December 17, 2024 • 34 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Gender Bending Madness Update!
- Positive people with positive attitudes
- Division amongst Kamala team over her running for CA Governor
- Cancelling out the noise
- Bonus Mailbag! The guys ruined Christmas!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Ketty arm Strong
and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Heels and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior
has reportedly been spotted working out at a New York
City Equinox gym and tight jeans and hiking boots, and
employees say they're getting awfully tired of fishing them out
of the pool.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's very funny.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Coming up, we're gonna talk a little bit about Elon
Musk's power media power. According to The Washington Post, Elon
is one of the most powerful people in all of
media right now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I would I'll be hard to argue with.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And I've got some If you're a Trump fan, you're
gonna like some of the observations on the Trump moment
that is going on right now. Trump is as high
as he's ever going to be in his life right now.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, definitely a honeymoon period for him, which he did
not get first time around.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Enjoy it well, you can. We wish you well to
be productive in the new year. Just a quick reminder
public service announcement, Joe Biden is going to be the
president for another solid month, right.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There, and doctor Jill headed to Delaware today for a
little time off, a little much needed break.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, well deserved.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So this is going to be like more or less
the rest of the holiday season. So Christmas is in
a week and they and they already headed to Delaware.
I mean, it's the most coasting through the end of
your presidency that's happened since Woodrow Wilson was a stroke
victim lying in bed.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah. Yeah, I check Biden for a pulse, though I'm
not convinced he's still alive. Coming up this hour, I
swear I'll pay this off. News about Kamala Harris's future
that will draw a guffaw guaranteed stay with us. But first,
a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
First of all, in the least covered story in American history,
relatively the significance of it, a thirty three year old
transactivist went into the Rayburn office building on Capitol Hill
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last week and assaulted a sitting congresswoman.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
A woman, a man beat down, a woman injured or
center to the hospital with fairly minor injuries to her
arm and r Well, yeah, yeah, and it got no
attention because well that might, you know, give conservatives a
way to bash transgender activists.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Political violence, the capital man on woman.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Get it's no attention. What is the depths of the
lying on the left and in the media. Well, we've
just well we got to get a longer poll to
find the bottom because that's some pretty deep lying in
dishonesty right there. It's just unbelievable. This just in The
Biden Harris administration issued an eight hundred and fifty thousand
dollars federal grant to provide training for military families to
(03:23):
affirm the gender identity of their children. Our tax dollars
are being spent to groom the children of our military members.
That's just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I want to flip that first story around. So we
have the first elected trans congressperson this year, imagine, and
it's a I shouldn't say it's but I'm so bad
with this. I am the way with trans the same
way I am. What time changes. I just can't get
them straight in my head. So is this a man
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or a woman? This congress person dresses as a woman.
I think, yeah, it's a dude is a woman. But
so if a guy came in and beat her. Came
into the Capitol, A straight guy came in and beat
her over political reasons. Yes, try to imagine the news
coverage on that. It would absolutely, one hundred percent be
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the lead story on every evening newscast that day, maybe
for days to come.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yes, the president, that could be long think pieces on it.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, why would the reverse not get one percent of
the attention?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And once again we featured this story in twenty twenty three,
Miss Netherlands was a dude who presented as a woman,
proving once again that men are better at everything, including
being a woman. Well the next year. This year, the
Missed the Netherlands beauty pageant is shutting down after a
thirty five year run. Evidently I'll be missed. Yeah. Evidently
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having a dude win put off enough people that nobody
cares anymore pageant.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They killed their own pageant by going woke. Takes a
lot of balls to run for Miss Universe as a guy. Yeah, Well,
or just tuck them away though place, especially during the
swimsuit portion. Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The director said that the pageant is now a platform
for positive stories about mental health and stories that inspire.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The idea that beauty pageants still exists is amazing anyway,
even the dudes.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Went and Ryan's yeah, exactly, yeah, place, what are we
doing here? New York Times puts menstrual products in men's
bathrooms to quote support transgender and nine non binary colleagues.
I'll tell you what I think this is.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Having listened to a long conversation with the publisher of
the New York Times. What's his name, Schultzberger Seltzburger, Sultzberger, Yeah,
current Seltzburger. That family has run the thing forever. I
listen to along podcast with him. They get they run
a lot of stories about how the problems with the
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trans stuff that we talk about, and how Europe has
banned it and there's all kinds of problems. They've run
a lot of stuff on like that. They get tremendous
pushback from the trans community. I think he's just trying
to appease a few of those people, while The New
York Times continues to be the leader I think among
left leaning media who's honest about this stuff?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That is true? Yeah, and I do credit them for
their honest writing about the cast report in Britain and
how a w path is an utterly dishonest organization full
of radical activists. But the idea that you can appease
these people is a fool's errand because probably they push
and they push and they regardless.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Of all the words I just said, having tampons and
men's bathrooms is crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, men, mestroid. It's never have and never will, is
the deal. Mind your own damn business. Yeah. Just one
percent of the time workforce identifies as non binary. Category
that includes transgender individuals, but also those who simply choose
not to identify with either gender so that people think
they're special and pay them more attention. It's just this,
(07:14):
the narcissism of small distinctions. Writ large anyway, Good job
New York Times. Do whatever you want, it doesn't matter.
Great piece by James Breslo in The California Globe about
the fact that the Supreme Court heard the US versus
Scurmetic case, the Tennessee case, which was about the twenty
six American states that say no, you can't perform these
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experiments on children, these gender bending experiments. There's no medical
basis on which to do these. Well, they're experimental treatments
that have permanent effects. Anyway, they point out in the
California Globe, and they mentioned the radicalization of the American
Academy of Pediatricians and American Psychology Association. But those organizations
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have in twenty I think it's twenty four states or
twenty five, they have outlawed counseling to help that adolescent
be more comfortable with the sex that they are. Wow,
they've declared it conversion counseling or what's the other derogatory
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term they use for it. It's like they don't say, oh,
praying away the gay or conversion therapy, legitimate psychological help
for troubled kids. Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
They're calling this conversion therapy, which is, you know, got
a bad rap because there were in theory these religious
institutions it would take a gay kid and try to
convince them they're not gay.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But this is the opposite. Well, right, so twenty five
states have made psychotherapy to reduce dysphoria in children under
eighteen illegal. It's illegal to help them through this, But
in those states, the surgeries and the hormones are still legal.
So you literally must only push the kid down that
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conveyor belt of radical a gender theory, and you can't
even try to help them, even though study after study
shows the vast majority of kids grow out of it.
I'm thinking, if there's a little helpful counseling, they all
grow out of it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I'm trying to think through this on the fly because
I hadn't heard about this. So the conversion therapy thing
I mostly thought among gay for gay kids, I mostly
thought was pretty horrifying sounding. You got, you know, you know,
fourteen year old boy who's nose, he's gay, and then
you try to convince them they're not. I mean, like,
(09:51):
that's pretty rough. But we didn't have a rash of
I don't know if it ever happened. We didn't have
a rash of people thinking they were gay as a
solution to their emotional mental issues and then it turns
out they're not, Whereas we do have a rash of
this trans thing being bad.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, it's a psychological contagion, a community contagent among adolescent
girls in particular. So keeping in mind that if the
counseling for these confused adolescents were afraid of puberty, or
were swept down the road by activists or whatever, any
effort to help them psychologically and say, hey, you're a
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young woman and it's great. There's nothing better than you
being you. You're forbidden from doing that, even though if
it didn't work and you went through all of the
therapy and they said no, no, I'm the wrong sex.
I got to change my body. You could still do
that in these states, but they forbid the counseling. There
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should be love acceptance, and I'm sorry that was the
wrong part. So it's just it's absolutely obscene what's going
on in the Blue States. It's astonishing to me. If
you dropped me in twenty twenty four with the time
machine from like ten years ago, I wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'm thankful I'm not in a situation some of these
families are in.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh I know it. I know it, and I've read
the accounts and their heartbreaking because and this is part
of the whole deal. One of the reasons the activists
say it's important to keep it from the parents because
they might not be supportive and they might be hostile
or even hurt the child. They want to get your
kid that far down the road, because then they've got them.
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The kid's loyalty is to the activist and not to
the parents. It's all part of the neo Marxist thing,
whether it's through the critical race theory or the sex stuff.
They've got your kid now, it's absolutely insidious. It's a
troubling gender bending madness. Update five. I swear the people
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who push these laws out of be in prison.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So we have some breaking news on the whole drone thing.
The White House is going to brief the House Intelligence
Committee today on the drones. Maybe the end of the
thing will be today and those House members will come
out and say, look, I can't say, but there's nothing
to worry about, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Maybe that the inescapable conclusion is there's something to brief.
Good point, Captain obvious over here. But you get what
I'm saying, suh. Well, of course there's something to brief.
They wouldn't call everybody together and say, all right, is
the skiff closed? Everybody's got their their phones put away?
All right? We don't know either. You have no idea
(12:52):
that it's a bunch of drones. Apparently that's what we've heard.
They're all just planes. Watch them step up the podium
and say, this isn't our beat promotion, all right?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Right, they got a new sandwich you're coming out called
the drone. Elon Musk is a powerful, powerful guy, maybe
more powerful than you even realized. Among other things on
the way stay tune.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh hey, shout out to our gay listeners. Thank you
so much for listening. I hope you have a great
holiday season. But we're straight men, Michael, this is the
worst Christmas song ever recorded. It may be the worst
song ever recorded. Now we got Bruce Springsteen. Santa Claus
is coming to town. Bruce is that I'm not just lefty?
It doesn't matter. It's a great song. How about Robert
Earlteine Merry Christmas from the Family, a modern classic.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Or more of that, Harry Connic Michael Bible stuff. That
stuff is great. But Wham Last Christmas like Wham. I
don't know about liking Wham, but I like George Michael
my Son. His age group really into Guilty Feet, have
got no rhythm. That song very popular among the youth.
How would it not be, but that last Christmas Waam
(14:01):
song is horrible. Geez, I would convert to a different
religion if I had to listen to that very often.
You know I'm gonna do this first, So yesterday I'm
coming out of the grocery store last night, and I'm
in line behind this woman and she is a older woman,
like quite a bit older. She's like seventy or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And they said, you.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Want to help out in your bag, and she said, no,
I think I got it. I think I got it
under control. Don't worry about me. And that she's got
her bags, and she's walking outside, and then she passes
somebody I'm right behind her who's got a Santa hat
on which I like to wear this time here, and
she said, oh, I love your hat purple. That's cool.
You don't usually say purple. And then she walks out
and she says hello to some other people, a person
with a big smile on her face.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And I thought, I was.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thinking about what you always say about how much of
your personality is just built into you in terms of
because we know all these different studies or recommendations on
how to have a better mood or be optimore optimistic
or whatever. I thought, She's not doing any of that stuff.
She was just born that way. I mean, she was
so much more friendly in a five minute period, for
(15:05):
five minute a sixty second period of me being.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Behind her than I am in a month. Right. Well,
she either like just escaped death or just got released
from prison. Yeah, she had a couple leg nogs before
she went shopping, or she's just built that way. Good
for her, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, And I just thought I wish I was more
like that, but I'm not. Is there anything I can
do about that? I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah. Yeah, And then I.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Got into the percentages of because sometimes, and we've all
done this, where you're like in a bad negative mood
and something snaps you out of it and you realize
that you were in a bad negative mood and you were,
you know, looking at things in the worst possible way
or whatever. So there is something to attitude or having
some control over it. So I was trying to think,
is it like ninety ten, sixty forty, where do you
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think it is in terms of how much you can
control that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I've always said that you can play with like twenty
percent around the margins. I haven't thought seriously about it,
but yeah, you come into the world with a particular mindset,
and you can you can speed it up some or
slow it down some. But a guy like you is
never gonna be like her no again, unless you escape
death or just released from prison, and that won't last
(16:20):
more than like a week. No, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
It's like after I get through with cancer and it
had like no effect on me. And I've talked to
other people who were like really hoping this was gonna
be one of those and never after that for the
rest of my life I had this attitude of Bob
that didn't happen. I've talked to other people felt the
same way. They car crash, cancer, whatever it was, and
(16:43):
didn't change them a bit. There's still the same sortless
surly negative person they were before.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That is simultaneously really disturbing and really reassuring. I don't know.
I don't know which.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Right, I don't know what is He young had purple.
You don't see that very often. That's great. I just thought, Okay,
I wish I was like you, but I'm not. I
admire it and I hate it, right both both. If
I was very long, I wouldn't like it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Aren't strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Honestly, in the first time, I don't know what it was.
It's like a complete opposite in the first one, and
the press has covered that fairly. Actually for change the
first one, they were very hostile and maybe it was
my fault, but I don't really think so.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They were just very right.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
From the beginning, and this one is much less hostile.
It's really the opposite of hostile.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, Trump yesterday in his press conference talking about how
this time around is so much different than last time
and everybody wants to be his friend and work with him,
and he's acting differently. We'll play a lot more from
that press conference in hour four and then some punditry
around it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Butrk Caalprin wrote this, Trump's determination to go down in
history as one of the all time great presidents is
currently the strongest factor in American politics.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I would agree, Yeah, and it's undeniable that his manner
has changed since perhaps well not perhaps since the assassination attempts,
particularly the one that nick his ear. He's just I mean,
when was the last time you heard Trump say so
hostile the first time around? Maybe it was my fault.
I don't think so. But that is very not Trump like. Yeah,
(18:31):
really interesting, So I'm looking forward to that. That's our four.
If you don't get our four, grab it via podcast later.
I'm strong in getting on demand. I promise this on.
I'm going to pay it off. Then we're going to
get to some emails that you good folks have sent a
lot of. It's really good and thought provoking. But there
is a division.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Among Kamala Harris's close friends and aids Team Harris.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
There's a conflict jack over whether she should run for
California governor in twenty twenty because they know she would win,
but that would make it harder for her to run
for president again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
That second part is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So that's the big conundrum on Team Harris right now.
You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I am not kidding. How are they not more self
aware about her appeal?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There are scraggly junkies screeching at fire hydrants right now.
We have a better grasp of reality than Kamala Harris
and her advisor.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
She has a zero chance of getting the nomination in
her own party, let alone way presidency.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
She'll be hooted out of the very contest before a
vote is cast again again.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Anyway, Hey, he's gonna be our governor. We're gonna have
Adam Schiff is one of our senators. And she's gonna
be the governor. That's almost certainly gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Got this very nice note from John and Salem, Oregon.
He says some very very nice things about the show
and John. It's it's appreciated. It means a lot to us.
Thank you. I'm not going to read them for reasons
of Midwestern self effacement, but you're very, very kind.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Joe never passes him along to me. He's worried I'll
get the big head. As my chemistry teacher used to
say in high school, word you get.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The big head.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You got them, you always have the big head. Though
I laughed every time my chemistry teacher said that, I
don't want to tell you that, or you might get
the big head. Okay, whatever that means. I wanted to
hit you with this story mentioned it earlier. Elon Musk's
X account, according to The Washington Post, is not only
the most followed account on all of Twitter, with two
(20:41):
hundred million followers, the Washington Post declares it the most productive,
most dominant information mouth in all of media in the
United States of America. At this point, Elon Musk listen
to Somebody's stats. Elon Musk's posts on X have received
a total of one hundred and thirty three billion views
(21:05):
since July. Again, according to The Washington Post, that's fifteen
times Trump's audience, which is pretty big already, more than
sixteen times the combined reach of all accounts belonging to
all members of Congress. Those are stunning numbers. In the
twenty six days around the election, So the one month
around the election, two weeks before, two weeks after, Musk
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fired off about four thousand posts that received more than
thirty three billion views, And again that's significantly more than
even Trump has. His posts were seen by twice as
many users as a post from the President elect. One
more number I was going to hit you with before
I get into Elon's personality around that. The post data
(21:49):
reveal how rapidly Musk posts rocket across x after he
tweets something. After an hour, Elon's typical post racked up
more than two point four million million views in the
first hour. Where else could you get that kind of reach?
You just you couldn't go on a cable news show
or the evening news or anywhere and get two point
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four million interactions in that amount of time, significantly more
than the total views received by a Kamala Harris tweet,
for instance, even if you left him up for weeks,
so in an hour, Elon can get Elon, by the way,
typically posts more than one hundred and thirty times per day.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Uh, do you think he has a team doing that?
Because I don't see Elon.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I don't I think him. Yeah, I think it's just him.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
They never sound like he's got people that's tweeting out,
like Joe Biden. Obviously you can tell, or Kamala Harrison.
I feel like you obviously can tell when it's the
team that put out a tweet.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I think Joe Biden's would be like head.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I think it's Elon sitting around with his phone in
his hand.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I tweet one hundred and thirty times a day and
run Twitter, run SpaceX, run neualink and twelve kids right, and.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Be side by side with Trump who never stops.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
So the thing about Elon that I wanted to bring
up that I found interesting, so one it noted that
the Washington Post thinks Elon's got really the biggest platform
in all of media anywhere in the country. But I
was watching this guy, he's a I wish I could
remember his name. He's a business leader, one of your
super high level you know, Wall Street finance guys who's
(23:24):
worked with Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. And he was
talking about the signal to noise ratio, which with each
one of those guys that would be Signal to noise
is a scientific term, but people use it with other
stuff all the time too. For instance, it's just like
what is pure information versus fluff? And this business guy
(23:45):
was talking about how Steve Jobs was a jerk, but
Steve Jobs worked twenty hours a day and had a
ninety percent signal to noise ratio. In other words, Steve
Jobs was on the beam of what he was trying
to accomplish ninety percent of the time in a given day,
with only ten percent of like you know, getting distracted
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or things you know that weren't his goal for the day.
He said, the amazing thing is having worked with Elon.
Elon is one hundred percent signal. He works crazy hours
and he's one hundred percent signal all day long trying
to accomplish whatever his goals are. Never strays at all,
which is cheez, what is you listening right now or me?
(24:29):
What's your signal to noise ratio, like accomplishing things either
work wise, kid wise, you know, working out whatever it
is that you're trying to accomplish. What is your I
might be fifty to fifty at bess Elon's one hundred
percent signal all day long, and that's one of the
ways he has dominated so many different industries and get
so many things done. I just was it Kevin O'Leary
(24:49):
that worked with both of them?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I think it was, yeah, yeah, because he has a
big thing about cutting through the noise, yes, being brutal
about it, and I wish I was better at that,
or maybe I can try back.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
But one hundred percent, now that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
I think if we asked for a show of hands
about ninety percent of our.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Listener, Oh yeah, that's a special skill.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh yeah, I'd say.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
And I wonder how much of it has to do
with Elon being on the spectrum somewhere that that either
allows him to focus more or or helps him not
get sidetracked more. I don't know, yeah, because he has
Asperger's and all that sort of stuff, But yeah, I
could accomplish a lot more. You could accomplish a lot
more if we were one hundred percent focused all day long,
every day, plus only needing to sleep four hours a
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day helps too. We got more on the way stay
with us. So we're just talking about a couple different things,
like Elon Musk's amazing one signal to noise ratio that
he pulls off every day. And then earlier we were
talking about your personality types and uh, just good attitudes,
bad attitudes and all that kind of fits together with
(25:49):
how you're built. We got this text that I thought
was funny. Jack's constant reflection of himself kudos. It cracks
me up because for nearly thirty years I've been listening
to you reflect and you're still the same.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'mult simple, Jack, That's true.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I've been trying. I'm reflecting on self improvement for nearly
thirty years on this radio show and haven't improved nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Right, thirty years of reflection, zero personal growth. That's more
or less my story too. It's unfortunate, but it is
what it is. I'd like to apologize to the listening
audience for disappearing. I am working remotely, as I often do,
and something went kerblue in the mothership, not the Iranian mothership,
that is, you know, the base of the drone attacks,
but the radio mothership. But anyway, I'm back through alternate means.
(26:32):
How's it sound, Jack? Is this all right? Yeah? That's
good enough. Well that's my standard, so perfect. I was
just starting to read this charming note from John in
Sale Morgan, which is not far from where my son lives,
beautiful Central Organ and he says some very very nice things,
and we thank him for that, but he says he's
running errands with his kids, catching up on the show Friday,
when we casually dropped the bomb that there was a
(26:55):
relationship between Santa Claus in the early twentieth CE entry
in the Coca Cola corporation. I'm not going to get specific.
And then we had a whole conversation about nibbling cookies
and why a dad might do that on Christmas Eve,
and he says, cue the best conversation of my life
(27:16):
with my six and a half year old son who
suddenly became suspicious of everything, including me. Oh yeah, we
actually I don't even want to read this because it
would redo what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
We've ruined a child's life, is what we've done.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But he said, I quickly had to reassure him that
this was all just a comedy sketch, not a real
life expose on a conspiracy. And I would say to you,
John Well, first of all, any loving dad who's active
in his kids' lives and cares about this thing is
a friend and a brother of mine. But brother, you
got to be quicker to the dial number one. All right,
(27:53):
you got to row. You gotta reach to that, or
be quick with a who wants ice cream? Because that
will obliterate anything the kids heard, like in the last
you know, two and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
That's funny, who wants ice Cream? I should have had
that at the ready when my kids were younger. Anytime
I needed who wants ice creaming time, they'd switch up.
Now I'd have to say, look, boobs, it would be
the best way to go.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh oh, that is so funny. I have two teenage boys,
you see, Yeah, so funny. Let's see what now? I
like this one. We shared it at the very beginning
of the show. Burbank Luke talking about the Fermi paradox.
Why have we not come across more life in the universe?
If there are so many millions of planets where it
could exist, and I love the way he put this.
(28:37):
The problem is that the other intelligent life could trumble
along for eons and the primordial soup and the lungs,
the legs, the opposable thumbs. Then they're using rocks as
tools and so on. Eventually they figure out broadcast TV,
which is what we're listening for, sitcoms from the Hexapus
Family holiday specials, and the next thing you know, they
blow each other up in the Pentane Wars. That last
(29:00):
part is only two hundred years. It's a synchronization problem.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, I didn't read through the full piece from the scientists,
though the numbers are so overwhelming that there should be
somebody synchronized slightly behind us, slightly ahead us, or of
the same as this, because there are gazillions of planets
that should be where we are now just through happenstance.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You would think, Yeah, I love this one from Richard.
Happy holidays, guys. Listening to your show. One thing that
caught my attention was the only fans Gallo decided to
make remark by having sex with one hundred men in
a day. I know that you are both well read
and intelligent. Debatable, Richard, but thank you but as you've said, often,
(29:46):
there are many subjects you just don't get to. Porn
and its history I'm sure is one of them. Yeah,
only vague notions of the history. Oh, porn. Having sex
with a large group of men to set a quote
unquote record is not new. And not only was it
a sales pitch just a few decades ago, but various
stars would advertise that they were going for the record.
It even became a thing on shock jock radio shows
(30:09):
later podcasts, and bragging why their score was more legitimate
than Terry Tassel's or Hannah Hills or you know whatever
fake porn name you want to throw out there. He said,
So what has been will be again, and what has
been done will be done again. There's nothing new under
the sun. To quote Donald Trump's favorite book.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
That's true in terms of the specific stunt that woman did.
That is not new. Internet porn is new. The ability
to watch all these videos is new. The way it
affects the brain, it's a new thing that did not
exist before.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
On Hey, do we have time for this? Yes, we do.
On a similar ish topic, got this note from Joe
your discussion today I think it was yesterday about the
Sexual Revolution reminded me of a piece earlier in the
year taking talking up the male side of things and
how men need someone to provide for and protect and
(31:04):
how that will motivate them to work and be productive citizens.
That's a very Jordan Peterson conversation. He's dead on that stuff.
But anyway, he says, I thought i'd give you guys
some insight into the late twenties crowd based on my
friends and myself. Of the ten of us, zero have kids,
one is married, one is engaged, two are in long
(31:25):
term relationships, six have not had a long term relationship
in the last seven years. Of those six, basically three
basically aren't even pursuing women out of lack of desire
to given the kinds of women they had dated before
or matched with on dating apps. The other three are
solely casual, not really connecting with anyone significantly. Our birth
rate is already below replacement level. That's really interesting. Yeah,
(31:51):
he says. It worries me seriously for the country in
thirty years from now, when the lack of quantity in
the younger generation reaches the workforce that's retiring. Yeah, well,
when you're supposed to be supporting them through social Security.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It's interesting that dating apps are so popular, yet there
seems to be a pretty negative attitude about dating. I
wonder if they go together. If the dating app experience
is just more discouraging than the old way certainly might be.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, well, yeah, it's obviously more prone to different outcomes
than meeting people in person, are getting to know them
after over a period of time, and then deciding, you
know what, I kind of have feelings for this person anyway. Hey, yeah,
it has to have an effect, all right. The final
email I will offer from Gabrielle is both charming and horrifying.
(32:44):
It's chorrifying, I don't know. So we were talking about
teachers fearing for the lives of family friend who was
supposed to be long term sub and dropped out because
the kids are unruly and out of control in a
way that they weren't even a few years ago. Just
a quick anecdote about the new phenomenon of teachers fearing
for their safety. Laura Ingalls Wilder's nineteen thirty three children's
(33:06):
book Farmer Boy opens on the drama of having a
new teacher after the former one was beaten to death.
Oh my god, by a group of problem students. Wow.
When they try the same thing with a new teacher,
it's revealed that he has an ox whip under his
desk and he thrashes the jerks within inches of airline.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
How clever to bring an oxwhip.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh, don't bring an ox swip to a gunfight. I'm
not advocating corporal punishment, but it was pretty amusing scene,
and the teacher definitely stayed safe. I just wished i'd
remember that bit was in the book before I decided
to read it to my five.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Year old, So that would have been the planes of
the Midwest in the mid to late eighteen hundreds roughly.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah. Wow, she money.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
So much for our theory that there used to be
more discipline in school and kids were better behaved.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Congratulations on the new job. I think you'll really find
teaching rewarding. Be sure to have deadly force. Its already
the last teacher got beat to death.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Bring your ow, don't show up to school. Wow, that
is really interesting. I'm gonna have to seek that out.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, that's crazy. Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
So we're gonna do a little more from Trump's press
conference and then some really interesting punditry around it that
if you're a Trump fan, you're really gonna like, if
you're a Trump hater, you're gonna be mystified by So
we'll get to that in hour four. For some reason,
you don't get our four or that segment, you can
listen to it in podcast form. You just go to
Armstrong and Getty on demand and you should subscribe. Then
(34:46):
you automatically get fed all those chunks. That's the way
that works. So we get a lot more on the way.
I hope you can stay here
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Ketty arm Strong
and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Heels and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior
has reportedly been spotted working out at a New York
City Equinox gym and tight jeans and hiking boots, and
employees say they're getting awfully tired of fishing them out
of the pool.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's very funny.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Coming up, we're gonna talk a little bit about Elon
Musk's power media power. According to The Washington Post, Elon
is one of the most powerful people in all of
media right now.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I would I'll be hard to argue with.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And I've got some If you're a Trump fan, you're
gonna like some of the observations on the Trump moment
that is going on right now. Trump is as high
as he's ever going to be in his life right now.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, definitely a honeymoon period for him, which he did
not get first time around.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Enjoy it well, you can. We wish you well to
be productive in the new year. Just a quick reminder
public service announcement, Joe Biden is going to be the
president for another solid month, right.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There, and doctor Jill headed to Delaware today for a
little time off, a little much needed break.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, well deserved.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So this is going to be like more or less
the rest of the holiday season. So Christmas is in
a week and they and they already headed to Delaware.
I mean, it's the most coasting through the end of
your presidency that's happened since Woodrow Wilson was a stroke
victim lying in bed.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah. Yeah, I check Biden for a pulse, though I'm
not convinced he's still alive. Coming up this hour, I
swear I'll pay this off. News about Kamala Harris's future
that will draw a guffaw guaranteed stay with us. But first,
a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
First of all, in the least covered story in American history,
relatively the significance of it, a thirty three year old
transactivist went into the Rayburn office building on Capitol Hill
(02:32):
last week and assaulted a sitting congresswoman.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
A woman, a man beat down, a woman injured or
center to the hospital with fairly minor injuries to her
arm and r Well, yeah, yeah, and it got no
attention because well that might, you know, give conservatives a
way to bash transgender activists.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Political violence, the capital man on woman.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Get it's no attention. What is the depths of the
lying on the left and in the media. Well, we've
just well we got to get a longer poll to
find the bottom because that's some pretty deep lying in
dishonesty right there. It's just unbelievable. This just in The
Biden Harris administration issued an eight hundred and fifty thousand
dollars federal grant to provide training for military families to
(03:23):
affirm the gender identity of their children. Our tax dollars
are being spent to groom the children of our military members.
That's just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I want to flip that first story around. So we
have the first elected trans congressperson this year, imagine, and
it's a I shouldn't say it's but I'm so bad
with this. I am the way with trans the same
way I am. What time changes. I just can't get
them straight in my head. So is this a man
(03:54):
or a woman? This congress person dresses as a woman.
I think, yeah, it's a dude is a woman. But
so if a guy came in and beat her. Came
into the Capitol, A straight guy came in and beat
her over political reasons. Yes, try to imagine the news
coverage on that. It would absolutely, one hundred percent be
(04:15):
the lead story on every evening newscast that day, maybe
for days to come.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yes, the president, that could be long think pieces on it.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, why would the reverse not get one percent of
the attention?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And once again we featured this story in twenty twenty three,
Miss Netherlands was a dude who presented as a woman,
proving once again that men are better at everything, including
being a woman. Well the next year. This year, the
Missed the Netherlands beauty pageant is shutting down after a
thirty five year run. Evidently I'll be missed. Yeah. Evidently
(04:58):
having a dude win put off enough people that nobody
cares anymore pageant.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
They killed their own pageant by going woke. Takes a
lot of balls to run for Miss Universe as a guy. Yeah, Well,
or just tuck them away though place, especially during the
swimsuit portion. Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The director said that the pageant is now a platform
for positive stories about mental health and stories that inspire.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The idea that beauty pageants still exists is amazing anyway,
even the dudes.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Went and Ryan's yeah, exactly, yeah, place, what are we
doing here? New York Times puts menstrual products in men's
bathrooms to quote support transgender and nine non binary colleagues.
I'll tell you what I think this is.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Having listened to a long conversation with the publisher of
the New York Times. What's his name, Schultzberger Seltzburger, Sultzberger, Yeah,
current Seltzburger. That family has run the thing forever. I
listen to along podcast with him. They get they run
a lot of stories about how the problems with the
(06:09):
trans stuff that we talk about, and how Europe has
banned it and there's all kinds of problems. They've run
a lot of stuff on like that. They get tremendous
pushback from the trans community. I think he's just trying
to appease a few of those people, while The New
York Times continues to be the leader I think among
left leaning media who's honest about this stuff?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
That is true? Yeah, and I do credit them for
their honest writing about the cast report in Britain and
how a w path is an utterly dishonest organization full
of radical activists. But the idea that you can appease
these people is a fool's errand because probably they push
and they push and they regardless.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Of all the words I just said, having tampons and
men's bathrooms is crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, men, mestroid. It's never have and never will, is
the deal. Mind your own damn business. Yeah. Just one
percent of the time workforce identifies as non binary. Category
that includes transgender individuals, but also those who simply choose
not to identify with either gender so that people think
they're special and pay them more attention. It's just this,
(07:14):
the narcissism of small distinctions. Writ large anyway, Good job
New York Times. Do whatever you want, it doesn't matter.
Great piece by James Breslo in The California Globe about
the fact that the Supreme Court heard the US versus
Scurmetic case, the Tennessee case, which was about the twenty
six American states that say no, you can't perform these
(07:36):
experiments on children, these gender bending experiments. There's no medical
basis on which to do these. Well, they're experimental treatments
that have permanent effects. Anyway, they point out in the
California Globe, and they mentioned the radicalization of the American
Academy of Pediatricians and American Psychology Association. But those organizations
(08:00):
have in twenty I think it's twenty four states or
twenty five, they have outlawed counseling to help that adolescent
be more comfortable with the sex that they are. Wow,
they've declared it conversion counseling or what's the other derogatory
(08:23):
term they use for it. It's like they don't say, oh,
praying away the gay or conversion therapy, legitimate psychological help
for troubled kids. Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
They're calling this conversion therapy, which is, you know, got
a bad rap because there were in theory these religious
institutions it would take a gay kid and try to
convince them they're not gay.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
But this is the opposite. Well, right, so twenty five
states have made psychotherapy to reduce dysphoria in children under
eighteen illegal. It's illegal to help them through this, But
in those states, the surgeries and the hormones are still legal.
So you literally must only push the kid down that
(09:17):
conveyor belt of radical a gender theory, and you can't
even try to help them, even though study after study
shows the vast majority of kids grow out of it.
I'm thinking, if there's a little helpful counseling, they all
grow out of it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I'm trying to think through this on the fly because
I hadn't heard about this. So the conversion therapy thing
I mostly thought among gay for gay kids, I mostly
thought was pretty horrifying sounding. You got, you know, you know,
fourteen year old boy who's nose, he's gay, and then
you try to convince them they're not. I mean, like,
(09:51):
that's pretty rough. But we didn't have a rash of
I don't know if it ever happened. We didn't have
a rash of people thinking they were gay as a
solution to their emotional mental issues and then it turns
out they're not, Whereas we do have a rash of
this trans thing being bad.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, it's a psychological contagion, a community contagent among adolescent
girls in particular. So keeping in mind that if the
counseling for these confused adolescents were afraid of puberty, or
were swept down the road by activists or whatever, any
effort to help them psychologically and say, hey, you're a
(10:34):
young woman and it's great. There's nothing better than you
being you. You're forbidden from doing that, even though if
it didn't work and you went through all of the
therapy and they said no, no, I'm the wrong sex.
I got to change my body. You could still do
that in these states, but they forbid the counseling. There
(10:55):
should be love acceptance, and I'm sorry that was the
wrong part. So it's just it's absolutely obscene what's going
on in the Blue States. It's astonishing to me. If
you dropped me in twenty twenty four with the time
machine from like ten years ago, I wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'm thankful I'm not in a situation some of these
families are in.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Oh I know it. I know it, and I've read
the accounts and their heartbreaking because and this is part
of the whole deal. One of the reasons the activists
say it's important to keep it from the parents because
they might not be supportive and they might be hostile
or even hurt the child. They want to get your
kid that far down the road, because then they've got them.
(11:42):
The kid's loyalty is to the activist and not to
the parents. It's all part of the neo Marxist thing,
whether it's through the critical race theory or the sex stuff.
They've got your kid now, it's absolutely insidious. It's a
troubling gender bending madness. Update five. I swear the people
(12:08):
who push these laws out of be in prison.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So we have some breaking news on the whole drone thing.
The White House is going to brief the House Intelligence
Committee today on the drones. Maybe the end of the
thing will be today and those House members will come
out and say, look, I can't say, but there's nothing
to worry about, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Maybe that the inescapable conclusion is there's something to brief.
Good point, Captain obvious over here. But you get what
I'm saying, suh. Well, of course there's something to brief.
They wouldn't call everybody together and say, all right, is
the skiff closed? Everybody's got their their phones put away?
All right? We don't know either. You have no idea
(12:52):
that it's a bunch of drones. Apparently that's what we've heard.
They're all just planes. Watch them step up the podium
and say, this isn't our beat promotion, all right?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Right, they got a new sandwich you're coming out called
the drone. Elon Musk is a powerful, powerful guy, maybe
more powerful than you even realized. Among other things on
the way stay tune.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh hey, shout out to our gay listeners. Thank you
so much for listening. I hope you have a great
holiday season. But we're straight men, Michael, this is the
worst Christmas song ever recorded. It may be the worst
song ever recorded. Now we got Bruce Springsteen. Santa Claus
is coming to town. Bruce is that I'm not just lefty?
It doesn't matter. It's a great song. How about Robert
Earlteine Merry Christmas from the Family, a modern classic.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Or more of that, Harry Connic Michael Bible stuff. That
stuff is great. But Wham Last Christmas like Wham. I
don't know about liking Wham, but I like George Michael
my Son. His age group really into Guilty Feet, have
got no rhythm. That song very popular among the youth.
How would it not be, but that last Christmas Waam
(14:01):
song is horrible. Geez, I would convert to a different
religion if I had to listen to that very often.
You know I'm gonna do this first, So yesterday I'm
coming out of the grocery store last night, and I'm
in line behind this woman and she is a older woman,
like quite a bit older. She's like seventy or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And they said, you.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Want to help out in your bag, and she said, no,
I think I got it. I think I got it
under control. Don't worry about me. And that she's got
her bags, and she's walking outside, and then she passes
somebody I'm right behind her who's got a Santa hat
on which I like to wear this time here, and
she said, oh, I love your hat purple. That's cool.
You don't usually say purple. And then she walks out
and she says hello to some other people, a person
with a big smile on her face.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And I thought, I was.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thinking about what you always say about how much of
your personality is just built into you in terms of
because we know all these different studies or recommendations on
how to have a better mood or be optimore optimistic
or whatever. I thought, She's not doing any of that stuff.
She was just born that way. I mean, she was
so much more friendly in a five minute period, for
(15:05):
five minute a sixty second period of me being.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Behind her than I am in a month. Right. Well,
she either like just escaped death or just got released
from prison. Yeah, she had a couple leg nogs before
she went shopping, or she's just built that way. Good
for her, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, And I just thought I wish I was more
like that, but I'm not. Is there anything I can
do about that? I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah. Yeah, And then I.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Got into the percentages of because sometimes, and we've all
done this, where you're like in a bad negative mood
and something snaps you out of it and you realize
that you were in a bad negative mood and you were,
you know, looking at things in the worst possible way
or whatever. So there is something to attitude or having
some control over it. So I was trying to think,
is it like ninety ten, sixty forty, where do you
(15:55):
think it is in terms of how much you can
control that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I've always said that you can play with like twenty
percent around the margins. I haven't thought seriously about it,
but yeah, you come into the world with a particular mindset,
and you can you can speed it up some or
slow it down some. But a guy like you is
never gonna be like her no again, unless you escape
death or just released from prison, and that won't last
(16:20):
more than like a week. No, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
It's like after I get through with cancer and it
had like no effect on me. And I've talked to
other people who were like really hoping this was gonna
be one of those and never after that for the
rest of my life I had this attitude of Bob
that didn't happen. I've talked to other people felt the
same way. They car crash, cancer, whatever it was, and
(16:43):
didn't change them a bit. There's still the same sortless
surly negative person they were before.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That is simultaneously really disturbing and really reassuring. I don't know.
I don't know which.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Right, I don't know what is He young had purple.
You don't see that very often. That's great. I just thought, Okay,
I wish I was like you, but I'm not. I
admire it and I hate it, right both both. If
I was very long, I wouldn't like it.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Aren't strong and getty.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Honestly, in the first time, I don't know what it was.
It's like a complete opposite in the first one, and
the press has covered that fairly. Actually for change the
first one, they were very hostile and maybe it was
my fault, but I don't really think so.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They were just very right.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
From the beginning, and this one is much less hostile.
It's really the opposite of hostile.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, Trump yesterday in his press conference talking about how
this time around is so much different than last time
and everybody wants to be his friend and work with him,
and he's acting differently. We'll play a lot more from
that press conference in hour four and then some punditry
around it.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Butrk Caalprin wrote this, Trump's determination to go down in
history as one of the all time great presidents is
currently the strongest factor in American politics.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I would agree, Yeah, and it's undeniable that his manner
has changed since perhaps well not perhaps since the assassination attempts,
particularly the one that nick his ear. He's just I mean,
when was the last time you heard Trump say so
hostile the first time around? Maybe it was my fault.
I don't think so. But that is very not Trump like. Yeah,
(18:31):
really interesting, So I'm looking forward to that. That's our four.
If you don't get our four, grab it via podcast later.
I'm strong in getting on demand. I promise this on.
I'm going to pay it off. Then we're going to
get to some emails that you good folks have sent a
lot of. It's really good and thought provoking. But there
is a division.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Among Kamala Harris's close friends and aids Team Harris.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
There's a conflict jack over whether she should run for
California governor in twenty twenty because they know she would win,
but that would make it harder for her to run
for president again in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
That second part is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
So that's the big conundrum on Team Harris right now.
You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I am not kidding. How are they not more self
aware about her appeal?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
There are scraggly junkies screeching at fire hydrants right now.
We have a better grasp of reality than Kamala Harris
and her advisor.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
She has a zero chance of getting the nomination in
her own party, let alone way presidency.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
She'll be hooted out of the very contest before a
vote is cast again again.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Anyway, Hey, he's gonna be our governor. We're gonna have
Adam Schiff is one of our senators. And she's gonna
be the governor. That's almost certainly gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Got this very nice note from John and Salem, Oregon.
He says some very very nice things about the show
and John. It's it's appreciated. It means a lot to us.
Thank you. I'm not going to read them for reasons
of Midwestern self effacement, but you're very, very kind.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Joe never passes him along to me. He's worried I'll
get the big head. As my chemistry teacher used to
say in high school, word you get.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The big head.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You got them, you always have the big head. Though
I laughed every time my chemistry teacher said that, I
don't want to tell you that, or you might get
the big head. Okay, whatever that means. I wanted to
hit you with this story mentioned it earlier. Elon Musk's
X account, according to The Washington Post, is not only
the most followed account on all of Twitter, with two
(20:41):
hundred million followers, the Washington Post declares it the most productive,
most dominant information mouth in all of media in the
United States of America. At this point, Elon Musk listen
to Somebody's stats. Elon Musk's posts on X have received
a total of one hundred and thirty three billion views
(21:05):
since July. Again, according to The Washington Post, that's fifteen
times Trump's audience, which is pretty big already, more than
sixteen times the combined reach of all accounts belonging to
all members of Congress. Those are stunning numbers. In the
twenty six days around the election, So the one month
around the election, two weeks before, two weeks after, Musk
(21:25):
fired off about four thousand posts that received more than
thirty three billion views, And again that's significantly more than
even Trump has. His posts were seen by twice as
many users as a post from the President elect. One
more number I was going to hit you with before
I get into Elon's personality around that. The post data
(21:49):
reveal how rapidly Musk posts rocket across x after he
tweets something. After an hour, Elon's typical post racked up
more than two point four million million views in the
first hour. Where else could you get that kind of reach?
You just you couldn't go on a cable news show
or the evening news or anywhere and get two point
(22:09):
four million interactions in that amount of time, significantly more
than the total views received by a Kamala Harris tweet,
for instance, even if you left him up for weeks,
so in an hour, Elon can get Elon, by the way,
typically posts more than one hundred and thirty times per day.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Uh, do you think he has a team doing that?
Because I don't see Elon.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I don't I think him. Yeah, I think it's just him.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
They never sound like he's got people that's tweeting out,
like Joe Biden. Obviously you can tell, or Kamala Harrison.
I feel like you obviously can tell when it's the
team that put out a tweet.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I think Joe Biden's would be like head.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
I think it's Elon sitting around with his phone in
his hand.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I do not.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I tweet one hundred and thirty times a day and
run Twitter, run SpaceX, run neualink and twelve kids right, and.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Be side by side with Trump who never stops.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
So the thing about Elon that I wanted to bring
up that I found interesting, so one it noted that
the Washington Post thinks Elon's got really the biggest platform
in all of media anywhere in the country. But I
was watching this guy, he's a I wish I could
remember his name. He's a business leader, one of your
super high level you know, Wall Street finance guys who's
(23:24):
worked with Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. And he was
talking about the signal to noise ratio, which with each
one of those guys that would be Signal to noise
is a scientific term, but people use it with other
stuff all the time too. For instance, it's just like
what is pure information versus fluff? And this business guy
(23:45):
was talking about how Steve Jobs was a jerk, but
Steve Jobs worked twenty hours a day and had a
ninety percent signal to noise ratio. In other words, Steve
Jobs was on the beam of what he was trying
to accomplish ninety percent of the time in a given day,
with only ten percent of like you know, getting distracted
(24:06):
or things you know that weren't his goal for the day.
He said, the amazing thing is having worked with Elon.
Elon is one hundred percent signal. He works crazy hours
and he's one hundred percent signal all day long trying
to accomplish whatever his goals are. Never strays at all,
which is cheez, what is you listening right now or me?
(24:29):
What's your signal to noise ratio, like accomplishing things either
work wise, kid wise, you know, working out whatever it
is that you're trying to accomplish. What is your I
might be fifty to fifty at bess Elon's one hundred
percent signal all day long, and that's one of the
ways he has dominated so many different industries and get
so many things done. I just was it Kevin O'Leary
(24:49):
that worked with both of them?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I think it was, yeah, yeah, because he has a
big thing about cutting through the noise, yes, being brutal
about it, and I wish I was better at that,
or maybe I can try back.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
But one hundred percent, now that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
I think if we asked for a show of hands
about ninety percent of our.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Listener, Oh yeah, that's a special skill.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Oh yeah, I'd say.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
And I wonder how much of it has to do
with Elon being on the spectrum somewhere that that either
allows him to focus more or or helps him not
get sidetracked more. I don't know, yeah, because he has
Asperger's and all that sort of stuff, But yeah, I
could accomplish a lot more. You could accomplish a lot
more if we were one hundred percent focused all day long,
every day, plus only needing to sleep four hours a
(25:27):
day helps too. We got more on the way stay
with us. So we're just talking about a couple different things,
like Elon Musk's amazing one signal to noise ratio that
he pulls off every day. And then earlier we were
talking about your personality types and uh, just good attitudes,
bad attitudes and all that kind of fits together with
(25:49):
how you're built. We got this text that I thought
was funny. Jack's constant reflection of himself kudos. It cracks
me up because for nearly thirty years I've been listening
to you reflect and you're still the same.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'mult simple, Jack, That's true.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I've been trying. I'm reflecting on self improvement for nearly
thirty years on this radio show and haven't improved nothing.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Right, thirty years of reflection, zero personal growth. That's more
or less my story too. It's unfortunate, but it is
what it is. I'd like to apologize to the listening
audience for disappearing. I am working remotely, as I often do,
and something went kerblue in the mothership, not the Iranian mothership,
that is, you know, the base of the drone attacks,
but the radio mothership. But anyway, I'm back through alternate means.
(26:32):
How's it sound, Jack? Is this all right? Yeah? That's
good enough. Well that's my standard, so perfect. I was
just starting to read this charming note from John in
Sale Morgan, which is not far from where my son lives,
beautiful Central Organ and he says some very very nice things,
and we thank him for that, but he says he's
running errands with his kids, catching up on the show Friday,
when we casually dropped the bomb that there was a
(26:55):
relationship between Santa Claus in the early twentieth CE entry
in the Coca Cola corporation. I'm not going to get specific.
And then we had a whole conversation about nibbling cookies
and why a dad might do that on Christmas Eve,
and he says, cue the best conversation of my life
(27:16):
with my six and a half year old son who
suddenly became suspicious of everything, including me. Oh yeah, we
actually I don't even want to read this because it
would redo what happened.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
We've ruined a child's life, is what we've done.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
But he said, I quickly had to reassure him that
this was all just a comedy sketch, not a real
life expose on a conspiracy. And I would say to you,
John Well, first of all, any loving dad who's active
in his kids' lives and cares about this thing is
a friend and a brother of mine. But brother, you
got to be quicker to the dial number one. All right,
(27:53):
you got to row. You gotta reach to that, or
be quick with a who wants ice cream? Because that
will obliterate anything the kids heard, like in the last
you know, two and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
That's funny, who wants ice Cream? I should have had
that at the ready when my kids were younger. Anytime
I needed who wants ice creaming time, they'd switch up.
Now I'd have to say, look, boobs, it would be
the best way to go.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh oh, that is so funny. I have two teenage boys,
you see, Yeah, so funny. Let's see what now? I
like this one. We shared it at the very beginning
of the show. Burbank Luke talking about the Fermi paradox.
Why have we not come across more life in the universe?
If there are so many millions of planets where it
could exist, and I love the way he put this.
(28:37):
The problem is that the other intelligent life could trumble
along for eons and the primordial soup and the lungs,
the legs, the opposable thumbs. Then they're using rocks as
tools and so on. Eventually they figure out broadcast TV,
which is what we're listening for, sitcoms from the Hexapus
Family holiday specials, and the next thing you know, they
blow each other up in the Pentane Wars. That last
(29:00):
part is only two hundred years. It's a synchronization problem.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, I didn't read through the full piece from the scientists,
though the numbers are so overwhelming that there should be
somebody synchronized slightly behind us, slightly ahead us, or of
the same as this, because there are gazillions of planets
that should be where we are now just through happenstance.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You would think, Yeah, I love this one from Richard.
Happy holidays, guys. Listening to your show. One thing that
caught my attention was the only fans Gallo decided to
make remark by having sex with one hundred men in
a day. I know that you are both well read
and intelligent. Debatable, Richard, but thank you but as you've said, often,
(29:46):
there are many subjects you just don't get to. Porn
and its history I'm sure is one of them. Yeah,
only vague notions of the history. Oh, porn. Having sex
with a large group of men to set a quote
unquote record is not new. And not only was it
a sales pitch just a few decades ago, but various
stars would advertise that they were going for the record.
It even became a thing on shock jock radio shows
(30:09):
later podcasts, and bragging why their score was more legitimate
than Terry Tassel's or Hannah Hills or you know whatever
fake porn name you want to throw out there. He said,
So what has been will be again, and what has
been done will be done again. There's nothing new under
the sun. To quote Donald Trump's favorite book.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
That's true in terms of the specific stunt that woman did.
That is not new. Internet porn is new. The ability
to watch all these videos is new. The way it
affects the brain, it's a new thing that did not
exist before.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
On Hey, do we have time for this? Yes, we do.
On a similar ish topic, got this note from Joe
your discussion today I think it was yesterday about the
Sexual Revolution reminded me of a piece earlier in the
year taking talking up the male side of things and
how men need someone to provide for and protect and
(31:04):
how that will motivate them to work and be productive citizens.
That's a very Jordan Peterson conversation. He's dead on that stuff.
But anyway, he says, I thought i'd give you guys
some insight into the late twenties crowd based on my
friends and myself. Of the ten of us, zero have kids,
one is married, one is engaged, two are in long
(31:25):
term relationships, six have not had a long term relationship
in the last seven years. Of those six, basically three
basically aren't even pursuing women out of lack of desire
to given the kinds of women they had dated before
or matched with on dating apps. The other three are
solely casual, not really connecting with anyone significantly. Our birth
rate is already below replacement level. That's really interesting. Yeah,
(31:51):
he says. It worries me seriously for the country in
thirty years from now, when the lack of quantity in
the younger generation reaches the workforce that's retiring. Yeah, well,
when you're supposed to be supporting them through social Security.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It's interesting that dating apps are so popular, yet there
seems to be a pretty negative attitude about dating. I
wonder if they go together. If the dating app experience
is just more discouraging than the old way certainly might be.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, well, yeah, it's obviously more prone to different outcomes
than meeting people in person, are getting to know them
after over a period of time, and then deciding, you
know what, I kind of have feelings for this person anyway. Hey, yeah,
it has to have an effect, all right. The final
email I will offer from Gabrielle is both charming and horrifying.
(32:44):
It's chorrifying, I don't know. So we were talking about
teachers fearing for the lives of family friend who was
supposed to be long term sub and dropped out because
the kids are unruly and out of control in a
way that they weren't even a few years ago. Just
a quick anecdote about the new phenomenon of teachers fearing
for their safety. Laura Ingalls Wilder's nineteen thirty three children's
(33:06):
book Farmer Boy opens on the drama of having a
new teacher after the former one was beaten to death.
Oh my god, by a group of problem students. Wow.
When they try the same thing with a new teacher,
it's revealed that he has an ox whip under his
desk and he thrashes the jerks within inches of airline.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
How clever to bring an oxwhip.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Oh, don't bring an ox swip to a gunfight. I'm
not advocating corporal punishment, but it was pretty amusing scene,
and the teacher definitely stayed safe. I just wished i'd
remember that bit was in the book before I decided
to read it to my five.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Year old, So that would have been the planes of
the Midwest in the mid to late eighteen hundreds roughly.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah. Wow, she money.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
So much for our theory that there used to be
more discipline in school and kids were better behaved.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Congratulations on the new job. I think you'll really find
teaching rewarding. Be sure to have deadly force. Its already
the last teacher got beat to death.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Bring your ow, don't show up to school. Wow, that
is really interesting. I'm gonna have to seek that out.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, that's crazy. Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
So we're gonna do a little more from Trump's press
conference and then some really interesting punditry around it that
if you're a Trump fan, you're really gonna like, if
you're a Trump hater, you're gonna be mystified by So
we'll get to that in hour four. For some reason,
you don't get our four or that segment, you can
listen to it in podcast form. You just go to
Armstrong and Getty on demand and you should subscribe. Then
(34:46):
you automatically get fed all those chunks. That's the way
that works. So we get a lot more on the way.
I hope you can stay here
Speaker 1 (34:54):
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