Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for
Speaker 3: a city they can afford, a city where they can
Speaker 3: do more than just struggle.
Speaker 1: And it's where the mayor will use their power.
Speaker 4: To reject Donald Trump's fascism, to stop mass ice agents
Speaker 4: from deporting our neighbors, and to govern our city.
Speaker 3: As a model for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2: Get used to him, and Donnie. He is going to
Speaker 2: be the mayor of New York.
Speaker 5: Barring some really seismic something or other, he is going
Speaker 5: to be the mayor of New York. And he is good.
Speaker 5: He is only thirty three years old. He's in the
Speaker 5: in the long history of super wealthy socialists, the capitalist.
Speaker 1: System was horrible for others.
Speaker 2: But not you, apparently you and your wife.
Speaker 1: Well, he's never had to do the things it takes
Speaker 1: to be successful in America. He was born to it.
Speaker 1: He was gifted it. So he doesn't understand why everybody
Speaker 1: isn't it just gifted everything they want.
Speaker 5: It's surprising how many big time socialist leaders don't come
Speaker 5: out of the working class anywhay, he Trump tweeted out
Speaker 5: yesterday after the surprise win of Mumdannie, who was like
Speaker 5: way behind in the polls just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5: It was a it was a bad, bad little run
Speaker 5: for polling. It would seem there in New York. Or
Speaker 5: he closed really hard because Andrew Cuomo ran such a
Speaker 5: horrible campaign. Anyway, it doesn't really make any difference, Trump
Speaker 5: truthed out yesterday.
Speaker 1: He looks terrible, terrible knoll caps. He looks terrible. He
Speaker 1: doesn't he he looks. He's a really handsome young man.
Speaker 2: Trump. His voice is grating.
Speaker 1: It is not.
Speaker 2: He's not very smart.
Speaker 5: He's got the same political cajunists you have for one thing,
Speaker 5: AOC plus three dummies all backing him, and even our
Speaker 5: great Palestinian senator, even our great Palestinian senator crying.
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer is groveling over him.
Speaker 5: Eric Adams, the current mayor of New York, who will
Speaker 5: be running against Zoran Mumdani as an independent, called him
Speaker 5: a snake oil salesman yesterday.
Speaker 2: But this Mandami dude.
Speaker 5: Who, as I mentioned earlier, he and his wife had
Speaker 5: a lavish like we're movie stars wedding in Dubai a
Speaker 5: few years back, and that's not very socialism, I don't think,
Speaker 5: But anyway.
Speaker 2: That's his deal.
Speaker 5: I was watching Mark Halpern's podcast yesterday and he said,
Speaker 5: the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: Did a horrible job of.
Speaker 5: Giving you any information about this guy, and all that's
Speaker 5: gonna come out between now and election day. Though Mark
Speaker 5: Halpern believes like most everybody does, there's no stopping it now.
Speaker 5: I mean, he won the Democratic nomination and there are
Speaker 5: no Republicans or Independence with the heft or the time
Speaker 5: to derail him.
Speaker 1: So there is a desperate search for said unicorn going
Speaker 1: on right now. I guarantee you there is so much
Speaker 1: money at stake.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there is, but that person should have emerged earlier.
Speaker 5: Tremendous amount of oppo research, according to Mark Halprin that
Speaker 5: is laying out there that nobody's used yet, some of
Speaker 5: the papers this guy wrote in college, or things that
Speaker 5: he's said or done when he was younger and less,
Speaker 5: you know, trying to be mainstream.
Speaker 2: That he is as a thirty three year old.
Speaker 5: I do want to hear what twenty two year old
Speaker 5: him had to say about the United States of America
Speaker 5: and a variety of different things.
Speaker 2: But he's still gonna end up mayor of New York.
Speaker 1: Greg Hipp, the Great housing market writer for The Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, is headline today is New Yorker's vote to
Speaker 1: make their housing shortage worse, and he contrasts New York
Speaker 1: with Austin. How Austin saw a housing crisis and enlarged supply.
Speaker 1: New York through some dan he's going to do the opposite.
Speaker 1: They are going to severely constrict supply to keep prices down.
Speaker 5: I would like to know how much of his popularity
Speaker 5: was his policies too much if no matter how much
Speaker 5: it was, it was too much for my taste, and.
Speaker 2: How much of it was his.
Speaker 5: Vibe and approach to politics, which we'll get into here
Speaker 5: in just a little bit. It's very similar to Trump's.
Speaker 5: But a little breakdown on this dude. His dad is
Speaker 5: a Columbia University professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies.
Speaker 2: What does that sound like?
Speaker 5: While the candidate's mother is an Oscar nominated filmmaker, so
Speaker 5: he comes from a family of filmmakers and Colombia African
Speaker 5: Studies professors.
Speaker 1: The family of education and entertainment.
Speaker 5: The family moved to the Upper West Side from Uganda.
Speaker 5: Upper West Side is where all poor, hardworking socialist people
Speaker 5: end up from Uganda while growing up, but paid little
Speaker 5: in rent because they were set up in the Columbia
Speaker 5: housing situation.
Speaker 2: So they got there and lived on that.
Speaker 5: And Mamdani himself graduated from Bodwin College in Maine.
Speaker 2: Has worked for.
Speaker 5: Advocacy groups and nonprofits, like not really earning a salary
Speaker 5: or you know, there's no measure of whether you accomplished anything,
Speaker 5: kind of like the whole Obama Community Organizer thing.
Speaker 2: Was also a music.
Speaker 5: Supervisor brief for a Hollywood film directed by his mother,
Speaker 5: which is nothing, and a short stint as a rapper.
Speaker 5: That's his entire back ground in the working very Carl Marx, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it really is.
Speaker 2: Basically did nothing.
Speaker 1: Although where'd family money come from? Because I mean the
Speaker 1: wedding you're talking about, that's crazy money. You know.
Speaker 5: I didn't even get a breakdown on actually where the
Speaker 5: money came from.
Speaker 1: I mean, because an academic, you know, higher placed academic,
Speaker 1: that's a solid salary. And I've never heard of this woman.
Speaker 1: I suppose she might have a couple of victories in
Speaker 1: the movie business, but I've not heard anything about that
Speaker 1: where they get all that money.
Speaker 2: I know his wife is successful. Also, they met on Hinge,
Speaker 2: so good for him.
Speaker 1: She's an illustrator, yeah, offer illustrator something.
Speaker 5: She's some sort of artist person also. Anyway, this is
Speaker 5: the stuff that I thought was interesting from the Wide
Speaker 5: World of News newsletter today written by Mark Alprin about
Speaker 5: the similarities between Trump and Mam Donnie and I actually
Speaker 5: thought about this yesterday as I.
Speaker 2: Was watching him for the first time.
Speaker 5: I'd heard that he was good on the campaign trail,
Speaker 5: but his various tiktoks and speeches and like he'd walk
Speaker 5: out with a microphone and interview you know, people making
Speaker 5: sandwiches and that sort of stuff, and he's really good
Speaker 5: at that sort of thing. Both men possess a post
Speaker 5: modern flare. They wink at the camera, they know they
Speaker 5: are in a show, and they invite you to know
Speaker 5: it too, which is interesting. I remember hearing this about
Speaker 5: Letterman years ago. Norm MacDonald, the community the comedian, talked
Speaker 5: about when he finally understood Letterman, when he realized that,
Speaker 5: like you, the guest were the bit and Letterman and
Speaker 5: the audience were in on the whole thing, and you
Speaker 5: were like the foil, and every guest was and that's
Speaker 5: why Letterman Show was so different than everything. And I
Speaker 5: think that is exactly the postmodern thing that Trump and
Speaker 5: this Mom Donnie character have done.
Speaker 2: It's like, you mean, the voters, You and I are kind.
Speaker 5: Of in on it, and we're like kind of making
Speaker 5: fun of everybody else, which is an interesting trick to
Speaker 5: pull off and healthy helping of I speak your language,
Speaker 5: I get your references.
Speaker 1: I am of you, whether it's the Heartland, which is
Speaker 1: really amazing for a born to wealth New York real
Speaker 1: estate developer, or this guy. I've seen some of the
Speaker 1: social media stuff man, and it is straight out of
Speaker 1: like top level TikTok influencer stuff. Yeah, his sense of
Speaker 1: irony and hipness. And it's the way he handles the
Speaker 1: camera and everything. He knows the language he ought to
Speaker 1: be speaking. And that's you know, that's part of the
Speaker 1: connection with the young. Plus you can get them to
Speaker 1: fall for idiotic policies that will never work and never have.
Speaker 5: But and Helpern goes through how Trump, you know, being
Speaker 5: a TV star, understood all that, and Mom Donnie, for
Speaker 5: whatever reason, you know, coming from a Hollywood filmmaker background
Speaker 5: or whatever understands the modern world and modern med Also, Mamdani,
Speaker 5: like Trump, wears his ideology on his sleeve, sometimes literally
Speaker 5: in this case, in the form of branded jackets or
Speaker 5: tax the rich merch but never lets you forget he's
Speaker 5: in on the metajoke of modern politics, which is a
Speaker 5: Trump thing. Also, this is all just a phony joke,
Speaker 5: and they're all screwing you.
Speaker 2: But I'm on.
Speaker 1: Your side, right that whole deal. Both break the fourth wall.
Speaker 1: Trump would call.
Speaker 5: Into cable news shows unannounced, altering the news cycle on
Speaker 5: a whim. Mamdani records Instagram videos directly addressing his constituents
Speaker 5: with all the production values of well funded college activist groups,
Speaker 5: and yet they work because he, liked Trump, knows that
Speaker 5: message discipline in the twenty first century means being the
Speaker 5: message yourself, living on social media and in real life
Speaker 5: in synchronism tandem with you, so your message and you
Speaker 5: you live your message every single day. Critics scoff at
Speaker 5: this for both of them. They call it unserious or
Speaker 5: narcissistic or both. But we are living in the age
Speaker 5: on authenticity as performance. Neither man hides the fact that
Speaker 5: he is selling something, but they are good at it,
Speaker 5: and that in today's media ecosystem is more powerful than
Speaker 5: one hundred endorsements from one hundred editorial boards that nobody ever.
Speaker 1: Reads, which I think is interesting too.
Speaker 5: You are the message, you are winking at people. They
Speaker 5: are in on your joke that you've got going. In
Speaker 5: a way that you look at other politicians. Postmodernism is
Speaker 5: hard for me to wrap my head around. But when
Speaker 5: I see somebody that's got the new thing, like Trump
Speaker 5: and this guy, all the other politicians, they look like
Speaker 5: they're from a hundred years ago in the way that
Speaker 5: they handle their messaging and trying to relate to audiences.
Speaker 1: That's such a great point though, and intriguing that the
Speaker 1: way you establish authenticity is to admit you're not being authentic. Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: I know he's not trying to job me because he
Speaker 1: admitted to me that this is all a show. Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I always use the example of.
Speaker 5: Trump going to the big Harley thing with all the
Speaker 5: Harley riders, and every politician had always thrown on a
Speaker 5: leather vest and ridden on a motorcycle or ridden on
Speaker 5: the back of a motorcycle. If they didn't know how
Speaker 5: to ride a motorcycle and warn the garb and tried
Speaker 5: to pretend they're one of them. Trump shows up in
Speaker 5: a limo in his suit and says he doesn't like motorcycles,
Speaker 5: and the crowd goes wild because he's authentically inauthentic.
Speaker 1: Right right now. I'm just here for the votes, everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But for whatever reason, that worked, And Mom, Donnie's
Speaker 5: got a big slice of that too. And one more
Speaker 5: thing on this before before we let it go when
Speaker 5: he take a break.
Speaker 1: Is he hates the Jews. Oh nope, something different, Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 5: I think he is a socialist and I think he
Speaker 5: does hate the Jews. So he got that crowd from
Speaker 5: that standpoint. But I also think he got a big
Speaker 5: chunk of like the way Trump does of I do
Speaker 5: things that everybody tells you you're not supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Everybody tells you you can't say this. I said it.
Speaker 1: Trump does that all the time, and Mom, Duddie, they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to tell me I can't say a globalized INTIFA.
Speaker 2: To screw them, I can say whatever I want. People
Speaker 2: love that from there.
Speaker 5: The person they're gonna vote for now, nobody's gonna tell
Speaker 5: me I can't say this. Trump has done it on
Speaker 5: a variety of topics, and this guy did it too,
Speaker 5: And I think people that's with the enthusiasm for him.
Speaker 5: He's from another country, so he can't be president of
Speaker 5: the United States, but he could be a major player
Speaker 5: mayor of New York gets a lot of attention, and
Speaker 5: the Democratic Party is gonna have to deal with him
Speaker 5: because he's gonna have such a you know, a prominent position.
Speaker 2: How they're gonna do that, I do not know.
Speaker 1: Trying to find that quote from that email about uh
Speaker 1: ker kergarden freud perverse. Will people will do. They'll embrace
Speaker 1: that sort of even if it is self damaging.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll look into that. It's interesting. We'll be following
Speaker 5: this for quite some time. I'm sure more on the
Speaker 5: way stay here. Actor Orlando Bloom and singer Katie Perry
Speaker 5: have broken up after a six year engagement. That's a
Speaker 5: long time to be engaged getting married anyway. I'll bet
Speaker 5: he couldn't handle being married, or now that she's an astronaut,
Speaker 5: she couldn't handle being married to a non astronaut.
Speaker 1: I'll bet that's right. Being gone for hours at a
Speaker 1: time on her Space missions oh yeah.
Speaker 5: No place to raise your kids. The Atlantic with a
Speaker 5: piece about the movie Jaws on its fifty year anniversary
Speaker 5: and what it meant about class struggle is being mocked
Speaker 5: by some of my favorite people in a hilarious way.
Speaker 2: So I hope you can stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: Excellent I'm so excited about that. Holy cow, we have
Speaker 1: almost there's no time. All right, here's Neil. Nobody's talking
Speaker 1: about the big beautiful Bill because some of the geopolitical
Speaker 1: stuff that's going on right now, it's got all sorts
Speaker 1: of stuff wrong with it, but it's got all sorts
Speaker 1: of stuff right with it too, and those who profit
Speaker 1: from what they're trying to fix are going to come
Speaker 1: out hardcore against it. And I just think it might
Speaker 1: be at the point where it's some horrifying sausage making,
Speaker 1: but it's the best sausage we're gonna get. One of
Speaker 1: the things they're going to get rid of is this giant,
Speaker 1: incredibly expensive medicare scam. And I think this is a
Speaker 1: good summary of how it works. And if your eyes
Speaker 1: start to close gloss over, that's the point. That's how
Speaker 1: they keep getting away with it. So in the eighties,
Speaker 1: States came up with this government sanctioned racket of Medicare
Speaker 1: provider taxes. The idea was to get more federal Medicaid
Speaker 1: matching funds and therefore spend less from there general tax revenue.
Speaker 1: We'll get the Feds to pay for our citizens' healthcare costs.
Speaker 1: So that has enabled states to expand benefits and greatly
Speaker 1: diminish the incentives to operate efficiently, meaning to squeeze your
Speaker 1: tax dollars best they can. So here's how it works,
Speaker 1: and this is a good summary. Keep your eyes unglossed.
Speaker 1: States assess taxes on healthcare providers, mostly hospitals. They tax
Speaker 1: the hospitals, they channel that tax revenue back into their
Speaker 1: Medicaid program and spend it, which draws more federal money.
Speaker 1: For every dollar the state's spend on Medicaid, they get
Speaker 1: one to three dollars back from the Feds, and nine
Speaker 1: dollars for every dollar for able bodied individuals covered under
Speaker 1: Obama Care. Ooh, which Craig, the healthcare guru, warned us about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like these incentives.
Speaker 1: So what about those poor hospitals getting tax this money?
Speaker 1: No problem. They then receive more in Medicaid payments. Then
Speaker 1: they pay in the provider taxes. The states make sure
Speaker 1: a good chunk of revenue is routed back to the
Speaker 1: hospitals so they're made whole plus more money. And in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, George H. W cracked down on this.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer voted for it. Long story short,
Speaker 1: but the states and the big government to Democrats have
Speaker 1: found ways to get around that, especially through Medicare that
Speaker 1: effort at reform. So the big beautiful bill is going
Speaker 1: to really crack down on this stuff. You are going
Speaker 1: to hear screeching like half of Congress is being murdered
Speaker 1: in the streets about how this measure is going to
Speaker 1: deny people their Medicare and their healthcare and children are
Speaker 1: going to die of the common cold and the rest
Speaker 1: of it. That's because the hospital lobby and the healthcare
Speaker 1: lobbies are spending so much money to kill this. Just
Speaker 1: be aware of what's happening, because it's about to start
Speaker 1: in earnest. It was the movie Jaws and allegory about
Speaker 1: class divisions in America. Of course, it's about a big
Speaker 1: fish botton people.
Speaker 2: Of course it freaking wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't.
Speaker 5: Put The Atlantic claims it was, and people are mocking that,
Speaker 5: so stay tuned for that. On the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws.
Speaker 1: Coming up Armstrong and Getty slowly, Pitch, I can go slowly.
Speaker 1: It's come on down and chump some edition.
Speaker 2: You gotta need a bigger proach. Terrifying.
Speaker 5: The movie Jaws came out fifty years ago this summer,
Speaker 5: horrifying swimmers all around the world and hoping to God
Speaker 5: that as you bobbed around in the ocean you did
Speaker 5: not hear a cello.
Speaker 2: All right, bought them, bought them, but it Oh, so
Speaker 2: this is funny.
Speaker 5: This reminds me of our friend James Lindsay when he
Speaker 5: and his friends did the Grievance papers. They put out
Speaker 5: these fake studies. They're incredibly over the top and ridiculous,
Speaker 5: but you couldn't tell them for the real thing from
Speaker 5: the real thing, because the real thing is over the
Speaker 5: top and ridiculous.
Speaker 2: To that point, I'm going to do a mock one.
Speaker 2: I could switch the mock one.
Speaker 5: With the Atlantic piece and you wouldn't be able to
Speaker 5: tell the difference. But the Atlantic has a piece out today.
Speaker 5: The film Jaws came out fifty years ago this month.
Speaker 5: It portrays Clash divisions differently from the novel that inspired it,
Speaker 5: in ways it anticipated a fight that has arguably defined
Speaker 5: American politics since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: What Jaws got wrong is the title.
Speaker 1: I thought it was about to fish bite and peeple.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 5: It was about a scary shark biting people, and it
Speaker 5: made people think, oh my god, that could happen to me.
Speaker 5: The ocean and the end and they catch the shark
Speaker 5: and it's a bloody finale and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: There's nothing else to it but that. That's it. That's
Speaker 2: the whole thing.
Speaker 5: And it's hilarious that the Atlantic is turning it into
Speaker 5: some sort of class division and a commentary on today's politics.
Speaker 5: It anticipated today's politics or whatever the crap. Anyway, Noah
Speaker 5: Roffman of The National Review decided to.
Speaker 2: Write in that style, mocking it. Basically. Charles C. W.
Speaker 5: Cook, who Joe and I both really like, responded to
Speaker 5: Noah's peace by saying, I am in awe.
Speaker 2: Let me read a little bit from it.
Speaker 5: The character Quint, that's the guy we just heard from,
Speaker 5: the guy who owns the boat that says we're in
Speaker 5: need a bigger boat. He's the salty old dude.
Speaker 1: The character quint represents the suppressed male id, which struggles
Speaker 1: against structural and metasocial taboos, prescribing the full expression of
Speaker 1: the archetypical masculine ethos.
Speaker 2: He is consumed by the sleek.
Speaker 5: White metaphor of sexual equality, against which which he rages.
Speaker 2: Until the last minute he bids farewell and ado, not.
Speaker 1: To those Spanish ladies, but to the shackles of conventional
Speaker 1: gender roles. Exactly what I thought, That's what I took
Speaker 1: from it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when I watched the Shark movie. I mean, this
Speaker 5: is no more over the top than the Atlantic piece. Really,
Speaker 5: the drive to open the beaches by the fourth of
Speaker 5: July is a classic expression of American jingoism and the
Speaker 5: blood spilled over his rote commitment to commercialism as an
Speaker 5: unremarkable feature of the rapacious capitalist enterprise.
Speaker 1: I find that sort of.
Speaker 5: Thing hilarious, and that it is so not even this
Speaker 5: much different from the actual pieces.
Speaker 1: Some of these crazy people write about this stuff right right,
Speaker 1: so easy to bamboozle them if you know the language
Speaker 1: to throw around.
Speaker 5: Noah Rothman actually said at the end of he said,
Speaker 5: this is really fun. No wonder so many people do
Speaker 5: it for.
Speaker 2: A living.
Speaker 5: One more jaws, A portrayal of the monstrous, menacing, and
Speaker 5: potentially violent other foreign, indeed alien. It haunts its pursuers,
Speaker 5: dominates their conscience, and is subject to abuses and indignities
Speaker 5: until it meets out the righteous vengeance of accumulated transgenerational memory.
Speaker 5: The Shark is the global South, the black and brown
Speaker 5: diaspora of the bun Dung Revolution, whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 5: And I'll just give you one more that I like
Speaker 5: Martin Brody. Who is is?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 1: The uh oh Brody is the police chief right.
Speaker 5: Okay, the weak and crumbling edifice of the post war consensus,
Speaker 5: exhausted and plagued by indecision. He serves as our link
Speaker 5: to the fraying social order of the past. His triumph
Speaker 5: is pirate. I mean, it wasn't worth it. Perched atop
Speaker 5: a sinking ship, dealt a mortal blow by the rising
Speaker 5: vanguard of the subjugated and militant, His reprieve from the
Speaker 5: oppressor's fate will be short lived.
Speaker 1: The Atlantic pea is great. The Atlantic piece that I
Speaker 1: read is so not much different than that. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's just who dude are?
Speaker 5: It gets to the previous conversation of like Trump and
Speaker 5: this man, this New York mayor dude whatever his name
Speaker 5: is being in on the joke.
Speaker 1: Is the Atlantic in on the joke?
Speaker 2: Do they know it's a joke.
Speaker 5: And they're writing it for their readers who think it's
Speaker 5: a joke, or they all taking it seriously?
Speaker 2: This crap.
Speaker 1: No, you know it crystallized in my head. But in
Speaker 1: the same way that if you want to like get
Speaker 1: the tension, or sell practically anything to a twenty three
Speaker 1: year old male, at least in the past, appeal to
Speaker 1: sexual desire and they'll just buy anything. And to women
Speaker 1: it's you'll be beautiful and desirable and people will like you.
Speaker 1: They will freaking buy anything. Appeal to the intellectual vanity
Speaker 1: of a certain crowd, and it's it's mostly on the left.
Speaker 1: You if you make them believe believing this makes you
Speaker 1: better and smarter than everybody else, they will believe freaking anything,
Speaker 1: no matter how laughable it is. Lendsy and pluck Rose
Speaker 1: and Bogosian with their experiment you mentioned the infamous the
Speaker 1: Grievance study papers. I mean, they are the best example
Speaker 1: ever of that. You could not make it so stupid
Speaker 1: that the intellectual vanity of these people wouldn't make them
Speaker 1: lap it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Atlantic piece is actually about the different political
Speaker 5: orientations of the book versus the movie, and how the
Speaker 5: movie got it wrong in portraying class distinctions as.
Speaker 2: Opposed to the book.
Speaker 5: Nobody watched the movie and came away from it thinking
Speaker 5: about class distinctions at all.
Speaker 2: It didn't get them wrong. It didn't get them at all.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a horror film.
Speaker 1: It's just a short close the beaches, or don't we
Speaker 1: there's tremendous money at stake. That's just a really good subplot, sure, exactly.
Speaker 1: And whether it's a guy in a hockey mask coming
Speaker 1: on campers with an axe or a shark in the water,
Speaker 1: that's what it is. It's got nothing to do with class.
Speaker 2: Distinctions or any of this other crap.
Speaker 5: And it didn't foresee our politics fifty years later.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with you people?
Speaker 1: If you were to read more of the Atlantic one
Speaker 1: and then give us all an hour to go about
Speaker 1: our lives, I think it would be impossible for each
Speaker 1: of us to remember which one was the parody and
Speaker 1: which one was realized. Is your point, obviously, But yeah,
Speaker 1: what a bunch of mumbo jumbo. There are some ideas
Speaker 1: so ridiculous only an intellectual would believe them. Thomas Sowell.
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing.
Speaker 5: And talking about the Brody is a recent transplant from
Speaker 5: New York City. This is from the Atlantic, the actual piece.
Speaker 5: Brody the character.
Speaker 2: You should have just.
Speaker 1: Read it and asked us which one was. They just guess.
Speaker 5: Brody, the character in the movie, is a recent trans
Speaker 5: plant from New York City in the film, living a
Speaker 5: seemingly idyllic life, and Amity went a home with a
Speaker 5: home on the water, although he is not college educated.
Speaker 1: What the hell's it got to do with any.
Speaker 2: And did anybody even know that?
Speaker 5: His primary virtue is that he defers to people who
Speaker 5: are and he becomes a foil for Amity's working people,
Speaker 5: who in the film are portrayed as unpleasant or obtused
Speaker 5: and at best well meaning but shortsighted.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: That was what I said. I walked out of Jaws
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, honey, the working people
Speaker 1: are so obtuse in that movie. I couldn't enjoy it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And if you ever go to Universal, and we've probably
Speaker 5: most have us done that. If you've ever been to
Speaker 5: Universal Studios in Los Angeles and the old Jaws shark
Speaker 5: comes out of the water and you go, ah to.
Speaker 2: Gets you kind of wet.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you think.
Speaker 5: The obtuseness of the working class, that's what you're thinking about.
Speaker 1: Wow, just you know what, you peep a fine, do
Speaker 1: what you I just don't want you in charge of anything.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, I used to think that too. I don't
Speaker 5: want you to exist, doll. Or you need to be
Speaker 5: in a camp or okay, fine, you can live your
Speaker 5: free life is in camp, but you don't get to
Speaker 5: be in college teaching kids this crap and convincing him
Speaker 5: it's true, because that is a problem for me.
Speaker 1: So true. Yeah wow, speaking of delusion, Wow wow, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just blows my mind that you watched the Shark movie.
Speaker 2: That's what you came away with.
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's a great example of if you spend
Speaker 1: your all of your time looking for something, you will
Speaker 1: find it well, whether authentically or not. It's like the
Speaker 1: race obsession crowd that sees everything through the lens of race. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll cook up you know. Examples both real and imagine
Speaker 1: where people have racial feelings that aren't very pretty, but
Speaker 1: if you don't spend all your time looking for them,
Speaker 1: like plenty of black and brown and pink people all
Speaker 1: over the world, it's just not worried about it. Life
Speaker 1: is fine. I just in my mind conflated the two
Speaker 1: I was thinking. I was about to say in the
Speaker 1: the the example of the shark as the other representing
Speaker 1: the brown and black.
Speaker 2: No, that was Noah's thing, right.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah. Did you ever have a college class like this?
Speaker 5: This was hot, like for our age, subliminal message in
Speaker 5: advertising and how they're doing it all the time. And
Speaker 5: I remember the college professor putting up a can of
Speaker 5: coke with the water droplets on it and saying, you
Speaker 5: see how this water droplet is clearly a woman's body,
Speaker 5: and this one is It's no, they're just water droplet's.
Speaker 5: It's like staring at clouds and you can think they
Speaker 5: or anything. There's no subliminal anything going on here. It's
Speaker 5: just you're making this all up. This is crap.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just sound confident and people will buy it,
Speaker 1: particularly if you're you know, within the ivied walls of
Speaker 1: a university, and if you're angel old youngsters. They don't
Speaker 1: know better.
Speaker 5: Combined with I just need to remember this because you're
Speaker 5: going to ask me about it on the test.
Speaker 1: So, okay, have you heard of the four Am Club?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 1: This is not getting a fraction of the coverage it should.
Speaker 1: It is the QAnon of the left, Okay, but the
Speaker 1: press isn't writing about it because they know it makes
Speaker 1: lefties sound wacky. But it's way out there.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna tell us about it coming up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, okay, because I'm interested in that.
Speaker 5: I wonder where it comes from too, because Q was
Speaker 5: supposedly a guy like deep in intelligence.
Speaker 1: Still this government, Yeah that's true.
Speaker 2: I know somebody who's currently Q and on.
Speaker 1: So some diehards are still hanging with that obvious fraud.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, we got a lot on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 6: A new Amber alert in Idaho in urgent search at
Speaker 6: this hour for two teenagers, a brother and a sister.
Speaker 6: Authorities are looking for thirteen year old Alan Fisher and
Speaker 6: his sister, fifteen year old Rachel. Their mother, Elizabeth Rowndie,
Speaker 6: says someone hauled her teens away in a car outside
Speaker 6: a store in Monfieu. At least say someone might be
Speaker 6: taking those teams to an FLDS group religious group in Utah.
Speaker 6: They are looking for a grey Honda or Hondai, a
Speaker 6: Saddan with Utah plate.
Speaker 1: So some sort of cult kidnapping working. The teens disappeared
Speaker 1: by cults in a sedan desk, Katie Green, What's going
Speaker 1: on here, Katie?
Speaker 7: Well, So David Muir left all of the details.
Speaker 1: I know when I saw that story. I saw that
Speaker 1: story last night. I thought, this leaves like five obvious questions,
Speaker 1: you idiot. Yeah.
Speaker 8: So these two teenagers, the thirteen and the fifteen year
Speaker 8: old there, brother and sister, they get reported missing out
Speaker 8: of Idaho.
Speaker 7: What David Muir left out.
Speaker 8: Is they think that they've been picked up by their
Speaker 8: older sister who went missing back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 8: Now this family had escaped an FLDS religious cult in Utah.
Speaker 1: What is that stand for again?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 7: Something like Saints.
Speaker 1: You're like your splinter Mormon group, Yeah, okay, fundamentalist Church
Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Okay, all right.
Speaker 7: And they were.
Speaker 8: Part of this cult in Utah that was intense. And
Speaker 8: so the mom took the kids and moved to Idaho
Speaker 8: and they ate the daughter once she turned eighteen, took
Speaker 8: back off and went back.
Speaker 7: To the religious cult in Utah.
Speaker 5: And so what she'd been in it so long, she
Speaker 5: got fully indoctrinated in right.
Speaker 7: And she totally brainwashed.
Speaker 8: And so what they're thinking is that the older sister
Speaker 8: came back and got her two younger siblings and then
Speaker 8: took them back to the cult.
Speaker 2: Thinking she's doing them a favor.
Speaker 1: Right, probably. So, yeah, which is why every radical political
Speaker 1: movement seeks to indoctrinate children. It's critical to their success.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in your government schools right now, folks. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I hate to be a Captain Apocalypse all the time,
Speaker 1: but if you don't study political movements through history, you
Speaker 1: don't see the framework of why they're doing this and
Speaker 1: why they're teaching all this crap in schools. I mean,
Speaker 1: your kids can't read and write, they can't do math,
Speaker 1: but they're being taught about radical genders. That seems weird. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a deliberate plan.
Speaker 5: And the psychology we've all learned now that whatever, when
Speaker 5: you learn something, the first thing you learn is very
Speaker 5: hard to shake, like really hard to shake even in
Speaker 5: like in the face of all kinds of evidence that
Speaker 5: what you learned first was wrong.
Speaker 2: It's really hard if the person.
Speaker 1: Who told you the first thing comes back and says,
Speaker 1: I was mistaken, that is wrong. Here is what's right.
Speaker 1: Your brain will cling to the first thing.
Speaker 2: It's troubling.
Speaker 7: It's just got a little more sick.
Speaker 8: The FLDS is the Mormon fundamentalist group where members practice.
Speaker 7: Polygamy okay here, which.
Speaker 8: Is prohibited obviously in the traditional Mormon.
Speaker 1: The legend good grief.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a change of topic. Are we
Speaker 1: headed to world toward word that went poorly? Is world
Speaker 1: War three? You gonna break out? Not? According to Gea Prism,
Speaker 1: a self proclaimed psychic and founder of Mood, that's the
Speaker 1: closest thing the left has to QAnon. It's called the
Speaker 1: four Am Club.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It's not about getting up before the sun to get
Speaker 1: a good run in or melt the gout of the gym,
Speaker 1: or to even pray or study the Bible. It's a
Speaker 1: confederation of quote unquote spiritually inclined women who all claim
Speaker 1: to have woken up suddenly around four am on November sixth,
Speaker 1: What that's Election day with a sinking feeling that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump had won the election. Checking their phones. Their feminine
Speaker 1: intuitions were confirmed, except that they don't really believe he won.
Speaker 1: Hang in now, the four Am clubbers believe that we
Speaker 1: really are living in an alternate reality where Trump is president.
Speaker 1: At four am on November sixth last year, that's when
Speaker 1: the timelines split, and it's only a matter of time
Speaker 1: before we all realize it and get back on the
Speaker 1: correct timeline where Trump failed and Kamala Harris took a
Speaker 1: rightful place as chief executive.
Speaker 5: They watch too much Loki, so you need the Time
Speaker 5: Variants Police to show up and fix this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Or the Waki hot Dog Finger movie with all those
Speaker 1: parallel universes. Right, yeah, said one member who posts on
Speaker 1: TikTok quote. I have been steadfast, so rock solid in
Speaker 1: my belief that she won, and it was only a
Speaker 1: matter of time before we all got onto that timeline.
Speaker 1: My friends have looked at me like I'm crazy and
Speaker 1: told me I'm delusional because you wonder why, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're crazy, and delusionals the reason.
Speaker 1: But then, and this is why I'm sorry for the inconvenience,
Speaker 1: We must unplug the Internet. Then she found the others
Speaker 1: just like her, those of us in the four Am
Speaker 1: Club viscerally experienced that timeline split. This is the vision,
Speaker 1: this is the light that we have been holding. Another
Speaker 1: four am are explained. There are hundreds of videos with
Speaker 1: millions of views on four AM Club, videos on TikTok,
Speaker 1: and additional chatter on left wing Reddit, and they're pop
Speaker 1: scularity is only grown. A lot of them are made
Speaker 1: by self proclaimed which is mystics, mediums, clairvoyance, intuitives and
Speaker 1: the like.
Speaker 2: Well, my whole theory on this, and I don't probably
Speaker 2: not my theory. I probably read it somewhere. It's probably obvious.
Speaker 5: Uh as we now live in this world where you
Speaker 5: don't have the slightest idea what's true or not. As
Speaker 5: our old producer Sean used to say, every news story
Speaker 5: comes as a homework assignment. You now have to you
Speaker 5: hear a news story you're interested in, and you now
Speaker 5: got to do the research to try to figure out
Speaker 5: if it's real or not, or how much bitter's real.
Speaker 5: Living in that world has made us all super susceptible
Speaker 5: to or want to cling to some solid piece of something,
Speaker 5: and it's made this sort of thing a lot easier
Speaker 5: to get going.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Well, and you combine that with what I've discussed several times,
Speaker 1: which is that in the old world, if you had
Speaker 1: a hair brained idea, you would try it out in
Speaker 1: your friend group, you'r commune, your workplace, whatever, and you
Speaker 1: would get a lot of your out of your freaking
Speaker 1: mind and realize, oh, that's a hair brained idea. Now
Speaker 1: you go to the Internet and you can find ten
Speaker 1: or one thousand or a million people who say your
Speaker 1: hair brained idea about sex with children or neo Nazism
Speaker 1: or whatever. They will tell you that's a great idea.
Speaker 5: All right, four Am Club, knock yourself out. If you
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