WEBVTT - A&G Replay Friday Hour Two 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.400 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.520 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.759 Armstrong and Getty and he. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.360 Armstrong and Getty Strong and. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.640 Armstrong and Getty, except we're not actually here. We're home. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.639 Oh, I hope you enjoy this carefully curated Armstrong and 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.479 Getty replay. So I'm going to build a case right now, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:49.080 and I feel like it is pretty damn strong about why, 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.040 all of a sudden, Like after twenty ten or so, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.320 all of us started hearing about these radical ideologies about 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:04.400 systemic racism, mer transphobia or transgenderism in general, and you know, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.039 all your gender bending madness and your there are. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.360 Actually a number of variations. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.479 You should read James Lindsay's and Helen Pluckrose's fabulous books 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.320 Cynical Theories about the Critical Theory crowd. But everybody started 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.200 hearing about this all of a sudden, and then it 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.200 like washed across the landscape like a tide, and all 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:22.920 of a sudden. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.520 If you were to say, wait a minute, that's cuckoo nuts. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.000 I'd never even heard this until a year ago, and 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.959 now you're telling me I have to parrot it. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.240 Or I lose my job. What the hell are we 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:32.880 doing here? 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.080 Thought many many people, some of us set it out loud, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.080 some of you weren't in a position to do that. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.080 But I've been looking at a bunch of different statistics 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.160 and they all kind of come together in my head. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.200 The first one is a set of graphs, and we'll 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:51.200 post these at armstrong and giddy dot com about mentions 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:56.880 of terms like racism, racist racists in your big four 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.880 newspapers New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, in Wall 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:11.040 Street Journal, also sexism, sexist and misogyny, and homophobia and homophobic, transphobia, transphobic, islamophobia, islamophobic, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.400 and finally anti semitism and anti semitic. I will tell 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.600 you in advance that that one's not nearly as notable, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:19.680 for reasons which I'll bet. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:20.440 You could figure out. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.600 But so these graphs virtually and they all have little variations, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.160 but the overall shape of them are identical, with the 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.920 exception of the anti semitism one. They kind of burbled 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:37.240 along with events at a very low rate through an Oh, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.480 I'm sorry I should mention to you that this is 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.560 who did this pole Oh, I can't see it it's 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.800 half obscured, but it's they've been doing this poll since 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.960 or the data went back to nineteen seventy. So anyway, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.800 they burbled along with little ups and downs as news 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.480 occurred in the United States. But then all of a sudden, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:03:00.360 in like twenty twelve, racism, racists, racist, all those mentions 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:05.000 in the big four newspapers skyrocketed to many multiples of 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:10.000 what they've been in the past. Interesting, likewise, sexist, sexist, misogyny, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.839 as you might guess, transphobic didn't exist. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:16.720 Well, yeah, that one of course. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.840 Yeah, but prior to like twenty oh eight, Then in 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.480 twenty twelve or so, it started to skyrockets. Likewise, islamophobian, islamophobic. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.440 This has been going on for so long now. I 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:35.120 didn't note that there were much fewer mentions of racist 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.640 prior to twenty twelve. I didn't perceive that. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.600 It's been so long. I guess I don't remember. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.920 Yeah, yeah, the whole Well, generally you had to have 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.120 racism to call something racist. And I'll skip to the 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.000 end the conclusion, then i'll back it up. But my 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:57.760 conclusion is the critical mass of critical theory infecting our 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.880 schools and universities which started in the nineteen seventies. I'll 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.560 spare you the whole history of it, but it achieved 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:10.200 a real critical mass in around twenty twenty ten for 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.280 reasons which we'll get into in a minute. But I 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.960 remember I read a great editorial to y'all several weeks 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.880 ago from a professor who said, Hey, I was a 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.000 professor at that time in the seventies, and we thought, look, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.760 if we're going to be an institutional vote and inquiry, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:26.400 we've got to admit these radical leftist professors in who 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.960 are doing the air anti colonial stuff and critical theory 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.640 and all the crap that you hear all the time 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.680 now out of the mouths of your college sophomore just 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.400 came home unrecognizable to the little girl you'd sent away. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:38.960 Anyway. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.160 But then once those people got in, they closed the 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.680 door behind them and refused to hire anybody but those people. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:52.520 And I just think that critical mass in academia infected 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:58.160 media and your social type of majors and just people 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.800 who tend to think like that around you know, the 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.000 late two thousands, and then it just exploded because they 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.080 felt like they had the power to advocate for themselves 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.240 around twenty ten or so. And again, these graphs are 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.800 quite striking to look at. I told you i'd back 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.159 it up. You know that's I'm gonna skip over here, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:22.640 back it up, backing it up totally different meaning ah so, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.960 And this is from the invaluable Chris Rufo. But he's 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.640 been involved in a bit of an online debate about 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.360 taking the middle ground or trying to be fair blah 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.360 blah blah universities and where will they get you? And 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.839 he says, look, there's nothing beautiful about losing in this manner. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.400 We've been trying to do that and it's been a 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:46.440 miserable failure. And this is from the Carnegie Foundation. They've 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.920 been doing this polling since the late nineteen sixties. It's 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.840 the faculty ideology in the United States poll from nineteen 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.719 sixty nine to twenty twenty two. And just for the 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.119 sake of the argument, I'm just going to pick out 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.240 nineteen eighty four, when Reagan was in office, it was 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.360 about forty percent of faculty called themselves far left liberal, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.719 thirty four percent called themselves conservative, far right, and middle 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.880 of the road was about twenty seven percent. Okay, so 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.480 it was the liberal but yeah, colleges have always been 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:22.400 kind of liberal. Now far left liberal is seventy four percent, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.560 middle of the road is fifteen percent, and conservative or 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:32.560 far right is just under eleven percent. So again, it's 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:37.640 seventy four to twenty five even including middle of the road. 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.480 And scientists who was looking at this commented that because 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:47.159 they dug into the statistics, American university faculty are more 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:52.280 likely to identify as socialist than conservative. Wow, it's more 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.560 than double twenty six percent say I'm a socialist, eleven 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.640 percent say I'm a conservative. Wow, and conservative only leads 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.000 March exist by three percent. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:04.279 That is something. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.080 So when I'm ranting about how diseased our education system is, folks, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.640 I'm not paranoid. Well, last thing I am is paranoid. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.920 I'm an avowed realist. Twice as many. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.880 Socialists as conservatives on a college campus in the faculty, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:20.520 that's amazing. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.240 And if you include them a far left liberal, it's 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.600 seven and a half to one for conservatives. And you 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.120 got a handful of middle of the road. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.320 And people who are willing to call themselves Marxists. Probably 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.320 a lot of those socialists are, but I mean, you're 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.880 pretty hardcore if you're willing to call yourself a Marxist 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:38.960 is almost as many as conservatives. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.600 Yeah, that twenty six percent that are socialists. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.920 How many of them are actually Marxists, They're just not 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:45.560 willing to say it. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:46.840 That's actually a really good question. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:51.040 And then my final bit of evidence that this is 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.960 just And again, I know you're busy. I know people 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:58.400 don't like to read books, but this is an absolutely 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.240 well known movement in intellectual circles, and it's been an 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.760 accumulating weight for the very long for a very long time. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.880 And I would suggest I was talking about this yesterday 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.920 as a guy who studied political movements since I was 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:13.640 a kid, and certainly a college student, look at radical 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.360 political movements and whether there's something you really need to 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:18.600 worry about the same way. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:20.200 Relate to it. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.559 The same way you would if you heard somebody say 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.040 I'll never get cancer, or I don't have to worry 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.720 about my kid being on drugs, or I don't have 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.840 to worry about my marriage falling apart because we're solid. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:35.640 You would look at that person. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.360 You'd think, oh, boy, you may be mostly right, but 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.640 you're being very, very cavalier. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.079 I would seriously urge you. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.160 To take an attitude more like that when you look 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.280 at radical political movement's ability to really pervert what we 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.400 do here in the United States. Final thing, and this 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.800 is of all things, in the Wall Street Journal, which 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.840 is among the best available of the major news websites, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.839 which is not to say it's great, but it's, you know. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:00.520 One of the best. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.520 They have a graph they published this the other day 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.520 that seems to show near parody between left and right 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:07.880 wing political violence. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:09.520 It was in the Journal. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.560 It was sourced to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:18.240 which by its own admission, reclassified all pro Palestinian violence 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:24.240 not as left wing but as ethno nationalist. It classifies 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:31.199 all anti Semitism as right wing, and all pro Palestinian 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.600 attacks on Jewish individuals or institutions are ethno nationalist, which 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.040 is left off of the right wing left wing little graph. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.959 And as this author, who we've quoted many times she 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.880 writes for the Free Press, points out, this is just 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.000 nakedly partisan propaganda presented as data and then mainstreamed in 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.960 the American press. And there's more to her column, but 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.040 we're kind of out of time, maybe for another day. 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.120 You know, I think you all know this. We all 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.680 know this are perceptions of what is happening in the 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.160 world are so twisted or misfocused by the lens of 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:07.520 our mainstream media and education. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:09.840 It's funhouse mirror. It's crazy. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.000 Yeah, I was going to throw it at one point 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:16.560 that a lot of the explosion of various things we 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.600 talked about happened at the same time that smartphones and 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.480 the internet really got going on all that sort of stuff. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:22.640 That's not a coincidence. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.480 Number one, as we know, smartphones in the internet, how 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.240 terrible ideas which were laughed out of every town in America. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.160 Enough people came together globally to reinforce each other, and 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.719 so those terrible ideas grew. The other thing is the 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:43.360 smartphone and social media enabled the brutal, hateful policing of 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:48.440 anybody who went against them, docsing, ruining people's careers, getting 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.760 them fired from their jobs for saying, no, there are 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.679 two sexes, men and women, and you can't change it's impossible, 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.720 which is self evidently true. But yeah, people's careers were 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.839 ruined over that. That was part of the cell phone 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.080 explosion to and. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.320 You don't have to I mean, we don't guillotine people 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.280 in the United States. 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Officials said they 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.480 heard rumors about extremely toxic drugs infiltrating the facility, delivered 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.800 on something so ordinary that it seemed impossible to stop. Then, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.199 when the body appeared, something just clicked, said the head 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.160 investigator at the jail, whose name is Justin Wilkes. The 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.319 paper itself must be the culprit and it was deadly. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.720 More overdoses soon followed. The next month, February twenty three, 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.400 another inmate died from smoking paper laced with mysterious new drugs. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:40.800 In April another one. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.480 People were dying so fast, said mister Wilkes, But one 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.760 of officials at the jail told their law enforcement colleagues 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:47.080 about it. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.559 They said some found it hard to believe. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.760 By the end of the year, at least six people 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.280 had died of overdose as many many were sickened, putting 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.040 the jail at the vanguard of a new kind of 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.360 drug war rights in New York times, one in which 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.559 extraordinarily powerful drugs can be invented faster than the authorities 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.319 can identify them, and where something is ubiquitous as paper 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:12.600 can become lethal. The story is fringe chemists are ushering 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.080 in a total transformation of the illicit drug market. Operating 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.240 from clandestine labs, they are churning out a dizzying array 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:24.320 of synthetic drugs, not only fentanyl, but also hazardous new tranquilizers, stimulants, 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:29.080 and complex cannaboids. Sometimes several unknown drugs appear on the 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.680 streets in a single month. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.960 Many are so new they are not even illegal. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.600 Yet nearly all of them are harder to trace than 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.320 conventional drugs, less expensive to produce, much more potent, and 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.680 far deadlier, according to scientists and law enforcement. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:43.720 Around the globe. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.960 And the unbridled use of synthetic drugs is as profound 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.360 for the illicit drug market as television was for radio, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.080 or the computer was for the typewriter, scientists say, And 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.680 it is confounding law enforcement officials all over the world for. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.480 A lot of obvious reasons. Transport of them would be 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.840 you could transport so much of it without it'd be 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.160 very hard to catch. 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.840 Well, yeah, you send an inmate to a book, a magazine, 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.800 anything like that, and he knows the pages are saturated 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:20.360 with drugs, smokes them. Wow, nearly impossible to stop. And 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.640 they invent new drugs faster than we can make them illegal. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.720 What's seeing right to this? Oh, I'm glad you you 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.880 asked that question. To do drugs quote unquote is a 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.480 completely different. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.320 Proposition than it was. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.040 And you know, everybody talks about the sixties and seventies 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:45.000 or whatever the word has to be, don't do drugs, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.600 don't do drugs at all, or only do drugs that 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.520 you know precisely what they are, and anybody who does 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.480 the other thing is a fool who will die soon. 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.480 That's got to be normalized in our society. Like I 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.360 don't know, you know, it's like don't drink and drive 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:03.160 times five. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.960 Yeah. I was actually listened to a conversation about this 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.560 sort of thing yesterday the Dispatch podcast. They were talking 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.240 about how much gambling there is. They were using March 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:18.120 Madness as a kickoff point for how gambling has exploded 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.720 since we legalized and then how many people's lives it ruined, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.040 blah blah blah. And the libertarian issue view is that 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.920 you just you got to have enough people lose it all, 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.480 and then society sees that and decides that's a bad 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.720 road to go down, and that that's the way things 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.120 work culturally with lots of different bad things for you, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.800 and that might be the only way to do it, 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.400 But man, a lot of people got to lose their 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.040 kids before you get there exactly. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.320 That's exactly where I was going to go. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.160 The thing that bothers me, having read a lot about 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.560 the sports gambling thing, is that the main victims of 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:58.560 that are young males whose frontal cortex whatever that part 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.640 of your brain that teaches you caution and risk management. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.280 It's not fully mature in an eighteen to twenty two 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.600 year old male, except in very rare instances, which is 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:14.800 part of the reason there's such good soldiers. So how 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.159 strong would a cultural norm have to be before an 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:22.520 eighteen year old with a love of thrills and very 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.480 little sense of caution? How strong did that norm have 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.840 to be before eighteen year olds wouldn't ruin their lives 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.560 over and over and over again. Yeah, with either you know, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.080 drugs or gambling or whatever. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:33.919 I don't know. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.879 Why do we have so much of an appetite for 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.920 drugs in other countries? If that what I just said. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:44.000 Is true, I don't know. I don't know. It could 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.959 be we're just so affluent. Could be, Yeah, I mean, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.560 if you're busting your ass all day long to feed 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.480 yourself and you don't have much of a welfare state, just. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.080 What, you're going to be dead immediately? Or here's the question, 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:56.720 going to do it? 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.560 AI comes along and nobody has to work. Will that 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:05.840 lead to do more drug use or less? A hilarious question, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:07.720 but yes, it's not even close. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.520 What would happen if a monkey became too smart for 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.200 its own good. I think we're there. Of course people 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.080 have thought that before, and here we are, eight billion 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:18.320 of us. 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.760 They're not smart enough to wear pants. It was a. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.840 Metaphor because I meant human beings. 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Somebody brought up the thing. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:06.160 I'm uh remember the story last year of most women 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.199 would rather come across a bear when they're hiking than 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.480 a been a random dude. And I don't know how 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:19.359 we culturally convinced the female persuasion that men are so 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.520 incredibly scary. 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.440 Yeah, I think part of it is also we convinced 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:31.200 them that saying that made them look enlightened. They're warriors 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:36.720 against the the patriarchy and anyway, hashtag me too in 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:37.080 the rest? 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.880 Is it a big Uh? I got a big festival 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.480 going on in my town over the weekend, and uh, 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:46.840 we saw a couple of young women holding hands walking 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.040 down the street, and I made, uh, my usual dumb 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.080 joke of oh my god, those two women are holding hands. 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:55.000 What is going on? 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:55.359 Like? 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.600 You know, I just find that funny. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.800 You know what I love to do with my daughter, 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.200 my youngest, especially because she can take an as she joke, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.960 because We'll see a couple of dudes together and I'll say. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.280 I have reason to believe they are homore sexual. 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:13.880 Well that's basically what I said, And then my son said. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:15.920 My son said, all, but they're not. I said what 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:17.600 he said, No, girls just hold hands? 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:17.800 Now? 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.639 I said they do? He said, yeah, all kinds of 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.480 girls in my school they do. They hold hands now? 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.199 And I said, what is that all about? And I 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:30.560 saw no less than ten pairs of women holding hands 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:32.440 walking down the street. Now, I don't know who was 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:34.240 straight and who was not, who was a couple, and 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.720 who is not. But he said they feel safer that way. 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.359 So are we to a point now where young women 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.320 feel like they got to hold hands with their friends 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.720 walking in public because it's so freaking scary out there. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:50.360 That doesn't seem good, Katie, you're making a surprised face. No, 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.800 I'm not surprised. They this is something that I've seen 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.919 within my own friend groups. I don't participate in it 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.760 or necessarily undersid I also didn't connect it with safety. 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:01.760 Well what is it then? 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.359 If he's not, we're just guessing as many hands that 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.880 you're disposal to do stuff with. So it doesn't sound 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:11.400 like a safety no me, But. 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:10.399 There have been. 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:12.760 No, it's not like safety, like you're gonna fight, just 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:16.760 like a you know, we're together, okay. No, I I've 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.399 been in San Francisco many a time with groups of 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.520 girlfriends and all of a sudden, two of them are 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.600 old in hands and they're just doing it to do it. Oh, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.119 we were guessing on on the it makes them feel 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:31.320 safer thing. I mean, people have a tendency to hold 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:33.920