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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Speaker 2: It, sir.

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Speaker 5: YouTube will start guessing your age based on the types

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Speaker 5: of videos the user searches for and the categories of

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Speaker 5: videos they watch. For example, I watch restorations of World

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Speaker 5: War One, cigarette lighters and videos about knee pain, and

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Speaker 5: that's why YouTube correctly guessed my age of two hundred

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Speaker 5: and forty five.

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Speaker 6: So, honest to God, there needs to be some sort

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Speaker 6: of algorithm reset.

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Speaker 2: Button that you can do. Right.

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Speaker 6: I shouldn't be afraid to search on things and think

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Speaker 6: I'd like to look that up, but then I'll end

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Speaker 6: up with nothing but that for the next six months.

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Speaker 6: So I don't look up some things like I had

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Speaker 6: a brief like week where I enjoyed those videos where

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Speaker 6: they have babies, like they have the audio from Trump,

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Speaker 6: but it's a baby Trump or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I enjoyed that for a couple of days.

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Speaker 6: But you know, Instagram or YouTube or whoever thought, well,

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Speaker 6: this is the only thing he likes in the world.

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Speaker 6: He likes it better than air, and so that's.

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Speaker 2: The only thing I get fed. How do you turn

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Speaker 2: that off? Yeah, just give it time.

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Speaker 6: I remember I needed to look up something about the

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Speaker 6: OJ trild, then endless OJA videos.

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Speaker 2: I got what I need. I don't need.

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Speaker 6: I don't need OJ videos when I wake up in

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Speaker 6: the morning and click on YouTube, I don't need fifteen

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Speaker 6: different OJ videos.

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Speaker 4: Attack is going in the opposite direction. They are utterly convinced,

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Speaker 4: knowing you everything about.

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Speaker 6: I agree it, but they're but you need but surely,

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Speaker 6: but surely they realize they're wrong about this.

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Speaker 2: So there's got to be a way to fix that.

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Speaker 6: I don't know how they would differentiate between things that

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Speaker 6: actually are your passion, because you can send me pretty

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Speaker 6: much endless I don't know guitar stuff, but OJA talking

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Speaker 6: babies or you know, I look up a review of

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Speaker 6: a bicycle, then I buy the bicycle.

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Speaker 2: I don't need any more bicycle videos for the rest

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Speaker 2: of my life.

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Speaker 6: Right, there's gotta be a way to believe, to clear

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Speaker 6: out your algorithms. It'd be cool if you could go

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Speaker 6: to a page and it lists all of your things

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Speaker 6: that it thinks you're into, and you could click the

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Speaker 6: boxes and say, I am into these, I'm not into

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Speaker 6: these anymore, or score.

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Speaker 4: It one to five. You know, yeah, yeah, they'll probably

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Speaker 4: get that right at some point. Again, the trend is

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Speaker 4: toward more knowledge of you, which will be hacked by

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Speaker 4: the way, and more intimate and human like companionship, like

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Speaker 4: it's your best friend, to which I say no, no,

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Speaker 4: thank you, and you always say there's no stopping it.

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Speaker 4: I'm not worried about society. I'm worried about me and

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Speaker 4: the people I care about. That you do not have

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Speaker 4: to go along with what Silicon Valley thinks your life

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Speaker 2: Like I start a religion. It's not going to be

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Speaker 4: But I'm going to start a religion our only principle,

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Speaker 4: and you can have your other religion too.

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Speaker 2: That's fine.

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Speaker 4: Is going to be sync for yourself. Don't just buy what.

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Speaker 6: They're selling Joe starting a religion is Missianic complex finally

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Speaker 4: And I will be permitted to have at least a

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Speaker 2: Just, of course, go put the territory.

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Speaker 6: I clicked on one of the Sydney Sweeney videos for

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Speaker 6: the blue Jean thing for the show. But now Instagram thinks, oh,

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Speaker 6: you're one of those guys that likes to look at young.

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Speaker 6: I'm not, and I don't need endless young hot women.

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Speaker 6: That's the last thing I need. I know where to

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Speaker 2: Want to look for it. Good lord.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we all need to take turns watching the

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Speaker 4: hen house. There are foxes watching the henhouses of education,

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Speaker 4: we've figured that out and indoctrinating our children and a

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Speaker 4: couple of generations have been completely screwed up. Now we

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Speaker 4: resisting you know, these perverse state laws and board of

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Speaker 2: Keep it up, y'all, you're doing great.

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Speaker 4: Got to get on those school boards and become part

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Speaker 4: of your local education scene so the communists don't control

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Speaker 4: all of it. Libraries are the same thing, and I

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Speaker 4: remember hearing this a long time ago. Somebody was talking

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Speaker 4: James Lindsay or one of his associates, talking about how,

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Speaker 4: by far the most liberal parts of the American scene

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Speaker 4: are at teachers, colleges and the education, education and libraries.

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Speaker 4: I remember seeing a poll that like, the library science

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Speaker 4: departments in universities are the most liberal or progressive or Marxists.

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Speaker 4: And I remember thinking at the time, boy, that's weird,

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Speaker 4: and it doesn't matter really, I mean library science.

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Speaker 2: How many graduates are there.

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Speaker 6: In that Well, if they decide what books go in

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Speaker 6: the library, that's a pretty big.

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Speaker 2: Deal, exactly.

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Speaker 4: I was an idiot, an idiot for what I thought,

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Speaker 4: and I kick myself daily for it.

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Speaker 2: A couple of stories for you real quickly.

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Speaker 4: The Philadelphia Public Libraries have hosted and are going to

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Speaker 4: host another one this weekend anti Israel storytime events that

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Speaker 4: teach children that Israel.

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Speaker 2: Senselessly murdered thousands of kids in Gaza.

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Speaker 4: That's a quote, depict a map in which Israel is

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Speaker 4: entirely replaced with Palestine, and create art projects for the

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Speaker 4: little kids to do promoting the Palestinian liberation. Movement in

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Speaker 4: the public library, in the public libraries in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 6: That's correct, that's the library, isn't it the Philadelphia Public Library.

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Speaker 6: That's where Rocky climbs to the top of the steps

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Speaker 4: Well, it'd have gotten beaten down by a bunch of

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Speaker 4: young women in a kafia these days. One of the

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Speaker 4: storytime events on the website features and advertisement alongside of

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Speaker 4: we are coming, a slogan Hamas and Hesbla used to

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Speaker 4: call for the destruction of the Jewish state. The library

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Speaker 4: advertises the event again for I think this Saturday, as

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Speaker 4: for as being for children of all ages.

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Speaker 6: I gave up on the library quite a few years ago,

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Speaker 6: my local library because it became a holmost camp.

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Speaker 2: That was my main thing.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't what books they had in there and are there.

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Speaker 6: It is just full of homeless people in the bathroom

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Speaker 6: and I would never take my kids there.

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Speaker 2: Dad, can I go to the bathroom?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 2: Too dangerous at my public library.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh man, I could read you more of what

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Speaker 4: they're trying to teach the children about the Israeli Hamas conflict.

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Speaker 4: But it is unfreaking believable. So getting to Jack's point,

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Speaker 4: I thought this was so interesting. Zach Bissinett wrote this

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Speaker 4: piece for the Free Press, the death of the public library.

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Speaker 4: And it's not because people are reading less, or because

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Speaker 4: the Internet or anything like that. It's because of the

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Speaker 4: bums and junkies all over the country. Sure, And he

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Speaker 4: describes his local library and how it's unusable now.

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Speaker 2: Sure, and if you take little kids.

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Speaker 6: I'm talking about the big in Sacramento, their downtown library.

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Speaker 6: I haven't been there in decades. I used to go

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Speaker 6: every week. I was there every week checking out audiobooks

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Speaker 6: right right? Well, and there's a twist to the story

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Speaker 4: All over the country, libraries are seeing fewer visitors and

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Speaker 4: more problems. Per resident visits to public libraries fell by

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Speaker 4: fifty seven percent in the ten years ending in twenty

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Speaker 2: I don't know, does anybody else have.

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Speaker 4: Cherished memories of going to the library as a kid

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Speaker 4: bringing my kids to the library my mom.

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Speaker 6: I'd go with my mom in our town, and I

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Speaker 4: Absolutely loved our local library as a kid. It was

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Speaker 4: like the world's greatest toy.

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Speaker 2: Store for me. All these wonderful books. Amazing.

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Speaker 4: So fifty seven percent decline in ten years. Meanwhile, a

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Speaker 4: report from the Urban Libraries Council found that between twenty

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Speaker 4: one hundred and fifteen member libraries, even as visits fell

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Speaker 4: another thirty five percent. Not a coincidence that visits are

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Speaker 4: up incidents are down. It's all about drug addicts, junkies, freaks, weirdos, etc.

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Speaker 4: Using the library as a home. So here's the twist,

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Speaker 4: as Zach Wright, if there are two people who represent

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Speaker 4: competing visions for what library should be, they're librarian trainers

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Speaker 4: Ryan Dowd and Steve Albrecht. They're friends, but their approaches

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Speaker 4: is the author of the book Quote The Librarian's Guide

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Speaker 4: to Homelessness, an empathy driven approach to solving problems, preventing conflict.

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Speaker 2: And serving everyone.

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Speaker 6: Where in the charter of libraries did it have anything

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Speaker 4: He told me he originally wanted to title the book

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Speaker 4: how to Run Your Library Like a Homeless Shelter. When

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Speaker 4: I asked if he was joking, he said he wasn't,

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Speaker 4: at least he wasn't sure he was. He has given

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Speaker 4: seminars for roughly half of the nation's librarians, including most

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Speaker 4: of the larger systems, and his influence is unquestioned. Is

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Speaker 6: So my guess would be he believes the downtrodden need

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Speaker 2: Well, and it's not even about the books.

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Speaker 4: It's about it's a place for bombs and junkies to

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Speaker 2: In the sink, look at porn on the computers.

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Speaker 4: And again, keep in mind, this guy is like a

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Speaker 4: super heavyweight in American library nuts. His essential belief is

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Speaker 4: that not only do the homeless have every right to

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Speaker 4: their needs as a critical part of the job. He

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Speaker 4: believes librarians should be trained to dispense narcan. One of

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Speaker 4: his seminars is called Jerks with Holmes, How to deal

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Speaker 4: with members of the public who are being jerks about

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Speaker 4: homeless folks.

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Speaker 6: See that's a guy who believes that he's not just

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Speaker 6: a Marxist who wants to disrupt the system.

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Speaker 2: He clearly believes that the system did.

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Speaker 6: Something to cause these people to be this way, and

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Speaker 6: it's our job to at the library help them.

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Speaker 2: I guess you're gonna think I made this up.

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Speaker 4: His scripts for addressing problematic behaviors include examples like in

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Speaker 4: his seminars, Hey, I don't care if you urinate on

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Speaker 4: the Harry Potter books, but the politicians have a no

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Speaker 4: urinating policy.

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Speaker 2: Therefore I have to ask you to stop wow.

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Speaker 4: I find it so annoying that this gut health testing

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Speaker 4: If you're so weak minded that that makes you more

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Speaker 4: For Alarious, It's among a growing number of companies that

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Speaker 4: stress the system. Lunch was two more cookies bright blue ones.

443
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 4: The color made it possible to record your gut transit time,

444
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,320
Speaker 4: or how long it takes for food to travel through

445
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:57,679
Speaker 4: the digestive system. That means you're on poop watch. For

446
00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 4: the when I so to speak yes when your turns blue.

447
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,439
Speaker 4: For the micro biome test, I had to collect a

448
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 4: stool sample.

449
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:09,400
Speaker 2: Not pleasant.

450
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 4: Not even An even weirder test was the DIY blood draw,

451
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 4: which involved a button like gadget that sliced a horizontal

452
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 4: cut on my open upper arm. I'm sorry. I returned

453
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 4: my samples to Zoe via UPS, so I'm sure delighted

454
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 4: to be carrying people's poop around America.

455
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 6: So I got to take a stool sample and then

456
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 6: have something jabbing me in the arm with a needle

457
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 6: to be told whether or not my gut biome.

458
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 2: Is up to snuff.

459
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're actually two separate. There was the jabbing and

460
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 4: then the slashing. But for two weeks I logged everything.

461
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 4: I ate at least every eight hours. I scanned my

462
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 4: continuous glucose monitor with my iPhone to record my blood

463
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 4: sugar levels. To get the CGM test kit, I had

464
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 4: to opt into being part of Zoe's ongoing research. The

465
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 4: test kit cost me two hundred and ninety four dollars,

466
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 4: and the required membership I chose is twenty five bucks

467
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 4: a month. I'd say that's a bargain. I waited, that's

468
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 4: a bargain for getting jammed in the arm of the needle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, See.

470
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 4: GM readings have long been essential for people with diabetes,

471
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 4: but researchers thin on how useful the readings are for

472
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 4: people like me.

473
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Speaker 2: Who don't have it. She said, blah blah blah.

474
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I just so, we just discovered this whole we're

475
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 6: a bioorganism gut hell thing fairly recently, at least I

476
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 6: don't remember hearing about it until ten years ago or whatever.

477
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 6: So everybody that lived before us, they were all doing

478
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 6: it wrong, not knowing their gut biome and just eating

479
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 6: whatever they ate, back when people were thin, by the way,

480
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 6: back when everybody was thinner.

481
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 4: But that was also back when people were eating the

482
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 4: obvious lean meats and fruit and vegetables and basic grains,

483
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 4: unrefined food, unfactory processed stuff, stuff we'd been evolved to

484
00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 4: eat from millions of years. Yeah, and when she logged

485
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 4: in what she ate, she got a food score and

486
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 4: a meal score. Plain unsalted almonds neared a perfect one hundred,

487
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 4: black beans ninety one, Bacon got a nine, and the

488
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 4: cupcake I grabbed at a work meeting a lowly nineteen.

489
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, a cupcake's better than bacon?

490
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 2: What is the higher number better? Yes? So yeah, so

491
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 2: bacon got a nine. Yes, huh.

492
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 4: Plain unsalted almonds mmmmmmmm, scored a perfect one hundred.

493
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Speaker 6: Okay, I eat a lot of nuts at this point

494
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 6: in my life, and they really been working for me

495
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 6: and keeping my weight off.

496
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Speaker 4: Uh.

497
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a big fan.

498
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Speaker 6: Actually, that's a appetite suppressor. Eaten nuts for some reason.

499
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't you know it? She said.

500
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 4: The bottom line was and she's kind of enthusiastic about

501
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 4: chasing scores, so she was kind of into this, but

502
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 4: it did guide her toward more simple basic food.

503
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Speaker 6: I think if you just wrote down, logged in what

504
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 6: you eat every day and had no program and know nothing,

505
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 6: it would be helpful. Because he looked at the end

506
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 6: of the day and thought, wow, hey, I mean, if

507
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 6: you're honest, idlefe, today I had a donut at work,

508
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 6: and then at lunch I had a you know whatever,

509
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 6: and then in the afternoon I shouldn't be doing that.

510
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're probably right.

511
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 4: I don't feel like getting jabbed and slashed and paying

512
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 4: three hundred bucks and twenty five bucks in min.

513
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Speaker 6: I don't feel like collecting my dookies. Yes, uh, Katie,

514
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 6: glad to follow such a poet speaking of speaking of

515
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Speaker 6: nuts guys, Yes, just to.

516
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Speaker 3: Slide up date earlier, not any less sad, but poly

517
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 3: walnuts actually passed away three years ago today.

518
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 2: Well, we got the basic art right, So why is that?

519
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 2: What is going on here?

520
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 6: Oh that's that's who did we kill off a couple

521
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 6: a couple of months ago. We killed off the wrong

522
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 6: person like we made the completely wrong woman.

523
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 2: We talked about her for a long time.

524
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 6: Oh, it is the person Gloria Gaynor I will survive,

525
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 6: who's still alive in well, as far as I know,

526
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 6: we had a different gainor she's dead. We are the

527
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 6: wrong people to go to for celebrity deaths. Oh, that's hilarious. Well,

528
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 6: as we all celebrate the three year anniversary of the

529
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 6: death of an actor you couldn't name pain, you have

530
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 6: played a month us laughing on his three year anniversary,

531
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 6: the traditional three year anniversary.

532
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 2: We need to do better, we need to be better.

533
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 6: Well, and it just shows you how meaningful celebrity deaths

534
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 6: are because we probably made a d lot of it

535
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 6: when he died the first time.

536
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 4: Right when we played it, I thought, wait a minute.

537
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 6: Well, well will hit you with this again in four years.

538
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 6: I hope you're still listening.

539
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 7: Armstrong The Armstrong and Getty Show.

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00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 4: Jack and I have both been following the Caitlin Clark

541
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 4: story in the w NBA. She is. You know, I've

542
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 4: compared her to what Tiger Woods did to golf, but

543
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 4: it's much more than that. As as monumental as Tiger Woo,

544
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 4: Tiger Woods isn't on the Mount Rushmore of golf. You

545
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 4: might be Mount Rushmore of the modern game and all

546
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 4: the money involved, but golf as respect to the stars

547
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 4: of the past. Golf was already popular though. Oh yeah, yeah,

548
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 4: Like I say, I think the Big NBA was not

549
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 4: listen to this for a second. Caitlin Clark's impact merchandise

550
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 4: sales have soared six hundred and one percent. Her team,

551
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 4: the Indiana Fevers, viewership jumped one hundred and seventy percent.

552
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 4: The team's value has tripled. Wow League past TV subscriptions

553
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 4: of climb three hundred and sixty six percent since she

554
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,239
Speaker 4: joined the league last year. App engagement is up six

555
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 4: hundred and thirteen percent. Her endorsements of top to eleven

556
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 4: million dollars. Holy crap, I was trying to find my

557
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 4: quote from ice Cube. Do you remember he had offered her,

558
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 4: I think three million dollars to play in this three

559
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 4: x three league, and she decided to.

560
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 2: Go into the w NBA anyway. And he was.

561
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 6: Asked why he didn't offer, you know, big money to uh,

562
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Speaker 6: what's her rival's name, Reese, and he said, they're they're

563
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 6: in different Caitlin Clark's in a completely different stratosphere than Reese.

564
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Speaker 6: I mean, they're not even close to the same thing,

565
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Speaker 6: he said, as a you know, from the hood black

566
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 6: rapper who's always standing up for you know, the black community.

567
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 6: As a businessman, he said, they're not even close to

568
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 6: the same thing.

569
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: Right right.

570
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Speaker 4: So with that as the backdrop, I saw with interest

571
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 4: this piece by Sean McClain, who is you know, he's

572
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 4: actually got a history working for Ted Cruz and Marsha

573
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 4: Blackburn at Tennessee thinker, lobbyist, lawyer, et cetera. But anyway,

574
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 4: his headline is the WNBA in Caitlin Clark's civil rights.

575
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 4: If the league won't act to protect its superstar from

576
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 4: a hostile work environment, the government should do so. And

577
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 4: he talks about in spite of her being the economic

578
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 4: engine of the entire league, now she routinely faces intentional hits,

579
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 4: excessive fouling, uncalled abuse while referees look away. Quotes one

580
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 4: of her teammates, and and Caitlin Clark herself about how

581
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 4: she gets the hell beat out of her in a

582
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 4: way nobody else does in the league, and the refs

583
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 4: look the other way and the players get away with it.

584
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 2: Why would the refs look the other way. I don't know.

585
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 2: I get the players situation. I don't get the ref situation.

586
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 6: Well even the player situation, as Shaq and Charles Barklay

587
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 6: and as the others have said, what are you doing?

588
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 4: This is the best thing that has ever happened to you. Well,

589
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 4: here's where we're going. Is it because miss Clark is white?

590
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 4: A Jah Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces, three time

591
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 4: league MVP thinks so? She said that race is a

592
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 4: huge thing and that it boils my blood when people

593
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 4: say it's not about race.

594
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: Because it is. Wow, she said, as a black woman.

595
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 4: Under civil rights law, race motivated patterns trigger scrutiny even

596
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 4: without explicit discriminatory intent. And then he goes into miss

597
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 4: calls include viral replays of miss Clark being fouled multiple

598
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 4: times in a single possession. Analyst Rebecca Lobo said, every

599
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 4: single one of those is a foul. Miss Clark absorbed

600
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 4: seventeen percent of the flagrant fouls in the league Wow

601
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 4: last year. That is something the doubles the rate of

602
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 4: anybody else who was flagrantly fouled.

603
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Speaker 6: And they're claiming the claim there is by people who

604
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 6: know what they're talking about that. She gets hard followed

605
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 6: a lot when they don't call it. So all the

606
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 6: ones she called, one player she took seventy percent. That's unbelievable.

607
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 4: So this guy and we're not into like excessive lawsuits

608
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 4: and that sort of thing around here. What we'd like

609
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 4: to do is dismantle a lot of the DEI garbage.

610
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: But he writes the.

611
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 4: League has fostered a hostile workplace for MS Clark through

612
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 4: excessive fouling, targeting, and hostile comments from other players and owners.

613
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 4: These are not isolated, they're documented, continued, and ignored by officials.

614
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 4: The disparity in treatment invites real scrutiny. Not a single

615
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 4: player has been suspended for flagrantly fouling Miss Clark.

616
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 2: That's pretty interesting.

617
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 4: And he points out that that professional sports are multi

618
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 4: billion dollar industries and they're subject to the same civil rights,

619
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 4: antitrust and labor laws as anybody else. Wow.

620
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've never thought about this either, because just seems

621
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 6: like a unnecessary remedy.

622
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 2: But if you've got if you.

623
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Speaker 4: Given her money and power and popularity and everything, I

624
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 4: get it.

625
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 6: But if you've got a white employee of a business

626
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 6: who's getting the hell beat out of them because of

627
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 6: their race.

628
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 2: That seems like a thing.

629
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 4: Yeah you see, Oh Yukon Hall of Fame coach Gino

630
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 4: Arima says MS Clark's treatment isn't merely rookie Hayzen quote.

631
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Speaker 2: She's also being targeted.

632
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 4: I don't remember when Michael Jordan came into the NBA,

633
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 4: guys looking to go out and beat him up.

634
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 2: Of course, everybody got beat up.

635
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 4: In the NBA at that point, and then they get

636
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 4: into the Supreme Court rulings that it doesn't need to

637
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 4: be deliberate. It's just letting employees get favor more favorable

638
00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 4: treatment than peers due to race. The shifts the burden

639
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 4: of the employer to prove non discriminatory motives. Anyway, she

640
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 4: won't do it, but it's an interesting though.

641
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 6: I'm just surprised that there aren't more of the athletes

642
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 6: or they haven't come to the conclusion, like Shaq and

643
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 6: Charles Barkley have said, you know, you want to beat her,

644
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 6: you're competitive and all that sort of stuff. But good lord,

645
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 6: let her bring in the ratings, so all of a sudden,

646
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 6: you're relevant and your league might actually have a shot.

647
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 6: I'm making money right.

648
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,920
Speaker 4: Two things she is also in a smallest group of

649
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 4: straight players.

650
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 2: How big a role that place? I really don't.

651
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 4: But much more importantly, the WNBA players of today, unlike

652
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 4: Shaq and Charles Barkley, for instance, they are of the

653
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 4: generation that has been schooled on systemic racism and DEI

654
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 4: and the rest of it.

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Speaker 2: They believe that stuff.

656
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,959
Speaker 4: They're taught at their entire school careers, so they see

657
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 4: nothing but racism in Caitlyn Clark's popularity. I want to

658
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 4: take it out on her head.

659
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 6: She's the all time leading scorer men or women in

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Speaker 6: all of college basketball.

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Speaker 4: Now people just like her because she's white.

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Speaker 2: Right, I know, it's insane, it is.

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Speaker 4: It is ideological blindness that borders on mental illness.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd say, and to your own detriment.

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Speaker 6: I know, sometimes it's bad just because it's immoral, But

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Speaker 6: when it's actually hurting your salary, that's nuts.

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Speaker 4: Well right, In fact, that might be like the key

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Speaker 4: to the diagnosis of mental illness. As doctor Savage used

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Speaker 4: to say, liberalism is a mental disorder. If I'm so

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Speaker 4: racially resentful, I pretend that her popularity isn't that she's

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Speaker 4: an incredibly exciting player. Okay, all right, I'm kind of

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Speaker 4: off kilter, but if I do it to my own

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Speaker 4: detriment and that of my employer and my league and everything.

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