WEBVTT - She's A Loser & A Dope 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.720 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:25.680 and Getty and He Armstrong and Eddy not speaking that Sweet, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.400 I'm making from Republican. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:28.880 Who was. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.520 Very she's a registered Republican. Oh now, I love her head? 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:36.400 Is that right? 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.240 As Sidney Sweet, you'd be surprised at how many people 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.520 are Republicans. That's what I wouldn't have known. But I'm 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.280 glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.960 registered Republican, I think her head is fantastic. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.000 Trump understands that better than anybody. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.320 He understands sound bites, so he'll like, he gets information 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.440 like that and he thinks, Okay, here's the sound bite 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.120 Sydney's Sweeney being a ra I. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:04.040 Mean he repeats. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.399 That's one of the reasons he repeats things, so that 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.880 there is the sound bite for everybody to grab on 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:09.840 whatever topic. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:11.760 It's very clever. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:17.120 But yeah, well, it's surprising any young actresses is a Republican. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.960 Surprising a young person really is, But she is? And 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.880 when when whatever the name of this Jean's American Eagle 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:31.360 or whatever they are, Jeans contacted her agent and said, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.120 would she like to do a Gene ad? We'll pay her. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:35.959 What do you suppose she made doing that? Just a 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:41.120 guess half million dollars too much, probably less at least, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.160 oh at least that. Oh really, I don't have any 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.880 I don't have any idea, but okay, So the Jeans 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.040 people call her up and say, we'll give you two 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.520 million dollars to be a represented for the gene school. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.080 Where do we sign? 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.559 And she goes and she does the shoot probably took 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.000 two hours, with. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.200 Makeup, the whole thing. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.720 She had no idea that this is going to turn 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.960 her life upside down maybe forever. She might not get 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.000 roles in TV shows and movies because of this, because 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.919 it's too controversial now, especially now that she's it's known 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:20.160 that she's a registered Republican. Uh in fact, not probably guaranteed. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.400 There are shows that she would have liked to have 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.000 been on Netflix, series or whatever that she won't get 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.919 because it's not worth stepping in it. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.000 For the liberal left. I wonder she has no idea. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.960 That that that was going to happen when she decided 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.440 to do a Genes commercial, which generally you never hear 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.440 about well, you. 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.359 Know, this is an interesting question that I want to 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.440 consider for just a second. The reaction among like every 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.520 sane person in America has been this so called backlash 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.480 is stupid and nobody thinks like that, and the left 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.720 or just be clowning themselves better than ever. But you 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:03.200 think that the hardcore left in Hollywood will still think, Yeah, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.440 but she's tainted now by your association. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.639 Absolutely, they just said, just be a We've got two 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.400 attractive blonds could do this role roughly the same. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.119 Why the headache? Why take on the headache? Yeah? 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.680 I don't think so. I think she's bigger than that. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.720 I think it comes the other it comes out the 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:19.120 other way. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:21.480 But I hope so, because it would suck for her 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.480 to have her career affected by this in any way. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:24.839 It's just ridiculous. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.880 I mean, the controversy is ridiculous to start with, but 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.520 then like attaching. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.640 It to her is even dumber. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.600 Oh yeah, anyway, So a number of people made comparisons 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:41.440 last week to an appearance jd Vance made on a 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.280 podcast and the appearance that Kamala Harris made on The 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:49.520 Colbert Show. I was watching Mark Alprin's video cast over 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.280 the weekend in which they thought he is nonpartisan and 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.720 then he has a Republican and a Democrat as sidekicks. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.480 All three of them thought Kamala was horrible on Colbert 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.200 in a way that I didn't quite pick up on 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.000 the time. Specifically, she's had six months to figure out 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.360 how to answer a couple of things, and she still 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.040 seemed to be like you could see your wheels spinning 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:14.920 figuring out how. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.120 To answer what what? 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.279 You don't have a practice to answer for politics today, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:23.600 or you're rolling in or whatever. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:24.120 It seemed like. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.520 Anyway, Jad, that was like, you know, back on the view, 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:34.119 what would you do differently than Biden? Oh h gosh, 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.839 well you really pinned me down on the die. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.640 I hadn't anticipated that question. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.279 Yeah, she was like that on Colbert after six months 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.240 of probably thinking about running for president anyway, j d 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:51.120 vance completely different level of talent, and by the way, 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.800 on Mark Alpert's podcast with the Republican Democrat and Halpern 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.680 all think he is far and away the most likely 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.120 nominee for the Republicans and likely the next president that 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.520 because he is so good in getting better. Here's him 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.400 talking about to Sidney Sweeney situation on a podcast over 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:05.839 the weekend. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.160 My political advice to the Democrats is continue to tell 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.120 everybody who thinks Sidney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.920 That appears to be their actual strategy. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.520 And I mean it actually reveals something pretty interesting about 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.679 the Dems, though, which is that you have like a normal, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.840 all American, beautiful girl during doing like a normal genes ad. Right, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.760 they're trying to sell, you know, sell jeans to kids 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:33.360 in America, and they have managed to so unhinge themselves 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.120 over this thing. And it's like, you, guys, did you 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.120 learn nothing from the November twenty twenty four election. Like 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.240 I actually thought that one of the lessons they might 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.320 take is we're going to be less crazy. The lesson 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.920 they have apparently taken is we're going to attack people 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.279 as Nazis for thinking Sidney Sweeney is beautiful. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.640 Great strategy, guys, That's how you're going to learn the 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:53.159 mid terms. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.520 How much more comfortable is he in his own skin? 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.120 The person who is most comfortable in their own skin 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.880 is a person who genly wins elections. I don't think 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.560 his opponent's going to be Kamala Harris. I don't think 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.279 you'll even get to Iowa. But he is he is 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.760 pretty good. I was thinking about. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:09.240 This the other day. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.720 I was listening to some fellows discuss Kamala Harris's prospects 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.680 going forward, and they are miserable. They don't exist, they're 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.159 they're terrible. Nobody is impressed by her. She's a loser 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.359 and a dope, But you're a dope. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:22.520 That's talk. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:27.560 She is continually cited as a favorite. She topped the 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:32.000 recent completely meaningless name recognition Democrat poll. And it occurred 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.880 to me, as I was strolling along listening to this, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.640 that there is there, and nobody ever talked about this. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.080 There is a designation in the political world of a 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:47.400 person who must be taken seriously. And it doesn't matter 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.640 if in Kamala Harris's case, for instance, if she was 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:56.360 an appointed this Willie Brown's girlfriend anointed the attorney general 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:01.080 in a one party state, a DEI higher for vice 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.600 president after she washed out completely of the primaries. I mean, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.160 it was a humiliating defeat. But in spite of all 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.160 that losing, because Joe Biden plucked her to be the veep, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.160 she is a person who should be taken seriously. In 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.960 the defiance of all logic, she's nothing, she will do nothing. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.640 She has gone forget her back. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.560 To the Blue gene ad and what Jade Vance was 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.920 talking about, their lesson seems to have been that they 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.320 learned is let's go further in wolkness. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.800 I would put it. Meanwhile, back at the third Reich. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.200 Bill Maher on his show Friday Night said, and an 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.520 other uncomfortable racial news, sad news. We found out this 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.920 week that Sidney Sweeney is a Nazi, and of course 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.680 everybody laughed, No, she's not. But if you've seen the 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.160 ad we're showing it now, she's dressed like Jay Leno. 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.440 That's just a good point, which I thought was funny. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.800 And then he recites the line about the blue eyes 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.600 and I have good jeens and all that sort of stuff. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:52.080 He said. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.400 It also doesn't help that her bras Eyze is thirty 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:55.240 six KKK. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:58.360 That's a funny lie. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.320 And that the name that she gave her boo is 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.520 the Proud Boys. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.560 Wow, that's some good riffing, he said. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.760 It's also like, it's pretty funny that all the online 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.200 social justice girls are like, it's racist, there's no such 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.200 thing as good jeans. And then you go on Tinder 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:18.720 and swipe left on every bald guy, which is hurtful 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:18.880 to me. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.000 Of course that's true. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.400 So any comment on jeans as white supremacy, bad jeans, 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.640 bad jeans, bad jeans, as he swiped through all the guys, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.679 that is pretty funny. By the way, American Eagle stock 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.880 rose more than ten percent last week. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:33.760 There you go. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.640 Sidney Sweeney has not made a comment at all, although 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.560 somebody did get out that voting information, which I don't 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.080 think does her life any favors. Joe doesn't think it'll 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.800 hurt her. I hope it doesn't. How she votes shouldn't 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.920 make any difference anybody. And Donald Trump has another truth 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.720 out today about this topic. Sidney Sweeney, a registered Republican, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.280 has the hottest in all caps add out there. It's 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.680 for American Eagle and the jeans are flying off the 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.760 shelves in all caps. Go get them, Sidney. On the 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.960 other side of the Ledger, jaguared in a stupid and 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.400 seriously woke advertisement that is a disaster. The CEO just 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.800 resigned and the companies in turmoil. And he goes through 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.840 a number of other examples with bud Light and that 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.960 sort of stuff. So right, Trump, recognizing where you know, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.120 there's a little fire that he can jump into and 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:19.800 make some hay with. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.360 All right, here's my favorite comment comes from this journalist 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.520 by the name of Charlie Wartzell, who was writing in 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.640 the Atlantic. And just as a little background, Warzel used 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.160 to work at the New York Times, where he sobbed 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.880 like a little girl during the emergency staff meeting, remember 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.520 the mallet excuse me, maoist struggle session over whether the 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.920 paper should publish that op ed by Tom Cotton. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.160 You remember how that caused that. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.240 Just a uproar within the paper that a sitting US 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.319 senator would write an editorial in which he turned out 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.880 to be completely correct, But it just tore their woke 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.960 newsroom apart. But anyway, during the meeting over that, Wartzell 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.440 is crying like a baby. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:06.320 Baby. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.360 Wartzell was upset because quote, none of my friends want 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.640 to talk to me anymore because I worked for this horrible, 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:19.120 evil newspaper. So anyway, here's this, this you need new friends, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.680 This half a man child now writing for the Atlantic. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.679 Let's see, he was attempting to write, I'm going to 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.960 quote Andrew Styles now of the Free Beacon. He was 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.520 attempting to write a cerebral lamentation about how quote the 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.760 discourse is broken or whatever, while insisting the criticism of 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.680 the ad campaign makes sense because of, you know, all 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.599 the racism out there. Wartzel's rhetoric really shines when analyzing 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.240 the political implications of hiring Swedey to sell jeans. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:49.679 Quote. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.000 Her image has been co opted by the right, accurately 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.520 or not, in part because of where she's from, the 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.880 Mountain West, and some of her hobbies fixing cars. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.320 Even her knew any of this, none of it, and 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:02.760 don't care. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.800 Even her figure has become a cultural stand in for 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:11.520 the idea published and pushed by conservative commentators that Americans 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.520 should be free to love boobs. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.600 What I know. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.480 I know, even her figure has become a cultural stand 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.320 in for the idea pushed by conservative commentators that Americans 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.040 should be free to love boobs. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.520 So that's kind of interesting that to kind of go 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.800 with like being curvy as a right wing thing. Because 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.360 the New York Times had an op ed piece I 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.360 was going to get to later why the right is 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.680 obsessed with thinness when diet culture meets conservative morality. That 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.400 is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:43.080 In my life. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.320 It's as if they're using some sort of AI powered 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.800 random fake aggrievement headline generator. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.600 Are you people serious? 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.120 I know what's it like to live your life like that, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.880 constantly looking for some excuse to bellow about somebody else 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.000 being you know, unenlightened. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:02.679 We will get to that later. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.280 How the right is obsessed with thinness and it's somehow 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.120 white supremacy or awful or something when Obestie's one of 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.480 the biggest problems we've got in America. But what did 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:12.840 you say we're doing? We got something. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:18.040 This campus madness update coming, oh so much madness, oh goodness. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.840 And a bunch of other stuff. Stay here, armstrong. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.680 The World Swimming Championships, the US saved it's best for last. 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.480 The women's four by one hundred med League team broke 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.480 its own world record in today's final race in Singapore. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.400 Reagan Smith, Kate Douglas, Gretchen Walsh and Tory Husk bested 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.280 the old mark by twenty nine hundredths of a second. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.400 And getting ready for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:47.640 next summer, I think, so, sach right, Yeah, maybe I'll 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.120 look at that number, dear, I'll look that that's why Americans. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.160 Don't care about global warming. If the oceans cover of 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.760 the Earth, we're the best swimmers. It's fine. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.439 Speaking of the world of sports, maybe an hour four 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.800 we'll get to a lawyer believes Caitlin Clark has a 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.800 serious civil rights case against the WNBA if she wants 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:09.320 to make it. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:10.920 I doubt she does. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.800 But that's interesting because she's getting the hell beat out 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.000 of her night after night, and they hit us with 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.840 some of the statistics, and it's undeniable and it's almost 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.199 never called. And it's because of race, and if not race, 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:23.840 sexuality or both. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.559 So anyway, Summer Olympics in Los Angeles are in twenty 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:32.680 twenty eight. Oh, we got a compangners the Summer Olympics. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.240 I peaked too. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.160 Early in my training. I thought it was next year. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:39.040 Dang it. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.880 So speaking of swimming, Oh, we don't have much time. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.520 We're talking about this sort of person who actually tries 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.880 to get offended by the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad and 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.600 talks about eugenics and the rest of it and what 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.520 they're like. Katie had this headline like a week ago. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.120 I was intrigued enough that I dug into it. Yes, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.480 ful World, Mermaiding gains popularity in DC area. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.119 And it's all about these. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.400 Gals mostly and a couple of guys who get together 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:11.520 once a week or more. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.520 And they like in the don mermaid tales. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.600 Some of them like really expensive dotted with sequins, lined 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.400 with seashells and waddle into the water and splash around 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.200 and pretend to be mermaids. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:32.640 I like the headline in stressful Times mermaiding a new 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.160 verb helps calm people down. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:39.960 Okay, Yeah, living here is fast. Everything is fast. There's traffic. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.440 There's so many people that feel suffocating sometimes. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.360 Children. You all need to have children. You'd be busy 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.680 raising your kids. You wouldn't have time for this crap. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.160 Have a job in children takes care of so many problems. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.920 You don't worry about all these extraneous bs things if 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:56.200 you have. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:56.960 A job in children. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:02.000 Wow, says the fascist Mermaiding is luring attract is attracting 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.920 murfolk who are either looking for a unique form of exercise, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.600 a deep sense of community, or something to take them 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.280 out of their everyday live. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.240 Did you say murpholk. That's correct. Yes. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.440 Although there is no official census, the Mermaids of the 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.280 Washington area estimate, they have the second highest population in 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.880 the country beyond Florida. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.240 In fact, jack two years ago. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:26.200 Their community was featured heavily in the Netflix docuseries Myrrh People, 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:31.160 which focused on several aspiring mermaids volatile journeys to earn 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:36.320 admittance into elite pods, such as the circin Circus Siren 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.440 Mermaid Pod in Laurel, Maryland, which is one of the 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.480 most exclusive mermaid pods. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.440 And there's a lot here. We could do a whole 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:45.320 podcast on this. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.320 It's just creating a safe space for people to have fun. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.920 A lot of people who need a place to feel accepted. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.480 Blah blah blah. Is there a single person doing this 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.480 who is ever in their life voted Republican? 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:00.480 Of course? 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:06.840 Not Pretending to be a mermaid in your free time 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.080 is a certain sort of person. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:10.320 You meet a woman. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.120 I'm from Ohio, I like wine tasting, I have two sisters. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.280 I dress as a mermaid on weekends. You what, now, 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:18.480 what was that last part? 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.240 For a few hours a week they slip on their 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.480 mirsna take some shelfies with friends. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.800 So it seems like one of the main parts of 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.720 dressing as a Mermaid is puns that seems to be. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.840 Might be more important than the water. It's certainly an 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.240 important part of it. But these people are very normal Jack. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.320 For instance, this dance costume designer who changed your name 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.400 to Targarian after the family from the Game of Thrones 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.160 and has purple hair and more piercings than a pin cushion, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.600 get a job having a kid. She goes by the 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:01.720 name Mermaid Montara. Oh my god, Yeah, I know, I know. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:02.760 It takes all kinds. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:08.080 I guess Mark Zuckerberg's willing to pay somebody a billion 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.040 dollars if he can put him in first place with AI. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.320 That's a pretty good job. Among other things on the way. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.920 Armstrong and Getty's mom the American Eagle website. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.880 I'm gonna get me some of them Nazi jeans before 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:25.480 they sell out. Coming up, chat, GPT lied to me 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.960 for the first time ever, like really misled me. It 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.960 damaged It damaged our relationship. I'm not pretty gunshy. Wow, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.360 So that coming up. And also Zuckerbird's willing to throw 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.360 a billion dollar salary at somebody if they can put 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.160 him in first place. Throwing around money for a half 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:48.639 that yeah, okay, big AI update. First though, it's a 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.360 campus madness update. 0:17:50.480 --> 0:18:04.800 Oh what madness? Oh that's the madness part. He's not 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:09.120 digging it. I can't remember. Is there more of that? Okay, here. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.720 Handful of headlines for you, Jack, And we could really 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.200 spend a significant amount of time on any one of these, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:20.840 but it definitely goes to the fact that crusaders against 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.840 the rot on our college campuses and actually our primary 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.040 and secondary educational systems too. We are not cherry picking. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.080 It's more like we're standing in the midst of a 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.680 cherry orchard and you're accusing us of cherry picking. That's 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.440 I mean, we're surrounded by cherries. Anyway, I'm going to 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.000 start with this, which is a little different than the 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.440 other headlines. But it was The New York Times doing 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:46.280 a story on how the federal policy changes changed on 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.959 pell grants and the Big Beautiful Bill and higher education 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.159 grants and federal loan caps and the rest of it. 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.520 And what was interesting to me about this, and I'm 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.399 sure you'll appreciate this too, Jack, is that they mentioned 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.919 that the reason this discussion is so important is that 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.200 the average cost of public higher education in the the 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:11.439 United States has adjusted for inflation more than doubled since 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:19.840 nineteen eighty, and they don't spend a single word no less, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.199 I'm sorry, certainly not a sentence or a paragraph in 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.760 asking why doubles that. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.960 Right, doubled since nineteen eighty sounds low to me by 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.120 a lot. The only thing they. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.719 Talk about is why government is not doing more to 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.840 hand people money to pay for it because it's more 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:39.600 than doubled. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:41.600 It's way more than doubled. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:49.480 Absolutely nuts, Yeah, yeah, this is public colleges who right anyway. 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.080 But like I know a couple of specific examples of 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.400 it's doubled since people I know went in the nineties. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:56.840 Well right, right. 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.040 But the point obviously is that the New York Times 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.600 doesn't even have the question, just a question of government 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.600 grants to talk about a different mindset. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.920 A bunch of headlines here, this is something else. 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:14.000 As it reloads three to one and we're back. The 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:18.439 largest teachers union in America is pushing Holocaust education that 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:23.359 erases Jews. The NEA now describes the Holocaust as having 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:28.320 twelve million victims from different faiths, without mentioning the attempted 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:30.160 extermination of the Jewish. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.119 Pele wow as mostly Jews, as we all know as 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.920 a chunk of Catholics and Gypsies and other people too, 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:36.880 but it's mostly Jews. 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:41.520 But so they're just going with different faiths. Okay, Yes, 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.359 in fact, that was the plan all along. You may 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.680 have heard of Hitler. He wrote a book about it 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.520 in which he expelled he spelled out exactly what he's 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.959 going to do, but not to the NEA. Speaking of 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:58.480 the NEA, they just scrubbed their twenty twenty five handbook 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:03.760 from their website. But the internet is forever, and various 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.639 school choice advocates have preserved all of it for all 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.919 of us, and the ENEA this is this year's handbook 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:16.040 says educators must acknowledge the existence of white supremacy culture 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:20.360 as a primary root cause of institutional racism, structural racism, 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:25.359 and white privilege. And educators must work to prohibit institutionally 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:32.199