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Yeah, Armstrong, and Joe Getty.

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Tiger Woods, he changed his plea from not guilty to pleading no contest.

Regarding the DUI charge that he was facing,

the state amended that charge to Willful Wanton Reckless driving.

He pleaded no contest to that.

He was fined $1,000 and he will lose his license for five years.

On the other charge for refusing a urinalysis test,

so the deputies had no way of knowing what kind of medications or drugs.

We're in his system at the time.

The state decided on an adjudication of guilt.

And he was fined $500 for that and also losing his license for five years.

Now, those license suspensions will be served concurrently,

so a total of five years.

Now, the judge said to him, for the safety of the public,

if you are caught driving, you will be immediately taken back to jail.

Yeah, I think we all had the same reaction as the first thing we said on the air

when the most recent time that Tiger Woods nearly killed somebody,

how does he still have a driver's license?

Well, now finally, he doesn't for the next five years.

Yeah, boy, that $500 fines really going to bite whole.

I was going to say, shouldn't there be some sort of percentage of your net worth

or something at a certain point?

We've talked about this through the years.

Isn't there a point? A fine has a point, doesn't it? Isn't it a deterrent?

Right, it's a funny thing that we need to treat everybody equally,

but a $500 fine to me and Tiger is a different thing.

Never mind the guy who's barely scraping by.

He's living paycheck to paycheck. It's devastating.

When I got fined for not having a life jacket on

in one foot of water on Scott Lake in Scott County, Kansas,

$250 fine.

It was over half my monthly salary and I was paycheck to paycheck.

I mean, it was devastating.

Yeah.

I mean, it really changed my life like, how am I ever going to pay this?

How am I going to make it the next several months?

On the other hand, Tiger Woods, I mean, to say he wouldn't notice is,

well, is saying too much.

Yeah. Anyway, thank God he's at least can't drive for a while.

I don't have a lot of optimism that in five years he's going to be much different

based on things he said recently.

Finally, they got him though with a WWR rap,

Willful Wanton recklessness.

This happened yesterday. Got this from Ian Bremmer's Twitter feed.

European leaders decided to call last month's airport attack state-sponsored terrorism

by Russia. Do you remember that story?

It was in Germany, right?

Where there was a bomb found at their big airport there.

They announced it state-sponsored terrorism.

That might not seem like a big deal, but it is.

It's the first time we've seen the European countries make that sort of charge against Russia.

That will demand a response according to Ian.

Offensive cyber and espionage are on the menu,

but you have to be crazy if the Europeans didn't respond somehow to something they've announced

to state-sponsored terrorism against a NATO country.

Yeah, they used the term grey zone attacks for these.

We're not at war exactly, but wow, something blew up or our computer system got taken down

or a dozen other things that Putin's been trying to inconvenience the Europeans furnishing

Ukraine with money and weapons.

But I mean, if you're bombing in the airport, it's pretty much regular war.

Yeah, no kidding.

I don't know why this is happening all in the last 24 hours.

So New York City biggest school district, L-A-U-S-D, second biggest school district,

and now just in the last hour, Chicago has announced they're going to have all kinds of rules

around no AI in their schools and you can't have it on the computer.

Why did everybody come to that conclusion at the same time?

Anyway, I think it's probably a good idea.

Did something tip that off to cause that to happen?

Did the ultra-powerful teachers union go ahead and say, yes, you may do that.

We will allow it.

Now, we did get some texts about since Google Classroom rules public schools,

which I am very unhappy about, I had managed to not have a Gmail account

or really be involved with Google my whole life until my kids got into school

and then you have to because Google Classroom is the only way

your kid can be in school.

But Google has Gemini.

We all know if you Google something, you automatically get some,

so I don't know, I don't know how you're going to keep that off the computers.

Did Google, maybe that's what this texture was hinting,

did Google push this lobbying somebody, teachers unions or whoever?

And so no AI, but Google is there already.

So Google will be the only AI for all the students.

I don't know.

It wasn't earlier this year or last year that the big study came out

that showed like every hour kids spend on screens in school

as opposed to being instructed by human scores drop.

So they're probably on the defensive there to Google.

Shocking.

And here's a non-important thing.

In Argentina, all their soccer matches they call it football.

All their soccer matches in Argentina will be paused in the 10th minute

for a minute long applause.

All season long, contribute to Messi who announced his retirement the other day.

So every soccer match they have this season at the 10th minute

because that was his number, they'll stop for a full minute of people just clapping

and then they'll go back to soccer.

I've never heard of any sort of tribute that big in any sport.

Yeah, yeah.

South America, soccer.

It's unimaginably important to them.

He's the greatest star ever, national hero.

Still seems a little over the top.

I mean, about a half time.

Quick tip of the cat.

You know, kidding.

Looks a little old and tired to me in the tournament,

but that's probably because he was old and tired.

You're old and tired.

True.

Was that an excursion?

I guess an accurate one.

I got bit by something night before last.

I was, for briefly, I was concerned.

And I reached up and there was a bat burying its way into my mouth.

Oh, that was a different lady.

That was not me.

That was some lady.

I got bit by the thumb by something.

No idea what.

It hurts like crazy.

And I sent pictures to all my chatbots.

And they were really good at like trying to identify it and tell me what to do and what to watch for.

It was really handy.

Is it a Fisher cat?

Oh, I did was take a picture and give it to chat GPT.

And then it was amazing how much information was able to give me off of a picture.

That's a really cool advancement in technology.

Well, what's the verdict?

What bit do we know?

Does it not?

It was probably a bomb cap.

It hurts way more than you would think it would for this lump on my thumb from some sort of bite.

Possibly a spider, it said, but wasn't sure.

The reason I have some concern about that sort of injury is my brother came within a day of losing his arm over that sort of thing once.

I've told that story at the time where he had a little like cut on his arm.

And then it turned into explosive pain.

He was screaming.

Had he was he was in California for a little vacation, which ended up being in the hospital.

Took him to the emergency room.

They admitted him immediately.

He was in the hospital for like three or four days with IVs and everything like that because he's got some sort of infection from this tiny little woundie had.

So that's always on my mind with these tiny wounds if they heard.

And they said if he'd waited another, I forget how many hours he'd probably lost his arm.

They'd had to take his arm off.

Isn't that crazy?

Story's freaking everybody out.

Tiny wounds is the name of my emo band, by the way.

That's pretty good.

Yeah, it is.

As you're going to mention this the other day, I almost sent you one to listen to.

Are you into Midwest emo?

That's the latest genre I've become aware of.

My son's into Midwest emo and it's something I can stand to listen to.

He's really into like this rap that I hate when we're driving around.

I don't like that music, but he likes Midwest emo, which is its own particular genre.

And I kind of dig it.

So I've been listening to it a lot.

Young people wearing black complaining about corn or what?

I don't think they were black, but it's just the angst of being a teen.

It's like a less dark emo, I think.

Which would fit with the whole Midwest vibe.

Kind of a little stiffer spined coastal emo.

I guess that's what I would call it.

Yeah, I'm whiny, but I got to go to work.

And I'll be alright.

I just didn't point out that things aren't as good as they could be.

That's kind of what it is.

I could use a good wine.

Bear with me.

Yeah.

So back to the world of sports, scandal in women's softball.

University, California, Berkeley, ex coach, quote unquote,

pushed one of her players into a sexual relationship.

Two women imagine.

Um, and then softball.

And it's really not getting a tenth of the attention it would be getting if it was a dude coach in a female.

Oh boy, I'm not laughing.

I have allergies.

So the in the lawsuit, the cause, of course, there's lawsuit.

The player claimed coach Spencer.

The, let's see, Chelsea Spencer, the coach, um, made advances on her.

Not too long after she joined the softball team as a pitcher in 2023.

Coach would call and text her every day about personal topics and give compliments such as

you're so beautiful and your girlfriend is so lucky.

Center up before you know it, bingo, bingo, bongo.

After a while, the players like this is not working for me.

Try to break it off led to a bitter argument before a game in which the coach allegedly said you're not pitching.

And she had to leave the team and was removed and missed her senior season of soccer.

Or I'm sorry, you've softballed is now suing those for so straight.

Probably haven't fully appreciated how much.

Different. The sports experience would have been if you're constantly around super hot people.

Of the opposite sex.

I don't know how that would work in sports hard to come up with because would you be 50, 50 or whatever.

You're the only guy and a team full of hot chicks or whatever it would be, but it would be the dynamic

would be so much different than, you know, every team I ever played on it was all dudes.

Well, yeah, the best majority of lead athletes, the athletes are straight.

So yeah, yeah, there's nothing to compare it to really.

Yeah, but it would be there would be distracting if in little league baseball or whatever sport I've ever in,

I surrounded by really fit hot people I was sexually interested in.

I never had to think about it at all.

That's got to be more of a hurdle than I've never really considered.

Yeah.

You got the whole locker room thing.

So we're going to go to the locker room and I'm going to see these, you know, hot, fit women that I'm playing sports with all the time.

That's interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

So getting back to the coach and the scandal and everything, which of course will get no attention in the mainstream media because, you know, directionally it's wrong.

You can't criticize, you know, one of your, your, you know, totem pole of intersectionality groups in this case, lesbians.

But everybody involved is an adult.

I'm firing the coach because she took it out on the pitcher that they were breaking up.

Yeah.

I'm not sure I'm firing her because they got together.

If everybody's an adult, although I know colleges have strict rules against that because that sort of thing can easily get out.

You don't understand how her dynamics.

I kind of do, but um,

I suppose if they have a rule against a coupling with your players, you got to follow the ruler, you get thrown out on your ear.

That can't be a rule that you can hold to.

There's got to be a lot of don't do it openly, right?

There's got to be plenty of coupling that goes on has to be.

Let me check the bill of rights.

There is that right to mess with somebody's genitals.

No, but I'm not seeing it.

There is no such rights there.

Follow the rules.

We're fired.

Yeah, there would be difficult to police that I got to believe.

I don't know if you know anything about that.

Maybe you're a gay person who played sports.

Is it like a constant thing?

Oh, that okay.

Yeah.

I was just thinking about the whole adult having sex thing in college.

I don't know where I stand on that.

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And you know, we have a guy named Ken Paxson.

And some people don't like the way he dresses or some people don't like the way he interviews or talks.

But you know the one thing about him. He was the best attorney general in this country for the last 10 years or more.

The most effective, the hardest working. He was the best attorney general in the United States.

And so I don't care about an interview and I don't care about the way he dresses.

Hey, do you need to say that about the way I dress? If you're on my side, this is Trump's choice to be the Republican nominee in Texas,

who's currently behind to that, the Democrat, Tolerico.

Trump went on to say this.

We're going to go to Texas and work for Ken Paxson, who's a great guy.

I mean, so Ken Paxson, you might not like the way he dresses.

And I say this, it's so insulting to him, but I might as well say it.

Why?

You might not like the way he looks. You might not love his look.

You might not love his television interviews.

But he was the best attorney general in the country, perhaps.

He was one of the best in the entire country.

And that speaks a lot louder than the shoot he's wearing that does it look so great.

I follow this stuff for a living. I'm very familiar with this race.

I've never heard anybody come in on the guy's suits.

Could you quit bringing up my suit?

Let's save you bringing up his impeachment by the Republican House in legislature in Texas.

I'm blanking on who's our old friend?

You used to work for the examiners with the dispatch now political, political guest.

We have a trucker.

David Drucker.

Hey, Hansen's for some reason you press your button and release it so fast.

This is all I get from you in my ear.

That's all I hear is a noise.

David Drucker. Yes.

I said, David Drucker this morning on one of your shows saying,

uh, Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians he's ever followed.

All right.

You're my your mileage may vary.

Some of you are big fans, I guess.

Anyway, Carl Rowe is not a fan.

Carl Rowe follows Texas politics pretty closely was on Brian Kilmead show yesterday and said this about Paxton's efforts at trying to be the Republican senator from Texas.

Paxton, remember the week leading up to the 4th of July.

He was in Washington the week before the 4th of July on that weekend.

No fundraiser that I can find.

And then on Tuesday he was seen leaving for Iceland with his latest girlfriend.

And then the two of them spent the 4th of July celebrating in London, England.

Now look, we have London Texas.

It's out in the West.

It's not a big town.

But if he wanted to go to London, he should have gone to London, Texas rather than London, England.

Time is running out.

The president wants to have Paxton win.

He needs to have be tossing a lot of money Paxton's way so that ads can be run.

The depict Calarico as the far left winger that he is.

If not, Paft Calarico is going to run the message of my opponent is the most corrupt politician in Texas history all the way to the victory line.

So Paxton, for whatever reason is not taking campaigning nearly as seriously as you ought to if you're in a close race to be a US senator.

Calarico has raised many multiples more money than Paxton who just hasn't really worked at it, I guess.

Well, other Republican senators are not throwing money Paxton's way because they don't like him.

And they're like, hey, Trump, you chose this guy, spend your own money on this.

Is what's going on behind the scenes.

And so Paxton has tons of money but so far he's not opened up the checkbook.

Armstrong and Getty.

Wow Tucker Carlson came about as close to endorsing El Saad as you could get without endorsing him or get you that quote coming up a little bit later.

Wow, Cutter must be writing him some really good checks or something.

Anyway, I this happened the other day on CNN of all places and I like it for a couple of reasons.

The content number one, obviously, which you're about to hear, but secondly, it is a fellow by the name of Camille Foster who is arguing with Jamel Hill leftist commentator about capitalism and racism and that sort of thing.

I prefer the term free markets.

So does everybody else.

But in the dynamic I like is you know, she's a youngish black woman.

Because in America, if a white fella gets on there and argues in favor of the free markets, it's clearly racism or something, something, something.

Anyway, it doesn't look as good.

So I kind of like that that's all neutralized and hope you enjoy this as much as I did first clip Michael.

It's one thing to not think capitalism is working ideally.

It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.

I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty, the idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use those private property and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial.

These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history.

We didn't have as much of her as I was hoping, but I think it comes up in the next clip.

That is what capitalism is.

That is not white supremacy.

Work that way.

I've just described the actual work that actually just described the basic facts of the past.

That is always work.

Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism.

The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism and intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable.

What is it absurd?

It barely needs to be defended.

What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?

It barely needs to be defended. You actually have to articulate what the connection is. How are these two things the same?

I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell it with whoever you like.

What does that have to do with white supremacy?

What is intended to work versus how is actually working?

It's not working right now today.

What is the white supremacy?

It's not working.

That's the problem.

Yes, they don't have an answer, but I appreciate him trying because somebody somewhere might look and say,

well, I don't know, he's a black fellow.

Of course, you know, left would say, well, he's just embraced the white supremacy.

Remember Larry Elder?

Talk to your host politician writer.

He's the black face of white supremacy.

But I appreciate Mr. Foster trying anyway.

You wouldn't think he could get into this situation where on one side of the ledger,

you got capitalism, which you can come up with criticisms of the way it's being implemented here and there and come up with examples.

But overall, you've got the has lifted more people out of poverty and then any other system by gazillion percent and everything.

I mean, there's so many positive things, but you can come up with the example.

We're on the other side of the ledger.

You've got has failed every single time and killed hundreds of millions of people.

Right.

How do you understand?

I end up in a discussion about this, but we still do.

To quote philosopher Sidney Hook.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations.

Capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Yeah, that's what they do.

Yeah, it's frustrating.

It's almost funny to see people fall for the same scam over and over and over again, no matter how many times they step on the rake and it smashes them in the face.

The DSA came out yesterday and officially endorsed that woman that's running against mayor bass and Los Angeles for mayor.

Nithya, I'd like a bowl of ramen.

Ramen.

She's not a DSA member, but she has her endorsement.

So that might be a good way to she might as well be.

She's a communist.

That might be a good way to split the, you know, split the hairs or whatever to stay out of trouble.

Don't become an official member.

Then you don't have to answer for everything on their platform.

But you get their endorsement.

I think the endorsement, which is a, you know, a nod to all the voters out there.

She's actually with us.

So don't rip on her.

And speaking of L. Sayot, are you ready for L. Sayot or do you have more in that?

Sure, yeah.

Yeah.

So L. Sayot, you're, you're, you're, he's a Islam of fascist more than he's a socialist.

But yeah, yeah, because you can't get elected being an Islamist, but you can as a socialist.

So that's what Islamists do.

They put on the guard with the socialist.

So you got Federman, the Senator from Pennsylvania.

He's a Democrat and he will be a one-term Democrat because he is going to lose first, when does he finally up two years?

Because he's pulling horribly among other Democrats forever speaking the truth.

He yesterday offered $50,000 of his own money for L. Sayot to hold a rally with Piker on 9-11.

That's some good trolling right there.

Wow.

Tucker Carlson, on the other hand, had some guests on and they were discussing L. Sayot running for Senate in Michigan against microtters.

And Tucker Carlson said he would not vote for microtters, the Republican gunpoint, calling him a tool of Israel and praised L. Sayot for taking on a pack.

Tucker agreed with his guests that L. Sayot is running an America first campaign and said they would bet on him to win.

Then Tucker said no one should be further from a position of power than microtters.

So he didn't endorse L. Sayot, but that's pretty close.

Sure.

Yeah. And it's all about the Jews and Israel. So you're going to vote for his and Islamist.

I don't know who Tucker's audience is. He's got a big giant audience. I don't know who that is, I guess.

So is it Jew hating Republicans?

We're impressionable young men who lean right and are looking for truths.

And instead they get a cutter sponsored anti-Semitism from Tucker. He's apparently lost his mind.

Well, that's a troubling situation. He hasn't lost his mind. He's lost his soul.

He's made lots of money.

Yeah, yeah, troubling times. I don't know if you've noticed.

Not I'd say.

Oh, back to the whole DSA thing or not, DSA. Another guy who hasn't gotten really any national attention, Michigan Democratic Congressional candidate William Lawrence,

who in the past has called for destroying the American way of life.

He resigned from the DSA a couple of weeks ago so he could deny that he was a member of it.

He's part of the keep it in the ground, movement to halt fossil fuels.

And he says, well, he actually talks about how you have to deceive people as to your real views to get where you want to go.

He said that about the green new deal. We were quiet for a period of time and that was a political choice and it came with contradictions, but it was clear you weren't going to hold back the reality that we need to keep it in the ground.

Let's see.

Where does he say that stuff about he wants to, I've got to quote somewhere, but he wants to destroy the American way of life as it exists.

So lovely fellow.

So earlier in the show, if you weren't listening, we got on to the topic of people are talking less. Human beings are talking less.

And it's dropped quite a bit. There's been a, what was the stat 25 28% was 20 something 28% drop in the last 15 years in the number of words we say per day.

Driven mostly by the young. So we got into the conversation about a Gen Z not talking much in the headline of the articles about the Gen Z stare, which I don't know if I'd ever really contemplated that.

But it's just the idea that we're talking less. So we got this text from a Gen Z or which I thought I would throw into the conversation.

It sounds to me a bit like kids today don't know how to shoe a horse from you guys.

We text more. I haven't called a pizza place or ordered out in a decade as I do it all online. That's why we talk less.

Well, you did you did credit the internet. But yeah, that's that is why I don't I don't know that I was confused as to in what way people were talking less because yeah, people hang out alone a lot more with their phone. And then there is the you can do so much stuff online.

True, but friend I guarantee my friends and I no matter how busy you text exchanged five to 12 times as many words. By actually speaking to each other as you do.

I don't think he was arguing that you they speak less. It's just that who cares. It's just like that you don't need to shoe a horse anymore. I think that was the argument.

Well, but his argument didn't address mine. You're interacting with everybody much, much less than people used to for all human history.

Well, and the point of the article was that it changes our brain to not talk.

In no ways that might not be good. I guess we'll find out because that's the direction we're clearly going. If it's dropped that much in 15 years, where will it be 15 years from now?

You say roughly three words a day. Ouch. Occasionally if you stub your toe, you might still say that grunt like an ape. Yes, yes, we're heading back to it down the evolutionary ladder. That's really interesting.

I had not I was completely unaware of this one.

I that completely knew a lot of other things that you know you get hit with statue like you you're you've observed it. You knew it was going that direction.

I was not aware that we've dropped off and talking that much.

What do make sense once I hear it? Although one thing I've got to correct in my life. Other people do it for me mostly.

I'm texting with the dude the other day of a complex topic in the office of the phones ring rings and I pick it up and say, good idea.

What are we doing? Why are we having this long conversation with our thumbs? Waiting for the other one to reply. Let's wrap this up on the phone and then you end up talking about other stuff and laughing and all kinds of different things also.

Right. Yes, associating with other humans. Yeah. With all due respect, we're a pizza ordering friend. It's unhealthy period.

I wonder where it will be in 15 years. If it stays on the same trajectory and there's no reason to think it's not going to.

Yeah, I don't I'm not a fan. Not a fan of the modern world, the internet. Hey, I thought it. We picked this humanity in roughly 1999.

Just been grunting. Yeah, just grunting like beasts. Terrified of each other. I mean, you're talking about it going down the same road. I'm sure that kid would say, yeah, I have an order to pizza on the phone for a long time.

So it frightens you. You're afraid of it. That's not good. It's an utterly. It could not be an easier transaction. And yet you fear it.

So it's not the act of texting that is my problem. It's the fear that y'all have. It's not good for you. So worry about you. I'm not judging you. Well, I am a little. I worry about you.

I don't know if this is true or not, but then the town I live in that's full of college kids because it's a college town.

Almost all of the restaurants have the touch screen to order when you go up. And like town next door to me, same restaurant, same chain. They don't have the touch screen. And my my son says it's because all these college kids, particularly certain kind of college girl, they don't want to talk to the cashier person.

They want to order on the thing. They walk. I hate it. I like it when there's a person. I get I'll get the number two with a fries and whatever. I'd rather do that than punch through the screen. But he thinks the young people prefer the punch and through the screen so they don't have to interact with a human. That's if that's true. That's wild.

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Art is strong and getting.

We are giving away Jim, if you rookie cards, everybody who comes for the gates of 20,000 of them, this is what it'll look like. What you do is you have to take it out of the protective sleep just like when you're a kid, not every Jim, if he card is created equally, there are 100 silver cards on the right. And what you see on the left.

The one of one gold.

Jim, it's a card.

The Seattle Mariners embracing the Jim, it's the craze with trading cards and they're not all created equally as you heard there.

Yeah, get this over and you got one gold.

So it's a picture I assume of Jim, it's the on the front.

And he has a little Mariners hat on.

And then there are stats on the back.

What's on the back of a card for Jim, it's.

Quentin runs the 40 and well, pretty slow because it's like an animal species information about raccoons debut 2026 throws all fours.

Nice.

That's no, it's a raccoon.

It has no thumbs.

Oh my God, that's a good one, Jim with the trading cards.

I've got to admit, it's funny.

I love stuff like that.

We need stuff like that.

We need more stuff like that.

Apparently one of those cards sold for $21,000.

Yeah, the gold card, the one little girl got it.

Was that just somebody being nice to a little girl or.

Oh no, no.

It's collectors item clearly.

All right.

New museum opening up in Los Angeles.

I love me a good museum, big museum fan.

And George Lucas's museum that he's been trying to get going forever finally opens up the Lucas museum.

Which is focus is going to be narrative art, which art critics are angry about because that's not a category.

He just invented that.

Anyway, it's got all kinds of different stuff.

I read a lot about this last night because I do like museums and I've been to all the LA museums many, many times.

I'll go to this one and opens up in the late September.

I'm not going to go right away because I am not going to stand in line.

So I can be somebody who says, oh, you haven't been.

It's amazing.

I'll go ahead and went to the crowd.

Things out.

But if you've seen pictures of the building stunning.

Absolutely.

It's a billion dollar project.

A billion dollars.

One of our favorite parts of this story, of course, is that he really wanted to have it in his hometown of the Bay Area.

But they just wouldn't let him build it.

I mean, all kinds of different problems and complaints and this and that and hang ups and bureaucracy.

And he finally said, fine, you know what?

I'll take it somewhere else.

I was going to build a billion dollar museum.

I'm going to be one of the great museums in the world.

People are going to come from all over.

It was going to be beautiful.

It was going to be amazing.

But I'll put it somewhere else.

Suck it.

Nice.

I take it to Los Angeles.

Yep.

And it's on 11 acres and the views from inside it, like the cafe, which are up top of a downtown Los Angeles,

are supposed to be spectacular.

So the museum itself, like the like the Getty is if you've ever been there.

Just the museum itself.

If there is no art in it, it'd be worth going to.

And it looks pretty.

It looks like a spaceship because, you know, George Lucas.

And there's a lots of cool space stuff in there.

But it's all kinds of different art of their van goes.

There are, you know, just, you know, your normal art and then all kinds of pop culture stuff.

And the collection seems amazing.

But I was liking the angle of art critics.

Really angry about this made up category of narrative art.

Designed to lend false coherence and gravitas to a wildly varied collection that mostly tracks

aspects of the birth and gestation of modern mass media imagery.

Okay.

Says the art critic.

A whole.

The fact that you'll see a van go next to the inventor of the coupie doll is infuriating.

Is it?

Oh, I'm infuriated.

I can barely contain myself.

That there's no pecking order for the classics versus.

Okay.

And this is a sort of thing that makes you mad.

Congratulations on your very kush life.

But I look forward to going to the museum and I'll talk about it after I do.

I would like to ask those art critics.

There have been a moment of your life where you weren't trying to act superior to someone.

Or everyone.

So you know what it feels like to not have your panties in a wand.

It's very comfortable.

Oh, it's so comfortable.

You can stand.

It's great.

No, chafing.

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