Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Switching gears to some entertainment news. Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that
Speaker 3: in her upcoming fill with Timothy Challomey, they have a
Speaker 3: lot of sex scenes.
Speaker 2: Now here's the interesting part.
Speaker 3: It's for the sequel to Wonka.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, that would be an odd interpretation of the
Speaker 2: childhood classics by Raoul dowl Man. It's bird flu. It's
Speaker 2: bird flu.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I mentioned we watched Wonka. I
Speaker 4: thought that was really good. I don't know why it
Speaker 4: didn't win a bunch of awards and stuff.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it. It's pretty good. Come. I hate
Speaker 2: that little tim shallow May, but he seems to be
Speaker 2: very talented. You hate him? I would like to, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like he's pretty and young and wealthy, but I
Speaker 2: cannot because he seems to be sincere and working hard
Speaker 2: at his craft. Yeah. I don't give a damn what
Speaker 2: he thinks about politics, but he seems not to want
Speaker 2: to jabber about it.
Speaker 4: So he went to some super famous like Art school
Speaker 4: in New York where talented kids go to. I read
Speaker 4: a thing about him after I watched the Dylan movie
Speaker 4: and when he's name, I want to live forever that
Speaker 4: school probably, Yeah, that exact school. He went to that school,
Speaker 4: And when he did his tryout, the board said they
Speaker 4: actually said, he's the most talented person we've ever had
Speaker 4: tryout for this school.
Speaker 2: Is that them? That's astonished? It really is? Yeah? Sorry?
Speaker 2: Was there another follow up? I feel like I interrupted.
Speaker 4: No, I got some Tesla news in addition to the
Speaker 4: fact that I'm looking at the television. God, that's it
Speaker 4: unbelievable that this is happening in America. I'm looking at
Speaker 4: a Tesla dealership where there are five cars fully on fire,
Speaker 4: not to mention the ones that have just been you know,
Speaker 4: keyed and damage and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: But we have some Tesla news for you coming up. Okay,
Speaker 2: So a bit of a yin and yang here my
Speaker 2: home state of Illinois, which is like my best friend
Speaker 2: from high school who is now a drug addict and
Speaker 2: a thief and a wife abuser. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 2: I have so much affection for Illinois, but it has
Speaker 2: gone utterly perverse led by the crooks and legislature it's
Speaker 2: dominated by Democrats. JB. Pritzker is a monster and a
Speaker 2: child groomer and an experimental on, an experimenter on child's genitals.
Speaker 2: I couldn't hate him anymore. And they are. They just
Speaker 2: passed out of the Education Policy Committee of bill HB
Speaker 2: twenty eight twenty seven, known as a Homeschool Act, which
Speaker 2: imposes layers webs of regulations and requirements on homeschool and
Speaker 2: if they do not comply properly with the you would
Speaker 2: need like a full time employee to make sure you
Speaker 2: were in compliance. If you don't, they could face up
Speaker 2: to a Class C misdemeanor punishable by up to thirty
Speaker 2: days in jail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot harder than you'd think it would
Speaker 4: be to meet the homeschool standards they want. Well, well,
Speaker 4: this is one of the reasons actually in the public
Speaker 4: school we're losing so many teachers is they have so
Speaker 4: much flip and paperwork that they have to fill out
Speaker 4: about everything to meet. It's just a regulatory state period
Speaker 4: that causes all this. Then you add in the politics
Speaker 4: of you want to make.
Speaker 2: It hard so that the teachers unions want to make
Speaker 2: it impossible.
Speaker 4: They want to make it hard so that you'll say, well,
Speaker 4: I just can't do this. I guess I'll put my
Speaker 4: kid back in school.
Speaker 2: Right right? It is utterly obscene. Yeah, it really is sickening. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I could get into it more, but I want to
Speaker 2: go back to something we talked about a little while
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, the.
Speaker 4: Helpmaten argument being that we don't trust you to homeschool,
Speaker 4: so we need an awful lot of oversight to make
Speaker 4: sure you're meeting our expectations.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the excuse. The raw politics of it is, Oh,
Speaker 2: there may be some well meaning do gooders who actually
Speaker 2: mean what you're saying, But the raw politics reality of
Speaker 2: it is, the teachers' unions have said, you crush home schooling,
Speaker 2: you crush school choice, you crush charter schools, and you
Speaker 2: crush them fast, and so the politicians are jumping to
Speaker 2: do their evil bidding. So Jonathan Turley wrote about this
Speaker 2: while back, and I brought it up that first circuit
Speaker 2: court case that held it parents have no right to
Speaker 2: know about their eleven year old changing gender in school,
Speaker 2: and this unwritten policy was viewed as overriding parental rights.
Speaker 2: The decision is defended as a reflection of our pluralistic society.
Speaker 2: The court wrote, our pluralistic society and signs those curricular
Speaker 2: and administrative decisions to the expertise of school officials charged
Speaker 2: with the responsibility of educating people. And of course its
Speaker 2: turtly points out there's no more cherished right than citizens
Speaker 2: possessed than to raise their own children. And the idea
Speaker 2: that your excuse for insisting all children get indoctrinated in
Speaker 2: the same way at public schools and the parents aren't
Speaker 2: told about it. Your excuse for that is our pluralistic
Speaker 2: society that lets people believe what they want to believe,
Speaker 2: is just bizarre and twisted. Fair enough, So I dug
Speaker 2: into this case, the actual decision United States Court of
Speaker 2: Appeals for the First Circuit, and it is so interesting
Speaker 2: and instructive to actually dig and disturbing to actually dig
Speaker 2: into the decision. And they mentioned in the description there
Speaker 2: are a bunch of Latin terms involved, and not gonna
Speaker 2: bore you with them or try to sound show offye
Speaker 2: because I only understand about half of them. Anyway, Court's nation,
Speaker 2: I have faced all manner of important litigation involving matters
Speaker 2: of gender identity and gender expression, including the use of
Speaker 2: folks preferred pronouns. Today's case falls under that broader heading.
Speaker 2: More specifically, it presents for our review challenging issues arising
Speaker 2: from the Ludlow's School Committee's protocol requiring its staff to
Speaker 2: use a student's requested name in gender pronouns within the
Speaker 2: school without notifying the parents of those requests unless that
Speaker 2: student consents. Our appellants are the parents of a Ludlow
Speaker 2: student who chose at school but not at home, to
Speaker 2: go by a different name the kid did, and to
Speaker 2: use different pronouns than those given to them at birth.
Speaker 2: The parents assert that Ludlow's practice of accommodating and concealing
Speaker 2: their child's requested name, and I credit the court at
Speaker 2: least for the intellectual honesty to say they are doing
Speaker 2: something affirmatively. They are not just not telling the parents,
Speaker 2: they are actively concealing the child's request and pronouns while
Speaker 2: at school, interferes with their parental rights is guaranteed by
Speaker 2: the United States Constitution. Ludlow counters that it's protocol is
Speaker 2: appropriate and necessary to ensure a safe and inclusive school
Speaker 2: learning environment for students. How many times have we heard
Speaker 2: that utterly meaningless greeting card phrase safe and inclusive? Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: well said, well said, in what way would saying, hey,
Speaker 2: your son is asking to be called a girl at school?
Speaker 2: In what way would that be unsafe? Are we to
Speaker 2: that old canard that well, the dad might beat the
Speaker 2: hell out of the kid when he gets home. So
Speaker 2: we can't tell the parents what's going on that whole
Speaker 2: because one parent out of a thousand is a monster
Speaker 2: argument and inclusive? In what way would it be exclusive
Speaker 2: to say to the parents, hey, your son is asking
Speaker 2: to be called a little girl. That phrase is utterly meaningless.
Speaker 2: So that's how they described the questions before us. Here's
Speaker 2: where it gets really really interesting. You tell me whether
Speaker 2: this is a school trying to be safe and inclusive
Speaker 2: or a school indoctrinating a child. This is from the court,
Speaker 2: from the actual decision, keeping in mind the first circuit
Speaker 2: said no, no, parents don't get to know. School gets
Speaker 2: to raise the kid. They describe Baird Middle School in Ludlow, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Early in the twenty twenty one school year, sixth grade
Speaker 2: students at Baird, including eleven year old BF. The student
Speaker 2: was given an assignment by the school's librarian to create
Speaker 2: biographic videos about themselves. Sounds great so far, yep. According
Speaker 2: to the parents' complaint, the librarian, Jordan Funk, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: shouldn't make any jokes because this is sickening. The librarian,
Speaker 2: Jordan Funk, encouraged students to include their pronouns in their videos.
Speaker 2: If you right there, that makes me a combination into
Speaker 2: radical gender theory. If you right there, I'm thinking, I
Speaker 2: got to get my kid out of this school, right right.
Speaker 2: Don't play the pronoun game. That is getting the camel's
Speaker 2: nose under the tent of getting you to go along
Speaker 2: with radical gender theory at a time. I hate the
Speaker 2: idea of what age was this eleven years old? Wow?
Speaker 4: I hate the idea of you even starting that conversation
Speaker 4: to where the kid. My kid's gonna say, they're told
Speaker 4: me to use pronouns.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? I don't want I'm a dude.
Speaker 2: It's he just teach math and reading. That's what I want. God,
Speaker 2: that makes me gets better. The parent's complaint does not
Speaker 2: state how the student designated the female sex at birth.
Speaker 2: No sex is not designated First Circuit Court of Appeals,
Speaker 2: that is language straight out of critical theory radical gender
Speaker 2: theory that was invented by them. Nobody ever used that
Speaker 2: terminology until well, with the exception of the teachers colleges,
Speaker 2: which have been left of stalin for a very long time.
Speaker 2: Nobody has ever used that terminology until radical gender theory
Speaker 2: caught hold of idiot's imaginations. First Circuit court be better
Speaker 2: than that anyway. The parents complaint does not state how
Speaker 2: the student designated the female sex at birth responded to
Speaker 2: the school assignment, but in the months that followed the assignment,
Speaker 2: the student's school Google account started receiving quote unsolicited LBGTQ
Speaker 2: themed video suggestions on their school issued computer. So they're
Speaker 2: getting indoctrination clips. I'm on their school computer. I'm so
Speaker 2: not solicited unsolicited. Somebody started sending all the kids videos that,
Speaker 2: for instance, said, you know, it's okay if they claimed
Speaker 2: you're a boy to be a girl because they get
Speaker 2: it wrong at birth. All the time, I will read
Speaker 2: this simple text of the decision.
Speaker 4: God, once you say that to a small kid, you've
Speaker 4: warped them forever.
Speaker 2: Yes you have, and they know it. It's intentional. All right,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to read from the decision because you know, well,
Speaker 2: I keep going off. But in the months that followed
Speaker 2: the assignment, the student school Google accounts started receiving quote
Speaker 2: unsolicited LGBTQ themed video suggestions on their school issued computer.
Speaker 2: After watching these clips, the student began questioning whether quote
Speaker 2: they might be attracted to girls, of course, and whether
Speaker 2: they quote had gender identity issues. Of course, this had never, ever,
Speaker 2: ever been a thing in the family, he says, departing
Speaker 2: from the decision again until it was it was suggested
Speaker 2: and promoted by the school. By December of twenty the
Speaker 2: student sought out their teacher, Bonnie Manchester, to have a
Speaker 2: meeting to discuss some personal issues. At that meeting, the
Speaker 2: student indicated they were depressed and struggling with insecurity what
Speaker 2: is an eleven year old girl that's never happened before,
Speaker 2: low self esteem, self image, and a perceived lack of popularity.
Speaker 2: Oh no again a first in history. The student told
Speaker 2: Manchester they needed help, but they were unsure of how
Speaker 2: to ask their parents about getting that help. Manchester offered
Speaker 2: to call the student's parents, and after reviewing the student's
Speaker 2: situation with other teachers during school planning meeting, hearing other
Speaker 2: teachers agreed that the students seemed depressed. Manchester contacted the parents.
Speaker 2: Then they talked about the depressed thing and may have
Speaker 2: been attracted to members of the same sex, and Mom
Speaker 2: was grateful that Manchester reached out so that she and
Speaker 2: the father could address the mental health issues. Then at
Speaker 2: some length it gets too unbeknownst to the parents, I'm
Speaker 2: skipping a bit. In February twenty eighth of twenty one,
Speaker 2: the email sent to Baird's teachers in the school of
Speaker 2: counselor Marie Claire Foley and a superintendent Gaza, the student announced,
Speaker 2: I am gender queer. This is an eleven year old
Speaker 2: pre pubescent girl or previous girl. According to the student's
Speaker 2: email declaration, that meant that the student would use any
Speaker 2: pronoun other than it it's and it also meant that
Speaker 2: the student preferred a name change. They asked to go
Speaker 2: by the name, you know, Rick, instead of Betty or whatever.
Speaker 2: Upon receipt of the email and after meeting privately with student,
Speaker 2: they decided essentially, hey, it's not necessary to tell the parents,
Speaker 2: and indeed call her Betty and she when communicating with
Speaker 2: the students, but during school it's Rick, and it's he
Speaker 2: him God.
Speaker 4: I would be so beside myself with anger. You'd have
Speaker 4: to put it aside because you got to deal with
Speaker 4: your kid. But they introduced this. Otherwise none of it
Speaker 4: would have happened, none of it, and then undoing it
Speaker 4: would be so difficult, could take years, and could really
Speaker 4: damage your relationship with your kid.
Speaker 2: And we're up against a break. But just to fully,
Speaker 2: you know, sketch out what happened here. When it was depressions,
Speaker 2: low self esteem, the teachers quite appropriately said, Hey, we
Speaker 2: ought to let mom and dad know this is going on.
Speaker 2: But the moment it became radical gender theory, gender bending madness,
Speaker 2: it was time to hush up and keep this between us. Insidious,
Speaker 2: effing evil farmtraw.
Speaker 1: Hey, Yeddie, it's absolutely bizarre. Imagine a new mom holding
Speaker 1: her beautiful baby in a nurse pops in and says, Mama,
Speaker 1: you're doing great. By the way, is baby a questioning lesbian?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the kind of stuff. This is
Speaker 1: why so many Democrats flogged the vote for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: because the left is so far left. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: out in orbit.
Speaker 2: What was that story we had, Katie? Do you remember
Speaker 2: what it was or do you Yeah? I still have
Speaker 2: it yeah, blue states, including New Jersey. Yeah, your newborn baby.
Speaker 2: They ask what gender is your baby? Is your baby
Speaker 2: gender fluid or gender queer, or a lesbian or whatever?
Speaker 2: A newborn infant? No, wait, the gender one.
Speaker 4: Well they're all ridiculous, but certain You surely can't ask
Speaker 4: if your baby's a lesbian but they were born six
Speaker 4: hours ago.
Speaker 2: I don't know if my baby's a lesbian. Yes, Katie.
Speaker 4: If a nurse asked me that, I would look to
Speaker 4: my husband and go here, hold my baby exact please,
Speaker 4: I need both hands free for this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. The former cars parents dot identify their baby
Speaker 2: is male, female, transgender, gender queer, additional gender. Which of
Speaker 2: the following best describes your baby with answers including lesbian
Speaker 2: or gay, straight, bisexual, self described? Some questioning, I'm sure
Speaker 2: prefer not to answer, Okay, I don't you know.
Speaker 4: I don't buy this, but you could make the argument
Speaker 4: that you could answer not sure yet.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that. Why are you fing asking me?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it's ridiculous, but to answer definitively yes, this
Speaker 4: is a uh ah, a transwoman lesbian. Paste oney, looking
Speaker 4: at your eight hour old baby is insane.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, can you imagine you're sleep deprived, you've
Speaker 2: just been through, you know, a trying yet joyful experience,
Speaker 2: and somebody brings that s into the room. I think
Speaker 2: I'm at the wrong hospital, is what I'm at. I'm thinking, honey,
Speaker 2: can you bail me out? Have your mom bail me out,
Speaker 2: because there's about to be trouble anyway. Just my final
Speaker 2: follow up. I love that, Katie. Thanks christis final follow up.
Speaker 2: I think on that court case, I was telling you
Speaker 2: about this librarian funk in the story who the minute
Speaker 2: the kid having introduced the idea of maybe you're not
Speaker 2: a girl anymore, the minute the kid expressed doubt. This
Speaker 2: absolute groomer, classic groomer, radical indoctrinating recruiter quote, spoke with
Speaker 2: the student one on one about gender identity and provided
Speaker 2: the student with LGBTQ related resources. Then the school told
Speaker 2: you told her you can use whatever bathroom you want,
Speaker 2: trying to conform with Massachusetts law. They say, right, these
Speaker 2: people are sick.
Speaker 4: Wow, says Slid in the World Happiness Rankings. I've got
Speaker 4: some comment on that. It's kind of interesting. Also, just
Speaker 4: off violence against Tesla, some new wrinkles on that. If
Speaker 4: you haven't heard just stay to him.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5: Tesla stock is wayed out, almost disastrously, so.
Speaker 2: People people have been.
Speaker 5: Realizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles, Please don't vandalize, don't
Speaker 5: ever vandalize Tesla.
Speaker 2: Vehicles, and so.
Speaker 4: Taken by many is kind of a wink and a
Speaker 4: nod of feel free or isn't that great or whatever?
Speaker 2: How about the crowd cheering that? Yeah, yeah, that gets
Speaker 2: back to that incredible divide we have in American society
Speaker 2: and politics now between a certain crowd young female, college
Speaker 2: degree et cetera, mostly grad students, and everybody else.
Speaker 4: And then but just then, you know the what interest
Speaker 4: rank above what other interests? Because that crowd at Jimmy Kimmel,
Speaker 4: I guarantee you, is almost entirely climate change is the
Speaker 4: biggest problem we've got in the world. People who a
Speaker 4: bigger percentage of Jimmy Kimmel's crowd there drives an electric
Speaker 4: car by one hundredfold than the average population, I guarantee you.
Speaker 4: Yet they're cheering the demise of, or their hope to
Speaker 4: demise of the most really the only popular electric car
Speaker 4: company that's ever existed in America, which is just so
Speaker 4: weird the politics of it. So you've ranked hating Donald
Speaker 4: Trump because I don't actually believe you're that concerned about
Speaker 4: government cutbacks. I don't believe it. No, So it's just
Speaker 4: it's just the old fashion. You hate Trump, so you're
Speaker 4: a critical you're ranking your hatred of Trump above climate change,
Speaker 4: which you've been trying to tell us for a long
Speaker 4: time is the biggest threat to mankind that has ever existed.
Speaker 4: And if you don't take it seriously or some sort
Speaker 4: of crazy anti science weirdo, a monster. So you got
Speaker 4: that angle of it, which is really interesting. And of course,
Speaker 4: if anybody on the right did a wink and a
Speaker 4: nod toward destroying I don't know if Sean Hannity is
Speaker 4: this did the same thing about Target back when Target
Speaker 4: had trans bathing suits in it or whatever. Don't destroy targets,
Speaker 4: I mean, really don't destroy them. Uh, would have been
Speaker 4: called out. Another thing about Tesla. Interestingly enough, this is
Speaker 4: not good news for Tesla. It doesn't help anything. And
Speaker 4: you'll hear it on the news all day long today.
Speaker 4: That just broke Tesla to recall most cyber trucks because
Speaker 4: of and I saw this on the news the other day,
Speaker 4: this panel that falls off the door. So this isn't
Speaker 4: so it says in this Wall Street Journal article, this
Speaker 4: is the eighth recall of the cyber truck since it
Speaker 4: came out. I think all the rest of them are
Speaker 4: software things, so they fix them. I get things fixed
Speaker 4: through the software on my Tesla every night while asleep.
Speaker 4: I don't even know what happened, but they call that
Speaker 4: a recall, even though.
Speaker 2: It's not a recall. They just update the software they changed.
Speaker 4: But this, a part of the door is actually falling off,
Speaker 4: and so this will be great fodder. Guarantee you. I'd
Speaker 4: be shocked if all three hosts don't make a joke
Speaker 4: about that tonight on the late night talk shows, because
Speaker 4: that's a bad look.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: This stat most alleged Tesla charger vandals have one thing
Speaker 4: in common.
Speaker 2: She they pronouns.
Speaker 4: Three out of four Tesla facility and charger vandals so
Speaker 4: far arrested across the country have been identified as transgender
Speaker 4: or non binary.
Speaker 2: And the US right what I was talking about yesterday,
Speaker 2: Neo Marxism radicalizes every minority, including sexual minorities. For instance,
Speaker 2: guys who enjoy masquerading as women. Three out of four.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Is it that you don't think that's noteworthy?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think that's a note.
Speaker 4: Worry with the tiny percentage of people that are trands,
Speaker 4: that seventy five percent of the people who are attacking
Speaker 4: Tesla dealerships are.
Speaker 2: Come on mentally ill. We got an email, guys, whatever
Speaker 2: happened to the term female impersonator? So you got a
Speaker 2: bunch of mentally ill female impersonators who've been radicalized by
Speaker 2: this idiotic European critical theory crap going around committing the
Speaker 2: accit domestic terrorism. No, I'm glad you you know what
Speaker 2: to arrest them? What's that?
Speaker 4: I'm glad you just use that term because I've been
Speaker 4: using the term vandalism, which it is not. Here is
Speaker 4: John Miller, formerly of the FBI, now a commentator in CNN.
Speaker 6: If you take all the politics out of it and
Speaker 6: you go by the pure FBI definition of domestic terrorism,
Speaker 6: it is the use of fear of violence, property destruction
Speaker 6: to coerce somebody on a political issue. So if this
Speaker 6: is to attack Elon Musk because of his relationship and
Speaker 6: actions on behalf of Donald Trump, it would qualify based
Speaker 6: on the definition.
Speaker 2: How about John Miller.
Speaker 4: How about John Miller feeling like he's got to put
Speaker 4: the qualification if you take the politics out of it, What.
Speaker 2: If you take the politics out of political violence? In
Speaker 2: other words, what John is saying like some sort of
Speaker 2: Stockholm syndrome suffering abductee. Don't hurt me for this. But right,
Speaker 2: even though it's against Trump, and he cringes and covers
Speaker 2: himself up, this is domestic terrorism. Wow, he had arrest
Speaker 2: these people. You put him in federal prison, and ladies,
Speaker 2: you got a schwantz you're going to the men's prison.
Speaker 4: In That's something he had to throw in that qualification,
Speaker 4: which is exactly what you just said.
Speaker 2: I hate to say this.
Speaker 4: Please don't kill the messenger, but this is domestic terrorism.
Speaker 4: Even if you hate Trump.
Speaker 2: Putting aside the politics of political violence. Well, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's right. No, you don't get to say. On the
Speaker 2: other hand, I'm right, no, John, that's not a thing.
Speaker 2: But again he's terrified by you know, his coworkers and
Speaker 2: probably his friends.
Speaker 4: The New York Times blaming Musk for the terrorist attacks
Speaker 4: directed at him with a paragraph about all the attacks
Speaker 4: that have happened on Tesla's and Tesla dealerships and charging
Speaker 4: stations across the country. For some, the deal breaker came
Speaker 4: when mister Musk made a gesture that resembled a fashion
Speaker 4: salute while speaking at a rally for Donald Trump. So
Speaker 4: the New York Times saying, well, that's the deal breaker,
Speaker 4: and they're insinuating that, Yeah, you can't blame him. I mean,
Speaker 4: come on, because Elon, you know, he made the Hitler salute.
Speaker 2: So Nazi Tervian. Hasn't that been debunked enough with all me?
Speaker 2: How could you the.
Speaker 4: New York Times include that. I mean, if you want
Speaker 4: to say people are angry about Doge just to explain
Speaker 4: the climate that we're in, fine, but you're leaning way
Speaker 4: too hard toward Elon brought this on himself.
Speaker 2: Right, there's not good. There's being wrong, there's being wildly wrong.
Speaker 2: Then there's being a clown. The New York Times has
Speaker 2: completely beclowned itself. Honk in honk, yeah, no kidding, all
Speaker 2: you climb into this tiny car, your clowns and get
Speaker 2: the hell out of here. I don't know where this
Speaker 2: is going. I really don't know. I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't know if this will.
Speaker 4: Like substantially damage Tesla, like really put a din in
Speaker 4: it or.
Speaker 2: Just the you know, it'll be a phase and it'll
Speaker 2: go away. I don't know. Oh, that reminds me to
Speaker 2: our previous discussion. I texted this to the crew and
Speaker 2: retweeted it as well. It rights itself, wrote the guy
Speaker 2: who posted this. The headline is woman arrested after explosives
Speaker 2: discovered at Tesla dealership and there's a dude, a guy,
Speaker 2: a grown ass man in the picture. Woman arrested. Why
Speaker 2: because the grown ass man said, yeah, I'm a woman. Okay,
Speaker 2: he's a woman. Seriously, nobody, but nobody thought that way
Speaker 2: like two weeks ago. You know, it was laughable, it
Speaker 2: was absurd, it was idiotic. Guess what, it's still laughable, absurd,
Speaker 2: in idiotic, but you have mainstream publications. Woman arrested after
Speaker 2: explosives discovered a Tesla dealership with a full grown man
Speaker 2: right there in the picture.
Speaker 4: Oh to hear the Jimmy Kimmel one more thing, So listen,
Speaker 4: listen to the crowd cheer the fact that their electric
Speaker 4: car hero company is suffering, and then his insinuation that
Speaker 4: it's okay.
Speaker 2: Tesla stock is.
Speaker 5: Way down almost disastrously, so people.
Speaker 2: People have been.
Speaker 5: Vandalizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles. Please don't vandalize, don't
Speaker 5: ever vandalize Tesla vehicles.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 2: What he's the visual he he had to wink theah
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, or just look at the crowd the street. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's something. If we had said that at the height
Speaker 2: of the target thing, our.
Speaker 4: Careers would be and we would have lost our jobs
Speaker 4: and probably appropriately Yeah yeah, because we were Yeah, because
Speaker 4: we were encouraging domestic to terrorism.
Speaker 2: Yeah, god, he should be. It's okay because it's against
Speaker 2: the right.
Speaker 4: It's against elon the world's richest man. You got to
Speaker 4: throw that in all the time like that matters.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I left that out. Who who the last
Speaker 2: step or the final straw was when he gave us
Speaker 2: loot that appeared to be Oh, for God's surly, seriously,
Speaker 2: put on your size twenty seven red shoes and flop
Speaker 2: out of here, you right, squirt water out of your
Speaker 2: little pel and get out of here. Nah, tell you
Speaker 2: what it gets me up in the morning fighting against
Speaker 2: these lunatics.
Speaker 4: I want to mention this United States sliding down the
Speaker 4: happiness scale.
Speaker 2: H oh yeah, you've been holding out on us and
Speaker 2: it hasn't made us happier.
Speaker 4: It's mostly it's mostly dumb, but there is one nugget
Speaker 4: in there that's disturbing anyway.
Speaker 2: That's next day.
Speaker 4: Here some business news.
Speaker 3: Trader Joe's is recalling bottles of imported mineral water because
Speaker 3: the glass could shatter. People were like, yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 3: much how glass works.
Speaker 2: Keep with his bracelet.
Speaker 3: That's right, Trader Joe's are recalling bottles of imported mineral water.
Speaker 3: Tough news for your offices, most annoying coworker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4: The United States has fallen to its lowest ever place
Speaker 4: in the World Happiness Report Who Asked You, which highlights
Speaker 4: the positive effects of benevolence and social connections have on
Speaker 4: people's life satisfaction. It says here in the summary on CBS.
Speaker 2: All about the Big b Benevolence.
Speaker 4: The United States ranked twenty fourth world, one place lower
Speaker 4: than our rating last year. We're getting less happy and
Speaker 4: far from our previous peak of eleven. We are the
Speaker 4: eleventh happiest country back in twenty twelve. Most of your
Speaker 4: happy countries are your tiny little Scandinavian countries well, and
Speaker 4: as we discussed at length, it was really interesting.
Speaker 2: Finland always tops the list. And they are a rather
Speaker 2: serious endure people. They also there is a culture of contentment.
Speaker 2: Be content with what you have and be a good person.
Speaker 2: That's happiness there.
Speaker 4: I was reading one analyst's view of it, who doesn't
Speaker 4: like this chart in the way it's portrayed in that
Speaker 4: some of these countries just their culture is to be positive.
Speaker 4: If they're in the middle of a world war and
Speaker 4: a depression, that's just their culture. And you know, there's
Speaker 4: no doubt that our culture is more. I need everything
Speaker 4: all the time, yesterday, pleasure, pleasure, pleasure, or I'm unhappy.
Speaker 4: But one nugget out of this that stuck out to
Speaker 4: me is from Gallup the increase saying number of people
Speaker 4: who eat alone in the United States, that number going up,
Speaker 4: the number of people eat alone. And obviously it's not
Speaker 4: just the eating alone part.
Speaker 2: It's the finally the spotlight's off, drinking alone.
Speaker 4: It's not the fact that you're dining alone, because that
Speaker 4: in itself is no big deal. It's just if you're
Speaker 4: regularly eating alone, it says a lot about your lifestyle. Yeah, which,
Speaker 4: like I wonder how many times I should ask my parents.
Speaker 4: I wonder how many times my dad's ever eat alone
Speaker 4: is life because you know, back in the day when
Speaker 4: you got married young, or my mom would be a
Speaker 4: better example. She had me when she's twenty two. She
Speaker 4: may never going from parents to college to married with
Speaker 4: kids as opposed to you. You know, you stay unmarried
Speaker 4: maybe forever or in your thirties or forties and no
Speaker 4: kids and don't date, and lots and lots and lots
Speaker 4: and lots of meals, eating alone, which means watching TV alone,
Speaker 4: which means going to bed alone, which means waking up alone,
Speaker 4: which might mean vacationing alone, all kinds of different things.
Speaker 2: And you're not living a version of like friends where
Speaker 2: you're constantly meeting your friends at the coffee shot in
Speaker 2: the cafe and probably not. Yeah, oh man, where's it.
Speaker 2: I just came across another great think piece about how
Speaker 2: we become a nation of loaners and I can't remember
Speaker 2: what the term was they used, but yeah, things are weird,
Speaker 2: you know. My final thought today, I'm actually going to
Speaker 2: seed my final thoughts at the next for the next
Speaker 2: two days to one of my favorite authors but addresses
Speaker 2: some of this.
Speaker 4: Speaking of authors, I was all excited about Jake Tapper's
Speaker 4: book which was released today about the inside story of
Speaker 4: Joe Biden secretly behind the scenes, his brain wasn't working
Speaker 4: so good and they pulled off a trick and nobody
Speaker 4: knew crazy cover up except for everybody. But anyway, he's
Speaker 4: got a book out about that, and I ordered it,
Speaker 4: pre ordered it on Kindle and adn't shown up yet.
Speaker 4: I'm quite angry about it. I think it's some sort
Speaker 4: of breakdown with Amazon because it came out. Hopefully i'll
Speaker 4: have it tomorrow and have some of the highlights.
Speaker 2: Some people seem to be getting around prohibition by Al Capone.
Speaker 2: Jake Tapper, you should be ashamed.
Speaker 4: Wow, I get to it. I understand what you Yeah,
Speaker 4: I see what I'm saying there. Yeah, I understand the
Speaker 4: point you were making.
Speaker 2: Back to the happiness thing.
Speaker 4: And we talked about this quite a bit a week
Speaker 4: or so ago in the Dalai Lama's book The Art
Speaker 4: of Joy and All That is this. It's interesting that
Speaker 4: as human beings were built to do all kinds of
Speaker 4: things that make us less happy, we just are and
Speaker 4: you have to overcome your desire to do things that
Speaker 4: ultimately will make you less happy, like eating too much
Speaker 4: or indulging this or that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's an evolution thing or a
Speaker 2: it's a modern world thing. Keeping in mind that if
Speaker 2: humans whole existence is twenty four hours, the internet, for instance,
Speaker 2: smartphones came into being at eleven to fifty nine and
Speaker 2: fifty nine seconds. Right. The idea that we haven't quite
Speaker 2: figured it out is, well, it's not that shocking how
Speaker 2: much time we got. Michael. Let's go to it early,
Speaker 2: because this final thought is worth here. You give it
Speaker 2: plenty of time. Do it good. I'm ready to begin.
Speaker 4: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: That one strestes me out because the guy's so far
Speaker 2: behind the beat. It's weird. All right. Hey, let's get
Speaker 2: a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap
Speaker 2: things up for the day. There is our technical director, Michaelangelow.
Speaker 7: Michael, you know, I've made a real effort to be
Speaker 7: happy for every little thing that i have, very very grateful.
Speaker 7: But now that Jack has pointed out there's a ninety
Speaker 7: eight inch TV at Costco, I'm not real.
Speaker 2: Happy until you have ruined it. He ruined it, Katie
Speaker 2: Green are esteemed to use women as a final thought,
Speaker 2: Katie kind of along those lines, Jack, thanks a lot
Speaker 2: for that ninety eight inch TV comment, because now my
Speaker 2: husband's aware of it and won't.
Speaker 4: Stop waitly see the truth. Wally, you gotta go to
Speaker 4: Costco this weekend? What do you see in person?
Speaker 2: Ugh? Jack? A final thought you'd like to share is
Speaker 2: March Madness as big as it used to be?
Speaker 4: I don't actually know statistically, I'm sure I could look
Speaker 4: into it, but I just saw an ad for March
Speaker 4: Madness feating basketball stars. The average age had to be
Speaker 4: in the low seventies on this ad. You'd have to
Speaker 4: be my age and older to know who these people are.
Speaker 4: So kind of feel like they believe their demographics are
Speaker 4: pretty old. My final thought I love. Caitlyn Flanagan is
Speaker 4: a staff writer at the Atlantic. She writes about women
Speaker 4: and stuff. She's very funny, very smart, and very grounded.
Speaker 4: She says what follows.
Speaker 2: The Internet did not arrive like a wave, allowing us
Speaker 2: to take time to think about our humanity before we
Speaker 2: put our toes in the water. It arrived like a flood,
Speaker 2: and we've been drowning in it for more than a
Speaker 2: quarter century. It keeps taking our souls away from us.
Speaker 2: Every passing year. We're less of who we were Soon
Speaker 2: there won't be much of us left at all. The
Speaker 2: only thing that can save us is a great unplugging,
Speaker 2: but we'll never do that. We live it down here,
Speaker 2: We love it down here under the dark water.
Speaker 4: Uh No, we'll never unplug it. So yeah, and then
Speaker 4: the generation that remembers pre internet and smartphones.
Speaker 2: Will be dead before you know it, and.
Speaker 4: There will be nothing great it was. There will be
Speaker 4: nothing to compare it to. No young, younger person will
Speaker 4: even remember that it was any different.
Speaker 2: It's the Death of Joy Jack my new Quickie Tak
Speaker 2: show host book. I'm Struck Getty grabbing of another grueling
Speaker 2: for our workday. I'm co writing it with Jake Tapper
Speaker 2: and the Dalai Lama. So many people to think, so
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Speaker 4: See tomorrow God Bliss America.
Speaker 2: The coroner said it was an accident, but it was
Speaker 2: no accident. It was Armstrong and get Our message is clear,
Speaker 2: go away. Are you sure? Says yes?
Speaker 4: Well. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty asked the same question
Speaker 4: of their listeners, and here's their response.
Speaker 2: Could kick most of their ass. Okay, I was wondering
Speaker 2: you know what you felt about that? And I'm good, Okay,
Speaker 2: Bye bye Armstrong and Getty.