January 31, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Details & opinions about the plane crash
- The Apple AI update
- The Oscars, trans nominee & Joe's drinking game
- The cost of deportations
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek. A
real winner, that's the guy. He's a real winner. You
know how badly everything's run since he's run the Department
of Transportation. He's a disaster. He was a disaster as
a mayor. He ran his city into the ground, and
he's a disaster now. He's just got a good line
(00:45):
of both the Department of Transportation, his government agency charged
with regulating civil aviation. Well, he runs it forty five
thousand people and he's run it right into the ground
with his diverse There you go.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So it got personal between Trump and Mayor Pete yesterday
what he did in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh wow, we're dipping way back.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And now Mayor Pete has migrated to Michigan where he
wants to run for the Senate. Right, he's going to
be based on his achievements and you know things.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
So the headline around the flying thing, just the brief
headline is.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Lots of acknowledgment that.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Reagan Airport, like every airport in the country, has like
half as many air traffic controllers as they're supposed to,
including the night of the crash, and right leaning media
is willing to say, is that because di I and
left leaning media is pretending.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I wonder why that is. So that's kind of where
we are today.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But before we get to more of that, here's a
former black Hawk pilot yesterday laying out on CNN a
few things that they think went wrong that caused the crash.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
So three is a minimum crew for a black Hawk
helicopter in my opinion, when you're going into visual flight
mode in a crowded airspace like this, it should be
a minimum of four, so you have a pilot on
each side for visibility. Whether they were on night vision
goggles at that time or not. It is a very
cluttered airspace with a lot of lighting and the lights
reflecting on the river, and so with that it's easy
(02:24):
to kind of get a little disoriented. As far as
the hype, they were supposed to be at two hundred feet,
but they were not. Reportedly, the incident happened around three
hundred and fifty to four hundred feet. As the airliner
was descending. They were at the wrong height, so that's
a pilot error. The first would be a policy error.
Air traffic control said, do you have the CRJ in sight? Well,
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there were two aircraft in their field of view, and
actually only one was really obvious to them, and that
was the If you watch the video, the aircraft taking
off in the foreground is probably the one they were facing.
The pilots were facing and said, yeah, I got it.
Air Traffic control should have said do you have the
aircraft at five o'clock, so they were looking at the rear.
(03:07):
If they had done that, the black Hawk is maneuverable.
The black Hawk could have moved out of the way quickly.
They can move on a dime and make that happen.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, if you've seen there was go ahead.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
If you've seen that new video that came out, that
helicopters flying for a long time straight toward the plane,
and as that woman just went out there, they were
looking at a different plane. When you see the plane,
oh yeah, I see it, they were looking at a
different one. And a couple other factors.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
There was quite literally half the number of air traffic
controllers there usually is that time of night, there was
one instead of two that are supposed to be, one
dealing with helicopters, one with planes. But for some reason,
the supervisor let somebody go home early. Second thing that
I learned yesterday, and it's funny. I learned this quite
early in the day from an associate who is ex military,
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and he announced to me with great certainty that innition.
I wasn't sure where he got it, but that these
were VIP pilots whose job is to ferry VIPs back
and forth from the Pentagon to the local air base and.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They have to have a certain number of minimum night
flying hours to stay certified, and that was the training mission.
It was VIP pilots getting their night flying in so
they could stay certified. It seems insane to me that
you would do that in one of the most crowded
airspaces on Earth and most protected. But you know, I'm
(04:31):
sure that policy will be looked into.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
This may not have contributed to it, but if anything
comes out of this crash, the why do we have
half as many air traffic controllers as we're supposed to.
Let's get to the bottom of that, and if it
turns out that a lawsuit from last year by one
thousand people joining together saying they applied for the job
but got turned down because of race. If it turns
out it wasn't going to look enough, it wasn't gonna
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look enough like the rainbow up there in the control tower,
so we turned these people down, that's a big problem.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I believe that is exactly true.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
News Nation with a story where a former Aviation FAA
official said diversity has nothing to do with hiring in
air traffic controlling and it had nothing to do with
the crash. And let's see, we hire a lot of people,
but it's all about merit.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
On the other hand, you have this from an independent
journalist who mentions that the air traffic control lapse is
categorized as significant are up sixty five percent in just
over a year.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What has gone wrong? Allow me to explain.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Then he goes into the statistics the number of significant
air traffic control lapses its rise. Just take my word
for it. I don't want to get bogged down in
the statistics. But previously, the FAA's CTI program, that's their
certification program, essentially worked with thirty six colleges to educate
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future air traffic controllers. These colleges offer two and four
year degrees requiring courses in air traffic control and aviation administration.
It also employed a rigorous skills test. The graduates of
these programs became qualified candidates for training as air traffic
control specialists. The FAA gave hiring preferences to veterans, those
(06:23):
with the ATCTI program degrees, references from administrators and high
test scores. Now those programs still exist, but as we'll see,
he writes, other selection criteria.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Have been introduced in order to promote diversity.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
In twenty thirteen, Obama appointed Michael Huerta to the position
of FAA Administrator, where to criticize the existing standards on
the grounds that they did not promote diversity. He announced
plans to, and this is a quote, transform the FAA
into a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects, understands,
and relates to the diverse customers. In other words, the
(07:00):
FBA was the FAA was hiring too many white guys,
and you'll never guess what the proposed solution was. Holding
your breath. In twenty thirteen, President Barack Obama appointed. They
reset what I just said. He announced plans. Okay, I'm sorry,
he just restates it with different type. Under Huerta, the
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FAA stopped prioritizing CTI graduates and introduced a behavioral questionnaire.
When this happened, a pool of three thousand qualified candidates,
most of them CTI grads who passed the skills test,
were purged. Three thousand graduated this test that the training
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program were fully qualified and were told sit down, you're
not going to get hired.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Boy, would that be maddening in addition to its dangers
for us all? But how maddening would that be? You're qualified,
you took the school all of a sudden, a change
in the political weather, and you gotta find a new career.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I know multiple people in multiple industries who were told,
point blank, Jim, you're gonna have to wait another year.
We're getting real pressure on the diversity front.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Anyway, So this behavioral questionnaire under Huerta, this new program,
the BQ will call it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's ambiguous for a reason.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Its purpose is to select for diverse applicants as where
to said questions include the number of high school sports
I participated in was how would you describe your ideal job?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What has been the major cause of your failures?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Why would you ever ask that? Would more classmates remember
me as humble or dominant?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Stuff like that?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It's harmless, I'm sure, but it just might be harmless.
But what's it accomplish? Do you have the training to
be an air traffic controller? Are you sober? Here's your
job to make things worse.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The BQ actually gives more points to applicants who answered
that they have not been employed in the previous three
years than it does to those who respond that they've
been a pilot or a veteran with air traffic control
experience complete insanity.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's an equity thing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I've been out of work for three years. I was
an air traffic control specialist in the Air Force. Out
of work, guy, you get the job, sweet mother of God.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Because we believe in equity, We're going to try to
balance out the world. Because we're so cor so smart,
we can figure out how.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
In twenty fifteen, Peter Kersonow, then a member of the
US Commission on Civil Rights, wrote a letter to the FAA.
He accused the FAA of diluting its quote objective standards
of evaluating competence because it didn't like the racial and
gender composition of its ATC applicant. Pool A says it's
particularly odd that the FAA would change its selection procedures
(09:50):
when its own studies found that the ATSAT score was
the only piece of biodata other than age, that was
a useful predictor of whether an individual would successfully complete
air traf controller training. In other words, ju jettison the
only thing that was a significant standard. Later in twenty fifteen,
lawsuit was filed on behalf of the more than three
thousand qualified applicants rejected by the FAA. Jack has mentioned
(10:11):
that an attorney for the PLANEFF said, we have a
statement from a leading FAA official that they made this
decision in order to increase diversity the BQ. That questionnaire
was purportedly discontinued in twenty eighteen thanks to Representative Randy
Hultgron of Illinois, who introduced legislation to eliminate the questionnaire
under the first Trump administration. However, a twenty nineteen class
(10:34):
action lawsuit representing twenty five hundred aspiring air traffic controllers
claims it still exists, much like the colleges are still
using racial preferences for admission. They're just couching it in
different language. The FAA found a way to do this
the career bureaucrats, and then they go into some of
(10:56):
the details behind the scenes of congressional actions that make
clear that yes, they are continuing to do the BQ
and use it actively.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It's a little in the weeds.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The FAAA is clearly focused on recruiting from quote underrepresented
groups instead of finding the right person for the job.
According to its DEI page, the FAS twenty two to
twenty six goals included an emphasis on the importance of
recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce. There's more detail. This
goes on for some time. If anybody says, are you here,
(11:27):
anybody say the FAA hires strictly on merit, they are
lying to you. That is utterly dishonest. Remember, Marxists lie
all the time. They don't expect you to call them
on it. And this is a problem.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Whether this is what caused the crash night before last
or not.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, yeah, even if that was not a part of
it at all, it's still patently insane.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, anyway, Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
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Speaker 4 (13:14):
So that poor crime Selena Gomez is in that trans
movie that got the most Oscar nominations, and if you
don't know the whole story around that, it is hilarious.
It's really entertaining. So I hope you can stick around
for that this hour.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Arm Strong.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
So that Netflix just added a new button that lets
you download an entire season of the show at once.
Houses other rolling out a bunch of other new buttons
to improve the user experience. This next button says fast
forward past sex scene because.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Watching with parents. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Next tip, This one says fast forward to sex scene
because watching alone. This next one says auto replay every
thirty seconds because got distracted by TikTok again. The one
that says make separate profile from mom. So my algorithm
isn't all Virgin River. This button says, fine, take money
(14:11):
from my kids' college fund so I can avoid ads.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And finally, this.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Button says, for the love of God, skip all intros
forever and stop asking me.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, Netflix is in trouble because they had a once
in one hundred years thing happened, and there were really
no streaming services during the nineteen eighteen pandemic. But when
everybody was stuck at home and watching binge, watching all
these shows, and they got like stars in their eyes
and thought this was going to go on forever and
(14:41):
it didn't. AnyWho, speaking of technology, so my son says
yes to me. Yesterday when I pick him up in
high school, he said, hey, have you downloaded the new
Apple update because he's got the cheapest iPhone. I said, no,
I have not, And he said, all the texting is
so much better on this and he said, it guesses
your words so much better. And I are always complaining
(15:01):
about how you you know you text, or you were
always complaining on the show you Know it. It will
it will act like some of the words you're using
are just unheard of, and fill it in with some
strange words.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Right, whatever is anyway that is better?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
But so so I downloaded the new thing that includes
a I and one of the things it does now
on the camera, you press the camera button and like
you could walk up to any dog, press the camera
button and then it will tell you what kind of
dog that is, which is kind of cam or any animal,
So you can do that with any animal or plant.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And but like Sweena, I'm sorry, how what do you
have to do?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Just in the camera, just press the side button on
it and just automatically comes up and then there's something
down there at the bottom of button. AnyWho it tells you.
So I did it first with pup Puppleig, go over
to them, press the camera there, it says, pug. No,
how handy you know, I alread knew it. But so
Henry and I were having fun with that when we
came back from eating. I gotta still have a pumpkin
(15:58):
because it's wintertime, sitting out in front of my house
house because it kind of has a fall look. Anyway,
I walk up to it, I press the camera button,
and it says A pumpkin, commonly associated with autumn, is
often used for decorating or cooking to the fall season.
It belongs to the squash family and is popular in
pies and soups.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Have that information.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Boy, anybody walk in with me is going to get
an ear Poe right right. You could go full Cliff
Claven on him. Oh yeah, excuse, excuse the old reference. Yeah,
the daisy a popular flower, you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Oh God, can we just look at the daisies?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
But I was thinking, Man, if it can so quickly
identify identify every plant and animal, obviously it's going to
be identifying faces very soon. And everybody you walk by,
it's gonna meet there's Joe, you know, or well Joe
would be about example, it'd be there's Fred. You worked
with Fred in nineteen ninety six. He has a wife
and two kids or whatever. That is so quickly going
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to happen, for better or worse.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I was at a social gathering just last night in
which there were many interactions with people I run into
once every six weeks, and my chance of like remembering
names and biographical details of somebody I run into once
every six.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Weeks is practically nil.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's not that I don't want to remember it, I
just lack the capacity.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, So starting in like a month, probably you're gonna
be able to be at a party. You get out
your phone, kind of hold it up where they can't
see it, click the camera button. It gets Fred's face.
It immediately goes to Fred's LinkedIn and Facebook page. You know,
I don't know his wife, his kid's name, all the
places he's worked, where he went to high school.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Fred, how's the semi autographical novel coming along?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
How's work?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Sure better than when you were over there at that
other place from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Eight as vice president of sales.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Huh they think you're a witch.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That is going to happen though. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Judy especially has enjoyed the apps where you can identify
insects and plants and and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But it's a little cumbersome to have to find it
and open it.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Have you dont know what the stars? Oh, that's those
are amazing, amazing. You hold it up to the sky
and it shows you all the what everything.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Is so cool? Yep, bunch of planets lined up right now.
Check it out. Look at the sky. It's beautiful. We
got some fun oscar talk. You haven't seen Amelia Perez
the movie.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Nobody has even though It's been nominated for the second
most oscars of any movie in motion picture history and
is up for Best Picture, and according to Vulture magazine
or website, it's currently the most likely movie to win
Best Picture. Of course it is it stars a trans person.
(18:42):
The Hollywood's not gonna give a trans movie Best Picture?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Currently twenty four on Rotten Tomatoes twenty four percent ranking,
which is abusiness, Moal.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You tried too hard with this one.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, it's being hailed jack as the greatest most nakedly
Oscar baby movie ever produced.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, they went too far, Like I said, Yeah, they
dished a way over the top with it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But not only that. The real and this is let
me depart for a second. This is the final fatal
self beclownment of Hollywood, and I am more delighted than
I can tell. Yeah, that's awesome anyway, So half of
the story is that it is the most blatantly Oscar
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baby woke movie Hollywood has ever come up with. But
the hilarious part is it's also terrible, but they've still
rewarded it with the stunning number of nominations, including the
first ever nomination for Best Actress for a trans woman.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's a dude. By the way.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, it's gonna get me to watch the Oscars because
I want to hate watch it. When they stand up
there and give their acceptance speeches and everybody just standing
ovations all over the place.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Remember that one year the Super Bowl where all the
ads were so woke and you got some little girl
climbing over the border wall to get a Coca cola
or what right?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Charlie Cook of The National Review recently unleashed a screed
that contained roughly these words. The idea that we should
restructure our constitutional order because George Floyd died is a
is it not a very compelling or argument anyway? But
pop culture is more than willing.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They're feverish to win the approval of their their lefty overlords. Anyway,
where was I? So it is just nakedly Oscar bade.
It's unwatchable, it's hilarious. It's bombed in Mexico. Here is
the plot. Friends, Oh, oh, you know what I wanted
to say. You were talking about? You want to watch
the Oscars the Oscar night. Here's your drinking game. You
have to take a shot every time someone utters the
(20:54):
word brave, Oh good one about to have emt standing by,
you gotta do a keg stand for every standing ovation.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
You're gonna be knee walking drunk. All right, So here's
the deal.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The movie, if you haven't heard this, or even if
you have, is about a Mexican drug cartel head, an
el Chapo type who is secretly a woman inside it
becomes to be and longs to become transgender and.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Has been tortured by it their entire lives, right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And his her girl boss Mexican lawyer who helps her
achieve quote unquote her her true you know, calling as
a crusading feminist Mexican drug cartel transgender person ho Ham
another one of the hose come on, boy.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Meets Girl place formula.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Anyway, anyway, as if the coffin needed another nail.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It's a freaking musical, that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And not only is it a musical, is it a
foreign language film. It was made by French filmmakers in
Spanish Mexican audience. Is one of the reasons poor little
confused fame was the worst thing that could have happened
to her.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What's her face?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Remember she had a meltdown. Earlier in the week, posted
a video about kids being deported or something like that
by the evil Trump administration, and she.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Cried right exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Uh, anyway, she's she's she was born in Texas. She's
of Mexican heritage, but doesn't really speak Spanish Spanish or didn't,
and Mexican audiences were laughing at her Spanish. And there's
some speculation that the crying jag was to to kind
of regain her bona fides as an up with Mexicans person.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I just think she's a young woman with mental health
health issues.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Having said that, so you get your transgender cartel boss,
girl Boss, crusading feminist something or other musical And if
the songs were any damn good, that might save it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But this is what it sounds like. Hello, very nice
to meet.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
I'd like to know about sex change operation see I see,
I see men two women, a woman, two men, men,
two women from penis two vagina?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Is it for you?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
For me?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
What would you like to know about it?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Man?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I want to know it all.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
What is the protocol, the techniques under risks?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
How many operations? How much I do you need.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Mammo blasty, Yes, blasty, yes, pen no blessing lavino blasty, Yes,
mammo blasty, adam reduction, Yes what that is?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The Great Zoe Saldana, by the way, known for the
Garden Guardians of the Galaxy movies. But and yes, I
was doing the trump dance during the song to Yeah
were You Off the.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Day we played this, Katie, because we played this earlier
in the week. It's hilarious. It's like it's a It's
like it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That I was just gonna say.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That sounds like something I would have heard on Family Guy. Yes,
what sounds exactly like Family Guy. When Seth McFarlane mocks
musicals by just basically, you know, talking.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Through songs about what the what the plot is. I
can't believe that's real.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I know, getting back to the final fatal self decloinement
of Hollywood, that song is impossible to parody. You cannot
do an exaggerated version of its, of its ridiculousness and terribleness.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Big of getting a sex change, do you know what
that means? Yes, it's getting rid of my vagina and
getting a penis. I mean kind of lyrics of those
you give it an Oscar, Yes, second most nominations of
any movie in movie history. In other words, it's one
of the all time great pieces of cinematic art. It's
(25:23):
just a coincidence that at this moment of trans hysteria
this movie has come along, and that's just unbelievable, you know,
Thank God, and this moment of.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Great sympathy for drug cartel bosses as well.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I feel like I went to Hollywood and said I'd
like to I'd like to finally kill your cultural influence,
and Hollywood said, oh, we'll commit suicide.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
If I was at a less busy point of my life,
I would go to that movie and sit through the
whole thing, just for just to talk be able to
talk about it on the radio.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I will go if I can find it playing anywhere. God,
but I've got to go incognito. I don't want to
be seen in it.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
So I don't know if you know this aspect of
the whole Oscar thing. I didn't in late in life
when I became aware of how Dog eat Dog vying
for the awards it gets leading up to Oscars. They
all take out ads and then try to knife each
other to try to get the votes of the Academy
and everything like that. So that star who is singing
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the song there, the trans star, the Amelia Perez star
currently campaigning for an oscar, apologized yesterday after her islamophobic,
anti Asian, and anti black former Twitter posts resurfaced. So
somebody dug up some old stuff they could damage her
with and got it out, and then she had to
apologize yesterday, hoping not to lose the.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Oh darn it, now we got a problem.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Trent singing about a trans person but has islama? Oh
big Twitter posts from the past. Oh, how do I
vote as in an enlightened, woke member of the Academy.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Damn it.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It just keeps getting better and better. That is a
delightful development.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
What would delight to know about it?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
By the way, Zoe Saldana stars as the Girl Boss
lawyer standing up for her transgender cartel crusading feminist transgender boss.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Man, you went too far with your so funny.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, like when the hurt Locker came out in the
midst of our wars and our conversations over wars, and
it had a you know, a fair amount of America
causes as many enemies as as friends you know, at
least it was subtle enough.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It was a good war movie.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I mean, you were't hitting me over the head with it.
But during the trend's discussion that's going on in America
right now.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
To come out with this is just too much.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I want this pacifics on what the the nominated newly
minted quote unquote woman said about these various groups, I
don't I don't want my uh. I hate when quotes
are characterized, because then the characterizer is in charge of
you know what I think about them. But the fact
(28:30):
that the leading light, who is probably counting on standing
ovations at the Oscars as tears streamed down their face
for being so brave.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Having this show up yesterday.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yah crap, that's right, I said some bad things about
the Asians.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well, it's it's it's great. The beast is eating itself.
I mean, that's why I'm enjoying it so much.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's it's I went there to kill it and it's
in the midst of self destruction.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Has anybody actually seen this movie? If you have, and
I doubt you have, but if you have, you could
text us at four one, five, two, nine five kftc
uh is that song nominated for Best It's got it.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
They have to have a song nominated for Best Song.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
There's no way you get the most Oscar nominations, second
most ever without best song being in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I don't know, Katie, can you look that up? That'd
be great. But that song is hilarious. I mean I
can't even wrap my head around it.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Give us a little more, Michael Mamo, Prestine, yes, no, Prestie, yes, no,
PSI yes.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
What I take from that song is that wait a minute,
that many surgical interventions are required to make me who
I really am. That does not make sense. Why did
they decide to go with a cartel leader. I can't
imagine asking me to crawl inside their crazy heads.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't like it in here.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Were they just trying to bring too many different things together?
It's like the way back. If you remember the Sopranos,
Christoph wanted to be a you know, a movie maker,
and he makes a combine saw with the Godfather too.
It seems kind of like that you're combining whatever, a cartel,
some sort of immigration thing with the tram story and
putting them together.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
All right, well, Jack, the way I interpret it is
that a cartel boss would have to be so brave,
so brave.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
All right. That's that's two.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Shots to embrace their real transgender self in spite of
the pressures given to a put upon them by Mexican
society and their tough guy image. But it's important that
you go ahead and have fifty surgeries if you feel like.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
A girl, yep, standing up to the macho culture. What
do you know about this, Katie?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Now?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I actually pop back in because I need to know
what I need to be looking.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Up whatever for you guys?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Whatever are the Oscar nominated best Songs? Other anything from
this horror show are included.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
A speaking of being Woke, a not surprising development from
the Ebram x Kendy Center for Anti Racist Research. If
you haven't heard this, it's also delicious, Everything's going our
way lately and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Stay here.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I like to know racious. I see.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Man WOCHUSM has had a rough couple of weeks basically
since Trump got elected and certainly since he got inaugurated.
We'll get into a variety of things that have occurred
around that issue to kick off our three. If you
don't get that, grab the podcast Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And Get You on Demand, Cannot Wait, and in a
related story, follow up on the Oscar Bait transgender drug
cartel movie musical Amelia Perez. Looking at rotten tomatoes, you
want to recognize Oscar bait. Look at the difference between
the critics poll and the audience polled the tomato meter,
which is critics seventy four percent positive. That's that's pretty good.
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The popcorn meter actual movie viewers nineteen percent.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
From Renegade Autour, Jacques Audiard comes Amelia for as an
auditious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. I do
like artsy movies, but through liberating songs and dance and
bold visuals. Liberating wasn't the word that came to mind
when we listened to that last song. This odyssey follows
the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing
their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Amelia, and let's Riata,
(32:24):
an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead end job to
help her fake her death so that Amelia can finally
live authentically as her true self.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
There you go. No, I love art movies.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Last Year's Winter I saw on one of my favorite
movies ever, the everything all at once, all the time, whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You can't get much more ARTI than that movie that
is not a mainstream film.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You got some force, Katie.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Uh yeah, just to let you know if you don't
want to be seen going into her out of the theater.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
This gem is on Netflix. Oh you can watch it
at home. Okay. Oh yeah, that's better. That is good
to know.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah, I'll be sure to draw my drape. This story
is getting a lot of attention. We haven't commented on
it yet.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
The President today also moving to create a migrant facility
at Guantanamo that can hold thirty thousand.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
This is not the camps.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You're not putting criminals in camps where isis and other
criminals there's This is a temporary transit to humanely move
illegals out of our country.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
The president's memo says the space at Guantanamo US Naval
base should go to high priority criminal aliens. DHS Secretary
Christy Nome described it as a site for the worst
of the worst. The Cuban president criticized this decision, calling
it an act of brutality in an illegally occupied territory.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Shut up, you COMI so so obviously it was an
opportunity for mainstream media, who's completely out of touch with
Americans feelings on this topic. I'll say, for the one
thousandth time, eighty five percent of Americans want criminal illegals
booted out. Anyway, the media pretending and now we're treating
(34:04):
them like terrorists by putting them in Getmo. Well, you
gotta put them somewhere until we can get them to
their own countries.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's a spit of land, all right, it's a place.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Ian Bremer, who I think was trying to make a
point with this, tweeted out some reiters numbers cost of
a one way first class ticket on American airlines from
Texas to Guatemala around eight hundred bucks. Cost to fly
the same migrant on military deportation flights almost five thousand
dollars per Well, the problem would be, I don't think
(34:39):
you can take known child rapists and put them on
a United flight with a ticket and uh and and
just send them to wherever they're going and say sorry
passengers for making you sit next to a known child rapist.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, at the very least make them fly coach right, Yeah,
that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Well, how come I got it stand in line for
the regular time bathroom and child rapist up there, it
gets the first class bathroom.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
It doesn't seem right anyway.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I was gonna say any sort of they're treating them
like terrorists. They're bringing them to the same place as
al kinda is the analysis of idiots. And we don't
have time for you people anymore. I just wanted to
subject to the scrutiny that all government actions should be.
Is this the best most cost effective solution?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
If it's just grand standing, then it's dumb, And it
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
It makes sense.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
And the fact that you know you're gonna have to
break some eggs to make this omelet in all kinds
of different ways, expense or people getting caught up who
don't deserve it, or all kinds of different things.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, we laid the groundwork for a really big mess
to clean up.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
And you either clean up the mess you don't.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
But if you clean up this mess, and it is
a mess, there's gonna be a lot of unfortunate things happen.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Shouldn't allowed it in the first place. Is the whole thing.
If you create a disaster. It's going to be disastrous.
It's not a difficult concept to grasp. We'll try to
make it as non disastrous as possible, but it's gonna
be nasty.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
We've got some good stuff to kick off our three
Bad News from Ibram x Kendy which I hate to
see that happen, but I hope you can catch our three.
If not, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buddhachek. A
real winner, that's the guy. He's a real winner. You
know how badly everything's run since he's run the Department
of Transportation. He's a disaster. He was a disaster as
a mayor. He ran his city into the ground, and
he's a disaster now. He's just got a good line
(00:45):
of both the Department of Transportation, his government agency charged
with regulating civil aviation. Well, he runs it forty five
thousand people and he's run it right into the ground
with his diverse There you go.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So it got personal between Trump and Mayor Pete yesterday
what he did in Indiana.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh wow, we're dipping way back.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And now Mayor Pete has migrated to Michigan where he
wants to run for the Senate. Right, he's going to
be based on his achievements and you know things.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
So the headline around the flying thing, just the brief
headline is.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Lots of acknowledgment that.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Reagan Airport, like every airport in the country, has like
half as many air traffic controllers as they're supposed to,
including the night of the crash, and right leaning media
is willing to say, is that because di I and
left leaning media is pretending.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I wonder why that is. So that's kind of where
we are today.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
But before we get to more of that, here's a
former black Hawk pilot yesterday laying out on CNN a
few things that they think went wrong that caused the crash.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
So three is a minimum crew for a black Hawk
helicopter in my opinion, when you're going into visual flight
mode in a crowded airspace like this, it should be
a minimum of four, so you have a pilot on
each side for visibility. Whether they were on night vision
goggles at that time or not. It is a very
cluttered airspace with a lot of lighting and the lights
reflecting on the river, and so with that it's easy
(02:24):
to kind of get a little disoriented. As far as
the hype, they were supposed to be at two hundred feet,
but they were not. Reportedly, the incident happened around three
hundred and fifty to four hundred feet. As the airliner
was descending. They were at the wrong height, so that's
a pilot error. The first would be a policy error.
Air traffic control said, do you have the CRJ in sight? Well,
(02:46):
there were two aircraft in their field of view, and
actually only one was really obvious to them, and that
was the If you watch the video, the aircraft taking
off in the foreground is probably the one they were facing.
The pilots were facing and said, yeah, I got it.
Air Traffic control should have said do you have the
aircraft at five o'clock, so they were looking at the rear.
(03:07):
If they had done that, the black Hawk is maneuverable.
The black Hawk could have moved out of the way quickly.
They can move on a dime and make that happen.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, if you've seen there was go ahead.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
If you've seen that new video that came out, that
helicopters flying for a long time straight toward the plane,
and as that woman just went out there, they were
looking at a different plane. When you see the plane,
oh yeah, I see it, they were looking at a
different one. And a couple other factors.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
There was quite literally half the number of air traffic
controllers there usually is that time of night, there was
one instead of two that are supposed to be, one
dealing with helicopters, one with planes. But for some reason,
the supervisor let somebody go home early. Second thing that
I learned yesterday, and it's funny. I learned this quite
early in the day from an associate who is ex military,
(03:56):
and he announced to me with great certainty that innition.
I wasn't sure where he got it, but that these
were VIP pilots whose job is to ferry VIPs back
and forth from the Pentagon to the local air base and.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
They have to have a certain number of minimum night
flying hours to stay certified, and that was the training mission.
It was VIP pilots getting their night flying in so
they could stay certified. It seems insane to me that
you would do that in one of the most crowded
airspaces on Earth and most protected. But you know, I'm
(04:31):
sure that policy will be looked into.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
This may not have contributed to it, but if anything
comes out of this crash, the why do we have
half as many air traffic controllers as we're supposed to.
Let's get to the bottom of that, and if it
turns out that a lawsuit from last year by one
thousand people joining together saying they applied for the job
but got turned down because of race. If it turns
out it wasn't going to look enough, it wasn't gonna
(04:58):
look enough like the rainbow up there in the control tower,
so we turned these people down, that's a big problem.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I believe that is exactly true.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
News Nation with a story where a former Aviation FAA
official said diversity has nothing to do with hiring in
air traffic controlling and it had nothing to do with
the crash. And let's see, we hire a lot of people,
but it's all about merit.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
On the other hand, you have this from an independent
journalist who mentions that the air traffic control lapse is
categorized as significant are up sixty five percent in just
over a year.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What has gone wrong? Allow me to explain.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Then he goes into the statistics the number of significant
air traffic control lapses its rise. Just take my word
for it. I don't want to get bogged down in
the statistics. But previously, the FAA's CTI program, that's their
certification program, essentially worked with thirty six colleges to educate
(06:01):
future air traffic controllers. These colleges offer two and four
year degrees requiring courses in air traffic control and aviation administration.
It also employed a rigorous skills test. The graduates of
these programs became qualified candidates for training as air traffic
control specialists. The FAA gave hiring preferences to veterans, those
(06:23):
with the ATCTI program degrees, references from administrators and high
test scores. Now those programs still exist, but as we'll see,
he writes, other selection criteria.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Have been introduced in order to promote diversity.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
In twenty thirteen, Obama appointed Michael Huerta to the position
of FAA Administrator, where to criticize the existing standards on
the grounds that they did not promote diversity. He announced
plans to, and this is a quote, transform the FAA
into a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects, understands,
and relates to the diverse customers. In other words, the
(07:00):
FBA was the FAA was hiring too many white guys,
and you'll never guess what the proposed solution was. Holding
your breath. In twenty thirteen, President Barack Obama appointed. They
reset what I just said. He announced plans. Okay, I'm sorry,
he just restates it with different type. Under Huerta, the
(07:22):
FAA stopped prioritizing CTI graduates and introduced a behavioral questionnaire.
When this happened, a pool of three thousand qualified candidates,
most of them CTI grads who passed the skills test,
were purged. Three thousand graduated this test that the training
(07:43):
program were fully qualified and were told sit down, you're
not going to get hired.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Boy, would that be maddening in addition to its dangers
for us all? But how maddening would that be? You're qualified,
you took the school all of a sudden, a change
in the political weather, and you gotta find a new career.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I know multiple people in multiple industries who were told,
point blank, Jim, you're gonna have to wait another year.
We're getting real pressure on the diversity front.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Anyway, So this behavioral questionnaire under Huerta, this new program,
the BQ will call it.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's ambiguous for a reason.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Its purpose is to select for diverse applicants as where
to said questions include the number of high school sports
I participated in was how would you describe your ideal job?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What has been the major cause of your failures?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Why would you ever ask that? Would more classmates remember
me as humble or dominant?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Stuff like that?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It's harmless, I'm sure, but it just might be harmless.
But what's it accomplish? Do you have the training to
be an air traffic controller? Are you sober? Here's your
job to make things worse.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The BQ actually gives more points to applicants who answered
that they have not been employed in the previous three
years than it does to those who respond that they've
been a pilot or a veteran with air traffic control
experience complete insanity.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's an equity thing.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I've been out of work for three years. I was
an air traffic control specialist in the Air Force. Out
of work, guy, you get the job, sweet mother of God.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Because we believe in equity, We're going to try to
balance out the world. Because we're so cor so smart,
we can figure out how.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
In twenty fifteen, Peter Kersonow, then a member of the
US Commission on Civil Rights, wrote a letter to the FAA.
He accused the FAA of diluting its quote objective standards
of evaluating competence because it didn't like the racial and
gender composition of its ATC applicant. Pool A says it's
particularly odd that the FAA would change its selection procedures
(09:50):
when its own studies found that the ATSAT score was
the only piece of biodata other than age, that was
a useful predictor of whether an individual would successfully complete
air traf controller training. In other words, ju jettison the
only thing that was a significant standard. Later in twenty fifteen,
lawsuit was filed on behalf of the more than three
thousand qualified applicants rejected by the FAA. Jack has mentioned
(10:11):
that an attorney for the PLANEFF said, we have a
statement from a leading FAA official that they made this
decision in order to increase diversity the BQ. That questionnaire
was purportedly discontinued in twenty eighteen thanks to Representative Randy
Hultgron of Illinois, who introduced legislation to eliminate the questionnaire
under the first Trump administration. However, a twenty nineteen class
(10:34):
action lawsuit representing twenty five hundred aspiring air traffic controllers
claims it still exists, much like the colleges are still
using racial preferences for admission. They're just couching it in
different language. The FAA found a way to do this
the career bureaucrats, and then they go into some of
(10:56):
the details behind the scenes of congressional actions that make
clear that yes, they are continuing to do the BQ
and use it actively.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It's a little in the weeds.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
The FAAA is clearly focused on recruiting from quote underrepresented
groups instead of finding the right person for the job.
According to its DEI page, the FAS twenty two to
twenty six goals included an emphasis on the importance of
recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce. There's more detail. This
goes on for some time. If anybody says, are you here,
(11:27):
anybody say the FAA hires strictly on merit, they are
lying to you. That is utterly dishonest. Remember, Marxists lie
all the time. They don't expect you to call them
on it. And this is a problem.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Whether this is what caused the crash night before last
or not.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Yeah, yeah, even if that was not a part of
it at all, it's still patently insane.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, anyway, Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
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Speaker 4 (13:14):
So that poor crime Selena Gomez is in that trans
movie that got the most Oscar nominations, and if you
don't know the whole story around that, it is hilarious.
It's really entertaining. So I hope you can stick around
for that this hour.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Arm Strong.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
So that Netflix just added a new button that lets
you download an entire season of the show at once.
Houses other rolling out a bunch of other new buttons
to improve the user experience. This next button says fast
forward past sex scene because.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Watching with parents. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Next tip, This one says fast forward to sex scene
because watching alone. This next one says auto replay every
thirty seconds because got distracted by TikTok again. The one
that says make separate profile from mom. So my algorithm
isn't all Virgin River. This button says, fine, take money
(14:11):
from my kids' college fund so I can avoid ads.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And finally, this.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Button says, for the love of God, skip all intros
forever and stop asking me.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Yeah, Netflix is in trouble because they had a once
in one hundred years thing happened, and there were really
no streaming services during the nineteen eighteen pandemic. But when
everybody was stuck at home and watching binge, watching all
these shows, and they got like stars in their eyes
and thought this was going to go on forever and
(14:41):
it didn't. AnyWho, speaking of technology, so my son says
yes to me. Yesterday when I pick him up in
high school, he said, hey, have you downloaded the new
Apple update because he's got the cheapest iPhone. I said, no,
I have not, And he said, all the texting is
so much better on this and he said, it guesses
your words so much better. And I are always complaining
(15:01):
about how you you know you text, or you were
always complaining on the show you Know it. It will
it will act like some of the words you're using
are just unheard of, and fill it in with some
strange words.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Right, whatever is anyway that is better?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
But so so I downloaded the new thing that includes
a I and one of the things it does now
on the camera, you press the camera button and like
you could walk up to any dog, press the camera
button and then it will tell you what kind of
dog that is, which is kind of cam or any animal,
So you can do that with any animal or plant.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And but like Sweena, I'm sorry, how what do you
have to do?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Just in the camera, just press the side button on
it and just automatically comes up and then there's something
down there at the bottom of button. AnyWho it tells you.
So I did it first with pup Puppleig, go over
to them, press the camera there, it says, pug. No,
how handy you know, I alread knew it. But so
Henry and I were having fun with that when we
came back from eating. I gotta still have a pumpkin
(15:58):
because it's wintertime, sitting out in front of my house
house because it kind of has a fall look. Anyway,
I walk up to it, I press the camera button,
and it says A pumpkin, commonly associated with autumn, is
often used for decorating or cooking to the fall season.
It belongs to the squash family and is popular in
pies and soups.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Have that information.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Boy, anybody walk in with me is going to get
an ear Poe right right. You could go full Cliff
Claven on him. Oh yeah, excuse, excuse the old reference. Yeah,
the daisy a popular flower, you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Oh God, can we just look at the daisies?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
But I was thinking, Man, if it can so quickly
identify identify every plant and animal, obviously it's going to
be identifying faces very soon. And everybody you walk by,
it's gonna meet there's Joe, you know, or well Joe
would be about example, it'd be there's Fred. You worked
with Fred in nineteen ninety six. He has a wife
and two kids or whatever. That is so quickly going
(16:54):
to happen, for better or worse.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I was at a social gathering just last night in
which there were many interactions with people I run into
once every six weeks, and my chance of like remembering
names and biographical details of somebody I run into once
every six.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Weeks is practically nil.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
It's not that I don't want to remember it, I
just lack the capacity.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, So starting in like a month, probably you're gonna
be able to be at a party. You get out
your phone, kind of hold it up where they can't
see it, click the camera button. It gets Fred's face.
It immediately goes to Fred's LinkedIn and Facebook page. You know,
I don't know his wife, his kid's name, all the
places he's worked, where he went to high school.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Fred, how's the semi autographical novel coming along?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
How's work?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Sure better than when you were over there at that
other place from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Eight as vice president of sales.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Huh they think you're a witch.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
That is going to happen though. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Judy especially has enjoyed the apps where you can identify
insects and plants and and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
But it's a little cumbersome to have to find it
and open it.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Have you dont know what the stars? Oh, that's those
are amazing, amazing. You hold it up to the sky
and it shows you all the what everything.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Is so cool? Yep, bunch of planets lined up right now.
Check it out. Look at the sky. It's beautiful. We
got some fun oscar talk. You haven't seen Amelia Perez
the movie.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Nobody has even though It's been nominated for the second
most oscars of any movie in motion picture history and
is up for Best Picture, and according to Vulture magazine
or website, it's currently the most likely movie to win
Best Picture. Of course it is it stars a trans person.
(18:42):
The Hollywood's not gonna give a trans movie Best Picture?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Currently twenty four on Rotten Tomatoes twenty four percent ranking,
which is abusiness, Moal.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
You tried too hard with this one.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, it's being hailed jack as the greatest most nakedly
Oscar baby movie ever produced.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, they went too far, Like I said, Yeah, they
dished a way over the top with it.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But not only that. The real and this is let
me depart for a second. This is the final fatal
self beclownment of Hollywood, and I am more delighted than
I can tell. Yeah, that's awesome anyway, So half of
the story is that it is the most blatantly Oscar
(19:31):
baby woke movie Hollywood has ever come up with. But
the hilarious part is it's also terrible, but they've still
rewarded it with the stunning number of nominations, including the
first ever nomination for Best Actress for a trans woman.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That's a dude. By the way.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, it's gonna get me to watch the Oscars because
I want to hate watch it. When they stand up
there and give their acceptance speeches and everybody just standing
ovations all over the place.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Remember that one year the Super Bowl where all the
ads were so woke and you got some little girl
climbing over the border wall to get a Coca cola
or what right?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Charlie Cook of The National Review recently unleashed a screed
that contained roughly these words. The idea that we should
restructure our constitutional order because George Floyd died is a
is it not a very compelling or argument anyway? But
pop culture is more than willing.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They're feverish to win the approval of their their lefty overlords. Anyway,
where was I? So it is just nakedly Oscar bade.
It's unwatchable, it's hilarious. It's bombed in Mexico. Here is
the plot. Friends, Oh, oh, you know what I wanted
to say. You were talking about? You want to watch
the Oscars the Oscar night. Here's your drinking game. You
have to take a shot every time someone utters the
(20:54):
word brave, Oh good one about to have emt standing by,
you gotta do a keg stand for every standing ovation.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
You're gonna be knee walking drunk. All right, So here's
the deal.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The movie, if you haven't heard this, or even if
you have, is about a Mexican drug cartel head, an
el Chapo type who is secretly a woman inside it
becomes to be and longs to become transgender and.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Has been tortured by it their entire lives, right.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And his her girl boss Mexican lawyer who helps her
achieve quote unquote her her true you know, calling as
a crusading feminist Mexican drug cartel transgender person ho Ham
another one of the hose come on, boy.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Meets Girl place formula.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Anyway, anyway, as if the coffin needed another nail.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It's a freaking musical, that's right.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And not only is it a musical, is it a
foreign language film. It was made by French filmmakers in
Spanish Mexican audience. Is one of the reasons poor little
confused fame was the worst thing that could have happened
to her.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
What's her face?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Remember she had a meltdown. Earlier in the week, posted
a video about kids being deported or something like that
by the evil Trump administration, and she.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Cried right exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Uh, anyway, she's she's she was born in Texas. She's
of Mexican heritage, but doesn't really speak Spanish Spanish or didn't,
and Mexican audiences were laughing at her Spanish. And there's
some speculation that the crying jag was to to kind
of regain her bona fides as an up with Mexicans person.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I just think she's a young woman with mental health
health issues.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Having said that, so you get your transgender cartel boss,
girl Boss, crusading feminist something or other musical And if
the songs were any damn good, that might save it.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But this is what it sounds like. Hello, very nice
to meet.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
I'd like to know about sex change operation see I see,
I see men two women, a woman, two men, men,
two women from penis two vagina?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Is it for you?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
For me?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
What would you like to know about it?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Man?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I want to know it all.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
What is the protocol, the techniques under risks?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
How many operations? How much I do you need.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Mammo blasty, Yes, blasty, yes, pen no blessing lavino blasty, Yes,
mammo blasty, adam reduction, Yes what that is?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The Great Zoe Saldana, by the way, known for the
Garden Guardians of the Galaxy movies. But and yes, I
was doing the trump dance during the song to Yeah
were You Off the.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Day we played this, Katie, because we played this earlier
in the week. It's hilarious. It's like it's a It's
like it's a joke.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That I was just gonna say.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That sounds like something I would have heard on Family Guy. Yes,
what sounds exactly like Family Guy. When Seth McFarlane mocks
musicals by just basically, you know, talking.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Through songs about what the what the plot is. I
can't believe that's real.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I know, getting back to the final fatal self decloinement
of Hollywood, that song is impossible to parody. You cannot
do an exaggerated version of its, of its ridiculousness and terribleness.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Big of getting a sex change, do you know what
that means? Yes, it's getting rid of my vagina and
getting a penis. I mean kind of lyrics of those
you give it an Oscar, Yes, second most nominations of
any movie in movie history. In other words, it's one
of the all time great pieces of cinematic art. It's
(25:23):
just a coincidence that at this moment of trans hysteria
this movie has come along, and that's just unbelievable, you know,
Thank God, and this moment of.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Great sympathy for drug cartel bosses as well.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I feel like I went to Hollywood and said I'd
like to I'd like to finally kill your cultural influence,
and Hollywood said, oh, we'll commit suicide.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
If I was at a less busy point of my life,
I would go to that movie and sit through the
whole thing, just for just to talk be able to
talk about it on the radio.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
I will go if I can find it playing anywhere. God,
but I've got to go incognito. I don't want to
be seen in it.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
So I don't know if you know this aspect of
the whole Oscar thing. I didn't in late in life
when I became aware of how Dog eat Dog vying
for the awards it gets leading up to Oscars. They
all take out ads and then try to knife each
other to try to get the votes of the Academy
and everything like that. So that star who is singing
(26:29):
the song there, the trans star, the Amelia Perez star
currently campaigning for an oscar, apologized yesterday after her islamophobic,
anti Asian, and anti black former Twitter posts resurfaced. So
somebody dug up some old stuff they could damage her
with and got it out, and then she had to
apologize yesterday, hoping not to lose the.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Oh darn it, now we got a problem.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Trent singing about a trans person but has islama? Oh
big Twitter posts from the past. Oh, how do I
vote as in an enlightened, woke member of the Academy.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Damn it.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It just keeps getting better and better. That is a
delightful development.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
What would delight to know about it?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
By the way, Zoe Saldana stars as the Girl Boss
lawyer standing up for her transgender cartel crusading feminist transgender boss.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Man, you went too far with your so funny.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, like when the hurt Locker came out in the
midst of our wars and our conversations over wars, and
it had a you know, a fair amount of America
causes as many enemies as as friends you know, at
least it was subtle enough.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
It was a good war movie.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
I mean, you were't hitting me over the head with it.
But during the trend's discussion that's going on in America
right now.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
To come out with this is just too much.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I want this pacifics on what the the nominated newly
minted quote unquote woman said about these various groups, I
don't I don't want my uh. I hate when quotes
are characterized, because then the characterizer is in charge of
you know what I think about them. But the fact
(28:30):
that the leading light, who is probably counting on standing
ovations at the Oscars as tears streamed down their face
for being so brave.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Having this show up yesterday.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yah crap, that's right, I said some bad things about
the Asians.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well, it's it's it's great. The beast is eating itself.
I mean, that's why I'm enjoying it so much.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's it's I went there to kill it and it's
in the midst of self destruction.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Has anybody actually seen this movie? If you have, and
I doubt you have, but if you have, you could
text us at four one, five, two, nine five kftc
uh is that song nominated for Best It's got it.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
They have to have a song nominated for Best Song.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
There's no way you get the most Oscar nominations, second
most ever without best song being in there somewhere.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I don't know, Katie, can you look that up? That'd
be great. But that song is hilarious. I mean I
can't even wrap my head around it.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Give us a little more, Michael Mamo, Prestine, yes, no, Prestie, yes, no,
PSI yes.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
What I take from that song is that wait a minute,
that many surgical interventions are required to make me who
I really am. That does not make sense. Why did
they decide to go with a cartel leader. I can't
imagine asking me to crawl inside their crazy heads.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I don't like it in here.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Were they just trying to bring too many different things together?
It's like the way back. If you remember the Sopranos,
Christoph wanted to be a you know, a movie maker,
and he makes a combine saw with the Godfather too.
It seems kind of like that you're combining whatever, a cartel,
some sort of immigration thing with the tram story and
putting them together.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
All right, well, Jack, the way I interpret it is
that a cartel boss would have to be so brave,
so brave.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
All right. That's that's two.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Shots to embrace their real transgender self in spite of
the pressures given to a put upon them by Mexican
society and their tough guy image. But it's important that
you go ahead and have fifty surgeries if you feel like.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
A girl, yep, standing up to the macho culture. What
do you know about this, Katie?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Now?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I actually pop back in because I need to know
what I need to be looking.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Up whatever for you guys?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Whatever are the Oscar nominated best Songs? Other anything from
this horror show are included.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
A speaking of being Woke, a not surprising development from
the Ebram x Kendy Center for Anti Racist Research. If
you haven't heard this, it's also delicious, Everything's going our
way lately and other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Stay here.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I like to know racious. I see.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Man WOCHUSM has had a rough couple of weeks basically
since Trump got elected and certainly since he got inaugurated.
We'll get into a variety of things that have occurred
around that issue to kick off our three. If you
don't get that, grab the podcast Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And Get You on Demand, Cannot Wait, and in a
related story, follow up on the Oscar Bait transgender drug
cartel movie musical Amelia Perez. Looking at rotten tomatoes, you
want to recognize Oscar bait. Look at the difference between
the critics poll and the audience polled the tomato meter,
which is critics seventy four percent positive. That's that's pretty good.
(31:55):
The popcorn meter actual movie viewers nineteen percent.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
From Renegade Autour, Jacques Audiard comes Amelia for as an
auditious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. I do
like artsy movies, but through liberating songs and dance and
bold visuals. Liberating wasn't the word that came to mind
when we listened to that last song. This odyssey follows
the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing
their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Amelia, and let's Riata,
(32:24):
an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead end job to
help her fake her death so that Amelia can finally
live authentically as her true self.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
There you go. No, I love art movies.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Last Year's Winter I saw on one of my favorite
movies ever, the everything all at once, all the time, whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
You can't get much more ARTI than that movie that
is not a mainstream film.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You got some force, Katie.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Uh yeah, just to let you know if you don't
want to be seen going into her out of the theater.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
This gem is on Netflix. Oh you can watch it
at home. Okay. Oh yeah, that's better. That is good
to know.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah, I'll be sure to draw my drape. This story
is getting a lot of attention. We haven't commented on
it yet.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
The President today also moving to create a migrant facility
at Guantanamo that can hold thirty thousand.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
This is not the camps.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You're not putting criminals in camps where isis and other
criminals there's This is a temporary transit to humanely move
illegals out of our country.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
The president's memo says the space at Guantanamo US Naval
base should go to high priority criminal aliens. DHS Secretary
Christy Nome described it as a site for the worst
of the worst. The Cuban president criticized this decision, calling
it an act of brutality in an illegally occupied territory.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Shut up, you COMI so so obviously it was an
opportunity for mainstream media, who's completely out of touch with
Americans feelings on this topic. I'll say, for the one
thousandth time, eighty five percent of Americans want criminal illegals
booted out. Anyway, the media pretending and now we're treating
(34:04):
them like terrorists by putting them in Getmo. Well, you
gotta put them somewhere until we can get them to
their own countries.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It's a spit of land, all right, it's a place.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Ian Bremer, who I think was trying to make a
point with this, tweeted out some reiters numbers cost of
a one way first class ticket on American airlines from
Texas to Guatemala around eight hundred bucks. Cost to fly
the same migrant on military deportation flights almost five thousand
dollars per Well, the problem would be, I don't think
(34:39):
you can take known child rapists and put them on
a United flight with a ticket and uh and and
just send them to wherever they're going and say sorry
passengers for making you sit next to a known child rapist.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Well, at the very least make them fly coach right, Yeah,
that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Well, how come I got it stand in line for
the regular time bathroom and child rapist up there, it
gets the first class bathroom.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
It doesn't seem right anyway.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I was gonna say any sort of they're treating them
like terrorists. They're bringing them to the same place as
al kinda is the analysis of idiots. And we don't
have time for you people anymore. I just wanted to
subject to the scrutiny that all government actions should be.
Is this the best most cost effective solution?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
If it's just grand standing, then it's dumb, And it
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
It makes sense.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
And the fact that you know you're gonna have to
break some eggs to make this omelet in all kinds
of different ways, expense or people getting caught up who
don't deserve it, or all kinds of different things.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah, we laid the groundwork for a really big mess
to clean up.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
And you either clean up the mess you don't.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
But if you clean up this mess, and it is
a mess, there's gonna be a lot of unfortunate things happen.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Shouldn't allowed it in the first place. Is the whole thing.
If you create a disaster. It's going to be disastrous.
It's not a difficult concept to grasp. We'll try to
make it as non disastrous as possible, but it's gonna
be nasty.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
We've got some good stuff to kick off our three
Bad News from Ibram x Kendy which I hate to
see that happen, but I hope you can catch our three.
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