November 26, 2025 • 36 mins
The A&G Replay for November 26,2025 Hour 4 contains:
- Gender Bending Madness: The Winter Olympics
- Kamala & Gavin running in 2028
- Women glorifying anti depressants & mental illness
- Butt Breathing/ Female Spies/ fake families & decline of Harvard
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 4 (00:51):
No on with the infotainment. Another big story around sports.
I didn't realize the Winter Olympics or.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Twelve weeks away.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
We're gonna yeah, and there's somewhere somewhere snowy isom France
where the winter limit Good'd be a good idea, crock
that for us? Will you, Katie ware are the dang
Winter Olympics? But anyway, Italy, I think or was that
last time? That doesn't matter someplace snowy is be a
good thing? It Yeah, probably not Jamaica, Milano, Cortina, I win. Congratulations.
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So the Winter Olympics coming up in Italy, they ain't
gonna do the whole trans thing this time around.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Here's a little bit of that. This sounds like a
really big change potentially.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Nick, this would be big and it would be a
huge policy shift for the ile SE, which until now
has led each sports international governing body set their own
policies centered on transgender inclusion.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It would also mark.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
A big change from the ILEC's twenty twenty one framework,
which said there should not be a presumption of advantage
when it comes to trans athletes.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So they were running scared last Olympics, like lots of
people were didn't want to be on the wrong side
this and said some things that they knew were wrong
and crazy, like you just heard and now I've changed
your mind.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Here's one of these spokespeople for the Olympics.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
What I would like for the IOC to do is
to bring everyone together, to try and find a consensus
amongst all of us that we can all get behind
and that we can implement and above anything and everything else.
It's fair and protects the female categories.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
They're all about protecting the female category. This she's new
and she got elected on the idea of I'm going
to protect women's sports, which is code for being and
let dudes.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Participate in our women's sports.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Well, of course you're not going to let men in
women's sports, then it's not women's sports, says virtually all
of humanity that got bullied into silence.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You know, in most cases, all these conversations that are
going on are how do we handle this without being
in trouble politically as opposed to what's the right thing
to do. You might have a couple true believers, you know,
your high school in California or something like that, but
mostly it's how do we handle this without causing a firestorm?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And here's the reasoning behind it all.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
The IOC will issue the band sometime early next year,
citing a new scientific review that found effidence men have
a permanent physical advantage over women athletes even after hormone therapy. However,
the Guardian newspaper says the ban could still be a
year out and that the IOC is facing pushback to
a possible ban on athletes who reported female at birth,
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but have male chromosomes and the same testosterone level as men,
also known as differences in sexual development. That would include
athletes like South Africa's casser Semenya, who won gold at
the London and Real Games before Track and Fields governing
body World Athletics banned DSc athletes from competing as women
in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
DSc different sexual characteristics or whatever. Sah, yeah, yeah, I
like this new study that came out that said have
an advantage over women.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That's a good scientific study. I wonder who did that.
How much did you spend? Tell me about the methodology.
That's hilarious that they had to hide behind a new study,
good lord, instead of ancient wisdom.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know, it strikes me you've learned since you were
a little kid on the playground. Going forward is the
new scientific study.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So I was reading about the women's soccer league.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
They've had a controversy lately, and it's all centered around
this one player who is much bigger and muscular than
all of the girls on the field. Looks like a dude,
plays like a dude, built like a dude, et cetera.
It's a similar case to castor Semenya who they mentioned
who has internal testicles.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It was one of the.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That'd be awesome. Oh I like having testicles. I just
don't want him in.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
The way I see, thanks for clarifying. So, but that's
one of the extremely rare cases where sex assigned at
birth is a phrase that makes any sense because these
are people with both sets of genitals, meaning no, of
course not no. So she has both ovaries and testicles
and has much much higher test to party like that.
(05:14):
The Turkish fella who was whipping up on the girls
in the boxing last time around too.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But you know, and it's funny.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
How so what do you left, what do you think
we should do with people who have testicles and ovaries?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Oh, it's a shame, but they can't compete in women's sports.
And that's the point I was about to make. The
left always it's funny. They just are crazy about individual rights,
except when it comes to individual rights that conservatives like,
then they have no interest in them.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It's all about the community.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But yeah, I feel terrible for those people if they
want to be athletes, but they can either compete as
manner in an open category. You can't beat the crap
out of women because you are functionally athletically speaking, a man.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
According to a new study, there avantage by being a man.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh, speaking of this sort of thing, I just finished
the piece by Colin Wright, who's terrific writer.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He writes about this sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
He was an academic scientist at Penn State in twenty
twenty and there was that crazy explosion in adolescent transgenderism
among young girls, and he commented two words social contagion.
Within hours, his colleagues denounced him as a transphobic bigot,
and the online mob came from him before him and
crushed his academic career. And he talks about how he
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was referring to research published by a scientist who had
coined the term rapid onset genderness for you in twenty eighteen,
the peer reviewed paper blah blah blah, and that the
pattern was clearly explained by social contagion, the spread of
ideas or behaviors through peer influence. And there are other examples,
whether it's cutting or anarexi or whatever. Teen girls are
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just incredibly prone to that sort of thing. But then
he gets to the fact that the left wing dogma
that gender identity is innate and immutable people are born
as transgender.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's not they're not convinced by a trend or whatever.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
It's they're born, and that claim underpins the medical practice
and the legal strategy puberty blockers, cross such hormones, mutilations
of kids, minors, and the rest of it, and the
civil rights argument. So then he makes the point that
the dominant argument to the counter argument to the social
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contagent theory is that the sharp rise in transgender identification
over the past decades simply reflects liberation right people are
more comfortable expressing their authentic selves. That has been the argument.
As transgender activist and biologist Julius Serrano put it in
twenty seventeen, there really wasn't a rise in left handedness
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so much as there was a rise in left handed acceptance.
That's an interesting premise, isn't it. People were free to
be who the f they were, as John Oliver put
it on his Last Week Tonight. But then Colin points out,
if transgender identity were an innate trait like left handedness,
we would expect identification rates to rise at first when
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it became socially acceptable, then plateau and remain stable at
a fixed level. If the phenomenon were instead driven by
social contagion, we might expect a boom and bust pattern,
a spike followed by a rapid decline once the social
forces driving it were weakened. And indeed that has become
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incredibly clear. Transgenderal identification has fallen fifty percent in two
years among college students and adolescents a couple of different studies.
It was clearly a social contagion, and people who got
their careers ruined for saying it wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Lord, were you a victim of an angry wrong mob.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I'm glad left handedness that didn't catch on as a
social contagent and have a hard time pretending I was
left handed, eating, tying my shoes, whatever I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah, And then he points out that the overwhelming majority
of those driving the trans mania fall into the non
binary category, adopting identities which are said to be neither both,
somewhere in between demi boy, gender fluid, two spirit. These
are social identities, not biological ones. Unlike right handedness or
left handedness, non very non binary identities have no anatomical
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or physiological reference. They're conceptual, political, and responsive to cultural
trends hallmarks of a social contagion.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Case closed dam next case. Man, I'm looking at the
dust up that happened in Berkeley. I wish i'd gone
last night. I was thinking about going. It's only whatever,
it is forty five miles from my house, but I
had some kids stuff going on. But it got pretty
spicy there outside the Turning Point event in Berkeley last night.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Are they needed you there fighting Antifa? And what did
you do? You stay at home?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
What are the who are these numbnuts that show up
to fight this stuff? Just let them, let them gather
and speak it. What's the skin off your nose? They're
actually convinced that they're fascists. They believe, and that's that's
I have to remind myself of that semi regularly. And
it's true on the right, but especially on the left,
there is a significant group of people that believes the most.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Lunatic rantings of activists. They believe it.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You're willing to get into a fistfight over somebody speaking
in an auditorium.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, you're you're the fascist.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I mean clearly, Let's see you dress up in a uniform,
you go to the opposition events, and you beat people
up and call them fascists.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
People inside having the speaking engagement.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It's the lack of appreciating the irony that offends me
the most.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
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Speaker 2 (11:01):
The Armstrong and Getty shot.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I would love to do it. I have my best numbers. Ever,
it's very terrible. I have my best nubbers.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Say you read it, am I not running it out
and you'll have to tell me.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
All I can tell you is that we have a
great group of people which stay.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Don't That's Donald Trump the case. You couldn't hear. He's
on the plane. He's flying around, going to all these
different countries over in Asia. You could run as vice president?
He said, yeah, I could do that, but that's a
little too cute. They're talking about the third term Trump thing,
and then they ask him like three times if he's
ruling out running again in twenty twenty eight. How do
you not get that this is him just getting you
(11:45):
to dance to his tune to make you leap. MSNBC
will have ten panels all day long about this doesn't
rule out a third term? How do you not get
that he's doing that? Have you ever had like a
kid doing this to you? Are you using a seven
year old?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Do you just ignore them? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Do the Rachel Meadows of the world not get it
or do they know?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
But their viewers lap it up. Your audience likes it
so much.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, it's a you know, it's a perpetual motion machine.
Trump loves them. They love Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So Kamala Harris, I guess hinted enough on BBC that
she might run again.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That that got people excited. This is how that went.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Stories of your baby nieces, Amara and Leila.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
When are they going to see a woman in charge
in the White House in their lifetime?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
For sure?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Could it be you?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Possibly?
Speaker 10 (12:39):
Have you made a decision yet?
Speaker 9 (12:40):
No, I have not.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But you say in your book, I'm not done.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
That is correct. I am not done. I have lived
my entire career a life of service, and it's in
my bones and there are many ways to serve. I've
not decided yet what I will do in the future
beyond what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I've known a lot of people in my life that
actually do dedicate their lives to public service, either as
their career or like as a hobby. You know, anybody
who's coaching Little league or being a boy scout troop
guy or whatever. But you freaking politicians have become rich
and famous, sign multi gazillion dollar book deals.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Don't hit me with you. I'm in a life of service, bulls.
It makes me angry that you do that.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That is just so Oh, I'm going to continue my
service by making a quarter million dollars a year serving
on the boards of five different corporations, and the however
many twice a year, however many million.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Dollars she got from that book she just wrote.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Anyway, she gets confronted with the idea of her possibly
running again.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
But you've been very clear that it's a possibility you
might run again to become president. And in my experience
interviewing politicians, when someone says I'm not done, it means
they are thinking seriously about running. But when you look
at the bookies' odds, they put you as an eider,
even behind Dwayne the Rock Johnston. I mean, is that
underestimating you?
Speaker 9 (14:07):
I think there are all kinds of polls that will
tell you a variety of things. I've never listened to poles.
If some polls I would have not run for my
first office or my second office, and I certainly wouldn't
be sitting here in this interview.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
But the bookies put the odds at for bazillion to one.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That's not even a real number. I've never believed the
polls are looked at them. Yeah, when you were losing
every swing state and every POLEX, you pretended that you should.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Have taken a glance. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
It might be every once in a while just worth
taking a quick look. Hey, I'm losing every swing state
according to the polls. I'll be darned anyway.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So that's that. I hope she runs. That'd be hilarious.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Kevin Newsom is going to run, and is you know
I've got a serious shot of being the nominee. He's
starting to lay out his first of all, the whole
question are you going to run or not? And acting
like that's a big deal. When they finally came and
say yes, if you're interested in that, good for you.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So you haven't. Newsom over the weekend said yes he's
going to run or considering it, and.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yes, I plan on being one of the seventeen nobody's
on a stage early.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Next year, Yes exactly, And here he is laying out
his hard scrabble upbringing.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
But also, you know, it was also about paying the
bills man. And it was just like hustling and and
so I was out there kind of raising myself, turning
on the TV started, you know, just getting obsessed, you know,
sitting there with the you know, the wonderbread and five
stacks of Hey, you.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Know, the white story.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
Come every day every day in the backyard, just bouncing
the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the ball.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Is just like fraying. Man. And that's it whole thing.
What is he talking about?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
There are some days we are so poor I couldn't
use new hair gel, and he was used from the
day before.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
What didn't he grow up in Nancy Pelosi's orbit somehow? Yeah?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
His family was connected to the Pelosis and I think
the Gettys and oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
But that's once again, like I was saying earlier.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
About paying the bills man, paying the Shardonnaye bill, the
Pino Noir bill, servants, they had to be paid.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Who's going to pay the driver? I mean, you know,
right he picks up and takes you places, somebody's got
paid the driver, the.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Nanny, the assistant nanny. It was about paying the bills.
So I've latched onto a thing with Gavin Newsom. Now
officially he doesn't say anything. He's like you said, he's
better than Kamala Harris. It's not laughable word salads where
everybody mocks it, but he doesn't actually say anything.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
He gets credit for these clips.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Yeah, but he doesn't think he's going somewhere, but he
never says it. Then like throws out another three quarters
of us sentence that never actually land.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Because he never ever said where he is on trans
sports thing, he never said anything about it.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I agree it's about fairness and there are concerns fairness,
but right there, what did he say there?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
What did he even claim? I don't know what happened there.
He used to like bounce a ball a lot, or
have a peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I'd turn on the TV, you know, and have a
sandwich and what traft MACARONI?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Geez, okay, you named some fools.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And Getty Show, The Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 12 (17:49):
Kids don't like capitalism, and I think a lot of
it has to do with social media, the clickbait right
rage bait works better in social media and gets more
people attention. And if Mundami is out there saying you're
getting free housing, you're getting free transportation, you're getting cheaper groceries,
and that's what they're going to respond positively to.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Is there any way that can work? No, No, of
course not.
Speaker 12 (18:13):
No financial problem in America.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Mark Cuban, one of the most successful capitalists in history
as a billionaire, saying to Bill Maher when Bill Maher
asked of that work in New York, say no.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
No.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
The other guy, whoever it was, oh Andrew Ross Sorkin,
talking about how we have a financial literacy problem. That's
one hundred percent correct, absolutely correct.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, because the freaking teachers are socialists.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
So no, they're not going to teach you the financial
literacy that says, no capitalism free markets are good in
this way. And here's why rent control and government run
grocery stores and all these things have been tried. Don't work.
Your teacher is not going to do that because they
believe in socialism.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
God's interesting.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You can talk people out of believing in rent control,
for instance, in three minutes, and three minutes is a
little luxurious. You give me two and a half, I'm
pretty sure I can get it done. But if you're
never exposed to that sort of thinking that again, socialism
is the greatest scam ever designed, I think. So I'm
on that topic kind of sort of in the next stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
We can talk about it through Ross Sorkin, who's the
hero of the left for you know, financial stuff, said
no it can't.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Work right, right, Yeah, So this is kind of a
looking at the left thing having to do with online culture.
But I came across a piece, really well considered and
written piece in the Free Press about how a lot
of young conservatives are getting swept up in really ugly
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stuff online into you know, neo fascism and the whole, like, uh,
most thing the man is for the whole what's his
name Cooper who talks to a Tucker and tries to
claim that Churchill was a bad guy and Hitler was
misunderstood all.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Those historian Darryl Cooper, who's not actually.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
He's not an effing historian right exactly, And how a
lot of young people on the writer are getting swayed
by this stuff too. So it's not entirely a lefty proposition.
But the headline in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, girl,
take your Crazy pills. Antidepressants recast is a hot lifestyle accessory.
Influencers tout the drugs, but many unsuspecting followers find the
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side effects take the fun out of life, and they
give a bunch of examples of like this one stay
at home mom. She felt lonely, overwhelmed at times, paralyzed
with anxiety and self doubt, and so she heard a
former MTV star talk up lexa pro on a podcast.
She searched for the drug on TikTok her go to
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information source and found hashtag lexa protoc and similar niche
on on communities where women in their twenties and thirties
praised the benefits of antidepressants.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
She posted a video asking for help.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Someone recommended a telehealth company, She answered a quick questionnaire,
and an online nurse protect practitioner slash drug dealer prescribed
a generic version of lexipro.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Bottle arrived a couple of days later, and then this gal.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Wow, that's that easy to get on the SSRIs. I mean,
most doctors are gonna throw it at you anyway, based
on my experience. But she didn't even have to leave
her house.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
So she immediately starts posting TikTok videos of herself running
to the mailbox for a pill package, taking a dose,
using such hashtags as lexipro, batties and get help Mama.
In the months that followed, she gushed over the pills
to her thousands of followers. For a time, she belonged
to a social media movement that's given antidepressants a makeover
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from a stigmatized medicine to a healthy lifestyle accessory, friend
lightened and empowered young women.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
When did it get stigmatized? I must have missed that
because zillions of Americans are on it. Yeah, well it's
gotten less stigmatized. But here's my favorite part.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Millennial and Gen Z influencers, some paid by telehealth companies,
evangelize antidepressants on TikTok and Instagram using hashtags like live laugh, lexapro, lexapro,
girly lexa ho, and zooft gang lexeho. I know, recasting
the medications as pop culture touchstones and on TikTok hashtag
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antidepressants has surpassed one point three billion views, etc. Then
they go into this list of you know, attractive young
women and Stato moms that tout the benefits of the
medicine and get thousands of followers and talk thousands of
people into doing it, who they then give them up
and wean themselves off because it makes them miserable and
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ruins their lives. But they do that pretty quickly or
quit it pretty quietly, rather and the videos of hey,
here's my actual long term experience, those don't get nearly
as many of you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I'm sure, that's sure.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I know plenty of people that are on SSRIs who
swear by them and are happy with them. But if
you are put on them or go on them and
you don't need it, I guess it makes you really
flat and life feels quite unpleasant.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Right, crushes your libido, weight gain, et cetera. Just yeah,
everything is kind of flattened. So anyway, I just thought, again,
this is the the democratization of ideas, where an idea
can reach millions of people worldwide, when if it was
just happening in your town, the person you know selling
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it would be told over and over again that's a
bad idea, and probably let it drop. And on a
similar topic, I found this really really interesting. Who did
this twenty twenty four Presidential Election Study BIG Survey, mental
health challenges are an important part of.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
My identity.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Among boomer males, UH, seventy three percent of them essentially said,
no matter what psychological challenges I face, I will not
let them define me.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Right. That used to be a feeling for most people
is like.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You, you would not allow yourself to believe you have
any of those things. And then even if it were true, proven,
you'd want to kind of keep it on the down
low because he didn't want it to be your thing.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Well, and I wouldn't want people to look at me
and say, oh, there's Joe he has anxiety.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Right, I mean, I know there's.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
A dozen things, maybe fifty things I'd rather have you say,
And there's Joey's nahole. I mean, for instance, it's better
anyway Joe man.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Can he dance?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Please? Like a stare? Please?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
So, Seventy three percent of boomer males essentially said, no
matter what psychological challenges I face, I will not let
them define me. Seventy two percent of gen Z females
said essentially, mental illness is an important part of my identity.
Seventy two percent said mental health challenges are an important
part of my identity.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah, that has been my experience in a variety of
ways with that generation in hiring for sitters in a
variety of different things, is everybody explains really early on
what they're I have anxiety, so I have to do this,
or I've OCD or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
It is, right right?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Both gen Z men and women view their mental health
as an important part of their identity at a rate
over five times that of boomers.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
For instance.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Well, unless you're older and you grew up in that culture,
how are you ever going to go through a rough
patch in your life now where you wouldn't take some
sort of drug for it, Because I mean, all your
friends are.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And rough patches. I've had rough patches that lasted a
freaking long time. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Sometimes they do, oh yeah, sometimes my own decisions.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I've witnessed young women bonding over their mental health challenges.
It's part of the whole, you know, lionization of the
victim victim culture in essence, and it's supported online in
a lot of ways that are really really interesting.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Maybe that would be a lesson that they teach more
people as you might go through not might you will
go through many periods of your life where there are
weeks or months or maybe half a year where you're
really down because this or that happened, And then you'll
come out of it, right.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
But I'll feel like I don't know what the point
is because you're on a journey to discovering what the
point is, and sometimes that takes a long time. That's
not mental illness, that's life. Yeah, but I think it's
worth going back to the previous article that was pointing
out that a lot of these people are sponsored by
the people selling the pills, of course, Yeah, but they
(27:14):
dress it up in like, there's this one influencer, what's
her name, cute chick, you know, dressed kind of sexy,
she's funny, she's wacky. Elena Davis, thirty five year old influencer,
made this video in twenty twenty three of her dress
like she's going out to the club, laughing and taking
her pills and making a big deal of how great
(27:37):
it is. She weaned herself completely off them a couple
of years later because they essentially screwed up her life. Yeah,
good lord, the internet is a bad place to be.
Did plug it?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Did the laws change around medicine?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Somewhere where these doctors that have never met you can
prescribe you things that you.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Used to have to go see here.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, there's been kind of an evolution through the de evolution, because.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
There's all kinds of drugs you can get on just
by basically you just pay for them and you check
some boxes on a form and they say, sure, we'll
send them to you.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
You've never met me, you haven't taken any blood work.
That reminds me I gotta pop my daily viagra. I
like to be ready, you know, like the boy scouts say,
be prepared.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Huh, well, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Arm the armstrong and getting shot coming up in a moment.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Breathing through our butts has been declared safe after the
first human trial. I'm not laughing, I'm coughing actually a
little both. There was a human trial.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yes, can if I like, if I squeeze really hard,
can I breathe through.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
My You try hard enough? That's right, everybody try No.
I'll explain a minute or two. I found this really interesting.
I'm aware of exhaling that way. A lot of people
do that and they shouldn't. This is from the Times
of London. Female spies are waging sex warfare to steal
Silicon Valley secrets. China and Russia are both sending attractive
(29:14):
women to seduce tech workers, even marrying and having children
with their targets in a desperate attempt to get ahead
and stay ahead Tech and AI.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You're not a sex worker. If you actually married them
and have children, you're a I don't know what you are.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
You're spy. Yeah, oh yeah, nobody's calling them sex workers.
They're spies. Chinese and Russian operatives are using sex warfare
to seduce and spy on Silicon Valley professionals. James Mulvanan,
the chief intelligence officer of amer Consulting, which provides risk
(29:52):
assessments for American companies investing in China, said he was
one of the many men recently targeted by Fordes seductrisses
hoping to gain access to USC rits.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I'm getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests
from the same type of attractive young Chinese women. It
seems to have really ramped up recently, he described at
how At a business conference on Chinese investment risks hosted
in Virginia last week, two attractive Chinese women showed up
(30:21):
and attempted to gain entry. We didn't let them in,
but they had all the information about the event and
everything else. He said, it's a phenomenon. And now I
will tell you it's really weird.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
That is a heck of a commitment to your country
that you're going to meet a guy, woo him, marry him,
have kids with him. I mean, that's really caring about
your Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Or you're well, you're in the spy service.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I've read various autobiographies of both men and women who
are in the KGB and how you get recruited young
and your strange that.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
The all day, every day of raising a kid. If
you've done it, it's a lot of work. It's your
whole life. I mean, you're doing all that as part
of your being a spy.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Right, let's see. Oh here's the interesting part. And I've
been trying to tell you this for a long time.
Both Russia and the CCP are using ordinary citizens, investors, cryptoanalysts, businessmen,
academics to target their American counterparts rather than trained agents,
which makes the esponars harder to spot. Quote, we're not
(31:32):
chasing a KGB agent in a smoky guesthouse in Germany anymore,
said one senior US counter intelligence official.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Our adversaries, particularly the Chinese, are using a whole of
society approach to exploit all aspects of our technology and
Western talent.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Can you imagine you find out your wife and mother
of your two kids, you've been married for ten years,
only did it to spy for the Communists? Yeah? I know, boy,
would that be rock your world show attering? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I want to get to the breathing through your butt
thing in a bit, but you don't have time because.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I want to wrap this up.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Yeah, anyway, what was I going to say? And we'll
not with that attitude, you can't. I've told this story
many times, but it's worth retelling it. It was about
a decade ago that the FBI went to a particular
large California university and their counterintelligence folks warned the president
of the university, you have a lot of Chinese agents
(32:28):
on your campus masquerading as researchers. And they were told, quote,
get off my campus, you racists. There are thousands, tens
of thousands Chinese nationals in the United States right now
doing the work of the Communist Party. Spending all day,
every day doing the work of the Communist Party. I
stand by those words. Ah so a couple of notes
(32:48):
on Haavid supposedly the world's greatest university, which has beclowned
itself completely. I thought this was interesting. And Harvard PhD
programs are collapsing amidst amid budget woes, Faculty of Arts
and Science and says just to slash the number of
PhD student admissions by more seventy five percent in the
Science division and sixty percent in the Arts and Humanities
(33:09):
division in the past two years.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
How much does the world need more PhDs in most areas?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Quoting Nelly Bowls again, the PhD racket has always been
a weird one. These schools push their smartest, most annoyingly
ambitious kids to get a PhD. During that PhD, the
guys do all the work of being a paid professor,
teaching courses, grading papers, but they're paid next to nothing.
Then the clincher is that at the end there are
no jobs available, maybe one English Department job in Idaho
for a group of three hundred to battle to the
(33:38):
death over. So I support this belt tightening.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
We will have.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
About five thousand fewer Antifa soldiers produced each year. They
might even spend their twenties making money. Love that well,
said Nelly, speaking of Havid. They say they the university
won't say whether they will sanction. A dean who defended
rioting and looting as legitimate parts of democracy, described whiteness
as a self described self destructive ideology, celebrated Charlie Kirk's death,
(34:07):
said it was acceptable to wish death on Donald Trump, etc.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Etc.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
This guy is unbelievable. What's my favorite?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
In the following the death of George Floyd, he tweeted,
rioting and looting our parts of democracy, just like voting
in Marching Wow. A month before he got his gig.
Last year, he posted on Instagram that people should love
each other and hate the police. Describe whiteness as a
self destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it, like in
Trump to Adolf Hitler then appeared to celebrate the death
(34:40):
of Rush Limbaugh, et cetera. Harvard has no comments on it,
and the communist himself, Gregory Davis is his name, said
those posts do not reflect my current thinking or beliefs.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
One of them was.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Last year, Oh, I'm a kid Marxists sly, they lie,
and they lie and they lie. And then Fox New
has had a panel with conservative Harvard students that was
really interesting. Maybe we could find some of the audio
for it. But they're speaking out about what it's really
like on campus right now, where the university has said, no,
(35:20):
we're going to be fair, but in practice they're not,
said one quote. A good example of this would be
like something like the university is very strict on not
co sponsoring events with outside groups when it comes to
the Republican Club, let's say, putting on events. But the
Democrats get away with that all the time, no questions asked,
and the students described what they believed to be selective
(35:40):
enforcement of various campus rules.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
There have been other things like the Republican Club puts
on a big event and they send a bunch of
administrators to really enforce fire code rules, making sure the
audience is sitting properly in their seats, whereas Democrats can
host events, the whole place can be jammed pack and
there's no concern whatsoever. That's the opposite of way to
university ought to be polar opposite to it.
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No on with the infotainment. Another big story around sports.
I didn't realize the Winter Olympics or.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Twelve weeks away.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
We're gonna yeah, and there's somewhere somewhere snowy isom France
where the winter limit Good'd be a good idea, crock
that for us? Will you, Katie ware are the dang
Winter Olympics? But anyway, Italy, I think or was that
last time? That doesn't matter someplace snowy is be a
good thing? It Yeah, probably not Jamaica, Milano, Cortina, I win. Congratulations.
(01:24):
So the Winter Olympics coming up in Italy, they ain't
gonna do the whole trans thing this time around.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Here's a little bit of that. This sounds like a
really big change potentially.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Nick, this would be big and it would be a
huge policy shift for the ile SE, which until now
has led each sports international governing body set their own
policies centered on transgender inclusion.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It would also mark.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
A big change from the ILEC's twenty twenty one framework,
which said there should not be a presumption of advantage
when it comes to trans athletes.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So they were running scared last Olympics, like lots of
people were didn't want to be on the wrong side
this and said some things that they knew were wrong
and crazy, like you just heard and now I've changed
your mind.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Here's one of these spokespeople for the Olympics.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
What I would like for the IOC to do is
to bring everyone together, to try and find a consensus
amongst all of us that we can all get behind
and that we can implement and above anything and everything else.
It's fair and protects the female categories.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
They're all about protecting the female category. This she's new
and she got elected on the idea of I'm going
to protect women's sports, which is code for being and
let dudes.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Participate in our women's sports.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Well, of course you're not going to let men in
women's sports, then it's not women's sports, says virtually all
of humanity that got bullied into silence.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
You know, in most cases, all these conversations that are
going on are how do we handle this without being
in trouble politically as opposed to what's the right thing
to do. You might have a couple true believers, you know,
your high school in California or something like that, but
mostly it's how do we handle this without causing a firestorm?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
And here's the reasoning behind it all.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
The IOC will issue the band sometime early next year,
citing a new scientific review that found effidence men have
a permanent physical advantage over women athletes even after hormone therapy. However,
the Guardian newspaper says the ban could still be a
year out and that the IOC is facing pushback to
a possible ban on athletes who reported female at birth,
(03:29):
but have male chromosomes and the same testosterone level as men,
also known as differences in sexual development. That would include
athletes like South Africa's casser Semenya, who won gold at
the London and Real Games before Track and Fields governing
body World Athletics banned DSc athletes from competing as women
in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
DSc different sexual characteristics or whatever. Sah, yeah, yeah, I
like this new study that came out that said have
an advantage over women.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That's a good scientific study. I wonder who did that.
How much did you spend? Tell me about the methodology.
That's hilarious that they had to hide behind a new study,
good lord, instead of ancient wisdom.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know, it strikes me you've learned since you were
a little kid on the playground. Going forward is the
new scientific study.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So I was reading about the women's soccer league.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
They've had a controversy lately, and it's all centered around
this one player who is much bigger and muscular than
all of the girls on the field. Looks like a dude,
plays like a dude, built like a dude, et cetera.
It's a similar case to castor Semenya who they mentioned
who has internal testicles.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
It was one of the.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
That'd be awesome. Oh I like having testicles. I just
don't want him in.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
The way I see, thanks for clarifying. So, but that's
one of the extremely rare cases where sex assigned at
birth is a phrase that makes any sense because these
are people with both sets of genitals, meaning no, of
course not no. So she has both ovaries and testicles
and has much much higher test to party like that.
(05:14):
The Turkish fella who was whipping up on the girls
in the boxing last time around too.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
But you know, and it's funny.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
How so what do you left, what do you think
we should do with people who have testicles and ovaries?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Oh, it's a shame, but they can't compete in women's sports.
And that's the point I was about to make. The
left always it's funny. They just are crazy about individual rights,
except when it comes to individual rights that conservatives like,
then they have no interest in them.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It's all about the community.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But yeah, I feel terrible for those people if they
want to be athletes, but they can either compete as
manner in an open category. You can't beat the crap
out of women because you are functionally athletically speaking, a man.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
According to a new study, there avantage by being a man.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh, speaking of this sort of thing, I just finished
the piece by Colin Wright, who's terrific writer.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He writes about this sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
He was an academic scientist at Penn State in twenty
twenty and there was that crazy explosion in adolescent transgenderism
among young girls, and he commented two words social contagion.
Within hours, his colleagues denounced him as a transphobic bigot,
and the online mob came from him before him and
crushed his academic career. And he talks about how he
(06:31):
was referring to research published by a scientist who had
coined the term rapid onset genderness for you in twenty eighteen,
the peer reviewed paper blah blah blah, and that the
pattern was clearly explained by social contagion, the spread of
ideas or behaviors through peer influence. And there are other examples,
whether it's cutting or anarexi or whatever. Teen girls are
(06:51):
just incredibly prone to that sort of thing. But then
he gets to the fact that the left wing dogma
that gender identity is innate and immutable people are born
as transgender.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's not they're not convinced by a trend or whatever.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
It's they're born, and that claim underpins the medical practice
and the legal strategy puberty blockers, cross such hormones, mutilations
of kids, minors, and the rest of it, and the
civil rights argument. So then he makes the point that
the dominant argument to the counter argument to the social
(07:31):
contagent theory is that the sharp rise in transgender identification
over the past decades simply reflects liberation right people are
more comfortable expressing their authentic selves. That has been the argument.
As transgender activist and biologist Julius Serrano put it in
twenty seventeen, there really wasn't a rise in left handedness
(07:52):
so much as there was a rise in left handed acceptance.
That's an interesting premise, isn't it. People were free to
be who the f they were, as John Oliver put
it on his Last Week Tonight. But then Colin points out,
if transgender identity were an innate trait like left handedness,
we would expect identification rates to rise at first when
(08:14):
it became socially acceptable, then plateau and remain stable at
a fixed level. If the phenomenon were instead driven by
social contagion, we might expect a boom and bust pattern,
a spike followed by a rapid decline once the social
forces driving it were weakened. And indeed that has become
(08:35):
incredibly clear. Transgenderal identification has fallen fifty percent in two
years among college students and adolescents a couple of different studies.
It was clearly a social contagion, and people who got
their careers ruined for saying it wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Lord, were you a victim of an angry wrong mob.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I'm glad left handedness that didn't catch on as a
social contagent and have a hard time pretending I was
left handed, eating, tying my shoes, whatever I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah, And then he points out that the overwhelming majority
of those driving the trans mania fall into the non
binary category, adopting identities which are said to be neither both,
somewhere in between demi boy, gender fluid, two spirit. These
are social identities, not biological ones. Unlike right handedness or
left handedness, non very non binary identities have no anatomical
(09:32):
or physiological reference. They're conceptual, political, and responsive to cultural
trends hallmarks of a social contagion.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Case closed dam next case. Man, I'm looking at the
dust up that happened in Berkeley. I wish i'd gone
last night. I was thinking about going. It's only whatever,
it is forty five miles from my house, but I
had some kids stuff going on. But it got pretty
spicy there outside the Turning Point event in Berkeley last night.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Are they needed you there fighting Antifa? And what did
you do? You stay at home?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
What are the who are these numbnuts that show up
to fight this stuff? Just let them, let them gather
and speak it. What's the skin off your nose? They're
actually convinced that they're fascists. They believe, and that's that's
I have to remind myself of that semi regularly. And
it's true on the right, but especially on the left,
there is a significant group of people that believes the most.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Lunatic rantings of activists. They believe it.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You're willing to get into a fistfight over somebody speaking
in an auditorium.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah, you're you're the fascist.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I mean clearly, Let's see you dress up in a uniform,
you go to the opposition events, and you beat people
up and call them fascists.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
People inside having the speaking engagement.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
It's the lack of appreciating the irony that offends me
the most.
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Speaker 4 (11:24):
Don't That's Donald Trump the case. You couldn't hear. He's
on the plane. He's flying around, going to all these
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He said, yeah, I could do that, but that's a
little too cute. They're talking about the third term Trump thing,
and then they ask him like three times if he's
ruling out running again in twenty twenty eight. How do
you not get that this is him just getting you
(11:45):
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year old?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Do you just ignore them? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Do the Rachel Meadows of the world not get it
or do they know?
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Yeah, it's a you know, it's a perpetual motion machine.
Trump loves them. They love Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
So Kamala Harris, I guess hinted enough on BBC that
she might run again.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
That that got people excited. This is how that went.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Stories of your baby nieces, Amara and Leila.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
When are they going to see a woman in charge
in the White House in their lifetime?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
For sure?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Could it be you?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Possibly?
Speaker 10 (12:39):
Have you made a decision yet?
Speaker 9 (12:40):
No, I have not.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But you say in your book, I'm not done.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
That is correct. I am not done. I have lived
my entire career a life of service, and it's in
my bones and there are many ways to serve. I've
not decided yet what I will do in the future
beyond what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I've known a lot of people in my life that
actually do dedicate their lives to public service, either as
their career or like as a hobby. You know, anybody
who's coaching Little league or being a boy scout troop
guy or whatever. But you freaking politicians have become rich
and famous, sign multi gazillion dollar book deals.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Don't hit me with you. I'm in a life of service, bulls.
It makes me angry that you do that.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That is just so Oh, I'm going to continue my
service by making a quarter million dollars a year serving
on the boards of five different corporations, and the however
many twice a year, however many million.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Dollars she got from that book she just wrote.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Anyway, she gets confronted with the idea of her possibly
running again.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
But you've been very clear that it's a possibility you
might run again to become president. And in my experience
interviewing politicians, when someone says I'm not done, it means
they are thinking seriously about running. But when you look
at the bookies' odds, they put you as an eider,
even behind Dwayne the Rock Johnston. I mean, is that
underestimating you?
Speaker 9 (14:07):
I think there are all kinds of polls that will
tell you a variety of things. I've never listened to poles.
If some polls I would have not run for my
first office or my second office, and I certainly wouldn't
be sitting here in this interview.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
But the bookies put the odds at for bazillion to one.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That's not even a real number. I've never believed the
polls are looked at them. Yeah, when you were losing
every swing state and every POLEX, you pretended that you should.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Have taken a glance. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
It might be every once in a while just worth
taking a quick look. Hey, I'm losing every swing state
according to the polls. I'll be darned anyway.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
So that's that. I hope she runs. That'd be hilarious.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Kevin Newsom is going to run, and is you know
I've got a serious shot of being the nominee. He's
starting to lay out his first of all, the whole
question are you going to run or not? And acting
like that's a big deal. When they finally came and
say yes, if you're interested in that, good for you.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
So you haven't. Newsom over the weekend said yes he's
going to run or considering it, and.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yes, I plan on being one of the seventeen nobody's
on a stage early.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Next year, Yes exactly, And here he is laying out
his hard scrabble upbringing.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
But also, you know, it was also about paying the
bills man. And it was just like hustling and and
so I was out there kind of raising myself, turning
on the TV started, you know, just getting obsessed, you know,
sitting there with the you know, the wonderbread and five
stacks of Hey, you.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Know, the white story.
Speaker 11 (15:44):
Come every day every day in the backyard, just bouncing
the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the ball.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Is just like fraying. Man. And that's it whole thing.
What is he talking about?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
There are some days we are so poor I couldn't
use new hair gel, and he was used from the
day before.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
What didn't he grow up in Nancy Pelosi's orbit somehow? Yeah?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
His family was connected to the Pelosis and I think
the Gettys and oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
But that's once again, like I was saying earlier.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
About paying the bills man, paying the Shardonnaye bill, the
Pino Noir bill, servants, they had to be paid.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Who's going to pay the driver? I mean, you know,
right he picks up and takes you places, somebody's got
paid the driver, the.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Nanny, the assistant nanny. It was about paying the bills.
So I've latched onto a thing with Gavin Newsom. Now
officially he doesn't say anything. He's like you said, he's
better than Kamala Harris. It's not laughable word salads where
everybody mocks it, but he doesn't actually say anything.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
He gets credit for these clips.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Yeah, but he doesn't think he's going somewhere, but he
never says it. Then like throws out another three quarters
of us sentence that never actually land.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Because he never ever said where he is on trans
sports thing, he never said anything about it.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I agree it's about fairness and there are concerns fairness,
but right there, what did he say there?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
What did he even claim? I don't know what happened there.
He used to like bounce a ball a lot, or
have a peanut butter.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I'd turn on the TV, you know, and have a
sandwich and what traft MACARONI?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Geez, okay, you named some fools.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And Getty Show, The Armstrong and Getdy Show.
Speaker 12 (17:49):
Kids don't like capitalism, and I think a lot of
it has to do with social media, the clickbait right
rage bait works better in social media and gets more
people attention. And if Mundami is out there saying you're
getting free housing, you're getting free transportation, you're getting cheaper groceries,
and that's what they're going to respond positively to.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Is there any way that can work? No, No, of
course not.
Speaker 12 (18:13):
No financial problem in America.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Mark Cuban, one of the most successful capitalists in history
as a billionaire, saying to Bill Maher when Bill Maher
asked of that work in New York, say no.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of course not.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
No.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
The other guy, whoever it was, oh Andrew Ross Sorkin,
talking about how we have a financial literacy problem. That's
one hundred percent correct, absolutely correct.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, because the freaking teachers are socialists.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
So no, they're not going to teach you the financial
literacy that says, no capitalism free markets are good in
this way. And here's why rent control and government run
grocery stores and all these things have been tried. Don't work.
Your teacher is not going to do that because they
believe in socialism.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
God's interesting.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You can talk people out of believing in rent control,
for instance, in three minutes, and three minutes is a
little luxurious. You give me two and a half, I'm
pretty sure I can get it done. But if you're
never exposed to that sort of thinking that again, socialism
is the greatest scam ever designed, I think. So I'm
on that topic kind of sort of in the next stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
We can talk about it through Ross Sorkin, who's the
hero of the left for you know, financial stuff, said
no it can't.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Work right, right, Yeah, So this is kind of a
looking at the left thing having to do with online culture.
But I came across a piece, really well considered and
written piece in the Free Press about how a lot
of young conservatives are getting swept up in really ugly
(19:51):
stuff online into you know, neo fascism and the whole, like, uh,
most thing the man is for the whole what's his
name Cooper who talks to a Tucker and tries to
claim that Churchill was a bad guy and Hitler was
misunderstood all.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Those historian Darryl Cooper, who's not actually.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
He's not an effing historian right exactly, And how a
lot of young people on the writer are getting swayed
by this stuff too. So it's not entirely a lefty proposition.
But the headline in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, girl,
take your Crazy pills. Antidepressants recast is a hot lifestyle accessory.
Influencers tout the drugs, but many unsuspecting followers find the
(20:34):
side effects take the fun out of life, and they
give a bunch of examples of like this one stay
at home mom. She felt lonely, overwhelmed at times, paralyzed
with anxiety and self doubt, and so she heard a
former MTV star talk up lexa pro on a podcast.
She searched for the drug on TikTok her go to
(20:54):
information source and found hashtag lexa protoc and similar niche
on on communities where women in their twenties and thirties
praised the benefits of antidepressants.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
She posted a video asking for help.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Someone recommended a telehealth company, She answered a quick questionnaire,
and an online nurse protect practitioner slash drug dealer prescribed
a generic version of lexipro.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Bottle arrived a couple of days later, and then this gal.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Wow, that's that easy to get on the SSRIs. I mean,
most doctors are gonna throw it at you anyway, based
on my experience. But she didn't even have to leave
her house.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
So she immediately starts posting TikTok videos of herself running
to the mailbox for a pill package, taking a dose,
using such hashtags as lexipro, batties and get help Mama.
In the months that followed, she gushed over the pills
to her thousands of followers. For a time, she belonged
to a social media movement that's given antidepressants a makeover
(21:50):
from a stigmatized medicine to a healthy lifestyle accessory, friend
lightened and empowered young women.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
When did it get stigmatized? I must have missed that
because zillions of Americans are on it. Yeah, well it's
gotten less stigmatized. But here's my favorite part.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Millennial and Gen Z influencers, some paid by telehealth companies,
evangelize antidepressants on TikTok and Instagram using hashtags like live laugh, lexapro, lexapro,
girly lexa ho, and zooft gang lexeho. I know, recasting
the medications as pop culture touchstones and on TikTok hashtag
(22:28):
antidepressants has surpassed one point three billion views, etc. Then
they go into this list of you know, attractive young
women and Stato moms that tout the benefits of the
medicine and get thousands of followers and talk thousands of
people into doing it, who they then give them up
and wean themselves off because it makes them miserable and
(22:50):
ruins their lives. But they do that pretty quickly or
quit it pretty quietly, rather and the videos of hey,
here's my actual long term experience, those don't get nearly
as many of you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I'm sure, that's sure.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I know plenty of people that are on SSRIs who
swear by them and are happy with them. But if
you are put on them or go on them and
you don't need it, I guess it makes you really
flat and life feels quite unpleasant.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Right, crushes your libido, weight gain, et cetera. Just yeah,
everything is kind of flattened. So anyway, I just thought, again,
this is the the democratization of ideas, where an idea
can reach millions of people worldwide, when if it was
just happening in your town, the person you know selling
(23:41):
it would be told over and over again that's a
bad idea, and probably let it drop. And on a
similar topic, I found this really really interesting. Who did
this twenty twenty four Presidential Election Study BIG Survey, mental
health challenges are an important part of.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
My identity.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Among boomer males, UH, seventy three percent of them essentially said,
no matter what psychological challenges I face, I will not
let them define me.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Right. That used to be a feeling for most people
is like.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You, you would not allow yourself to believe you have
any of those things. And then even if it were true, proven,
you'd want to kind of keep it on the down
low because he didn't want it to be your thing.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Well, and I wouldn't want people to look at me
and say, oh, there's Joe he has anxiety.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Right, I mean, I know there's.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
A dozen things, maybe fifty things I'd rather have you say,
And there's Joey's nahole. I mean, for instance, it's better
anyway Joe man.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Can he dance?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Please? Like a stare? Please?
Speaker 5 (25:03):
So, Seventy three percent of boomer males essentially said, no
matter what psychological challenges I face, I will not let
them define me. Seventy two percent of gen Z females
said essentially, mental illness is an important part of my identity.
Seventy two percent said mental health challenges are an important
part of my identity.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yeah, that has been my experience in a variety of
ways with that generation in hiring for sitters in a
variety of different things, is everybody explains really early on
what they're I have anxiety, so I have to do this,
or I've OCD or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
It is, right right?
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Both gen Z men and women view their mental health
as an important part of their identity at a rate
over five times that of boomers.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
For instance.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Well, unless you're older and you grew up in that culture,
how are you ever going to go through a rough
patch in your life now where you wouldn't take some
sort of drug for it, Because I mean, all your
friends are.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And rough patches. I've had rough patches that lasted a
freaking long time. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Sometimes they do, oh yeah, sometimes my own decisions.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I've witnessed young women bonding over their mental health challenges.
It's part of the whole, you know, lionization of the
victim victim culture in essence, and it's supported online in
a lot of ways that are really really interesting.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Maybe that would be a lesson that they teach more
people as you might go through not might you will
go through many periods of your life where there are
weeks or months or maybe half a year where you're
really down because this or that happened, And then you'll
come out of it, right.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
But I'll feel like I don't know what the point
is because you're on a journey to discovering what the
point is, and sometimes that takes a long time. That's
not mental illness, that's life. Yeah, but I think it's
worth going back to the previous article that was pointing
out that a lot of these people are sponsored by
the people selling the pills, of course, Yeah, but they
(27:14):
dress it up in like, there's this one influencer, what's
her name, cute chick, you know, dressed kind of sexy,
she's funny, she's wacky. Elena Davis, thirty five year old influencer,
made this video in twenty twenty three of her dress
like she's going out to the club, laughing and taking
her pills and making a big deal of how great
(27:37):
it is. She weaned herself completely off them a couple
of years later because they essentially screwed up her life. Yeah,
good lord, the internet is a bad place to be.
Did plug it?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Did the laws change around medicine?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Somewhere where these doctors that have never met you can
prescribe you things that you.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Used to have to go see here.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, there's been kind of an evolution through the de evolution, because.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
There's all kinds of drugs you can get on just
by basically you just pay for them and you check
some boxes on a form and they say, sure, we'll
send them to you.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
You've never met me, you haven't taken any blood work.
That reminds me I gotta pop my daily viagra. I
like to be ready, you know, like the boy scouts say,
be prepared.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Huh, well, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Arm the armstrong and getting shot coming up in a moment.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Breathing through our butts has been declared safe after the
first human trial. I'm not laughing, I'm coughing actually a
little both. There was a human trial.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yes, can if I like, if I squeeze really hard,
can I breathe through.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
My You try hard enough? That's right, everybody try No.
I'll explain a minute or two. I found this really interesting.
I'm aware of exhaling that way. A lot of people
do that and they shouldn't. This is from the Times
of London. Female spies are waging sex warfare to steal
Silicon Valley secrets. China and Russia are both sending attractive
(29:14):
women to seduce tech workers, even marrying and having children
with their targets in a desperate attempt to get ahead
and stay ahead Tech and AI.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You're not a sex worker. If you actually married them
and have children, you're a I don't know what you are.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
You're spy. Yeah, oh yeah, nobody's calling them sex workers.
They're spies. Chinese and Russian operatives are using sex warfare
to seduce and spy on Silicon Valley professionals. James Mulvanan,
the chief intelligence officer of amer Consulting, which provides risk
(29:52):
assessments for American companies investing in China, said he was
one of the many men recently targeted by Fordes seductrisses
hoping to gain access to USC rits.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I'm getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests
from the same type of attractive young Chinese women. It
seems to have really ramped up recently, he described at
how At a business conference on Chinese investment risks hosted
in Virginia last week, two attractive Chinese women showed up
(30:21):
and attempted to gain entry. We didn't let them in,
but they had all the information about the event and
everything else. He said, it's a phenomenon. And now I
will tell you it's really weird.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
That is a heck of a commitment to your country
that you're going to meet a guy, woo him, marry him,
have kids with him. I mean, that's really caring about
your Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Or you're well, you're in the spy service.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
I've read various autobiographies of both men and women who
are in the KGB and how you get recruited young
and your strange that.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
The all day, every day of raising a kid. If
you've done it, it's a lot of work. It's your
whole life. I mean, you're doing all that as part
of your being a spy.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Right, let's see. Oh here's the interesting part. And I've
been trying to tell you this for a long time.
Both Russia and the CCP are using ordinary citizens, investors, cryptoanalysts, businessmen,
academics to target their American counterparts rather than trained agents,
which makes the esponars harder to spot. Quote, we're not
(31:32):
chasing a KGB agent in a smoky guesthouse in Germany anymore,
said one senior US counter intelligence official.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Our adversaries, particularly the Chinese, are using a whole of
society approach to exploit all aspects of our technology and
Western talent.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Can you imagine you find out your wife and mother
of your two kids, you've been married for ten years,
only did it to spy for the Communists? Yeah? I know, boy,
would that be rock your world show attering? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I want to get to the breathing through your butt
thing in a bit, but you don't have time because.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I want to wrap this up.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Yeah, anyway, what was I going to say? And we'll
not with that attitude, you can't. I've told this story
many times, but it's worth retelling it. It was about
a decade ago that the FBI went to a particular
large California university and their counterintelligence folks warned the president
of the university, you have a lot of Chinese agents
(32:28):
on your campus masquerading as researchers. And they were told, quote,
get off my campus, you racists. There are thousands, tens
of thousands Chinese nationals in the United States right now
doing the work of the Communist Party. Spending all day,
every day doing the work of the Communist Party. I
stand by those words. Ah so a couple of notes
(32:48):
on Haavid supposedly the world's greatest university, which has beclowned
itself completely. I thought this was interesting. And Harvard PhD
programs are collapsing amidst amid budget woes, Faculty of Arts
and Science and says just to slash the number of
PhD student admissions by more seventy five percent in the
Science division and sixty percent in the Arts and Humanities
(33:09):
division in the past two years.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
How much does the world need more PhDs in most areas?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You know?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Quoting Nelly Bowls again, the PhD racket has always been
a weird one. These schools push their smartest, most annoyingly
ambitious kids to get a PhD. During that PhD, the
guys do all the work of being a paid professor,
teaching courses, grading papers, but they're paid next to nothing.
Then the clincher is that at the end there are
no jobs available, maybe one English Department job in Idaho
for a group of three hundred to battle to the
(33:38):
death over. So I support this belt tightening.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
We will have.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
About five thousand fewer Antifa soldiers produced each year. They
might even spend their twenties making money. Love that well,
said Nelly, speaking of Havid. They say they the university
won't say whether they will sanction. A dean who defended
rioting and looting as legitimate parts of democracy, described whiteness
as a self described self destructive ideology, celebrated Charlie Kirk's death,
(34:07):
said it was acceptable to wish death on Donald Trump, etc.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Etc.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
This guy is unbelievable. What's my favorite?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
In the following the death of George Floyd, he tweeted,
rioting and looting our parts of democracy, just like voting
in Marching Wow. A month before he got his gig.
Last year, he posted on Instagram that people should love
each other and hate the police. Describe whiteness as a
self destructive ideology that annihilates everyone around it, like in
Trump to Adolf Hitler then appeared to celebrate the death
(34:40):
of Rush Limbaugh, et cetera. Harvard has no comments on it,
and the communist himself, Gregory Davis is his name, said
those posts do not reflect my current thinking or beliefs.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
One of them was.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Last year, Oh, I'm a kid Marxists sly, they lie,
and they lie and they lie. And then Fox New
has had a panel with conservative Harvard students that was
really interesting. Maybe we could find some of the audio
for it. But they're speaking out about what it's really
like on campus right now, where the university has said, no,
(35:20):
we're going to be fair, but in practice they're not,
said one quote. A good example of this would be
like something like the university is very strict on not
co sponsoring events with outside groups when it comes to
the Republican Club, let's say, putting on events. But the
Democrats get away with that all the time, no questions asked,
and the students described what they believed to be selective
(35:40):
enforcement of various campus rules.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Quote.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
There have been other things like the Republican Club puts
on a big event and they send a bunch of
administrators to really enforce fire code rules, making sure the
audience is sitting properly in their seats, whereas Democrats can
host events, the whole place can be jammed pack and
there's no concern whatsoever. That's the opposite of way to
university ought to be polar opposite to it.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
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