January 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Selena Gomez cries about deportations & criminals are OUT
- Performative compassion
- Does homework help & "no whine February."
- No, Trump won't be added to Mount Rushmore
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The cheapest super Bowl tickets are listening.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
For five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
The cheapest, the most expensive ones are going for half
a million. Right now, fans are asking themselves should I
buy two Super Bowl tickets.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Or a dozen eggs.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I've never been to a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You'd think I would go during this run of the
Kansas City Chiefs, the team I have rooted for most
of my life, but I have not. I don't know
if I need that experience in my life. Actually, there's
part of me that would be curious to see it. Yeah,
just the whole process of it exactly. The game is
just as an observer, not as a foot No, no, no,
(01:01):
If I want to watch a game, that's probably not
the best way to do it. But yeah, it would be,
and it'd be fun to talk about on the radio
all the things you see and experience. But that's a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hotels are insane, and in addition to the ticket, all
that sort of stuff. So do you know who Selena
Gomez is She was a Disney star, then she was
in some of those kids shows on Nickelodeon, and she
became a grown up actress, singer, and now she's star
of a kind of a cult favorite, Only Murders in
(01:32):
the Building with Steve Martin and Martin Short, very good show,
very very entertaining program.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I enjoyed a great deal. It's just the right mood.
At the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
She is also a person of she's a latinix with the.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Next Wow, we can't be friends anymore go on?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And she posted this video. I don't know how easy
it's going to be to understand her. I saw it
with like caption because she's crying so hard. It's a
little hard to understand it.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Here you go, I just trying to say that I'm
so sorry home maybe people forgetting attacked the children.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I wish I could do something that he can't. I
don't know what to do. I'll try and be there.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
This is all around Trump's evil, racist surrounding up of
children and adults and purging anyone who's not white in America.
As she sees it, I guess before.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The scenes of Trump's police dogs rounding up kindergarteners is
shocking to the concience. Oh, that's right, it's just adults,
criminals and fairly least areous ones being rounded up.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Before we ruin the beating up on Selena Gomez. Portion
of this, we'll get to Tom Holman, who's running this
whole operation for Trump, and him responding directly to who's
Selena Gomez?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Because she has.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Four million Twitter followers or TikTok followers or whatever. She's
got gazillions of people following her, so he wanted to respond, we.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Got quarterman Americans, death and fantinof across at olden border.
Where's the tears for them? I've met with hundreds of angels,
moms and dads who are separate if their children because
they buried them because they're kilbar alien. We got half
of man children or sex trafficked into this country but
separated from their family's put in the hands or criminal
cartels to be spoken in the country. This administration can't
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find he worth three hundred thousand, where's the tears for them?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So well, there's two things to Selena Gomez specifically, and
I don't know really anything about her other than she
did a big special about her bipolar problems she's had
throughout her life, and she's bipolar. And that video was
taken down shortly after she posted it, though it went
viral and sped around really fast, So who knows where
(03:55):
she is with her mental illness on that?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And I have no need nor take any delight in
beating up on an individually young woman well for her silly,
tearful political beliefs, especially.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
If she has mental hem.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes, we got mental illness in our family. And sometimes
people have really really rough days about all kinds of
different stuff, and you criticize it all you Want's got
nothing to do with what's going on in their brain.
But her point of view is echoed by many, many
people across the country.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Right, I am more than willing to take on the ideas,
and I think mister Holman's reply was absolutely appropriate leaving
poor little Selena Gomez out of this, I mean, who cares.
Just let's take on the ideas. He's absolutely right. The cost,
not only the material cost, but the human cost of
allowing whoever wants to sneak into the country in has
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been absolutely horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Horrific.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
And as I pointed out yesterday and we'll point out
until this is done and it never will be, the
number of future victims that have been prevented by the
heaving of these few thousands, soon to be many thousand
criminals out of our country is a victory for humanity.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And to put your focus on the discomfort of some
of the people involved, once again, the Biden administration and
their adherence to their crazy ass policies have created an
enormous mess. And those of us in favor of cleaning
it up are tired of you saying your.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Broom is leaving Marx in my floor. Yeah, we're cleaning
up a horrible mess. Here's Sam Olsen with Chicago ICE.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
It's kind of an arduous process, right. It's worn a
difficult situation here in Chicago because a lot of the
targets that we're looking at were previously arrested by local
or state authorities, and we've placed holds on many of
them and they were released from facility into the communities again,
so we have to go through, you know, spend a
lot of hours researching where they're living, and then actually
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go out into their environment to try to arrest them.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, what's the one.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Maybe this is the report that I saw on NBC
News I thought was really interesting. Yeah, go with fifty five,
Michael and I have a point to make.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
President Trump's promise crackdown on the illegal immigration is underway.
When we arrive at a tire shop, twenty five year
old Christopher Latta is arrested outside. I says he has
a criminal record, including home invasion and aggravated battery. Agents
lead him away in handcuffs. He denies the charges against him,
facing possible deportation to Mexico. He also says he'd leave
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behind a five year old daughter.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
He does have serious charges and convictions, So.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I understand he has a daughter and get that's unfortunate,
But we still have a job to do and we
still have to follow them.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The thing that really grabbed me in that report actually
is after that when they start talking about how many
cops and ice agents were required to get this one guy,
and how how much money it costs, how much manpower
it takes, because, as we keep saying, you allowed this
to happen, and now the unwinding of it is really
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really difficult, and you're making it more difficult because instead
of the ICE agents simply going to the jail and
the moment this guy's release, taking him into custody, safer
for them, safer for the illegal immigrants, safer for the family,
safer for the community, better for everyone. No, to signal
your perverse virtue, you turn.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Them loose and make us, the US track him down again.
It's idiotic. So here is, and I'm sorry. It's there's
a certain soft headedness among people who all they can
recognize as the quote unquote the unfortunate thing is the
latest thing that five year old girl's main problem is
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her dad as a criminal. Her main problem isn't that
her dad's going to be deported. I mean, that's a problem,
and it's too bad. But why is that happening because
Trump is mean? No, because her dad's a blank in criminal.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So I heard somebody make this point the other day.
I wish I could remember who it was, might have
been Eli Lake on a podcast whatever. I thought this
was really good though, because there's a lot of Trump's
campaign and then winning, and then his innaugurial address, and
then some of the things he said last week and
everything and it was the criticism from the anti Trump
crowd about how dark he is and his dark view
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of America and the darkness around this and just so
dark and everything like that, and the point that for
I don't know what percentage of country, half the country,
the left, they don't understand. Yeah, it has seemed pretty
dark to a lot of us when we hear about
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somebody being raped or care a child whoever, by an
illegal who had been captured many times and let go,
that's a pretty dark world we're living in where kids
are allowed to be mutilated by doctors to change their
sex and the school hides it. That's a pretty dark
world we're living in. Having to go to work and
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sit through a lecture where you're called a racist is
fairly freaking dark. There's a lot of really dark things
that have been going on in the last several years,
and that's how we feel. So, yeah, if it's kind
of a dark view, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, I would content myself with the knowledge that the
vast majority of America is with you, and it's only
a handful of the chattering classes and the so called
intelligentsia who aren't. And I'm certainly hoping the wave drowns them.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Ideologically speaking, I just thought that was such a great point,
the walking down the street of your town. If you
live in certain towns with all the drug addicts everywhere,
that's a pretty dystopian dark world that didn't exist at all.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
You gotta huddle your children close to you and cross
the street to avoid the craze junkies.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, that's fairly dark. Didn't used to be that way.
That's kind of a dark existence. So yeah, if a
guy comes along talking about how dark it is and
people willingly vote for him, it's because of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, yeah, he's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
You are.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And what was the other thing. Oh, it's a great
example of the protected and the unprotected classes, the rich
intelligency on their college campuses. They've created their little worlds.
They're unaffected by this. But I do want to get
back to the psychology of not Selena Gomez in particular,
but that sort of video, the weeping online video, and.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dissect that a little bit. I think you'll find it interesting.
Oh yeah, what a fascinating phenomenon. No wonder how long
it's going to be in our lives. That and other
stuff on the way, I.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Just trying to say that I'm so sorry, only be
forgetting to tag the children.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Right, this is not about wrestling with Selena Gomez, who's
a troubled young woman. What about the phenomenon of the
weeping young woman posting some heartfelt political screen?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Before you explain this that in the olden times, like
prior to five years ago, mostly crying emotionally was something
you tried to not do publicly, Like you, you really
tried to keep it together publicly, even funerals. Usually people
would try to keep it together for whatever reason. It
was I don't want to say embarrassing, but it was private. Yes, yeah,
(11:52):
on the main, sure, with some exceptions.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But and uh.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
There were a couple of comments to this that I
thought were interesting and opened up a much more interesting
can of worms than Porcelina Gomez inter mental health. One
person asked, why would anyone deliberately shoot video of themselves
weeping and then then share that video with millions of strangers.
It's bizarre and debasing behavior and should be treated as
abnormal and unhealthy, and yet it's considered entirely normal.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I thought, yeah, that is true.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
But then I came across another comment a set of
comments that I thought were really intriguing, and this person writes,
no aspect of women's behavior on social media is going
to make sense until you realize two things. And as always,
there are many perfectly sane, strong, great American women listening
to the show, and we salute you, and you're not
We're not putting you with these people, believe me.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But this guy points out a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Number One, for women, the appearance of vulnerability is status enhancing.
They get positive feedback, they get nurturing, they get caring,
they get attention by appearing vulnerable. Two, for women, the
appearance of compassion is status enhancing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Same thing.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Thus, women who play status games online will simultaneously insist
that they are under constant threat of let's say, rape
by purely theoretical criminals every time they step out the door,
but also that actual criminals must, on no count be punished,
on no account be punished because they were underprivileged and
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couldn't help themselves, the poor DearS. The meaning of both
of these ideas is really just quote, I am very
feminine and therefore precious, and you should all pay attention
to me, and and he gets it. It's a little long,
but he gets into the paradox of the progressive point
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of view that he touches on. H buh. The need
to display performative compassion while displaying performative vulnerability forces a
very interesting sort of mental gymnastics among women who play
this game. They must tell us constantly, and he uses
rape as an example. They must tell us constantly that
rapists are everywhere and they are in constant danger. But
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the actual men who rape, almost universally, have one thing
in common. They are not societies most preferred. They are
bums and junkies, many poor, many black, brown, many in
the country, illegally uneducated, have rap sheets. Maybe they speak English,
maybe they don't. They come from undesirable dip zip codes.
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They are the unemployed and the unemployable. They are mentally
ill and emotionally unstable. And usually they're more than one
of these things. I would say, statistically speaking, yes, The
problem is that right there is a laundry list of
people who are socially unsafe for women to criticize, because
the narrative is that they are failing to thrive because
of oppression by those who are thriving. Instead of because
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they lack the IQ score, they lack the sanity, or
they lack the life skills to get their crap together, or.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Are just bad.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Oh yeah, exactly, Yeah, they're unbalanced. So the compassion signaling
would get in the way of the vulnerability signaling, and
the vulnerability signaling would get in the way of the
compassion signaling unless, unless, a shell game can be performed
where the blame for male on female rape is shifted
to those lighte least likely to commit it, high status,
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well socialized, educated men, typically white or East Asian, And
so the notion has spread that rape is committed by
high status, well socialized men out of an attitude of entitlement,
rather than beside society's antisocial outsiders, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And that's not to claim.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
For a single second that the aforementioned high status people
never commit rape. That would be a silly thing to assert,
But you get the conundrum he's describing there. It reminds
me of the constant howling about gun laws and then
utter refusal to enforce them because those charges mostly go
against people of color.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And this is racist, which one is it? Left America
just let us know when you figure that out. There's
also the didn't last very long, I don't think, but
in some quarters, especially on university campuses, there's this There
was this idea which is insane that if someone is upset,
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you did something wrong. By definition, if someone is offended,
you did something offensive. Look you did something offensive. Look
they're offended without we believe the victims, without any a
judgment as to whether or not. Maybe they're a little
too precious about this.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Issue, right, And think of how that rearranges the power.
When if I say it was racist to me, it
is racist. Therefore you are racist in all cases, which
is what the DEI crowd and the critical race theory
in the Black Lives Matter people were claiming. Think about
how that arranges the power kind of you know dynamic. Well,
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it makes it impossible to function as a society, is
what it does.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
The doomsday clock has been moved the closest to midnight
it ever has been. Among other things we're going to
talk about stay tuned, are strong and getty.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I haven't heard this yet.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
This is a teacher talking about homework and how she
doesn't give much homework.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Maybe we can discuss this.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
A lot of people coming at me other teachers for
saying that I'm not doing my job because I'm not
assigning homework. But there's no proof that homework is going
to make them better students in my class. I respect
their time outside of class. They work hard for me
all day. They don't need to go home and do
more homework because if they do it at home, it
does not show me mastery. It's extra practice, sure, but
not practice that they're doing it wrong. It's not good
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practice that they're cheating. It's not good practice if they're
having someone.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Else do it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Most of my students are high schoolers. They have jobs,
they have sports, they're in practice, they're in band. Some
of them are going home and taking care of their
younger siblings because their parents are at work. So if
I also give them hours of homework, when do they
have time to be kids?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Hmm, that's an interesting topic right there, the homework yes
or no, and then how much yes or no?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Well, exactly, there's a bit of a false dichotomy thing there.
If I give them hours of homework, how are they
going to be?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
How about if you just give.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Them a little to reinforce what they've learned, or do
a little independent reading or whatever it's it's you know,
it's a question of degree.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
If I don't know the answer on this, I've with
a couple of kids. I've seen different philosophies from different teachers,
from none to a lot. I certainly remember as a
kid doing homework sometimes and just it just like it
seems like being an assault mine. I'm doing my nine
hundredth you know, two digit multiplication?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Is this necessarily?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I like to point there, if you're doing it wrong,
all you're doing is practicing doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
But I don't know what the right answer is on that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I do think there are at various times in our
education so them maybe now, I don't know. There has
been kind of a philosophy that just doing homework automatically
is a good thing, and that's clearly not true.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Sometimes it's just a busy work. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I have a couple of opposing thoughts. Number one, how
many people walk around saying the American education system is
too rigorous, the Christs are learning too much.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Here's the opposing thought though, is the reason they have
to assign so much homework is because it is so
unproductive in class, because of out of control behavior. Thanks
to restorative justice, Neo Marxist garbage, because of the number
of non English speakers in the class, Because the amount
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of time they're spending trying to convince the little girls
who are afraid of puberty that they're actually little boys
not to take powerful hormones. Is that why they have
to do so much more?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Too many assembles during assemblies during Pride month, too many
assemblies discussing restorative justice.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I've seen all this.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Blm rallies during the day, permission to leave class to
go march whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, but I did say to this is my line.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I use a lot. Henry had a bunch of homework
to do.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I said, you know who else is complaining what other
kids complaining about their homework tonight?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Every other kid in America?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Exactly, You're not the only way. That's the government school
systems one of several things that really needs to be
torn down to the studs and rebuilt. It is so perverse,
like all bureaucracies become. They just they cease to be
about pursuing the aims of the bureaucracy. They become about
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protecting the bureaucracy. That's the iron law of bureaucracy. In
America's government schools are a shining example of it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Coming up, the doomsday clock has been moved closer to midnight,
that which is the world destroying itself then it has
ever been. And it's in with a couple of the
stories of the day about China and Trump wanting to
build an iron dome here in the United States.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
So we'll get to that next segment. Need just set
a doomsday alarm. So I don't, you know, forget Yeah,
I'm walking around the house and realize, Oh my god,
is it Tuesday. Oh my god, it's doomsday. Oh crap,
I better call and tell him I'm going to be late.
I hope I don't get charged.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So I talked about since Dry January is coming to
a close this week, and I know a few people
who are anticipating the weekend having gone through dry January,
looking forward to it. I did talk about no wine
February with my son last night. That's wine with an
h I'm we're going to try that. He liked the
idea of it, and I like the idea of it.
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We both realize we can't do it. It would be impossible,
be like an alcoholic doing dry January. It's just not
possible to make it the whole month, no wine February.
But we're gonna we're gonna give it a whirl, and
we're gonna police each other to a certain extent.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And you've come up with a working definition of what
is whining as opposed to legitimate expressions.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's like pornography. You'll know it when you see it. Okay,
all right? Like what would you consider not whining a legitimate.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Oh goodness, yeah, we're gonna have a brainstorm on here.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Okay, Ah, what's clearly whining? Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Does it have to be? I wasn't thinking about the
tone of voice that's usually do you have to use that?
Tonal boys weren't to be whinnying?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, I don't have.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Easy answers to this. I think it's a really interesting question.
But I mean, isn't it a lot like pornography?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Though?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I feel like I know it when I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
If if you know, if somebody stopped me with what
you're doing just there, never whining, I would either say
yes or no.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I think I would know, or a legitimate.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Gripe if you And I'm trying to come up with scenarios
that would make sense to you in your life. But
if you call home and say to your son, hey,
can you take the ground beef out of the freezer?
I need to make hamburgers tonight, and uh pabla, he
says yeah, yeah, okay, and then he doesn't take them
out of the freezer. If you get home and say
that's how we have nothing to eat, because I can't think,
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that's clearly not whining, No, not at all. If he
says hamburgers, why can't we ever go out? Oh, that's
actual whining. This I prejudiced the discussion.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
My kids whining.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
My kids are the opposite, which makes me feel horrible.
This is my biggest failure as a single parent. Is
the whole eating thing. Henry said to me last night,
you never cook anything. We always eat out, and I
just I know. He said, I'll make the one thing
I know how to make. I really it's to better.
It's a time thing.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Hey, make sure a harsh and derisive emails to mail
bag and I'm a strong and getting up.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And make sure they're harsh and derisive both, right, don't
waste start time. No, I'm not gonna read if it's
only harsh, but not derisive whin. On the No Wine
February Katie, you had a comment on that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh I need, I want.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I was whining like a little you know what the
other day about having to go to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I actually out loud, looked at Drew and went.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Well, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Whining. Is one function of whining? Is not accepting reality?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I feel like isn't that a part of whining?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Because the example I was having in my head is
my regular whining, Like I get off the phone with a.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
This stupid automated system at the pharmacy. I can't damn it.
They were trying to reorder.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It drunk and it Well, I feel like that's whining,
even though I'm Maybe it gets back to the thought
that you introduced on the show.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
If a problem cannot be solved, it's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It's a fact.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And the fact is I need to figure out a
way to deal with the stupid automated system that doesn't work. Yeah,
you yin, you yell whine.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah he's a yiner. He's being a dentist's Katie, just
I don't know. Maybe there's a dentist listen who could
could advise me on this.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Is there a an actual law.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
That says the hygienist has to talk every blanking second.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Must be you know?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I think so it's some people, Well go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It's funny would bring that up.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
My son got his hair cut the other day and
he was he was so happy that he had made
the clear message to the person cutting his hair that
he's not one of those people that wants to have
a conversation. She's tried to start talking to him and
he and he was able to shut her down in
a polite way, and he basically said, I learned it
from you, dad.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It snay on the appy. That what he said, the
old cut cut.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Son with the with the hygienists, it's not just talking,
but they're asking questions and you have both of.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Your hands in my mouth. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Is it because some people are nervous and freaked out
about it and they're just trying to like it's like
a personal trainer. We'll talk to you while you're doing
your repsode at the time.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What is the person at the grocery store? Do it?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Got big plays on the don't, I don't. I don't
need to talk to you. You're a nice person, I'm sure,
and there are people who want to talk to you.
I'm not one of them.
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Speaker 3 (27:07):
I wonder what the dental hygiene is similar to the
people at the grocery store or lots of different walks
of life. They're told by their bosses to engage you conversation,
engage you in conversation. And I just wish we could
all have a where I'm wearing a lanyard right now
with the key card to get in the door. I
wish there was a lanyard I could wear, or I'd
get a tattoo on my head. I'm not one of
(27:27):
those people you need to talk to so they don't
get in trouble at work because I know they're being
told to engage me in conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And there are you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
You always talk about you to your wife, how she
she enjoys it. Some people do, that's fine, but I
don't need you don't need to say to me, what
are your plans this evening?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I freaking hate that. And it's not your fault. It's me,
not you. Yeah, maybe there's a fear.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We can print out a card that says, in brief form,
I am more than capable of entertaining myself by thinking
about my life and issues and blah blah blah. I
don't need you telling me a mony Dane's story about
the day your cat got wet. A story that includes
no humor, nor punchline, nor insight. A story that merely exists,
(28:09):
apparently to pass the wind through your mouth.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yes, Michael, just scrape my gums, don't flap your guns.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, I go, I go.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
This story was merely to pass wind through your mouth.
Oh that's pretty funny. The Doomsday clock is the closest
it's been to midnight. Ever Does that mean anything or not?
But then there's a couple of world stories that fit
in with it. Stay tuned. A movement is growing to
put Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Non matter. Meanwhile, there's another movement to put Nancy Pelosi's
face on eBay. The whole there's there's no movement to
put Trump's face on Mount Rushmow, or there shouldn't be
no there, Well, there's certainly no there's no chance of
that happening. Ever, nobody's going to be added or subtracted
(29:09):
at any point to mount rushmore. So can we stop
talking about it? Oh, you're trying to say you really
like Trump? Just say you really like Trump?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Right, So, a couple of things that would build up
to the stupid thing, A couple of real things to
build up to the stupid thing.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Here first, real thing.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I don't know if you know about China's undersea cable
sabotage where they cut that big cable from wherever to whatever.
But ain't cool. I was reading this from the dispatch.
What we're witnessing is a more brazen Beijing, now employing
full spectrum tactics behind vanishingly thin facades of opacity and deniability.
(29:54):
China seems much less concerned about reputational costs, calculating that
in any international rage will be limited and manageable. This
reflects both its strategy and its experience. China's experience has
been that international outrage is fleeting and of a minimal
real cost, while its strategy is to normalize increasingly aggressive
behavior so that lower levels of aggression become routine and
(30:17):
barely noted. We've seen really good analysis. I know we've
seen this aggression become root blah blah blah. We've seen
this play out across many domains, including in the air,
on or under the sea, in cyberspace, and through lawfare.
So accustom has the world become to it that incidents
that used to generate headlines now barely receive public mention.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That is interesting and clearly true.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, I've been shocked at some of the outrageous
China's quote unquote gotten away with. I mean not like
I have an answer to how to stop them exactly,
but yeah, they have abandoned the idea. All right, we
will use charm end force just for well, we're going
to use lots of lots of force, because it turns
out nobody does anything well.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
In underwater communications cable. But between free countries that they
don't want to exist, they cut it. How about the
biggest hack cyber hack in world history that we have
all of our phones, as far as I still know,
are being read by the Chinese Communist Party because our
phone systems haven't figured out how to get the Chinese
out of it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That doesn't even make the news. Really, it kind of
goes both ways. Though.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I was listening to NPR and they mentioned how we
had this big military exercise last year in the Philippines
and we put some of our very best rocket launchers
there temporarily as part of a military exercise. Philippines announced
they're staying and China's within range, so it works both ways.
That's the sort of thing that would have gotten headlines
(31:48):
maybe on our end before. But this ramping up to
god confrontation between the most two most powerful countries that
have ever existed, you think it'd get more attention anyway.
Moving on from that before I get to the probably
dumb thing. Trump has ordered the Pentagon to pursue an
US iron dome missile defense system. If you know anything
(32:10):
about Israel's, it's been pretty effective. The biggest difference being
that Israel is a tiny country and there's not actually
a dome. It's just a whole bunch of different missiles
put around the tiny country that can shoot down any
incoming missiles. That it's like having an iron dome over
your country to protect you, and it works very very well.
(32:33):
How do you do that for the United States of America?
Not exactly sure. It is going to be incredibly expensive,
but probably worth it and probably necessary, so This will
be quite the argument. The super pacifist types will talk about, how,
you know, we have people starving and we're spending money
(32:53):
on war or whatever bs.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
And this is destabilizing. We'll hear that quite a bit.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
The issue of scaling the Iron Dome to a country
as vast as ours as well could be insurmountable. But
I like the at least I have the scientist to
put pencils of paper and see.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
What you come up with.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, I have a feeling that it might just cover
you know, d C, New York, LA, crucial military sites
as opposed to where I'm from in Kansas, because there's
almost no chance that's going to be attacked. Right, Probably
be the way it works, But I thought that was interesting.
And then leading up to this and whether or not
(33:32):
you think this means anything or not, there's this group,
the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, has moved its doomsday clock
forward for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
They've got this great, big, giant clock.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It's been around since nineteen forty seven, right after the
Cold War began and the Soviet Union tested their nuclear weapons,
and it became clear that the United States and the
Soviet Union could destroy the world if they got into
a war. This group of a scientist that includes are
many Nobel Prize winners, a whole bunch. They make this
(34:06):
thing just to illustrate how close we are to blowing
up the world at various times over the years, and
it moves forward or backward. And during the eighties it
was getting closer and closer because Reagan was so belligerent.
Then after the Soviet Union fell, it moved way back
till ten to midnight or something like that, and then
it's gotten closer and back and forth. They just moved
it closer than it's ever been to midnight. The probability
of a global disaster. I think that's silly. I was
(34:29):
just watching the Bob Dylan movie on Saturday Night and
they feature the Cuban missile crisis in there and Bob
Dylan riding Masters of War. We are way closer to
blowing up the world during the Cuban missile crisis than
we are.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Now, I believe. But I'm not a Nobel winning scientist. Joe.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Now, some of you recall it during the nineties, the
doomsday clock was carried by flavor flave around his neck.
That was actually the doomsday clock.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
The doomsday clock is now eighty nine seconds to midnight,
the closest has ever been to apocalypse. The terrifying news
was revealed Tuesday after deliberation by the organization's security Board
and border of sponsors, which includes nine Nobel Laureates. Every
second of delay increases the probability of global disasters, said
the guy in charge.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's the final count down to lude.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Multiple global threats were considered, the proliferation of nuclear weapons
that's always been around, disruptive technology such as AI okay,
the Russia, Ukraine warm Israel, Homas war, the Israel has Bola, conflict, biothreats,
and what adds to it, what gets us closer to
midnight at evil?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Donald Trump, climate.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Change, Downtown shot up, stop it. They didn't mention Kim
Jong un getting all the arnery up there.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
It might be in the list, but I don't think
we're in a more dangerous point than we've ever been.
We're a pretty dangerous point though, Oh yeah, no doubt
about ray.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I prefer the debt clock.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
If I'm going to pick a apocalyptic clock, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I would agree.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 5 (36:10):
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Katty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
The cheapest super Bowl tickets are listening.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
For five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
The cheapest, the most expensive ones are going for half
a million. Right now, fans are asking themselves should I
buy two Super Bowl tickets.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Or a dozen eggs.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I've never been to a super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You'd think I would go during this run of the
Kansas City Chiefs, the team I have rooted for most
of my life, but I have not. I don't know
if I need that experience in my life. Actually, there's
part of me that would be curious to see it. Yeah,
just the whole process of it exactly. The game is
just as an observer, not as a foot No, no, no,
(01:01):
If I want to watch a game, that's probably not
the best way to do it. But yeah, it would be,
and it'd be fun to talk about on the radio
all the things you see and experience. But that's a
lot of money.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hotels are insane, and in addition to the ticket, all
that sort of stuff. So do you know who Selena
Gomez is She was a Disney star, then she was
in some of those kids shows on Nickelodeon, and she
became a grown up actress, singer, and now she's star
of a kind of a cult favorite, Only Murders in
(01:32):
the Building with Steve Martin and Martin Short, very good show,
very very entertaining program.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I enjoyed a great deal. It's just the right mood.
At the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
She is also a person of she's a latinix with the.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Next Wow, we can't be friends anymore go on?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And she posted this video. I don't know how easy
it's going to be to understand her. I saw it
with like caption because she's crying so hard. It's a
little hard to understand it.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Here you go, I just trying to say that I'm
so sorry home maybe people forgetting attacked the children.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I wish I could do something that he can't. I
don't know what to do. I'll try and be there.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
This is all around Trump's evil, racist surrounding up of
children and adults and purging anyone who's not white in America.
As she sees it, I guess before.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The scenes of Trump's police dogs rounding up kindergarteners is
shocking to the concience. Oh, that's right, it's just adults,
criminals and fairly least areous ones being rounded up.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Before we ruin the beating up on Selena Gomez. Portion
of this, we'll get to Tom Holman, who's running this
whole operation for Trump, and him responding directly to who's
Selena Gomez?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Because she has.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Four million Twitter followers or TikTok followers or whatever. She's
got gazillions of people following her, so he wanted to respond, we.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Got quarterman Americans, death and fantinof across at olden border.
Where's the tears for them? I've met with hundreds of angels,
moms and dads who are separate if their children because
they buried them because they're kilbar alien. We got half
of man children or sex trafficked into this country but
separated from their family's put in the hands or criminal
cartels to be spoken in the country. This administration can't
(03:30):
find he worth three hundred thousand, where's the tears for them?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So well, there's two things to Selena Gomez specifically, and
I don't know really anything about her other than she
did a big special about her bipolar problems she's had
throughout her life, and she's bipolar. And that video was
taken down shortly after she posted it, though it went
viral and sped around really fast, So who knows where
(03:55):
she is with her mental illness on that?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And I have no need nor take any delight in
beating up on an individually young woman well for her silly,
tearful political beliefs, especially.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
If she has mental hem.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes, we got mental illness in our family. And sometimes
people have really really rough days about all kinds of
different stuff, and you criticize it all you Want's got
nothing to do with what's going on in their brain.
But her point of view is echoed by many, many
people across the country.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Right, I am more than willing to take on the ideas,
and I think mister Holman's reply was absolutely appropriate leaving
poor little Selena Gomez out of this, I mean, who cares.
Just let's take on the ideas. He's absolutely right. The cost,
not only the material cost, but the human cost of
allowing whoever wants to sneak into the country in has
(04:53):
been absolutely horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Horrific.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
And as I pointed out yesterday and we'll point out
until this is done and it never will be, the
number of future victims that have been prevented by the
heaving of these few thousands, soon to be many thousand
criminals out of our country is a victory for humanity.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And to put your focus on the discomfort of some
of the people involved, once again, the Biden administration and
their adherence to their crazy ass policies have created an
enormous mess. And those of us in favor of cleaning
it up are tired of you saying your.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Broom is leaving Marx in my floor. Yeah, we're cleaning
up a horrible mess. Here's Sam Olsen with Chicago ICE.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
It's kind of an arduous process, right. It's worn a
difficult situation here in Chicago because a lot of the
targets that we're looking at were previously arrested by local
or state authorities, and we've placed holds on many of
them and they were released from facility into the communities again,
so we have to go through, you know, spend a
lot of hours researching where they're living, and then actually
(06:08):
go out into their environment to try to arrest them.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, what's the one.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Maybe this is the report that I saw on NBC
News I thought was really interesting. Yeah, go with fifty five,
Michael and I have a point to make.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
President Trump's promise crackdown on the illegal immigration is underway.
When we arrive at a tire shop, twenty five year
old Christopher Latta is arrested outside. I says he has
a criminal record, including home invasion and aggravated battery. Agents
lead him away in handcuffs. He denies the charges against him,
facing possible deportation to Mexico. He also says he'd leave
(06:46):
behind a five year old daughter.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
He does have serious charges and convictions, So.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I understand he has a daughter and get that's unfortunate,
But we still have a job to do and we
still have to follow them.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The thing that really grabbed me in that report actually
is after that when they start talking about how many
cops and ice agents were required to get this one guy,
and how how much money it costs, how much manpower
it takes, because, as we keep saying, you allowed this
to happen, and now the unwinding of it is really
(07:20):
really difficult, and you're making it more difficult because instead
of the ICE agents simply going to the jail and
the moment this guy's release, taking him into custody, safer
for them, safer for the illegal immigrants, safer for the family,
safer for the community, better for everyone. No, to signal
your perverse virtue, you turn.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Them loose and make us, the US track him down again.
It's idiotic. So here is, and I'm sorry. It's there's
a certain soft headedness among people who all they can
recognize as the quote unquote the unfortunate thing is the
latest thing that five year old girl's main problem is
(08:00):
her dad as a criminal. Her main problem isn't that
her dad's going to be deported. I mean, that's a problem,
and it's too bad. But why is that happening because
Trump is mean? No, because her dad's a blank in criminal.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So I heard somebody make this point the other day.
I wish I could remember who it was, might have
been Eli Lake on a podcast whatever. I thought this
was really good though, because there's a lot of Trump's
campaign and then winning, and then his innaugurial address, and
then some of the things he said last week and
everything and it was the criticism from the anti Trump
crowd about how dark he is and his dark view
(08:36):
of America and the darkness around this and just so
dark and everything like that, and the point that for
I don't know what percentage of country, half the country,
the left, they don't understand. Yeah, it has seemed pretty
dark to a lot of us when we hear about
(08:58):
somebody being raped or care a child whoever, by an
illegal who had been captured many times and let go,
that's a pretty dark world we're living in where kids
are allowed to be mutilated by doctors to change their
sex and the school hides it. That's a pretty dark
world we're living in. Having to go to work and
(09:21):
sit through a lecture where you're called a racist is
fairly freaking dark. There's a lot of really dark things
that have been going on in the last several years,
and that's how we feel. So, yeah, if it's kind
of a dark view, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well, I would content myself with the knowledge that the
vast majority of America is with you, and it's only
a handful of the chattering classes and the so called
intelligentsia who aren't. And I'm certainly hoping the wave drowns them.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Ideologically speaking, I just thought that was such a great point,
the walking down the street of your town. If you
live in certain towns with all the drug addicts everywhere,
that's a pretty dystopian dark world that didn't exist at all.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
You gotta huddle your children close to you and cross
the street to avoid the craze junkies.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, that's fairly dark. Didn't used to be that way.
That's kind of a dark existence. So yeah, if a
guy comes along talking about how dark it is and
people willingly vote for him, it's because of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, yeah, he's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
You are.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And what was the other thing. Oh, it's a great
example of the protected and the unprotected classes, the rich
intelligency on their college campuses. They've created their little worlds.
They're unaffected by this. But I do want to get
back to the psychology of not Selena Gomez in particular,
but that sort of video, the weeping online video, and.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dissect that a little bit. I think you'll find it interesting.
Oh yeah, what a fascinating phenomenon. No wonder how long
it's going to be in our lives. That and other
stuff on the way, I.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Just trying to say that I'm so sorry, only be
forgetting to tag the children.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Right, this is not about wrestling with Selena Gomez, who's
a troubled young woman. What about the phenomenon of the
weeping young woman posting some heartfelt political screen?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Before you explain this that in the olden times, like
prior to five years ago, mostly crying emotionally was something
you tried to not do publicly, Like you, you really
tried to keep it together publicly, even funerals. Usually people
would try to keep it together for whatever reason. It
was I don't want to say embarrassing, but it was private. Yes, yeah,
(11:52):
on the main, sure, with some exceptions.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But and uh.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
There were a couple of comments to this that I
thought were interesting and opened up a much more interesting
can of worms than Porcelina Gomez inter mental health. One
person asked, why would anyone deliberately shoot video of themselves
weeping and then then share that video with millions of strangers.
It's bizarre and debasing behavior and should be treated as
abnormal and unhealthy, and yet it's considered entirely normal.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And I thought, yeah, that is true.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
But then I came across another comment a set of
comments that I thought were really intriguing, and this person writes,
no aspect of women's behavior on social media is going
to make sense until you realize two things. And as always,
there are many perfectly sane, strong, great American women listening
to the show, and we salute you, and you're not
We're not putting you with these people, believe me.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But this guy points out a couple of things.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Number One, for women, the appearance of vulnerability is status enhancing.
They get positive feedback, they get nurturing, they get caring,
they get attention by appearing vulnerable. Two, for women, the
appearance of compassion is status enhancing.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Same thing.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Thus, women who play status games online will simultaneously insist
that they are under constant threat of let's say, rape
by purely theoretical criminals every time they step out the door,
but also that actual criminals must, on no count be punished,
on no account be punished because they were underprivileged and
(13:26):
couldn't help themselves, the poor DearS. The meaning of both
of these ideas is really just quote, I am very
feminine and therefore precious, and you should all pay attention
to me, and and he gets it. It's a little long,
but he gets into the paradox of the progressive point
(13:46):
of view that he touches on. H buh. The need
to display performative compassion while displaying performative vulnerability forces a
very interesting sort of mental gymnastics among women who play
this game. They must tell us constantly, and he uses
rape as an example. They must tell us constantly that
rapists are everywhere and they are in constant danger. But
(14:08):
the actual men who rape, almost universally, have one thing
in common. They are not societies most preferred. They are
bums and junkies, many poor, many black, brown, many in
the country, illegally uneducated, have rap sheets. Maybe they speak English,
maybe they don't. They come from undesirable dip zip codes.
(14:31):
They are the unemployed and the unemployable. They are mentally
ill and emotionally unstable. And usually they're more than one
of these things. I would say, statistically speaking, yes, The
problem is that right there is a laundry list of
people who are socially unsafe for women to criticize, because
the narrative is that they are failing to thrive because
of oppression by those who are thriving. Instead of because
(14:51):
they lack the IQ score, they lack the sanity, or
they lack the life skills to get their crap together, or.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Are just bad.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Oh yeah, exactly, Yeah, they're unbalanced. So the compassion signaling
would get in the way of the vulnerability signaling, and
the vulnerability signaling would get in the way of the
compassion signaling unless, unless, a shell game can be performed
where the blame for male on female rape is shifted
to those lighte least likely to commit it, high status,
(15:21):
well socialized, educated men, typically white or East Asian, And
so the notion has spread that rape is committed by
high status, well socialized men out of an attitude of entitlement,
rather than beside society's antisocial outsiders, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
And that's not to claim.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
For a single second that the aforementioned high status people
never commit rape. That would be a silly thing to assert,
But you get the conundrum he's describing there. It reminds
me of the constant howling about gun laws and then
utter refusal to enforce them because those charges mostly go
against people of color.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And this is racist, which one is it? Left America
just let us know when you figure that out. There's
also the didn't last very long, I don't think, but
in some quarters, especially on university campuses, there's this There
was this idea which is insane that if someone is upset,
(16:22):
you did something wrong. By definition, if someone is offended,
you did something offensive. Look you did something offensive. Look
they're offended without we believe the victims, without any a
judgment as to whether or not. Maybe they're a little
too precious about this.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Issue, right, And think of how that rearranges the power.
When if I say it was racist to me, it
is racist. Therefore you are racist in all cases, which
is what the DEI crowd and the critical race theory
in the Black Lives Matter people were claiming. Think about
how that arranges the power kind of you know dynamic. Well,
(17:01):
it makes it impossible to function as a society, is
what it does.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
The doomsday clock has been moved the closest to midnight
it ever has been. Among other things we're going to
talk about stay tuned, are strong and getty.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I haven't heard this yet.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
This is a teacher talking about homework and how she
doesn't give much homework.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Maybe we can discuss this.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
A lot of people coming at me other teachers for
saying that I'm not doing my job because I'm not
assigning homework. But there's no proof that homework is going
to make them better students in my class. I respect
their time outside of class. They work hard for me
all day. They don't need to go home and do
more homework because if they do it at home, it
does not show me mastery. It's extra practice, sure, but
not practice that they're doing it wrong. It's not good
(17:41):
practice that they're cheating. It's not good practice if they're
having someone.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Else do it.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Most of my students are high schoolers. They have jobs,
they have sports, they're in practice, they're in band. Some
of them are going home and taking care of their
younger siblings because their parents are at work. So if
I also give them hours of homework, when do they
have time to be kids?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Hmm, that's an interesting topic right there, the homework yes
or no, and then how much yes or no?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Well, exactly, there's a bit of a false dichotomy thing there.
If I give them hours of homework, how are they
going to be?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
How about if you just give.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Them a little to reinforce what they've learned, or do
a little independent reading or whatever it's it's you know,
it's a question of degree.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
If I don't know the answer on this, I've with
a couple of kids. I've seen different philosophies from different teachers,
from none to a lot. I certainly remember as a
kid doing homework sometimes and just it just like it
seems like being an assault mine. I'm doing my nine
hundredth you know, two digit multiplication?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Is this?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Is this necessarily?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I like to point there, if you're doing it wrong,
all you're doing is practicing doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
But I don't know what the right answer is on that.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I do think there are at various times in our
education so them maybe now, I don't know. There has
been kind of a philosophy that just doing homework automatically
is a good thing, and that's clearly not true.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Sometimes it's just a busy work. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I have a couple of opposing thoughts. Number one, how
many people walk around saying the American education system is
too rigorous, the Christs are learning too much.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Right.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Here's the opposing thought though, is the reason they have
to assign so much homework is because it is so
unproductive in class, because of out of control behavior. Thanks
to restorative justice, Neo Marxist garbage, because of the number
of non English speakers in the class, Because the amount
(19:40):
of time they're spending trying to convince the little girls
who are afraid of puberty that they're actually little boys
not to take powerful hormones. Is that why they have
to do so much more?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Too many assembles during assemblies during Pride month, too many
assemblies discussing restorative justice.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I've seen all this.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Blm rallies during the day, permission to leave class to
go march whatever.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, but I did say to this is my line.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I use a lot. Henry had a bunch of homework
to do.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I said, you know who else is complaining what other
kids complaining about their homework tonight?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Every other kid in America?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Exactly, You're not the only way. That's the government school
systems one of several things that really needs to be
torn down to the studs and rebuilt. It is so perverse,
like all bureaucracies become. They just they cease to be
about pursuing the aims of the bureaucracy. They become about
(20:42):
protecting the bureaucracy. That's the iron law of bureaucracy. In
America's government schools are a shining example of it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Coming up, the doomsday clock has been moved closer to midnight,
that which is the world destroying itself then it has
ever been. And it's in with a couple of the
stories of the day about China and Trump wanting to
build an iron dome here in the United States.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
So we'll get to that next segment. Need just set
a doomsday alarm. So I don't, you know, forget Yeah,
I'm walking around the house and realize, Oh my god,
is it Tuesday. Oh my god, it's doomsday. Oh crap,
I better call and tell him I'm going to be late.
I hope I don't get charged.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
So I talked about since Dry January is coming to
a close this week, and I know a few people
who are anticipating the weekend having gone through dry January,
looking forward to it. I did talk about no wine
February with my son last night. That's wine with an
h I'm we're going to try that. He liked the
idea of it, and I like the idea of it.
(21:42):
We both realize we can't do it. It would be impossible,
be like an alcoholic doing dry January. It's just not
possible to make it the whole month, no wine February.
But we're gonna we're gonna give it a whirl, and
we're gonna police each other to a certain extent.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And you've come up with a working definition of what
is whining as opposed to legitimate expressions.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It's like pornography. You'll know it when you see it. Okay,
all right? Like what would you consider not whining a legitimate.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Oh goodness, yeah, we're gonna have a brainstorm on here.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Okay, Ah, what's clearly whining? Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Does it have to be? I wasn't thinking about the
tone of voice that's usually do you have to use that?
Tonal boys weren't to be whinnying?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, I don't have.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Easy answers to this. I think it's a really interesting question.
But I mean, isn't it a lot like pornography?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Though?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I feel like I know it when I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
If if you know, if somebody stopped me with what
you're doing just there, never whining, I would either say
yes or no.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I think I would know, or a legitimate.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Gripe if you And I'm trying to come up with scenarios
that would make sense to you in your life. But
if you call home and say to your son, hey,
can you take the ground beef out of the freezer?
I need to make hamburgers tonight, and uh pabla, he
says yeah, yeah, okay, and then he doesn't take them
out of the freezer. If you get home and say
that's how we have nothing to eat, because I can't think,
(23:09):
that's clearly not whining, No, not at all. If he
says hamburgers, why can't we ever go out? Oh, that's
actual whining. This I prejudiced the discussion.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
My kids whining.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
My kids are the opposite, which makes me feel horrible.
This is my biggest failure as a single parent. Is
the whole eating thing. Henry said to me last night,
you never cook anything. We always eat out, and I
just I know. He said, I'll make the one thing
I know how to make. I really it's to better.
It's a time thing.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Hey, make sure a harsh and derisive emails to mail
bag and I'm a strong and getting up.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
And make sure they're harsh and derisive both, right, don't
waste start time. No, I'm not gonna read if it's
only harsh, but not derisive whin. On the No Wine
February Katie, you had a comment on that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh I need, I want.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I was whining like a little you know what the
other day about having to go to the dentist.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I actually out loud, looked at Drew and went.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Well, that's.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Whining. Is one function of whining? Is not accepting reality?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I feel like isn't that a part of whining?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Because the example I was having in my head is
my regular whining, Like I get off the phone with a.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
This stupid automated system at the pharmacy. I can't damn it.
They were trying to reorder.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
It drunk and it Well, I feel like that's whining,
even though I'm Maybe it gets back to the thought
that you introduced on the show.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
If a problem cannot be solved, it's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It's a fact.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And the fact is I need to figure out a
way to deal with the stupid automated system that doesn't work. Yeah,
you yin, you yell whine.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah he's a yiner. He's being a dentist's Katie, just
I don't know. Maybe there's a dentist listen who could
could advise me on this.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Is there a an actual law.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
That says the hygienist has to talk every blanking second.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Must be you know?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I think so it's some people, Well go ahead.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It's funny would bring that up.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
My son got his hair cut the other day and
he was he was so happy that he had made
the clear message to the person cutting his hair that
he's not one of those people that wants to have
a conversation. She's tried to start talking to him and
he and he was able to shut her down in
a polite way, and he basically said, I learned it
from you, dad.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It snay on the appy. That what he said, the
old cut cut.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Son with the with the hygienists, it's not just talking,
but they're asking questions and you have both of.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Your hands in my mouth. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Is it because some people are nervous and freaked out
about it and they're just trying to like it's like
a personal trainer. We'll talk to you while you're doing
your repsode at the time.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
What is the person at the grocery store? Do it?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Got big plays on the don't, I don't. I don't
need to talk to you. You're a nice person, I'm sure,
and there are people who want to talk to you.
I'm not one of them.
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Speaker 3 (27:07):
I wonder what the dental hygiene is similar to the
people at the grocery store or lots of different walks
of life. They're told by their bosses to engage you conversation,
engage you in conversation. And I just wish we could
all have a where I'm wearing a lanyard right now
with the key card to get in the door. I
wish there was a lanyard I could wear, or I'd
get a tattoo on my head. I'm not one of
(27:27):
those people you need to talk to so they don't
get in trouble at work because I know they're being
told to engage me in conversation.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
And there are you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
You always talk about you to your wife, how she
she enjoys it. Some people do, that's fine, but I
don't need you don't need to say to me, what
are your plans this evening?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I freaking hate that. And it's not your fault. It's me,
not you. Yeah, maybe there's a fear.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We can print out a card that says, in brief form,
I am more than capable of entertaining myself by thinking
about my life and issues and blah blah blah. I
don't need you telling me a mony Dane's story about
the day your cat got wet. A story that includes
no humor, nor punchline, nor insight. A story that merely exists,
(28:09):
apparently to pass the wind through your mouth.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yes, Michael, just scrape my gums, don't flap your guns.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, I go, I go.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
This story was merely to pass wind through your mouth.
Oh that's pretty funny. The Doomsday clock is the closest
it's been to midnight. Ever Does that mean anything or not?
But then there's a couple of world stories that fit
in with it. Stay tuned. A movement is growing to
put Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Non matter. Meanwhile, there's another movement to put Nancy Pelosi's
face on eBay. The whole there's there's no movement to
put Trump's face on Mount Rushmow, or there shouldn't be
no there, Well, there's certainly no there's no chance of
that happening. Ever, nobody's going to be added or subtracted
(29:09):
at any point to mount rushmore. So can we stop
talking about it? Oh, you're trying to say you really
like Trump? Just say you really like Trump?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Right, So, a couple of things that would build up
to the stupid thing, A couple of real things to
build up to the stupid thing.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Here first, real thing.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I don't know if you know about China's undersea cable
sabotage where they cut that big cable from wherever to whatever.
But ain't cool. I was reading this from the dispatch.
What we're witnessing is a more brazen Beijing, now employing
full spectrum tactics behind vanishingly thin facades of opacity and deniability.
(29:54):
China seems much less concerned about reputational costs, calculating that
in any international rage will be limited and manageable. This
reflects both its strategy and its experience. China's experience has
been that international outrage is fleeting and of a minimal
real cost, while its strategy is to normalize increasingly aggressive
behavior so that lower levels of aggression become routine and
(30:17):
barely noted. We've seen really good analysis. I know we've
seen this aggression become root blah blah blah. We've seen
this play out across many domains, including in the air,
on or under the sea, in cyberspace, and through lawfare.
So accustom has the world become to it that incidents
that used to generate headlines now barely receive public mention.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That is interesting and clearly true.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, yeah, I've been shocked at some of the outrageous
China's quote unquote gotten away with. I mean not like
I have an answer to how to stop them exactly,
but yeah, they have abandoned the idea. All right, we
will use charm end force just for well, we're going
to use lots of lots of force, because it turns
out nobody does anything well.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
In underwater communications cable. But between free countries that they
don't want to exist, they cut it. How about the
biggest hack cyber hack in world history that we have
all of our phones, as far as I still know,
are being read by the Chinese Communist Party because our
phone systems haven't figured out how to get the Chinese
out of it.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That doesn't even make the news. Really, it kind of
goes both ways. Though.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I was listening to NPR and they mentioned how we
had this big military exercise last year in the Philippines
and we put some of our very best rocket launchers
there temporarily as part of a military exercise. Philippines announced
they're staying and China's within range, so it works both ways.
That's the sort of thing that would have gotten headlines
(31:48):
maybe on our end before. But this ramping up to
god confrontation between the most two most powerful countries that
have ever existed, you think it'd get more attention anyway.
Moving on from that before I get to the probably
dumb thing. Trump has ordered the Pentagon to pursue an
US iron dome missile defense system. If you know anything
(32:10):
about Israel's, it's been pretty effective. The biggest difference being
that Israel is a tiny country and there's not actually
a dome. It's just a whole bunch of different missiles
put around the tiny country that can shoot down any
incoming missiles. That it's like having an iron dome over
your country to protect you, and it works very very well.
(32:33):
How do you do that for the United States of America?
Not exactly sure. It is going to be incredibly expensive,
but probably worth it and probably necessary, so This will
be quite the argument. The super pacifist types will talk about, how,
you know, we have people starving and we're spending money
(32:53):
on war or whatever bs.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
And this is destabilizing. We'll hear that quite a bit.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
The issue of scaling the Iron Dome to a country
as vast as ours as well could be insurmountable. But
I like the at least I have the scientist to
put pencils of paper and see.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
What you come up with.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Well, I have a feeling that it might just cover
you know, d C, New York, LA, crucial military sites
as opposed to where I'm from in Kansas, because there's
almost no chance that's going to be attacked. Right, Probably
be the way it works, But I thought that was interesting.
And then leading up to this and whether or not
(33:32):
you think this means anything or not, there's this group,
the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, has moved its doomsday clock
forward for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
They've got this great, big, giant clock.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It's been around since nineteen forty seven, right after the
Cold War began and the Soviet Union tested their nuclear weapons,
and it became clear that the United States and the
Soviet Union could destroy the world if they got into
a war. This group of a scientist that includes are
many Nobel Prize winners, a whole bunch. They make this
(34:06):
thing just to illustrate how close we are to blowing
up the world at various times over the years, and
it moves forward or backward. And during the eighties it
was getting closer and closer because Reagan was so belligerent.
Then after the Soviet Union fell, it moved way back
till ten to midnight or something like that, and then
it's gotten closer and back and forth. They just moved
it closer than it's ever been to midnight. The probability
of a global disaster. I think that's silly. I was
(34:29):
just watching the Bob Dylan movie on Saturday Night and
they feature the Cuban missile crisis in there and Bob
Dylan riding Masters of War. We are way closer to
blowing up the world during the Cuban missile crisis than
we are.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Now, I believe. But I'm not a Nobel winning scientist. Joe.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Now, some of you recall it during the nineties, the
doomsday clock was carried by flavor flave around his neck.
That was actually the doomsday clock.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
The doomsday clock is now eighty nine seconds to midnight,
the closest has ever been to apocalypse. The terrifying news
was revealed Tuesday after deliberation by the organization's security Board
and border of sponsors, which includes nine Nobel Laureates. Every
second of delay increases the probability of global disasters, said
the guy in charge.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's the final count down to lude.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Multiple global threats were considered, the proliferation of nuclear weapons
that's always been around, disruptive technology such as AI okay,
the Russia, Ukraine warm Israel, Homas war, the Israel has Bola, conflict, biothreats,
and what adds to it, what gets us closer to
midnight at evil?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Donald Trump, climate.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Change, Downtown shot up, stop it. They didn't mention Kim
Jong un getting all the arnery up there.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
It might be in the list, but I don't think
we're in a more dangerous point than we've ever been.
We're a pretty dangerous point though, Oh yeah, no doubt
about ray.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
I prefer the debt clock.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
If I'm going to pick a apocalyptic clock, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I would agree.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 5 (36:10):
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