Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: I'm strong and Jettie and he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1: Hello, where's her creak pickle ball court? And there's a fight.
Speaker 4: It's broken out.
Speaker 5: Are we come quickly?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 2: How many people are fighting? There's about twenty people. Okay,
Speaker 2: weapon the breaking No, I mean somebody hit somebody with
Speaker 2: the pickle ball paddle.
Speaker 5: Hit somebody in the head.
Speaker 2: Please, Oh my god, it's breaking up, but we need help.
Speaker 6: That's from a senior center nine to one one call
Speaker 6: of a pickleball brawl that broke out at a your center.
Speaker 6: And that poor winded, probably elderly woman, very upset. Send
Speaker 6: help quickly. Somebody hit somebody else in the head with
Speaker 6: a pickleball paddle.
Speaker 2: Elderly she's probably our age.
Speaker 3: Guy.
Speaker 2: Hope. By the way, if anybody uses the term pickle
Speaker 2: brawl at any point during the second we'll be rolling
Speaker 2: around on the floor.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good. It's not all the news tonight, pickle brawl.
Speaker 6: And then they'll have some expert on Yes. Older people
Speaker 6: now are finding uh shorter fuses because of the screen time. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's it and pickleball something scene pickle brawls?
Speaker 2: Are you at risk? I wonder did anybody get a
Speaker 2: video of that?
Speaker 3: Did any whip up?
Speaker 2: Anybody whip out their phone in time to get.
Speaker 6: A video of some old people would hitting each other
Speaker 6: with pickleball?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure you. According to Velucia County Sheriff's Office
Speaker 2: online booking records, Anthony Edwards Sepienza and his wife Julianne,
Speaker 2: both of Punts Inlet, were arrested charged with two countsil
Speaker 2: battery on a person sixty five or old and one
Speaker 2: kind of aggravated battery. His little lady has one chance
Speaker 2: of battery. That was out. It was a dispute over
Speaker 2: the freaking rules. Insults were exchanged and Anthony Sapienza used
Speaker 2: a vulgarity to describe his wife as the group walked
Speaker 2: off the court. The victim then stated that Sabenz approached him,
Speaker 2: striking him on the left side of the face. He
Speaker 2: also accused the defensive of striking with a ball paddle,
Speaker 2: causing significant bleeding.
Speaker 6: I wish we had the ages other than just over
Speaker 6: sixty five. I'd like to know how old these people were.
Speaker 6: As they swung pickleball paddles at each other.
Speaker 2: Oh. Yeah, the dude was sixty three, his wife is
Speaker 2: fifty one. The two arrestees, I'd like to know where
Speaker 2: they're from originally, because probably not Florida. Probably it definitely
Speaker 2: reads northeastern state to me. Speaking of which, your AI
Speaker 2: systems have hidden biases, They've learned about various folks from
Speaker 2: various states. We'll have to touch on those later.
Speaker 3: Where would that come from what they've read?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, they just picked it up from the right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they've heard. Literally. Oh, which reminds me.
Speaker 2: Certain totalitarian regimes are now, including Iran, are using I
Speaker 2: can't remember what the technique is. What it's essentially flooding
Speaker 2: the zone with fake articles, so that AI systems read
Speaker 2: hundreds of articles about how the US is really the
Speaker 2: greater oppressor in the world and Iran is actually a
Speaker 2: valhalla of peace and love. So AI systems start to
Speaker 2: get perverse ideas really crazy.
Speaker 6: Oh boy, Yeah, that's the That's one of the big
Speaker 6: problems with the language learning model thing llms is if
Speaker 6: the you know, garbage in, garbage out, if they're if
Speaker 6: they're reading crap that ain't real that, and then that,
Speaker 6: and then they pick it up and then spout it
Speaker 6: out to other ais that pick it up, and it
Speaker 6: just the misinformation disinformation thing could grow way beyond anything
Speaker 6: human beings wherever capable of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've come across a couple more articles that
Speaker 2: reminded me Ashley. One of them mentions the one you
Speaker 2: were talking about yesterday, Jack about how the UH improvements
Speaker 2: in AI are now moving it at insane speeds. Well,
Speaker 2: the timetable has been moved way up and nobody has
Speaker 2: a handle on it.
Speaker 6: Elon said yesterday that coding will be dead by December.
Speaker 6: There'll be no human beings needing to code by December.
Speaker 6: He exaggerates sometimes, but you know, if he's off by
Speaker 6: a year, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2: So on a totally different topic, credit to Andrew Styles
Speaker 2: of the Free Beacon, who was reporting on how you
Speaker 2: know how the Washington Post that laid off a third
Speaker 2: of its workers and ended it's so called sports section
Speaker 2: last week amid sweeping layoffs. Blah blah blah. His headline
Speaker 2: is angsty journalist said the wa Post sports section was indispensable.
Speaker 2: The evidence suggests otherwise, And here are.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure any sports section could ever be indispensable.
Speaker 2: But no, yeah, you're not thinking of it in the
Speaker 2: right way. But I mean, because if you're into sports,
Speaker 2: the sports section is good to have. But so and
Speaker 2: he quotes a bunch of h Here's an ESPN reporter
Speaker 2: who wrote that the layoffs were so troubling because they
Speaker 2: signaled that the appetite for real sports reporting has died.
Speaker 2: It's a slow, inevitable. New York Times reporter Ben Mullen
Speaker 2: rote a eulogy for one of the last bastions of
Speaker 2: great sports reporting. More importantly, he explained, the post was
Speaker 2: a champion of diversity and a leader in women's sports coverage.
Speaker 6: All right, So if you give me way more WNBA
Speaker 6: articles that nobody reads that somehow better.
Speaker 2: For the world. Here are their major feature articles just
Speaker 2: in the last two weeks before the layoffs. Let's start
Speaker 2: with number one. Hockey Isn't gay enough? The paper's Washington
Speaker 2: Capitals beat reporter examine how the success of Heated Rivalry,
Speaker 2: the TV series about two gay hockey players, has made
Speaker 2: at least several people upset that the NHL wasn't doing
Speaker 2: more to elevate queerness and promote the lgbt QI A
Speaker 2: two S plus minus or the power of three conclusion
Speaker 2: programs the freaking NHL. I feel like we don't need
Speaker 2: more examples, but you have them. That was one of
Speaker 2: the major stories in the section.
Speaker 6: Now we're we're not gonna have anymore because it canceled
Speaker 6: the sports section of the Washington Post.
Speaker 2: We'll miss out on that.
Speaker 3: Sort of thing exactly.
Speaker 2: This is the list of the things we'll miss out on.
Speaker 2: Two the NFL Diversity Police. As part of the post
Speaker 2: Super Bowl coverage, the paper express concern that the NFL
Speaker 2: was still grappling with a lack of diversity among head coaches.
Speaker 2: You know, we've all heard enough about there. Three the
Speaker 2: enduring leg see of Colin Kaepernick. The feature article before
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl nobody because the game was no because
Speaker 2: the game was being played in his former home stadium.
Speaker 2: Kilgore argued that there was no one more relevant. That's
Speaker 2: the writer to the Super Bowl this year, Good lord.
Speaker 2: Number four feature again, this is just two weeks the
Speaker 2: Olympics versus climate change. It's like you're making this hug.
Speaker 2: I know. The Post invited its readers to quote see
Speaker 2: how climate change is threatening the winter Olympics, with a
Speaker 2: slew of interactive charts linked to academic studies and interviews
Speaker 2: with activists, all making the case that abiding by the
Speaker 2: Paris Agreement is the only way to ensure that the
Speaker 2: games continue. Number five The Olympics versus somebody who wanted
Speaker 2: to guess, come on, spin the wheel of progressivism, Ice Immigration,
Speaker 2: Olympics versus gentrification. If you had gentrification, you win. A
Speaker 2: double byline report form a lot about the concern among
Speaker 2: advocates quote unquote that the relentless gentrification in the Winter
Speaker 2: Olympics host city was quote deepening social divisions and widening
Speaker 2: income disparities. You know, Jeff Bezos is a smart guy.
Speaker 6: If he was looking at the sports section and seeing
Speaker 6: that stuff, he had to be thinking what is going
Speaker 6: on here?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: This is a section specifically for sports fans.
Speaker 6: So you got the writers who think that's what the
Speaker 6: sports reader wants. So they're just living in a world
Speaker 6: that none of us exit in habit, right.
Speaker 3: And then you got.
Speaker 6: Their boss, I guess who's probably been in the newspaper
Speaker 6: business a long time and everything like that and thinks
Speaker 6: that's what the sports section should be. And then you
Speaker 6: got the owner who it's just awful that he's not
Speaker 6: willing to lose one hundred million dollars of his own
Speaker 6: money every year.
Speaker 2: To keep this afloat right, right, there's more. Number six example,
Speaker 2: just in the last two weeks at last, Queer culture
Speaker 2: comes to ice dancing. A racial justice reporter who doubles
Speaker 2: as the Post's resident figure skating analyst, examine the ways
Speaker 2: in which Olympic ice dancers were incorporating and I quote,
Speaker 2: an underground style of promenade common in black queer culture
Speaker 2: and made more mainstream with the advent of Rue Paul's
Speaker 2: drag race. Number seven Olympic athletes versus Trump were familiar
Speaker 2: with that. Yeah, Unfortunately they didn't get a chance to
Speaker 2: mention Eileen Gu, the US born skier representing the Communist
Speaker 2: Chinese at the Olympics. Gou has freely criticized the United
Speaker 2: States was staying silent on issues involving the Chinese communists.
Speaker 2: Number eight, here's a bombshell for you. They did a
Speaker 2: deep dive on Nordic skiing and how it wasn't diverse enough.
Speaker 2: A bunch of Norwegians and Swedes, it wasn't enough black beating.
Speaker 6: It's so wild to me that these writers there and
Speaker 6: that people at NPR don't know how out of the
Speaker 6: mainstream they are. How do you, I guess because you
Speaker 6: live in a neighborhood where everybody talks about this sort
Speaker 6: of crap all the time, certainly.
Speaker 2: A virtual neighborhood of the people you associated.
Speaker 6: And y'all got master's degrees and something or other, and
Speaker 6: y'all talked about this sort of stuff. They don't know
Speaker 6: that you're You're like way over here on the spectrum.
Speaker 6: You're like in the one two percent category, maybe even
Speaker 6: half a percent. I mean, you're so far from the mainstream,
Speaker 6: it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm a lifelong hockey fan with gay friends, and
Speaker 2: the idea that I want to read an article that
Speaker 2: hockey isn't queer enough? I mean, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Or that the most interesting thing to talk about cross
Speaker 6: country skiing and the Olympics is how it's not got
Speaker 6: enough different skin colors for you.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing a lot of white people here. Or the
Speaker 2: first thing you ask a twenty one year old snowboarder
Speaker 2: is what do you think of the unrest over ice
Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, US? Oh my god, they didn't shudder that
Speaker 2: quickly enough.
Speaker 6: Man, the crowd beaten up bezos for not being willing
Speaker 6: to throw one hundred million dollars of his own money
Speaker 6: at that a year, because that's how much they were
Speaker 6: losing every year. Is a bunch of children living in
Speaker 6: fantasy line they really really are. That's astounding. Yeah, you said,
Speaker 6: if I was gonna make up headlines, I don't know
Speaker 6: if I could have done better than that.
Speaker 2: I realize I've said this now roughly seven times. That
Speaker 2: was from two weeks of the sports section.
Speaker 3: That's incredible.
Speaker 2: Like every single day, the head story, the lead story
Speaker 2: is some sort of woke nonsense loosely tied to sports.
Speaker 6: And what a tragedy that they've canceled the sports department
Speaker 6: at the Washington Post.
Speaker 3: What a loss.
Speaker 2: It's from the same school of thought that says we've
Speaker 2: got to work equity into every class, including nuclear physics
Speaker 2: and math.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow is Valentine Day, and we've got late night joke
Speaker 6: off on that topic, among other things on the way
Speaker 6: stay with us. I'm looking up at ABC News before
Speaker 6: we do a Valentine's Day late night joke off. ABC
Speaker 6: News doing some big feature on flowers to be relevant
Speaker 6: with Valentine's Day tomorrow. I don't know what they're telling
Speaker 6: you about choosing fresh flowers or I don't know what
Speaker 6: I can't even imagine what they're doing. But lack of
Speaker 6: diversity in the flower industry popular bouquets this year looks
Speaker 6: like red roses are.
Speaker 2: In Okay, oh boy, all right, it's time for late
Speaker 2: night joke off. We've got three jokes from different comedians.
Speaker 2: We will rate. I will grade them on their effectiveness
Speaker 2: as humor. The lowest grade getter will be banned from
Speaker 2: comedy for life.
Speaker 7: So Valentine's Days on Saturday, this is everything you need
Speaker 7: to know. Flowers are all sold out, They're no more
Speaker 7: dinner reservations.
Speaker 3: You'll probably getting divorced.
Speaker 7: Okay, here's a little money saving tip. You can save
Speaker 7: a bundle on candy hearts just by writing the words
Speaker 7: I Heart you on a tomb's.
Speaker 5: Valentine's Day. And I saw that if you go to Hooters.
Speaker 5: If you go to Hooters, you can shred a photo
Speaker 5: of your ex and get free wings. It's fun until
Speaker 5: you realize that you got back of your X by
Speaker 5: eating a loan out of Hooters on Valentine's Days and
Speaker 5: honor Valentine's Day, Subway is offering buy one, get one free.
Speaker 6: Sub What better way to say I love you than
Speaker 6: I got this for free at subway?
Speaker 2: Wow? Wow a rare. This is great inflation. I think Jack,
Speaker 2: we got Kimmel and fellon with solid Ay's miners with
Speaker 2: an A minus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty good jokes.
Speaker 2: I think the governor will call the warden and send
Speaker 2: in a reprieve. Nobody is banned from comedy for life.
Speaker 2: This is the first.
Speaker 6: The Valentine's Day phenomenon is interesting. I mean it's got
Speaker 6: a little bit of the old Yogi Bera, well for
Speaker 6: me anyway, the old Yogi Bera joke about nobody goes
Speaker 6: to that restaurant anymore it's too crowded. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 6: because I regularly talk about I feel like, just because
Speaker 6: of the world I live in my own bubble of
Speaker 6: you know, you tend to hang around people like yourself.
Speaker 3: Everybody does.
Speaker 6: So I don't know successful couples that take Valentine's Day seriously.
Speaker 6: And I feel like all this comment every year about
Speaker 6: all the flowers and dinner reservations and this is that
Speaker 6: is like from a non existent thing, Like we're almost
Speaker 6: talking about something that doesn't really happy yet it can't
Speaker 6: be true if all the restaurants are packed. I mean
Speaker 6: I did try to go one year, and it was
Speaker 6: impossible everywhere without a reservation, So lots of people are
Speaker 6: going out.
Speaker 2: I don't know why you would, I mean, explain why
Speaker 2: you would. Why Why do you wait.
Speaker 3: In line a couple hours?
Speaker 6: Why wouldn't you just go the night before the night
Speaker 6: after if you want to go out to eat or
Speaker 6: cook at home for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a nice expression of love. I don't I
Speaker 2: really don't know. I mystified by the whole thing. If
Speaker 2: anybody had the budget to waste on a of people's
Speaker 2: attitudes about Valentine's Day, or you've seen that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: please pass it on to us. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: just find the whole thing kind of silly.
Speaker 6: Do you know the actual questions to get somebody to
Speaker 6: fall in love with you? The thirty six questions that
Speaker 6: lead to love? Yeah.
Speaker 2: I did a big feature on that on our podcast
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6: I think probably did. That's a great thing about being me.
Speaker 6: It's all new to me almost every single day. Talked
Speaker 6: about it for an hour. Yeah, yeah, almost everything's new
Speaker 6: every single day. I mean, I'm just as interested in
Speaker 6: the you know a week later Tabula RASA question one,
Speaker 6: given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would
Speaker 6: you want as a dinner.
Speaker 3: Guest that's going to make somebody fall in love with me?
Speaker 2: No, you don't get it at all. Would you like
Speaker 2: to be increasingly showing who you are over a series
Speaker 2: of several dozen questions? Would you like to be famous
Speaker 2: in what way? Before making a telephone call? Do you
Speaker 2: ever rehearse what you're going to say?
Speaker 3: I think I do. What would you constitute a perfect.
Speaker 2: Day for you?
Speaker 6: When did you last sing to yourself? Is there anybody
Speaker 6: that doesn't sing to themselves or in the car regardless
Speaker 6: of your abilities?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'd say the vast majority of us
Speaker 2: will do it. If there's anybody that doesn't singing to yourself,
Speaker 2: I don't think is the same thing as singing along
Speaker 2: with the radio? Is it? Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm nitpicking, but of course that's what I do. I
Speaker 2: pick nits. I hate knits.
Speaker 6: If you are able to live to the age of
Speaker 6: ninety and retain either the mind or body of a
Speaker 6: thirty year old for the last sixty years of your life,
Speaker 6: or I guess it's a or if you're able to
Speaker 6: live to the age of ninety or retain either the
Speaker 6: mind or body of a thirty year old for the
Speaker 6: last sixty years of your life, which would you want.
Speaker 6: I don't understand that question.
Speaker 2: No, it's lived to ninety and you get to choose
Speaker 2: the mind or the body.
Speaker 6: Oh I think, oh, okay, Well, what's the point of
Speaker 6: if you don't get your mind? What's the point of anything?
Speaker 6: I get to preserve the body of a thirty year old?
Speaker 6: What's her name?
Speaker 3: What's the point for you?
Speaker 2: All my body? I'm sorry, mission, I'm still not in love.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I haven't Gottendra all the questions. I haven't fallen in
Speaker 6: love with you yet. People are getting chatbots to fall
Speaker 6: in love with them with those questions.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll get to that.
Speaker 2: Story later, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: CBS News has already tranked more than one thousand confirmed
Speaker 4: cases across twenty one states this year, roughly half of
Speaker 4: what was recorded in all of twenty twenty five. South
Speaker 4: Carolina continues to have the largest downbreak, with more than
Speaker 4: nine hundred cases since September so Uh.
Speaker 6: If we were a certain kind of radio show or
Speaker 6: maybe what we used to be years ago, I would
Speaker 6: now say. And that's why we've welcome in doctor James
Speaker 6: Mendelssohn of a local hospital, who's going to tell us
Speaker 6: all about.
Speaker 3: The measles outbreak.
Speaker 6: And I'm actually kind of wondering if maybe we shouldn't
Speaker 6: do that, because here's what I'm concerned about. There's a
Speaker 6: measles outbreak in California.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have.
Speaker 6: Thought about this really until I got whooping cough last year. Uh,
Speaker 6: the sickest I've ever been in my life. And I
Speaker 6: didn't think i'd get whooping cough. And I knew I
Speaker 6: had been vaccinated for it fifty nine years ago before
Speaker 6: I got whooping cough. And it turns out they wear
Speaker 6: off over time. So I'm my measles vaccination is as
Speaker 6: many decades old, so am I Could I get measles
Speaker 6: just like I got whooping cough? And should everybody now
Speaker 6: who wasn't worried about these things at all go around
Speaker 6: and get vaccinations for whooping cough, measles, all kinds.
Speaker 3: Of different things.
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I don't know different either. Vaccinations
Speaker 2: last different lengths of time. Yeah, because you know one
Speaker 2: of the principles of group immunity or everybody is immune. Well,
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about it because it's not
Speaker 2: going to get started at all or anymore. Right, So
Speaker 2: you don't really have to get boosters because where are
Speaker 2: you going to get it?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I got recommended to me the booster shot for
Speaker 6: the te DAP thing, for a couple of different things
Speaker 6: that little kids get because some of these diseases have
Speaker 6: made a comeback and we used to get them as
Speaker 6: little kids, and then you didn't need to go get
Speaker 6: it again because we practically eradicated these things. But I
Speaker 6: need to look into that if I should go out
Speaker 6: and get a measles shot because I don't want to
Speaker 6: get sick again.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I think the p pertussis is whooping cough
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, yeah, because I got that partly based on
Speaker 2: your recommendation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was not pleasant.
Speaker 6: So here's a story that we've mentioned a couple of
Speaker 6: times that's burbling under the radar as the midterm election
Speaker 6: comes up in November, which the Democrats are almost certainly
Speaker 6: going to win, just because historically that's what happens But
Speaker 6: Donald Trump, this is from the Associated Press. There's lots
Speaker 6: of versions of this story. Has been bragging about a
Speaker 6: political war chest that nobody has ever seen before in politics,
Speaker 6: exceeding one point five billion dollars currently a staggering sum
Speaker 6: that he can wield at his whim to shape November
Speaker 6: midterms and various races across the country as they try
Speaker 6: to figure out which ones they can, you know, pick
Speaker 6: off or win or change, or which ones are not
Speaker 6: worth betting money on. But Trump's stockpile, which dwarfs any
Speaker 6: amounts raised by predecessors in their second terms, is up
Speaker 6: for grabs, and it's gonna be interesting to see how
Speaker 6: it's used. Nobody's ever had this kind of money to
Speaker 6: spend or even close and whether or not that's gonna
Speaker 6: be a difference maker or not, everybody's guessing.
Speaker 2: I came across a piece I can't remember where about
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris's fundraising and tens of millions of dollars that
Speaker 2: came from dark money sources and you can't tell who
Speaker 2: it's from, and it's probably foreign countries and blah blah
Speaker 2: hoh dirty all that is, and it's just you know,
Speaker 2: the government hands out trillions of dollars to who it
Speaker 2: decides how to get it, and yeah, having a say
Speaker 2: in that is worth a hell of a investment. It's
Speaker 2: I don't know, democracy doesn't work or it doesn't work
Speaker 2: for long.
Speaker 6: I wonder how much difference this amount of money could
Speaker 6: make famously in presidential elections.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter that much.
Speaker 6: There's like a lowish bar to meet to have enough
Speaker 6: money to compete. Above that, it doesn't really get you
Speaker 6: anything else. Diminishing returns start very quickly. But in man,
Speaker 6: these small races around the country. If you know, one
Speaker 6: guy in some rural district Nebraska can just overwhelm his
Speaker 6: opponent with ads or you know, knocking on doors or whatever.
Speaker 6: Racist people don't pay that much attention to. I wonder
Speaker 6: if he could make a difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and swing districts. Maybe. I've been in markets that
Speaker 2: had the saturation political advertising, because that's where most of
Speaker 2: the money goes, is just TV and radio ads and
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, and you just you quickly get
Speaker 2: to the point of turning it off. But I'm sure
Speaker 2: they have highly paid consultants who will tell you it
Speaker 2: actually works. It accumulates over time. He starts to think
Speaker 2: Jones probably is dirty. I keep hearing he's dirty.
Speaker 6: Well, just in case you don't know this, like ninety
Speaker 6: percent of House seats four hundred and thirty five House
Speaker 6: seats are both parties have agreed we're not going to
Speaker 6: fight over these, so they've made them so safe that
Speaker 6: they can't switch hands and then they fight over the
Speaker 6: other handful. That's what the two parties have done, which
Speaker 6: is one of the reasons you can't get a third
Speaker 6: party going. But so to Joe's point, there aren't that
Speaker 6: many races that are even up for grabs, and so
Speaker 6: there's going to be a lot of that one point
Speaker 6: five billion dollars or how much Trump decides to spend
Speaker 6: will be concentrated in Maine, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia,
Speaker 6: New Hampshire, and Alaska.
Speaker 3: So that's what.
Speaker 6: Seven states going to be almost all the money to
Speaker 6: try to sway to.
Speaker 2: Yourself open ad agency in all of those states.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no kidding, boy, that'd be something if he is
Speaker 6: able to spend enough money to hold onto the House
Speaker 6: when everybody's predicting a just a tidal wave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you always point out that they're going to
Speaker 2: lose the house because they always lose the house. It's
Speaker 2: almost always. But you know, I'm reminded of a football
Speaker 2: team that's going up against a much better opponent, but
Speaker 2: they didn't bring the playbook with them and the quarterback
Speaker 2: throws three idiotic interceptions in the first quarter. They're not
Speaker 2: losing because the other team's great. They're losing because they suck.
Speaker 2: And I just think the Republican's messaging has been terrible,
Speaker 2: just terrible. They're not doing their job. They're bad at
Speaker 2: their jobs. Have you considered being better at your job?
Speaker 2: Have we lost that clip? Michael? Do I need to
Speaker 2: tip you? How does this work? Are you right in
Speaker 2: your wife of Valentine's Day note? That's sweet? I'm gonna
Speaker 2: ask you to pay attention at work. Now where were we? Ah?
Speaker 6: Back to Jack, I'm I'm kind of done with that
Speaker 6: unless you got more to say about it. There's a
Speaker 6: clip we opened the show with. I wanted to get
Speaker 6: back on again because it's apparently getting quite a bit
Speaker 6: of attention. And I said, I'm not that sounded like
Speaker 6: RFK Junior. Are we about to hear him?
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm not scared of a germ. You know,
Speaker 1: I used to snart cocaine off at toilet sease and yeah,
Speaker 1: I know this disease will kill me, right, I don't.
Speaker 6: So that's RFK Junior doing a podcast with THEO Vaughn
Speaker 6: who's decided to become a giant podcaster as opposed to
Speaker 6: a giant comedian, which he was, and uh RFK Junior.
Speaker 6: They were talking about how AA meetings and NA meetings
Speaker 6: shut down during COVID and he was really concerned about
Speaker 6: everybody starting to drink or do drugs again when all
Speaker 6: those meetings were shut down, But I guess was the
Speaker 6: topic matter and then he was he would rather have
Speaker 6: been able to go into the meetings so he didn't
Speaker 6: do drugs again than being worried about catching COVID, which
Speaker 6: that's a really interesting point I agree with myself.
Speaker 2: But oh yeah, and just like almentarily distracted me from
Speaker 2: the main point, which is snorting the Bolivian marching powder
Speaker 2: off a tilet see, which is gross.
Speaker 6: And you seem to be able to justify that earlier
Speaker 6: in the show, because it sounded disgusting to me.
Speaker 2: But you're so justify No, I was just explaining, you're
Speaker 2: a coke addict. You're there in a stall. You don't
Speaker 2: have anything handy, although you are a Kennedy. Come on,
Speaker 2: don't you have some sort of fancy cigarette case or
Speaker 2: don't you I don't know what the rich carry.
Speaker 6: Don't you have a butler that can get down in
Speaker 6: his hands and knees and you snort it off his.
Speaker 2: Back or off at the top of his top hat
Speaker 2: or something. Butler's were probably not anyway, you gotta snort
Speaker 2: it off the Toilet's say, that's terrible. How'd you gotta
Speaker 2: take a long look at yourself? Speaking of medical science,
Speaker 2: this is not hyperbole. DEI stands up pretty good chance
Speaker 2: of killing you in the next fifteen years of your life.
Speaker 6: How is diversity, equity and inclusion going to kill me?
Speaker 2: Medical schools, Anah, medical schools have gone so far down
Speaker 2: the DEI highway you won't believe it.
Speaker 3: Are we gonna learn more about that after we hear
Speaker 3: about you.
Speaker 6: Are gonna learn more about that, after we hear about
Speaker 6: rough rough greens, which is something you right add to
Speaker 6: your dog's food. It's not replacing your dog's foods, because
Speaker 6: traditional dog food is you know, it can sit on
Speaker 6: the shelf for a long time and it's it's it's
Speaker 6: a lifeless thing. But Rough Greens is live, live vitamins, minerals, probiotics,
Speaker 6: digestive enzymes, and omega oils and you add it to
Speaker 6: your dog's food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all those fine things help produce oxidative stress support
Speaker 2: in immune defense a slow age related decline, helping your
Speaker 2: beloved dog stay active, mobile, and alert as they age.
Speaker 2: It promotes longevity by addressing common nutritional deficiencies found in
Speaker 2: processed dog foods. So you don't have to get rid
Speaker 2: of your dog's food. Just add Rough Greens. Ain't gonna
Speaker 2: cost much to try Rough Greens. It's free.
Speaker 6: Really, Rough Greens is offering a free Jumpstart trial bag.
Speaker 6: All you do is cover the shipping, which won't be
Speaker 6: a lot. Use the discount code Armstrong to claim your
Speaker 6: free Jumpstart Trial back at Roughgreens dot com spelled are
Speaker 6: you ff like a dog?
Speaker 2: Ruff? Are you f ff greens dot com? That promo code
Speaker 2: is armstrong, So don change your dog's food. Just had
Speaker 2: Rough Greens and watch the health benefit. The health benefits
Speaker 2: come alive. What do we played, Marco Rubio. I've been
Speaker 2: wanting to hear this. This is clip number thirteen. Is
Speaker 2: kind of hard to hear because he's on an airplane tarmac.
Speaker 2: But this may be this needs to be on the
Speaker 2: list of clips of the year. The world is changing
Speaker 2: very fast right fun of us. The old world is gone.
Speaker 2: Frankly does the world. I grew up and we live
Speaker 2: in a new era at geopolitics, and it's going to
Speaker 2: require all of us for to re examine what that
Speaker 2: looks like and what our role is going to be equal.
Speaker 2: And we've had many of these conversations are private, many
Speaker 2: of our allies.
Speaker 4: You are allies, and.
Speaker 2: You need to continue to have those conversations, and at
Speaker 2: least Saturday hopefully and the media wive there when lucas
Speaker 2: An entering the key quote the world is changing very
Speaker 2: fast right in front of us. The old world is
Speaker 2: gone post WW two order.
Speaker 3: Is that's interesting? I wonder what he knows that we
Speaker 3: don't know about that.
Speaker 2: A great deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm guessing that has not been fully realized.
Speaker 2: Probably in both positive ways and in ways that would
Speaker 2: freak us out.
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's any positive ways.
Speaker 6: The old world order where we were in charge of
Speaker 6: the entire planet and kept the shipping lanes open and
Speaker 6: everything like that, and nobody dared invade another company country
Speaker 6: because of what we do. That was pretty good. That
Speaker 6: was pretty good for us, for our company. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: oversimplified what I meant.
Speaker 2: What I meant was there may be some encouraging news
Speaker 2: given the threats that exist, people are waking up to
Speaker 2: them and starting to act like adults. I certainly hope
Speaker 2: that's true. Europe. I'm looking at you well.
Speaker 6: And then there's a whole big crowd out there that
Speaker 6: thinks us being in charge of the world was a
Speaker 6: bad thing and the world would be better when we're not.
Speaker 6: That's those people are known as nut jobs or wrong,
Speaker 6: maybe just wrong.
Speaker 2: Not the good way to them couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the old world is gone, Your DEI doctor
Speaker 2: is going to kill you.
Speaker 6: Stay tuned, Yeah, I got to get to that and
Speaker 6: the whole Nancy Guthrie missing thing. We talked about this
Speaker 6: earlier this week. I haven't heard anybody else bring this up.
Speaker 6: I think it's the most interesting thing we learned this
Speaker 6: week out of the whole case. So maybe we'll get
Speaker 6: to that in our four Stay tuned.
Speaker 7: Sunday, our city's host to the NBA All Star Game
Speaker 7: instead of the usual you know, it's usually a matchup
Speaker 7: between the East and the West. This year the teams
Speaker 7: will be made up of Americans against players from the
Speaker 7: rest of the world. You know, I've been hoping somebody
Speaker 7: would figure out another way to pit us against the
Speaker 7: rest of the world.
Speaker 2: I want to thank the NBA for doing that.
Speaker 7: I'll be watching the alternative All Star Game on turning.
Speaker 6: Part of the USA. Wow, that's interesting. What an interesting idea.
Speaker 6: There's so many good players from other countries in the NBA.
Speaker 6: For the top five best players of from other countries,
Speaker 6: what's that gonna say about the NBA If they easily win,
Speaker 6: and they might, they might actually play in that game.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe yeah, the Euros anyway, I think they'd love this show.
Speaker 6: But he Lebron last night broke the all time record
Speaker 6: for oldest NBA triple double at age forty one and
Speaker 6: forty four days old. He had a triple double last
Speaker 6: night for the Lakers. Well done, Lebron, Well done.
Speaker 2: I'm going to quote doctor Stanley Goldfarb in a minute.
Speaker 2: He's got a book out called Doing Great Harm, which
Speaker 2: is obviously a reference to the Hippocratic oath. But first,
Speaker 2: a review of his book which mentions the Minnesota Chapter
Speaker 2: of White Coats for Black Lives, a medical student group,
Speaker 2: greeted the October seventh, twenty three hamasled terrorist attacks on
Speaker 2: Israel by saying that Palestinians quote should free themselves from
Speaker 2: their oppressors by any means necessary, say medicals in this group.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, the Oregon Medical Board proposed including
Speaker 2: microaggressions in the category of unprofessional misconduct, for which doctors
Speaker 2: could be punished up to losing their licenses, keeping mind
Speaker 2: examples of microaggressions mentioned by the state's experts as saying
Speaker 2: America is the land of opportunity, or I believe the
Speaker 2: most qualified person should get the job. Now hanging caught
Speaker 2: on by now that microaggressions was completely phony. It's a
Speaker 2: tool of capture of It's a weapon used by neo Marxists.
Speaker 2: They don't mean it, sincerely, they're just trying to scare
Speaker 2: you into shutting up. Ohio State University College of Medicine
Speaker 2: instructs staff and students and faculty not to ask black colleagues,
Speaker 2: how are you doing. It's not an appropriate question. The
Speaker 2: college is explained because black people and all people of
Speaker 2: color experience racism every day.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's now that we've heard a lot
Speaker 6: of these over the years.
Speaker 3: Yah, that's the most amazing.
Speaker 2: You can't say how you do because they're doing poorly,
Speaker 2: because they're being racist against. And at the University of
Speaker 2: Minnesota Medical School, new students are forced to recite a pledge.
Speaker 2: They're forced to to honor all indigenous ways of healing
Speaker 2: that have been traditionally marginalized by Western medicine. They must
Speaker 2: also declare that they quote recognize inequities built by past
Speaker 2: and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism,
Speaker 2: and all forms of oppression. Those are all examples given
Speaker 2: by doctor Goldfarbe in his book. Now to his editorial
Speaker 2: published recently in The Journal, DEI is a threat to
Speaker 2: Americans health. President Trump's crusade against the DEI is brought
Speaker 2: to light another crisis, the dramatic decline of medical education.
Speaker 2: For years, medical schools have emphasized discrimination and doctrination at
Speaker 2: the expense of merit and excellence, to the detriment of patients,
Speaker 2: and he says, the fight directify this is just beginning.
Speaker 2: The crisis in medical education is directly connected to DEI
Speaker 2: for years, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits
Speaker 2: MD granting programs, and the point of this article is,
Speaker 2: you've got to change the accreditation system because these people
Speaker 2: are captured by far left progressives. Anyway, it required medical
Speaker 2: schools to establish programs aimed at achieving diversity. And he
Speaker 2: goes into a lot of detail about that, but I
Speaker 2: want to get to some of the statistics. The traditional
Speaker 2: two years of pre clinical education required to become a
Speaker 2: doctor has been significantly reduced at more than a third
Speaker 2: of medical schools. This gives short shrift to the foundational
Speaker 2: curriculum and genetics, biochemistry, biostatistics, and epidemiology. At eighty percent
Speaker 2: of MD granting schools. The foundational courses in basic science
Speaker 2: and clinical skills are now graded pass fail, Wow, discouraging
Speaker 2: the pursuit of excellence. This is a brand new trend.
Speaker 2: By the way, the first part of the National Licensure
Speaker 2: Exam that determines residency placement has also been changed to
Speaker 2: pass fail, further blurring the distinction beta between the mediocre
Speaker 2: and the excellent. Unsurprisingly, a growing number of medical students
Speaker 2: lack a strong grasp of basic medical knowledge. There's been
Speaker 2: a lot of attention given to UCLA's David Geffen's School
Speaker 2: of Medicine, and he mentions it here. According to reporting
Speaker 2: based on interviews with faculty members, more than fifty percent
Speaker 2: of students more than half these are your doctors in
Speaker 2: the next couple of years, failed basic tests on family medicine, pediatrics,
Speaker 2: and emergency medicine. Nationwide, the percentage of medical students who
Speaker 2: passed the first part of the licensure exam has fallen
Speaker 2: every year since twenty twenty, dropping from ninety seven percent
Speaker 2: to eighty nine percent. For students pursuing an MD, clinical
Speaker 2: skills have declined for years, made worse by dei's distractions
Speaker 2: from clinical education. Even liberal medical journals have begun to
Speaker 2: question the state of medical education. A twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: New England Journal Medical Medicine article on the use of
Speaker 2: past fail and medical school ast is good enough, good enough?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: How these people got so far when we weren't paying attention?
Speaker 6: You know, it matters more obviously in medical school than
Speaker 6: other things. But I mentioned this the other day that
Speaker 6: Harvard announced that they're only going to give out twenty
Speaker 6: percent a's starting next year. Twenty percent of the grades
Speaker 6: will be a's because it had been creeping up through
Speaker 6: the years. For instance, last year, sixty six percent of
Speaker 6: all grades were a's. Another eighteen percent were A minuses.
Speaker 6: So that gets you to eighty four percent of the
Speaker 6: grades they give out were a's.
Speaker 2: Or A minuses in all classes. That's hilarious. I know,
Speaker 2: I know, I mean kudos to them for reforming that.
Speaker 2: But and that's been going on in medical school stool.
Speaker 2: Did you ever go pass fail on a class when
Speaker 2: you realized, oh, I can still go past fail instead
Speaker 2: of get a letter grade. Why did you do that?
Speaker 2: I did it once? Why because I was e f
Speaker 2: in the class? Up? I was bad at it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wasn't because you were trying to excel. That's
Speaker 6: certainly not far from it. That's our medical schools friends.
Speaker 6: So if you think, oh, old junk uncle Joe's a
Speaker 6: little crazy with his ranting against DEI man, this could
Speaker 6: hurt you seriously in the years to come. If you
Speaker 6: miss a segment, get our podcast Armstrong you Getty on demand.
Speaker 6: We do lots of segments and lots of
Speaker 2: Hours Armstrong and Getty