1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 2: I'm strong and Jati and he arms Strong and Eddy. 4 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 3: They clearly wanted her out of there because she was 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 3: the main car leading the protest, is my understanding. I 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 3: talked to another guy who was driving behind her, but 7 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 3: she was she was very uh, she was very successful 8 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 3: in blocking traffic. She was doing what she was what 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 3: she was set out to do, and so they wanted. 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: To get her the hell out of there. 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it looked like she was impeding ice vehicles. 12 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: Definitely, Yeah, that was her goal. 13 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 2: So there's one of her compatriots saying, yeah, that's what 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: she was doing all day. She was blocking ice and 15 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: stopping traffic with their car and the rest of it. 16 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 2: The shooting in Minneapolis we're talking about. Obviously, we've talked 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: about various aspects of this throughout the show today, but 18 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 2: I came across this and I thought it was so 19 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: good because everybody's rushing to, you know, conclusions and assigning 20 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 2: motives to people even though they don't have any idea 21 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: what people's motives are, and the rest of it. It's 22 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: just the modern way. I don't like it. This is 23 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 2: from a Twitter account. I refuse to call it x. 24 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 2: It's a letter of the alphabet. You you can't trademark 25 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 2: letter of the alphabet. A mimetic sisyphus, which is a 26 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 2: terrific account anyway. I think a lot of radicalization happens 27 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 2: in spaces where it's all talk. Everything is hypothetical. It's 28 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: easy to larp. Do you know what LARPing is? Live 29 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: action role playing. It's easy to larp as revolutionary as 30 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 2: someone who stands against oppression. There's a lack of seriousness 31 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: about it all. You start to believe the memes. You 32 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 2: start to believe you're a hero, you're the main character. 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 2: When you convince yourself to do something really dumb, like 34 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 2: pull your car in front of police officers, they draw 35 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: their guns and the larp crumbles. You're not that person. 36 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 2: This is real life and those are real guns. Nothing 37 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 2: but get the hell out of here, screams in her brain. 38 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 2: She probably didn't see the officer standing in front of 39 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 2: her car as she smashes the gas. The officers can't 40 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 2: know this, of course, they don't know what she's thinking. 41 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 2: They just know that when guns were drawn, asking her 42 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 2: to step out of her vehicle. She slammed on the 43 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: gas in the direction of an officer. They're not in 44 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 2: a LARP. Their job is real and they encounter people 45 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 2: who want to kill them, so they fire. No one 46 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 2: in this woman's life told her she's on a retarded, 47 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: destructive LARP. She was encouraged by her peer group viral 48 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: videos of similarly lost radical larper's getting nothing but praise online. 49 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: Politicians calling the enforcement of our laws akinda nazis, calling 50 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 2: them ilegitimate, calling them evil, telling their citizens to make 51 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 2: their voices heard. Everyone in her life failed her. She 52 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 2: needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead, she 53 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 2: had no one, and now she's dead, a horrible case 54 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: of the internet radicalization. To that point, her life is 55 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: one of the best things I've ever heard. Yeah, that's terrific. 56 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: That is so good. To that point, her wife ran 57 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: up to the vehicle, screaming, Oh my god, this is 58 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: my fault, This is my fault. I made her come 59 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 2: out here. They were playing the brave revolutionary, wittingly or 60 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: unwittingly doing the Sololinsky Rules for radicals technique of putting 61 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 2: the cops in a decision dilemma, dilemma provoking them and 62 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 2: provoking them until they got a reaction. The reaction was 63 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: deadly and that's tragic. But yeah, that's exactly what these 64 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 2: people are doing. God dang it. And the college campuses 65 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 2: of America are encouraging this constantly. In fact, in some 66 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 2: colleges in California, for instance, it's required to work this 67 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: sort of radical neo Marxism into every class shooting astrophysics, 68 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 2: you know. 69 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 4: To the extent that it's the online radicalization thing, some 70 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 4: of it is the it's a version of what we 71 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 4: run in all the to all the time where we've 72 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 4: had we've gotten law enforcement involved with people who have 73 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 4: threatened us online. We do that, by the way, if 74 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 4: you decide you want to threaten us online and think 75 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 4: that'll be fun because you're doing a LARP, you're doing 76 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 4: like a live action role play. I'm gonna pretend to 77 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 4: be the whatever online and then you run into the 78 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 4: real world of the cops say yeah, that's actually a threat, 79 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 4: that's actually something you can't. 80 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 2: Do, and they always back off. Oh no, I didn't 81 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 2: mean that at all. It's joke. 82 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 4: I actually liked the show that has happened over and 83 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 4: over and over again, because people are doing this like game, 84 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 4: they're playing a character. They don't realize when you cross 85 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 4: the line into the real world. 86 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 2: And it's exciting and it feels very vital. If your 87 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 2: world is mostly online, you see other people doing screens, yeah, 88 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 2: and you see other people doing it, and you get 89 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 2: lots and lots of They get lots of praise, You 90 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: get lots of praise, and it becomes who you are. 91 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: On a similar note, this is actually kind of hilarious. 92 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 2: Zorn Mumdani, the trust fund socialist who recently became the 93 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: mayor of New York, is surrounding himself with like minded 94 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 2: italy to hate capitalism. His new communications director, Anna Bar 95 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: attended one of the most expensive private schools in Los Angeles. 96 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:28,239 Speaker 2: Annual tuition at her high school alma mater, Oakwood School 97 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 2: in North Hollywood, runs as high as fifty five thousand 98 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 2: dollars a year. Fifty five thousand dollars a year high 99 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 2: school whoa interestingly and oddly, her most recent boss, Bernie Sanders, 100 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 2: has repeatedly denounced private schools for perpetuating economic inequality. Bar 101 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 2: thirty three, is one of many expensively educated professionals who've 102 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 2: made the entirely natural transition from journalist to democratic flack. 103 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: While attending Barnard College, the sex segregated Columbia affiliate the 104 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 2: Costra one hundred gees per year, Barr entered at The Huff, 105 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 2: at The HuffPo the Rachel Meadow Show on MSNBC and 106 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 2: MS magazine, and then she landed a job at The 107 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 2: New York Times before becoming a press aid, et cetera, 108 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 2: et cetera. Let's see, so Barr will oversee the mayor's 109 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: communications department, working alongside a number of privileged youth to 110 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 2: craft messaging in support of mcdonnie's efforts to dismantle capitalism. 111 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 2: The mayor said, quote last week in is an augunurial address, 112 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: we played this. We will replace the frigidity of rugged 113 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:38,480 Speaker 2: individualism with the warmth of collectivism. We will replace the 114 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 2: frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. An 115 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: early candidate for the Clip of the Year anyway, the 116 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 2: person responsible for that bone chilling sentence is mdonni's speech 117 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 2: writing director, Julian Gerson, who's a twenty nine year old 118 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 2: graduate of the Dalton School, one of the most expensive 119 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 2: private schools in New York City that makes the La 120 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 2: Place look cheap. It has a tuition as high as 121 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 2: sixty seven thousand dollars a year. 122 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 4: Now, I understand that trying to come up with like 123 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 4: an overarching philosophy that makes sense doesn't work with a 124 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 4: lot of this stuff on both sides, really, But. 125 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: So you think the world is. 126 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 4: America is full of inequity and unfairness and all these 127 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 4: different sorts of things. So do you think those schools 128 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 4: shouldn't exist anymore? Or it's bad that you went there 129 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 4: or your parents should your parents have given away their 130 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 4: money to I want to tear down all in equity 131 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 4: or organizations, and you gone to a public school. 132 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 2: I mean, how does it all fit together with your worldview? Right? 133 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 2: Do you know? No, they would just I was giving 134 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 2: their actual responsib We should tear it down all in echoitay, 135 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: including and equities that I may have been John, I 136 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 2: am ashamed of that anyway. So this Gersonllo honed his 137 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 2: writing craft at Middlebury College, which will run you in 138 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 2: ninety four grand a year if you play full freight. 139 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 2: He spoke glowingly of Luigi Mangione. Fairly recently he was 140 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: a quote adored not only because he dared to target 141 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 2: a leader of one of the most vile self enriching 142 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 2: industries tarketing in society day, but because he dared to 143 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 2: defy the stasis of nihilistic rejection. Well, that's a fair 144 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: that's a fair charge. He probably did defy the stasis 145 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: of nihilistic rejection. I'd be hard to say, because I 146 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know what it means. So it's hard, 147 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 2: dark and what the what? Well, Bar and Gerson will 148 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 2: presumably collaborate with Morris Katz, now the mayor's twenty six 149 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: year old senior advisor and muse. Katz is the son 150 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 2: of David Barkatz, a semi renowned television screenwriter and playwright, 151 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 2: and Julie Merberg, a celebrated author of left wing children's books, 152 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 2: including Diversity Is a Superpower, My First Book of Feminism, 153 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: and My First Book of Feminism for Boys. He attended 154 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 2: an exclusive New York City public schools to wealthy elites, etc. Etc. 155 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: Among other things. This scrappy gang of privileged white radicals 156 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 2: will craft messaging solutions to bolster Monnami's ambitious housing agenda, 157 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 2: led by Sea a weaver who we quoted the other day. 158 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 2: Do you have the quote of herrea go ahead, especially 159 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 2: white families, but some pot family to her homeowners as well, 160 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 2: are going to have a different relationship to properties. Yeah. 161 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 2: So she is for confiscating all private property and putting 162 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 2: everyone in public housing everyone. 163 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 4: But so, and I'm being sincere here, I would like 164 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 4: to know what they would say, is so going forward, 165 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 4: there shouldn't be these super expensive high schools because nobody 166 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 4: would have the money to send their kid there, because they. 167 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: Would say they should be open everybody. Oh and you 168 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 2: would say, well, how would that work economically because it's 169 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 2: a small school with a very very high teachered student 170 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 2: ratio and all that. And they would just respond with 171 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 2: whatever nonsense their professors taught them. We need to tear 172 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 2: down the walls of inequity and white supreme and have equity. 173 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 2: They don't think these things through, they don't think logically. 174 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 2: They're not adults. They're overgrown children who are dangerous to 175 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 2: themselves and others. As we learned in Many it's amazing 176 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 2: how often this happens. I mean, it is a thing, 177 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 2: whether it's Osama bin Laden or these people the privileged 178 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 2: who grew up hating the elite, up class twins promoting revolution, 179 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:29,959 Speaker 2: which you have been your whole life. That's wild. You 180 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 2: see TPRs uh uctippers, upper class twitts promoting revolution. Octipers 181 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 2: soud you see octopus? No, I said octiper. 182 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 4: So I mentioned the battle that's going on in the 183 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 4: upstairs bathroom between my two teenagers, one of them clean, 184 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 4: one of them messy. Somebody came up with a way 185 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 4: they handled it in their family, which is pretty good. 186 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 2: Among other things. On the way, stay here. Florida man 187 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: was arrested recently after allegedly stole one thousand dollars from 188 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 2: BJ's meat market while completely naked except for a face mask. Dude, 189 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 2: you should have known. It's Florida. It's illegal to wear 190 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 2: a face mask. 191 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 4: So on seth Meyers, Michael and we we'd have been 192 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 4: better off without it than with it. 193 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 2: So we've got to we've got to raise our standards 194 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 2: for jokes. They well, if they don't funniness might be 195 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 2: the standard. If we don't laugh, it is not, you 196 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 2: know my mind, a joke, Yeah, we don't need them. 197 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 2: They're fun when they're funny. When they're not funny, they're 198 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 2: not fun. 199 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 4: I should have brought this up last segment because I 200 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 4: want to move on from this. But Mom Donnie's commie 201 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 4: housing official. This is the National Review. They're editorial today 202 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 4: by all the editors. Mom Donnie's commy housing official is 203 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 4: a lunatic. 204 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 2: That's the well, it is the size. 205 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 4: The governor of New York is trying to pass a 206 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 4: law there that it'll be illegal for three D printers 207 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 4: to be able to print guns or gun parts. I 208 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 4: don't know if that's one of those things that'll be 209 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 4: easily gotten around by bad people, but I don't think 210 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 4: I have any problem with it on its face on 211 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:22,559 Speaker 4: how effective it'll be or went up. That is something 212 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 4: that is something to be concerned about, though. I saw 213 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 4: some YouTube video about how incredibly easy it is to 214 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 4: make a ghost gun that will fire on your three 215 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 4: D printer and it's not even like a four hundred 216 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 4: dollars three D printer. Yeah, print out a gun and 217 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 4: now you've got a gun that nobody knows you have. 218 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: Right and nobody can be forbidden from manufacturing it. You 219 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 2: can be forbidden from possessing it, but you're probably going 220 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 2: to commit a crime anyway, So you don't care. Yeah, 221 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 2: our gun laws either have to change completely or will 222 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 2: be in a new reality of even more guns. Of course, 223 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: there are already more guns than people in America. Did 224 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 2: you read the article in the New York Times. I 225 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 2: did not. 226 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 4: I meant to a bookmarked a close call for US 227 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 4: commandos and an emboldened Trump. This is from the raid 228 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 4: on Maduro. As a damaged US helicopter struggled to stay 229 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 4: aloft over Venezuela's capital, the success of the entire operation 230 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,079 Speaker 4: hung in the balance. Oh, that sounds very dramatic. I 231 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 4: will read that at some point and bring you the details. 232 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 4: Looking forward to Yeah. This yesterday Trump said, this is 233 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 4: from the Wall Street Journal. He's taking steps to ban 234 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 4: large investors from buying single family homes. 235 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 2: I don't know. 236 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 4: Where that squares with my usual free market libertarian sort 237 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,199 Speaker 4: of beliefs, but I know in the town I live in, 238 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 4: particularly foreign, big time like conglomerates of. 239 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 2: Foreign they come in and buy all the houses. Yeah, 240 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: and there's just there's just no way you can compete 241 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 2: as a regular person. I have had some really interesting 242 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: discussions with some of my libertarian brethren about this very topic, 243 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 2: because you're right, it's a good one. It's if you like, 244 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 2: you know, Chewy Conundra. This is a good one because 245 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: I'm for the free market too, but it is too 246 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 2: disruptive in the supply of an AA necessity and be 247 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 2: something that's pretty limited, and it I think it's one 248 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 2: of those rare exceptions. You've got to craft legislation that 249 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 2: limits the amount of that you get, otherwise it just 250 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 2: causes too much damage. Now, the libertarian argument was the 251 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 2: free market will figure that out. It will drop the 252 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 2: value or the value will rise, that will cause more building. 253 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah. I just I don't like it. 254 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 2: I don't like Chinese oligarchs coming in and buying up 255 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 2: all the available houses in a market. And it's just 256 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: that's not right. It's not American. Speaking of money. Land 257 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 2: is different than like a shirt. 258 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 4: It just is speaking of money. So I had lost 259 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 4: track of this Elon Musk's net worth. So we're driving 260 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 4: my tesla. I mentioned something about Elon should blah blah blah, 261 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 4: and my son said, Elon doesn't run the country. He 262 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 4: only cares about robots. Now it doesn't hey, blah blah blah. Anyway, 263 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 4: I've gotten in this conversation with Elon. Now I was wondering 264 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 4: what is uh. I said, well, he's the largest shareholder, 265 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 4: so he has a lot of sway, but he doesn't. 266 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 4: And I just asked Grok, what's Elon Musk's net worth? 267 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 4: North of seven hundred billion dollars currently? Last time I 268 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 4: checked in it was like two sixty five. And I 269 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 4: remember when people talking about him becoming the first trillionaire. 270 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 4: He's a long way there, over seven hundred billion dollars 271 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 4: according to Forbes. 272 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 2: Wow, it's just in conference just a couple of years ago. 273 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 2: That was impossible. Anyway, that's where it is currently. The 274 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Post Gazette, one of the America's oldest newspapers, goes 275 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 2: back to seventeen eighty six closing its doors because newspapers 276 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 2: don't work anymore, because there's no way for him to 277 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 2: make any money. And that ain't good. Oof. I didn't 278 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 2: read this article Inside China's ghost cities, the country with 279 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 2: sixty five million empty homes. Oh yeah, d sixty five 280 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 2: million empty homes. I remember sixty minutes heres and years 281 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 2: ago did a feature on that. I found it absolutely fascinating. 282 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 2: This these entire cities of high rise off in luxury apartments, condos, 283 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 2: they're just empty for a mile. Crazy. 284 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 4: And finally this, I talked about my two teenage boys 285 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 4: kind of battling over the upstairs bathroom. One of them 286 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 4: is a slob, one of them is not, and trying 287 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 4: to keep it clean. Somebody texted this. My mom made 288 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 4: us each take turn each week cleaning the bathroom. When 289 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 4: it was the other person's week, we would try to 290 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 4: make it as gross as possible. 291 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 2: Haha. That was a bust. I am not sure that 292 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 2: was a good solution. Oh that's funny. Oh it's your 293 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 2: you got to clean the bathroom next week. Oh wait 294 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 2: till you see this. That's disgusting. Is radical gender theory 295 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 2: a fraud, legally fraud. Stay tuned and. 296 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 4: Hasn't been as awful as I thought it was going 297 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 4: to be. Talking about the shooting today. You know, I 298 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 4: would like to have not had to do it. 299 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 2: But when it. 300 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 4: Happened yesterday, I thought, oh boy, tomorrow is going to 301 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 4: be something. 302 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know, I don't know. It's funny. 303 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 2: I never had that attitude for whatever reason. I know 304 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: exactly what you mean, though, I just thought this, all right, 305 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 2: here's a great opportunity. To just can we please be 306 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,640 Speaker 2: adults here. I don't know that's out of style, out 307 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 2: of fashion fashion, look at me. So, Michael, if you 308 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 2: would be so kind of it to alert this to you, 309 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 2: alert you to this rather clip number eighteen. Have that ready. 310 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: It's a gender bending madness update. So I kept hearing 311 00:17:51,640 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 2: about this thing called the Loco Brave. I want to 312 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 2: touch on a couple of stories really briefly, one that 313 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: might go to the Supreme Court and one that is 314 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 2: at the Supreme Court. In fact, the hearing is going 315 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 2: to be held five days from today. So here's a 316 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 2: main mom who is asking the US Supreme Court to 317 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 2: hear her parental rights case. She alleges school staff encouraged 318 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 2: her child to socially identify as a different sex at 319 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 2: school without her knowledge. She learned her thirteen year old 320 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 2: daughter was given a chest binder by a school social worker, 321 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 2: and school staff had used a different name in pronounce 322 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 2: for her child at school without informing her. Indeed, as 323 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: this the tradition among radical leftists, the word was don't 324 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 2: tell the mom, don't tell the parents. Well that's the 325 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: law in California, right, Uh yeah, essentially, Yeah, And I 326 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 2: tell you what Anybody who doesn't understand how hey don't 327 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 2: tell the parents is a flaming red flag, that's something 328 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 2: untoward his hand happening is an idiot. So anyway, a 329 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 2: federal judge dismissed the case in twenty twenty four, concluding 330 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 2: the mom had failed to establish legal claims under which 331 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 2: the school board could be held liable. According to the 332 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 2: AP First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that dismissal in 333 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. So, miss Levine, that's her name's attorney 334 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 2: at the Goldwater Institute, our good friends are now petitioning 335 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 2: the US Supreme Court to take up the case. The 336 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 2: idea that there's no grounds for a mom to sue 337 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 2: the school who are trying to twist and pervert her 338 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 2: daughter is sickening to me. Second case actually is going 339 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 2: to be before the Supreme Court. Two West Virginia high 340 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 2: school students and their families are alleging that the transgender 341 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 2: identifying male student at the center of a case that 342 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 2: will be heard by the Supreme Court on January thirteenth, 343 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 2: is engaged in sexual harassment and intimidation. That seems to 344 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 2: be true. It is what we've been talking about for 345 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 2: a long time. West Virginia has a law that bars 346 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 2: dudes from competing in female sports just because they throw 347 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 2: on a little masscara, and of course the dude in question, 348 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 2: her parents have sued the state and the rest of it. Good. 349 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 2: Let's get to the end of this this bizarre and 350 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 2: hilarious notion that you can change sex. You can't. It's impossible. 351 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: You can present any way you want, but the idea 352 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 2: that trans women are women is laughable. Anyway, looking forward 353 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 2: to talking to our Supreme Court correspondent about that case, 354 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 2: and then of course we'll have the oral arguments next 355 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 2: week on the thirteenth. I can't wait to hear that. 356 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 2: I'll listen to the whole thing and bring my thoughts 357 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 2: to you. But I found this very very interesting. Doctor 358 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 2: Miriam Grossman has done a lot of good writing about 359 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 2: the gender bending madness thing, and her premise, which she 360 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 2: makes I think pretty clear, as I recall here, is 361 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 2: that radical gender theory is committing fraud legal according to 362 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 2: the Penal Code, fraud. 363 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: When I examine gender affirming care and Michael. 364 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 2: Can't you stop it? And of course, because it's the Internet, 365 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 2: you got to freaking have sad piano on it, or 366 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 2: are some sort of music in the background. I don't 367 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 2: know about you. I'm a grown man. I can listen 368 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,399 Speaker 2: people talk without like a little melody playing in the 369 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 2: background makes me insane anyway. So here's the learned doctor 370 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 2: with some inexplicable piano music that you should try to 371 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 2: not get distracted by. 372 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: When I examined gender affirming care and the history that 373 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: led up to it, I see fraud and deceptive practice everywhere, 374 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 1: going back decades. I see it in the landmark experiment 375 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: on Bruce Reimer when he was a toddler and John 376 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: Money instructed his parents to socially and medically transition him. 377 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: This was to be doctor Money's proof for a concept 378 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 1: he'd come up with in nineteen sixty six called gender identity. 379 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: Doctor Money announced to the world that the experiment was 380 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: a resounding success, and for years the world believed it. 381 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: In fact, it was a catastrophe from the start. Decades 382 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: after doctor Money, consumers were misled again when gender specialists 383 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: took the results of one tiny Dutch study whose subjects 384 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: were carefully chosen, and led parents to believe that every 385 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: child distressed about their sex could benefit from that model 386 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: of care. And now families are told there's a consensus 387 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: among clinicians about the best way to help these children, 388 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: but there is no consensus. What there is is the 389 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: silencing of opposition. There are many more examples that you're 390 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: going to hear about today, but I think it's fair 391 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: to say that the fraud is wide and it's deep. 392 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 4: The fact that she could get through that while keeping 393 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 4: her piano melody going and playing drums with brushes with 394 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 4: their feet. 395 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 2: It was very impressive. That's why she's so respected. But yeah, 396 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 2: that's something. Yeah, the story she was talking about. Bruce 397 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 2: Peter Reimer was born in nineteen sixty five and he 398 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 2: had a problem with his genitals, And so do we 399 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 2: know what the problem was. It was a condition in 400 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 2: which the foreskin of the penis cannot retract, inhibiting regular urination. 401 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 2: He underwent circumstation, common procedure obviously, but there was I 402 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 2: don't want to get too much into the surgical issues, 403 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 2: but it went wrong and the penis had to be removed. 404 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 2: And this guy, this John Money guy, was a psychologist 405 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 2: and sexologist who worked at Johns Hopkins and he helped 406 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 2: establish the views on the psychology of gender identities and 407 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 2: role role within society. He was one of the leaders 408 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 2: in you know, your sex is just a it's a construct, 409 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 2: it's a societal construct. And will raise this child as 410 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 2: a girl and treat her medic, hymn medically and never 411 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 2: tell them what happened, and it'll be just fine. It'll 412 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 2: be a girl. And his ideas it turned bizarre, sickening, heartbreaking, 413 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 2: and this poor lad ended up psychologically traumatized and miserable. 414 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 4: Man, if the doctor says I've got some bad news 415 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 4: for you. We're gonna have to remove your penis. Ah, 416 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 4: that is bad news whether I got it or not, 417 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 4: though I'm. 418 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 2: Still a dude, right right, Yeah, that is a very 419 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 2: well anyway, before we wrap it up, the idea that 420 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 2: this sort of thing is being called settled science, or 421 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 2: that there's a medical consensus is actually fraud according to 422 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 2: the definition in the penal Code, and somebody ought to 423 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 2: enforce it. That's interesting. It's a gender bending madness. Update 424 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 2: sue the crap out of these monsters. That would help 425 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 2: to that is something. 426 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, So the DHS secretary gave a speech a little 427 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 4: bit ago, and now live Tim Walls, the governor of 428 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 4: Minnesota speaking. I don't think anybody speaking is probably gonna 429 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 4: make anything any better. But I hope things have calmed down. 430 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 4: It doesn't look like we're gonna have a George Floyd 431 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 4: like situation. You remember, George Floyd was one. 432 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 2: Guy actually like a mile from where this happened yesterday 433 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, and it roiled the entire nation. So we 434 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 2: don't want that again. No, no, indeed, I don't think 435 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 2: it's got the elements though. I mean, you don't have 436 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 2: the racial me Can you imagine if this poor Gale 437 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 2: was it would all be about race, which goes to 438 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 2: show your spalidity of claiming it's about race. Hispanic could 439 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 2: have been a sweet spot. That's a good point. 440 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right, it would have been. God dang 441 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 4: it not good. All right, we will finish strong next 442 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 4: to here, Armstrong and. 443 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 2: Grock. 444 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 5: The AI tool from Elon Musk's company x is under fire. 445 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 5: The app, which has an image editing feature, is now 446 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 5: being used to create non consensual and sexualized deep bake 447 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 5: images of women and children. Grok was producing at least 448 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 5: a dozen inappropriate images every minute an upticking those pictures 449 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 5: after Grok enhanced its image generation abilities with a new 450 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 5: model last month one analysis found more than fifty percent 451 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 5: of images generated by groc between December twenty fifth and 452 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 5: January first were non consensual sexual images. Wow, primarily targeting women. 453 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 2: Wow. 454 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 4: So we've had a lot of fun. We were doing 455 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 4: this over family Christmas using the old grock. We took 456 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 4: some family picture and you have us fighting or dancing 457 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 4: or whatever. 458 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 2: It's it's pretty hilarious. Yeah, but half of the request 459 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 2: people are making on grock for the images are some 460 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 2: sort of sex thing. Yeah. Apparently, Wow, there's no stopping this. 461 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 2: By the way, I don't know what what you want 462 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 2: to do. Every proposed way to stop it I've come across. 463 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: I think that's doomed. And that's not to say we 464 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 2: shouldn't try or it's not a good idea. You know, 465 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 2: some poor fourteen year old girl at high school, all 466 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 2: of a sudden, everybody's laughing at giggling because there's a 467 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 2: naked picture of her making the rounds. I hate that, 468 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 2: I really hate. 469 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 4: I think the only cure for it is that there's 470 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 4: a picture of every other girl floating around too naked. 471 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 2: That's that's fake. So we're everybody is Yeah, I don't know, 472 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's not good. Yeah, this is also not good. 473 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 4: Uh, change of pace just came across this and then 474 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 4: I well, the headline is this, China just announced they 475 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 4: will not sell anything, export anything to Japan that could 476 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 4: be used for military uses, no dual use anything, which 477 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 4: is pretty provocative because that includes lots of stuff. So 478 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 4: we're not allowed, We're not doing any trade with you 479 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 4: anything you could use militarily. This comes on the back 480 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 4: of really lots of things that have happened over the 481 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 4: last two months that mostly got obscured by a Christmas season, 482 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 4: but there's been some serious back and forth between China 483 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 4: and Japan, particularly that new prime minister. 484 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 2: They got the chick. She is hard ass. 485 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 4: And she had putting up with China's bs, and so 486 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 4: things are getting uglier and uglier. As just reading this article, 487 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 4: as the title was, relations between China and Japan worst 488 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 4: since World War Two. Having just been to the World 489 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 4: War Two Museum and gone through the whole what Japan 490 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 4: did to China thing, their relations have. 491 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 2: Been very very, very very bad in the past. 492 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons that any sort of like 493 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 4: anti Asian this or that is kind of hilarious because 494 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 4: Japan and China have murdered, raped, beheaded, tortured each other 495 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 4: and many many different times over the centuries. 496 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: But I have a close palace Filipino. Ask him about 497 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 2: grouping all Asians together, he will go fall. 498 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 4: For instance, in a now deleted social media post, a 499 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 4: Chinese diplomat commented that the dirty neck that sticks itself 500 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 4: in must be cut off about the Prime Minister of Japan. 501 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 4: They have now deleted it, but that was an actual 502 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 4: tweet from an official in a Chinese diplomat. 503 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 2: That's a heck of a thing to say. 504 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 4: Anyway, this is after and this is the big this 505 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 4: is the news part. This just happened the other day. 506 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 4: The Prime Minister of Japan said that they consider a 507 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 4: China invading Taiwan an existential threat to them. 508 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 2: They will treat it that way. 509 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 4: So you attack Taiwan, China, it's the same as you 510 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 4: attacked us, and will react accordingly because. 511 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 2: You're clearly on the war path snapping up all the 512 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 2: islands in the Pacific, and we happen to be several 513 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 2: of them. Yeah. 514 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 4: Wow, So the big question there is So the question 515 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 4: ends up being not would we the United States come 516 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 4: to the defense of Taiwan if China tries to take Taiwan. 517 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 4: I think the answer is no. By the way, I 518 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 4: don't think we would. But if Japan and China get 519 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 4: into it, we're supposed to help Japan. Would we say 520 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 4: no to help in Japan fight China? And that's full 521 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 4: on World War three, isn't it. If we in Japan 522 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 4: and whoever else gets involved is fighting China, Russian probably 523 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 4: help with China. You can get the potential. Yeah, oh 524 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 4: my god, I mean this is I was listening to 525 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 4: the Dispatch End of the Year podcast. They named this 526 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 4: the most underreported story, the heightening tensions between Japan and 527 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 4: China and they ain't playing around and what that would 528 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 4: do to the whole world. 529 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 2: Holy crap, there's a little something fun to have on 530 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 2: the back burner. I feel then, as I felt I 531 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 2: fail now as I felt then, the world feels precarious. 532 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 2: It does. 533 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 4: And again a lot of my feelings are informed by 534 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 4: having just gone through the World War Two Museum and step. 535 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 2: By step by step, by step by step. I just 536 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 2: think most people, especially younger people, just have a failure 537 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 2: of imagination that this could actually occur. It has occurred 538 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 2: multiple times in world history. In fact, it is the norm. 539 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 2: In fact, it is a certainty. It is guaranteed it 540 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 2: will happen at some point. It's just whether it's now 541 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 2: with these particular people. But it's just, I think that's 542 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 2: the right term, failure of imagination. You just you can't 543 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 2: imagine that it would ever happen, just like they couldn't 544 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 2: imagine whatever happened in June of nineteen fourteen, that these 545 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 2: major powers to ever go to war war against each other. 546 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 2: But they can and they will. And interestingly, because I've 547 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 2: been digging into World War two, because that's what you 548 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 2: do when you turn a certain age as an American male, 549 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 2: one of the main messages the Nazis were given to 550 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 2: the German people in the late thirties and early forties 551 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 2: was that, look, this is not going to become a 552 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 2: world war. It's going to be easy, peasy, we've thought 553 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 2: it through. This will not be a world war. Because 554 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 2: the German people had zero interest in a world war. 555 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 2: They were as decimated as the rest of Europe was. 556 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 2: And yet there it went almost finished. Oh yeah, let's 557 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 2: get ready. Final thoughts with Armstrong and Gety And here's 558 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 2: Jerrold's for final thoughts. Joe Getty. I needed that soothing introduction. Michaelangelo, 559 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 2: our technical director, will lead the way. We're going to 560 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 2: get a final thought from everybody to wrap to show. Michael, 561 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 2: I just got a text from a relative wanted to 562 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 2: know what a ham kick is. I said it was 563 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 2: a type of martial arts move. Check him right in 564 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 2: the hand. Listen to podcast for me yesterday the hamkick 565 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 2: yep our four Katie Greener esteemed to us woman As 566 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 2: a final thought, Katie, what is it? 567 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,280 Speaker 4: That's My brain still hurts from trying to figure out 568 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 4: Michael and Jack wearing the wrong size shoes. 569 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 2: I just don't I still can't understand it. It's a 570 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 2: little mystified mess. 571 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 4: I don't know about Michaels situation, but for me, it's 572 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 4: not just the link. I mean, we all get our 573 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 4: foot measured right, but there are other things involved. 574 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was right on the wrong size shoe. Yeah. Jack. 575 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 4: Final thought for us, I am going to in our 576 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 4: One More Thing podcast, describe the day I lost the 577 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 4: desire to drink alcohol, which was twenty years ago yesterday. 578 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 4: And I think it's an interesting story and I still 579 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,239 Speaker 4: don't understand it. 580 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,320 Speaker 2: Wow. Interesting huh. I'll try to understand your lack of understanding. 581 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 2: My final thought is Denmark acquired Greenland through a gradual 582 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 2: colonial process starting in seventeen twenty one. But there's really 583 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,720 Speaker 2: no good reason Greenland is part of Denmark. It kind 584 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 2: of happened because it was big and frozen. Nobody gave 585 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 2: a crap. Here, go ahead, knock yourself out and enjoy Greenland. 586 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 2: You want it? Okay? All right? Well now it matters 587 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 2: every time. 588 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. 589 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,440 Speaker 2: So many people, thanks so a little time. You got 590 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,120 Speaker 2: to go to armstrong in giddy dot com for the 591 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 2: hotline you can drop us not mail bag at armstrung 592 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 2: in getty dot com. You ought to follow us on 593 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 2: the Twitter if you're into that sort of thing, and 594 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 2: we'd love to hear from you. 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