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From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio

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at the George Washington Broadcast.

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Center, Jack Armstrong and

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Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty

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Show.

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And finally, McDonald's announced a new partnership

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with Krispy Creme to offer donuts at the

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fast food chain, because if you love McDonald's

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and you love Krispy Kreme, you don't

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have the energy to make two stops.

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There you go repairing everybody'd

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been waiting for Krispy Creman McDonald's.

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I don't appreciate him trafficking and

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insulting in your rearity. Yes,

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yeah, so much to talk about today,

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from international relations, domestic

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policy. We've got a fiscal

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conservative conservatism. Perhaps

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come back trying to think of another good combination

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like McDonald's and Krispy Kreme, like a liquor

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store and poor dating

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choices, some that together.

1:01

That seems to just happen on its own,

1:04

doesn't it, Remember when

1:07

it was so popular?

1:08

Maybe it still is.

1:08

I don't know where you'd have a KFC adjoined

1:11

with an A and W root Bear.

1:13

And they are always lesser versions of themselves,

1:15

always in my.

1:17

Experience, Yeah, kind of your

1:19

cliffs notes version of either restaurant

1:23

not to get all nostalgic

1:25

on you, but I have such great memories

1:27

of going to the A and W root

1:30

beer stands slash Hamburger Place, and

1:32

my hometown will next hawn over. But my little

1:34

brother and I would ride our bikes with our

1:36

allowance, we'll get a cheeseburger and a root

1:39

beer together, and just good

1:41

good times.

1:41

Got an A and W root beer in a frosty mug

1:44

is as good as it gets. Last

1:47

time I went to NW, they served it in a paper

1:50

cup, No glass

1:52

mug.

1:52

What yep? And I haven't been back then.

1:54

Well, that's because people smash the mugs and stab each

1:56

other with them.

1:57

Probably, probably we've

2:00

given away civilization, folks.

2:02

But this is not a rant about lawlessness. We've

2:04

got one of those coming up as well. I

2:06

want to talk about that young cop, father

2:08

of a beautiful little boy gunned down

2:11

in New York City by a guy who had gotten arrested

2:13

dozens of times and let loose, including

2:15

on gun charges. Don't

2:19

get me started, get all fired up.

2:21

I thought this was really interesting. Just

2:24

by way of introduction, I would say that it's

2:26

become clear to both of us that

2:29

a lot of folks saw

2:32

some of the great upheavals of history,

2:35

like your World War two era for instance,

2:37

and Cold War as

2:39

in the rear view mirror. And then for this

2:41

weird, wonderful blip

2:44

of time, everything was pretty stable,

2:46

more or less, and it appeared that,

2:49

in fact, people actually had the cajones

2:51

the hubrist to say, we're living in

2:54

the post history world or whatever.

2:55

That term was.

2:56

Yeah, yeah, the end of history, the

2:59

end of history fukiyama,

3:01

which you know, the gods

3:04

had to be just goffin, I

3:08

mean, like laughing till they were crying and wiping

3:10

tears from.

3:10

Their eyes, the gods. When did you become a pagan?

3:13

Is that a new one? I'm

3:16

just thinking about, you know, some ancient sayings

3:19

that I enjoy. But yes, I.

3:20

Believe in Zeus and then and

3:22

the Apollo and all the Greek and

3:25

or Roman gods, because I never really studied

3:27

that sort of thing, and I have only a vague idea

3:29

of who's who god that hit. Here's

3:31

the fifth tangent of this segment that must

3:33

be impossible to follow.

3:35

For anyone who's listening. Hold on

3:37

tight.

3:37

But there's a new book about Genesis out by and

3:39

I can't remember her name.

3:41

The Fabulous British Band or

3:43

the first book of the Bias.

3:44

It's all about when Phil Collins replaced

3:47

Peter Gabriel.

3:48

No, in the beginning, there was

3:50

light that one.

3:51

It was the sixth sixth Tangent

3:53

by the way, Yes, yes,

3:56

the Book of Genesis. But anyway, and why

3:59

why that was such a major change

4:01

on earth, that view

4:03

of a relationship between man and God.

4:05

Maybe I'll talk about that later. I thought it was really interesting. I

4:08

hadn't thought of it that way before getting away from

4:10

paganism that you seem to believe in anyway back

4:12

to.

4:14

Yeah, I will look forward to that discussion.

4:16

So obviously that

4:19

whole where beyond history thing is not

4:21

true in the least, and the

4:23

upheaval ly period has

4:25

begun, and who knows how crazy it's going to get.

4:28

We all pray it won't end in cataclysm,

4:30

right, But there are big changes coming, and

4:33

including on the domestic political scene, where things

4:35

have changed a lot in the last decade

4:37

or so. And I, Joe Getty,

4:39

have found myself really interested

4:42

in comparing and contrasting

4:44

some of the political movements of the past, which we all

4:46

have heard about, whether it's the rise of Nazism

4:49

or Bolshevism in Russia

4:51

or whatever, and the various you

4:54

know, less famous political movements and

4:56

what they look like and how they resemble things that are

4:58

happening in the country today. Particularly

5:00

interesting study is fascism,

5:03

how it rises in what it is.

5:04

And I am utterly convinced, well I know it.

5:06

I know it beyond a shadow of doubt that there are elements

5:09

on the energetic angry

5:11

right that are absolutely neo fascists.

5:14

Now I like

5:16

to talk about this stuff because for the longest time

5:18

fascist was just whatever

5:20

you don't like, I mean, just frothing

5:23

at the mouth, idiot college student

5:26

lefties who call anybody to

5:28

the right of Paul Ryan a fascist.

5:30

I mean, it's just dopey and doesn't communicate

5:33

anything other than I don't

5:35

like them.

5:36

But a couple of quotes.

5:37

First of all, a brief one from Bertrand

5:40

Russell, who was a British

5:42

in the middle part of the twenty central century,

5:45

British mathematician, writer, philosopher.

5:48

His brain is to my brain as

5:50

my brain is to my dogs.

5:53

He was one of the most brilliant

5:55

people who's ever lived. Anyway,

5:58

he said, the first step in a fact movement is the

6:01

combination, under an energetic leader,

6:03

of a number of men who possess more than

6:05

average share of leisure, brutality,

6:08

and stupidity. The next step is

6:10

to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent

6:13

by emotional excitement on the one hand and

6:15

terrorism on the other. And

6:18

I thought, Okay, that's some really good writing. That

6:20

doesn't sound like the right anymore than it.

6:22

Does the left. No, not only not, definitely

6:24

not.

6:25

Fire up dumb people, and haven't brutalized

6:27

anybody who opposes.

6:29

Soundcheck where an arrow we're in? Though

6:32

yeah it does. One is reminded

6:35

of MAOIs China.

6:37

And there's the third the

6:39

third body problem or something. It's a hot

6:42

Netflix show that opens with a

6:44

scene from Alice China which a professor has beaten

6:46

to death on a stage for not

6:49

being revolutionary.

6:50

Have you watched That's something I have. Oh

6:52

man, it's brutal and it's accurate too. Wow.

6:56

But he's there and his wife comes out on stage

6:58

and denounces him in the fired up angry

7:00

students that's right, college students who

7:02

are super angry and have decided

7:04

they know better than everybody are screaming

7:07

that he's a counter revolutionary and the rest of it, and they beat

7:09

him to death on stage.

7:10

That's bloody, It's horrible.

7:11

And I was watching that and thinking, could

7:13

you imagine that happening in the United States

7:15

in a certain crowd, if you had somebody

7:18

up there who refuse to use, you know, call

7:20

ahea she. Absolutely I could

7:22

imagine that happening. Absolutely

7:24

you could.

7:25

You could picture some professor on the stage

7:27

being told to say, say that's a woman

7:31

looking at that that confused, probably

7:33

mentally ill Leah Thomas swimmer

7:35

person, for instance, say that's

7:37

a woman, and the professor

7:40

refusing and being beaten to death. I mean,

7:42

obviously we haven't gone quite that far, but

7:44

I'm picturing some of the Jewish students punched

7:47

out in Harvard, Oh yeah, or

7:50

the issue of your standing up there and say Israel

7:52

is committing genocide? Similar

7:55

you could get the similar reaction. Yeah,

7:57

yeah, So I thought that was interesting. Then came

8:00

across this. One of our beloved listeners sent along this

8:02

link, and I'd meant to keep it handy, and I apologize

8:04

I didn't because.

8:05

I really like to give credit words due because this is brilliant.

8:07

Speaking of writers, this is a book by the name

8:10

of Devin Ericsson, whose act

8:12

I didn't know, but I dug into

8:14

his stuff.

8:15

And he's just crazy smart.

8:17

But listen to this with jo fascism

8:21

and we're gonna get to communism in a minute, and

8:23

that's super interesting too. But fascism

8:25

is sensitivity to disgust

8:28

that is so extreme that it resorts

8:30

to authoritarianism to purge

8:33

the object of that disgust, and

8:35

then continues projecting disgust

8:38

onto things that aren't disgusting and

8:40

purges them too. Wow,

8:42

that might be the best description I've ever

8:44

heard. I know, Kurt Blowie, I've

8:47

been studying this stuff since.

8:48

I was a child. I thought that I'm going to

8:50

hit you with it one more time. Fascism

8:52

is sensitivity.

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To disgust or or a threat,

8:57

because often fascism comes w're

8:59

threat and buy the Jews or the whatever.

9:03

Fascism is sensitivity to discuss that

9:05

is so extreme that it resorts to authoritarianism

9:08

to purge the object of that disgust.

9:11

Then it continues projecting

9:13

disgust onto things that aren't disgusting and

9:15

it purges them too. Communism

9:19

is sensitivity to envy that

9:22

is so extreme that it resorts

9:24

to authoritarianism to steal

9:26

or destroy the object of that envy.

9:29

Then continues projecting envy onto

9:31

things that aren't enviable and destroys

9:33

them too, And he says

9:35

the key concept here is destroy.

9:38

You see, just as there is a healthy version of

9:40

disgust, whose function is to keep

9:42

you away from unhealthy things, there is

9:45

a healthy version of envy.

9:46

Like my trip to Panda Express last night. Oh

9:50

again, they have attorneys on staff.

9:53

I think I can make a retainer. I think I can

9:55

make the argument that it's not healthy.

9:58

You probably can.

9:59

Yeah, And then he goes into that there

10:02

is a healthy version of envy,

10:04

and you know, you might quibble about the word choice,

10:06

but he's essentially saying, i want a

10:08

better life than I have, and so I'm

10:11

going to do what it takes to have a better life. I'm gonna

10:13

learn, I'm gonna work, I'm going to sacrifice

10:15

to give myself and my my

10:17

family a better life.

10:19

Yeah I don't. Yeah, that's that's not the envy

10:22

that that does people in. It's the you've got more

10:24

than me. So now I'm unhappy.

10:26

So the only way I'll be happy is if you have less

10:29

right with that envy.

10:31

Which is why I quibble with the word envy

10:34

because the shades of meaning, you

10:36

know, people don't use it that way. But

10:40

then he says, but if that envy that discomforted

10:42

others having what you do not is coupled

10:44

with a lack of agency and a

10:47

sense of entitlement, then attaining

10:49

the object of that envy by imitating the subject

10:51

of that envy feels hopeless.

10:53

And so you don't, like, I

10:57

do we have time for this? Yeah.

10:59

I was a little kid of loved the game of golf,

11:01

just fell in love with it the first time I hit a golf ball. And

11:04

I worked at a golf club, beautiful club,

11:06

but we did not have nearly the money to

11:08

get in there. And I thought,

11:10

I want to play on golf courses that look like this

11:12

because they're beautiful and fun.

11:14

And I thought, I'm going to figure out how I have to do that.

11:17

And I wouldn't call that envy, and call it more

11:19

like admiration or something that was important

11:21

to me in figuring out how to get that.

11:24

Should have been angry that some people can afford that and you can't,

11:27

and maybe slash their tires in the parking.

11:28

Lot, right right, So

11:30

he says so the extremely envious seek to

11:33

alleviate the pain of envy not by

11:35

attaining the object of their envy, but by

11:37

destroying it, right, and

11:40

that's what we're seeing in the American political

11:43

scene. More than anything else, I would agree

11:45

with that. I thought that was great analysis.

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13:08

I tried to figure out how to buy one of the Trump Bibles

13:10

yesterday, but for some reason, there was no him,

13:13

one of the best salesmen in the history of the world, in his video

13:15

didn't have a call to action like what website

13:17

to go to or whatever. Now you tried to

13:20

buy the Trump gold shoe yeah, and they were sold

13:22

out that I figured out.

13:23

But they were sold out. Yeah, I'd still be wearing.

13:25

Them today if if I had gotten

13:28

Now we need to talk and fall apart.

13:30

What the Trump Bible?

13:32

Will he like retranslated from the ancient

13:35

terramy No no, no, no no, that's the original KJB

13:37

King James Bible.

13:39

Any other version is to me,

13:42

you might as well be a pagan like Joe. I mean, if you're reading

13:44

the others. But we got a lot more

13:46

news on the way, including that stay here the

13:48

Bible.

13:51

Armstrong Democratic

14:00

tickets pitch for re election.

14:02

They're less extreme.

14:04

They are extremists in our country trying

14:07

to take away healthcare coverage or

14:10

make it more expensive.

14:12

President Biden is going even further.

14:14

Olks, my predecessor and magaar officials

14:16

are going after seniors and people with disabilities

14:18

and children.

14:19

Even though former President Trump writes I'm

14:21

not running to terminate the ACA.

14:23

That is the centerpiece of the Biden Harris

14:26

warning Donald.

14:26

Trumpeter is myga friends are nothing

14:29

then but persistent.

14:30

They've tried to repeal it fifty times.

14:33

But I got news for them. We're

14:35

gonna stop them again.

14:38

What's a mega fisher is

14:40

that mumbling part in thirty eight? Let's hear

14:42

in thirty eight here, Michael, I think it's Donald

14:45

Trumpeters.

14:45

MYGA friends are nothing but

14:48

persistent.

14:48

Yeah, what what Donald

14:53

Trumpet is? Friends are mumba mumbum

14:56

mumba persistent, but not

14:58

persistently.

14:59

But that gave me an opportunity yesterday

15:02

listening to that riding with my eighth grader,

15:04

to say, I've

15:07

been hearing this my whole life.

15:09

And politicians do this all the time, of all

15:11

stripes.

15:11

They always trying to convince you that old

15:13

people are gonna eat dog food and little kids

15:16

are gonna die. I mean, it's just it's

15:18

just part of the whole political thing, so get used

15:20

to it, especially during presidential

15:22

campaigns. That's that's those are mistakes,

15:24

old people eating dog food and little children

15:27

dying somehow.

15:28

And teachers and firefighters, yeah fired.

15:31

They used to say cops and teachers and firefighters,

15:33

But for several years the Democratic platform

15:36

was firing tops.

15:37

So that would been cooled off a bit.

15:39

I hadn't noticed that, but that's true.

15:41

It now is teachers and firefighters,

15:44

not cops. Teachers and firefighters because cops are

15:46

the bad guys, right,

15:48

okay, but just hilarious

15:51

that that little lump of things

15:53

he threw or she threw in there. They're

15:55

trying to starve old people and push down

15:58

children in front of buses.

15:59

That's what they're all about, the mega Republicans.

16:01

All right, wow, whatever, but

16:04

persistent. Yeah.

16:05

Well, And I would not make light of

16:08

dementia and its related melodies

16:10

because it's a tragedy and heartbreaking. But the

16:13

idea that somebody who's in that bad of shape

16:15

five months from now

16:19

and that trend doesn't reverse, they don't get

16:21

better. The fact that

16:23

five months from now the convention is going

16:25

to be held and that rock Star is

16:27

going to lead the Democratic Party to victory.

16:29

I find that a stretch.

16:32

So I'm super duper tired, and

16:35

I have had a role here for some reason, a convergence

16:37

of events where I'm not getting enough sleep and

16:40

came across this, which I already knew, but it's

16:42

going to be reminded of. Just

16:44

two nights of restless sleep can

16:47

make you feel a shocking number of years

16:49

older. Experts say you can easily

16:52

feel ten to fifteen years older by

16:54

not getting enough sleep for a couple of nights.

16:56

Now I'm on a by four day run of not getting

16:59

enough sleep is amazing how it affects.

17:01

Your I feel like I'm eighty,

17:04

and.

17:04

That's an interesting description. It makes you feel older.

17:07

That rings true.

17:08

Yeah, and that something I

17:10

hope we two things.

17:12

We are learning more and more about sleep and how

17:14

important it is, and then I hope it becomes a cultural

17:17

thing, like I don't

17:19

know, eating vegetables and exercising

17:23

that just sleep is

17:25

a thing. I

17:27

think that's a really good idea.

17:30

Yeah.

17:31

Yeah, as opposed

17:33

to the live

17:36

fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse

17:38

theory. I'll sleep when I'm dead, yeah,

17:41

which will be soon because I don't sleep enough.

17:44

Which might be Friday. Yeah.

17:48

Well, it's one of the pillars of health, the

17:51

phs. So yeah.

17:54

Donald Trump sold gold shoes. What

17:56

a month or so ago. I tried to get a pair. I would have

17:58

loved to the collectors.

17:59

I don't.

18:00

I don't warn them. I don't warn them with my suit every

18:02

day. I don't want them the convention. We're going to the convention.

18:05

But yesterday he released a truth social video

18:08

talking up this new bible that he's got for sixty

18:10

bucks on Easter week. Who we'll play

18:12

a little bit of that and then.

18:13

Sitting around in the gold shoes flipping reading

18:15

your favorite versus sounds great to me.

18:18

And then some new poll numbers that are out

18:20

too. People are talking about Armstrong

18:22

and Getty.

18:24

Donald Trump facing mounting legal bills,

18:26

now revealing he is selling bibles, charging

18:29

fifty nine to ninety nine a bible.

18:31

This is a licensing deal.

18:32

Trump will collect royalties, meaning some of the proceeds

18:34

from the Bible sales will go directly

18:36

to Trump.

18:37

Okay, well,

18:40

let's hear a little Trump from Trump himself. He

18:42

put out a video on truth Social yesterday

18:45

that I was able to click on and

18:48

had to click except for all this data sharing

18:51

to watch.

18:51

But uh, this

18:54

is a Trump pitching the Bible thing.

18:55

This Bible is the King James version

18:58

and also includes our founding for the

19:00

documents. Yes, the Constitution, also

19:02

the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of

19:05

Independence, and the Pledge of Allegiance are

19:07

all part of this. God bless

19:10

the USA Bible.

19:11

And it's just very important and very important to

19:13

me. I want to have a lot of people have

19:15

it. You have to have it for your heart, for

19:17

your soul.

19:18

Another thing, I was watching this with my son and I said,

19:20

he ad libs everything, which is wild.

19:22

He's such a salesman, but doing

19:25

it his whole life. It's just he's perfectly comforable

19:27

robal camera. I'm going to do forty seconds

19:29

on selling my Bible. You know,

19:31

he's got the gazillion people that could write out a

19:33

script for him, but he doesn't do it that way. He just he

19:36

just pitches it.

19:36

Anyway. Here's a little more.

19:38

That's why our country is going haywire. We've

19:40

lost religion in our country. All

19:43

Americans need a Bible in their home,

19:45

and I have many.

19:47

It's my favorite book. It's a lot of people's

19:49

favorite book. There you go, the

19:52

Bible.

19:54

Boy.

19:55

I do not believe Trump is

19:57

a religious guy.

19:58

H No, neither do I know in the least. I

20:00

don't think he spends a second thinking about it. How

20:05

do you feel about the version

20:07

of the Bible that includes our founding

20:10

documents?

20:11

Well, actually, when I heard it, I thought that'd be handy to

20:13

have in one book. That's exactly

20:15

the word that popped to my mind, because I have

20:17

both, obviously, but I could see how

20:20

people who worry about this sort of thing would be worried

20:22

about combining our secular

20:26

founding documents with the Bible

20:28

is heading towards something or other's

20:31

theocracy.

20:31

Trump wants to start at theocracy. No, he

20:33

doesn't know. We wanted. No we can't.

20:37

But I just thought i'd be handy to have everything in

20:39

one book. I got on my

20:41

shelf. I got everything any Bible thing I want to look

20:43

up, and I got the Constitution, Declaration

20:45

and some other documents in there.

20:47

That Donald Trump, Lee Greenwood

20:49

Bible.

20:49

If you're not a fan of country music, like

20:51

I grew up on country music and played tons of it.

20:53

I worked at a country music station when

20:56

Lee Greenwood's proud

20:58

to be an American.

20:59

Or whatever, so we should play be od

21:01

Blessed.

21:03

I was playing that song when it was a hit originally

21:05

in the eighties on a country radio station

21:08

in western Kansas. I'm very

21:11

I am c to Lee Greenwood

21:13

concert when he was young and had air. You're

21:15

an og original Greenwood, all right,

21:18

So I am intimately rather. I'm sure

21:20

he had no idea at the time that

21:23

forty years later it would

21:25

become such a thing that

21:27

he's his name is on a Bible with

21:30

a president.

21:32

The Bible.

21:34

Anyway, I find the whole

21:36

thing uncomfortable,

21:39

very uncomfortable. And I think no matter how

21:41

big a fan of Trump you might be,

21:43

you've got to admit there are aspects

21:46

of his whole act that are a

21:48

little out there.

21:49

Oh yeah, well I prefer him over Biden.

21:51

And you get this. One of them is going to be president.

21:54

So there you go. But there

21:56

you go. There you.

21:59

Was X one. Was there is

22:01

a listener of our show Greenwood.

22:04

Yeah, yeah, just chicks dug

22:06

him back in the day.

22:07

He was he was. He was the kind

22:09

of guy I think women went to see that may

22:11

be one of the issues

22:15

for his ex Okay, gotcha.

22:18

And they can't take that away

22:20

anyway. So there you go. Here lie grin and say.

22:23

At one point, Trump says it's the only official

22:26

Donald Trump Lee Greenwood Bible, So don't

22:28

don't buy a knock off Donald

22:30

Trump Lee Greenwood Bible.

22:31

Out of the trunck is somebody's car. This is the official

22:33

one sixty dollars. Wow,

22:37

there's a lot of knockoffs.

22:39

Yeah, exactly. They're all over the place. Out

22:41

there, some Mexican bazaar they're selling knockoffs.

22:43

You get some of them from China.

22:45

They're like half the price, but they fall apart in

22:47

six weeks. Yeah, and he got some sort

22:49

of Jimmy Carter Oakridge Boys Bible.

22:53

That's not what you want. I wouldn't give you a nickel for

22:55

that, Okay.

22:57

So in the real world, political

22:59

news letter I read every single day is talking

23:01

about the Bloomberg polls

23:04

that came out this week that had Biden closing

23:06

the gap in the battleground states, and

23:08

everybody's waiting to see if this is an outlier or real.

23:11

It certainly could be real.

23:12

There's a lot of pun to say that the polls weren't going to stay where

23:14

they were, and they often go back

23:16

and forth or close the gap or whatever.

23:19

And there's also an expectation that when

23:21

you get to election day a lot of the blue bass

23:23

will come home.

23:24

As they say in the world of politics, you might,

23:26

you know, you.

23:27

Grumble about your side, but when it comes down

23:29

to it, like I was just saying, you got to choose

23:31

one of them, and you ain't gonna choose the other one, So

23:33

you end up choosing yours, even if you're not as excited

23:35

about him as you'd like to be.

23:38

So that could happen.

23:39

Reading from Mark Halpern's newsletter, he said

23:41

the reality of any change is almost

23:44

as important as a confidence building

23:46

dynamic for the incumbent that comes

23:48

with this game changing sense of the race. Polling

23:51

drives narratives more than anything else

23:53

by far.

23:54

That is true. I think the.

23:57

News narrative, the feeling among the pundit

24:00

is driven so much by where the polls are

24:02

going. And so

24:06

Democrats are feeling really good about themselves. Like

24:08

I said yesterday, when these poles came out,

24:11

I think that's good news for Republicans. Go ahead,

24:14

stay with that horse. Ride him all the way.

24:16

We'll pull him, pull him all the way to the finish

24:18

line. You can't ride him, uh, pull

24:20

him all the way to the finish line. Go ahead and stick with that, because

24:22

if the way things were prior to the State

24:25

of the Union address, I was concerned they're going to dump the

24:27

guy and get somebody like young and moditorish

24:29

Democrat the Trump can't beat.

24:31

Stick with Biden. Go ahead, feel confident.

24:34

I want to tell my Republican friends, get

24:36

ready, Bell, you're going to end for a problem.

24:39

And one other thing on this is often

24:41

pointed out, and we've said many times, the only

24:43

polls ever worth looking at are

24:45

ones done by posters who know how to properly

24:47

screen for likely voters, and the poll

24:50

says likely voters. If it's just

24:52

all voters or all Americans,

24:54

those polls are practically worthless. It's

24:56

the people that are actually going to vote the better and

24:59

place I don't take any of it more seriously.

25:01

Then that's mildly interesting for a couple

25:04

of reasons. Number One, any poll prior to September

25:06

is just not gonna

25:08

mean much. It's like, you know, I'm really into the NCAA

25:11

tournament as my alma mater, Illinois is still

25:13

involved, and if the coach were

25:15

to say, eleven seconds into the game, boy.

25:17

This game's going really well for us, I think, what are you

25:19

talking about? The whole

25:21

game lies in front of us.

25:24

Secondly, if you have a pole

25:26

with a margin and bearor of say four or five

25:28

percent, because they frequently are around there, you

25:30

can have one pole that is at the extreme

25:33

of the margin for error on the one

25:35

side, and then a month later another one comes

25:37

out and is four points more

25:39

favorable to the other side, and so you

25:42

appear to have a great deal of movement, but

25:44

statistically speaking, you haven't had any

25:46

movement at all. You've just had wobble.

25:48

Mm, there you go. And yet

25:50

it drives narrative, as you say, and

25:53

mood and spirit.

25:56

And if you're the kind of show that has to talk

25:58

about this all the time, we don't you talk

26:00

about the bulls a lot?

26:01

Is he gotta talk about something there ain't no, let's talk about

26:04

Yeah? I suppose so.

26:06

One final, all of them? Okay,

26:09

okay, one final

26:11

Joe Biden note. And I just I found

26:13

this so amusing on several levels.

26:15

We all know that the guy makes stuff up.

26:17

You know, he's got three degrees, top half of his law

26:19

school, he got a special scholarship, he rode

26:22

the amshak train.

26:23

For fifty million miles.

26:24

And the Italian guy says, Joey

26:27

baby and all that stuff, it's all made up.

26:30

He's a fabuloust.

26:32

It's a weird psychological

26:34

condition, but it's kind

26:36

of nutty. Well, the Free Beacon

26:39

had some great writing about He

26:41

keeps telling his political

26:43

origin story at rallies.

26:46

And I don't know if you've heard this, but

26:49

he talks about how he was fresh out of law school

26:51

and working as a clerk at the high powered

26:54

Wilmington, Delaware.

26:55

Law firm I've heard this story fifty

26:58

times.

26:59

Right, And he was tapped to defend a construction

27:01

company sued by a twenty three

27:03

year old welder who and I'm quoting

27:05

now lost part of his penis in

27:07

one of his testicles to a fire

27:09

that broke out while he was working inside a chimney

27:12

at the Delaware City plant. And

27:14

thanks to Biden's shrewd legal defense

27:16

on the construction company's behalf, the injured.

27:19

Man lost the case. Quote

27:21

This is quote from Biden. I had not heard

27:25

that the injury was cad

27:27

his genitals burnt hog percentage of the

27:29

penis, and one of the boys,

27:32

yes, Joe, and

27:34

so Biden Joe Biden

27:37

brags, I wrote this memo, and

27:39

son of a biatch, it prevailed. And

27:42

I looked over at that kid and I thought, son of

27:44

a bach, I'm in the wrong business.

27:45

I'm not made for this. So it was like

27:48

a two sided brag.

27:49

First of all, I wrote a legal defense

27:51

so brilliant that that guy

27:54

had to take his genitalia

27:57

and his changed life and got a hell he

28:00

made him.

28:02

And I'm like, whoa, whoa, You're

28:04

you're.

28:05

Bragging above that I had offended

28:07

the big construction company, a guy

28:09

with horrifying, unthinkable injuries.

28:11

Lost hit the brecks one ball,

28:13

Willie.

28:15

But then he says he thought he

28:17

was so racked by guilt that he

28:19

concocted an excuse to avoid a celebratory

28:22

lunch and and and asked

28:24

for a job in the Public Defender's office the

28:26

very next day because

28:29

he didn't he didn't like what he'd done.

28:32

Now that's a hell of a dramatic story,

28:34

he said, Uh, it's the only

28:36

time I ever lied. When

28:39

he lied to get out of the celebratory lunch.

28:43

Now that's funny.

28:45

Thus began, according to a New York Times report

28:47

on.

28:47

This Washington Post disagrees

28:50

with that statement. They would call that a four

28:52

pinocchio lie.

28:53

Yes, thus began, according

28:56

to the New York Times report on the special Council

28:58

interview, which I'll get to in a second, that would

29:00

one day take him to the White House.

29:02

So he told that under oath to

29:05

Old Robert Herr.

29:07

During his deposition, and

29:10

some people saying that because

29:13

the story is almost certainly a complete work of fiction

29:15

for reasons I'll get to, but they think he

29:17

might be in trouble for doing it under oath.

29:19

I don't think it'll come down. No, No, I don't think

29:21

so either. I don't know anything about it, but I don't think so.

29:23

But uh, why

29:25

did he tell that story to her?

29:27

Well, is just an old man starting to ramble

29:30

about stuff.

29:31

I was just gonna say, have you

29:33

ever hung around an old guy with a lot

29:35

of war stories that he tells all the time?

29:39

So I sent all one Johnson packing

29:41

and said, eh, but I felt bad about it.

29:44

Why why are you telling me this? Why

29:46

do you have classified documents next to your corvette?

29:50

I know a guy who's a He's a

29:52

good guy and I like him. But

29:54

if you ask him if it's going to be hot

29:57

today, he'll tell you about seeing the

29:59

Himalaya as it's so there I

30:01

was, and you've heard about the damn Himalays and sunrise

30:03

ten times every conversation. He works it

30:05

around to seeing the Himalays at sunrise.

30:07

It's just one of those guys, and Biden

30:09

is absolutely like that.

30:11

But anyway, I guess Biden, yess.

30:14

That's one of the advantages of having never having

30:16

done anything I'm really proud of.

30:17

I don't have to tell that story over and over again.

30:19

So yeah, Well, although

30:21

Biden did work at a law firm tapped to defend

30:23

a construction company in a negligent suit.

30:25

That sounds like the one he's describing.

30:29

The case concluded in nineteen

30:31

sixty eight, when Biden was still in law

30:33

school. Yes, it was before

30:36

he worked for the firm. That's right. Nineteen

30:38

sixty eight is when he was in law

30:41

school. Our current president was

30:43

in law school in the sixties.

30:45

That's not the salient point that it's

30:48

an interesting one, I agree, stounding

30:50

Well, so he was still in law school.

30:52

He did not work for the for the firm.

30:54

Yet when this case concluded, and the

30:56

welder one, he walked away with the

30:58

equivalent of two point eight million, which

31:01

was a huge settlement back of the

31:03

time.

31:03

It's a bit of a change in the story. Yeah,

31:07

yeah, it kind of falls apart right there.

31:10

Yeah, and then they go through, well, has any record

31:12

of embellishments and yarn spinning that have

31:15

we nailed down?

31:15

How many testicles he has? I mean, is that even true?

31:19

Well?

31:20

No, actually, see that's the thing.

31:21

It's the typical The story

31:23

has evolved through the years because there's a similar

31:26

case. Well, he was an undergrad,

31:29

a welder who had been engulfed in flames

31:31

and had some injury to his genitals and had to

31:34

have his legs severed. But again this guy won,

31:37

and and.

31:40

No.

31:40

So Biden saw a newspaper

31:42

article while he was in law

31:44

school, and little

31:48

by little overtime wove himself

31:50

into it, as he tends to do.

31:54

And I said, I did order the code red,

31:56

and you want me on that wall. That's what I

31:58

told the jury. But did

32:01

you see stuff on TV and working in

32:03

his mind it's him? Or how does this whole thing work?

32:06

I guess?

32:06

So?

32:07

Yeah? Yeah, really really

32:09

odd? Wow.

32:12

I want more of that, not less from an entertainment

32:14

standpoint, Not from a president.

32:16

No, definitely, not from the guy in charge

32:19

of the nuclear arsenal during a time

32:21

of incredible threat. Yeah, prefer somebody

32:23

a tad sharper.

32:26

Yeah.

32:26

We got a number of things to get to that

32:28

we are looking forward to discussing today, including

32:31

something I came around about sports psychology

32:33

that I'm hoping I can work into my own real life.

32:36

So I hope you can stay

32:38

a loser, always a loser. That's

32:41

what I was afraid of.

32:42

All right, stay here, we

32:50

call on the White Church in Boston

32:53

to join us in supporting a Black

32:55

Reparations.

32:56

Movement standing in solidarity.

32:59

Clergy leaders are across the city of Boston gathered

33:01

for an interfaith, multiracial meeting

33:04

at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Roxbury

33:06

Nubian Square. They're here to ask the

33:08

religious community to atone for Black

33:10

Boston suffering and support Black

33:13

Reparations. And we are coming,

33:15

as doctor King said, to

33:18

get our check.

33:19

Yeah, that's what he was talking about. No,

33:22

he didn't literally mean a check check. This

33:24

was a metaphor. Yeah, for having

33:26

the rights owed you as declared

33:29

in our constitution and the declaration.

33:31

That's what he was talking about.

33:32

He wasn't talking about a checking account

33:34

signed at the bottom and dated before

33:37

our response the next clip, please Michael.

33:40

Organizers from the Boston People's Reparation

33:42

Commission say they're also following up

33:44

on their demand on the City of Boston for

33:46

a fifteen billion dollar initial payout

33:49

to begin the process towards repair and reconciliation

33:52

to the city's Black community.

33:54

Five billion dollars has initial payment

33:56

around cash payouts,

33:58

five billion dollars around

34:01

strengthening our financial institutions,

34:03

creating a new Black bank, five

34:06

billion dollars in terms of addressing

34:09

issues of the education

34:11

achievement gap between blacks and whites.

34:15

Now, would you like to start with the fifteen

34:17

billion dollars for the city of Boston

34:20

alone, or go with the segregated.

34:22

Banking system he proposes.

34:26

Do these people, and they're doing this

34:28

big time in California, in San Francisco,

34:30

Do these people actually believe

34:33

this is ever.

34:33

Going to happen? I

34:35

think they might. I think some of them

34:38

do.

34:39

Having watched the video from

34:41

that news CASTILYBZ News in Boston,

34:44

they look absolutely sincere. It's

34:47

not grand standing like some of your usual

34:49

suspects.

34:52

And I feel bad. I don't want

34:55

to be too harsh, but.

34:57

A nobody ever discusses

35:00

the trillions of dollars.

35:02

The United States has spent trillions

35:05

of.

35:05

Dollars in trying

35:08

to lift black families,

35:11

kids, adults out of poverty,

35:14

beginning with well in

35:17

a major way, beginning with Linda

35:19

Johnson's Great Society.

35:21

Nixon spent billions.

35:23

Of dollars just every single year,

35:25

billions and billions of dollars to.

35:26

Do exactly what this guy is talking about.

35:29

The idea that it hasn't been done and should

35:31

be done is completely fictional.

35:34

Yeah, and it's been done in a way that the

35:37

intentions were to, yeah, accomplish

35:39

the very things they're talking about, and it hasn't

35:41

worked for a variety of reasons

35:44

that are fairly well discussed in

35:47

talk radio. But so

35:50

what's what are you proposing there? I guess you

35:53

got a different plan that will work, just

35:56

more money. Yeah,

35:59

it's well, it's number one,

36:02

it can't happen. It would be unjust the

36:04

number two. It's doomed to failure. And where

36:06

we need to change what we're doing? And where

36:08

would the money come from? Like

36:11

in San Francisco they're talking about everybody gets a free

36:13

house and a million dollars.

36:14

Where's this money coming from?

36:16

Where this guy was calling on white

36:18

churches to write giant checks. Yeah,

36:20

but there are always amounts that nobody has, So

36:24

again, where's the money come from? I'm

36:26

confused by all the great privileges

36:28

of the progressive. They don't have to worry

36:30

about reality.

36:31

It's very armstrong and get