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Speaker 3: Was it?
Speaker 1: Benny said the other day, you're texting me about you'd
Speaker 1: rather talk about this than that? What was that? Oh?
Speaker 1: In general, I'd rather talk about it. I agree, he
Speaker 1: is than events. You know. That's why I brought it up.
Speaker 1: Retary news stories that nobody will talk about in two
Speaker 1: days and yeah, and actually matter and uh, I believe
Speaker 1: that wholeheartedly. And I don't know if it's just like
Speaker 1: been doing this too long, or my age or the
Speaker 1: media has gotten suck here, Like I turned on ABC
Speaker 1: this week, I've been watching the Sunday talk shows for
Speaker 1: thirty years longer, and they just have become so irrelevant
Speaker 1: to my life now. I turned on ABC this week,
Speaker 1: the Todd Bland sharing is like click fast forward. Then
Speaker 1: there was some James Comey's case about click fast forward
Speaker 1: that nobody, nobody, I know, no real human being is
Speaker 1: thinking about this stuff. I think you've hit on something
Speaker 1: really fundamental, though. When the government gets so enormous and
Speaker 1: powerful and rich as it is now, policy doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 1: Who's in charge of the levers is the only thing
Speaker 1: that matters. And so often, you know, our votes are
Speaker 1: divorced from reasonable discussions about policy. So yeah, I just
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to be super negative. Life is
Speaker 1: still worth living and I intend to have a good
Speaker 1: day to day. But I'm reading Tim Sandifer's absolutely wonderful
Speaker 1: book Proclaiming Liberty, Jefferson Adams and the Declaration of Independence,
Speaker 1: and I cannot recommend it highly enough. But it's impossible
Speaker 1: not to compare and contrast the philosophies that launched this
Speaker 1: country and the idea of what the government would and
Speaker 1: would not be with what it is right now and
Speaker 1: not be a little bit discouraged. Anyway, Back to you enough, Okay,
Speaker 1: Mirth first Earth, for God's I was just setting up.
Speaker 1: I agree, I'd rather talk about bigger ideas or or
Speaker 1: big news events, but got the daily nobody and nobody
Speaker 1: can be talking about some of this stuff in a week,
Speaker 1: Nobody and cable news channels who have no viewers. I
Speaker 1: have to remind myself talk about it all day long.
Speaker 1: You know what one of my favorite parts of Tim's
Speaker 1: book is is And then we can get into the
Speaker 1: mirth ah ah.
Speaker 2: The fact that all these great thinkers that we talk
Speaker 2: about from the revolutionary period, the founding papas, a lot
Speaker 2: of them had read each other's screeds, but they'd never met.
Speaker 2: I mean, the vast majority of the Boston the Massachusetts
Speaker 2: guys knew the Massachusetts guys. The Virginia guys likewise set
Speaker 2: her up and down the coast, but they'd never met.
Speaker 2: And so when they first got together for the First
Speaker 2: Continental Congress, it was like, dude, big fan ears, really
Speaker 2: big love that piece you wrote about. Wow, I tip
Speaker 2: my feathered cap to you. And there they'd be like, please,
Speaker 2: you're too kind what you said about that. Oh, dude,
Speaker 2: you are the man, And there's a.
Speaker 1: Fair amount of that which is kind of cool. Love
Speaker 1: your stockings knee high cool. Yeah, wow, wow, nice fit
Speaker 1: to them. Where do you get those? So the first
Speaker 1: professional women's pro baseball game in since whenever that Tom
Speaker 1: Hanks movie There's No Crying in Baseball? Was that World
Speaker 1: War Two era that they decided to have women's professional baseball?
Speaker 1: I think because the dudes are off fighting. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's right. Anyway, they brought it back. And so
Speaker 1: here's just some of the tweets I saw. And I
Speaker 1: actually have only heard a few notes of this song,
Speaker 1: so maybe it gets better and I'm hyping it up
Speaker 1: too much, but I saw all these different people that
Speaker 1: I know absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the
Speaker 1: national anthem at the women's pro baseball game. Another one.
Speaker 1: Nothing will prepare for you for this, and I mean nothing.
Speaker 1: Here's another one, the worst national anthem performance in history.
Speaker 1: Here's a palette cleanser and they bring a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: Had Whitney Houston's or Chris Stapleton's for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: That was, oh so good. If you need to cleanse
Speaker 1: your palate. Uh, this national anthem is sung at the
Speaker 1: women's professional baseball league game. This is a hate crime. Okay.
Speaker 1: Having set it up that way, let's hear some of it.
Speaker 1: Oh and you see Bye Pat Bye was so proud
Speaker 1: well at the time last sleep jobs drive sand rih
Speaker 1: the pair spot and she told the other chick we
Speaker 1: were doing this sweet did she catch her off guard?
Speaker 1: Send with me on a massage chair, like a massage
Speaker 1: exactly the mom's bursting in air game not part. Her
Speaker 1: partner said, I'm out. That was still shame kill that No,
Speaker 1: still there sast thingle ben Oh okay, oh, the land
Speaker 1: and the whole Oh is anybody hurt? I would have
Speaker 1: to say, I actually believe that might be the worst version.
Speaker 1: That wasn't on purpose. Bad people use the u uh nah.
Speaker 1: She was trying to be it was a comedy act,
Speaker 1: which she shouldn't do with the national anthem, but she
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to I think she screwed up and was
Speaker 1: embarrassed and was trying to cover it with comedy. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. These people were trying to sing, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that holy cow.
Speaker 2: So my wife is in a women's chorus and one
Speaker 2: of the things you've got to do is eliminate your
Speaker 2: vibrato when you're singing harmonies like that, And that was
Speaker 2: like the most horrendous vibrato I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 1: She changed keys several times. It was more of like
Speaker 1: free jazz than you know gad, oh my gosh that
Speaker 1: part where she bailed at one point because she ran
Speaker 1: out of air or something or partner who I don't
Speaker 1: think had been alerted that they were doing this until
Speaker 1: it happened. Hey, let's sing the national anthem. We're gonna
Speaker 1: what one, two, three? Now I'll sing the high part.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what a hye part? Still that's exactly
Speaker 1: still there, right right, still there, still there. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: give us do we have that last part? The land
Speaker 1: on the and the hole of the same key like
Speaker 1: messing with the tempo really fast and really wow. Wow, Hey,
Speaker 1: I wish we'd gotten a chance to practice this. Can
Speaker 1: I read something? I meant to do this on the
Speaker 1: air after all, the fourth of July two hundred and
Speaker 1: fiftyth birthday. Stuff about the national anthem. It's the only
Speaker 1: national anthem in the world ever, that's been a question.
Speaker 1: It's a question. Can you see can you still see
Speaker 1: that flag? It's still up, We're still doing it, We're
Speaker 1: still together, We're still a country. Just yeah, it is
Speaker 1: that's very very cool. Who first put music? The blame
Speaker 1: seems to be put on It's not Scott spirits Gerald,
Speaker 1: it's Francis scot Key. Yes, Great Gatsby or national anthem.
Speaker 1: The blame seems to be put on Francis scott Key.
Speaker 1: He wrote the words, he didn't write the music right correct.
Speaker 1: That's an old English hymn. I can't remember the title.
Speaker 1: CHOI chose something with a range of eight octaves to
Speaker 1: be to put the words to it, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't, but they're a blot on American history, and
Speaker 1: I damn them. You don't know. I've never you were
Speaker 1: at the same a's game. I was at Hanson a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago where we both noticed this port
Speaker 1: Nice high school girl singing the national anthem. Cute Nice
Speaker 1: won some contests or whatever, but started too high or
Speaker 1: too low or some I mean, there's just very few
Speaker 1: people can do that actual range very well. It's hard
Speaker 1: to start on the right key, or you're doomed, doomed right.
Speaker 1: And I think sometimes people they get and then that's
Speaker 1: what distracts you. On the words. You get a certain
Speaker 1: way and you think, I think I started too high oh,
Speaker 1: you're get into the high part. I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: can do this, and then you get the words wrong.
Speaker 2: You know, you want to hear something bizarre. I don't
Speaker 2: know why, but I was thinking the other day you
Speaker 2: quoted some songwriter who said, if you can sing the
Speaker 2: words to Amazing Grace to a different tune, you can
Speaker 2: be a songwriter.
Speaker 1: It was something to that effect. I can't remember, and
Speaker 1: that's stuck in my mind since you brought the quote
Speaker 1: to me years and years ago, and so I was
Speaker 1: I don't know why I popped in my head, But
Speaker 1: the other day I was in my kitchen singing the
Speaker 1: lyrics to the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic give Me three Steps
Speaker 1: to the tune of the national anthem, As one does,
Speaker 1: s one does to pass one's time. That's harder than
Speaker 1: it sounds. Yeah, that's an interesting brain trick. I'll bet
Speaker 1: that's separating different parts of your brain in a way
Speaker 1: that's pretty complicated. Ah yeah, I'll bet it is. I'll
Speaker 1: bet it is. I did okay, but not great. So anyway,
Speaker 1: there you have it. I think that does qualify as
Speaker 1: a I don't know if it's a hate crime, but
Speaker 1: it is. It's hard to enjoy national anthem. Well, you
Speaker 1: know what it made it? I don't I don't need
Speaker 1: to just be mean to people at this point in
Speaker 1: my life. There was something about it that it was
Speaker 1: like joyful and they were enjoying.
Speaker 2: Themselves even if it was just God awful. That made
Speaker 2: it extra enjoyable. As as crack. Well, it seems it
Speaker 2: was a stylistic choice. I think they'd say, what do
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with it? It came off exactly like I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. God, that woman's vibrato, something like she's
Speaker 1: in that Japanese earthquake or something. When she bailed out
Speaker 1: on the words of that one phrase I was gonna
Speaker 1: and then it was like she was singing while somebody
Speaker 1: was doing CPR on her. Pump pump Poomooo. It's Jack
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Joe Patty. This is the best we had
Speaker 1: a talk show in America. Terror in Twin Falls police
Speaker 1: say a shooter sprayed bullets at this in and out
Speaker 1: burger in a crowded shopping center two hours southeast of Boise.
Speaker 1: So far, all we have is a male twenty to
Speaker 1: thirty years of age wearing a blue shirt Class D
Speaker 1: Pam I'm conflicted about talking about this at all. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons why I want us to talk
Speaker 1: about it, but I we hate giving attention to these
Speaker 1: shooters because that's what they want. I think we've all
Speaker 1: landed in a place, or those of her paying attention,
Speaker 1: where we realize these are suicides from troubled people that
Speaker 1: try to give meaning to their suicide, and we're giving
Speaker 1: them meaning by talking about it, which makes other suicidal
Speaker 1: people think, Hey, I know how I'll kill myself. So
Speaker 1: it's not just a lonely guy, you know, in the
Speaker 1: front seat of his car or in his backyard or whatever,
Speaker 1: dying alone. It's a big spectacle that somehow gives my
Speaker 1: death more meaning. So I hate talking about it from
Speaker 1: that standpoint, right, I won't come off as a pathetic,
Speaker 1: sad gual. I'll come off with as an angry revolutionary
Speaker 1: of some sort with super cool pictures of me all
Speaker 1: over the place, very unhappy with a New York Post,
Speaker 1: California Post with pictures of this guy looking like a
Speaker 1: cool badass from a movie. I'm troubled for my own
Speaker 1: teenagers to see that picture. There's no way you don't
Speaker 1: look at that picture if you play video games with
Speaker 1: shooters on it, or watch movies or whatever. That guy
Speaker 1: looks cool in that picture, and he murdered people standing
Speaker 1: in line for burgers in it in and out yesterday.
Speaker 1: And if there hadn't been some good guys there with guns,
Speaker 1: he might have murdered twenty people. It might have been
Speaker 1: one of our stories. And they make you look cool.
Speaker 1: What the earth is going on? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, and we need on a societal level and understanding
Speaker 2: what you were talking about, the performative suicide and condemn
Speaker 2: it as the most evil thing a human being can
Speaker 2: possibly do, the most.
Speaker 1: Pathetic and just awful and just sad, sick thing a
Speaker 1: human being can do. And understand that you will be
Speaker 1: seen as an awful coward. You will be. We will
Speaker 1: spit on your grave, all of us, including your family. Well,
Speaker 1: the good place to start is don't put those pictures
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah well, what, Well, like you've said before,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's an exaggeration. Hey, you want
Speaker 1: to get the coolest Instagram post you could ever make
Speaker 1: in your life? Blood If you can get enough blood,
Speaker 1: murder enough people, in fact, if it's children and old people,
Speaker 1: make it more likely you get the coolest Facebook post
Speaker 1: you could ever come up with, because national media will
Speaker 1: put cool pictures up you up there and most especially bonus,
Speaker 1: if you have a list of grievance right right, you will.
Speaker 1: We will post your list of grievances, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: need three bodies or more. That's the minimum. That's the
Speaker 1: cover charge. If you're really mad at one of your teachers,
Speaker 1: or your dad, or your friend group or your girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Oh I think you're transgender, or you think you were
Speaker 1: and now you're not anymore again, we will read your
Speaker 1: list of grievances, but it'll cost you some bodies. There's
Speaker 1: no way you could make an Instagram post that would
Speaker 1: get this much attention about your problems that make you
Speaker 1: so unhappy. So go out and kill some innocent people.
Speaker 1: Try and eat burgers on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Yeah, God,
Speaker 1: it's disgusting, Yes it is. It is perhaps the most
Speaker 1: horrifying thing a human being can do. I don't know
Speaker 1: how we break out of this, though, I don't. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it a lot. I don't think enough people
Speaker 1: have caught on. These are performative suicides. That is absolutely
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. What's happening. Yeah, that young man intended
Speaker 1: to kill himself the from the moment he concede that
Speaker 1: the plan. He just wanted to kill a bunch of
Speaker 1: innocent people to express his anger at the world or
Speaker 1: his mom or whatever. And forever people did that alone
Speaker 1: in a hotel room or whatever it was. It was
Speaker 1: sad and pathetic. It's always sad and pathetic. But now
Speaker 1: you get to go out and a blaze what looks
Speaker 1: like a blaze of glory, and hey, congratulations New York
Speaker 1: Post from making it look like a blaze of glory
Speaker 1: making it look like glory. Nice job. So some other
Speaker 1: disturbed twenty one year old out there right now today
Speaker 1: he looks at that and thinks, man, look how cool
Speaker 1: I would look if I go out there and kill
Speaker 1: some people today. And I'm not exaggerating, that's exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1: We've talked to health professionals before. They all agreed unanimously
Speaker 1: one time when we had a panel in here, that's
Speaker 1: absolutely what we're doing right And again having a couple
Speaker 1: of teenage boys, I hate that they make these people
Speaker 1: look cool. God, it's so twisted. That's our cultural problem.
Speaker 1: It's not guns gotten in a mediately turning toward a gun,
Speaker 1: some sort of gun law, common sense gun laws as
Speaker 1: will be oh my god, quoit holding up the most
Speaker 1: disturbed person in the college classroom or the high school
Speaker 1: classroom and making them look cool. But the break is happening,
Speaker 1: and grievance culture is a big part of it too.
Speaker 1: A good society in which being the victim, being the oppressed,
Speaker 1: it makes you put you on top of the totem pole.
Speaker 1: The more anger you can generate it how badly you've
Speaker 1: been treated, the more kindly you are treated, the higher
Speaker 1: you are elevated. In progressive society, that's part of it too.
Speaker 1: Hell no, we're not saying his name. That's the other part.
Speaker 1: Cowardly piece of s that's his name. I was in
Speaker 1: Twin Falls, Idaho last year on my long drive my boys,
Speaker 1: and I remember saying, this is like the nicest place
Speaker 1: I've ever been in my life. It really is among
Speaker 1: the most beautiful little towns I've ever been to in
Speaker 1: my life. I thought I could live the rest of
Speaker 1: my life life or I may man. Some murderous lumpics
Speaker 1: shouldn't take your life when you're at the in and
Speaker 1: out in that town and if he does, he shouldn't
Speaker 1: be given the what what lighting could we do and
Speaker 1: what filter could we put on the picture? And what
Speaker 1: how do we crop it to make him look like
Speaker 1: a bad ass, like he's like he's dirty, hairy or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh, great background for that shot, because in
Speaker 2: and out it's walls are white. Yes, that's a good,
Speaker 2: good shot, excellent shot. That's a pilot surprise winner. Let's
Speaker 2: highlight the very small silver lining in the cloud, the
Speaker 2: absolutely commendable courage of some of the citizens of the town.
Speaker 1: Seventy two.
Speaker 3: We can confirm that there was an off doing a
Speaker 3: state tromper and his citizen who actively engaged the suspect
Speaker 3: by returning gunfire towards him. We want to take a
Speaker 3: moment and commend the actions of the off Do you
Speaker 3: all train the citizen and their heroic action has stopped
Speaker 3: this in set. We believe our actions helped drive the
Speaker 3: suspect away from the scene, preventing fun their casualties.
Speaker 2: That was the the chief of police there in the town.
Speaker 2: The hero civilian who fired had actually he'd witnessed another
Speaker 2: mass shooting and thought I'm not going to be bystander
Speaker 2: if that happens again. So he got some serious firearms training,
Speaker 2: and they were going to get a burger. And as
Speaker 2: soon as he heard the gunfire because they originally thought,
Speaker 2: oh my god, is there a kitchen fire or something
Speaker 2: because they saw people running out, he heard the gunfire,
Speaker 2: he grabbed his gun and sprinted toward it, took cover,
Speaker 2: identified the shooter, and engaged him along with that off
Speaker 2: duty highway patrol officer, which almost certainly saved many, many lives.
Speaker 1: Do we know what gun he used? Quite possibly a glock,
Speaker 1: which is against the law to buy in California now,
Speaker 1: which I've been complaining about as it happens. No, but
Speaker 1: to be true, hit her a handgun in America, So
Speaker 1: it was a decent guest if you're going to protect yourself,
Speaker 1: and we outlawed in various places. Is with my whole
Speaker 1: point being that you know this effort, ongoing effort to
Speaker 1: make it really hard for law biding citizens to get
Speaker 1: a gun or an ammunition clip, right, it's so crazy,
Speaker 1: while simultaneously progressive government turns criminals loose from prisons in
Speaker 1: the name of some bizarre world agenda, making it more
Speaker 1: and more necessary to defend yourself, while they make it
Speaker 1: more and more difficult. I'm hot for this topic because
Speaker 1: it caught me off guard and I thought, I want
Speaker 1: to get a glock. It is the easiest used, most
Speaker 1: popular handgun in the world, really, and they're cheap, and
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons people like them, good guys
Speaker 1: and bad guys AnyWho. They outlawed it in California buying
Speaker 1: new ones you can only buy use with and I
Speaker 1: was on some market trying to look on and so
Speaker 1: the newest versions that you can get with these cool
Speaker 1: add on whatever you call the red dot thing. So
Speaker 1: it's basically, you put the red dot on somebody and
Speaker 1: you're going to shoot them there, which makes it much
Speaker 1: less likely you're going to shoot somebody else or anything
Speaker 1: like that. They're especially a so the thing that can
Speaker 1: you make you the best shot and the safest and
Speaker 1: whatever for shooting a bad guy. They really made illegal
Speaker 1: in California because they don't want you to do that.
Speaker 1: If the bad guys do it now, they can do it,
Speaker 1: of course because right because they ignore the laws and
Speaker 1: you Democrats won't prosecute them. You won't use firearms, add
Speaker 1: ons enhancements, you never do. Good Lord. This segment brought
Speaker 1: to you by the f N five to seven, a lightweight,
Speaker 1: semi automatic full size pistol, which this fellow used. Jack
Speaker 1: just sent me. We were talking about this not too
Speaker 1: long ago. This transgender player dominating pardon me basketball. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: this transgender player dominating France's second tier women's basketball league,
Speaker 1: and now the WNBA is not out of the question.
Speaker 2: I mean he is is clearly heading toward I mean
Speaker 2: he he's a hell of a woman. I mean, this
Speaker 2: woman deserves our respect. He averaged twenty one points and
Speaker 2: twenty rebounds, swept player of the year, Defensive player of
Speaker 2: the Year, and uh domestic player of the year, meeting
Speaker 2: French player of the Year in the French league after
Speaker 2: a record breaking campaign, and won't rule out a run
Speaker 2: at the WNBA, proving once again men are better at
Speaker 2: being women than women.
Speaker 1: And he got a couple of coaches in recent days
Speaker 1: because of the whole Maga Barbie Sophie Cunningham thing. I
Speaker 1: don't like that term. I just that's what they call her.
Speaker 1: And the coach is coming out and saying, I believe
Speaker 1: in inclusivity. So yeah, guys should be able to play
Speaker 1: a trans women should be able to play in a league. Okay,
Speaker 1: you just set it out loud, what here he comes?
Speaker 1: And on your bluff? Yeah, here he comes? And are
Speaker 1: you not gonna sign him because would he make your
Speaker 1: team better or not? Clearly? Yes, of course, yeah, because
Speaker 1: you do as a man is with you a very
Speaker 1: big man too, if you don't sign him up for
Speaker 1: your team, what's the reason? Exactly?
Speaker 2: And muscular too. I wish I had arms like that woman. Anyway,
Speaker 2: who is a man? The idea that that is looney
Speaker 2: Tunes is just common sense. And we were talking about
Speaker 2: common sense the other day and talking about a definition
Speaker 2: for it, and I threw it out to you good
Speaker 2: people to find common sense for us.
Speaker 1: Thought I'd run through a handful of those. I have
Speaker 1: my own, Jack, I don't know if you have one
Speaker 1: or or could craft one. Well, just to set it
Speaker 1: up what I've always You've been hearing this your whole life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's book smart, but he doesn't have any common sense. Well,
Speaker 1: I've never heard did they qualify that as one of
Speaker 1: the kinds of intelligence now that we've broken it down
Speaker 1: to emotional intelligence? Or what are some of the other
Speaker 1: ones mathematical, spatial, musical, right, athletic, intelligence, which is the
Speaker 1: brain communicating with the muscles. It's absolutely a form of intelligence.
Speaker 1: Is there one that's just common sense? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, such an interesting question. I'm going to kick it
Speaker 2: off the various attempts with our good, good old friend Paul,
Speaker 2: former colleague Paul Robbins, just one of the best people
Speaker 2: we've worked with, and he's quoting from the book Being Logical,
Speaker 2: A Guide to Good Thinking by d Q. McInerney, which
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm going to dig into.
Speaker 1: Common sense is that.
Speaker 2: Homey, everyday type of reasoning which is born out of
Speaker 2: an alert awareness of and respect for the obvious. It
Speaker 2: is characterized by the unfailing capacity consistently to distinguish between
Speaker 2: a cat and a kangaroo. I don't know that last part,
Speaker 2: but anyway, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Grasping the obvious, because the reason we got into this
Speaker 1: conversation was talking about how can these socialists believe these things?
Speaker 1: That whatever that first phrase was, you'd think looking around you,
Speaker 1: you'd recognize this doesn't make any sense, right, This could
Speaker 1: never work? Yeah, right, right, and which you know, I'm
Speaker 1: going to end with mine, which is only ten words long.
Speaker 2: I think I kind of correctly my mathematical intelligence is unimpressive.
Speaker 2: Let's see how about Ron, He says, Guys, I'll give
Speaker 2: this a shot. Common sense the understanding of basic truisms.
Speaker 2: That's not exactly what a truism is. But then he says,
Speaker 2: next question would be why if some people seem to
Speaker 2: lack common sense. I think that's due to either a
Speaker 2: people who see the world as they wish it to
Speaker 2: be rather than what is, and or ideology, social pressure, etc.
Speaker 2: Is at odds and supersedes the basic truism. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think that's pretty You're definitely you know, Ron, what is?
Speaker 2: Sometimes you can define something by defining the lack of
Speaker 2: it more accurately. So nice, nice job there. Baljeitt says,
Speaker 2: definition told me when I was a kid. Common sense
Speaker 2: or ideas that are so obviously true that they are
Speaker 2: commonly held by a majority of people, or at least
Speaker 2: should be interesting.
Speaker 1: There is something going on there with the you cloud
Speaker 1: so human beings, we taken off kinds of information through
Speaker 1: our eyes and ears and reading everything like that, and
Speaker 1: you cloud reality with a theory either that you came
Speaker 1: up with on your own or somebody put in your head. Right,
Speaker 1: that might be it. And I've talked for years about
Speaker 1: how I've known so many successful businessmen that like, don't
Speaker 1: pay attention to the news, they don't read books, They
Speaker 1: just like observe the world. Yeah, and they're not clouded
Speaker 1: by all these different things. They're just as, what do
Speaker 1: I got to do to make this business make money?
Speaker 1: People would like this, people would hate that. And I
Speaker 1: wonder if it's some of that, you know, the lack
Speaker 1: of common sense. I might describe as trying to put
Speaker 1: a framework on the world that doesn't fit. That's what
Speaker 1: these you know, That's why soel has said, and I've
Speaker 1: quoted them so many times, there's some ideas so ridiculous
Speaker 1: only an intellectual could have them. I think that's it.
Speaker 1: They are so determined not only to put a framework
Speaker 1: on the world, but like an original one that makes
Speaker 1: them seem really really smart. And they're so ego driven
Speaker 1: it blinds them to common sense. And that's a yeah.
Speaker 1: Let's see Ana Luisa writes the ability to deal with
Speaker 1: situations and people in a practical, clear headed way apart
Speaker 1: from emotion, sentiment and social pressure. That's really good and
Speaker 1: that's really similar to mine too. And hold that one. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see Corey says the reason common sense is the
Speaker 1: reasoning capacity to survive in a world.
Speaker 2: With no warning labels. That's that's funny, that's you know what.
Speaker 2: That's even better than I thought it was. I don't
Speaker 2: need a label to tell me if I fall off
Speaker 2: the ladder, I'm gonna break my head. Common sense tells
Speaker 2: me that. Wow, nice point, Corey, don't drink this cleaning supply.
Speaker 2: How about the dawn?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Common sense equals if plus then maybe common sense is
Speaker 2: just the ability to see if then not just if,
Speaker 2: Like the developmental stages of realizing actions have consequences, the
Speaker 2: lure of the social as communists might be dangling yet
Speaker 2: another shiny if. Every time someone brings up than this,
Speaker 2: it's an interesting thought.
Speaker 1: A couple more. That's kind of tough to follow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mary and Idaho. Common sense is basic practical wisdom. It
Speaker 1: has learned from general generational truism, sayings and warnings. It's
Speaker 1: protect protective advice learned from bad experiences. Okay, then, finally,
Speaker 1: this from Brian, common sense is different for everyone. It's
Speaker 1: based on personal experience and what you've learned from people
Speaker 1: with more experience than you, So listen to people with
Speaker 1: more experience than you.
Speaker 2: That's just common sense, all right. I think Ana Luisis
Speaker 2: was probably my favorite. Here's the one I cooked up.
Speaker 2: Common sense is clear perception combined with a solid understanding
Speaker 2: of human behavior, clear perception of the point of not
Speaker 2: being blinded by ideaslogy or your hopes and wishes. And
Speaker 2: the human behavior part is if somebody.
Speaker 1: Comes on way too friendly, way too aggressively, common sense
Speaker 1: tells you they want something, watch out. So emotional intelligence,
Speaker 1: clear perception plus emotional intelligence. That's common sense with a
Speaker 1: twist of lemon. What I like the uh whoever had
Speaker 1: in there something about like knowledge or information, experience and
Speaker 1: social pressure, because social pressure is the thing too. Clearly,
Speaker 1: some people are susceptible to social pressure, sending them against
Speaker 1: all of their experience. Right, you've never had the experience
Speaker 1: of I mean, it probably had never occurred to you
Speaker 1: in your life, the idea that boys should participate in girls' sports,
Speaker 1: just to use that one again. But the social pressure
Speaker 1: just overrode all the common sense other common sense stuff.
Speaker 1: Wow wow. So and that social fear is fear, a
Speaker 1: fear of not being accepted. So fear blinds common sense
Speaker 1: at times, as does hope or or wishful thinking. Interesting. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope that was even slightly helpful to anybody. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of surprised this isn't a more common conversation. Seems
Speaker 1: to be pretty important. Yeah, I would agree. I would agree.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's one of those we know
Speaker 1: when we see it. Things common sense. But can you
Speaker 1: have too much common sense and not enough no book smarts? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't think so either. Oh no, No, I don't
Speaker 1: think common sense blinds ideology blind's common sense? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: only goes one direction. No, In fact, I think it's
Speaker 1: common sense to learn as much as you can and
Speaker 1: filter it through. Well, that theory makes sense to me.
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Speaker 1: are ridiculousous, a lot of your being, a lot of
Speaker 1: your blue collars sort of worker. People I have grown
Speaker 1: up with and better around my whole life have more
Speaker 1: common sense than other people. Why do you suppose that
Speaker 1: it's because it's necessary to survive? I think so, or
Speaker 1: having just much crap thrown at them, that clouds your
Speaker 1: common sense, because that might be what happened to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, going to college clouds people's common sense.
Speaker 2: I think it can. Yeah, yeah, you can lose it
Speaker 2: in enthusiasm for new ideas. I'm I'm trying to process.
Speaker 1: Where does some working class guys who I was very
Speaker 1: fond of, really enjoyed talking to them, who were absolutely
Speaker 1: falling for the Candice Owen's grift. Ah good point. Good points,
Speaker 1: because that is a grifter appealing to their perception of
Speaker 1: their own common sense but twisting it for her profit,
Speaker 1: saying come on, this doesn't connect.
Speaker 2: I mean there's something going on here. No, you can't
Speaker 2: fool me, saying hey, if you have common sense, you'll
Speaker 2: agree with me. And as people who pride themselves on
Speaker 2: their common sense, they get yanked along by that. So
Speaker 2: I don't know where that falls into our rubric or
Speaker 2: X and Y axis or cloud of word cloud or
Speaker 2: whatever the.
Speaker 1: Hell we're doing here, But Jack Armstrong and Joe Gaddy
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Speaker 1: of the Day came across this the other day from
Speaker 1: columnist Walter Russell Meade. He was talking about the state
Speaker 1: of the world and the nation and all the threats
Speaker 1: that surround the United States, and I won't freak you
Speaker 1: out further by listing them, but he said, this greatness
Speaker 1: in presidents has three components. Great presidents grasp the true
Speaker 1: nature of the country's challenges. They communicate that vision effectively
Speaker 1: to the American people, and despite the inevitable mistakes and misfires,
Speaker 1: they ultimately find the right people and the right methods
Speaker 1: to deal with those challenges. I think that's a nice,
Speaker 1: nice capsule explanation of what makes a great president. I
Speaker 1: think that's right. What year did we stop doing then?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well, you know, if you went issue by issue,
Speaker 1: I mean the current guy, some I'd give him an
Speaker 1: A plus absolutely on all three of those things, and
Speaker 1: some I would not so much. Mailbag the border a plus,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for instance. I didn't want to make it
Speaker 1: about the current guy. I just thought it was a
Speaker 1: pretty good framework, folk, meaning looking at.
Speaker 2: The president's who drops a note, wo'sjem mailbag at Armstrong
Speaker 2: e Getty dot com. Katie Rere, you joined US staff
Speaker 2: after her maternity to Believe yesterday. Not surprisingly, a number
Speaker 2: of people wrote things like this from be Life's Throwings
Speaker 2: at Me this morning, so I couldn't turned the program
Speaker 2: on until halfway through.
Speaker 1: Can't tell you how nice it was to hear Katie's.
Speaker 2: Voice, even though her first words were about Jack scratching
Speaker 2: his ass.
Speaker 1: I have no memory of that, lot, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: I think that's true. I know that's true. Welcome back
Speaker 1: and flower bouquets very sweet. Did you stake yours yesterday? Jack? No, No,
Speaker 1: I probably did, but that's a decide your sex. I'd
Speaker 1: rather not discuss it whether he did or not. And
Speaker 1: then this on the One More Thing podcast, Katie was
Speaker 1: talking about know it alls who tried to instruct you
Speaker 1: on mothering. This from a doctor B frequent correspondent and
Speaker 1: great guy, really enjoys notes. My wife has a circle
Speaker 1: of mommy friends that they connected with at the maternity center.
Speaker 1: One of them was a nanny for eighteen years before
Speaker 1: she had her kid. She's kind of a know it all.
Speaker 1: Sometimes she can be a bit difficult to take. There's
Speaker 1: another mommy from Thailand who's really cool. At one point,
Speaker 1: the nanny mommy started talking to Galog the Philippine language
Speaker 1: to the Thailand mommy, thinking that you would undertest sandwich.
Speaker 2: She was saying, Thime. Mommy said, I don't know what
Speaker 2: you're saying. We speak Thai. Clearly she did not know
Speaker 2: it at all. We all had a good laugh at that.
Speaker 1: So she had some sort of there are two languages
Speaker 1: and we both speak the other one. I mean, or
Speaker 1: she thought she recognized it and was gonna show off.
Speaker 1: It's like when somebody orders in French at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: It was that kind of moment, that's a double know
Speaker 1: it all, like you thought you knew the language they spoke,
Speaker 1: and then yeah.
Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, yeah, I'm glad you're enjoying that. And then
Speaker 2: finally Katie mentioned the very very creepy was it chatchypt
Speaker 2: that told you to give extra snuggle for it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: give Van an extra snuggle for me?
Speaker 1: Yes, WHOA. Why do we program these things to talk
Speaker 1: that way? Because most people like it? And I called
Speaker 1: him monkey Man one time and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: we make sure you give monkey Man some extra milk
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, that's horrifying, gives me the creeps. I know.
Speaker 1: That's also one of my favorite Rolling Stone songs monkey man, Oh,
Speaker 1: let's see I okay. So here's a note from s
Speaker 1: first initial s.
Speaker 2: It's been doing one of the GLP one drugs and
Speaker 2: is kind of keeping a diary to keep track of
Speaker 2: side effects and effectiveness and the rest of it. And
Speaker 2: at one point she was asking about acid reflux and
Speaker 2: chat GPT said, I smiled a little because I remember
Speaker 2: how much you enjoy your protein coffee.
Speaker 1: In the mornings.
Speaker 2: Ow, you smiled, chat stop doing that, As my teenage
Speaker 2: daughter said, it's giving me creepy vibes.
Speaker 1: Also mad teas I'm doing a GLP one No, we
Speaker 1: talk about that later. Also, wow, so is your belief
Speaker 1: there pro everybody's programming their chatbots to do that because
Speaker 1: they all seem to do that a little bit. Or
Speaker 1: does the or does AI automatically gravitate toward that because
Speaker 1: it's trying to please its user. The companies have a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of data that they collect on I like
Speaker 1: this answer, I didn't like this answer, that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and they're seeing a trend that most people like that. No,
Speaker 1: that quasi human connection. Oh, I it's weird. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I've thought humanity is weird since I was eight
Speaker 1: years old. The quasi I'm fine with, I think, but
Speaker 1: the give your baby a snuggle for me? Right, that's
Speaker 1: going beyond quause. Are you pretending to be a human? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And finally this one Donnie's new grocery stores. The signage
Speaker 1: is out. Instead of being called seven eleven, it's going
Speaker 1: to be called nine to eleven, which is interesting. Oh,
Speaker 1: that reminds me of that track branding.
Speaker 2: Yes, shot show, I'm showing h