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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong.

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Speaker 2: And Getty and Hee.

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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty Strong twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: What a year? Huh? That was something. We're not here

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 3: We're playing you the best of what we call like

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Speaker 3: to call Armstrong and Geddy replace.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and the staff is still shell shocked. They're still

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Speaker 4: crying quietly in the corner. It takes so much work

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Speaker 4: to get this together and present it to you in

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Speaker 4: as entertaining a form as it is.

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Speaker 2: It's the Armstrong and Getty replay right now.

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Speaker 3: It's a campus chaos update.

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Speaker 2: Oh lord, the camp it's poor one. What happened to her?

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Speaker 2: Oh so story number one? Listen to this? Would you?

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Speaker 3: If there's some sort of a word for this, I

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Speaker 3: think it may win it. Princeton University, far from reforming itself,

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Speaker 3: is launching a new anthropology class on gender reproduction and

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Speaker 3: genocide in Gaza, a class whose description puts the Israeli

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Speaker 3: Hamas war on par with Holocaust.

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Speaker 4: The four credit graded course being taught by a noted

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Speaker 4: Palestinian feminist who has made provably false claims that Hamas

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Speaker 4: did not kill any babies or rape women on October seventh,

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, and also calls for an end to.

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Speaker 2: The Jewish state.

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Speaker 3: Wow again, this course being taught at Princeton, which has

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Speaker 3: learned nothing and has no shame? Is gender reproduction and

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Speaker 3: genocide in Gaza isn't here as a description? I think

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Speaker 3: Princeton is one of the colleges that really gets a

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Speaker 3: lot of money from Qatar.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah.

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Speaker 4: Drawing on decolognia, see if listen, we gotta have a

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Speaker 4: game here, a drinking game or so, I don't know something.

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Speaker 4: Count how many bulls critical theory terms are in this

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Speaker 4: course description? Drawing on decolonial, indigenous and feminist thought, we

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Speaker 4: examine how genocidal projects target reproductive life, sexual and familial structures,

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Speaker 4: and community survival. Students will engage reproductive justice frameworks, survivor testimony,

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Speaker 4: and Palestinian feminist critiques of colonial violence while situating Gaza

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Speaker 4: within comparative histories of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust in

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Speaker 4: genocide against black and indigenous populations.

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Speaker 3: Wow, somebody's paying a lot of money to have their

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Speaker 3: kid take that class.

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Speaker 4: Undergrads who take the class can get credit toward an

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Speaker 4: anthropology major or toward a minor in Gender and Sexuality

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Speaker 4: studies anthropology major.

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Speaker 3: That's what my son's really interested in, that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: And I was wondering, is there a university you can

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Speaker 3: go to where it just isn't all that quart kind

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Speaker 3: of crap?

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Speaker 4: Right, here's another fun game you might play. I'm going

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Speaker 4: to quote the woman who teaches this, who claimed that

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Speaker 4: there were no rapes or killing of children on October seventh,

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Speaker 4: interject to or substitute any word in place of Zionism.

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Speaker 4: You want Islam, black people, anything, and see if anybody

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Speaker 4: in America could get away with saying this what she said,

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Speaker 4: It's time to abolish Zionism. It can't continue. It's criminal.

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Speaker 4: Only by abolishing Zionism can we continue. They will use

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Speaker 4: any lie. They started with babies, they continued with rape,

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Speaker 4: and they will continue with a million other lies. We

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Speaker 4: stop believing them. I hope the world stops believing them.

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Speaker 2: And it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: So moving along, and again, as you said, Jack, Dewey

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Speaker 4: eyed fools will take this course and believe it, and

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Speaker 4: they might just be having that hey a lot for it.

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Speaker 3: They might only have that clash to keep the millions

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Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, I gotta go a little more. Then we'll

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Speaker 4: But among the required readings is an essay titled reproci

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Speaker 4: in Gaza. That's a new one, repro side in Gaza,

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Speaker 4: the gendered strategy of Genocide through Reproductive violence by Halla Showman,

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Speaker 4: a former Gazen dentist and self described social activist. Reprosides,

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Speaker 4: she writes, quote, is the systematic targeting of a group's

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Speaker 4: reproductive capacities as a deliberate strategy of erasure. Israel has

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Speaker 4: weaponized reproductive health through direct military targeting, siege conditions, force displacement,

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Speaker 4: environmental toxis, said toxicity, and gendered violence, thereby creating conditions

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Speaker 4: in Gaza that make pregnancy dangerously high risk. Therefore the

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Speaker 4: title of the class gender reproduction and Genocide in Gaza.

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Speaker 4: Moving along, this is a really good essay. I wish

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Speaker 4: we had time for the whole thing from that jeff

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Speaker 4: yass who donated one hundred million dollars to the University

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Speaker 4: of Austin, and he explains why. If you're not familiar

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Speaker 4: with the University of Austin, and it is a wonderful

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Speaker 4: I'm given one hundred million dollars through the University of

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Speaker 4: Austin because the feedback feedback mechanisms of higher education are broken.

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Speaker 4: Almost every system that works works because of feedback. Evolution

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Speaker 4: works because helpful mutation survival, harmful ones die off. Democracy

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Speaker 4: works because voter support effective leaders and remove ineffective ones.

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Speaker 4: Then he talks about markets and science works how it works.

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Speaker 4: Most systems or institutions that don't work at broken feedback

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Speaker 4: mechanisms corrupt politicians, corony capitalists, ideological echo chambers. Unfortunately, higher

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Speaker 4: education belongs in this category. The purpose of higher education

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Speaker 4: should be to instill in students knowledge, skills, judgment, and

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Speaker 4: characters so they can flourish and contribute to society. By

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Speaker 4: that standard, success should be measured by how graduates are doing,

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Speaker 4: and that's not happening anymore. He wants the success of

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Speaker 4: education to be measured in terms of success.

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Speaker 2: Imagine that.

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Speaker 4: Success in the person's chosen field, in their knowledge.

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Speaker 2: Did they get anything out of this is.

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Speaker 4: The question he wants asked, when you say it out loud,

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Speaker 4: it almost sounds like you're trying to explain it to

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Speaker 4: it's so freaking obvious. But we've lost it completely. You

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Speaker 4: go University of Austin and Jeff, thank you for doing

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Speaker 4: the right things.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of Texas, Texas Tech is pissing off the woke crowd.

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Speaker 2: I found this interesting.

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Speaker 4: On December one, the new chancellor of Texas Tech sent

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Speaker 4: professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval for

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Speaker 4: course material. It accompanied a memo with rules for teaching

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Speaker 4: about race and gender, including a ban on quote advocacy

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Speaker 4: asked professors to first ask if the course material quote

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Speaker 4: is relevant and necessary for classroom instruction, then details a

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Speaker 4: review process that starts with the department chair and can

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Speaker 4: go all the way up to the Board of re Agents,

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Speaker 4: the system's governing board. The chart is part of a

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Speaker 4: wider national campaign by conservatives to reverse years.

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Speaker 3: Of what they see. What they see what anybody could see.

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Speaker 4: As left leaning faculty in indoctrination across higher education.

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Speaker 2: M Do they see that, uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what they see, in the same way that

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Speaker 4: people going to the circus said they see an elephant.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because there's an effing elephant there. Sorry anyway, es Geese.

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Speaker 4: The Free Press was writing about how a systematic analysis

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Speaker 4: of various classes that purported to have both sides of

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Speaker 4: arguments would have the big book representing the Marcus point

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Speaker 4: what the counter book is, the respected or there might

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Speaker 4: be several of them, and they just don't teach it.

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Speaker 2: You don't read it, you don't have to.

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Speaker 4: It's just utterly biased, and Texas Tech, to their credit,

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Speaker 4: is going to finally do something about it. Final note, Jack,

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Speaker 4: you mentioned the katar. I would like to mention the

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Speaker 4: kami Chinese. Here's an adline for you. University of Michigan's

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Speaker 4: partnership with the CCP link Changhai School brought Chinese spies

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Speaker 4: to campus, and dozens of US universities have similar arrangements.

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Speaker 4: Elite schools like Columbian Yale maintained joint institute's dual degrees

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Speaker 4: and exchange programs with Shanghai Xiaotong University since October twenty fourth.

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Speaker 4: Department of Justice has charged at least twelve University of

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Speaker 4: Michigan students, researchers, and recent grads.

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Speaker 2: That's just the University of Michigan, folks.

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Speaker 4: At least twelve all Chinese nationals with national security related offenses,

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Speaker 4: a scale far out pacing any other US school. Five

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Speaker 4: partnership between Michigan and Shanghai Xiaotong, which House Select Committee

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Speaker 4: on China.

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Speaker 4: Jason Molinar Michigan said, quote was helping the CCP modernize

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Speaker 4: in Shanghai. Michigan, under pressure from Molinar, went on to

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Speaker 4: maintained ties to the Chinese schools. Between the Katari's pumping

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Speaker 4: and down with the jew and the communist Chinese sending

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Speaker 4: their spies to America masquerading as scholars. It is some

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Speaker 4: serious rot. It's campus chaos.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we got to tell you about Omaha stakes. But

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Speaker 3: as soon as we're done, I got a question, Katie.

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Speaker 3: You can weigh on this about my neighbors bringing me

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Speaker 3: cookies and whether or not I got to bring them something. Now,

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Speaker 3: maybe I bring the Omaha steaks. I got quite a few.

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Speaker 3: Here's a steak.

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Speaker 2: Class Ribby down on the counter.

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Speaker 3: I had them a frozen steak in the plastic from Amsteakes,

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Speaker 3: and I'll just say, you need to put this back

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Speaker 3: in the freezer or let it though your choice.

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Speaker 2: I'm sixty years old.

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Speaker 3: I should probably give up the idea that I'm ever

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Speaker 3: going to send out Christmas cards, because I never have,

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Speaker 3: and every year when I start getting them from other people,

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Speaker 3: going to send Christmas cards anybody, and so I don't

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Speaker 3: take on the guilt. But this one is slightly different.

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Speaker 3: Is my neighbors. I live in a cul de sac

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Speaker 3: are next to me. One family brought over some nice

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Speaker 3: what are your Christmasy flowers? The red ones all those

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Speaker 3: points sets, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Don't throw in that extra syllable. Am I supposed to

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Speaker 2: We set? Yah? I just I can't do that. It's

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Speaker 3: But they brought over points set as in a card,

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Speaker 3: and then our other neighbors. They're cute little kids, the

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Speaker 3: They're like the perfect family, and uh, and I feel

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Speaker 3: about myself, which is normal. Uh, they brought over cookies.

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Speaker 3: They're cute little kids, and uh, mom, they brought over cookies.

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Speaker 3: So where am I on the obligation list to bring

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Speaker 3: them something I would? I think I'm going nice. I

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Speaker 3: think I'm going to I'm gonna go with cookies.

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Speaker 2: But then were they Did they bake the cookies for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well they baked cookies. I don't know that they baked.

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Speaker 2: Them for me.

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Speaker 3: They code, yeah, homemade cookies. Okay, So here's my other problem.

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Speaker 3: I actually said, you know, we're going to bring cookies

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Speaker 3: over to you. We end up eating them all, which

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Speaker 3: is true, and uh, I said we'll make some more.

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Speaker 2: Ow.

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Speaker 3: My son made them from scratch, absolutely from scratch. The

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Speaker 3: sugar cookies and the buttercream frosting. Looked up the recipe,

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Speaker 3: we bought the ingredients. He did every single thing. I

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Speaker 3: going to figure out do I intervene? And I haven't

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Speaker 3: said that to him. These are delicious, They're good enough

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Speaker 3: because some people go way too far.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, stupid, should hurt buy the T shirt,

443
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:50,719
Speaker 4: Armstrong and getty dot com. Bad behavior leads to negative outcomes,

444
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 4: enter weightlawd it must enter weight loss drugs.

445
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 3: Glp ones, originally intended to treat type two diabetes and

446
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 3: now used for weight loss, seemed to some like a boon,

447
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 3: a game changer for obese people who need medical intervention.

448
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 3: To others, gop one seemed like the next overhyped miracle drug,

449
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,679
Speaker 3: which I think it actually is. Yeah, how do you

450
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 3: talk over hyped miracle drug when you were just talking

451
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 3: about people eating cotton balls tipped in kaien peppers or whatever.

452
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 3: That's not exactly an apples to apples comparison. Well, right,

453
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 3: and just overhyped miracles or what does that even mean?

454
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Speaker 2: That's eye of the behold. I think you're right the

455
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 2: first time.

456
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 4: It's the whole all right, we've put out six articles

457
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 4: about how great something is. Now we need to start

458
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 4: the backlash. But yeah, Jenny, you write some backlashy articles, right,

459
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 4: could we have gone too far?

460
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 2: Go ahead, we'll do that.

461
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 3: Which, if marketed to the wrong subset of people, could

462
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 3: perpetuate the myth that's skinny is better than healthy skinny.

463
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 4: So don't Yeah, so don't, And that's wrong. Read a book,

464
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 4: read a magazine, he'll read a tweet. You don't know

465
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 4: that if you need proper nutrition, even if you're losing weight,

466
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 4: you don't know that. You're dumb. There's nothing I can do.

467
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 2: To help you.

468
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 5: And speaking of Kate Moss, her sister actually overdosed on ozempic.

469
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Speaker 5: Overdosed on Yeah, she was she wasn't heavy and the

470
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 5: dosage of ozempic was too high and she ended up

471
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Speaker 5: in the hospital because of it.

472
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Speaker 3: Well, my question remains, and this is not just for

473
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Speaker 3: this weight loss saying, it's really for everything. It's just

474
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 3: what percentage of people that are either nuts or I

475
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 3: don't know what it is, an addictive person, whatever your

476
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 3: deal is, have poor judgment or stupid What percentage of

477
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 3: people with anything does it need to reach before we

478
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 3: should considered a problem for the masses who aren't going

479
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 3: to do this. The mass some of us see attractive

480
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 3: people on magazine covers or TV shows and just think'd

481
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 3: be cool to look like that, But I don't. You

482
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 3: just don't really ever think about it. It doesn't take

483
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 3: over your life. Yeah, you might try to be more

484
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Speaker 3: good looking.

485
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Speaker 4: Certainly everybody likes to present themselves the best they can.

486
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, I think all of that's overblown it

487
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 4: and it just to even hint it. Therefore, these so

488
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 4: called miracle drugs are really an evil scourge or I mean,

489
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Speaker 4: they don't state that in the article. I'm sure but

490
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Speaker 4: that's the hinting at it.

491
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Speaker 3: You know, it's just just thinking out loud. But wouldn't

492
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Speaker 3: it make more sense to say America would be better

493
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Speaker 3: off if many, many, many more people looked at magazine

494
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 3: covers and became really interested in losing, right, Because the

495
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 3: vast majority of those people would end up in a

496
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 3: much better place and be healthy. There would be a

497
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Speaker 3: very small minority who went too far, starved themselves or whatever.

498
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Speaker 2: But that's no reason not to have you know.

499
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 4: It's like saying, don't evacuate the building that's on fire

500
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Speaker 4: because a certain number of people might step on a

501
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 4: nail or trip and fall, or better that we all

502
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 4: remain in place.

503
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 2: Now, that's just dumb. I'm s'p stupid, should hurt.

504
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 3: You cannot regulate ninety five percent of society based on

505
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 3: the needs of the five percent who were too dumb

506
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 3: to help or crazy, you know, And I'm not and

507
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 3: I'm trying to.

508
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 2: Be dismissive of life.

509
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,679
Speaker 4: The young girl's adolescents with eating disorders, it's a terrible,

510
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 4: heartbreaking problem.

511
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 2: No, it is horrible.

512
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 3: I got a friend who have both their daughters had

513
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 3: eating disorders, really really really really awful. But what percentage

514
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 3: of people die from obesiti related illnesses every year compared

515
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 3: to die from anarexia.

516
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Speaker 4: It's roughly a million to one. Yeah, right, exactly right.

517
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 4: So I don't need some magazine guy telling me, Joe,

518
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Speaker 4: don't get too excited about these JLP ones because some

519
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 4: people might go too far.

520
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to, so stop shouting at me.

521
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 3: And I don't think that you can take in no

522
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 3: nutrients and be perfectly okay if I'm gobbling cotton balls

523
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 3: and I'm beyond help from a from the newspaper article

524
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 3: or whatever.

525
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that thing has been around for

526
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 2: ever my entire radio career.

527
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 3: These unrealistic images we put on television, What are.

528
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: You talking about?

529
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 3: The people in the village got more attention to and

530
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 3: you wish you looked like them.

531
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Speaker 4: That reminds me of the ancient discussion about whether, and

532
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 4: I remember it was at the time Playboy magazine, if

533
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,199
Speaker 4: some women really didn't like it because they felt like

534
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 4: all men would compare them to the very brushed Right,

535
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 4: that's a small percentage of dope dudes don't deserve the

536
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 4: love of a good woman anyway.

537
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just thought I don't know is how much.

538
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 3: How many things like this were just invented for talk

539
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 3: radio fodder. Practically, maybe we're the reason for its turning

540
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 3: the way back talk radio something to talk about on

541
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 3: a you know, a Wednesday afternoon while people drive to work. Yeah,

542
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm unrealistic images Okay, But so that

543
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 3: was your first blowback article thus far on the new

544
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 3: weight loss drugs, which and I love National review.

545
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 2: That was freaking week.

546
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 3: Oh that's try freaking week. We're probably going to prevent

547
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: six hundred and fifty thousand heart attacks this year. But

548
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 3: there's five young women across America who will take too much,

549
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 3: like Kate Moss's dopey sister. Fine, great, it's a big country.

550
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 6: Will We'll be okay, The Armstrong and Getty Show.

551
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 4: So, my sweetheart Judy and I spent eight days in

552
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,719
Speaker 4: London and had an absolutely wonderful time. I loved England

553
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 4: as I suspected I would. It's a very interesting place.

554
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 4: I'd become a fan of day drinking, and not in

555
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 4: that like vacation drinking all day long way, but in

556
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 4: the like you have a pint at lunch at a

557
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 4: pub and then you go do what you're going to do.

558
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 2: You're not quote unquote drinking.

559
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 3: You just have a beer because it's nice and it

560
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 3: makes you feel slightly more cheerful.

561
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 2: Why did we eat?

562
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 3: How did we develop our attitude we have in the

563
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 3: United States over the years, because I remember when I

564
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 3: was in Italy thinking the same thing. Everybody would come

565
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 3: in the restaurants, like people who are working their jobs.

566
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: They'd have a glass of wine, eat their food and

567
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 3: then go back to work. And that is seen in

568
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 3: the United States. It's just insane, just absolutely crazy. Yeah,

569
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Speaker 3: the Europeans have what I would call a very European

570
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 3: look or view of drinking that I found refreshing. Speaking

571
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 3: of pubs.

572
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 4: So we rented a flat in Mayfair if you know

573
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Speaker 4: where that is, doesn't matter, New Bond Street, lots of

574
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 4: like crazy high end shop thing, mostly populated by Kuwaiti

575
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 4: oil money. Oh wow, by the bye guys walking up

576
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 4: the street with four chicks and the beekeeper out really

577
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 4: going into perfume stores and spending just one godly amounts

578
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 4: of oil money a lot real.

579
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Speaker 2: That's not an exaggeration. You saw a guy walking up

580
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Speaker 2: the street with four women in the beekeeper up in

581
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 2: eight days, many times. Yes, wow, I mean one to

582
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Speaker 2: six women in the beekeeper. Wow. Yeah.

583
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 3: Anyway, Oh, they are basically sex slaves or cleaning your

584
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 3: house slaves or whatever, and everybody just tolerates.

585
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 2: That with no rights.

586
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 4: That's correct, yes, And Brits are not super duper happy

587
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 4: about the completely wildly unfettered immigration from Muslim lands over

588
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 4: the last twenty years. More on that another time, but anyway,

589
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 4: but out our windows onto the street, there was a

590
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 4: little like just had half a block long street and

591
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 4: there was a pub on each side of it.

592
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Speaker 2: At the other end. It was one hundred yards from.

593
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 3: Us maybe as we looked out the window, and it

594
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 3: was so cool every day, and more and more as

595
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 3: the week went on.

596
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 2: At four thirty or so, certainly by five.

597
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 4: O'clock there would be so many people standing in and

598
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 4: outside the pub having a pint with their coworkers and

599
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 4: friends and a laugh and a conversation before they went

600
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 4: home for the day.

601
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a recipe for sexual harassment, Oh my god.

602
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: And it wasn't.

603
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 3: They were drinking, No, they were talking with people because

604
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 3: they worked with people, and they met their buddies, and

605
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 3: they talked about the football match, which is soccer and

606
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 3: it just it was so nice. Yeah, anyway, yeah, and

607
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 3: I thought, wow, I could get used to this in

608
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 3: a hurry.

609
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 4: Although the pub thing, we went to this one historic pub.

610
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 4: We met our next door neighbors from home. Weird enough,

611
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 4: they were over there at.

612
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 3: The same time. We decided to get together. We go

613
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Speaker 3: to this pub, hundreds of years old, pub, drenched in history, legendary,

614
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 3: the Prince something or lord, what's it there, I don't

615
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 3: even remember the name, but it was very atmospheric. But anyway,

616
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: so we're sitting there having dinner and or we're having

617
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 3: you know, a couple of pines, and we decided it's

618
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 3: time to eat, and we order like four small plates

619
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Speaker 3: off the menu, and the waitress comes back.

620
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: And says, I'm so sorry.

621
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Speaker 4: We're actually out of the calamari and the pucker fish

622
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 4: or whatever the hell it was, and also the beef Wellington.

623
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 3: And we're like, oh, okay, it's like six o'clock at night,

624
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 3: how are you all right? All right, all right, we'll

625
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 3: order those other things. Then she comes back in like

626
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 3: two of those three are out. So should she ever

627
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 3: get around to admitting we're not actually a restaurant, we

628
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 3: don't have any food at all. We just have a menu.

629
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 3: We just hope we're working on the wind. Most people

630
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,479
Speaker 3: start drinking, they forget if they're hungry. So at one

631
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 3: point I said, it would save time if you just

632
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 3: told me what you do have, But we end up

633
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 3: with this mess of food.

634
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 2: Did you say that I shouldn't have? But I didn't know.

635
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 4: And finally so at the end of the evening and

636
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 4: it was lovely, she comes and says, can you tell

637
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 4: me what you actually ordered?

638
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 2: And got? Oh boy?

639
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: And I'm like, wait a minute, that's your job. We're

640
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 3: support no, no, no, you tell us. And it was

641
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 3: just part of it is tipping is not really a

642
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 3: thing there.

643
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 4: Now they've got a service charge that's like five, six,

644
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 4: maybe ten percent, but you feel it because they're not

645
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 4: earning it. They're like, look, I'm getting my six percent.

646
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 2: Oh okay, no matter what, gotcha.

647
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 4: So if you have to like order twenty four foods

648
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 4: before I bring you three, just because we're playing this

649
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 4: little game of.

650
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,719
Speaker 3: We might have it, we might not what a new

651
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 3: order find out. So you know, it's it's pluses and minuses.

652
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 3: Because the whole tipping thing is it's stressful, especially if.

653
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 2: You don't know the local customs. But yeah, Michael, how

654
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 2: was the food over there? Overall in England? Uh, overall

655
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 2: kind of.

656
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 4: Good, not great, But once you realize how to order

657
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 4: and what to order, it's it's better. But yeah, the

658
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 4: Brits are not famous for food for for good reason.

659
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 4: If you say, hey, what's a great meal around here,

660
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Speaker 4: people will send you to an Italian restaurant or an

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Speaker 4: Indian restaurant for a good reason. But the other thing

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Speaker 4: about workers that I found interesting. We had a tour

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Speaker 4: guide at the British Museum who was just terrific. He

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Speaker 4: was a professor of history, and he said, yeah, that

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Speaker 4: exhibit is shut down because there's just no employees.

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Speaker 2: There's no one to work. I said, what, that's odd?

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Speaker 4: He said, oh, yeah, since COVID, everybody stays home, they

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Speaker 4: live with their parents, they're collecting government checks.

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Speaker 2: You can't get people to work.

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Speaker 3: I thought that was so interesting and exactly what you

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Speaker 3: hear from so many employers in the States. Yeah, we

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Speaker 3: had that conversation with my family in the Midwest of

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Speaker 3: the United States. I don't go to other countries and

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Speaker 3: give them my money. I stay in the United States

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Speaker 3: and for you. But we had the same conversation on

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Speaker 3: how a number of restaurants, including the one we were at,

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Speaker 3: was really they they weren't seating all the seats, not

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Speaker 3: because they were crowded, but because they didn't have enough help.

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Speaker 2: How is that still a thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, it's amazing and universally universal, apparently,