March 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Things between Israel & Hamas get worse & Trump's meeting with Putin
- Gender Bending Madness!
- Rate your satisfaction with freedom
- The Snow White debacle
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe, Getty arms Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is something that is probably going to get worse
and worse. You know, we're going to continue to see
attacks by the Israelis. As you said, we've been hearing
extremely bellicost language, including from the Minister of Defense israel
Cats saying that they're going to rain hell on Hamas.
And you know, this really just goes to show there's
a big change here.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I hate to constantly harp on media coverage of stuff,
but Bella Coast language from the Israelis.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Nobody reports on Bella Cooast language from Hamas.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
They say all day, every day, we want every Jew
on planet Earth to be dead.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And that doesn't get because of language from the Israelis
saying they will take the initiative right because everybody's so
used to it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's just like baked in.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You get to you get to constantly, you know, promise
a thousand more October seventh, which means raping old women
and burning children, orbans and whatnot. And it's not considered
the ghost language for some reason. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, Jack, they're dying. They're dying. The mainstream meeting. Oh,
they're dying, Yeah, and deservedly so. Oh speaking which I
got a couple of really interesting defense related topics. But
did you have more on that topic?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
No? More on that later, I suppose Either way, I
don't care. It's okay. I was gonna say full confession.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yesterday we were talking about Saint Patrick's Day, among other things,
and I had no interest in it. The confession is,
most of Sunday night was dominated by taking my dog
to the emergency veterinarian hospital and we thought he was
gonna die, and then up very late and he was
funky all night, and it turns out they dialed in
his medicine and he's definitely in the part of his
life where we're keeping them comfortable, trying to keep them happy,
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but the clock's are ticking, and oh, what a hell
of a night. And so anyway, I was off my
game yesterday.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Not your main concern, but not an inexpensive thing to
do emergency vet care either.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, no, no, no, And I'm lucky I can afford it.
It's fine, but yes, just yeah, it's also gut wrenching
anybody wh's had a dog, That's what I'm talking about.
But interestingly, many many miles from the University of California Davis,
the fabulous veterinarian was a UC Davis grad and it's
the world standard right in veterinary care.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And number one bet school and Planet Earth for quite
a while. Yeah, guy was so sharp, so good.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Anyway, back to matters military found this so interesting. Hit
you with a little of this yesterday, but it's worth
turning our attention to naval powers unquestionably going to be
a big part of military power in the twenty first century,
probably unmanned, at least to a large extent, unmanned.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
More on that to go.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yesterday we briefly mentioned how pathetic our position is is
the United States in shipbuilding these days, and I mentioned
that a report from the Center for Strategic and International
Studies said the Chinese BMUTH China State Shipbuilding Corporation built
more commercial vessels by tonnage last year than the US
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is built since the end of World War Two.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That is almost impossible to believe that it's true.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, Now, if I were to be just a teeny
bit of a skeptic. Our shipbuilding capacity is pathetic right now.
But we had a ginormous navy at the end of
World War Two and have mostly been tapering it down
and then replacing it as needed, whereas China had, you know,
re junks in a fishing boat with a handgun.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, I remember it was wasn't that long ago, and
China got their first aircraft carrier, right right, So you know,
it's not quite as terrible as it sounds, but it's
pretty terrible, as is this Rich Lowry Yeah, points out
in the National Review, the US commercial shipbuilding sector has
one tenth of or percent of the global market in shipbuilding,
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the greatest.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Manufacturer ever seen on Earth. We hardly build ships at all.
We've got a couple of decent shipyards, but they're undermanned.
They can't find people to work there, and we the
United States, depend on South Korea for a lot of
our shipbuilding, which is fine if you have a seventy
year long post WW two stretch of peace and prosperity.
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But the minute you don't man you are in a
serious world of hurt. Let me scroll ahead here. Midway,
the Great Battle of Midway was an important battle We
built seventeen major aircraft carriers after that battle, while the
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Japanese built six, and we built our way to victory.
In a lot of ways, the German Messerschmidts were better
airplanes than are. What was the best plane at the time,
was it the Mustang or I'm not an aircraft expert
by any means, but they had better planes. We could
just make a hell of a lot more of them,
and so that's been one of our great strengths. But
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President Trump, Toho his credit is reportedly fixated on the
issue and is sending his Naval Secretary nominee at this
point images of rusted US hulls at all hours, saying
when are we going to deal with this? How are
we going to deal with this? Which I think is great.
But one estimate is that the Chinese currently have two
hundred and thirty times the US shipbuilding capacity they are
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and you remember we outbuilt to Japanese seventeen to six
after the Battle of Midway, and that's part of the reason,
one of the reasons we won. As Rich points out,
one way to look at it is that the Chinese
are closer to our production capacity in World War Two,
and we are closer to that of Japan at best,
maybe even weaker anyway, So that's an urgent thing. And
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then to the unmanned deal. I thought this was so
interesting the Wall Street Journal an all robot assault in
Ukraine has opened a new chapter in frontline warfare. It
was a drone only attack, and they opened the story
with a four wheel drone turned through the mud towards
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its target, a Russian bunker, where eventually it arrived and exploded.
More drones followed. Some moved on land, including ones mounted
with machine guns or packed with explosives. Others came by air,
dropping munitions and providing a view of the battlefield. The
attack by the Ukrainians in December coordinated unmanned land and
aerial vehicles on a scale that hadn't previously be done
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been done, marking the new chapter of warfare where humans
are largely removed from the front lines of the battlefield,
at least in the opening stages.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
That is interesting. I mean, obviously we're a long way
from there, as you see the meat grinder that is
the war in Ukraine, But how would you judge wars
at that point?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Would what would the news be? Every day.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
We we we caused the enemy to lose three thousand
autonomous vehicles yesterday while we only lost one hundred or
something worth.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Eight point seven billion dollars or something.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Be all about how much money and innovation you have,
I guess, and manufacturing capacity.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Back to that topic, because control of the sea lanes
of the world is one of the greatest benefits nobody
ever thinks about in the post World War two piece
of prosperity we were describing earlier. You can ship stuff
everywhere fairly, safely, and that has lifted billions of people
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out of poverty. And global trade, you know, the upside
of global trade has been absolutely fantastic. But if China decides, yeah,
we're gonna extort you for all these concessions and that
country and that land by not letting you ship any
of your goods until we say you can, the only
way to clear out those sea lanes again is by force,
and that's probably going to be sea drones, drone warfare again.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
While we're talking war. Briefly, the president of the United
States and the dictator of Russia are on the phone
together Putin and Trump talking about ceasefire, which I imagine
is seeing if there are any concessions Putin's willing to
make or whatever. Well Ian Bremer was writing about that yesterday.
I thought this was kind of interesting. Zero chance Ukraine
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gets Crimea back, and Zelenskin knows that in GMA rights.
What differentiate differentiates Crimea from other chunks of Ukraine is
it is a former autonomous republic with its own I
didn't know this with its own parliament, internal policy, so
it it operates kind of with his own government, even
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as they say, And it has a Russian majority population
that speaks Russian, which is different from the rest of
Ukraine that can't make that claim. So it's definitely easier
for Putin to make the argument that it should be
part of Russia. You do, you shouldn't be able to
take it by tanks and killing people, but they did.
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But there seems to be agreement that crime is gone.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I just hope Trump is fully cognizant that Putin is
that not there to negotiate, He's there to manipulate, and
and I think he is utterly, you know, divorced from
Putin's soul.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't I don't think I don't think that. I
don't think Trump's naive to that at all. I'm good.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I know that's a common critique, but I don't think
he's naive to it at all. My concern is he
doesn't care. He just doesn't care how much Putin gets.
He doesn't see that as a a message for the world,
or a precedent setting problem or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I have slight concern that Trump wants the deal more
than Putin does, and that's a bad bargaining physician to
be in. But again, Trump is obviously being very mysterious
about his means and goals here other than just stopping
the killing.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So and I won't prejudge. He did mention at least.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
A couple of times on the campaign trail, you know,
of telling Putin, you know, we'll arm Ukraine like we've
never armed him before.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's possibly he says that to Putin.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Look, I've been saying nice things to you, I've been
on the sidelines, but if you don't come to some
sort of agreement, we're gonna have to arm the heck
out of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah. I don't know, it's possible. It is possible.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Gender bending madness update, babies and basketballs stay with us,
and dwarf abuse from the Snow White movie.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh No, stay tuned for front of That came across
some recent Gallup polling. I want to get to at
some point, views young people have about the United States,
their confidence in having a good life, finding a house,
getting ahead, our judicial system, our politics, all these different
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sorts of things in the toilet. By the way, for
young people, everything's in the toilet. Well, they've been brought
up to hate their own country. It's not shocking.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, we'll talk about that, but first, it's a gender
bending madness update. You've never heard of Minas Fared and
Mei of Vie, but I will quote her in a
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recent piece. It's been three years since swimmer Leah tom
Us Born William won the gold medal in the five
hundred yard freestyle at the NC DOUBLEA Division one Women's Championship,
wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's funny because that's a dude. That's weird anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It wasn't until the release of President Trump's February five
Executive Order keeping Men out of women's sports, the US
government established a clear policy protecting female athletics.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
This is personal, she writes. Well, she writes, male competitors should.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Be removed and the rank of affected women increased accordingly
to in past competitions. She says this is personal. In
twenty nineteen, when I was a sophomore at East Texas
A and M University, I was assigned second place in
the finals of the NC DOUBLEA Division two women's four
hundred meter hurdles. The video from that event shows me
racing in lane eight. In lane four is c. C.
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Telfer of Franklin Pearce University, who competed for that school's
men's team the previous two years. Craig Telfer ranked three
hundred and ninetieth among NC DOUBLEA Division two men.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Cc Telfer just destroyed the women's field and crossed the
finish line almost two seconds before me, becoming the first
known transgender identified athlete to win at NC double A title.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now was what year that? That is the first time
that happened? Twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Okay, that made me the first collegiate woman to be
told her victory was worth less than a man's feelings.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I cried a lot that day. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It is pretty good. Yeah, that's it. Riley Gaines has
said similar stuff. I cried a lot that day, not
because I lost, but because of how I lost, I
know I wasn't the only victim. Every time a male
athlete enters a female competition, a woman gets cut from
the roster to make room. Men have enormous athletic advantages
over women, which is why she's the hurdler. Remember, women's
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hurdles are nine inches shorter than men's. Know that Olympic
gold well and winning times for men's four hundred meters
are five seconds faster than for women. That's a difference
of ten percent, an eternity in this kind of sport. Sure,
then she gets to the uncomfortable truth. I'm a people
pleaser and I don't like to upset peace people, a
stereotypical female quality that transactivists often exploit to suppressed assent.
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Took me a year before I found the nerve to
post about my feelings. When CC Telfer alerted supporters to
my post, I was denounced as a transphobe and racist,
and received harassment and threats you people are crazy, Yeah,
no kidding. Telfer went on to write a book and
was profiled by The New York Times magazine in a
lengthy article titled for My People. A transgender woman pursues
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an Olympic dream, which collapsed when he failed a testosterone test.
I don't expect, she writes, I'll ever be profiled in
a fawning magazine feature. But I did accomplish one thing
that will always fill me with pride. In twenty nineteen,
I was the fastest female four hundred meters hurtler at
any NCAA Division two school. It's been five years since
that honor was stolen from me. I want it back.
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I am going to spend my time for the next
several days seeing if I can get something going to
get this woman her medal. I'm disgusted by that story.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Moving along.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Great piece in the California Globe about here's a headline.
This is actually from ABC. California resists Trump's order banning
transgender women and girls in sports. The Calistornia California Interscholastic
Federation has said they plan on continuing to follow California
law which allows.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Dudes to play in girls and women's sports.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Mister President, if you get a chance to turn your
attention this way, we certainly would appreciate it. Lasses consistent
with their gender identity. So you call yourself a girl,
you're a girl women's basketball team from a Christian college
in Canada is battled back against stifling outs to win
its championship after being sanctioned by the league for opposing
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transgender athletes.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They refuse to play this. What's the other name of
the school?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, it doesn't matter, oh, Vancouver Island University, because they
had a dude on the team. The dude, by the way,
let's see where is it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The dude was.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
All Conference for the second year in a row, and
indeed was the player of the year in the league
last year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Wow, what is the matter with you? Pete? But trans
women are women, so it's okay. It's not that it's
a dude. They're the best player. We better give the
award because we're terrified.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So in most of these places, like if you stood
up in the stands at a basketball game or someplace
like when it's quiet and said, hey, that's a guy
out there, would people boo you and throw things at you?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Where people would cheer you? I don't even actually know.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I always assume people would cheer for somebody standing up
and saying what is obviously true.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But I sorry, I said the dude was all conference.
He was all Canadian for the second year in a
row and the player of the year in the conference.
To your question, I think you would have far more
people jump up and shout that they're with you, especially
now two years ago when everybody's terrified of the woke thing,
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not so much right now.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You would get lots of support.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
We didn't get to hospitals telling new asking newborns what
their pronouns are.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Maybe later on. You can't ask a newborn anything, and
you can ask Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
An early opening day for Major League Baseball was show
Hey Otani and the Dodgers taking on the Cubs in
Tokyo this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, the rest of the league is still in spring training.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And show hey Otani, we heard a base hit. So
the Tokyo crowd getting with the show is yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Shows We are pointing out earlier there is a time
change between Tokyo and the United States, and that in
the United States it's May eighteenth, but in Tokyo it's
April first, and they had opening day of Major League
Baseball two weeks before the rest of the league.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yes, I have checked in with a league source.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Show hey Otani is my golf buddy, and yes it
is an official first game of Thegular season, two weeks
before the regular season starts at three am American time
in Tokyo. Can you imagine trying to hit a major
league fastball when you've just been somewhere for a couple
of days and it's three o'clock in the morning, according
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to your body and your brain.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now, I saw something on a headline that when they
introduced Shoho Tani, the crowd stayed silent, like they're angry
that he left Japan or I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I'll have to read up on it could be. I suppose,
I don't know. So we have.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Plenty of real important things to talk about, like no
actual human little people in the new snow White movie,
which has be ble outraged apparently or something. No, well,
it's got some little people outraged, I guess. So this
is I came across this in the Financial Times. It's
Gallup polling views of young people in the United States
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on many aspects of balitics, society and well being have
deteriorated over the last several years. Now it's going back
to who looks like two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Looking at this.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Chart confidence in the judicial system. This is true for
all Americans, not just young people. So we're talking about
people fifteen to twenty nine years of age, under the
age of thirty, but starting at fifteen. I don't know
why you poll a fifteen year old's attitude on anything.
You are a child. I have a fifteen year old.
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He has not got a lot of life perspective on
any of these things, and his.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Attitudes are a young person. Any young person's attitudes are
likely to be completely different in two and a half.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Weeks, right anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Confidence in the judicial system has gone from looks like
about sixty five percent to way down.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Below fifty down in the forties.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
So that's not good, but that's true for all Americans.
And we've got both parties to blame for that, both
presidents attacking the Supreme Court regularly, and that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
None of that's good, but some of the other things good.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Four R housing in cities has gone from about two
thirds of young people had a positive view of this
to well below forty. Confidence in national government has gone
from well above fifty down to around thirty percent. Of course,
that fits in with a lot of the rest of
the country too. Here's an interesting question. I don't know
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if anybody's ever asked me before rate your satisfaction with
freedom in your life?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What would you say to that? I don't know where
I would be.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Wow, I mean compared to the rest of the world,
I'm pretty happy. Compared to what I think it used
to be in the United States, I'm not as happy, right,
which is what they're asking. Yeah, I mean it's still
quite good.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, listen to this.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It has gone from damn near ninety percent in the
early two thousands to still a high number, but about
seventy percent, which dropped twenty points.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I would love to drill down on those attitudes and
now just ask a bunch of questions of the youngsters.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I would too.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
It's not good because you don't want people with that
feeling because that's going to play out in their politics.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah. Well, two sides to that coin.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
To me. Number one, if you have a bunch of
young people who are saying, hey, I want more liberty,
well amen to that, friends. I mean, as long as
it's within the bounds of the law and decency. If
you're a lover of liberty, well great, that's super. On
the other hand, you also have the indoctrination, which happens
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in a lot of America's government schools that are teaching
kids you have the right to housing, you have the
right to food, you have the right to medical insurance,
the rest of it, and maybe they think, oh, and
I'm sorry. A better way to express it was and
Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt tried to get this going too. How
about the freedom from hunger right, the freedom from homelessness,
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the freedom from fear.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
That you won't be able to make a living. I
want those freedoms.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
If they mean that, I'd like to slap them around,
tell them they're tough enough.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I can show your soul's desire for freedom. Yeah, exactly,
Thank you, Shijhin Ping.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
But I think it's pretty interesting that not that many
years ago we had ninety percent of young people walking
around saying, hey, I'm satisfied with freedom. Ninety that's awesome.
But a twenty point drop in not very many years
is not good?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is it that? The kids?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, when I went off to college, I had
so much freedom. I was so happy I couldn't even
stand it. But these kids have the snowplow parents, the
helicopter parents. I notice you aren't up yet. You have
class at nine o'clock and being micromanaged on campus and
criticized for saying, hey, I think Trump's right about immigration.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Maybe it's legitimate an a legitimate expression of their declining life.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Liberty.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Boy, I did one of those the other day, and
I'm so embarrassed about it. Oh so embarrassed about it.
Maybe i'll talk about that on the air. Well, you
don't have a college kid, though, No, as a high
school kid that I should have at least according to
the coach apparently should have had him deal with it
and not me, And I am embarrassed. I kind of
got oh mini lectured about it. So oh yeah, and
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it's embarrassing. I thought I was doing the right thing. Ay,
appreciate the coach. Yeah, maybe I'll talk about that in
a way. Okay, But we've always liked this questioning gallup.
It's about whether you're thriving or not. And that's not
a word I ever use in my life.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So judging once every six months, would I describe myself
as thriving?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
All right?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Judging whether I'm thriving or not seems weird since I
never liked why I don't use that term. But on
their scale, so the question is what are your expectation
expectations for life in five years time? So five years
from now are your expectations for life? You know, ten's good,
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zero's horrible. Where are you on the scale? And I
don't even know how I would answer that myself. I
actually guess I would be I might even be a ten.
I don't know. I think I'm a ten. My expectations
for life in five years are a ten? I think, yeah,
it would be high ish, pretty high, I guess.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Anyway, it's gone from for young people, so you're fifteen,
your expectations for when you're twenty, you're twenty two, your
expectations from your twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I think my number would have been really high then too.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
But it's gone from about nine, which is pretty high
in the early two thousands, down to below eight. And
the count eight is thriving, so below thriving, sub thriving level. Yes,
So what is necessarily high? Well, it's below And I
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don't know how they came to that number at gallop.
Maybe I'll read up on that. Maybe there's something to
do with a psychologists or something like that.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But how do you have such a drop.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Among people between fifteen and twenty nine of their expectations
for their life in the next five years. Maybe both
parties telling you everything's going to hell of the time.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't know. Yeah, that's part of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The increase in standards of living has leveled off. Housing
costs are expensive, that sort of thing, even adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And you know me, I can't. I'm just thinking of myself.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
If I was going to be in a crappy apartment
with four other dudes sharing rent, I still considered it thriving.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
This is awesome, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Could it be the never ending indoctrination in government schools
that this is a crappy country, The idea that you
can work hard and get ahead is a lie. And
the American dream is dead because it was founded on
races and still racist. And the patriarchy you'll keep you down.
And if you happen to be somebody who's not a
victim of the patriarchy, that's because you are the patriarchy
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and you're an evil person and everybody in class hates you.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I hate to be so cookie cutter, kind of predictable
here talk radio, but I think this is it. I
think the public schools telling you that were the most
racist we've ever been, and climate change is destroying the earth,
and the American dream is a lie, and the American
dream is a lie built on racism, which they're actually
teaching the sixteen nineteen project, that's the whole point of it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Are teaching that in some schools.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, why would you have expectations that things are going
to be great in five years? You're told every day
by somebody you will respect an adult, that things are
going to hell.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
If you are taught.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Every day the value of mathematics and how to do maths,
you can get better at math. Likewise English or woodworking
for that matter. I don't think it's cookie cutter and
obvious at all to point out what is clearly true.
We indoctrinate these kids on a near daily basis to
hate their country, and they hate their country.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I wonder where that came from.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So there's only one number that's going up out of
these six graphs that they have here in the Financial
Times from the Gallop polling, and it is did you
experience stress yesterday? That number has gone up from around
forty percent. And God, you talk about something that's in
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the eye of the beholder. You could, depending on where
you're going to put the bar for stress, I could
say yes every day of my life or no, practically
every day of my life.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I have no memory of how I define that term
in my head at age sixteen.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
No, I don't either, and I even sure how I've
determined it most days today. But like nobody's going to
try to kill me today, nobody's going to drop a bomb.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
On my house.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I don't have that stress. I don't live in Ukraine.
But it went from well below fifty to up around
seventy percent now experienced stress yesterday. Well that's another somewhat
learned thing that we're We have teachers at every level
trying to convince you you should be stressed because again
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we're structurally racist, and the world is coming to an
end because of climate change, and your evil parents aren't
willing to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, I mean, I think the never
ending inputs of the internet and social media have have
got people feeling more stressed too, because we don't have
time to daydream and let our thoughts get structured the
way any neuroscientist would tell you have to.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That's right, we didn't even bring up the.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
This chart starts about the time smartphones hit the land,
So yeah, you got to factor that into absolutely any
Any look at society that doesn't look like at two
thousand and eight as a major change in world history
is just doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Right, they're fools.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, well, let's see now, Oh, twenty four hours a day,
the entire world can weigh in on whether I'm a
worthy person or not via the Internet and social media.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm a little stressed. That's a good point. Thank wow,
here all week. What does that mean for humankind? And
that's a pretty big change in a short amount of time.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Let's see, people are miserable, and they're not coupling, and
they're not having babies.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
They're not optimistic about the future. They think it's only good.
They're miserable now and think it's gonna get worse. It's
really a bad point. There are great games you can play.
Well you wait for the bus. Yeah, it's a positive.
My my attitude is I'm not happy right now, and
I believe five years from now it'll be even worse.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That is the typically impossible.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh and I've been taught that because a climate change
will all be on fire or drowning or maybe both,
which is hard to explain.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Any comments on this text line four one five two
nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Magic Mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of
them all? Fame is thy beauty, majesty, a lovely maiden.
I now behold, I look at you, and I just
want to be the fairest of them all.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
So that's from the new live action snow White. I
gotta admit I don't remember all my uh those stories
like which ones which? So mirror Mirror on the wall
is snow White ye? And then you got yarbs and
then you're riding a pumpkin on that one. That's Cinderella
to me.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They're defining characteristic is not their physical statue, Jack, but
they're hardworking miners.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
But what's the story arc in snow White? Briefly, she's
a gets and she gets poisoned, that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
By the queen because she's hotter than the queen. Meanwhile,
the prince who's looking for snow White because he saw
her and she's beautiful and he wants to you don't
take her for coffee and see if sparks fly comes
along and there she is asleep and he's like.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
His chick never wakes up.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
He kisses an unconscious woman. Kind of built Godsby's style
is what he does. Oh stop it, you're a monster.
You're like the annoying, annoying star of the new action
movie Rachel's Segler' about to read her.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Everybody.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yeah, so's, she says, the new star woman. I don't
care about I don't actually care about any of this,
but she says, the original cartoon came out in nineteen
thirty seven and there's a big focus on her love
story with a guy who literally stalks her.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So we didn't do that this time around.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
We wrote a snow white that's not going to be
saved by the prince, and she's not going to be
dreaming about true love. She's dreaming about becoming the leader
she knows she can be, and the leader that her
late father told her she could be if she was fearless, fair,
brave and true. And so it's really just an incredible
story for young people everywhere to see themselves in. And
because I became that's either actually controversial or it's not.
Movies always pretend things are controversial, and then find a
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way to get him into the press, and the main
thing being hey, there's a new snow.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
White movie out. That's the only thing they want you
to make sure you hear. Oh yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
On the other hand, it is undeniable that between woke
Disney and Lucasfilms, which has been taken over by a
bunch of woke you know, lame brains, every single movie
now is kick ass girl Boss takes charge and wins
the day because the stupid men are too stupid. And
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so this is just another kick ass girl Boss movie
using the clothes of like a very barely related to
old timey cartoon.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Uh yeah, I don't like, you know, disparaging just love
stories in general, Like that's somehow awful wanting to find
true love.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I mean, that's what we're built to do.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Every man and woman on Earth sets out on that path,
don't they, right?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Sure, Yeah, well it's you know, if you want to
be happy. It's like turning Dumbo into kick ass girl
Boss rescues African elephants in her brave fight against poachers.
Well that sounds like an interesting movie, but it's got
nothing to do with Dumbo.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Will there be any dudes in any of these that
aren't either big, hulking, dumb guys or evil somehow no, probably, no, no, no, no,
And then you got the whole dwarf thing. So Disney
decided to go CEEGI on the Dwarves. Now one of
the dudes who's voicing the dwarfs, Because even if you
have CGI, somebody has to do the voice of it.
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They actually hired a little person little people to do
the voice because in current woll Hollywood, you couldn't have
a what is the proper term, regular sized person full
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I don't want to be mean here, but I'm just.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Tall person do the voice of a dwarf because he'd
be I don't know that what that would be that
for some reason that's wrong.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
But you had statual appropriation.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
And Peter Dinklige, who's the most famous little person actor
of all time and terrific and terrific and uh, this
person says should be considered one of the top one
hundred actors of all time.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I don't know about that, but was unhappy man, But
you were in a Game of Thrones guy.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
He was fantastic in that.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I believe you, which is why. I don't know about that,
because I didn't see that. He he was unhappy that they,
you know, took jobs from seven little people that could
have had, you know, their big acting breakthrough or whatever.
The guy who's voicing it and is getting paid by
Disney and probably doesn't want to bad mouth the movie,
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he said, I understand completely the CGI. I mean, finding
seven little people who can act and have good chemistry
together is not super easy. I just think it'd just
be the CGI would be fantastic and awesome. And what's
the downside? That's the dry stil movies are going to go.
Probably I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Know, And returning to your beginning statement, I really don't care.
Plus I heard that Sneezey now takes flones and is
asked to be called Matthew because he doesn't sneeze anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
If you miss a second at the podcast Armstrong, you
get he on demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe, Getty arms Strong.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is something that is probably going to get worse
and worse. You know, we're going to continue to see
attacks by the Israelis. As you said, we've been hearing
extremely bellicost language, including from the Minister of Defense israel
Cats saying that they're going to rain hell on Hamas.
And you know, this really just goes to show there's
a big change here.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I hate to constantly harp on media coverage of stuff,
but Bella Coast language from the Israelis.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Nobody reports on Bella Cooast language from Hamas.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
They say all day, every day, we want every Jew
on planet Earth to be dead.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And that doesn't get because of language from the Israelis
saying they will take the initiative right because everybody's so
used to it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's just like baked in.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You get to you get to constantly, you know, promise
a thousand more October seventh, which means raping old women
and burning children, orbans and whatnot. And it's not considered
the ghost language for some reason. It's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, Jack, they're dying. They're dying. The mainstream meeting. Oh,
they're dying, Yeah, and deservedly so. Oh speaking which I
got a couple of really interesting defense related topics. But
did you have more on that topic?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
No? More on that later, I suppose Either way, I
don't care. It's okay. I was gonna say full confession.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yesterday we were talking about Saint Patrick's Day, among other things,
and I had no interest in it. The confession is,
most of Sunday night was dominated by taking my dog
to the emergency veterinarian hospital and we thought he was
gonna die, and then up very late and he was
funky all night, and it turns out they dialed in
his medicine and he's definitely in the part of his
life where we're keeping them comfortable, trying to keep them happy,
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but the clock's are ticking, and oh, what a hell
of a night. And so anyway, I was off my
game yesterday.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Not your main concern, but not an inexpensive thing to
do emergency vet care either.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, no, no, no, And I'm lucky I can afford it.
It's fine, but yes, just yeah, it's also gut wrenching
anybody wh's had a dog, That's what I'm talking about.
But interestingly, many many miles from the University of California Davis,
the fabulous veterinarian was a UC Davis grad and it's
the world standard right in veterinary care.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
And number one bet school and Planet Earth for quite
a while. Yeah, guy was so sharp, so good.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Anyway, back to matters military found this so interesting. Hit
you with a little of this yesterday, but it's worth
turning our attention to naval powers unquestionably going to be
a big part of military power in the twenty first century,
probably unmanned, at least to a large extent, unmanned.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
More on that to go.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yesterday we briefly mentioned how pathetic our position is is
the United States in shipbuilding these days, and I mentioned
that a report from the Center for Strategic and International
Studies said the Chinese BMUTH China State Shipbuilding Corporation built
more commercial vessels by tonnage last year than the US
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is built since the end of World War Two.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
That is almost impossible to believe that it's true.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, Now, if I were to be just a teeny
bit of a skeptic. Our shipbuilding capacity is pathetic right now.
But we had a ginormous navy at the end of
World War Two and have mostly been tapering it down
and then replacing it as needed, whereas China had, you know,
re junks in a fishing boat with a handgun.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, I remember it was wasn't that long ago, and
China got their first aircraft carrier, right right, So you know,
it's not quite as terrible as it sounds, but it's
pretty terrible, as is this Rich Lowry Yeah, points out
in the National Review, the US commercial shipbuilding sector has
one tenth of or percent of the global market in shipbuilding,
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the greatest.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Manufacturer ever seen on Earth. We hardly build ships at all.
We've got a couple of decent shipyards, but they're undermanned.
They can't find people to work there, and we the
United States, depend on South Korea for a lot of
our shipbuilding, which is fine if you have a seventy
year long post WW two stretch of peace and prosperity.
(04:50):
But the minute you don't man you are in a
serious world of hurt. Let me scroll ahead here. Midway,
the Great Battle of Midway was an important battle We
built seventeen major aircraft carriers after that battle, while the
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Japanese built six, and we built our way to victory.
In a lot of ways, the German Messerschmidts were better
airplanes than are. What was the best plane at the time,
was it the Mustang or I'm not an aircraft expert
by any means, but they had better planes. We could
just make a hell of a lot more of them,
and so that's been one of our great strengths. But
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President Trump, Toho his credit is reportedly fixated on the
issue and is sending his Naval Secretary nominee at this
point images of rusted US hulls at all hours, saying
when are we going to deal with this? How are
we going to deal with this? Which I think is great.
But one estimate is that the Chinese currently have two
hundred and thirty times the US shipbuilding capacity they are
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and you remember we outbuilt to Japanese seventeen to six
after the Battle of Midway, and that's part of the reason,
one of the reasons we won. As Rich points out,
one way to look at it is that the Chinese
are closer to our production capacity in World War Two,
and we are closer to that of Japan at best,
maybe even weaker anyway, So that's an urgent thing. And
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then to the unmanned deal. I thought this was so
interesting the Wall Street Journal an all robot assault in
Ukraine has opened a new chapter in frontline warfare. It
was a drone only attack, and they opened the story
with a four wheel drone turned through the mud towards
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its target, a Russian bunker, where eventually it arrived and exploded.
More drones followed. Some moved on land, including ones mounted
with machine guns or packed with explosives. Others came by air,
dropping munitions and providing a view of the battlefield. The
attack by the Ukrainians in December coordinated unmanned land and
aerial vehicles on a scale that hadn't previously be done
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been done, marking the new chapter of warfare where humans
are largely removed from the front lines of the battlefield,
at least in the opening stages.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
That is interesting. I mean, obviously we're a long way
from there, as you see the meat grinder that is
the war in Ukraine, But how would you judge wars
at that point?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Would what would the news be? Every day.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
We we we caused the enemy to lose three thousand
autonomous vehicles yesterday while we only lost one hundred or
something worth.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Eight point seven billion dollars or something.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Be all about how much money and innovation you have,
I guess, and manufacturing capacity.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Back to that topic, because control of the sea lanes
of the world is one of the greatest benefits nobody
ever thinks about in the post World War two piece
of prosperity we were describing earlier. You can ship stuff
everywhere fairly, safely, and that has lifted billions of people
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out of poverty. And global trade, you know, the upside
of global trade has been absolutely fantastic. But if China decides, yeah,
we're gonna extort you for all these concessions and that
country and that land by not letting you ship any
of your goods until we say you can, the only
way to clear out those sea lanes again is by force,
and that's probably going to be sea drones, drone warfare again.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
While we're talking war. Briefly, the president of the United
States and the dictator of Russia are on the phone
together Putin and Trump talking about ceasefire, which I imagine
is seeing if there are any concessions Putin's willing to
make or whatever. Well Ian Bremer was writing about that yesterday.
I thought this was kind of interesting. Zero chance Ukraine
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gets Crimea back, and Zelenskin knows that in GMA rights.
What differentiate differentiates Crimea from other chunks of Ukraine is
it is a former autonomous republic with its own I
didn't know this with its own parliament, internal policy, so
it it operates kind of with his own government, even
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as they say, And it has a Russian majority population
that speaks Russian, which is different from the rest of
Ukraine that can't make that claim. So it's definitely easier
for Putin to make the argument that it should be
part of Russia. You do, you shouldn't be able to
take it by tanks and killing people, but they did.
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But there seems to be agreement that crime is gone.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I just hope Trump is fully cognizant that Putin is
that not there to negotiate, He's there to manipulate, and
and I think he is utterly, you know, divorced from
Putin's soul.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't I don't think I don't think that. I
don't think Trump's naive to that at all. I'm good.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I know that's a common critique, but I don't think
he's naive to it at all. My concern is he
doesn't care. He just doesn't care how much Putin gets.
He doesn't see that as a a message for the world,
or a precedent setting problem or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I have slight concern that Trump wants the deal more
than Putin does, and that's a bad bargaining physician to
be in. But again, Trump is obviously being very mysterious
about his means and goals here other than just stopping
the killing.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So and I won't prejudge. He did mention at least.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
A couple of times on the campaign trail, you know,
of telling Putin, you know, we'll arm Ukraine like we've
never armed him before.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's possibly he says that to Putin.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Look, I've been saying nice things to you, I've been
on the sidelines, but if you don't come to some
sort of agreement, we're gonna have to arm the heck
out of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah. I don't know, it's possible. It is possible.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Gender bending madness update, babies and basketballs stay with us,
and dwarf abuse from the Snow White movie.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh No, stay tuned for front of That came across
some recent Gallup polling. I want to get to at
some point, views young people have about the United States,
their confidence in having a good life, finding a house,
getting ahead, our judicial system, our politics, all these different
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sorts of things in the toilet. By the way, for
young people, everything's in the toilet. Well, they've been brought
up to hate their own country. It's not shocking.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, we'll talk about that, but first, it's a gender
bending madness update. You've never heard of Minas Fared and
Mei of Vie, but I will quote her in a
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recent piece. It's been three years since swimmer Leah tom
Us Born William won the gold medal in the five
hundred yard freestyle at the NC DOUBLEA Division one Women's Championship,
wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
That's funny because that's a dude. That's weird anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It wasn't until the release of President Trump's February five
Executive Order keeping Men out of women's sports, the US
government established a clear policy protecting female athletics.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
This is personal, she writes. Well, she writes, male competitors should.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Be removed and the rank of affected women increased accordingly
to in past competitions. She says this is personal. In
twenty nineteen, when I was a sophomore at East Texas
A and M University, I was assigned second place in
the finals of the NC DOUBLEA Division two women's four
hundred meter hurdles. The video from that event shows me
racing in lane eight. In lane four is c. C.
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Telfer of Franklin Pearce University, who competed for that school's
men's team the previous two years. Craig Telfer ranked three
hundred and ninetieth among NC DOUBLEA Division two men.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Cc Telfer just destroyed the women's field and crossed the
finish line almost two seconds before me, becoming the first
known transgender identified athlete to win at NC double A title.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Now was what year that? That is the first time
that happened? Twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Okay, that made me the first collegiate woman to be
told her victory was worth less than a man's feelings.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I cried a lot that day. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
It is pretty good. Yeah, that's it. Riley Gaines has
said similar stuff. I cried a lot that day, not
because I lost, but because of how I lost, I
know I wasn't the only victim. Every time a male
athlete enters a female competition, a woman gets cut from
the roster to make room. Men have enormous athletic advantages
over women, which is why she's the hurdler. Remember, women's
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hurdles are nine inches shorter than men's. Know that Olympic
gold well and winning times for men's four hundred meters
are five seconds faster than for women. That's a difference
of ten percent, an eternity in this kind of sport. Sure,
then she gets to the uncomfortable truth. I'm a people
pleaser and I don't like to upset peace people, a
stereotypical female quality that transactivists often exploit to suppressed assent.
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Took me a year before I found the nerve to
post about my feelings. When CC Telfer alerted supporters to
my post, I was denounced as a transphobe and racist,
and received harassment and threats you people are crazy, Yeah,
no kidding. Telfer went on to write a book and
was profiled by The New York Times magazine in a
lengthy article titled for My People. A transgender woman pursues
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an Olympic dream, which collapsed when he failed a testosterone test.
I don't expect, she writes, I'll ever be profiled in
a fawning magazine feature. But I did accomplish one thing
that will always fill me with pride. In twenty nineteen,
I was the fastest female four hundred meters hurtler at
any NCAA Division two school. It's been five years since
that honor was stolen from me. I want it back.
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I am going to spend my time for the next
several days seeing if I can get something going to
get this woman her medal. I'm disgusted by that story.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Moving along.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Great piece in the California Globe about here's a headline.
This is actually from ABC. California resists Trump's order banning
transgender women and girls in sports. The Calistornia California Interscholastic
Federation has said they plan on continuing to follow California
law which allows.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Dudes to play in girls and women's sports.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Mister President, if you get a chance to turn your
attention this way, we certainly would appreciate it. Lasses consistent
with their gender identity. So you call yourself a girl,
you're a girl women's basketball team from a Christian college
in Canada is battled back against stifling outs to win
its championship after being sanctioned by the league for opposing
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transgender athletes.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
They refuse to play this. What's the other name of
the school?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, it doesn't matter, oh, Vancouver Island University, because they
had a dude on the team. The dude, by the way,
let's see where is it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The dude was.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
All Conference for the second year in a row, and
indeed was the player of the year in the league
last year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Wow, what is the matter with you? Pete? But trans
women are women, so it's okay. It's not that it's
a dude. They're the best player. We better give the
award because we're terrified.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So in most of these places, like if you stood
up in the stands at a basketball game or someplace
like when it's quiet and said, hey, that's a guy
out there, would people boo you and throw things at you?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Where people would cheer you? I don't even actually know.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I always assume people would cheer for somebody standing up
and saying what is obviously true.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But I sorry, I said the dude was all conference.
He was all Canadian for the second year in a
row and the player of the year in the conference.
To your question, I think you would have far more
people jump up and shout that they're with you, especially
now two years ago when everybody's terrified of the woke thing,
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not so much right now.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You would get lots of support.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
We didn't get to hospitals telling new asking newborns what
their pronouns are.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Maybe later on. You can't ask a newborn anything, and
you can ask Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
An early opening day for Major League Baseball was show
Hey Otani and the Dodgers taking on the Cubs in
Tokyo this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Well, the rest of the league is still in spring training.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And show hey Otani, we heard a base hit. So
the Tokyo crowd getting with the show is yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Shows We are pointing out earlier there is a time
change between Tokyo and the United States, and that in
the United States it's May eighteenth, but in Tokyo it's
April first, and they had opening day of Major League
Baseball two weeks before the rest of the league.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yes, I have checked in with a league source.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Show hey Otani is my golf buddy, and yes it
is an official first game of Thegular season, two weeks
before the regular season starts at three am American time
in Tokyo. Can you imagine trying to hit a major
league fastball when you've just been somewhere for a couple
of days and it's three o'clock in the morning, according
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to your body and your brain.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now, I saw something on a headline that when they
introduced Shoho Tani, the crowd stayed silent, like they're angry
that he left Japan or I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I'll have to read up on it could be. I suppose,
I don't know. So we have.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Plenty of real important things to talk about, like no
actual human little people in the new snow White movie,
which has be ble outraged apparently or something. No, well,
it's got some little people outraged, I guess. So this
is I came across this in the Financial Times. It's
Gallup polling views of young people in the United States
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on many aspects of balitics, society and well being have
deteriorated over the last several years. Now it's going back
to who looks like two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Looking at this.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Chart confidence in the judicial system. This is true for
all Americans, not just young people. So we're talking about
people fifteen to twenty nine years of age, under the
age of thirty, but starting at fifteen. I don't know
why you poll a fifteen year old's attitude on anything.
You are a child. I have a fifteen year old.
(19:24):
He has not got a lot of life perspective on
any of these things, and his.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Attitudes are a young person. Any young person's attitudes are
likely to be completely different in two and a half.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Weeks, right anyway.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Confidence in the judicial system has gone from looks like
about sixty five percent to way down.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Below fifty down in the forties.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
So that's not good, but that's true for all Americans.
And we've got both parties to blame for that, both
presidents attacking the Supreme Court regularly, and that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
None of that's good, but some of the other things good.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Four R housing in cities has gone from about two
thirds of young people had a positive view of this
to well below forty. Confidence in national government has gone
from well above fifty down to around thirty percent. Of course,
that fits in with a lot of the rest of
the country too. Here's an interesting question. I don't know
(20:23):
if anybody's ever asked me before rate your satisfaction with
freedom in your life?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What would you say to that? I don't know where
I would be.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Wow, I mean compared to the rest of the world,
I'm pretty happy. Compared to what I think it used
to be in the United States, I'm not as happy, right,
which is what they're asking. Yeah, I mean it's still
quite good.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Well, listen to this.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
It has gone from damn near ninety percent in the
early two thousands to still a high number, but about
seventy percent, which dropped twenty points.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I would love to drill down on those attitudes and
now just ask a bunch of questions of the youngsters.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I would too.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
It's not good because you don't want people with that
feeling because that's going to play out in their politics.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah. Well, two sides to that coin.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
To me. Number one, if you have a bunch of
young people who are saying, hey, I want more liberty,
well amen to that, friends. I mean, as long as
it's within the bounds of the law and decency. If
you're a lover of liberty, well great, that's super. On
the other hand, you also have the indoctrination, which happens
(21:38):
in a lot of America's government schools that are teaching
kids you have the right to housing, you have the
right to food, you have the right to medical insurance,
the rest of it, and maybe they think, oh, and
I'm sorry. A better way to express it was and
Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt tried to get this going too. How
about the freedom from hunger right, the freedom from homelessness,
(22:01):
the freedom from fear.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
That you won't be able to make a living. I
want those freedoms.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
If they mean that, I'd like to slap them around,
tell them they're tough enough.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I can show your soul's desire for freedom. Yeah, exactly,
Thank you, Shijhin Ping.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
But I think it's pretty interesting that not that many
years ago we had ninety percent of young people walking
around saying, hey, I'm satisfied with freedom. Ninety that's awesome.
But a twenty point drop in not very many years
is not good?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is it that? The kids?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean, when I went off to college, I had
so much freedom. I was so happy I couldn't even
stand it. But these kids have the snowplow parents, the
helicopter parents. I notice you aren't up yet. You have
class at nine o'clock and being micromanaged on campus and
criticized for saying, hey, I think Trump's right about immigration.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Maybe it's legitimate an a legitimate expression of their declining life.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Liberty.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Boy, I did one of those the other day, and
I'm so embarrassed about it. Oh so embarrassed about it.
Maybe i'll talk about that on the air. Well, you
don't have a college kid, though, No, as a high
school kid that I should have at least according to
the coach apparently should have had him deal with it
and not me, And I am embarrassed. I kind of
got oh mini lectured about it. So oh yeah, and
(23:26):
it's embarrassing. I thought I was doing the right thing. Ay,
appreciate the coach. Yeah, maybe I'll talk about that in
a way. Okay, But we've always liked this questioning gallup.
It's about whether you're thriving or not. And that's not
a word I ever use in my life.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
So judging once every six months, would I describe myself
as thriving?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
All right?
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Judging whether I'm thriving or not seems weird since I
never liked why I don't use that term. But on
their scale, so the question is what are your expectation
expectations for life in five years time? So five years
from now are your expectations for life? You know, ten's good,
(24:07):
zero's horrible. Where are you on the scale? And I
don't even know how I would answer that myself. I
actually guess I would be I might even be a ten.
I don't know. I think I'm a ten. My expectations
for life in five years are a ten? I think, yeah,
it would be high ish, pretty high, I guess.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Anyway, it's gone from for young people, so you're fifteen,
your expectations for when you're twenty, you're twenty two, your
expectations from your twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I think my number would have been really high then too.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
But it's gone from about nine, which is pretty high
in the early two thousands, down to below eight. And
the count eight is thriving, so below thriving, sub thriving level. Yes,
So what is necessarily high? Well, it's below And I
(25:02):
don't know how they came to that number at gallop.
Maybe I'll read up on that. Maybe there's something to
do with a psychologists or something like that.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
But how do you have such a drop.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Among people between fifteen and twenty nine of their expectations
for their life in the next five years. Maybe both
parties telling you everything's going to hell of the time.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't know. Yeah, that's part of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The increase in standards of living has leveled off. Housing
costs are expensive, that sort of thing, even adjusted for inflation.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And you know me, I can't. I'm just thinking of myself.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
If I was going to be in a crappy apartment
with four other dudes sharing rent, I still considered it thriving.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
This is awesome, right, Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Could it be the never ending indoctrination in government schools
that this is a crappy country, The idea that you
can work hard and get ahead is a lie. And
the American dream is dead because it was founded on
races and still racist. And the patriarchy you'll keep you down.
And if you happen to be somebody who's not a
victim of the patriarchy, that's because you are the patriarchy
(26:08):
and you're an evil person and everybody in class hates you.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I hate to be so cookie cutter, kind of predictable
here talk radio, but I think this is it. I
think the public schools telling you that were the most
racist we've ever been, and climate change is destroying the earth,
and the American dream is a lie, and the American
dream is a lie built on racism, which they're actually
teaching the sixteen nineteen project, that's the whole point of it.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Are teaching that in some schools.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, why would you have expectations that things are going
to be great in five years? You're told every day
by somebody you will respect an adult, that things are
going to hell.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
If you are taught.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Every day the value of mathematics and how to do maths,
you can get better at math. Likewise English or woodworking
for that matter. I don't think it's cookie cutter and
obvious at all to point out what is clearly true.
We indoctrinate these kids on a near daily basis to
hate their country, and they hate their country.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I wonder where that came from.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
So there's only one number that's going up out of
these six graphs that they have here in the Financial
Times from the Gallop polling, and it is did you
experience stress yesterday? That number has gone up from around
forty percent. And God, you talk about something that's in
(27:28):
the eye of the beholder. You could, depending on where
you're going to put the bar for stress, I could
say yes every day of my life or no, practically
every day of my life.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I have no memory of how I define that term
in my head at age sixteen.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
No, I don't either, and I even sure how I've
determined it most days today. But like nobody's going to
try to kill me today, nobody's going to drop a bomb.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
On my house.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I don't have that stress. I don't live in Ukraine.
But it went from well below fifty to up around
seventy percent now experienced stress yesterday. Well that's another somewhat
learned thing that we're We have teachers at every level
trying to convince you you should be stressed because again
(28:14):
we're structurally racist, and the world is coming to an
end because of climate change, and your evil parents aren't
willing to do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, I mean, I think the never
ending inputs of the internet and social media have have
got people feeling more stressed too, because we don't have
time to daydream and let our thoughts get structured the
way any neuroscientist would tell you have to.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That's right, we didn't even bring up the.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
This chart starts about the time smartphones hit the land,
So yeah, you got to factor that into absolutely any
Any look at society that doesn't look like at two
thousand and eight as a major change in world history
is just doing it wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Right, they're fools.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, well, let's see now, Oh, twenty four hours a day,
the entire world can weigh in on whether I'm a
worthy person or not via the Internet and social media.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm a little stressed. That's a good point. Thank wow,
here all week. What does that mean for humankind? And
that's a pretty big change in a short amount of time.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Let's see, people are miserable, and they're not coupling, and
they're not having babies.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
They're not optimistic about the future. They think it's only good.
They're miserable now and think it's gonna get worse. It's
really a bad point. There are great games you can play.
Well you wait for the bus. Yeah, it's a positive.
My my attitude is I'm not happy right now, and
I believe five years from now it'll be even worse.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That is the typically impossible.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh and I've been taught that because a climate change
will all be on fire or drowning or maybe both,
which is hard to explain.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Any comments on this text line four one five two
nine five KFTC.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Magic Mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of
them all? Fame is thy beauty, majesty, a lovely maiden.
I now behold, I look at you, and I just
want to be the fairest of them all.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
So that's from the new live action snow White. I
gotta admit I don't remember all my uh those stories
like which ones which? So mirror Mirror on the wall
is snow White ye? And then you got yarbs and
then you're riding a pumpkin on that one. That's Cinderella
to me.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
They're defining characteristic is not their physical statue, Jack, but
they're hardworking miners.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
But what's the story arc in snow White? Briefly, she's
a gets and she gets poisoned, that's it.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
By the queen because she's hotter than the queen. Meanwhile,
the prince who's looking for snow White because he saw
her and she's beautiful and he wants to you don't
take her for coffee and see if sparks fly comes
along and there she is asleep and he's like.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
His chick never wakes up.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
He kisses an unconscious woman. Kind of built Godsby's style
is what he does. Oh stop it, you're a monster.
You're like the annoying, annoying star of the new action
movie Rachel's Segler' about to read her.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Everybody.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yeah, so's, she says, the new star woman. I don't
care about I don't actually care about any of this,
but she says, the original cartoon came out in nineteen
thirty seven and there's a big focus on her love
story with a guy who literally stalks her.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So we didn't do that this time around.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
We wrote a snow white that's not going to be
saved by the prince, and she's not going to be
dreaming about true love. She's dreaming about becoming the leader
she knows she can be, and the leader that her
late father told her she could be if she was fearless, fair,
brave and true. And so it's really just an incredible
story for young people everywhere to see themselves in. And
because I became that's either actually controversial or it's not.
Movies always pretend things are controversial, and then find a
(32:09):
way to get him into the press, and the main
thing being hey, there's a new snow.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
White movie out. That's the only thing they want you
to make sure you hear. Oh yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
On the other hand, it is undeniable that between woke
Disney and Lucasfilms, which has been taken over by a
bunch of woke you know, lame brains, every single movie
now is kick ass girl Boss takes charge and wins
the day because the stupid men are too stupid. And
(32:40):
so this is just another kick ass girl Boss movie
using the clothes of like a very barely related to
old timey cartoon.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Uh yeah, I don't like, you know, disparaging just love
stories in general, Like that's somehow awful wanting to find
true love.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I mean, that's what we're built to do.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Every man and woman on Earth sets out on that path,
don't they, right?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Sure, Yeah, well it's you know, if you want to
be happy. It's like turning Dumbo into kick ass girl
Boss rescues African elephants in her brave fight against poachers.
Well that sounds like an interesting movie, but it's got
nothing to do with Dumbo.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Will there be any dudes in any of these that
aren't either big, hulking, dumb guys or evil somehow no, probably, no, no, no, no,
And then you got the whole dwarf thing. So Disney
decided to go CEEGI on the Dwarves. Now one of
the dudes who's voicing the dwarfs, Because even if you
have CGI, somebody has to do the voice of it.
(33:46):
They actually hired a little person little people to do
the voice because in current woll Hollywood, you couldn't have
a what is the proper term, regular sized person full
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I don't want to be mean here, but I'm just.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Tall person do the voice of a dwarf because he'd
be I don't know that what that would be that
for some reason that's wrong.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
But you had statual appropriation.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
And Peter Dinklige, who's the most famous little person actor
of all time and terrific and terrific and uh, this
person says should be considered one of the top one
hundred actors of all time.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I don't know about that, but was unhappy man, But
you were in a Game of Thrones guy.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
He was fantastic in that.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I believe you, which is why. I don't know about that,
because I didn't see that. He he was unhappy that they,
you know, took jobs from seven little people that could
have had, you know, their big acting breakthrough or whatever.
The guy who's voicing it and is getting paid by
Disney and probably doesn't want to bad mouth the movie,
(34:52):
he said, I understand completely the CGI. I mean, finding
seven little people who can act and have good chemistry
together is not super easy. I just think it'd just
be the CGI would be fantastic and awesome. And what's
the downside? That's the dry stil movies are going to go.
Probably I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Know, And returning to your beginning statement, I really don't care.
Plus I heard that Sneezey now takes flones and is
asked to be called Matthew because he doesn't sneeze anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
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