Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Jack Katy and he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: This trial is seen as the most significant sign of
Speaker 3: Beijing tightening its control of Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: Dozens of pro.
Speaker 3: Democracy activists facing conspiracy charges under this national security law
Speaker 3: that was imposed in twenty twenty. All the two of
Speaker 3: the forty seven lawmakers and politicians who were arrested back
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one were convicted today, and the crime,
Speaker 3: according to authorities, was holding or taking part in an
Speaker 3: unofficial primary election.
Speaker 4: That's a report on NBC right from Hong Kong. She
Speaker 4: goes on.
Speaker 3: The law was Beijing's response to those protests and Hong
Speaker 3: Kong in twenty nineteen. The government here saying it was
Speaker 3: necessary to stop challenges to China's sovereignty. It's now made
Speaker 3: certain slogans a crime, and expressing ideas about politics is dangerous.
Speaker 3: Censorship and digital surveillance have also been stepped up.
Speaker 2: I saw some that's horrifying.
Speaker 4: Hong Kong was a basically a freestanding democracy for a
Speaker 4: very very long time, and then China took it over
Speaker 4: and has now turned it into it's just another part
Speaker 4: of China and in the world couldn't do anything about it,
Speaker 4: and that is their goal for Taiwan also, which they
Speaker 4: got that big meeting of all the world leaders going
Speaker 4: down in Rio, and Biden's there, and She's there, and
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of other people.
Speaker 2: Oh did you see what's that guy's name, Malay? Is
Speaker 2: he the libertarian from Argentina?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: With the funny hair and all the dogs that he
Speaker 2: clones and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not really relevant to the discussion, but yes,
Speaker 1: that's him.
Speaker 2: Did you see him doing the Trump dance?
Speaker 1: I did not funny. Oh that's great, it's funny.
Speaker 2: But more importantly, but back to seriously. I saw a
Speaker 2: report she and.
Speaker 4: Biden had a conversation, and the US version of it
Speaker 4: was they discussed issues. The official Chinese version of it
Speaker 4: was very long and very disturbing about she laying out
Speaker 4: to U Joe Biden the United States that Taiwan belongs
Speaker 4: to us and you need to recognize that, and that's happening,
Speaker 4: so back off, basically is what they said. It and
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of other very very belligerent things that
Speaker 4: didn't get reported. Really, I need to nail down whether
Speaker 4: that's true or not, because you can't believe everything you
Speaker 4: come across some social media, but.
Speaker 1: Not from the Chinese communists.
Speaker 4: But well even well, them saying that would be a
Speaker 4: big deal, whether she said it to Biden or not.
Speaker 4: Them putting out that the official message to the United States.
Speaker 1: I guess, but they've said that a number of times.
Speaker 1: I kind of accept that that's their doctrine.
Speaker 4: Tell you what go ahead, not as strongly as they
Speaker 4: stated it yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'll have to dig that up. I mean, I'm find
Speaker 2: it quite disturbing interesting.
Speaker 1: So the sentencing of all of those activists and politicians
Speaker 1: and journalists in Hong Kong, it just reminds me how
Speaker 1: incredibly fragile a free system is unless it will defend
Speaker 1: itself by arms. I mean, because Hong Kong was a
Speaker 1: robust democracy, very wealthy, very educated, with every interest in
Speaker 1: protecting itself, and it couldn't. It was just it was
Speaker 1: bullied into submission and quickly. I'm reminded of one of
Speaker 1: my favorite memes, partly because it's a little snarky, but
Speaker 1: it's also funny. George Washington didn't use his freedom of
Speaker 1: speech to beat the British. He shot them. That's the
Speaker 1: only way to resist aggression. You can't talk a predator
Speaker 1: out of predating.
Speaker 4: I have to look into this after the show as
Speaker 4: trying to confirm that Chinese stuff that I read and
Speaker 4: figure out if it was.
Speaker 2: Real or not.
Speaker 4: This does not get the attention it deserves the rising China.
Speaker 4: According to the report that I read, and again, whether
Speaker 4: he said it to Biden or not, whether it's just
Speaker 4: stuff being put out by the Chinese, it was a
Speaker 4: It was a lot of language like you're not the
Speaker 4: only nuclear power on Earth and just you know, very
Speaker 4: very push pushbacky this means war. Oh, you laid out
Speaker 4: actually laid out four red lines for China that the
Speaker 4: US better not cross.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll see braf from the the perspective of
Speaker 1: if we were attacked by Martians, we would all come
Speaker 1: together on Earth. We have been so obsessed with our
Speaker 1: internal divisions. I think that's why most Americans are unaware
Speaker 1: of the threats from abroad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably so.
Speaker 4: Big study that came out today and this was in
Speaker 4: the New York Times. China has now surpassed Europe as
Speaker 4: the second all time leading polluter on planet Earth. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure how much I care about the historical polluting
Speaker 4: that's gone on, but the climate change people care about
Speaker 4: it a lot because we've polluted more throughout the history
Speaker 4: of the world than any of the country. So we
Speaker 4: owe more money than anybody else to try to fix
Speaker 4: the problem, is what they claim. That's only going to
Speaker 4: be true for a few more years. According to this graph, though,
Speaker 4: so China has now passed Europe on this pretty much
Speaker 4: straight up graph because they just started polluting fairly recently,
Speaker 4: because they were all living in huts and eating.
Speaker 2: Their cats and stuff like that and not a lot
Speaker 2: of pollution.
Speaker 4: But now they got all the coal fires and electricity
Speaker 4: and everything going on, they're polluting like crazy. The country
Speaker 4: has now passed Europe is the second largest all time admitter,
Speaker 4: shifting the debate about who pays for global warming. According
Speaker 4: to the New York Times, projections show that China may
Speaker 4: catch up with the United States in just a few years.
Speaker 4: China's soaring emissions are upending climate politics was the story,
Speaker 4: let me just read a little bit of it. For
Speaker 4: many years, wealthy places like the United States and Europe
Speaker 4: have had the biggest historical responsibility for global warming. China's
Speaker 4: astonishing rise is upending that dynamic. Over the past three decades,
Speaker 4: China has built more than one thousand coal fired power
Speaker 4: plants a thousand as its economy has grown more than
Speaker 4: forty fold in thirty years, mostly because of our help,
Speaker 4: thinking that if they got rich enough, they be our friends.
Speaker 4: One of the dumbest gambles in the history of the planet. Whoops,
Speaker 4: The country has become by far the largest annual emitter
Speaker 4: of greenhouse gases in the world. So they're emphasizing the historical,
Speaker 4: how about emphasize the today. And on the today chart,
Speaker 4: it's not even close, Like China's way up there, and
Speaker 4: the United States is way down here with other countries
Speaker 4: underneath us.
Speaker 1: Right, So, if you're trying to build some sort of
Speaker 1: framework for who owes the most your Paris climate accord, folks,
Speaker 1: I suppose looking at the historical responsibility makes a little
Speaker 1: bit of sense. But for those of us who live
Speaker 1: in the real world, who's doing it now is a
Speaker 1: much more relevant question, I would.
Speaker 4: Say so, And according to this chart, it looks like
Speaker 4: China is polluting it about two and a half times
Speaker 4: what we are on a year by year basis at this.
Speaker 2: Point two and a half times. Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 4: Supposed to alter my lifestyle and suffer the overall GDP
Speaker 4: consequences for what reason?
Speaker 2: And India is working on it. They'll be on that
Speaker 2: charge before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the actual biggest country on Earth. You go to
Speaker 1: them and say, hey, can you cut back on your
Speaker 1: fossil fuels a little bit because of the planet. The
Speaker 1: answer is yeah, No, are you kidding? We've got four
Speaker 1: hundred million people starving here and you want us to
Speaker 1: go solar? No. Yeah, I've got to hope that a
Speaker 1: lot of the climate change nonsense is going to be
Speaker 1: swept away during Trump's presidency. And I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: any legitimate claims about the atmosphere or the environment or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm down with that, it's fine, But again, cut the crap.
Speaker 1: Cut the crap. God ormstrung you, getty dot com, pick
Speaker 1: yourself up. But cut the craft T shirt they're selling
Speaker 1: like hotcakes.
Speaker 4: Speaking of trouble spots around the world that we ignore,
Speaker 4: this happened over the weekend. Haven't heard it anywhere. The
Speaker 4: Pentagon leaked to Axios that the Huthies are now effectively
Speaker 4: in control over the Red Sea, which is where Remember
Speaker 4: they are telling us the numbers all the time, fifteen
Speaker 4: percent or whatever of all world shipping goes through Houthi
Speaker 4: rebels are brandishing increasingly sophisticated weapons, including missiles that can
Speaker 4: do things that are just amazing, said the Pentagon's chief
Speaker 4: Weapons somebody or other to Axios over the weekend. The
Speaker 4: big picture being that the militant group has for years
Speaker 4: used drones and missiles to strangle the waters off of Yemen,
Speaker 4: disrupting international shipping. And uh, well, I'll read this quote.
Speaker 4: I'm an engineer and a physicist, and I've been around
Speaker 4: missiles my whole career, said a Pentagon employee to Axios.
Speaker 4: What I've seen of what the Houthis have done in
Speaker 4: the last six months is something I'm just shocked. So
Speaker 4: the rest of the world has just let this ragtag
Speaker 4: group of camel riders take over a big, major lane
Speaker 4: of shipping on planet Earth.
Speaker 1: I believe they have Toyota pickups there. But anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's they're not building those missiles in Yemen, who's sending
Speaker 1: them to them? And how soon can we get the
Speaker 1: Mummy out of office. I mean he is useless plat
Speaker 1: vaticcer again, Michael, that's in his old the vital days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he isn't that good anymore.
Speaker 1: He hasn't he hasn't unleashed. I had about a caf
Speaker 1: care with that sort of forcefulness in a year.
Speaker 4: So we've uh, I've got something good from the world
Speaker 4: of Ai. I have a feeling you're going to disagree
Speaker 4: with this journalist's take on how wonderful it was to
Speaker 4: watch Ai comfort their five year old. I find it horrifying.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I've got to get to with the aid
Speaker 1: of the lovely Katie Green. The sixteen year Old Girls
Speaker 1: editorial in the New York Times also.
Speaker 4: Good cool, Yes, got a bunch of good stuff this hour.
Speaker 4: I hope you can stay here. Question for Joe, which
Speaker 4: are you more interested in the Share memoir or the
Speaker 4: Madonna biopic that are both coming out at the same time.
Speaker 1: Ah wow, let me bring out my microscope and all up.
Speaker 1: I'll take a look. Oh, try to find my give it.
Speaker 2: Damn God, if you like don't read a lot, but
Speaker 2: you read the Share memoir, please read something else, good lord.
Speaker 1: If one Madonna Chaconi of Detroit Michigan were to write
Speaker 1: a serious book about her career and business development and entrepreneurialism,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. I would think that'd be a
Speaker 1: pretty good read.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and her understanding of pr and how to
Speaker 4: get attention and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be interesting.
Speaker 1: Have Lady Gaga right the forward or something? Fine? Okay, great?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: The Share Memoir?
Speaker 2: Yes, dah?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you are you immortal? Do you have
Speaker 1: unlimited time? That is the only circumstance I can picture
Speaker 1: where somebody would would read the Share Memoir. If I'm
Speaker 1: one if shares offspring, I wouldn't bother.
Speaker 4: If I walked into someone's apartment, then they have that
Speaker 4: on the coffee table. How quickly can I get out
Speaker 4: of their house? That's yeah, there you go?
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 1: Uh wait, you just got here? Yeah bye ah. So
Speaker 1: I came across this all right, ah yeah, pass. I
Speaker 1: just keep seeing Share in the back of my mind.
Speaker 1: So here's an editorial that actually ran in the New
Speaker 1: York Times. I'm sixteen on November sixth, that's the day
Speaker 1: after the election. The girls cried and the boys played Minecraft.
Speaker 1: And this is by a sixteen year old high school junior.
Speaker 4: Who obviously is connected to somebody in the New York Times.
Speaker 4: Your parents are some big deal. I mean, otherwise, how
Speaker 4: would you get a an op ed in the biggest
Speaker 4: newspaper in the world.
Speaker 1: You know, it's I think it's labeled as a well,
Speaker 1: it's a guest essay. I don't know. Maybe it's in
Speaker 1: a letter to the editor. But in the morning after
Speaker 1: the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. Well,
Speaker 1: a preteen was crying into the shoulders of her brace's
Speaker 1: clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back. Uh.
Speaker 1: First of all, point of order, mister editor, why am
Speaker 1: I reading a child's editorial?
Speaker 4: Did you say so? The sixteen year old wrote this?
Speaker 4: But the sixteen year old said a preteen, Yes, So
Speaker 4: a twelve year old's crying over a presidential election.
Speaker 2: You're a weird.
Speaker 1: Kid, right, go get a hobby kid. Anyway, Again, at
Speaker 1: the point that she says in the headline, I'm sixteen,
Speaker 1: We're done here, We're done. You're a child. No, if
Speaker 1: you want to tell me how things are going at
Speaker 1: your school or something like that, and she is in
Speaker 1: a way, okay, that's fine, because I don't know. But
Speaker 1: the idea that you're going to lay some insight on
Speaker 1: me about the election and the candidates and all. No,
Speaker 1: we've got to who said this? Was it Bill Maher?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it was Bill Marshall. Jesus it was one
Speaker 1: of the three four that was a point? I can't Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: who's a anyway?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Where was I?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Said, we've got to stop laying the burden on these
Speaker 1: poor children, the idea that they need to solve this stuff,
Speaker 1: or they need to tell us what happened in the election.
Speaker 4: Why would you lay that on a sixteen year old girl? Well,
Speaker 4: how about the poor twelve year old crying in the hall.
Speaker 4: The only way she's crying in the hall is her
Speaker 4: parents and or her teachers sold her a load of crap.
Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. I continued up the stairs to
Speaker 1: the lounge where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw
Speaker 1: two tables. One was filled with my girlfriends, many of
Speaker 1: them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket
Speaker 1: of despair over the young women in the room. I
Speaker 1: looked over to the other table of teenage boys and
Speaker 1: saw Minecraft on their computers. Well, we were gasping for breath.
Speaker 1: It seemed they were breathing freely.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I suppose you expect to overwrought from
Speaker 4: a sixteen year old girl, but uh wow, we were
Speaker 4: gasping for breath.
Speaker 2: They were breathing freely.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, Katie, any verbal slappings or shall I plunge on?
Speaker 2: I have so many questions, but yeah, I go plunge on.
Speaker 1: Get a get a trash can ready, You're gonna be
Speaker 1: all right. We girls woke up to a country that
Speaker 1: would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse
Speaker 1: than a woman.
Speaker 2: Right, that's.
Speaker 1: Exactly you know. In fact, I was going to vote
Speaker 1: for Common until I learned that Trump was held liable.
Speaker 1: Then I thought, wait, that's the man for me again.
Speaker 1: Thank you child for that incisive political analysis.
Speaker 2: Thank you child.
Speaker 1: Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to
Speaker 1: cross the street to avoid will be addressed as mister
Speaker 1: president your your mom tells you to across the street
Speaker 1: to avoid fat eighty year olds for the body where
Speaker 1: the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer
Speaker 1: be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me
Speaker 1: just woke up on a Wednesday. What made my skin burn?
Speaker 2: Most normal kids? That makes them normal? You're the crazy one.
Speaker 1: Right, what made my skin burn most well, it's probably
Speaker 1: uv rage you sunscreen. Wasn't that over seventy five million
Speaker 1: people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election
Speaker 1: didn't seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me.
Speaker 1: Whether their parents supported mister Trump or not, many of
Speaker 1: them didn't seem to share our rage, our fear, are despair.
Speaker 1: We don't even share the same future. I'm scared the
Speaker 1: Trump administration will take away a restrict birth control and
Speaker 1: Plan B the way they did abortion.
Speaker 2: Why are high schoolers crying about abortion and Plan B?
Speaker 4: Why is that the focus? Oh yeah, or presidential politics?
Speaker 2: As a child. That's really weird.
Speaker 1: I'm sweetheart. Trump didn't take away abortion. He sent a
Speaker 1: terrible ruling back to the States for people to vote on.
Speaker 1: There are more abortions happening now more, my young friend,
Speaker 1: there's more to this if you can stand it. Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Geeddy. Donald Trump Junior tweeted a picture of the
Speaker 1: weekend at President elect Trump, Elon Mosk, howspeaker, Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Speaker 4: On a private plane eating McDonald's, or more accurately, not
Speaker 4: eating McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Look at rfk Jr. He's holding that McDonald's the way
Speaker 1: you hold a bag of weed you found in your
Speaker 1: kid's room. I want to explain this.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny, eh boy.
Speaker 1: So getting back to the sixteen year Old Girls editorial
Speaker 1: in the New York Times, and I envisioned this to
Speaker 1: unfold in one piece, but we had to take a break.
Speaker 1: So the one point I want to make is that
Speaker 1: this young girl, who is a very good writer, unusually
Speaker 1: good for a sixteen year old, and is a sixteen
Speaker 1: year old gets the indulgence of youth. She unleashes are
Speaker 1: strongly held opinions, and the grown ups around her ought
Speaker 1: to say, well, that's great, I'm glad you're really into
Speaker 1: this sort of stuff and all, and perhaps a quick
Speaker 1: word about and the longer you live and the more
Speaker 1: you see and do, the more you'll understand some of
Speaker 1: the nuances of this stuff. I get that I spent
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of time around teenagers, teenage girls, in particular,
Speaker 1: coaching and mentoring and all sorts of stuff. But and
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be little this young woman. The
Speaker 1: point is the people around her have nurtured in her
Speaker 1: two things. Number One, what Bill Maher is talking about
Speaker 1: laying on her this mistaken belief that she needs to
Speaker 1: figure this all out and tell the rest of the
Speaker 1: world and then solve it, and two not giving her
Speaker 1: any Oh, I'm sorry, and number two feeding her full
Speaker 1: of the most hyperbolic of the wildly out of control
Speaker 1: political rhetoric of the last ten years without any perspective. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe you're her parents and teachers and mentors believe all
Speaker 1: this stuff because they whipped themselves into the left wing,
Speaker 1: you know, fury, But I don't know so Anyway, she
Speaker 1: writes on.
Speaker 4: That's one of your logical fallacies too, that I guess
Speaker 4: have existed through history is the belief that the young,
Speaker 4: or innocent or something like that, when they say something,
Speaker 4: it carries more weight, right.
Speaker 1: Because they're pure of heart, and out of the mouths
Speaker 1: of babes comes real wisdom. Yeah, that's once in a while,
Speaker 1: that's true. Mostly they're just kids in aught to just
Speaker 1: go do their homework. Anyway, So she says that she's
Speaker 1: afraid Trump will take away birth control the way they
Speaker 1: did abortion. Again, that's ridiculous. I've seen the ways in
Speaker 1: which many of the boys in my generation can be
Speaker 1: different from their fathers that. Wow, you have no idea
Speaker 1: how their fathers.
Speaker 2: Are now, of course you don't.
Speaker 1: The hashtag me too movement went mainstream when they were
Speaker 1: still wearing Superman pajamas. That's pretty good writing. On Tuesdays
Speaker 1: in health class, they learn about the dangers of inebriated consent.
Speaker 1: They don't pretend to gag when a girl mentions her
Speaker 1: period or a tampon falls out of her backpack. They
Speaker 1: don't find sexist jokes all that funny and don't often
Speaker 1: make them in public. No, they find them really funny,
Speaker 1: but they find you to be a humorless prig, and
Speaker 1: so they don't make them in your presence. You just
Speaker 1: wouldn't know it. I've heard they know that's kind of
Speaker 1: distracting and weird. I'm grateful to my school for taking
Speaker 1: gender equality as seriously as it does trigonometry. But most
Speaker 1: of the guys that I saw that Wednesday appeared nonchalant.
Speaker 1: A smiling student shook his friend's hand and said, sarcastically,
Speaker 1: good election. In the same hallway where I saw a
Speaker 1: female teach clutching a damp tissue. Why did it seem
Speaker 1: these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy
Speaker 1: friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other,
Speaker 1: more pressing priorities. That morning, I spoke with the male classmate.
Speaker 1: He asked if I was okay. Nearly melted with relief.
Speaker 1: See I knew not all guys were ignorant.
Speaker 2: O s up, lady, your sixteen year old.
Speaker 1: Then, before I responded, he continued why, he wondered, are
Speaker 1: so many girls crying? I stared, I swallowed that familiar lump,
Speaker 1: and I had one thought. I prayed that my older
Speaker 1: brother never asks that question. Oh my god, how could
Speaker 1: my classmates not know why girls in his grade were
Speaker 1: biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: It seemed like our future was sliding down the side
Speaker 1: of our faces. And he asked me why we were crying?
Speaker 5: Crying?
Speaker 1: I never felt that disconnected for men. I never felt
Speaker 1: more like a girl.
Speaker 2: God, if my kid were doing breathing exercises in the
Speaker 2: bathroom because they were so emotionally upset from a presidential election,
Speaker 2: I'd pull them out of school and get a team
Speaker 2: of therapists going and we go on a camping trip
Speaker 2: or something to try to turn this around. Something's gone
Speaker 2: horribly wrong.
Speaker 1: Well here, here's the bottom line. Once again, that is
Speaker 1: on the adults around her. That's on our parents and
Speaker 1: the teachers. You have abused that child, absolutely you have.
Speaker 1: You have psychologically tortured that child. You have terrified her
Speaker 1: into a state of awful emotional upheaval. What is the
Speaker 1: matter with you? Abusers?
Speaker 4: That's one hundred percent true. That's not even just talk
Speaker 4: radio you know, hyperbole. That's one hundred percent true. If
Speaker 4: you're kid, it needs breathing exercises to deal with the
Speaker 4: presidential election. You have abused them by putting all this
Speaker 4: fear into them.
Speaker 1: That's just not Yeah. Yeah, the cult of we like
Speaker 1: to be afraid. We're always afraid because it brings us together. Oh,
Speaker 1: hug me because we're afraid. We're both afraid. Let's be
Speaker 1: together because we're afraid that That is an unhealthy attitude.
Speaker 1: What happened to courage? Women are some of the most
Speaker 1: courageous people I know? What happened to courage? Resilience, a
Speaker 1: sense of humor? All of that is dying And to
Speaker 1: just infuse a child with that is abusive. Damn you
Speaker 1: you are evil.
Speaker 2: It really is. There's a name for that.
Speaker 4: I heard somebody bring up the other day, like if
Speaker 4: you have bad parents, you have to be parentified or
Speaker 4: something like that. It's a psychological thing that young people do.
Speaker 4: Like if you figure out that your parents aren't taking
Speaker 4: care of you, you take over that role. It's a
Speaker 4: survival instinct.
Speaker 1: But it's bad for you, right, your parents are drug
Speaker 1: addicts and you end up taking care of your younger,
Speaker 1: younger siblings and that sort of thing in.
Speaker 4: Yourself, and it makes you feel more responsible throughout your
Speaker 4: life for things. Anyway, it sounds like they've done that
Speaker 4: to this girl, like just put her in a position
Speaker 4: of being an adult that is not required as a
Speaker 4: sixteen year old.
Speaker 1: Right, And there's a tendency among certain sick people that
Speaker 1: they really want their children. They want to put their
Speaker 1: fears into their children. They want they're crazy to be
Speaker 1: fully invested in their kid, because then they've got somebody
Speaker 1: else who's crazy like them. I don't know the name
Speaker 1: of it, probably has a name, but anyway, you're just
Speaker 1: this poor kid. This poor kid has been abused.
Speaker 4: Another kid. Thing that is not as it can be
Speaker 4: pretty disturbing depending on I look at it.
Speaker 2: I found this interesting.
Speaker 4: It was I think in thew York times't remember where
Speaker 4: I came across it, journalists writing about their little kid
Speaker 4: playing with chat GPT, and I wonder if this is
Speaker 4: going to be the future of parenting for some people.
Speaker 4: Just watched my five year old son chat with chat
Speaker 4: GPT advanced voice mode for over forty five minutes. It
Speaker 4: started with a question about how cars were made. It
Speaker 4: explained it in a way that he could understand. He
Speaker 4: started peppering it with questions, and he told it about
Speaker 4: his teacher and that he was learning to count. Chat
Speaker 4: GPT started quizzing him on counting and egging on and
Speaker 4: making it into a game. He was laughing and having
Speaker 4: a blast and obviously never lost patience with him. I
Speaker 4: think this is going to be revolutionary, the essentially free,
Speaker 4: infinitely patient, super genius teacher slash parent that calibrates itself
Speaker 4: perfectly to your kids learning style and pace. I'm excited
Speaker 4: about the future. The slash parent part bothered me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think is great, it's fine.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the thing about that.
Speaker 1: It's an interactive book, like a really really good interactive book.
Speaker 4: If you look at it that way, it's not as disturbing.
Speaker 4: If you look at it as.
Speaker 2: A substitute for a human that makes us all weird.
Speaker 2: That it bothers me.
Speaker 4: If it's a substitute for all human relationship, that's the
Speaker 4: feeling it takes on. Yet, if there's no human involved,
Speaker 4: that weirds me. But if you look at it as
Speaker 4: an interactive book, then it's fine.
Speaker 1: Teacher student is a human relationship. I'm just sure. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where exactly I stand on this.
Speaker 2: I'm not exactly sure where I was. That's why I
Speaker 2: brought it.
Speaker 4: I thought this might be cool, this might be awful,
Speaker 4: this might be the end of society. It might be
Speaker 4: great for kids. I have no idea which Well.
Speaker 1: If the kid who likes to count grows up, puts
Speaker 1: this thing's voice in a sex dollar marries it, and
Speaker 1: then then it's disturbing. If it's just an interactive learning.
Speaker 2: Tool, for instance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, I've got this. You know, I
Speaker 1: love being alive, and I'm having a lot of fun
Speaker 1: even on my bad days. But I kind of I
Speaker 1: picture like my last day on Earth, looking around and thinking,
Speaker 1: good luck, y'all.
Speaker 2: You know, no country for old men, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, although I'd sure like to see how some
Speaker 1: of this plays out, just purely out of curiosity.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that a lot.
Speaker 4: I hope I live long enough to see how this
Speaker 4: out or that turns out, or this turns out, no
Speaker 4: doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Huh. Okay, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: I think you'll have I think as many kids will
Speaker 4: have this interactive book that's fantastic, there might be more
Speaker 4: see that was a five year old, there might be
Speaker 4: more twenty five year olds that have a GPT girlfriend
Speaker 4: rather than a real relationship.
Speaker 2: And and then that, yeah, the other end of it.
Speaker 1: Maybe then there'll be no more humans except in the
Speaker 1: Third world, and they'll overrun the Western world. It's just
Speaker 1: the way things go. Do you want to hear a
Speaker 1: really disturbing note on that topic?
Speaker 2: Who doesn't?
Speaker 1: And this is and this I think is undeniable as
Speaker 1: I look at the Internet, and I'll given, well, assuming
Speaker 1: that there are evil people and will always be evil people,
Speaker 1: the more effective and advanced modes of communication get, the
Speaker 1: more effective of evil doers are in indoctrinating people into evil. Now,
Speaker 1: you would the obvious counter to that as well, What
Speaker 1: about good people helping people understand what is good. Yeah. True.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just that we the reasonable insane if I
Speaker 1: am and sane or insane and sane, And also saying
Speaker 1: denunciation is so important, Jack, we both agree on that
Speaker 1: that we let the educational complex become radical and radicalize
Speaker 1: the students. And the Internet's a big part of that.
Speaker 1: I just I think the more advanced communication gets, the
Speaker 1: more the evil doers will use those advances to indoctrinate,
Speaker 1: Like that little kid who likes to count. I mean
Speaker 1: when he's in high school and and he's now he's
Speaker 1: into physics. Actually will the teachers are involved program? I
Speaker 1: mean that stuff slip them a little intersectionality and a
Speaker 1: little you know, Johnny, do you ever feel like a girl?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: I just Trump had thirty seven felonies. Let's count to
Speaker 4: thirty seven that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just it's it goes back to my hole. The
Speaker 1: tree of knowledge is technology, no truth? The Internet or
Speaker 1: AI or something. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Rushing made a big announcer the fruit of the tree
Speaker 4: of knowledge, I should say, from the from Genesis, the Carmaker,
Speaker 4: the biblical book.
Speaker 1: I'm done now. I think the band no No, No again.
Speaker 1: The first Book of the Bible.
Speaker 4: Jake Paul coming into in the air tonight, get over
Speaker 4: yourself tiring. We will finish strong next time.
Speaker 2: So this just happened.
Speaker 4: Manhattan DA recommends judge hold off sentencing in hush money case.
Speaker 4: So is that code for it's over? It's never gonna happen.
Speaker 4: They'll never be a sentencing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean when would they sentence him after
Speaker 1: he leaves office? And that's a phony case. It was
Speaker 1: about to be kicked out by the appeals court anyway,
Speaker 1: So I think the judge is trying to render it
Speaker 1: moot so he's not outed as a part as an activist.
Speaker 1: Ah right.
Speaker 4: Michael Labnati, who was the porn star's lawyer Stormy Daniels,
Speaker 4: called Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen grifters and that this
Speaker 4: case should be dropped.
Speaker 1: Michaelabanati takes one to know one, I guess, yeah. So
Speaker 1: that's that's that's it.
Speaker 4: Maybe the best news out of the whole law fair thing,
Speaker 4: all the cases against Trump is it helped get him elected,
Speaker 4: and both sides recognize that does more harm than good.
Speaker 4: So that won't be the norm going forward. To try
Speaker 4: to bring up some any court cases that you get
Speaker 4: your opponent.
Speaker 2: That way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love for them to not do it because
Speaker 1: it's freaking evil and Unamerican. But I guess if they
Speaker 1: don't do it because it's unsuccessful, well that's the same result.
Speaker 1: It's a little disappointing though, Speaking of Trump, I just
Speaker 1: came across this from the Financial Times, and you know,
Speaker 1: you can't identify a single reason for somebody voting in
Speaker 1: a certain way, because you can't do a controlled experiment
Speaker 1: with a controlled group and a variable whatever. But among
Speaker 1: people who said inflation caused them severe hardship, it was
Speaker 1: seventy six to twenty four Trump. Among people who said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a moderate hardship, it was fifty four to
Speaker 1: forty six, which is a landslide intral politics. Among those
Speaker 1: who said no, it's no hardship, do you know anybody,
Speaker 1: I mean, how rich do you got to be to say, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 2: I can't you're lying to yourself. You're lying among yeah,
Speaker 2: h yourself of your political views. It's got to be it,
Speaker 2: I mean, because it's impossible.
Speaker 1: Right, you are so delusional you think your side can
Speaker 1: do no wrong. I can sit here and tell you
Speaker 1: what Trump did that was inflationary, and what he's talking
Speaker 1: about doing in the future, that's inflationary. Because I'm not
Speaker 1: a delusional cultist anyway. Among folks who said no, it's
Speaker 1: no hardship at all, it was seventy nine to twenty
Speaker 1: one for Harris.
Speaker 4: So everything got thirty percent more expensive and had no
Speaker 4: effect on you. Oh, okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: Good to be you.
Speaker 5: Really.
Speaker 1: I send my maid out to shop here at the
Speaker 1: grocery store on the Hamptons and she hasn't mentioned it
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: That's weird. Yeah, that's something.
Speaker 1: The same Democrats are coming out and saying, Hey, we're
Speaker 1: the party of the faculty lounge. We're like completely out
Speaker 1: of touch with America, and they're right. Good for y' all,
Speaker 1: you're insightful.
Speaker 4: Even if you weren't bothered by inflation, you don't have
Speaker 4: some certain for your kids going out of the world,
Speaker 4: or your friends or the country as a whole, or you've.
Speaker 1: Noticed that there's like no help at your favorite restaurant
Speaker 1: because they can't get anybody because it's too expensive to
Speaker 1: deliver around you anything anything at all.
Speaker 4: Went to several restaurants in Vegas where the wait was
Speaker 4: like forty five minutes there were empty tables everywhere.
Speaker 2: They just don't have enough staff to bring in the customers.
Speaker 2: Had plenty of space.
Speaker 1: Open up the borders. Oh we already have uh.
Speaker 5: F wow, both this respectful and touss.
Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't it wasn't underwrought. I'll say that. Here's
Speaker 2: your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Oh love it. Let's get a final thought from everybody
Speaker 1: on the crew. Kick it off? Which of my clans?
Speaker 5: Low?
Speaker 1: Well, I think today's today. I'm gonna go out and
Speaker 1: get my eating pants. Thanksgivings just a week away.
Speaker 3: As you know, these are just jogging shorts where I
Speaker 3: can get all the gravy scenes I want on them
Speaker 3: and I throw them away.
Speaker 2: Yes, get gravy colored expandable pants. Good idea.
Speaker 1: There's a pro tip for you. Yeah, Katie Green or
Speaker 1: esteemed to use woman as a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 4: I have to come up with some dumb art idea
Speaker 4: like super glowing an orange to a wall, no kidding,
Speaker 4: or something along those lines, no kidding.
Speaker 1: Nail a peach. So many ideas, so many possibilities, Jack
Speaker 1: a final thought for.
Speaker 4: Us, so many records being set by the big boxing
Speaker 4: bout from Friday Night. It's the largest gait take that
Speaker 4: there's ever been in a prize fight outside of Vegas.
Speaker 4: Sixty million people tuned in. Its just some sort of
Speaker 4: a streaming record.
Speaker 2: It was also the biggest age gap.
Speaker 4: Of any legally sanctioned fight in US history.
Speaker 1: I would hope, so would hope.
Speaker 2: So let's not regularly do that.
Speaker 1: So my final thought is our two of the show
Speaker 1: read a piece from Gerard Baker that was absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you with a tiny bit of it.
Speaker 1: For a decade or more. Yes, even when Republicans have
Speaker 1: been in charge, we've been led by peddlers of a
Speaker 1: set of ideas that have clothed our institutions and country
Speaker 1: in social and political doctrines, fake claims and strictures that
Speaker 1: an inflicted untold harms. In other words, we've been told
Speaker 1: all sorts of crap is true. It's not true. You
Speaker 1: knew it wasn't true, but you're afraid to say so.
Speaker 1: Cut the crap, and we have.
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Speaker 2: See you tomorrow. God bless America. It's the Armstrong Ngetty Show.
Speaker 2: No Joe is a dynamic phenomenon. It's overwhelmingly popped, and
Speaker 2: you know what, everyone knows it.
Speaker 1: That's what I've said. So let's go with a bang.
Speaker 1: Let's be plain spoken about this. We're not hippies, and
Speaker 1: we're not climate change whack of doodles, and we're not
Speaker 1: gonna lop off our son's penis because he's a little effeminate.
Speaker 2: Can we cut the crap?
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