December 16, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The company holiday party is changing
- All the people Joe Biden plans to pardon
- Trump's approval rating & honeymoon
- The Fermi Paradox: Where is everybody?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Play clock down to seven another hand off to Cook
for the hole, darts to the middle of the field
thirty twenty five twenty still on his feet ten five,
and took his in for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
His second rushing touchdown of the game goes forty one yards.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hanson, you pick a highlight that's not Josh Allen, the
Clear League MVP. And when the two touchdowns rushing Jack
amazing star of yet another Bills win the game that
they just might as well do it now, won don't they?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Just and the Bills the trophy?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, he should clear up the schedule and have the
Bills play the Chiefs and let's get this over with
and see who wins. And I don't like you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Should probably win in the last second on a play
in which the ball pounces off a hot dog vendor's
head and through the uprights or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's ridiculously witchcraft.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's what it is. I know it when I see it.
I'll bet Taylor Swift's behind it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Patrick Mahomes left the Chief game hurt last night, said
he might not play this next week, so that could
be an.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Annual tradition, though, Patrick Mahomes limping off the field in
December and everybody speculating wildly.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I was talking to an NFL insider last night, and
who thinks that's all fake? That he just does that
for attention. He likes the drama of it, pretends to
be hurt all the time. Maybe I don't know a
thing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
He used it to disarm defenses. They think, oh, Mahomes
is hobbled, he won't be scrambling, so he can rush
one less guy and blah blah blah, and then he
tastes off.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I could hear.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I thought this story was so interesting. Someone's not invited
to the holiday party this year. Your spouse, the plus
one is fading in the past for reasons that are
just I mean, we can be old.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Guys shouting at clowns.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I remember when the holiday party was a barn raising.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And then a hay ride. Those were the days.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What But they're just not anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Just under a third of companies are inviting plus ones
to their holiday parties. It's it's declining year by year
by year.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I am going to be old man yelling at clowns.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
This is a bad move, yet another bad cultural move
by a country. And it's all about lawyers and crap
like that. That's what did in the Christmas party. I'll
go to a part of it. Of it, hay ride
and settled down. Now, wait till the facts are in.
There's much more to it than that, much more to it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I want to talk about bringing your best girl to
the nickelodeon or can I go? So they point out
that when most families had one breadwinner, you know, everybody's
kind of connected to one company in that way, and
the year end party was almost like a bonus.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It was a year end reward.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And these days often both spouses are working and going
to the other person's party is kind of a chore
according to some people. But and some of its raining
and costs and the stuff you said. It's absolutely true.
But another reason is looming large. In the last couple
of years, the holiday party is now one of the
rare times the remote staffers get together in person. So
(03:38):
instead of like getting a glimpse into your each other's
lives outside of work. It's it's the team bonding session.
You actually get to know your coworker, and so that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Would be weird to have spouses there since you're seeing
your co workers for the first time in price.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, I don't care who your old lady is. I'm
still trying to remember what you look like.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, And they go into this fairly high techie company
that flew staff and their families to Atlanta for a
three day event that included a talent show and a
formal dinner with a DJ in dancing in a downtown
hotel bathroom, but also included a lot of team building, bonding,
and goal setting.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm sure those were just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So, although if I might ever get involved in a
team bonding at work thing that's not jiv and stupid
and mocked by everyone behind the boss's back, it'll be
the first time.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yes, how about And this is crazy, but hang with me.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I do my job really really well, and you do
your job really really well, and we all make money.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Canon over that, But the spray of core bonding thing
is important and it would happen better. Just get a restaurant,
have an open bar, have people come, have a good
time and get to know each.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Other the end.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's not that hard.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, yeah, there is a real risk of overthinking these things.
And they make a point that a lot of what
gets lost is, you know, you see a person more
fully when you meet their spouse and see their dynamics
or their partner or whatever, and it can hang out
and relax a little bit and shoot the bull and yeah,
(05:25):
it's just it's a real asset to the human part
of a team achieving something. I just thought it was
interesting that people are like, oh, yeah, yeah, at the
holiday party, we can actually meet our coworkers.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Changing times.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and it's interesting whoever wrote that throwing in that
line about like it's a drag to have to go
to the Christmas party. I am old enough to remember
when like everybody I knew looked forward to the Christmas party,
and like girlfriends and wives and stuff looked forward to
it too, and it was disappointing if it didn't happen,
or if it wasn't as good as in the past.
Part of that would be a whole We're retreating to
(06:04):
our homes and our screens and our just all that
that's happening, and uh, that's that's not a good movie.
There's nothing to do to stop it. What stuck in
my mind is my son and I have been having
this battle which I think I'm going to ultimately lose,
(06:26):
about him wearing earbuds all the time, and like he
is going on this school thing yesterday where they're the
band instructor is going to drive them somewhere and they're
going to something, you know, that sort of deal, and
he wanted his earbuds and I said, no, you're not
going to ride in the car with earbuds on.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's rude. Well it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's not every kid does it that I'll be the
only one in the car who doesn't have earbuds and
I'll just be sitting there staring out the window. That's weird, man, Yeah,
that's weird. So you drive a load full of kids
for an hour somewhere, instead of everybody talking about whatever
sport or band or whatever it is you're doing.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Or just talking about whatever, you're all sitting.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
There with the earbuds in, listening to your own music,
nobody speaking to each other. That's where we're headed as
humanity and I bet that's true. Like corporate stuff. You
head out, you get the you rent the little van,
and you're driving up to the ski resort for a
corporate something.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Everybody's got their earbuds.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
In or staring at their phone. This is not good.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You know. I've said this before, but it's it's true.
I remember some games and incidents and plays in baseball
and meets and golf and stuff which I played in
high school. But I really remember the bus rides. Yeah,
how they were hilarious and and goofy and just.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Because you know, we'd have an hour drive and we'd
all sit and shoot the ball and this is great. Yeah,
that breaks my heart, it really does, I know. And
I don't think there's any fighting it. I mean I could.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I can fight it and make him the outcast and
feel like I've won something, but I can't, you know,
stop the tide of this.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Here's what you gotta do whenever you're around him. Mumble
something too quiet for him to hear over the music,
and mumble at him again and give him the nod.
He finally takes out his ears. Budge what I said.
You can have fifty dollars if you just say hello.
I said it three times, but go back to your listening.
And then the next day, you know, is this something similar?
So it makes him insane, and he just I can't
(08:21):
give my kids attention.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The only way to get my kids attention because I
can't yell some him because I have earbuds in all
the time.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So they're up in the room. Hey, hey, it's done.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Can he come back? But if I text them, it'll
get right to him, because of course they're looking at
their phone, So come.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
On down, time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Wow, Well, that reminds me of it was a tweet
or a meme or something I saw not long ago,
or it was hey, let's just admit defeat and have
automatic push messages on your phone. When the light turns
green at an intersection, all right, right, and we all
get it. See, you'd get a text the light just
turned green. You'd look oh, and then you'd get wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well, getting back to our spouses and and that sort
of thing. Jack, even if you do take them to
the Christmas party, you're probably not going to be able
to have any kids because you're so infertile. Scientists are
starting to look at every day chemicals, so called indocrine
disruptors found in everything from plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics,
or why human fertility is dropping.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Some RFK Junior joins us today he's on the hill
today trying to commit senators. They should make him whatever
he's going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now, I'm not a crack pot. The pair thing was funny.
We've talked about this before.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
How does sperm counts drop the way they have since
the seventies And it isn't like the biggest topic on earth.
I mean, it's plastics or cell phones are freaking something,
but the polyester who knows what disco music? But whatever
caused it is something, and why haven't we spent more
time talking about it and figuring it out right?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
If it was alligators or elephants or something, that all
the activists of the world would be going nuts about it.
But since it's human beings, who cares. I'm too busy
saving the world to want to have sex anyway, says
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I'm not sure if that's the sales pitch they want.
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Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, a bunch of people who stole your tax money
did it in kind of a funny way, So maybe
we'll try to laugh to keep from crying or something.
Some of the informations come out on the fraud around PPP.
Do you remember that whatever the personal whatever it was,
during COVID, you could apply for the money. What did
that stand for?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You give me money? Yeah, you could apply for the money.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And some of the applications the government clearly made no
effort whatsoever to make sure they weren't being stolen from. Well,
we all should have done it to get some of.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Our tax money back, because it's not their money.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Right, they don't care, but it's actually somewhat entertaining among
other things on my way, that's a good tune right
there being sung. Get that list, by the way of
people that scammed the Paycheck Protection Program during COVID and
took some of your taxpayer money. People like Dodge Hellcat LLC,
(12:14):
who clearly was just wanted money to buy a car,
and he just he he just came up with that
name and applif aplication, Yes, and there was no other
questions asked and got sent many tens of thousands of
dollars so we could buy a car. The analysis the
most stolen car. My son has pointed this out over
and over again. The most stolen car in America is
(12:36):
the Dodge Hellcat. Why because it was the most purchased
car by stimulus money during the whole COVID thing.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I just read that analysis last night. Wow, a certain
crowd was.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Really into that car, super fast car, and often the
sketchy neighborhood used stimulus money that they stole to go
out and buy that car, so ended up being the
most stolen car. There are other examples of that sort
of thing. Yeah. God, we paid no attention to how
we spend tax payer money. But anyway, more on that later. Well,
and we don't pay much.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Attention to paron pardons and commutations either. I've got the
list of the seventeen hundred people that Joe Biden left
off the hook or fifteen let off the hook for
their offenses, and the major reason they got turned loose
a lot of them was during COVID, when the prisons
had rampant case and rampant cases and people were dying,
(13:26):
getting sick and everything. They sent a certain number of
people who didn't seem to be dangerous home so everybody wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Die of COVID. And Joe said, you know, they're already home.
They're doing all right.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Let's just not make them do their sentences. And a
lot of them are like big time drug not dealers,
but to kingpins. And the chick who you may remember
this story she embezzled fifty million dollars from Dixon, Illinois
and had a horse, farm houses.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, because she's not dangerous, and they sent her home
during COVID now and said, yeah, I forget it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You've been in jail eno or turning you loose.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I guess the people of Dixon are pissed off
right all bad anyway, As I mentioned earlier, a lot
of scientists are really looking at these chemicals, so called
endocrine disruptors that are everywhere in twenty first century America,
plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics. And we've talked about
(14:26):
this so more than once, that the rise in autism
and ostheidism related problems, and is dementia quote unquote on
the rise because everybody's living that much longer, or are
it in Parkinson's just becoming more and more common.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
It's difficult to say.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But of course they give the example of this woman
who lived a very modern lifestyle and could not have
a baby. She was not ovulating normally, and so they
eliminated all this stuff and they've got two beautiful kids.
Well that's not exactly proof of anything, but many scientists
believe chemicals found in every products could be a figure
in fertility. With a growing body research showing potentially negative
effects for male and female reproductive systems from exposure, even
(15:07):
in tiny amounts. Wonder if this affects the amount of
testosterone the boys produced too, I don't know. Patricia Hunt,
a professor of School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State blah
blah blah, says, the power of these chemicals to impact
fertility is mind boggling. We have all sorts of evidence
that indicates, WHOA, we're in serious trouble here.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, why would you limit it to I mean, this
is what they're studying.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
But I mean, if plastic microplastics could cause Alzheimer's, that
also could cause kids that are born to have anxiety
and depression at a rate that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely true. The chemicals doctor Hunt and
other scientists are concerned about are called endocrine disruptors. They
mimic or block the hormones responsible for many of the
body's essential fuck functions, including reproduction. They can be found
in everything from plastic packaging and toys to sofa covers
and cosmetics. On Wednesday, Date To, Texas cited adverse reproductive
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effects in a lawsuit against several manufacturers, including that they
falsely advertise their chemical products as safe for ordinary household products.
The links between chemicals and fertility issues are more widely
acknowledged than ever, but a pitch debate continues about what
levels of exposure are dangerous. Well, that's probably because there's
zillions of dollars being made on this stuff. Well, if
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IRFK Junior does end up getting the job that Trump
signed him up for, we're going to hear more about
this sort of stuff. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, yeah, man,
I'd like to see a lot of my tax money devoted,
perhaps not to buying people muscle cars, but researching this stuff.
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I mean, you look at the environment the average human
being lives in right now and compare it with that
of one hundred and fifty years ago, which is evolutionarily speaking,
that's the next second. The chemicals that we take in,
How could it not have serious change? Obs Yeah, tray obs.
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That one will be That'll be a story for many
decades to come.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And I could easily see a situation where we look
back in twenty fifty and can't believe, you know, like
we feel about smoking and other things, or lead paint
or various things like that. We look back, I can't
believe everybody is walking around drinking out of a plastic
water bottle all.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Day long, right right.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I wonder especially ones that maybe got hot for instances.
I've heard from some people. Never ever ever do that,
Never ever microwave plastic. It's either the answer to everything
or not.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I do that a lot. I feel like I'm too old.
Have an effect on me. Wow, one foot in the grave,
you know, sorry to hear that practically at the end
of the run anyway.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
President like Donald Trump this weekend shoring up support for
his embattled cabinet nominees at the annual Army Navy Football Game,
appearing with his Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegsath Also beside
Trump Touldsa Gabbart nominated to be the Director of National Intelligence.
Only three in ten Americans say they are extremely or
very confident in Trump's cabinet picks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
According to a new AP pole what Wow, Where did
that come from? They went out of their way to
put a negative spin on that story, right out of
their way.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Only thirty percent are extremely are very consonant in the
pick majority approved, though a majority approve, which is the
story ABC nor one of you got sued. Wow, God,
the media sucks of the lion liars, which.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Runs counter to what I'm about to tell you. Actually,
so I mentioned there was a guest essay in the
New York Times. This is about the honeymoon Trump's having
right now. Friday, when we left the air, AP came
out Trump pulling at fifty one percent approval. He's got
the highest approval in most polls, including that one, he's
ever had in his political career.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Right, He's never been over fifty percent ever, and has
been pointed out in other quarters. This is the first
honeymoon he's ever had politically, right, because he was immediately
a Russian stooge the second he got elected last time.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So first, this guest essay in the New York Times
from some think tank person saying Trump's way could win
the contest with China once and for all. I think
there are Times printed this, and I thought it was
fairly sound reasoning. I don't know enough about worldwide economics
and tariffs and how that's going to work and everything
like that, but they thought that this could really do
in China and then we're on the road of dominance
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for the foreseeable future. But it included this paragraph what
I thought was interesting. China's the era of sky high
growth is giving way to a stagnation reminiscent of Japan's
so called Lost Decade, a period of deflation and economic inertia,
from which Japan has yet to fully recover. Even mister
She cautioned citizens last week to be prepared to eat bitterness,
(20:17):
a Chinese phrase signaling hard times ahead. What's for dinner tonight, mom, Well,
not even fresh bitterness. We're heating up last night's left
over bitterness.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Wow, canned bitterness, but.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
More specifically, on Trump's honeymoon. Mark Alprin wrote this over
the weekend, and this had to do with the Time
magazine piece where he is named Person of the Year,
and they did a regular political piece, just like you
would write about any incoming popularly elected president, and not
a hit piece like ABC just did there that we
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played anyway, reading from Mark Alprin's thing, lots of unanswered
questions about why this above, blah blah bah. Do I
have the right thing here? I may web the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
With so much going on in the world, it's getting
harder to cover the incoming president with the same knee
jerk Trump is awful lead every time that they've been
using for the last nine years. Well said Trump is
awful Another Trump is awful news. Here's the new reality.
They are not going to be able to cover Trump
in the same purely slanted way. They might not apologize
(21:28):
for Russia Gate, or for covering up Biden's loss of acutity,
or for cheering on law Fair, or for efforts to
boot Trump from the ballot, but they are going to
have to talk about the good and the bad because
if they don't, they're going to lose consumers who are
fed up with a decade of nonsense. Many consumers of
news have clearly shown that they feel like they've been
treated like fools. I think that is true.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Witness the catastrophic ratings drops at MSNBC and CNN.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
We discussed earlier.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
They are bored and they want something new and honest.
So how true do you think that is? I want
it to be true so much, I'm not sure I
can fairly evaluate it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You know, as one of the nation's leading cheerleaders at
cough cough in suggesting that your perceptions of reality are
a lot more accurate than the news medias, I shouldn't
be surprised to hear that many many Americans look at
the media as hyperbolic.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Partisan liars.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That it seems to me that if you were told
a certain figure was Hitler reincarnate and would end democracy
over and over and over again, then a cup of
coffee after he gets elected, people are flocking tomorrow algo
to have lunch with him. Some of the same people
who are saying that, I would think these people are
full of crap. I'm not going to give them my
(22:53):
business anymore. And it's not a shock that many many
Americans have reacted that way. Not to mention, just to
get tired of any story. If you hear the same
story over and over again, and Trump is awful every
single time. Here's a couple of more Trump's having a
honeymoon stories for you. The Wall Street Journal on all
the CEOs that are currying Florida favor. The campaign by
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corporate executives to get in with Trump will continue this week.
Trump is hosting at least fifteen business leaders at mar
A Lago on Thursday for a fundraiser for his super
political action committee, Make America Great Again, Inc. A person
helping to organize the event said tickets cost one million dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I will not be able to attend, mister President.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
New York Times on Trump conducting a lot of business
after dark, which he has always done, Mark Alprin writes,
what's most significant here is that this is yet another
story in the dominant media covering Trump as a normal
president elect, where his work habits are not painted as
nefarious or weird, just like a typical Featury piece about
the new regime and its star player. If this keeps up,
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will be a paradigm shift with significant implications.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Huh, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The president is a night owl, as it turns out,
not like he waits until dark. So is evil Kebark
and contemplete and plan the removal of the organs of
the young.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I know I've watched, listen to and read a couple
of pieces where I'm waiting for the turn and it
doesn't happen. It's just a story about you know, well,
like that New York Times piece. It didn't include you
know who else worked late at night? Hitler? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Can it be Trump is using methan fhetamines like the
final moments of the Nazi regime?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
As that's the case, that's a good example. That is
exactly the sort of.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Thing pre election that they would write, Yeah, what do
you what do you?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
What do you?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I mean we just discussed a little bit, But what
do you think is the what is the big turn here?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I mean? Is it just playing hum Half the country
likes this? Maybe we should write stories that aren't.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I don't know. I find it hard to believe that
they've found their souls or conscience.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Or something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right. I think it's probably just a combination of the
things we're talking about. It Could it be that even
these journalists have gotten bored with trotting out the same old,
hyperbolic narrative over and over again. Even they're tired of it.
I don't know, but maybe they just feel defeated having
(25:28):
been what's the word defeated? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah. But I'll tell you what, I certainly
didn't see it coming. I didn't think there was a
chance of this, any of this, really.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No. I think we both anticipated like an even more
frantic meltdown. But I mean, you can only melt down
so long. Yeah, it is a hell of a turn
of events. This is the first honeymoon Trump has ever had. Politically,
it will be.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Over soon.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Because first of all, they all end. But secondly, why events,
dear boy events? Yeah, yeah, just because he will actually
be running the show soon, as opposed to being the
guy waiting in the wings holding a bunch of meetings.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
And then you have the.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Inevitable mistakes, scandals, chaos. Trump says something crazy, he appoints
somebody that fires them, that fires the next person, blah
blah blah. Democrats win the midterms, and then Trump is
a lame duck more or less flailing doing things by
executive order, as Democrats have more than roundly endorsed, so
if they can weekend. But yeah, I think the last
(26:40):
two years are going to be pretty stumbly, honestly, barring
giant international events that change the playing field completely.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Which are certainly possible.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I spent a lot of time reading about the Fermi
Paradox over the weekend. I want to talk about that.
At some point. I got into it with my son.
I got into it.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I've brought it up to lots of people. You know,
and you get hot for something, you end up bringing
it up to lots of people. I'm mostly getting, mostly
getting I don't know. I can't tell.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I'm mostly getting all eye rolls. Are people somewhat interested?
But anyway, we got plenty of things we can talk
about today in our four though. I do want to
get into this culture war thing around the sexual revolution
that I think is fascinating. I tweeted it out over
the weekend. We can read it to you. We can
talk about that OnlyFans Woman, that documentary about her having
(27:30):
sex with a hundred guys in a day and how
she came from it. Well, I don't want to give
away it's too complicated. Do get in too briefly, But
I hope you can listen to that now or for
if you miss that hour, get the podcast it's called
armstrong ngetty On demanding Mike Tyson, what the hell was this?
(27:57):
Jake Paul twenty seven years all punching a seaty year
old man? Is this what the white man has reduced him?
Stop it? Well, who's he gonna fight next? Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Chris Rock on the opening of Saturday Night Live. Did
you see the first sketch?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I didn't see a second of it. I don't know
what I think of it, but it was.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Uh. Chris Rock is the lead elf at the mall,
lining up the parents to sit on Santa's lap, and
to speed things up, they have two Santas this year,
but one cent is white, one cent is black, and
all the parents are choosing the white sand so nobody's
(28:47):
but no line, just because that's all right, We'll wait.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I think that probably would happen for a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
That's uncomfortable, but that's some good. A lot of great
humor is on comfortable, you know, which reminds me. I've
wanted to talk about the Caitlin Clark thing at some point,
the so called controversy and her apologizing for a white
privilege and all, and how she is unquestionably, by any
objective to standard, absolutely deserving of every bit of attention
she's gotten. But because she's a straight white woman in
(29:19):
a league full of black women and lesbians, she's had
to apologize profusely for getting any attention at all.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's a it's a sign of a pathology.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But maybe next hour, so I saw I follow Elon's
Twitter feed, me and two hundred other million of you,
but he tweeted out about the A writer wrote a
really long piece about the Fermi paradox, and then Elon
retweeted it with just the caption of this might be
the most important question of all of mankind. Well, obviously
(29:49):
that got my attention, and then I ended up reading
the whole long piece and the Fermi paradox, which you've
thought about before or heard about before, just it's the
It started with this guy for me back in the fifties.
So he's working with all of the scientists down there
at Los Alamos, and they're having lunch and they're discussing
UFOs and everything like that, and he says, but then
where is everybody? But then where is everybody? Is the
(30:12):
Fermi paradox the idea that if you use the knowledge
we have here on Earth about how many planets are
Earth like out there, and there are gazillions of them
with the right we assume water, chemicals, temperature, everything like
(30:34):
that to have life, then where is everybody?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Because if you do the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Math, and the guy that wrote this long article that
I read, he was using like the low number in
all ranges of projections of numbers of stars, numbers of planets,
then numbers of planets like Earth, you still end up
with quintrillions of planets like Earth that are out there.
And if that's true, how have we heard not a
(30:59):
peep from anyone ever? That just it's that's a paradox.
It's just it's logically impossible that would be the case.
And so there's the paradox. And that's why there's been
a movement in the last couple of years I've noticed
toward people thinking we're we're the only life in the
entire solars, the entire universe, just some rare occurrences. And
(31:21):
what my question was, I find that fascinating. But for
some reason I talked about this with a couple other
people and they had the same reaction I did. It
was like depressing and weird, because I've grown up with
the idea that, of course there's life out there somewhere.
But if I go with there isn't any life anywhere
else at the universe is just a cold dead rock.
The rest of the entire everything, the only thing any
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life is here on Earth. I found it kind of
like scary, spooky and depressing. I find it difficult to
explain from a scientific point of view that that life
would be that vanishly rare, given the number of allegedly
(32:04):
hospitable planets in the universe.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
And I suppose I don't want to get into.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Theology here, but it also seems odd that an infinite
god would think, you know, I'm going to do this project,
but I'm only going to do it in one place,
and I'm only going to have life and give life
created in my image, et cetera, et cetera, in the
one place. I could do it in a thousand and
I am a nominiscent an infinite god, but I'm just
(32:32):
going to do it in one. I don't know, it
just seems odd to me. Well, I'm not God, am I.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Elon's theory is that any species that's not multiplanetary will
die out because all planets will die out or get
too hot, or or destroy themselves or whatever. And that's
why he wants to get us to Mars so that
human beings can survive. But even with that logic, because
there are earths that have been around for twice as
long as Earth, or half as long, or a third
(32:59):
as long, or a third more or whatever. So there's
all the different time ranges that if life had developed
and gotten sophisticated like we have, they should have been
able to reach out with the spaceship or you know,
a beap of some sort that we would have picked up.
And we haven't picked up anything.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, at the very least, we ought to be hearing
their boring radio shows waves going out into space or
something like that. I seem right, yeah, I was. I
gonna say, Oh, I'm not sure. I would like to
ask Elon Musk why such a big, funny human beings.
I look around and I'm not impressed. I mean, oh,
it's it's critical that, no matter what it takes, we
must get tomorrow so that human beings will continue on.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I don't know, well, if there is no other life
in the universe, i'd be the end of it. Intelligent
life anyway. Yeah, until the beaver's evolved. They're organized, they
have projects, they work hard. They got a nice home there.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
They go into the water and up into their little
wood igloo whatever it's go damn they call it.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah ites their wood glue.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
You ever see the diagrams of beaver dams and how
they have theirs?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Really interesting. I remember studying the beaver, remember studying that
in school for some reason. Yet another thing I'm not
sure why I ever learned.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Well, you know, you give them ten million years, they'll
be building skyscrapers and declaring war on each other for
terrible reasons.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't know that that's true.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Standing on their hind feet, flapping their flat tails if
there's danger, still charming vestige from their animal past.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Se Yeah, I've seen it all. Yeah, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's that is obviously one of the most fascinating questions
any human being can contemplate.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
But I thought it was I thought it was interesting
that it all occurred with one sentence at a lunch
Then where is everybody? He said?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I'm sure it didn't take Stephen Hawking, But the first,
I still am amazed and amused by it. Was Hawking,
wasn't it who said, hey, excuse me, we're reaching out
across the cosmos to say, hey, hey, we're technologically kind
of backward, but we got a lot of great resources
here and we want to be here friends.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Why. Yeah, we're the mouse hiding under the log waving
our little arms to the hawk.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Hey, hey, look I'm down here. Why would we do that?
Is Steven Hawk? You do a little scouting first?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
What an obvious point. Yeah, it's a very American thing
to do. We want to be friends. Surely they want
to be friends to probably think just like us. Maybe
they'd like to open a business together.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Right, I've been thinking about that in our attitude, some
of our attitudes towards Syria and that sort of thing.
Saw a bunch of politicians over the weekend about how
involved we need to get and helping them create this
or that, and what how's that going to happen? The
assumption that everybody wants to be like us, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Well, right, and old al Jilani may well be. In fact,
is most likely he's playing us in exactly that way. Hey,
we're gonna be moderate. We're gonna let everybody let their
freak flag fly. We're not a bunch of crazies. A
little financial support and be appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I hope he's not, but you're probably right. Our for
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Play clock down to seven another hand off to Cook
for the hole, darts to the middle of the field
thirty twenty five twenty still on his feet ten five,
and took his in for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
His second rushing touchdown of the game goes forty one yards.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hanson, you pick a highlight that's not Josh Allen, the
Clear League MVP. And when the two touchdowns rushing Jack
amazing star of yet another Bills win the game that
they just might as well do it now, won don't they?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Just and the Bills the trophy?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, he should clear up the schedule and have the
Bills play the Chiefs and let's get this over with
and see who wins. And I don't like you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Should probably win in the last second on a play
in which the ball pounces off a hot dog vendor's
head and through the uprights or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's ridiculously witchcraft.
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That's what it is. I know it when I see it.
I'll bet Taylor Swift's behind it.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Patrick Mahomes left the Chief game hurt last night, said
he might not play this next week, so that could
be an.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Annual tradition, though, Patrick Mahomes limping off the field in
December and everybody speculating wildly.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I was talking to an NFL insider last night, and
who thinks that's all fake? That he just does that
for attention. He likes the drama of it, pretends to
be hurt all the time. Maybe I don't know a
thing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
He used it to disarm defenses. They think, oh, Mahomes
is hobbled, he won't be scrambling, so he can rush
one less guy and blah blah blah, and then he
tastes off.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I could hear.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I thought this story was so interesting. Someone's not invited
to the holiday party this year. Your spouse, the plus
one is fading in the past for reasons that are
just I mean, we can be old.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Guys shouting at clowns.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I remember when the holiday party was a barn raising.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And then a hay ride. Those were the days.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
What But they're just not anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Just under a third of companies are inviting plus ones
to their holiday parties. It's it's declining year by year
by year.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I am going to be old man yelling at clowns.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
This is a bad move, yet another bad cultural move
by a country. And it's all about lawyers and crap
like that. That's what did in the Christmas party. I'll
go to a part of it. Of it, hay ride
and settled down. Now, wait till the facts are in.
There's much more to it than that, much more to it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I want to talk about bringing your best girl to
the nickelodeon or can I go? So they point out
that when most families had one breadwinner, you know, everybody's
kind of connected to one company in that way, and
the year end party was almost like a bonus.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It was a year end reward.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And these days often both spouses are working and going
to the other person's party is kind of a chore
according to some people. But and some of its raining
and costs and the stuff you said. It's absolutely true.
But another reason is looming large. In the last couple
of years, the holiday party is now one of the
rare times the remote staffers get together in person. So
(03:38):
instead of like getting a glimpse into your each other's
lives outside of work. It's it's the team bonding session.
You actually get to know your coworker, and so that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Would be weird to have spouses there since you're seeing
your co workers for the first time in price.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, I don't care who your old lady is. I'm
still trying to remember what you look like.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, And they go into this fairly high techie company
that flew staff and their families to Atlanta for a
three day event that included a talent show and a
formal dinner with a DJ in dancing in a downtown
hotel bathroom, but also included a lot of team building, bonding,
and goal setting.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm sure those were just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So, although if I might ever get involved in a
team bonding at work thing that's not jiv and stupid
and mocked by everyone behind the boss's back, it'll be
the first time.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yes, how about And this is crazy, but hang with me.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I do my job really really well, and you do
your job really really well, and we all make money.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Canon over that, But the spray of core bonding thing
is important and it would happen better. Just get a restaurant,
have an open bar, have people come, have a good
time and get to know each.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Other the end.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's not that hard.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, yeah, there is a real risk of overthinking these things.
And they make a point that a lot of what
gets lost is, you know, you see a person more
fully when you meet their spouse and see their dynamics
or their partner or whatever, and it can hang out
and relax a little bit and shoot the bull and yeah,
(05:25):
it's just it's a real asset to the human part
of a team achieving something. I just thought it was
interesting that people are like, oh, yeah, yeah, at the
holiday party, we can actually meet our coworkers.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Changing times.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and it's interesting whoever wrote that throwing in that
line about like it's a drag to have to go
to the Christmas party. I am old enough to remember
when like everybody I knew looked forward to the Christmas party,
and like girlfriends and wives and stuff looked forward to
it too, and it was disappointing if it didn't happen,
or if it wasn't as good as in the past.
Part of that would be a whole We're retreating to
(06:04):
our homes and our screens and our just all that
that's happening, and uh, that's that's not a good movie.
There's nothing to do to stop it. What stuck in
my mind is my son and I have been having
this battle which I think I'm going to ultimately lose,
(06:26):
about him wearing earbuds all the time, and like he
is going on this school thing yesterday where they're the
band instructor is going to drive them somewhere and they're
going to something, you know, that sort of deal, and
he wanted his earbuds and I said, no, you're not
going to ride in the car with earbuds on.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's rude. Well it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's not every kid does it that I'll be the
only one in the car who doesn't have earbuds and
I'll just be sitting there staring out the window. That's weird, man, Yeah,
that's weird. So you drive a load full of kids
for an hour somewhere, instead of everybody talking about whatever
sport or band or whatever it is you're doing.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Or just talking about whatever, you're all sitting.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
There with the earbuds in, listening to your own music,
nobody speaking to each other. That's where we're headed as
humanity and I bet that's true. Like corporate stuff. You
head out, you get the you rent the little van,
and you're driving up to the ski resort for a
corporate something.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Everybody's got their earbuds.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
In or staring at their phone. This is not good.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You know. I've said this before, but it's it's true.
I remember some games and incidents and plays in baseball
and meets and golf and stuff which I played in
high school. But I really remember the bus rides. Yeah,
how they were hilarious and and goofy and just.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Because you know, we'd have an hour drive and we'd
all sit and shoot the ball and this is great. Yeah,
that breaks my heart, it really does, I know. And
I don't think there's any fighting it. I mean I could.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I can fight it and make him the outcast and
feel like I've won something, but I can't, you know,
stop the tide of this.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Here's what you gotta do whenever you're around him. Mumble
something too quiet for him to hear over the music,
and mumble at him again and give him the nod.
He finally takes out his ears. Budge what I said.
You can have fifty dollars if you just say hello.
I said it three times, but go back to your listening.
And then the next day, you know, is this something similar?
So it makes him insane, and he just I can't
(08:21):
give my kids attention.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The only way to get my kids attention because I
can't yell some him because I have earbuds in all
the time.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So they're up in the room. Hey, hey, it's done.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Can he come back? But if I text them, it'll
get right to him, because of course they're looking at
their phone, So come.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
On down, time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Wow, Well, that reminds me of it was a tweet
or a meme or something I saw not long ago,
or it was hey, let's just admit defeat and have
automatic push messages on your phone. When the light turns
green at an intersection, all right, right, and we all
get it. See, you'd get a text the light just
turned green. You'd look oh, and then you'd get wrong.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Well, getting back to our spouses and and that sort
of thing. Jack, even if you do take them to
the Christmas party, you're probably not going to be able
to have any kids because you're so infertile. Scientists are
starting to look at every day chemicals, so called indocrine
disruptors found in everything from plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics,
or why human fertility is dropping.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Some RFK Junior joins us today he's on the hill
today trying to commit senators. They should make him whatever
he's going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Now, I'm not a crack pot. The pair thing was funny.
We've talked about this before.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
How does sperm counts drop the way they have since
the seventies And it isn't like the biggest topic on earth.
I mean, it's plastics or cell phones are freaking something,
but the polyester who knows what disco music? But whatever
caused it is something, and why haven't we spent more
time talking about it and figuring it out right?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
If it was alligators or elephants or something, that all
the activists of the world would be going nuts about it.
But since it's human beings, who cares. I'm too busy
saving the world to want to have sex anyway, says
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I'm not sure if that's the sales pitch they want.
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Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, a bunch of people who stole your tax money
did it in kind of a funny way, So maybe
we'll try to laugh to keep from crying or something.
Some of the informations come out on the fraud around PPP.
Do you remember that whatever the personal whatever it was,
during COVID, you could apply for the money. What did
that stand for?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
You give me money? Yeah, you could apply for the money.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And some of the applications the government clearly made no
effort whatsoever to make sure they weren't being stolen from. Well,
we all should have done it to get some of.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Our tax money back, because it's not their money.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Right, they don't care, but it's actually somewhat entertaining among
other things on my way, that's a good tune right
there being sung. Get that list, by the way of
people that scammed the Paycheck Protection Program during COVID and
took some of your taxpayer money. People like Dodge Hellcat LLC,
(12:14):
who clearly was just wanted money to buy a car,
and he just he he just came up with that
name and applif aplication, Yes, and there was no other
questions asked and got sent many tens of thousands of
dollars so we could buy a car. The analysis the
most stolen car. My son has pointed this out over
and over again. The most stolen car in America is
(12:36):
the Dodge Hellcat. Why because it was the most purchased
car by stimulus money during the whole COVID thing.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I just read that analysis last night. Wow, a certain
crowd was.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Really into that car, super fast car, and often the
sketchy neighborhood used stimulus money that they stole to go
out and buy that car, so ended up being the
most stolen car. There are other examples of that sort
of thing. Yeah. God, we paid no attention to how
we spend tax payer money. But anyway, more on that later. Well,
and we don't pay much.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Attention to paron pardons and commutations either. I've got the
list of the seventeen hundred people that Joe Biden left
off the hook or fifteen let off the hook for
their offenses, and the major reason they got turned loose
a lot of them was during COVID, when the prisons
had rampant case and rampant cases and people were dying,
(13:26):
getting sick and everything. They sent a certain number of
people who didn't seem to be dangerous home so everybody wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Die of COVID. And Joe said, you know, they're already home.
They're doing all right.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Let's just not make them do their sentences. And a
lot of them are like big time drug not dealers,
but to kingpins. And the chick who you may remember
this story she embezzled fifty million dollars from Dixon, Illinois
and had a horse, farm houses.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, because she's not dangerous, and they sent her home
during COVID now and said, yeah, I forget it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You've been in jail eno or turning you loose.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And I guess the people of Dixon are pissed off
right all bad anyway, As I mentioned earlier, a lot
of scientists are really looking at these chemicals, so called
endocrine disruptors that are everywhere in twenty first century America,
plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics. And we've talked about
(14:26):
this so more than once, that the rise in autism
and ostheidism related problems, and is dementia quote unquote on
the rise because everybody's living that much longer, or are
it in Parkinson's just becoming more and more common.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
It's difficult to say.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But of course they give the example of this woman
who lived a very modern lifestyle and could not have
a baby. She was not ovulating normally, and so they
eliminated all this stuff and they've got two beautiful kids.
Well that's not exactly proof of anything, but many scientists
believe chemicals found in every products could be a figure
in fertility. With a growing body research showing potentially negative
effects for male and female reproductive systems from exposure, even
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in tiny amounts. Wonder if this affects the amount of
testosterone the boys produced too, I don't know. Patricia Hunt,
a professor of School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State blah
blah blah, says, the power of these chemicals to impact
fertility is mind boggling. We have all sorts of evidence
that indicates, WHOA, we're in serious trouble here.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, why would you limit it to I mean, this
is what they're studying.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
But I mean, if plastic microplastics could cause Alzheimer's, that
also could cause kids that are born to have anxiety
and depression at a rate that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely true. The chemicals doctor Hunt and
other scientists are concerned about are called endocrine disruptors. They
mimic or block the hormones responsible for many of the
body's essential fuck functions, including reproduction. They can be found
in everything from plastic packaging and toys to sofa covers
and cosmetics. On Wednesday, Date To, Texas cited adverse reproductive
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effects in a lawsuit against several manufacturers, including that they
falsely advertise their chemical products as safe for ordinary household products.
The links between chemicals and fertility issues are more widely
acknowledged than ever, but a pitch debate continues about what
levels of exposure are dangerous. Well, that's probably because there's
zillions of dollars being made on this stuff. Well, if
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IRFK Junior does end up getting the job that Trump
signed him up for, we're going to hear more about
this sort of stuff. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, yeah, man,
I'd like to see a lot of my tax money devoted,
perhaps not to buying people muscle cars, but researching this stuff.
(16:56):
I mean, you look at the environment the average human
being lives in right now and compare it with that
of one hundred and fifty years ago, which is evolutionarily speaking,
that's the next second. The chemicals that we take in,
How could it not have serious change? Obs Yeah, tray obs.
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That one will be That'll be a story for many
decades to come.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And I could easily see a situation where we look
back in twenty fifty and can't believe, you know, like
we feel about smoking and other things, or lead paint
or various things like that. We look back, I can't
believe everybody is walking around drinking out of a plastic
water bottle all.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Day long, right right.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I wonder especially ones that maybe got hot for instances.
I've heard from some people. Never ever ever do that,
Never ever microwave plastic. It's either the answer to everything
or not.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I do that a lot. I feel like I'm too old.
Have an effect on me. Wow, one foot in the grave,
you know, sorry to hear that practically at the end
of the run anyway.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
President like Donald Trump this weekend shoring up support for
his embattled cabinet nominees at the annual Army Navy Football Game,
appearing with his Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegsath Also beside
Trump Touldsa Gabbart nominated to be the Director of National Intelligence.
Only three in ten Americans say they are extremely or
very confident in Trump's cabinet picks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
According to a new AP pole what Wow, Where did
that come from? They went out of their way to
put a negative spin on that story, right out of
their way.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Only thirty percent are extremely are very consonant in the
pick majority approved, though a majority approve, which is the
story ABC nor one of you got sued. Wow, God,
the media sucks of the lion liars, which.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Runs counter to what I'm about to tell you. Actually,
so I mentioned there was a guest essay in the
New York Times. This is about the honeymoon Trump's having
right now. Friday, when we left the air, AP came
out Trump pulling at fifty one percent approval. He's got
the highest approval in most polls, including that one, he's
ever had in his political career.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Right, He's never been over fifty percent ever, and has
been pointed out in other quarters. This is the first
honeymoon he's ever had politically, right, because he was immediately
a Russian stooge the second he got elected last time.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So first, this guest essay in the New York Times
from some think tank person saying Trump's way could win
the contest with China once and for all. I think
there are Times printed this, and I thought it was
fairly sound reasoning. I don't know enough about worldwide economics
and tariffs and how that's going to work and everything
like that, but they thought that this could really do
in China and then we're on the road of dominance
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for the foreseeable future. But it included this paragraph what
I thought was interesting. China's the era of sky high
growth is giving way to a stagnation reminiscent of Japan's
so called Lost Decade, a period of deflation and economic inertia,
from which Japan has yet to fully recover. Even mister
She cautioned citizens last week to be prepared to eat bitterness,
(20:17):
a Chinese phrase signaling hard times ahead. What's for dinner tonight, mom, Well,
not even fresh bitterness. We're heating up last night's left
over bitterness.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Wow, canned bitterness, but.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
More specifically, on Trump's honeymoon. Mark Alprin wrote this over
the weekend, and this had to do with the Time
magazine piece where he is named Person of the Year,
and they did a regular political piece, just like you
would write about any incoming popularly elected president, and not
a hit piece like ABC just did there that we
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played anyway, reading from Mark Alprin's thing, lots of unanswered
questions about why this above, blah blah bah. Do I
have the right thing here? I may web the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
With so much going on in the world, it's getting
harder to cover the incoming president with the same knee
jerk Trump is awful lead every time that they've been
using for the last nine years. Well said Trump is
awful Another Trump is awful news. Here's the new reality.
They are not going to be able to cover Trump
in the same purely slanted way. They might not apologize
(21:28):
for Russia Gate, or for covering up Biden's loss of acutity,
or for cheering on law Fair, or for efforts to
boot Trump from the ballot, but they are going to
have to talk about the good and the bad because
if they don't, they're going to lose consumers who are
fed up with a decade of nonsense. Many consumers of
news have clearly shown that they feel like they've been
treated like fools. I think that is true.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yes, they are.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Witness the catastrophic ratings drops at MSNBC and CNN.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
We discussed earlier.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
They are bored and they want something new and honest.
So how true do you think that is? I want
it to be true so much, I'm not sure I
can fairly evaluate it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You know, as one of the nation's leading cheerleaders at
cough cough in suggesting that your perceptions of reality are
a lot more accurate than the news medias, I shouldn't
be surprised to hear that many many Americans look at
the media as hyperbolic.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Partisan liars.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That it seems to me that if you were told
a certain figure was Hitler reincarnate and would end democracy
over and over and over again, then a cup of
coffee after he gets elected, people are flocking tomorrow algo
to have lunch with him. Some of the same people
who are saying that, I would think these people are
full of crap. I'm not going to give them my
(22:53):
business anymore. And it's not a shock that many many
Americans have reacted that way. Not to mention, just to
get tired of any story. If you hear the same
story over and over again, and Trump is awful every
single time. Here's a couple of more Trump's having a
honeymoon stories for you. The Wall Street Journal on all
the CEOs that are currying Florida favor. The campaign by
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corporate executives to get in with Trump will continue this week.
Trump is hosting at least fifteen business leaders at mar
A Lago on Thursday for a fundraiser for his super
political action committee, Make America Great Again, Inc. A person
helping to organize the event said tickets cost one million dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I will not be able to attend, mister President.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
New York Times on Trump conducting a lot of business
after dark, which he has always done, Mark Alprin writes,
what's most significant here is that this is yet another
story in the dominant media covering Trump as a normal
president elect, where his work habits are not painted as
nefarious or weird, just like a typical Featury piece about
the new regime and its star player. If this keeps up,
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will be a paradigm shift with significant implications.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Huh, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
The president is a night owl, as it turns out,
not like he waits until dark. So is evil Kebark
and contemplete and plan the removal of the organs of
the young.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I know I've watched, listen to and read a couple
of pieces where I'm waiting for the turn and it
doesn't happen. It's just a story about you know, well,
like that New York Times piece. It didn't include you
know who else worked late at night? Hitler? Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Can it be Trump is using methan fhetamines like the
final moments of the Nazi regime?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
As that's the case, that's a good example. That is
exactly the sort of.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Thing pre election that they would write, Yeah, what do
you what do you?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
What do you?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I mean we just discussed a little bit, But what
do you think is the what is the big turn here?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I mean? Is it just playing hum Half the country
likes this? Maybe we should write stories that aren't.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I don't know. I find it hard to believe that
they've found their souls or conscience.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Or something like that.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Right. I think it's probably just a combination of the
things we're talking about. It Could it be that even
these journalists have gotten bored with trotting out the same old,
hyperbolic narrative over and over again. Even they're tired of it.
I don't know, but maybe they just feel defeated having
(25:28):
been what's the word defeated? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah. But I'll tell you what, I certainly
didn't see it coming. I didn't think there was a
chance of this, any of this, really.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No. I think we both anticipated like an even more
frantic meltdown. But I mean, you can only melt down
so long. Yeah, it is a hell of a turn
of events. This is the first honeymoon Trump has ever had. Politically,
it will be.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Over soon.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Because first of all, they all end. But secondly, why events,
dear boy events? Yeah, yeah, just because he will actually
be running the show soon, as opposed to being the
guy waiting in the wings holding a bunch of meetings.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
And then you have the.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Inevitable mistakes, scandals, chaos. Trump says something crazy, he appoints
somebody that fires them, that fires the next person, blah
blah blah. Democrats win the midterms, and then Trump is
a lame duck more or less flailing doing things by
executive order, as Democrats have more than roundly endorsed, so
if they can weekend. But yeah, I think the last
(26:40):
two years are going to be pretty stumbly, honestly, barring
giant international events that change the playing field completely.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Which are certainly possible.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I spent a lot of time reading about the Fermi
Paradox over the weekend. I want to talk about that.
At some point. I got into it with my son.
I got into it.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I've brought it up to lots of people. You know,
and you get hot for something, you end up bringing
it up to lots of people. I'm mostly getting, mostly
getting I don't know. I can't tell.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I'm mostly getting all eye rolls. Are people somewhat interested?
But anyway, we got plenty of things we can talk
about today in our four though. I do want to
get into this culture war thing around the sexual revolution
that I think is fascinating. I tweeted it out over
the weekend. We can read it to you. We can
talk about that OnlyFans Woman, that documentary about her having
(27:30):
sex with a hundred guys in a day and how
she came from it. Well, I don't want to give
away it's too complicated. Do get in too briefly, But
I hope you can listen to that now or for
if you miss that hour, get the podcast it's called
armstrong ngetty On demanding Mike Tyson, what the hell was this?
(27:57):
Jake Paul twenty seven years all punching a seaty year
old man? Is this what the white man has reduced him?
Stop it? Well, who's he gonna fight next? Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Chris Rock on the opening of Saturday Night Live. Did
you see the first sketch?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I didn't see a second of it. I don't know
what I think of it, but it was.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Uh. Chris Rock is the lead elf at the mall,
lining up the parents to sit on Santa's lap, and
to speed things up, they have two Santas this year,
but one cent is white, one cent is black, and
all the parents are choosing the white sand so nobody's
(28:47):
but no line, just because that's all right, We'll wait.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I think that probably would happen for a lot.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
That's uncomfortable, but that's some good. A lot of great
humor is on comfortable, you know, which reminds me. I've
wanted to talk about the Caitlin Clark thing at some point,
the so called controversy and her apologizing for a white
privilege and all, and how she is unquestionably, by any
objective to standard, absolutely deserving of every bit of attention
she's gotten. But because she's a straight white woman in
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a league full of black women and lesbians, she's had
to apologize profusely for getting any attention at all.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
It's a it's a sign of a pathology.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But maybe next hour, so I saw I follow Elon's
Twitter feed, me and two hundred other million of you,
but he tweeted out about the A writer wrote a
really long piece about the Fermi paradox, and then Elon
retweeted it with just the caption of this might be
the most important question of all of mankind. Well, obviously
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that got my attention, and then I ended up reading
the whole long piece and the Fermi paradox, which you've
thought about before or heard about before, just it's the
It started with this guy for me back in the fifties.
So he's working with all of the scientists down there
at Los Alamos, and they're having lunch and they're discussing
UFOs and everything like that, and he says, but then
where is everybody? But then where is everybody? Is the
(30:12):
Fermi paradox the idea that if you use the knowledge
we have here on Earth about how many planets are
Earth like out there, and there are gazillions of them
with the right we assume water, chemicals, temperature, everything like
(30:34):
that to have life, then where is everybody?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Because if you do the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Math, and the guy that wrote this long article that
I read, he was using like the low number in
all ranges of projections of numbers of stars, numbers of planets,
then numbers of planets like Earth, you still end up
with quintrillions of planets like Earth that are out there.
And if that's true, how have we heard not a
(30:59):
peep from anyone ever? That just it's that's a paradox.
It's just it's logically impossible that would be the case.
And so there's the paradox. And that's why there's been
a movement in the last couple of years I've noticed
toward people thinking we're we're the only life in the
entire solars, the entire universe, just some rare occurrences. And
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what my question was, I find that fascinating. But for
some reason I talked about this with a couple other
people and they had the same reaction I did. It
was like depressing and weird, because I've grown up with
the idea that, of course there's life out there somewhere.
But if I go with there isn't any life anywhere
else at the universe is just a cold dead rock.
The rest of the entire everything, the only thing any
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life is here on Earth. I found it kind of
like scary, spooky and depressing. I find it difficult to
explain from a scientific point of view that that life
would be that vanishly rare, given the number of allegedly
(32:04):
hospitable planets in the universe.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
And I suppose I don't want to get into.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Theology here, but it also seems odd that an infinite
god would think, you know, I'm going to do this project,
but I'm only going to do it in one place,
and I'm only going to have life and give life
created in my image, et cetera, et cetera, in the
one place. I could do it in a thousand and
I am a nominiscent an infinite god, but I'm just
(32:32):
going to do it in one. I don't know, it
just seems odd to me. Well, I'm not God, am I.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Elon's theory is that any species that's not multiplanetary will
die out because all planets will die out or get
too hot, or or destroy themselves or whatever. And that's
why he wants to get us to Mars so that
human beings can survive. But even with that logic, because
there are earths that have been around for twice as
long as Earth, or half as long, or a third
(32:59):
as long, or a third more or whatever. So there's
all the different time ranges that if life had developed
and gotten sophisticated like we have, they should have been
able to reach out with the spaceship or you know,
a beap of some sort that we would have picked up.
And we haven't picked up anything.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, at the very least, we ought to be hearing
their boring radio shows waves going out into space or
something like that. I seem right, yeah, I was. I
gonna say, Oh, I'm not sure. I would like to
ask Elon Musk why such a big, funny human beings.
I look around and I'm not impressed. I mean, oh,
it's it's critical that, no matter what it takes, we
must get tomorrow so that human beings will continue on.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
I don't know, well, if there is no other life
in the universe, i'd be the end of it. Intelligent
life anyway. Yeah, until the beaver's evolved. They're organized, they
have projects, they work hard. They got a nice home there.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
They go into the water and up into their little
wood igloo whatever it's go damn they call it.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah ites their wood glue.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
You ever see the diagrams of beaver dams and how
they have theirs?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Really interesting. I remember studying the beaver, remember studying that
in school for some reason. Yet another thing I'm not
sure why I ever learned.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Well, you know, you give them ten million years, they'll
be building skyscrapers and declaring war on each other for
terrible reasons.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I don't know that that's true.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Standing on their hind feet, flapping their flat tails if
there's danger, still charming vestige from their animal past.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Se Yeah, I've seen it all. Yeah, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
It's that is obviously one of the most fascinating questions
any human being can contemplate.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
But I thought it was I thought it was interesting
that it all occurred with one sentence at a lunch
Then where is everybody? He said?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I'm sure it didn't take Stephen Hawking, But the first,
I still am amazed and amused by it. Was Hawking,
wasn't it who said, hey, excuse me, we're reaching out
across the cosmos to say, hey, hey, we're technologically kind
of backward, but we got a lot of great resources
here and we want to be here friends.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Why. Yeah, we're the mouse hiding under the log waving
our little arms to the hawk.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Hey, hey, look I'm down here. Why would we do that?
Is Steven Hawk? You do a little scouting first?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
What an obvious point. Yeah, it's a very American thing
to do. We want to be friends. Surely they want
to be friends to probably think just like us. Maybe
they'd like to open a business together.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Right, I've been thinking about that in our attitude, some
of our attitudes towards Syria and that sort of thing.
Saw a bunch of politicians over the weekend about how
involved we need to get and helping them create this
or that, and what how's that going to happen? The
assumption that everybody wants to be like us, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Well, right, and old al Jilani may well be. In fact,
is most likely he's playing us in exactly that way. Hey,
we're gonna be moderate. We're gonna let everybody let their
freak flag fly. We're not a bunch of crazies. A
little financial support and be appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I hope he's not, but you're probably right. Our for
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