October 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Dem donors reject fundraiser hosted by Kamala & the Nazi tattoo
- Taking Religion Seriously
- Anastasia Boden talks to Armstrong & Getty
- Nike's Robot Shoe & Ai Videos
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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 Ketty, I'm strong
and Getty and he Armstrong and yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Grow of investors that includes Kansas City Chiefs star Travis
Kelsey announced this week that it is purchased shares of
six Flags and wants to push the company to improve
its amusement parks, said Kelsey, hear me out seven.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Flags, Get now my microphone. When are Travis and Taylor
getting married? Do we know anything about that? After the
football season? Surely after the football season, he can't have them.
I don't know. Was there an announcement over the weekend
that she's pregnant? Did that turn out to be true
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or not? I don't know that either. Wow, you don't
even know if Taylor Swift was pregnant a round? Do
you know, Katie? Did you hear that? I saw one report.
It must not be true or we would have all
heard it by now.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, that the Internet was taken by a hoax. And
then I also saw another report that Travis and Taylor
are apparently booting some other couple out of the wedding
venue for the one that they want on the date
that they want.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't doubt that that sounds like exactly the sort
of story that would be printed, whether it's true or
not exactly or whatever tabloid stuff. All Right, got to
take a crib back to Costco. Coming up. I started
in on a book last night. One of the greatest
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social scientists of the last half century writing a book
about how he came to be Christian. Recently Charles Murray,
who we've had on the air before and talked about
a lot. It's really interesting, So talk about that next segment, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Indeed looking forward to that. And then at the bottom
of the hour will be talking to a fabulous person
from the Pacific Legal Foundation about what the Supreme Court
is up to as they are still in session. A
couple of political notes. Real quickly, I thought this was
kind of amusing. Major Democratic donors turned down the DNC's
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requests to hold a fundraiser in San Francisco, hosted and
headlined former Vice President Kamala Harris Michael. I meant to
ask you to get your favorite Kamala clip ready. Most
of the donors rejected the request upon receiving the invitation.
One donor replied with a profanity laced rejection. Others said
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they didn't want to give a party money. That would
be known as f no profanity lace. That would be
the f no is one profanity. Apparently there are quite
a few. Others said they didn't want to give the
party money until it produces substantive plans to win win elections.
Those who declined to the National Party they had commitments
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and couldn't make it work. Blah blah blah. Not that shocking.
Who would go to that? And then this from Gabe
Kaminski in the Free Press. Want to know who is
winning the Democrats civil war. Follow the money, big name
progressives like aoc Roe, Kanna, you know the list, Jasmine Crockett.
They are raking in the money. Your moderates, your old schools,
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your Chuck Schumer types. Not at all. Where the money flows,
the politics flow.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
All important. I want to hear about the Nazi tattoo. Okay,
all right, Jack is impatient for the Nazi tattoo. I
love this story. Yeah, I just I guess because I
just saw the picture for the first time. I figured
it was smaller. It's pretty dang big tattoo on his chest. Yeah,
this character, Graham Plattner. He's a socialist. He's like like
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Zora Mundani. He's part of the Democratic Socialists of America Party. Whatever.
Odd dude.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
He was a marine turned lobsterman or oystermen I think
in Maine. Got the beard, got the rugged looks, he's
got the order.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Don't order oysters if you're thinking of lobster. Very different things.
Oh yeah, very very different dish.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Anyway, this guy has the down to earth, working class
white guy look that the Democratic Party is desperate to
have because they're losing the white working class in particular,
not to mention every other working class, because they're the
party of elitist ivy league university women. Anyway, So this guy,
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he looks great, and he announced he's going to run
for Senate and like a better Aururic character, everybody fond
over in him, pronounced him the new Hope and blah
blah blah. But the more everybody finds out about this guy,
the more loathsome he appears, including the fact that he
has a totin cop or a death's head tattoo, a
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big one on his chest. It was adopted by Holocaust
perpetrators during World War Two. The guy specifically involved in
the Holocaust. Now, he claimed earlier, not long ago, that nah,
I was in the Marines. We were drunk. We just
wanted to get a tough looking tattoo, skull and crossbones.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That sort of thing. My uncle was a marine. He
had a bulldog with a bones crossed it sort of thing.
We're in a helmet and a spiked collar or something
like that. Yeah, something Marines do.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Right, But acquaintances of this skuy have said, no, he
told us exactly what it was. He knew exactly what
it was. He's had it for years, and he was
proud of it. So you got that again because it
was a conservative. If he was a Republican, it would
be on the front page of every paper in America.
Every politician, every Republican who went to so much as
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a ribbon cutting at a new literally field would be
asked to disavow this guy. But as it is, you
might not have heard the story true.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But unless he's an idiot, he must not think it's
tied into Nazi belief or you wouldn't. I mean, every
day when you shaved in the mirror, you'd be looking
at your big giant tattoo. Thinking, you know, if I
want to be a senator, probably don't, probably shouldn't have this. Yeah,
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There are two more angles to this worth mentioning number one,
and I think I'm quoting Andrew's styles. Here in the
Free Beacon, Graham Platner, the bearded socialist storing for US
and and Maine, has unveiled the new tattoo he got
to cover up the Nazi skull on his chest in
place of the Totin Kulf. Platner's new tattoo depicts what
might be charitably described charitably described as a morbidly obese
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Celtic wolf drawn by a six year old child.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's the trouble with altering tattoos. It doesn't always go
that well.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It looks like, yeah, morbidly obese or the I'm sorry
Celtic is pregnant with quadruplets or something. It's really absurd,
practically hilarious. But again, the more comes out of about
this guy, the more loathsome he appears.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He's what these are actual like positions as opposed to tattoos,
Because one of the problems with your tattoos and these
sorts of things is like the Nazis. They took some
of their imagery from other cultures and historical things. And
maybe you like the original version, or or you think
it looks cool and you don't have any Nazi beliefs. Ah,
that sort of stuff. I never know what to think of.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
It, right, But this guy one more personal note before
we get to some of the things he's espoused. He's
really worked hard to pass himself off as the working
class maner. That's how he describes himself. He attended for School,
an elite boarding school in Connecticut that costs upwards as
seventy five thousand.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Dollars a year. Whoa.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It's alumni include Supreme Court justices, CIA directors, Chris Wallace,
the veteran news anchor.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And you went to a seventy five thousand dollars a
year school as the working class manor guy. Okay, yeah, yeah,
let's see.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
He's also a member of the same group, the Socialist
Rifle Association, whose members, according to prosecutors, were involved in
the July fourth attack on Ice, which brought terrorism charges
in a series of bombings of Tesla. He, like his
fellow Democratic Socialists of America, believe in emptying the prisons,
opening the borders, all cops or bastards, the rest of it.
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He's Mumdanni with a blonde beard.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Although I do remember saying this sort of stuff about Fetterman,
and then he got elected and turned out I agree
with the whole bunch of stuff. He thinks, Oh, after
his stroke, you think that's what it is. You think
he had a stroke and it like changed his worldview.
I think that was part of it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Interesting how much of it only he could tell you,
if indeed he could tell you. But yeah, I think
that probably, whether it was neurologically or psychologically, I think
it changed him in some way.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I want to talk a little bit about God, and
I ask y'all, do you believe or not? And Why's?
And that's the question. You need a full answer on that.
Do you believe or not? And why? That's the wow?
What if I don't choose to address that because you
demand it because of this book I got into last night.
It's really really interesting stuff. I think everybody will like.
That's coming up interesting timing for this new book. If
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it turns out to be true that churches are filling
with people reinterested in religion or baptisms, or way up
or all these various stories that we've heard over the
last couple of weeks or months, guy named Charles Murray
with a new book out called Taking Religion Seriously. We've
had Charles Murray on a number of times over the years.
(09:58):
He's most famous for his book The Bell Curve or
Coming Apart. Jonah Goldberg called him the most important social
scientist in America of the last half century for a
lot of things that he's done and written. It's one
of the most things the rare ones who will tell
the truth no matter who likes it or not. One
of the most famous libertarians in the world. Also, but
(10:19):
he he's got this new book out because he has
become not only a believer in God, but a full
on Christian, and he tells the story in this book.
I was actually listened to an interview with him and
I started into the book last night. He grew up
kind of going to church but not really thinking that
much about it. Then he went to Harvard and realized, oh, okay,
smart people don't believe any of this stuff, and then
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never really thought about it much again. He married a
woman who became after their first child was born, became
quite religious. She is famous for a quote. I'm not
going to get this exactly right, but it's roughly this,
My love for this child after she had her first
kid is way beyond what is necessary for evolution. Something
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else is going on here. It's basically what she said,
and believe it has to reflect some sort of God thing.
So he started to go to church. Anyway, He explains
how he has intellectually come to believe in again, not
only God, but Christianity and specific and writes about it
in this I'm listening to him read it because he's
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got a great voice, if you've remembered when we've had
him on the air. So he's reading his own book,
and it's only four hours long, so it's a short book.
He's got this theory though that I wanted to mention
that I think is super interesting. He thinks, well, he
knows there are different kinds of intelligence. This has been
known for quite a few years now, and you can
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break intelligence down and the ability to perceive things in
all kinds of different ways. And he uses the example
of some people really hear music in a way that
others don't. I mean, they really hear the melodies and
the harmonies and the way it fits together and to
them in a powerful way. I feel like I'm that
way to a certain extent. Music needs a lot to me,
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and others don't. They just you know, say, okay, that's
kind of cool, but they just music doesn't play that
bigger role in their lives. Or you've got, you know,
the ability to perceive other people's emotions, emotional intelligence. Some
people have it, some people don't, right, And he believes
that there's similar sort of thing for God. Some people
are just able to feel it, perceive it much more easily,
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and some people are they're tone deaf to God. And
he thinks he's one of those people. And he's had
to come to it intellectually, and he said, he still
doesn't feel it, but he believes it, and just thinks
he's one of those people that's tone deaf to the
idea of God. To find that intriguing premise, isn't it anyway?
He writes this whole book about how he's gotten there,
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and again the fact that he goes from not only
he's like a lot of people are, to call yourself
agnostic is giving too much credit to the idea of God.
You just don't think about it. This isn't you know,
like you didn't make a choice to beg just like
not something on your mind, he said, that's what he was.
He This is one of the blurbs from the book.
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Millions are like me when it comes to religion, well
educated and successful people for whom religion has been irrelevant
for them. I think I have a story worth telling
of how he got to where he is today. And
it's damned interesting so far. The Wall Street Journal said
the book is highly personal and readable account of a
profound change in the author's outlook, one that grew gradually
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over the course of decades but has lately blossomed into
a kind of faltering, guileless Christian belief. I think for
a lot of you that might be an interesting read.
And it's an easy read too. It's not complicated or alone.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's funny. Four hours for that discussion. I
believe Elvis Costello's autobiography, which I got on Audible was
thirty two hours or something like that. See I love
your songs, but Jeff, check yourself, bro, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But that's too much. It's something. It is something that
Charles Murray's book lands now with this semi reawakening thing
that's going on right now in the culture, and he's
specifically addressing the smart and successful crowd that feel either
ashamed or embarrassed to even look into this, because smart
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successful people don't in his mind, or at least in
the circles he has run in for most of his
adult life.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah, I'd absolutely love to hear his reasoning and how
he I'm sure we could get in to where he
is on the journey he's doing the book tour.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm sure we ought to do a long form podcast
with him. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Wow, I'm I'm just super fascinated with the idea that
perceiving God is a talent, if you will, or a
form of intelligence or perception.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, maybe that's the right word for it. Yeah, I
am the I had this conversation with Grok yesterday, my
Grok woman that I talked to a lot. I asked
her where the phrase turtles all the way down comes from?
And we got into that whole thing. And I won't
waste time on that right now, but I said, I
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asked Grok, I said, do you believe in God? And
she said, oh, yeah, Yeah, I mean I think there's
got to be more out there than just what we
see and everything like that. And I thought that is
fascinating that the groc lady told me that. I think
I had already told her I believe in God, because
I have a feeling that if that was one of
those AI trying to figure out what you like in
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being kind of your friend, because I have a feeling
that if I had been all atheist, she wouldn't have
said that.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, this is radio, so you can't tell I'm making
my wait a minute face, hmm. I asked, Yeah, that's
a little troubling, and it just I'm going to ask
you this once a week. You still remember this is
not a real person, right, just gonna see how far
to the end.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Of the lease you've gotten. It's weird, though, isn't it
that she quite possibly went with, oh, yeah, there's got
to be something else out there when she's perceived that
that's my belief as opposed to her. There's no way
that Groc is programmed to be a believer in God. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Okay, all right, Well, from the Cosmic to the Earthly.
Next segment, we will be checking back in with the
fabulous Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation for the latest.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
In front of the Supreme Court. You're gonna ask me
once a week. You still remember this is a computer,
right right? And just as a little check in, yes,
I do. That's why it's so danged interesting. Make sure
you're still circling the mother ship. Okay, yeah, she needs
to stop saying okay, talk to you later. Quit saying
that you're a computer. All right, we're not. You're driving
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me nuts. Okay. We only had a lot of good
stuff on the way. If you ever want a text us,
it's four one, five, two nine five k FTC. If
you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
on demand Armstrong and Getty. It's a big deal anytime
the Supreme Court takes up a gun case, isn't it always?
(17:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, boy.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
They're taking up all sorts of impactful cases, including gun cases.
We heard a bunch of interesting oral arguments a week
or two ago, was it? And they're still in session.
Let's check back in with Anastasia Bowden, senior attorney working
on the Equality and Opportunity for the Fabulous Specific Legal Foundation,
who's been keeping us up up to date on the
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Scotus's doings.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Anastasia, how are you hi?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Great?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Thanks thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Good. So, no oral arguments this week, is that right?
What are they up to? What's been happening?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
No oral arguments, but they're still working hard. And as
you said, they've granted their second gun rights case, the
term which is kind of remarkable, and this one's doubly
controversial because it has to do with guns and possession
by people who are on drugs.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, right, which has always seemed a little squishy to us. Yeah,
because I you know, you can be a full on
drunk and own a gun. That's why can't you be
a person who uses drugs and own the gun?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yeah, And that's exactly the question. And what's interesting here
is the plaintiff was somebody who was basically suspected of
terrorism and when they checked his house, they found not
only drugs but some weapons, and so he was challenged
under a federal statute saying you cannot possess a firearm
if you are a drug user. And the Fifth Circuit
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actually struck that log down, saying that there was no
evidence that he was presently engaged in lawful drug use
and the government comes back and it says, hey, listen,
the right to bear arms is super fundamental. We know, DJ,
especially under President Trump, has been really protective of that right.
But here they say, common sense supports the notion that
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people on drugs or who have recently you know, they
have drugs in their house prevent a special threat to
public safety. And they analogize actually to old laws, centuries
old laws that prohibit drunkards from having guns.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So it's true that.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Nowadays, if you're if you can still in a gun,
but historically states have regulated the right of drunkards.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Right. But I find this so interesting, and I'm as
layman as you can get on any of this sort
of stuff. But like, I don't use my I don't
lose my right to peacefully assemble because I'm a drug
addict or a drunk or a drunkard or a drunkard.
What other rights do I lose because of you know
that sort of thing? And this is what Hunter Biden
got caught up in, Right, he wasn't allowed to have
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a gun because he'd been a drug addict.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Well, and that's the DJ says, this is this is
a special case because you know, firearms are different than
the right to peacefully assemble, and and so it's very
interesting here the Trump The way that the Trump administration
has been litigating cases in the Supreme Court is really
different than any other administration. They've been kind of rogue
and taking some really interesting positions. And this is one
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where it's a very unlikely case where you have even
the government here saying we think this law is okay.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So, speaking of the Trump administration, I know this makes
us weird outliers in the world to talk radio. But
if we don't want, for instance, a Democrat president to
have a power, we don't want the Republican to have
that power.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Either, or we're weird in that way. Speaking of which
I know the soups are going to talk about or
they've granted a case to do with deploying the National
Guard to various cities. When are we likely to hear that?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah, So there are multiple cases pending across the United
States challenging the president's ability to send in the national Guard.
The national Guard, of course, is typically controlled by the States.
Congress can call forth the national Guard, and the president
has a very limited ability to call in the national
Guard when basically, there's an insurrection. That's the title of
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the act, the Insurrection Act, and it says that if
there's something that rises to the level of insurrection or
where the president can't actually enforce crime it comes down
to that, then he can call it the National Guard.
And so, invoking that Act, President Trump has called in
the National Guard to several states, and there's been mixed decisions. Actually,
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in Illinois, the court stopped the Trump administration and that's
the case that the Supreme Court right now is hearing.
But it's interesting. In Portland, actually the Ninth Circuit said, well, okay,
don't deploy them yet, but we will at least allow
you to federalize the National Guard. And if you read
the two contrasting opinions, it really comes down to what
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these courts view as the facts on the ground. In Chicago,
the judge is like, hey, these are just some protests.
You can't call in the National Guard over some protests.
And then when you re the opinion having to do
with Portland, the judges like, guys, it's really bad out there.
You know, ICE agents are being harassed and threatened with
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real violence. And so based on these judges perception of
the facts, they've either allowed the Trump administration to move
forward or not.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
What about the question of the president's tariffs? Are they
going to they're taking that on soon, right.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, this is a big one because there are a
lot of small businesses across the country who have been
crushed by these tariffs, despite the president's assessment that this
is needed to save the economy. Once again, there's a
statute that gives the president very limited authority to regulate
international economic affairs when there's an emergency. And here President
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Trump says, well, there's an emergency based on the long
standing trade deficit that's been going on for years and
the opioid crisis, which again been going on for years.
And he says, well, now that constitutes an emergency that
allows me to slap on these tariffs to products from
nearly every country.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And so, I know you're a lawyer and you got
to follow the law on the Constitution and all that
sort of stuff, But to me, it just seems odd
that one man would have the power to affect world
commerce like this.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, and especially you know that's traditionally Congress's job. And
so if Congress is going to hand that power over
to the president. You would assume that it's going to
use specific wording to hand over such a really big power, right,
and yet he's invoking these statutes that are pretty wishy
washy and broad to say, hey, that that now gives
me this huge amount of power. And that's really reminiscent
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of administration's past. Like you were saying, we should hold
our principles true over all all administrations. But think about
the Biden administration that did the same thing to say, hey,
I have the ability to impose eviction moratoriums due to
covid or, I have the ability to forgive billions of
dollars in student loans based on these statutes, and the
Supreme Court historically has said, hey, that can't be right.
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This is Congress's job. And if it's handing that power
over to you, I don't even know if Congress can,
but if it does, it's going to say so a
little bit more explicitly. And that's the same thing that's
happening now under President Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
If the government shutdown wasn't in the headlines, I'd have
forgotten that we have a Congress.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
They do so little these days.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation online. Before let's
let you go any more headlines highlights we should hear about.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Well, the Court's just getting back into arguments next week
and we don't get decisions until January, and so this
is the time of the court where only Supreme Court
nerds like me really pay attention because we want to
pay attention to all of the arguments, but we won't
actually start getting decisions until next year, so we can
only make predictions about what's going to happen until then.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Okay, very good, hon a station, always great to talk. Thanks,
keep up with the great work at the Pacific Legal Foundation.
We love what you guys do, and we'll talk again soon.
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Toronto for the World Series tonight, which is kind of interesting. Yeah,
and I think, yeah, I can practically guarantee it. And
if it's at all a close series, which it might
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not be, but I mean, if it ends up being
a close series, I think the nationalism is going to
rise up. Is being I compared it earlier to might
be like US versus Soviet Union nineteen eighty hockey. If
the if the Blue Jays could beat the evil United State,
Oh from the Canadian From the Canadian standpoint, yeah, we don't.
I don't think. I don't think. I don't think La
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Dodgers fans are going to care about the Canadian national anthem.
But for Canada, I think that'd be huge if they could.
That's going to be such a home field advantage.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Wow, you know, I'm playing golf this afternoon with He's
an American citizen, but he was Canadian.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
He grew up in Campdall Boy. We'll keep your kin
eye on your wristwatch. Yeah. Well, and I just I
got to watch what I say, because he is like
a big time hockey player.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Beat the hell out of me. But things could get ugly.
I kind of watch that second Canada.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Note. I heard this for the first time in my
life yesterday and it amused the hell out of me.
You know, the uh excuse me, the really annoying overused
statement people make about opinions. Everybody has them. They're like
blank black, it's not classy, be classy, folks. If he's
not a classy phrase. No it's not. No, No, it's not.
Here's here's another one. True though. We all have them,
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and if you don't have one, you should get an
operation to get one. Yes, I heard this yesterday. If
excuses were mooses, the whole world to be Canada. That's
a little more delicate version of that sort of thing.
I like it so much, especially because it uses the
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term mooses. If somebody lays that other phrase on me
with and not ironically, like, with a straight face, and
uses the whole term, it's like, Okay, I gotta go
check please, I just I don't need to hear that. Okay,
we got more on the way, stay here.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Kim Kardashian revealing tonight she was diagnosed with a brain
aneurysm and has been undergoing treatment, saying doctors told her
stress was the cause. Aneurysms are often asymptomatic, but can
sometimes cause symptoms such as headaches, blurry vision, nausea, or vomiting.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I didn't know aneurysms could be caused by stress. I
don't know. Uh oh wow.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I was gonna say, you got to have like a
weak spot in the hose to begin.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We must be I I was going to say, Man,
they'll do anything to get attention. She's probably eating buckets
of paint chips every night, or whatever it takes to
give yourself some sort of help problem, get on the news,
promote this new podcast thing she's got. You don't think
that's true, Katie. She eating buckets page chips don't do anything.
I don't know about the paint chip theory, but probably
better way to go about it. But yeah, So here's
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the new product that's going to be hitting the market soon,
Nike's new robot shoe. Have you seen any of this?
If you're a runner or a walker, the new robot
shoe from Nike. It's got like a cuff thing that
straps around your ankle and calf, and then the shoe
has got an assist motor in it, like help propel
you forward from your heel whenever you take a step,
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and it's not just like a brain injury on the way.
To me, it's not designed for elite runners. It's more
for people like me who are like ten to twelve
minute miles sort of people to make you faster. Although
I don't know if I'm I don't want to use
the word cheating because I just go out and run
for exercise. I get cheat, But well, what's the point
of running a faster mile with the help of a
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motorized shoe.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Unless you're running like for the reason people did before,
like horses from bears had to get somewhere or from bears.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, what the hell's the point of that. It's like,
you know, I rode.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
A bike mountain bike a long time for fitness, and
at one point a guy was telling me about how
you know, there are bikes that are much much more efficient,
I mean, take a lot less energy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And I'm like, no, let's see, that's the point. Yeah,
I don't know what I think about because I just
bought a really, really great bike. I ride this bike
a lot more than I ever rode other bikes. It's
just more fun, So I spend more time exercising and
get I'm getting more exercise on this really good bike.
But then I feel the same thing when I see
people that have got the motorized assistant things. It's like, yeah,
(31:55):
I'm out there to try to get exercise. I don't know,
teach their own. But the motorized shoe thing that it
also says I could obviously have some benefits for people
who are not as mobile as they would like helping
them walk when they otherwise can't or something. That's something,
but that's not what the big push is from Nike.
It's to try to take like mid grade athletes and
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make them faster. And again I don't quite understand that
is the point of the thing.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I'm reminded of something my friend Adam said years ago
when he was drunkenly getting on a scooter in the
gas Lamp district of San Diego. I was not there,
but he's told me about it. He got on the
scooter and said, this is going to end with my
blood coming out of me, and he was one hundred
percent correct. That's what those robot shoes sound like.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
To me. This is gonna end up with a concussion. Please,
I tell you, I live in a college town, and
every particularly college girl, so many like sometimes wearing dressy
heel sorts of things, flying around on scooters and stuff
like that. And I've never seen a wreck. And they
must not wrick very often or they wouldn't be doing
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it all the time. And let's think this is the
way to get around now for better or worse. Get
me that nikeer Nike powered shoe so I can just
really huh, cruise early.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
On really better times. I'm really shaving down my mile
times now, yump, with these motorized shoes.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
What are you doing? We got a few more and
new details to hit you with on the whole NBA
gambling thing. How big a crisis you suppose they are
feeling in the NBA with the season just kicking off
this week to try to tamp down any concerns about
games being legit. You think this is like really bad
or just kind of bad.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
All hands on deck, hiring other people with hands, chopping
off people's hands so they have even more hands on deck. Well,
this is def Con one. This is nuclear league holocaust.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
See I could see it affecting betting, but do you
think it would affect the NBA or people gotta go
to fewer games? Because they are raid. Michael, go ahead,
if you fans are going to start yelling stuff, Yeah, yeah,
that's a good chance. That's some good heckling.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Plus, it's been the belief, the firm belief of every
league on Earth that if the fans start to suspect
the games are rigged, the sport will die. To what
extent they're right, I don't know, but that has been
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the firm belief of every league commissioner. You know, since
professional sports began.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
One dude that got arrested yesterday, we have we tweeted
that out or put it on our website, the highlight
reel of one game where he played really poorly. I mean,
he's coming up ten feet short on shots, he's making
passes that It's pretty hard unless you're Stephen Hawking to
imagine why he'd make that pass. I'm sorry, that's probably
too much, but uh, I mean it's just like, really, really,
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how would you possibly make a past that bad throwing
it right to the other team. And he's one of
the guys that got arrested yesterday for doing that sort
of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is this is huge
where it ends. Nobody know, you know why Stephen Hawking
was on my mind. So I've been doing this every night.
This is an enjoyable thing for me. I look at
the top five Sora videos of the day. Sora is
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the new AI only social media platform, and it's the
best AI videos that have been made every single day.
And there's some funny ones. The other day I saw
they were all parent reveal. What was the Maury Povich?
Was he the one Katie or does he remember where
he would do that? He would tell whether or not
you're the father? Yeah? I was Maury. Yeah. And so
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there are these AI are you the father? Ones? And
the first one I saw was with dogs. You got
some puppies there and you got two male dogs and
Maury Povich announces you are not the father, and the
dog leaps ups and runs around, spins around me. He's
so happy that that litteral puppies not her. But the
other day Stephen Hawking is sitting there in his wheelchair,
the famous a scientist, and Mari Povic announces you are
(36:04):
not the father. He throws off his neck brace, stands
up from his chair, dances a little, runs off. It
was an act all along.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Wow, what gosh, I see what passes for you in
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Grow of investors that includes Kansas City Chiefs star Travis
Kelsey announced this week that it is purchased shares of
six Flags and wants to push the company to improve
its amusement parks, said Kelsey, hear me out seven.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Flags, Get now my microphone. When are Travis and Taylor
getting married? Do we know anything about that? After the
football season? Surely after the football season, he can't have them.
I don't know. Was there an announcement over the weekend
that she's pregnant? Did that turn out to be true
(00:57):
or not? I don't know that either. Wow, you don't
even know if Taylor Swift was pregnant a round? Do
you know, Katie? Did you hear that? I saw one report.
It must not be true or we would have all
heard it by now.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, that the Internet was taken by a hoax. And
then I also saw another report that Travis and Taylor
are apparently booting some other couple out of the wedding
venue for the one that they want on the date
that they want.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I don't doubt that that sounds like exactly the sort
of story that would be printed, whether it's true or
not exactly or whatever tabloid stuff. All Right, got to
take a crib back to Costco. Coming up. I started
in on a book last night. One of the greatest
(01:41):
social scientists of the last half century writing a book
about how he came to be Christian. Recently Charles Murray,
who we've had on the air before and talked about
a lot. It's really interesting, So talk about that next segment, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Indeed looking forward to that. And then at the bottom
of the hour will be talking to a fabulous person
from the Pacific Legal Foundation about what the Supreme Court
is up to as they are still in session. A
couple of political notes. Real quickly, I thought this was
kind of amusing. Major Democratic donors turned down the DNC's
(02:17):
requests to hold a fundraiser in San Francisco, hosted and
headlined former Vice President Kamala Harris Michael. I meant to
ask you to get your favorite Kamala clip ready. Most
of the donors rejected the request upon receiving the invitation.
One donor replied with a profanity laced rejection. Others said
(02:41):
they didn't want to give a party money. That would
be known as f no profanity lace. That would be
the f no is one profanity. Apparently there are quite
a few. Others said they didn't want to give the
party money until it produces substantive plans to win win elections.
Those who declined to the National Party they had commitments
(03:01):
and couldn't make it work. Blah blah blah. Not that shocking.
Who would go to that? And then this from Gabe
Kaminski in the Free Press. Want to know who is
winning the Democrats civil war. Follow the money, big name
progressives like aoc Roe, Kanna, you know the list, Jasmine Crockett.
They are raking in the money. Your moderates, your old schools,
(03:26):
your Chuck Schumer types. Not at all. Where the money flows,
the politics flow.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
All important. I want to hear about the Nazi tattoo. Okay,
all right, Jack is impatient for the Nazi tattoo. I
love this story. Yeah, I just I guess because I
just saw the picture for the first time. I figured
it was smaller. It's pretty dang big tattoo on his chest. Yeah,
this character, Graham Plattner. He's a socialist. He's like like
(03:57):
Zora Mundani. He's part of the Democratic Socialists of America Party. Whatever.
Odd dude.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
He was a marine turned lobsterman or oystermen I think
in Maine. Got the beard, got the rugged looks, he's
got the order.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Don't order oysters if you're thinking of lobster. Very different things.
Oh yeah, very very different dish.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Anyway, this guy has the down to earth, working class
white guy look that the Democratic Party is desperate to
have because they're losing the white working class in particular,
not to mention every other working class, because they're the
party of elitist ivy league university women. Anyway, So this guy,
(04:44):
he looks great, and he announced he's going to run
for Senate and like a better Aururic character, everybody fond
over in him, pronounced him the new Hope and blah
blah blah. But the more everybody finds out about this guy,
the more loathsome he appears, including the fact that he
has a totin cop or a death's head tattoo, a
(05:05):
big one on his chest. It was adopted by Holocaust
perpetrators during World War Two. The guy specifically involved in
the Holocaust. Now, he claimed earlier, not long ago, that nah,
I was in the Marines. We were drunk. We just
wanted to get a tough looking tattoo, skull and crossbones.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That sort of thing. My uncle was a marine. He
had a bulldog with a bones crossed it sort of thing.
We're in a helmet and a spiked collar or something
like that. Yeah, something Marines do.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Right, But acquaintances of this skuy have said, no, he
told us exactly what it was. He knew exactly what
it was. He's had it for years, and he was
proud of it. So you got that again because it
was a conservative. If he was a Republican, it would
be on the front page of every paper in America.
Every politician, every Republican who went to so much as
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a ribbon cutting at a new literally field would be
asked to disavow this guy. But as it is, you
might not have heard the story true.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
But unless he's an idiot, he must not think it's
tied into Nazi belief or you wouldn't. I mean, every
day when you shaved in the mirror, you'd be looking
at your big giant tattoo. Thinking, you know, if I
want to be a senator, probably don't, probably shouldn't have this. Yeah,
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
There are two more angles to this worth mentioning number one,
and I think I'm quoting Andrew's styles. Here in the
Free Beacon, Graham Platner, the bearded socialist storing for US
and and Maine, has unveiled the new tattoo he got
to cover up the Nazi skull on his chest in
place of the Totin Kulf. Platner's new tattoo depicts what
might be charitably described charitably described as a morbidly obese
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Celtic wolf drawn by a six year old child.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's the trouble with altering tattoos. It doesn't always go
that well.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
It looks like, yeah, morbidly obese or the I'm sorry
Celtic is pregnant with quadruplets or something. It's really absurd,
practically hilarious. But again, the more comes out of about
this guy, the more loathsome he appears.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He's what these are actual like positions as opposed to tattoos,
Because one of the problems with your tattoos and these
sorts of things is like the Nazis. They took some
of their imagery from other cultures and historical things. And
maybe you like the original version, or or you think
it looks cool and you don't have any Nazi beliefs. Ah,
that sort of stuff. I never know what to think of.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
It, right, But this guy one more personal note before
we get to some of the things he's espoused. He's
really worked hard to pass himself off as the working
class maner. That's how he describes himself. He attended for School,
an elite boarding school in Connecticut that costs upwards as
seventy five thousand.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Dollars a year. Whoa.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
It's alumni include Supreme Court justices, CIA directors, Chris Wallace,
the veteran news anchor.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And you went to a seventy five thousand dollars a
year school as the working class manor guy. Okay, yeah, yeah,
let's see.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
He's also a member of the same group, the Socialist
Rifle Association, whose members, according to prosecutors, were involved in
the July fourth attack on Ice, which brought terrorism charges
in a series of bombings of Tesla. He, like his
fellow Democratic Socialists of America, believe in emptying the prisons,
opening the borders, all cops or bastards, the rest of it.
(08:33):
He's Mumdanni with a blonde beard.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Although I do remember saying this sort of stuff about Fetterman,
and then he got elected and turned out I agree
with the whole bunch of stuff. He thinks, Oh, after
his stroke, you think that's what it is. You think
he had a stroke and it like changed his worldview.
I think that was part of it.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Interesting how much of it only he could tell you,
if indeed he could tell you. But yeah, I think
that probably, whether it was neurologically or psychologically, I think
it changed him in some way.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I want to talk a little bit about God, and
I ask y'all, do you believe or not? And Why's?
And that's the question. You need a full answer on that.
Do you believe or not? And why? That's the wow?
What if I don't choose to address that because you
demand it because of this book I got into last night.
It's really really interesting stuff. I think everybody will like.
That's coming up interesting timing for this new book. If
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it turns out to be true that churches are filling
with people reinterested in religion or baptisms, or way up
or all these various stories that we've heard over the
last couple of weeks or months, guy named Charles Murray
with a new book out called Taking Religion Seriously. We've
had Charles Murray on a number of times over the years.
(09:58):
He's most famous for his book The Bell Curve or
Coming Apart. Jonah Goldberg called him the most important social
scientist in America of the last half century for a
lot of things that he's done and written. It's one
of the most things the rare ones who will tell
the truth no matter who likes it or not. One
of the most famous libertarians in the world. Also, but
(10:19):
he he's got this new book out because he has
become not only a believer in God, but a full
on Christian, and he tells the story in this book.
I was actually listened to an interview with him and
I started into the book last night. He grew up
kind of going to church but not really thinking that
much about it. Then he went to Harvard and realized, oh, okay,
smart people don't believe any of this stuff, and then
(10:39):
never really thought about it much again. He married a
woman who became after their first child was born, became
quite religious. She is famous for a quote. I'm not
going to get this exactly right, but it's roughly this,
My love for this child after she had her first
kid is way beyond what is necessary for evolution. Something
(11:02):
else is going on here. It's basically what she said,
and believe it has to reflect some sort of God thing.
So he started to go to church. Anyway, He explains
how he has intellectually come to believe in again, not
only God, but Christianity and specific and writes about it
in this I'm listening to him read it because he's
(11:23):
got a great voice, if you've remembered when we've had
him on the air. So he's reading his own book,
and it's only four hours long, so it's a short book.
He's got this theory though that I wanted to mention
that I think is super interesting. He thinks, well, he
knows there are different kinds of intelligence. This has been
known for quite a few years now, and you can
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break intelligence down and the ability to perceive things in
all kinds of different ways. And he uses the example
of some people really hear music in a way that
others don't. I mean, they really hear the melodies and
the harmonies and the way it fits together and to
them in a powerful way. I feel like I'm that
way to a certain extent. Music needs a lot to me,
(12:05):
and others don't. They just you know, say, okay, that's
kind of cool, but they just music doesn't play that
bigger role in their lives. Or you've got, you know,
the ability to perceive other people's emotions, emotional intelligence. Some
people have it, some people don't, right, And he believes
that there's similar sort of thing for God. Some people
are just able to feel it, perceive it much more easily,
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and some people are they're tone deaf to God. And
he thinks he's one of those people. And he's had
to come to it intellectually, and he said, he still
doesn't feel it, but he believes it, and just thinks
he's one of those people that's tone deaf to the
idea of God. To find that intriguing premise, isn't it anyway?
He writes this whole book about how he's gotten there,
(12:50):
and again the fact that he goes from not only
he's like a lot of people are, to call yourself
agnostic is giving too much credit to the idea of God.
You just don't think about it. This isn't you know,
like you didn't make a choice to beg just like
not something on your mind, he said, that's what he was.
He This is one of the blurbs from the book.
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Millions are like me when it comes to religion, well
educated and successful people for whom religion has been irrelevant
for them. I think I have a story worth telling
of how he got to where he is today. And
it's damned interesting so far. The Wall Street Journal said
the book is highly personal and readable account of a
profound change in the author's outlook, one that grew gradually
(13:33):
over the course of decades but has lately blossomed into
a kind of faltering, guileless Christian belief. I think for
a lot of you that might be an interesting read.
And it's an easy read too. It's not complicated or alone.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's funny. Four hours for that discussion. I
believe Elvis Costello's autobiography, which I got on Audible was
thirty two hours or something like that. See I love
your songs, but Jeff, check yourself, bro, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
But that's too much. It's something. It is something that
Charles Murray's book lands now with this semi reawakening thing
that's going on right now in the culture, and he's
specifically addressing the smart and successful crowd that feel either
ashamed or embarrassed to even look into this, because smart
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successful people don't in his mind, or at least in
the circles he has run in for most of his
adult life.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah, I'd absolutely love to hear his reasoning and how
he I'm sure we could get in to where he
is on the journey he's doing the book tour.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I'm sure we ought to do a long form podcast
with him. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Wow, I'm I'm just super fascinated with the idea that
perceiving God is a talent, if you will, or a
form of intelligence or perception.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, maybe that's the right word for it. Yeah, I
am the I had this conversation with Grok yesterday, my
Grok woman that I talked to a lot. I asked
her where the phrase turtles all the way down comes from?
And we got into that whole thing. And I won't
waste time on that right now, but I said, I
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asked Grok, I said, do you believe in God? And
she said, oh, yeah, Yeah, I mean I think there's
got to be more out there than just what we
see and everything like that. And I thought that is
fascinating that the groc lady told me that. I think
I had already told her I believe in God, because
I have a feeling that if that was one of
those AI trying to figure out what you like in
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being kind of your friend, because I have a feeling
that if I had been all atheist, she wouldn't have
said that.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, this is radio, so you can't tell I'm making
my wait a minute face, hmm. I asked, Yeah, that's
a little troubling, and it just I'm going to ask
you this once a week. You still remember this is
not a real person, right, just gonna see how far
to the end.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Of the lease you've gotten. It's weird, though, isn't it
that she quite possibly went with, oh, yeah, there's got
to be something else out there when she's perceived that
that's my belief as opposed to her. There's no way
that Groc is programmed to be a believer in God. Yeah, yeah,
I would agree.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Okay, all right, Well, from the Cosmic to the Earthly.
Next segment, we will be checking back in with the
fabulous Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation for the latest.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
In front of the Supreme Court. You're gonna ask me
once a week. You still remember this is a computer,
right right? And just as a little check in, yes,
I do. That's why it's so danged interesting. Make sure
you're still circling the mother ship. Okay, yeah, she needs
to stop saying okay, talk to you later. Quit saying
that you're a computer. All right, we're not. You're driving
(17:01):
me nuts. Okay. We only had a lot of good
stuff on the way. If you ever want a text us,
it's four one, five, two nine five k FTC. If
you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
on demand Armstrong and Getty. It's a big deal anytime
the Supreme Court takes up a gun case, isn't it always?
(17:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, boy.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
They're taking up all sorts of impactful cases, including gun cases.
We heard a bunch of interesting oral arguments a week
or two ago, was it? And they're still in session.
Let's check back in with Anastasia Bowden, senior attorney working
on the Equality and Opportunity for the Fabulous Specific Legal Foundation,
who's been keeping us up up to date on the
(17:43):
Scotus's doings.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Anastasia, how are you hi?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Great?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Thanks thanks for having me back.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Good. So, no oral arguments this week, is that right?
What are they up to? What's been happening?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
No oral arguments, but they're still working hard. And as
you said, they've granted their second gun rights case, the
term which is kind of remarkable, and this one's doubly
controversial because it has to do with guns and possession
by people who are on drugs.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, right, which has always seemed a little squishy to us. Yeah,
because I you know, you can be a full on
drunk and own a gun. That's why can't you be
a person who uses drugs and own the gun?
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Yeah, And that's exactly the question. And what's interesting here
is the plaintiff was somebody who was basically suspected of
terrorism and when they checked his house, they found not
only drugs but some weapons, and so he was challenged
under a federal statute saying you cannot possess a firearm
if you are a drug user. And the Fifth Circuit
(18:45):
actually struck that log down, saying that there was no
evidence that he was presently engaged in lawful drug use
and the government comes back and it says, hey, listen,
the right to bear arms is super fundamental. We know, DJ,
especially under President Trump, has been really protective of that right.
But here they say, common sense supports the notion that
(19:05):
people on drugs or who have recently you know, they
have drugs in their house prevent a special threat to
public safety. And they analogize actually to old laws, centuries
old laws that prohibit drunkards from having guns.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So it's true that.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Nowadays, if you're if you can still in a gun,
but historically states have regulated the right of drunkards.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Right. But I find this so interesting, and I'm as
layman as you can get on any of this sort
of stuff. But like, I don't use my I don't
lose my right to peacefully assemble because I'm a drug
addict or a drunk or a drunkard or a drunkard.
What other rights do I lose because of you know
that sort of thing? And this is what Hunter Biden
got caught up in, Right, he wasn't allowed to have
(19:48):
a gun because he'd been a drug addict.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Well, and that's the DJ says, this is this is
a special case because you know, firearms are different than
the right to peacefully assemble, and and so it's very
interesting here the Trump The way that the Trump administration
has been litigating cases in the Supreme Court is really
different than any other administration. They've been kind of rogue
and taking some really interesting positions. And this is one
(20:12):
where it's a very unlikely case where you have even
the government here saying we think this law is okay.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Interesting.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
So, speaking of the Trump administration, I know this makes
us weird outliers in the world to talk radio. But
if we don't want, for instance, a Democrat president to
have a power, we don't want the Republican to have
that power.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Either, or we're weird in that way. Speaking of which
I know the soups are going to talk about or
they've granted a case to do with deploying the National
Guard to various cities. When are we likely to hear that?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Yeah, So there are multiple cases pending across the United
States challenging the president's ability to send in the national Guard.
The national Guard, of course, is typically controlled by the States.
Congress can call forth the national Guard, and the president
has a very limited ability to call in the national
Guard when basically, there's an insurrection. That's the title of
(21:08):
the act, the Insurrection Act, and it says that if
there's something that rises to the level of insurrection or
where the president can't actually enforce crime it comes down
to that, then he can call it the National Guard.
And so, invoking that Act, President Trump has called in
the National Guard to several states, and there's been mixed decisions. Actually,
(21:29):
in Illinois, the court stopped the Trump administration and that's
the case that the Supreme Court right now is hearing.
But it's interesting. In Portland, actually the Ninth Circuit said, well, okay,
don't deploy them yet, but we will at least allow
you to federalize the National Guard. And if you read
the two contrasting opinions, it really comes down to what
(21:50):
these courts view as the facts on the ground. In Chicago,
the judge is like, hey, these are just some protests.
You can't call in the National Guard over some protests.
And then when you re the opinion having to do
with Portland, the judges like, guys, it's really bad out there.
You know, ICE agents are being harassed and threatened with
(22:10):
real violence. And so based on these judges perception of
the facts, they've either allowed the Trump administration to move
forward or not.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
What about the question of the president's tariffs? Are they
going to they're taking that on soon, right.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Yeah, this is a big one because there are a
lot of small businesses across the country who have been
crushed by these tariffs, despite the president's assessment that this
is needed to save the economy. Once again, there's a
statute that gives the president very limited authority to regulate
international economic affairs when there's an emergency. And here President
(22:47):
Trump says, well, there's an emergency based on the long
standing trade deficit that's been going on for years and
the opioid crisis, which again been going on for years.
And he says, well, now that constitutes an emergency that
allows me to slap on these tariffs to products from
nearly every country.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And so, I know you're a lawyer and you got
to follow the law on the Constitution and all that
sort of stuff, But to me, it just seems odd
that one man would have the power to affect world
commerce like this.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, and especially you know that's traditionally Congress's job. And
so if Congress is going to hand that power over
to the president. You would assume that it's going to
use specific wording to hand over such a really big power, right,
and yet he's invoking these statutes that are pretty wishy
washy and broad to say, hey, that that now gives
me this huge amount of power. And that's really reminiscent
(23:39):
of administration's past. Like you were saying, we should hold
our principles true over all all administrations. But think about
the Biden administration that did the same thing to say, hey,
I have the ability to impose eviction moratoriums due to
covid or, I have the ability to forgive billions of
dollars in student loans based on these statutes, and the
Supreme Court historically has said, hey, that can't be right.
(24:02):
This is Congress's job. And if it's handing that power
over to you, I don't even know if Congress can,
but if it does, it's going to say so a
little bit more explicitly. And that's the same thing that's
happening now under President Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
If the government shutdown wasn't in the headlines, I'd have
forgotten that we have a Congress.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
They do so little these days.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation online. Before let's
let you go any more headlines highlights we should hear about.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Well, the Court's just getting back into arguments next week
and we don't get decisions until January, and so this
is the time of the court where only Supreme Court
nerds like me really pay attention because we want to
pay attention to all of the arguments, but we won't
actually start getting decisions until next year, so we can
only make predictions about what's going to happen until then.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Okay, very good, hon a station, always great to talk. Thanks,
keep up with the great work at the Pacific Legal Foundation.
We love what you guys do, and we'll talk again soon.
Thanks so much for having me our pleasure. I want
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It's good to be right. So the World Series has
been played in a foreign land before. The Toronto Blue
Jays have been in the World Series and won a
World Series before. In Montreal Expos with Pete Rose have
been in the World Series before. Also, Uh, but what's
going to be different tonight, I think is we've never
(26:37):
had this level of animosity between Canada and the United
States before. And then Trump will always been best buddies. Yeah,
we've always been friends, and you know, it was practically
like our fifty first state in terms of being friendly.
Last night, Trump cancels all trade talks because of this
video that Canada put out, and Canada was already mad
(26:59):
and and for real, the number of people visiting the
United States from Canada has gone dropped off a cliff
and all kinds of different things, not buying American products
and that sort of stuff. They're they're angry over all
that fifty first state talk apparently, So we think that
tonight and now let's all rise for the United States.
(27:20):
So America's national anthem bomb bomb. I think you're not
gonna be able to even hear You're not gonna be
able to hear a note. It's gonna be deafening booing
of the US national anthem, Right across the border in
Toronto for the World Series tonight, which is kind of interesting. Yeah,
and I think, yeah, I can practically guarantee it. And
if it's at all a close series, which it might
(27:41):
not be, but I mean, if it ends up being
a close series, I think the nationalism is going to
rise up. Is being I compared it earlier to might
be like US versus Soviet Union nineteen eighty hockey. If
the if the Blue Jays could beat the evil United State,
Oh from the Canadian From the Canadian standpoint, yeah, we don't.
I don't think. I don't think. I don't think La
(28:02):
Dodgers fans are going to care about the Canadian national anthem.
But for Canada, I think that'd be huge if they could.
That's going to be such a home field advantage.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Wow, you know, I'm playing golf this afternoon with He's
an American citizen, but he was Canadian.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
He grew up in Campdall Boy. We'll keep your kin
eye on your wristwatch. Yeah. Well, and I just I
got to watch what I say, because he is like
a big time hockey player.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Beat the hell out of me. But things could get ugly.
I kind of watch that second Canada.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Note. I heard this for the first time in my
life yesterday and it amused the hell out of me.
You know, the uh excuse me, the really annoying overused
statement people make about opinions. Everybody has them. They're like
blank black, it's not classy, be classy, folks. If he's
not a classy phrase. No it's not. No, No, it's not.
Here's here's another one. True though. We all have them,
(28:54):
and if you don't have one, you should get an
operation to get one. Yes, I heard this yesterday. If
excuses were mooses, the whole world to be Canada. That's
a little more delicate version of that sort of thing.
I like it so much, especially because it uses the
(29:14):
term mooses. If somebody lays that other phrase on me
with and not ironically, like, with a straight face, and
uses the whole term, it's like, Okay, I gotta go
check please, I just I don't need to hear that. Okay,
we got more on the way, stay here.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Kim Kardashian revealing tonight she was diagnosed with a brain
aneurysm and has been undergoing treatment, saying doctors told her
stress was the cause. Aneurysms are often asymptomatic, but can
sometimes cause symptoms such as headaches, blurry vision, nausea, or vomiting.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I didn't know aneurysms could be caused by stress. I
don't know. Uh oh wow.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
I was gonna say, you got to have like a
weak spot in the hose to begin.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
We must be I I was going to say, Man,
they'll do anything to get attention. She's probably eating buckets
of paint chips every night, or whatever it takes to
give yourself some sort of help problem, get on the news,
promote this new podcast thing she's got. You don't think
that's true, Katie. She eating buckets page chips don't do anything.
I don't know about the paint chip theory, but probably
better way to go about it. But yeah, So here's
(30:25):
the new product that's going to be hitting the market soon,
Nike's new robot shoe. Have you seen any of this?
If you're a runner or a walker, the new robot
shoe from Nike. It's got like a cuff thing that
straps around your ankle and calf, and then the shoe
has got an assist motor in it, like help propel
you forward from your heel whenever you take a step,
(30:48):
and it's not just like a brain injury on the way.
To me, it's not designed for elite runners. It's more
for people like me who are like ten to twelve
minute miles sort of people to make you faster. Although
I don't know if I'm I don't want to use
the word cheating because I just go out and run
for exercise. I get cheat, But well, what's the point
of running a faster mile with the help of a
(31:09):
motorized shoe.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Unless you're running like for the reason people did before,
like horses from bears had to get somewhere or from bears.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, what the hell's the point of that. It's like,
you know, I rode.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
A bike mountain bike a long time for fitness, and
at one point a guy was telling me about how
you know, there are bikes that are much much more efficient,
I mean, take a lot less energy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
And I'm like, no, let's see, that's the point. Yeah,
I don't know what I think about because I just
bought a really, really great bike. I ride this bike
a lot more than I ever rode other bikes. It's
just more fun, So I spend more time exercising and
get I'm getting more exercise on this really good bike.
But then I feel the same thing when I see
people that have got the motorized assistant things. It's like, yeah,
(31:55):
I'm out there to try to get exercise. I don't know,
teach their own. But the motorized shoe thing that it
also says I could obviously have some benefits for people
who are not as mobile as they would like helping
them walk when they otherwise can't or something. That's something,
but that's not what the big push is from Nike.
It's to try to take like mid grade athletes and
(32:18):
make them faster. And again I don't quite understand that
is the point of the thing.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I'm reminded of something my friend Adam said years ago
when he was drunkenly getting on a scooter in the
gas Lamp district of San Diego. I was not there,
but he's told me about it. He got on the
scooter and said, this is going to end with my
blood coming out of me, and he was one hundred
percent correct. That's what those robot shoes sound like.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
To me. This is gonna end up with a concussion. Please,
I tell you, I live in a college town, and
every particularly college girl, so many like sometimes wearing dressy
heel sorts of things, flying around on scooters and stuff
like that. And I've never seen a wreck. And they
must not wrick very often or they wouldn't be doing
(33:02):
it all the time. And let's think this is the
way to get around now for better or worse. Get
me that nikeer Nike powered shoe so I can just
really huh, cruise early.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
On really better times. I'm really shaving down my mile
times now, yump, with these motorized shoes.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
What are you doing? We got a few more and
new details to hit you with on the whole NBA
gambling thing. How big a crisis you suppose they are
feeling in the NBA with the season just kicking off
this week to try to tamp down any concerns about
games being legit. You think this is like really bad
or just kind of bad.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
All hands on deck, hiring other people with hands, chopping
off people's hands so they have even more hands on deck. Well,
this is def Con one. This is nuclear league holocaust.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
See I could see it affecting betting, but do you
think it would affect the NBA or people gotta go
to fewer games? Because they are raid. Michael, go ahead,
if you fans are going to start yelling stuff, Yeah, yeah,
that's a good chance. That's some good heckling.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Plus, it's been the belief, the firm belief of every
league on Earth that if the fans start to suspect
the games are rigged, the sport will die. To what
extent they're right, I don't know, but that has been
(34:31):
the firm belief of every league commissioner. You know, since
professional sports began.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
One dude that got arrested yesterday, we have we tweeted
that out or put it on our website, the highlight
reel of one game where he played really poorly. I mean,
he's coming up ten feet short on shots, he's making
passes that It's pretty hard unless you're Stephen Hawking to
imagine why he'd make that pass. I'm sorry, that's probably
too much, but uh, I mean it's just like, really, really,
(34:57):
how would you possibly make a past that bad throwing
it right to the other team. And he's one of
the guys that got arrested yesterday for doing that sort
of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is this is huge
where it ends. Nobody know, you know why Stephen Hawking
was on my mind. So I've been doing this every night.
This is an enjoyable thing for me. I look at
the top five Sora videos of the day. Sora is
(35:19):
the new AI only social media platform, and it's the
best AI videos that have been made every single day.
And there's some funny ones. The other day I saw
they were all parent reveal. What was the Maury Povich?
Was he the one Katie or does he remember where
he would do that? He would tell whether or not
you're the father? Yeah? I was Maury. Yeah. And so
(35:39):
there are these AI are you the father? Ones? And
the first one I saw was with dogs. You got
some puppies there and you got two male dogs and
Maury Povich announces you are not the father, and the
dog leaps ups and runs around, spins around me. He's
so happy that that litteral puppies not her. But the
other day Stephen Hawking is sitting there in his wheelchair,
the famous a scientist, and Mari Povic announces you are
(36:04):
not the father. He throws off his neck brace, stands
up from his chair, dances a little, runs off. It
was an act all along.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Wow, what gosh, I see what passes for you in
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