Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: There's one thousand dollars from us supporter. We might have
Speaker 3: to start doing our whale watch as we're raising money
Speaker 3: for Scouting this week. My son has been a Boy
Speaker 3: Scout now for nine months or something like that, just
Speaker 3: absolutely blown away by the organization, and we decided we'd
Speaker 3: raise some money. Some more kids could get involved in
Speaker 3: Scouting because it does cost them. There's several hundred dollars
Speaker 3: just to get started, and we're gonna raise money so
Speaker 3: that they'll have basically scholarships. Some more kids get involved
Speaker 3: in Scouting.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are only vaguely aware
Speaker 1: jack of why they would support Scouting, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think we need to help them understand that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was mostly learning to camp myself
Speaker 3: and die.
Speaker 2: Useful skills, no doubt yetah, which is.
Speaker 3: Not nothing but what I've learned about since my son
Speaker 3: got involved in it.
Speaker 2: It's all about the leadership.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's all built around you know, Camping is
Speaker 3: a great activity to do to learn leadership and have
Speaker 3: people take different roles of preparing and organizing and having
Speaker 3: a list and checking it twice in all that different
Speaker 3: sort of stuff, partly because the stakes are pretty high.
Speaker 2: Because the stakes are very high, you get out, they're
Speaker 2: miserable if you screwed up.
Speaker 3: You get out there, and you might be wet if
Speaker 3: it's raining, or not have enough food or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: And the main thing is, I saw fifteen year olds
Speaker 3: who seemed like they were twenty five year olds, and
Speaker 3: I feel like I don't see that a lot in
Speaker 3: the modern era. It's more the other way around, which
Speaker 3: I see a lot, And it just blew me away.
Speaker 3: I thought, why are these kids so mature? And it's
Speaker 3: because they've been in this Scouting program. Some of them
Speaker 3: that are really into lead go off to these various
Speaker 3: leadership conferences camps where they specifically work on leadership. But
Speaker 3: just in your own Scouting troop, you rise up through
Speaker 3: the ranks and now all of a sudden, you're in
Speaker 3: charge of this or that, and kids, when you give
Speaker 3: them responsibility, they tend to rise to the occasion or
Speaker 3: the demands they take on the responsibility, and that.
Speaker 2: It just changes them it's amazing and a couple of
Speaker 2: more points.
Speaker 1: Number one, they're absolute, unapologetic patriotis is fantastic. Teaching kids
Speaker 1: to love their country. That's a breath of fresh and
Speaker 1: value it and liberty. Is that not a counterbalance that
Speaker 1: we all have been crying out for to, for instance,
Speaker 1: our government schools. Second thing is and for various reasons
Speaker 1: that you've probably followed the history of it. But they
Speaker 1: do have girls us in Scouting USA as well.
Speaker 3: I met a couple of Eagle Scouts girls that were
Speaker 3: Eagle Scouts at the big fundraiser in Sacramento last year.
Speaker 3: Very impressive girls.
Speaker 1: But as an activist now, I was thinking about this
Speaker 1: for going on twenty five years against the war on
Speaker 1: boys and the trying to feminize everything. The fact that
Speaker 1: both boys and girls go out, they work hard, they
Speaker 1: get dirty, they camp, they take responsibility. They're not treated
Speaker 1: like lap dogs. They're treated like capable human beings. It's
Speaker 1: a counterbalance to so many of the things that we
Speaker 1: and you have been railing about for so long.
Speaker 2: It's a force for good.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred and eighty degrees from the helicopter parenting.
Speaker 3: Everything needs to be planned out modern era woh crap.
Speaker 3: The adults stand back and watch, and sometimes the tent
Speaker 3: falls down or somebody forgot to bring the something, and
Speaker 3: now what are they going to do?
Speaker 2: And adults just stand back and let them figure it out? Right?
Speaker 3: How valuable is that? It's amazing, so great, such a
Speaker 3: positive force. So we like raising money in the way
Speaker 3: that we do because you can. You can give with
Speaker 3: your name, which is fantastic, or you can be anonymous,
Speaker 3: or you can come up with a funny name. And
Speaker 3: we'll get to a total here in just a second.
Speaker 3: But already we've had one hundred dollars from Tenderfoot Dan.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Tenderfoot Dan. We had unbaked cookie
Speaker 3: dough chip in twenty five bucks.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, cookie dough, Thank you for your delightfulness.
Speaker 2: And it's every way.
Speaker 3: How much of that did I eat yesterday? As Henry
Speaker 3: the Scout was making cookies unbaked cookie dough. I like
Speaker 3: twenty five bucks from the Ghost of dominic This is
Speaker 3: a clever one fifty bucks from Ann e way oh
Speaker 3: and two.
Speaker 2: Anyway, oh and two a Native American miss Owen two.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's pretty funny, yea. The Ghost of Dominic I
Speaker 3: don't know how I feel about that anyway, Gladys once
Speaker 3: a year gets to put away or harp and get
Speaker 3: out or snare drum, which he played. Uh so when
Speaker 3: the troops came back home in nineteen eighteen, he Gladys,
Speaker 3: so let's get a total here. We are already we've
Speaker 3: only been done this for an hour, eleven seven and
Speaker 3: fifty three dollars. Oh fantastic. That's a pretty good start. Actually,
Speaker 3: it's a very nice start. Yeah, I don't know what.
Speaker 3: We got a goal of fifty thousand. I have no
Speaker 3: idea what we're actually gonna hit. We may blow past
Speaker 3: that by but you know, there's all kinds of there's
Speaker 3: there's all kinds of things going on that we don't
Speaker 3: so it's hard to guess. The economy's weird right now.
Speaker 3: People are feeling maxed out. Well, an AI is going
Speaker 3: to come for your heart and lungs within five years,
Speaker 3: So what good is your money going to do you?
Speaker 2: You might as well donate it.
Speaker 1: We just we don't want there to be an American
Speaker 1: kid who wants to get into scouting. But times are
Speaker 1: tough for the family, and mom and dad have to
Speaker 1: say I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: We can't do that. That's that's what we're trying to
Speaker 2: do here.
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Speaker 2: Oh what time is it? Yeah, we got time for this,
Speaker 2: so maybe you go to the other side of the
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just don't know.
Speaker 3: I like you spelling that out with time, and I
Speaker 3: got a perfect little thing here before we take a break,
Speaker 3: and we'll break on time because I've seen some of
Speaker 3: this on the text line about the death of Rob
Speaker 3: Reiner because you didn't like his politics. First of all,
Speaker 3: what is wrong with you if you, in any way
Speaker 3: are happy to see some husband and wife stabbed to
Speaker 3: death by their kid because of the politics you've broken.
Speaker 3: There's something broken with you. And our friend Tim Sanderfer
Speaker 3: retweeted this is exactly like the people who took Glee
Speaker 3: and Charlie Kirk being assassinated. You realize you're doing the
Speaker 3: same thing, Yeah, only on a different side. But it's
Speaker 3: exactly the same impulse and it's sick.
Speaker 1: Maybe later on this hour, the psychology and finances of
Speaker 1: rage baiting online.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that.
Speaker 1: Why do so many people show the worst aspects.
Speaker 2: Of humanity online? It's pretty interesting. We got a lot
Speaker 2: to talk about today.
Speaker 3: If you want to donate to the Scouts, you go
Speaker 3: to Armstrong in geddy dot com. We're on the way.
Speaker 3: Mom of two Eagle Scouts donated one hundred bucks to
Speaker 3: Scouting at Armstrong in getty dot com or raising money
Speaker 3: this week. Good job mom. Also fifty bucks from Bleach Blonde,
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Speaker 2: Wow, we're happy to see you.
Speaker 3: Just go to Armstrong in geddy dot com and it's
Speaker 3: pretty obvious on how you donate.
Speaker 1: So the Justice Department last week issued a major, major
Speaker 1: ruling that I did not see covered.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I came across this.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with the horrific, idiotic, illogical doctrine of
Speaker 1: disparate impact?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If there's a differing result among different racial groups being
Speaker 1: hired at certain numbers, passing a test in certain numbers,
Speaker 1: losing a foot race, whatever, that is enough proof that
Speaker 1: there was discrimination.
Speaker 2: That that is illegal and it must be fixed. Right,
Speaker 2: no matter what it is.
Speaker 3: If you end up with an outcome that's not fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty men and women, or the percentage of black people,
Speaker 3: Hispanic people, gay people that exist in the America. It is,
Speaker 3: by definition, picking and choosing winners suscriminatory, discriminatory. Assistant Attorney
Speaker 3: General Harmeit Dillon, who's one of the great civil rights
Speaker 3: heroes of the twenty first century, We've talked to her
Speaker 3: a number of times on the air. It's been a while,
Speaker 3: said our rejection of this theory will restore true equality
Speaker 3: under the law by requiring proof of actual discrimination rather
Speaker 3: than enforcing race and sex based quotas or assumptions. Well,
Speaker 3: did you mention the Supreme Court has ruled several times
Speaker 3: that disparate impact is a good idea which is highly troubling.
Speaker 1: Yet is highly troubling. It was kind of tacked on
Speaker 1: to the a section of the nineteen sixty four Civil
Speaker 1: Rights Act. There was a big court case, a Supreme
Speaker 1: Court case in nineteen seventy one. And if you don't
Speaker 1: know the history of the Supreme Court, the idea that
Speaker 1: because now briefly it leans conservative, is somehow a horror. Well,
Speaker 1: for like fifty years it leaned way way left super
Speaker 1: active as court and this Griggs versus Duke power essentially
Speaker 1: said well, specifically, it said Duke Power had discriminated against
Speaker 1: black employees by requiring applicants for promotion to have a
Speaker 1: high school diploma and pass two aptitude tests. Unless the
Speaker 1: player could provide a prove a business necessity for that policy,
Speaker 1: or any policy with disparate impact, it would be liable
Speaker 1: for discrimination. That doctrine's been weakened in various ways by
Speaker 1: various court cases through the years, but it was still
Speaker 1: a factor and then got really revived and pushed during
Speaker 1: THEO Woke Apocalypse of twenty twenty three, you know, fairly recently,
Speaker 1: but the administration, the Justice Department just came out and said, no,
Speaker 1: we completely reject it as a doctrine, and it is
Speaker 1: let's see specific Quickly, they issued a rule doing away
Speaker 1: with disparate impact liability under one section of the nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty four Civil Rights Act, so that we're going to
Speaker 1: cure racism by more racism has been weakened considerably, because
Speaker 1: the one problem with it is it creates incentives for
Speaker 1: employers to engage in outright discrimination. You might probably not remember,
Speaker 1: but Ricci versus Di Stefano in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: plaintiffs were white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, who passed
Speaker 1: a test for promotion decisions. Because whites passed at higher
Speaker 1: rates than minorities, the city worried it would face disparate
Speaker 1: impact lawsuits, so it discarded the test results and did
Speaker 1: not promote the white firefighters.
Speaker 2: Well, from a legal standpoint, you could see why they did. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just to protect their arses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, So that Clarence Thomas, by the way, is
Speaker 1: hated this forever.
Speaker 3: Well, it's nonsensical, it's stupid on its space as far
Speaker 3: as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, and he wrote in his eloquent style
Speaker 1: that allowing disparate impact liability quote to correct for imbalances
Speaker 1: that do not result from any unlawful conduct conduct inevitably
Speaker 1: leads to racial balancing, which is patently unconstitutional. So anyway,
Speaker 1: well done, miss Dylan in the Justice apartment. Love that move,
Speaker 1: Love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 2: We got fifty dollars from mister soup sandals, swimsuit.
Speaker 3: You have any idea what that is?
Speaker 1: You hate soup, you refuse to sandals and short pants?
Speaker 3: You're right, Okay, that explains it. There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you know.
Speaker 3: That Australia has the highest per capita population of Holocaust
Speaker 3: survivors outside of Israel.
Speaker 2: I did not just read that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a couple of Holocaust survivors who were
Speaker 3: killed by those Islamist nut jobs over the weekend. Jesus
Speaker 3: survived the Holocaust. All these years later, you get shot
Speaker 3: in the country of Australia, of all places. Just horror,
Speaker 3: by a couple of people who dedicated their lives to
Speaker 3: isis How in the hell does that ideology catch on?
Speaker 1: And I want to repeat this every time we bring
Speaker 1: the story up. They globalized the Intifada. Absolutely, that's what
Speaker 1: it means. I'm not sure all the college kids who
Speaker 1: chanted and know that that's what it means. But Zorn
Speaker 1: Mandami knew what it meant, and he refused to distance
Speaker 1: himself from the phrase. Right, yeah, yeah, well yeah, the
Speaker 1: college kids being fools who were or you know what,
Speaker 1: more charitably innocence, They were innocence who were indoctrinated by
Speaker 1: their evil professors and the Islamists who work with the
Speaker 1: Neo Marxist, the Red Green Alliance.
Speaker 2: You know, I kicking the kids probably won't do any good.
Speaker 1: But you have been defrauded, You have been fooled and
Speaker 1: you have been duped into enlisting in an army of
Speaker 1: evil youngsters.
Speaker 2: Go away.
Speaker 3: By the way, since I mentioned this a little bit ago,
Speaker 3: that if you didn't like Rob Reiner's politics and you
Speaker 3: make any comment joyful about his dying, you're just like
Speaker 3: the people who cheered Charlie Kirk being assassinated. And Rob
Speaker 3: Reiner did it in an interview just a couple of
Speaker 3: days ago with Piers Morgan in which he said Charlie
Speaker 3: Kirk's assassination was an absolute horror. Nobody should die for
Speaker 3: their politics like that, no matter what their politics are,
Speaker 3: and he was amazed and impressed with Erica Kirk, Charlie
Speaker 3: Kirk's wife's ability to forgive the killer. So that's Rob
Speaker 3: Reiner's attitude about that sort of thuff. Yeah, and it
Speaker 3: had nothing to do with his politics anyway. Despite what
Speaker 3: Donald Trump tweeted, it was their homeless drug addicted son
Speaker 3: that probably came in the house and killed them, which
Speaker 3: is pretty awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm yeah, Okay. Trump's tweet was horrific.
Speaker 2: Truth.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to say about that.
Speaker 1: I can tell, I can tell I was gonna bring
Speaker 1: that up. Every descriptor you've used of it has been neutral,
Speaker 1: which I think is interesting Trump's posting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I'm almost as amazed that it not getting
Speaker 3: more attention. I mean, it doesn't even hardly stand out
Speaker 3: in our current climate.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's not like it's the first time he's
Speaker 1: said anything completely unhinged.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: You combine with the fact that when somebody is brutally
Speaker 3: murdered if you didn't like their politics, you cheer. Not everybody,
Speaker 3: not most people, not you know, a tiny minority, but
Speaker 3: enough people for it to be disturbing, combined with the
Speaker 3: things that all our politicians say. No, it doesn't even
Speaker 3: hardly ring the bell, but it is something from a
Speaker 3: president of the United States. Rob Reiner and his wife
Speaker 3: were passed away in their home. Passed away as an
Speaker 3: interesting phrase for people that were stabbed it up, reportedly
Speaker 3: due to the anger he caused others through his massive,
Speaker 3: unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known
Speaker 3: as Trump derangement syndrome. So he believes somebody so angered
Speaker 3: by Rob Reiner's views of Trump came in and killed him.
Speaker 1: Or he saw that on somebody's social media account and
Speaker 1: went with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it had nothing to do with it actually, just
Speaker 3: for the record, even if it had been specifically somebody
Speaker 3: what you're blaming cone it, yeah, wholeheartedly. Yeah, Okay, that is.
Speaker 2: Just where we are.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do about it. Let the
Speaker 3: pendulum swing back or maybe it won't have her hard
Speaker 3: to say, I do. At some point, I want to
Speaker 3: hear about your new view on AI and art, which
Speaker 3: you Yeah, lots of stories we got to update you
Speaker 3: on because there's a lot of fast moving stuff happening today.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Pantone announced that their color of the year is Cloud Dancer,
Speaker 4: which they call a billowy, balanced white imbued with a
Speaker 4: feeling of serenity, a description they stole from my old
Speaker 4: bumble profile.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a funny Joe. Plus the fact
Speaker 3: that there's a color of the year.
Speaker 1: The whole as a person involved in a remodel of
Speaker 1: a home, at this point, I'll tell you, the whole
Speaker 1: hot color thing is annoying.
Speaker 2: Here's a little pro tip for you.
Speaker 1: Unless you're willing to have your house repainted every couple
Speaker 1: of years, if you go with the hot color, it
Speaker 1: will be.
Speaker 2: The Oh my god, that color is so out color
Speaker 2: before you know it. Yeah, like in the blink of
Speaker 2: an eye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so beware, beware coming up. I don't know, next hour,
Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow, I can't remember. It doesn't matter. We'll get
Speaker 1: to it eventually. But I want to retell to you
Speaker 1: one of the oldest stories that you've heard, a time
Speaker 1: honored story, story you've heard over and over again. In
Speaker 1: that time, Caesar Augustus ordered that woke cities should try
Speaker 1: rent control.
Speaker 2: See what happens.
Speaker 1: Well, Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota have taken opposite approaches
Speaker 1: to rent control, and you will be completely unshocked by
Speaker 1: the outcome of that little experiment right there on either
Speaker 1: side of a river.
Speaker 3: For some reason, it never occurred to me before, but
Speaker 3: Saint Paul is obviously named after Saint Paul Saul of Tarsus. Yes,
Speaker 3: really pretty much the spreader of the entire Christian thing,
Speaker 3: Saint Paul of all places about his Woka town as
Speaker 3: you could come up with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not as woke as their big brother Minneapolis Jack,
Speaker 1: as we learn anyway. So I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: The question of rage baiting, which is intentionally posting something
Speaker 1: to social media that you know will anger people.
Speaker 3: What was the one last week. It was a joke
Speaker 3: that we used a couple of times. Is it about
Speaker 3: Christmas or Santa? It was a rage bait thing. It
Speaker 3: was very very funny.
Speaker 2: It'll head yeah, yeah, just jump in when it does.
Speaker 3: You're right, Katy, Well, I remember it was saying like
Speaker 3: something like posting I hate Santa, yeah, something about just
Speaker 3: to yeah, just to make people mad.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's beyond like a strong opinion. It's intentionally trying to
Speaker 1: anger people. And interestingly enough, that was the word of
Speaker 1: the year by the Oxford University Press. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what their color of the year was, but their
Speaker 1: word or term of the year was rage bait. And
Speaker 1: you know, at first, Blush is a human being. You
Speaker 1: might think that it's not a great idea to post
Speaker 1: content that antagonizes people, right, I mean, imagine that's how
Speaker 1: you behaved it like cocktail parties or Christmas gatherings. But
Speaker 1: people who post content on social media make more money
Speaker 1: if their channel has high levels of engagement, regardless of
Speaker 1: how positively people might be responding. And in addition, they're
Speaker 1: writing in this piece. Social media platforms use algorithms that
Speaker 1: tailor the content we see to what we're likely to
Speaker 1: engage with, whether positively or negatively, and so that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean they feed us content that make us happy.
Speaker 1: It just to any engagement, including angry comments we might
Speaker 1: post in response because they make more money that way,
Speaker 1: which is really insidious.
Speaker 2: Wait, sure, we got to fix this.
Speaker 3: We cannot survive this if we don't fix it.
Speaker 1: Right, But this article, interestingly, is from the point of
Speaker 1: view of psychologists things you can do to help control
Speaker 1: your reaction to this sort of content. But first you
Speaker 1: have to understand why rage bait is so effective and
Speaker 1: it's funny. This is kind of a variation on something
Speaker 1: we've been talking about for years and years about how
Speaker 1: nobody's ever tuned out from your in danger or that's
Speaker 1: the number one way, or this will make you angry.
Speaker 1: Provocative posts can result the higher number of clips. This
Speaker 1: may be a result of negativity bias, where negative emotions
Speaker 1: such as anger spread more quickly and intensely through social networks.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've seen that, but in.
Speaker 1: Evolutionary terms, it's more important for us to pay attention
Speaker 1: to a situation that has caused anger to our group
Speaker 1: than to a situation.
Speaker 2: That has created happiness. Right.
Speaker 1: Anger suggests that action needs to be taken to resolve
Speaker 1: an issue, whereas happiness suggests that everything is okay. There
Speaker 1: is no evolutionctionary need to respond urgently to everything.
Speaker 3: Is okay obviously. In other words, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know that's obvious. But it helps with why you
Speaker 3: get this way or I get this way. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a protective mechanism.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So let's see, we're probably for social information.
Speaker 3: I am better than I was even a couple of
Speaker 3: months ago at recognizing when I see something on our
Speaker 3: text line or Twitter feed or whatever is like, okay,
Speaker 3: you're just trying to I see what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, troll.
Speaker 1: So we're primed to look for social information obviously. And
Speaker 1: you know, another variation on the theme we've talked about
Speaker 1: a lot in the past. The groups we belong to
Speaker 1: were typically local to where we lived, friends, neighbors, colleagues.
Speaker 1: But growth social media means we can now connect with
Speaker 1: people from all.
Speaker 2: Over the world.
Speaker 1: That's another perfect time to play the Pga O'Rourke quote.
Speaker 3: What a giant change in my lifetime. How many a
Speaker 3: holes were you exposed to pre Internet in your in
Speaker 3: your in your social circuit or your life. A handfuls
Speaker 3: them all, and you could name them all and you
Speaker 3: ignored them or stayed away from them, as opposed to
Speaker 3: every a hole on earth now right, So that means
Speaker 3: there are far more groups we can be part of
Speaker 3: and in turn roots through which people can anger us.
Speaker 3: Research has also found that people can be quick to
Speaker 3: align their views with others on anything that prompts a
Speaker 3: negative emotion. We've mentioned years and years ago, people bond
Speaker 3: more quickly over what they don't like than over what
Speaker 3: they like, yeah, or what they they bond over what
Speaker 3: they hate. That's why, you know, talk radio complaining about
Speaker 3: stuff you know tends to do better than happy, happy joyjoy.
Speaker 2: Yeah do Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's true to some extent, although a lot
Speaker 1: of the things we talk about, I mean, where are
Speaker 1: you gonna find the happy, happy joy joy in politics?
Speaker 2: I mean Britain?
Speaker 3: Bearn No, that's that's a reason to not talk about
Speaker 3: politics at all.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I hear that. Let's see. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other problem is we can post content or comments
Speaker 1: immediately get a reply twenty four hours a.
Speaker 2: Day, non stop.
Speaker 1: Typically, we used to have breaks from anything or anyone
Speaker 1: that caused us a feeling of rage, It would be
Speaker 1: extremely rare unless you live, you know, in a dysfunctional
Speaker 1: family or dysfunctional workplace or something like that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so knowing that many of the posts are posted solely
Speaker 1: to drive engagement helps us reclaim our power over these interactions.
Speaker 1: A twenty twenty study show that giving people an understanding
Speaker 1: of manipulation techniques in the medium powered them to resist
Speaker 1: those techniques.
Speaker 3: Well, like the story you always tell one of your
Speaker 3: kids saying, haters gonna hate that the younger first time
Speaker 3: I heard that phrase. Yeah, younger generation is picked up
Speaker 3: on this faster than us older people because, you know,
Speaker 3: for all the reasons you just stated, we didn't grow
Speaker 3: up around non stop haters.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe the simplified version of this is you
Speaker 1: look at stuff like that and say, oh, they're desperate
Speaker 1: for attention and they're trying to bait me.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was trying to explain that to my son.
Speaker 3: He's got a problem with an individual and their personality
Speaker 3: who they need. Every time he explains to me what
Speaker 3: this person does and says, they're just trying to get
Speaker 3: a reaction out of you, or they don't get any
Speaker 3: attention at home, or something that. I mean, they're just
Speaker 3: wanting attention. It just you know, them saying they hate
Speaker 3: what you like is an attempt to, you know, get
Speaker 3: some sort of attention reaction out of you. And that's
Speaker 3: just that's just who they are. Yeah, and it's hard
Speaker 3: for him to digest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't even know how I
Speaker 1: developed this, even as like a teenager, I realized the
Speaker 1: value of somebody says something like that to you. If
Speaker 1: you can just fix them with the dead eyes and
Speaker 1: show a complete lack of reaction, the dead eye, that's
Speaker 1: like it's like a superpower dead because people are trying
Speaker 1: to get power over you, right sure, to provoke you,
Speaker 1: to get you on the hook. And if you can
Speaker 1: give them the I heard everything you said, and you're
Speaker 1: getting nothing out of me. Oh please, they wither like
Speaker 1: it violent and winner or something I got.
Speaker 2: I don't give them metaphor somebody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something withery anyway, Yeah, dead eyes, give them the
Speaker 1: dead eyes.
Speaker 3: I've gotten the dead eyes before.
Speaker 1: Yes, Michael, you have. You've earned them. I'm not amused
Speaker 1: by you. I'm not angered by you. I'm not provoked
Speaker 1: by you. I'm bored by you.
Speaker 2: That's what the dead end. Oh, I'm bored by you.
Speaker 3: That's a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my dead eyes speak volumes, Jack, and so does
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Speaker 3: So raising money for scouting this week. We'll explain why later.
Speaker 3: If you haven't already heard that, you'll like this, Katie.
Speaker 3: We got twenty five dollars from Jack Joe, Mike.
Speaker 2: Mike.
Speaker 3: That is your unborn child teaching teaching him to get okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 3: Got one hundred bucks from Marshall's second push up, which
Speaker 3: is pretty funny. Marshall Phillips, our old news guy who
Speaker 3: was his new year's resolution was to do ten push ups, and.
Speaker 2: He never got to two. Is that right? That's right.
Speaker 2: I never got pasted too. I don't think there was
Speaker 2: a second push up. The second one was controversial. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, this is pre u Katie. Marshall eyes older.
Speaker 3: He was an older guy, but I thought that when
Speaker 3: he set out at the beginning of the year, my
Speaker 3: new year's resolution is to do ten push ups. I
Speaker 3: didn't know if he'd ever do ten push ups, but
Speaker 3: I would certainly guess that he'd get seven or eight.
Speaker 3: He never got too, and we'd never Every once in
Speaker 3: a while we'd have him get down on the floor
Speaker 3: in the studio. See I can do the push ups.
Speaker 2: Part if that makes me sad. Oh, then he hurt
Speaker 2: his shoulder and he ended up in the hospital. He
Speaker 2: actually ended up injured.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and that was quite the deal.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Mom of four girls need Eagle Scout to marry one
Speaker 3: donated twenty five dollars. That's very nice.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could hold some sort of uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: matchmaking festival, fifty range a few marriages.
Speaker 2: Why not fifty bucks from you know you're Judo.
Speaker 3: Well, which is funny. People love that clip. That's a
Speaker 3: long time ago.
Speaker 2: That's one of the greatest clips of all time.
Speaker 3: Anyway, gladys, take your little arms and hit the snare drum,
Speaker 3: would you?
Speaker 2: Here's the total?
Speaker 3: Seventeen four and fourteen dollars seventeen thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: It's good starting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we just started this a couple hours ago. Obviously
Speaker 3: we're shooting for a lot more than that. I couldn't
Speaker 3: be more amazed with scouting and what it does for
Speaker 3: young people turning him into grown ups, which we don't
Speaker 3: do much of anymore. In fact, it seems like our
Speaker 3: we have a whole of country effort to do the opposite,
Speaker 3: to keep grownups and leaders and patriots. We seem to
Speaker 3: be dedicated to making sure young people stay immature, irresponsible,
Speaker 3: and delusioned.
Speaker 2: For some reason. Yeah, yeah, well said wild.
Speaker 3: Anyway, a lot more on the way, stay here.
Speaker 2: Down four Rivers touchdown.
Speaker 3: That'ssh downs and that's Philip Rivers with a touchdown pass,
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty second touchdown pass of his career.
Speaker 3: Why are we playing clips from ten years ago NFL games? Hilarious?
Speaker 1: That was actually sound from Philip Rivers high school team
Speaker 1: teammates viewing party of their old teammate five years retired
Speaker 1: from the NFL coming back inexplicitly or inexplicably rather to
Speaker 1: play again, and so they held a big viewing party
Speaker 1: to watch him play, and he actually played pretty well.
Speaker 3: Well, you retired five years ago, when was his prime?
Speaker 3: So his prime was a decade ago. He's forty four
Speaker 3: years old, he's got ten kids, he's a grandparent.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and it's really it was a great story.
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole football world was buzzing about it.
Speaker 1: How could you not find that compelling? And again he
Speaker 1: actually played pretty well. Jason Gay the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: wrote a really funny piece about it. He says, they
Speaker 1: rebooted Mattlock, why not Philip Rivers? And then he goes
Speaker 1: into how long it's been since he played. This wasn't
Speaker 1: like summoning the grizzled backup from the third string. This
Speaker 1: was like thawing Hans Solo off the wall. And then
Speaker 1: he talked about how everybody was watching, just hoping his
Speaker 1: old body wasn't broken in half, And where's the funny
Speaker 1: in the pocket he moved like a man trying.
Speaker 2: To make a sandwich in the dark. We're kind of wobbly.
Speaker 1: At one point, stepping back to pass, he fell over
Speaker 1: without anyone touching him, like your uncle does every Fourth
Speaker 1: of July party.
Speaker 2: Just tumbled over like a picnic bench.
Speaker 3: Did that actually happen?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but so anyway, Yeah, he's good friends with his
Speaker 1: former coaches, the head coach Indianapolis, and he knew the offense.
Speaker 1: So they lost their starter, lost their backup. And the
Speaker 1: guy thought, I wonder if old Phil's still in pretty
Speaker 1: decent shape.
Speaker 2: And this was Philip Rivers after the game.
Speaker 5: You know, maybe maybe it will I don't know, inspire
Speaker 5: or teach you know that to you not to run
Speaker 5: or be scared of what may or may not happen,
Speaker 5: you know, hopefully, you know, certainly I think of my
Speaker 5: sons and those ball players you know that I'm in
Speaker 5: charge of at the school, Uh, that they'll say, crap,
Speaker 5: coach one's scared, you know what I mean. It's like, shoot,
Speaker 5: sometimes you uh, there is doubt and it's real and
Speaker 5: you uh again you can you can the guaranteed safe
Speaker 5: that is to is to go home or to not
Speaker 5: go for it, and the other one is shoot, let's
Speaker 5: see what happens, uh, you know. And so uh yeah,
Speaker 5: I hope that in that sense that it can it
Speaker 5: can be a positive to to some young boys, you know,
Speaker 5: or young people that as we boys.
Speaker 3: Cool we like that, especially the week we're raising money
Speaker 3: for scouting. That's a good sort of message. Go out
Speaker 3: and try something, to do something. He was old enough
Speaker 3: to be Drake May's paw paw.
Speaker 1: That's one of the young stars to remember rotary phones,
Speaker 1: to read long books about World War One and have
Speaker 1: absolutely no idea what six seven means, yeah, wow, that
Speaker 1: was fun.
Speaker 2: That was fun.
Speaker 3: I So there just aren't very many people that can
Speaker 3: play quarterback period though, that can really play it at
Speaker 3: a decent level. I remember hearing experts talk about, like
Speaker 3: one of the secrets of the NFL that people don't
Speaker 3: want to say out out loud is every year there's
Speaker 3: really only like, out of thirty teams, however, maing teams
Speaker 3: are our thirty two teams, there's really only like eight
Speaker 3: to ten guys that are really capable of being an
Speaker 3: NFL quarterback at any given time. That's why the really
Speaker 3: good ones get to play so long. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: or you know, Brett Farvar, Tom Brady or Whoever's just
Speaker 3: not many people can do that, the combination of the
Speaker 3: physical need and the mental game. They call it the
Speaker 3: hardest job and all of sports mentally, there's just not
Speaker 3: very many people can do it if you get a chance.
Speaker 1: Netflix documentary Quarterback, which follows three quarterbacks through the season,
Speaker 1: they've got a couple of seasons of it. In the
Speaker 1: first season, Peyton Manning explains what happens between breaking the
Speaker 1: huddle and the snap of the ball, and it takes
Speaker 1: paragraphs which ought to tell you something about reading, defense,
Speaker 1: canceling the play, shifting players, et cetera. All in space
Speaker 1: like ten seconds. It's really quick. Cool but anyway, good
Speaker 1: for Philip Rivers. I'm glad you didn't get killed.
Speaker 3: Well, we know that concept you always hear about in sports,
Speaker 3: and particularly with quarterbacks, is that, as they when you're
Speaker 3: in the league for a while, the game slows down. Yeah,
Speaker 3: which is I've always thought that's interesting, you know, just
Speaker 3: from the way your mind works. And I got a
Speaker 3: good example of that playing music. I have this all
Speaker 3: happen all the time. If you're playing along to a
Speaker 3: metronome and you're playing the parts you know, it just
Speaker 3: seems so slow and easy, and then as soon as
Speaker 3: you get to the part that.
Speaker 2: You don't quite know, it seems like time's been up
Speaker 2: really really fast. And it's funny that that's the way
Speaker 2: the mind works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when we know something, things seem to move slower
Speaker 3: than we're get into a you gotta make decisions. It
Speaker 3: feels like time speeds up or the other way around.
Speaker 3: If you understand it, time slows down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is interesting. I guess that's so. What is
Speaker 2: it with the opposite thing?
Speaker 3: With the car crash, though we've all had that experience
Speaker 3: where you're falling down or a car wreckor where where
Speaker 3: like time slows down and seems like it's happening more.
Speaker 1: Well, right, I think because you in your animal brain,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to be completely aware in this
Speaker 1: moment because it's life and deathy and that's what it feels.
Speaker 1: To play quarterback is certainly in the NFL, where you
Speaker 1: have the fastest, biggest, strongest behemoths in the world trying
Speaker 1: to knock your block off, and so it is semi terrifying,
Speaker 1: and I think that's part of it. But once once
Speaker 1: you know it, you've done it enough times and you
Speaker 1: know that you've seen that one hundred times, so you
Speaker 1: don't have to contemplate that whatever that is.
Speaker 2: You just know, Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3: If you didn't hear our interview about scouting to kick
Speaker 3: off hour two, get that in the podcast Armstrong and
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