Speaker 1: There is Armstrong and get the Bird's place of Taller Radio,
Speaker 1: all these idiots of foods and jackass on radio. What
Speaker 1: an introduction that was? Holy godh gosh, nobody does it better.
Speaker 1: We don't want another incident here. Good. It's such a
Speaker 1: bizarre world. I apologize for that, all right. Go, you
Speaker 1: are not crazy, Your views are not evil fishers Ed mcmiyon,
Speaker 1: and not he Armstrong and Getty Eddie Eddie. Why from
Speaker 1: a studio cz here you know what it is. It's
Speaker 1: a dimly lit room deeper than the bowels of the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty communications compound. And hey, everybody today under
Speaker 1: the two ledge of our general manager, America's peace officer,
Speaker 1: your local police department. There you go. That just like
Speaker 1: a tip of the cap sign of respect for a
Speaker 1: tough job. That's sort of thing. Yeah, just certainly the
Speaker 1: object of discussions. He says. I was just in the
Speaker 1: bathroom doing my hair. That's where I was. I do
Speaker 1: my hair before I come in. You what now a
Speaker 1: drug code when you have very little hair like I do.
Speaker 1: If when you get up in the morning it's all
Speaker 1: matted down on one side and it looks terrible. Hanson
Speaker 1: is nodding. How do you recognize this experience from other
Speaker 1: people that have had that problem? My hairs all matted down.
Speaker 1: It looks ridiculous. So I have to get my hands
Speaker 1: wet and rub it through it, rub my head to
Speaker 1: get it all fluffed. The tiny little hair is all
Speaker 1: fluffed up again. He was being serious. Yes, I'm being serious.
Speaker 1: He got practically no horror, all being completely serious. Dare
Speaker 1: you to show up one day with matted hair and
Speaker 1: see if any of us started dudes, so we don't
Speaker 1: notice anything. Yeah, exactly, I could show up with a
Speaker 1: pink afro and you notice anyway. So I was in
Speaker 1: the bathroom doing my hair and y beautiful hair, and
Speaker 1: I was reminded that i'd heard a story that flushing
Speaker 1: the toilet can send coronavirus particles into the air. Yes,
Speaker 1: questioning whether you should flush the toilet as much, or
Speaker 1: if you should get some sort of remote control flushing
Speaker 1: so you can flush it when you're out of the
Speaker 1: room or something. I heard a doctor saying he breathes
Speaker 1: more slowly and less deeply when he's in a bathroom
Speaker 1: in hale and stuff down deep into his lungs. That's
Speaker 1: pretty interesting, huh. So, but by the way, it fellas
Speaker 1: like he were more susceptible to the Corona bald guys.
Speaker 1: The story came out last week, ten days ago something
Speaker 1: like that. Doesn't make any difference whether my stubble has
Speaker 1: been fluffed or not. I hate to admit this as
Speaker 1: a Harry Harry man with a thick, lustrous head of
Speaker 1: chestnut hair. But bald fellers have more androgens and some
Speaker 1: male hormones, which is why I'm so incredibly effeminate. Um
Speaker 1: and and that you've seen that the death toll among
Speaker 1: men is much higher than women and the outcomes tend
Speaker 1: to be worse. Blah blah blah. They think it has
Speaker 1: to do with those manly manly hormones, but nobody's quite
Speaker 1: sure why. One of the many question marks attached to this,
Speaker 1: and you have more of those if you don't have hair. Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. That is one of the indicators.
Speaker 1: My kids, my my one son particularly has hair like
Speaker 1: he's Eric clapped in nineteen sixty seven, just the big,
Speaker 1: full wavy It's crazy. Yeah, I know him all the time.
Speaker 1: I'd like to have had your hair one day, just
Speaker 1: for the options involved. A couple of my kids have
Speaker 1: hair thicker than the bears. It's amazing. Um. Back to
Speaker 1: the toilet. So as I read more about where you
Speaker 1: can and can't can't catch the coronavirus, yet another article
Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal today about that the science
Speaker 1: is in UM, I know how it's it's so much
Speaker 1: about breathing in close contact, rarely from surfaces. UM. Very
Speaker 1: difficult to get outdoors. So it's in a closed room,
Speaker 1: close to someone else for a length of time. That's
Speaker 1: that's what does you But so bat and you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm relatively safe most of the places
Speaker 1: I go. But bathrooms I don't know who's been in there.
Speaker 1: And then you got the coffin sneezing, blowing your nose
Speaker 1: and flush and toilets, the droplets in the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: caldron of disease. Maybe I shouldn't stay out of bathrooms,
Speaker 1: well in the whole, in a closed room, extended amount
Speaker 1: of time talking to people. I think the President needs
Speaker 1: to outlaw meetings at the office. There you go, probably
Speaker 1: let's say for the next ten years, Let's see how
Speaker 1: it goes. Wouldn't that be awesome? If what comes out
Speaker 1: of this the silver lining is doing away with pointless meetings,
Speaker 1: or they gotta be two minutes or less, right, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna do that. You're gonna do that. You're gonna
Speaker 1: do that. Anybody got a question? Yes? Should I do
Speaker 1: it this way? Yes? Okay, I have a question. Are
Speaker 1: we gonna have the summer picnic? No, you're exposing us
Speaker 1: all to more possible virus with your stupid question that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with what we're here for. Silence, jackass, Silence, jackass.
Speaker 1: If I'm your CEO, that's the way meetings would go.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to accept any offers that come my way.
Speaker 1: And the questions almost always coming from the people that
Speaker 1: have the least power or influence over the organization. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so common. You just started here last week. Put
Speaker 1: your hand out exactly exactly. You work like eleven hours
Speaker 1: a week. You're just clearly killing time. See, you make
Speaker 1: more money. The rest of us have to get back
Speaker 1: to work or nod from you or no offense. But
Speaker 1: just with your position, you could do a great job
Speaker 1: or a horrible job and nobody would know the difference. Right,
Speaker 1: it's just minor impact. So no questions from you don't
Speaker 1: make me Silence You jackass. Let's introduce everybody in the
Speaker 1: squad there to kick off the show. There's our board
Speaker 1: operator Michael Angelo, President button's flipping toggles, pulling levers. Sorry
Speaker 1: this morning, Michael, go ahead. Yesterday, during the eight o'clock hour,
Speaker 1: we had a horrific scene when I almost ended the
Speaker 1: hour at an improper time, and it was because I
Speaker 1: couldn't see the clock. And just you know, I so
Speaker 1: yesterday I finally had to swallow my pride and I
Speaker 1: had executive producer enlarged the clock on my screen and
Speaker 1: now I can see it beautifully and it will never
Speaker 1: ever happen again. Keep your fund for the older man. Yes,
Speaker 1: keeping time will never be a problem again. What times
Speaker 1: your step in tub being wow? Wow? The youth on
Speaker 1: the staff, that's ages and staff on that's hate speech.
Speaker 1: Getting yourself a walk in tub and bigger buttons. There
Speaker 1: you go, that's all right. So I went home, cried,
Speaker 1: swallowed my pride, and there came back today. Fantastic. You
Speaker 1: got to adapt. Um. Do you have one of those
Speaker 1: remote controls at home, the really big numbers that you
Speaker 1: can get. No, not yet, but keeping time will never
Speaker 1: be a problem again. I'll be on it. Excellent. Um,
Speaker 1: there is positive Sean who smile lights up the room.
Speaker 1: How are you showing doing very well? But I do
Speaker 1: have a correction to many minutes. It was thanks Michael
Speaker 1: was timing. It was it was yesterday's show. We were
Speaker 1: just cussing one of the many Karen's that was that
Speaker 1: finds our finds herself in the news cycle these days,
Speaker 1: and I got my Karen's confused. I asserted that the Karen,
Speaker 1: the California Karen we were talking about at one point
Speaker 1: during the engagement, said something to the effect of go
Speaker 1: back to where you came from, that was a different Karen.
Speaker 1: I apologize here, despite the request from my Twitter mentions,
Speaker 1: I will not be issuing a written apology to all Karen's,
Speaker 1: but I will say hashtag too many Karen's. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got that story completely wrong. Actually, it's just top
Speaker 1: to bottom, and I'm to blame because I I brought
Speaker 1: it up fine moments. The The overall gist of it
Speaker 1: was the same though, which was my point. The the
Speaker 1: details of that particular story, I really wasn't that interested in.
Speaker 1: It's just that overall phenomenon of that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: As her husband now has been fired. So not only
Speaker 1: did the Karen have to lose her job for doing
Speaker 1: something that the society decided was no good for, you know,
Speaker 1: an hour on Twitter, but her husband had to go. Right.
Speaker 1: But what was unclear to me at the time, and
Speaker 1: apparently I still have no idea, is did he play
Speaker 1: an active role in it or is he just like THEO,
Speaker 1: taped it and allowed it to happen. I guess like
Speaker 1: the l A Galaxy, his his mouthy hot wife made
Speaker 1: some untoward comments on Twitter or something. The Galaxy let
Speaker 1: him go because he's got a mouthy hot wife. Really yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think the fact that she was hot went
Speaker 1: into the decision. How did that the decision of marrier? True?
Speaker 1: I am going to in one random day in the
Speaker 1: next five days, I'm gonna come in with my hair
Speaker 1: matted down and see if anybody notices I am on
Speaker 1: a letter time all thought you were joking you have stubble. No,
Speaker 1: I was doing my hair. That's what I was doing
Speaker 1: before I walked in the room. Was in the bathroom, Okay,
Speaker 1: my hair you made? Did they have video camera in there?
Speaker 1: Perhaps you could go back and then look at the video.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Jogetti on this Wednesday, June. We
Speaker 1: are arm strong and getting we approve of this program.
Speaker 1: Let's begin fluffing our stubble. According to FCC rules and regulations,
Speaker 1: the show begins officially at mark. The United States didn't
Speaker 1: inherit slavery from anybody. We created it. That is Senator
Speaker 1: Tim Caine, who is willing to say anything, no matter
Speaker 1: how stupid, inane, or inaccurate, if it scores political points. Well,
Speaker 1: he was vice presidential candidate too, Yes, yes he was.
Speaker 1: He was. Recall, that is unfreaking believable. That's a heck
Speaker 1: of a thing to say. That's an evil thing to yeah,
Speaker 1: that's horrid. Does not make things better, And it's it's
Speaker 1: popular now in MSNBC Scarborough and all of them do it.
Speaker 1: It's to regularly refer to our four hundred years of
Speaker 1: systemic racism based on that sixteen nineteen project. The founding
Speaker 1: of this country was founded on slavery. That's what it's
Speaker 1: always been about. We've you know, institutionalized racism on purpose
Speaker 1: from the beginning and it continues. Man. We we we need
Speaker 1: to work that out as a narrative and in our nation. Well,
Speaker 1: and we have folks being dragged into training sessions all
Speaker 1: over the country now where they are being taught to
Speaker 1: be woke at their office, at their workplace. It's very
Speaker 1: much like the uh, you know, the non sexual harassment
Speaker 1: training we've taken and everybody had to go in a
Speaker 1: room or some dope man or woman and instructed you
Speaker 1: on how not to sexually harass. And of course studies
Speaker 1: have shown sexual harassment rises after those for some reason.
Speaker 1: But um, so yeah, those woke classes are now being
Speaker 1: required at a lot of employers. Really and here's here's
Speaker 1: the issue. And didn't get any of the what they
Speaker 1: teach you in those things to absolutely um. But the
Speaker 1: problem is, and most of the terrified and or just
Speaker 1: um uninformed employers and executives don't understand, is these activist
Speaker 1: groups have redefined all the terms that you think, you know,
Speaker 1: like racism, You are a racist unless you adopt wholly
Speaker 1: their political views. That is what you must sign the
Speaker 1: forms and give away, you know, your entire intellect to
Speaker 1: these activist groups. Otherwise you are a racist. So when
Speaker 1: you make your employees pledged not to be a racist,
Speaker 1: that's what you're making them pledged to do. More on
Speaker 1: that James Lindsay is on fire on the Twitter machine
Speaker 1: on that. That's that's good stuff right there. How's mailbag look?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, epic, It's just it's fabulous. Wow, you laugh,
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Speaker 1: been drinking her syrup since I was a tiny lad.
Speaker 1: But Aunt Jemima is going away. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: coming up. And also a one hundred and thirty six
Speaker 1: year old Christopher Columbus statue being removed from a park
Speaker 1: in St. Louis. I want to talk about that phenomenon
Speaker 1: as it sweeps the nation. Yeah, troubled times. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed that crazy man crazy? There's a little hope on
Speaker 1: the Chinese bat fever, then steroid if you're one of
Speaker 1: the very few who gets it and the very few
Speaker 1: who has a severe case of it. Um they've they've
Speaker 1: cut deaths by like, which is, you know, if you've
Speaker 1: got it, you're hoping more like but at least there's hope. Mailbag,
Speaker 1: you can email us mail bag and I'm strong and
Speaker 1: getty dot com and there to register opinions, send along
Speaker 1: something you think we ought to be talked about. Whatever
Speaker 1: freedom loving quote of the day from Stephen Fry today.
Speaker 1: We've we've had a couple of Stephen Fry quotes. And
Speaker 1: I really even know who he is, so I checked around.
Speaker 1: He's an English writer and actor and director and kind
Speaker 1: of a renaissance man. He is a liberal, but a
Speaker 1: kind of an old school liberal. I'm a fan, like
Speaker 1: is he a contemporary like alive today or from the second? Yeah? Good,
Speaker 1: good question. Well he's he's tweeting, so there's there's a
Speaker 1: hint um he's yeah, he appears to be I don't know,
Speaker 1: in his sixties. Maybe he was buddies with a Hitchens. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Chris Hitchens Liberal, Yeah, okay, anyway, he wrote the following
Speaker 1: social media thanks to Chris for sending us along. Not
Speaker 1: Chris Hitchens, He's past. This is a different Chris. No.
Speaker 1: Social media is a stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self
Speaker 1: righteous who loved his second guest to link to conclusions
Speaker 1: and be offended, worst, to be offended on behalf of others.
Speaker 1: They do not even know, it's as nasty and unwholesome
Speaker 1: characteristic as can be imagined. It doesn't matter whether they
Speaker 1: think they're defend women, men, transgender people, Muslims, humanists. The
Speaker 1: ghastliness is absolutely the same. Hard to argue with that
Speaker 1: that's good. Is it gonna take a full generation to
Speaker 1: end up with only people who have grown up with
Speaker 1: Twitter around for it to to settle down? That's an
Speaker 1: interesting question. I'm more focused on whether the classical liberal
Speaker 1: liberal or the woke militant religious liberal will triumph. Life
Speaker 1: experience tends to get you off of the woke fanatical thing.
Speaker 1: Although if you can postpone any sort of rational thought, um,
Speaker 1: then maybe you can hang with it. Thought you might
Speaker 1: enjoy this, writes John. This is a joke Jack, A priest,
Speaker 1: a rabbit, and a minister walk into a bar. The
Speaker 1: bartender asks the rabbit, don't you have a rabbit? Says
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm only here because of auto correct.
Speaker 1: A priest, a rabbit, and a minister. That's pretty fun.
Speaker 1: I know that's a good joke. I read that. I
Speaker 1: cracked up. I said I'm gonna try this on my wife.
Speaker 1: I readed her. She gets that mystified look, and then
Speaker 1: cracks up rab well, I'm not gonna explain it to you.
Speaker 1: Don't get it. You don't get it. He says, Oh, shot,
Speaker 1: I'm getting the duck out of here, then walks out
Speaker 1: of the bar. Yes, well said, let's see. Oh, Matt says,
Speaker 1: you guys used a word a few weeks ago. I'm
Speaker 1: racking my brain trying to remember it because I've been
Speaker 1: googling over half an hour. Google is evil. By the way,
Speaker 1: Google is completely evil. We'll be talking about that, please.
Speaker 1: It's when something is named. You would have noticed that.
Speaker 1: It's when something is named after the fact, essentially a name,
Speaker 1: possibly before, but everyone is said, not a word for
Speaker 1: it after its original conception. I don't even remember discussing
Speaker 1: the concept. Yeah, that does not ring a bell at all.
Speaker 1: I wondered if anybody else. You're probably listening to a
Speaker 1: more erudite radio show perhaps or more podcast or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have any ideas. You know, we do talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, names of things and sometimes origins of words.
Speaker 1: But no, that's that we're I'm we're as mystified as
Speaker 1: you are, Sir Rich Rights. Hey fellas, yesterday you talked
Speaker 1: about a perfect storm for riots after the election. I
Speaker 1: live in Portland, where people rioted four years ago before
Speaker 1: Trumpet even started the job. Now, after four years of
Speaker 1: the world being indoctrinated about how horribly is there will
Speaker 1: for sure be riots no matter what my perfect storm was.
Speaker 1: They believe a lot of the George Floyd protests and
Speaker 1: protests around the world that have been uh pretty you know, heated.
Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out why exactly are these protests
Speaker 1: so hot right now, and they think it's because we've
Speaker 1: all been locked The combination of being locked up, worried
Speaker 1: about your job, worried about your health, it's made everybody
Speaker 1: like anxious and angry and crazy, and that's going to
Speaker 1: continue through the summer up to election time. You combine
Speaker 1: that with a close election and some severe problems with
Speaker 1: elections if the COVID's going on and uh distancing and
Speaker 1: machines not working in ballidly you know, mail in ballots
Speaker 1: and all this sort of stuff. See the problems they
Speaker 1: had in Georgia a week or so ago. You got
Speaker 1: a recipe for some severe rioting and a real belief
Speaker 1: that this election actually wasn't legit. No, that would be terrible,
Speaker 1: and half the country in a close election, no matter
Speaker 1: which direction it goes, believes that's not my president. I
Speaker 1: think that's likely where we end up. See Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty show a quart to the reason bull fewer Americans
Speaker 1: have a negative a vice president Joe Biden then they
Speaker 1: did of Hillary Clinton said Clinton, stop asking people leave
Speaker 1: me audio poles. That's pretty funny. Oh boys. So here's
Speaker 1: a couple of stories that I don't know what I
Speaker 1: think of. I realized as a talk show host, I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to have a very solid opinion yes and that's
Speaker 1: the one and defend it strong, and people who disagree
Speaker 1: with me are evil. But I don't know what I
Speaker 1: think about either one of these stories. I'll start with
Speaker 1: PepsiCo owns Aunt Jemima Syrup. Didn't know that they own
Speaker 1: practically everything you eat a drink. PepsiCo doesn't anyway, They've
Speaker 1: decided to drop the whole Aunt Jemima label thing. Now
Speaker 1: Aunt Jemima there's a black woman on the bottle of syrup.
Speaker 1: That's all I really know about it, and that's the
Speaker 1: that's the extent that I've thought about it my whole life.
Speaker 1: This gets to well exactly This gets to the I
Speaker 1: don't know what to think about this thing. I'm I
Speaker 1: don't want to get too far down the road of
Speaker 1: systemic racism and racism you don't see in white privilege,
Speaker 1: because we'll be off on that subject. But I feel
Speaker 1: like Aunt Jemima being on the bottle of syrup, which
Speaker 1: I've used since I as long as I can remember,
Speaker 1: had no impact on me whatsoever in terms of my
Speaker 1: my thoughts about Black America. I really honestly believe that
Speaker 1: I believe it had zero impact on me. It's also
Speaker 1: gonna have zero impact at being gone, So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not like angry that it's going away. Is separate
Speaker 1: to the statutes I'm about to talk about. I don't
Speaker 1: think there. I don't think I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: possible damage that could be done by removing Aunt Jemima
Speaker 1: from the syrup. So you're saying that if you went
Speaker 1: into an accounting firm, say with help for for help
Speaker 1: with your taxes, and in a black woman or to
Speaker 1: meet with you, you wouldn't think this accountant is just
Speaker 1: like Aunt Jema. Believe I've got any lingering anything about
Speaker 1: Aunt Jemima being on the Sir the sir let alone
Speaker 1: something deeply negative. I just don't believe it. Now. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I've heard some stuff about an Jemima that is not
Speaker 1: so savory. I heard it from Mrs Butterworth, who is
Speaker 1: my syrup. I also feel like if you introduced aunt
Speaker 1: Jemima today, but you and you go back with the old,
Speaker 1: uh slave woman look that they had up until a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Remember they changed the look of Angela.
Speaker 1: It was kind of an old timey mammy, early twentieth century. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think I think if you introduced it today
Speaker 1: and presented the story as this is trying to show
Speaker 1: that black women who worked for white families contributed. Also,
Speaker 1: here's someone who's recipe for syrup was so loved it
Speaker 1: was stolen and appropriated and used all over Southern America,
Speaker 1: became a national brand. Right if you spun it like that,
Speaker 1: you could make a hero. It's a positive thing to
Speaker 1: spin syrup. Well, no, I'm yeah, Ultimately, I say, well,
Speaker 1: my whole point is, I don't think it has any
Speaker 1: impact on anybody at all. I don't believe it is
Speaker 1: a symbol of racism or rain. I don't think it's anything.
Speaker 1: I don't think it has any impact any more than
Speaker 1: the than the what was the ivory soap baby contributed
Speaker 1: to attitudes toward infants? I don't know. I just these
Speaker 1: brand names are lucky Charms is contributed to racism against
Speaker 1: my people, the Irish anyway, um, so like, but I'm
Speaker 1: not certain about that. But I just feel like it
Speaker 1: did not cause me to have any negative feelings about
Speaker 1: Black America in any way, having drank drank bottles of
Speaker 1: and Jemima's ear throughout my life on the statue things.
Speaker 1: So they just took down a one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: six year old of Christopher Columbus statue in a park
Speaker 1: in St. Louis. It's been there a very long time. Um.
Speaker 1: It was originally put up to honor contributions of immigrants
Speaker 1: in America, which is something we're supposed to be doing,
Speaker 1: not white ones. Um. I guess Portuguese is stupid Portuguese.
Speaker 1: My only problem with this I think, well, for if
Speaker 1: anybody's ever listened on Columbus Day, you know it's right.
Speaker 1: It's the whole Columbus thing. I don't care about at all.
Speaker 1: It doesn't I think it's a completely different sort of
Speaker 1: thing than the Confederate thing, and certainly a different sort
Speaker 1: of thing than taken down Thomas Jefferson. But but just
Speaker 1: in general, the thing that bothers me the most is
Speaker 1: it's being decided by mobs. That's not the way we
Speaker 1: should decide these things. Mobs shouldn't decide what's up in
Speaker 1: the park. I would like there to be a movement
Speaker 1: toward you hate the statue, you think it's gonna come down.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's get petitions signed, Let's go to city
Speaker 1: council meetings, let's get it on the ballot for the
Speaker 1: next election and get it removed. And you might easily
Speaker 1: have enough support in your community to have the statue
Speaker 1: taken down. That way of doing it fine, But mobs
Speaker 1: deciding what acts or statues get to be is definitely
Speaker 1: no way to run a country. And that's the way
Speaker 1: it's going right now. The mobs didn't bring the statue down,
Speaker 1: but they had defaced it and spray painted it so
Speaker 1: many times. The park finally said, we just can't afford
Speaker 1: to provide enough security to keep this from being to face.
Speaker 1: It's like the Heckler's veto Yeah, they're afraid at this
Speaker 1: point as it is, old enough and carved by some
Speaker 1: famous carver of statues that it is an artifact and
Speaker 1: actual work of art. They decided we got to move
Speaker 1: it into a museum to protect it. But the mob
Speaker 1: should not decide I stay something what comes down. Well,
Speaker 1: I agree with you wholeheartedly. I almost hate saying it
Speaker 1: out loud. Not that like the Antifa maniacs are listening
Speaker 1: to this show or anything, but they so discredit themselves
Speaker 1: when they do things as an angry mob, as opposed
Speaker 1: to pursuing the levers of our republic like you described,
Speaker 1: good solid activism. That would then, and this is the
Speaker 1: part I really don't want to hear them here, they
Speaker 1: would learn how the process works. They would be better organized,
Speaker 1: They would know who to petition and in what way.
Speaker 1: It would probably be more effective than launching their ridiculous,
Speaker 1: woke schemes on the rest of us. I almost prefer
Speaker 1: them acting like angry idiots. Well, that was the argument
Speaker 1: Barack Obama was making a couple of weeks ago about
Speaker 1: getting organized at your your local level, going to city
Speaker 1: council meetings, voting, that sort of thing. There's easily enough
Speaker 1: power in a lot of communities to get these statues
Speaker 1: taken down in a democratic fashion as opposed to in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night with ropes and you know bats.
Speaker 1: That's no way to make decisions. I find that very,
Speaker 1: very troubling. I do like this, uh, this movement that's
Speaker 1: going right now. Is this just in Tennessee or is
Speaker 1: this all across the nation sewn? I think it's just
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, but I'm trying to get it going all across.
Speaker 1: In Tennessee, there is a movement going to replace all
Speaker 1: statues with Dolly Parton statues. American Treasure simply reads wrote Joe,
Speaker 1: Lene and I will always of you in the same day.
Speaker 1: What have you done? Right? Right? Wow? There you go,
Speaker 1: or some sort of movement of people throwing up Columbus
Speaker 1: statues all over the country. You know, you show up
Speaker 1: to Main Street, they're like three Columbus statues. That would
Speaker 1: be funny. I mean, I'm sure you can get some
Speaker 1: sort of cheap plaster cast or something like that and
Speaker 1: crank out like a hundred fifty of them for a
Speaker 1: thousand bucks. I'd kick into that. Not because I have
Speaker 1: any particular interest or pride in Columbus. I really the
Speaker 1: whole glorifying Columbus thing is pretty silly, absolutely, um, but
Speaker 1: I just I love the trollery of it. Making in
Speaker 1: him an evil spreader of genocide is also silly. Ryan,
Speaker 1: He's just a product of his time, like you're the
Speaker 1: product of your time. The biggest Columbus statue, obviously, is
Speaker 1: the one Columbus circle there right at the corner of
Speaker 1: Central Park in Manhattan. That's that's what. That one's a
Speaker 1: big deal, and that's when you'll know the mob is
Speaker 1: really taken over. Yeah, any way, was that compared to
Speaker 1: the Robert E. Lee statue that was like sixty feet high?
Speaker 1: I meant big in terms of importance on a height. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't been there in ages anyway? Where were we?
Speaker 1: I s So you will likely, if you are part
Speaker 1: of corporate America, you will likely be dragged into a
Speaker 1: wokeness anti racist slash diversity training session. And the fabulous,
Speaker 1: the brilliant James Lindsay. He's a lefty professor, but he
Speaker 1: hates the the woke cancel culture. He has a great
Speaker 1: series of well he has some suggestions for how to
Speaker 1: approach it if indeed you are forced to attend one
Speaker 1: of these. Anybody have any thoughts in the whole and
Speaker 1: Jemima thing, is that actually harming in America? I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't helping in America either. My care My reaction
Speaker 1: to this conversation is that it's making me hungry for pancakes.
Speaker 1: That does sound good, doesn't Yeah, and a couple of
Speaker 1: sausage links on the side or bacon whatever you got,
Speaker 1: have you had? Do you do you ever drink the
Speaker 1: light syrup? Drink it? Stop saying that I just have
Speaker 1: a couple on ice and I have pancakes once every
Speaker 1: four years. At this point in my life, was that
Speaker 1: just once a week I play the pancakes. I gained
Speaker 1: two pounds, no kidding, or at least once a week
Speaker 1: on pancakes. But I'm flipping love pancakes. No punny. Like
Speaker 1: a lot of diet stuff, it just tastes like it's
Speaker 1: so much worse for you. I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: the label and there's less calories, but the chemicals involved
Speaker 1: in diet soda light syrup, that sort of sting is
Speaker 1: your body is screaming, this is gonna give you cancer.
Speaker 1: Allegedly back when I was a pancake eater, which sounds
Speaker 1: like some sort of slur um I got onto a
Speaker 1: real maple syrup. Oh yeah, that's when my one son
Speaker 1: will only drink that, and it stops saying drink Nobody
Speaker 1: drinks syrup. Nobody says that. You've been saying it for
Speaker 1: so long anyway, But there's there are horrific amounts of
Speaker 1: sugar in it. But that's probably well, it's it's not
Speaker 1: good for you, but it's probably better. Got to wap
Speaker 1: it up whatever chemicals. You know, it's got to be
Speaker 1: some corporation is squirting out of their factory and pokeps
Speaker 1: in maple syrup. You only need just a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit, just drowned it. Yeah, then you drank it.
Speaker 1: Eat on the rock. Text line is four got these
Speaker 1: pancakes from restaurant called pancakes egg cetera. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a plant words. Oh god, hard to imagine he didn't
Speaker 1: get elected text line four one five k FTZ are
Speaker 1: Strong and the Armstrong and Getty Show. Text line Soon
Speaker 1: we'll have to name more Columbus, change the name or
Speaker 1: Columbus land in Columbus, Ohio. Absolutely right, and landed in Columbus, Ohio,
Speaker 1: declared it his everybody knows that m if evil. Take
Speaker 1: two if power corrupts, and there's nothing more powerful than
Speaker 1: big tech right now, beware big tech. They're evil. More
Speaker 1: on that to come. And when they're not evil, they're
Speaker 1: stupid because they're so big and and and powerful. Being
Speaker 1: stupid is not good. You're talking about your facebooks, your Google's,
Speaker 1: That's who I'm talking about, your your Twitter's, Twitter's. Do
Speaker 1: you know who James Lindsay is. He's a professor Portland State, right.
Speaker 1: He's a lefty, a nice fellow, but he's a classic
Speaker 1: free thought, uh debate discussion lefty. And he's troubled as
Speaker 1: we are, by the the angry, bloodthirsty woke mob. And
Speaker 1: he tweets a lot, and he's a crazy smart guy
Speaker 1: about the phenomenon of anti racism and critical race theory
Speaker 1: and wokeness and and all of it. I think he
Speaker 1: might be going crazy. He claims he's not, And I
Speaker 1: think he's going crazy. Do you I think this is
Speaker 1: driving him? You think the stress is getting to him? Well,
Speaker 1: I just hope he keeps cranking out his smartness while
Speaker 1: while his sanity last. Someone he tweets, actually like thirty
Speaker 1: people in the last hour or two told me they
Speaker 1: have to sit through an anti racist slash diversity training
Speaker 1: for work tomorrow and ask for advice. Here's something you
Speaker 1: can really do that works. Ask calibrated questions. Ask questions
Speaker 1: about definitions. So when you say racist and anti racist
Speaker 1: you don't mean like the normal definition. Sound confused? This
Speaker 1: is important. You're there to learn, after all. Don't fight back.
Speaker 1: Just be a really slow learner and ask questions to expose.
Speaker 1: Ask questions about implications, like so, if I become an
Speaker 1: anti racist, am I still a racist? How do I
Speaker 1: stop being racist? How does this pro graham make me
Speaker 1: not racist again? You're there to learn, so sound like
Speaker 1: it's slower. First, First of all, I wonder how prevalent
Speaker 1: this is. Is this the new going to be the new?
Speaker 1: Like sexual harassment training? Yes, that everybody's taking a work well,
Speaker 1: as he said, he's had dozens of people in the
Speaker 1: last couple hours. Hey, I got dragged. I gotta go
Speaker 1: to one of those two. I wonder if we'll be
Speaker 1: doing that. And secondly, um see, am I a person
Speaker 1: who wants to make America better place? Am I afraid
Speaker 1: of an ideology taking over that's going to destroy the nation?
Speaker 1: And I want to, you know, stand athwart to Yale
Speaker 1: stop or um, do I just want to keep my job,
Speaker 1: in which case I would keep my mouth shutting that training,
Speaker 1: sign the piece of paper, and go back to my
Speaker 1: cubicle so that the boss doesn't say that person is
Speaker 1: asking all the questions. We need to get rid of them. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I would suggest that if you feel the need to respond,
Speaker 1: this is a great way to do it. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, rolling your eyes that your your compatriots there
Speaker 1: in the office and just waiting till it's over is
Speaker 1: another strap. Although I've clicked you know, yes, I've taken
Speaker 1: the sexual harassment training and a variety of other things
Speaker 1: many times over my life. I'd want to read the
Speaker 1: fine print on this one. Yes, yes, I will tell
Speaker 1: you this. Most of this training, well, let me put
Speaker 1: it to you like this. Ten percent of it is
Speaker 1: to address the problem it says it's there to address.
Speaker 1: The other nine is so that your company slash corporation
Speaker 1: can say, when the lawyers come after him, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: we trained our people. In fact, Joe signed a piece
Speaker 1: of paper saying he'd taken the training, so we did
Speaker 1: our part. Don't sue us, sue him. That's why most
Speaker 1: of this exists. On the other hand, this uh list
Speaker 1: of questions is less about the specifics of being in
Speaker 1: a training session and more about just the principles of
Speaker 1: all so anyway, try to get them to say, you
Speaker 1: can't stop being a racist and the contradictions. Wait, so
Speaker 1: if color blindness means not seeing race and that makes
Speaker 1: me racist, seeing race make me racist? Is race supposed
Speaker 1: to matter or not matter? I'm confused? Slow learner mode, activate,
Speaker 1: make them explain it and make it look hard to learn.
Speaker 1: It's about if. If it's about implicit bias, learn to
Speaker 1: gain the test. It's actually very easy. Then report this.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you take it. They're talking about the tests you
Speaker 1: have to take that show your implicitly biased. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: take it and it gives you a strong pro black bias,
Speaker 1: other times strong pro white. What gives This part is
Speaker 1: kind of confusing, but moving along, ask them really obvious
Speaker 1: questions like doesn't making us focus on race make the
Speaker 1: issue more sensitive? And doesn't a reporting system make it
Speaker 1: harder to work with people we don't trust, Make them
Speaker 1: explain the practical failures away and look silly. This isn't
Speaker 1: just a fun strategy that can work, especially on the
Speaker 1: people around you. It's actually court of the literature. You
Speaker 1: can even mention it to show what a good interested
Speaker 1: student you are. Um. For instance, Barbara Applebaum says in
Speaker 1: Being White, Being Good, it's a book. Apparently it is
Speaker 1: a book, apparently because it was that ebooks are Kindle,
Speaker 1: it was Kindle Amazon. So when I was on my
Speaker 1: Amazon Kindle app yesterday, it's got recommended books, and they're
Speaker 1: all these woke racist you're you're racist books that are
Speaker 1: so popular, and that's everything they're recommending to me. That's
Speaker 1: the only thing I should be reading completely from one,
Speaker 1: I think, very narrow point of view. That's what's being
Speaker 1: recommended for readers now by Amazon. This, this whole thing
Speaker 1: is troubling. Yeah. Yeah, But in her book, she says
Speaker 1: the only legitimate way to disagree is by asking challenging
Speaker 1: questions to understand to eventually agree. So do that, take
Speaker 1: that vibe and approach, be a slow learner and points
Speaker 1: subversively at the problems. Again. You know, if you want
Speaker 1: to stick your neck out at your your workplace, that's
Speaker 1: how you ought to do it. I get it. Um Oh,
Speaker 1: I like this, by the way, he says, if you
Speaker 1: can pull it off recorded try to get them on
Speaker 1: audio saying reprehensible stuff. You don't have to force this,
Speaker 1: it comes out naturally, or get caught up and confused
Speaker 1: and contradictions or nonsense. Don't get fired. Play along and subvert. Wait,
Speaker 1: so are we talking about real racism or systemic racism? Okay,
Speaker 1: if systemic racism is real racism, what do we call
Speaker 1: real racism? So we don't get them confused. So we
Speaker 1: can all be racist because of systemic racism even if
Speaker 1: there's no real racism. That's some good subverting. Oh boy.
Speaker 1: Then he gets into the whole white fragility thing, which
Speaker 1: is one of the great rhetorical traps of my lifetime,
Speaker 1: where if you say I'm a racist, well then you
Speaker 1: you get beaten down by the mob. And if you
Speaker 1: say I'm not a racist, then you're guilty of white fragility,
Speaker 1: which proves you're a racist and you get beaten down
Speaker 1: by the mob. It's very much like denying your a
Speaker 1: witch back in the day. In fact, it's the same
Speaker 1: rhetorical trap. Yeah. Well, I've recommended many times, you know,
Speaker 1: just Tay can any of James Lyndsay's YouTube videos or
Speaker 1: podcast he he talks about the same thing over and
Speaker 1: over and over again. But it's it's really interesting stuff.
Speaker 1: And the point of this whole game is a setting
Speaker 1: up rules. You can't win, right exactly, You're always on
Speaker 1: the defensive. Well, it's funny. That's a variation of what
Speaker 1: I and Randy used to talk about, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: we have so many rules, we will find you guilty
Speaker 1: of them, and then you are under our power. You're
Speaker 1: a lawbreaker and we will break you. Um and and
Speaker 1: they're pursuing the same the same techniques. Hey, on the
Speaker 1: topic of taking down various statues and things like that
Speaker 1: in California Sutter from Sutter's Fort and maybe learned about
Speaker 1: it and down. How about Eli Yale? He was a
Speaker 1: slave trader? Somebody texted, is that true? Eli Yale was
Speaker 1: a slave trader? I have to do a little digging
Speaker 1: on that. Oh what was it? What was the other
Speaker 1: one I heard the other day? That would be a
Speaker 1: complicated one. Oh, James Penny. I'm pretty sure it was
Speaker 1: James Penny, for whom Penny Lane the Beatles song. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: the song was named after the street. The street was
Speaker 1: named after the dude. He was involved in the slave
Speaker 1: trade too, or something similar. So uh. There are some
Speaker 1: who want the Beatles to change the name of Penny
Speaker 1: Lane Lane to Dane Dede. You just have to bleep
Speaker 1: it out, Fenny Lane, Kenny Lane. There you'd go, Kenny right,
Speaker 1: attribute to Kenny Rogers right. Armstrong and Jetty