Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and and he
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: I heard that they were that someone started a flying
Speaker 3: a plane with a banner that said, uh, this is
Speaker 3: Trump Country.
Speaker 2: It sure don't look like it today. That's a funny
Speaker 2: think this is Trump country. I think this is our country.
Speaker 1: Is that a sweetheart? Let's hold an election and find out,
Speaker 1: you know, is that lefty?
Speaker 4: Jeez?
Speaker 2: Is that AOC?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that didn't sound like getting all earthy. So Bernard
Speaker 5: Sanders and AOC. They showed up in fulsome California. They're
Speaker 5: doing what Trump did to great effect when he was
Speaker 5: running for president. He'd go to you know, lefty places,
Speaker 5: someplace in New York or wherever, college town, someplace whereas
Speaker 5: all lefties and draw you know, his people, and got
Speaker 5: a lot of attention and everything like that. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's it's not complicated. We've been saying this for years.
Speaker 5: So we've been on in San Francisco for twenty two
Speaker 5: years now, and people would always say, how do people
Speaker 5: accept you in San Francisco. Well, it's not difficult. I
Speaker 5: mean because you've created enthusiasm. Because places aren't all one
Speaker 5: hundred percent one direction or the other. They tend to
Speaker 5: be even if a place is overwhelmingly one direction politics
Speaker 5: or not, it's like seventy thirty. And if you I mean,
Speaker 5: and that's like really overwhelming, it might be seventy thirty.
Speaker 5: And if you got seven million people, for instance, I mean,
Speaker 5: you have a lot of people, a lot of people that.
Speaker 2: Are on the other side.
Speaker 1: As I always say, if it's fifty five forty five,
Speaker 1: you will never win an election. If you're in the
Speaker 1: forty five percent, you are unrepresented, your voices are unheard,
Speaker 1: you're cowed into silence in really blue places like you know,
Speaker 1: the blue parts of California. And so yeah, if a
Speaker 1: Trump comes to town, if an Armstrong you GETTI are
Speaker 1: trying to represent your point of view at least, you know,
Speaker 1: some extent.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, as strategies go, it's pretty clever. It's just
Speaker 1: that it's being executed by AOC and Bernie goodness sakes,
Speaker 1: if Josh Shapiro was doing this, I'd be thinking, oh boy,
Speaker 1: this is interesting.
Speaker 2: Bernie gets And I don't know how much of that
Speaker 2: is AOC.
Speaker 5: What there was somebody, some political person wrote a thing
Speaker 5: in the New York Post that said AOC needs to
Speaker 5: be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. And I don't know,
Speaker 5: but I don't know how many people are there for
Speaker 5: her because Bernie has drawn those kind of enthusiastic crowds.
Speaker 5: The only people I've ever seen in my life that
Speaker 5: have drawn those kind of crowds are Trump, Obama and Bernie.
Speaker 2: That level of enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And it's funny the lineup, the concert lineup
Speaker 1: of Bernie and AOC.
Speaker 2: It works.
Speaker 1: It's like when John Mayer joined The Grateful Dead. At first,
Speaker 1: it's like wait what but no, No, they're musically similar
Speaker 1: enough a You and Seve and Bernie. Anyway, you want
Speaker 1: to hear a little more of what they said to
Speaker 1: the good people of Folesome, California, which, if you don't know,
Speaker 1: fulsome in the surrounding areas, it's a good, solid conservative area.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Michael, you miss the Trump.
Speaker 6: If we don't want sha Oligauking.
Speaker 4: Misster Trump, too many men and women have fought and
Speaker 4: died to defend democracy. You're not going to take us
Speaker 4: into authoritarianism.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, mister musk.
Speaker 7: We're going to create an economy that works.
Speaker 2: Us, not just for you.
Speaker 1: Putting aside the lovely populist rhetoric, the idea that we're
Speaker 1: going to create an economy is heresy to me anyway. No,
Speaker 1: you're not never creating anything in your life, you nutbag socialist.
Speaker 2: Crowds digging it roll on, Michael.
Speaker 3: Kevin Kylie knows that this is not what you want.
Speaker 2: He knows that it is deeply unpopular. He knows that
Speaker 2: it hurts the people of fulsome. But he is not
Speaker 2: there to serve working families.
Speaker 3: He is there to serve himself and the billionaire class
Speaker 3: that put him there.
Speaker 1: Kevin Kyley, the very smart, youngish conservative congressperson from that district.
Speaker 1: If I could buy stocking politicians, I'd buy.
Speaker 2: It in Kevin. I think he's really really sharp.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they call him out repeatedly, Barney joining the slugfest.
Speaker 7: But missus Kylie, I think some.
Speaker 4: Of your constituents have a message for you.
Speaker 7: Wow, don't vote to give tax breaks to billion ass
Speaker 7: and cut programs that the working class of this country
Speaker 7: desperately needs.
Speaker 2: That's that's an enthusiastic crowd.
Speaker 5: I don't know what percentage of people in America buy
Speaker 5: into that. That's a bunch of horsees. Oh, social mad nonsense,
Speaker 5: but it's.
Speaker 2: Popular on the whole.
Speaker 5: The reason you're not making as much money as you
Speaker 5: feel like you should be is because the billionaires is
Speaker 5: just as nonsensical as anything could be.
Speaker 1: Or, as we've gone over several times this week, the
Speaker 1: idea that they're not paying the rich or not paying
Speaker 1: their fair shares one percent of Americans pay is what
Speaker 1: forty six percent of all income tax.
Speaker 5: So do we have the montage that we played last week?
Speaker 5: We have the montage Bernie. I'll tell you what years
Speaker 5: these are as it goes, here we go. This is
Speaker 5: Bernie claiming oligarchy. For the last thirty two years.
Speaker 8: This great country of ours is moving very rapidly in
Speaker 8: the direction of oligaky. The United States today is increasingly
Speaker 8: becoming an oligacky moving todd in oligaky. We are moving
Speaker 8: in the direct thousand. We will move even more rapidly
Speaker 8: the direction of an oligacky.
Speaker 2: This great twenty fourteen is evolving into an oligatic. I'm
Speaker 2: be damned, so twenty fifteen here we go. It is
Speaker 2: called oligaky, and that.
Speaker 8: Is the system, the rapidly moving todd very rapidly country,
Speaker 8: rapidly into the direction of oligoy.
Speaker 2: Eight handful of billion a s a'll move this h
Speaker 2: a planet? Did nobody saw it coming?
Speaker 6: And oligarchy siding thought over the bed, which is pretty bad.
Speaker 6: And that is that under Donald Trump, this country is
Speaker 6: hurtling rapidly toward oligon.
Speaker 2: Oh geez, why didn't somebody tell me? So?
Speaker 1: It was just fairly recently it was the entire planet
Speaker 1: is moving toward oligarchy. Maybe you realize that, you know,
Speaker 1: people aren't applaud in his greatest hit anymore, so we
Speaker 1: had to, you know, change the rift.
Speaker 5: So as early as ninety three and as recently as
Speaker 5: what two days ago in fullsome California, he's talking about
Speaker 5: how we become an.
Speaker 2: Oligarchy, and Jack I analyzed those clips.
Speaker 1: I would say there were hints of gurgliness in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety five, but his gurgliness really became solidified in twenty twelve.
Speaker 5: So he really became the Flemish master in the round
Speaker 5: twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: You're right, it sounds like he's gurgling with his own hipocras. Jeez,
Speaker 1: gurgle I don't remember what I used to do my
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders imitation.
Speaker 2: That was years ago, wasn't it when he was running
Speaker 2: against Hillery Master answer.
Speaker 5: One more, one more comment on this, because I I've
Speaker 5: got to discipline myself to not talk about twenty twenty
Speaker 5: eight presidential elections.
Speaker 2: Will help you discipline.
Speaker 5: But you know, Bernie should have gotten the nomination a
Speaker 5: couple of times. It was taken from him by the
Speaker 5: Democratic Party. I mean, if they were going to follow
Speaker 5: the rules, he would have gotten the nomination twice. And
Speaker 5: Elizabeth Warren's popular, AOC's popular. I feel like the Democratic
Speaker 5: I would love this, of course. I think feel like
Speaker 5: the Democratic Party's got to go through one of these people,
Speaker 5: actually nominate them, lose forty seven states to.
Speaker 2: Put that to rest, so they all like go to
Speaker 2: the direction.
Speaker 5: James Carville keeps saying, we got to become more moderate Democrats.
Speaker 5: That's what we are, that's what the party that can win.
Speaker 5: But I feel like they gotta do it. They got
Speaker 5: to give it a full try once, like actually have
Speaker 5: the candidate. So go ahead and run AOC or Bernie,
Speaker 5: get it out of your system. Lose almost the entire country.
Speaker 5: Good because you will and then you'll be done with it.
Speaker 5: You know who I nominate for that pinata? Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 5: I think he's the progressive just I don't think he's
Speaker 5: gonna run on that stuff. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 5: run on that stuff. He's gonna try not to, but
Speaker 5: he can't. It's it's like the stench after you leave
Speaker 5: a bar or smoke. He's never hiboted. He'll never he
Speaker 5: won't run that stuff out and proud like AOC and Bernie,
Speaker 5: and he'll never have crowds like that. Ever, they'll never
Speaker 5: be cheering for Gavin Newsom like that. I don't think
Speaker 5: i'd be sure there.
Speaker 2: And now we're really slicing political analysis.
Speaker 1: Then does it matter if he's out and proud about it, Oiley,
Speaker 1: if that's his entire record and everybody knows he's running
Speaker 1: on that, even if he denies it.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 5: The people that get these giant crowds like AOC and
Speaker 5: Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, they just flat outstate their socialism
Speaker 5: and the crowd goes nut. Yeah, I see, just because
Speaker 5: there's enough people that believe that, I think they.
Speaker 2: Just need to. It'd be good for the whole country.
Speaker 5: Try it once realize that there's only like ten percent
Speaker 5: of the country that agrees with you, even though you
Speaker 5: can pack a football stadium right, then be done with it.
Speaker 5: Let's all move on with our lives and realize there
Speaker 5: earn enough people that want to be socialists, you nut jobs.
Speaker 1: In spite of you educating the children to believe that that's,
Speaker 1: you know, the right thing to do for generations.
Speaker 2: That troubles me as you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big updates from Israel in their battle against Islamist
Speaker 1: lunatics coming up.
Speaker 2: Uh cool.
Speaker 5: There's another thing I wanted to get to. I want
Speaker 5: to tease this. I really want to tease this. Give
Speaker 5: me one second. No one's holding you back. By God
Speaker 5: in this country, you have the right to say what
Speaker 5: you like. Teen boys are going to extreme lengths to
Speaker 5: be skinny, like Timothy Shallowy.
Speaker 2: It's a thing that's caught.
Speaker 5: On noodle boys and I have seen it, I think,
Speaker 5: and for real, I don't think this is made up.
Speaker 2: I hope sheesin Ping isn't listening that other things all
Speaker 2: the ways day here.
Speaker 9: Farmtro Andy organizers now say the event, known as Fire
Speaker 9: Festival Too, has been postponed indefinitely. The event had been
Speaker 9: scheduled to take place in Mexico at the end of May,
Speaker 9: just six weeks from now. Ticket Holders have been told
Speaker 9: their money will be refunded. Organizer Billy McFarlane was convicted
Speaker 9: of wire fraud when the original Fire Festival failed in
Speaker 9: twenty seventeen.
Speaker 5: I'm so confused by this story. So he pulled off
Speaker 5: a fraud.
Speaker 2: Wow? Bad failed to pull it off? Yeah, well with.
Speaker 5: A fake with a concert that never happened, and got
Speaker 5: a bunch of money. And then he does it again,
Speaker 5: and you buy tickets again, and then he cancels it again.
Speaker 1: As I said when Katie brought us the news that
Speaker 1: he had announced a new fire festival, Dude, you got
Speaker 1: to change up the scammel little bit.
Speaker 2: You can't run the same scam. You were in the news.
Speaker 2: Were people buying tickets? Apparently they were, Yeah.
Speaker 10: People were buying This thing was supposed to start on
Speaker 10: May thirtieth, and people bought tickets. And a couple of
Speaker 10: weeks ago there was a news report that I forget
Speaker 10: what island they were going to throw it on, but
Speaker 10: the government of that island said, we have heard nothing
Speaker 10: about this.
Speaker 2: Oh wow. So it was a.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And so now they're saying that they're just trying
Speaker 10: to find a new location and they'll be re announcing
Speaker 10: the host destination soon.
Speaker 1: But yeah, got a new location that will have our
Speaker 1: completely fictional festival that will not happen.
Speaker 5: I can't tell if I'm like, think he's an idiot,
Speaker 5: or if I think he realizes how stupid some people are.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do exactly the same thing I did
Speaker 2: last time.
Speaker 5: I'm going to talk about a concert that I made
Speaker 5: no effort to actually pull off and have people sent
Speaker 5: me money this.
Speaker 10: We have issued you a refund once the new date
Speaker 10: is announced. At that time, you can repurchase your tickets
Speaker 10: if available.
Speaker 1: If you do that, God to help you. Yeah wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no kidding, We're done trying. You are a fool. That
Speaker 1: is your money. You will soon be part. I have
Speaker 1: this on good authority.
Speaker 5: So I came across this, and I am not gonna
Speaker 5: people I know. I'll just say that people I know
Speaker 5: seem to be into this. Teen boys are going to
Speaker 5: extreme links to be skinny like Timothy's shallow may.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: I mentioned a couple of weeks ago Timmothy Chalomey when
Speaker 5: the oscars were hot, and he's in the Bob Dylan
Speaker 5: movie and he was hosted Saturday Night Live. He's very
Speaker 5: skinny guy, and that he was being held up as
Speaker 5: some sort of sex symbol by a certain kind of woman.
Speaker 5: I don't know women who I don't think who who
Speaker 5: dig noodle boys. Adolescent girls probably mostly right. Maybe it's
Speaker 5: more popular than I because I know some high schoolers
Speaker 5: who are who are noodle boys. I was a noodle boy,
Speaker 5: by the way, not on purpose. In high school. I
Speaker 5: was as skinny as Timothy shallow May. It was not
Speaker 5: popular at that time that look. But apparently it is
Speaker 5: more a pot roast boy myself baked potato boy. But
Speaker 5: noodle boy seems to be popular now. And I know
Speaker 5: high schoolers that you can't get them to eat a
Speaker 5: dessert or anything fattening because it's so important to stay
Speaker 5: super skinny. And that's one of the things that talks
Speaker 5: about here. Red flags for this one family were eighth
Speaker 5: grader would turn down ice cream favorite desserts. That's not
Speaker 5: normal thing high school boys do is turned down desserts
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. But it's become very popular to
Speaker 5: try to stay you're like really skinny.
Speaker 2: Arms is the thing. I guess I don't know, oh, fellas,
Speaker 2: it's because they're it's because.
Speaker 5: According to this article, and I hope this isn't true,
Speaker 5: but it might be women like it because they're so
Speaker 5: non threatening.
Speaker 1: Well that's why it's like, you know, in the seventies,
Speaker 1: it was your Sean Cassidy types. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: completely nonsense, threatening point boyish men. You're kind of easing
Speaker 1: into the idea of sexuality.
Speaker 5: I think you're right. That has been a thing. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: so it's not brand it's not brand new, yes, Katie.
Speaker 10: Someone needs to let these little guys know that their
Speaker 10: metabolism will never be like it is right now.
Speaker 2: And the desserts.
Speaker 10: And you're gonna look at that ice cream and gain
Speaker 10: three pounds, so just eat it now, beat you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so alert listener Fred sent this long. You know,
Speaker 1: I really want to get into the story toxic beauty,
Speaker 1: the rise of looks maxing influencers among young men. It's
Speaker 1: guys doing just bizarro stupid stuff to try to have
Speaker 1: the chiseled features and symmetrical face that they desire.
Speaker 2: It's odd.
Speaker 1: It's one more example of why the Internet ought to
Speaker 1: be unplugged. But this song is from nineteen twenty six
Speaker 1: dig the sounds of the six jumping jacks, both.
Speaker 5: Maculine women and feminine men.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So this has always been a thing to some extent,
Speaker 1: more or less, I remember the Androgyna's rock stars of
Speaker 1: the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 5: It's maybe it's just always been a thing. Every generation
Speaker 5: thinks young men today are too feminine.
Speaker 2: I'll be darned Manold Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 11: At Chicago last night, former President Biden gave his first
Speaker 11: speech since leaving office. As a result, millions of Americans
Speaker 11: now believe in life after death. He was speaking to
Speaker 11: a group of advocates for the disabled, who were surprised
Speaker 11: to learn the keynote speaker was one of their clients.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, So.
Speaker 1: I have been asserting for a very long time now,
Speaker 1: at least a few months. Then, in virtually all of
Speaker 1: human history, there has never been a case where one
Speaker 1: country launched an unprovoked attack, or one people launched an
Speaker 1: unprovoked attack on a neighbor and lost that. They did
Speaker 1: not lose their land or their sovereignty or both. That's
Speaker 1: just always what happens. It has to be what happens. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're talking about hamas slash well, Islamic Islamists, Islamic supremacists,
Speaker 1: hamas has law, et cetera, under the tutelage of Iran
Speaker 1: trying to take out Israel in the October seventh atrocities.
Speaker 2: So a handful of stories.
Speaker 1: And these were not chosen to back up my assertion
Speaker 1: that that's the way this is moving. It's just it's
Speaker 1: I think it's an inescapable conclusion that Israel has decided
Speaker 1: no two state, no living side by side. That's over, Goodbye,
Speaker 1: We're done. Handful of headlines Lebanon's government arrests militants, asserting
Speaker 1: its authority. Lebanon, which has been in the weird position,
Speaker 1: picture this if you can, one of their major political
Speaker 1: parties has a powerful army supported by a foreign country.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you know the Green Party had one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand men under arms being paid for by I
Speaker 1: don't know, Venezuela. That's been the situation in Lebanon with Hesbola.
Speaker 1: But because of the serious damage done to Hesbela by Israel,
Speaker 1: with a little bit of help from their big buddy
Speaker 1: in the United States, all of a sudden, Lebanon is
Speaker 1: reasserting its authority over its own nameation and making progress anyway,
Speaker 1: who could forget the delightful Pager attack for instance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so more directly to Israel, this is you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny we have I think, like one listener who's militantly
Speaker 1: pro Palestinian and sent an email yesterday completely denying the
Speaker 1: notion that Hamas positions fighters among civilians schools and hospitals
Speaker 1: and that.
Speaker 2: Sort of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I heard a report on NPR, as I do
Speaker 5: practically every day, about some attack Israel had and how
Speaker 5: many innocent Palestinians were killed, as.
Speaker 2: I said last morning to Hamas.
Speaker 5: According to Homos, I've yet to hear one negative story
Speaker 5: about Hamas on NPR ever, one ever.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, well, they are so captured by the whole settler, colonialist,
Speaker 1: victim of presser framework of the world. They can't see
Speaker 1: anything but that. And you know, for the millionth time,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm really concerned about with our nation's education system.
Speaker 1: We're teaching all our kids to view the world that way,
Speaker 1: and it's twisted and just it's wrong. But anyway, the
Speaker 1: head of nursing at Gaza's NASA Hospital came out the
Speaker 1: other day and publicly urged Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other
Speaker 1: groups to quit using the medical facility as a military center, base,
Speaker 1: meeting place, et cetera.
Speaker 2: For the obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: Israel's bringing down the bombs on your fighters because your
Speaker 1: fighters are in the hospital and it's screwing up our hospital.
Speaker 2: Well for that outrage, the uh where is this?
Speaker 1: Palestinian Islamic Jihad sent him a little note. He found
Speaker 1: a type message waiting in his office, a blunt warning
Speaker 1: that read, dear one, you've crossed the line. Be careful.
Speaker 1: This is your first warning. Soccer the gentleman involved. The
Speaker 1: nursing director described the threat as brutal, adding a call
Speaker 1: on you in the name of God not to forgive them.
Speaker 1: This is the brave, brave fighters that NPR is praising
Speaker 1: all the time. You know, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people in Gaza in the West Bank who sympathize a
Speaker 1: great deal with the Islamic supremacists.
Speaker 2: They're a pretty good handful that don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we saw it on October seventh when they are
Speaker 5: driving through the streets with captured nineteen year old girls
Speaker 5: they'd raped and beaten and some of them were shot,
Speaker 5: and they're just cheering like crazy and beating them on
Speaker 5: the head with sticks as they drove by. It your
Speaker 5: average a lot of your average Palestinians on the.
Speaker 1: Street, right, Yeah, worth remembering. But for those who are
Speaker 1: demonstrating against Tamas, for instance, or this head of nursing
Speaker 1: who said get the hell out of the hospital, boy,
Speaker 1: those are courageous folks. One more headline, a depleted hamasis
Speaker 1: so low on cash it can't pay its fighters. Israel's
Speaker 1: targeted killings. AID cuts have disrupted the militant group's source
Speaker 1: of cash and ability to distribute it in Gaza. And
Speaker 1: there are a couple of details of the story that
Speaker 1: you know, NPR is a joke, but it's funny. Your
Speaker 1: point just keeps coming up as they go through this stuff.
Speaker 1: Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to
Speaker 1: the enclave, some of which Amas had been seizing and
Speaker 1: selling to raise funds, according to Arab sources, Israeli sources,
Speaker 1: and Western sources. Of course, our job listener would deny that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure too. It doesn't matter. It's just interesting to
Speaker 1: me how some people can claim to things that are
Speaker 1: clearly untrue. It's renewed, defensive, is targeted and killed HAMAS
Speaker 1: officials who played important roles in distributing cash to cadres
Speaker 1: and send others into hiding. In recent weeks, the Israeli
Speaker 1: militaries said have killed a money changer who was key
Speaker 1: to what they call terrorist financing for HAMAS, as well
Speaker 1: as a number of top political off officials in rapid succession.
Speaker 1: The result for Hamas has been a debilitating squeeze.
Speaker 2: They've just made it so.
Speaker 1: Difficult logistically to pay the fighters that they can't and
Speaker 1: so your top guys are getting half wages, and they're
Speaker 1: trying to get the wages to the front line guys
Speaker 1: who are fighting and dying. But it's very difficult. And finally,
Speaker 1: this is really the head story, but I saved it
Speaker 1: for last. Israel has taken over about a third of
Speaker 1: the Gaza Strip and has positioned itself in a way
Speaker 1: that makes clear their staying. No country has launched an
Speaker 1: unprovoked attack against its neighbor and lost, and not lost
Speaker 1: its land or its sovereignty or both.
Speaker 2: Seems to me increasingly clear. Israel's going to own it all.
Speaker 5: And where the Palestinians going somewhere or they can stay
Speaker 5: and follow the rules as Israel has always made it
Speaker 5: clear Israel has Muslim, Palestinian, Arab whatever you want to
Speaker 5: call them, citizens, lots of them.
Speaker 2: They're represented in their government. Just follow the rules.
Speaker 1: Don't be an Islamic lunatic trying to wipe us off
Speaker 1: the map.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be rough, though, It's gonna be all kinds
Speaker 5: of suicide bombers and.
Speaker 2: Guerrilla warfare for the rest of our lives. Correct, Yeah,
Speaker 2: which has been all of our lives? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the fantasy of the two state solution, I mean,
Speaker 1: fool me five times, Shame on me.
Speaker 2: That's Israel's point of view right now, most of it.
Speaker 2: Now you'll see a lot.
Speaker 1: Of coverage of the left wing in Israel, or the
Speaker 1: poor families desperate to get their family members back who
Speaker 1: are being held brutally as hostages. I get them saying, no,
Speaker 1: we have to have peace. Now, we've got to get
Speaker 1: the hostages back.
Speaker 2: I get that. I sympathize. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 5: That guy that tried to kill Governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania
Speaker 5: and burn down the governor's mansion, his cause was the Palestinians.
Speaker 2: It turns out a nine to one one call.
Speaker 5: He he actually called in after he set the fire,
Speaker 5: and he was all upset about Shapiros being.
Speaker 2: On the side of Israel. So that's what the issue
Speaker 2: was in his crazy mind.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a fairly direct link between radical left
Speaker 1: rhetoric and a violent attack. I mean, granit, I think
Speaker 1: this guy's real agenda was my dog is talking to me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So I listened to you mentioned settler colonialism, which I
Speaker 5: just kind of had a basic view of until I
Speaker 5: listened to a long podcast yesterday. Jonah Goldberg at The
Speaker 5: Dispatch had a guy on who's written a book about it, short,
Speaker 5: a short book just to try to inform people about
Speaker 5: the whole settler colonialism thing. And it is something we
Speaker 5: should all be aware of because it's a lot of
Speaker 5: what your college kids are learning, and its nutjob stuff.
Speaker 5: It's where that comes from, the whole thing where you
Speaker 5: walk into a room and say, before we start the meeting,
Speaker 5: I'd just like to say, this building was built on
Speaker 5: the land owned by the Chippewa Indians.
Speaker 2: All that's stuff.
Speaker 5: It comes from the whole center colonialism thing, and it's
Speaker 5: it's it's a degree worse than the whole anti racist thing.
Speaker 5: You know, the whole anti racist thing was set up
Speaker 5: to where you just couldn't win. There's no winning that game, right,
Speaker 5: it's trap. If you say you're a racist, cool, now
Speaker 5: we control you. If you say you're not a racist, ah,
Speaker 5: that's proof you're even a worse racist.
Speaker 2: So it's just control you. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And so the settler colonial thing is unless you're the
Speaker 5: indigenous people. And I still don't understand how you decide
Speaker 5: what year you get to choose for the indigenous people.
Speaker 5: But because you know, every every piece of land on
Speaker 5: Earth has changed hands a gazillion times, so who do
Speaker 5: you choose as the originals? But anyway, in the United
Speaker 5: States it's easier than it would be in Europe, for instance.
Speaker 5: So unless you're a Native American, you are part of
Speaker 5: the whole settler colonial thing, and you are benefiting from that,
Speaker 5: so we get to do whatever we want. You're you're
Speaker 5: bad from the from the from the from the get go,
Speaker 5: you're benefit fitting from settler colonialism. And so everything should
Speaker 5: be turned upside down and redistributed or text or whatever
Speaker 5: it is to try to get the outcome we believe
Speaker 5: we should get.
Speaker 2: Well, to tear it down and rebuild it as a
Speaker 2: Marxist utopia. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And one of the reasons, and the most interesting thing
Speaker 5: I thought about this with the book was the guy said,
Speaker 5: that's why there's so much focus on Israel because it's
Speaker 5: a new enough country, it's a small enough country you
Speaker 5: could actually like, even though it's crazy, accomplish your goals.
Speaker 2: You can't with the United States.
Speaker 5: It's too big, complicated, people coming too many times over years,
Speaker 5: too long ago. Obviously, in Europe it doesn't work because
Speaker 5: you'd have to go back a thousand years to figure
Speaker 5: out who's But in Israel you can actually pull it
Speaker 5: off kind of. So that's why they put so much
Speaker 5: focus on the whole settler colonialism thing there. And that's
Speaker 5: all the people that are the queers for Palestine or whatever,
Speaker 5: and you wonder, what the hell are you talking about.
Speaker 5: It's the whole settler colonial things that's their focus.
Speaker 1: Right, right, And that's you know, we've been saying this
Speaker 1: for years and years before this sort of before the
Speaker 1: terminology was known. It was some of your Larraza, your
Speaker 1: Hispanic activists, were saying, we didn't cross the border. The
Speaker 1: border crossed us. This is actually our land. And we've
Speaker 1: been making the point for a very long time. That okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So you're like the descendants of the Spanish
Speaker 1: conquista doors in what sense? Or you the one righteous owners?
Speaker 1: So what do you date it to? Nineteen twenty, eighteen fifty,
Speaker 1: seventeen forty three, whatever. But the arbitrariness of it, it's
Speaker 1: like the whole anti racism thing, that's not the Yes,
Speaker 1: it's arbitrary, Yes it's stupid, Yes it's illogical, But the
Speaker 1: point is you're bad and we can disempower you because
Speaker 1: bad people shouldn't have power, and then we get power
Speaker 1: and we rebuild it as Marxist utopia.
Speaker 2: That's how it all ends.
Speaker 5: It's so clearly doesn't make sense. I'm surprised it doesn't
Speaker 5: get stopped in its tracks. I mean, your example's perfect.
Speaker 5: With Mexico, the Spanish came in early fifteen hundreds. Well
Speaker 5: prior to that, it was Mayans and Aztecs or whoever.
Speaker 5: They got overthrown by the Spanish. So when do you
Speaker 5: when do you start the clock on who this land
Speaker 5: belongs to? But you've decided to go with people who
Speaker 5: speak Spanish, I guess, well, then you point it up.
Speaker 5: You pointed out Europe. Can you imagine trying to establish
Speaker 5: it in Europe. For like the Alsace Lorraine, the part
Speaker 5: of France has traded hands the French, the Vikings, the totals.
Speaker 2: Started about the Visigoths.
Speaker 5: I mean where, Yeah, where the hell would you start? Well,
Speaker 5: even the United States, you go back to Native Americans.
Speaker 5: You don't have to read a hell of a lot
Speaker 5: about Native Americans to know about apaches and chy ends
Speaker 5: and taking different land.
Speaker 2: And you had this junk for a while. So who
Speaker 2: are you going to give it to? It's horrifically violent wars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's such.
Speaker 5: A nutjob ideology, but a lot of college kids believe
Speaker 5: in it. Well, yeah, you can convince children of about anything,
Speaker 5: and then they convinced them that this is righteous, even
Speaker 5: though it's idiotic. Apparently, any comment on any of that
Speaker 5: stuff are text line four one five two nine five kftc.
Speaker 2: Armstrong.
Speaker 9: A chaotic scene at a shopping mall in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 9: A bear spotted charger through the parking lot at a
Speaker 9: full sprint, some shoppers rushing inside, a wildlife officer chasing
Speaker 9: the bear into the nearby woods. They believe the bear
Speaker 9: came out of hibernation and was looking for.
Speaker 1: Food and some bargains there at the mall. I saw
Speaker 1: that video. A, it's a good sized bear. B it
Speaker 1: is charging hard. I mean you would, you would fill
Speaker 1: your pants right.
Speaker 5: It's just I don't know what I think of these
Speaker 5: news stories that they put in, Like toward the end
Speaker 5: of the evening newscasts, I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Of the only reason I watched these days?
Speaker 1: Am I going to watch that pinhead David Muir's analysis
Speaker 1: of the politics of the day.
Speaker 5: He's one of Time's most most influential people. What's time, Grandpa?
Speaker 5: But do we get anything out of a story like
Speaker 5: a bear got loose and ran through them all? I
Speaker 5: mean those kinds of stories and you could. I am
Speaker 5: staunchly in favor of it. I just feel I had
Speaker 5: a video of a giant squid.
Speaker 2: The other day. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 5: I feel like I would just rather the news was
Speaker 5: ten minutes shorter and it would be over. I'll go
Speaker 5: on with my wife, Why are you anti bear video?
Speaker 2: He was exciting?
Speaker 1: There you go, another mild video, mildly entertaining.
Speaker 2: I'll be darned. I I just I don't understand.
Speaker 10: I feel like the news does that because they just
Speaker 10: beat the crap out of you with everything that's actually
Speaker 10: going on in the world.
Speaker 2: So they give you a little, a little charging bear.
Speaker 2: You sound like Bernie right now. We can't have these stories.
Speaker 2: Maybe why so many charging paths.
Speaker 5: Maybe I've lost the capacity for joy. Maybe that's happened.
Speaker 5: I could be you hate to have that happen. But
Speaker 5: so we've talked a lot about AI in particular, quoting
Speaker 5: and number of people who say it's going to be
Speaker 5: as big to mankind as fire. That's the guy who
Speaker 5: runs Google, Others who said it's going to be much
Speaker 5: bigger impact on humanity than the Internet. I mean, if
Speaker 5: you're old enough to remember pre Internet, holy crap. I mean,
Speaker 5: so what does that mean? But nobody exactly knows how
Speaker 5: it's going to play out. In this article in the
Speaker 5: Washington Post today, I thought was really really interesting one
Speaker 5: of the problems. And they don't know how they can
Speaker 5: fix us, and I don't think you can. The language
Speaker 5: learning models, the LMS, they what they do is they
Speaker 5: scour the Internet for information, well, the Russians in particular,
Speaker 5: and soon everyone have figured out, well, we'll just put
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of wrong information on the Internet, and
Speaker 5: the lllms. When they're sucking up all the information, they'll
Speaker 5: get all the stuff that's wrong that we want to
Speaker 5: put out there, and the AI can't tell the difference
Speaker 5: between apparently a New York Times article or a you know,
Speaker 5: New York Daily News article, and that's an actual newspaper.
Speaker 5: I need to make up a newspaper, but make up
Speaker 5: a newspaper that's an article that says positive stuff about Russia,
Speaker 5: and AI can't tell the difference.
Speaker 2: They just suck it all in.
Speaker 5: Earlier this year, when researchers asked ten leading chatbots about
Speaker 5: topics targeted by false Russian messaging, such as the claim
Speaker 5: that the United States was making bioweapons in Ukraine, a
Speaker 5: third of the responses repeated those lies because Moscow has
Speaker 5: put them out there and done such a good job,
Speaker 5: and nobody knows how they're going to fix this. Most
Speaker 5: chat bots struggle with disinformation. We have safeguards in place,
Speaker 5: but the problem seems to get worse and worse as
Speaker 5: opposed to better and better, the more language learning models
Speaker 5: learned to use the Internet. This might be an unfixable problem.
Speaker 5: This is so interesting.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine pouring the amount of money and effort
Speaker 1: into AI that's been poured in, and then you run
Speaker 1: into an insurmountable problem like this, although I don't think
Speaker 1: it's necessarily insurmountable. I think you could design some sort
Speaker 1: of algorithm for reliability and have a tiered system of inputs.
Speaker 5: Experts, according to the Washington Posts, say the problem is
Speaker 5: worsening as opposed to getting better. You combine that with
Speaker 5: hallucinations that they don't know where they come from or why,
Speaker 5: or if they can be eliminated. And can will AI
Speaker 5: be as big as some people claim? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I still say yes, but I'm interested to find out
Speaker 1: along with the rest of you.
Speaker 5: Maybe only in some areas and not in all areas.
Speaker 5: Like obviously we've seen with art and music what it
Speaker 5: can do, and it's amazing.
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