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Speaker 1: That's right, amen, Pete Boy, you tell them, huh, maybe
Speaker 1: I've had too much coffee. It's possible. That's all right.
Speaker 1: It's been fun. So oh, that's right. I had an introduction. Really,
Speaker 1: let me get that. I should have written it.
Speaker 3: Voldemort couldn't get little Hermione Granger, but she just took
Speaker 3: a one two punch that dropped her to the canvas.
Speaker 1: For none other than JK. Rowling.
Speaker 3: It's a special celebrity packed gender bending madness updates.
Speaker 1: So I kept hearing about this thing called by the loco.
Speaker 1: We're a Brave New worldl.
Speaker 3: Now, before we get to the Harry Potter madness, first,
Speaker 3: a story that's pretty serious.
Speaker 1: It's from Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: Here is a couple that has been fostering children for
Speaker 3: several years now. They've taken seven children into their home
Speaker 3: in Massachusetts for short and longer term placements. They are
Speaker 3: the sort of people you dream of as a society
Speaker 3: being foster parents. But now the state of Massachusetts, like
Speaker 3: several others, is forcing them to either sign an agreement
Speaker 3: that they will and I quote support, respect and affirm
Speaker 3: the foster child well sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
Speaker 3: This lgbt q I A plus non discrimination policy requires
Speaker 3: them to go along with that or they can no
Speaker 3: longer foster children. And this couple are devout Christians, say, essentially,
Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing them, say, yeah, that particular brand of adolescent
Speaker 3: confusion and struggle with mental illness. I need to sign
Speaker 3: a form that says I have to affirm that and
Speaker 3: encourage it not doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to be Christian to come to that.
Speaker 2: That's just a common sense approach. That is about as
Speaker 2: awful a thing as I'm going to hear today, because,
Speaker 2: like you said, the kind of couple that decides that's
Speaker 2: what they're going to do with their lives. Wow, they
Speaker 2: you know, they could be saints. Yeah, oh yeah, taking
Speaker 2: that on that is absolutely amazing for the state to
Speaker 2: then jump in with their ideological craziness.
Speaker 1: For a couple of people like that. Oh I know.
Speaker 3: And these these Skurns, like so many foster parents, are
Speaker 3: absolutely dedicated to loving and helping and raising the child
Speaker 3: until perhaps the family can be reunited. They are among
Speaker 3: the best people. Again, they're being forced to co sign
Speaker 3: a particular mental.
Speaker 1: Illness, which is that's what it is.
Speaker 3: Anyway, moving along, they're fighting back, by the way, They've
Speaker 3: got some great legal defense and they, like several other
Speaker 3: couples around the country, are fighting back. And good for them,
Speaker 3: and I hope they do well. And if you need
Speaker 3: a few bucks, let me know. So here's the JK.
Speaker 1: Rowling thing.
Speaker 3: And I became aware of this I came across a
Speaker 3: column in the New York Post.
Speaker 1: She is the author of all the Harry Potter books.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought everybody knows that, but it doesn't cost
Speaker 3: anything to point it out. Indeed, and she is actual
Speaker 3: gazillionaire and an absolutely brilliant and decent persons. So this
Speaker 3: is written by Brenda O'Neil in the Post, and it
Speaker 3: points out that JK. Rowling has and this is an
Speaker 3: overused phrase, but in this case, it's appropriate broken her
Speaker 3: silence on Emma Watson, the actress who played.
Speaker 1: Little Hermione Granger.
Speaker 3: He said, it is one of the truest and most
Speaker 3: cutting takedowns of blissful ignorance of mondied moral posers I
Speaker 3: have ever read. Watson is the actress who gained fame
Speaker 3: and riches from playing Hermione in the Harry Potter films
Speaker 3: of late she has become a one woman foghorn of
Speaker 3: luxuriant moralism that passes for virtue in celebrity circles. She
Speaker 3: fell in with a Black Lives Matter contagion, ostentatiously confessing
Speaker 3: that she had benefited from white supremacy, and she thinks
Speaker 3: Israel is committing genocide and Gaza blah blah bah. She's
Speaker 3: again a one woman foghorn of luxuriant moralism. So I
Speaker 3: had to go to the source material, obviously, because he
Speaker 3: describes what JK wrote, and I found it. She posted
Speaker 3: it to Twitter, and you know, I'll go ahead and
Speaker 3: do the read her caveats because it helps to show
Speaker 3: you what kind of person she is. She said, I'm
Speaker 3: seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I
Speaker 3: want to make a couple of points.
Speaker 1: This is JK. Rowling.
Speaker 3: I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once
Speaker 3: played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous
Speaker 3: to me as me checking with the boss I had
Speaker 3: when I was twenty one for what opinions I should
Speaker 3: hold these days. Emma Watson and her co stars have
Speaker 3: every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are
Speaker 3: legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of
Speaker 3: them threatened with loss of work or violence or death
Speaker 3: because of them. Worth noting, Jakay has had tons of horrific,
Speaker 3: vile threats and slanders against her in recent days.
Speaker 2: And she's lucky she can afford the private security that
Speaker 2: I'm sure she needs.
Speaker 3: Right However, Emma and Dan Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter in particular,
Speaker 3: both made it clear over the last few years that
Speaker 3: they think our former professional association gives them a particular rite,
Speaker 3: nay obligation to critique me in my views in public.
Speaker 3: Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to
Speaker 3: assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world
Speaker 3: I created. When you've known people since they were ten
Speaker 3: years old, it's hard not it's hard to shake a
Speaker 3: certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw
Speaker 3: off the memory of children who needed to be gently
Speaker 3: coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio.
Speaker 3: For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from
Speaker 3: journalists to comment on Emma, specifically, most notably on The
Speaker 3: Witch Trials of JK Rowling, a fantastic documentary. Ironically, I
Speaker 3: told the producers that I did not want her to
Speaker 3: be hounded as the result of anything I said, so
Speaker 3: she just hasn't commented on those people. The television presenter
Speaker 3: in the attached clip, which you know I should ask for,
Speaker 3: the audio highlights Emma's all Witches speech, and in truth
Speaker 3: that was a turning point for me, as Emma has
Speaker 3: unloaded on JK publicly, but it had a PostScript that
Speaker 3: hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone
Speaker 3: to pass on a handwritten note from her to me,
Speaker 3: which contained the single sentence quote, I'm so sorry for
Speaker 3: what you're going through. She has my phone number. By
Speaker 3: the way, This was back when the death, rape, and
Speaker 3: torture threats against me were at their peak, at a
Speaker 3: time when my personal security measures had to be tightened considerably,
Speaker 3: and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma
Speaker 3: had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet
Speaker 3: thought a one line expression of concern from her would
Speaker 3: reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Speaker 1: Like other people who've.
Speaker 3: Never experienced adult life on cushioned by wealth and fame,
Speaker 3: Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant
Speaker 3: of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter.
Speaker 3: She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex
Speaker 3: public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in
Speaker 3: a high street changing room since childhood. Her public bathroom
Speaker 3: is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing
Speaker 3: guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off
Speaker 3: in a newly mixed sex changing room at a council
Speaker 3: run swimming pool that's a government swimming pool. Is she
Speaker 3: ever likely to need a state run rape crisis center
Speaker 3: that refuses to guarantee an all female service to find
Speaker 3: herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's
Speaker 3: identified into the women's prison. I wasn't made a multi
Speaker 3: millionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the
Speaker 3: book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my
Speaker 3: own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in
Speaker 3: which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and
Speaker 3: girls without their privileges. The greatest irony here is that,
Speaker 3: had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to
Speaker 3: declare that she loves and treasures me a change of tack.
Speaker 3: I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full throated condemnation
Speaker 3: of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was.
Speaker 3: I might never have been this honest one more little bit.
Speaker 3: Adults can't expect a cozy up to an activist movement
Speaker 3: that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their
Speaker 3: right to the former friend's love as though the friend
Speaker 3: was in fact their mother. Emma is right to freely
Speaker 3: disagree with me, and indeed to discuss her feelings about
Speaker 3: me in public. But I have the same right, and
Speaker 3: I've finally decided to exercise it.
Speaker 2: It's interesting she decided to stick her neck out like this.
Speaker 1: JK. Rowlings. Good for her, I mean, she had pretty
Speaker 1: pretty cushy life going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know she had the opposite of a
Speaker 3: cushy life for like all of her formative years and
Speaker 3: a good chunk of her adulthood, And like any decent
Speaker 3: moral person who understands the difference between the protected class
Speaker 3: and the unprotected class, the rich and siloed and protected
Speaker 3: the luxury beliefs people talk about, Emma Watson can spout
Speaker 3: whatever belief she wants about gender benning madness because she's
Speaker 3: never going to be confronted with a six foot four
Speaker 3: inch fully intact mail in her locker room like the
Speaker 3: poor girls who swam it pen for instance. It's a
Speaker 3: luxury belief for her, and JK has finally called her
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: Well, and JK.
Speaker 2: Rowlings is also absolutely right about the tide has turned
Speaker 2: in the days of Clearly JK. Rowlings is the bad
Speaker 2: person and anybody who speaks out against her as a hero.
Speaker 1: That's over. Is over in Europe before it became over here.
Speaker 3: Right, and it's back to the whole preference distortion or
Speaker 3: preference falsification, preference cascade. The eighty five percent of us
Speaker 3: who think the gender bending madness is actually madness, it's
Speaker 3: mental illness. You don't change your sex by declaring, Now
Speaker 3: I'm a girl. That's as idiotic and crazy as it
Speaker 3: seems as it sounds now that everybody is saying, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that struck me as lunacy from the moment I heard it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not quite so fashionable to kick JK. Rowling anymore anyway.
Speaker 1: Good for her.
Speaker 3: It's a gender bending madness up date Harry Potter Edition
Speaker 3: sing sow zoom?
Speaker 1: Do not have a isn't there an ending? You're busy? Sorry,
Speaker 1: I got something else to do.
Speaker 3: I apologize if I'm bothering you in your personal life.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm meaner than Emma Watson. There it is. That's
Speaker 1: the China cabinet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wait a minute, that was the you're right, Jack,
Speaker 3: I'm back to being mean to Michael. What's the matter
Speaker 3: with you? Do we have to tip you to get
Speaker 3: you to pay what?
Speaker 1: I don't? I don't. I don't understand what's happening here.
Speaker 1: That was the ending of the China Cabinet. He's still
Speaker 1: looking for it. It is for both of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, it's it's as his face, the fake girl, right,
Speaker 3: that guy.
Speaker 1: So on so well till you ruined it? Oh me?
Speaker 1: And again I am so no I'm sorry, Michael.
Speaker 2: On Harold Potter. For whatever reason, we never got to
Speaker 2: the end in my household. And uh, I always assumed
Speaker 2: that Harry and Hermione were going to end up together,
Speaker 2: but that's not what happened.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: Spoiler alert. Uh uh yes, yeah, and Harry ends up
Speaker 3: with Ron's sister, who's Acutie.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, Jenny, yeah. Uh.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Yeah, I'd encourage you to watch Slash read the
Speaker 3: end because part of the genius of JK. Rowling and
Speaker 3: the Harry Potter series, and you know, I lived through
Speaker 3: this with my kids and I enjoyed the books and
Speaker 3: movies myself, was that as the characters aged, the themes
Speaker 3: became more mature and complex and and the symbolism more important.
Speaker 3: And by the end of it, they were on the
Speaker 3: cusp of adulthood, dealing with very adult things and themes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it for kids my kid's age.
Speaker 2: If your kids were the books and then the movies
Speaker 2: came out long after the books, well not long, but
Speaker 2: years after the books, and everybody's really looking forward to them.
Speaker 1: You know, my kids the movies were there right.
Speaker 2: Away and they saw them and it just kind of
Speaker 2: took the magic out of the books.
Speaker 1: I think I could see that, Yeah, which is unfortunate.
Speaker 1: I should have.
Speaker 2: Hid the movies from them. You know, here's why you
Speaker 2: read books. A lot of reasons, those books in particular.
Speaker 2: But there are many, many, many examples of this.
Speaker 3: If you were to actually bring all of one of
Speaker 3: those books to film, it would be seventeen hours long,
Speaker 3: probably the movies, but the book is consistently compelling and
Speaker 3: engaging all of those hours.
Speaker 1: They are good and just such.
Speaker 2: You know, letting your imagination run wild with all that
Speaker 2: stuff is so fantastic as opposed to you haven't been
Speaker 2: to the Harry Potter thing at Universal.
Speaker 1: I'm sure because you're an adult. It's pretty impressive. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'd like to I'd like to go. It is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got a lot more in the waist here.
Speaker 1: So apparently this has become a mockable meme.
Speaker 2: This is Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said this by mistake.
Speaker 4: Senator Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I
Speaker 4: think that's a great idea. We should have bipartisan agreement.
Speaker 4: How about we all come together and say, let's stop murders.
Speaker 4: How about we all come together and say let's stop rape.
Speaker 1: How about we.
Speaker 4: All come together and say let's stop attacking pedophiles.
Speaker 2: I doubt that he meant that last one. I don't
Speaker 2: know what he meant, but so anyway, let's stop attacking pedophiles.
Speaker 1: It's no, and then we killed Social Secure.
Speaker 2: Two things for you here. First of all, you weren't here.
Speaker 2: You were You had abandoned the show during its time
Speaker 2: of need. And I believe we're playing golf. And over
Speaker 2: a two day period, I talked to friend of the show,
Speaker 2: Tim Sanderfer and Craig Gotwalls and I had a discussion
Speaker 2: about AI with both of them and just asked them
Speaker 2: their opinion on is AI going to wipe out jobs
Speaker 2: and we're going to have to come up with some
Speaker 2: sort of guaranteed basic income or something like that there's
Speaker 2: be nothing to do, or do you think, like technologies
Speaker 2: of the past, it will create more and different jobs.
Speaker 2: I lean toward the former rather the latter on AI,
Speaker 2: even though history shows it to be the other way.
Speaker 2: Both Tim and Craig were big believers that no, it's
Speaker 2: just going to be like every other technological advancement that
Speaker 2: ever came along. It's going to create a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of new different jobs that you can't even imagine yet,
Speaker 2: and we'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: I hope they're right.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe that, but maybe we
Speaker 2: have the first inkling of that. Just read a long
Speaker 2: substack piece about the world of radiology in at least
Speaker 2: at the beginning, it looks like there's more demand for
Speaker 2: radiologists than there's ever ben with AI's ability to read
Speaker 2: all this stuff super duper fast, and then they need
Speaker 2: more radiologists. Most of a radiologist's job is dealing with
Speaker 2: the patients and then the stuff that comes after you
Speaker 2: read the chart. Reading the chart is a tiny percentage
Speaker 2: of the job, and now that gets done really fast
Speaker 2: by AI, and you need radiologists to do all the
Speaker 2: other part of being a radiologist. So, and this was
Speaker 2: one of the main examples people were holding up. In fact,
Speaker 2: one of your AI geniuses, one of the grandfathers of AI,
Speaker 2: said a year or two ago, if I was in
Speaker 2: radiology school, I would drop out and learn to do
Speaker 2: something else because that job is going away. And it
Speaker 2: seems that that is not happening at all. So maybe
Speaker 2: this is the first test case of that whole premise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm surprised by that.
Speaker 3: I don't know what a radiologist would do after the
Speaker 3: chart has been read, but maybe I'll read that.
Speaker 2: I didn't read the nineteen million word essay on it,
Speaker 2: which is the problem with anything substack, because there are
Speaker 2: no editors or limits on paper.
Speaker 1: That everything is just way too long.
Speaker 3: Everything has infinite space for your ideas. So let's get started.
Speaker 2: No, sure, every article is the length of a book.
Speaker 2: We did come up with some new pete Hegseat stuff
Speaker 2: that you haven't heard yet. I want to play that
Speaker 2: for you, among other things.
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Speaker 5: they're calling them Wendy's Tend's. So far they haven't sold
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Speaker 2: I would agree, I am not saying that as an
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Speaker 1: And I need to remember to change my und one piece.
Speaker 2: This first round of the playoffs in baseball, they're three
Speaker 2: game series, so all the teams that won last night
Speaker 2: they could end it tonight.
Speaker 1: It's all yeah, it goes fast. I love it. Yep.
Speaker 1: I gotta watch some baseball tonight.
Speaker 3: So executive producer Hanson, who is constantly seeking gundermine me,
Speaker 3: has undermined me by sending an important and timely.
Speaker 1: Piece of news.
Speaker 3: I was already to talk, you know, briefly about the
Speaker 3: Israel Hamas situation, which excuse me. You know, I had
Speaker 3: that upper respiratory thing. What was that six weeks ago?
Speaker 3: That stupid nagging cough is just hanging out.
Speaker 1: Did you get the whooping cough? No?
Speaker 3: No, there's no whooping. Okay, I don't think what was
Speaker 3: that sick? It's just annoying anyway, Ah, have a cough.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you get the whooping cough. No,
Speaker 1: that's inaccurate.
Speaker 3: So what we were going to talk about was the
Speaker 3: fact that Hamas has indicated is opening to it's open
Speaker 3: to accepting Trump's peace plan. Read some really great analysis,
Speaker 3: Oh but Hamas has some concerns about some of the terms,
Speaker 3: And then read some great analysis about how the problem
Speaker 3: is the lack of time tables and how Hamas will
Speaker 3: string the long cheat as much as possible and really
Speaker 3: seek to reconstitute its forces and make it As if
Speaker 3: there was no agreement. The cold realistic, optimistic view is
Speaker 3: the countermeasures to that, including the involvement of the Arab
Speaker 3: countries in the region and the reorganization of Gaza and
Speaker 3: the new prosperity and everything. It'll render the ground unfertile
Speaker 3: for Homasthas that you know, the sync roots never grow again.
Speaker 3: That's the optimistic, coldly realistic. You know, here'd be my
Speaker 3: tip to if you're in Hamas. If you don't accept
Speaker 3: this deal, Israel is going to kill every last one
Speaker 3: of you.
Speaker 1: Now that's a term.
Speaker 3: And then finally I mentioned this earlier in the show,
Speaker 3: great piece by Emit Siegel, who is a commentator in Israel,
Speaker 3: pointing out that the reason all the Arab countries came
Speaker 3: around was that Israel had said, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 3: get these guys, even if they're in your living room friends,
Speaker 3: including Cutter, and that that Net and Yahoo apology was
Speaker 3: a measure so the Kataris could save face because they,
Speaker 3: like the Iranians and several other countries around the Middle East,
Speaker 3: had realized, Okay, Israel's going to come after the people
Speaker 3: were harboring in our giant cush oil rich cities and
Speaker 3: we don't want that.
Speaker 1: So hey, Hummas agreed to peace. We're through with you.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting. So it worked, you know. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't in spite of the attack. It was because of it.
Speaker 2: They got all the condemnation from the world and the
Speaker 2: President Trump allegedly screamed at Netanyahu on the phone afterwards,
Speaker 2: what'd you do?
Speaker 1: Why'd you do?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: Seems to have been a key to making this whole
Speaker 2: piece plan come together.
Speaker 3: Well, it wouldn't be a shock if Benjamin Netanyahu knows
Speaker 3: how to deal with these Middle Eastern types a little
Speaker 3: better than Trump does at this point. But anyway, so
Speaker 3: it was because the Qataris are afraid that they've come
Speaker 3: to the table in a serious way. Now here's the
Speaker 3: timely and important undermining that Hanson has attempted to inflict
Speaker 3: upon me. This is the headline from the Times of Israel.
Speaker 3: A senior Hamas official tells the BBC that the Terror
Speaker 3: group will likely reject Trump's plan to end the war
Speaker 3: in Gaza, telling the British network that it serves Israel's
Speaker 3: interests and ignores those of the Palestinian people.
Speaker 1: That is a quote.
Speaker 3: The official added that Hamas opposes several key provisions of
Speaker 3: the plan. Those include the call for the group to
Speaker 3: disarm the entry is so called international stabilization forces, and
Speaker 3: the requirement that it released all forty eight hostages it's
Speaker 3: holding within seventy two hours after the agreement is adopted. Again,
Speaker 3: they have mentioned that some of these hostages are held
Speaker 3: by groups that were loosely affiliated with and we don't
Speaker 3: know where they are and where the hostages are, so
Speaker 3: you can't hold us to that.
Speaker 1: Sure, What do you think happens now?
Speaker 3: This recent Saudi report also indicated Hamas's skepticism towards the plan.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to know what their plan is. What's
Speaker 1: your plan?
Speaker 2: Hamas, Israel's going in and Trump said, do what you
Speaker 2: gotta do, you have our backing.
Speaker 1: What's your plan?
Speaker 3: Their plan has got to be to fight the Israelis
Speaker 3: in the rubble and kill as many as possible until
Speaker 3: Israel becomes discouraged, to show as many injured civilians, whether
Speaker 3: real or concocted, as possible, to bring more condemnation down
Speaker 3: on Israel, and play the long game. I really thought they,
Speaker 3: as a leopard that will never change its spots, were
Speaker 3: going to pretend to accept the deal, then seek to
Speaker 3: undermine it at every opportunity for as long as they could.
Speaker 3: But maybe they're going with the dead end strategy. All right,
Speaker 3: they can fight their way out of the dead end.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see what world opinion is on
Speaker 2: what Israel has to do having given them this offer
Speaker 2: that was approved by people seem to like it on
Speaker 2: NPR and MSNBC and freaking Tom Friedman of The New
Speaker 2: York Times even that said it was a deal Homas
Speaker 2: should take.
Speaker 1: So if they don't.
Speaker 3: Don't know, Yeah, unrest in the Middle East the headline
Speaker 3: when I was two twenty forty sixty, and if I
Speaker 3: lived to one hundred and thirty five probably be the headline.
Speaker 1: Probably.
Speaker 2: So I was wanting these Pete Hegsath clips that I
Speaker 2: had heard somewhere else and we hadn't had on our
Speaker 2: show before.
Speaker 3: To play for you, because I think we want to
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Speaker 2: Gonna ask Katie about how her dad used to dress
Speaker 2: dead people, which we just.
Speaker 1: Found out the other day. How'd you kept that a
Speaker 1: secret from us all this time?
Speaker 2: We've talked to your dad, the retired judge, so many times,
Speaker 2: and it never came up that he used to dress corpses.
Speaker 1: It didn't. The corpse conversation never came up.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Ah, Man, I'd work it in if
Speaker 2: I had that in my past, I'd find a way
Speaker 2: to work it into any conversation.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, nice shirt, Jim.
Speaker 3: By the way, And I ever mentioned that I used
Speaker 3: to put shirts on the dead, Yeah, it would.
Speaker 1: Come up a lot in my world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, missed a lust an a judge and had, you know,
Speaker 3: decades of fascinating experiences.
Speaker 1: So maybe he just didn't think of the stiffs. Would
Speaker 1: he put funny costumes on them? Or is it just
Speaker 1: regular clothes for God's sake?
Speaker 6: Pretty sure, just regular clothes. But if they requested funny costumes,
Speaker 6: I'm sure he would have done it.
Speaker 1: I feel like the socks would be the biggest challenge that,
Speaker 1: oh is a big part of it. I'll wait to
Speaker 1: tell I'll let him tell you, guys. The story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just pictured like he did what you'd have to,
Speaker 2: like straddle their leg and lift it up in the
Speaker 2: air to try to get that sock on it.
Speaker 3: Okay, speaking of grooming and that sort of thing, I
Speaker 3: have a reasonably reasonable vocabulary in spite of that sentence,
Speaker 3: but I realized I don't. Yeah, I know four whole words.
Speaker 3: One of them is reasonable. I realized I don't know
Speaker 3: the word for something. First of all, anybody who's like
Speaker 3: a bar of soap and your hands showering person, Jack,
Speaker 3: are you what do you use in the shower?
Speaker 1: You like a bar soap guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like a bar soap, Michael, bar soap.
Speaker 6: Guy, bar soap.
Speaker 3: I used to be until my wife insists that I stop.
Speaker 3: I am now a the lick cleanser thing. It's not
Speaker 3: a loofah, that's my question. What is the fluffy thing
Speaker 3: called that.
Speaker 1: You put to loofy there? Nancy?
Speaker 3: It is a loofah, the fuzzy like ball thing. Joe
Speaker 3: usest loof of Shut up you. I always thought a
Speaker 3: loof of was was like a.
Speaker 1: More abrasive thing. All right.
Speaker 3: That's funny because Judy and I have always just called
Speaker 3: them poofs shower poofs, and I realized I didn't know
Speaker 3: what they were actually called, because mine unraveled the other
Speaker 3: day and I was going to text her and say, hey,
Speaker 3: do we have any more shower poofs?
Speaker 1: And I thought, there's gotta be a name for this.
Speaker 1: That's not a poof a shower pof a loofa. I
Speaker 1: was close, Nancy, why I oughta Wait, when.
Speaker 6: You say a bar of soap, you guys just put
Speaker 6: bar of soap to skin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's the way like wash themselves.
Speaker 3: It just leaves like soap scum in the shower. All right,
Speaker 3: my sweet bride insisted, I go with makes you gay?
Speaker 3: Whoa wow?
Speaker 1: Wow? See that just that wasn't even funny, that was
Speaker 1: just wow. That was just bashing. I do not hate speech.
Speaker 2: I do not know a lot of dudes that steing
Speaker 2: isn't free speech. There they either Nazi or would admit
Speaker 2: to using a loufa.
Speaker 6: So I have to tell you that there is such
Speaker 6: thing as an African loofa, And it's the same material
Speaker 6: as a lufa.
Speaker 1: It is just a flat piece of.
Speaker 6: Lufa and you can ring it out picturing it dries
Speaker 6: much easier.
Speaker 2: Is there an advantage to the lufa for your body exfoliation, deadskin.
Speaker 1: It gets the dirt off you. Uh uh. Don't confuse
Speaker 1: a lufa with a falaffel, similar name, totally different.
Speaker 2: Now, if you have a falaffel in the shower, right
Speaker 2: or a loofa for lunch, it's gonna both are bad, right,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 1: Anyway, Pete eggsays you say, yeah, you got a couple
Speaker 1: of new peaked eggs clips for you and other stuff.
Speaker 1: Stay here, I'm using a lot of soap.
Speaker 3: Stop the presses. Stop the press is, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3: We have an important correction. I have heard from a dermatologist,
Speaker 3: Jack Katie. I can never remember. Are you two dermatologists
Speaker 3: or are you absolutely not dermatologists? A dermatologist has informed
Speaker 3: me you are correct. It's a puff. Poof is the
Speaker 3: regional pronunciation. Change it every three months. Don't wait for
Speaker 3: it to un rafle a. Loofa is a natural sponge.
Speaker 3: They grow more bacteria by the way, puff nylon lufa
Speaker 3: natural fiber sponge. I think.
Speaker 2: I think most people use the term loofah for synthetic
Speaker 2: things they buy, but it's not accurate.
Speaker 3: Most people like socialism. Most people want to be supported
Speaker 3: by the government.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. What's important is accuracy.
Speaker 6: Ask your dermatologist friend what a lufah puff is then,
Speaker 6: because that's what I'm saying, Come up, is it the same?
Speaker 1: It's not a highly unnatural hybrid.
Speaker 2: I notice when I'm in hotels now, it's almost exclusively
Speaker 2: the pump things in the shower. Yeah, and I just
Speaker 2: never quite feel the same level of clean with those
Speaker 2: for some reason. I don't know if that's just in
Speaker 2: my mind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I hate it when I see those, because anybody
Speaker 6: can be doing anything to the insides of those bottles.
Speaker 1: I like the individual. Oh, collegie, that's a terrible thing
Speaker 1: to think about.
Speaker 3: I'd never everybody's mind is worrying and everybody's trying to
Speaker 3: stop their minds.
Speaker 2: I'd never thought about it before, but now I always will,
Speaker 2: so thanks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, most of them you need a special tool,
Speaker 3: I think to open. But I have a feeling that
Speaker 3: special tool is available at what's that store called, Oh,
Speaker 3: the Internet.
Speaker 1: That's so gross.
Speaker 2: I'd never even thought of it, and I'll never be
Speaker 2: able to not think about it.
Speaker 1: Bring your own, yeah, I like bringing my own stuff.
Speaker 1: Tough to please, huh. I travel light.
Speaker 2: All right, so Pete Heggs has said a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of stuff yesterday in front of the fat generals and
Speaker 2: the fat admirals about them being fat. We hadn't played
Speaker 2: this one yet.
Speaker 7: The Secretary also detailing big changes to complaints with in
Speaker 7: the ranks. Sexual harassment and racism are still illegal, he says,
Speaker 7: but claims about bullying, hazing it, or toxic leadership will
Speaker 7: be redefined.
Speaker 8: No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints, no more
Speaker 8: repeat complainants, no more smearing reputations, no more endless waiting,
Speaker 8: no more legal limbo, no more sidetracking careers, no more
Speaker 8: walking on eggshells.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 2: I think that is really interesting because we have that
Speaker 2: in the modern workplace right where people are just so
Speaker 2: scared to say anything to anyone, and that's made us
Speaker 2: all less friendly and we have worse relationships at work
Speaker 2: than we've ever had and everything like that before. How
Speaker 2: less effective, I would argue, And probably yeah, almost certainly,
Speaker 2: How do you how do you go back to a
Speaker 2: time where we weren't walking on eggshells without I don't know,
Speaker 2: ending up a situation where you're covering up bad things
Speaker 2: that probably should come to the light today.
Speaker 1: It's tough to strike that balance.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think what Hegseeth is saying is that we went.
Speaker 1: Too far the other one.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we did to the point that it really
Speaker 3: affected our war fighting readiness, and we're going back in
Speaker 3: the other direction. Will that result in some unfortunate stuff?
Speaker 3: Almost certainly, yeah, because there were human beings. We're not
Speaker 3: good at perfection. But we've got to air to the
Speaker 3: war fighting side as opposed to the nobody gets their
Speaker 3: feathers ruffled side.
Speaker 2: I think it was one of the newspapers I was reading,
Speaker 2: Washington Post, New York Times, one of those. But reminding
Speaker 2: us all, maybe Pete Hegseeth has forgotten the nineties' Tailhook
Speaker 2: Navy scandal, which was all about sexual harassment and that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff. Okay, well, you know you don't want that,
Speaker 2: but you also don't want people. You don't want a
Speaker 2: situation where somebody can make, as Pete said, an anonymous
Speaker 2: call to a hotline and change somebody's complete career.
Speaker 3: Path right right, which you know, brings us back to
Speaker 3: the fact that a for a long time now, so
Speaker 3: called microaggressions or imagined defenses were treated as if they were,
Speaker 3: you know, a violent sexual assault.
Speaker 1: They were treated with that seriousness.
Speaker 3: A reminder please read James Lindsey's Famine Helm Pluck Roses
Speaker 3: brilliant cynical theories. That is a tool of takeover of
Speaker 3: an institution. If I can ruin your career by merely
Speaker 3: dropping a little note to the command and I can
Speaker 3: make up what you did, that's never been considered an
Speaker 3: offense in the history of mankind.
Speaker 1: But now it is all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: I own you, I control you, I control this institution.
Speaker 3: The microaggressions thing at its genesis was not overly sensitive people.
Speaker 1: It's a deliberate tool of takeover. And you gotta get
Speaker 1: rid of that.
Speaker 2: Play that other peak clip just for fun. We'll get
Speaker 2: that on and then we'll be done with that conversation.
Speaker 8: Those physical standards must be high and gender neutral.
Speaker 1: If women can make it excellent. If not, it is
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 8: If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs,
Speaker 8: so be it.
Speaker 2: That's the clip that got people all fired up on
Speaker 2: your cable news channels.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Oh, it is what it is.
Speaker 2: No women in combat, Yeah, if there aren't any that
Speaker 2: can cut it. I'm sure there are plenty that can,
Speaker 2: but there aren't going to be as many.
Speaker 1: Women in combat. And that's fine.
Speaker 3: If you think the standards are too high, make that case.
Speaker 3: But the idea that those people have one standard to
Speaker 3: save their lives and those are the people in their unit,
Speaker 3: and those people have different standards to save their own
Speaker 3: lives in the people of the ear unit because they're girls,
Speaker 3: that is absurd. And if you don't recognize that, I
Speaker 3: seriously don't know where to begin the conversation with you.
Speaker 1: So somebody posted somebody in government? Is that a Senator Turnbull?
Speaker 1: I know that name.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I think it's a Senator. Turnbull posted a picture
Speaker 2: of Ted Cruz in a not flattering shot.
Speaker 1: In he's not wearing his suit jacket.
Speaker 2: He's just in a shirt and pants, and he's sitting
Speaker 2: in an airport and he's very round.
Speaker 1: Man. I didn't realize he was that big.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I just got in a little porky, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: a little I'll send you this picture. Turnbull said, Senator
Speaker 2: Cruz strongly supports fitness standards for the military. Okay, So
Speaker 2: Charles C. W. A. Cooka The National Review posted that
Speaker 2: and said, very good point. If you, as a person
Speaker 2: who isn't in the military, aren't personally fit, then you
Speaker 2: can't argue that people in the military should be in
Speaker 2: military ship. Ah, how do we ever break out of
Speaker 2: these nonsense arguments?
Speaker 3: We need to develop like a scientific instrument that measures
Speaker 3: the stupidity in an argument. I mean, because that is
Speaker 3: truly a stupid argument. And then if you know, you
Speaker 3: can put it on the stupid scale and it says five.
Speaker 3: People say, oh, that's an extra stupid argument, and they
Speaker 3: don't fall for it.
Speaker 2: By the way, speaking to senators, more of the story
Speaker 2: of old gold Bar Menendez is out. Do you remember him.
Speaker 2: It's really entertaining from a scandal standpoint. We'll get to
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