if you know him, remember him
of the Bell Curve fame. Unfortunately that's infamy, I suppose anyway,
good dude, good libertarian, that's who you ask.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
But yeah, very smart guy.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He tweeted out something the other day about how I
was watching the WNBA they really aren't that good, and
he got a lot of blowback on that. Wow, but
I thought this was interesting, He said lots of interesting
replies to my post about women's pro tennis versus the WNBA,
saying you watch women's pro tennis and you think those
people are really really good and it's it's fun to watch,
(11:15):
which I would agree. He said, here's a list of
sports for which watching top level women compete doesn't make
me think to myself, they really aren't that good, like
he thought when he was watching the WNBA. He said, Tennis, gymnastics, swimming, skiing, racing,
running a race, I guess, golf, figure skating. They're all
individual sports, and a lot of them are closer to
(11:39):
ballet I suppose than athletic. But there are lots of
women's sports. He said, I just don't feel that way
about the WNBA. I'd say, you know, I might feel
the same way.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Kind of.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
That's a very Charles Murray thing to say. He just
he's not worried about what he's supposed to say, and
he's one hundred percent right. I've commented that top level
women's soccer old Meghan Rapino and all those people's had
her name, Megan doesn't matter, Yeah, manister her probably when
she goes to the bank.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Certainly.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I've watched that soccer, and if you enjoy watching it,
watch it. They're the best women players in the world.
But I watch it as a former player and coach
and guy who actually watches soccer matches on the TV
occasionally and think, you know, that's pretty sloppy soccer.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Really, I say, yeah, I would. I wouldn't have a
way to judge that, But that's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I love women's sports and girls sports. I value them.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I think they're a great idea and those are the
best players in the world. But like basketball, it's just
it is markedly different than men's in a way that
those other sports Charles Murray mentioned or not. The women
there are just exquisite. They're the greatest athletes on the planet. Yeah,
you sports, you watch gymnastics the Olympics. You don't think, wow,
it's pretty good for a girl. Oh ever, No, you
(12:48):
got a lawyer who's biting people. We got yeah, and
you think that sort of behavior could get you heaved
out as an.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Intern Cole Bear's return to television Does this mean anything
for the country or politics or anything like, we got
a bunch of stuff on the waistay here. So she
had a lot of media coverage of Colbert being on
the air last night and talking about it getting fired.
And it's interesting how the right and the left both
(13:17):
have an interest in pretending that this is all about
his content his political content. Both sides are claiming that
when I don't think of that's even close to the
main reason.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But okay, that's an ingredient in the stew. Probably, man,
So why'd you lose your job? Well, I bit ten people.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
A summer intern for a big Manhattan law firm.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Was reportedly relieves of her.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Duties after biting several people, perhaps up to ten a
summer associated white shoe firm Sidley Austin, white shoe law.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It's like big, super big laws. Why did that's where
the Obama's met. By the way, why did they call
that white shoe law firms? It's probably some old timey
reference to back when you're super rich, super rich Northeastern
attorney white shoes, huh okay, like mobsters like Polly Walnuts. Anyway,
by the time she was canned, her body counted reach
(14:15):
double digits. Insiders told the legal news site Above the Law.
Just as a quick aside, my daughter is a law
school intern right now, and trust me, this story is
really caught the attention of America's young would be attorney.
Are you gonna give us because since you've been teasing
this at the beginning of the show, I've been trying
to figure picture a scenario in which you would even
(14:36):
have the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
To bite someone. Here it is. The bites were not
this is a quote. Now.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
The bites were not in an aggressive, weird beefing way.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There's some hipster lingo in here.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But rather a faux quirky manic pixie dream girl crossed
with the Donner Party vibe. Yeah, all right, yeah, we
gotta pick this apart. I said to my daughter Delaney,
what's a faux quirky manic pixie dream girl? And she said, Oh,
that's like a trope and archetype in movies. It's the
(15:09):
I'm smart and quirky.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'm not like the other girls, but I know who
I am, and I have dyed purple hair and I'm
finding myself.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I mean, it's like a character in all those movies.
I don't remember the people.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Faux quirky manic pixie dream girl, but again crossed with.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The Donner Party five.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
So it's un what's really unclear, though I've seen pics
of the results. Uh, nibble is probably too tame a word,
The article's author noted.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Starting, if a young woman starts nibbling on me, I
that that would seem like, so is it nibbling or biting?
I guess that's what you're trying to nail down here.
It's not like breaking the skin, although somebody, one person
was bruised apparently.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Uh, it's like, look how nutting and quirky. I am,
oh my gosh, oh my gosh, and grabs your arm and.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Like bites it a little bit. That's weird, which just
seriously crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
If somebody did jaw to me once, I would think
you were a freaking weirdo. Oh yeah yeah. And the
New York Post is so New York posted in this
story a jaw dropping account.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You get it? Do you get it? Michael? You get it?
I get it.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
A jaw dropping account of the chomping spree posted to
Twitter said the girl sank her teeth into ten colleagues,
including other summer interns, associate lawyers, and even the HR
rep at the firm Seventh Avenue offices while.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
She bit the hr rep.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And they apparently didn't have training there at the corporate training.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh, reasons not to bite people. Here's the scenario.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
John from Accounting says, you've spent more than your budget?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Do you a bite? Him or b not bite him.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Another insider said it was such a repeated thing that
her office mate started wearing long sleeve shirts to the
office because the one girl kept getting bit.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
There was one bruise, So evidently you'd be.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
At coffee, she's not there, You're talking to other people
and say, I like that new girl, Jenny.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
She seems really sharp. But she did a word thing
the other day.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
She bit me.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
She bit me too, right, she bit you too, And
then somebody else pike, Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So there's three of us sheep bit that is so
freaking weird.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
And you know, honestly, I could see one person thinking
that was really weird and quirky, But you'd think after
the second or.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Third I wouldn't go to HR, though, would you.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I would mention it to somebody, not in an official capacity.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I would.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I would test the room, test check the temperature of
the room. I would say how weird is that.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I would laugh about it behind her back with people,
but I wouldn't complain or go to HR or want
to get her fired.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Would you bite her back?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, that's the way you handle. That's why they do
it in school. I remember from kindergarten. If there was
a kid that bit people, usually they got bit back.
It's the only way to stop a biting bully. Firm
declined to come and insider told the Poe's the Intern
that only five employees. Then the exaggerations were now flooding.
The twelve is weird, five is completely five is normal.
I've bet four people already today.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Colbert's weird return to television star studied Armstrong and Getty.
Joe and I have talked about this before. Here's a
secret about.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The media business. It's a for profit for the most part.
It's a for profit thing. And they our bosses don't
really care what we say at all. If we get
advertising dollars to come in at the level that they
want to justify our salaries, they don't care. If we
(18:45):
were a all day long progressive show but got the
same ratings and made the same amount of money for
the company, they'd be perfectly fine with that.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Gardening, exercise, tips, you name it. And so that's what
it's all about. And I find it interesting that Colbert
getting fired or his show going away, that's the part
that's left out of it too. Colbert didn't just get
fired and they're bringing in a new host.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The whole concept of the big CBS late show is
going away and going to be replaced by who knows what,
something that don't cost much, I guarantee, because.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's just too expensive.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So but there's an interest for the for republic or
people who media people in the right and media people
on the left to act like it's about his content.
He was I think the first late night show to
go full in political, after decades of hosts going all
the way back to Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson,
(19:47):
all of them who you didn't want to offend people
politically because you wanted as big an audience as possible.
But Colbert came along and prioritized talking to Democrats and
people who hated Trump, and got really good ratings and
was number one almost as entire run. But the financial
model doesn't work anymore, in the same way that the
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financial model doesn't work for newspapers and all kinds of
things anymore in the modern world with Internet and blah
blah blah and all the competition. And then since last
week we've heard the story multiple times that he's losing.
They lose what fifty million dollars a year on that show,
the production of it or whatever, and then yeah, I've
heard forty.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
That's more complicated than it sounds. Because again, if they
create viral moments that get their online presence seventy million
dollars in revenue or whatever, then it's profitable.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
But I'm guessing it's not. It's problem. No, not in total, probably.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Not not in the way that it used to be.
The ratings for all TV shows are so much lower
than they used to be, do.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know that. I mean they're they're a tiny.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Fraction of what they used to be. You can get
eight million people and it is a hit TV show.
You used to get canceled immediately if you had eight
million people, that wasn't worth having on the air.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And it wasn't even that many years ago. So that's
how much it's changed.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And if you have that few or many people watching
or listening or whatever, and the revenue stream is different.
So I just think it's interesting that the right has
a reason to say, see, yeah, you're a liberal and
they fire you because there's no audience for that when
there was, and the left saying the Trump administration made
CBS and Paramount Bow down to their wishes, and that's
(21:25):
a horror because they didn't like hearing anti Trump stuff. Okay,
I think you criticizing the bosses last week might have
been a bigger part of it, because they don't want
that kind of headache as they're trying to make this
big business deal, right.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
I think it's all probably factored in. I'm a little
surprised given the astonishing numbers I've seen about the production
costs of the show, and there's.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Salary and the rest of it. How much do you
reimagine the model for the modern day? Well, that's kind
of it, a lot leaner and meaner and more entertaining.
That's kind of what the doing with Seth Myers, who
was in the audience last night, along with Jimmy Fallon
and a whole bunch of other giant stars who were
there to.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Supple show of solidarity for something with something, Yeah, something.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Like Seth Myers show. They got rid of the band
and like it's very bare bones. I mean, it's got
a bit of your local college TV station look to
it where he just walks out and sits at a desk.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And tells some jokes.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But which is fine. But I just wanted to play
a little of this I actually haven't heard of. This
is how CBS covered it today, Chris.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Late show host Stephen Colbert had some things to say
and plenty of big names support last night. In his
first broadcast since announcing the show's cancelation. He hoped fun
at CBS a bit for the surprise move, people were
not expecting it, and at President Trump, who, as you
may magine, it appears to be celebrating the cancelation online.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Here's lad.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
They're killing off our show. But they made one mistake.
They left me alive.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
With ten months left on the iconic at Sullivan Theater stage.
Stephen Colbert wasted no time taking on a frequent target.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say
what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now,
making it clear that his attacks on President Donald Trump
are here to stay until next May.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I don't care for him.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
That line may have been diplomatic, but it was his
reaction to reading back the President's truth social posts, where
he relished CBS's decision to cancel the show, that was
anything but I.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even
less than his ratings. How dare you, sir, would an
untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism,
go yourself the cancelation?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So, uh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And so John Stewart on his show had a lar
We were going to try to play it, but it
would take too many bleeps. A big song and dance
number with a choir and everything like that, where the
song was go after yourself, Go after yourself, Go after yourself.
Repeat it again, go after yourself. Good and got the
crowd singing and everything like that. Again, I think it's
I don't think. I think those kind of giant shows
(24:28):
and their their mind share and their ability to hold
on the country, they're just it's just going away. Everything's
getting Like we were talking about yesterday, there are no
shared experiences. It's all so fragmented, and that's the main thing.
And for better or worse, I think probably worse.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah, taking off my critics hat and putting on my
sociologist's hat. The the incredible enthusiasm for tribal reaffirmation among
that crowd is really something. The crowd reaction of just
insan senthusiasm and glee that we all agree on this,
and we're all together and just how it's us against
(25:07):
the evil doers and the rest of it, putting aside,
you know, it's a for profit business, wasn't making a profit. Yeah,
they're politics involved, but it's it's interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, it happening in the same week that NPR and
PBS got defunded is kind of interesting because the left
after the last election was, you know, why don't we
have a Joe Rogan, We need that sort of thing.
The right just has such a hold on media and
their ability.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
To talk to people. They used to say that about
Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So Rush Limbaugh, as big as he was, wasn't as
big as NPR all.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Over the country.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And Rush Limbaugh was not funded by taxpayers, And the
same with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan's not funded by taxpayers.
And NPR is way bigger than across the country than
the rest of the radio industry, and you had all
of late night television on your side too, and you
have for all these years. That's going away just because
audience is a dwindling way, not because of the politics
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of it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But the hole that the left has had on culture,
their cultural hold, movies and television, late night TV, NPR, PBA,
all that sort of stuff, are.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You, all of which is downstream? I think of education.
That heard on that right exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well, thank goodness for podcasting. Speaking of podcasting, I want
to squeeze this on. We played it late in the
show yesterday, as I recall Gavy newsome Is. It was
on Sean Ryan's podcast. Shawn's a conservative presence.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
If you know him, you know.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Him, and and Gavy's continuing that tacking towards the center,
trying to show that he's a regular guy thing and
not a completely out of touch far left elitist NAPO
Valley silver spooner. H And actually it sets itself up
quite nicely. Go ahead, Michael, what about.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
For your values? I mean, is eight years old too young?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I mean look for a sex change now that I
have a nine year old just became nine. Come on, man,
I get it. So those are legit. You know, it's
interesting just the issue of age. I haven't as I
and there's someone that's been so focused on equality broadly
(27:29):
LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage. The trans issue for me
is also novels. It's over the last few years. I'm
trying to understand as much as anyone else, whole pronoun thing,
trying to understand all of that.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Well, you know that was like the hell, I mean,
all that stuff.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
I get it, this, all this stuff started collapse on us.
I joked with Charlie about LATINX.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
That was something. I mean, it's obvious what he's doing.
He's trying to be a regular guy. I get it, man,
that's legit.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
He's trying not to say anything right exactly, and he
succeeded brilliantly. The only close to substance there was him
admitting that the whole transgender thing came out of nowhere
a few years ago, and all of a sudden, everybody's
supposed to be in lockstep accepting this radical theory, but
so weak play at the beginning again and again to
(28:23):
the question of how do you feel about, you know,
sex change operations for eight year olds?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
What about for your values? I mean, is eight years
old too young?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:34):
I mean, look, I now that I have a nine
year old just became nine. Come on, man, I get.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It, I get it. That's legit. You didn't say anything, No,
you didn't say it.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
And you know what's a little hurtful is that you
think your weak ass line.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Of bull ass is going to fool anybody saying I
get it man, Yep, that's legit. I get it. No, No,
you didn't say anything. You have children being mutilated.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
By these doctors who are are the cousins of Joseph
Mengelov Nazi infamy, that doing these terrible experiments on children,
and all you can come up with is yeah, I
hear you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I get it man, that's legit, as you said yesterday.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The only thing that might matter out that is that
the hardcore progressives heard that and thought he won't toe
the line that bastard. Yes, you've got to full say
what you are. Yeah, what you're required to say in
that situation, that sex is a social construct, gender is fluid,
(29:44):
and yes, the child knows the child absolutely and he
wouldn't say it. And beyond that, the chances them committing
suicide is very high if you don't give them the
gender affirming care they need.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
What Gavin's problem is, well, he's got a couple, including
the fact that he's not quite as bright as he thinks.
But the second one is Gav there's no neutral on
this issue.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
No, no, there is no.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Look, I just won't go along with it, and people
will assume that I'm on their.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Side of it. No, no, they will not, sir.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Oh, look I got I've got a nine year old now,
So yeah, man, you didn't say you didn't say anything, dude,
and everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, we'll see, We'll see if he can thread that needle,
try to get the nomination, then then attack toward the center,
which is the classic.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yeah, and who knows, and then the Republicans who have
a fantastic history of screwing things up, of snatching defeat
from the jaws of victory.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Yeah, that was so weak though, so freaking weak.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Do you have any response to any of that?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Text line four one FIVEFDC got some good AI stuff
for you.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I am now leaning away.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
From AI being the great disruptor. I was leaning toward
agreeing with the crowd that thinks it's going to be
the great disruptor. I'm leaning away from it now with
the latest information I've taken in. But we can talk
about that next home. Coca Cola said it will release
a cane sugar version of its product here in the
United States. It's not going to replace the other Coca Cola,
(31:25):
but it will be an option to buy it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
If you like the what they call Mexican coke made
with thrill sugar, which I think does taste.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Better, probably going to be significantly more expensive. Could be.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Also this poor wait a minute, or maybe they just
distribute a super limited amount of it to cause all
sorts of crazy buzz and then see where it goes
from there. Ah, could be Did you see the portrait
that somebody painted of me that I put on the
group thing?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I tweeted it out.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I suppose we could put it the website anyway. This
is kind of an interesting parents I had. I had
to go get finger printed in my town a couple
of weeks ago. So I went to the place you
go downtown to get finger printed to be a mandated reporter,
which I took the couple hour training and filled out
the forms, and now I'm a mandated reporter. If I
see child abuse or anything like that, it's the law
(32:18):
that I have to report it, but you have to
get fingerprint and background checked and all these different sorts
of things that go along with that. And at the
place where you get your fingerprint and they run your
background check. They have in my town paintings of all
like prominent people in my town. And the guy who
works there and his parents are big fans of the
(32:40):
show and have big, big fans for years and been
telling me that. And I mentioned the paintings, they said, yeah,
I'm sure my dad would love to do one of you.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It's not well, it'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So they took a picture of me there and uh,
and then took a couple of weeks and they painted it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So what do you think of the likeness?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I've always wanted a couture you think so, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
I mean it's it's, you know, slightly stylized in the
way that ye caricature sort of thing. Well, if somebody
asked me who's this, I'd say, what are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Is this? Is this a joke? As Jack clearly?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh, so you know you could tell us. Well I
thought that too when I was look at the paintings
of people in town. It's people I don't even know
their names, but I could look at the picture and
I think, oh, yeah, that's that guy that works over there,
and that's the guy that does this. So that's quite
a talent if you can actually paint somebody in such
a way that.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
It looks like them.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He gave you guns too, congratulation. I usually don't like
new photos, but this is bad. It's the way your
one leg is thrown over the other is well, we're
all grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Uh yeah, this came out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
A study shows.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That the richer a man is, the less likely he
is to marry a significantly younger woman, going contrary to
all the stereotypes that have always existed.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
And there's a chart here. All a chart would never lie.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It's based on income data and marriage data records and
all that sort of stuff. Your top one percent earners
are less likely to marry a much younger woman than
people who are in the bottom one percent or the
bottom quarner or whatever earnings.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I think just sociologically, and I don't know, I don't
have an explanation for it.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
But the old saw.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
This is an example of like a stereotype being just
completely wrong.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
It is so counterintuitive and surprising. I find myself doubting
its accuracy. I do too, but it could be just
you know.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
There are the very notable exceptions you see with a
rich guy and a young woman.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
But that's not most of them.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I know plenty of rich people that have been married
for a very long time, you know, to someone roughly
their age.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Lots and lots of them.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
So yeah, statistically might be true. Could it be born
of resentment of the rich?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Could be a.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Good excuse to play a clip twelve? Okay, go ahead,
kat Rosenfeld Field from the lead.
Speaker 9 (35:14):
Of course, everybody loves a good public shaming in the
social media era, and this one particularly invites that type
of reaction because everybody and everything involved is something that
people love to hate. You know, you have CEOs, you
have HR representatives, you have cold Play.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Love to hate cold Play. So this story has yet
another round of discussion. The couple caught on the Coldplay
kiss cam.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah, HR professionals who everybody understands are here to protect
the company, not to help you.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And you know, it's funny. I was just reading. I
had no idea. I don't hate cold Play.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
You know, Chris Martin writes some catchy songs, but a
big part of their concerts for the last severally couple
of years, I guess is turning the camera on the audience,
and he will make up songs about.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
The people of these seeds.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I didn't know that, and have fun with it, and
it goes viral and stuff. A particularly bad choice for
a concert at which to have an affair.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Well, that's just a dumb idea all the way around,
on so many different levels. By the way, this is
not a stereotype. She's the wealthy one. He's worth fifty
five million dollars. She's worth way more. She married into
a multi billion dollar family, So I don't know what
that means about anything.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
And finally, after finding out Stephen Colbert was canceled, Stacy
Abrams posted.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Photos from her many appearances on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
She alluded that those were happier times which you could
still fit in a chair.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Oh, I'm not making her twinkies.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Wow, I don't appreciate your complicity and putting that on
the air, Michael.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
He really's traffic. So I wanted something Colbert related because
I was gonna do tease. But yeah, so you say
Jack's to blame, Michael, I am go ahead. Guttfeld really
traffics and just like fat jokes or your ugly joke,
a very.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Fourteen year old schoolboy as shit times. Stacy a very
bright guy, don't get me wrong, and it a show
dominates late night. But Stacy Abrams, the hero of the left.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
If you don't know who she was, doesn't matter, don't
look it up, was on Colbert so many times, and
somebody used that as that's because last week she tweeted out,
here's all the Times. The fact that you were on
Colbert like fifteen times is proof that that show was
way to the left, because she would never be on
once if it was aimed at all of America and.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Way too political too. Charles C. W.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Cook at The National Review wrote a great takedown of
how one sided and political and self serious it had become.
Oh true, but it was getting good ratings compared to
the other shows. So you know, I just think those
shows don't.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Work financially anymore, those big shows, and they're going to
go away, and they're a pretty big mouthpiece for the left.
Maybe we can talk more about that a little bit later.
Colbert went big on attacking Trump last night, and we've
got some of those clips. Law firm in entertaining on
one way, all right, great law firm intern fired after
biting ten coworkers.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That is how is this should be.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
This is your own story, and not like it's some
sort of one time biting spree.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
This was over the course of something.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
You'd think after the first six or seven somebody might say, hey, look,
well you're doing a good job. Okay, so we'll pay
off that story coming up in a moment or two.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I also learned thanks to my daughter some hipster slang
that went completely over my head. In reading the account,
a couple of stories from the world of education, and
I had a brainstorm. First of all, I think reforming
American education might be my greatest jihad, a desire to
help anyway. I we can do that personally, professionally, financially, whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's a good one. You might have to narrow down
your jihads. I feel like you've got a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
That's why I'm trying to struck sure my whole jihad day.
You know, got to take care of the important jihad first,
right anyway, And I was thinking, I don't know whether
we can have like an educational reformer of the week
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I want to recognize the.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
People, the schools who are doing it right, who are
trying to rest American education back from the neo Marxists
and lunatics, because there are some great schools out there
and great people and great teachers who are doing their best.
And you know, I don't just want to bash the evildoers,
although I will do that with great energy and enthusiasm
(03:38):
till the day I croak, But I want to be
able to support the people who are doing it right too.
So anyway, if you want to ever nominate somebody, drop
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot
com and I don't know in all caps education reform
or something whatever, I'll keep an eye out.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So a couple of stories.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
First of all, school choice advocates, and we certainly are
one of big victory in President Trump's big beautiful bill
to tax megabill.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It comes with a bit of a catch.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
The federal government will now subsidize private school tuition via
unusually generous tax credits for donations to nonprofits who do that.
But governors must opt into the program, and Blue states
may well reject it, as they are absolutely on the
(04:26):
choke chain of the teachers unions. And so you're going
to see a situation where in blue states, which frequently
have a lot of the poor people in crappy schools
getting no education, continuing the cycle of poverty, you're gonna
have those governors saying no, no, no, no, we don't
want federal money to enhance school choice and innovation that
(04:48):
sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
We're turning it down.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
So that will be an interesting political dynamic to witness
it's got some dynamics that are similar to red states
turning down Obamacare, although that was for specific financial reasons
which I don't want to go over again. We did
some good stuff with Craig, the Obama care guru back
(05:12):
in the day. He was absolutely right about everything, but
that was putting yourself into a financial trap, whereas this
is just freeing up funds for school innovation. Anyway, it'll
be interesting to see that develop.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
This is a headline you will not get.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Anywhere except you know, US or conservative media. The Biden
Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the White House conspired to
chill local parents school board protests, damning revelations and federal
documents obtained by a conservative watch dog group.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It was a FEISA request, not PISA.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
The Foyer request showed that the Biden administration's Justice Department
sought a federal hawk so they could investigate and criminally
charged parents protesting school policies related to COVID, transgenderism, critical.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Race theory, and other issues.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I want you to keep that short list in mind, COVID, transgenderism,
and critical race theories.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So here's what they discovered. In one letter by the.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Afl OH America First Legal, an aid to the Attorney General,
wrote to a colleague in response to an email saying, Hey,
is there anything we can do about these protests at
school board meetings? And he is like, yeah, We're aware
of the issue. The challenge here is finding a federal hook.
But the White House has been in touch about whether
(06:41):
we can assist in some form or fashion. Now Fox
News has reported that Merrick Garland issued a directive on
October fourth of twenty one that directed the FBI to
assist local law enforcement partners quote with a disturbing spike
in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Now you remember that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
List out of the short list before, here's another short
list harassment.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
What is harassment exactly?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
If you're keeping schools closed purely because you're at the
end of the teacher's union choke chain, and the private
school of Blockaway is open and the public schools in
red states are open, what does harassment or intimidation mean
if you're a parent at the end of your rope.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
How about if.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
They've convinced your nine year old boy that he's a
little girl, or your confused adolescent daughter that she ought
to be called Jimmy, and we're not gonna tell mom
and dad.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They don't need to know.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Can you picture some vehemence that might be called harassment
or intimidation, you'd.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Get it out of me?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Yeah, sure as hell. Now, threats of violence, nobody's in
favor of that. I certainly am not either. And then
the critical race theory where they dragged.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
All the it's into class and told them it's all
about race and the white kids are bad kids and
they need to shut up and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Can you picture people be in a little.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Vehement about that, and just you know, there's more to this,
and I'm gonna keep it around. But one strategy you
have to understand that the neo Marxists or whatever you
want to call them, the Wokes the progressives use is
they will introduce something just crazy like the stuff I
(08:30):
just described, or put porn in your kids' libraries, right,
And then when you react like any human being would
react to the things I've described, they say, oh, calm down,
calm down, you're harassing me, you're intimidating me, you're you're
a book canceler. They count that's conscious that they do
that that's a strategy that they do that they put
(08:54):
their finger in your face than when you slap it away.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They say, look, those people are violent. The are violent.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And so this is actual documents where the DOJ and
the White House are talking about how we really want
to help you out, but we've got to come up
with some hook that enables the federal government to get
involved in this, because there isn't one. Obviously, there's nothing
more local than education. Anyway, it's despicable.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Famed social scientist taking heat for his comments about the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You can get to that next. It's kind of afterward
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Speaker 2 (10:42):
So apparently Charles.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Murray, I don't know if you know him, remember him
of the Bell Curve fame. Unfortunately that's infamy, I suppose anyway,
good dude, good libertarian, that's who you ask.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
But yeah, very smart guy.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
He tweeted out something the other day about how I
was watching the WNBA they really aren't that good, and
he got a lot of blowback on that. Wow, but
I thought this was interesting, He said lots of interesting
replies to my post about women's pro tennis versus the WNBA,
saying you watch women's pro tennis and you think those
people are really really good and it's it's fun to watch,
(11:15):
which I would agree. He said, here's a list of
sports for which watching top level women compete doesn't make
me think to myself, they really aren't that good, like
he thought when he was watching the WNBA. He said, Tennis, gymnastics, swimming, skiing, racing,
running a race, I guess, golf, figure skating. They're all
individual sports, and a lot of them are closer to
(11:39):
ballet I suppose than athletic. But there are lots of
women's sports. He said, I just don't feel that way
about the WNBA. I'd say, you know, I might feel
the same way.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Kind of.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
That's a very Charles Murray thing to say. He just
he's not worried about what he's supposed to say, and
he's one hundred percent right. I've commented that top level
women's soccer old Meghan Rapino and all those people's had
her name, Megan doesn't matter, Yeah, manister her probably when
she goes to the bank.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Certainly.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I've watched that soccer, and if you enjoy watching it,
watch it. They're the best women players in the world.
But I watch it as a former player and coach
and guy who actually watches soccer matches on the TV
occasionally and think, you know, that's pretty sloppy soccer.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Really, I say, yeah, I would. I wouldn't have a
way to judge that, But that's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I love women's sports and girls sports. I value them.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I think they're a great idea and those are the
best players in the world. But like basketball, it's just
it is markedly different than men's in a way that
those other sports Charles Murray mentioned or not. The women
there are just exquisite. They're the greatest athletes on the planet. Yeah,
you sports, you watch gymnastics the Olympics. You don't think, wow,
it's pretty good for a girl. Oh ever, No, you
(12:48):
got a lawyer who's biting people. We got yeah, and
you think that sort of behavior could get you heaved
out as an.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Intern Cole Bear's return to television Does this mean anything
for the country or politics or anything like, we got
a bunch of stuff on the waistay here. So she
had a lot of media coverage of Colbert being on
the air last night and talking about it getting fired.
And it's interesting how the right and the left both
(13:17):
have an interest in pretending that this is all about
his content his political content. Both sides are claiming that
when I don't think of that's even close to the
main reason.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But okay, that's an ingredient in the stew. Probably, man,
So why'd you lose your job? Well, I bit ten people.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
A summer intern for a big Manhattan law firm.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Was reportedly relieves of her.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Duties after biting several people, perhaps up to ten a
summer associated white shoe firm Sidley Austin, white shoe law.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
It's like big, super big laws. Why did that's where
the Obama's met. By the way, why did they call
that white shoe law firms? It's probably some old timey
reference to back when you're super rich, super rich Northeastern
attorney white shoes, huh okay, like mobsters like Polly Walnuts. Anyway,
by the time she was canned, her body counted reach
(14:15):
double digits. Insiders told the legal news site Above the Law.
Just as a quick aside, my daughter is a law
school intern right now, and trust me, this story is
really caught the attention of America's young would be attorney.
Are you gonna give us because since you've been teasing
this at the beginning of the show, I've been trying
to figure picture a scenario in which you would even
(14:36):
have the opportunity.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
To bite someone. Here it is. The bites were not
this is a quote. Now.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
The bites were not in an aggressive, weird beefing way.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
There's some hipster lingo in here.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
But rather a faux quirky manic pixie dream girl crossed
with the Donner Party vibe. Yeah, all right, yeah, we
gotta pick this apart. I said to my daughter Delaney,
what's a faux quirky manic pixie dream girl? And she said, Oh,
that's like a trope and archetype in movies. It's the
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I'm smart and quirky.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I'm not like the other girls, but I know who
I am, and I have dyed purple hair and I'm
finding myself.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I mean, it's like a character in all those movies.
I don't remember the people.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Faux quirky manic pixie dream girl, but again crossed with.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The Donner Party five.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
So it's un what's really unclear, though I've seen pics
of the results. Uh, nibble is probably too tame a word,
The article's author noted.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Starting, if a young woman starts nibbling on me, I
that that would seem like, so is it nibbling or biting?
I guess that's what you're trying to nail down here.
It's not like breaking the skin, although somebody, one person
was bruised apparently.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Uh, it's like, look how nutting and quirky. I am,
oh my gosh, oh my gosh, and grabs your arm and.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Like bites it a little bit. That's weird, which just
seriously crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
If somebody did jaw to me once, I would think
you were a freaking weirdo. Oh yeah yeah. And the
New York Post is so New York posted in this
story a jaw dropping account.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You get it? Do you get it? Michael? You get it?
I get it.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
A jaw dropping account of the chomping spree posted to
Twitter said the girl sank her teeth into ten colleagues,
including other summer interns, associate lawyers, and even the HR
rep at the firm Seventh Avenue offices while.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
She bit the hr rep.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And they apparently didn't have training there at the corporate training.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh, reasons not to bite people. Here's the scenario.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
John from Accounting says, you've spent more than your budget?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Do you a bite? Him or b not bite him.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Another insider said it was such a repeated thing that
her office mate started wearing long sleeve shirts to the
office because the one girl kept getting bit.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
There was one bruise, So evidently you'd be.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
At coffee, she's not there, You're talking to other people
and say, I like that new girl, Jenny.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
She seems really sharp. But she did a word thing
the other day.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
She bit me.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
She bit me too, right, she bit you too, And
then somebody else pike, Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So there's three of us sheep bit that is so
freaking weird.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
And you know, honestly, I could see one person thinking
that was really weird and quirky, But you'd think after
the second or.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Third I wouldn't go to HR, though, would you.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I would mention it to somebody, not in an official capacity.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I would.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I would test the room, test check the temperature of
the room. I would say how weird is that.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I would laugh about it behind her back with people,
but I wouldn't complain or go to HR or want
to get her fired.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Would you bite her back?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, that's the way you handle. That's why they do
it in school. I remember from kindergarten. If there was
a kid that bit people, usually they got bit back.
It's the only way to stop a biting bully. Firm
declined to come and insider told the Poe's the Intern
that only five employees. Then the exaggerations were now flooding.
The twelve is weird, five is completely five is normal.
I've bet four people already today.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Colbert's weird return to television star studied Armstrong and Getty.
Joe and I have talked about this before. Here's a
secret about.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
The media business. It's a for profit for the most part.
It's a for profit thing. And they our bosses don't
really care what we say at all. If we get
advertising dollars to come in at the level that they
want to justify our salaries, they don't care. If we
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were a all day long progressive show but got the
same ratings and made the same amount of money for
the company, they'd be perfectly fine with that.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Gardening, exercise, tips, you name it. And so that's what
it's all about. And I find it interesting that Colbert
getting fired or his show going away, that's the part
that's left out of it too. Colbert didn't just get
fired and they're bringing in a new host.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
The whole concept of the big CBS late show is
going away and going to be replaced by who knows what,
something that don't cost much, I guarantee, because.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's just too expensive.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So but there's an interest for the for republic or
people who media people in the right and media people
on the left to act like it's about his content.
He was I think the first late night show to
go full in political, after decades of hosts going all
the way back to Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson,
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all of them who you didn't want to offend people
politically because you wanted as big an audience as possible.
But Colbert came along and prioritized talking to Democrats and
people who hated Trump, and got really good ratings and
was number one almost as entire run. But the financial
model doesn't work anymore, in the same way that the
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financial model doesn't work for newspapers and all kinds of
things anymore in the modern world with Internet and blah
blah blah and all the competition. And then since last
week we've heard the story multiple times that he's losing.
They lose what fifty million dollars a year on that show,
the production of it or whatever, and then yeah, I've
heard forty.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
That's more complicated than it sounds. Because again, if they
create viral moments that get their online presence seventy million
dollars in revenue or whatever, then it's profitable.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
But I'm guessing it's not. It's problem. No, not in total, probably.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Not not in the way that it used to be.
The ratings for all TV shows are so much lower
than they used to be, do.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know that. I mean they're they're a tiny.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Fraction of what they used to be. You can get
eight million people and it is a hit TV show.
You used to get canceled immediately if you had eight
million people, that wasn't worth having on the air.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And it wasn't even that many years ago. So that's
how much it's changed.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And if you have that few or many people watching
or listening or whatever, and the revenue stream is different.
So I just think it's interesting that the right has
a reason to say, see, yeah, you're a liberal and
they fire you because there's no audience for that when
there was, and the left saying the Trump administration made
CBS and Paramount Bow down to their wishes, and that's
(21:25):
a horror because they didn't like hearing anti Trump stuff. Okay,
I think you criticizing the bosses last week might have
been a bigger part of it, because they don't want
that kind of headache as they're trying to make this
big business deal, right.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
I think it's all probably factored in. I'm a little
surprised given the astonishing numbers I've seen about the production
costs of the show, and there's.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Salary and the rest of it. How much do you
reimagine the model for the modern day? Well, that's kind
of it, a lot leaner and meaner and more entertaining.
That's kind of what the doing with Seth Myers, who
was in the audience last night, along with Jimmy Fallon
and a whole bunch of other giant stars who were
there to.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Supple show of solidarity for something with something, Yeah, something.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Like Seth Myers show. They got rid of the band
and like it's very bare bones. I mean, it's got
a bit of your local college TV station look to
it where he just walks out and sits at a desk.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
And tells some jokes.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But which is fine. But I just wanted to play
a little of this I actually haven't heard of. This
is how CBS covered it today, Chris.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
Late show host Stephen Colbert had some things to say
and plenty of big names support last night. In his
first broadcast since announcing the show's cancelation. He hoped fun
at CBS a bit for the surprise move, people were
not expecting it, and at President Trump, who, as you
may magine, it appears to be celebrating the cancelation online.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Here's lad.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
They're killing off our show. But they made one mistake.
They left me alive.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
With ten months left on the iconic at Sullivan Theater stage.
Stephen Colbert wasted no time taking on a frequent target.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say
what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now,
making it clear that his attacks on President Donald Trump
are here to stay until next May.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I don't care for him.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
That line may have been diplomatic, but it was his
reaction to reading back the President's truth social posts, where
he relished CBS's decision to cancel the show, that was
anything but I.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even
less than his ratings. How dare you, sir, would an
untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism,
go yourself the cancelation?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So, uh, there you go.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
And so John Stewart on his show had a lar
We were going to try to play it, but it
would take too many bleeps. A big song and dance
number with a choir and everything like that, where the
song was go after yourself, Go after yourself, Go after yourself.
Repeat it again, go after yourself. Good and got the
crowd singing and everything like that. Again, I think it's
I don't think. I think those kind of giant shows
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and their their mind share and their ability to hold
on the country, they're just it's just going away. Everything's
getting Like we were talking about yesterday, there are no
shared experiences. It's all so fragmented, and that's the main thing.
And for better or worse, I think probably worse.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah, taking off my critics hat and putting on my
sociologist's hat. The the incredible enthusiasm for tribal reaffirmation among
that crowd is really something. The crowd reaction of just
insan senthusiasm and glee that we all agree on this,
and we're all together and just how it's us against
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the evil doers and the rest of it, putting aside,
you know, it's a for profit business, wasn't making a profit. Yeah,
they're politics involved, but it's it's interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, it happening in the same week that NPR and
PBS got defunded is kind of interesting because the left
after the last election was, you know, why don't we
have a Joe Rogan, We need that sort of thing.
The right just has such a hold on media and
their ability.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
To talk to people. They used to say that about
Rush Limbaugh.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
So Rush Limbaugh, as big as he was, wasn't as
big as NPR all.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Over the country.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And Rush Limbaugh was not funded by taxpayers, And the
same with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan's not funded by taxpayers.
And NPR is way bigger than across the country than
the rest of the radio industry, and you had all
of late night television on your side too, and you
have for all these years. That's going away just because
audience is a dwindling way, not because of the politics
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of it.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
But the hole that the left has had on culture,
their cultural hold, movies and television, late night TV, NPR, PBA,
all that sort of stuff, are.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
You, all of which is downstream? I think of education.
That heard on that right exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well, thank goodness for podcasting. Speaking of podcasting, I want
to squeeze this on. We played it late in the
show yesterday, as I recall Gavy newsome Is. It was
on Sean Ryan's podcast. Shawn's a conservative presence.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
If you know him, you know.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Him, and and Gavy's continuing that tacking towards the center,
trying to show that he's a regular guy thing and
not a completely out of touch far left elitist NAPO
Valley silver spooner. H And actually it sets itself up
quite nicely. Go ahead, Michael, what about.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
For your values? I mean, is eight years old too young?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (27:04):
I mean look for a sex change now that I
have a nine year old just became nine. Come on, man,
I get it. So those are legit. You know, it's
interesting just the issue of age. I haven't as I
and there's someone that's been so focused on equality broadly
(27:29):
LGBT rights, particularly gay marriage. The trans issue for me
is also novels. It's over the last few years. I'm
trying to understand as much as anyone else, whole pronoun thing,
trying to understand all of that.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Well, you know that was like the hell, I mean,
all that stuff.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
I get it, this, all this stuff started collapse on us.
I joked with Charlie about LATINX.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
That was something. I mean, it's obvious what he's doing.
He's trying to be a regular guy. I get it, man,
that's legit.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
He's trying not to say anything right exactly, and he
succeeded brilliantly. The only close to substance there was him
admitting that the whole transgender thing came out of nowhere
a few years ago, and all of a sudden, everybody's
supposed to be in lockstep accepting this radical theory, but
so weak play at the beginning again and again to
(28:23):
the question of how do you feel about, you know,
sex change operations for eight year olds?
Speaker 4 (28:29):
What about for your values? I mean, is eight years
old too young?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:34):
I mean, look, I now that I have a nine
year old just became nine. Come on, man, I get.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It, I get it. That's legit. You didn't say anything, No,
you didn't say it.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
And you know what's a little hurtful is that you
think your weak ass line.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Of bull ass is going to fool anybody saying I
get it man, Yep, that's legit. I get it. No, No,
you didn't say anything. You have children being mutilated.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
By these doctors who are are the cousins of Joseph
Mengelov Nazi infamy, that doing these terrible experiments on children,
and all you can come up with is yeah, I
hear you.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I get it man, that's legit, as you said yesterday.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
The only thing that might matter out that is that
the hardcore progressives heard that and thought he won't toe
the line that bastard. Yes, you've got to full say
what you are. Yeah, what you're required to say in
that situation, that sex is a social construct, gender is fluid,
(29:44):
and yes, the child knows the child absolutely and he
wouldn't say it. And beyond that, the chances them committing
suicide is very high if you don't give them the
gender affirming care they need.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
What Gavin's problem is, well, he's got a couple, including
the fact that he's not quite as bright as he thinks.
But the second one is Gav there's no neutral on
this issue.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
No, no, there is no.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
Look, I just won't go along with it, and people
will assume that I'm on their.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Side of it. No, no, they will not, sir.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Oh, look I got I've got a nine year old now,
So yeah, man, you didn't say you didn't say anything, dude,
and everybody knows that.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, we'll see, We'll see if he can thread that needle,
try to get the nomination, then then attack toward the center,
which is the classic.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yeah, and who knows, and then the Republicans who have
a fantastic history of screwing things up, of snatching defeat
from the jaws of victory.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Yeah, that was so weak though, so freaking weak.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Do you have any response to any of that?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Text line four one FIVEFDC got some good AI stuff
for you.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
I am now leaning away.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
From AI being the great disruptor. I was leaning toward
agreeing with the crowd that thinks it's going to be
the great disruptor. I'm leaning away from it now with
the latest information I've taken in. But we can talk
about that next home. Coca Cola said it will release
a cane sugar version of its product here in the
United States. It's not going to replace the other Coca Cola,
(31:25):
but it will be an option to buy it.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
If you like the what they call Mexican coke made
with thrill sugar, which I think does taste.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Better, probably going to be significantly more expensive. Could be.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Also this poor wait a minute, or maybe they just
distribute a super limited amount of it to cause all
sorts of crazy buzz and then see where it goes
from there. Ah, could be Did you see the portrait
that somebody painted of me that I put on the
group thing?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I tweeted it out.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I suppose we could put it the website anyway. This
is kind of an interesting parents I had. I had
to go get finger printed in my town a couple
of weeks ago. So I went to the place you
go downtown to get finger printed to be a mandated reporter,
which I took the couple hour training and filled out
the forms, and now I'm a mandated reporter. If I
see child abuse or anything like that, it's the law
(32:18):
that I have to report it, but you have to
get fingerprint and background checked and all these different sorts
of things that go along with that. And at the
place where you get your fingerprint and they run your
background check. They have in my town paintings of all
like prominent people in my town. And the guy who
works there and his parents are big fans of the
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show and have big, big fans for years and been
telling me that. And I mentioned the paintings, they said, yeah,
I'm sure my dad would love to do one of you.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It's not well, it'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
So they took a picture of me there and uh,
and then took a couple of weeks and they painted it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
So what do you think of the likeness?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I've always wanted a couture you think so, oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
I mean it's it's, you know, slightly stylized in the
way that ye caricature sort of thing. Well, if somebody
asked me who's this, I'd say, what are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Is this? Is this a joke? As Jack clearly?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh, so you know you could tell us. Well I
thought that too when I was look at the paintings
of people in town. It's people I don't even know
their names, but I could look at the picture and
I think, oh, yeah, that's that guy that works over there,
and that's the guy that does this. So that's quite
a talent if you can actually paint somebody in such
a way that.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
It looks like them.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He gave you guns too, congratulation. I usually don't like
new photos, but this is bad. It's the way your
one leg is thrown over the other is well, we're
all grateful for that.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Uh yeah, this came out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
A study shows.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
That the richer a man is, the less likely he
is to marry a significantly younger woman, going contrary to
all the stereotypes that have always existed.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
And there's a chart here. All a chart would never lie.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It's based on income data and marriage data records and
all that sort of stuff. Your top one percent earners
are less likely to marry a much younger woman than
people who are in the bottom one percent or the
bottom quarner or whatever earnings.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I think just sociologically, and I don't know, I don't
have an explanation for it.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
But the old saw.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
This is an example of like a stereotype being just
completely wrong.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
It is so counterintuitive and surprising. I find myself doubting
its accuracy. I do too, but it could be just
you know.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
There are the very notable exceptions you see with a
rich guy and a young woman.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
But that's not most of them.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I know plenty of rich people that have been married
for a very long time, you know, to someone roughly
their age.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Lots and lots of them.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
So yeah, statistically might be true. Could it be born
of resentment of the rich?
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Could be a.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Good excuse to play a clip twelve? Okay, go ahead,
kat Rosenfeld Field from the lead.
Speaker 9 (35:14):
Of course, everybody loves a good public shaming in the
social media era, and this one particularly invites that type
of reaction because everybody and everything involved is something that
people love to hate. You know, you have CEOs, you
have HR representatives, you have cold Play.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Love to hate cold Play. So this story has yet
another round of discussion. The couple caught on the Coldplay
kiss cam.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah, HR professionals who everybody understands are here to protect
the company, not to help you.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
And you know, it's funny. I was just reading. I
had no idea. I don't hate cold Play.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
You know, Chris Martin writes some catchy songs, but a
big part of their concerts for the last severally couple
of years, I guess is turning the camera on the audience,
and he will make up songs about.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
The people of these seeds.
Speaker 5 (36:07):
I didn't know that, and have fun with it, and
it goes viral and stuff. A particularly bad choice for
a concert at which to have an affair.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Well, that's just a dumb idea all the way around,
on so many different levels. By the way, this is
not a stereotype. She's the wealthy one. He's worth fifty
five million dollars. She's worth way more. She married into
a multi billion dollar family, So I don't know what
that means about anything.
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