Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty, and he.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Yetty, the universal symbol of falling dictatorships, the
Speaker 3: traditional toppling of the statues.
Speaker 4: They pulled them down Hey top of the horse one
Speaker 4: Hey knocked over the one where ads signal field goal.
Speaker 4: They even paraded thesad's head through the streets like going
Speaker 4: decapitated Charlie Brown in the Macy's Day parade.
Speaker 2: And if I may a quick word.
Speaker 5: To the many remaining despots in the Middle East, it
Speaker 5: is my deepest hope that when you see this footage
Speaker 5: you realize once and for all that you are really
Speaker 5: skimping on statue structural integrity. They're just going through these
Speaker 5: statues like it's tissue paper.
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy just pushes it over with one hand.
Speaker 2: It's all day. There is one guy.
Speaker 6: I actually saw one where they they're pounding on it
Speaker 6: and pushing on it and trying to pull it over
Speaker 6: with a motorcycle or something. They it had structural on ticket,
Speaker 6: and they finally gave up and they just put a
Speaker 6: trash can on its head.
Speaker 2: And went on to the next statue.
Speaker 1: I like the feel. Yeah, all, oh it's good to
Speaker 1: have laugh at all. But man, when you you get
Speaker 1: those stories about how the Syrian the yae reggyme are
Speaker 1: actually operated.
Speaker 2: About to get into that, oh yeah.
Speaker 6: And my main point with getting into this is and
Speaker 6: again I'm reading that book about a rack, exact same playbook.
Speaker 6: It's why we need to appreciate Western sieve and what
Speaker 6: we've and quit acting like we're they evildoers and the
Speaker 6: world would be better off without us, because the whole
Speaker 6: world could be like Iraq, Syria or China very easily
Speaker 6: the entire planet, and it could be that way for
Speaker 6: the next one thousand years before it as spent.
Speaker 2: Mostly.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, it's more common to live the way Syrians
Speaker 6: lived than to live the way you live throughout history.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Western civilization has achieved a miracle, and we have
Speaker 1: some flaws.
Speaker 2: So let's work on the flaws.
Speaker 1: And the people who say we ought to tear down
Speaker 1: Western civilization in our universities, for instance, are dangerous lunatics.
Speaker 2: God, your people are so crazy. You don't know how
Speaker 2: good you've got it.
Speaker 6: So I started reading the New York Times story about
Speaker 6: the Sadanya Prison yesterday, one of the most horrific prisons
Speaker 6: in the world that existed in Syria throughout this scumbag
Speaker 6: and his dad's regime. Here's Clariss Reward on CNN talking
Speaker 6: about that.
Speaker 7: The prescue workers with Syria's white helmets break through the
Speaker 7: concrete looking for.
Speaker 1: A way in.
Speaker 7: No one is certain where this red section is or
Speaker 7: if it either exists inside the prison. Family members are
Speaker 7: searching too. You could see people everywhere just combing through
Speaker 7: all the papers and records they can find, looking for names,
Speaker 7: seeing if maybe their loved ones are there where tens
Speaker 7: of thousands of Syrians were forcibly disappeared and said maya
Speaker 7: lost in the abyss of a prison that was known
Speaker 7: as a slaughterhouse, industrial scale arbitrary detention and torture, all
Speaker 7: to keep one man in power.
Speaker 6: So at least as of yesterday, I don't know if
Speaker 6: it's been taken care of since as of yesterday. In
Speaker 6: the New York Times, there was a level like below
Speaker 6: the bad prison where it was even worse, and there
Speaker 6: were video cameras. They could see the people down there,
Speaker 6: but they couldn't figure out how to get there where
Speaker 6: the doors are or anything like that. And this was
Speaker 6: a full like forty eight hours into the liberating the prison.
Speaker 6: So they can see these poor sobs down there, which includes,
Speaker 6: by the way, plenty of adult men, plenty of women,
Speaker 6: plenty of teenagers, little freaking kids, right, little kids. And
Speaker 6: then there's another red section that is like a story
Speaker 6: you tell your kids at night, a horror story. Nobody's
Speaker 6: sure if it even exists. They're trying to figure out
Speaker 6: if there's like another beneath that layer of prison that
Speaker 6: they don't even know if it's real or not, just
Speaker 6: rumor throughout the years they might have used the slaughterhouse,
Speaker 6: but just just horrifying.
Speaker 2: And again, I'm reading a.
Speaker 6: Book about Iraq, and one of the reasons there's a
Speaker 6: new book about Iraq by Steve call is he got
Speaker 6: access to twenty thousand hours of tapes of Sadam Hussein
Speaker 6: talking that he had. Sadam Mussein had a recording setup
Speaker 6: in his office kind of like Nixon had, and all
Speaker 6: the discussions for many many years were recorded. He've calls
Speaker 6: gone through all of them, and so we're learning all
Speaker 6: kinds of stuff about what is thinking was when he
Speaker 6: went into quit in the first place. Back in ninety
Speaker 6: one and Weapons of Mass Destruction and his interactions with
Speaker 6: the CIA, and what he thought of Bush, and what
Speaker 6: he thought of Clinton, and what he thought of you know.
Speaker 2: All this. It's really interesting.
Speaker 6: But the book opens with the abduction and torture of
Speaker 6: one of the nuclear scientists. Sadam Hussein's thugs went and
Speaker 6: got this nuclear scientist who was trying to help Sadam
Speaker 6: Hussein get a nuclear bomb, but he showed some sympathies
Speaker 6: with Iran at some point, and so they grabbed him
Speaker 6: and tortured him for twenty one days. That could be
Speaker 6: the whole world living like that if we don't hang
Speaker 6: on too law and order in Western civilization and human
Speaker 6: rights and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: So, you, moron, That's why it makes me so angry.
Speaker 6: The college kid or just running into, you know, a
Speaker 6: regular person in my life, which happens now and then
Speaker 6: who's who thinks he and I states, is the source
Speaker 6: of evil in the world.
Speaker 2: You are so freaking wrong. It drives me nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and dangerous too. And indoctrinating the young into believing
Speaker 1: this and we let it happen, right frustrates me. Your
Speaker 1: kids can come out of school with a view of yeah,
Speaker 1: the United States is bad and and just kind of
Speaker 1: you know, associated to that, that's you know, it can
Speaker 1: be better off if we weren't here. If we weren't here,
Speaker 1: everything would look like Syria or certainly could yeah likely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree completely, which is not to mask flaws or
Speaker 1: say we don't need to work on them. But that's
Speaker 1: the nature of being a human being in a human
Speaker 1: society is of course you have problems, of course you
Speaker 1: screw up. Of course you have excesses. But if it's
Speaker 1: a constant process of self improvement.
Speaker 6: There's got to be a way to get kids to
Speaker 6: come out of high school or college with feeling number
Speaker 6: one being what I've just been saying, thank God for
Speaker 6: the United States and Western civilizations, or the whole world
Speaker 6: would be like China or Syria, and we had slavery
Speaker 6: and there has been racism, and women didn't get to
Speaker 6: vote till nineteen twenty whatever. But number one at the
Speaker 6: top of that pyramid of things you know about the
Speaker 6: United States has got to be thank God for this,
Speaker 6: or we'd be living like that. And that's not the
Speaker 6: way people come out of high school or college. They
Speaker 6: missed that whole chunk of the thank God part, and
Speaker 6: only have the flaws of the United States.
Speaker 1: Right, which is very frustrating, right when I'm saying we
Speaker 1: need to burn our university system to the ground metaphorically
Speaker 1: of course, and start again. Same thing with government schools.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. This isn't hyperbole. We are churning out
Speaker 1: in doctrination more than education. In fact, you know, there's
Speaker 1: this is another.
Speaker 2: Can of worms.
Speaker 1: But the US is lagging far behind the rest of
Speaker 1: the world in bouncing back from COVID because we're locked
Speaker 1: down for so long, and because in these other societies,
Speaker 1: the third graders are not learning about the genderbread person
Speaker 1: and being sexualized and manipulated and indoctrinated like we are
Speaker 1: in this country.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I just think it's the sign of you know, decadence
Speaker 1: and maturity and affluence or whatever that I don't know.
Speaker 1: You've got a society that reaches a certain level of
Speaker 1: success and it turns against itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. Is that just entropy at work.
Speaker 6: It's just the tendency is toward disorder so much that
Speaker 6: you get order and don matter. Unless you work really
Speaker 6: hard to hang onto the order, You're going to head
Speaker 6: toward disorder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess. Or what where does the energy come
Speaker 1: from to defend and improve a society. It's from need
Speaker 1: outside threats or the want of people for food and
Speaker 1: medicine or whatever. And so you keep striving to get
Speaker 1: better and better. Then at a certain point it's like
Speaker 1: you know, you've reached all your goals in your career,
Speaker 1: and then you've got plenty of money or whatever, and
Speaker 1: you just need not driven anymore, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: you drink too much, or you start thinking like the unibomber,
Speaker 1: like this stupid rich kid or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wish I could diagnose it and suggest a cure
Speaker 1: for it. But fight the idea that Western civilization is
Speaker 1: a force for injustice with every breath you have.
Speaker 2: Let's just start there. One more report on Syria.
Speaker 6: Not quite as gruesome, but this is typical of all
Speaker 6: your despots throughout history.
Speaker 8: The extravagant car collection of the now deposed president Bashad
Speaker 8: ascent a red Ferrari F fifty worth at least three
Speaker 8: million dollars, a Lamborghini, a Rulls Royce, a Bentley, among
Speaker 8: forty luxury vehicles stored in this warehouse in western Damascus
Speaker 8: inside the presidential palace, a massive kitchen equipped with an
Speaker 8: industrial freezer, a pizza oven, and piles of food. In
Speaker 8: a country where most go hungry every day. Over joined
Speaker 8: Syrians celebrated and ransacked the regime's residences and offices, taking chairs, plates, clothes,
Speaker 8: whatever they could carry.
Speaker 6: It's something that that has always existed to masure prehistory.
Speaker 6: There were plenty of these people on through various Egyptian
Speaker 6: pharaohs and Louis the sixteenth and you know, Bashar al Zad,
Speaker 6: who you're a king and you just can't get enough sex, luxury, chariots, cars, food.
Speaker 6: I mean, you're just continually trying to get more and
Speaker 6: all to be satisfied.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: I just happened to see a Twitter thread of the
Speaker 1: most beautiful castles in Europe and it was spectacular. But
Speaker 1: you'd look at these enormous, unthinkably enormous and complex structures
Speaker 1: and you think, how much is enough?
Speaker 2: There? King ding Don I mean, what the hell you
Speaker 2: haven't seen? It would take you twenty five minutes to.
Speaker 1: Walk from one end to the place to the other.
Speaker 1: What's the point. Why are self aggrandizement? I guess why
Speaker 1: are there.
Speaker 6: Not more examples throughout history of people kind of like
Speaker 6: the Jim Carrey thing I was talking about the other day,
Speaker 6: the actor where he got rich and famous and everything
Speaker 6: like that was not happy and realized, Oh, the meaning
Speaker 6: of life is this?
Speaker 2: And is how come that doesn't happen with dictators more often?
Speaker 1: Because they would ride a bayonet because there's just a
Speaker 1: street if they ever showed any weakness.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Sadam Hussein actually talks about that in one of his
Speaker 6: recordings with some guy. So you realize there's no going
Speaker 6: back at this point, You're all in. I'm all in,
Speaker 6: We're all in. This is forever, because yeah, you can't.
Speaker 6: You can't at that after you've tortured and killed a
Speaker 6: bunch of people. I suppose there's no becoming enlightened in
Speaker 6: any way.
Speaker 1: Hey, final thought from me anyway on this, because in
Speaker 1: the past criticism of other cultures and civilizations sometimes included
Speaker 1: a tinge of racism. Well, get rid of the racism
Speaker 1: and be rational in looking at other cultures and countries
Speaker 1: and political systems and that sort of thing. And if
Speaker 1: they happen to have darker skin or different shaped eyes
Speaker 1: or whatever, that does not negate a serious and rational
Speaker 1: analysis of who they are and what they're doing.
Speaker 2: For instance, in Haiti. Right now, I saw this headline.
Speaker 1: Haiti gangs kill more than one hundred and eighty elderly
Speaker 1: people in the capitol.
Speaker 2: Oh, mostly elderly people.
Speaker 1: Killed one hundred and eighty old folks in the capital
Speaker 1: the other day. Why did this warlord order the slaying
Speaker 1: of these poor, beleaguered slum residents. He suspected them of
Speaker 1: sickening his son through witchcraft.
Speaker 2: Wow, but they have a beautiful culture. It should be celebrated.
Speaker 1: And these foreign countries, the air world, the Muslim world,
Speaker 1: how can we criticize them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can criticize them. I'm going to criticize them.
Speaker 6: Jay Z has broken in silence and defended himself around
Speaker 6: the sex allegations we yesterday, among other things we have
Speaker 6: coming up.
Speaker 2: Hope you can stick.
Speaker 9: Around farm straw. Hey Yetty Charlotte Hayer teaches at Richmond
Speaker 9: Community High in Virginia, where the course is required for graduation.
Speaker 9: How important is financial literacy?
Speaker 2: I'm ashamedly tell my students that this is the most
Speaker 2: important course they will take.
Speaker 9: Are you teaching investing, budgeting, Bitcoin?
Speaker 2: Anything that deals with money.
Speaker 9: Eighty five percent of high schoolers nationwide say they want
Speaker 9: to learn about financial topics. Only ten states require the course,
Speaker 9: but by twenty thirty one that's expected to jump to
Speaker 9: twenty six.
Speaker 1: So this is a weirdly specific prediction. Within seven years
Speaker 1: there should be another fourteen state.
Speaker 2: How did you predict that?
Speaker 6: I want to be mad about this, but I should
Speaker 6: be happy. This is like your story of you know,
Speaker 6: you don't hit your dog when they come to you.
Speaker 2: No freaking kidding.
Speaker 6: Really, this is a revelation that you should teach financial
Speaker 6: literacy in high school, and it might be the most
Speaker 6: important thing they learn.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no no no.
Speaker 6: Figuring out signs and co signs and geometry is the
Speaker 6: most important. Memorizing the state capitals, no understanding compound interest
Speaker 6: or how to invest or whatever. Of course that's what
Speaker 6: they should be learning in high school. How is this news?
Speaker 1: Well, you're leaving out the DEI stuff in the racial
Speaker 1: justice situation and the gender bending matters.
Speaker 2: Crap. You're right. I went with things that are actual.
Speaker 6: Millennia, the old knowledge that is worth having but might
Speaker 6: not be that relevant to your life compared to financial
Speaker 6: stuff as.
Speaker 2: Opposed to stuff. That's a complete waste of time.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that teacher in the Sacramento area. I
Speaker 1: have eight months to turn them into little revolutionaries. So yes,
Speaker 1: I should be happy that teacher is absolutely right. It
Speaker 1: is almost certainly the most important thing to learn in
Speaker 1: high scho Well, it should be at every high school.
Speaker 1: Only ten percent of schools require some sort of financial
Speaker 1: literacy class. Well, it was ten states the ten require that,
Speaker 1: but by twenty thirty one it's expected to be thirty
Speaker 1: six states.
Speaker 2: Again, wait a minute, I.
Speaker 1: Want to know how you cooked up that number and
Speaker 1: that time period.
Speaker 2: What are you.
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Speaker 1: renter currently because of the insane housing market headline The
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Speaker 1: ownership slips out of reach. These are major companies building, well,
Speaker 1: it's built to rent homes and town homes and entire communities,
Speaker 1: really nice upscale amenities and such. But they're just planning
Speaker 1: on people renting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 6: I think to call it out of reach leaves out
Speaker 6: a big chunk of people who have just decided it's
Speaker 6: not the best financial.
Speaker 2: Move to have a own house.
Speaker 1: Is supposed to rent a house, right, As I often say,
Speaker 1: just because you can do something doesn't mean you should
Speaker 1: do it. And maybe you've made the calculated decision that no,
Speaker 1: I'm better off renting.
Speaker 6: So I should have tattooed that in backwards on my
Speaker 6: chest many many years ago so.
Speaker 2: You could read it easily in the mirror. Yeah, as
Speaker 2: I shave. Yeah, because you can do something doesn't mean
Speaker 2: you should do something. Yeah. Anyway, it's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: the world keeps changing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, i'd say the governor of New Jersey praising the McDonald's.
Speaker 6: The McDonald's, I mean, I'm sorry in Pennsylvania, the McDonald's
Speaker 6: in Pennsylvania coming under fire for catching the killer now
Speaker 6: of the healthcare word.
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Speaker 10: In a civil society, we are all less safe when
Speaker 10: ideologues engage in vigilante justice in some dark corners. This
Speaker 10: killer is being hailed as a hero. Hear me on this.
Speaker 10: He is no hero. The real hero in this story
Speaker 10: is the person who called nine to one one a
Speaker 10: McDonald's this morning. The real heroes every day in our
Speaker 10: society are the women and men who put on uniforms
Speaker 10: like these and go out in our communities to keep
Speaker 10: us safe. This killer, who is not a hero, He
Speaker 10: should not be hailed.
Speaker 6: That's Governor Josh Sapiro of Pennsylvania. It's always so easy
Speaker 6: for me to be cynical about politicians and think, Okay,
Speaker 6: here's a big news story, and you found a way
Speaker 6: to make yourself part of it and get some good press.
Speaker 6: But he is a Democrat speaking out against a wing
Speaker 6: of his party that Kamala Harris courted like the complete
Speaker 6: nut job crowd, and so good for him for doing that.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad Harris didn't choose Shapiro, No kidding, I.
Speaker 1: Mean that would have gotten her a hell of a
Speaker 1: lot closer to a win than that puts she chose.
Speaker 2: But anyway, that's tang assuming you know the story.
Speaker 6: Brief version is the killer, the guy who killed the
Speaker 6: healthcare executive was eaten at McDonald's in the middle of
Speaker 6: the day now to a Pennsylvania and somebody the McDonald said,
Speaker 6: it looks like the guy that I've seen the pictures
Speaker 6: of who was at the Starbucks the killer and alerts
Speaker 6: an employee at the McDonalds, who then calls the police
Speaker 6: please show up start questioning the guy.
Speaker 2: It unravels quickly, but.
Speaker 6: The Mgoogle has come to the aid of that McDonald's
Speaker 6: and erased all the negative reviews the McDonald's is getting
Speaker 6: from people who are angry at McDonald's and threatening them
Speaker 6: for having outed their folk hero who fought back against
Speaker 6: the evil insurance agency. And also, unfortunately, it seems like
Speaker 6: the name of the at least one McDonald's employee who
Speaker 6: knows if it's the right one or not, has gotten
Speaker 6: out and people are attempting to dos that person to
Speaker 6: ruin their lives.
Speaker 1: What a nightmare, What a nightmare These online lunatics. I know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anything can be done about them, but.
Speaker 2: I don't know either. Oh, man. People are sick. They
Speaker 2: really are.
Speaker 1: Jim Garretty writes for the National Review, and he made
Speaker 1: a couple of good points about this over educated, very
Speaker 1: very wealthy, white diletantish, fake revolutionary ego maniac. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing about all of this that strikes me is
Speaker 1: the hubris of the attitude that my gripe is so
Speaker 1: righteous and so important. The laws of God and man
Speaker 1: don't apply to me. I'm super mad, so I get
Speaker 1: to do whatever I want and kill people or become
Speaker 1: a racist or whatever, or chant in favor of terrorists
Speaker 1: because my cause is so righteous. Oh my god, it's
Speaker 1: just so self important. But Garretty's writing about how this
Speaker 1: guy really is really wealthy, really bright, well educated, and
Speaker 1: if he perceived some sort of problem with healthcare in America,
Speaker 1: he was beautifully equipped to do something about it, to
Speaker 1: say something about it, to move minds and hearts, to
Speaker 1: push for legislation. Actually, Garretty didn't get into some of
Speaker 1: this stuff, isn't me. But then he points out, look,
Speaker 1: if you're really interested innating the uninsured, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of great ways to help.
Speaker 2: There are about fourteen hundred free and.
Speaker 1: Charitable clinics in this country. The National Association of Free
Speaker 1: and Charity Doable clinics. They see millions of patients every year,
Speaker 1: many of them elderly, uninsured veterans. Thirty nine percent of
Speaker 1: the patients are veterans. Donate money and cothers, encourage others
Speaker 1: to donate to defray operating costs, volunteer, donate supplies to
Speaker 1: do it, help them with their it. There are a
Speaker 1: million ways, but no, this guy guns down one poor
Speaker 1: son of a bitch. Well if you're replaced by another one.
Speaker 1: He's one of several giant companies anyway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Barack Obama is on my mind because Governor Josh
Speaker 6: Shapiro sounds so much like Barack Obama and uses his
Speaker 6: phrases and really needs.
Speaker 2: To fight that.
Speaker 6: But that should be used as an example more often.
Speaker 6: I remember when people used to attack Barack Obama, people
Speaker 6: on the right attack for being a community activist. How
Speaker 6: about more community activists unless violent? You know, Marxists. You
Speaker 6: want to change the system. We have a system, and
Speaker 6: you get active in your community on some level, at
Speaker 6: a grassroots level, and try to work your way up
Speaker 6: slowly to have an effect.
Speaker 2: That's what a kid like this man, a kid like
Speaker 2: this has got all.
Speaker 6: Of the levers pulled to be able to pull that off. Yeah,
Speaker 6: to become some sort of something who could actually have
Speaker 6: an effect on the system. Bet that'd be a lot
Speaker 6: of work and everything like that. How about I just
Speaker 6: go shoot a guy in the back.
Speaker 1: Well, Garritty's conclusion is this guy didn't do anything like that. Instead,
Speaker 1: he tracked the movements of the top official and the
Speaker 1: biggest healthcare company in the country and shot him in
Speaker 1: the back. No, far from everything, from everything we know
Speaker 1: so far, MANGIONI just wanted to kill somebody. He's no
Speaker 1: folk hero revolutionary. He's not John Wick meets Aaron Brockovich.
Speaker 1: He's just another angry, screwed up young man who wanted
Speaker 1: to learn what it felt like to take another man's life.
Speaker 1: Didn't even have the courage to look at his victim
Speaker 1: in the face before he pulled the trigger. Self important coward,
Speaker 1: good one Yeah, yeah, rotten prison scumbag and again, And
Speaker 1: I made this point yesterday, but it is so important.
Speaker 1: Healthcare companies don't do anything these days that is not
Speaker 1: fully a reaction to or ordained by government policy. Healthcare
Speaker 1: insurance companies, healthcare companies, all of their finances depend on
Speaker 1: the government and their interaction with the government, including the
Speaker 1: government's utter dishonesty in how the Medicare and Medicaid systems work.
Speaker 1: It's unholy, incredibly dishonest, fraudulent government policy that's led to
Speaker 1: a lot of the evils that you might legitimately observe.
Speaker 1: You want to change that. You don't shoot somebody in
Speaker 1: the back.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know if this kid believed this, but
Speaker 6: I'll bet he believed inment government takeover of health care.
Speaker 6: If you think that that is going to lead to quicker,
Speaker 6: more responsive care, your nuts.
Speaker 2: Do a little research.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for what he's worth, I realized world and bitter.
Speaker 1: So we're referring to him as a kid. But he
Speaker 1: was twenty six. It's old enough to know better. My
Speaker 1: wife was pregnant when I was twenty six and I
Speaker 1: was getting ready to raise a family. You can you
Speaker 1: can conduct your affairs at age twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden on the way out and Trump on the
Speaker 1: way in, I've at least got to seriously consider it.
Speaker 2: Well, Trump takes over in a month and ten days.
Speaker 6: Why you wouldn't, if you at all could pull it
Speaker 6: off structurally, Why you wouldn't do it while Biden still.
Speaker 2: In the Whites? I don't know why. I mean, it
Speaker 2: just seems like the way to go to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking for any coverage of that. Don't see anything,
Speaker 1: So hopefully.
Speaker 6: It's not anything super serious. It's serious, but hopefully it's
Speaker 6: not the serious coming up. Talking about not serious. Oprah's
Speaker 6: got her list out, you know. Every year she puts
Speaker 6: out her shopping list of the ten best things or whatever.
Speaker 6: I was just reading through it and I was fascinated
Speaker 6: by most of all of them, So I thought it'd
Speaker 6: pass along a couple of them.
Speaker 2: Do you why do you get paid a million dollars
Speaker 2: to endorse her? Huh?
Speaker 6: I'm getting paid nothing for this. Unlike Oprah, I found
Speaker 6: these interesting.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned. Is that censoring? Has it?
Speaker 6: A Christmas concert last night my son's high school band
Speaker 6: where he plays the tuba, and it was cool.
Speaker 2: It was good. It was actually good music. So it
Speaker 2: was very very, very very good.
Speaker 1: Fellow tubist, when they go low, we go lower right,
Speaker 1: tuba players.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 6: So I don't know why I feel dirty about doing this,
Speaker 6: but I feel a little dirty about doing this. This
Speaker 6: is some of Oprah's ten best things she puts out
Speaker 6: every Christmas year. I don't think I usually look at it,
Speaker 6: but I should have. She has people, I'm sure, who
Speaker 6: comb all of you know, the world of commerce and
Speaker 6: look for the best things. Number One she has. Our
Speaker 6: agent has these, the ray band, Meta smart glasses. Our
Speaker 6: agent has these and likes them. I was at the
Speaker 6: sunglasses hut in the wall and they said they sell
Speaker 6: out of them as soon as they get them in
Speaker 6: all the time.
Speaker 2: If you had them, what would you use them for?
Speaker 2: That's what I can't think.
Speaker 6: Do I need a different way to do I need
Speaker 6: to secretly take pictures people ever already.
Speaker 2: Got my phone with me all the time.
Speaker 1: Well, theoretically, the light pops on so people know you're
Speaker 1: taking a picture or whatever. But you don't have to
Speaker 1: break out your phone. You just you're looking at it,
Speaker 1: you touch it, then go you get a picture.
Speaker 6: I think Eric, our agent, likes him because you're doing
Speaker 6: your computer work and everything, like the phone rings, you
Speaker 6: touch the side of your glasses, you answer the phone
Speaker 6: while you're still walking along or looking at your computer
Speaker 6: or whatever, which would be kind of cool anyway I
Speaker 6: might look into those. Number two was miracle sheets. We've
Speaker 6: endorsed a variety of betting things, so I don't know
Speaker 6: how much I want to get into that, but I
Speaker 6: just thought it was interesting. They're self cooling self cleaning.
Speaker 6: What the hell are self cleaning sheets? I didn't read
Speaker 6: into figuring out what it is. But what could that
Speaker 6: even possibly be.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine some sort of semi scientific claim of
Speaker 1: microbials something or other.
Speaker 6: I'm actually gonna get number three for my kids if
Speaker 6: it's not sold out. Starscope monoculars better than any three
Speaker 6: thousand dollars telescope and it's forty nine bucks.
Speaker 2: I could see you getting that for my kids the
Speaker 2: moon and whatnot? Wow? Is it called again the Starscope monocular? Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's post the link at Armstrong you giddy dot com?
Speaker 2: Uh number six I skipped five for some reason.
Speaker 6: Skit six is a hand held portable Wi Fi router
Speaker 6: that is changing the game from roiko?
Speaker 2: Is that the way you say the name r y okay? Oh?
Speaker 6: Anyway, you carry it in your pocket and anywhere you go.
Speaker 6: You're sitting on a park bench of wherever you are.
Speaker 6: You've got high speed internet because you got this and
Speaker 6: I don't understand how it works, but anyway, it's on
Speaker 6: Oprah's list and it sounds awesome. So why am I
Speaker 6: still although I find as long as I get phone.
Speaker 2: Service, it's pretty damn fast.
Speaker 1: Five geeves say, do you not have a data plan
Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty four or one?
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
Speaker 6: I am still shocked in the year twenty twenty four,
Speaker 6: especially since I live sixty miles from where all this
Speaker 6: stuff was invented. How often I'm in a dead zone
Speaker 6: for cell coverage though, It's surprising to me. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: some sort of portable heater that you put on the
Speaker 6: wall in your room. You just plug it in. It's
Speaker 6: tiny heats up any room in seconds. Also sounds awesome
Speaker 6: because I have a rental house where one room is
Speaker 6: mysteriously an ice box for some reason. Well, in a
Speaker 6: super powerful, tiny pluggin heater. Doesn't it all sound like a.
Speaker 1: First step toward a fiery death at all?
Speaker 6: I will carry one of these in my trunk. The
Speaker 6: air Modo, a one click pump inflates tires in minutes
Speaker 6: and more. It's a little round cylinder thing and apparently
Speaker 6: has the power to inflate your entire I carry around
Speaker 6: those cans in my trucks. You shake them up and
Speaker 6: you tie put up your tire, and I've used them
Speaker 6: before they work really great, but this looks.
Speaker 2: Like a also cool way to do it.
Speaker 6: Oh and the best flashlight ever invented. I'm gonna buy
Speaker 6: one of these for someone I know who needs one
Speaker 6: of them. It's waterproof, has insane battery life, and is
Speaker 6: the brightest flashlight that's ever been called the night Spark.
Speaker 1: I will get that out. Yeah, I'm a guy who
Speaker 1: walks my dog at night, and I want that. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be beset by woodland creatures or my
Speaker 1: fellow human either.
Speaker 2: Way, clowns at the edge of the woods. You don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not that Bo's ultra open earbuds are a
Speaker 1: lot of great earbuds on the market.
Speaker 2: Here's the line that got my attention on this.
Speaker 6: They stay in your ears no matter what you're doing, hiking,
Speaker 6: jim work, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: That's what I need. Huh. You don't think they know
Speaker 2: they don't.
Speaker 1: Nope, Nope, My ears are poorly designed. I just I
Speaker 1: struggle with that, although I have figured out why the
Speaker 1: kids were the beanies all the time and hold your earbuds.
Speaker 2: In Oh cool. This is what I've done with earbuds. People.
Speaker 2: Maybe you should have follow them, my lady.
Speaker 6: So they're really my Henry, my youngest, because he's this
Speaker 6: kind of guy. He's had the same one hundred and
Speaker 6: eighty dollars pair of really good Apple ones now for
Speaker 6: three years and he just doesn't lose them, doesn't drop them.
Speaker 6: He's just that sort of person. His older brother, closer
Speaker 6: to me, loses them, drop then drops them in the shower,
Speaker 6: leaves them on the plane, whatever. Keep buying the forty
Speaker 6: nine dollars versions. They're perfectly fine. They work great. There's
Speaker 6: all kinds of cheap ones out there, and it just
Speaker 6: to practically de replace them when you lose them or
Speaker 6: break them. But here's another thing from Oprah's list that
Speaker 6: I don't know how it works. I might actually read
Speaker 6: up on this. Now.
Speaker 2: I'm headed to an eye doctor appointment.
Speaker 6: A laser vision of Silicon Valley to get my last
Speaker 6: appointment for my CLR, my custom lens replacement, which is
Speaker 6: absolutely awesome. But if you wear glasses, I don't know
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Speaker 6: revolutionary solution. These are the last classes you'll ever They're
Speaker 6: the first adjustable focus controlled glasses that give you twenty
Speaker 6: twenty vision at any distance. I don't know how that works.
Speaker 6: You'd have to click on it to read more, and
Speaker 6: I didn't. But that's pretty interesting. Does that technology exist now?
Speaker 6: I get at what cost? I wonder? I don't know
Speaker 6: that either. I don't know much.
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 2: A lot of these things are intriguing.
Speaker 1: I'd say, yeah, and again we'll we'll get that list
Speaker 1: up at Armstrong and giddy dot com so you can
Speaker 1: find it real easily.
Speaker 2: It just gives a few minutes.
Speaker 6: The ray bands that are so popular that they teamed
Speaker 6: up with Meta, you know, the Zuckerberg people and that.
Speaker 6: So you can answer the phone with your glass, your
Speaker 6: glasses on. They're not sunglasses there, or they can be
Speaker 6: if you want them to be. Men, answer your phone,
Speaker 6: take pictures, take video, listen to music with your glasses.
Speaker 6: Why have they made another style of them yet? Maybe
Speaker 6: I don't want to wear giant horn roomed glasses all
Speaker 6: the time. I'd probably say, haven't come up with a
Speaker 6: different style. He Maybe you need the thick stems on the.
Speaker 2: Side to have all that technology in there. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: If I like the idea of people being able to
Speaker 6: record me all the time, I think it's here. Yeah,
Speaker 6: Well if it's not here, it's here in a week.
Speaker 6: I mean yeah, the everybody can read everything all the
Speaker 6: time era is definitely We're definitely into it, and very
Speaker 6: soon it'll just be.
Speaker 2: You got to get used to it.
Speaker 6: If you're in a room with somebody, they might be
Speaker 6: recording the conversation, they might be recording the.
Speaker 1: Video right right, Plus, you got drones overhead New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows what they are, who sent them, or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I just did. I feel beset, belieaguered, surrounded
Speaker 1: right ziness.
Speaker 6: The popular means right now of touch grass, needed to
Speaker 6: touch grass. We seem to be screaming the other direction
Speaker 6: away from touch grass right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really working on coming up with my own manifesto.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to kill anybody or hurt anybody. I
Speaker 1: just want to understand this all on my own head.
Speaker 1: But I've become completely convinced that there's a certain amount
Speaker 1: of input that we're supposed to get as human beings,
Speaker 1: and then the rest of the time our brain is
Speaker 1: doing something very very productive with what we've learned. We're
Speaker 1: just completely unaware of it because it's one of those
Speaker 1: that's like an app that runs in the background, and
Speaker 1: we've derailed our ability to do that in a way
Speaker 1: that's making us completely insane.
Speaker 6: I agree, one hundred percent. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 6: heard anybody other than you talk about it.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: You know. I have a layman's understanding of neuroscience, but
Speaker 1: I know this. I mean, for instance, I've read when
Speaker 1: you're sleeping, your brain is in effect doing filing. It's
Speaker 1: putting things in the right file so you can find them,
Speaker 1: so you can compare them to other things. You can
Speaker 1: recognize patterns and stuff like that. That doesn't happen while
Speaker 1: you're taking input in. But it's probably not, probably almost
Speaker 1: certainly true. Also, when you were mowing the lawn without
Speaker 1: listening to a podcast, you're just mowing the lawn, or
Speaker 1: doing dishes or the laundry, or standing there in line
Speaker 1: waiting for your coffee, or driving a walk. Yeah, taking
Speaker 1: a walk now, especially on the younger end, my son's
Speaker 1: never without something as he or listening to something.
Speaker 6: Ever, Yeah, I think it's bad. Probably is, and we
Speaker 6: will adjust to it as a species. The problem is
Speaker 6: it'll take like fifty thousand years. Yeah, I disagree. I
Speaker 6: think we'll die off first and then I'll planet of squirrels.
Speaker 6: I've been saying beavers and or apes lately, but I
Speaker 6: look around. I think squirrels score. They got the numbers.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: I don't think government has any say remember Peanut, if
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