Hour 2 of A&G features...
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Among the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded bearing down on Florida, while recovery from the last horrible hurricane still going on in a number of places, including Florida. A lot of these people in Florida bugged out a week ago, came back, unloaded a little bit, loading them back up and leave it again. It's quite an in addition to the usual threat of howling winds and the damage they do, you have, Well, we'll go to the storm surge briefly, which is going to drown large segments of the Tampa area, probably at least temporarily, and then all the debris from Hurricane Helene which has been piled up. If indeed those wins are one hundred and thirty five miles per hour or anything like that, there are going to be projectiles screaming through the air like artillery fire all over coastal Florida. We've got a little bit of Elon on Tucker that got released yesterday. We'll play for you later. I watched about half the thing. It's like an hour and a half long, freaking fascinating. Elon is an interesting guy and his does not you know how politicians run everything through a filter of will this help me or hurt me? Or how the calculator he does no calculation some things, he says. Apparently it would seem that he does no calculation on whether this is good for me bad for me. Controversial sort of thing, you should say. He just talks right righty to a fault.
Yeah, anyway, so you may have heard something about this contram CBS News interviewed a fellow by the name of Tanahsee Coats the other day, quoting the great Coleman.
Hughes, who happened to be a black man. A brilliant.
Mind, he says, Tanahasey Coats is one of those journal one of those journalists treated by the left of center establishment more like a prophet than a writer.
There are a few.
Accolades he hasn't been granted. He goes through the list, then he mentions a couple of the books Between the World and Me won the twenty fifteen National Book Award. The case for Reparations in the Atlantic became so influential that it almost single handedly made reparations for slavery an issue in the twenty twenty election. Since then, Coachses focus mainly on fiction and comic books, most notably Back Black Panther, which he wrote, and he's out with a new book entitled The.
What the heck? Where is it?
I'm sorry, it's the message there is. It's one of those titles that's not easy to remember it well with a vision the mission, Oh, the message right, and Hughes writes things go awry from the start and says stuff like, here's the crucial test. If you read nothing about a subject other than this author's work, how informed would you be? To what degree would you understand the big picture? On that metric, Coachs fails spectacularly because Coats is not a journalist so much as a composer, one who uses words not to convey the truth, much less to point of constructive path forward, but to create a mood. It's the same way that a film scorer uses notes. He is, in other words, a fairly radical editorialist.
He's a big white supremacy is the root of everything that's wrong in the United States.
Guy.
Yeah, absolutely a systemic racist profit racism profit. He's also a racist, but he's been the absolute toast of left for a very long time. So that's what you need to know going in. So, his new book, The Whatever is out and he to do an interview on CBS Mornings, where he and several of the staff expected him, of course, to be revered as the great Black Hope and the great wise man who guilt ridden whites must bow down to and listen to and obey in the usual manner. But Tony Dicoppel, who works for CBS News and works on CBS CBS Mornings, his ex wife and children live in Israel, and I don't know much more about him than that. But as this book is an utterly one sided anti Semitic denial of Israel's right to exist and defend itself, Decopel was not having it. And we'll play some clips of how the interview went, but the the bottom line is there's now this enormous controversy at CBS. The woke, the young, the left in the CBS News division are really angry at Ducoppel. They're calling out his journalists to ethics that have been behind the scenes meetings where we're getting some We actually got some audio from the behind the scenes meeting just moments ago, and we're working on editing it. But so there's a huge conference and just it's hilarious. The argument from the people offended by Ducoppol's grilling of Tanaheisy Coats is he showed bias.
We can't have bias at CBS News.
That would be terrible, and like anybody to the right of Joe Mansions, like, are you serious, CBS? Do you are kidding? Do you watch Face the Nation? Do you watch sixty minutes? Did you watch the CBS women moderate quote unquote moderate the debate.
That was holy?
Like what a week and a half ago or whatever? Are you serious with this?
As anyway, So that is the situation in brief. A little more on that, but let's listen to some of it. Michael's start with the clip ninety and go from that. This one's a fairly substantial hunk of audio from CBS.
Warnings.
Hit it, Tana Haasha, I want to dive into the Israel Palace on section of the books, the largest section of the book. And I have to say, when I read the book, I imagine if I took your name out of it, took away the awards and the acclaim, took the cover off the book, the publishing house goes away.
The content of that.
Section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist. And so then I found myself wondering, why does Tanahashi Coats, who I've known for a long time, read his work for a long time, very talented, smart guy, leave out so much? Why leave out that Israel is surrounded by countries that want to eliminate it?
Why leave out that.
Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it. Why not detail anything of the first and the second Intifat, of the cafe bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids blown to bits? And is it because you just don't believe that Israel in any condition has a right to exist.
I would say, the perspective that you just outlined, there is no shortage of that perspective in American media.
That's the first thing I would say.
Where I am most concerned always with those who don't have a voice, with those who don't have the ability to talk. I have asked repeatedly in my interviews whether there is a single network mainstream organization in America with a Palestinian American bureau chief or correspondent who actually has a voice to articulate their part of the world. I've been a reporter for twenty years. The reporters of those who believe more sympathetically about Israel and it's right to exist don't have a problem getting their voice out. But what I saw in Palestine, what I saw on the West Bank, what I saw in Haifa in Israel, what I saw in the South Heblin Hills, those were the stories that I have not heard, and those were the stories that I was most occupied with. I wrote a two hundred and sixty page book. It is not a treatise on the entirety of the conflict between the Palestini any Israelies.
That's a pretty aggressive question from the CBS anchor. A couple of thoughts, not inappropriate, but it was definitely going at him. Number one, mister Coates is a brilliant man. I think he's wrong about a lot.
I think his neo Marxist victim oppresser, you know, colonial settler worldview is obnoxious and is intended to get rid of Western civilization. Usher and Marxism, having said that he's an extremely bright guy and more than capable of defending himself, and that exchange sounded to me.
Like what journalism ought to be. Yeah, that was great, I would agree.
Dakoppel asked some really tough questions. The author responded intelligently. Again, I disagree with his conclusions, but that was a perfectly reasonable response, and everybody heard some really good.
Ideas batted back and forth. But because.
And that's the thing, I don't mind mister Coates expressing his opinion.
I love it.
First Amendment fan over here. I don't want him worshiped as a prophet who can never be questioned. He was questioned fairly aggressively. He responded intelligently and aggressively, and we all learned something. And the idea that that exchange and there's a little more to it, and I'm enjoying it, Jack, if you are, we can play some more.
That was interesting.
The idea that that exchange would so royal the CBS newsroom, that there's a civil war going on? Now, how dare he be so biased? Holy cats, you people have lost your damn minds.
Next clip, Michael, But if you were to read this book, you would be left wondering why does any of Israel exists? What a horrific place committing horrific.
Acts on a daily basis.
So I think the question is central and key if Israel has a right to exist, And if your answer is no, then I guess the question becomes why do the Palestinians have a right to its white to twenty different Muslim countries.
I answer is that no country in this world establishes its ability to exist through rights. Countries establish their ability to exist through force, as America did. And so I think this question of rights to its Israel does exist. It's a fact. The question of its right is not a question that I would be faced with with any other country.
It's an interesting idea, actually taken into a podcast with similar conversation yesterday, because that is the history of the world. You can either hang on to what you got or you can't. Yeah, talking about the world order currently and everything like that. But it's interesting and almost he's practically making the argument for a while. Yeah, Israel, they believe they're on the right side, and they got the power to do it, so they're going to.
Do it right.
And he's just arguing there being bad guys while they do it, which again, that's a perfectly fine response.
I disagree with him on his conclusion.
But every again, you heard one opinion, you heard the other opinion expressed intelligently.
It is shocking to hear that sort of thing on the CBS Early Show. I know, wow that if you go back and watch YouTube videos from back in the day, you know, your old timey Crossfire or you watch them old Dick Caviot or things like that, that's what conversations used to be like all the time on talk shows, like really high level, really get into it both sides conversations, and that never happens anymore. Shocking, and when it does, it's so shocking. There's a civil war at CBS.
Next clip, Michael, But you write a book that delegitimizes the pillars of Israel. It seems like an effort topple the whole building of it. So I come back to the question, and it's what I struggle with throughout this book. What is it that so particularly offends you about the existence of a Jewish state that is a Jewish safe place and not any of the other states out there.
There's nothing that offends me about a Jewish state. I am offended by the idea of states built on ethnocracy.
No matter where they are.
Muslim concluded, I would not want to state where any group of people laid down their citizenship rights based on ethnicity.
I would have loved to hear more about including Muslim countries, because they exist all over the place and have run all the Christians and Jews and atheists out, and nobody seems to have any criticism for them, including Coats. I want to squeeze in one more because this is an important point ninety four Michael, why.
Is there no agency in this book for the Palestinians. They exist in your narrative merely as victims of the Israelis, as though they were not offered peace at any juncture, as though they don't have a stake in this as well?
What is their role in the lack of a Pelpas have a.
Very very moral compass about this, and again perhaps it's because of my ancestry. Either apartheid is right or it's wrong. It's really really simple.
I saw was right.
What's wrong? I am fascist against the death penalty? What the person did to get the death penalty? It really doesn't matter to me. I don't care if they were selling a nickel bag of marijuana or if they were a serial killer.
I am against the death penalty.
I am against a state that discriminates against people on the basis of ethnicity.
I'm against that.
There is nothing the Palestinians could do.
Then we make that okay for me.
My book is not based on the hyper moraleity the Palestinian people.
On the intellectual right, you will hear people say the modern definition of anti Semitism is you hold Jews to a different standard than you hold to everybody else. There are twenty different Muslim countries, maybe fifty, I don't know. I haven't counted them lately, who are precisely what Coats is describing. But he does not have a syllable of criticism for them, just the Jews.
Man.
I wish there are conversations like that on TV all the time. No, you're wrong. That was an outrage and it should be ended immediately. That's fantastic. We got more on the ways to hear.
I honestly didn't know that Bob Woodward was still.
Alive until you just asked me that question. That's what little I know about Bob. Would word is that he is I'm gonna use I'm gonna use a word here. He is a hack. The guy's a hack, and Bob Woodard is definitely not a hack. But come on, JD. That's JD.
Van's talking about the new Bob Woodword book, and a bunch of negative things about Trump have leaked out. The book is probably full of plenty of negative things about Biden, but those won't be the blurbs anyway.
We'll talk about more about that later. Yeah, yeah, okay, I know what he's doing. I get it. I just it's unpalatable.
Speaking of unpalatable, just when you thought everyone had already jumped in with their opinion to the current election, here come the porn stars seventeen pornographic film actors.
That's appreciate that phrase. I'm playing the role of a gentleman with an erection.
Tell me more about how you developed this character. Well, in the room and she was hot, and I got an erection. I try to develop my character.
What's your motivation in this scene?
Well, you know what.
I appreciate your clarity. Sound like a star in sound directions, As Joy says, where are the porn role players. They're all stars, yea, allegedly, where are the character actors?
So seventeen pornographic film actors announced to the other day that they had launched a one hundred thousand dollars ad campaign on porn sites that the guy from North Carolina will probably comment on, right, the colbernatorial Kennedy.
We'll get into the comment section and argue about slavery. Oh boy, where were we?
Ah the ad campaign on porn sites warning that Project twenty twenty five, the Heritage Foundation blueprint, blah blah blah that's been a centerpiece of some democratic campaigns. Wants to ban pornography and imprison people who produce it. All right, I'm sorry I should read you this. The architects of the Hands Off My Porn campaign or nothing if not aware of the polling, No pun intended. VI Kamala Harris losing the Trump among men, but younger men might be winnable, and porn websites are among the most heavily trafficked on the Internet.
They are porn stars for Kamala out perfect is that?
Yeah, Hey, stop fornicating in unrealistic fashion on video for long enough to pick up a book or a newspaper or something.
Project twenty twenty five is a think tank set of ideas or better yet, you know, go back to fornicating in unrealistic fashion for videotape and leave.
The rest of us to the election.
Okay, porn star, I want to make my I'm gonna chew up a lot of scenery. I mean, there's gonna be historyonics of crazy stuff. To paraphrase the slogan of years past, shut up and screw oh.
Wow, geez strong and he loses, Man, what if you lose them? It does seem that way. You can't just be like you like, yeah, I'm like, how long do you think my prison said this is gonna be? Well? I see my children.
I don't know, because it's not like you can say, well, yeah, I maxed out to him.
But you know, I get.
That was a very odd podcast from Elon Musk with Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson's latest is like an hour and a half long or something like that, and they cover a gazillion different topics. But that's the whay It started with Elon must say, Oh, if Trump loses, I'm aft. I'm absolutely aft. I've I've been bashing Harrison entire time. I'm aft, She's gonna go after me, no plausible deniability, and he may actually be.
I mean he.
I'm sure, well, relatively speaking, it'll make his life more difficult. Uh, They they will, They will come after him hard, which they might have done anyway, who knows. But that's just funny that he's so one, that he's so all in on Trump, both rhetorically and financially. And two, just to say out loud, oh if I lose, if Trump loses, I'm aft, I'm absolutely aft.
And to some extent he is.
I suppose, although I'm picturing, uh, during the the Harris Walls administration, I gotta, I gotta take a knee for a second. I mean, because it could happen anyway during the Harris Walls administration. I could see Elon being an incredibly articulate and powerful critic, and yeah, it would make his life more difficult. But I think he could be a real voice, because I mean, we have a voice. But I was just thinking I would love to be able to We were talking about this earlier. If you're just tuning in the the astoundingly idiotic controversy at CBS News because one of their journalists actually asked tough questions of a liberal Saint Tanahize Coats, and it was good journalism.
Coats had great answers. It was fine.
But now the newsroom is roiled with anger that somebody dared challenge the great saint of anti racism. Anyway, I would love to tell CBS, Hey, CBS, how to hear among normal people?
That was great.
That was finally journalism. That's one of your finest moments right there. Don't shy away from it, double down with it. But it occur to me as I'm thinking about this, they don't care what I think. I mean, we have a pretty good voice, but I mean up in your upper upper upper echelons of American power, you practically have to be Elon Musk to be heard.
So he could be a hell of a dissenter.
Well, speaking of Elon Musk, in a lot of the ways I think he believes he'd be ft if Trump loses, is going after his media platform and speaking immedia platforms, because this is kind of in the same vein.
Dig this TikTok, facing allegations that it's as addictive and dangerous as cigarettes. Thirteen states in the District of Columbia are taking TikTok to court, alleging the dopamine inducing algorithm hooks young users into endless scrolling, causing anxiety, depression, and body dysmorphia. The lawsuit also alleges the app at times promotes harmful and deadly behavior, from subway surfing to stealing cars, alleging further that the app's beauty filters create unreal standards and that around the clock notifications lead to sleep loss. TikTok blasted the claims as inaccurate and misleading, adding that the lawsuits are disappointing after they tried to work with the States for over two years.
I hate TikTok and its very existence, But every single example they gave there was crap of reasons to go after TikTok. Dopamine hits that get you addicted. Okay, that applies to every freaking thing that exists.
For profit right now, everything for fun or for fun. Disco. You know how I love disco.
It's because it gives me the dopamine hit when I get on the floor and day good point, I mean just practically everything, uh and causes endless scrolling. Yeah, so that's what The New York Times is trying to do. It's what everybody's trying to do. Causes kids to have unrealistic expectations of beauty. Okay, so I guess we're gonna shut down every magazine, TV show, movie, music video, you name it.
I've shows as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, TikTok is evil. It is an evil worm sent by the Chinese communists. But that lawsuit was a joke. Oh, Or causes kids to do dangerous things like subway cerving. Okay, there's another dumb thing. So any dumb suggestion to a kid that they take up is on you, all right, I just but none of those angles are gonna work. This is such an interesting situation we're in where a great geopolitical rival is our bed mate economically speaking, and controls one of the most important media mediums in America. And it's worth reminding us all, including myself, the enormity of TikTok's influence.
I'm looking at this.
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece about how TikTokers are commanding huge audiences for news consumption move over Lester Holt. It says they're taking on big media, changing how America gets political News and there, and they profile a few of the folks who are doing this, and they're all very young. They have three videos going at the top of the article, and the oldest dude looks like he could be twenty five, you know. And these people have millions and millions of followers, dwarfing the New York Times, dwarfing CBS News, dwarfing practically everything.
This stuck in my head for some reason.
Remember our old boss, Ken Cole, who hired us originally, he was talking about how he'd like to start young people's news network.
Actually I think he was talking about at the time. Jeez, he'd been ahead of his time.
But anyway, he said, I would have nobody allowed in the newsroom over the age of twenty five, and it just stuck in my head.
That's funny. I'd forgotten that. That's brilliant, that idea, because it's true.
You don't and once you get past twenty five or whatever age, you don't want it to be true.
But it is true.
People twenty five and under look at the world differently than I do, and I can't relate to them.
I want to pretend I can. I want to try to, but I can't. I just can't. They have a different everything framework of the way the world looks well, right, And also they have that.
Prejudice of the young that only people of their ilk really know what's going on, and they don't want to hear from the older folks, partly because it's a young person's relationship with their parents.
It's the leaving the nest thing.
So yeah, and it's funny because I read the first couple of paragraphs of this and thought, Wow, we really need to get on TikTok, even though it's evil. But then I realized, no, the old guy appears to be twenty five, and that's fundamental to the appeal. But the numbers are astounding. Among the two hundred politically focused TikTok accounts, accounts with the most viral posts, those with twenty five thousand or more views, one fifth were news influence. The account's pushed nearly three thousand viral videos generating more than seven hundred million views, and a packed news cycle that included the first presidential debate, first assassination attempt, et cetera.
I have no frame of reference on the news bias of TikTok other than what was reported after October seventh, on how it was overwhelmingly pro Palestinian as opposed to pro Israel, and was that being generated by China or whoever.
Well, yeah, but the thing is, it's not generated so much as it's filtered. I think you have.
It's like a record company where you have one thousand bands you're listening to and are making their music. But then the Chinese communists are the record company, and they suppress this one and elevate that one and that one and that one, right, and it's it's and the fact that we allow this. I understand the difficulty first amendment wise with dealing with this, but it's it's a unique situation in human history. Three trojan horse. Nothing TikTok is like a trojan. I don't know Mount Everest well, and it's not a secret. So you you knock on the door and say, hey, we rite this giant horse.
We're gonna push in full of warriors, I mean absolutely chock full of warriors. We're gonna push it in here and then tonight they're gonna come out.
And kill y'all. So enjoy. And we as adults say what if no, no, But the kids say, we love giant hoisies.
We love giant iceies.
So the adults say, well, I guess we'll let in the giant horse because the kids are.
Really enjoying that, and our throats get slit. Well, well, well, I've said this before, and I please don't hate me for this. There are times my favorite sports teams are just so bad. I think you know you're gonna lose, and you deserve to lose. I'm not gonna get upset about it. You're terrible at your jobs. No, Sometimes I feel like my beloved.
Republic is that.
It's easy to do that with your favorite basketball team, not so easy to do it with the country your kids are going to grow up in.
Oh No, I'm gonna fight till I'm dead. You know that about me. I just occasionally I have that How can we be so stupid? And how does nobody notice it? Frustration?
The only thing you need to know about TikTok is China doesn't it allow it in their country, Right, That's the only thing you didn't know they don't allow They have a thing called TikTok, but it's nothing like what we what we have, so it might might as well be a different.
Thing, right, It says if Chinese Disneyland was entirely a technical academy, all right, that's the only it has the same name.
Yeah, And so they don't allow it in China. Why, well, because it'd be awful for our young people and destroy our country. We're not gonna have TikTok in our country. We put it in the United States. Yeah, you're right, and then we all just allow it, and then Republicans and Democrats can't come together to ban it because well, it's kind.
Of working for us.
Well, then they're spreading money around like Santa Claus on steroids, which imagine Santa with roid rage.
I can if you've seen the Kurt Russell Santa which Santa movie?
Is that?
God? My kids love that movie. Bad Santa was Billy Bob Thornton, right, right?
Whatever won? The one is with Kurt Russell. I'm sure we'll be watching it here again in a couple of months.
Is that the horror movie? It's not a horror movie.
It's got a good message in the end, but it's relatively rough. He gets drunk, he fights a lot.
So I just one more thought, a despairing thought, and I'll tell you going into this that as a patriot, I we you even if we, with all of our efforts delay the Roman Empire like and by a year, that'll be worth the efforts. Preserving liberty is worth everything you can pour into it. I believe that to my soul. On the other hand, there sometimes I think, as I observe the United States and how it functions and now it doesn't function, there are times I feel like it's just it's an over ripe fruit, and historically speaking, the path that are overright empire takes is more or less inevitable. I think that in my more discouraged moments, I admit it.
I think you're absolutely right about that. The Christmas Chronicles is the movie with Kurt Russell as Santa. If you haven't watched it, very.
I do not know it. I'm a big fan of the Muppet Christmas Carol. Is it similar?
Before we take a break, did you know they're imploding the Tropicana in Vegas today, one of the most storied hotel resorts where some of the biggest rat pack, cool stuff, that mob stuff that ever happened in the history of Vegas all happened in that hotel, and they're imploding it today. Because you know, time time marches on. I wonder if they'll find the bones of mob and formers like that were buried under the floors and stuff like that, they'll find the vice walls that Joe Peshi put people's.
Heads in forget about it. I'm surprised it wasn't.
Worth it to renovate it and you know, make it nostalgic. Can't be super trophy And yeah, I'm surprised, but I'm sure very much smarter people than me looked at.
Look.
Something tells me that dirt under it is a lot more valuable with some brand new super casino.
But must be I want to play a little more from Elon and Tucker on a couple of different topics a little bit later, as he got into UFOs and go a censorship and a whole bunch of things.
I'm sorry.
And also we got that audio of the behind the scenes garment tearing. Come to Jesus meeting at CBS News over the perfectly reasonable interview that we've been talking about.
Cool.
I want to hear that it's all on the way.
Herek Times had a hall of an article yesterday about Israel and whether or not they're gonna strike a rand's nuclear capabilities and can they and whether we're in favored or not really good stuff.
We'll get to that now or three.
If you don't get our three, feel free to grab the podcast later. I'm strong in getting on demand better yet subscribe, you know, Jack, I'm looking at the clock and I'm looking at the audio, and I just there's no way we can do this, and I don't want to give it a short attitude. You can, You're right, I'm a quitter. I don't want to give it short shrift. I want to give it good long shift. We have obtained through methods that I cannot describe unless you've been in combat or worked for the CIA. The behind the scenes meeting at CBS News where they are freaking out over the fact that they actually engaged in journalism for once, and all the woke staffers are upset about it. And because a conservative actually said something somewhat conservative, they're saying, oh, we need to be unbiased. We were biased there. It's unintentionally hilarious. We will also get to that next hour.
We promise.
It's the whole Tanaheazy Coats Tony Ducoppel controversy. Tempest in a tea spot. But it's so revealing of the way big media works. It's delicious.
So I mentioned I watched the Elon Musk Tucker Carlson thing today and Elon fascinating guy talking about a whole bunch of different things, just all over the place. I think he does himself harm all the time, but.
He didn't care. It's the advantage of having that much money, I guess.
Anyway, they got on the top of the UFOs, and Elon might be as well positioned as anyone in the world to speak to this, as he makes the point with all the satellites he has and the space exploration and the ability to monitor things going on in space and everything like that, he has not seen any evidence of aliens. Why Tucker asked him about this, I don't know, but it seems to be a big thing on the right correct that the government's hiding this from us or something. I am surprised how often I come across that. Yeah, yeah, I never spent a second thing about him me neither. Elon Musk believes that the alleged UFOs seen as zipping around the United States are not extraterrestrial life, but more likely the US government's new weapons programs that are highly classified. He has not seen any evidence of aliens using his Space Exploration Technologies company. There's a lot we don't know. Musk admitted about where where life came from? How you know, why did life come here? Why is in other plants? We don't know that sort of stuff. But he said there are over six thousand satellites in orbit and they have not once had to maneuver around an alien spacecraft. For one thing, SpaceX has over sixty three hundred active Starling satellites in low Earth orbit and they've seen no evidence of anything like that. While well, unidentified flying objects are one thing, but there are a bunch of classified programs that are underway, and they are so classified that even at the highest levels.
People don't know about them. And he says, that's the explanation, which is what I've always assumed.
I was just going to say, I certainly hope it's DARPA doing something cool and futuristic to protect the motherland.
Boy.
One thing Elon told a story on there was, for instance, trying to get his his internet service going for the hurricane victims like North Carolina and East Tennis seeing how the federal government was blocking him and he couldn't get it done. He got on the phone with Pete Buddha Judge. Actually he tweeted about it on his own Twitter, blaming the federal government from stopping something from getting accomplished. Buddha Jedge reached out to him because it was well maybe just because he's a nice guy.
I don't know.
I was going to say because they were embarrassed, But anyway, they ended up putting it together and Buddha Jedge cleared out the red tape bureaucracy and Elon was able to immediately get a whole bunch of things done, get some satellites in the air, and have a Wi Fi going. But it's just interesting that the government is built in such a way that if somebody efficient, like a private company like Elon, can't get anything done.
Yeah yeah, Oh, how lovely it would be to have that sort of pull, And how frustrating that is. He had to have a Cabinet member intercede to stop the government from stopping him helping the people.
Right, yeah, right, It'd be nice if we all had that sort of power, that we could tweet something out and we'd get a response.
There are days I'd like to just take the Constitution to some desert island and start the country again, armstrong and Getty