WEBVTT - Always Excellent, Mediocre Or Super Sucky? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:24.319 Katty I know he Armstrong and Yetty. Hey, guys, listen 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:24.560 to this. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.720 I saw that uber is offering teenagers free rides home 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.120 from prom and back. Okay, you know some thirty year 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:32.560 old it's going to get in with the suitcase, like, yeah, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:36.320 I'm going to the airport prom take you to. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:41.360 The airport from Yeah. Yeah, we're having a travel themed 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:42.639 from It's at the airport. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.839 So all of a sudden, I'm cofughing and I can't 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.040 stop coughing, and I've been sick for tomorrow. It will 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.480 be three weeks. And I did a whole flight of antibiotics. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.720 And the only reason I bring this up is did 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.600 you see the article in the New York Times over 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.200 the weekend They caught the flu and never came home. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.840 The virus leads to an estimated thirty six thousand deads 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:05.640 in the United States each season, many of them so 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.600 sudden that families are left reeling. I am not a 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.319 hypochondract I think I'm the opposite of a hypochondriact. To 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:19.319 my peril. I ignore things that I should have paid 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.720 attention to, have done that multiple times in my life, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.000 so I've got to go in the other direction, I think. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.160 But this article freaked me out a little bit about 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.960 people who get the flu and you know, mostly mostly 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.760 really old people die of the flu. That something was 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.760 gonna get you anyway, you know, it's just we're all 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.000 gonna die. I don't know if you're aware of that. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.160 Something's got to get you. I mean, it's got to 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.520 be some specific thing that probably pushed you over the 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.680 edge at the end. But there's a lot of people 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.960 to get the flu and then just all of a sudden, 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.800 you're past the point of fixing and you die. It 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.840 happens fairly often, yeah, And they had all kinds of examples. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.440 It's not common, like I mean percentage wise, but they 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.000 had a lot of examples in New York Times. They 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.040 were just horrific. God tang it. You come down with 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.280 the flu and you're like a healthy thirty eight year 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.120 old dad or whatever, and you waited a day too 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.160 long and now they can't get the liquid out of 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:16.880 your lungs or something, and you're it's over. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.600 Remember when COVID first hit. What we were comparing death 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.160 rates to was flu, and it wasn't, you know, overwhelming, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:25.600 but it. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.079 Was a lot of people. Anyway. I was getting better 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:30.760 and I got a cough I'd never had before, So 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.400 I figure, this is my last day. Do we know 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.880 Kim Commando, I feel like we know. Do we meet 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.040 her somewhere? We talked to her a couple of times, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.080 the tech guru gal. I haven't heard her name in 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.000 quite a while. I assume she's still doing what she does. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.160 She is, and she wrote an interesting article yesterday how 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.639 the Vatican is locking down the conclave, about the secrecy 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:56.160 around the elect and the pulpe thing, which, if if 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:57.880 you're old enough to remember and have been through it 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.799 a time or two, the cardinals all locked themselves in 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.040 the Vatican and we look for puffs of white smoke, 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.680 and that's really the only thing we get. That's the 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.440 only news you get out of there at all, which 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.720 you're about to find out until the puffs of white 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.600 smoke and then out comes a new pope on the 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.440 balcony and the crowd goes wild. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.000 Kim Commando really needs to marry a guy named I 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.840 don't know, Rocky Sniper or something like that. 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.320 Right, I have very tough kids. Oh please poor an 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:28.000 in uniform. Where are they have poet trans kids? I 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:33.280 don't know. You never know. It's unpredictable, Kim Commando. You 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.560 think keeping a secret in today's world is tough, try 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.800 running one of the most important elections on the planet 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.080 while dodging drones, AI sur violence, and smartphones in every pocket. 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.840 When Pope Francis passed away, the Vatican went into immediate 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.160 lockdown mode to protect the conclave, the centuries old process 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.680 where cardinals vote to elect the next Pope. The security 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:58.080 isn't tight. It's basically a Tom Clancy novel on Espresso. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:04.880 It says there the moment the doors close, which is 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.320 it today that they're closing the conclave down? And one 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.080 of the cardinals said, they think it'll just be two 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.520 or three days. Anyway, it's this week. The moment the 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.720 door's closed, they flip on a broad spectrum signal jammer 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.960 all Wi Fi dead, bluetooth, buried air tags, technological dust 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.240 that they can stop any sort of transmission or modern technology. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.440 Directional antennas flood every window and rooftop gap just in case. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.080 Before the jammer's fire tech crews sweep rooms with nonlinear 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.799 junction detectors. Those are handheld wands that sniff out hidden 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.000 circuits if anybody's trying to spy in anyway and spectrum 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.600 Manlizer's hunting rogue signals. They sweep again after the cardinals 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.080 get in, and once again after the voting starts. Every 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.440 person and everything gets inspected three times, from clothing to pens, 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.120 to the crosses around your neck, rosaries and eyeglass frames 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.680 to make sure nobody is communicating it anyway. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.640 By did they give everybody a colon escopy too? I mean, yikes, you. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.800 I find it kind of odd that you don't feel 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.919 like you can trust the cardinals voting to not be 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.560 wearing eyeglasses with a hidden microphone in it. I mean, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.120 you really shouldn't be a cardinal. Yeah, please speak into 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.720 the rosary. By definition, you should not be what you 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.359 are and in the role you're in if you can't 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:25.000 be trusted. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.440 I wouldn't think I would think there would be something 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.279 like the death penalty, not literally, but you get booted 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.520 out for even attempting to smuggle anything in. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.680 I would hope since satellites can read a license plate 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.320 from orbit I didn't know that, and AI lip reading 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.200 can turn shaky long lens video into a full transcript. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.560 The Vatican's answer is dual layer privacy film on all 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.440 the windows, a metallic tempest rated laminate. It blocks ninety 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.760 nine percent of light and nearly all infrared from outside. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.200 Every window looks like a black mirror. Inside the cardinal 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.400 ce only a dull gray glow. You're not allowed. You're 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.080 not allowed to any windows open for fresh air. Six 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.440 Swiss guards will somersault like circus, lay and tackle you. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.760 Magnetic sensors scream if a window budget is more than 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.080 a quarter of an inch. Cardinals aren't even allowed to 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:18.760 look outside the windows during the conclave. Wow, this is crazy, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.200 isn't it. Yeah. The Vatican only covers point one seven 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.080 square miles. It's about the size of a small eighteen 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.280 hole golf course if you can picture it. But its 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:33.440 security grid ravels rivals the most secure of major airports 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.400 in the world. Deep below Saint Peter's Square, a command 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:42.120 center watches six hundred and fifty four K cameras, microwave fences, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.960 and RF triangulation arrays that flag any surprise transmitter. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:52.480 Wow, that's something all to like the leader of a 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.880 religious sect, an important one, a big one. But I mean, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.440 what if some of that stuff got out, Hey, Luigi 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:04.920 seems to be leaning toward Jimmy. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:04.719 What are you going to do with that information? 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:11.560 Take Luigi's family hostage and say no, Pope Jimmy. You know, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.200 I'm sure there's an explanation for this, but maybe it's 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.840 that I don't care that much. I can't imagine why 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.160 you'd go to such extraordinary lengths to protect anybody or 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.960 prevent anybody from getting even a whiff. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.600 If he thinks we're going. If you told me today 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.440 who the Pope is going to be at the announced 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.440 on Saturday, but said keep it a secret, I would 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.240 because I don't care. I'd forget ten minutes later, who'd 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.760 you say it was? Again? The Swiss Guard's Renaissance stripes 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.160 hide modern muscle hk MP seven's FN scar rifles and 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:48.280 drone jamming guns that blast a five hundred meter RF cone. 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.640 I don't claim to know what all this stuff means. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.200 Counter UAV radar tracks anything with propellers and intruding drone 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.480 pancakes before it grabs a single photo. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:07:59.960 Well wait a minute, why don't we have that, like 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.040 for taking all of our military bases, and like New 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:08.840 Jersey famously last wintertime when all those drones were menacing 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.640 the poor people of the Garden State. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.720 Then when white smoke rises, the system pivots to crowd 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.000 protection for the over two hundred thousand pilgrims they expect 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.480 to flood Saint Peter Square. Facial recognition is run locally 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.920 to dodge hacking, simulators, track burner phones to make sure 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.440 there are none, and comms are encrypted so the guards 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.200 stay SYNCD. That seems like a lot of incredible tech 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.480 for a thousand year old tradition. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.840 Yeah, I'm sure there are answers to these rhetorical questions, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:46.040 but like maybe not. What ifuck afore meentioned Cardinal Jimmy 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.880 was going to get the non people found out two 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.079 hours early. So what I don't want to is there 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.400 heavy wagering at the Vatican is that it. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.200 I don't want to get in trouble, so I won't 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.720 bring it up. But there is secret keeping in our 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:03.760 industry that they take to ridiculous lengths and it's stupid. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.800 So it's possible they're doing the same thing with the popes. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.880 Just they are you talking about the slave labor we 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:13.559 use to power the transmitters. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.840 Right, we have a thousand little people on bikes peddling. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:21.400 That's what makes the radio work. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.800 And they're not slaves. We let them out for fresh 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:25.840 air once a month. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.880 The drone thing reminded me maybe I'll do this tomorrow. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:36.160 Listen to it. There's a great British podcast, Ukraine Daily 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.360 something or other. I should post it. It's so good 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.800 if you're into the whole Russia Ukraine thing. They have 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.640 an update every day and it's not super long, but anyway, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.320 they interviewed a couple of different people about how the 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.160 war has warfare has changed because of Russia Ukraine, and 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.319 there are several things about warfare that have changed drastically 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:58.680 and forever, like really big things that it's just gonna 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.480 be the future of the way people battle it out. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.719 With one one prominent military guy who was running the 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:12.199 Ukrainian forces declaring armed vehicles are now a thing of 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.079 the past. They cease to have any value whatsoever. Now. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.360 They had another expert on there that quibbled with that, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.840 but like, tanks have been tanks for over one hundred 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.400 years since World War One and they ceased to have 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.160 any value since swarm drones have a well, remember early 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.840 in the war when we had Mike Lines on our 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.680 military guy and he's talking about Russian losing these tanks 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.280 and he said, that's not a thing. You don't lose tanks. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.840 Nobody loses tanks. Well you do. Now you lose them 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.920 every time you try to do anything because of these 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.760 swarm drones. Wow. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.000 Wow, Yeah, I would love to hear that. Yeah, please 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:45.880 do bring that to us. 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.400 Yeah, And that's the way military history works. If you're 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.280 a fan of the Civil War, you know when the 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.679 Monitor and what was the name of the other ship, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.200 two iron mach the Merrymack. But the two ironclad ships 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.520 got into it and it was the end of like 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.680 four hundred years of sea battles being a certain way 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:09.080 it ended that day because it no longer the technology 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:10.240 just wasn't the same anymore. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.240 Yeah, yeah, And I know the Monitor was a class 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.240 of ships, not the name of the ship does it 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.760 doesn't matter? How about this, I think this would be amusing. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.360 Next segment, a little bonus mail bag some emails we've 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.920 gotten on a number of different topics, including the wife 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.000 of the Weezer bass player and her shooting. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.200 You know we should Well, yeah, we can do it. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.959 Next segment. My brother sent me a text. I forgot 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.640 to look it up. He said, have you seen the video? 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.520 And I have nuts. I want it explains a lot. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.760 I want to hear about that because I've been asking 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.960 for weeks. How in the hell do you squeeze off 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.880 a shot at LAPD and you're not dead? How does 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.400 that happen? Does this? Explain that? 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.560 And then she went back inside et cetera, hangout, explained 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:03.000 all cool, the meaning of life, everything, all of it. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.840 Next segment Cool, that's next. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.520 We went big on this one day when you were gone. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.320 It was a Friday and you were gone. You had 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.280 abandoned the show to play golf or something in your 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.320 time of need. Yes, with on because it just didn't 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.080 make no sense to me, And I was like reaching 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.440 out to law enforcement people and everything like that. How 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.440 do you squeeze off shots at LAPD and you end 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.240 up going back in the house and hanging out with 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.160 the babysitter for a while and then coming out and 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.600 surrendering of your own free will? And how does that happen? Yeah? 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.079 I wish I had some of the original accounts. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.000 Of the events in which Gillian Shriner, wife of the 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:47.920 bassist of the band Weezer, ended up getting shot by 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.839 the lapd squeezed off shots them and then went back 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.600 inside to take a nap or what had you and 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.680 my recollection and Jack correcting me if I'm wrong from 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.960 the cuver shortly thereafter, was that I thought she was 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.000 on her driveway. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.719 That's what the original reporting was. You had to high 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.480 speed chase. The people in the high speed chase jumped 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.480 out of the car, ran around the neighborhood. One of 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.480 the guys got in the backyard and pretended to be 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.839 watering plants, which is pretty clever actually if you've seen 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.080 the video. But they apprehended him. But anyway, she knew 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.599 there was all this hup up going on in the neighborhood. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.439 She's a gun owner and she was out in the 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.040 driveway with her gun. Cops, he'll drop the gun. This 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.680 was the original story. You might correct all this. Sure, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.040 she's out in the driveway the gun, like what's going on. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.880 Cops see her. They don't know what's going on either, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.200 they don't know who she is or anything like. They 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:39.640 just see a person with a gun. Drop the gun. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.600 She turns toward them and squeezes off a shot or two. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.600 They shoot at her, apparently hit her. She goes in 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.559 the house, hangs out with the babysitter for a while, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.360 discusses things. Well, I suppose I better get out to 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.200 the lapd. I squeezed off a couple of shots at him, 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:55.800 and they want to talk to me. So then she 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.800 went back out, so Jack. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.120 To set up the rest of the discussion, a question 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:06.800 for you, would you describe most news coverage, especially local, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:12.360 as always excellent, mediocre or super sucky? 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.680 All right? Well, all right, so here's the deal. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.240 She may have been out on her driveway at one point, 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:23.720 but I watched a good bit of the uh bodycam 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.600 video that's been released, and she was actually in her 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.840 backyard because the carjackers had been vaulting fences and running 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.640 around the neighborhood. The cops were shouting orders at her 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:43.680 while loud helicopters were circling overhead. They shot her in 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.600 her backyard, and she ran inside and called nine to 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.160 one one, thinking she had been shot by the carjackers. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:50.680 Wow. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.640 So the scene was much much more confusing and chaotic 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.680 than it was described. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.640 You haven't you haven't included her squeezing off shots at them. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:01.720 Did that never happen? 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.480 Thinking that, you know what I need to I don't remember, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:11.040 and I'm reading a written summary here too, but yeah, 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:15.520 I believe she did. But she thought she was being 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.080 confronted by the carjackers anyway, and is not a crazy person. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.920 And you know where this goes. Nobody knows. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.320 But I just thought it was interesting the contrast between 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.800 the reality and the initial coverage, which is you know, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.880 a theme we've sounded many times on the show is. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.200 A video entertaining. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:35.400 No, well, no, that's that's rather a flip way to 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.240 describe it. It's interesting, revealing and troubling. I thought the 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.520 video was a woman almost dying at the hands of 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.120 the lapd and you can seem leak she could have 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.040 killed a cop the carjacks because of chaos and confusion. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.960 The carjacker who jumped the fence, Hey there's a pool here, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.520 immediately strips off his shirt and grabs a hose and 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.280 like calmly starts watering bushes. That was pretty good. I 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.560 like that. I mean, I admire that for cleverness. Yeah. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.840 Yeah, anyway, So, and if there is yet another round 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.280 of revelations to come out that perhaps contradicts this round 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.080 of revelations. We will bring it to you here. Accuracy 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.320 is our hallmark. Uh oh, we've just got a minute left. Gosh, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.320 dang it. We've got a handful of emails I wanted 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:21.680 to get to. We can do them next, Yeah, I 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.080 suppose so. Yeah. Also, I tell you what will combine 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.240 a handful of emails with what happens when your mind 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:29.040 goes blank? 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.360 That you ever have those moments? Yeah? 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:38.520 Yeah, yeah, it's science is beginning to study it, and 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:42.640 it's some It's definitely a thing. As the kids say, 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.680 it is its own phenomenon. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:45.280 Wow. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.800 Neurologically speaking, I don't know if I've ever heard anybody 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:49.800 discuss this before. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.520 It's a common expression. Sorry, my mind went blank, right, 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.560 and then you went for a second, and then the 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:56.800 information comes back. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.400 Usually up until very very recently, as elon us could 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.960 tell you, with this Neuralink company, our ability to figure 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.159 out what was happening in your brain specifically was practically 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.000 nil to made enormous leaps forward recently. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.000 All sounds good. If you miss it, get the podcast 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:15.200 Armstrong and Getty on themand Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.640 Every time we hear a Hispanic name on TV, whether 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.119 or not the anchor is Hispanic, we suddenly have to 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.200 shape shift into a perfect Hispanic accent. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.200 Police arrested twenty five year. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.240 Old elan Alain Sanchez, and I mean that, honestly. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:31.000 Why do we do that? 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.040 When I say Alejandra myorcis, I just say Alejandra Myorcis. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.160 But on CNN it's Alejandra Majorkis. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:38.919 I'm Irish. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.120 When police arrests someone with an Irish name, I don't say. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.960 Police just arrested twenty five year old Charlie McLaughlin. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:46.400 Stop that Stop. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.520 That is so great. We've been making fun of that. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.440 Hermone Hernandez. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.879 All of a sudden, Oh yeah, there's one of the 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.200 guys on Saturday Night Live that's part of his routine 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.679 is mack that whole thing. And it's very very funny. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.240 As you pointed out earlier, what if it was a 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.239 you know, a Chinese name and I launch into a 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.679 Chinese accent no matter who I am, do it? 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:14.640 Newscasters? Yeah, or you know somebody with. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.840 An obviously like you know, probably there are very few 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.120 white women named Shinikwa, for instance. 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:27.360 Well, am I projecting or am I right here that 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.760 when they do that on NPR all the time, they're 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.920 basically all the time, they're basically saying to those of 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:39.560 us who don't you're doing something wrong. Yes, yeah, exactly, 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:41.719 I'm being authentic. No you're not. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:47.520 You're just doing it with LATINX people freaking transparent. Get passes. 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.720 Let's run through a handful of emails real quick. We 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.520 often do this at the beginning of the show, but 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.240 there are several I wanted to squeeze in. Dan writes, Guys, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:04.360 heard your discussions yesterday about woke libraries. Yeah, indeed, libraries 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.320 in New York are kicking out any conservative books because 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.200 they don't represent all points of view. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:10.439 Meanwhile, they have all. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:17.000 These wildly radically progressive gender bending books and they're utterly transparent. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.960 But Dan says, I tweeted this experience so a while 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.159 back about the library I grew up going to the 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.880 featured books. The featured books on top of the bookshelves 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.240 and the little kids area were all woke titles like 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:34.720 Rainbow Hands, Rainbow Parade, and Leo's Lavender Skirt, And my 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.040 personal favorite was Ibramex Kendy's Good Night Racism. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.200 Because nothing puts a child to sleep. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.359 Better than reminding them that the world is racist and 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.760 stacked against them. Call me old fashioned, but I want 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.720 my kid reading the Berenstain Bears, not the Castro Bears. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.880 Haven't been back in since and I live half block away. 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:57.920 It's sad. So the problem, of course is they get 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.040 those books in there that this majority of parents don't 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:02.679 want in there, and if you try to get him out, 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:07.480 they call you a book banner or censor. Yeah exactly, Yeah. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.119 Yeah, total change topic, John with no h rights. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:10.360 Guys. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.520 Heard you guys talking about how patriotic Canadians have become 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.480 only buying Canadian products, and I can assure you firsthand 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.800 this is not a gimmick or a fad. My wife 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:20.719 is Canadian. We got married last year on a K 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.119 one visa. Long story short, friends and family could not 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.120 attend our small courthouse wedding because of the time frame. 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.399 Blah blah blah. We were planning on having a second 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.160 wedding her family and friends could attend. On her first anniversary. 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.760 We had to cancel that. After all, her friends and 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.200 family refused to come to the US Wow. She used 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.240 to be excited to tell her friends and family about 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.160 her experience living here. But now it's become very uncomfortable 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:45.360 and awkward for a lot have A lot of damage 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:49.400 has been done by Trump's unnecessary assault on Canada. And truthfully, 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:51.560 I only give a crap now because of how difficult 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:53.320 it's made that dynamic of my marriage. 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:55.360 Yeah, boy, I don't want to get involved in your 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:59.520 family situation, but not going to a family member's wedding 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.320 because of the dust up between Trump and. 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:07.520 A Right, you know, you're right, that's a bit much. 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.960 But there's real anger and on animosity there and it's 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:14.480 gonna last. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.560 Oh so you're getting married in Texas. I know they're 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.760 abortion laws. I'm afraid I can't attend your wedding. Yeah, 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:21.040 that makes you a whacky doodle. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:23.719 On the other hand, you know the Canadians are pissed 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:25.560 and they will drop their gloves, trust me. 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:27.200 Let's see. 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.040 Paolo writes, Guys, trans folks, and many others make a 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.639 distinction between sex and gender. Sex is biology. Gender identity 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.920