November 21, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The Russia/Ukraine war & the democrat video about ignoring illegal orders
- Fashion changes
- How inflation compounds & some Epstein notes
- Call Me Maybe & Jack's new favorite album
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and He Armstrong and Yetty Trump may
have set his all time record for starting to fire,
(00:32):
you know, a verbal fire among the chattering classes with
the fewest words, most reaction for the fewest words. Is
a five word post yesterday that has gotten a tremendous
amount of reactions. So we'll get to that in just
a second. First, I want to mention this. We talked
last hour about that proposal that's been given to Zelenski
that like Russia gets everything they want and beyond. And
(00:59):
the message from the House is you need to accept
this or we're cutting off all support. And he got
toll Thanksgiving and Zelensky just came out and said that
Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in our
nation's history.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I would say I would agree they've been extremely diplomatic
in responding to this horrific quote unquote offer.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But man, they're in a tough spot. What would you do?
I think I think I back channel to my European
friends and let them speak loudly about why this is
a terrible idea, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, be extremely diplomatic, like they're being in play for
time and send signals. Well, you know, Zelenski really doesn't
have to say a word. Europe is horrified by this idea,
just horrified because it empowers Putin, It rewards him for
his aggressions. It shows him a roadmap for how to
do it in the Baltic States next, or you know,
(01:55):
part of Poland where there's a lot of Russian speakers,
or what have you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You know, I was just thinking all about Crone's gonna
be on the phone with Trump today. What's his name
there in Germany, Fred Mertz. But Trump could say to him, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, there's a there's another way to deal with
a war in your backyard that doesn't include us at all.
(02:19):
Why did you do something about it? Totally legit, totally
legitimate thing to say. Why is it on us to
figure this out and present a plan? Go ahead, present
your plan. Knock yourself out. I'll read about it in
the newspaper tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So and my god, if you can't handle you know, subtlety,
maybe this is the wrong show for you or nuanced.
But I'm harshly critical of this quote unquote peace offer
that Trump cooked up with the Kremlin for God's sake.
On the other hand, I think his approach with NATO
has been exactly right, or so close to exactly right.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It might as well be to.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Forcefully emphasize to them that they must be able to
defend themselves, that they've got to as quickly as possible
reform their finances and that's the tough part. Asma cron
and reinvigorate their defense industries, and they're just their their
defense and be able to stand on their own two feet,
or at least be an ally worth having. Please and
(03:18):
several of Ashley answered that call. Some have kind of
pretended to Japan seems to be doing a pretty good job.
I realized they're not Europe. But I think his approach
in that regard has been terrific and long long overdue.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's going to be quite the story for the next
several days. That one I will follow while we're on vacation.
Here's a good one with Mom Donni about to visit
the White House having been called a communist from the
podium yesterday, including by the President. Listen to this. The
House just overwhelmingly voted to condemn socialism hours before mayor
elect Zorhan Mundani visit the way. So they passed, they
(03:55):
passed a resolution condemning socialism. All right, National Cookie Day,
social no whatever, whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Unletsten, we're constantly crying out for someone to take a
stand against socialism, to say it doesn't work. And if
the truth is spoken in jack spits in their eye.
They're collective four hundred and thirty five man.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Eye who pays the attention to of these gestures. It's
a profound move and long overdue. Ah, how was I
gonna say? That doesn't matter? So now to the five
words that rocked the world yesterday from Donald Trump. I'll
read his post and then we'll backfill sedition. This is
(04:34):
all caps. Joe Biden joining us this morning. You get
in for a problem. Listen, bow, you gotta ask me
the American problem. Here's the fins that rocked the world,
My bust and wist. We don't have any os. Michael,
(05:00):
all right, that was very biten, like you really wind up,
you're gonna hit the blow. Well, here's long why tell
you I got here were the words first? All caps
seditious behavior, Comma punishable by death. What that's a short post?
(05:23):
Five words soditious behavior punishable by death exclamation point. So
what is he talking about? We we escalated quickly. We
read this to you yesday, but we didn't have the sound.
It's a video. They put out lots of senators, a
bunch of different other people, dems with this message. We
won't play the whole thing, but there's some very prominent
senators on here. Here he goes, like us, you all
(05:44):
swore an oath constitution right now. The threats to our
constitution aren't just coming from abroad, from right here at home.
Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You must refuse legal orders.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No one has to carry out orders that violate the
law or our constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
We know this is hard and that it's a difficult
time to be a public servant. But whether you're serving
in the CIA, the Army, or Navy, the Air Force,
your vigilance is critical. And know that we have your back,
because now more than ever, the American people need you.
We need you to stand up for our laws, our constitution,
and who we are as Americans. Don't give up, don't
(06:26):
give up. Don't give up, don't give up the ship.
So what is the message there? What are they trying
to do?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I am going to skip past my horrified talk show
host mode where I talk about how wildly insanely inappropriate
that is, because it is it is so far out
of line, and skip to your question, what exactly are
they trying to accomplish?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Number One?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
They are trying to suggest without stating it, that a
number of actions recently have been legal. I suspect they're
talking about these snuffing of alleged drug boats, but.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Apparently they don't feel like they're on solid enough ground
to say out loud what they're talking about. Right.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Secondarily, they're hoping to get some soldier sailor airman marine.
They left out the Coastguard, who apparently can do whatever
they want, including illegal orders. They want somebody to refuse
to execute an order so they can be made a
symbol of Trump's lawlessness. I think they actually want to
(07:34):
incite some poor son of a bitch to think, you know,
I got no reason to shoot at these guys or whatever,
and become a martyr.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The whole military structure falls well there, of course, there
are such things as illegal orders, and you constitutionally.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Do not have to follow them, and you're trained to
that effect the minute you get in the service and.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Something incredibly obvious, like you know, your commander says I
want you to torture these people until they talk, you
can say I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You got to shoot my wife's boss save as a terrorist.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh right, But if you're just going to make a
blanket statement vaguely about an out of control president, what
are you hoping is going to happen here? And then
the whole thing falls apart if people start judging orders
on I'm not sure this is legal or not. I'd
have to call my lawyer as a private in the army.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Right, Yeah, well, it seems clearly designed to well to
a suggests that there are illegal orders being given, although
they don't have the balls to name them and be
to really push into our service people's minds that there
might be and they should be on the lookout. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's really just to whip up the sense of fear
and urgency of how out of control things are right now.
That's what it's designed to do. Yeah, just to make
people think, oh my god, it's that bad. It's that bad, okay,
and then Trump's response, of course, did not help, because
the current president of the United States should not say
(09:07):
seditious behavior punishable by death, suggesting they had committed a
crime they could be executed for by putting together that video,
We're gonna start hanging senators. Neither side has any interest
in cooling off the rhetoric. I'm not even a call
for it anymore. You can't go any farther than that then,
(09:30):
as a hot rhetoric, can you. It's like running onto
a football field and screaming, stop tackling each other. Stop
tackling each other. Forget it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's a fantasy. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, was asked about it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The words that the President chose are not the ones
that I would use.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Obviously I don't think that this is these are crimes
punishable by death or any of that, Okay, But what
what the point is that we need to emphasize here
is that members of Congress in the city the House
should not do telling truth to disobey orders.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It is dangerous. If God dang it, we are in
a race to the bottom. There are no norms that
will go untrampled upon. I saw Lindsey Graham on some
show this morning and he said the same thing. No,
I wouldn't have said that. I mean, they kept pushing
(10:22):
on him. They wanted him to, you know, go against Trump.
They kept pushing, and he finally said, no, I wouldn't
have said that. No, that's not appropriate for the president
to say. But he got back to what Mike Johnson said,
and neither was it appropriate for a bunch of senators
to say, you don't have to disobey order your legal orders,
you know, don't follow illegal orders. What are you suggesting here? Again?
(10:45):
I think if they think something is really out of bounds, illegal,
well then name the specific act and put your name
on it. Why not if you think what's going on
in Venezuela's illegal, say it out loud. Don't just like generalize.
That's not good. Yeah, it's cowardly. I don't I don't
know what to think of the fact that in my
(11:06):
own brain, when I heard yesterday what Trump said that,
I thought, oh, we roll my eyes. I didn't think,
you know, we're about to see senators swinging from the gallows,
which I might have thought under Gerald Ford or Jimmy
Carter or any other president back in the day when
people didn't say things unless they met them. Can I
pick two senators swinging from the gallows? I just didn't
(11:29):
submit them somewhere.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I just after a fair trial, of course, appeals in
the American justice system, the envy of the world.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Which two do you have in mind?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I'm not naming names, you know, Oh lord, let
me think of some oh boy, what's his face? From Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Him and my senator, the guy with the thin neck.
But you'd have to give a spec Adam shift.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, you'd have to. You could hang him with dental
flaws and slip right out of the news again.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And we're only with a fair trial, actually having violated
the Constitution in a way publishable by death. And if
there should be no political violence, no political violence. We're
talking due process. That's not political violence. Do freaking process
like he said. That's right? All right then, Okay, probably
a good time to take a break and rethink our stance.
(12:19):
We'll be back right up to this.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Strong DoorDash said that their customer's personal information was stolen
in a data breach.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Oo.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
The hackers will face criminal charges along with vague DoorDash chargers.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, no, pay ten dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Some customers vowed who never used door dash ever again?
And then they got hungry and ordered a burger from
the McDonald six hundred feet away.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No kidding. It's always a little confusing to try to
figure out. So I know, the thing I ordered is
thirteen ninety five, but now it's twenty eight fifty. What
are all the charges in between? It's kind of hard
to figure out what they are. But that's the way
it works out.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, the ticket sellers started that, right, the service fee,
the handling fee, the processing charge. What's the difference between
a service fee and a processing charge?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Exactly? My son is into We went out to eat
last night and I told my kids, throw on some
real clothes. We're gonna go to a kind of realish restaurant.
And my son came out dressed in his new member's
only jacket. He's a fan of vintage clothes. That's his thing.
He goes to these. He can't really call them their
(13:31):
thrift stores because they're a little too expensive to just
be your old timey thrift stores. They're very popular right now.
For whatever reason. I was just in San Francisco and
we were on went over with the hate Ashbury area,
and it's like all kind of mid to high range
vintage stuff, like expensive used clothes.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, my son is super into that too. It's kind
of fun. Really, it's like an art form, and it's
not nearly as expensive as new stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh, way, way way cheaper than buy new stuff. But
the funny thing is he was dressed as a sophomore
in high school the way I wanted to be dressed
as a sophomore in high school, but didn't have the
money for the clothes. I had. A member's only jackets
were so popular in the eighties when I was in
high school. I never had one. I had a knockoff
like kmart version kind of looked like the member's only jacket.
(14:20):
It should have been sued for copyright infringement. I mean
it was almost exactly the same with the logo that
said you know, can't afford this on it or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Ow, So they rejected you as a member for members
only jackets.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And I had I don't think I had real Levi's
jeans either. I had some knockoff jeans and he was
wearing vintage levi'sed jeans he got last week from the
eighties and a member's only jacket. I thought, how are
you dressed as a sophomore high school the way I
wanted to be dressed as a sophomore in high school.
It's just interesting. Yeah, it's interesting that they're still popular.
He got lots of compliments on it. It's funny how
(14:55):
things come in in and out, And I was trying
to explain him how members only, like all the cool
people in high school had a members only jacket. Then
they became a joke for like thirty years. Now they're
cool again. That's the way things go in an arc. Ye,
that's why you keep finds too.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Bands are popular, then they're a joke, and then people
line up to see them fifteen years later. Yeah, they're
dyeing their hair and sucking in their guts and making
a few bucks, and who can blame them?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So it's funny. I came across this.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's appropriate to our last segment talking about all the
norms that are being exploded both sides of the aisle
or estimate. This is so interesting, but it's entirely visual,
using like little glowing dots. It shows you all of
the times the word democracy has been uttered in the
(15:44):
House of Representatives, going back to eighteen eighty, when I
don't know, maybe the really good record keeping began or
something like that, and how it was very very low,
practically never And it differentiates just mentions of democracy with
this is a threat to our democracy.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Those are like brighter.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Dots, but it's like extremely rare eighteen eighty through nineteen
thirty six or seven. Then as WW two's breaking out,
there's a fair mention of democracy. It settled down again.
Then the Cold Wars st already saw some of it.
Then in the nineties it burbled up and came up
a lot, then it kind of dropped. During the Obama years,
(16:24):
practically nobody was shouting about democracy. Now it's skyrocketed. It's
like it's a never ending drum beat of this was
a threat to our democracy and just constantly mentioning democracy.
It's gone from like a tenth of a percent of
you know the speeches in Congress now to five percent.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, would it be a fair rebuttal to say we've
got more of a threat to our democracy going on
over the last decade or so than we ever had before.
For all kinds of different reasons. Not you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You generally hear it in a hyperbolic way, though, don't
you know?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Definitely I want a cane. We need to. We haven't
bring back a cane. We haven't had a cane in
a long ago. What's old is new?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Another canings armstrong and getdy sa.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Good morning Sa, Good morning perfect. We are doing chicken
egg in this morning. I got the sausage, egg and
cheese breakfast bullet.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That's a big bite.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So I'm gonna have you got me? Okay, eat the
egg here? Good boy? Was this screaming? Okay? Good? So
happy for you. I think it's pretty obvious what's going
on there. That's a woman who has a pet turkey
going through the drive through a Chick fil A and
other news.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I remember when entertainment had plot and people would write
it and think about it, and that's just freak shows.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Freak shows. See.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I would think bringing a turkey to a Chick fil
A is, on its face, uncomfortable, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
A little too close to home? Yeah, yeah, a little.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You know it's it's it's it's cannibalism adjacent.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You like eating fowl do you huh?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Keep that in mind a minute, sleep with one beady
I open.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I got a couple of Epstein things for you. One
Megan Kelly opened the can of worms. What's a pedophile? Anyway?
I want to talk about that and Larry Summer's revelation
that's pretty interesting. We'll get to those eventually.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh No, we were talking about this yesterday and I
was trying to express but I think they expressed it better.
This this piece of journalism by Rachel Ensign and Rachel Wolfe,
the two Rachel's I call him.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
America.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
We were talking about inflation and how it compounds. If
you have nine percent inflation inflation one year than eight
percent the next year, it's not like, no, the prices
have come down. No, that means it's eight percent on
top of the dot dollar nine that the dollar became,
so it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and more bloated.
(19:06):
And that the inflation rate has unquestionably come down since
Donald Trump took office, and that is good news. But
he's been a little out of touch and made some
statements he really should not have about this fake news,
and they.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Just don't want to talk about our accomplishments and stuff
like that. Well, it is a good He didn't just imply.
He stated flat out he could make the prices come down,
which I wondered how he was gonna fix that once
he got an office.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, that would be extremely difficult to pay off, to
pull off rather, but this is some good writing. America's
middle class is weary after nearly five years of high prices.
Many middle class earners thought life would be more affordable
by now here's.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Your key figure.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Costs for goods and services are twenty five percent above
where they were in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Anybody here got a twenty five percent raise in the last.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Twenty person So think about that. So if you make
one hundred grand a year, you make a lot less
than you used to think you made.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh yeah, right, even though the inflation rate is below
it's twenty twenty two. High.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Certain essentials and they.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Go into coffee, ground, beef, car repairs, insurance, this sort
of thing are up markedly this year. And they talk
to a variety of people at a variety salary levels
around the country.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But so if we're all saying the same thing, if
most of us are working for roughly the same amount
of money as we were in twenty twenty. We took
a twenty five percent pay cut essentially. Yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And they point out that Walmart stock is doing great
and sales target is getting murdered because people are saying,
where's the cheap place. It's Walmart, right, let's go to
Walmart overwhelmingly, And they cite a number of different businesses,
from wing Stop to a couple other places that are saying, yeah,
middle income diners are now doing what lower income ones did.
(21:01):
They're dialing back their purchases. They're ordering the cheaper stuff.
Our high end stuff is not moving. It's really interesting,
but I thought that's worth pointing out. The way inflation works,
it never comes down. I mean, deflation is a very
dangerous thing. It caused terrible problems in an economy. Look
it up if you don't know about it. But people
are dealing with twenty five percent higher prices than they
(21:23):
were five years ago, having seen very little change in
their wages.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's brutal, yep.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And you know, just politically speaking, you gotta be sensitive
to that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And since you can't actually bring prices down, can bring
some down. The only thing you can really talk about
is somehow raising wages? Right?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh, that reminds me maybe our four of the show,
great piece about inflation, what it is and what it
is not, because we've got it a little bit backwards.
That rise in prices is not inflation per se. It's
the result of inflation.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We'll explain in our four.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You will be smarter than all of your friends and
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Speaker 2 (22:20):
Subscribe At the Thanksgiving table, if somebody brings up inflation,
you can say, you know, actually you're wrong, uncle Ed,
and then starting with you, you know, I might just
you know, there's more to it, uncle Ed. Why would
you be so confrontational? And more on?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Hey, when you're done talking, Jackass, I got I like
to drop.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
A truth bowl of gravy in front of your play
all right, No, no need to be light. Pass me
the Cranberry's. I'll pass you some common sense. Here's how
inflation works. Jab your turkey, leg at him. I got
something for you. Here's a couple of Epstein things for you.
Larry Summers and his his wife flew on Epstein's plane
(23:03):
to Pedo Island for their honeymoon, the same wife that
he would eventually. I don't know if he ever cheated
on her, if he ever was successful, he was trying
to cheat on her with that graduate student, with Epstein's advice.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I've got to quibble just a little bit over the
characterization of Pedo Island. No question that sort of thing
happened there, sex with underage people, getting into the what
is pedophilia question, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The guy had like a super cool vacation pad. Sometimes
it was just a party, sometimes it was just chilling out. Well,
sometimes it was perven.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, I assume Larry Summers and his brand new bride,
having just gotten married in Cambridge, they flew on Epstein's
plane to the island and hung out there. Now this
is two thousand and five, this is before his conviction,
so I'm sure everybody knew Epstein was living a pretty
wild life and on the very age edge of what
was appropriate and what wasn't. But he hadn't been convicted
of anything at that point. But I just thought that
(24:04):
was kind of interesting. Megan Kelly brought this up the
other day, and I agree with her and she got
killed for saying it. I feel like we need a
word for people who are into children and people who
are into you know, almost eighteen year old teenagers. They're
different things. Yeah, there are crimes, but they're different things.
(24:26):
They're different crimes.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Too. Loud and Lasseivius with a child under fourteen is
a different crime. It's the question of do you are
you sexually attracted to children who are pre sexual right
in most ways, or are you?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I mean, it's a different thing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
A seventeen year old girl can get pregnant quite readily,
and anthropologically speaking, that's like the perfect time to have
a child, when you're young and strong, etc. Societally, it's
not the way we operate. I'm not suggesting it, but yeah,
it's a very different crime. A seven year old and
a seventeen year old is a completely different situation. Well yeah,
(25:03):
and then there's the point she was trying to make.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And there's two sides of the seventeen year old thing.
There's the Okay, so now she just turned eighteen and
you're perfectly fine, nothing nothing different than yesterday when you're
a pedophile, and that seems kind of crazy true. On
the other hand, have some self control, you weirdo, since
there's really no difference between her yesterday and tomorrow, if
(25:28):
the face or birthday, wait till they're eighteen, you freaking creeps.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, there's there's that forbidden fruit. Yeah, there's something
weird really young. Yes, it is a crime and it
is the sick and it should be.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And if I had a daughter, if you had sex
with her when she's seventeen, I'm shooting you. And if
you have sex when she's with her when she's five,
I'm definitely shooting you either way. But they're different things. Yeah,
And I don't so I don't call the whole he's
a pedophile thing. I just don't think that works.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
And now people are ripping Megan Kelly for saying that,
saying I was a victim and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
No it's it's not we're not saying it's fine. But
that's as I pointed out, I'd shoot you either way.
There you go. One of them end up with a
bullet hole to me. To me, one of them is
like you just have you're you're a weirdo with bad judgment.
The other one is your brain does not work at all.
You should be locked away from society forever. Ding AnyWho,
(26:27):
what's the I think fifteen the youngest I've heard of,
which is just sick and twisted and awful.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But yeah, we got at least one email that was
talking about how the age of consent is sixteen in
a bunch.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Of stat's true. That's a good point right there.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And you know the line you talk about gray areas,
the line between wooing somebody and grooming them and manipulating
them if they are of the age of consent. It's
it's a fine line. I mean, I know when I
see it.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
But there are going to be a whole bunch of
well known names having to explain themselves here in the
next couple of weeks, as soon as all these documents
come out. And they may not have done anything illegal
ever at any point, but they're going to be out
there explaining to journalists on camera why they rode on
(27:23):
the plane here or said this or sent this email
or whatever, just like Larry Summers did the other day.
And he didn't commit any crime. No, no, And that's
going to be exciting, speaking of your crime.
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Speaker 1 (28:59):
Department of Health and You and Services put out their
big gender care review of the science and said there
is no science to support this gender benning madness, especially
for kids. The pro gender benning manas crowd had no
substantive criticisms. They couldn't come up with anything to refute
the new report it. We are going, well, I already am.
(29:23):
We are soon all of us going to look back
on that period of mutilating and pumping kids through permanent
changing chemicals because they were momentarily confused about their gender
or there was a social contagion of gender bending menace,
and we're going to think, how in the name of
God did we let something so terrible happen.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
One of the craziest things that's ever happened. I would agree, Yeah,
absolutely so I'm following that following this story today, President
Zolensky has just spoken with the leaders of France, UK
and Germany about this proposal that Trump has given. Zolensky
make it by Thanksgiving or we cut off aid is
(30:03):
the deal, and it's like all favorable to Russia, nothing
favorable to Ukraine other than the war ending. Well, you
have to give a plan, you have to cut your
army in half, you get no foreign troops on your
on your ground. Russia gets to get back on, you know,
and the good graces of the economy around the world
and everything like that. So to become an even bigger
threat in the future. It's just a horrible deal. But
(30:26):
I don't know what other does he mean it or
is he gonna forget about it in two days? Trump?
I think this is pretty serious. He's had the Secretary
of the Army over there working on it, and I
think it's pretty serious. Oof. I don't know what i'd
do if I is Lensky. Anyway, lots of news to follow,
stay here. Speaking of music, I became aware of an
(30:47):
album yesterday that I'm going to listen to a lot
during the vacation. This is only matters if you like
jazz in any way whatsoever. I just became at this
album where this album yesterday, it's called the Quintet Jazz
at Massy Hall, and it doesn't have any of the
names in it, And I think that's how I've missed
it all this year, is it's just called the Quintete.
It's Charlie Parker, Dizzey Gillispie, Bud powellum piano, Max Roach
(31:10):
on the drums, and Charles Mingus on the base. It
might be the greatest lineup in the history of jazz
music or any music really, and I've been listening to it.
It's just flipping fantastic. But one of the interesting things,
isn't that I wanted to talk about, is they think
it's the last time that Dizzey Gillispie and Charlie Parker
ever played together, either in a recording or played together
(31:32):
at all. So they invented bop together, and they were
the biggest thing in the world during the forties. And
if I had a time machine and could do something
that's not majorly important, I would go back to the
forties to see Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillispie doing their thing
in like nineteen forty six. And they aren't like really
any recordings of that. Just like lots of writing about
how flipping amazing it was. But Charlie Parker became a
(31:56):
drunk and a heroin addict. If you've seen the movie
that Clint Eastwood did about it, you know how he
died fairly young and he Charlie Parker. Yeah, in the
name of the movie is Bird and Charlie Bird Parker.
And so he became a heroon Addict. And so he
would play in the band and he would regularly he'd
be nodding, as the heroin addicts say, he'd be kind
(32:18):
of half asleep, and it'd be time for his solo,
and then somebody would elbow woman and then he'd stand
up and play. And for many years he could just
stand up and play brilliantly, and the crowded go wild,
and he said down, look, you can only pull that
off for so long. And eventually he wasn't showing up
and he was playing poorly, and Dizzy Gillispie had had
his fill of it and kicked him out of the
band and wouldn't play with him anymore. So Charlie Parker
(32:41):
then hires nineteen year old college student Miles Davis to
be his I don't need you Dizzy, and hires Miles
Davis to be his trumpet player, and then they move
forward with that and that's where. And I've talked about
this before. Miles davis autobiography is freaking fantastic, and I
suggest listening to it because the guy to his does
an impersonation of his voice telling all the stories. But
(33:02):
Miles Davis has a story in there about how disgusting
Charlie Parker could be. And he has to pick him
up in a cab and Charlie Parker gets in with
a bottle of beer and a box of chicken, and
a prostitute gets in the backseat of this cab and
he's having sex with this woman while he's eating fried chicken,
(33:22):
and Miles Davis describes just how disgusting it was, the
sounds and the noises coming out of there, between the
sex and the smacking his lips with the chicken and
licking his fingers from the chicken, and I'm having more
sex and driving around and drinking beer. It is an
amazing description in that chapter of that whole thing. It's
(33:44):
worth reading the book just for that. That is quite
the lifestyle. And Charlie Parker would he would he'd run
out of money for her hair and on beer, and
so he would pawn his freaking saxophone, so he couldn't
play that night, so he could get drunk again, and
then somebody'd have to come, you know, but pay the
pawn shop to get his saxophone out so you could
go to the club to make a little more money.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Now, certainly I'm in favor of committed monogamous relationships, but
the whole sex and fried chicken thing, I'm not ready
to condemn it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Gotta admit between in a loving couple as opposed to
a prostitute, Yes, that would be a pretty good afternoon.
Got some beer, got the sex, got my fried chicken,
driving around the city and joining the view the simultaneous thing.
I think you'd have to try that.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It sounds like, how do you focus on the deliciousness
of the chicken or indeed.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
The you know, the manly duties that There's obviously lots
of words I can't say on the air, But indeed
the description by Miles Davis of the noises in the
lipsmacking just gross. He thought he was gonna throw up
a wow.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
You remember I was. I was in that incredibly crowded
city bus going away from a forty nine ers playoff
game after it rained like crazy as an overtime game.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Everybody left it once and we're.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Packed in like a Tokyo subway car, and this hammered
couple next to me was just making out like crazy
and it was so off putting. I love love, but
I don't need you love at each other six inches
from my ear.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Can imagine if they've been eating fried chicken at the
same time to take me a leg overlook it coming up.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Gender bending madness, major scientific update and semi related an
email we just got Joe Getty saved my life and
I'm not reading this out of self aggrandizement. It's really
pretty interesting and it's again tangentially related. Trying to guess
how that happened, Like you didn't give CPR to someone.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
This is no sir.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jetty and He Armstrong and Yetty Trump may
have set his all time record for starting to fire,
(00:32):
you know, a verbal fire among the chattering classes with
the fewest words, most reaction for the fewest words. Is
a five word post yesterday that has gotten a tremendous
amount of reactions. So we'll get to that in just
a second. First, I want to mention this. We talked
last hour about that proposal that's been given to Zelenski
that like Russia gets everything they want and beyond. And
(00:59):
the message from the House is you need to accept
this or we're cutting off all support. And he got
toll Thanksgiving and Zelensky just came out and said that
Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in our
nation's history.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I would say I would agree they've been extremely diplomatic
in responding to this horrific quote unquote offer.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
But man, they're in a tough spot. What would you do?
I think I think I back channel to my European
friends and let them speak loudly about why this is
a terrible idea, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, be extremely diplomatic, like they're being in play for
time and send signals. Well, you know, Zelenski really doesn't
have to say a word. Europe is horrified by this idea,
just horrified because it empowers Putin, It rewards him for
his aggressions. It shows him a roadmap for how to
do it in the Baltic States next, or you know,
(01:55):
part of Poland where there's a lot of Russian speakers,
or what have you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You know, I was just thinking all about Crone's gonna
be on the phone with Trump today. What's his name
there in Germany, Fred Mertz. But Trump could say to him, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, there's a there's another way to deal with
a war in your backyard that doesn't include us at all.
(02:19):
Why did you do something about it? Totally legit, totally
legitimate thing to say. Why is it on us to
figure this out and present a plan? Go ahead, present
your plan. Knock yourself out. I'll read about it in
the newspaper tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So and my god, if you can't handle you know, subtlety,
maybe this is the wrong show for you or nuanced.
But I'm harshly critical of this quote unquote peace offer
that Trump cooked up with the Kremlin for God's sake.
On the other hand, I think his approach with NATO
has been exactly right, or so close to exactly right.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It might as well be to.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Forcefully emphasize to them that they must be able to
defend themselves, that they've got to as quickly as possible
reform their finances and that's the tough part. Asma cron
and reinvigorate their defense industries, and they're just their their
defense and be able to stand on their own two feet,
or at least be an ally worth having. Please and
(03:18):
several of Ashley answered that call. Some have kind of
pretended to Japan seems to be doing a pretty good job.
I realized they're not Europe. But I think his approach
in that regard has been terrific and long long overdue.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
That's going to be quite the story for the next
several days. That one I will follow while we're on vacation.
Here's a good one with Mom Donni about to visit
the White House having been called a communist from the
podium yesterday, including by the President. Listen to this. The
House just overwhelmingly voted to condemn socialism hours before mayor
elect Zorhan Mundani visit the way. So they passed, they
(03:55):
passed a resolution condemning socialism. All right, National Cookie Day,
social no whatever, whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Unletsten, we're constantly crying out for someone to take a
stand against socialism, to say it doesn't work. And if
the truth is spoken in jack spits in their eye.
They're collective four hundred and thirty five man.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Eye who pays the attention to of these gestures. It's
a profound move and long overdue. Ah, how was I
gonna say? That doesn't matter? So now to the five
words that rocked the world yesterday from Donald Trump. I'll
read his post and then we'll backfill sedition. This is
(04:34):
all caps. Joe Biden joining us this morning. You get
in for a problem. Listen, bow, you gotta ask me
the American problem. Here's the fins that rocked the world,
My bust and wist. We don't have any os. Michael,
(05:00):
all right, that was very biten, like you really wind up,
you're gonna hit the blow. Well, here's long why tell
you I got here were the words first? All caps
seditious behavior, Comma punishable by death. What that's a short post?
(05:23):
Five words soditious behavior punishable by death exclamation point. So
what is he talking about? We we escalated quickly. We
read this to you yesday, but we didn't have the sound.
It's a video. They put out lots of senators, a
bunch of different other people, dems with this message. We
won't play the whole thing, but there's some very prominent
senators on here. Here he goes, like us, you all
(05:44):
swore an oath constitution right now. The threats to our
constitution aren't just coming from abroad, from right here at home.
Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You can refuse illegal orders.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You must refuse legal orders.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No one has to carry out orders that violate the
law or our constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
We know this is hard and that it's a difficult
time to be a public servant. But whether you're serving
in the CIA, the Army, or Navy, the Air Force,
your vigilance is critical. And know that we have your back,
because now more than ever, the American people need you.
We need you to stand up for our laws, our constitution,
and who we are as Americans. Don't give up, don't
(06:26):
give up. Don't give up, don't give up the ship.
So what is the message there? What are they trying
to do?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I am going to skip past my horrified talk show
host mode where I talk about how wildly insanely inappropriate
that is, because it is it is so far out
of line, and skip to your question, what exactly are
they trying to accomplish?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Number One?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
They are trying to suggest without stating it, that a
number of actions recently have been legal. I suspect they're
talking about these snuffing of alleged drug boats, but.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Apparently they don't feel like they're on solid enough ground
to say out loud what they're talking about. Right.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Secondarily, they're hoping to get some soldier sailor airman marine.
They left out the Coastguard, who apparently can do whatever
they want, including illegal orders. They want somebody to refuse
to execute an order so they can be made a
symbol of Trump's lawlessness. I think they actually want to
(07:34):
incite some poor son of a bitch to think, you know,
I got no reason to shoot at these guys or whatever,
and become a martyr.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The whole military structure falls well there, of course, there
are such things as illegal orders, and you constitutionally.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Do not have to follow them, and you're trained to
that effect the minute you get in the service and.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Something incredibly obvious, like you know, your commander says I
want you to torture these people until they talk, you
can say I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You got to shoot my wife's boss save as a terrorist.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Oh right, But if you're just going to make a
blanket statement vaguely about an out of control president, what
are you hoping is going to happen here? And then
the whole thing falls apart if people start judging orders
on I'm not sure this is legal or not. I'd
have to call my lawyer as a private in the army.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Right, Yeah, well, it seems clearly designed to well to
a suggests that there are illegal orders being given, although
they don't have the balls to name them and be
to really push into our service people's minds that there
might be and they should be on the lookout. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
It's really just to whip up the sense of fear
and urgency of how out of control things are right now.
That's what it's designed to do. Yeah, just to make
people think, oh my god, it's that bad. It's that bad, okay,
and then Trump's response, of course, did not help, because
the current president of the United States should not say
(09:07):
seditious behavior punishable by death, suggesting they had committed a
crime they could be executed for by putting together that video,
We're gonna start hanging senators. Neither side has any interest
in cooling off the rhetoric. I'm not even a call
for it anymore. You can't go any farther than that then,
(09:30):
as a hot rhetoric, can you. It's like running onto
a football field and screaming, stop tackling each other. Stop
tackling each other. Forget it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's a fantasy. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, was asked about it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The words that the President chose are not the ones
that I would use.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Obviously I don't think that this is these are crimes
punishable by death or any of that, Okay, But what
what the point is that we need to emphasize here
is that members of Congress in the city the House
should not do telling truth to disobey orders.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It is dangerous. If God dang it, we are in
a race to the bottom. There are no norms that
will go untrampled upon. I saw Lindsey Graham on some
show this morning and he said the same thing. No,
I wouldn't have said that. I mean, they kept pushing
(10:22):
on him. They wanted him to, you know, go against Trump.
They kept pushing, and he finally said, no, I wouldn't
have said that. No, that's not appropriate for the president
to say. But he got back to what Mike Johnson said,
and neither was it appropriate for a bunch of senators
to say, you don't have to disobey order your legal orders,
you know, don't follow illegal orders. What are you suggesting here? Again?
(10:45):
I think if they think something is really out of bounds, illegal,
well then name the specific act and put your name
on it. Why not if you think what's going on
in Venezuela's illegal, say it out loud. Don't just like generalize.
That's not good. Yeah, it's cowardly. I don't I don't
know what to think of the fact that in my
(11:06):
own brain, when I heard yesterday what Trump said that,
I thought, oh, we roll my eyes. I didn't think,
you know, we're about to see senators swinging from the gallows,
which I might have thought under Gerald Ford or Jimmy
Carter or any other president back in the day when
people didn't say things unless they met them. Can I
pick two senators swinging from the gallows? I just didn't
(11:29):
submit them somewhere.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I just after a fair trial, of course, appeals in
the American justice system, the envy of the world.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Which two do you have in mind?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I'm not naming names, you know, Oh lord, let
me think of some oh boy, what's his face? From Connecticut?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Him and my senator, the guy with the thin neck.
But you'd have to give a spec Adam shift.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, you'd have to. You could hang him with dental
flaws and slip right out of the news again.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And we're only with a fair trial, actually having violated
the Constitution in a way publishable by death. And if
there should be no political violence, no political violence. We're
talking due process. That's not political violence. Do freaking process
like he said. That's right? All right then, Okay, probably
a good time to take a break and rethink our stance.
(12:19):
We'll be back right up to this.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Strong DoorDash said that their customer's personal information was stolen
in a data breach.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Oo.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
The hackers will face criminal charges along with vague DoorDash chargers.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, no, pay ten dollars.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Some customers vowed who never used door dash ever again?
And then they got hungry and ordered a burger from
the McDonald six hundred feet away.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
No kidding. It's always a little confusing to try to
figure out. So I know, the thing I ordered is
thirteen ninety five, but now it's twenty eight fifty. What
are all the charges in between? It's kind of hard
to figure out what they are. But that's the way
it works out.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, the ticket sellers started that, right, the service fee,
the handling fee, the processing charge. What's the difference between
a service fee and a processing charge?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Exactly? My son is into We went out to eat
last night and I told my kids, throw on some
real clothes. We're gonna go to a kind of realish restaurant.
And my son came out dressed in his new member's
only jacket. He's a fan of vintage clothes. That's his thing.
He goes to these. He can't really call them their
(13:31):
thrift stores because they're a little too expensive to just
be your old timey thrift stores. They're very popular right now.
For whatever reason. I was just in San Francisco and
we were on went over with the hate Ashbury area,
and it's like all kind of mid to high range
vintage stuff, like expensive used clothes.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, my son is super into that too. It's kind
of fun. Really, it's like an art form, and it's
not nearly as expensive as new stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh, way, way way cheaper than buy new stuff. But
the funny thing is he was dressed as a sophomore
in high school the way I wanted to be dressed
as a sophomore in high school, but didn't have the
money for the clothes. I had. A member's only jackets
were so popular in the eighties when I was in
high school. I never had one. I had a knockoff
like kmart version kind of looked like the member's only jacket.
(14:20):
It should have been sued for copyright infringement. I mean
it was almost exactly the same with the logo that
said you know, can't afford this on it or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Ow, So they rejected you as a member for members
only jackets.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
And I had I don't think I had real Levi's
jeans either. I had some knockoff jeans and he was
wearing vintage levi'sed jeans he got last week from the
eighties and a member's only jacket. I thought, how are
you dressed as a sophomore high school the way I
wanted to be dressed as a sophomore in high school.
It's just interesting. Yeah, it's interesting that they're still popular.
He got lots of compliments on it. It's funny how
(14:55):
things come in in and out, And I was trying
to explain him how members only, like all the cool
people in high school had a members only jacket. Then
they became a joke for like thirty years. Now they're
cool again. That's the way things go in an arc. Ye,
that's why you keep finds too.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Bands are popular, then they're a joke, and then people
line up to see them fifteen years later. Yeah, they're
dyeing their hair and sucking in their guts and making
a few bucks, and who can blame them?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So it's funny. I came across this.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
It's appropriate to our last segment talking about all the
norms that are being exploded both sides of the aisle
or estimate. This is so interesting, but it's entirely visual,
using like little glowing dots. It shows you all of
the times the word democracy has been uttered in the
(15:44):
House of Representatives, going back to eighteen eighty, when I
don't know, maybe the really good record keeping began or
something like that, and how it was very very low,
practically never And it differentiates just mentions of democracy with
this is a threat to our democracy.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Those are like brighter.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Dots, but it's like extremely rare eighteen eighty through nineteen
thirty six or seven. Then as WW two's breaking out,
there's a fair mention of democracy. It settled down again.
Then the Cold Wars st already saw some of it.
Then in the nineties it burbled up and came up
a lot, then it kind of dropped. During the Obama years,
(16:24):
practically nobody was shouting about democracy. Now it's skyrocketed. It's
like it's a never ending drum beat of this was
a threat to our democracy and just constantly mentioning democracy.
It's gone from like a tenth of a percent of
you know the speeches in Congress now to five percent.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, would it be a fair rebuttal to say we've
got more of a threat to our democracy going on
over the last decade or so than we ever had before.
For all kinds of different reasons. Not you're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You generally hear it in a hyperbolic way, though, don't
you know?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Definitely I want a cane. We need to. We haven't
bring back a cane. We haven't had a cane in
a long ago. What's old is new?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Another canings armstrong and getdy sa.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Good morning Sa, Good morning perfect. We are doing chicken
egg in this morning. I got the sausage, egg and
cheese breakfast bullet.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
That's a big bite.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So I'm gonna have you got me? Okay, eat the
egg here? Good boy? Was this screaming? Okay? Good? So
happy for you. I think it's pretty obvious what's going
on there. That's a woman who has a pet turkey
going through the drive through a Chick fil A and
other news.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I remember when entertainment had plot and people would write
it and think about it, and that's just freak shows.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Freak shows. See.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I would think bringing a turkey to a Chick fil
A is, on its face, uncomfortable, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
A little too close to home? Yeah, yeah, a little.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You know it's it's it's it's cannibalism adjacent.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You like eating fowl do you huh?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Keep that in mind a minute, sleep with one beady
I open.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I got a couple of Epstein things for you. One
Megan Kelly opened the can of worms. What's a pedophile? Anyway?
I want to talk about that and Larry Summer's revelation
that's pretty interesting. We'll get to those eventually.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh No, we were talking about this yesterday and I
was trying to express but I think they expressed it better.
This this piece of journalism by Rachel Ensign and Rachel Wolfe,
the two Rachel's I call him.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
America.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
We were talking about inflation and how it compounds. If
you have nine percent inflation inflation one year than eight
percent the next year, it's not like, no, the prices
have come down. No, that means it's eight percent on
top of the dot dollar nine that the dollar became,
so it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and more bloated.
(19:06):
And that the inflation rate has unquestionably come down since
Donald Trump took office, and that is good news. But
he's been a little out of touch and made some
statements he really should not have about this fake news,
and they.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Just don't want to talk about our accomplishments and stuff
like that. Well, it is a good He didn't just imply.
He stated flat out he could make the prices come down,
which I wondered how he was gonna fix that once
he got an office.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Yeah, that would be extremely difficult to pay off, to
pull off rather, but this is some good writing. America's
middle class is weary after nearly five years of high prices.
Many middle class earners thought life would be more affordable
by now here's.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Your key figure.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Costs for goods and services are twenty five percent above
where they were in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Anybody here got a twenty five percent raise in the last.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Twenty person So think about that. So if you make
one hundred grand a year, you make a lot less
than you used to think you made.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Oh yeah, right, even though the inflation rate is below
it's twenty twenty two. High.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Certain essentials and they.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Go into coffee, ground, beef, car repairs, insurance, this sort
of thing are up markedly this year. And they talk
to a variety of people at a variety salary levels
around the country.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But so if we're all saying the same thing, if
most of us are working for roughly the same amount
of money as we were in twenty twenty. We took
a twenty five percent pay cut essentially. Yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
And they point out that Walmart stock is doing great
and sales target is getting murdered because people are saying,
where's the cheap place. It's Walmart, right, let's go to
Walmart overwhelmingly, And they cite a number of different businesses,
from wing Stop to a couple other places that are saying, yeah,
middle income diners are now doing what lower income ones did.
(21:01):
They're dialing back their purchases. They're ordering the cheaper stuff.
Our high end stuff is not moving. It's really interesting,
but I thought that's worth pointing out. The way inflation works,
it never comes down. I mean, deflation is a very
dangerous thing. It caused terrible problems in an economy. Look
it up if you don't know about it. But people
are dealing with twenty five percent higher prices than they
(21:23):
were five years ago, having seen very little change in
their wages.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
It's brutal, yep.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And you know, just politically speaking, you gotta be sensitive
to that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And since you can't actually bring prices down, can bring
some down. The only thing you can really talk about
is somehow raising wages? Right?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Oh, that reminds me maybe our four of the show,
great piece about inflation, what it is and what it
is not, because we've got it a little bit backwards.
That rise in prices is not inflation per se. It's
the result of inflation.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We'll explain in our four.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You will be smarter than all of your friends and
family if you join us for our four. If you
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Speaker 2 (22:20):
Subscribe At the Thanksgiving table, if somebody brings up inflation,
you can say, you know, actually you're wrong, uncle Ed,
and then starting with you, you know, I might just
you know, there's more to it, uncle Ed. Why would
you be so confrontational? And more on?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Hey, when you're done talking, Jackass, I got I like
to drop.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
A truth bowl of gravy in front of your play
all right, No, no need to be light. Pass me
the Cranberry's. I'll pass you some common sense. Here's how
inflation works. Jab your turkey, leg at him. I got
something for you. Here's a couple of Epstein things for you.
Larry Summers and his his wife flew on Epstein's plane
(23:03):
to Pedo Island for their honeymoon, the same wife that
he would eventually. I don't know if he ever cheated
on her, if he ever was successful, he was trying
to cheat on her with that graduate student, with Epstein's advice.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I've got to quibble just a little bit over the
characterization of Pedo Island. No question that sort of thing
happened there, sex with underage people, getting into the what
is pedophilia question, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The guy had like a super cool vacation pad. Sometimes
it was just a party, sometimes it was just chilling out. Well,
sometimes it was perven.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, I assume Larry Summers and his brand new bride,
having just gotten married in Cambridge, they flew on Epstein's
plane to the island and hung out there. Now this
is two thousand and five, this is before his conviction,
so I'm sure everybody knew Epstein was living a pretty
wild life and on the very age edge of what
was appropriate and what wasn't. But he hadn't been convicted
of anything at that point. But I just thought that
(24:04):
was kind of interesting. Megan Kelly brought this up the
other day, and I agree with her and she got
killed for saying it. I feel like we need a
word for people who are into children and people who
are into you know, almost eighteen year old teenagers. They're
different things. Yeah, there are crimes, but they're different things.
(24:26):
They're different crimes.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Too. Loud and Lasseivius with a child under fourteen is
a different crime. It's the question of do you are
you sexually attracted to children who are pre sexual right
in most ways, or are you?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I mean, it's a different thing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
A seventeen year old girl can get pregnant quite readily,
and anthropologically speaking, that's like the perfect time to have
a child, when you're young and strong, etc. Societally, it's
not the way we operate. I'm not suggesting it, but yeah,
it's a very different crime. A seven year old and
a seventeen year old is a completely different situation. Well yeah,
(25:03):
and then there's the point she was trying to make.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And there's two sides of the seventeen year old thing.
There's the Okay, so now she just turned eighteen and
you're perfectly fine, nothing nothing different than yesterday when you're
a pedophile, and that seems kind of crazy true. On
the other hand, have some self control, you weirdo, since
there's really no difference between her yesterday and tomorrow, if
(25:28):
the face or birthday, wait till they're eighteen, you freaking creeps.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, there's there's that forbidden fruit. Yeah, there's something
weird really young. Yes, it is a crime and it
is the sick and it should be.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And if I had a daughter, if you had sex
with her when she's seventeen, I'm shooting you. And if
you have sex when she's with her when she's five,
I'm definitely shooting you either way. But they're different things. Yeah,
And I don't so I don't call the whole he's
a pedophile thing. I just don't think that works.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
And now people are ripping Megan Kelly for saying that,
saying I was a victim and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
No it's it's not we're not saying it's fine. But
that's as I pointed out, I'd shoot you either way.
There you go. One of them end up with a
bullet hole to me. To me, one of them is
like you just have you're you're a weirdo with bad judgment.
The other one is your brain does not work at all.
You should be locked away from society forever. Ding AnyWho,
(26:27):
what's the I think fifteen the youngest I've heard of,
which is just sick and twisted and awful.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
But yeah, we got at least one email that was
talking about how the age of consent is sixteen in
a bunch.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Of stat's true. That's a good point right there.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And you know the line you talk about gray areas,
the line between wooing somebody and grooming them and manipulating
them if they are of the age of consent. It's
it's a fine line. I mean, I know when I
see it.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
But there are going to be a whole bunch of
well known names having to explain themselves here in the
next couple of weeks, as soon as all these documents
come out. And they may not have done anything illegal
ever at any point, but they're going to be out
there explaining to journalists on camera why they rode on
(27:23):
the plane here or said this or sent this email
or whatever, just like Larry Summers did the other day.
And he didn't commit any crime. No, no, And that's
going to be exciting, speaking of your crime.
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We're done. Wow, I need you to focus. I'm already
half on vacation. Got one foot at the door. UH.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Department of Health and You and Services put out their
big gender care review of the science and said there
is no science to support this gender benning madness, especially
for kids. The pro gender benning manas crowd had no
substantive criticisms. They couldn't come up with anything to refute
the new report it. We are going, well, I already am.
(29:23):
We are soon all of us going to look back
on that period of mutilating and pumping kids through permanent
changing chemicals because they were momentarily confused about their gender
or there was a social contagion of gender bending menace,
and we're going to think, how in the name of
God did we let something so terrible happen.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
One of the craziest things that's ever happened. I would agree, Yeah,
absolutely so I'm following that following this story today, President
Zolensky has just spoken with the leaders of France, UK
and Germany about this proposal that Trump has given. Zolensky
make it by Thanksgiving or we cut off aid is
(30:03):
the deal, and it's like all favorable to Russia, nothing
favorable to Ukraine other than the war ending. Well, you
have to give a plan, you have to cut your
army in half, you get no foreign troops on your
on your ground. Russia gets to get back on, you know,
and the good graces of the economy around the world
and everything like that. So to become an even bigger
threat in the future. It's just a horrible deal. But
(30:26):
I don't know what other does he mean it or
is he gonna forget about it in two days? Trump?
I think this is pretty serious. He's had the Secretary
of the Army over there working on it, and I
think it's pretty serious. Oof. I don't know what i'd
do if I is Lensky. Anyway, lots of news to follow,
stay here. Speaking of music, I became aware of an
(30:47):
album yesterday that I'm going to listen to a lot
during the vacation. This is only matters if you like
jazz in any way whatsoever. I just became at this
album where this album yesterday, it's called the Quintet Jazz
at Massy Hall, and it doesn't have any of the
names in it, And I think that's how I've missed
it all this year, is it's just called the Quintete.
It's Charlie Parker, Dizzey Gillispie, Bud powellum piano, Max Roach
(31:10):
on the drums, and Charles Mingus on the base. It
might be the greatest lineup in the history of jazz
music or any music really, and I've been listening to it.
It's just flipping fantastic. But one of the interesting things,
isn't that I wanted to talk about, is they think
it's the last time that Dizzey Gillispie and Charlie Parker
ever played together, either in a recording or played together
(31:32):
at all. So they invented bop together, and they were
the biggest thing in the world during the forties. And
if I had a time machine and could do something
that's not majorly important, I would go back to the
forties to see Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillispie doing their thing
in like nineteen forty six. And they aren't like really
any recordings of that. Just like lots of writing about
how flipping amazing it was. But Charlie Parker became a
(31:56):
drunk and a heroin addict. If you've seen the movie
that Clint Eastwood did about it, you know how he
died fairly young and he Charlie Parker. Yeah, in the
name of the movie is Bird and Charlie Bird Parker.
And so he became a heroon Addict. And so he
would play in the band and he would regularly he'd
be nodding, as the heroin addicts say, he'd be kind
(32:18):
of half asleep, and it'd be time for his solo,
and then somebody would elbow woman and then he'd stand
up and play. And for many years he could just
stand up and play brilliantly, and the crowded go wild,
and he said down, look, you can only pull that
off for so long. And eventually he wasn't showing up
and he was playing poorly, and Dizzy Gillispie had had
his fill of it and kicked him out of the
band and wouldn't play with him anymore. So Charlie Parker
(32:41):
then hires nineteen year old college student Miles Davis to
be his I don't need you Dizzy, and hires Miles
Davis to be his trumpet player, and then they move
forward with that and that's where. And I've talked about
this before. Miles davis autobiography is freaking fantastic, and I
suggest listening to it because the guy to his does
an impersonation of his voice telling all the stories. But
(33:02):
Miles Davis has a story in there about how disgusting
Charlie Parker could be. And he has to pick him
up in a cab and Charlie Parker gets in with
a bottle of beer and a box of chicken, and
a prostitute gets in the backseat of this cab and
he's having sex with this woman while he's eating fried chicken,
(33:22):
and Miles Davis describes just how disgusting it was, the
sounds and the noises coming out of there, between the
sex and the smacking his lips with the chicken and
licking his fingers from the chicken, and I'm having more
sex and driving around and drinking beer. It is an
amazing description in that chapter of that whole thing. It's
(33:44):
worth reading the book just for that. That is quite
the lifestyle. And Charlie Parker would he would he'd run
out of money for her hair and on beer, and
so he would pawn his freaking saxophone, so he couldn't
play that night, so he could get drunk again, and
then somebody'd have to come, you know, but pay the
pawn shop to get his saxophone out so you could
go to the club to make a little more money.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Now, certainly I'm in favor of committed monogamous relationships, but
the whole sex and fried chicken thing, I'm not ready
to condemn it.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Gotta admit between in a loving couple as opposed to
a prostitute, Yes, that would be a pretty good afternoon.
Got some beer, got the sex, got my fried chicken,
driving around the city and joining the view the simultaneous thing.
I think you'd have to try that.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It sounds like, how do you focus on the deliciousness
of the chicken or indeed.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
The you know, the manly duties that There's obviously lots
of words I can't say on the air, But indeed
the description by Miles Davis of the noises in the
lipsmacking just gross. He thought he was gonna throw up
a wow.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
You remember I was. I was in that incredibly crowded
city bus going away from a forty nine ers playoff
game after it rained like crazy as an overtime game.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Everybody left it once and we're.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Packed in like a Tokyo subway car, and this hammered
couple next to me was just making out like crazy
and it was so off putting. I love love, but
I don't need you love at each other six inches
from my ear.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Can imagine if they've been eating fried chicken at the
same time to take me a leg overlook it coming up.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Gender bending madness, major scientific update and semi related an
email we just got Joe Getty saved my life and
I'm not reading this out of self aggrandizement. It's really
pretty interesting and it's again tangentially related. Trying to guess
how that happened, Like you didn't give CPR to someone.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
This is no sir.
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