August 22, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Betting on little league, Vikings male cheerleaders & Ukraine
- Jack goes to a BBQ & AI in schools
- John Bolton's home raided
- Alligator Alcatraz & table saws
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong's Joe Getty arm Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Jetty and now He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Gambling on Little league games. A twenty eighteen Supreme Court
decision opened the floodgates for legalized sports gambling, but betting
on kids sports is prohibited on US based platforms, but
at least two sites abroad do allow betting on those games,
including Panama based site bet Online. Brand manager Dave Mason
says activity has doubled year over year on the Little
League World Series, and while he won't say how much
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was bet, he does add that little League wagers seeded
the WNBA any tennis match and all soccer games.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Ooh, that's not a good look for soccer or the WNBA,
that there are more people betting on Little League.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Baseball or tennis.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, that story's distasteful in several different ways.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah. First of all, what's.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Become of Panamanian offshore sports betting?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It used to be so reliable, so respectable, right.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And then I suppose the concern is your bribe and
the kids? Do you tell the second basement? Hey, I'll
get you a PS five if you strike out in
the third inning or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Wow. Yeah, yeah, oh no, I don't want that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Where there is sports betting, there is an effort to
fix it that just those two things co exist.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
On speaking of sports, follow up the last hour. Apparently
I am wrong about this, So a fair amount of
attention given to the fact that Minnesota Vikings had these
two male cheerleaders. Who then when I finally and I thought, whatever,
there's always been male cheerleaders. And then when I saw
the two dudes, I mean, they are very effeminate. They
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try to act like women. They wear the women's cheerleading out.
We were informed by an emailer that lots of teams
have male cheerleaders. My reaction was, yeah, I know, they
always have. You got a couple of strong guys that
tossed the women right here. I just got an NFL
insider just contacted me and said, no, every team. Now,
lots of teams now have the effeminate cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's a thing. So effeminine male cheerleaders? The hell? What
the hell is a good question?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Who is?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That is another example of where normal people are relieved
that a lot of the woke DEEI stuff is being
pushed back, primarily by the Trump administration. In sane people
across America. Across America, it is still on the march
forward in education and media and sports. Is kind of
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a special case because they seem to bend over backward
to be enlightened and woke.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But why how are they not more aware of their audience.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Isn't that like the least likely audience in America to
want to embrace a feminate men dressed as girls as
their cheerleaders NFL crowds. Yeah, I just I think the
NFL in particular is a league full of fast, violent,
strong young men who occasionally do bad stuff. It is
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toxic maxculinity all over it. And so they're just ultra
you know, hyper aware of being politically correct, to use
the old term. And like Major League Baseball abandoning Atlanta
for the All Star Game after the George Floyd thing
because the voting law changes, that was one of the
worst stupidest things I've seen any major organization do. It
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was inexplicable and inexcusable.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But Lucia shows you how far they go.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But a slightly complex story, This one is not your
customer base ain't end to the whole trans thing, and
now you got dudes dressed as chicks as cheerleaders.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Who do you think you're, sir. I just I'm just
surprised by I don't care. It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
It's not gonna have any effect on how much I
watch or whether I go to a game or anything
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And I don't hate the people that are doing it
doesn't but I'm just shocked. It just seems like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I use someone your thumb in the eye of your
average fan. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I used to occasionally listen to sports talk radio and
became aware that that that whole world is only kind
of dimly aware of this social you know, controversies and
stuff that we deal with all.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The time, the whole woke thing.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
They're only barely aware of it, and so they really
don't know how to handle it, and so they overcorrect constantly.
I mean, the idea that you need like kind of
sort of trans cheerleaders jumping around right now is it's bizarre.
But you've got like the Human Rights Campaign I think
that's the name of the organization that's that blackmailing outfit.
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They learned everything they could from like the Jesse Jackson's
of the world where they go to a the NFL instance,
and say, look, we want transgender cheerleaders, or we're going
to tell everybody what a homophobic, dangerous you use a
speech is violence? Your homophobic, your transphobic will say that
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you're you're causing people to commit suicides. Or you can
do this for us, and the companies in the leagues
they give in over and over again. They used to
a lot of companies have booted the HRC out. Now
they were cow telling to them for a while, but
they're not anymore. Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
This used to be the view of male cheerleaders.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Bud Light presents real American heroes, real Americans today. We
salute you, mister male football cheerleader. Mister real men don't
just play smash mouth football. Real men turned cut wheels
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and somersaults on the sidelines, tuck safely away from the action.
It's down and inches, the game's on the line. It
all comes down to you. Will you call for a
perky pyramid or a pepe line Dan not come back,
knock them back all the way to acting Simon, So
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grab a nice called bud like mister Mayo football cheerleaders.
You may never score a touchdown, but you're peppy.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's gotta count herself.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
A bud Light peer and as of course, say.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
One of the all time great ad campaigns for bud
Light back before they hired a woke woman.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And the fact that it was the lead singer from Survivor,
Is that right? Yes, guy, absolutely, it's absolutely fantastic. Okay,
So I was wrong about the cheerleader thing. That's a
sweep in the nation. I guess they think their fans
want that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Who even notices the cheerleaders at a game anyway? You
almost have to be watching on TV to know they're there,
unless you have seats by where they are. Otherwise you're
just not going to see them, right. A couple of
news items for you. We mentioned this earlier, but a
few of the details. There will be three hundred thousand
fewer federal workers on the government payroll by the end
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of this year than there were at the beginning of
the year.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That amounts to.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
A loss of about one in eight federal civilian workers.
Would be the largest singular year reduction since World War Two. Obviously,
the big government crowd is horrified by this. And what
can we do to protect our federal workers. The rest
of us who are taxpayers think, yeah, almost certainly the
government is big enough to be able to absorb that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And I'm glad to hear it. Right.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And look, we've been growing it and growing it and
growing it, and we're drowning in debt and drowning our
children and grandchildren in debt.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Something's got to give.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
And Reuters with a heck of an interesting report about
where Putin's head is on the whole peace deal.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We'll tell you about that right after this.
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organization Reuters claims it is talking to three sources familiar
with top level Kremlin thinking about the whole peace process
that has been the number one story in the world
for the last week. They got three sources saying that
(09:21):
Putin is going to demand or is demanding, standing by
his demands that Ukraine give up all of the don
Bass region, which Zolensky has said as a no go
because that's just that would be absolutely giving them a
launching pad to go into Kiev. At some point, Ukraine
needs to renounce ambitions to join NATO and remain neutral
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and no keeping Western troops of any kind anywhere in
the country.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh, that seems reasonable.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
No, as was pointed out by Zolensky and others, that
would be basically surrendering and setting yourself up to be
completely taken over in the near future. They have no
troops to protect them, and they give up that staging
ground from attack on the capitol.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Game over.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So, in other words, what we've been saying the last
several days, Putin has no interest whatsoever in ending this war.
You know, you can't blame him for coming out and say, yeah,
I'll stop if you give me everything I want without
losing any more soldiers, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But if you don't, I'm going to keep fighting.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Interesting statement from the President on social media in mostly
all caps, but not entirely. This is a very serious thing,
but I can't restrain myself. I'll read it as he
wrote it. The president posted on social media after there
are a couple of statements from the Kremlin that made
clear what Jack was just saying. Posted on social media
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that President Biden quote would not let Ukraine fight back,
only defend and it is very hard, if not impossible,
to win a war without attacking the invading country, there's
no chance of winning. So Trump's saying, hey, there's no
defense if you don't have a good offense.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Got to have a good offense.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
That's interesting because the end of this Reuters article included
does that mean that Donald Trump will move forward with
the sanctions and tell Ukraine they can use the weapons
we've given them for offensive attacks into Russia?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And that tweet or post would lead me to believe
he's okay with that, going to be okay with that?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeow.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That moves us into a different phase of the war
if we're giving more weapons and saying, you know, do
what you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
One of Trump's faults is that he throws a rock
at every dog that barks. To paraphrase Churchill, but being
pantsed on the world stage by Putin just jerked around.
I mean because the headline the Wall Street Journal and
I think the editorial board is Putin's Ukraine semmetery was
a big Cohn And I don't think you can disagree
(11:58):
with that. Honestly, that's not something Trump is likely to
sit back and just take.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Boy thinks you could get excited.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Rosio O'Donnell's saying something stupid brings his wrath.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
This will surely get his attention.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Like I've been saying, get as mad at Putin as
you have been at Rosie O'Donnell. Would you at least
once I talked to an English teacher yesterday about how
AI is affecting the way she's teaching English class for
a freshman in high school, among other things we got
coming up. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Democrat Senator Amy Klobachar says clips of her saying Sidney
Sweeney has perfect breasts are fake videos, but admitted she
did say Governor Tim Waltz rocks a solid b cup.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That one didn't do it for me. Can you play
a different one, Michael?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
The Democratic Party's finances are in trouble after spending fifteen
million dollars to pay off Kamala's campaign, but at least
they'll get half of that back in bottle returns.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Is a trunk narrative. This never ending theme of leaning
on it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So Trump's former national security advisor had his home rated
this morning, John Bolten, which could be a.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Big story either way.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
If it's legit that they're going after documents that Bolton
was one of the many people leaking things he shouldn't
have been leaking as part of the whole Russia hoax
because he hated Trump so much.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's a big story.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
If it's just going after enemies to scare them, Hey,
say bad things about me on cable news, and the
feds will be looking through your home looking for stuff.
That's a big story. Either one of them are a
big story. Yeah, And I don't know which it is yet,
unsettled times, no doubts, but Trump has said something about it.
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Maybe we'll have that for you later.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I noticed on cable Newsy is wearing a hat today,
the usual red hat with white letters that says Trump
was right about everything.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That's what his as.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Wow, and it like it just doesn't even hardly make
a mark because we live in such weird times. I mean,
twenty years ago President wearing a hat like that would
have been crazy, but we live in different divis. Last night,
so I'm at this barbecue, I mentioned a church nearby
I have like blocks from where I live. A school
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I didn't even know was there, which I find interesting.
Kindergarten through graduating high school, I didn't even know I
was there, but it's a small church school and not
a ton of students, pretty small, and my neighbors are
involved in that church. And his wife is ninth grade
English teacher. Anyway, and I got into the conversation. The
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first thing I asked her is what are they reading
in ninth grade English class? And reading the Classic? Which
I thought was really cool? I know, of Mice and
Men and Lord of the Flies and the stuff you
read you should be reading is it? Probably as a freshman
in high.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
School a lot, and got a nice compare in contrast
to that with the government schools coming up later in
the show. Stay with us, Okay, But anyway, I brought
up the idea of AI, like is AI started to.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Become a thing?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Oh yeah, I didn't even get the I didn't even
get the sentence out of my mouth before she responded
to that. And it's a so like we've talked about
and read about. She has to do in class writing
assignments to get a sense of where they're writing is
and to and then and then at least has that
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to compare to things that could get turned in that
don't look anything like that. And it's had that happen
apparently a couple of times where a paper gets tuned
in like I've seen your writing.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I know you're writing, this is not your writing. Yeah,
but I think that's the direction.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
They're definitely going to have to go in college where
your your writing assignments are in class because otherwise I
don't see how you're gonna stop it, especially, and I
brought up to her the example we had heard. I
think it was from the San Francisco Chronicle. You know,
kids being smart enough to say, hey, chat, gpt write
a paper about Lord of the Flies that would get
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me a bee as a freshman in high school, so
that it doesn't come off as like, you know, right,
you're the New York Times book reviewer, right, yeah, And
she grimaced at that. Oh geez, yeah, because that could
make it tough. But oh boy, Yeah, I was gonna say.
The quality thing is one aspect of it. But I
know you have to use and I have no idea
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how they work, but these anti AI apps yourself because
it recognizes the signatures somehow artificially created writing.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Maybe and for now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So that's the problem with that, yes, Katie.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
So I have to tell you guys, there's one indicator
where you can tell if somebody used chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, so if you click the dash on.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Your keyboard, just the one click, quick little dash, you
see it's a short line. Chat GPT has an extended dash.
So if you ever get something written, you'll see there's
a longer dash than there should be. And that is
the indicator that is all over the Internet that these
people are using chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Interesting, I will look for that.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
And now that you say that, I do recall looking
at things that has longer dash.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Surely they'll fix that though.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
See that's the problem is everything you come up with
the whole AI bots are going to be, you know,
correct very quickly. But I think I love the idea
of all levels of schooling moving toward the actual education
in the classroom to try to figure out where kids are.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I would agree absolutely, and emphasizing grasping of ideas as
supposed to regurgitating content. But you can do that in
class too. But yeah, it's got to be in class.
It's just it's obviously there.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, I don't think there's any other way to do it.
Is Trump doing what people were doing to him. They
used law fair against him, so he's going to use
it against them. I hope that's not what's going on today.
Among other stories on the way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
And walk into a room with him with a feign
country and the foreign country would give me everything because
they said, I don't know, they're going to get blown
up because John Bolton is there. He's a not a
smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic I mean,
we're going to find out. I know nothing about it.
I just saw it this morning.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
They did a rid so Trump's national security advisor from
his first term, had his home raided while he was
there by the FBI early this morning. Agents showed up
and started going through all his stuff and carrying out
computers and papers and stuff like that. Trump says he
didn't know anything about it. Bolton's an unpatriotic guy. He
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thinks we'll find out the charge.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, let's hear from. Do we want to hear from?
I don't know if I want to hear from. I
changed my mind. I don't want to hear from.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
But cash Ptel basically said in a statement that they
believe there's all kinds of security leaks that are going
on and classified information. The Yeah, the same thing that
has happened to a whole bunch of different people over
the last several years. The classified You got classified stuff
that you shouldn't have, or you leak classified stuff you
shouldn't have. And maybe Bolton was part of the whole
the leaks around the Russian investigation because he hated Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Well we'll find out, I guess.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So you were talking about law fair and we're against it,
and so we can't be for it af oarside does it?
But you know, Jack, I'm like a kaleidoscope with my
ever changing moods, and I got to admit there's part
of me that thinks you couldn't make the argument. I
haven't settled on this argument, but you can make it
that Trump is saying, Oh, this is how we're going
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to do it. You don't like me as a candidate,
so you're going to make a giant deal out of
me having classified documents, even though every president leaves with
some classified documents because everything is classified. And again, I'm
not arguing this point of view, but I'm thinking it
did's sit worth hearing, and you're gonna engage in lawfair
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against me you're gonna make up crap. You're gonna have
compliant attorneys who run on I'm gonna get Trump for something,
cook up charges. Okay, here's how it feels. We're gonna
do this, let's do this, and then both sides decide.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, we shouldn't do this anymore.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I think that's the way that you go through the cycle.
I hope that's the way you would go through the cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Again.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm not arguing that that's true, but I want to
consider it.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It's like the impeachment thing.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Everybody agrees that if the Dems take over the House,
are going to impeach Trump again. And you know that
if Kamala would have won, I could hardly get that
sentence out of my mouth that if Kamala would have
won or Biden would have won and there was a
Republican House, they would have impeached them. So we're just
gonna impeach who if the other side has the House,
you will get impeached president now, so so maybe then
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the same thing happens is what you just said. We
go through a couple of rounds of that. Everybody realizes
you spend a lot of time in political capital, you
gain nothing because they're never convicted.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And then we stopped doing it again.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Uh maybe, uh so far, And granted, you know, it's
only August a year one. Good gracious, I'm not sure
I have it in me to survive four years anyway. Ah,
it's only August. But only a couple of cranks in
the Democratic Party have seriously talked about impeaching Trump this time.
I think the normal people, the steady hands, the reasonable people,
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are like, no, we don't, we don't want to just do.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
That all the time. Well, that's interesting, it's a bad look.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
All my favorite pundits say it's one hundred percent that
the Democrats take the House.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They're going to impeach drump for what in particular.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
The plane taking the plane from guitar or I mean,
just a whole bunch of a bunch of different.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Things you could go after.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Wow, doesn't mean you're gonna win, but and end coin
and you're but yeah a cryptos and your base would
feel like, hey, we're fighting, finally, we're fighting.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
One more thing on the Bolton raid, on this.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Report his security clearances and his security detail that he
had a government subsidized, subsidized excuse me, security detail, was
stripped by President Trump. He said that it was unnecessary.
Bolton says that he is at risk from the Iran
regime of potential assassination attempts or other sorts of plots.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
So Bolton's making the argument that, hey, Iran has made
it clear out loud that they're trying to assassinate me. Still,
so I don't know if I should be losing any
security clearances or.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Protection or anything like that. So that's another wrinkle in
the story. Politics isn't getting any more gratifying.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It absolutely is lifting. It's not going in the right direction.
As I often point out, what is going in the
right direction. Did you see this story about the Navy
sailor convicted of espionage.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The other day? I did.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That's troubling, isn't it? Uh, he Confernedo. He's willing to
say this, But as I heard the headline unspooling, I
was waiting for the name. That's just your Chinese ancestry,
is he?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Wow, that's interesting. The CNN report I saw did not
give his name. They gave a drawing, not a picture,
and I thought, in the drawing he looks Chinese.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Is he Chinese.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, there's there's a mug shot, there's his service picture.
His name is known, it's out there. Of course, CNN
is a pile of crap. I mean, one of criticizing
them is just wow, it's unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
So they're so concerned that will lead Rednecks or somebody
to thank everybody from China's a spy or something.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Leyden racism and a backlash against Chinese Americans.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They leave out the Akham's razor detail.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Ill right, Anyway, this guy confessed to selling technical and
all kinds of other different stuff and sending manuals for
our big ships over there, and you know, stuff that
you wouldn't want to give to the Chinese. He was
recruited by a Chinese intelligence officer through social media in
February of twenty twenty two. And it might be I
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don't know, but we know this happens on college campus.
This is it might be one of those China reached
out to him and said, hey, you know, your family
back home, it's going to have some real problems you
could avoid if you had just do a little take
a couple of pictures with your phone right of these
blueprints or whatever, and just send them off to us.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Pretty easy to do.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, this guy betrayed his country for get ready for
this twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
That makes you an idiot, But maybe you're being threatened
at the same time, don't know that exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And the way they lure people in like this Potts
and I suspect he's just a Potts as opposed to
dedicated communists.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But yeah, they will.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They will say, hey, we've identified you as a prominent
Chinese American or something like that. We're all very proud
of you, blah blah blah. Send us a picture of
yourself for a local paper. And you'll think, yeah, what
the hell. And then they'll say hey, and then they'll
ask you to do something that is still legal and
still ethical, but getting closer to the line, and they'll
offer you a few bucks for your trouble. Then they'll
(25:30):
ask you to do something that's just a couple of
inches over the line of ethics or your oaths or whatever.
And at the point that you do that or maybe
like the next one, they've got you, well, they say, look,
you're gonna keep going or we're gonna report you and
you're gonna go to jail. As somebody who's read a
lot about the various traders to their country over the years,
(25:53):
you know, CI agents, FBI agents or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
That have done this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It is very often somebody who was just angry because
they didn't get a promotion or mad at their wife.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I mean, it's just it's often really really.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Stupid, right, or pitdling amounts of money, yeah, or you know,
and sometimes it is ideology. But I mean if you're
like up with communism, that makes you an idiot, right,
So between stupidity, greed and like just being grumpy, people
will betray their country for that.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And then somewhat of is is just flattery. They flatter
you and make you feel really really important in your job.
You don't feel important, but they make you feel like
you're doing something important.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And that alone.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Like Kim Philby, one of the most famous spies of
all time, that seemed to be a lot of his thing,
and he was also half a Communist, but.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
He just thought he was want a man named Kim
Kim that had to eat at him, right, is that
part of it?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
He just thought he was going to be a giant
star and big deal in the Soviet Union. When he
finally escaped and went over there, and they stuck him
in an apartment alone and used him for nothing for
the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
He just died there alone and sad. Wow, which is you.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Know, they'd gotten everything they wanted out of him, but
he thought he was gonna be you know, like talking
with the Kremlin and part of their all.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
No, nothing, once they were done with him. They were
a senior advisor.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, nothing, just a sad or get it,
it's almost always just a sad, pathetic ending to these spies.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's horrible. Yeah, no kidding, but you're I'm glad you
brought that point that the guy's Chinese ancestry.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The chance that that's not a factor in this story
is very low, isn't it. Well yeah, yeah, And again,
whether he's just a Putts, the victim of blackmail, a
greed head, or you know they've got his uncle or
his mom in the gulag, I don't know, uh, say something,
(28:00):
I'm checked, But it's.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So unlikely that it's nothing. Then for news organizations to
leave that fact.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Out, oh yeah, they're they're completely bent.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They're woe. That's malpractice.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, it is they're terrible at their jobs.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I watched the news.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That's a good choice, son, Yeah, yeah, well done, lad,
There's hope for the next generation. Jin Choo Wi of
twenty five years old, was found guilty on Wednesday by
a federal jury.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's unelie charges.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I've heard this story at least three different times on
different networks and never heard his name. That's wild well
and not and also not wild not not the least
bit surprising.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, so he was recruited stopped with the pop
up heads uh that he was recruited online by a
person they later identified as a Chinese intelligence officer who
initially posed as a naval enthusiast. A few days later,
Wei told a friend he thought that he was on
the radar of a Chinese intelligence organization because he was
in contact with someone who is extremely suspicious and interested
(29:04):
in the maintenance cycle of naval ships and wanted him
to walk the pier to see which ships are docked
on a daily basis for money. He said, he was
no idiot, and this is quite obviously effing espionage. But
that's weird. Whether they bribed him or that was some
(29:25):
sort of that's why, well did he think he was
being a double agent then or what. I don't know
because that was just a friend, right that he told.
He was arrested in August twenty three as he arrived
for work, plenty of evidence. During his post arrest interview
with the FBI, way he said, I'm screwed. When they
(29:46):
asked him why, he said that, I'm sharing the unclassified
document too, I mean document with him.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I'm not supposed to do that. Well, then why did
you you Putts?
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
See, I'm just thinking this guy's a Putts could be.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I mean, you know, he might be like a dedicated
Chinese spy playing the Putts. That's you know, it wouldn't
be the first person to do that.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Freaking Putts is what do we do about him? I'd
fake Putts even worse.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We got more on the way. Stay here. Depending on
where you live.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
High school football season is back around here. It starts tonight,
Friday night lights. And my son is playing drums. He
doesn't play football, but he plays drums in the drum line.
And we'll be playing at a football game and I
will go watch excellent, excellent. It's a beloved American tradition.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It is so a handful of story's worth, at least
touching on Federal judges ordered much of Alligator Alcatraz dismantled,
probably because the name's too cool for him. As we've highlighted,
the immigration customs people have decided to name all the
prisons something really groovy horn husker, clink that was stretched.
(30:56):
But what was the other one?
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Indiana had something depot the deport depot?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Was that at all? Yeah? Anyway, which, by.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
The way, they tried to make merch that looked like
home depot, and Home Depot threw a fit, so they
canceled all the merch.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Why why they close an Alligator Alcatraz? Too many people
eating by alligators. Some US district judge Lady of the
Southern District of Florida said Thursday that the government had
sixty days to remove fencing, lighting generators, sewage facilities, and
other major parts. She ordered to halt the new constructions
that it shouldn't accept any detainees. It was all an
(31:30):
allegation that the government failed to conduct a required environmental
impact for okay and ignore to other legal requirements.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Man the number one way to shut down any project
if you want to or just drag it out to
make it cost more if that's your game, is the
environmental stuff?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh yeah, that's why a lot of those laws and
regulations exist. And we'll get to something similar in just
a moment or two. It's not to protect the environment.
It's so that you can sue somebody and demand higher
wages for your union workers.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
For instance, happens in California all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Of course, I'm afraid we're coming off as if we
don't care about the Florida panther and the Florida bonneted
bat that live in that area need to be protected evidently, right.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
So what about ills that need to be eaten alligators
if they try to escape?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Well right, yeah, yeah, what about that? Uh so?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh well, maybe some of the illegals who are eating
the dogs and cats of Springfield, Ohio. Yeah, eating the
bonneted bats in Florida panthers, So that would be an
environmental life.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Life comes from full circle.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, you know, I should probably do this similar story here.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, I'll do it. This is great.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Kim Strassel, brilliant writer, Wall Street Journal opinion page, The
tail of the rent seeking Saw.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I saw that, Oh you did.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's about a table saw that this this guy invented
that senses with you know, various I think it's electric sensors,
light sensor or something like that. I can't remember I
read it, but it senses flesh. So if your finger
gets by the.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Saw blade close to the saw blade.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It super quick clamps breaks on it and stops the blade.
That sounds awesome. It's fantastic. It's also very expensive. And
when you do that, how much is your thumb worth?
Joe my thumb in particular.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Nah ah, but so uh.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Not only is it expensive to build a thing with
the sensors, but then when it does clamp down it,
it kind of ruins the brake pads in the saw blade,
and you've got to, you know, redo stuff. It's an
expense every time the thing kicks in.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
But you still have your thumb. That's true, both of them.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
If you're lucky. Oh my gosh. The Gary Condit thing,
Oh god, the tabloids claiming his wife had no thumbs
back in the time. I did that pop in a mind.
Don't know you because you're on cold medicine. I'm on
too many drugs. Yeah, anyway, so uh, Plus they mentioned
that there's the obvious liability problem of a no thumb
(34:14):
sawing saw sawing off somebody's thumb.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The lawyers would.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's right, it was craziness. Yes, you had both of
them anyway. So the people who made this saw instead
of like marketing the hell out of it, and they
went to the government and and said, hey, this ought
to be mandatory to protect people's thumbs. You need to
pass this regulation. And they did some good old fashioned
(34:41):
lobbying for a very very long time. And then there's
another maneuver where they said, and I tell you what,
you do that and we'll give up our patents so
everybody can protect their thumbs. But they didn't really. It
was a legal dodge, and they enforced the patent like crazy.
So they got the government, the Biden administration, to mandate
you had to use and buy these saws with the
(35:05):
safety mechanism.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
It's like the air pressure monitors on tires, which are
so incredibly unneeded. If you want one, fine, buy it
as an option, but mandating them all the cars was
the sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
This is, yeah, but so this is purely to enrich
the people who make this saw because they know they
knew we have the patents, we can sell everybody on
safety and make big contributions to politicians and they'll pass
this and everybody looks good and we all get crazy
rich and don't let anybody else use our patents. So
we've cornered the market. And Kim's writing about how that
(35:39):
is rent seeking, that's petitioning the government instead of competing
and you know, participating in the free market. You know what,
I didn't get to a British story. I wanted to
get to. Britain's pub culture is being disrupted because gen
Z insists on lining up single file at the bar
instead of bellying up to get a drink. What if
(36:01):
it's making bar owners insane? Wait a second, how would
this possibly be? Pardon me, how would this possibly be?
The whole bar thing's been around for thousands of years?
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Gambling on Little league games. A twenty eighteen Supreme Court
decision opened the floodgates for legalized sports gambling, but betting
on kids sports is prohibited on US based platforms, but
at least two sites abroad do allow betting on those games,
including Panama based site bet Online. Brand manager Dave Mason
says activity has doubled year over year on the Little
League World Series, and while he won't say how much
(00:46):
was bet, he does add that little League wagers seeded
the WNBA any tennis match and all soccer games.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Ooh, that's not a good look for soccer or the WNBA,
that there are more people betting on Little League.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Baseball or tennis.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, that story's distasteful in several different ways.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah. First of all, what's.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Become of Panamanian offshore sports betting?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It used to be so reliable, so respectable, right.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And then I suppose the concern is your bribe and
the kids? Do you tell the second basement? Hey, I'll
get you a PS five if you strike out in
the third inning or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Wow. Yeah, yeah, oh no, I don't want that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Where there is sports betting, there is an effort to
fix it that just those two things co exist.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
On speaking of sports, follow up the last hour. Apparently
I am wrong about this, So a fair amount of
attention given to the fact that Minnesota Vikings had these
two male cheerleaders. Who then when I finally and I thought, whatever,
there's always been male cheerleaders. And then when I saw
the two dudes, I mean, they are very effeminate. They
(01:56):
try to act like women. They wear the women's cheerleading out.
We were informed by an emailer that lots of teams
have male cheerleaders. My reaction was, yeah, I know, they
always have. You got a couple of strong guys that
tossed the women right here. I just got an NFL
insider just contacted me and said, no, every team. Now,
lots of teams now have the effeminate cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's a thing. So effeminine male cheerleaders? The hell? What
the hell is a good question?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Who is?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
That is another example of where normal people are relieved
that a lot of the woke DEEI stuff is being
pushed back, primarily by the Trump administration. In sane people
across America. Across America, it is still on the march
forward in education and media and sports. Is kind of
(02:44):
a special case because they seem to bend over backward
to be enlightened and woke.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But why how are they not more aware of their audience.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Isn't that like the least likely audience in America to
want to embrace a feminate men dressed as girls as
their cheerleaders NFL crowds. Yeah, I just I think the
NFL in particular is a league full of fast, violent,
strong young men who occasionally do bad stuff. It is
(03:19):
toxic maxculinity all over it. And so they're just ultra
you know, hyper aware of being politically correct, to use
the old term. And like Major League Baseball abandoning Atlanta
for the All Star Game after the George Floyd thing
because the voting law changes, that was one of the
worst stupidest things I've seen any major organization do. It
(03:41):
was inexplicable and inexcusable.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But Lucia shows you how far they go.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
But a slightly complex story, This one is not your
customer base ain't end to the whole trans thing, and
now you got dudes dressed as chicks as cheerleaders.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Who do you think you're, sir. I just I'm just
surprised by I don't care. It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
It's not gonna have any effect on how much I
watch or whether I go to a game or anything
like that.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
And I don't hate the people that are doing it
doesn't but I'm just shocked. It just seems like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I use someone your thumb in the eye of your
average fan. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I used to occasionally listen to sports talk radio and
became aware that that that whole world is only kind
of dimly aware of this social you know, controversies and
stuff that we deal with all.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The time, the whole woke thing.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
They're only barely aware of it, and so they really
don't know how to handle it, and so they overcorrect constantly.
I mean, the idea that you need like kind of
sort of trans cheerleaders jumping around right now is it's bizarre.
But you've got like the Human Rights Campaign I think
that's the name of the organization that's that blackmailing outfit.
(04:54):
They learned everything they could from like the Jesse Jackson's
of the world where they go to a the NFL instance,
and say, look, we want transgender cheerleaders, or we're going
to tell everybody what a homophobic, dangerous you use a
speech is violence? Your homophobic, your transphobic will say that
(05:14):
you're you're causing people to commit suicides. Or you can
do this for us, and the companies in the leagues
they give in over and over again. They used to
a lot of companies have booted the HRC out. Now
they were cow telling to them for a while, but
they're not anymore. Thank goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
This used to be the view of male cheerleaders.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
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salute you, mister male football cheerleader. Mister real men don't
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and somersaults on the sidelines, tuck safely away from the action.
It's down and inches, the game's on the line. It
all comes down to you. Will you call for a
perky pyramid or a pepe line Dan not come back,
knock them back all the way to acting Simon, So
(06:17):
grab a nice called bud like mister Mayo football cheerleaders.
You may never score a touchdown, but you're peppy.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's gotta count herself.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
A bud Light peer and as of course, say.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
One of the all time great ad campaigns for bud
Light back before they hired a woke woman.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
And the fact that it was the lead singer from Survivor,
Is that right? Yes, guy, absolutely, it's absolutely fantastic. Okay,
So I was wrong about the cheerleader thing. That's a
sweep in the nation. I guess they think their fans
want that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Whatever.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Who even notices the cheerleaders at a game anyway? You
almost have to be watching on TV to know they're there,
unless you have seats by where they are. Otherwise you're
just not going to see them, right. A couple of
news items for you. We mentioned this earlier, but a
few of the details. There will be three hundred thousand
fewer federal workers on the government payroll by the end
(07:15):
of this year than there were at the beginning of
the year.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That amounts to.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
A loss of about one in eight federal civilian workers.
Would be the largest singular year reduction since World War Two. Obviously,
the big government crowd is horrified by this. And what
can we do to protect our federal workers. The rest
of us who are taxpayers think, yeah, almost certainly the
government is big enough to be able to absorb that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
And I'm glad to hear it. Right.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And look, we've been growing it and growing it and
growing it, and we're drowning in debt and drowning our
children and grandchildren in debt.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Something's got to give.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
And Reuters with a heck of an interesting report about
where Putin's head is on the whole peace deal.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
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organization Reuters claims it is talking to three sources familiar
with top level Kremlin thinking about the whole peace process
that has been the number one story in the world
for the last week. They got three sources saying that
(09:21):
Putin is going to demand or is demanding, standing by
his demands that Ukraine give up all of the don
Bass region, which Zolensky has said as a no go
because that's just that would be absolutely giving them a
launching pad to go into Kiev. At some point, Ukraine
needs to renounce ambitions to join NATO and remain neutral
(09:42):
and no keeping Western troops of any kind anywhere in
the country.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh, that seems reasonable.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
No, as was pointed out by Zolensky and others, that
would be basically surrendering and setting yourself up to be
completely taken over in the near future. They have no
troops to protect them, and they give up that staging
ground from attack on the capitol.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Game over.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So, in other words, what we've been saying the last
several days, Putin has no interest whatsoever in ending this war.
You know, you can't blame him for coming out and say, yeah,
I'll stop if you give me everything I want without
losing any more soldiers, I suppose.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But if you don't, I'm going to keep fighting.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Interesting statement from the President on social media in mostly
all caps, but not entirely. This is a very serious thing,
but I can't restrain myself. I'll read it as he
wrote it. The president posted on social media after there
are a couple of statements from the Kremlin that made
clear what Jack was just saying. Posted on social media
(10:43):
that President Biden quote would not let Ukraine fight back,
only defend and it is very hard, if not impossible,
to win a war without attacking the invading country, there's
no chance of winning. So Trump's saying, hey, there's no
defense if you don't have a good offense.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Got to have a good offense.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
That's interesting because the end of this Reuters article included
does that mean that Donald Trump will move forward with
the sanctions and tell Ukraine they can use the weapons
we've given them for offensive attacks into Russia?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And that tweet or post would lead me to believe
he's okay with that, going to be okay with that?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeow.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That moves us into a different phase of the war
if we're giving more weapons and saying, you know, do
what you gotta do.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
One of Trump's faults is that he throws a rock
at every dog that barks. To paraphrase Churchill, but being
pantsed on the world stage by Putin just jerked around.
I mean because the headline the Wall Street Journal and
I think the editorial board is Putin's Ukraine semmetery was
a big Cohn And I don't think you can disagree
(11:58):
with that. Honestly, that's not something Trump is likely to
sit back and just take.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Boy thinks you could get excited.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Rosio O'Donnell's saying something stupid brings his wrath.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
This will surely get his attention.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Like I've been saying, get as mad at Putin as
you have been at Rosie O'Donnell. Would you at least
once I talked to an English teacher yesterday about how
AI is affecting the way she's teaching English class for
a freshman in high school, among other things we got
coming up. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Democrat Senator Amy Klobachar says clips of her saying Sidney
Sweeney has perfect breasts are fake videos, but admitted she
did say Governor Tim Waltz rocks a solid b cup.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That one didn't do it for me. Can you play
a different one, Michael?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
The Democratic Party's finances are in trouble after spending fifteen
million dollars to pay off Kamala's campaign, but at least
they'll get half of that back in bottle returns.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Is a trunk narrative. This never ending theme of leaning
on it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So Trump's former national security advisor had his home rated
this morning, John Bolten, which could be a.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Big story either way.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
If it's legit that they're going after documents that Bolton
was one of the many people leaking things he shouldn't
have been leaking as part of the whole Russia hoax
because he hated Trump so much.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's a big story.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
If it's just going after enemies to scare them, Hey,
say bad things about me on cable news, and the
feds will be looking through your home looking for stuff.
That's a big story. Either one of them are a
big story. Yeah, And I don't know which it is yet,
unsettled times, no doubts, but Trump has said something about it.
(14:00):
Maybe we'll have that for you later.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I noticed on cable Newsy is wearing a hat today,
the usual red hat with white letters that says Trump
was right about everything.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
That's what his as.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Wow, and it like it just doesn't even hardly make
a mark because we live in such weird times. I mean,
twenty years ago President wearing a hat like that would
have been crazy, but we live in different divis. Last night,
so I'm at this barbecue, I mentioned a church nearby
I have like blocks from where I live. A school
(14:34):
I didn't even know was there, which I find interesting.
Kindergarten through graduating high school, I didn't even know I
was there, but it's a small church school and not
a ton of students, pretty small, and my neighbors are
involved in that church. And his wife is ninth grade
English teacher. Anyway, and I got into the conversation. The
(14:57):
first thing I asked her is what are they reading
in ninth grade English class? And reading the Classic? Which
I thought was really cool? I know, of Mice and
Men and Lord of the Flies and the stuff you
read you should be reading is it? Probably as a freshman
in high.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
School a lot, and got a nice compare in contrast
to that with the government schools coming up later in
the show. Stay with us, Okay, But anyway, I brought
up the idea of AI, like is AI started to.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Become a thing?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Oh yeah, I didn't even get the I didn't even
get the sentence out of my mouth before she responded
to that. And it's a so like we've talked about
and read about. She has to do in class writing
assignments to get a sense of where they're writing is
and to and then and then at least has that
(15:39):
to compare to things that could get turned in that
don't look anything like that. And it's had that happen
apparently a couple of times where a paper gets tuned
in like I've seen your writing.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I know you're writing, this is not your writing. Yeah,
but I think that's the direction.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
They're definitely going to have to go in college where
your your writing assignments are in class because otherwise I
don't see how you're gonna stop it, especially, and I
brought up to her the example we had heard. I
think it was from the San Francisco Chronicle. You know,
kids being smart enough to say, hey, chat, gpt write
a paper about Lord of the Flies that would get
(16:15):
me a bee as a freshman in high school, so
that it doesn't come off as like, you know, right,
you're the New York Times book reviewer, right, yeah, And
she grimaced at that. Oh geez, yeah, because that could
make it tough. But oh boy, Yeah, I was gonna say.
The quality thing is one aspect of it. But I
know you have to use and I have no idea
(16:38):
how they work, but these anti AI apps yourself because
it recognizes the signatures somehow artificially created writing.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Maybe and for now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So that's the problem with that, yes, Katie.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
So I have to tell you guys, there's one indicator
where you can tell if somebody used chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Okay, so if you click the dash on.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Your keyboard, just the one click, quick little dash, you
see it's a short line. Chat GPT has an extended dash.
So if you ever get something written, you'll see there's
a longer dash than there should be. And that is
the indicator that is all over the Internet that these
people are using chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Interesting, I will look for that.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
And now that you say that, I do recall looking
at things that has longer dash.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Surely they'll fix that though.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
See that's the problem is everything you come up with
the whole AI bots are going to be, you know,
correct very quickly. But I think I love the idea
of all levels of schooling moving toward the actual education
in the classroom to try to figure out where kids are.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I would agree absolutely, and emphasizing grasping of ideas as
supposed to regurgitating content. But you can do that in
class too. But yeah, it's got to be in class.
It's just it's obviously there.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, I don't think there's any other way to do it.
Is Trump doing what people were doing to him. They
used law fair against him, so he's going to use
it against them. I hope that's not what's going on today.
Among other stories on the way Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
And walk into a room with him with a feign
country and the foreign country would give me everything because
they said, I don't know, they're going to get blown
up because John Bolton is there. He's a not a
smart guy, but he could be a very unpatriotic I mean,
we're going to find out. I know nothing about it.
I just saw it this morning.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
They did a rid so Trump's national security advisor from
his first term, had his home raided while he was
there by the FBI early this morning. Agents showed up
and started going through all his stuff and carrying out
computers and papers and stuff like that. Trump says he
didn't know anything about it. Bolton's an unpatriotic guy. He
(18:53):
thinks we'll find out the charge.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Well, let's hear from. Do we want to hear from?
I don't know if I want to hear from. I
changed my mind. I don't want to hear from.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
But cash Ptel basically said in a statement that they
believe there's all kinds of security leaks that are going
on and classified information. The Yeah, the same thing that
has happened to a whole bunch of different people over
the last several years. The classified You got classified stuff
that you shouldn't have, or you leak classified stuff you
shouldn't have. And maybe Bolton was part of the whole
the leaks around the Russian investigation because he hated Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Well we'll find out, I guess.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So you were talking about law fair and we're against it,
and so we can't be for it af oarside does it?
But you know, Jack, I'm like a kaleidoscope with my
ever changing moods, and I got to admit there's part
of me that thinks you couldn't make the argument. I
haven't settled on this argument, but you can make it
that Trump is saying, Oh, this is how we're going
(19:52):
to do it. You don't like me as a candidate,
so you're going to make a giant deal out of
me having classified documents, even though every president leaves with
some classified documents because everything is classified. And again, I'm
not arguing this point of view, but I'm thinking it
did's sit worth hearing, and you're gonna engage in lawfair
(20:13):
against me you're gonna make up crap. You're gonna have
compliant attorneys who run on I'm gonna get Trump for something,
cook up charges. Okay, here's how it feels. We're gonna
do this, let's do this, and then both sides decide.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah, we shouldn't do this anymore.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I think that's the way that you go through the cycle.
I hope that's the way you would go through the cycle.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Again.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm not arguing that that's true, but I want to
consider it.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
It's like the impeachment thing.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Everybody agrees that if the Dems take over the House,
are going to impeach Trump again. And you know that
if Kamala would have won, I could hardly get that
sentence out of my mouth that if Kamala would have
won or Biden would have won and there was a
Republican House, they would have impeached them. So we're just
gonna impeach who if the other side has the House,
you will get impeached president now, so so maybe then
(21:02):
the same thing happens is what you just said. We
go through a couple of rounds of that. Everybody realizes
you spend a lot of time in political capital, you
gain nothing because they're never convicted.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And then we stopped doing it again.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Uh maybe, uh so far, And granted, you know, it's
only August a year one. Good gracious, I'm not sure
I have it in me to survive four years anyway. Ah,
it's only August. But only a couple of cranks in
the Democratic Party have seriously talked about impeaching Trump this time.
I think the normal people, the steady hands, the reasonable people,
(21:34):
are like, no, we don't, we don't want to just do.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
That all the time. Well, that's interesting, it's a bad look.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
All my favorite pundits say it's one hundred percent that
the Democrats take the House.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
They're going to impeach drump for what in particular.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
The plane taking the plane from guitar or I mean,
just a whole bunch of a bunch of different.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Things you could go after.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Wow, doesn't mean you're gonna win, but and end coin
and you're but yeah a cryptos and your base would
feel like, hey, we're fighting, finally, we're fighting.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
One more thing on the Bolton raid, on this.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Report his security clearances and his security detail that he
had a government subsidized, subsidized excuse me, security detail, was
stripped by President Trump. He said that it was unnecessary.
Bolton says that he is at risk from the Iran
regime of potential assassination attempts or other sorts of plots.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
So Bolton's making the argument that, hey, Iran has made
it clear out loud that they're trying to assassinate me. Still,
so I don't know if I should be losing any
security clearances or.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Protection or anything like that. So that's another wrinkle in
the story. Politics isn't getting any more gratifying.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It absolutely is lifting. It's not going in the right direction.
As I often point out, what is going in the
right direction. Did you see this story about the Navy
sailor convicted of espionage.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The other day? I did.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That's troubling, isn't it? Uh, he Confernedo. He's willing to
say this, But as I heard the headline unspooling, I
was waiting for the name. That's just your Chinese ancestry,
is he?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Wow, that's interesting. The CNN report I saw did not
give his name. They gave a drawing, not a picture,
and I thought, in the drawing he looks Chinese.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Is he Chinese.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, there's there's a mug shot, there's his service picture.
His name is known, it's out there. Of course, CNN
is a pile of crap. I mean, one of criticizing
them is just wow, it's unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
So they're so concerned that will lead Rednecks or somebody
to thank everybody from China's a spy or something.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Leyden racism and a backlash against Chinese Americans.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
They leave out the Akham's razor detail.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Ill right, Anyway, this guy confessed to selling technical and
all kinds of other different stuff and sending manuals for
our big ships over there, and you know, stuff that
you wouldn't want to give to the Chinese. He was
recruited by a Chinese intelligence officer through social media in
February of twenty twenty two. And it might be I
(24:23):
don't know, but we know this happens on college campus.
This is it might be one of those China reached
out to him and said, hey, you know, your family
back home, it's going to have some real problems you
could avoid if you had just do a little take
a couple of pictures with your phone right of these
blueprints or whatever, and just send them off to us.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Pretty easy to do.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, this guy betrayed his country for get ready for
this twelve thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
That makes you an idiot, But maybe you're being threatened
at the same time, don't know that exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
And the way they lure people in like this Potts
and I suspect he's just a Potts as opposed to
dedicated communists.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But yeah, they will.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They will say, hey, we've identified you as a prominent
Chinese American or something like that. We're all very proud
of you, blah blah blah. Send us a picture of
yourself for a local paper. And you'll think, yeah, what
the hell. And then they'll say hey, and then they'll
ask you to do something that is still legal and
still ethical, but getting closer to the line, and they'll
offer you a few bucks for your trouble. Then they'll
(25:30):
ask you to do something that's just a couple of
inches over the line of ethics or your oaths or whatever.
And at the point that you do that or maybe
like the next one, they've got you, well, they say, look,
you're gonna keep going or we're gonna report you and
you're gonna go to jail. As somebody who's read a
lot about the various traders to their country over the years,
(25:53):
you know, CI agents, FBI agents or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
That have done this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It is very often somebody who was just angry because
they didn't get a promotion or mad at their wife.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I mean, it's just it's often really really.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Stupid, right, or pitdling amounts of money, yeah, or you know,
and sometimes it is ideology. But I mean if you're
like up with communism, that makes you an idiot, right,
So between stupidity, greed and like just being grumpy, people
will betray their country for that.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
And then somewhat of is is just flattery. They flatter
you and make you feel really really important in your job.
You don't feel important, but they make you feel like
you're doing something important.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
And that alone.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Like Kim Philby, one of the most famous spies of
all time, that seemed to be a lot of his thing,
and he was also half a Communist, but.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
He just thought he was want a man named Kim
Kim that had to eat at him, right, is that
part of it?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
He just thought he was going to be a giant
star and big deal in the Soviet Union. When he
finally escaped and went over there, and they stuck him
in an apartment alone and used him for nothing for
the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
He just died there alone and sad. Wow, which is you.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Know, they'd gotten everything they wanted out of him, but
he thought he was gonna be you know, like talking
with the Kremlin and part of their all.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
No, nothing, once they were done with him. They were
a senior advisor.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, nothing, just a sad or get it,
it's almost always just a sad, pathetic ending to these spies.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
It's horrible. Yeah, no kidding, but you're I'm glad you
brought that point that the guy's Chinese ancestry.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The chance that that's not a factor in this story
is very low, isn't it. Well yeah, yeah, And again,
whether he's just a Putts, the victim of blackmail, a
greed head, or you know they've got his uncle or
his mom in the gulag, I don't know, uh, say something,
(28:00):
I'm checked, But it's.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
So unlikely that it's nothing. Then for news organizations to
leave that fact.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Out, oh yeah, they're they're completely bent.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
They're woe. That's malpractice.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, it is they're terrible at their jobs.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I watched the news.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That's a good choice, son, Yeah, yeah, well done, lad,
There's hope for the next generation. Jin Choo Wi of
twenty five years old, was found guilty on Wednesday by
a federal jury.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
That's unelie charges.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I've heard this story at least three different times on
different networks and never heard his name. That's wild well
and not and also not wild not not the least
bit surprising.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, so he was recruited stopped with the pop
up heads uh that he was recruited online by a
person they later identified as a Chinese intelligence officer who
initially posed as a naval enthusiast. A few days later,
Wei told a friend he thought that he was on
the radar of a Chinese intelligence organization because he was
in contact with someone who is extremely suspicious and interested
(29:04):
in the maintenance cycle of naval ships and wanted him
to walk the pier to see which ships are docked
on a daily basis for money. He said, he was
no idiot, and this is quite obviously effing espionage. But
that's weird. Whether they bribed him or that was some
(29:25):
sort of that's why, well did he think he was
being a double agent then or what. I don't know
because that was just a friend, right that he told.
He was arrested in August twenty three as he arrived
for work, plenty of evidence. During his post arrest interview
with the FBI, way he said, I'm screwed. When they
(29:46):
asked him why, he said that, I'm sharing the unclassified
document too, I mean document with him.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I'm not supposed to do that. Well, then why did
you you Putts?
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
See, I'm just thinking this guy's a Putts could be.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I mean, you know, he might be like a dedicated
Chinese spy playing the Putts. That's you know, it wouldn't
be the first person to do that.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Freaking Putts is what do we do about him? I'd
fake Putts even worse.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We got more on the way. Stay here. Depending on
where you live.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
High school football season is back around here. It starts tonight,
Friday night lights. And my son is playing drums. He
doesn't play football, but he plays drums in the drum line.
And we'll be playing at a football game and I
will go watch excellent, excellent. It's a beloved American tradition.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It is so a handful of story's worth, at least
touching on Federal judges ordered much of Alligator Alcatraz dismantled,
probably because the name's too cool for him. As we've highlighted,
the immigration customs people have decided to name all the
prisons something really groovy horn husker, clink that was stretched.
(30:56):
But what was the other one?
Speaker 8 (30:57):
Indiana had something depot the deport depot?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Was that at all? Yeah? Anyway, which, by.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
The way, they tried to make merch that looked like
home depot, and Home Depot threw a fit, so they
canceled all the merch.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Why why they close an Alligator Alcatraz? Too many people
eating by alligators. Some US district judge Lady of the
Southern District of Florida said Thursday that the government had
sixty days to remove fencing, lighting generators, sewage facilities, and
other major parts. She ordered to halt the new constructions
that it shouldn't accept any detainees. It was all an
(31:30):
allegation that the government failed to conduct a required environmental
impact for okay and ignore to other legal requirements.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Man the number one way to shut down any project
if you want to or just drag it out to
make it cost more if that's your game, is the
environmental stuff?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Oh yeah, that's why a lot of those laws and
regulations exist. And we'll get to something similar in just
a moment or two. It's not to protect the environment.
It's so that you can sue somebody and demand higher
wages for your union workers.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
For instance, happens in California all the time.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Of course, I'm afraid we're coming off as if we
don't care about the Florida panther and the Florida bonneted
bat that live in that area need to be protected evidently, right.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
So what about ills that need to be eaten alligators
if they try to escape?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Well right, yeah, yeah, what about that? Uh so?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Uh well, maybe some of the illegals who are eating
the dogs and cats of Springfield, Ohio. Yeah, eating the
bonneted bats in Florida panthers, So that would be an
environmental life.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Life comes from full circle.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, you know, I should probably do this similar story here.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, I'll do it. This is great.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Kim Strassel, brilliant writer, Wall Street Journal opinion page, The
tail of the rent seeking Saw.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
I saw that, Oh you did.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's about a table saw that this this guy invented
that senses with you know, various I think it's electric sensors,
light sensor or something like that. I can't remember I
read it, but it senses flesh. So if your finger
gets by the.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Saw blade close to the saw blade.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
It super quick clamps breaks on it and stops the blade.
That sounds awesome. It's fantastic. It's also very expensive. And
when you do that, how much is your thumb worth?
Joe my thumb in particular.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Nah ah, but so uh.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Not only is it expensive to build a thing with
the sensors, but then when it does clamp down it,
it kind of ruins the brake pads in the saw blade,
and you've got to, you know, redo stuff. It's an
expense every time the thing kicks in.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
But you still have your thumb. That's true, both of them.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
If you're lucky. Oh my gosh. The Gary Condit thing,
Oh god, the tabloids claiming his wife had no thumbs
back in the time. I did that pop in a mind.
Don't know you because you're on cold medicine. I'm on
too many drugs. Yeah, anyway, so uh, Plus they mentioned
that there's the obvious liability problem of a no thumb
(34:14):
sawing saw sawing off somebody's thumb.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The lawyers would.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That's right, it was craziness. Yes, you had both of
them anyway. So the people who made this saw instead
of like marketing the hell out of it, and they
went to the government and and said, hey, this ought
to be mandatory to protect people's thumbs. You need to
pass this regulation. And they did some good old fashioned
(34:41):
lobbying for a very very long time. And then there's
another maneuver where they said, and I tell you what,
you do that and we'll give up our patents so
everybody can protect their thumbs. But they didn't really. It
was a legal dodge, and they enforced the patent like crazy.
So they got the government, the Biden administration, to mandate
you had to use and buy these saws with the
(35:05):
safety mechanism.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
It's like the air pressure monitors on tires, which are
so incredibly unneeded. If you want one, fine, buy it
as an option, but mandating them all the cars was
the sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
This is, yeah, but so this is purely to enrich
the people who make this saw because they know they
knew we have the patents, we can sell everybody on
safety and make big contributions to politicians and they'll pass
this and everybody looks good and we all get crazy
rich and don't let anybody else use our patents. So
we've cornered the market. And Kim's writing about how that
(35:39):
is rent seeking, that's petitioning the government instead of competing
and you know, participating in the free market. You know what,
I didn't get to a British story. I wanted to
get to. Britain's pub culture is being disrupted because gen
Z insists on lining up single file at the bar
instead of bellying up to get a drink. What if
(36:01):
it's making bar owners insane? Wait a second, how would
this possibly be? Pardon me, how would this possibly be?
The whole bar thing's been around for thousands of years?
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