August 5, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Resetting the algorithm, Joe starts a religion & public libraries
- Flying cars!
- The Russia collusion story
- The ladies of the left!
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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 Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
YouTube will start guessing your age based on the types
of videos the user searches for and the categories of
videos they watch. For example, I watch restorations of World
War One, cigarette lighters and videos about knee pain. And
that's why YouTube correctly guessed my age of two hundred
and forty five.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
So, honest to God, there needs to be some sort
of algorithm reset button that you can do, right, I
shouldn't be afraid to search on things and think I'd
like to look that up, but then I'll end up
with nothing but that for the next six months.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So I look up some things, like I had a.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Brief like week where I enjoyed those videos where they
have babies, like they have the audio from Trump, but
it's a baby Trump or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I enjoyed that for a couple of days.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
But you know, Instagram or YouTube or whoever thought, well,
this is the only thing he likes in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
He likes it better than air, and so that's the
only thing I get fed how do you turn that off? Yeah,
just give it time.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I remember I needed to look up something about the
oj trild, then endless ojay videos.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I got what I need. I don't need.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I don't need to oja videos when I wake up
in the morning and click on YouTube. I don't need
fifteen different Oja videos. Attack is going in the opposite direction.
They are utterly convinced, knowing you everything about I agree,
but they're but you need But surely, but surely they
realize they're wrong about this.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So there's got to be a way to fix that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't know how they would differentiate between things that
actually are your passion, because you can send me pretty
much endless I don't know guitar stuff, but oh Jay,
the talking babies, or you know, I look up a
review of a bicycle, then I buy the bicycle.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't need any more bicycle videos for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Right, There's got to be a way to believe to
clear out your algorithms. It'd be cool if you could
go to a page and it lists all of your
things that it thinks you're into, and you could click
the boxes and say, I am into these, I'm not
into these anymore, or score.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It one to five. You know, yeah, yeah, they'll probably
get that right at some point. But again, the trend
is toward more knowledge of you, which will be hacked
by the way, and more intimate and human like companionship
like it's your best friend, to which I say no, no,
thank you and you always say there's no stopping it.
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I'm not worried about society. I'm worried about me and
the people I care about. That you do not have
to go along with what Silicon Valley thinks your life
to be, Like I start a religion.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's not going to be much of a religion.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But I'm going to start a religion our only principle,
and you can have your other religion too.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Is going to be sink for yourself. Don't just buy.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
What they're selling, Joe starting a religion is Missianic complex
finally gets on the air, like, and I will be
permitted to have at least a dozen wives in this religion.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Just of course, go put the territory.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I clicked on one of the Sydney Sweeney videos for
the blue Jean thing for the show. But now Instagram thinks, oh,
you're one of those guys that likes to look at
young hotties.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'm not, and I don't need endless young hot women.
That's the last thing I need. I know where to
find that on the internet if I want to.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Look for it. Good lord.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, so we all need to take turns watching the
hen house.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
There are foxes watching the henhouses.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Of education, we've figured that out and indoctrinating our children
and a couple of generations have been completely screwed up.
Now we have a lot of good folks getting on
school boards resisting these perverse state laws and board of
education decisions, stuff like that. Keep it up, y'all, you're
doing great. Got to get on those school boards and
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become part of your local education scene so the communists
don't control.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
All of it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Libraries are the same thing. And I remember hearing this
a long time ago. Somebody was talking to us. It
might have been in a conversation with James Lindsay or
one of his associates, talking about how, by far the
most liberal parts of the American scene are teachers' colleges,
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the education, education, and libraries. I remember seeing a poll
that like the library science departments in universities are the
most liberal or progressive or Marxists. And I remember thinking
at the time, boy, that's weird and it doesn't matter really,
I mean library science.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
How many graduates are there in that.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Well, if they decide what books go in the library,
it's a pretty big deal, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I was an idiot, an idiot for what I thought,
and I kick myself daily for it. A couple of
stories for you real quickly.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
The Philadelphia Public libraries have hosted and are going to
host another one this weekend anti Israel storytime events to
teach children that Israel senselessly murdered thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of kids in Gaza. That's a quote, depict.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
A map in which Israel is entirely replaced with Palestine,
and create art projects for the little kids to do
promoting the Palestinian liberation movement in the public library, in
the public libraries in Philadelphia, that's correct. That's why the libraries,
isn't it the Philadelphia Public Library. That's where Rocky climbs
to the top of the steps and jumps around, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, you'd have.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Gotten beaten down by a bunch of young women in
a kafia these days. One of the storytime events on
the website features and advertisement alongside of a child wearing
a headscarf that features an image of the Dome of
the Rock in the Arabic phrase Jerusalem, we are coming,
a slogan Hamas and Hesbula used to call for the
destruction of the Jewish state. The library advertised the event
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again for I think this Saturday, as for as being
for children of all ages.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I gave up on the library quite a few years ago,
my local library because it became a homeless camp. That
was my main thing. It wasn't what books they had
in there, just there. It was just full of homeless
people in the bathroom and I would never take my
kids there. Dad, Can I go to the bathroom now?
Too dangerous at my public library?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh man, I could read you more of what they're
trying to teach the children about the Israeli Hamas conflict,
but it is unfreaking believable. So, getting to Jack's point,
I thought this was so interesting. Zach Bissonett wrote this
piece for the Free Press, the death of the public library.
And it's not because people are reading less or because
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of the Internet or.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Anything like that. It's because of the bums and junkies
all over the country. Sure, And he.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Describes his local library and how it's unusable now.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Sure, and if you take little kids.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I'm talking about the big in Sacramento, their downtown library.
I haven't been there in decades. I used to go
every week. I was there every week checking out audiobooks
or books or whatever. But no way, unless it's changed recently,
and I doubt it has. I would take kids there
right right. Well, and there's a twist to the story
coming up in a second. But he hits some stats
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over the country. All over the country, libraries are seeing
fewer visitors and more problems per resident.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Visits to public libraries fell.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
By fifty seven percent in the ten years ending in
twenty twenty two. I don't know, does anybody else have
cherished memories of going to the libraries kid, bringing Ti kates.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To the library my mom.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I'd go with my mom in our town, and I
just assumed I'd be taking my kids a lot, but nope.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Absolutely loved our local library as a kid. It was
like the world's greatest toy store for me. All these
wonderful books.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So fifty seven percent decline in ten years. Meanwhile, a
report from the Urban Libraries Council found that between twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty three, security incidents rose that it's
one hundred and fifteen member libraries, even as visits fell
another thirty five percent. Not a coincidence that visits are
up incidents are down. It's all about drug addicts, junkies, freaks, weirdos,
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et cetera, using the library as a whome.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So here's the twist, as Zach Wright.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
If there are two people who represent competing visions for
what library should be, they're librarian trainers Ryan Dowd and
Steve Albrecht. They're friends, but their approaches are different. Dowd,
who won ran a homeless shelter in Aurora, Illinois, is
the author of the book quote The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness,
an empathy driven approach to solving problems, preventing conflict, and
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serving everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Where in the charter of libraries did it have anything
to do with solving housing problems?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
He told me he originally wanted to title the book
how to Run Your Library Like a Homeless Shelter. When
I asked if he was joking, he said he wasn't.
At least he wasn't sure he was. He has given
seminars for roughly half of the nation's librarians, including most
of the largest systems, and his influence is unquestioned. He
is a giant in the world of library administration.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
So my guests would be he believes the downtrodden need
access to this free service. Those of us who have
jobs we can afford to buy books or CDs, well,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Not even about the books.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's about it's a place for bumps and junkies to
hang out, eat in the.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Sink, look at porn on the computers.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And again, keep in mind, this guy is like a
super heavyweight in American library nuts. His essential belief is
that not only do the homeless have every right to
spend their days in libraries, but that librarians should view
their needs as a critical part of the job. He
believes librarians should be trained to dispense narcan. One of
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his seminars is called Jerks with Holmes, How to deal
with members of the public who are being jerks about
homeless folks.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
See, that's a.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Guy who believes that he's not just a Marxist who
wants to disrupt the system.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He clearly believes that the system did something.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
To cause these people to be this way, and it's
our job to at the library help them.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I guess you're gonna think I made this up.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
His scripts for addressing problematic behaviors include examples like in
his seminars, Hey, I don't care if you YearIn eight
on the Harry Potter books, but the politicians have a
no year orinating policy.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Therefore I have to ask you to stop wow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Dowd advocates for inclusion, even when it comes it seems
to come at the expense of the library's environment. In
Dowd's books, some people who complain about the homeless are
everyday sadists. As for the body odor that permeates so
many public libraries, he writes the quote, there is a
certain amount of odor that we can expect when we
go out in public. Other people use odor as an
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excuse to vent their prejudices. Don't let someone's hyper sensitivity
or bias rule the day.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
If the smell isn't really that bad, yeah, an aggressive scent.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
That's the lecture I got at the city council meeting
I went to years ago to complain about the homeless situation,
and everybody clicked their fingers.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Katie. That was long before you're on the show.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I went to the city council meeting and was complained
about the homeless situation, and somebody accused me of judging
people by the way they look, you know, having preconceived
views of somebody just because they're dirty and in.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Rags streaming at a fire hydrant.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And this woman actually used example of I was trying
to part next to a businessman the other day and
he yelled at me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So you'd never know.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You can't tell by looking at people who's mean and
who's dangerous. Note and then everybody can click their fingers.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You're fing stupid. So I mention I mentioned two people
at the outset. I like that clip.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Michael, the other fella albract I mentioned, is a former
San Diego cop who's done library security training for twenty
five years. He advises librarians to quote stop apologizing for
measures designed to make their libraries safe and appealing. Some
topics he covers in his webinar program include our list
of challenging patrons from pets to pedophiles, and issues enforcing
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our code of contact conduct. He said, quote, we are
losing control of a facility that has always been benevolent
and peaceful for the community.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Have lost, I think would be a better term.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I don't know about his library, but libraries i'm aware
of have lost, not will lose.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
As I said at the outset, the only option I
think for us, the saying, is we've got to take
shifts watching these We've got to get on boards, we've
got to become activists on this stuff, because the other side,
quietly and we didn't even know they're doing it, has
utterly taken hold of some of these institutions.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I don't mind a few YearIn eate on the Harry
Potter book, but society frowns upon it. So I'm supposed
to tell you something.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yes, I've introduced underage gay porn into this library, but
you're a fascist for trying to get it out.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, not anymore. Friends. Thank god flying cars are here.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
According to Voltzwagen, we'll get to that story among other
things coming up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Last week, the world's oldest baby was born from a
human embryo that was frozen in the nineteen nineties, which
is why when the baby came out and said, what.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a good joke.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
So if you're of a certain age, you've been promised
flying cars since you were a child.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I know I have. Volkswagen announced their flying car today
and put out a video which I watched.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I wonder if I gotta believe drone technology had something
to do with this, because it looks like a very
large drone. It's got four tiny helicopter spinning things out
on the corners, like you know the drone you buy
at Best Buy, and then it's got a little fan
one on the back that makes you go forward, so
the FOD drone things lift you up and then the
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thing go makes you go forward. And the video looks
pretty darn cool. It can go up to one hundred
and twenty miles an hour. It's electric, so it'd be
quiet and you can go an hour on a charge
on hundred and twenty miles an hour. The biggest well,
there's a couple of things with this. It's Volkswagen China.
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What Yeah, Volkswagen China. It says on the wings and
big letters Volkswagen China, Like you can't read the logo
on the thing without seeing China. And it is going
to be be released in China, and according to Volkswagen China,
the four seeded vehicle will become the hot thing for
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the urban Elite Chinese customers. It costs about three hundred
thousand dollars, so it's an expensive vehicle. Urban Elite will
be traveling between Chinese megacity clusters for business and leisures
very soon. In the first phase of its commercial use,
it's likely to be pitched as a premium product for
high net worth individuals, like everything is, whether it's short
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screen TVs or satellite dishes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And then we learned a few months ago air conditioning.
A lot of innovative products have to start with the
super rich. Then they get less and less expensive and
mass produced.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, I could see this.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
We're headed towards the world in which everyone will be
able to operate aircraft even without a pilot's license, says
the guy that runs Volkswagen China.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Uh, point of order.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Mister Chinese German German Chinese guy.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They got pilot's licenses for a reason.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, I jumped in my cyber truck today, press pressed
the work button and the truck drove me to work.
I didn't really do anything, And that's the way the
that's the way these things are gonna be. You'll press
going to Beijing for my meeting, and you'll press a
button and it'll lift you up and fly you there,
so you don't really need to be a pilot. I
don't see how this would ever work in the United
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States of America because I just don't understand how you
would have like lanes and heights, and I don't know
how you'd manage the traffic if you got very many
of these, if you had two rich people in each.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Town and they coordinated, you might be able to do it. No,
they'd have a head on collision day three.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But if you got hundreds of them in your neighborhood
and get But in China, an authoritarian state where the
government will decide who gets them and everything, I could
see it maybe working there. And that's gonna they're gonna
lord that over. It's because it's gonna look like a
better system, like they're more advanced when everybody's doing this.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Weren't you a militant extremist anti self driving car guy
like two years ago?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Okay, until I used it and thought this is pretty cool. Oh,
we got a lot more on the way. If you
miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Half the country and one entire political party has an
article of faith that Russia stole the twenty sixteen election. Now,
how did they come to that conclusion. They came to
that conclusion because high ranking Democrats, many of whom had
intelligence titles that were bestowed upon them in the Obama administration,
spent a lot of time and effort making an entire
political party believe that if you went to a Democratic
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fundraising dinner or political dinner tonight and got asked the question,
did Russia steal the election and you said no, you'd
be boot off the stage. One party and half the
country believes an election was stolen and that did not
happen by accident.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And the election wasn't stolen. That's Scott Jennings on CNN yesterday.
So here's I wasn't gonna talk about this, but here's
something you got to watch out for because this keeps
happening over the last couple of weeks. So may I'll
do it this way. I'll read from the Washington Post today.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury investigation
into allegations made that Obama administration officials broke federal laws
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while investigating Russia's involvement in the twenty sixteen election. According
to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity, so this is another one of
those somebody leaking out of the Justice Department that I
think are leaking against Republicans.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They want to get this out there, which is a
problem the Justice.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Back to the Washington Post, the Justice Department declined to
comment on the investigation, and it remained unclear whether prosecutors
had settled on specific targets or crimes they believed occurred. Still,
the development marked a significant escalation in the Justice Department's
push to re litigate one of Donald Trump's long standing grievances.
And this is all around the stuff that's come out
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recently Pambody claiming that she's got plenty of evidence to
show that the initial reports were there's nothing to see here,
and Barack Obama directed himself come up with a different
report and claim there is something to see here, which
gets to what Scott Jennings said there with all the
Democrats running around claiming Trump's entire first term that the
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Russians stole the election. In half the country believes that.
And then when you get into these arguments all the time,
you'll have people like me, you, or other people that
lean in this direction saying there's no evidence Russia stold
the election. And then the other side will say, there's
mounds of evidence that Russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election.
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Mounds of evidence. Okay, now see we're talking past each other.
Russia did interfere in the election. There are mounds of
evidence that show that there is not any evidence that
they specifically were trying to get Trump elected and had
an effect.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That's what. There's not any evidence.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, and honestly, their efforts to mess with the election
in a general way were ineffectual.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Intonic illy, right. But so the left gets away with
saying that's a lie. The Russians did interfere in the election. Yes,
they interfere in all the elections. We interfere in a
lot of elections. But they didn't have any success. They
ran some Facebook ads and they're just trying to make
things miserable for Hillary, who they thought was going to win.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's it. So you got that.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
As to whether or not this amounts too much, well,
first of all, here's a Greg Jarrett on Hannity last night.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Tommy Clapper and Brennan would probably invoke the fifth in
front of a grand jury, but the people below hit
them might do deals. And I think there are a
cavalcade of whistleblowers willing to come forward.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I've heard the pushback that with the statute of limitations,
it's unlikely anybody's going to be charged with a crime
or anything like that. Mark Hauprin's analysis in his newsletter
today was that isn't necessarily the point Brennan would be
wise to spend less time on MSNBC and more time
rehearsing a grand jury appearance with this council.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
There ain't no statue of limitations on.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Perjury, right, Yeah, that's that's an excellent point on the
actual activities that we need to have a name, a
quick nickname for Clapper Brennan and call me CBC guys
or something like that to name traders.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
There you go perfect in terms of a lot of
what they did.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The problem with going after him h criminally is they
can say no, I really believe that that Trump was
in league with the Russians. Turns out I misinterpreted the
intelligence and that is plenty of plausible, the plausible deniability.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I'm a criminal proceeding, but I'd be happy if they
said that. At least then I would talk down say so,
quit going around, say it out loud, have it be
a giant news story. So the half of the country
that still thinks Russia's Russia's told the election for Donald
Trump will be, you know, talked down from that.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But I was gonna say a couple of instances of
absolutely clear lying under oath though that that could be something. Well,
it'll take a hell of a lot of time and money,
and those guys will get crazy lawyered up, but it's
worth at least asking the question. I think we, you know,
to get back to first principles. You can't have your
intelligent spooks fixing or attempting to fix our elections, our
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own elections, no matter how much they hate one of
the candidates.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Do you think maybe.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That's true that they were so convinced Donald Trump couldn't
win an election he had to be working with the Russians.
Can they just convince themselves of that no.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I think in the beginning they might have plausibly believed
that Trump had ties to Russia that were unsavory for
a potential president, and I could leave. Maybe they were
misguided over enthusiastic, started to blur the lines of what's
right and what's wrong. But then that news came out
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about Hillary talking to the Democratic heavyweights and obamaall talking about, Hey,
we're going to go after Trump for being tied to Russia.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So you know, any help you can give would be great. Yes,
And they may have violated campaign finance laws with that
by labeling it as a different cost than it actually
was because it was part of it was part of
the campaign.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Right, so you know, was it the chicken was at
the egg? Who motivated home? What was the origin? Where
was the energy behind it? All of that stuff is
nearly impossible to prove, but it stinks to high heaven.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I had a really good point to make about that
while you're talking.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And the whole steel tassier, which everybody knew from the
moment one was fake, but were like, hey, no.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
You put it back in. That's what I was going
to say.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I'm arguing against myself here with my idea that maybe
they actually convinced themselves that they had to be working
with Russia. Yeah, but they knew the Steele dossier was fake.
They knew that, right, So that argues against my original.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, only if they're thinking, yeah, throw everything in, including
the kitchen sink, we gotta bring this guy down.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
It's a really bad thing that happened. And I don't
know if there's any way too, because you don't want
to that happen in either direction. I don't know if
there's any way to like put the fear of God
in the intelligence communities that they wouldn't do this again.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Well, and if you are tempted to.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Even give them the slightest benefit of the doubt, you
gotta look at the Hunter Biden laptop thing. Oh yeah,
or fifty one to fifty two of them, same people
signed on even though the FBI knew right the laptop
was authentic when they published that letter said all of
this has all the all marks of a Russian information.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Why would you say that? Because you are willing to
lie to try to stop Trump from being president?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That's why. Yeah, some on the scale, that's right. Oh,
you know, and.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Bill Clinton had it nailed the night of the election.
That's one of my favorite parts of whichever book that
was in. As the results were coming in and the
hotel suite, they were watching the election results coming in,
and Hillary was going to lose, and she had that
giant glass stadium built for her to come out and
give her acceptance speech of having broken the biggest class
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ceiling of all time.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Blah blah blah. Katy Perry was crying, Share was crying.
We all remember it was I yes, yes, yes, I.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Regularly describe it and stand by it as the greatest
night of my life.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I've never been happier than that night ever in my life.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Bill Clinton said in that hotel suite, according to various publications,
I guess Brexit was real. He understood there was a
big change that was going on and democracies in Western
culture where you know, the establishment was being thrown. He
didn't say in that hotel suite, my god, the Russians
hacked into our election system. He understood the politics of
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the day and that you know, this could happen and
did happen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But that's not the way it was treated for four years.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I just I don't think any dishonest. I don't think
anybody is ever going to pay a price for this.
I really don't. No, I'm just trying to be practical. Again,
it stinks to high heaven and it needs to be
called out. But like the idea of one of these
guys being clapped in the shackles, I just don't see
it happening. Even if they were to like go after
a Brennan for perjury.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
He pleaded out.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I mean, yeah, that's that's not a reason not to
talk about it. And again brought this up last week
National Review was talking about this, these things can be
settled politically.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
In fact, they were.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
There was enough of a backlash against the Hunter Biden
laptop thing and a whole bunch of other stuff that
Trump got elected again. That's the result. That's part of
the result. That your that's your penalty, Democrats. You overplayed
your hand, and enough people were pissed off about it
or don't believe you anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
That Trump got elected again.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So coming up next segment, we're going to stay a
little political. It's shades of Playboys, Girls of the Big
ten back in the day. It's ladies of the Left
featuring the sexy AOC and Jasmine Crocket.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't know if I know Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Oh you do. You just don't know her by name,
but you know her. Okay, I need to talk about
my sailing lessons. Well, i's not going to talk about later.
Oh luxury bean bag chairs, which would become a thing
I might get one.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Why are you making that fish? That's your street bean
bag chairs, that's your WTF face?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is that like saying luxury red solo cups? I mean no, no,
you you're so wrong. A lot on the way, stay here, please.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Blind bad built bush body in a moment.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Of panic, was trying to escape a vestibule. Was the
Ladies of the Left, featuring Jasmine Crockett and AOC.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh girl, baby girl.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Having to come across a couple of stories about these
two fine ladies, and I figured I'd group them together.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Maybe they'll accidentally kiss. So, Katy, what do you have?
That face?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That was?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I expect more out of Joel. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That was just an attempt to provoke Michael to play
more cliffs.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Don't expect yeah, don't yeah, yeah, you're you're setting yourself
up for disappointment anyway. So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
First of all, AOC's longtime boy friend companion fiance, she
is married.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Can you run for president as a single person? I
suppose you can.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Well, that's that's the problem here. He is her spouse
when it comes to accepting freebies that the legally married
spouses of congress people are allowed to, whether it's paid
for travel or companion tickets or whatever. And she and
her lawyers have made it clear that since they've been
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together a long time and are engaged, even though she
hasn't had her engagement ring on in public.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Sys November of twenty three.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Anyway, if it comes to getting stuff, he is her spouse.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And deserves it.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But the only drawback to being a congressional spouse is
you have to disclose one sources of income and financial holdings.
But her same lawyers argue that mister Roberts is not
subject to those because he is not considered a spouse.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You can't have both.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I'm okay, if you get the perks of being a
spouse just because you don't have the paper, it doesn't
bother me. But you can't then do the other side
where you don't want to do any disclosures.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Right, so it's utterly unclear whether the guy is another
Paul Pelosi stock genius using the information provided by his
saxy girlfriend or not.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But one way or the other, sweetheart, you don't get
it both ways.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Let's move along to Jasmine Crockett. This is the one
I was really looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Give me some crocket leash, blind bad built. Butsch body,
Oh that was her.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, yeah, that's a very very short version of that, Cliff,
I should have done more.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Give me, give me forty eight.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
They understand the importance of standing for what democracy is
and making sure that it does not fall by the wayside.
They understand that we have a Timu Hitler and the
White House right now that thinks that he is going
to become the dictator of the United States.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Okay, everybody's trying to figure out, what's a Timu Hitler?
What is that? What is that? Like a cut rate Hitler? Katie?
Is that right? Knockoffs? So it's a knockoff?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Okay, So it's like a fake coach purse Hitler.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Okay, exactly, Yeah, super in China, that kind of thing. Yeah, Hitler.
So if you hear a really.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Like mouthy, sarcastic now you listen here out of the
US Congress, it's probably Jasmine Cross And I.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Was just yesterday she was talking about the whole Texas
redistricting thing.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Have a TMU Hitler.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, So anyway, it's pretty ja Jasmine Crockett, who the
left loves because she's loud and obnoxious. She's a hero
on MSNBC as the free Beacon rights. She has no
real accomplishments to speak of, apart from some meaningless awards,
uh for like being named Advocate of the Year at
the Webby Awards for a commitment to social justice.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I understand. I don't like that this is where we are.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
But the people that understand where we are, I don't
see how you can really knock them.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
This is where we are.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
This is the way it works now, Marjorie daylor Green,
Trump himself, you get attention, you get on Fox News,
you get on MSNBC. Nobody cares if you legislate anymore.
This is not the government we've decided we want for
some reason.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Well, yeah, everyone like that. You're ruining the fund, but
that's your trademark. But anyway, moving along.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Crockett is also the star of numerous YouTube videos with
claps back in the title.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Whether she's denouncing Hispanic Trump voters for having a slave
mentality or deriding the white tears of her.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Critic, she knows how to get attention. No, I think
that's really interesting. The people that have understood, who've grasped
the moment we're in and playing their cards so well,
I think that's really clever.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
So here's how bad it is. Though.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
On Sunday, the Atlantic published a big profile of her
and alas, Wow, how about that. I mean, this will
ruin our country, the fact that you get a profile
for playing the game of getting attention.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Well wait, though, there's much more to this.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
So on Sunday, the Atlantic publishing an article that might
have accomplished the goal of burnishing a reputation glowing for file.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Blah blah blah. Alas, even the.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Liberal journalists were repulsed by her toxic narcissism.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Wow. As a sign of.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
How poorly it went, the congressman called the Atlantic reporter
who wrote this, Elaine Godfrey, days before the story came
out to complain that the journalist had been contacting her
colleagues in the House for comments quote without telling her
first and she proclaimed that she was quote shutting down
the profile and revoking all permissions, which isn't a thing.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You revoke my permission.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
So the article portrays Crockett is a self infatuated wannabe
influencer who quote monitors social media engagement like a day
Trader checks or Portfolio's braggs.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yes, it's interesting that those qualities seem to go together,
because all of them that are have figured out influencer
is the coin of the realm. Now they all seem
like narcissist weirdos.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, and I guess the Atlantic, or at least this
reporter's old school enough that she she hammers her for
it to a pretty good extent. Good make sure, let's
see she brags about having the largest social media following
on the House Oversight Committee, which you know, come on,
Who's House Oversight Committee?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Plus social media? Please fireworks?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Let's see made sure to notify the reporter that her
YouTube brands about ice agents being out of control was
approaching eight hundred thousand views.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
To your point earlier, how much.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
More important is the number of followers you have versus
your years in Congress or whatever?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Utterly meaningless.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
During many of our conversations, writes the journalists, Crockett where
acrylic nails painted with the word resist and set instead
of heavy lashes over her brown eyes, which Marjorie Taylor
Green comment around.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
The lock screen on.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Her phone is a headshot of herself, and she goes
into how unpleasant she is to work with and how
she screamed at a staffer in the middle of an interview.
Blah blah blah. But here's my favorite part. We barely
have any time. At one point, Crockett appears to invent
an origin story out of thin air, much like Kamala
Harris at McDonald's. She recalls working for a black female
attorney after she and other students at Rhodes College in
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Memphis received in anonymous letters containing racist threats. The attorney
became Crockett's hero, inspired her to attend law school herself.
When I asked for the name of the hero so
I could interviewerr Crockett told me she did not remember.
The reporter's subsequent efforts to track down the inspirational figure
were unsuccessful.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
She doesn't appear to exist.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Your lock screen photo is a headshot of yourself.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Is an interesting bank 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 Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
YouTube will start guessing your age based on the types
of videos the user searches for and the categories of
videos they watch. For example, I watch restorations of World
War One, cigarette lighters and videos about knee pain. And
that's why YouTube correctly guessed my age of two hundred
and forty five.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
So, honest to God, there needs to be some sort
of algorithm reset button that you can do, right, I
shouldn't be afraid to search on things and think I'd
like to look that up, but then I'll end up
with nothing but that for the next six months.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
So I look up some things, like I had a.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Brief like week where I enjoyed those videos where they
have babies, like they have the audio from Trump, but
it's a baby Trump or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I enjoyed that for a couple of days.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
But you know, Instagram or YouTube or whoever thought, well,
this is the only thing he likes in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
He likes it better than air, and so that's the
only thing I get fed how do you turn that off? Yeah,
just give it time.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I remember I needed to look up something about the
oj trild, then endless ojay videos.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I got what I need. I don't need.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I don't need to oja videos when I wake up
in the morning and click on YouTube. I don't need
fifteen different Oja videos. Attack is going in the opposite direction.
They are utterly convinced, knowing you everything about I agree,
but they're but you need But surely, but surely they
realize they're wrong about this.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So there's got to be a way to fix that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I don't know how they would differentiate between things that
actually are your passion, because you can send me pretty
much endless I don't know guitar stuff, but oh Jay,
the talking babies, or you know, I look up a
review of a bicycle, then I buy the bicycle.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't need any more bicycle videos for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Right, There's got to be a way to believe to
clear out your algorithms. It'd be cool if you could
go to a page and it lists all of your
things that it thinks you're into, and you could click
the boxes and say, I am into these, I'm not
into these anymore, or score.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It one to five. You know, yeah, yeah, they'll probably
get that right at some point. But again, the trend
is toward more knowledge of you, which will be hacked
by the way, and more intimate and human like companionship
like it's your best friend, to which I say no, no,
thank you and you always say there's no stopping it.
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I'm not worried about society. I'm worried about me and
the people I care about. That you do not have
to go along with what Silicon Valley thinks your life
to be, Like I start a religion.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's not going to be much of a religion.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But I'm going to start a religion our only principle,
and you can have your other religion too.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Is going to be sink for yourself. Don't just buy.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
What they're selling, Joe starting a religion is Missianic complex
finally gets on the air, like, and I will be
permitted to have at least a dozen wives in this religion.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Just of course, go put the territory.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I clicked on one of the Sydney Sweeney videos for
the blue Jean thing for the show. But now Instagram thinks, oh,
you're one of those guys that likes to look at
young hotties.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'm not, and I don't need endless young hot women.
That's the last thing I need. I know where to
find that on the internet if I want to.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Look for it. Good lord.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, so we all need to take turns watching the
hen house.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
There are foxes watching the henhouses.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Of education, we've figured that out and indoctrinating our children
and a couple of generations have been completely screwed up.
Now we have a lot of good folks getting on
school boards resisting these perverse state laws and board of
education decisions, stuff like that. Keep it up, y'all, you're
doing great. Got to get on those school boards and
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become part of your local education scene so the communists
don't control.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
All of it.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Libraries are the same thing. And I remember hearing this
a long time ago. Somebody was talking to us. It
might have been in a conversation with James Lindsay or
one of his associates, talking about how, by far the
most liberal parts of the American scene are teachers' colleges,
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the education, education, and libraries. I remember seeing a poll
that like the library science departments in universities are the
most liberal or progressive or Marxists. And I remember thinking
at the time, boy, that's weird and it doesn't matter really,
I mean library science.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
How many graduates are there in that.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Well, if they decide what books go in the library,
it's a pretty big deal, exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I was an idiot, an idiot for what I thought,
and I kick myself daily for it. A couple of
stories for you real quickly.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
The Philadelphia Public libraries have hosted and are going to
host another one this weekend anti Israel storytime events to
teach children that Israel senselessly murdered thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Of kids in Gaza. That's a quote, depict.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
A map in which Israel is entirely replaced with Palestine,
and create art projects for the little kids to do
promoting the Palestinian liberation movement in the public library, in
the public libraries in Philadelphia, that's correct. That's why the libraries,
isn't it the Philadelphia Public Library. That's where Rocky climbs
to the top of the steps and jumps around, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, you'd have.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Gotten beaten down by a bunch of young women in
a kafia these days. One of the storytime events on
the website features and advertisement alongside of a child wearing
a headscarf that features an image of the Dome of
the Rock in the Arabic phrase Jerusalem, we are coming,
a slogan Hamas and Hesbula used to call for the
destruction of the Jewish state. The library advertised the event
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again for I think this Saturday, as for as being
for children of all ages.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I gave up on the library quite a few years ago,
my local library because it became a homeless camp. That
was my main thing. It wasn't what books they had
in there, just there. It was just full of homeless
people in the bathroom and I would never take my
kids there. Dad, Can I go to the bathroom now?
Too dangerous at my public library?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh man, I could read you more of what they're
trying to teach the children about the Israeli Hamas conflict,
but it is unfreaking believable. So, getting to Jack's point,
I thought this was so interesting. Zach Bissonett wrote this
piece for the Free Press, the death of the public library.
And it's not because people are reading less or because
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of the Internet or.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Anything like that. It's because of the bums and junkies
all over the country. Sure, And he.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Describes his local library and how it's unusable now.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Sure, and if you take little kids.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I'm talking about the big in Sacramento, their downtown library.
I haven't been there in decades. I used to go
every week. I was there every week checking out audiobooks
or books or whatever. But no way, unless it's changed recently,
and I doubt it has. I would take kids there
right right. Well, and there's a twist to the story
coming up in a second. But he hits some stats
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over the country. All over the country, libraries are seeing
fewer visitors and more problems per resident.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Visits to public libraries fell.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
By fifty seven percent in the ten years ending in
twenty twenty two. I don't know, does anybody else have
cherished memories of going to the libraries kid, bringing Ti kates.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
To the library my mom.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I'd go with my mom in our town, and I
just assumed I'd be taking my kids a lot, but nope.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Absolutely loved our local library as a kid. It was
like the world's greatest toy store for me. All these
wonderful books.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So fifty seven percent decline in ten years. Meanwhile, a
report from the Urban Libraries Council found that between twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty three, security incidents rose that it's
one hundred and fifteen member libraries, even as visits fell
another thirty five percent. Not a coincidence that visits are
up incidents are down. It's all about drug addicts, junkies, freaks, weirdos,
(08:41):
et cetera, using the library as a whome.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
So here's the twist, as Zach Wright.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
If there are two people who represent competing visions for
what library should be, they're librarian trainers Ryan Dowd and
Steve Albrecht. They're friends, but their approaches are different. Dowd,
who won ran a homeless shelter in Aurora, Illinois, is
the author of the book quote The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness,
an empathy driven approach to solving problems, preventing conflict, and
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serving everyone.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Where in the charter of libraries did it have anything
to do with solving housing problems?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
He told me he originally wanted to title the book
how to Run Your Library Like a Homeless Shelter. When
I asked if he was joking, he said he wasn't.
At least he wasn't sure he was. He has given
seminars for roughly half of the nation's librarians, including most
of the largest systems, and his influence is unquestioned. He
is a giant in the world of library administration.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
So my guests would be he believes the downtrodden need
access to this free service. Those of us who have
jobs we can afford to buy books or CDs, well,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Not even about the books.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's about it's a place for bumps and junkies to
hang out, eat in the.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Sink, look at porn on the computers.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And again, keep in mind, this guy is like a
super heavyweight in American library nuts. His essential belief is
that not only do the homeless have every right to
spend their days in libraries, but that librarians should view
their needs as a critical part of the job. He
believes librarians should be trained to dispense narcan. One of
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his seminars is called Jerks with Holmes, How to deal
with members of the public who are being jerks about
homeless folks.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
See, that's a.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Guy who believes that he's not just a Marxist who
wants to disrupt the system.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He clearly believes that the system did something.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
To cause these people to be this way, and it's
our job to at the library help them.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I guess you're gonna think I made this up.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
His scripts for addressing problematic behaviors include examples like in
his seminars, Hey, I don't care if you YearIn eight
on the Harry Potter books, but the politicians have a
no year orinating policy.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Therefore I have to ask you to stop wow.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Dowd advocates for inclusion, even when it comes it seems
to come at the expense of the library's environment. In
Dowd's books, some people who complain about the homeless are
everyday sadists. As for the body odor that permeates so
many public libraries, he writes the quote, there is a
certain amount of odor that we can expect when we
go out in public. Other people use odor as an
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excuse to vent their prejudices. Don't let someone's hyper sensitivity
or bias rule the day.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
If the smell isn't really that bad, yeah, an aggressive scent.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
That's the lecture I got at the city council meeting
I went to years ago to complain about the homeless situation,
and everybody clicked their fingers.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Katie. That was long before you're on the show.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I went to the city council meeting and was complained
about the homeless situation, and somebody accused me of judging
people by the way they look, you know, having preconceived
views of somebody just because they're dirty and in.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Rags streaming at a fire hydrant.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And this woman actually used example of I was trying
to part next to a businessman the other day and
he yelled at me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So you'd never know.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You can't tell by looking at people who's mean and
who's dangerous. Note and then everybody can click their fingers.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
You're fing stupid. So I mention I mentioned two people
at the outset. I like that clip.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Michael, the other fella albract I mentioned, is a former
San Diego cop who's done library security training for twenty
five years. He advises librarians to quote stop apologizing for
measures designed to make their libraries safe and appealing. Some
topics he covers in his webinar program include our list
of challenging patrons from pets to pedophiles, and issues enforcing
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our code of contact conduct. He said, quote, we are
losing control of a facility that has always been benevolent
and peaceful for the community.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Have lost, I think would be a better term.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I don't know about his library, but libraries i'm aware
of have lost, not will lose.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
As I said at the outset, the only option I
think for us, the saying, is we've got to take
shifts watching these We've got to get on boards, we've
got to become activists on this stuff, because the other side,
quietly and we didn't even know they're doing it, has
utterly taken hold of some of these institutions.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
I don't mind a few YearIn eate on the Harry
Potter book, but society frowns upon it. So I'm supposed
to tell you something.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yes, I've introduced underage gay porn into this library, but
you're a fascist for trying to get it out.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, not anymore. Friends. Thank god flying cars are here.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
According to Voltzwagen, we'll get to that story among other
things coming up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Last week, the world's oldest baby was born from a
human embryo that was frozen in the nineteen nineties, which
is why when the baby came out and said, what.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's a good joke.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
So if you're of a certain age, you've been promised
flying cars since you were a child.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I know I have. Volkswagen announced their flying car today
and put out a video which I watched.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I wonder if I gotta believe drone technology had something
to do with this, because it looks like a very
large drone. It's got four tiny helicopter spinning things out
on the corners, like you know the drone you buy
at Best Buy, and then it's got a little fan
one on the back that makes you go forward, so
the FOD drone things lift you up and then the
(14:25):
thing go makes you go forward. And the video looks
pretty darn cool. It can go up to one hundred
and twenty miles an hour. It's electric, so it'd be
quiet and you can go an hour on a charge
on hundred and twenty miles an hour. The biggest well,
there's a couple of things with this. It's Volkswagen China.
(14:49):
What Yeah, Volkswagen China. It says on the wings and
big letters Volkswagen China, Like you can't read the logo
on the thing without seeing China. And it is going
to be be released in China, and according to Volkswagen China,
the four seeded vehicle will become the hot thing for
(15:13):
the urban Elite Chinese customers. It costs about three hundred
thousand dollars, so it's an expensive vehicle. Urban Elite will
be traveling between Chinese megacity clusters for business and leisures
very soon. In the first phase of its commercial use,
it's likely to be pitched as a premium product for
high net worth individuals, like everything is, whether it's short
(15:34):
screen TVs or satellite dishes or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
And then we learned a few months ago air conditioning.
A lot of innovative products have to start with the
super rich. Then they get less and less expensive and
mass produced.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yeah, I could see this.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
We're headed towards the world in which everyone will be
able to operate aircraft even without a pilot's license, says
the guy that runs Volkswagen China.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Uh, point of order.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Mister Chinese German German Chinese guy.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
They got pilot's licenses for a reason.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, I jumped in my cyber truck today, press pressed
the work button and the truck drove me to work.
I didn't really do anything, And that's the way the
that's the way these things are gonna be. You'll press
going to Beijing for my meeting, and you'll press a
button and it'll lift you up and fly you there,
so you don't really need to be a pilot. I
don't see how this would ever work in the United
(16:26):
States of America because I just don't understand how you
would have like lanes and heights, and I don't know
how you'd manage the traffic if you got very many
of these, if you had two rich people in each.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Town and they coordinated, you might be able to do it. No,
they'd have a head on collision day three.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But if you got hundreds of them in your neighborhood
and get But in China, an authoritarian state where the
government will decide who gets them and everything, I could
see it maybe working there. And that's gonna they're gonna
lord that over. It's because it's gonna look like a
better system, like they're more advanced when everybody's doing this.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Weren't you a militant extremist anti self driving car guy
like two years ago?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Okay, until I used it and thought this is pretty cool. Oh,
we got a lot more on the way. If you
miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Half the country and one entire political party has an
article of faith that Russia stole the twenty sixteen election. Now,
how did they come to that conclusion. They came to
that conclusion because high ranking Democrats, many of whom had
intelligence titles that were bestowed upon them in the Obama administration,
spent a lot of time and effort making an entire
political party believe that if you went to a Democratic
(17:39):
fundraising dinner or political dinner tonight and got asked the question,
did Russia steal the election and you said no, you'd
be boot off the stage. One party and half the
country believes an election was stolen and that did not
happen by accident.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And the election wasn't stolen. That's Scott Jennings on CNN yesterday.
So here's I wasn't gonna talk about this, but here's
something you got to watch out for because this keeps
happening over the last couple of weeks. So may I'll
do it this way. I'll read from the Washington Post today.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury investigation
into allegations made that Obama administration officials broke federal laws
(18:15):
while investigating Russia's involvement in the twenty sixteen election. According
to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity, so this is another one of
those somebody leaking out of the Justice Department that I
think are leaking against Republicans.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They want to get this out there, which is a
problem the Justice.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Back to the Washington Post, the Justice Department declined to
comment on the investigation, and it remained unclear whether prosecutors
had settled on specific targets or crimes they believed occurred. Still,
the development marked a significant escalation in the Justice Department's
push to re litigate one of Donald Trump's long standing grievances.
And this is all around the stuff that's come out
(18:56):
recently Pambody claiming that she's got plenty of evidence to
show that the initial reports were there's nothing to see here,
and Barack Obama directed himself come up with a different
report and claim there is something to see here, which
gets to what Scott Jennings said there with all the
Democrats running around claiming Trump's entire first term that the
(19:19):
Russians stole the election. In half the country believes that.
And then when you get into these arguments all the time,
you'll have people like me, you, or other people that
lean in this direction saying there's no evidence Russia stold
the election. And then the other side will say, there's
mounds of evidence that Russia interfered in the twenty sixteen election.
(19:41):
Mounds of evidence. Okay, now see we're talking past each other.
Russia did interfere in the election. There are mounds of
evidence that show that there is not any evidence that
they specifically were trying to get Trump elected and had
an effect.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That's what. There's not any evidence.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, and honestly, their efforts to mess with the election
in a general way were ineffectual.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Intonic illy, right. But so the left gets away with
saying that's a lie. The Russians did interfere in the election. Yes,
they interfere in all the elections. We interfere in a
lot of elections. But they didn't have any success. They
ran some Facebook ads and they're just trying to make
things miserable for Hillary, who they thought was going to win.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That's it. So you got that.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
As to whether or not this amounts too much, well,
first of all, here's a Greg Jarrett on Hannity last night.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Tommy Clapper and Brennan would probably invoke the fifth in
front of a grand jury, but the people below hit
them might do deals. And I think there are a
cavalcade of whistleblowers willing to come forward.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Now.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I've heard the pushback that with the statute of limitations,
it's unlikely anybody's going to be charged with a crime
or anything like that. Mark Hauprin's analysis in his newsletter
today was that isn't necessarily the point Brennan would be
wise to spend less time on MSNBC and more time
rehearsing a grand jury appearance with this council.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
There ain't no statue of limitations on.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Perjury, right, Yeah, that's that's an excellent point on the
actual activities that we need to have a name, a
quick nickname for Clapper Brennan and call me CBC guys
or something like that to name traders.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
There you go perfect in terms of a lot of
what they did.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The problem with going after him h criminally is they
can say no, I really believe that that Trump was
in league with the Russians. Turns out I misinterpreted the
intelligence and that is plenty of plausible, the plausible deniability.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I'm a criminal proceeding, but I'd be happy if they
said that. At least then I would talk down say so,
quit going around, say it out loud, have it be
a giant news story. So the half of the country
that still thinks Russia's Russia's told the election for Donald
Trump will be, you know, talked down from that.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
But I was gonna say a couple of instances of
absolutely clear lying under oath though that that could be something. Well,
it'll take a hell of a lot of time and money,
and those guys will get crazy lawyered up, but it's
worth at least asking the question. I think we, you know,
to get back to first principles. You can't have your
intelligent spooks fixing or attempting to fix our elections, our
(22:30):
own elections, no matter how much they hate one of
the candidates.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Do you think maybe.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That's true that they were so convinced Donald Trump couldn't
win an election he had to be working with the Russians.
Can they just convince themselves of that no.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I think in the beginning they might have plausibly believed
that Trump had ties to Russia that were unsavory for
a potential president, and I could leave. Maybe they were
misguided over enthusiastic, started to blur the lines of what's
right and what's wrong. But then that news came out
(23:09):
about Hillary talking to the Democratic heavyweights and obamaall talking about, Hey,
we're going to go after Trump for being tied to Russia.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So you know, any help you can give would be great. Yes,
And they may have violated campaign finance laws with that
by labeling it as a different cost than it actually
was because it was part of it was part of
the campaign.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Right, so you know, was it the chicken was at
the egg? Who motivated home? What was the origin? Where
was the energy behind it? All of that stuff is
nearly impossible to prove, but it stinks to high heaven.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I had a really good point to make about that
while you're talking.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And the whole steel tassier, which everybody knew from the
moment one was fake, but were like, hey, no.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
You put it back in. That's what I was going
to say.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I'm arguing against myself here with my idea that maybe
they actually convinced themselves that they had to be working
with Russia. Yeah, but they knew the Steele dossier was fake.
They knew that, right, So that argues against my original.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, only if they're thinking, yeah, throw everything in, including
the kitchen sink, we gotta bring this guy down.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
It's a really bad thing that happened. And I don't
know if there's any way too, because you don't want
to that happen in either direction. I don't know if
there's any way to like put the fear of God
in the intelligence communities that they wouldn't do this again.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Well, and if you are tempted to.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Even give them the slightest benefit of the doubt, you
gotta look at the Hunter Biden laptop thing. Oh yeah,
or fifty one to fifty two of them, same people
signed on even though the FBI knew right the laptop
was authentic when they published that letter said all of
this has all the all marks of a Russian information.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Why would you say that? Because you are willing to
lie to try to stop Trump from being president?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
That's why. Yeah, some on the scale, that's right. Oh,
you know, and.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Bill Clinton had it nailed the night of the election.
That's one of my favorite parts of whichever book that
was in. As the results were coming in and the
hotel suite, they were watching the election results coming in,
and Hillary was going to lose, and she had that
giant glass stadium built for her to come out and
give her acceptance speech of having broken the biggest class
(25:26):
ceiling of all time.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Blah blah blah. Katy Perry was crying, Share was crying.
We all remember it was I yes, yes, yes, I.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Regularly describe it and stand by it as the greatest
night of my life.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I've never been happier than that night ever in my life.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Bill Clinton said in that hotel suite, according to various publications,
I guess Brexit was real. He understood there was a
big change that was going on and democracies in Western
culture where you know, the establishment was being thrown. He
didn't say in that hotel suite, my god, the Russians
hacked into our election system. He understood the politics of
(26:04):
the day and that you know, this could happen and
did happen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
But that's not the way it was treated for four years.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I just I don't think any dishonest. I don't think
anybody is ever going to pay a price for this.
I really don't. No, I'm just trying to be practical. Again,
it stinks to high heaven and it needs to be
called out. But like the idea of one of these
guys being clapped in the shackles, I just don't see
it happening. Even if they were to like go after
a Brennan for perjury.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
He pleaded out.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I mean, yeah, that's that's not a reason not to
talk about it. And again brought this up last week
National Review was talking about this, these things can be
settled politically.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
In fact, they were.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
There was enough of a backlash against the Hunter Biden
laptop thing and a whole bunch of other stuff that
Trump got elected again. That's the result. That's part of
the result. That your that's your penalty, Democrats. You overplayed
your hand, and enough people were pissed off about it
or don't believe you anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
That Trump got elected again.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So coming up next segment, we're going to stay a
little political. It's shades of Playboys, Girls of the Big
ten back in the day. It's ladies of the Left
featuring the sexy AOC and Jasmine Crocket.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
I don't know if I know Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Oh you do. You just don't know her by name,
but you know her. Okay, I need to talk about
my sailing lessons. Well, i's not going to talk about later.
Oh luxury bean bag chairs, which would become a thing
I might get one.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Why are you making that fish? That's your street bean
bag chairs, that's your WTF face?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is that like saying luxury red solo cups? I mean no, no,
you you're so wrong. A lot on the way, stay here, please.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Blind bad built bush body in a moment.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Of panic, was trying to escape a vestibule. Was the
Ladies of the Left, featuring Jasmine Crockett and AOC.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh girl, baby girl.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Having to come across a couple of stories about these
two fine ladies, and I figured I'd group them together.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Maybe they'll accidentally kiss. So, Katy, what do you have?
That face?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That was?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
I expect more out of Joel. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That was just an attempt to provoke Michael to play
more cliffs.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Don't expect yeah, don't yeah, yeah, you're you're setting yourself
up for disappointment anyway. So a couple of things.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
First of all, AOC's longtime boy friend companion fiance, she
is married.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Can you run for president as a single person? I
suppose you can.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Well, that's that's the problem here. He is her spouse
when it comes to accepting freebies that the legally married
spouses of congress people are allowed to, whether it's paid
for travel or companion tickets or whatever. And she and
her lawyers have made it clear that since they've been
(29:15):
together a long time and are engaged, even though she
hasn't had her engagement ring on in public.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Sys November of twenty three.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Anyway, if it comes to getting stuff, he is her spouse.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And deserves it.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
But the only drawback to being a congressional spouse is
you have to disclose one sources of income and financial holdings.
But her same lawyers argue that mister Roberts is not
subject to those because he is not considered a spouse.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You can't have both.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
I'm okay, if you get the perks of being a
spouse just because you don't have the paper, it doesn't
bother me. But you can't then do the other side
where you don't want to do any disclosures.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Right, so it's utterly unclear whether the guy is another
Paul Pelosi stock genius using the information provided by his
saxy girlfriend or not.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
But one way or the other, sweetheart, you don't get
it both ways.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Let's move along to Jasmine Crockett. This is the one
I was really looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Give me some crocket leash, blind bad built. Butsch body,
Oh that was her.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, yeah, that's a very very short version of that, Cliff,
I should have done more.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Give me, give me forty eight.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
They understand the importance of standing for what democracy is
and making sure that it does not fall by the wayside.
They understand that we have a Timu Hitler and the
White House right now that thinks that he is going
to become the dictator of the United States.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Okay, everybody's trying to figure out, what's a Timu Hitler?
What is that? What is that? Like a cut rate Hitler? Katie?
Is that right? Knockoffs? So it's a knockoff?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Okay, So it's like a fake coach purse Hitler.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Okay, exactly, Yeah, super in China, that kind of thing. Yeah, Hitler.
So if you hear a really.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Like mouthy, sarcastic now you listen here out of the
US Congress, it's probably Jasmine Cross And I.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Was just yesterday she was talking about the whole Texas
redistricting thing.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Have a TMU Hitler.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, So anyway, it's pretty ja Jasmine Crockett, who the
left loves because she's loud and obnoxious. She's a hero
on MSNBC as the free Beacon rights. She has no
real accomplishments to speak of, apart from some meaningless awards,
uh for like being named Advocate of the Year at
the Webby Awards for a commitment to social justice.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I understand. I don't like that this is where we are.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
But the people that understand where we are, I don't
see how you can really knock them.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
This is where we are.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
This is the way it works now, Marjorie daylor Green,
Trump himself, you get attention, you get on Fox News,
you get on MSNBC. Nobody cares if you legislate anymore.
This is not the government we've decided we want for
some reason.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Well, yeah, everyone like that. You're ruining the fund, but
that's your trademark. But anyway, moving along.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Crockett is also the star of numerous YouTube videos with
claps back in the title.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So there's that.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Whether she's denouncing Hispanic Trump voters for having a slave
mentality or deriding the white tears of her.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Critic, she knows how to get attention. No, I think
that's really interesting. The people that have understood, who've grasped
the moment we're in and playing their cards so well,
I think that's really clever.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
So here's how bad it is. Though.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
On Sunday, the Atlantic published a big profile of her
and alas, Wow, how about that. I mean, this will
ruin our country, the fact that you get a profile
for playing the game of getting attention.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Well wait, though, there's much more to this.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
So on Sunday, the Atlantic publishing an article that might
have accomplished the goal of burnishing a reputation glowing for file.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Blah blah blah. Alas, even the.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Liberal journalists were repulsed by her toxic narcissism.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Wow. As a sign of.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
How poorly it went, the congressman called the Atlantic reporter
who wrote this, Elaine Godfrey, days before the story came
out to complain that the journalist had been contacting her
colleagues in the House for comments quote without telling her
first and she proclaimed that she was quote shutting down
the profile and revoking all permissions, which isn't a thing.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
You revoke my permission.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
So the article portrays Crockett is a self infatuated wannabe
influencer who quote monitors social media engagement like a day
Trader checks or Portfolio's braggs.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yes, it's interesting that those qualities seem to go together,
because all of them that are have figured out influencer
is the coin of the realm. Now they all seem
like narcissist weirdos.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, and I guess the Atlantic, or at least this
reporter's old school enough that she she hammers her for
it to a pretty good extent. Good make sure, let's
see she brags about having the largest social media following
on the House Oversight Committee, which you know, come on,
Who's House Oversight Committee?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Plus social media? Please fireworks?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Let's see made sure to notify the reporter that her
YouTube brands about ice agents being out of control was
approaching eight hundred thousand views.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
To your point earlier, how much.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
More important is the number of followers you have versus
your years in Congress or whatever?
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Utterly meaningless.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
During many of our conversations, writes the journalists, Crockett where
acrylic nails painted with the word resist and set instead
of heavy lashes over her brown eyes, which Marjorie Taylor
Green comment around.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
The lock screen on.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Her phone is a headshot of herself, and she goes
into how unpleasant she is to work with and how
she screamed at a staffer in the middle of an interview.
Blah blah blah. But here's my favorite part. We barely
have any time. At one point, Crockett appears to invent
an origin story out of thin air, much like Kamala
Harris at McDonald's. She recalls working for a black female
attorney after she and other students at Rhodes College in
(35:03):
Memphis received in anonymous letters containing racist threats. The attorney
became Crockett's hero, inspired her to attend law school herself.
When I asked for the name of the hero so
I could interviewerr Crockett told me she did not remember.
The reporter's subsequent efforts to track down the inspirational figure
were unsuccessful.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
She doesn't appear to exist.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Your lock screen photo is a headshot of yourself.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Is an interesting bank Armstrong and Getty
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