Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Ketty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2: Heels and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior
Speaker 2: has reportedly been spotted working out at a New York
Speaker 2: City Equinox gym and tight jeans and hiking boots, and
Speaker 2: employees say they're getting awfully tired of fishing them out
Speaker 2: of the pool.
Speaker 1: It's very funny.
Speaker 3: Coming up, we're gonna talk a little bit about Elon
Speaker 3: Musk's power media power. According to The Washington Post, Elon
Speaker 3: is one of the most powerful people in all of
Speaker 3: media right now.
Speaker 1: And I would I'll be hard to argue with.
Speaker 3: And I've got some If you're a Trump fan, you're
Speaker 3: gonna like some of the observations on the Trump moment
Speaker 3: that is going on right now. Trump is as high
Speaker 3: as he's ever going to be in his life right now.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely a honeymoon period for him, which he did
Speaker 3: not get first time around.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it well, you can. We wish you well to
Speaker 1: be productive in the new year. Just a quick reminder
Speaker 1: public service announcement, Joe Biden is going to be the
Speaker 1: president for another solid month, right.
Speaker 3: There, and doctor Jill headed to Delaware today for a
Speaker 3: little time off, a little much needed break.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well deserved.
Speaker 3: So this is going to be like more or less
Speaker 3: the rest of the holiday season. So Christmas is in
Speaker 3: a week and they and they already headed to Delaware.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the most coasting through the end of
Speaker 3: your presidency that's happened since Woodrow Wilson was a stroke
Speaker 3: victim lying in bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I check Biden for a pulse, though I'm
Speaker 1: not convinced he's still alive. Coming up this hour, I
Speaker 1: swear I'll pay this off. News about Kamala Harris's future
Speaker 1: that will draw a guffaw guaranteed stay with us. But first,
Speaker 1: a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 4: First of all, in the least covered story in American history,
Speaker 4: relatively the significance of it, a thirty three year old
Speaker 4: transactivist went into the Rayburn office building on Capitol Hill
Speaker 4: last week and assaulted a sitting congresswoman.
Speaker 1: A woman, a man beat down, a woman injured or
Speaker 1: center to the hospital with fairly minor injuries to her
Speaker 1: arm and r Well, yeah, yeah, and it got no
Speaker 1: attention because well that might, you know, give conservatives a
Speaker 1: way to bash transgender activists.
Speaker 3: Political violence, the capital man on woman.
Speaker 1: Get it's no attention. What is the depths of the
Speaker 1: lying on the left and in the media. Well, we've
Speaker 1: just well we got to get a longer poll to
Speaker 1: find the bottom because that's some pretty deep lying in
Speaker 1: dishonesty right there. It's just unbelievable. This just in The
Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration issued an eight hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars federal grant to provide training for military families to
Speaker 1: affirm the gender identity of their children. Our tax dollars
Speaker 1: are being spent to groom the children of our military members.
Speaker 1: That's just beautiful.
Speaker 3: I want to flip that first story around. So we
Speaker 3: have the first elected trans congressperson this year, imagine, and
Speaker 3: it's a I shouldn't say it's but I'm so bad
Speaker 3: with this. I am the way with trans the same
Speaker 3: way I am. What time changes. I just can't get
Speaker 3: them straight in my head. So is this a man
Speaker 3: or a woman? This congress person dresses as a woman.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, it's a dude is a woman. But
Speaker 3: so if a guy came in and beat her. Came
Speaker 3: into the Capitol, A straight guy came in and beat
Speaker 3: her over political reasons. Yes, try to imagine the news
Speaker 3: coverage on that. It would absolutely, one hundred percent be
Speaker 3: the lead story on every evening newscast that day, maybe
Speaker 3: for days to come.
Speaker 1: Yes, the president, that could be long think pieces on it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why would the reverse not get one percent of
Speaker 3: the attention?
Speaker 1: And once again we featured this story in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: Miss Netherlands was a dude who presented as a woman,
Speaker 1: proving once again that men are better at everything, including
Speaker 1: being a woman. Well the next year. This year, the
Speaker 1: Missed the Netherlands beauty pageant is shutting down after a
Speaker 1: thirty five year run. Evidently I'll be missed. Yeah. Evidently
Speaker 1: having a dude win put off enough people that nobody
Speaker 1: cares anymore pageant.
Speaker 3: They killed their own pageant by going woke. Takes a
Speaker 3: lot of balls to run for Miss Universe as a guy. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 3: or just tuck them away though place, especially during the
Speaker 3: swimsuit portion. Uh.
Speaker 1: The director said that the pageant is now a platform
Speaker 1: for positive stories about mental health and stories that inspire.
Speaker 3: The idea that beauty pageants still exists is amazing anyway,
Speaker 3: even the dudes.
Speaker 1: Went and Ryan's yeah, exactly, yeah, place, what are we
Speaker 1: doing here? New York Times puts menstrual products in men's
Speaker 1: bathrooms to quote support transgender and nine non binary colleagues.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think this is.
Speaker 3: Having listened to a long conversation with the publisher of
Speaker 3: the New York Times. What's his name, Schultzberger Seltzburger, Sultzberger, Yeah,
Speaker 3: current Seltzburger. That family has run the thing forever. I
Speaker 3: listen to along podcast with him. They get they run
Speaker 3: a lot of stories about how the problems with the
Speaker 3: trans stuff that we talk about, and how Europe has
Speaker 3: banned it and there's all kinds of problems. They've run
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff on like that. They get tremendous
Speaker 3: pushback from the trans community. I think he's just trying
Speaker 3: to appease a few of those people, while The New
Speaker 3: York Times continues to be the leader I think among
Speaker 3: left leaning media who's honest about this stuff?
Speaker 1: That is true? Yeah, and I do credit them for
Speaker 1: their honest writing about the cast report in Britain and
Speaker 1: how a w path is an utterly dishonest organization full
Speaker 1: of radical activists. But the idea that you can appease
Speaker 1: these people is a fool's errand because probably they push
Speaker 1: and they push and they regardless.
Speaker 3: Of all the words I just said, having tampons and
Speaker 3: men's bathrooms is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, men, mestroid. It's never have and never will, is
Speaker 1: the deal. Mind your own damn business. Yeah. Just one
Speaker 1: percent of the time workforce identifies as non binary. Category
Speaker 1: that includes transgender individuals, but also those who simply choose
Speaker 1: not to identify with either gender so that people think
Speaker 1: they're special and pay them more attention. It's just this,
Speaker 1: the narcissism of small distinctions. Writ large anyway, Good job
Speaker 1: New York Times. Do whatever you want, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Great piece by James Breslo in The California Globe about
Speaker 1: the fact that the Supreme Court heard the US versus
Speaker 1: Scurmetic case, the Tennessee case, which was about the twenty
Speaker 1: six American states that say no, you can't perform these
Speaker 1: experiments on children, these gender bending experiments. There's no medical
Speaker 1: basis on which to do these. Well, they're experimental treatments
Speaker 1: that have permanent effects. Anyway, they point out in the
Speaker 1: California Globe, and they mentioned the radicalization of the American
Speaker 1: Academy of Pediatricians and American Psychology Association. But those organizations
Speaker 1: have in twenty I think it's twenty four states or
Speaker 1: twenty five, they have outlawed counseling to help that adolescent
Speaker 1: be more comfortable with the sex that they are. Wow,
Speaker 1: they've declared it conversion counseling or what's the other derogatory
Speaker 1: term they use for it. It's like they don't say, oh,
Speaker 1: praying away the gay or conversion therapy, legitimate psychological help
Speaker 1: for troubled kids. Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: They're calling this conversion therapy, which is, you know, got
Speaker 3: a bad rap because there were in theory these religious
Speaker 3: institutions it would take a gay kid and try to
Speaker 3: convince them they're not gay.
Speaker 1: But this is the opposite. Well, right, so twenty five
Speaker 1: states have made psychotherapy to reduce dysphoria in children under
Speaker 1: eighteen illegal. It's illegal to help them through this, But
Speaker 1: in those states, the surgeries and the hormones are still legal.
Speaker 1: So you literally must only push the kid down that
Speaker 1: conveyor belt of radical a gender theory, and you can't
Speaker 1: even try to help them, even though study after study
Speaker 1: shows the vast majority of kids grow out of it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, if there's a little helpful counseling, they all
Speaker 1: grow out of it.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think through this on the fly because
Speaker 3: I hadn't heard about this. So the conversion therapy thing
Speaker 3: I mostly thought among gay for gay kids, I mostly
Speaker 3: thought was pretty horrifying sounding. You got, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: fourteen year old boy who's nose, he's gay, and then
Speaker 3: you try to convince them they're not. I mean, like,
Speaker 3: that's pretty rough. But we didn't have a rash of
Speaker 3: I don't know if it ever happened. We didn't have
Speaker 3: a rash of people thinking they were gay as a
Speaker 3: solution to their emotional mental issues and then it turns
Speaker 3: out they're not, Whereas we do have a rash of
Speaker 3: this trans thing being bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a psychological contagion, a community contagent among adolescent
Speaker 1: girls in particular. So keeping in mind that if the
Speaker 1: counseling for these confused adolescents were afraid of puberty, or
Speaker 1: were swept down the road by activists or whatever, any
Speaker 1: effort to help them psychologically and say, hey, you're a
Speaker 1: young woman and it's great. There's nothing better than you
Speaker 1: being you. You're forbidden from doing that, even though if
Speaker 1: it didn't work and you went through all of the
Speaker 1: therapy and they said no, no, I'm the wrong sex.
Speaker 1: I got to change my body. You could still do
Speaker 1: that in these states, but they forbid the counseling. There
Speaker 1: should be love acceptance, and I'm sorry that was the
Speaker 1: wrong part. So it's just it's absolutely obscene what's going
Speaker 1: on in the Blue States. It's astonishing to me. If
Speaker 1: you dropped me in twenty twenty four with the time
Speaker 1: machine from like ten years ago, I wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 3: I'm thankful I'm not in a situation some of these
Speaker 3: families are in.
Speaker 1: Oh I know it. I know it, and I've read
Speaker 1: the accounts and their heartbreaking because and this is part
Speaker 1: of the whole deal. One of the reasons the activists
Speaker 1: say it's important to keep it from the parents because
Speaker 1: they might not be supportive and they might be hostile
Speaker 1: or even hurt the child. They want to get your
Speaker 1: kid that far down the road, because then they've got them.
Speaker 1: The kid's loyalty is to the activist and not to
Speaker 1: the parents. It's all part of the neo Marxist thing,
Speaker 1: whether it's through the critical race theory or the sex stuff.
Speaker 1: They've got your kid now, it's absolutely insidious. It's a
Speaker 1: troubling gender bending madness. Update five. I swear the people
Speaker 1: who push these laws out of be in prison.
Speaker 3: So we have some breaking news on the whole drone thing.
Speaker 3: The White House is going to brief the House Intelligence
Speaker 3: Committee today on the drones. Maybe the end of the
Speaker 3: thing will be today and those House members will come
Speaker 3: out and say, look, I can't say, but there's nothing
Speaker 3: to worry about, all right.
Speaker 1: Maybe that the inescapable conclusion is there's something to brief.
Speaker 1: Good point, Captain obvious over here. But you get what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, suh. Well, of course there's something to brief.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't call everybody together and say, all right, is
Speaker 1: the skiff closed? Everybody's got their their phones put away?
Speaker 1: All right? We don't know either. You have no idea
Speaker 1: that it's a bunch of drones. Apparently that's what we've heard.
Speaker 1: They're all just planes. Watch them step up the podium
Speaker 1: and say, this isn't our beat promotion, all right?
Speaker 3: Right, they got a new sandwich you're coming out called
Speaker 3: the drone. Elon Musk is a powerful, powerful guy, maybe
Speaker 3: more powerful than you even realized. Among other things on
Speaker 3: the way stay tune.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, shout out to our gay listeners. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for listening. I hope you have a great
Speaker 1: holiday season. But we're straight men, Michael, this is the
Speaker 1: worst Christmas song ever recorded. It may be the worst
Speaker 1: song ever recorded. Now we got Bruce Springsteen. Santa Claus
Speaker 1: is coming to town. Bruce is that I'm not just lefty?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's a great song. How about Robert
Speaker 1: Earlteine Merry Christmas from the Family, a modern classic.
Speaker 3: Or more of that, Harry Connic Michael Bible stuff. That
Speaker 3: stuff is great. But Wham Last Christmas like Wham. I
Speaker 3: don't know about liking Wham, but I like George Michael
Speaker 3: my Son. His age group really into Guilty Feet, have
Speaker 3: got no rhythm. That song very popular among the youth.
Speaker 3: How would it not be, but that last Christmas Waam
Speaker 3: song is horrible. Geez, I would convert to a different
Speaker 3: religion if I had to listen to that very often.
Speaker 3: You know I'm gonna do this first, So yesterday I'm
Speaker 3: coming out of the grocery store last night, and I'm
Speaker 3: in line behind this woman and she is a older woman,
Speaker 3: like quite a bit older. She's like seventy or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: And they said, you.
Speaker 3: Want to help out in your bag, and she said, no,
Speaker 3: I think I got it. I think I got it
Speaker 3: under control. Don't worry about me. And that she's got
Speaker 3: her bags, and she's walking outside, and then she passes
Speaker 3: somebody I'm right behind her who's got a Santa hat
Speaker 3: on which I like to wear this time here, and
Speaker 3: she said, oh, I love your hat purple. That's cool.
Speaker 3: You don't usually say purple. And then she walks out
Speaker 3: and she says hello to some other people, a person
Speaker 3: with a big smile on her face.
Speaker 1: And I thought, I was.
Speaker 3: Thinking about what you always say about how much of
Speaker 3: your personality is just built into you in terms of
Speaker 3: because we know all these different studies or recommendations on
Speaker 3: how to have a better mood or be optimore optimistic
Speaker 3: or whatever. I thought, She's not doing any of that stuff.
Speaker 3: She was just born that way. I mean, she was
Speaker 3: so much more friendly in a five minute period, for
Speaker 3: five minute a sixty second period of me being.
Speaker 1: Behind her than I am in a month. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: she either like just escaped death or just got released
Speaker 1: from prison. Yeah, she had a couple leg nogs before
Speaker 1: she went shopping, or she's just built that way. Good
Speaker 1: for her, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I just thought I wish I was more
Speaker 3: like that, but I'm not. Is there anything I can
Speaker 3: do about that? I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And then I.
Speaker 3: Got into the percentages of because sometimes, and we've all
Speaker 3: done this, where you're like in a bad negative mood
Speaker 3: and something snaps you out of it and you realize
Speaker 3: that you were in a bad negative mood and you were,
Speaker 3: you know, looking at things in the worst possible way
Speaker 3: or whatever. So there is something to attitude or having
Speaker 3: some control over it. So I was trying to think,
Speaker 3: is it like ninety ten, sixty forty, where do you
Speaker 3: think it is in terms of how much you can
Speaker 3: control that.
Speaker 1: I've always said that you can play with like twenty
Speaker 1: percent around the margins. I haven't thought seriously about it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you come into the world with a particular mindset,
Speaker 1: and you can you can speed it up some or
Speaker 1: slow it down some. But a guy like you is
Speaker 1: never gonna be like her no again, unless you escape
Speaker 1: death or just released from prison, and that won't last
Speaker 1: more than like a week. No, no, no no.
Speaker 3: It's like after I get through with cancer and it
Speaker 3: had like no effect on me. And I've talked to
Speaker 3: other people who were like really hoping this was gonna
Speaker 3: be one of those and never after that for the
Speaker 3: rest of my life I had this attitude of Bob
Speaker 3: that didn't happen. I've talked to other people felt the
Speaker 3: same way. They car crash, cancer, whatever it was, and
Speaker 3: didn't change them a bit. There's still the same sortless
Speaker 3: surly negative person they were before.
Speaker 1: That is simultaneously really disturbing and really reassuring. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know which.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't know what is He young had purple.
Speaker 3: You don't see that very often. That's great. I just thought, Okay,
Speaker 3: I wish I was like you, but I'm not. I
Speaker 3: admire it and I hate it, right both both. If
Speaker 3: I was very long, I wouldn't like it.
Speaker 1: Aren't strong and getty.
Speaker 5: Honestly, in the first time, I don't know what it was.
Speaker 5: It's like a complete opposite in the first one, and
Speaker 5: the press has covered that fairly. Actually for change the
Speaker 5: first one, they were very hostile and maybe it was
Speaker 5: my fault, but I don't really think so.
Speaker 1: They were just very right.
Speaker 5: From the beginning, and this one is much less hostile.
Speaker 5: It's really the opposite of hostile.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Trump yesterday in his press conference talking about how
Speaker 3: this time around is so much different than last time
Speaker 3: and everybody wants to be his friend and work with him,
Speaker 3: and he's acting differently. We'll play a lot more from
Speaker 3: that press conference in hour four and then some punditry
Speaker 3: around it.
Speaker 1: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: Butrk Caalprin wrote this, Trump's determination to go down in
Speaker 3: history as one of the all time great presidents is
Speaker 3: currently the strongest factor in American politics.
Speaker 1: I would agree, Yeah, and it's undeniable that his manner
Speaker 1: has changed since perhaps well not perhaps since the assassination attempts,
Speaker 1: particularly the one that nick his ear. He's just I mean,
Speaker 1: when was the last time you heard Trump say so
Speaker 1: hostile the first time around? Maybe it was my fault.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But that is very not Trump like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really interesting, So I'm looking forward to that. That's our four.
Speaker 1: If you don't get our four, grab it via podcast later.
Speaker 1: I'm strong in getting on demand. I promise this on.
Speaker 1: I'm going to pay it off. Then we're going to
Speaker 1: get to some emails that you good folks have sent a
Speaker 1: lot of. It's really good and thought provoking. But there
Speaker 1: is a division.
Speaker 3: Among Kamala Harris's close friends and aids Team Harris.
Speaker 1: There's a conflict jack over whether she should run for
Speaker 1: California governor in twenty twenty because they know she would win,
Speaker 1: but that would make it harder for her to run
Speaker 1: for president again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3: That second part is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: So that's the big conundrum on Team Harris right now.
Speaker 1: You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 3: I am not kidding. How are they not more self
Speaker 3: aware about her appeal?
Speaker 1: There are scraggly junkies screeching at fire hydrants right now.
Speaker 1: We have a better grasp of reality than Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: and her advisor.
Speaker 3: She has a zero chance of getting the nomination in
Speaker 3: her own party, let alone way presidency.
Speaker 1: She'll be hooted out of the very contest before a
Speaker 1: vote is cast again again.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Hey, he's gonna be our governor. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: Adam Schiff is one of our senators. And she's gonna
Speaker 3: be the governor. That's almost certainly gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Got this very nice note from John and Salem, Oregon.
Speaker 1: He says some very very nice things about the show
Speaker 1: and John. It's it's appreciated. It means a lot to us.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm not going to read them for reasons
Speaker 1: of Midwestern self effacement, but you're very, very kind.
Speaker 3: Joe never passes him along to me. He's worried I'll
Speaker 3: get the big head. As my chemistry teacher used to
Speaker 3: say in high school, word you get.
Speaker 1: The big head.
Speaker 3: You got them, you always have the big head. Though
Speaker 3: I laughed every time my chemistry teacher said that, I
Speaker 3: don't want to tell you that, or you might get
Speaker 3: the big head. Okay, whatever that means. I wanted to
Speaker 3: hit you with this story mentioned it earlier. Elon Musk's
Speaker 3: X account, according to The Washington Post, is not only
Speaker 3: the most followed account on all of Twitter, with two
Speaker 3: hundred million followers, the Washington Post declares it the most productive,
Speaker 3: most dominant information mouth in all of media in the
Speaker 3: United States of America. At this point, Elon Musk listen
Speaker 3: to Somebody's stats. Elon Musk's posts on X have received
Speaker 3: a total of one hundred and thirty three billion views
Speaker 3: since July. Again, according to The Washington Post, that's fifteen
Speaker 3: times Trump's audience, which is pretty big already, more than
Speaker 3: sixteen times the combined reach of all accounts belonging to
Speaker 3: all members of Congress. Those are stunning numbers. In the
Speaker 3: twenty six days around the election, So the one month
Speaker 3: around the election, two weeks before, two weeks after, Musk
Speaker 3: fired off about four thousand posts that received more than
Speaker 3: thirty three billion views, And again that's significantly more than
Speaker 3: even Trump has. His posts were seen by twice as
Speaker 3: many users as a post from the President elect. One
Speaker 3: more number I was going to hit you with before
Speaker 3: I get into Elon's personality around that. The post data
Speaker 3: reveal how rapidly Musk posts rocket across x after he
Speaker 3: tweets something. After an hour, Elon's typical post racked up
Speaker 3: more than two point four million million views in the
Speaker 3: first hour. Where else could you get that kind of reach?
Speaker 3: You just you couldn't go on a cable news show
Speaker 3: or the evening news or anywhere and get two point
Speaker 3: four million interactions in that amount of time, significantly more
Speaker 3: than the total views received by a Kamala Harris tweet,
Speaker 3: for instance, even if you left him up for weeks,
Speaker 3: so in an hour, Elon can get Elon, by the way,
Speaker 3: typically posts more than one hundred and thirty times per day.
Speaker 6: Uh, do you think he has a team doing that?
Speaker 6: Because I don't see Elon.
Speaker 3: I don't I think him. Yeah, I think it's just him.
Speaker 1: They don't.
Speaker 3: They never sound like he's got people that's tweeting out,
Speaker 3: like Joe Biden. Obviously you can tell, or Kamala Harrison.
Speaker 3: I feel like you obviously can tell when it's the
Speaker 3: team that put out a tweet.
Speaker 6: I think Joe Biden's would be like head.
Speaker 3: I think it's Elon sitting around with his phone in
Speaker 3: his hand.
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 3: I tweet one hundred and thirty times a day and
Speaker 3: run Twitter, run SpaceX, run neualink and twelve kids right, and.
Speaker 6: Be side by side with Trump who never stops.
Speaker 3: So the thing about Elon that I wanted to bring
Speaker 3: up that I found interesting, so one it noted that
Speaker 3: the Washington Post thinks Elon's got really the biggest platform
Speaker 3: in all of media anywhere in the country. But I
Speaker 3: was watching this guy, he's a I wish I could
Speaker 3: remember his name. He's a business leader, one of your
Speaker 3: super high level you know, Wall Street finance guys who's
Speaker 3: worked with Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. And he was
Speaker 3: talking about the signal to noise ratio, which with each
Speaker 3: one of those guys that would be Signal to noise
Speaker 3: is a scientific term, but people use it with other
Speaker 3: stuff all the time too. For instance, it's just like
Speaker 3: what is pure information versus fluff? And this business guy
Speaker 3: was talking about how Steve Jobs was a jerk, but
Speaker 3: Steve Jobs worked twenty hours a day and had a
Speaker 3: ninety percent signal to noise ratio. In other words, Steve
Speaker 3: Jobs was on the beam of what he was trying
Speaker 3: to accomplish ninety percent of the time in a given day,
Speaker 3: with only ten percent of like you know, getting distracted
Speaker 3: or things you know that weren't his goal for the day.
Speaker 3: He said, the amazing thing is having worked with Elon.
Speaker 3: Elon is one hundred percent signal. He works crazy hours
Speaker 3: and he's one hundred percent signal all day long trying
Speaker 3: to accomplish whatever his goals are. Never strays at all,
Speaker 3: which is cheez, what is you listening right now or me?
Speaker 3: What's your signal to noise ratio, like accomplishing things either
Speaker 3: work wise, kid wise, you know, working out whatever it
Speaker 3: is that you're trying to accomplish. What is your I
Speaker 3: might be fifty to fifty at bess Elon's one hundred
Speaker 3: percent signal all day long, and that's one of the
Speaker 3: ways he has dominated so many different industries and get
Speaker 3: so many things done. I just was it Kevin O'Leary
Speaker 3: that worked with both of them?
Speaker 6: I think it was, yeah, yeah, because he has a
Speaker 6: big thing about cutting through the noise, yes, being brutal
Speaker 6: about it, and I wish I was better at that,
Speaker 6: or maybe I can try back.
Speaker 1: But one hundred percent, now that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: I think if we asked for a show of hands
Speaker 6: about ninety percent of our.
Speaker 3: Listener, Oh yeah, that's a special skill.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'd say.
Speaker 3: And I wonder how much of it has to do
Speaker 3: with Elon being on the spectrum somewhere that that either
Speaker 3: allows him to focus more or or helps him not
Speaker 3: get sidetracked more. I don't know, yeah, because he has
Speaker 3: Asperger's and all that sort of stuff, But yeah, I
Speaker 3: could accomplish a lot more. You could accomplish a lot
Speaker 3: more if we were one hundred percent focused all day long,
Speaker 3: every day, plus only needing to sleep four hours a
Speaker 3: day helps too. We got more on the way stay
Speaker 3: with us. So we're just talking about a couple different things,
Speaker 3: like Elon Musk's amazing one signal to noise ratio that
Speaker 3: he pulls off every day. And then earlier we were
Speaker 3: talking about your personality types and uh, just good attitudes,
Speaker 3: bad attitudes and all that kind of fits together with
Speaker 3: how you're built. We got this text that I thought
Speaker 3: was funny. Jack's constant reflection of himself kudos. It cracks
Speaker 3: me up because for nearly thirty years I've been listening
Speaker 3: to you reflect and you're still the same.
Speaker 1: I'mult simple, Jack, That's true.
Speaker 3: I've been trying. I'm reflecting on self improvement for nearly
Speaker 3: thirty years on this radio show and haven't improved nothing.
Speaker 1: Right, thirty years of reflection, zero personal growth. That's more
Speaker 1: or less my story too. It's unfortunate, but it is
Speaker 1: what it is. I'd like to apologize to the listening
Speaker 1: audience for disappearing. I am working remotely, as I often do,
Speaker 1: and something went kerblue in the mothership, not the Iranian mothership,
Speaker 1: that is, you know, the base of the drone attacks,
Speaker 1: but the radio mothership. But anyway, I'm back through alternate means.
Speaker 1: How's it sound, Jack? Is this all right? Yeah? That's
Speaker 1: good enough. Well that's my standard, so perfect. I was
Speaker 1: just starting to read this charming note from John in
Speaker 1: Sale Morgan, which is not far from where my son lives,
Speaker 1: beautiful Central Organ and he says some very very nice things,
Speaker 1: and we thank him for that, but he says he's
Speaker 1: running errands with his kids, catching up on the show Friday,
Speaker 1: when we casually dropped the bomb that there was a
Speaker 1: relationship between Santa Claus in the early twentieth CE entry
Speaker 1: in the Coca Cola corporation. I'm not going to get specific.
Speaker 1: And then we had a whole conversation about nibbling cookies
Speaker 1: and why a dad might do that on Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: and he says, cue the best conversation of my life
Speaker 1: with my six and a half year old son who
Speaker 1: suddenly became suspicious of everything, including me. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: actually I don't even want to read this because it
Speaker 1: would redo what happened.
Speaker 3: We've ruined a child's life, is what we've done.
Speaker 1: But he said, I quickly had to reassure him that
Speaker 1: this was all just a comedy sketch, not a real
Speaker 1: life expose on a conspiracy. And I would say to you,
Speaker 1: John Well, first of all, any loving dad who's active
Speaker 1: in his kids' lives and cares about this thing is
Speaker 1: a friend and a brother of mine. But brother, you
Speaker 1: got to be quicker to the dial number one. All right,
Speaker 1: you got to row. You gotta reach to that, or
Speaker 1: be quick with a who wants ice cream? Because that
Speaker 1: will obliterate anything the kids heard, like in the last
Speaker 1: you know, two and a half hours.
Speaker 3: That's funny, who wants ice Cream? I should have had
Speaker 3: that at the ready when my kids were younger. Anytime
Speaker 3: I needed who wants ice creaming time, they'd switch up.
Speaker 3: Now I'd have to say, look, boobs, it would be
Speaker 3: the best way to go.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, that is so funny. I have two teenage boys,
Speaker 1: you see, Yeah, so funny. Let's see what now? I
Speaker 1: like this one. We shared it at the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the show. Burbank Luke talking about the Fermi paradox.
Speaker 1: Why have we not come across more life in the universe?
Speaker 1: If there are so many millions of planets where it
Speaker 1: could exist, and I love the way he put this.
Speaker 1: The problem is that the other intelligent life could trumble
Speaker 1: along for eons and the primordial soup and the lungs,
Speaker 1: the legs, the opposable thumbs. Then they're using rocks as
Speaker 1: tools and so on. Eventually they figure out broadcast TV,
Speaker 1: which is what we're listening for, sitcoms from the Hexapus
Speaker 1: Family holiday specials, and the next thing you know, they
Speaker 1: blow each other up in the Pentane Wars. That last
Speaker 1: part is only two hundred years. It's a synchronization problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't read through the full piece from the scientists,
Speaker 3: though the numbers are so overwhelming that there should be
Speaker 3: somebody synchronized slightly behind us, slightly ahead us, or of
Speaker 3: the same as this, because there are gazillions of planets
Speaker 3: that should be where we are now just through happenstance.
Speaker 1: You would think, Yeah, I love this one from Richard.
Speaker 1: Happy holidays, guys. Listening to your show. One thing that
Speaker 1: caught my attention was the only fans Gallo decided to
Speaker 1: make remark by having sex with one hundred men in
Speaker 1: a day. I know that you are both well read
Speaker 1: and intelligent. Debatable, Richard, but thank you but as you've said, often,
Speaker 1: there are many subjects you just don't get to. Porn
Speaker 1: and its history I'm sure is one of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: only vague notions of the history. Oh, porn. Having sex
Speaker 1: with a large group of men to set a quote
Speaker 1: unquote record is not new. And not only was it
Speaker 1: a sales pitch just a few decades ago, but various
Speaker 1: stars would advertise that they were going for the record.
Speaker 1: It even became a thing on shock jock radio shows
Speaker 1: later podcasts, and bragging why their score was more legitimate
Speaker 1: than Terry Tassel's or Hannah Hills or you know whatever
Speaker 1: fake porn name you want to throw out there. He said,
Speaker 1: So what has been will be again, and what has
Speaker 1: been done will be done again. There's nothing new under
Speaker 1: the sun. To quote Donald Trump's favorite book.
Speaker 3: That's true in terms of the specific stunt that woman did.
Speaker 3: That is not new. Internet porn is new. The ability
Speaker 3: to watch all these videos is new. The way it
Speaker 3: affects the brain, it's a new thing that did not
Speaker 3: exist before.
Speaker 1: On Hey, do we have time for this? Yes, we do.
Speaker 1: On a similar ish topic, got this note from Joe
Speaker 1: your discussion today I think it was yesterday about the
Speaker 1: Sexual Revolution reminded me of a piece earlier in the
Speaker 1: year taking talking up the male side of things and
Speaker 1: how men need someone to provide for and protect and
Speaker 1: how that will motivate them to work and be productive citizens.
Speaker 1: That's a very Jordan Peterson conversation. He's dead on that stuff.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he says, I thought i'd give you guys
Speaker 1: some insight into the late twenties crowd based on my
Speaker 1: friends and myself. Of the ten of us, zero have kids,
Speaker 1: one is married, one is engaged, two are in long
Speaker 1: term relationships, six have not had a long term relationship
Speaker 1: in the last seven years. Of those six, basically three
Speaker 1: basically aren't even pursuing women out of lack of desire
Speaker 1: to given the kinds of women they had dated before
Speaker 1: or matched with on dating apps. The other three are
Speaker 1: solely casual, not really connecting with anyone significantly. Our birth
Speaker 1: rate is already below replacement level. That's really interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he says. It worries me seriously for the country in
Speaker 1: thirty years from now, when the lack of quantity in
Speaker 1: the younger generation reaches the workforce that's retiring. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to be supporting them through social Security.
Speaker 3: It's interesting that dating apps are so popular, yet there
Speaker 3: seems to be a pretty negative attitude about dating. I
Speaker 3: wonder if they go together. If the dating app experience
Speaker 3: is just more discouraging than the old way certainly might be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, it's obviously more prone to different outcomes
Speaker 1: than meeting people in person, are getting to know them
Speaker 1: after over a period of time, and then deciding, you
Speaker 1: know what, I kind of have feelings for this person anyway. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: it has to have an effect, all right. The final
Speaker 1: email I will offer from Gabrielle is both charming and horrifying.
Speaker 1: It's chorrifying, I don't know. So we were talking about
Speaker 1: teachers fearing for the lives of family friend who was
Speaker 1: supposed to be long term sub and dropped out because
Speaker 1: the kids are unruly and out of control in a
Speaker 1: way that they weren't even a few years ago. Just
Speaker 1: a quick anecdote about the new phenomenon of teachers fearing
Speaker 1: for their safety. Laura Ingalls Wilder's nineteen thirty three children's
Speaker 1: book Farmer Boy opens on the drama of having a
Speaker 1: new teacher after the former one was beaten to death.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, by a group of problem students. Wow.
Speaker 1: When they try the same thing with a new teacher,
Speaker 1: it's revealed that he has an ox whip under his
Speaker 1: desk and he thrashes the jerks within inches of airline.
Speaker 3: How clever to bring an oxwhip.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't bring an ox swip to a gunfight. I'm
Speaker 1: not advocating corporal punishment, but it was pretty amusing scene,
Speaker 1: and the teacher definitely stayed safe. I just wished i'd
Speaker 1: remember that bit was in the book before I decided
Speaker 1: to read it to my five.
Speaker 3: Year old, So that would have been the planes of
Speaker 3: the Midwest in the mid to late eighteen hundreds roughly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, she money.
Speaker 3: So much for our theory that there used to be
Speaker 3: more discipline in school and kids were better behaved.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on the new job. I think you'll really find
Speaker 1: teaching rewarding. Be sure to have deadly force. Its already
Speaker 1: the last teacher got beat to death.
Speaker 3: Bring your ow, don't show up to school. Wow, that
Speaker 3: is really interesting. I'm gonna have to seek that out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. Wow.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna do a little more from Trump's press
Speaker 3: conference and then some really interesting punditry around it that
Speaker 3: if you're a Trump fan, you're really gonna like, if
Speaker 3: you're a Trump hater, you're gonna be mystified by So
Speaker 3: we'll get to that in hour four. For some reason,
Speaker 3: you don't get our four or that segment, you can
Speaker 3: listen to it in podcast form. You just go to
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty on demand and you should subscribe. Then
Speaker 3: you automatically get fed all those chunks. That's the way
Speaker 3: that works. So we get a lot more on the way.
Speaker 3: I hope you can stay here
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty