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Speaker 3: Every once in a while, an argument seems to be
Speaker 3: one in the world of politics or loss, depending on
Speaker 3: which out of it you were on. Not a lot
Speaker 3: most elections. We seem to just go back and forth
Speaker 3: between an R or D and we keep having the
Speaker 3: same arguments. But every once in a while an argument
Speaker 3: is one or lost. One of the best examples in
Speaker 3: my lifetime being gay marriage. So thoroughly drubbed by the
Speaker 3: idea of gay marriage, Republicans just ceased fighting it at
Speaker 3: all when it became clear that the country had decided
Speaker 3: that that's what they want, and so that then that
Speaker 3: argument was over and it just doesn't exist anymore. And
Speaker 3: I'm hoping that maybe that has happened, or we're close
Speaker 3: to it happening with the whole identity politics thing that
Speaker 3: took off in the mid nineties and has been running
Speaker 3: this country for a long time. And maybe maybe because
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people on the left saying this
Speaker 3: is not working for us, starting with well, not starting
Speaker 3: with a whole bunch of different people have said it, well,
Speaker 3: this isn't it. James Carvel's he ran Clinton's campaign, really
Speaker 3: pre identity politics taking hold of the Democratic Party way
Speaker 3: back in the early nineties. But this is what James
Speaker 3: Carvel has to say about the current state.
Speaker 5: Of things with reference to exotic positions. Was our identity politics?
Speaker 5: If you read the article in your Times, I said,
Speaker 5: I give Harris credit, she does not bring this up.
Speaker 5: But this stuff is like smoke on your clothes of
Speaker 5: a fireplace.
Speaker 3: You can't wash it off.
Speaker 5: And those ideas, well, it's true, they never said it.
Speaker 5: You know how many millions of dollars that the Republicans
Speaker 5: ran on anti identity politics positions that people had taken
Speaker 5: in a Democratic party in twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty
Speaker 5: toancy is a lot because you see it politics the
Speaker 5: other side gets to play, and you've got to understand
Speaker 5: that it's going to take another four years before we
Speaker 5: wash the stench of this off of our.
Speaker 3: Clothes, at least, so identity to politics being your politics
Speaker 3: are all about your immutable things, like your skin color,
Speaker 3: whether you man or woman, what you know, your hispani
Speaker 3: or white or black or all those kind of things
Speaker 3: are identity politics your politics.
Speaker 4: But your place in the world. Are you a good
Speaker 4: person or a bad person? Can you work here or not?
Speaker 4: That's all about your immutable characteristics.
Speaker 3: Sam Harris, who is a lefty, super smart guy, best known,
Speaker 3: I guess for being announce spoken atheist. But anyway, he
Speaker 3: wrote in sub stack yesterday, I think there are some
Speaker 3: lessons that the Democrats really must absorb for what is
Speaker 3: undeniably a total political defeat. They simply must recognize that
Speaker 3: several planks of their platform are thoroughly rotten. Identity politics
Speaker 3: is over. No one wants it. Latinos and Blacks don't
Speaker 3: even want it, as witnessed by the fact that they
Speaker 3: moved to Trump and record numbers. Trump got a majority
Speaker 3: of Latino men nationwide, and some kind He's got a
Speaker 3: majority of Latino men and women, even with all that
Speaker 3: he has said about immigrants from Latin America over the years,
Speaker 3: things like they're poisoning the blood of our people. A
Speaker 3: comedian called Puerto Rico a pilot garbage at a Trump rally,
Speaker 3: and the entire Democratic machine, all of the liberal media
Speaker 3: seized upon it as though a nuclear It just vaporized
Speaker 3: in an American city, and nobody cared.
Speaker 4: Because its practically the closing argument of the campaign, right
Speaker 4: that that will be looked back on them as a mistake.
Speaker 4: The numbers Puerto Rican voters moved strongly toward Trump in
Speaker 4: a number of different strongholds in Florida.
Speaker 3: Because the point is, and then I'll get back to
Speaker 3: this Sam Harris thing is they cared more about what
Speaker 3: my rent is, what my wages are, how good my
Speaker 3: school is for my kid, rather than comments about my
Speaker 3: skin color, race.
Speaker 4: Gender, whatever, what particular Caribbean island i'm from.
Speaker 3: Right, there's one species of identity politics that had an
Speaker 3: enormous effect on this election, and most Democrats don't seem
Speaker 3: to realize it. Around half a percent of American adults
Speaker 3: identify as transgender or non binary. That's one in two
Speaker 3: hundred people, and yet the activism around the identity has
Speaker 3: drained our politics for as long as Trump has been
Speaker 3: in politics. One lesson that I would be quick to
Speaker 3: draw from this election is that Americans aren't really fond
Speaker 3: of seeing biological men punch women in the face of
Speaker 3: the Olympics. And if that sounds like transphobia to you,
Speaker 3: you're the problem. Political equality, which should we should want
Speaker 3: for everyone, does not mean that trans women are women.
Speaker 3: When Sam Harris is writing that, I gotta believe that
Speaker 3: that issue is done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta believe there are people like Sam and
Speaker 4: the many many others who are coming out of the
Speaker 4: woodwork Bill Maher among others that have been on the
Speaker 4: left and have hesitated at least somewhat to criticize the
Speaker 4: excesses of their ideological brothers and sisters. But they've been
Speaker 4: chafing because they know how insane it is, you know.
Speaker 4: To get back to Carville's point real quickly, he talked
Speaker 4: about the Democrats didn't really run on identity politics exactly.
Speaker 3: They kind of soft pedaled it. I would suggest.
Speaker 4: That the Republicans weren't running against what the Democrats were
Speaker 4: running on. The Republicans were running against what the Democrats
Speaker 4: have done.
Speaker 3: What people see in.
Speaker 4: Their elementary schools and their kids' sports, and the college campuses,
Speaker 4: and the insanity and they or whatever in.
Speaker 3: Your workplace, in the training you have to take every year,
Speaker 3: oh my god, the humiliating DEI training.
Speaker 4: Folks, trust me when I say, with some exceptions, the
Speaker 4: momentum is on your side.
Speaker 3: Don't consent to that, because it's still.
Speaker 4: Going on in some corporations, government offices where you have
Speaker 4: to sit there and listen to somebody who's getting five
Speaker 4: thousand dollars an hour tell you all white people are evil,
Speaker 4: get up and walk out of that s anyway, And just.
Speaker 3: I've been wanting to get to this.
Speaker 4: I came across an article and it was in the
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal, which, granted, if you're employing lots and
Speaker 4: lots of journalists, you have lots and lots of lefties.
Speaker 4: It's just inevitable, even if you're the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4: And it's and it's an article about you know, transgender
Speaker 4: and politics and quote unquote transgender rights, which means a
Speaker 4: guy can play in women's sports, or a male rapist
Speaker 4: can go into a women's prison and rape some more
Speaker 4: women and that's portrayed as transgender rights. That's a prejudicial term.
Speaker 4: Nobody has a right to do that.
Speaker 3: Sam Marris said Americans aren't fond of seeing biological men
Speaker 3: punch women in the face at the Olympics, either spike
Speaker 3: volleyballs into their face or what have you, or win
Speaker 3: eight hundred and fifty and counting different medals and awards,
Speaker 3: and the college championships, at high school championships and the
Speaker 3: rest of it. It's I tell you what, folks, it is,
Speaker 3: for better or worse, an unbelievable example of how a
Speaker 3: very small but vicious group of people can twist society
Speaker 3: in ways that you wouldn't think were possible. Well As
Speaker 3: listening to the National Review podcasts the other day, they're
Speaker 3: making the point that the same crowd that managed to
Speaker 3: turn the tide on gay marriage took a hold of
Speaker 3: this and thought they could do it again. I mean,
Speaker 3: because gay marriage was incredibly unpopular not that long ago.
Speaker 3: I always point out that in a two thousand and
Speaker 3: eight election, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic
Speaker 3: Party running against each other, both stated marriage should be
Speaker 3: between a man and a woman. That's not that long ago.
Speaker 3: In the Democratic Party, the great Barack Obama was against
Speaker 3: gay marriage, but the tide turned by pushing because there
Speaker 3: was it. You know, it was the right side of history.
Speaker 3: I mean it turned out, I think we all agree
Speaker 3: now on all but most people agree that makes sense.
Speaker 3: And they thought they could do the same thing with
Speaker 3: the trans thing. No you can't, This is nuts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it professional like you know, anything goes sexually. Activists
Speaker 4: were part of it, but also the postmodern neo Marxist
Speaker 4: movement excuse me, got ahead of it or got a
Speaker 4: hold of it and decided that they could use that
Speaker 4: energy to overthrow Western civilization in the same way that
Speaker 4: you know, Black Lives Matter is trying to and the
Speaker 4: rest of it.
Speaker 3: So that, yeah, they tried to seize that.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of that sort of mission creep in
Speaker 4: nonprofits like the NAACP. They've won all their victories, I mean,
Speaker 4: what else do you want. The Southern Poverty Law Center,
Speaker 4: they want all their victories. But they got a staff
Speaker 4: and they got lots of people making lots of money,
Speaker 4: so they kind of morphed into the yeah, we're uh
Speaker 4: anti hate and then then we raised.
Speaker 3: Tons of money.
Speaker 4: And by the way, we're gonna identify like half of
Speaker 4: America as a hate group no matter what they stand for.
Speaker 4: And so they just what are they now? They're a
Speaker 4: weird mutated beast to what they used to be. And
Speaker 4: the quote unquote gay rights movement, which used to be
Speaker 4: LGB lesbians, gays, bisexual people, which is a very small
Speaker 4: number of people. But anyway, you know, I ought to
Speaker 4: be able to do what I want to do and
Speaker 4: marry who I want to marry. Okay, great, And then
Speaker 4: they added the T and oh oh, And that was
Speaker 4: the point I wanted to get to in the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal article, is they used quotes around certain phrases
Speaker 4: that I believed in and I wish I had in
Speaker 4: front of me.
Speaker 3: I'll find it.
Speaker 4: But they didn't use quotes around transgender, including talking about
Speaker 4: transgender kids. And I wish I could remember what perfectly
Speaker 4: reasonable thing they used quotes around. But we now accept
Speaker 4: that there is such a thing as a twelve year
Speaker 4: old girl being quote unquote transgender.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: Is there an agreed upon meaning of that, or is
Speaker 4: that an activist's effort to prejudice the argument, and therefore
Speaker 4: Wall Street Journal ought to be in quotes. There's no
Speaker 4: agreed upon meaning of that term at all. I'll find
Speaker 4: that so I can make the contrast all the more
Speaker 4: clear for you. But the war for the language tell
Speaker 4: you what. We got to fight it every single day
Speaker 4: and be aware of when we are duped into using
Speaker 4: their terminology.
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Speaker 3: I just saw up on the Business Channel twenty three
Speaker 3: and me is laying off a bunch of people. Not
Speaker 3: enough people spitting in tubes anymore. Got everybody that wants
Speaker 3: to spit in the tube, or what turns out?
Speaker 4: Once you're spit in the tube, you're The fund's kind
Speaker 4: of gone out of it because so they have like
Speaker 4: no repeat business. How would you, oh right, exactly, you
Speaker 4: get me as a client one time. I've done it once.
Speaker 4: It's not a yeah, you're right right? I wonder am
Speaker 4: I still a white fella? I better spit in the
Speaker 4: tube again? No, nobody said that was.
Speaker 3: My great great grandmother. Still kind of really not that interesting.
Speaker 3: Just a person's one hundred years ago, sixteen generations ago,
Speaker 3: there was a Spaniard in the family. I'll be damn yeah,
Speaker 3: oh here it is. That's right.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: The article was how Trump is gearing up for assault
Speaker 4: on wokeness with the education overhaul, which I do want
Speaker 4: to talk about, but it uses it continually puts quotes
Speaker 4: around the term woke, but then transgender, including talking about little.
Speaker 3: Kids, is not in quotes. Why is that? Wall Street
Speaker 3: Journal strikes me as odd? Why is a word smith? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's interesting.
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty showaio podcasts and Our Hot Lakes.
Speaker 3: So RFK Junior is quite the controversial figure. I mean
Speaker 3: I knew that going in, but taking in a bunch
Speaker 3: of social media over the weekend, there are a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of you who are really, really, really into the
Speaker 3: idea of RFK Junior taking over the health of America,
Speaker 3: like it's seems to be among your more important priorities.
Speaker 3: Now I do agree with. I tweeted this out over
Speaker 3: the weekend from the Babylon b and the pushback to
Speaker 3: RFK Jr fattest sickest country on Earth, concerned new health
Speaker 3: secretary might do something different. There's a certain amount of
Speaker 3: truth to that with just anytime you try anytime there's
Speaker 3: a giant problem and somebody comes along that's going to
Speaker 3: interrupt what you have been doing. There's always so much pushback,
Speaker 3: and we use the example of illegal immigration or the
Speaker 3: tax code or the way we eat. We got every
Speaker 3: person I know who's got a kid with autism or
Speaker 3: ADHD or anxiety medications they gotta take, and we like,
Speaker 3: we just accept that is okay. I guess times change.
Speaker 3: I guess every family needs to have a kid who
Speaker 3: needs to be on drugs. What Yeah, yeah, I agree completely.
Speaker 4: The question, you know, is, is this guy the right
Speaker 4: shaker upper right, there's the nutjob.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's like the tax code. Oh, we better
Speaker 3: not change anything.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, But you mean there's no human being
Speaker 4: ever would think this is a good system. You're completely
Speaker 4: resistant to changing it.
Speaker 3: To explain, please, Yeah, I recognize my logical fallacy that
Speaker 3: because we're unlikely to change these complicated things, it doesn't
Speaker 3: mean the first person with any idea to come along
Speaker 3: automatically should be uh considered the answer. But before we
Speaker 3: get to some good stuff about RFK Junior from the
Speaker 3: Washington Post, here's him talking about vaccines over the year,
Speaker 3: keeping over the years, keeping in mind that last week
Speaker 3: every time a microphone was in his face, he said, no,
Speaker 3: I'm not anti vax.
Speaker 6: Is targeted to attack Caucasians and.
Speaker 3: A black people.
Speaker 6: The people who are most men are asconagages and Chinese.
Speaker 3: Can you name any vaccines that you think are good.
Speaker 6: I think some of the live iris vaccines are probably
Speaker 6: of earning more problems than their causing. There's no vaccine
Speaker 6: that is, you know, safe and effective. I do believe
Speaker 6: that autism does come from vaccines. A mountain of scientific
Speaker 6: study links autism too early vaccination with certain vaccines, so.
Speaker 3: No vaccine is safe and effective. He believes vaccines cause autism.
Speaker 3: It's interesting that a lot of the pushback from the
Speaker 3: left on that, given the fact that my entire like
Speaker 3: radio career, it's been the parents of Marin County, the
Speaker 3: super lefties who have been saying autism is caused by vaccines.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's like a direct correlation between that belief and
Speaker 4: Master's degrees are higher in any given zip code. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so now it's a right wing crazy thing as
Speaker 3: opposed to it was a left wing crazy thing. But anyway,
Speaker 3: he also wants to get the fluoride out of the water,
Speaker 3: which I heard I still hear heard yesterday people saying
Speaker 3: that's nuts. One of the most successful health programs in
Speaker 3: world history. Well, they're a person who writes about this
Speaker 3: sort of stuff for the Washington Post is RFK Junior's
Speaker 3: views on flooride aren't as crazy as you might think,
Speaker 3: and lists all of the pushback there has been over
Speaker 3: the years. We've been doing this since nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 3: by the way, putting fluoride in the water, and most
Speaker 3: states have been on board for decades and decades. But
Speaker 3: there's a whole bunch of countries around the world, like
Speaker 3: real countries, that have decided now, this is not good.
Speaker 3: It can cause all kinds of problems. So I just
Speaker 3: want to point out that on this particular topic, it's
Speaker 3: not nuts that he's going around saying that. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 3: my own personal level of belief and health authorities was
Speaker 3: seriously damaged by observing everything that happened during COVID became
Speaker 3: clear that they listen. If we say there are downsides
Speaker 3: to this, people won't do it. So let's pretend there
Speaker 3: are no downsides. Saw it running rampant.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you have to reject everything all the
Speaker 4: time in a knee jerk way. But yeah, they are
Speaker 4: willing to trade off good for bad in their perception
Speaker 4: and then downplay the bad, sometimes at the point of
Speaker 4: utter dishonesty.
Speaker 3: Well, how about the food pyramid throughout my lifetime and
Speaker 3: the lies around that?
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Speaker 4: Speaking of the recent electoral results in which the Democratic
Speaker 4: Party took a hell of a drubbing, in particular the
Speaker 4: more progressive side of it, and anybody who was advocating
Speaker 4: the wildest of the woke policies really took it on
Speaker 4: the chin.
Speaker 3: Thank god.
Speaker 4: It seems like an odd moment for perhaps the most
Speaker 4: progressive of America's governors to decide this is my moment,
Speaker 4: But Gavin Newsom of California did just that with a
Speaker 4: maneuver or two, which we will discuss with our guest,
Speaker 4: Katie Grimes, the editor in chief of the California Globe
Speaker 4: who has been covering the California State Capitol for ages
Speaker 4: and Ages.
Speaker 3: Katie, Welcome, How are.
Speaker 7: You, Good morning, Joe, Good morning, Jack. I'm well, I'm
Speaker 7: especially well after the election.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd imagine, so.
Speaker 4: I love the headline your recent piece Gavin Newsom is
Speaker 4: attempting to play on a stage well above his pay grade.
Speaker 4: Would you agree it seems like an odd moment for
Speaker 4: the woke Gavin to decide.
Speaker 3: This is my time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he needs to learn to read the room, because
Speaker 7: he's about as popular as Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: I understand the wanting to be the first in as
Speaker 3: the leader of the resistance for the you know, the
Speaker 3: nomination of a Democratic candidate for twenty twenty eight. He
Speaker 3: wants to me the first name out there. But this
Speaker 3: whole fighting on a couple of areas that seem to
Speaker 3: be thoroughly beaten, at least in this most recent relection.
Speaker 3: What's he thinking?
Speaker 7: You know, you ask a really good question, because I
Speaker 7: don't have an answer for that. I don't think the
Speaker 7: way he does, thankfully, because he's just a full blown narcissist.
Speaker 7: And I think part of the problem is a he
Speaker 7: has no interest in governing, and he has no clue
Speaker 7: in governing, So his natural inclination is to pivot to
Speaker 7: something that's going to get him some media headlines. And so,
Speaker 7: you know, claiming to fight Trump is going to certainly
Speaker 7: provide him some headlines on our lifting media.
Speaker 4: So you've made your career covering California and California politics.
Speaker 4: For folks listening around the country, what has the trend
Speaker 4: been in CALIFORNI And you can pick whatever item you want,
Speaker 4: but I'm struck by the illustration and your piece in
Speaker 4: the California Globe of the presidential results by county from
Speaker 4: twenty twenty to twenty twenty four, for instance.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, isn't that There's nothing like a good visual.
Speaker 7: So it looks like in this election, Republicans slipped at
Speaker 7: least eight states that we know of right now, and
Speaker 7: that's only with seventy two percent of the votes counted county.
Speaker 7: Some are saying it might yes, it might be as
Speaker 7: many as ten counties flipping to the Red. And so
Speaker 7: that's why that visual is so lovely. My point in
Speaker 7: this is even Californians are set up with these ridiculous, horrible,
Speaker 7: damaging policies that frankly, they're harming people in California, whether
Speaker 7: it's the increase in crime or you know, withholding water
Speaker 7: to our agriculture, or I mean you just the lousy schools.
Speaker 7: Even lefties are tired of this because lefties, well they
Speaker 7: might vote very left in California. They live like Republicans.
Speaker 7: They're tight with a buck, they want their kids to
Speaker 7: go to good schools. They do care about the roads
Speaker 7: in which their rims are getting bent on. There's all
Speaker 7: kinds of things. Of course, the crime just is in
Speaker 7: everybody's face.
Speaker 3: It's funny. I mentioned that my car's in the shop
Speaker 3: for a week because I cracked my wheel on a
Speaker 3: pothole because of our crappy, crappy roads, oh so ripped
Speaker 3: from real life. So it is interesting to see that
Speaker 3: there is a limit to how long people will put
Speaker 3: up with the same party despite the results.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think what we're talking about are same people,
Speaker 7: maybe people who don't pay a lot of attention to
Speaker 7: politics day in and day out the way we do,
Speaker 7: but they know what's happening right outside their front door.
Speaker 7: And you know, in this case, it's a lot of crime.
Speaker 7: It's really lousy maintenance in their cities and counties, you
Speaker 7: know everything. Just in California. We're starting to look like
Speaker 7: a third world country in many places. And this is
Speaker 7: supposed to be, you know, the Golden State.
Speaker 4: And Gavin's contention is that, and he's utterly a con man.
Speaker 4: His contention is that we have all these challenges and
Speaker 4: we're dealing with them courageously and creatively, as if these
Speaker 4: challenges came out of nowhere, is if they fell like
Speaker 4: rain and all of a sudden you got to you know,
Speaker 4: a million bums and junkies on the streets, as if
Speaker 4: they're not a result of the very policies that he's
Speaker 4: a spoused. But I mean, he took a hell of
Speaker 4: u spanking recently and the voters overwhelmingly approving Proposition thirty six,
Speaker 4: which overturned the disastrous Proposition forty seven.
Speaker 3: You'd think he'd wake up and smell the discontent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he has no ability to do that, and I
Speaker 7: think that that shows his unbridled narcissism. All he can
Speaker 7: see that tunnel vision and he's focused on national politics next.
Speaker 7: That's where his career was supposed to take him. So,
Speaker 7: by golly, you know, he's going to shove Josh Shapiro
Speaker 7: out of the way as fast.
Speaker 3: As he can, right. Yeah, he wants to jump ahead
Speaker 3: of Josh Piro and a number of other people out there.
Speaker 3: Kamala Harris, well, does Kamala Harris have any future or
Speaker 3: is she just done?
Speaker 7: That's hilarious. I just published an article this morning and
Speaker 7: I titled it, are you kidding? Berkeley poll reports California
Speaker 7: voters want Kamala for governor. No, this is an absolute
Speaker 7: last guest attempt by Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times
Speaker 7: to try to see if her fledgling political career could
Speaker 7: be saved.
Speaker 4: I just that's that's that's that hit me like a flow.
Speaker 4: I gotta take me real quick. Are you skilled in
Speaker 4: the arts of karate or what?
Speaker 3: That's shut out of me? Yeah? I can't even imagine that.
Speaker 4: So, once again, for people who are listening around the
Speaker 4: country who may not be familiar, can you give us
Speaker 4: the nickel version of Gavin Newsom's energy policies? And and
Speaker 4: and just and as Katie talked, perhaps folks, you can
Speaker 4: imagine this being implemented nationwide.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Actually, what Gavin Newsom is doing is imposing unbelievable
Speaker 7: regulations on our oil and gas industry. We're not fracking
Speaker 7: for natural gas in California, even though we sit on
Speaker 7: top of the world's largest gas reserves. So he's trying
Speaker 7: to restrict all this. He's forcing oil and gas companies
Speaker 7: to withhold hold back some of their oil and gas
Speaker 7: and it's going to lead to even higher gas prices.
Speaker 7: His California Air Sources Board, that's the regulatory agency for
Speaker 7: our global warming policies, just passed amount to at least
Speaker 7: the sixty five cent additional tax on top of our
Speaker 7: highest gas prices in the entire country. So what he's
Speaker 7: doing is creating shortages of everything, including water deliveries. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's hard to make this stuff up. It's almost like
Speaker 7: the un is running Gavin Newsom and California because nobody
Speaker 7: in this state wants to live like this, and yet
Speaker 7: these morons are still voting for this.
Speaker 3: So is there any chance that he's not actually angling
Speaker 3: to be the nominee in twenty twenty eight, that he's
Speaker 3: trying to get some other really lucrative gig, like an
Speaker 3: Al Gore type lifestyle or something. I mean, is it
Speaker 3: just a money grab that I don't quite understand yet.
Speaker 7: It's it's about power and money. I wrote right before
Speaker 7: the election and article about how the only thing he
Speaker 7: really has left to focus on is his climate change chops,
Speaker 7: and so he's trying to pivot to become the next
Speaker 7: al Gore on the net.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of money in that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of freaking money at that, and you don't have the
Speaker 3: scrutiny of politics exactly, and.
Speaker 7: You don't have to you don't have to produce anything.
Speaker 7: There's no results necessary. You will go around and blather
Speaker 7: on about climate change this and that and carbon emissions,
Speaker 7: and for some reason, the media buy a book line
Speaker 7: and sinker oh boy.
Speaker 4: Katie Grimes is the editor in chief of the California Globe.
Speaker 4: Katie I picture Gavin announcing officially for president the presidency.
Speaker 4: Within a couple of years, we will organize a march
Speaker 4: of all forty million Californians from California to DC, Kansas.
Speaker 4: You're gonna need to stuck up on avocado toast, but
Speaker 4: we will march to DC.
Speaker 3: And declare America. Please don't do this to yourselves, Please don't.
Speaker 4: We've linked Katie's a couple of recent pieces up top
Speaker 4: at the hot links at armstrong in giddy dot com
Speaker 4: if you want to take a read. Katie, great to
Speaker 4: talk to you is always keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 7: Thanks. Great to be with you.
Speaker 3: Guys, always fun. Thanks. Yeah, just you know. I don't
Speaker 3: want to embarrass Katie or.
Speaker 4: Anything, but she is a fairly mainstream to left leaning
Speaker 4: journalist who just prized old school journalism telling the truth.
Speaker 4: And she has gone from you know, absolutely you know,
Speaker 4: tolerant and sympathetic toward kind of the center left to
Speaker 4: being aghast at what she's seeing in her home state,
Speaker 4: as so many are.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think this is my current working theory that
Speaker 3: he's not actually angling to be the twenty eight nominee,
Speaker 3: that he's trying to raise his Q factor, his name
Speaker 3: and everything like that, just in progressive circles and become
Speaker 3: something that makes him a lot of money for a
Speaker 3: long time Al Gore style.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's calculating enough that I still say he is absolutely,
Speaker 4: fully turgid aroused for the idea of the White House.
Speaker 3: I always saying that, I think you are enjoying the imagery.
Speaker 3: Is what's going on.
Speaker 4: Shakespeare Head sexy stuff in his place too, and he's
Speaker 4: worshiped so anyway, But you do make an interesting point.
Speaker 4: He's calculating enough that that's his main goal, but he's
Speaker 4: positioning himself in such a way that other goals are
Speaker 4: pursued at the same time. Yeah, he's really, in a word, evil,
Speaker 4: an evil human being.
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Speaker 3: in the cryptocurrency.
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Speaker 3: So to paint the picture for you, it's Trump and Biden,
Speaker 3: all smiles in blue suits and red ties, sitting there
Speaker 3: in front of a roaring fireplace there in the Oval Office,
Speaker 3: and Biden's good at that whole backslapping were pals thing
Speaker 3: he's been doing for since before most of us were born.
Speaker 3: And this is the only thing he's good. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: really his only uh. And and Trump, of course is
Speaker 3: joining the fact that he has uh defeated that side thoroughly,
Speaker 3: first time they've been together since the debate that ended
Speaker 3: Biden's career. Oh my god, Trump probably never been as
Speaker 3: happy as life. Then, sitting next to this guy that
Speaker 3: he's so thoroughly.
Speaker 4: Trounced having, slaps Biden on the back and says, remind
Speaker 4: Hunter to pay his taxes.
Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 3: Katie, You're gonna have to explain to us what the
Speaker 3: hell this is we're hearing here.
Speaker 8: So apparently there's this internet trend going on, an internet trend.
Speaker 3: You say it's an internet trend.
Speaker 8: And apparently if you exhale all the way, get all
Speaker 8: the air completely out of your lungs, and then you
Speaker 8: try to scream, you make some form of a noise
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotcha. The exhale and scream challenge. I'll do
Speaker 3: that with my kids today for fun. Take a video,
Speaker 3: let us know it goes. I'll do it with one
Speaker 3: of my kids. My high school kid is no longer
Speaker 3: interested in anything whimsical. He is just gloom. Teenager. What
Speaker 3: the official uniform of teenager? Though?
Speaker 8: The whole reason I discuss I wanted to see if
Speaker 8: Michaelangelo could do it.
Speaker 3: Michael do that for us on Mike. Exhale completely, then
Speaker 3: try to scream. Okay, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 3: So you took you in, healed? You didn't. You didn't
Speaker 3: exhale enough either. It completely exhamed. Okay, no, you healed again?
Speaker 3: He can't in here.
Speaker 2: He blew out.
Speaker 3: Then you took a breath. Okay, let me blow. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna just do nothing but blow. Don't take a breath
Speaker 3: in you took it. You I am never mind never
Speaker 3: I don't understand. I'm growing out. That's the why I
Speaker 3: excel you do not take a breath. You are taking
Speaker 3: the fact that you're not following these instructions is I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna blow out, right, Okay, Katie, we gotta go. No,
Speaker 3: We're not gonna go through this again.
Speaker 4: Michael, Michael, you blow out, you go and then you
Speaker 4: go and then you scream.
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to. That's leave out to last. Try Okay,
Speaker 3: so just blow and scream, but but don't okay, all right, okay.
Speaker 4: All right, everywhere, so earlier, earlier, it's all right, Katie
Speaker 4: for the podcast.
Speaker 3: You need to do it because I want to hear
Speaker 3: you try to do it. Okay, podcast, Okay.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: The the only thing I took away from that is
Speaker 4: how incredibly infectious laughter is listening to those numbskulls try
Speaker 4: to do the numbskullish challenge of the day.
Speaker 3: Right, But they're all laughing, so you just can't help.
Speaker 3: But you know, giggle. Here is a professor at the
Speaker 3: University of Kansas, where I spent a year in grad school. Poorly.
Speaker 3: I don't know what class he's teaching here, but somebody
Speaker 3: got out their cell phone. He's doing this in the
Speaker 3: little lecture room in front of a bunch of students.
Speaker 3: I can't believe it, but here you go. That's what
Speaker 3: frustrates me.
Speaker 9: There are going to be some males in our society
Speaker 9: that will refuse to vote for a potential female president
Speaker 9: because they don't think females are smart enough to be president.
Speaker 9: We can line all those guys up and shoot them,
Speaker 9: and they clearly don't understand the way the world works.
Speaker 3: Did I say that?
Speaker 9: It scratch that from the recording. I don't want the
Speaker 9: Deans hearing that I said that.
Speaker 3: We missed the very first part of that, where he's
Speaker 3: in a conversation when somebody starts their cell phone, where
Speaker 3: he's saying, people who think that men are smarter than women,
Speaker 3: So why is he having that conversation anyway? Who thinks
Speaker 3: either way that either gender is as a whole smarter
Speaker 3: than the other. That's just a dumb premise to start with.
Speaker 3: And then he goes into there are people that won't
Speaker 3: vote for Kamala Errs because they don't believe women are
Speaker 3: smart enough. People who thinks that how many people do
Speaker 3: you know? Thinks that what are you talking about? Katie?
Speaker 3: Feel free to weigh in.
Speaker 4: But as a guy who loves and cherishes women in
Speaker 4: every part of life, the male who has to PROMI
Speaker 4: trait himself talking about women are so much smarter.
Speaker 3: Men are so dumb. Women are smarter. You are pathetic.
Speaker 4: You should turn in your genitals, sir, and I use
Speaker 4: that term loosely.
Speaker 3: That's pathetic.
Speaker 8: Two points. One, I hate nothing more than a male feminist.
Speaker 8: That's awful. Second, this guy's name is Philip Locock.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's not. It is no, Yes, how did
Speaker 3: that escape me?
Speaker 8: And he's a lecturer in the Department of Health, Sport
Speaker 8: and Exercise Science.
Speaker 4: You know, good year, Alish just could probably help you
Speaker 4: with your problem there, mistress, support garden.
Speaker 3: I mean, how low is it support garment that gets
Speaker 3: that thing up where you need it to be. You
Speaker 3: gotta change your name. You know, you don't want to
Speaker 3: down around your knees. You want to up here, waste level.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe many generations of Locock settled the West
Speaker 4: and made Kansas the fabulous states that it is today.
Speaker 3: You gotta change your name. I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: Maybe I'm with all due respect to great grandfather Locock
Speaker 10: in the work he did in Prohibition and Grandpa Locock
Speaker 10: and it's how he, you know, opened the first bank
Speaker 10: of Solona or whatever.
Speaker 3: You gotta change your name. Yeah, you know, maybe I
Speaker 3: should have more sympathy, But he grew up with that
Speaker 3: name probably many endless jokes like we're doing now, and
Speaker 3: it drove him to being a male feminist where he
Speaker 3: has to overreact the other direction or something. Low tea,
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