Final Thoughts of the Week: Jon Stewart for President * Nuclear Reactor on Moon * Presidential Politics in Sports
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lad with Mo.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Sixty radio hosts Charlemagne, the God of New York's The
Breakfast Club radio show. He was recently on Fox News's
My View, which is hosted by Laura Trump, of course,
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daughter in law of the president. On that show, Charlemagne
suggested that he would be interested in a John Stuart
presidential candidacy in twenty twenty eight, as in John Stewart
of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. No you didn't get that,
let me say it one more time, but slower for
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dramatic effect. Charlemagne suggested that he would be interested in
a presidential candidacy of John Stewart, a nighttime talk show
host on Comedy Central, because that's where we are in
this unserious America. Presently, just in case you didn't know,
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we have a former game show slash reality TV host
in his second term as president. Also presently, there are
twenty three one time Fox News Channel employees, hosts, or
contributors in the Trump administration. Twenty three in the administration
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right now. ESPN television personality Stevin A. Smith has publicly
mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
We've discussed him here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Tucker Carlson, former Fox News personality in his own right,
has mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight,
and now this to be fair, Stewart himself has said
nothing to indicate he would be interested in either the
job or entering the race. So this has less to
do with Stuart and more to do with us as
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a nation. There's no denying that there is a visual
element to the American presidency in the twenty first century.
You have to be an effective communicator, and you have
to be that effective communicator in a televised medium, social
media savvy, and be able to speak in terse sound bites.
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But none of that speaks to what is necessary to
do the actual job. I'm talking about domestic policy, foreign policy,
military strategy slash Commander in chief, molder of consensus on
Capitol Hill with Congress, setting economic policy, and managing our
national security, CEO of the federal government and oversee all
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of its agencies and two million full time federal employees.
It's actually a job that is too big for just
one person. But we're in America. Sodam lazy and Dare
I say stupid? Yes, I said lazy and stupid. We're
not looking for competence first and foremost. We're looking for
someone who can handle TV and TV interviews. We want
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someone who can own the libs. We want someone who
is funny, or at least we find funny on social media,
you know, nice clapback game.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We've devalued the actual.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Importance of the presidency and the responsibilities the job holds.
We think that anyone and this is not even being political.
I'm just saying, you ask someone, they throw it all
sorts of weird to ask people who should be president.
We think that anyone can be president provided he and
I do mean he, because America is not remotely interested
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in a sheet.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Let's be honest. Can I tell the truth here?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Provided he says some stuff we like and can effectively
communicate it in the televised medium.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It doesn't even have to make sense.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
We just have to like what he said, which is
really odd when you consider that presidents and presidential candidates
don't write any of their speeches.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We're one step.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Removed from America's top model, the Presidential Search Edition, or
Who Wants to Be the President, or dancing with the
President's cabinet members. I know we already have a reality
show called Big Brother, but I thought that would be
a little bit too much on the nose. The larger
point is we, as an Americans, we want a TV host,
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not an actual president. And it is damn depressing to
me because you know what, I actually love this country,
and if you love this country, you probably want the
best for this country. And the best is not a
TV host, not now, not ever. But let me get
back to Charlemagne and his presidential wish list. I've never
met John Stewart. I think he's fabulous at what he does,
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and that is political insight and commentary. I think what
Stuart's done with the Nine to eleven Survivors and Victims
Fund is nothing less than admirable and remarkable. But under
no circumstances does that mean he is either suitable to
be leader of the free world or president.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We should have more respect for the office of the president.
We should.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I know that's a funny statement in and of itself,
because we don't have any respect for the office of
the president, not even a little bit, zero respect for
the seriousness of the office and or its responsibilities. Not
a day goes by without our sitting president getting on
social media and starting Twitter fights with actors, singers, television hosts, athletes,
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and even radio hosts like Charlot mgne. We're not serious
about anything, least of all who should be leader of
the free world. There is something to be said for
actually having applicable experience working as a local elected official,
then state, then federal, serving on a congressional committee or too,
even working with classified intelligence and moving up that letter.
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When you do, you learn how agencies and departments work
and their purpose their importance. So you understand how the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, actually works. If you
know that it's not just one person making the stats.
It is a committee of people, and you don't need
to just fire one person, particularly a woman, for no
good damn reason.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's what happens when you're a TV.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Hosts, because being a TV host is not an applicable skill.
It's a deficiency and drawback, or at least it used
to be. It's actually a reason why you should absolutely
not ever be considered for President of the United States.
For KF I am six forty. I'm Moe Kelly. NASA
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aims to beat China and Russia in a race to
build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. It's not exactly
the space race of the sixties, but in the way
it's being framed, that's what NASA would have us believe.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In a way, it's like life imitating art.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
In the sci fi show Space nineteen ninety nine with
Martin Landau, it tells the story of a moon base
where a nuclear bomb detonates and pushes the whole last
Moon out of orbit into deep space. It's a great
theme song. If I have time, I'll play it later,
But I digress. You remember that show Mark very well.
It's Jerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson. Though it was meant
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to be a continuation of UFO, that is true. Look
at you, it's your centophile self. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy,
who is also serving as NASA's acting administrator and formerly
part of the Real World on MTV and wholly unqualified
for the job as NASA administrator, warned us today that
China and Russia are both aiming to deploy a nuclear
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reactor of their own by the mid twenty thirties. And
it's pronounced nuclear, not nuclear. I just want to throw
that out there. This is a real estate deal by
a different name. He who builds their nuclear reactor first
gets to claim a sizable portion of moonland around it
as a quote unquote keep out zone. It's a type
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of planning the flag in a Doctor Evil sort of way.
You remember Doctor Evil, You remember what he did on
the moon.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Ladies and gentlemen. We're about to begin phase two of
our evil project. Where is it phase? I don't know phases? Anyways,
this is the phase in which we put a giant
laser on the Moon. As you know, the Moon rotates
around the Earth like Sarah. When the Moon reaches its
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appropriate lunar alignment, it will destroy Washington, DC. You see,
I've turned the Moon into what I like to call
a death star.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
What nah, nothing darth?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What did you call me?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Nothing, rid Hoff.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Bless you. Anyways. The key to this plan is the
giant laser. It was invented by the noted Cambridge physicist
doctor Parsons. Therefore we shall call it the Alan Parsons Project.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That never gets old.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But according to Sean Duffy, NASA should be ready to
launch a small air quotes nuclear power plant a midy
three mile island to the Moon by late twenty twenty
nine or twenty thirty. The specs are that the reactor
should be able to generate a hunch of kilowatts of
electricity at a minimum. In Layman's terms, such output could
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power about eighty homes. No, I don't think we're about
to build Trump Tower Luna, but that's just a power
reference point. On one hand, I get the national need
to beat or at least keep pace with the other
superpowers as it relates to colonizing the Moon. But what
I don't get, and the point of this final thought tonight,
is why aren't we as determined to beat at least
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China right here on Earth, especially when it comes to
infrastructure and technology. China's bullet train network, one of the
most extensive in the world, features high speed rail lines
connecting major cities and regions across the country, and it's
a big ass country. America's bullet train network, well, it
doesn't exist, not one train, not one car, not one station,
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not one track. And that's seeing nothing of our present
crumbling infrastructure. And for all the supposed outrage over the
train derailment in East Palestin, remember that Ohio twenty twenty three,
or the outdated national airspace system used by air traffic controllers, remember.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That planes falling out of the sky.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There's no push to beat China there or even have
us enter into the same century.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Russia.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Russia's Russia. Their economy is not even as big as California.
They're not our direct competitor in that sense. But China,
they're kicking our ass in every way.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
So the Moon.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I get it in theory, but at the continue expense
and detriment of our own technological infrastructure, No, I don't
get that. I remember being told growing up, if you
want to know what's important to you or anyone else,
watch how and where someone spends their money. China, no doubt,
is a dictatorship with a blended economic system. People are
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not free, but the country does spend money on its infrastructure.
We spend more and more money on defense and virtually
nothing else. We've cut medicaid, we cut education, we cut
cancer research. RFK Junior announced a cut of five hundred
million dollars to vaccine research. Our priorities are clear, but sure,
put a nuclear reactor on the moon. One giant leap
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backward for mankind. And speaking of drastic cuts, the Trump
administration just proposed slashing NASA's budget by twenty five percent
just three months ago in May, and that's going to happen.
I kid you not how any of this is supposed
to happen on three quarters budget and no Senate confirmed
administrator is baffling on its best day. But I guess
it makes for a good sound bite and press release.
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I would offer this as I close, that America being
first with the nuclear reactor on the Moon is not
to be confused with America first. If we're not taking
care of America right here in America, well we will
undoubtedly finish last. For k if I am six forty,
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I'm Kelly shout out to Space nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
This part slaps, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's one of the best things ever.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
All right, bringing the timpany all right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Back to the disco be.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
The Wall Street Journal recently published an op ed arguing
that the w NBA needed to better protect its star
Caitlyn Clark, or maybe have the federal government step in.
Long story short, Clark is positive as the face of
the League in chief asset, and she gets fouled way
too hard or way too often something something She's fragile.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
All Caitlyn's matter. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The federal government stepping in and taking over a private
pro sports league in the name of civil rights. You
heard that right, That's what the Wall Street Journal argued,
or at least one writer in the Wall Street Journal.
So much for small government. The op ed was written
by Sean McClain, founder of Origin Advocacy, a lobbying firm,
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not a sports organization. He previously served in the first
Trump White House and the offices of Senator Ted Cruz.
If you're looking for any sports or basketball bona few days,
he has none. All political note. The op ed was
published in the Wall Street Journal, the home of all
things sports and women's basketball or not at all. Sounds
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like mister McLain doesn't want to keep politics out of
his sports, but it did finally filter down to actual
sports news outlets ESPN, host and face of the network
in possible future presidential candidate Stephen A. Smith waited in
a day or two later, saying that he believed President
Trump could spark an investigation into Caitland Clark regarding her
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WNBA treatment purely for political gain, not the Department of
Justice Civil Rights Division, which would be the appropriate venue,
but the President himself, again not exactly keeping the politics
off our sports dinner plates. Here's what Smith had to say.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I am not guessing on this. I didn't go on
my show and just bring it up for no reason.
I happen to know a few people who have said
this is something that do not be surprised that President
Trump speaks on eventually.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
And if that man decides that.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
This is something that can feede his base, that can
ingratiate himself with that kind of audience that is protective
of a Caitlin Clark and what she stands on, what
she represents, and they come to a conclusion that they
believe she is being unfairly treated that it's going to
be a problem for the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That's Stephen A. Smith on Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You may remember that we discussed the new LA twenty
eight Olympic task Force that President Trump created through an
executive order, and he himself is heading up the task force.
What his specific duties are or will be, I have
no freaking idea. I honestly don't know. He knows nothing
about Olympic sports. But you may remember it that in
his announcement the other day he celebrated how the task
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force would make sure no men will steal his.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Word, steal trophies from women.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't want to be the one to inform him
that the Olympics doesn't give out trophies but medals, but
somebody should.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Thank you, Jane very much and thank him for recently
banning men from competing in women's sports. That's a big deal.
Thank you very much. It's amazing that I don't hear
any applause for that. When everyone feels to ninety seven,
don't worry about je this's in ninety seven three. It's
not eighty twenty. It's ninety seven to three. Nobody wants
to lap its. It's crazy. The United States will not
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let men steal trophies from women at the twenty twenty
eight Olympics. So we appreciate the fairness.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I hope you've noticed that that's a whole lot of
politics in sports, overtly intentionally with the goal of not
only shaping competition, but in putting political ideology in the process.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'm all for fair play and competition.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
But that's what in a WNBA commissioners for, that's what
a WNBA Players Union is for. Caitlin Clark has a
Union rep. She doesn't need the President of the United
States or the DOJ intervening. There's a fully capable system
in process to handle grievances is in this thing called
the Collective Bargaining Agreement. As for the Olympics, which is
us heard, there's already an IOC, there's a FEBA, And
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I hate to break it to folks, but the President
of the United States doesn't have any sway over how
the games will be run in twenty twenty eight zero.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Just in case you know anything about sports.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
The reason I bring all this up is because the
NFL season has begun and tonight on the TV we
had the Raiders and the Seahawks playing on the TV
in the studio, and I fully expect the President at
some point to have something to say about the NFL
and its players.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You can bet on it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
At some point and the NFL players will be asked
about this or that going on in the world. They'll
be asked about something the President may have said. They
will express themselves. Why, because they are Americans like you
and me. The NBA players will have their opportunities to
express themselves too, and when they do. I don't want
to hear anything about how you don't want politics in sports.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You absolutely don't mind it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
In fact, you want it just as long as your
politics are the ones being featured and nobody else's. I mean,
it could be politics in sports, it could be race
and gender, it could be religion. Far too many people
today will say that they don't mind if race is
brought into any subject, just so long a's what they
already believe about race, or black and brown people, or
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trans people or immigration. The President does it every single
day if you're paying to, and those who are okay
with it are those who just happen to agree with him.
But you don't mind politics in your sports, or race
on your radio station, or religion in your schools, just
as long as it reflects what you want and already believe,
or the god you pray to, or the gender you date.
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Slash Mary, you don't mind when I talk about trans
women not competing with CIS women. You don't mind that.
You eat that stuff up. You don't mind that stuff
about politics and sports mixing. But the moment I mentioned
bananas thrown on the field at black soccer players, it's like, hey, hey, hey, Bo,
Why do you always make it about race.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Don't bring politics into my sports. I got it. I
hear you. I read your messages, so as long.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
As you are affirmed, it's okay you don't mind politics
in sports mixing. How do I know, because I've not
heard a single peep about needing to keep politics out
of sports since January twentieth of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Funny how that seems to work for care.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
If I am six forty, I'm O Kelly
Lad with Mo.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Sixty radio hosts Charlemagne, the God of New York's The
Breakfast Club radio show. He was recently on Fox News's
My View, which is hosted by Laura Trump, of course,
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daughter in law of the president. On that show, Charlemagne
suggested that he would be interested in a John Stuart
presidential candidacy in twenty twenty eight, as in John Stewart
of Comedy Central's The Daily Show. No you didn't get that,
let me say it one more time, but slower for
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dramatic effect. Charlemagne suggested that he would be interested in
a presidential candidacy of John Stewart, a nighttime talk show
host on Comedy Central, because that's where we are in
this unserious America. Presently, just in case you didn't know,
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we have a former game show slash reality TV host
in his second term as president. Also presently, there are
twenty three one time Fox News Channel employees, hosts, or
contributors in the Trump administration. Twenty three in the administration
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right now. ESPN television personality Stevin A. Smith has publicly
mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
We've discussed him here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Tucker Carlson, former Fox News personality in his own right,
has mused about running for president in twenty twenty eight,
and now this to be fair, Stewart himself has said
nothing to indicate he would be interested in either the
job or entering the race. So this has less to
do with Stuart and more to do with us as
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a nation. There's no denying that there is a visual
element to the American presidency in the twenty first century.
You have to be an effective communicator, and you have
to be that effective communicator in a televised medium, social
media savvy, and be able to speak in terse sound bites.
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But none of that speaks to what is necessary to
do the actual job. I'm talking about domestic policy, foreign policy,
military strategy slash Commander in chief, molder of consensus on
Capitol Hill with Congress, setting economic policy, and managing our
national security, CEO of the federal government and oversee all
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of its agencies and two million full time federal employees.
It's actually a job that is too big for just
one person. But we're in America. Sodam lazy and Dare
I say stupid? Yes, I said lazy and stupid. We're
not looking for competence first and foremost. We're looking for
someone who can handle TV and TV interviews. We want
(03:10):
someone who can own the libs. We want someone who
is funny, or at least we find funny on social media,
you know, nice clapback game.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
We've devalued the actual.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Importance of the presidency and the responsibilities the job holds.
We think that anyone and this is not even being political.
I'm just saying, you ask someone, they throw it all
sorts of weird to ask people who should be president.
We think that anyone can be president provided he and
I do mean he, because America is not remotely interested
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in a sheet.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Let's be honest. Can I tell the truth here?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Provided he says some stuff we like and can effectively
communicate it in the televised medium.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
It doesn't even have to make sense.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
We just have to like what he said, which is
really odd when you consider that presidents and presidential candidates
don't write any of their speeches.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We're one step.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Removed from America's top model, the Presidential Search Edition, or
Who Wants to Be the President, or dancing with the
President's cabinet members. I know we already have a reality
show called Big Brother, but I thought that would be
a little bit too much on the nose. The larger
point is we, as an Americans, we want a TV host,
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not an actual president. And it is damn depressing to
me because you know what, I actually love this country,
and if you love this country, you probably want the
best for this country. And the best is not a
TV host, not now, not ever. But let me get
back to Charlemagne and his presidential wish list. I've never
met John Stewart. I think he's fabulous at what he does,
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and that is political insight and commentary. I think what
Stuart's done with the Nine to eleven Survivors and Victims
Fund is nothing less than admirable and remarkable. But under
no circumstances does that mean he is either suitable to
be leader of the free world or president.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
We should have more respect for the office of the president.
We should.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I know that's a funny statement in and of itself,
because we don't have any respect for the office of
the president, not even a little bit, zero respect for
the seriousness of the office and or its responsibilities. Not
a day goes by without our sitting president getting on
social media and starting Twitter fights with actors, singers, television hosts, athletes,
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and even radio hosts like Charlot mgne. We're not serious
about anything, least of all who should be leader of
the free world. There is something to be said for
actually having applicable experience working as a local elected official,
then state, then federal, serving on a congressional committee or too,
even working with classified intelligence and moving up that letter.
(05:52):
When you do, you learn how agencies and departments work
and their purpose their importance. So you understand how the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, actually works. If you
know that it's not just one person making the stats.
It is a committee of people, and you don't need
to just fire one person, particularly a woman, for no
good damn reason.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That's what happens when you're a TV.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Hosts, because being a TV host is not an applicable skill.
It's a deficiency and drawback, or at least it used
to be. It's actually a reason why you should absolutely
not ever be considered for President of the United States.
For KF I am six forty. I'm Moe Kelly. NASA
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aims to beat China and Russia in a race to
build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. It's not exactly
the space race of the sixties, but in the way
it's being framed, that's what NASA would have us believe.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In a way, it's like life imitating art.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
In the sci fi show Space nineteen ninety nine with
Martin Landau, it tells the story of a moon base
where a nuclear bomb detonates and pushes the whole last
Moon out of orbit into deep space. It's a great
theme song. If I have time, I'll play it later,
But I digress. You remember that show Mark very well.
It's Jerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson. Though it was meant
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to be a continuation of UFO, that is true. Look
at you, it's your centophile self. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy,
who is also serving as NASA's acting administrator and formerly
part of the Real World on MTV and wholly unqualified
for the job as NASA administrator, warned us today that
China and Russia are both aiming to deploy a nuclear
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reactor of their own by the mid twenty thirties. And
it's pronounced nuclear, not nuclear. I just want to throw
that out there. This is a real estate deal by
a different name. He who builds their nuclear reactor first
gets to claim a sizable portion of moonland around it
as a quote unquote keep out zone. It's a type
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of planning the flag in a Doctor Evil sort of way.
You remember Doctor Evil, You remember what he did on
the moon.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Ladies and gentlemen. We're about to begin phase two of
our evil project. Where is it phase? I don't know phases? Anyways,
this is the phase in which we put a giant
laser on the Moon. As you know, the Moon rotates
around the Earth like Sarah. When the Moon reaches its
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appropriate lunar alignment, it will destroy Washington, DC. You see,
I've turned the Moon into what I like to call
a death star.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
What nah, nothing darth?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What did you call me?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Nothing, rid Hoff.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Bless you. Anyways. The key to this plan is the
giant laser. It was invented by the noted Cambridge physicist
doctor Parsons. Therefore we shall call it the Alan Parsons Project.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
That never gets old.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But according to Sean Duffy, NASA should be ready to
launch a small air quotes nuclear power plant a midy
three mile island to the Moon by late twenty twenty
nine or twenty thirty. The specs are that the reactor
should be able to generate a hunch of kilowatts of
electricity at a minimum. In Layman's terms, such output could
(09:35):
power about eighty homes. No, I don't think we're about
to build Trump Tower Luna, but that's just a power
reference point. On one hand, I get the national need
to beat or at least keep pace with the other
superpowers as it relates to colonizing the Moon. But what
I don't get, and the point of this final thought tonight,
is why aren't we as determined to beat at least
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China right here on Earth, especially when it comes to
infrastructure and technology. China's bullet train network, one of the
most extensive in the world, features high speed rail lines
connecting major cities and regions across the country, and it's
a big ass country. America's bullet train network, well, it
doesn't exist, not one train, not one car, not one station,
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not one track. And that's seeing nothing of our present
crumbling infrastructure. And for all the supposed outrage over the
train derailment in East Palestin, remember that Ohio twenty twenty three,
or the outdated national airspace system used by air traffic controllers, remember.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That planes falling out of the sky.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
There's no push to beat China there or even have
us enter into the same century.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Russia.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Russia's Russia. Their economy is not even as big as California.
They're not our direct competitor in that sense. But China,
they're kicking our ass in every way.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
So the Moon.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I get it in theory, but at the continue expense
and detriment of our own technological infrastructure, No, I don't
get that. I remember being told growing up, if you
want to know what's important to you or anyone else,
watch how and where someone spends their money. China, no doubt,
is a dictatorship with a blended economic system. People are
(11:17):
not free, but the country does spend money on its infrastructure.
We spend more and more money on defense and virtually
nothing else. We've cut medicaid, we cut education, we cut
cancer research. RFK Junior announced a cut of five hundred
million dollars to vaccine research. Our priorities are clear, but sure,
put a nuclear reactor on the moon. One giant leap
(11:39):
backward for mankind. And speaking of drastic cuts, the Trump
administration just proposed slashing NASA's budget by twenty five percent
just three months ago in May, and that's going to happen.
I kid you not how any of this is supposed
to happen on three quarters budget and no Senate confirmed
administrator is baffling on its best day. But I guess
it makes for a good sound bite and press release.
(12:02):
I would offer this as I close, that America being
first with the nuclear reactor on the Moon is not
to be confused with America first. If we're not taking
care of America right here in America, well we will
undoubtedly finish last. For k if I am six forty,
(12:22):
I'm Kelly shout out to Space nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
This part slaps, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's one of the best things ever.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
All right, bringing the timpany all right.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Back to the disco be.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
The Wall Street Journal recently published an op ed arguing
that the w NBA needed to better protect its star
Caitlyn Clark, or maybe have the federal government step in.
Long story short, Clark is positive as the face of
the League in chief asset, and she gets fouled way
too hard or way too often something something She's fragile.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
All Caitlyn's matter. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The federal government stepping in and taking over a private
pro sports league in the name of civil rights. You
heard that right, That's what the Wall Street Journal argued,
or at least one writer in the Wall Street Journal.
So much for small government. The op ed was written
by Sean McClain, founder of Origin Advocacy, a lobbying firm,
(14:25):
not a sports organization. He previously served in the first
Trump White House and the offices of Senator Ted Cruz.
If you're looking for any sports or basketball bona few days,
he has none. All political note. The op ed was
published in the Wall Street Journal, the home of all
things sports and women's basketball or not at all. Sounds
(14:46):
like mister McLain doesn't want to keep politics out of
his sports, but it did finally filter down to actual
sports news outlets ESPN, host and face of the network
in possible future presidential candidate Stephen A. Smith waited in
a day or two later, saying that he believed President
Trump could spark an investigation into Caitland Clark regarding her
(15:10):
WNBA treatment purely for political gain, not the Department of
Justice Civil Rights Division, which would be the appropriate venue,
but the President himself, again not exactly keeping the politics
off our sports dinner plates. Here's what Smith had to say.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
I am not guessing on this. I didn't go on
my show and just bring it up for no reason.
I happen to know a few people who have said
this is something that do not be surprised that President
Trump speaks on eventually.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
And if that man decides that.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
This is something that can feede his base, that can
ingratiate himself with that kind of audience that is protective
of a Caitlin Clark and what she stands on, what
she represents, and they come to a conclusion that they
believe she is being unfairly treated that it's going to
be a problem for the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That's Stephen A. Smith on Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
You may remember that we discussed the new LA twenty
eight Olympic task Force that President Trump created through an
executive order, and he himself is heading up the task force.
What his specific duties are or will be, I have
no freaking idea. I honestly don't know. He knows nothing
about Olympic sports. But you may remember it that in
his announcement the other day he celebrated how the task
(16:25):
force would make sure no men will steal his.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Word, steal trophies from women.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't want to be the one to inform him
that the Olympics doesn't give out trophies but medals, but
somebody should.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Thank you, Jane very much and thank him for recently
banning men from competing in women's sports. That's a big deal.
Thank you very much. It's amazing that I don't hear
any applause for that. When everyone feels to ninety seven,
don't worry about je this's in ninety seven three. It's
not eighty twenty. It's ninety seven to three. Nobody wants
to lap its. It's crazy. The United States will not
(17:04):
let men steal trophies from women at the twenty twenty
eight Olympics. So we appreciate the fairness.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I hope you've noticed that that's a whole lot of
politics in sports, overtly intentionally with the goal of not
only shaping competition, but in putting political ideology in the process.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I'm all for fair play and competition.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
But that's what in a WNBA commissioners for, that's what
a WNBA Players Union is for. Caitlin Clark has a
Union rep. She doesn't need the President of the United
States or the DOJ intervening. There's a fully capable system
in process to handle grievances is in this thing called
the Collective Bargaining Agreement. As for the Olympics, which is
us heard, there's already an IOC, there's a FEBA, And
(17:47):
I hate to break it to folks, but the President
of the United States doesn't have any sway over how
the games will be run in twenty twenty eight zero.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Just in case you know anything about sports.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
The reason I bring all this up is because the
NFL season has begun and tonight on the TV we
had the Raiders and the Seahawks playing on the TV
in the studio, and I fully expect the President at
some point to have something to say about the NFL
and its players.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You can bet on it.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
At some point and the NFL players will be asked
about this or that going on in the world. They'll
be asked about something the President may have said. They
will express themselves. Why, because they are Americans like you
and me. The NBA players will have their opportunities to
express themselves too, and when they do. I don't want
to hear anything about how you don't want politics in sports.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You absolutely don't mind it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
In fact, you want it just as long as your
politics are the ones being featured and nobody else's. I mean,
it could be politics in sports, it could be race
and gender, it could be religion. Far too many people
today will say that they don't mind if race is
brought into any subject, just so long a's what they
already believe about race, or black and brown people, or
(18:55):
trans people or immigration. The President does it every single
day if you're paying to, and those who are okay
with it are those who just happen to agree with him.
But you don't mind politics in your sports, or race
on your radio station, or religion in your schools, just
as long as it reflects what you want and already believe,
or the god you pray to, or the gender you date.
(19:17):
Slash Mary, you don't mind when I talk about trans
women not competing with CIS women. You don't mind that.
You eat that stuff up. You don't mind that stuff
about politics and sports mixing. But the moment I mentioned
bananas thrown on the field at black soccer players, it's like, hey, hey, hey, Bo,
Why do you always make it about race.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Don't bring politics into my sports. I got it. I
hear you. I read your messages, so as long.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
As you are affirmed, it's okay you don't mind politics
in sports mixing. How do I know, because I've not
heard a single peep about needing to keep politics out
of sports since January twentieth of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Funny how that seems to work for care.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
If I am six forty, I'm O Kelly
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