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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Ketty arm Strong

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Speaker 1: and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.

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Speaker 2: Heels and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior

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Speaker 2: has reportedly been spotted working out at a New York

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Speaker 2: City Equinox gym and tight jeans and hiking boots, and

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Speaker 2: employees say they're getting awfully tired of fishing them out

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Speaker 2: of the pool.

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Speaker 1: It's very funny.

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Speaker 3: Coming up, we're gonna talk a little bit about Elon

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Speaker 3: Musk's power media power. According to The Washington Post, Elon

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Speaker 3: is one of the most powerful people in all of

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Speaker 3: media right now.

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Speaker 1: And I would I'll be hard to argue with.

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Speaker 3: And I've got some If you're a Trump fan, you're

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Speaker 3: gonna like some of the observations on the Trump moment

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Speaker 3: that is going on right now. Trump is as high

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Speaker 3: as he's ever going to be in his life right now.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely a honeymoon period for him, which he did

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Speaker 3: not get first time around.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy it well, you can. We wish you well to

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Speaker 1: be productive in the new year. Just a quick reminder

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Speaker 1: public service announcement, Joe Biden is going to be the

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Speaker 1: president for another solid month, right.

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Speaker 3: There, and doctor Jill headed to Delaware today for a

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Speaker 3: little time off, a little much needed break.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well deserved.

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Speaker 3: So this is going to be like more or less

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Speaker 3: the rest of the holiday season. So Christmas is in

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Speaker 3: a week and they and they already headed to Delaware.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's the most coasting through the end of

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Speaker 3: your presidency that's happened since Woodrow Wilson was a stroke

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Speaker 3: victim lying in bed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I check Biden for a pulse, though I'm

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Speaker 1: not convinced he's still alive. Coming up this hour, I

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Speaker 1: swear I'll pay this off. News about Kamala Harris's future

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Speaker 1: that will draw a guffaw guaranteed stay with us. But first,

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Speaker 1: a gender bending madness update.

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Speaker 4: First of all, in the least covered story in American history,

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Speaker 4: relatively the significance of it, a thirty three year old

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Speaker 4: last week and assaulted a sitting congresswoman.

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Speaker 1: A woman, a man beat down, a woman injured or

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Speaker 1: arm and r Well, yeah, yeah, and it got no

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Speaker 1: attention because well that might, you know, give conservatives a

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Speaker 3: Political violence, the capital man on woman.

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Speaker 1: Get it's no attention. What is the depths of the

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Speaker 1: lying on the left and in the media. Well, we've

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Speaker 1: just well we got to get a longer poll to

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Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration issued an eight hundred and fifty thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars federal grant to provide training for military families to

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Speaker 1: affirm the gender identity of their children. Our tax dollars

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Speaker 1: are being spent to groom the children of our military members.

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Speaker 1: That's just beautiful.

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Speaker 3: I want to flip that first story around. So we

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Speaker 3: have the first elected trans congressperson this year, imagine, and

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Speaker 3: it's a I shouldn't say it's but I'm so bad

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Speaker 3: them straight in my head. So is this a man

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Speaker 3: I think, yeah, it's a dude is a woman. But

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Speaker 3: so if a guy came in and beat her. Came

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Speaker 3: coverage on that. It would absolutely, one hundred percent be

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Speaker 1: Yes, the president, that could be long think pieces on it.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, why would the reverse not get one percent of

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Speaker 1: And once again we featured this story in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: Miss Netherlands was a dude who presented as a woman,

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Speaker 1: proving once again that men are better at everything, including

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Speaker 1: Missed the Netherlands beauty pageant is shutting down after a

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Speaker 1: having a dude win put off enough people that nobody

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Speaker 3: They killed their own pageant by going woke. Takes a

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Speaker 1: The director said that the pageant is now a platform

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Speaker 3: The idea that beauty pageants still exists is amazing anyway,

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Speaker 1: Went and Ryan's yeah, exactly, yeah, place, what are we

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Speaker 3: Having listened to a long conversation with the publisher of

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Speaker 3: the New York Times. What's his name, Schultzberger Seltzburger, Sultzberger, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: listen to along podcast with him. They get they run

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Speaker 1: That is true? Yeah, and I do credit them for

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Speaker 1: how a w path is an utterly dishonest organization full

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Speaker 1: of radical activists. But the idea that you can appease

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Speaker 3: Of all the words I just said, having tampons and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, men, mestroid. It's never have and never will, is

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Speaker 1: percent of the time workforce identifies as non binary. Category

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Speaker 1: that includes transgender individuals, but also those who simply choose

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Speaker 1: they're special and pay them more attention. It's just this,

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Speaker 1: the narcissism of small distinctions. Writ large anyway, Good job

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Speaker 1: New York Times. Do whatever you want, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Great piece by James Breslo in The California Globe about

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Speaker 1: experiments on children, these gender bending experiments. There's no medical

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Speaker 1: basis on which to do these. Well, they're experimental treatments

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Speaker 1: Academy of Pediatricians and American Psychology Association. But those organizations

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Speaker 1: they've declared it conversion counseling or what's the other derogatory

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Speaker 3: They're calling this conversion therapy, which is, you know, got

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Speaker 1: But this is the opposite. Well, right, so twenty five

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Speaker 1: in those states, the surgeries and the hormones are still legal.

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Speaker 1: So you literally must only push the kid down that

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think through this on the fly because

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Speaker 1: the parents. It's all part of the neo Marxist thing,

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Speaker 1: They've got your kid now, it's absolutely insidious. It's a

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Speaker 3: So we have some breaking news on the whole drone thing.

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Speaker 3: The White House is going to brief the House Intelligence

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Speaker 3: Committee today on the drones. Maybe the end of the

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Speaker 3: out and say, look, I can't say, but there's nothing

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Speaker 1: Maybe that the inescapable conclusion is there's something to brief.

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Speaker 1: Good point, Captain obvious over here. But you get what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, suh. Well, of course there's something to brief.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't call everybody together and say, all right, is

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Speaker 1: the skiff closed? Everybody's got their their phones put away?

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Speaker 1: All right? We don't know either. You have no idea

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Speaker 1: that it's a bunch of drones. Apparently that's what we've heard.

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Speaker 1: They're all just planes. Watch them step up the podium

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Speaker 1: and say, this isn't our beat promotion, all right?

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Speaker 3: Right, they got a new sandwich you're coming out called

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Speaker 3: the drone. Elon Musk is a powerful, powerful guy, maybe

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Speaker 3: the way stay tune.

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Speaker 1: Oh hey, shout out to our gay listeners. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Got this very nice note from John and Salem, Oregon.

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Speaker 3: You got them, you always have the big head. Though

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Speaker 3: which is cheez, what is you listening right now or me?

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Speaker 3: What's your signal to noise ratio, like accomplishing things either

439
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Speaker 3: work wise, kid wise, you know, working out whatever it

440
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:38,919
Speaker 3: is that you're trying to accomplish. What is your I

441
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 3: might be fifty to fifty at bess Elon's one hundred

442
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Speaker 3: percent signal all day long, and that's one of the

443
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Speaker 3: ways he has dominated so many different industries and get

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Speaker 3: so many things done. I just was it Kevin O'Leary

445
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Speaker 3: that worked with both of them?

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Speaker 6: I think it was, yeah, yeah, because he has a

447
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Speaker 6: big thing about cutting through the noise, yes, being brutal

448
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Speaker 6: about it, and I wish I was better at that,

449
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Speaker 6: or maybe I can try back.

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Speaker 1: But one hundred percent, now that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 6: I think if we asked for a show of hands

452
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Speaker 6: about ninety percent of our.

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Speaker 3: Listener, Oh yeah, that's a special skill.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'd say.

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Speaker 3: And I wonder how much of it has to do

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Speaker 3: with Elon being on the spectrum somewhere that that either

457
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Speaker 3: allows him to focus more or or helps him not

458
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Speaker 3: get sidetracked more. I don't know, yeah, because he has

459
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 3: Asperger's and all that sort of stuff, But yeah, I

460
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Speaker 3: could accomplish a lot more. You could accomplish a lot

461
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Speaker 3: more if we were one hundred percent focused all day long,

462
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Speaker 3: every day, plus only needing to sleep four hours a

463
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Speaker 3: day helps too. We got more on the way stay

464
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Speaker 3: with us. So we're just talking about a couple different things,

465
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Speaker 3: like Elon Musk's amazing one signal to noise ratio that

466
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Speaker 3: he pulls off every day. And then earlier we were

467
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Speaker 3: talking about your personality types and uh, just good attitudes,

468
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 3: bad attitudes and all that kind of fits together with

469
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Speaker 3: how you're built. We got this text that I thought

470
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Speaker 3: was funny. Jack's constant reflection of himself kudos. It cracks

471
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Speaker 3: me up because for nearly thirty years I've been listening

472
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Speaker 3: to you reflect and you're still the same.

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Speaker 1: I'mult simple, Jack, That's true.

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Speaker 3: I've been trying. I'm reflecting on self improvement for nearly

475
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Speaker 3: thirty years on this radio show and haven't improved nothing.

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Speaker 1: Right, thirty years of reflection, zero personal growth. That's more

477
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: or less my story too. It's unfortunate, but it is

478
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Speaker 1: what it is. I'd like to apologize to the listening

479
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Speaker 1: audience for disappearing. I am working remotely, as I often do,

480
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Speaker 1: and something went kerblue in the mothership, not the Iranian mothership,

481
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Speaker 1: that is, you know, the base of the drone attacks,

482
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Speaker 1: but the radio mothership. But anyway, I'm back through alternate means.

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Speaker 1: How's it sound, Jack? Is this all right? Yeah? That's

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Speaker 1: good enough. Well that's my standard, so perfect. I was

485
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Speaker 1: just starting to read this charming note from John in

486
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Speaker 1: Sale Morgan, which is not far from where my son lives,

487
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Speaker 1: beautiful Central Organ and he says some very very nice things,

488
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Speaker 1: and we thank him for that, but he says he's

489
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Speaker 1: running errands with his kids, catching up on the show Friday,

490
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Speaker 1: when we casually dropped the bomb that there was a

491
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Speaker 1: relationship between Santa Claus in the early twentieth CE entry

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Speaker 1: in the Coca Cola corporation. I'm not going to get specific.

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Speaker 1: And then we had a whole conversation about nibbling cookies

494
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Speaker 1: and why a dad might do that on Christmas Eve,

495
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Speaker 1: and he says, cue the best conversation of my life

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Speaker 1: with my six and a half year old son who

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Speaker 1: suddenly became suspicious of everything, including me. Oh yeah, we

498
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Speaker 1: actually I don't even want to read this because it

499
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Speaker 1: would redo what happened.

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Speaker 3: We've ruined a child's life, is what we've done.

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Speaker 1: But he said, I quickly had to reassure him that

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Speaker 1: this was all just a comedy sketch, not a real

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Speaker 1: life expose on a conspiracy. And I would say to you,

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Speaker 1: John Well, first of all, any loving dad who's active

505
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Speaker 1: in his kids' lives and cares about this thing is

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Speaker 1: a friend and a brother of mine. But brother, you

507
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: got to be quicker to the dial number one. All right,

508
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: you got to row. You gotta reach to that, or

509
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Speaker 1: be quick with a who wants ice cream? Because that

510
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Speaker 1: will obliterate anything the kids heard, like in the last

511
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Speaker 1: you know, two and a half hours.

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Speaker 3: That's funny, who wants ice Cream? I should have had

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Speaker 3: that at the ready when my kids were younger. Anytime

514
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 3: I needed who wants ice creaming time, they'd switch up.

515
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Speaker 3: Now I'd have to say, look, boobs, it would be

516
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Speaker 3: the best way to go.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh, that is so funny. I have two teenage boys,

518
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Speaker 1: you see, Yeah, so funny. Let's see what now? I

519
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: like this one. We shared it at the very beginning

520
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Speaker 1: of the show. Burbank Luke talking about the Fermi paradox.

521
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Speaker 1: Why have we not come across more life in the universe?

522
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Speaker 1: If there are so many millions of planets where it

523
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Speaker 1: could exist, and I love the way he put this.

524
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Speaker 1: The problem is that the other intelligent life could trumble

525
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: along for eons and the primordial soup and the lungs,

526
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: the legs, the opposable thumbs. Then they're using rocks as

527
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: tools and so on. Eventually they figure out broadcast TV,

528
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: which is what we're listening for, sitcoms from the Hexapus

529
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Speaker 1: Family holiday specials, and the next thing you know, they

530
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Speaker 1: blow each other up in the Pentane Wars. That last

531
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: part is only two hundred years. It's a synchronization problem.

532
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't read through the full piece from the scientists,

533
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 3: though the numbers are so overwhelming that there should be

534
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Speaker 3: somebody synchronized slightly behind us, slightly ahead us, or of

535
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 3: the same as this, because there are gazillions of planets

536
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 3: that should be where we are now just through happenstance.

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Speaker 1: You would think, Yeah, I love this one from Richard.

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Speaker 1: Happy holidays, guys. Listening to your show. One thing that

539
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: caught my attention was the only fans Gallo decided to

540
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: make remark by having sex with one hundred men in

541
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Speaker 1: a day. I know that you are both well read

542
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Speaker 1: and intelligent. Debatable, Richard, but thank you but as you've said, often,

543
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Speaker 1: there are many subjects you just don't get to. Porn

544
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: and its history I'm sure is one of them. Yeah,

545
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: only vague notions of the history. Oh, porn. Having sex

546
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: with a large group of men to set a quote

547
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: unquote record is not new. And not only was it

548
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: a sales pitch just a few decades ago, but various

549
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: stars would advertise that they were going for the record.

550
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: It even became a thing on shock jock radio shows

551
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: later podcasts, and bragging why their score was more legitimate

552
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: than Terry Tassel's or Hannah Hills or you know whatever

553
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Speaker 1: fake porn name you want to throw out there. He said,

554
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Speaker 1: So what has been will be again, and what has

555
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: been done will be done again. There's nothing new under

556
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Speaker 1: the sun. To quote Donald Trump's favorite book.

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Speaker 3: That's true in terms of the specific stunt that woman did.

558
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 3: That is not new. Internet porn is new. The ability

559
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Speaker 3: to watch all these videos is new. The way it

560
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 3: affects the brain, it's a new thing that did not

561
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Speaker 3: exist before.

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Speaker 1: On Hey, do we have time for this? Yes, we do.

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Speaker 1: On a similar ish topic, got this note from Joe

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Speaker 1: your discussion today I think it was yesterday about the

565
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Speaker 1: Sexual Revolution reminded me of a piece earlier in the

566
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Speaker 1: year taking talking up the male side of things and

567
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: how men need someone to provide for and protect and

568
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: how that will motivate them to work and be productive citizens.

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Speaker 1: That's a very Jordan Peterson conversation. He's dead on that stuff.

570
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: But anyway, he says, I thought i'd give you guys

571
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: some insight into the late twenties crowd based on my

572
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 1: friends and myself. Of the ten of us, zero have kids,

573
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Speaker 1: one is married, one is engaged, two are in long

574
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Speaker 1: term relationships, six have not had a long term relationship

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Speaker 1: in the last seven years. Of those six, basically three

576
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Speaker 1: basically aren't even pursuing women out of lack of desire

577
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: to given the kinds of women they had dated before

578
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Speaker 1: or matched with on dating apps. The other three are

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Speaker 1: solely casual, not really connecting with anyone significantly. Our birth

580
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Speaker 1: rate is already below replacement level. That's really interesting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he says. It worries me seriously for the country in

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Speaker 1: thirty years from now, when the lack of quantity in

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Speaker 1: the younger generation reaches the workforce that's retiring. Yeah, well,

584
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to be supporting them through social Security.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting that dating apps are so popular, yet there

586
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Speaker 3: seems to be a pretty negative attitude about dating. I

587
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 3: wonder if they go together. If the dating app experience

588
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 3: is just more discouraging than the old way certainly might be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, it's obviously more prone to different outcomes

590
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: than meeting people in person, are getting to know them

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Speaker 1: after over a period of time, and then deciding, you

592
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: know what, I kind of have feelings for this person anyway. Hey, yeah,

593
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: it has to have an effect, all right. The final

594
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Speaker 1: email I will offer from Gabrielle is both charming and horrifying.

595
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Speaker 1: It's chorrifying, I don't know. So we were talking about

596
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Speaker 1: teachers fearing for the lives of family friend who was

597
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: supposed to be long term sub and dropped out because

598
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: the kids are unruly and out of control in a

599
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Speaker 1: way that they weren't even a few years ago. Just

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00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: a quick anecdote about the new phenomenon of teachers fearing

601
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Speaker 1: for their safety. Laura Ingalls Wilder's nineteen thirty three children's

602
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: book Farmer Boy opens on the drama of having a

603
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Speaker 1: new teacher after the former one was beaten to death.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, by a group of problem students. Wow.

605
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: When they try the same thing with a new teacher,

606
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Speaker 1: it's revealed that he has an ox whip under his

607
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Speaker 1: desk and he thrashes the jerks within inches of airline.

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Speaker 3: How clever to bring an oxwhip.

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Speaker 1: Oh, don't bring an ox swip to a gunfight. I'm

610
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Speaker 1: not advocating corporal punishment, but it was pretty amusing scene,

611
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Speaker 1: and the teacher definitely stayed safe. I just wished i'd

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Speaker 1: remember that bit was in the book before I decided

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Speaker 1: to read it to my five.

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Speaker 3: Year old, So that would have been the planes of

615
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Speaker 3: the Midwest in the mid to late eighteen hundreds roughly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, she money.

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Speaker 3: So much for our theory that there used to be

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Speaker 3: more discipline in school and kids were better behaved.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on the new job. I think you'll really find

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Speaker 1: teaching rewarding. Be sure to have deadly force. Its already

621
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Speaker 1: the last teacher got beat to death.

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Speaker 3: Bring your ow, don't show up to school. Wow, that

623
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Speaker 3: is really interesting. I'm gonna have to seek that out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. Wow.

625
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 3: So we're gonna do a little more from Trump's press

626
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 3: conference and then some really interesting punditry around it that

627
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 3: if you're a Trump fan, you're really gonna like, if

628
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 3: you're a Trump hater, you're gonna be mystified by So

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Speaker 3: we'll get to that in hour four. For some reason,

630
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 3: you don't get our four or that segment, you can

631
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Speaker 3: listen to it in podcast form. You just go to

632
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty on demand and you should subscribe. Then

633
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 3: you automatically get fed all those chunks. That's the way

634
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Speaker 3: that works. So we get a lot more on the way.

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Speaker 3: I hope you can stay here

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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty