June 8, 2026 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jetty and he I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What was the feeling about that particular opening salvo to
the team?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh, she i am told said something to the effect of,
why do you think the country thinks you're biased? But
she didn't offer any kind of a metric. You know,
what's your metric? Why do you think so? Do you
have a poll? Is there market research? What are you
(00:51):
talking about? Because we certainly didn't believe that.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Scott Pelly shocked that Barry Weise running CBS News to them,
why do you think the country thinks you are biased?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Here at sixty minutes and he's biased in me? God,
what proof do you have that we're biased? Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
How much trust do you have in the major media?
Just before nineteen eighty it was about seventy two percent.
It's now twenty eight percent. Scott, it's falling off the map.
More Americans believe media favors Democrats than Republicans, sixty four
to twenty two Republicans to Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Uh, do we have polls? We got piles of polls.
We got piles of polls so high you have to
climb a pole to get to the box to the
top of it.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
The hell yeah, I'm more disturbed by the crowd that
doesn't know they're biased than I am by Fox or MSNBC.
They've got a particular job, that're serving a particular audience.
They knew exactly what they're doing. They're doing it on purpose. Sure,
and uh, it's the CBS Evening Newses, the Meets the
(02:05):
Press and the nprs of the world that think, no,
we're holding the line for both sides.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Those are the people. Don't worry me.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, I just see if everything through a lens of
truth and fairness, we could never be biased.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
So Scott Pelly sat down with the New York Times
podcast crew over the weekend and did an interview, and
there's a lot of good stuff here. And then I've
got a comment from somebody who worked at CBS Viacom
for a decade on what it's like there and.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Couldn't believe this interview anyway more.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Scott Pelly, My hope is that the leadership of Paramount
will say to themselves, Okay, this isn't working. We have
broadcasts that almost don't get on the air. We have
respected journalists saying that there is a thumb on the
scale for one political party over another. Wow, we have
(02:58):
a broadcast which is among the most important in America,
the most successful in the history of all of television.
It was doing great. So why are we making these changes?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
The fact that Scott Pelley thinks that the new version
of sixty Minutes has got its thumb on the scale
for one party, the Republicans, and that it didn't have
its thumb on the scale.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Ever for Democrats is I don't even know how to
comment on that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, if you spend all of your time, in all
of your conversation on the far left, the moderate left
is the right, and he's not even aware of anything
from the center on right word, so.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I mentioned earlier, I was shocked that after and we'll
play somewhere Scott Pelley for you here in a second.
But I was shocked that this controversy of last week,
when Scott Pelly got fired and needed these interviews, made
all these comments and everything like that that Sixty Minutes
ran last night. Their opening story was all about the
threats that judges are under across America, and they based
(04:16):
it on comments Trump has made about justices being liars
or crooked or whatever, and I hate that. I don't
think Trump should be doing that at all. I'm not
trying to claim that's okay, but the idea that this
doesn't work both ways is just amazing. And they went
all judges Republican and Democrat judges but that have been
(04:37):
have gotten death threats because of Trump and other Republicans verbiage,
and I thought, you've got to be kidding. I'm waiting
here to hear somebody mention Brett Kavanaugh almost dying in
an assassination nation attempt after Democrats called him crooked over
roversus weight. And they finally after fifteen minutes fifteen minutes
(05:01):
into the show, brought up it's not just democratic or
it's not just Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Saying bad things about judges at.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Okay, fine, And it really looked like it had the
feel of it got tacked on later somebody thought we
can't just have this be completely one sided, so they
mentioned Republicans. They and they only mentioned Chuck Schumer calling
out Brett Kavanaugh. They didn't play the clip of Chuck
Schumer there his veins popping out of his forehead. You
(05:31):
have you're going to reap, throw in Kavanagh. That was
the Senate majority leader calling what hit you? A Supreme
Court justice because he didn't like the decision he made.
It's a problem, but to make it seem like it
was mostly public a Republican problem. And then Scott Pelly
doing the same week in an interview saying, now there's
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a thumb.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
On the scale for the Republicans and people are going
to see that. At what point in do you report?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Did they mention Amy Cony Barrett got swatted two weeks ago.
Not at all I mentioned that, Yeah, no, not at all.
Her address is known thanks to the abortion rights activist
group Ruth sent Us, which published the private addresses of
the conservative justices back in twenty twenty two. Yeah, you
just don't call this what about ism.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I hate when people say that the what about ism
is both sides should stop doing it, and you should
report that both sides are doing it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm not trying to justify.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
It drives me nuts when I hear pundit's talking about
we hear just what about it?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Because both sides are doing it, you morons, right, and
it needs to stop.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
But sixty minutes acting like it was a one sided
story the very week they're claiming that they're down the
middle was just hilarious to me.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
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help you. That's what the scammer is counting on.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
The fact that they only need a couple of seconds
of your wife's voice, your husband's voice, your dad's voice,
your kid's voice, or whatever to try to scam you
is disturbing. The best way to not get scammed is
if they can't find you in the first place.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
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family details from data brokers, but if the data brokers
don't have that for sale, they're not gonna get it.
And that's what Incogniti does. They go after these data brokers,
tell them you got to take that info down, and
then they bug them over and over and over again
to make sure it stays down.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Ye have.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
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to remove your information. We're using it incognit, and you're
gonna notice a drop in spam calls, emails.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And texts.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
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off when you use the code armstrong at in cognity
dot com slash armstrong, I ncog ni dot com slash armstrong.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Let's roll with another delusional Scott Pelly clip.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
We need adult supervision and at the moment we don't
have it. We have people who've been installed in these
jobs who, through no fault of their own, have no
experience in television. It's not their fault, but they don't
know what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And there's a.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Subtle political bias that I've never seen at sixty months before.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You've got to be getting me.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
And so we're at CBS News before, and so that
is my hope. A return to sanity, a return to honor,
a return to courage. We used to have all of
those things in abundance, and now we don't.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
This is the perfect time for this subtle bias you've
never seen before at sixty minutes or CBS News.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now that is a howler. Yeah, it absolutely has.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Scott Pelly's New York Times interview is an unintended eulogy
for legacy media and a portrait of a man blubbering
and seething in denial of his irrelevance. He does a
cultural as a cultural document. It's fascinating. Yeah, yeah, play
that last clip, short clip that we opened a show with.
And then I've got a response from somebody who worked
in the at CBS viacom for a decade.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We can save this.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News,
in my view, is on fire.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All right, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I think things most were better when we had a
big media organization gatekeeper sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
In retrospect. I didn't think that was true at the time,
but I do think it's now.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
But anyway, he's just not recognizing to a certain extent, one,
the fact that bias had become more and more prevalent
in mainstream journalism over the years. And two, you're not
as big a deal as you think you are. Unfortunately
to me, would you like to give me this is
a heritage, legendary, most powerful Yeah, you want me to
(10:12):
give you the list of like I can tell you
some radio stations that were the most legendary radio stations
that ever existed that no longer exist at all. It's
times change for better or words. Anyway, here's this guy
I didn't know, John Papola. Give me a break, he
tweets out, I worked at ViacomCBS now paramount for over
(10:33):
a decade. Of course, it was plus ninety percent Democrats.
Everyone knows this. Everyone and newsrooms in particular vote Democrat
to a higher degree than Berkeley, California, which is a
heck of a statement, but true. And you know what, fine,
I have lots of friends with whom I disagree from
time to time. There it was a great place actually
to act as if this claim about bias is controversial,
(10:53):
let alone inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Show that he's either a liar.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
An imbecile, or so deeply incurious tunnel vision that you
don't belong anywhere near the job involving information discernment. But
he's got that familiar anchor voice, so we're supposed to
act like he's not being a complete clown.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Give me a break. You people are a mess. Yeah, wow,
well said I was.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Reminded Bernie Goldberg grow to Bias, a CBS insider exposes
how the media distort the news.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Ago or I think it was longer than that, wasn't it,
But anyway, we interviewed him several times and he said
he worked for Walter Cronkite's CBS News. He puts out
a book called Bias because he's so upset about the
bias in modern media.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But he said, back when he worked there, he never saw.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Like Walter Kronkite's own personal bias or anybody else's bias
get into the news. And he has a guy writing
a book about how much bias there is, so back
in the day, apparently there wasn't much. I know, I
felt that way about sixty minutes for a long time.
It was just in the last decade that it started
(12:02):
to Sometimes it would make me slap my head with it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
You gotta be kidding me. Well for Scott Pally to say,
for the first time ever, there's a thumb on the
scale for one party. Oh my god, that is, as
you said, a howler in americ In America.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
This person who used to work there said he's either
an imbecile or so blinded by his tunnel vision that
he shouldn't be in a job where you're.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Supposed to make those decisions.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I like to do this occasionally, just to remind myself
how horrifyingly quickly time is passing by. Bernie Goldberg's landmark
book Bias first came out twenty four years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh my god, oof, I know.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I was listening to an album the other day that
I still consider kind of new and realized, I'm realized,
I'm listening to the thirtieth anniversary edition of it, thirty
years ago it came out. Well, that's what happens when
you get old. If you're young, you don't feel that way.
True enough, Scott Pelly, get out of the way, make way.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Oh we need traditional TV newsman to guide us to
the future.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
The partner cried, Oh boy, that was hard to take. Anyway,
We got more on the way.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Stay here, Armstrong, Hey, feed stole at least forty dollars
worth of Pokemon cards from a New Jersey trading card store.
Police are describing the thieves as armed, dangerous, and very
unlikely to get laid.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Ah, it's unfortunate stereotyped there.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I don't know how many times we can have this
story San Francisco streets or you know, whatever street in
the country, but in this particular case, San Francisco streets
are reeling from a deadly drug twenty times.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
More powerful than fentanyl. How many times can this keep going?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Where something is X number of ten times more powerful
than the thing that one drop can kill you before,
just like hearing the name of it makes you drop dead.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
It's like the old laundry detergent show Querry, you know,
every six months tied claimed to make your whites whiter
and your colors brighter.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's like I got I'm already being blinded. I like,
can they get? But I want to hit this.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
McDonald's testing AI drive through system called arch Iq at
a bunch of locations across the country.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So maybe if you go to McDonald's you'll get an
AI system.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I'd like a milkshake. Did you say French fries? No
milk shake? You said French fries. I assume it's going
to be better than that, though, But I gotta believe
the drive through person that that job's got like six
months left and they're all gone before AI takes that over.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, speaking of jobs, Oh, by the way, I can't.
I don't want to forget this. I have like the best,
one of the best. How would I describe it? Psychological
analyzes of young progressive women and why they are the
way they are because there is something going on, it
can be explained, And this was one of the best
(15:14):
ones I've come across. Really interesting and rings so true
with having raised two girls fairly recently. But speaking of
jobs at McDonald's and otherwise, I thought this was interesting.
The US needs mechanics and electricians, and big business seeing
a shortage of For instance, Ford Motor Company is desperate
for mechanics.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Their workforce is aging their way out. It's expensive.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You got to be trained, as in a mechanic, you
have to have your own tools, which can run, you know,
well into five figures from what I understand. But now
they're realizing, hey, we got to kickstart these efforts. We
got to fund high school programs like Ford is in
a partnership with Detroit, oh with the Bloomberg and the
Automaker kicking in two and a half million dollars to
(15:59):
fund auto repair base for high schools. They're talking about
let me jump partners and all sorts of trades.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
What percentage of high school teachers across of America would
considered a failure if you decided to be an auto
mechanic as opposed to go to college.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, a lot of them, most of them, all of them.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Yeah, I got to believe it's ninety plus percent, which
is a problem. Yeah, the US skilled workforce is aging
fast well. Demand for workers and the trades multiply multiplies
quickly because of surging data center demand.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We'll see how long that lasts. Who knows, and investment
in advanced manufacturing. According to estimates from Associated Builders and
Contractors Big Industry Association, the construction industry needs to add
an estimated three hundred and forty nine thousand net new
workers this year alone to meet demand, fueled in part
for by a skyrocketing need for electricians on that particular job.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Though, Can you get it? If you only speak English,
could you even work for somebody? Would they hire you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I don't yes, I think yes when you're talking big tech.
If you're talking residential construction, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, but the trades are higher, like crazy, and or
you could go six figures into debt and sit in
a cubicle and not use your education whatsoever, and not
make much money, but at least you won't be humiliated by,
you know, working with your hands or anything. Also from
the world to work.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I thought this was interesting, you know, the big weight
loss or sarcasm in case you didn't pick up on that,
that's not what we think.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, that's right. My voice was tripping with sarcasm.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Hey, so you're you're excited about the GLP one drugs,
you weight loss drugs, right, They're still fairly expensive, and
employer healthcare plans are saying, damn, we're spending a lot
on this.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Why don't we say no, you can't have it. More
and more companies are saying no to that you really want.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Seems shortsighted to me. Man, Yeah, so get it now, now,
get skinned down before they wake up. What's what's all
that other stuff that you're going to have happen to
you because of being too heavy going.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
To cost the company?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Maga favorite Hunter Biden on fire on his new Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
We'll have to talk about that later. Wow, bring it, Hunter,
bring it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So we were kind of pressed for a time last
segment I wanted to pay off the rest of the
whole discussion about the GLP ones. More than a quarter
of big companies say they're adding new criteria to get
approved for this.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That I get.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, eleven percent of dropped or planning to drop coverage
from weight loss purposes all together, which strikes me as
being incredibly shortsighted, as you indicated last segment, Jack.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
If you're pretty heavy, Yeah, but like i'd see, I
could see myself going on this drug. But I only
got like ten pounds max I could lose. The company
shouldn't pay for that. That's just a vanity project avoiding diet.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yes, bikini body no right, revenge body no exactly exactly. Globally,
the number of companies covering these weight loss drugs is
fall into twenty three percent this year, from from thirty
percent just a year ago.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Blah blah blah. That's a okay, just a quick illustration.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Though.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
This woman they profile, Samantha, says she's just glad her
employer's plan will still cover her with GOVI injections at all.
She and her doctor lobby to get her on the
Novo Nordis drug last year after the plan stopped covering
ze bound shots she had been taking.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The approval, though, came with a catch.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
She must log her weight and meet with a nutritionist
at least once a month via an app, something she
didn't have to do in the past. So you've got
to like document that you're sticking with it and also
working out and blah blah blah h your company's not
going to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I know how to game the system here. I need
to get really big, good idea and I think I
could do it solid idea. Yeah, uh super ah.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
So that to summarizes that, get it well you can. I,
as a well as observers of you know, political systems
and politics and just society culture, are so troubled and
fascinated by the huge lurch leftward of young women and
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how they as are well described and as was true
in h in mount say Tongues, uh, you know, revolutionary period,
the cultural revolution, the women are frequently the most adamant
and vicious adherence to the new radical philosophies.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And I think some of it has to do with
nobody's having kids. You're not.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You got nothing but time on your hands. Uh, and
and so you're uh, well, you know we've we've gone
into this at length, the desire to care for somebody,
to protect somebody. Since you don't have kids, it becomes
the downtrodden. Whatever the leaders tell you is the downtrodden,
and you'll defend them to the death like you would
your own child. But this is something a little different,
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and this rings so true having just raised a couple
of girls. You know, I coach girl sports various other
organizations I was part of. This is written by a
guy named Dave, who I didn't know, but and he
has a picture of four like older millennial women, all
with the smug like smiling, you're so stupid look on
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their face. Jack, if you can picture that, Yes, I can't, like,
Oh my god, I can't believe I even have to
do this, you neanderselfs.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Anyway, listen to what do you write.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I've been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the Spotlight recently,
all women my age, progressive and employed at mainstream institutions.
I don't know them, yet in every case I can
into it their origin story. It goes something like this,
be an older millennium female, no strong passion, but strive,
harden school, reach high school, steer clear of the kid
kids who like talking about far out philosophical issues. Also
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steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems
too contentious and vaguely threatening. Focus on getting perfect grades,
complying with the college requirements. Get into a top university
based on those greats. Get introduced to politics in freshmen's
social justice class. Instantly floored. The peal of college politics
is just how cut and dried it is. Unlike other fields.
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It has a clear good and bad side, no ambiguity.
The good side always wins in classroom discussions. You feel
like a hero for validating consensus with the conversation. Politics
becomes your religion. This is my passion. You graduate with
top grades and extra curriculum. Your degree is essentially in
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current thingism. You have no broad understanding of history or
philosophy right your concept of human events is just people
being oppressed for four thousand years until feminism and progress
happened in the twentieth century. Despite the globe financial crisis,
immediately get hired by a government or media organization because
they want someone who quote understands the role of female
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politics in our new digital era. Most of your colleagues
share your perspective. The ones who don't are older guys
on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation
that disagreeing with you would certainly involve. Yeah, great awokening happens. Sorry,
jump in anytime I can live that. Yeah, great awokening happens.
Double down on current thingism, politics, man bad covid happens.
(23:31):
Triple down on politics. You are fifteen years deep in
your career. You have never once genuinely engaged with a
peer who didn't validate your worldview, or you didn't consider
a token opposition to placate your political enemies. Vibe shift happens.
Establishment uncertain time to have a conversation with the people
you've considered deplorable.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Have conversation here.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Non progressive opinion that is common in the modern world,
historically ubiquitous. But you react with shock and horror. Can
you even believe this is happening? Confident that non progressive
opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea
how to actually refute it. Unaware just how deeply you've
been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated
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man on the street has more practical understanding of what
politics is than you do with decades of experience, amazed, angry.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I like the idea of majoring in current thingism. Yeah yeah, Wow,
that's a great expression.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Confident that non progressive opinion is trivially easy, trivially easy
to refute.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Somehow you have no idea how to actually refute it.
Hence that look of smug These people are so stupid on.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Your face that you see so much. The other mask
is angrily screaming that those people are evil. Plainly. Wow,
that is so rings, so true. Well done, Dave Green.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
I don't know if that's what's going on here, but
one of the most prominent voices in the WNBA, one
of the leading players, says they do not want to
participate in the whole USA two fifty thing that is
going on in a lot of sports leagues where you
have a some sort of patch on your uniform about
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United STATESBA.
(25:27):
This WNBA All Star says, whoever called for the WNBA
All Star uniforms to have the USA two to fifty
patch should have thought that thought that through considering that
no WNBA players would have been free two hundred and.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Fifty years ago, which I suppose is supposed to be
a boo. Yeah, how could you possibly fight back against that?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, darling, where were like black women quote unquote free
two hundred and fifty years ago? I mean they were
like caught and sold as slaves in Africa so by
other black people and buy Muslims and herbs and various
other people while the Ottoman Empire was capturing white Europeans
(26:07):
for slavery. Uh huh, Well you can't you know, I
don't hate her. I'm not contemptuous of her. She learned
what she was taught. She believed the sixteen nineteen project.
There are Pulitzers involved.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Right, I don't know about he learned what she was taught.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Your local school spent a lot of taxpayer money to
buy bunches of copies to teach it in history class.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Certainly that Yeah mentioned Hunter Biden. Maybe we'll get to
this will later go through some of his tweets. He had.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
He had a Twitter account for years, but he hadn't
really tweeted, and he decided whatever to uh, for whatever reason,
to jump on Twitter in the last couple of weeks
and now he just lets it rip with all kinds
of stuff on a daily basis, all kinds.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Of different things, just gets involved in conversations with people.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
And the most interesting angle of it is that he
has become kind of a Maga favorite because he speaks
out against the Epstein class.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
So that's Jews, right, I guess, yeah, I guess sometimes
it's code for that. Sometimes it's just the rich and powerful,
which he was until his senile old man left the
White House.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, he did say. He did say the other day
in one of his tweets that he's broke af and
does anybody know how he could make any money? On
X On Twitter, for instance, the topic of Vermont came
up for some reason. He said, Yeah, I love Vermont,
but I once got the s kicked out of me there. Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't know why he got.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But the guy is gone now, Hundry, you can go
back if you want. Probably some sort of drug thing
went wrong or woman thing.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Uh. He attacked the Epstein elite oligarch class for trying
to divide the left and the right. After someone said
you're part of the Epstein class. He posted one of
those photos of him shirtless and unshaven and looking completely
out of control, and say and said, do I look
like I'm part of an elite oligarch class? He said,
(28:07):
this was taken at a Super eight motel off of
I ninety five. By the way, that's a pretty funny response.
That is that is he was nonetheless, well, you still are,
see part of the part of it. I don't believe
there's an Epstein class, really, but if you're just talking
about rich, powerful people in general, which there is a
class of that. You see, those people get to have
(28:28):
kids who get as far off the rails as you
and still somehow manage to have great lives. That's that class. Yeah, exactly,
although that might be over for him and his whole family.
He says that something broken me in a good way,
which is I no longer have any fear about anything,
so I can say anything about anything, which I imagine
is true. I mean, it's the Chris Christofferson line. You know,
(28:51):
freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
I mean, what has he got to lose at all
about anything?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right?
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Speaking of the Biden family, be a nice moment for
Bill maher there clip number fifteen and said can you
grab that real quick?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Didn't anybody want to win a race at both parties?
I mean, you know this week Joe Biden, have you
seen that she needs to have a book out?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Jill Biden.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
She went on, she thought Joe was having a stroke
during the debate, didn't mention it at the time, went
on the view and admitted she thought, no, Joe couldn't
have surpen of the term.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They said, really, she said no, not from what I
know now? Who knew.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Other than everyone knowing?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Wow, interesting response from the audience on that. Yeah, the
faws and just how laughable it is that you didn't
tell anybody you thought that the President of the United
States was having a stroke?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Right, just kept it to yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm reminded that guest Mark Halpern had though the other day,
who said no, he had convinced himself that Biden was
sharp as attack, and he's disturbed that he was able to.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Do that to himself.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
So not everybody, Bill, Yeah, that's interesting again, you got
to look at your own life. Is there something you're
completely deluding yourself about because you want it to be true?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It seems to be the way we're built.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It seems to be Yeah, yeah, which reminds me I'd
meant to throw this in prior to this moment. That's
as the upstart candidates in Calvin Unicorneyo's two big elections
governor where Steve Hilton had a chance, and Spencer Pratt
in LA. Both of those guys have I believe, officially
(30:41):
faded to third or at least it's looking like that
I will not make the primary.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Pratt's definitely out. Yeah, the trend is towards Steyer.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
We'll see if it pans out because California takes weeks
to count the vote because it's ridiculous and mombed up. Anyway,
I was reminded of Hlman's a great quote that belief
in democracy is the belief that the voters know what
they want and deserve to get it good and hard
and man, that is going to happen, especially in LA,
(31:12):
but California if it's uh, Bessarah and Tom Steyer.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Oh, so you're gonna end up with Sarah as government
who was laughed out of the Biden administration. The people
that work with them think it's hilarious, like you gotta
be kidding me. And then Karen Bass with La in
the situation. It is how she handle the fires and
everything like that gets another term.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But it's just something, isn't it. Yeah, that's incredibly discouraging.
Is there a result so terrible?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Well no, I was going to call out the average voters,
but so much of it is the democratic machine, the
voting blocks that are connected to the machine.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They turn out one hundred. Yeah, I think you're right
the first time.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Can it get so bad that the average voter gets
to the holes that they organize and say we've got
to do something right right? The problem is they don't
get to the polls right, Yeah, which means it's not
bad enough.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, you would think it would be. Oh it will be,
It will will yeah. Just wait, okay, more more on
the ways stay here.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Armstrong, Wemby lurking, rugs and triples, pulls up, jump shot
back of them, won't go Webby the rebound twelve seconds remaining,
stolen by Brugson and knocked down by Webby. Crugson will
(32:39):
shoot free throws with nine point five remaining.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh what a turnner out of that sequence.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
That the ending of that game was something else, the
big emerging giant. The next decade could be all about him.
Star Wembyana. I don't know if the moment was too
big form or what, but he.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Just threw the ball at the back of a guy
wasn't looking.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Oh no, that was that, Oda yelled you suck at
and he and he had the look on his face
shaking his.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Head of what the hell was that? Oh boy, he knew,
he knew.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
He got to know from JT, from JT and Livermore
talking about Trump being at the game Madison Square Garden.
Oh yeah, and the Secret Service talking about all the
methods they're getting used to protect him, and he said,
sounds very impressive, but left me wondering, what exactly is
different about your listed protection methods from that of Butler Pennsylvania.
You know, the assassination attempt which you failed to secure
(33:35):
the most obvious shooting location for.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
And Trump at the game tonight. I'm going to tune
in just to see how that goes with the the
announcement and everything. Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I wanted to get this on Bill Maher the other night.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I guess this was from the overtime or something like
he does his HBO show and then there's an extra
piece you can see online where he talked about Scott
Pelley of sixty minutes. Bill Maher said, I just don't
think beings a sixty minutes correspondent is that hard.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I don't feel like Scott Pelley was a national treasure.
Companies change hands all the time. I never liked him. Sorry,
I just never did because the crowd kind of bowed
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Companies change hands, people bring in their own people, their
new ownership. Just because something changes doesn't mean it's bad.
Oh my god, sixty minutes has a new cast. So
does Saturday Night Live, which is a decent point yep,
big deal. I've told the story about how I love donuts,
and if you're new to the show, I really really
(34:31):
love donuts, like I had to swear them off for
the year because it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I'm an addict.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
And the donut shop that was near my house, the
closest donut shop within walking distance to me that I
went to regularly, sometimes daily.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
When I moved across town, it moved across town.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Now, I don't have any evidence that it was because
of me, but it's sure as a heck of a
coincidence that it moved clear Acrosstown. Also within walking distance. Anyway,
my son just texted me he went over there to
get a donut. He's got a last day of school
going on today. And the interesting thing about the people
that run that place is they are two of the
fittest people, best looking, fittest people I've ever seen in
(35:11):
my life. Married couple. Interesting, yeah, and I mean they're
like could be on TV. They could be doing one
of those morning ESPN exercise shows. They're so good looking
husband and wife and so fit, and you run a
donut shop.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I mean, sir, what is that. There's no way you're
eating any donuts and looking like that. I mean they
are specimens. Wow wow wow. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
It reminds me of like your really serious cartel drug
lords who would never.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Do drugs because I think it's ridiculous. Right, So they're
selling death.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Donuts are deaf, but they're not a road delicious death.
They're not a road to look like either. One of
you always in their work out gear because they hit
the gym before the donut shop open.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, don't get high on your own supply, man, I
guess that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Remember that they're both about forty and just like zero
percent body fat selling donuts to those of us who
waddle in.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Wow, they're like a farmer, fattening you up for probably
the slaughter.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Oh boy.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
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Speaker 4 (36:29):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jetty and he I'm strong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
What was the feeling about that particular opening salvo to
the team?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Oh, she i am told said something to the effect of,
why do you think the country thinks you're biased? But
she didn't offer any kind of a metric. You know,
what's your metric? Why do you think so? Do you
have a poll? Is there market research? What are you
(00:51):
talking about? Because we certainly didn't believe that.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Scott Pelly shocked that Barry Weise running CBS News to them,
why do you think the country thinks you are biased?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Here at sixty minutes and he's biased in me? God,
what proof do you have that we're biased? Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
How much trust do you have in the major media?
Just before nineteen eighty it was about seventy two percent.
It's now twenty eight percent. Scott, it's falling off the map.
More Americans believe media favors Democrats than Republicans, sixty four
to twenty two Republicans to Democrats.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Uh, do we have polls? We got piles of polls.
We got piles of polls so high you have to
climb a pole to get to the box to the
top of it.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
The hell yeah, I'm more disturbed by the crowd that
doesn't know they're biased than I am by Fox or MSNBC.
They've got a particular job, that're serving a particular audience.
They knew exactly what they're doing. They're doing it on purpose. Sure,
and uh, it's the CBS Evening Newses, the Meets the
(02:05):
Press and the nprs of the world that think, no,
we're holding the line for both sides.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Those are the people. Don't worry me.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Well, I just see if everything through a lens of
truth and fairness, we could never be biased.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
So Scott Pelly sat down with the New York Times
podcast crew over the weekend and did an interview, and
there's a lot of good stuff here. And then I've
got a comment from somebody who worked at CBS Viacom
for a decade on what it's like there and.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Couldn't believe this interview anyway more.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Scott Pelly, My hope is that the leadership of Paramount
will say to themselves, Okay, this isn't working. We have
broadcasts that almost don't get on the air. We have
respected journalists saying that there is a thumb on the
scale for one political party over another. Wow, we have
(02:58):
a broadcast which is among the most important in America,
the most successful in the history of all of television.
It was doing great. So why are we making these changes?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
The fact that Scott Pelley thinks that the new version
of sixty Minutes has got its thumb on the scale
for one party, the Republicans, and that it didn't have
its thumb on the scale.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Ever for Democrats is I don't even know how to
comment on that.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, if you spend all of your time, in all
of your conversation on the far left, the moderate left
is the right, and he's not even aware of anything
from the center on right word, so.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I mentioned earlier, I was shocked that after and we'll
play somewhere Scott Pelley for you here in a second.
But I was shocked that this controversy of last week,
when Scott Pelly got fired and needed these interviews, made
all these comments and everything like that that Sixty Minutes
ran last night. Their opening story was all about the
threats that judges are under across America, and they based
(04:16):
it on comments Trump has made about justices being liars
or crooked or whatever, and I hate that. I don't
think Trump should be doing that at all. I'm not
trying to claim that's okay, but the idea that this
doesn't work both ways is just amazing. And they went
all judges Republican and Democrat judges but that have been
(04:37):
have gotten death threats because of Trump and other Republicans verbiage,
and I thought, you've got to be kidding. I'm waiting
here to hear somebody mention Brett Kavanaugh almost dying in
an assassination nation attempt after Democrats called him crooked over
roversus weight. And they finally after fifteen minutes fifteen minutes
(05:01):
into the show, brought up it's not just democratic or
it's not just Democrats.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Saying bad things about judges at.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Okay, fine, And it really looked like it had the
feel of it got tacked on later somebody thought we
can't just have this be completely one sided, so they
mentioned Republicans. They and they only mentioned Chuck Schumer calling
out Brett Kavanaugh. They didn't play the clip of Chuck
Schumer there his veins popping out of his forehead. You
(05:31):
have you're going to reap, throw in Kavanagh. That was
the Senate majority leader calling what hit you? A Supreme
Court justice because he didn't like the decision he made.
It's a problem, but to make it seem like it
was mostly public a Republican problem. And then Scott Pelly
doing the same week in an interview saying, now there's
(05:54):
a thumb.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
On the scale for the Republicans and people are going
to see that. At what point in do you report?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Did they mention Amy Cony Barrett got swatted two weeks ago.
Not at all I mentioned that, Yeah, no, not at all.
Her address is known thanks to the abortion rights activist
group Ruth sent Us, which published the private addresses of
the conservative justices back in twenty twenty two. Yeah, you
just don't call this what about ism.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I hate when people say that the what about ism
is both sides should stop doing it, and you should
report that both sides are doing it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm not trying to justify.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
It drives me nuts when I hear pundit's talking about
we hear just what about it?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Because both sides are doing it, you morons, right, and
it needs to stop.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
But sixty minutes acting like it was a one sided
story the very week they're claiming that they're down the
middle was just hilarious to me.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Speaking of abhorrent things in the modern world. A quick
word from our friends that in Cogny picture this year
at work, your phone buzzes, it's your kid's number. Your
kid's voice is panicked. He's been in an actually that
needs money right now. You'd move heaven and earth to
help you. That's what the scammer is counting on.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
The fact that they only need a couple of seconds
of your wife's voice, your husband's voice, your dad's voice,
your kid's voice, or whatever to try to scam you
is disturbing. The best way to not get scammed is
if they can't find you in the first place.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yeah, the criminals buy your phone number and all your
family details from data brokers, but if the data brokers
don't have that for sale, they're not gonna get it.
And that's what Incogniti does. They go after these data brokers,
tell them you got to take that info down, and
then they bug them over and over and over again
to make sure it stays down.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Ye have.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
They contact hundreds of data brokers and legally force them
to remove your information. We're using it incognit, and you're
gonna notice a drop in spam calls, emails.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
And texts.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Go to incognity dot com slash armstrong. That's sixty percent
off when you use the code armstrong at in cognity
dot com slash armstrong, I ncog ni dot com slash armstrong.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Let's roll with another delusional Scott Pelly clip.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
We need adult supervision and at the moment we don't
have it. We have people who've been installed in these
jobs who, through no fault of their own, have no
experience in television. It's not their fault, but they don't
know what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
And there's a.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Subtle political bias that I've never seen at sixty months before.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
You've got to be getting me.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
And so we're at CBS News before, and so that
is my hope. A return to sanity, a return to honor,
a return to courage. We used to have all of
those things in abundance, and now we don't.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
This is the perfect time for this subtle bias you've
never seen before at sixty minutes or CBS News.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now that is a howler. Yeah, it absolutely has.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Scott Pelly's New York Times interview is an unintended eulogy
for legacy media and a portrait of a man blubbering
and seething in denial of his irrelevance. He does a
cultural as a cultural document. It's fascinating. Yeah, yeah, play
that last clip, short clip that we opened a show with.
And then I've got a response from somebody who worked
in the at CBS viacom for a decade.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We can save this.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
It's possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News,
in my view, is on fire.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
All right, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I think things most were better when we had a
big media organization gatekeeper sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
In retrospect. I didn't think that was true at the time,
but I do think it's now.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
But anyway, he's just not recognizing to a certain extent, one,
the fact that bias had become more and more prevalent
in mainstream journalism over the years. And two, you're not
as big a deal as you think you are. Unfortunately
to me, would you like to give me this is
a heritage, legendary, most powerful Yeah, you want me to
(10:12):
give you the list of like I can tell you
some radio stations that were the most legendary radio stations
that ever existed that no longer exist at all. It's
times change for better or words. Anyway, here's this guy
I didn't know, John Papola. Give me a break, he
tweets out, I worked at ViacomCBS now paramount for over
(10:33):
a decade. Of course, it was plus ninety percent Democrats.
Everyone knows this. Everyone and newsrooms in particular vote Democrat
to a higher degree than Berkeley, California, which is a
heck of a statement, but true. And you know what, fine,
I have lots of friends with whom I disagree from
time to time. There it was a great place actually
to act as if this claim about bias is controversial,
(10:53):
let alone inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Show that he's either a liar.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
An imbecile, or so deeply incurious tunnel vision that you
don't belong anywhere near the job involving information discernment. But
he's got that familiar anchor voice, so we're supposed to
act like he's not being a complete clown.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Give me a break. You people are a mess. Yeah, wow,
well said I was.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Reminded Bernie Goldberg grow to Bias, a CBS insider exposes
how the media distort the news.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
What fifteen years.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Ago or I think it was longer than that, wasn't it,
But anyway, we interviewed him several times and he said
he worked for Walter Cronkite's CBS News. He puts out
a book called Bias because he's so upset about the
bias in modern media.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But he said, back when he worked there, he never saw.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Like Walter Kronkite's own personal bias or anybody else's bias
get into the news. And he has a guy writing
a book about how much bias there is, so back
in the day, apparently there wasn't much. I know, I
felt that way about sixty minutes for a long time.
It was just in the last decade that it started
(12:02):
to Sometimes it would make me slap my head with it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
You gotta be kidding me. Well for Scott Pally to say,
for the first time ever, there's a thumb on the
scale for one party. Oh my god, that is, as
you said, a howler in americ In America.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
This person who used to work there said he's either
an imbecile or so blinded by his tunnel vision that
he shouldn't be in a job where you're.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Supposed to make those decisions.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I like to do this occasionally, just to remind myself
how horrifyingly quickly time is passing by. Bernie Goldberg's landmark
book Bias first came out twenty four years ago.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh my god, oof, I know.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I was listening to an album the other day that
I still consider kind of new and realized, I'm realized,
I'm listening to the thirtieth anniversary edition of it, thirty
years ago it came out. Well, that's what happens when
you get old. If you're young, you don't feel that way.
True enough, Scott Pelly, get out of the way, make way.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Oh we need traditional TV newsman to guide us to
the future.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
The partner cried, Oh boy, that was hard to take. Anyway,
We got more on the way.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Stay here, Armstrong, Hey, feed stole at least forty dollars
worth of Pokemon cards from a New Jersey trading card store.
Police are describing the thieves as armed, dangerous, and very
unlikely to get laid.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Ah, it's unfortunate stereotyped there.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I don't know how many times we can have this
story San Francisco streets or you know, whatever street in
the country, but in this particular case, San Francisco streets
are reeling from a deadly drug twenty times.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
More powerful than fentanyl. How many times can this keep going?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Where something is X number of ten times more powerful
than the thing that one drop can kill you before,
just like hearing the name of it makes you drop dead.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
It's like the old laundry detergent show Querry, you know,
every six months tied claimed to make your whites whiter
and your colors brighter.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
It's like I got I'm already being blinded. I like,
can they get? But I want to hit this.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
McDonald's testing AI drive through system called arch Iq at
a bunch of locations across the country.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
So maybe if you go to McDonald's you'll get an
AI system.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I'd like a milkshake. Did you say French fries? No
milk shake? You said French fries. I assume it's going
to be better than that, though, But I gotta believe
the drive through person that that job's got like six
months left and they're all gone before AI takes that over.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, speaking of jobs, Oh, by the way, I can't.
I don't want to forget this. I have like the best,
one of the best. How would I describe it? Psychological
analyzes of young progressive women and why they are the
way they are because there is something going on, it
can be explained, And this was one of the best
(15:14):
ones I've come across. Really interesting and rings so true
with having raised two girls fairly recently. But speaking of
jobs at McDonald's and otherwise, I thought this was interesting.
The US needs mechanics and electricians, and big business seeing
a shortage of For instance, Ford Motor Company is desperate
for mechanics.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Their workforce is aging their way out. It's expensive.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You got to be trained, as in a mechanic, you
have to have your own tools, which can run, you know,
well into five figures from what I understand. But now
they're realizing, hey, we got to kickstart these efforts. We
got to fund high school programs like Ford is in
a partnership with Detroit, oh with the Bloomberg and the
Automaker kicking in two and a half million dollars to
(15:59):
fund auto repair base for high schools. They're talking about
let me jump partners and all sorts of trades.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
What percentage of high school teachers across of America would
considered a failure if you decided to be an auto
mechanic as opposed to go to college.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, a lot of them, most of them, all of them.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Yeah, I got to believe it's ninety plus percent, which
is a problem. Yeah, the US skilled workforce is aging
fast well. Demand for workers and the trades multiply multiplies
quickly because of surging data center demand.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
We'll see how long that lasts. Who knows, and investment
in advanced manufacturing. According to estimates from Associated Builders and
Contractors Big Industry Association, the construction industry needs to add
an estimated three hundred and forty nine thousand net new
workers this year alone to meet demand, fueled in part
for by a skyrocketing need for electricians on that particular job.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Though, Can you get it? If you only speak English,
could you even work for somebody? Would they hire you?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I don't yes, I think yes when you're talking big tech.
If you're talking residential construction, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't doubt it.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yeah, but the trades are higher, like crazy, and or
you could go six figures into debt and sit in
a cubicle and not use your education whatsoever, and not
make much money, but at least you won't be humiliated by,
you know, working with your hands or anything. Also from
the world to work.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I thought this was interesting, you know, the big weight
loss or sarcasm in case you didn't pick up on that,
that's not what we think.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, that's right. My voice was tripping with sarcasm.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Hey, so you're you're excited about the GLP one drugs,
you weight loss drugs, right, They're still fairly expensive, and
employer healthcare plans are saying, damn, we're spending a lot
on this.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Why don't we say no, you can't have it. More
and more companies are saying no to that you really want.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Seems shortsighted to me. Man, Yeah, so get it now, now,
get skinned down before they wake up. What's what's all
that other stuff that you're going to have happen to
you because of being too heavy going.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
To cost the company?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Maga favorite Hunter Biden on fire on his new Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
We'll have to talk about that later. Wow, bring it, Hunter,
bring it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So we were kind of pressed for a time last
segment I wanted to pay off the rest of the
whole discussion about the GLP ones. More than a quarter
of big companies say they're adding new criteria to get
approved for this.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That I get.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah, eleven percent of dropped or planning to drop coverage
from weight loss purposes all together, which strikes me as
being incredibly shortsighted, as you indicated last segment, Jack.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
If you're pretty heavy, Yeah, but like i'd see, I
could see myself going on this drug. But I only
got like ten pounds max I could lose. The company
shouldn't pay for that. That's just a vanity project avoiding diet.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yes, bikini body no right, revenge body no exactly exactly. Globally,
the number of companies covering these weight loss drugs is
fall into twenty three percent this year, from from thirty
percent just a year ago.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Blah blah blah. That's a okay, just a quick illustration.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Though.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
This woman they profile, Samantha, says she's just glad her
employer's plan will still cover her with GOVI injections at all.
She and her doctor lobby to get her on the
Novo Nordis drug last year after the plan stopped covering
ze bound shots she had been taking.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
The approval, though, came with a catch.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
She must log her weight and meet with a nutritionist
at least once a month via an app, something she
didn't have to do in the past. So you've got
to like document that you're sticking with it and also
working out and blah blah blah h your company's not
going to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I know how to game the system here. I need
to get really big, good idea and I think I
could do it solid idea. Yeah, uh super ah.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
So that to summarizes that, get it well you can. I,
as a well as observers of you know, political systems
and politics and just society culture, are so troubled and
fascinated by the huge lurch leftward of young women and
(20:22):
how they as are well described and as was true
in h in mount say Tongues, uh, you know, revolutionary period,
the cultural revolution, the women are frequently the most adamant
and vicious adherence to the new radical philosophies.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And I think some of it has to do with
nobody's having kids. You're not.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You got nothing but time on your hands. Uh, and
and so you're uh, well, you know we've we've gone
into this at length, the desire to care for somebody,
to protect somebody. Since you don't have kids, it becomes
the downtrodden. Whatever the leaders tell you is the downtrodden,
and you'll defend them to the death like you would
your own child. But this is something a little different,
(21:08):
and this rings so true having just raised a couple
of girls. You know, I coach girl sports various other
organizations I was part of. This is written by a
guy named Dave, who I didn't know, but and he
has a picture of four like older millennial women, all
with the smug like smiling, you're so stupid look on
(21:31):
their face. Jack, if you can picture that, Yes, I can't, like,
Oh my god, I can't believe I even have to
do this, you neanderselfs.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Anyway, listen to what do you write.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
I've been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the Spotlight recently,
all women my age, progressive and employed at mainstream institutions.
I don't know them, yet in every case I can
into it their origin story. It goes something like this,
be an older millennium female, no strong passion, but strive,
harden school, reach high school, steer clear of the kid
kids who like talking about far out philosophical issues. Also
(22:03):
steer clear of student government and debate club, which seems
too contentious and vaguely threatening. Focus on getting perfect grades,
complying with the college requirements. Get into a top university
based on those greats. Get introduced to politics in freshmen's
social justice class. Instantly floored. The peal of college politics
is just how cut and dried it is. Unlike other fields.
(22:25):
It has a clear good and bad side, no ambiguity.
The good side always wins in classroom discussions. You feel
like a hero for validating consensus with the conversation. Politics
becomes your religion. This is my passion. You graduate with
top grades and extra curriculum. Your degree is essentially in
(22:46):
current thingism. You have no broad understanding of history or
philosophy right your concept of human events is just people
being oppressed for four thousand years until feminism and progress
happened in the twentieth century. Despite the globe financial crisis,
immediately get hired by a government or media organization because
they want someone who quote understands the role of female
(23:07):
politics in our new digital era. Most of your colleagues
share your perspective. The ones who don't are older guys
on their way to retirement, not looking for the confrontation
that disagreeing with you would certainly involve. Yeah, great awokening happens. Sorry,
jump in anytime I can live that. Yeah, great awokening happens.
Double down on current thingism, politics, man bad covid happens.
(23:31):
Triple down on politics. You are fifteen years deep in
your career. You have never once genuinely engaged with a
peer who didn't validate your worldview, or you didn't consider
a token opposition to placate your political enemies. Vibe shift happens.
Establishment uncertain time to have a conversation with the people
you've considered deplorable.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Have conversation here.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Non progressive opinion that is common in the modern world,
historically ubiquitous. But you react with shock and horror. Can
you even believe this is happening? Confident that non progressive
opinion is trivially easy to refute, somehow have no idea
how to actually refute it. Unaware just how deeply you've
been betrayed by your education, such that the average educated
(24:14):
man on the street has more practical understanding of what
politics is than you do with decades of experience, amazed, angry.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
I think that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I like the idea of majoring in current thingism. Yeah yeah, Wow,
that's a great expression.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Confident that non progressive opinion is trivially easy, trivially easy
to refute.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Somehow you have no idea how to actually refute it.
Hence that look of smug These people are so stupid on.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Your face that you see so much. The other mask
is angrily screaming that those people are evil. Plainly. Wow,
that is so rings, so true. Well done, Dave Green.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
I don't know if that's what's going on here, but
one of the most prominent voices in the WNBA, one
of the leading players, says they do not want to
participate in the whole USA two fifty thing that is
going on in a lot of sports leagues where you
have a some sort of patch on your uniform about
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United STATESBA.
(25:27):
This WNBA All Star says, whoever called for the WNBA
All Star uniforms to have the USA two to fifty
patch should have thought that thought that through considering that
no WNBA players would have been free two hundred and.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Fifty years ago, which I suppose is supposed to be
a boo. Yeah, how could you possibly fight back against that?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, darling, where were like black women quote unquote free
two hundred and fifty years ago? I mean they were
like caught and sold as slaves in Africa so by
other black people and buy Muslims and herbs and various
other people while the Ottoman Empire was capturing white Europeans
(26:07):
for slavery. Uh huh, Well you can't you know, I
don't hate her. I'm not contemptuous of her. She learned
what she was taught. She believed the sixteen nineteen project.
There are Pulitzers involved.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Right, I don't know about he learned what she was taught.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Your local school spent a lot of taxpayer money to
buy bunches of copies to teach it in history class.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Certainly that Yeah mentioned Hunter Biden. Maybe we'll get to
this will later go through some of his tweets. He had.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
He had a Twitter account for years, but he hadn't
really tweeted, and he decided whatever to uh, for whatever reason,
to jump on Twitter in the last couple of weeks
and now he just lets it rip with all kinds
of stuff on a daily basis, all kinds.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Of different things, just gets involved in conversations with people.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
And the most interesting angle of it is that he
has become kind of a Maga favorite because he speaks
out against the Epstein class.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
So that's Jews, right, I guess, yeah, I guess sometimes
it's code for that. Sometimes it's just the rich and powerful,
which he was until his senile old man left the
White House.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, he did say. He did say the other day
in one of his tweets that he's broke af and
does anybody know how he could make any money? On
X On Twitter, for instance, the topic of Vermont came
up for some reason. He said, Yeah, I love Vermont,
but I once got the s kicked out of me there. Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I don't know why he got.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
But the guy is gone now, Hundry, you can go
back if you want. Probably some sort of drug thing
went wrong or woman thing.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Uh. He attacked the Epstein elite oligarch class for trying
to divide the left and the right. After someone said
you're part of the Epstein class. He posted one of
those photos of him shirtless and unshaven and looking completely
out of control, and say and said, do I look
like I'm part of an elite oligarch class? He said,
(28:07):
this was taken at a Super eight motel off of
I ninety five. By the way, that's a pretty funny response.
That is that is he was nonetheless, well, you still are,
see part of the part of it. I don't believe
there's an Epstein class, really, but if you're just talking
about rich, powerful people in general, which there is a
class of that. You see, those people get to have
(28:28):
kids who get as far off the rails as you
and still somehow manage to have great lives. That's that class. Yeah, exactly,
although that might be over for him and his whole family.
He says that something broken me in a good way,
which is I no longer have any fear about anything,
so I can say anything about anything, which I imagine
is true. I mean, it's the Chris Christofferson line. You know,
(28:51):
freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
I mean, what has he got to lose at all
about anything?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Right?
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Speaking of the Biden family, be a nice moment for
Bill maher there clip number fifteen and said can you
grab that real quick?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Didn't anybody want to win a race at both parties?
I mean, you know this week Joe Biden, have you
seen that she needs to have a book out?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Jill Biden.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
She went on, she thought Joe was having a stroke
during the debate, didn't mention it at the time, went
on the view and admitted she thought, no, Joe couldn't
have surpen of the term.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They said, really, she said no, not from what I
know now? Who knew.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Other than everyone knowing?
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Wow, interesting response from the audience on that. Yeah, the
faws and just how laughable it is that you didn't
tell anybody you thought that the President of the United
States was having a stroke?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Right, just kept it to yourself.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm reminded that guest Mark Halpern had though the other day,
who said no, he had convinced himself that Biden was
sharp as attack, and he's disturbed that he was able to.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Do that to himself.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
So not everybody, Bill, Yeah, that's interesting again, you got
to look at your own life. Is there something you're
completely deluding yourself about because you want it to be true?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It seems to be the way we're built.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It seems to be Yeah, yeah, which reminds me I'd
meant to throw this in prior to this moment. That's
as the upstart candidates in Calvin Unicorneyo's two big elections
governor where Steve Hilton had a chance, and Spencer Pratt
in LA. Both of those guys have I believe, officially
(30:41):
faded to third or at least it's looking like that
I will not make the primary.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Pratt's definitely out. Yeah, the trend is towards Steyer.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
We'll see if it pans out because California takes weeks
to count the vote because it's ridiculous and mombed up. Anyway,
I was reminded of Hlman's a great quote that belief
in democracy is the belief that the voters know what
they want and deserve to get it good and hard
and man, that is going to happen, especially in LA,
(31:12):
but California if it's uh, Bessarah and Tom Steyer.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Oh, so you're gonna end up with Sarah as government
who was laughed out of the Biden administration. The people
that work with them think it's hilarious, like you gotta
be kidding me. And then Karen Bass with La in
the situation. It is how she handle the fires and
everything like that gets another term.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But it's just something, isn't it. Yeah, that's incredibly discouraging.
Is there a result so terrible?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Well no, I was going to call out the average voters,
but so much of it is the democratic machine, the
voting blocks that are connected to the machine.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They turn out one hundred. Yeah, I think you're right
the first time.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Can it get so bad that the average voter gets
to the holes that they organize and say we've got
to do something right right? The problem is they don't
get to the polls right, Yeah, which means it's not
bad enough.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, you would think it would be. Oh it will be,
It will will yeah. Just wait, okay, more more on
the ways stay here.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Armstrong, Wemby lurking, rugs and triples, pulls up, jump shot
back of them, won't go Webby the rebound twelve seconds remaining,
stolen by Brugson and knocked down by Webby. Crugson will
(32:39):
shoot free throws with nine point five remaining.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh what a turnner out of that sequence.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
That the ending of that game was something else, the
big emerging giant. The next decade could be all about him.
Star Wembyana. I don't know if the moment was too
big form or what, but he.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Just threw the ball at the back of a guy
wasn't looking.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Oh no, that was that, Oda yelled you suck at
and he and he had the look on his face
shaking his.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Head of what the hell was that? Oh boy, he knew,
he knew.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
He got to know from JT, from JT and Livermore
talking about Trump being at the game Madison Square Garden.
Oh yeah, and the Secret Service talking about all the
methods they're getting used to protect him, and he said,
sounds very impressive, but left me wondering, what exactly is
different about your listed protection methods from that of Butler Pennsylvania.
You know, the assassination attempt which you failed to secure
(33:35):
the most obvious shooting location for.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
And Trump at the game tonight. I'm going to tune
in just to see how that goes with the the
announcement and everything. Oh.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I wanted to get this on Bill Maher the other night.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
I guess this was from the overtime or something like
he does his HBO show and then there's an extra
piece you can see online where he talked about Scott
Pelley of sixty minutes. Bill Maher said, I just don't
think beings a sixty minutes correspondent is that hard.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I don't feel like Scott Pelley was a national treasure.
Companies change hands all the time. I never liked him. Sorry,
I just never did because the crowd kind of bowed
a little bit.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Companies change hands, people bring in their own people, their
new ownership. Just because something changes doesn't mean it's bad.
Oh my god, sixty minutes has a new cast. So
does Saturday Night Live, which is a decent point yep,
big deal. I've told the story about how I love donuts,
and if you're new to the show, I really really
(34:31):
love donuts, like I had to swear them off for
the year because it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
I'm an addict.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
And the donut shop that was near my house, the
closest donut shop within walking distance to me that I
went to regularly, sometimes daily.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
When I moved across town, it moved across town.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Now, I don't have any evidence that it was because
of me, but it's sure as a heck of a
coincidence that it moved clear Acrosstown. Also within walking distance. Anyway,
my son just texted me he went over there to
get a donut. He's got a last day of school
going on today. And the interesting thing about the people
that run that place is they are two of the
fittest people, best looking, fittest people I've ever seen in
(35:11):
my life. Married couple. Interesting, yeah, and I mean they're
like could be on TV. They could be doing one
of those morning ESPN exercise shows. They're so good looking
husband and wife and so fit, and you run a
donut shop.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
I mean, sir, what is that. There's no way you're
eating any donuts and looking like that. I mean they
are specimens. Wow wow wow. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
It reminds me of like your really serious cartel drug
lords who would never.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Do drugs because I think it's ridiculous. Right, So they're
selling death.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Donuts are deaf, but they're not a road delicious death.
They're not a road to look like either. One of
you always in their work out gear because they hit
the gym before the donut shop open.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Yeah, don't get high on your own supply, man, I
guess that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Remember that they're both about forty and just like zero
percent body fat selling donuts to those of us who
waddle in.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Wow, they're like a farmer, fattening you up for probably
the slaughter.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Oh boy.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
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