July 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Anniversary of Trump attempted assassination & Secret Service suspended
- Waymo rides for teens, the tuba & the Epstein files
- New Superman movie & ESPN policing politics
- Cracker tips & the Grok meltdown
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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, Katty arm Strong
and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty. I think there's
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a decent chance the whole Russia Ukraine thing goes from
being something you know, people like me are interested into
everybody's talking about it as Trump it gets more involved
in this. But more on that later. Also, I assume
from all the promos I'm seeing on TV about Superman
that comes out this weekend, but Joe's going to try
to ruin that movie for us before it before your
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kids get a chance to enjoy it. That's what I do.
So that's something to look forward to. Also, another AI
chat thingy coming online that could be huge, tell you
about that. Sunday will be the one year anniversary of
the almost killing of Donald Trump that kicked off one
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of the craziest weeks and months in US political history,
No doubt about it. This is what it all sounded like.
Try to remember what it looked like. He's speaking, crack, crack, turns,
his head goes down, Oh my god, is he dead?
Pops up, fight, fight, fight, crowd comes around the whole thing.
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Here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And you know that's a little bit old, that chart,
that charts a couple of months old.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And if you want to really see.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Something, that said, take a look at what happened?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
What is there?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Hold?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Hold?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
What are you ready? On? You ready?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Move?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Moves here?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
You ready?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh? No, shoot, we're good.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Shoots down.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm good to know we're Let me get my shoe.
Let me so I got Let me get my shoes.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So hold on your head, body, so we gotta get
to bucks. Let me get ho tel Wow. I was
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creaking amazing. I don't know if I didn't I heard
that audio before. You can actually hear Trump saying let
me get my shoes.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Wait, if you don't have chills right now, I hear you,
I don't know what's wrong with you. That was harrowing,
horrifying and amazing. And you know, we got talked about
it a lot at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But what the hell sort of different world would be
be living in if Trump? You know, if that bullet
had been an inch to the right and his head
had exploded on television, and half the country would have
believed it was the Democrats that did it, or not half,
but a big percentage, and obviously you'd have a different
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presidence right by now, that's for certain, and everything that
would go with that, And I can't even imagine what
that would have done to our politics.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, and I don't want to jump the gun, but
as I heard shot after shot rang out, I'm just
astounded anew by the incredible incompetence that day of the
Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, we're about to get into that who's to blame
on the incompetence part, but with the six being suspended,
But before we get to that, reliving that and having
seen the videos again, the one year anniversary is on Sunday.
The fact that Trump popped up with the thought of
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facing the crowd fist in the air fight fight fight
is just amazing. I don't know that one in a
million people could do that well, and it is going
to change world history, and not just in the obvious way. Okay,
a different guy because that helped propel him to the presidency, obviously,
but the enormous gulf between the policies of Trump and
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the policies of whether it was Kamala Harris or the
se Nile Biden, that will absolutely be a pivot point
in the history certainly in the next century. No kidding,
it's it's just it's stunning that world history can hinge
on something like that that could have gone the other
direct so easily, Right, which.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Is why assassinations are so horrifying. Right, one person should
never ever get that much power, certainly in a system
like ours, Just to mention the utter horror of it
on a human and religious level.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, Yeah, he's got you know, he's got kids, et cetera,
et cetera. Right, you shouldn't be a murderer for a
number of good reasons. Back to you. Secret Service suspends
six agents assigned to protect Trump during the Butler assassination attempt,
and this is around that assassination attempt. Six members have
been suspended for failures related to last year's assassination attempt.
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I gotta believe it's got to do with the timing
of the year anniversary and how much attention that's going
to get, and people like you saying failures of the
Secret Service blah blah blah, and that conversation being had
to get It's got to be, doesn't it that there's
no way coincidentally that this just happens odd, Right, I.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Mean the failures were obvious within an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, I got some inside information on that in a second.
But just reading the headline from yesterday, the suspensions for
six agents ranged from ten to forty two days, and
they won't be paid while on leave. They're not being fired,
but upon return to work, they'll be placed in roles
with diminished operational responsibility, which I happen to actually know
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this happens in a lot of government work. Is kind
of practically a way of firing you, because sometimes people
get sent to jobs that they'd rather not do.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
I suspect virtually all of those people resign fairly quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But a ten days suspension without pay and you don't
get fired, how much of a punishment of that? I mean,
my only point is how much of this is just
to make it look like we're doing something about it,
where we did something about it. We're doing something about it.
So don't have a conversation about the Secret Service, because
obviously we're on top of it. Sure seems to me.
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The Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told CBS News,
We're not going to fire our way out of this.
We're going to focus on the root cause and fix
the deficiencies that put us in that situation. Well, that
might be enough for both, might be three days before
the one year anniversary. Just I mean, is that that
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That just makes it look to me like it's not
clearly not one. We're going to try to have the
best agency that can be for protecting the president, or
you would have done these things eleven months ago or
six months ago, or whenever you figured out who was
to blame for whatever reason, you wouldn't have done it
on the one year anniversary. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
As I said at the time, this failure was catastrophic.
It was like GM failed to order steel for their cars,
or a football team showed up for a game on
Sunday having failed to plan out any plays.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They just forgot to put together a playbook.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
It's it's a failure so egregious and enormous. I can
still hardly believe it happened. And the idea that it
would take NION twelve months to decide who ought to
be punished somewhat, but we're not going to fire our
way out of this, and it would take NION twelve
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months to come up with policy changes, And I just please,
that does not even come close to smelling to passing
the smell test. Unless I guess you're a career bureaucrat.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well something you're probably not going to hear anywhere else
because this comes from a source with very good connections,
and this is a source that is Secret Service friendly,
though not always a cheerleader for because like any government agency,
you can have flaws. But I'll just read what they
their insight was on this. They said they've been in
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touch with a lot of guys over the past few months.
They've heard some outrageous s. For example, one young Secret
Service uniformed offer officer has been written up for a
abandoning his post at Butler. It sounds awful, but what
he actually did was leave his post at the entrance,
which was closed as Potus was on stage at that point,
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and ran toward the stage where he saw people getting
shot at he assisted, intending to the murdered fireman in
the aftermath. For instance, the Service wanted to punish him
because they needed people to punish uh the Service. I
don't know if he's among those being disciplined in this
six people. Additionally, I've learned that the woman agent who
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famously had trouble with their Holster was directly responsible for
getting headquarters to actually send the counter sniper team to
Butler in the first place. Her decision saved everyone that day.
Is she on the punishment list? I don't know, says
this source. I know who wasn't punished, and that's the
local police department who was supposed to secure the roof
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and didn't. I've thought this from early on and have
multiple agents confirmed this over the past few weeks. F
those guys lazy asked cowards.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
This person says, wow, Okay, Now I don't know what
that coordination looks like and to what extent the Secret
Service considers it necessary to check that what local law
enforcement says is being done is being done. I mean,
it's good to delegate, and it's necessary to delegate, but
(10:24):
at what point do you trust yet verify if you will?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But that is interesting to say. Let me throw this
in just very briefly.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
It just found out yesterday nobody as Secret Services talked
to the widow of Corey Comparatoor, the poor fireman murdered
by the young lunatic, to explain the failures that resulted
in the death of the love of her life and
the father of her children.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That strikes me as awful. Uh yeah. So a little
more background, and this is interesting just from the whole
bureaucracy government agency sort of thing. There are protected layers
in all bureaucracies. Think of it like concentric circles. This
person says, who has been in these agencies outside the
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circles are the worker bees totally expendable, easily punished. Then
you have supervisors inside the first ring. But supervisors in
the field don't enjoy the same protection as managers who
work at headquarters. That's the division I'm hearing today, this
person said. Guys in the field office who are told
to work with what we give you are being suspended,
while the supervisor and headquarters, who is at the site
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the day prior and signed off on everything, has not
been held accountable and has been promoted since that all happened. Yeah,
that's typical of well, any business or government bureaucracies. Often
that is the case. Boy.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
That is such a reality in law enforcement these days too.
Remember talking about the incredible rash of suicides among Chicago
cops because they're out there in danger circumstances told, yeah,
here's your policies, good luck, and then when they're shot up,
beat up, whatever, and things go the slightest bit sideways,
the politicians abandon them, throw them to the wolves. They're
outside those circles of protection. And I know that's the reality,
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especially in bureaucracies, but man, I hate to hear that
about the Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Right. Lastly, the chest in the park story was hilarious.
Deal with the gorilla Henry true. This person says, Yeah,
all I want is it to be efficient. I don't
need anybody to get fired. If nobody deserves to be fired,
I don't care about that, or fire fifty people, but
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figure out what the problem or if it's the Butler
police as this person says, well, then we got to
fix that, right, I mean, that has got to be
a verification system. God, I would say, holy crap. Yeah,
and I we played that clip. I wasn't even sure
it was necessary to play that clip, but holy cow,
did that bring that back? Yeah? You know, I almost
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said we dodged a bullet. We did. Oh my, I
can't imagine the turmoil this country would have been in
if he had been killed. Oo that would have been bad.
Any thoughts on any of that text? Line four one, five,
two nine, five KFTC, the age.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Old question from every teenager mom or dad, can you
pick me up?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The answer for some.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Parents now just way Away, the driverless car company now
offering teens between fourteen and seventeen years old rides starting
in Phoenix Way moosas parents compare teens to their accounts
so they can hail the fully autonomous rides.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Shoot, wait a minute, Wait a minute, what if of
starting in Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't live anywhere near Phoenix.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Why would I want my kid to have a ride
starting in Phoenix?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
This is ridiculous. That is so huge. Every parent who
you know spends a good chunk of their time. Seems
like all of your time running kids around like I
did yesterday tuba practice here, pick up another kid from
his schooling that he's doing private school during the summer,
and back and forth. I mean I spent half my
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afternoon picking it up and dropping off. You got way
mood that can go and do that, and you trust it.
I assume that would be huge. Yeah, yeah, wow wow.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Because currently I'm still as a parent, my kids are grown,
but I still have a bit of a feeling of
I want to.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Check into this a little more. But it'll take a while,
but as it becomes more common and you know, there
are not disastrous results, people will become more comfortable with it.
I assume, like I've tried to either uber or lift
one of them wouldn't let me do it because I
tried to do that one time, and they wouldn't let
me put a kid in there without an adult. Because
I was trying to I had one to pick up,
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or I had to pick up another one somewhere else.
You know, one of those jams.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
My headline there is your son is hanging with the
tuba my former instruments. Yes, of course, Ludwig von Beethoven
called the tuba the most noble of instruments.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Really, I did not know that. Is that truly totally.
I got a good picture of Sam with like one
of the oldest or most famous tubas at the at
the met in New York, so I sent that to
his band teacher, who really appreciated it. Of course. Oh god,
that's funny. And why is Sam paying a tuba? Because
he was big enough to carry it. That's how he
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got assigned to tuba Epstein One more time. Oh didn't
see this coming, you gov poll How confident are Americans
that all people connected with Jeffrey Epstein alleged to have
committed sex crimes will be thoroughly investigated. Basically is you know,
(15:47):
do you think there's a cover up or not? Not
at all? Almost half of Americans are not confident at
all that the investigation will be thorough on Jeffrey Epstein.
Not very is twenty two, So that gets you to
sixty seven percent. Two thirds of Americans are not at
all or not very So. I guess everybody feels like
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there's more to know.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Well, and I think people just know instinctively that if
there are very important people which might mean politically powerful
or very very wealthy involved, and there is any level
of plausible deniability or a little murky how involved they
were in the real pervo stuff, that many politicians and
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prosecutors will look.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
For any excuse not to go there, right. I don't
think people understand that you come up with some sort
of like the doctor saying, hippa is the reason he
can't talk about Joe Biden's mental health. Yeah, that's the reason.
I mean, you come up with something yeah good enough,
Yeah good enough. Joe's going to ruin the Superman movie
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for us before we've even seen it, even though it's.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Us so Superman and move that's it beneath me? Sorry
I said that. Uh, and more media madness. I'm gonna
call out ESPN. Oh, don't watch another w NBA game
or bowling tournament and team hear my words, stay.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
With us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Is this Crypto? What the hey, dude, I thought you
destroyed the whole Superman robots. I thought I told you
to keep an eye on him. We feed the K nine,
but he is unruly and who realizes we are not
flesh and blood and couldn't, in our heart of hearts,
careless whether he lives or dies. Crypto so super The
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new Superman movie is a bit of a comedy. I
don't know how I feel about that. As a clip
always been chuckles in the Superman movie. It's a clip
from the new See this was a man of steals
supposed to be saving us from evildoers. I haven't got
time for joices throwing off a witty aside and again,
all right, anyway, there's a new Superman movie out that's
supposed to be pretty good. I guess, I don't know,
But Jack there is controversy surrounding the new Superman movie.
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James Gunn, the director of the upcoming film, and his
actor brother Sean, who plays some part, are under fire
after suggesting in an interview in a feign Land, London,
specifically that anyone who supports Donald Trump's immigration policies is
not American enough to appreciate their movie. Quote, I mean,
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I mean Superman is the story of America, an immigrant
that came from other places and populated the country. Uh.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
He Then his brother defended the director's original suggestion, because
then they backtracked and said, no, it's it's fine. I'm
not here to judge people. It's a movie about kindness.
That's something everybody can relate to.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But then his.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Actor brother, not getting the memo, leapt to the director's
defense and said, yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes,
the people we support in this country are immigrants, and
if you don't like that, then you're not American.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm sticking my fingers in my ears, la la la,
because people like you will ruin everything, because you certainly
hope to any TV show, movie, music book, pretty much,
if you look at the person behind it, they're gonna
have different politics than you, because it tends to be
the case with entertainers and you know, artist types, and
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then I won't be able to enjoy anything.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, I thank you for beating the be Jesus out
of that, poor straw man. The actual problem here is
not that they have those politics. It's that they express
those politics in really rude terms, specifically in reference to
their project. Yeah, but we do hear about it in
the way that we didn't used to because because the
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way everything's so divided. You're gonna tell me that very actors,
directors or whatever didn't say something I would have hated
it con you know, thirty years.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Ago, but it wasn't something, Oh, this will be huge.
You put it in the New York Post. The actor
in this new movie, he said something anti Reagan was
was not the flavor of the day.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Right, So we'll just label this section of the podcast
Jack in favor of communist Superman movie.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I just I just I just say it's it's a
good point. I just can't you know, I got flipped
off again yesterday in my cyber truck. I just can't live.
I just can't participate in this world where we run
everything through the political filter. It just it wears me
out so moving along. Speaking to the other hand, when
it gets to be too much, like, it's so hard
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for me to enjoy Bruce Springsteen. It came up on
one of my playlist things yesterday and I almost can't
which sucks. I love Bruce Springsteen's music, but gee, I
just think about him being so pompous and arrogant about
various things. I think, Ah, yeah, I actually agree with
you on the point you made. At the same time, though,
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there's that everybody agrees with me, and anybody who doesn't
is evil hubris that the Hollywood types and Bruce have
that bothers the crap out of me, no doubt, and
it would be lovely if they realized, wait a minute,
not everybody does agree with that. And the way I
put it that I put my sentiment was way too
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aggressive and way too judgmental, and.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I had to learn from that. But at the same time,
I appreciate your point.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
If I was gonna do actual analysis, non emotional analysis,
it would be I can't believe at this point, having
witnessed a bunch of this sort of stuff when you've
got so much money involved, that you would do that
It just seems shocking to me that you wouldn't think,
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you know, I'm gonna leave politics completely out of any
interview I ever do about this movie. I'm just gonna
flog my movie.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, especially you're in Britain that has an enormous immigration
crisis going on and you just branded well anyway, enough
on that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So I thought this was so interesting.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
The folks at OutKick doing a great job writing about
ESPN and their history of cracking down on any political
statement by their hosts, by their reporters if it's republican right.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I was about to say, it's got to be just
one direction, because I hear all kinds progressive views on
ESPN are in sports in general, and.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Interestingly, Stephen A. Smith just called them out for it.
He says, you can't let one person get away with
it and not let the other person get away with it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The rules have to be for everybody.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
And they go into some examples where Sage Steel, for instance,
discussed vaccine mandates and among other things, and got suspended
in trouble for that. Last week, a couple of their
hosts praised Michelle Obama and that was not considered politics.
(23:06):
That's fine, it's a sports show. I don't know why
you're even talking about that. That's not that strong an example.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
We thought they would never praise Malania Trump or Laura
Bush exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
That would be seen as really political and controversial because
not everybody agrees with that.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So let's see.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
So they put out a statement about Sage Steele. A
couple of years ago at ESPN, we embraced different points
of view, dialogues and discussion, make this place great, blah
blah blah, but essentially, don't do it on the air.
Don't express your politics on the air like Steele. Ashley
Brewer is another former ESPN anchor with conservative views. Last April,
she told a story about how the network ordered her
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to remove a post photo she posted with a Republican
Republican congressman at a sporting event. She got chewed out
and forced to take it down, and then she points
out that Mark Jones of ESPN isry cover photo for
all of his social media is him hanging out with
Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Speaking of Mark Jones, I don't understand how more people
and it includes people on the right, because I've run
into this, you know, with people that are very pro
Trump or whatever. I just don't understand how more people
don't recognize that you might be in a room full
of people that don't agree with you when you say
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various things, or when you're doing interviews and you're trying
to promote a product. How are so many people blind
to that? Right, half of the country disagrees with you,
whichever side you're on. Half the country that down, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
So anyway, I want to talk about this Mark Jones
character who does what color commentary Michael for the Sacramento Kings.
This guy is an America hating DLM activist. So here
here are the things he has posted online that ESPN
hasn't said a damned word about false claims that stadium
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police officers were gonna shoot him.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Dead because he is black. Oh my god, I remember
when he said that.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Wow, tweets telling Rush Limbaud a rot in hell the
day Rush's wife announced her husband and died of lung cancer,
lies about the police murdering Jacob Blake, who is still alive,
Posts calling Stephen a Smith quote a koon. Pardon me, folks,
it's not a term I would ever use. Posts calling
his white colleagues and bosses blind to racism in front
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of him, tweets celebrating Nick Bosa of the forty nine
ers tearing his asl as payback for standing for the
national anthem and supporting Donald Trump. Wow, and he's kept
on saying Mago women are skanks, claims that Ron de
Santis is a member of the KKK.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I can go on. I've gotten through half the list.
So what does this guy do? He's the color commentator
for the King's radio broadcaster. He's an ES host an
anchor in addition to that, well as a guy who
lives in Sacramento and might enjoy the Kings. What does
he do for the Kings? Michael, you hear commentator but TV? Yeah,
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I couldn't see. That would be that's too far for me.
I couldn't. Oh no, that's that's her reasons. I've said
for years the Kings are dead. I couldn't ever listen
to a game knowing that guy is involved in it.
You lose me forever with that. Yeah, and then just
is another contrast.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Last summer espl ESPN NFL analyst Demena Kymes uh oh
I'm sorry, Oh yeah, Chimes posted on let's say Oh
she endorsed Tim Walls on the air. There's something to
me really important about seeing someone like this modeling a
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different kind of masculinity.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This man the.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Year he was a football coach, led the gay Straight
Lions at the high school. That's really powerful in a
way that goes beyond politics.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
She said on the air on ESPN.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
No repercussions, And as they write it out, kick if
you're a politician who puts tampons in boys' locker rooms
and dessert soldiers when they're deployed to a combat zone,
so be it. But just imagine the repercussions of someone
at the network made similar remarks about JD.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Vans. Oh my god, I'm surprised since Stephen A. Smith
is by far the biggest dog at ESPN, by far,
him saying not cool doesn't carry more weight. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Interestingly enough, Stephen in his last contract had it in
there that he can say what he wants about politics
or any other topic.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Good for him, but he's smart enough to know, like
what I was just talking about, the whole half the
country disagrees with whatever take I've got, So you know,
keep that in mind.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
So one more wacky media bias story sent along by
alert listener Jeff. This is the LA Times had a
big piece entitled California refuses to comply with Trump administration
demand the bar female trans athletes. I was gonna save
this for a gender betting madness, you know, segment, but
(28:12):
I thought it was interesting that they go on to
describe the story how title nine Trump administration trans athletes
blah blah blah blah blah. Then you go to the comments,
and this is what Jeff pointed out. And then the
LA Times does not have a conservative listen readership. They
are a liberal newspaper. They're also the big dog in
LA these days. I'm just gonna read the comments in order.
(28:37):
Transgender females who compete against bio girls are bullies. I'm
a native California and I've lived in New York all
of my life. This sort of thinking is why trans
people deserve respect for their choices but do not belong
in biological women's sports. Don't they see it makes them
look like losers who can never compete against men as
well as bullies. Trans get out of women's sports, so
(28:58):
so unfair. Next comment, gendersy is a mental illness requiring
psychiatric care, not catering. Next segment, the picture caption says
it all.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Next comment, a transgender athlete is congratulated after a successful
hyjiup attempt. That's because she's a man, guys. Next comment,
how did we get so far off the deep end?
It's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Wow. I could go on and on and on. That's
a good point if the La Times comment section is
that well, as we all know, it's it's an eighty
twenty issue. And as we often point out, I think
if you sat people down and said ninety percent of
people agree with you, you'd get ten percent more to
come along. They're just going along with it because they
think it's the prevailing thought, right, right, exactly. And I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
It was actually alert listener Palo who sent this lung
but he comments, think you're saying that Dems are misreading
their constituents attitudes on transports. Yesterday, indeed, I was comments
on this story certainly seem to support your hypothesis. I
think Dems correctly assessed that they have constituents who want
them to stand up to Trump. I don't think those
constituents want their politicians to double down on the knee
(30:04):
jerk Trump derangement syndrome that played such a big part
in getting Trump re elected. Yeah, you're right, You on
the Democratic side have completely misread this issue. Completely Read
the comments on this Liberal.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Newspapers article, or talk to most anyone. You know, nine
out of ten of them we're going to say, yeah,
that's crazy, boy.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Make sure you emphasize to them now if you say
something I disagree with, I won't try to end your
career or get you ruined, because that's what people are
afraid of, because you do.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That all the time, vicious bastards.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
There's some big stuff going on with the whole rush
of Ukraine thing, which could blow up into probably you
shouldn't use that expression, blow up into the number one
story in America pretty easily, I think, depending on where
Trump goes with this. But we got a lot of other
stuff too, so stay here.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
The parent company of Rich issuing a voluntary recall of
some sandwich crackers. The company saying some individually wrapped crackers
may be incorrectly labeled as cheese that may have peanut
butter inside. Shoppers with peanut allergies or urged to discard
any product identified in the recall.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's my favorite story of the day. Some of those
little ritz crackers I had just I had a bag
of them the other day. Sam bought some as like
a backup emergency we're gonna starve to death airport thing.
He put in his backpack, and we ended up in
a situation where, for whatever reason, we sat on the
tarmac for forty five minutes. So instead of having you know,
(31:40):
an hour in between to get food or whatever, we
didn't had to run to our gate. Why they do that,
there's all kinds of reasons, but it's very madding. Anyway,
had to go to the backup plan, which was his
little rich crackers, those rich crackers. And I don't even
know if it was cheese or peanut butter, because the
cheese ones don't taste like cheese, and the peanut wut
butter ones don't taste like peanut butter because or not
cheese or peanut butter, and uh, you know, and I
(32:03):
don't know which they were, but anyway, they're delicious, freaking
freaking delicious, a little tiny mini ritz with some sort
of something chemically in between. But this particular one was mislabeled.
The cheese when it was supposed to be peanut butter
or the other way around.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yes, you're avidly against eating things like this, so this
must have been like a dire situation, right.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Uh, yeah, we were gonna starve to death. Okay. As
I've said more than one, I weep for your colon. Ah.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Oh oh, you want a cracker tip that'll change your life?
Who does a humble trisc it?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Right? Familiar with the trisc it? Very crunchy, very crumbly.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Olive oil and rosemary trisc it with cheese. Its spectacular
as an appetizer at a fine Italian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You would think, oh, this is delicious today. Oh I
love cheese and crackers. Oh yeah, jeez, and crackers is good.
I grew up in Wisconsin. We had lots of cheese
and crackers. That's a good little that's good right there.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
I got really a bougie the other day when we
were having company over and I made an almond maple
bree oh, and we dipped Granny Smith apple slices into it.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I could have just had that. I wanted to take.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
The whole tray and say, everyone go home, you're no
longer welcome here.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
This is better than I expected, so if you can
please leave. Yeah, I was just trying to like reach,
you know, past fail level with pleasing you as guests.
But this is too good. Get out exceeded good enough
for this, Okay. So I'm highly confused by what happened
with groc Elon's AI thing praising Hitler or whatever. Here's
(33:51):
one news version of that trying to explain it.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Elon Musk vow to retrain his AI system, known as
grock after growing angry with its answers. He said, we're
quote parroting legacy media. Those changes appear to have prompted
Grok to use some anti Semitic tropes, the chatbot, going
so far as praising Adolf Hitler. Grok also claiming Jews,
who are just two percent of the US population, hold
disproportionate roles in places like media, finance, and politics. What
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they do is that control or merit? It questioned when
CNN asked Rockets sources for some of these posts. It's
at four chan, a favorite form for extremists known for
its hateful conduct.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
So that's interesting. So Elon thought Grok was just parroting
mainstream media. He recalibrated it, and then it goes to
four chan to get its information. Whoops, recalibrated too far. Whoops.
That's interesting. Okay, I mentioned this earlier. I think this
could be a big deal. Open ai, which Elon helped
(34:45):
start but then left when they became a for profit
AI and he was concerned about it, is releasing an
AI powered web browser to challenge Google. Google's already suffering
greatly from chat, GPT and others like I never Google
anything now and now Open a Eye is going to
have one specifically aimed at Google. Google's in trouble.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Yeah, clearly all of that is about to change so
completely and so rapidly.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Right, Google could be like, well, like what's on MySpace
was the biggest thing in the country and then disappeared overnight.
Hot job in America.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
AI expert have some figures that will knock your socks
off all sorts of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Next hour stay with us Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong
and Getty, and he Armstrong and Getty. I think there's
(00:24):
a decent chance the whole Russia Ukraine thing goes from
being something you know, people like me are interested into
everybody's talking about it as Trump it gets more involved
in this. But more on that later. Also, I assume
from all the promos I'm seeing on TV about Superman
that comes out this weekend, but Joe's going to try
to ruin that movie for us before it before your
(00:45):
kids get a chance to enjoy it. That's what I do.
So that's something to look forward to. Also, another AI
chat thingy coming online that could be huge, tell you
about that. Sunday will be the one year anniversary of
the almost killing of Donald Trump that kicked off one
(01:08):
of the craziest weeks and months in US political history,
No doubt about it. This is what it all sounded like.
Try to remember what it looked like. He's speaking, crack, crack, turns,
his head goes down, Oh my god, is he dead?
Pops up, fight, fight, fight, crowd comes around the whole thing.
(01:29):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And you know that's a little bit old, that chart,
that charts a couple of months old.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And if you want to really see.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Something, that said, take a look at what happened?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
What is there?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Hold?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Hold?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
What are you ready? On? You ready?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Move?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Moves here?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
You ready?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh? No, shoot, we're good.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Shoots down.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'm good to know we're Let me get my shoe.
Let me so I got Let me get my shoes.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So hold on your head, body, so we gotta get
to bucks. Let me get ho tel Wow. I was
(02:51):
creaking amazing. I don't know if I didn't I heard
that audio before. You can actually hear Trump saying let
me get my shoes.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Wait, if you don't have chills right now, I hear you,
I don't know what's wrong with you. That was harrowing,
horrifying and amazing. And you know, we got talked about
it a lot at the time.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
But what the hell sort of different world would be
be living in if Trump? You know, if that bullet
had been an inch to the right and his head
had exploded on television, and half the country would have
believed it was the Democrats that did it, or not half,
but a big percentage, and obviously you'd have a different
(03:28):
presidence right by now, that's for certain, and everything that
would go with that, And I can't even imagine what
that would have done to our politics.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, and I don't want to jump the gun, but
as I heard shot after shot rang out, I'm just
astounded anew by the incredible incompetence that day of the
Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, we're about to get into that who's to blame
on the incompetence part, but with the six being suspended,
But before we get to that, reliving that and having
seen the videos again, the one year anniversary is on Sunday.
The fact that Trump popped up with the thought of
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facing the crowd fist in the air fight fight fight
is just amazing. I don't know that one in a
million people could do that well, and it is going
to change world history, and not just in the obvious way. Okay,
a different guy because that helped propel him to the presidency, obviously,
but the enormous gulf between the policies of Trump and
(04:40):
the policies of whether it was Kamala Harris or the
se Nile Biden, that will absolutely be a pivot point
in the history certainly in the next century. No kidding,
it's it's just it's stunning that world history can hinge
on something like that that could have gone the other
direct so easily, Right, which.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Is why assassinations are so horrifying. Right, one person should
never ever get that much power, certainly in a system
like ours, Just to mention the utter horror of it
on a human and religious level.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right, Yeah, he's got you know, he's got kids, et cetera,
et cetera. Right, you shouldn't be a murderer for a
number of good reasons. Back to you. Secret Service suspends
six agents assigned to protect Trump during the Butler assassination attempt,
and this is around that assassination attempt. Six members have
been suspended for failures related to last year's assassination attempt.
(05:37):
I gotta believe it's got to do with the timing
of the year anniversary and how much attention that's going
to get, and people like you saying failures of the
Secret Service blah blah blah, and that conversation being had
to get It's got to be, doesn't it that there's
no way coincidentally that this just happens odd, Right, I.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Mean the failures were obvious within an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well, I got some inside information on that in a second.
But just reading the headline from yesterday, the suspensions for
six agents ranged from ten to forty two days, and
they won't be paid while on leave. They're not being fired,
but upon return to work, they'll be placed in roles
with diminished operational responsibility, which I happen to actually know
(06:23):
this happens in a lot of government work. Is kind
of practically a way of firing you, because sometimes people
get sent to jobs that they'd rather not do.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
I suspect virtually all of those people resign fairly quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But a ten days suspension without pay and you don't
get fired, how much of a punishment of that? I mean,
my only point is how much of this is just
to make it look like we're doing something about it,
where we did something about it. We're doing something about it.
So don't have a conversation about the Secret Service, because
obviously we're on top of it. Sure seems to me.
(06:58):
The Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told CBS News,
We're not going to fire our way out of this.
We're going to focus on the root cause and fix
the deficiencies that put us in that situation. Well, that
might be enough for both, might be three days before
the one year anniversary. Just I mean, is that that
(07:18):
That just makes it look to me like it's not
clearly not one. We're going to try to have the
best agency that can be for protecting the president, or
you would have done these things eleven months ago or
six months ago, or whenever you figured out who was
to blame for whatever reason, you wouldn't have done it
on the one year anniversary. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
As I said at the time, this failure was catastrophic.
It was like GM failed to order steel for their cars,
or a football team showed up for a game on
Sunday having failed to plan out any plays.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They just forgot to put together a playbook.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
It's it's a failure so egregious and enormous. I can
still hardly believe it happened. And the idea that it
would take NION twelve months to decide who ought to
be punished somewhat, but we're not going to fire our
way out of this, and it would take NION twelve
(08:18):
months to come up with policy changes, And I just please,
that does not even come close to smelling to passing
the smell test. Unless I guess you're a career bureaucrat.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Well something you're probably not going to hear anywhere else
because this comes from a source with very good connections,
and this is a source that is Secret Service friendly,
though not always a cheerleader for because like any government agency,
you can have flaws. But I'll just read what they
their insight was on this. They said they've been in
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touch with a lot of guys over the past few months.
They've heard some outrageous s. For example, one young Secret
Service uniformed offer officer has been written up for a
abandoning his post at Butler. It sounds awful, but what
he actually did was leave his post at the entrance,
which was closed as Potus was on stage at that point,
(09:09):
and ran toward the stage where he saw people getting
shot at he assisted, intending to the murdered fireman in
the aftermath. For instance, the Service wanted to punish him
because they needed people to punish uh the Service. I
don't know if he's among those being disciplined in this
six people. Additionally, I've learned that the woman agent who
(09:31):
famously had trouble with their Holster was directly responsible for
getting headquarters to actually send the counter sniper team to
Butler in the first place. Her decision saved everyone that day.
Is she on the punishment list? I don't know, says
this source. I know who wasn't punished, and that's the
local police department who was supposed to secure the roof
(09:52):
and didn't. I've thought this from early on and have
multiple agents confirmed this over the past few weeks. F
those guys lazy asked cowards.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
This person says, wow, Okay, Now I don't know what
that coordination looks like and to what extent the Secret
Service considers it necessary to check that what local law
enforcement says is being done is being done. I mean,
it's good to delegate, and it's necessary to delegate, but
(10:24):
at what point do you trust yet verify if you will?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
But that is interesting to say. Let me throw this
in just very briefly.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
It just found out yesterday nobody as Secret Services talked
to the widow of Corey Comparatoor, the poor fireman murdered
by the young lunatic, to explain the failures that resulted
in the death of the love of her life and
the father of her children.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That strikes me as awful. Uh yeah. So a little
more background, and this is interesting just from the whole
bureaucracy government agency sort of thing. There are protected layers
in all bureaucracies. Think of it like concentric circles. This
person says, who has been in these agencies outside the
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circles are the worker bees totally expendable, easily punished. Then
you have supervisors inside the first ring. But supervisors in
the field don't enjoy the same protection as managers who
work at headquarters. That's the division I'm hearing today, this
person said. Guys in the field office who are told
to work with what we give you are being suspended,
while the supervisor and headquarters, who is at the site
(11:34):
the day prior and signed off on everything, has not
been held accountable and has been promoted since that all happened. Yeah,
that's typical of well, any business or government bureaucracies. Often
that is the case. Boy.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
That is such a reality in law enforcement these days too.
Remember talking about the incredible rash of suicides among Chicago
cops because they're out there in danger circumstances told, yeah,
here's your policies, good luck, and then when they're shot up,
beat up, whatever, and things go the slightest bit sideways,
the politicians abandon them, throw them to the wolves. They're
outside those circles of protection. And I know that's the reality,
(12:12):
especially in bureaucracies, but man, I hate to hear that
about the Secret Service.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Right. Lastly, the chest in the park story was hilarious.
Deal with the gorilla Henry true. This person says, Yeah,
all I want is it to be efficient. I don't
need anybody to get fired. If nobody deserves to be fired,
I don't care about that, or fire fifty people, but
(12:36):
figure out what the problem or if it's the Butler
police as this person says, well, then we got to
fix that, right, I mean, that has got to be
a verification system. God, I would say, holy crap. Yeah,
and I we played that clip. I wasn't even sure
it was necessary to play that clip, but holy cow,
did that bring that back? Yeah? You know, I almost
(12:58):
said we dodged a bullet. We did. Oh my, I
can't imagine the turmoil this country would have been in
if he had been killed. Oo that would have been bad.
Any thoughts on any of that text? Line four one, five,
two nine, five KFTC, the age.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Old question from every teenager mom or dad, can you
pick me up?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
The answer for some.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Parents now just way Away, the driverless car company now
offering teens between fourteen and seventeen years old rides starting
in Phoenix Way moosas parents compare teens to their accounts
so they can hail the fully autonomous rides.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Shoot, wait a minute, Wait a minute, what if of
starting in Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't live anywhere near Phoenix.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Why would I want my kid to have a ride
starting in Phoenix?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
This is ridiculous. That is so huge. Every parent who
you know spends a good chunk of their time. Seems
like all of your time running kids around like I
did yesterday tuba practice here, pick up another kid from
his schooling that he's doing private school during the summer,
and back and forth. I mean I spent half my
(14:11):
afternoon picking it up and dropping off. You got way
mood that can go and do that, and you trust it.
I assume that would be huge. Yeah, yeah, wow wow.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Because currently I'm still as a parent, my kids are grown,
but I still have a bit of a feeling of
I want to.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Check into this a little more. But it'll take a while,
but as it becomes more common and you know, there
are not disastrous results, people will become more comfortable with it.
I assume, like I've tried to either uber or lift
one of them wouldn't let me do it because I
tried to do that one time, and they wouldn't let
me put a kid in there without an adult. Because
I was trying to I had one to pick up,
(14:48):
or I had to pick up another one somewhere else.
You know, one of those jams.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
My headline there is your son is hanging with the
tuba my former instruments. Yes, of course, Ludwig von Beethoven
called the tuba the most noble of instruments.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Really, I did not know that. Is that truly totally.
I got a good picture of Sam with like one
of the oldest or most famous tubas at the at
the met in New York, so I sent that to
his band teacher, who really appreciated it. Of course. Oh god,
that's funny. And why is Sam paying a tuba? Because
he was big enough to carry it. That's how he
(15:25):
got assigned to tuba Epstein One more time. Oh didn't
see this coming, you gov poll How confident are Americans
that all people connected with Jeffrey Epstein alleged to have
committed sex crimes will be thoroughly investigated. Basically is you know,
(15:47):
do you think there's a cover up or not? Not
at all? Almost half of Americans are not confident at
all that the investigation will be thorough on Jeffrey Epstein.
Not very is twenty two, So that gets you to
sixty seven percent. Two thirds of Americans are not at
all or not very So. I guess everybody feels like
(16:10):
there's more to know.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Well, and I think people just know instinctively that if
there are very important people which might mean politically powerful
or very very wealthy involved, and there is any level
of plausible deniability or a little murky how involved they
were in the real pervo stuff, that many politicians and
(16:34):
prosecutors will look.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
For any excuse not to go there, right. I don't
think people understand that you come up with some sort
of like the doctor saying, hippa is the reason he
can't talk about Joe Biden's mental health. Yeah, that's the reason.
I mean, you come up with something yeah good enough,
Yeah good enough. Joe's going to ruin the Superman movie
(16:56):
for us before we've even seen it, even though it's.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Us so Superman and move that's it beneath me? Sorry
I said that. Uh, and more media madness. I'm gonna
call out ESPN. Oh, don't watch another w NBA game
or bowling tournament and team hear my words, stay.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
With us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Is this Crypto? What the hey, dude, I thought you
destroyed the whole Superman robots. I thought I told you
to keep an eye on him. We feed the K nine,
but he is unruly and who realizes we are not
flesh and blood and couldn't, in our heart of hearts,
careless whether he lives or dies. Crypto so super The
(17:44):
new Superman movie is a bit of a comedy. I
don't know how I feel about that. As a clip
always been chuckles in the Superman movie. It's a clip
from the new See this was a man of steals
supposed to be saving us from evildoers. I haven't got
time for joices throwing off a witty aside and again,
all right, anyway, there's a new Superman movie out that's
supposed to be pretty good. I guess, I don't know,
But Jack there is controversy surrounding the new Superman movie.
(18:10):
James Gunn, the director of the upcoming film, and his
actor brother Sean, who plays some part, are under fire
after suggesting in an interview in a feign Land, London,
specifically that anyone who supports Donald Trump's immigration policies is
not American enough to appreciate their movie. Quote, I mean,
(18:33):
I mean Superman is the story of America, an immigrant
that came from other places and populated the country. Uh.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
He Then his brother defended the director's original suggestion, because
then they backtracked and said, no, it's it's fine. I'm
not here to judge people. It's a movie about kindness.
That's something everybody can relate to.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But then his.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Actor brother, not getting the memo, leapt to the director's
defense and said, yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes,
the people we support in this country are immigrants, and
if you don't like that, then you're not American.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm sticking my fingers in my ears, la la la,
because people like you will ruin everything, because you certainly
hope to any TV show, movie, music book, pretty much,
if you look at the person behind it, they're gonna
have different politics than you, because it tends to be
the case with entertainers and you know, artist types, and
(19:31):
then I won't be able to enjoy anything.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, I thank you for beating the be Jesus out
of that, poor straw man. The actual problem here is
not that they have those politics. It's that they express
those politics in really rude terms, specifically in reference to
their project. Yeah, but we do hear about it in
the way that we didn't used to because because the
(19:56):
way everything's so divided. You're gonna tell me that very actors,
directors or whatever didn't say something I would have hated
it con you know, thirty years.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Ago, but it wasn't something, Oh, this will be huge.
You put it in the New York Post. The actor
in this new movie, he said something anti Reagan was
was not the flavor of the day.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Right, So we'll just label this section of the podcast
Jack in favor of communist Superman movie.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I just I just I just say it's it's a
good point. I just can't you know, I got flipped
off again yesterday in my cyber truck. I just can't live.
I just can't participate in this world where we run
everything through the political filter. It just it wears me
out so moving along. Speaking to the other hand, when
it gets to be too much, like, it's so hard
(20:43):
for me to enjoy Bruce Springsteen. It came up on
one of my playlist things yesterday and I almost can't
which sucks. I love Bruce Springsteen's music, but gee, I
just think about him being so pompous and arrogant about
various things. I think, Ah, yeah, I actually agree with
you on the point you made. At the same time, though,
(21:04):
there's that everybody agrees with me, and anybody who doesn't
is evil hubris that the Hollywood types and Bruce have
that bothers the crap out of me, no doubt, and
it would be lovely if they realized, wait a minute,
not everybody does agree with that. And the way I
put it that I put my sentiment was way too
(21:25):
aggressive and way too judgmental, and.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
I had to learn from that. But at the same time,
I appreciate your point.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
If I was gonna do actual analysis, non emotional analysis,
it would be I can't believe at this point, having
witnessed a bunch of this sort of stuff when you've
got so much money involved, that you would do that
It just seems shocking to me that you wouldn't think,
(21:51):
you know, I'm gonna leave politics completely out of any
interview I ever do about this movie. I'm just gonna
flog my movie.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
Yeah, especially you're in Britain that has an enormous immigration
crisis going on and you just branded well anyway, enough
on that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So I thought this was so interesting.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
The folks at OutKick doing a great job writing about
ESPN and their history of cracking down on any political
statement by their hosts, by their reporters if it's republican right.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I was about to say, it's got to be just
one direction, because I hear all kinds progressive views on
ESPN are in sports in general, and.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Interestingly, Stephen A. Smith just called them out for it.
He says, you can't let one person get away with
it and not let the other person get away with it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
The rules have to be for everybody.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
And they go into some examples where Sage Steel, for instance,
discussed vaccine mandates and among other things, and got suspended
in trouble for that. Last week, a couple of their
hosts praised Michelle Obama and that was not considered politics.
(23:06):
That's fine, it's a sports show. I don't know why
you're even talking about that. That's not that strong an example.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
We thought they would never praise Malania Trump or Laura
Bush exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
That would be seen as really political and controversial because
not everybody agrees with that.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
So let's see.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
So they put out a statement about Sage Steele. A
couple of years ago at ESPN, we embraced different points
of view, dialogues and discussion, make this place great, blah
blah blah, but essentially, don't do it on the air.
Don't express your politics on the air like Steele. Ashley
Brewer is another former ESPN anchor with conservative views. Last April,
she told a story about how the network ordered her
(23:46):
to remove a post photo she posted with a Republican
Republican congressman at a sporting event. She got chewed out
and forced to take it down, and then she points
out that Mark Jones of ESPN isry cover photo for
all of his social media is him hanging out with
Barack Obama.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Speaking of Mark Jones, I don't understand how more people
and it includes people on the right, because I've run
into this, you know, with people that are very pro
Trump or whatever. I just don't understand how more people
don't recognize that you might be in a room full
of people that don't agree with you when you say
(24:28):
various things, or when you're doing interviews and you're trying
to promote a product. How are so many people blind
to that? Right, half of the country disagrees with you,
whichever side you're on. Half the country that down, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
So anyway, I want to talk about this Mark Jones
character who does what color commentary Michael for the Sacramento Kings.
This guy is an America hating DLM activist. So here
here are the things he has posted online that ESPN
hasn't said a damned word about false claims that stadium
(25:06):
police officers were gonna shoot him.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Dead because he is black. Oh my god, I remember
when he said that.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Wow, tweets telling Rush Limbaud a rot in hell the
day Rush's wife announced her husband and died of lung cancer,
lies about the police murdering Jacob Blake, who is still alive,
Posts calling Stephen a Smith quote a koon. Pardon me, folks,
it's not a term I would ever use. Posts calling
his white colleagues and bosses blind to racism in front
(25:34):
of him, tweets celebrating Nick Bosa of the forty nine
ers tearing his asl as payback for standing for the
national anthem and supporting Donald Trump. Wow, and he's kept
on saying Mago women are skanks, claims that Ron de
Santis is a member of the KKK.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I can go on. I've gotten through half the list.
So what does this guy do? He's the color commentator
for the King's radio broadcaster. He's an ES host an
anchor in addition to that, well as a guy who
lives in Sacramento and might enjoy the Kings. What does
he do for the Kings? Michael, you hear commentator but TV? Yeah,
(26:13):
I couldn't see. That would be that's too far for me.
I couldn't. Oh no, that's that's her reasons. I've said
for years the Kings are dead. I couldn't ever listen
to a game knowing that guy is involved in it.
You lose me forever with that. Yeah, and then just
is another contrast.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Last summer espl ESPN NFL analyst Demena Kymes uh oh
I'm sorry, Oh yeah, Chimes posted on let's say Oh
she endorsed Tim Walls on the air. There's something to
me really important about seeing someone like this modeling a
(26:51):
different kind of masculinity.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This man the.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Year he was a football coach, led the gay Straight
Lions at the high school. That's really powerful in a
way that goes beyond politics.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
She said on the air on ESPN.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
No repercussions, And as they write it out, kick if
you're a politician who puts tampons in boys' locker rooms
and dessert soldiers when they're deployed to a combat zone,
so be it. But just imagine the repercussions of someone
at the network made similar remarks about JD.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Vans. Oh my god, I'm surprised since Stephen A. Smith
is by far the biggest dog at ESPN, by far,
him saying not cool doesn't carry more weight. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Interestingly enough, Stephen in his last contract had it in
there that he can say what he wants about politics
or any other topic.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Good for him, but he's smart enough to know, like
what I was just talking about, the whole half the
country disagrees with whatever take I've got, So you know,
keep that in mind.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
So one more wacky media bias story sent along by
alert listener Jeff. This is the LA Times had a
big piece entitled California refuses to comply with Trump administration
demand the bar female trans athletes. I was gonna save
this for a gender betting madness, you know, segment, but
(28:12):
I thought it was interesting that they go on to
describe the story how title nine Trump administration trans athletes
blah blah blah blah blah. Then you go to the comments,
and this is what Jeff pointed out. And then the
LA Times does not have a conservative listen readership. They
are a liberal newspaper. They're also the big dog in
LA these days. I'm just gonna read the comments in order.
(28:37):
Transgender females who compete against bio girls are bullies. I'm
a native California and I've lived in New York all
of my life. This sort of thinking is why trans
people deserve respect for their choices but do not belong
in biological women's sports. Don't they see it makes them
look like losers who can never compete against men as
well as bullies. Trans get out of women's sports, so
(28:58):
so unfair. Next comment, gendersy is a mental illness requiring
psychiatric care, not catering. Next segment, the picture caption says
it all.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Next comment, a transgender athlete is congratulated after a successful
hyjiup attempt. That's because she's a man, guys. Next comment,
how did we get so far off the deep end?
It's so stupid.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Wow. I could go on and on and on. That's
a good point if the La Times comment section is
that well, as we all know, it's it's an eighty
twenty issue. And as we often point out, I think
if you sat people down and said ninety percent of
people agree with you, you'd get ten percent more to
come along. They're just going along with it because they
think it's the prevailing thought, right, right, exactly. And I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
It was actually alert listener Palo who sent this lung
but he comments, think you're saying that Dems are misreading
their constituents attitudes on transports. Yesterday, indeed, I was comments
on this story certainly seem to support your hypothesis. I
think Dems correctly assessed that they have constituents who want
them to stand up to Trump. I don't think those
constituents want their politicians to double down on the knee
(30:04):
jerk Trump derangement syndrome that played such a big part
in getting Trump re elected. Yeah, you're right, You on
the Democratic side have completely misread this issue. Completely Read
the comments on this Liberal.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Newspapers article, or talk to most anyone. You know, nine
out of ten of them we're going to say, yeah,
that's crazy, boy.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Make sure you emphasize to them now if you say
something I disagree with, I won't try to end your
career or get you ruined, because that's what people are
afraid of, because you do.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
That all the time, vicious bastards.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
There's some big stuff going on with the whole rush
of Ukraine thing, which could blow up into probably you
shouldn't use that expression, blow up into the number one
story in America pretty easily, I think, depending on where
Trump goes with this. But we got a lot of other
stuff too, so stay here.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
The parent company of Rich issuing a voluntary recall of
some sandwich crackers. The company saying some individually wrapped crackers
may be incorrectly labeled as cheese that may have peanut
butter inside. Shoppers with peanut allergies or urged to discard
any product identified in the recall.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's my favorite story of the day. Some of those
little ritz crackers I had just I had a bag
of them the other day. Sam bought some as like
a backup emergency we're gonna starve to death airport thing.
He put in his backpack, and we ended up in
a situation where, for whatever reason, we sat on the
tarmac for forty five minutes. So instead of having you know,
(31:40):
an hour in between to get food or whatever, we
didn't had to run to our gate. Why they do that,
there's all kinds of reasons, but it's very madding. Anyway,
had to go to the backup plan, which was his
little rich crackers, those rich crackers. And I don't even
know if it was cheese or peanut butter, because the
cheese ones don't taste like cheese, and the peanut wut
butter ones don't taste like peanut butter because or not
cheese or peanut butter, and uh, you know, and I
(32:03):
don't know which they were, but anyway, they're delicious, freaking
freaking delicious, a little tiny mini ritz with some sort
of something chemically in between. But this particular one was mislabeled.
The cheese when it was supposed to be peanut butter
or the other way around.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yes, you're avidly against eating things like this, so this
must have been like a dire situation, right.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Uh, yeah, we were gonna starve to death. Okay. As
I've said more than one, I weep for your colon. Ah.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
Oh oh, you want a cracker tip that'll change your life?
Who does a humble trisc it?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Right? Familiar with the trisc it? Very crunchy, very crumbly.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Olive oil and rosemary trisc it with cheese. Its spectacular
as an appetizer at a fine Italian restaurant.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You would think, oh, this is delicious today. Oh I
love cheese and crackers. Oh yeah, jeez, and crackers is good.
I grew up in Wisconsin. We had lots of cheese
and crackers. That's a good little that's good right there.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
I got really a bougie the other day when we
were having company over and I made an almond maple
bree oh, and we dipped Granny Smith apple slices into it.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I could have just had that. I wanted to take.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
The whole tray and say, everyone go home, you're no
longer welcome here.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
This is better than I expected, so if you can
please leave. Yeah, I was just trying to like reach,
you know, past fail level with pleasing you as guests.
But this is too good. Get out exceeded good enough
for this, Okay. So I'm highly confused by what happened
with groc Elon's AI thing praising Hitler or whatever. Here's
(33:51):
one news version of that trying to explain it.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Elon Musk vow to retrain his AI system, known as
grock after growing angry with its answers. He said, we're
quote parroting legacy media. Those changes appear to have prompted
Grok to use some anti Semitic tropes, the chatbot, going
so far as praising Adolf Hitler. Grok also claiming Jews,
who are just two percent of the US population, hold
disproportionate roles in places like media, finance, and politics. What
(34:15):
they do is that control or merit? It questioned when
CNN asked Rockets sources for some of these posts. It's
at four chan, a favorite form for extremists known for
its hateful conduct.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
So that's interesting. So Elon thought Grok was just parroting
mainstream media. He recalibrated it, and then it goes to
four chan to get its information. Whoops, recalibrated too far. Whoops.
That's interesting. Okay, I mentioned this earlier. I think this
could be a big deal. Open ai, which Elon helped
(34:45):
start but then left when they became a for profit
AI and he was concerned about it, is releasing an
AI powered web browser to challenge Google. Google's already suffering
greatly from chat, GPT and others like I never Google
anything now and now Open a Eye is going to
have one specifically aimed at Google. Google's in trouble.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Yeah, clearly all of that is about to change so
completely and so rapidly.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Right, Google could be like, well, like what's on MySpace
was the biggest thing in the country and then disappeared overnight.
Hot job in America.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
AI expert have some figures that will knock your socks
off all sorts of good stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
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