October 29, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Diseased monkeys & Bill Gates on climate change
- New Meta glasses
- Proud to be an American
- Monkey business & Shohei Ohtani
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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 Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
And he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Cap the tie to sea and herpes be among the
diseases the escaped monkeys have as they are traveling across
the country in bands, biting mostly children.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I mean, were they sex worker monkeys or what? What
sort of lifestyle were they living where they had like,
you know, kind of the clap variety pack going.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
This is in Mississippi where a truck crashed and a
whole bunch of monkeys that may or may not be
infected with all these diseases because their research monkeys started
running around. And that's a good story right there. That's
a that's a beginning of a movie sort of story.
Now the university is claiming that these were the monkeys
that aren't injected. They're like the you know, when you
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do an experiment, you've got the control group, control group,
and these are the control group movies. So they'll merely
bite you and rip you limb from limb in the
traditional monkey sense. But you will not get herpes b.
You'll just have your eyes find an angry monkey. You're
face ripped off exactly, but at least you won't have COVID,
right right, Okay, nice, good story. We don't believe anything
(01:34):
universities say anymore. You've crapped on your own legacies.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Boo. So there is no topic I think, more soaked
in dishonesty, hyperbole, greed, and you know, phony politics than
climate change. And for the record, my position has long been, yeah,
(01:59):
the claims mischange and climate always changes. It could well
be partly from human activity, and we ought to look
into it. But for instance, the Paris Climate Accord laughable,
absolutely laughable, hilariously inept, an incredibly expensive economy killing half
gestures toward doing a little bit. Yeah, I think the
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developing world does nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, it's been around for a long time. And I
remember when whoever signed us onto it, and then Trump
came along and took us off of it, and people
like Tom Friedman in New York Times would make a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He has taken us off of the parent.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
The countries that signed onto it didn't do the things
they were said they were going to do.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's all a sham. Yes, Yeah, they made phony pledges
that they never intended to carry out and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
By the way, it's so much dishonesting. If you're a
long time listener, you know my position on climate changes.
I decided I'm not covering this story for whatever reason,
many many years ago. I decided I'm not looking into this.
I'm just not and I never have. I can't do everything, yeah,
can't pay attention everything. So I just have never really
looked at it, right.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I mean, like puppetry is a fascinating art, but I've
never really looked into that either. Just too fascinating art anyway.
So Bill Gates has long been a champion of we
must act to deal with climate change. This is Billy
boy thirty Michael back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The actual economy can death pull from climate change will
be much, much, much greater than what we have with
this pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, wow, climate change was going to kill more people
than the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah. And he was part of the whole horror story
we must sacrifice everything to prevent this cataclysm crowd. Now,
this was only four and a half years ago, for
goodness sakes. Here he is now. He did a big
interview on a CNBC that's getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Start here, Michael, climate is a super important problem. There's
an up innovation here to avoid super bad outcomes. We
won't achieve our best goal, the one point five or
even the two degrees. And as we go about trying
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to minimize that, we have to frame it in terms
of overall human wealth there, not just everything should be
solely for climate.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Wow. So what brought him around on that reality? I
have a feeling he's a smart guy. We're going to
talk about how smart in just a second. But he's
joined me and plenty of other people saying, essentially, we've
been too narrowly focused on reducing emissions. We should spend
(04:47):
more time on mitigation, adapting to a warmer world, improving
the lives of those most affected. You know, you know,
move fifteen feet back from the coast, cell your park
of by some shorts type adjustments. Well, I like throwing
your corn a little north of where you used to
and grow rice instead or something.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I like you're saying we have or we'll make
technological advances that we'll deal with this, and and and
there's more to look at than just the climate change
and how disruptive it would be to economies and lifestyle.
Did he I wonder if he learned this from one
of them teenage messuses at Epstein Island. Well, she was
talking about the climate change. Huh, isn't he on the list?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
He's on the list? What list? And not why his
wife divorced him, Miss BONDI what list are you talking about?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That's why his wife divorced him when she found out
he was a traveling on with Epstein. No, I thought
he had an affair with his somebody around that too.
That doesn't matter anyway. So here, Katie, that's your job.
Look up Bill Gates's sex life. If you could just
google that for me. Wow, that's probably harassment.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So anyway, Andrew Ross Sorkin is talking to Gates here
on the NBC, and I think this clip is a
little but it illustrates what I think I said yesterday.
Bill Gates, as a young geek in a garage, was
super great at writing software code and thinking about what
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sort of software would be useful for people in the
early early days of the computer boom. That does not
make him a sage on climate change or any other topic.
It's like a gifted actor or something. I don't care
what you think about economics. You've done nothing to prove
your acumen in that field. And I don't think Bill
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is I don't honestly think he's a bad guy. I'm
not down with the hole he wants to put chips
in you to turn you into something, you know, whatever
the hell conspiracy crowd. I just think he has an
incredibly inflated view of his own intelligence and wisdom. I
think he's very, very good at one thing. Oh well,
did you look up Bill Gates Epstein? Who'd you come
up with? Katy?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Breakdown of trust stemming from an affair Bill Gates had
with a staffer, plus his involvement with Jeffrey epp Steen.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, everybody's right. Isn't that nice? Isn't nobody has to
feel bad? That's just great. Anyway, let's continue the conversation
as Bill drones on about something or other.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
When the climate activists, who have been very supportive of
what you've done, and you've been very supportive of what
they've done, read this, and if if Greta Thunberg is
reading this and saying to herself, my goodness, he seems
like he is reversing himself.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
What would you tell her.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'd say, wasn't the goal here to improve human lives?
And shouldn't we, in our awareness of how little generosity
there is to help measure, you know, should we get
them a measles vaccine or should we do some climate
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related activity? And if we could take if we stop
putting all vaccines and that you know, saved two point
one degree, would that be a smart trade off? That's
the kind of question we have to ask.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, And I like the interviewer making him respond to
this autistic child who got upset about climate change, not
fully understanding the story, and got hell betray her exactly
what I have stolen.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
My dreams, my childhood with your empty words. Oh my god.
The fact that that poor confused little girl is now
some sort of progressive godhead is just such a business.
Well now she's on the whole Hamas Palestinian things, right,
of course she is the permanent omnik. Cause yeah, well,
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so okay.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Good for Bill Gates to start valuing. You know, the
goal here is to improve human lives.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
In whatever manner. In the point one degree thing is
not that big a deal, or Bill, I might suggest,
and perhaps Europe is listening to me. To flush your
economies down the toilet, brutally reduce your people's standards of
li crush upward mobility, to accomplish nothing in the name
(09:06):
of climate change might have been a bad decision.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, I'm so happy to believe he said that, I'm
going to install Windows ninety five on my computer when
I get home.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's a good idea, you know what. Somewhat encouraging. But
don't let down your guard, friends, don't let down your guard.
So many of the attitudes of the Great Awokening are
crumbling in the face of reality. Trans women are women, No,
they're not. You know, climate change threatens us all and
(09:35):
no cost is too much to endure. Yes, yes, it
is a lot of those costs. And by the way,
you're all phony greed heads and you're just wasting the money.
Stacy Abrams, please getting a one point eight billion dollars
or whatever it was. It's some scene, ridiculous and people
are starting to say so.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And I'm glad You've got to focus on real problems,
like monkeys with COVID roaming the landscape, coughing on people.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
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President shee tomorrow on a hot mic moment, we can
bring that to you. Among a little more about what
is at stake there. Katie mentioned this earlier. Dictionary dot
com is already named their word of the year. It's
I guess it's November here. In a couple of days,
we're getting the end of the year list time, aren't we. Yeah, yeah,
(11:22):
that time of year dictionary dot com there are It's
still October. I mean they're done to ward. To me,
the word of the year is going to be six seven.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It's not a word. It's not a word. It's my
biggest problem with it. I'll tell you what. It is,
a desperate attempt to get anyone to click on dictionary
dot com by creating a fake, annoying controversy or find
out that it exists. Right, Why would you go to
diction Why would you ever go to dictionary dot com
to look up word? Uh? Why else? I just say
(11:53):
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during the remodel, and because interestingly, many of our hard
working friends speak very little English. I had to do
it in English and Spanish, and I just and I
(12:14):
was doing Apple pages. I think, yeah, I highlighted it well.
I'd written please stay out blah blah blah, and then
I highlighted it and right clicked it. And I can't
remember why I did that. Hoping that this would happen
and translate was one of the options, and I clicked
on Spanish and it just translated it. So now I
(12:35):
have a sign in English and Spanish on the door,
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you know, anybody to find out what you got going
on in that room.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's their sex dungeon. Yeah, yeah, I don't want somebody
to wander in there and like say, maybe I'll try
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Speaker 5 (13:11):
And never before published Doctor Seuss book has now been discovered.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Singing to fifty United States.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
We published in June to mark the country's two hundred
and fiftieth birthday. Author Theodore Geisel died in nineteen ninety one.
The manuscript was found earlier this year at the Guys
of Library at UC San Diego.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
What crazy is that they found a new Doctor Seuss
book and the USA related for then, So that's cool.
H So you came across more information that Bill Gates
has had a major change of heart about climate change.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah. I mean back in the day he was one
of the leading cheerleaders of climate alarmism.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
This could be important for those of us who think
it's been overblown for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, yeah, he he said, uh, way back in the
day that blah blah blah, the climate change will be
one of the greatest challenges humans have ever taken on.
Greater than landing on the moon, greater than eradicating smallpox,
even greater than putting a computer on every desk, and
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then enormous loss of life.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And now he says that never mind, well no, he
essentially he said, look, poverty and disease are the biggest problems,
as they've always been understanding this, lets us focus our
limited resources on interventions that will have the greatest impact
for the most vulnerable people. In other words, don't spend
all your time and money and effort on climate change.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Help people where they are. Yeah, we know, Bill, we know,
so he's come around. I wonder if will this be
reported in the New York Times and who will criticize
him bitterly for it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I want to get to this latest gallop pull that's
out about people's attitudes toward of America and whether or
not they're proud of their country. It's highly disturbing, but
probably worth look at. Maybe we'll get to that next segment.
How many people do we have who wear any of
the metaglasses? Our agent, the greatest agent in the world,
Eric wears them, the ray bands. But they you can
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make phone calls, you can listen to music, you can
do a variety of things. And the reason I mentioned
this is they got the new version out, generation two
that has a little screen that shows up in one
of the lenses and you can see it like a
little computer screen and other people looking at you. Other
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versions like Google, what was the one that went glass. Yeah,
people could see it and it was a little off putting.
Everything like these. It looks like you're just wearing glasses.
They can't see on their side that you're looking at
screen that just shows on your side. And I saw
it demonstrated, and the couple of reviewers talking about how
it's amazing it is. For instance, directions they were just
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walking around the town and they put up the directions
of like, hey, you walk up to this corner and
you turn left and you're following your way to get
someplace where whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Just one example.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Or they had somebody they were cooking in the kitchen
and they had in their lens. Instead of regularly look
at your phone or whatever, the recipe for whatever you're
making was right there. While you can also be looking
at whatever you're doing anyway, reading something that closed your eyeball.
How does that work?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It must work.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
They all say it was great. But these weren't people
working for the company selling it. These were independent reviewers
who have said they haven't liked past versions and that
they think this is finally crossed over into that this
might be something that people start to use. But one
of the reviewers I said this said, she said, this
is gonna divide us even more into not paying attention
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to each other or listening to each other. Or living
in our own worlds, as you can sit there with
your glasses on and you know, reading something else or
watching a video or whatever the hell you're doing instead
of paying attention to your friend.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's funny. Ernald just had a big article about CEOs
and executives dealing with people texting and checking their feeds
and whatever during meetings, and they can tell that they're
not really present, and they won't be able to tell.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now you'll be checking your text and a little thing
in your eye, your lens.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Until somebody says, Jack, what do you think? And you say, oh,
I agree with most of what's been said. I mean
to study it further. Let's not be hasty.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I think there's nuance, though, and so it requires a
second look.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I think we should put a pin on it and
circle back.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But I realized a long time ago with texting. I
told this story a bunch of times. The first time
I heard about texting, I thought that that's stupid. Why
wouldn't you just call them? And then you know, finding
out it takes over my life like it did everybody else.
So I realized I don't have the ability to predict
even what I am interested in doing.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Or not doing, let alone the rest of humanity.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't see like a need or use for these glasses,
but for all I know, everybody will be wearing them
in two years.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I have no idea. I think I'm as bad as
you are at predicting that. I don't think I will be.
But you should feel free.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
How do people feel about America? Are they proud of
it or not? New Gallup Pole highly.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Troubling, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I haven't suggested that that Donald Trump is Hitler.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I wouldn't. I don't think any Democrat has.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I actually and I and I think it's a it's
a smear that they project back on to critics. Okay,
that's the governor of Illinois saying he's never compared Trump
to Hitler, and Nicole Wallace, the host saying, I don't
think any Democrat ever has. Now Here is a montage
and this is just a short portion of Democrats comparing
Trump Taylor.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We have a Simil Hitler in the White House right now,
but does want to be Hitler for sure.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Comparing the tactics of Donald Trump to Mussolini and Hitler
as a very legitimate thing.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
He is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin
or to become an Adolf Hitler.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Well, Hitler was duly elected, right, right, And so somebody
with those tendencies, so dictatorial authoritarian tendencies, would be like, Okay,
we're gonna shut this down, We're gonna throw these people
in jail.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And they didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Usually telegraph that Trump is telling us what he tends
to do.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yes, right, So it's not even low level Democrats. In
that montage, you got Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi among
others telling Trump Hitler right after Nicole Wallace and the
governor of Illinois saying I've never called him Hitler. I
don't think any Democrat ever has. Okay, whatever, these are
the times we live in.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
There are a number of people, including a lot of
progressives of course, who will just lie overtly, knowing most
people don't have the nerve to call them on it.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Anyway, I thought that might lead into this, and maybe
it's why we're going the direction we're going.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I have no idea. I'm not a fan of Hitler.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The question from Gas it's about pride in being an
American and it goes back to the turn of the century.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Two thousand.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So since two thousand, they've been asking this question, how
proud are you to be an American? Extremely proud, very proud,
moderately proud, only a little proud, or not proud at all?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Which would you choose?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Joe Getty as of this day in twenty twenty five, Oh,
the top one. Yeah, me too, extremely proud, Yeah, and eve.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Kind of liberty across the globe. Yeah, extremely and proud.
With all our flaws.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Of course, this graph you would not have been an
outlier at all at the turn of the century, no
matter your political stripe. This graph only includes people who
are very or extremely doesn't even include moderately proud, just
very or extremely In the year two thousand, start of
this century, for Republicans, it was ninety percent. For independence
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it was eighty five percent. For Democrats it was eighty
seven percent.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So it was nine out of ten of Americans, no
matter your political stripe, who were extremely or very proud
of being an American.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Let that sink in for a second. That's amazing to
where we are now. For Republicans just served two terms.
Bush was in the middle of term number one, and
it was pre nine to eleven Okay, so it was
just the attitude, it was the culture. Well, well, we'll
have to get into the wise. But Republicans have held
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steady more or less during that entire time, at around
ninety percent. I think that's interesting because I mean that
includes the Obama years. It's not just a I'm up
with whoever's president now thing. It stayed at ninety percent
during a time when you weren't happy at the president.
You're whether you're proud of being an American or not,
should not change with the presidency. But Democrats, it has
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gone mostly down. It's like the stock market. There's little jiggles,
but the overall trend has been down over this quarter
of a century.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And now Jiggles is my drag name, by the way,
you read my books, and it's on the weekend. High
school libraries, you're a drag. Elementary school libraries. Yeah, drag time,
Story Hour, Yeah, little jiggles, ladies and gentlemen, Yeah, you're
so flamboyant, hi kids, Let me indoctrinate you. Let's get
back to this very important question. This is important.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
This should be studied by a panel of experts and
figure out what's going the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Here.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So for the Republicans people as self identified Republicans, it's
held steady at ninety percent. Independence are now at half.
So it was ninety percent, it's now half fifty three percent.
Why independents have dropped the fifty three percent is an
interesting question. And then for self identified Democrats, it's now
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down to barely above a third. Went from nine out
of ten the start of the two thousands, barely above
a third.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Now Russia, China, and you know, the whole critical theory crowd.
I congratulates you. You haven't won, but you're winning. That's
an enormous gain for driving the country apart for killing
the United States from within. It's one of the most
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amazing propaganda victories I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Why have Republicans held steady regardless of the administration while
Democrats have trended downward brief blip up a little bit
when Biden took office from Trump, but then went down
very quickly, and then continue to go down.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I think Democrats are obsessed with politics in a way
that a lot of conservatives aren't. Aren't for one thing,
so this could be some Trump backlash. I also have
to observe that the people that are self identified Democrats
are very very different twenty five years on than they
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were in two thousand. Well, it looks to me.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Party's way to the left looks to me like when
Trump was elected. And it did go down fairly steeply
after Trump was elected, But at the time Trump was elected,
it was down into the sixties. How do you go
from ninety percent into the sixties during two terms of
Bush and two terms of Obama.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, well, I tell you my theory, and I'm pretty
sure I'm right. Here's a couple of headlines to illustrate
the point. Minneapolis public schools have prohibited white and Asian
students from taking classes on black culture and black queens
and all sorts of woke stuff, the obsession with race,
the whole critical theory crowd. And then you have this one.
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This is also Minneapolis public schools. They have declared capitalism
a pillar of white supremacy in a required ethnic studies class.
Every kid has to take this class, and they are
thought that capitalism or free market economy is a tool
of white supremacy.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
With the with the caveat we always throw in if
it is easier said than done, how do you keep
your kid in that freaking school I know to learn now,
EF you not only do.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't agree with your teaching style A f you Yeah, yeah,
I hate you. That's hate. I hate you. You're a
bad person.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
That's what I wanted to say to my son's history
teacher since I pulled my son out of that public
school class.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're a bad person.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You're actually damaging the country, you a whole Well, a
lot of these people are actively damaging the country on purpose.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's what they want to do. They're useful idiots who
think they're doing what's morally right. Are just idiots. These
people are awful. But anyway, I think people who tend
to be of a conservative event have heard all of
the critical race theory, the DEI stuff, the trans radical
stuff and said, no, what you're saying is not true.
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Whereas people of a progressive point of view, for reasons
we've discussed, when they're you know, they're just born this
way or whatever, or sometimes they just want to be
approved of, so they will parrot whatever is being told
to them is right just so that they get the
approval of people around them. But people with a progressive
brent and heard all this crap and said, oh my god,
(26:26):
Oh my god, this is a terrible country. The propaganda
worked on them.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, I guess I was going to be intellectually honest.
It's because they think they're helping a bad country by
teaching the things they're thinking. They you know, pointing to
the graph right here. They don't think they're.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Trying to destroy something that they believe to be evil.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, if you think it's a bad country, you should
be trying to change it. I guess I just I
think it's really illustrates something that the Republican numbers held
steady through all the various things that have happened over
the last twenty five years. And a lot of things
have happened, it just kind of a flat line basically
at nine of very or extremely proud. That's something that
(27:08):
that this is, this is a problem.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm digging more into the second Minneapolis story,
and it's so interesting. It's like studying the the propaganda
tactics of the Soviet Union or Russia or whatever, but
they're really hammering ethnic studies on the kids. Ethnic studies
is an anti racist tool, they say, identify these structural
(27:33):
inequalities that are part of k through twelve, they're going
to decolonize education, and there's all sorts of there. They
read ibramex Kenny and the other jokers and liars of
Neo Marxism. But it's a classic example of everything that
the neo Marxists hate they call racist or based on
(27:54):
white supremacy, and all the poor sheep, weak minded people
who all they know is I don't want to be
a racist. Guide know, being racist is bad. These people
are telling me what's racist and what's not. I will
believe them and I will obey them. They are calling everything,
including the free market, white supremacy. That's because they're Marxists.
(28:14):
They don't want the free market call something racist until
you control it. It's so obvious what's happening here. And
they brand it all with anti racism, and they teach
the poor little kids, we're gonna tell you about decolonizing
this and anti racism, that it's all bent. I'm tearing
down the Western systems.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, and the reason my kid is no longer in
that American history class. It seemed to be, at least
in the first two months, all bent on convincing you
the country was bad. That's the only thing they'd learned
so far right, which is wild. And I don't want
to be the kind of guy that buys into this
notion that you can only have friends who are in
(28:53):
your side politically, or i'm single, can only date, you know,
based on politics. I don't want to live in that world.
But based on this graph, I might not have any choice. Right,
How could I be in a relationship with somebody who
thinks this is a bad country, which apparently is two
thirds of Democrats. That's I mean, that's a tough situation.
I'd be a heck of a thing to overlook in
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your lives.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, it would come up a lot,
especially because everybody's so obsessed with politics lately. That's wild. Yeah,
it is. It's sick, it's I mean, and I don't know.
I could go on and on about this stuff. But
the subversion of the United States has been a project
of those who would either want to dominate us or
(29:36):
just hate us for ideological reasons for a very very
long time. And one of the ways you do it
is to inject Marxism into everything in sheep clothing, and
they've been incredibly successful at that. The other thing is
you constantly pit people against each other, which is why
you know so much of online hatred and sniping back
and forth as bots or foreign agents and that sort
(29:56):
of stuff. But then once you get that going, it
sustains itself. It's like when you get the whirlpool going
in your above ground pool or whatever. Once you get
it started, it keeps going. You don't have to work
at it anymore. And that's what you know. The people
who hate the United States have gotten going through our
educational systems, which should be torn down to the foundation
(30:17):
and rebuilt. But we're just abandoned by parents with conscience.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I can't see looking at this graph, I can't see
any reason to think that those down numbers from Independence
and Democrats aren't going to trend the direction, keep going
the direction they're going.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I mean, how low will it get. Well, we've let
wolves into the henhouse of education. I mean they like,
run all the diseased monkeys. Let's let's be let's be
in touch with the news of the day. We've let
diseased monkeys into the henhouse. And they've got they've got
a metaphor of the diseased monkeys, and.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
They got HEPSI, they got boxes and COVID and they
have goneriea resting leg syndrome, and all kinds.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Of things resting monkey face. Yeah, I feel so for
parents who know all of this, but they can't afford
or don't have time to get their kid in an
alternate educational environment. I understand how tough that was, but
(31:22):
it's beyond a problem. It's horrifying what kids are being
taught in government schools. Tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
So we missed this about the greatest baseball game I
ever saw in my life from two nights ago.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Serie World Series is tied to to now.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Very exciting, correct, So we'll be a game in Canada,
but in game tonight, big One, somebody's gonna go up
three to two. Anyway, we missed a very funny interview
question with one of the Dodgers players after the game,
and I got some comment about sports in general, youth
sports particularly on top of that.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
All on the way, stay.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Here the urgent search for dangerous research monkeys that escaped
from the wreckage of a crash on a Mississippi highway.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Heavily armed officers responding to the scene. Here's one of
the monkeys. Right here, there's one sitting right there at.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Least six monkeys escaping officials warning they might be aggressive
towards people and were potentially infected with hepatitis sea herpes
and COVID herpes and COVID.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
In the hepsee are you kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I thought I saw one report they said HIV or
some moments, so they had all kinds of things these monkeys.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
So don't eat very healthy monkeys. Don't eat it, don't
pet it, don't lick it, don't have sex with it.
Just leave it alone. Let it be. Slow down. I'm
jutting all this down disease research monkeys.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That's like the worst practically the worst kind of car
crasher could have, where the truck tips over and diseased
monkeys spill out into the land.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
It sits down in your bottom ten percent of the
things that can happen to you. Yeah, yep, Wow, how's
your day?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I got into I got into a fender bender, which
is bad enough with insurance costs these days, But turns
out the trunk was full of diseased monkeys and several
of them bit me. So I've got hev B, I
got COVID, I got AIDS, not a good day.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
How was your day, honey? Okay, So love that baseball
game the other night.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I was wearing my Dodgers hat yesterday and it was
really interesting. So many people brought up the game to me,
and I thought, oh, yeah, I remember shared experiences. Oh yeah,
I haven't had a shared experience other than like voting
day in quite a few years, where like we all
were doing something and like people would comment on.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It, right, because it just doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Wow, And it was cool. AnyWho we miss this. Some
Mookie Bets, the amazing shortstop for the Dodgers, was asked
after the eighteen in game about his thoughts and it
said he said the interview, we're asking when you go
to bed tonight and put your head to the PILLI
will you be talking thinking about show Hey and his performance?
(34:11):
Or will you be thinking about Freddy and his home run?
What jumps out at you? And he said, I'm probably
not gonna think about the other men when I'm in bed. Hummophobe,
will you be thinking about show Hey or Freddy?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I'm probably not thinking about another dude while I'm in bed.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, I was just in the locker room with him
that was plenty.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
But speaking of shoa he Atani, they had interesting background
stuff on him during the game last night. I thought
I thought was really interesting about his upbringing and how
he and his dad. Starting as a little kid, shoe
Otani was so into being a baseball player starting at
age eight. He had like a journal mapped out of
his whole career, how he was going to do it,
where he is, what he positions, he was going to play,
(34:57):
where he was going to play, how far he would
be at various points, including making into the major leagues,
and he just he had mapped out his life and
he was sticking with the plan, and so far it's
worked out pretty well for him. But he and his
dad would play catch every single day when he got
home and practiced various stuff and they would work on like, okay,
this is what our weaknesses and like really really diligent about.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
It, which I thought was cool.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
But he said his dad always would always regularly ask
are we still having fun?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Are you still enjoying this?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Which I thought was really interesting because youth sports where
they are now, I know personally people who are concerned
that their kids are not enjoying it anymore because whichever
sport you decide to do. It's year round, way more
hours than anybody ever used to do.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
And I was around a kid the other day, and
I want to be vague about this because I don't
want ur anybody's feelings, but running, and this kid was
a really good runner.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
He's twelve years old. He's wearing a leg brace.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Took off his leg brace, ran had to put his
leg brace on because he's dealing with an injury, like
so many young athletes are now. Because you practice constantly
and play your sport year round. I know so many
injured young people. Like nobody was injured practically when I
was young, Right, I'd forgotten.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Actually the show, Hey O, Tony has already had two
Tommy John surgeries at age thirty one, is he? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, that's interesting. Is it still fun for your kid
if they're playing year round on some sport? I mean,
if it is great, but check in on that. Hey,
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Cap the tie to sea and herpes be among the
diseases the escaped monkeys have as they are traveling across
the country in bands, biting mostly children.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I mean, were they sex worker monkeys or what? What
sort of lifestyle were they living where they had like,
you know, kind of the clap variety pack going.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
This is in Mississippi where a truck crashed and a
whole bunch of monkeys that may or may not be
infected with all these diseases because their research monkeys started
running around. And that's a good story right there. That's
a that's a beginning of a movie sort of story.
Now the university is claiming that these were the monkeys
that aren't injected. They're like the you know, when you
(01:12):
do an experiment, you've got the control group, control group,
and these are the control group movies. So they'll merely
bite you and rip you limb from limb in the
traditional monkey sense. But you will not get herpes b.
You'll just have your eyes find an angry monkey. You're
face ripped off exactly, but at least you won't have COVID,
right right, Okay, nice, good story. We don't believe anything
(01:34):
universities say anymore. You've crapped on your own legacies.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Boo. So there is no topic I think, more soaked
in dishonesty, hyperbole, greed, and you know, phony politics than
climate change. And for the record, my position has long been, yeah,
(01:59):
the claims mischange and climate always changes. It could well
be partly from human activity, and we ought to look
into it. But for instance, the Paris Climate Accord laughable,
absolutely laughable, hilariously inept, an incredibly expensive economy killing half
gestures toward doing a little bit. Yeah, I think the
(02:22):
developing world does nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, it's been around for a long time. And I
remember when whoever signed us onto it, and then Trump
came along and took us off of it, and people
like Tom Friedman in New York Times would make a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He has taken us off of the parent.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
The countries that signed onto it didn't do the things
they were said they were going to do.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's all a sham. Yes, Yeah, they made phony pledges
that they never intended to carry out and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
By the way, it's so much dishonesting. If you're a
long time listener, you know my position on climate changes.
I decided I'm not covering this story for whatever reason,
many many years ago. I decided I'm not looking into this.
I'm just not and I never have. I can't do everything, yeah,
can't pay attention everything. So I just have never really
looked at it, right.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I mean, like puppetry is a fascinating art, but I've
never really looked into that either. Just too fascinating art anyway.
So Bill Gates has long been a champion of we
must act to deal with climate change. This is Billy
boy thirty Michael back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
The actual economy can death pull from climate change will
be much, much, much greater than what we have with
this pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, wow, climate change was going to kill more people
than the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah. And he was part of the whole horror story
we must sacrifice everything to prevent this cataclysm crowd. Now,
this was only four and a half years ago, for
goodness sakes. Here he is now. He did a big
interview on a CNBC that's getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Start here, Michael, climate is a super important problem. There's
an up innovation here to avoid super bad outcomes. We
won't achieve our best goal, the one point five or
even the two degrees. And as we go about trying
(04:16):
to minimize that, we have to frame it in terms
of overall human wealth there, not just everything should be
solely for climate.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Wow. So what brought him around on that reality? I
have a feeling he's a smart guy. We're going to
talk about how smart in just a second. But he's
joined me and plenty of other people saying, essentially, we've
been too narrowly focused on reducing emissions. We should spend
(04:47):
more time on mitigation, adapting to a warmer world, improving
the lives of those most affected. You know, you know,
move fifteen feet back from the coast, cell your park
of by some shorts type adjustments. Well, I like throwing
your corn a little north of where you used to
and grow rice instead or something.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, I like you're saying we have or we'll make
technological advances that we'll deal with this, and and and
there's more to look at than just the climate change
and how disruptive it would be to economies and lifestyle.
Did he I wonder if he learned this from one
of them teenage messuses at Epstein Island. Well, she was
talking about the climate change. Huh, isn't he on the list?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
He's on the list? What list? And not why his
wife divorced him, Miss BONDI what list are you talking about?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That's why his wife divorced him when she found out
he was a traveling on with Epstein. No, I thought
he had an affair with his somebody around that too.
That doesn't matter anyway. So here, Katie, that's your job.
Look up Bill Gates's sex life. If you could just
google that for me. Wow, that's probably harassment.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
So anyway, Andrew Ross Sorkin is talking to Gates here
on the NBC, and I think this clip is a
little but it illustrates what I think I said yesterday.
Bill Gates, as a young geek in a garage, was
super great at writing software code and thinking about what
(06:13):
sort of software would be useful for people in the
early early days of the computer boom. That does not
make him a sage on climate change or any other topic.
It's like a gifted actor or something. I don't care
what you think about economics. You've done nothing to prove
your acumen in that field. And I don't think Bill
(06:34):
is I don't honestly think he's a bad guy. I'm
not down with the hole he wants to put chips
in you to turn you into something, you know, whatever
the hell conspiracy crowd. I just think he has an
incredibly inflated view of his own intelligence and wisdom. I
think he's very, very good at one thing. Oh well,
did you look up Bill Gates Epstein? Who'd you come
up with? Katy?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Breakdown of trust stemming from an affair Bill Gates had
with a staffer, plus his involvement with Jeffrey epp Steen.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, everybody's right. Isn't that nice? Isn't nobody has to
feel bad? That's just great. Anyway, let's continue the conversation
as Bill drones on about something or other.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
When the climate activists, who have been very supportive of
what you've done, and you've been very supportive of what
they've done, read this, and if if Greta Thunberg is
reading this and saying to herself, my goodness, he seems
like he is reversing himself.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
What would you tell her.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'd say, wasn't the goal here to improve human lives?
And shouldn't we, in our awareness of how little generosity
there is to help measure, you know, should we get
them a measles vaccine or should we do some climate
(07:47):
related activity? And if we could take if we stop
putting all vaccines and that you know, saved two point
one degree, would that be a smart trade off? That's
the kind of question we have to ask.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, And I like the interviewer making him respond to
this autistic child who got upset about climate change, not
fully understanding the story, and got hell betray her exactly
what I have stolen.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
My dreams, my childhood with your empty words. Oh my god.
The fact that that poor confused little girl is now
some sort of progressive godhead is just such a business.
Well now she's on the whole Hamas Palestinian things, right,
of course she is the permanent omnik. Cause yeah, well,
(08:36):
so okay.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Good for Bill Gates to start valuing. You know, the
goal here is to improve human lives.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
In whatever manner. In the point one degree thing is
not that big a deal, or Bill, I might suggest,
and perhaps Europe is listening to me. To flush your
economies down the toilet, brutally reduce your people's standards of
li crush upward mobility, to accomplish nothing in the name
(09:06):
of climate change might have been a bad decision.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, I'm so happy to believe he said that, I'm
going to install Windows ninety five on my computer when
I get home.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's a good idea, you know what. Somewhat encouraging. But
don't let down your guard, friends, don't let down your guard.
So many of the attitudes of the Great Awokening are
crumbling in the face of reality. Trans women are women, No,
they're not. You know, climate change threatens us all and
(09:35):
no cost is too much to endure. Yes, yes, it
is a lot of those costs. And by the way,
you're all phony greed heads and you're just wasting the money.
Stacy Abrams, please getting a one point eight billion dollars
or whatever it was. It's some scene, ridiculous and people
are starting to say so.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
And I'm glad You've got to focus on real problems,
like monkeys with COVID roaming the landscape, coughing on people.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
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So Trump uh tipped off something about his meeting with
President shee tomorrow on a hot mic moment, we can
bring that to you. Among a little more about what
is at stake there. Katie mentioned this earlier. Dictionary dot
com is already named their word of the year. It's
I guess it's November here. In a couple of days,
we're getting the end of the year list time, aren't we. Yeah, yeah,
(11:22):
that time of year dictionary dot com there are It's
still October. I mean they're done to ward. To me,
the word of the year is going to be six seven.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It's not a word. It's not a word. It's my
biggest problem with it. I'll tell you what. It is,
a desperate attempt to get anyone to click on dictionary
dot com by creating a fake, annoying controversy or find
out that it exists. Right, Why would you go to
diction Why would you ever go to dictionary dot com
to look up word? Uh? Why else? I just say
(11:53):
to Grock, what does blank mean? And that tells me
to highlight it and right click it and a lot
of things. You know what. I realized the other I
had to put a sign on one of my doors
during the remodel, and because interestingly, many of our hard
working friends speak very little English. I had to do
it in English and Spanish, and I just and I
(12:14):
was doing Apple pages. I think, yeah, I highlighted it well.
I'd written please stay out blah blah blah, and then
I highlighted it and right clicked it. And I can't
remember why I did that. Hoping that this would happen
and translate was one of the options, and I clicked
on Spanish and it just translated it. So now I
(12:35):
have a sign in English and Spanish on the door,
right handy. It's very very handy.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, is that your BDSM room or what? You can't have,
you know, anybody to find out what you got going
on in that room.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's their sex dungeon. Yeah, yeah, I don't want somebody
to wander in there and like say, maybe I'll try
this thing, and you know, you need to know what
you're doing. Oh look a swing that looks fun, right?
Not understand what's going to? Said down gently? Yeah? Anyway,
where were we? Wow? No, you brought it. We gotta
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Speaker 5 (13:11):
And never before published Doctor Seuss book has now been discovered.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Singing to fifty United States.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
We published in June to mark the country's two hundred
and fiftieth birthday. Author Theodore Geisel died in nineteen ninety one.
The manuscript was found earlier this year at the Guys
of Library at UC San Diego.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
What crazy is that they found a new Doctor Seuss
book and the USA related for then, So that's cool.
H So you came across more information that Bill Gates
has had a major change of heart about climate change.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah. I mean back in the day he was one
of the leading cheerleaders of climate alarmism.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
This could be important for those of us who think
it's been overblown for a long time.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, yeah, he he said, uh, way back in the
day that blah blah blah, the climate change will be
one of the greatest challenges humans have ever taken on.
Greater than landing on the moon, greater than eradicating smallpox,
even greater than putting a computer on every desk, and
(14:17):
then enormous loss of life.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And now he says that never mind, well no, he
essentially he said, look, poverty and disease are the biggest problems,
as they've always been understanding this, lets us focus our
limited resources on interventions that will have the greatest impact
for the most vulnerable people. In other words, don't spend
all your time and money and effort on climate change.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Help people where they are. Yeah, we know, Bill, we know,
so he's come around. I wonder if will this be
reported in the New York Times and who will criticize
him bitterly for it.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I want to get to this latest gallop pull that's
out about people's attitudes toward of America and whether or
not they're proud of their country. It's highly disturbing, but
probably worth look at. Maybe we'll get to that next segment.
How many people do we have who wear any of
the metaglasses? Our agent, the greatest agent in the world,
Eric wears them, the ray bands. But they you can
(15:13):
make phone calls, you can listen to music, you can
do a variety of things. And the reason I mentioned
this is they got the new version out, generation two
that has a little screen that shows up in one
of the lenses and you can see it like a
little computer screen and other people looking at you. Other
(15:33):
versions like Google, what was the one that went glass. Yeah,
people could see it and it was a little off putting.
Everything like these. It looks like you're just wearing glasses.
They can't see on their side that you're looking at
screen that just shows on your side. And I saw
it demonstrated, and the couple of reviewers talking about how
it's amazing it is. For instance, directions they were just
(15:54):
walking around the town and they put up the directions
of like, hey, you walk up to this corner and
you turn left and you're following your way to get
someplace where whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Just one example.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Or they had somebody they were cooking in the kitchen
and they had in their lens. Instead of regularly look
at your phone or whatever, the recipe for whatever you're
making was right there. While you can also be looking
at whatever you're doing anyway, reading something that closed your eyeball.
How does that work?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It must work.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
They all say it was great. But these weren't people
working for the company selling it. These were independent reviewers
who have said they haven't liked past versions and that
they think this is finally crossed over into that this
might be something that people start to use. But one
of the reviewers I said this said, she said, this
is gonna divide us even more into not paying attention
(16:46):
to each other or listening to each other. Or living
in our own worlds, as you can sit there with
your glasses on and you know, reading something else or
watching a video or whatever the hell you're doing instead
of paying attention to your friend.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
That's funny. Ernald just had a big article about CEOs
and executives dealing with people texting and checking their feeds
and whatever during meetings, and they can tell that they're
not really present, and they won't be able to tell.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Now you'll be checking your text and a little thing
in your eye, your lens.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Until somebody says, Jack, what do you think? And you say, oh,
I agree with most of what's been said. I mean
to study it further. Let's not be hasty.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I think there's nuance, though, and so it requires a
second look.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I think we should put a pin on it and
circle back.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But I realized a long time ago with texting. I
told this story a bunch of times. The first time
I heard about texting, I thought that that's stupid. Why
wouldn't you just call them? And then you know, finding
out it takes over my life like it did everybody else.
So I realized I don't have the ability to predict
even what I am interested in doing.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Or not doing, let alone the rest of humanity.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't see like a need or use for these glasses,
but for all I know, everybody will be wearing them
in two years.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I have no idea. I think I'm as bad as
you are at predicting that. I don't think I will be.
But you should feel free.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
How do people feel about America? Are they proud of
it or not? New Gallup Pole highly.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Troubling, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I haven't suggested that that Donald Trump is Hitler.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I wouldn't. I don't think any Democrat has.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I actually and I and I think it's a it's
a smear that they project back on to critics. Okay,
that's the governor of Illinois saying he's never compared Trump
to Hitler, and Nicole Wallace, the host saying, I don't
think any Democrat ever has. Now Here is a montage
and this is just a short portion of Democrats comparing
Trump Taylor.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
We have a Simil Hitler in the White House right now,
but does want to be Hitler for sure.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Comparing the tactics of Donald Trump to Mussolini and Hitler
as a very legitimate thing.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
He is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin
or to become an Adolf Hitler.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Well, Hitler was duly elected, right, right, And so somebody
with those tendencies, so dictatorial authoritarian tendencies, would be like, Okay,
we're gonna shut this down, We're gonna throw these people
in jail.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And they didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Usually telegraph that Trump is telling us what he tends
to do.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yes, right, So it's not even low level Democrats. In
that montage, you got Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi among
others telling Trump Hitler right after Nicole Wallace and the
governor of Illinois saying I've never called him Hitler. I
don't think any Democrat ever has. Okay, whatever, these are
the times we live in.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
There are a number of people, including a lot of
progressives of course, who will just lie overtly, knowing most
people don't have the nerve to call them on it.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Anyway, I thought that might lead into this, and maybe
it's why we're going the direction we're going.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I have no idea. I'm not a fan of Hitler.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The question from Gas it's about pride in being an
American and it goes back to the turn of the century.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Two thousand.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
So since two thousand, they've been asking this question, how
proud are you to be an American? Extremely proud, very proud,
moderately proud, only a little proud, or not proud at all?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Which would you choose?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Joe Getty as of this day in twenty twenty five, Oh,
the top one. Yeah, me too, extremely proud, Yeah, and eve.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Kind of liberty across the globe. Yeah, extremely and proud.
With all our flaws.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Of course, this graph you would not have been an
outlier at all at the turn of the century, no
matter your political stripe. This graph only includes people who
are very or extremely doesn't even include moderately proud, just
very or extremely In the year two thousand, start of
this century, for Republicans, it was ninety percent. For independence
(20:52):
it was eighty five percent. For Democrats it was eighty
seven percent.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So it was nine out of ten of Americans, no
matter your political stripe, who were extremely or very proud
of being an American.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Let that sink in for a second. That's amazing to
where we are now. For Republicans just served two terms.
Bush was in the middle of term number one, and
it was pre nine to eleven Okay, so it was
just the attitude, it was the culture. Well, well, we'll
have to get into the wise. But Republicans have held
(21:31):
steady more or less during that entire time, at around
ninety percent. I think that's interesting because I mean that
includes the Obama years. It's not just a I'm up
with whoever's president now thing. It stayed at ninety percent
during a time when you weren't happy at the president.
You're whether you're proud of being an American or not,
should not change with the presidency. But Democrats, it has
(21:54):
gone mostly down. It's like the stock market. There's little jiggles,
but the overall trend has been down over this quarter
of a century.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And now Jiggles is my drag name, by the way,
you read my books, and it's on the weekend. High
school libraries, you're a drag. Elementary school libraries. Yeah, drag time,
Story Hour, Yeah, little jiggles, ladies and gentlemen, Yeah, you're
so flamboyant, hi kids, Let me indoctrinate you. Let's get
back to this very important question. This is important.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
This should be studied by a panel of experts and
figure out what's going the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Here.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So for the Republicans people as self identified Republicans, it's
held steady at ninety percent. Independence are now at half.
So it was ninety percent, it's now half fifty three percent.
Why independents have dropped the fifty three percent is an
interesting question. And then for self identified Democrats, it's now
(22:51):
down to barely above a third. Went from nine out
of ten the start of the two thousands, barely above
a third.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Now Russia, China, and you know, the whole critical theory crowd.
I congratulates you. You haven't won, but you're winning. That's
an enormous gain for driving the country apart for killing
the United States from within. It's one of the most
(23:22):
amazing propaganda victories I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Why have Republicans held steady regardless of the administration while
Democrats have trended downward brief blip up a little bit
when Biden took office from Trump, but then went down
very quickly, and then continue to go down.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
I think Democrats are obsessed with politics in a way
that a lot of conservatives aren't. Aren't for one thing,
so this could be some Trump backlash. I also have
to observe that the people that are self identified Democrats
are very very different twenty five years on than they
(24:05):
were in two thousand. Well, it looks to me.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Party's way to the left looks to me like when
Trump was elected. And it did go down fairly steeply
after Trump was elected, But at the time Trump was elected,
it was down into the sixties. How do you go
from ninety percent into the sixties during two terms of
Bush and two terms of Obama.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, well, I tell you my theory, and I'm pretty
sure I'm right. Here's a couple of headlines to illustrate
the point. Minneapolis public schools have prohibited white and Asian
students from taking classes on black culture and black queens
and all sorts of woke stuff, the obsession with race,
the whole critical theory crowd. And then you have this one.
(24:48):
This is also Minneapolis public schools. They have declared capitalism
a pillar of white supremacy in a required ethnic studies class.
Every kid has to take this class, and they are
thought that capitalism or free market economy is a tool
of white supremacy.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
With the with the caveat we always throw in if
it is easier said than done, how do you keep
your kid in that freaking school I know to learn now,
EF you not only do.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't agree with your teaching style A f you Yeah, yeah,
I hate you. That's hate. I hate you. You're a
bad person.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
That's what I wanted to say to my son's history
teacher since I pulled my son out of that public
school class.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're a bad person.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You're actually damaging the country, you a whole Well, a
lot of these people are actively damaging the country on purpose.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's what they want to do. They're useful idiots who
think they're doing what's morally right. Are just idiots. These
people are awful. But anyway, I think people who tend
to be of a conservative event have heard all of
the critical race theory, the DEI stuff, the trans radical
stuff and said, no, what you're saying is not true.
(26:04):
Whereas people of a progressive point of view, for reasons
we've discussed, when they're you know, they're just born this
way or whatever, or sometimes they just want to be
approved of, so they will parrot whatever is being told
to them is right just so that they get the
approval of people around them. But people with a progressive
brent and heard all this crap and said, oh my god,
(26:26):
Oh my god, this is a terrible country. The propaganda
worked on them.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, I guess I was going to be intellectually honest.
It's because they think they're helping a bad country by
teaching the things they're thinking. They you know, pointing to
the graph right here. They don't think they're.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Trying to destroy something that they believe to be evil.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yeah, if you think it's a bad country, you should
be trying to change it. I guess I just I
think it's really illustrates something that the Republican numbers held
steady through all the various things that have happened over
the last twenty five years. And a lot of things
have happened, it just kind of a flat line basically
at nine of very or extremely proud. That's something that
(27:08):
that this is, this is a problem.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm digging more into the second Minneapolis story,
and it's so interesting. It's like studying the the propaganda
tactics of the Soviet Union or Russia or whatever, but
they're really hammering ethnic studies on the kids. Ethnic studies
is an anti racist tool, they say, identify these structural
(27:33):
inequalities that are part of k through twelve, they're going
to decolonize education, and there's all sorts of there. They
read ibramex Kenny and the other jokers and liars of
Neo Marxism. But it's a classic example of everything that
the neo Marxists hate they call racist or based on
(27:54):
white supremacy, and all the poor sheep, weak minded people
who all they know is I don't want to be
a racist. Guide know, being racist is bad. These people
are telling me what's racist and what's not. I will
believe them and I will obey them. They are calling everything,
including the free market, white supremacy. That's because they're Marxists.
(28:14):
They don't want the free market call something racist until
you control it. It's so obvious what's happening here. And
they brand it all with anti racism, and they teach
the poor little kids, we're gonna tell you about decolonizing
this and anti racism, that it's all bent. I'm tearing
down the Western systems.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah, and the reason my kid is no longer in
that American history class. It seemed to be, at least
in the first two months, all bent on convincing you
the country was bad. That's the only thing they'd learned
so far right, which is wild. And I don't want
to be the kind of guy that buys into this
notion that you can only have friends who are in
(28:53):
your side politically, or i'm single, can only date, you know,
based on politics. I don't want to live in that world.
But based on this graph, I might not have any choice. Right,
How could I be in a relationship with somebody who
thinks this is a bad country, which apparently is two
thirds of Democrats. That's I mean, that's a tough situation.
I'd be a heck of a thing to overlook in
(29:14):
your lives.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, it would come up a lot,
especially because everybody's so obsessed with politics lately. That's wild. Yeah,
it is. It's sick, it's I mean, and I don't know.
I could go on and on about this stuff. But
the subversion of the United States has been a project
of those who would either want to dominate us or
(29:36):
just hate us for ideological reasons for a very very
long time. And one of the ways you do it
is to inject Marxism into everything in sheep clothing, and
they've been incredibly successful at that. The other thing is
you constantly pit people against each other, which is why
you know so much of online hatred and sniping back
and forth as bots or foreign agents and that sort
(29:56):
of stuff. But then once you get that going, it
sustains itself. It's like when you get the whirlpool going
in your above ground pool or whatever. Once you get
it started, it keeps going. You don't have to work
at it anymore. And that's what you know. The people
who hate the United States have gotten going through our
educational systems, which should be torn down to the foundation
(30:17):
and rebuilt. But we're just abandoned by parents with conscience.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I can't see looking at this graph, I can't see
any reason to think that those down numbers from Independence
and Democrats aren't going to trend the direction, keep going
the direction they're going.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I mean, how low will it get. Well, we've let
wolves into the henhouse of education. I mean they like,
run all the diseased monkeys. Let's let's be let's be
in touch with the news of the day. We've let
diseased monkeys into the henhouse. And they've got they've got
a metaphor of the diseased monkeys, and.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
They got HEPSI, they got boxes and COVID and they
have goneriea resting leg syndrome, and all kinds.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Of things resting monkey face. Yeah, I feel so for
parents who know all of this, but they can't afford
or don't have time to get their kid in an
alternate educational environment. I understand how tough that was, but
(31:22):
it's beyond a problem. It's horrifying what kids are being
taught in government schools. Tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
So we missed this about the greatest baseball game I
ever saw in my life from two nights ago.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Serie World Series is tied to to now.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Very exciting, correct, So we'll be a game in Canada,
but in game tonight, big One, somebody's gonna go up
three to two. Anyway, we missed a very funny interview
question with one of the Dodgers players after the game,
and I got some comment about sports in general, youth
sports particularly on top of that.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
All on the way, stay.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Here the urgent search for dangerous research monkeys that escaped
from the wreckage of a crash on a Mississippi highway.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Heavily armed officers responding to the scene. Here's one of
the monkeys. Right here, there's one sitting right there at.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
Least six monkeys escaping officials warning they might be aggressive
towards people and were potentially infected with hepatitis sea herpes
and COVID herpes and COVID.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
In the hepsee are you kidding me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I thought I saw one report they said HIV or
some moments, so they had all kinds of things these monkeys.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
So don't eat very healthy monkeys. Don't eat it, don't
pet it, don't lick it, don't have sex with it.
Just leave it alone. Let it be. Slow down. I'm
jutting all this down disease research monkeys.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
That's like the worst practically the worst kind of car
crasher could have, where the truck tips over and diseased
monkeys spill out into the land.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
It sits down in your bottom ten percent of the
things that can happen to you. Yeah, yep, Wow, how's
your day?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I got into I got into a fender bender, which
is bad enough with insurance costs these days, But turns
out the trunk was full of diseased monkeys and several
of them bit me. So I've got hev B, I
got COVID, I got AIDS, not a good day.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
How was your day, honey? Okay, So love that baseball
game the other night.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I was wearing my Dodgers hat yesterday and it was
really interesting. So many people brought up the game to me,
and I thought, oh, yeah, I remember shared experiences. Oh yeah,
I haven't had a shared experience other than like voting
day in quite a few years, where like we all
were doing something and like people would comment on.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It, right, because it just doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Wow, And it was cool. AnyWho we miss this. Some
Mookie Bets, the amazing shortstop for the Dodgers, was asked
after the eighteen in game about his thoughts and it
said he said the interview, we're asking when you go
to bed tonight and put your head to the PILLI
will you be talking thinking about show Hey and his performance?
(34:11):
Or will you be thinking about Freddy and his home run?
What jumps out at you? And he said, I'm probably
not gonna think about the other men when I'm in bed. Hummophobe,
will you be thinking about show Hey or Freddy?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I'm probably not thinking about another dude while I'm in bed.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, I was just in the locker room with him
that was plenty.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
But speaking of shoa he Atani, they had interesting background
stuff on him during the game last night. I thought
I thought was really interesting about his upbringing and how
he and his dad. Starting as a little kid, shoe
Otani was so into being a baseball player starting at
age eight. He had like a journal mapped out of
his whole career, how he was going to do it,
where he is, what he positions, he was going to play,
(34:57):
where he was going to play, how far he would
be at various points, including making into the major leagues,
and he just he had mapped out his life and
he was sticking with the plan, and so far it's
worked out pretty well for him. But he and his
dad would play catch every single day when he got
home and practiced various stuff and they would work on like, okay,
this is what our weaknesses and like really really diligent about.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
It, which I thought was cool.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
But he said his dad always would always regularly ask
are we still having fun?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Are you still enjoying this?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Which I thought was really interesting because youth sports where
they are now, I know personally people who are concerned
that their kids are not enjoying it anymore because whichever
sport you decide to do. It's year round, way more
hours than anybody ever used to do.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
And I was around a kid the other day, and
I want to be vague about this because I don't
want ur anybody's feelings, but running, and this kid was
a really good runner.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
He's twelve years old. He's wearing a leg brace.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Took off his leg brace, ran had to put his
leg brace on because he's dealing with an injury, like
so many young athletes are now. Because you practice constantly
and play your sport year round. I know so many
injured young people. Like nobody was injured practically when I
was young, Right, I'd forgotten.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Actually the show, Hey O, Tony has already had two
Tommy John surgeries at age thirty one, is he? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, that's interesting. Is it still fun for your kid
if they're playing year round on some sport? I mean,
if it is great, but check in on that. Hey,
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