0:01

From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

0:03

and the George Washington Broadcast Center.

0:06

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong

0:09

and Getty Show.

0:13

This happened on the eastern side

0:15

of Alpasso. We are told by CBP

0:18

officials that there were a number

0:21

of several hundred migrants that essentially

0:23

overwhelmed a number of Texas

0:25

National Guard soldiers. All of these

0:27

migrants were taken into Border

0:29

Patrol custody and they are right now and being

0:32

processed by Border Patrol. They were put

0:34

on buses. We're not exactly sure what instigated

0:37

this. We were told by Border Patrol officials

0:39

here in this region that there hasn't been any

0:41

kind of sign of rising tensions between

0:43

migrants and Border patrol officials and National

0:46

Guard soldiers.

0:47

That was by any journalistic

0:49

standards. The video of the day that

0:52

should have led every newscast but

0:54

did not end up hardly anywhere.

0:57

So CN uncovered a little bit, Fox did,

0:59

of course, nobody else did. CBS

1:01

had a few seconds of it. I just

1:04

saw it on NBC today.

1:06

They didn't cover it all yesterday. But you had hundreds

1:09

of illegals in a melee

1:12

with Texas Guard there

1:14

at the border. It looked like a medieval battle

1:16

and they're dust everywhere, and

1:18

the video footage just the way it was

1:21

lit in the angle. I mean, it was very

1:23

captivating video. The fact that they didn't

1:26

have that on their evening newscasts, that's a

1:28

journalistic decision to ignore something

1:31

that is great video. I

1:33

think that's a good illustration of the

1:35

depth of their ideological capture.

1:38

I guess is the fancy word people use

1:40

these days, but their ideology

1:42

trumped not only their you

1:44

know, their truth telling and their patriotism,

1:47

but it even trump their greed because

1:49

you know, as TV newspeople and news

1:51

website operators, it's all about the clicks.

1:54

Man, those are great clicks. But

1:56

that's so interesting though. It

1:58

took a day, but the ideological

2:02

types were defeated. Apparently,

2:04

if the Today Show is running this video by

2:06

a people who believe in journalism, or

2:09

more likely be people who

2:11

realize this is really sexy video. Yeah,

2:14

I don't know.

2:14

I'd love to have known the behind the scenes arguing

2:17

over that. Your argument for

2:19

why that wasn't on the news last night had to be

2:21

full of crap.

2:23

Oh my gosh, there can't be one. It's

2:25

idiotic.

2:25

This is going to cause people to think that most

2:28

illegals are violent, and we don't want

2:30

to portray that because this is just a couple of hundred

2:32

people trying to beat down Texas

2:34

guard. It's not representative

2:36

of the average bull eagered

2:39

My god, did you say illegals?

2:41

The term all of a sudden for reasons

2:43

nobody can cite is migrants. Please

2:46

use migrants again. Where'd

2:48

it come from? And why? Anyway, the

2:51

theme continues in

2:53

a way. Have

2:56

a great gender benning madness update later on.

2:58

We'll get to it at some point. The

3:00

other day, I was reading from a piece that

3:02

said the essentially the gender, the transgender

3:04

craze is over. Friends.

3:07

I beg of you to hear my words.

3:09

This is not the beginning of the end. This

3:12

is the end of the beginning. We're gonna

3:14

have to work hard for a

3:16

long time to stamp out this madness.

3:19

But along with the gender.

3:21

Yes, I love it when you quote Churchill,

3:24

especially when you say in the

3:26

morning, though I will be sober and you will still

3:28

be ugly.

3:28

That's my favorite Churchill quote. That may

3:30

be my favorite quote from anybody.

3:33

Mister Churchill, you are drunk, yes,

3:35

but in the morning I will be sober, but you

3:38

will still be ugly.

3:39

I'm Anyriette

3:41

where worry ah. Along with the gender

3:43

bending madness coming to more

3:46

and more people's attentions, so people are starting to push

3:48

against it. The fake racism

3:51

madness that was a conflagration

3:54

sometimes literally after the George

3:56

Floyd saying, is starting

3:58

to get people's attention.

4:00

And sure, y'all

4:03

activists like us, we've

4:05

been aware of this stuff and fighting against it for a long time.

4:07

The whole woke DEI Black

4:09

Lives Matter crap. But

4:12

I think mister and missus America, and particularly

4:15

mister and missus I'm a suburban person.

4:17

I've got a college degree of good conscience, are

4:19

starting to like the TV executives

4:21

not running that video, starting to realize, Wow,

4:24

this is crazy. I really

4:26

need to admit this is crazy on the racism

4:29

front. To wit Michael,

4:31

we need and I'm sorry I should have warned you. Clip sixty

4:33

seven. Here, this is a young woman by the name

4:35

of Danny Laalanders who is a game

4:38

developer. Is in video games.

4:41

I have a team of twenty one right now

4:43

for Balidi. It's a pretty big team. It's a

4:45

crazy big team for indie games,

4:48

But who is your team? Baladi

4:50

has a team of mostly people, mostly

4:53

all people of color. You have no white people on our team.

4:56

I did that because I wanted

4:58

to create environment, and

5:01

I know the best way for environment to be safe

5:03

is to be around people who are just like

5:05

me. And I'm not saying that

5:08

white people in the industry are creating

5:10

safe unsafe environments. I'm

5:12

not saying that. That is not what I'm saying. I

5:15

am saying that sometimes it's hard

5:17

to work with white people because

5:19

they think that something

5:21

made okay, but it was really a microaggression,

5:24

and no one wants to deal with that while you're trying to

5:26

make a game that they love.

5:29

All Right, So she is a segregationist and

5:31

that used to be out of fashion. But if

5:33

you're the right person, you get to advocate

5:36

for it. Well, first of all, I've been saying this for many, many

5:38

years.

5:39

Diversity generally is code for

5:41

I want more people that look like me. I

5:43

need to live in a more diverse neighborhood. But if

5:45

you went to a neighborhood where everybody was your skin

5:47

color, whatever it is, you'd be perfectly happy.

5:50

Yeah, that's not diverse at all. So you just you

5:52

want more people like it, which is fine, that's

5:54

perfectly normal.

5:56

I think it just seems to be human nature. Every

5:59

word used by the woke

6:02

is a code word. They do not

6:04

say what they mean. Diversity doesn't

6:06

mean diversity. It means more people who think

6:09

like me, and generally it's people

6:11

of color, because we have a thing about that in

6:13

the country, and so it's a great dodge anyway.

6:15

That's just exhibit A. Then you have Microsoft

6:18

bragging about paying minorities

6:20

more than whites for the same work, every

6:23

bit as illegal as violating

6:25

federal law as the racist galle

6:28

we just heard from. They're faking backlash

6:30

after bragging

6:33

in a recent diversity report that they pay white

6:35

employees less than racial minorities in similar

6:38

roles. The report boasts that Asian employees

6:40

make more than both black and white employees with

6:42

matching job titles, levels, and tenure.

6:45

Microsoft touts and it's twenty twenty three

6:47

Diversity and Inclusion Report. It's pay

6:49

equity agenda, where they specifically

6:52

and intentionally pay people differently

6:54

by race. How is this

6:57

happening? Yea, how's that possibly

6:59

legal? James

7:02

Lindsay, from whom I got that wisdom

7:04

about every word is a code word with the woke

7:06

people, and you just need to know what they mean, what

7:08

the code means. Pointed out

7:10

that you have these consultant firms putting

7:13

out how to's for positive

7:16

discrimination, what it is, and how you

7:18

can implement it. Positive discrimination

7:20

refers to preferential treatment aimed

7:23

at bringing underrepresented groups to the level

7:25

of equity in the workplace. And one of

7:27

the things James gets into with his usual

7:29

clarity and eloquence, is that there's

7:32

no such thing as positive discrimination.

7:34

If one person is discriminated

7:37

against positively and there was another

7:40

person going for that job,

7:42

by definition, if you gave

7:44

that person fifty five you gave the other

7:47

person forty five percent. So it's

7:49

just good old discrimination, no

7:51

matter what sort of idiotic, transparent

7:54

code words you use. And I'm looking

7:56

at the clock. We need to skip ahead to the punchline,

7:59

which too, because I got some more good stuff. But even

8:04

the New York Times

8:06

in a highly placed article today,

8:09

the ACLU said a worker used

8:11

racist tropes and fired her. But

8:14

did she Civil Liberties

8:16

Group is defending itself in an unusual case

8:18

that ways, what kind of language may be evidence

8:21

of bias against black people?

8:24

Stay tuned for unintentional hilarity.

8:27

So this woman, Kate Oh oh

8:29

h. She's Korean American, she's

8:32

a bit of a fire brand, worked

8:34

for the ACLU.

8:36

She was no one's idea of a go along to get

8:38

along employee. She unleashed

8:42

unsparing critics of her superiors,

8:44

cendering long bliss, sending long,

8:46

blistering emails to human resources, complaining

8:49

about what she described as a hostile

8:51

workplace. You know, I need to

8:53

pause now. I'm reminded of the Socialists of

8:55

America with their conference

8:57

or they just can't get anything done because nobody

9:00

keeps throwing their wokisms at each other.

9:03

And so this woman works for the ACLU

9:05

and is constantly complaining that it's a hostile

9:08

workplace. And now they've fired her for

9:10

making it a hostile workplace. But

9:12

anyway, she had

9:14

all sorts of complaints about sexism,

9:17

unmanageable workloads, a fear based

9:19

culture. Then the tables turned. This

9:21

is where it gets interesting, and miss Oh

9:24

was the one slapped with an accusation of serious

9:26

misconduct. The ACLU said her

9:28

complaints about several superiors, all

9:31

of whom were black, used racist

9:33

stereotypes. Oh

9:36

boy, you're gonna. You're about to hear some

9:38

racist stereotypes on the air. All right,

9:40

prepare yourself. The

9:43

ACLU acknowledges that miss Oh

9:45

never used any kind of racial slur, but

9:47

the group says their use of certain phrases and words

9:50

demonstrated a pattern of wilful anti

9:52

black animals. Here you go, brace yourselves

9:54

now. In one instance, according

9:56

to court documents, she told a black superior

9:59

that she was afraid to talk

10:01

to him. Oh,

10:04

telling a black person, you're afraid, dog

10:07

whistle. In another, she told the manager

10:10

that their conversation was chastising.

10:13

Oh another dog whistle,

10:16

I guess.

10:17

And in a meeting, she repeated a satirical

10:20

phrase likening her boss's

10:22

behavior to suffering beatings.

10:25

Oh wow, so you're that's right,

10:27

she used the old the beatings will continue

10:29

until morale improves. Joke that

10:32

so time warn it's a cliche, but

10:34

it's amusing, that's funny.

10:38

If your boss can't chastise, you don't

10:40

know, how are they gonna?

10:43

Well? And the ACLU, and

10:46

you know, you almost admire their

10:48

pluck for even trying this, trying

10:50

to claim that employee. An employee

10:52

said, I'm afraid to bring this up with you.

10:55

Why because I'm black? I

10:58

felt chastised by you me

11:00

out in front of others. Why because

11:02

I'm black? And then

11:05

yeah, the morale, the beatings will continue

11:07

until morale improves. Ha ha, Why

11:09

do you say that? Because I'm

11:11

black? And I think people

11:14

are just starting to wake up to this, even

11:16

the New York Times, And of course they tap dance

11:18

like Gregory Hines through

11:20

this story, but they're saying essentially,

11:23

uh, the heart of the ACLUSED

11:26

case, arguing for an

11:28

expansive definition of what constitutes

11:31

racist or racially coded

11:34

speech, has struck some labor and free

11:36

speech lawyers as peculiar, since

11:39

the organization has traditionally protected the

11:41

right to free expression. People

11:44

are waking up to how insane,

11:47

unjust, and brutal all

11:49

this stuff is and how racist it is. But

11:52

again, this is not the beginning of the end. This

11:54

is the end of the beginning. There's a hell of a lot of work

11:56

to do.

11:56

I was just told in my ear by our executive

11:59

producer that tap danceing like Gregory Hines,

12:01

famous tap dancer, is a microaggression.

12:04

So he's a brilliant

12:06

tap dancer of who I've admired since

12:08

I was a child, whether

12:10

he's black or not. Save

12:14

Yon Glover? What am I?

12:15

What am I supposed to do about the fact that the good like

12:18

the three greatest tap dancers of

12:20

Reese of the last century.

12:22

Have been black men. What do you want me to do about

12:24

that? Again? Well,

12:27

that's a perfect indication of how stupid

12:29

all of this is.

12:30

Speaking of the New York Times, this piece that just came

12:33

out on why We're not having children anymore will

12:35

be hilarious to you if you have kids

12:37

and you're raising them and doing all the stuff that normal

12:39

people do. We got to jump

12:42

into the fact that Trump

12:44

is going to have his kid's childhood

12:46

home seized over the weekend. This giant

12:49

estate, it looks like the state of New

12:51

York is going to take away from him. Put

12:54

chains around or something. Kick everybody out.

12:56

Watson News on the way, stay here.

13:04

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospitals

13:07

say they transplanted a pig's

13:09

kidney into a living human for the

13:11

first time. Doctors say the patient,

13:13

Rick Slayman, a sixty two year old

13:15

man, had been desperately sick on dialysis

13:18

Since the transplant five days ago. Slayman

13:21

is recovering well and could soon go home.

13:23

If this transplant is successful and

13:26

future research shows it's safe, doctor's

13:28

hope it could pave the way for an endless

13:30

supply of pig kidneys and make the

13:33

need for long term dialysis obsolete.

13:35

But that could take years.

13:37

That's a bit of a human centric view of

13:39

the story. Pigs must get to say, oh

13:41

thanks, signed pig.

13:42

Yes you're saying, hey, I'm still using

13:45

this whoa never ending supply?

13:47

I just got the two of them.

13:49

But that is something if

13:52

if finding a kidney

13:54

no longer is a thing, because you know, there's

13:57

lots of pigs.

14:00

Yeah, we need to track this

14:02

guy and see how this, you know, continues,

14:04

because I know rejection problems sometimes take a while

14:06

to surface. But if we can, I'm

14:08

sure he's happy about it.

14:10

If the world could, somehow,

14:13

the world of journalism could somehow

14:15

combine Kate Middleden

14:18

with government shutdown news, you

14:20

would have to me the least interesting

14:22

story you could possibly craft. Because

14:26

I just saw a headline on one TV about

14:29

the government shutdown and another TV about

14:31

Kate Middleton. I thought, if you could merge those two stories,

14:34

then you would have reached like outer space

14:36

in terms of.

14:37

The government shuts down. Will we be

14:39

able to see pictures of Kate Middleton, whether

14:41

altered or not right exactly?

14:45

Uh, not enough, hubbub.

14:47

I don't think about the Biden administration's

14:49

new announcement about

14:52

how many electric cars we all got to buy

14:54

here pretty soon, which ain't gonna happen.

14:57

It just is not gonna happen. No,

14:59

But the EPA tailpipe

15:02

rule, which the

15:05

right or I think people being

15:07

logical, are calling a ban on gas

15:09

powered cars.

15:10

But let's say it's not a ban, it's

15:12

an incentive.

15:13

We're just incentivizing electric cars

15:16

by making gas powered cars so

15:18

expensive and rare that

15:21

there's just no way unless you're super rich you can

15:23

drive one. But that's not a ban. And now

15:25

we have incentive. We haven't banned

15:27

gas powered cars. We've just required

15:29

that all cars be electric.

15:32

Yeah.

15:33

So last year, eighty four

15:35

percent of all cars sold in America were

15:37

powered by internal combustion engines.

15:40

Even now, in the.

15:43

The high water mark of electric cars, eighty four

15:45

percent were gas powered cars or

15:48

decent powered vehicles. By twenty

15:50

twenty seven, which is just two and a half years,

15:53

the government will restrict that to sixty four

15:55

percent. So you're gonna have to get another twenty

15:57

percent of people buy an electric vehicle

16:00

in the next two and a half years. And now

16:02

who's gonna do that? And in the eight years

16:05

the cap will be twenty nine percent.

16:07

The cars are run internal combusted,

16:10

high demand for the few gasoline vehicles

16:12

still made at that point will drive up prices,

16:15

and the only people that will be able to appoint

16:17

them are limousine Liberals

16:19

are super rich.

16:20

You know, right wingers

16:23

Ted Nugent and Nancy Pelosi be

16:26

riding around inn f two fifties. This

16:29

is one of my all time favorite Republicans

16:32

pounce headlines again to the just

16:34

utterly hilarious New York Times. Inside

16:37

the Republican attacks on electric

16:39

vehicles, President Biden's

16:41

new rule cutting emissions from vehicle tailpipes

16:43

is deepened to partisan battle.

16:45

You know what they never get to is the damned

16:48

facts they don't even get to.

16:51

The electric vehicle might cause as

16:53

much environmental damage as it solves.

16:56

The electric grid is always is already

16:58

straining to the breaking point.

17:00

How about the fact that the auto industry

17:02

takes a poll every year how

17:04

many which kind of car do you want to buy? And

17:06

eighty four percent of us chose one kind

17:08

of car. You should report that.

17:10

I mean, come on, Armstrong

17:15

and getty.

17:17

Biden administration sued Apple for

17:20

allegedly having an illegal monopoly

17:22

on smartphones.

17:25

Apple knew something was bad when they received

17:27

a text from the government that said.

17:28

Can we talk? No

17:31

one likes that. Yeah, the Biden.

17:32

Administration is going after Apple and TikTok

17:35

if they go after PlayStation and vaping, gen Z

17:38

is going to storm the White House.

17:41

Enough enough, that's

17:44

a good point. So do you fully understand

17:46

the whole Apple thing? And I don't know if

17:48

they crossed the line or whatever, but I didn't even realize

17:50

this was true until

17:52

somebody pointed it out that if

17:55

you don't have an Apple phone and you send me a video, it's

17:58

all blurry and hard to see. I thought that was I

18:00

don't know when people sent

18:02

me videos. I just thought it was I don't know, bad

18:05

transmission or something, or their phone sucked

18:07

or something.

18:07

I had no idea of that.

18:09

But that's why when I've friends I've got

18:11

who've got Android phones send me a video,

18:13

it's perfectly clear on their phone, but all blurry

18:17

on my Apple phone. And Apple's doing that on purpose,

18:21

just to try to screw non

18:23

Apple phone people, I guess.

18:27

Or to make people

18:29

want to pressure their friends and family to get

18:31

iPhones because they worked.

18:34

I never reached out to my brother, for instance, or

18:36

anybody else and said, hey, could you get an Apple

18:38

phone so when you send me videos they're more clear.

18:41

Yeah, I just heard the drive by version

18:43

of this that they thwarted

18:46

innovative apps and accessories that would

18:48

make people less depending on Apple, dependent

18:50

on Apple technology. But that's my knowledge

18:53

of this is an inch deep. Well, we're both Apple

18:55

people. So you know, when you get a text

18:58

from somebody and it's not blue or

19:00

it's green, whichever one it is. When it's a

19:02

different color, it's not from another iPhone.

19:05

But oh yeah, that's not a big deal.

19:07

Well, it's a pain in the arse for

19:09

my family, just because my dad is the only

19:12

person who doesn't have an iPhone. And

19:15

so to do group texts or send

19:17

a picture to the group or whatever, like Judy

19:19

and I do with our kids. We got a text group we call this

19:21

the Fab five, and we

19:24

zap each other all sorts of pictures and memes

19:26

and greetings and hey this happened to me

19:28

and stuff like that. It's still nice. But we can't

19:31

do that with my dad because he's on the other brand

19:33

phone. So my brother's on some sort

19:35

of phone plan where if you do a group text, he gets

19:37

charged like a dime or something. So he will not allow

19:40

group texts because he gets charged a dime for everyone.

19:42

Oh, we have to have to text him individually.

19:46

We have a special phone players.

19:48

As my dad says, your brother invented

19:50

the word conservative.

19:53

Oh wow, wow, I.

19:56

Just came across the most hilarious poll I've ever seen.

19:58

Before we get to something serio about

20:01

the presidential election. This is a CNN poll

20:06

thinking about what you want in a present

20:09

president, not a president. In a president,

20:11

I want a pony, but in a president. Thinking

20:14

about what you want in a president, Biden's

20:16

sharpness and stamina are and here

20:18

are your three choices. Exactly

20:21

what you want, close enough

20:24

or not what you want. So

20:27

thinking about what you want in a president, Biden's

20:29

sharpness and stamina are seven

20:34

percent. Chose exactly what you want?

20:36

Here you

20:39

want a guy who shuffles

20:41

across the lawn and black

20:44

batterp CA.

20:46

I can decode that pretty

20:48

easily, and that is striking because

20:51

we all know people answer the

20:53

poll not to answer the question specifically,

20:55

but to indicate where they are, or

20:58

what side they're on, or that sort of thing. But that

21:00

question was so well worded, in

21:02

my opinion, you could only

21:05

get seven percent of hard core Democrats

21:08

to say, Oh, yeah, he's he's

21:10

perfect. This is just what I'm looking

21:12

for, specially

21:15

work unless you want to get the back. Come

21:17

on, dude.

21:18

That's unless you're just trying

21:20

to be a troll, which I admire

21:22

on a certain level. But if you're come

21:24

on, it's exactly what you

21:26

want.

21:28

In fact, you don't want a guy who's too sharp, because

21:30

then he'll be thinking and coming up with

21:32

the ideas.

21:34

Right.

21:34

If he was any sharper, I would answer this differently,

21:37

not exactly what I want, because I want

21:40

him to not remember who's alive and who's

21:42

dead. I think it's perfect anyway,

21:44

seven percent exactly what you want, twenty

21:47

four percent close enough, and

21:49

a resounding sixty nine percent

21:51

let's call it seventy within.

21:53

The margin mirror, Oh why not?

21:54

I like you. The numbers seventy percent

21:57

of registered voters, that's

21:59

a key. Seventy percent a registered

22:01

voter say.

22:02

Not what you want. That's

22:04

a high number. I

22:08

love the seven percent.

22:09

That's exactly right. He

22:13

did his best two days ago. Biden did

22:15

his best. I'm gonna start jogging now that I've seen yet.

22:18

Oh yeah, yes, sad. I'm

22:21

old enough, and I've been studying this stuff

22:23

long enough to be pretty familiar

22:26

with all of the presidential elections over the last

22:29

hell seventy five years. And

22:32

even like George McGovern who was quite

22:34

famously beaten like a gong

22:36

by Nixon, I

22:39

get why he ended up the

22:41

candidate, and how there was still hope even

22:44

on election night that he might surprise

22:46

because there was so much anti war

22:48

sentiment in the country and

22:50

and and the darkness of the end of the

22:52

sixties in the early seventies, and people

22:55

really thirsted for it. No, and it just

22:57

didn't happen. It just didn't. Going

23:00

into this one, everybody knows.

23:02

Everybody thinks Biden senile

23:05

and an ineffective leader, and his policies

23:07

are terrible, and the border is non existent,

23:10

and we're being overrun and inflation

23:12

has crushed the hopes and dreams

23:14

of working class families and the rest of it. We

23:16

all know this in March.

23:19

Hell, we knew it last October, and

23:21

so it's so odd. It's

23:23

like somebody knowingly

23:26

driving toward the cliff and saying, I

23:28

won't be going over this cliff, And that's

23:30

just It could be unprecedented

23:33

in American political history. Even Carter

23:36

had a chance in nineteen eighty.

23:39

I wasn't going to do this, but I will do it now.

23:41

Since we are on the topic. Time

23:43

Magazine is

23:47

that a thing? Time

23:49

Magazine, But anyway.

23:52

It's a middling website at

23:54

this point. Time Magazine.

23:55

If the election were held tomorrow, more than thirty

23:58

pollster, strategists and campaign veterans

24:00

from both parties, thirty tell

24:02

Time Biden would likely lose. The

24:06

other report, though, is from Politico,

24:09

saying that the anxiety levels among your

24:11

influential Democrats over Joe Biden's

24:14

capability to run have They're

24:17

calmed down the combination of the

24:19

State of the Union address and the fact that he's out there

24:21

campaigning like crazy, with

24:24

the most vigorous campaigning he's done ever

24:26

for president, because

24:30

in twenty nineteen he couldn't really get out there for COVID,

24:32

and nobody thought he was going to get out there much

24:34

more.

24:35

He's campaigning a lot.

24:36

He's got several stops every day, so

24:38

apparently that has assuaged people's

24:40

concerns.

24:41

Among your powerful Democrats, he

24:43

slurs his way through several campaign

24:46

stops to day. That's correct, y'all are delusional.

24:49

That's so sweet. Oh

24:51

that's nice that you think the manic,

24:53

crazed old man shouting at us for an

24:55

hour and five minutes and then slurring

24:57

his way through campaign stops is somehow that

25:00

he's vital and strong.

25:02

I want to tell my Republican friends, get

25:04

ready, Bell, you're gonna end for a problem.

25:07

Well, now that's a threat. And again I must

25:09

say for the thousandth time, long time listeners know

25:11

this. Forgive me new listeners. I

25:14

would really really prefer the Republican

25:16

Party come up with somebody a little more steady

25:18

role than Trump. Okay, I love

25:21

a lot of the policies, love the judges. He

25:23

scares me. He's he's just he's

25:25

too mercurial. He's a loose

25:27

cannon, not to mention January

25:30

sixth and the rest of it. So I'm not coming at this as some

25:32

kind of Trump honk, not so

25:34

at all. But I calls them as I sees them,

25:37

and the idea that Biden is laid to rest

25:39

the concerns that that is just beyond

25:42

ridiculous.

25:43

Biden will wrap up this post State

25:46

of the Union sprint of fundraisers

25:49

and everything like that speeches next

25:52

week at Radio City Music

25:54

Hall in New York, where former Presidents Bill Clinton

25:56

and Barack Obama are expected to join him.

25:59

And they're going to pull off what most people

26:01

think will be the single biggest

26:03

fundraising event in the history of politics

26:06

next week at Radio City Music Hall.

26:08

And Biden already.

26:08

Has an unbelievable advantage

26:11

in cash over Trump, and yesterday

26:13

the Republican National Committee voted

26:16

to or decided to that Trump can

26:18

use campaign money to fight the legal

26:20

problems, which I think is okay given the

26:22

fact that so many of these things seem so political,

26:25

It only makes.

26:27

Sense to me. But I don't know how you feel

26:29

about it. Yeah, yeah, I would agree.

26:31

It's it's an interesting case and one

26:33

that it's troubling that we're even having to consider.

26:36

But I'm sorry, I just keeps thinking Bill

26:38

Clinton, who hasn't been the president in quarter

26:40

of a century, is going to make Joe Biden

26:43

look old. Bill Clinton's gonna look

26:45

young next to Biden, and Clinton's

26:47

not in great shape. Never mind Barry

26:49

Obama, who is still fairly

26:51

young and vital, right,

26:54

that's funny.

26:55

The current guy running will come

26:57

off as quite a bit older

27:00

than the previous presidents, including one

27:02

from thirty years ago.

27:03

Oh yeah, yeah, excellent point.

27:06

I mean, can you imagine if

27:08

w came up on stage and made Trump look

27:12

old and decrepit, which is a weird

27:14

dynamic, especially when that's the question

27:17

that's the narrative. I mean,

27:20

Biden be and senile? Has that been put

27:22

on the list of issues. It's

27:25

not an issue per se. I guess it's candidate quality,

27:27

But I've got to believe that if that were

27:30

included, maybe with Trump being

27:32

a loose cannon, what are your greatest

27:34

concerns? Name three, I gotta

27:36

believe Biden's mental acuity would

27:39

be way up top, toward the top,

27:41

along with immigration and other stuff and inflation.

27:45

But anyway, that's enough on the electoral politics.

27:48

I would like to get at some point to something

27:52

Dave Yost wrote. Dave is the Attorney

27:54

General of Ohio, and this is a completely

27:56

non partisan discussion. It's about the president,

27:59

but it's the question of immunity,

28:01

presidential immunity for prosecution from

28:04

prosecution after he leaves office, and

28:07

what standard there ought to be, And

28:10

I just thought it was a really, really interesting

28:12

discussion. So I hope we can squeeze that in at

28:14

some point.

28:15

And if you are parenting or have parented

28:17

children, you're gonna like this opinion

28:20

piece in the New York Times about why people aren't having

28:22

kids anymore.

28:23

I'm sure you will feel sorry for them, among

28:25

other things.

28:26

On the way,

28:33

no winners yet. The Mega Million's at nine hundred

28:36

and seventy seven million and growing, power

28:38

Ball on Saturday seven hundred and fifty

28:40

million and growing.

28:42

Either one of those would be fine. I've

28:45

yet to buy a lottery ticket. Power

28:48

Ball's a guy up on TV right

28:50

son. There's a guy up on TV right now. He's sixty five years

28:52

old. He won one point seven billion dollars. I

28:54

guess it was the biggest lottery win ever. They're interview

28:56

on him sixty five and all of a sudden, are

28:59

wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. I don't know what

29:01

his situation was before, but I'm sure he wasn't wealthy

29:03

beyond his wildest dreams. That'd be quite the head

29:05

spinner, wouldn't it. You're toward the end of your life,

29:07

and now now I can do anything. Kind

29:10

of had an idea what I was going to do, but now everything

29:13

is a possibility.

29:14

Right. I'm an odd

29:16

duck, I realized. But I was having

29:19

a lottery fantasy yesterday. I was kind of daydreaming

29:22

while I was waiting for a meeting to start and PARAM

29:26

and the param hilarious.

29:29

I don't have the energy. I could

29:31

barely handle one woman. All

29:35

of my thinking was about the logistics,

29:38

how to keep it secret, how to contact the lawyer,

29:40

how to to just everything

29:43

it took to keep my name out

29:45

of any mouth.

29:46

Fun and relaxing, which is what you hope you can get out

29:48

of winning a billion dollars. You're not thinking speed

29:51

boat and.

29:53

Necklace. But you got to get past

29:55

the first part, which is why I'm not going

29:57

to end up beaten to death in a strip club

29:59

parking lot if I win.

30:03

Right or raising some new babies,

30:06

speaking of that from the New

30:08

York Times today, why are we having fewer

30:10

children?

30:10

Which I find to be a fascinating topic.

30:12

If you listen to the show, you know my view on it is it

30:15

is some sort of subconscious

30:16

in our in our DNA

30:19

thing that's going on where we're just not under threat

30:21

and et cetera, et cetera, and we're not we're

30:24

not repopular. I don't think it's conscious

30:26

decision at all, but

30:28

everybody else seems to. And I'm an outlier. This

30:32

is from somebody. It could be both,

30:34

but back to you. When I returned to work

30:36

this fall after giving birth to my first

30:38

child, I ran headlong into

30:41

the near impossible math of balancing

30:43

career, parenting, and self care

30:45

in a country with a workest culture

30:48

and paltry family policies. Okay,

30:51

anybody who has or is raising

30:54

kids want to wait on that at all. We

30:57

survived at fine, sweetheart. We wish you yeah,

30:59

and so did our parents. And you

31:01

can go back as far as you want. And there were

31:03

fewer and fewer family policies

31:06

the further you get from today, going backwards,

31:08

and everybody did it and

31:10

muddled through somehow and seem to be just fine.

31:13

And the whole workest culture. Self

31:15

care is like my least favorite

31:18

time. Well, maybe you ought

31:20

to practice a little more of it there. I

31:22

mean, number one, you look and run down Number two,

31:24

your elbows all scaly and rough.

31:26

Come on, self care When I.

31:28

Returned to work this fall after giving birth to my first

31:30

child, I ran headlong into the near impossible

31:33

math of balancing career,

31:35

parenting, and self care in a country with a workest

31:38

culture and paltry family policies.

31:41

Though I always imagined having

31:43

two kids to give each of them a chance, at

31:45

the close relationship I have with my brother

31:50

and he talks about how great his brother is. Then he

31:52

says, I knew

31:54

the logistics would only get harder with a second.

31:56

How do parents corral two kids through the action

31:59

packed gauntlet but between daycare pickups,

32:01

dinner, and bedtime. Despite

32:03

my frantic TikTok searches for

32:05

two under two evening routines, I

32:07

cannot fathom actually.

32:09

Pulling it off. Oh

32:11

my, I know, I know, my

32:14

frantic TikTok thereches. They haven't

32:16

come up with that. First of all, wait, you say this

32:18

person gave birth and now you're calling the me. Is

32:20

this a transgender thing or what birthing person?

32:22

Or you one of those weird woke types. It's a woman

32:25

matter with you? Okay?

32:28

On the Ears Decline Show this week, we're featuring two

32:30

episodes examining why a shrunken sense

32:32

of possibility is becoming a norm

32:34

across most of the world when it comes to having

32:37

children.

32:38

I just wonder, when your child is a little bigger,

32:40

whether they're whining will drown out your

32:42

own sweetheart.

32:43

So this is someone who's a columnist for the

32:45

New York Times, which by definition makes

32:47

you an elite and a privileged person and

32:50

more secure and better off than practically

32:52

anybody who's ever existed on earth as a

32:54

percentage, And you're just stating

32:57

for a fact that it's impossible to

32:59

raise a kid.

33:00

Certainly two is out of the question. Are

33:02

you kidding?

33:03

I mean, how do you say that out loud without

33:05

embarrassment?

33:07

Because the culture of look at me, look how

33:09

put upon I am is ingrained

33:11

to the narrow of a lot of people.

33:14

The highest thing you can be is a victim.

33:16

This has been true for a long time. The best

33:19

thing you can do to get attention is to complain

33:21

and explain how hard everything is.

33:23

But isn't this person insinuating that

33:25

it's harder now than it has ever been

33:27

to have one kid and raise them

33:30

other.

33:30

Skadi Yeah, because

33:32

of our work is culture and TikTok's

33:34

lack of usable hints.

33:36

Or something talk to you, talk

33:38

to your parents or your grandparents or anybody

33:41

old and tell them that it's harder

33:43

now than it's ever been.

33:44

Are you kidding? Really, it's

33:47

just insane.

33:49

Despite my frantic TikTok searches

33:52

for two hunder two evening routines,

33:55

I cannot for them actually pulling off having

33:57

two children.

33:58

So this woman is like researching

34:01

the possibility of having a second child

34:04

by looking at whether TikTok

34:06

has advice on how to pull it off. Wow,

34:09

that's just too much.

34:10

I know.

34:11

That's what I thought.

34:12

That's why I wanted to read this. I thought it was hilarious

34:14

my head. I don't want to be unkind, I really

34:17

do. I want to be horribly unkind. You're

34:19

you're a soft.

34:21

Whiny You're probably

34:23

not a more on. I mean, you're a columnist for the New York Times.

34:25

You're obviously not a more but you are soft and

34:27

whiny.

34:29

Intelligence, intelligence and wisdom

34:31

are two scales that are there is no

34:33

correlation.

34:34

Good God, suck it up, Buttercup figure

34:37

it out like every other parent on earth

34:39

always has.

34:40

Jeeseus. Oh, we need so much more

34:42

of this. We need less Mamby,

34:44

Pamby and more drill sergeant. I like this side

34:46

of you, Jack.

34:47

I ran headlong into

34:49

the winds of trying to keep up my self care.

34:52

Yes, so is every other parent self

34:54

care. You barely have time to take a shower

34:57

or eat.

34:58

I'm like you said, shower. He is

35:00

like a didten baby.

35:03

In our workest culture. Shut

35:05

the hell up, Oh

35:08

boy.

35:09

You can't. I can't improve

35:11

on.

35:11

Shut up, buttercup that crowd

35:14

and imagine that person hangs out with other

35:16

people in Manhattan who agree

35:18

as they sit around some fancy, expensive restaurant.

35:21

Our lives are so hard? Can I get another

35:23

Cosmo?

35:23

Hair?

35:24

So hard? Armstrong

35:26

and getty