Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Katty I know he Armstrong and Yetty. Hey, guys, listen
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 2: I saw that uber is offering teenagers free rides home
Speaker 2: from prom and back. Okay, you know some thirty year
Speaker 2: old it's going to get in with the suitcase, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm going to the airport prom take you to.
Speaker 3: The airport from Yeah. Yeah, we're having a travel themed
Speaker 3: from It's at the airport.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, I'm cofughing and I can't
Speaker 1: stop coughing, and I've been sick for tomorrow. It will
Speaker 1: be three weeks. And I did a whole flight of antibiotics.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I bring this up is did
Speaker 1: you see the article in the New York Times over
Speaker 1: the weekend They caught the flu and never came home.
Speaker 1: The virus leads to an estimated thirty six thousand deads
Speaker 1: in the United States each season, many of them so
Speaker 1: sudden that families are left reeling. I am not a
Speaker 1: hypochondract I think I'm the opposite of a hypochondriact. To
Speaker 1: my peril. I ignore things that I should have paid
Speaker 1: attention to, have done that multiple times in my life,
Speaker 1: so I've got to go in the other direction, I think.
Speaker 1: But this article freaked me out a little bit about
Speaker 1: people who get the flu and you know, mostly mostly
Speaker 1: really old people die of the flu. That something was
Speaker 1: gonna get you anyway, you know, it's just we're all
Speaker 1: gonna die. I don't know if you're aware of that.
Speaker 1: Something's got to get you. I mean, it's got to
Speaker 1: be some specific thing that probably pushed you over the
Speaker 1: edge at the end. But there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: to get the flu and then just all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're past the point of fixing and you die. It
Speaker 1: happens fairly often, yeah, And they had all kinds of examples.
Speaker 1: It's not common, like I mean percentage wise, but they
Speaker 1: had a lot of examples in New York Times. They
Speaker 1: were just horrific. God tang it. You come down with
Speaker 1: the flu and you're like a healthy thirty eight year
Speaker 1: old dad or whatever, and you waited a day too
Speaker 1: long and now they can't get the liquid out of
Speaker 1: your lungs or something, and you're it's over.
Speaker 3: Remember when COVID first hit. What we were comparing death
Speaker 3: rates to was flu, and it wasn't, you know, overwhelming,
Speaker 3: but it.
Speaker 1: Was a lot of people. Anyway. I was getting better
Speaker 1: and I got a cough I'd never had before, So
Speaker 1: I figure, this is my last day. Do we know
Speaker 1: Kim Commando, I feel like we know. Do we meet
Speaker 1: her somewhere? We talked to her a couple of times,
Speaker 1: the tech guru gal. I haven't heard her name in
Speaker 1: quite a while. I assume she's still doing what she does.
Speaker 1: She is, and she wrote an interesting article yesterday how
Speaker 1: the Vatican is locking down the conclave, about the secrecy
Speaker 1: around the elect and the pulpe thing, which, if if
Speaker 1: you're old enough to remember and have been through it
Speaker 1: a time or two, the cardinals all locked themselves in
Speaker 1: the Vatican and we look for puffs of white smoke,
Speaker 1: and that's really the only thing we get. That's the
Speaker 1: only news you get out of there at all, which
Speaker 1: you're about to find out until the puffs of white
Speaker 1: smoke and then out comes a new pope on the
Speaker 1: balcony and the crowd goes wild.
Speaker 3: Kim Commando really needs to marry a guy named I
Speaker 3: don't know, Rocky Sniper or something like that.
Speaker 1: Right, I have very tough kids. Oh please poor an
Speaker 1: in uniform. Where are they have poet trans kids? I
Speaker 1: don't know. You never know. It's unpredictable, Kim Commando. You
Speaker 1: think keeping a secret in today's world is tough, try
Speaker 1: running one of the most important elections on the planet
Speaker 1: while dodging drones, AI sur violence, and smartphones in every pocket.
Speaker 1: When Pope Francis passed away, the Vatican went into immediate
Speaker 1: lockdown mode to protect the conclave, the centuries old process
Speaker 1: where cardinals vote to elect the next Pope. The security
Speaker 1: isn't tight. It's basically a Tom Clancy novel on Espresso.
Speaker 1: It says there the moment the doors close, which is
Speaker 1: it today that they're closing the conclave down? And one
Speaker 1: of the cardinals said, they think it'll just be two
Speaker 1: or three days. Anyway, it's this week. The moment the
Speaker 1: door's closed, they flip on a broad spectrum signal jammer
Speaker 1: all Wi Fi dead, bluetooth, buried air tags, technological dust
Speaker 1: that they can stop any sort of transmission or modern technology.
Speaker 1: Directional antennas flood every window and rooftop gap just in case.
Speaker 1: Before the jammer's fire tech crews sweep rooms with nonlinear
Speaker 1: junction detectors. Those are handheld wands that sniff out hidden
Speaker 1: circuits if anybody's trying to spy in anyway and spectrum
Speaker 1: Manlizer's hunting rogue signals. They sweep again after the cardinals
Speaker 1: get in, and once again after the voting starts. Every
Speaker 1: person and everything gets inspected three times, from clothing to pens,
Speaker 1: to the crosses around your neck, rosaries and eyeglass frames
Speaker 1: to make sure nobody is communicating it anyway.
Speaker 3: By did they give everybody a colon escopy too? I mean, yikes, you.
Speaker 1: I find it kind of odd that you don't feel
Speaker 1: like you can trust the cardinals voting to not be
Speaker 1: wearing eyeglasses with a hidden microphone in it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you really shouldn't be a cardinal. Yeah, please speak into
Speaker 1: the rosary. By definition, you should not be what you
Speaker 1: are and in the role you're in if you can't
Speaker 1: be trusted.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't think I would think there would be something
Speaker 3: like the death penalty, not literally, but you get booted
Speaker 3: out for even attempting to smuggle anything in.
Speaker 1: I would hope since satellites can read a license plate
Speaker 1: from orbit I didn't know that, and AI lip reading
Speaker 1: can turn shaky long lens video into a full transcript.
Speaker 1: The Vatican's answer is dual layer privacy film on all
Speaker 1: the windows, a metallic tempest rated laminate. It blocks ninety
Speaker 1: nine percent of light and nearly all infrared from outside.
Speaker 1: Every window looks like a black mirror. Inside the cardinal
Speaker 1: ce only a dull gray glow. You're not allowed. You're
Speaker 1: not allowed to any windows open for fresh air. Six
Speaker 1: Swiss guards will somersault like circus, lay and tackle you.
Speaker 1: Magnetic sensors scream if a window budget is more than
Speaker 1: a quarter of an inch. Cardinals aren't even allowed to
Speaker 1: look outside the windows during the conclave. Wow, this is crazy,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah. The Vatican only covers point one seven
Speaker 1: square miles. It's about the size of a small eighteen
Speaker 1: hole golf course if you can picture it. But its
Speaker 1: security grid ravels rivals the most secure of major airports
Speaker 1: in the world. Deep below Saint Peter's Square, a command
Speaker 1: center watches six hundred and fifty four K cameras, microwave fences,
Speaker 1: and RF triangulation arrays that flag any surprise transmitter.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's something all to like the leader of a
Speaker 3: religious sect, an important one, a big one. But I mean,
Speaker 3: what if some of that stuff got out, Hey, Luigi
Speaker 3: seems to be leaning toward Jimmy.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do with that information?
Speaker 3: Take Luigi's family hostage and say no, Pope Jimmy. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's an explanation for this, but maybe it's
Speaker 3: that I don't care that much. I can't imagine why
Speaker 3: you'd go to such extraordinary lengths to protect anybody or
Speaker 3: prevent anybody from getting even a whiff.
Speaker 1: If he thinks we're going. If you told me today
Speaker 1: who the Pope is going to be at the announced
Speaker 1: on Saturday, but said keep it a secret, I would
Speaker 1: because I don't care. I'd forget ten minutes later, who'd
Speaker 1: you say it was? Again? The Swiss Guard's Renaissance stripes
Speaker 1: hide modern muscle hk MP seven's FN scar rifles and
Speaker 1: drone jamming guns that blast a five hundred meter RF cone.
Speaker 1: I don't claim to know what all this stuff means.
Speaker 1: Counter UAV radar tracks anything with propellers and intruding drone
Speaker 1: pancakes before it grabs a single photo.
Speaker 3: Well wait a minute, why don't we have that, like
Speaker 3: for taking all of our military bases, and like New
Speaker 3: Jersey famously last wintertime when all those drones were menacing
Speaker 3: the poor people of the Garden State.
Speaker 1: Then when white smoke rises, the system pivots to crowd
Speaker 1: protection for the over two hundred thousand pilgrims they expect
Speaker 1: to flood Saint Peter Square. Facial recognition is run locally
Speaker 1: to dodge hacking, simulators, track burner phones to make sure
Speaker 1: there are none, and comms are encrypted so the guards
Speaker 1: stay SYNCD. That seems like a lot of incredible tech
Speaker 1: for a thousand year old tradition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure there are answers to these rhetorical questions,
Speaker 3: but like maybe not. What ifuck afore meentioned Cardinal Jimmy
Speaker 3: was going to get the non people found out two
Speaker 3: hours early. So what I don't want to is there
Speaker 3: heavy wagering at the Vatican is that it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get in trouble, so I won't
Speaker 1: bring it up. But there is secret keeping in our
Speaker 1: industry that they take to ridiculous lengths and it's stupid.
Speaker 1: So it's possible they're doing the same thing with the popes.
Speaker 3: Just they are you talking about the slave labor we
Speaker 3: use to power the transmitters.
Speaker 1: Right, we have a thousand little people on bikes peddling.
Speaker 1: That's what makes the radio work.
Speaker 3: And they're not slaves. We let them out for fresh
Speaker 3: air once a month.
Speaker 1: The drone thing reminded me maybe I'll do this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Listen to it. There's a great British podcast, Ukraine Daily
Speaker 1: something or other. I should post it. It's so good
Speaker 1: if you're into the whole Russia Ukraine thing. They have
Speaker 1: an update every day and it's not super long, but anyway,
Speaker 1: they interviewed a couple of different people about how the
Speaker 1: war has warfare has changed because of Russia Ukraine, and
Speaker 1: there are several things about warfare that have changed drastically
Speaker 1: and forever, like really big things that it's just gonna
Speaker 1: be the future of the way people battle it out.
Speaker 1: With one one prominent military guy who was running the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian forces declaring armed vehicles are now a thing of
Speaker 1: the past. They cease to have any value whatsoever. Now.
Speaker 1: They had another expert on there that quibbled with that,
Speaker 1: but like, tanks have been tanks for over one hundred
Speaker 1: years since World War One and they ceased to have
Speaker 1: any value since swarm drones have a well, remember early
Speaker 1: in the war when we had Mike Lines on our
Speaker 1: military guy and he's talking about Russian losing these tanks
Speaker 1: and he said, that's not a thing. You don't lose tanks.
Speaker 1: Nobody loses tanks. Well you do. Now you lose them
Speaker 1: every time you try to do anything because of these
Speaker 1: swarm drones. Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, I would love to hear that. Yeah, please
Speaker 3: do bring that to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the way military history works. If you're
Speaker 1: a fan of the Civil War, you know when the
Speaker 1: Monitor and what was the name of the other ship,
Speaker 1: two iron mach the Merrymack. But the two ironclad ships
Speaker 1: got into it and it was the end of like
Speaker 1: four hundred years of sea battles being a certain way
Speaker 1: it ended that day because it no longer the technology
Speaker 1: just wasn't the same anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I know the Monitor was a class
Speaker 3: of ships, not the name of the ship does it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter? How about this, I think this would be amusing.
Speaker 3: Next segment, a little bonus mail bag some emails we've
Speaker 3: gotten on a number of different topics, including the wife
Speaker 3: of the Weezer bass player and her shooting.
Speaker 1: You know we should Well, yeah, we can do it.
Speaker 1: Next segment. My brother sent me a text. I forgot
Speaker 1: to look it up. He said, have you seen the video?
Speaker 1: And I have nuts. I want it explains a lot.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about that because I've been asking
Speaker 1: for weeks. How in the hell do you squeeze off
Speaker 1: a shot at LAPD and you're not dead? How does
Speaker 1: that happen? Does this? Explain that?
Speaker 3: And then she went back inside et cetera, hangout, explained
Speaker 3: all cool, the meaning of life, everything, all of it.
Speaker 3: Next segment Cool, that's next.
Speaker 1: We went big on this one day when you were gone.
Speaker 1: It was a Friday and you were gone. You had
Speaker 1: abandoned the show to play golf or something in your
Speaker 1: time of need. Yes, with on because it just didn't
Speaker 1: make no sense to me, And I was like reaching
Speaker 1: out to law enforcement people and everything like that. How
Speaker 1: do you squeeze off shots at LAPD and you end
Speaker 1: up going back in the house and hanging out with
Speaker 1: the babysitter for a while and then coming out and
Speaker 1: surrendering of your own free will? And how does that happen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I wish I had some of the original accounts.
Speaker 3: Of the events in which Gillian Shriner, wife of the
Speaker 3: bassist of the band Weezer, ended up getting shot by
Speaker 3: the lapd squeezed off shots them and then went back
Speaker 3: inside to take a nap or what had you and
Speaker 3: my recollection and Jack correcting me if I'm wrong from
Speaker 3: the cuver shortly thereafter, was that I thought she was
Speaker 3: on her driveway.
Speaker 1: That's what the original reporting was. You had to high
Speaker 1: speed chase. The people in the high speed chase jumped
Speaker 1: out of the car, ran around the neighborhood. One of
Speaker 1: the guys got in the backyard and pretended to be
Speaker 1: watering plants, which is pretty clever actually if you've seen
Speaker 1: the video. But they apprehended him. But anyway, she knew
Speaker 1: there was all this hup up going on in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: She's a gun owner and she was out in the
Speaker 1: driveway with her gun. Cops, he'll drop the gun. This
Speaker 1: was the original story. You might correct all this. Sure,
Speaker 1: she's out in the driveway the gun, like what's going on.
Speaker 1: Cops see her. They don't know what's going on either,
Speaker 1: they don't know who she is or anything like. They
Speaker 1: just see a person with a gun. Drop the gun.
Speaker 1: She turns toward them and squeezes off a shot or two.
Speaker 1: They shoot at her, apparently hit her. She goes in
Speaker 1: the house, hangs out with the babysitter for a while,
Speaker 1: discusses things. Well, I suppose I better get out to
Speaker 1: the lapd. I squeezed off a couple of shots at him,
Speaker 1: and they want to talk to me. So then she
Speaker 1: went back out, so Jack.
Speaker 3: To set up the rest of the discussion, a question
Speaker 3: for you, would you describe most news coverage, especially local,
Speaker 3: as always excellent, mediocre or super sucky?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, all right, so here's the deal.
Speaker 3: She may have been out on her driveway at one point,
Speaker 3: but I watched a good bit of the uh bodycam
Speaker 3: video that's been released, and she was actually in her
Speaker 3: backyard because the carjackers had been vaulting fences and running
Speaker 3: around the neighborhood. The cops were shouting orders at her
Speaker 3: while loud helicopters were circling overhead. They shot her in
Speaker 3: her backyard, and she ran inside and called nine to
Speaker 3: one one, thinking she had been shot by the carjackers.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So the scene was much much more confusing and chaotic
Speaker 3: than it was described.
Speaker 1: You haven't you haven't included her squeezing off shots at them.
Speaker 1: Did that never happen?
Speaker 3: Thinking that, you know what I need to I don't remember,
Speaker 3: and I'm reading a written summary here too, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I believe she did. But she thought she was being
Speaker 3: confronted by the carjackers anyway, and is not a crazy person.
Speaker 1: And you know where this goes. Nobody knows.
Speaker 3: But I just thought it was interesting the contrast between
Speaker 3: the reality and the initial coverage, which is you know,
Speaker 3: a theme we've sounded many times on the show is.
Speaker 1: A video entertaining.
Speaker 3: No, well, no, that's that's rather a flip way to
Speaker 3: describe it. It's interesting, revealing and troubling. I thought the
Speaker 3: video was a woman almost dying at the hands of
Speaker 3: the lapd and you can seem leak she could have
Speaker 3: killed a cop the carjacks because of chaos and confusion.
Speaker 1: The carjacker who jumped the fence, Hey there's a pool here,
Speaker 1: immediately strips off his shirt and grabs a hose and
Speaker 1: like calmly starts watering bushes. That was pretty good. I
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, I admire that for cleverness. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, So, and if there is yet another round
Speaker 3: of revelations to come out that perhaps contradicts this round
Speaker 3: of revelations. We will bring it to you here. Accuracy
Speaker 3: is our hallmark. Uh oh, we've just got a minute left. Gosh,
Speaker 3: dang it. We've got a handful of emails I wanted
Speaker 3: to get to. We can do them next, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: suppose so. Yeah. Also, I tell you what will combine
Speaker 3: a handful of emails with what happens when your mind
Speaker 3: goes blank?
Speaker 1: That you ever have those moments? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's science is beginning to study it, and
Speaker 3: it's some It's definitely a thing. As the kids say,
Speaker 3: it is its own phenomenon.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Neurologically speaking, I don't know if I've ever heard anybody
Speaker 3: discuss this before.
Speaker 1: It's a common expression. Sorry, my mind went blank, right,
Speaker 1: and then you went for a second, and then the
Speaker 1: information comes back.
Speaker 3: Usually up until very very recently, as elon us could
Speaker 3: tell you, with this Neuralink company, our ability to figure
Speaker 3: out what was happening in your brain specifically was practically
Speaker 3: nil to made enormous leaps forward recently.
Speaker 1: All sounds good. If you miss it, get the podcast
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty on themand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Every time we hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether
Speaker 4: or not the anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to
Speaker 4: shape shift into a perfect Hispanic accent.
Speaker 1: Police arrested twenty five year.
Speaker 4: Old elan Alain Sanchez, and I mean that, honestly.
Speaker 1: Why do we do that?
Speaker 4: When I say Alejandra myorcis, I just say Alejandra Myorcis.
Speaker 4: But on CNN it's Alejandra Majorkis.
Speaker 1: I'm Irish.
Speaker 4: When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't say.
Speaker 4: Police just arrested twenty five year old Charlie McLaughlin.
Speaker 1: Stop that Stop.
Speaker 3: That is so great. We've been making fun of that.
Speaker 3: Hermone Hernandez.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Oh yeah, there's one of the
Speaker 1: guys on Saturday Night Live that's part of his routine
Speaker 1: is mack that whole thing. And it's very very funny.
Speaker 3: As you pointed out earlier, what if it was a
Speaker 3: you know, a Chinese name and I launch into a
Speaker 3: Chinese accent no matter who I am, do it?
Speaker 1: Newscasters? Yeah, or you know somebody with.
Speaker 3: An obviously like you know, probably there are very few
Speaker 3: white women named Shinikwa, for instance.
Speaker 1: Well, am I projecting or am I right here that
Speaker 1: when they do that on NPR all the time, they're
Speaker 1: basically all the time, they're basically saying to those of
Speaker 1: us who don't you're doing something wrong. Yes, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I'm being authentic. No you're not.
Speaker 3: You're just doing it with LATINX people freaking transparent. Get passes.
Speaker 3: Let's run through a handful of emails real quick. We
Speaker 3: often do this at the beginning of the show, but
Speaker 3: there are several I wanted to squeeze in. Dan writes, Guys,
Speaker 3: heard your discussions yesterday about woke libraries. Yeah, indeed, libraries
Speaker 3: in New York are kicking out any conservative books because
Speaker 3: they don't represent all points of view.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, they have all.
Speaker 3: These wildly radically progressive gender bending books and they're utterly transparent.
Speaker 3: But Dan says, I tweeted this experience so a while
Speaker 3: back about the library I grew up going to the
Speaker 3: featured books. The featured books on top of the bookshelves
Speaker 3: and the little kids area were all woke titles like
Speaker 3: Rainbow Hands, Rainbow Parade, and Leo's Lavender Skirt, And my
Speaker 3: personal favorite was Ibramex Kendy's Good Night Racism.
Speaker 1: Because nothing puts a child to sleep.
Speaker 3: Better than reminding them that the world is racist and
Speaker 3: stacked against them. Call me old fashioned, but I want
Speaker 3: my kid reading the Berenstain Bears, not the Castro Bears.
Speaker 3: Haven't been back in since and I live half block away.
Speaker 1: It's sad. So the problem, of course is they get
Speaker 1: those books in there that this majority of parents don't
Speaker 1: want in there, and if you try to get him out,
Speaker 1: they call you a book banner or censor. Yeah exactly, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, total change topic, John with no h rights.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: Heard you guys talking about how patriotic Canadians have become
Speaker 3: only buying Canadian products, and I can assure you firsthand
Speaker 3: this is not a gimmick or a fad. My wife
Speaker 3: is Canadian. We got married last year on a K
Speaker 3: one visa. Long story short, friends and family could not
Speaker 3: attend our small courthouse wedding because of the time frame.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. We were planning on having a second
Speaker 3: wedding her family and friends could attend. On her first anniversary.
Speaker 3: We had to cancel that. After all, her friends and
Speaker 3: family refused to come to the US Wow. She used
Speaker 3: to be excited to tell her friends and family about
Speaker 3: her experience living here. But now it's become very uncomfortable
Speaker 3: and awkward for a lot have A lot of damage
Speaker 3: has been done by Trump's unnecessary assault on Canada. And truthfully,
Speaker 3: I only give a crap now because of how difficult
Speaker 3: it's made that dynamic of my marriage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, boy, I don't want to get involved in your
Speaker 1: family situation, but not going to a family member's wedding
Speaker 1: because of the dust up between Trump and.
Speaker 3: A Right, you know, you're right, that's a bit much.
Speaker 3: But there's real anger and on animosity there and it's
Speaker 3: gonna last.
Speaker 1: Oh so you're getting married in Texas. I know they're
Speaker 1: abortion laws. I'm afraid I can't attend your wedding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes you a whacky doodle.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, you know the Canadians are pissed
Speaker 3: and they will drop their gloves, trust me.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 3: Paolo writes, Guys, trans folks, and many others make a
Speaker 3: distinction between sex and gender. Sex is biology. Gender identity
Speaker 3: is personal feeling or belief. That's fine, but problems arise
Speaker 3: when a person expects to be treated as though their
Speaker 3: gender identity is their sex. The more militant of the
Speaker 3: trans folks tend to do exactly that. Yes, if I
Speaker 3: say I'm a woman, I'm a woman. Thank god, the
Speaker 3: UK Supreme Court ruled unanimously that was balder dash. The
Speaker 3: milit above, they're ironically among the most vocal in asserting
Speaker 3: the difference between sex and gender. Then he says, certainly
Speaker 3: legally in most contexts, gender identity is no more relevant
Speaker 3: than a person's religion. Fact, it's very similar to religion.
Speaker 3: It's a dogmatic belief. Like a religious belief, we know
Speaker 3: nothing about it except what the believer tells us. Persons
Speaker 3: should be treated differently based on their gender identity, only
Speaker 3: to the extent that people of different religions are treated differently,
Speaker 3: which is to say, practically never. Gender is no more
Speaker 3: appropriate on a passport than is religion. It goes on
Speaker 3: on that vein. I think it's a good point. Finally,
Speaker 3: its way out of bounds to refer to not accepting
Speaker 3: trans folks beliefs as trans hate, or refers to the
Speaker 3: non believers themselves as transphobes. It's equivalent to calling a Catholic,
Speaker 3: calling a person who doesn't believe in trub transubstantiation a
Speaker 3: hater or a cathlophobe.
Speaker 1: Good one. Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3: There are a number of conservative publications that use the
Speaker 3: term transgender in quotes, which I think is appropriate.
Speaker 1: Let's see. And then finally this, I thought this.
Speaker 3: Was revealing, and smart B writes, lately, my personal hero
Speaker 3: Jack has admitted he gets sick more than average.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot. Is one of the worst things I've
Speaker 1: ever had to admit in my life. Right, and we
Speaker 1: the rest of.
Speaker 3: The cavemen have decided you're week and thrown you out
Speaker 3: of the cabal, the tribe.
Speaker 1: The herd. How do you arrange cavemen? Is that a
Speaker 1: herd or a flock? Rightfully?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he gets into the interesting part. To me,
Speaker 3: a lot of people throw the word average around. The
Speaker 3: truth is is you probably felt yourselves. Average is a
Speaker 3: marker of the center and not a good discriminator. The
Speaker 3: forty ninth percentile in the fifty first percentile are almost
Speaker 3: indistinguishable from one another, and the bulk of the population
Speaker 3: sits there. Instead, when people use the words below or
Speaker 3: above average, what they have intuitively learned and most likely
Speaker 3: mean is someone outside that big, bulgy group in the
Speaker 3: middle where a majority of the population sits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're outside the one standard deviation.
Speaker 3: Precisely. He gets to that very thing. And it's funny
Speaker 3: because we've made jokes about how, you know, two thirds
Speaker 3: of people think they're better looking than average, and that
Speaker 3: is obviously a paradox. But if the vast majority of
Speaker 3: people are average looking, because you don't average all the
Speaker 3: looks and come up with a number, we're talking about
Speaker 3: human characteristics, and so it could be that ninety percent
Speaker 3: of the people are at average. I just thought it
Speaker 3: was an interesting thought. I'll go ahead and finish it
Speaker 3: in case there's more to it. The dire news that
Speaker 3: being that if you can tell you're getting sick more
Speaker 3: than the average person, you're probably closer to the sixteenth
Speaker 3: percentile than the forty ninth. That is, you're probably around
Speaker 3: a standard deviation away from average. Jack, you truly hope
Speaker 3: you're on the road to recovery and we'll pray for you.
Speaker 3: Oh and then he says, ps another topic, if you
Speaker 3: bring back a no Trump day like during the first term,
Speaker 3: I would be very grateful. Yeah, he makes a low
Speaker 3: T day. Jack, could you describe briefly, for those of
Speaker 3: us who have not taken a stats class, what is
Speaker 3: a standard deviation. I usually make the joke it's like
Speaker 3: you like to be spanked or wear leather. It's not
Speaker 3: a weird devation. It's a standard deviation.
Speaker 1: Ah boy. And the most simple terms, it's just like
Speaker 1: if you look at a bell curve, it's just the big,
Speaker 1: the big, the big chunk in the middle is going
Speaker 1: to be a standard deviation in a big curve, and
Speaker 1: then you quickly drop off to two or three standard deviations.
Speaker 1: But the first one standard deviation covers the bulk of everything,
Speaker 1: which is kind of what you're getting to, right, mm
Speaker 1: hmm with the average intelligence or average looks. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is a better way to look at it, and it
Speaker 1: makes you sound I'm less crazy if you talk about
Speaker 1: because a standard deviation I think is sixty some percent
Speaker 1: so and then two standard deviations two deviations is I
Speaker 1: think you get to ninety seven percent if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it covers a lot of people one standard deviation,
Speaker 1: so that that actually makes sense that like two thirds
Speaker 1: of us think we're above average looking or two thirds
Speaker 1: of us think we're smarter. It actually fits with that, right.
Speaker 3: And I think maybe I don't know, maybe I've been
Speaker 3: guilty of thinking of like average IQ, which to the
Speaker 3: extent we can even measure IQ, which is definitely a
Speaker 3: big giant question mark. One hundred is allegedly average IQ.
Speaker 3: But it could be that eighty five percent of the
Speaker 3: population is between ninety eight and one oh two right
Speaker 3: on that scale.
Speaker 1: I don't know that to.
Speaker 3: Be true, but I think I've been guilty of thinking
Speaker 3: more like one hundred is the median or there's somebody
Speaker 3: above is right exactly, which is not necessarily true at all.
Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, So I don't know what one standard deviation
Speaker 1: would be on IQ, but yeah, probably you got like
Speaker 1: two thirds of people within ninety five and one oh
Speaker 1: five or something like that, right, Yeah, Yeah, interesting. What's
Speaker 1: the Elon Musk thing? You said in my ear? Hanson?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Oh there, Elon Musk? Another woman.
Speaker 1: So there was a story came out yesterday Elon Musk
Speaker 1: no longer working from the White House. That shift has happened. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we've been hearing his name a lot less. Remember there
Speaker 1: for quite a while, we're hearing Elon's name more than
Speaker 1: Trump's name. Trump is in the cabinet meeting. They're having
Speaker 1: a one hundred day cabinet meeting with everybody, and Elon
Speaker 1: is there and smiling and yucking it up, and everybody
Speaker 1: else is having to listen to him and probably hating
Speaker 1: it to a certain extent. I don't know, but Elon's
Speaker 1: there now. We will finish strong next Love the Double Head.
Speaker 1: But because all I wanted to continue the well question,
Speaker 1: and I say, I wear a lot.
Speaker 3: Of hats, even might have has a hat.
Speaker 2: You know, the American people voted for secure borders, safe cities,
Speaker 2: and sensible spending.
Speaker 3: And that's what they've got.
Speaker 2: A tremendous has been accomplished in the first one hundred days,
Speaker 2: as everyone has said, it's more than has been accomplished in.
Speaker 1: Any administration before ever period.
Speaker 2: So this is this pretends very well for what happened
Speaker 2: for the rest of the administration.
Speaker 3: I think this could be the greatest administrations found in
Speaker 3: their country.
Speaker 1: So they're having a big cabinet meeting there at the
Speaker 1: White House, and Elon's there, even though he's no longer
Speaker 1: working at the White House. And Trump said this.
Speaker 5: You know, you're invited to stay as long as you want,
Speaker 5: and he wants to get back home to his cars, as.
Speaker 1: Everybody apparaton. I'll tell you one thing, an incredible job.
Speaker 1: Elon looks so relaxed. That is a guy who who's
Speaker 1: crafted a life and he's digging it. He is not
Speaker 1: stressed out about it. So it would sing whatever reason I.
Speaker 3: Wish I could go back to the beginning of the
Speaker 3: Doge thing and craft a pr.
Speaker 1: Strategy for them.
Speaker 3: And it would not involve, well, it would involve not
Speaker 3: having Elon quite as prominent, at least not after the
Speaker 3: very beginning of it, because there are all sorts of
Speaker 3: outlets acting like Elon. Pulling back means it's over right.
Speaker 3: And if you saw the interview Brett Bair did with
Speaker 3: those fail half right, exactly the interview Brett Bair did
Speaker 3: with those half dozen absolutely substantive, impressive men who were
Speaker 3: actually running the show, you wouldn't think that at all. Plus,
Speaker 3: they can still transition from reining in you know, exce
Speaker 3: of personnel and redundant programs and that sort of thing,
Speaker 3: which is absolutely worth doing, even if it is a
Speaker 3: rounding era on the federal budget.
Speaker 1: It's just a good idea.
Speaker 3: But they can then segue to deregulation, which is incredibly important.
Speaker 3: So and I just wish their purpose and who they
Speaker 3: are had been better, you know, explained to the American
Speaker 3: people landmarks Supreme Court ruling. Ah, well, it's not ruling exactly.
Speaker 3: But according to accounts, the Supreme Court appeared to open
Speaker 3: today to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run
Speaker 3: the nation's first religious charter school, which would teach a
Speaker 3: curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine. According to The New York Times,
Speaker 3: which is accurate as far as it goes, excluding the
Speaker 3: school from the state's charter school system would amount to
Speaker 3: rank discrimination against religion. According to Brett Kavanaugh, the justices
Speaker 3: appear to be divided along the usual ideological lines. They say,
Speaker 3: I read a great piece and to see if I
Speaker 3: can find it. I'm surprised I didn't save it. They
Speaker 3: were talking about the First Amendment and how it reads
Speaker 3: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
Speaker 3: or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that those phrases
Speaker 3: aren't in opposition to each other. They're a thorough description
Speaker 3: of the government's role in religion. Congress shall not establish
Speaker 3: a religion or say this is the good one.
Speaker 1: Fair Enough, everybody gets given. But if there are twenty
Speaker 1: three different.
Speaker 3: Groups that are authorized to form up a charter school,
Speaker 3: and in Oklahoma specifically, the charters have a broad latitude
Speaker 3: to implement and I quote a very specific learning philosophy,
Speaker 3: adopt their own personnel, policies and methods of school governance,
Speaker 3: and to demonstrate they're not government surrogates. So if you
Speaker 3: have twenty two different sorts of entities that can start
Speaker 3: a charter school, but not.
Speaker 1: Any religious entity.
Speaker 3: No churches, can he give them anywhere near it because
Speaker 3: of the establishment clause. Well, you're ignoring the second part
Speaker 3: of it, prohibiting the exercise thereof and you're discriminating against
Speaker 3: only one sort of people.
Speaker 1: That's people who espouse a certain religion. That's that whole
Speaker 1: freedom of religion versus freedom from religion thing, right, right?
Speaker 3: And I get that there are subtleties here, and it's
Speaker 3: not exactly a black and white argument. And you know what,
Speaker 3: I will find the words of people more learned than
Speaker 3: me in this stuff.
Speaker 1: But it makes sense to me.
Speaker 3: You got a dozen different philosophies represented by the various
Speaker 3: charter schools, just not for God's sake, people who do
Speaker 3: things for God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine how this is going to be
Speaker 1: covered all day long to day by the mainstream media.
Speaker 3: Right well, and some of the intriguing questions are, can
Speaker 3: they start in Islamic school teaches sharia law and that
Speaker 3: sort of thing, good one or some sort of Satanism
Speaker 3: that one comes up to pretty frequently. Yeah, put on
Speaker 3: the old goat pants and dance around the fire. So
Speaker 3: what was it a five for? It's not a decision.
Speaker 3: It was just I think they're just interpreting what was
Speaker 3: happening at the oral arguments. Okay, yeah, yeah. Interestingly, Justice
Speaker 3: Amy Quinny Parrett was recused. Did she hear it on
Speaker 3: the appellate level?
Speaker 5: I wonder anyway, I have some final thoughts, and some
Speaker 5: people say they are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard.
Speaker 5: But if you look at what's happening, I would have
Speaker 5: to say Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts.
Speaker 5: They are right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody
Speaker 5: knows it.
Speaker 1: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
Speaker 1: a final time from everybody on the crew. To wrap
Speaker 1: up the show.
Speaker 3: There is Michaelangelo pressing the buttons. Michael Wisch final thought.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm thinking about improving my health and maybe
Speaker 3: getting rid of all processed foods.
Speaker 1: So wait, are gummy bears processed foods? I believe they are? Yes?
Speaker 3: So much for that idea farm to fork Baby, Katie
Speaker 3: Green are esteemed to use woman As a final thought, Katie,
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 4: Have given me a complex today talking about that AI
Speaker 4: wearable assistant.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be checking everyone's wrists now for.
Speaker 3: It, Yeah, recording me mm hmm, yeah, records everything and
Speaker 3: then sends you reminders and that sort of thing. If
Speaker 3: you missed the segment, Jack, final thought.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Or did you come back into the
Speaker 1: studio after the commercials in a different shirt? I have
Speaker 1: changed you like Taylor Swift? Now you just different outfits
Speaker 1: throughout the show. Exactly, Well, share is my hero here.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a bad girl now I'm more of
Speaker 1: a cheerleader.
Speaker 3: Right now I'm wearing the white skirt and boats. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's my thing. Actually have an appointment in moments, you know.
Speaker 3: My final thought was actually gonna have to do with
Speaker 3: that Personal Assistant AI thing. I actually logged onto one
Speaker 3: of the websites and took a look because I'm an
Speaker 3: absent minded guy and I do a poor job of
Speaker 3: remembering what I'm supposed to do, and I just thought,
Speaker 3: you know what, Let's give it a couple of years.
Speaker 3: Let's give it a couple of like scandals and corrections
Speaker 3: and cautions and all, and then maybe I'll start recording
Speaker 3: everything I do.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 3: Of course, there are a lot of things I do
Speaker 3: nobody wants to hear about.
Speaker 1: Trust me, so.
Speaker 3: Many people, thanks so a little time. Go to Armstrong
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Speaker 1: Ups ang swag for your favorite age fan. Mars May
Speaker 1: first right, and God bless America. I'm strong and Getty
Speaker 1: has been hijacked by the takeke pust. That's what people do.
Speaker 1: That's not hyperbolic, that's academic. Even a Washington that math
Speaker 1: doesn't work. I'm sorry. There are haters. There's always going
Speaker 1: to be haters. Man have been called worse. For those
Speaker 1: of you that don't understand.
Speaker 3: You're all right now, you're boomer, you're a Reagan idiot rob.
Speaker 1: They'll save your writing, your maral I like that accent.
Speaker 1: Whatever that was that I note. Thank you all very much,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty