Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong, and Getty and He Armstrong and Yetty. New
Speaker 2: York and now plans last week to eventually become the
Speaker 2: first city in the country to provide free, universal childcare.
Speaker 2: It's quite a leap. Oh wow, it's quite.
Speaker 3: A leap for a city that only recently discovered trash cans.
Speaker 3: Listen to the crowd, cheer the idea of universal free childcare.
Speaker 2: Yes, let the government raise your child. Yay. Wow, you idiots.
Speaker 3: I think most of them think free is an actual thing.
Speaker 3: But anyway, not to get distracted on that. We came
Speaker 3: up with a brilliant idea during our local news segment
Speaker 3: in which I was talking about having been in downtown Sacramento, California,
Speaker 3: over the weekend and the number of homeless tents are
Speaker 3: drug addict tents, street people absolutely all over the place.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's stunning, and I don't see this anywhere else.
Speaker 3: It no longer is like this in San Francisco. I
Speaker 3: didn't see this one. I was New Orleans.
Speaker 2: I didn't see this.
Speaker 3: Lots of places, well, I was vacationing around incredible downtown
Speaker 3: middle of the day, nice day tents, flipping everywhere.
Speaker 2: Anyway, here's our idea.
Speaker 3: You're debating Gavin Newsom, whether it's for the nomination or
Speaker 3: for he gets the nomination, and you're debating for president.
Speaker 2: You don't answer any questions and no debate. This is
Speaker 2: what I think you do.
Speaker 3: You do that thing where you can wear a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of T shirts like your waddle out there with
Speaker 3: your arms sticking straight out, because you got like thirty
Speaker 3: T shirts on Okay, and every time they go to you,
Speaker 3: your T shirts have pictures of squalor in various places
Speaker 3: around California.
Speaker 2: So here's a pick of like Jay and.
Speaker 3: Ninth Street would work in Sacramento, all the tents, and
Speaker 3: then you just wear that and then you take off
Speaker 3: one of your T shirt.
Speaker 2: Underneath it is another T shirt.
Speaker 3: This is, you know, a baker's field with a picture
Speaker 3: of a right next to the city hall, a tent
Speaker 3: encampment of drug addicts, and you just keep taking off
Speaker 3: the T shirts. Over the hour and a half debate,
Speaker 3: more and more pictures of squalor around California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people doing the fentanyl hang in the Malibu or
Speaker 1: Venice Beach or whatever. Yeah, the junkie camps that have
Speaker 1: polluted San Diego.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be such a great stunt and he would
Speaker 2: get so much attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just point to your T shirt and then peel
Speaker 1: off another one. I don't think they allow props and debates,
Speaker 1: but I love the idea.
Speaker 2: As a prop. It's my shirt what I'm not allowed
Speaker 2: to wear clothes exactly. Yeah. I like the idea of
Speaker 2: a tear off like the Hulk. It'd be more drunk.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Katie, there you go, stole points end the
Speaker 2: Hulk there at the end of his life.
Speaker 3: I've struggled to pull apart as tear away jersey at
Speaker 3: the convention.
Speaker 2: So would I? Who am I to criticize?
Speaker 1: So we've been discussing a fair amount how women, particularly
Speaker 1: young women, are absolutely miserable and angry and depressed and
Speaker 1: anxious and suicidal and marching in the streets over bizarre
Speaker 1: causes and gobbling drugs to stay sane and all that
Speaker 1: sort of thing.
Speaker 2: And oh, I.
Speaker 3: Got to get to that story about anxious pet owners
Speaker 3: are making their dogs anxious and then having to put
Speaker 3: them on medicine.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so we got this.
Speaker 1: Well, and then we shared with the other pole the
Speaker 1: other day that the number of young white women who
Speaker 1: believe that violence and lawlessness to oppose ice, for instance,
Speaker 1: is justified is quadruple quintuple ten times any other ethnic
Speaker 1: group or any other subset of the population. I mean,
Speaker 1: college educated young white women are by far the most
Speaker 1: radical leftist group in America. And we've been talking about
Speaker 1: why that might be a couple of thoughts. Number one
Speaker 1: from a correspondent, m in San Jose says getting tougher.
Speaker 1: She thinks we're in a Maga type bubble because we
Speaker 1: don't listen to women. You're only hearing male perspectives. Let
Speaker 1: me clue you into the reason why liberal women are
Speaker 1: so unhappy. Men's inability to adapt to changing societal norms
Speaker 1: and are increasing awareness of the role of the patriarchy
Speaker 1: in our lives. I will pause, Will you finish your
Speaker 1: eye rolling in deep sigh? Hopefully you will let me
Speaker 1: explain men are failing to adapt to the new roles
Speaker 1: everyone is playing in society. Seventy percent of all households
Speaker 1: have two people working, yet women's do still do the
Speaker 1: lion's share of childcare and domestic work. You know the
Speaker 1: statistics about higher education, women are out pacing men significantly. Therefore,
Speaker 1: more women are becoming the breadwinner. Can you imagine how
Speaker 1: it is exciting to be both the breadwinner and responsible
Speaker 1: for the heavy lifting at home?
Speaker 2: Oh? Joy?
Speaker 1: And she takes a shot at Christian nonsense. I'llah, Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk submitting to your husband, et cetera.
Speaker 3: I I am sure it exists, but in my orbit
Speaker 3: of not a small number of people in my life,
Speaker 3: I haven't known a single mom was the breadwinner and
Speaker 3: did most of the parenting at home. I don't know
Speaker 3: what you're acting like that's the norm and that's what
Speaker 3: we're rebelling against.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's I'm sure it happens, but I've never
Speaker 2: known you.
Speaker 3: I've known families where the woman was a breadwinner and
Speaker 3: dad stayed home with the kid or worked a lesser
Speaker 3: job and had more. But I've never known the I'm
Speaker 3: the breadwinner and I do the bulk of the taking
Speaker 3: care of the kids. You're acting like you're presenting that
Speaker 3: as that's the norm now and how unfair it is.
Speaker 2: And just as a woman reacting to this.
Speaker 4: The first just part of that that you read screams,
Speaker 4: I'm a victim.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I would agree. The other thing is, and
Speaker 1: I would actually like to talk to this lady about this.
Speaker 1: She is very, very critical of modern men. A couple
Speaker 1: of things. Number one, the assumption that the changing roles
Speaker 1: in society and the new American society. I would argue
Speaker 1: to you that a lot of that is the result
Speaker 1: of the radical left getting their way for a very
Speaker 1: long time, especially in academia and the media, and forcing
Speaker 1: us out of as a society things that work in
Speaker 1: favor of things that a sound good or b advanced
Speaker 1: Neo Marxism. You are trying to tear apart the family.
Speaker 1: That is one of the avowed goals of Marxism, always
Speaker 1: has been. And then the second thing is that your side,
Speaker 1: your progressive side, has been demonizing young boys now for generations,
Speaker 1: drugging them if they can't sit still and act like
Speaker 1: little girls in classes, lecturing them about toxic masculinity, and
Speaker 1: especially white boys, telling them that they are the personification.
Speaker 2: Of evil in the world. And then you say, and they.
Speaker 1: Suck because they act all beaten down and they're not
Speaker 1: doing there what they ought to be doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's a mystery. Anyway, I lost the thread.
Speaker 3: What was the beginning though? What's her premise that that's
Speaker 3: why men are upset?
Speaker 2: No, women are? Women are unhappy because men suck?
Speaker 3: Essentially, so okay, So the explanation for women being crazy
Speaker 3: is that men are so awful because women make make
Speaker 3: the money and take care of the kids.
Speaker 1: Yes, hard to get all that to fit together. Right
Speaker 1: here is commentator Britt Hughes. Michael is thirty five and
Speaker 1: thirty six. Let's play thirty five first. She sets up
Speaker 1: her monologue by playing these clips.
Speaker 3: Don't come on my page and say that people should
Speaker 3: be in this country legal, don't do it?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Because she was queer? Are we great? Yet? Are we
Speaker 2: a great?
Speaker 3: God?
Speaker 5: Dree?
Speaker 2: Is this one great? It's a long montage.
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear the whole thing of lefty women
Speaker 1: just screaming into the camera, unhinged and angry about the
Speaker 1: politics of our nation and the shooting in Minneapolis because
Speaker 1: she was queer. And then Britt Hughes, who is a woman,
Speaker 1: is explaining something we've actually talked about before, and I
Speaker 1: think it's undeniable.
Speaker 2: But the literal Michael.
Speaker 6: A lot of people are wondering right now, how in
Speaker 6: the world. A person's brain ends up like this because
Speaker 6: this is not how healthy, happy people act. Let me
Speaker 6: explain liberal women are what happens when the natural female
Speaker 6: instinct to nurture and defend and care for gets misdirected
Speaker 6: away from families and children and misapplied to whatever the
Speaker 6: liberal cause of the week is. See, women have an
Speaker 6: innate instinct to support and emotionally connect to vulnerable people.
Speaker 6: We are designed to be mama bears, and in the
Speaker 6: absence of a stable and healthy home and family, a
Speaker 6: woman will find a place to put all of that.
Speaker 6: The natural instinct to sacrifice yourself for your children gets
Speaker 6: misapplied in all the wrong directions. You want to know
Speaker 6: why so many liberal women are out there playing hero
Speaker 6: for criminal aliens and gender confused perverts and cultures that
Speaker 6: hate them. It's because they believe they have identified groups
Speaker 6: of people who need them when no one else does.
Speaker 6: We destroyed the family, and we handed a generation of
Speaker 6: women a bunch of feminist lies and progressive slop in
Speaker 6: its place, and this is the natural result.
Speaker 1: They've found someone they believe needs them because nobody else does.
Speaker 2: WHOA WHOA nailed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that level of hysteria. Like what I've been
Speaker 3: talking about people flipping me off in my cyber truck.
Speaker 2: It's not just that they flip me off.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, they're like, oh my god, they're so
Speaker 3: much like they're in rage.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's weird. How do you get that worked
Speaker 2: up about something like that? Now?
Speaker 3: You know, an innocent person in your eyes, being killed
Speaker 3: is more valid as something to get worked up about.
Speaker 1: But even then, the like, yeah, but taking me along
Speaker 1: the road to spitting anger that somebody drives a tesla? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how often do you get can't control your emotions angry
Speaker 1: over something most people.
Speaker 2: Ever in your life? Yeah, once a decade. I don't know. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's troubling.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I was kind of daydreaming during that clip because I've
Speaker 1: heard in a couple of times I think it might
Speaker 1: be useful for everybody to spend a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: thinking in detail about your life and the things you do,
Speaker 1: from the importance of the mundane through the day, and
Speaker 1: how did they come to be, What are the main
Speaker 1: influences on how you spend your time and the decisions
Speaker 1: you make. For almost all of human history, it was
Speaker 1: your your family, your community, your religion period. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you know stuff like the Constitution or you know
Speaker 1: that would enter into it. Now I would argue it
Speaker 1: is tech companies, corporations, and just people who are profiting
Speaker 1: from you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what what are your core beliefs?
Speaker 1: If you can't immediately answer that question, your core beliefs
Speaker 1: are I flipped through social.
Speaker 2: Media to be entertained.
Speaker 1: Or I'm blown by the winds of you know, various
Speaker 1: causes which are all scams and or corporate greed.
Speaker 3: Well, I've been sloppy about this lately, so I know
Speaker 3: something about it. I think the problem is the algorithms
Speaker 3: figure out your core beliefs and then convince you that
Speaker 3: your core beliefs are under attack. And if your core
Speaker 3: beliefs are about to be lost and under attack, you
Speaker 3: know that can get an emotional reaction out of you.
Speaker 3: And the reason I know about this is, for the
Speaker 3: first time ever Twitter, I've only ever really used as
Speaker 3: a news source, and I have some people I follow
Speaker 3: and then if there's a particular story m I go to.
Speaker 3: But lately, like in the last week or so, I
Speaker 3: open it up and I just look at the stuff
Speaker 3: that it feeds you, which is my algorithm, so it
Speaker 3: knows what my tendencies are, my needs are, and it
Speaker 3: makes you crazy. I can tell that I feel more
Speaker 3: on edge in the last week than I did prior
Speaker 3: because it's feeding me these stuff Like there was one
Speaker 3: yesterday of a guy with an American flag that showed
Speaker 3: up to some protest about something, and then the liberal
Speaker 3: nut job started screaming his face with a bullhorn, and
Speaker 3: so he moved his American flag over here to get
Speaker 3: away from the bullhorn, and they came up and put
Speaker 3: it in his ear again, and he kept moving and
Speaker 3: kept moving, and then eventually he punched him, and then
Speaker 3: he got attacked by all the liberal crazies and that
Speaker 3: gets an emotional reaction out of you, and the algorithm
Speaker 3: knows that that's going to poke me.
Speaker 2: And there's all kinds of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, combine that, I gotta quit look in that the
Speaker 3: feed the algorithm gives me.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: True, But what amplifies that times ten is that we
Speaker 1: no longer identify ourselves as I'm a mother, I'm a father,
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian, I'm a member of the JCS, I'm ah.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah, blah. Your politics are your identity,
Speaker 2: and so those people are attacking your very being, not
Speaker 2: just your beliefs. I tell you what, it is an
Speaker 2: recipe for psychosis, and what do we have psychosis? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think most people are too.
Speaker 3: Many people's reaction to like that video I saw is
Speaker 3: oh my god, it's so bad. I need to look
Speaker 3: into this more. I need to look at more of
Speaker 3: this stuff so I know how awful it is as
Speaker 3: supposed to. I looked at it, thought I gotta quit
Speaker 3: look at just the general algorithm feed and go back
Speaker 3: to just looking at my news sites.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. What are the categories? And
Speaker 1: then we'll take a break real quick. Michael for you
Speaker 1: or following? Stick with follow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't go with the four of you. They're here
Speaker 2: to make you crazy, and they're doing a good job.
Speaker 2: They really are. Oh it's troubling. More on the way stair,
Speaker 2: barm strong and yetty. So what are your pronouns?
Speaker 1: My pronouns?
Speaker 2: Well, I hope that's pretty clear. Yeah, I don't make assumptions.
Speaker 2: You could identify as a sunflower. You know, I've been
Speaker 2: told I look like one.
Speaker 7: I use them, you know, I've always been curious why
Speaker 7: they am.
Speaker 2: Because there's just one of you and those are plural pronoles.
Speaker 2: Just never really understood the hoopla pronouns.
Speaker 7: My name's Ainsley, and I just can't really come up
Speaker 7: with a reason why you would address me.
Speaker 4: In third person in a conversation that I'm a part of.
Speaker 3: So if you I'm probably not there, so I wouldn't
Speaker 3: really know what pronouns you were using anyways, So why.
Speaker 2: Did it matter? Just froll like the beach who and
Speaker 2: says that you know. I think it's because I use
Speaker 2: coconutl as a moisturizer.
Speaker 3: So that's from land Man, which I haven't watched with
Speaker 3: Billy Bob Thornton about the way industry and everything like that.
Speaker 2: A lot of people seem to really like it.
Speaker 3: Now, when you hear a conversation like that, I'm working
Speaker 3: up to a point here, do you think do you
Speaker 3: feel like they're pushing the trains issue on it or
Speaker 3: is it just supposed to be a funny conversation about
Speaker 3: the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's a funny conversation about the reality that
Speaker 1: we have to deal with that sort of conversation.
Speaker 3: The reason I bring that up is I watched about
Speaker 3: two thirds of the movie, one battle after another.
Speaker 2: Yesterday afternoon, it's on HBO Max.
Speaker 3: It won Best Picture at Golden Globes, got the most nominations,
Speaker 3: and a couple other records and everything like that. And
Speaker 3: I've heard from a variety of quarters, including some people
Speaker 3: that I really really like, we're really smart about how
Speaker 3: woke it is and unsufferable. And they had to walk
Speaker 3: out of the theater, and I was like, Okay. I
Speaker 3: went into it with, oh, i'll see. I hate hearing
Speaker 3: this ahead of time. It would have never crossed my
Speaker 3: mind to have any political problems with this movie if
Speaker 3: I hadn't been told ahead of time.
Speaker 2: It's it's just well, I'll read.
Speaker 3: The main critic of The New York Times was an
Speaker 3: epic screwball adventure teeming with aspiring action set pieces. That's
Speaker 3: a pretty good description an epic screwball comedy. Every character
Speaker 3: in the thing, from top to bottom. I don't think
Speaker 3: of my characters in terms of left and right when
Speaker 3: I watch movies like I don't immediately think about where's
Speaker 3: this character fit on the political scale, So I wouldn't
Speaker 3: think about it.
Speaker 2: But everybody was absurd. Everybody was over the top incompetent nuts.
Speaker 4: It's just.
Speaker 3: I feel bad for you if you watch movies and
Speaker 3: all you can think of is how does this fit
Speaker 3: into politics? I just I don't get it. I really don't.
Speaker 2: I'll have to watch it and make my own judgment.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: So the radical protesters are incompetent and ridiculous and dumb.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I was gonna make an argument, I'd
Speaker 3: make an argument that was portraying revolutionaries is incompetent and dumb.
Speaker 2: If I wanted to make that argument again.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of don't look up where everybody is
Speaker 1: portray yes, indishly right wingers and left wingers.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and with the same star Leonardo Dicapiro, who's
Speaker 3: a ridiculous revolutionary who can't figure out the pronoun thing
Speaker 3: and get on the right side of it and everything.
Speaker 1: But people just don't have a sense of humor when
Speaker 1: they feel like they're in a war.
Speaker 2: I guess apparently, yeah, Armstrong and Getty, So.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be I just wanted to be ahead of
Speaker 3: this conversation because I think the movie One Battle after
Speaker 3: Another is gonna be a big national conversation when it
Speaker 3: gets to Oscar time.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be It's gonna be a thing.
Speaker 3: And you either think it's Paul Thomas Anderson, who I'm
Speaker 3: a big fan of. I couldn't like the oil drilling movie.
Speaker 3: Why can't I think of it?
Speaker 2: Oh? Blood, there will be blood. I can't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't like There will be Blood or other movies
Speaker 3: he's made more.
Speaker 2: I just love them.
Speaker 3: And I saw this movie as just, I don't know,
Speaker 3: a farce really, and some of you see it as
Speaker 3: so political.
Speaker 2: I said my piece on that, and I'll shut up bath.
Speaker 3: To me, it's like watching pulp fiction and saying they're
Speaker 3: trying to glorify drug use. They were, all right, that's
Speaker 3: not what I took away from it. But here's what
Speaker 3: somebody this will represent the rest of you who didn't
Speaker 3: agree with me. I went to watch one Battle after
Speaker 3: another on Tuesday. There were only fifteen people in the theater,
Speaker 3: which is interesting. All the awards it's won, and it's
Speaker 3: got ninety four percent on Rotten Tomatoes with fans.
Speaker 2: But anyway, but it's also streaming. I think it's both. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in theaters asters I watched it on HBO Max. Not
Speaker 2: relevant to the discussion, but that is interesting.
Speaker 3: There were only fifteen people in the theater, and after
Speaker 3: thirty minutes I walked out.
Speaker 2: I was the last one to walk out of an
Speaker 2: empty theater.
Speaker 3: I asked the theater employee about it, and she told
Speaker 3: me that at least half of the people who bought
Speaker 3: tickets don't make it one hour.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe this or that.
Speaker 3: Wow, I thought it was one of the more entertaining
Speaker 3: movies I've ever watched.
Speaker 2: The pace. It's just it's crazy.
Speaker 3: The first half hour is nothing but liberals, freedom fighters good,
Speaker 3: portraying them as good.
Speaker 2: I guess is what this person means.
Speaker 3: Military Ice Republicans bad, and it's okay to bomb their
Speaker 3: offices and headquarters. It's hilariously shows a handful of freedom
Speaker 3: fighters take over an ICE facility that's run by dozens
Speaker 3: of ICE agents. They all look like skinheads. My curious
Speaker 3: curiosity got the better of me. I had to look
Speaker 3: up what was going on. All the critics raved about it,
Speaker 3: and it was a box office flop. That is what
Speaker 3: happens when you crap on half the population. So that's
Speaker 3: the take some of you have on this movie. That
Speaker 3: is not what I took away from it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I wish i'd seen it. I will judge what,
Speaker 1: I will judge harshly.
Speaker 3: Man In the pace of it, Paul Thomas Anderson apparently
Speaker 3: realizes that the TikTok generation has not got time for
Speaker 3: things to unfold slowly.
Speaker 1: Well, what about that commentary though, that is that a
Speaker 1: description of the first half hour?
Speaker 2: Did they say her hour? Is that accurate?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: The part of it depicts freedom fighters good and no.
Speaker 3: They come off as completely nuts and inept and it's
Speaker 3: and so are the people on the other side are
Speaker 3: nuts and up to and unless you are going into
Speaker 3: it with a political fight, it's just a plot line.
Speaker 3: It's just something for various characters to interact with in
Speaker 3: crazy ways.
Speaker 2: And the sexual part of it is really something, right,
Speaker 2: It's right.
Speaker 1: It's a little perverse you're saying off the air, We
Speaker 1: can't even describe to you on the air.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a Sean Penn is unbelievable in this movie
Speaker 3: and crazy creepy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so you know it's funny.
Speaker 1: Everybody who's a big fan of slow horses, which was
Speaker 1: on one of your many screaming services with Gary Oldhaman
Speaker 1: it was the acting performances and just the production values
Speaker 1: of it were wonderful. But you may remember I told
Speaker 1: you I was getting into it, but the plot was
Speaker 1: in Great Britain and it looked like it was a
Speaker 1: Muslim extremist bombing. But no, the brave plot twist was
Speaker 1: it was white supremacists faking up being the radical Muslims,
Speaker 1: and it was bad, bad white people, and I just
Speaker 1: couldn't take it. Given the times we're in and the
Speaker 1: reality in London and the discomfort with mass Muslim immigration
Speaker 1: and the rest of it. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: caught the disease, should I have hung in there? I
Speaker 1: just it seems like every GD Award winning show is evil,
Speaker 1: evil white people being battled against by brave, brave POC's
Speaker 1: or or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just can't wait, you know, to each their own.
Speaker 3: The only saving grace of this, what I would say,
Speaker 3: is everybody is an abhorrent character, like life.
Speaker 2: Very single person.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Leonardo DiCaprio, the Brave Revolutionary. You can't remember
Speaker 3: the various code words he's supposed to give when he's
Speaker 3: having the secret phone calls, and so they want to
Speaker 3: answer his questions.
Speaker 2: What does the clock say? I don't know. They I
Speaker 2: don't remember what I'm.
Speaker 3: Supposed to say right now, but it's important that I
Speaker 3: get to the what does the clock say?
Speaker 2: You already said that I don't know what the answer is. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: sounds funny.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing, so on a completely different topic, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get to the next segment. We are truly,
Speaker 1: for once going to end strong, so we need to
Speaker 1: break on time. But this is an interesting perspective I heard.
Speaker 1: It's a little critical of Donald J and the idea
Speaker 1: that we have to own Greenland, and it's funny when
Speaker 1: you point it out. A number of military officials are
Speaker 1: pointing out that we manager used one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight foreign military bases in at least fifty one countries,
Speaker 1: and if you include smaller facilities, it's more than seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty installations in eighty countries and territories, many
Speaker 1: of them dating back to World War Two or the
Speaker 1: Cold War.
Speaker 2: And in those we don't own them.
Speaker 1: We have leases with bilateral agreements, and we have launched
Speaker 1: some hellacious wars from there and done everything we needed
Speaker 1: to do without owning Germany or Italy, France, you know,
Speaker 1: all sorts of different places in the Middle East, et cetera.
Speaker 2: We don't need owned Greenland.
Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people bring this up right,
Speaker 3: left and center, conservative writers and David Sanger in the
Speaker 3: New York Times saying we had bases there in the past.
Speaker 3: We shut some of them down. We could ask Johnny once,
Speaker 3: we could ask to reopen them. But I mean the
Speaker 3: idea that we need to, as you just said, have
Speaker 3: Greenland be a state or something for us to launch
Speaker 3: military operations is you know, doesn't fit in with the
Speaker 3: history of US using Greenland for military operations.
Speaker 1: Our largest overseas military installations are in Japan, Germany, and
Speaker 1: South Korea. We don't know those very very good, very successful,
Speaker 1: and we own all of them. That's right, No, we don't.
Speaker 1: I think it's just Trump being a real estate guy.
Speaker 1: I think he sees some good land, some land that's
Speaker 1: going to increase in value soon, and he gets such
Speaker 1: a I almost used an unfortunate.
Speaker 2: Term for mail arousal. He becomes so enthusiastic for it
Speaker 2: at clouds his judgment.
Speaker 3: I first term, I didn't think he cared much about
Speaker 3: history or any of that sort of stuff. You know,
Speaker 3: his his mark on the world or whatever. But I'm
Speaker 3: starting to think that that really matters to him, and
Speaker 3: that he's more aware of that sort of thing, you know,
Speaker 3: the whole wanting to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I
Speaker 3: think he wants to be one of the presidents that
Speaker 3: brought more states into the Union. You know, I don't
Speaker 3: think the Donroe doctrine was a complete joke. He likes
Speaker 3: the idea of like a doctrine being named for him
Speaker 3: for all eternity.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, he cares about his legacy. I think you're
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right in a way that he didn't before.
Speaker 1: I also think he's not surrounding himself with people who
Speaker 1: tell him.
Speaker 2: That's not a good idea anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a little sicko fantia for my tastes. But you
Speaker 1: know what's what's interesting though, it reminds me, well, it
Speaker 1: reminds me of a couple of things. But his emphasis
Speaker 1: on the need to aggressively confront the threat in the
Speaker 1: Arctic Circle is one hundred percent dead on kidding. It's
Speaker 1: really really smart, and you know, it's the sort of
Speaker 1: thing you're not going to get from the other side. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the moron Kamala Harris never would have brought it up,
Speaker 1: so he's right it just as always, it's that outer
Speaker 1: twenty percent of his act that if you could just
Speaker 1: reel that in.
Speaker 2: Boy, I think he had the opportunity to be a
Speaker 2: great president. Still does. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 3: Well, people come to the Armstrong, you get he shown
Speaker 3: knowing we are good mediators when it comes to kids
Speaker 3: hockey stories.
Speaker 2: Mercy certainly.
Speaker 3: This was a video that went viral yesterday and everybody
Speaker 3: took it at face value because it was presented at
Speaker 3: face value.
Speaker 2: This is how it sounded. First of all, this just
Speaker 2: just as.
Speaker 1: A quick note. This was the breaking on time. We're
Speaker 1: definitely going to finish Strong that I was mentioning. Do
Speaker 1: we want to squeeze it in now or take a
Speaker 1: break six and one a half dozen of the other.
Speaker 1: It's a good tease, why not, it's a great tease. No,
Speaker 1: don't pluge it. That's the last thing we ought to do.
Speaker 1: We ought to hit the brakes in go over.
Speaker 3: The problem we often have in making decisions is that
Speaker 3: the stakes are so low that doesn't matter. Like here, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll do it next, but you got a coin. It's
Speaker 3: a good story.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 3: Meant to talk about it yesterday because I saw it
Speaker 3: was a viral video and everybody is really concerned about
Speaker 3: this youth hockey league where they broke into fights.
Speaker 2: Here's how the news report went.
Speaker 7: On Saturday, minor league hockey team, the Hershey Bears, hosted
Speaker 7: an eight and under youth hockey game during an intermission,
Speaker 7: when suddenly a massive brawl breaks out, the crowd cheering
Speaker 7: them on. One fan saying that's the best intermission entertainment
Speaker 7: I've seen in years. Others say it got out of hand.
Speaker 7: No adults tried to break it up. Now, multiple investigations
Speaker 7: are underway, including from the Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association, which
Speaker 7: says it's aware of a staged fight.
Speaker 1: You know what's really funny is that was Hannah Battah
Speaker 1: of ABC News, and I said earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: with one percent confidence, that's an AI voiceover.
Speaker 2: I thought that was AI. Also even I know even
Speaker 2: either she's.
Speaker 1: Like a gifted AI imitator or is just so lacking
Speaker 1: in humanness that she sounds like she's AI. Well, so wow,
Speaker 1: the ABC report anyway, that's we're lost the thread. You
Speaker 1: got young children beating up Jesus out of each other
Speaker 1: for our entertainment.
Speaker 2: I'm shocked and outright, and parents don't intervene. The ABC report.
Speaker 7: The ABC report goes on the her she bears deny
Speaker 7: any role in the scrimmage other than providing the ice.
Speaker 7: The hockey club that the kids belong to, calling safety
Speaker 7: of the utmost importance, saying it's conducting an internal review.
Speaker 7: The brawl is raising bigger questions about hockey's fight culture,
Speaker 7: which critics say is tolerated or even embraced, unlike in
Speaker 7: most other sports.
Speaker 1: So lord Katie's head or is in her hands, and
Speaker 1: I'd like to join her in that posture.
Speaker 2: So that was a hot story all day long.
Speaker 3: And then with the typical sort of conversations, our culture
Speaker 3: has gotten so violent, and what happened to parents in
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, and probably worried about lawsuits.
Speaker 2: And I can imagine all the things I would have said.
Speaker 3: If we would have talked about this seriously and taking
Speaker 3: it completely seriously. Then I'm listening to NPR this morning
Speaker 3: and they said, turns out that was stage?
Speaker 2: What was stage?
Speaker 3: Here's some comment on that from an NHL real quick, Well,
Speaker 3: go il'.
Speaker 2: Let him speak his piece.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, I wasn't surprised to hear it was staged,
Speaker 5: because it would almost have to be because those kids
Speaker 5: are not taught anything that aggressive. You're not even allowed
Speaker 5: to hit at that level.
Speaker 3: Should not even allowed to run into people knock them down,
Speaker 3: let alone drop your clothes and start swinging.
Speaker 1: So I missed that story completely because I was like
Speaker 1: reading history instead of the current video yesterday.
Speaker 2: And yes, that is a humble breg.
Speaker 1: But number one, the idea that little kids like that
Speaker 1: would brawl and brawl and brawl and nobody who intercede
Speaker 1: is hilariously stupidly fictional.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Secondly, having grown up playing hockey and around hockey and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, you are absolutely not allowed to
Speaker 1: fight at those levels. I mean you would be removed
Speaker 1: from the league and banned for life, and just the
Speaker 1: whole thing smacked.
Speaker 2: Of a setup, but the whole world went for it.
Speaker 3: My experience with watching youth football and participating in youth
Speaker 3: football is there ain't that many kids that want contact.
Speaker 3: If you were trying to get it, there'd be a
Speaker 3: couple of kids that want to fight, Because there are
Speaker 3: there's some kids that want to want the contact. There's
Speaker 3: lots of kids that don't so the idea that every
Speaker 3: single pair on the entire ice would be.
Speaker 2: Just swinging at each other. It's really kind of hilarious.
Speaker 2: But but ABC News took it perfectly seriously and.
Speaker 3: We we we got to watch out for this ourselves.
Speaker 3: Every It's a human nature thing, maybe, but people want
Speaker 3: the here's another example of how the world's falling apart
Speaker 3: on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: And here's another example of how the world's falling apart.
Speaker 1: By the way, no, go ahead, Did.
Speaker 2: You have more on that thought?
Speaker 3: So the example of the world world falling apart is
Speaker 3: that people want the world to be falling apart.
Speaker 2: And now we've got fake news story. So I guess
Speaker 2: it's just a wow.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you are freaking meta, going meta on us.
Speaker 1: You know, you're blowing my mind?
Speaker 2: Could rely?
Speaker 3: I know, what, did you see this originally and thought
Speaker 3: it was real?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Because I saw it on TV and thought, oh my god,
Speaker 3: that's horrific. I hadn't heard the no parents intervened, I
Speaker 3: assumed because I just saw a couple second clip that
Speaker 3: oh my god, that is completely out of hand, and
Speaker 3: I just wanted how it ended up.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: When I first saw it, I realized that it was
Speaker 4: staged about fifteen seconds and when not a single adult.
Speaker 2: Rushed to stop them.
Speaker 1: But play the one hundred percent serious ABC News report again,
Speaker 1: Michael clip eighteen.
Speaker 7: Please the Hershey Bears deny any role in the scrimmage
Speaker 7: other than providing the ice, the hockey club that the
Speaker 7: kids belong to, calling safety of the utmost importance.
Speaker 2: Here's the kid, and it's.
Speaker 7: Conducting an internal review. Roll is raising bigger questions about
Speaker 7: hockey's fight culture, which critics say is tolerated or even embraced,
Speaker 7: unlike in most other sports.
Speaker 2: Is that the question that's being raised? Is it? Hannah?
Speaker 3: So one level of trolling Andy Kaufman like stage trolling
Speaker 3: was going on here. I mean, when the news organizations
Speaker 3: contacted the teams, did they pretend it was real? Because
Speaker 3: otherwise it would have been unless ABC's lying about investigating
Speaker 3: it at all.
Speaker 2: Did you make a single phone call? Well, in dozens
Speaker 2: of people are involved in preparing that newscast, did not
Speaker 2: a single one of them say, hey, that's clearly fake?
Speaker 2: And then did somebody not say and I would not
Speaker 2: be the least bit surprised to hear this was true?
Speaker 2: Did somebody say it doesn't matter. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: It's shocking. People go, oh my god, Yeah, it's clearly
Speaker 2: fake cars.
Speaker 3: Don't let the truth get in away of a good story.
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand that to a certain extent. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that's probably what happened there, because if you
Speaker 3: actually contacted the league or the arena, they'd say, oh no, no,
Speaker 3: that was just for fun the crowd and it was
Speaker 3: for fun.
Speaker 4: Well, so apparently the league and club officials are investigating
Speaker 4: it against the players and team that staged the fight.
Speaker 3: Well so, but but so was it like a joke
Speaker 3: on the parents in the crowd.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out what the a joke on
Speaker 2: the league. I don't know what was the Beavers or
Speaker 2: whatever the Hershey Bears were they did?
Speaker 1: They think they'd be funny and found some coaches and
Speaker 1: thought it'd be funny too. Well, yeah I could, And
Speaker 1: I tell you what, as a what was it you
Speaker 1: under hockey? As a young hockey player, I'd have thought
Speaker 1: that was freaking hilarious. I would have been recruiting my
Speaker 1: teammates to do it. How about a funny idea? How
Speaker 1: about is a parent? Would you think it was funny,
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, oh, you got me. I thought
Speaker 1: they started fighting, because I I would think if I
Speaker 1: was in the arena and everybody started fighting at once,
Speaker 1: very quickly, I would think I would you would understand
Speaker 1: it was fake. Yeah, I can believe because you know
Speaker 1: youth hockey well and well that and I can't believe
Speaker 1: that all of these seven year olds are great actors
Speaker 1: that pretending to hit each other and be hit.
Speaker 2: It couldn't have been that great up close? Good it well? Right, exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you gotta be backaways. You gotta have
Speaker 1: a wide shot to make it the least bit convincing.
Speaker 1: So you're sitting there, you're thinking, the hell is he doing?
Speaker 1: Why are they pantomiming fighting? This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Lest they all have the.
Speaker 3: Talents of Charlie Chaplin. I don't think it was probably
Speaker 3: that convincing.
Speaker 1: But ABC's Hannah Batta is concerned about hockey's fight culture.
Speaker 3: So the scandals question the scandal here if there is one?
Speaker 3: Did ABC completely one know what was going on here
Speaker 3: and presented it like a tragedy just.
Speaker 2: For clicks they may have, which is not cool? He
Speaker 2: got my sciti out, Go get you what they got
Speaker 2: the firework. He's sound for final thoughts. I like it.
Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought for everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: Wrap things up for the day with Mike leins Lower
Speaker 1: technical director, will bravely lead the way Michael Whischr.
Speaker 2: Final thought.
Speaker 8: You know, this story reminds me of morning radio back
Speaker 8: in the day where somebody a DJ would have a
Speaker 8: goldfish and say I'm going to blend this goldfish unless
Speaker 8: I get people to call in and you know, convince
Speaker 8: me to do otherwise, and people would call in and beg.
Speaker 2: And yes we did.
Speaker 3: We did do that, Katie, and we ran the blender
Speaker 3: and everybody freaked out.
Speaker 2: Monsters. It was funny.
Speaker 1: Katie Greener esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, I think.
Speaker 4: We need more of this, more of these little ice
Speaker 4: hockey fights, flash mob fights, all of it.
Speaker 2: Just I love it. Keep it coming, boy, all right?
Speaker 3: Jack final thought for us, Yeah, people got angry when
Speaker 3: they thought we actually blended the goldfish.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what our point was.
Speaker 3: When we had a couple of dudes in studio Kiss,
Speaker 3: Remember we had two girls in studio Kiss, and two
Speaker 3: dudes in studio kiss.
Speaker 2: Some people got.
Speaker 3: Really angry about that. That was before even I don't
Speaker 3: think there was video of it. I think it was
Speaker 3: just audio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh percent. My final thought is number one.
Speaker 1: I was reminded that a lot of people call Minneapolis Snowgadishu,
Speaker 1: which is kind of funny. And secondly, according to recent study,
Speaker 1: melodies are getting measurably less complex and more homogeneous in
Speaker 1: pop music. Everything is converging to what is measurably most popular.
Speaker 1: Algorithmic recommendations are the final push down this death spiral.
Speaker 1: They tell you precisely what is the most popular thing
Speaker 1: to talk about, so everybody does, says, and writes about
Speaker 1: only those things.
Speaker 3: You only need the one, four, five, and six chord
Speaker 3: for all songs in the future.
Speaker 2: According to law, I think.
Speaker 3: Arm same time, Armstrong and Getty Rabick go another grueling
Speaker 3: four hour workday.
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Speaker 2: I'm strong and.
Speaker 7: Get take they're way better at words.
Speaker 2: Oh my word, word. Let me say. Let me say
Speaker 2: one thing. You do what you know how to do,
Speaker 2: because when you do what you do, what the hell
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Speaker 2: the end of this trange of hearings. What's that word?
Speaker 2: That high note? Thank you all very much, Armstrong and
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