September 2, 2026 • 37 mins
Hour Three of A&G features...
- A very important public service message...
- The Fall of Filler...
- An unexpected turn in The Clancy Trial...
- Why is Artificial Intelligence taking online courses?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now,
here's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
He's going to continue living his life to the fullest
until the end.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
They didn't believe it, to be honest. I mean, who
would jump out of a normal plane?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Doctors say it's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No. You can't tell him anything. He's going to do
it no matter what. To love, to hug, and to kiss.
That's all I say. What was that? What was this?
A World War II veteran, Jimmy Hernandez, who jumped out
of a plane for his birthday. 101 years old. As
(00:59):
the one relative said, he's going to live his life
to the force till the end. What was his motto there, though?
Live to love, to hug, and to kiss. That's something else.
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What is it with the oldsters who want to jump
out of a plane? I wonder if he was a paratrooper.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That would make sense completely. But you see that pretty regularly.
89-year-old woman celebrating her birthday. Why is that the go-to,
I'm still with it? I have no desire to do that.
I hope to live to be 89. My dad turns
89 tomorrow. I hope to live to be old and
do all kinds of things. I don't need to jump
(01:41):
out of a plane. Still riding my motorcycle would be
cool or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Sure. I'm here to tell you I will live to
140 and never jump out of a plane. Unless it's
on fire and then it's just 50-50. Anyway. So good
for you, sir. And God bless you. Thank you. Kiss.
Thank you for saving democracy. Speaking of our fighting men
(02:07):
and women. After 286 days at sea, the 5,000 sailors
on the USS Abraham Lincoln have docked in Thailand. Hide
your lady boys. At a beach. Hide your daughters. Hell,
hide your sons. Hide your husband. Everybody just hide. And
leave your liquor out. Good Lord. The carnal desires of
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that many young men will be difficult to satiate even
for the great country of Thailand. Ha! Anyway, fellows and ladies,
have a great port call. Relax. Thanks for what you do.
Sorry you're out there so long, but war is hell.
Moving along. Totally different topic. Whipsawing the audience. America fell
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in love with filler. Then came the great deflate. We're
talking about cosmetic filler, duck lips, etc., Which was all
the craze. Here's this one gal who does this filler injections.
Give me the biggest lips possible, she said. Clients asked
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her every day.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Everybody wanted the same look. Big cheeks. Does that mean
like cheekbones? Because nobody wants like fat chipmunk cheeks, right?
I don't think so. Anyway, big cheeks. Big lips, super
sharp features, a Tinkerbell upturned nose, and filler was the
answer to all of their requests.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's fun. I have a physical revulsion to that look.
Whenever I run into somebody, it's like seeing somebody who's
sick or something. I have to make myself talk to them.
I feel like I'm being told to run away by
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my brain.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, it looks like they're in anaphylactic shock, for one thing.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So I not only don't find it attractive, it's repelling
to me.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Am I in the minority? I don't know that. I
have the same reaction, but I don't know. So for
nearly a decade, filler has been more is more. And
injectors price their treatment by the syringe, so bigger lips
meant bigger profits. Women chasing the Kardashian-esque features on their
social media feeds. Evil. Catapulted the business to new heights.
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In boom times, this woman was selling on average... One
syringe of filler per patient. Now, 99% of the time,
it's half or less, and they tell her, just toss
the rest. Now, women don't want duck lips anymore. Nobody
wants cheeks that make them look like an avatar, I guess,
from that movie. Women my age want to look like
Gwyneth Paltrow now, the 40-somethings say, and younger girls want
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to look like Hailey Bieber. Anyway, so Filler has now
become the beauty boogeyman with horror, online horror stories of
injectables migrating to undesired areas and telling stories of how
they had theirs dissolved.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So we worked with somebody. She's gone now. So I
always had to be really careful about what I said.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Do you mean she's passed or she no longer works here?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She moved away and got a different job, I think,
in a different industry. And I don't think she was
a listener. And she's a super nice person, like the
nicest and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah. Really, really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But young, and she would show up at work with giant,
giant lips.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And then they would go....
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They would deflate little by little by little over, I
don't know how many weeks, a couple weeks or a
month or whatever. And then she'd come back to work
again with the giant lips. And I don't know if
you're supposed to say, hey, got your lips done.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know if you're supposed to say something. What
is the etiquette?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Are you supposed to pretend you don't notice that you
look completely different than you did on Friday? But I
just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Folks, teach your daughters. Teach your daughters. Do not chase
the latest beauty trend because it will end soon, and
you will regret it. Well, just, oh, my God, just
the online thing. Well, for my Instagram feed. It looks
much better when I have giant duck lips or whatever.
I swear to God, the Internet is Satan. Satan isn't
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a man, it's a technology. You mean the.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Body-altering, because fashion comes and goes, and it ain't going
to hurt you, and you might regret having spent that
much money on those jeans now that they're out of style.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Beauty trends as opposed to fashion trends, yeah. Anyway, so
here's the brilliant turnaround that Galderma, well, I may have
the wrong company. Oh, okay, so injectable aesthetics company Evolus,
brought a new hyaluronic acid injectable product line to market,
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but filler is out. So they're not going to use
the word filler anymore. And they've advised their outlets and
their salespeople and all to drop the F word. Instead,
call it hyaluronic acid gel. Sir, that won't work. That's
not better.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That sounds scary. That is not better. Yeah, it sounds
like something you have to get because of your condition.
They're going to have to inject you with, but it'll
save your life.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And when you're teaching your daughters not to chase these
beauty trends, in 2026, the filler thing is down 70%
from 2023. But so what's the look now? It's more
thin and normal looking. That's interesting. They mentioned the GLP-1s.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's interesting that this came up just because I ran
into somebody the other day who I think had what
you're describing. Very thin, pointed, nothing was inflated.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And they had that look, and I thought, wow, what
have you had done? But how do you get that look?
You lose a ton of weight. In Hollywood, actresses appear
thinner than ever. It's the resurgence of heroin chic, where
you've got to be just thin.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Breast implants are trending tiny. Brazilian butt lifts are being reversed.
And an overfilled face now does not match the look. Ladies,
you're beautiful the way God made you, for goodness sakes.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, and it often seems like, like the woman I
was describing, she was unbelievably attractive. It's often the most
attractive people who do this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, chasing that last 1% of beauty. And you go overboard.
Courtney Cox, interestingly enough, speaking of attractive women, shared her
filler regrets on a recent podcast saying the treatment has
a domino effect. Quote, you keep doing more because you
look normal to yourself. You don't realize what it looks
to the outside person. Well, that seems to be the case.
(09:05):
The desired look now, Jack, is natural and normal.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, I hope so. I hope that stays that way
for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's an individual choice, like so many things. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That would be a tough one for me, as a
single guy.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
In every other way, nice, decent... good parents, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But you do the weird changing your face on a
regular basis like it's a hairstyle. Right.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
A lot. If you meet somebody with those big lips,
you got to ask, so just curious, you got a
peanut allergy? No reason. Shellfish?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
No. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Just no reason I'm asking. Should I call 911 or
is this on purpose? How you doing? I mean, health-wise. No,
I guess that would be indelicate. A word from our
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Speaker 1 (10:04):
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because we use Incogni to keep our info off the
net and everything like that. Incogni got off a whole
bunch of, and I won't get into the specifics of it,
but private information of my life from a bunch of
websites that I didn't even know you could get off there.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
And I'm so happy about that. Well, and a lot
of people don't even realize it's on there, never mind
thinking about getting it off. But it can be hundreds
of these data broker sites. And I mean, seriously, even
if you knew how, can you imagine the time it
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removes your personal information from hundreds of data brokers and
people search sites. Incogni sends the legal removal requests and
(10:43):
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off those lists.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, and you can look on their dashboard and see
the progress on a regular basis.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
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Speaker 1 (10:51):
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Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's Incogni.com slash Armstrong because the sweetest sound your phone
can make is no sound at all. Got another whipsaw
story for you. Yeah. I would really, really not.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I don't have a daughter, but I would really, really
not want my daughter to feel like she needs to
have giant inflated lips to.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Do something in the world. Or breasts.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But, you know, that one's been around so long, it
almost seems... Well, for one thing, there are people with
bigger breasts, and maybe you would like to be one
of those people.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I've noticed. I can verify that, yes. But there aren't
people with those lips. They don't exist. Unless they've ill-advisedly
eaten shellfish, yes.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Right. So now you're getting something that nobody has. Anybody
who has the natural large breastises doesn't want them. I
am promising you that.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Everybody wants what they don't have.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah. And that's something. Nailed it. Yeah. So the story
about Volkswagen in Germany is really interesting. We'll get to
it a little later on. But they are facing enormous
changes in technology and competition and the global economy and all.
And they can't adjust to it because they're a socialized company.
(12:21):
We'll explain how exactly, but they are the perfect example
of why socialism just bogs down and dies of its
own weight. Coming up later.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
So we have one group of people out there, politically,
I'll let you guess, this Pew Research study of women
who blame all their problems on men. I'll let you
try to guess which party is doing that as opposed
to the other party, which hardly does that at all.
No wonder we ain't having babies. More on that a
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little bit later also.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Stay here. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Those of you that are into the Clancy trial, you
might already know that this woman is being charged with
intimidating the jury. This story that broke in the last
24 hours, we'll get to that coming up in a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I have nominated her for the honor of being declared
the queen of the numbskulls. So we'll tell you about
that in a little bit. So the good book says,
I can't remember, is it Ecclesiastes? To everything there is
a season. The Birds, the old-timey jangly rock band, made
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a great song about it. There's a time to laugh,
a time to weep, a time to save, a time
to kill, the rest of it. Well, with socialism, no.
Everything is permanent. The seasons don't change. The bureaucracies are permanent.
The jobs are permanent. The technologies end up being permanent
because there's no incentive to innovate. It's really an interesting story.
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Volkswagen is an incredibly important company in Germany. You say Volkswagen? Yeah. Yeah.
Number one, that's how my parents pronounced it. Really? And
number two, yeah, I studied German for six years, so
I can't mispronounce it. It makes my skin crawl.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
In fact, I should be saying Volkswagen, but I've decided
to dial it back a little.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You've got to keep an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Anyway, so the chief executive is taking on a cost-cutting
plan that's going to include... like 100,000 job losses in
the company worldwide and in Germany. But when he took
it to his board, he knew it would be rejected
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because half the supervisory board of directors are worker representatives
and the swing votes are held by the local governments
where the plants operate. So The bored factions can't come
to an agreement on how to cut costs and adapt
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to the modern world. And you've got Chinese automakers moving
headlong onto the German market. They've already dethroned the German
cars in China, which had been their big overseas market.
In China, there were Mercedes everywhere. And BMWs, that was
the I've made it cars for a couple generations since
they embraced it.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, I didn't realize Volkswagen was the number one car
company in China until now.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, yeah. And so, well, they were certainly a super
giant in China, along with the brands I mentioned. But
now Chinese automakers are taking the German market as well
as the Chinese market, higher U.S. tariffs under President Trump,
a bumpy transition to electric vehicles and hybrids have cost
the automaker billions of dollars. And he's pleading with this
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giant quasi-socialist board of directors to say, we've got to
adapt or we're going to go under. And they won't
let them adapt. They're accusing him of Detroitization, manufacturing more
cars in the United States. There's no more expensive place
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to manufacture than Germany. They, for instance, Volkswagen... makes around
150 vehicle models, including those of Audi, Porsche, and other
brands bought over the decades. They employ more workers per
car produced than any of their competitors. Really? Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So he's got the layers and layers of unneeded bureaucracy disease.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Exactly. Yeah. Much of the office staff working in the design, marketing, forecasting,
the white-collar crews that jam up the corporate headquarters are
in Germany, where employee protections make it very, very hard
to cut workers.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, they aren't the free market within Volkswagen, but the
free market will make them correct or put them out
of business, because other companies that aren't this weighted down
by unneeded employees are going to decimate them.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So anyway, he shows up to speak to this giant
group of workers and stakeholders, and they're toting placards that say,
our jobs aren't your balance sheet adjustment.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
People with that sort of mindset.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Whatever. Yeah, that's a good slogan. Slogans mean nothing. And
then you've got, like I said, a share of the
board of directors in Germany is the towns where these
plants exist. And so you go to the head guy
in Lower Saxony, for instance, and say, hey, we need
to close the plant. He's like, no, no. Close a
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different one. You're not closing this one. And the CEO
just has to slink away. Why'd you quit making the bug?
That should have been the question. Do they not anymore? No,
they quit making it several years ago. I like it.
I thought it was cool. I'd known one. I like
to see them around. Socialism sucks, and it never works. Man, oh, man, oh, man.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Is the whole trying to get into a relationship thing
hard with the division of the politics of men and women?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
More on that.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
In the courthouse behind me, there was an arraignment of
a retired nurse that has now been charged under Massachusetts
law with intimidating or harassing a deliberating jury, which would
be the Clancy jury. Now, this jury arrives here every
day at this courthouse. It's an undisclosed location in the
back somewhere. We've never seen them come or go. But
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this woman, according to prosecutors, made her way to where
that jury was and was trying to harass or intimidate.
And in the proceeding was told that on her camera
there were photos of the jury. Her attorney said, no,
she just wanted to see Lindsay Clancy.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
She was taking pictures of the jury, allegedly, which obviously
would be all kinds of scary. Her name is Dawn Light.
Is she a sidekick on a morning zoo radio show?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Dawn Light?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Or in porn or something? Everybody, I'm Joe Coffey.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
This is Dawn Light.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Now, Lane Changer with the traffic. What a numbskull she is.
This gal apparently is obsessed with true crime stuff, and
she was desperate to get a picture of the defendant.
She says. And so it's like taking video and pictures
of everybody who came out of the back door, including
the jury, which is strict verboten, speaking of German. And
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maybe this is going to be in this next clip.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Could, you know, if Clancy gets convicted, could end up
in some sort of, you know, hey, judge, we got
jury intimidation going on here. Right.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Let's hear the rest of this news story.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
So this woman came out of the courthouse. She was
released with no bail at all, even though prosecutors wanted that.
But the order is to stay away from this courthouse altogether.
The media mob was right there for her. She is running,
as you can see in some of that video, to
get away from them and to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, it turns strange here because you got this 56-year-old
woman who doesn't look like she gets to the gym
a lot attempting to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Run, using my finger quotes, off. Run, waddle, ruddle, if
you will. Before being apprehended? Well, the irony of... She's
aghast at being surrounded by media onlookers who want pictures
of her, so she runs away in horror. Um... Apparently, dear,
(20:43):
I do have to point this out. That's what you
were doing. You're one of them. So.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
In social media yesterday, Joe Rogan got a lot of
attention because apparently on his podcast he went pretty hardcore.
She strangled a kid to death, threw her in jail forever,
just as that take. And also with the angle with
a guest of, imagine if a single father killed his kids.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Would we be getting all.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
This sympathy with people wearing T-shirts and, there but for
the grace of God goes me, I know what it's
like to be a dad. Anything even close to.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That ever happened?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's not a great comparison, but it's true enough. Just
the whole man-woman thing on that. So you ought to
mention it again, at least briefly, for anybody who didn't
hear it. You think the judge really screwed up on
the charges.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, what was that? That was our one of the show.
We talked about there are two things about this trial
that are really fundamental to it that you probably don't know.
Number one, Massachusetts has a very weird set of laws
around not guilty by reason of insanity. It's not on
the defense's court. It's not... The defense doesn't have to
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prove that she's nuts. The prosecution has to prove that
she's not nuts, which is, like, unique in law. Most,
virtually all other states have it the other way.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So I say I'm crazy? I am crazy unless you
can prove to a jury I'm not.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah. That is wild. A presumption of crazy, if you will.
And then the other thing is that one legal... expert
that we were quoting in hour one, said that it
is bizarre and inexplicable that the judge allowed involuntary manslaughter,
but not voluntary manslaughter, because the difference between those two things.
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Voluntary manslaughter is you... You killed them deliberately, but you
were so crazed by something. We're not going to hold
you responsible like you laid in wait for them and
stalked them and killed them. It's just, it's a little different.
Whereas involuntary manslaughter is more like, I'm in a bar
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fight and I accidentally kill a guy. Clearly, this case
is voluntary manslaughter. And Jed Rubenfeld, who's been a law
professor teaching this sort of thing for decades, says, He
is utterly flabbergasted as to why the judge said involuntary,
not voluntary. So you got that going on.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
How awful would it be if Clancy's found guilty and
then they're able to boot the verdict because of jury
intimidation from this dawn light human having pictures of the
jurors and the jurors may be legitimately being scared that
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somebody's going to get them if they.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well, they will ask them that before that appeal goes through, probably.
Did you feel intimidated? Did it change anything about the process?
But who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah. Well, they're into day five of jury deliberation. I
have no idea what I'm talking about here. I haven't
followed the case, but if I was just going to
guess where it is right now, I think they don't
come to a conclusion here. They come back to the
judge today and say, look, we just can't agree.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And then there's some... I.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Forget the name. It's like a Spanish name for the
thing that happens next.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Marquis de Sade?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah. Julio Iglesias or something. That's it, yes.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And then they get like 10 minutes to come up.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
With something or other.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But anyway, this could end up in a... We don't
come up with a conclusion in this particular trial.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, and then they'll have to retry her at some point,
because they surely will. They 100% will. And then would
she be loose during that whole time, or in jail? No,
she'd still be held pending trial as a murderer. You know,
it strikes me, how many stories have we talked about
today in all weeks? I mean, because this retired nurse jackass,
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I guess literally she would be a she-ass or a Jenny,
if you will. But this she-ass, she was desperate for
those pictures so she could post them online. No doubt.
How many stories do we talk about that, well, it
happened because of, you know, the internet? Whether the duck
lips story we were talking about before, for people's Instagram feeds,
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or a hundred different things. Because of the damn internet.
And so... I mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
We're not the right people to judge that because we
have a radio show and get to, you know, express
my opinion to tons of people and get whatever feeling
I get from that. So I don't know what it's
like to be relatively unknown in the world. But I
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certainly have plenty of friends, like all my family or whatever,
they don't seem to need to seek out that validation
at all. So it's not universal that everybody without a
radio show needs to try to figure out how to
get attention online. But a certain percentage of people do.
And do you think it's... Some people want to get
a site going to make money. Because if you can
(26:13):
come up with a clever idea, you can become really
rich really fast. But is it mostly driven by ego gratification?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, I know the polls of young people have made
it clear that the desire to be famous is enormous
among younger generations. Like, even more than being wealthy or
successful or respected, it's just to be famous. They see
that as an end in itself, which is really unhealthy
(26:41):
and bizarre. Trust me when I say that. So, yeah,
that's driving a lot of it. I want a million likes.
I want to go viral. Look, I couldn't give a crap. Again,
there's a bit of a conflict of interest, as you described.
But even I, you know, if I tweet something and
it gets, like, six retweets, I'm like, hey, that was
really good. What was the matter? So, yeah, again, it's
(27:05):
the— and I say this all the time, but it's the—
It's the apple from the tree of knowledge. We can't
handle the Internet. We cannot handle the ego gratification and
or bruising of getting likes or not getting likes and
retweets and becoming an instant hero. And all of a sudden,
you're famous around the world. And 10 minutes later, you're not.
(27:26):
And it makes people insane. Again, two-thirds of the stories
we talk about, well, because of the Internet, ought to
be the end. Yeah. Why did it happen? Because of
the Internet. On the other hand, if you're looking for
a real good, I don't know, auto detailer, you can
find them on the Internet, and it's kind of handy.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
You know, before we take a break, if you're not
using the chatbots for this sort of thing, you are
missing out. So I've got a fancy pen, and it
ran out of ink yesterday. And so I unscrew the thing,
take out the ink cartridge. I don't have any idea
if this is, like, A common ink cartridge, rare ink cartridge,
(28:06):
whatever it is. Anyway, I take a picture of it,
tell ChatGPT I need to buy some of these.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
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I get them in the mail that afternoon. That's the
best way to shop and compare products and everything like that.
Just take a picture of it, and it figures it
out for you. I didn't have to, like, match the
numbers and write them down or anything like that.
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this species that they get the ink from, and they
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One thing I'm big on with my child rearing is
I don't want my kids to get in the habit
of blaming other people for their.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Situation in their life.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And there's a new poll out about that that is
really disturbing.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We'll get into that in hour four. Uh-oh. So here
are a couple of stories about education. AI agents are
taking entire online courses for cheating students. They're doing everything.
As online degrees become more popular. prevalent and available, which
is really a good thing. I mean, why do I
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have to go to Ann Arbor and live there to
take classes from Michigan? It's insane.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
My niece graduated from the University of Kentucky, having never
set foot in the state until she walked across the
stage to.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Get her degree. Well, in many online courses, whether at
community colleges or globally renowned universities, students may never meet
with their professors or their peers, even over video. Those
classes are self-placed with pre-recorded lectures, also known as asynchronous.
Assignments and tests are submitted digitally. And sometimes students can
earn full degrees online. Other times they just take individual cases.
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But the AI cheating is quickly accelerating beyond, like, copy-paste
in an essay.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I don't see any way to have online college and
AI exist at the same time.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well, right. AI agents have made it possible for students
to outsource an entire semester of work with simple commands
like log in and complete my quiz.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
A student can unleash what is essentially an imitation of themselves.
Agents can watch lectures, take tests, write papers, and chat
with classmates about reading assignments. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Wow. Keep me up to about a B +.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I'm going to go to the beach. And then this, yeah, hey,
let's not go crazy, AI. Yeah, I'm a B student.
We both know that, okay? Well, great inflation. A B
is an A, so you're going to get an A. Yeah,
I see your point. Thanks, AI. Anyway, and then this
from the free press that I thought was fantastic. And friends,
(32:10):
I'm probably preaching to the choir here. When... Ron DeSantis
vowed to reform Florida universities, public universities especially, and said,
it's not going to be ideological lockstep anymore. They're not
going to be Marxist factories of ideology. We're going to
restore the diversity of, you know, opinion and point of
(32:32):
view and stuff like that. That's repetitive, Joe. Stop it. Anyway, um,
and one of the colleges that they did it at
was the, I think the formal name of it is, uh,
new college of Florida. It's a fairly smallish, uh, college,
couple thousand kids, but the free press sent somebody down
(32:53):
there to check it out a couple of years after that, uh,
that vow was made and the restructuring took place. They
mentioned that, um, John Oliver and liberals all across America
had said that this takeover was a lot like the Nazis.
It's the exact sort of smash and grab we're seeing
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in so many places right now. Ideologues capture something they hate,
claiming that they want to fix it. Then they destroy
it and said, it's going to be a one-sided ideological
Nazi factory, blah, blah, blah. So the free press went
there and reported on it. And everybody they talked to
is like, No, it's nothing like that. It's great. It's fabulous.
(33:34):
If you want to study that particular woke topic, the
way they do classes, you can find a professor to
sponsor it and blah, blah, blah. They said, there's not
lockstep anything. Everybody gets to trade ideas now. It's great.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You know why?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Because that's the way conservatives are. Your bad ideas don't
threaten me. I have better ideas. You do yours, then
I'll do mine. And let's do it out in front
of the students. I don't want to silence anybody. And
that's what they're figuring out at the new College of Florida.
It's working fine. But again, of course it is. Anyway,
good for you, Ron.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Is AI going to kill online college? Which again, like
you said, is a good idea and a step in
the right direction, but I just can't imagine how you
make it work.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
If I can rephrase your question, what the F type
of A-I-S id? What the F type of A-I-S id?
Am I wrong?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
My high schooler has a a writing assignment, they have
to write it in class, which is becoming very, very
common because you just can't have kids show up having written,
you know, their two paragraphs about John Steinbeck's The Pearl because,
you know, obviously.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Right, yeah, yeah. I'm going to say something incredibly controversial.
Ten-year-old me would despise me for this. I kind of
wish somebody had made me learn to write right-handed. Since
I am left-handed. And it's doable. It's just hard. Well,
I feel like he's been pretty hardcore against that idea.
I know. I know. If it's done in a cruel
way or a superstitious, idiotic way or something like that. Well, yeah,
(35:13):
because that's what they literally would do that. Yeah, they
would punish you for using your left hand. Because the
devil had you. Well, exactly. Sinister means on the left.
dexterous means on the right dexter dexterous anyway um bastards
ancient popes i'd like to punch him right in the
face with my right hand because that's my punching hand
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does it run in families or is it just random
i don't know that but anyway uh if if somebody
told me all right yeah it's an in-class uh you
know a thousand word report is your final As a lefty,
because it's slower and kind of crampy the way you
have to hook your hand and then you smear the
ink and stuff, I'd be at a serious disadvantage over
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the righties. And it goes against everything I am to
say I need a special dispensation. I would find it
hard to do that. I didn't know that. I mean,
my son complains about it a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
He's left-handed, my youngest, and he just hates handwriting stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Oh, yeah. You're pushing the pen across the... And to
get the proper slant that they told you you had
to have, you know, when you're a little kid, you
have to hook your hand. And, yeah, it's not as good.
But anyway, boo-hoo. I seem to do okay in spite
of it. Final note, ghost jobs, ads, are getting so
(36:32):
bad a bunch of state lawmakers want to ban them. Evidently,
depending on what you're looking at, a huge percentage of
jobs advertised online, including on the big sites, they don't exist.
They're not going to fill them. They don't intend to
fill them. They're just trying to get resumes or in
case the purple unicorn shows up out of nowhere, maybe
they'll give them a job. But a huge selection or
(36:53):
number of jobs online don't exist. And you're wasting your
time and your energy and your emotions going after them.
And it's just cruel. I don't know what you're going
to do about it.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I don't know what you're going to do about this.
The political divide over the way we look at the
world is growing between men and women and different kinds
of women and making the dating world. No wonder we
aren't having babies or even having sex.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
No wonder. We'll get into that in hour four.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
The latest example. If you missed the segment, get the
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
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here's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
He's going to continue living his life to the fullest
until the end.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
They didn't believe it, to be honest. I mean, who
would jump out of a normal plane?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Doctors say it's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
No. You can't tell him anything. He's going to do
it no matter what. To love, to hug, and to kiss.
That's all I say. What was that? What was this?
A World War II veteran, Jimmy Hernandez, who jumped out
of a plane for his birthday. 101 years old. As
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the one relative said, he's going to live his life
to the force till the end. What was his motto there, though?
Live to love, to hug, and to kiss. That's something else.
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
What is it with the oldsters who want to jump
out of a plane? I wonder if he was a paratrooper.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
That would make sense completely. But you see that pretty regularly.
89-year-old woman celebrating her birthday. Why is that the go-to,
I'm still with it? I have no desire to do that.
I hope to live to be 89. My dad turns
89 tomorrow. I hope to live to be old and
do all kinds of things. I don't need to jump
(01:41):
out of a plane. Still riding my motorcycle would be
cool or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Sure. I'm here to tell you I will live to
140 and never jump out of a plane. Unless it's
on fire and then it's just 50-50. Anyway. So good
for you, sir. And God bless you. Thank you. Kiss.
Thank you for saving democracy. Speaking of our fighting men
(02:07):
and women. After 286 days at sea, the 5,000 sailors
on the USS Abraham Lincoln have docked in Thailand. Hide
your lady boys. At a beach. Hide your daughters. Hell,
hide your sons. Hide your husband. Everybody just hide. And
leave your liquor out. Good Lord. The carnal desires of
(02:30):
that many young men will be difficult to satiate even
for the great country of Thailand. Ha! Anyway, fellows and ladies,
have a great port call. Relax. Thanks for what you do.
Sorry you're out there so long, but war is hell.
Moving along. Totally different topic. Whipsawing the audience. America fell
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in love with filler. Then came the great deflate. We're
talking about cosmetic filler, duck lips, etc., Which was all
the craze. Here's this one gal who does this filler injections.
Give me the biggest lips possible, she said. Clients asked
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her every day.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Everybody wanted the same look. Big cheeks. Does that mean
like cheekbones? Because nobody wants like fat chipmunk cheeks, right?
I don't think so. Anyway, big cheeks. Big lips, super
sharp features, a Tinkerbell upturned nose, and filler was the
answer to all of their requests.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
That's fun. I have a physical revulsion to that look.
Whenever I run into somebody, it's like seeing somebody who's
sick or something. I have to make myself talk to them.
I feel like I'm being told to run away by
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my brain.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, it looks like they're in anaphylactic shock, for one thing.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So I not only don't find it attractive, it's repelling
to me.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Am I in the minority? I don't know that. I
have the same reaction, but I don't know. So for
nearly a decade, filler has been more is more. And
injectors price their treatment by the syringe, so bigger lips
meant bigger profits. Women chasing the Kardashian-esque features on their
social media feeds. Evil. Catapulted the business to new heights.
(04:33):
In boom times, this woman was selling on average... One
syringe of filler per patient. Now, 99% of the time,
it's half or less, and they tell her, just toss
the rest. Now, women don't want duck lips anymore. Nobody
wants cheeks that make them look like an avatar, I guess,
from that movie. Women my age want to look like
Gwyneth Paltrow now, the 40-somethings say, and younger girls want
(04:56):
to look like Hailey Bieber. Anyway, so Filler has now
become the beauty boogeyman with horror, online horror stories of
injectables migrating to undesired areas and telling stories of how
they had theirs dissolved.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
So we worked with somebody. She's gone now. So I
always had to be really careful about what I said.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Do you mean she's passed or she no longer works here?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
She moved away and got a different job, I think,
in a different industry. And I don't think she was
a listener. And she's a super nice person, like the
nicest and beautiful.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah. Really, really beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But young, and she would show up at work with giant,
giant lips.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And then they would go....
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They would deflate little by little by little over, I
don't know how many weeks, a couple weeks or a
month or whatever. And then she'd come back to work
again with the giant lips. And I don't know if
you're supposed to say, hey, got your lips done.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't know if you're supposed to say something. What
is the etiquette?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Are you supposed to pretend you don't notice that you
look completely different than you did on Friday? But I
just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Folks, teach your daughters. Teach your daughters. Do not chase
the latest beauty trend because it will end soon, and
you will regret it. Well, just, oh, my God, just
the online thing. Well, for my Instagram feed. It looks
much better when I have giant duck lips or whatever.
I swear to God, the Internet is Satan. Satan isn't
(06:21):
a man, it's a technology. You mean the.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Body-altering, because fashion comes and goes, and it ain't going
to hurt you, and you might regret having spent that
much money on those jeans now that they're out of style.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Beauty trends as opposed to fashion trends, yeah. Anyway, so
here's the brilliant turnaround that Galderma, well, I may have
the wrong company. Oh, okay, so injectable aesthetics company Evolus,
brought a new hyaluronic acid injectable product line to market,
(06:54):
but filler is out. So they're not going to use
the word filler anymore. And they've advised their outlets and
their salespeople and all to drop the F word. Instead,
call it hyaluronic acid gel. Sir, that won't work. That's
not better.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That sounds scary. That is not better. Yeah, it sounds
like something you have to get because of your condition.
They're going to have to inject you with, but it'll
save your life.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And when you're teaching your daughters not to chase these
beauty trends, in 2026, the filler thing is down 70%
from 2023. But so what's the look now? It's more
thin and normal looking. That's interesting. They mentioned the GLP-1s.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's interesting that this came up just because I ran
into somebody the other day who I think had what
you're describing. Very thin, pointed, nothing was inflated.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And they had that look, and I thought, wow, what
have you had done? But how do you get that look?
You lose a ton of weight. In Hollywood, actresses appear
thinner than ever. It's the resurgence of heroin chic, where
you've got to be just thin.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Breast implants are trending tiny. Brazilian butt lifts are being reversed.
And an overfilled face now does not match the look. Ladies,
you're beautiful the way God made you, for goodness sakes.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, and it often seems like, like the woman I
was describing, she was unbelievably attractive. It's often the most
attractive people who do this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, chasing that last 1% of beauty. And you go overboard.
Courtney Cox, interestingly enough, speaking of attractive women, shared her
filler regrets on a recent podcast saying the treatment has
a domino effect. Quote, you keep doing more because you
look normal to yourself. You don't realize what it looks
to the outside person. Well, that seems to be the case.
(09:05):
The desired look now, Jack, is natural and normal.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, I hope so. I hope that stays that way
for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
It's an individual choice, like so many things. Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That would be a tough one for me, as a
single guy.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
In every other way, nice, decent... good parents, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But you do the weird changing your face on a
regular basis like it's a hairstyle. Right.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
A lot. If you meet somebody with those big lips,
you got to ask, so just curious, you got a
peanut allergy? No reason. Shellfish?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
No. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Just no reason I'm asking. Should I call 911 or
is this on purpose? How you doing? I mean, health-wise. No,
I guess that would be indelicate. A word from our
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story for you. Yeah. I would really, really not.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I don't have a daughter, but I would really, really
not want my daughter to feel like she needs to
have giant inflated lips to.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Do something in the world. Or breasts.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But, you know, that one's been around so long, it
almost seems... Well, for one thing, there are people with
bigger breasts, and maybe you would like to be one
of those people.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I've noticed. I can verify that, yes. But there aren't
people with those lips. They don't exist. Unless they've ill-advisedly
eaten shellfish, yes.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Right. So now you're getting something that nobody has. Anybody
who has the natural large breastises doesn't want them. I
am promising you that.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Everybody wants what they don't have.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah. And that's something. Nailed it. Yeah. So the story
about Volkswagen in Germany is really interesting. We'll get to
it a little later on. But they are facing enormous
changes in technology and competition and the global economy and all.
And they can't adjust to it because they're a socialized company.
(12:21):
We'll explain how exactly, but they are the perfect example
of why socialism just bogs down and dies of its
own weight. Coming up later.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
So we have one group of people out there, politically,
I'll let you guess, this Pew Research study of women
who blame all their problems on men. I'll let you
try to guess which party is doing that as opposed
to the other party, which hardly does that at all.
No wonder we ain't having babies. More on that a
(12:52):
little bit later also.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Stay here. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Those of you that are into the Clancy trial, you
might already know that this woman is being charged with
intimidating the jury. This story that broke in the last
24 hours, we'll get to that coming up in a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I have nominated her for the honor of being declared
the queen of the numbskulls. So we'll tell you about
that in a little bit. So the good book says,
I can't remember, is it Ecclesiastes? To everything there is
a season. The Birds, the old-timey jangly rock band, made
(13:36):
a great song about it. There's a time to laugh,
a time to weep, a time to save, a time
to kill, the rest of it. Well, with socialism, no.
Everything is permanent. The seasons don't change. The bureaucracies are permanent.
The jobs are permanent. The technologies end up being permanent
because there's no incentive to innovate. It's really an interesting story.
(13:58):
Volkswagen is an incredibly important company in Germany. You say Volkswagen? Yeah. Yeah.
Number one, that's how my parents pronounced it. Really? And
number two, yeah, I studied German for six years, so
I can't mispronounce it. It makes my skin crawl.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
In fact, I should be saying Volkswagen, but I've decided
to dial it back a little.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You've got to keep an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Anyway, so the chief executive is taking on a cost-cutting
plan that's going to include... like 100,000 job losses in
the company worldwide and in Germany. But when he took
it to his board, he knew it would be rejected
(14:46):
because half the supervisory board of directors are worker representatives
and the swing votes are held by the local governments
where the plants operate. So The bored factions can't come
to an agreement on how to cut costs and adapt
(15:06):
to the modern world. And you've got Chinese automakers moving
headlong onto the German market. They've already dethroned the German
cars in China, which had been their big overseas market.
In China, there were Mercedes everywhere. And BMWs, that was
the I've made it cars for a couple generations since
they embraced it.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, I didn't realize Volkswagen was the number one car
company in China until now.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yeah, yeah. And so, well, they were certainly a super
giant in China, along with the brands I mentioned. But
now Chinese automakers are taking the German market as well
as the Chinese market, higher U.S. tariffs under President Trump,
a bumpy transition to electric vehicles and hybrids have cost
the automaker billions of dollars. And he's pleading with this
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giant quasi-socialist board of directors to say, we've got to
adapt or we're going to go under. And they won't
let them adapt. They're accusing him of Detroitization, manufacturing more
cars in the United States. There's no more expensive place
(16:17):
to manufacture than Germany. They, for instance, Volkswagen... makes around
150 vehicle models, including those of Audi, Porsche, and other
brands bought over the decades. They employ more workers per
car produced than any of their competitors. Really? Wow.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So he's got the layers and layers of unneeded bureaucracy disease.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Exactly. Yeah. Much of the office staff working in the design, marketing, forecasting,
the white-collar crews that jam up the corporate headquarters are
in Germany, where employee protections make it very, very hard
to cut workers.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, they aren't the free market within Volkswagen, but the
free market will make them correct or put them out
of business, because other companies that aren't this weighted down
by unneeded employees are going to decimate them.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
So anyway, he shows up to speak to this giant
group of workers and stakeholders, and they're toting placards that say,
our jobs aren't your balance sheet adjustment.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
People with that sort of mindset.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Whatever. Yeah, that's a good slogan. Slogans mean nothing. And
then you've got, like I said, a share of the
board of directors in Germany is the towns where these
plants exist. And so you go to the head guy
in Lower Saxony, for instance, and say, hey, we need
to close the plant. He's like, no, no. Close a
(17:44):
different one. You're not closing this one. And the CEO
just has to slink away. Why'd you quit making the bug?
That should have been the question. Do they not anymore? No,
they quit making it several years ago. I like it.
I thought it was cool. I'd known one. I like
to see them around. Socialism sucks, and it never works. Man, oh, man, oh, man.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Is the whole trying to get into a relationship thing
hard with the division of the politics of men and women?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
More on that.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
In the courthouse behind me, there was an arraignment of
a retired nurse that has now been charged under Massachusetts
law with intimidating or harassing a deliberating jury, which would
be the Clancy jury. Now, this jury arrives here every
day at this courthouse. It's an undisclosed location in the
back somewhere. We've never seen them come or go. But
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this woman, according to prosecutors, made her way to where
that jury was and was trying to harass or intimidate.
And in the proceeding was told that on her camera
there were photos of the jury. Her attorney said, no,
she just wanted to see Lindsay Clancy.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
She was taking pictures of the jury, allegedly, which obviously
would be all kinds of scary. Her name is Dawn Light.
Is she a sidekick on a morning zoo radio show?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Dawn Light?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Or in porn or something? Everybody, I'm Joe Coffey.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
This is Dawn Light.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Now, Lane Changer with the traffic. What a numbskull she is.
This gal apparently is obsessed with true crime stuff, and
she was desperate to get a picture of the defendant.
She says. And so it's like taking video and pictures
of everybody who came out of the back door, including
the jury, which is strict verboten, speaking of German. And
(19:39):
maybe this is going to be in this next clip.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Could, you know, if Clancy gets convicted, could end up
in some sort of, you know, hey, judge, we got
jury intimidation going on here. Right.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Let's hear the rest of this news story.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
So this woman came out of the courthouse. She was
released with no bail at all, even though prosecutors wanted that.
But the order is to stay away from this courthouse altogether.
The media mob was right there for her. She is running,
as you can see in some of that video, to
get away from them and to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, it turns strange here because you got this 56-year-old
woman who doesn't look like she gets to the gym
a lot attempting to.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Run, using my finger quotes, off. Run, waddle, ruddle, if
you will. Before being apprehended? Well, the irony of... She's
aghast at being surrounded by media onlookers who want pictures
of her, so she runs away in horror. Um... Apparently, dear,
(20:43):
I do have to point this out. That's what you
were doing. You're one of them. So.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
In social media yesterday, Joe Rogan got a lot of
attention because apparently on his podcast he went pretty hardcore.
She strangled a kid to death, threw her in jail forever,
just as that take. And also with the angle with
a guest of, imagine if a single father killed his kids.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Would we be getting all.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
This sympathy with people wearing T-shirts and, there but for
the grace of God goes me, I know what it's
like to be a dad. Anything even close to.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That ever happened?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It's not a great comparison, but it's true enough. Just
the whole man-woman thing on that. So you ought to
mention it again, at least briefly, for anybody who didn't
hear it. You think the judge really screwed up on
the charges.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, what was that? That was our one of the show.
We talked about there are two things about this trial
that are really fundamental to it that you probably don't know.
Number one, Massachusetts has a very weird set of laws
around not guilty by reason of insanity. It's not on
the defense's court. It's not... The defense doesn't have to
(21:55):
prove that she's nuts. The prosecution has to prove that
she's not nuts, which is, like, unique in law. Most,
virtually all other states have it the other way.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So I say I'm crazy? I am crazy unless you
can prove to a jury I'm not.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah. That is wild. A presumption of crazy, if you will.
And then the other thing is that one legal... expert
that we were quoting in hour one, said that it
is bizarre and inexplicable that the judge allowed involuntary manslaughter,
but not voluntary manslaughter, because the difference between those two things.
(22:34):
Voluntary manslaughter is you... You killed them deliberately, but you
were so crazed by something. We're not going to hold
you responsible like you laid in wait for them and
stalked them and killed them. It's just, it's a little different.
Whereas involuntary manslaughter is more like, I'm in a bar
(22:55):
fight and I accidentally kill a guy. Clearly, this case
is voluntary manslaughter. And Jed Rubenfeld, who's been a law
professor teaching this sort of thing for decades, says, He
is utterly flabbergasted as to why the judge said involuntary,
not voluntary. So you got that going on.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
How awful would it be if Clancy's found guilty and
then they're able to boot the verdict because of jury
intimidation from this dawn light human having pictures of the
jurors and the jurors may be legitimately being scared that
(23:37):
somebody's going to get them if they.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Well, they will ask them that before that appeal goes through, probably.
Did you feel intimidated? Did it change anything about the process?
But who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah. Well, they're into day five of jury deliberation. I
have no idea what I'm talking about here. I haven't
followed the case, but if I was just going to
guess where it is right now, I think they don't
come to a conclusion here. They come back to the
judge today and say, look, we just can't agree.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
And then there's some... I.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Forget the name. It's like a Spanish name for the
thing that happens next.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Marquis de Sade?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah. Julio Iglesias or something. That's it, yes.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
And then they get like 10 minutes to come up.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
With something or other.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But anyway, this could end up in a... We don't
come up with a conclusion in this particular trial.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah, and then they'll have to retry her at some point,
because they surely will. They 100% will. And then would
she be loose during that whole time, or in jail? No,
she'd still be held pending trial as a murderer. You know,
it strikes me, how many stories have we talked about
today in all weeks? I mean, because this retired nurse jackass,
(25:00):
I guess literally she would be a she-ass or a Jenny,
if you will. But this she-ass, she was desperate for
those pictures so she could post them online. No doubt.
How many stories do we talk about that, well, it
happened because of, you know, the internet? Whether the duck
lips story we were talking about before, for people's Instagram feeds,
(25:24):
or a hundred different things. Because of the damn internet.
And so... I mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
We're not the right people to judge that because we
have a radio show and get to, you know, express
my opinion to tons of people and get whatever feeling
I get from that. So I don't know what it's
like to be relatively unknown in the world. But I
(25:53):
certainly have plenty of friends, like all my family or whatever,
they don't seem to need to seek out that validation
at all. So it's not universal that everybody without a
radio show needs to try to figure out how to
get attention online. But a certain percentage of people do.
And do you think it's... Some people want to get
a site going to make money. Because if you can
(26:13):
come up with a clever idea, you can become really
rich really fast. But is it mostly driven by ego gratification?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, I know the polls of young people have made
it clear that the desire to be famous is enormous
among younger generations. Like, even more than being wealthy or
successful or respected, it's just to be famous. They see
that as an end in itself, which is really unhealthy
(26:41):
and bizarre. Trust me when I say that. So, yeah,
that's driving a lot of it. I want a million likes.
I want to go viral. Look, I couldn't give a crap. Again,
there's a bit of a conflict of interest, as you described.
But even I, you know, if I tweet something and
it gets, like, six retweets, I'm like, hey, that was
really good. What was the matter? So, yeah, again, it's
(27:05):
the— and I say this all the time, but it's the—
It's the apple from the tree of knowledge. We can't
handle the Internet. We cannot handle the ego gratification and
or bruising of getting likes or not getting likes and
retweets and becoming an instant hero. And all of a sudden,
you're famous around the world. And 10 minutes later, you're not.
(27:26):
And it makes people insane. Again, two-thirds of the stories
we talk about, well, because of the Internet, ought to
be the end. Yeah. Why did it happen? Because of
the Internet. On the other hand, if you're looking for
a real good, I don't know, auto detailer, you can
find them on the Internet, and it's kind of handy.
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(28:06):
whatever it is. Anyway, I take a picture of it,
tell ChatGPT I need to buy some of these.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It gives me the link. I click on it. I
buy five.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I get them in the mail that afternoon. That's the
best way to shop and compare products and everything like that.
Just take a picture of it, and it figures it
out for you. I didn't have to, like, match the
numbers and write them down or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It's amazing. Jack with a very, very fancy pen. They
get the ink. There are only three remaining octopuses of
this species that they get the ink from, and they
have to squidrain them for Jack's pen. Yeah, they get
them chained to a wall. Right, right. They feed them
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One thing I'm big on with my child rearing is
I don't want my kids to get in the habit
of blaming other people for their.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Situation in their life.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And there's a new poll out about that that is
really disturbing.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
We'll get into that in hour four. Uh-oh. So here
are a couple of stories about education. AI agents are
taking entire online courses for cheating students. They're doing everything.
As online degrees become more popular. prevalent and available, which
is really a good thing. I mean, why do I
(30:39):
have to go to Ann Arbor and live there to
take classes from Michigan? It's insane.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
My niece graduated from the University of Kentucky, having never
set foot in the state until she walked across the
stage to.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Get her degree. Well, in many online courses, whether at
community colleges or globally renowned universities, students may never meet
with their professors or their peers, even over video. Those
classes are self-placed with pre-recorded lectures, also known as asynchronous.
Assignments and tests are submitted digitally. And sometimes students can
earn full degrees online. Other times they just take individual cases.
(31:12):
But the AI cheating is quickly accelerating beyond, like, copy-paste
in an essay.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I don't see any way to have online college and
AI exist at the same time.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well, right. AI agents have made it possible for students
to outsource an entire semester of work with simple commands
like log in and complete my quiz.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
A student can unleash what is essentially an imitation of themselves.
Agents can watch lectures, take tests, write papers, and chat
with classmates about reading assignments. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Wow. Keep me up to about a B +.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I'm going to go to the beach. And then this, yeah, hey,
let's not go crazy, AI. Yeah, I'm a B student.
We both know that, okay? Well, great inflation. A B
is an A, so you're going to get an A. Yeah,
I see your point. Thanks, AI. Anyway, and then this
from the free press that I thought was fantastic. And friends,
(32:10):
I'm probably preaching to the choir here. When... Ron DeSantis
vowed to reform Florida universities, public universities especially, and said,
it's not going to be ideological lockstep anymore. They're not
going to be Marxist factories of ideology. We're going to
restore the diversity of, you know, opinion and point of
(32:32):
view and stuff like that. That's repetitive, Joe. Stop it. Anyway, um,
and one of the colleges that they did it at
was the, I think the formal name of it is, uh,
new college of Florida. It's a fairly smallish, uh, college,
couple thousand kids, but the free press sent somebody down
(32:53):
there to check it out a couple of years after that, uh,
that vow was made and the restructuring took place. They
mentioned that, um, John Oliver and liberals all across America
had said that this takeover was a lot like the Nazis.
It's the exact sort of smash and grab we're seeing
(33:13):
in so many places right now. Ideologues capture something they hate,
claiming that they want to fix it. Then they destroy
it and said, it's going to be a one-sided ideological
Nazi factory, blah, blah, blah. So the free press went
there and reported on it. And everybody they talked to
is like, No, it's nothing like that. It's great. It's fabulous.
(33:34):
If you want to study that particular woke topic, the
way they do classes, you can find a professor to
sponsor it and blah, blah, blah. They said, there's not
lockstep anything. Everybody gets to trade ideas now. It's great.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
You know why?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Because that's the way conservatives are. Your bad ideas don't
threaten me. I have better ideas. You do yours, then
I'll do mine. And let's do it out in front
of the students. I don't want to silence anybody. And
that's what they're figuring out at the new College of Florida.
It's working fine. But again, of course it is. Anyway,
good for you, Ron.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Is AI going to kill online college? Which again, like
you said, is a good idea and a step in
the right direction, but I just can't imagine how you
make it work.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
If I can rephrase your question, what the F type
of A-I-S id? What the F type of A-I-S id?
Am I wrong?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
My high schooler has a a writing assignment, they have
to write it in class, which is becoming very, very
common because you just can't have kids show up having written,
you know, their two paragraphs about John Steinbeck's The Pearl because,
you know, obviously.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Right, yeah, yeah. I'm going to say something incredibly controversial.
Ten-year-old me would despise me for this. I kind of
wish somebody had made me learn to write right-handed. Since
I am left-handed. And it's doable. It's just hard. Well,
I feel like he's been pretty hardcore against that idea.
I know. I know. If it's done in a cruel
way or a superstitious, idiotic way or something like that. Well, yeah,
(35:13):
because that's what they literally would do that. Yeah, they
would punish you for using your left hand. Because the
devil had you. Well, exactly. Sinister means on the left.
dexterous means on the right dexter dexterous anyway um bastards
ancient popes i'd like to punch him right in the
face with my right hand because that's my punching hand
(35:35):
does it run in families or is it just random
i don't know that but anyway uh if if somebody
told me all right yeah it's an in-class uh you
know a thousand word report is your final As a lefty,
because it's slower and kind of crampy the way you
have to hook your hand and then you smear the
ink and stuff, I'd be at a serious disadvantage over
(35:57):
the righties. And it goes against everything I am to
say I need a special dispensation. I would find it
hard to do that. I didn't know that. I mean,
my son complains about it a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
He's left-handed, my youngest, and he just hates handwriting stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Oh, yeah. You're pushing the pen across the... And to
get the proper slant that they told you you had
to have, you know, when you're a little kid, you
have to hook your hand. And, yeah, it's not as good.
But anyway, boo-hoo. I seem to do okay in spite
of it. Final note, ghost jobs, ads, are getting so
(36:32):
bad a bunch of state lawmakers want to ban them. Evidently,
depending on what you're looking at, a huge percentage of
jobs advertised online, including on the big sites, they don't exist.
They're not going to fill them. They don't intend to
fill them. They're just trying to get resumes or in
case the purple unicorn shows up out of nowhere, maybe
they'll give them a job. But a huge selection or
(36:53):
number of jobs online don't exist. And you're wasting your
time and your energy and your emotions going after them.
And it's just cruel. I don't know what you're going
to do about it.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I don't know what you're going to do about this.
The political divide over the way we look at the
world is growing between men and women and different kinds
of women and making the dating world. No wonder we
aren't having babies or even having sex.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
No wonder. We'll get into that in hour four.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
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