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I think Jay and I are already tuned up for it. Welcome to
the day after Saint Patrick's Days, the eighteenth of March. This week we
have to well, we have to celebrate springtime because that starts for a couple
of days. Let's hear it. For spring time, put a little spring
in your step. Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the
ground. Sounds like something the case you say, reach for this? Didn't
He used to say keep your feet on the ground, keep reaching for the
stars, and keep your feet on the ground. Yep. So I'm outside
in the backyard with my grandson, well, Miles and I. We had
lots of activity, both Miles and Jasper and I and the children as well,
my daughter and my son this weekend. So out in the backyard of
Brendan's house, and Jasper is like two, not quite two, and a
half. So he's looking around. He's becoming very verbal. There's a vocal
and there's a verbal you know what I mean, there's a he's looking around
at everything. And actually, I think did I post? I think I
was going to post. There was a video of Miles and Jay running around
in the backyard and a little thing and Miles Jay Jasper kept saying again again,
but he's just running around in a cart with Miles pushing around. And
then he looks up in the sky and this is like two o'clock in the
afternoon, and there's just a little fringe of the moon. You know how
you can do You can see that every once in a while you can see
the moon in the daylight. Things are just right. So he says,
he looks at me. He says, Gramps la Luna, knowing that the
luna is the moon, and it was just it was one of those moments
you want to cherish. Those are all the moments you have to trailer,
just something to highlight. Okay, So we have a number of things going
on, some of the news that we may talk about that went on this
weekend. The Russians were all over the place. Isn't it interesting? That
we would focus on the Russian election, maybe even before our own. There's
plenty of stuff around about our election, but I thought that that was one
of the things. There was just the protests on top of the protest,
even though Putin is expected to win his fifth term. It was very interesting
to see how they were all out and about and the fact that everybody's like,
how can he be voted, you know, to win again? And
here he is. He wins again in a landslide. In a landslide,
No, not even because Nood's running against him. And if you don't vote
for him, you get shot. So that's the way that goes. It's
a joke, and so is the Russian government, and so to fact as
the Russian people aren't, but the Russians it's there's more and more a trend
to this around the world, you know, there's less democracy, more autocracy
as rule by one. And then you get into some of the stuff.
I'm going to talk to Jennifer about it. I thought the Trump's statement there
will be blood in the streets if he doesn't win is one of the most
damnable, outrageous statements that I've ever heard from anybody or running for any kind
of political office or anything else. I think it's outrage it's more than outrageous.
It's it's I don't even have words for it. How do you say
something? How do you? How does how do you? I don't Again,
I'm frustrated because I don't know what to say. It's it's damnable,
frankly. And so on the other side, Biden has grown angry over his
re election effort because it's not going the way he wants and he's not adopt
and so there you go. Uh. In the meantime, here's the important
news, ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls, moms and dads. There's
been no jackpot winner, so both of the let's see, there's Mega millions,
right, and that's not there hadn't been a winner there for quite a
long time. I think if you put the two of them together, it
comes up to what about a billion and a half or something? Powerball and
Mega millions? Yeah, I think so there's eight hundred and seventy five million
in Mega millions, and I think that there is close to that in the
Powerball. So but you see all this money piling up, and he won
one point six billion. That's what it is? What you know? You
wonder why is it? Always? Is it because they rig it? That
question I think comes up frequently. Yeah, that's something you believe, right,
that it's riggs. Yeah, yeah, right, all right. Things
are pounding away up in Iceland. There's a volcano again erupting for the fourth
time since December. And the only reason that I highlight this is because a
lot of people think that the world is falling apart or you see, either
God's angry with this or whatever other interpretation you want to come up with on
this. This is the Earth doing what the Earth does, and it is
just It's that simple. Although people want to make it complicated, it's not.
It is what it is. It's a change in the plates and the
activity below way down deep. You know, inside the core of the Earth
is a molten lava and it's twelve thousand degrees at the core of our planet.
I'd like to try to work work your way through that. So anyway,
that's what's happening. The volcano will continue to erupt and that's it.
So back to the Russians. Can we go back Jay for a minute to
the Russians and what's going on with putin the this is well, there's two
pieces of the pie here. Very interesting that came out this weekend. A
lot of Russians were crowding into the polling stations they have. This is something
they do. That's right. They have a three day presidential election. Shouldn't
we do that here? Shouldn't that that makes sense? Yeah, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday instead of this foolish Tuesday stuff or early voting or all that
other that. All that does is create ways for people to scheme and to
cheat and to to you know, make the election kind of I want to
say, ill, it's not illegally, it's what's the word I'm looking for,
not on ethical, it's just unworkable. Maybe well yeah, and some
people they can't fit that into their schedules. They not everybody works for a
place that has a boss that will be like, you know what, go
ahead and take all of the time you need. Some people try to go
under lunch break. But if it's a very busy polling station and you have
to go where you're told, and you're if you only have a thirty minute
lunch break, you can't be there for three hours standing online. Were some
people at like someplaces some people have to do. Yeah. You know what
I thought was most interesting that Putin was being interviewed and he said, this
is after the announcement of the election, that there was a prisoners swap involving
navalni with some there were people being held in the West that he won in
England. I guess in America, I've never heard that story before. Did
you ever hear that that he was they were working on trying to to swap
him for other for some of the Russian prisoners that are in jails around Europe.
In America, I didn't see that either. But one thing that did
happen is there were a couple of women who are arrested. They word green
dye into the ballad boxes in support of what's his face's wife, right,
Alexian of Alani's wife? Yeah, right, yeah, exactly. Anyway,
Okay, so I'm trying to get some of the international stuff, by the
way, because it sticks in my craw Netanyah, who has been seriously criticized.
You know, he's Chuck Schumer, who cares what he says. Biden
had a few words the fact that net Yahoo is as he is, and
I I've talked about this because I remember going to Israel one of the trips
that I took to Israel and interviewed net and Yahoo. He's as tough as
nails. You can just see it, you can feel it. His presence
is just I'm a tough guy. Don't mess with me. But what business?
I sort of reiterate what I said on Friday, I think what business
is it of Schumer's or any of us these people? Oh though, you
know, you could say, well, they're taking our money to fight the
Palestinians, so maybe we have a right to say something. Okay, yeah,
that's an argument. But why is it The Schumer is the one who's
the spokesperson. He's not the spokesperson for me, and he's not the spokesperson
for you. I'm guessing he thinks that he needs to inveigle himself into the
situation that exists there no, uh huh. Anyway, is that kind of
stuff that creates I think the feelings of tension and distrusts, you know that
stuff. Joe Biden obviously has locked up the Democratic nomination. Now what's he
doing? He wants to be as visible as he can be. There was
a private meeting apparently last week with some lawmakers Democratic lawmakers, and Biden started
to shout and swear after people in the meeting told him his poll numbers had
dropped over the handling of his war, his handling of the war between Israel
and Hamas uh and so uh he I don't you know you don't see that
side of him much, right, anger, I swear, I just I
try to imagine him using the F word or some other word that is not
sooner or later? Is that something going to is that going to come out?
Let's say the state of the Union, that effing trump? You know
you think that level around is that error? Right? I'm kind of serious
about it. It's a when when do we we've we've accepted a lot more
we you know, we tease James or I do and others with you know,
a focus on language. But we're allowing a lot more of that sort
of thing in our discussions right, our public discussions. If you listen to
some of the talk shows that are on serious that don't have to they don't
have to follow FCC rules. For Howard Sturf, for example, he's always
effing it up. And there are other words that come out as well.
I just wonder if that's good. We're going to get to that with politicians
or with public officials, or are we going to get that to that base
when it comes to what's accepting, there's no level of decorum anymore. Yeah,
right, No level of decorum is a good word for it. There
is the Nineties con which is a convention of nineties TV programs. Right,
I'm guessing at that, but I'm thinking that makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, the case right exactly, Yes, Yeah, the whole like the
era of tgis okay. So Dawson's Full House, all of the stars were
there for that. So according to I think we ought to get a rundown
and because that's more Jay's era than it is mine. I don't know how
much we remember watching much TV in the in the nineties, but I know
that there is a certain group of people that are in my circle who loved
all these shows, especially Dawson's Creek. This is more your era, Jay,
than it is my era in terms of what you grew up on,
what you grew up watching. Like we mentioned Full House in Dawson's Creek,
Yeah, po in its world, step up steps, bringing the Teenage Witch.
Yep, all right, So these people were all at this nineties con
the Convention of Stars. Would they give you You give them a picture and
they sign it and you charge you one hundred bucks? Is that what happens
to these things? They probably have that option in their ticket their ticket groupings.
But yeah, it's just like this big convention that they actually do twice
a year. It happens in March for three days over the weekend in Connecticut,
and then in the fall it happens again in Florida. And I mean
they brought all of these cast members together, so there was like a full
house ing union that were on a panel talking about different things. You had
a spring on the Teenage, which the cast of Boy Meets World, which
William Daniels, who was mister Feenie, the beloved teacher turned principal. He
got the standing ovation. William Daniels probably his nineties, I would think by
now he's been an actor. He's very sophisticated. He always presented that sort
of sophisticated, the serious presence right as an actor. You could tell it
was him, and even his voice you could tell that it was him.
So that was my next question. What's happened to a lot of the stars
from these shows? That's the only I'm looking at the list of people,
and William Daniels the only name that I recognize. A lot of them have
had continued success on their own doing different things. The cast of Seventh Heaven
was there minus well minus Stephen Collins, which makes sense because he had all
of those sexual misconduct against miners issues. But Jessica Piel, who is pretty
pretty prominent as she joined through FaceTime, so even though she couldn't be there
in person, she was still there on video. Yeah, all right,
so she I know obviously. So it's a couple of names there. It's
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looking at the story of Hazel Mettulis, who is six years old, the
youngest person to ever climb Mount Everest. Wow, what parents to get up
there? What sure their parents? Right? Six year old? This guy
fella named Lada Douglas Latta took his six year old daughter on the hike.
It's an eighty mile trek by the time you go up at seventy six hundred
above sea level, and the standard round trip is eighty miles long. And
I just can't imagine, never mind what goes on, you know how it
gets the airs so thin and stuff. But they're also I've heard from people
go up and down the mountain blisters, leeches, muddy trails. But are
they Are they actually summitting it? Are they going to base camp which is
still going up? You will have to train even just to get to base
camp. Yeah. Well, like according to this that I'm looking at,
this kid went all the way up, so God love them. Unbelievable.
Okay, yesterday that sounds like the December seventh, nineteen forty one, a
day that will live an infamy. So I gotta get this straight. On
the Sunday Meet the Press program, there was a discussion about whether Trump's comments
was the appropriate vowed there would be a bloodbath if he's not re elected.
So when I saw that, originally I went kind of cuckoo because I thought
everybody else, how dare he says? So I wanted to get this into
context because I'm certainly no an apology. No, I'm not apology. Just
I don't feel like I have to be an apologies for Trump. Jennifer sometimes
thinks she is, or it has to be, but I don't. That's
so insulting. When you say stuff like that. I know, I'm no
apologists. People should be apologizing for getting it wrong. Well, but he
creates the scenario. Of course he does it on purpose, I know he
does. So he plays the media. And what do they do, hook
line and sinker, They drop right in. All right, So James,
you have the context, You have the whatever he said in the context in
which he said it. Okay, So I would like to not rely on
what somebody else said. The reason I mentioned meet the press is because these
guys took it and played with it. As you were discussing Jennifer. They
take it and they trip it and they fiddle around with it. And so
he's rallying over the weekend, he makes a comment. People go bananas,
including former directors of the FBI, go bananas about this comment that was taken
out of context. Is how okay? All right? What he was talking
about? Well, let's let's see if we can put how long is the
clip, James? About fifty seconds? All right, So let's play.
This is Donald Trump and the now infamous reference to a bloodbath. Let me
tell you something to China. If you're listening, Presidency, and you and
I are friends, but he understands the way ideal those big monster car manufacturing
plants that you're building in Mexico right now, and you think you're going to
get that, you're going to not hire Americans and you're going to sell the
cars. Now, we're going to put a one twerff for on every single
car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to
sell those goes if I get elected. Now, if I don't get elected,
it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole that's going to be the
least, but it's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be
the least of it. If this election, if this election isn't one,
I'm not sure that you'll ever have another election in this country. Does that
make sense. I don't think you're going to have another election in this country.
If we don't win this election, I don't think you're going to have
another election, or certainly not an election that's meaningful. And we better get
out or we better I actually say that the date, remember this, November
fifth. I believe it's going to be the most important date in the history
of our country. I believe that. Okay, that's because it's my birthday,
not because it's the election day. That's factual. See another reason to
like Trump. He just said the world that your birthday is very special.
Uh huh okay, So you could take that any number of ways. I'm
betting he didn't really think it through, because I'm not sure he thinks a
whole lot of stuff through as to what the ramification just says what's on his
mind. That's what he does. He just says whatever is there, just
blurts it out. So it was he talking about economic blood bath? Was
he talking about a literal blood bath? He was talking about for the auto
industry. If you listen to that, and he's right, because you've got
so many ev regulations that are coming down from the Biden administration. You've got
the Chinese auto plants, so your workers are going to be going over to
Mexico and they're going to be Chinese and Mexican, They're not going to be
American. So I think what he's talking about. Anybody I think who was
listening to that critically knows that he meant it in the context of the auto
industry. But if you don't know that he's But if you don't think it
through. See that's the point, Yes, you thought it through. I
wanted to hear the whole context of it because when I initially heard it,
I went bananas. I said to last night, I was talking to myself,
I'm looking at this and looking at things that we're going to talk about
today. I said, wait, did I get a hold of Jennifer on
this one? And so you know, because I didn't hear the full contextualizing,
but most people don't. That's the right exact, the full statement in
context, because a lot of places are cutting out the fact that it's about
the auto industry. And I found when you listen to the whole thing,
the the comment that kind of was like raising flags with me, and because
it's kind of you're mongering, but at the same time it holds maybe a
little bit of truth is where he speaks on if he doesn't win this selection,
there will never be another election, or like we run the risk of
something like that. And I think there's already some level of truth and fears
in people's minds that the elections are already not even just this time, but
the election is already There are some underground page going on right A lot of
it in fact, so, and then with the additional AI stuff that's being
the AI enabled tools and that are turbo charging the spread of false information about
the twenty twenty four election. You don't need Trump for that. You need
it's just there and everybody's got their I suppose they're the tin foil on and
it's just I find this stuff is extraordinarily dangerous. I think he's right if
we think about it that way. We are having so many people trying to
influence the election, and then you look at the people who are running,
and that's the danger right there. How did it get to the point where
these two guys are the ones that seem to be the most prominent, even
though now back in the polls, excuse me, looking yesterday at the LA
Times, there was a poll in which they included Kennedy and more like it
or not excuse me, sorry, the depending on who he chooses for his
running mate, and this I suppose holds true all of them, Biden is
being urged not to keep Kamala Harris for any number of reasons. I don't
know. Maybe she's running and she's extremely unpopular, but he'd have a hard
time getting rid of her because the Democrat Party plays politics, I mean plays
identity literal, Yeah, literal. And then so Trump, Who's he going
to pick? That seems to be a mystery. And then there's Kennedy and
who's he going to pick? He's going to pick people. He's going to
pick from a list of people who are very well known, not necessarily just
for their political stripes. Well, now I've heard a new rumor over the
weekend. Did you guys hear the Nicole Shanahan rumor? I think is her
name? Who? Exactly? So exactly exactly the point. So Nicole Shanahan's
been trending, So I don't think it's going to be Aaron Rodgers. I
think that was a kind of a play at the media to try to get
some attention, right Jesse, I don't know he's on the short list,
but one of the people that follows his campaign very closely, that I follow
on Instagram, house and habits, is that the odds on favorite is now.
It's now Nicole Shanahan, who's a tech lawyer and doesn't have much political
experience, but she donates a lot of large sums Democratic candidates, and she's
donated a ton to Kennedy. So she was actually married to the Google co
founder Sergey Brinn, and that's soon might be interesting. All right, Well,
the world is full of interesting things, and that's what we're talking about.
Here are a good day Looking at the Supreme Court. This is sometimes
when we were focused on social media. I like to get away from the
trending things like the top ten trenders. That's always interesting, little gossip and
that sort of thing. But this is a pretty intort. There's an important
decision to be made here. The Supreme Court says it's going to decide if
the White House went too far fighting social media misinformation. And the example that's
given Robert F. Kennedy Junior suggesting that the reason that Hank Aaron died in
twenty twenty one is because he got a COVID shot and the Biden folks went
after him and that sort of thing because it was misinformation. Who says it's
misinformation? Well, and also they coordinated with Google quite a bit, and
they coordinated with Twitter before Elon Musk to take down people and to mark people,
ban people who were questioning the vaccine beyond I mean even just everyday people,
which was pretty frightening, right, So what is the Supreme Court's rule?
What should do? What's the Supreme Court being asked to do here?
What's the case because they never take anything, you know, it's they don't.
You don't start at the Supreme Court, you end up at the Supreme
Court. And so the boundaries, the boundaries question that has come from many
The White House says this was misinformation and it has no business being on social
media. Well, who were they to decide that? I guess that would
be my question of law being what it is. These are private enterprises,
and we continue if there's a blur here. I mean, there's no love
loss between me and those two worms that run Google and that no good sob
that runs Facebook and Instagram. But you know, still and all we have
this conversation. The reason that I'm frustrated is because we keep having the same
conversation and that doesn't seem to be a resolve to it. Is there?
What's the resolve here? If the Supreme Court says yeah, yeah, it
is misinformation, or it says it isn't, somebody will still figure out a
way. It's kind of like with the tax law of the irs. Says
okay, this is illegal. You can't take that deduction anymore. And five
minutes later a bunch of good, smart accounts have come up the way around
it. This is actually brought on by doctors who actually took the case out.
It was the American College of Physicians, I think, who've done something
to try to move this up through the court so that the Supreme Court will
decide whether or not it was a First Amendment violation to strike down all those
people who were talking about COVID and COVID vaccines and what's their point of view
on it. That's news to me from that aspect. What is the well
the college is, oh, sorry, go ahead. No College of Physicians
would probably support the fact that the COVID vaccine was good and you shouldn't be
talking negatively about it. Right. They actually were taking aim this particular group.
It looks like we're taking away taking aim at what the White House did.
They said, there's countless statements that are best problematic and at worst flat
out disinformation, causing harm to patience. And so we've all taken care of
somebody who's died from the flu. Now we've all taken people who've died from
COVID Biden administration. I guess using social media has caused people to take down
posts that include misinformation about vaccines, COVID pandemic, and the twenty twenty election,
among other things. So are they supportive of the White House doing that
or are they saying we should have free speech things like they may be talking
about free speech, but I thought, why could they just still continue to
flag things like they've been where society we misinterpret opinion for a fact all the
time, but people should still be able to share their opinions. And I
know that you see a lot of things on social media where it will be
flagged like this was not factual or or there are no there's nothing in the
news that states this as true. But they still allow people to post what
they want to post. There's a rookie versus blamery that is at the center
of this. It just is very confusing and at the end of the game,
at the end of the day, the game is in many instances to
present misinformation. And that goes back to what we were talking about about the
presidential election and all of the hacking that's going on and artificial intelligence. It's
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