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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Douglas Murray gave a speech in Paris recently talking about
Israel and Hamas and anti Semitism. We have divided a
substantial part of it into four cuts. We can discuss
in between as desired. Michael, We're starting with ninety there.
We should have gotten ready for that, and we'll go
from there. Hit it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I've spent most of the months since the seventh October
in Israel and Gaza and have seen as much of
the conflicts I think it's possible for non combatant to see.
I've been went to all of the massacre sites when
they were still fresh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Has spent a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Time with the survivors, the families of the hostages. I've
been in the morgues of Tel Aviv where they're still
trying to identify the dead. One young man's body was
only identified yesterday, and think what it takes what you
have to do to a man to make his body
unidentifiable for eight months.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
This is more than just a recitation of horror. He's
working toward greater points. But roll on, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
One of the things that struck me most after the
seventh October was I was at one of the reunions
of the Nova Party, and these are all young people
who'd seen their friends raped and murdered in front of them.
One young man, a survivor, showed me footage from his phone,
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and it included footage of a young friend of his
who didn't make it into his car and was lynched
by a mob immediately afterwards. This young man, this survivor,
said to me, what would you do if this happened
in your country? And I thought, I didn't say, but
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it has happened in my society, in my Europe, in
my West. The scale may be different, but the terrorists
are the same. It happened here in Paris at the Butterclaar.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It happened in.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Manchester where twenty two young girls were blown up for
the crime of going to a pop concert. It happened
at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The scale was.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Different, but the perpetrators are all the same. They're always
the same people who, whether in Toulouse or Porte de Vassnnese,
Copenhagen or Mumbai, can never restrain themselves from targeting the Jews.
Yet the sympathy of so many people here in Europe
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since then has not been on the side of the victims,
but on the side of the perpetrators. Too many people
mistake the victim for the oppressor, the underdog for the overdog,
and those who fight terrorism with those who dream of
it and bring up their children to love it from
the cradle.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
If you're not familiar with that list of four Mumbai
among them, those are all notable terrible, deadly attacks by
Islami fascists, Islamic supremacists, whatever you want to call them,
on innocent people, terrorist attacks, they comment, or shall we
roll ont finish and then I will next clip. Consider this.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
In every European capital as well as in America, photographs
of the Israeli hostages still in captivity Bayjamas have been
put up, and in every city outside of Israel they
have been torn down.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Think about that for a moment.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
If someone in London or Paris loses their dog. They
will put up a poster asking people to help find them.
And if even one person in our society went around
tearing down such a poster, we would ask what had
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happened in our society. We would ask why we were
producing people so pathological. We would want to find the
person and punish them. Yet, when the missing a Jewish children,
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or Jewish women or Jewish men, because there's no crime
in being a man either, these posts are torn down.
One of the relatives of the be Best children held
in captivity told me recently that he saw posts as
of his one year old relative torn down in the
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center of Dublin.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah. That that's a stunning point right there. You have
got to be some sort of warped individual. Apparently there
are a lot of them to take down those posters.
Even if you believe all of the nonsense of the
land belonged to the Palestinians and the Jewish people stole it.
Even if you believe all that stuff, you're still against
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the Jewish families getting their kids back.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I agree with you one percent. But there's example
after example just in the last century of ideology, particularly
extremist ideology, warping what seemed like normal people and turning
them into monsters. And often when that fever and era
of history passes, they cannot explain how they got swept
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up in it and became monsters. Yeah, I know it
has the way humans are.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I knew what had happened in New York and a
number of our college campuses. I didn't know what happened
everywhere in the world outside of Israel where those posters
got torn down.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That is highly troubling. The brilliant Douglas Murray in the
final clip. One other consideration.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
We have all for years heard the feminists issue a
call on male sexual violence against women. Believe all women,
But where was the solidarity? Where was the sympathy or
even belief? When the women would Jews, the belief evaporates.
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And I won't even go into the psycho pathology and
suicidalism of Queers for Palestine, who are a branch of
Turkeys for Christmas. It was Hamaz that started this war.
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Yet much of the world has forgotten this. They've been
fooled by Hamaz propaganda into imagining that Israel is the aggressor.
Having seen this war up close, I can tell you
with one hundred percent certainty that the war would be
over tomorrow, not just if Hamaz returned the Jewish hostages,
but if the Palestinians in Gaza brought up their children
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not to hate, but to love, not to aspire to
a cult of death, but to join Israel in a
belief in life, not to believe in destroying a state,
but to put their energies into building one.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, that is something that whole believe all woman me
too thing that obviously the road stopped on that at
Jewish women being raped to death.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
We had a clip this morning of that woman screaming
I support Hamas, I am Hamas outside of the White
House over the weekend, and prior to her saying that,
in the clip, she was screaming about all sorts of
other stuff, and one of the things she started screaming house.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
They didn't there was no rape that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at this huge
group of people going I wonder how many of them
were out there during the me too rallies. Yeah, because
it's all the same kind of people that go to
these protests.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All of them. But that does help their argument they
don't believe those stories. So okay, you know, a final note,
and if you listen to the radio show you are
the armstrung and getting on demand, you're going to hear
this again. But I just wanted to throw in just
a little bit of what Sam Harris wrote recently. Is
another thinker who I admire even when I don't agree
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with him. He provokes my thought. But he unleashed rather
a long peace about fundamentalist Islam and how it's a
political system and a relentively expansionist political system and totalitarian
political system, and compares it and contrasts it in some
ways with Christianity, which is also expansionist. But is you know,
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the blessed or the meek, for they will inherit the
earth when it's done right. Christianity does not employ force
in any way. And he gets to the fact that
Islam from the first moment was a religion of power,
and to quote him, the idea of non Muslims ruling
over Muslims or even having equivalent power alongside them perpetually
has always been anathema. It's an error to be rectified
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through spiritual struggle, sure, but also through physical violence. The
fact that Islam has failed to achieve dominance in our
world and has proven for nearly a thousand years to
be quite backward and weak, is a perennial source of humiliation.
By the light of the doctrine, it makes absolutely no sense.
It's a sacrilege. From the point of view of Islam.
The status quo is in tolerable. And then he brings
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it to what we're talking about, and this general attitude
of affronted dignity, this yearning for victory, which century after
century has been out of reach, affects everything that Islam touches.
It is why the history of peace negotiations between Israel
and the Palestinians has been so hopeless. Have the Israelis
made mistakes, of course, do the Jews have their own
religious fanatics, yes, But the peace process between the Israelis
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and the Palestinians has been rendered hopeless from the start
because for a majority of Palestinians and for the vast
numbers of Muslims in the region, the mere presence of
a Jewish state in the Holy Land is totally unacceptable.
It's a knakma, a catastrophe. It is a perversion of
sacred history and it is an abject failure of the
mission of Islam, which is to conquer the world for
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the glory of God, and above all, to never forsake
Muslim lands once they have been conquered, which of course
Palestine once was. And then it goes into some quotes
from the Koran which make it clear that fundamentalists killing
people to achieve their goals is just a hunky dory.
But I think the point that Sam Harris is making
is absolutely fundamental to all of this. They can't come
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to a settlement with Israel and reach a two state solution.
They want a one state solution, even if everybody dies,
everybody on both sides, two state solution. Please sell your
idiot fantasies somewhere else. We're not buying. I'm not buying.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So the question is Secretary of State's over there trying
to work that deal out with Saudi Arabia where we
have some sort of agreement with them like we have
with Japan, where we would come to their aid if
they were attacked, and which Saudi Arabia would love that
because that helps them in that whole battle with Iran.
But Saudi Arabia has to get on board with accepting,
(11:52):
you know, normalizing relationship with Israel. They're saying, and they
won't do that unless one the war ends and two
they commit to a two state solution. But whether or
not they actually mean that or not is an open question,
Like if MBS might be willing to say, yeah, and
you have to commit to us two state solutions sometime,
but doesn't actually enforce it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Right for domestic political consumption, much as Anthony Blanket is
desperate for things to calm down a little bit for
domestic political consumption. Yeah, so that's those are the next
steps there. That'd be a huge deal. Again, if politics
was restricted to people only saying what they actually meant,
that like eighty percent of it would have vanish. The
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wherever you like to get podcasts the whole Like younger people,
people in their twenties in the workplace thing that a
number of people have observed and I've had this experience
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myself and are having the problem with the level of
like familiarity and lack.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Of And it's hard to say this without sounding like
a but just just like you go into a workplace
where you want to be what the older people are,
but you treat them like peers in a very too
familiar way that didn't exist throughout my entire career. And
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I just had that experience here and now they are
having this person other person's having it at their workplace
just like.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Way too much. You know, Hey, Bud, how's it going, Hey,
what's up dude? A lack of respect? Yeah, And again
it's hard to say it without sounding like it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But when I started in various jobs, I didn't talk
to the older people that had the jobs I wanted
that way and like suggesting ways they ought to do
things differently.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And just and I've had a.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Couple of people mention that sort of thing, and what
we were discussing is where that comes from? Joe and
I regularly say and I never hear anybody else say this.
They didn't raise themselves. But culturally, why do young people
come into the workplace and feel like they can treat
their betters as to their beers.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Okay, I said they're better while that you do something
like end up British No less, I don't know what
the right term would be, but uh no, I get,
I get exactly what you're saying. I don't know, just
off the top of my head. I think it probably
has to do with virtually all of our experience was
actual back in the day, and every generation would layer
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a little new laquer details on the way people act
in quotes, come up with variations and change it a
little bit. But now so much of people's experience is virtual.
They're not They're not a product of what they've experienced
in the same way. I don't know that helped.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well, maybe if you're gonna go with multi causal, I
can throw out a whole bunch of multi causal I think.
I mean, it's the some of the fruits of the
everybody gets a trophy generation, which has been going on
for quite a while now. But true, that's part of it.
The self esteem movement. We went way too far too
much self esteem, is what I'm seeing.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You got a miserable failure.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You've got way too much self esteem for your age
and where you are, all right, take it down a notch.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Then what you've accomplished, Yeah, you know, more importantly that
and the hold the parenting trend. If I want to
be my kid's friend, not their parent, right, you have something, Michael.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yeah, I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched a
manager reprimand a young reporter and you know, it was
over something very minor, but he basically said, you know,
you need to pick it up, you need to you know,
get with it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You're sitting around.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
And the young reporter looked at him and said, I'm sorry,
but I've never been talked.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
To that way.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
I don't know if I can work here. And this
person was like twenty five years old.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, so again getting to my mono causal stuff. No
teacher can talk to kids that way. So if your
parents aren't talking to you that way, the teachers, the coaches,
nobody ever talks to you in any sort of way
that kind of puts you in your place.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
And again it makes me sound like it, but there
is a place.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
There's a place for children, there's a place for people
lower on the wrung.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
There's a place. There's a structure, there's a hierarchy in life.
There just is. I sure as hell hope there is.
Like when I go in for a surgery, you know,
I'm hoping that person did well in medical school, for instance, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Well no, I just think about a lot of the
younger people too, have kind of been growing up in
that anti law enforcement generation, Like they don't respect the cops.
What's going to make you think they're going to expect respect?
You know, somebody who might have worked at a company
for five years more than them.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I think that the lack of respect for law enforcement
kind of trickles down.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I don't actually know. It might just be all of
these things, but I have experienced and it's really off putting.
I'm going to try to explain to my kids to
have a different attitude when they go into a workplace.
The people above you with way more experience making a
lot more money than you. How about you watch and
observe as opposed to think your peers they got something
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you you might want at some level. I've come across
enough people bringing this up to know what's a thing.
If you have any thoughts on it listening to this,
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Speaker 1 (17:35):
We do a new one every day. Find it wherever
you find your podcast is now, Katie, you don't know this, probably,
but Jack and I have had a long running and
bitter dispute. I really like appetizers or if I'm out
to eat or whatever. He's got, like he's a member
of ISIS, He's got this militant anti appetizer belief. That's stupid.
Just have the meal. Have the meal. You don't need
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to have appetizers. And anyway, I won't go any further
because again we're not bad mouthing him, okay, and is
insane and unsupportable some would say idiotic beliefs. But Jack
is anti appetizer. I, on the other hand, love appetizers,
and in fact, Judy and I went to a breast
cancer fundraiser just last night and I bought at probably
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excessive cost, but it wasn't a purchase, it's a donation.
I bought an appetizer of the month club membership in
which some of the gifted chefs associated with this community slash.
It was a golf club. They deliver to your home
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like a gourmet appetizer once a month. I know that's awesome,
I know. So I'll say, yeah, can we do it
this coming Friday, And they'll say absolutely, and they'll show
up with like this brilliantly crafted stuffed mushrooms or something
like that. It's a great excuse to have like friends
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over for a glass of wine and stuff and we
get the credit. Oh that is so cool. No, I
know it.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Okay, So what kind of things do they offer? So
stuff mushrooms obviously, are there other.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, I realized that this the very term has a
negative connotation, but I don't know why. They did like
a super delicious cheeseball, one of those big cheeseballs you
dig in with the knife and put it on crackers.
But it was like home crafted, Oh cheeseball. Those are
good cheeseballs. Yeah, that sounds awesome to me. Yeah, and
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a friend, a friend of ours, actually bought this last
year and I can't remember what else. They're like a
shrimp thing and various canna pis whatever that is, but
just super yummy like gourmet appetizers. Yeah. See, this sounds
like I'm so excited to me. Yeah. Well, I mean
and particularly I mean it was several hundred dollars again,
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it's a donation, not a purchase. But when you look
at what you see, bend to like go out for
a nice dinner now, especially if you have a bottle
of wine or something. Oh crap. So anyway, I'm happy
to contribute. Judy, actually she quilted a thing, a golf
cart seat cover that fits like custom fits around the
little what do you call it, the hip rest things
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to keep you from sliding off the end of it.
But anyway, so we made a nice donation too. It's
a nice, nice fundraiser. Anyway. The game across this article
playground bullies do prosper and go on to earn more
in middle age. This is a five decade study that's thorough.
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It britz Children who displayed aggressive behavior at school, such
as bullying or temper outbursts, are likely to earn more
money in middle age, according to a five decade study
that upends the maxim that bullies do not prosper. Any
reaction to that, Katie, off the top of your head,
I can kind of see.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Where they're going with this, because the people that are
more outspoken maybe going further in business rather than the
meek that get picked on.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I can see that. Yeah, this is one of the
reasons I'm so militant about in schools not making little
boys act like little girls, nor should you make little
girls act like little boys. Let them be themselves, but
the idea that you're to sit still and be quiet
and just like the girls are doing. Because a as
a youth coach, mostly in soccer, I coach baseball and
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softball a little bit too, but observing the difference between
boys and girls. And then I coached gosh, I coached
eight year old boys, ten year old boys, twelve year
old boys, that sort of range, and then fourteen year
old girls was the oldest I ever coached. But I
would watch ten year old boys and there are like
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fifteen guys on the team, right, So it's a nice
like selection of different sources of human beings. And you
could see, Okay, that kid is going to be a
dynamic leader, but at age ten, he's obnoxious because he
has the tool, but he doesn't know how to wield
it properly. That's a great point. Yeah, just and I
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wish I'd thought about this more, but I could give
you more examples of just they're all diamonds in the rough.
I mean, some of them are probably going to end
up in jail or beating their spouse or something like that.
I mean, not everybody's a diamond, but they're they're too
much of everything. But that's how you end up, I
think with a good man. It's very rare that a
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meek Well, no, I don't want to I don't want
to overstate this because some people are just introverts. But
we need to get back to boys will be boys,
and that that's saying has been perverted to mean allegedly
so they can do anything they want. But no, that's
not what that saying means at all. It means you
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have to put up with the excesses of boyhood to
end up with good men. Now I'm a poor bullying
but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No, I like what you said too about they have
the tool, they just don't know how to use it yet.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Because you do.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
You might see a leader in this ten year old,
but that not yet because right now they don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, they're they're loud and obnoxious, yeah, or they bully
for instance. Now, some bullies remain bullies in their a
holes and I hate them and I hope they go
to prison. But some people, you know, this is if
I haven't told this story in ages. I remember the
first time I told this story. Now, Gladys, do you
play the harp when I'm thinking about I'm looking back
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at telling a story about looking back? Yeah, she's here
for do you play the harp twice? Or how does
that work? Doesn't he just go ahead and start talking?
So I was, uh, I was having this argument with
a frenemy. Okay, he I was like the pitcher on
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the baseball team, the high school baseball team, and he
was the catcher, and he was a really good catcher,
really good ballplayer. But he and I had this like
two alpha dogs thing going on, and so there was
respect and all, but we clashed. We clashed a fair amount,
and we got We got into it one time verbally
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and he said to me, and I wish I had
I wish I had written the quote down. He said
something like, I'm not even going to get into it
with you because you'll cut me to bits. And I
thought he sees my verbal ability as a tool of
meanness and cruelty. And I thought, I don't want to
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be that guy ever. Again. I don't want to, I mean,
unless somebody's got a coming I decided, Okay, I have
the ability to hurt people with words, I am never
going to do that to an innocent victim. And maybe
I've lapsed at times of loss of temper or what
have you in the intervening years, but I've never thought
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of myself. Part of it is I never thought of
myself as a bully, because I would never hurt anybody physical, right.
But I realized at that moment he used me as
some sort of verbal bully, and I thought, I'm not
going to be that and so, and I hate that.
This is painful for me to admit that I might
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have kind of been that quote unquote bully who then
grew up to not be a bully as an adult.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That's interesting because when you said what when you quoted
what he said, I heard it as like you were
you have more of a verbal ability than him, Not
that you're cruel with your words, but that you you
could verbally take him if you guys were to get
into an argument.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Right, right, I guess I guess The subtlety of it
is I always saw it as like winning an argument
as opposed to leaving a victim. Okay, well, it's you know,
like the typical adolescent. It was self centered. I looked
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at it from my point of view. I win, and
I spanked him and sent him running. Yeah, but I
hadn't developed the compassion to really see it from the
other person's perspective. And like I say, if it's somebody
trying to, for instance, you know, like push experimental sex
change procedures on children, I'll rip them apart. If I can,
I will turn every skill I have full blast for
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the kid's sake. But like I said, no, no, nobody
who doesn't have it coming, I just won't do that.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yeah, And recognizing that about yourself too is a big
thing because I have a very similar I like to
call it a sharp tongue, especially when I.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Hear that at all.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, I don't have that one bit.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
But that's something that I've been working on my whole life,
is realizing Yo, okay, cool it because I know that
once it takes off, bad news bears.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Right, right, you don't punch everybody who deserves it. Yeah,
And you don't, you know, strip them naked with your
verbiage if they don't deserve it either, even though you can.
And when they do, though, alway, is it fun? So
now the temper outburst thing is interesting. They found an
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increase in teachers observations of conduct problems such as temper
outbursts or bullying or teasing other children, was associated with
an increase in earnings of nearly four percent of any
given rise in conduct problems for boys or girls. That
compares to a six percent rise for higher cognition skills,
and so as a measure of who's going to do well,
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at least financially an old boy, Now that I think
about it, that's an interesting way to measure this anyway,
But being like hot tempered is almost as good an
indie cater of being successful in life is being smart.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, based off how they put it.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, yeah, Wow, it's forty percent of six Well, I
guess you could say it's fifty percent more likely, but
you see my point. Further analysis showed that by age sixteen,
those with the conduct problems were more sociable as teenagers
and were more likely to smoke and be arrested at
some point in their lives. Oh there's that. Wow. So
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is it just being more dynamic in general? I do
not know. Yeah, They point out, many people, many successful
people have had various problems in school like Winston Churchill,
various folks expelled, suspended who ended up being famous or
successful or what have you. Well like in today's news.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I mean, look at Trump, He's considered a bully.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
He's probably didn't like that his whole life. Yeah, I
think he's still a bully. It's one of the things
I don't particularly like about him.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
But I was thinking about Steve Jobs, genius, but I've
heard he was a complete bully.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh yeah, that's right at when. Yeah, I was picturing
his youth, but yeah, running apple, he was absolutely was. Yeah.
You know, maybe this boils down to and this is
an old, old message. Don't make kids sit still and
be quiet and all act the same because they're not
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the same. There's a cynical view of education that modern
education exists purely to turn people into rule following drones.
And you know, I certainly hope that's I know a
lot of gifted teachers and that's not what they're trying
to do. But just to what, to whatever extent, that's
what's happening. Resist that, Yeah, a big yick. Yeah, we
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need more kids who end up smoking and getting arrested
because the other ones will be Winston Churchill. I think
that's our takeaway here. What something like that nailed that
your sweatshirt either says I p A or E p A.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I assume it says I p A like the beer,
and not E p A like the you're not wearing
a sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That you wouldn't catch me dead in an ep A
swatcher Environmental Protection Agency swag. I was just gonna say
how many how many agency government agencies have swag? I
know the CIA and FBI? Do do they like for
public purchase?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, absolutely cool. I might have to get some of that.
I wear my FBI swag all the time and arrest people.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Oh, I'm gonna get the CIA stuff. I need you
to open your trunk.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I bring them to justice. Open the trunk. Please you
make lights on your car too, so you can really
who are you? I'll ask questions. You open the trunk.
Can I see your badge? Can I see your hands
behind your back? And then I cup them?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So this I hope this.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I hope this works what I'm about to do here.
I came across this last night and I laughed out
loud several times. So it's a guy with a kind
of funny laugh and this is pretty long. He's speaking
a different language. I don't even know what language it is,
but I don't speak it. But it was still funny
and I could pick up on the universal cadence of
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telling a story. And then he starts laughing about the
story and then filling in more details and continues to laugh,
and the other guy's laughing, and it just and then like,
you know, then you won't believe this, and then they
I guess that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I don't know. I don't speak the language.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
But if this is funny to you the way it
was to me, I think it says something about humor
or because I've often thought people that are really really funny, hey,
and don't they don't even need words. Their timing is
so good. The joke doesn't even have to they even
have to be a joke. The time means it's so
perfect it's funny just with the timing. Yeah, I suppose anyway,
(32:05):
we'll see if this is funny or not. You're not
supposed to understand what this person is saying. He's telling
the story good loud, Michaels.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Hey, chank. Now we're gonna Chandler here.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
You're your money in the.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Battle, even goes, yeah, they dropped, I know.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
I got that. Yeah, tell you.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
By Dude is amused.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
First of all, I would like to have somebody translate
that story to me, because.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I just feel like at some point it was like
and then no, you won't believe this that she walks
in with a canary on her head. No I'm not
done yet.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Her husband turns around and he says, but a dog
comes into the room.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
And hold on, I'm not done. I just hope the
translation of that story isn't they were complaining about how
loud my party was, so I went to their home
and murdered them all.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Or it's incredibly yeah, it's incredibly graphic sexually or something.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I mean just like the racist or something.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god, the record.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We got no idea what Bro was saying, and that.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Maybe you should have run this by somebody who speaks
whatever language that is before.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Rapping this out.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Now, Yeah, yeah, exactly, because this could be the most racist, sexist,
overtly horrifying joke you've ever heard in your life.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And then the Nazis don't even say it. Boy Dude's
laugh was just insane. Wait wait, I thought that was it. No,
that's not the end of it. It must about a
heck of a joke.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I think his laugh might have been what was making
you laugh, because it just just his laugh itself was
was funny?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Well, yeah, I would clearly the infectious laugh had something
to do with it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I would like to have the slightest idea what the
story was about, because it's got many tags, and just
when you think it's over, it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh yeah, exactly, yeah that her husband, Her husband says, no, seriously,
this is what he said, right. Uh yeah, I wonder
can we run that through Google trap figure out what
sort of horror we've unleashed the closet and his mom
is standing there and just keeps going and going. The
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Douglas Murray gave a speech in Paris recently talking about
Israel and Hamas and anti Semitism. We have divided a
substantial part of it into four cuts. We can discuss
in between as desired. Michael, We're starting with ninety there.
We should have gotten ready for that, and we'll go
from there. Hit it.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I've spent most of the months since the seventh October
in Israel and Gaza and have seen as much of
the conflicts I think it's possible for non combatant to see.
I've been went to all of the massacre sites when
they were still fresh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Has spent a lot of.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Time with the survivors, the families of the hostages. I've
been in the morgues of Tel Aviv where they're still
trying to identify the dead. One young man's body was
only identified yesterday, and think what it takes what you
have to do to a man to make his body
unidentifiable for eight months.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
This is more than just a recitation of horror. He's
working toward greater points. But roll on, Michael.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
One of the things that struck me most after the
seventh October was I was at one of the reunions
of the Nova Party, and these are all young people
who'd seen their friends raped and murdered in front of them.
One young man, a survivor, showed me footage from his phone,
(01:49):
and it included footage of a young friend of his
who didn't make it into his car and was lynched
by a mob immediately afterwards. This young man, this survivor,
said to me, what would you do if this happened
in your country? And I thought, I didn't say, but
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it has happened in my society, in my Europe, in
my West. The scale may be different, but the terrorists
are the same. It happened here in Paris at the Butterclaar.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It happened in.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Manchester where twenty two young girls were blown up for
the crime of going to a pop concert. It happened
at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
The scale was.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Different, but the perpetrators are all the same. They're always
the same people who, whether in Toulouse or Porte de Vassnnese,
Copenhagen or Mumbai, can never restrain themselves from targeting the Jews.
Yet the sympathy of so many people here in Europe
(02:59):
since then has not been on the side of the victims,
but on the side of the perpetrators. Too many people
mistake the victim for the oppressor, the underdog for the overdog,
and those who fight terrorism with those who dream of
it and bring up their children to love it from
the cradle.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
If you're not familiar with that list of four Mumbai
among them, those are all notable terrible, deadly attacks by
Islami fascists, Islamic supremacists, whatever you want to call them,
on innocent people, terrorist attacks, they comment, or shall we
roll ont finish and then I will next clip. Consider this.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
In every European capital as well as in America, photographs
of the Israeli hostages still in captivity Bayjamas have been
put up, and in every city outside of Israel they
have been torn down.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Think about that for a moment.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
If someone in London or Paris loses their dog. They
will put up a poster asking people to help find them.
And if even one person in our society went around
tearing down such a poster, we would ask what had
(04:27):
happened in our society. We would ask why we were
producing people so pathological. We would want to find the
person and punish them. Yet, when the missing a Jewish children,
(04:50):
or Jewish women or Jewish men, because there's no crime
in being a man either, these posts are torn down.
One of the relatives of the be Best children held
in captivity told me recently that he saw posts as
of his one year old relative torn down in the
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center of Dublin.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah. That that's a stunning point right there. You have
got to be some sort of warped individual. Apparently there
are a lot of them to take down those posters.
Even if you believe all of the nonsense of the
land belonged to the Palestinians and the Jewish people stole it.
Even if you believe all that stuff, you're still against
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the Jewish families getting their kids back.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I agree with you one percent. But there's example
after example just in the last century of ideology, particularly
extremist ideology, warping what seemed like normal people and turning
them into monsters. And often when that fever and era
of history passes, they cannot explain how they got swept
(06:02):
up in it and became monsters. Yeah, I know it
has the way humans are.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I knew what had happened in New York and a
number of our college campuses. I didn't know what happened
everywhere in the world outside of Israel where those posters
got torn down.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That is highly troubling. The brilliant Douglas Murray in the
final clip. One other consideration.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
We have all for years heard the feminists issue a
call on male sexual violence against women. Believe all women,
But where was the solidarity? Where was the sympathy or
even belief? When the women would Jews, the belief evaporates.
(06:51):
And I won't even go into the psycho pathology and
suicidalism of Queers for Palestine, who are a branch of
Turkeys for Christmas. It was Hamaz that started this war.
(07:13):
Yet much of the world has forgotten this. They've been
fooled by Hamaz propaganda into imagining that Israel is the aggressor.
Having seen this war up close, I can tell you
with one hundred percent certainty that the war would be
over tomorrow, not just if Hamaz returned the Jewish hostages,
but if the Palestinians in Gaza brought up their children
(07:36):
not to hate, but to love, not to aspire to
a cult of death, but to join Israel in a
belief in life, not to believe in destroying a state,
but to put their energies into building one.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, that is something that whole believe all woman me
too thing that obviously the road stopped on that at
Jewish women being raped to death.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
We had a clip this morning of that woman screaming
I support Hamas, I am Hamas outside of the White
House over the weekend, and prior to her saying that,
in the clip, she was screaming about all sorts of
other stuff, and one of the things she started screaming house.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
They didn't there was no rape that didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at this huge
group of people going I wonder how many of them
were out there during the me too rallies. Yeah, because
it's all the same kind of people that go to
these protests.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
All of them. But that does help their argument they
don't believe those stories. So okay, you know, a final note,
and if you listen to the radio show you are
the armstrung and getting on demand, you're going to hear
this again. But I just wanted to throw in just
a little bit of what Sam Harris wrote recently. Is
another thinker who I admire even when I don't agree
(08:58):
with him. He provokes my thought. But he unleashed rather
a long peace about fundamentalist Islam and how it's a
political system and a relentively expansionist political system and totalitarian
political system, and compares it and contrasts it in some
ways with Christianity, which is also expansionist. But is you know,
(09:20):
the blessed or the meek, for they will inherit the
earth when it's done right. Christianity does not employ force
in any way. And he gets to the fact that
Islam from the first moment was a religion of power,
and to quote him, the idea of non Muslims ruling
over Muslims or even having equivalent power alongside them perpetually
has always been anathema. It's an error to be rectified
(09:42):
through spiritual struggle, sure, but also through physical violence. The
fact that Islam has failed to achieve dominance in our
world and has proven for nearly a thousand years to
be quite backward and weak, is a perennial source of humiliation.
By the light of the doctrine, it makes absolutely no sense.
It's a sacrilege. From the point of view of Islam.
The status quo is in tolerable. And then he brings
(10:02):
it to what we're talking about, and this general attitude
of affronted dignity, this yearning for victory, which century after
century has been out of reach, affects everything that Islam touches.
It is why the history of peace negotiations between Israel
and the Palestinians has been so hopeless. Have the Israelis
made mistakes, of course, do the Jews have their own
religious fanatics, yes, But the peace process between the Israelis
(10:25):
and the Palestinians has been rendered hopeless from the start
because for a majority of Palestinians and for the vast
numbers of Muslims in the region, the mere presence of
a Jewish state in the Holy Land is totally unacceptable.
It's a knakma, a catastrophe. It is a perversion of
sacred history and it is an abject failure of the
mission of Islam, which is to conquer the world for
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the glory of God, and above all, to never forsake
Muslim lands once they have been conquered, which of course
Palestine once was. And then it goes into some quotes
from the Koran which make it clear that fundamentalists killing
people to achieve their goals is just a hunky dory.
But I think the point that Sam Harris is making
is absolutely fundamental to all of this. They can't come
(11:10):
to a settlement with Israel and reach a two state solution.
They want a one state solution, even if everybody dies,
everybody on both sides, two state solution. Please sell your
idiot fantasies somewhere else. We're not buying. I'm not buying.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So the question is Secretary of State's over there trying
to work that deal out with Saudi Arabia where we
have some sort of agreement with them like we have
with Japan, where we would come to their aid if
they were attacked, and which Saudi Arabia would love that
because that helps them in that whole battle with Iran.
But Saudi Arabia has to get on board with accepting,
(11:52):
you know, normalizing relationship with Israel. They're saying, and they
won't do that unless one the war ends and two
they commit to a two state solution. But whether or
not they actually mean that or not is an open question,
Like if MBS might be willing to say, yeah, and
you have to commit to us two state solutions sometime,
but doesn't actually enforce it.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Right for domestic political consumption, much as Anthony Blanket is
desperate for things to calm down a little bit for
domestic political consumption. Yeah, so that's those are the next
steps there. That'd be a huge deal. Again, if politics
was restricted to people only saying what they actually meant,
that like eighty percent of it would have vanish. The
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people in their twenties in the workplace thing that a
number of people have observed and I've had this experience
(12:59):
myself and are having the problem with the level of
like familiarity and lack.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Of And it's hard to say this without sounding like
a but just just like you go into a workplace
where you want to be what the older people are,
but you treat them like peers in a very too
familiar way that didn't exist throughout my entire career. And
(13:26):
I just had that experience here and now they are
having this person other person's having it at their workplace
just like.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Way too much. You know, Hey, Bud, how's it going, Hey,
what's up dude? A lack of respect? Yeah, And again
it's hard to say it without sounding like it.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But when I started in various jobs, I didn't talk
to the older people that had the jobs I wanted
that way and like suggesting ways they ought to do
things differently.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And just and I've had a.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Couple of people mention that sort of thing, and what
we were discussing is where that comes from? Joe and
I regularly say and I never hear anybody else say this.
They didn't raise themselves. But culturally, why do young people
come into the workplace and feel like they can treat
their betters as to their beers.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Okay, I said they're better while that you do something
like end up British No less, I don't know what
the right term would be, but uh no, I get,
I get exactly what you're saying. I don't know, just
off the top of my head. I think it probably
has to do with virtually all of our experience was
actual back in the day, and every generation would layer
(14:34):
a little new laquer details on the way people act
in quotes, come up with variations and change it a
little bit. But now so much of people's experience is virtual.
They're not They're not a product of what they've experienced
in the same way. I don't know that helped.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well, maybe if you're gonna go with multi causal, I
can throw out a whole bunch of multi causal I think.
I mean, it's the some of the fruits of the
everybody gets a trophy generation, which has been going on
for quite a while now. But true, that's part of it.
The self esteem movement. We went way too far too
much self esteem, is what I'm seeing.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
You got a miserable failure.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You've got way too much self esteem for your age
and where you are, all right, take it down a notch.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Then what you've accomplished, Yeah, you know, more importantly that
and the hold the parenting trend. If I want to
be my kid's friend, not their parent, right, you have something, Michael.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
Yeah, I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched a
manager reprimand a young reporter and you know, it was
over something very minor, but he basically said, you know,
you need to pick it up, you need to you know,
get with it.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You're sitting around.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
And the young reporter looked at him and said, I'm sorry,
but I've never been talked.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
To that way.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
I don't know if I can work here. And this
person was like twenty five years old.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, so again getting to my mono causal stuff. No
teacher can talk to kids that way. So if your
parents aren't talking to you that way, the teachers, the coaches,
nobody ever talks to you in any sort of way
that kind of puts you in your place.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
And again it makes me sound like it, but there
is a place.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
There's a place for children, there's a place for people
lower on the wrung.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
There's a place. There's a structure, there's a hierarchy in life.
There just is. I sure as hell hope there is.
Like when I go in for a surgery, you know,
I'm hoping that person did well in medical school, for instance, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Well no, I just think about a lot of the
younger people too, have kind of been growing up in
that anti law enforcement generation, Like they don't respect the cops.
What's going to make you think they're going to expect respect?
You know, somebody who might have worked at a company
for five years more than them.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I think that the lack of respect for law enforcement
kind of trickles down.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I don't actually know. It might just be all of
these things, but I have experienced and it's really off putting.
I'm going to try to explain to my kids to
have a different attitude when they go into a workplace.
The people above you with way more experience making a
lot more money than you. How about you watch and
observe as opposed to think your peers they got something
(17:09):
you you might want at some level. I've come across
enough people bringing this up to know what's a thing.
If you have any thoughts on it listening to this,
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Speaker 1 (17:35):
We do a new one every day. Find it wherever
you find your podcast is now, Katie, you don't know this, probably,
but Jack and I have had a long running and
bitter dispute. I really like appetizers or if I'm out
to eat or whatever. He's got, like he's a member
of ISIS, He's got this militant anti appetizer belief. That's stupid.
Just have the meal. Have the meal. You don't need
(17:55):
to have appetizers. And anyway, I won't go any further
because again we're not bad mouthing him, okay, and is
insane and unsupportable some would say idiotic beliefs. But Jack
is anti appetizer. I, on the other hand, love appetizers,
and in fact, Judy and I went to a breast
cancer fundraiser just last night and I bought at probably
(18:19):
excessive cost, but it wasn't a purchase, it's a donation.
I bought an appetizer of the month club membership in
which some of the gifted chefs associated with this community slash.
It was a golf club. They deliver to your home
(18:40):
like a gourmet appetizer once a month. I know that's awesome,
I know. So I'll say, yeah, can we do it
this coming Friday, And they'll say absolutely, and they'll show
up with like this brilliantly crafted stuffed mushrooms or something
like that. It's a great excuse to have like friends
(19:01):
over for a glass of wine and stuff and we
get the credit. Oh that is so cool. No, I
know it.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Okay, So what kind of things do they offer? So
stuff mushrooms obviously, are there other.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, I realized that this the very term has a
negative connotation, but I don't know why. They did like
a super delicious cheeseball, one of those big cheeseballs you
dig in with the knife and put it on crackers.
But it was like home crafted, Oh cheeseball. Those are
good cheeseballs. Yeah, that sounds awesome to me. Yeah, and
(19:34):
a friend, a friend of ours, actually bought this last
year and I can't remember what else. They're like a
shrimp thing and various canna pis whatever that is, but
just super yummy like gourmet appetizers. Yeah. See, this sounds
like I'm so excited to me. Yeah. Well, I mean
and particularly I mean it was several hundred dollars again,
(19:56):
it's a donation, not a purchase. But when you look
at what you see, bend to like go out for
a nice dinner now, especially if you have a bottle
of wine or something. Oh crap. So anyway, I'm happy
to contribute. Judy, actually she quilted a thing, a golf
cart seat cover that fits like custom fits around the
little what do you call it, the hip rest things
(20:21):
to keep you from sliding off the end of it.
But anyway, so we made a nice donation too. It's
a nice, nice fundraiser. Anyway. The game across this article
playground bullies do prosper and go on to earn more
in middle age. This is a five decade study that's thorough.
(20:41):
It britz Children who displayed aggressive behavior at school, such
as bullying or temper outbursts, are likely to earn more
money in middle age, according to a five decade study
that upends the maxim that bullies do not prosper. Any
reaction to that, Katie, off the top of your head,
I can kind of see.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Where they're going with this, because the people that are
more outspoken maybe going further in business rather than the
meek that get picked on.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I can see that. Yeah, this is one of the
reasons I'm so militant about in schools not making little
boys act like little girls, nor should you make little
girls act like little boys. Let them be themselves, but
the idea that you're to sit still and be quiet
and just like the girls are doing. Because a as
a youth coach, mostly in soccer, I coach baseball and
(21:32):
softball a little bit too, but observing the difference between
boys and girls. And then I coached gosh, I coached
eight year old boys, ten year old boys, twelve year
old boys, that sort of range, and then fourteen year
old girls was the oldest I ever coached. But I
would watch ten year old boys and there are like
(21:55):
fifteen guys on the team, right, So it's a nice
like selection of different sources of human beings. And you
could see, Okay, that kid is going to be a
dynamic leader, but at age ten, he's obnoxious because he
has the tool, but he doesn't know how to wield
it properly. That's a great point. Yeah, just and I
(22:18):
wish I'd thought about this more, but I could give
you more examples of just they're all diamonds in the rough.
I mean, some of them are probably going to end
up in jail or beating their spouse or something like that.
I mean, not everybody's a diamond, but they're they're too
much of everything. But that's how you end up, I
think with a good man. It's very rare that a
(22:41):
meek Well, no, I don't want to I don't want
to overstate this because some people are just introverts. But
we need to get back to boys will be boys,
and that that's saying has been perverted to mean allegedly
so they can do anything they want. But no, that's
not what that saying means at all. It means you
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have to put up with the excesses of boyhood to
end up with good men. Now I'm a poor bullying
but go ahead.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
No, I like what you said too about they have
the tool, they just don't know how to use it yet.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Because you do.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
You might see a leader in this ten year old,
but that not yet because right now they don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Yeah, they're they're loud and obnoxious, yeah, or they bully
for instance. Now, some bullies remain bullies in their a
holes and I hate them and I hope they go
to prison. But some people, you know, this is if
I haven't told this story in ages. I remember the
first time I told this story. Now, Gladys, do you
play the harp when I'm thinking about I'm looking back
(23:42):
at telling a story about looking back? Yeah, she's here
for do you play the harp twice? Or how does
that work? Doesn't he just go ahead and start talking?
So I was, uh, I was having this argument with
a frenemy. Okay, he I was like the pitcher on
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the baseball team, the high school baseball team, and he
was the catcher, and he was a really good catcher,
really good ballplayer. But he and I had this like
two alpha dogs thing going on, and so there was
respect and all, but we clashed. We clashed a fair amount,
and we got We got into it one time verbally
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and he said to me, and I wish I had
I wish I had written the quote down. He said
something like, I'm not even going to get into it
with you because you'll cut me to bits. And I
thought he sees my verbal ability as a tool of
meanness and cruelty. And I thought, I don't want to
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be that guy ever. Again. I don't want to, I mean,
unless somebody's got a coming I decided, Okay, I have
the ability to hurt people with words, I am never
going to do that to an innocent victim. And maybe
I've lapsed at times of loss of temper or what
have you in the intervening years, but I've never thought
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of myself. Part of it is I never thought of
myself as a bully, because I would never hurt anybody physical, right.
But I realized at that moment he used me as
some sort of verbal bully, and I thought, I'm not
going to be that and so, and I hate that.
This is painful for me to admit that I might
(25:29):
have kind of been that quote unquote bully who then
grew up to not be a bully as an adult.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
That's interesting because when you said what when you quoted
what he said, I heard it as like you were
you have more of a verbal ability than him, Not
that you're cruel with your words, but that you you
could verbally take him if you guys were to get
into an argument.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Right, right, I guess I guess The subtlety of it
is I always saw it as like winning an argument
as opposed to leaving a victim. Okay, well, it's you know,
like the typical adolescent. It was self centered. I looked
(26:11):
at it from my point of view. I win, and
I spanked him and sent him running. Yeah, but I
hadn't developed the compassion to really see it from the
other person's perspective. And like I say, if it's somebody
trying to, for instance, you know, like push experimental sex
change procedures on children, I'll rip them apart. If I can,
I will turn every skill I have full blast for
(26:37):
the kid's sake. But like I said, no, no, nobody
who doesn't have it coming, I just won't do that.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yeah, And recognizing that about yourself too is a big
thing because I have a very similar I like to
call it a sharp tongue, especially when I.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Hear that at all.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, I don't have that one bit.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
But that's something that I've been working on my whole life,
is realizing Yo, okay, cool it because I know that
once it takes off, bad news bears.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Right, right, you don't punch everybody who deserves it. Yeah,
And you don't, you know, strip them naked with your
verbiage if they don't deserve it either, even though you can.
And when they do, though, alway, is it fun? So
now the temper outburst thing is interesting. They found an
(27:28):
increase in teachers observations of conduct problems such as temper
outbursts or bullying or teasing other children, was associated with
an increase in earnings of nearly four percent of any
given rise in conduct problems for boys or girls. That
compares to a six percent rise for higher cognition skills,
and so as a measure of who's going to do well,
(27:49):
at least financially an old boy, Now that I think
about it, that's an interesting way to measure this anyway,
But being like hot tempered is almost as good an
indie cater of being successful in life is being smart.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, based off how they put it.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, yeah, Wow, it's forty percent of six Well, I
guess you could say it's fifty percent more likely, but
you see my point. Further analysis showed that by age sixteen,
those with the conduct problems were more sociable as teenagers
and were more likely to smoke and be arrested at
some point in their lives. Oh there's that. Wow. So
(28:27):
is it just being more dynamic in general? I do
not know. Yeah, They point out, many people, many successful
people have had various problems in school like Winston Churchill,
various folks expelled, suspended who ended up being famous or
successful or what have you. Well like in today's news.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
I mean, look at Trump, He's considered a bully.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
He's probably didn't like that his whole life. Yeah, I
think he's still a bully. It's one of the things
I don't particularly like about him.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
But I was thinking about Steve Jobs, genius, but I've
heard he was a complete bully.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Oh yeah, that's right at when. Yeah, I was picturing
his youth, but yeah, running apple, he was absolutely was. Yeah.
You know, maybe this boils down to and this is
an old, old message. Don't make kids sit still and
be quiet and all act the same because they're not
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the same. There's a cynical view of education that modern
education exists purely to turn people into rule following drones.
And you know, I certainly hope that's I know a
lot of gifted teachers and that's not what they're trying
to do. But just to what, to whatever extent, that's
what's happening. Resist that, Yeah, a big yick. Yeah, we
(29:54):
need more kids who end up smoking and getting arrested
because the other ones will be Winston Churchill. I think
that's our takeaway here. What something like that nailed that
your sweatshirt either says I p A or E p A.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I assume it says I p A like the beer,
and not E p A like the you're not wearing
a sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That you wouldn't catch me dead in an ep A
swatcher Environmental Protection Agency swag. I was just gonna say
how many how many agency government agencies have swag? I
know the CIA and FBI? Do do they like for
public purchase?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, absolutely cool. I might have to get some of that.
I wear my FBI swag all the time and arrest people.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Oh, I'm gonna get the CIA stuff. I need you
to open your trunk.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I bring them to justice. Open the trunk. Please you
make lights on your car too, so you can really
who are you? I'll ask questions. You open the trunk.
Can I see your badge? Can I see your hands
behind your back? And then I cup them?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So this I hope this.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I hope this works what I'm about to do here.
I came across this last night and I laughed out
loud several times. So it's a guy with a kind
of funny laugh and this is pretty long. He's speaking
a different language. I don't even know what language it is,
but I don't speak it. But it was still funny
and I could pick up on the universal cadence of
(31:27):
telling a story. And then he starts laughing about the
story and then filling in more details and continues to laugh,
and the other guy's laughing, and it just and then like,
you know, then you won't believe this, and then they
I guess that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I don't know. I don't speak the language.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
But if this is funny to you the way it
was to me, I think it says something about humor
or because I've often thought people that are really really funny, hey,
and don't they don't even need words. Their timing is
so good. The joke doesn't even have to they even
have to be a joke. The time means it's so
perfect it's funny just with the timing. Yeah, I suppose anyway,
(32:05):
we'll see if this is funny or not. You're not
supposed to understand what this person is saying. He's telling
the story good loud, Michaels.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Hey, chank. Now we're gonna Chandler here.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
You're your money in the.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Battle, even goes, yeah, they dropped, I know.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
I got that. Yeah, tell you.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
By Dude is amused.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
First of all, I would like to have somebody translate
that story to me, because.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
I just feel like at some point it was like
and then no, you won't believe this that she walks
in with a canary on her head. No I'm not
done yet.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Her husband turns around and he says, but a dog
comes into the room.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
And hold on, I'm not done. I just hope the
translation of that story isn't they were complaining about how
loud my party was, so I went to their home
and murdered them all.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Or it's incredibly yeah, it's incredibly graphic sexually or something.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
I mean just like the racist or something.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god, the record.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
We got no idea what Bro was saying, and that.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Maybe you should have run this by somebody who speaks
whatever language that is before.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Rapping this out.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Now, Yeah, yeah, exactly, because this could be the most racist, sexist,
overtly horrifying joke you've ever heard in your life.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And then the Nazis don't even say it. Boy Dude's
laugh was just insane. Wait wait, I thought that was it. No,
that's not the end of it. It must about a
heck of a joke.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I think his laugh might have been what was making
you laugh, because it just just his laugh itself was
was funny?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Well, yeah, I would clearly the infectious laugh had something
to do with it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I would like to have the slightest idea what the
story was about, because it's got many tags, and just
when you think it's over, it's not.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh yeah, exactly, yeah that her husband, Her husband says, no, seriously,
this is what he said, right. Uh yeah, I wonder
can we run that through Google trap figure out what
sort of horror we've unleashed the closet and his mom
is standing there and just keeps going and going. The
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