August 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Save water... delete your emails
- No more drinking!
- Israel/Gaza conflict, Laticia James & bundles
- Fire at Dunkin Donuts & kids lacking play
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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 arm Strong
and Jetty and Key Armstrong and Yetty La Boo Boots.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
They have taken the world of social media by storm.
The ugly cute plush comes in a keyching comes in
a blind box. You don't know necessarily which dollar you're
going to get until you open it up.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And the Chinese company.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Behind the plush just reported a net profit of nearly
four hundred percent in the first half of this year.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh that will continue. I would go ahead and buy
the big house and get the Lamborghini because the whole
Laboo bo thing is that's for real.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh yeah, judging by the last year's growth of sales, Yes,
we're projecting over five years that will all be zillionaires.
So spend all your money in borrow heavily.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I saw my first Laboobu in the wild the other day,
hanging off of somebody's fancy purse. But that's the only
one I've actually seen. Okay, all right, super I'll keep
my eyes peeled. I'll be looking for just a quick.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Pre statement to the discussion, and I think we agree
to a large extent on this topic.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Climate change.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Number one, what government does and great thinkers, going back
to my hero hl Menkin in the very early twentieth
century points out pointed out government comes up with various
hobgoblins or problems or crises, some reel, some imagined, and
they use them as a pretext to throw zillions of
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dollars around, because that's how you grow your power in government.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And so if you can convince people there's an existential threat,
why that gives you permission to throw around mind boggling
amounts of money. And I wish we had time for
some of the examples that have come to light in
recent days. Stacy Abrams Foundation that raised a couple of
hundred dollars one year, and the next year, on their
way out, the Biden administration gave them two billion dollars
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Wow for environmental justice initiatives.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Just to get a sense how it works, right, that's
number one. Number two. I've always thought, yeah, the climate's changing,
the climate's always changed, maybe part of its man made.
None of the measures we're talking about would do any good.
Plus who knows what sort of you know, adjustments the
planet makes if the level of this rises, does that
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cause a change in temperature whatever that actually makes up
for it or something I don't know. Certainly not worth
ruining an economy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Over and throwing a dash of all be dead before
it happens. Anyway, there's that, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So anyway, a couple of stories that I found very
enlightening and or entertaining. The second one's much more significant.
But this is a great sub stack. Andy Maisley's this guy.
He writes mostly about the UK and what's going on
over there. But the UK government recently formed a group.
They all made money, and they spent money to address
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the nation's drought. The group offered some ways everyday people
can save water. How to save water at home.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
This is from.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The actual manual they distributed. Install a rain barrel to
collect rain water to use in the garden like its
six eighteen ninety. Well, it's still good for your plans.
Fix a leaking toilet, leaky loose loo, that's a British ism.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Can waste two hundred and four hundred liters a day. Yeah,
if you hear your toilet running. If you pay for
your water, it gets really expensive, really fast, and it's
like a super cheap fix.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And then they say avoid watering your lawn, brown grass
will grow back healthy. Turn off the tap when brushing
your teeth.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Delete old emails in pictures as data centers require vast
amounts of water to cool. There's systems what well and
Andrew Wry's. Honestly, the last one caught my eye.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Delete your old emails.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
This may seem like a silly, one off mistake, but
it's blowing up and now being recommended as the top
a top way to save water by The Times, The Telegraph,
The Independent, and the Metro. Notice that none of these
articles include any specific estimates of how much water deleting
emails and photos saves. They just handwave at the fact
that data centers use water. The group failed to compare
how much water each choice saves. Once you do it, it
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becomes clear how ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
This advice is. I did the math. Here are the
results in how I got them.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Anyway, fixing a leaky toilet can waste two hundred and
four hundred liters a day. To save as much water
in data centers as fixing your toilet would save, you
would need to delete one point five billion photos or
two hundred billion emails. If you took a tenth of
a second to delete each email, and you delete them
non stop for sixteen hours a day, it would take
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you seven hundred and twenty three years to delete enough
emails to save the amount of water in data centers
as you could save if you just jiggled your toilet.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Maybe you should jiggle your toilet. I have roughly that
many unread emails that I been meaning to get to,
but I'm probably not going to delete them.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
And then he goes into a couple of other ones,
like avoid watering a lawn. Brown grass will grow back healthy.
If the average British person who waters their lawn completely stopped,
they would save as much water as they would if
they deleted one hundred and seventy million photos or twenty
five billion emails. A typical lawn needs x amount of
water per square foot to stay healthy. Blah blah blah
average blades of grass. The average person seems to have
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about two thousand photos saved. Let's assume they're all backed up.
If someone deleted all of their photos, the water they
could save could support two blades of grass.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
This is similar to the engines that shut off at stoplights.
The math on that is just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
If you could gather a thousand people together and convince
them to delete every last photo they have stored together,
you could save enough water as it takes to maintain
a single square foot of want. But this stuff, because
climate change is a craze, gets printed and taken it seriously.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To the main gist of this, there is a controversial
new climate report out headed up by Stephen Coonan. You
might not know his name. He's a theoretical physicist. He
went from working on climate and energy issues as a
Department of Energy undersecretary under Obama to co authoring last
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month's report on the agency's current chief that concluded that
the threat from greenhouse gas emissions has been exaggerated.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What change.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That's right, Al Gore does not agree. That's Oh no,
that's what you've been perpetrating. Al anyway, Coonan said, when
he started to dig more deeply into climate scientists in
twenty fourteen, he discovered it had a dirty underbelly.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That's a quote.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I started paying attention to the representations of climate science
and the media and political discussions. Realized that things were
just not being told straight, he said, And the one
hundred and fifty one page report by the Climate Working
Group signals one hundred and eighty degree shift from the
Biden administration's climate focus. Again, that true focus was handing
out money to Stacy Abrams and her ilk, opening the
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aperture to theories and findings that might send Greta Tunberg
into a coma. For example, the report said that the
growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere quote has
the important positive effect of promoting plant growth, and that
much of the debate about the consequences of ocean acidification
quote has been one sided and exaggerated, and that US
corn yields have not been hurt by rising temperatures as
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many studies have claimed. Last week, two environmental groups assued
the Department of Energy over the report, alleging that Coun
and his four co authors sought to manufacture or reason
to deny the root causes of global warring and were
recruited in secret. And this is long, and actually I'd
love to read it in its entirety, but they point
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out look and this will gratify you if the media
drives you crazy like it does us. What does virtually
everybody you studied climate agree on? The first is that
the climate is changing. Yes, it is it one hundred percent?
Is how much is man made? Nobody's really sure.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But yes, it's changing.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But it's essential to distinguish between weather, which occurs daily
versus climate, which is the long term, thirty year average
of the weather. So what happens in one year, such
as a drought or a tornado, is not climate. But
how many tornadoes over thirty years? Is it more in
these thirty years than in the last. That's a climate discussion.
So the first is that the climate is changing. The
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second point I think everybody will agree on is that
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are increasing,
mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels, with some
contribution from land use. Again, that is almost certainly true.
The third thing that everybody will agree on is that
carbon dioxide growing in the atmosphere exerts a warming influence
on the planet, and other things being equal, it would
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cause the earth to warm. I think where people then
start to urge is how much warmer it's going to
get and what other changes we might see in the
climate system that would either be beneficial or deleterious. And
probably the last thing where everybody disagrees is what should
we do about all of this? If you're going to
have a sensible conversation about this, you need to know
a good deal about not only how climate science works,
but also about energy. And there aren't many people who
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are knowledgeable in both aspects of that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And whenever you say what are we going to do
about it? Do you mean we in the United States
or do you mean we the world which really needs
to participate to have any chance? And Indian China don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh no, China now burns sixty one percent of the
coal burned on Earth, China alone, and they're building coal
plants like every day, right, yeah, exactly. Greta Tunberg is
not happy about that. And so we've stolen our childhood.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well right, yes, stole.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And apparently a single country, even a giant economy like ours,
saying we will sacrifice our else or Europe, oh my god,
Europe has has taken a poisoned pill. As if the
socialism hasn't crusted our economies enough, they've gone so far
down the we must do something about climate change. They've
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crippled their own economies and had zero effect, but it
makes them feel good and enlightened. It's really it's a
mental illness. But as absurd as it is for a
single country like the US to think, yes, we will
sacrifice ourselves on the cross of climate change because it
makes us feel good even though we'll have no effect.
How absurd is it when like an individual state like California,
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or a dopey little country pardon me, like you know,
France or Belgium, says yeah, we're gonna hang ourselves on
the cross of climate change and crush our economy, but
it's the right thing to do. You're just you're a moron,
especially given the unsettled you know, many aspects of the science.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Stupid Euros and they're tiny bathing suits. Amen to the
plum smugglers.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Um, oh, here's a good one. I'll hit you with
one of the questions from this long interview. You an
energy secretary, Chris Wright, who's doing a great job. I
have written and spoken about the continuing need for fossil
fuels and how solar and wind are not up to
the task of replacing fossil fuels.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They're clearly not.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
President Trump leaves your message and has a particular hatred
for wind turbines. Should we move away from solar wind?
And what the scientist says is one aspect of having
participating in this report is that many people believe I'm
a Trumper, that I support everything that the administration is doing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Of course not. I think we've all tried as scientists
to portray the facts.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
If they happen to align with President's view, the president's view,
that's great, But our goal is not to support President Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Our goal is to portray the fact.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So when you hear woke people, progressive people try to
claim this guy is just some sort of Trump lackie,
he's absolutely not. Then he says, now onto wind and
solar You often hear them touted is the cheapest form
of election tricity generation. And that's true if you don't
care when you get your electricity. Of course you need
the sun shining and the wind blowing. If you want
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a reliable electrical system, one that produces electricity ninety nine
point ninety nine percent of the time, which is the
US standard, by the way, or down less than a
day out of a decade, then wind and solar can
at best be an ornament.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Wow. Wow, yeah, you think about Obama's guy. Yeah, and
you trust all scientists who says I'm no trumper, the
Obama Biden crowd, you know, opening new solar fields and
all the farms and all that different sort of stuff,
and just.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And subsidizing it right to the trillions of dollars. Never forget, folks,
those trillions of dollars are the point.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's why they're doing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
They're not the cost of doing the thing. They are
the thing. The climate change is the excuse to do
the thing. The thing is handing out Money's end of lesson.
That will be on the test. We will touch this
briefly when we come back. An appeals court has thrown.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Out one of those, that's what she said, How dang you.
An appeals court has thrown out one of those giant
cases against Trump, you know, one of the many during
the election when they're trying to get him broken jailed.
Another one of those has been thrown out, And then
we'll move on to some other stuff. Stay here, Bartraw
hey Yni.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Two of America's largest airlines, Delta and United, facing class
action lawsuits from angry passengers both being sued by customers
who say they paid for window seats that didn't exist. Instead,
they say they wound up sitting in seats against a
wall without a window, where the design of the plane
prevented one from being installed.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Hmmm, not cool. I don't think when I get a
window seat, I think about the window. I think about
the wall usually finds a new flyer. I remember the
first time I ever flew, looking out the window is
the greatest thing ever. It was absolutely amazing. But then,
you know, you fly some in your life, and unless
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you're flying into someplace pretty exciting, you tend to not
even pay any attention, you know. I look out the
window all the time. Lots and lots.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, I'm just fascinated by the layout of metropolitan areas,
actually aography in general. How many golf courses there are.
I see the baseball fields.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I love it. I sleep on planes, so I like
when there's not a window, because you got that smooth
wall to put your head up against.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I could no more sleep on a plane unless it's
in the middle of the night and I'm heavily sedated
with alcohol than I could.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I don't know. Speaking of alcohol, that's what I was
going to talk about and we don't have much time. Actually,
you mentioned this the other day. It's still worth saying,
because it's quite amazing. Alcohol consumption in the US is
at a record low. We're drinking the least we've ever
swallowed since he've been keeping stats on this sort of thing.
And of course the big question is why, just like
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lots of other things, why aren't we having kids, Why
aren't we dating? Why aren't young people in a hurry
to get the driver's license? And why are we drinking less?
I mean, these are all really interesting questions that nobody
really has the answer for. Are we just living less?
Living as mean enjoying life? Well, yeah, we're living longer,
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but we're enjoying life less. Yeah, we have fewer friends,
less sex, your partners, your civic organizations, drinking less. I mean,
just what are we doing? Oh, we're staring at a screen.
We're staring at our phones, and it is giving us
enough of a dopamine hit that maybe we don't need
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the booze. I don't know. Everybody's gating for yourself, I thought,
just looking through the comments really quickly quickly to this
story on Twitter. No one wants to put that poison
in their bodies. Drinking is terrible for you. Okay, there's
a teetotaler who's happy to see it go away. There
to come for the self righteousness, stay for the you know,
mono vision. The Great Awakening is here. I would be
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happy if that were the case. But I don't think
that's what it is. I don't think it's because of
you know, we've turned toward religion, that we've stopped drinking
and all these other things to what well's usually the
Great Awakening, everybody going back to church, caring about God again,
that's what the Great Awakening means. But made water into wine,
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I don't think there's I don't think we're having another
Great Awakening. They sell cannabis and grocery stores. Now, that's
the first thing a lot of people go to, is
that people drinking pot. I don't know is that true
that I think? So? Maybe it is. I don't have
the slightest idea it's responsible for some share of that change.
It's got to be such a It's a different thing, though, yeah, kinda.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It's relaxing and altering your consciousness and forgetting your problem.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Some people say the cost of booze has gone up
so much since COVID that they stopped drinking. I don't know.
That wasn't gonna stop me when I drank. I'd sell
my plasma if I had to get a second job,
whatever it takes. Exactly, why are you working an overnight
shift now at Denny's. I gotta keep drinking, and this
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person My alcohol consumption has climbed to a record high.
Individual results may vary, of course. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
He is reading military has started its operation to occupy
Gaza City, calling up sixty thousand reservists, saying is ready
forces already on his housekirts. Recent satellite images appear to
show military vehicles positioning nearby.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This could still be.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
A pressure tactic by Israel to force the release of
the remaining fifty hostages. Hamas has said it's had a
positive response to a plan which would see some of
them freed, that Israel is now pushing for better.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Terms, calling up sixty thousand reservists. It's going to take
one hundred and twenty thousand reservists to pour into Gaza
and secure it. That's a lot of people. This story
is very similar to the Ukraine, Russia story in that
the mainstream narrative is stupid and overlooks a major component,
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just like with Russia Ukraine, with this, could the attack
last night, all the missiles and rockets on Ukraine could
hurt the peace deal? Yeah, that's because Putin has no
interest in peace. And then this one, this I've heard
at least three different versions of this could really make
it difficult for the two state solution. Are you flipping kidding?
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You think that's what in anybody's mind as they try
to eliminate jumas the two state solution? What color is
the sky in your world? God? And then also I
hate the reporting around this. It drives me crazy. The
internal politics of Israel, there's still popular support for this.
It's still the majority. So like the reporting on ABC
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News last night where they said most European nations and
men Israelis opposed this. Okay, you can say most European
nations because they're anti everything Israel ever has done, always,
But many Israelis are against it, Yeah, but not most,
you see, And that's how democracies work. Most are for it,
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and that's why it can continue.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And occasionally you see a poll like would you favor
an end of the war in an agreement to bring
all the hostages home.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Who would say no to that? Of course, the majority
of Israelis said yes, we would prefer that, and then
that's howed Isella. The support appears to be waning. Jim,
there's sort of God, people, you don't deserve to have
any job, much less a job where you like report
news to people. There is this somewhat complicating story that's
out today. Israel yesterday approved the new settlements in the
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West Bank, announcing that it was moving ahead with plans
to take over Gaza at the same time. So the
new settlements thing is, you know, it's a poking people,
that's a sharp stick in the eye. You know what
it is.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It is a statement that, look, we're going to protect ourselves.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Period.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We're not going to live cheek pagel with people who
have vowed to wipe us off the face of the
earth anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
We've tried that several times. It doesn't work. And what
it is, as you've said, as I've said, of many
people have said since October seventh, what would the United
States do? What would France do? What would any country
on Earth? What would China do? What would any country
on Earth do if they were attacked that way by
a neighbor, they would freaking obliterate them.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Coming up, major Trump law, fair news, breaking news coming
up in a moment or two. But as long as
we're talking about Israel, I wanted to throw this in irony.
We were talking about the shallowness and phoniness of certain
people in Los Angeles and suggested that as a remedy
they moved to Kansas for two years. Well, Kansas is
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not immune from some of the sickness, especially because what
has old Uncle Joe told you many times, I don't
care how red your state is. There is a blue
blue civilis ationation your local university or college, and actually
your high schools too.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But for instance, well, Kansas is a weird state anyway,
because I remember when my brother texted me, how many
years ago did this happen? He said, well, I guess
we have a lesbian female governor. Now.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, population centers and universities get politicians elected, even.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
In red states.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
But so here's a great story, some great reporting in
the Free Beacon about Kansas State University's civil rights administrator,
Darn Borders or is it Darren? I can't tell from
the spelling. Here's just a quick hint. I'll give you
the punchline first. Virtually nothing neo Marxists. Virtually no term
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that they use means what they want you to think.
It means like civil rights. Who could possibly attack somebody
working in the direction of civil rights?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well nobody, We know that.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That's why they cloak themselves in the you know, the
sacred garb of for instance, civil rights. This guy, Darren Borders,
an investigator in Kansas State University Civil Rights Office, which
claims to foster an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation,
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is part of.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
A secretive Marxist book club. Wait there's more, don't They
don't roll your eyes?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That calls for the total destruction of Israel, hails the
terrorist group Hamas, and defends the murders of Israeli citizens
both in Israel and in the United States. Darren Borders,
who joined the university's Civil Rights and tidle Line Office,
may have last year. It's a member of the Kansas
Socialist book Club, an anti colonial Marxist group based in Manhattan, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Wow. And that is that's the ag school in Kansas
in the middle of farm country. And they got these
people run in the college right, It's which is what
I'm always saying.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, the Trump administration done some fantastic stuff with the
help of people like us, in rolling back some of
the neo Marxist woke cult. But this week, teachers going
back to classrooms in blue states have undergone the full
DEI in doctrination, hours long training sessions. As we speak,
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they're sitting in them right now. This stuff is still
on the march in education. But anyway, in a manifesto
last year, this guy's book club called for the complete
and total destruction of Israel, unwavering support for Hamas, and
they refer to the Zionists middle class. We have no
sympathy for their casualties or losses. And they signed an
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open letter with other radicals that defended Elias Rodriguez, the
left wing activist who assassinated two young people outside the
Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, d C. In meg they
signed an open letter defending him.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And this guy is part of the civil rights mechanisms
at Kansas State Universe.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You're in support of cold blooded, cold blooded murder of
US citizens. That's right. If they have maybe Jewish if
they have any tie to Israel. Yeah, that's horrifying. I
don't think I'm gifted enough in the English language to
properly express to you how rotten our university systems are.
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So we will move on.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Breaking lawfair news, breaking news, myke call break out the donkey,
the breaking news donkey.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Do you even remember that's this is the donkey from Shrek,
by the way, doing in retirement? Do you remember during
the election, It's there for a while where every effort
was being made to either ruin Trump financially or have
him jailed so he couldn't run for president.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
This man to run as a convicted fel convicted felon,
does Kevin.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Bizarre, unsupportable case where Letitia James who ran on getting
Trump some way or another, just however she could.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And then she was sectioning up or coworker or whatever.
Is that her? No, that's a different or is it No,
that was the lady in Georgia, different nakedly manufactured law
fair case.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Anyway, this is Letitia James who does mortgage fraud. Oh right,
but that one okay, right? Everything she buys is going
to be your primary residence but anyway, borrow where was I?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Ah? Yes, So this is the one where she turned
a handful of allegedly incorrect valuations of property in securing
a deal with a bank that said, we did our
own due diligence.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
We don't even look at those numbers. There's no victim,
we're both happy with the deal. Everybody got paid. She
somehow turned that into multiple felonies, and this very left
judge in Manhattans had guilty and.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Leveled a ginormous fine, and then, as Jonathan Turley explains.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
An enormous bond that they had to pay to even
have the right to appeal the case, which is troubling,
but I won't get into that aspect of perverse law.
Jonathan Turley, excuse me, a bit of a cult. The
New York Appellate Court has tossed out the absurd civil
judgment against Donald Trump. Turley editorializes, true, it's great news
(26:29):
for the New York court system and regaining some of
the credibility lost during this litigation. Notably, both ag Leticia
James and Judge Arthur Engern did their level best to
effectively block an appeal by demanding a ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Bond a hundred million dollars penalty that he got hit with.
Remember I mean that was the world ruin US amount
of money from the report.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Judges Diane Renwick Peter Moulton wrote that the court's disgorgement order,
which directs that the defendants pay nearly half a billion
dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive
fine that violates the eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'd forgotten that, so where I first heard the word disgorgement,
which I am troubled by for some reason. Yes, well, the.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Grotesque award of Judge and Goern will stand as the
pinnacle of lawfare in New York, the utter abandonment of
both any reason or restraint in the pursuit of political adversaries.
The court will allow injunctive relief to stand. Trump can
now appeal the residual elements left in the cas However,
James Trophy catch has now gone from a mounted marlin
to a guppy.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It should and I know the way this is going
to be reported, because this just happened. Way it's going
to be reported in the news all day long. But
this should horrify you, whether you're a conservative or a
Democrat if you just believe in, you know, liberal democracies.
The idea that a guy who who ended up getting
elected president almost was run out of the race by
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just completely cooked up bogus cases should horrify you. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Of course, he's being accused of engaging in lawfair himself
right now, and I think.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know, maybe a little bit. See that's the thing
that's the problem with principles. Either have them or you don't.
But you also could make the argument, as a mainstream Democrat,
actually that we got him elected by going with these
crazy cases. How many votes did Trump get because people
realized that this was what was going on a lot Well, yeah,
we saw the polls. It was just so obvious what
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they were doing.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
A lot of people are on the fence thought, look,
I don't like Trump much, but I'm not going to
be on your side.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You people are despicable. Yeah, they got him elected. This case,
this case in particular, was horrifying in particularly, not just
the amount of money, of course was ridiculous, as a
court decided today, but the case in general, the fact
that it was brought forward at all was just terrible.
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Speaker 1 (30:07):
So I don't know if you know who Paige Beckers is.
She is a big star in college basketball last couple
of years, won a couple of national championship with Ducon. Anyway,
she was the first pick in the draft issue. She
scored forty four points in a WNBA game last night,
which is a record of some sort. AnyWho, you might
remember Kitlyn Clark, she's a big deal. She's been hurt
for quite some time. Ratings are way down, even making
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it more obvious that they need her in that league
if they want to be relevant whatsoever. But I remember
the blonde chick that was gonna be her enforcer was
fighting everybody on her team. Ye Cunningham, Yes, Cunningham chick.
She got hurt and she's out for the season. So
I took all the fun out of that. That's going
to really happen. Kind I had a burgeoning like something
to almost follow there with the whole Kitlyn Clark going
(30:52):
to gain the various played to various teams, them trying
to beat her up. Her friend Cunningham coming through and
putting my hammer down on him and everything.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Of course you get me to tune in yep, and
now they're hurt and sorry Indiana.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I guess I'll have to find one of the other
eight million entertainment choices I've got on my phone to
get me through the night.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Oh, that reminds me. You know, we could get into
this maybe in the nine o'clock hour. It's not like
we do a lot of sports reporting or anything like that,
but Headline the Journal, New ESPN, and Fox streaming services
join a baffling landscape for fans.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Oh, trying to figure out where everything is.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Sports enthusiasts have to navigate a long and growing menu
of streaming services and bundles just trying to figure out
where their team is playing.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Will that have any effect? Or is the NFL so big?
People will take the what's it take really thirty seconds
to figure out where your game is? Of course you
might not have that network and then you got to
subscribe to it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, although among bundles they include in this analysis like
YouTube TV.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Right, it is a bundle, and one of the memes
that's going around, maybe we bundle all these different things
together in one passage and call it like cable or something.
Wrap it with a cable so people can hold on.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
The new Disney streaming service, which is called ESPN, is
twenty nine to ninety nine a month.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But you get a ton of channels that includes Hulu.
I think Disney because I've got one of those Hulu
on ESPN. What are you talking about? I could be wrong,
check your local listings, but I always possibly you're right.
I don't know. I have a couple of these bundles
have like nine different channels, and it's worth that amount
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of money.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Oh, you're talking about the Disney plus Hulu and ESPN
Unlimited bundle. That's thirty five ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That's what I have. I'm paying thirty five ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
For that, right, seems now you can bundle ESPN with
Fox one that's thirty nine ninety nine. Okay, well whatever,
Fox are a bundle ESPN Unlimited an NFL plus premium
bundle that's thirty nine ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Two. You don't get Disney or Hulu, FROX one or
the other thing. It's a different bundle and that has
pro checkers. Yes, Katie, I feel like you know Joe
when he says, not everything needs a name. Not everything
needs to be a bundle. Yeah, not everything needs to
be a bundle. Okay, we got more on the way.
Stay here, Armstrong and Getty. Do you have a fire extinguisher?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
So?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Do you know where it is? There's got to be
a fire extinguisher. Do you guys have a manager you
can call? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
There you go, fire extinguisher right there here?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You want me to help you pull?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You're so welcome one You're gonna have to call the
fire department. I just saved the tuckhead and lost a nail,
But I'm good. Everybody's name. It's really awesome. You had
a grown up there at the dunkin Donuts when a
fire started? Who was you know, just had that you know,
grown up way of handling a problem and uh took
(33:47):
care of things. Well that this is like a rorshock test.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I I took from that that the employees didn't have
a single idea what to do in case of a fire,
and a customer had to say, all right, do you
have a fire extinguisher? Great, here's how it works. Do
you have a manager? Probably ought to call a manager.
Now one of you needs called fire department, and they
all just stood there looking at her.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Well, I'm excited that there was an adult there who
didn't just stand there looking at the situation. There was
some human there who was willing to do something. That's
what I'm excited about.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
That was a restaurant full of kids who were never
allowed free play.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Uh probably, yeah, yep, so nobody Uh yep, it'd be
probably right, that's yeah. An entire college level paper could
be written on that whole instance. Right there.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
I was going to say, I could rant on, but yeah,
they did not have a childhood full of encountering problems
and solving them on their own. They were supervised, wearing
their cute little uniforms and directed by adults everything they
did in their childhoods. So yes, make damn fine coffee there,
damn fine.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
So yesterday was National Radio Day, which we featured on
our One More Thing podcast, and I thought a morning,
I thought in a humorous way, but one of the
biggest stars in the history of radio, probably one of
the two would be between be between Rush and Howard,
right for the biggest stars in the history of radio.
And I don't know certainly Howard Stern. His contract is
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up and there's a lot of talk that maybe it's
going to be the end of road for him on
serious satellite radio. They're offered him a lot less money.
His five hundred million dollar contract is coming to an end.
He has gone from an audience of twenty million a
day at his peak to one hundred and twenty five
thousand a day now oof nationwide, twenty million people a
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day used to listen to him, and now it's one
hundred and twenty five thousand, which is the changing nature
of everything, including what he does. I can't oh. Yeah,
it's a vastly different show than it used to be. Yeah. Interesting,
no idea that there's talk that the people on his
staff who've worked with him forever are looking for other jobs,
(36:09):
thinking it's the end of the road. He's seventy doh
or something. So yeah, yeah, still dyes his hair black though,
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
They have taken the world of social media by storm.
The ugly cute plush comes in a keyching comes in
a blind box. You don't know necessarily which dollar you're
going to get until you open it up.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
And the Chinese company.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Behind the plush just reported a net profit of nearly
four hundred percent in the first half of this year.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh that will continue. I would go ahead and buy
the big house and get the Lamborghini because the whole
Laboo bo thing is that's for real.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh yeah, judging by the last year's growth of sales, Yes,
we're projecting over five years that will all be zillionaires.
So spend all your money in borrow heavily.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I saw my first Laboobu in the wild the other day,
hanging off of somebody's fancy purse. But that's the only
one I've actually seen. Okay, all right, super I'll keep
my eyes peeled. I'll be looking for just a quick.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Pre statement to the discussion, and I think we agree
to a large extent on this topic.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Climate change.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Number one, what government does and great thinkers, going back
to my hero hl Menkin in the very early twentieth
century points out pointed out government comes up with various
hobgoblins or problems or crises, some reel, some imagined, and
they use them as a pretext to throw zillions of
(01:44):
dollars around, because that's how you grow your power in government.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And so if you can convince people there's an existential threat,
why that gives you permission to throw around mind boggling
amounts of money. And I wish we had time for
some of the examples that have come to light in
recent days. Stacy Abrams Foundation that raised a couple of
hundred dollars one year, and the next year, on their
way out, the Biden administration gave them two billion dollars
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Wow for environmental justice initiatives.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Just to get a sense how it works, right, that's
number one. Number two. I've always thought, yeah, the climate's changing,
the climate's always changed, maybe part of its man made.
None of the measures we're talking about would do any good.
Plus who knows what sort of you know, adjustments the
planet makes if the level of this rises, does that
(02:37):
cause a change in temperature whatever that actually makes up
for it or something I don't know. Certainly not worth
ruining an economy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Over and throwing a dash of all be dead before
it happens. Anyway, there's that, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
So anyway, a couple of stories that I found very
enlightening and or entertaining. The second one's much more significant.
But this is a great sub stack. Andy Maisley's this guy.
He writes mostly about the UK and what's going on
over there. But the UK government recently formed a group.
They all made money, and they spent money to address
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the nation's drought. The group offered some ways everyday people
can save water. How to save water at home.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
This is from.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
The actual manual they distributed. Install a rain barrel to
collect rain water to use in the garden like its
six eighteen ninety. Well, it's still good for your plans.
Fix a leaking toilet, leaky loose loo, that's a British ism.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Can waste two hundred and four hundred liters a day. Yeah,
if you hear your toilet running. If you pay for
your water, it gets really expensive, really fast, and it's
like a super cheap fix.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And then they say avoid watering your lawn, brown grass
will grow back healthy. Turn off the tap when brushing
your teeth.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Delete old emails in pictures as data centers require vast
amounts of water to cool. There's systems what well and
Andrew Wry's. Honestly, the last one caught my eye.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Delete your old emails.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
This may seem like a silly, one off mistake, but
it's blowing up and now being recommended as the top
a top way to save water by The Times, The Telegraph,
The Independent, and the Metro. Notice that none of these
articles include any specific estimates of how much water deleting
emails and photos saves. They just handwave at the fact
that data centers use water. The group failed to compare
how much water each choice saves. Once you do it, it
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becomes clear how ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
This advice is. I did the math. Here are the
results in how I got them.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Anyway, fixing a leaky toilet can waste two hundred and
four hundred liters a day. To save as much water
in data centers as fixing your toilet would save, you
would need to delete one point five billion photos or
two hundred billion emails. If you took a tenth of
a second to delete each email, and you delete them
non stop for sixteen hours a day, it would take
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you seven hundred and twenty three years to delete enough
emails to save the amount of water in data centers
as you could save if you just jiggled your toilet.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Maybe you should jiggle your toilet. I have roughly that
many unread emails that I been meaning to get to,
but I'm probably not going to delete them.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
And then he goes into a couple of other ones,
like avoid watering a lawn. Brown grass will grow back healthy.
If the average British person who waters their lawn completely stopped,
they would save as much water as they would if
they deleted one hundred and seventy million photos or twenty
five billion emails. A typical lawn needs x amount of
water per square foot to stay healthy. Blah blah blah
average blades of grass. The average person seems to have
(05:37):
about two thousand photos saved. Let's assume they're all backed up.
If someone deleted all of their photos, the water they
could save could support two blades of grass.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
This is similar to the engines that shut off at stoplights.
The math on that is just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
If you could gather a thousand people together and convince
them to delete every last photo they have stored together,
you could save enough water as it takes to maintain
a single square foot of want. But this stuff, because
climate change is a craze, gets printed and taken it seriously.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
To the main gist of this, there is a controversial
new climate report out headed up by Stephen Coonan. You
might not know his name. He's a theoretical physicist. He
went from working on climate and energy issues as a
Department of Energy undersecretary under Obama to co authoring last
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month's report on the agency's current chief that concluded that
the threat from greenhouse gas emissions has been exaggerated.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What change.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
That's right, Al Gore does not agree. That's Oh no,
that's what you've been perpetrating. Al anyway, Coonan said, when
he started to dig more deeply into climate scientists in
twenty fourteen, he discovered it had a dirty underbelly.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
That's a quote.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I started paying attention to the representations of climate science
and the media and political discussions. Realized that things were
just not being told straight, he said, And the one
hundred and fifty one page report by the Climate Working
Group signals one hundred and eighty degree shift from the
Biden administration's climate focus. Again, that true focus was handing
out money to Stacy Abrams and her ilk, opening the
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aperture to theories and findings that might send Greta Tunberg
into a coma. For example, the report said that the
growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere quote has
the important positive effect of promoting plant growth, and that
much of the debate about the consequences of ocean acidification
quote has been one sided and exaggerated, and that US
corn yields have not been hurt by rising temperatures as
(07:37):
many studies have claimed. Last week, two environmental groups assued
the Department of Energy over the report, alleging that Coun
and his four co authors sought to manufacture or reason
to deny the root causes of global warring and were
recruited in secret. And this is long, and actually I'd
love to read it in its entirety, but they point
(07:58):
out look and this will gratify you if the media
drives you crazy like it does us. What does virtually
everybody you studied climate agree on? The first is that
the climate is changing. Yes, it is it one hundred percent?
Is how much is man made? Nobody's really sure.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But yes, it's changing.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
But it's essential to distinguish between weather, which occurs daily
versus climate, which is the long term, thirty year average
of the weather. So what happens in one year, such
as a drought or a tornado, is not climate. But
how many tornadoes over thirty years? Is it more in
these thirty years than in the last. That's a climate discussion.
So the first is that the climate is changing. The
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second point I think everybody will agree on is that
carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are increasing,
mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels, with some
contribution from land use. Again, that is almost certainly true.
The third thing that everybody will agree on is that
carbon dioxide growing in the atmosphere exerts a warming influence
on the planet, and other things being equal, it would
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cause the earth to warm. I think where people then
start to urge is how much warmer it's going to
get and what other changes we might see in the
climate system that would either be beneficial or deleterious. And
probably the last thing where everybody disagrees is what should
we do about all of this? If you're going to
have a sensible conversation about this, you need to know
a good deal about not only how climate science works,
but also about energy. And there aren't many people who
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are knowledgeable in both aspects of that.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And whenever you say what are we going to do
about it? Do you mean we in the United States
or do you mean we the world which really needs
to participate to have any chance? And Indian China don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh no, China now burns sixty one percent of the
coal burned on Earth, China alone, and they're building coal
plants like every day, right, yeah, exactly. Greta Tunberg is
not happy about that. And so we've stolen our childhood.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well right, yes, stole.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And apparently a single country, even a giant economy like ours,
saying we will sacrifice our else or Europe, oh my god,
Europe has has taken a poisoned pill. As if the
socialism hasn't crusted our economies enough, they've gone so far
down the we must do something about climate change. They've
(10:14):
crippled their own economies and had zero effect, but it
makes them feel good and enlightened. It's really it's a
mental illness. But as absurd as it is for a
single country like the US to think, yes, we will
sacrifice ourselves on the cross of climate change because it
makes us feel good even though we'll have no effect.
How absurd is it when like an individual state like California,
(10:37):
or a dopey little country pardon me, like you know,
France or Belgium, says yeah, we're gonna hang ourselves on
the cross of climate change and crush our economy, but
it's the right thing to do. You're just you're a moron,
especially given the unsettled you know, many aspects of the science.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Stupid Euros and they're tiny bathing suits. Amen to the
plum smugglers.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Um, oh, here's a good one. I'll hit you with
one of the questions from this long interview. You an
energy secretary, Chris Wright, who's doing a great job. I
have written and spoken about the continuing need for fossil
fuels and how solar and wind are not up to
the task of replacing fossil fuels.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
They're clearly not.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
President Trump leaves your message and has a particular hatred
for wind turbines. Should we move away from solar wind?
And what the scientist says is one aspect of having
participating in this report is that many people believe I'm
a Trumper, that I support everything that the administration is doing.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Of course not. I think we've all tried as scientists
to portray the facts.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
If they happen to align with President's view, the president's view,
that's great, But our goal is not to support President Trump.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Our goal is to portray the fact.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So when you hear woke people, progressive people try to
claim this guy is just some sort of Trump lackie,
he's absolutely not. Then he says, now onto wind and
solar You often hear them touted is the cheapest form
of election tricity generation. And that's true if you don't
care when you get your electricity. Of course you need
the sun shining and the wind blowing. If you want
(12:07):
a reliable electrical system, one that produces electricity ninety nine
point ninety nine percent of the time, which is the
US standard, by the way, or down less than a
day out of a decade, then wind and solar can
at best be an ornament.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Wow. Wow, yeah, you think about Obama's guy. Yeah, and
you trust all scientists who says I'm no trumper, the
Obama Biden crowd, you know, opening new solar fields and
all the farms and all that different sort of stuff,
and just.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And subsidizing it right to the trillions of dollars. Never forget, folks,
those trillions of dollars are the point.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
That's why they're doing.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
They're not the cost of doing the thing. They are
the thing. The climate change is the excuse to do
the thing. The thing is handing out Money's end of lesson.
That will be on the test. We will touch this
briefly when we come back. An appeals court has thrown.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Out one of those, that's what she said, How dang you.
An appeals court has thrown out one of those giant
cases against Trump, you know, one of the many during
the election when they're trying to get him broken jailed.
Another one of those has been thrown out, And then
we'll move on to some other stuff. Stay here, Bartraw
hey Yni.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Two of America's largest airlines, Delta and United, facing class
action lawsuits from angry passengers both being sued by customers
who say they paid for window seats that didn't exist. Instead,
they say they wound up sitting in seats against a
wall without a window, where the design of the plane
prevented one from being installed.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Hmmm, not cool. I don't think when I get a
window seat, I think about the window. I think about
the wall usually finds a new flyer. I remember the
first time I ever flew, looking out the window is
the greatest thing ever. It was absolutely amazing. But then,
you know, you fly some in your life, and unless
(14:04):
you're flying into someplace pretty exciting, you tend to not
even pay any attention, you know. I look out the
window all the time. Lots and lots.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, I'm just fascinated by the layout of metropolitan areas,
actually aography in general. How many golf courses there are.
I see the baseball fields.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I love it. I sleep on planes, so I like
when there's not a window, because you got that smooth
wall to put your head up against.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I could no more sleep on a plane unless it's
in the middle of the night and I'm heavily sedated
with alcohol than I could.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I don't know. Speaking of alcohol, that's what I was
going to talk about and we don't have much time. Actually,
you mentioned this the other day. It's still worth saying,
because it's quite amazing. Alcohol consumption in the US is
at a record low. We're drinking the least we've ever
swallowed since he've been keeping stats on this sort of thing.
And of course the big question is why, just like
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lots of other things, why aren't we having kids, Why
aren't we dating? Why aren't young people in a hurry
to get the driver's license? And why are we drinking less?
I mean, these are all really interesting questions that nobody
really has the answer for. Are we just living less?
Living as mean enjoying life? Well, yeah, we're living longer,
(15:18):
but we're enjoying life less. Yeah, we have fewer friends,
less sex, your partners, your civic organizations, drinking less. I mean,
just what are we doing? Oh, we're staring at a screen.
We're staring at our phones, and it is giving us
enough of a dopamine hit that maybe we don't need
(15:38):
the booze. I don't know. Everybody's gating for yourself, I thought,
just looking through the comments really quickly quickly to this
story on Twitter. No one wants to put that poison
in their bodies. Drinking is terrible for you. Okay, there's
a teetotaler who's happy to see it go away. There
to come for the self righteousness, stay for the you know,
mono vision. The Great Awakening is here. I would be
(16:02):
happy if that were the case. But I don't think
that's what it is. I don't think it's because of
you know, we've turned toward religion, that we've stopped drinking
and all these other things to what well's usually the
Great Awakening, everybody going back to church, caring about God again,
that's what the Great Awakening means. But made water into wine,
(16:22):
I don't think there's I don't think we're having another
Great Awakening. They sell cannabis and grocery stores. Now, that's
the first thing a lot of people go to, is
that people drinking pot. I don't know is that true
that I think? So? Maybe it is. I don't have
the slightest idea it's responsible for some share of that change.
It's got to be such a It's a different thing, though, yeah, kinda.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It's relaxing and altering your consciousness and forgetting your problem.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Some people say the cost of booze has gone up
so much since COVID that they stopped drinking. I don't know.
That wasn't gonna stop me when I drank. I'd sell
my plasma if I had to get a second job,
whatever it takes. Exactly, why are you working an overnight
shift now at Denny's. I gotta keep drinking, and this
(17:09):
person My alcohol consumption has climbed to a record high.
Individual results may vary, of course. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
He is reading military has started its operation to occupy
Gaza City, calling up sixty thousand reservists, saying is ready
forces already on his housekirts. Recent satellite images appear to
show military vehicles positioning nearby.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
This could still be.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
A pressure tactic by Israel to force the release of
the remaining fifty hostages. Hamas has said it's had a
positive response to a plan which would see some of
them freed, that Israel is now pushing for better.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Terms, calling up sixty thousand reservists. It's going to take
one hundred and twenty thousand reservists to pour into Gaza
and secure it. That's a lot of people. This story
is very similar to the Ukraine, Russia story in that
the mainstream narrative is stupid and overlooks a major component,
(18:08):
just like with Russia Ukraine, with this, could the attack
last night, all the missiles and rockets on Ukraine could
hurt the peace deal? Yeah, that's because Putin has no
interest in peace. And then this one, this I've heard
at least three different versions of this could really make
it difficult for the two state solution. Are you flipping kidding?
(18:32):
You think that's what in anybody's mind as they try
to eliminate jumas the two state solution? What color is
the sky in your world? God? And then also I
hate the reporting around this. It drives me crazy. The
internal politics of Israel, there's still popular support for this.
It's still the majority. So like the reporting on ABC
(18:54):
News last night where they said most European nations and
men Israelis opposed this. Okay, you can say most European
nations because they're anti everything Israel ever has done, always,
But many Israelis are against it, Yeah, but not most,
you see, And that's how democracies work. Most are for it,
(19:16):
and that's why it can continue.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And occasionally you see a poll like would you favor
an end of the war in an agreement to bring
all the hostages home.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Who would say no to that? Of course, the majority
of Israelis said yes, we would prefer that, and then
that's howed Isella. The support appears to be waning. Jim,
there's sort of God, people, you don't deserve to have
any job, much less a job where you like report
news to people. There is this somewhat complicating story that's
out today. Israel yesterday approved the new settlements in the
(19:46):
West Bank, announcing that it was moving ahead with plans
to take over Gaza at the same time. So the
new settlements thing is, you know, it's a poking people,
that's a sharp stick in the eye. You know what
it is.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It is a statement that, look, we're going to protect ourselves.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Period.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
We're not going to live cheek pagel with people who
have vowed to wipe us off the face of the
earth anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
We've tried that several times. It doesn't work. And what
it is, as you've said, as I've said, of many
people have said since October seventh, what would the United
States do? What would France do? What would any country
on Earth? What would China do? What would any country
on Earth do if they were attacked that way by
a neighbor, they would freaking obliterate them.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Coming up, major Trump law, fair news, breaking news coming
up in a moment or two. But as long as
we're talking about Israel, I wanted to throw this in irony.
We were talking about the shallowness and phoniness of certain
people in Los Angeles and suggested that as a remedy
they moved to Kansas for two years. Well, Kansas is
(20:48):
not immune from some of the sickness, especially because what
has old Uncle Joe told you many times, I don't
care how red your state is. There is a blue
blue civilis ationation your local university or college, and actually
your high schools too.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
But for instance, well, Kansas is a weird state anyway,
because I remember when my brother texted me, how many
years ago did this happen? He said, well, I guess
we have a lesbian female governor. Now.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, population centers and universities get politicians elected, even.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
In red states.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
But so here's a great story, some great reporting in
the Free Beacon about Kansas State University's civil rights administrator,
Darn Borders or is it Darren? I can't tell from
the spelling. Here's just a quick hint. I'll give you
the punchline first. Virtually nothing neo Marxists. Virtually no term
(21:46):
that they use means what they want you to think.
It means like civil rights. Who could possibly attack somebody
working in the direction of civil rights?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well nobody, We know that.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
That's why they cloak themselves in the you know, the
sacred garb of for instance, civil rights. This guy, Darren Borders,
an investigator in Kansas State University Civil Rights Office, which
claims to foster an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation,
(22:22):
is part of.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
A secretive Marxist book club. Wait there's more, don't They
don't roll your eyes?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That calls for the total destruction of Israel, hails the
terrorist group Hamas, and defends the murders of Israeli citizens
both in Israel and in the United States. Darren Borders,
who joined the university's Civil Rights and tidle Line Office,
may have last year. It's a member of the Kansas
Socialist book Club, an anti colonial Marxist group based in Manhattan, Kansas.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Wow. And that is that's the ag school in Kansas
in the middle of farm country. And they got these
people run in the college right, It's which is what
I'm always saying.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, the Trump administration done some fantastic stuff with the
help of people like us, in rolling back some of
the neo Marxist woke cult. But this week, teachers going
back to classrooms in blue states have undergone the full
DEI in doctrination, hours long training sessions. As we speak,
(23:21):
they're sitting in them right now. This stuff is still
on the march in education. But anyway, in a manifesto
last year, this guy's book club called for the complete
and total destruction of Israel, unwavering support for Hamas, and
they refer to the Zionists middle class. We have no
sympathy for their casualties or losses. And they signed an
(23:43):
open letter with other radicals that defended Elias Rodriguez, the
left wing activist who assassinated two young people outside the
Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, d C. In meg they
signed an open letter defending him.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
And this guy is part of the civil rights mechanisms
at Kansas State Universe.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You're in support of cold blooded, cold blooded murder of
US citizens. That's right. If they have maybe Jewish if
they have any tie to Israel. Yeah, that's horrifying. I
don't think I'm gifted enough in the English language to
properly express to you how rotten our university systems are.
(24:30):
So we will move on.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Breaking lawfair news, breaking news, myke call break out the donkey,
the breaking news donkey.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Do you even remember that's this is the donkey from Shrek,
by the way, doing in retirement? Do you remember during
the election, It's there for a while where every effort
was being made to either ruin Trump financially or have
him jailed so he couldn't run for president.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
This man to run as a convicted fel convicted felon,
does Kevin.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
This is the.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Bizarre, unsupportable case where Letitia James who ran on getting
Trump some way or another, just however she could.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And then she was sectioning up or coworker or whatever.
Is that her? No, that's a different or is it No,
that was the lady in Georgia, different nakedly manufactured law
fair case.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Anyway, this is Letitia James who does mortgage fraud. Oh right,
but that one okay, right? Everything she buys is going
to be your primary residence but anyway, borrow where was I?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Ah? Yes, So this is the one where she turned
a handful of allegedly incorrect valuations of property in securing
a deal with a bank that said, we did our
own due diligence.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
We don't even look at those numbers. There's no victim,
we're both happy with the deal. Everybody got paid. She
somehow turned that into multiple felonies, and this very left
judge in Manhattans had guilty and.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Leveled a ginormous fine, and then, as Jonathan Turley explains.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
An enormous bond that they had to pay to even
have the right to appeal the case, which is troubling,
but I won't get into that aspect of perverse law.
Jonathan Turley, excuse me, a bit of a cult. The
New York Appellate Court has tossed out the absurd civil
judgment against Donald Trump. Turley editorializes, true, it's great news
(26:29):
for the New York court system and regaining some of
the credibility lost during this litigation. Notably, both ag Leticia
James and Judge Arthur Engern did their level best to
effectively block an appeal by demanding a ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Bond a hundred million dollars penalty that he got hit with.
Remember I mean that was the world ruin US amount
of money from the report.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Judges Diane Renwick Peter Moulton wrote that the court's disgorgement order,
which directs that the defendants pay nearly half a billion
dollars to the State of New York, is an excessive
fine that violates the eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'd forgotten that, so where I first heard the word disgorgement,
which I am troubled by for some reason. Yes, well, the.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Grotesque award of Judge and Goern will stand as the
pinnacle of lawfare in New York, the utter abandonment of
both any reason or restraint in the pursuit of political adversaries.
The court will allow injunctive relief to stand. Trump can
now appeal the residual elements left in the cas However,
James Trophy catch has now gone from a mounted marlin
to a guppy.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
It should and I know the way this is going
to be reported, because this just happened. Way it's going
to be reported in the news all day long. But
this should horrify you, whether you're a conservative or a
Democrat if you just believe in, you know, liberal democracies.
The idea that a guy who who ended up getting
elected president almost was run out of the race by
(27:56):
just completely cooked up bogus cases should horrify you. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Of course, he's being accused of engaging in lawfair himself
right now, and I think.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You know, maybe a little bit. See that's the thing
that's the problem with principles. Either have them or you don't.
But you also could make the argument, as a mainstream Democrat,
actually that we got him elected by going with these
crazy cases. How many votes did Trump get because people
realized that this was what was going on a lot Well, yeah,
we saw the polls. It was just so obvious what
(28:30):
they were doing.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
A lot of people are on the fence thought, look,
I don't like Trump much, but I'm not going to
be on your side.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You people are despicable. Yeah, they got him elected. This case,
this case in particular, was horrifying in particularly, not just
the amount of money, of course was ridiculous, as a
court decided today, but the case in general, the fact
that it was brought forward at all was just terrible.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
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Speaker 1 (30:07):
So I don't know if you know who Paige Beckers is.
She is a big star in college basketball last couple
of years, won a couple of national championship with Ducon. Anyway,
she was the first pick in the draft issue. She
scored forty four points in a WNBA game last night,
which is a record of some sort. AnyWho, you might
remember Kitlyn Clark, she's a big deal. She's been hurt
for quite some time. Ratings are way down, even making
(30:29):
it more obvious that they need her in that league
if they want to be relevant whatsoever. But I remember
the blonde chick that was gonna be her enforcer was
fighting everybody on her team. Ye Cunningham, Yes, Cunningham chick.
She got hurt and she's out for the season. So
I took all the fun out of that. That's going
to really happen. Kind I had a burgeoning like something
to almost follow there with the whole Kitlyn Clark going
(30:52):
to gain the various played to various teams, them trying
to beat her up. Her friend Cunningham coming through and
putting my hammer down on him and everything.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Of course you get me to tune in yep, and
now they're hurt and sorry Indiana.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
I guess I'll have to find one of the other
eight million entertainment choices I've got on my phone to
get me through the night.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Oh, that reminds me. You know, we could get into
this maybe in the nine o'clock hour. It's not like
we do a lot of sports reporting or anything like that,
but Headline the Journal, New ESPN, and Fox streaming services
join a baffling landscape for fans.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Oh, trying to figure out where everything is.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Sports enthusiasts have to navigate a long and growing menu
of streaming services and bundles just trying to figure out
where their team is playing.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Will that have any effect? Or is the NFL so big?
People will take the what's it take really thirty seconds
to figure out where your game is? Of course you
might not have that network and then you got to
subscribe to it.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, although among bundles they include in this analysis like
YouTube TV.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Right, it is a bundle, and one of the memes
that's going around, maybe we bundle all these different things
together in one passage and call it like cable or something.
Wrap it with a cable so people can hold on.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
The new Disney streaming service, which is called ESPN, is
twenty nine to ninety nine a month.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
But you get a ton of channels that includes Hulu.
I think Disney because I've got one of those Hulu
on ESPN. What are you talking about? I could be wrong,
check your local listings, but I always possibly you're right.
I don't know. I have a couple of these bundles
have like nine different channels, and it's worth that amount
(32:34):
of money.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Oh, you're talking about the Disney plus Hulu and ESPN
Unlimited bundle. That's thirty five ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That's what I have. I'm paying thirty five ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
For that, right, seems now you can bundle ESPN with
Fox one that's thirty nine ninety nine. Okay, well whatever,
Fox are a bundle ESPN Unlimited an NFL plus premium
bundle that's thirty nine ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Two. You don't get Disney or Hulu, FROX one or
the other thing. It's a different bundle and that has
pro checkers. Yes, Katie, I feel like you know Joe
when he says, not everything needs a name. Not everything
needs to be a bundle. Yeah, not everything needs to
be a bundle. Okay, we got more on the way.
Stay here, Armstrong and Getty. Do you have a fire extinguisher?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
So?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Do you know where it is? There's got to be
a fire extinguisher. Do you guys have a manager you
can call? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:18):
There you go, fire extinguisher right there here?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
You want me to help you pull?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You're so welcome one You're gonna have to call the
fire department. I just saved the tuckhead and lost a nail,
But I'm good. Everybody's name. It's really awesome. You had
a grown up there at the dunkin Donuts when a
fire started? Who was you know, just had that you know,
grown up way of handling a problem and uh took
(33:47):
care of things. Well that this is like a rorshock test.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I I took from that that the employees didn't have
a single idea what to do in case of a fire,
and a customer had to say, all right, do you
have a fire extinguisher? Great, here's how it works. Do
you have a manager? Probably ought to call a manager.
Now one of you needs called fire department, and they
all just stood there looking at her.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Well, I'm excited that there was an adult there who
didn't just stand there looking at the situation. There was
some human there who was willing to do something. That's
what I'm excited about.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
That was a restaurant full of kids who were never
allowed free play.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Uh probably, yeah, yep, so nobody Uh yep, it'd be
probably right, that's yeah. An entire college level paper could
be written on that whole instance. Right there.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
I was going to say, I could rant on, but yeah,
they did not have a childhood full of encountering problems
and solving them on their own. They were supervised, wearing
their cute little uniforms and directed by adults everything they
did in their childhoods. So yes, make damn fine coffee there,
damn fine.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
So yesterday was National Radio Day, which we featured on
our One More Thing podcast, and I thought a morning,
I thought in a humorous way, but one of the
biggest stars in the history of radio, probably one of
the two would be between be between Rush and Howard,
right for the biggest stars in the history of radio.
And I don't know certainly Howard Stern. His contract is
(35:26):
up and there's a lot of talk that maybe it's
going to be the end of road for him on
serious satellite radio. They're offered him a lot less money.
His five hundred million dollar contract is coming to an end.
He has gone from an audience of twenty million a
day at his peak to one hundred and twenty five
thousand a day now oof nationwide, twenty million people a
(35:48):
day used to listen to him, and now it's one
hundred and twenty five thousand, which is the changing nature
of everything, including what he does. I can't oh. Yeah,
it's a vastly different show than it used to be. Yeah. Interesting,
no idea that there's talk that the people on his
staff who've worked with him forever are looking for other jobs,
(36:09):
thinking it's the end of the road. He's seventy doh
or something. So yeah, yeah, still dyes his hair black though,
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