December 4, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Procrastination, taxing condoms & who uses what social media?
- Matthew Perry's doctor & McDonalds
- Venezuela drug boat strike, the Pentagon & hearings in history
- Spotify & subsidized health care fraud
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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 and know He Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The Postal Service, FedEx and UPS just announced their holidays
shipping deadlines. The FedEx and UPS deadline is December twenty third,
and the Postal Service deadline is last Easter. Yeah, the
last day to ship the gift is December twenty third.
Then scratchhofs are like after that, all.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Use that is a set. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I think you take your scratch offs as Christmas presents
holiday class.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
My mom always gets those forced every single year for
whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's been a tradition in our households.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Only one time a year, I have a lottery ticket
is in the stocking hung with care.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Interesting that people laugh there. It's just a.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Given, a given that we think the taxpayer funded government
run package delivery is worse than the private company. We're
just all in agreement with that enough that we can
make a joke like that.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh it's a truism, sure, yeah, Ah. I've been asked
to read this to you, and so I will. I
am nothing if not obedient. Our Christmas shipping deadline has passed.
Oh no, we get at some of your procrastinators will
do you a favor free shipping for anyone who wants
to roll the dice, because it's not like you won't
get your fabulous A and G swag in time for Christmas.
(01:43):
It's just a little bit uncertain at this point. So
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the entire country. Tea that's here Gavin twenty twenty eight
t shirt, one of our fine hoodies, the kftc apron,
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Speaker 4 (02:03):
We were talking about genetic tendencies earlier. I wish procrastination
would be looked at at the highest level. They need
to do a moon shot on procrastination and figure that out,
and figure out how to use crisper technology to gene.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Edit that out of people, because it's horrible.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I've got it, and one of my kids has it,
one of them has it, and one of them doesn't,
and it's just.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Never mind eye color. How about procrastinations?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No kidding, no kidding, I don't care how tall they are.
I want to give them the gift of not being
a procrastinator. Speaking of passing on your genes to your children.
Your headline of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And maybe we'll take a look inside the China cabinet
later because I've got a lot of good China stuff.
But China adds tax to condoms as it works to
boost birth rates. Well, if you want less of something,
you tax it. If you want more of something, you
subsidize it. That's why we tax employment and subsidize drug
addicts in America. Moving a law, they're taxing condoms, Yeah,
(03:05):
to try to get people to use them less.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I mean the tax would have to be just confiscatory, right,
I mean I'd rather haven't raise a child than spend
that extra thirty cents, so.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's not like they're is the question of do you
want to straw or will you sip your iced tea.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Out of your glass?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Nah? I don't need a straw. No, it's it's a
condome for goodness sakes. Anyway, moving along, I thought this
was interesting. Who is using what social media in the
United States right now? The numbers are in for this
last year and they are interesting and as you might guess,
they very significantly by age group demographics. YouTube and Facebook
(03:55):
remain the most widely used online platforms.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Eighty four percent of US adults say they use YouTube
at least occasionally.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I use YouTube every day, probably I I'm not a
big social media guy. Really YouTube YouTube? I don't know.
I don't use YouTube as social media.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It has comments, and people post short.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Videos and stuff like that. It's a quasi.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Social media anyway. That that that seventy one percent report
using Facebook.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Social media.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Half of adults say they use Instagram, making it the
only other platform in the survey used by at least
fifty percent of Americans. Significantly smaller shares use the other
sites and apps they asked about, such as TikTok, which
is not only a communist Chinese spy device and a
perverter of the principles of our young It is used
(04:54):
by thirty seven percent of American adults.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Can you what is app? Yes? Can you? I answer
this question, Katie, because I think it's important.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Like, for instance, I like the fact that my kids
aren't on social media as I define it. They're not
on Facebook or TikTok or Instagram, but YouTube's listed there
they are. They both use YouTube a lot. In what
way is you? Do you use YouTube as social media? Well,
you're a millennial. We're let's beyond boomers. We're the silent generation.
(05:24):
Joe and I were born in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I would think it's social media, silent to the last
what I'm talking now, Yes.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I would think it's social media because you can record
content and put it out there for people to comment on.
And they've kind of gone the way of Instagram and
TikTok with those shorts.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, I don't think you think of my kids or
me use it that way. No.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No, when you say your kids are not on TikTok,
how do you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Well, they don't have the apps. You don't need the app.
How do you use TikTok without the app, just the website?
Who's better with the app?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'm told whatever that means the Chinese burrow their way
deeper into your soul.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
But every time I've tried to use a TikTok without
the app on my phone, it wouldn't let me.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So that's interesting. Anyway they tell me to know, have
you have you rebooted? Let's see moving along, where were we? Okay,
so What's App it rebooted. What's App is thirty two percent.
I wouldn't know What's App. If somebody I just I
don't know it, I.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Would somebody I don't even remember what it was like
a month ago, or somebody only wanted to communicate through
What's App instead of texting.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh, it's so much better. It's it's a phone number
without an actual phone number.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And it's it's very easy. But I didn't understand the
advantage of it over texting. I guess it's encrypted or something.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Then that helps. I don't need my message terrors communicate.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I don't need my messages and encrypted. But if you do,
I guess it's good for you. About a third of
Americans use What's App.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I was surprised somewhat fewers say the same as Reddit
twenty six percent, Snapchat twenty five percent, x is twenty
one percent, threads eight percent, Blue Sky is four percent.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Man, do you hear about that?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You know it's proof of what the media is that
you hear references to Blue Sky as often as you
do if you're into the news. It's four percent of Americans.
Truth Social is three percent.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
By the way, a couple of my oldest son's friends,
children of college educated, well to do, active parents, good families,
they have the TikTok app and watch TikTok videos. They
go to sleep watching TikTok. That's how they.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Fall asleep in Oh boy, what are we doing to
our children? What is Mark Zuckerberg doing in the Chinese
doing to our children? As you might have guessed already,
there are huge age gaps in the use of a
lot of platforms adults under thirty. Let's see well, for instance,
Instagram eighteen to twenty nine year olds, because this is
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just adults we're talking about here, eighty percent of those
young people are on Instagram, ninety five percent YouTube again,
is that really sixty three percent of the young folks
are on TikTok almost two thirds. And if you look
at any poll of where do you get your news,
TikTok is number one for young people Chinese communist controlled
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propaganda sites. Seriously, we're so fat and stupid as the republic,
we deserve to go away.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I kind of got to broaden your idea of news, though,
don't you.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Also, I don't know how much news young people are
seeking out at all. What's this Pete Eggsatt story about
the second tap on the boat?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't know how many people are interested in that
at all. Yeah, some of it's it's kind of newsy,
but I don't. I don't spend a long time money
a lot of news when I was twenty like any really, Yeah,
let's see that and they break it down in all
sorts of interesting ways. Men women erase age, household income, urban, rural, lean,
(09:01):
Republican or Democrat. Only one percent of Democrats are on
truth social for instance.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Have you mentioned Twitter?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, just that twenty one percent of people are on Twitter. Ever,
so it's it's like in uh, what is that? Of course,
it's like eighth place.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, and then I know the numbers within Twitter of
that twenty one percent on there, only like one percent
post and dominate the whole conversation.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
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Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, like Katie, your millennial did did did the evening
newscast have any relevance for you?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Growing up, No, none for you. Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And like in my household, my dad usually somebody flipped
on the evening news and things was on.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yeah, oh okay, I just met. For me, I mean
I would always see my dad watching it. Yeah, and
then I did during anything.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'm old. But like for my kids, it means zero.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I mean they don't even know that there's such thing
as an evening newscast or a morning newscast, or a
newscast at all.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Could you name your parents favorite weather man or a
woman watching the evening news, because I remember that was
part of my childhood. I knew their names fars well.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It was the only way to get weather for one bite.
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So getting back to the who's using what social media
stand out in their use of several platforms, including phasebook, Instagram,
and TikTok. For instance, more than half of women report
using Instagram fifty five percent, compared to forty four percent
of men. Alternately, men are more likely to report using
platforms such.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
As x or Reddit.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Let's see, White adults are less likely than Black and
Hispanic adults and sometimes Asian adults to use online platforms
like Instagram, TikTok, and what's app. For instance, forty five
percent of white adults report using Instagram, compared with larger
shares among hispanics it's sixty two percent. That's a seventeen
point spread. Maybe it's just because panics, blacks and adults
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is a little less.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, maybe it's just because I'm old.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
But I don't understand how a conversation is including what's
app in YouTube. They're like as many people are using
cars or buying pumpkins this year, is the way it
sounds to me. I don't even know how they fall
into the same category.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, if it was an analysis of where to put
ad dollars, maybe I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But yeah, they're very different to vehicles. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Let's see Democrats, democratic leaning independence more likely to report
using what's app, Reddit, TikTok, blue Sky, and threads. Republicans
more likely to say they use x and truth social obviously,
aren't we going to.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Be on YouTube? Is that ever gonna happen? We've been talking.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Everybody uses social media way way too much, way too much,
But we don't have time to talk about that. Yes,
we will be on YouTube soon, like in the new
year something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, or shortly thereafter, and then you'll be able to
watch the show on YouTube or watch it later on YouTube.
I don't even know what's happening. Somebody should tell me.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Uh, carefully selected highlights, the plans Jack are in flux.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, it's been.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
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Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, I have to comb my hair. I probably should
you have no hair? Well?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Will everybody be able to see everybody like Michael and
Katie and yeah, I think so. The other dozen people
working on the show that don't get mentioned, Gladys.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
If people will finally see Gladys, we got to have
like a cartoon Gladys or something. She's very shy, she
is ever since the Kaiser dumped her.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, hope, hope to be on YouTube in the new year.
Were they clinging to the boat or not clinging to
the boat. We'll get to that at some point, among
other things.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Stay here.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
To doctor who sold ketamine to friend star Matthew Perry
leading up to his overdose death was face to face
with the actor's family as they described their heartache. Doctor
Salvador Placensia sentenced to thirty months in prison for selling
dozens of vials of ketamine to Perry in exchange for
tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah, you're a bad doctor, and you deserve whatever penalties.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Are due for being a doctor that gives drugs to
people just so they can get high.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
But I just thought the whole idea of his his
mom and dad were there and crying and and really verbally,
you know, laying into this doctor and your poor son
spent half his life in rehabs and like nine million
dollars by his own accounting, on drugs. He was hell
bent on being a drug addict. Somebody was gonna he
(15:01):
was gonna find someone to buy it from. That doctor
both did and didn't have a role in killing him.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Right, Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Come on, doc, you gotta have a scam just you know,
invents some sort of fake supplement and sell it on
Fox News if.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You I mean, this guy is really something.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
If you don't remember it, he's the guy that they
they found the text of this doctor saying how much
do you suppose this more on? How many thousands of dollars
is more on willing to spend to get these drugs? Yeah,
they knew they had a rich drug addict and we're
taking advantage of it. I like, apparently lots of people
doctors in LA will do for the.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Rich and powerful.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yep, predators ain't cool now. So I had an interesting
experience last night. Decided to hit a McDonald's up for
a mcflurry, which I still contend is a dessert that
could be served at nice restaurants and you could charge
a lot more and people would think, oh, if you
had the whatever give it a French name. Mcfluury's a
(15:55):
good dessert. Why'd you roll your eyes, Katie, mcfluory's are good?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Here die It just amazes me. Anyway, continue what a.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I'm sick all the time. Anyway walking into the McDonald's.
And this is the first time cross the line.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Don't know if this has happened anywhere else in the
country other than California. California do it does have the
unique situation that we passed a law that fast food
places have to pay people twenty dollars an hour, and.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
They laid off many thousands of people.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
So job Gavin more than ten thousand people lost their
jobs in the fast food industry because they raised the
wages and they found ways to get around it at
this particular at McDonald's, they had been like trying to
push you toward the kiosk for a long time now,
but they still had the menu and.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You could walk up in order if you wanted to.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No more, no human being, no registering up where they
usually had the menu where you walk into the McDonald's.
The big screen up there, it just said, we've gone
all digital to better serve you. This is not better
serving me to better serve you. Viewer full menu on
our app or at the kiosk.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So I can either go.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
On my phone and make the order and it will
pop out the window at some point, or I can
go to over to their kiosk.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And do it. But there ain't no human being and
there's not even a menu there anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
So yeh, Gavin managed to outlaw teenagers and young people
and ulsters and moms from making a little bucks, make
a little money around the edges.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You've outlawed it. Way to go. They really are pushing
the apps really hard. Oh yeah, yeah, I know you
pull up. Are you buying on the app to date?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
No? I'm not just to my freaking food. But that's
where they're headed, and they're trying to get everybody used
to it. I guess because they can eliminate human beings,
which was probably inevitable anyway, but it certainly helped it
along when you made it mandatory twenty dollars an hour
to do the math on well, is it worth investing
in this equipment?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Now? I guess so.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, you're right, although it's a great example of you've
just not let the free market be free. If wages
were driven down, there'd be certain numbers of people who thought, no,
that's fine, I will still give you an hour of
labor for that rate. It's worth it to me whatever,
And just you've eliminated that price fixing is always bad.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
For labor as well as goods. It's terrible. Armstrong and Getty, will.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You release a video of that strike so that the
American people can see for themselves.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Well, I don't know what they have, but whatever they have,
we certainly release, no problem.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
The Secretary Heads said he had no knowledge of this,
and it did not happen.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It was fake news.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
It didn't happen, and then the next day from the
podium of the White Houser saying it did happen. So
either he was lying to us on Sunday, or he's
incompetent and didn't know what had happened.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think it was wrong on all fronts.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
But I don't like the Secretary of Defense blaming on
a military commander. These commands came from him, and I
think the buck stops with him.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So first voice was obviously Donald Trump. He was asked
yesterday if you'll release, you know, the video of the
second strike, and he said, I don't know if we
have it, but if we have it, I'm all for
releasing it. So it's going to come out. And then
you heard Rand Paul, who is if you don't know
his act, he is a Republican who's against most military
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things we do, certainly if Congress doesn't give it approval
as a war and all that sort of stuff. So
he's going to be against this act no matter what.
But he is pointing out something that a lot of
people have pointed out. National Review Today has a piece
on the headline is something like the changing story about
the second Strike, because you can lay out things, Mark
Rubio said, Pete Hegseeth said that.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
They changed a lot over the last week or so.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I don't know what happened then you did know what happened,
but you weren't there for the second part, or I'm
a busy man, or they're just the stories they've.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Changed over the days, which isn't a good look. Really.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
By the way, I got no skin in this game whatsoever.
It makes no difference to me whatsoever if Pete Hegseet
serves out the entire four years or is driven out
of office today. I would prefer he serves all four
years because that probably means he's doing a good job.
And if he's driven out of office, that probably means he
was doing a bad job, and that's not good for
any of us. But in terms of him coming or going,
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I'm not I got no interest in this other than
trying to figure out what actually happened.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But there's no doubt. I mean, you cannot deny that
his story is changed in.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
A way that doesn't look good of what knowledge he
had at this thing at.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Various times, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
George will in his piece today or yesterday rather in
the Washington Post, was laying out, well, let's hear this first.
This is ABC from last night. Martha Radditt's on the
story with the latest information. We just got I don't
understand why we didn't have this week or a month
earlier new information.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two
survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others
and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it
was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yes, a lawyer watching this unfold. Who's that's what a
JAG officer is. It's a lawyer for the military who
who lets commanders know whether they're within the law or not.
Was looking at the situation at the time, determined these
people are still actively participating in this activity and you're
okay to strike them. Why did we just find this
(21:29):
out yesterday?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Right? Right? That's absurd if.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You would think that that information is so important to
the question I'm just trying to assess.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Is that classified? No? Surely not. Is that a leak? No,
that should just be an official statement.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, I would just think politically, you know, whether maybe
it's below Trump's level, at Pete's level, at somebody's level,
you'd get this out immediately.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But what's going on here because of that?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yes, Representative Mike Rodgers, who I generally like, he's a
Republican from Alabama. He's the chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
condemned the secrecy, saying Congress had gotten more information from
the Pentagon during the Biden administration than they have out
of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That's a pretty.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Damning comment from the chair of that committee, the Republican chair.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, Pete's attempts to control the flow of information out
of the Pentagon, particularly, he would tell you classified stuff
has probably gone too far or just not been implemented. Well, well,
has you hte hear Mike Rodgers, who is a serious man.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
He is, and also the current Senate Majority Leader John Thune,
you know, he took over from the old Turtle dude,
has declined to say twice whether he has confidence in Hexas,
saying others can make those evaluations. When he's asked twice
this week whether he still has confidence in.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The Secretary of War. So, yeah, he left his options
open there.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's out by the way now, that which was semi
obvious that the fella who is in charge of the
operations in that part is that the Southern Command? What
is the I can ever remember the acronyms and stuff,
but the admiral who was in charge, who announced that
he was going to retire a year into his three
year terms. Indeed, he and Hexath had clashed, particularly over
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the legality and appropriateness of targeting.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The drug votes.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, not the second strike issue, just the overall issue
of are we at war with these people so we
have the legal ability to do this?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, the whole which umbrella is this.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Under war terrorism, narco terrorism or just drug dealing?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And how do you define all those things?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
And then what powers does the military, well the president
commander in chief have at his disposal to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's really and you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Know, a lot of people, including some of you people
listening right now, I'm sure are I don't want to
put this in a negative light. We're so used to
everything being looked at through the lenses of pro Trump
or anti Trump, or even Propeet or anti Pete. And
I love a lot of things Pete hags Outh is doing,
Absolutely love them, but not all of them.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The question of whether this.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Is an appropriate use for military force is a really
interesting one, and folks like Andy McCarthy, who was practically
standing on the ramparts, you know, bloody down to his
last bullet, defending Trump during all of the lawfare. He's
a warrior for justice in that case, he's saying, no,
this is a stretch, this is an abuse of the
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use of the military. It's a criminal matter, and we're
setting a really really dangerous president with this. I happen
to think he's got a really good point. So, you know,
before we even get to the whole double tap thing,
which I suspect pretty strongly is really overblown. It's become
very partisan and suspect, Yeah, they're underlying questions.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Well, I at this point it definitely looks overblown. But
they brought this on themselves. The headline from National Review
the Trump teams convoluted conflicting accounts of the drug boat
seeking and they go through various statements that were made
that just don't fit together.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Whye do that? You didn't need to do that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, if the guys falling across the boat radio and
another drug boat, hey we got some of the drugs,
come pick them up. And it's still an active part
of that. This is all under the assumption that we're
at war with these people. Then the lawyer sitting right
there and makes the judgment. Well, it's a completely different
story than the way it was portrayed a week ago.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I think part of this is just because the Trump
administration in most cases has this amazing transparentness slash availability
to the media.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Trump asked answers twenty seven questions a.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Day, which is amazing given the recent history. The problem, though,
is there's a lot of going off half cocked. There's
a lot of well, I don't know, but uh yeah,
this and and you know, I think that's probably gone
too far. You don't want this sort of utterly dishonest,
(26:16):
calculated messaging of the Biden administration, which was a nightmare
first amendment wise and responsiveness of the government. And oh,
by the way, he was completely senile and poop in
his drawers and utterly incapable of being the commander in chief.
But this is probably too far because it's haphazard, and
it could be I don't know that it is.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It could be. This whole double tap thing is one
hundred percent justifiable.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It is by the book. It is, there's just no
questioning it. But you create the appearance of floundering or dishonesty.
When as you described, you got conflicting kind of you know,
half assed stories coming from different folks at different times.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's not good.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I haven't thought of hearings in general, because they're having
a hearing about this today.
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Hearings and scandals in general.
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Speaker 4 (28:09):
So I listen to a podcast yesterday with this woman,
Megan mccartill. She writes for the Washington Post. Maybe you've
seen her there. She's with the Dispatch now. Also, she
is a I don't think she calls herself a conservative,
but she's a libertarian slash conservative sort of thinker writer.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Anyway, she was talking about how.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Not the scandal like this boat thing, but any of
your financial scandals. It started with like what Trump's doing
with his family around bitcoin and all that sort of stuff,
and how you just can't get any traction with these things,
and how you know, the Hunter Biden Barisma thing stunk
as bad as anything could stink, and obviously so, but
(28:48):
you just couldn't make it stick. The Clinton Foundation, good god,
what was that? It was so obvious what that was,
and it just doesn't get any ease, can't get anything
going here, and she was making the point, she's like
close to our age. If you're a gen X person,
you grew up with Watergate and all these hearings that
mattered and got to the bottom of something, and for
(29:10):
our generation we kind of feel like, and that's what happens,
and that's what should happen. But that was just a
tiny blip in our history. The history of the country
is all kinds of scandals happen all the time, and
almost nobody ever pays a price for them. That is
way more true than those of us who have in
our mind as little kids watching the Watergate earrings and thinking, yep,
(29:32):
people get their feet held to the fire when they
go too far, because that almost never happens, and you've
got all kinds of examples through history.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
For whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
As a population, we just you know, superpartisans will care.
But you don't get enough of the bulk of the
electric to care about any of these things, to really
dig into them, which is horrible.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
What's the takeaway? What's the takeaway? I think the takeaway
is hand but he needs What's that? Humans can't govern themselves?
That's my takeaway.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Well, let's yeah, that's the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But I think the takeaway is government is and always
has been a cesspool of corruption. That's what it is.
That's it's like, you know, it's like being surprised the
dog has fur. It's just that's what government always is.
But people have been hoodwinked into this idea that, no,
it's mostly good and noble. Occasionally around the edges there
are small problems. That's just not true. It's like I
(30:29):
was thinking about the Somali thing, the billions of dollars,
and my god, when you look at the spigot of
cash during COVID and so many hundreds of billions of
dollars stolen, just obscene amounts. It's certainly tens of billions.
Saying we should have the government or the government ought
(30:49):
to ought to be seen that phrase in the same
way as you know, if you're twelve year old says, first,
give me the car keys, and just immediately you ought
to think.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I don't need to hear what comes next. Right, We've
got to be extremely cautious here. But we're the opposite.
We've been sold on this idea that the government's going
to solve all of our freaking problems.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It makes me crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Their take, and then I'll end with this is was
basically I guess you'd called cynicism.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Was just yeah, that's that's the way it is. There's
nothing you can do about it. You know.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
You find out Hillary Clinton, you know, it turns out
to be the greatest cattle trader in history. First time
she ever traded, she made one hundred thousand dollars, first
day she ever tried.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Uh, nothing illegal there.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
And people just think, yeah, that's the way it works
for the rich and powerful, and just kind of roll
their eyes and.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You just can't get these things to stick. Ever. Yeah,
that's an interesting observations.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
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Music streaming giant Spotify dropping its year end listening roundups,
a customized report for each user of top artists.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Albums, songs.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Globally, Bad Bunny was crowned the most played artist with
a staggering nineteen point eight billion streams. The Latin artists
now dethroning pop sensation Taylor Swift, though This show Girl
is still number one in the US and in one
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(32:22):
musical taste to others in your age group, looking at
the release years of the tracks you listen to most interesting.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
YEA, my son does that where he checks out, like
he'll know various music artists and he'll find out I'm
in the top tenth of a percent of that guy's
audience of people who listen to him or something nineteen
some billion streams And how much money did he get
out of that?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Not as much as you should.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Certain substandard rabbit entertaining us at the Super Bowl this year,
correct this season.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
There's an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today
written by Gene Simmons, the bass player from the rock
group Kiss. Jean Simmons of Kiss with an opinion piece
in the Wall Street Journal today about how artists aren't
getting paid what they're due because of streaming in the
way radio works and everything like that. It's certainly true.
I don't know if there's ally fixing it.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
No, I don't know how they would. I've been following
that story for years and years. Coming up next hour
by the way, has the British Civil War already begun?
It has according to a respected historian, not a fake
Tucker Carlson jew hating historian, a real historian.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And it is both really interesting and really troubling. So
stay with us for that. Is Oliver Cromwell involved her, No,
he is not. Can't be substantiated.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Man, if a guy has got nineteen point eight billion downloads,
he should be a billionaire.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
And I don't think he's Yeah, from that alone, yeah,
not just doing shows and stuff like that. Yeah, Yeah,
those numbers are mind boggling. I really ought to, I
don't know, subject myself to some of his over.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Just out of curiosity.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Yeah, most of the stuff my son listens to I
can't stand. But he had some new chick that he
was into that we were playing yesterday as we were
running errands that I liked, and it was it was
just fantastic. It was some music that he leads into
that I could enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Also, Oh good good. I had Courtney Barnett pop up again. Now,
she's been a thing for a long time now, but
I remember your initial description of her as the really
the number one lead artist in the Dead Pan lesbian
genre and that is that is the perfect description. So
(34:57):
this has nothing to do with music. Did you have
more on Spotify or anything like that? Okay, so follow
up to last segment's discussion about you know, just the
government is fraud, It is corruption, it is waste of
money and always will be. This is a great piece
from Reason dot Com. Auditors submitted twenty four fake applications
(35:19):
for subsidized health insurance, only one was denied. A new
GAO report suggests the Affordable Care Act you know, you
really shouldn't even use that phrase without pausing to note
the fact that the Affordable Care Act made healthcare a
hell of a lot less affordable anyway, The Affordable Care
(35:40):
Acts health insurance exchanges are rife with fraud. This is
the government itself, let's see. So they were twenty three
out of twenty four getting the applications accepted. Stunning GAO
report published Wednesday warns that there could be massive fraud
in the health insurance exchanges due to lax anti fraud protections,
even after a twenty eighteen study called for a more
(36:03):
robust program to detect and block fraud fraudulent applications. So
they already had a study and they already had, you know,
the word went out, Oh my god, we need to
do a better job. But it's government. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
They don't care.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I know somebody's in laws who are really good at
working the system. They like they spend time on knowing
every government program that's out there and that they could
possibly qualify. And it's not in their case. They're not fraudsters,
but it's certainly fraud adjacent. It's stretching the spirit of
the various laws, if not the letter. And they get
(36:40):
all kinds of government money from coming up with various
things that they can qualify for with elder care or
sick kids or this or that or whatever. Wow, there's
lots of programs out there that if you're willing to,
you know, be a little loose with your facts, you
could easily easily qualify for.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
So the auditors created for fictional application last year that
used fake Social Security numbers and income claims that lacked
any verification.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All four were approved. In one case, the GAO noted that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The Federal Marketplace said, quote, it confirmed the applicants estimated
income based on documentation we submitted. However, we did not
submit any documentation to confirm the Income Wow.
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Interesting that people laugh there. It's just a.
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Given, a given that we think the taxpayer funded government
run package delivery is worse than the private company. We're
just all in agreement with that enough that we can
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We were talking about genetic tendencies earlier. I wish procrastination
would be looked at at the highest level. They need
to do a moon shot on procrastination and figure that out,
and figure out how to use crisper technology to gene.
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Edit that out of people, because it's horrible.
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I've got it, and one of my kids has it,
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and it's just.
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Never mind eye color. How about procrastinations?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No kidding, no kidding, I don't care how tall they are.
I want to give them the gift of not being
a procrastinator. Speaking of passing on your genes to your children.
Your headline of the day.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And maybe we'll take a look inside the China cabinet
later because I've got a lot of good China stuff.
But China adds tax to condoms as it works to
boost birth rates. Well, if you want less of something,
you tax it. If you want more of something, you
subsidize it. That's why we tax employment and subsidize drug
addicts in America. Moving a law, they're taxing condoms, Yeah,
(03:05):
to try to get people to use them less.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I mean the tax would have to be just confiscatory, right,
I mean I'd rather haven't raise a child than spend
that extra thirty cents, so.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Right, exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's not like they're is the question of do you
want to straw or will you sip your iced tea.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Out of your glass?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Nah? I don't need a straw. No, it's it's a
condome for goodness sakes. Anyway, moving along, I thought this
was interesting. Who is using what social media in the
United States right now? The numbers are in for this
last year and they are interesting and as you might guess,
they very significantly by age group demographics. YouTube and Facebook
(03:55):
remain the most widely used online platforms.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Eighty four percent of US adults say they use YouTube
at least occasionally.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I use YouTube every day, probably I I'm not a
big social media guy. Really YouTube YouTube? I don't know.
I don't use YouTube as social media.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It has comments, and people post short.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Videos and stuff like that. It's a quasi.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Social media anyway. That that that seventy one percent report
using Facebook.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Social media.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Half of adults say they use Instagram, making it the
only other platform in the survey used by at least
fifty percent of Americans. Significantly smaller shares use the other
sites and apps they asked about, such as TikTok, which
is not only a communist Chinese spy device and a
perverter of the principles of our young It is used
(04:54):
by thirty seven percent of American adults.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Can you what is app? Yes? Can you? I answer
this question, Katie, because I think it's important.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Like, for instance, I like the fact that my kids
aren't on social media as I define it. They're not
on Facebook or TikTok or Instagram, but YouTube's listed there
they are. They both use YouTube a lot. In what
way is you? Do you use YouTube as social media? Well,
you're a millennial. We're let's beyond boomers. We're the silent generation.
(05:24):
Joe and I were born in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I would think it's social media, silent to the last
what I'm talking now, Yes.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I would think it's social media because you can record
content and put it out there for people to comment on.
And they've kind of gone the way of Instagram and
TikTok with those shorts.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, I don't think you think of my kids or
me use it that way. No.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
No, when you say your kids are not on TikTok,
how do you know that?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Well, they don't have the apps. You don't need the app.
How do you use TikTok without the app, just the website?
Who's better with the app?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'm told whatever that means the Chinese burrow their way
deeper into your soul.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
But every time I've tried to use a TikTok without
the app on my phone, it wouldn't let me.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So that's interesting. Anyway they tell me to know, have
you have you rebooted? Let's see moving along, where were we? Okay,
so What's App it rebooted. What's App is thirty two percent.
I wouldn't know What's App. If somebody I just I
don't know it, I.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Would somebody I don't even remember what it was like
a month ago, or somebody only wanted to communicate through
What's App instead of texting.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Oh, it's so much better. It's it's a phone number
without an actual phone number.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And it's it's very easy. But I didn't understand the
advantage of it over texting. I guess it's encrypted or something.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Then that helps. I don't need my message terrors communicate.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I don't need my messages and encrypted. But if you do,
I guess it's good for you. About a third of
Americans use What's App.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I was surprised somewhat fewers say the same as Reddit
twenty six percent, Snapchat twenty five percent, x is twenty
one percent, threads eight percent, Blue Sky is four percent.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Man, do you hear about that?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You know it's proof of what the media is that
you hear references to Blue Sky as often as you
do if you're into the news. It's four percent of Americans.
Truth Social is three percent.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
By the way, a couple of my oldest son's friends,
children of college educated, well to do, active parents, good families,
they have the TikTok app and watch TikTok videos. They
go to sleep watching TikTok. That's how they.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Fall asleep in Oh boy, what are we doing to
our children? What is Mark Zuckerberg doing in the Chinese
doing to our children? As you might have guessed already,
there are huge age gaps in the use of a
lot of platforms adults under thirty. Let's see well, for instance,
Instagram eighteen to twenty nine year olds, because this is
(07:57):
just adults we're talking about here, eighty percent of those
young people are on Instagram, ninety five percent YouTube again,
is that really sixty three percent of the young folks
are on TikTok almost two thirds. And if you look
at any poll of where do you get your news,
TikTok is number one for young people Chinese communist controlled
(08:21):
propaganda sites. Seriously, we're so fat and stupid as the republic,
we deserve to go away.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I kind of got to broaden your idea of news, though,
don't you.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Also, I don't know how much news young people are
seeking out at all. What's this Pete Eggsatt story about
the second tap on the boat?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't know how many people are interested in that
at all. Yeah, some of it's it's kind of newsy,
but I don't. I don't spend a long time money
a lot of news when I was twenty like any really, Yeah,
let's see that and they break it down in all
sorts of interesting ways. Men women erase age, household income, urban, rural, lean,
(09:01):
Republican or Democrat. Only one percent of Democrats are on
truth social for instance.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Have you mentioned Twitter?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, just that twenty one percent of people are on Twitter. Ever,
so it's it's like in uh, what is that? Of course,
it's like eighth place.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, and then I know the numbers within Twitter of
that twenty one percent on there, only like one percent
post and dominate the whole conversation.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
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Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, like Katie, your millennial did did did the evening
newscast have any relevance for you?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Growing up, No, none for you. Wow.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
And like in my household, my dad usually somebody flipped
on the evening news and things was on.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yeah, oh okay, I just met. For me, I mean
I would always see my dad watching it. Yeah, and
then I did during anything.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'm old. But like for my kids, it means zero.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
I mean they don't even know that there's such thing
as an evening newscast or a morning newscast, or a
newscast at all.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Could you name your parents favorite weather man or a
woman watching the evening news, because I remember that was
part of my childhood. I knew their names fars well.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It was the only way to get weather for one bite.
That's a good point.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So getting back to the who's using what social media
stand out in their use of several platforms, including phasebook, Instagram,
and TikTok. For instance, more than half of women report
using Instagram fifty five percent, compared to forty four percent
of men. Alternately, men are more likely to report using
platforms such.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
As x or Reddit.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Let's see, White adults are less likely than Black and
Hispanic adults and sometimes Asian adults to use online platforms
like Instagram, TikTok, and what's app. For instance, forty five
percent of white adults report using Instagram, compared with larger
shares among hispanics it's sixty two percent. That's a seventeen
point spread. Maybe it's just because panics, blacks and adults
(12:18):
is a little less.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, maybe it's just because I'm old.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
But I don't understand how a conversation is including what's
app in YouTube. They're like as many people are using
cars or buying pumpkins this year, is the way it
sounds to me. I don't even know how they fall
into the same category.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, if it was an analysis of where to put
ad dollars, maybe I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But yeah, they're very different to vehicles. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Let's see Democrats, democratic leaning independence more likely to report
using what's app, Reddit, TikTok, blue Sky, and threads. Republicans
more likely to say they use x and truth social obviously,
aren't we going to.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Be on YouTube? Is that ever gonna happen? We've been talking.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Everybody uses social media way way too much, way too much,
But we don't have time to talk about that. Yes,
we will be on YouTube soon, like in the new
year something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, or shortly thereafter, and then you'll be able to
watch the show on YouTube or watch it later on YouTube.
I don't even know what's happening. Somebody should tell me.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Uh, carefully selected highlights, the plans Jack are in flux.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, it's been.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Perfected, customized for your modern viewing experience.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Well, I have to comb my hair. I probably should
you have no hair? Well?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Will everybody be able to see everybody like Michael and
Katie and yeah, I think so. The other dozen people
working on the show that don't get mentioned, Gladys.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
If people will finally see Gladys, we got to have
like a cartoon Gladys or something. She's very shy, she
is ever since the Kaiser dumped her.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, hope, hope to be on YouTube in the new year.
Were they clinging to the boat or not clinging to
the boat. We'll get to that at some point, among
other things.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Stay here.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
To doctor who sold ketamine to friend star Matthew Perry
leading up to his overdose death was face to face
with the actor's family as they described their heartache. Doctor
Salvador Placensia sentenced to thirty months in prison for selling
dozens of vials of ketamine to Perry in exchange for
tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah, you're a bad doctor, and you deserve whatever penalties.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Are due for being a doctor that gives drugs to
people just so they can get high.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
But I just thought the whole idea of his his
mom and dad were there and crying and and really verbally,
you know, laying into this doctor and your poor son
spent half his life in rehabs and like nine million
dollars by his own accounting, on drugs. He was hell
bent on being a drug addict. Somebody was gonna he
(15:01):
was gonna find someone to buy it from. That doctor
both did and didn't have a role in killing him.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Right, Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Come on, doc, you gotta have a scam just you know,
invents some sort of fake supplement and sell it on
Fox News if.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
You I mean, this guy is really something.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
If you don't remember it, he's the guy that they
they found the text of this doctor saying how much
do you suppose this more on? How many thousands of dollars
is more on willing to spend to get these drugs? Yeah,
they knew they had a rich drug addict and we're
taking advantage of it. I like, apparently lots of people
doctors in LA will do for the.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Rich and powerful.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Yep, predators ain't cool now. So I had an interesting
experience last night. Decided to hit a McDonald's up for
a mcflurry, which I still contend is a dessert that
could be served at nice restaurants and you could charge
a lot more and people would think, oh, if you
had the whatever give it a French name. Mcfluury's a
(15:55):
good dessert. Why'd you roll your eyes, Katie, mcfluory's are good?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Here die It just amazes me. Anyway, continue what a.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I'm sick all the time. Anyway walking into the McDonald's.
And this is the first time cross the line.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Don't know if this has happened anywhere else in the
country other than California. California do it does have the
unique situation that we passed a law that fast food
places have to pay people twenty dollars an hour, and.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
They laid off many thousands of people.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
So job Gavin more than ten thousand people lost their
jobs in the fast food industry because they raised the
wages and they found ways to get around it at
this particular at McDonald's, they had been like trying to
push you toward the kiosk for a long time now,
but they still had the menu and.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You could walk up in order if you wanted to.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
No more, no human being, no registering up where they
usually had the menu where you walk into the McDonald's.
The big screen up there, it just said, we've gone
all digital to better serve you. This is not better
serving me to better serve you. Viewer full menu on
our app or at the kiosk.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So I can either go.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
On my phone and make the order and it will
pop out the window at some point, or I can
go to over to their kiosk.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And do it. But there ain't no human being and
there's not even a menu there anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
So yeh, Gavin managed to outlaw teenagers and young people
and ulsters and moms from making a little bucks, make
a little money around the edges.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You've outlawed it. Way to go. They really are pushing
the apps really hard. Oh yeah, yeah, I know you
pull up. Are you buying on the app to date?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
No? I'm not just to my freaking food. But that's
where they're headed, and they're trying to get everybody used
to it. I guess because they can eliminate human beings,
which was probably inevitable anyway, but it certainly helped it
along when you made it mandatory twenty dollars an hour
to do the math on well, is it worth investing
in this equipment?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Now? I guess so.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, you're right, although it's a great example of you've
just not let the free market be free. If wages
were driven down, there'd be certain numbers of people who thought, no,
that's fine, I will still give you an hour of
labor for that rate. It's worth it to me whatever,
And just you've eliminated that price fixing is always bad.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
For labor as well as goods. It's terrible. Armstrong and Getty, will.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You release a video of that strike so that the
American people can see for themselves.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Well, I don't know what they have, but whatever they have,
we certainly release, no problem.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
The Secretary Heads said he had no knowledge of this,
and it did not happen.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It was fake news.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
It didn't happen, and then the next day from the
podium of the White Houser saying it did happen. So
either he was lying to us on Sunday, or he's
incompetent and didn't know what had happened.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think it was wrong on all fronts.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
But I don't like the Secretary of Defense blaming on
a military commander. These commands came from him, and I
think the buck stops with him.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So first voice was obviously Donald Trump. He was asked
yesterday if you'll release, you know, the video of the
second strike, and he said, I don't know if we
have it, but if we have it, I'm all for
releasing it. So it's going to come out. And then
you heard Rand Paul, who is if you don't know
his act, he is a Republican who's against most military
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things we do, certainly if Congress doesn't give it approval
as a war and all that sort of stuff. So
he's going to be against this act no matter what.
But he is pointing out something that a lot of
people have pointed out. National Review Today has a piece
on the headline is something like the changing story about
the second Strike, because you can lay out things, Mark
Rubio said, Pete Hegseeth said that.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
They changed a lot over the last week or so.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I don't know what happened then you did know what happened,
but you weren't there for the second part, or I'm
a busy man, or they're just the stories they've.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Changed over the days, which isn't a good look. Really.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
By the way, I got no skin in this game whatsoever.
It makes no difference to me whatsoever if Pete Hegseet
serves out the entire four years or is driven out
of office today. I would prefer he serves all four
years because that probably means he's doing a good job.
And if he's driven out of office, that probably means he
was doing a bad job, and that's not good for
any of us. But in terms of him coming or going,
(20:14):
I'm not I got no interest in this other than
trying to figure out what actually happened.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But there's no doubt. I mean, you cannot deny that
his story is changed in.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
A way that doesn't look good of what knowledge he
had at this thing at.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Various times, I would agree.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
George will in his piece today or yesterday rather in
the Washington Post, was laying out, well, let's hear this first.
This is ABC from last night. Martha Radditt's on the
story with the latest information. We just got I don't
understand why we didn't have this week or a month
earlier new information.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
According to a source familiar with the incident, the two
survivors climbed back onto the boat after the initial strike.
They were believed to be potentially in communication with others
and salvaging some of the drugs. Because of that, it
was determined they were still in the fight and valid targets.
A JAG officer was also giving legal advice.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yes, a lawyer watching this unfold. Who's that's what a
JAG officer is. It's a lawyer for the military who
who lets commanders know whether they're within the law or not.
Was looking at the situation at the time, determined these
people are still actively participating in this activity and you're
okay to strike them. Why did we just find this
(21:29):
out yesterday?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Right? Right? That's absurd if.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You would think that that information is so important to
the question I'm just trying to assess.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Is that classified? No? Surely not. Is that a leak? No,
that should just be an official statement.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Well, I would just think politically, you know, whether maybe
it's below Trump's level, at Pete's level, at somebody's level,
you'd get this out immediately.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But what's going on here because of that?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yes, Representative Mike Rodgers, who I generally like, he's a
Republican from Alabama. He's the chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
condemned the secrecy, saying Congress had gotten more information from
the Pentagon during the Biden administration than they have out
of the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That's a pretty.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Damning comment from the chair of that committee, the Republican chair.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah, Pete's attempts to control the flow of information out
of the Pentagon, particularly, he would tell you classified stuff
has probably gone too far or just not been implemented. Well, well,
has you hte hear Mike Rodgers, who is a serious man.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
He is, and also the current Senate Majority Leader John Thune,
you know, he took over from the old Turtle dude,
has declined to say twice whether he has confidence in Hexas,
saying others can make those evaluations. When he's asked twice
this week whether he still has confidence in.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The Secretary of War. So, yeah, he left his options
open there.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's out by the way now, that which was semi
obvious that the fella who is in charge of the
operations in that part is that the Southern Command? What
is the I can ever remember the acronyms and stuff,
but the admiral who was in charge, who announced that
he was going to retire a year into his three
year terms. Indeed, he and Hexath had clashed, particularly over
(23:22):
the legality and appropriateness of targeting.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The drug votes.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, not the second strike issue, just the overall issue
of are we at war with these people so we
have the legal ability to do this?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, the whole which umbrella is this.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Under war terrorism, narco terrorism or just drug dealing?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And how do you define all those things?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
And then what powers does the military, well the president
commander in chief have at his disposal to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
It's really and you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Know, a lot of people, including some of you people
listening right now, I'm sure are I don't want to
put this in a negative light. We're so used to
everything being looked at through the lenses of pro Trump
or anti Trump, or even Propeet or anti Pete. And
I love a lot of things Pete hags Outh is doing,
Absolutely love them, but not all of them.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The question of whether this.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Is an appropriate use for military force is a really
interesting one, and folks like Andy McCarthy, who was practically
standing on the ramparts, you know, bloody down to his
last bullet, defending Trump during all of the lawfare. He's
a warrior for justice in that case, he's saying, no,
this is a stretch, this is an abuse of the
(24:45):
use of the military. It's a criminal matter, and we're
setting a really really dangerous president with this. I happen
to think he's got a really good point. So, you know,
before we even get to the whole double tap thing,
which I suspect pretty strongly is really overblown. It's become
very partisan and suspect, Yeah, they're underlying questions.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Well, I at this point it definitely looks overblown. But
they brought this on themselves. The headline from National Review
the Trump teams convoluted conflicting accounts of the drug boat
seeking and they go through various statements that were made
that just don't fit together.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Whye do that? You didn't need to do that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, if the guys falling across the boat radio and
another drug boat, hey we got some of the drugs,
come pick them up. And it's still an active part
of that. This is all under the assumption that we're
at war with these people. Then the lawyer sitting right
there and makes the judgment. Well, it's a completely different
story than the way it was portrayed a week ago.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
I think part of this is just because the Trump
administration in most cases has this amazing transparentness slash availability
to the media.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Trump asked answers twenty seven questions a.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Day, which is amazing given the recent history. The problem, though,
is there's a lot of going off half cocked. There's
a lot of well, I don't know, but uh yeah,
this and and you know, I think that's probably gone
too far. You don't want this sort of utterly dishonest,
(26:16):
calculated messaging of the Biden administration, which was a nightmare
first amendment wise and responsiveness of the government. And oh,
by the way, he was completely senile and poop in
his drawers and utterly incapable of being the commander in chief.
But this is probably too far because it's haphazard, and
it could be I don't know that it is.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It could be. This whole double tap thing is one
hundred percent justifiable.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It is by the book. It is, there's just no
questioning it. But you create the appearance of floundering or dishonesty.
When as you described, you got conflicting kind of you know,
half assed stories coming from different folks at different times.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
It's not good.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I haven't thought of hearings in general, because they're having
a hearing about this today.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hearings and scandals in general.
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Speaker 4 (28:09):
So I listen to a podcast yesterday with this woman,
Megan mccartill. She writes for the Washington Post. Maybe you've
seen her there. She's with the Dispatch now. Also, she
is a I don't think she calls herself a conservative,
but she's a libertarian slash conservative sort of thinker writer.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Anyway, she was talking about how.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Not the scandal like this boat thing, but any of
your financial scandals. It started with like what Trump's doing
with his family around bitcoin and all that sort of stuff,
and how you just can't get any traction with these things,
and how you know, the Hunter Biden Barisma thing stunk
as bad as anything could stink, and obviously so, but
(28:48):
you just couldn't make it stick. The Clinton Foundation, good god,
what was that? It was so obvious what that was,
and it just doesn't get any ease, can't get anything
going here, and she was making the point, she's like
close to our age. If you're a gen X person,
you grew up with Watergate and all these hearings that
mattered and got to the bottom of something, and for
(29:10):
our generation we kind of feel like, and that's what happens,
and that's what should happen. But that was just a
tiny blip in our history. The history of the country
is all kinds of scandals happen all the time, and
almost nobody ever pays a price for them. That is
way more true than those of us who have in
our mind as little kids watching the Watergate earrings and thinking, yep,
(29:32):
people get their feet held to the fire when they
go too far, because that almost never happens, and you've
got all kinds of examples through history.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
For whatever reason.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
As a population, we just you know, superpartisans will care.
But you don't get enough of the bulk of the
electric to care about any of these things, to really
dig into them, which is horrible.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
What's the takeaway? What's the takeaway? I think the takeaway
is hand but he needs What's that? Humans can't govern themselves?
That's my takeaway.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Well, let's yeah, that's the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But I think the takeaway is government is and always
has been a cesspool of corruption. That's what it is.
That's it's like, you know, it's like being surprised the
dog has fur. It's just that's what government always is.
But people have been hoodwinked into this idea that, no,
it's mostly good and noble. Occasionally around the edges there
are small problems. That's just not true. It's like I
(30:29):
was thinking about the Somali thing, the billions of dollars,
and my god, when you look at the spigot of
cash during COVID and so many hundreds of billions of
dollars stolen, just obscene amounts. It's certainly tens of billions.
Saying we should have the government or the government ought
(30:49):
to ought to be seen that phrase in the same
way as you know, if you're twelve year old says, first,
give me the car keys, and just immediately you ought
to think.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I don't need to hear what comes next. Right, We've
got to be extremely cautious here. But we're the opposite.
We've been sold on this idea that the government's going
to solve all of our freaking problems.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
It makes me crazy.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Their take, and then I'll end with this is was
basically I guess you'd called cynicism.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Was just yeah, that's that's the way it is. There's
nothing you can do about it. You know.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
You find out Hillary Clinton, you know, it turns out
to be the greatest cattle trader in history. First time
she ever traded, she made one hundred thousand dollars, first
day she ever tried.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Uh, nothing illegal there.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
And people just think, yeah, that's the way it works
for the rich and powerful, and just kind of roll
their eyes and.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You just can't get these things to stick. Ever. Yeah,
that's an interesting observations.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
And depressing any thoughts on that text line four one
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Speaker 1 (31:50):
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Speaker 7 (31:52):
Music streaming giant Spotify dropping its year end listening roundups,
a customized report for each user of top artists.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Albums, songs.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Globally, Bad Bunny was crowned the most played artist with
a staggering nineteen point eight billion streams. The Latin artists
now dethroning pop sensation Taylor Swift, though This show Girl
is still number one in the US and in one
of the app's buzziest new features this year. You can
find your Spotify estimated listening age, calculated by comparing your
(32:22):
musical taste to others in your age group, looking at
the release years of the tracks you listen to most interesting.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
YEA, my son does that where he checks out, like
he'll know various music artists and he'll find out I'm
in the top tenth of a percent of that guy's
audience of people who listen to him or something nineteen
some billion streams And how much money did he get
out of that?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Not as much as you should.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Certain substandard rabbit entertaining us at the Super Bowl this year,
correct this season.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
That's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
There's an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today
written by Gene Simmons, the bass player from the rock
group Kiss. Jean Simmons of Kiss with an opinion piece
in the Wall Street Journal today about how artists aren't
getting paid what they're due because of streaming in the
way radio works and everything like that. It's certainly true.
I don't know if there's ally fixing it.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
No, I don't know how they would. I've been following
that story for years and years. Coming up next hour
by the way, has the British Civil War already begun?
It has according to a respected historian, not a fake
Tucker Carlson jew hating historian, a real historian.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
And it is both really interesting and really troubling. So
stay with us for that. Is Oliver Cromwell involved her, No,
he is not. Can't be substantiated.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Man, if a guy has got nineteen point eight billion downloads,
he should be a billionaire.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
And I don't think he's Yeah, from that alone, yeah,
not just doing shows and stuff like that. Yeah, Yeah,
those numbers are mind boggling. I really ought to, I
don't know, subject myself to some of his over.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Just out of curiosity.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
Yeah, most of the stuff my son listens to I
can't stand. But he had some new chick that he
was into that we were playing yesterday as we were
running errands that I liked, and it was it was
just fantastic. It was some music that he leads into
that I could enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Also, Oh good good. I had Courtney Barnett pop up again. Now,
she's been a thing for a long time now, but
I remember your initial description of her as the really
the number one lead artist in the Dead Pan lesbian
genre and that is that is the perfect description. So
(34:57):
this has nothing to do with music. Did you have
more on Spotify or anything like that? Okay, so follow
up to last segment's discussion about you know, just the
government is fraud, It is corruption, it is waste of
money and always will be. This is a great piece
from Reason dot Com. Auditors submitted twenty four fake applications
(35:19):
for subsidized health insurance, only one was denied. A new
GAO report suggests the Affordable Care Act you know, you
really shouldn't even use that phrase without pausing to note
the fact that the Affordable Care Act made healthcare a
hell of a lot less affordable anyway, The Affordable Care
(35:40):
Acts health insurance exchanges are rife with fraud. This is
the government itself, let's see. So they were twenty three
out of twenty four getting the applications accepted. Stunning GAO
report published Wednesday warns that there could be massive fraud
in the health insurance exchanges due to lax anti fraud protections,
even after a twenty eighteen study called for a more
(36:03):
robust program to detect and block fraud fraudulent applications. So
they already had a study and they already had, you know,
the word went out, Oh my god, we need to
do a better job. But it's government. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
They don't care.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I know somebody's in laws who are really good at
working the system. They like they spend time on knowing
every government program that's out there and that they could
possibly qualify. And it's not in their case. They're not fraudsters,
but it's certainly fraud adjacent. It's stretching the spirit of
the various laws, if not the letter. And they get
(36:40):
all kinds of government money from coming up with various
things that they can qualify for with elder care or
sick kids or this or that or whatever. Wow, there's
lots of programs out there that if you're willing to,
you know, be a little loose with your facts, you
could easily easily qualify for.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
So the auditors created for fictional application last year that
used fake Social Security numbers and income claims that lacked
any verification.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All four were approved. In one case, the GAO noted that.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The Federal Marketplace said, quote, it confirmed the applicants estimated
income based on documentation we submitted. However, we did not
submit any documentation to confirm the Income Wow.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
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