Speaker 1: And broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
Speaker 4: Welcome to a replay of the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: We Are Armed. Boy? Did we have some good stuff
Speaker 3: for so?
Speaker 5: Speaking of this behavior, right, the Gaines has been an
Speaker 5: absolutely courageous spokesperson for women's sports, women's private places, and
Speaker 5: women's rights in general, and on college campuses where undergrads
Speaker 5: are majority women.
Speaker 3: The reception she's gotten has been absolutely horrific.
Speaker 6: I have been in several environments, especially on these hotbeds,
Speaker 6: these college campuses, where I have been spit on, of course,
Speaker 6: I mean the most profane, o've scene heinous things yelled
Speaker 6: at me, drinks port on me, glass bottles thrown at me.
Speaker 6: There was an incident in San Francisco where I was
Speaker 6: literally held hostage for five hours. Were protesters, the mob,
Speaker 6: the angry, violent mob on the outside demanded that I
Speaker 6: had to pay them money if I wanted to make
Speaker 6: it back home to my family safely, all while university officials,
Speaker 6: the Dean of students, the vice president of student affairs
Speaker 6: at the university. They applauded the students for their brave behavior,
Speaker 6: saying that people like me, with our dissenting viewpoints, we
Speaker 6: were the ones who were basically asking for this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole transgender cult thing. How else to describe
Speaker 3: of you so adamant and fevered that you would behave
Speaker 3: like that when a young woman was trying to protect
Speaker 3: women's sports and women's private areas like locker rooms and
Speaker 3: bathrooms and stuff. I mean, you are nuts.
Speaker 4: You don't mean a private area like her, Yahoo, good lord,
Speaker 4: I mean the space she's in.
Speaker 3: You're an idiot, and I will not dignify that. Speaking
Speaker 3: of people standing up for women's rights, this is such
Speaker 3: an interesting little episode in the history of that. Tishheimen
Speaker 3: is the name of the black lady. You may have
Speaker 3: seen her who was aghast when she was bare naked
Speaker 3: at the Gold Gym in Los Angeles and turned and
Speaker 3: there was a full grown man looking at her, and
Speaker 3: she told aforementioned fella to get the hell out. He said,
Speaker 3: he said, I'm a woman, I get to be in here,
Speaker 3: and started screaming at her that she was a bigot
Speaker 3: and misgendering him. And the rest of it, we played
Speaker 3: you that well. Tish, to her credit, traveled north to
Speaker 3: the San Francisco Bay area and attended a town hall
Speaker 3: meeting being held by none other than the world's eating pervert,
Speaker 3: Scott Wiener, who hopes to hold Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat soon.
Speaker 3: And she Tish was asking Scott about protecting women, and
Speaker 3: it took some really interesting turns. We'll start with seventy
Speaker 3: mine as.
Speaker 7: A lesbian woman who was attacked in a woman's locker
Speaker 7: room at Goldshin this week by self identifying trends with
Speaker 7: the documented history of domestic violence. I'm deeply concerned about
Speaker 7: women's safety and female only spaces. What would you say
Speaker 7: to women who are seeking assurance that their safety will
Speaker 7: be protected from men who, by California law and self
Speaker 7: idea as women and women only space To sir, please tell.
Speaker 8: Me, yeah, so we want, I mean everyone to be safe.
Speaker 8: And we also know that you know, we have transitople
Speaker 8: book men and women to our men and women, and
Speaker 8: so you know, so you trans women.
Speaker 3: Wow, what a floundering, fumbling, bumbling effort to translate the
Speaker 3: academia talk Scott Wiener's memorized into like real world language.
Speaker 3: You just couldn't do it. No.
Speaker 4: Well, often when you're saying stuff you don't actually believe,
Speaker 4: it's difficult to form your sentences and thought.
Speaker 3: I think he does believe that though. I mean he's
Speaker 3: in favor of everything from man boy love to yeah please.
Speaker 3: He says birthing persons. He's just said birthing persons ten
Speaker 3: years ago. He's an activist in this. Anyway, it keeps
Speaker 3: going and it keeps getting weirder.
Speaker 7: And we want to know, are you going to protect women?
Speaker 7: Not translemen women?
Speaker 3: Women? Trans women are lemon lemen.
Speaker 7: Listen, we need to protect.
Speaker 3: I was assault No, they are not. I was assaulted.
Speaker 3: He broke my saw, so pressed you need.
Speaker 7: I'm a lesbian. I'm not sure I saw me and
Speaker 7: I'm black. So if there's another black woman you here,
Speaker 7: I want to tell me how they feel, please join in.
Speaker 7: But all of you are not and I don't know
Speaker 7: who you are what you are, But I'm a lesbian
Speaker 7: and I'm telling you right now men are harassing women
Speaker 7: in the locker room.
Speaker 3: The question.
Speaker 4: That's where it turns super interesting in terms of the
Speaker 4: left eating their own because then she gets into the
Speaker 4: wait a second nobody can criticize me. I'm black, I'm
Speaker 4: a woman, and I'm gay. Those three things leave me
Speaker 4: in a situation where you can't possibly disagree with me.
Speaker 4: And then comes along trans and apparently trans trumps all
Speaker 4: of those other things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, black lesbian ladies. I wish we could help
Speaker 3: you here, but you're getting back a line place. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I loved and listen, I'm not on her side
Speaker 3: of the intersectional totem pole battle thing, but I love
Speaker 3: the dynamic of white men trans cultists saying trans women
Speaker 3: are women, trans women are women, trans women are women.
Speaker 4: Right, so you got you have adult white males who
Speaker 4: all of a sudden end up in the in the
Speaker 4: right using my finger quotes right position, correct position. Yeah
Speaker 4: for the woke left over a black female gay person
Speaker 4: because we've crossed into the trans conversation. Right, Sorry, sorry,
Speaker 4: it's complicated. You need a float chart.
Speaker 3: Right. And then she of course knows those are the
Speaker 3: cards to play on the left, so she tries to
Speaker 3: play that because they're not always worked for her her
Speaker 3: whole life, I'm sure, right. Then a full grown dude
Speaker 3: shows up in the locker room. She yells out of
Speaker 3: panic and shock, when he's looking at her bare ass naked,
Speaker 3: and then she becomes the bad person who has kicked
Speaker 3: out a gold's gym, and now she feels, oh, shoot,
Speaker 3: this whole hierarchy of victims thing.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it gets a little weird. Yeah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm on her side in this conversation, and I don't
Speaker 4: know her. Maybe she hasn't been playing this card her
Speaker 4: whole life, although she pulled it there pretty quickly. But
Speaker 4: there are plenty of people who do play that card,
Speaker 4: and it works, whether you know the bus didn't pick
Speaker 4: you up, or you got a bad grade in school,
Speaker 4: or they want you to pay your rent on time.
Speaker 3: Or whatever the hell it is.
Speaker 4: It's always worked until you run into some white guys
Speaker 4: who are on the other side of.
Speaker 3: Trans right, right, I remember, And it works in the
Speaker 3: other way too, that you can discount, dismiss insult to
Speaker 3: anyone by pointing out that they happen to be a
Speaker 3: white person. I had that card first played on me
Speaker 3: like twenty years ago. I was like, wait, what, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it's popular anyway. The meeting already Jazzy rolled on.
Speaker 8: You were I appreciate you talking about it, and.
Speaker 3: Obvious that.
Speaker 8: I have also know that women are also rutalizing in
Speaker 8: this country. So women and women rutalizing the country, and
Speaker 8: we have them.
Speaker 3: We have the women.
Speaker 7: We cannot be raped in the battles by men that
Speaker 7: want to say they're women.
Speaker 6: They're not women.
Speaker 3: They're not way.
Speaker 9: I'm leaving.
Speaker 7: It's okay, but I'm not going to leaving because you
Speaker 7: know what, you guys are not protecting women. You're doing
Speaker 7: a lot the bills that you're passing.
Speaker 3: For the law, I've read a lot of them.
Speaker 7: They're great, but these things with the trans it's not right.
Speaker 10: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: You're wrong. So the key phrase there is women and
Speaker 3: sis women need protection. So sorry, born with ovaries, et cetera. People,
Speaker 3: you're in second place. Women, real women and cis women
Speaker 3: need to be protected. In Scott Wainer's world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the only woman term that doesn't have a qualifier
Speaker 4: attached is to say the exactly, Katie, you're smoldering.
Speaker 3: I'm at a loss for words, you know.
Speaker 11: I know, and as a woman who is pregnant and
Speaker 11: my body is doing all sorts of things, this is
Speaker 11: even more infuriating because they.
Speaker 3: Have more I can totally relate, totally relate because I
Speaker 3: identify as a woman. Yeah, yeah, you are a kids.
Speaker 3: My effing teeth in for saying that. Right, I'm glad
Speaker 3: you're too far away.
Speaker 4: And she just needed one more thing, was your uncle
Speaker 4: of Cherokee? Do you have anything?
Speaker 3: What do you got? Let's think, let's brainstorm here, the
Speaker 3: both all for your limbs work? Okay, no, let me think,
Speaker 3: let me think your eyesight? Okay? No, all right? She
Speaker 3: had one more shot as she walked out the door.
Speaker 3: You heard, all right.
Speaker 7: Don't let them use our blackness and our civil rights
Speaker 7: as a reason of past me and dolls the children
Speaker 7: to transformed. It's wrong.
Speaker 3: My sister is in jail. She can't get free temples,
Speaker 3: or she.
Speaker 7: Could get free transformation of medication, big format.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Scott, well that was a pretty good one. Would
Speaker 3: she say her sister's in prison.
Speaker 4: Whoever's in prison, can't get tampons, but you could get
Speaker 4: free transition surgery or medics science medication exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well made a pretty good point that don't let
Speaker 3: our blackness, don't let them use our blackness to pass
Speaker 3: weird laws. Because the far far radical left in the
Speaker 3: neo Marxists, they use the verbiage and the irrationale of
Speaker 3: the civil rights movement to make it seem like a
Speaker 3: dude who says now, I'm a girl is the same
Speaker 3: as you know, emmtt Till or some somebody who just
Speaker 3: wanted to vote in the South or attend to public university.
Speaker 3: It's it's obscene we left out at this Scott Wiener
Speaker 3: person because you don't know him all around the country
Speaker 3: like we do in the Bay. He's a Bay Area
Speaker 3: legend in government and doing all kinds of crazy stuff
Speaker 3: in the city and then getting into state governmental sort
Speaker 3: of stuff. He wants to take Nancy Pelosi's seat. He's
Speaker 3: gonna run for Nancy Pelosi's seat. He could be the
Speaker 3: face of progressivism in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 4: I almost hope he wins. It's going to be so crazy,
Speaker 4: but I know I don't actually want his point of
Speaker 4: view to be spread.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's pro everything that's perverse, including you know,
Speaker 3: man boy love and that sort of thing, even if
Speaker 3: he kind of hints at it. But uh, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to decide right now if it'd be better
Speaker 3: or worse to have him in Congress. I would like
Speaker 3: the I don't know people are so easily talked off
Speaker 3: of their beliefs in ways that shocked me, like during COVID.
Speaker 4: And you gotta be careful with this whole, you know, Mom.
Speaker 4: Dami wins, that'll be good for us. Scott Wheeder wins,
Speaker 4: it'll be good for us. Pretty soon, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lot of people in positions of power with horrifying ideas.
Speaker 3: And a lot of the sheeple and or young people
Speaker 3: who are easily sold on a lot of this garbage.
Speaker 3: I just feel bad that lady lost the intersectional contest.
Speaker 3: She walked in there feeling great.
Speaker 4: Who's gonna say something to a gay black woman?
Speaker 3: I am bulletproof. Sorry, I'm trans. Oh no, the superpower
Speaker 3: my kryptonite. Damn it. Armstrong and Jack.
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Speaker 3: So we prob to break.
Speaker 4: Joe will mention this country song that's on the top
Speaker 4: of some chart and it's AI and so we both
Speaker 4: took a listen to it. We can't play it because
Speaker 4: it'd be a violation of something. But so before I
Speaker 4: tell you what I thought of this AI song that's
Speaker 4: at the top of the charts. Is it all Ai?
Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying? It's entirely AI song?
Speaker 3: I believe so. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the dude on the cover is a made up picture.
Speaker 4: The voice is Ai, the instruments, the writing, all of
Speaker 4: it is that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if the there's probably somebody who
Speaker 3: wrote the lyrics just but maybe not. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Having listened to it. That is highly troubling. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: second me, that is way too good.
Speaker 4: That is why why would anybody try at this point, Well,
Speaker 4: why would anybody try to become famous and make money
Speaker 4: at it? If you want to make music, I do
Speaker 4: it every day. I at home. I played the piano
Speaker 4: in my bedroom, in my underwear. I do that all
Speaker 4: the time. But it left that last part out. Hey,
Speaker 4: I isn't going to replace that. But any I'm going
Speaker 4: to make it onto the charts. I don't know if
Speaker 4: there's any point in that anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm already very very cynical about pop music.
Speaker 3: And it occurred to me that a lot of us
Speaker 3: of a certain age we had the unbelievable experience that
Speaker 3: we took for granted that pop music, which was entirely
Speaker 3: a commodity. I mean, anybody who was actually a creative
Speaker 3: artist was exploited and thrown away by the money guys.
Speaker 3: It was just again a corporate commodity. And then there
Speaker 3: was a brief and wonderful period of I don't know,
Speaker 3: ten to twenty five years where the art was dominated
Speaker 3: by actual creative artists, at least to a significant extent.
Speaker 3: It still was corporate, but there was a hell of
Speaker 3: a lot of creativity. Now and I'm not saying there's
Speaker 3: no creativity left, but pop music is so corporate, there's
Speaker 3: so much money to be made, the formulaic they might
Speaker 3: as well be AI. Song factories are so efficient, the
Speaker 3: underwear models lip syncing to the music are so good looking.
Speaker 3: In the rest of it, it's easy to be very,
Speaker 3: very cynical about it. Having said that, the lyrics of
Speaker 3: this song in particular are a person who has had
Speaker 3: some very painful times in their life pouring out their soul.
Speaker 3: And the fact that that is cranked out by a
Speaker 3: computer because they know you like that sort of thing
Speaker 3: makes me want to vomit. That's a good point, the
Speaker 3: fact that.
Speaker 4: A chat bot picks up Oh okay, people have angst
Speaker 4: and pain and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Oh right about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, when it comes from somebody who's had that same
Speaker 4: feeling and we have that, we have that in common
Speaker 4: as a human being.
Speaker 3: Oh you felt that. I'm feeling that right now. Thanks
Speaker 3: for writing about it. When it turns out it's a
Speaker 3: computer completely you know. Yeah. One of my favorite songs
Speaker 3: by one of my favorite bands. The writer and singer
Speaker 3: happens to be a gal. He's talking about, you know,
Speaker 3: being you know, self destructive in love and drinking way
Speaker 3: too much. And the line is maybe I'll find my
Speaker 3: maker on the bedroom floor, which is a hell of
Speaker 3: a line. Maybe I'll meet my maker. I think it
Speaker 3: is anyway to hear that. Somebody just cranked that out
Speaker 3: because the computer algorithm said that would that would be compelling.
Speaker 3: I don't know, justugh. My skin is crawling, my guts
Speaker 3: are churning. Maybe I ate something bad for dinner last night.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's that's awful. It's not good, it's not funny,
Speaker 3: it's not amusing.
Speaker 4: So Google hired some AI guru to come over. They
Speaker 4: spent two point seven billion dollars to buy character dot Ai,
Speaker 4: and then this guy had a whole bunch of posts
Speaker 4: about how he doesn't believe the whole trans thing is real,
Speaker 4: and so Google tried to shut him down, having just
Speaker 4: spent three billion dollars on his company, and that became
Speaker 4: and so they got a they got a a woke
Speaker 4: problem within the googly eye stuff. So that would be
Speaker 4: something China is not worried about. That, I guarantee of
Speaker 4: China's attempt to be the dominant AI force on Earth
Speaker 4: is not worried about the politics of the individual employees.
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Speaker 4: On the floor we are occupying here at the radio station,
Speaker 4: the stall where people do their you know, your main business.
Speaker 4: There's been no soap in there for like a month.
Speaker 4: Oh it's longer than that to wash your hands, and
Speaker 4: that ain't cool. So Hanson and I were just discussing it.
Speaker 4: Maybe we should bring bars of soap and set him
Speaker 4: on the counter kind of a hint, like we've started
Speaker 4: to bring our own bar from home. For some reason,
Speaker 4: he suggested lava. Do you remember lava soap? It was
Speaker 4: gray and it had the grit in it to like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, do they still make that? I think bars
Speaker 4: a lava soap would be perfect.
Speaker 3: One of my friend's dad was an actual auto mechanic,
Speaker 3: and he did a lot of work in his own garage.
Speaker 3: I think that's where I ran it. A lava soap.
Speaker 3: It was good for that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it was so good for like
Speaker 4: a ten year old to scrub their body in the shower.
Speaker 3: Well, we're a lot of bleeding from the hands, fulliating,
Speaker 3: exfoliating exactly, So a lot of great stuff to squeeze
Speaker 3: in this hour. But first, from the the information mind
Speaker 3: of Joe Getty that brought you. I do occasionally refer
Speaker 3: to myself in the third person, that brought you a
Speaker 3: look in the China cabinet. And what was one of
Speaker 3: the other ones, Michael, I can't remember if there was
Speaker 3: another one. Now there have been other ones. Well, it's
Speaker 3: time for the euro Bureau. Yeah, we're still working on
Speaker 3: the introduction for the euro Bureau and that was low rent.
Speaker 3: How are you kidding? That was free sign on the
Speaker 3: side of the road. I was limited on supplies. Okay, yes,
Speaker 3: send time. So a couple of really interesting stories from Europe,
Speaker 3: and I tell you what, and a lot of you
Speaker 3: agree with this. I feel like watching my beloved Republic
Speaker 3: in our various challenges and increasing socialism and debt and
Speaker 3: the rest of it. It's a slow motion car crash.
Speaker 3: I mean, the the end of this is so incredibly predictable.
Speaker 3: We become France. It's the Francification of the United States.
Speaker 3: Oh oh damn it that reminds me. I'm so pleased
Speaker 3: with this. I can't stand it. The new T shirt
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Speaker 3: entire Country, Newsome, twenty twenty eight. Anyway, so we all
Speaker 3: heard about the breaking at the Louver right We're going
Speaker 3: to start in France and the euro Bureau. We all
Speaker 3: heard about that, right in the Crown Jewels and all
Speaker 3: sorts of stuff. Much less reported here on the other
Speaker 3: side of the Atlantic is the fact that that was
Speaker 3: one of nine major robberies of museums over the past
Speaker 3: year in France. Didn't know that nine six French museums
Speaker 3: have been hit since the beginning of September alone, one
Speaker 3: of them twice. And they name a bunch of museums
Speaker 3: I've never heard of, but are important, I guess, including
Speaker 3: the stately Museum of Natural History. Few of the stolen works,
Speaker 3: including precious porcelain and gold crosses and statues, have been recovered.
Speaker 3: As the robberies pile up, French officials are waking up
Speaker 3: to an unsettling reality. France is a wash in cultural treasures,
Speaker 3: but has minimal resources to protect them from thieves.
Speaker 4: Well, I was going to say, after the fourth or
Speaker 4: fifth museums hit, I would have thought somebody said, hey,
Speaker 4: is the Loop protected?
Speaker 3: I mean, that's like our most famous museum. Successive governments
Speaker 3: have collapsed over efforts to rein in the country's budget deficit,
Speaker 3: leaving the state too cash strap to invest in meaningful
Speaker 3: security upgrades for the more than twelve hundred sites classified
Speaker 3: by the government as museums. And Macrone's administration is scrambling
Speaker 3: to take a census of the country's most valuable artwork
Speaker 3: to nowhere to put their few pennies. But you've got
Speaker 3: a rising criminal class and absolutely no budget, no will
Speaker 3: to protect the country. It's just sad. Then you have
Speaker 3: this from the Wall Street Journal. Britain is preparing tens
Speaker 3: of billions of dollars twelve pounds but in new taxes. Again,
Speaker 3: the Labor government is ready to is readying its second
Speaker 3: major tax increase in two years, as it tries to
Speaker 3: avoid spooking markets, specifically bond markets, because it's taking on
Speaker 3: so much debt and it's killing the economy. And this
Speaker 3: is a good description. The UK has long been torn
Speaker 3: between two mutually exclusive desires. Voters want European levels of
Speaker 3: welfare with American levels of taxation. Of course, we're over
Speaker 3: spending our taxation too, but by accident design, the debate
Speaker 3: is slowly being resolved in the direction of higher taxes.
Speaker 3: As Britain's Labor government, which can't leave office soon enough,
Speaker 3: here's its second major tax increase in is many years.
Speaker 3: The UK is confronting an issue, facing growing numbers of
Speaker 3: rich nations, how to pay for rising government spending without
Speaker 3: taking on evermore debt and spooking financial markets. So they've
Speaker 3: got this giant tax increase coming to narrow the budget deficit,
Speaker 3: which is at about six percent of their GDP. Biggest
Speaker 3: rounds the tax increases since the mid seventies. The increases
Speaker 3: will likely further constrain Britain's anemic economic growth.
Speaker 4: A lot of that had to do with their net
Speaker 4: zero policies around climate change, which were.
Speaker 3: Crazy, absolutely true. Yeah, those two things are just crushing
Speaker 3: the economy. So the latest increase will raise the UK's
Speaker 3: tax rate to about thirty eight percent of annual economic output,
Speaker 3: highest level ever, compares with about thirty percent in the
Speaker 3: nineties and low thirties and twenty tens. That puts the
Speaker 3: UK comfortably ahead of the US, which is in the
Speaker 3: mid twenties although spending ourselves into oblivion, but still short
Speaker 3: of Germany and France. The pitfalls of such an approach
Speaker 3: are evident in Germany, which taxes wages more than any
Speaker 3: other rich country except Belgium, taking almost fifty percent of
Speaker 3: employees gross wages on average. While that approach has helped
Speaker 3: Germany balance budgets in the past, is that it is
Speaker 3: eaten into Germans purchasing power, depressing consumption, and Germany that
Speaker 3: at the end of the Cold War spending on defense
Speaker 3: and poured the difference into the welfare state, now needs
Speaker 3: desperately to spend more on the military and shore up
Speaker 3: crumbling infrastructure, from potholed roads to a decrepit rail system.
Speaker 3: But taxes are already very high and the growth is
Speaker 3: too weak to fund new taxes. Slow motion car wreck. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I took in a podcast about Britain's financial situation several
Speaker 4: weeks ago and it was striking the whole time is
Speaker 4: listening to it.
Speaker 3: I kept thinking, why isn't this a bigger story?
Speaker 4: Why don't more people know this in the United States,
Speaker 4: that Britain has just ruined their economy and then there's
Speaker 4: no easy way out and they are like our future.
Speaker 4: We can look at them and we're gonna be able
Speaker 4: to see what it's going to be like for us.
Speaker 4: I know, the world's most predictable disaster. It's so frustrating,
Speaker 4: and he didn't tune in to be frustrated but I mean,
Speaker 4: it's just somebody comes up here on the street and says,
Speaker 4: I really like fentanyl. I'm taking more fentanyl every day,
Speaker 4: and you're thinking, well, you're going O D and die.
Speaker 4: In fact, one hundred percent of people who you said
Speaker 4: that to and think you're going to O D and die,
Speaker 4: But they just keep doing it. I feel like that's
Speaker 4: the situation we're in now because the average voter has
Speaker 4: no grasp. And this is true in France, it's true
Speaker 4: in Britain, it's true in the US. Has no grasp
Speaker 4: of the concept of fiscal restraint. They you know, it's
Speaker 4: too easy to sell them on. You deserve handouts. I
Speaker 4: just did you know. I don't know how.
Speaker 3: Legitimate this quote is. I've seen it a million times old.
Speaker 3: The Scottish guy that when a people realizes it can
Speaker 3: vote itself money themselves, money from the treasury, a republic
Speaker 3: is doomed. I'm not sure there's any turning it around
Speaker 3: short of a cataclysm. But you don't bounce back from
Speaker 3: every cataclysm. It was like, you're only half serious. God
Speaker 3: send me a warning, so I get really serious about
Speaker 3: getting healthy, like a minor heart.
Speaker 4: Attack, right, I ask God to give me a minor
Speaker 4: heart attack, so I would start eating better. Well, your genius, Jack,
Speaker 4: your unappreciated genius, is that's a perfect metaphor for the
Speaker 4: United States. The only thing that will stop us wolfing
Speaker 4: down bacon, drinking a cord of bourbon a night, and
Speaker 4: smoking four packs a day is a fiscal heart attack,
Speaker 4: the problem being you don't always survive them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, the pandemic was quite the cataclysm, and it didn't
Speaker 4: make things better anywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Oh, you know that's funny. And when we
Speaker 3: were talking a couple of segments ago, whenever it was
Speaker 3: about young people and young men and their anger and
Speaker 3: anti Semitism and that whole stew the writer that I
Speaker 3: was quoting mentioned how bitterly painful the COVID shutdowns were
Speaker 3: for young men in so many ways, and it drove
Speaker 3: them away from girlfriends and real friends and jobs and
Speaker 3: striving and pride in being a man. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: The COVID shutdowns, which were specifically opposite of what all
Speaker 3: the health organizations around the world had said they would
Speaker 3: do when there was a pandemic. They abandoned all their
Speaker 3: plans and panicked and shut them down and kept the
Speaker 3: kids out of schools, the rest of it. I don't
Speaker 3: think we've reckoned with a third of the damage that did. No.
Speaker 3: Definitely incredible evil that perpetrated. I'll be saying that until
Speaker 3: I'm lowered into my grave. Straight from our europe and
Speaker 3: News desk. Okay, this is that was Joe Getty's your bureau.
Speaker 3: It was so horrible, it was great. Oh Man, Armstrong, he.
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Speaker 10: Anaheim Police detective Heather Skaglioni says the thieves used a
Speaker 10: tablet meant for locksmith's that can connect to technology and
Speaker 10: newer vehicles. He's being handed a like a locksmith tool,
Speaker 10: a computer device that plugs into the computer system in
Speaker 10: the car so you can quickly reprogram it and turn
Speaker 10: the car on so you can leave with that truck.
Speaker 10: Thieves are also using antennas to pick up signals from
Speaker 10: keyfobs inside homes.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, yeah, go back to metal keys that
Speaker 3: just stick in the ignition and twist.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: In the In the video attached to that news article,
Speaker 11: it actually showed a ring camera at the front door
Speaker 11: and the thieves were holding an antenna and they had
Speaker 11: some kind of device tucked in their pocket that this
Speaker 11: thing was connected to, and when they held it up,
Speaker 11: they just touched the house. And then the car that
Speaker 11: was parked in the driveway started because somebody had already
Speaker 11: was able to get into it and start the car
Speaker 11: just by using the key fob signal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember two cars ago, I think it was.
Speaker 3: Was that your trains amuh yeah, yeah with the t tops. Yeah,
Speaker 3: my fob keyfob kept the battery kept dying. I said,
Speaker 3: where do you keep it relative to your garage? And
Speaker 3: it was too close to the garage. They said, he
Speaker 3: either got to shield it or move it because the
Speaker 3: car and the keyfob keep talking to each other.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that. That's why my battery runs down
Speaker 4: so fast.
Speaker 3: I my key fob.
Speaker 4: I feel like every place it every two weeks, and
Speaker 4: nobody's ever told me that.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, anyway, so yeah, obviously they are putting out signals,
Speaker 3: and you know, well putting out signals all the time.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you can sniff them and use them to
Speaker 3: break into a car. What the heck? Death penalty for
Speaker 3: car thieves?
Speaker 12: There?
Speaker 3: You go, hang them. They're the modern horse thieves. Hang them.
Speaker 3: That's right right outside general motors, you know, forder whatever
Speaker 3: it may be. It's your local dealer. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Come on down, bring the kids, we'll spin the wheel
Speaker 3: of prizes, hang a car thief. They're actually making these
Speaker 3: free hot dogs.
Speaker 11: They're making these key chains now too, that you can
Speaker 11: get on like Amazon or whatever, that you just put
Speaker 11: on there and then you can tuck your keyfob in
Speaker 11: that middle block that signal I saw.
Speaker 3: Okay, good, yeah, excellent, there you go. Simple solution. Thank you,
Speaker 3: Katie life hack. Yeah. So we're talking about conspiracy theories
Speaker 3: and how they work and what's at the root of them.
Speaker 3: And I remembered a piece I brought to you a
Speaker 3: while ago, about a month ago, about gnosticism. How a
Speaker 3: lot of the people pushing this stuff are like the
Speaker 3: first century Gnostics, a Christian heresy that holds that the
Speaker 3: material world is evil, that a special KnowledgeR knows this
Speaker 3: with a g lifts us out of its corruptions into redemption.
Speaker 3: Salvation under its theory, requires neither faith nor action, only
Speaker 3: the recognition that you're being lied to and that your
Speaker 3: soul belongs elsewhere. Gnosticism, like orthodox religions, asks why evil exists,
Speaker 3: but instead of traditional answers rooted in personal responsibility. It
Speaker 3: posits that malevolent forces control the world. Knowledge of these
Speaker 3: forces becomes the work itself. Discover them and you are redeemed,
Speaker 3: which is interesting. But then this from Claire Layman, a
Speaker 3: piece called the New Medievals, and he goes into a
Speaker 3: variety of people, including Candace Owens, who has been implicating
Speaker 3: everyone in the murder, from the Israeli government to Turning
Speaker 3: Point USA itself to Erica Kirk and last week her
Speaker 3: speculation reached tapagee when she suggested that Donald Trump himself
Speaker 3: was involved, which is, well, what the hell go for
Speaker 3: a touchdown if you're throwing the ball. But then she
Speaker 3: writes to Claire Wright's owns, while theorizing is an anomaly,
Speaker 3: it's part of something older and darker. There's a distinctly
Speaker 3: medieval quality to much of the conspiratorial right, a world
Speaker 3: animated by unseen cabal's moral corruption and divine punishment disguised
Speaker 3: as politics. Then she talks about how in journalism, if
Speaker 3: it bleeds, it leads in any story that features a
Speaker 3: villain or a group of villains doing something dastardly to
Speaker 3: innocent victims is much more likely to be read and
Speaker 3: shared than an article that say debunks such narratives with statistics.
Speaker 3: She explains, our mammalian brains are wired to perceive and
Speaker 3: anthropomorphized threats. When our ancestors saw thunderbolts crashing down from
Speaker 3: the sky, they didn't think it was caused by electricity
Speaker 3: in the air and complex weather systems, but by the
Speaker 3: wrath of vengeful God. That's what I believe it looks
Speaker 3: like humans. Yeah, Jack still believes that we have to
Speaker 3: talk him down after every weather forecast. But so media entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs,
Speaker 3: whether it's a candas owns or a big publisher or executive,
Speaker 3: knows that readers want to be frightened by stories of plotters, vandals, criminals,
Speaker 3: and killers in literature and film disproportionate attention compared with
Speaker 3: the works of other sorts. For example, thrillers make up
Speaker 3: over twelve percent of adult fiction sales in the US,
Speaker 3: True Pride crime podcast account for nearly a quarter of
Speaker 3: the top rank. Show US very very hot yet conspiracy theories,
Speaker 3: Those tales of shadowy cabals wreaking havoc in the world
Speaker 3: seem to be the most seductive at all. I'm sorry
Speaker 3: the most seductive of all. They combine the adrenaline of
Speaker 3: a thriller with the morality of a fable. These moral
Speaker 3: horror stories, as literary professor Jonathan Goshall argues in a
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one book called The Story Paradox, succeeded not
Speaker 3: because they persuade people rationally, but because they gratify audiences
Speaker 3: on an emotional level. He wrote, quote, conspiracy stories promise
Speaker 3: heroes and villains, secret clues, and moral urgency, and each
Speaker 3: one invites the listener to join a righteous crusade. That's
Speaker 3: a really good example. Heroes and villains, secret clues, and
Speaker 3: moral urgency, and you get to join a righteous crusade.
Speaker 3: I get this, and clearly it's true.
Speaker 4: I just it's interesting to me that some people like
Speaker 4: me just aren't susceptible to it. If it doesn't make sense, like, well,
Speaker 4: I don't get that, and then there's no proof that
Speaker 4: it's that this is true. And then I just let
Speaker 4: it go, you know, one more note before the break,
Speaker 4: and then I want to come back with more of
Speaker 4: this because it's super thought provoking. But he mentions she
Speaker 4: mentions a couple of scientific experiments psychological experiments through the
Speaker 4: years where people who feel powerless, confused, overwhelmed, powerless begin
Speaker 4: to see patterns that are not there because they really
Speaker 4: want to bring order to the disorder that they perceive.
Speaker 3: Quote. Participants who lack control were more likely to perceive
Speaker 3: a variety of illusory patterns, including seeing images and noise,
Speaker 3: forming illusory correlations in stock market information, perceiving conspiracies, and
Speaker 3: developing superstitions, the authors wrote. Another twenty twenty study found
Speaker 3: that the lack of a sense of lack of agency
Speaker 3: also predicted belief in Jewish conspiracies.
Speaker 4: Specifically, well, maybe that's why conspiracies don't work on me.
Speaker 4: Then I don't generally feel powerless or lacking agency, so
Speaker 4: they don't grab me in the same way.
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