Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes out for the season. Mahomes suffering that torn
Speaker 3: acl in the loss of the Chargers. Kansas City now
Speaker 3: out of playoff contention, Mahomes is expected to need surgery,
Speaker 3: but the Chiefs head coach Andy Reid now says the
Speaker 3: Mahomes will get a second opinion before any surgery.
Speaker 4: After a decade of winning the division every year and
Speaker 4: showing up in the Super Bowl practically every year, the
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs are done. Some of you are excited
Speaker 4: about that. Some of you are not the casual fan.
Speaker 4: So many casual fans and Chiefs clothes that I've seen
Speaker 4: around the country because they've been the number one team
Speaker 4: for so long.
Speaker 2: Nic But they're big star, really really hurt. God.
Speaker 4: They got to be almost happy to have a break.
Speaker 4: They've got to be after going deep in the playoffs
Speaker 4: that many years in a row. You've i mean, they
Speaker 4: played like an extra two seasons or something like that
Speaker 4: over teams that weren't in the playoffs. You got to
Speaker 4: be worn out.
Speaker 1: I'm sure as guys who are fanatically competitive, they're disappointed.
Speaker 1: But when they're relaxing watching football on the TV with
Speaker 1: families and playing golf with buddies and no longer getting
Speaker 1: a crap beat out of.
Speaker 2: Them, they might think, yeah, this isn't so bad now, boys.
Speaker 4: One of the kind of weird things that happened that
Speaker 4: allowed Michael Jordan to have that six championship run was
Speaker 4: he took a break in the middle. You don't usually
Speaker 4: get to do that where you're not, you know, playing
Speaker 4: an extra half a season every year and grinding yourself
Speaker 4: down and having to focus so much. You get a break,
Speaker 4: a sabbatical, come back and try it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, huh.
Speaker 4: If Patrick Mahons is hurt, hurt like uh, will never
Speaker 4: be the same, that'd be a really big deal for
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It amazes me how guys bounce back from the serious
Speaker 1: tendon tears, knee knee problems, knee surgery.
Speaker 2: Is that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I think I would be terrified for the rest of
Speaker 1: my life and taking the wrong step, And these guys
Speaker 1: are eluding biamoths and getting smashed into But you see
Speaker 1: it over and over again.
Speaker 2: I wish him well, it seems like a really nice
Speaker 2: young eluding Biamuth. Yeah, exactly. Should do we have a
Speaker 2: little clip of white Christmas?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a little little clip. Cool. I'm excited
Speaker 2: about that Christmas. Legally, that's how.
Speaker 1: Much we can play right for rules having to do
Speaker 1: with licensing and podcasts and that sort of thing. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I came across an absolutely wonderful, incredibly moving bit of
Speaker 1: journalism writing thinking about that song, which is the top
Speaker 1: selling single of all time and it's seven Is that correct? No,
Speaker 1: it is not, actually, but that's kind part of the story.
Speaker 1: It was recorded in nineteen forty as part of the
Speaker 1: music for Holiday In and the Molly in the Hotel. No,
Speaker 1: it's no, that's the name of the movie. I think
Speaker 1: the hotel chain came afterward. Interestingly, the movie Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's my wife's favorite movie. Really, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've never even heard of holiday In. It's
Speaker 1: practically on a loop during the Holiday Show kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so it's it's one of the several popular songs
Speaker 1: from that movie. But by the time the Christmas season
Speaker 1: the movie came out in nineteen forty two because of
Speaker 1: production delays and that sort of thing. But anyway, it
Speaker 1: came out in nineteen forty two. And what modern folks
Speaker 1: don't realize is that, much like the song I'll be
Speaker 1: Home for Christmas, the fame and the emotional weight of
Speaker 1: the song had everything to do with World War Two.
Speaker 1: We had hundreds of thousands of guys overseas and the
Speaker 1: song and the thoughts of snowy treetops and carefree children
Speaker 1: were an incredible comfort, kind of a bittersweet comfort to
Speaker 1: the guys fighting overseas. Servicemen requested it again and again
Speaker 1: and again on our Armed Forces radio, and it was
Speaker 1: the top selling song of the year.
Speaker 2: In nineteen forty two.
Speaker 1: And then in a twenty sixteen article, Howard Crosby was
Speaker 1: Ben Crosby's nephew, told a story about being He said,
Speaker 1: I once asked Bing about the most difficult thing he
Speaker 1: had ever had to do during his entertainment career. He said,
Speaker 1: in December nineteen forty four, he was in a USO
Speaker 1: show with Bob Hope and the Andrews Sisters. They did
Speaker 1: an outdoor shore show in northern France. At the end
Speaker 1: of the show, he had to stand there and sing
Speaker 1: White Christmas with one hundred thousand gis and tears without
Speaker 1: breaking down himself. And of course a lot of those
Speaker 1: boys were killed in the Battle of the Bulge a
Speaker 1: few days later.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oof. And that feeling of longing.
Speaker 1: For home and the people at home longing for their
Speaker 1: men overseas and women in some cases nurses, and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing was part of why that song had
Speaker 1: such enormous weight for people emotionally and why you know,
Speaker 1: it's also just a beautiful, beautiful song.
Speaker 2: Well most one of the reasons it's as huge as
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 4: Obviously, it is because it's still very popular to hear
Speaker 4: around Christmas time, and we ain't thinking about World War
Speaker 4: Two when we're hearing it right when I heard it
Speaker 4: for the first time.
Speaker 1: Well, interestingly, a final note on this, because of the
Speaker 1: way records were manufactured back in the day, the song
Speaker 1: became so popular after the war that Decca Records wore
Speaker 1: out the original master tape by nineteen forty seven and
Speaker 1: summoned Bing to re record the version, which is the
Speaker 1: one we know and love today. Okay, so that's why
Speaker 1: when I played it off Apple Music the other day,
Speaker 1: it said nineteen forty seven, they had to.
Speaker 2: Re record it, Yeah, exactly. I wonder how similar it
Speaker 2: is to the original.
Speaker 1: Substantially, I would guess. I don't imagine they'd mess with it.
Speaker 1: But that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I were in charge of Decat Records, I'd say
Speaker 1: I want the same freaking guys playing violin.
Speaker 2: Don't change anything. They wore out the original.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they re released it so many times. White
Speaker 1: Christmas is available to stream on Amazon Prime. Amazon soon
Speaker 1: to be in charge of everything on Earth that's Amazon anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember hearing years ago about I'll be Home for Christmas,
Speaker 1: which you know most people think of is, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to drive back to Kansas or whatever, see
Speaker 1: the folks, No, my god. It was about being in
Speaker 1: a fox hole and wanting to live long enough to
Speaker 1: be home for Christmas.
Speaker 2: I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.
Speaker 2: That was all about the troops.
Speaker 4: I've been doing like probably a lot of people are doing,
Speaker 4: where you just kind of get a general Spotify or
Speaker 4: Apple Music or Iron Music or whatever you're using Christmas
Speaker 4: music list, and it gives you and it's got everything
Speaker 4: from Bing Crosby and forty seven singing White Christmas to
Speaker 4: Ariana Grande singing some pop Christmas song now and everything
Speaker 4: in between, and they vary a lot. And I like
Speaker 4: the older classics classics? Is that just because I'm old?
Speaker 4: I mean I like the stuff that was all recorded
Speaker 4: before I was born. Mostly, Yeah, as opposed to anything
Speaker 4: more modern.
Speaker 2: But that's just me.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have a reindeer gormy in my chestnuts than
Speaker 1: hear the latest Ariana Grande Christmas song. Please well, give
Speaker 1: me Andy Williams, give me Bing, give me Dean Martin.
Speaker 4: Has that Mariah Carey song made it to the standard
Speaker 4: list yet, because that came out a long time ago,
Speaker 4: and that's a very very big hit for Christmas music present.
Speaker 4: I keep hearing the what was the one where they
Speaker 4: raised money for starving kids in Africa?
Speaker 2: That one? I keep hearing that a lot. Yeah, do
Speaker 2: they know it's Christmas by band Aid? Mm hmm. It's
Speaker 2: catchy tune.
Speaker 4: It is a very catchy tune, and the cause kind
Speaker 4: of like came and went quickly, but it's very catchy
Speaker 4: Christmas song.
Speaker 1: It's actually the lyrics are very dopey if you listen
Speaker 1: to them, because they completely ignore the fact that a
Speaker 1: they may be vaguely aware that it's Christmas both most
Speaker 1: of them are Muslims, so do they know it's Christmas
Speaker 1: time at all? They're Muslims, they're starving Muslims, They're not.
Speaker 1: It isn't that they're starving, it's that they're Muslims. With
Speaker 1: all due respect to Bono and members of various groovy
Speaker 1: groups back in the day, Wham whatever, Huey Lewis, who
Speaker 1: has a lovely turn in it, Cindy Lauper at all,
Speaker 1: but their hearts were.
Speaker 2: In the right place.
Speaker 1: They're trying to do good, anti money for starving pape
Speaker 1: what come on? But again, the lyrics kind it dumb. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. I don't know if that was
Speaker 1: pointed out at the time. I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: We acted like everybody in Africa's starving, had a Christmas
Speaker 1: tree up pushing they had food. Part of that was true.
Speaker 1: Half of that was true. That's true, the other not
Speaker 1: so much. Why are we raising money for the Scouts
Speaker 1: this week? Well, I'll explain that in a little bit
Speaker 1: and see where we are. We have a gender is
Speaker 1: it a gender benning madness?
Speaker 2: We got this hour? Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Gender Bending Menace update at the bottom of the hour. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a blockbuster. It explains so much of the social
Speaker 1: contagion of adolescence identifying as transgender and the nightmare of
Speaker 1: then activist adults mutilating them because they're momentarily confused. I
Speaker 1: there ought to be trials for this and soon. Oh,
Speaker 1: the job's numbers are out too. We ought to touch
Speaker 1: on that. Maybe we'll get to that soon. Stay here, yo, yo,
Speaker 1: how you doing so?
Speaker 4: The theory is this time of year we try to
Speaker 4: raise money for something good, and I know for me,
Speaker 4: it's the idea that I'm spending a lot of money
Speaker 4: on myself and my kids and indulgence and that sort
Speaker 4: of stuff, and so throw some money toward a little
Speaker 4: making the world a better place seems like a good idea.
Speaker 4: And we're trying to raise money for Scouting and hoping
Speaker 4: to raise a hundred thousand dollars. We got a bunch
Speaker 4: of texts yesterday and various people like this thank you
Speaker 4: for choosing to support Scouting. Two of my sons are
Speaker 4: Eagle Scouts, and one is very close Now. My husband
Speaker 4: and I have committed to volunteering with Scouting from Tiger
Speaker 4: Scouting all the way up until now. Man, Like a
Speaker 4: lot of things ban programs, youth sports, scouting, the way
Speaker 4: I'm seeing parents, moms and dads, the amount of time
Speaker 4: that they put into this, whether it's going on some
Speaker 4: of the camping trips, or being at the meetings, or
Speaker 4: running some of the various merit badges and stuff like that,
Speaker 4: and now of course for free.
Speaker 2: You know, you're all.
Speaker 4: Donating your time. Just tremendous amount of time involved. Very impressive. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I agree with your comments of out how it makes
Speaker 4: responsible little adults little by little over time with the program.
Speaker 4: My boys have been well prepared for interviewing for jobs
Speaker 4: and attending college. And I believe a large part of
Speaker 4: it is because of their scouting experience. And we've got
Speaker 4: a lot of stuff about well this one for instance,
Speaker 4: the experience in being a good citizen, learning how to
Speaker 4: serve the community and help others, which I really really like,
Speaker 4: and I mentioned since my son joined scouting, I think
Speaker 4: it's the best thing that has happened in his life.
Speaker 4: And I've seen kids that were sixteen years old that
Speaker 4: seem like they're twenty eight years old. And I feel
Speaker 4: like in the modern world. I see the reverse most often.
Speaker 4: I see twenty eight year olds who seem like they're sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, And I don't want to go into
Speaker 1: this much that we've had some people express concern about
Speaker 1: certain changes in recent years at the Scouts and stuff.
Speaker 1: But as a force for a good, particularly in lives
Speaker 1: of young boys and young men, it's just indisputable that
Speaker 1: it is that, and it's important and it gives it's
Speaker 1: so good for how many.
Speaker 4: Organizations are still saying the pledge of the Allegiance and
Speaker 4: doing the flag ceremony if the US flag and all
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff. Anyway, we're raising money. We're gonna
Speaker 4: do an update here in a second, so we do
Speaker 4: the thing when we raise money where you can either
Speaker 4: can we explain why we're raising money to do what?
Speaker 4: Oh right, so more kids can join. So it costs
Speaker 4: some money to be in. It's gonna be at least
Speaker 4: a couple of hundred dollars to get your kids signed up,
Speaker 4: and some people just decide I can't afford that. And
Speaker 4: so this is basically scholarships to be to be able to,
Speaker 4: you know, say hey, we'll cover that Scouting and be
Speaker 4: able to say hey, we'll cover that for a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of different kids so that they can get signed
Speaker 4: up and you know, get this leadership opportunities or learn
Speaker 4: the pledge of allegiance because they're not teaching them to
Speaker 4: you a school or whatever.
Speaker 1: Right instead of having them on the streets with the
Speaker 1: streets being their mentors.
Speaker 2: Not good.
Speaker 4: But we always do this thing where you can donate
Speaker 4: with your name, you can donate anonymously, or you can
Speaker 4: come up with a funny name. For instance, Jack's Wet
Speaker 4: Sheets donated two hundred and sixty dollars.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that's your comforter technically right, Gavin needs it more?
Speaker 2: Twenty five bucks? Is that like it? Like? Yeah, are
Speaker 2: you getting any like that kind of needs it more?
Speaker 2: Hell is going on? No? I don't know either, Gavin. Um,
Speaker 2: there's one more funny one I wanted to get to.
Speaker 2: Where didn't that go? Hip?
Speaker 4: Anonymous? And like the hippopotamus? I guess one hundred bucks? Oh,
Speaker 4: our boss dropped the hundred bucks. Thank you to our boss, Steve.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Thanks Steve.
Speaker 1: Appreciate here's how much good betes roll your little uh
Speaker 1: drum roll for us.
Speaker 2: Will you should learn that as there.
Speaker 1: We were training there in Dunkirk, World War One veteran Gladys.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your service.
Speaker 2: Thirty eight and eighteen dollars. There you go, thirty eight
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. We're barely two days in. Everyone's gonna help
Speaker 2: a lot of kids to have a lot of great experiences.
Speaker 4: We're exposed to a lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 4: stations all over the place. If you just go to
Speaker 4: Armstrong and getdy dot com, twenty five bucks. Come on,
Speaker 4: you're gonna spend that much when you go through the
Speaker 4: Starbucks drive through today.
Speaker 1: Twenty five bucks, fifty bucks something again, pittances, Oh, Armstrong
Speaker 1: a getty dot com donate now.
Speaker 2: The button's super easy.
Speaker 4: I wonder if Hay to find had you heard any
Speaker 4: spin on the jobs numbers that are out today?
Speaker 1: Number, so I attempted to take them in. It's a
Speaker 1: full time job trying to understand the jobs numbers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the US added sixty four thousand jobs in November.
Speaker 4: The unemployment rate rose a little bit. It's four point
Speaker 4: six percent. It's the highest in four years, fueling questions
Speaker 4: about America's economy underlying strength. All Right, it's always all
Speaker 4: the numbers that come out every month, are always fueling questions.
Speaker 2: Of course, the.
Speaker 1: Federal government employees employment shrank by six thousand November, adding
Speaker 1: to a massive loss of one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 1: thousand federal jobs in October. Federal government employment is down
Speaker 1: by two hundred and seventy one thousand since January. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of how enormous the federal government is.
Speaker 4: Well, the adding of sixty four thousand jobs was ahead
Speaker 4: of the expectation, which I don't get that whole thing,
Speaker 4: but they were expecting forty five and they got sixty four,
Speaker 4: So you bought.
Speaker 1: The unemployment rate rose more than expected. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: telling That's what my little joke about a full time job. Overall,
Speaker 1: economists describe the current labor market as a low fire,
Speaker 1: low higher environment.
Speaker 2: That's good because it rhymes. That is true.
Speaker 4: They put a lot of work into making sure you
Speaker 4: got rhyming phrases or alliteration.
Speaker 1: Sure, alliteration is very important. Oh, that reminds me. Had
Speaker 1: we had a pre show meeting tipping point?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, we had a pre show meeting worthy You know,
Speaker 1: I was somewhat annoyed by the fact that the gender
Speaker 1: Bending Madness Update, which is coming up in just a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes and it's a blockbuster, also has it
Speaker 1: shares the word madness with a campus Madness update, and
Speaker 1: Katie decided or suggested campus chaos update.
Speaker 2: I like that. That's a good So that's the new.
Speaker 1: Name, and it's got a literation, so that makes it
Speaker 1: more true.
Speaker 2: Is that the way it works? Yes? Oh yeah, with
Speaker 2: the rimes are right, Yeah, everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we certainly hope you're gainfully employed if you'd
Speaker 1: like to be, and if you're not, we wish you well.
Speaker 2: Been there, done that, hated it.
Speaker 4: So the three big stories, they got a new lead
Speaker 4: in the search for the Brown University shooter. Okay, I
Speaker 4: think that is going to be turned out to be disappointingly,
Speaker 4: frustratingly mundane and just another kind of crazy, adjacent, angry
Speaker 4: person who decided to kill people. Those stories are horrifying.
Speaker 4: I don't know what we do about that. In the
Speaker 4: Rob Reiner story, his son is going to be charged
Speaker 4: with murder probably today, a couple murders. And the only
Speaker 4: greater significance I can see to that story is what
Speaker 4: do we do with drug addicts? Who are out there
Speaker 4: on the street and we know they're drug addicts and
Speaker 4: they're dangerous, and they they're still doing the thing.
Speaker 2: What do we do with that crowd?
Speaker 1: If that young man couldn't be saved by compassion and
Speaker 1: rehab and money, what do we do right.
Speaker 4: For the average person on the street where you don't
Speaker 4: have even close to the resources to throw at them.
Speaker 4: That's the big question about the Rob Reiner thing. To me,
Speaker 4: that's what we should be discussing rather than his celebrity.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: I hope your Christmas is holly and jolly. I really
Speaker 2: do again. It rhymes, so it's more true. That's what
Speaker 2: we've discovered.
Speaker 1: Hey, how about a gender bending madness update. Oh it's
Speaker 1: the blockbuster.
Speaker 2: I kept hearing about this thing called by the loco.
Speaker 2: We're a brave among sane people.
Speaker 1: The craze, the trend feels like it's over, but man
Speaker 1: institutions are doubling down on the madness. Uh, there's all
Speaker 1: sorts of stuff to get to, so leticious dive right in.
Speaker 1: First of all, a transidentified male serving a twenty two
Speaker 1: year sentence for the violent murder of his own mother
Speaker 1: was quietly transferred into a minimum security Illinois women's prison
Speaker 1: with a mother baby unit. John Wesley Finegan, who began
Speaker 1: calling himself Hannah Dagne in twenty fourteen, approximately five years
Speaker 1: into his prison term, was transferred to.
Speaker 2: The Kush Women's Prison. Wow.
Speaker 1: Recently, yes, a story that ten years ago, every human
Speaker 1: on earth would have said, what, that's the stupidest.
Speaker 4: Thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: Again, you got to undo that before ten years from
Speaker 2: now they'll say.
Speaker 4: It, or ten years ago women's groups should have been
Speaker 4: marching over that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Absolutely outraged.
Speaker 1: Another tidbit here, a shortest story than I'm going to
Speaker 1: get to the main thing I wanted to get to.
Speaker 2: But a.
Speaker 1: Woman's group has been formed at Cambridge University, The Cambridge
Speaker 1: University Society of Women, an association for female students at
Speaker 1: the university, quote providing a place for free speech, discussion
Speaker 1: and association among women. Here's the problem, they said, no women,
Speaker 1: biologic biological sex is.
Speaker 2: Real and immutable.
Speaker 1: In other words, men who call themselves trans cannot become women,
Speaker 1: therefore cannot join the Cambridge University Society of Women. Within
Speaker 1: forty eight hours of its founding, more than thirty other
Speaker 1: societies at Cambridge had signed a document denouncing it. This
Speaker 1: is in the present day, friends, So on the universities
Speaker 1: in some governments Blue states, they are pushing this stuff hard.
Speaker 2: We need to push back.
Speaker 1: The groups who signed the agreement to decriede quote feminism
Speaker 1: without intersectionality as not effective, considerate, or productive and reiterated
Speaker 1: that the underside organizations quote are safe spaces for transgender
Speaker 1: and gender queer students. Soon after that, of petition circulated
Speaker 1: on campus to ban the society completely. And the gal
Speaker 1: who founded it as an undergraduate where, who says where
Speaker 1: unless you supported what she called the omni cause of
Speaker 1: progressive dogma, you're in the intellectual minority claiming sex based
Speaker 1: rights and pointing to sex based depression by extension. That
Speaker 1: was such a bad view to hold, she said, speaking
Speaker 1: of her experience in undergrad unbelievable. But here's the part
Speaker 1: I really wanted to get to about the social contagion
Speaker 1: of adolescent girls identifying as transgender or whatever queer.
Speaker 2: Because it's hot, it's hip.
Speaker 1: And then we pointed out the study that came out
Speaker 1: fairly recently. Over the past decade, the number of young
Speaker 1: Americans identifying as transgender non binary rose sharply then declined
Speaker 1: just as sharply cut.
Speaker 2: In half in the space like two years. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: This pattern invites an obvious political story transgender identification fell
Speaker 1: out of fashion due to a cultural backlash, or it's
Speaker 1: a lesser and or it's lesser prominence and left wing politics.
Speaker 1: But there's another more subtle explanation for the pattern. And
Speaker 1: this is the part that I found super interesting. As
Speaker 1: we all right try to understand human beings, we're such
Speaker 1: a weird species. It's all about the dynamics of signaling.
Speaker 1: In a crowded social environment, human beings spend a surprising
Speaker 1: amount of time sending in decoding signals about who we are,
Speaker 1: what we value, and where we stand. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this jack a lot, you know, virtue signaling and tribal
Speaker 1: messaging and stuff like that. Most of these signals entail
Speaker 1: costs we are willing to bear, like time, money, social risks,
Speaker 1: sometimes even bodily alteration. And they mentioned various examples various cultures.
Speaker 1: The central claim of signaling theory, which was developed independently
Speaker 1: in economics and evolutionary biology, interestingly enough, is that costly
Speaker 1: signals are a more reliable indicator of underlying traits or
Speaker 1: commitments than cheap ones.
Speaker 2: This is because.
Speaker 1: Cheap signals can be easily faked by those who don't
Speaker 1: I won't possess the relevant traits. For example, and this
Speaker 1: is an animal example from you know, evolutionary biology, the
Speaker 1: peacock grows colorful and elaborate plumage to signal to the
Speaker 1: PN that it is capable of surviving despite being encumbered
Speaker 1: with such a handicap. Don't worry, I'll bring it home
Speaker 1: to human being. So when it comes to gender, the
Speaker 1: same principle applies. Declaring an identity is a low cost
Speaker 1: signal to show that you're down with the group, that
Speaker 1: you're progressive, that you're woke. It costs you practically nothing,
Speaker 1: especially when it's a craze as compared to say, undertaking
Speaker 1: medical transition or changing your legal documentation, or living in
Speaker 1: ways that carry social and professional risks. Individuals who incur
Speaker 1: those costs actually get surgery, for instance, send stronger, hard
Speaker 1: to fake signals. Hence, when signaling environment changes when too
Speaker 1: many others are sending that week easy to fake signal,
Speaker 1: the payoff shifts. You don't get any credit for it anymore,
Speaker 1: and so we see a fall in transgender identification. In
Speaker 1: other words, you're a thirteen year old girl, do you
Speaker 1: want to show you're down with the trans thing and
Speaker 1: the queer thing and you're no bigot, and you're woke
Speaker 1: and you're modern and the rest of it.
Speaker 2: You say, yeah, I'm gender queer.
Speaker 1: Even though you have no sexual thoughts whatsoever, or maybe
Speaker 1: just you're an adolescent.
Speaker 2: But then when.
Speaker 1: Everybody's doing it, you don't get any credit for it anymore,
Speaker 1: and the only reason you're saying it is for the
Speaker 1: social credit. So you see a rate of transgender identification
Speaker 1: plunge in an impossibly short time if it was all sincere.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of an example of it on
Speaker 4: the right, because you know, everybody's susceptible to the wanting
Speaker 4: to signal to their group. Hey, I'm part of the group.
Speaker 4: What would be an example of a like a difficult
Speaker 4: to do signal that shows I'm really down as opposed
Speaker 4: to a week and you know, driving a big is
Speaker 4: that one?
Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what it would be. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's a really good question. I would have to newtilance
Speaker 2: through for a while.
Speaker 1: If anybody can come up with anything, drop us a
Speaker 1: text four one, five, two nine five KFTC or for
Speaker 1: one all right, I'm sorry a mailbag and I'm strong
Speaker 1: egiddy dot com. So they've got a couple more examples.
Speaker 1: I think you'd probably get it at this point. The
Speaker 1: university degree is often less about the content of Shakespeare
Speaker 1: metaphysics than about demonstrating traits like intelligence, persistence, and conformity.
Speaker 4: Hilarious that you suggested they teach Shakespeare anywhere, But I
Speaker 4: get to your point.
Speaker 1: Right anyway, So but that use that was the conventional
Speaker 1: wisdom about a degree.
Speaker 2: Uh, you don't need that degree for this job.
Speaker 1: But the fact that you have the degree shows that
Speaker 1: you're reasonably bright, you're persistent, you stuck with it and
Speaker 1: finished it.
Speaker 2: Uh, and you can follow rules and get with a system.
Speaker 2: That is been my experience.
Speaker 4: That graduate degree gets thrown around without it matter really
Speaker 4: what the degree was in or anything like that. It's
Speaker 4: you went to graduate school. You can use just quote
Speaker 4: everything counts.
Speaker 1: Right, right, But so then if degrees become a walk
Speaker 1: in the park with great inflation and you don't even
Speaker 1: not show up to class anymore, that signal is it's
Speaker 1: worthless now. So anyway, I thought that was a super
Speaker 1: interesting little melding of science and human behavior.
Speaker 2: Let's see one more.
Speaker 1: And I wish we had more time for this, but
Speaker 1: it's becoming absolutely undeniable, the link between transgenderism and autism.
Speaker 1: The number of autistic kids who are trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who they are, why they're not like everybody, why
Speaker 1: they don't belong. And as the parent of autistic kid,
Speaker 1: I will tell you that being accepted is extremely important
Speaker 1: because they don't get that. They don't get acceptance because
Speaker 1: they are different, if you prefer the term neuro divergent.
Speaker 1: And so if someone offers them warm acceptance and you're
Speaker 1: one of us and we think you're cool, autistic kids
Speaker 1: will often leap at that.
Speaker 4: Dang it, I didn't know that that is something. So
Speaker 4: you got a kid they're.
Speaker 1: Lonely, They're profoundly lonely, to put it frankly. You got
Speaker 1: a kid that's, you know, however far down the spectrum
Speaker 1: of autism, and you're dealing with this, whoa, that's a
Speaker 1: lot well. And to my point, though, who will offer
Speaker 1: those lonely alienated kids immediate, warm, enthusiastic acceptance if they
Speaker 1: agree with.
Speaker 2: The party line?
Speaker 1: The intersectional crowd, the transgender crowd, the radical gender theory folks,
Speaker 1: and critical race theory.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, you've got a group and friends
Speaker 4: and you're being cheered. Yeah, I can see why that'd
Speaker 4: be very appealing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And maybe we'll carve that one out and spend more
Speaker 1: time on it another time because it's super interesting. But
Speaker 1: then finally I wanted to get to this one, and
Speaker 1: this is from the extremely responsible Free Press winging it.
Speaker 1: What the gender doctors say in private and footage obtained
Speaker 1: by the Free Press. Gender doctors acknowledge they perform life
Speaker 1: altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence, and
Speaker 1: they're proud of it.
Speaker 2: They are active.
Speaker 1: They are radical activists that want to erase the gender divisions.
Speaker 1: That's part of critical theory if you go back to
Speaker 1: the origins of it in the you know, you know
Speaker 1: France Fanan and what's his name, Michelle Fuco, they wanted
Speaker 1: to erase all binaries and all divisions between people. Will
Speaker 1: get to some of these sick ohs and what they
Speaker 1: think and actually say behind closed doors afterward from our
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Speaker 1: Free Press from the twenty twenty one conference of the
Speaker 1: US Professional Association for Transgender Health.
Speaker 2: That's your.
Speaker 1: Upath, us path whatever. There's a social worker with the
Speaker 1: transgender health program at the Oregon Health and Science University
Speaker 1: speaking about a case of an adolescent who wants to
Speaker 1: be made to look as if they have no sex
Speaker 1: at all. And they were describing this eighteen year old
Speaker 1: who was living on his own for the first time,
Speaker 1: and he explained a desire to look like Barbie down there. Wow,
Speaker 1: Sky was this person's name, reported being asexual, never had sex,
Speaker 1: having no desire to have sex in the future. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Sky did not want to feel any pleasurable sensation and
Speaker 1: hope removal of all arogenist tissue would be possible.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a person with some serious issues. That is
Speaker 4: precisely right.
Speaker 1: And as this doctor writes in the Free Press, not
Speaker 1: long ago, a patient like Sky would have been given
Speaker 1: a psychological evaluation and offered mental health counseling. But in
Speaker 1: the evolving world of gender medicine, clinicians now want to
Speaker 1: help young people like Sky achieve their gender goals, and
Speaker 1: they go into nullification procedures and that they're not as
Speaker 1: accessible as they should be, and.
Speaker 4: Nullification being there's a name for not wanting to be either.
Speaker 2: Nullification. That's the first time we've heard that term. We
Speaker 2: got to talk more about that coming up.
Speaker 4: Stay here, So wrapping up our conversation. So I was
Speaker 4: one hundred percent aware obviously of various surgeries people get
Speaker 4: to be a different sex, you know, present, physically, whatever
Speaker 4: how you want to look at it.
Speaker 2: I didn't because it can't change your sex.
Speaker 4: I had not not come across the word nullification though,
Speaker 4: where people want to be neither like a ken doll. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they want to be completely non a non sexual being,
Speaker 4: meaning neither male nor female, and that the number of
Speaker 4: those poor metal ill people are growing in number.
Speaker 2: What do you have you gotta urinate out of something?
Speaker 2: Do you have a faucet? Souh.
Speaker 1: So this this person who's giving the speech that that
Speaker 1: when confronted with a patient like Sky who are talking
Speaker 1: to talking about existing research and standards of care are
Speaker 1: not enough to meet the needs of our patients, and
Speaker 1: we need to take it to the next level to
Speaker 1: really think about how we evolve and match the need
Speaker 1: of our patients as their needs are being expressed to us.
Speaker 1: And then the psychologist who is working with the young
Speaker 1: confused young man agreed and described doing just that. Here's
Speaker 1: where it gets sick. And here's my point. These people
Speaker 1: are such lunatic extremist activists, the psychologists. Here's where it
Speaker 1: gets sick. Okay, we haven't gotten sick yet. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no kidding. The psychologist told the conference that quote, it's
Speaker 1: important to reframe the role of the mental health person
Speaker 1: or the psychologist as a collaborator rather than a gatekeeper.
Speaker 1: That meant, she explained, making sure that patients with serious
Speaker 1: mental health problems such as multiple personalities in psychosis, are
Speaker 1: not excluded from gender surgery just because the team is
Speaker 1: quote uncomfortable operating on them.
Speaker 4: That's the definition of the usually said as a negative phrase,
Speaker 4: the inmates are running the asylum.
Speaker 2: Yeah right right.
Speaker 1: This Mary Marsiglio mayor Marsiglio was the name of the
Speaker 1: psychologist said that being a member of the surgical team
Speaker 1: provided the opportunity to help the patient navigate care. This
Speaker 1: is especially necessary when what is requested by the patient
Speaker 1: is a surgery that has not been performed before or
Speaker 1: is of higher risk.
Speaker 4: I would like you to cut off my foot. Well,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a gatekeeper. You're in charge
Speaker 4: of your care. I'm just here to do what you ask.
Speaker 2: Even people with.
Speaker 1: Serious mental health problems like psychosis should not be excluded
Speaker 1: from gender surgery just because the team is uncomfortable operating
Speaker 1: on them and really.
Speaker 2: Has no idea what they're doing. People are so nuts.
Speaker 2: You've taken it so crazy far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. This is beyond. This is
Speaker 1: so far beyond, you know. And these examples are seen
Speaker 1: but teaching teaching kids to hate their country or that
Speaker 1: white people are responsible for all the evil in the
Speaker 1: world or whatever. This is mutilating children. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not the like people become convinced that they should have
Speaker 1: white guilt and therefore have their healthy breasts removed or
Speaker 1: their genitals altered, or take puberty blockers that change their
Speaker 1: bodies for the rest of their lives. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is doctor mengelas stuff. Anyway, I'm sorry to end on
Speaker 1: such a troubling note, but it's a gender betting madness update.
Speaker 4: So earlier in the show, Joe had the break news
Speaker 4: of an article in the New York Times Peter Baker
Speaker 4: and others talking to Susie Wiles, who is so close
Speaker 4: to Donald Trump, and she said a bunch of praily
Speaker 4: shocking things about the President and other people in the
Speaker 4: White House. She has responded, and we can get into
Speaker 4: what she said again a little bit later if you
Speaker 4: want to. She's the damn chief of staff. She has responded,
Speaker 4: and she's been close to him for a long time.
Speaker 4: The article, published early this morning is a disingenuously framed
Speaker 4: hit piece on me and the finest president, white House staff,
Speaker 4: and cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded, and much
Speaker 4: of what I and others said about the team and
Speaker 4: the President was left out of the article. So she's
Speaker 4: distancing herself from the article that she sat down for.
Speaker 2: I have no doubt that's true, at least partly.
Speaker 4: You have no doubt that it was taken out of
Speaker 4: context or not presented exactly the way she said it.
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, Whether it's seventy percent accurate and thirty percent
Speaker 1: to jack up or vice versa. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: for instance, her saying mister Trump has an alcoholics personality,
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine putting that in a context that
Speaker 1: would soften that.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: High functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are
Speaker 1: exaggerated when they drink. And so I'm a little bit
Speaker 1: of an expert in big personalities. While Trump does not drink,
Speaker 1: she said, quote, he has an alcoholics personality and operates
Speaker 1: quote with a view that there's nothing he can't do, nothing,
Speaker 1: zero nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I guess she's not presenting that as a negative, which
Speaker 4: doesn't have to.
Speaker 2: Be right right.
Speaker 1: I mean, like by normal standards, we cite Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: a lot. His competitiveness is borderline psycho and it made
Speaker 1: him the greatest basketball player on earth and successful in
Speaker 1: one championships.
Speaker 2: Is that a bad thing or a good thing? It's
Speaker 2: more complicated than that. Interesting.
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