A Steaming Pile Of Bull Crap

Published Nov 11, 2024, 5:20 PM

Hour 3 of A&G features...

  • Some campus madness & some refreshing sanity!
  • Jake Paul VS Mike Tyson fight
  • Excuses for Kamala's campaign loss
  • Jack goes to Vegas and sees The Eagles! 

Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jetty, I know he Armstrong and Yetty, a.

Man who recorded AOL's email greeting You've got mail, has died at the age of seventy four, and just before he passed, he recorded this heartfelt message.

Goodbye, Wow, you've got mail. Goodbye.

We do need to talk about the assassination plot the Iranians had to take out Trump. We've got more information over the weekend. They've arrested a couple of dudes. That was a serious plot.

Well, and if you dip your toe in the water to run against me, he hates you for the rest of his life. So an assassination plot, I gotta believe sticks in his crop. This is not a Oh that's right, This is not a campus madness update exactly, because there's some good stuff and some bad stuff going on in education, which is absolutely the headwaters the well spring of the woke lunacy.

Education K through grad school.

I wonder having because the political pros and congress people and you know, the leaders of the party in the donor class or whatever, they are doing careful studies of what lost the election, and the woke, the transgender madness, all of that is gonna factor a.

Large absolute really I've seen in red. Yeah.

So though I'm constantly going on about no, this is not this war is not one. It's not even the beginning of the end. It's the end of the beginning. If the hacks who just go with what's popular so they can maintain their power and their access to the treasury perceive that that is dead and people aren't into it, it.

Might well dry up their.

What's the right metaphor their support network, the flow of money and energy and the rest of it.

I certainly hope so. But anyway, some ups and.

Downs of what's going on on college campuses right now. Let's start with Bill Maher the other night. He's talking to the fabulous Sarah Iger. But you can't scream about democracy and then have a guy run the table like this and not.

Say, well, it's a mandate, right, right or wrong?

Is it a mandate?

Yes? The Harvard Institute of Politics student president came out with an op ed today talking about how they weren't going to forego democracy for the sake of nonpartisanship, but the idea you're going to be pro democracy by not giving a voice and allowing other students to hear from speakers that belong to the party that just won through a democratic process. Like that's where the left has a problem. They become the party of the faculty lounge. They're so condescending, they're so arrogant, and again keep the met worse. The whole point is to be exclusionary. They're not accidentally exclusionary. It's the mission statement.

I love that the Party of the faculty lounge. That is accurate and withering.

Yeah, I hope what you said turns out to be true. That the money people, the power people realize all that and uh, and that makes all the difference because I want to wigan this issue. I don't want to just win elections. I want to win this issue here here one hundred percent. Yeah, and I am still on war footing. I am assuming nothing but a couple of quick headlines from around college campuses. Princeton seems to be edging toward the cancelation of John Witherspoon, who was the President of the Universe from seventeen sixty eight until seventeen ninety four, he rescued Princeton from possible bankruptcy while tutoring Princeton's student James Madison, as well as a number of freed slaves. He was also a member of the Continental Congress.

So the case against the statue of Witherspoon on the campus is that he owned slaves and opposed the immediate abolition of slavery. This is again the seventeen sixties and seventies, and whatever. He was concerned about their ability to thrive if freed at once, with neither training nor property to give them a start. The case in favor of Witherspoon is he consistently supported total abolition of slavery, but gradually he tutored freed black men at Princeton in his political life. As eminent Princeton history professor Shawn Willins stressed at Witherspoon's symposium a year ago, Witherspoon quot so challenged the pro slavery claim that abolition was unlawful the dominant view in New Jersey politics, and he did so unequivocally as a member of the New Jersey Assembly. Witherspoon not only upheld that idea, the pro abolitionist idea.

He actually acted upon it. So that's how insane these people are.

Somebody in the seventeen sixties who said, we've got to get rid of slavery completely, but we've got to ease that in over time is not good enough to be on the campus of Princeton University.

That's crazy.

This from the Wall Street Journal Callum Borcher's it's hard to get a job at this financial advisor firm with five hundred advisors. I think if you went to the wrong college like Harvard, Yale or Princeton. The chief exec who went to Iowa State says he worked with many graduates of top tier colleges in previous jobs, but they too often approached client's challenges like textbook case studies rather than real world problems. Quote, if I were hiring somebody to be my right hand person today, there's not a chance in Hallett.

Would be an IVY League person. Wow, that's interesting, it is, and that is a growing trend.

Then you had those judges who said we're not hiring anybody from Columbia Law because of they're too woke and not to labor the point. But Borcher's writes the skepticism intensified the last year after Landmark's Supreme Court case exposed the inner workings of elite college administrations and upended affirmative action.

Evidence presented in the case.

Revealed it, among other things, forty three percent of accepted white students at Harvard were recruited athletes or children of alumni, donors, faculty, or staff. Almost half were so called legacy admissions.

That's from the party that claims to hate that sort of.

Thing, right right exactly, And they absolutely get into the woke attitudes and stuff like that, and how incredibly difficult it is to manage those people. But want to touch on a couple more real quickly, Oh why do you reset?

Stop it? Stop it.

It's a great report on the University of North Carolina, which has created a new college within the university, trying to create a free speech culture, and it's taken off and getting a lot of support. I'm gonna have to come back to it because it's a blank page in front of me.

Gosh, dang it.

I hate it when it does that. But anyway, another quick other update, not as positive. The bright part is reminding us that US universities are taking billions of dollars in undisclosed foreign money, much of it from China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia. And Qatar in articular has laid billions and billions of dollars on American universities. And they are absolutely Islamic supremacists. And there is a direct line to be drawn between the faculty and staff of these universities and their attitudes toward Israel and the billions of dollars they get from the Qataris. They don't dare piss them off. Speaking of wokism as you were.

Chris Christi was on ABC this Week yesterday and laid out one of the main reasons he thinks the Democrats lost, which fits in with this.

The Democratic Party from twenty seventeen through twenty twenty four went.

Off the dbend.

The most effective ad that the Trump campaign ran was, you know, Kamala Harris is for they them and Donald Trump is for us. That's because most people don't see themselves as day them. Yet the Democrats have spent more time talking about a trans issue. It wasn't Republicans who brought up a transitionue. Initially it was Democrats accusing Republicans of being insensitive in tall all right, what the.

Election had proved?

Okay, that hadn't edited that I can explain. He was interrupted when he said that that the Democrats kept talking about the trans issue, and he was interrupted by the Democrat on the staff because.

You guys kept talking about No, we were talking about it, because you are forcing all this weirdness on the world.

So we're responding to it. As Chris Christy pointed out, no Republican was talking about trans issues, and so he started having guys in girls' sports, or you started putting pronouns on everything and blasting people who didn't put pronouns on their emails or ending their careers right right, And remember every time you read the phrase transgender rights, understand that is that is bullying. The argument a man doesn't have the right to be in the women's locker room just because he says I'm a girl. Now, a man doesn't have the right to play against girls and women's in sports.

Those are not rights. No, I reject that idea at all.

I don't know it'll be remembered this way, but that Trump ad was one of the most effective ads in presidential history, if not the most effective when you had Kamala Harris's own words up there talking about paying for sex change operations with taxpayer money, and then Trump's tagline of She's for they them, Trump's for you. I mean, that is a good freaking ad and it's all the best. Yeah, the craziness in the direction it's about, not about the number of people that have affected.

Because it's a tiny, tiny sliver of people.

Although the whole radical gender ideology in our schools, with the craze of transgenderism among adolescent girls especially and some boys, that is significant.

Yeah.

I heard Charlie Cook of National Reviews say the other day that he doesn't think the left understands how crazy that stuff sounds to most Americans. Like you're you have like somehow convinced yourself if it's normal.

The rest of the country is like, what like head spinningly shocked.

The stuff you're talking about, Like it's crazy, right, You view it as one hundred percent assumed.

We view it as insane.

Just yeah, like the world has gone nuts. Yeah, you're the party of the faculty lounge. Got to that headline back. I wanted to hit you with after a reward from our friends at Warrior Foundation this Thursday, we're asking you good folks to consider making a tax deductible donation to a foundation.

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One of the main points of it is that.

It is a left right, left right problem, the craziness on the campus. But what if it isn't a left right problem at all. What if the acrimoni and loathing that animator politics have more to do with class than ideology, more to do with educational status than any set of views on culture and policy. And they point out that the college campuses are going crazy and everybody thinks the same thing, or at least, you know, those who disagree are keeping their mouth shut. But among average working Americans, nobody behaves like that. I mean, it's practically restricted to the college campuses or when that sort of kid takes to the streets of Manhattan. And so they're trying to build an actual culture of inclusivity, not when the far left calls it inclusive, which just means we want to include everybody who believes what we believe.

But they want a.

Mix of opinions and classes and cultures and the free exchange of ideas.

And it's fantastic cool, And.

I want to talk about that a little more plus this headline also from the Wall Street Journal. Sorry Harvard. Everyone wants to go to college in the South now. And they talk about how the number of applications is plunged at the Ivy League, plunged among the kids of the northeast population clusters of the country. And now they're all heading to Clemson and Georgia Tech and South Carolina, Alabama, well Tennessee and all the colleges in the South, partly because they'll have class and get their party on and maybe meet somebody special and it's not going to be all politics all the.

Time, right protests and whatnot. Also that I took my son to his first concert. I want to talk about that too, So stick around Armstrong Andngetti and.

I'll tell you now on the monkeys that escaped Wednesday from a research lab in South Carolina. Officials there say at least twenty five have been recaptured. More than a dozen others remain on the loose. Many of them have been spotted just over the labs fence. The monkeys are all very young and have never been tested. Please insists there is no threat to public health.

Okay, still got a dozen monkeys out there doing on your face. Come on, got a.

Dozen monkeys out there doing their thing. A couple of news items over the weekend that you might not have heard. Katar ordered the Hamas leaders to get out of the country.

That hole you get to keep your.

Hundreds of millions of dollars you stole from the Palestinians. Why you claim you care about them and you live in a high rise penthouse in one of our hotels is.

Over you gotta get so it's funny. Right after Trump got alive. That's what I wondered. That's what I wondered. Did have anything to do with the Trump election timing is a little suspicious.

Also, Justice sodomy Or, who lefties were pushing to step down as a Supreme Court justice so that Biden could appoint a progressive and Trump will get to do all the appointment. Soda Meyer said, I ain't stepping up.

Good for her. She shouldn't because if you get if.

You if you go down that road where you know everybody from your party steps down at the end of every turn.

I don't know. Maybe that would be a better way to run things. I don't know, but she ain't going to.

Still got the whole Biden pardoning is something on the table. Still have the whole hymn resigning and letting Kamala become the first female president thing on the table. I suppose those things happened. I uh, I was in Vegas for a concert, my son's first concert, which I want to talk about coming up. But you know what was getting a tremendous amount of attention in Las Vegas. All the giant billboards, I mean, it was everywhere. The Mike Tyson fight is this Friday with that YouTube star whatever his name is.

What's his name, Hansen, Michael, what's his name? I think is it Jake Paul? Yeah, yeah, Jake Paul, one of the Paul's.

Tyson's fighting that YouTube guy and who's not a professional fighter, but he is twenty six years old, whereas Mike pretty close to a professional fight. Mike Tyson's fifty five. And they're uh so it'll be It's just I'm watching. It's on Netflix. It's not pay per view. If you have Netflix, you have it. It's it's going to be there, So I guarantee you I'm there. I was getting pretty psyched up watching all the promotional stuff. Wow, it's really sounds horrible to me. Why are you? Well do you think's going to happen?

I think Mike tan an old man who used to be really great at fighting against a young man who's not quite as good at fighting, and see what happens. I want to see the professional boxer Mike Tyson beat the crap out of one of those loud mouth pain in the ass YouTube stars who does all kinds of abhorrent things him getting his face smashed and would be a very enjoyable way to spend Friday night.

In my opinion. What if it goes the other way?

Watching an old man get beat down and not near as finn? Yeah, beat down an old by a young man? Great again? People are sick, Katie want to be watching Masterpiece Theater as usually.

It's been kind of fun to watch online though, because Jake Paul's been parading himself around in like this fake belly, like a like a dad bod kind of a thing, gotcha?

Yeah? Well uh yeah, getting attention is his whole thing.

Yeah, people can't, don't. I don't have any rhyme or reason for it. They just it's been funny.

Yeah, I ought to be taking it in just as modern entertainment to see how it works. Never mind that the again the horrors watching old men.

Beat down it suspected that each are going to make between twenty and forty million.

Dollars each of them.

Any chance of some sort of three way voute, I meant you could hit me pretty hard.

For that Armstrong and Getty.

Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. Kamala I think still would have won, but she may have been stronger having taken her case to the public sooner.

I think people never got to know Kamala Harris during the time she was in this campaign.

If the goal is to win elections on Twitter, then you should embrace movements like defund the police. But if the goal is to win elections in the real world where it matters, then you have to appeal to working class people of color.

The party itself has increasingly become a smarty pants, suburban, college educated party.

That was David Axelrod there at the end, and he understands the real world of politics and the actual Democratic Party. As long as Democrats continue to think Twitter's a real world, it'll be good for Republicans.

I think, how would you like to have to continue to pitch the steaming pile of bull crap. That is, if Kamla had been able to go through the primary system, it would have strengthened her and people would have been more impressed with her. Her entire career belies that theory, right, including this campaign. The more people got to know her, the more they do I'll pass hard pass. Speaking of the old Obama people like David Axelrod, a couple of the dudes that have that podcast that's so popular, Pod Save.

America or whatever it's called. Anyway, John Favreau's former speech writer for President Obama who hosts Pod Save America. That podcast with some other old Obama people said, we found out that when the Biden campaign became the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign's own internal polling at that time was telling him that Donald Trump was gonna win four.

Hundred electoral votes.

So at the same time that Biden was trying to hang on and had to be pushed out at the point of a humiliation, their internal polling showed Trump was gonna win four hundred electoral votes. Thank you, Joe, right, I got a neighborhoo as a thank you Joe flagging in the front yard.

You're a sap. I don't mean to be uncharitable.

Favre said, Joe Biden's decision to run for president again was a catastrophic mistake. They refused to acknowledge until very late that anyone could be upset about inflation, and then they just kept telling us that his presidency was historic and it was the greatest economy ever.

And why don't people understand that.

I would love to hear was it doctor Jill behind the scenes or had Joe just lost his mind because the idea that after saying specifically that he was going to be a transitional figure in a one part, one term president, for him to decide, yeah, yeah, I.

Do have it. I'm going to go for it. I mean, that is tough to explain.

Well, Favreau on that podcast with the other Obama people said, I'm done being generous. So they're you know, being respectful of the old man who beat Trump and we owe him and all that sort of stuff apparently is over. And then Nancy Pelosi did an interview with The New York Times. You just heard a little bit of it there the audio, and she was asked by the New York Times, should there have been an open primary? And she said, well, see, we thought that there would be. The anticipation was that if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary, and then she said this stuff about I think Kamala would have done well and would have been stronger going forward, but we don't know that that didn't happen. We have to live with what happened. And because the President endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it impossible to have a primary at the time. If it had been earlier, it would have been different. But that's not what We're not here to agonize. We have to organize and go forward. Blah blah blah blah blah. But she is one I think well, first of all, she just flat out saying he came out and endorsed her, so it ruined any chance of having an open primary. If he hadn't ha done that, we could have had an open primary. And I think she believes and she's not gonna say out loud and now would.

Have weeded freaking week Kamala out and we would have had to have been saddled with her as a.

Candidate, right right, So I was gonna say, so, is she just hedging her bets in case Kamala maintains some sort of role in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party. Why would eighty plus yr old Nancy Pelosi give a crap what Kamala Harris thinks at this point?

Why doesn't she throw her under the bus?

Uh?

Does she just say what you just said, which is painfully obvious.

To like all of America.

Well, I don't think Kamala plays a role in anything anymore. She did throw Biden under the bus very clearly, I think. So she's putting the blame at the foot of Joe Biden, who you know, politics is the way it is. She came out and said is the most consequential president of our lifetimes. And Nancy Pelosi, remember, actually said out loud he should be on Mount Rushmore. But she's saying in the interview with The New York Times basically that if he hadn't come out and endorsed her, we could have had a primary.

So does she get behind the scenes with like Jeffreys and I don't know heard her her family or whatever, and just guffaw after she says stuff like that, Joe Biden not to be on Mount Rushmore. I mean, did they just pack up when they get a couple of drinks in them or what?

I mean?

That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard in the history of politics.

And that's saying something.

Like people are saying, I can't keep up with them myself behind the scenes, and you go behind closers.

Oh my god, can you look who said that? Hi? Find me? You bet I wouldn't know it. And I told you I would, you owe me a hundred dollars right exactly? Wow? Wow, what a bizarro business to be in. No kidding, no kidding. I mean, can you imagine, I don't know you're in the pet food business?

Say absolutely, we can get you a hundred pallets by Tuesday, and then you don't deliver anything. You just think, ah, I mean, what kind of business is that?

Good boy?

But I think if we're just five days in the election was just five days ago, if after five days were already at Nancy Pelosi saying yeah, if he had an endorsed her, or a favreau of the old Obama guy saying yeah, it's a completely Biden's fault. Imagine what people are going to be saying here in weeks, months, years in their various memoirs.

I can't wait. It's gonna be so awesome.

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Click. You can't get away with that in anywhere but politics.

You have to get very comfortable saying things that are completely, completely obviously not true, and you have to say him with a straight face. I'd be a rough way to make a living. Everybody remembers their first concert, don't they.

I do? You do?

You probably do. I'll ask you about it. But my son went to his over the weekend. I want to talk about that. We were in Vegas and saw lots of things in Vegas, as you always do.

Yeah, my memories are a little vague. The first two and they're passing around the hippie lettuce. I'm afraid Jack, really and unfortunately I got a second hand whiff of that devil.

Sweed and no Lord, Henry and I smoked a tremendous amount of pot at the Eagles concert stop it.

Did you see Joe Rafi?

We're gonna ask you about that coming up as it was, it was RAFFI, Yes, Captain Kangaroo is the opening end stay here.

They ended the concert with this the other night at the Sphere in Las Vegas before they came back out for their encore, which my ye had never experienced before because he'd never been to a concert before, so we didn't know the whole encore thing. So he got excited like you do when you're at your first concert about is it over?

They didn't sing blank, you know, and oh no, I got ripped off. But then they come back out and you think it's because you're cheering that they came back out, which is awesome. Katie. What was your first concert ever? Oh, my first concert ever that I remember.

I have vivid memories of end sync.

There you go. That's a good restone. I was really excited about. I can see that man as a younger Michael first concert, you know, I honestly cannot remember. It's probably some sort of classical music.

It certainly undermines my uh presentation of everybody remembers their first concert, but nobody knows that but none of you guys do Joe, do you remember your first.

Concert Doobie Brothers Alpine Valley, Wisconsin, Second one Sticks Chicago Stadium Maybe is it one of your big holes in Chicago?

Hanson, do you remember your first concert Rick Springfield?

Cool?

I saw in what freaking sense at that time? He was very hot. Sure if you're an adolescent woman. Wow, Judge, Oh.

My god, Judge Hansen, Hi him disappointed.

I saw the band in Chicago as my first concert in oh I went with some band geeks, and I don't know that was the coolest concert, but it would blow my mind and I was I've tried to think about why. Why was it so mind blowing? Is it the sound? Is it the is it the fact that you're seeing in person? I don't know exactly all.

Of the above, especially back in the day when you would never see bands that you liked perform right unless they happen to be on Don Kirshner's Rock Hour at you know, midnight thirty Saturday night or something. So that was one of the things I was singing about with the seeing the Eagles at the Sphere, which if you're not familiar with what it is, it's this multi multi billion dollar structure that they build in Vegas. It's a great, big, giant ball a sphere if you will. It's like an IMAX times one hundred in terms of a screen. And they have lots of video shows there, and then they've had some concerts. If you remember, you too kicked the whole thing off. And currently the Eagles are playing there, and I don't know.

What I think about the seeing a live band and then you're there for the whole video presentation.

That's not what drew us there.

My son he heard the Eagles were ath the sphere and he wanted to go. He said, it's the only thing I want for Christmas, my birthday. You don't have to get me anything else.

I just want to go.

It's my favorite band, to see the Eagles. So that's what we did. But I was thinking what you just said. They if you've got to come up with a new way to hook people into entertainment, to get off your couch for I wonder they got to do that with sports too, right. I wonder what it'd be like to watch the Super Bowl the sphere if they could fit fure out a way to do that. Just because everybody says the same thing with a lot of music and TV shows and everything like that. I got a seventy five inch HD television with the soundbar. Why am I leaving my.

House in my own bathroom? Man?

So you got to prevent something pretty outstanding, like to get you to go out and pay more money for it.

So I don't know if that's part of where the future is headed.

Yeah, we were discussing before you went, the concept of the band and its music being a relatively not minor but not like the totality of the experience.

What do you think coming away from so I?

He and I had no interest in watching the video show that was on there, so I got really close seats, so we sat like right from the stage and watched it like any concert. So it wasn't very good for watching the video stuff. It was fantastic for watching the band, which we both loved and I loved and they sounded freaking fantastic, which is mind blowing to me. We got this text from somebody about I saw Ozzy Osbourne and wondered the same thing you're wondering.

Jack.

He walks and talks like someone who's spoon fed Jello then a switch is thrown in bam when the songs happen, and so the members of the Eagles, the original members that are almost eighty I mean, Don.

Henley's shoffing around, the lead singer for the Eagles, and he's doing the old man mouth when he touched me. The reason we're playing here is hi, this is arguably the best sound system on playet Earth and all that sort of stuff. But then when he plays in drum, breaking me out. Stop it.

When he plays in drums, it did seriously looked like it was nineteen seventy seven.

I've seen the videos. This amazing. I don't know how they were. Joe Wall seemed like he was one hundred and five years old.

You wouldn't think the guy lived a rough life. You wouldn't think the guy could dress himself. But then he was playing life in the fast Lane, just like sounds on the record, and it was so freaking cool. I don't gamble so in Las Vegas and I don't gamble, but I did gamble on the tickets hard, and it could have been a disaster. I purchased the tickets forty five minutes before the first music was played, even though he'd bought the hotel, told him about the show.

He was so excited about it. He was so thrilled to go.

We had to go someplace to buy hair care products and get a new shirt because he wanted to look good for his first concert and everything. He was just he's so into it. Everything I didn't tell I hadn't purchased tickets.

What was your reason for waiting until then?

Because I didn't want to pay five thousand dollars to have floor seats, you know, up close to the stage.

And I watched the price go down, down, down, down down.

As it got closer and closer to showtime. I'd been watching it for several weeks to see how the trends were on the tickets as it got close to showtime. If I'd have been by myself, I would have gambled more and waited until closer to show and saved more money. But I saved probably. I mean, I would have never spent this much money. I would have never ever spent this much money. But I saved at least three thousand dollars by waiting until I got that close to showtime.

Wow. Yeah, And I would never spend that much money.

But that's how much it dropped from what they were They were asking for it like four in the afternoon compared to eight point fifteen with the band going on at eight thirty.

So it was it through an app and they just give you the QR code for your tickets.

See geeks stub Hub.

Everybody had the tickets, and you know, that's the way things work in the modern world. I'm sure the band is making gazillions of dollars. I didn't realize The Eagles are the biggest money making band in US history.

Don Henley himself is worth two hundred million dollars, which is pretty wealthy. But what's your theory for the being so old you can't walk or talk but you can still play musical instruments and sing. Is there something that goes on with the brain there? I don't know. The singing part surprises me. Oh me too, Me too.

The fact that because I've sat in my car and sung Eagles songs for.

An hour and like it strains me out.

And how he did it for two hours sitting there behind the drums was something to watch in all the harmony parts of and he didn't bail out on anything.

I just yeah, I was amazed.

The Eagles also, for years and years have employed like great backup singers who are behind the scenes.

That is not what's happening, I guarantee you because I was sitting there and could watch everybody's mouths. I could hear when they came in, when they sang seven Bridges Roads, the six guys in front of you, that was just them, and it was amazing.

Yeah, I have no theory. That's amazing. I don't know.

We've seen lots of musicians, those old people that they can still do their thing.

I don't know. I mean, how can you not? How are your hands shaky and everything like that, But then you can play the piano. I've seen Elton John do it. Yeah, it's the magic of music, jack magic.

The at places absolutely packed, twenty two thousand people or something like that. I don't think there was another child there, really, Yeah, not one other child. There were people in thirties, mostly people in like their forties and fifties, but I think he was the only kid in the whole place. And when I told the people at the front door that was his first concert, they gave him a VIP badge and a hat and all kinds of cool stuff. So he was absolutely thrilled.

Out of his mind. Yeah, that's great. You know, the whole how can they pull it off? Thing? I don't know they can.

The why they pull it off is an intriguing question to me. I mean, if you've already got like generational wealth beyond dreaming about hundreds of millions of dollars, it must because you love doing it.

Clearly is the case.

And I wonder if that happens when you get older, because I've seen bands that are like in their fifties and they're like going through the motions. I wonder if when you get older you're back to you're just loving it again. Because they were clearly digging it hard. They were so into their own music, and I'll bet they weren't twenty five years ago.

Yeah.

I think if that's the best you've ever been at anything your entire life, it's really difficult to give that up, especially if you don't have to. I remember hearing Paul McCartney interviewed I guess it was sixty minutes, and he just put out his most recent album and was really concerned about how it was received. And the question, which was a good one, was, Dude, you wrote hate Jude, I mean and Yesterday and like five hundred other amazing songs.

What do you care?

And his answer was essentially, well, I want people to know I can still do it. I'm kind of insecure, interesting insecure.

I don't know, oh about. It's just fun. What else you got to.

Do on a Saturday night when you're almost eighty years old? That's going to be more fun than that? Walking out understanding people an hour and a half something like that or two hours? Yeah, but what would be more fun than a whole bunch of cheer people cheering your name, singing along the words to your songs on a Saturday night?

What else are you going to be doing? I watch him.

TV right, yeah, exactly. Shuffleboard's fun, though underrated. Pickleball A lot of pickleball. I don't think any of those guys could play pickleball. They are old, old af pickleball the orthopedist's dream. By the way, they are boats being purchased all over America thanks to pickleball.

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