July 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Deadly Tiktok challenge & diabetes Barbie
- AI power needs
- Why are women in particular getting radicalized
- Jack's "hilarious" meme
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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, Ketty Armstrong and
Jettie and he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's a good way to end up dead, especially in Florida.
You got to think you're about to become a victim
of a home invasion robbery under the castle. Doctor, you're
gonna shoot first and ask questions later. You're endangering your
future with this TikTok challenge.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh my god, a TikTok challenge. And I love anytime
the castle doctrine is invoked. What are we talking about, Well,
let's see, Sheriff of Lusia County in sunny Florida. There's
a new viral social media trend where teenagers are kicking
in people's doors in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I know I have at least decent memories of being
a teenager, and my response would have been immediately, we're
gonna get shot. There's no effing way I'm doing that.
I'm shut. I fought for a long time whenever I'd
hear the term TikTok challenge. That wasn't really happening and
nobody was really doing it. There are more people doing
(01:20):
it than I think, because that's I don't know what
is saying that's not Yeah, So they.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The TikTok drilled pounded a nail into their eyes, So
I guess I'd better do it.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I just I don't understand the thinking here.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
So the sheriff Mike Chitwood, who we just heard, said
teenagers are kicking indoors and scaring people inside. They give
a couple of examples. These folks had security cameras and
it took deputies about two hours to catch a thirteen
year old girl and a fifteen year old boy. Let's see,
teens are accused of taking part in a viral prank
known as the door Kicking Challenge on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh, well, I'm sure. And then you have a friend
stam and video it. That's the whole thing, right, then
you post it and how hilarious it is that some
people inside were scared to death and thought that they
and their kids were gonna die.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
See, that's that's crazy you are.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, even if you don't get shot, just the morality
of it that you scared to death the people inside.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, there's a combination.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Of stupidity and moral bankruptcy there that's a little bit challenging.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, but you know, I don't come.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
From the sort of neighborhood where we would like kill
people from a minor dispute or a hard look. And
so nah, I think it's a I blame Johnny Knoxville.
It's the whole jackass thing has just started decades ago
and it's just continued to where people are willing to
abuse anyone for supposed.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Laughs as a teenager. Yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You open up uh camps, draconian punishments.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Have an update on diabetes, Barbie, just because it's come
up a couple of times. I mean, we're making the
joke about it's a it's a condition. It's you can't
look at somebody until they've got diabetes. So like you said,
what's a Barbie that was born with one kidney? I mean,
is that a Barbie? No diabetic Barbie? Where's a glucose
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glucose monitor on her arm? Comes with the Barbie set
an insulin infusion set on her body and carries it
carries the meter, so very visible markers of type one diabetes. Okay,
I don't know how this makes a little Yeah, exactly,
that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Who's wanting that?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
How about lime disease? People get that, ticks bite them,
et cetera. How about lime disease. We deserve a barbie
lime disease.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So you want a Barbie who's for whatever reason pulling
one of those things, you know, the metal things on
the wheels I've had at the hospital when I had
getting chemo. You know, you gotta go the bathroom and
you gotta walk down the hall with that thing behind
you because you gotta drip in your arm. Right, that's
that the barbie you want?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Uh yeah, maybe like an all purpose, not in hirely
healthy barbie, right.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
An odd idea, right, yeah, I agree, very odd idea.
And let's instead of having a whole bunch of different
barbies I like yours at all purpose, let's have all
the ailments or bad things that could happen to hiven
being in one barbie. Right, a set of accessories you
can buy. It's like beach house, you know, Yell, she's
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got skin problems, she's missing an eye, she's mangy, she's
just all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Headlighte barbie, Barbie.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, right, but I mean, diabetes can be a serious condition,
of course, so why not like and I don't mean
to make light of this obviously, but why not leukemia
Barbie or you know, how did they come.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
To this decision? I don't know. She's uh, yeah, you
gotta pilot all in one thing, get it over with.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, just all purpose unhealthy Barbie making of beloved American products.
I just wanted to mention this very quickly. Air India's
probe into that horrific crash that just one guy walked
away from and two hundred and some people died, absolutely horrific.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Obviously, whatever happened to.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Is he, like I expect it ended up on Dancing
with the Stars or anything.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Not yet I haven't heard a word from him. We
probably realized, wait a minute, they're exploiting me, all these
media people. They don't care about me, and he has
got gone with a lower profile. Yeah, two hundred and
sixty people died, which is just terrible, obviously, but the
investigation is focusing on the actions of the jets pilots
and not the Boeing seven eighty seven Dreamliner, which has
(05:45):
an unbelievably great safety record, and the engines appeared to
be fine too. Preliminary findings indicate that the switches controlling
fuel flow to the jets two engines were turned off,
leading to an apparent loss of thrust shortly after takeoff.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The people said, hey, motorcycle riders, you ever leave your
little switch to the wrong side and then your motorcycle
starts to die a block from your house?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh yeah, I haven't flipped that on show of hands. Yeah,
everybody's done that, But these pilots did that.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Unclear why they were turned off or how unclear whether
it was accident or a dental or intentional, or whether
there was an attempt to turn.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Them back on.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
If the switches were off, that could explain whether the
jets emergency power generator, known as the RAM air turbine
or RAT, appears to have activated in the moments before
the aircraft plummeted into a nearby hostile for medical students.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Nightmarish blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So you know, it is not a blow to Boeing's
already bruised reputation.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It would seem boy, very few people will hear that.
But god dang it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So they didn't get more than what was it like,
six hundred feet off the ground. Why can't we get
this plane to go higher?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Dude, where's the thrust? Where's the throw? I have the
gas on?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh good, Lord, that's a bad story. You want better
pilots than that.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
God, I would say, we're going to get more into
the immigration raids in Socow. Coming up a little bit later,
the uh ICE raided an illegal pot farm. It turned
ugly when Antifa turned out to be there and resisted
the ICE people in the way that they do violently.
(07:22):
So more on that this. This has got the potential
to turn into a really big story, not this individual one,
but just the overall Antifa violence against ICE agents, right
and the militant left more broadly. But yeah, these Antifa
goons who you remember the mainstream media told us didn't
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exist just a few years ago when they were raining
violence down on Portland for instance, one hundred and twelve
nights in a row. Yeah, they're out and proud.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now let me.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Read this from Byron New York to Washington Examiner. I
thought this was really interesting. There's no doubt antifa is
a fringe extremist group. Y'all know when tifa is right,
that's short for anti fascist. Even though they're absolutely not that.
But a lot of the East Coast mainstream media who
didn't know what Antifa was on the West Coast believed they.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Were anti fascists and went with that for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But Antifa is a fringe extremist group, not isolated. There
are cells throughout the country, but extremists, says Byron York.
Now the issue of opposition to Trump's immigration enforcement has
brought the fanatics of Antifa more closely than ever in
line with the beliefs of progressive Democrats and perhaps those
in the party's mainstream too. Would it be fair to
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call Antifa the militant wing of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Maybe so.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And if it's not fair, it is closer to true
than many Democrats would ever want to acknowledge, writes Byron York.
I saw Fetterman, Senator Fetterman in Pennsylvania say something fairly
similar on Fox TV today and that ICE needs to
be funded and supported and they're just doing their job. He's,
(09:01):
you know, an outlier, I think, But uh, how closely
alied is Antifa and the thinking of a lot of
the Democratic Party, like like Byron new York says, I
think a lot closer than previous Antifa issues.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I'm really intrigued by his question are they the militant
wing of the Democratic Party, because they are absolutely organized.
They are decentralized, but they're one hundred percent organized, which
is it runs counter to one of the other lies
that the media tried to tell us for a long time.
Their views overlap a great deal with the Democratic Party,
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certainly the progressive wing. They have been aided, abetted, and
covered up for by the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Well, if if the politics were flipped because of the
way the media leans left so much, every Democrat would
be asked do you support what antifa is doing or not?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
They'd have to answer for it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But oh, Republicans you mean yeah, if it were Republicans, yeah, yeah,
every Republican every time they showed up anywhere would be
asked about that and have to denounce them, you know,
like the people at Charlottesville after that, and you know,
all that sort of thing endlessly. But Democrats won't be
asked to speak to this, at least not yet. But
this story is not over by far.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
And in related story, came across some really interesting scholarship
that finally thoroughly answers the question I've been asking over
and over again and trying to dig into why are
young women, not only in America but around the world
becoming so radicalized and so left and way disproportionately women
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like that Big frankis at Columbia University where eighty people
were arrested after taking over and vandalizing the library and
holding people hostage. Briefly, eighty people arrested, sixty one of
them women. What's going on? Finally got a great, thorough answer.
It's troubling, but man, you have to you have to
diagnose the problem before you can start talking about a cure.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I did my first ever cold plunge.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It was kind of a baby cold plunge, and that
I just jumped into a cold shower. Although it was
shocking enough. This morning when I jumped in the cold shower,
I went, I'm actually made that noise. I'm glad, my
thanks you get credit. Yeah, I'm glad. My bedroom's far
away from the kids so they don't think something horrible
has happened, or or I don't want them to hear
their dad make that noise.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I'm picturing Multislamic obscenities. I don't think I cussed.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think I just made that very whoosy sound and
expelled all my breath. It was shocking. But man, I
came out of that and just like, let's.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Go, come on, world, bring it on. I couldn't take it.
It was It was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Oh, I need to consult a cardiologist whether that's a
good idea for me. But I gotta admit I know
that feeling, that exhilarated feeling, because I've had to take
cold showers at campgrounds and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And you do come out just to take on the world.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Why isn't everybody doing this if it's a good idea, well,
because it sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It sucks. It sucks.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I don't even know if I can do it tomorrow.
Even with the positive results. It was hard to work.
I just had to do it without thinking about it,
just did it because it just seemed horrible. I could
feel the cold water splashing on my feet and I
thought this is gonna be awful. And it was briefly
so we got a lot more stuff you get Tuesday
here a little AI talk. One of my favorite pundits
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was ranting on a podcast yesterday about how underwhelmed they
are with chat GPT and I thought, well, that's interesting.
That is the opposite of my experience. I think it's
freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
What's he doing with it? That's what I wondered. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
So, speaking of AI, this is kind of tangentially connected
to it. Special report on Faction News Brett Bear had
a really interesting report about how much power AI systems
need and it's astonishing amounts of power, and how it
might be provided and how it is fueling a return
to nuclear energy which only went away because of Graham Nash,
(13:09):
Bruce Springsteen and their band of mary leftist idiots.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Maybe the seventies.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
On you.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
That's a short short list of the people involved with
the no Nukes movement. But I found these clips very interesting,
particularly some of the statistics held within them.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Let's just go ahead and roll at Michael.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
In order to supply the increasing demand, data centers are
providing a twenty four hour connection to continue advancing AI technology.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Running all of these computational resources that modern AI needs
requires an awful lot of electricity.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
AI models are frequently trained to remain relevant, software requires
regular updates, and data centers need large cooling systems to
keep everything running.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
The plans for the largest computing clusters to run the
largest AI algorithms in the world in the not too
distant future is in the range of one gigawatt to
five gigawatts. One gigawat is about one hoover dam worth
of electricity, So imagine five hoover dams being used to
just power one data center full of one company's AI.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That seems like an underappreciated aspect of AI.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Help me signed the grid. I mean, it's already over
attached in a lot of areas. Of course, my understanding
of it is in many cases they'll have their own
quote unquote grid. There will be a nuclear reactor. It
will provide power to the data center right next door.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Period.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I wonder if AI is never going to get going
until we perfect that whole fusion thing where we have
kind of unlimited free energy.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
That would be exciting. There's one more clip. I found
this interesting as well.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
US reactors supply nearly twenty percent of the nation's power.
The ninety three nuclear generators create more electricity annually than
the eight thousand wind, solar, and geothermal power plants combined.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
The grid operators tell us and we develop a lot
of solar that we have to develop twenty times as
much solar to get the same impact as one megwatt
of nuclear energy.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah, so again the twenty nine did they say nuclear
power plants that are functioning right now in the US
produce more than the eight thousand wind and solar and
geothermal sites around the country that are enormously large and
disruptive to the environment.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
So if the hippies hadn't killed nuclear power, with the
United States being you know, better than everybody in the
world at everything for the past eighty years, God.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
How far down the road would we have been.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I mean, if we'd have gone all in on nuclear
power back in the seventies, how far down the road
would we be to just everything is run on nuclear power?
And all the odd circumstance being that the very people
that killed nuclear power are the people that hate fossil
fuel power, Well, we wouldn't need hardly any fossil fuel
power if we'd.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Have gone all in on nuke.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I was just gonna say, hey, Bruce, we would have
put five zillion metric tons less carbon into the air.
If y'all had just said, hey, let's make sure our
safety is up to snuff on this stuff, as opposed
to just reacted emotionally and acted like it was an
evil spirit or something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Be interesting if it turns out that AI is what
gets us over our nuclear energy phobia just out of practicality.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You gotta have h that.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
It's just another example of I love you know, dreamers
and poets and songwriters and artists and stuff. I just
don't want them in charge, right eh. Boy, So speaking
of people on the far left, really interesting thinking slash
science about why young women are so prone to radicallyation
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right now.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's a huge issue.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Ask any young dude, they'll tell you chicks are crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
We'll describe why scientifically cool. And if you missed the
segment at the podcast Armstrong, you get.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Me on demand Armstrong and Geeddy, you have stolen my
dreams in my childhood with your empty words.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm sorry about that. My bad. That's on me. That's
of course.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Young Greta Tunberg Back in twenty nineteen or eighteen, Time
named her the youngest ever person of the year.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
She was that speech.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Did you remember that? Do we have more from her?
We love her, we love these clips from her. Yeah,
she was how old was she at the time when
she was Person of the Year, young, six months old.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Blah blah blah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Well she might have been a little older at that point. Anyway,
I came across this piece by Claire Layman about when
women are radicalized, and I'm going to characterize some of
it and read some of it. Obviously, Katie Jack, anybody
jump in anytime you want. And she writes that women
moving to the left is a global phenomenon. There's a
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study on a radical environmental group in the UK described
it as a highly feminized protest culture. Surveys found that
attendants at climate demonstrations and cities around the world tend
to be about sixty percent female. Recent American progressive movements
from Black Lives Matter to GOS encampments, many of which
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were supported or led by female founded Jewish Voice for Peace,
a bunch of examples South Korea, United States, Germany, the
United Kingdom, gen Z women.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Have shifted toward hyper progressive political.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Positions, while men in the same age cohort have held
steady or moved to the right.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, that doesn't help with the global lack of babies problem. No,
in fact, they were now blitting completely along political lines.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
In the US, according to Gallop data, women age eighteen
to thirty are now thirty percentage points more liberal than
their male peers.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And if I remember correctly from various polls I've looked
at this, it used to be we're pretty much in line,
right right, Why is this happening? In a minute or two?
And it, trust me, it is really interesting. And then
she mentions that there's a growing awareness of how young
men are drawn into radicalization, and there are studies about it,
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and people are curious about it, partly because men tend
to be more violent and so there's a more immediate
need to understand it. But there's practically zero study of
radicalization among women other than some in radical Islam. Sometimes
mainstream institutions don't just overlook female extremism, they actively encourage it.
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And she gives a bunch of examples that are interesting
but would take a lot of time, and says this
dynamics is perhaps best reflected in the career of Greta Tunberg,
since she began skipping school at the age of fifteen
to demand action on climate change. Well, I see, that's
funny we agree on that, sweetheart. Tuneberg has been showered
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with encouragement and awards.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
They mentioned the time thing.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
She's received multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations and array of
awards from media, philanthropic, scientific pandemic.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It makes up for the fact that we stole her dreams.
They paid.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
They painted like a fifty foot mural, terrifying mural of
her on the side of a building in San Francisco
to see every time you left the city.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And it was awful. Wow dah you yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
And so Tunberg's trajectory illustrates brought her pattern. Radical behavior
from young women is not just tolerated, but actively encouraged
through awards, platforms, and institutional support. This creates a feedback loop.
But wait, Joe, you said you were going to differ.
That's true of men too, that sort of thing. Okay,
here we go. We're going to take one more step,
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kind of a preliminary step, and get to why women
or girls in particular. The incentive structures that rewarded Tuneberg
so handsomely for her climate activism have since incursed her
to expand into pro Palestinian activism. But some, including me,
called the permanent omni cause. If you, as she said quote,
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if you, as a climate activist don't also fight for
a free Palestine and an end of colonialism and oppression
all over the world, then you should not be able
to call yourself a climate activist.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well that's a nonsensical.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Now we get back into Claire's absolutely excellent writing and scholarship.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
If you just tore about the death penalty, then you
can't call yourself a fiscal conservative.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What right? Right?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Let's see This demand for ideal logical purity across unrelated
causes is a significant move of female radicalism and a
feature of how intersectionality is used in activist cultures. Intersectionality,
which was originally like an academic framework for understanding different
forms of disadvantage and how they can overlap, it's now
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a litmus test for moral conformity, not only on issues
like climate and gaza, but also on heavily charged topics
like abortion, where deviation from the dominant view is treated
as betrayal. While generally not coercing people through violence, female
radicals coerce through threats of shaming and social exclusion. It's
easy to dismiss such actions, as in consequential compared to
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the violence of male radicals, and she gets into the
damage that some of the social coercion does among young women.
But I promise to you the really interesting stuff here
it comes. Still still existing studies in moral psychology and
social behavior offer valuable clues about the underlying dynamics of
what we're talking about. The moral foundations theory, developed by
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social psychologist Jonathan hate Or Height and his colleagues, and
I'm a big admirer of his, argues that human moral
reasoning is built on a set of intuitive foundations. All right,
we all have moral reasoning built on the following things.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And you might quibble with some of the things.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
But this is his theory, loyalty, authority, care, fairness, and purity,
And yes, we will explain these. A twenty twenty study
using this framework across sixty seven countries found that women
consistently scored higher than men on the latter three. That
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would be care, fairness, and purity. The care foundation relates
to our sensitivity to the suffering of others, an extension
of the instinct that compels parents, especially mothers, to respond
to infant distress. I tell you what, if you're a parent,
especially a woman, and there's a baby crying. You cannot
maintain an even keel in a poker face is impossible anyway. Fairness,
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the second of those three, is tied to notions of
justice and equality, while purity, originally evolved to protect against disease,
can manifest as a desire for ideological or moral cleanliness.
These tendencies, while adaptive in many contexts, can also make
young women particularly receptive to political narratives framed in terms
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of trauma, injustice and moral absolutism. And they also create
vulnerability to ideologies that use victimhood as currency. And then
the way young women organize their social lives compounds this vulnerability.
Studies by developmental psychologists who they mentioned have found that
female friend groups tend to be less resilient than those
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of males, and many women suffer from an intense fear
of social exclusion.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That's the pressure.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, And this is what I've been talking about with
kind of an imperfect non having raised boys and girls
and coach them and mentor to them and that sort
of thing. The fear of being kicked out of the
friend group among girls is like mostly unfamiliar to guys. Yeah,
they might realize that the cool guys don't want to
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hang out with them, but they'll find their own friend
group and be pretty comfortable with it and not think
about it much anymore. Right, And they'll call the other
guys Dix and just just again won't think about it anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Anyway, I'm so good.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you're a woman, you're really really constantly on the
lookout for.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Am I about to get kicked out of this group?
And worried about it? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Most women, anyway, many women suffer from an intense fear
of social exclusion, the pressure to fit true with you, Katie.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Uh, the fear of being kicked out of a group.
Not so much because I wasn't really part of my
group was guys.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So I didn't hear the earliest girl I've ever known.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
You, No, I'm not, But I do get that whole,
like maybe Foma, Like I did have a group of
girl friends that all hung out together, and when they
would do that, I wasn't included.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That stung a little. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, So anyway, again we're talking about tendencies and averages
in the typical But again, the pressure to fit into
a group is stronger for girls than for boys, possibly
leading girls to support beliefs or ideas out of a
desire for social harmony rather than true conviction. These dynamics
create perfect conditions for availability cascades, a social phenomenon described
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by several other scientists in which a group comes to
hold the belief through chain reactions. I found this super
interesting too. Take, for example, Greta Tunberg's declaration that climate
activists must also fight for Palestinian liberation. In progressive social
circles where Tuneberg is held up as a moral authority,
good lord, h so so wrong, some girls might think
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this are yes again, we find ourselves agreeing Greta anyway,
In progressive social circles where Tunberg is held up as
a moral authority, some girls might think this argument makes
no sense, but they won't say so. Collectively, such silence
can be mistaken for universal agreement, pressuring others to mold
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their views to fit in. This artificial consensus can snowball
as individuals assume everyone else in their peer group agrees
with a given sentiment, completely unaware that many don't. The
result is a fragile system held together by fear rather
than belief.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Boy in the two loudest, most aggressive people with their
view would be spouting it, and everybody else would be like,
I guess we're all agreeing with this.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I assume everybody's agreement with that. I don't, but I
guess I'll go along with it. And this is and
you know, putting aside the male female thing. That last
part especially really helps describe or answer the question Jack
and I have asked over and over again. How did
the very very small number of people, although they have
the megaphone of the media and education, but the very
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small number of people who believe a lot of this
progressive nonsense, the radical gender theory, the trans thing, for instance,
how did such a small group of people hold sway
over so many people. Well, part of it is that
availability cascade, or what do they call it, the assumption
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that everybody agrees because nobody is disagreeing, just because everybody
doesn't want to stand up to the bullies, and so
it's snowballs. And then here's the final step in how
this works, especially with girls. Social media intensifies these cascades
when female friendship groups migrate online. Superficial displays of consensus
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like the sharing of memes, badges, and hashtags can feel mandatory.
Platforms like Instagram and TikTok serve up a stream of
trauma related content, activating the care instinct while exposing young
women to constant cues that their safety, belonging, and self
worth depend on adopting pure ideological postures. The result is
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a technological and ideological hijacking of female psychology. Can you
imagine a young woman who is part of one of
those friend groups and they all hashtag, and they all
agree on all the issues, saying, you know, I agree
with ninety percent of that, but that idea you just
expressed there, that's bunk. That would take a hell of
a lot of moral courage. Yeah, and not a lot
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of people have a lot of moral courage. And then
this is kind of specially when you're young and you know,
you just want to have friends and hang out and
fit in, right, Yeah, yeah, And radical politics were not
part of that for our generation.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, really, hardly at.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
All, but it is almost constantly for kids, especially online.
It come as no surprise then, that progressive girls were
the first group to suffer a major mental health decline
following the mass adoption of smartphones and social media around
twenty twelve. As Hepe points out in his excellent book
The End Anxious Generation in his newsletter gen Z, girls
have been socialized online in a culture based on hyper
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vigilance toward harm, accompanied by demands for moral absolutism and purity.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I find that.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Reasoning, combined with the science behind it, damn near air tight.
Claire Layman, writing in the Dispatch, Well done, Claire.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So what do we do about this? Take away the vote?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh boy?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Oh, I'm gonna have you shocked.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And I.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
We need a little more study of female violence now, yeah,
but on a serious level, what do we do is
a great question.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I've read a number of books about the Vietnam War
in which uh prominent were young women who were fighting
for the North Vietnamese who were great at being infiltrating
because they weren't suspected and often could pull off looking
like thirteen year olds when they were nineteen year olds
or whatever. But I mean they were a major force
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to be deal dealt with because they were so committed.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Well, and I watched a crazy documentary about how the
big time player isis recruiters were the women? Oh wow, right,
they were the ones out there pulling people in.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Wow, that's interesting too, Yeah, similar reasons.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Well and as Orwell wrote in nineteen eighty four, the
book not the year, and it's a work of fiction,
but it's describing how socialism reaches its ultimate you know,
it's it's inevitable endpoint of totalitarianism.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
He wrote.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
It was always the women, and above all the young
ones who are the most bigoted adherents of the party,
the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers out
of unorthodoxy. And that goes right to her, you know,
her set of arguments that it's about conformity and purity
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of belief. You can't express any doubts about the set
of beliefs or you will be cast out. He observed
that in the forties it was the forties or fifties
when you wrote.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That, he wrote eighty four and forty eight. That's why
he named it. He just reversed the year. It's gonner
lay to remember anyway. Fascinating stuff. Yeah, a lot more
in the ways to hear.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
One of the biggest French fry factories in North America
is closing because Americans are eating fewer French fries.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
People are eating fewer.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
French fries than every Uber East driver was like, let's
speak for yourself.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Wow, you should never eat French fries. I should never
eat French fries. I do or fairly regularly. And some
of them are delicious. They're Satan's own side dish to me.
They are the accommodation of deliciousness and utter inadvisability. To
the top of it, they have like no nutritional value,
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is that correct? Terrible idea, there's like no benefit. Oh
so good, okay, so I'll just read this. I came
across it. That doesn't mean I endorse it. Just came
across it, thought it was funny. And we got Katie
here for this because we need a woman to react.
Date a girl who wears glasses. It's like dating two
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girls when she takes them off. Oh geez, this goes
this goes on, this goes on, this goes on, wash
off her makeup, and then you date three girls. Wow,
remove her Instagram filter and you could be dating four
girls with one girl. Take her meds away and you
could have up to ten.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
All right, enough, good god, who I mean get of course?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, I told you I didn't endorse it. I just
came across it and found it control present it to
a national audience.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That's how.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
And you said you did one hundred percent agree with
those sentences.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Correct? Is that what you said? Take your meds like
ten different girls. Jack, that's horrible. Stand Okay, retweets do
not necessarily imply.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
No, no, the internet ladies and gentlemen, the internet plug
It is that I hop last night speaking of inadvisable
eating choices. Although I had the scrambled eggs with bacon,
you know, it's not a horrible thing with one pancake,
one small pancake. But they were advertising there while we
were there, the cookie butter pancake combo as well, as
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I always say to my kids whenever we come across
this stuff, what is causing America's obesity problem?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Where's the comma or the dash there in that cookie
butter pancake combo?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
You get bacon and eggs and hash browns with your.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Cookie butter panking if you order cookie butter pancas, unless
you're doing it as like a.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Dessert for bird. Oh, what's a cookie butter? I've never
heard of cookie, but I'm sure it's very very good.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Jettie and he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's a good way to end up dead, especially in Florida.
You got to think you're about to become a victim
of a home invasion robbery under the castle. Doctor, you're
gonna shoot first and ask questions later. You're endangering your
future with this TikTok challenge.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh my god, a TikTok challenge. And I love anytime
the castle doctrine is invoked. What are we talking about, Well,
let's see, Sheriff of Lusia County in sunny Florida. There's
a new viral social media trend where teenagers are kicking
in people's doors in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You've got to be kidding.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
I know I have at least decent memories of being
a teenager, and my response would have been immediately, we're
gonna get shot. There's no effing way I'm doing that.
I'm shut. I fought for a long time whenever I'd
hear the term TikTok challenge. That wasn't really happening and
nobody was really doing it. There are more people doing
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it than I think, because that's I don't know what
is saying that's not Yeah, So they.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The TikTok drilled pounded a nail into their eyes, So
I guess I'd better do it.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I just I don't understand the thinking here.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
So the sheriff Mike Chitwood, who we just heard, said
teenagers are kicking indoors and scaring people inside. They give
a couple of examples. These folks had security cameras and
it took deputies about two hours to catch a thirteen
year old girl and a fifteen year old boy. Let's see,
teens are accused of taking part in a viral prank
known as the door Kicking Challenge on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh, well, I'm sure. And then you have a friend
stam and video it. That's the whole thing, right, then
you post it and how hilarious it is that some
people inside were scared to death and thought that they
and their kids were gonna die.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
See, that's that's crazy you are.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, even if you don't get shot, just the morality
of it that you scared to death the people inside.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, there's a combination.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Of stupidity and moral bankruptcy there that's a little bit challenging.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, but you know, I don't come.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
From the sort of neighborhood where we would like kill
people from a minor dispute or a hard look. And
so nah, I think it's a I blame Johnny Knoxville.
It's the whole jackass thing has just started decades ago
and it's just continued to where people are willing to
abuse anyone for supposed.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Laughs as a teenager. Yeah, well.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You open up uh camps, draconian punishments.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Have an update on diabetes, Barbie, just because it's come
up a couple of times. I mean, we're making the
joke about it's a it's a condition. It's you can't
look at somebody until they've got diabetes. So like you said,
what's a Barbie that was born with one kidney? I mean,
is that a Barbie? No diabetic Barbie? Where's a glucose
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glucose monitor on her arm? Comes with the Barbie set
an insulin infusion set on her body and carries it
carries the meter, so very visible markers of type one diabetes. Okay,
I don't know how this makes a little Yeah, exactly,
that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Who's wanting that?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
How about lime disease? People get that, ticks bite them,
et cetera. How about lime disease. We deserve a barbie
lime disease.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So you want a Barbie who's for whatever reason pulling
one of those things, you know, the metal things on
the wheels I've had at the hospital when I had
getting chemo. You know, you gotta go the bathroom and
you gotta walk down the hall with that thing behind
you because you gotta drip in your arm. Right, that's
that the barbie you want?
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Uh yeah, maybe like an all purpose, not in hirely
healthy barbie, right.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
An odd idea, right, yeah, I agree, very odd idea.
And let's instead of having a whole bunch of different
barbies I like yours at all purpose, let's have all
the ailments or bad things that could happen to hiven
being in one barbie. Right, a set of accessories you
can buy. It's like beach house, you know, Yell, she's
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got skin problems, she's missing an eye, she's mangy, she's
just all kinds of things.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Headlighte barbie, Barbie.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, right, but I mean, diabetes can be a serious condition,
of course, so why not like and I don't mean
to make light of this obviously, but why not leukemia
Barbie or you know, how did they come.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
To this decision? I don't know. She's uh, yeah, you
gotta pilot all in one thing, get it over with.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yeah, just all purpose unhealthy Barbie making of beloved American products.
I just wanted to mention this very quickly. Air India's
probe into that horrific crash that just one guy walked
away from and two hundred and some people died, absolutely horrific.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Obviously, whatever happened to.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Is he, like I expect it ended up on Dancing
with the Stars or anything.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Not yet I haven't heard a word from him. We
probably realized, wait a minute, they're exploiting me, all these
media people. They don't care about me, and he has
got gone with a lower profile. Yeah, two hundred and
sixty people died, which is just terrible, obviously, but the
investigation is focusing on the actions of the jets pilots
and not the Boeing seven eighty seven Dreamliner, which has
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an unbelievably great safety record, and the engines appeared to
be fine too. Preliminary findings indicate that the switches controlling
fuel flow to the jets two engines were turned off,
leading to an apparent loss of thrust shortly after takeoff.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The people said, hey, motorcycle riders, you ever leave your
little switch to the wrong side and then your motorcycle
starts to die a block from your house?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh yeah, I haven't flipped that on show of hands. Yeah,
everybody's done that, But these pilots did that.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Unclear why they were turned off or how unclear whether
it was accident or a dental or intentional, or whether
there was an attempt to turn.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Them back on.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
If the switches were off, that could explain whether the
jets emergency power generator, known as the RAM air turbine
or RAT, appears to have activated in the moments before
the aircraft plummeted into a nearby hostile for medical students.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Nightmarish blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So you know, it is not a blow to Boeing's
already bruised reputation.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It would seem boy, very few people will hear that.
But god dang it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So they didn't get more than what was it like,
six hundred feet off the ground. Why can't we get
this plane to go higher?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Dude, where's the thrust? Where's the throw? I have the
gas on?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh good, Lord, that's a bad story. You want better
pilots than that.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
God, I would say, we're going to get more into
the immigration raids in Socow. Coming up a little bit later,
the uh ICE raided an illegal pot farm. It turned
ugly when Antifa turned out to be there and resisted
the ICE people in the way that they do violently.
(07:22):
So more on that this. This has got the potential
to turn into a really big story, not this individual one,
but just the overall Antifa violence against ICE agents, right
and the militant left more broadly. But yeah, these Antifa
goons who you remember the mainstream media told us didn't
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exist just a few years ago when they were raining
violence down on Portland for instance, one hundred and twelve
nights in a row. Yeah, they're out and proud.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Now let me.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Read this from Byron New York to Washington Examiner. I
thought this was really interesting. There's no doubt antifa is
a fringe extremist group. Y'all know when tifa is right,
that's short for anti fascist. Even though they're absolutely not that.
But a lot of the East Coast mainstream media who
didn't know what Antifa was on the West Coast believed they.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Were anti fascists and went with that for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But Antifa is a fringe extremist group, not isolated. There
are cells throughout the country, but extremists, says Byron York.
Now the issue of opposition to Trump's immigration enforcement has
brought the fanatics of Antifa more closely than ever in
line with the beliefs of progressive Democrats and perhaps those
in the party's mainstream too. Would it be fair to
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call Antifa the militant wing of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Maybe so.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And if it's not fair, it is closer to true
than many Democrats would ever want to acknowledge, writes Byron York.
I saw Fetterman, Senator Fetterman in Pennsylvania say something fairly
similar on Fox TV today and that ICE needs to
be funded and supported and they're just doing their job. He's,
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you know, an outlier, I think, But uh, how closely
alied is Antifa and the thinking of a lot of
the Democratic Party, like like Byron new York says, I
think a lot closer than previous Antifa issues.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I'm really intrigued by his question are they the militant
wing of the Democratic Party, because they are absolutely organized.
They are decentralized, but they're one hundred percent organized, which
is it runs counter to one of the other lies
that the media tried to tell us for a long time.
Their views overlap a great deal with the Democratic Party,
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certainly the progressive wing. They have been aided, abetted, and
covered up for by the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Well, if if the politics were flipped because of the
way the media leans left so much, every Democrat would
be asked do you support what antifa is doing or not?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
They'd have to answer for it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But oh, Republicans you mean yeah, if it were Republicans, yeah, yeah,
every Republican every time they showed up anywhere would be
asked about that and have to denounce them, you know,
like the people at Charlottesville after that, and you know,
all that sort of thing endlessly. But Democrats won't be
asked to speak to this, at least not yet. But
this story is not over by far.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
And in related story, came across some really interesting scholarship
that finally thoroughly answers the question I've been asking over
and over again and trying to dig into why are
young women, not only in America but around the world
becoming so radicalized and so left and way disproportionately women
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like that Big frankis at Columbia University where eighty people
were arrested after taking over and vandalizing the library and
holding people hostage. Briefly, eighty people arrested, sixty one of
them women. What's going on? Finally got a great, thorough answer.
It's troubling, but man, you have to you have to
diagnose the problem before you can start talking about a cure.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I did my first ever cold plunge.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
It was kind of a baby cold plunge, and that
I just jumped into a cold shower. Although it was
shocking enough. This morning when I jumped in the cold shower,
I went, I'm actually made that noise. I'm glad, my
thanks you get credit. Yeah, I'm glad. My bedroom's far
away from the kids so they don't think something horrible
has happened, or or I don't want them to hear
their dad make that noise.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I'm picturing Multislamic obscenities. I don't think I cussed.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I think I just made that very whoosy sound and
expelled all my breath. It was shocking. But man, I
came out of that and just like, let's.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Go, come on, world, bring it on. I couldn't take it.
It was It was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Oh, I need to consult a cardiologist whether that's a
good idea for me. But I gotta admit I know
that feeling, that exhilarated feeling, because I've had to take
cold showers at campgrounds and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And you do come out just to take on the world.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Why isn't everybody doing this if it's a good idea, well,
because it sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It sucks. It sucks.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I don't even know if I can do it tomorrow.
Even with the positive results. It was hard to work.
I just had to do it without thinking about it,
just did it because it just seemed horrible. I could
feel the cold water splashing on my feet and I
thought this is gonna be awful. And it was briefly
so we got a lot more stuff you get Tuesday
here a little AI talk. One of my favorite pundits
(12:32):
was ranting on a podcast yesterday about how underwhelmed they
are with chat GPT and I thought, well, that's interesting.
That is the opposite of my experience. I think it's
freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
What's he doing with it? That's what I wondered. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
So, speaking of AI, this is kind of tangentially connected
to it. Special report on Faction News Brett Bear had
a really interesting report about how much power AI systems
need and it's astonishing amounts of power, and how it
might be provided and how it is fueling a return
to nuclear energy which only went away because of Graham Nash,
(13:09):
Bruce Springsteen and their band of mary leftist idiots.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Maybe the seventies.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
On you.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
That's a short short list of the people involved with
the no Nukes movement. But I found these clips very interesting,
particularly some of the statistics held within them.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Let's just go ahead and roll at Michael.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
In order to supply the increasing demand, data centers are
providing a twenty four hour connection to continue advancing AI technology.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Running all of these computational resources that modern AI needs
requires an awful lot of electricity.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
AI models are frequently trained to remain relevant, software requires
regular updates, and data centers need large cooling systems to
keep everything running.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
The plans for the largest computing clusters to run the
largest AI algorithms in the world in the not too
distant future is in the range of one gigawatt to
five gigawatts. One gigawat is about one hoover dam worth
of electricity, So imagine five hoover dams being used to
just power one data center full of one company's AI.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That seems like an underappreciated aspect of AI.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Help me signed the grid. I mean, it's already over
attached in a lot of areas. Of course, my understanding
of it is in many cases they'll have their own
quote unquote grid. There will be a nuclear reactor. It
will provide power to the data center right next door.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Period.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I wonder if AI is never going to get going
until we perfect that whole fusion thing where we have
kind of unlimited free energy.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
That would be exciting. There's one more clip. I found
this interesting as well.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
US reactors supply nearly twenty percent of the nation's power.
The ninety three nuclear generators create more electricity annually than
the eight thousand wind, solar, and geothermal power plants combined.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
The grid operators tell us and we develop a lot
of solar that we have to develop twenty times as
much solar to get the same impact as one megwatt
of nuclear energy.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Yeah, so again the twenty nine did they say nuclear
power plants that are functioning right now in the US
produce more than the eight thousand wind and solar and
geothermal sites around the country that are enormously large and
disruptive to the environment.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
So if the hippies hadn't killed nuclear power, with the
United States being you know, better than everybody in the
world at everything for the past eighty years, God.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
How far down the road would we have been.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I mean, if we'd have gone all in on nuclear
power back in the seventies, how far down the road
would we be to just everything is run on nuclear power?
And all the odd circumstance being that the very people
that killed nuclear power are the people that hate fossil
fuel power, Well, we wouldn't need hardly any fossil fuel
power if we'd.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Have gone all in on nuke.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I was just gonna say, hey, Bruce, we would have
put five zillion metric tons less carbon into the air.
If y'all had just said, hey, let's make sure our
safety is up to snuff on this stuff, as opposed
to just reacted emotionally and acted like it was an
evil spirit or something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Be interesting if it turns out that AI is what
gets us over our nuclear energy phobia just out of practicality.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You gotta have h that.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
It's just another example of I love you know, dreamers
and poets and songwriters and artists and stuff. I just
don't want them in charge, right eh. Boy, So speaking
of people on the far left, really interesting thinking slash
science about why young women are so prone to radicallyation
(17:00):
right now.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's a huge issue.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Ask any young dude, they'll tell you chicks are crazy.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
We'll describe why scientifically cool. And if you missed the
segment at the podcast Armstrong, you get.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Me on demand Armstrong and Geeddy, you have stolen my
dreams in my childhood with your empty words.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm sorry about that. My bad. That's on me. That's
of course.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Young Greta Tunberg Back in twenty nineteen or eighteen, Time
named her the youngest ever person of the year.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
She was that speech.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Did you remember that? Do we have more from her?
We love her, we love these clips from her. Yeah,
she was how old was she at the time when
she was Person of the Year, young, six months old.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
Blah blah blah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Well she might have been a little older at that point. Anyway,
I came across this piece by Claire Layman about when
women are radicalized, and I'm going to characterize some of
it and read some of it. Obviously, Katie Jack, anybody
jump in anytime you want. And she writes that women
moving to the left is a global phenomenon. There's a
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study on a radical environmental group in the UK described
it as a highly feminized protest culture. Surveys found that
attendants at climate demonstrations and cities around the world tend
to be about sixty percent female. Recent American progressive movements
from Black Lives Matter to GOS encampments, many of which
(18:36):
were supported or led by female founded Jewish Voice for Peace,
a bunch of examples South Korea, United States, Germany, the
United Kingdom, gen Z women.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Have shifted toward hyper progressive political.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Positions, while men in the same age cohort have held
steady or moved to the right.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Well, that doesn't help with the global lack of babies problem. No,
in fact, they were now blitting completely along political lines.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
In the US, according to Gallop data, women age eighteen
to thirty are now thirty percentage points more liberal than
their male peers.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And if I remember correctly from various polls I've looked
at this, it used to be we're pretty much in line,
right right, Why is this happening? In a minute or two?
And it, trust me, it is really interesting. And then
she mentions that there's a growing awareness of how young
men are drawn into radicalization, and there are studies about it,
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and people are curious about it, partly because men tend
to be more violent and so there's a more immediate
need to understand it. But there's practically zero study of
radicalization among women other than some in radical Islam. Sometimes
mainstream institutions don't just overlook female extremism, they actively encourage it.
(19:58):
And she gives a bunch of examples that are interesting
but would take a lot of time, and says this
dynamics is perhaps best reflected in the career of Greta Tunberg,
since she began skipping school at the age of fifteen
to demand action on climate change. Well, I see, that's
funny we agree on that, sweetheart. Tuneberg has been showered
(20:19):
with encouragement and awards.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
They mentioned the time thing.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
She's received multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations and array of
awards from media, philanthropic, scientific pandemic.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It makes up for the fact that we stole her dreams.
They paid.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
They painted like a fifty foot mural, terrifying mural of
her on the side of a building in San Francisco
to see every time you left the city.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And it was awful. Wow dah you yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
And so Tunberg's trajectory illustrates brought her pattern. Radical behavior
from young women is not just tolerated, but actively encouraged
through awards, platforms, and institutional support. This creates a feedback loop.
But wait, Joe, you said you were going to differ.
That's true of men too, that sort of thing. Okay,
here we go. We're going to take one more step,
(21:07):
kind of a preliminary step, and get to why women
or girls in particular. The incentive structures that rewarded Tuneberg
so handsomely for her climate activism have since incursed her
to expand into pro Palestinian activism. But some, including me,
called the permanent omni cause. If you, as she said quote,
(21:29):
if you, as a climate activist don't also fight for
a free Palestine and an end of colonialism and oppression
all over the world, then you should not be able
to call yourself a climate activist.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Well that's a nonsensical.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Now we get back into Claire's absolutely excellent writing and scholarship.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
If you just tore about the death penalty, then you
can't call yourself a fiscal conservative.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
What right? Right?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Let's see This demand for ideal logical purity across unrelated
causes is a significant move of female radicalism and a
feature of how intersectionality is used in activist cultures. Intersectionality,
which was originally like an academic framework for understanding different
forms of disadvantage and how they can overlap, it's now
(22:18):
a litmus test for moral conformity, not only on issues
like climate and gaza, but also on heavily charged topics
like abortion, where deviation from the dominant view is treated
as betrayal. While generally not coercing people through violence, female
radicals coerce through threats of shaming and social exclusion. It's
easy to dismiss such actions, as in consequential compared to
(22:39):
the violence of male radicals, and she gets into the
damage that some of the social coercion does among young women.
But I promise to you the really interesting stuff here
it comes. Still still existing studies in moral psychology and
social behavior offer valuable clues about the underlying dynamics of
what we're talking about. The moral foundations theory, developed by
(23:03):
social psychologist Jonathan hate Or Height and his colleagues, and
I'm a big admirer of his, argues that human moral
reasoning is built on a set of intuitive foundations. All right,
we all have moral reasoning built on the following things.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And you might quibble with some of the things.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
But this is his theory, loyalty, authority, care, fairness, and purity,
And yes, we will explain these. A twenty twenty study
using this framework across sixty seven countries found that women
consistently scored higher than men on the latter three. That
(23:39):
would be care, fairness, and purity. The care foundation relates
to our sensitivity to the suffering of others, an extension
of the instinct that compels parents, especially mothers, to respond
to infant distress. I tell you what, if you're a parent,
especially a woman, and there's a baby crying. You cannot
maintain an even keel in a poker face is impossible anyway. Fairness,
(24:05):
the second of those three, is tied to notions of
justice and equality, while purity, originally evolved to protect against disease,
can manifest as a desire for ideological or moral cleanliness.
These tendencies, while adaptive in many contexts, can also make
young women particularly receptive to political narratives framed in terms
(24:26):
of trauma, injustice and moral absolutism. And they also create
vulnerability to ideologies that use victimhood as currency. And then
the way young women organize their social lives compounds this vulnerability.
Studies by developmental psychologists who they mentioned have found that
female friend groups tend to be less resilient than those
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of males, and many women suffer from an intense fear
of social exclusion.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
That's the pressure.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Yeah, And this is what I've been talking about with
kind of an imperfect non having raised boys and girls
and coach them and mentor to them and that sort
of thing. The fear of being kicked out of the
friend group among girls is like mostly unfamiliar to guys. Yeah,
they might realize that the cool guys don't want to
(25:17):
hang out with them, but they'll find their own friend
group and be pretty comfortable with it and not think
about it much anymore. Right, And they'll call the other
guys Dix and just just again won't think about it anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Anyway, I'm so good.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you're a woman, you're really really constantly on the
lookout for.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Am I about to get kicked out of this group?
And worried about it? Right?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
Most women, anyway, many women suffer from an intense fear
of social exclusion, the pressure to fit true with you, Katie.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Uh, the fear of being kicked out of a group.
Not so much because I wasn't really part of my
group was guys.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So I didn't hear the earliest girl I've ever known.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
You, No, I'm not, But I do get that whole,
like maybe Foma, Like I did have a group of
girl friends that all hung out together, and when they
would do that, I wasn't included.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That stung a little. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, So anyway, again we're talking about tendencies and averages
in the typical But again, the pressure to fit into
a group is stronger for girls than for boys, possibly
leading girls to support beliefs or ideas out of a
desire for social harmony rather than true conviction. These dynamics
create perfect conditions for availability cascades, a social phenomenon described
(26:34):
by several other scientists in which a group comes to
hold the belief through chain reactions. I found this super
interesting too. Take, for example, Greta Tunberg's declaration that climate
activists must also fight for Palestinian liberation. In progressive social
circles where Tuneberg is held up as a moral authority,
good lord, h so so wrong, some girls might think
(26:55):
this are yes again, we find ourselves agreeing Greta anyway,
In progressive social circles where Tunberg is held up as
a moral authority, some girls might think this argument makes
no sense, but they won't say so. Collectively, such silence
can be mistaken for universal agreement, pressuring others to mold
(27:16):
their views to fit in. This artificial consensus can snowball
as individuals assume everyone else in their peer group agrees
with a given sentiment, completely unaware that many don't. The
result is a fragile system held together by fear rather
than belief.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Boy in the two loudest, most aggressive people with their
view would be spouting it, and everybody else would be like,
I guess we're all agreeing with this.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
I assume everybody's agreement with that. I don't, but I
guess I'll go along with it. And this is and
you know, putting aside the male female thing. That last
part especially really helps describe or answer the question Jack
and I have asked over and over again. How did
the very very small number of people, although they have
the megaphone of the media and education, but the very
(28:03):
small number of people who believe a lot of this
progressive nonsense, the radical gender theory, the trans thing, for instance,
how did such a small group of people hold sway
over so many people. Well, part of it is that
availability cascade, or what do they call it, the assumption
(28:23):
that everybody agrees because nobody is disagreeing, just because everybody
doesn't want to stand up to the bullies, and so
it's snowballs. And then here's the final step in how
this works, especially with girls. Social media intensifies these cascades
when female friendship groups migrate online. Superficial displays of consensus
(28:43):
like the sharing of memes, badges, and hashtags can feel mandatory.
Platforms like Instagram and TikTok serve up a stream of
trauma related content, activating the care instinct while exposing young
women to constant cues that their safety, belonging, and self
worth depend on adopting pure ideological postures. The result is
(29:05):
a technological and ideological hijacking of female psychology. Can you
imagine a young woman who is part of one of
those friend groups and they all hashtag, and they all
agree on all the issues, saying, you know, I agree
with ninety percent of that, but that idea you just
expressed there, that's bunk. That would take a hell of
a lot of moral courage. Yeah, and not a lot
(29:27):
of people have a lot of moral courage. And then
this is kind of specially when you're young and you know,
you just want to have friends and hang out and
fit in, right, Yeah, yeah, And radical politics were not
part of that for our generation.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No, really, hardly at.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
All, but it is almost constantly for kids, especially online.
It come as no surprise then, that progressive girls were
the first group to suffer a major mental health decline
following the mass adoption of smartphones and social media around
twenty twelve. As Hepe points out in his excellent book
The End Anxious Generation in his newsletter gen Z, girls
have been socialized online in a culture based on hyper
(30:06):
vigilance toward harm, accompanied by demands for moral absolutism and purity.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I find that.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Reasoning, combined with the science behind it, damn near air tight.
Claire Layman, writing in the Dispatch, Well done, Claire.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So what do we do about this? Take away the vote?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh boy?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Oh, I'm gonna have you shocked.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And I.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
We need a little more study of female violence now, yeah,
but on a serious level, what do we do is
a great question.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I've read a number of books about the Vietnam War
in which uh prominent were young women who were fighting
for the North Vietnamese who were great at being infiltrating
because they weren't suspected and often could pull off looking
like thirteen year olds when they were nineteen year olds
or whatever. But I mean they were a major force
(31:17):
to be deal dealt with because they were so committed.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Well, and I watched a crazy documentary about how the
big time player isis recruiters were the women? Oh wow, right,
they were the ones out there pulling people in.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Wow, that's interesting too, Yeah, similar reasons.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Well and as Orwell wrote in nineteen eighty four, the
book not the year, and it's a work of fiction,
but it's describing how socialism reaches its ultimate you know,
it's it's inevitable endpoint of totalitarianism.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
He wrote.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
It was always the women, and above all the young
ones who are the most bigoted adherents of the party,
the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers out
of unorthodoxy. And that goes right to her, you know,
her set of arguments that it's about conformity and purity
(32:11):
of belief. You can't express any doubts about the set
of beliefs or you will be cast out. He observed
that in the forties it was the forties or fifties
when you wrote.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That, he wrote eighty four and forty eight. That's why
he named it. He just reversed the year. It's gonner
lay to remember anyway. Fascinating stuff. Yeah, a lot more
in the ways to hear.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
One of the biggest French fry factories in North America
is closing because Americans are eating fewer French fries.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
People are eating fewer.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
French fries than every Uber East driver was like, let's
speak for yourself.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Wow, you should never eat French fries. I should never
eat French fries. I do or fairly regularly. And some
of them are delicious. They're Satan's own side dish to me.
They are the accommodation of deliciousness and utter inadvisability. To
the top of it, they have like no nutritional value,
(33:11):
is that correct? Terrible idea, there's like no benefit. Oh
so good, okay, so I'll just read this. I came
across it. That doesn't mean I endorse it. Just came
across it, thought it was funny. And we got Katie
here for this because we need a woman to react.
Date a girl who wears glasses. It's like dating two
(33:32):
girls when she takes them off. Oh geez, this goes
this goes on, this goes on, this goes on, wash
off her makeup, and then you date three girls. Wow,
remove her Instagram filter and you could be dating four
girls with one girl. Take her meds away and you
could have up to ten.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
All right, enough, good god, who I mean get of course?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, I told you I didn't endorse it. I just
came across it and found it control present it to
a national audience.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
That's how.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
And you said you did one hundred percent agree with
those sentences.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Correct? Is that what you said? Take your meds like
ten different girls. Jack, that's horrible. Stand Okay, retweets do
not necessarily imply.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
No, no, the internet ladies and gentlemen, the internet plug
It is that I hop last night speaking of inadvisable
eating choices. Although I had the scrambled eggs with bacon,
you know, it's not a horrible thing with one pancake,
one small pancake. But they were advertising there while we
were there, the cookie butter pancake combo as well, as
(34:45):
I always say to my kids whenever we come across
this stuff, what is causing America's obesity problem?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Where's the comma or the dash there in that cookie
butter pancake combo?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
You get bacon and eggs and hash browns with your.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Cookie butter panking if you order cookie butter pancas, unless
you're doing it as like a.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Dessert for bird. Oh, what's a cookie butter? I've never
heard of cookie, but I'm sure it's very very good.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
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