Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jack Kid and he.
Speaker 2: Arms Live.
Speaker 1: I'm from Studio C.
Speaker 2: See it's a dimly lit room deeper.
Speaker 1: From the bowels of the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound
Speaker 1: on wetness day and ordered to the tutelage of our
Speaker 1: general manager. H deep breath.
Speaker 2: There you go, doctor Oz.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to do that.
Speaker 2: There's no requirement.
Speaker 1: You picked the most annoying thing in the news for
Speaker 1: the general manager. You get to choose.
Speaker 2: You want this job.
Speaker 1: Speaking of jobs, you want this damn job, this dirty job.
Speaker 1: Micro wouldn't do this job. It's so dirty picking the
Speaker 1: general manager of the day. It's exhausting.
Speaker 2: We could have gone the whole show without even mentioning it.
Speaker 1: You meant at the feature point, oh you should see
Speaker 1: our email, man, holy cow?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, the people noticed and had the
Speaker 1: very reaction you might think they would wait a minute.
Speaker 2: What So was the overall take not positive at least
Speaker 2: an email?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, I wouldn't call it a scientific survey
Speaker 1: of a thousand randomly selected America Americans with a pleasure
Speaker 1: minus two. No, but it's as overwhelmingly Oh good lord,
Speaker 1: just when I was trying to defend his choices as
Speaker 1: out of the mainstream, but really, oh no.
Speaker 2: Doctor oss quack. I was surprised.
Speaker 1: So I watched my evening newscasts this morning, last nine
Speaker 1: evening newscast, I thought the lead story everywhere would be
Speaker 1: on the one thousandth day of the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Ukraine uses those attack of missiles to fire into Russia
Speaker 1: at the you know go ahead from Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: I thought that was the lead story of the day,
Speaker 2: and it was. I watched the news for a long time.
Speaker 2: I didn't even get to the story.
Speaker 1: Well, and the you know, the b part of that
Speaker 1: ab is flat putin making vague but unmistakable threats that hey,
Speaker 1: and as might provoker nuclear dear.
Speaker 2: No, it was more, it was more concrete than that.
Speaker 1: They they changed their official nuclear whatever you call protocol
Speaker 1: that all the big countries with nuclear weapons are supposed
Speaker 1: to have. We're all supposed to have it written down
Speaker 1: in what ways we would use nuclear weapons under work circumstances,
Speaker 1: and it's supposed to be open for everybody to see.
Speaker 1: It's part of the whole not having mistakes, et cetera
Speaker 1: thing that they came up with the way back in
Speaker 1: the day. But they changed their protocol around the attack
Speaker 1: ems to make it much easier for Russia to use
Speaker 1: nuclear up.
Speaker 2: I thought that was by far the lead story, and
Speaker 2: it barely made the news at all.
Speaker 1: So and David SANGERU was writing about it in The
Speaker 1: New York Times last night about how it just landed
Speaker 1: with a whimper. He said, if one thing has come
Speaker 1: out of the war with Ukraine, it is the world
Speaker 1: does not really react to nuclear threats anymore, for better
Speaker 1: or worse. And he said for better, where it's like,
Speaker 1: maybe it's good, maybe you can't jerk everybody around by
Speaker 1: threaten nuclear war all the time. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: maybe if somebody with the biggest nuclear arsenal in the
Speaker 1: world threatens to use it, you ought to at least
Speaker 1: pay attention. I don't know. I guess it has a
Speaker 1: bit of the feel to me, and I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of guessing at people's sentiment. I'm not necessarily speaking for
Speaker 1: myself strictly, but it has the feel of that coworker
Speaker 1: years just says I can't take another day of this,
Speaker 1: and is this place is. But then he shows up
Speaker 1: day after day, year after year. It's yet another you know,
Speaker 1: dictator making threats about you know, he provoked me, I'll
Speaker 1: send a new clear away and then hearing it for generation. Well,
Speaker 1: clearly that's the way the world reacted, including the United States.
Speaker 1: The United States official reaction was we will not be
Speaker 1: changing our nuclear protocol. In other words, we don't take
Speaker 1: it seriously. And then today you wake up too, and
Speaker 1: I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story. It's a bigger
Speaker 1: story on social media among the Republicans who think Biden's
Speaker 1: trying to get us into World War three before Trump
Speaker 1: takes office. People are making a really big deal out
Speaker 1: of that. I like on Twitter and other places that
Speaker 1: I go. Biden approves anti personnel land mines for Ukraine,
Speaker 1: reversing his policy of the entire war of absolutely not
Speaker 1: on land mines, drawing criticism from arms control groups and others.
Speaker 1: But so now Ukraine's gonna be able to put in
Speaker 1: those land mines to try to keep the Russians from
Speaker 1: coming in. So, oh boy, that is quite a bit
Speaker 1: more aggressive stance in the last forty eight hours from
Speaker 1: Joe Biden for whatever reason, Well, breaking news. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that is just handed to me. Trump's new Secretary of
Speaker 1: Agriculture carrot Top, probably because of the name. I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: All right, entertainment entertainer carrot Top.
Speaker 1: That's decent. Colbert's joke was the guy who's gonna the
Speaker 1: person that's gonna lead Amtrak is Thomas the tank engine
Speaker 1: with the whole it's just people he sees on TV.
Speaker 1: But is it is that it? Or is it he
Speaker 1: understands that much of the electric is not as paying
Speaker 1: his close attention as the media would like us to think,
Speaker 1: and he picks people.
Speaker 2: That are on TV to make a lot of voters happen.
Speaker 1: They've changed the title to the Secretary of the Interiors
Speaker 1: and he's appointed Martha Start, which taking your expertise in
Speaker 1: interior decorator. Is it because Trump sees these people on TV?
Speaker 1: Or he thinks a lot of voters see these people
Speaker 1: on TV and think, oh, good choice. There's somebody I've
Speaker 1: heard of. I've seen them on Fox and Friends or
Speaker 1: seen them on Midday TV with Oprah.
Speaker 2: I think I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's something like that. It's also people he knows, and
Speaker 1: people who've made it completely clear to him. And I
Speaker 1: get this. I am not a Beltway insider who is
Speaker 1: going to smile to your face and oppose your agenda
Speaker 1: at every single turn. If you say we're going to
Speaker 1: wind down the Department of Education, I'm gonna do every
Speaker 1: damn thing I can to make it happen. I get
Speaker 1: that well. And while I follow the news fairly closely
Speaker 1: for a living, I'm not super into all these names
Speaker 1: that aren't TV stars and like guys listening to a
Speaker 1: podcast here today talking about what a great financial team
Speaker 1: or some scene that Trump was put in place, and
Speaker 1: they rattled off a bunch of names I'd never heard
Speaker 1: in my life, and so I didn't mean anything to me.
Speaker 1: So if you want to just get like an average
Speaker 1: dufus like me, somebody who's I've seen on TV, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have an opinion about somebody I don't sell yourself,
Speaker 1: shorter and above average dupist, somebody that's been in the
Speaker 1: policy world in DC for decades but I've never heard
Speaker 1: of it makes just means nothing to me, even though
Speaker 1: they might be a great pick.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what he's doing, although I think he's misreading
Speaker 1: the way a lot of America sees doctor Oz. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got to admit there's well I don't I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people feel the same way. There's definitely
Speaker 1: a feeling of this thing has like loose staring and
Speaker 1: no breaks, and I just really feel like we're going
Speaker 1: to hit a tree. On the other hands, you know what,
Speaker 1: Oz is a smart guy. He's going to execute Trump's vision.
Speaker 1: What the hell, let's see what happens. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know that the guy's going to be bad at
Speaker 1: his job. I think he's a quack and a con man.
Speaker 2: He's absolutely that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's to be on dispute.
Speaker 2: Really put the duck back. I heard quacking right there.
Speaker 1: Bro. So he's pushed a whole bunch of fraudulent diet
Speaker 1: plans throughout his life to become famous. Yeah, very rich. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: I would imagine a lot of these people that get
Speaker 1: appointed that aren't television stars have done things I don't
Speaker 1: like either.
Speaker 2: I just don't know about them.
Speaker 1: Well, I was rolling down the avenue the other day
Speaker 1: and an iad came on Fox News for the Trump
Speaker 1: Watches that.
Speaker 2: The potus elect is selling.
Speaker 1: So no, he doesn't really object to memet Oz selling
Speaker 1: some sort of useless powder that's gonna burn fat off
Speaker 1: your belly.
Speaker 2: Now, he's not that worried about it. It's Trump still
Speaker 2: got watches for sale.
Speaker 1: Yes, or some entity that he's licensed his does. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the disclaimer is there are not meant for investment
Speaker 1: purposeska whatever. Okay, let's start the show officially real quick.
Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: November twentieth, Happy birthday to one Joseph R. Biden, who
Speaker 1: is eighty two years old. Today care the year let
Speaker 1: a look a day over one hundred the year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. We are armstrung. He getting we approve of
Speaker 1: this program up. The Chairman of the Joints Chiefs just
Speaker 1: announced Captain Stooping of the love vote back in the seven.
Speaker 2: More than Captain crunch Is. He's a fictional character.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's begin officially now according to f CC
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Speaker 3: This morning, it's increasingly clear it is Donald Trump's world
Speaker 3: and we're just living in it. The most powerful rocket
Speaker 3: ever built, lasting off from Texas yesterday forty five and
Speaker 3: forty seven, making the trip with his billionaire buddy to
Speaker 3: take in the launch, just days after they both attended
Speaker 3: a uf Sea fight at Madison Square Garden, where the
Speaker 3: winner Trump's signature dance after the knockout.
Speaker 1: Thanks all there, That news host not as happy as
Speaker 1: I am. That's gotta be rough if you're on the
Speaker 1: left and you thought we were told he was hitler.
Speaker 1: Everybody doing the Trump dance and there's a there's the
Speaker 1: lead story with Elon Musk watching the rocket go up
Speaker 1: and Trump's everywhere.
Speaker 2: You look, Oh, well, what are you gonna do? That's
Speaker 2: a beautiful clip. It has it all.
Speaker 1: It has the wow, that's right, Oh yeah, that's right
Speaker 1: now in the dance red and her tone, it's Trump
Speaker 1: swirled and we're just living in it apparently all right then, okay,
Speaker 1: I love that old budding World War three thing. Ought
Speaker 1: to get a little more attention than some of the stuff.
Speaker 1: Shut up, we're having fun. Sad sack Chief dark Cloud
Speaker 1: with your World War stuff. Please. Happy birthday to Joe
Speaker 1: Biden eighty two, oldest and fit is a fiddle ready
Speaker 1: for another term. As recently as a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: our institutions true that oldest president we've ever had in
Speaker 1: office until Trump gets into office, because then Trump will
Speaker 1: pass that at some point.
Speaker 2: How does mailbag look? Oh it's decent enough. Yeah, you'll
Speaker 2: enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Cool, it's on the way. Here's our text line four
Speaker 1: one two nine five KFTC. Well, this is fun.
Speaker 2: You got your first trans congress person.
Speaker 1: It's now they're battling over the whole bathroom thing there
Speaker 1: in the capitol and which bathroom the new congress person
Speaker 1: can or can't use. That's a good time. Don't literally,
Speaker 1: don't get me started. It's your freedom.
Speaker 2: Love of the day. There's so much to be said
Speaker 2: on that topic.
Speaker 1: I love this from Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, the thinker.
Speaker 1: He is wrong about a lot of stuff, but anyway, Wow,
Speaker 1: what age. Nonetheless, what an interesting introduction of Aristotle. You
Speaker 1: don't hear that very often. Stuff.
Speaker 2: I want to make that clear to everyone. Well, no, no,
Speaker 2: just that's my mind works, and that I remembered a long.
Speaker 1: And fascinating discussion of epistemology, just and just and just
Speaker 1: how we know what we know, in the nature of knowing,
Speaker 1: in the nature of learning, and blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: Aristotle had some odd views of how the universe actually worked,
Speaker 1: but certainly he understood mankind. This is this is a
Speaker 1: great quote, and this is a continuing our series about
Speaker 1: the law, law and justice at his best. Man is
Speaker 1: the noblest of all animals. Separated from law and justice,
Speaker 1: he is the worst. I would agree, with the very
Speaker 1: rare exception of a couple of your more advanced primates
Speaker 1: like chimpanzees.
Speaker 2: There's no maliciousness in the animal kingdom.
Speaker 1: It's all fairly easily attributable to well, yeah, he's trying
Speaker 1: to protect his dominant over the herd or the troop
Speaker 1: or whatever, and that he's in his territory.
Speaker 2: That's why he's being vicious to him. There's not like
Speaker 2: I don't like.
Speaker 1: You and I want to hurt you much.
Speaker 2: In the animal kingdom.
Speaker 1: That's why we need law. That the natural state of
Speaker 1: things is chaos and ugliness. I've got a library in
Speaker 1: order as a miracle. I got a lot on that
Speaker 1: I've been meaning to talk about. I'm making my way
Speaker 1: through the book Sapiens, which i'd never read the whole
Speaker 1: thing before. Fascinating stuff about why Homo sapiens emerged from
Speaker 1: all the other humans and dominated though maybe we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that later. I found it interesting. Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: to endless patience for that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: Or we could just jabber about the news headlines of
Speaker 1: the day that'll be forgotten tomorrow, mailbag, drop us a note,
Speaker 1: mail bag and Armstrong and getty dot com. Some of them,
Speaker 1: obviously will not.
Speaker 2: I hope you're right, they will have an enormous impact.
Speaker 1: I hope your grandchildren aren't studying how the Ukraine War
Speaker 1: turned into World War three. No, that's one of the
Speaker 1: second group. Yeah, that's the kind that won't be forgotten.
Speaker 1: Here's an idea going forward, writes Christy, Let's require presidential
Speaker 1: candidates to also divulge their proposed selections for major cabinet
Speaker 1: roles oive insert the quack and duck sound for doctor Odz.
Speaker 1: Yeah I know. And then her hashtag is hashtag job
Speaker 1: security for y'all. Yeah, what'll you do? Oh?
Speaker 2: I love this from Sean. What about this?
Speaker 1: Trump puts gates in, lets him do all the crazy
Speaker 1: stuff and soak up the heat.
Speaker 2: Everyone hates him already.
Speaker 1: He's like the WWF heel, the villain you love to
Speaker 1: hate in the wrastling. Yeah, most of the reporting is
Speaker 1: that that's not what Trump's doing. He wants Gates to
Speaker 1: be the attorney general, and well, yeah, that's absolutely yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what he means as attorney general. So Trump says, hey,
Speaker 1: he's an independent. He's an independent age, just like Garland was.
Speaker 1: I have to stay out of it all. Finally, when
Speaker 1: the DC lamp posts are proverbiably all hung with bodies,
Speaker 1: Trump saves the nation and fires crazy Mat for going
Speaker 1: too far, and inevitably hires a hot check for ag.
Speaker 1: Let's see side show, Bob Wrights, Guys, I just hope
Speaker 1: Putin waits until after next week to start as nuclear war.
Speaker 1: I've already invested a lot of time and money preparing
Speaker 1: to host a large gathering family for Thanksgiving dinner right here.
Speaker 1: You On second thought, maybe this week would be better. Oh, Bob,
Speaker 1: let's see. Oh I like this, Steven beautiful Chico, California.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Chico. Good folks have been supporting us
Speaker 1: for ages. He says. I had to share my response
Speaker 1: to a liberal friends Facebook post. The facebook post is
Speaker 1: as follows, don't buy anything on Black Friday, F capitalism.
Speaker 2: And f colonialism. Oh my god, I know, I know,
Speaker 2: I know. Wow.
Speaker 1: Steve's comment was, you realize that voting with your dollars
Speaker 1: and not buying anything on Black Friday Friday is the
Speaker 1: very definition of capitalism. I love it. Let's see. Oh
Speaker 1: this is keeping my head down. And as a Republican
Speaker 1: in Oregon says that Oregon has just issued brand new, expensive, crazy,
Speaker 1: time consuming mandatory training for old folks Homes employees to
Speaker 1: be able to deal with transgender folks. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the old folks homes. Oh my paid training to be
Speaker 1: paid for by the employer. Required first twelve months of
Speaker 1: higher every two years, mandatory, ninety minute, expensive, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: We're already losing staff, like crazy says, and this is
Speaker 1: going to make it even worse. But you know, as
Speaker 1: we talk about the whole woke agenda and did Trump's
Speaker 1: election end it? No, no, no, It's still growing in
Speaker 1: government and academia. You're going to go into an old
Speaker 1: folks home and start asking people in their eighties and
Speaker 1: nineties about the pronouns. You're gonna get a lot of
Speaker 1: blank looks. Yeah. Yeah, this stuff is still growing, and
Speaker 1: we've got to be fighting it with all of our energy.
Speaker 1: Got some more great email to get to Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: sprink it in the sprinkle it in throughout the mister Johnson,
Speaker 1: which pronoun would you like us to call you by? What? What? Now?
Speaker 2: I realize you're ninety three? But which pronoun would you
Speaker 2: like us today?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry not following you? Yeah, no kidding. We got
Speaker 2: a lot more news of the day.
Speaker 1: Stay with US, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: President Elect Trump with Elon Musk in Texas there for
Speaker 4: the sixth test launch of the SpaceX starship meant to
Speaker 4: eventually take humans to the Moon and Mars. The launch
Speaker 4: itself successful, the booster even detaching as it's supposed to,
Speaker 4: but then SpaceX, seeing some issue with the booster.
Speaker 1: Booster offshore divert Unfortunately, that means that we are our
Speaker 1: no go for the catch.
Speaker 4: It was supposed to land back in Texas, but to
Speaker 4: save it from potentially destroying the SpaceX launch facility or
Speaker 4: endangering lives on land, the booster shifting course and heading
Speaker 4: to the Gulf instead for a splashdack.
Speaker 2: So they didn't catch this rocket with them.
Speaker 1: What does he call it? The Mega something or other
Speaker 1: is what he calls the giant arm that catches the
Speaker 1: rocket booster. I still feel like the media has not
Speaker 1: caught on to the way Elon looks at these things.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, agreed. The whole fail fast theory or there's
Speaker 1: no fast and learn faster, isn't that he says? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in this thing, which you can apply to your own life,
Speaker 1: I've tried to apply it to mine. Is just there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as failure. It's just information. Okay, I
Speaker 1: tried this, this is the result. There's information about so
Speaker 1: now I'll try to try it this way right. Failure
Speaker 1: will never hold you back. Fear of failure is crippling.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 1: And Elon expressed again yesterday that he plans to have
Speaker 1: a rocket reach Mars in twenty twenty six. Now, he
Speaker 1: promises a lot of things. It often comes up short.
Speaker 1: I think that's part of his whole success thing. Is
Speaker 1: he he hits he sets aggressive deadlines. Yeah, under strives now,
Speaker 1: but I mean if he's if he's off by several years,
Speaker 1: that'd be quite amazing. I hope it happens in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: What just a stunning thing to even think about. And
Speaker 1: this isn't aside and we'll dig into this more thoroughly
Speaker 1: later on, but compare that idea of we're gonna set
Speaker 1: a goal that's probably not reachable, but we're gonna go
Speaker 1: nuts trying to get there. Who's in compared to government
Speaker 1: right where I'd like to see that memo filled out
Speaker 1: by the end of the month. There are seven of
Speaker 1: you working on. Have we run that through the Environmental
Speaker 1: Agency to make sure we're not a foul of any
Speaker 1: this or that. Have the application done by next March. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of mankind and the amazing thing that Homo sapiens
Speaker 1: have been into outer space and are going to go
Speaker 1: further and further versus many of the other humans that
Speaker 1: have existed on planet Earth that didn't make it out
Speaker 1: of the Stone Age?
Speaker 2: Why is that?
Speaker 1: So you might be familiar with the book Sapiens that
Speaker 1: came out several years back. It was a big giant
Speaker 1: hit and it's just a fascinating freaking book. But I'd
Speaker 1: only read the first chapter before, and I'm into the
Speaker 1: deeper chapters. At one time, there were six different kinds
Speaker 1: of humans existing on the planet at the same time,
Speaker 1: and it's still not completely known why Homo sapiens this
Speaker 1: is what we are, emerged and all the other ones
Speaker 1: didn't make it. But one of the genocide against my peoples,
Speaker 1: the Neanderthals.
Speaker 2: Could be.
Speaker 1: Or all kinds of different things could have happened. But
Speaker 1: one of the beliefs is, and I'd never heard this before,
Speaker 1: is Homo sapiens are the only beast that has ever
Speaker 1: existed on Earth that can believe fictions and.
Speaker 2: Fully embraced them.
Speaker 1: And I didn't quite understand what he meant by fictions
Speaker 1: when he started in on it, But he uses all
Speaker 1: different kinds of examples, for instance, and if you're a
Speaker 1: religious person, you will be bothered by him using the
Speaker 1: word fiction. But he doesn't mean fiction as in U
Speaker 1: fake as much is it something that's in your mind.
Speaker 1: I'll start with this and said before I get to religion. Money.
Speaker 1: Money is a fiction. I mean it is it is.
Speaker 1: You know, you take a piece of paper.
Speaker 2: It doesn't it's just a piece of paper.
Speaker 1: So you have to have all the belief that goes
Speaker 1: in with a five dollars bill of what the value
Speaker 1: of it is, how it's backed up by the US government,
Speaker 1: how it can be exchanged for something. Then you give
Speaker 1: the five dollar bill to somebody at the store who
Speaker 1: also believes the fiction of this piece of paper, and
Speaker 1: so you can trade goods and stuff like that. No
Speaker 1: other beast, probably no other human ever had the mental
Speaker 1: ability to do that, so you couldn't trade. For instance,
Speaker 1: some might prefer the term abstraction. Maybe yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that would be better believing something or understanding it in
Speaker 1: the abstract, but yeah, what an interesting principle. Same with
Speaker 1: the idea of a nation. So Homo sapiens could and
Speaker 1: do band together over the idea of a nation, a country,
Speaker 1: a belief, a culture that's worth fighting for, and so
Speaker 1: you can get a very large number of people together
Speaker 1: to fight for it. It seems that every other animal,
Speaker 1: including apes, use the example of Sometimes apes do want
Speaker 1: to take another group of you know, apes, territory because
Speaker 1: they think they got better mangoes over there or whatever.
Speaker 1: But they can't do it more than a very large
Speaker 1: group because it's over a very specific thing, the mangoes.
Speaker 1: As opposed to being able to band together millions of
Speaker 1: people over an idea, a fiction, or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it, an idea of we are a nation.
Speaker 1: No animal has shown the ability to do that, and
Speaker 1: they think perhaps Neanderthals or homoerectus or any of the
Speaker 1: other humans couldn't do that. A contrast, they couldn't buy
Speaker 1: into a concept like that. So you're not going to
Speaker 1: have like West Side of the Rainforest apes kick ass mansiders.
Speaker 2: They're not even real apes.
Speaker 1: Right right, So, and the same with refuse me apes,
Speaker 1: and the same with creating a religion that you buy
Speaker 1: into that you could all band together around and protect
Speaker 1: yourself in very very large groups in a way that
Speaker 1: no other animal or human has ever been able to do.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a fascinating thing to think about.
Speaker 1: That's what separates us from all other living creatures on Earth.
Speaker 1: Perhaps that's as good definition or distinction as I have
Speaker 1: ever come across. Yeah, I thought it was amazing. I
Speaker 1: too started that book and kind of in drifted a way.
Speaker 1: I need to dive back into it. It's amazing how
Speaker 1: much is not known. That's one of the things that's
Speaker 1: really stuck out to me. There's a lot of guessing
Speaker 1: going on in that field, and many many others. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Lex Friedman had on a guy the other day
Speaker 1: who's kind of like an out there, controversial sort of
Speaker 1: anthropologist dude who has a belief that there was a
Speaker 1: major lost civilization somewhere on planet Earth.
Speaker 2: That we haven't discovered yet.
Speaker 1: That explains the giant leap from hunter gathering to agriculture
Speaker 1: and civilization that happened simultaneously around the world kind of
Speaker 1: all of a sudden ish in historical terms. I mean,
Speaker 1: it happened over tens of thousands of years. But given
Speaker 1: the fact that were humans around for like two million years,
Speaker 1: why all of a sudden, all of a sudden, were
Speaker 1: we able to create civilization. He thinks there was a
Speaker 1: civiilation that grew very solely maybe in Antarctica, and we
Speaker 1: just have never discovered that it has existence, and it
Speaker 1: had spread around the world, but then it disappeared, was
Speaker 1: covered up with ice, and then the lost atlantiss the
Speaker 1: new idea of the way to live as humans got
Speaker 1: out there and started.
Speaker 2: I don't know who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, if you've studied this stuff at all, you
Speaker 1: know that some of the ancient civilizations and cities and
Speaker 1: all are super well documented and some aren't. Some you know,
Speaker 1: it's fairly fragmentary. But clearly there was a giant city
Speaker 1: and I have not studied this much. Er was one
Speaker 1: of the first civilized areas in Iraq. I believe but
Speaker 1: it's not like a ton is known about it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely imaginable that there was a big, important civilization
Speaker 1: and the only records that were kept of it were
Speaker 1: over here and oh, gully of volcano just went off,
Speaker 1: wrecking the only records that have ever existed. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's also highly unfortunate that most of the oldest civilizations
Speaker 1: in Egypt and Iraq, and maybe the oldest civilization is
Speaker 1: in Turkey are in places where everything's so effed up
Speaker 1: that the world can't really get there and explore it
Speaker 1: in the way you could if it were like found
Speaker 1: in Nebraska speaking of certain religions. Yeah, yeah, h. Also,
Speaker 1: taking in all that information and things about these spreads
Speaker 1: of time, it, I don't know, it kind of weirds
Speaker 1: you out from a getting so worked up about your
Speaker 1: current situation. Hey. Yeah, that's another version of the land
Speaker 1: on your back and looking at the stars for twenty
Speaker 1: minutes experience.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I go back and forth on that one.
Speaker 1: So the so, if human beings have been modern humans
Speaker 1: have been around for let's say seventy thousand years, thinking
Speaker 1: and acting exactly like we do, and.
Speaker 2: Why are you so worried about your today day?
Speaker 1: Well, because I'm me and my kids are them, and
Speaker 1: I worry about you know, I want them to be
Speaker 1: happy and not miserable or in pain. So that seems
Speaker 1: like a pretty good reason to be concerned about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: question of balance, I think perspective.
Speaker 2: No balance, all or nothing, one hundred percent or zero.
Speaker 2: That's the way I do it.
Speaker 1: So all of that was really interesting in thought provoking,
Speaker 1: and I thank you for bringing it to us.
Speaker 2: But what does that have to do with doctor Oz
Speaker 2: being point? That's what I was trying to avoid having
Speaker 2: the conversation.
Speaker 1: Leads doctor Oz mad days blah blah blah, pete hexeth,
Speaker 1: sexual assault, blah blah. So just briefly for those of
Speaker 1: you who don't know, and I won't go into it,
Speaker 1: but we had a personal interaction with doctor Oz that
Speaker 1: made me hate him for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: He is a dick and I don't like him at all,
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean he wouldn't be good at this job.
Speaker 1: I don't actually have any idea whether or not he's
Speaker 1: qualified to do this particular job.
Speaker 2: I doubt that he is because it's a running medicaid medicare.
Speaker 1: I mean, what forgive me, friends for using Jack's vocabulary.
Speaker 1: We should all be better than that, but it's possible.
Speaker 1: It takes a dick to go into those agencies and
Speaker 1: turn them around.
Speaker 2: Possible.
Speaker 1: And Oz's great sin, which offended mister Armstrong, it mostly amused.
Speaker 2: Me, but was that he came in and just tried
Speaker 2: to take control of the radio show.
Speaker 1: He was there as a guest and said, our screener
Speaker 1: will screens calls, you sit down, here's the way it's
Speaker 1: gonna go. We're like, wait a minute, no, but he
Speaker 1: just seized control.
Speaker 2: So he's a leader. He's a leader.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a leader and a dick, but apparently he
Speaker 1: is used to people saying yes, doctor Oz, yes, sir right,
Speaker 1: and he gets things that go the way he wants
Speaker 1: them to go. Oh yeah, I don't know one thing.
Speaker 1: It ain't gonna be as boring, friends, isn't that the
Speaker 1: one sin that cannot be forgiven boring? The next couple
Speaker 1: of years will be interesting. And Bremer made a decent
Speaker 1: point on his Twitter feed yesterday that before you get
Speaker 1: two worked up about a lot of these choices, confirmed
Speaker 1: or not, they won't be around long based on recent history,
Speaker 1: So whatever you know, it's not like it's for the
Speaker 1: rest of our lives or all eternity. It's probably a
Speaker 1: year or two for what it's worth. A love Linda
Speaker 1: McMahon at the Education Department. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: that because our education system in the US seriously has.
Speaker 2: It is diseased, seriously diseased.
Speaker 1: And obviously you know me. I'm on about the radicalization
Speaker 1: of our children and doctrination in schools which is horrific
Speaker 1: and horrifically inappropriate. But you know you don't even need
Speaker 1: to go there. They ain't teaching the kids to read
Speaker 1: and write, the do arithmetic. Good lord, what are what
Speaker 1: are those buildings there for? Just to keep the rain
Speaker 1: off the kids' heads. The turn has happened with college education.
Speaker 1: Polling shows that now most people realize, wait a second,
Speaker 1: it's these places are crazy. I'm not sure this is
Speaker 1: a good idea that the tide turned a lot. Where
Speaker 1: do you think we are with public school K through twelve?
Speaker 1: We still have work to do to get people to
Speaker 1: realize this is way way way off dark Sure are
Speaker 1: a lot. There are more people that ever homeschooling or
Speaker 1: doing private schools and have ever been before.
Speaker 2: COVID hastened that right, right, and and that's that's a
Speaker 2: big factor.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say, there's an awareness campaign
Speaker 1: that needs to be done growing, But then the fact
Speaker 1: is that there are not the same alternatives, or the
Speaker 1: alternatives aren't as easy to take advantage of in elementary
Speaker 1: education for working families, they got little kids, they're paying
Speaker 1: their taxes. They think the government set up these schools.
Speaker 1: I want my kid to learn, you know, homeschooling, private schooling,
Speaker 1: it's expensive, van door, time consuming. Whereas I've came across
Speaker 1: another great article from this guy who counsels like the
Speaker 1: elite high school students of the Northeast who all wanted
Speaker 1: to go to the Ivy League forever, and he reaffirmed
Speaker 1: what I saw in the Wall Street Journal. We talked
Speaker 1: about a little bit. He said, Now, all the lots
Speaker 1: and lots of these kids, huge numbers of them, their
Speaker 1: parents are like, Hey, how about Georgia, how about South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida,
Speaker 1: where kids go to school to learn and like drink
Speaker 1: a little beer on the weekend and try to get laid.
Speaker 1: How about that as opposed to marching in favor of
Speaker 1: Hamas all the damn time. Yeah, Plus, your future employer
Speaker 1: has not seen this campus on the evening news being nuts, right,
Speaker 1: which they assume you went to Tennessee to get a
Speaker 1: degree in whatever you got a degree in, not in
Speaker 1: radical studies. Right. Yeah, that's a good one. Hating capitalism.
Speaker 2: We've got Katie's headlines on the way and a.
Speaker 1: Lot more arstrow.
Speaker 2: Hey yetty, why a bg som?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why? Who's killing off Beg's drummers? Two
Speaker 1: Beg's drummers have died within four days.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Their original drummer and the drummer that followed him, both
Speaker 1: in their late seventies, both died in the last four days.
Speaker 1: Little strange, little too much for a coincidence. Not staying alive,
Speaker 1: not staying alive a decent point. Wow, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1: Let's uh well, we could certainly discuss that more if
Speaker 1: you'd like, But perhaps next hour, let's figure out who's
Speaker 1: reporting what it's the lead, starting with Katie Green, starting.
Speaker 5: With ABC News, reports suggest Gates said over ten thousand
Speaker 5: dollars in VENMO payments to two women who testified in
Speaker 5: house probe.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so for the sancture to keep them from talking.
Speaker 1: Do we think oh? Either both It's easy to forget
Speaker 1: that prostitution is illegal virtually everywhere, and certainly in Florida.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's easy to forget, but I'll
Speaker 1: take your word for it. Well, because everybody's concentrating on
Speaker 1: the underage or whatever. If the guy just, you know,
Speaker 1: concerts with hose, that's going to be controversial for an
Speaker 1: Attorney general appointee. I know somebody you're saying, yeah that
Speaker 1: Justice Vardon and under Biden's been crooked as hell and
Speaker 1: engaged in lawf era. I'd rather have a guy who
Speaker 1: gets with hose. They do subverts the Constitution, and it's
Speaker 1: not an unfair point from USA.
Speaker 5: Today, United States shuts kiv Imboss embassy due to quote
Speaker 5: potential significant air attack.
Speaker 1: Things are deaf heating up in the whole Russia Ukraine war.
Speaker 1: With the attack i'm's being used now and Biden announcing
Speaker 1: today the land mines putin changing is nuclear doctrine, and
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred thousand possibly North Korean troops coming.
Speaker 1: Significant majority of Ukrainians also say, hey, let's talk about
Speaker 1: negotiating and ending this thing. So everybody's sprinting to get
Speaker 1: to the best place before they sit down at the
Speaker 1: bargaining table. Yeah, we got more on that later.
Speaker 5: From the New York Times, US envoy will head to Israel,
Speaker 5: citing progress on Lemon Lebanon ceasefire.
Speaker 1: Another fun thing for the Trump administration to inherit and
Speaker 1: try to work out.
Speaker 5: From the Associated Press, fifty one year old man is
Speaker 5: charged with murder after three are stabbed in New York
Speaker 5: City rampage.
Speaker 1: God, what a heart. Yeah, and it's mentally ill. Bombed
Speaker 1: and arrested nine times this year, and they just kept
Speaker 1: turning loose and turn them loose. In a related story,
Speaker 1: Alvin braggsy about to get re elected. The stabber, the
Speaker 1: knife wielded maniac had been arrested nine times this year. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yes, And even Eric Adams was like, why was this
Speaker 5: guy still.
Speaker 1: On the street?
Speaker 2: You know, I think about that.
Speaker 1: And in a related story, da, Alvin Bragg's gonna get
Speaker 1: re elected? Good Lord, Manhattan, have you lost your minds?
Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal, American companies are stalking up
Speaker 5: to get ahead of Trump's China tariffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, building up inventories.
Speaker 5: From the Daily Mail, Biden dodges reporters and MISSUS photo
Speaker 5: ops to secure quote super lame duck status on world stage.
Speaker 2: Boy, he is that the lamest of all ducks.
Speaker 1: From NBC.
Speaker 5: Trump names former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as his pick
Speaker 5: for Education Secretary.
Speaker 1: Love the choice. We'll discuss next hour. We have your
Speaker 1: meme of the day.
Speaker 5: It's the picture of Trump and Elon and RFK Junior
Speaker 5: on the plane with the McDonald's where RFK looks super
Speaker 5: uncomfortable and it says, making sure the new gang member
Speaker 5: does drugs to make sure he's not an undercover cop.
Speaker 2: That's good, funny, perfect, And finally, the.
Speaker 5: Babylon b experts predict every liberal will soon be on
Speaker 5: their own individual social media platform to prevent encountering wrong opinions.
Speaker 2: There you go, oh boy, that's good.
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