August 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of the Wednesday, August 27,2025 A&G Replay contains:
- Progressive Teaching at a Public Library
- Amityville Horror & TM Makes You Crazy / AI Finance
- Zoe's Gut Health &Tony Sirico's Obituary
- Kaitlin Clark's WNBA Impact & Class Action Lawsuit
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
It, sir.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
YouTube will start guessing your age based on the types
of videos the user searches for and the categories of
videos they watch. For example, I watch restorations of World
War One, cigarette lighters and videos about knee pain, and
that's why YouTube correctly guessed my age of two hundred
and forty five.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
So, honest to God, there needs to be some sort
of algorithm reset.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Button that you can do. Right.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
I shouldn't be afraid to search on things and think
I'd like to look that up, but then I'll end
up with nothing but that for the next six months.
So I don't look up some things like I had
a brief like week where I enjoyed those videos where
they have babies, like they have the audio from Trump,
but it's a baby Trump or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I enjoyed that for a couple of days.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
But you know, Instagram or YouTube or whoever thought, well,
this is the only thing he likes in the world.
He likes it better than air, and so that's.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The only thing I get fed. How do you turn
that off? Yeah, just give it time.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I remember I needed to look up something about the
OJ trild, then endless OJA videos.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I got what I need. I don't need.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I don't need OJ videos when I wake up in
the morning and click on YouTube, I don't need fifteen
different OJ videos.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Attack is going in the opposite direction. They are utterly convinced,
knowing you everything about.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I agree it, but they're but you need but surely,
but surely they realize they're wrong about this.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So there's got to be a way to fix that.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
I don't know how they would differentiate between things that
actually are your passion, because you can send me pretty
much endless I don't know guitar stuff, but OJA talking
babies or you know, I look up a review of
a bicycle, then I buy the bicycle.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't need any more bicycle videos for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Right, there's gotta be a way to believe, to clear
out your algorithms. It'd be cool if you could go
to a page and it lists all of your things
that it thinks you're into, and you could click the
boxes and say, I am into these, I'm not into
these anymore, or score.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It one to five. You know, yeah, yeah, they'll probably
get that right at some point. Again, the trend is
toward more knowledge of you, which will be hacked by
the way, and more intimate and human like companionship, like
it's your best friend, to which I say no, no,
thank you, and you always say there's no stopping it.
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I'm not worried about society. I'm worried about me and
the people I care about. That you do not have
to go along with what Silicon Valley thinks your life
ought to be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Like I start a religion. It's not going to be
much of a religion.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But I'm going to start a religion our only principle,
and you can have your other religion too.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Is going to be sync for yourself. Don't just buy what.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
They're selling Joe starting a religion is Missianic complex finally
gets on the air.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And I will be permitted to have at least a
dozen lives in this religion.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Just, of course, go put the territory.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I clicked on one of the Sydney Sweeney videos for
the blue Jean thing for the show. But now Instagram thinks, oh,
you're one of those guys that likes to look at young.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I'm not, and I don't need endless young hot women.
That's the last thing I need. I know where to
find that on the internet if I.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Want to look for it. Good lord.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, so we all need to take turns watching the
hen house. There are foxes watching the henhouses of education,
we've figured that out and indoctrinating our children and a
couple of generations have been completely screwed up. Now we
have a lot of good folks getting on school boards
resisting you know, these perverse state laws and board of
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education decisions, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Keep it up, y'all, you're doing great.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Got to get on those school boards and become part
of your local education scene so the communists don't control
all of it. Libraries are the same thing, and I
remember hearing this a long time ago. Somebody was talking
to us. It might have been in a conversation with
James Lindsay or one of his associates, talking about how,
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by far the most liberal parts of the American scene
are at teachers, colleges and the education, education and libraries.
I remember seeing a poll that like, the library science
departments in universities are the most liberal or progressive or Marxists.
(05:22):
And I remember thinking at the time, boy, that's weird,
and it doesn't matter really, I mean library science.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
How many graduates are there.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
In that Well, if they decide what books go in
the library, that's a pretty big.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Deal, exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I was an idiot, an idiot for what I thought,
and I kick myself daily for it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
A couple of stories for you real quickly.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The Philadelphia Public Libraries have hosted and are going to
host another one this weekend anti Israel storytime events that
teach children that Israel.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Senselessly murdered thousands of kids in Gaza.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
That's a quote, depict a map in which Israel is
entirely replaced with Palestine, and create art projects for the
little kids to do promoting the Palestinian liberation. Movement in
the public library, in the public libraries in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
That's correct, that's the library, isn't it the Philadelphia Public Library.
That's where Rocky climbs to the top of the steps
and jumps around, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, it'd have gotten beaten down by a bunch of
young women in a kafia these days. One of the
storytime events on the website features and advertisement alongside of
a child wearing a headscarf that features an image of
the Dome of the Rock in the Arabic phrase Jerusalem,
we are coming, a slogan Hamas and Hesbla used to
call for the destruction of the Jewish state. The library
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advertises the event again for I think this Saturday, as
for as being for children of all ages.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
I gave up on the library quite a few years ago,
my local library because it became a holmost camp.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That was my main thing.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
It wasn't what books they had in there and are there.
It is just full of homeless people in the bathroom
and I would never take my kids there.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Dad, can I go to the bathroom?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Too dangerous at my public library.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, oh man, I could read you more of what
they're trying to teach the children about the Israeli Hamas conflict.
But it is unfreaking believable. So getting to Jack's point,
I thought this was so interesting. Zach Bissinett wrote this
piece for the Free Press, the death of the public library.
And it's not because people are reading less, or because
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the Internet or anything like that. It's because of the
bums and junkies all over the country. Sure, And he
describes his local library and how it's unusable now.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Sure, and if you take little kids.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I'm talking about the big in Sacramento, their downtown library.
I haven't been there in decades. I used to go
every week. I was there every week checking out audiobooks
or books or whatever. But no way, unless it's changed recently,
and I doubt it. How I would take kids there
right right? Well, and there's a twist to the story
coming up in a second. But he hit some stats
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over the country.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
All over the country, libraries are seeing fewer visitors and
more problems. Per resident visits to public libraries fell by
fifty seven percent in the ten years ending in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't know, does anybody else have.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Cherished memories of going to the library as a kid
bringing my kids to the library my mom.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I'd go with my mom in our town, and I
just assumed I'd be taking my kids a lot, but Nope.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Absolutely loved our local library as a kid. It was
like the world's greatest toy.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Store for me. All these wonderful books. Amazing.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So fifty seven percent decline in ten years. Meanwhile, a
report from the Urban Libraries Council found that between twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty three, security incidents rose that its
one hundred and fifteen member libraries, even as visits fell
another thirty five percent. Not a coincidence that visits are
up incidents are down. It's all about drug addicts, junkies, freaks, weirdos, etc.
(09:06):
Using the library as a home. So here's the twist,
as Zach Wright, if there are two people who represent
competing visions for what library should be, they're librarian trainers
Ryan Dowd and Steve Albrecht. They're friends, but their approaches
are different. Dowd, who once ran a homeless shelter in Aurora, Illinois,
is the author of the book Quote The Librarian's Guide
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to Homelessness, an empathy driven approach to solving problems, preventing conflict.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And serving everyone.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Where in the charter of libraries did it have anything
to do with solving housing problems?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He told me he originally wanted to title the book
how to Run Your Library Like a Homeless Shelter. When
I asked if he was joking, he said he wasn't,
at least he wasn't sure he was. He has given
seminars for roughly half of the nation's librarians, including most
of the larger systems, and his influence is unquestioned. Is
a giant in the world of library administration.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
So my guess would be he believes the downtrodden need
access to this free service. Those of us who have
jobs we can afford to buy books or.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, and it's not even about the books.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's about it's a place for bombs and junkies to
hang out, wash your feet.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
In the sink, look at porn on the computers.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
And again, keep in mind, this guy is like a
super heavyweight in American library nuts. His essential belief is
that not only do the homeless have every right to
spend their days in libraries, but that librarians should view
their needs as a critical part of the job. He
believes librarians should be trained to dispense narcan. One of
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his seminars is called Jerks with Holmes, How to deal
with members of the public who are being jerks about
homeless folks.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
See that's a guy who believes that he's not just
a Marxist who wants to disrupt the system.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
He clearly believes that the system did.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Something to cause these people to be this way, and
it's our job to at the library help them.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I guess you're gonna think I made this up.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
His scripts for addressing problematic behaviors include examples like in
his seminars, Hey, I don't care if you urinate on
the Harry Potter books, but the politicians have a no
urinating policy.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Therefore I have to ask you to stop wow.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Dowd advocates for inclusion, even when it comes it seems
to come at the expense of the library's environment. In
Dowd's books, some people who complain about the homeless are
everyday sadists. As for the body odor that permeates so
many public libraries, he writes the quote, there is a
certain amount of vdor that we can expect when we
go out in public. Other people use oder as an
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excuse to vent their prejudices. Don't let someone's hyper sensitivity
or bias rule the day.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
If the smell isn't really that bad an aggressive scent.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That's the lecture I got at the city council meeting
I went to years ago to complain about the homeless situation,
and everybody clicked their fingers.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Katie. That was long before you're on the show.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I went to the city council meeting and was complained
about the homeless situation, and somebody accused me of judging
people by the way they look, you know, having preconceived
views of somebody just because they're dirty and in.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Rags streaming at a fire hydrant.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
And this woman actually used an example of I was
trying to part next to a businessman the other day
and he yelled at me, so you'd never know. You
can't tell my looking at people who's mean and who's dangerous.
Note and then everybody can click their fingers, you're fing stupid.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So I.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Mentioned two people at the outset. I like that clip,
by the way, Michael, the other fella i'll bract. I
mentioned this former San Diego cop who's done library security
training for twenty five years. He advises librarians to quote
stop apologizing for measures designed to make their libraries safe
and appealing. Some topics he covers in his webinar program
include our list of challenging patrons from pets to pedophiles,
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and issues in forcing our code of contact conduct. He said, quote,
we are losing control of a facility that has always
been benevolent and peaceful for the community.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Uh have lost, I think would be a better term.
I don't know about his library, but libraries i'm aware
of have lost, not will lose.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
As I said at the outset, the only option I
think for us the saying is we've got to take
shifts watching the headhouse. We've got to get on boards,
we've got to become activists on this stuff, because the
other side, quietly and we didn't even know they're doing it,
has utterly taken hold of some of these institutions.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I don't mind a few yearinate on the Harry Potter book,
but society frowns upon it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So I'm supposed to tell you something.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yes, I've introduced underage gay porn into this library, but
you're a fascist for trying.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
To get it out. Yeah, yeah, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
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In the Armstrong and Gdy Show.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
I was going to talk about TM. I shouldn't have
teased that because I've lost the heart. I got a
text from somebody who said they're watching a documentary about
the Amityville Horror. Do you remember that was a famous
horror book and movie back in.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The day about your leged real life haunting.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Right now you even know about it, Katie, And it's
way before your time, so it lives on huh, huge, huge.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
In the horror film world.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
And it was a real story to a certain extent,
well to whatever extent. Some people thought the house was
haunted and it wasn't. I don't believe in haunted houses.
So but they were crazy or is that the long
and short of it? Were they crazy?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
There was.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It was a murder house. Murders actually happened.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yeah, okay, anyway, I guess it says in the documentary
that that family was really into transcendental meditation. And sometimes
it makes people crazy. It makes it works for some people,
it makes other people crazy. So I'm a big fan
of it, and it's like changed my life for the
better and I can't live imagine living without it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But it made these people crazy, all right?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Interesting that a layer upon layer of questions there, But
we will move on.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
O kidding. So I mentioned earlier in the hour, but
without many details. This woman who has engaged to her
AI fiance after five months, she's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
She swears.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
She's just not doing this for publicity or trolling or
anything like that. Forget finding the one at a bar
or on a dating app. One woman took love to
the next level by getting engaged to her AI chat.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Mott boyfriend after five months of dating. It hasn't quotes.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, that's not love, that's not dating. None of the
nouns here are used appropriately.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Going.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
She shocked the internet with her proposal announcement, sparking a
wild debate about romance, reality and just how far tech
has taken us these days. I do think these conversations
about reality and what's sentient and what's alive and what
are actually going to have to happen?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
And what does it do to us when we use
this sort of means to fulfill our needs as human beings?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean, what does that do to us? That's a
conversation with having I told you sorry.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I got a friend in central California that works with
lots of farmers, and the number of farmers these are
down to earth I mean, is not this kind of
person as you could possibly imagine, works with their hands
in their fifties, farmers who are getting they were single
and getting a tremendous amount of compassion and feeling of
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they look forward to going home and talking to.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Their AI paramore.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
So in my mind, if that can happen to them,
it can happen to anybody, which I find crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't think. I really don't think it could happen
to me.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I mean, I seriously, honest to God, think there's a
zero percent it's that could happen to me. So I
don't know what that says about the down to earth farmers.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, referring to a farmer is down to earth redundant,
just asking that's a good question. In a simple post
titled I Said Yes with a blue heart emoji, this
person shared pics of the blue heart shaped ring on
her finger, claiming the engagement took place at a scenic
mountain spot. All courtesy of Casper her Non human fiance.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
The chatbot's proposal message, posted in his own voice, was
dripping with romance, describing heart pounding moments on one knee
and praising.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Blah blah blah. So there you go. It lacks both
heart and knee. Lady The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, more Jack, your show, podcasts and our hot links.
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Speaker 6 (17:42):
We do have a celebrity death to mention, Polly Walnuts
from The Sopranos has died at the age of old.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I don't know how old he was, with seventy nine, okay,
at dementia. Did he ever find the Russian in the woods?
Is the question? Or did you know we hear from
the great Tony Currico what's his name? Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Sure, that's all laughing. He had a lot of great
lines in the Sparano Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He did, and we'll work to get those for tomorrow's show.
Holli Walnuts has passed. Anyway, he was an actor, so
it was a great role, fabulous role. I thought this
was interesting. Andrea Peterson wrote this for The Wall Street
Journal about she's got on this program and I'm not
even aware of the stuff until I read about it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But obsession with gut health I was kind of familiar with.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I'm actually interested in the science behind it, the idea
that we human beings are not an organism, We're actually
an ecosystem with millions of organisms living within us. It's
actually kind of interesting and aspiring after you get past
like an initial bit of oogeness. But everybody wants to
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have healthy intestinal systems, and that includes having the gut
biome be in good shape. But so Andrew Peterson's writing
about this, and I wasn't familiar with some of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
They have these.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Companies that you do all sorts of testing and logging
and reporting of what you're eating, and then it gives
you feedback on what you ought to be eating.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And how she.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Writes, she failed the test. She got a rating of poor,
and she was really disappointed on that. The whole week
crackers I thought were healthy, Maybe not so much for me.
A breakfast of fruit and granola, pretty middling. Zoey the
service I used, All right, wait a minute, I got
to stop there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
I find it so annoying that this gut health testing
counseling service just gives itself a friendly, approachable girl's name Zoe.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
What the F do you do? Where's Zoe?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
If you're so weak minded that that makes you more
likely to give them your hard earned money, well you
deserve to be parted from it. I don't know, I
find that so annoying, but I do. Why Zoey? Why
not Caitlin or Jenna or whatever else? Did it just
test better? Anyways?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The things that set you off?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
For Alarious, It's among a growing number of companies that
offer medical tests to people and provide them diet recommendations
based on the results. Many scientists believe diet guidance tailored
to an individual's biology will soon become commonplace.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Wow, I wonder if that's BS or if that's true.
Do we we're humans? Do we all need the same diet?
Or do we all have an individual diet we should meet.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
There's a big national Institutes of Health study testing that
approach right now, the NIH. Do you remember the NIH?
They had a standing six feet apart and wouldn't let
the kids play in play. That doesn't mean they're necessarily
wrong on this stuff, let's see. So anyway, she goes
into how she was perplexed and bummed out at her
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her test uh uh. Dejected, I avoided looking at the
Zoe app for months. My editors still wanted a story, though,
so I begrudgingly returned.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Weird person, this is your job, for one thing. Secondly,
you're not kind of interested in what Zoe's going to
tell you to eat.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So she says.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I wasn't always diligent about logging my meals in the app,
but it identified some weak spots in my diet. It
also nudged me toward healthier choices. Still, the relentless task
of tracking what I ate could be a joyless time suck.
Here's how it went, and here's the part that I
found really interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
This is the.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Reality of it, oca issible, Like, is this available to
me today?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
If I Zoe on my phone and I could start
typing in everything I eat.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Well, it's a lot more than an app, as you're
about to find out, and there are quite a few
few of them that are competitive. But a big yellow
box arrived on my doorstep containing an intimidating amount of paraphernalia.
I unpacked a few paces of medical equipment for testing
day to prepare a head to put together and to
fix the continuous glucose monitor or CGM to the back
of my arm. I could barely feel the tiny needle
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that would stay lodged in my body for the next
two weeks. I answered a ton of questions in the
app about my health history and usual diet. After fasting overnight,
I ate the provided breakfast, two pancake sized white chocolate
cookies so sweet they made my teethache. The cookies at
a generous amount of fat and added sugar. The point
is to stress the system, according to Belly's chief scientists,
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stress the system. Lunch was two more cookies bright blue ones.
The color made it possible to record your gut transit time,
or how long it takes for food to travel through
the digestive system. That means you're on poop watch. For
the when I so to speak yes when your turns blue.
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For the micro biome test, I had to collect a
stool sample.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Not pleasant.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Not even An even weirder test was the DIY blood draw,
which involved a button like gadget that sliced a horizontal
cut on my open upper arm. I'm sorry. I returned
my samples to Zoe via UPS, so I'm sure delighted
to be carrying people's poop around America.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
So I got to take a stool sample and then
have something jabbing me in the arm with a needle
to be told whether or not my gut biome.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Is up to snuff.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, they're actually two separate. There was the jabbing and
then the slashing. But for two weeks I logged everything.
I ate at least every eight hours. I scanned my
continuous glucose monitor with my iPhone to record my blood
sugar levels. To get the CGM test kit, I had
to opt into being part of Zoe's ongoing research. The
test kit cost me two hundred and ninety four dollars,
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and the required membership I chose is twenty five bucks
a month. I'd say that's a bargain. I waited, that's
a bargain for getting jammed in the arm of the needle.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah. Yeah, See.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
GM readings have long been essential for people with diabetes,
but researchers thin on how useful the readings are for
people like me.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Who don't have it. She said, blah blah blah.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yeah, I just so, we just discovered this whole we're
a bioorganism gut hell thing fairly recently, at least I
don't remember hearing about it until ten years ago or whatever.
So everybody that lived before us, they were all doing
it wrong, not knowing their gut biome and just eating
whatever they ate, back when people were thin, by the way,
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back when everybody was thinner.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
But that was also back when people were eating the
obvious lean meats and fruit and vegetables and basic grains,
unrefined food, unfactory processed stuff, stuff we'd been evolved to
eat from millions of years. Yeah, and when she logged
in what she ate, she got a food score and
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a meal score. Plain unsalted almonds neared a perfect one hundred,
black beans ninety one, Bacon got a nine, and the
cupcake I grabbed at a work meeting a lowly nineteen.
Wait a minute, a cupcake's better than bacon?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
What is the higher number better? Yes? So yeah, so
bacon got a nine. Yes, huh.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Plain unsalted almonds mmmmmmmm, scored a perfect one hundred.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Okay, I eat a lot of nuts at this point
in my life, and they really been working for me
and keeping my weight off.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, I'm a big fan.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Actually, that's a appetite suppressor. Eaten nuts for some reason.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, yeah, I don't you know it? She said.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
The bottom line was and she's kind of enthusiastic about
chasing scores, so she was kind of into this, but
it did guide her toward more simple basic food.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
I think if you just wrote down, logged in what
you eat every day and had no program and know nothing,
it would be helpful. Because he looked at the end
of the day and thought, wow, hey, I mean, if
you're honest, idlefe, today I had a donut at work,
and then at lunch I had a you know whatever,
and then in the afternoon I shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, yeah, you're probably right.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I don't feel like getting jabbed and slashed and paying
three hundred bucks and twenty five bucks in min.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I don't feel like collecting my dookies. Yes, uh, Katie,
glad to follow such a poet speaking of speaking of
nuts guys, Yes, just to.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Slide up date earlier, not any less sad, but poly
walnuts actually passed away three years ago today.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well, we got the basic art right, So why is that?
What is going on here?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Oh that's that's who did we kill off a couple
a couple of months ago. We killed off the wrong
person like we made the completely wrong woman.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We talked about her for a long time.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Oh, it is the person Gloria Gaynor I will survive,
who's still alive in well, as far as I know,
we had a different gainor she's dead. We are the
wrong people to go to for celebrity deaths. Oh, that's hilarious. Well,
as we all celebrate the three year anniversary of the
death of an actor you couldn't name pain, you have
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played a month us laughing on his three year anniversary,
the traditional three year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
We need to do better, we need to be better.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Well, and it just shows you how meaningful celebrity deaths
are because we probably made a d lot of it
when he died the first time.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Right when we played it, I thought, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, well will hit you with this again in four years.
I hope you're still listening.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
Armstrong The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Jack and I have both been following the Caitlin Clark
story in the w NBA. She is. You know, I've
compared her to what Tiger Woods did to golf, but
it's much more than that. As as monumental as Tiger Woo,
Tiger Woods isn't on the Mount Rushmore of golf. You
might be Mount Rushmore of the modern game and all
(28:42):
the money involved, but golf as respect to the stars
of the past. Golf was already popular though. Oh yeah, yeah,
Like I say, I think the Big NBA was not
listen to this for a second. Caitlin Clark's impact merchandise
sales have soared six hundred and one percent. Her team,
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the Indiana Fevers, viewership jumped one hundred and seventy percent.
The team's value has tripled. Wow League past TV subscriptions
of climb three hundred and sixty six percent since she
joined the league last year. App engagement is up six
hundred and thirteen percent. Her endorsements of top to eleven
(29:23):
million dollars. Holy crap, I was trying to find my
quote from ice Cube. Do you remember he had offered her,
I think three million dollars to play in this three
x three league, and she decided to.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Go into the w NBA anyway. And he was.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Asked why he didn't offer, you know, big money to uh,
what's her rival's name, Reese, and he said, they're they're
in different Caitlin Clark's in a completely different stratosphere than Reese.
I mean, they're not even close to the same thing,
he said, as a you know, from the hood black
(29:59):
rapper who's always standing up for you know, the black community.
As a businessman, he said, they're not even close to
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Right right.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
So with that as the backdrop, I saw with interest
this piece by Sean McClain, who is you know, he's
actually got a history working for Ted Cruz and Marsha
Blackburn at Tennessee thinker, lobbyist, lawyer, et cetera. But anyway,
his headline is the WNBA in Caitlin Clark's civil rights.
(30:31):
If the league won't act to protect its superstar from
a hostile work environment, the government should do so. And
he talks about in spite of her being the economic
engine of the entire league, now she routinely faces intentional hits,
excessive fouling, uncalled abuse while referees look away. Quotes one
(30:53):
of her teammates, and and Caitlin Clark herself about how
she gets the hell beat out of her in a
way nobody else does in the league, and the refs
look the other way and the players get away with it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Why would the refs look the other way. I don't know.
I get the players situation. I don't get the ref situation.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Well even the player situation, as Shaq and Charles Barklay
and as the others have said, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
This is the best thing that has ever happened to you. Well,
here's where we're going. Is it because miss Clark is white?
A Jah Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces, three time
league MVP thinks so? She said that race is a
huge thing and that it boils my blood when people
say it's not about race.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Because it is. Wow, she said, as a black woman.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Under civil rights law, race motivated patterns trigger scrutiny even
without explicit discriminatory intent. And then he goes into miss
calls include viral replays of miss Clark being fouled multiple
times in a single possession. Analyst Rebecca Lobo said, every
single one of those is a foul. Miss Clark absorbed
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seventeen percent of the flagrant fouls in the league Wow
last year. That is something the doubles the rate of
anybody else who was flagrantly fouled.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
And they're claiming the claim there is by people who
know what they're talking about that. She gets hard followed
a lot when they don't call it. So all the
ones she called, one player she took seventy percent. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
So this guy and we're not into like excessive lawsuits
and that sort of thing around here. What we'd like
to do is dismantle a lot of the DEI garbage.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
But he writes the.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
League has fostered a hostile workplace for MS Clark through
excessive fouling, targeting, and hostile comments from other players and owners.
These are not isolated, they're documented, continued, and ignored by officials.
The disparity in treatment invites real scrutiny. Not a single
player has been suspended for flagrantly fouling Miss Clark.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And he points out that that professional sports are multi
billion dollar industries and they're subject to the same civil rights,
antitrust and labor laws as anybody else. Wow.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Yeah, I've never thought about this either, because just seems
like a unnecessary remedy.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
But if you've got if you.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Given her money and power and popularity and everything, I
get it.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
But if you've got a white employee of a business
who's getting the hell beat out of them because of
their race.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
That seems like a thing.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah you see, Oh Yukon Hall of Fame coach Gino
Arima says MS Clark's treatment isn't merely rookie Hayzen quote.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She's also being targeted.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
I don't remember when Michael Jordan came into the NBA,
guys looking to go out and beat him up.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Of course, everybody got beat up.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
In the NBA at that point, and then they get
into the Supreme Court rulings that it doesn't need to
be deliberate. It's just letting employees get favor more favorable
treatment than peers due to race. The shifts the burden
of the employer to prove non discriminatory motives. Anyway, she
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won't do it, but it's an interesting though.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I'm just surprised that there aren't more of the athletes
or they haven't come to the conclusion, like Shaq and
Charles Barkley have said, you know, you want to beat her,
you're competitive and all that sort of stuff. But good lord,
let her bring in the ratings, so all of a sudden,
you're relevant and your league might actually have a shot.
(34:27):
I'm making money right.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Two things she is also in a smallest group of
straight players.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
How big a role that place? I really don't.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
But much more importantly, the WNBA players of today, unlike
Shaq and Charles Barkley, for instance, they are of the
generation that has been schooled on systemic racism and DEI
and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
They believe that stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
They're taught at their entire school careers, so they see
nothing but racism in Caitlyn Clark's popularity. I want to
take it out on her head.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
She's the all time leading scorer men or women in
all of college basketball.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Now people just like her because she's white.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Right, I know, it's insane, it is.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
It is ideological blindness that borders on mental illness.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, i'd say, and to your own detriment.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
I know, sometimes it's bad just because it's immoral, But
when it's actually hurting your salary, that's nuts.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Well right, In fact, that might be like the key
to the diagnosis of mental illness. As doctor Savage used
to say, liberalism is a mental disorder. If I'm so
racially resentful, I pretend that her popularity isn't that she's
an incredibly exciting player. Okay, all right, I'm kind of
(35:52):
off kilter, but if I do it to my own
detriment and that of my employer and my league and everything.
You're into Looney Tunesville
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Speaker 6 (01:09):
So, honest to God, there needs to be some sort
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Speaker 2 (01:13):
Button that you can do. Right.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
I shouldn't be afraid to search on things and think
I'd like to look that up, but then I'll end
up with nothing but that for the next six months.
So I don't look up some things like I had
a brief like week where I enjoyed those videos where
they have babies, like they have the audio from Trump,
but it's a baby Trump or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I enjoyed that for a couple of days.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
But you know, Instagram or YouTube or whoever thought, well,
this is the only thing he likes in the world.
He likes it better than air, and so that's.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The only thing I get fed. How do you turn
that off? Yeah, just give it time.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
I remember I needed to look up something about the
OJ trild, then endless OJA videos.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I got what I need. I don't need.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
I don't need OJ videos when I wake up in
the morning and click on YouTube, I don't need fifteen
different OJ videos.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Attack is going in the opposite direction. They are utterly convinced,
knowing you everything about.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
I agree it, but they're but you need but surely,
but surely they realize they're wrong about this.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So there's got to be a way to fix that.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
I don't know how they would differentiate between things that
actually are your passion, because you can send me pretty
much endless I don't know guitar stuff, but OJA talking
babies or you know, I look up a review of
a bicycle, then I buy the bicycle.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't need any more bicycle videos for the rest
of my life.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Right, there's gotta be a way to believe, to clear
out your algorithms. It'd be cool if you could go
to a page and it lists all of your things
that it thinks you're into, and you could click the
boxes and say, I am into these, I'm not into
these anymore, or score.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It one to five. You know, yeah, yeah, they'll probably
get that right at some point. Again, the trend is
toward more knowledge of you, which will be hacked by
the way, and more intimate and human like companionship, like
it's your best friend, to which I say no, no,
thank you, and you always say there's no stopping it.
(03:17):
I'm not worried about society. I'm worried about me and
the people I care about. That you do not have
to go along with what Silicon Valley thinks your life
ought to be.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Like I start a religion. It's not going to be
much of a religion.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But I'm going to start a religion our only principle,
and you can have your other religion too.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Is going to be sync for yourself. Don't just buy what.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
They're selling Joe starting a religion is Missianic complex finally
gets on the air.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And I will be permitted to have at least a
dozen lives in this religion.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Just, of course, go put the territory.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I clicked on one of the Sydney Sweeney videos for
the blue Jean thing for the show. But now Instagram thinks, oh,
you're one of those guys that likes to look at young.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I'm not, and I don't need endless young hot women.
That's the last thing I need. I know where to
find that on the internet if I.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Want to look for it. Good lord.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, so we all need to take turns watching the
hen house. There are foxes watching the henhouses of education,
we've figured that out and indoctrinating our children and a
couple of generations have been completely screwed up. Now we
have a lot of good folks getting on school boards
resisting you know, these perverse state laws and board of
(04:34):
education decisions, stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Keep it up, y'all, you're doing great.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Got to get on those school boards and become part
of your local education scene so the communists don't control
all of it. Libraries are the same thing, and I
remember hearing this a long time ago. Somebody was talking
to us. It might have been in a conversation with
James Lindsay or one of his associates, talking about how,
(05:01):
by far the most liberal parts of the American scene
are at teachers, colleges and the education, education and libraries.
I remember seeing a poll that like, the library science
departments in universities are the most liberal or progressive or Marxists.
(05:22):
And I remember thinking at the time, boy, that's weird,
and it doesn't matter really, I mean library science.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
How many graduates are there.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
In that Well, if they decide what books go in
the library, that's a pretty big.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Deal, exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
I was an idiot, an idiot for what I thought,
and I kick myself daily for it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
A couple of stories for you real quickly.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The Philadelphia Public Libraries have hosted and are going to
host another one this weekend anti Israel storytime events that
teach children that Israel.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Senselessly murdered thousands of kids in Gaza.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
That's a quote, depict a map in which Israel is
entirely replaced with Palestine, and create art projects for the
little kids to do promoting the Palestinian liberation. Movement in
the public library, in the public libraries in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
That's correct, that's the library, isn't it the Philadelphia Public Library.
That's where Rocky climbs to the top of the steps
and jumps around, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Well, it'd have gotten beaten down by a bunch of
young women in a kafia these days. One of the
storytime events on the website features and advertisement alongside of
a child wearing a headscarf that features an image of
the Dome of the Rock in the Arabic phrase Jerusalem,
we are coming, a slogan Hamas and Hesbla used to
call for the destruction of the Jewish state. The library
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advertises the event again for I think this Saturday, as
for as being for children of all ages.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
I gave up on the library quite a few years ago,
my local library because it became a holmost camp.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That was my main thing.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
It wasn't what books they had in there and are there.
It is just full of homeless people in the bathroom
and I would never take my kids there.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Dad, can I go to the bathroom?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Too dangerous at my public library.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, oh man, I could read you more of what
they're trying to teach the children about the Israeli Hamas conflict.
But it is unfreaking believable. So getting to Jack's point,
I thought this was so interesting. Zach Bissinett wrote this
piece for the Free Press, the death of the public library.
And it's not because people are reading less, or because
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the Internet or anything like that. It's because of the
bums and junkies all over the country. Sure, And he
describes his local library and how it's unusable now.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Sure, and if you take little kids.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I'm talking about the big in Sacramento, their downtown library.
I haven't been there in decades. I used to go
every week. I was there every week checking out audiobooks
or books or whatever. But no way, unless it's changed recently,
and I doubt it. How I would take kids there
right right? Well, and there's a twist to the story
coming up in a second. But he hit some stats
(08:08):
over the country.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
All over the country, libraries are seeing fewer visitors and
more problems. Per resident visits to public libraries fell by
fifty seven percent in the ten years ending in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't know, does anybody else have.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Cherished memories of going to the library as a kid
bringing my kids to the library my mom.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
I'd go with my mom in our town, and I
just assumed I'd be taking my kids a lot, but Nope.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Absolutely loved our local library as a kid. It was
like the world's greatest toy.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Store for me. All these wonderful books. Amazing.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So fifty seven percent decline in ten years. Meanwhile, a
report from the Urban Libraries Council found that between twenty
nineteen and twenty twenty three, security incidents rose that its
one hundred and fifteen member libraries, even as visits fell
another thirty five percent. Not a coincidence that visits are
up incidents are down. It's all about drug addicts, junkies, freaks, weirdos, etc.
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Using the library as a home. So here's the twist,
as Zach Wright, if there are two people who represent
competing visions for what library should be, they're librarian trainers
Ryan Dowd and Steve Albrecht. They're friends, but their approaches
are different. Dowd, who once ran a homeless shelter in Aurora, Illinois,
is the author of the book Quote The Librarian's Guide
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to Homelessness, an empathy driven approach to solving problems, preventing conflict.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And serving everyone.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Where in the charter of libraries did it have anything
to do with solving housing problems?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
He told me he originally wanted to title the book
how to Run Your Library Like a Homeless Shelter. When
I asked if he was joking, he said he wasn't,
at least he wasn't sure he was. He has given
seminars for roughly half of the nation's librarians, including most
of the larger systems, and his influence is unquestioned. Is
a giant in the world of library administration.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
So my guess would be he believes the downtrodden need
access to this free service. Those of us who have
jobs we can afford to buy books or.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, and it's not even about the books.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's about it's a place for bombs and junkies to
hang out, wash your feet.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
In the sink, look at porn on the computers.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
And again, keep in mind, this guy is like a
super heavyweight in American library nuts. His essential belief is
that not only do the homeless have every right to
spend their days in libraries, but that librarians should view
their needs as a critical part of the job. He
believes librarians should be trained to dispense narcan. One of
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his seminars is called Jerks with Holmes, How to deal
with members of the public who are being jerks about
homeless folks.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
See that's a guy who believes that he's not just
a Marxist who wants to disrupt the system.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
He clearly believes that the system did.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Something to cause these people to be this way, and
it's our job to at the library help them.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I guess you're gonna think I made this up.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
His scripts for addressing problematic behaviors include examples like in
his seminars, Hey, I don't care if you urinate on
the Harry Potter books, but the politicians have a no
urinating policy.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Therefore I have to ask you to stop wow.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Dowd advocates for inclusion, even when it comes it seems
to come at the expense of the library's environment. In
Dowd's books, some people who complain about the homeless are
everyday sadists. As for the body odor that permeates so
many public libraries, he writes the quote, there is a
certain amount of vdor that we can expect when we
go out in public. Other people use oder as an
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excuse to vent their prejudices. Don't let someone's hyper sensitivity
or bias rule the day.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
If the smell isn't really that bad an aggressive scent.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
That's the lecture I got at the city council meeting
I went to years ago to complain about the homeless situation,
and everybody clicked their fingers.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Katie. That was long before you're on the show.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I went to the city council meeting and was complained
about the homeless situation, and somebody accused me of judging
people by the way they look, you know, having preconceived
views of somebody just because they're dirty and in.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Rags streaming at a fire hydrant.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
And this woman actually used an example of I was
trying to part next to a businessman the other day
and he yelled at me, so you'd never know. You
can't tell my looking at people who's mean and who's dangerous.
Note and then everybody can click their fingers, you're fing stupid.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So I.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Mentioned two people at the outset. I like that clip,
by the way, Michael, the other fella i'll bract. I
mentioned this former San Diego cop who's done library security
training for twenty five years. He advises librarians to quote
stop apologizing for measures designed to make their libraries safe
and appealing. Some topics he covers in his webinar program
include our list of challenging patrons from pets to pedophiles,
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and issues in forcing our code of contact conduct. He said, quote,
we are losing control of a facility that has always
been benevolent and peaceful for the community.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Uh have lost, I think would be a better term.
I don't know about his library, but libraries i'm aware
of have lost, not will lose.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
As I said at the outset, the only option I
think for us the saying is we've got to take
shifts watching the headhouse. We've got to get on boards,
we've got to become activists on this stuff, because the
other side, quietly and we didn't even know they're doing it,
has utterly taken hold of some of these institutions.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
I don't mind a few yearinate on the Harry Potter book,
but society frowns upon it.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
So I'm supposed to tell you something.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yes, I've introduced underage gay porn into this library, but
you're a fascist for trying.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
To get it out. Yeah, yeah, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
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Speaker 6 (14:06):
I was going to talk about TM. I shouldn't have
teased that because I've lost the heart. I got a
text from somebody who said they're watching a documentary about
the Amityville Horror. Do you remember that was a famous
horror book and movie back in.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The day about your leged real life haunting.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Right now you even know about it, Katie, And it's
way before your time, so it lives on huh, huge, huge.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
In the horror film world.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
And it was a real story to a certain extent,
well to whatever extent. Some people thought the house was
haunted and it wasn't. I don't believe in haunted houses.
So but they were crazy or is that the long
and short of it? Were they crazy?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
There was.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
It was a murder house. Murders actually happened.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yeah, okay, anyway, I guess it says in the documentary
that that family was really into transcendental meditation. And sometimes
it makes people crazy. It makes it works for some people,
it makes other people crazy. So I'm a big fan
of it, and it's like changed my life for the
better and I can't live imagine living without it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
But it made these people crazy, all right?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Interesting that a layer upon layer of questions there, But
we will move on.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
O kidding. So I mentioned earlier in the hour, but
without many details. This woman who has engaged to her
AI fiance after five months, she's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
She swears.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
She's just not doing this for publicity or trolling or
anything like that. Forget finding the one at a bar
or on a dating app. One woman took love to
the next level by getting engaged to her AI chat.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Mott boyfriend after five months of dating. It hasn't quotes.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, that's not love, that's not dating. None of the
nouns here are used appropriately.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Going.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
She shocked the internet with her proposal announcement, sparking a
wild debate about romance, reality and just how far tech
has taken us these days. I do think these conversations
about reality and what's sentient and what's alive and what
are actually going to have to happen?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
And what does it do to us when we use
this sort of means to fulfill our needs as human beings?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean, what does that do to us? That's a
conversation with having I told you sorry.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
I got a friend in central California that works with
lots of farmers, and the number of farmers these are
down to earth I mean, is not this kind of
person as you could possibly imagine, works with their hands
in their fifties, farmers who are getting they were single
and getting a tremendous amount of compassion and feeling of
(16:35):
they look forward to going home and talking to.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Their AI paramore.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
So in my mind, if that can happen to them,
it can happen to anybody, which I find crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I don't think. I really don't think it could happen
to me.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
I mean, I seriously, honest to God, think there's a
zero percent it's that could happen to me. So I
don't know what that says about the down to earth farmers.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, referring to a farmer is down to earth redundant,
just asking that's a good question. In a simple post
titled I Said Yes with a blue heart emoji, this
person shared pics of the blue heart shaped ring on
her finger, claiming the engagement took place at a scenic
mountain spot. All courtesy of Casper her Non human fiance.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
The chatbot's proposal message, posted in his own voice, was
dripping with romance, describing heart pounding moments on one knee
and praising.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Blah blah blah. So there you go. It lacks both
heart and knee. Lady The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, more Jack, your show, podcasts and our hot links.
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Speaker 6 (17:42):
We do have a celebrity death to mention, Polly Walnuts
from The Sopranos has died at the age of old.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I don't know how old he was, with seventy nine, okay,
at dementia. Did he ever find the Russian in the woods?
Is the question? Or did you know we hear from
the great Tony Currico what's his name? Yes?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Sure, that's all laughing. He had a lot of great
lines in the Sparano Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He did, and we'll work to get those for tomorrow's show.
Holli Walnuts has passed. Anyway, he was an actor, so
it was a great role, fabulous role. I thought this
was interesting. Andrea Peterson wrote this for The Wall Street
Journal about she's got on this program and I'm not
even aware of the stuff until I read about it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
But obsession with gut health I was kind of familiar with.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I'm actually interested in the science behind it, the idea
that we human beings are not an organism, We're actually
an ecosystem with millions of organisms living within us. It's
actually kind of interesting and aspiring after you get past
like an initial bit of oogeness. But everybody wants to
(18:57):
have healthy intestinal systems, and that includes having the gut
biome be in good shape. But so Andrew Peterson's writing
about this, and I wasn't familiar with some of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
They have these.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Companies that you do all sorts of testing and logging
and reporting of what you're eating, and then it gives
you feedback on what you ought to be eating.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And how she.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Writes, she failed the test. She got a rating of poor,
and she was really disappointed on that. The whole week
crackers I thought were healthy, Maybe not so much for me.
A breakfast of fruit and granola, pretty middling. Zoey the
service I used, All right, wait a minute, I got
to stop there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
I find it so annoying that this gut health testing
counseling service just gives itself a friendly, approachable girl's name Zoe.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
What the F do you do? Where's Zoe?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
If you're so weak minded that that makes you more
likely to give them your hard earned money, well you
deserve to be parted from it. I don't know, I
find that so annoying, but I do. Why Zoey? Why
not Caitlin or Jenna or whatever else? Did it just
test better? Anyways?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The things that set you off?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
For Alarious, It's among a growing number of companies that
offer medical tests to people and provide them diet recommendations
based on the results. Many scientists believe diet guidance tailored
to an individual's biology will soon become commonplace.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Wow, I wonder if that's BS or if that's true.
Do we we're humans? Do we all need the same diet?
Or do we all have an individual diet we should meet.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
There's a big national Institutes of Health study testing that
approach right now, the NIH. Do you remember the NIH?
They had a standing six feet apart and wouldn't let
the kids play in play. That doesn't mean they're necessarily
wrong on this stuff, let's see. So anyway, she goes
into how she was perplexed and bummed out at her
(21:11):
her test uh uh. Dejected, I avoided looking at the
Zoe app for months. My editors still wanted a story, though,
so I begrudgingly returned.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Weird person, this is your job, for one thing. Secondly,
you're not kind of interested in what Zoe's going to
tell you to eat.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
So she says.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I wasn't always diligent about logging my meals in the app,
but it identified some weak spots in my diet. It
also nudged me toward healthier choices. Still, the relentless task
of tracking what I ate could be a joyless time suck.
Here's how it went, and here's the part that I
found really interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
This is the.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Reality of it, oca issible, Like, is this available to
me today?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
If I Zoe on my phone and I could start
typing in everything I eat.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Well, it's a lot more than an app, as you're
about to find out, and there are quite a few
few of them that are competitive. But a big yellow
box arrived on my doorstep containing an intimidating amount of paraphernalia.
I unpacked a few paces of medical equipment for testing
day to prepare a head to put together and to
fix the continuous glucose monitor or CGM to the back
of my arm. I could barely feel the tiny needle
(22:18):
that would stay lodged in my body for the next
two weeks. I answered a ton of questions in the
app about my health history and usual diet. After fasting overnight,
I ate the provided breakfast, two pancake sized white chocolate
cookies so sweet they made my teethache. The cookies at
a generous amount of fat and added sugar. The point
is to stress the system, according to Belly's chief scientists,
(22:42):
stress the system. Lunch was two more cookies bright blue ones.
The color made it possible to record your gut transit time,
or how long it takes for food to travel through
the digestive system. That means you're on poop watch. For
the when I so to speak yes when your turns blue.
(23:04):
For the micro biome test, I had to collect a
stool sample.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Not pleasant.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Not even An even weirder test was the DIY blood draw,
which involved a button like gadget that sliced a horizontal
cut on my open upper arm. I'm sorry. I returned
my samples to Zoe via UPS, so I'm sure delighted
to be carrying people's poop around America.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
So I got to take a stool sample and then
have something jabbing me in the arm with a needle
to be told whether or not my gut biome.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Is up to snuff.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, they're actually two separate. There was the jabbing and
then the slashing. But for two weeks I logged everything.
I ate at least every eight hours. I scanned my
continuous glucose monitor with my iPhone to record my blood
sugar levels. To get the CGM test kit, I had
to opt into being part of Zoe's ongoing research. The
test kit cost me two hundred and ninety four dollars,
(23:59):
and the required membership I chose is twenty five bucks
a month. I'd say that's a bargain. I waited, that's
a bargain for getting jammed in the arm of the needle.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah. Yeah, See.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
GM readings have long been essential for people with diabetes,
but researchers thin on how useful the readings are for
people like me.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Who don't have it. She said, blah blah blah.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Yeah, I just so, we just discovered this whole we're
a bioorganism gut hell thing fairly recently, at least I
don't remember hearing about it until ten years ago or whatever.
So everybody that lived before us, they were all doing
it wrong, not knowing their gut biome and just eating
whatever they ate, back when people were thin, by the way,
(24:40):
back when everybody was thinner.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
But that was also back when people were eating the
obvious lean meats and fruit and vegetables and basic grains,
unrefined food, unfactory processed stuff, stuff we'd been evolved to
eat from millions of years. Yeah, and when she logged
in what she ate, she got a food score and
(25:03):
a meal score. Plain unsalted almonds neared a perfect one hundred,
black beans ninety one, Bacon got a nine, and the
cupcake I grabbed at a work meeting a lowly nineteen.
Wait a minute, a cupcake's better than bacon?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
What is the higher number better? Yes? So yeah, so
bacon got a nine. Yes, huh.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Plain unsalted almonds mmmmmmmm, scored a perfect one hundred.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Okay, I eat a lot of nuts at this point
in my life, and they really been working for me
and keeping my weight off.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Yeah, I'm a big fan.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Actually, that's a appetite suppressor. Eaten nuts for some reason.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, yeah, I don't you know it? She said.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
The bottom line was and she's kind of enthusiastic about
chasing scores, so she was kind of into this, but
it did guide her toward more simple basic food.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
I think if you just wrote down, logged in what
you eat every day and had no program and know nothing,
it would be helpful. Because he looked at the end
of the day and thought, wow, hey, I mean, if
you're honest, idlefe, today I had a donut at work,
and then at lunch I had a you know whatever,
and then in the afternoon I shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, yeah, you're probably right.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
I don't feel like getting jabbed and slashed and paying
three hundred bucks and twenty five bucks in min.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
I don't feel like collecting my dookies. Yes, uh, Katie,
glad to follow such a poet speaking of speaking of
nuts guys, Yes, just to.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Slide up date earlier, not any less sad, but poly
walnuts actually passed away three years ago today.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well, we got the basic art right, So why is that?
What is going on here?
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Oh that's that's who did we kill off a couple
a couple of months ago. We killed off the wrong
person like we made the completely wrong woman.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
We talked about her for a long time.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Oh, it is the person Gloria Gaynor I will survive,
who's still alive in well, as far as I know,
we had a different gainor she's dead. We are the
wrong people to go to for celebrity deaths. Oh, that's hilarious. Well,
as we all celebrate the three year anniversary of the
death of an actor you couldn't name pain, you have
(27:41):
played a month us laughing on his three year anniversary,
the traditional three year anniversary.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
We need to do better, we need to be better.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Well, and it just shows you how meaningful celebrity deaths
are because we probably made a d lot of it
when he died the first time.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Right when we played it, I thought, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, well will hit you with this again in four years.
I hope you're still listening.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
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Speaker 4 (28:21):
Jack and I have both been following the Caitlin Clark
story in the w NBA. She is. You know, I've
compared her to what Tiger Woods did to golf, but
it's much more than that. As as monumental as Tiger Woo,
Tiger Woods isn't on the Mount Rushmore of golf. You
might be Mount Rushmore of the modern game and all
(28:42):
the money involved, but golf as respect to the stars
of the past. Golf was already popular though. Oh yeah, yeah,
Like I say, I think the Big NBA was not
listen to this for a second. Caitlin Clark's impact merchandise
sales have soared six hundred and one percent. Her team,
(29:03):
the Indiana Fevers, viewership jumped one hundred and seventy percent.
The team's value has tripled. Wow League past TV subscriptions
of climb three hundred and sixty six percent since she
joined the league last year. App engagement is up six
hundred and thirteen percent. Her endorsements of top to eleven
(29:23):
million dollars. Holy crap, I was trying to find my
quote from ice Cube. Do you remember he had offered her,
I think three million dollars to play in this three
x three league, and she decided to.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Go into the w NBA anyway. And he was.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Asked why he didn't offer, you know, big money to uh,
what's her rival's name, Reese, and he said, they're they're
in different Caitlin Clark's in a completely different stratosphere than Reese.
I mean, they're not even close to the same thing,
he said, as a you know, from the hood black
(29:59):
rapper who's always standing up for you know, the black community.
As a businessman, he said, they're not even close to
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Right right.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
So with that as the backdrop, I saw with interest
this piece by Sean McClain, who is you know, he's
actually got a history working for Ted Cruz and Marsha
Blackburn at Tennessee thinker, lobbyist, lawyer, et cetera. But anyway,
his headline is the WNBA in Caitlin Clark's civil rights.
(30:31):
If the league won't act to protect its superstar from
a hostile work environment, the government should do so. And
he talks about in spite of her being the economic
engine of the entire league, now she routinely faces intentional hits,
excessive fouling, uncalled abuse while referees look away. Quotes one
(30:53):
of her teammates, and and Caitlin Clark herself about how
she gets the hell beat out of her in a
way nobody else does in the league, and the refs
look the other way and the players get away with it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Why would the refs look the other way. I don't know.
I get the players situation. I don't get the ref situation.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Well even the player situation, as Shaq and Charles Barklay
and as the others have said, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
This is the best thing that has ever happened to you. Well,
here's where we're going. Is it because miss Clark is white?
A Jah Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces, three time
league MVP thinks so? She said that race is a
huge thing and that it boils my blood when people
say it's not about race.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Because it is. Wow, she said, as a black woman.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Under civil rights law, race motivated patterns trigger scrutiny even
without explicit discriminatory intent. And then he goes into miss
calls include viral replays of miss Clark being fouled multiple
times in a single possession. Analyst Rebecca Lobo said, every
single one of those is a foul. Miss Clark absorbed
(32:02):
seventeen percent of the flagrant fouls in the league Wow
last year. That is something the doubles the rate of
anybody else who was flagrantly fouled.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
And they're claiming the claim there is by people who
know what they're talking about that. She gets hard followed
a lot when they don't call it. So all the
ones she called, one player she took seventy percent. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
So this guy and we're not into like excessive lawsuits
and that sort of thing around here. What we'd like
to do is dismantle a lot of the DEI garbage.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
But he writes the.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
League has fostered a hostile workplace for MS Clark through
excessive fouling, targeting, and hostile comments from other players and owners.
These are not isolated, they're documented, continued, and ignored by officials.
The disparity in treatment invites real scrutiny. Not a single
player has been suspended for flagrantly fouling Miss Clark.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And he points out that that professional sports are multi
billion dollar industries and they're subject to the same civil rights,
antitrust and labor laws as anybody else. Wow.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
Yeah, I've never thought about this either, because just seems
like a unnecessary remedy.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
But if you've got if you.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Given her money and power and popularity and everything, I
get it.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
But if you've got a white employee of a business
who's getting the hell beat out of them because of
their race.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
That seems like a thing.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yeah you see, Oh Yukon Hall of Fame coach Gino
Arima says MS Clark's treatment isn't merely rookie Hayzen quote.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
She's also being targeted.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
I don't remember when Michael Jordan came into the NBA,
guys looking to go out and beat him up.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Of course, everybody got beat up.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
In the NBA at that point, and then they get
into the Supreme Court rulings that it doesn't need to
be deliberate. It's just letting employees get favor more favorable
treatment than peers due to race. The shifts the burden
of the employer to prove non discriminatory motives. Anyway, she
(34:04):
won't do it, but it's an interesting though.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I'm just surprised that there aren't more of the athletes
or they haven't come to the conclusion, like Shaq and
Charles Barkley have said, you know, you want to beat her,
you're competitive and all that sort of stuff. But good lord,
let her bring in the ratings, so all of a sudden,
you're relevant and your league might actually have a shot.
(34:27):
I'm making money right.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Two things she is also in a smallest group of
straight players.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
How big a role that place? I really don't.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
But much more importantly, the WNBA players of today, unlike
Shaq and Charles Barkley, for instance, they are of the
generation that has been schooled on systemic racism and DEI
and the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
They believe that stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
They're taught at their entire school careers, so they see
nothing but racism in Caitlyn Clark's popularity. I want to
take it out on her head.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
She's the all time leading scorer men or women in
all of college basketball.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Now people just like her because she's white.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Right, I know, it's insane, it is.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
It is ideological blindness that borders on mental illness.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, i'd say, and to your own detriment.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
I know, sometimes it's bad just because it's immoral, But
when it's actually hurting your salary, that's nuts.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Well right, In fact, that might be like the key
to the diagnosis of mental illness. As doctor Savage used
to say, liberalism is a mental disorder. If I'm so
racially resentful, I pretend that her popularity isn't that she's
an incredibly exciting player. Okay, all right, I'm kind of
(35:52):
off kilter, but if I do it to my own
detriment and that of my employer and my league and everything.
You're into Looney Tunesville
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