1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 3 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 1: Katty I know he Armstrong and Yetty. Hey, guys, listen 4 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: to this. 5 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: I saw that uber is offering teenagers free rides home 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: from prom and back. Okay, you know some thirty year 7 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: old it's going to get in with the suitcase, like, yeah, 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 2: I'm going to the airport prom take you to. 9 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 3: The airport from Yeah. Yeah, we're having a travel themed 10 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,639 Speaker 3: from It's at the airport. 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, I'm cofughing and I can't 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: stop coughing, and I've been sick for tomorrow. It will 13 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,480 Speaker 1: be three weeks. And I did a whole flight of antibiotics. 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: And the only reason I bring this up is did 15 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: you see the article in the New York Times over 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: the weekend They caught the flu and never came home. 17 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: The virus leads to an estimated thirty six thousand deads 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: in the United States each season, many of them so 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: sudden that families are left reeling. I am not a 20 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: hypochondract I think I'm the opposite of a hypochondriact. To 21 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: my peril. I ignore things that I should have paid 22 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: attention to, have done that multiple times in my life, 23 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: so I've got to go in the other direction, I think. 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: But this article freaked me out a little bit about 25 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: people who get the flu and you know, mostly mostly 26 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: really old people die of the flu. That something was 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: gonna get you anyway, you know, it's just we're all 28 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: gonna die. I don't know if you're aware of that. 29 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: Something's got to get you. I mean, it's got to 30 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: be some specific thing that probably pushed you over the 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: edge at the end. But there's a lot of people 32 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: to get the flu and then just all of a sudden, 33 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: you're past the point of fixing and you die. It 34 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: happens fairly often, yeah, And they had all kinds of examples. 35 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: It's not common, like I mean percentage wise, but they 36 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: had a lot of examples in New York Times. They 37 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: were just horrific. God tang it. You come down with 38 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: the flu and you're like a healthy thirty eight year 39 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: old dad or whatever, and you waited a day too 40 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: long and now they can't get the liquid out of 41 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: your lungs or something, and you're it's over. 42 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 3: Remember when COVID first hit. What we were comparing death 43 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 3: rates to was flu, and it wasn't, you know, overwhelming, 44 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 3: but it. 45 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: Was a lot of people. Anyway. I was getting better 46 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: and I got a cough I'd never had before, So 47 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: I figure, this is my last day. Do we know 48 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: Kim Commando, I feel like we know. Do we meet 49 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 1: her somewhere? We talked to her a couple of times, 50 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: the tech guru gal. I haven't heard her name in 51 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: quite a while. I assume she's still doing what she does. 52 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: She is, and she wrote an interesting article yesterday how 53 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: the Vatican is locking down the conclave, about the secrecy 54 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: around the elect and the pulpe thing, which, if if 55 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: you're old enough to remember and have been through it 56 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 1: a time or two, the cardinals all locked themselves in 57 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: the Vatican and we look for puffs of white smoke, 58 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: and that's really the only thing we get. That's the 59 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: only news you get out of there at all, which 60 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: you're about to find out until the puffs of white 61 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: smoke and then out comes a new pope on the 62 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: balcony and the crowd goes wild. 63 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 3: Kim Commando really needs to marry a guy named I 64 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 3: don't know, Rocky Sniper or something like that. 65 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: Right, I have very tough kids. Oh please poor an 66 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: in uniform. Where are they have poet trans kids? I 67 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: don't know. You never know. It's unpredictable, Kim Commando. You 68 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: think keeping a secret in today's world is tough, try 69 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: running one of the most important elections on the planet 70 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: while dodging drones, AI sur violence, and smartphones in every pocket. 71 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: When Pope Francis passed away, the Vatican went into immediate 72 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: lockdown mode to protect the conclave, the centuries old process 73 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: where cardinals vote to elect the next Pope. The security 74 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: isn't tight. It's basically a Tom Clancy novel on Espresso. 75 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: It says there the moment the doors close, which is 76 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: it today that they're closing the conclave down? And one 77 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: of the cardinals said, they think it'll just be two 78 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: or three days. Anyway, it's this week. The moment the 79 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: door's closed, they flip on a broad spectrum signal jammer 80 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 1: all Wi Fi dead, bluetooth, buried air tags, technological dust 81 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: that they can stop any sort of transmission or modern technology. 82 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: Directional antennas flood every window and rooftop gap just in case. 83 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: Before the jammer's fire tech crews sweep rooms with nonlinear 84 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,799 Speaker 1: junction detectors. Those are handheld wands that sniff out hidden 85 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: circuits if anybody's trying to spy in anyway and spectrum 86 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: Manlizer's hunting rogue signals. They sweep again after the cardinals 87 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: get in, and once again after the voting starts. Every 88 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: person and everything gets inspected three times, from clothing to pens, 89 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: to the crosses around your neck, rosaries and eyeglass frames 90 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: to make sure nobody is communicating it anyway. 91 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 3: By did they give everybody a colon escopy too? I mean, yikes, you. 92 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: I find it kind of odd that you don't feel 93 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: like you can trust the cardinals voting to not be 94 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: wearing eyeglasses with a hidden microphone in it. I mean, 95 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: you really shouldn't be a cardinal. Yeah, please speak into 96 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 1: the rosary. By definition, you should not be what you 97 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,359 Speaker 1: are and in the role you're in if you can't 98 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: be trusted. 99 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 3: I wouldn't think I would think there would be something 100 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 3: like the death penalty, not literally, but you get booted 101 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 3: out for even attempting to smuggle anything in. 102 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: I would hope since satellites can read a license plate 103 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: from orbit I didn't know that, and AI lip reading 104 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: can turn shaky long lens video into a full transcript. 105 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: The Vatican's answer is dual layer privacy film on all 106 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: the windows, a metallic tempest rated laminate. It blocks ninety 107 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: nine percent of light and nearly all infrared from outside. 108 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: Every window looks like a black mirror. Inside the cardinal 109 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: ce only a dull gray glow. You're not allowed. You're 110 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: not allowed to any windows open for fresh air. Six 111 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: Swiss guards will somersault like circus, lay and tackle you. 112 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: Magnetic sensors scream if a window budget is more than 113 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: a quarter of an inch. Cardinals aren't even allowed to 114 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: look outside the windows during the conclave. Wow, this is crazy, 115 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah. The Vatican only covers point one seven 116 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: square miles. It's about the size of a small eighteen 117 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: hole golf course if you can picture it. But its 118 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: security grid ravels rivals the most secure of major airports 119 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: in the world. Deep below Saint Peter's Square, a command 120 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: center watches six hundred and fifty four K cameras, microwave fences, 121 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: and RF triangulation arrays that flag any surprise transmitter. 122 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 3: Wow, that's something all to like the leader of a 123 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 3: religious sect, an important one, a big one. But I mean, 124 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 3: what if some of that stuff got out, Hey, Luigi 125 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 3: seems to be leaning toward Jimmy. 126 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: What are you going to do with that information? 127 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 3: Take Luigi's family hostage and say no, Pope Jimmy. You know, 128 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 3: I'm sure there's an explanation for this, but maybe it's 129 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 3: that I don't care that much. I can't imagine why 130 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 3: you'd go to such extraordinary lengths to protect anybody or 131 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 3: prevent anybody from getting even a whiff. 132 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: If he thinks we're going. If you told me today 133 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: who the Pope is going to be at the announced 134 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: on Saturday, but said keep it a secret, I would 135 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: because I don't care. I'd forget ten minutes later, who'd 136 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: you say it was? Again? The Swiss Guard's Renaissance stripes 137 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: hide modern muscle hk MP seven's FN scar rifles and 138 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: drone jamming guns that blast a five hundred meter RF cone. 139 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: I don't claim to know what all this stuff means. 140 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: Counter UAV radar tracks anything with propellers and intruding drone 141 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: pancakes before it grabs a single photo. 142 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 3: Well wait a minute, why don't we have that, like 143 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 3: for taking all of our military bases, and like New 144 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 3: Jersey famously last wintertime when all those drones were menacing 145 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 3: the poor people of the Garden State. 146 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: Then when white smoke rises, the system pivots to crowd 147 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: protection for the over two hundred thousand pilgrims they expect 148 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: to flood Saint Peter Square. Facial recognition is run locally 149 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: to dodge hacking, simulators, track burner phones to make sure 150 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: there are none, and comms are encrypted so the guards 151 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: stay SYNCD. That seems like a lot of incredible tech 152 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: for a thousand year old tradition. 153 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure there are answers to these rhetorical questions, 154 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 3: but like maybe not. What ifuck afore meentioned Cardinal Jimmy 155 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 3: was going to get the non people found out two 156 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 3: hours early. So what I don't want to is there 157 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 3: heavy wagering at the Vatican is that it. 158 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: I don't want to get in trouble, so I won't 159 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: bring it up. But there is secret keeping in our 160 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: industry that they take to ridiculous lengths and it's stupid. 161 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: So it's possible they're doing the same thing with the popes. 162 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 3: Just they are you talking about the slave labor we 163 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 3: use to power the transmitters. 164 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: Right, we have a thousand little people on bikes peddling. 165 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: That's what makes the radio work. 166 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 3: And they're not slaves. We let them out for fresh 167 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 3: air once a month. 168 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: The drone thing reminded me maybe I'll do this tomorrow. 169 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: Listen to it. There's a great British podcast, Ukraine Daily 170 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: something or other. I should post it. It's so good 171 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: if you're into the whole Russia Ukraine thing. They have 172 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: an update every day and it's not super long, but anyway, 173 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: they interviewed a couple of different people about how the 174 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: war has warfare has changed because of Russia Ukraine, and 175 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: there are several things about warfare that have changed drastically 176 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: and forever, like really big things that it's just gonna 177 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: be the future of the way people battle it out. 178 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: With one one prominent military guy who was running the 179 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 1: Ukrainian forces declaring armed vehicles are now a thing of 180 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 1: the past. They cease to have any value whatsoever. Now. 181 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: They had another expert on there that quibbled with that, 182 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: but like, tanks have been tanks for over one hundred 183 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: years since World War One and they ceased to have 184 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: any value since swarm drones have a well, remember early 185 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: in the war when we had Mike Lines on our 186 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: military guy and he's talking about Russian losing these tanks 187 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: and he said, that's not a thing. You don't lose tanks. 188 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: Nobody loses tanks. Well you do. Now you lose them 189 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: every time you try to do anything because of these 190 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: swarm drones. Wow. 191 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, I would love to hear that. Yeah, please 192 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 3: do bring that to us. 193 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the way military history works. If you're 194 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: a fan of the Civil War, you know when the 195 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 1: Monitor and what was the name of the other ship, 196 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 1: two iron mach the Merrymack. But the two ironclad ships 197 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: got into it and it was the end of like 198 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: four hundred years of sea battles being a certain way 199 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: it ended that day because it no longer the technology 200 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: just wasn't the same anymore. 201 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I know the Monitor was a class 202 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 3: of ships, not the name of the ship does it 203 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 3: doesn't matter? How about this, I think this would be amusing. 204 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 3: Next segment, a little bonus mail bag some emails we've 205 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 3: gotten on a number of different topics, including the wife 206 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 3: of the Weezer bass player and her shooting. 207 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: You know we should Well, yeah, we can do it. 208 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: Next segment. My brother sent me a text. I forgot 209 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: to look it up. He said, have you seen the video? 210 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: And I have nuts. I want it explains a lot. 211 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: I want to hear about that because I've been asking 212 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: for weeks. How in the hell do you squeeze off 213 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: a shot at LAPD and you're not dead? How does 214 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: that happen? Does this? Explain that? 215 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 3: And then she went back inside et cetera, hangout, explained 216 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 3: all cool, the meaning of life, everything, all of it. 217 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 3: Next segment Cool, that's next. 218 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: We went big on this one day when you were gone. 219 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: It was a Friday and you were gone. You had 220 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: abandoned the show to play golf or something in your 221 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 1: time of need. Yes, with on because it just didn't 222 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: make no sense to me, And I was like reaching 223 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: out to law enforcement people and everything like that. How 224 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: do you squeeze off shots at LAPD and you end 225 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: up going back in the house and hanging out with 226 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: the babysitter for a while and then coming out and 227 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 1: surrendering of your own free will? And how does that happen? Yeah? 228 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: I wish I had some of the original accounts. 229 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 3: Of the events in which Gillian Shriner, wife of the 230 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 3: bassist of the band Weezer, ended up getting shot by 231 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 3: the lapd squeezed off shots them and then went back 232 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 3: inside to take a nap or what had you and 233 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 3: my recollection and Jack correcting me if I'm wrong from 234 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 3: the cuver shortly thereafter, was that I thought she was 235 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 3: on her driveway. 236 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,719 Speaker 1: That's what the original reporting was. You had to high 237 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: speed chase. The people in the high speed chase jumped 238 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: out of the car, ran around the neighborhood. One of 239 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: the guys got in the backyard and pretended to be 240 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,839 Speaker 1: watering plants, which is pretty clever actually if you've seen 241 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: the video. But they apprehended him. But anyway, she knew 242 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,599 Speaker 1: there was all this hup up going on in the neighborhood. 243 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: She's a gun owner and she was out in the 244 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: driveway with her gun. Cops, he'll drop the gun. This 245 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: was the original story. You might correct all this. Sure, 246 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: she's out in the driveway the gun, like what's going on. 247 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: Cops see her. They don't know what's going on either, 248 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: they don't know who she is or anything like. They 249 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: just see a person with a gun. Drop the gun. 250 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: She turns toward them and squeezes off a shot or two. 251 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: They shoot at her, apparently hit her. She goes in 252 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 1: the house, hangs out with the babysitter for a while, 253 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: discusses things. Well, I suppose I better get out to 254 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: the lapd. I squeezed off a couple of shots at him, 255 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: and they want to talk to me. So then she 256 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: went back out, so Jack. 257 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 3: To set up the rest of the discussion, a question 258 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 3: for you, would you describe most news coverage, especially local, 259 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 3: as always excellent, mediocre or super sucky? 260 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: All right? Well, all right, so here's the deal. 261 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 3: She may have been out on her driveway at one point, 262 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 3: but I watched a good bit of the uh bodycam 263 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 3: video that's been released, and she was actually in her 264 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 3: backyard because the carjackers had been vaulting fences and running 265 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 3: around the neighborhood. The cops were shouting orders at her 266 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 3: while loud helicopters were circling overhead. They shot her in 267 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 3: her backyard, and she ran inside and called nine to 268 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 3: one one, thinking she had been shot by the carjackers. 269 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: Wow. 270 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 3: So the scene was much much more confusing and chaotic 271 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 3: than it was described. 272 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: You haven't you haven't included her squeezing off shots at them. 273 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 1: Did that never happen? 274 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 3: Thinking that, you know what I need to I don't remember, 275 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 3: and I'm reading a written summary here too, but yeah, 276 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 3: I believe she did. But she thought she was being 277 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 3: confronted by the carjackers anyway, and is not a crazy person. 278 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: And you know where this goes. Nobody knows. 279 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 3: But I just thought it was interesting the contrast between 280 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 3: the reality and the initial coverage, which is you know, 281 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 3: a theme we've sounded many times on the show is. 282 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: A video entertaining. 283 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 3: No, well, no, that's that's rather a flip way to 284 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 3: describe it. It's interesting, revealing and troubling. I thought the 285 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 3: video was a woman almost dying at the hands of 286 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 3: the lapd and you can seem leak she could have 287 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 3: killed a cop the carjacks because of chaos and confusion. 288 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: The carjacker who jumped the fence, Hey there's a pool here, 289 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: immediately strips off his shirt and grabs a hose and 290 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: like calmly starts watering bushes. That was pretty good. I 291 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: like that. I mean, I admire that for cleverness. Yeah. 292 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, So, and if there is yet another round 293 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 3: of revelations to come out that perhaps contradicts this round 294 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 3: of revelations. We will bring it to you here. Accuracy 295 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 3: is our hallmark. Uh oh, we've just got a minute left. Gosh, 296 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 3: dang it. We've got a handful of emails I wanted 297 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: to get to. We can do them next, Yeah, I 298 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 3: suppose so. Yeah. Also, I tell you what will combine 299 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: a handful of emails with what happens when your mind 300 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 3: goes blank? 301 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: That you ever have those moments? Yeah? 302 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's science is beginning to study it, and 303 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 3: it's some It's definitely a thing. As the kids say, 304 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 3: it is its own phenomenon. 305 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: Wow. 306 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 3: Neurologically speaking, I don't know if I've ever heard anybody 307 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 3: discuss this before. 308 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: It's a common expression. Sorry, my mind went blank, right, 309 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: and then you went for a second, and then the 310 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: information comes back. 311 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 3: Usually up until very very recently, as elon us could 312 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 3: tell you, with this Neuralink company, our ability to figure 313 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 3: out what was happening in your brain specifically was practically 314 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 3: nil to made enormous leaps forward recently. 315 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: All sounds good. If you miss it, get the podcast 316 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty on themand Armstrong and Getty. 317 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 4: Every time we hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether 318 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,119 Speaker 4: or not the anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to 319 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 4: shape shift into a perfect Hispanic accent. 320 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: Police arrested twenty five year. 321 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 4: Old elan Alain Sanchez, and I mean that, honestly. 322 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: Why do we do that? 323 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 4: When I say Alejandra myorcis, I just say Alejandra Myorcis. 324 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 4: But on CNN it's Alejandra Majorkis. 325 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 1: I'm Irish. 326 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 4: When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't say. 327 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 4: Police just arrested twenty five year old Charlie McLaughlin. 328 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 1: Stop that Stop. 329 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 3: That is so great. We've been making fun of that. 330 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 3: Hermone Hernandez. 331 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Oh yeah, there's one of the 332 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: guys on Saturday Night Live that's part of his routine 333 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: is mack that whole thing. And it's very very funny. 334 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 3: As you pointed out earlier, what if it was a 335 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,239 Speaker 3: you know, a Chinese name and I launch into a 336 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 3: Chinese accent no matter who I am, do it? 337 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 1: Newscasters? Yeah, or you know somebody with. 338 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 3: An obviously like you know, probably there are very few 339 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 3: white women named Shinikwa, for instance. 340 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,360 Speaker 1: Well, am I projecting or am I right here that 341 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: when they do that on NPR all the time, they're 342 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: basically all the time, they're basically saying to those of 343 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: us who don't you're doing something wrong. Yes, yeah, exactly, 344 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,719 Speaker 1: I'm being authentic. No you're not. 345 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 3: You're just doing it with LATINX people freaking transparent. Get passes. 346 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 3: Let's run through a handful of emails real quick. We 347 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 3: often do this at the beginning of the show, but 348 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 3: there are several I wanted to squeeze in. Dan writes, Guys, 349 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:04,360 Speaker 3: heard your discussions yesterday about woke libraries. Yeah, indeed, libraries 350 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 3: in New York are kicking out any conservative books because 351 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 3: they don't represent all points of view. 352 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 1: Meanwhile, they have all. 353 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 3: These wildly radically progressive gender bending books and they're utterly transparent. 354 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 3: But Dan says, I tweeted this experience so a while 355 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 3: back about the library I grew up going to the 356 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 3: featured books. The featured books on top of the bookshelves 357 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 3: and the little kids area were all woke titles like 358 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 3: Rainbow Hands, Rainbow Parade, and Leo's Lavender Skirt, And my 359 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 3: personal favorite was Ibramex Kendy's Good Night Racism. 360 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: Because nothing puts a child to sleep. 361 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 3: Better than reminding them that the world is racist and 362 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 3: stacked against them. Call me old fashioned, but I want 363 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 3: my kid reading the Berenstain Bears, not the Castro Bears. 364 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 3: Haven't been back in since and I live half block away. 365 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: It's sad. So the problem, of course is they get 366 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: those books in there that this majority of parents don't 367 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,679 Speaker 1: want in there, and if you try to get him out, 368 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: they call you a book banner or censor. Yeah exactly, Yeah. 369 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, total change topic, John with no h rights. 370 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: Guys. 371 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 3: Heard you guys talking about how patriotic Canadians have become 372 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 3: only buying Canadian products, and I can assure you firsthand 373 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 3: this is not a gimmick or a fad. My wife 374 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,719 Speaker 3: is Canadian. We got married last year on a K 375 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 3: one visa. Long story short, friends and family could not 376 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,120 Speaker 3: attend our small courthouse wedding because of the time frame. 377 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. We were planning on having a second 378 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 3: wedding her family and friends could attend. On her first anniversary. 379 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 3: We had to cancel that. After all, her friends and 380 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 3: family refused to come to the US Wow. She used 381 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 3: to be excited to tell her friends and family about 382 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 3: her experience living here. But now it's become very uncomfortable 383 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,360 Speaker 3: and awkward for a lot have A lot of damage 384 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 3: has been done by Trump's unnecessary assault on Canada. And truthfully, 385 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 3: I only give a crap now because of how difficult 386 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 3: it's made that dynamic of my marriage. 387 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, I don't want to get involved in your 388 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: family situation, but not going to a family member's wedding 389 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: because of the dust up between Trump and. 390 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 3: A Right, you know, you're right, that's a bit much. 391 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 3: But there's real anger and on animosity there and it's 392 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 3: gonna last. 393 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: Oh so you're getting married in Texas. I know they're 394 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: abortion laws. I'm afraid I can't attend your wedding. Yeah, 395 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: that makes you a whacky doodle. 396 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,719 Speaker 3: On the other hand, you know the Canadians are pissed 397 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 3: and they will drop their gloves, trust me. 398 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: Let's see. 399 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 3: Paolo writes, Guys, trans folks, and many others make a 400 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 3: distinction between sex and gender. Sex is biology. Gender identity 401 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 3: is personal feeling or belief. That's fine, but problems arise 402 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,919 Speaker 3: when a person expects to be treated as though their 403 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 3: gender identity is their sex. The more militant of the 404 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 3: trans folks tend to do exactly that. Yes, if I 405 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 3: say I'm a woman, I'm a woman. Thank god, the 406 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 3: UK Supreme Court ruled unanimously that was balder dash. The 407 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 3: milit above, they're ironically among the most vocal in asserting 408 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 3: the difference between sex and gender. Then he says, certainly 409 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 3: legally in most contexts, gender identity is no more relevant 410 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 3: than a person's religion. Fact, it's very similar to religion. 411 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 3: It's a dogmatic belief. Like a religious belief, we know 412 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 3: nothing about it except what the believer tells us. Persons 413 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 3: should be treated differently based on their gender identity, only 414 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 3: to the extent that people of different religions are treated differently, 415 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 3: which is to say, practically never. Gender is no more 416 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 3: appropriate on a passport than is religion. It goes on 417 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 3: on that vein. I think it's a good point. Finally, 418 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 3: its way out of bounds to refer to not accepting 419 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 3: trans folks beliefs as trans hate, or refers to the 420 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 3: non believers themselves as transphobes. It's equivalent to calling a Catholic, 421 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 3: calling a person who doesn't believe in trub transubstantiation a 422 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 3: hater or a cathlophobe. 423 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: Good one. Yeah, I would agree. 424 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 3: There are a number of conservative publications that use the 425 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 3: term transgender in quotes, which I think is appropriate. 426 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: Let's see. And then finally this, I thought this. 427 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 3: Was revealing, and smart B writes, lately, my personal hero 428 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 3: Jack has admitted he gets sick more than average. 429 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot. Is one of the worst things I've 430 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: ever had to admit in my life. Right, and we 431 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: the rest of. 432 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 3: The cavemen have decided you're week and thrown you out 433 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 3: of the cabal, the tribe. 434 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: The herd. How do you arrange cavemen? Is that a 435 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: herd or a flock? Rightfully? 436 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 2: So? 437 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he gets into the interesting part. To me, 438 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 3: a lot of people throw the word average around. The 439 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,919 Speaker 3: truth is is you probably felt yourselves. Average is a 440 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 3: marker of the center and not a good discriminator. The 441 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 3: forty ninth percentile in the fifty first percentile are almost 442 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 3: indistinguishable from one another, and the bulk of the population 443 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 3: sits there. Instead, when people use the words below or 444 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 3: above average, what they have intuitively learned and most likely 445 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 3: mean is someone outside that big, bulgy group in the 446 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 3: middle where a majority of the population sits. 447 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're outside the one standard deviation. 448 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 3: Precisely. He gets to that very thing. And it's funny 449 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 3: because we've made jokes about how, you know, two thirds 450 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,200 Speaker 3: of people think they're better looking than average, and that 451 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:21,919 Speaker 3: is obviously a paradox. But if the vast majority of 452 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 3: people are average looking, because you don't average all the 453 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 3: looks and come up with a number, we're talking about 454 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 3: human characteristics, and so it could be that ninety percent 455 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: of the people are at average. I just thought it 456 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 3: was an interesting thought. I'll go ahead and finish it 457 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,959 Speaker 3: in case there's more to it. The dire news that 458 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 3: being that if you can tell you're getting sick more 459 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 3: than the average person, you're probably closer to the sixteenth 460 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 3: percentile than the forty ninth. That is, you're probably around 461 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 3: a standard deviation away from average. Jack, you truly hope 462 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 3: you're on the road to recovery and we'll pray for you. 463 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 3: Oh and then he says, ps another topic, if you 464 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 3: bring back a no Trump day like during the first term, 465 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 3: I would be very grateful. Yeah, he makes a low 466 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 3: T day. Jack, could you describe briefly, for those of 467 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 3: us who have not taken a stats class, what is 468 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 3: a standard deviation. I usually make the joke it's like 469 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 3: you like to be spanked or wear leather. It's not 470 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 3: a weird devation. It's a standard deviation. 471 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: Ah boy. And the most simple terms, it's just like 472 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 1: if you look at a bell curve, it's just the big, 473 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: the big, the big chunk in the middle is going 474 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: to be a standard deviation in a big curve, and 475 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: then you quickly drop off to two or three standard deviations. 476 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: But the first one standard deviation covers the bulk of everything, 477 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: which is kind of what you're getting to, right, mm 478 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 1: hmm with the average intelligence or average looks. Yeah, that 479 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: is a better way to look at it, and it 480 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: makes you sound I'm less crazy if you talk about 481 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,479 Speaker 1: because a standard deviation I think is sixty some percent 482 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: so and then two standard deviations two deviations is I 483 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 1: think you get to ninety seven percent if I remember correctly. 484 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 1: But yeah, it covers a lot of people one standard deviation, 485 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: so that that actually makes sense that like two thirds 486 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: of us think we're above average looking or two thirds 487 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: of us think we're smarter. It actually fits with that, right. 488 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 3: And I think maybe I don't know, maybe I've been 489 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 3: guilty of thinking of like average IQ, which to the 490 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,879 Speaker 3: extent we can even measure IQ, which is definitely a 491 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 3: big giant question mark. One hundred is allegedly average IQ. 492 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 3: But it could be that eighty five percent of the 493 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 3: population is between ninety eight and one oh two right 494 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 3: on that scale. 495 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: I don't know that to. 496 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 3: Be true, but I think I've been guilty of thinking 497 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 3: more like one hundred is the median or there's somebody 498 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 3: above is right exactly, which is not necessarily true at all. 499 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, So I don't know what one standard deviation 500 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: would be on IQ, but yeah, probably you got like 501 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: two thirds of people within ninety five and one oh 502 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: five or something like that, right, Yeah, Yeah, interesting. What's 503 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: the Elon Musk thing? You said in my ear? Hanson? 504 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: What do you do? Oh there, Elon Musk? Another woman. 505 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: So there was a story came out yesterday Elon Musk 506 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 1: no longer working from the White House. That shift has happened. Obviously, 507 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: we've been hearing his name a lot less. Remember there 508 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 1: for quite a while, we're hearing Elon's name more than 509 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 1: Trump's name. Trump is in the cabinet meeting. They're having 510 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 1: a one hundred day cabinet meeting with everybody, and Elon 511 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: is there and smiling and yucking it up, and everybody 512 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: else is having to listen to him and probably hating 513 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: it to a certain extent. I don't know, but Elon's 514 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: there now. We will finish strong next Love the Double Head. 515 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 1: But because all I wanted to continue the well question, 516 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: and I say, I wear a lot. 517 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 3: Of hats, even might have has a hat. 518 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 2: You know, the American people voted for secure borders, safe cities, 519 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 2: and sensible spending. 520 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 3: And that's what they've got. 521 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,360 Speaker 2: A tremendous has been accomplished in the first one hundred days, 522 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 2: as everyone has said, it's more than has been accomplished in. 523 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: Any administration before ever period. 524 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 2: So this is this pretends very well for what happened 525 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 2: for the rest of the administration. 526 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 3: I think this could be the greatest administrations found in 527 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 3: their country. 528 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: So they're having a big cabinet meeting there at the 529 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: White House, and Elon's there, even though he's no longer 530 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: working at the White House. And Trump said this. 531 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 5: You know, you're invited to stay as long as you want, 532 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 5: and he wants to get back home to his cars, as. 533 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: Everybody apparaton. I'll tell you one thing, an incredible job. 534 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: Elon looks so relaxed. That is a guy who who's 535 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: crafted a life and he's digging it. He is not 536 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: stressed out about it. So it would sing whatever reason I. 537 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 3: Wish I could go back to the beginning of the 538 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 3: Doge thing and craft a pr. 539 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: Strategy for them. 540 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 3: And it would not involve, well, it would involve not 541 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 3: having Elon quite as prominent, at least not after the 542 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 3: very beginning of it, because there are all sorts of 543 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,479 Speaker 3: outlets acting like Elon. Pulling back means it's over right. 544 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 3: And if you saw the interview Brett Bair did with 545 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 3: those fail half right, exactly the interview Brett Bair did 546 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 3: with those half dozen absolutely substantive, impressive men who were 547 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,719 Speaker 3: actually running the show, you wouldn't think that at all. Plus, 548 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 3: they can still transition from reining in you know, exce 549 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 3: of personnel and redundant programs and that sort of thing, 550 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 3: which is absolutely worth doing, even if it is a 551 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 3: rounding era on the federal budget. 552 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: It's just a good idea. 553 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 3: But they can then segue to deregulation, which is incredibly important. 554 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 3: So and I just wish their purpose and who they 555 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 3: are had been better, you know, explained to the American 556 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 3: people landmarks Supreme Court ruling. Ah, well, it's not ruling exactly. 557 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 3: But according to accounts, the Supreme Court appeared to open 558 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 3: today to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run 559 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 3: the nation's first religious charter school, which would teach a 560 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 3: curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine. According to The New York Times, 561 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 3: which is accurate as far as it goes, excluding the 562 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 3: school from the state's charter school system would amount to 563 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:54,479 Speaker 3: rank discrimination against religion. According to Brett Kavanaugh, the justices 564 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 3: appear to be divided along the usual ideological lines. They say, 565 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 3: I read a great piece and to see if I 566 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 3: can find it. I'm surprised I didn't save it. They 567 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 3: were talking about the First Amendment and how it reads 568 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 3: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion 569 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 3: or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that those phrases 570 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 3: aren't in opposition to each other. They're a thorough description 571 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 3: of the government's role in religion. Congress shall not establish 572 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 3: a religion or say this is the good one. 573 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: Fair Enough, everybody gets given. But if there are twenty 574 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: three different. 575 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 3: Groups that are authorized to form up a charter school, 576 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 3: and in Oklahoma specifically, the charters have a broad latitude 577 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 3: to implement and I quote a very specific learning philosophy, 578 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 3: adopt their own personnel, policies and methods of school governance, 579 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 3: and to demonstrate they're not government surrogates. So if you 580 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: have twenty two different sorts of entities that can start 581 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 3: a charter school, but not. 582 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: Any religious entity. 583 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 3: No churches, can he give them anywhere near it because 584 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 3: of the establishment clause. Well, you're ignoring the second part 585 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 3: of it, prohibiting the exercise thereof and you're discriminating against 586 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 3: only one sort of people. 587 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 1: That's people who espouse a certain religion. That's that whole 588 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: freedom of religion versus freedom from religion thing, right, right? 589 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 3: And I get that there are subtleties here, and it's 590 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 3: not exactly a black and white argument. And you know what, 591 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 3: I will find the words of people more learned than 592 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 3: me in this stuff. 593 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: But it makes sense to me. 594 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 3: You got a dozen different philosophies represented by the various 595 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 3: charter schools, just not for God's sake, people who do 596 00:32:59,240 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 3: things for God. 597 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine how this is going to be 598 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: covered all day long to day by the mainstream media. 599 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 3: Right well, and some of the intriguing questions are, can 600 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 3: they start in Islamic school teaches sharia law and that 601 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 3: sort of thing, good one or some sort of Satanism 602 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 3: that one comes up to pretty frequently. Yeah, put on 603 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 3: the old goat pants and dance around the fire. So 604 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 3: what was it a five for? It's not a decision. 605 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 3: It was just I think they're just interpreting what was 606 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 3: happening at the oral arguments. Okay, yeah, yeah. Interestingly, Justice 607 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 3: Amy Quinny Parrett was recused. Did she hear it on 608 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 3: the appellate level? 609 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 5: I wonder anyway, I have some final thoughts, and some 610 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 5: people say they are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. 611 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 5: But if you look at what's happening, I would have 612 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 5: to say Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts. 613 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 5: They are right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody 614 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 5: knows it. 615 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get 616 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: a final time from everybody on the crew. To wrap 617 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 1: up the show. 618 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 3: There is Michaelangelo pressing the buttons. Michael Wisch final thought. 619 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 3: You know, I'm thinking about improving my health and maybe 620 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 3: getting rid of all processed foods. 621 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: So wait, are gummy bears processed foods? I believe they are? Yes? 622 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 3: So much for that idea farm to fork Baby, Katie 623 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 3: Green are esteemed to use woman As a final thought, Katie, 624 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 3: you guys. 625 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 4: Have given me a complex today talking about that AI 626 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 4: wearable assistant. 627 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,399 Speaker 1: I'm going to be checking everyone's wrists now for. 628 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 3: It, Yeah, recording me mm hmm, yeah, records everything and 629 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 3: then sends you reminders and that sort of thing. If 630 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 3: you missed the segment, Jack, final thought. 631 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:48,880 Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Or did you come back into the 632 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 1: studio after the commercials in a different shirt? I have 633 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 1: changed you like Taylor Swift? Now you just different outfits 634 00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 1: throughout the show. Exactly, Well, share is my hero here. 635 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: I'm kind of a bad girl now I'm more of 636 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:03,840 Speaker 1: a cheerleader. 637 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 3: Right now I'm wearing the white skirt and boats. Yeah, exactly, Yeah, 638 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 3: that's my thing. Actually have an appointment in moments, you know. 639 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 3: My final thought was actually gonna have to do with 640 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 3: that Personal Assistant AI thing. I actually logged onto one 641 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 3: of the websites and took a look because I'm an 642 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 3: absent minded guy and I do a poor job of 643 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 3: remembering what I'm supposed to do, and I just thought, 644 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 3: you know what, Let's give it a couple of years. 645 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 3: Let's give it a couple of like scandals and corrections 646 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 3: and cautions and all, and then maybe I'll start recording 647 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 3: everything I do. 648 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:40,240 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. 649 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 3: Of course, there are a lot of things I do 650 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 3: nobody wants to hear about. 651 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 1: Trust me, so. 652 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,320 Speaker 3: Many people, thanks so a little time. Go to Armstrong 653 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 3: and getdy dot com. We've got a lot of great 654 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,359 Speaker 3: stuff there, hot links. You can drop us a note 655 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 3: mail bag at Armstrong and getdy dot com if there's 656 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,040 Speaker 3: something we ought to be talking about, or you want 657 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 3: to weigh in with your opinion, pick. 658 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: Ups ang swag for your favorite age fan. Mars May 659 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: first right, and God bless America. I'm strong and Getty 660 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 1: has been hijacked by the takeke pust. That's what people do. 661 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,759 Speaker 1: That's not hyperbolic, that's academic. Even a Washington that math 662 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 1: doesn't work. I'm sorry. There are haters. There's always going 663 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,879 Speaker 1: to be haters. Man have been called worse. For those 664 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: of you that don't understand. 665 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 3: You're all right now, you're boomer, you're a Reagan idiot rob. 666 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,600 Speaker 1: They'll save your writing, your maral I like that accent. 667 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: Whatever that was that I note. Thank you all very much, 668 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty