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 Getty and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty Strong and.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I hope you enjoy this carefully curated Armstrong and
Speaker 4: Getty replay. So I'm going to build a case right now,
Speaker 4: and I feel like it is pretty damn strong about why,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, Like after twenty ten or so,
Speaker 4: all of us started hearing about these radical ideologies about
Speaker 4: systemic racism, mer transphobia or transgenderism in general, and you know,
Speaker 4: all your gender bending madness and your there are.
Speaker 3: Actually a number of variations.
Speaker 4: You should read James Lindsay's and Helen Pluckrose's fabulous books
Speaker 4: Cynical Theories about the Critical Theory crowd. But everybody started
Speaker 4: hearing about this all of a sudden, and then it
Speaker 4: like washed across the landscape like a tide, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden.
Speaker 3: If you were to say, wait a minute, that's cuckoo nuts.
Speaker 4: I'd never even heard this until a year ago, and
Speaker 4: now you're telling me I have to parrot it.
Speaker 3: Or I lose my job. What the hell are we
Speaker 3: doing here?
Speaker 4: Thought many many people, some of us set it out loud,
Speaker 4: some of you weren't in a position to do that.
Speaker 4: But I've been looking at a bunch of different statistics
Speaker 4: and they all kind of come together in my head.
Speaker 4: The first one is a set of graphs, and we'll
Speaker 4: post these at armstrong and giddy dot com about mentions
Speaker 4: of terms like racism, racist racists in your big four
Speaker 4: newspapers New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, in Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal, also sexism, sexist and misogyny, and homophobia and homophobic, transphobia, transphobic, islamophobia, islamophobic,
Speaker 4: and finally anti semitism and anti semitic. I will tell
Speaker 4: you in advance that that one's not nearly as notable,
Speaker 4: for reasons which I'll bet.
Speaker 3: You could figure out.
Speaker 4: But so these graphs virtually and they all have little variations,
Speaker 4: but the overall shape of them are identical, with the
Speaker 4: exception of the anti semitism one. They kind of burbled
Speaker 4: along with events at a very low rate through an Oh,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I should mention to you that this is
Speaker 4: who did this pole Oh, I can't see it it's
Speaker 4: half obscured, but it's they've been doing this poll since
Speaker 4: or the data went back to nineteen seventy. So anyway,
Speaker 4: they burbled along with little ups and downs as news
Speaker 4: occurred in the United States. But then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: in like twenty twelve, racism, racists, racist, all those mentions
Speaker 4: in the big four newspapers skyrocketed to many multiples of
Speaker 4: what they've been in the past. Interesting, likewise, sexist, sexist, misogyny,
Speaker 4: as you might guess, transphobic didn't exist.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that one of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but prior to like twenty oh eight, Then in
Speaker 4: twenty twelve or so, it started to skyrockets. Likewise, islamophobian, islamophobic.
Speaker 4: This has been going on for so long now. I
Speaker 4: didn't note that there were much fewer mentions of racist
Speaker 4: prior to twenty twelve. I didn't perceive that.
Speaker 2: It's been so long. I guess I don't remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the whole Well, generally you had to have
Speaker 4: racism to call something racist. And I'll skip to the
Speaker 4: end the conclusion, then i'll back it up. But my
Speaker 4: conclusion is the critical mass of critical theory infecting our
Speaker 4: schools and universities which started in the nineteen seventies. I'll
Speaker 4: spare you the whole history of it, but it achieved
Speaker 4: a real critical mass in around twenty twenty ten for
Speaker 4: reasons which we'll get into in a minute. But I
Speaker 4: remember I read a great editorial to y'all several weeks
Speaker 4: ago from a professor who said, Hey, I was a
Speaker 4: professor at that time in the seventies, and we thought, look,
Speaker 4: if we're going to be an institutional vote and inquiry,
Speaker 4: we've got to admit these radical leftist professors in who
Speaker 4: are doing the air anti colonial stuff and critical theory
Speaker 4: and all the crap that you hear all the time
Speaker 4: now out of the mouths of your college sophomore just
Speaker 4: came home unrecognizable to the little girl you'd sent away.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 4: But then once those people got in, they closed the
Speaker 4: door behind them and refused to hire anybody but those people.
Speaker 4: And I just think that critical mass in academia infected
Speaker 4: media and your social type of majors and just people
Speaker 4: who tend to think like that around you know, the
Speaker 4: late two thousands, and then it just exploded because they
Speaker 4: felt like they had the power to advocate for themselves
Speaker 4: around twenty ten or so. And again, these graphs are
Speaker 4: quite striking to look at. I told you i'd back
Speaker 4: it up. You know that's I'm gonna skip over here,
Speaker 4: back it up, backing it up totally different meaning ah so,
Speaker 4: And this is from the invaluable Chris Rufo. But he's
Speaker 4: been involved in a bit of an online debate about
Speaker 4: taking the middle ground or trying to be fair blah
Speaker 4: blah blah universities and where will they get you? And
Speaker 4: he says, look, there's nothing beautiful about losing in this manner.
Speaker 4: We've been trying to do that and it's been a
Speaker 4: miserable failure. And this is from the Carnegie Foundation. They've
Speaker 4: been doing this polling since the late nineteen sixties. It's
Speaker 4: the faculty ideology in the United States poll from nineteen
Speaker 4: sixty nine to twenty twenty two. And just for the
Speaker 4: sake of the argument, I'm just going to pick out
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty four, when Reagan was in office, it was
Speaker 4: about forty percent of faculty called themselves far left liberal,
Speaker 4: thirty four percent called themselves conservative, far right, and middle
Speaker 4: of the road was about twenty seven percent. Okay, so
Speaker 4: it was the liberal but yeah, colleges have always been
Speaker 4: kind of liberal. Now far left liberal is seventy four percent,
Speaker 4: middle of the road is fifteen percent, and conservative or
Speaker 4: far right is just under eleven percent. So again, it's
Speaker 4: seventy four to twenty five even including middle of the road.
Speaker 4: And scientists who was looking at this commented that because
Speaker 4: they dug into the statistics, American university faculty are more
Speaker 4: likely to identify as socialist than conservative. Wow, it's more
Speaker 4: than double twenty six percent say I'm a socialist, eleven
Speaker 4: percent say I'm a conservative. Wow, and conservative only leads
Speaker 4: March exist by three percent.
Speaker 2: That is something.
Speaker 4: So when I'm ranting about how diseased our education system is, folks,
Speaker 4: I'm not paranoid. Well, last thing I am is paranoid.
Speaker 4: I'm an avowed realist. Twice as many.
Speaker 2: Socialists as conservatives on a college campus in the faculty,
Speaker 2: that's amazing.
Speaker 4: And if you include them a far left liberal, it's
Speaker 4: seven and a half to one for conservatives. And you
Speaker 4: got a handful of middle of the road.
Speaker 2: And people who are willing to call themselves Marxists. Probably
Speaker 2: a lot of those socialists are, but I mean, you're
Speaker 2: pretty hardcore if you're willing to call yourself a Marxist
Speaker 2: is almost as many as conservatives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that twenty six percent that are socialists.
Speaker 4: How many of them are actually Marxists, They're just not
Speaker 4: willing to say it.
Speaker 3: That's actually a really good question.
Speaker 4: And then my final bit of evidence that this is
Speaker 4: just And again, I know you're busy. I know people
Speaker 4: don't like to read books, but this is an absolutely
Speaker 4: well known movement in intellectual circles, and it's been an
Speaker 4: accumulating weight for the very long for a very long time.
Speaker 4: And I would suggest I was talking about this yesterday
Speaker 4: as a guy who studied political movements since I was
Speaker 4: a kid, and certainly a college student, look at radical
Speaker 4: political movements and whether there's something you really need to
Speaker 4: worry about the same way.
Speaker 2: Relate to it.
Speaker 4: The same way you would if you heard somebody say
Speaker 4: I'll never get cancer, or I don't have to worry
Speaker 4: about my kid being on drugs, or I don't have
Speaker 4: to worry about my marriage falling apart because we're solid.
Speaker 3: You would look at that person.
Speaker 4: You'd think, oh, boy, you may be mostly right, but
Speaker 4: you're being very, very cavalier.
Speaker 3: I would seriously urge you.
Speaker 4: To take an attitude more like that when you look
Speaker 4: at radical political movement's ability to really pervert what we
Speaker 4: do here in the United States. Final thing, and this
Speaker 4: is of all things, in the Wall Street Journal, which
Speaker 4: is among the best available of the major news websites,
Speaker 4: which is not to say it's great, but it's, you know.
Speaker 3: One of the best.
Speaker 4: They have a graph they published this the other day
Speaker 4: that seems to show near parody between left and right
Speaker 4: wing political violence.
Speaker 3: It was in the Journal.
Speaker 4: It was sourced to the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Speaker 4: which by its own admission, reclassified all pro Palestinian violence
Speaker 4: not as left wing but as ethno nationalist. It classifies
Speaker 4: all anti Semitism as right wing, and all pro Palestinian
Speaker 4: attacks on Jewish individuals or institutions are ethno nationalist, which
Speaker 4: is left off of the right wing left wing little graph.
Speaker 4: And as this author, who we've quoted many times she
Speaker 4: writes for the Free Press, points out, this is just
Speaker 4: nakedly partisan propaganda presented as data and then mainstreamed in
Speaker 4: the American press. And there's more to her column, but
Speaker 4: we're kind of out of time, maybe for another day.
Speaker 4: You know, I think you all know this. We all
Speaker 4: know this are perceptions of what is happening in the
Speaker 4: world are so twisted or misfocused by the lens of
Speaker 4: our mainstream media and education.
Speaker 3: It's funhouse mirror. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to throw it at one point
Speaker 2: that a lot of the explosion of various things we
Speaker 2: talked about happened at the same time that smartphones and
Speaker 2: the internet really got going on all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: That's not a coincidence.
Speaker 4: Number one, as we know, smartphones in the internet, how
Speaker 4: terrible ideas which were laughed out of every town in America.
Speaker 4: Enough people came together globally to reinforce each other, and
Speaker 4: so those terrible ideas grew. The other thing is the
Speaker 4: smartphone and social media enabled the brutal, hateful policing of
Speaker 4: anybody who went against them, docsing, ruining people's careers, getting
Speaker 4: them fired from their jobs for saying, no, there are
Speaker 4: two sexes, men and women, and you can't change it's impossible,
Speaker 4: which is self evidently true. But yeah, people's careers were
Speaker 4: ruined over that. That was part of the cell phone
Speaker 4: explosion to and.
Speaker 2: You don't have to I mean, we don't guillotine people
Speaker 2: in the United States. We ruin your life through you know,
Speaker 2: the whole social media thing, and that keeps a lot
Speaker 2: of people quiet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's why all of these crazy Marxist progressive
Speaker 4: theories all launched when they did, is coming together of
Speaker 4: critical mass in the academy, as they say, and technology.
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Speaker 4: So, speaking of changing your brain chemistry, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 4: This is a shocking, shocking story. First of all, it's
Speaker 4: as if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or one of the
Speaker 4: modern day incarnations one of the good ones of Sherlock Holmes,
Speaker 4: wrote this. The body lace slumped on a jail floor.
Speaker 4: Investigators found no evidence of homicides, just a few scraps
Speaker 4: of rolled up paper singed and scattered on the floor
Speaker 4: like scorched confetti. For months, inmates had been falling ill
Speaker 4: at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Officials said they
Speaker 4: heard rumors about extremely toxic drugs infiltrating the facility, delivered
Speaker 4: on something so ordinary that it seemed impossible to stop. Then,
Speaker 4: when the body appeared, something just clicked, said the head
Speaker 4: investigator at the jail, whose name is Justin Wilkes. The
Speaker 4: paper itself must be the culprit and it was deadly.
Speaker 4: More overdoses soon followed. The next month, February twenty three,
Speaker 4: another inmate died from smoking paper laced with mysterious new drugs.
Speaker 3: In April another one.
Speaker 4: People were dying so fast, said mister Wilkes, But one
Speaker 4: of officials at the jail told their law enforcement colleagues
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: They said some found it hard to believe.
Speaker 4: By the end of the year, at least six people
Speaker 4: had died of overdose as many many were sickened, putting
Speaker 4: the jail at the vanguard of a new kind of
Speaker 4: drug war rights in New York times, one in which
Speaker 4: extraordinarily powerful drugs can be invented faster than the authorities
Speaker 4: can identify them, and where something is ubiquitous as paper
Speaker 4: can become lethal. The story is fringe chemists are ushering
Speaker 4: in a total transformation of the illicit drug market. Operating
Speaker 4: from clandestine labs, they are churning out a dizzying array
Speaker 4: of synthetic drugs, not only fentanyl, but also hazardous new tranquilizers, stimulants,
Speaker 4: and complex cannaboids. Sometimes several unknown drugs appear on the
Speaker 4: streets in a single month.
Speaker 3: Many are so new they are not even illegal.
Speaker 4: Yet nearly all of them are harder to trace than
Speaker 4: conventional drugs, less expensive to produce, much more potent, and
Speaker 4: far deadlier, according to scientists and law enforcement.
Speaker 2: Around the globe.
Speaker 4: And the unbridled use of synthetic drugs is as profound
Speaker 4: for the illicit drug market as television was for radio,
Speaker 4: or the computer was for the typewriter, scientists say, And
Speaker 4: it is confounding law enforcement officials all over the world for.
Speaker 2: A lot of obvious reasons. Transport of them would be
Speaker 2: you could transport so much of it without it'd be
Speaker 2: very hard to catch.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you send an inmate to a book, a magazine,
Speaker 4: anything like that, and he knows the pages are saturated
Speaker 4: with drugs, smokes them. Wow, nearly impossible to stop. And
Speaker 4: they invent new drugs faster than we can make them illegal.
Speaker 4: What's seeing right to this? Oh, I'm glad you you
Speaker 4: asked that question. To do drugs quote unquote is a
Speaker 4: completely different.
Speaker 3: Proposition than it was.
Speaker 4: And you know, everybody talks about the sixties and seventies
Speaker 4: or whatever the word has to be, don't do drugs,
Speaker 4: don't do drugs at all, or only do drugs that
Speaker 4: you know precisely what they are, and anybody who does
Speaker 4: the other thing is a fool who will die soon.
Speaker 4: That's got to be normalized in our society. Like I
Speaker 4: don't know, you know, it's like don't drink and drive
Speaker 4: times five.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was actually listened to a conversation about this
Speaker 2: sort of thing yesterday the Dispatch podcast. They were talking
Speaker 2: about how much gambling there is. They were using March
Speaker 2: Madness as a kickoff point for how gambling has exploded
Speaker 2: since we legalized and then how many people's lives it ruined,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. And the libertarian issue view is that
Speaker 2: you just you got to have enough people lose it all,
Speaker 2: and then society sees that and decides that's a bad
Speaker 2: road to go down, and that that's the way things
Speaker 2: work culturally with lots of different bad things for you,
Speaker 2: and that might be the only way to do it,
Speaker 2: But man, a lot of people got to lose their
Speaker 2: kids before you get there exactly.
Speaker 3: That's exactly where I was going to go.
Speaker 4: The thing that bothers me, having read a lot about
Speaker 4: the sports gambling thing, is that the main victims of
Speaker 4: that are young males whose frontal cortex whatever that part
Speaker 4: of your brain that teaches you caution and risk management.
Speaker 4: It's not fully mature in an eighteen to twenty two
Speaker 4: year old male, except in very rare instances, which is
Speaker 4: part of the reason there's such good soldiers. So how
Speaker 4: strong would a cultural norm have to be before an
Speaker 4: eighteen year old with a love of thrills and very
Speaker 4: little sense of caution? How strong did that norm have
Speaker 4: to be before eighteen year olds wouldn't ruin their lives
Speaker 4: over and over and over again. Yeah, with either you know,
Speaker 4: drugs or gambling or whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Why do we have so much of an appetite for
Speaker 2: drugs in other countries? If that what I just said.
Speaker 4: Is true, I don't know. I don't know. It could
Speaker 4: be we're just so affluent. Could be, Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: if you're busting your ass all day long to feed
Speaker 4: yourself and you don't have much of a welfare state, just.
Speaker 3: What, you're going to be dead immediately? Or here's the question,
Speaker 3: going to do it?
Speaker 2: AI comes along and nobody has to work. Will that
Speaker 2: lead to do more drug use or less? A hilarious question,
Speaker 2: but yes, it's not even close.
Speaker 4: What would happen if a monkey became too smart for
Speaker 4: its own good. I think we're there. Of course people
Speaker 4: have thought that before, and here we are, eight billion
Speaker 4: of us.
Speaker 2: They're not smart enough to wear pants. It was a.
Speaker 4: Metaphor because I meant human beings. What if an ape
Speaker 4: became too smart for its own I'm talking about humans.
Speaker 4: Please wear your pants, no matter what breed of primate
Speaker 4: you are. I lost the thread there I wear.
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Speaker 4: Beautiful, do you want to lead off the discussion with
Speaker 4: what you observed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was minded. Somebody brought up the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm uh remember the story last year of most women
Speaker 2: would rather come across a bear when they're hiking than
Speaker 2: a been a random dude. And I don't know how
Speaker 2: we culturally convinced the female persuasion that men are so
Speaker 2: incredibly scary.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think part of it is also we convinced
Speaker 4: them that saying that made them look enlightened. They're warriors
Speaker 4: against the the patriarchy and anyway, hashtag me too in
Speaker 4: the rest?
Speaker 2: Is it a big Uh? I got a big festival
Speaker 2: going on in my town over the weekend, and uh,
Speaker 2: we saw a couple of young women holding hands walking
Speaker 2: down the street, and I made, uh, my usual dumb
Speaker 2: joke of oh my god, those two women are holding hands.
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: You know, I just find that funny.
Speaker 4: You know what I love to do with my daughter,
Speaker 4: my youngest, especially because she can take an as she joke,
Speaker 4: because We'll see a couple of dudes together and I'll say.
Speaker 3: I have reason to believe they are homore sexual.
Speaker 2: Well that's basically what I said, And then my son said.
Speaker 2: My son said, all, but they're not. I said what
Speaker 2: he said, No, girls just hold hands?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I said they do? He said, yeah, all kinds of
Speaker 2: girls in my school they do. They hold hands now?
Speaker 2: And I said, what is that all about? And I
Speaker 2: saw no less than ten pairs of women holding hands
Speaker 2: walking down the street. Now, I don't know who was
Speaker 2: straight and who was not, who was a couple, and
Speaker 2: who is not. But he said they feel safer that way.
Speaker 2: So are we to a point now where young women
Speaker 2: feel like they got to hold hands with their friends
Speaker 2: walking in public because it's so freaking scary out there.
Speaker 2: That doesn't seem good, Katie, you're making a surprised face. No,
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised. They this is something that I've seen
Speaker 2: within my own friend groups. I don't participate in it
Speaker 2: or necessarily undersid I also didn't connect it with safety.
Speaker 2: Well what is it then?
Speaker 4: If he's not, we're just guessing as many hands that
Speaker 4: you're disposal to do stuff with. So it doesn't sound
Speaker 4: like a safety no me, But.
Speaker 3: There have been.
Speaker 2: No, it's not like safety, like you're gonna fight, just
Speaker 2: like a you know, we're together, okay. No, I I've
Speaker 2: been in San Francisco many a time with groups of
Speaker 2: girlfriends and all of a sudden, two of them are
Speaker 2: old in hands and they're just doing it to do it. Oh,
Speaker 2: we were guessing on on the it makes them feel
Speaker 2: safer thing. I mean, people have a tendency to hold
Speaker 2: hands when they're like, you know, in a scary situation.
Speaker 2: I've seen it before, so it's a it's a it's
Speaker 2: a it's an emotional thing. It's not a we're gonna
Speaker 2: fight thing. But but what do you think striving you think, Katie,
Speaker 2: Because I was just guessing. I thought alcohol everyone and
Speaker 2: every woman's two drinks away from a lesbian encounter, that
Speaker 2: whole thing pretty much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lord, oh my, Uh.
Speaker 4: There are societies Jack, you know this in the Middle East,
Speaker 4: especially where grown men walk down the street holding Yeah.
Speaker 4: I will not be visiting those societies.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, if anybody knows why this is happening, it
Speaker 2: is happening a lot like and it's recent because I've
Speaker 2: just seen it a lot with my own eyes. So
Speaker 2: if you know text line four one, five two nine
Speaker 2: to five KFTC, I hope it's a different reason. I
Speaker 2: was thinking, Man, if everybody's so like anxious and uncomfortable
Speaker 2: that the women that they feel like they need to
Speaker 2: hold hands, like you know, I got you since I
Speaker 2: got you two because it's so scary out there. That's
Speaker 2: not good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know me, I've established my cred is being
Speaker 4: willing to put pooh anything done by young people willingly.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm in favor of real human contact as opposed to
Speaker 4: online stuff, so I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's the reaction to that. Yeah, that's an interesting theory.
Speaker 3: Don't know. Anyway, I want to get to this.
Speaker 4: This is a big new poll of young British adults,
Speaker 4: and the BRIT's a little further down the road, a
Speaker 4: crazy than the US.
Speaker 3: Depending on where you live.
Speaker 4: If you live in a blue city or state, could
Speaker 4: be you're keeping pace with our crazy, crazy cousins over
Speaker 4: in Britain. But I like the way this is written
Speaker 4: up before they get to the actual poll results. A
Speaker 4: young woman sits in a comfortable London flat or a
Speaker 4: sleek New York apartment, scrolling her feed and convinced the
Speaker 4: world is rigged against her. She holds a university degree,
Speaker 4: earns a solid paycheck, and enjoys better workplace opportunities than
Speaker 4: her male peers at the same age. Yet she feels
Speaker 4: profoundly unhappy, distrusts men, loathes her country, and views motherhood
Speaker 4: as optional at best. And it's clear pattern impeating across
Speaker 4: Britain and America. Ah da DA the left leaning New
Speaker 4: Statesman pulled two thousand British adults between eighteen and thirty.
Speaker 4: The widening gender gap among the young comes far more
Speaker 4: from women moving sharply left than men turning right, no
Speaker 4: matter what the lefty media would tell you. Among men
Speaker 4: under thirty, seventy two percent hold a positive view of women,
Speaker 4: an interesting lead question. Among women under thirty, only fifty
Speaker 4: percent feel positive toward men, and the figure drops to
Speaker 4: thirty five percent among women under twenty five.
Speaker 3: Wow. So the younger they are, the more they hate men.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Just eighteen percent of women under thirty feel very positive
Speaker 4: about men, compared with thirty eight percent of men who
Speaker 4: feel very positive about women. Again thirty eight to eighteen.
Speaker 4: And to women, more than forty percent of young women
Speaker 4: say men do not share their understanding of consent, while
Speaker 4: only twenty five percent of men say the same thing
Speaker 4: about women. That's a fraud topic, But let's get into
Speaker 4: more sociological stuff. Young women are twice as likely as
Speaker 4: young men to say they do not want children. The
Speaker 4: process of bringing a child into the world is a
Speaker 4: bit heavier on the woman, so I would grant them
Speaker 4: a little leeway. Yes, but it's fifteen to eight, which
Speaker 4: is not huge numbers among white women under thirty, though
Speaker 4: the number rises to twenty percent significantly higher among white women.
Speaker 4: One in four women call differing political views a red
Speaker 4: flag and a partner. Sixty percent would struggle to date
Speaker 4: someone who disagrees on Israel Palestine.
Speaker 2: Topics she's talk about.
Speaker 4: Gem similar on Trump, seventy four percent said they could
Speaker 4: not stay with someone who rejects their views on social.
Speaker 3: Justice, whatever that means.
Speaker 4: As Thomas Soul has pointed out, anybody who says social
Speaker 4: justice isn't talking about society or justice. Young women also
Speaker 4: show greater reluc reluctance than men to datacross differences on immigration. Economically,
Speaker 4: the divide grows sharper. This is the part I really
Speaker 4: wanted to get to young women. Now, these are Brits, okay,
Speaker 4: farther down the road to socialism, which is why they
Speaker 4: have a moribund, stagnant the embarrassment of an economy and
Speaker 4: military and everything else.
Speaker 3: This is the road we're going now.
Speaker 4: Young women give give capitalism rather really prefer the term
Speaker 4: the free market.
Speaker 3: But I'm outvoted.
Speaker 4: Young women give capitalism a net favorability rating of just
Speaker 4: plus two, while communism scores plus eleven.
Speaker 2: Well that's ignorance, right, that's a not understanding what you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 4: That is mountainous ignorance. That is our education system.
Speaker 2: How does our education system not teach you about communism
Speaker 2: since it's the deadliest ideology in world history.
Speaker 4: Well, because at this point Neo Marxists are in charge
Speaker 4: of our education system, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Sure the last thing they want to teach.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I ever learned about communism.
Speaker 3: Oh, it wasn't certainly as it was.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a big feature of education, although I grew
Speaker 4: up knowing it.
Speaker 3: It was just everywhere. Maybe it wasn't necessary. Maybe were
Speaker 3: you You certainly were aware.
Speaker 4: We grew up in little different parts of the country,
Speaker 4: but you were aware of the Soviet you know, communism,
Speaker 4: dirty commy scum pinkos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe during the Cold War you
Speaker 2: didn't teach it because everybody was bathed in it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So, young women more favorable toward communism, which is
Speaker 4: just so stupid and ignorant it's astonishing.
Speaker 3: Young men.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, great capitalism at plus twenty eight
Speaker 4: percent plus two for the women, plus twenty eight for.
Speaker 3: The young men.
Speaker 2: Okay, now you're all going to the same schools, so
Speaker 2: that my theory is no good there. Then what's happening?
Speaker 2: Well this keep in mind this is Britain.
Speaker 4: I think part of it has to do with the
Speaker 4: nature of women's psychology versus men. Men are much more
Speaker 4: comfortable with I'm more than willing to take this on,
Speaker 4: go at semi alone and fight for what I want,
Speaker 4: whereas women are much more into forming coalitions and sharing.
Speaker 4: It was long said the Republican Party was the daddy
Speaker 4: party and the Democratic Party was the mommy party because
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party won more income rey distribution and sharing
Speaker 4: and being fair and the rest of it, and the
Speaker 4: Republicans are like, give people freedom and let them make
Speaker 4: of their lives what they will.
Speaker 3: So I think that's just not as part of it.
Speaker 4: Not sure they should have the vote women, yeah, will
Speaker 4: take your calls.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 4: On wealth redistribution, forty three percent of young women say
Speaker 4: it is unfair that some people have more and that
Speaker 4: wealth should be taken from them forty three percent. That's
Speaker 4: three more than the percent who say people deserve to
Speaker 4: keep what they earn.
Speaker 3: Good Lord.
Speaker 4: Young men are fifty one thirty seven in favor of
Speaker 4: the sanity.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Young women are more likely to believe the economy works
Speaker 4: against people like them. Yet among sixteen to twenty four
Speaker 4: year olds, women to hold more full time jobs and
Speaker 4: earn nine percent more on average than men in Britain now,
Speaker 4: while male youth unemployment six is six point three percent
Speaker 4: higher than the young women, And yet young women are
Speaker 4: more likely to believe the economy works against women. Women
Speaker 4: report lower happiness, ambition, excitement, and fulfillment than young men.
Speaker 4: They are twenty one points less optimistic than men about
Speaker 4: earning more than their parents, and nineteen percent less optimistic
Speaker 4: about buying the home that they want than young men.
Speaker 4: In the same society, only fifty three percent of gen
Speaker 4: Z women say they're proud to call themselves British, compared
Speaker 4: with sixty eight percent of the gen Z men.
Speaker 2: Only half a woman are proud to be British. This
Speaker 2: whole Western civilization hating itself thing is so weird and to.
Speaker 4: Reinforce what you're saying, not to interrupt, but to reinforce. Affluent,
Speaker 4: higher educated women prove the most left.
Speaker 3: Wing and most pessimistic.
Speaker 4: Of course, they have the higher numbers on communism, feminism, feminism, environmentalism, socialism,
Speaker 4: slavery reparations, the view that the UK is racist or sexist,
Speaker 4: absolutely amazing. Among Americans aged eighteen to twenty nine, forty
Speaker 4: percent of young women identify as liberal, compared to twenty
Speaker 4: five percent of young men. Let's see, that's only mildly interesting.
Speaker 4: Then they go into some more of the American numbers,
Speaker 4: which are quite similar to the British numbers, including mental
Speaker 4: health diagnoses, which is Oh, the famous Pew research survey
Speaker 4: that we talked about a lot that found that fifty
Speaker 4: six percent of white liberal women age eighteen to twenty
Speaker 4: nine reported a mental health diagnosis. Fifty six percent. Wow,
Speaker 4: double the rate for conservative women the same age. Cart horse,
Speaker 4: chicken egg. Nobody's doubly sure. Double is a lot. Yes,
Speaker 4: that's quite a disparity. Yeah, it's twenty eight to fifty six.
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Speaker 6: May prove that cows are way smarter than we thought.
Speaker 6: Veronica the cow using a tool to scratch her back.
Speaker 6: It looks like the studies author said, this marks the
Speaker 6: first time on record that a mammal that wasn't a
Speaker 6: primate has been documented using a tool.
Speaker 4: Really, first, first question, NBC News sent Tom Yamas spelled
Speaker 4: exactly the same as Lamas to report on a cow.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's sick because he has the name
Speaker 4: of a hooked creature?
Speaker 3: Is that why?
Speaker 4: It's like whenever the Asian people were mad at us,
Speaker 4: they'd send an Asian reporter. If we said something provocative
Speaker 4: about welfare programs in black neighborhoods, they send a black
Speaker 4: reporter to talk about what fellas we are. It's just
Speaker 4: a thing. Anyway, back to the cow.
Speaker 2: That's the first documented case of anything other than primates
Speaker 2: using a tool. I got to bring that up to
Speaker 2: my son. He's super into this sort of thing. I
Speaker 2: think he would say. Now, there's like eight other things
Speaker 2: I can think of that use tools in a variety
Speaker 2: of ways.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4: I know ant eaters will put a stick in their
Speaker 4: mouth and stick the stick down into the ant hole
Speaker 4: and drop bunches of ants on the stick.
Speaker 3: Ants on a stick delicious.
Speaker 4: So that's an overstatement by these soft heads in the
Speaker 4: Network News.
Speaker 2: South American moles use typewriters, for instance.
Speaker 4: It's surprising so Veronica is an Austrian cow. As a
Speaker 4: matter of fact, in a khalb, I believe when she
Speaker 4: has an itch, she scratches it by expertly wielding a stick.
Speaker 4: But now in a new study, Veronica's demonstrating even more
Speaker 4: advanced scratching skills, deploying different ends of a wooden broom
Speaker 4: to different parts of her body to target different parts
Speaker 4: of her body. It's an example of flexible tool use,
Speaker 4: a behavior that is.
Speaker 3: Relatively rare in the animal kingdom.
Speaker 2: Okay, that might be a different category of tool use
Speaker 2: than the other examples that exist out there, because that's
Speaker 2: some you know that that requires some Should I not
Speaker 2: be eating hamburgers? If a cow can think through, I
Speaker 2: think I'll use the pointy end of the stick for
Speaker 2: this itch. But for this itch, I think the round
Speaker 2: end of the stick would work better. I mean that
Speaker 2: sort of thinking. I don't know if I should be
Speaker 2: eating you deliciously mean hum rare like I do. I
Speaker 2: am slightly cautious.
Speaker 4: That there may be an element of that in this,
Speaker 4: because this doctor who's studying Veronica at the cow says
Speaker 4: that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: I don't care if they can recite Shakespeare. I'm still
Speaker 2: going to eat them. I mean, it would make you
Speaker 2: a monster. It's kidding.
Speaker 4: But the doctor says that should give us some paws
Speaker 4: and perhaps also motivate us to look at livestock animals differently.
Speaker 2: I think we should eat more, keep them in control
Speaker 2: exactly laco, let them know whose boss. If Herford cattle
Speaker 2: could drive cars and recite Shakespeare, still eat them, so
Speaker 2: you know, come on, I'm not pretending that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think there may be a little activism here,
Speaker 4: but it could be.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: The more I read The New York Times, in contrast
Speaker 4: to the NBC News, has actually quite a long article
Speaker 4: about this, far too long. Honestly, as long as cow's
Speaker 4: been doing their cow thing around people, How is this
Speaker 4: the first time we've ever discovered their tool use? I
Speaker 4: don't know they say one difference, maybe that this cow
Speaker 4: is a pet and not a production animal, so it
Speaker 4: has time to enlarge. It's, you know, enrich itself and
Speaker 4: read the great books and then come up with novel.
Speaker 3: Uses for steaks. Read the great books. Yeah, I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I learned this from Thucydides. There's the sharp end of
Speaker 2: the stick, and you got an itch on your roump.
Speaker 2: You got a bad itch. He used the sharpen, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, is the most delicious part of me.
Speaker 2: On Yes, good news bad news for me. I can
Speaker 2: now itach my bad news. It's delicious.
Speaker 4: Speaking of stupidity, I mentioned this in the very beginning
Speaker 4: of the show that some New York PD detectives had
Speaker 4: to go to the hospital because they were arresting a
Speaker 4: really bad guy who fought them and hurt a couple
Speaker 4: of the cops. They go to the hospital and hospital
Speaker 4: staff were nasty to them in the waiting room, accused
Speaker 4: them of being ice officers and suggested why don't you
Speaker 4: go somewhere else, so they properly identified themselves, and the
Speaker 4: New York PD is obviously pissed off about this, the
Speaker 4: commissioners insisting all hospital staff he retrained. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: This is my favorite part. The hospital blamed. Where is
Speaker 4: the phrase? Oh, the hospital said, the hospital staff had
Speaker 4: a misunderstanding of their policy. Oh so we're not supposed
Speaker 4: to be rate cops when they show up and tell
Speaker 4: them to get the hell out and go somewhere else
Speaker 4: because we hate them. Deny keep getting that wrong, Deny
Speaker 4: them medical care. We will give medical care to anybody
Speaker 4: from any country who's done anything at taxpayers expense. Right,
Speaker 4: but now we want help that the cops who are
Speaker 4: enforcing federal immigration law.
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