Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and no Hee Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: An etiquette expert, is saying that the proper way to
Speaker 3: eat cereal is with a spoon in one hand and
Speaker 3: a fork in the other. The fork is to attack
Speaker 3: anyone that comes from me, lucky charms.
Speaker 4: What that's a funny odd joke, wold funny ha ha
Speaker 4: and funny strange.
Speaker 2: I like the punchline, but I don't understand the setup.
Speaker 2: So why would you eat your cereal with a knife?
Speaker 5: And of what? I can't imagine?
Speaker 2: I got a trio Iranian stories. One Terran just announced
Speaker 2: that they have plenty of more surprises to come. I
Speaker 2: don't think you do. I really for a war. I
Speaker 2: don't think you do. I think you a bnymore surprises
Speaker 2: to come.
Speaker 5: Don't away, We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: We decided to wait until everyone's dead and we're really
Speaker 2: destroyed and we have no air defense before we unleash
Speaker 2: our secret surprise, because that makes perfect sense that you
Speaker 2: would do that. Another one Trump has said, are you
Speaker 2: following the story with the Iranian national women's soccer team,
Speaker 2: you know that story. So they apparently signaled in a picture,
Speaker 2: please help us or something. I didn't quite understand, some
Speaker 2: sort of hand signal in the picture rescue US. And
Speaker 2: Trump has said he has spoken to the Australian Prime
Speaker 2: Minister about giving the Iranian national women's soccer team asylum.
Speaker 2: I guess they're in the country and like, don't ship
Speaker 2: them back to Iran.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I just saw that headline.
Speaker 2: Hadn't been following it because they had spoken out against
Speaker 2: the regime, which is a scary thing to do. I mean,
Speaker 2: for real, they can't go back. No, no, absolutely, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: And then the other Iranian story, Fox is reporting that
Speaker 2: British Prime Minister Carr Starmer is facing weak and uncooperative
Speaker 2: labels from both sides of the pond as the US
Speaker 2: UK alliance is in tatters. One of the closest relationships
Speaker 2: on planet Earth since the end of World War Two
Speaker 2: that has helped keep the world order is in tatters
Speaker 2: over this. He's gonna go soon. He's got he's barely
Speaker 2: got a double digit approval rating in his own country
Speaker 2: over things that hadn't you know started before this ward
Speaker 2: and started then he's uncooperative.
Speaker 4: That week act Mark Carney? Is it Mark up in Canada?
Speaker 4: Not thinking of the Germans? That's yeah, anyway, Carney, he
Speaker 4: supported the strikes and now he's condemning them since he's
Speaker 4: so bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was watching uh, I was listening to NPR
Speaker 2: today and they were talking about the global order and
Speaker 2: everything like that, and they were right in that it
Speaker 2: is less set now than it has been in a
Speaker 2: very very long time, all that sort of thing. But
Speaker 2: I feel like every time the United States flexed its
Speaker 2: muscles to try to restore global order or police the world,
Speaker 2: that crowd would attack it, you know, for belligerance and
Speaker 2: heegendomy or whatever the hell? And where do you get
Speaker 2: off telling other countries how to live? But if you
Speaker 2: don't do that, then the world order falls apart. It's
Speaker 2: also our fault. It's our fault no matter what. That's
Speaker 2: one of the problems with being the big dog. No
Speaker 2: matter what happens, it's your fault.
Speaker 4: I just came across the story of another progressive prosecutor
Speaker 4: who refuses to prosecute gun crimes or gun enhancements. Aren't
Speaker 4: the progressives the left constantly calling for more stricter gun laws,
Speaker 4: and yet they won't enforce.
Speaker 5: It as similar anyway.
Speaker 4: So this is what was meant to be, just to
Speaker 4: tease to what we're talking about later is taking a
Speaker 4: chunk of the segment.
Speaker 5: But I think we still have time for this.
Speaker 4: It's funny that I should come across is because I
Speaker 4: had a really interesting conversation about it with some business
Speaker 4: people yesterday. It's a piece by a psychologist or a
Speaker 4: professor of psychology who specializes in workplace psychology, productive psychology,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, and she writes, well, the headline
Speaker 4: is I should tell you a new loss generation why
Speaker 4: gen Z is unprepared for the workplace. Young employees don't
Speaker 4: often don't make the skills they need to navigate organizations.
Speaker 4: Leaders should first understand the problem and then figure out
Speaker 4: how to fill the gaps.
Speaker 2: Too much, and when they're not watching poor in they're
Speaker 2: playing video games.
Speaker 5: This is not helping.
Speaker 4: This is just trying to understand it from the perspective
Speaker 4: of an employer, because you got to preserve productivity, efficiency,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, and you got all these weird
Speaker 4: kids coming in, you got to figure out how to
Speaker 4: get them to work.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 4: I love this angle she starts with because I hadn't
Speaker 4: I had underestimated. One aspect of human psychology says the
Speaker 4: workplace can be a tricky place to navigate. Almost everything
Speaker 4: we do at work, identifying the experts, managing tough feedback
Speaker 4: from a boss, figuring out how to work in teams
Speaker 4: made up of different personalities comes down to our ability
Speaker 4: to manage relationships, and to do so, we need savvy
Speaker 4: social skills. Most employees acquire those skills over time by
Speaker 4: learning from their non work relationships, watching how colleagues behave
Speaker 4: in the office, and by seeing what happens when they
Speaker 4: stumble in their own workplace interactions.
Speaker 5: You live and learn.
Speaker 4: But the newest workplace generation gen Z is unlike anything
Speaker 4: we've seen through a combination of having fewer real world
Speaker 4: relationship experiences, spending their education years in remote environments, and
Speaker 4: learning to communicate largely through asynchronous methods like you know,
Speaker 4: texting or messaging or whatever. You're not a message, apply message,
Speaker 4: apply message reply in real time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that you would your emotional intelligence
Speaker 2: would improve through texting? Probably not.
Speaker 4: These twenty somethings have missed opportunities to develop the skills
Speaker 4: needed to navigate the complex world of work. The result
Speaker 4: is that many are woefully unprepared for surviving, let her
Speaker 4: alone thriving in their jobs. And then she spells out
Speaker 4: And because we've got a fairly tight team here, I
Speaker 4: hadn't fully realized this, but it makes so much sense.
Speaker 4: We can already see what this means for both employees
Speaker 4: and the organizations that hire them. For one thing, young
Speaker 4: employees are struggling to fit into these organizations. There's a
Speaker 4: lot of turnover because new hires who don't acclimate don't last.
Speaker 4: What's more, whether they're pushed out or leave willingly, younger
Speaker 4: employees often go without a go without a clear sense
Speaker 4: of what went wrong.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, so they'll never get better.
Speaker 4: So they couldn't interpret the dynamics of the workplace, so
Speaker 4: they sure as hell can't interpret why it didn't work.
Speaker 4: And those who do stay often find the experience unfulfilling
Speaker 4: and frustrating, while their bosses are at loss wondering why
Speaker 4: the new workers just don't get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if something is just not working out, so
Speaker 2: you get rid of somebody because it's you know, just
Speaker 2: not working out. It's hard to nail down, you know,
Speaker 2: explain to a person exactly why it didn't work out. Look,
Speaker 2: you just you weird people out, nobody understands you, or
Speaker 2: it's just not working out, whatever, and so it'd be
Speaker 2: hard to grow from.
Speaker 5: That, right right.
Speaker 4: Indeed, So this gal gets into a couple of factors
Speaker 4: and I think she may overestimate them a little bit,
Speaker 4: and she completely leaves out the big one. But a
Speaker 4: couple of things. First of all, the percentage of gen
Speaker 4: Z that reaches adulthood having had even one romantic relationship,
Speaker 4: it's declined from seventy five percent pretty consistently for previous
Speaker 4: generations to fifty six percent. So rounding it's it's a
Speaker 4: twenty percent drop. And she points out and this made
Speaker 4: me think back to my previous relationships. These experiences matter
Speaker 4: in a lot of ways. Early relationships teach us basic
Speaker 4: social competencies, how to express emotions, how to cooperate, how
Speaker 4: to forgive, how and when to compete, all skills we
Speaker 4: use at work and as adults. There's a direct link
Speaker 4: between the ability to communicate well with the romantic partner
Speaker 4: and the ability to do the same with a coworker
Speaker 4: or boss, which is interesting.
Speaker 2: Then she goes into online people.
Speaker 4: That's the point on weird online education experiences and how
Speaker 4: different that is from previous generations. I think we can
Speaker 4: all understand that. You know, the one thing she leaves
Speaker 4: out that I'm very very surprised by. And I had
Speaker 4: a long, interesting conversation, as I mentioned with some business
Speaker 4: leaders about this yesterday, the incredibly rich learning experience that
Speaker 4: is free range childhood. And we were talking about specifically
Speaker 4: when we'd be turned loose in the morning after we did,
Speaker 4: you know, our chores or whatever we had to do,
Speaker 4: especially on Youla wends and summer days or whatever, and
Speaker 4: we would not go home until the dinner bell rang,
Speaker 4: or until the street lights went on, or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: Your queue you had to go home again, and your
Speaker 4: parents might ask you a little bit where you were.
Speaker 4: But I mean, you certainly didn't have to give an
Speaker 4: hour by our accounting, no, And we were agreeing that
Speaker 4: one of the richest experiences we had had in our
Speaker 4: entire lives was playing specifically, and this is what has
Speaker 4: been lost in the modern era. This is not the
Speaker 4: first time we've talked about it, but I think it is.
Speaker 4: It is so massively important. Everybody ought to be familiar
Speaker 4: with this concept. You invent a game with one or
Speaker 4: more friends. Maybe it's a bunch of you, maybe it's
Speaker 4: you have variations of the rules of baseball, for instance,
Speaker 4: because you've got a few people and you're playing in
Speaker 4: a square backyard or whatever. You invent a game, You
Speaker 4: invent the rules, You adjudicate all the disputes yourselves. You
Speaker 4: learn about people who will work with you, those who
Speaker 4: won't with you work with you. You learn about what
Speaker 4: strategy works for convincing people you have a good idea
Speaker 4: and which ones fail. If you had fifteen college educations,
Speaker 4: you could not learn as much as you learned on
Speaker 4: your summer days doing that. And we're denying kids the
Speaker 4: opportunity to do that. It is neglect or well, like
Speaker 4: I said, yes, neglect. It's like you're not feeding them
Speaker 4: almost as terribly as if you did not feed them
Speaker 4: food in my opinion, and kids are missing that when
Speaker 4: they get to the workplace.
Speaker 2: I think food is worse. But I see your point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean, obviously, if somebody starves to death,
Speaker 4: really about play that card for about three days, right, right,
Speaker 4: But when you look at the modern workplace, Okay, we've
Speaker 4: got to accomplish something together. He and I. I disagree,
Speaker 4: but I value them. I've got to do it in
Speaker 4: a diplomatic way. I don't feel real strongly about this,
Speaker 4: but I do feel very strongly about that. And by
Speaker 4: the way, I've negotiated that process one hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: times by.
Speaker 5: The time I'm sixteen, compared to the constantly supervised veal
Speaker 5: Calf kids.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the good news. Finally AI is going to
Speaker 2: wipe out all the jobs, so nobody will ever have
Speaker 2: to do that.
Speaker 4: Oh, that reminds me. Got a great email and I
Speaker 4: was hoping to get to it at some point. Don't
Speaker 4: have time for it now, but maybe next segment.
Speaker 5: I don't know. We'll talk about it from Ryan and Sacramento.
Speaker 4: AI is going to take all the jobs I wish.
Speaker 5: Why don't I pay this off after the break?
Speaker 2: Okay, I love that topic.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, work, I mean you talk about a
Speaker 4: universal Yeah, until the warm embrace of collectivism takes over.
Speaker 2: Oh, we got to talk about mom, Donnie and what
Speaker 2: you said about his wife and then attack outside of
Speaker 2: residence over the weekend. Was he's an Islamianist? Was it
Speaker 2: isis inspired this attack? That's what they're saying now, Wow,
Speaker 2: that'd be a pretty big deal. AnyWho stick around.
Speaker 4: What do you do if you're a progressive women's organization
Speaker 4: in New York City on National Women's Day or International
Speaker 4: Women's Day and you want to celebrate it by letting
Speaker 4: out all your outrage at Trump in the modern world?
Speaker 5: Do you do this?
Speaker 4: Why are the birth rates calling? I think, I know, God,
Speaker 4: that's more than enough.
Speaker 2: Are people that do therapeutic screams or that sort of thing,
Speaker 2: and then there are people that like, have jobs and
Speaker 2: raise kids.
Speaker 5: Right, there's very little overlap.
Speaker 2: I'm very little overlap.
Speaker 4: It's worth mentioning her dog is there and just freaking
Speaker 4: out idiots. Got this note from Ryan in Sacramento. We
Speaker 4: were talking about AI as we do a lot, and
Speaker 4: how it's going to eliminate all the jobs, as jab
Speaker 4: Jack mentioned, and we have gone on and on about
Speaker 4: how if you deny people purpose and you know, a
Speaker 4: reason to get up in the morning, they will actually
Speaker 4: be miserable and become drunks and drug addicts and not
Speaker 4: become happy poets or whatever.
Speaker 5: Who's going to read your poetry?
Speaker 4: Everybody's writing poetry anyway, Let's see, So Ryan writes, Joe
Speaker 4: has joked that he's afraid he'll be the last human
Speaker 4: to die right before humanity unlocks the key to immortality.
Speaker 5: That's true, right, I.
Speaker 4: Haven't said that for a long time, but yeah, that's
Speaker 4: my greatest fear.
Speaker 5: Thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 4: My fear is that I will be the last human
Speaker 4: or generation of humans obligating to work for a living.
Speaker 4: You both have expressed the need for purpose we all
Speaker 4: seem to share, and I agree on that point. Why
Speaker 4: must that purpose be tied to a meaningless job. I
Speaker 4: work in a blue collar environment of about fifteen hundred employees,
Speaker 4: and there's something we all want to be anywhere else.
Speaker 4: I don't know about their motivations, but for myself, the
Speaker 4: obligation to show up and punch the clock for eight,
Speaker 4: ten or twelve hours a day is what prevents my
Speaker 4: pursuit of unprofitable fulfillments, you know, hobbies for psychopaths that
Speaker 4: would be like to show up somewhere and do meaningless labor. Oh,
Speaker 4: for psychopaths that would like to show up somewhere and
Speaker 4: do meaningless labor for hours and days on end. I
Speaker 4: wouldn't stand in their way to the suggestion of do
Speaker 4: something else. There's not a job on this earth that
Speaker 4: I want to be obligated to devote the majority of
Speaker 4: my time in life too. I'd be shocked if that
Speaker 4: was a minority opinion. Big However, for all the boasting
Speaker 4: that day, I will provide the pathway to universal high income,
Speaker 4: I don't really believe in it. Private businesses may become
Speaker 4: enriched by the use of AI and Jack You've made
Speaker 4: this times, but they aren't going to become absurdly altruistic.
Speaker 4: The idea of government's confiscating and distributing wealth is both
Speaker 4: repugnant and historically catastrophic.
Speaker 5: I guess I'll keep clocking in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they always skip that part, but a.
Speaker 5: RTS keep returning those sausages. Thank you, Ryan.
Speaker 2: To the whole we need a job to have a
Speaker 2: sense of purpose thing that we talk about. I have
Speaker 2: heard that described as you know you have job fulfillment privilege. Yes,
Speaker 2: a lot of people, and I've worked jobs like this.
Speaker 2: I've worked jobs that you lay there on a Sunday
Speaker 2: night and think, I don't know if I can do
Speaker 2: this another week because it is not only not fulfilling,
Speaker 2: it's just awful. There's nothing you like about it. The
Speaker 2: only thing you're getting out of it is a paycheck
Speaker 2: and maybe insurance. The only thing everything I was about,
Speaker 2: you hate it. So the idea that, oh no, AI's
Speaker 2: going to take that away from me and I won't
Speaker 2: have a purpose anymore. Yeah, shut up?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: When I was standing there in an aisle of a store,
Speaker 4: because if I was caught sitting, I'd be fired waiting
Speaker 4: for a customer, any customer to need anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was not super fulfilling.
Speaker 2: And the idea of that going away going to have
Speaker 2: a negative effect on your life. Shut up?
Speaker 4: Oh no, right, Yeah, that's a good point, Ryan, Thank
Speaker 4: you for you know, I try really hard to think
Speaker 4: about stuff like that as we're doing the show and
Speaker 4: getting ready for the show.
Speaker 5: All right, in what.
Speaker 4: Ways am I an outlier and not not have those
Speaker 4: blind spots? But that's a you know what, that was
Speaker 4: a bit of spanking, Ryan, and well administered.
Speaker 2: So CBS at least is reporting they are investigating that
Speaker 2: incident outside of Mayor Mumdanni's house as an ISIS aspired
Speaker 2: inspired attack.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, yeah, I've seen that more.
Speaker 2: It would be a pretty big deal if there was
Speaker 2: an anti Muslim demonstration completely peaceful and Isis said we
Speaker 2: ain't having that and sent somebody, holy crap.
Speaker 4: Mom, Donne's and Islamist as well as a communist. He's
Speaker 4: and Islammunist, and I'm sure I have a good idea
Speaker 4: whereas sympathies lie, particularly by some of his statements.
Speaker 2: Got a lot more on that and other stuff on
Speaker 2: the way. If you missed a segment, get the podcast
Speaker 2: arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1: On demand Armstrong and Getty. The NYPD says this device,
Speaker 1: about the size of a football, wrapped in black tape
Speaker 1: with nuts, bolts, and screws along with the fuse, was
Speaker 1: indeed an improvised explosive device world at New York City
Speaker 1: Mayor Zorra Mandani's residence. The incident unfolding outside Gracie Mansion
Speaker 1: Saturday during dueling protests, including one led by far right
Speaker 1: anti immigration figure Jake Lang and a larger group of
Speaker 1: counter protesters, and one of those suspects, Police say, an
Speaker 1: eighteen year old lit and threw one of those devices
Speaker 1: toward a police barrier. Two suspects, both from Pennsylvania, arrested
Speaker 1: at the scene. They told investigators they watched ISIS videos
Speaker 1: and confronted Jake Lang's protests in defensive Muslims.
Speaker 2: I feel like that report and a lot of them,
Speaker 2: really did not do a good job of making it
Speaker 2: clear who was violent and who was not. A lot
Speaker 2: of the reports over the weekend were anti Muslim protests,
Speaker 2: sparks violence. Yeah, sparked violence by the people that showed
Speaker 2: up on the side of the Muslim extremists and throw
Speaker 2: a bomb, not the anti Muslim crowd, which you know,
Speaker 2: I don't agree. I wouldn't go to an anti Muslim
Speaker 2: protest probably either, but far right anti Muslim protest. Then
Speaker 2: Abamba was not making it clear in that report who
Speaker 2: exactly threw the bomb. It was the isis inspired crowd
Speaker 2: that showed up and said you aren't going to protest
Speaker 2: Islam in my town and had a bomb.
Speaker 4: Well, right, the New York Post editorial board, actually I
Speaker 4: know nothing about this Jake Lang, guy whose tiny band
Speaker 4: of misfits were quote unquote demonstrating against Muslims.
Speaker 2: Well, he's a January sixth guy who got pardoned by Trump.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, all right, Well, anyway, the harshness with which
Speaker 4: the New York Post editorial board views him, I will
Speaker 4: take their word for it. But even that being said,
Speaker 4: the irony of guy comes out and says, you know,
Speaker 4: Islam is a religion of violence and oppression, and somebody
Speaker 4: throws firebombs at him for it.
Speaker 5: There's a little iron.
Speaker 2: Well, as he was being arrested, he was yelling to
Speaker 2: media around it, and the cops notice who got violent?
Speaker 2: It wasn't us who got violent. It wasn't us, which
Speaker 2: I thought was a pretty decent point, right right to
Speaker 2: yelling at achbar, likely inspired by ISIS isis.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4: So New York Post writes, Oh, they're actually what they're
Speaker 4: concerned about is Zora and Mumdani came out and condemned
Speaker 4: violence at a protest, and the Post says, Madanni can't
Speaker 4: just condemn violence at a protest. Now that the key
Speaker 4: facts are out about Saturday's chaos near Gracie Mansion, the
Speaker 4: Mayor's residence, he needs to call out where the threats
Speaker 4: of violence come from and denounce them.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll just finish.
Speaker 4: We know that those were genuine explosive devices hurled by
Speaker 4: Isis loving radicals, people seduced by evil that exists within
Speaker 4: Gotham's own Muslim community, and the mayor should name the
Speaker 4: poison plaguing his co religionists, and the madness among his
Speaker 4: democratic socialist allies that mourns the killing of a monster
Speaker 4: like Ali Kameini. We can get into that in a
Speaker 4: little bit if we want. But yeah, if for instance,
Speaker 4: it had gone the other way, that there was some
Speaker 4: up with islam gathering encounter demonstrators showed up and hurled
Speaker 4: bombs at the Muslims. Do you think their ideology would
Speaker 4: be left out by mister Mumdani when he was condemning it.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: That is an oversight, oversight, That is an omission so
Speaker 4: egregious it ought to make everybody stop and say, oh,
Speaker 4: I see what's going on here? Can you imagine in
Speaker 4: leaving out the ideology of clan members if they are
Speaker 4: the ones chuck in bombs that's what Mumdani did.
Speaker 5: Yikes, yeh. Then they make the point.
Speaker 4: What can truly make a difference is calling out the
Speaker 4: people who seem to be on your side but aren't.
Speaker 4: The ones who claim that Islamic values support attacks on innocence,
Speaker 4: who deny the mass rapes and other crimes of supposed
Speaker 4: freedom fighters, who pretend that the anti imperialist cause requires
Speaker 4: sympathy for terror promoting tyrants. And then they say, Mumdanni
Speaker 4: ought to come out in favor of anti Semitism, protect
Speaker 4: the rights of worship of all New Yorkers, side with
Speaker 4: the vast Saints Center in New York City, mister mayor,
Speaker 4: and make it plain you recognize toxic eight on every extreme.
Speaker 2: So one of the teen bomb chuckers put on the
Speaker 2: ground by the cops and hauled off, gave a hand
Speaker 2: gesture that some say is a isis hand gesture. I
Speaker 2: don't only had one finger up in the air. That
Speaker 2: can be all kinds of different things, because I mean
Speaker 2: just a lot of times the other side of this
Speaker 2: when they've said, you know, white supremacists and gesture, it's
Speaker 2: just like.
Speaker 4: What there are gang signs a thing. But sometimes a
Speaker 4: wave is not a Nazi salute.
Speaker 2: Hits a wave right, or sometimes just any flourish of
Speaker 2: the hands, not a particular you catch it at the
Speaker 2: right moment from the right angle, two fingers up and
Speaker 2: one down is clearly in league with the Confederacy or
Speaker 2: something damn Rabs. But so maybe maybe it was an
Speaker 2: isis hand sign, but not a surprising story. I've got
Speaker 2: my favorite pole lever. That's come out that we should
Speaker 2: get to.
Speaker 4: Let me finish this off just by pointing out the
Speaker 4: Democratic Socialists of America have indeed come out against the
Speaker 4: killing of the Ayatola and how it's an outrage. This
Speaker 4: is going to end with a mass movement that puts
Speaker 4: an end to the war machine.
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: We have to create real cost for the warmongers for
Speaker 4: killing Islamic extremists. And maybe we'll get into this a
Speaker 4: little more tomorrow. But I was reminded of this. I
Speaker 4: came across this. This is how it works, the you know,
Speaker 4: the eternal omnik cause where if you're a you know, bisexual, transgender, amputee, Hispanic,
Speaker 4: you've got to be in favor of militant eskimo whatever.
Speaker 4: Everybody's got to be on the same side, always to
Speaker 4: overthrow Western civilization.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, this is this is somebody who's involved in a
Speaker 4: different story. The person who formed helped form the Armed
Speaker 4: Queers of Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2: What was the.
Speaker 5: Headline involved here?
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter, take too long to reset, but anyway,
Speaker 4: Armed Queers Salt Lake City joins people all over the
Speaker 4: world and expressing how solidarity with Palestinian people as they
Speaker 4: struggle for liberation against the many decades of occupation violence, partip.
Speaker 5: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: We must be in full support of the right of
Speaker 4: resistance and be critical of any argument insisting the Palestinian
Speaker 4: struggle is equally as violent as issue. Okay, here's where
Speaker 4: it gets into the interesting part. We must also be
Speaker 4: critical of any pinkwashing tactics that co opt the struggles
Speaker 4: of gender oppressed people in order to further advance anti
Speaker 4: Palestinian efforts and recognize that the colonial history and present
Speaker 4: against Palestine has been responsible for some of the most
Speaker 4: barbaric forms of violence against women and queer people. There's
Speaker 4: only one side to support, the side seeking freedom from
Speaker 4: colonial force, and we will not be made to believe
Speaker 4: that our side is the enemy.
Speaker 5: I will decode that for you.
Speaker 4: People are pointing out that the Palestinians and the Mullahs
Speaker 4: and all those people hang gay people in public, they
Speaker 4: throw them off buildings, they will rape a woman to
Speaker 4: death for being a lesbian, blah blah blah. Don't listen
Speaker 4: to those arguments. There's only one side, the anti colonial side.
Speaker 4: They're trying to co opt the suffering blah blah and
Speaker 4: turn us against each other. Don't let them do that.
Speaker 4: And the loyal Marxists say, oh, that's a clever tactic
Speaker 4: by the colonial forces. I'm not falling for that. They
Speaker 4: throw gaze off building stuff, and that's how they reconcile
Speaker 4: queers for Palestine. I'd never seen it spelled out like that.
Speaker 2: So we've got quite a poll where they've got the
Speaker 2: net favorability ratings of some unpopular things. The Democrats finish below,
Speaker 2: Ice below, Trump below everybody on the list, but Iran.
Speaker 2: It's an NBC poll, so it's not like it's you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know, right wingy, right winger. It's NBC. We'll
Speaker 2: get to that next segment. This is breaking football news. Though.
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey is going to sign a one year contract
Speaker 2: with the Kansas City Chiefs. He'll be back for his
Speaker 2: fourteenth year. So the news earlier today was he's coming
Speaker 2: back for another year. Might not be the Chiefs clearly
Speaker 2: his agent put that out there as they are in
Speaker 2: the final throes of their deal. Maybe he won't play
Speaker 2: for the Kansas City Chiefs. We have lots of options
Speaker 2: out there, and the Chiefs thought he makes us at
Speaker 2: least that much more money being on the team. So sure,
Speaker 2: the mustachioed Taylor Swift fiance, I'll bet, I'll bet he's
Speaker 2: worth a lot. I'm sure they've got it. Kind of
Speaker 2: a number on that, but you know, eight home games
Speaker 2: or nine or ten depending on preseason or postseason, and
Speaker 2: a good chunk of them Taylor Swift's there and all
Speaker 2: the attention that that gets you and everything like that.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of money in that.
Speaker 5: Well, they get a half time.
Speaker 4: Will he get married at halftime? No, No, he will not.
Speaker 4: That would be make a mockery of the NFL. Michael,
Speaker 4: what about the sainct didy of the game.
Speaker 2: Getting married one of the endless? Got it? Take a
Speaker 2: look at that call and see if it stands. Get
Speaker 2: married during that There's plenty of time. He's mustachioed. Now.
Speaker 2: By the way, in case you're wondering this poll that
Speaker 2: isn't thank you, this poll up today that is uh
Speaker 2: not good news for the Democratic Party among other things.
Speaker 2: On the way, stay.
Speaker 5: Here something that you love.
Speaker 2: It's not family or friends I love. And I'm just saying
Speaker 2: this because it's on my mind. The trans children who.
Speaker 3: Showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate.
Speaker 2: For their humanity. They shouldn't have to, but it was
Speaker 2: an inspiration to watch. There you go. So that's that weird.
Speaker 2: A minister Democratic dude down in Texas, James tallerco know
Speaker 2: them by name, ask name something you love, or their
Speaker 2: family and friends. The trans children that showed up to
Speaker 2: my event, all right.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, kids that have been browbeaten and convinced
Speaker 4: that they're trans.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: This might be part of why the Democratic Party has
Speaker 2: a lower net favorability rating than Republicans, Trump, Ice, or
Speaker 2: really anything but around currently. And this is an NBC poll,
Speaker 2: so they do the overall net rating. That's where you
Speaker 2: take your positive rating minus your negative rating and come
Speaker 2: up with the number. For instance, on Trump, he's got
Speaker 2: a minus twelve. He's fifty three negative, forty one positive
Speaker 2: for a minus twelve. Not great the rebel Republican parties
Speaker 2: minus fourteen. Ice, which has been beaten up by the
Speaker 2: media just endlessly, is pretty low with a minus eighteen,
Speaker 2: but not as bad as the Democratic Party. Democrats had
Speaker 2: thirty percent positive or somewhat positive, fifty two percent negative
Speaker 2: or somewhat negative for a minus twenty two. More. The
Speaker 2: Democratic Party is more unpopular than Ice nationally. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's really quite amazing. You wouldn't think that'd
Speaker 2: be possible. By the way, only Iran has a lower
Speaker 2: rating than that. Iran is at UH minus fifty three
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 4: It's it's gonna be tough to bounce back from. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: they got some work to do. Eight percent positive sixty
Speaker 4: one percent negative. They do have some work to do
Speaker 4: pr wise, to try to get back into the plus column.
Speaker 5: Make that a priority.
Speaker 2: Why do you think the Democratic Party is rated so
Speaker 2: low in a country that they're off evenly split?
Speaker 4: Uh, there are a lot of reasons to dislike them,
Speaker 4: the ideological.
Speaker 2: Why our elections are so close, You would think it
Speaker 2: would be Republicans and Democrats would be closer together.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think, well, there's definitely the hold your
Speaker 4: nose and vote for dot dot dot factor for both parties.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 4: I think for Democrats it's it's much more significant than
Speaker 4: for Republicans, because for Republicans it's hold your nose and
Speaker 4: vote maybe for Trump though you don't like.
Speaker 5: His manner and we've all gone over this a million times.
Speaker 4: With the Democratic Party, it's like hold your nose and
Speaker 4: vote in spite of the fact that they're advocating policies
Speaker 4: you find loathsome. But you don't like Republicans either.
Speaker 2: It's hard to hold your nose and vote for a
Speaker 2: crowd that pretends that operations for trans children makes sense,
Speaker 2: or or health for taxpayer, health care for illegals makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it come on.
Speaker 2: Ooh, looking at a little clip that they're doing a
Speaker 2: feature on Lindsay Vaughn in her effort to be able
Speaker 2: to walk again at some point.
Speaker 5: Or lord, oh lord, that.
Speaker 2: Was a miscalculation.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and it seemed like a terrible idea too,
Speaker 4: skiing on the busted ACL.
Speaker 2: She looks like watching her work out, she might have
Speaker 2: that Michael Phelps problem, the famous swimmer. They just have
Speaker 2: been working out ten hours a day their whole life.
Speaker 2: They don't really know how to not do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what do you do every day if you're not in
Speaker 2: the gym working out ten hours a day?
Speaker 4: Yeah, A lot of professional athletes, especially the super elite ones,
Speaker 4: it's incredibly dislocating. It's amazing when they stopped doing what
Speaker 4: they do.
Speaker 2: Got a couple of examples that just happened to randomly
Speaker 2: come across recently. They asked Derek Cheater, famous New York Yankee,
Speaker 2: they had something at the end of the season, said
Speaker 2: you miss baseball? He said, no, not really, not at all.
Speaker 2: This is over us, ready to be done. You know
Speaker 2: some people are like that. It's like, yeah, I did
Speaker 2: it for a while and that was fun, but I'm
Speaker 2: ready to do something else now. Yeah, some people just
Speaker 2: can't imagine their lives without it. Huh. It depends on
Speaker 2: I are built, I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm lucky I don't have that problem.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, huh.
Speaker 2: So everybody in the world is going to be watching
Speaker 2: the stock market, in particularly the oil market over the
Speaker 2: next twenty four hours or so. And Trump, and with
Speaker 2: the help of Lindsay Graham, warning Israel, hey, don't be
Speaker 2: blown up their refineries. That's not going to help get
Speaker 2: the people on our side. And Trump is sending Jared
Speaker 2: Kushner and Witkoff to meet with bb Net and Yahoo tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I assume with that message louder than anything else, don't
Speaker 2: be attacking their water facilities or the oil facilities when
Speaker 2: don't be driving the regular person, the regular arraigning away
Speaker 2: from us. So we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 4: I thought that message from Lindsay Graham that you read
Speaker 4: earlier was really on point.
Speaker 5: It was really well crafted.
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, that's going to be necessary to bring
Speaker 4: peace and prosperity to the new or on when it happens,
Speaker 4: So let's not go overboard and the whole.
Speaker 5: You know, they need oil to power their missiles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tell you what, why don't we crush all
Speaker 4: their missiles and launchers and the guys who launch them
Speaker 4: and leave the oil alone for now?
Speaker 5: So it's good to get on the same page.
Speaker 2: BB might not be on that page. He might think,
Speaker 2: this is my one chance in my life. And I'm
Speaker 2: an old man and I've been fighting these people since
Speaker 2: I was a kid. I Am going to take them
Speaker 2: all out this region, total ruin. With some concern that
Speaker 2: Trump at any day could decide, you know, this is
Speaker 2: gas prices. I'm looking at the polls. People aren't digging this.
Speaker 2: We're done. Biebe might be thinking that he could pull
Speaker 2: the plug at any moment. I'm gonna take this chance
Speaker 2: while I've got it. I might have days left of this.
Speaker 4: He saw what happened to the opposition in Venezuela when
Speaker 4: Trump ended the fight said yeah, I've made a deal
Speaker 4: with the old dictators.
Speaker 5: We're good now, and.
Speaker 4: The oppositions like, uh, wait a minute, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: right now, they're on the sideline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Israel won't really be in a position to
Speaker 2: continue this war if we decide we're done politically, be
Speaker 2: a different kettle of fish for him. Yeah, flying thoughts,
Speaker 2: we're not strong, Eddy, you'll get the facts. They're sharp insteady.
Speaker 5: Tune in to Marc, don't you for Eddy?
Speaker 2: For more from on Strong and Yet. I really like that.
Speaker 2: Whoever made that? I think that's fantastic, very musically. Here's
Speaker 2: your host for final thoughts, Joe Getting I've never thought
Speaker 2: of myself as steady anyway.
Speaker 4: Oh, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
Speaker 4: crewd wrap things up for the day. There is our
Speaker 4: technical director pressing the buttons, Mike Langelow.
Speaker 5: What's your final thought, Michael?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack, you talked about falling on a scooter.
Speaker 4: I think about twenty years ago I gave up the
Speaker 4: skateboard and the scooters just for that reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to bring up I was gonna talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about that during the One More Thing podcast.
Speaker 5: Oh you didn't hear it?
Speaker 4: Something to look forward to download it wherever you get
Speaker 4: podcasts Katie Green or a Steve us Woman.
Speaker 2: As a final thought, Katie Mine's along that same story.
Speaker 2: If anybody got that on video, please send it. Not
Speaker 2: sharing your pain, but please send it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Please. Finally embarrassing Jack final thought for us. Yes, I
Speaker 2: did have a piece of birthday cake with my son
Speaker 2: on his birthday. I'll tell you what. There is something
Speaker 2: very wrong about sitting there on one of my kids
Speaker 2: few birthdays that I got, left with them in my
Speaker 2: house and staring at them while they eat cake and
Speaker 2: not doing the thing. That's just not right. That's not right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you sat down to break bread with them and
Speaker 4: said I don't like bread.
Speaker 5: No you can't.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 4: You're breaking cake as it were. I love cake. My
Speaker 4: final thought is I love I never eat it, but
Speaker 4: I love cake.
Speaker 2: No one should ever eat cake. It is doing.
Speaker 4: People ask do you like cake better pie? I say yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: I prefer pie, but I will eat cake. I don't
Speaker 4: like the frosting though, too much.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and yetty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4: I don't appreciate your anti cake hake. All right, let's
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Speaker 5: It's a fine t shirt. It's got an egal on it.
Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm strong and getty,
Speaker 2: and maybe they should.
Speaker 4: It's about the message, not the corpse per se. But anyway,
Speaker 4: here's Jesse June. I'm sorry the dearly departed. That's probably
Speaker 4: a more delicate time. I'm the funeral and you say,
Speaker 4: where's the corpse. I want to go check out the corpse.
Speaker 4: No I don't.
Speaker 5: And I take your criticism in a manly fashion. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm armstrong and getty.