August 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The Trump/Putin talks & Zelensky's involvement
- Labubu & the lipstick index
- Unity & Diversity
- The female umpire
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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 arms Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's very complicated. There'll be some swapping of territories.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's not clear which territories would be swapped. Russia currently
occupies twenty percent of Ukraine, and Ukraine only controls about
thirty square miles of Russia. Wow, after it launched an
offensive last year. Some Europeans think this summit is heading
towards Munich like appeasement before World War Two. Former CIA
(00:47):
station chief in Moscow, Dan Hoffman says Russia's goal remains unchanged.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Putin wants to be able to re arm and potentially
attack again down the road in the future, because what
Putin wants is to destroy Ukraine and install a puppet
regime in Kiev.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I didn't realize it was that little Ukraine has thirty
insignificant square miles of Russia. Yeah, here's the entire quote
from Trump over the weekend about the possible peace deal
they're going to put together. When Trump and Boot and
Meat this Friday in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, you're looking at territory that's been fought over for
three and a half years with you know, a lot
of Russians have died, a lot of Ukrainians have died.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So we're looking at that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But we're actually looking to get some back and some swapping.
It's complicated, it's actually nothing easy.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's very complicated.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But we're going to get some back, We're going to
get some some switched. There'll be some swapping of territories
to the betterment of both. And but we'll be talking
about that either later.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Or tomorrow or whatever.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He's being vague, and I hope he's being vague to
try to not throw out the really difficult stuff right
there in that sound bite. But the fact that he's
only mentioning land, there's no win in Ukraine. Well, let's
hear from Zelensky first and then we can discuss this.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I suppose.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Of course, our team is working with the United States.
Not a single day goes by without communication on how
to ensure real peace. We understand Russia's intention to deceive America.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We will not allow this.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I greatly value the determination with which President Trump is
committed to bring an end to the killings in this war.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, so it seems Zelensky's eyes are open. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
The one thing that troubled me about what Trump said
was he kept phrasing it that we're looking at swapping
this land for this land, and we're looking at blah
blah blah, and the Ukrainians are not in on that
deal Northern Europeans at this point, which we'll get into
in a second, but it sounds less like a broke
er helping to reach two parties find an agreement then
(03:04):
a guy just finding an agreement on his own well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And nobody knows where he really is. On Putin, if he's.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Actually woken up to what a scumbag, murderous, lying, evil, villain,
devil person Putin is, if.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He always us, if he always.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
If he always knew that and was pretending, or if
he's just woken up to it, or if he hasn't completely.
But in that statement there he said a lot of
people have died, a lot of Russians, a lot of Ukraines. See,
the problem is one of the brokers does not care.
Putin does not care at all how many of his
own people die. It makes no difference. It's not part
of the calculation. So you say that is meaningless.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
So, the European powers in the Ukraine responded to vlad
Putin's ceasefire plan with a counter proposal that they are
making clear Trump must serve as a framework so that
the coming talks can gain any traction. They rejected the
Russian proposal to trade Ukrainian held parts of the Dunetsk
region for a ceasefire. They put forth their plan the
(04:11):
meeting with tip US officials in England on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
JD.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Vance was out there running around talking everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Interesting, Russia has not made steps toward peace despite its
talks with the US, say the Ukrainians. US officials said
the meetings on Saturday made progress toward Trump's goal of
ending the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I didn't see that. I must have missed that paragraph.
Because Russia is saying no NATO membership, Ukraine needs to disarm,
not have a military there. We get to keep all
the land and a couple other things. I mean, it's
a complete non starter as far as I can tell.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
European leaders said in a joint statement after the meeting
that a diplomatic end of the war must protect Ukraine's
and Europe's security interests. So what it looks like to
me is you have a handful of proposals which have
practically no overlap and a very different verbiage coming out
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of everybody involved. Yeah, Europe, how promising the whole thing is,
or whether there is any overlap.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Europe's proposal at least the last one I saw over
the weekend was absolutely NATO membership on the way for
Ukraine and European troops in Ukraine until then to make
sure Putin doesn't go back an again. I don't think
there's a chance Putin signs on to that, do you No, No,
(05:38):
I don't. I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
I was deep in thought about one of one fear
I know we both share is that Trump is just
going to go for peace, no matter what it costs Ukraine,
whatever you can get Putin to agree to, which will
not bring any sort of lasting piece of Well, it
(06:00):
seems that.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I mean, it seems that I don't know where Zelensky
is on this, but even Lindsey Graham yesterday on the
talk shows was saying, Ukraine's not gonna boot all the
Russians out. That's just not gonna happen. So they're going
to have to give a planned, maybe even all the
land that they lost. But I mean, I think I
(06:24):
would you agree to this? I think if I'm Zelensky,
as awful and unfair as it is, life's unfair, I
would give up the twenty percent of my country if
I get European troops in Ukraine and a path to
NATO membership, because that might be the best you can do. Yeah,
I would agree, that's pretty awful. It's damned awful. And
(06:45):
I might include some sort of we got to get
those kids back. There needs to be some sort of process.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Well, but unless I am really really missing some aspect
of the way Putin is looking at this, he would never.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Agree to that.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
No, no, because that would be the end of his
I'm gonna restore the Soviet Union or be the next
Peter the Great or whatever. That'd be the end of it,
unless he's willing to go to fight NATO.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Well, it reminds me a great deal of the unfortunate
situation in Gaza with Hamas and Israel. People keep talking
about these peace talks. There's no overlap, or there is.
There are such incredibly important areas of non overlap, the
areas of overlap are irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There's just this.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Giant, fundamental, like one hundred and eighty degree opposition on
certain questions. I don't see how it ends well.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
So, like Lindsay Graham kept saying, look, two things are true.
Ukraine can't boot out every Russian and Putin's not going
to Kiev. And I thought that second one's not completely
off the table as far as I can tell. If
Putin decides, you know, I'm gonna keep fighting. I don't
care how many million soldiers I lose. China and India
are still gonna buy oil from me, and I'm just
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gonna keep going.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And why wouldn't he.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I don't know what his reserve of young men is
looking like at this point. I mean, he might arouse
so much domestic you know, turmoil that that limits him.
But he's got a pretty good police state in uh right,
you know, in place right now. Yeah, I don't I
don't know, honestly.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
My guess would be he has no intention of stopping
prosecuting the war. He thinks at some point Ukraine will
break and he will go to Kiev, and this is
just an opportunity to you know, drag things out as
he always does to keep the sanctions off. Like I
said earlier, he's already drug out the sanctions. What another
(08:43):
week and he'll go to the meeting and the productive talks.
You know, we need to take a look at this.
I'm gonna get together with my people. We're gonna have
a meeting. We've scheduled a meeting for September first, when
we'll sit down. I mean, you just keep dragging it
out and the next thing you know, it's November and
nothing has happened.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
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Speaker 5 (10:11):
What are the stakes if Putin gets away with this?
Here's Lindsey Graham yesterday.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
I think everybody knows that how this war ends, it
can be a good thing or bad thing. If it
ends in a way it looks like that Putin's overly rewarded.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
There goes Taiwan.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
You can't end a war without talking. I do hope
that Zelenski can be part of the process. I'll leave
it up to the White House, but I come on
your show a good bit. I want to be honest
with you. Your train's not gonna evict of your Russia
Russian and Russia's not going to keep so there'll be
some land swaps at the end.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
So here's the thought I wanted to add to your thought.
While Putin is stringing Trump along, he is aggressively, semi
frantically making deals with India and his big brother China
to assure countries that continue to buy oil and are
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sanctioned by the United States high tariffs, et cetera, that
we will do A B and C to help you
out economically to soften the blow, and we'll keep the
cheap oil flowing into your economies. So you know, he's
not just idly or he's not merely stringing Trump along
to continue to make battlefield gains. So he can, you know,
work behind the scenes diplomatically to defang whatever the US
(11:34):
is hoping to implement. And by the way, it also
occurred to me, anytime we say Ukraine, we should say
Ukraine and Europe, because they seem to have a pretty
united front at this point.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
It is interesting watching the NATO General Secretary on all
the shows yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well here's here.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Both both praising Trump and being very firm on we
ain't agreeing to what Russia proposed.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, we actually have that audio. We could play it.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I was just going to say, the one thing you
and I have both been concerned about is that Trump
is going to look at the Ukrainians and say, all right,
nogotiations have gone on for a while, this is the
best deal you can get, going to get. I do
deals all the time. This is the best deal you
can possibly get. You got to take it. You don't
get another twenty two caliber bullet out of us unless
you take this deal.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
And him using rhetoric like Zelensky is the reason we
can't have peace. The sticking point here is Zelensky. I
wouldn't be shocked to hear that Friday orself.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I hope not.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
There is a craze going on. It's the lea boo
boo craze. I don't know what that is. We need
Katie Green to explain this to us. I like to
know what crazes are in case I'm attacked by laboobooz
whatever they.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Are, or see one, or my kids want.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
One, or well, the name la booboo doesn't sound like
something stupid and contemptible anyway, stay Dune for all that.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
WNBA star Diana Turasi went off on her pay by
claiming the f thing Janitor made more than me. Well,
in his defense, he does have to mop up dildo's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, what wait a minute, so Janitor cleans those up.
I don't believe that joke was fact based. I would
have thought exactly. So I guess it's my Uh, maybe
it's my.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Music radio training from back when I was younger, or
just my personality. But I like to be aware of crazes,
even if it's not something I'm into. I like to
know what the hot TV show is, hot movie, hot music, whatever.
I like to know what's really popular, even if it's
not my thing. I just I've always thought I need
to know that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I like to think about the ancient Greek republic.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Geez, I am reading you, Ulysses, so I get both
sides of it, I guess, but.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Uh, because that's not hot. Nobody else is doing that.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
The Loo booboo craze I was reading about in the
New York Post. I know it's come up on the show,
but this is a craze I'm not tuned into yet.
They've got a picture of this furry little doll that
looks frightening.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But so fill us in on the little Boo Boo
craze there, Katie.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
So the Laboo Boo craze actually started back in twenty
fifteen when he was first introduced.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
But he's part of this he it's a he. What's
a he? This la boo boo a he? The article
gender fluid to me.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
I'm going to go with gender fluid, but the article
that I'm reading says he, uh, don't use gendered language.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Let's see.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Hong Kong based artist created a series called The Monsters,
and one of the characters was a Laboo Boo. It's
influenced by Nordic folklore and mythology, okay, that he enjoyed
during his childhood.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
It's a furry little it's it looks cute while at
the same time kind of menacing with like fangs and whatnot.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
And there's this this whole what craze about them right
now is that it's called blind buying. So you buy
this package and you can't see what one is inside,
and people are trying to collect all of them, so
they're buying a lot.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
And it says like baseball cards or Nintendo cards back
in the day, you just buy a pack, hoping it's
stuff you don't have, or good stuff or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It says here.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
L Boo boo dolls have been spotted dangling from Louis
Vauton and Saint Laurent Purse's as fashion's quirky new status symbol,
but their popularity could soon spell doom for the economy,
and expert warns during economic downturns, consumers gravitate toward what
experts call affordable luxuries, small dopamine spiking splurges that don't
break the bank, like lipstring, lipstick, ice cream, or movie ticket.
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Studies have shown it's sometimes called the lipstick index in economics,
which I found very very interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And this part of that, this is more interesting than
I anticipated.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Go on.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I was hoping so.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
And the creepy but cute, mischievous dolls could be its
latest iteration. It's and it's an example of people are
not wanting to splurge on real how I set myself
apart from other items. So they're going with this cheap,
trendy thing that's the lipstick index.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I had never heard of that, but that's that's interesting. Agreed. Yeah, okay,
we'll keep our eye on that. What do we got
coming up? Is there a male equivalent to that? I
don't know. I don't know. I'd have to think about that.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Coming up, the incredible lack of purple states in the
US and why that might matter as we jerrymander ourselves
into like two different countries that live side by side, which.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Leads me into this.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I had this interesting experience, and I'm glad I have
a meta person that can be my.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Conduit's not the right word.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
What I want to guide got an entrance entrance point
into a world I don't really know because I got
as in a conversation conversation with a woman, a mom, herner, husband,
successful business people, raised kids, sound like the kids are
all a successful blah blah blah, like perfectly.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Upstanding, middle upper class people that.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Have no interest in any of this crap we ever
talk about, like none, don't know anything about any of it.
And I just thought, Wow, that must be awesome, that
must be really awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well at the same time.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
You know, you got to participate and pay attention to
make the world worker.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It will, you know, rules will be get made. Blah
blah blah, all that stuff, you know, But it was
just so interesting.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I don't hang around people like that, and it's just somebody.
It's just like they just don't know about any of
the any of that's scant you know, the Genes commercial
from last week or just any of those things.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
They're completely unaware of them. And I thought that must
be fantastic.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Do they have any concern about how their tax money
is spent? Because it sounds like there's probably a fair amount.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I don't know them well enough to know that, but
that's why I said, I look forward to this entrance
into this world of learning more about it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Do they have la booboos?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I bet they don't know what that is. Oh, that'd
being good for them.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
The booming NFL kick that's unofficially the best ever Jacksonville
kicker Cam Little nailed it seventy yard field goal against Pittsburgh. However,
it's not a league record because it happened in a
preseason game. A lengthy cake prompted Little to say, adrenalinees.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
A beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Seventy yard field goal got if you could make if
you had a guy could make that every now and
then that changes your situation.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Well, if you know anything about the NFL, generally they
snap it seven yards backward, add ten yards for the
end zone. Effectively, you don't even have to get to
mid field.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You snap it.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Back to the forty and the human cannon booms it
through the uprights down at the other end of the stadium.
You know, although as a football fan, that's kind of
exciting because you know, if you miss, you give up
the ball at the spot of the kick. Yeah, and
so it's a pretty good gamble seven. The longer they kick,
the bigger the gamble.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I just was looking at the highlights from the weekend.
There was a guy who, uh for the Patriots, I think,
ran one back first time he'd ever touched a football
as an NFL player in his entire life. He takes
it in the end zone, runs it back for one
hundred yards. That would be exciting.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, how cool. Preseason though, so it's meaningless.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Ain't got a lot of other people out there who
are trying really, really hard because they want to be
on the team.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Oh gosh, speaking of sports. Not that we're going to
speak of sports this segment. We have something very important
to get to. But the lady umpire, I haven't heard
a thorough review of her behind the plate appearance, because
that's where they earn their money, behind the plate.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But it was a rough start.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Oh, I didn't know that. Okay, we'll talk about that later.
So I'm looking up at the TV. Katie, look this
up for me. La booboo scam warning they're reporting on
ABC News. We'll get to those details in hour three.
Not a Labuba scam. God, is nothing sacred?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Then the backlash to the scam, to the graze of
the scam anyway, So I thought this was an interesting
perspective coming up in a.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Moment or two. By the way, a glimpse.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Inside the recent Democratic Socialists of America convention m those
friggin lunatic Marxist scumbags that includes old Mamdami, the commediater
in New York. I thought this was an interesting perspective
about the jerrymandering thing that's been going on for a
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very long time.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Texas.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Just trying to catch up to your Illinois and your
California's and the rest of it. But America's I oh, oh, oh,
that's right. I knew how I wanted to set this up.
Longtime listeners know for a very very long time. When
progressive jackasses, I'm sorry, you know what, that was uncharitable,
and I apologize. I apologize. When progressive folk would say
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diversity is our greatest strength, I would frequently reply, no,
it's not. Unity is our greatest strength by far. Diversity
is kind of interesting, but unity is our greatest strength.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well comes this article.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
America is fracturing into red and blue nations, and some
of the stats are really really interesting. America's identity is
a unified nation is eroding, with Republican and democratic states
dividing into separate spheres, each with its own policies governing
the economic, social, and political rules of life. The upside
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of this coming in a moment or two, because I
think there is an upside. But in forty states a
single party controls the House, the Senate, and the government's
office a governor's office. If they have a bicameral system. Wow, wow,
the so called trifecta. I think that's got to be
what roughly four fifths or eighty percent, or at least
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they have enough power to block vetos from a governor
of the other parties, So they essentially have the trifecta.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
That is amazing.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
That leaves less than twenty percent of Americans living in
a state where the minority party has a meaningful voice
in government.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Which is why you might give up and leave that
state if that's not your cup of tea, because you
never get your way.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
In fact, you don't even get to limit the other
side's excessive right, which is a prong time Californians, we
can tell you all about it. The result has been
a deepening of differences in red and blue America, and
they go into a variety of issues like abortion and
that sort of thing. They use the term gender affirming care,
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which is an absolute badge that you are a far
left progressive.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
If you ever use that.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Fox News, are you listening, well it either it either
means you're progressive or you've been tricked by the progressives
and you haven't caught on to there exactly. They've convinced
you that that's the language you're supposed to use.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Is yours again? I went too far and I regret it.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Does your article include this or is your feeling that
we're moving more toward this direction than like we're at
peak this. I feel like we're still moving more toward
the great sort.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
That's a really good question. Just from my gut, I'd say, yeah,
I agree with you completely.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
That ain't good. I don't think it good. It can't
be good. Gun it civil war and whatnot? Well, right, yeah,
and whatnot? YadA YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
And they mentioned that red and blue states have moved
into sharply in sharply different directions on employment law, gun regulation,
immigration enforcement, sex change, experiments on poor confused little kids.
I mentioned Aborsche, And you know, it's obviously bad in
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that unity is our greatest strength, and that if the
president is of the other party, when China invades roughly
half the country is going to be tempted to say, oh,
that's his fault. You know what, I'm not supporting him
fighting the Chinese COMMI herds. He got us into this
with his damned you know, fascist or consider or progressive policy,
(24:32):
you know, would be disastrous.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I've been saying this for years, and I think it's
getting worse. If we had a nine to eleven again,
when I think who was ever president, George W. Bush
or Al Gore, whoever was president, we would have had
a ninety percent approval rating for that president, because that's
the way we responded to nine to eleven. I don't
think that would happen today.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
So to your point, they quote this fellow, Michael Podhortzer,
who is a former political director of the AFLCIO. I
have a feeling I know which way he leans, but
I thought it's an interesting point. He says, it's an
essential error to think of America as a single nation. Rather,
the US is a bi national republic, two nations, one red,
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one blue. He said, there aren't canons, and this isn't
bull run. This is not a shooting civil war. Yeah,
but it's very much a battle of how people are
going to live in this country. In almost every way,
life in Blue America is different than in Red America, which,
putting aside the whole Chinese Horde scenario, the upside to this,
maybe that we've been calling for half seriously for a
(25:40):
long time, is all right, y'all get half the country,
we get the other half of the country. Let's meet
back in a decade and see who's doing better.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Yeah, but with federalism and such, is the red side
going to be paying for a lot of the blue
side's ridiculousness.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Until it collapses in the style of Illinois Californian more
specifically Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, d C. Yes, yes,
actually yeah, Well that's the downside of being right about
policy is we will not be just decimated with crime
(26:22):
and junkieism and overspending in the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I would like to ask an historian, has this ever
been successfully tried before with an empire, country, nation something.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Where you have whatever the guy called that, a by.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
A a bi national republic?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Has there ever been a bi national republic or even
not a republic, but just you had two completely different
ways of living that don't really intermingle within one border
in theory, rowing the same direction in the.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
World, not without some conflict, none that I can think of,
having studied political systems since I was a wee lad.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
And of course the problem with that is whoever's president,
it will go back and forth between complete support for
that president and practically no support for that president. Right,
we'll swing back and forth with that. That'll be fun.
It's fun already, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Kids.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
So on that topic, the Democratic Socialists of America held
their conference recently, and wow, they are all excited. We're
in charge now, was their message. Zoronami's surprise when was
not an anomaly, they said, but rather the start of
the dssay's rise to power over.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
The Democratic Party. I think they are the heir apparent.
I hope they're right, because then they're going to lose
every election.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I think right, because their policies are idiotic and practically suicidal.
A couple of facts here that are just too good
to pass up. Attendees were required to submit and everybody,
stop doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And think about this. This just happened in Chicago. Of course,
Attendees were required to submit proof of a negative COVID
test prior to arrival.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
In summer of twenty twenty five. This just happened, Yes, yeah,
all right, what is the tie in there?
Speaker 5 (28:33):
We played the it was a coat like when we
played the what was the clip we had last week
of these people at their socialist meeting?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
But we pointed out the video of it was.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
They were all wearing masks, and we were trying to
figure out what how does that fit together. You're still
scared of COVID in the middle of twenty twenty five,
and you're a socialist, they obviously go together. That's not
one of those where there's no correlation between the two things.
There's clearly some sort of correlation.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It might just be.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
In fact, I'm pretty sure it is a barely coherent
tribal signaling mechanism that during COVID people of the left
were extremely obedient, shut everything down, wore masks to the
point of, you know, I almost said absurdity, but it's
horror forcing a toddler to wear a mask in preschool,
(29:24):
Oh my god, with it hanging down around their chin
and the rest of it. I mean, to the point
of like surrealism. They adhered to every limitation and now
that you know, please, who's worried about this were in
the middle of twenty twenty five, they still wear the
masks to show that they're people of the left.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now they're so crazy.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Yeah, I know, it is, It absolutely is. Let's see,
said one prominent speaker. The Democratic Party is dying. They
have less support than the Republican party. The Democratic is
stabu blishment is coming our way, they pointed out, and
they're right. Mamdani earned an endorsement from foe Indian Elizabeth Warren,
(30:10):
praise from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, no soul, and
a meeting with House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. DSA delegates
past a number of resolutions to amend the party's platform,
well periodically waiving Communist party flags. Literally they are hardcore
pro Hamas among other things. In fact, they spent a
(30:34):
lot of time on that. Oh and they made speeches
about how that's clearly a winning issue and they need
to double down on that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That has to be a main part of their identity.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
So every Sunday show yesterday led with Russia, Ukraine putin
Trump meeting on Friday, because it's a huge, huge story.
I think it was who was it? Somebody led with
the redistricting thing, which I thought was little. But we
got a great guest on that, our old friend Lan
he Chen, who's run for office in California knows a
(31:07):
lot about California politics, on how misleading it is that
Texas is doing something incredibly aberrant and unfair. Let's to democracy,
and we're going to have him in the third hour,
So if you don't have that planned or whatever, you
want to get the podcast. We can take a break
from politics for a little while and take a look
at that first female umpire in Major League Baseball and
(31:30):
how that went. I've read some really really snarky responses
that I don't Oh, no, I know no, I know
what on the internet and the Internet of all places. Anyway,
stay tuned.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
This weekend, major League Baseball will have its first female umpire. Yeah,
but the game won't start until you hear about her day.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
So it's unful believable the kind of jokes that have
been going on or out around it. But partially because
unless maybe Jo cans strike me out on this, I
don't see why I'm surprised there hasn't already been a
female Major leagueumpire.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Is there any reason why a one couldn't do it
the same as a.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Man When when you get to stuff where it's all
about strength and speed, there is a difference between men
and women.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
But is there here.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
I'll let you talk about that in a second, But
we talked last week lots of jokes online about it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The most I asked Groc about them.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
The most common one is something along the lines of,
you know, she throws a guy out of the game,
he says, what do I do?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And she says, you know what you did?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Or she'll call someone out for a play three years ago.
As Groc says, poking fun and outdated gender tropes. Is
everybody laughing because that's not somewhat true. I mean, give
me a break, AnyWho, and then the whole well, there's
other jokes.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But she actually debuted over the weekend. How did it go?
Speaker 12 (32:59):
Street today?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Wait, Joey, wait, wait, wait, wait, Joe's going to set
this up like, yeah, she did.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
She worked her way toward home plate, as is the
umpire's tradition.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You go third to second or first to home.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
And there's a great deal of attention being paid to
her plate debut, particularly the first pitch.
Speaker 12 (33:21):
Some more history today. Joey Wentz is ready. We hope
you're ready. Here we go. Joey Wentz likes that first
call for Jim Powell. He'll take it, and I wonder
if they're going to take the baseball.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I guess not.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
I thought that maybe that would be kind of a
big one.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
There we go, now we got to figure it out.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
Yep, they are going to authenticate it and Jim Powell
will forever get to keep that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So if I was just listening to that, I would
have thought nothing. But you're saying there's something to that.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Yeah, you remark that the pitcher really liked that call.
It's because it was at least four inches off the plate.
I mean, it was clearly a ball and she called
it a strike. Surprise twist. According to my impeachable baseball sources,
of course, they haven't been impeached yet, she actually was
pretty solid well, as a source close to the major
(34:12):
leagues says, she was fine, just like all of us.
Umpiring is pain. She'll be subject to the same as
the rest of us. Was the first call like egregiously wrong?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yes, it was terrible.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Does that happen? How often does that happen with umpires
in their first ever?
Speaker 7 (34:33):
You'd be nervous, Yeah, yeah that, Yeah, you shouldn't make
a call that bad, but it happens. It's harder than
it looks. She will call, you know, one hundred plus
pitches in the game and probably actually like miss miss
a few.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Is there any reason?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Is there any reason a woman couldn't do this job
as well as a man, like I don't see why
they're I'm surprised that there hasn't been a female empire.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
The only argument would be because they're on the field
with a lot of very manly men with very high stakes,
and they're the It's not like arguing vociferously and angrily
with baseball umpires is unknown, And it just seemed like
a better thing for a dude to take on a
(35:21):
dude and not a woman.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
To get in the face of a man.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Yeah, yeah, and tradition, although you know, there have been
psychological studies that show that angry dudes, when confronted with
a dude, will say, oh yeah, come on. Confronted with
a woman, they'll say, all right, all right, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Well the first time that happens, that'll be interesting and
get tremendous amount of talk, I guarantee you. But to
the whole being nervous thing, I was watching a little
bit of preseason NFL football yesterday when my kids were
eating a haircut in the forty nine Ers game was on,
and this guy who really wants to make the team
in his NFL debut, perfect pass right in the hands
dropped it, and the announcers were talking, boy, you got
(36:01):
to catch that ball. And here you are trying to
make the team. And I thought, this guy has been
the star of his junior high team, his high school team,
a star in college. Here he is and he dropped that.
I mean, it's just yeah, probably nerves. Yeah, I mean,
you dropped something no matter what. But yeah, that's I
guess it happens anyway. Trump just made a big announcement
(36:22):
about DC Police, among other things.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
We'll get through Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms Strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's very complicated. There'll be some swapping of territories.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's not clear which territories would be swapped. Russia currently
occupies twenty percent of Ukraine, and Ukraine only controls about
thirty square miles of Russia. Wow, after it launched an
offensive last year. Some Europeans think this summit is heading
towards Munich like appeasement before World War Two. Former CIA
(00:47):
station chief in Moscow, Dan Hoffman says Russia's goal remains unchanged.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Putin wants to be able to re arm and potentially
attack again down the road in the future, because what
Putin wants is to destroy Ukraine and install a puppet
regime in Kiev.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I didn't realize it was that little Ukraine has thirty
insignificant square miles of Russia. Yeah, here's the entire quote
from Trump over the weekend about the possible peace deal
they're going to put together. When Trump and Boot and
Meat this Friday in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, you're looking at territory that's been fought over for
three and a half years with you know, a lot
of Russians have died, a lot of Ukrainians have died.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So we're looking at that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
But we're actually looking to get some back and some swapping.
It's complicated, it's actually nothing easy.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's very complicated.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But we're going to get some back, We're going to
get some some switched. There'll be some swapping of territories
to the betterment of both. And but we'll be talking
about that either later.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Or tomorrow or whatever.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He's being vague, and I hope he's being vague to
try to not throw out the really difficult stuff right
there in that sound bite. But the fact that he's
only mentioning land, there's no win in Ukraine. Well, let's
hear from Zelensky first and then we can discuss this.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I suppose.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Of course, our team is working with the United States.
Not a single day goes by without communication on how
to ensure real peace. We understand Russia's intention to deceive America.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
We will not allow this.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I greatly value the determination with which President Trump is
committed to bring an end to the killings in this war.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, so it seems Zelensky's eyes are open. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
The one thing that troubled me about what Trump said
was he kept phrasing it that we're looking at swapping
this land for this land, and we're looking at blah
blah blah, and the Ukrainians are not in on that
deal Northern Europeans at this point, which we'll get into
in a second, but it sounds less like a broke
er helping to reach two parties find an agreement then
(03:04):
a guy just finding an agreement on his own well.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And nobody knows where he really is. On Putin, if he's.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Actually woken up to what a scumbag, murderous, lying, evil, villain,
devil person Putin is, if.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
He always us, if he always.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
If he always knew that and was pretending, or if
he's just woken up to it, or if he hasn't completely.
But in that statement there he said a lot of
people have died, a lot of Russians, a lot of Ukraines. See,
the problem is one of the brokers does not care.
Putin does not care at all how many of his
own people die. It makes no difference. It's not part
of the calculation. So you say that is meaningless.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
So, the European powers in the Ukraine responded to vlad
Putin's ceasefire plan with a counter proposal that they are
making clear Trump must serve as a framework so that
the coming talks can gain any traction. They rejected the
Russian proposal to trade Ukrainian held parts of the Dunetsk
region for a ceasefire. They put forth their plan the
(04:11):
meeting with tip US officials in England on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
JD.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Vance was out there running around talking everybody.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Interesting, Russia has not made steps toward peace despite its
talks with the US, say the Ukrainians. US officials said
the meetings on Saturday made progress toward Trump's goal of
ending the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
I didn't see that. I must have missed that paragraph.
Because Russia is saying no NATO membership, Ukraine needs to disarm,
not have a military there. We get to keep all
the land and a couple other things. I mean, it's
a complete non starter as far as I can tell.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
European leaders said in a joint statement after the meeting
that a diplomatic end of the war must protect Ukraine's
and Europe's security interests. So what it looks like to
me is you have a handful of proposals which have
practically no overlap and a very different verbiage coming out
(05:11):
of everybody involved. Yeah, Europe, how promising the whole thing is,
or whether there is any overlap.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Europe's proposal at least the last one I saw over
the weekend was absolutely NATO membership on the way for
Ukraine and European troops in Ukraine until then to make
sure Putin doesn't go back an again. I don't think
there's a chance Putin signs on to that, do you No, No,
(05:38):
I don't. I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
I was deep in thought about one of one fear
I know we both share is that Trump is just
going to go for peace, no matter what it costs Ukraine,
whatever you can get Putin to agree to, which will
not bring any sort of lasting piece of Well, it
(06:00):
seems that.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I mean, it seems that I don't know where Zelensky
is on this, but even Lindsey Graham yesterday on the
talk shows was saying, Ukraine's not gonna boot all the
Russians out. That's just not gonna happen. So they're going
to have to give a planned, maybe even all the
land that they lost. But I mean, I think I
(06:24):
would you agree to this? I think if I'm Zelensky,
as awful and unfair as it is, life's unfair, I
would give up the twenty percent of my country if
I get European troops in Ukraine and a path to
NATO membership, because that might be the best you can do. Yeah,
I would agree, that's pretty awful. It's damned awful. And
(06:45):
I might include some sort of we got to get
those kids back. There needs to be some sort of process.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Well, but unless I am really really missing some aspect
of the way Putin is looking at this, he would never.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Agree to that.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
No, no, because that would be the end of his
I'm gonna restore the Soviet Union or be the next
Peter the Great or whatever. That'd be the end of it,
unless he's willing to go to fight NATO.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Well, it reminds me a great deal of the unfortunate
situation in Gaza with Hamas and Israel. People keep talking
about these peace talks. There's no overlap, or there is.
There are such incredibly important areas of non overlap, the
areas of overlap are irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
There's just this.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Giant, fundamental, like one hundred and eighty degree opposition on
certain questions. I don't see how it ends well.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
So, like Lindsay Graham kept saying, look, two things are true.
Ukraine can't boot out every Russian and Putin's not going
to Kiev. And I thought that second one's not completely
off the table as far as I can tell. If
Putin decides, you know, I'm gonna keep fighting. I don't
care how many million soldiers I lose. China and India
are still gonna buy oil from me, and I'm just
(07:59):
gonna keep going.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And why wouldn't he.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
I don't know what his reserve of young men is
looking like at this point. I mean, he might arouse
so much domestic you know, turmoil that that limits him.
But he's got a pretty good police state in uh right,
you know, in place right now. Yeah, I don't I
don't know, honestly.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I don't think.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
My guess would be he has no intention of stopping
prosecuting the war. He thinks at some point Ukraine will
break and he will go to Kiev, and this is
just an opportunity to you know, drag things out as
he always does to keep the sanctions off. Like I
said earlier, he's already drug out the sanctions. What another
(08:43):
week and he'll go to the meeting and the productive talks.
You know, we need to take a look at this.
I'm gonna get together with my people. We're gonna have
a meeting. We've scheduled a meeting for September first, when
we'll sit down. I mean, you just keep dragging it
out and the next thing you know, it's November and
nothing has happened.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'd like to add to that thought after.
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Speaker 5 (10:11):
What are the stakes if Putin gets away with this?
Here's Lindsey Graham yesterday.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
I think everybody knows that how this war ends, it
can be a good thing or bad thing. If it
ends in a way it looks like that Putin's overly rewarded.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
There goes Taiwan.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
You can't end a war without talking. I do hope
that Zelenski can be part of the process. I'll leave
it up to the White House, but I come on
your show a good bit. I want to be honest
with you. Your train's not gonna evict of your Russia
Russian and Russia's not going to keep so there'll be
some land swaps at the end.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
So here's the thought I wanted to add to your thought.
While Putin is stringing Trump along, he is aggressively, semi
frantically making deals with India and his big brother China
to assure countries that continue to buy oil and are
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sanctioned by the United States high tariffs, et cetera, that
we will do A B and C to help you
out economically to soften the blow, and we'll keep the
cheap oil flowing into your economies. So you know, he's
not just idly or he's not merely stringing Trump along
to continue to make battlefield gains. So he can, you know,
work behind the scenes diplomatically to defang whatever the US
(11:34):
is hoping to implement. And by the way, it also
occurred to me, anytime we say Ukraine, we should say
Ukraine and Europe, because they seem to have a pretty
united front at this point.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
It is interesting watching the NATO General Secretary on all
the shows yesterday.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well here's here.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Both both praising Trump and being very firm on we
ain't agreeing to what Russia proposed.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, we actually have that audio. We could play it.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I was just going to say, the one thing you
and I have both been concerned about is that Trump
is going to look at the Ukrainians and say, all right,
nogotiations have gone on for a while, this is the
best deal you can get, going to get. I do
deals all the time. This is the best deal you
can possibly get. You got to take it. You don't
get another twenty two caliber bullet out of us unless
you take this deal.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
And him using rhetoric like Zelensky is the reason we
can't have peace. The sticking point here is Zelensky. I
wouldn't be shocked to hear that Friday orself.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I hope not.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
There is a craze going on. It's the lea boo
boo craze. I don't know what that is. We need
Katie Green to explain this to us. I like to
know what crazes are in case I'm attacked by laboobooz
whatever they.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Are, or see one, or my kids want.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
One, or well, the name la booboo doesn't sound like
something stupid and contemptible anyway, stay Dune for all that.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
WNBA star Diana Turasi went off on her pay by
claiming the f thing Janitor made more than me. Well,
in his defense, he does have to mop up dildo's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, what wait a minute, so Janitor cleans those up.
I don't believe that joke was fact based. I would
have thought exactly. So I guess it's my Uh, maybe
it's my.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Music radio training from back when I was younger, or
just my personality. But I like to be aware of crazes,
even if it's not something I'm into. I like to
know what the hot TV show is, hot movie, hot music, whatever.
I like to know what's really popular, even if it's
not my thing. I just I've always thought I need
to know that.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I like to think about the ancient Greek republic.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Geez, I am reading you, Ulysses, so I get both
sides of it, I guess, but.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Uh, because that's not hot. Nobody else is doing that.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
The Loo booboo craze I was reading about in the
New York Post. I know it's come up on the show,
but this is a craze I'm not tuned into yet.
They've got a picture of this furry little doll that
looks frightening.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
But so fill us in on the little Boo Boo
craze there, Katie.
Speaker 10 (14:17):
So the Laboo Boo craze actually started back in twenty
fifteen when he was first introduced.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
But he's part of this he it's a he. What's
a he? This la boo boo a he? The article
gender fluid to me.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
I'm going to go with gender fluid, but the article
that I'm reading says he, uh, don't use gendered language.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Let's see.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Hong Kong based artist created a series called The Monsters,
and one of the characters was a Laboo Boo. It's
influenced by Nordic folklore and mythology, okay, that he enjoyed
during his childhood.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
It's a furry little it's it looks cute while at
the same time kind of menacing with like fangs and whatnot.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
And there's this this whole what craze about them right
now is that it's called blind buying. So you buy
this package and you can't see what one is inside,
and people are trying to collect all of them, so
they're buying a lot.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
And it says like baseball cards or Nintendo cards back
in the day, you just buy a pack, hoping it's
stuff you don't have, or good stuff or whatever.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It says here.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
L Boo boo dolls have been spotted dangling from Louis
Vauton and Saint Laurent Purse's as fashion's quirky new status symbol,
but their popularity could soon spell doom for the economy,
and expert warns during economic downturns, consumers gravitate toward what
experts call affordable luxuries, small dopamine spiking splurges that don't
break the bank, like lipstring, lipstick, ice cream, or movie ticket.
(15:44):
Studies have shown it's sometimes called the lipstick index in economics,
which I found very very interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And this part of that, this is more interesting than
I anticipated.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Go on.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I was hoping so.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
And the creepy but cute, mischievous dolls could be its
latest iteration. It's and it's an example of people are
not wanting to splurge on real how I set myself
apart from other items. So they're going with this cheap,
trendy thing that's the lipstick index.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I had never heard of that, but that's that's interesting. Agreed. Yeah, okay,
we'll keep our eye on that. What do we got
coming up? Is there a male equivalent to that? I
don't know. I don't know. I'd have to think about that.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Coming up, the incredible lack of purple states in the
US and why that might matter as we jerrymander ourselves
into like two different countries that live side by side, which.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Leads me into this.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I had this interesting experience, and I'm glad I have
a meta person that can be my.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Conduit's not the right word.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
What I want to guide got an entrance entrance point
into a world I don't really know because I got
as in a conversation conversation with a woman, a mom, herner, husband,
successful business people, raised kids, sound like the kids are
all a successful blah blah blah, like perfectly.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Upstanding, middle upper class people that.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Have no interest in any of this crap we ever
talk about, like none, don't know anything about any of it.
And I just thought, Wow, that must be awesome, that
must be really awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Well at the same time.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
You know, you got to participate and pay attention to
make the world worker.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It will, you know, rules will be get made. Blah
blah blah, all that stuff, you know, But it was
just so interesting.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
I don't hang around people like that, and it's just somebody.
It's just like they just don't know about any of
the any of that's scant you know, the Genes commercial
from last week or just any of those things.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
They're completely unaware of them. And I thought that must
be fantastic.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Do they have any concern about how their tax money
is spent? Because it sounds like there's probably a fair amount.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I don't know them well enough to know that, but
that's why I said, I look forward to this entrance
into this world of learning more about it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Do they have la booboos?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I bet they don't know what that is. Oh, that'd
being good for them.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
The booming NFL kick that's unofficially the best ever Jacksonville
kicker Cam Little nailed it seventy yard field goal against Pittsburgh. However,
it's not a league record because it happened in a
preseason game. A lengthy cake prompted Little to say, adrenalinees.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
A beautiful thing.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Seventy yard field goal got if you could make if
you had a guy could make that every now and
then that changes your situation.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Well, if you know anything about the NFL, generally they
snap it seven yards backward, add ten yards for the
end zone. Effectively, you don't even have to get to
mid field.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You snap it.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Back to the forty and the human cannon booms it
through the uprights down at the other end of the stadium.
You know, although as a football fan, that's kind of
exciting because you know, if you miss, you give up
the ball at the spot of the kick. Yeah, and
so it's a pretty good gamble seven. The longer they kick,
the bigger the gamble.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I just was looking at the highlights from the weekend.
There was a guy who, uh for the Patriots, I think,
ran one back first time he'd ever touched a football
as an NFL player in his entire life. He takes
it in the end zone, runs it back for one
hundred yards. That would be exciting.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, how cool. Preseason though, so it's meaningless.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Ain't got a lot of other people out there who
are trying really, really hard because they want to be
on the team.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Oh gosh, speaking of sports. Not that we're going to
speak of sports this segment. We have something very important
to get to. But the lady umpire, I haven't heard
a thorough review of her behind the plate appearance, because
that's where they earn their money, behind the plate.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
But it was a rough start.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Oh, I didn't know that. Okay, we'll talk about that later.
So I'm looking up at the TV. Katie, look this
up for me. La booboo scam warning they're reporting on
ABC News. We'll get to those details in hour three.
Not a Labuba scam. God, is nothing sacred?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Then the backlash to the scam, to the graze of
the scam anyway, So I thought this was an interesting
perspective coming up in a.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Moment or two. By the way, a glimpse.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Inside the recent Democratic Socialists of America convention m those
friggin lunatic Marxist scumbags that includes old Mamdami, the commediater
in New York. I thought this was an interesting perspective
about the jerrymandering thing that's been going on for a
(20:41):
very long time.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Texas.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Just trying to catch up to your Illinois and your
California's and the rest of it. But America's I oh, oh, oh,
that's right. I knew how I wanted to set this up.
Longtime listeners know for a very very long time. When
progressive jackasses, I'm sorry, you know what, that was uncharitable,
and I apologize. I apologize. When progressive folk would say
(21:10):
diversity is our greatest strength, I would frequently reply, no,
it's not. Unity is our greatest strength by far. Diversity
is kind of interesting, but unity is our greatest strength.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well comes this article.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
America is fracturing into red and blue nations, and some
of the stats are really really interesting. America's identity is
a unified nation is eroding, with Republican and democratic states
dividing into separate spheres, each with its own policies governing
the economic, social, and political rules of life. The upside
(21:45):
of this coming in a moment or two, because I
think there is an upside. But in forty states a
single party controls the House, the Senate, and the government's
office a governor's office. If they have a bicameral system. Wow, wow,
the so called trifecta. I think that's got to be
what roughly four fifths or eighty percent, or at least
(22:09):
they have enough power to block vetos from a governor
of the other parties, So they essentially have the trifecta.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
That is amazing.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
That leaves less than twenty percent of Americans living in
a state where the minority party has a meaningful voice
in government.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Which is why you might give up and leave that
state if that's not your cup of tea, because you
never get your way.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
In fact, you don't even get to limit the other
side's excessive right, which is a prong time Californians, we
can tell you all about it. The result has been
a deepening of differences in red and blue America, and
they go into a variety of issues like abortion and
that sort of thing. They use the term gender affirming care,
(22:54):
which is an absolute badge that you are a far
left progressive.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
If you ever use that.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Fox News, are you listening, well it either it either
means you're progressive or you've been tricked by the progressives
and you haven't caught on to there exactly. They've convinced
you that that's the language you're supposed to use.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Is yours again? I went too far and I regret it.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Does your article include this or is your feeling that
we're moving more toward this direction than like we're at
peak this. I feel like we're still moving more toward
the great sort.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
That's a really good question. Just from my gut, I'd say, yeah,
I agree with you completely.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
That ain't good. I don't think it good. It can't
be good. Gun it civil war and whatnot? Well, right, yeah,
and whatnot? YadA YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
And they mentioned that red and blue states have moved
into sharply in sharply different directions on employment law, gun regulation,
immigration enforcement, sex change, experiments on poor confused little kids.
I mentioned Aborsche, And you know, it's obviously bad in
(24:08):
that unity is our greatest strength, and that if the
president is of the other party, when China invades roughly
half the country is going to be tempted to say, oh,
that's his fault. You know what, I'm not supporting him
fighting the Chinese COMMI herds. He got us into this
with his damned you know, fascist or consider or progressive policy,
(24:32):
you know, would be disastrous.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I've been saying this for years, and I think it's
getting worse. If we had a nine to eleven again,
when I think who was ever president, George W. Bush
or Al Gore, whoever was president, we would have had
a ninety percent approval rating for that president, because that's
the way we responded to nine to eleven. I don't
think that would happen today.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
So to your point, they quote this fellow, Michael Podhortzer,
who is a former political director of the AFLCIO. I
have a feeling I know which way he leans, but
I thought it's an interesting point. He says, it's an
essential error to think of America as a single nation. Rather,
the US is a bi national republic, two nations, one red,
(25:17):
one blue. He said, there aren't canons, and this isn't
bull run. This is not a shooting civil war. Yeah,
but it's very much a battle of how people are
going to live in this country. In almost every way,
life in Blue America is different than in Red America, which,
putting aside the whole Chinese Horde scenario, the upside to this,
maybe that we've been calling for half seriously for a
(25:40):
long time, is all right, y'all get half the country,
we get the other half of the country. Let's meet
back in a decade and see who's doing better.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Yeah, but with federalism and such, is the red side
going to be paying for a lot of the blue
side's ridiculousness.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Until it collapses in the style of Illinois Californian more
specifically Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, d C. Yes, yes,
actually yeah, Well that's the downside of being right about
policy is we will not be just decimated with crime
(26:22):
and junkieism and overspending in the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
I would like to ask an historian, has this ever
been successfully tried before with an empire, country, nation something.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Where you have whatever the guy called that, a by.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
A a bi national republic?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Has there ever been a bi national republic or even
not a republic, but just you had two completely different
ways of living that don't really intermingle within one border
in theory, rowing the same direction in the.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
World, not without some conflict, none that I can think of,
having studied political systems since I was a wee lad.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
And of course the problem with that is whoever's president,
it will go back and forth between complete support for
that president and practically no support for that president. Right,
we'll swing back and forth with that. That'll be fun.
It's fun already, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Kids.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
So on that topic, the Democratic Socialists of America held
their conference recently, and wow, they are all excited. We're
in charge now, was their message. Zoronami's surprise when was
not an anomaly, they said, but rather the start of
the dssay's rise to power over.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
The Democratic Party. I think they are the heir apparent.
I hope they're right, because then they're going to lose
every election.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
I think right, because their policies are idiotic and practically suicidal.
A couple of facts here that are just too good
to pass up. Attendees were required to submit and everybody,
stop doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
And think about this. This just happened in Chicago. Of course,
Attendees were required to submit proof of a negative COVID
test prior to arrival.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
In summer of twenty twenty five. This just happened, Yes, yeah,
all right, what is the tie in there?
Speaker 5 (28:33):
We played the it was a coat like when we
played the what was the clip we had last week
of these people at their socialist meeting?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
But we pointed out the video of it was.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
They were all wearing masks, and we were trying to
figure out what how does that fit together. You're still
scared of COVID in the middle of twenty twenty five,
and you're a socialist, they obviously go together. That's not
one of those where there's no correlation between the two things.
There's clearly some sort of correlation.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
It might just be.
Speaker 7 (29:00):
In fact, I'm pretty sure it is a barely coherent
tribal signaling mechanism that during COVID people of the left
were extremely obedient, shut everything down, wore masks to the
point of, you know, I almost said absurdity, but it's
horror forcing a toddler to wear a mask in preschool,
(29:24):
Oh my god, with it hanging down around their chin
and the rest of it. I mean, to the point
of like surrealism. They adhered to every limitation and now
that you know, please, who's worried about this were in
the middle of twenty twenty five, they still wear the
masks to show that they're people of the left.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now they're so crazy.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Yeah, I know, it is, It absolutely is. Let's see,
said one prominent speaker. The Democratic Party is dying. They
have less support than the Republican party. The Democratic is
stabu blishment is coming our way, they pointed out, and
they're right. Mamdani earned an endorsement from foe Indian Elizabeth Warren,
(30:10):
praise from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, no soul, and
a meeting with House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries. DSA delegates
past a number of resolutions to amend the party's platform,
well periodically waiving Communist party flags. Literally they are hardcore
pro Hamas among other things. In fact, they spent a
(30:34):
lot of time on that. Oh and they made speeches
about how that's clearly a winning issue and they need
to double down on that.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
That has to be a main part of their identity.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
So every Sunday show yesterday led with Russia, Ukraine putin
Trump meeting on Friday, because it's a huge, huge story.
I think it was who was it? Somebody led with
the redistricting thing, which I thought was little. But we
got a great guest on that, our old friend Lan
he Chen, who's run for office in California knows a
(31:07):
lot about California politics, on how misleading it is that
Texas is doing something incredibly aberrant and unfair. Let's to democracy,
and we're going to have him in the third hour,
So if you don't have that planned or whatever, you
want to get the podcast. We can take a break
from politics for a little while and take a look
at that first female umpire in Major League Baseball and
(31:30):
how that went. I've read some really really snarky responses
that I don't Oh, no, I know no, I know
what on the internet and the Internet of all places. Anyway,
stay tuned.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
This weekend, major League Baseball will have its first female umpire. Yeah,
but the game won't start until you hear about her day.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
So it's unful believable the kind of jokes that have
been going on or out around it. But partially because
unless maybe Jo cans strike me out on this, I
don't see why I'm surprised there hasn't already been a
female Major leagueumpire.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Is there any reason why a one couldn't do it
the same as a.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Man When when you get to stuff where it's all
about strength and speed, there is a difference between men
and women.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
But is there here.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
I'll let you talk about that in a second, But
we talked last week lots of jokes online about it.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The most I asked Groc about them.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
The most common one is something along the lines of,
you know, she throws a guy out of the game,
he says, what do I do?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And she says, you know what you did?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Or she'll call someone out for a play three years ago.
As Groc says, poking fun and outdated gender tropes. Is
everybody laughing because that's not somewhat true. I mean, give
me a break, AnyWho, and then the whole well, there's
other jokes.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But she actually debuted over the weekend. How did it go?
Speaker 12 (32:59):
Street today?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Wait, Joey, wait, wait, wait, wait, Joe's going to set
this up like, yeah, she did.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
She worked her way toward home plate, as is the
umpire's tradition.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You go third to second or first to home.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
And there's a great deal of attention being paid to
her plate debut, particularly the first pitch.
Speaker 12 (33:21):
Some more history today. Joey Wentz is ready. We hope
you're ready. Here we go. Joey Wentz likes that first
call for Jim Powell. He'll take it, and I wonder
if they're going to take the baseball.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
I guess not.
Speaker 12 (33:33):
I thought that maybe that would be kind of a
big one.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
There we go, now we got to figure it out.
Speaker 12 (33:37):
Yep, they are going to authenticate it and Jim Powell
will forever get to keep that.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So if I was just listening to that, I would
have thought nothing. But you're saying there's something to that.
Speaker 7 (33:46):
Yeah, you remark that the pitcher really liked that call.
It's because it was at least four inches off the plate.
I mean, it was clearly a ball and she called
it a strike. Surprise twist. According to my impeachable baseball sources,
of course, they haven't been impeached yet, she actually was
pretty solid well, as a source close to the major
(34:12):
leagues says, she was fine, just like all of us.
Umpiring is pain. She'll be subject to the same as
the rest of us. Was the first call like egregiously wrong?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yes, it was terrible.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
Does that happen? How often does that happen with umpires
in their first ever?
Speaker 7 (34:33):
You'd be nervous, Yeah, yeah that, Yeah, you shouldn't make
a call that bad, but it happens. It's harder than
it looks. She will call, you know, one hundred plus
pitches in the game and probably actually like miss miss
a few.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Is there any reason?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Is there any reason a woman couldn't do this job
as well as a man, like I don't see why
they're I'm surprised that there hasn't been a female empire.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
The only argument would be because they're on the field
with a lot of very manly men with very high stakes,
and they're the It's not like arguing vociferously and angrily
with baseball umpires is unknown, And it just seemed like
a better thing for a dude to take on a
(35:21):
dude and not a woman.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
To get in the face of a man.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Yeah, yeah, and tradition, although you know, there have been
psychological studies that show that angry dudes, when confronted with
a dude, will say, oh yeah, come on. Confronted with
a woman, they'll say, all right, all right, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Well the first time that happens, that'll be interesting and
get tremendous amount of talk, I guarantee you. But to
the whole being nervous thing, I was watching a little
bit of preseason NFL football yesterday when my kids were
eating a haircut in the forty nine Ers game was on,
and this guy who really wants to make the team
in his NFL debut, perfect pass right in the hands
dropped it, and the announcers were talking, boy, you got
(36:01):
to catch that ball. And here you are trying to
make the team. And I thought, this guy has been
the star of his junior high team, his high school team,
a star in college. Here he is and he dropped that.
I mean, it's just yeah, probably nerves. Yeah, I mean,
you dropped something no matter what. But yeah, that's I
guess it happens anyway. Trump just made a big announcement
(36:22):
about DC Police, among other things.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
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