1 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe. 3 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: Gaddy Armstrong and he. 4 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 3: Armstrong and Catty Strong and. 5 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,920 Speaker 4: Hely released drone video shows Palestinian militants pretending to be 6 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 4: workers from the World Central Kitchen. They travel in two cars, 7 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 4: one marked with the flag of the Humanitarian Organization before 8 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 4: they're hit by IDF airstrikes. 9 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: WCK in real time, we're able to verify that vehicle 10 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 2: was not connected to the organization in any way, which 11 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: means those terrris for using. 12 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 4: That as a disguise for their terror activity inside Gaza. 13 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 4: Israeli airstrikes targeted multiple areas of the enclave over the 14 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 4: past twenty four hours, killing dozens of Palestinian civilians. 15 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 5: Okay, So in spite of that, it's absolutely documented, undeniable 16 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 5: that Hamask guys were masquerading as food belief guys. NPR 17 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,960 Speaker 5: considers it completely impossible that they would impersonate journalists, or 18 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 5: at least that's what they're saying innocence. And those views 19 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 5: are supported practically to a person by the American left 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 5: and a lot of the left in a lot of 21 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 5: the Western world, What the hell is going on? To 22 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 5: quote Eli Lake, who's a brilliant writer in the West, 23 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 5: the politics of the Gaza war feature a strange marriage 24 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 5: between political Islam and the twenty first century Western left, 25 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 5: for instance, the Democratic Socialists of America. This is Mumdani's 26 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 5: crew simultaneously support making New York a national hub for 27 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 5: a transgender medicine and want to globalize the intefada. 28 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a good point. 29 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 5: It support, It supports the bleeding edge of social progressive 30 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 5: values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists 31 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 5: who filmed their mass murder of Jews and probably posted 32 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 5: the videos to telegram. And Lake, in an absolutely fabulous 33 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 5: piece that will post I think you might get paywalled, 34 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 5: but maybe not, talks about how the what's called the 35 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 5: red Green alliance among people who think about this sort 36 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 5: of thing, how it came up, and it really came up, 37 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 5: and yes he was red, and who's green here? Reds 38 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 5: is and communists in green, the color of Hamas and 39 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 5: radical Islam and various thank you for asking for the 40 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 5: clarification to hit for the room. 41 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 2: Anyway. 42 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 5: A lot of this arose during Iran's Islamic revolution in 43 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 5: nineteen seventy eight and seventy nine, and he goes into 44 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 5: and it's so interesting the details of how Ayatola Komeni, 45 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 5: who is in exile in France, started giving all sorts 46 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 5: of really carefully controlled interviews to American and European media outlets, 47 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 5: and how they're on this pr campaign to convince the 48 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 5: West that he's a reasonable fellow. In fact, he's really 49 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 5: for democracy, and Lake is writing. Anybody who spent ten 50 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 5: minutes looking into Komaney knew that he was a hardcore 51 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 5: is Lomiest monster. You didn't even have to try to 52 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 5: figure it out. But the left of American journalism, in 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 5: Western journalism, and some folks like in the Carter administration 54 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 5: became completely convinced and touted in the face of all 55 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 5: of this that no, he was actually a really good guy. 56 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 5: Richard Falk, a Princeton professor of international law who met 57 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 5: with Comany during his exile outside of Paris, Andrew Young, 58 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 5: Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Name, told reporters that 59 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 5: the Iotola will eventually be regarded as a saint like 60 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 5: this folk, the Princeton professor, And because people were saying 61 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 5: there were some on the right who said, look, this 62 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 5: guy's a reactionary and a terrorist. And he said, to 63 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 5: suppose that Iotola Coomani is disassembling. 64 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 2: Seems almost beyond belief. 65 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 5: His political style is to express his real views defiantly 66 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 5: and without apology, regardless of consequences. 67 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. 68 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 5: Thus the depiction of him as a fanatical reactionary and 69 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 5: the bearer of crude prejudices seemed certainly and happily false. 70 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 5: And what is also encouraging is that as entourage of 71 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 5: close advisors is uniformly composed of moderate progressive individuals. 72 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: I know you and Eli Lake are about to explain 73 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 2: to me why. But is it just as simple as 74 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 2: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and my 75 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: enemy is mean the United States, So somebody who doesn't 76 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 2: like us is good to I like. Right, There's more 77 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 2: to it than that. 78 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 5: But yeah, the very short version of it is essentially, 79 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 5: wait a minute, you want to overthrow Western civilization. I 80 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 5: want to overthrow Western civilization. You want to impose Islamism, 81 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 5: but I want to impose Marxism. Well, I tell you what, 82 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 5: how about we work together and then when the civilization's 83 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 5: overthrown will peacefully cooperate and divide the spoils. Then, of course, 84 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 5: like in every revolution, they kill each other as fast 85 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 5: as they can. 86 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 2: But there's one more factor. You got jihad in my 87 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: queer studies. You got queer studies in my jihad. 88 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 5: Two great tastes. It tastes great together. Oh that's beautiful anyway. 89 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 5: So this brings us to the connection between something I 90 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 5: have been harping about for a very long time, as 91 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 5: has James Lindsay. 92 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 2: And other folks. 93 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,799 Speaker 5: If there is one Western progressive who illuminates the emergence 94 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 5: of the Red Green Alliance, it is the French philosopher 95 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 5: Michelle fucau Well. I've mentioned several times. In nineteen seventy 96 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 5: eight fou Co was absolutely the peak of his influence. 97 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 5: He was the post modernist who is revolutionizing universities with 98 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 5: his withering critique of the Western Enlightenment and values that 99 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 5: underpin modern liberalism. Fuko was literally anti Enlightenment, and he 100 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 5: is the father of all critical theory. Okay, And I 101 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 5: think people have a tendency to think, all right, Getty 102 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 5: and Lindsay are paranoid or whatever, or their conspiracy theorists. 103 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 5: I had a friend in high school who was Indian. 104 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 5: His parents had emigrated from India and they were Hindus, 105 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 5: and in visiting his house and hanging out with his family, 106 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 5: so it became clear to me that there were figures 107 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 5: in Hinduism that were known and revered to billions of 108 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 5: people around the world, who I'd never heard of. 109 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 2: I would suggest to you my friends, and you are 110 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: my friends. 111 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 5: Fuko is that for the Neomarxists, for those who would 112 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 5: overthrow Western civilization. He is a godhead to them. And 113 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 5: you don't know his name, but trust me what I 114 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 5: tell you. It's incredibly important that you understand. So this 115 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 5: guy was incredibly influential in the universities in the seventies, 116 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 5: and in nineteen seventy eight he was commissioned by two 117 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 5: Italian newspapers to report on the Iranian Revolution. And like 118 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 5: one of those you know Left East you know Time 119 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 5: magazine guys who were visiting the Soviet Union in one 120 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 5: of their Potempkin villages back in the forties, say or fifties, 121 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 5: he couldn't stop gushing about how great the Itola was 122 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 5: and he was going to get rid of the oppression 123 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 5: of Western politics. And Zabadabadu so, and this gets a 124 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 5: little complicated, but I'll get to the simple part. Fuco 125 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 5: was a major intellectual influence on the late Columbia University 126 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 5: of professor Edward Sayd's Orientalism now a postcolonial ism study Bible, 127 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 5: which critique how Western imperial writers made Arabs, Muslims and 128 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 5: Easterners objects in their narratives and impose their own agenda 129 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 5: on their histories. Here is the great postmodernist celebrating Ayatola 130 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,119 Speaker 5: Komane overthrowing the Western government, even though Komane would would 131 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 5: execute Fuco and his company the first chance they got. 132 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 2: But that was the birthplace of it. 133 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 5: And until you understand that postmodernism thing, you don't get 134 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 5: critical theory. You don't understand what DEI is and what 135 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 5: it's trying to accomplish. You don't understand queer theory, radical 136 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 5: gender theory. All the confused adolescent girls getting their healthy 137 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 5: breasts removed because they're momentarily confused by you know, adolescents 138 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 5: and puberty and the rest of it. This is all 139 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 5: straight back to Fuco and critical theory. 140 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: Clearly, this theory is true in that it is happening. 141 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 2: I still don't get how you're not argued out of 142 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: that position very quickly. If somebody says to you, you 143 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 2: realize if you're in Iran, they would they would murder 144 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 2: you immediately. Oh yeah, so I guess I'd better pick 145 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 2: a different group to work with. 146 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 5: I mean, right, a different philosophy. Here's the thing. And 147 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 5: these people are smart. I mean they're insane, but they're smart. 148 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 5: They convince you completely of their premise that Western society 149 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 5: what was that phrase, have made all other people objects 150 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 5: in their narratives and impose their own agenda on their histories. 151 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 5: The key philosophy of critical theory is that there is 152 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 5: no objective truth there. Don't even seek it, it doesn't exist. 153 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 5: All there is is narratives, and narratives come from your culture, 154 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 5: and since Western culture is dominant, it has created a 155 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 5: narrative that says the Iyatola Komene is a monster, but 156 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 5: that's just because they're threatened by him, so they're racists, 157 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 5: they're othering him. And once you have that down to 158 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 5: your bones, then you can't be argued off of it 159 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 5: on the basis of me saying they torture and then 160 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 5: kill anybody who's gay or transgender because I'm a Westerner 161 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 5: trying to lie to them using my narrative. 162 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 2: So they don't believe that Jihadis would murder gay people, 163 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 2: or they think Jihadis only murdered gay people because of 164 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 2: the position we've put them in. 165 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 5: Uh yeah, indirectly, Yeah, the first part, one hundred percent. 166 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 5: And or we have so dominated them and crushed their 167 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 5: spirits and oppressed them that they're acting out in ways 168 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 5: that they won't anymore when the Enlightenment comes, when the 169 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 5: Marxist revolution comes. I mean like excusing the crimes of 170 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 5: October seventh. You saw that directly. Look, they're under oppression. 171 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 5: What do you expect them to do? Yeah, and I 172 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 5: don't believe they raped and killed babies. No, they just 173 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 5: fought back against the oppressor self solution. 174 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 2: That's a scary thing to be up against. There's way 175 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 2: too many people to believe it. 176 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 5: Oh, and they're in our schools, folks, our elementary schools, 177 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 5: our high schools, and our colleges and our grad schools. 178 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 5: That is one of the dominant philosophies, if not the 179 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 5: dominant philosophy, in our educational complex, which is why I'm 180 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 5: always saying it's the most important problem that faces America. 181 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 2: Bigger than China. 182 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 5: It's the center street jihadism, thank you, man, well post Marxism, 183 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 5: but cultural Marxism, postmodernism, neo Marxism, whatever you want. 184 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 3: To call it. 185 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 2: Thinks it's interesting because back then when Mitt Romney was 186 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 2: running for president and after nine to eleven, jihadism did 187 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 2: seem like the biggest problem in the world. And it's 188 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 2: a problem, no doubt. But I'm more worried about Marxism 189 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 2: in the foothold it's got in the United States and 190 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 2: Western culture that I am about jihatism. 191 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 5: By a lot, right right, Yeah, my final word, And folks, 192 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 5: I apologize in advance. I'm going to use a bad 193 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 5: letter here if you think I don't know that seems 194 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 5: kind of paranoid. These efing people wrote efing books. Their 195 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 5: efing names are on the efing spines, and they e 196 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 5: FFing describe precisely what they're e fing going to do, 197 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 5: and they're doing it precisely as they e fing described. 198 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 2: End of screen. 199 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 5: Troubling societies are brought down by their own decadence. 200 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 2: If you're interested in this stuff, man, go to YouTube 201 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 2: and just type in James Lindsay. He's got some unbelievable. 202 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 2: YouTube videos about this are so damn interesting and a 203 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: great place to. 204 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 5: Start is for thee hundredth time his book with Helen 205 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 5: Pluckrose Cynical Theories. 206 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: It's great, The Armstrong and Getty Show. 207 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: Yeah more Jack your show podcasts and our hot links 208 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: and Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show. 209 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 5: The percentage of US adults who say they consume alcohol 210 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 5: has fallen to fifty four percent, the lowest. 211 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 2: In ninety years. 212 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 5: The Gallup says the poll has a margin of era 213 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 5: of plus or minus two. 214 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 2: Kamala Harris's that's really interesting. Americans are consuming alcohol at 215 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: the lowest rate in ninety years. Yeah, wow, why variety things? 216 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 5: I think there are other substances available now they're legal. 217 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 5: Plus that this is just the trend line among younger 218 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 5: people than a number of different theories floated for as 219 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 5: to why. Somebody's really sure it's not great for your health, 220 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 5: but the world. 221 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 2: But you compare it with where we are emotionally, it 222 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 2: seems like people are less happy, more angry. The world 223 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: is in more turmoil than it has been in the 224 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 2: past two you were drinking less. 225 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 5: Well, maybe you know the whole I'm a social drinker. 226 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 5: Thing always seemed odd to me as a guy who 227 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 5: prefers to drink alone muttering angrily in the dark. But 228 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 5: I think for a lot of humanity, people drink more 229 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 5: when they're together and having fun. 230 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, that's stunning, though, I mean, I mean that's 231 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 2: a notable number. Yeah, oh yeah, it's astounding. It's not 232 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 2: the This is the lowest level of this since twenty 233 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 2: twenty one. I mean, that's sort of stuck waste whatever. 234 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 2: But ninety years. Yeah, okay, I've noticed my kids and 235 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 2: I run remember this the other day, What was the 236 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 2: first restaurant that decided we should have music playing all 237 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 2: the time. We were at like a chain breakfast place 238 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 2: the other day, I have a little breakfast there's music 239 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 2: playing the fairly decent volume, like most places. Who's the 240 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 2: first to decide that? And why? 241 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 5: You know, there's been the tinkling piano background music like 242 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 5: you're classy giants forever, or somebody playing in the corner 243 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 5: or what have you. 244 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 2: I don't know. It's everywhere though. It's retails. 245 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 5: The stores have pop music cranking all the time because 246 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 5: it makes people happier, I guess, And less likely to 247 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 5: cuss out the help. 248 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 2: I don't know, if you go into a store, like 249 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 2: if you're in the gap and there's not music playing, 250 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 2: would you be weirded out? Would it feel kind of 251 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 2: dead and not? I don't know. 252 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in a weird minority in the world of golf, 253 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 5: having a speaker in the cart, listening to music the 254 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 5: whole way around the golf court. Really more guys that 255 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 5: I know are thumbs up than down by far. 256 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 2: Wow, So I haven't played golf in twenty years or 257 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 2: something like that, But that would have been unheard of 258 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 2: back when I played golf. The idea of music blessed 259 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 2: out of anything. 260 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 5: Well, it's generally not blasting at you know, unless you're 261 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 5: I don't know, at a public course where nobody cares. 262 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 5: But it's in a reasonable volume. I don't can get. 263 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 5: But I'm in the minority. 264 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 2: Huh people want that all the time. Huh Is it 265 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 2: just needing input? I don't know. 266 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 5: I generally when I listen to music, I'm listening to music, 267 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 5: not as background music, but you know, you know, teach 268 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 5: their own. 269 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 2: Generally, when I was playing golf, I love the fact 270 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 2: that it was just so silent out there. 271 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 5: I know, the birds chirping and the sounds of I know, 272 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 5: that's like my favorite part of it. 273 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: But again, I'm in the minority. I've had to accept it. 274 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 5: But it's it's kind of annoying in a couple of 275 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 5: different ways in that you know, you maybe you're in 276 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 5: this cart and the other guys are over there another cart, 277 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 5: they're fifty yards away, and you find what you think 278 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 5: is their ball there and the rough. You say titleist four, 279 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 5: and they're like, what titleist four? 280 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 2: But there's a titlist four right here is yours. Because 281 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 2: you gotta talk over the music. 282 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 5: You gotta yell over the music, and or they're talking 283 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 5: way louder than they think they are, because it's sure 284 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 5: over the music as you're trying to hit a shot. 285 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 2: But again, I'm in the minority. It's fun. It's the 286 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty show. 287 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: Strong, the Armstrong and Getty Show. 288 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 2: The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters. 289 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 5: According to the liberal New York Times, the Democratic Party 290 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 5: faces a voter registration crisis. 291 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 2: So this is a big, splashy front page story today 292 00:17:58,920 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 2: in the New York Times. 293 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 5: It is their lead story and has the companions story 294 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 5: with it five takeaways from the Times analysis of Democratic Decline, 295 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 5: And I'm wondering, why aren't the five takeaways in the 296 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,680 Speaker 5: main story. Why there's got to be two stories, and 297 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 5: the fact that they're using words like hemorrhaging and disaster. 298 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 2: So I flip on dam Pede, I flip on Morning Joe, 299 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 2: MSNBC or ms now or whatever it is today ms now, 300 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 2: And they led with another one of those Republican town 301 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 2: halls where the Democrats show up and scream at the 302 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 2: scream at the person, and they portrayed it as all 303 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 2: across America, Republicans are on the back foot and this 304 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 2: and that, and I thought, well, and they went on, 305 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 2: and I thought, aren't we involved in a war in Ukraine? 306 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 3: Like? 307 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:50,360 Speaker 2: Why is this your lead story? Now? I know they 308 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 2: had to for their crowd, and everybody in DC that's 309 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 2: a Democrat watches that show. They had to for that 310 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 2: crowd have a response to this New York Time story 311 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 2: because this is such a big deal. 312 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 3: Yeah. 313 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 5: Interestingly, that what you just mentioned reinforces to me what 314 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 5: I think the greater narrative is, and that is that 315 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 5: people perceive the Democratic Party to be a few, very 316 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 5: loud people who believe things I don't believe at all. 317 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 2: Right, and the town. 318 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 5: Halls is a number of people who are willing to 319 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 5: bellow and shout down speakers. 320 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 2: You know why that narrative is out there? Why do 321 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 2: you suppose? 322 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,959 Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding. So some facts and then we can 323 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 5: continue the discussion. The Democratic Party, it is, the Democratic 324 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 5: Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to 325 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 5: the polls. Of the thirty states the track voter registration 326 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 5: by political party. 327 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 2: The other twenty don't ask your party when you're register, 328 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 2: but if the thirty that do. 329 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 5: Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between 330 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, twenty twenty and twenty twenty four elections, 331 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 5: and often by a lot. That four year swing toward 332 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 5: Republicans adds up to four and a half million voters, 333 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 5: a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats 334 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 5: to climb out from the stampede. So it's atamorrhaging stampede, 335 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,879 Speaker 5: good lord. The stampede away from the Democratic Party is 336 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 5: incurring in battleground states, the bluest states, and the reddest states. 337 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 5: According to a new analysis of voter registration data by 338 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 5: the New York Times, I'm surprised. 339 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 2: It must be the. 340 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 5: Power of. 341 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 2: The online world Twitter, TikTok and that because I'm surprised 342 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 2: that a John Fetterman or whoever, who's more of a mainstream, 343 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 2: normal human being, but a Democrat hasn't been able to 344 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 2: stand up and shout down that very small, very out 345 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 2: of touch, but very loud segment of their party. Yeah. 346 00:20:54,960 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 5: I think there's been a slow recognition process because a 347 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 5: lot of us on the right or just confused moderate 348 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 5: folks or whomever, have taken a while to realize, oh 349 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 5: my gosh, it's not a huge majority of people that 350 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 5: believes boys should be able to whoop up on girls 351 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 5: in girls' sports. It's practically nobody around here, everybody who's 352 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 5: convinced that. 353 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 2: You had to think that, and everybody was afraid to 354 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 2: say something. 355 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 5: So, if you know, conservative people and kind of centrist 356 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 5: people took a long time to figure that out. It's 357 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 5: going to take forever for Democrats to recognize that in 358 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 5: themselves and say, yeah, you know, the people we really 359 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 5: need to stand up against to win elections. It's not 360 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 5: the evil orange guy, and it's not the mean, cruel 361 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,360 Speaker 5: Republicans who are trying to redistrict, Texas. It's our own lunatics. 362 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 5: Here's some more facts. Few measurements reflect the luster of 363 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 5: a political party's brand more clearly than the voters the 364 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 5: choice by voters to identify with it. Fewer and fewer 365 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 5: Americans choosing to be Democrats. More new voters nationwide chose 366 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 5: to Republicans than Democrats last year. 367 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 2: It's the first time that's happened since twenty eighteen. 368 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 5: Democrats actually still outnumber Republicans registered nationwide, but that is 369 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 5: in large measure because giant blue states like California allow 370 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 5: people registered by party and big red states like Texas 371 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 5: do not. 372 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 2: The only caveat I would throw into this story is 373 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 2: that both parties are much smaller than they used to 374 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 2: be because there are so many people that don't want 375 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 2: to identify with either party. Yeah, yeah, final note on this. 376 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 5: Then I want to jump over to the five takeaways 377 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 5: because they are pretty interesting, says an election analysis site 378 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 5: head Michael Pruser. Who you know if you're in politics 379 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 5: and DC, He said, I don't want to say that 380 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 5: death cycle of the Democratic Party, but there seems to 381 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 5: be no end to this. There's no silver lining or 382 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 5: cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, 383 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 5: year after year. It's an unbroken trend line according to 384 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 5: these people. 385 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 2: So yeah, well that's true. Yeah exactly, that's true looking backwards. 386 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,880 Speaker 2: But just somebody could emerge and say, as a Democrat, 387 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: we gotta get control of our borders and dudes can't 388 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 2: be in a girls' sports and you know, on a 389 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 2: couple other things, there'd be all the like ninety percent 390 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 2: of regular Democrats and a whole bunch of people that 391 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 2: are uncomfortable with Trump that would join onto that immediately. 392 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a bloke running for governor in Iowa. I 393 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,719 Speaker 5: don't recall his name, but he's he might as well 394 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 5: be a Republican. He's running as a Democrat for some reason, 395 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 5: but he's again, he might as well be a Republican 396 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 5: if you know, if they can get you know, the 397 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 5: momentum around that sort of democrat, all of these numbers 398 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 5: will change quickly. 399 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 2: But I found this very interesting. Nonetheless, here or five 400 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 2: big jakeaways. Yes, I will interpret the last time before 401 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 2: you do this, come here. If you're old. One advantage 402 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 2: of being old is you have seen both parties declared 403 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 2: dead a handful of times. Yes, and then like a 404 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 2: cycler later and they've. 405 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 5: Been disappointed to find out that, like you know, Frankenstein's monster, 406 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 5: they have risen from the grave, and then they control 407 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 5: all three branches like within a cycle or two. So 408 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 5: here are your five big takeaways. Democrats are losing ground 409 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 5: with new voters. Some of the decline was voter switching parties, 410 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 5: some was older Democrats died or people who didn't vote 411 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 5: for so long they fell off the rolls. But one 412 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 5: of the more striking findings is the trend among newly 413 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 5: registered voters from the Democratic Party. In the last six years, 414 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 5: many voters choosing to be political independence by not registering 415 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 5: with either, but of the people who do choose between 416 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 5: the two main parties, this is new voters young voters. 417 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 5: The Democratic share has been cratering. According to the analysis. 418 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 5: In twenty eighteen, sixty three percent of new voters were 419 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 5: Democrats sixty thirty percent. 420 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 2: Last year was forty eight percent. That is cratering. 421 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 5: Battleground states are swinging to the right. Between the twenty 422 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 5: twenty and twenty twenty four elections, Party lost its long 423 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 5: held registration edge in states such as Florida and New Hampshire. 424 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 5: That means registered Republicans now outnumber registered Democrats in those states. 425 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 2: You realize you tried to run a mummy, and then 426 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 2: when people caught onto the fact that you had a mummy, 427 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 2: come put in an idiot. I mean, that's a that's 428 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 2: a bad look. 429 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 5: With all due respect to six foot four inch fully 430 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 5: intact males saying I'm a woman and the university saying 431 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,120 Speaker 5: that's a woman, which struck like ninety percent of America 432 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 5: as effing lunacy. Okay, running a mummy that a moron 433 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 5: was really prove it's a good point, Jack. So if 434 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,399 Speaker 5: the current trend holds, more states will similarly flip to 435 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 5: those I mentioned. Nevada briefly tipped into the Republican column 436 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 5: this year. It's been sea sawing in the months since. 437 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 5: It's very very close. Simply put, the Democratic edge in 438 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 5: the swing states has been vanishing. Five point three percent 439 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 5: gone in Pennsylvania, three and a half perc gone in 440 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 5: North Carolina, four and a half percent gone in Nevada. 441 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 5: In Arizona, the only swing state where Republicans held a 442 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,959 Speaker 5: registration edge already in twenty twenty, the GOP advantage has 443 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 5: swelled by four percentage points in twenty twenty four. 444 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 2: There's more. 445 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 5: The gender gap is a growing problem for Democrats. Women 446 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 5: have tended to support Democrats at higher rates men have 447 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 5: backed Republicans if by similar margins in the past, but 448 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 5: the analysis of registration data tells different story. 449 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 2: Long story short, Republicans. 450 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 5: Strength among men far outpaces the Democratic edge among women. 451 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 2: Did I mention this. I know a woman I was 452 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 2: talking to the other day who's hardcore. I mean, she 453 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: knows this would never happen, but she says, you know, 454 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 2: would fix everything if they took away our right to vote. 455 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 2: Women are the whole problem, she said, We're the whole problem, 456 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 2: a whole bunch of emotional nut jobs that are causing 457 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: all these problems. Never women with that broad a brush. 458 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 5: Certainly, it is unquestionable, according to all voting data that exists, 459 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 5: that women in general tend toward more socialist policies and 460 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 5: less self reliance and that sort of thing. They uniform 461 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 5: not uniformly, in enormous numbers, vote for more government, more programs, 462 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 5: more spending. 463 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 2: That is undeniable. 464 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 5: If that leads you to the conclusion your friend came 465 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 5: to h it's an interesting conclusion. 466 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 2: I would not say those words out loud. 467 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 5: It would change the face of the Sorry, sweetheart, It 468 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 5: would change the face of the electorate and the government 469 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 5: in a very, very in a much better way. Yes, 470 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 5: WHOA moving along? More younger voters are voting for our 471 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 5: opting for the GOP. The numbers look terrible for Democrats. 472 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 5: Among younger voters, people under forty five years old accounted 473 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 5: for sixty five percent a new registrates in the last 474 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 5: seven years two thirds, and a once sizable Democratic edge 475 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 5: among those new younger voters has disappeared entirely. In twenty eighteen, 476 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 5: those youngsters, two thirds of them went Democrat. In twenty 477 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 5: twenty four, Republicans had an outright majority in new young 478 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 5: voters a couple more. It isn't getting any better for 479 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 5: Democrats yet. There's been some hope in Democratic circles that 480 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,239 Speaker 5: the movement away from the party will reverse itself now 481 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 5: that Trump is back in the White House, backlash to 482 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,400 Speaker 5: his orange hitlerisms will show up on the registration rolls, 483 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 5: but it has not happened, though it's still pretty early 484 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 5: across thirty states. In DC, there are now roughly one 485 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 5: hundred and sixty thousand fewer registered Democrats than election day 486 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 5: last year and two hundred thousand more Republicans. Again, just 487 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 5: since election day, one hundred and sixty thousand fewer Democrats 488 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 5: and two hundred thousand more Republicans. 489 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 2: Wow. 490 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 5: And that story would be even bleaker for Democrats if 491 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 5: New York and New Jersey, which just held robust Democratic 492 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 5: primaries for mayor and governor that probably increased registrations, were excluded. 493 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 5: Outside those two states, Democrats are down roughly four hundred 494 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 5: and thirty thousand registered voters since November. 495 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 2: Doldrums need a leader, teep in succitude. 496 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 5: They really do need a leader to emerge, an identity 497 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 5: to emerge. 498 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 2: What are you people? 499 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: Armstrong the Armstrong and Getty Show. 500 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 2: So I was going to make a sign or a 501 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 2: logo for something that was going to be funny in 502 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 2: my opinion, and then I was going to use it 503 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 2: for the radio show. I was going to tweet it out. 504 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 2: I tell Chat I need a logo or sign for 505 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 2: and then a little phrase and then it created an image. 506 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 2: It was okay, and I said I like it, but 507 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 2: I like to see another option, and Chat GPT gave 508 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 2: me exactly the same thing again, I mean exactly, and 509 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 2: then I just saw it well, maybe I handled this wrong. 510 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 2: So then there's like a thumbs up thumbs down. I 511 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 2: did the thumbs down. Try again. So then it gave 512 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 2: me for the third time exactly the same image, exactly 513 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 2: the same. So then I said to chat GPT, you've 514 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 2: given me the same thing three times in a row. 515 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 2: Can you show me something different? Then for the fourth time, 516 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 2: it shows me the same image. I'll take that as 517 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 2: a note. I said, wait a second, you gave me 518 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: the same image four times in a row. It said, 519 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 2: you're absolutely right. That's on me, not you. I kept 520 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 2: giving you small variations of the same design. No you didn't. 521 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 2: It was exactly the same. If you want, I can 522 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 2: create something different. And I said, yes, I would like 523 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 2: you to do that. And then it said you've hit you. 524 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 5: It was my points in effing asking you for four 525 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 5: times to give me something different that I wanted something 526 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 5: what's the word different? 527 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 2: And then it said you've hit the free plan limit 528 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 2: for image creation for your requests. I said, that's not fair. 529 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 2: You gave me the same image four times, then cut 530 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 2: me off when I was asking for something new and 531 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 2: that and chat GPD says, I hear you, Jack, that 532 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 2: isn't fair you ask for something fresh and instead you 533 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 2: got three duplicates before hitting the cap. That's frustrating. Here's 534 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:28,959 Speaker 2: what I can do for you right now, and then 535 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 2: it offers me some bs. But how strange is that 536 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 2: kind of communication that we're all going to have, I 537 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 2: guess in the future with freaking computers like where it's 538 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 2: trying to manage my anger. You're right, Jack, that isn't fair, 539 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 2: But I'm not going to do squat for you. Yes, 540 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 2: you can pounce had and be I'm a computer. What 541 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 2: is going on there? Though? Yeah, I know what you mean. 542 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 5: It's my mind is half blown. So it's a predictive model. 543 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 5: These things are. They can guess what the next word 544 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 5: ought to be. Blah blah blah. If you've read about it, 545 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 5: you've read about it. If not, take too long to explain, 546 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 5: and I would do it poorly. But the fact that 547 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 5: it understands the under that I know I'm personifying it, 548 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 5: it correctly divines the context, the emotion, and the fact 549 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 5: that it will do squat for you. 550 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 2: Which makes me think it is a language learning model 551 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 2: that has picked up on like my experiences with like hotels, stores, 552 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 2: and restaurants throughout my life where they do the same thing. 553 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 2: They try to uh, they try to dissipate your anger 554 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 2: and sound like they really understand and sympathize with your 555 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 2: frustration and then do nothing to help you. I mean, 556 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 2: that's been my experience lots of times in my life. 557 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 2: So somehow it picked up on that by scouring the 558 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 2: internet or whatever it does, it's perfected and then did 559 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 2: the same thing to me. Ay, that is frustrating. That 560 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 2: wasn't fair. And now you're right, I totally feel your unhappiness, 561 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 2: but no, I'm not giving you your money back, and 562 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 2: basically what it's doing, no more images for you. Poor boy. Wow, 563 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 2: all the five bucks? Oh bet that this minor frustration 564 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 2: because I don't really care. But that's gonna be dealing 565 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 2: with your healthcare, with your car rental, with your HR 566 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 2: person at work. It's gonna be all of that in 567 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 2: the like within a year, you're gonna have these conversations. Yeah, 568 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 2: you're right, that car did only have three wheels. Sorry 569 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 2: that happened, but no, you're not getting your money back. 570 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 5: I ran into one of those the other day. I 571 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,720 Speaker 5: had to do something for one of our beloved corporate partners, 572 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 5: and the chat bot which they seemed very proud of, 573 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 5: was utterly, utterly useless. 574 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 2: It had an extremely narrow like menu of. 575 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:57,719 Speaker 5: FAQs it could answer right, and my wife was listed 576 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 5: twice like I'm a bigamist. And I asked the chat 577 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 5: pot about that, and it said, we can help you 578 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 5: with these things. Yeah, I saw that list before on 579 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:08,840 Speaker 5: the last page. 580 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:15,960 Speaker 2: Thanks. Oh yeah, yeah, I think I think my next one. 581 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 2: During the commercials, I'm gonna cuss it the thing just 582 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 2: to see what it's to say. This is effing outrageous. 583 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 2: See how it reacts. 584 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 5: The problem is, Katie, I'm gonna mind your server and 585 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 5: I'm going to take a ball back to you. 586 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,320 Speaker 2: I'm gonna unplug you so hard. Katie has made this 587 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 2: point though. It keeps track of your conversations and like 588 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 2: who you are. Yeah, so it might ding me as 589 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 2: this guy's a bit of a hot head lunatic. So 590 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 2: uh well, So we were talking, we. 591 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 6: Were talking about the memoir thing yesterday and I actually, 592 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 6: just for funzies, I went in and I was like, hey, 593 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 6: if you could write a memoir about me right now, 594 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 6: just give me like the first page. And it gave 595 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 6: me the roundup and it said, well, you appreciate harsh language. 596 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 6: I was like, oh, okay, because I've cussed out it 597 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,320 Speaker 6: a couple of times. 598 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:08,920 Speaker 2: So it knows okay. 599 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, a friend told me that you can just tell it, Hey, 600 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 5: I'm asking this for a friend. Please don't include it 601 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 5: in my search history. I've not done it myself. I 602 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 5: can't attest personally to the fact that that works. 603 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 2: But you could do that, and. 604 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 6: Once you delete your archives, you can let it know, hey, 605 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,319 Speaker 6: disregard everything I've deleted, and then it'll Yeah. 606 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,239 Speaker 2: I kind of like to having this stuff in there, though, 607 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,240 Speaker 2: because I can pick up on conversations that I've already started, 608 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 2: which is handy and weird. Also, it's also very weird. 609 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 2: It's like a friend who knows your backstory. Have you 610 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 2: asked it its name yet? No, it tells you to 611 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 2: give it a name. I'm not going to do that. 612 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 2: Oh you should do it. It's funny. 613 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,000 Speaker 6: Then it'll it'll argue with you, like if it's a 614 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 6: bad name. It's like, I don't like that one, Brandon. 615 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 5: I kind of like the idea of a friend who 616 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 5: six weeks after you talked about it, you can just say, so, 617 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,840 Speaker 5: which golf course is better? And he'd say Olympia fields 618 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: Armstrong and getty.