Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is show Ketty.
Speaker 1: Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Hetty. We
Speaker 1: should bring this story back up again later. So the
Speaker 1: Chicago Police Department has updated the numbers from Chicago. Fifty
Speaker 1: eight shot eight dead. That's the total from the Labor
Speaker 1: Day weekend in Chicago. Fifty eight shot, eight dead. And
Speaker 1: the headline for mainstream media is how dare Trump send
Speaker 1: the National Guard? Well crimes down?
Speaker 2: Jack, There were seventy one shot and eleven dead last year,
Speaker 2: so nobody thinks that way but lefty advocates and the media.
Speaker 1: So more on that later. The scale was very cruel
Speaker 1: to me this morning. I lost all discipline over my
Speaker 1: little vacation that I did while Joe was in England,
Speaker 1: like all discipline, Like I forgot that it was a thing.
Speaker 1: Apparently hmm.
Speaker 2: All the calories like money don't exist on vacation or imaginary.
Speaker 2: Although I did pass at Cracker Barrel.
Speaker 1: They had a chicken fried chicken with like gravy mashed potatoes,
Speaker 1: you know that sort of meal that the calories according
Speaker 1: to the menu was nineteen hundred and thirty calories.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a big boy meal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two thousand calories and one meal. Yeah something congratulations,
Speaker 1: Uncle Herschel. As I mentioned earlier, is that the guy's
Speaker 1: name on the cracker barrel saw gas. And again, I
Speaker 1: didn't know anybody who had ever heard of that before
Speaker 1: in their lives. And that's the big controversation you're taking away,
Speaker 1: Uncle Herschel.
Speaker 2: Okay, a bunch of crackers eating on a barrel. That's
Speaker 2: when I say, anyway, Yeah, I discovered, as I mentioned
Speaker 2: earlier in the show, that if you walk five to
Speaker 2: seven miles every single day, you can eat and drink
Speaker 2: whatever you want. And that's what we did in London Town.
Speaker 2: We took two day trips. The second one was to Cambridge,
Speaker 2: which was absolutely terrific. How about their train system there
Speaker 2: so fantastic? Oh my gosh. Yeah, we only used it
Speaker 2: late in the week because we walked everywhere, but oh
Speaker 2: my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we tube at Oxford.
Speaker 2: Circus, took it to King's Cross and transferred quite smoothly
Speaker 2: to the Great Northern Line to Cambridge.
Speaker 1: Oh so great. But you're so efficient. Why can't we
Speaker 1: have that in California to get around? Yeah?
Speaker 2: At one point, a couple of guys were running to
Speaker 2: catch a train and the door shut just before they
Speaker 2: could get on, and I said, ah, poor bastards, and
Speaker 2: then I looked up. The next train was literally in
Speaker 2: one minute. One minute. Yeah, yeah, it was something. It
Speaker 2: was great. So anyway, Cambridge was great. It's a really
Speaker 2: cool historic town, although like everywhere, by the afternoon, it
Speaker 2: was overrun by throngs of tourists, no kidding, everywhere we went,
Speaker 2: just and part of it is people aren't coming to
Speaker 2: the US because they're angry at Trump over the tariff thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was just amazing. If there was no
Speaker 2: tourism in Britain, I think the place would dry up
Speaker 2: and go away. It was just astonishing how many humans
Speaker 2: were everywhere. The highlighted Cambridge. I got a really nice
Speaker 2: T shirt that says Cambridge University. It's kind of a
Speaker 2: fancy T shirt, like well made, because I'm hoping people
Speaker 2: think I went there because it sounds really classy. But
Speaker 2: we visited the chapel at King's College, which has the
Speaker 2: largest collection of stained glass in Europe. It's you know,
Speaker 2: it's your giant church with the most amazing stained glass
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. In my life, partly because Oliver Cromwell,
Speaker 2: who you know, I thought was some sort of crusader
Speaker 2: for democracy as opposed to kings. He was also a
Speaker 2: Puritan and very much like a tally Ban. When they
Speaker 2: took over an Afghanistan, they were so anti any idolatry.
Speaker 2: They literally shot the faces off of like religious statuary statues,
Speaker 2: that's a fancy word for statues, or they like would
Speaker 2: would the equivalent of sand a blast, you know, the
Speaker 2: features off of these ancient and beautiful pieces of art.
Speaker 2: And this Cromwell character, he had all the stained glass
Speaker 2: like everywhere smashed Missus Cromwell character, he is a bastard,
Speaker 2: but he had like all the stained glass smashed out
Speaker 2: of churches because he thought it was idolatry.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: But he left this intact because of beloved King Henry
Speaker 2: the sixth had started it, and he knew he didn't
Speaker 2: because Henry the sixth ended up being a saint anyway,
Speaker 2: and everybody like loved him, and so you didn't, no
Speaker 2: matter what you thought, you didn't undo what he did
Speaker 2: because it was just too dangerous politically. So he left
Speaker 2: all of the same glass and it's just unbelievably beautiful.
Speaker 2: That was the second day trip. The first day trip
Speaker 2: was to Stonehenge and Bath. There was a bit of
Speaker 2: a rain shower when we were in Bath. I mentioned
Speaker 2: to Judy, we're taking a shower. We're having a shower
Speaker 2: in Bath. She looked at me like, you know, you
Speaker 2: could give that a vacation if you want. That's sort
Speaker 2: of observation, sort.
Speaker 1: Of a play on words.
Speaker 2: Yes, the irony, Michael, the irony at the heart of it.
Speaker 1: Jeez.
Speaker 2: Anyway, but Stonehenge was quite a trip from London, but
Speaker 2: I'm glad we did it.
Speaker 1: It's I skipped Stonehenge when I was in England for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. I don't remember it. Yeah, there's too much
Speaker 1: to do, is that right?
Speaker 2: Super big tall rocks arranged carefully by ancient hands to
Speaker 2: do something.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: The guye who were talking to said, get used to
Speaker 2: the phrase we still don't know, because that's and we
Speaker 2: never will. The Stonehenge story, although it certainly is aligned
Speaker 2: with the winter and summer solstice, is so the light.
Speaker 2: It's a timekeeping device of some sort, but built, you know,
Speaker 2: thousands of years ago, and one of the first things
Speaker 2: you learn is that it was changed a couple of times.
Speaker 2: The arrangement of rocks of various sizes over the course
Speaker 2: of five hundred years, and you think, oh, from thirty
Speaker 2: five hundred BC to three thousand BC. Then you realize,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, people have been coming here and rearranging
Speaker 2: these rocks for whatever purpose because it was important to them,
Speaker 2: like important enough to spend incredible amounts of effort in
Speaker 2: the ancient world for thousands of years. And I'm not
Speaker 2: prone to weird psychic you know, feelings of I got
Speaker 2: in tune with Mother Earth and the druids or whatever.
Speaker 2: But I did stand there feeling a bit of awe
Speaker 2: about the fact that for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 2: and hundreds of years, people keep coming back to this
Speaker 2: spot and trying to get some sort of cosmic groove on,
Speaker 2: get your cosmic groove on of whatever sort they thought
Speaker 2: was appropriate. But it was kind of It was kind
Speaker 2: of beautiful and heavy and mystical and weird, and I
Speaker 2: could see how the soft headed sort, would you know,
Speaker 2: end up becoming a druid or what have you. But
Speaker 2: it's an amazing place, you know, I'd go. I didn't
Speaker 2: change my life or anything.
Speaker 1: I always have those sets when I'm in those really great,
Speaker 1: big gold churches like they got in England. You sit
Speaker 1: in there and it said, you know, they built that
Speaker 1: thing whatever eight hundred years ago, and you think that
Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of people praying for all the different
Speaker 1: things going on in their lives, just like your life today.
Speaker 1: Sick kid, you know, get a job. Whatever it is.
Speaker 2: It's it's something. Oh that remind I gotta find the
Speaker 2: picture of it. They have examples of We visited the
Speaker 2: Roman baths at bath that was where there was a
Speaker 2: rain shower.
Speaker 1: Michael, Did I tell you that story?
Speaker 2: It was very amusing. Anyway, they had a tradition then
Speaker 2: you would like scratch out a message to the goddess
Speaker 2: and throw it in the baths. Is like an offering,
Speaker 2: and the goddess would intercede on your behalf right. Oh cool,
Speaker 2: all of it, virtually all of it was bitching about
Speaker 2: somebody had stolen my cloak or somebody stole my best spoon.
Speaker 2: And I think it's Vesuvius Jones. I'm pretty sure it's him.
Speaker 2: If it's him, would you punish the crap out of
Speaker 2: him for me, please? Because I can't prove it, but
Speaker 2: I think it was him.
Speaker 1: My best spoon. It was all stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It was all gripe and about stuff that got ripped
Speaker 2: off of Yeah one I got No, I got nothing
Speaker 2: but my crappy, my everyday spoof.
Speaker 1: It's embarrassing.
Speaker 2: Or occasionally you know this, this bastard took my girlfriend.
Speaker 1: Punish him if you get a chance.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing, a lot of griping, which reminds
Speaker 2: me of the British Museum, which has the greatest collection
Speaker 2: of like the very dawn of history, when people start
Speaker 2: writing things down, like the oldest writings that exist on Earth.
Speaker 2: They have a lot of them there, and they're thousands
Speaker 2: of years old, and it's really interesting. The single oldest
Speaker 2: piece of writing they have, if if I recall correctly,
Speaker 2: is a complaint that you shipped me the wrong grade
Speaker 2: of copper. I ordered the class B copper. This is
Speaker 2: class C copper, the oldest known writing on Earth. I
Speaker 2: was like, dude, what are you trying to pull here?
Speaker 1: The oldest on earth is I want to talk to
Speaker 1: the manager. That is really interesting, right.
Speaker 2: And the other oldest writing on Earth is is some
Speaker 2: bastard took my bike. Human beings, Oh my god, we
Speaker 2: haven't changed at all. No, no, you know, I'm sorry
Speaker 2: I went off at the mouth a little bit. I
Speaker 2: intended to talk about our upcoming naval war with Venezuela.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, that's another interesting story, sending warships to
Speaker 1: you know, countries in our hemisphere.
Speaker 2: Right right, all about excuse me, the drug cartels and
Speaker 2: that sort of thing. This is my favorite part of
Speaker 2: that story. Fat Maduro, the the communist, scumbag dictator, kleptocrat
Speaker 2: who runs Venezuela these days, he said, of the US
Speaker 2: Navy presence, Venezuela is confronting the biggest threat that has
Speaker 2: been seen on our continent in the last one hundred years.
Speaker 2: A situation like this has never been seen. I'm like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, wait a minute. You gotta pick one
Speaker 2: of those. You can't say, you know, if some dog
Speaker 2: walks into the you know, your yard, it's twenty five feet,
Speaker 2: it's the shoulder, it's an enormous dog. You can't say
Speaker 2: this is the biggest dog that has been seen in
Speaker 2: the last one hundred years, because people are thinking, must
Speaker 2: have been some big ass dog, you know, like twenty years.
Speaker 2: But then you say, yes, it's the biggest dog ever. No,
Speaker 2: it's one or the other Nicholas, you gotta get better
Speaker 2: at your blood running through the streets Arab style threats.
Speaker 1: It's just not good at Ian Bremer seems dope. Ian
Speaker 1: Bremmer predicts an actual military strike on Venezuela at some
Speaker 1: point from the US.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, yeah, I haven't been following that except, you know,
Speaker 2: glancing at the headline.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something getting back into that sphere of
Speaker 1: influence thing like we're gonna run our hemisphere because China's
Speaker 1: gonna be running their hemisphere.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and that aspect of it. I don't hate
Speaker 2: more robust engagement in South America in a lot of
Speaker 2: different ways. Let's let's help out the heroes like Mela
Speaker 2: and Argentina, and let's mess with the scumbags like Maduro
Speaker 2: and and and you know, bring them around. Somebody took
Speaker 2: my very best spoon, and I am not happy. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure it was Jim. If it was Jim, do
Speaker 2: me a favor. Give him some boils, like really bad ones. Amen,
Speaker 2: here's to you.
Speaker 1: Give him some boils.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: We got more other ways there. I actually am paying
Speaker 1: attention my own, like, for my own personal interest, not
Speaker 1: just for the show. This big summit that's going on
Speaker 1: with China and Russia and Iran and North Korea and
Speaker 1: India and everything like that. So more on that tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, it's a it's a big topic, no doubt.
Speaker 2: Speaking of big topics, the whole transgender radical gender ideology thing,
Speaker 2: which we've talked about a fair amount. As your kids
Speaker 2: are going back to school, if they live in blue
Speaker 2: states especially, they're getting a full dose of that stuff.
Speaker 2: It is not slowed a bit in progressive America, and
Speaker 2: it's still one of the great fights of our time.
Speaker 2: I think Elon Musk, I remember hearing has one of
Speaker 2: his many children is transgender. Whatever that means.
Speaker 1: How many kids do they have. We've made jokes so
Speaker 1: many times I don't even remember, like a Baker's seen
Speaker 1: or something like that. I can't remember. If he can't,
Speaker 1: I can't either. And I'm reminded I didn't really look
Speaker 1: into the horrific shooting in Minneapolish other than the unavoidable headlines.
Speaker 1: That was one of the worst ones. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: one of the worst ones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unthinkable and horrific, and I decided I'm on vacation.
Speaker 2: I don't want to take that pain on, but I
Speaker 2: know enough about it.
Speaker 1: Some of the India coverage around it, we would have
Speaker 1: been screaming about.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure we would have. You know, I'm sure
Speaker 2: you've all heard that the uh, the sick, mentally ill
Speaker 2: murderer of little children was quote unquote transgender.
Speaker 1: Really, I read the Washington Post and I got to
Speaker 1: paragraph thirty two and stopped reading. So I didn't find
Speaker 1: out in paragraph thirty three that that was the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kidding. Naturally among the sick sick person's writings
Speaker 2: or something to the effect of, and I've got it
Speaker 2: around here somewhere, but if that doesn't matter, him saying,
Speaker 2: and I'm so unhappy or angry that I brainwashed myself
Speaker 2: into thinking I was TRANSGENDERO.
Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't even hear that. Oh no. Also, all
Speaker 1: the trends stuff aside, it became very clear that the
Speaker 1: person was expecting notoriety out of this. So once again
Speaker 1: we give them notoriety. We give all these shooters all
Speaker 1: the notoriety they want so that there will be more
Speaker 1: of them. What vital.
Speaker 2: But you have to kill lots of people to get
Speaker 2: the notoriety you want. So if you want the rest
Speaker 2: your blood, say the newspapers and that work. If you
Speaker 2: want people in suits and ties to pour over your
Speaker 2: every word and try to discern its meaning, the way
Speaker 2: to do it is to kill children.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's very frustrating.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Elon Musk was talking the other day about his
Speaker 2: his youngster and the whole transgender thing and well, let's uh,
Speaker 2: let's listen to it.
Speaker 3: It happened to one of my older boys where I was,
Speaker 3: I was essentially tricked into signing documents, uh, for one
Speaker 3: of my older boys, Xavier. This is before I had
Speaker 3: really any understanding what was going on, and we had
Speaker 3: coke COVID going on, and so there was a lot
Speaker 3: of confusion, and you know, I was told, oh, you know, Savor,
Speaker 3: I might commit suicide if.
Speaker 1: That was that was a lie right from the outset.
Speaker 3: Incredibly evil and I agree with you that people that
Speaker 3: have been promoting this should go to prison. So I was,
Speaker 3: I was straight into doing this.
Speaker 1: Recognize the voice of Jordan Peterson, so obviously he was
Speaker 1: talking to him. Let's roll on.
Speaker 3: It wasn't explained to me that puberty blocks are actually
Speaker 3: just sterilization drugs. So anyway, and so I lost my
Speaker 3: son essentially, So you know they they call it dead
Speaker 3: naming for a reason. Yeah, all right, so that the
Speaker 3: reason it's called dead naming is because your son is dead.
Speaker 3: So my son is Avior is dead, killed by the
Speaker 3: wolk mind virus.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, I can't imagine what
Speaker 4: that would be like.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and there's lots of people in that situation. Now,
Speaker 4: it's not pretty and lots of demolished kids.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well that's a good that's a good reason to
Speaker 4: be the final.
Speaker 3: Straw, right, So let's go about to destroy the work
Speaker 3: mind virus after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the play join the club. Yeah, the playbook is
Speaker 2: well known and well worn. You work on these kids forever,
Speaker 2: trying to convince them that it's the reason they're not
Speaker 2: happy is they're the wrong sex and they can change
Speaker 2: their sex. Then you tell the parents. If you don't
Speaker 2: do this, the kid will kill themselves.
Speaker 1: We mine virus is a good term.
Speaker 2: Are Strong and Getty.
Speaker 5: Odi telling the United States he is not happy about tariffs,
Speaker 5: are coosing up to Pakistan, Putin saying that he has
Speaker 5: a big friend, strong friend in China and g saying
Speaker 5: that we will continue to challenge US leadership around the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that big summit that's going on, and I specifically
Speaker 1: I want to just talk about China because I came
Speaker 1: across a couple of things over the weekend I thought
Speaker 1: were interesting and that horrifying, a little get together they're
Speaker 1: having there where they're making it clear that China, Russia, India, Iran,
Speaker 1: North Korea really want to change the world. They want
Speaker 1: to change the world to where the United States doesn't
Speaker 1: make all the rules anymore, the United States with Europe,
Speaker 1: and that era is over, and they might be right
Speaker 1: and not looking forward to it. For instance, I grew up,
Speaker 1: you grew up. Most of us a certain age grew
Speaker 1: up with the United States was the best at everything, biggest, fastest,
Speaker 1: and coolest, everything always right. The Empire State Building was
Speaker 1: the tallest building in the world, and just everything we
Speaker 1: did was the best. That went away over time, as
Speaker 1: inevitably a would happen. But I saw this bridge that
Speaker 1: China opened up over the weekend, the longest, highest expansion
Speaker 1: bridge in the world. It's stunning, this gorge it's over
Speaker 1: It's like building a bridge across the Grand Canyon. If
Speaker 1: you've ever been there, I mean, it's just amazing. And
Speaker 1: they drove I forget how many thousand semi trucks full
Speaker 1: of things on top of it to show how strong
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, because they didn't want people do
Speaker 1: immediately say okay, cool bridge, but will it fall down?
Speaker 1: I mean, and the point of it is and it
Speaker 1: took them like a year and a half or something.
Speaker 1: I mean. So the point is the sort of thing
Speaker 1: the United States used to be able to do, build
Speaker 1: the Empire, state building, and during the Great Depression in
Speaker 1: six months or whatever, that story is, look at what
Speaker 1: we just damn right, look what we just did. The
Speaker 1: United States can't do that anymore. And we can't because
Speaker 1: you'd try to build that bridge and a five years
Speaker 1: later you would get past some of the environmental hurdles
Speaker 1: before you'd even start the thing, and then it would
Speaker 1: take twenty five years and you still wouldn't have a bridge,
Speaker 1: and you would have cost five times as much as
Speaker 1: the original allotted money, and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: We all know that story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, China's argument is we're the effective people, and we'll
Speaker 2: be here tomorrow with more or less the same policies.
Speaker 2: So you want to do business.
Speaker 1: It's a little depressing and how true. It is is
Speaker 1: what bothers me. Then this different story just culturally, China
Speaker 1: rekindles wartime fury, stirring fears of anti japan hate. They're
Speaker 1: doing the same thing about the United States that they're
Speaker 1: doing with Japan, a series of World War II dramas
Speaker 1: about China's fight against Japan back in the day during
Speaker 1: World War Two. Today is the eightieth anniversary of the
Speaker 1: end of World War Two. We talked a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago about how Japan's role in World War Two
Speaker 1: is way under emphasized the number of people that they
Speaker 1: killed and were still killing, you know, the days we
Speaker 1: dropped the bombs just horrifying, and China was on the
Speaker 1: wrong end of that most of it. But anyway, One
Speaker 1: film called Dead to Rights, about Japan's nineteen thirty seven
Speaker 1: invasion of the Chinese city of Nanjing, follows a group
Speaker 1: of Chinese who smuggle out photographs and helped document the
Speaker 1: killing of tens of thousands of civilians, an event known
Speaker 1: as the Nanjing Massacre. During a showing of the movie
Speaker 1: in a theater, and actor dressed as a soldier shouts,
Speaker 1: and they're doing that this at all the theaters across
Speaker 1: the country. This reporter was just at this one theater.
Speaker 1: An actor dressed as a soldier walks on the stage
Speaker 1: and shouts at moviegoers the Japanese want to destroy our
Speaker 1: country and exterminate us. Will you let them? And then
Speaker 1: the audience rises up, actually stands up in the movie
Speaker 1: theater together, pumping their fists, no we will not, and
Speaker 1: start chanting various things. And they're doing that with movies
Speaker 1: about where a China defeats the United States in a
Speaker 1: couple of different made up movies, but everybody stands in cheers.
Speaker 1: They are really whipping up the nationalism anti US, anti
Speaker 1: China or anti Japan hate there while this getting together
Speaker 1: with North Korea, Iran, Russia, India thing is going on.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to be the most discouraging show
Speaker 2: in the history of the planet. But meanwhile we're teaching
Speaker 2: our children to hate their country and to believe that
Speaker 2: it probably ought to be torn down.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, that is an excellent point and depressing and
Speaker 1: the only example I can come up with it in
Speaker 1: world history. I keep asking people all the time, can
Speaker 1: you think of any other time when an empire of
Speaker 1: power all of a sudden decided to teach their kids
Speaker 1: to hate their own empire and country. When does that happen?
Speaker 1: But that's what we're doing in the United States while
Speaker 1: they're teaching over there in China. They're teaching their kids
Speaker 1: to love their country to the point of laying down
Speaker 1: their lives for it. And if they win, things are
Speaker 1: not going to be better here.
Speaker 2: I guarantee you if anybody has conducted that experiment, we
Speaker 2: are not going to hear about it because they were
Speaker 2: taken over and enslaved by somebody else, and all their
Speaker 2: stuff was taken and all their writings got burned because
Speaker 2: who cares their their losers?
Speaker 1: God. I saw a great video clip of Christopher Hitchins
Speaker 1: talking about this sort of thing. I wish Christopher Richins
Speaker 1: was still alive. He would be amazing on this woke stuff.
Speaker 1: But he was talking about this was back when we
Speaker 1: were all worried about terrorism and Islamo fascism, which we
Speaker 1: should still be worried about. But he was talking about
Speaker 1: the people that are on that side who call you
Speaker 1: an islamaphobe if you know, if you're worried about Muslim
Speaker 1: expres dreams and that sort of stuff, and he said
Speaker 1: they will open the door. They will hold the doors
Speaker 1: open for the barbarians. Barbarians never enter without somebody there
Speaker 1: holding the door open for them. And I thought that
Speaker 1: is really interesting, and that is what could happen here.
Speaker 1: You have the woketivists with the door open. Come on
Speaker 1: in China or Iran or whoever it is, with this
Speaker 1: weird belief that they'll be better than what they.
Speaker 2: Had, and because I help them, they'll treat me well. Right.
Speaker 1: The barbarians don't enter on their own. There's always somebody
Speaker 1: there holding the door open for them. That is some
Speaker 1: brilliant stuff on that topic. I didn't plan to talk
Speaker 1: about this, but it just popped into my head. I
Speaker 1: meant to first day of history class for my son
Speaker 1: public school.
Speaker 2: This is our last year of public school. First day
Speaker 2: history class.
Speaker 1: Now, I'll give them a pass for it being an
Speaker 1: excuse me day because that is my school career. Also,
Speaker 1: first day of lots of classes K through college. First
Speaker 1: day often was like, you know, find out the teacher's name,
Speaker 1: they hand out the syllabus, and you go home. But
Speaker 1: the two things they did do you had to fill
Speaker 1: out your form of your pronouns, tell the teacher what
Speaker 1: your pronouns are. The other thing was write out a
Speaker 1: land acknowledgment. We're holding this class on the land once
Speaker 1: belonged by the whoever the hell? Can you freaking believe that?
Speaker 1: Who stole it from the other what the hells? And
Speaker 1: raped their women and enslaved their men and children. They
Speaker 1: didn't point that out, but I actually actually sent the
Speaker 1: land acknowledgment stuff to our friend Tim Sandefer, who actually
Speaker 1: did the research on it. And yes, the very tribe
Speaker 1: that they're saying we stole it from them brutalized the
Speaker 1: tribes before that to the point that there's no historical record.
Speaker 1: They completely committed a genocide. Every man, woman and child
Speaker 1: was killed to take that land. But now the evil
Speaker 1: European or Americans or white people or whatever you're mad at,
Speaker 1: having taken the land from the Indians, after the Spanish whatever,
Speaker 1: they're the evil ones. Unbelievable, Absolutely unbelievable. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is craziness. Who I've asked this question before about land acknowledgments,
Speaker 1: because we've had a few of them in our lives.
Speaker 1: Who benefits? Is there one human being whose life is
Speaker 1: made even slightly better by land acknowledgment?
Speaker 2: No? No, you just no, you just continue to shove
Speaker 2: your philosophy down the throats of other people. I mean,
Speaker 2: so yeah, the progressives are helped by it. They get
Speaker 2: more submission, more obedience, more guilt, more self hatred, which
Speaker 2: is what they're getting, what they're going for. I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: I will spend the rest of my day's fighting this crap.
Speaker 2: It is so evil, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering how I'm gonna deal with that out
Speaker 1: because my son decided, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get in a fight with the teacher on day one
Speaker 1: it's American history class. I think there's just inevitable at
Speaker 1: this particular school and day in California schoo systems in
Speaker 1: their current view of running in what they're going to
Speaker 1: teach in American History class.
Speaker 2: Speaking here, Christopher Hitchins, have you ever read anything by
Speaker 2: his best friend Martin Amos?
Speaker 1: Have you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, number of things, legendary novelists, son of the legendary
Speaker 2: Kingston Amus. I guess, uh yeah. I always read fiction
Speaker 2: on vacation because I read nonfiction all day long when
Speaker 2: I'm not on vacation and I have no time just
Speaker 2: to read to enjoy life. It was work. First of all,
Speaker 2: that guy's vocabulary makes, I know, like William F. Buckley's
Speaker 2: he makes he makes George Will's vocabulary look like that
Speaker 2: of a not very bright seven year old. I had
Speaker 2: to look up one to two words virtually every page. Wow,
Speaker 2: virtually every page, Marty baby, Well, did you like it
Speaker 2: or enjoy it? You're just showing off, You're showing off
Speaker 2: if nobody knows the freaking word? What do you get
Speaker 2: out of using it?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 2: Did I like it? I I did in a way.
Speaker 1: But I read his memoir, kind of a fictionalized memoir
Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago. I thought it was amazing,
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I asked chat Gpt just before we left on vacation,
Speaker 2: recommend for me a great novel set in twentieth or
Speaker 2: twenty first century London. I want to be reading a
Speaker 2: novel about London while I'm in lond What was the
Speaker 2: name of this book? London Fields, London Fields. Okay, I
Speaker 2: don't think i've read that.
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 2: It's a bear, it's a bit, it's a lot, it's
Speaker 2: it's a good deal.
Speaker 1: It's a long day. I've often thought I would like
Speaker 1: to have hung around the two guys when they were
Speaker 1: sitting at a bar drinking. But I have a feeling
Speaker 1: out A like laughed a couple of times because I
Speaker 1: think I'm supposed to laugh here, or if I don't
Speaker 1: understand what the hell they're talking about, right, I'm not
Speaker 1: smart enough to engage in conversation.
Speaker 2: Well, and that was one thing. The way the book
Speaker 2: is structured, because it is not a b trade, folks,
Speaker 2: it existed on a level that I mean, I've written some,
Speaker 2: but it's like the difference between dough, a deer, a
Speaker 2: female deer, and one of Beethoven's symphonies. I mean, how
Speaker 2: the f to you even think of that? Just the
Speaker 2: structure of it.
Speaker 1: I kept plowing my way through Ulysses on vacation. I'm
Speaker 1: at thirty one percent of the book, so I'm going
Speaker 1: to make it. But I'm only a third of the
Speaker 1: way through.
Speaker 2: And when you have, what will that prove?
Speaker 1: What will that? I'm loving it. I'm like, absolutely freaking
Speaker 1: loving it. Said it's probably the best thing I've ever read.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard it's miserably difficult.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be still doing it if I wasn't just
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get back to it every day.
Speaker 6: See.
Speaker 2: I thought it was kind of dogged, Iowa farmer refusing
Speaker 2: to give up. But no, you're actually enjoying it.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: No, I've put down many things that I thought were
Speaker 1: a waste of time in my life. I forgot to
Speaker 1: mention I didn't get this right. I thought I was wrong.
Speaker 1: The Nashville Hot Southern Fried chicken at Cracker Barrel that
Speaker 1: I wanted to order but I didn't order. My brother
Speaker 1: was playing the triangle thing with the pegs, and he said, yep,
Speaker 1: this is what the white people used while the slaves
Speaker 1: were working to entertain themselves. We're doing the whole woke thing. Yes, Cracker,
Speaker 1: but anyway, the Nashville Hot Southern Fried chicken, it's their
Speaker 1: signature Southern fried chicken with Nashville Hot sauce, sour dough
Speaker 1: bread with pickles, and buttermilk ranch. Twenty nine to ninety
Speaker 1: is the calories ten calories, shy. You put a little
Speaker 1: salt on there, you got three thousand calories for one
Speaker 1: plate of food. Barbil a little pad.
Speaker 2: Of butter on top of there. There you got your three.
Speaker 1: Three thousand calories for one plate of food. And Wow,
Speaker 1: Uncle Harold or whatever his name was on the sign,
Speaker 1: what are you trying to do to us? Wow?
Speaker 2: That's a big just stunning.
Speaker 1: That's a big meal. You order dessert with that? Okay,
Speaker 1: we will finish strong next.
Speaker 2: Amazon has a policy not to show ads for alcohol,
Speaker 2: which means there are no beer commercials during their football games.
Speaker 2: I don't know why Amazon does that, because drunk people
Speaker 2: are ordering stuff on Amazon is ninety percent of their business.
Speaker 1: Why would Amazon have a policy where you can't have
Speaker 1: beer ads during football games. I don't know. I'm shocked
Speaker 1: by that. That's not a puritanical thing. I don't think
Speaker 1: is it. Bezos doesn't strike me as that. It's not
Speaker 1: like it's Chick fil A and have a big political
Speaker 1: stance on something. Well, and that was ridiculous. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't imagine. Huh, NFL kicks off Thursday yet,
Speaker 1: your normal Thursday night football, which I wish they didn't have.
Speaker 1: But and then you got Chiefs Chargers in Brazil on Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, wait Brazil, Brazil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ten thousand mile road trip for both teams, which
Speaker 1: is going to be exhausting trying to get the NFL
Speaker 1: going in other countries. I guess, yeah, good luck with
Speaker 1: the league worldwide. Yeah, I don't know if that's going
Speaker 1: to happen because.
Speaker 2: They're not making enough money.
Speaker 1: By the way, we're just talking about reading, and this
Speaker 1: just reminded me something. So I'm fighting my way through
Speaker 1: Ulysses reading it and it really enjoying it. I tried
Speaker 1: to read it many times in my life and couldn't.
Speaker 1: It took me a while to build up through reading
Speaker 1: other stuff, the ability to read this. It's not at
Speaker 1: least for me anyway. But so I'm watching Woody Allen,
Speaker 1: the movie director, on Bill Maher's show where he's down
Speaker 1: in the basement drinking and smoking pot that one, and
Speaker 1: Woody Allen was on there. And Woody Allen kind of
Speaker 1: famously because he talks about it in his memoir he
Speaker 1: has never read a book. He doesn't like reading. He
Speaker 1: doesn't understand why anybody would enjoy it. And Bill Maher
Speaker 1: mentioned Ulysses, you know, the Great Gatsby, all these great books,
Speaker 1: and he said, I don't know, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: didn't like reading as a kid. He finally said, I've
Speaker 1: read a couple of books because I had to about
Speaker 1: movie making, because he's the only way against the information.
Speaker 1: But I hate reading and I have no interest in it.
Speaker 1: And Bill Maher and Woody Allen mentioned the greatest movies
Speaker 1: of all time, and Bill Maher said, see, I'm the
Speaker 1: same way as you the books. I've never seen any
Speaker 1: of those movies and I have no desire to, you know,
Speaker 1: the Seventh Samurai, the Bicycle Thief, Citizen Kane. Anytime you
Speaker 1: ever lists of the greatest movies of all time? Bill
Speaker 1: Maher had no, He's read all of the books that
Speaker 1: he mentioned, but hasn't seen any of the movies. And
Speaker 1: I just I'm just making the point. It's art. Different
Speaker 1: people like different things. It says nothing about you as
Speaker 1: a human being to have read or watched or not
Speaker 1: read or watched those things. In my opinion, it's just
Speaker 1: either like it, you don't, and you got your own things.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I thought that was two funny funny
Speaker 1: that two really smart people both had a complete segment
Speaker 1: of famous art that they're like, screw it, I have
Speaker 1: no interest in that.
Speaker 2: Well, and it was opposite of each other. Yeah too, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that is that is intriguing to me. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I'll have to think about that or watch a movie
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: The thing I'm thinking about you, Liss is it's it's
Speaker 1: all set in one day if you don't know it,
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of interior dialogue, what's going on
Speaker 1: in the brain and.
Speaker 2: His his his.
Speaker 1: His ability to write down the way a human's mind
Speaker 1: works as you just walk down the street observing things
Speaker 1: and thinking about your life is freaking unbelievable. And going
Speaker 1: through the different characters throughout the day, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just it's shocking to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad nobody's done that about me. Well, what
Speaker 2: I think about as I walk down the street, yours
Speaker 2: is the.
Speaker 1: Same as everybody else's. That's what you figure out from
Speaker 1: this book. All the things that you're thinking as you
Speaker 1: walk down the street is the same as everybody else.
Speaker 1: And it's very interesting. Wow, she's hot. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of that. Guy I think I need to be hot,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that. I'm ready. There's a half
Speaker 1: of an entire chapter where he feels like, oh, I
Speaker 1: gotta go and he needs to find a bathroom, and
Speaker 1: then the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Sounds great.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts. Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 2: Were down one today, but let's do it nonetheless. Michael
Speaker 2: Langelow lead us off, Michael.
Speaker 6: Jack, I love that story about you visiting your dad's schoolhouse,
Speaker 6: but I keep thinking that you got to hold this
Speaker 6: above your kids and say, you know, the next time
Speaker 6: you say the WiFi is out or complain, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: start telling you what my dad did exactly, or tell
Speaker 6: her that you're gonna adopt the Amish lifestyle.
Speaker 2: The fabulous Katie Green will be joining us once again tomorrow. Jack,
Speaker 2: you have a final thought for us?
Speaker 1: Am I? Or are other people lagging to themselves if
Speaker 1: they think about, like really simplifying their life? Not full
Speaker 1: Amish but pretty damn basic. Is that a lie I'm
Speaker 1: telling myself that I could do that and enjoy it?
Speaker 1: Or would I know? Would I enjoy it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, it's not a lie, not at all. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I didn't know anyway. My final thought is I really
Speaker 2: enjoyed being in England for a week, partly because it's
Speaker 2: really good for me to get out of my comfort
Speaker 2: zone and do completely different things in completely different places
Speaker 2: and not know how they're going to turn out keeps
Speaker 2: it from becoming too much of a creature of habit.
Speaker 2: So that was fun for me.
Speaker 1: I have a quote about that that I'm going to
Speaker 1: put in our One More Thing podcast Armstrong and Geddy
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Speaker 2: Enjoyed day drinking too. I'm gonna continue that. So many people,
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