August 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo!
- Trump's tariffs are officially in effect
- The horrific Cincinnati attack
- The first woman umpire and the jokes that followed
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The discovery of an unexploded World War two bomb forcing
evacuations in Dresden, Germany. The five hundred and fifty pound
British made bomb found near a bridge. About seventeen thousand
people were told to clear the area. Authorities diffusing the bomb,
saying it will be moved to a safe location.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Wow, that they're still finding World War II bombs in
Europe and every once in a while a World War
One bomb. We got a number of stories to get to.
This is kind of a breaking news thing before Joe
does his stuff. You know, the whole Democrats running away
from Texas so that they can't have a vote on redistricting.
(01:00):
Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who's generally a pretty serious guy,
said the FBI has agreed to help find the Democratic
state lawmakers who left the state to block redistricting in
and bring them back. So's the FBI going to start
going into hotel rooms in Illinois, arresting Texas Democrats and
hauling them back to Texas. I'll be down like dogs
(01:20):
in some weird dog hunt for some reason.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
All right, fine, good, I'm just so tired of politics.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I know it's all performing any ways, Yes it is.
It is absolutely all performative.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And all that performative is to raise money in small
donations online via you know, email, the Internet and short texts,
et cetera. Interestingly enough, Apple is about to trot out
a new feature for iPhone users where all of that
crap will be screened, and the major political parties are
(01:58):
really unhappy about that because they depend so heavily on
spamming people with the provocative messages about Texas is trying
to steal democracy, or the traders of Texas have fled
to communist still at oil or whatever. I'm firing people
up and they're thinking it could cause a major hit
in their contributions.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Wow, oh, do have a time.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Machine and completely waste it on going back to when
everybody was screaming at each other over Citizens United, the
big corporate donations to politics.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
If you Supreme Court case.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
If you get a time machine and you do that,
I'll tell you you deserve to be struck by lightning
or something.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You're an odd duck anyway, But to go back there
and say, hey, this doesn't matter. None of this matters.
Now it's you and you and you and you that
are going to pervert politics beyond all recognition.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So calm down, anyway, moving along, This might be my.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Favorite progressives at work Lee story of recent days. He's
got a bunch of stuff to touch on this segment.
But New York has a new e bike speed limit
because the e bikes zoom around. And as if Manhattan,
for instance, wasn't dangerous enough to try to cross the street,
now you have lunatics and delivery men whatever screaming down
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the street in all sorts of directions and bashing into pedestrians,
et cetera. So Mayor Eric Adams announced a fifteen mile
per hour speed limit for e bikes and East Court
Now at a June press conference.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Fifteen boy, my son is not going to dig that
if that comes to our town. We love our electric motorcycles.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Except e bikes don't have speedometers, they don't have any
sort of vehicle registration, and no one in the city
government seemed to know the policy was coming. Said the cops,
what really, and everybody's saying, I guess you'll have to
guess the spit.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Nothing's going to happen. The one my son rides go
sixty miles an hour. Oh, sixty miles per hour. Yeah,
on a on.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
A bicycle, heavy duty bicycle.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They're not bikes, light duty motorcycle. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But because there I think I think they fly in
all these different cities because they're electric. Right. People are
just so enthusiastic about electric transportation.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right, you are right.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I mean, if it had a gas engine, people who
know instantly what to do with it, right, not.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
How to regulate it and whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Not a chance fourteen year olds get to fly down
your streets at forty miles an hour with untagged no lights,
gas motorcycles, no way. If you could have done that,
I would have done it when I was younger. But
if it's electric, hey, the world's open to you.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We actually had a mopad at the Dawn of the
mopad back in gosh what was that at the late
seventies early eighties.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I guess that was.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Great, but our town cracked down on it. Oh, by
the way, just a quick mention. Our town was Clarendon Hills, Illinois.
I often say I am from Chicago line, but it was
a quaint, little middle class suburb in the western suburbs.
Clarendon Hills just beat Ohio and is going to the
Little League World Series, the very all star team I
played for as a lad We never made it that far.
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The odds were stacked against us. But anyway, congratulations Clarendon Hills.
Thinking of you, unrecognizable from when I lived there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But what are you gonna do? Will you be rooting
for the team? We're in your old jersey? That's funny.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
That would be stretched around me like a sausage casing
if I could even find it. Anyway, so they passed along,
have no idea how to enforce it, and nobody knew
it was coming. Moving along, you've heard about the weight
loss drugs, getting the jab your wig vis and Nea
Marfia's and whatever the hell they're called zepp. Well, Eli
Lilly is about to trot out a pill. Then the
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headline is actually the results were a little disappointing. They
were hoping that when you take this pill and do
the program over it's like a year and a half
or something like that, you'd lose thirteen to fifteen percent
of your weight or more. Well, it turns out it
helps you lose about twelve percent of your weight, so
the stock is dropped. But you know, if you're, say
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a two hundred pounder as I am, roughly you're gonna
lose twenty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Heck, yeah, that's okay. Yeah, About ten.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Percent of people have to stop using it though, because
they have pretty serious side effects. But if you don't
like the JAB or whatever, you like the idea of
a pill, what's coming down the line? What percent usually
have to stop using it?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh, that's not very much. So most people work, So
most people it works for. And if you're gonna lose, yeah,
you lose ten to fifteen twenty pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Shit, it's huge. Does it say what the side effects are?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You know, the usual Michael cramping, intestinal problems, explosive uncontrollable bowels, spontaneousuestion.
Oh there it is, nausea, constipation, and other gut problems.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Don't want that moving along.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Ultra Processed foods make up more than fifty percent of
American calories, but that's actually down a little bit. Ultra
Processed foods anything cranked out by a factory is how
I define it. But nutritionists say, if it has ingredients
that you're never going to find in your kitchen, I fructose, corn, syrup, emulsifiers,
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the long chemical names, that's an ultra processed food linked
to diabetes, obesity, cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Et cetera.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, linked to is a bit of a fudgy phrase,
which I've criticized through the years, But in this case,
I think it's undi ultra process foods are not good.
They're awful, often delicious, and super easily prepared. Yes, that
is absolutely correct. Here's a shocking stat though, when you
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talk about children and teens. The percentage fell four percent
since twenty eighteen. Why they measured it from twenty eighteen,
I don't know, but it fell four percent to sixty
two percent of the calories kids take in. Wow, going
on two thirds.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Wow. I thought I was doing a bad job.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I don't think my kids take in two thirds of
their calories on that stuff, though, But too much?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Don't you, nerd? Do you don't? No, you don't think that.
I don't think it's two thirds.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, here it has ultra process foods linked to a
variety of health issues, including obesity type two diabetes, cancer,
cardiovascular disease, and depression and need to read more about that,
and satisfaction of having eaten something delicious. Oh my god,
listen to the listen to You're like your dear. I
don't even have the spirit to go there. I found
(09:04):
the information on the smelling salts. Crackdown the NFL cracking
down on smelling thoughts, smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Where's my favorite tight end?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
George Kittle clip eighteen Michael, he crashed the NFL Networks broadcast.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Sure, George, Hello friend, how are you? I honestly just
came up here to Aaron Grievance our team.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
At a memo today that's smelling salts and ammonia packets
were made illegal in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Wow, And I've been distraught all day. Illegal. Yeah. He
even said he's not practicing anymore. I considered retirement. Yeah. Yeah,
you got to figure middle ground here. Guys helped me out.
Somebody come up with a good idea, sans. Yeah, that's
all I had to get out there. I'll get that off.
Is it? Is it?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Every before, every every drive, I'm an every driver in.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Between every place you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, it feels like the energy is still out here though,
I mean definitely.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But I missed those already.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, all right, that's enough of that. Though it sounded
like he was being serious about the every drive.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh yeah he was.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, it didn't seem as though anybody was taking it
terribly seriously. The NFL trying to get the smelling salts
out of the game, as they're called anyway, uh, and
players are not thrilled. The union quickly pushed back. The
NFL said they're banned from giving smelling salts, which are
pungent packets of ammonia and other chemicals, to players before, during,
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or after games, both on the sideline in in the
locker room. The league's concerns include there are smelling salts
quote unquote ability to mask certain neurological symptoms such as concussion.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, the breaking news headline that just occurred is they're
going to allow it on game days.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You can.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Game days are okay, but no, nothing else is the
current deal with the union. So uh, but you can't
be doing it in practice all the time. Sounds like
it is on the way right. I've got a NFL
insider friend I'm gonna have to text see is it
really that prevalent.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I didn't know that. Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, as do I I've got to ask you know
I've seen it, but no, no, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I knew that. You know, we've all seen it on television.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
If you watch a NFL game, somebody gets hit really hard,
they're laying there staring white eyed. They come out there,
gave him the smelling sauce. He'll be back in there.
He's just kind of weird. You just got knocked conscious practically,
and you get you put something under your nose to
get your brain allow you run back out there.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
But they do it in practice all week long. Every drive. Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, now no Kittle was talking about every drive in
a game.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But anyway, uh.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Smelling sauce long popular in sports that can leave athletes
woozy after a blow to the head, such as football, boxing, rugby,
and hockey, and the league is saying it doesn't to
you any good at.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
All, There is no positive.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, the entire reason you do it is to mask
whatever whatever bad thing just occurred.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I mean, that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You're trying to make your body do something that it
wouldn't do without this.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
But George, I love you. You're a great player. Sorry
to hear you were distraught all day.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, well you know the whole young and you're immortal
and you don't care about your body thing is is
for real?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
We all know that I was that way. Mmm. We
need to check in on some of the big stories
of the day later.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We need to get to first female umpire in baseball.
This is not a sports thing.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Finally, Finally, what a great day for America.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Some of the jokes that were being made around it,
I am so appalled by. I'm going to read them
so you can understand. Well, we can't be appalled unless
we hear them, so you can understand how terrible people
can be. Let's all be appalled together. So we'll get
to that later this hour. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Trump's new tariffs on nearly every US trading partner go
into effect. Experts, though, caution that Americans could face higher
prices on everything from electronics and toys to clothing and furniture.
By one estimate, it could cost the average American household
twenty four hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Man, there's some serious guessing going on in that story
on what tariffs are going to do. They're all kicking
in today, and so Scott Bessant, representing Trump's point of view,
was on Morning Joe Today explaining to Joe Scarborough how
the whole reset of global trade is going to work
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out for us.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
All this is probably the most significant trade reset on
the global stage.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Since nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
What do you and the President hope to achieve by
jacking jacking tariffs up on an average seventeen percent per nation?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Well, Joe, first of all, I don't think it's the
most The big trade reset since nineteen thirty five were
the biggest trade reset was the China shock, and we
are just responding to the China shock from the early
two thousands. So we are trying to rebalance trade in America.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That's favor President Trump.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Has said, and I've said, we want to bring back
the high precision manufacturing jobs. We want to get rid
of these big deficits that we have with countries that
have created these big surpluses and the gutted our manufacturing
base and have been terrible for American workers.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I just had a thought, and I don't know if
it's true at all, or maybe even just partially true,
but as he was just talking about, well, the world
changed with China, reach China here in the last decade
or two. If it's mostly about that and doing all
of these other countries, which he kind of wanted to
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do anyway, but that helps water down it doesn't look.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Like an attack on China as much.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Is there any chance that three dimensional chess is going on,
because if it was only China, that would put us
at much more of a mean.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Point of conflict.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yeah, it's a hell of a lot of trouble to
go to to you know, achieve that goal.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't I don't know. It's just a side benefit. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It's worth noting that the global automakers have said, all right,
here's the hit to our bottom line so far from
tariffs Toyota, it's just over three billion dollars, VW FOURIGN
Company one and a half billion dollars, then oh GM
one point two billion dollars, Ford one billion dollars. Then
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you get into Honda BMW, but like Ford, much bigger
hit than BMW or Kier, Mazda or Nissan or Mercedes
or any of those.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know, back to the whole.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
There's a lot of truth in what Scott Besant said
it would take a long time to seize it all out.
But the idea that these tariffs are going to onshore
are manufacturing again, it's not going to work. The tariffs
would have to be much higher for a long time.
There would have to be a huge disruption to the
economy for years to make it worth it for all
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of these companies to invest the enormous amount of money
and time it would take to onshore their manufacturing operations.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It is not a quick process. I just don't think
it's realistic. And whoever's next president could call it all.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Off, yeah, or half of it even, and then it's
never going to happen. You'd be taking to take very
high tariffs to move a lot of manufacturing back to.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The US should be taking a heck of a flyer.
If you're GM or Apple or whoever you need, decide, Okay,
we'll build a multi billion dollar plant in the United States,
assuming this is the way we're going forward, that'd be
a heck of a risky thing to do.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Lots of good stuff to come. Somebody just sent me
this text and I thought, is amazing, just the seeing
this in text form almost made me crazy. This was
the text I got. The girl sitting on the other
side of my cubicle at work today is drinking coffee
by slurping a sip, clicking her tongue, saying ah on
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repeat for the last ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Now, pick up the keyboard, hit her over the head
right now and this quickly slurp click ah. She's doing
it on purpose. Hold and over again.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Now you miss a PHONYX. You need a support group.
The rest of us just are happy. A coworker is happy.
Morning Java, oh jee click ah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Things to come.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I want to talk a little bit about that shooting
at that military base. What an interesting story. They figured
out what the guy was up to there was he
just a crazy person. The woman who had been pretending
to be a nurse with no background in nursing for
years in Florida got arrested.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You s Dave, you haven't seen that video. Quite a story.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
First female umpire in Major League Baseball last night. There
have been some jokes around that that I don't appreciate.
We'll tell you those jokes coming up and scold the
people who told them. Indeed, oh it can't be outraged
about it. Joke I haven't heard, so yes, And the
thing I want to talk about the most today really
is the blowback on colonizing Mars, which makes you look
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like an idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So stay tuned. Yeah, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
So the absolutely infamous yet undercovered beating down of a
man and a woman in Cincinnati. It was a gang
of black people beating down white people. And to state
the suffocatingly obvious, if the roles were reversed racially speaking,
it would be the only story anybody was talking about
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in the media, in government, whatever. But no, because it
doesn't reinforce the progressive narrative. It's not that important. But
one of the female victim of the horrific beating, whose
name is Holly, the last name unpublished thus far is,
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had appeared at press conference the other day looking battered
but recovering.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
That video is hard to take.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
It is very, very hard to take the viciousness of
some people people in quotes. Anyway, here's what she had
to say, and then a kind of sideline story. Go ahead, Michael,
We'll start with Adie first and foremost.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I just want to say that I don't want to
relive what happened to me. You know, eight or nine
days ago. I'm here to talk about the future and
how we can change it, how we can prevent this
from happening to anybody else. These heinous crimes have to stop,
you know, I never want this to happen to anyone else,
especially a mother, a daughter, somebody who is loved. So
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I just know what it's done to my family, not
just to me.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So roll on, Oh sorry, go ahead. Is there any background?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Those of us who have not been following this much
need to know about how this started. Not really were they?
Were they provoking anybody in any way? Not that that
you know, uh should lead to be being beaten nearly
to death generally, but.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It's kicked near to death by a crowd.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, okay.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
And I think that moving forward, we do need more accountability,
and I definitely think that, you know, we need more
police officers. But like he said, you know, the judges
who are just letting people out with the slab.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Go on.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
The man who attacked me and might have permanently damaged
me forever should never have been on the streets ever.
And the fact that he had just gotten out of
jail previously for something he should have been in there
for years. It's really sad to me because I can't
even fathom how many other people who have been attacked
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by the same type of man over and over and over.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Have we stated the racial situation on this, Yeah, clearly
enough that you understand what's going on. If this were
as we've said ten times, but if this were the reverse,
it would be the only story in the country, the
only story in the country, right, And and is that
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why it's getting no coverage?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh yeah, well, and it's worse than just not fitting
the narrative it is.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's the sort of thing that.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Might reinforce some unfortunate feelings or stereotypes, might embold and
white supremacists or something like that. So yeah, the mainstream
media won't go anywhere near the story, which is just
it's a testament. It's a conviction of them for their cowardice,
their dishonesty, and their biased Next clip.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
And Toledo and Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, our streets are being
taken over and nobody is doing anything. I am so
sad and I need to be the voice to help
all of the victims that never got their justice.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
That big guy who sucker punches are from behind and
could have killed or should be in jail for the
rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Anybody who can do that is gone, is morally unsalvageable.
If in twenty years he's organized a prayer group and
apologized to everybody and blah bah oh, I'm willing to
talk about it, but put them in jail for a
very long time. By the way, the Cincinnati Police chief
is facing mounting criticism over a number of aspects of
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policing in Cincinnati, and she's actually being sued by a
bunch of officers.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Of course it's a woman, because it has to be.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
She's a white galvo, which is wow, I don't know, Cincinnati,
that's not fully progressive. But anyway, the officers in the
suit have claimed the chief systematically overlooked them and handed
out promotions to minority and female lieutenants. She was allegedly
quote personally involved in the assignment decisions and used race
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based quota systems to promote minorities and women at career
enhancing positions. Coveted preferred assignments were doled out to eighty
percent of minority lieutenants eighty nine percent of female lieutenants,
but forty four percent of white male lieutenants given the
assign lawsuit claimed, which is not that surprising at all.
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It's a progressive leader of a city police force that
went way, way too far down the DEI road and
are now the citizens are paying the price.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And that that's a huge problem obviously, because I want
a meritocracy, especially when you get into the military and
police and firefighters and that sort of stuff. Just who
who's the best pick the best candidates. I don't care
what their sexual orientation, eye color, skin call, don't care.
I want the best people out there protecting me. But
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I don't know how much that had to do with
this woman getting beat down. That that whole story of
we don't prosecute criminals and keep them in jail for
the length of time they should be in jail for
the crimes.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
How do we stop that? That is horrific.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
So the police chief Awful also said, I think it's
irresponsible with social me just shows one side of the
equation cut quite frequently without context, without factual context. So
she needed the near beating to death by a large
crowd to be placed in its proper context.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
That's a very progressive thing to say.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Do they go on to say to what the proper
context is? What is there One Cincinnati councilwoman, Cincinnati Councilwoman
Victoria Parks, she wrote and replied to a video footage
to the assault they begged for that beat down.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm grateful for the whole story.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So do you have any information in what way they
begged for that beat down?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I do not. I don't see how we get out
of this situation.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I guess it could happen slowly as people get fed
up enough with being attacked by somebody or robbed by
somebody that should have already been in jail, that you
pay attention to voting for district attorney in a way
that you never have in the past.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, that's a hell of a price to pay for,
you know, getting back to the concept of if you
break the law, you will be sanctioned for it, which
I think we had assumed was the way we were going.
But it's one more example of how progressives have undermined
the very bedrocks of civilization. A man can become a
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woman just by wishing it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's bizarre. I mean, that is crazy talk.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
People only commit crimes because they've been driven to desperation
by a system, and so we can't punish them for that.
You go back five years, fifty years, three hundred years,
fifteen hundred years, five thousand years, and you'd be greeted
with what the hell are you talking about? But in
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modern American cities, people say, oh, that's right, that's right,
that's combat white supremacy. I've taught about that in college,
and we've got to defeat these people.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
And now, unfortunately, apparently a little misogyny and that we
have the first female Major League Baseball umpire and some
people online made jokes that we are going to point
out so they do not get away with these crass comments.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Am I safeer? Am I out?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
If you don't already know, I'm not telling you exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Oh ouch, all right, A bunch of other stuff too,
stay here. First update on a text I got from
a friend who said, the woman on the other side
of my cubicle at work today is drinking coffee by
slurping a sip, clicking her tongue, saying ah on repeat
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for the last ten minutes. And they said, I may
need bail money. They just texted, They just texted. With
a follow up, she just got up for her refill.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Son of a bitch, take the charge.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, so everything's a historic moment, right whenever we break
down barriers or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
An historic night in baseball.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Last night a landmark moment for Major League Baseball. For
the first time in league history, there will be a
woman umpire for a regular season games, and Powell will
take the field for Saturday's doubleheader between the Marlins and
the Braves in Atlanta. She's been working in the minors
since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, so I'm sure they will be studying this in
history classes years from now.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Oh yeah, hundreds of years from now. It'll be the
cleanest home base we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's a popular one, that the plate will be very clean.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
We call it home plate Kittie. The uh let the
men talk. The number one comments it's a joke. It's please,
it's a joke. Oh stop hitting me.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The number one comment on this Facebook thread that I
find disgusting, by the way, yes, was what Joe said.
What was that called? Oh I think you know that
sort of thing? Or uh, I really like the idea
of she will call she's gonna bring up strikes from
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prior games for that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
She's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Called, she's gonna call somebody out for something they did
three games ago.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Or something they said, yes, oh my god, those sorts
of things.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
And then there are comments like, so, then will she
make the sandwiches before the game or the ball would
see No, that's.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I yeah, I don't approve of that, you know. It's
it's funny. Not exactly a girly girl. By the way,
Oh yeah, I had to check twice that that I
was looking at the correct photograph for the headline. She's
she's a fairly masculine looking woman, which is fine, doesn't matter,
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and for all I know, she's an absolutely outstanding umpire.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I've heard rumors that.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Cannot be sourced, just whisperings in the wind, that Major
League Baseball has been so anxious to achieve certain progressive
goals with their umpires. Remember this is the organization that
yanked the All Star Game out of Atlanta, a heavily
black city, because of the utterly dishonest and ridiculous Jim
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Crow on steroids. They're trying to disenfranchise people. Crap in
the way, George Floyd. But anyway, what I have heard
is that they are so anxious to get various folks,
including a gal, into the umpiring ranks, that they promote them.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Before they're ready. But I wish here.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, I'm sure she's a really good ump Yeah, lots
of she's going to be ringing people up from something
that happened three years ago in the miners.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Without the umpire suit. She's she's cute, Okay, yeah, well
that's fine.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
That's I don't judge my umpires on how they look anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I just hopefully she's better at calling balls and strikes
than she is at deciding where to eat dinner.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Oh no, wow.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Wherever you want? How about jim Steakhouse? No, I don't
feel like steak manager. Manager says, what was wrong with
that pitch?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Ump? I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Then, So I had just searched on Google for jokes
about the first major league umpire being a woman, and
then after some of the comments, Google in their AI
thing said positive comments first, and it listed all the
positive things people have said, then some minorly offensive, and
then very offensive. And then after the very offensive jokes
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that I just told you on I don't know how
deeply hurt some of you are because of those it
says here. These jokes and comments represent a range of reactions,
and some are rooted in harmful stereotypes. While the jokes
can be seen as lighthearted, it's important to acknowledge the
serious impact of sexist comments in sports. Thank you for
the shot up, no comedy anymore, thank you for the
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shots come on, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
You know what's interesting about this is that in the institutions,
whether it's MLB or whatever, they don't get this. Nobody
cares if there are women umpires or not. Nobody is
burning to have more women corrections officers in men's prisons.
Nobody is desperate for more female lumberjacks.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Nobody.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
There have been some Scandinavian countries. I'm sorry, slow down
to there have been some Scandinavian countries. I was just
reading about this that went to great trouble to make
sure that the various stereotypically manly jobs, whether there's several
that I've mentioned, or construction, or there are a handful
of others, could not discrimine against women. And they absolutely
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went out of their way to make sure women had
access to all these jobs.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
They didn't want them.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
They increase the number of women in these trades, either
infintesimately or not at all.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Because the women were like, I don't want to be
an effing lumberjack.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
The reason it's all dudes are mostly dudes is only
dudes want to do that. If this gal is so
hot to try to be an ump and she's good enough,
put her on the field.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It's gonna you know, it's a locker room situation that's
gonna be complicated a little bit. But like a prison guard, No,
there's too much danger there. How about serving in a
combat unit in the military. Not if it impedes combat
rated in this by two percent, No freaking way.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Nobody is desperate for this.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
If you're getting your ass be beaten by a bunch
of dudes, and the cop who calls when he shows
up what he called nine to one one is a
woman who's five to four, one hundred and five pounds,
you're going to continue to be beaten.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yes, I've seen it many, many times and talked to
many cops. And the other thing is I happen to
be very good friends with a longtime Major League baseball
umpire who's recently retired because he got smashed in the
face so many times by foul balls coming at ninety
one hundred miles per hour. It caused him from some
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very serious injuries. This gal is going to take a
couple off the mask and get concussions and all. And
I don't know if people are going to dig that.
Because we're more protective of women than we are of men.
It's always been in humankind.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Speaking of women, I've had this experience recently. I know
a conservative woman who blames most of the problems in
this country on women voters and thinks it's She jokingly
but half seriously says they need to take away women's
right to vote. It would help the She said, the
country becomes so conservative tomorrow if women couldn't vote, and
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she's raised three daughters, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
For what she wants out of the country, it would
be a better place if women couldn't vote.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
A horrible and outrageous suggestion you've made. I wish I
had time to respond, folks, I truly did. Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Getty and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The discovery of an unexploded World War two bomb forcing
evacuations in Dresden, Germany. The five hundred and fifty pound
British made bomb found near a bridge. About seventeen thousand
people were told to clear the area. Authorities diffusing the bomb,
saying it will be moved to a safe location.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Wow, that they're still finding World War II bombs in
Europe and every once in a while a World War
One bomb. We got a number of stories to get to.
This is kind of a breaking news thing before Joe
does his stuff. You know, the whole Democrats running away
from Texas so that they can't have a vote on redistricting.
(01:00):
Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who's generally a pretty serious guy,
said the FBI has agreed to help find the Democratic
state lawmakers who left the state to block redistricting in
and bring them back. So's the FBI going to start
going into hotel rooms in Illinois, arresting Texas Democrats and
hauling them back to Texas. I'll be down like dogs
(01:20):
in some weird dog hunt for some reason.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
All right, fine, good, I'm just so tired of politics.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I know it's all performing any ways, Yes it is.
It is absolutely all performative.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
And all that performative is to raise money in small
donations online via you know, email, the Internet and short texts,
et cetera. Interestingly enough, Apple is about to trot out
a new feature for iPhone users where all of that
crap will be screened, and the major political parties are
(01:58):
really unhappy about that because they depend so heavily on
spamming people with the provocative messages about Texas is trying
to steal democracy, or the traders of Texas have fled
to communist still at oil or whatever. I'm firing people
up and they're thinking it could cause a major hit
in their contributions.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Wow, oh, do have a time.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Machine and completely waste it on going back to when
everybody was screaming at each other over Citizens United, the
big corporate donations to politics.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
If you Supreme Court case.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
If you get a time machine and you do that,
I'll tell you you deserve to be struck by lightning
or something.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
You're an odd duck anyway, But to go back there
and say, hey, this doesn't matter. None of this matters.
Now it's you and you and you and you that
are going to pervert politics beyond all recognition.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So calm down, anyway, moving along, This might be my.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Favorite progressives at work Lee story of recent days. He's
got a bunch of stuff to touch on this segment.
But New York has a new e bike speed limit
because the e bikes zoom around. And as if Manhattan,
for instance, wasn't dangerous enough to try to cross the street,
now you have lunatics and delivery men whatever screaming down
(03:17):
the street in all sorts of directions and bashing into pedestrians,
et cetera. So Mayor Eric Adams announced a fifteen mile
per hour speed limit for e bikes and East Court
Now at a June press conference.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Fifteen boy, my son is not going to dig that
if that comes to our town. We love our electric motorcycles.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Except e bikes don't have speedometers, they don't have any
sort of vehicle registration, and no one in the city
government seemed to know the policy was coming. Said the cops,
what really, and everybody's saying, I guess you'll have to
guess the spit.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Nothing's going to happen. The one my son rides go
sixty miles an hour. Oh, sixty miles per hour. Yeah,
on a on.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
A bicycle, heavy duty bicycle.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
They're not bikes, light duty motorcycle. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But because there I think I think they fly in
all these different cities because they're electric. Right. People are
just so enthusiastic about electric transportation.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right, you are right.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I mean, if it had a gas engine, people who
know instantly what to do with it, right, not.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
How to regulate it and whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Not a chance fourteen year olds get to fly down
your streets at forty miles an hour with untagged no lights,
gas motorcycles, no way. If you could have done that,
I would have done it when I was younger. But
if it's electric, hey, the world's open to you.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We actually had a mopad at the Dawn of the
mopad back in gosh what was that at the late
seventies early eighties.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I guess that was.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Great, but our town cracked down on it. Oh, by
the way, just a quick mention. Our town was Clarendon Hills, Illinois.
I often say I am from Chicago line, but it was
a quaint, little middle class suburb in the western suburbs.
Clarendon Hills just beat Ohio and is going to the
Little League World Series, the very all star team I
played for as a lad We never made it that far.
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The odds were stacked against us. But anyway, congratulations Clarendon Hills.
Thinking of you, unrecognizable from when I lived there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But what are you gonna do? Will you be rooting
for the team? We're in your old jersey? That's funny.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
That would be stretched around me like a sausage casing
if I could even find it. Anyway, so they passed along,
have no idea how to enforce it, and nobody knew
it was coming. Moving along, you've heard about the weight
loss drugs, getting the jab your wig vis and Nea
Marfia's and whatever the hell they're called zepp. Well, Eli
Lilly is about to trot out a pill. Then the
(06:06):
headline is actually the results were a little disappointing. They
were hoping that when you take this pill and do
the program over it's like a year and a half
or something like that, you'd lose thirteen to fifteen percent
of your weight or more. Well, it turns out it
helps you lose about twelve percent of your weight, so
the stock is dropped. But you know, if you're, say
(06:27):
a two hundred pounder as I am, roughly you're gonna
lose twenty five pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Heck, yeah, that's okay. Yeah, About ten.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Percent of people have to stop using it though, because
they have pretty serious side effects. But if you don't
like the JAB or whatever, you like the idea of
a pill, what's coming down the line? What percent usually
have to stop using it?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh, that's not very much. So most people work, So
most people it works for. And if you're gonna lose, yeah,
you lose ten to fifteen twenty pounds.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Shit, it's huge. Does it say what the side effects are?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You know, the usual Michael cramping, intestinal problems, explosive uncontrollable bowels, spontaneousuestion.
Oh there it is, nausea, constipation, and other gut problems.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Don't want that moving along.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Ultra Processed foods make up more than fifty percent of
American calories, but that's actually down a little bit. Ultra
Processed foods anything cranked out by a factory is how
I define it. But nutritionists say, if it has ingredients
that you're never going to find in your kitchen, I fructose, corn, syrup, emulsifiers,
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the long chemical names, that's an ultra processed food linked
to diabetes, obesity, cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Et cetera.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, linked to is a bit of a fudgy phrase,
which I've criticized through the years, But in this case,
I think it's undi ultra process foods are not good.
They're awful, often delicious, and super easily prepared. Yes, that
is absolutely correct. Here's a shocking stat though, when you
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talk about children and teens. The percentage fell four percent
since twenty eighteen. Why they measured it from twenty eighteen,
I don't know, but it fell four percent to sixty
two percent of the calories kids take in. Wow, going
on two thirds.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Wow. I thought I was doing a bad job.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I don't think my kids take in two thirds of
their calories on that stuff, though, But too much?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Don't you, nerd? Do you don't? No, you don't think that.
I don't think it's two thirds.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, here it has ultra process foods linked to a
variety of health issues, including obesity type two diabetes, cancer,
cardiovascular disease, and depression and need to read more about that,
and satisfaction of having eaten something delicious. Oh my god,
listen to the listen to You're like your dear. I
don't even have the spirit to go there. I found
(09:04):
the information on the smelling salts. Crackdown the NFL cracking
down on smelling thoughts, smelling salts?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Where's my favorite tight end?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
George Kittle clip eighteen Michael, he crashed the NFL Networks broadcast.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Sure, George, Hello friend, how are you? I honestly just
came up here to Aaron Grievance our team.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
At a memo today that's smelling salts and ammonia packets
were made illegal in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Wow, And I've been distraught all day. Illegal. Yeah. He
even said he's not practicing anymore. I considered retirement. Yeah. Yeah,
you got to figure middle ground here. Guys helped me out.
Somebody come up with a good idea, sans. Yeah, that's
all I had to get out there. I'll get that off.
Is it? Is it?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Every before, every every drive, I'm an every driver in.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Between every place you.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, it feels like the energy is still out here though,
I mean definitely.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But I missed those already.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, all right, that's enough of that. Though it sounded
like he was being serious about the every drive.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh yeah he was.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, it didn't seem as though anybody was taking it
terribly seriously. The NFL trying to get the smelling salts
out of the game, as they're called anyway, uh, and
players are not thrilled. The union quickly pushed back. The
NFL said they're banned from giving smelling salts, which are
pungent packets of ammonia and other chemicals, to players before, during,
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or after games, both on the sideline in in the
locker room. The league's concerns include there are smelling salts
quote unquote ability to mask certain neurological symptoms such as concussion.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, the breaking news headline that just occurred is they're
going to allow it on game days.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You can.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Game days are okay, but no, nothing else is the
current deal with the union. So uh, but you can't
be doing it in practice all the time. Sounds like
it is on the way right. I've got a NFL
insider friend I'm gonna have to text see is it
really that prevalent.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I didn't know that. Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, as do I I've got to ask you know
I've seen it, but no, no, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I knew that. You know, we've all seen it on television.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
If you watch a NFL game, somebody gets hit really hard,
they're laying there staring white eyed. They come out there,
gave him the smelling sauce. He'll be back in there.
He's just kind of weird. You just got knocked conscious practically,
and you get you put something under your nose to
get your brain allow you run back out there.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
But they do it in practice all week long. Every drive. Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Well, now no Kittle was talking about every drive in
a game.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
But anyway, uh.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Smelling sauce long popular in sports that can leave athletes
woozy after a blow to the head, such as football, boxing, rugby,
and hockey, and the league is saying it doesn't to
you any good at.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
All, There is no positive.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, the entire reason you do it is to mask
whatever whatever bad thing just occurred.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I mean, that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You're trying to make your body do something that it
wouldn't do without this.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
But George, I love you. You're a great player. Sorry
to hear you were distraught all day.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, well you know the whole young and you're immortal
and you don't care about your body thing is is
for real?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
We all know that I was that way. Mmm. We
need to check in on some of the big stories
of the day later.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We need to get to first female umpire in baseball.
This is not a sports thing.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Finally, Finally, what a great day for America.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Some of the jokes that were being made around it,
I am so appalled by. I'm going to read them
so you can understand. Well, we can't be appalled unless
we hear them, so you can understand how terrible people
can be. Let's all be appalled together. So we'll get
to that later this hour. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Trump's new tariffs on nearly every US trading partner go
into effect. Experts, though, caution that Americans could face higher
prices on everything from electronics and toys to clothing and furniture.
By one estimate, it could cost the average American household
twenty four hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Man, there's some serious guessing going on in that story
on what tariffs are going to do. They're all kicking
in today, and so Scott Bessant, representing Trump's point of view,
was on Morning Joe Today explaining to Joe Scarborough how
the whole reset of global trade is going to work
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out for us.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
All this is probably the most significant trade reset on
the global stage.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Since nineteen thirty five.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
What do you and the President hope to achieve by
jacking jacking tariffs up on an average seventeen percent per nation?
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Well, Joe, first of all, I don't think it's the
most The big trade reset since nineteen thirty five were
the biggest trade reset was the China shock, and we
are just responding to the China shock from the early
two thousands. So we are trying to rebalance trade in America.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That's favor President Trump.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
Has said, and I've said, we want to bring back
the high precision manufacturing jobs. We want to get rid
of these big deficits that we have with countries that
have created these big surpluses and the gutted our manufacturing
base and have been terrible for American workers.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I just had a thought, and I don't know if
it's true at all, or maybe even just partially true,
but as he was just talking about, well, the world
changed with China, reach China here in the last decade
or two. If it's mostly about that and doing all
of these other countries, which he kind of wanted to
(15:00):
do anyway, but that helps water down it doesn't look.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Like an attack on China as much.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Is there any chance that three dimensional chess is going on,
because if it was only China, that would put us
at much more of a mean.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Point of conflict.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yeah, it's a hell of a lot of trouble to
go to to you know, achieve that goal.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't I don't know. It's just a side benefit. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
It's worth noting that the global automakers have said, all right,
here's the hit to our bottom line so far from
tariffs Toyota, it's just over three billion dollars, VW FOURIGN
Company one and a half billion dollars, then oh GM
one point two billion dollars, Ford one billion dollars. Then
(15:52):
you get into Honda BMW, but like Ford, much bigger
hit than BMW or Kier, Mazda or Nissan or Mercedes
or any of those.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know, back to the whole.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
There's a lot of truth in what Scott Besant said
it would take a long time to seize it all out.
But the idea that these tariffs are going to onshore
are manufacturing again, it's not going to work. The tariffs
would have to be much higher for a long time.
There would have to be a huge disruption to the
economy for years to make it worth it for all
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of these companies to invest the enormous amount of money
and time it would take to onshore their manufacturing operations.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It is not a quick process. I just don't think
it's realistic. And whoever's next president could call it all.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Off, yeah, or half of it even, and then it's
never going to happen. You'd be taking to take very
high tariffs to move a lot of manufacturing back to.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
The US should be taking a heck of a flyer.
If you're GM or Apple or whoever you need, decide, Okay,
we'll build a multi billion dollar plant in the United States,
assuming this is the way we're going forward, that'd be
a heck of a risky thing to do.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Lots of good stuff to come. Somebody just sent me
this text and I thought, is amazing, just the seeing
this in text form almost made me crazy. This was
the text I got. The girl sitting on the other
side of my cubicle at work today is drinking coffee
by slurping a sip, clicking her tongue, saying ah on
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repeat for the last ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Now, pick up the keyboard, hit her over the head
right now and this quickly slurp click ah. She's doing
it on purpose. Hold and over again.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Now you miss a PHONYX. You need a support group.
The rest of us just are happy. A coworker is happy.
Morning Java, oh jee click ah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Things to come.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I want to talk a little bit about that shooting
at that military base. What an interesting story. They figured
out what the guy was up to there was he
just a crazy person. The woman who had been pretending
to be a nurse with no background in nursing for
years in Florida got arrested.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
You s Dave, you haven't seen that video. Quite a story.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
First female umpire in Major League Baseball last night. There
have been some jokes around that that I don't appreciate.
We'll tell you those jokes coming up and scold the
people who told them. Indeed, oh it can't be outraged
about it. Joke I haven't heard, so yes, And the
thing I want to talk about the most today really
is the blowback on colonizing Mars, which makes you look
(18:45):
like an idiot.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So stay tuned. Yeah, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
So the absolutely infamous yet undercovered beating down of a
man and a woman in Cincinnati. It was a gang
of black people beating down white people. And to state
the suffocatingly obvious, if the roles were reversed racially speaking,
it would be the only story anybody was talking about
(19:11):
in the media, in government, whatever. But no, because it
doesn't reinforce the progressive narrative. It's not that important. But
one of the female victim of the horrific beating, whose
name is Holly, the last name unpublished thus far is,
(19:33):
had appeared at press conference the other day looking battered
but recovering.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
That video is hard to take.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
It is very, very hard to take the viciousness of
some people people in quotes. Anyway, here's what she had
to say, and then a kind of sideline story. Go ahead, Michael,
We'll start with Adie first and foremost.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I just want to say that I don't want to
relive what happened to me. You know, eight or nine
days ago. I'm here to talk about the future and
how we can change it, how we can prevent this
from happening to anybody else. These heinous crimes have to stop,
you know, I never want this to happen to anyone else,
especially a mother, a daughter, somebody who is loved. So
(20:20):
I just know what it's done to my family, not
just to me.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
So roll on, Oh sorry, go ahead. Is there any background?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Those of us who have not been following this much
need to know about how this started. Not really were they?
Were they provoking anybody in any way? Not that that
you know, uh should lead to be being beaten nearly
to death generally, but.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
It's kicked near to death by a crowd.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
No, okay.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
And I think that moving forward, we do need more accountability,
and I definitely think that, you know, we need more
police officers. But like he said, you know, the judges
who are just letting people out with the slab.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Go on.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
The man who attacked me and might have permanently damaged
me forever should never have been on the streets ever.
And the fact that he had just gotten out of
jail previously for something he should have been in there
for years. It's really sad to me because I can't
even fathom how many other people who have been attacked
(21:33):
by the same type of man over and over and over.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Have we stated the racial situation on this, Yeah, clearly
enough that you understand what's going on. If this were
as we've said ten times, but if this were the reverse,
it would be the only story in the country, the
only story in the country, right, And and is that
(21:57):
why it's getting no coverage?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Oh yeah, well, and it's worse than just not fitting
the narrative it is.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's the sort of thing that.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Might reinforce some unfortunate feelings or stereotypes, might embold and
white supremacists or something like that. So yeah, the mainstream
media won't go anywhere near the story, which is just
it's a testament. It's a conviction of them for their cowardice,
their dishonesty, and their biased Next clip.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
And Toledo and Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, our streets are being
taken over and nobody is doing anything. I am so
sad and I need to be the voice to help
all of the victims that never got their justice.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
That big guy who sucker punches are from behind and
could have killed or should be in jail for the
rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Anybody who can do that is gone, is morally unsalvageable.
If in twenty years he's organized a prayer group and
apologized to everybody and blah bah oh, I'm willing to
talk about it, but put them in jail for a
very long time. By the way, the Cincinnati Police chief
is facing mounting criticism over a number of aspects of
(23:12):
policing in Cincinnati, and she's actually being sued by a
bunch of officers.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Of course it's a woman, because it has to be.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
She's a white galvo, which is wow, I don't know, Cincinnati,
that's not fully progressive. But anyway, the officers in the
suit have claimed the chief systematically overlooked them and handed
out promotions to minority and female lieutenants. She was allegedly
quote personally involved in the assignment decisions and used race
(23:43):
based quota systems to promote minorities and women at career
enhancing positions. Coveted preferred assignments were doled out to eighty
percent of minority lieutenants eighty nine percent of female lieutenants,
but forty four percent of white male lieutenants given the
assign lawsuit claimed, which is not that surprising at all.
(24:06):
It's a progressive leader of a city police force that
went way, way too far down the DEI road and
are now the citizens are paying the price.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And that that's a huge problem obviously, because I want
a meritocracy, especially when you get into the military and
police and firefighters and that sort of stuff. Just who
who's the best pick the best candidates. I don't care
what their sexual orientation, eye color, skin call, don't care.
I want the best people out there protecting me. But
(24:38):
I don't know how much that had to do with
this woman getting beat down. That that whole story of
we don't prosecute criminals and keep them in jail for
the length of time they should be in jail for
the crimes.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
How do we stop that? That is horrific.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
So the police chief Awful also said, I think it's
irresponsible with social me just shows one side of the
equation cut quite frequently without context, without factual context. So
she needed the near beating to death by a large
crowd to be placed in its proper context.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
That's a very progressive thing to say.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Do they go on to say to what the proper
context is? What is there One Cincinnati councilwoman, Cincinnati Councilwoman
Victoria Parks, she wrote and replied to a video footage
to the assault they begged for that beat down.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm grateful for the whole story.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So do you have any information in what way they
begged for that beat down?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I do not. I don't see how we get out
of this situation.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I guess it could happen slowly as people get fed
up enough with being attacked by somebody or robbed by
somebody that should have already been in jail, that you
pay attention to voting for district attorney in a way
that you never have in the past.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Yeah, that's a hell of a price to pay for,
you know, getting back to the concept of if you
break the law, you will be sanctioned for it, which
I think we had assumed was the way we were going.
But it's one more example of how progressives have undermined
the very bedrocks of civilization. A man can become a
(26:24):
woman just by wishing it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That's bizarre. I mean, that is crazy talk.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
People only commit crimes because they've been driven to desperation
by a system, and so we can't punish them for that.
You go back five years, fifty years, three hundred years,
fifteen hundred years, five thousand years, and you'd be greeted
with what the hell are you talking about? But in
(26:53):
modern American cities, people say, oh, that's right, that's right,
that's combat white supremacy. I've taught about that in college,
and we've got to defeat these people.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
And now, unfortunately, apparently a little misogyny and that we
have the first female Major League Baseball umpire and some
people online made jokes that we are going to point
out so they do not get away with these crass comments.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Am I safeer? Am I out?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
If you don't already know, I'm not telling you exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Oh ouch, all right, A bunch of other stuff too,
stay here. First update on a text I got from
a friend who said, the woman on the other side
of my cubicle at work today is drinking coffee by
slurping a sip, clicking her tongue, saying ah on repeat
(27:51):
for the last ten minutes. And they said, I may
need bail money. They just texted, They just texted. With
a follow up, she just got up for her refill.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Son of a bitch, take the charge.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Okay, so everything's a historic moment, right whenever we break
down barriers or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
An historic night in baseball.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Last night a landmark moment for Major League Baseball. For
the first time in league history, there will be a
woman umpire for a regular season games, and Powell will
take the field for Saturday's doubleheader between the Marlins and
the Braves in Atlanta. She's been working in the minors
since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Okay, so I'm sure they will be studying this in
history classes years from now.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Oh yeah, hundreds of years from now. It'll be the
cleanest home base we've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's a popular one, that the plate will be very clean.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
We call it home plate Kittie. The uh let the
men talk. The number one comments it's a joke. It's please,
it's a joke. Oh stop hitting me.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The number one comment on this Facebook thread that I
find disgusting, by the way, yes, was what Joe said.
What was that called? Oh I think you know that
sort of thing? Or uh, I really like the idea
of she will call she's gonna bring up strikes from
(29:19):
prior games for that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
She's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Called, she's gonna call somebody out for something they did
three games ago.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Or something they said, yes, oh my god, those sorts
of things.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
And then there are comments like, so, then will she
make the sandwiches before the game or the ball would
see No, that's.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I yeah, I don't approve of that, you know. It's
it's funny. Not exactly a girly girl. By the way,
Oh yeah, I had to check twice that that I
was looking at the correct photograph for the headline. She's
she's a fairly masculine looking woman, which is fine, doesn't matter,
(30:01):
and for all I know, she's an absolutely outstanding umpire.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I've heard rumors that.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Cannot be sourced, just whisperings in the wind, that Major
League Baseball has been so anxious to achieve certain progressive
goals with their umpires. Remember this is the organization that
yanked the All Star Game out of Atlanta, a heavily
black city, because of the utterly dishonest and ridiculous Jim
(30:32):
Crow on steroids. They're trying to disenfranchise people. Crap in
the way, George Floyd. But anyway, what I have heard
is that they are so anxious to get various folks,
including a gal, into the umpiring ranks, that they promote them.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Before they're ready. But I wish here.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Well, I'm sure she's a really good ump Yeah, lots
of she's going to be ringing people up from something
that happened three years ago in the miners.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Without the umpire suit. She's she's cute, Okay, yeah, well
that's fine.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
That's I don't judge my umpires on how they look anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I just hopefully she's better at calling balls and strikes
than she is at deciding where to eat dinner.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Oh no, wow.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Wherever you want? How about jim Steakhouse? No, I don't
feel like steak manager. Manager says, what was wrong with
that pitch?
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Ump? I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Then, So I had just searched on Google for jokes
about the first major league umpire being a woman, and
then after some of the comments, Google in their AI
thing said positive comments first, and it listed all the
positive things people have said, then some minorly offensive, and
then very offensive. And then after the very offensive jokes
(31:52):
that I just told you on I don't know how
deeply hurt some of you are because of those it
says here. These jokes and comments represent a range of reactions,
and some are rooted in harmful stereotypes. While the jokes
can be seen as lighthearted, it's important to acknowledge the
serious impact of sexist comments in sports. Thank you for
the shot up, no comedy anymore, thank you for the
(32:13):
shots come on, Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
You know what's interesting about this is that in the institutions,
whether it's MLB or whatever, they don't get this. Nobody
cares if there are women umpires or not. Nobody is
burning to have more women corrections officers in men's prisons.
Nobody is desperate for more female lumberjacks.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Nobody.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
There have been some Scandinavian countries. I'm sorry, slow down
to there have been some Scandinavian countries. I was just
reading about this that went to great trouble to make
sure that the various stereotypically manly jobs, whether there's several
that I've mentioned, or construction, or there are a handful
of others, could not discrimine against women. And they absolutely
(33:02):
went out of their way to make sure women had
access to all these jobs.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
They didn't want them.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
They increase the number of women in these trades, either
infintesimately or not at all.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Because the women were like, I don't want to be
an effing lumberjack.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
The reason it's all dudes are mostly dudes is only
dudes want to do that. If this gal is so
hot to try to be an ump and she's good enough,
put her on the field.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It's gonna you know, it's a locker room situation that's
gonna be complicated a little bit. But like a prison guard, No,
there's too much danger there. How about serving in a
combat unit in the military. Not if it impedes combat
rated in this by two percent, No freaking way.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Nobody is desperate for this.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
If you're getting your ass be beaten by a bunch
of dudes, and the cop who calls when he shows
up what he called nine to one one is a
woman who's five to four, one hundred and five pounds,
you're going to continue to be beaten.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yes, I've seen it many, many times and talked to
many cops. And the other thing is I happen to
be very good friends with a longtime Major League baseball
umpire who's recently retired because he got smashed in the
face so many times by foul balls coming at ninety
one hundred miles per hour. It caused him from some
(34:19):
very serious injuries. This gal is going to take a
couple off the mask and get concussions and all. And
I don't know if people are going to dig that.
Because we're more protective of women than we are of men.
It's always been in humankind.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Speaking of women, I've had this experience recently. I know
a conservative woman who blames most of the problems in
this country on women voters and thinks it's She jokingly
but half seriously says they need to take away women's
right to vote. It would help the She said, the
country becomes so conservative tomorrow if women couldn't vote, and
(34:55):
she's raised three daughters, but it's true.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
For what she wants out of the country, it would
be a better place if women couldn't vote.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
A horrible and outrageous suggestion you've made. I wish I
had time to respond, folks, I truly did. Armstrong and
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