September 30, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour three of A&G features...
- A misunderstood perspective on the American Eagle controversy...
- The kids are not reading enough...
- Comic on comics commentary about a comedy show...
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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 Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jett Tidy and now he Armstrong and Jetty.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to
make clear bigotry will get you nowhere. We are fighting
to protect the healthcare of the American people in the
face of an unprecedented Republican assault on all the things, Medicaid, Medicare,
the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Well, what disgusting video is Hakeem Jefferys talking about. He's
the leader of the Democrats in the House. He may
be the Speaker of the House of the Democrats. Take
it back next year. And I'll say it's tough to
see this sort of jocularity given the fact that my
kids and ies spent a lot of last evening praying, crying.
(01:02):
It was tough to get to the bed last night
with the looming government shutdown. I'm sure your kids are
upset too, as we all should be about a government shutdown.
Who freaking cares? But anyway, so Trump puts out this video.
Well I don't know who made the video, but he
posted it on his official site. So that's like giving
it the thumbs up. And we're gonna play the audio
here in a second. And it's AI generated, so it's
(01:24):
I don't know if you've seen Schumer and Jeffrey's standing
next to each other yesterday. They gave a little speech
about how the Republicans just wanted to burn things down,
you know that sort of thing, and uh, you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
To die of no healthcare for whatever reason.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
This video has Schumer speaking and it's AI generated, This
isn't real, and Jeffries is standing next to him in
a sombrero with a big mustache.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I have no idea why that's odd. There's not really
an explanation for.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
A black man named Nakem Jeffries to.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Be wearing a sombrero with a black mustache. Anyway, this
is what the audio is.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Look guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes
Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all
of our woke trans bolt. Not even black people want
to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So
we need new voters. And if we give all these
illegal aliens free healthcare, we might be able to get
(02:22):
them on our side so they can.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Vote for us.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I guess they're leaning on the whole free healthcare for illegals,
which is part of the deal with the.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Black must wow anyway, Okay, now give me the outraged. Okay,
just the first vote again. Yeah, go ahead, play Jeffreys again.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
It's a disgusting video. And we're going to continue to
make clear. Bigotree will get you nowhere.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, there you go fight, So that's good enough.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
And he said, if you think you're shut down as
a joke, it just proves what we all know that
you can't negotiate, you only throw tantrums. Bigotree will get
you nowhere.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The AI was right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Nobody likes you because if you're woke bole bleep. And
I gotta say you look good with the mustache and
the sombrero. You might think of it as a look
if you can grow the thick, oh dark mustang.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
How do you not have it? If you can grow it,
I don't care who you are. You look good. I
would have that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ladies were not asking you, all right, Normally it's to
appeal to the gals. What we've straight males do not
in this case.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well, as a single guy, I will wear whatever facial
hair is going to work the best.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I didn't appreciate Sadam Hussein's politics. Man Oh, speaking of
woke bule bleep, Oh, a couple of things. Number One,
if you did not hear the excerpts of Pete Hegsath's
speech that we played last hour, we're going to reset
it an hour four of the show, so good. If
(03:52):
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fed podcast Armstrong and getting on demand, you should probably
subscribe anyway, in which.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
He said, among other things, we're moving away from a
woke military that s is over.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, that is a heck of a statement.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So, speaking of woke bold Bleep, I thought this was
so interesting. The Wall Street Journal has an interview with
this CEO of American Eagle Outfitters. I'm ying those genes
right now. Oh, you're rocking him like crazy, please. And
this guy is I think he's seventy one years old,
but he famously surrounds himself with young people and hipsters
(04:30):
who know what young people want. He's super crazy about
what young people want to buy. That's his business and
good for him. But they talk about the terrible, terrible, controversy.
This one journalist lady who writes this, who wrote this article,
Suzanne Kaepner, talking about the big controversy with the Sydney
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Sweeney jeans ads. The Sydney Sweeney has great genes.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I call these my Nazi gens. I put on the
Nazi gens today.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And of course this journalist lady takes it completely seriously
describes the ads and stuff. Then some people called the
double entendra racist. Others called the ads sexist. Even President
Trump weighed in blah blah blah sexist.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Wait a second, now, you can't have a hot chicken
jeans trying to sell jeans to women.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's pretty crazy. Who want to be hot?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Checks?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, no, that's ass way out of bounds. And then
of course the hint toward eugenics jack and nazis well.
And then the journalist lady writes this. Some marketing pundits
predicted the culture War uproar would drain American Eagles sales
and dent its reputation, as similar controversies had for companies
like Anheuser Busch and Target and Cracker Barrel. Oh no,
(05:47):
this is exactly the opposite. Cracker Barrel's a bit of
weird case because I think some people perceived something that
wasn't happening. But Anheuser Busch gave in to the woke
mind virus and offered perversity that the vast majority of
the American people aren't into Target exactly the same topple
(06:08):
down with the hey you should transition your child and
mutilate their body and feed them powerful chemicals.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Crowd.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Well, and you walked in the door at Target and
they had the trains display right in front.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The first thing.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Exactly American Eagle did the opposite. It's said to the
average normal Americans, hey, here's a hot chicken jeans, and
average Americans said, yeah, that's a hot chicken jeans. It
was the woke lunatics who were yelling, it's exactly the opposite.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Suzanne, can you miss that? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Anyway, And the punchline is American Eagles as sales went up, right,
Oh yeah, they're just killing it. They're actually pretty good
Jens for the price the cheap. So did you know
in a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
He says, not believing it for a minute, they launched
their partnership with Travis Kelcey's TK True Colors clothing brand.
The symbol is TK, like Travis Kelce. They launched it
the day after Kelsey and Taylor Swift announced their engagement.
What a happy coincidence that is. He has a clothing brand.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, okay, session it's pretty cool looking. His style is
a little out there for me. Yeah, I haven't seen
his clothes that he's selling, but what he wears to
games and stuff, like, what the hell is that? You know?
What happened to me a couple of years ago when
the forty nine ers were celebrating a playoff victory and
and there was news footage from their their party, the
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team party, and I was reminded, Oh, these guys are
not like me. They're twenty six year old, hipster young males.
And yeah, they were all decked out in the I'm
a twenty six year old hipster male, you know, garb.
And it was not what I wear to the golf club.
So yeah, Tk's out there a little bit for you.
(08:01):
But he looks like you know what he looks. He
looks confident, Yeah, which is extremely appealing.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Catch the ball. He did this last weekend. He's old,
he's what thirty now, thirty four and Taylor are both
thirty dog.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, anyway you go, American Eagle, keep stuffing hot chicks
and tight jeans.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Everybody's fine with it.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Did you see the breakup news Nicole Kidman and Keith
Urban or splitting up after two years of marriage or
something like that? Had a pretty long Uh, you don't know.
You don't usually have marriages last that long in the
world to show biz. But it's fall It fell apart somehow.
I think because he's a girl. I think because he's
secretly a girl.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He is somewhat girl. He is a very effeminate dude.
He's pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He can't help being pretty.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, where's Eyeliner?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Speaking of country music, my a couple of my kids
actually send me tracks out and listen to uh songs
we called them back in the old days, including Delaney.
My youngest insisted, I listened to Tyler Childer's song Biting List.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Are you familiar with that song? I'm not. I'm very
familiar with Tyler Childers, but I don't know that song.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I told her, Honey, I'll get to it. I've had
a rotten day, it's been very long. Blah blah blah,
she said, no perfect listen to it. The theme of
the theme of the song is I really don't like
you at all, And if I ever get rabies, you're
going to be on the top of my biting list.
I have a list of people I'm gonna run around
(09:35):
and bite. Now that's a funny theme and give them
the rabies. I know, how do you think of that?
That's a good that's a new ground. Sitting there, guitar
in hand, little G, little C, little D. That sounds
pretty good. I need some lyrics. Now let me think, honey,
I love you or I'm sorry your love is gone wrong? No,
how about this? What if I got rabies? Who would
I bite?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That is not moon June Spoon.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No, indeed, my my son is into hip hop. He's
into He is playing for me liul YACHTI the other day.
That's his favorite artist right now, Lil YACHTI. He's actually
a great big guy, a little boat and he goes by.
So check out the Little YACHTI. If you want some
really really filthy music to play in your car, and
I mean filthy.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Wow, yeah, well let that to philter go in your car.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's terrible aad parenting, that's what I say listen to
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Speaker 5 (11:37):
So Trump puts out a video with a King Jefferies
and a sombrero to drive home the point that the
Democrats plan will include free healthcare for illegals.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's a I think that's abhorrent to buy.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I'm just gonna guess, like eighty eighty percent of America,
if not more, I might be on the low side.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
How many people want free health care for illegals?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I thought you meant to the video itself? No, the
issue right right? Yeah? Nobody, nobody but soft heads and
their heads are soft. Don't worry about them.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And how many people are actually offended when they see
that video. It's got to be a vanishingly small number
of people. This is the Internet age. We all see
crap every day that we can't believe that's true.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You're gonna like, oh my god, touching Jeffrey's say, somehow
technologically put a mustache on him.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
This is racism, not like this is racism.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
After you were listening to Liati, Yeah, little probably comparison.
Are we going through a crisis of people stopping reading?
According to a couple of people who spent time looking
at it, yes, all the data would show yes, this
could be a major reversal for humankind. We'll get to
that later this hour. It's really interesting. Among other things,
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stay here.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
The government has different kinds of employees, for instance, national
park employees, non essential TSA agents, essential air traffic controllers,
kind of a gray area.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, the government shutdown. I guess it's gonna happen. I
don't know. I'm not paying any attention now.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
You'll have to listen to somebody else if you wanted
to have an update on the government shutdown once it happens.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Though, if it happens, I will resume my militant stance
that if there's some national park or national seashore or
whatever you want to go to, go to it. If
you want to wander around in the woods, you don't
need a federal employee over there. Fifteen miles away sitting
in an office to do that, they try to barrow
you from the beach, go around the gate, or go
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block down and sneak onto it.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I don't think they're going to from what I understand,
the Trump administration is going to try really hard to
not have people feel that ridiculous pain.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's true because that was always the Democrats. Yeah, the
Democrats do that. It's the dumbest thing ever. You block
off national parks, well, this is your government shutdown. What So,
here's an interesting consumer story. It could soon ish be
as inexpensive or roughly at the same price to fly
(14:22):
private as it is to buy like a first class seat.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
How is that even possible?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You know, it's funny all the emphasis on flying cars
and that sort of thing. How about flying planes. Let's
make those better? Nice point? Nice point? Or is there room?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Maybe this is what you're getting to.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Is there room for people who are willing to spend
a couple extra bucks to have the seats not be
like the.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Seat in front of you right up against your nose
like some other option.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Terrible, But anyway, this story is all about a company
called Auto Aerospace. They have a new business jet that flies.
I think it's only like nine ten people. But among
other advances, it has no windows, which you'd think, how
big a difference does that make. It is so aerodynamic
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partly because of no windows, and so much lighter that
it burns sixty percent less fuel.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Sixty percent less fuel. And I learned because I got
a buddy who's a private pilot. The whole deal is
the fuel. That's the whole thing. That's why it's so
expensive to fry private private or to have one. Even
if you could afford the plane, you couldn't afford to
fly it around because that's where the cost.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Is, right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, that's what I've always understood too. But so instead
of windows, because I've mentioned this before, I really like
looking out windows.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I like geography.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I like to see how suburbs spread, and I like
to look at golf courses from above. Anyway, I really
enjoy looking out the window. There are no windows. Instead,
the inside of this plane, if you want it, is
a panoramic virtual view of what you're over and what
you would be looking at, because it has teeny tiny
cameras looking out, like super advanced versions of your car's
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backup cameras.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah, it's like some cars, like a friend of mine's Escalade.
The rearview mirror is not real. It looks like you're
looking in the review mirror, but it's actually just a camera. Oh,
put in your review mirror and it looks exactly. It's
even better than if you so. Yeah, that's what it
would be.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, and it's really it's cool because it's like sitting
in some virtual reality something or other where the puffy
clouds are all around you and the sky is up
above with the stars and moon or whatever like surrounding you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
If you choose that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, much much less fuel expended here. And oh I
meant to say this. Early private jet company flex Jet,
which is one of the biggies, just signed a contract
to be to buy three hundred of them. Wow they
like them so much. Well, who knows. It's cool looking beasts,
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no doubt. We'll post this at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
I'm not sure if you'll get paywald or not.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I fooled private one time my family for we had
a medical situation with my son and we wanted to
get to back to Kansas for a family thing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I bit the bullet.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
It was ridiculously expensive, But man, I can see the appeal.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh my god, just you just show.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Up, walk onto the plane the way the way, they're tree,
they have your food and drink there when you land,
you just walk. There's no no hustle, there's no bustle,
there's no security, there's no nothing. Oh yeah, it's if
you can't afford it, you do it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
It's amazing, but crazy expensive.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, ridiculously expensive.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
So people started reading, really the masses only about three
hundred years ago, and now we're stopping and is there
any chance of reversing that we might have had a
very brief period of time where people read. And well,
I mean then maybe the question is that important or not.
I think it's very important, But the stats are troubling.
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We'll get into that, coming up young people and not
wanting to read. And then more Pete Haggzet's speech in
front of all those generals and what you think of
that's getting a lot of.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Attention Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
A frightening moment on one of America's busiest runways. An
American Airlines jet packed with passengers Sunday night, headed for
Boston forced to slam on its brakes after a cargo
plane was crossing the same runway, a Boeing Triple seven
taxiing at lax. You can hear air traffic control directing
the cargo plane to cross this runway karm cars.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Heavy, Yes, and if you can do it, if you
can trap it sent a three mile final.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Those pilots instead making a right turn now directly in
front of that American Airlines jet speeding down the runway
at one hundred and fifty four miles per hour, seconds
from being airborne controllers telling the cargo plane to stop,
but it was too late.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Sherman Carlo's nine can heavy stop, We.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Are on the roadway, Joe, I'll just stay.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Let's got American three cancel pickoff planing.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
The pilot's avoiding a near catastrophe, stopping the jet about
a mile down the runway.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Slamming on the brakes. Man, that would get your attention
on the plane. Oo, holy crap. Is this happening more
often or not? That's always the question.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Where is it just.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
ABC News and everybody else figured out that it gets
people's attention.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, that's definitely true. But when was the last time
you heard anybody with lic a sense say tell you what.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Our air traffic control system is great. That's true.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's modern, getting better, well manned, and the training is
good and getting better every day.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
So this is not getting better. We've stopped reading. Came
across this on a substack yesterday and thought it was
damned interesting. Joe brings up a lot the what future
are we headed toward? The Orwell future or the Huxley
future that would be the nineteen eighty four future where
they banned books or the Thomas Huxley Brave New World
future where you don't need to ban books because there's
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no one who wants to read them, as pointed out
by Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, which I
can't believe I've never read. It's one of the classics
of all time. I've never read that book, and it's
a subject that is on my mind all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
It's clearly the latter.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You don't need to ban books because people aren't going
to read any books that are put out there.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And let me get into that with this piece.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
One of the most important revolutions that happened in human
history happened about three hundred years ago. Now, the printing
press was invented around fifteen hundred, but it took a
couple hundred years before reading really caught on a thing,
partially because no one could read. I mean, you also
had the actual printing and distribution of reading material, and
somebody had to write it, but nobody could read.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Really.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
But by seventeen hundred in Britain and France and Germany,
and then you know, growing in the United States, literacy
was just ex floating and people loved reading, absolutely couldn't
get enough of it, pamphlets, books, poetry, whatever to get
themselves more knowledge or having an idea what's going on
locally or around the world. Now I get to the
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piece that I read yesterday that horrified me. More than
three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a
new era of human knowledge, books are dying. Numerous studies
showed that reading is in free fall. Even the most
pessimistic twentieth century critics of the screen age would have
struggled to predict the scale of the present crisis. In America,
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reading for pleasure has fallen by forty percent in the
last twenty years. Since two thousand and five, reading for
pleasure has dropped forty percent.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's incomprehensible and stunning.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
In the UK, more than a third of adults say
they've given up reading entirely. The National Literacy Trust reports
shocking and dispariting falls in children's reading, which is now
at its lowest level since they've been keeping track. The
publishing industry is in crisis.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
As has pointed out, books that once would have sold
in the tens even hundreds of thousands are now lucky
to sell in the mid four figures. So a book
that might have sold hundreds of thousands of copies just
a few years ago is going to sell five thousand copies.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Now, Wow, nation.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Talk about a different industry. Oh that you know, the
money changing part of it is the least of our problems, right.
But Tim Sanderfer, who's written a number of books, was
pointing this out to me, and we were texting the
other day about how he said, nobody reads anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
He can't sell books. Nobody reads. That's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
An article published in the Atlantic called the elite college
students who can't read Books.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And nobody read that article but back to you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Cites the characteristic experience of one professor twenty years ago.
This professor's class has had no problem and engaging in
sophisticated discussions of pride and prejudice or crime and punishment,
some of the classic texts of all time. Now, as
students tell him upfront that the reading load feels impossible,
it's not just the phrenetic pace. They struggle to attend
to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.
(23:17):
Most of our students, according to the professor, are functionally illiterate. Oof.
The person that wrote this said, this chimes with everything
I've heard in my own conversations with teachers and academics.
One Oxbridge lecturer I spoke to described a collapse in
literacy among his students. And these are people at some
of your better universities. This isn't the average population. The
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transmission of knowledge, the most ancient function of the university,
is breaking down in front of our eyes. Writers like Shakespeare, Milton,
and Jane Austen, whose works have been handed on, handed
out for centuries, can no longer reach the next generation
of readers. They're losing the ability to understand them.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Isn't that stunning?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
This is happening before our eyes, but getting like no conversation.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
This is the sort of thing that people have said
throughout history because it's kind of an egotism, but I
think it's right. Finally we witness the peak of mankind.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You are correct on both.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
It is the sort of thing that people say because
of presentism and it's exciting to have your moment be
the most this or that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But it's also true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Sometimes it takes the form of I can't bring a
child into this world because it's so terrible.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's one of the most comfortable, cushy worlds that's ever
existed in any universe.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You baby.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
On the other hand, we have witnessed Mankind's peak and
are now witnessing the decline.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
They point to one particular thing. I'll give you one
guess as to what it is that really caused the
super rapid decline. Anybody, do I even need to say
it now?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Not mine?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Porn, I won't even say it. The freaking smartphone, of course.
I mean it's made it hard for me to read, yes,
and we all know it. So that's a that's just
a fact. But what is what is a world where
there just aren't books.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We're practically there, we might already be there, where they're
just hard books. I mean, people write them and you
can print them, but nobody's buying them or reading them.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
What is a world where there are no books? How
does it?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Because they point into this article is very very long
in the way that substack is, but it goes through
how it is tied into the rise of democracies and
capitalism and civil rights and all the different things that
have the good things that have happened for mankind humankind
in the last.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Three hundred years, not to mention technological advances and food
production and a thousand things. Yeah, these college professor as saying,
Shakespeare's just going to disappear from the scene. My students
can't read it. They can't understand it, and they won't
read it because they hate reading so much. Unfortunate so exactly,
(26:07):
my kids hate reading. They just hate it. And they've
grown up in a household with a dad who reads constantly,
but they just hate it, and so.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Do all her friends.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And I it's hard to be critical of it because
I know that feeling. It's work for me to read
in a way that it wasn't years ago, just because
of you know what, the dopamine addiction in the attention
span and everything has done to us. But I feel
like there's zero possibility that you can have progress with
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humankind if reading disappears. Right, wrong, Am I just an
old person who claims that, you know, the invention of
the automobile is going to ruin society? Or well that's
true too, but oh yeah, no, you're right, You're absolutely right.
I've made an important life decision. I am going to
dedicate the rest of my life to deceiving and taking
the money of the ignorant. I mean, just because the
(27:03):
question before us is how do you have a happy
life in the world of the decline of humanity? And
that's exploiting the ignorance of others for your own wealth.
So ripping people off is the key to job. Well, yeah,
in words of a single syllable, yes, Michael, those harlance
of the common man.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Yes, those who do not read but have some money,
let's separate them from their coinage.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Precisely, we the learned owe it to them to administer
the firm handed spanking that they deserve.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
That's wild and uh oh, I got one more chart
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Speaker 5 (28:43):
I'm trying not to have any judgment in this conversation
about the reading because I didn't read because I'm a
good person and I'm going to blah blah blah. Whatever
it was. There was a lot less to do. The
pace of life was slower, and I really enjoyed it.
And like I said, it's my enjoyment of reading. I
(29:03):
read much less than I used to spur, certainly long
form books stuff like that, because my attention span has
gotten so short. So we've created a world where our
brains are ruined and people don't read as much. But
the chart about a young people, people under the age
of eighteen, it was amazing the two lines crossing at
about two thousand and eight, right when the smartphone hit,
(29:24):
but it was already on the decline.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I wonder why that is just the Internet in general.
Maybe the Internet in general.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The omnipresence of media I think could be. But anyway, look,
when you've got when you've got two hundred channels, you're
more likely to find something you liked.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And when there were three but it is something.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Like seventy five percent of young people read nearly daily.
Back in the eighties, I did, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I read every day just for fun, not only just
stuff assigned i'd read before I went to bed, things
that I like to read. Now it's down to like
ten percent of people under eighteen that read for pleasure daily.
For a while there, I was reading Brave New World
like every other year in nineteen eighty four, like once
or twice a decade, just because it's long and a
little tar tougher. But yeah, one of the themes of
(30:11):
Brave New World is that you don't have to work
very hard to oppress people. You just keep them high
and amused, and they have no interest in opposing totalitarianism.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And the other aspect that I wanted to mention of
the people in the book was they were very shallow
ding you.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
You're gonna, you know, take money from h dullards, you know,
exploit people. You're going to figure out a way to
steal from them. What do you think governments are going
to do or are doing when people don't read anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Or they're milk and us like cows. Yeah, oh man,
they call the theft taxes. But it's the same process.
You know, I won't live long enough to be able
to win this bet, but you are right. We saw
the peak of mankind in our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Wow, Planet of the Beavers, that's fine again. They're hard working,
they got the flat tail, they build stuff.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Bees maybe can be their buzzy little assistance. Let the
bees have their shot at the world. Huh Uh? Anybody
argue with this at all? Text line four one KFTC
being human? I tell you what an easy.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
So I think we'll get that done, But that's turned
out to be the toughest one. I'm so disappointed in
President Putin. I thought I thought he would get this
thing over with. He should have had that word done
in a week. And I said to him, you know,
you don't look good your four years fighting a war
that should have taken a week.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Are you a paper tiger? And uh, it's that's Trump today.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
After Pete Hagath gave his big speech in front of
all the generals, which we're going to play a whole
bunch of in our four I often mention this podcast
that I listened to almost daily from the Telegraph newspaper
out of London, because they do a great Ukraine segment
every day. Their reporting seems to be that the military,
the Russian military is like close to collapse. Wow, they're
(32:25):
really really struggling. So I hope that that's true. And
I wonder if that maybe that that Trump doesn't have
that knowledge and that's what he's betting on.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Anyway, I have a great deal to say, but we're
pressed for time. Perhaps another time another day.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Trump went on to say this.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
Of Russia, just to be careful, cause we can't let
people throw around that word.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I call it the N word.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
There are two nd words, and you can't use either
of them. You can't use either of them. And frankly,
if it does get to use, we have more than
anybody else. We have better, we have newer, but is
something we don't ever want to even have to think about.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Ooof talking about those claims that believe are objectively false.
We don't have more, and I don't think we have newer.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
We don't have more. Russia has more nuclear weapons than us,
but I guess we have better. Hopefully healthy that's true anyway, Okay,
we both have enough to destroy the planet like eight times,
so it doesn't make any difference different tomy, because we'll
get into that next hour. Came across this thought, this
was damned interesting. Do you know comedian David Cross, very
(33:40):
very funny guy. He was the Blueman group dude from
Arrested Development. If you remember that, he was in Mister
Show with Bob Owenkirk. He blasted a bunch of fellow comedians. Today,
some of the biggest comedians in America are going over
to Saudi Arabia to do a show for the Crown
Prints and all his friends, and David Cross said this,
(34:03):
and I thought it was really really interesting before his
friends go to Saudi Arabia's Rehod Comedy Festival. I am
disgusted and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing that
people I admire with unarguable talent would condone this totalitarian
fifdom for what a fourth house, a boat, more sneakers.
We can never and this is the part that I
really like, we can never again take seriously anything these
(34:26):
comedians complain about, unless it's complaining that we don't support
enough torture or mass execution of journalists and LGBTQ peace
activists here in the States, or that we don't terrorize
enough Americans by flying planes into buildings.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I mean, that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You have a funny bit about how you don't like
a Yankee candle or airport lounges. Oh, Craig, Okay, great,
But you're cool with murder and or the public caning
of women who are raped, and by having the audacity
to be raped, we're guilty of engaging in adultery.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Got any bits on that? These are some of my heroes.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Now, look, some of you folks don't stand for or anything,
so you don't have any credibility to lose.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
But my god, Dave and Louie and Bill and Jim
all fill in the names if you don't know who
they are in a minute.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Clearly you guys don't give an s about what the
rest of us think. But how can any of us
take any of your seriously ever again? All of your
bitching about cancel culture and freedom of speech and all
that s done.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
You don't get to talk about it ever again. By now,
we've all seen the contract you had to sign. I
guess it's floating around on the internet. How much money
they got paid. You're performing for literally the most oppressive
regime on earth. They have slaves for f's sake, he writes,
and that's pretty good. The comedians he was talking about
with those names, he was talking about.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, who's.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Going over there.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh my god, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Shane Gillis, by the way, one of my favorite comedians,
disavowed the festival, saying that he turned down an invitation
and a significant amount of money for an appearance fee.
Said I took a principal stand. You don't nine to
eleven your friends among the comedians that are going to
the re Hod Comedy Festival, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, Wayne Brady,
Jeff Ross, Tom Segura, but Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr,
(36:11):
who are always lecturing us about what's good and what's not.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh, heavily into politics. Yeah, isn't that something?
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah, I'm sure David Ross didn't make any friends by
calling these people out, but he's one hundred percent right.
Don't lecture me about the you know, the various things
that are going on in this country and then go
take a giant paycheck from people who beat rape victims
and have slaves.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, and don't complain about the Sydney sweeneyad when you're
taking money from the Soudeast. Yeah wow.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
As a golf fan, this is kind of an old topic,
just because the live tour has been super controversial. But
others are those golfers constantly lecturing us, those comedians, Oh,
they hit golf balls for a living.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Those comedians, that's their whole act is lecturing us that
were not good enough people.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Well, truth telling, you know, in the way they would
describe it, probably yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot to
be said about this.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
God, I can't believe Dave Chappelle's taking a paycheck from
Saudi Arabia. That's shocking to me. I would assume he's
going to respond to this and explain it.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Maybe he takes their money then comes back home and
bad mouths them, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Or bad mouths them to their face. Maybe the cats.
That's great.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
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It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to
make clear bigotry will get you nowhere. We are fighting
to protect the healthcare of the American people in the
face of an unprecedented Republican assault on all the things, Medicaid, Medicare,
the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Well, what disgusting video is Hakeem Jefferys talking about. He's
the leader of the Democrats in the House. He may
be the Speaker of the House of the Democrats. Take
it back next year. And I'll say it's tough to
see this sort of jocularity given the fact that my
kids and ies spent a lot of last evening praying, crying.
(01:02):
It was tough to get to the bed last night
with the looming government shutdown. I'm sure your kids are
upset too, as we all should be about a government shutdown.
Who freaking cares? But anyway, so Trump puts out this video.
Well I don't know who made the video, but he
posted it on his official site. So that's like giving
it the thumbs up. And we're gonna play the audio
here in a second. And it's AI generated, so it's
(01:24):
I don't know if you've seen Schumer and Jeffrey's standing
next to each other yesterday. They gave a little speech
about how the Republicans just wanted to burn things down,
you know that sort of thing, and uh, you.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
To die of no healthcare for whatever reason.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
This video has Schumer speaking and it's AI generated, This
isn't real, and Jeffries is standing next to him in
a sombrero with a big mustache.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I have no idea why that's odd. There's not really
an explanation for.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
A black man named Nakem Jeffries to.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Be wearing a sombrero with a black mustache. Anyway, this
is what the audio is.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Look guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes
Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all
of our woke trans bolt. Not even black people want
to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So
we need new voters. And if we give all these
illegal aliens free healthcare, we might be able to get
(02:22):
them on our side so they can.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Vote for us.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I guess they're leaning on the whole free healthcare for illegals,
which is part of the deal with the.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Black must wow anyway, Okay, now give me the outraged. Okay,
just the first vote again. Yeah, go ahead, play Jeffreys again.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
It's a disgusting video. And we're going to continue to
make clear. Bigotree will get you nowhere.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Okay, there you go fight, So that's good enough.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
And he said, if you think you're shut down as
a joke, it just proves what we all know that
you can't negotiate, you only throw tantrums. Bigotree will get
you nowhere.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The AI was right.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Nobody likes you because if you're woke bole bleep. And
I gotta say you look good with the mustache and
the sombrero. You might think of it as a look
if you can grow the thick, oh dark mustang.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
How do you not have it? If you can grow it,
I don't care who you are. You look good. I
would have that.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ladies were not asking you, all right, Normally it's to
appeal to the gals. What we've straight males do not
in this case.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well, as a single guy, I will wear whatever facial
hair is going to work the best.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
That's all.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I didn't appreciate Sadam Hussein's politics. Man Oh, speaking of
woke bule bleep, Oh, a couple of things. Number One,
if you did not hear the excerpts of Pete Hegsath's
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Speaker 5 (03:58):
He said, among other things, we're moving away from a
woke military that s is over.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, that is a heck of a statement.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So, speaking of woke bold Bleep, I thought this was
so interesting. The Wall Street Journal has an interview with
this CEO of American Eagle Outfitters. I'm ying those genes
right now. Oh, you're rocking him like crazy, please. And
this guy is I think he's seventy one years old,
but he famously surrounds himself with young people and hipsters
(04:30):
who know what young people want. He's super crazy about
what young people want to buy. That's his business and
good for him. But they talk about the terrible, terrible, controversy.
This one journalist lady who writes this, who wrote this article,
Suzanne Kaepner, talking about the big controversy with the Sydney
(04:52):
Sweeney jeans ads. The Sydney Sweeney has great genes.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
I call these my Nazi gens. I put on the
Nazi gens today.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And of course this journalist lady takes it completely seriously
describes the ads and stuff. Then some people called the
double entendra racist. Others called the ads sexist. Even President
Trump weighed in blah blah blah sexist.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Wait a second, now, you can't have a hot chicken
jeans trying to sell jeans to women.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That's pretty crazy. Who want to be hot?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Checks?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, no, that's ass way out of bounds. And then
of course the hint toward eugenics jack and nazis well.
And then the journalist lady writes this. Some marketing pundits
predicted the culture War uproar would drain American Eagles sales
and dent its reputation, as similar controversies had for companies
like Anheuser Busch and Target and Cracker Barrel. Oh no,
(05:47):
this is exactly the opposite. Cracker Barrel's a bit of
weird case because I think some people perceived something that
wasn't happening. But Anheuser Busch gave in to the woke
mind virus and offered perversity that the vast majority of
the American people aren't into Target exactly the same topple
(06:08):
down with the hey you should transition your child and
mutilate their body and feed them powerful chemicals.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Crowd.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Well, and you walked in the door at Target and
they had the trains display right in front.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The first thing.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Exactly American Eagle did the opposite. It's said to the
average normal Americans, hey, here's a hot chicken jeans, and
average Americans said, yeah, that's a hot chicken jeans. It
was the woke lunatics who were yelling, it's exactly the opposite.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Suzanne, can you miss that? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Anyway, And the punchline is American Eagles as sales went up, right,
Oh yeah, they're just killing it. They're actually pretty good
Jens for the price the cheap. So did you know
in a coincidence.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
He says, not believing it for a minute, they launched
their partnership with Travis Kelcey's TK True Colors clothing brand.
The symbol is TK, like Travis Kelce. They launched it
the day after Kelsey and Taylor Swift announced their engagement.
What a happy coincidence that is. He has a clothing brand.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I didn't know it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, okay, session it's pretty cool looking. His style is
a little out there for me. Yeah, I haven't seen
his clothes that he's selling, but what he wears to
games and stuff, like, what the hell is that? You know?
What happened to me a couple of years ago when
the forty nine ers were celebrating a playoff victory and
and there was news footage from their their party, the
(07:40):
team party, and I was reminded, Oh, these guys are
not like me. They're twenty six year old, hipster young males.
And yeah, they were all decked out in the I'm
a twenty six year old hipster male, you know, garb.
And it was not what I wear to the golf club.
So yeah, Tk's out there a little bit for you.
(08:01):
But he looks like you know what he looks. He
looks confident, Yeah, which is extremely appealing.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Catch the ball. He did this last weekend. He's old,
he's what thirty now, thirty four and Taylor are both
thirty dog.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, anyway you go, American Eagle, keep stuffing hot chicks
and tight jeans.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Everybody's fine with it.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Did you see the breakup news Nicole Kidman and Keith
Urban or splitting up after two years of marriage or
something like that? Had a pretty long Uh, you don't know.
You don't usually have marriages last that long in the
world to show biz. But it's fall It fell apart somehow.
I think because he's a girl. I think because he's
secretly a girl.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He is somewhat girl. He is a very effeminate dude.
He's pretty.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
He can't help being pretty.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, where's Eyeliner?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Speaking of country music, my a couple of my kids
actually send me tracks out and listen to uh songs
we called them back in the old days, including Delaney.
My youngest insisted, I listened to Tyler Childer's song Biting List.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Are you familiar with that song? I'm not. I'm very
familiar with Tyler Childers, but I don't know that song.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I told her, Honey, I'll get to it. I've had
a rotten day, it's been very long. Blah blah blah,
she said, no perfect listen to it. The theme of
the theme of the song is I really don't like
you at all, And if I ever get rabies, you're
going to be on the top of my biting list.
I have a list of people I'm gonna run around
(09:35):
and bite. Now that's a funny theme and give them
the rabies. I know, how do you think of that?
That's a good that's a new ground. Sitting there, guitar
in hand, little G, little C, little D. That sounds
pretty good. I need some lyrics. Now let me think, honey,
I love you or I'm sorry your love is gone wrong? No,
how about this? What if I got rabies? Who would
I bite?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
That is not moon June Spoon.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
No, indeed, my my son is into hip hop. He's
into He is playing for me liul YACHTI the other day.
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a great big guy, a little boat and he goes by.
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Speaker 3 (10:18):
Wow, yeah, well let that to philter go in your car.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
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Speaker 5 (11:37):
So Trump puts out a video with a King Jefferies
and a sombrero to drive home the point that the
Democrats plan will include free healthcare for illegals.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's a I think that's abhorrent to buy.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
I'm just gonna guess, like eighty eighty percent of America,
if not more, I might be on the low side.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
How many people want free health care for illegals?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I thought you meant to the video itself? No, the
issue right right? Yeah? Nobody, nobody but soft heads and
their heads are soft. Don't worry about them.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
And how many people are actually offended when they see
that video. It's got to be a vanishingly small number
of people. This is the Internet age. We all see
crap every day that we can't believe that's true.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You're gonna like, oh my god, touching Jeffrey's say, somehow
technologically put a mustache on him.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
This is racism, not like this is racism.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
After you were listening to Liati, Yeah, little probably comparison.
Are we going through a crisis of people stopping reading?
According to a couple of people who spent time looking
at it, yes, all the data would show yes, this
could be a major reversal for humankind. We'll get to
that later this hour. It's really interesting. Among other things,
(12:58):
stay here.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
The government has different kinds of employees, for instance, national
park employees, non essential TSA agents, essential air traffic controllers,
kind of a gray area.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, the government shutdown. I guess it's gonna happen. I
don't know. I'm not paying any attention now.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
You'll have to listen to somebody else if you wanted
to have an update on the government shutdown once it happens.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Though, if it happens, I will resume my militant stance
that if there's some national park or national seashore or
whatever you want to go to, go to it. If
you want to wander around in the woods, you don't
need a federal employee over there. Fifteen miles away sitting
in an office to do that, they try to barrow
you from the beach, go around the gate, or go
(13:52):
block down and sneak onto it.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
I don't think they're going to from what I understand,
the Trump administration is going to try really hard to
not have people feel that ridiculous pain.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's true because that was always the Democrats. Yeah, the
Democrats do that. It's the dumbest thing ever. You block
off national parks, well, this is your government shutdown. What So,
here's an interesting consumer story. It could soon ish be
as inexpensive or roughly at the same price to fly
(14:22):
private as it is to buy like a first class seat.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
How is that even possible?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
You know, it's funny all the emphasis on flying cars
and that sort of thing. How about flying planes. Let's
make those better? Nice point? Nice point? Or is there room?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Maybe this is what you're getting to.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Is there room for people who are willing to spend
a couple extra bucks to have the seats not be
like the.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Seat in front of you right up against your nose
like some other option.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Terrible, But anyway, this story is all about a company
called Auto Aerospace. They have a new business jet that flies.
I think it's only like nine ten people. But among
other advances, it has no windows, which you'd think, how
big a difference does that make. It is so aerodynamic
(15:18):
partly because of no windows, and so much lighter that
it burns sixty percent less fuel.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Sixty percent less fuel. And I learned because I got
a buddy who's a private pilot. The whole deal is
the fuel. That's the whole thing. That's why it's so
expensive to fry private private or to have one. Even
if you could afford the plane, you couldn't afford to
fly it around because that's where the cost.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Is, right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, that's what I've always understood too. But so instead
of windows, because I've mentioned this before, I really like
looking out windows.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I like geography.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I like to see how suburbs spread, and I like
to look at golf courses from above. Anyway, I really
enjoy looking out the window. There are no windows. Instead,
the inside of this plane, if you want it, is
a panoramic virtual view of what you're over and what
you would be looking at, because it has teeny tiny
cameras looking out, like super advanced versions of your car's
(16:11):
backup cameras.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Yeah, it's like some cars, like a friend of mine's Escalade.
The rearview mirror is not real. It looks like you're
looking in the review mirror, but it's actually just a camera. Oh,
put in your review mirror and it looks exactly. It's
even better than if you so. Yeah, that's what it
would be.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, and it's really it's cool because it's like sitting
in some virtual reality something or other where the puffy
clouds are all around you and the sky is up
above with the stars and moon or whatever like surrounding you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
If you choose that.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, much much less fuel expended here. And oh I
meant to say this. Early private jet company flex Jet,
which is one of the biggies, just signed a contract
to be to buy three hundred of them. Wow they
like them so much. Well, who knows. It's cool looking beasts,
(17:02):
no doubt. We'll post this at Armstrong and Getty dot com.
I'm not sure if you'll get paywald or not.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I fooled private one time my family for we had
a medical situation with my son and we wanted to
get to back to Kansas for a family thing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I bit the bullet.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
It was ridiculously expensive, But man, I can see the appeal.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh my god, just you just show.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Up, walk onto the plane the way the way, they're tree,
they have your food and drink there when you land,
you just walk. There's no no hustle, there's no bustle,
there's no security, there's no nothing. Oh yeah, it's if
you can't afford it, you do it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
It's amazing, but crazy expensive.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, ridiculously expensive.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
So people started reading, really the masses only about three
hundred years ago, and now we're stopping and is there
any chance of reversing that we might have had a
very brief period of time where people read. And well,
I mean then maybe the question is that important or not.
I think it's very important, But the stats are troubling.
(18:09):
We'll get into that, coming up young people and not
wanting to read. And then more Pete Haggzet's speech in
front of all those generals and what you think of
that's getting a lot of.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Attention Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
A frightening moment on one of America's busiest runways. An
American Airlines jet packed with passengers Sunday night, headed for
Boston forced to slam on its brakes after a cargo
plane was crossing the same runway, a Boeing Triple seven
taxiing at lax. You can hear air traffic control directing
the cargo plane to cross this runway karm cars.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Heavy, Yes, and if you can do it, if you
can trap it sent a three mile final.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Those pilots instead making a right turn now directly in
front of that American Airlines jet speeding down the runway
at one hundred and fifty four miles per hour, seconds
from being airborne controllers telling the cargo plane to stop,
but it was too late.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Sherman Carlo's nine can heavy stop, We.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Are on the roadway, Joe, I'll just stay.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Let's got American three cancel pickoff planing.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
The pilot's avoiding a near catastrophe, stopping the jet about
a mile down the runway.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Slamming on the brakes. Man, that would get your attention
on the plane. Oo, holy crap. Is this happening more
often or not? That's always the question.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Where is it just.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
ABC News and everybody else figured out that it gets
people's attention.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, that's definitely true. But when was the last time
you heard anybody with lic a sense say tell you what.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Our air traffic control system is great. That's true.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
It's modern, getting better, well manned, and the training is
good and getting better every day.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
So this is not getting better. We've stopped reading. Came
across this on a substack yesterday and thought it was
damned interesting. Joe brings up a lot the what future
are we headed toward? The Orwell future or the Huxley
future that would be the nineteen eighty four future where
they banned books or the Thomas Huxley Brave New World
future where you don't need to ban books because there's
(20:07):
no one who wants to read them, as pointed out
by Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, which I
can't believe I've never read. It's one of the classics
of all time. I've never read that book, and it's
a subject that is on my mind all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
It's clearly the latter.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
You don't need to ban books because people aren't going
to read any books that are put out there.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And let me get into that with this piece.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
One of the most important revolutions that happened in human
history happened about three hundred years ago. Now, the printing
press was invented around fifteen hundred, but it took a
couple hundred years before reading really caught on a thing,
partially because no one could read. I mean, you also
had the actual printing and distribution of reading material, and
somebody had to write it, but nobody could read.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Really.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
But by seventeen hundred in Britain and France and Germany,
and then you know, growing in the United States, literacy
was just ex floating and people loved reading, absolutely couldn't
get enough of it, pamphlets, books, poetry, whatever to get
themselves more knowledge or having an idea what's going on
locally or around the world. Now I get to the
(21:14):
piece that I read yesterday that horrified me. More than
three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a
new era of human knowledge, books are dying. Numerous studies
showed that reading is in free fall. Even the most
pessimistic twentieth century critics of the screen age would have
struggled to predict the scale of the present crisis. In America,
(21:35):
reading for pleasure has fallen by forty percent in the
last twenty years. Since two thousand and five, reading for
pleasure has dropped forty percent.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's incomprehensible and stunning.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
In the UK, more than a third of adults say
they've given up reading entirely. The National Literacy Trust reports
shocking and dispariting falls in children's reading, which is now
at its lowest level since they've been keeping track. The
publishing industry is in crisis.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
As has pointed out, books that once would have sold
in the tens even hundreds of thousands are now lucky
to sell in the mid four figures. So a book
that might have sold hundreds of thousands of copies just
a few years ago is going to sell five thousand copies.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Now, Wow, nation.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Talk about a different industry. Oh that you know, the
money changing part of it is the least of our problems, right.
But Tim Sanderfer, who's written a number of books, was
pointing this out to me, and we were texting the
other day about how he said, nobody reads anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
He can't sell books. Nobody reads. That's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
An article published in the Atlantic called the elite college
students who can't read Books.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
And nobody read that article but back to you.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Cites the characteristic experience of one professor twenty years ago.
This professor's class has had no problem and engaging in
sophisticated discussions of pride and prejudice or crime and punishment,
some of the classic texts of all time. Now, as
students tell him upfront that the reading load feels impossible,
it's not just the phrenetic pace. They struggle to attend
to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.
(23:17):
Most of our students, according to the professor, are functionally illiterate. Oof.
The person that wrote this said, this chimes with everything
I've heard in my own conversations with teachers and academics.
One Oxbridge lecturer I spoke to described a collapse in
literacy among his students. And these are people at some
of your better universities. This isn't the average population. The
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transmission of knowledge, the most ancient function of the university,
is breaking down in front of our eyes. Writers like Shakespeare, Milton,
and Jane Austen, whose works have been handed on, handed
out for centuries, can no longer reach the next generation
of readers. They're losing the ability to understand them.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Isn't that stunning?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
This is happening before our eyes, but getting like no conversation.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
This is the sort of thing that people have said
throughout history because it's kind of an egotism, but I
think it's right. Finally we witness the peak of mankind.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You are correct on both.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
It is the sort of thing that people say because
of presentism and it's exciting to have your moment be
the most this or that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
But it's also true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Sometimes it takes the form of I can't bring a
child into this world because it's so terrible.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It's one of the most comfortable, cushy worlds that's ever
existed in any universe.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You baby.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
On the other hand, we have witnessed Mankind's peak and
are now witnessing the decline.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
They point to one particular thing. I'll give you one
guess as to what it is that really caused the
super rapid decline. Anybody, do I even need to say
it now?
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Not mine?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Porn, I won't even say it. The freaking smartphone, of course.
I mean it's made it hard for me to read, yes,
and we all know it. So that's a that's just
a fact. But what is what is a world where
there just aren't books.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We're practically there, we might already be there, where they're
just hard books. I mean, people write them and you
can print them, but nobody's buying them or reading them.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
What is a world where there are no books? How
does it?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Because they point into this article is very very long
in the way that substack is, but it goes through
how it is tied into the rise of democracies and
capitalism and civil rights and all the different things that
have the good things that have happened for mankind humankind
in the last.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Three hundred years, not to mention technological advances and food
production and a thousand things. Yeah, these college professor as saying,
Shakespeare's just going to disappear from the scene. My students
can't read it. They can't understand it, and they won't
read it because they hate reading so much. Unfortunate so exactly,
(26:07):
my kids hate reading. They just hate it. And they've
grown up in a household with a dad who reads constantly,
but they just hate it, and so.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Do all her friends.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And I it's hard to be critical of it because
I know that feeling. It's work for me to read
in a way that it wasn't years ago, just because
of you know what, the dopamine addiction in the attention
span and everything has done to us. But I feel
like there's zero possibility that you can have progress with
(26:40):
humankind if reading disappears. Right, wrong, Am I just an
old person who claims that, you know, the invention of
the automobile is going to ruin society? Or well that's
true too, but oh yeah, no, you're right, You're absolutely right.
I've made an important life decision. I am going to
dedicate the rest of my life to deceiving and taking
the money of the ignorant. I mean, just because the
(27:03):
question before us is how do you have a happy
life in the world of the decline of humanity? And
that's exploiting the ignorance of others for your own wealth.
So ripping people off is the key to job. Well, yeah,
in words of a single syllable, yes, Michael, those harlance
of the common man.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Yes, those who do not read but have some money,
let's separate them from their coinage.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Precisely, we the learned owe it to them to administer
the firm handed spanking that they deserve.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
That's wild and uh oh, I got one more chart
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Speaker 5 (28:43):
I'm trying not to have any judgment in this conversation
about the reading because I didn't read because I'm a
good person and I'm going to blah blah blah. Whatever
it was. There was a lot less to do. The
pace of life was slower, and I really enjoyed it.
And like I said, it's my enjoyment of reading. I
(29:03):
read much less than I used to spur, certainly long
form books stuff like that, because my attention span has
gotten so short. So we've created a world where our
brains are ruined and people don't read as much. But
the chart about a young people, people under the age
of eighteen, it was amazing the two lines crossing at
about two thousand and eight, right when the smartphone hit,
(29:24):
but it was already on the decline.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
I wonder why that is just the Internet in general.
Maybe the Internet in general.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The omnipresence of media I think could be. But anyway, look,
when you've got when you've got two hundred channels, you're
more likely to find something you liked.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And when there were three but it is something.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Like seventy five percent of young people read nearly daily.
Back in the eighties, I did, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I read every day just for fun, not only just
stuff assigned i'd read before I went to bed, things
that I like to read. Now it's down to like
ten percent of people under eighteen that read for pleasure daily.
For a while there, I was reading Brave New World
like every other year in nineteen eighty four, like once
or twice a decade, just because it's long and a
little tar tougher. But yeah, one of the themes of
(30:11):
Brave New World is that you don't have to work
very hard to oppress people. You just keep them high
and amused, and they have no interest in opposing totalitarianism.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
And the other aspect that I wanted to mention of
the people in the book was they were very shallow
ding you.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
You're gonna, you know, take money from h dullards, you know,
exploit people. You're going to figure out a way to
steal from them. What do you think governments are going
to do or are doing when people don't read anymore.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Or they're milk and us like cows. Yeah, oh man,
they call the theft taxes. But it's the same process.
You know, I won't live long enough to be able
to win this bet, but you are right. We saw
the peak of mankind in our lifetime.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Wow, Planet of the Beavers, that's fine again. They're hard working,
they got the flat tail, they build stuff.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Bees maybe can be their buzzy little assistance. Let the
bees have their shot at the world. Huh Uh? Anybody
argue with this at all? Text line four one KFTC
being human? I tell you what an easy.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
So I think we'll get that done, But that's turned
out to be the toughest one. I'm so disappointed in
President Putin. I thought I thought he would get this
thing over with. He should have had that word done
in a week. And I said to him, you know,
you don't look good your four years fighting a war
that should have taken a week.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Are you a paper tiger? And uh, it's that's Trump today.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
After Pete Hagath gave his big speech in front of
all the generals, which we're going to play a whole
bunch of in our four I often mention this podcast
that I listened to almost daily from the Telegraph newspaper
out of London, because they do a great Ukraine segment
every day. Their reporting seems to be that the military,
the Russian military is like close to collapse. Wow, they're
(32:25):
really really struggling. So I hope that that's true. And
I wonder if that maybe that that Trump doesn't have
that knowledge and that's what he's betting on.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Anyway, I have a great deal to say, but we're
pressed for time. Perhaps another time another day.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Trump went on to say this.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
Of Russia, just to be careful, cause we can't let
people throw around that word.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I call it the N word.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
There are two nd words, and you can't use either
of them. You can't use either of them. And frankly,
if it does get to use, we have more than
anybody else. We have better, we have newer, but is
something we don't ever want to even have to think about.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Ooof talking about those claims that believe are objectively false.
We don't have more, and I don't think we have newer.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
We don't have more. Russia has more nuclear weapons than us,
but I guess we have better. Hopefully healthy that's true anyway, Okay,
we both have enough to destroy the planet like eight times,
so it doesn't make any difference different tomy, because we'll
get into that next hour. Came across this thought, this
was damned interesting. Do you know comedian David Cross, very
(33:40):
very funny guy. He was the Blueman group dude from
Arrested Development. If you remember that, he was in Mister
Show with Bob Owenkirk. He blasted a bunch of fellow comedians. Today,
some of the biggest comedians in America are going over
to Saudi Arabia to do a show for the Crown
Prints and all his friends, and David Cross said this,
(34:03):
and I thought it was really really interesting before his
friends go to Saudi Arabia's Rehod Comedy Festival. I am
disgusted and deeply disappointed in this whole gross thing that
people I admire with unarguable talent would condone this totalitarian
fifdom for what a fourth house, a boat, more sneakers.
We can never and this is the part that I
really like, we can never again take seriously anything these
(34:26):
comedians complain about, unless it's complaining that we don't support
enough torture or mass execution of journalists and LGBTQ peace
activists here in the States, or that we don't terrorize
enough Americans by flying planes into buildings.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I mean, that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You have a funny bit about how you don't like
a Yankee candle or airport lounges. Oh, Craig, Okay, great,
But you're cool with murder and or the public caning
of women who are raped, and by having the audacity
to be raped, we're guilty of engaging in adultery.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Got any bits on that? These are some of my heroes.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Now, look, some of you folks don't stand for or anything,
so you don't have any credibility to lose.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
But my god, Dave and Louie and Bill and Jim
all fill in the names if you don't know who
they are in a minute.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Clearly you guys don't give an s about what the
rest of us think. But how can any of us
take any of your seriously ever again? All of your
bitching about cancel culture and freedom of speech and all
that s done.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
You don't get to talk about it ever again. By now,
we've all seen the contract you had to sign. I
guess it's floating around on the internet. How much money
they got paid. You're performing for literally the most oppressive
regime on earth. They have slaves for f's sake, he writes,
and that's pretty good. The comedians he was talking about
with those names, he was talking about.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, who's.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Going over there.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh my god, that's incredible.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Shane Gillis, by the way, one of my favorite comedians,
disavowed the festival, saying that he turned down an invitation
and a significant amount of money for an appearance fee.
Said I took a principal stand. You don't nine to
eleven your friends among the comedians that are going to
the re Hod Comedy Festival, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, Wayne Brady,
Jeff Ross, Tom Segura, but Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr,
(36:11):
who are always lecturing us about what's good and what's not.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh, heavily into politics. Yeah, isn't that something?
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah, I'm sure David Ross didn't make any friends by
calling these people out, but he's one hundred percent right.
Don't lecture me about the you know, the various things
that are going on in this country and then go
take a giant paycheck from people who beat rape victims
and have slaves.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, and don't complain about the Sydney sweeneyad when you're
taking money from the Soudeast. Yeah wow.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
As a golf fan, this is kind of an old topic,
just because the live tour has been super controversial. But
others are those golfers constantly lecturing us, those comedians, Oh,
they hit golf balls for a living.
Speaker 5 (36:54):
Those comedians, that's their whole act is lecturing us that
were not good enough people.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Well, truth telling, you know, in the way they would
describe it, probably yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot to
be said about this.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
God, I can't believe Dave Chappelle's taking a paycheck from
Saudi Arabia. That's shocking to me. I would assume he's
going to respond to this and explain it.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Maybe he takes their money then comes back home and
bad mouths them, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Or bad mouths them to their face. Maybe the cats.
That's great.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.