1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack arms Strong, Jetty arms Strong, 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: and jettat Gee I'm Strong and Strong. Not live from 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: studio scene. We're still not back at work. You can't 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: make us come back until the year twenty twenty six, 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: So enjoy the Armstrong and Getty replay. 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: So we're kind of all over the place on this 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 2: conversation about you know, we're droning people in boats because 9 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 2: they're sending drugs to the United States and considering them 10 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 2: committing acts of war. Well, at the same time, I 11 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: got one hundred thousand people that drink themselves to death 12 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: every single year, and that's legal, and we legalize pot 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 2: and a whole bunch of different states, and now at 14 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 2: least a couple of states are looking at making it 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: illegal again for a variety of reasons, which is pretty interesting. 16 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: I wonder if that's going to become a trend. Yeah. 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 3: One of the the leaders in this trend, he talks 18 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 3: about how, in the style of the cigarette companies, especially 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 3: and to some extent, the alcoholic companies, it's a business 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 3: that promotes addiction. Their entire business model is they need 21 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 3: more addiction. I mean, there's unquestionably an addiction, whether psychological 22 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: or physical, to marijuana. 23 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: To just be on displayed. A lot of people deny 24 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: that they're wrong, and. 25 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 3: There you have a five times greater chance of psychosis 26 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 3: developing serious psychotic conditions if you're a heavy marijuana smoker. 27 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 3: And it's funny whenever we talk about this, we get 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 3: the one stoner who says, why don't you guys do 29 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 3: some research. That's totally not true. I've been smoking dope 30 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: for twenty years and it hasn't affected me. Yeah, okay, 31 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: apparently you've smoked too much dope to understand what five 32 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 3: times more likely means, So. 33 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: Thanks for the note. 34 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 2: Anyway, I've also known a few stoners who had really 35 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: sad lives who talked about how it hadn't hurt that many. 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: I've known a few in my life. You don't do anything. 37 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 2: You sit on the couch as an overweight person with 38 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 2: no friends or romantic interests, watching television, and you talk 39 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 2: about it has had no effect on your life. 40 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: Well, it's possible, but hmm, sad. 41 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 3: So apparently, when the University of California at Berkeley isn't 42 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 3: busy in doctrinating your kids to despise their country and 43 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 3: become Marxists. They actually still do some science, and in 44 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 3: this case drunken monkey science. Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts 45 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: of alcohol from ripe fermenting fruit, and careful measurement shows 46 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 3: that their typical fruit diet can equal one. 47 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: To two human drinks each day. 48 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 3: Now, aside from being just interesting and somewhat amusing on 49 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 3: his face, it supports the idea that alcohol exposure is 50 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 3: not a modern human invention but an ancient primate habit. 51 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 3: The work strength the drunken monkey hypothesis and opens new 52 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 3: questions about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment. 53 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 2: So the equivalent of a human drink because they're smaller 54 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 2: than us, aren't they one to two? 55 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: Yeah? What's a chimpanzee? Way, that's forty pounds. I don't know. Oh, 56 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: actually the bigger than that. Yeah, I think they are. 57 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 3: A standard drink in the US contains fourteen grams of 58 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 3: ethanol irrespect of the consumer's body size, although in much 59 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 3: of Europe's standard is tand grams. 60 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 2: Learn to drink Euros. Do you have any adult drinks 61 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 2: around here? Trying to enjoy myself. 62 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, what they don't know is whether chimpanzees 63 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 3: deliberately choose fruits with higher ethanol levels to take the 64 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 3: edge off. Those tend to be riper and richer in 65 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 3: sugar that can for men, so they might just taste better. However, 66 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 3: many of the fruit species they regularly contain measurable ethanol, 67 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 3: indicating that alcohol is routine part of their menu and 68 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 3: probably present in the diets of our human ancestors as well. 69 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: We got a number of texts on the whole We're 70 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 2: not bombing distilleries, but we are bombing drug traffickers. You know, 71 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: ventanyl marijuana versus booze thing, a couple of them being 72 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 2: that ventanyl pretty decent change you keep messing around. Fentanyl's 73 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 2: going to kill you, very unlikely, that booze is gonna 74 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 2: kill most people. 75 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 3: Right, Nobody's ever cracked open a Miller light and died 76 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 3: because Miller put you know, seven thousand times the alcohol 77 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 3: in that can. 78 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: There's also the we tried banning booze once and it 79 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 2: didn't go well. The fact that you just can't is 80 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 2: part of it. Irma gird I totally forgot. 81 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 1: Today is the. 82 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 3: Anniversary of the twenty first Amendment that repealed the Was 83 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 3: it the twenty first or twenty second? I can never remember. 84 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 3: I'd probably drink too much that repealed prohibition. 85 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 2: Today the anniversarve it's the twenty second, because I've known 86 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 2: a few bars called the twenty second Amendment. 87 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 3: And liquor store is right, Yeah, that's why you know, 88 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 3: I clicked in my head. But but anyway, yeah, it 89 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 3: was passed just in time for the holidays. Oh really, 90 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 3: to the delight of many. And today is the anniversary, 91 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 3: so cheers to that. 92 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 2: The worst part of that whole thing, of course, being 93 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 2: it's kind of like the way COVID was, the important 94 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 2: and powerful did whatever the hell they wanted. The rules 95 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 2: only applied to you, and that's the way it was 96 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 2: with booze. And that's really really maddening. You know that 97 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 2: politicians are the rich or whoever they were drinking as 98 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: much as they ever drank. It's just that you regular 99 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 2: working class people can handle it. I can, right, right. 100 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 3: And one other aspect of this that's always bothered me, 101 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 3: and it's funny, we haven't talked about this for a 102 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 3: long time, is that if you have a society that 103 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 3: becomes legal overly legalistic, where the only question is is 104 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 3: it illegal or not? Illegal, lawful or not, as opposed 105 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 3: to is it a good idea or not? Is it 106 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 3: moral or not? Does it make me a better person 107 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 3: or not? I would much rather have things. I would 108 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 3: much rather persuade people than persuade the government to use 109 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 3: its guns to get people to live better live. 110 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the things I really hated about 111 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 2: when marijuana really caught on as illegalizing. It was just 112 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 2: the non stop, here we go, one hundred percent, this 113 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 2: is fantastic without any you know, smoking pot on a 114 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: regular basis might not be the best thing for your life. 115 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 3: Let's keep that in mind. It's practically guaranteed not to be. 116 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 3: And that says a guy who used to smoke a 117 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 3: substantial amount of pot. Looking back, it didn't do me 118 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 3: any good. I enjoyed it at the time. It made 119 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 3: movies kind of more entertaining, etc. The grass was greener, 120 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 3: blah blah blah. Music sounded really great. But I love 121 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 3: music anyway. I still love music. It's just, yeah, you're 122 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 3: right to act as if it's an unambiguous good and 123 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 3: harmless is just dishonest. 124 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: For some reason, I keep thinking of Todd Snyder, one 125 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: of my favorite musicians of all time. There's a punchline 126 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 2: to this here. Uh had some song where he talked 127 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: about people like drugs. They're gonna do drugs, and it's 128 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 2: not which drugs, it's which drugs the companies allow you 129 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 2: to do or blah blah blah. He had this very 130 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 2: cynical attitude about people trying to regulate drugs and everything. 131 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 2: Like he's dead now at age fifty nine, as of 132 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, as a guy who just 133 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 2: couldn't ever wrap his head around drinking and doing drugs, 134 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 2: always thought it was hilarious that anybody would try to 135 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 2: make him quit, And now he's dead as a fifty 136 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 2: nine year old. 137 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 3: Because yeah, yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Well that was much more 138 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 3: serious than my drunken chimp characterizations of a few minutes ago. 139 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 2: The one thing we talked, do the monkeys drink to excess? 140 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 2: Do they ever get drunk? That's an interesting thing because 141 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 2: they have what ninety ninety percent of our biology. Do 142 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: they ever drink too much and wake up and think, 143 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 2: whoa wow, Well, I gotta gotta take a I gotta 144 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: do a dry January or something. 145 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: Thanks for out a half. 146 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Actually, it's very very rare according to the scientists, 147 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 3: because they feed on fruit throughout the day and it's 148 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 3: the fermented fruit that gets them a buzz on. But 149 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 3: to actually feel intoxicated and chimp would need to eat 150 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 3: so much fruit that it would be painful. 151 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 2: Well that see, that's interesting. That gets back to that's 152 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 2: kind of like with the weed thing. You know, your 153 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 2: old time hippies will say now that this weed that 154 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 2: you're buying at the store is nothing like what I 155 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: was smoking at Woodstock, where you could smoke it all 156 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: day long and you know, stay on your feet and 157 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 2: keep your mind. 158 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: And it's the same with a lot of booze. 159 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 2: Our founding fathers drank all day, every day beer that 160 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 2: just barely had alcohol in it, similar to monkeys to 161 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 2: get drunk enough to cause yourself any problems, you did 162 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 2: even thrown up to drink that much of the beer 163 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 2: that they had at the time. 164 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: We should just have less potent booze. Certainly, there's an 165 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: argument there. Yeah, you less potent. 166 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: Pot just kind of ketch a light buzz going, that's 167 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 2: what you want, well, right, exactly, Yeah, stay on top 168 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: of the waves. 169 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 3: So what would stress chimps out that they need a 170 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 3: couple of drinks at the end of the day. Probably 171 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 3: the whole mating thing, or I don't know. 172 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: The whole mating thing. 173 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 2: It's a pretty big for all beasts, yes, qualting thing, 174 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 2: but that's not stressful. 175 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 3: That's more like, hey, baby, why do you Why don't 176 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 3: we have a couple of fermented mangoes and and you 177 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,359 Speaker 3: sit on my lap. 178 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: And you wake up with an orangutang? 179 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 3: Yeah? 180 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: What did chimps do all day? They just gather food, right, 181 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 2: They peeled bananas upside down and mate and attend to 182 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 2: their little cute little chimp kids. Monkeys peel their bananas 183 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 2: from the bottom unlike humans, and I've tried to do that. 184 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 1: It's not easy. 185 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 2: I don't know if you have to have the monkey 186 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 2: fingernails or grip strength right, like, not the stem end, now, 187 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 2: the other end. Yeah, that's the way they feel banana, 188 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 2: isn't that. I would think they've got a better handle 189 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 2: on it right now. 190 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 3: I was joking earlier that perhaps the chimps had, you know, 191 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 3: a henpecking wives and they had a couple of. 192 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: Drinks to take the edge off. But long was irresponsible, 193 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: long day in the jungle. 194 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 3: God, I told you I will strip the leaves off 195 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 3: this stick and turn it into a tool this weekend. 196 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: Can I watch the game? 197 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 2: It's my new chimp sitcom Chee Cheese Place, right and 198 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 2: which she has a couple of drinks every day like 199 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 2: a human. 200 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 4: This show is brought to you by the Official Animal 201 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 4: of Long Island. 202 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: Ticks, ticks, get it off me, Get it off me. 203 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 4: I don't forget high school graduation air horns for ten. 204 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 4: This is some big accomplishment with high school graduation air horns. 205 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: And finally time and all time and all no it. 206 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 3: Does if Colin Jost doing a broadcast from Best Page 207 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 3: Black during the Ryder Cup, that didn't sound like him. 208 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: Official Animal of Long Island. 209 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 4: The tick. 210 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 3: Get it off me? Had to take a tick off 211 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 3: my wife the other day. Really, Yeah, you want to 212 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 3: live in the woods, you're gonna get ticks now and again. 213 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 3: Where if you have a big furry dog, where on 214 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 3: her was the tick? 215 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: Or is that private? 216 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 3: That's a little personal that they generally go where like 217 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 3: an article of clothing stops, so like a shoulders, not 218 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 3: to what do you call it your color? 219 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: But since I've teased this like five times. I should 220 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 1: probably mention it. 221 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 2: So I needed to get a ride from a lift 222 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 2: the other day because I had a truck that was 223 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: getting repaired. 224 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 1: So I need to get ride from my house there. 225 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 2: And I get picked up by this guy and uh, 226 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 2: we're talking a little bit, and he's got a very 227 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 2: thick accent. And I asked him where he's from, older dude, 228 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 2: and he said that he was from Libya, and he 229 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 2: started talking about his I asked him about his car. 230 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 2: That's how originally he started. I said, what, here's your 231 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 2: camera and he said, oh, it's a twenty four and 232 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 2: blah blah, blah blah. I said, my brother drives in 233 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 2: ninety nine and he said, good for him. He said, 234 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 2: because I had I had a two thousand and three 235 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: that I put two hundred and seventy five thousand miles 236 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,599 Speaker 2: on it, and there's no reason to get rid of 237 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 2: one unless you have to. And then he started talking 238 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,319 Speaker 2: about this is a sidebar. I didn't know this, but 239 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 2: with Lyft and Uber, they prioritize rides based on how 240 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 2: new year car is, which is an incentive for if 241 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 2: you're a Lyft driver, your car is getting older to 242 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 2: replace it with a newer one, because you get way 243 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 2: more rides set your way if you have a newer vehicle. 244 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 2: He said, it wasn't anything wrong with his older Camra, 245 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 2: but he gets way more rides with a twenty four 246 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 2: than he did with a with a two. 247 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: Thousand and two or whatever. It was interesting. I did 248 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 1: not know that. 249 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 3: You know, it's funny having taken a lot of rides 250 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 3: in London that visually every car I was in was 251 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 3: brand spanking knew that explains it. 252 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: Huh, But he said, uh. He said, I didn't buy this. 253 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: My daughter bought it for me. 254 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 2: She's a I forget something in the medical field. He 255 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 2: had three daughters that he had brought to this country 256 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 2: that all went to UH universities and got degrees and 257 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 2: are doing really really well. And he is just he 258 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 2: was just so optimistic about the United States. And I 259 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 2: started to ask him about why. I asked him where 260 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 2: he's from. Then he said, and I said, so were 261 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: you there during Momar Kadaffi And he said, oh yeah, 262 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,439 Speaker 2: my entire life was Momar Kadaffi ruined the country. And 263 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 2: he said it's worse now. The new guy is worse 264 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 2: than Momar Kadafi was, which was interesting to me. I 265 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 2: I wasn't not aware of that story. But you know 266 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 2: that's the guy, the Muslim brotherhood, guy that took over 267 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 2: you know that whole thing that's serious. Oh you're right, 268 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: So who took over in who took over in Libya? 269 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter lawless. 270 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 3: To every question about Libya as whole count Nice job, 271 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,839 Speaker 3: Hillary Obama, way to take out the leader with no 272 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: plan of succession. 273 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 2: But the the main threat of this whole thing is 274 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 2: what is the deal with so many immigrants that come 275 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 2: from really awful countries, so happy to be here, get 276 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 2: their kids here, do well, versus the crowd that marches 277 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: in the street with the flag from the former country 278 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 2: and is angry about the way we're treating. 279 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: Them and lecture us about how you can't get ahead. 280 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 2: And is there any way, because I gotta believe there 281 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 2: are tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people 282 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 2: around this world that are like this guy, who would 283 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 2: love to get here and would be happier and craft 284 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 2: to raise their family here. Is there any way we 285 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: can make sure those people get in here and the 286 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 2: people that want to get here and complain about it, 287 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: stay the f out. 288 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 3: You know, we get used to stuff that is so 289 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 3: abhorrent that you'd think you couldn't possibly get used to it. 290 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 3: Picture me as an immigrant to pick a country. I 291 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 3: don't know Germany As a young person, I thought I 292 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 3: might live there, so I usually use it as an example. 293 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 3: And I was somewhat annoyed with German immigration policy, and 294 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 3: I organized a bunch of American expats to protest that policy, 295 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 3: and we marched through the streets waving American flags, and 296 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 3: thought that would do us anything good, and maybe throwing 297 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 3: rocks at cops and setting things on fire exactly. That 298 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 3: would be effing crazy and stupid and unproductive. And the 299 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 3: people at Germany should probably, oh, I almost said something unfortunate, 300 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 3: They should probably move swiftly to export my ass back 301 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 3: to where I came from. 302 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 2: Uh. 303 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: And how could any. 304 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 3: Country not react that way, because we've gotten used to that, 305 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 3: it's absurd. 306 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: Well, my point is, since there's I think there are 307 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 2: plenty of the other kind of immigrant that would love 308 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 2: to be here and would work really hard and do well, 309 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 2: let's just prioritize them. You don't want to care to 310 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 2: swap them out. V I endorse your plan. I'll pay 311 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 2: for your damn ticket. Get out, don't ever come back. 312 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 2: I don't care what you don't like about the country. 313 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: It doesn't get any better than this. If you can't 314 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 2: make it here, you can't make it anywhere. Get the 315 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 2: f out and bring in the hundreds of millions of 316 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 2: people that would love to come here and raise their 317 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 2: kids and be really successful Like this guy. 318 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 3: Run America like a hot nightclub. Two people leave, two 319 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 3: more come in you too, Come on in, Come on in. 320 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 3: You're hard workers. You love this country. Glad to have 321 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 3: your welcome friends. This guy had not the tiniest. 322 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 2: Thing negative to say about his situation in the United 323 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: States of America. 324 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: He's thrilled to be here and raise his kids here. 325 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 2: Talking about the opportunities that they would have never had 326 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 2: back in his home country of Syria, Liberty or Lebanon, 327 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 2: whichever one it was. 328 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: And maybe Latvia. Nobody's sure. 329 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 2: He's certainly not going to be waving his country's flag 330 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 2: and attacking cops and complaining about it. 331 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: God, why wouldn't we put up with that? Why didn't 332 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: we put up with that? 333 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 3: You don't like it, go the freak back, right, God, 334 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 3: that makes me mad. We're off track. We're so off track, 335 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 3: and then we're trying to get closer to on track. 336 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: But it's going to take a minute. 337 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 2: The fact that the media so often sympathizes with the 338 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 2: people from other countries complaining about being here, be believe 339 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 2: there are plenty of people that want to be here, 340 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 2: that would love it. 341 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: It's Jack Armstrong and Joe the Armstrong and Getty Show 342 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: five seven time. 343 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 2: You'd be listening to protesters having an eighties aerobics class 344 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 2: outside of the Portland Ice facility, said Jack. 345 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 3: As a protest, they all held an eighties stal aerobics class. 346 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 3: Now they've gone too far. Actually, that's a very Portland protest. 347 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: I like that, Katie. 348 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: I have to let you know. 349 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 5: At the end of that, it just pans to a 350 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 5: man in a giant, furry blue fox costume. 351 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: Wait, oh boy, did we have uh did we have 352 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:03,439 Speaker 1: women in leg warmers? 353 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 3: Oh? 354 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: Yeah? And the leotards, the hall, the whole thing. Let's 355 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: get physical, physical. Let me hear your body talk physical. 356 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: That is such a Portland protest. I love that. 357 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 3: Portland be Portland. You're not La don't shoot people, You're 358 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 3: not Manhattan. Don't smash windows. Do this, it's funny, it 359 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 3: gets attention, it's quirky, and your protest is duly noted. 360 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: And you didn't spray any bear spray in some poor 361 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 3: cops eyes. Well, who's just doing a freaking job anyway, 362 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 3: Speaking of the woke mind virus. 363 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: I find this so incredibly amusing and satisfying. I can 364 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: barely stand it. 365 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 3: The Sierra Club, the time honored environmental group, is collapsing. 366 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 3: That part doesn't make me happy, because I think they 367 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 3: probably in some form have a role to play. But 368 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 3: they just to broaden their mission beyond environmentalism to include 369 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 3: a variety of social justice causes, and the organization has imploded. 370 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 3: The storied environmental nonprofit became one of many omnik cause shells. 371 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 3: They now call for defending the police and black reparations. 372 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 3: For some reason, they've denounced their founder, John Muir. Naturally, 373 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 3: the argument is always the same. Defunding the police is environmentalism, 374 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 3: and reparations is connecting to making sure swallows don't go extinct. 375 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: But it's not. 376 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 2: So they've had to go after John Muir, the founder, 377 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 2: because he wasn't woke yet in the eighteen hundreds or whenever, 378 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 2: he went okay. 379 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 3: Quoting for a moment the brilliant Nelly bowls from the 380 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,199 Speaker 3: Free Press. According to a longtime Sierra Club activist, they 381 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 3: had only two full time employees fighting against Trump's incursions 382 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 3: into the Arctic refuge. Maybe you're in favor of that, 383 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 3: maybe you're against it, but they had two people working 384 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 3: on that. But then seriously, one hundred and eight full 385 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 3: time employees working on diversity, equity and inclusion. Wow, one 386 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 3: hundred and eight and low, and the old donations collapsed 387 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 3: and they're gone. Oh yeah. 388 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 2: Also, if I'm an environmentalist and I've been given money 389 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 2: to the Sierra Club my whole life, I would be 390 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 2: so mad to find out that they've taken on the Palestinian. 391 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: Cause or whatever, even if I agreed with them. 392 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 2: As opposed to I'm trying to donate money to you to, 393 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 2: you know, stop the spotted owl from being run over 394 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 2: by cars or whatever they do. 395 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 3: But in the way that the woke mind virus ties 396 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 3: you up in knots. They put out a list of 397 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 3: terms to avoid, which we'll get to in a minute, 398 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 3: but it also tells them not to celebrate clean energy 399 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 3: jobs unreservedly because fossil fuel jobs are more likely to 400 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:47,880 Speaker 3: be unionized. 401 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: Oh seriously, this is at the Sierra Club. 402 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 3: The Sierra Club's Equity Language Guide says not to use 403 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 3: the words vibrants are hardworking because they have racial overtone. 404 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 1: Hardworking has racial overtones. Well, that makes sense, s white supremacy. 405 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 2: The whole Queers for Palestine being pro trans should be 406 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 2: lumped in with free bosses, free pre k abortion rights. 407 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: Electric cars should be paired with you know, children should 408 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 2: be able to get trained surgeries. 409 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense to anybody except for like two 410 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 1: percent of it. Do you realize that? All right? But 411 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: they're very, very loud. 412 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,479 Speaker 3: So the Saquira Club has lost sixty percent of its 413 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 3: four million members and supporters from twenty nineteen sixty percent. 414 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 3: It's held three rounds of employee layoffs. It's got a 415 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 3: forty million dollar projected budget deficis deficit, all because of 416 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 3: the Woke Mind virus. Unbelievable in a downward spiral, a 417 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 3: group of managers wrote in a letter reviewed by The 418 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 3: New York Times to the club's leadership in June, during 419 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 3: Trump's first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, 420 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 3: its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other 421 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 3: progressive causes. 422 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: Those included, of course. 423 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 3: Racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights, and more. 424 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 3: They stand by that shift today. Here's the group's new 425 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 3: executive director. Who, Lauren, you're going to preside over it 426 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 3: crashing into the ground. 427 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: Quote. 428 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 3: As long as climate change and environmental protection are viewed 429 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 3: as just being concerns for a limited group of elites, 430 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 3: we lose. We only win by building a powerful, diverse movement. 431 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 2: Now it's common to say, if what if you had 432 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,959 Speaker 2: dug up Thomas Jefferson and told him what was going 433 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 2: on today, that sort of thing. 434 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: But this might be the all timer. 435 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 2: If you dug up John Muir brought him back to 436 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 2: life and could explain to him that his organization that 437 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 2: was all about saving the trees or having the water 438 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 2: be clean or whatever, was. 439 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: Now being used for surgeries for trans children. You wouldn't 440 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: be able to explain it. Oh, I know. 441 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 3: And this, Lauren Blackford's sweetheart, if you're listening, you're as 442 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 3: dumb as one of the spotted owls you're trying to puy. 443 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: Well, you used to try to protect. Maybe you're smarter. 444 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 3: Well, she threw in that that these concerns are for 445 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 3: a limited group of elites. Climate change, environmental protection in general, 446 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 3: we only win win by building a powerful, diverse movement. 447 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 1: Lauren, you simpleton, You've destroyed your. 448 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 3: Organization by dedicating it toward the OMNIK cause you're not environmentalist. 449 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: You're a Marxist. You're a Marxist. Everybody else at this 450 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: year club. How can you not say? Well, they probably do, 451 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: but they've been fired. 452 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 3: She's arguing that's the only way for the organization to 453 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 3: succeed when it is clearly, undeniably the way it is 454 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 3: failing and dying. 455 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 2: Although she might say, yeah, I am a Marxist, Yeah 456 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 2: you got it. Congratulations, you caught on, and you can 457 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 2: say that all day long. 458 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 3: Nobody will believe you because you're a right winger and 459 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 3: nobody believes when you call people Marxists. 460 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: Yeah. 461 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 3: So yeah, they started, you know a few years ago, 462 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 3: and just kept going and going and going. You know, 463 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 3: I could turn, I could talk to you about how 464 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 3: they denounced John Muir, but you've nailed it more or less. 465 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: Just hilarious. 466 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 3: Okay, So here are some of their common phrases to avoid. 467 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 3: And this is not folks, you're not listening to some 468 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 3: sort of rerun from early twenty twenty one, when the 469 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 3: woke mind virus was really infecting our institutions, or at 470 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 3: least in a way we couldn't ignore it anymore. It's 471 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 3: been infecting the schools for a long time. Don't say 472 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 3: pull the trigger, instead say go for it. Don't say 473 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,959 Speaker 3: locked and loaded instead try ready to go. These are 474 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 3: all like gun related. Don't say bulletproof instead try untouchable 475 00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 3: or guaranteed to succeed. Don't say battle or battleground instead 476 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 3: try struggle or debate. 477 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: Why are you using this lispy voice. I don't understand 478 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: what's going on there. I don't know what you mean. 479 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 3: Don't say climate troops instead United Movement for Climate Justice. 480 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 3: How about this one? You'll love this one, Jack. Don't 481 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 3: say a day that will live an infamy. Wait a minute, 482 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 3: we're on Pearl Harbor now. Instead try a day that 483 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 3: history will remember. Course, history has its eyes on you. 484 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 2: All the other ones I kind of understood, at least 485 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 2: from their weird point of view, but I don't understand 486 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 2: that one at all. 487 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: Is infamy a bad word? 488 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 3: And instead of saying boots on the ground instead try 489 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 3: people on our side, what's the comes woke mind virus, 490 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 3: because it's probably it's militarism, which is, you know, perhaps 491 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 3: part of the permanent omni caause. 492 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 2: So my son and Iron San Francisco on Saturday did 493 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 2: a lot of shopping. He really likes high end fashion 494 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 2: in it, which is his thing, and so we want 495 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 2: a bunch of fancy stores and stuff like that. 496 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: He likes to look at him Anyhow, We're. 497 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 2: Sitting at a coffee shop there downtown San Francisco, well 498 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 2: not downtown, kind of like one of your super cool 499 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 2: hipster neighborhoods, and coming down the street, we saw a 500 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 2: lot of girls holding hands, right, no big deal, San Francisco. 501 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: You expect that. 502 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 2: And I actually got in the conversation about how well 503 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 2: dressed gay dudes are, and I said, part of that 504 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 2: is you don't have kids. You got you get to 505 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: spend all your money on yourself, so you can be really, 506 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 2: really well dressed, and you're not busy taking care of kids. 507 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 2: When you're busy rate whereising kids, you wear sweats a 508 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 2: lot and the same clothes you wore five years ago 509 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 2: because you don't have time to like shop, care about 510 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 2: that sort of thing. But so a lot of really fit, 511 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,880 Speaker 2: well dressed gay dudes and a young women holding hands. 512 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 2: But then we saw this couple, this female couple, walking 513 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,880 Speaker 2: down the street and they were dressed the same, holding hands, 514 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 2: which I thought, well, that's. 515 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: Kind of cute. 516 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 2: They're both wearing short skirts and high top doc Martin's, 517 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 2: I said the other day, would Doc Marton? Could Doc 518 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 2: Marton stay in business if lesbian's decided that was not 519 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 2: the shoe for them. 520 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: I'm not sure they could. But so, Katie, maybe you 521 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: could understand this. 522 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 2: So it's two women, short skirts, high top, dog margins 523 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 2: like black hose, some sort of jean jacket, kind of 524 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 2: a cool look, holding hands. 525 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,719 Speaker 1: But when they got closer it was clear that one 526 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 1: of them was a dude. 527 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 6: So uh so, oh, hello gender bending madness. Well, so, 528 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 6: what I don't get is for the other person, you're 529 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 6: a lesbian who wants to date a woman who has 530 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 6: a penis? 531 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: Is that what's going on there? Do you think that 532 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: I have the answer to that question? 533 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 3: Why in the world would Katie have any opp girl 534 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 3: Salt of the air? Well, I am not in a 535 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 3: normal of that absolute paragon of American womanhood. 536 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not into the whole dudes dressing as girls 537 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 5: wearing same thing this show. 538 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 3: It's just we reject sexual norms. So I'm dressed like 539 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,120 Speaker 3: a lesbian for some reason, but I'm dating a dude, 540 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 3: but we both agreed he will also dress like a lesbian. 541 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: Oh that's so funny. You people are trying so hard. Oh, 542 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: a very confusing. 543 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 2: I was talking to a buddy of mine who just 544 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 2: recently pulled his daughter out of a public school in 545 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 2: a very liberal town because last year she and all 546 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 2: her friends decided they were gay. 547 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: And it was like nine girls in his social contagion city, 548 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: and he had to sit her. 549 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 2: Down and talk to her and say, just mathematically, it's 550 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 2: not possible that all nine of you are lesbians. It 551 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 2: just would be too statistically unlikely, right with given the 552 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 2: fact that three percent of the population is gay, that 553 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 2: all nine of you are lesbians. 554 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: So somebody's not a lesbian here. Yeah, let's be serious. 555 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 3: Nights they decided they were lesbians, not transgender, because thank 556 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 3: God and gay and lesbian people. I stand with you 557 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 3: one hundred percent on this. They don't like try to 558 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 3: feed you irreversible chemical treatments and surgeries. 559 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: If you happen to be gay. 560 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 3: That's what's so insidious about the transgender adolescent thing. These 561 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 3: kids are damaged for the rest of their lives. 562 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:27,479 Speaker 1: Anyway. 563 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 3: Oddly enough, and interestingly enough, the first Sierra Club black 564 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 3: Board president, whose name is Aaron Mayer, became a fierce 565 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,640 Speaker 3: critic of this. He's like, no, we're the Sierra Club. 566 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 3: What the hell are you talking about. He wrote a 567 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 3: rebuttal defending the founder, John Muir. The Sierra Club refused 568 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 3: to publish it and censured him when he published it elsewhere. 569 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 3: The woke mind virus is fatal to you, organization, which 570 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 3: is why I've said, dismantle every DEI program everywhere exists, 571 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 3: private enterprise, education and government. 572 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: Now do it today. By the end of the day, 573 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: close the business. The Armstrong and Getty show. 574 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 7: Music streaming giant Spotify dropping its year end listening roundups globally, 575 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 7: Bad Bunny was cround the most played artist with a 576 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 7: staggering nineteen point. 577 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: Eight billion streams. 578 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 7: The Latin artists, now dethroning pop sensation Taylor Swift, though 579 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 7: This show Girl is still number one in the US 580 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 7: and in one of the app's buzziest new features this year, 581 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 7: you can find your Spotify estimated listening eighties, calculated by 582 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 7: comparing your musical taste to others in your age group, 583 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 7: looking at the release years of the tracks you listen 584 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 7: to most interesting. 585 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 2: YEA, my son does that where he checks out, like 586 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 2: he'll know various music artists and he'll find out I'm 587 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 2: in the top tenth of a percent of that guy's 588 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 2: audience of people who listen to him something nineteen some 589 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 2: bill billion streams. And how much money did he get 590 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 2: out of that? Not as much as you should. 591 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 3: Certain Upstandard Rabbit entertaining us at the Super Bowl this year, 592 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 3: correct this season. 593 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: That's absolutely amazing. 594 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 2: There's an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today 595 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 2: written by Jeene Simmons of Kiss about how artists aren't 596 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 2: getting paid what they're due because of streaming in the 597 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 2: way radio works and everything like that, And it's certainly true. 598 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 3: I don't know if there's ally fixing it. No, I 599 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 3: don't know how they would. I've been following that story 600 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 3: for years and years. Coming up next hour. By the way, 601 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 3: has the British Civil War already begun? It has, according 602 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 3: to a respected historian, not a fake Tucker Carlson, jew 603 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 3: hating historian a real historian, and it is. 604 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: Both really interesting and really troubling. So stay with us 605 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: for that. Is Oliver Cromwell involved her, No, he is not. 606 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: Can't be substantiate. 607 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 2: Man, if a guy has got nineteen point eight billion downloads, 608 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 2: he should be a billionaire, and I don't think he is. 609 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, from that alone, yeah, not just doing shows and 610 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 3: stuff like that. Yeah, Yeah, those numbers are mind boggling. 611 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 3: I really ought to, I don't know, subject myself to 612 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 3: some of his over just out of curiosity. Yeah, most 613 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 3: of the stuff my son listens to I can't stand. 614 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 3: But he had some new chick that he was into 615 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 3: that we were playing yesterday as we were running errands, 616 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 3: and I liked. 617 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 2: And it was just fantastic. It was him some music 618 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 2: that he leads into that I could enjoy it. Also, 619 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 2: Oh good good. I had Courtney Barnett pop up again. 620 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 3: Now she's been a thing for a long time now, 621 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 3: but I remember your initial description of her as the 622 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 3: really the number one lead artist in the dead pan 623 00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 3: lesbian genre, and that is that is the perfect description. 624 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 3: So this has nothing to do with music. Did you 625 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 3: have more on Spotify or anything like that? Okay, So 626 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 3: follow up to last segment's discussion about you know, just 627 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 3: the government is fraud, It is corruption, it is waste 628 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 3: of money and always will be. 629 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: This is a great piece from Reason dot com. 630 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 3: Auditors submitted twenty four fake applications for subsidized health insurance. 631 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 1: Only one was denied. 632 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 3: A new GAO report suggests the Affordable Care Act you know, 633 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,840 Speaker 3: you really shouldn't even use that phrase without pausing to 634 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 3: note the fact that the Affordable Care Act paid healthcare 635 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 3: a hell of a lot less affordable anyway. The Affordable 636 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 3: Care Acts health insurance exchanges are rife with fraud. 637 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: And this is the government itself. Let's see. 638 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 3: So they were twenty three out of twenty four getting 639 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 3: the applications accepted. GAO report published Wednesday warns that there 640 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 3: can be massive fraud in the health insurance exchanges due 641 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 3: to lax anti fraud protections, even after a twenty eighteen 642 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 3: study called for a more robust program to detect and 643 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,880 Speaker 3: block fraud fraudulent applications. So they already had a study, 644 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 3: and they already had you know, the word went out, 645 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,960 Speaker 3: Oh my god, we need to do a better job. 646 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,879 Speaker 1: But it's government. It doesn't matter. They don't care. 647 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 2: I know, somebody's in laws who are really good at 648 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 2: working the system. They like, they spend time on knowing 649 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 2: every government program that's out there and that they could 650 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 2: possibly qualify. And it's not in their case, they're not fraudsters, 651 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 2: but it's certainly fraud adjacent. It's stretching the spirit of 652 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 2: the various laws, if not the letter, and they get 653 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,240 Speaker 2: all kinds of government money from coming up with various 654 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 2: things that they can qualify for with elder care. 655 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,320 Speaker 1: Or sick kids or this or that or whatever. 656 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 2: Wow, there's lots of programs out there that if you're 657 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 2: willing to to, you know, be a little loose with 658 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,520 Speaker 2: your facts, you could easily easily qualify for. 659 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 3: So the auditors created four fictional applications last year that 660 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,919 Speaker 3: used fake Social Security numbers and income claims that lacked 661 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 3: any verification. 662 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: All four were approved. 663 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 3: In one case, the GAO noted that the Federal Marketplace 664 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,840 Speaker 3: said quote it confirmed the applicants estimated income based on 665 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 3: documentation we submitted. However, we did not submit any documentation 666 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 3: to confirm the income. 667 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:24,800 Speaker 1: Wow.