June 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Are Elon & Trump mending their fences...
- Riley Gaines & Simone Biles are not mending fences...
- The National Guard & US Marines deployed to Los Angeles...
- The lives of kids will never be the same.
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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 Gatty arm Strong
and Jetty and he Armstrong and Htty. Trump and Elon's
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feud has calmed down a bit.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The two still aren't speaking, but they did release this
music video today.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Check this out. You didn't have.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
To make out like it doesn't happen and that we
were nothing.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's just that I don't need that boat now.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You're just somebody that I used to no get out.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm I'm assuming that's a take on some popular song.
I don't know. And I also I'm assuming the visuals
were great on that. Oh it's correct. Did you see
the and there's probably fifty of them out there, but
I saw one AI production that was amazing. It was
quite long too, about Trump and Elon coming apart and
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growing older, and then throughout the video they both aged
and became old men. Elon was on Mars as an
old man missing Trump. Trump was an old man golfing
and watching Fox TV, and he missed an old man
golfing now this week watching Fox TV. Trump was an
old man. And then they about how they miss each
(01:33):
other the thing must have been three minutes long. And
then they then then Elon comes back to Earth and
they get back together and skip down the road together.
But I mean, it was incredible. It would like it
would have cost it had it would have cost fifty
million dollars to make that, you know, five years ago.
It's just it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, you know, it's funny, just as in aside. A
listener recommended a particular video creation AI thing to play
around with, and I was tempted. But we happen to
have an internet outage last night at the house kind
of a local probel. My god, is everybody okay?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah? I know?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And my evening was planned out. I was going to
watch the news, then I was going to watch some
fun stuff. And I thought, oh my god, what do
I do?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What do I do? And I'll tell you what I did.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I had a glass of Pinot noir and I read
a book about the Battle of Port Royal, a naval
battle in the Civil War, and I was, oh, And
when my eyes were kind of tired and I didn't
want to read anymore, I reenacted my teenage years. I
put on some headphones and listened to one of my
favorite albums with my eyes closed, and I was as
happy as a person can be.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Ah, that can't be better than scrolling through Twitter. Oh,
looking at stuff you don't even care about, just kind
of out a habit, taking in plenty kind of makes
you mad, or kind of taken in a bunch of
blue light that will help your sleep be bad. God,
dang it, stop, I've got to stop this. Yeah, I know.
(03:04):
I think about most of my life like up until
a couple of years ago, when it was always always,
always quiet in a room with a book reading until
I got sleepy enough to go to sleep. And just
when I think of it, it's like relaxing to think
about compared to what I do every night now. Like
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you said earlier, it's almost like it's an addiction. Anyway,
enough of that, these two clips will bring you up
to speed on where we are with the Elon Trump
relationship if you care.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The real switch up from last week's very public social
media sparring match, Elon Musk now saying his comments went
too far. Overnight around three am Eastern really in the
middle of the night, Musk posted this on x saying
he regrets some of his posts about President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I haven't really thought about it. Actually, I would imagine
and he wants to speak to me, I would think
so if I were, I'd want to speak to me.
But I maybe it's already called. You'd have to ask him,
ask him whether or not he's already called. But I'd
have no problem with it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I thought, I'm sorry, I want him to speak to me.
I can't be the only one who that struck is
you come to me on the day of my daughter's
wedding and you asked me.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
For a favor. I was thinking about this the other
day before this even happened. Of I'm sure they both
have to It's like it's like laying down a meeting
between Gorbachev and Reagan, the amount of groundwork that would
have to be laid, because you couldn't have either one
of them in a situation where you called and didn't
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get through and word comes out that you tried to
call and they didn't take your call. Cannot have that
on either end. That's the one thing I'm not having.
If I'm Elan or Trump, the news story is not
going to be I tried to call and he wouldn't
take my call. No right line needs to be open.
Ten different people need to test the line that it
is open. We need to have visuals on us both
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walking toward the phone, like it's a hostage exchange or something.
We both come to phone at the same time, so
that one person can't back out and the other end claim.
He tried to call me and apologized, but I didn't
take his call. So let me reread the tweet.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump
last week.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
They went too far.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm picturing Elon Musk tied to a chair in a
basement room with the combined boards of directors of SpaceX
and Tesla with like hammers and blowtorches, saying you're sending
that that tweet.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It could be or he could just plain have thought
I shouldn't have said that. That whole Epstein thing was
probably too much. He set that out at midnight last night. Man,
what is his lifestyle? And with all those cat do
you have? I went up at all. He was a
feeding He's got that new baby. See that, giving his
wife a break and feeding that new baby.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You think, Hey, are you in the mood for a
little conspiratorial speculation.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
As long as we're going down that road. Are we
talking chemtrails? No?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, I have heard nobody talking about this, but Barton
Swam whose young buck, who rights for the Wall Street
Journal a tweet jd Vance put out the other day
in support of Trump, and it was during the height
of the Trump Musk feud and swam rights It wasn't
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the cleverest pronouncement blah blah blah, but the most absorbing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I refer to J. D Vance's two sentence tweet quote.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
President Trump has done more than any person in my
lifetime to earn the trust of the movement, he leads,
I'm proud to stand behind him, and Barton points out
that message was posted Thursday, the day of the breakup,
but not till ten thirty at night, seven hours after
Elon Musk replied yes to a post calling for mister
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Trump's impeachment, which he later deleted. And of course that
impeachment would have led to J. D. Evans being the president,
and that's Harder says, that's a very good point. It's
funny I'd had to escaped me. Of course, that's what
would happen. How many Democrats what JD Vance as president
with a full head of steem as he runs for
reelection in twenty eight I would have counseled the Vice
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president to say nothing. The spat didn't involve him, and
the unseerious message about impeachment plainly didn't deserve a vice
presidential statement. Yet he evidently consulted AIDS and pondered the
matter for seven hours. The resulting declaration was perfect in
its impropriety and meladroitness, meaning uselessness. Essentially, start with the
first sentence. All seems conventional until you're almost through it.
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What do you expect mister Vance to say? What you
expect mister Vance to say is that Trump has done
more than anyone to earn the trust of the American people,
or the nation or some such. Instead, he says, the
president has earned the trust of the movement. Which movement
not I think what used to be called a conservative movement,
which was Reagan and I to blah blah blah blah.
The only movement mister Trump has led is the Mega movement.
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Mister Trump created the MAGA movement, and there's some doubt
it would survive without him. How odd then, for the
Vice president to say, mister Trump has done more than
any person in my lifetime to earn that movement's trust
is if there were a range of competitors for that distinction.
The second sentence also sounds off key. Mister Vance isn't
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a political ally or a supporter of the president. He's
mister Trump's constitutionally designated successor. Why would he need to
tell us that he's proud to stand behind beside the president?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Is his pride relevant? For some reason?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Did mister Trump say or do something requiring mister Vance
to affirm his loyalty? What's remarkable about the post is
how coldly measured it is.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
He it was I thought, I thought because he went
to did he go to a Yale Law school or
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Harvard undergrad, Yale Law. Maybe I don't know, something like that,
but anyway, he's an ivy league lawyer. That was written
like a lawyer. Yeah, I mean the words were chosen carefully.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And then many quotes Proverbs ten nineteen in a multitude
of words there wanteth not sin, which is a verse
I'd never heard before. I don't recall it, and it's
ironic given the way we make our living. But to
translate at Jack, your hostital to your new translations.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I'm a King James version. If they're a bunch, that's right, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
If there are lots and lots of words, you're gonna
find sin in there, or there's probably bull crap in there.
What's the phrase in a multitude of words there, wanteth
not sin?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Interesting? That is one of the problems the King James
version of the Bible is regularly have no idea what
it's said. That's a criticism. But the words are flowery, okay, cool,
coming up. I have breaking BTS news, that's right. The
k pop band Good Lord. Also the saddest thing I
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is so sad. I only read like the first paragraph
and I had to stop. Oh and and not like,
you know, a horrible crime or something, and just it'll
make sense when I tell you, among other things, on
the way to stay here, I told you I had
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breaking VTS news, the k pop band. I've tried to
listen to k pop and give it a you know,
a decent shake, just not my thing, which is fine.
Different what do they say, strokes for folks or something
like that. But I did think this was damned interesting.
(11:02):
They finished their mandatory military service there in South Korea,
that's why you haven't heard much about them for the
past two years, and now are going to get to
go back to doing their music now. I don't know
if because they've like aged by two years, that there's
another K pop band that is much more popular and
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a bigger deal. But I mean, they like have the
biggest selling albums of all time worldwide and all kinds
of ridiculous records, but they that had I'm sure I'd
known that at some point, but I'd forgotten. They have
mandatory military service for I think a year and a
half for all young people coming out of high school,
which has been you know, discussed many times in this country.
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I think it'd be great for everybody for all kinds
of things.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh my god, libertarians hate you for saying that they'rerible
compulsory service. Oh my, I just hope their drill sergeants
didn't beat the cutely am triagonousness out of them.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Two members of the K pop Sensation BTS have completed
their mandatory year and a half military service in South Korea,
leaving their base to the roars of fans counting down
for the supergroup's reunion. Yeah, well, obviously that's where it
gets difficult. Is the whole mandatory government anything? But I
wonder if you could get it going culturally. Probably not,
(12:24):
but it wouldn't have to be military service, just some
sort of service, you know you, I don't know, Yeah,
serve meals at an old folks home, or pick up
traction the dishes. I don't know what it would be,
but it's worth brainstorming on. Yeah, why not some point
we probably out of truck. I definitely want to talk
about the military parade that Trump's going to have this weekend.
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It's not something we've normally done in this country, and
whether you're forard or against it, and some people coming
out on both sides. Also Trump ordering the renaming of
the military bases back to the old names, including you know,
military base named after Robert E. Lee, all that sort
of stuff. Announce it, Confederate generals, Yeah, announce that. Thank you.
We got to get back. What's the other thing I
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teased that I definitely wanted to get on. Do you
remember what it was? Anybody?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, yeah, the Simone Biles thing? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Let me see if I can find that. Simone Biles
and Riley Gaines have been at it with each other
started last week. We talked about it here on the air,
and basically, Simone Biles came out in favor of well,
blasting Riley Gaines for being a hater in transphone make
and transphobic and back, bad for sports and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And a sore loser because she got beat by a
six foot four inch mail.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
By wanting to get dudes out of girls sports and
can't understand what's going on. Riley Gaines blasted back with
her usual, to my mind, very reasonable comments about why
you can't have dudes competing against girls anyway, and a
lengthy post and it's some people believe really done a
lot of damage Simone Bio's ability to make money as
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a pitch person going forward. I happen to know something
about her agents, and I think they pooped a brick.
Whether you know it's pitching at and T cell phone
service or Tide or whatever she's going to do.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You will think of this every time I hear her
name or see her face for years. I wouldn't touch her.
There's too many other options. There's too many other options
that don't have baggage. Why would you choose her? So
she might be trying to clean that up.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I think she wanted to address how the current because
last week she addressed how the current system doesn't adequately
balance principles such as well, I'll just read it. I
wanted to follow up from my last tweets. I've always
believed competitive equity and inclusivity are both essential in sport,
meaningless words you have when did you spend a lot
of time twisting to gy rting through in the air
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trying to beat other people? Thinking I sure hope there's
competitive equity and inclusivity going on here? Really didn't come
up a lot in my life. But anyway, the current
system doesn't adequately balance these important principles, which often leads
to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn't help for
me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So first you blame the circumstance for causing heated exchanges,
you don't take responsibility for it, and then you apologize
for something that was caused by something else than wasn't
your fault. She claims she's standing up for fair competition.
Dudes whooping up on girls in sports? Okay, someone.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's so weak.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I just.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I just I try to understand that point of view,
and I just don't under I don't. I can't get there.
Here's what you lack. And I've been trying to get
fully get.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
A lot of these people. And I don't think Simone
Biles is a bad person at all. I think, you know,
if you were to put her through ten different moral tests,
I think she'd do just fine. The thing people like
us can't feel, and I think a lot of y'all
answer to this description too, is the desperate need to
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say what you think you're supposed to say, the social
pressure you feel to go along with the conventional opinion
of your social group.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'm not sure. I mean I would.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You might force me to mouth the words of some
of this stuff, but man, it would come out of
my mouth.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I would be sickened.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I think somebody like Simone Biles is so enthusiastic about
going along with her peer group and the bubbles she's in.
She doesn't feel any particular shame or feel bad about
saying something she knows to be illogical.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yesh, she feels it so intensely, the need to go along.
And I don't know how intelligent she is or isn't.
She might be super super bright. But I'm sure because
to be that kind of athlete, she's dedicated every moment
of her life to gymnastics, not you know, cultural political issues. Right. Yeah,
I didn't get to the saddest thing I've ever read.
I will get to it in the next half hour.
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Oh something to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Speaking of hyperbole, the most deluded man in America, completely delusional.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
We'll share his thoughts, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
When I asked yesterday if borders are Tom Holman should
arrest California Governor Gavin Ussen, President Trump said he would
do it and added, quote, I like Gavin Newssen. He's
a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yes, the old compliment, compliment, searing insult. Imagine Trump giving
a eulogy super guy will be greatly miss world's tiniest penis.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That is his pattern, which I'd never completely noticed before. Compliment, compliment,
searing insult. Yeah, well that in the whole we get along, well,
we get along well, I like him. Nobody cares if
you get along well or you like somebody. It's not anyway.
Coming up's me crazy, coming up. The saddest thing I've
ever read about summertime and Elon with a huge TESLA
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announcement got nothing to do with politics at all, which, man,
if he's not, that's not a coincidence. Oh interesting, we'll
talk about that then. I guess. Yeah, let's see, Michael.
You know what I need? I really need some Gavin
Newsom give me sixty.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed
a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even
our National Guard at risk.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And especially so because everything was going fine and it
was perfectly peaceful. According to one of America's leading inflexts,
Maxine Waters.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Don't think that somehow because they called out the National Guard,
there was violence. There was no violence. I was on
the street. I know.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Maxine Waters claiming there was no violence in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Zero. Good lord. Anyway, moving along, I mentioned earlier that
the current, the talking point of the last twenty four
hours is it's just a tiny part of LA It
was a very small part of La. La is five
hundred square miles. This is one square mile where they
had a rest, to which my response is Washington, d C.
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January sixth, Washington, d C was Placid one building, people
were beaten down, cops with flag poles and trying to
go in and kill Nancy Belosi one building. The rest
of DC was fine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh it was calm as the reflecting pools there, everything
that was fine. So a couple of things of note.
Molly Ball on the Wall Street Journal interviewing Gavey knew
some about how he clearly is using this to steer
toward the twenty eight, twenty twenty eight candidacy for president.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
And I love Gabby's quote daring Trump to arrest him.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You need a scalp, You need to show your tough guy,
need to show your base. You're going to own the Libs.
Why don't you just get it over with. Arrest me,
but stop attacking these vulnerable people. Then, surveying the landscape
from the cross he'd hauled himself up on, Gavin Newsom
announced his candidacy, absolutely hilarious, saying his usual stuff. Tom
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Cotton responding with an editorial, send in the troops for real.
When local police can't restore order, the federal government has
a duty to do so with a show of force.
One hundred percent appropriate, one hundred percent legal. Andy McCarthy
the National Review, who is a great legal commentator, agrees
with him. There's going to be hearing tomorrow. I guess
about the legality of this.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You moved on too fast from Gavin up on the cross.
I was going to say, the thief next to him
said nice hair. That's really good. That's really good.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Which brings us to the most delusional man in America.
And I was thinking of setting this up by telling
you why I'm bringing this to you, but I thought, no, no,
I think you'll get there on your own. And this
is both for cal Unicornians and the rest of the country.
And it'll take a second.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
But bear with me.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
This is written by a fellow by the name of
Jim Newton, who worked at the La Times for twenty
five years as a reporter, editor and columnist. Currently edits
the Some magazine at UCLA. So he's moved into academia
and he's got an upcoming book about the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, not that that matters, but twenty five years at
the La Times.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The title of his piece for Politico is why Donald
Trump had to attack California. There's much more at stake
for Trump and Californians than deportations, and Jack, you got it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You gotta tune into this now.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
President Donald Trump and his supporters are right about what
thing in this explosive clash between California federal government. It's
not just a fight over position or even public safety.
It's about values, and it's been a long time building
for Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It's a battle of.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
His choosing, giving him the opportunity to escalate a conflict
on a signature issue, immigration in the city and state
governed by political adversaries so far, absolutely true for California.
It is the logical result of a long and profound
transformation from the days of Republican Party dominance to Democratic
party control, one I've watched and chronicled for more than
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thirty years, in that I now see culminating in literal
fighting in the streets. Californians are turning out against forces
sent here by guardians of a value system that the
state has rejected. And then he goes how not very
long ago California was a solid Republican state. Hiram Johnson,
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Earl Warren, Ronald Reagan, stalwarts of the GOP.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
WOW. I don't know if I agree with not very
long ago, but I mean it's not eons ago.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, yeah, seventy five years, yeah, sixty years, depending on
who you're talking about. But a few years later, when
Pat Brown was re selected to his second term in
nineteen sixty two, he was the first Democrat ever to
win the governorship twice, that changed. And then he goes
into how staunchly Democrat California.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Is now except for the great, the honored Devis.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And he goes in Arnold, who was an anomaly and
he really was a celebrity during a weird recall election.
Governor is a centrist kind of And now he gets
into how there are no Republicans who are mayors of
any city, no Republicans in any statewide office.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
None.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Many forces have propelled that shift, but chief among them
are the party's divergent approaches to environmental and immigration, shifting demographics,
blah blah blah, reverence for the coastlines, and I wish
I had time to read this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
He gets into changing demographics. His argument is essentially.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
All that is true, and thank god, the California of
twenty twenty five is so much better than the California
of the fifties, the sixties, the California dream the seventies, expansion, prosperity, innovation,
the eighties, that was a nightmare, the streets of Los
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Angeles and San Francisco and Sacramento and San Diego, which
is decaying. We don't talk about that much. The currents
in California is so much better now. This is the
California of our dreams. That's his point. And I see
the wide eyes and slack jaws of people who've either
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who live in California, visit California, know of California, thinking,
whoa dude, this is your ideal. Yes, he's proudly right that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
With people moving out for the first time in the
state's history.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, crime rampant in the streets, needles everywhere, human feces,
junkie camps, felon's being released from prisons, the schools indoctrinating
your children about radical transsexual theory in the third grade. Finally,
the era of Reagan's California has been put to bed
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and our utopia is here.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Holy crap. We should decide as a show whether it
does us more harm or could to mention the human
feces on the sidewalks in California, because while it's true
and a significant problems and uh, you know, is definitely
a sign of things aren't going well in your town.
(25:51):
I mean, yes, most of you listening have never seen
that on the sidewalk ever in your life.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You are really making the case for why we ought
to mention it. Where's the flip side?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Disgusting Every time someone says that, that's why we're talking
about it's horrified. I almost unswallow. Yeah, poop, poop, poop poop.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
That's right, Johnny Depp. Johnny's man enough to take on
the challenges of today, Jack, are you?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Sam and I walked around some in San Francisco last
time we were there, and I was just remarking to
him on how that is just so crazy that in
the modern world that would ever happen.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
California is a staunchly Democrat has it was republic and
a flip and orientation and it has become what it's
always meant to be, says Jim Newton in Politico.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know, I'm about to talk about Elon in some
big announcement he made about Tesla. I wish we could
do some sort of counterfactual, uh, you know, parallel universe
where Silicon Valley had happened completely in Austin instead of
in the Bay Area, more or less by acts, because
that has propped up so much of the finances of
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this state. If it had just happened to happen in California,
where were we of bed.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
The revenue from Google and Meta and a couple other
super giants Apple, they prop up the socialist government of California.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Right. Absolutely a sad piece I read about summers that
I'm not going to dwell on, but it's worth pointing out,
among other things on the way stay here.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Just days after the horrific fire bombing targeting Jewish demonstrators
in Boulder, Colorado, and the deadly shooting of two Israeli
embassy employees in Washington, d C. Tonight, authorities unsealing new
charges in an alleged plot targeting Jews in New York City.
Federal prosecutors say a twenty year old Pakistani national wanted
to carry out a coordinator attack with AR fifteen style
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rifles on a Jewish center in Brooklyn in the name
of ice. The FBI, quoting the suspect, Mohammed Khan, is
saying New York is perfect to target Jews. Even if
we don't attack an event, we could rack up easily
a lot of Jews.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We are going to NYC to slaughter them, Mohammed. You
say there was a terrorist plot they stopped. Also a
couple of weeks ago, guy who was gonna shoot up
a whole bunch of kids at a school. He hated
these Jewish kids, and they stopped him. So, man, it's
it's who. It could be a lot worse than it's Ben.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
England is trying to deal with this by giving in.
There's now in effect an anti blasphemy law in England.
Man who burned a koran was convicted of a religiously
aggravated public order offense because the man's actions were intended
to cause harassment, alarm or distress. And as one writer
points out, it's a very slippery slope. You do realize
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that among serious Muslims, a woman showing her hair can
cause alarm in distress, right, m good one.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
England is trying to submit. So Elon was tweeting about
Tesla last night. You think that that's not a coincidence
that he apologized basically for his behavior against Trump and
is tweeting about the UH. Some of the advances in Tesla.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I think his boards of directors mentioned your shareholders, dude.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But they had breaking first ever Tesla model y robotaxi
with no one in the driver's seat spotted testing on
public roads in Austin, and Elon tweeted out, these are
unmodified Tesla cars coming straight from the factory, meaning that
every Tesla coming out of our factory is capable of
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unsupervised self driving. It'll be ready sometime later this year
or next if that actually happens, all of us who
have I think any Tesla in like the twenty three
and on, certainly twenty four and on, is then able
to be completely autonomous driving. That will be a major
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change maybe in world history. Yeah. I mean one out
of ten people drive in some aspect for a living,
and that would mean the technology is here for that
to be I just don't know if the you know,
the insurance companies or the states are going to allow
it to happen the way he's thinking. I don't know
if he thought that through or not. Yeah, it'll be
complicated in Thorny for sure. I just think he was
(30:22):
trying to juice Tesla stock in excitement and that sort
of thing. Yeah, he's yeah, I mean that they change
the cameras. He's working toward it. He's been working toward
it forever. I just don't know when it will actually
be ready to go. Last night, walking into the grocery
store with my son because we're out of milk, walking
down the aisle and I say, yes, they've got woolight here,
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one bottle left, and I grabbed the bottle of woolight,
and my thirteen year old said, is this what it's
like to be an adult?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
My god, he's hilarious, and I thought, yeah, this is
what gets me excited. They had at a woolite left
at the grocery store. He's a thirteen year old son
about to enjoy summertime. And I had come across this
piece yesterday in the National Review, which I could only
read a couple of sentences of it's probably really well written,
(31:14):
and I just thought I can't go there. Michael Brendan
Doherty of National Review writing and he's got kids also
school age summers before screens and he gets into I
don't know why this bothers me so much. It almost
chokes me up to think about it. He talks about
his summers and his kids summers and just how it's
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never coming back, and you know they don't know what
they're missing, And he didn't. I don't know if he
makes the point because I said I didn't read the
whole thing because I thought it was too sad that
soon those of us who had summers before screens will
be dead and there will be nobody to even comment
on comparing the two. But to summers after screens. We
all know everything after screens is different. And the we're
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outside board and we make up a game with a
ball and some basses and some rules is gone forever.
It just is wow, and we play all day and
get sweaty and tired and laugh and argue. Yeah. And
it was head in that direction already because of the
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weird worried our kids are going to be abducted or
whatever the hell happened in the eighties and nineties and
two thousands, where I've told this story gazillion times. I
lived and this was twenty years ago. This is pre screens.
I used to say this smartphones, and this was true.
Then I lived near a giant park. I drove by
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that park multiple times a day for years. I never
one time, not once ever saw two kids out there
playing catch. Never or anybody's yard. Now. I saw organized
soccer matches with all the parents on the sidelines with
the pop up tents, but I never saw two kids
playing catch or shooting hoops ever. It just it's gone away.
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And then you add in screens with you know you're
gonna you're gonna play video games or stare at your screen,
and I just and what I was wondering, is is
it just nostalgia? Is it just you know, my youth
was better than your youth for some weird way, a
way we glorify the past or something, or is it
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actually a step backwards. Oh, I think there's plenty of
objective data.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I mean there're none of this, like in isolation is
a fatal disease, if you will, Because if you had
screens but also lots of free play, you know, lots
of autonomy, free range kids things, it'd be fine, it'd
work itself out. But it all, it all congeals into
(33:51):
this sort of passive directed by adults, non inventive, no risk,
you know activity. I think it's cool that your son
and others like him skateboard or did and risk injury
(34:12):
and get all bloody and scraped up and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I think that's fantastic. Yeah. My oldest, luckily, is no
interest in video games and is super into riding his
bike and doing wheelies and stuff like that. But my
youngest is more typical of the genre, likes video games
and all that sort of stuff. So the title was
Summer's Before Screens, and I just again text the text line,
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I'd be interested? Am I just you know, romanticizing in
a nostalgic sort of way or has something been lost
with childhood? That's enough of that and weirds me out.
Tony Hawk, the most famous skateboarder of all time, showed
up to a Texas skateboard park yesterday and started skating boarding,
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and people started recognize who he was and needed a
bunch of cool stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
How cool would that be, your young skateboarder kid? I
saw a commercial with him the other day and he's
getting on in yours.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
He's old, but he's still known in the same way
that like Michael Jordan's known because of his products and
his name and his branding. He's still really known. But yeah,
that'd be quite the charge. You're skateboarding on a summer
afternoon and Tony Hawk is whipping around next to you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, it'd be like Jack Nicholas standing next to me
on the driving range. I think it would just put
my clubs away.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, I'm not doing this. I'm not gonna let you
see me swing. But we do four hours every day.
If you miss a segment or an hour, get the
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty arm Strong
and Jetty and he Armstrong and Htty. Trump and Elon's
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feud has calmed down a bit.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The two still aren't speaking, but they did release this
music video today.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Check this out. You didn't have.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
To make out like it doesn't happen and that we
were nothing.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's just that I don't need that boat now.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You're just somebody that I used to no get out.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm I'm assuming that's a take on some popular song.
I don't know. And I also I'm assuming the visuals
were great on that. Oh it's correct. Did you see
the and there's probably fifty of them out there, but
I saw one AI production that was amazing. It was
quite long too, about Trump and Elon coming apart and
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growing older, and then throughout the video they both aged
and became old men. Elon was on Mars as an
old man missing Trump. Trump was an old man golfing
and watching Fox TV, and he missed an old man
golfing now this week watching Fox TV. Trump was an
old man. And then they about how they miss each
(01:33):
other the thing must have been three minutes long. And
then they then then Elon comes back to Earth and
they get back together and skip down the road together.
But I mean, it was incredible. It would like it
would have cost it had it would have cost fifty
million dollars to make that, you know, five years ago.
It's just it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, you know, it's funny, just as in aside. A
listener recommended a particular video creation AI thing to play
around with, and I was tempted. But we happen to
have an internet outage last night at the house kind
of a local probel. My god, is everybody okay?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah? I know?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And my evening was planned out. I was going to
watch the news, then I was going to watch some
fun stuff. And I thought, oh my god, what do
I do?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What do I do? And I'll tell you what I did.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I had a glass of Pinot noir and I read
a book about the Battle of Port Royal, a naval
battle in the Civil War, and I was, oh, And
when my eyes were kind of tired and I didn't
want to read anymore, I reenacted my teenage years. I
put on some headphones and listened to one of my
favorite albums with my eyes closed, and I was as
happy as a person can be.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Ah, that can't be better than scrolling through Twitter. Oh,
looking at stuff you don't even care about, just kind
of out a habit, taking in plenty kind of makes
you mad, or kind of taken in a bunch of
blue light that will help your sleep be bad. God,
dang it, stop, I've got to stop this. Yeah, I know.
(03:04):
I think about most of my life like up until
a couple of years ago, when it was always always,
always quiet in a room with a book reading until
I got sleepy enough to go to sleep. And just
when I think of it, it's like relaxing to think
about compared to what I do every night now. Like
(03:26):
you said earlier, it's almost like it's an addiction. Anyway,
enough of that, these two clips will bring you up
to speed on where we are with the Elon Trump
relationship if you care.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
The real switch up from last week's very public social
media sparring match, Elon Musk now saying his comments went
too far. Overnight around three am Eastern really in the
middle of the night, Musk posted this on x saying
he regrets some of his posts about President Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I haven't really thought about it. Actually, I would imagine
and he wants to speak to me, I would think
so if I were, I'd want to speak to me.
But I maybe it's already called. You'd have to ask him,
ask him whether or not he's already called. But I'd
have no problem with it.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I thought, I'm sorry, I want him to speak to me.
I can't be the only one who that struck is
you come to me on the day of my daughter's
wedding and you asked me.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
For a favor. I was thinking about this the other
day before this even happened. Of I'm sure they both
have to It's like it's like laying down a meeting
between Gorbachev and Reagan, the amount of groundwork that would
have to be laid, because you couldn't have either one
of them in a situation where you called and didn't
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get through and word comes out that you tried to
call and they didn't take your call. Cannot have that
on either end. That's the one thing I'm not having.
If I'm Elan or Trump, the news story is not
going to be I tried to call and he wouldn't
take my call. No right line needs to be open.
Ten different people need to test the line that it
is open. We need to have visuals on us both
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walking toward the phone, like it's a hostage exchange or something.
We both come to phone at the same time, so
that one person can't back out and the other end claim.
He tried to call me and apologized, but I didn't
take his call. So let me reread the tweet.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump
last week.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
They went too far.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm picturing Elon Musk tied to a chair in a
basement room with the combined boards of directors of SpaceX
and Tesla with like hammers and blowtorches, saying you're sending
that that tweet.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It could be or he could just plain have thought
I shouldn't have said that. That whole Epstein thing was
probably too much. He set that out at midnight last night. Man,
what is his lifestyle? And with all those cat do
you have? I went up at all. He was a
feeding He's got that new baby. See that, giving his
wife a break and feeding that new baby.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
You think, Hey, are you in the mood for a
little conspiratorial speculation.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
As long as we're going down that road. Are we
talking chemtrails? No?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, I have heard nobody talking about this, but Barton
Swam whose young buck, who rights for the Wall Street
Journal a tweet jd Vance put out the other day
in support of Trump, and it was during the height
of the Trump Musk feud and swam rights It wasn't
(06:39):
the cleverest pronouncement blah blah blah, but the most absorbing.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I refer to J. D Vance's two sentence tweet quote.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
President Trump has done more than any person in my
lifetime to earn the trust of the movement, he leads,
I'm proud to stand behind him, and Barton points out
that message was posted Thursday, the day of the breakup,
but not till ten thirty at night, seven hours after
Elon Musk replied yes to a post calling for mister
(07:05):
Trump's impeachment, which he later deleted. And of course that
impeachment would have led to J. D. Evans being the president,
and that's Harder says, that's a very good point. It's
funny I'd had to escaped me. Of course, that's what
would happen. How many Democrats what JD Vance as president
with a full head of steem as he runs for
reelection in twenty eight I would have counseled the Vice
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president to say nothing. The spat didn't involve him, and
the unseerious message about impeachment plainly didn't deserve a vice
presidential statement. Yet he evidently consulted AIDS and pondered the
matter for seven hours. The resulting declaration was perfect in
its impropriety and meladroitness, meaning uselessness. Essentially, start with the
first sentence. All seems conventional until you're almost through it.
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What do you expect mister Vance to say? What you
expect mister Vance to say is that Trump has done
more than anyone to earn the trust of the American people,
or the nation or some such. Instead, he says, the
president has earned the trust of the movement. Which movement
not I think what used to be called a conservative movement,
which was Reagan and I to blah blah blah blah.
The only movement mister Trump has led is the Mega movement.
(08:13):
Mister Trump created the MAGA movement, and there's some doubt
it would survive without him. How odd then, for the
Vice president to say, mister Trump has done more than
any person in my lifetime to earn that movement's trust
is if there were a range of competitors for that distinction.
The second sentence also sounds off key. Mister Vance isn't
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a political ally or a supporter of the president. He's
mister Trump's constitutionally designated successor. Why would he need to
tell us that he's proud to stand behind beside the president?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Is his pride relevant? For some reason?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Did mister Trump say or do something requiring mister Vance
to affirm his loyalty? What's remarkable about the post is
how coldly measured it is.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
He it was I thought, I thought because he went
to did he go to a Yale Law school or
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Harvard undergrad, Yale Law. Maybe I don't know, something like that,
but anyway, he's an ivy league lawyer. That was written
like a lawyer. Yeah, I mean the words were chosen carefully.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And then many quotes Proverbs ten nineteen in a multitude
of words there wanteth not sin, which is a verse
I'd never heard before. I don't recall it, and it's
ironic given the way we make our living. But to
translate at Jack, your hostital to your new translations.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I'm a King James version. If they're a bunch, that's right, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
If there are lots and lots of words, you're gonna
find sin in there, or there's probably bull crap in there.
What's the phrase in a multitude of words there, wanteth
not sin?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Interesting? That is one of the problems the King James
version of the Bible is regularly have no idea what
it's said. That's a criticism. But the words are flowery, okay, cool,
coming up. I have breaking BTS news, that's right. The
k pop band Good Lord. Also the saddest thing I
(10:19):
is so sad. I only read like the first paragraph
and I had to stop. Oh and and not like,
you know, a horrible crime or something, and just it'll
make sense when I tell you, among other things, on
the way to stay here, I told you I had
(10:41):
breaking VTS news, the k pop band. I've tried to
listen to k pop and give it a you know,
a decent shake, just not my thing, which is fine.
Different what do they say, strokes for folks or something
like that. But I did think this was damned interesting.
(11:02):
They finished their mandatory military service there in South Korea,
that's why you haven't heard much about them for the
past two years, and now are going to get to
go back to doing their music now. I don't know
if because they've like aged by two years, that there's
another K pop band that is much more popular and
(11:23):
a bigger deal. But I mean, they like have the
biggest selling albums of all time worldwide and all kinds
of ridiculous records, but they that had I'm sure I'd
known that at some point, but I'd forgotten. They have
mandatory military service for I think a year and a
half for all young people coming out of high school,
which has been you know, discussed many times in this country.
(11:44):
I think it'd be great for everybody for all kinds
of things.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh my god, libertarians hate you for saying that they'rerible
compulsory service. Oh my, I just hope their drill sergeants
didn't beat the cutely am triagonousness out of them.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Two members of the K pop Sensation BTS have completed
their mandatory year and a half military service in South Korea,
leaving their base to the roars of fans counting down
for the supergroup's reunion. Yeah, well, obviously that's where it
gets difficult. Is the whole mandatory government anything? But I
wonder if you could get it going culturally. Probably not,
(12:24):
but it wouldn't have to be military service, just some
sort of service, you know you, I don't know, Yeah,
serve meals at an old folks home, or pick up
traction the dishes. I don't know what it would be,
but it's worth brainstorming on. Yeah, why not some point
we probably out of truck. I definitely want to talk
about the military parade that Trump's going to have this weekend.
(12:44):
It's not something we've normally done in this country, and
whether you're forard or against it, and some people coming
out on both sides. Also Trump ordering the renaming of
the military bases back to the old names, including you know,
military base named after Robert E. Lee, all that sort
of stuff. Announce it, Confederate generals, Yeah, announce that. Thank you.
We got to get back. What's the other thing I
(13:07):
teased that I definitely wanted to get on. Do you
remember what it was? Anybody?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, yeah, the Simone Biles thing? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Let me see if I can find that. Simone Biles
and Riley Gaines have been at it with each other
started last week. We talked about it here on the air,
and basically, Simone Biles came out in favor of well,
blasting Riley Gaines for being a hater in transphone make
and transphobic and back, bad for sports and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And a sore loser because she got beat by a
six foot four inch mail.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
By wanting to get dudes out of girls sports and
can't understand what's going on. Riley Gaines blasted back with
her usual, to my mind, very reasonable comments about why
you can't have dudes competing against girls anyway, and a
lengthy post and it's some people believe really done a
lot of damage Simone Bio's ability to make money as
(14:01):
a pitch person going forward. I happen to know something
about her agents, and I think they pooped a brick.
Whether you know it's pitching at and T cell phone
service or Tide or whatever she's going to do.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
You will think of this every time I hear her
name or see her face for years. I wouldn't touch her.
There's too many other options. There's too many other options
that don't have baggage. Why would you choose her? So
she might be trying to clean that up.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I think she wanted to address how the current because
last week she addressed how the current system doesn't adequately
balance principles such as well, I'll just read it. I
wanted to follow up from my last tweets. I've always
believed competitive equity and inclusivity are both essential in sport,
meaningless words you have when did you spend a lot
of time twisting to gy rting through in the air
(14:49):
trying to beat other people? Thinking I sure hope there's
competitive equity and inclusivity going on here? Really didn't come
up a lot in my life. But anyway, the current
system doesn't adequately balance these important principles, which often leads
to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn't help for
me to get personal with Riley, which I apologize for.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So first you blame the circumstance for causing heated exchanges,
you don't take responsibility for it, and then you apologize
for something that was caused by something else than wasn't
your fault. She claims she's standing up for fair competition.
Dudes whooping up on girls in sports? Okay, someone.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's so weak.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I just.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I just I try to understand that point of view,
and I just don't under I don't. I can't get there.
Here's what you lack. And I've been trying to get
fully get.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
A lot of these people. And I don't think Simone
Biles is a bad person at all. I think, you know,
if you were to put her through ten different moral tests,
I think she'd do just fine. The thing people like
us can't feel, and I think a lot of y'all
answer to this description too, is the desperate need to
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say what you think you're supposed to say, the social
pressure you feel to go along with the conventional opinion
of your social group.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I'm not sure. I mean I would.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You might force me to mouth the words of some
of this stuff, but man, it would come out of
my mouth.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I would be sickened.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I think somebody like Simone Biles is so enthusiastic about
going along with her peer group and the bubbles she's in.
She doesn't feel any particular shame or feel bad about
saying something she knows to be illogical.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yesh, she feels it so intensely, the need to go along.
And I don't know how intelligent she is or isn't.
She might be super super bright. But I'm sure because
to be that kind of athlete, she's dedicated every moment
of her life to gymnastics, not you know, cultural political issues. Right. Yeah,
I didn't get to the saddest thing I've ever read.
I will get to it in the next half hour.
(17:13):
Oh something to look forward to.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Speaking of hyperbole, the most deluded man in America, completely delusional.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
We'll share his thoughts, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
When I asked yesterday if borders are Tom Holman should
arrest California Governor Gavin Ussen, President Trump said he would
do it and added, quote, I like Gavin Newssen. He's
a nice guy, but he's grossly incompetent.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Ah.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Yes, the old compliment, compliment, searing insult. Imagine Trump giving
a eulogy super guy will be greatly miss world's tiniest penis.
Speaker 7 (17:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That is his pattern, which I'd never completely noticed before. Compliment, compliment,
searing insult. Yeah, well that in the whole we get along, well,
we get along well, I like him. Nobody cares if
you get along well or you like somebody. It's not anyway.
Coming up's me crazy, coming up. The saddest thing I've
ever read about summertime and Elon with a huge TESLA
(18:15):
announcement got nothing to do with politics at all, which, man,
if he's not, that's not a coincidence. Oh interesting, we'll
talk about that then. I guess. Yeah, let's see, Michael.
You know what I need? I really need some Gavin
Newsom give me sixty.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
This brazen abuse of power by a sitting president inflamed
a combustible situation, putting our people, our officers, and even
our National Guard at risk.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And especially so because everything was going fine and it
was perfectly peaceful. According to one of America's leading inflexts,
Maxine Waters.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Don't think that somehow because they called out the National Guard,
there was violence. There was no violence. I was on
the street. I know.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Maxine Waters claiming there was no violence in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Zero. Good lord. Anyway, moving along, I mentioned earlier that
the current, the talking point of the last twenty four
hours is it's just a tiny part of LA It
was a very small part of La. La is five
hundred square miles. This is one square mile where they
had a rest, to which my response is Washington, d C.
(19:30):
January sixth, Washington, d C was Placid one building, people
were beaten down, cops with flag poles and trying to
go in and kill Nancy Belosi one building. The rest
of DC was fine.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh it was calm as the reflecting pools there, everything
that was fine. So a couple of things of note.
Molly Ball on the Wall Street Journal interviewing Gavey knew
some about how he clearly is using this to steer
toward the twenty eight, twenty twenty eight candidacy for president.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
And I love Gabby's quote daring Trump to arrest him.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You need a scalp, You need to show your tough guy,
need to show your base. You're going to own the Libs.
Why don't you just get it over with. Arrest me,
but stop attacking these vulnerable people. Then, surveying the landscape
from the cross he'd hauled himself up on, Gavin Newsom
announced his candidacy, absolutely hilarious, saying his usual stuff. Tom
(20:25):
Cotton responding with an editorial, send in the troops for real.
When local police can't restore order, the federal government has
a duty to do so with a show of force.
One hundred percent appropriate, one hundred percent legal. Andy McCarthy
the National Review, who is a great legal commentator, agrees
with him. There's going to be hearing tomorrow. I guess
about the legality of this.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
You moved on too fast from Gavin up on the cross.
I was going to say, the thief next to him
said nice hair. That's really good. That's really good.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Which brings us to the most delusional man in America.
And I was thinking of setting this up by telling
you why I'm bringing this to you, but I thought, no, no,
I think you'll get there on your own. And this
is both for cal Unicornians and the rest of the country.
And it'll take a second.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
But bear with me.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
This is written by a fellow by the name of
Jim Newton, who worked at the La Times for twenty
five years as a reporter, editor and columnist. Currently edits
the Some magazine at UCLA. So he's moved into academia
and he's got an upcoming book about the Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, not that that matters, but twenty five years at
the La Times.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The title of his piece for Politico is why Donald
Trump had to attack California. There's much more at stake
for Trump and Californians than deportations, and Jack, you got it.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
You gotta tune into this now.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
President Donald Trump and his supporters are right about what
thing in this explosive clash between California federal government. It's
not just a fight over position or even public safety.
It's about values, and it's been a long time building
for Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It's a battle of.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
His choosing, giving him the opportunity to escalate a conflict
on a signature issue, immigration in the city and state
governed by political adversaries so far, absolutely true for California.
It is the logical result of a long and profound
transformation from the days of Republican Party dominance to Democratic
party control, one I've watched and chronicled for more than
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thirty years, in that I now see culminating in literal
fighting in the streets. Californians are turning out against forces
sent here by guardians of a value system that the
state has rejected. And then he goes how not very
long ago California was a solid Republican state. Hiram Johnson,
(22:55):
Earl Warren, Ronald Reagan, stalwarts of the GOP.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
WOW. I don't know if I agree with not very
long ago, but I mean it's not eons ago.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, yeah, seventy five years, yeah, sixty years, depending on
who you're talking about. But a few years later, when
Pat Brown was re selected to his second term in
nineteen sixty two, he was the first Democrat ever to
win the governorship twice, that changed. And then he goes
into how staunchly Democrat California.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Is now except for the great, the honored Devis.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
And he goes in Arnold, who was an anomaly and
he really was a celebrity during a weird recall election.
Governor is a centrist kind of And now he gets
into how there are no Republicans who are mayors of
any city, no Republicans in any statewide office.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
None.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Many forces have propelled that shift, but chief among them
are the party's divergent approaches to environmental and immigration, shifting demographics,
blah blah blah, reverence for the coastlines, and I wish
I had time to read this whole thing.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
He gets into changing demographics. His argument is essentially.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
All that is true, and thank god, the California of
twenty twenty five is so much better than the California
of the fifties, the sixties, the California dream the seventies, expansion, prosperity, innovation,
the eighties, that was a nightmare, the streets of Los
(24:27):
Angeles and San Francisco and Sacramento and San Diego, which
is decaying. We don't talk about that much. The currents
in California is so much better now. This is the
California of our dreams. That's his point. And I see
the wide eyes and slack jaws of people who've either
(24:50):
who live in California, visit California, know of California, thinking,
whoa dude, this is your ideal. Yes, he's proudly right that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
With people moving out for the first time in the
state's history.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, crime rampant in the streets, needles everywhere, human feces,
junkie camps, felon's being released from prisons, the schools indoctrinating
your children about radical transsexual theory in the third grade. Finally,
the era of Reagan's California has been put to bed
(25:27):
and our utopia is here.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Holy crap. We should decide as a show whether it
does us more harm or could to mention the human
feces on the sidewalks in California, because while it's true
and a significant problems and uh, you know, is definitely
a sign of things aren't going well in your town.
(25:51):
I mean, yes, most of you listening have never seen
that on the sidewalk ever in your life.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
You are really making the case for why we ought
to mention it. Where's the flip side?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Disgusting Every time someone says that, that's why we're talking
about it's horrified. I almost unswallow. Yeah, poop, poop, poop poop.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
That's right, Johnny Depp. Johnny's man enough to take on
the challenges of today, Jack, are you?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Sam and I walked around some in San Francisco last
time we were there, and I was just remarking to
him on how that is just so crazy that in
the modern world that would ever happen.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
California is a staunchly Democrat has it was republic and
a flip and orientation and it has become what it's
always meant to be, says Jim Newton in Politico.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know, I'm about to talk about Elon in some
big announcement he made about Tesla. I wish we could
do some sort of counterfactual, uh, you know, parallel universe
where Silicon Valley had happened completely in Austin instead of
in the Bay Area, more or less by acts, because
that has propped up so much of the finances of
(27:04):
this state. If it had just happened to happen in California,
where were we of bed.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
The revenue from Google and Meta and a couple other
super giants Apple, they prop up the socialist government of California.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Right. Absolutely a sad piece I read about summers that
I'm not going to dwell on, but it's worth pointing out,
among other things on the way stay here.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Just days after the horrific fire bombing targeting Jewish demonstrators
in Boulder, Colorado, and the deadly shooting of two Israeli
embassy employees in Washington, d C. Tonight, authorities unsealing new
charges in an alleged plot targeting Jews in New York City.
Federal prosecutors say a twenty year old Pakistani national wanted
to carry out a coordinator attack with AR fifteen style
(27:57):
rifles on a Jewish center in Brooklyn in the name
of ice. The FBI, quoting the suspect, Mohammed Khan, is
saying New York is perfect to target Jews. Even if
we don't attack an event, we could rack up easily
a lot of Jews.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We are going to NYC to slaughter them, Mohammed. You
say there was a terrorist plot they stopped. Also a
couple of weeks ago, guy who was gonna shoot up
a whole bunch of kids at a school. He hated
these Jewish kids, and they stopped him. So, man, it's
it's who. It could be a lot worse than it's Ben.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
England is trying to deal with this by giving in.
There's now in effect an anti blasphemy law in England.
Man who burned a koran was convicted of a religiously
aggravated public order offense because the man's actions were intended
to cause harassment, alarm or distress. And as one writer
points out, it's a very slippery slope. You do realize
(28:51):
that among serious Muslims, a woman showing her hair can
cause alarm in distress, right, m good one.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
England is trying to submit. So Elon was tweeting about
Tesla last night. You think that that's not a coincidence
that he apologized basically for his behavior against Trump and
is tweeting about the UH. Some of the advances in Tesla.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
I think his boards of directors mentioned your shareholders, dude.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But they had breaking first ever Tesla model y robotaxi
with no one in the driver's seat spotted testing on
public roads in Austin, and Elon tweeted out, these are
unmodified Tesla cars coming straight from the factory, meaning that
every Tesla coming out of our factory is capable of
(29:39):
unsupervised self driving. It'll be ready sometime later this year
or next if that actually happens, all of us who
have I think any Tesla in like the twenty three
and on, certainly twenty four and on, is then able
to be completely autonomous driving. That will be a major
(30:00):
change maybe in world history. Yeah. I mean one out
of ten people drive in some aspect for a living,
and that would mean the technology is here for that
to be I just don't know if the you know,
the insurance companies or the states are going to allow
it to happen the way he's thinking. I don't know
if he thought that through or not. Yeah, it'll be
complicated in Thorny for sure. I just think he was
(30:22):
trying to juice Tesla stock in excitement and that sort
of thing. Yeah, he's yeah, I mean that they change
the cameras. He's working toward it. He's been working toward
it forever. I just don't know when it will actually
be ready to go. Last night, walking into the grocery
store with my son because we're out of milk, walking
down the aisle and I say, yes, they've got woolight here,
(30:45):
one bottle left, and I grabbed the bottle of woolight,
and my thirteen year old said, is this what it's
like to be an adult?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
My god, he's hilarious, and I thought, yeah, this is
what gets me excited. They had at a woolite left
at the grocery store. He's a thirteen year old son
about to enjoy summertime. And I had come across this
piece yesterday in the National Review, which I could only
read a couple of sentences of it's probably really well written,
(31:14):
and I just thought I can't go there. Michael Brendan
Doherty of National Review writing and he's got kids also
school age summers before screens and he gets into I
don't know why this bothers me so much. It almost
chokes me up to think about it. He talks about
his summers and his kids summers and just how it's
(31:37):
never coming back, and you know they don't know what
they're missing, And he didn't. I don't know if he
makes the point because I said I didn't read the
whole thing because I thought it was too sad that
soon those of us who had summers before screens will
be dead and there will be nobody to even comment
on comparing the two. But to summers after screens. We
all know everything after screens is different. And the we're
(32:02):
outside board and we make up a game with a
ball and some basses and some rules is gone forever.
It just is wow, and we play all day and
get sweaty and tired and laugh and argue. Yeah. And
it was head in that direction already because of the
(32:24):
weird worried our kids are going to be abducted or
whatever the hell happened in the eighties and nineties and
two thousands, where I've told this story gazillion times. I
lived and this was twenty years ago. This is pre screens.
I used to say this smartphones, and this was true.
Then I lived near a giant park. I drove by
(32:45):
that park multiple times a day for years. I never
one time, not once ever saw two kids out there
playing catch. Never or anybody's yard. Now. I saw organized
soccer matches with all the parents on the sidelines with
the pop up tents, but I never saw two kids
playing catch or shooting hoops ever. It just it's gone away.
(33:05):
And then you add in screens with you know you're
gonna you're gonna play video games or stare at your screen,
and I just and what I was wondering, is is
it just nostalgia? Is it just you know, my youth
was better than your youth for some weird way, a
way we glorify the past or something, or is it
(33:26):
actually a step backwards. Oh, I think there's plenty of
objective data.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I mean there're none of this, like in isolation is
a fatal disease, if you will, Because if you had
screens but also lots of free play, you know, lots
of autonomy, free range kids things, it'd be fine, it'd
work itself out. But it all, it all congeals into
(33:51):
this sort of passive directed by adults, non inventive, no risk,
you know activity. I think it's cool that your son
and others like him skateboard or did and risk injury
(34:12):
and get all bloody and scraped up and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I think that's fantastic. Yeah. My oldest, luckily, is no
interest in video games and is super into riding his
bike and doing wheelies and stuff like that. But my
youngest is more typical of the genre, likes video games
and all that sort of stuff. So the title was
Summer's Before Screens, and I just again text the text line,
(34:37):
I'd be interested? Am I just you know, romanticizing in
a nostalgic sort of way or has something been lost
with childhood? That's enough of that and weirds me out.
Tony Hawk, the most famous skateboarder of all time, showed
up to a Texas skateboard park yesterday and started skating boarding,
(34:58):
and people started recognize who he was and needed a
bunch of cool stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
How cool would that be, your young skateboarder kid? I
saw a commercial with him the other day and he's
getting on in yours.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
He's old, but he's still known in the same way
that like Michael Jordan's known because of his products and
his name and his branding. He's still really known. But yeah,
that'd be quite the charge. You're skateboarding on a summer
afternoon and Tony Hawk is whipping around next to you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, it'd be like Jack Nicholas standing next to me
on the driving range. I think it would just put
my clubs away.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, I'm not doing this. I'm not gonna let you
see me swing. But we do four hours every day.
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