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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Other voices considered, it's one more thing.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm strong and one more thing, So we're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
A PBS segment here. That's what that sounds like. That
sounded like I was auditioning for NBR, didn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Joe texted me last night because he was watching the
news and I saw it later. So the news breaks
yesterday that eight times doctors have visited the White House
of Parkinson specialist and the ABC Evening News teases that
and then goes to weather. We'll have that for you later.
But now it's raining hard in Texas?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Right with the rainstorm?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
What the hell is the deal with national weather and newscasts?
Did they really get the ratings out of that? It's
one of Regardless of that as a journalist, don't you,
as David Muir whoever, think the fact that the president
might have Parkinson's and have to step down as president
is a bigger story than rain in Texas?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I think, and I'm not making a joke. I think
it is. And I say this as an old guy, borderline.
Old people like weather, they like weather coverage. Yeah, I know,
it's crazy. So other voices considered, we just happen to
have some audio and thoughts and little many topics to

(01:21):
get to that have no relationship to each other. We
will bounce up and down between the frivolous and the serious,
and this, that and the other. Let's start with Bill Maher.
Was it a clip ten Michael that we haven't gotten to.
Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Did you see the debate? And in case you missed it,
don't worry. So did one of the contestants. I mean,
Trump told lie after lie after lie. He never would
have gotten away with that if Joe Biden was there.

(01:57):
Oh wow, Oh Joe, Joe. You know Joe, he famously
loves trains, but apparently not of thought.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Wow. They just keep telling.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's just all night, confused and halting and trailing off.
I've seen beauty patcheant contestants answer questions better.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Playing that's true.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, I believe some US Americans don't have maps. So
let's stick with politics for just a moment. Oh, coming up,
the infamous Marjorie Taylor Green tweet. If you haven't heard
about this, this is Jack. Would you like to describe
the Katie Britt clip.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
First of all, you might not know who she is.
She is a senator from which of your Southern States,
doesn't matter. But she was being hailed as like really
short list VP possibility for Donald Trump. She's a Republican,
she's cute, she's smart, she's a conservative. She has that

(03:05):
happy warrior thing going. And that's why she was picked
to give the response to the State of the Union address,
which is a death sentence and everybody should recognize that.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
It is ruinedy one knows it.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It has ruined so many careers. But anyway, she was
horrible on that thing. But here is she is being
charming yesterday, So some liberal activist catches her in the hallway,
pretends she's a fan and wants a selfie, then hits
her with a gotcha question, or so the liberal activist thinks.

(03:40):
And I just thought this was worth playing because Katie
Britt handled it so well, And the lib activist posted
on their website like, got her naileder folder? Oh hah,
I mean the expression on her face was like, ah,
isn't that great? Okay, Well, do you see how it
played out? Listen to it here twenty five Hi, I'm

(04:00):
here at the congressman. I was wondering how much money
I would take to buy you back from big oil.
From Big Oil. Yeah, oh, and.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
You look at how dishonest that was.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
You ask if you could take a sefie selfie and
I were asking questions and tell me, what is it?
What do you think that big oil? Talk to me
about that? I think that the climate crisis is hearing
getting worse, and you're being funded by the people who
are making that happen. Listen, we've got to be not
only energy independent, but energy dominant. We do a better
than we lead back and she was getting gotten an
elevator and left, but I thought she handled that really well.

(04:28):
Oh look at you. You're being dishonest. You pretended you
wanted selfie and you wanted to ask me a question. Okay,
so what is it do you think needs to happen
with the big Oil? I thought that was great.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah. I actually have some great stuff on that very
question that we just haven't gotten to during the radio
show because Slash Podcast because of the whole Biden deterioration story,
but we will probably later on this week. The long
and short of it is that with all of the
trillions of dollars invested in green energy, they everybody the

(04:58):
world is using more fossil fuel than we were a
few years ago. Because the economies are growing and there
are more people and more energy. It's not like we
had enough energy for everybody to do what they wanted
to do around the globe. So if you add to
the energy supply, it just grows economies and they use
even more energy. So the idea that we're cutting out

(05:21):
on fossil cutting out fossil fuels, in some way, it's
just it's fictional. But more on that another time. A
couple of straight thoughts on Katie britt As we're leading
up to playing that, I was thinking, you know, she's
still got a future. Yeah, she floundered on the response
to the State of the Union. It was pretty terrible
and weird and off putting. But come on, now, that's
behind us is bride and blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
It was terrible, weird and off putting. But as a
couple of guys who've been terrible, weird and off putting
a number of times and are still in the business,
it can happen. You bounce back. But then I.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Thought, well, wait a minute, why am I looking at
her purely through the lens of like national politics or
the presidency or advice presidency, if she's an effective senator,
if she's a mayor, if she's a governor. With me,
of all people, thinking the only thing that matters is
if you got a shot at the White House, it's

(06:13):
just so wrong. I apologize for thinking that even behind
the scenes. Friends, I apologize one more political note before
we end with a charming real life bit of audio
Michael Overre leading up to the fifteen But so Marjorie
Taylor Green I guess. On July fourth, tweeted that the

(06:36):
here it is the average age of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence on July fourth, seventeen seventy six,
was forty four years old, but more than a dozen
worth thirty five or younger. She wrote, then listed eight
names and ages Thomas Jefferson thirty three, John Hancock thirty nine,
James Madison twenty five, Alexander Hamilton twenty one, James Monroe eighteen,

(06:57):
Aaron Burr twenty, Paul Revere forty one, Hamilton twenty one,
Madison twenty five. That's amazing those shouldn't they been living
in their parents' basement complaining about how they can't find
a job. And finally, George Washington forty four. Well, the
only problem with that tweet, as the good folks on

(07:18):
Twitter I've refused to call it X pointed out, is
six of the eight people listed did not sign the
Declaration of Independence at all, including Madison, Hamilton Monroe, Burr Revere,
and George Washington. Other than that, it's a pretty good,
pretty good tweet, let's see. And the responses were rather funny,

(07:42):
as they can be on Twitter. I probably don't agree
with a lot of the people on politics, you responded,
but in the final signature was applied by Ben Franklin,
who was president of the time. How did you forget
Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan and Ronald Reagan. Let's see, somebody
somebody used a I to uh have a Tyrannosaurus rex

(08:07):
in Independence Hall and said, fun fact, one of the
signers was a literal dinosaur and I have the picture
to prove it. And and does everyone know it?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Michael are you? Are you okay?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm okay, all right, I'm okay, You're okay. Finally, this
at charming, yo, lad, I saw I saw responses to that,
but I didn't know what the original was.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
So now that makes sense. The tweet I saw it,
said other people that signed the declaration depends on it
was Captain kirnk. You know well, and this one's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Not only did MTG list six people who didn't sign
the declaration, she conveniently left out that Nicholas Cage stole it.
That made me laugh, didn't hassle off. I don't know
why I found that funny, but it did. And everyone
knows it.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Everyone knows it.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Does our final charming pole a clip needn't set up there, Michael,
in your opinion, that's not mine? Actually, oh it's not.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Is it the fishing pole?

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yes, it is this white father and son fishing, which
a young black man was hanging out with them, and
it was kind of a nice little heartwarming moment.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Okay, I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Let you have this Poe take.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Every young man should have one. It's my favorite colors.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Soon it is just be careful because that hook in
that thank short.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
You don't want to get anythinger or anything like that
or anybody else.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Just watch your.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Line when you're really shake his ease.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Yeah, well you guys enjoy Thank you so much too.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
What are you gonna do if you catch a fish?
We're gonna put it back. No, How'm gonna get it.
You're gonna carry to your lap the whole way there. Yes,
I'm gonna do that. It'll be like first and I
will keep it and eat it like a man I am.
That's fantastic. Kid couldn't have been older than eleven. Yeah,
it was just really cute. Yeah that is awesome.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
You can eat that damn fish. Yeah, like generosity too.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, that is one thing about having kids that one
of millions things that are good about having kids around
all the time is no matter what's going on, you
have moments like that every single day.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, And especially in the world where everybody's trying to
make everything racist and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
You know, these these two kids saw none of that.
They were just fishing, right exactly.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah. Yeah, well that's nice. Give a man a pole
ill fish for a week or something.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah. I could do that really dark joke that I've
laughed at many times.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh, what an unfortunate end of the podcast that would be.
There's no stuck up at him.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
You think, Oh no, I don't think I've heard it.
I I'm feeling it. It's it's it's definitely dark.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, you made that really heartwarming note about kids, which
you know, I could riff on myself, but uh, but
you gotta pay it off now.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Teach a man to build a fire and he'll be
warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and
he'll scream for the rest of his life. Good lord,
that's the worst thing I've ever heard. No, I thought
it was.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I thought it was he'll be warm for the rest
of his life. See, it's a much more subtle implication.
I like my version, but oh my god, that is horrible.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh my god, who says that? Yeah, I know, Michael,
I can't believe. Yeah, well, I guess that's it. Jeez.