Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arms Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1: No, No, we caught Hillary Clinton. We've caught Barack Hussein Obama.
Speaker 1: They're the ones, and then you have many many people
Speaker 1: under them.
Speaker 2: Susan Rice, They're all there.
Speaker 1: The names are all there, and I guess they figured
Speaker 1: they're going to put this in classified information and nobody
Speaker 1: will ever see it again. But it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: And it's the most unbelievable thing I think I've ever read.
Speaker 1: So you ought to take a look at that and
Speaker 1: stop talking about nonsense, because this is mixed up by nonsense.
Speaker 2: He means the Epstein files, and what he was describing
Speaker 2: was the fire files that an investigation Tulsey Gabbert has
Speaker 2: been talking about lately into the Russian collusion hoax early
Speaker 2: days when Obama and Brennan and company were directly involved
Speaker 2: in not reflecting the evidence, but directing which direction it
Speaker 2: would take in spite of the evidence to wit, top
Speaker 2: officials working in the intelligence community analysis about Russia's interference
Speaker 2: in the twenty sixteen election were overruled by CIA Director
Speaker 2: John Brennan, according to records reviewed by the Federalists. The
Speaker 2: records are related to ongoing criminal investigations into Brennan other
Speaker 2: top intelligence officials for the roles in launching the Russian
Speaker 2: collusion hoax. Fairly easy to understand what happened here, it is.
Speaker 2: The dispute was over the key judgment in the January
Speaker 2: twenty seventeenth Intelligence Community Assessment or ICA. The key judgment
Speaker 2: was that Russia had interfered in the election, specifically because
Speaker 2: Putin and the Russian government quote aspired to help President
Speaker 2: Trump's reelection chances. The senior intelligence officials pointed out the
Speaker 2: lack of evidence to substantiate the claim. Quote. We have
Speaker 2: no intelligence to directly support this aspiration point, said one
Speaker 2: member of the small group of individuals working on the team.
Speaker 2: He didn't say little, he said, we have no intelligence
Speaker 2: to directly support this point. Uh ba ba b bum.
Speaker 2: Guy was working with Brennan, James Comey, and d N I. Clapper.
Speaker 2: The official worried that the inclusion of the claim would
Speaker 2: would quote open the IC to a line of very
Speaker 2: politicized increy that is sure to come up when this
Speaker 2: paper is shared with The Hill. Recent CIA analysis of
Speaker 2: the conclusion of this disputed key judgment noted the risks
Speaker 2: of including poorly supported judgments, since skeptical readers inclined quote
Speaker 2: to reject an entire analysis if a single judgment appears exaggerated, biased,
Speaker 2: or unsupported. Well right, but so Clapper, I'm sorry. Brennan, though,
Speaker 2: called the dissenting individuals into his office on December thirtieth,
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, remember that's post election, and had a lengthy
Speaker 2: meeting in which they had articulated their serious concerns. At
Speaker 2: the end of the meeting, Brennan reported, the assessment will
Speaker 2: stay the same. People don't I don't know that. People
Speaker 2: remember that after Trump was elected, even when he was
Speaker 2: in office, there was a belief in like mainstream America,
Speaker 2: that that was going to be overturned or he was
Speaker 2: going to be booted out or something. Right, but he
Speaker 2: was not going to Remember, there was blowback when Obama
Speaker 2: had him there in the oval office, as you do
Speaker 2: when a new president gets elected, like don't don't validate this.
Speaker 2: Obviously something went wrong. We just got to get to
Speaker 2: the bottom of it. The way they stole this. I
Speaker 2: remember on Saturday night, live like a year in when
Speaker 2: they had their doing their whole Muller thing and Robert
Speaker 2: de Niro would Playmuller and all that. But I got
Speaker 2: something to break to you, Hillary. I think I think
Speaker 2: he's going to stay in office. Like that was big
Speaker 2: news that Trump might not he might actually be the president.
Speaker 2: That was that was up in the air for a
Speaker 2: big chunk of the country at the beginning. So why
Speaker 2: final Yeah, final note on this. The CIA has reviewed
Speaker 2: this and noted that the key judgment, again that they
Speaker 2: interfered to get Trump elected, was given quote a higher
Speaker 2: confidence level than was justified. It further noted that the
Speaker 2: ICA had been drafted under an unusually rushed timeline, had
Speaker 2: been preceded by leaks to The Washington Post in the
Speaker 2: New York Times improperly claiming quote definitive conclusions had already
Speaker 2: been reached and had indications of quote a potential political motive.
Speaker 2: I I wish this wasn't true. Maybe I'm just too cynical,
Speaker 2: But I don't think this is gonna grab people. I
Speaker 2: think it requires too much thinking and reading. It should, God,
Speaker 2: it should. It's huge. It's a huge deal. Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: just too much plausible deniability here, right, thinkright for it
Speaker 2: to come home, although you know, I think it's worth
Speaker 2: discussing in people knowing about it, just to understand the
Speaker 2: sort of thing that happens, and how the spook community
Speaker 2: can sometimes be less than truthful and forthcoming depending on
Speaker 2: their goals, which should got to be watched and regulated carefully,
Speaker 2: Which should be a surprise to no one, because that's
Speaker 2: their history, right, that's a history of the FBI, it's
Speaker 2: a history of the CIA. We know less about the NSA,
Speaker 2: which is scary. Right. It's as if Hunter Biden turned
Speaker 2: up on a street corner drunken high this afternoon. Somebody said,
Speaker 2: oh my god, really, no, that's been the entire pattern
Speaker 2: of his life. Of course he did. If he doesn't,
Speaker 2: that's the surprise. And I'm in support of our intelligence communities,
Speaker 2: our law enforcement communities. But to give people that power
Speaker 2: and the power to keep the power secret, or I
Speaker 2: should say, keep the ways they execute that power in secret,
Speaker 2: that is, as the founding fathers would tell you, an
Speaker 2: incredibly dangerous proposition, and it must be done very very carefully.
Speaker 2: That's the only point I mean. On the day that
Speaker 2: they release all those MLK documents, which there's not really
Speaker 2: anything juicy in. But MLK was spied on so much
Speaker 2: by the FBI. And you know why they spied him
Speaker 2: because they wanted to, because they thought he'd gotta be
Speaker 2: guilty of something. Exactly the reasoning they had when they
Speaker 2: were spying on Trump. It is people because we wanted
Speaker 2: to and because he's got to be guilty of something, Right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna find what he's guilty of and crucify him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's troubling. H Speaking of Trump, who's doing one of
Speaker 2: his multi hour probably is an hour into it press conferences. Man,
Speaker 2: if you're a foreign leader and you come meet with
Speaker 2: President Trump in the Oval Office, bring a book or
Speaker 2: ear bud he before it starts. All right, to excuse yourself,
Speaker 2: go to the White House bathroom. You think you're gonna,
Speaker 2: you know, shake hands with the guy, get your picture taken,
Speaker 2: and answer a question about you know, flower exports in
Speaker 2: Ethiopia or whatever. No, he's going to answer questions about
Speaker 2: every topic that has ever existed for two hours while
Speaker 2: you sit there and smile, and none of them have
Speaker 2: anything to do with you, right, So bring a book.
Speaker 2: But he's doing that right now. If any more news
Speaker 2: comes out of there, we will let you know. But
Speaker 2: remember a while back, Trump was pretty interested in taking
Speaker 2: Canada as a fifty first state. I think he would
Speaker 2: if he had the opportunity, And we've explained why we
Speaker 2: think that's a terrible idea because Canada makes Calumnia look
Speaker 2: like Wyoming in terms of politics, and so we would
Speaker 2: have another giant California that would throw off elections forever.
Speaker 2: To that point, this story that is in the Juno
Speaker 2: News today, new ethics code tells nurses in Canada to
Speaker 2: denounce white European medicine. Wow. The Canada Nurses Association twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five Code of Ethics for Nurses denounces what it
Speaker 2: calls white European centric foundations of modern medicine and compels
Speaker 2: nurses to adopt a broad set of radical, progressive political
Speaker 2: beliefs as part of their professional duties as nurses. I'm
Speaker 2: familiar with this in so many fields, and medicine is
Speaker 2: rife with it, and the medical schools are continuing to
Speaker 2: do the DEI stuff full speed ahead. They need to
Speaker 2: align their conduct as nurses with a detailed set of
Speaker 2: political values, among them social justice, gender ideology, indigital belief
Speaker 2: systems and climate activism. Nurses have to work in climate
Speaker 2: activism into their job. How would you even do that?
Speaker 2: Tell you what these people Their intent is to take
Speaker 2: over society and take over its institutions. They got balls, man,
Speaker 2: They are aggressive while they're doing this. They've been pretty
Speaker 2: successful in a lot of quarters, like all of our schools,
Speaker 2: and here they are successful in Canada with nurses. Nurses
Speaker 2: are now required all across Canada to acknowledge the quote
Speaker 2: historical and continuous impact that white European centric models of
Speaker 2: nursing and health have had on the perpetuation of anti
Speaker 2: indigenous racism, anti black racism, and other types of racism.
Speaker 2: Your point is well taken. But this bone, you can
Speaker 2: see it sticking out of my arm and I'd really
Speaker 2: like to get or put back together. Wow, that is
Speaker 2: And I think people hear this stuff and think that
Speaker 2: can't be true. I know, or there's something wrong here.
Speaker 2: You're exact. No, these people, they count on your niceness,
Speaker 2: and there are no nicer people than Canadians. They count
Speaker 2: on your niceness. You're not going to stand up and
Speaker 2: say you're a ludatic in a radical No, you can't
Speaker 2: teach this. And they get over. And this isn't proposed,
Speaker 2: this is now done. This is a dumb deal. So
Speaker 2: I'll read that one paragraph again because I thought it
Speaker 2: was so good. As of now twenty twenty five, nurses
Speaker 2: need to align theirt conduct with a detailed set of
Speaker 2: political values, among them social justice, gender ideology, indigenous belief systems,
Speaker 2: and climate activism. That is so nuts. Yeah, I'm familiar
Speaker 2: with this in the medical context, and that the radical
Speaker 2: leftists want to dictate that you put tribal medical beliefs
Speaker 2: on the same footing give it the same weight as
Speaker 2: carefully scientific method proved you know, double blind contry troll
Speaker 2: group and experiment group drug trials for instance. Well, no,
Speaker 2: if they believe that, you know, if you worship the
Speaker 2: owl god that will take care of your cancer, you've
Speaker 2: got to give that equal belief with like gene therapy,
Speaker 2: I got an equal way. I got a bone sticking
Speaker 2: through the skin. Let me run some corn meal on that. No, no, what, well,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a traditional medicine. We'll rub some corn
Speaker 2: meal on that and see, can I get Oh, white
Speaker 2: guy wants his bone back in his arm? Okay, typical
Speaker 2: colonial of pressure. Can I get some morphine instead of
Speaker 2: corn meal. Oh mister European centric wants morphine for his
Speaker 2: bone sticking out. Wow, Canada check yourself. Wow, that's some story.
Speaker 2: Holy crap, um. John Stewart said something interesting. Donald Trump
Speaker 2: truthed out something interesting on that very topic of the
Speaker 2: late night shows going away. Maybe we'll get to that,
Speaker 2: among other things. How do you get cracked?
Speaker 3: One of the things I don't want to do is
Speaker 3: give it how to any more unlike myself that may
Speaker 3: think that it's a good idea, but crack cocaine is
Speaker 3: a I am fully aware when I'm talking about it
Speaker 3: in relationship to my own experience with it. It is
Speaker 3: a still a shocking thing for most people because we
Speaker 3: have been fed this perception of crack cocaine. It's more
Speaker 3: than just a drug. It's more than like if you
Speaker 3: say math, or if you say heroin, or if you
Speaker 3: say cocaine. It comes with a whole bunch of different baggage.
Speaker 3: And because of that, places that you can go get
Speaker 3: it are some of the most dangerous places in whatever
Speaker 3: location you happen to be, and it's everywhere. Mainly for
Speaker 3: that reason, I learned how to make my own.
Speaker 2: He learned how to make his own crack. Well, I
Speaker 2: respect his diy spirit there. It's funny that he's making
Speaker 2: the argument. Look, cracks this terrible reputation. It's just not fair.
Speaker 2: It's just a drug. Is that what he's trying to say.
Speaker 2: I couldn't quite follow him. Well, yeah, because crack has
Speaker 2: such a bad reputation, you got to go to dangerous
Speaker 2: parts of the town to get it that you wouldn't
Speaker 2: for cocaine or math or whatever. I'd like to hear
Speaker 2: more of his booze is more insidious than all the
Speaker 2: other drugs he took argument as a drinking man, I'm
Speaker 2: just kind of curious. Well, if you're an alcoholic, it is.
Speaker 2: If you're not, yeah, yeah, uh oh. Speaking of which,
Speaker 2: Dove tailing off the Canadian nurses thing. Unless you add
Speaker 2: more on Hunter, fascinating fellow. If you didn't hear our
Speaker 2: previous segments of his long interview, he's a piece of crap.
Speaker 2: He blames everybody for everything in his life. Hunter, you're
Speaker 2: a loser and he's delusional anyway. Grab it via podcast
Speaker 2: Armstrong and gettyon demanded. I thought this was interesting. Cato's
Speaker 2: head of Medical Health Policy Studies is his name is
Speaker 2: Michael Cannon, and he wrote Peace, pointing out that he
Speaker 2: starts by saying the big beautiful bill is getting some
Speaker 2: kickens because it would slow the growth of federal Medicaid
Speaker 2: spending from four and a half to two point seven
Speaker 2: percent annually, and for that reason, thousands will die. But
Speaker 2: he makes the point that evidence for this is wanting
Speaker 2: if Medicaid were a drug. If the program were a drug,
Speaker 2: the federal government would not have approved it, and indeed,
Speaker 2: salesmen might do prison time for claiming it saves lives.
Speaker 2: And they mentioned when LBJ signed Medicare and Medicaid into
Speaker 2: law in nineteen sixty five, he said one of the
Speaker 2: goals was to improve the health improve the health of
Speaker 2: all Americans. If you claim that for a drug, the
Speaker 2: FDA demands at least one, but usually two, successful randomized
Speaker 2: control trials, which are the gold standard of that sort
Speaker 2: of research. But he points out Congress has never demanded
Speaker 2: a randomized controlled trial to investigate whether Medicare and Medicaid
Speaker 2: I prove health, much less condition their existence on two
Speaker 2: successful trials. And he points out that especially with Medicaid,
Speaker 2: there have been a couple of studies that have found
Speaker 2: you get more care if you're on Medicaid, but there's
Speaker 2: no discernible improvement in your physical health. That's kind of
Speaker 2: why I go to the doctor or any sort of
Speaker 2: health care is for a discernible improvement health. Yeah, lacking
Speaker 2: a discernible improvement. I'm not gonna bother. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: play golf. But it's kind of a funny thing, funny, funny, tragic,
Speaker 2: horrifying that nobody ever asks, uh, does this actually help
Speaker 2: people be healthier? I remember the stat years ago. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's still true, but it sounds like
Speaker 2: it might be that you were better off without it
Speaker 2: than with it. Yeah, I remember Craig the healthcare guru,
Speaker 2: said you gotta be careful how you interpret that one.
Speaker 2: But there is no notable Uh you know. They're like
Speaker 2: the Oregon study, which I think is what you're referring to.
Speaker 2: It found that some non randomized studies likely overstated medicaids
Speaker 2: potential health benefits and other ones cast down on it.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't doesn't clearly save lives and help people,
Speaker 2: which is weird, encounterintuitive, and Canon gets into the reasons
Speaker 2: why promptly because of all the weird incentives and disincentives
Speaker 2: built into Medicaid in particular, And how doctors get paid
Speaker 2: nothing for it? So they've got to overcharge people with
Speaker 2: private health insurance. But how many billions dollar dollars does
Speaker 2: it cost taxpayers for no discernible improvement? Oh, unspeakable amounts
Speaker 2: of money. Since nineteen sixty five, we've spent forty five
Speaker 2: trillion dollars without substantial evidence of effectiveness. Forty five trillion
Speaker 2: dollars right right, Well, in all those weird provider taxes
Speaker 2: that then go around the circle, then go back to
Speaker 2: those providers as kind of a bribe from the states.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, we got to break it all down
Speaker 2: and start again. It's not gonna happen, but we ought to. Well,
Speaker 2: Bernie and others want to make the entire healthcare system
Speaker 2: that though you're how do you like that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: My god, I hope that doesn't happen.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: Late Night TV is a struggling financial model. We're all
Speaker 5: basically operating a Blockbuster Kiosk inside of.
Speaker 2: A tower record. But when your.
Speaker 5: Industry is faced with changes, you don't just call it
Speaker 5: a day. My god, When cens stopped selling, they didn't
Speaker 5: just go. Oh well, music, it's been a good run.
Speaker 5: The fact that CBS didn't try to save their number
Speaker 5: one rated network late night franchise that's been on the
Speaker 5: air for over three decades is part of what's making
Speaker 5: everybody wonder was this purely financial or maybe the path
Speaker 5: of least resistance for your eight billion dollar merger.
Speaker 2: No, there's not no evidence of that. No, but I
Speaker 2: don't know his examples. Musicians now make zero dollars off
Speaker 2: of putting out an album unless they tour right. Times change,
Speaker 2: models of revenue change, and there's no bringing it back
Speaker 2: right in that thirty three years run, the world has
Speaker 2: changed completely, John, in those thirty three years. Yeah, coming
Speaker 2: up on a similar topic, you remember when Lindsay and
Speaker 2: pluck Rose and Bogosian got those fake research papers published
Speaker 2: in real journals, their grievance studies crap. They may have
Speaker 2: met their equal. Stay tuned for the white man who
Speaker 2: pretended to be black to get published. Oh, I can't
Speaker 2: wait to hear this. So Trump truthed out something about
Speaker 2: the late night shows. We'll just read it. The word is,
Speaker 2: and it's a strong word. That Jimmy Kimmel is next
Speaker 2: to go in the untalented late night Sweepstakes, and shortly
Speaker 2: thereafter Fallon will be gone. These are people with absolutely
Speaker 2: no talent, not true at all, who were paid millions
Speaker 2: of dollars for, in cases, destroying what used to be
Speaker 2: great television. It's really good to see them go. And
Speaker 2: I hope I played a major part in it. That's
Speaker 2: not the sitting president of the United States weighing in
Speaker 2: on the cancelation of late night TV show hosts. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: oh my lord. I was watching what I don't remember.
Speaker 2: I came across to Jimmy Fallon doing impersonations. He's one
Speaker 2: of the most talented people that's ever been on television.
Speaker 2: He really is. Oh yeah, he's a towering talent, god, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Seems like a good dude too. You know. It's funny.
Speaker 2: As we are going to break a few min minutes ago,
Speaker 2: Jack was looking around at the TVs and said, man,
Speaker 2: this Colbert thinks getting so much attention. And then in
Speaker 2: the conversation between Jack and executive producer Hanson myself, the
Speaker 2: name Trump came up three four, five times. Immediately, that's
Speaker 2: what it is. It's about Trump now, so everything is yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the great ratings slash clickbait promotion still for virtually
Speaker 2: all media, not us so much. But it's crazy, and
Speaker 2: Colbert's going to get to go and be like the
Speaker 2: hero of the Resistance until next May as the guy.
Speaker 2: Their take on it is Trump forced him out of
Speaker 2: his job, and so he's going to be bad mouthing
Speaker 2: Trump more than ever and just be a hero, I
Speaker 2: mean an epic status. Yeah. And I think CBS dopey
Speaker 2: as they can be know this, And somebody from the
Speaker 2: executive suites is now in the legal department saying, look,
Speaker 2: take another look at that contract. Figure out how we
Speaker 2: can cut this guy off and quit paying him. But
Speaker 2: who knows, who knows, maybe they have an alternative plan.
Speaker 2: But you're a hundred percent right. I mean, he's gonna
Speaker 2: go full on scorched earth, poisonous for the rest of me.
Speaker 2: He even one of his jokes last night, He even
Speaker 2: said something about, like Jimmy maybe it was because I
Speaker 2: don't remember what the setup was, because Seth Myers and
Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon were in the crowd and just different people
Speaker 2: stuff like that, And he said, hey, hey, don't try
Speaker 2: to get in on this. There's only a room for
Speaker 2: one of us up on the cross and he put
Speaker 2: his arms out, he said, and the view is great
Speaker 2: from up here. I am going to be the martyr
Speaker 2: for this cause. And that is true. That's gonna be
Speaker 2: his role till next session, which is a long time. Wow. Wow,
Speaker 2: there's ratings to go up. It's possible. Yeah, yeah. I
Speaker 2: mean it's got the feel of a farewell tour to it.
Speaker 2: There's a reason you're Ozzie's Osbourne claimed to be on
Speaker 2: a farewell tour over and over again. Doesn't hurt ticket sales,
Speaker 2: there's a hint. Anyway. I love this story. This is
Speaker 2: so good. A young poet pretended to be is a
Speaker 2: white fellow. He pretended to be quote, a gender fluid
Speaker 2: member of the Nigerian diaspora, and he wrote intentionally bad poems.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we have any poets listening. Actually,
Speaker 2: I know that we do have some poets listening and
Speaker 2: creative writers, whether of short stories or novels. It's not
Speaker 2: super easy to get published. This guy who claimed to
Speaker 2: be a gender fluid member of the Nigerian diaspora and
Speaker 2: wrote intentionally bad poems got forty seven of them published. Wow,
Speaker 2: hardly anybody turned him down how much luck had he
Speaker 2: had when he was just a white guy trying to
Speaker 2: publish poems. Okay, so I'm going to read to you
Speaker 2: some of his intentionally terrible poems. I gotta admit I'm
Speaker 2: not sure I could tell the difference between intentionally horrible
Speaker 2: and good. A lot of times poetry struggle with Okay,
Speaker 2: so I will quote River Page from the Free Press.
Speaker 2: What you're about to read is a poem. Its title
Speaker 2: is unmentionable, but I can tell you it was nominated
Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty five Best of the Net Award,
Speaker 2: which is meant to bring up and coming writers in
Speaker 2: the indie scene some attention. Behold, and it's got lots
Speaker 2: of like punctuation marks, especially question marks, and a bunch
Speaker 2: of emojis as well. And then some words I can't say.
Speaker 2: But trust me when I say, I don't want to
Speaker 2: say these words in front of like my buddies I've
Speaker 2: known a long time and off the air. I'm not
Speaker 2: proud of this. I have a filthy mouth. Okay. So
Speaker 2: it's like beyond the pale for me to question or
Speaker 2: not to question William Shakespeare's triple question Marks. Little I
Speaker 2: can't say that word, triple question mark, mail sign that
Speaker 2: is the question I want Billy Bard triple question marks
Speaker 2: to spank question marks, my big question mark, juicy double
Speaker 2: question marks, Fanny triple question marks while he pens question
Speaker 2: his sexy triple question marks, sophisticated quadruple question marks, plays
Speaker 2: quadruple question marks, no ex emoji, Edward de Vere cross
Speaker 2: for question marks, conspiracy, triple question marks, female sign here
Speaker 2: close parentheses. If I'm lucky, question mark daddy, quadruple question
Speaker 2: marks will dress me up, double question marks like one
Speaker 2: of his stage players, double question marks, female sign double
Speaker 2: question marks and question marks and question my quadruple question marks.
Speaker 2: It's so. I mean, I've read like half of it.
Speaker 2: It is. I suppose it reminds me of the Lindsay
Speaker 2: pluck Rose Bogosian brilliance, in which if you really really
Speaker 2: wanted to say, oh my god, this is so power.
Speaker 2: The study of rape culture at dog parks is really
Speaker 2: really heavy stuff. I guess I could see he uses
Speaker 2: the word slatiloquy. I don't think that's a word. And
Speaker 2: he's so and he's counting on that they'll be so
Speaker 2: excited about having a gender fluid Nigerian dea suppora poet
Speaker 2: win their prize or be published or whatever. Right, yeah,
Speaker 2: and river Page writes, if you're worried that I'm about
Speaker 2: to tell you why this poem is good and imply
Speaker 2: you're a bumpkin for thinking otherwise, don't be The poem
Speaker 2: isn't good. It's bad, and it's meant to be. The
Speaker 2: author told me so. The poem was originally published with
Speaker 2: a very crude title in the online magazine Jake, under
Speaker 2: the name Blah Blah Blah. It's one of the many
Speaker 2: pen names of a straight white Canadian man who recently
Speaker 2: told me you spent the last few years inventing minority
Speaker 2: identities and publishing terrible poems under the his pseudonyms. I
Speaker 2: think this needs to happen more often, not less often,
Speaker 2: in every realm of publishing, medical papers, poetry, just anything
Speaker 2: to where people are gun shy about publishing anything and
Speaker 2: they need to really make sure it's good in case
Speaker 2: it's somebody just jerking them around. He has pretended to be,
Speaker 2: he said, among other things, dirt hogs Sauvage respectfully, author
Speaker 2: of poems such as non be God or what Deity
Speaker 2: would be a turf that's a trends exclusionary radical feminist,
Speaker 2: as well as claiming to be a Delea Nuwangko, a
Speaker 2: gender fluid member of Nigerian diaspora who has published dozens
Speaker 2: of comically bad poems in a wide array of indie
Speaker 2: literary magazines across the anglosphere in the past three years,
Speaker 2: including one about a lesbian WWE style wrestler that featured
Speaker 2: lines such as you want to know how I feel
Speaker 2: after being cheated out of a victory over pat patriarchy
Speaker 2: at Survivor series Furious, I'm hot, Oh, I'm so mad,
Speaker 2: I could kiss a woman I don't even like right now. Hey, Tim,
Speaker 2: our friend Tim the lawyer, who is a published poet.
Speaker 2: Do you get any money when you're in these various
Speaker 2: things you've been published in? Just curious? Does anybody read them?
Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to be dismissive of getting published
Speaker 2: in these things, but I just wonder not at all.
Speaker 2: Of course, they vary from publication to publication. Some of
Speaker 2: them are probably well read, and some of them probably
Speaker 2: have like nearly zero people reading them. That last thing
Speaker 2: I read is so hilariously stupid. I mean, the other
Speaker 2: thing is so convoluted and weird and hard to read.
Speaker 2: It almost was art, but that's just Oh I'm so mad.
Speaker 2: I could kiss kiss a woman I don't even like
Speaker 2: right now, portraying a lesbian I mean, oh my god.
Speaker 2: So this guy came clean writing on substack him a
Speaker 2: series of attractive pen names to test the limits of
Speaker 2: the poetry industry and just how much buffoonery it was
Speaker 2: willing to permit in the present day. He claimed he'd
Speaker 2: spent two years tricking editors into thinking that his pronouns
Speaker 2: or skin color were less regularly irregular than they actually are.
Speaker 2: Bah bah bah forty seven palms. He got published forty
Speaker 2: seven times. I gotta believe the me. As a white,
Speaker 2: straight old man, it'd be almost impossible to get published.
Speaker 2: He'd created online accounts to match all the identities he'd
Speaker 2: invented to maintain the illusion. Okay, why did you go
Speaker 2: to such Yeah, in case he did any research, all right, exactly,
Speaker 2: just a very little bit. But yeah, they would see
Speaker 2: a guy with it. It looked to be Nigerian or whatever.
Speaker 2: Why do you go to such lengths? Mostly because he
Speaker 2: was mad. Several years ago, the man who called himself
Speaker 2: by yet another pseudonym, because he doesn't want people to,
Speaker 2: you know, go Nuts was trying to break out as
Speaker 2: a poet writing under his real name, and he noticed
Speaker 2: that certain journals had what he described as quote really
Speaker 2: weird and quite specific requirements. I was just not in
Speaker 2: the demographic they would even consider accepting. In some cases,
Speaker 2: they're openly advocating on their websites for the voices of
Speaker 2: the disenfranchise and all of this stuff. I'm like, wow,
Speaker 2: it'd probably be a lot easier to get in if
Speaker 2: I have some sort of connection to one of these identities.
Speaker 2: And sure enough, that's all it took. And Okay, I
Speaker 2: hate to turn things serious, but because this is hilarious,
Speaker 2: I wish we had more time for this. But now,
Speaker 2: every time I or you sees a whatever alternate identity
Speaker 2: poet and are told how great they are, you'll think
Speaker 2: of this and you'll think, oh, yeah, I bet they
Speaker 2: are DEI poet, play, musician, movie director, actor, doctor, professor,
Speaker 2: name it, Oh right, exactly, I've got it. Where did
Speaker 2: I come across this story the other day? Which, just
Speaker 2: to finish the thought, is why like Jason Riley or
Speaker 2: Thomas Sowell or Coleman Hughes or just so many great
Speaker 2: black achievers in one thing or another. They despise this
Speaker 2: stuff because somebody can look at, you know, a Jason
Speaker 2: Riley and say, oh, yeah, he writes for the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal. They needed a black guy. Never mind the
Speaker 2: fact that he's an unbelievably smart and persuasive writer. But yeah,
Speaker 2: just taints the whole thing. Somebody who's telling me about
Speaker 2: their Asian kid who was just a standout academic and
Speaker 2: how they couldn't get into any California schools. It was
Speaker 2: just impossible. It's an Asian. Oh yeah, I have an
Speaker 2: example of that, and a great example of that. I
Speaker 2: don't want to bring shame, but this young woman's credentials
Speaker 2: were like mind boggling, okay, and came from an immigrant
Speaker 2: family that had to work like crazy to make a
Speaker 2: go of it in the United States. But because she
Speaker 2: was Asian slash Pacific islander, she couldn't get into UC Berkeley,
Speaker 2: which is where she mostly wanted to go, as they,
Speaker 2: you know, have whatever percentage of their student body is
Speaker 2: full ride paying Chinese communist nationals. It was an obscene moment.
Speaker 2: It's my understanding of California's university system. It's also flat
Speaker 2: out racist. And illegal currently Yeah, We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 2: And a new interview release today.
Speaker 6: Hunter Biden blamed former President Joe Biden's poor performance in
Speaker 6: last year's debate with President Trump on ambian. Unfortunately, when
Speaker 6: you're eighty two, pretty much everything is ambien. A big meal,
Speaker 6: a hot day really doesn't take much.
Speaker 2: She's that's true for me, big meal, hot day, that's ambient.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh I'm done. Yeah. Any what is your name?
Speaker 2: I uh? Anybody who claims what the work environment's gonna
Speaker 2: look like in ten fifteen years is that they claim
Speaker 2: they know they're lying. Obviously nobody has any idea. This
Speaker 2: article in USA Today says in the age of AI,
Speaker 2: soft skills will matter more than hard skills. Hard skills
Speaker 2: being anything you had to like learn and take training
Speaker 2: for wet stuff, wet work, killing people. Hard skills I
Speaker 2: got those down, man. Wow. Hard skills are uh, you know,
Speaker 2: like knowing how to code or all that different sort
Speaker 2: of stuff. Your soft skills are highly transferable, things like collaboration, communication, creativity,
Speaker 2: and the ability to learn teamwork, communication, et cetera. Those
Speaker 2: are soft skills. Okay, Can you go to college.
Speaker 4: And get those?
Speaker 2: Probably not. It's more talent than anything. I say, probably not. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to a certain extent. You're born with them. I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's a that's a tough one.
Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Let's get
Speaker 2: a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap
Speaker 2: things up for the day. Michael lead us off, which, yeah.
Speaker 7: I keep seeing these internet videos of re enacting the
Speaker 7: Coldplay couple. There was a video so far I've seen
Speaker 7: a dog and a postman ducking down, and uh, we
Speaker 7: had one of those.
Speaker 2: Guy was a Jew.
Speaker 7: There was a jew in a Palestine in ducking down.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 7: And then a burger king crown, the burger King guy
Speaker 7: and Ronald McDonald embracing each other and ducking down.
Speaker 2: So wow. Katie Green, our Steve Hughes woman is off
Speaker 2: for the day. Jack a final thought for us. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go throwing a Katie Green mentioned for my final thought.
Speaker 2: We miss you, Katie. Your absence is notable to the show.
Speaker 2: People are texting about it. I notice it here as
Speaker 2: you know, a member of the program, and we'll be
Speaker 2: happy when you're back. Indeed, I agree. Final note of
Speaker 2: tailing with our fake Nigerian many alias poets novelist Joyce
Speaker 2: Carol Oates tweeted a couple of years ago a friend
Speaker 2: who's a literary agent told me that he cannot even
Speaker 2: get editors to read first novels by young, white male writers,
Speaker 2: no matter how good. They're just not interested. Wow, that
Speaker 2: is so crazy, so crazy. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up
Speaker 2: another grueling four hour workday, so many people, thanks, so
Speaker 2: little time. Good to Armstrong and Giddy dot com. We
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Speaker 2: Well you're there. God, how many great writers are don't
Speaker 2: get known because of that? We'll see tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty. You made it right. Moders riding
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 1: If they get you to choose the team and they
Speaker 1: give you this, you would, but damn it.
Speaker 3: Don't mess with them in awak unless you want to
Speaker 3: get the benefit.
Speaker 2: Mark my word, Lady, lady, lady big what the days
Speaker 2: of that crap are over? An f you if you
Speaker 2: can't handle the truth. One final message, get ready Bell.
Speaker 3: Repeat the line, get ready Bell, Thank you, Bye
Speaker 2: Bye, Armstrong and Getty