November 14, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Why Boeing killed D.E.I.
- Yacht rock - a documentary
- Reforming the justice department
- Mahomes' & Kelce's houses robbed!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty and He
Armstrong and Yetty. Mortgages, car loans, credit cards.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Americans are borrowing more than ever US household debt now
at seventeen point ninety four trillion dollars for credit cards.
That debt has never cost more. The average interest rate
almost twenty two percent, way higher than auto loans and
mortgage rates.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah, so I was about to jump in with what
the amounts with inflation, that just kind of makes sense
because everything is, you know, relative to whatever things used
to cost. But the interest rates don't change. The way
math works doesn't change, and those higher interest rates in
there or ever are brutal for the highest load anybody's
(01:03):
ever carried. Yeah, and you're absolutely right about you know, inflation,
that sort of thing. But man, seventeen point ninety four
trillion dollars on a card if you're in post revolution Bolivia,
that sounds like a lot. And you got somewhere between
twenty and thirty percent interest on your credit card based
on your credit situation.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, that's rough.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
The biggest political story in America by far obviously, is
Trump nominating Matt Gates and some other conversial people to
important positions. We talked about that a lot in Hour one.
We'll get back to that again later. I mean, it's
dominating all news coverage except for Fox, where they're treating
it as like a third tier story. For instance, this
is a third tier story. Did you see there's a
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new pigmy baby hippo that is the world's favorite new animal,
the new baby pigmy a because we had one a
couple of weeks ago, right, and everybody loved it, And
there's a new one out today and I just saw
it hopping around in the grass. That's the cutest dang thing. Ever,
how do I not have one? I gotta get one?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, enjoy your fifteen minutes signed meerkats?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, or dwarf goats or whatever was cute
last time. But big me hippos are super cute. I
wonder if you say pigs, is it like a pop
belly pig. You get one and you think it's really cute.
In the next thing, you know, it's seven hundred pounds
and has to live in your garage and you can't
park your car in there anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Disreputable breeders start selling regular hippos. Is damn, I've got
a regular, full sized, three thousand pound hippo.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This is not working for me, Katie.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yes, I was just wondering what this one's name was,
because last time we had moo mood dung.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Or mood dang moo dang. I think was it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Very cute, very cute little hippo. Dig up a picture.
I mean you'll you'll think, aw, I'll be the first
thing you say.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know, I'm more interested in the Marxist under currents
in American society. But if you want to work the cute,
fat faced animal beat, that's somebody needs to.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The new one is a Scottish apparently. Its name is
Haggis Ah, Haggage, laggage. Who's a good Who's I wish
you could see my face? Friends, I wish you could
put a little kilt on it. Put exactly, put a
little killed on it. Please.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Michael Brilliant played bagpipe music because it waddles out into
its enclosure for the people.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
AH plays the little bagpipe exactly. This is so stupid,
please can we move on?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Uh Chris Ruffo, you'll know him, you love him with
a great piece. Why Boeing killed Dei? And and the
lead is the important part of reckoning is underway in
corporate America. You remember, after the death of George Floyd
in twenty twenty, like every Fortune, five hundred company launched
a diversity, equity and inclusion program with very serious faces
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as they were running terrified from the Marxists who claimed
racial justice was their motivation. But now four short years later,
many companies are quietly acknowledging the failure of these initiatives,
in some cases is winding them down. And Rufo has
been writing about DEI at Boeing for a while. He's
got an inside source, well placed, high up, that described
(04:09):
it this way quote, I thought this is really good.
DEI is the drop you put in the bucket and
the whole bucket changes. It is anti excellence and because
it is ill defined, it becomes part of the culture.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That is some of the most evocative phrasing I've ever heard. Yeah,
the drop you put in the bucket and it changes
the whole bucket. That's interesting, folks, You've become.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Aware that the whole woke thing DEI anti racism thing.
You can't win. It's a constantly moving target. If you
say you're not a racist, you're a racist. And if
you say you're a racist, you're racist. But either way
you shut up. We're in charge. There's no way to
win against the woke people. That's not part of it.
They're not talking to you to come to an understanding.
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They're talking to you to rule you. And more people
are on nderstanding that. And then the context of Boeing
obviously you know the doors are falling off your planes
for instance. Yeah, earlier this month, Boeing installed new CEO
Kelly Ortberg, quietly dismantled the DEI department and accepted the
resignation of the office's vice president. So Rufo reached out
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to the same insider to get insight onto what happened
and how it happened. And he says, tell us, what
happened with DEI went from dominant to extinct in a
very short period of time. The insider says, we're shifting
from a company whose culture is simply the average of
corporate America to a distinct and deliberate vision of leadership.
The new boss wants Boeing focused on being an airplane
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company with our own culture and vision. The resulting cash
crunch from the crunch from the strike accelerated this culture shift.
When you start to focus on delivering value instead of
preserving status, it becomes obvious what drives value and it's
not DEI. And then he gets into he asked my
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senses that many executives are not genuinely committed to DEIS
and ideology. They simply want to build airplanes or create software,
for instance, but they feel social pressure to maintain these departments.
Is that true at Boeing and if so, when did
the calculus change? And the answer is DEI is lazy
thought leadership best practiced by companies in smooth waters with
margins large enough to afford the associated inefficiency.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That isn't Boeing today.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
When the new boss prioritized results over fitting in with
other CEOs, it sends a strong signal to the culture
and builds trust because employees know the rules and it's
clear how to succeed through hard work and results. McKinsey's
at the Consulting Group now debunked analysis was the standard
driver in corporate boardrooms. But even if DEI has to
defend itself on purely logical grounds. It doesn't stand up bowing.
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More than anything needs an aligned workforce focused on building airplanes.
And it's an easy decision to reject the divisive and
US centric language of DEI in favor of unified vision
for a diverse global company. Anyway, I thought that that
was really good just as a description of how it works.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
And DEI could go away under a Trump administration, which
won't be you know, working to push that on corporate America,
whereas if Kamala Harris administration, there would have been so
much pressure on all these companies to continue that or
add it if they hadn't already.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right, and it's it's a bludgeon again. It's not about
racial justice or any of the things that claims to
be about. Like in jackscenario, which is a good one,
the Harris administration wanted Boeing to suddenly, you know, unionize
its last three facilities or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, then they could hammer them with DEI.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Stuff or through their DEI executives and get them on
their knees begging for mercy because they're being accused of racism.
It's the old Jesse Jackson operation push blackmail scam. You
don't want racial justice, you want something else, but you
use claims of racial injustice to get there. It's the
race hustler thing. Anyway, I thought this was good too.
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From the National Review Lathan Watts. DEI is a corporate bust,
and he starts about the He starts with the wild
overreaction to the death of George Floyd and how all
the corporations were terrified, and how Robbie Starbuck, the filmmaker,
has been using sunlight as the best disinfectant. And he's
brought failed policies that are legally questionable and highly unpopular
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with consumers to the attention the general public and the
shareholders of these corporations. As a result, some of the
best known brands in the country have hastily canceled their
DEI programs and cut ties with the far left Human
Rights Campaign, which pressures companies to do things like cover
sex hormones and puberty blockers for miners. Wow, monstrous Nazia
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like experiments on children.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Your company has to cover that stuff and their insurance plan.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Unwilling to let the practical failure of a policy distract
from the political fervor. Forty nine members of Congress, keeping
in mind their four hundred and thirty five of these geeks,
spurred on, signed an open letter to Fortune one thousand
businesses demanding that they doubled down on DEI. But these
companies have recently received two more open letters encouraging them
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to hold the line in favor of healthy ROI return
on investment over feeble DEI ideology.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Slogan, AREI not DEI for the companies I want to
invest in?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I love that the second of those two letters.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Came from seventeen state treasurers and other financial officials, state
of financial officials who are responsible for the gigantic state
investment vehicles that hold billions of dollars in ownership positions
in these companies for their retirees, and that sort of thing.
And unlike the partisan gamesmanship paraphrasing the piece of the
National Review, here the forty nine Congress geeks liberal CULTI
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jackasses are saying, you've got to double down on DII.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
These people are saying, Hey, we.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Don't have the luxury of you and your virtue signaling
crap which you run your company for efficiency, please not
to please AOC and so it's good to see you.
Remember it was what a year ago I started saying.
And all DEI programs now wherever they exist, and it's
happening in spades. Hurrah, hourrah, better for black people, better
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for white and Hispanic people as people.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
In short, go get them awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Man that Dylan mulvany disagrees, noted American Anheuser Bush spokesperson.
I apologize if I have offended him. The tide shure
turned on that whole thing fast. Yeah, although it is
still monstrous in academia, media, Hollywood, and in government itself, friends,
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which is why I am always saying this is just
the end of the beginning.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Have you seen any of the trailers for the new
Gladiator movie? I have Gladiator too. It looks freaking fantastic
and the reviews are starting to come out, and Denzel
Washington is supposed to be his best role ever, which
is saying something.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Although he said that they his gay kiss got left
on the cutting room floor, that's something. And I'm sure
everybody America was ready to see Denzel Washington kiss some other.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Dude mashing with it. Dude, I don't need it, but
looks awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And that's the kind of movie you got to see
in a theater, the big giant colosseum and the fighting
and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll take the kids of that, probably unless it's too gruesome.
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, maybe, And I think we're going to play this trailer.
In fact, we could play it next. There is a
hot new documentary coming out that I want to see. Okay,
it's a documentary on well, I'm not gonna tell you what.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And we're already gearing up for the Tyson Paul fight
that is Friday night on Netflix with the kids, and
we're gonna gather around for that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We can't wait.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You're having your children watch an elderly man beaten kind
of monster, are you?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
That's not the way we think it's gonna go. That's
not the way we think it's gonna go. But we
could be wrong. Uh, And then we got to get
back into the hole. Matt Gates is it gonna be
Attorney General? Or at least he's been nominated. What a
bomb that was?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Stay here, it rocks, but it doesn't wrong too hard.
The singers all seem to be saying, Hey, it's gonna
be okay, it's perfect sitting down dancing music. Also known
as Ya Rocks, Steely Dan.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
The Doobie Brothers, Toto, Kenny Longins, Christopher Cross.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Michael McDonald. I expected to be totally forgotten. By the
end of the eighties, the.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Term yacht rock merged from comedy show.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All of a sudden, this new genre we started to
get embraced by the world.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Rock.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I always thought it was kind of flattering to be
made fun of.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
We did a whole show on yacht rock or a
lot of one a couple of years ago, playing various
songs and everything like that, and discussing it because it's
not well defined, but it's defined enough that, like in
my Tesla anyway, there's a yacht rock option for.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Your music choices. It's like pornography, you know what when you.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Hear it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Who was that saying I expected to be forgotten? Was
that Christopher Cross? That is hilarious?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Who knows, yeh, I could have been any one of
those guys. I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Rock not too.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Hard, perfect for dancing sitting down.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I was skeptical of a documentary about yacht rock, but
that sounds pretty entertaining. Yeah, and it's just everybody can
and most of that music was popular when I was
alive and a young person, but it seems to have
some purchase with like the younger crowd that was born
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well after these songs for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Oh definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I read once an unnecessarily long piece about how love
of Steely Dan went from ironic to sincere among the young.
Well right, and Steely Dan's a brilliant band, by the way,
I will brook no making fun of Steely Dan. I
have walked by fratthouses in the college town I live
in blasting Toto, which I would have never guessed when
it was actually popular in the eighties that forty years
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in the future, college dudes would be blasting it in
a party with their shirts off, playing beer pong. I mean,
it's just I would have bet you had any money
that wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But it did go figure.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I read a book by Chuck Klosterman lent to me
by a good friend, and I can't remember the title
of it, but it was really like two hundred and
fifty page think piece on what art will endure from
our current time, specifically musical, and he goes into what
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art endured from various other times, and what is it
that makes it endure? Is it merely quality? No, definitely not.
Is it like quirkiness? Is it first in?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Is it a It's just a really interesting series of thoughts.
It's certainly not just popularity. As a guy who is
a music disc jockey in the eighties, I hear stuff
on eighties stations that I remember were minor hits at
the time that are still getting on regular rotation on
eighty stations now for reasons.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I can't quite explain.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, what endures. It's kind of a mysterious question.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Man on music. I have this.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I'm sure this is a very common with a lot
of parents. But my my, I'm gonna have two teenagers
here in a month. But my youngest teenager, for whatever reason,
he's an interesting dude, Henry. He likes class rock, so
it's very easy for me to drive around with him.
He wants to hear Bachman Turner, Overdrive and the Eagles
we went to last weekend in Vegas and stuff like that.
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He wants to hear Sweet Home Alabama. That's the music
he wants to hear, and he chose it himself.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I didn't choose it.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
But my oldest only wants to listen to rap music,
and particular rap music, and I try. I picked him
up from school yesterday and dialed up some of his
favorite stuff to listen to while we're driving home, and
I just, oh, it's punishing to me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I do not understand the appeal, like to some stuff
I like. I like Kanye, I'll listen to tons of you.
But he doesn't like Kanye.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
He likes he. I always say this makes him laugh
every time. Where's the melody? What's row Sinatra? I always say,
I just I do not get the appeal. But I try.
Maybe it'll I don't know, maybe it'll click in my
head someday.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Or to each their own, But wouldn't it be something
of five hundred years from now? Historians say, and then
there was a musical development and that they called rock
and music, and they play you know, Christopher Cross or
something right as an example, Shaggar is spinning in his
five hundred year old grave.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Or he's still alive touring.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You don't know, Matt Gates, Attorney General, what WTF is
the response for.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Bost of America, Artrong, and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I will tonight discuss Matt Gate. Some of you will
think I'm too hard on him. Some of you will
think I'm much too easy on him. And this is
in the context of what is one of the most
jaw dropping days in the last ten years of Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I mean, it's I would describe it as God to
your level trolley to just trigger a full on China syndrome,
to own the lives in perpetuity.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
So that's Mark Alprin saying it's one of the most
jaw dropping days in the decade of Trump, which is
saying something obviously. And then that's John Fetterman, Senator of
Pennsylvania saying this is God level trolling, which is China
syndrome miltown, which it might be God level trolling.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I'm not sure. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And everybody's guessing that's Trump nominating Matt Gates to be
the Attorney general.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Fetterman is so much more likable than he used to be.
Maybe a stroke helped him. I don't know anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh, yes, Matt Gates, you say, is what attorney general?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Went right?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And uh with the news part of it, that should
be mentioned that Republican sources told news outlets yesterday that
a committee report was coming out tomorrow on Matt Gates
was already planned to come out tomorrow on Matt Gates.
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That was going to be quite explosive about all those
sex drug allegations that he's had for quite a few years.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So you gotta factor that in.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
And again it's he's got so enemy, so many enemies
in the House and the Senate, Republican enemies, that it's
not shocking that Republicans went to the press with that news,
and there's not a chance that it doesn't leak out
of that committee tomorrow, probably by some Republican who hates
Matt Gates. I'll be interesting to see what's in there
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and how damaging it is, and whether or not Matt
Gates or Trump care at all. Right to question what
was Trump thinking is the really interesting one to me,
But I don't want to get ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That was it just trolling?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
He just likes to see people's heads explode and he
doesn't care if Matt Gates gets confirmed or not.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Was it the.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Five dimensional chess play of you'll spend all your time
and effort on taking down Matt Gates, and I'll get
my other kind of controversial people.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Through, right, the sacrificial lamb strategy is it? I really
wanted to throw a hand grenade into the Justice Department
because of the incredible injustice of how they they've traded
me over the last quite a few years, which is
undeniably true. I would argue that's not a good strategy
if you want to reform the Justice Department.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, somebody.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I did want to get this on because somebody brought
this up and I had forgotten this. The FBI and
d OJY previously tried to frame Matt Gates. I don't
know if this is all true, but I remember this story.
Tried to frame Matt Gates with the help of a
con artist. That's the guy he was friends with. Now
was he friends or did he get calmed by this
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guy who was trying to extort Gates's family out of
tens of millions of dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Do you remember that whole aspect of the story vaguely?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I can't think of a more perfect choice to tear
the most corrupt agency on Earth down to its studs. Bravo,
President Trump. That's from Sean Davis. If you know his act. Now,
I don't know if I buy all that stuff, but
it's possible that Gates got involved with some people that
tried to extort him and then tried to ruin him
with that whole underage girl thing, because you know, the
investigation was dropped a couple of years back. Now you
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got the so called explosive details of a new committee
report coming out tomorrow, and maybe.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That will make it more clear what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, and remember, in the same way that the legitimate
women's rights movement pointed out that sometimes promiscuous women get raped.
She's somewhat promiscuous is not an excuse for rape. In
the same way, sometimes scum bags get blackmailed. But even
with that, that's the easiest blackmail to get going.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
But even with that that I'm I'm I'm more in
line with Lisa Murkowski, the Republican Senator for Alaska, who's
already in no, who's saying he's not.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
A serious person. I don't think he's a serious person. No.
I would like a serious person to be Attorney general.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Here's what the Wall Street Journal editorial board writes today,
after praising Donald Trump for a bunch of his choices,
including Marco Rubio. They write, this is a bad choice
for ag that would undermine confidence in the law.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Mister Trump lawed. Mister Gates's law degree from.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
William and Mary, but it might as well be a
doctorate and outraged theater. He's a performer and provocateur. In
his view is that the more explosions he can cause,
the more attention he can get. It is impossible to
get canceled if you're on every channel, he once said.
And if you aren't making news, you aren't governing. Gates
has said on multiple occasions. Yeah, he's part of the
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Instagram caucus.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Wall Street Journal editorial board goes on to say, mister
Gates has no interest in governing. When Republicans took control
the House in twenty twenty two, is with a small margin.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Rather than work to get things done.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Gates sabotage Speaker Kevin McCarthy before fought, before finally leading
a rebellion to oust him, and for no good outcome.
Eight Republican malcontents plunged the GOP into weeks of embarrassing
paralysis since mister Gates had no alternative that could command
a majority. Finally, speaker Johnson emerged, but again there is
no point to it other than unless he just personally
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hated McCarthy so much to bring him down, which he did,
absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You know, my argument with like the ultramagotype that just
wants to chuck grenades is that you're not going to
be successful if you just want to punch somebody in
the face, great, okay, super But if you want to
reform agencies or bodies the government that you consider to
be corrupt and full of duplicity and scumbaggery and anti
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Trump activism which is legit, I'm with you on a
lot of that. But you're not going to be successful
with Matt Gates. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It will fail.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You've got to get somebody who's smart and savvy and
clean enough that they can't undermine him by saying, you know,
all the things they would say about Gates, well, a
lot of which is true.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
That's the last paragraph from the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
The larger objections to mister Gates concerned judgment and credibility.
That's what I'm talking about, more than the whether he
had sex with a seventeen year old. The US Attorney
general has to make calls them countless difficult questions of
whom to investigate and indict. Gates's decisions simply won't be
trusted by any Democrats, and about half the Republican's that
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will think he's just doing this for whatever personal reasons,
or he just wants to be provocative or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's no good. They've got anything.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Sacrificial lamb or sincere grenade chucked at the DOJ.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I remember when we had Bill O'Reilly on, back when
Bill O'Reilly was the biggest deal in all of media
back in I think it was probably still twenty fifteen
after Trump had announced and asking Bill O'Reilly is a
three dimensional chests and Bill rising, there's no three dimensional
chests going on.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Trump just wings it.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I think it's probably closer to he just he just
knew it would make people's heads explode, and for whatever reason,
the way Trump is built, he loves that more than anything. Yes,
flipping on MSNBC and watching people go crazy with enemies, Yeah,
he just loves that. So I think it's probably more that.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I don't know. I hope there.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
May never be a great book written by a two
term president about a two term president, because nobody knows
how he makes his decisions but him.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And I'm not sure he's going to write a book
about it.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
We may know less about him for history than any
president we've ever had.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Interesting though, was.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
It three dimensional chess or just bomb checking or whatever?
And I have no idea. Ah, so a more reaction.
Are we gonna play some audio with people freaking out?
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What's the plan? I don't know, but it'll happen after this.
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So I thought this was pretty insightful from Noah Rothman
of a National Review. As he is tweeting out yesterday
as all the news was breaking. Gabbard and Getz are
probably better understood less as endorsements of their respective worldviews
than an expression of Trump's mistrust of the DOJ and
the intelligence services. Less an appetite for a sad Putin
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and permanent anti establishment revolution, then a thumb in the
eye of those institutions. In other words, yeah, he wanted
He liked making people mad about this more than he's
on board with.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Their philosophies, whatever they are. Yeah, he wanted to punch
him in the face. I get that. I don't think
it's a good long term strategy. But I really really
really don't.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Think Matt Gates will get through. Elsie Gabbert.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm just astonished by that choice. No rewarding a loyalist.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Noah Rothman also said not sure if Gates will win
confirmation or not, but the vetting process will test his
tolerance for embarrassment. Yeah, I would say so again with
this report coming out tomorrow and the most thorough background
check by far he's ever gone through. Because to become
Attorney General, you're getting the highest level of course. Because
you are, you get to know all kinds of stuff
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that very few people should know about lots of people
that might result in investigations or not. And so you know,
it's gotta be somebody you really really trust, and he's
gonna get that thorough background check, and well see it comes.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Out of that.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Just you know. My final thought on the subject will
probably be that Andrew McCarthy, who has been perhaps the
most eloquent, knowledgeable, and forceful a voice attacker against the
law fair waged against Trump. He has been brilliant, thorough,
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and merciless in pointing out how corrupt all of this
has been right. Okay, so he's no never Trumper. His
headline is on Trump's foolish, futile Matt Gates AG nomination.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I feel like it's spending, you know, some goodwill you
had even with the mainstream media because of such a
big win and a lot of political capital on nothing like,
on nothing other than a couple of days early enjoying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
How upset Joe Scarborough is. Yeah, I guess he doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And honestly, after the Gates nomination is swept away and
trumputt nominates somebody more reasonable or clean or whatever, honestly
it'll be forgotten in the mails from the dust storm
of dust ups over Donald.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
J Another yet another thing that is leading to social
isolation in our modern society. I see this every single day.
I deal with it in my own family. I do
want to talk about that, among other things.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Stay with us.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
On successive nights last month, potase Say burglars broke into
the homes of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in Missouri and
Travis Kelsey in Kansas. On Sunday, October sixth, police were
dispatched to a burglary where Mahomes lives hours after Mahomes
was targeted and with the Chiefs about to kick off
Monday night. Police say burglars stole twenty thousand dollars in
cash from Kelsey's home and damaged the back door. Taylor
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Swift was at that game, but afterwards she and Kelsey
reportedly did not returned to his house.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I spoke to police a little while ago.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
That seems they know who they're looking for and they're
confident they will catch them.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
That's interesting that two of the most famous football players
in America, knowing they were, you know, not home because
of the game, broke in.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Somebody broke into their homes. And you would assume, I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I had seen pictures of both of their homes for
a variety of reasons, reading newspaper articles.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You would have sucker.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You would assume people who have houses like that have
a security system or a house sitter or a maybe
even an armed guard.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, you're freaking have.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Taylor Swift coming over and stay in the night. Half
a dozen mastiffs.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Who just roam around looking for flesh to sink their
mighty fangs.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, teams of pit bulls and Chiefs Jerseys. Yes, well,
that would be so cute.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
But I'm just surprised you could even break into Travis
Kelsey's home and rummage around and find cash.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And leave what. I'm not kidding, They need to simply
say use that coat armstrong.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, speaking of crimes, just came across this one down
in Mexico. I won't spend much time on it because
it's gruesome. But so this woman picks up a hitchhiker
down in Mexico and he opens up a bag and
starts tossing bones out the window, and she thinks those
look like human.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Bones, say pal.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
She doesn't say anything, as you'd be quite disturbed as
the person you've picked up to give her ride is
throwing bones out the window of your van and is
also a person.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Who's willing to throw bones out of a van while
you watch.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I can't help but ask there, Pedro, why you got
a bag of human bones?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
That's some serious level up psychopathy right there, right?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Why are you throwing them out now? With me sitting
here and hum.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Seems like you got a lot of bones there, chum,
more bones than the average hiker.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Don't mean overstep my bounds, but.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I found myself wondering where'd you come by all those bones.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What's the deal with all the human bones?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
So she drops him off, probably heart pounding, thank god,
and it calls the cops.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
The cops find the guy. He's got a house.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
They go to his house and they've found twenty skulls
so far, Oh my buried.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
In the yard. So oof l serial killer. Same publication
New York Posts that brought me that story.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I was just reading this story about yet another reason
why we are living such isolated lives. And I fear
for the next generation that will have grown up knowing
no different. And that's the And I do this quite
a bit myself too, the omnipresence of having one or
more earbuds in walking around either or listening to music
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or podcasts or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And how many people do that.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And my son my high school, this has been a
real point of contention because he really hates that I
do this. But I don't take that out of your ear. No,
we're riding in the car, I'm talking to you. You
don't need to be listening to music while we're having
a conversation. And I mean, it's just he just he'll
put it back in and I try to get his attention.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Let's all, let's all hang out here at dinner and talk,
or at least be listening to each other, or the
potential to listen to each other.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You don't need to whatever you're listening to right.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Now, but just Constant and him and all his friends
when they come out of the classroom. I mean, every
single person staring at a phone and or the earbuddy
in always and I mostly music, I guess. But that's
a different lifestyle than Homo sapiens have had for all
of our existence.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, I'd say, I remember reading about the NBA players,
the young players who have their headphones on their beats
or what have you all the time on the team bus,
then in the locker room, and these guys are lonely,
they're freaked out.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
They don't get a long and.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You know, I was thinking about, you know, as you
start to talk about it, how young people are not
coupling there, they're not finding girlfriends, boyfriends, that sort of thing.
And I think part of it's got to be By
the time that you know, I was sixteen years old, say,
I had interacted with young women tens of thousands of times,
and the idea that Oh it's a girl. I'm talking
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to a girl. Was like, No, that's not a big deal.
You know, maybe as it turned romantic. Okay, that's some
interesting slippery slope ground ron But yeah, I would be
weird and intimidated not know what to do either if
I'd spend all my time in a little cocoon of
my own making.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Well, we all know the the attention thing that we
all have from staring our phones or anything like that,
but definitely the next level is the having the earbud
in all the time. And I don't know if you
get kind of like addicted to needing some stimulus of
some sort, or if it's because so many people have
eighty ADD or ADHD, because I know somebody, full on
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grown up, she's fifty has a d ADD whichever one
it is, that she has to have some music going
to be able to pay attention. It like quiets down
the whatever causes you to be distracted and allows you
to pay attention. So I don't know how many of
our young people, so many of them have you know,
those things add or something maybe that helps them listen
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to you or other people. I don't even know, but
it's definitely new and how would it not leave to isolation?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I told him he was.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
He was going to ride on a bus to a
band trip the other day, and I said, you know,
you're riding with this kid, and you know some parents
nice enough to drive them. Don't sit there with your
earbuds in there and ignore them all the whole time,
you know, can you like interact with them for a while,
just please for me? Yeah, because I know they do that.
They just they all sit there in the van with
their earbuds in, nobody talking to anybody. Wow, how different
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is that?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Then?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
The way I know it is man has invented his doom.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It hurts my soul to see that. And if you've
never had anything different, you don't know what you're missing.
I guess time for a planet of the apes or beavers.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, they're starting it in South Carolina. I can pick
a favorite, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty and He
Armstrong and Yetty. Mortgages, car loans, credit cards.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Americans are borrowing more than ever US household debt now
at seventeen point ninety four trillion dollars for credit cards.
That debt has never cost more. The average interest rate
almost twenty two percent, way higher than auto loans and
mortgage rates.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah, so I was about to jump in with what
the amounts with inflation, that just kind of makes sense
because everything is, you know, relative to whatever things used
to cost. But the interest rates don't change. The way
math works doesn't change, and those higher interest rates in
there or ever are brutal for the highest load anybody's
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ever carried. Yeah, and you're absolutely right about you know, inflation,
that sort of thing. But man, seventeen point ninety four
trillion dollars on a card if you're in post revolution Bolivia,
that sounds like a lot. And you got somewhere between
twenty and thirty percent interest on your credit card based
on your credit situation.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, that's rough.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
The biggest political story in America by far obviously, is
Trump nominating Matt Gates and some other conversial people to
important positions. We talked about that a lot in Hour one.
We'll get back to that again later. I mean, it's
dominating all news coverage except for Fox, where they're treating
it as like a third tier story. For instance, this
is a third tier story. Did you see there's a
(01:43):
new pigmy baby hippo that is the world's favorite new animal,
the new baby pigmy a because we had one a
couple of weeks ago, right, and everybody loved it, And
there's a new one out today and I just saw
it hopping around in the grass. That's the cutest dang thing. Ever,
how do I not have one? I gotta get one?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, enjoy your fifteen minutes signed meerkats?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, or dwarf goats or whatever was cute
last time. But big me hippos are super cute. I
wonder if you say pigs, is it like a pop
belly pig. You get one and you think it's really cute.
In the next thing, you know, it's seven hundred pounds
and has to live in your garage and you can't
park your car in there anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Disreputable breeders start selling regular hippos. Is damn, I've got
a regular, full sized, three thousand pound hippo.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This is not working for me, Katie.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yes, I was just wondering what this one's name was,
because last time we had moo mood dung.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Or mood dang moo dang. I think was it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Very cute, very cute little hippo. Dig up a picture.
I mean you'll you'll think, aw, I'll be the first
thing you say.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You know, I'm more interested in the Marxist under currents
in American society. But if you want to work the cute,
fat faced animal beat, that's somebody needs to.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
The new one is a Scottish apparently. Its name is
Haggis Ah, Haggage, laggage. Who's a good Who's I wish
you could see my face? Friends, I wish you could
put a little kilt on it. Put exactly, put a
little killed on it. Please.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Michael Brilliant played bagpipe music because it waddles out into
its enclosure for the people.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
AH plays the little bagpipe exactly. This is so stupid,
please can we move on?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Uh Chris Ruffo, you'll know him, you love him with
a great piece. Why Boeing killed Dei? And and the
lead is the important part of reckoning is underway in
corporate America. You remember, after the death of George Floyd
in twenty twenty, like every Fortune, five hundred company launched
a diversity, equity and inclusion program with very serious faces
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as they were running terrified from the Marxists who claimed
racial justice was their motivation. But now four short years later,
many companies are quietly acknowledging the failure of these initiatives,
in some cases is winding them down. And Rufo has
been writing about DEI at Boeing for a while. He's
got an inside source, well placed, high up, that described
(04:09):
it this way quote, I thought this is really good.
DEI is the drop you put in the bucket and
the whole bucket changes. It is anti excellence and because
it is ill defined, it becomes part of the culture.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That is some of the most evocative phrasing I've ever heard. Yeah,
the drop you put in the bucket and it changes
the whole bucket. That's interesting, folks, You've become.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Aware that the whole woke thing DEI anti racism thing.
You can't win. It's a constantly moving target. If you
say you're not a racist, you're a racist. And if
you say you're a racist, you're racist. But either way
you shut up. We're in charge. There's no way to
win against the woke people. That's not part of it.
They're not talking to you to come to an understanding.
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They're talking to you to rule you. And more people
are on nderstanding that. And then the context of Boeing
obviously you know the doors are falling off your planes
for instance. Yeah, earlier this month, Boeing installed new CEO
Kelly Ortberg, quietly dismantled the DEI department and accepted the
resignation of the office's vice president. So Rufo reached out
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to the same insider to get insight onto what happened
and how it happened. And he says, tell us, what
happened with DEI went from dominant to extinct in a
very short period of time. The insider says, we're shifting
from a company whose culture is simply the average of
corporate America to a distinct and deliberate vision of leadership.
The new boss wants Boeing focused on being an airplane
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company with our own culture and vision. The resulting cash
crunch from the crunch from the strike accelerated this culture shift.
When you start to focus on delivering value instead of
preserving status, it becomes obvious what drives value and it's
not DEI. And then he gets into he asked my
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senses that many executives are not genuinely committed to DEIS
and ideology. They simply want to build airplanes or create software,
for instance, but they feel social pressure to maintain these departments.
Is that true at Boeing and if so, when did
the calculus change? And the answer is DEI is lazy
thought leadership best practiced by companies in smooth waters with
margins large enough to afford the associated inefficiency.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
That isn't Boeing today.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
When the new boss prioritized results over fitting in with
other CEOs, it sends a strong signal to the culture
and builds trust because employees know the rules and it's
clear how to succeed through hard work and results. McKinsey's
at the Consulting Group now debunked analysis was the standard
driver in corporate boardrooms. But even if DEI has to
defend itself on purely logical grounds. It doesn't stand up bowing.
(06:50):
More than anything needs an aligned workforce focused on building airplanes.
And it's an easy decision to reject the divisive and
US centric language of DEI in favor of unified vision
for a diverse global company. Anyway, I thought that that
was really good just as a description of how it works.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
And DEI could go away under a Trump administration, which
won't be you know, working to push that on corporate America,
whereas if Kamala Harris administration, there would have been so
much pressure on all these companies to continue that or
add it if they hadn't already.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right, and it's it's a bludgeon again. It's not about
racial justice or any of the things that claims to
be about. Like in jackscenario, which is a good one,
the Harris administration wanted Boeing to suddenly, you know, unionize
its last three facilities or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, then they could hammer them with DEI.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Stuff or through their DEI executives and get them on
their knees begging for mercy because they're being accused of racism.
It's the old Jesse Jackson operation push blackmail scam. You
don't want racial justice, you want something else, but you
use claims of racial injustice to get there. It's the
race hustler thing. Anyway, I thought this was good too.
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From the National Review Lathan Watts. DEI is a corporate bust,
and he starts about the He starts with the wild
overreaction to the death of George Floyd and how all
the corporations were terrified, and how Robbie Starbuck, the filmmaker,
has been using sunlight as the best disinfectant. And he's
brought failed policies that are legally questionable and highly unpopular
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with consumers to the attention the general public and the
shareholders of these corporations. As a result, some of the
best known brands in the country have hastily canceled their
DEI programs and cut ties with the far left Human
Rights Campaign, which pressures companies to do things like cover
sex hormones and puberty blockers for miners. Wow, monstrous Nazia
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like experiments on children.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Your company has to cover that stuff and their insurance plan.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Wow yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Unwilling to let the practical failure of a policy distract
from the political fervor. Forty nine members of Congress, keeping
in mind their four hundred and thirty five of these geeks,
spurred on, signed an open letter to Fortune one thousand
businesses demanding that they doubled down on DEI. But these
companies have recently received two more open letters encouraging them
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to hold the line in favor of healthy ROI return
on investment over feeble DEI ideology.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Slogan, AREI not DEI for the companies I want to
invest in?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I love that the second of those two letters.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Came from seventeen state treasurers and other financial officials, state
of financial officials who are responsible for the gigantic state
investment vehicles that hold billions of dollars in ownership positions
in these companies for their retirees, and that sort of thing.
And unlike the partisan gamesmanship paraphrasing the piece of the
National Review, here the forty nine Congress geeks liberal CULTI
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jackasses are saying, you've got to double down on DII.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
These people are saying, Hey, we.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Don't have the luxury of you and your virtue signaling
crap which you run your company for efficiency, please not
to please AOC and so it's good to see you.
Remember it was what a year ago I started saying.
And all DEI programs now wherever they exist, and it's
happening in spades. Hurrah, hourrah, better for black people, better
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for white and Hispanic people as people.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
In short, go get them awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Man that Dylan mulvany disagrees, noted American Anheuser Bush spokesperson.
I apologize if I have offended him. The tide shure
turned on that whole thing fast. Yeah, although it is
still monstrous in academia, media, Hollywood, and in government itself, friends,
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which is why I am always saying this is just
the end of the beginning.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Have you seen any of the trailers for the new
Gladiator movie? I have Gladiator too. It looks freaking fantastic
and the reviews are starting to come out, and Denzel
Washington is supposed to be his best role ever, which
is saying something.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Although he said that they his gay kiss got left
on the cutting room floor, that's something. And I'm sure
everybody America was ready to see Denzel Washington kiss some other.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Dude mashing with it. Dude, I don't need it, but
looks awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
And that's the kind of movie you got to see
in a theater, the big giant colosseum and the fighting
and everything like that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I'll take the kids of that, probably unless it's too gruesome.
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, maybe, And I think we're going to play this trailer.
In fact, we could play it next. There is a
hot new documentary coming out that I want to see. Okay,
it's a documentary on well, I'm not gonna tell you what.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
And we're already gearing up for the Tyson Paul fight
that is Friday night on Netflix with the kids, and
we're gonna gather around for that.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
We can't wait.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You're having your children watch an elderly man beaten kind
of monster, are you?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
That's not the way we think it's gonna go. That's
not the way we think it's gonna go. But we
could be wrong. Uh, And then we got to get
back into the hole. Matt Gates is it gonna be
Attorney General? Or at least he's been nominated. What a
bomb that was?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Stay here, it rocks, but it doesn't wrong too hard.
The singers all seem to be saying, Hey, it's gonna
be okay, it's perfect sitting down dancing music. Also known
as Ya Rocks, Steely Dan.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
The Doobie Brothers, Toto, Kenny Longins, Christopher Cross.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Michael McDonald. I expected to be totally forgotten. By the
end of the eighties, the.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Term yacht rock merged from comedy show.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All of a sudden, this new genre we started to
get embraced by the world.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Rock.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I always thought it was kind of flattering to be
made fun of.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
We did a whole show on yacht rock or a
lot of one a couple of years ago, playing various
songs and everything like that, and discussing it because it's
not well defined, but it's defined enough that, like in
my Tesla anyway, there's a yacht rock option for.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Your music choices. It's like pornography, you know what when you.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Hear it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Exactly?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Who was that saying I expected to be forgotten? Was
that Christopher Cross? That is hilarious?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Who knows, yeh, I could have been any one of
those guys. I guess.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Rock not too.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Hard, perfect for dancing sitting down.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I was skeptical of a documentary about yacht rock, but
that sounds pretty entertaining. Yeah, and it's just everybody can
and most of that music was popular when I was
alive and a young person, but it seems to have
some purchase with like the younger crowd that was born
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well after these songs for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Oh definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I read once an unnecessarily long piece about how love
of Steely Dan went from ironic to sincere among the young.
Well right, and Steely Dan's a brilliant band, by the way,
I will brook no making fun of Steely Dan. I
have walked by fratthouses in the college town I live
in blasting Toto, which I would have never guessed when
it was actually popular in the eighties that forty years
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in the future, college dudes would be blasting it in
a party with their shirts off, playing beer pong. I mean,
it's just I would have bet you had any money
that wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But it did go figure.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I read a book by Chuck Klosterman lent to me
by a good friend, and I can't remember the title
of it, but it was really like two hundred and
fifty page think piece on what art will endure from
our current time, specifically musical, and he goes into what
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art endured from various other times, and what is it
that makes it endure? Is it merely quality? No, definitely not.
Is it like quirkiness? Is it first in?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Is it a It's just a really interesting series of thoughts.
It's certainly not just popularity. As a guy who is
a music disc jockey in the eighties, I hear stuff
on eighties stations that I remember were minor hits at
the time that are still getting on regular rotation on
eighty stations now for reasons.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I can't quite explain.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, what endures. It's kind of a mysterious question.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Man on music. I have this.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
I'm sure this is a very common with a lot
of parents. But my my, I'm gonna have two teenagers
here in a month. But my youngest teenager, for whatever reason,
he's an interesting dude, Henry. He likes class rock, so
it's very easy for me to drive around with him.
He wants to hear Bachman Turner, Overdrive and the Eagles
we went to last weekend in Vegas and stuff like that.
(16:08):
He wants to hear Sweet Home Alabama. That's the music
he wants to hear, and he chose it himself.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I didn't choose it.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
But my oldest only wants to listen to rap music,
and particular rap music, and I try. I picked him
up from school yesterday and dialed up some of his
favorite stuff to listen to while we're driving home, and
I just, oh, it's punishing to me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I just I don't.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I do not understand the appeal, like to some stuff
I like. I like Kanye, I'll listen to tons of you.
But he doesn't like Kanye.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
He likes he. I always say this makes him laugh
every time. Where's the melody? What's row Sinatra? I always say,
I just I do not get the appeal. But I try.
Maybe it'll I don't know, maybe it'll click in my
head someday.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Or to each their own, But wouldn't it be something
of five hundred years from now? Historians say, and then
there was a musical development and that they called rock
and music, and they play you know, Christopher Cross or
something right as an example, Shaggar is spinning in his
five hundred year old grave.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Or he's still alive touring.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You don't know, Matt Gates, Attorney General, what WTF is
the response for.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Bost of America, Artrong, and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I will tonight discuss Matt Gate. Some of you will
think I'm too hard on him. Some of you will
think I'm much too easy on him. And this is
in the context of what is one of the most
jaw dropping days in the last ten years of Trump.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I mean, it's I would describe it as God to
your level trolley to just trigger a full on China syndrome,
to own the lives in perpetuity.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
So that's Mark Alprin saying it's one of the most
jaw dropping days in the decade of Trump, which is
saying something obviously. And then that's John Fetterman, Senator of
Pennsylvania saying this is God level trolling, which is China
syndrome miltown, which it might be God level trolling.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I'm not sure. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
And everybody's guessing that's Trump nominating Matt Gates to be
the Attorney general.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Fetterman is so much more likable than he used to be.
Maybe a stroke helped him. I don't know anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh, yes, Matt Gates, you say, is what attorney general?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Went right?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And uh with the news part of it, that should
be mentioned that Republican sources told news outlets yesterday that
a committee report was coming out tomorrow on Matt Gates
was already planned to come out tomorrow on Matt Gates.
(18:47):
That was going to be quite explosive about all those
sex drug allegations that he's had for quite a few years.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
So you gotta factor that in.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
And again it's he's got so enemy, so many enemies
in the House and the Senate, Republican enemies, that it's
not shocking that Republicans went to the press with that news,
and there's not a chance that it doesn't leak out
of that committee tomorrow, probably by some Republican who hates
Matt Gates. I'll be interesting to see what's in there
(19:19):
and how damaging it is, and whether or not Matt
Gates or Trump care at all. Right to question what
was Trump thinking is the really interesting one to me,
But I don't want to get ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That was it just trolling?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
He just likes to see people's heads explode and he
doesn't care if Matt Gates gets confirmed or not.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Was it the.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Five dimensional chess play of you'll spend all your time
and effort on taking down Matt Gates, and I'll get
my other kind of controversial people.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Through, right, the sacrificial lamb strategy is it? I really
wanted to throw a hand grenade into the Justice Department
because of the incredible injustice of how they they've traded
me over the last quite a few years, which is
undeniably true. I would argue that's not a good strategy
if you want to reform the Justice Department.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, somebody.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I did want to get this on because somebody brought
this up and I had forgotten this. The FBI and
d OJY previously tried to frame Matt Gates. I don't
know if this is all true, but I remember this story.
Tried to frame Matt Gates with the help of a
con artist. That's the guy he was friends with. Now
was he friends or did he get calmed by this
(20:32):
guy who was trying to extort Gates's family out of
tens of millions of dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Do you remember that whole aspect of the story vaguely?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I can't think of a more perfect choice to tear
the most corrupt agency on Earth down to its studs. Bravo,
President Trump. That's from Sean Davis. If you know his act. Now,
I don't know if I buy all that stuff, but
it's possible that Gates got involved with some people that
tried to extort him and then tried to ruin him
with that whole underage girl thing, because you know, the
investigation was dropped a couple of years back. Now you
(21:03):
got the so called explosive details of a new committee
report coming out tomorrow, and maybe.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
That will make it more clear what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, and remember, in the same way that the legitimate
women's rights movement pointed out that sometimes promiscuous women get raped.
She's somewhat promiscuous is not an excuse for rape. In
the same way, sometimes scum bags get blackmailed. But even
with that, that's the easiest blackmail to get going.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
But even with that that I'm I'm I'm more in
line with Lisa Murkowski, the Republican Senator for Alaska, who's
already in no, who's saying he's not.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
A serious person. I don't think he's a serious person. No.
I would like a serious person to be Attorney general.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Here's what the Wall Street Journal editorial board writes today,
after praising Donald Trump for a bunch of his choices,
including Marco Rubio. They write, this is a bad choice
for ag that would undermine confidence in the law.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Mister Trump lawed. Mister Gates's law degree from.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
William and Mary, but it might as well be a
doctorate and outraged theater. He's a performer and provocateur. In
his view is that the more explosions he can cause,
the more attention he can get. It is impossible to
get canceled if you're on every channel, he once said.
And if you aren't making news, you aren't governing. Gates
has said on multiple occasions. Yeah, he's part of the
(22:22):
Instagram caucus.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Wall Street Journal editorial board goes on to say, mister
Gates has no interest in governing. When Republicans took control
the House in twenty twenty two, is with a small margin.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Rather than work to get things done.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Gates sabotage Speaker Kevin McCarthy before fought, before finally leading
a rebellion to oust him, and for no good outcome.
Eight Republican malcontents plunged the GOP into weeks of embarrassing
paralysis since mister Gates had no alternative that could command
a majority. Finally, speaker Johnson emerged, but again there is
no point to it other than unless he just personally
(22:55):
hated McCarthy so much to bring him down, which he did,
absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
You know, my argument with like the ultramagotype that just
wants to chuck grenades is that you're not going to
be successful if you just want to punch somebody in
the face, great, okay, super But if you want to
reform agencies or bodies the government that you consider to
be corrupt and full of duplicity and scumbaggery and anti
(23:21):
Trump activism which is legit, I'm with you on a
lot of that. But you're not going to be successful
with Matt Gates. That's the problem.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It will fail.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You've got to get somebody who's smart and savvy and
clean enough that they can't undermine him by saying, you know,
all the things they would say about Gates, well, a
lot of which is true.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
That's the last paragraph from the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
The larger objections to mister Gates concerned judgment and credibility.
That's what I'm talking about, more than the whether he
had sex with a seventeen year old. The US Attorney
general has to make calls them countless difficult questions of
whom to investigate and indict. Gates's decisions simply won't be
trusted by any Democrats, and about half the Republican's that
(24:04):
will think he's just doing this for whatever personal reasons,
or he just wants to be provocative or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's no good. They've got anything.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Sacrificial lamb or sincere grenade chucked at the DOJ.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
I remember when we had Bill O'Reilly on, back when
Bill O'Reilly was the biggest deal in all of media
back in I think it was probably still twenty fifteen
after Trump had announced and asking Bill O'Reilly is a
three dimensional chests and Bill rising, there's no three dimensional
chests going on.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Trump just wings it.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I think it's probably closer to he just he just
knew it would make people's heads explode, and for whatever reason,
the way Trump is built, he loves that more than anything. Yes,
flipping on MSNBC and watching people go crazy with enemies, Yeah,
he just loves that. So I think it's probably more that.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I don't know. I hope there.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
May never be a great book written by a two
term president about a two term president, because nobody knows
how he makes his decisions but him.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And I'm not sure he's going to write a book
about it.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
We may know less about him for history than any
president we've ever had.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Interesting though, was.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
It three dimensional chess or just bomb checking or whatever?
And I have no idea. Ah, so a more reaction.
Are we gonna play some audio with people freaking out?
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What's the plan? I don't know, but it'll happen after this.
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Speaker 4 (26:37):
So I thought this was pretty insightful from Noah Rothman
of a National Review. As he is tweeting out yesterday
as all the news was breaking. Gabbard and Getz are
probably better understood less as endorsements of their respective worldviews
than an expression of Trump's mistrust of the DOJ and
the intelligence services. Less an appetite for a sad Putin
(26:59):
and permanent anti establishment revolution, then a thumb in the
eye of those institutions. In other words, yeah, he wanted
He liked making people mad about this more than he's
on board with.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Their philosophies, whatever they are. Yeah, he wanted to punch
him in the face. I get that. I don't think
it's a good long term strategy. But I really really
really don't.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Think Matt Gates will get through. Elsie Gabbert.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm just astonished by that choice. No rewarding a loyalist.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Noah Rothman also said not sure if Gates will win
confirmation or not, but the vetting process will test his
tolerance for embarrassment. Yeah, I would say so again with
this report coming out tomorrow and the most thorough background
check by far he's ever gone through. Because to become
Attorney General, you're getting the highest level of course. Because
you are, you get to know all kinds of stuff
(27:53):
that very few people should know about lots of people
that might result in investigations or not. And so you know,
it's gotta be somebody you really really trust, and he's
gonna get that thorough background check, and well see it comes.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Out of that.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Just you know. My final thought on the subject will
probably be that Andrew McCarthy, who has been perhaps the
most eloquent, knowledgeable, and forceful a voice attacker against the
law fair waged against Trump. He has been brilliant, thorough,
(28:29):
and merciless in pointing out how corrupt all of this
has been right. Okay, so he's no never Trumper. His
headline is on Trump's foolish, futile Matt Gates AG nomination.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I feel like it's spending, you know, some goodwill you
had even with the mainstream media because of such a
big win and a lot of political capital on nothing like,
on nothing other than a couple of days early enjoying.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
How upset Joe Scarborough is. Yeah, I guess he doesn't care.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And honestly, after the Gates nomination is swept away and
trumputt nominates somebody more reasonable or clean or whatever, honestly
it'll be forgotten in the mails from the dust storm
of dust ups over Donald.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
J Another yet another thing that is leading to social
isolation in our modern society. I see this every single day.
I deal with it in my own family. I do
want to talk about that, among other things.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Stay with us.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
On successive nights last month, potase Say burglars broke into
the homes of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in Missouri and
Travis Kelsey in Kansas. On Sunday, October sixth, police were
dispatched to a burglary where Mahomes lives hours after Mahomes
was targeted and with the Chiefs about to kick off
Monday night. Police say burglars stole twenty thousand dollars in
cash from Kelsey's home and damaged the back door. Taylor
(29:56):
Swift was at that game, but afterwards she and Kelsey
reportedly did not returned to his house.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I spoke to police a little while ago.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
That seems they know who they're looking for and they're
confident they will catch them.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
That's interesting that two of the most famous football players
in America, knowing they were, you know, not home because
of the game, broke in.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Somebody broke into their homes. And you would assume, I mean.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I had seen pictures of both of their homes for
a variety of reasons, reading newspaper articles.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
You would have sucker.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You would assume people who have houses like that have
a security system or a house sitter or a maybe
even an armed guard.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, you're freaking have.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Taylor Swift coming over and stay in the night. Half
a dozen mastiffs.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Who just roam around looking for flesh to sink their
mighty fangs.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, teams of pit bulls and Chiefs Jerseys. Yes, well,
that would be so cute.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
But I'm just surprised you could even break into Travis
Kelsey's home and rummage around and find cash.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And leave what. I'm not kidding, They need to simply
say use that coat armstrong.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Yeah, speaking of crimes, just came across this one down
in Mexico. I won't spend much time on it because
it's gruesome. But so this woman picks up a hitchhiker
down in Mexico and he opens up a bag and
starts tossing bones out the window, and she thinks those
look like human.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Bones, say pal.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
She doesn't say anything, as you'd be quite disturbed as
the person you've picked up to give her ride is
throwing bones out the window of your van and is
also a person.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Who's willing to throw bones out of a van while
you watch.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
I can't help but ask there, Pedro, why you got
a bag of human bones?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
That's some serious level up psychopathy right there, right?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Why are you throwing them out now? With me sitting
here and hum.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Seems like you got a lot of bones there, chum,
more bones than the average hiker.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Don't mean overstep my bounds, but.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I found myself wondering where'd you come by all those bones.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What's the deal with all the human bones?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
So she drops him off, probably heart pounding, thank god,
and it calls the cops.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
The cops find the guy. He's got a house.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
They go to his house and they've found twenty skulls
so far, Oh my buried.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
In the yard. So oof l serial killer. Same publication
New York Posts that brought me that story.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I was just reading this story about yet another reason
why we are living such isolated lives. And I fear
for the next generation that will have grown up knowing
no different. And that's the And I do this quite
a bit myself too, the omnipresence of having one or
more earbuds in walking around either or listening to music
(32:56):
or podcasts or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And how many people do that.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And my son my high school, this has been a
real point of contention because he really hates that I
do this. But I don't take that out of your ear. No,
we're riding in the car, I'm talking to you. You
don't need to be listening to music while we're having
a conversation. And I mean, it's just he just he'll
put it back in and I try to get his attention.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Let's all, let's all hang out here at dinner and talk,
or at least be listening to each other, or the
potential to listen to each other.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You don't need to whatever you're listening to right.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Now, but just Constant and him and all his friends
when they come out of the classroom. I mean, every
single person staring at a phone and or the earbuddy
in always and I mostly music, I guess. But that's
a different lifestyle than Homo sapiens have had for all
of our existence.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, I'd say, I remember reading about the NBA players,
the young players who have their headphones on their beats
or what have you all the time on the team bus,
then in the locker room, and these guys are lonely,
they're freaked out.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
They don't get a long and.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
You know, I was thinking about, you know, as you
start to talk about it, how young people are not
coupling there, they're not finding girlfriends, boyfriends, that sort of thing.
And I think part of it's got to be By
the time that you know, I was sixteen years old, say,
I had interacted with young women tens of thousands of times,
and the idea that Oh it's a girl. I'm talking
(34:23):
to a girl. Was like, No, that's not a big deal.
You know, maybe as it turned romantic. Okay, that's some
interesting slippery slope ground ron But yeah, I would be
weird and intimidated not know what to do either if
I'd spend all my time in a little cocoon of
my own making.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Well, we all know the the attention thing that we
all have from staring our phones or anything like that,
but definitely the next level is the having the earbud
in all the time. And I don't know if you
get kind of like addicted to needing some stimulus of
some sort, or if it's because so many people have
eighty ADD or ADHD, because I know somebody, full on
(35:00):
grown up, she's fifty has a d ADD whichever one
it is, that she has to have some music going
to be able to pay attention. It like quiets down
the whatever causes you to be distracted and allows you
to pay attention. So I don't know how many of
our young people, so many of them have you know,
those things add or something maybe that helps them listen
(35:23):
to you or other people. I don't even know, but
it's definitely new and how would it not leave to isolation?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
I told him he was.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
He was going to ride on a bus to a
band trip the other day, and I said, you know,
you're riding with this kid, and you know some parents
nice enough to drive them. Don't sit there with your
earbuds in there and ignore them all the whole time,
you know, can you like interact with them for a while,
just please for me? Yeah, because I know they do that.
They just they all sit there in the van with
their earbuds in, nobody talking to anybody. Wow, how different
(35:56):
is that?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Then?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
The way I know it is man has invented his doom.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It hurts my soul to see that. And if you've
never had anything different, you don't know what you're missing.
I guess time for a planet of the apes or beavers.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, they're starting it in South Carolina. I can pick
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