April 23, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- How the CA AG is subverting an initiative that would require schools to notify parents about gender issues...
- The Measurement of your IQ...
- The dopey kids yelling threats at a variety of university campuses...
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty
show You're not allowed to discriminate based on gender identity
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in California.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And that's where the battleover parental rights begins.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
This is a national issue, and in terms of fighting
in California, I believe that we are or.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Over one hundred words that define a prontal notification bill
sponsored by the group Protect Kids California by statute. However,
the Attorney General in this case, Democrat Rob Bonta, controls
the title and summary of an initiative.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
He opposes.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
This policy puts them in harm's way emotionally, psychologically, mentally, physically.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Anah, the old, tired and utterly inaccurate argument that's standing
up for some sort of normalcy in sexualizing children is
putting transgender students at risk.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Okay, I don't know this story. What is happening.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
William Maginess actually does a really good job of spelling
it out. We could let him go ahead, right.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Supporters say the initiative would require schools to notify parents
if a child wants to identify as a different gender.
Block transgender athletes from female sports, and requires students use
facilities consistent with their birth gender. A majority of Californians
we know support the idea of print notification.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, so it is an initiative to be on the
statewide ballot in California saying that you got to let
if your kids having a mental health crisis. And Johnny
decides he's Jenny, you got to tell the parents. You
can't and we all know this is happening, surround him
with activist lefty teachers encouraging him to be whisked down
the conveyor belt of gender bending madness. He got to
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involve the parents in that.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Hmmm.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
So on one hand, I think a majority of Californians
by far would agree that you do need to notify
the parents. But my experience with the whole initiative thing
is people are often misled by the way it's worded
in the advertising and.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Do the wrong thing. Yeah that's true me a little bit.
Although this is not initiative pushed by some sort of
greed head, fake bullet trained crap. This is parents who
are tired of their kids being indoctrinated. This is true
grassroots stuff, and Rob Bonta, who is utterly dishonest. He's
a radical lefty and I can't stand him. Listen to
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what he's trying to pull in the next clip.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
By law, Bonte is required to prepare a quote, true
and impartial title in summary.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Supporters of the measure say he's not doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He changed Protect Kids from California Act to restricts rights
of transgender youth initiative. He also changed female students should
have fair and safe opportunities to compete to prohibit transgender
female students from participating in female sports.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's inflammatory, it's prejudicial, it's incomplete, and it's inaccurate.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And it's biologically hilarious. Transgender female to compete in female sports.
It's a dude, it's a boy, it's a male. We
have terms for that already and I just use them
rob transgender female. So clearly a radical queer theory. Radical
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gender theory meets dishonesty, unfriggin believable.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
So, just in general, this whole topic of kind of
separating kids from their parents because parents can't be trusted
thing really bothers me.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
As as my kids have gotten older, I mentioned that.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
I got a message from my hospital as my son
was approaching his twelfth birthday, that I needed to download
any records that I needed or anything like that, because
once he turns twelve, I don't have ax this to
those without his permission as a twelve year old, right,
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I don't have access to his immunization records unless he
gives me permission, which is crazy. And then we got
this text on it. I came across this. I was
posted somewhere to us. I don't even remember where we
there are so many ways to reach us. Really might
have been carry your pigeon. I took my daughter to
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her yearly physical today. She's still a minor, and the
cheery nurse told her she will need a urine sample,
and since she's fifteen, they will need to get her
cell phone number so they can call with any results,
and handed her the laptop to type in the cell
phone number. I said, no, put my number in. The
nurse looked at me and said, we like to call
the patient for your and samples. My daughter looked at me, confused,
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and I said, they're giving you a pregnancy test, and
they want to hide the results from me and only
tell you. The nurse just kept smiling parents, be vigilant,
do not let your child answer any questions. A nurse
hands your child on a computer or tablet without you
looking to verify what it is. Let me remind you
that they also give kids ages twelve and up a
mental health screening without any informing the parent. They simply
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hand the child the laptop, ask them to answer a
couple of questions. If they score higher than a three
on the test, they answer more questions. One of the
questions is how often do you think your family would
be better off with you dead?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Parents?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Opt out of all of this nonsense and do not
leave the room if the doctor wants to be alone
with your child, So they try and to make you
think that it's just simple stuff and the kid the laptop.
Then they'll answer a couple of questions. You know, are
you ever frightened of your parents? Is there a gun
in your home? I've seen some of this stuff, and
then start to separate you from your child based on
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this stuff. I hate this whole movement of you can't
trust the parents.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah. Well, there's always a fairly reasonable pretext for it,
whether it's you know, they might get beaten for being
pregnant or or the kid might be maltreated for being transgender,
or there are a dozen different sorts of them. It's
all the same. It's all again the Marxist idea of
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you've got to separate the children from the parents to
radicalize the children. It's important. In fact, even the progressives
in the early part of the twentieth century and the
United States made it clear the point of school is
to change the kids from their parents' children to our children.
It's out in the open. This is not secret stuff.
This is not some sort of paranoid fantasy. I've developed.
(06:49):
The whole point of the critical theory thing and the
gender clubs at school, and they don't tell your parents
about this stuff is to radicalize your children.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
That's all true.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
And I just in general don't like the idea if
one out of three hundred kids has one of those
unfortunate situations we've been talking about that you have the
entire rest of society. You cut the parents out of
this stuff. That's just no way to run a culture.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, you're right, on just a purely family level, it's repugnant.
It's terrible.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So, speaking of gender bending, Manus, congratulations. San Jose State University,
has quietly added a transgender player to its women's volleyball team.
That means a man, a male, a boy, a dude.
Do we have to review this? There's now a dude
playing volleyball without alerting opposing teams or the new player's
teammates that he was born a male, etc. Etc. Good
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luck on that in your future endeavors, sir, So what harvu? Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:52):
As a parent, you got a.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
A fourteen year old girl.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
She's playing a sport where physicality is in and even
in volleyball it is. If you've seen that video of
the girl getting smashed in the face when a guy
hit the volleyball adder.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Towers over the net and smashes the ball right into
her face.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Yeah, it was a transwoman? Is that the right term?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Male? A man?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I don't even know what the right term is if
I was trying to be use the right term anyway?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Trans woman?
Speaker 7 (08:22):
But would you so you show up to the volleyball
match and you noticed that there's a guy on the
other team, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Pull your girl off the court?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Or you know, I'd be sensitive and not embarrassing her.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
That'd be tough.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
That'd be tough if it became clear that there was
physical danger involved. Yeah, I would, I would.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I think on basketball, you got it. So anything like
actual contact.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, there's that high school girl's game where so many
girls got injured by the dude throwing his weight around.
They had to concede the game. They had to forfeit
the game because they didn't have enough players left. Although
you hurt so many of them. Can you imagine being
adult in charge of that, permitting that to go on
the level of stinking cowardice in this country in the
face of these radicals is just amazing to me and sickening.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
I'm not arguing for this by any means, but my
son's school they play co ed soccer in eighth grade,
and I was kind of surprised because some of the
eighth grade boys, like my son, is like one hundred
and seventy pounds and some of those eighth grade girls
are like sixty five pounds. Yeah, and I mean in
soccer has some contact.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Oh yeah. I coached both boys and girls at that
very age, and the speed and violence of the boys
games versus the girls, it's just it's I was.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Just surprised that co ed at that age still exists.
Because I said, I've seen some guys hit girls like
you know, just hip to hip or something. You're running
and they go flying because there's just the weight difference.
It's it's just a Newton's law in inertia thing. It's
not anything else. The leftists at the.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Harvard Crimson recently spoke out against transgender athlete bands and
claimed that the evidence to support the case that men
have a physical advantage over women is less than conclusive.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
I saw that, Wow, how can you be an academic
and make that argument.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ideology blinds intelligence. Every single day.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I'll say, whether we got so many examples, We've said
so many times. Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis
player of all time. She says she would lose in
about a half an hour to the best dude. Caitlin
Clark is the greatest college female basketball player of all time.
No NBA team is even going to consider, even though
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it would make them a lot of money her being
a benchwarmer for their team.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's and the idea they give. You give Lebron James
hormones for twelve months, and then you pit those two
against each other and they'd be equal. You're an idiot.
You're a fool. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Anyway, these are odd times, man, God, I would say
the odd man. Barry Weiss is a national treasure lover.
She was at the New York Times right, got driven
out of there by their ideology.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Anyway, she is a liberal, but he's brilliant.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Some of what she wrote yesterday about the college protests
and particularly the nation's response to them, was brilliant as usual.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
That and other stuff on the way Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
ANDETI he's heading down the FDR to the Manhattan Courthouse
on Chamber Street.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
Arriving at this intersection of American history with defiance.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Arriving at the intersection of American history with defiance, the
brilliant juxtaposing of the gravitas of the moment with simple
traffic terms. Dear, I've got the intersection of American history
where you put a quarter in the parking meter of Testify.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Leaving the car.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Looking to avoid stepping in the urine tuddle of Juris Troup.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
John Stewart, who does the Daily Show once a week
and is still funny.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Wow, that is good. So we got on this coverage.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
We got on the topic of IQ is going down
for the first time ever, they say, And I thought
IQ was a immutable like you just you're born with
a certain amount of brain power, and that's what IQ measured.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I thought, that's do we have a measure for brain power?
We should.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
It'd be nice if we did, or maybe it would
be horrible if we did. You find out like it,
you know, six months here, your kid's are four out
of ten.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Hey, I wish I were more up on the state
of the art of IQ testing. I really don't know.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Well, this person kind of is why I'm going to
read the text, which is interesting. Originally IQ was considered innate.
You got this number and we measured it. In the
latter years of my career as a teacher, woke female
administrators began arguing that intelligence was not innate. That may
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be why the article you read referred to how IQ
could be raised or lowered. They don't understand the difference
between intelligence and achievement because acknowledging that some are less
intelligent than others violated their belief in equity. So it's
possible that IQ was attempting to be a measure of
something that you just have a certain amount of your
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whole life, but that went against a lot of what
everybody wants to be true about human nature. Oh, and
so there's been a movement to try to make that
a different thing. They can be lowered or raised with
various programs, and then nobody is also to blame for
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or you can't assign a reason to anybody be more
successful another.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah, I can believe that. I mean, the movement to
do away with any objective measure if it gets in
the way of woke programs. I mean, that's unmistakable, whether
it's standardized testing or the you know act, or even
grades themselves, even doing homework or passing tests. That's it
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gets in the way of equity.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
But even if you well my belief at this point
in my life, having been alive for a while and
now having two kids that I'm raising, there's so many
different kinds of intelligence. I can't imagine why IQ would
ever matter that much. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
It would have to be much more complicated, right than
like a single number. Absolutely, that's almost laughable, because you
don't know, is this a genius musician who can barely
talk because they're shy, or is this a a skilled
theoretical physicist or somebody who's extremely verbalists.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Or which or which would be better for whatever situation anyway,
because social intelligence, which I've seen in various people at
various stages, is so important depending on you know, maybe
if you're going to be a scientist alone in a lab,
it doesn't matter at all, but even then, getting your
job it matters.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
So, I mean, there's just so many different kinds of intelligence.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
I don't even stand the point of trying to measure
an overall score.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, yeah, an overall score seems silly to me. I mean,
you might have one of those polymaths who's a genius
at several different fields, and obviously they're above the rest
of us. But yeah, you'd need at least like five
five categories maybe of sorts of intelligence. And each one
of those five categories would have like four sub scores
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that gave you that number. So it'd be a much
more complicated flow chart. And your IQ is one eight. Congratulations,
It wouldn't shock me. Well, maybe it would shock me
if i Q is actually dropping.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
If i Q is a number that can measure just
over all intelligence, and if it's dropping, well I guess
the smotiocracy.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Yeah, Well, and it's pretty well known that.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
The higher up the ladder you are of achievement or education,
the less likely you are to have kids in a
smaller number of kids.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So just from that standpoint, maybe IQ could drop.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, that's the premise of the movie The Well. It
seemed like a comedy. It's not clear it was a
documentary idiocracy. It's also an excellent comedy intellectual lights.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
It's less funny now than it was when it first
came out, what in the nineties, because so many it's
less funny, so many of the things have happened.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yes, yes, it's we suggest strongly you watch it. The
comedy part holds up is comedy. It's just the context
has changed so much it's uncomfortable to watch it.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
These protests that are growing at college campuses across the country,
primarily in support of Hamas and hatred of Jews. Am
I overstating it by saying that anyway? Barry Weiss, the
brilliant Barrier Weiss responded to that, I have that for you, coming.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Up, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
I know what protests is about. I participated in protests
throughout my life. That is one of the fundamental rights
we hold. Dear as Americans the right to protests.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What we are.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Seeing playing out on many of our college campuses, and
particularly in Columbia University, is hate. We're seeing bile language
being used, and at no time should we call for
the destruction of anyone, should we call for violence? Who
was anyone? That is not what protesting is about.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
That's Mayor Eric Adams of New York City saying I
participated in protests when I was young. The aren't protest.
This is hate calling for the elimination of Israel, which
would include getting rid of a whole bunch of human beings.
And obviously anything that is specifically pro Homas is on
board with all kinds of horrifying violence. Barry Weiss, who
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is really great, wrote yesterday this and all these references
she makes, if you don't know them, are in response
to things that have happened in recent days. But for
a second, she wrote, imagine that black students at Columbia
were taunted with chance of go back to Africa. That's
in response to Jews being told to go back to
Poland at Columbia. Or imagine that a gay student at
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Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the
eye with a flagpole.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
That happened with a Jewish kid.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that
they ought to head home for Ramadan because campus public
safety could not guarantee their security.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
God, can you.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Imagine what a s story that would be if that
happened because a rabbi said, leading up the passover to
Columbia's Jewish students, you better head home because they can't
keep you safe here.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, if you're visibly Jewish, you're in danger.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Barry Weise wrote, there would be relentless fury from our
media and condemnation from our politicians. Just remember the righteous
and rightful outrage over the White Supremacists Unite the Right
march in Charlottesville, Virginia in twenty seventeen, where neo Nazis
chanted the Jews will not replace us. This weekend at
Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators did all of the above,
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only it was directed at Jews. They told Columbia students
to go back to Poland. A Jewish woman at Yell
a souldier with the palle stating flag. What will their
response be? So far there has been none. It is
that is just somewhat unsurprising but shocking at the same
time that there hasn't been more of a pushback on this.
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I don't know what to say about that. I don't
think it's specific anti semitism, because the media could be
on this more. I just think it's a well, we
agree with college kids, and we were college kids, and
we're just on side with all college kids, or just
this seems to be.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Coming from the left politically, and we're generally sympathetic to
the left, so we don't know quite what to do.
It's intellectual cowardice and stupidity on a high level. I mean,
I knew the legacy media were corrupt and biased and dopey,
but this is I mean, this is a measure that
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I never expected to see because Barry's absolutely right the
things she says, the comparisons, and as I said earlier,
it might not start with like pure anti semitism, but
that's where it ends up. You have the angry college
protesters who are so easy to use that energy. My god,
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you are being manipulated, you dopey kids. But you have
them surrounding Jews for being Jews and shouting at them
or physically assaulting them or pushing them back in that
sort of thing. So maybe it started with some sort
of righteous I believe the Israelis are oppressing the Palestinians belief,
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but it ends up at raw anti Semitism, partly because
a lot of these activity, a lot of these protests
are being directed at least partially by radical Islamist organizations.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Okay, I want to transition to a new story just
because I found this very amusic transition music, Michael, because
that's pretty heavyword just doing it. It's important, but heavy.
So the fact that this is in the New York
Times is extraordinary. Pop on New Guinea leader criticizes Biden's
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cannibal comment. Oh this is from last week. Yeah, and
the New York Times says twice last week, mister Biden's
suggested without evidence that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That is quite the subbadline. Yeah, you got a pause
to take that in for a second. Oh, that's right.
The President claimed his uncle was eaten by cannibals twice,
twice without evidence.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
In fact, they will present in moments some evidence that
he was not. But I think.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's beautiful that the leader of that Papa New Guinea,
which is like a strategic partner with the US House saying, hey,
you gotta quit claiming that we eat people over here.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
All right, we don't, and probably not as recently as
the forties. Was it regular to eat people? I'm guessing,
but yeah. So twice last week, mister Biden suggested, without evidence,
that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Here's the quote, we played it for you.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
He got shot down in New Guinea and they never
found the body because well there used to be there
were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part
of New Guinea. Mister Biden said of his uncle during
an address on steel and aluminum tariffs in Pittsburgh on Web,
What's I gotta do with the aluminum tariffs.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
You talk about? I was wearing onions on my belt,
which was the style at the time, right, rambling old
man stories. How the hell did we get here.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yellow onions and couldn't get white onions because of the war.
Henry can quote that entire scene from memory. He's just
off that whole thing. Mister Biden's description of his uncle's
death does not match military records, says the New York Times.
Ambrose Finnegan, a brother of mister Biden's mother, was a
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passenger in aircraft that was, for unknown reasons, had to
ditch in the Pacific Ocean in nineteen forty four. According
to the Pentagon's agency that keeps track of this, both
of the plane's engines failed at low altitude. There's no
indication the aircraft was shot down. As Joe Biden has
claimed many times over the years, mister Finnigan and two
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other men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and
were lost in the crash.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Man, that is in.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Gentle way of saying plane crashing, they drowned, failed to
emerge from the sinking craft. I mean, that's a pretty
horrifying way to go. Good Lord.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
It might have been killed by the impact, but anyway.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge.
In aarial search the next day found no trace of
the missing aircraft or the lost crew members. Mister Biden
made a similar suggestion that his uncle had been cannibalized
when he visited a war memorial burying mister Finnigan's name
in his childhood hometown of Scrapton, part of a three
day campaign swing through the key battleground of Pennsylvania. So
he is twice recently brought up his uncle being eaten
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by cannibals. And so I ask once again, now that
it's been pointed out by the New York Times, as
often his lies are pointed out by the Washington Post,
is anybody gonna go to the President and say, because
he's gonna he's campaigning in Pennsylvania like three times a
week and we'll look to the election because it's really
one of the key swings. Say, is anybody gonna tell
the President you gotta stop telling him the cannibal story.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Everybody's onto you.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
The New York freaking Times is calling you out for
seeing your uncle got eaten by cannibals.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You just got to layoff, Michael. Let's hear and we
have that handy right. Let's hear the old man.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
Himself, my uncle. They called him Ambrose Brosie, they called
him my uncle Bosey. It's a hell of an athlete,
they tell me. When he was a kid, and he
became an Army Air Corps before the Air Force came on,
used to those single engine planes as a reconnaissance over
War zones.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
They got shot.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
Down in New Guinea and they never found the body
because there used to be there are a lot of cannibals,
for real in that part of New Guinea.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Wow, So shot down or not, you know, it's wartime,
and I don't I don't.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Think that's a major thing.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
You're plane crashes during a war, whether the engines stopped,
you got shot down, it's you know, I don't that
that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
But the whole claiming he was eaten by cannibals, I mean, yeah,
that's he was sitting at somebody's knee seventy years ago
when he was well, seventy five years ago, when he
was a young child, and somebody mentioned that young uncle Bosey.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Was lost and around pop on New Guinea, and somebody said, yeah,
I've heard they had cannibals there. And he put that
together there in his head and he makes up tall
tails all the time. That's just crazy and funny. Although again,
part of the reason I want to hear the audio
is to remind me of out tired and all the sounds.
It's just terrible. Hey, speaking of the New York Times
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actually calling that correctly, can you.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
I mean, Trump says a lot of nutty things, crazy, crazy,
crazy things, But I mean, he said his uncle had
been eaten by cannibals, and it turns out it's not true.
Your late night host would do, would spend the I'm
sorry for the next year, We're only gonna make jokes
about Donald Trump talking about his uncle being eaten bike animals.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
So yes, prepare yourself be hilarious too. It'd be worth
ripping them, Yes, it would. So, speaking of The New
York Times, I thought this was so interesting. Frequent correspondent
Paalow dropped us an email. The other day. There was
coverage in both the Wappo and The New York Times
of remember Uri Berliner, the NPR editor who claimed that
(27:26):
NPR lacks ideological diversity because it does them they've gone
way crazy radical left. Both papers covered that, but then
they both had comments under the stories, like papers will,
and they both had links to the top three most
liked comments and the top three in the New York Times.
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And I could click on them, but I can characterize
them well enough because I read them, or like, yeah,
I used to love NPR but it's gone nutty, or
every single story is the same they're totally woke. Blah
blah blah. Top three comments in the New York Times,
We're all Uri Berlin's absolutely right. Top three comments in
the Wahpo. I have in front of me big burden.
(28:08):
PBS have found a champion and oh, the far right
in their relentless attempt to cancel public broadcasting and in
the reign of terror blah blah blah. Always looking for
a smoking gun, they found a blow hard instead. Two
longtime NPR listener Even though I'm old, bah bah, I
stick with them because they're great at showing all sides
of the issues.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I started as a person with middle of a road leanings.
I have to say the world has gone so far
right that I am now considered leftists. So be it. Oh,
the world has moved so far right. Centrist now leftists.
That is a truly unique point of view. Wow and
third most popular comment in contrast to the New York
Times comments in the Washington Post. I figured this guy
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screaming left wing biased at EDPR that he was being
silenced or founded a hostile workplace was nothing more than
a right wing snowflake. With more in comment with coming
with Hugh Hewitt than Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite.
Turned out, I was right. The Washington Post is pravda. Man.
It is so far left of the New York Times
(29:08):
you can't see it from there, right.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
And I haven't been following their Israel coverage that much,
but I know the Jewish community is very unhappy with
the Washington Post version of all these stories.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I almost never look at the Wapole anymore, and
I used to every day, and that is the paper
of record for our nation's capital.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah, democracy dies in darkness.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yeah, it doesn't fare very well covered in bullless either,
Washington Post.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
We'll finish Strong next.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
It changed on the fly here. It's going to talk
about happiness, family, that sort of thing. But we can
do that tomorrow. We will be here again tomorrow, barring
the unforeseen actors mocking me earlier for throwing that in
as a caveat. Yeah, I'll be there tomorrow unless I'm killed.
But we were talking earlier in the show. And there's
a great article posted under hot links at Armstrong and
(30:11):
Getty about musicians for instance, or it can be computer
programmers or whatever, athletes who get in the flow and
how you have to first be like, really really good
at what you're doing. Practice and practice and practice, drill
and drill and drill the rest of that. But then
when it comes time to perform, you just let loose you,
just as Charlie Parker said, forget it all and whale.
(30:35):
What's really interesting is this. The neurologists who were studying
this said that flow state creativity, when you're just cutting loose,
is different from non non flow creativity. You've got the
default mode network, which is a group of brain areas
involved in introspection, daydreaming, and imagining the future. The default
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mode network spews ideas like an unintended garden host spouts
water without direction. It's like just stream of consciousness daydreaming.
The aim is provided by the executive control network, which
is in your brain's frontal lobe, which acts like say
a gardener who points the hose to direct the water
where it needs to go. Those two work together in
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creative flow. No hose, no gardener. It's a different section
of the brain, a couple of sections that light up.
It's like you develop this new power that other people
don't have. It's completely different from thinking your way through
a piece of music. It's a different place in your brain.
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It's like it's like a game, a video game where
you level up and all of a sudden, this new
area is available to you.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
And not everybody can do this with anything.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Hmmm, not people.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Some people don't have this ability to do it with
anything in they're life. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I suppose that's probably true. I'm probably one of those.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I find that a little sad. Do you in music?
You can't? Just like I don't talk your brain and improvise,
or I don't think you certainly do it verbally?
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Yeah, I guess verbally I do. I don't know. I
don't actually know.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
But that is interesting, and then there's probably different levels
within that. Reading Miles Davis book talking about Charlie Parker,
the saxophone player, and how he would listen to Charlie
Parker and he would hear what Charlie was doing, like
Charlie would get bored and take the melody of the
song and play it backwards in a different modal structure,
and just that's not something you can learn.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Come on, CHECKI Clark kiss time Stop Jack and Joe.
They've got to go.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
And if they don't give canned, they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
The love that one.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Here's your host for vital thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Hey, let's get a final thought. If I get canned,
I'm gonna do a podcast the next day if I
can contractually. Yeah, read the fine print. NDA's just like
Stormy Daniels. Huh what all right, let's get a final
thought from everybody on the crew. There he is, Michael
laigslow final thought.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You know, I got a theory about Joe Biden's storytelling.
The joke's on us. He's just trying to see how
far he can take it.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
He's now at the Cannibal. It's gonna keep getting worse
and worse. He's telling the staff. Watch just I'm gonna
go out and tell this story. Nobody will call me
on it, I promise.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
So he's he's not Grandpa Simpson. He's Andy Kaffer, right exactly.
That's all right, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a
final thought, Katie.
Speaker 12 (33:35):
So it's a little visual, but I've had this thing
on all morning. It looked like a backpack, but it's
a posture corrector. H my neck feels a million times
better right now, and I've only had it on for
the duration of the show.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Do you think you have a smartphone neck?
Speaker 7 (33:49):
I'm hearing more and more and more about that, Like
they really actually think that's a thing. We spend too
much time with our heads in mangle. We didn't used
to have our heads in mangle.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Who knows, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I got it head the size of one of the
moons at Jupiter. Maybe I had to try that. Maybe
that helped my neck, Jack, Do you have a final
thought for us?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I'm wearing my new tan suit.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
I'm not sure I like it because it's too close
to my skin tone, so I just look like I'm
walking around naked. But do you remember when Barack Obama
got so much grief for wearing a tan suit?
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Oh that was hilarious.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
What a hilarious moment in our ridiculously polarized politics.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
A president shouldn't wear a tan suit?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Oh Man, Yeah, thank you, thank Junior. I'd love to
go back to that simpler time. Do you remember when
the giant national scandal was Bill Clinton and interns and
the rest of it?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
M Hey Armstrong Teddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Many people with thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and Giddy dot com. A lot of great hot links,
including that getting in the Flow article, another article about
using your hands helps your brain, really interesting stuff. Drop
us line if there's something we ought to be talking about.
Mail bag at armstrong and giddy dot com.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
So, barring some other unforeseen event, we will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Get me two bad choices. I think it's my duty
to pick up. I'm strong and Getty. They're way better
at words. Oh, my word, word, let me say. Let
me say one thing? Could I buy? Like fifteen pounds
a myth? You gotta be kidding me. Oh, I'm gonna
call my lawyer. Okay, so let's go with the buy.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
America is a nation that can be defined in a
single word
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Foot, him, armstrong, and getty.
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty
show You're not allowed to discriminate based on gender identity
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in California.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And that's where the battleover parental rights begins.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
This is a national issue, and in terms of fighting
in California, I believe that we are or.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Over one hundred words that define a prontal notification bill
sponsored by the group Protect Kids California by statute. However,
the Attorney General in this case, Democrat Rob Bonta, controls
the title and summary of an initiative.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
He opposes.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
This policy puts them in harm's way emotionally, psychologically, mentally, physically.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Anah, the old, tired and utterly inaccurate argument that's standing
up for some sort of normalcy in sexualizing children is
putting transgender students at risk.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Okay, I don't know this story. What is happening.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
William Maginess actually does a really good job of spelling
it out. We could let him go ahead, right.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Supporters say the initiative would require schools to notify parents
if a child wants to identify as a different gender.
Block transgender athletes from female sports, and requires students use
facilities consistent with their birth gender. A majority of Californians
we know support the idea of print notification.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Okay, so it is an initiative to be on the
statewide ballot in California saying that you got to let
if your kids having a mental health crisis. And Johnny
decides he's Jenny, you got to tell the parents. You
can't and we all know this is happening, surround him
with activist lefty teachers encouraging him to be whisked down
the conveyor belt of gender bending madness. He got to
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involve the parents in that.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Hmmm.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
So on one hand, I think a majority of Californians
by far would agree that you do need to notify
the parents. But my experience with the whole initiative thing
is people are often misled by the way it's worded
in the advertising and.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Do the wrong thing. Yeah that's true me a little bit.
Although this is not initiative pushed by some sort of
greed head, fake bullet trained crap. This is parents who
are tired of their kids being indoctrinated. This is true
grassroots stuff, and Rob Bonta, who is utterly dishonest. He's
a radical lefty and I can't stand him. Listen to
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what he's trying to pull in the next clip.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
By law, Bonte is required to prepare a quote, true
and impartial title in summary.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Supporters of the measure say he's not doing that.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He changed Protect Kids from California Act to restricts rights
of transgender youth initiative. He also changed female students should
have fair and safe opportunities to compete to prohibit transgender
female students from participating in female sports.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's inflammatory, it's prejudicial, it's incomplete, and it's inaccurate.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And it's biologically hilarious. Transgender female to compete in female sports.
It's a dude, it's a boy, it's a male. We
have terms for that already and I just use them
rob transgender female. So clearly a radical queer theory. Radical
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gender theory meets dishonesty, unfriggin believable.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
So, just in general, this whole topic of kind of
separating kids from their parents because parents can't be trusted
thing really bothers me.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
As as my kids have gotten older, I mentioned that.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
I got a message from my hospital as my son
was approaching his twelfth birthday, that I needed to download
any records that I needed or anything like that, because
once he turns twelve, I don't have ax this to
those without his permission as a twelve year old, right,
(04:22):
I don't have access to his immunization records unless he
gives me permission, which is crazy. And then we got
this text on it. I came across this. I was
posted somewhere to us. I don't even remember where we
there are so many ways to reach us. Really might
have been carry your pigeon. I took my daughter to
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her yearly physical today. She's still a minor, and the
cheery nurse told her she will need a urine sample,
and since she's fifteen, they will need to get her
cell phone number so they can call with any results,
and handed her the laptop to type in the cell
phone number. I said, no, put my number in. The
nurse looked at me and said, we like to call
the patient for your and samples. My daughter looked at me, confused,
(05:04):
and I said, they're giving you a pregnancy test, and
they want to hide the results from me and only
tell you. The nurse just kept smiling parents, be vigilant,
do not let your child answer any questions. A nurse
hands your child on a computer or tablet without you
looking to verify what it is. Let me remind you
that they also give kids ages twelve and up a
mental health screening without any informing the parent. They simply
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hand the child the laptop, ask them to answer a
couple of questions. If they score higher than a three
on the test, they answer more questions. One of the
questions is how often do you think your family would
be better off with you dead?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Parents?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Opt out of all of this nonsense and do not
leave the room if the doctor wants to be alone
with your child, So they try and to make you
think that it's just simple stuff and the kid the laptop.
Then they'll answer a couple of questions. You know, are
you ever frightened of your parents? Is there a gun
in your home? I've seen some of this stuff, and
then start to separate you from your child based on
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this stuff. I hate this whole movement of you can't
trust the parents.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yeah. Well, there's always a fairly reasonable pretext for it,
whether it's you know, they might get beaten for being
pregnant or or the kid might be maltreated for being transgender,
or there are a dozen different sorts of them. It's
all the same. It's all again the Marxist idea of
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you've got to separate the children from the parents to
radicalize the children. It's important. In fact, even the progressives
in the early part of the twentieth century and the
United States made it clear the point of school is
to change the kids from their parents' children to our children.
It's out in the open. This is not secret stuff.
This is not some sort of paranoid fantasy. I've developed.
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The whole point of the critical theory thing and the
gender clubs at school, and they don't tell your parents
about this stuff is to radicalize your children.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
That's all true.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
And I just in general don't like the idea if
one out of three hundred kids has one of those
unfortunate situations we've been talking about that you have the
entire rest of society. You cut the parents out of
this stuff. That's just no way to run a culture.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, you're right, on just a purely family level, it's repugnant.
It's terrible.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
So, speaking of gender bending, Manus, congratulations. San Jose State University,
has quietly added a transgender player to its women's volleyball team.
That means a man, a male, a boy, a dude.
Do we have to review this? There's now a dude
playing volleyball without alerting opposing teams or the new player's
teammates that he was born a male, etc. Etc. Good
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luck on that in your future endeavors, sir, So what harvu? Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:52):
As a parent, you got a.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
A fourteen year old girl.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
She's playing a sport where physicality is in and even
in volleyball it is. If you've seen that video of
the girl getting smashed in the face when a guy
hit the volleyball adder.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Towers over the net and smashes the ball right into
her face.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Yeah, it was a transwoman? Is that the right term?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Male? A man?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
I don't even know what the right term is if
I was trying to be use the right term anyway?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Trans woman?
Speaker 7 (08:22):
But would you so you show up to the volleyball
match and you noticed that there's a guy on the
other team, what do you do?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Pull your girl off the court?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Or you know, I'd be sensitive and not embarrassing her.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
That'd be tough.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
That'd be tough if it became clear that there was
physical danger involved. Yeah, I would, I would.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I think on basketball, you got it. So anything like
actual contact.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, there's that high school girl's game where so many
girls got injured by the dude throwing his weight around.
They had to concede the game. They had to forfeit
the game because they didn't have enough players left. Although
you hurt so many of them. Can you imagine being
adult in charge of that, permitting that to go on
the level of stinking cowardice in this country in the
face of these radicals is just amazing to me and sickening.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
I'm not arguing for this by any means, but my
son's school they play co ed soccer in eighth grade,
and I was kind of surprised because some of the
eighth grade boys, like my son, is like one hundred
and seventy pounds and some of those eighth grade girls
are like sixty five pounds. Yeah, and I mean in
soccer has some contact.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Oh yeah. I coached both boys and girls at that
very age, and the speed and violence of the boys
games versus the girls, it's just it's I was.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Just surprised that co ed at that age still exists.
Because I said, I've seen some guys hit girls like
you know, just hip to hip or something. You're running
and they go flying because there's just the weight difference.
It's it's just a Newton's law in inertia thing. It's
not anything else. The leftists at the.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Harvard Crimson recently spoke out against transgender athlete bands and
claimed that the evidence to support the case that men
have a physical advantage over women is less than conclusive.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
I saw that, Wow, how can you be an academic
and make that argument.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ideology blinds intelligence. Every single day.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I'll say, whether we got so many examples, We've said
so many times. Serena Williams is the greatest female tennis
player of all time. She says she would lose in
about a half an hour to the best dude. Caitlin
Clark is the greatest college female basketball player of all time.
No NBA team is even going to consider, even though
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it would make them a lot of money her being
a benchwarmer for their team.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's and the idea they give. You give Lebron James
hormones for twelve months, and then you pit those two
against each other and they'd be equal. You're an idiot.
You're a fool. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Anyway, these are odd times, man, God, I would say
the odd man. Barry Weiss is a national treasure lover.
She was at the New York Times right, got driven
out of there by their ideology.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Anyway, she is a liberal, but he's brilliant.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
Some of what she wrote yesterday about the college protests
and particularly the nation's response to them, was brilliant as usual.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
That and other stuff on the way Armstrong.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
ANDETI he's heading down the FDR to the Manhattan Courthouse
on Chamber Street.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
Arriving at this intersection of American history with defiance.
Speaker 9 (11:46):
Arriving at the intersection of American history with defiance, the
brilliant juxtaposing of the gravitas of the moment with simple
traffic terms. Dear, I've got the intersection of American history
where you put a quarter in the parking meter of Testify.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Leaving the car.
Speaker 9 (12:12):
Looking to avoid stepping in the urine tuddle of Juris Troup.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
John Stewart, who does the Daily Show once a week
and is still funny.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Wow, that is good. So we got on this coverage.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
We got on the topic of IQ is going down
for the first time ever, they say, And I thought
IQ was a immutable like you just you're born with
a certain amount of brain power, and that's what IQ measured.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
I thought, that's do we have a measure for brain power?
We should.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
It'd be nice if we did, or maybe it would
be horrible if we did. You find out like it,
you know, six months here, your kid's are four out
of ten.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Hey, I wish I were more up on the state
of the art of IQ testing. I really don't know.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Well, this person kind of is why I'm going to
read the text, which is interesting. Originally IQ was considered innate.
You got this number and we measured it. In the
latter years of my career as a teacher, woke female
administrators began arguing that intelligence was not innate. That may
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be why the article you read referred to how IQ
could be raised or lowered. They don't understand the difference
between intelligence and achievement because acknowledging that some are less
intelligent than others violated their belief in equity. So it's
possible that IQ was attempting to be a measure of
something that you just have a certain amount of your
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whole life, but that went against a lot of what
everybody wants to be true about human nature. Oh, and
so there's been a movement to try to make that
a different thing. They can be lowered or raised with
various programs, and then nobody is also to blame for
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or you can't assign a reason to anybody be more
successful another.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah, I can believe that. I mean, the movement to
do away with any objective measure if it gets in
the way of woke programs. I mean, that's unmistakable, whether
it's standardized testing or the you know act, or even
grades themselves, even doing homework or passing tests. That's it
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gets in the way of equity.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
But even if you well my belief at this point
in my life, having been alive for a while and
now having two kids that I'm raising, there's so many
different kinds of intelligence. I can't imagine why IQ would
ever matter that much. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
It would have to be much more complicated, right than
like a single number. Absolutely, that's almost laughable, because you
don't know, is this a genius musician who can barely
talk because they're shy, or is this a a skilled
theoretical physicist or somebody who's extremely verbalists.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
Or which or which would be better for whatever situation anyway,
because social intelligence, which I've seen in various people at
various stages, is so important depending on you know, maybe
if you're going to be a scientist alone in a lab,
it doesn't matter at all, but even then, getting your
job it matters.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
So, I mean, there's just so many different kinds of intelligence.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
I don't even stand the point of trying to measure
an overall score.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, yeah, an overall score seems silly to me. I mean,
you might have one of those polymaths who's a genius
at several different fields, and obviously they're above the rest
of us. But yeah, you'd need at least like five
five categories maybe of sorts of intelligence. And each one
of those five categories would have like four sub scores
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that gave you that number. So it'd be a much
more complicated flow chart. And your IQ is one eight. Congratulations,
It wouldn't shock me. Well, maybe it would shock me
if i Q is actually dropping.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
If i Q is a number that can measure just
over all intelligence, and if it's dropping, well I guess
the smotiocracy.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Yeah, Well, and it's pretty well known that.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
The higher up the ladder you are of achievement or education,
the less likely you are to have kids in a
smaller number of kids.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
So just from that standpoint, maybe IQ could drop.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Yeah, that's the premise of the movie The Well. It
seemed like a comedy. It's not clear it was a
documentary idiocracy. It's also an excellent comedy intellectual lights.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
It's less funny now than it was when it first
came out, what in the nineties, because so many it's
less funny, so many of the things have happened.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Yes, yes, it's we suggest strongly you watch it. The
comedy part holds up is comedy. It's just the context
has changed so much it's uncomfortable to watch it.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
These protests that are growing at college campuses across the country,
primarily in support of Hamas and hatred of Jews. Am
I overstating it by saying that anyway? Barry Weiss, the
brilliant Barrier Weiss responded to that, I have that for you, coming.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Up, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
I know what protests is about. I participated in protests
throughout my life. That is one of the fundamental rights
we hold. Dear as Americans the right to protests.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What we are.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Seeing playing out on many of our college campuses, and
particularly in Columbia University, is hate. We're seeing bile language
being used, and at no time should we call for
the destruction of anyone, should we call for violence? Who
was anyone? That is not what protesting is about.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
That's Mayor Eric Adams of New York City saying I
participated in protests when I was young. The aren't protest.
This is hate calling for the elimination of Israel, which
would include getting rid of a whole bunch of human beings.
And obviously anything that is specifically pro Homas is on
board with all kinds of horrifying violence. Barry Weiss, who
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is really great, wrote yesterday this and all these references
she makes, if you don't know them, are in response
to things that have happened in recent days. But for
a second, she wrote, imagine that black students at Columbia
were taunted with chance of go back to Africa. That's
in response to Jews being told to go back to
Poland at Columbia. Or imagine that a gay student at
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Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the
eye with a flagpole.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
That happened with a Jewish kid.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that
they ought to head home for Ramadan because campus public
safety could not guarantee their security.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
God, can you.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Imagine what a s story that would be if that
happened because a rabbi said, leading up the passover to
Columbia's Jewish students, you better head home because they can't
keep you safe here.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah, if you're visibly Jewish, you're in danger.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Barry Weise wrote, there would be relentless fury from our
media and condemnation from our politicians. Just remember the righteous
and rightful outrage over the White Supremacists Unite the Right
march in Charlottesville, Virginia in twenty seventeen, where neo Nazis
chanted the Jews will not replace us. This weekend at
Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators did all of the above,
(19:34):
only it was directed at Jews. They told Columbia students
to go back to Poland. A Jewish woman at Yell
a souldier with the palle stating flag. What will their
response be? So far there has been none. It is
that is just somewhat unsurprising but shocking at the same
time that there hasn't been more of a pushback on this.
(19:55):
I don't know what to say about that. I don't
think it's specific anti semitism, because the media could be
on this more. I just think it's a well, we
agree with college kids, and we were college kids, and
we're just on side with all college kids, or just
this seems to be.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Coming from the left politically, and we're generally sympathetic to
the left, so we don't know quite what to do.
It's intellectual cowardice and stupidity on a high level. I mean,
I knew the legacy media were corrupt and biased and dopey,
but this is I mean, this is a measure that
(20:35):
I never expected to see because Barry's absolutely right the
things she says, the comparisons, and as I said earlier,
it might not start with like pure anti semitism, but
that's where it ends up. You have the angry college
protesters who are so easy to use that energy. My god,
(20:56):
you are being manipulated, you dopey kids. But you have
them surrounding Jews for being Jews and shouting at them
or physically assaulting them or pushing them back in that
sort of thing. So maybe it started with some sort
of righteous I believe the Israelis are oppressing the Palestinians belief,
(21:17):
but it ends up at raw anti Semitism, partly because
a lot of these activity, a lot of these protests
are being directed at least partially by radical Islamist organizations.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
Okay, I want to transition to a new story just
because I found this very amusic transition music, Michael, because
that's pretty heavyword just doing it. It's important, but heavy.
So the fact that this is in the New York
Times is extraordinary. Pop on New Guinea leader criticizes Biden's
(21:51):
cannibal comment. Oh this is from last week. Yeah, and
the New York Times says twice last week, mister Biden's
suggested without evidence that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
That is quite the subbadline. Yeah, you got a pause
to take that in for a second. Oh, that's right.
The President claimed his uncle was eaten by cannibals twice,
twice without evidence.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
In fact, they will present in moments some evidence that
he was not. But I think.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's beautiful that the leader of that Papa New Guinea,
which is like a strategic partner with the US House saying, hey,
you gotta quit claiming that we eat people over here.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
All right, we don't, and probably not as recently as
the forties. Was it regular to eat people? I'm guessing,
but yeah. So twice last week, mister Biden suggested, without evidence,
that his uncle had been eaten by cannibals.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Here's the quote, we played it for you.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
He got shot down in New Guinea and they never
found the body because well there used to be there
were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part
of New Guinea. Mister Biden said of his uncle during
an address on steel and aluminum tariffs in Pittsburgh on Web,
What's I gotta do with the aluminum tariffs.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
You talk about? I was wearing onions on my belt,
which was the style at the time, right, rambling old
man stories. How the hell did we get here.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yellow onions and couldn't get white onions because of the war.
Henry can quote that entire scene from memory. He's just
off that whole thing. Mister Biden's description of his uncle's
death does not match military records, says the New York Times.
Ambrose Finnegan, a brother of mister Biden's mother, was a
(23:34):
passenger in aircraft that was, for unknown reasons, had to
ditch in the Pacific Ocean in nineteen forty four. According
to the Pentagon's agency that keeps track of this, both
of the plane's engines failed at low altitude. There's no
indication the aircraft was shot down. As Joe Biden has
claimed many times over the years, mister Finnigan and two
(23:55):
other men failed to emerge from the sinking wreck and
were lost in the crash.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Man, that is in.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Gentle way of saying plane crashing, they drowned, failed to
emerge from the sinking craft. I mean, that's a pretty
horrifying way to go. Good Lord.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
It might have been killed by the impact, but anyway.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
One crew member survived and was rescued by a passing barge.
In aarial search the next day found no trace of
the missing aircraft or the lost crew members. Mister Biden
made a similar suggestion that his uncle had been cannibalized
when he visited a war memorial burying mister Finnigan's name
in his childhood hometown of Scrapton, part of a three
day campaign swing through the key battleground of Pennsylvania. So
he is twice recently brought up his uncle being eaten
(24:38):
by cannibals. And so I ask once again, now that
it's been pointed out by the New York Times, as
often his lies are pointed out by the Washington Post,
is anybody gonna go to the President and say, because
he's gonna he's campaigning in Pennsylvania like three times a
week and we'll look to the election because it's really
one of the key swings. Say, is anybody gonna tell
the President you gotta stop telling him the cannibal story.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Everybody's onto you.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
The New York freaking Times is calling you out for
seeing your uncle got eaten by cannibals.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You just got to layoff, Michael. Let's hear and we
have that handy right. Let's hear the old man.
Speaker 11 (25:13):
Himself, my uncle. They called him Ambrose Brosie, they called
him my uncle Bosey. It's a hell of an athlete,
they tell me. When he was a kid, and he
became an Army Air Corps before the Air Force came on,
used to those single engine planes as a reconnaissance over
War zones.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
They got shot.
Speaker 11 (25:34):
Down in New Guinea and they never found the body
because there used to be there are a lot of cannibals,
for real in that part of New Guinea.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
Wow, So shot down or not, you know, it's wartime,
and I don't I don't.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Think that's a major thing.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
You're plane crashes during a war, whether the engines stopped,
you got shot down, it's you know, I don't that
that doesn't bother me.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
But the whole claiming he was eaten by cannibals, I mean, yeah,
that's he was sitting at somebody's knee seventy years ago
when he was well, seventy five years ago, when he
was a young child, and somebody mentioned that young uncle Bosey.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Was lost and around pop on New Guinea, and somebody said, yeah,
I've heard they had cannibals there. And he put that
together there in his head and he makes up tall
tails all the time. That's just crazy and funny. Although again,
part of the reason I want to hear the audio
is to remind me of out tired and all the sounds.
It's just terrible. Hey, speaking of the New York Times
(26:41):
actually calling that correctly, can you.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
I mean, Trump says a lot of nutty things, crazy, crazy,
crazy things, But I mean, he said his uncle had
been eaten by cannibals, and it turns out it's not true.
Your late night host would do, would spend the I'm
sorry for the next year, We're only gonna make jokes
about Donald Trump talking about his uncle being eaten bike animals.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
So yes, prepare yourself be hilarious too. It'd be worth
ripping them, Yes, it would. So, speaking of The New
York Times, I thought this was so interesting. Frequent correspondent
Paalow dropped us an email. The other day. There was
coverage in both the Wappo and The New York Times
of remember Uri Berliner, the NPR editor who claimed that
(27:26):
NPR lacks ideological diversity because it does them they've gone
way crazy radical left. Both papers covered that, but then
they both had comments under the stories, like papers will,
and they both had links to the top three most
liked comments and the top three in the New York Times.
(27:46):
And I could click on them, but I can characterize
them well enough because I read them, or like, yeah,
I used to love NPR but it's gone nutty, or
every single story is the same they're totally woke. Blah
blah blah. Top three comments in the New York Times,
We're all Uri Berlin's absolutely right. Top three comments in
the Wahpo. I have in front of me big burden.
(28:08):
PBS have found a champion and oh, the far right
in their relentless attempt to cancel public broadcasting and in
the reign of terror blah blah blah. Always looking for
a smoking gun, they found a blow hard instead. Two
longtime NPR listener Even though I'm old, bah bah, I
stick with them because they're great at showing all sides
of the issues.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I started as a person with middle of a road leanings.
I have to say the world has gone so far
right that I am now considered leftists. So be it. Oh,
the world has moved so far right. Centrist now leftists.
That is a truly unique point of view. Wow and
third most popular comment in contrast to the New York
Times comments in the Washington Post. I figured this guy
(28:47):
screaming left wing biased at EDPR that he was being
silenced or founded a hostile workplace was nothing more than
a right wing snowflake. With more in comment with coming
with Hugh Hewitt than Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite.
Turned out, I was right. The Washington Post is pravda. Man.
It is so far left of the New York Times
(29:08):
you can't see it from there, right.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
And I haven't been following their Israel coverage that much,
but I know the Jewish community is very unhappy with
the Washington Post version of all these stories.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
And I almost never look at the Wapole anymore, and
I used to every day, and that is the paper
of record for our nation's capital.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Yeah, democracy dies in darkness.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yeah, it doesn't fare very well covered in bullless either,
Washington Post.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
We'll finish Strong next.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
It changed on the fly here. It's going to talk
about happiness, family, that sort of thing. But we can
do that tomorrow. We will be here again tomorrow, barring
the unforeseen actors mocking me earlier for throwing that in
as a caveat. Yeah, I'll be there tomorrow unless I'm killed.
But we were talking earlier in the show. And there's
a great article posted under hot links at Armstrong and
(30:11):
Getty about musicians for instance, or it can be computer
programmers or whatever, athletes who get in the flow and
how you have to first be like, really really good
at what you're doing. Practice and practice and practice, drill
and drill and drill the rest of that. But then
when it comes time to perform, you just let loose you,
just as Charlie Parker said, forget it all and whale.
(30:35):
What's really interesting is this. The neurologists who were studying
this said that flow state creativity, when you're just cutting loose,
is different from non non flow creativity. You've got the
default mode network, which is a group of brain areas
involved in introspection, daydreaming, and imagining the future. The default
(30:56):
mode network spews ideas like an unintended garden host spouts
water without direction. It's like just stream of consciousness daydreaming.
The aim is provided by the executive control network, which
is in your brain's frontal lobe, which acts like say
a gardener who points the hose to direct the water
where it needs to go. Those two work together in
(31:17):
creative flow. No hose, no gardener. It's a different section
of the brain, a couple of sections that light up.
It's like you develop this new power that other people
don't have. It's completely different from thinking your way through
a piece of music. It's a different place in your brain.
(31:39):
It's like it's like a game, a video game where
you level up and all of a sudden, this new
area is available to you.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
And not everybody can do this with anything.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Hmmm, not people.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Some people don't have this ability to do it with
anything in they're life. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I suppose that's probably true. I'm probably one of those.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
I don't think I can.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I find that a little sad. Do you in music?
You can't? Just like I don't talk your brain and improvise,
or I don't think you certainly do it verbally?
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Yeah, I guess verbally I do. I don't know. I
don't actually know.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
But that is interesting, and then there's probably different levels
within that. Reading Miles Davis book talking about Charlie Parker,
the saxophone player, and how he would listen to Charlie
Parker and he would hear what Charlie was doing, like
Charlie would get bored and take the melody of the
song and play it backwards in a different modal structure,
and just that's not something you can learn.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Come on, CHECKI Clark kiss time Stop Jack and Joe.
They've got to go.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
And if they don't give canned, they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
The love that one.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Here's your host for vital thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Hey, let's get a final thought. If I get canned,
I'm gonna do a podcast the next day if I
can contractually. Yeah, read the fine print. NDA's just like
Stormy Daniels. Huh what all right, let's get a final
thought from everybody on the crew. There he is, Michael
laigslow final thought.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
You know, I got a theory about Joe Biden's storytelling.
The joke's on us. He's just trying to see how
far he can take it.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
He's now at the Cannibal. It's gonna keep getting worse
and worse. He's telling the staff. Watch just I'm gonna
go out and tell this story. Nobody will call me
on it, I promise.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
So he's he's not Grandpa Simpson. He's Andy Kaffer, right exactly.
That's all right, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a
final thought, Katie.
Speaker 12 (33:35):
So it's a little visual, but I've had this thing
on all morning. It looked like a backpack, but it's
a posture corrector. H my neck feels a million times
better right now, and I've only had it on for
the duration of the show.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Do you think you have a smartphone neck?
Speaker 7 (33:49):
I'm hearing more and more and more about that, Like
they really actually think that's a thing. We spend too
much time with our heads in mangle. We didn't used
to have our heads in mangle.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Who knows, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
I got it head the size of one of the
moons at Jupiter. Maybe I had to try that. Maybe
that helped my neck, Jack, Do you have a final
thought for us?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I'm wearing my new tan suit.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
I'm not sure I like it because it's too close
to my skin tone, so I just look like I'm
walking around naked. But do you remember when Barack Obama
got so much grief for wearing a tan suit?
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Oh that was hilarious.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
What a hilarious moment in our ridiculously polarized politics.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
A president shouldn't wear a tan suit?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Oh Man, Yeah, thank you, thank Junior. I'd love to
go back to that simpler time. Do you remember when
the giant national scandal was Bill Clinton and interns and
the rest of it?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
M Hey Armstrong Teddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Many people with thanks, so a little time. Go to
Armstrong and Giddy dot com. A lot of great hot links,
including that getting in the Flow article, another article about
using your hands helps your brain, really interesting stuff. Drop
us line if there's something we ought to be talking about.
Mail bag at armstrong and giddy dot com.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
So, barring some other unforeseen event, we will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Get me two bad choices. I think it's my duty
to pick up. I'm strong and Getty. They're way better
at words. Oh, my word, word, let me say. Let
me say one thing? Could I buy? Like fifteen pounds
a myth? You gotta be kidding me. Oh, I'm gonna
call my lawyer. Okay, so let's go with the buy.
Speaker 11 (35:28):
America is a nation that can be defined in a
single word
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Foot, him, armstrong, and getty.
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