Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Gatty, and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: They will just either tell me to stay in a
Speaker 3: corner and slee or just draw up his shures flowers
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 4: That is a former Connecticut high school student Suinger School
Speaker 4: District because she graduated without being taught how to read
Speaker 4: and write. And this might be the only way to
Speaker 4: fix this problem in the United States of.
Speaker 2: America is it's currently constituted.
Speaker 4: It seems the only way you can get anywhere is
Speaker 4: if somebody's afraid of getting sued. That's pretty much the
Speaker 4: only leverage you have. And if schools had to be
Speaker 4: afraid of getting sued for gazillions of dollars because hey,
Speaker 4: you graduate way to a kid who can't read or write,
Speaker 4: that might be the only way to hold them to
Speaker 4: some standards.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is some harsh justice, But I like the idea.
Speaker 1: There are a small handful of cases like this around
Speaker 1: the country that I've read about.
Speaker 2: How does it not happen more?
Speaker 1: Something has to change. It reminds me of people who
Speaker 1: are complaining about doge moving too fast, and this poor
Speaker 1: person had to leave their their job with a box
Speaker 1: and they don't know where to live, and I do
Speaker 1: sympathize with them on a human level, but there is
Speaker 1: zero chance that we can reform our utterly diseased education
Speaker 1: systems without cracking a few eggs to make the omelet
Speaker 1: to use the torture cliche. If you did not hear
Speaker 1: our previous discussion about the state of schooling and immigration
Speaker 1: the rest of it at last Hour Gravit Vire podcast
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2: You probably gotta subscribe anyway.
Speaker 1: A couple of things to clean up, then we'll begin
Speaker 1: Bengo bango bonga.
Speaker 4: One more sentence with a head of steam about that topic.
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead. How freaking evil is it.
Speaker 4: To graduate a kid who can't read or write and
Speaker 4: send him out into the world.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is flat out evil.
Speaker 4: And how many adults who have, in theory dedicated their
Speaker 4: lives to education knew that kid couldn't read or write
Speaker 4: for so many years before they send him out into
Speaker 4: the world where they've got no chance.
Speaker 2: I mean that is flat evil. And that young lady is.
Speaker 1: A representative of hundreds of thousands of millions of kids
Speaker 1: like that, especially in urban schools, who they don't even
Speaker 1: try to teach anyway. It's a huge problem. Not insurmountable,
Speaker 1: but huge. Couple of things. The UH medication that I
Speaker 1: recommend to Jack that actually works if you have cold
Speaker 1: flew that sort of thing musin X, thank you to
Speaker 1: my dear wife.
Speaker 2: Text. Okay, I've seen that on the aisle. Get some
Speaker 2: of that today.
Speaker 1: You can get it with or without a cough suppressant.
Speaker 1: I always take it to sleep and for the show
Speaker 1: with a cough suppressant twelve hours.
Speaker 2: It actually works and it fings your secretions. You say,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, it's thin as a supermodel. Yep, yeah, fabulous
Speaker 2: like a stratus. We get anyway by that today. So
Speaker 2: a little bingo bango bango. Oh.
Speaker 1: First of all, let's hold, let's hear from Donald Trump Junior. First, Hanson,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 5: The administration now is functioning so effectively and so efficiently
Speaker 5: that by the time the liberal media gets their narrative
Speaker 5: talking points in line, the administration is three or four
Speaker 5: issues down the road. They can never catch up. It's
Speaker 5: glorious to watch, and they continue to self disrupt, you know,
Speaker 5: they continue to run the same playbook at me. Yesterday,
Speaker 5: I was pro Russia. You know the usual, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia.
Speaker 2: Here we go again. It's like take twelve.
Speaker 1: So Don Junior is they're discussing the deep fake video
Speaker 1: that came out of him saying we should be Russia's
Speaker 1: ally and send them arms. It was AI generated, which
Speaker 1: is I mean, the particulars of the story, you're interesting,
Speaker 1: But the fact that we are now officially in that era,
Speaker 1: we're utterly convincing AI generated faker is everywhere. Yike's good
Speaker 1: luck to all of us. Anyway, I thought this was delightful.
Speaker 1: After President Trump won in November, the Democratic National Committee
Speaker 1: launched a rapid response social media account called fact post
Speaker 1: to combat online misinformation. That's a quote, they're fact checkers,
Speaker 1: Jack Well. On Wednesday, the account published the fabricated audio
Speaker 1: the deep fact of Don Junior calling on the United
Speaker 1: States star and Russia, et cetera, et cetera, retweeted it
Speaker 1: and spread it around until it became utterly clear it
Speaker 1: was fake, and then they took it down again. But yes,
Speaker 1: the great DNC fact checkers that exist to combat online
Speaker 1: misinformation were spreading the video as fast as they could.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's tough though.
Speaker 4: To blame them for falling for that. I mean sure
Speaker 4: sounded real.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but if you exist to battle online disinformation,
Speaker 1: what are your standards for what you publish?
Speaker 2: That's why you had one job moving along. This is exciting.
Speaker 1: Pete Hegsa's one of his top priorities at the Pentagon
Speaker 1: in his very very early days doing the job is
Speaker 1: seeking out exciting new startups and industries that are ushering
Speaker 1: in the future of warfare, de emphasizing, or at least
Speaker 1: not just by sheer force of habit. Going with the
Speaker 1: big giant companies in their big giant weapons systems, they
Speaker 1: are actively searching out and funding new exciting high tech
Speaker 1: weapons systems.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 4: I was listening to a podcast yesterday. It had some
Speaker 4: former Special Forces guy they're interviewing talking about how the
Speaker 4: war in Ukraine has changed everything and the next big
Speaker 4: war people will realize that who haven't been paying attention,
Speaker 4: But it was around these small drones and how cheaply
Speaker 4: and quickly you can put together an almost unstoppable attack.
Speaker 4: He said, this is as big a change. This has
Speaker 4: got to be hyperbole, But if it's even close it's amazing.
Speaker 4: He said, this is a bigger change in warfare since
Speaker 4: Genghis Khan put stirrups on horses and was able to
Speaker 4: roam over the landscape in a way that nobody could
Speaker 4: stop them. It's just it's so different than anything that's
Speaker 4: ever happened before. So again, I think that's probably hyperbole,
Speaker 4: but if it's even close.
Speaker 2: Then holy crap. And I hope we're.
Speaker 4: Coming up with ways to stop bad guys from doing
Speaker 4: it to us and getting really good at being the
Speaker 4: guys who do it to other people.
Speaker 1: Right, And whether Pete Hegseath ends up being a really
Speaker 1: good Department of Defense leader or not, the jury is
Speaker 1: still out.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the spirit of the old boy backslapping, we've done
Speaker 1: this for fifty years, so we're gonna keep doing it.
Speaker 1: That vibe is definitely out, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: sign of perhaps really really good stuff ahead. Speaking of
Speaker 1: drones and technology, a secret US drone program helped capture
Speaker 1: several Mexican cartel bosses. Intelligence provided by the unarmed drones
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Speaker 1: and other top drug smugglers. So evidently we haven't been
Speaker 1: completely derelict in developing these technologies and are using them
Speaker 1: to our advantage, including in Mexico, which is really really cool.
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Speaker 1: they finally captured a couple of North Koreans fighting for Russia,
Speaker 1: and they're in a state that they can actually be interviewed,
Speaker 1: and it is exactly as we thought.
Speaker 2: They were whisked away from North Korea.
Speaker 1: Sometimes some of them were told, yes, the South Korean
Speaker 1: devils are aiding the evil Ukraine, and we've got to
Speaker 1: go defeat urar rivals, the South Koreans. And they didn't
Speaker 1: know where they were going or what they were doing.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they're in Ukraine, given a day
Speaker 1: or two of training, then sent to get mowed down
Speaker 1: by machine guns or drones or artillery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that article and.
Speaker 4: They I think it was the New York times a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago about the Russians they're grabbing out
Speaker 4: of prisons and whatnot. Youngsters too. Sometimes they're dead within
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes of arriving at the front.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just you're here. Run that way, but they're
Speaker 2: shooting at us.
Speaker 4: Run that way, or I'm shooting you now right dead
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes after you got there.
Speaker 2: Jeez, that's horrible.
Speaker 1: They were instructed to evade capture at all costs by
Speaker 1: blowing themselves up if they had to, a message reinforced
Speaker 1: by North Korean's secret police, who were there on the
Speaker 1: ground making sure they are obe. They would read them
Speaker 1: letters from Kim Jong un and make them transcribe them
Speaker 1: by hand. One of the key lines in Fatthead's letter,
Speaker 1: who as soon to be cannon fodder troops, was I
Speaker 1: really miss you, comrades. He sat there swinging brandy in
Speaker 1: his palace. I'm sure he did. Oh, this may be
Speaker 1: my favorite story of the day. How predictable is this?
Speaker 1: I love this headline Credit to the Free Beacon Journalists
Speaker 1: outraged after WAPO owner endorses freedom. AH Post employees are
Speaker 1: shocked and stunned.
Speaker 2: You may remember we told.
Speaker 1: You about this Jeff Bezos wrote, essentially, we will write
Speaker 1: every day in support in defense of two pillars, personal
Speaker 1: liberties and free markets. I am of American for American,
Speaker 1: proud to be so. Our country did not get here
Speaker 1: by being typical. And a big part of America's success
Speaker 1: has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.
Speaker 2: And if you're not on board, go right.
Speaker 4: If you want to write some thing that is against
Speaker 4: personal freedom and economic freedom, do it somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Right, And he said to his highly respected opinions editor,
Speaker 1: if the answer isn't hell, yes, it's no. I have
Speaker 1: a great deal of respect for you, but you need
Speaker 1: to go well, sure enough, Shipley's the guy's name, he went.
Speaker 1: Jeff Stein, an economics reporter at the Post, slammed Bezos's
Speaker 1: pro freedom remarks as a massive encroachment on the opinion
Speaker 1: section that made clear dissenting views will not be published
Speaker 1: or tolerated.
Speaker 2: There ye have views against freedom?
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: Philip Bump, one of several openly democratic columnists at the Post,
Speaker 1: said what the actual f on Blue Sky, the social
Speaker 1: media for obnoxious liberals, Quoting Andrew Styles in The Beacon,
Speaker 1: Kara Switcher Swisher, liberal tech journalist said it was utterly shameless.
Speaker 1: Bezos is an adult toddler who had killed the First
Speaker 1: Amendment and basic humanity in a vomitous spew of nonsense,
Speaker 1: saying I love American We're all about freedom here. That's
Speaker 1: a vomitous spew of nonsense.
Speaker 4: So I would say, those of you on that end
Speaker 4: of the spectrum way over there, keep fighting for big
Speaker 4: government and making sure government workers can't get fired. Keep
Speaker 4: fighting for the Washington Post should bad mouth personal freedom
Speaker 4: and the free markets and see where they get you.
Speaker 1: Some of their columnists, Karen Atilla, who had described the
Speaker 1: October seventh attacks on Israel's decolonization, called bezos statement an
Speaker 1: absolute stab in the back and an insult to those
Speaker 1: of us who have literally put our careers and lives
Speaker 1: on the line to call out threats to human rights
Speaker 1: and democracy.
Speaker 4: You put your life on the line, please.
Speaker 1: Their definition of democracy is the opposite of democracy. And
Speaker 1: then finally, Edward Loose, calumnists for the Financial Times, slammed
Speaker 1: to Bezos at centa. Oh sorry, this is Amanda Cats,
Speaker 1: who resigned from the Post opinion section in December.
Speaker 2: Rip he wapo.
Speaker 1: She wrote of Bezos championing freedom an absolute abandonment of
Speaker 1: the principles of accountability of the powerful, justice, democracy, human rights,
Speaker 1: and accurate information that previously animated the section in favor
Speaker 1: of a white male billionaire's self interested agenda. All right,
Speaker 1: keep scratching, keep yelling, keep demonstrating in favor of government bloat.
Speaker 2: We'll see at the ballot box a lot of.
Speaker 4: Textures coming out in favor of musin X, which you suggested.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna door dash some right now, we got
Speaker 2: more on the way. Stay here. Imagine hopping in your car,
Speaker 2: starting the ignition and taping flight.
Speaker 7: Alfaironautics produced this prototype that can both hit the roads
Speaker 7: and soar in the skies. A flying car dubbed Model
Speaker 7: zero hovered over the road in California in a test
Speaker 7: driver maybe we say test flight.
Speaker 2: Not sure on that one.
Speaker 7: In the company CEO, this could create a new market
Speaker 7: in transportation.
Speaker 4: Okay, so they tested out a flying car.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the video. Has anybody seen the videos?
Speaker 4: It look more promising than any of the flying cars
Speaker 4: that we've seen in the past. It's it still doesn't answer,
Speaker 4: you know, the big questions with flying cars. I mean,
Speaker 4: I just I don't know how you would have any
Speaker 4: rules for who's got them?
Speaker 2: Where do you get to fly them? All that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff.
Speaker 8: Yes, Katie, I saw the video and this thing needs
Speaker 8: a lot of work. Looks like a Tonka toy.
Speaker 1: In the FAA, which can't keep jets from crashing into
Speaker 1: each other, is going to manage you know, a thousand
Speaker 1: numb skulls driving quote unquote fire flying cars around LA
Speaker 1: for instance.
Speaker 4: I don't say a thousand, how about a half a million?
Speaker 8: People can't properly operate vehicles on the on the ground, right, Yes,
Speaker 8: this is not a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you've ever watched people at a four way stop,
Speaker 1: picture adding another dimension to that, please kill me.
Speaker 4: So I door dashed some usin X Joe swears by
Speaker 4: it as a cold medicine. I was complaining that cold
Speaker 4: medicine doesn't do anything, Joe says, Does I believe you?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, But I just doordashed some First of all,
Speaker 4: it says I got to show an ID at a door.
Speaker 4: What kind of jackpot have you gotten me into where
Speaker 4: I've got to show an ID for this medicine? What
Speaker 4: sort of heavy duty, breaking, bad sort of stuff is this?
Speaker 1: It's manufactured south of the border, by a non governmental organization.
Speaker 4: All right, anyway, it's shockingly expensive. Also, like everything is
Speaker 4: in the modern world. The other thing going to my
Speaker 4: CVS account and my door dash, I realized I hadn't
Speaker 4: door dashed anything from CVS since last year's Super Bowl,
Speaker 4: when I doordashed the beard dye because I watched one
Speaker 4: of the Super Bowl heads and they suggested it was
Speaker 4: really really effective the beard die and the guy was
Speaker 4: getting all kinds of chicks with his new darker beard.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, So I got to go tea die and
Speaker 4: I died it during the halftime of the.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl, which I've looked at the pictures. They don't
Speaker 2: then it didn't look that good. Although I got to
Speaker 2: ease into that.
Speaker 4: I see a lot of dudes doing it on TV.
Speaker 4: I mean, now I can recognize it when it's just
Speaker 4: way too dark because I did it, and that's what happens.
Speaker 4: It's just way too dark and it doesn't fit with
Speaker 4: your and the rest of your body.
Speaker 8: I so, did you get the blue or the green?
Speaker 2: Use next? I think both?
Speaker 6: Why is there a difference? Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: One of you may stick up you. I mean, what's
Speaker 6: the difference, Well, one of them will knock you out.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, okay, So it's like nighttime versus daytime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, huh oh interesting.
Speaker 1: I just I'm familiar with the cough suppressant and not
Speaker 1: cough suppressant.
Speaker 2: But I got the box that contains both night time
Speaker 2: and daytime.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to take a like a Gene Hackman
Speaker 4: like nap later today is.
Speaker 5: What I'm going.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, okay, don't do that, boy? Yeah? Yeah. Any
Speaker 2: updates on that story, by the way, ye for it.
Speaker 4: But the texture who came up with, what's the deal
Speaker 4: with the nine to one one call?
Speaker 2: There's no way to get into the house.
Speaker 4: And then the police stating very shortly when this after
Speaker 4: this story broke of door was a jar.
Speaker 2: Those two don't match. Yes, yeah, that is odd.
Speaker 1: It doesn't prove anything, but it is that is one
Speaker 1: a direction or inquiry will be going.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, finding out the dog was in the crate blew
Speaker 4: up my theory that the dog ate the pills that
Speaker 4: the wipe spilled.
Speaker 2: But night yeah.
Speaker 8: Well. From People magazine dot Com about twenty five minutes ago,
Speaker 8: apparently the sheriff is saying that the pill bottle found
Speaker 8: near Hackman's wife is one of the most important pieces
Speaker 8: of evidence in this case.
Speaker 2: Well, of course, dull, what do you mean? Duh? What
Speaker 2: do yeah? What? How is that a duh?
Speaker 9: You you are If it's succiciently removed from the investigation,
Speaker 9: I'm busting you down to street cop. If it was
Speaker 9: to be wearing out your shoe leader, if it was
Speaker 9: the sort of thing that you would take to if
Speaker 9: you wanted to kill yourself in an overdose, it means
Speaker 9: a lot more than if it's some pill that you
Speaker 9: don't take that to kill yourself.
Speaker 2: But that wasn't known.
Speaker 1: Again you hear off the investigation coming up really really
Speaker 1: insightful peace on why women are so miserable right now
Speaker 1: and woke and it's related.
Speaker 2: Wow. If you missed a segment or now get podcast.
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Speaker 2: Everybody for their sixteenth birthday.
Speaker 1: It's not clear to me what they're referencing there, but
Speaker 1: one of the most ironic and pathetic couse plays of
Speaker 1: revolutionary bravery I have ever witnessed.
Speaker 2: The Northeast colleges of the United States have no equal.
Speaker 4: Well, the only thing we have to lose is are chains.
Speaker 4: What the hell are you talking about? You privileged, pampered God,
Speaker 4: it's so you should be embarrassed.
Speaker 2: And then they go.
Speaker 1: Then they go off to their women's studies majors and
Speaker 1: learn absolutely nothing of use to humanity, so which leads
Speaker 1: us to, oh, of course they get an a. Of
Speaker 1: course they do a great piece by Amy Gallagher, who
Speaker 1: is a brit She's a fairly well known commentator over
Speaker 1: yonder but I thought this was fascinating. She has a
Speaker 1: couple of grafts that will I will describe for you.
Speaker 1: They're easily understood. The first one is is labeled. We've
Speaker 1: talked about this before. A wide ideology gap is opening
Speaker 1: between young men and young women in countries across the
Speaker 1: world and their political ideology of eighteen to twenty nine
Speaker 1: year olds by sex, and the chart has more liberal
Speaker 1: is towards the top, more conservative is toward the bottom.
Speaker 1: But in South Korea, women in the last five years
Speaker 1: have turned sharply more liberal to a plus thirty score,
Speaker 1: men sharply more conservative.
Speaker 2: Huge gap. Wow, the US men who've been waffling around.
Speaker 1: I mean the lines were like the same in the nineties,
Speaker 1: but since women have gotten steadily and then suddenly wildly
Speaker 1: more liberal. And in the last ten years or so,
Speaker 1: men have had a steady drift toward the conservative, still
Speaker 1: very moderate conservative, but again a huge ideological gap. Germany
Speaker 1: just slightly smaller, and the UK, where everybody's more liberal.
Speaker 1: The women have gone wildly insanely progressive, and the dudes,
Speaker 1: and it's unmistakable, even after a pretty progressive turn during
Speaker 1: the twenty tens, have now started to drift downward while
Speaker 1: the gals are still going upward.
Speaker 4: Man, I mean that should be studied at a very
Speaker 4: high level. I mean, obviously that's incredibly interesting and if
Speaker 4: you're younger, maybe you can't imagine this, but nothing would
Speaker 4: have been crazier like when I was twenty five for
Speaker 4: a buddy to say, as datoner, but her politics, I
Speaker 4: just couldn't.
Speaker 2: Hinder her politics. I just never heard that ever a
Speaker 2: one time in my life.
Speaker 1: Right, or for a woman, because we're talking about women here,
Speaker 1: to come across some good looking, in shape finance major
Speaker 1: with a bright future and say, no, freaking way, because
Speaker 1: he's conservative.
Speaker 2: I don't like who he voted for for president.
Speaker 6: What.
Speaker 2: No, it's just utterly it's bizarre to even suggest.
Speaker 1: Just and you know, we were in college a few
Speaker 1: years back, but even like fifteen years ago, sure you'd
Speaker 1: see a vastly different result. So to Amy Gallagher's piece,
Speaker 1: she writes two graphs, one showing the growing ideological gap
Speaker 1: between men and women, the other showing that politically left
Speaker 1: leaning women are disproportionately more likely to have a mental
Speaker 1: health condition. No way, I'll let that summary stand for itself.
Speaker 1: I could describe the graph, but that's you know, the
Speaker 1: takeaway in other women women have become more politically radical
Speaker 1: and more psychologically unstable. What came first? Did woke drive
Speaker 1: women mad? Are mad women responsible for the eyes of woke?
Speaker 1: And feel free to wave your hand or get our
Speaker 1: attention any time you want to jump in, Katie. That's
Speaker 1: more than more than welcome.
Speaker 2: I think that the woke did this. You think the
Speaker 2: woke made women crazy? Absolutely? Oh, stay tuned, okay choice.
Speaker 1: She mentions that mental illness is now the leading cause
Speaker 1: of cause of disability in the West, is responsible for
Speaker 1: forty percent of chronic sick leave, and specifically it is
Speaker 1: women and girls who are suffering the most rates mental
Speaker 1: illness arising for both sex. This is what are far
Speaker 1: far disproportionately rising among women. Rates of self harm among
Speaker 1: females have tripled in the last thirty years, and the
Speaker 1: rates of suicidality have doubled. This has all happened within
Speaker 1: a culture that professes to value feelings, emotional well being,
Speaker 1: and mental health awareness. She points out more people going
Speaker 1: to therapy than ever before, more people training to become
Speaker 1: therapists than ever before, and these are all mostly women.
Speaker 1: Around seventy to eighty percent of psychologists and therapists are female.
Speaker 1: Those seeking help from them also much more likely to
Speaker 1: be female. But it doesn't seem to be helping. And
Speaker 1: then she goes into several other statistics about antidepressants and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing that are all tracking in the
Speaker 1: same direction in the last fifty years.
Speaker 8: Yes, well, so what I'm hearing there is this is
Speaker 8: all kind of going along with the Internet, like when
Speaker 8: you started being able to get information all the time, anytime,
Speaker 8: and then it's just getting worse. Now it's in our pockets.
Speaker 8: For the mental health issue, I element of it. I
Speaker 8: guess I think there's probably a relationship there.
Speaker 4: Well, let me say the misogynist thing then, so I
Speaker 4: don't I don't think this is a misogynist I just think.
Speaker 2: It's I'll be the judge of that biological But.
Speaker 4: Women have such a strong biological instinct to have children.
Speaker 4: And if way, way, way less people are doing that,
Speaker 4: where does all that other mental emotional energy go. It's
Speaker 4: gotta going forward, chanting. We have nothing to lose but
Speaker 4: our change. Yeah, the way to our ethnic studies major.
Speaker 4: In the last fifty years, the number of women in
Speaker 4: full time work has increased by over fifty percent. Similarly,
Speaker 4: in the last thirty years, the number of women who
Speaker 4: are unmarried and single over the age of thirty has
Speaker 4: increased from eighteen percent to fifty four percent. To go whoa,
Speaker 4: it's now estimating that half of all women twenty five
Speaker 4: to forty four will be single by twenty thirty, and
Speaker 4: short women are working more and marrying and having family less.
Speaker 4: Many people point to the name it affects the social
Speaker 4: media or the pressures of the beauty industry as to
Speaker 4: explain the sadness anxiousness to depress edness.
Speaker 1: However, the problem seems to be much more fundamental than this.
Speaker 1: There is now an increased pressure on women to focus
Speaker 1: on their careers at the expensive relationships. Meaningful relationships are
Speaker 1: what make people happy, especially women. You know that is
Speaker 1: disarmingly simple. Yeah. Yes, but as a guy with a
Speaker 1: pretty good memory of my life and a guy who
Speaker 1: reads a fair amount of science about how to have
Speaker 1: a happy middle age old age retirement, it always comes
Speaker 1: back to the same thing, meaningful relationships, and not with
Speaker 1: a therapist. By the way, women are now going to
Speaker 1: university more than ever before, she says, very britishly, and
Speaker 1: increasingly dropping out. It is in the universities where they
Speaker 1: come across ideas and perspectives that end up making them
Speaker 1: feel worse than they already did. This is justifying Katie's
Speaker 1: suggestion moment ago that woke is driving misery, feminism, critical
Speaker 1: social justice, critical race theory, Marxism. Young women are encouraged
Speaker 1: to be cynical about the world, see oppression everywhere, hate
Speaker 1: their country, hate men, and hate anyone who thinks differently
Speaker 1: from them.
Speaker 8: I've heard that the number I was just thinking, the
Speaker 8: number of people I know that I are going through
Speaker 8: my head reading this that are just they just hate
Speaker 8: everything and they will not listen to a word if
Speaker 8: it doesn't go along with what they think.
Speaker 2: I think that's worth repeating.
Speaker 4: Well, how many times? How many times have I said
Speaker 4: in the last I don't know how many years. Have
Speaker 4: some kids you won't have time to worry about that
Speaker 4: a part of curious topics because it's true.
Speaker 1: But feminism, critical social justice, critical race theory, Marxism. Young
Speaker 1: women are encouraged to be cynical about the world, see
Speaker 1: oppression everywhere, hate their country, hate men, and hate anyone
Speaker 1: who thinks differently from them. And now there's a growing
Speaker 1: ideological gap between men who are more likely to be
Speaker 1: conservative and women more likely to be woke progressive, and
Speaker 1: it's widening, and not because well not really because men
Speaker 1: become more right wing.
Speaker 2: That move has been quite modest.
Speaker 1: If you could see the graphs, and we'll post this
Speaker 1: entire thing at Armstrong and Geeddy dot com under hotlinks
Speaker 1: so you can check it out and send it to
Speaker 1: everybody you know. Anyway, it's because of the huge move
Speaker 1: women have made toward the progressive end of things. Perhaps
Speaker 1: given that more women are entering work full time, which
Speaker 1: someone will struggle with because of their poor mental health.
Speaker 1: Woke ideas such as harm reduction, focusing on emotions, caring
Speaker 1: for victim groups, and critique of meritocratic capitalism appeals to them.
Speaker 1: But if men can work longer hours and work their
Speaker 1: way up the workplace hierarchy more quickly than women can,
Speaker 1: partly because men are not encumbered by the stuff we
Speaker 1: were just talking about.
Speaker 2: In nearly as large numbers as women.
Speaker 1: We don't hate women, we don't hate our country, we
Speaker 1: don't hate capitalism.
Speaker 2: We're just interested in having some fun and being successful.
Speaker 1: So then when men rise up the hierarchy more quickly,
Speaker 1: it is easier to call this patriarchy rather than confront
Speaker 1: the fact that men and women are different, and many women,
Speaker 1: particularly of the mindset were describing, cannot compete with the men,
Speaker 1: nor do they want to. One final note from Amy Gallagher,
Speaker 1: because I think this is brilliant DEI safe spaces, therapeutic spaces,
Speaker 1: bringing your whole self to work, harm reduction, psychological safety, emotionality, conformity,
Speaker 1: conflict avoidance. We now live in a highly feminized culture,
Speaker 1: and this femininity has taken over the workplace. It is
Speaker 1: a toxic and destructive form of femininity and ironically the
Speaker 1: reason why so many women are making poor life choices
Speaker 1: that leave them unhappy and mentally unstable. If women want
Speaker 1: to feel better, they must first end and their toxic
Speaker 1: love affair with woke progressivism, which has plunged them into
Speaker 1: a downward spiral of insanity and despair.
Speaker 2: Can I get an amen?
Speaker 4: Is there any natural force that will change this direction,
Speaker 4: arrest this development.
Speaker 1: It could take because women tend to value network building
Speaker 1: and coalition building more than men, who tend to be
Speaker 1: more independent. It might take some charismatic self helpy guru
Speaker 1: type Instagram influencer. I don't know that the problem is.
Speaker 1: And this is a problem, and it motivates me to
Speaker 1: get up every morning for work. We are up against
Speaker 1: an enormous educational infrastructure that is absolutely dedicated to pushing
Speaker 1: these ideas. It's going to be a titanic battle. And then,
Speaker 1: if you're a single man in the world, what are
Speaker 1: you supposed to do? Keep your mouth shut, see you
Speaker 1: got some chance at some romance, or go with the
Speaker 1: slim pickings of people that aren't crazy. Yeah, I'm picturing
Speaker 1: some sort of Joe Getty's College for turning out non
Speaker 1: insane women. I think it's also known as the University
Speaker 1: of Texas at Austin and North Carolina is trying to
Speaker 1: do this too, But uh, it's it's amazing that it's
Speaker 1: gotten this far. If I separate myself from the outrage
Speaker 1: and sadness of it, just as a you know, political scientist,
Speaker 1: quote unquote, as a student of ideological movements. It's been
Speaker 1: amazingly successful for a suicidal and idiotic philosophy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, if you have any comments on
Speaker 4: this now, a lot of you to do our text
Speaker 4: line four one five two nine five KFTC play clip
Speaker 4: twenty seven. I think this is important to the conversation here.
Speaker 4: Fencer suspicious, but have already ruled out a carbon monoxide
Speaker 4: leak and say there were no obvious signs of foul play.
Speaker 2: There was no indication of a struggle. There was no
Speaker 2: indication of anything that was missing from the home or disturbed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nothing missing from the home, nothing disturbed, no sign
Speaker 4: of a struggle. I don't think anybody was picturing that.
Speaker 4: But and no evidence of a carbon monoxide leak. Now,
Speaker 4: you know, if carbon monoxide had killed Gene Hackman and
Speaker 4: his wife and dog, it would have quite possibly dispersed.
Speaker 2: In the week weeks. They don't know yet how long.
Speaker 4: The bodies were there, but I assume they like checked
Speaker 4: around to see is skiff something could have caused a
Speaker 4: carbon monoxide leak?
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, yeah, an obvious mechanism or whatever that
Speaker 1: was inside the house that shouldn't have been that sort
Speaker 1: of thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So my original plan from yesterday was, and I
Speaker 4: think I still might be going with it, very old
Speaker 4: Gene Hackman falls, has a heart attack in the mudroom.
Speaker 4: She finds his body is so despondent she can't imagine
Speaker 4: going on without him. Goes and gets the pills, takes
Speaker 4: a whole bunch.
Speaker 2: She dies. But then my theory was the dog eats
Speaker 2: the pills and dies, and the dog was in a crate.
Speaker 2: To call your theory crackpot is to insult crack Why
Speaker 2: why is that crackit pot?
Speaker 4: That seems like the most.
Speaker 2: Logical explanation, says the crackpot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't explain to a crackpot why there are crackpots,
Speaker 1: so don't ask me to. Here's what happened, and anybody
Speaker 1: with any sense can see.
Speaker 6: This was it.
Speaker 1: His old friend al Pacino, Clint Eastwood, came back and
Speaker 1: gave Hackman a kicking in vengeance for Unforgiven forty years
Speaker 1: ago whenever that movie was made.
Speaker 2: Wonderful movie anyway.
Speaker 1: So old Gene Hackman, who is at least dependent on
Speaker 1: a sixty five year old he's ninety five, comes home.
Speaker 1: She has had some sort of fatal mishap whe her
Speaker 1: a fall or a heart attacker or a stroker or
Speaker 1: whatever in the bathroom. He shocked rushes to call the authorities.
Speaker 1: Has a fall, a serious injury at his advanced age,
Speaker 1: and he can't help himself. Oh, your passes.
Speaker 4: So your theory is similar to mine. It's just in reverse.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, my pop is intact. That's the difference.
Speaker 2: Where are the pills in that theory?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh, she was in her bathroom dealing with the pills
Speaker 1: when she had her fatal health event. Okay, what fatal
Speaker 1: health events? Don't wait till you're sitting down under a blanket.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they happened, you know, when you're doing stuff.
Speaker 4: Well, the easiest one to explain is him in any
Speaker 4: scenario would come up, because when you're ninety five, it
Speaker 4: doesn't take much you slip.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, a blow to the head.
Speaker 1: I mean he could easily have had, you know, some
Speaker 1: sort of subdural hematoma. See a proof that I know
Speaker 1: better than you guys, because I know words like that,
Speaker 1: or or some sort of devastating injury that a ninety
Speaker 1: five year old cannot lift himself off the ground and
Speaker 1: go get help or eat or drink.
Speaker 4: So the autops you will help with that, because if
Speaker 4: it turns out, you know, maybe he was laying on the.
Speaker 2: Floor there for a week. It's entirely possible. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8: The only thing they said with that that I've seen
Speaker 8: this morning is that that's clear he was coming home
Speaker 8: or leaving because he had his sunglasses on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were lying next to him, I think maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this story could quite possibly have an ending
Speaker 4: that is not the least bit amusing to hear.
Speaker 1: Oh I suspect nor dramatic. Right, yeah, it'll just be sad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like that submarine that was underneath you know,
Speaker 4: went down to see the Titanic, and we all talked
Speaker 4: about that and this and that for a long time
Speaker 4: and then when it turns out, yeah, it just collapsed.
Speaker 2: And they all died instantly. Yeah. Not the greatest story. Yeah,
Speaker 2: A grade A grade.
Speaker 1: So are you participating in the utterly idiotic boycott today?
Speaker 1: It's too to get to capitalism or something and.
Speaker 4: How you don't like billionaires taking over the world or something. Yeah, exactly, Well.
Speaker 8: Jack already door dashed and I just ordered something on Amazon, so.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
Speaker 1: So the guy who initiated this is something like a
Speaker 1: meditation teacher, and I don't scoff at meditation or anything,
Speaker 1: but or a yoga side.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But the USA today is writing about
Speaker 2: this and they.
Speaker 1: Quote a BLM enthusiast and I don't mean the Bureau
Speaker 1: of Land Management, and then to get an opinion on
Speaker 1: how great this is, they quote Jason Williams, Professor of
Speaker 1: Justice Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. It
Speaker 1: definitely does send a political message to these companies that
Speaker 1: were watching them. We're not going to let them get
Speaker 1: away with abandoning our causes. They're trying to punish anybody
Speaker 1: who dropped any DEI policies, right, and it.
Speaker 2: Doesn't work at all.
Speaker 4: Why don't you call a grocery store and say, do
Speaker 4: you notice any less traffic than on normal Friday?
Speaker 2: That'd be a good question to ask. This will not
Speaker 2: make a g NAT's fart worth of difference. No, we
Speaker 2: do four hours every day. If you miss an hour
Speaker 2: to get the podcast, Armstrong and Getty