October 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- No one but Trump could have pulled off peace deal
- Gender Bending Madness: Sports edition!
- Halloween decorations & the meaning of memes
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and jet Tiki and he Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
In addition to those twenty living Israeli hostages, we were
also expecting to see the remains of a further twenty
eight deceased Israeli hostages. Now we did see those four
coffins earlier that emerged from Gaza into Israel, so those
families can finally have some closure and grief. But that
(00:44):
clocked in hostages square and it has been taking count
of every minute, every hour, every day since those hostages
were first taken on October seven. That clock will continue
to tick until all of the bodies of all of
the hostages are finally home.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, so that's clearest award on seeing. And I don't
mind that people were using that kind of language because
I understand why. It's the this is as good as
it's gonna get given the circumstances. We want the life
people to get back blah blah blah. But it's since
we Joe and I can't you know, upend world peace
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the way you know, some politicians are major news outlets.
Could I can say out loud to say that the
deceased will be returned as opposed to the murdered or
the torture to death or ex starved. Is you know,
really something Again, I understand why they're doing it, because
(01:46):
you don't want to cause any waves. I mean, this
is good for everybody. It's good for everybody to have
this happen.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Mm yeah, I would agree, but the point remains, Yeah,
these people did not die of old age. They were
either shot or starved to death or tortured or whatever,
or died of easily treatable diseases. And I would never
ever defend Hamas on any level. But they're saying, look,
we've lost track of where some of the bodies are.
(02:13):
Israel was bombing the bi Allah out of them, and
so I could see where perhaps when you're running for
your life, you don't bother, you know, bringing the remains
of some of your victims along side. And they certainly
don't care about the dead Jews, No, and the sensitivity
of those still alive who want to retrieve the body.
So yeah that I suspect the remains of a number
(02:37):
of the hostages will never be restored. You know, it
occurs to me in the midst of all this serious
discussion that it was Keir Starmer, wasn't it who unleashed
the worst bond, the worst gaff in the history of misspeaking.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You have that for us, Michael, here we go those
our clip of the year last year. I think no,
was it. I think it was cool again for the
media Ceasepy and Gaza, the return of the Sussigle the hostacle.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Because it's so tragic and terrible and serious. It's tough
to enjoy that idiotic gaff as much as I should also,
And Michael, I'm glad you played the longer version of that.
I'm reminded of the fact that Starmer and Biden and
Harris and Blinking and all those people prolonged this conflict
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by telling Israel don't drive Hamas into a position in desperation.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's the one thing you must not do.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Pull punches, stop, stop hitting them. It would have gone
on forever, it'd be going on five years from now
if those people were in charge.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yep, no doubt. Anyway. On a cheerier note, this.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
A two years of pent up anguish unleashed in an
instant one after another. Any newly freed hostages in their
families hug, cry, kiss, scream, and pray, did I say,
reveling in their new, almost unbelievable reality, Their nightmare is
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finally over.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Those scenes of reuniting were if you didn't have a
tear in your eye, you're a hard hearted human. They
were amazing and I can't even imagine the anguish. And
then there's the families that will never know the joy
at the end of the anguish, unfortunately, but it was
an amazing achievement. Play Hillary Clinton fifty three, Michael Wija.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's a really significant first step, and I really commend
President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders
in the region.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
We have a trio of David's, Jack Drucker, French and Ignacious.
I know I want to get to Ignacious, not Lee Roth,
Not David Lee Roth. He did not make the list today,
only the top three Davids.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Do we all know the rules?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I'm kind of curious to hear what Drucker has to say. Michael,
give us fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Four, would you? What it was accomplished yesterday?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
And what we saw yesterday was a really big deal.
All the while he had a lot of conventional standard
negotiating going on on multiple tracks. So rather than fighting
with an ally creating a trade war or a diplomatic war,
rather than insulting the Allies voters, he creates the space
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to have the support and leverage to use in this instance.
And I think it's a good lesson for the President
as he looks.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
At during nonsense.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Okay, he's trying to teach Trump how to do his job.
That's fine. I wondered if that was a misprint. Trump
acted conventionally. It says, wow, wow, I'd like to tell
talk to David about that. Let's try another David. That
one won't do. David Ignatius fifty six.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
It's important to move quickly, as quickly as possible to
the second phase of this comprehensive peace deal, and what
that means is getting in place the countries that have
agreed to take part in an international security force and
quickly train up vetted Palestinian gossen police, people who can
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keep order, who can replace hamas police wherever possible. This
is not going to be a bloodless process. The international
force and the new Palestinian security Force are going to
take casualties so that's going to be the test of
whether this is serious. This is going to be I
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suspect for some months a low level insurgency. Hamas can't
threaten Israel itself anymore. That's over, but it can try
to hold onto the territory it has.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They're dead enders, They've always been dead enders. I doubt
they'll change their stripes. They need to be wiped out.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So's David Ignatius of The Washington Post. We haven't. So
we don't have Lee, Roth or Bowie or Beckham dead.
Claire David Bowie has passed letterman or swimmer. David David
Beckham was not a bad Attenborough. That's the battle of
the David Jumee, Foster Wallace, Sedaris, David Robinson, Michelangelo's David.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Michelangelo's David again he's not with us, Yeah, yeah, you know.
Walter Russell Mead, who's a great writer, he said he has,
you know, essentially the five big takeaways I guess from
October thirteenth, the return of the hostages, and the second
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he says is that only mister Trump could have made
this happen. No other living politician could have reassured Israel
threatened to Moss and hatched together a broad Arab coalition
the way he has done. Mister Trump has his shortcomings,
and even he wonders if he will get into heaven.
But he is a leader who bestrides the world scene
like no other.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He is he absolutely is this. I didn't know where
I wanted to put this, but this is interesting. So
Mark Halpern had this today in his newsletter. He didn't
say who it is, but it's from a well known
thinker who hates Donald Trump. Absolutely hates Donald Trump. But
(08:32):
I thought this was interesting what he wrote. As a
Trump hater, bbe plowed the field, wit Coffin, Kushner cultivated
the archerd. Donald insisted the peaches ripe, which is an
interesting phrase, and the time was now to make the
pie none conventional politicians. It took more than Trump, but
Trump embodying US power as no president since Lincoln was
(08:53):
uniquely essential. The hard part. And this is from a
Trump hater, but again I think this is interesting. Trump is,
by orientation, truly a bastard. How can such a sensibility
have done so much good? I can't get my head
around it. Nonetheless, I not only accept it, I delight
in the iron of it. It's funny. It's very funny.
Don't misunderstand me. I still hate Trump. He's despicable and
(09:15):
I can't abide by that. But somewhere deep inside I
feel I somehow am in danger of being like him.
I mean, civilization can't work on his moral compass, yet
it can't work without him.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
There's too much to process here. Yeah, that's funny. I
think they're maybe overthinking it. It became incredibly unfashionable to
exercise US power after Vietnam and then Iraq, and they're
a kind of a weird moral code grew up around
(09:50):
that hesitation that it was distasteful and wrong. And Barack Obama, hell,
he's probably made a speech that says this, Essentially, the
only reason anybody would ever use the military or military
force is because they're not as skillful a negotiator as
I am. We can use incentives and negotiation and accomplish
(10:11):
everything war could could in the past, and we're far
more refined than that.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And Trump is a bastard.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But I would I would suggest, even if you're Barack
Obama or or you know anybody, if you're an American
president and you're not willing to be a brutal bastard
when it's necessary. You have no business being in charge
of a superpower. Well, you have to have complete credibility.
You can't pretend it. You can't say stop like Biden
(10:40):
and Harris did when nobody everybody knew they weren't going
to actually do anything. Trump is you know, the crazy
man theory or the bastard theory or whatever you want
to both sides actually believe he's willing to do anything. Yeah,
you know what occurs to me? And I think there
were no There probably weren't any this year Biden and
(11:01):
or Harris saying don't I ought.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
To be our clip of the That was our weakest
moment as a country.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I was gonna say that may be the lowest moment
in American foreign policy. I mean, going back to the
Barbary Pirates, going back to when the Brits burned the
White House. That was worse because it was so pathetic.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What do you have to say to Benjamin Nett and
Yahoo and their talk of going into Rafa, don't whatever
the hell they wanted, because they weren't scared of you
in any way.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
And to Helmas don't or the trendy or Ragua members
who are coming to the US.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Do or Iran don't. None of that worked, Only Force worked.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Gender Bending Madness Sports Edition coming up in a moment
or two, A lot of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Stay with us. Hey, I want to talk about going
to the Halloween store over the weekend and a poor
purchase I made. That's scaring the crap out of us.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Get to that later, oh my, But first, it's a
gender Bending Madness Update Sports Edition.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So I kept hearing about this thing called the Loco.
We're a brave new world.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Today's subtitle could be the state of woke America, specifically
Washington State. In an astounding story, a fifteen year old
girl refused to play basketball against an eighteen year old
man in a girls league. Wow, what happened will astound you.
(12:47):
Let's start there.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Well, I heard my mom and my coach, the varsity
head coach, talking, and at that time I wasn't looking
over at the other team. But I heard my mom say,
that is a boy on the other team, and sure
enough there was a boy. And I went and sat out,
and my coach asked me if I was okay, and
(13:13):
I said, no, there's a boy. On the team. I
will not be playing or participating in any part of
this game.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You realize that a bunch of states were trying to
make that a crime. What she just said to say
that boy.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, including Washington State. Yeah, And in fact she ends
up being the bad guy in the story in Washington State.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Roll on, Michael.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
So, after we realized there was a boy on the team,
and let me just say, this person is eighteen years old,
so he's a grown man at this point that was
playing on a jvars JV basketball game with fourteen and
fifteen year olds. So I went up and I talked
to the athletic director and I said, can you tell
me if that's a boy on the team? And he said,
I'm not going to say. We do not discriminate based
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on sexual identity. And I said, well, President Trump just
yesterday sign an executive order saying there's no boys or
men and women's or girls' sports. And he said, we
do not have to follow that. We follow Washington State
law in WIAA.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
All right, we've got to get to this part the
fifteen year old girl who refused to play against a
grown man in a girls league.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
What's happened next.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
So once that happened and I realized that Francis was
sitting out, it wasn't until towards the end of the
game when she There was a lot that went on
between the time that we realized there was this boy
on the team, and when she was leaving, she was
so mad. She feeled like she had been exposed and
it was just a terrible situation. She walked by and
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said that you're a man. She was so frustrated in
the situation, and that is why she has been now
charged with bullying, harassment, and intimidation for misgendering this person.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
There you go, Washington State.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
If is a fifth eighteen year old girl you object
to playing against a grown man and say that's a man,
you're charged with bullying, harassment, intimidation, and misgendering. How insane
is that fight the woke mind virus.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
There has never been a spot in the world or
a time in history where anybody agreed with this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
The Washington State's new motto maybe in Latin has got
to be obey the delusion or face prosecution.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Katie, So, does that mean they were allowing a grown
man to go into the locker room with high school girls.
That's like illegally you know, of age man almost certainly,
Oh my god, gosh, God is JV. So you know,
there's probably a lot of girls, not the greatest basketball players, athletic.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Not very old young out there with an eighteen years man,
a lot of freshmen, fourteen year old girls playing against
a grown man. And if if you pointed out in
Washington State you are the bigot.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, good god. Just from a safety standpoint, I don't
want my fourteen year old daughter who weighs eighty pounds
getting hipchecked by an eighteen year old grown man.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's indefensible on any level. Let's end the update with
a note of absurdity. There was recently a college basketball
volleyball game match in Canada in which three men were
playing for one women's team and two men were on
the other. The team with more men ended up winning
(16:37):
the match. Both teams had multiple dudes on them. As
one person said, this is the reductio ad absurdism of
the woke mind virus.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's incredible.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, wow, it is. It's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Holy crap. I know, I know, and you know.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Some days I feel like we're making the progress, the
fact that these things are still happening.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Now we have miles to go before we sleep, and
people who need to protect the infrastructure of it because
they're scared to speak out. It's just wow, Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Andy and Munsi Sky's won to center field hit well,
this one's got a chance.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Fail well, back to the wall, he leaves, it's.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
In and out, his down going to caught it, and
now chaos on the basis might have a play at
the plate. The throw not in time come, he's out.
He's out. It's a force play at the plate and
he is out. That all of this is going to
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be reviewed.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That is not your typical double plate. No, it is
going to be reviewed.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
In fact, the Supreme Court has agreed to take on
that play this session as they should. Amazing play by
the Brewers against the Dodgers, although the Dodgers went on
to win against the best team in the regular season.
So Seattle's up to nothing, Dodgers up one nothing. Major
League Baseball and the networks a I'm sure, are hoping
not to have a Brewers Mariners or Brewers Toronto World Series,
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which would not get very good ratings.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Hoping the Dodgers are in there. I guess we went
to the big Hall of the you know the Halloweens,
the pop up Halloween stores that happened in every town
in America, you know those, And it's a good idea.
I don't know how the whole pop up thing works.
I should look into it. I'll bet it's pretty fascinating
from a business standpoint. The way that whole thing works.
(18:38):
You find a retail space that's empty, you make some deals,
and you decide two months this is going to be
our Valentine's Day store or our Halloween store or whatever
it is. And when we got one of those giant
halloween stores, and so they got all the stuff set
up in there, and they usually have. They had the
(19:01):
scary stuff is set up, and they got it turned
on and you can go. There's a button you can
press with your foot to make them do their thing.
And they had some sort of witch character there that
I didn't know what it was gonna do. But you know,
it's not like I'm surprised, or you wouldn't think I
would be surprised, because I know it's going to do something.
So I walk up to the witch character thing they
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got in the big Halloween store. I put my foot
on the thing and it looked far really fast with
its mouth thought and I poatly whipped about wet my pants.
It was very, very embarrassing, and children laughed at me,
and I did not like that at all. But anyway,
so every year I buy one more thing to add
to the yard. A couple of years ago it was
the giant inflatable pumpkin that I put in, and that's
twenty feet tall and that everybody loves that, including the
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neighbors when they come over to my house and say, hey,
the wind took your pumpkin down the street and you
need to go get it. And I have to go
get the giant inflatable pumpkin from two blocks down the road.
But this year, my son thought the thing to buy
would be. It was it's called a dummy. I guess
it's basically a life size mannequin and then you can
dress it however you want. And I thought that, yeah,
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I thought that'd be kind of cool, uh to have
around the house. But it's ended up everybody has scared
the crap out of themselves with it, and we're not
trying to do it. It's just having it. Sit around someplace,
and I did it again this morning. I come out
and it's sitting in the tight table just because there's
somebody there and you're not expecting him. It's got pants
and a shirt and a hat on, and it's happened
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to everybody coming in the kitchen wall. It's pretty fun.
Of course.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
The real classic is you've got one of those and
then you dressed just like it and you more at
the kid.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh that's a good idea. I've not done that. I
don't I live in a cul de sac. Last year,
I think we got three kids, so I don't know
to do that. But that's a good idea. So you
sit there next to the mannequin and people think they're
both mannequins.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yeah, or you use the mannequin one year than you
the next year. There are variation.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And well, you had the fog machine. See, you had
the whole thing going, you know, a bitter and lightning.
You went big. That's very very good. Yeah. Yeah, other
than scaring the crap out of myself, I gotta tell
my son, don't set it at the kitchen table where
I get up early in the morning and I go
flip on the light and or somebody's sitting there.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Prop it up in the doorway so I can see
it when I wake up. Put it at the foot
of my bed.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Leaning over me. All right, Oh my god, Oh you
have myself the Willy's even thinking about that. That's funny.
That's a good way to figure out your fight flight
or freeze response if there's an intruder in your house.
You know, we all often talk about you don't know
how you'd act until it happened. I guess the way
I would act if I flipped on the kitchen light
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and there's somebody sitting at the tables, I'd go, ah,
because that's what I did this morning. Ah, what am
I supposed to do? I'm supposed to immediately go into
a crouch in a judo position, quietly ready to take
them on. And I screamed at the top of my
lungs and waved my hands like this. I'm glad you
didn't shoot it. That'd be something. Oh I have fire
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off four or five shots center ass. Oh boy. So
do you want to get to Gavin Newsom coming up
before we get to the top of the hour next segment,
or what do you want to do?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
You know, I'm taking a look at it. It might
work better as the one More Thing podcast. Honestly, I
like that because there's a lot there, and I'd hate
to be in such a hurry we have to rush
through it. None other than the Wall Street Journal has
written an article about the six seven phenomenon craze among children.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh yeah, I talked about that last week. That's right,
six seven.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Numbers six and seven are making life hell for math teachers, right,
and it comes from a rap song.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I mentioned it to my son and he said, Dad,
that is so old. Nobody does that anymore. Okay, Well,
I'm just learning about it now. And there's been several
articles about it and teachers who creatively come up with
a I'll give you six minutes to write a seven
sentence paragraph, and everybody likes it because it's six.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Seven right, right, And they quote a handful of math
teachers who say, we've just got to avoid it completely,
maybe maybe giving into it some better strategy, like you
pointed out. If you're like, hey, you need to do
a question six and seven, they just immediately start yelling
six seven and doing the weird seesaw hand gesture that
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looks somewhere between juggling and melon handling.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, they're saying there's something bigger going on here, though
I think the like this probably makes no sense to
you whatsoever. There is a song where they mentioned six
seven and it just caught on what I think is
going on here. And it's like with skimmity toilet from
a couple of years ago. It didn't it didn't mean anything.
Six seven doesn't mean anything. It's got to do with
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our lack of shared experiences. I think we desire as
human beings shared experiences so much, and because of modern society,
we don't have it. Because when I was a kid,
we would come in on a Wednesday morning and talk
about Happy Days episode on television from last night because
we all watched it together. That doesn't exist anymore. So
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you have to manufacture these shared experiences because we crave
them so much. And just somebody saying skippity toilet and
you know what it means, and they know what it means,
and you get to recognize that fills you with some
sort of needed emotion. Oh, that these completely manufactured common
experiences have been created. I wish i'd known you had
(24:43):
that screen ready.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I'd have asked you to hold off because the person
who writes this article and it's funny. It's masquerading as
a news article, but like a lot of news these days,
it's opinions, writes the memes meaning, and its whole point
is that it has no meaning. Yeah, maybe a French
philosopher Albert Camouf had TikTok could explain it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
The fact is six seven is not funny toilet. It
didn't mean anything other than I know it and you
know it right to.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Get into that, the meme is a prime example of
brain rot, the internet junk food consumed by people of
all ages to suck away time, productivity, and the living
of life. Kids have been saying six to seven for
about sorry, six or seven months since the spring, but
the recent return to school has supercharged the trend.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Then they mentioned skivity toilet. My god, you know it
might be a prime example of brain rot. But I
think you're right. Yeah, I don't think it has to
be brain rot. I think it's our we're just trying
to grasp. Clearly, it's human nature and we're trying to
grasp some shared experience to feel a connection. That's what
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it is. It doesn't have to be a negative. I
guess it's a negative overall that we don't we have
so few shared experiences anymore, that we have to resort
to things so stupid. It drove my son, my youngest son, nut.
He couldn't stand. One of the things he couldn't stand
about school briefly when he was in an actual school,
was uh, these memes that would crop up, And he said,
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but it doesn't mean anything, and everybody says it and laughs,
and it's got no meaning.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It would drive him crazy, right, Yeah, Well, rapper Scrilla
Yeah song dut dute six seven includes the phrase six seven,
a reference to sixty seventh Street in Philadelphia, where many
of his friends grew up.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah is now raking it in at concerts. I think adults, teachers,
everyone would be better off if they recognize you don't
need to go searching for what it means. Right. What
it means is we have some connectivity between us. That's
what it means.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
One matth YouTuber says this is very close to middle
schooler's previous favorite number sixty nine. There's some relief for
teachers that this meme is not sexual. An astro numerologist
ke Jesse Kelsey, author of the power of home numbers
six and seven, a very unconventional energy that is somewhat unknowable.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Quote. It has a meaning, but it is very hidden.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Na hung us numerologists, Shut up, you snake oil selling quack.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I wanted to be an astro numerologist, but that class
was full, so I had to do something else. Wow. Wow,
it's just a common experience. This isn't going away. This
is going to be the rest of our lives because
we don't have those common experiences anymore. I won't hear
it in the woods made USh you all well, made
up dumb memes. I think that's one of the things
(27:34):
that sports has going for it. At least it's something
you and another guy can talk about. Do you both
know something about right?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Indeed, yeah, you don't know somebody at all, but you
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Speaker 2 (28:50):
So I guess what I should hope is that instead
of screaming and waving my arms I should have like
immediately gone into a crouch roundhouse kick to the head
of the dummy, knocking it to the floor and then
over it with like a death blow before I recognize
it's inanimate.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Right, well, then go ahead and administer that death blow
to the dummy, because you rarely get a chance to
practice it in real life.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Five finger death punch, if you will. How fast does
the human brain work? Has anybody ever measured that? From
the light comes on, my brain believes there's a person
sitting there. There's not supposed to be someone sitting there.
Fear kicks in then memory of the oh yeah, it's
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the dummy. I mean, how long is that whole span
of time? Like a millionth of a second? Sure it
might be ass second, it's not very long, one one thousand,
it's about a second. I'll bet that's wild. It's a
bad feeling, i'd say. And then you got to get
new underwear on Could you weight yourself? We got more
on the way if you missed a seconde get the
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podcast Armstrong and get you on demand.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
We had driven for two hours and needed to stop.
For gasp. My husband gets out of the car and
it's like the cat is on the roof and we're like,
what what do we do?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
We're already so far into the trip.
Speaker 11 (30:15):
We have a long way to go to get to
New Hampshire. My husband says he's just gonna have to
come with us, and he had such a good time
and a great you know, adventure. So I actually did
videos and pictures everywhere we went of him.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So at what point did they realize the cat was
on the roof? One hundred miles? How did the cat?
Which point?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Dad said? Bad news, kids, We got to drive another
hundred miles. It's still up there.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Why what was it in a container? Or how did
enough fly off? It's just clinging to the roof, right, Michael, Yeah,
how I understand it, just clinging to the roof. Wow,
all right, thank you. I'm glad the cats are right,
doug in its claws, thank god. Yes, poor little pussy cats. Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Uh, here's more about retirement and Germany than you ever
wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Free press reporting the government.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
A government panel in Germany is proposed raising the country's
retirement age to seventy three to prevent the collapse of
their pension system.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Seventy three yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Meanwhile in France they're retiring at what age twenty six
or whatever it is?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Seventy three yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
The authors of the report right quote, we will have
to work more if we want to maintain the scope
of the social security system without simultaneously leaving even larger
burdens for future generations.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
You know what's interesting about that, while seventy three I
think makes most of us go ah, is when we
originally set up Social security, life expectancy was so much different.
It was basically the same thing. I mean, the idea
was most of you aren't going to make it that long, right,
so those of you that do at sixty five, you
can quit.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Well, right in fact, excellent, excellent observation. One of the
next things they mentioned is, quote the retirement age must
be linked to life expectancy.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So interesting the.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Gentleman's saying, we're not going to spend our kids and
grandkids into you know, crippling indebtedness, and we've got to
be realistic about how long people are living.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Whether this actually passes or not, I do not know,
but that's what the report says.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
But yeah, you're just being honest about it. You know
how mad I've been about this for so long. When
Barack Obama said everyone deserves a dignified retirement. Who came
up with this everyone deserves to retire idea? I mean,
that's completely a manufactured notion that you get to quit
working at some point and live off of something else.
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That's not the way the animals are built. Human beings
are built. That we created this.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Concept, right, Societies have never been built around that idea.
I mean, maybe you saved enough that you could and
that's great, or maybe your family took care of he
or whatever. Yeah, the assumption that well, the assumption of
the assumption is wrong.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Meanwhile, literally in your fifties, you can retire in France
and live the rest of your life sucking off the
government teat which doesn't sound bent. Also, one more thing
about Europe, the government.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
This is so interesting.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
In the Free Press, they're talking about why zero of
the top twenty five largest companies on Earth are in Europe,
not a single one of them, and they talk about
why that is partly you can never ever fire anyone.
The economist has a brutal analysis with a paragraph you
(33:45):
need to read, says, so I'll read it. There are
two ways for Western companies to sack lots of people.
The American one involves the boss inviting hundreds of unsuspecting
employees on a zoom call, offering them a few months
wages as severance, and insincerely wishing them luck in their
future endeavors. Oh and by the way, have your desk
cleared off by lunchtime. The European method is different. Companies
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waiting to enact mass layoffs typically start with consultations with unions,
representatives of which sit on companies boards. In Germany, a
social plan is drafted. Strikes inevitably ensue. Politicians get involved
in badger the employer into hiring fewer people than it
had originally planned. Firing fewer rather or to pay for
it soon to be ex staff to be retrained. The
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full cost of downsizing is only known once labor courts
are called to rule on the matter years later. Meanwhile,
the company in question often cannot hire more employees lest
it be made to hire those who are just let
go who they don't need anymore. That's the creative destruction
of capitalism European style.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You just can't do it. It's not an accident that the
Steve Jobs and Elon Musks and whoever else of the
world almost are always in the United States or come
to the United States.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Right final note, I thought this was really encouraging. We
talked last week about the crime victimization. They said, yes,
crime is way up in American cities, and it's not
Trump fiction. The Department of Justice has launched a probe
into the DC Police Force, accusing them of manipulating crime
data to make it look like the city was safer.
And you got a bunch of cops now going to
(35:16):
the Justice Department and saying, yeah, this has been systematic.
It's been going on for a long time. Here are
a bunch of examples I've compiled. It's good stuff. They
mentioned that the Washington Post reported the story. They actually
used the term DC police officers are feeding information to
(35:38):
the Justice Department. The willing participation of officers in the
investigation could put senior DC police officials under a microscope
like they're mobsters that have gone State's evidence or something
like that. They're cops telling the truth. Why are you
saying they're feeding information to the Justice Department?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
WOWO, we need to get a handle on this whole
crime to sixth thing as a nation. It would benefit absolutely,
benefit absolutely everybody. Now, the lives are too useful. They'll
never let them go. So we do a lot of
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Speaker 4 (36:19):
Play it back half speed. We sound like we're drunk.
It's always amusing. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and jet Tiki and he Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
In addition to those twenty living Israeli hostages, we were
also expecting to see the remains of a further twenty
eight deceased Israeli hostages. Now we did see those four
coffins earlier that emerged from Gaza into Israel, so those
families can finally have some closure and grief. But that
(00:44):
clocked in hostages square and it has been taking count
of every minute, every hour, every day since those hostages
were first taken on October seven. That clock will continue
to tick until all of the bodies of all of
the hostages are finally home.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, so that's clearest award on seeing. And I don't
mind that people were using that kind of language because
I understand why. It's the this is as good as
it's gonna get given the circumstances. We want the life
people to get back blah blah blah. But it's since
we Joe and I can't you know, upend world peace
(01:25):
the way you know, some politicians are major news outlets.
Could I can say out loud to say that the
deceased will be returned as opposed to the murdered or
the torture to death or ex starved. Is you know,
really something Again, I understand why they're doing it, because
(01:46):
you don't want to cause any waves. I mean, this
is good for everybody. It's good for everybody to have
this happen.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Mm yeah, I would agree, but the point remains, Yeah,
these people did not die of old age. They were
either shot or starved to death or tortured or whatever,
or died of easily treatable diseases. And I would never
ever defend Hamas on any level. But they're saying, look,
we've lost track of where some of the bodies are.
(02:13):
Israel was bombing the bi Allah out of them, and
so I could see where perhaps when you're running for
your life, you don't bother, you know, bringing the remains
of some of your victims along side. And they certainly
don't care about the dead Jews, No, and the sensitivity
of those still alive who want to retrieve the body.
So yeah that I suspect the remains of a number
(02:37):
of the hostages will never be restored. You know, it
occurs to me in the midst of all this serious
discussion that it was Keir Starmer, wasn't it who unleashed
the worst bond, the worst gaff in the history of misspeaking.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You have that for us, Michael, here we go those
our clip of the year last year. I think no,
was it. I think it was cool again for the
media Ceasepy and Gaza, the return of the Sussigle the hostacle.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Because it's so tragic and terrible and serious. It's tough
to enjoy that idiotic gaff as much as I should also,
And Michael, I'm glad you played the longer version of that.
I'm reminded of the fact that Starmer and Biden and
Harris and Blinking and all those people prolonged this conflict
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by telling Israel don't drive Hamas into a position in desperation.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's the one thing you must not do.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Pull punches, stop, stop hitting them. It would have gone
on forever, it'd be going on five years from now
if those people were in charge.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yep, no doubt. Anyway. On a cheerier note, this.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
A two years of pent up anguish unleashed in an
instant one after another. Any newly freed hostages in their
families hug, cry, kiss, scream, and pray, did I say,
reveling in their new, almost unbelievable reality, Their nightmare is
(04:13):
finally over.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Those scenes of reuniting were if you didn't have a
tear in your eye, you're a hard hearted human. They
were amazing and I can't even imagine the anguish. And
then there's the families that will never know the joy
at the end of the anguish, unfortunately, but it was
an amazing achievement. Play Hillary Clinton fifty three, Michael Wija.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's a really significant first step, and I really commend
President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders
in the region.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
We have a trio of David's, Jack Drucker, French and Ignacious.
I know I want to get to Ignacious, not Lee Roth,
Not David Lee Roth. He did not make the list today,
only the top three Davids.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Do we all know the rules?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I'm kind of curious to hear what Drucker has to say. Michael,
give us fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Four, would you? What it was accomplished yesterday?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
And what we saw yesterday was a really big deal.
All the while he had a lot of conventional standard
negotiating going on on multiple tracks. So rather than fighting
with an ally creating a trade war or a diplomatic war,
rather than insulting the Allies voters, he creates the space
(05:37):
to have the support and leverage to use in this instance.
And I think it's a good lesson for the President
as he looks.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
At during nonsense.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Okay, he's trying to teach Trump how to do his job.
That's fine. I wondered if that was a misprint. Trump
acted conventionally. It says, wow, wow, I'd like to tell
talk to David about that. Let's try another David. That
one won't do. David Ignatius fifty six.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
It's important to move quickly, as quickly as possible to
the second phase of this comprehensive peace deal, and what
that means is getting in place the countries that have
agreed to take part in an international security force and
quickly train up vetted Palestinian gossen police, people who can
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keep order, who can replace hamas police wherever possible. This
is not going to be a bloodless process. The international
force and the new Palestinian security Force are going to
take casualties so that's going to be the test of
whether this is serious. This is going to be I
(06:48):
suspect for some months a low level insurgency. Hamas can't
threaten Israel itself anymore. That's over, but it can try
to hold onto the territory it has.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
They're dead enders, They've always been dead enders. I doubt
they'll change their stripes. They need to be wiped out.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So's David Ignatius of The Washington Post. We haven't. So
we don't have Lee, Roth or Bowie or Beckham dead.
Claire David Bowie has passed letterman or swimmer. David David
Beckham was not a bad Attenborough. That's the battle of
the David Jumee, Foster Wallace, Sedaris, David Robinson, Michelangelo's David.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Michelangelo's David again he's not with us, Yeah, yeah, you know.
Walter Russell Mead, who's a great writer, he said he has,
you know, essentially the five big takeaways I guess from
October thirteenth, the return of the hostages, and the second
(07:52):
he says is that only mister Trump could have made
this happen. No other living politician could have reassured Israel
threatened to Moss and hatched together a broad Arab coalition
the way he has done. Mister Trump has his shortcomings,
and even he wonders if he will get into heaven.
But he is a leader who bestrides the world scene
like no other.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
He is he absolutely is this. I didn't know where
I wanted to put this, but this is interesting. So
Mark Halpern had this today in his newsletter. He didn't
say who it is, but it's from a well known
thinker who hates Donald Trump. Absolutely hates Donald Trump. But
(08:32):
I thought this was interesting what he wrote. As a
Trump hater, bbe plowed the field, wit Coffin, Kushner cultivated
the archerd. Donald insisted the peaches ripe, which is an
interesting phrase, and the time was now to make the
pie none conventional politicians. It took more than Trump, but
Trump embodying US power as no president since Lincoln was
(08:53):
uniquely essential. The hard part. And this is from a
Trump hater, but again I think this is interesting. Trump is,
by orientation, truly a bastard. How can such a sensibility
have done so much good? I can't get my head
around it. Nonetheless, I not only accept it, I delight
in the iron of it. It's funny. It's very funny.
Don't misunderstand me. I still hate Trump. He's despicable and
(09:15):
I can't abide by that. But somewhere deep inside I
feel I somehow am in danger of being like him.
I mean, civilization can't work on his moral compass, yet
it can't work without him.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
There's too much to process here. Yeah, that's funny. I
think they're maybe overthinking it. It became incredibly unfashionable to
exercise US power after Vietnam and then Iraq, and they're
a kind of a weird moral code grew up around
(09:50):
that hesitation that it was distasteful and wrong. And Barack Obama, hell,
he's probably made a speech that says this, Essentially, the
only reason anybody would ever use the military or military
force is because they're not as skillful a negotiator as
I am. We can use incentives and negotiation and accomplish
(10:11):
everything war could could in the past, and we're far
more refined than that.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And Trump is a bastard.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But I would I would suggest, even if you're Barack
Obama or or you know anybody, if you're an American
president and you're not willing to be a brutal bastard
when it's necessary. You have no business being in charge
of a superpower. Well, you have to have complete credibility.
You can't pretend it. You can't say stop like Biden
(10:40):
and Harris did when nobody everybody knew they weren't going
to actually do anything. Trump is you know, the crazy
man theory or the bastard theory or whatever you want
to both sides actually believe he's willing to do anything. Yeah,
you know what occurs to me? And I think there
were no There probably weren't any this year Biden and
(11:01):
or Harris saying don't I ought.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
To be our clip of the That was our weakest
moment as a country.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
I was gonna say that may be the lowest moment
in American foreign policy. I mean, going back to the
Barbary Pirates, going back to when the Brits burned the
White House. That was worse because it was so pathetic.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What do you have to say to Benjamin Nett and
Yahoo and their talk of going into Rafa, don't whatever
the hell they wanted, because they weren't scared of you
in any way.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
And to Helmas don't or the trendy or Ragua members
who are coming to the US.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Do or Iran don't. None of that worked, Only Force worked.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Gender Bending Madness Sports Edition coming up in a moment
or two, A lot of good stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Stay with us. Hey, I want to talk about going
to the Halloween store over the weekend and a poor
purchase I made. That's scaring the crap out of us.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Get to that later, oh my, But first, it's a
gender Bending Madness Update Sports Edition.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So I kept hearing about this thing called the Loco.
We're a brave new world.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Today's subtitle could be the state of woke America, specifically
Washington State. In an astounding story, a fifteen year old
girl refused to play basketball against an eighteen year old
man in a girls league. Wow, what happened will astound you.
(12:47):
Let's start there.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Well, I heard my mom and my coach, the varsity
head coach, talking, and at that time I wasn't looking
over at the other team. But I heard my mom say,
that is a boy on the other team, and sure
enough there was a boy. And I went and sat out,
and my coach asked me if I was okay, and
(13:13):
I said, no, there's a boy. On the team. I
will not be playing or participating in any part of
this game.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
You realize that a bunch of states were trying to
make that a crime. What she just said to say
that boy.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, including Washington State. Yeah, And in fact she ends
up being the bad guy in the story in Washington State.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Roll on, Michael.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
So, after we realized there was a boy on the team,
and let me just say, this person is eighteen years old,
so he's a grown man at this point that was
playing on a jvars JV basketball game with fourteen and
fifteen year olds. So I went up and I talked
to the athletic director and I said, can you tell
me if that's a boy on the team? And he said,
I'm not going to say. We do not discriminate based
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on sexual identity. And I said, well, President Trump just
yesterday sign an executive order saying there's no boys or
men and women's or girls' sports. And he said, we
do not have to follow that. We follow Washington State
law in WIAA.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
All right, we've got to get to this part the
fifteen year old girl who refused to play against a
grown man in a girls league.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
What's happened next.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
So once that happened and I realized that Francis was
sitting out, it wasn't until towards the end of the
game when she There was a lot that went on
between the time that we realized there was this boy
on the team, and when she was leaving, she was
so mad. She feeled like she had been exposed and
it was just a terrible situation. She walked by and
(14:43):
said that you're a man. She was so frustrated in
the situation, and that is why she has been now
charged with bullying, harassment, and intimidation for misgendering this person.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
There you go, Washington State.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
If is a fifth eighteen year old girl you object
to playing against a grown man and say that's a man,
you're charged with bullying, harassment, intimidation, and misgendering. How insane
is that fight the woke mind virus.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
There has never been a spot in the world or
a time in history where anybody agreed with this nonsense.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
The Washington State's new motto maybe in Latin has got
to be obey the delusion or face prosecution.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Katie, So, does that mean they were allowing a grown
man to go into the locker room with high school girls.
That's like illegally you know, of age man almost certainly,
Oh my god, gosh, God is JV. So you know,
there's probably a lot of girls, not the greatest basketball players, athletic.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Not very old young out there with an eighteen years man,
a lot of freshmen, fourteen year old girls playing against
a grown man. And if if you pointed out in
Washington State you are the bigot.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Well, good god. Just from a safety standpoint, I don't
want my fourteen year old daughter who weighs eighty pounds
getting hipchecked by an eighteen year old grown man.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's indefensible on any level. Let's end the update with
a note of absurdity. There was recently a college basketball
volleyball game match in Canada in which three men were
playing for one women's team and two men were on
the other. The team with more men ended up winning
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the match. Both teams had multiple dudes on them. As
one person said, this is the reductio ad absurdism of
the woke mind virus.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's incredible.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, wow, it is. It's a gender bending madness update.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Holy crap. I know, I know, and you know.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Some days I feel like we're making the progress, the
fact that these things are still happening.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Now we have miles to go before we sleep, and
people who need to protect the infrastructure of it because
they're scared to speak out. It's just wow, Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Andy and Munsi Sky's won to center field hit well,
this one's got a chance.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Fail well, back to the wall, he leaves, it's.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
In and out, his down going to caught it, and
now chaos on the basis might have a play at
the plate. The throw not in time come, he's out.
He's out. It's a force play at the plate and
he is out. That all of this is going to
(17:46):
be reviewed.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
That is not your typical double plate. No, it is
going to be reviewed.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
In fact, the Supreme Court has agreed to take on
that play this session as they should. Amazing play by
the Brewers against the Dodgers, although the Dodgers went on
to win against the best team in the regular season.
So Seattle's up to nothing, Dodgers up one nothing. Major
League Baseball and the networks a I'm sure, are hoping
not to have a Brewers Mariners or Brewers Toronto World Series,
(18:16):
which would not get very good ratings.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Hoping the Dodgers are in there. I guess we went
to the big Hall of the you know the Halloweens,
the pop up Halloween stores that happened in every town
in America, you know those, And it's a good idea.
I don't know how the whole pop up thing works.
I should look into it. I'll bet it's pretty fascinating
from a business standpoint. The way that whole thing works.
(18:38):
You find a retail space that's empty, you make some deals,
and you decide two months this is going to be
our Valentine's Day store or our Halloween store or whatever
it is. And when we got one of those giant
halloween stores, and so they got all the stuff set
up in there, and they usually have. They had the
(19:01):
scary stuff is set up, and they got it turned
on and you can go. There's a button you can
press with your foot to make them do their thing.
And they had some sort of witch character there that
I didn't know what it was gonna do. But you know,
it's not like I'm surprised, or you wouldn't think I
would be surprised, because I know it's going to do something.
So I walk up to the witch character thing they
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got in the big Halloween store. I put my foot
on the thing and it looked far really fast with
its mouth thought and I poatly whipped about wet my pants.
It was very, very embarrassing, and children laughed at me,
and I did not like that at all. But anyway,
so every year I buy one more thing to add
to the yard. A couple of years ago it was
the giant inflatable pumpkin that I put in, and that's
twenty feet tall and that everybody loves that, including the
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neighbors when they come over to my house and say, hey,
the wind took your pumpkin down the street and you
need to go get it. And I have to go
get the giant inflatable pumpkin from two blocks down the road.
But this year, my son thought the thing to buy
would be. It was it's called a dummy. I guess
it's basically a life size mannequin and then you can
dress it however you want. And I thought that, yeah,
(20:06):
I thought that'd be kind of cool, uh to have
around the house. But it's ended up everybody has scared
the crap out of themselves with it, and we're not
trying to do it. It's just having it. Sit around someplace,
and I did it again this morning. I come out
and it's sitting in the tight table just because there's
somebody there and you're not expecting him. It's got pants
and a shirt and a hat on, and it's happened
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to everybody coming in the kitchen wall. It's pretty fun.
Of course.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
The real classic is you've got one of those and
then you dressed just like it and you more at
the kid.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Oh that's a good idea. I've not done that. I
don't I live in a cul de sac. Last year,
I think we got three kids, so I don't know
to do that. But that's a good idea. So you
sit there next to the mannequin and people think they're
both mannequins.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yeah, or you use the mannequin one year than you
the next year. There are variation.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And well, you had the fog machine. See, you had
the whole thing going, you know, a bitter and lightning.
You went big. That's very very good. Yeah. Yeah, other
than scaring the crap out of myself, I gotta tell
my son, don't set it at the kitchen table where
I get up early in the morning and I go
flip on the light and or somebody's sitting there.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Prop it up in the doorway so I can see
it when I wake up. Put it at the foot
of my bed.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Leaning over me. All right, Oh my god, Oh you
have myself the Willy's even thinking about that. That's funny.
That's a good way to figure out your fight flight
or freeze response if there's an intruder in your house.
You know, we all often talk about you don't know
how you'd act until it happened. I guess the way
I would act if I flipped on the kitchen light
(21:49):
and there's somebody sitting at the tables, I'd go, ah,
because that's what I did this morning. Ah, what am
I supposed to do? I'm supposed to immediately go into
a crouch in a judo position, quietly ready to take
them on. And I screamed at the top of my
lungs and waved my hands like this. I'm glad you
didn't shoot it. That'd be something. Oh I have fire
(22:12):
off four or five shots center ass. Oh boy. So
do you want to get to Gavin Newsom coming up
before we get to the top of the hour next segment,
or what do you want to do?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
You know, I'm taking a look at it. It might
work better as the one More Thing podcast. Honestly, I
like that because there's a lot there, and I'd hate
to be in such a hurry we have to rush
through it. None other than the Wall Street Journal has
written an article about the six seven phenomenon craze among children.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh yeah, I talked about that last week. That's right,
six seven.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Numbers six and seven are making life hell for math teachers, right,
and it comes from a rap song.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I mentioned it to my son and he said, Dad,
that is so old. Nobody does that anymore. Okay, Well,
I'm just learning about it now. And there's been several
articles about it and teachers who creatively come up with
a I'll give you six minutes to write a seven
sentence paragraph, and everybody likes it because it's six.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Seven right, right, And they quote a handful of math
teachers who say, we've just got to avoid it completely,
maybe maybe giving into it some better strategy, like you
pointed out. If you're like, hey, you need to do
a question six and seven, they just immediately start yelling
six seven and doing the weird seesaw hand gesture that
(23:32):
looks somewhere between juggling and melon handling.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, they're saying there's something bigger going on here, though
I think the like this probably makes no sense to
you whatsoever. There is a song where they mentioned six
seven and it just caught on what I think is
going on here. And it's like with skimmity toilet from
a couple of years ago. It didn't it didn't mean anything.
Six seven doesn't mean anything. It's got to do with
(23:57):
our lack of shared experiences. I think we desire as
human beings shared experiences so much, and because of modern society,
we don't have it. Because when I was a kid,
we would come in on a Wednesday morning and talk
about Happy Days episode on television from last night because
we all watched it together. That doesn't exist anymore. So
(24:21):
you have to manufacture these shared experiences because we crave
them so much. And just somebody saying skippity toilet and
you know what it means, and they know what it means,
and you get to recognize that fills you with some
sort of needed emotion. Oh, that these completely manufactured common
experiences have been created. I wish i'd known you had
(24:43):
that screen ready.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I'd have asked you to hold off because the person
who writes this article and it's funny. It's masquerading as
a news article, but like a lot of news these days,
it's opinions, writes the memes meaning, and its whole point
is that it has no meaning. Yeah, maybe a French
philosopher Albert Camouf had TikTok could explain it.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
The fact is six seven is not funny toilet. It
didn't mean anything other than I know it and you
know it right to.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Get into that, the meme is a prime example of
brain rot, the internet junk food consumed by people of
all ages to suck away time, productivity, and the living
of life. Kids have been saying six to seven for
about sorry, six or seven months since the spring, but
the recent return to school has supercharged the trend.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Then they mentioned skivity toilet. My god, you know it
might be a prime example of brain rot. But I
think you're right. Yeah, I don't think it has to
be brain rot. I think it's our we're just trying
to grasp. Clearly, it's human nature and we're trying to
grasp some shared experience to feel a connection. That's what
(25:46):
it is. It doesn't have to be a negative. I
guess it's a negative overall that we don't we have
so few shared experiences anymore, that we have to resort
to things so stupid. It drove my son, my youngest son, nut.
He couldn't stand. One of the things he couldn't stand
about school briefly when he was in an actual school,
was uh, these memes that would crop up, And he said,
(26:07):
but it doesn't mean anything, and everybody says it and laughs,
and it's got no meaning.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It would drive him crazy, right, Yeah, Well, rapper Scrilla
Yeah song dut dute six seven includes the phrase six seven,
a reference to sixty seventh Street in Philadelphia, where many
of his friends grew up.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah is now raking it in at concerts. I think adults, teachers,
everyone would be better off if they recognize you don't
need to go searching for what it means. Right. What
it means is we have some connectivity between us. That's
what it means.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
One matth YouTuber says this is very close to middle
schooler's previous favorite number sixty nine. There's some relief for
teachers that this meme is not sexual. An astro numerologist
ke Jesse Kelsey, author of the power of home numbers
six and seven, a very unconventional energy that is somewhat unknowable.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Quote. It has a meaning, but it is very hidden.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Na hung us numerologists, Shut up, you snake oil selling quack.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I wanted to be an astro numerologist, but that class
was full, so I had to do something else. Wow. Wow,
it's just a common experience. This isn't going away. This
is going to be the rest of our lives because
we don't have those common experiences anymore. I won't hear
it in the woods made USh you all well, made
up dumb memes. I think that's one of the things
(27:34):
that sports has going for it. At least it's something
you and another guy can talk about. Do you both
know something about right?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Indeed, yeah, you don't know somebody at all, but you
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Speaker 2 (28:50):
So I guess what I should hope is that instead
of screaming and waving my arms I should have like
immediately gone into a crouch roundhouse kick to the head
of the dummy, knocking it to the floor and then
over it with like a death blow before I recognize
it's inanimate.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Right, well, then go ahead and administer that death blow
to the dummy, because you rarely get a chance to
practice it in real life.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Five finger death punch, if you will. How fast does
the human brain work? Has anybody ever measured that? From
the light comes on, my brain believes there's a person
sitting there. There's not supposed to be someone sitting there.
Fear kicks in then memory of the oh yeah, it's
(29:35):
the dummy. I mean, how long is that whole span
of time? Like a millionth of a second? Sure it
might be ass second, it's not very long, one one thousand,
it's about a second. I'll bet that's wild. It's a
bad feeling, i'd say. And then you got to get
new underwear on Could you weight yourself? We got more
on the way if you missed a seconde get the
(29:56):
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Speaker 11 (30:01):
We had driven for two hours and needed to stop.
For gasp. My husband gets out of the car and
it's like the cat is on the roof and we're like,
what what do we do?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
We're already so far into the trip.
Speaker 11 (30:15):
We have a long way to go to get to
New Hampshire. My husband says he's just gonna have to
come with us, and he had such a good time
and a great you know, adventure. So I actually did
videos and pictures everywhere we went of him.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
So at what point did they realize the cat was
on the roof? One hundred miles? How did the cat?
Which point?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Dad said? Bad news, kids, We got to drive another
hundred miles. It's still up there.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Why what was it in a container? Or how did
enough fly off? It's just clinging to the roof, right, Michael, Yeah,
how I understand it, just clinging to the roof. Wow,
all right, thank you. I'm glad the cats are right,
doug in its claws, thank god. Yes, poor little pussy cats. Yes.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Uh, here's more about retirement and Germany than you ever
wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Free press reporting the government.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
A government panel in Germany is proposed raising the country's
retirement age to seventy three to prevent the collapse of
their pension system.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Seventy three yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Meanwhile in France they're retiring at what age twenty six
or whatever it is?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Seventy three yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
The authors of the report right quote, we will have
to work more if we want to maintain the scope
of the social security system without simultaneously leaving even larger
burdens for future generations.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
You know what's interesting about that, while seventy three I
think makes most of us go ah, is when we
originally set up Social security, life expectancy was so much different.
It was basically the same thing. I mean, the idea
was most of you aren't going to make it that long, right,
so those of you that do at sixty five, you
can quit.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Well, right in fact, excellent, excellent observation. One of the
next things they mentioned is, quote the retirement age must
be linked to life expectancy.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So interesting the.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Gentleman's saying, we're not going to spend our kids and
grandkids into you know, crippling indebtedness, and we've got to
be realistic about how long people are living.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Now.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Whether this actually passes or not, I do not know,
but that's what the report says.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
But yeah, you're just being honest about it. You know
how mad I've been about this for so long. When
Barack Obama said everyone deserves a dignified retirement. Who came
up with this everyone deserves to retire idea? I mean,
that's completely a manufactured notion that you get to quit
working at some point and live off of something else.
(32:45):
That's not the way the animals are built. Human beings
are built. That we created this.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Concept, right, Societies have never been built around that idea.
I mean, maybe you saved enough that you could and
that's great, or maybe your family took care of he
or whatever. Yeah, the assumption that well, the assumption of
the assumption is wrong.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Meanwhile, literally in your fifties, you can retire in France
and live the rest of your life sucking off the
government teat which doesn't sound bent. Also, one more thing
about Europe, the government.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
This is so interesting.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
In the Free Press, they're talking about why zero of
the top twenty five largest companies on Earth are in Europe,
not a single one of them, and they talk about
why that is partly you can never ever fire anyone.
The economist has a brutal analysis with a paragraph you
(33:45):
need to read, says, so I'll read it. There are
two ways for Western companies to sack lots of people.
The American one involves the boss inviting hundreds of unsuspecting
employees on a zoom call, offering them a few months
wages as severance, and insincerely wishing them luck in their
future endeavors. Oh and by the way, have your desk
cleared off by lunchtime. The European method is different. Companies
(34:08):
waiting to enact mass layoffs typically start with consultations with unions,
representatives of which sit on companies boards. In Germany, a
social plan is drafted. Strikes inevitably ensue. Politicians get involved
in badger the employer into hiring fewer people than it
had originally planned. Firing fewer rather or to pay for
it soon to be ex staff to be retrained. The
(34:29):
full cost of downsizing is only known once labor courts
are called to rule on the matter years later. Meanwhile,
the company in question often cannot hire more employees lest
it be made to hire those who are just let
go who they don't need anymore. That's the creative destruction
of capitalism European style.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You just can't do it. It's not an accident that the
Steve Jobs and Elon Musks and whoever else of the
world almost are always in the United States or come
to the United States.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Right final note, I thought this was really encouraging. We
talked last week about the crime victimization. They said, yes,
crime is way up in American cities, and it's not
Trump fiction. The Department of Justice has launched a probe
into the DC Police Force, accusing them of manipulating crime
data to make it look like the city was safer.
And you got a bunch of cops now going to
(35:16):
the Justice Department and saying, yeah, this has been systematic.
It's been going on for a long time. Here are
a bunch of examples I've compiled. It's good stuff. They
mentioned that the Washington Post reported the story. They actually
used the term DC police officers are feeding information to
(35:38):
the Justice Department. The willing participation of officers in the
investigation could put senior DC police officials under a microscope
like they're mobsters that have gone State's evidence or something
like that. They're cops telling the truth. Why are you
saying they're feeding information to the Justice Department?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
WOWO, we need to get a handle on this whole
crime to sixth thing as a nation. It would benefit absolutely,
benefit absolutely everybody. Now, the lives are too useful. They'll
never let them go. So we do a lot of
segments a lot of hours every single week. If you
miss any or you just want to hear them and
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Speaker 4 (36:19):
Play it back half speed. We sound like we're drunk.
It's always amusing. Armstrong and Getty
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