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Joe Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Jack Armstrong
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Joe Getty
Armstrong and Getty. And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, just successfully launched its first orbital rocket into space. It was a mission to prove its new Glenn rocket could reach orbit. Blue Origin hopes to guide the rocket's first stage booster safely back to Earth to be refurbished and used once again, driving down the cost for future launches.
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Guest/Co-host
That is awesome that the technological advances that are being made in rocketry and all this sort of stuff coming from private sector. The two richest guys in the world are doing the best stuff out there and they've got their egos and, and, and financial incentives to, to, to get better and better. It's fantastic.
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Joe Getty
That's the man, the head of Amazon. That's right. I also, I think it's just enthusiasm for it. I think exploring the universe is an incredibly attractive proposition for these guys and I'm glad they're into it. Jack, one report on the Blue Origin rocket though. It's going to get back in two days, but then will be stolen off the launch pad by a junkie. That's an Amazon reference to Amazon. And they're back to you.
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Guest/Co-host
We weren't going to do politics really this segment. We're going to do other news. But Joe Biden last night, the, the main nut of his speech, the important part that will be remembered, I think is him warning about the oligarchy of the rich that are taking over this country and blah, blah, blah.
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Joe Getty
Tech industrial complex.
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Guest/Co-host
You got the two richest men in the world, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk doing this whole thing with the rockets, which is fantastic. Your billionaire on your side. His goal was not outer space rocket technology, anything that could benefit mankind. It was getting Marxist das into big cities so crime can run rampant. You right.
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Joe Getty
In short, defending west, defeating Western civilization and reinstituting Marxism wherever he could. There's a real freaking hero, Mr. President.
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Guest/Co-host
That makes me angry anyway.
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Joe Getty
Oh, I can't stand it.
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Guest/Co-host
This is not politics. It does mention a Biden though. Hunter Biden. 200 of his artworks destroyed in the fires. I don't know if you heard this.
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Joe Getty
What a loss to the world of ours.
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Guest/Co-host
He says value 200.
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Joe Getty
He says he crank out like 10 a day.
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Guest/Co-host
Somebody who had 200 of his paintings. Oh, it's the guy who would. That guy who had loaned him all the money. The weird looking guy that loaned Hunter all the money. They met at a party, remember that whole deal? Paid off his taxes. That guy's house burnt down. He lived in the Pacific Palisades and he had 200 of Hunter's paintings again and again. You bought Hunter's paintings? Why? Just because you loved his art? Anywho.
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Joe Getty
Well, and he had him appraised at like half a million each or something. Ridiculously, yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
Millions of dollars. He says, can you do that? If I have a fire, can I say, oh, my string art. My string art worth millions of dollars if I was going to sell it. And I never got around to it, but I was making bird houses worth $250,000 each.
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Joe Getty
You can try. Yeah, please. Speaking of leadership, this is getting so little attention because of our domestic politics in the US But South Korea finally arrested their president, which is not going to happen. Thousand police officers.
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Guest/Co-host
Wow, I didn't hear that.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. So as we mentioned to you last week, I think it was, they went to arrest the guy for his declaring martial law and the rest of it. And of course, the president and his folks are saying this is unconstitutional, the court was not, did not have the jurisdiction, blah, blah, blah. What I know about South Korean jurisprudence will not take long to lay out. Okay. Who knows which side is right? But so they went to arrest the guy and he had hundreds of security personnel and like city buses ringing his presidential compound, like in a siege. Like he built himself a castle and he's like, come and get me. You'll never get me alive.
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Guest/Co-host
But they didn't fight, right?
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Joe Getty
Right. After hours of negotiation, the authorities backed off.
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Guest/Co-host
That's the key to these things. Throughout history, going back as old as time. Shakespeare, it's all about, will your guys fire on countrymen to protect you or not? And sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. That's what the, the book I'm reading about Paris, Napoleon iii. He told his guys when everybody was coming after him, fire on him. And they're like, nah, we ain't gonna shoot a bunch of other Frenchmen. You gotta go. And he left. That's what happened with this guy in South Korea.
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Joe Getty
So the second attempt to arrest the president unfolded differently. Unlike the rushed initial try, special investigators spent days planning with police. Yuen, that's the president. His security forces outnumbered them last time, but when just three investigators could deliver the arrest warrant. But before dawn On Wednesday, some 1100 police and investigators turned up nearly triple the number of UN security personnel. So it's just physical bulk and we outnumber you and we will whoop up on you. No. Secret Service bodyguards actively blocked the arrest. No physical confrontations occurred. Instead, dozens of UN's ruling party lawmakers and officials blocked the entrance. Thousands of protesters protested, as protesters will. After about six hours, he finally acquiesced.
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Guest/Co-host
If you're super committed to the guy, you might take on those odds. I mean, we've seen that before, people going down to the last to fight for their person. But not in this case. They weren't like, I'm not going to die for you, dude.
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Joe Getty
Well, right. And they're making the point. And it's worth mentioning South Korea, one of our closest allies in the region, a really important bulwark against China and totalitarianism. Perhaps you've heard of their northern neighbor, fathead Kim Jong Un.
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Guest/Co-host
They're a real country.
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Joe Getty
I was going to say they have a functioning democracy just since the 80s, so it's still a little new and shaky. But He Yun and his people slammed the arrest warrant. Is lacking legal merit. They will fight it, etc. Let's just hope they can. They can shake this out because, I mean, this is used. Everybody, every time Trump, you know, is rude to a waiter. Everybody calls it a constitutional crisis. That in South Korea is a constitutional crisis.
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Guest/Co-host
What an underreported, crazy story that is.
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Joe Getty
I know it.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah.
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Joe Getty
Oh, speaking of Trump, one more real quick. And then, Jack, I'm sure you have more to talk about. Did you hear Melania Trump's documentary deal with Amazon? I did not have Jeff Bezos Beware the Tech Industrial complex. Anyway, former and future first lady Melania Trump inked an eye popping $40 million deal with Amazon to license a documentary on her life, which included in the contract apparently cameos from Donald J. And the towering young Baron Trump. The documentary is going to be directed by Brett Ratner, who you might know from directing Rush Hour, among other things, set to be released later this year, with one source close to the agreement suggesting it could spawn multiple projects. Unlike the miserable Megan Markle podcast, for instance, or the Barack and Michelle Obama projects, this one is thought to be probably pretty profitable, but 40 million bucks?
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Guest/Co-host
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Joe Getty
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Joe Getty
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Guest/Co-host
Maybe I'll just tease this so I can go more in depth later. The real ID might actually become a thing this spring. I mean it keeps getting put off, keeps getting put off and you're gonna, you know, if I'm not ready, this is the sort of thing I would absolutely do. Have a big trip plan and get to the airport and find out do you have your real id? We don't take driver's licenses anymore because that's going to happen at some point. But more on that a Little bit later, the Wall Street Journal with a piece the other day that got my attention. The bomb is back. At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era, according to the Wall Street Journal, is now over. Treaties are collapsing. Nuclear powers are strengthening their arsenals. The risk is growing that nuclear weapons will spread more widely. And the use of tactical nukes on battlefields is no longer unimaginable and being regularly contemplated. The latest estimate is that China has about 600 intercontinental ballistic missiles in its arsenal, all of which can reach the US mainland and they're building more as fast as they can. So the bomb is back. The fear of the bomb is not back, though. For whatever reason, younger people didn't grow up with this as a reality. So there's no concern, concern that this could actually happen. It can actually happen. Almost certainly will happen someday, but who knows when?
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Joe Getty
Yeah, was funny. I had muscle memory in reading that, that, that piece, which I saw as well. In that I thought, oh, sweet God, a nuclear arms race. Then I remembered, hey, I've spent my whole life under that, that shadow. Wait a minute. I remember how this goes. You go about your business, you try to think about something else. I mean, if you want to talk about it and how it's dangerous and awful and the various ways nuclear holocaust might unfold, it's absolutely a valid discussion.
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Guest/Co-host
The only thing you can do is vote for people who take this seriously and realize it could actually happen.
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Joe Getty
Oh, yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
As opposed to people who never talk about it and talk about wind farms and crap like that. I almost dropped an S bomb.
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Joe Getty
Go ahead.
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Guest/Co-host
Things that aren't going to destroy mankind.
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Joe Getty
So finally, and we can expand on this later on when we have time, I came across a piece written by Christian Schneider which dovetailed quite beautifully in a number of things I've seen recently, including Joe Biden's utterly life draining speech last night, which I took one for the team and attempted to watch for.
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Guest/Co-host
I did not watch it. That's a first review I've heard using the term life draining.
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Joe Getty
It was, it was. Seriously? Yeah. I'm less alive. I will live a shorter period of time than I would have had I passed on the speech entirely. But we can hit you with some quote unquote highlights of that. But the point is, and there are signs of this everywhere, Hakeem Jeffries, the other day, the Republicans are trying to pass this law that says no dudes in girls sports, no dudes in women's sports. No dudes in locker rooms. Okay. Which 70% of America agrees with strongly. Hakeem Jeffries the other day said Republicans are trying to pass the child predator availability bill, or child predator. What was the word he used? You know, a betting bill. And everybody's like, what the hell are you talking about? Well, I stand by my words. So just completely out of step with America. You have Wisconsin Democratic Chair Ben Wickler, who's currently running to lead the Democratic National Committee. He issued a statement on X previewing his tenure. We unite our coalition by making sure everyone's at the table. LGBTQ minus plus, blah, blah, blah. Black, Latino, native, ethnic, interfaith, youth, disability. Just dripping in wokeism. Bunch of other examples. Everything Joe Biden saying. The Democratic Party has no idea why they lost, which is great news for conservatism.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, Fantastic. Glad to hear that. Glad to double down, go further, make those your lead issues.
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Joe Getty
Oh, yeah. DEI is the most important thing you can do. Preach it. Preach it all the time.
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Guest/Co-host
And there's no such thing as a woman or a man. Keep doing it. Right? Love it. You get to choose more on the way. Stay tuned.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. I'm sure they're hoping for a deal of some sort or figuring out something so they don't have to shut down, but that's one of their options. And obviously this whole thing is about leverage and negotiations and the deal and which of the many things being floated will be used. There's a lot of things that could happen here, but the first thing is what the Supreme Court says. And if they declare the ban constitutional based on national security grounds, someone has to do something. Either Apple or Google or ByteDance.
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Guest/Co-host
Maybe one of the reasons.
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Joe Getty
I'm sorry, just jump in. I wish people would refer to the ban on Chinese ownership of TikTok, because it's not bad on TikTok. Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
I was about to say one of the reasons this thing gets complicated is people's minds go lots of different directions. And the free speech direction, the Chinese Communist Party spying on you stealing information direction, the kids wasting time on social media apps direction. Or, you know, just a whole bunch of different things. And they. They aren't all part of the legal part, but they're all. But some of them are still very, very, very important to this point. This guy, Cal Newport, who. I've never read any of his stuff. He's written a couple of books. He's an anti social media crusader, computer science professor. Got a couple of books out, Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. Anyway, he detailed his experience of joining TikTok in an essay for the New Yorker, and this is what he wrote. A decade ago, I viewed social media as Manichean. These platforms could distract and mislead their users, but they could also topple dictators and enable free expression. But much of the content on TikTok and on comparable services like Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts borders on nihilism. It seems to revel in meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are saying the quiet part out loud, that there is no deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares and their users seem to understand and accept this new agreement. I found that fascinating. There's some sort of, maybe I should ask my kids about this. There's some sort of like unspoken or maybe, maybe set out loud agreement among young people. Yeah, this is all about the meaninglessness of life. I get it. They get it. We all get it. We're all, we're all participating in. Just this is all just a waste of time. We're perfectly fine with amusing ourselves to death because it's all pointless. Is that actually what's happening?
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Joe Getty
There is a vein of that running through society in the West. There's absolutely no doubt it's reinforced by, you know, low birth rates, people not coupling, people keeping to themselves. It's. It's not a healthy trend.
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Guest/Co-host
I'll have to think about this today. The, the, the nihilistic angle to all this in that it's just everything is pointless. Nothing matters. So why not sit here?
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Joe Getty
Who.
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Guest/Co-host
I don't care if the Chinese are stealing my nothing matters. I'm just going to sit here and scroll through videos until it's time to go to bed.
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Joe Getty
If I am 19 years old in a college dorm and stoned, that conversation will take place and it's okay. But if you have a person or generation of people who don't grow out of that notion and don't understand a you only get one chance at life battle. So by God, fill it. Live a good one. Live an interesting one. And, and you know when you're old and you don't have enough money to eat nor medicate yourself, you're gonna wish you hadn't sat around scrolling through TikTok. Those are indisputable truths. And I think, are we getting shouted down?
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Guest/Co-host
Are we sure of that? This stuff hasn't been around long enough. We don't know that there aren't going to be 50 year olds perfectly happy with the fact that they spent decades scrolling through TikTok. I would assume if you're hungry, you'll.
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Joe Getty
Care, but because they live in a socialist society where it doesn't matter. Is that what you're aiming at or.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, you'll be. So you'll be. You'll have some place to live and have some food. I don't know if that's true. I hope you're right, but I'm not sure that we're not going to have people that are, you know, decades from now, 60 and 70 who are fine with continuing to just scroll through videos.
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Joe Getty
Well, if, if socialism continues to grow. You're right. But I know people right now who've done well in life and are looking at old age and people who have not done well at life looking at old age and they're have. They have a very different future from each other.
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Guest/Co-host
I found that fascinating. Much of the content revels in its meaninglessness, sometimes even poking fun at the idea that a video should be useful. The most popular platforms are saying the quiet part out loud. That there is no deep, deeply meaningful justification for their digital wares and their users seem to understand and accept that agreement. That is troubling.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it is. I get it. People again. Well, yeah, I don't know. I'm not bullish on humanity.
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Guest/Co-host
We'll do some of the highlights, which are worth discussing, of Joe Biden's speech last night because he said some crazy ass highlights.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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Joe Biden
I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. This is a dangerous concert and that's a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people. The dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
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Joe Getty
Okay, man. I don't feel like I'm threatened by an oligarchy of the private sector.
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Guest/Co-host
Right.
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Joe Getty
It's one thing how to manage that.
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Guest/Co-host
It's one thing for MSNBC to act like it's a big problem that Elon Musk is at Mar A Lago so much. But for the sitting President of the United States to go on TV in his final address and act like this is a major threat. We're living under an oligarchy where people can't get ahead anymore. First of all, how did you combine those two things? So because Elon Musk's at Mar A Lago and wants to cut the size of Government people can no longer become wealthy.
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Joe Getty
I know.
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Guest/Co-host
What are you even talking about?
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Joe Getty
I know. It was just bizarre. I watched a fair amount of the speech last night with my jaw agape, not from senility, but from being astounded. Yet that was a complete disconnect. And obviously the hypocrisy is also almost hilarious. The tech leaders, they could not put in their pockets during the Biden years. They browbeat into censoring free speech for them to make sure they could subjugate the American people into utterly ridiculous and scientifically unsupportable Covid measures. So yeah, tech guys can be harnessed for evil. We noticed.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah. On the heels of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview in which he said Biden people were screaming at him when he attempted to put up facts about side effects from the vaccine screamed at by the Biden administration. So you are giving us a lecture about oligarchs and social media and that sort of thing. Also, Brit Baer pointing out last night the Democrats raised and spent two to one dollars on this presidential election. Two to one over the Republicans.
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Joe Getty
Gotta get dark money out of politics.
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Guest/Co-host
What? Again? What are you talking about?
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Joe Getty
You know, as it this is his valedictories on the way out. If I thought Joe Biden had any beliefs, I could believe that maybe he was like, yeah, we need to get the Democrat money out of politics too. But I don't think he has any actual beliefs, so I'm just not interested. And so I guess we're running some of the notable moments. I refuse to use the term highlights from the speech just as a measure of how inept and out of touch Biden and company are. I don't think any of this is very significant. Honestly, it just struck me as sad.
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Guest/Co-host
And pathetic it would have been 20 years ago. As I said earlier, I think a president coming out and saying, look, we're close to an oligarchy would have been, holy crap, this needs a national discussion. But now we're into the era of people just say crap all the time.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, yeah. I should have taken a picture, a photograph I saw a graph on. I think it was a special report with Brett Bear last night may not have been about approval ratings that Biden is leaving office with. And they are south of every single president from the polling era except Dick Nixon. And not by much Nixon does. Nixon beat Biden to the bottom and give it time is he is vastly less popular than the guy right ahead of him that I think may have been George H.W. bush.
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Guest/Co-host
And as I Said last week. I think because some people's numbers go up, Harry Truman left with low numbers and has gone up throughout history. I think Biden's going to go down.
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Joe Getty
In retrospect, I would agree. Yeah. Yeah. If you're a fan of horse crap, you'll enjoy the next clip. 31. Michael.
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Joe Biden
I'm equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well. Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children.
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Guest/Co-host
This drives me.
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Joe Biden
Our families.
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Joe Getty
I know, I know. Insane last night.
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Guest/Co-host
How do you have the ancient shriveled testicles to say that on national television?
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Joe Getty
Oh, I know.
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Guest/Co-host
I'd like to know what he knows and what he doesn't at his age. I mean, the combination of being bubbled the way you are as a president and the fact that he's dementia ridden.
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Joe Getty
Does he know, for instance, his pollsters would not tell him what his polls look like, which is a shocking example of cocooning old grandpa.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah. The reason he was going around claiming he was winning is because that's what people were telling him. Why wouldn't he think that? Does he know that Zuckerberg spilled the beans on Friday and said the Biden administration was screaming at us when we had tried to print anything that went against their narrative? So now Joe Biden's gonna come on TV a couple of nights later and warn us about social media and its ills and how it could mislead people and misinformation? Are you kidding me? You wouldn't allow actual facts to come out if they didn't match up with your version of the truth. You're talking about them trying to grab power. I mean, that hubris to do that. But again, I don't think he knows what he's doing. I don't think he knows any of this.
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Joe Getty
Either he doesn't know or he doesn't know that we know that 98% of fact checking is simply expressing an opinion, and the last thing it is is fact checking. For instance, and the guy who brought us the Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation and 100 other lies. Well, I'm not going to pardon the boy. Among other things, the idea that you would stand up as some sort of Jesus of accurate Truthful information and guide us to the promised land is. Well, it's not even funny. It's just disgusting.
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Guest/Co-host
Your administration called at that time the biggest social media influencer in the world and screamed at them when they checked facts, if you didn't like the facts. And then last night on tv, you said, they're giving up on fact checking. I don't even. I don't even know where you go with this conversation.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it was slurry. It was mumbly. It was full of hypocrisy, fiction, and also. And this kind of pleased me in a perverse way, full of repeating affection for the very policies and beliefs that got the Democrats whacked at the polls. Not hard enough, in my opinion, but just another example of Biden. Harris and company have no idea why they lost.
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Guest/Co-host
I don't know if this clip includes the thing I'm mostly going to rant about, but it's a good ending. Here's. Here's how Joe Biden ended in something he said toward the end that just drove me nuts. 34.
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Joe Biden
Michael, after 50 years of public service.
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Guest/Co-host
Here we go.
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Joe Biden
I give you my word. I still believe in the idea for which this nation stands. Nation where the strengths of our institutions and the character of our people matter and must endure. Now it's your turn to stand guard. May you all be the keeper of the flame. May you keep the face. I love America. You love it, too. God bless you all. May God protect her, too. Thank you for this great honor.
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Guest/Co-host
I thought it was a little over the top for him to say, now it's your turn to stand guard. As he has been the brave man out there keeping America going this last half century. And now that he's stepping down, he's laying the challenge on us to pick up the mantle of freedom and democracy and all that is good and right and honest and march forward. But Joe's heard this rant a thousand times. It drives me nuts when these guys brag about their life dedicated to public service. Dude, you have four houses. You spend most of your time living on the beach. You have expensive cars. You and your whole family are gazillionaires. Don't talk to me about public service. Give me a world in which you didn't get into public service where you would and your family would have ended up as wealthy as you did. Give me a break. Public Service.
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Joe Getty
Dozens of LLCs laundering your money.
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Guest/Co-host
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. After 50 years of public me serving the public. That's what I was doing. I wasn't becoming ungodly rich and living a life people can only dream of. Me and my entire extended family. You gotta be kidding.
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Joe Getty
Yeah. Yeah. I can't fault the guy for taking a shot at some sort of eloquence that somebody might write down on his way out. I mean, because he's leaving office in days and the earth within months, judging.
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Guest/Co-host
By the look of him this mortal coil soon.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, but the idea that the guy who called very minor post Covid electoral reform in Georgia, Jim Crow on steroids, would lecture me on how much he loves America and how it's my turn to stand guard. He's not even worth anger. It's just pathetic. Go away.
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Guest/Co-host
I have a niece who is actually in public service. She's working. She's actually got a high paying job now, but she did quite a few years with a high degree from a high college and very talented. No pay, no glory, helping homeless people sort of thing. That's public service. There are lots of people that do that. Lots of you do that. That is. You decided you'd rather try to help mankind than go after money. That's not what Joe Biden did, okay? Look at his homes. Look at him laying there on the beach with his eyes closed in front of one of his many homes. And the way his son traveled around the world and got rich. Public service. Give me a freaking break.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that is hilarious.
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Guest/Co-host
How do you say that? Given I would think he'd have more self awareness than that. Everybody knows how rich I am now and how rich my son is and the lifestyle we've got in the LLCs. And my brother got wealthy. I mean, good lord, I probably better leave out the whole public service thing.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, you've got to remind yourself though, the percentage of Americans who've never heard an honest accounting of all of those things you mentioned because of where they get their news. You mentioned that on NPR and the mainstream media, the only critical notes sounded about the hostage deal that Israel and Hamas just reached, which will soon fall apart, by the way. The only notes of skepticism or criticism were that Benjamin Yahoo, the war criminal monster, resisted it for so long and is such a bad guy. I mean, if you took in those news sources, you would think you were well informed, but you'd be sadly, sadly misinformed. Which again gets back to Joe Biden worrying about misinformation and its unholy cousin disinformation. Please.
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Guest/Co-host
Social media companies are going to stop fact checking. We need to hold them accountable. Oh my God. You threatened Mark Zuckerberg to Ruin his business if he didn't print exactly what you wanted. Are you kidding?
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Joe Getty
Don't let anybody say there might be side effects to the vaccines. Don't let anybody suggest our active duty troops don't need the shot. Ban them from your, your, your platform or we will punish you severely. We will make your life hell. But misinformation and disinformation shouldn't be allowed. Oh, my.
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Guest/Co-host
They've abandoned fact checking. Well, he's a senile old man.
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Joe Getty
Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Allegedly, Kamala Harris is butthurt that he's going around saying that he could have beaten Trump because she finds it hurtful and a suggestion that she is somehow lesser than him. I just hope they can mend those fences before he goes to the great White House in the sky.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah, the biggest story yet to be written and maybe you've been predicting that maybe the noon on Monday people start getting book deals and that sort of thing. I can't wait. How bad he was he behind the scenes. How many new people knew for how long? How many people were slapping their heads thinking, oh, my God, I can't believe this guy's running again, or oh my God, I can't believe this guy thinks he's gonna be president again.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, I'm sure the details are gonna be really interesting and incredibly troubling, but I don't need much more than. And this has been established. I mean, just like, not even disputed. His pollsters were not allowed to tell him what the polls said by his inner circle. His inner circ say, don't give him any bad news. I mean, that is bizarre.
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Guest/Co-host
It's pretty weird. They wanted to keep their jobs because if he wins, they stay employed. That's the problem you have with administrations because if they lose, you're out of work. You're. You're out of work. You have to tell your family. Well, I guess I'm going to put out some resumes. We might be moving soon. Yeah. So I guess that's what you do. It's not very patriotic. You have any thoughts on any of this? Text line 415295, KFTC.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty. A Southwest Airlines pilot was pulled from the flight deck of a commercial flight and jailed for driving under the influence. David Alsop allegedly smelled of alcohol when police in Savannah, Georgia removed him from the plane shortly before scheduled takeoff at 6:05am Southwest says the pilot has been removed from duty.
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Guest/Co-host
Why? So he actually was in the cockpit when they arrested him. Holy crap.
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Joe Getty
It's interesting that Nora O'Donnell there said that he was arrested for drunken driving just because obviously he'd driven, I guess to the. Or just sitting behind the wheel of the jet, which was the drunken driving, getting to the airport, sitting there. Can you arrest most of those guys? Take an Uber. Unless that's his home home base, I don't know.
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Guest/Co-host
That doesn't matter. I suppose the fact that he was drunk, sitting in the cockpit about the pilot the plane at 6:05am Right. That's drunk from the night before. That's what that is.
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Joe Getty
Right? Right. Unless he was, you know, just sober and still, you know, had it. The smell coming out of his skin. Guy has not been convicted yet. I need to point that out.
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Guest/Co-host
Yeah. Was there anything there about a blood breathalyzer? They didn't mention anything of blowing this or that. He smelled of booze and was arrested.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Guest/Co-host
So I don't know what his blood alcohol was. You could. You can smell booze the next day and not be drunk. I think. Think?
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Joe Getty
Sure, I think so. If you're. Yeah, well, it depends.
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Guest/Co-host
I don't know.
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Joe Getty
I. I know the threshold for flying a passenger jet full of innocent human beings.
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Guest/Co-host
You're allowed to have what, a couple martini?
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Joe Getty
No, no. I think 01 in your career is over.
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Guest/Co-host
You ought to have have a drink or two. I mean, you're flying this big plane. It's nerve wracking.
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Joe Getty
It's like when I did that drunk driving education thing with the California Highway Patrol. After a couple drinks, I was. That was when my scores peaked. That's when I was at my best.
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Guest/Co-host
I have a friend who's a private pilot. Man, they do not mess around. You, you. There's all kinds of things you can do and never fly again. All kinds of things. All kinds of minor health things you can have happen to you. Certainly. This drinking thing, you're done. I mean, it's not like your. Your career is over.
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Joe Getty
Oof.
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Guest/Co-host
But how about the passengers? That's got to be something. You find out what he was. We were like minutes away from delayed.
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Joe Getty
Why?
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Guest/Co-host
Minutes away from a drunk guy flying us around.
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Joe Getty
I saw stupid computers. I just programmed where we're going.
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Guest/Co-host
The plane flies itself.
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Joe Getty
You buzz your pants.
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Guest/Co-host
This is your pilot. We're supposed to be going to Tulsa. Who wants to go to Tulsa? I got enough gas. Let's go to Vegas. Who wants to go to Vegas? Show hands. Come on, let's go to Vegas. Hey, Tulsa, yolo, you live once. Let's go to Vegas. Nobody wants to go to Tulsa. Come on, I Know a good place?
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Joe Getty
I hate pull rank, but if you could like get out of the way of the bathroom. I gotta pee.
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Guest/Co-host
I know somebody and I've always wondered about this or maybe I've heard stories. I know somebody who just two weeks ago partied with some stewardesses. We're doing a layover. And said, holy crap, did they party hard? Like, like. It was just shocking. Like I couldn't keep up. Party hard. And these were women that were like between 40, 45 and 60. It's not like they were 20 somethings. They just partied hard. Like crazy hard. I guess that's what you do. Of course they're not flying the plane, but just as a lifestyle. Always out of town. I don't know. Not for me.
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Joe Getty
If God forbid, Judy ever leaves me, I am going to take to hanging around airport hotels and just where the horny drunk flight crews are.
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Guest/Co-host
That's an interesting backup plan if the worst should happen.
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Joe Getty
With a good book, certainly.
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Guest/Co-host
And my backup plan if the worst should happen is to hang around hotel bars and hope to get some from a drunk stewardess. Wow, that's a good.
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Joe Getty
You got a better plan, Mr.
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Guest/Co-host
Perfect?
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Joe Getty
Huh?
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Guest/Co-host
Oh my God.
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Joe Getty
What are we doing next hour?
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Guest/Co-host
We gotta check in on the fire situation. There are some more governmental kickings to come.
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Joe Getty
Oh, goodness sakes. And what happens if you have a mortgage and your house burns down?
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Guest/Co-host
I don't know, actually.
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Joe Getty
Times thousands and thousands and thousands. It ain't good.
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Guest/Co-host
Oh boy, what a mess that would be. I guess a guy who doesn't like paperwork. I can imagine.
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Joe Getty
And we're going to be sorting through this for years and years.
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Guest/Co-host
Oh yeah, and I'm sure you have to fight for everything that you're owed, let alone the other stuff.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Gettysburg.