May 14, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Michael Cohen's testimony in the Hush Money Trial...
- Trump's potential running mates make appearances...
- Say hello to GPT-4o...
- Gender Bending Madness...
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Then we got to the porn starriness of it all.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Remember Trump's whole defenses.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I never slept with Stormy Dinos, and I didn't pay
her to be quiet. Michael Cohen paid her to be
quiet because he's such a great guy who I hope
is torn apart by wild dogs. And I only paid
him when I thought were legal fees. And if I
did anything at all, I did everything I did which
I didn't do to protect my wife from finding out
the things I never did.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Amiel, That might be the perfect defenses. Trump faces trial
for misdemeanor business records charges that led to a misdemeanor
campaign thing that has expired according to the statue of limitations,
except for the bonus hear of COVID with runners on
first and second or first, second and third resulting in
(01:01):
a felony voter fraud for covering up a scandal or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Back to you, I was listening to the coverage yesterday,
and as we pointed out, since this whole thing began
first burbled up a year or so ago. The sex
is what drives the coverage of this and maybe even
the whole court case, because if it were something else,
and I was trying to think of a good example,
like if he'd I don't know, least a ski boate
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he used for the election but tried to pay for
it a different way so his wife wouldn't find out,
or something I don't know, would it would it would
have taken an expensive vacation, say, when it happens all
the time, would it be grabbing people the same way?
Because the sex is inconsequential and it's always just kind
of uh implied that that's the big deal or a
(01:53):
big deal, but it's not. It's just not not really, no, No,
the whole thing is is squishy. Actually, as long as
we're talking about this, give us Jonathan's tarly In forty four,
Michael I.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Was laboring under the same misconception that there had to
be clarity as to what you're charged with so you
could prepare a defense. There is still a debate where
experts are sort of shrugging that they're not quite sure
what the crime being alleged here is. But on top
of that the prosecutors haven't really explained why denoting this
(02:30):
as a legal expense was wrong. So we don't even
have that explanation.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Not yet anyway. But Cohen is on the standarday, going
to be cross examined, and who knows how Welly does
with that. I don't know. I mean, I've given up
on paying attention to the legal experts really, because, like
I said, I feel like I could go on any
of these cable shows with no knowledge of the law
and having not listened to the testimony and do exactly
(02:57):
what the cable news show wants me to do.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Really, nobody's listened to the testimony we've just gotten, you know,
just little highlights. I guess you'd call it from folks
in the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Because if you flip on MSNBC, always a rough day
for Donald Trump. Today, Cohen landing blow after blow, tying
Donald Trump to the money that transferred to Stormy Daniels,
blah blah blah. And then on the other side, nothing,
that's a big nothing nothing nothing. Okay, fine, wait and
see what the jurors decide. I guess yeah, now you're
(03:27):
sucking the fun out of this. I was going to
play a couple of like wildly contrasting points of view.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Well it's illustrated, that's yeah, it makes me clearly. I
just you outsmarted me so often occurs. Good lord, he
broke my ankles with his crossover folks. Anyway, Uh, here's
your more standard view. This is William Brennan on the
lead forty two Michael.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean, this guy's a polluted source. He could be
the Dictionary photograph for polluted source. He's a narcissistic scophant
that put his star on Trump's wagon, and when he
didn't get what he wanted, which was a DC, he
turned on him. And now he's got an extra grind.
This guy wrote a book called Revenge this guy Michael Cohens.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
About Michael Cohen.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
He was hoping to monetize his role as the president's attorney.
I mean, I think Blanche will have him on the
stand for days. And Cohen's got an allergy to veracity,
so it's going to be an interesting cross.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
This guy's got a bit of Al Sharpton in him
and to veracity. That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
All right, here's some other geek who may or may
not have any idea what he's talking about, but he's
got a completely contrarian point of view.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
His name is Randy Zelen. He's on CNN forty one.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Michael, I think if the defense is smart, rather than
simply trying to blow up Michael Cohene, I would embrace him.
I would embrace the power that he had. I would
embrace his reputation as being a bully. I would embrace
the fact that he was put on this earth to
please the former president. And when we are put on
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a pl to please someone, we tend to do things
without getting their approval or getting their permission, so we
can come back and say, look what I did for you.
I would embrace the fact that the man had his
sights on being the chief of staff there.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is a credible story.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
And remember trials are all about whose story makes more sense.
And to portray Michael Kohen as someone who would do
anything to curry favor with the former president, it would
not be above him to go and do all of
this on his own and then say, look how I
saved you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A lot of a defense in a trial is sprinkling
seeds of doubt. And if you can spread two or
three different sorts of seeds of doubt, you know, maybe
seeds one and two don't sprout with juror four, but
seed three does.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And remember all you need is one.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
But if you've got three pretty good rationales for why
this is a stupid prosecution, we should all go home.
I really like their chances of getting a jury. I
thought that was an interesting take from Randy Zellen.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, one of the things I've learned, going clear back
to the OJ trial and following these TV trials is
it's really hard to separate in your head what you're
hearing from commentators from the only things the jurors here correct.
And remember, they haven't heard any of this other stuff.
They in theory didn't know these things coming into it,
(06:24):
and they haven't heard any of this commentary from the
cable news channels. They've just heard the thing, and it's
really hard to know what they're thinking. Right. Agreed, so on.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
A totally different topic, because honestly, I don't think any
of the particulars have a great deal of significance to
this convoluted weak ass, pardon me law fair trial.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Here's one interesting thing that came out yesterday. I thought,
according to Cohen anyway, and he's a liar, but this
could be true. Milanisen Milan, what did juice? Milania came
up with the phrase locker room talk after the Access
(07:10):
Hollywood tape came out and Trump was talking about grammed
and women by their yu who's and all that sort
of stuff. Milania came up with the idea of just
say it's locker room talk and spin it that way.
It's just guys being guys. That's interesting if that's true.
That if she's kind of the way Hillary Clinton was
with Bill where they would actually strategize together on how
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to handle his affairs, right at least according to Georgie
Stephanopolis's books. And I keep going back to and I've
said this a bunch of times, I just want to
make sure everybody hears it. When Bill Clinton would have
affairs and they would come out, even if he was
in love with the woman and it was multi years,
they would claim the person was either insane or a
slime slot. And that's how they would get rid of
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them as.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Opposed to take the lead on that, of course, and
Hillary could play ball with it, and that's how they
handled their what they used to call bimbo eruptions, that's.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The term for it. They had inside the Clinton world
that call them bimbo eruptions. Okay, we're gonna claim this
woman's a slut, she sleeps around all the time, she
lies about it, she's just money grubbing. So they would
destroy women who had sex with Bill Clinton, whereas Trump's
paying them off. Neither is great. How about you don't
cheat on your wives. But to act like the Trump's
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doing something that just cannot be put up with them
as a president, it's ridiculous. It is absolutely flaming hypocrisy.
But you gotta be used to that right now. So
the one angle of the story that I do find
highly amusing is that Trump is under that gag order
the Trump did I just say that Trump Trump is
under the gag order from the judge, And can't you know,
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impugne the judge or the witnesses, et cetera, et cetera.
And it's been our beliefs that Trump will intentionally violate
that to get put in jail and become even greater
a martyr for Mega, but.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Hasn't happened yet. But he's come up with this clever angle.
Now you got folks like JD. Vance and Andy McCarthy
and various other folks showing up outside the trial, politicians
especially and making statements. Well, Trump has now taken to
reading their statements outside the courtroom, just quoting them, which
is an interesting strategy. Gag Order wise hit us with
(09:19):
thirty four there, Michael jd Vance, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And that quote trum is a direct to democracy And
we cannot have a country where we get to prosecute
your political opponent instead of persuading the voters. Ag Bird,
as you know, very highly respected from Iowa. Let the
American people decide who the next leader of the free
world will be.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Politics is absolutely no place in this sort. This is
all politics.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Andy McCarthy, great legal analysts said, none of this is illegal.
There's nothing illegals called politics. There's nothing illegal.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So as some belief, like Sunday before last, all these
various people were on the Sunday talk shows basically putting
their resumes in for being his running mate, and there's
some belief that that's what's happening now with a bunch
of these people. Jd Vance showing up there, Ramaswami is
showing up there today. Then there's word that Marco Rubio's
headed there. So Now that's the next level of You've
(10:21):
got to go be there and write out some sort
of statement that Trump can read, and he'll judge who's
got the best. Wow, it is the Apprentice. He is
running another episode of The Apprentice. You know who's got
the lead according to your odds makers, though, And this
is the guy I'm hoping for, and I think it's
going to be the person if I had to bet money.
(10:41):
Doug Bergham. Doug Bergham for a number of reasons and smart.
He's the guy that introduced Trump at that one hundred
thousand person crowd in New Jersey the other night. And
I listened to his introduction and it was real good.
He's not a light to place on fire gut. But
during the debates, he was the guy I liked the most.
I liked him better than Nicky Haley. I just didn't
(11:02):
pay much attention to him because he was at less
than one percent. She actually had a shot. But he
was great in the debates. The things he talks about,
I mean, it's it's the perfect gives you cover if
you're if it's too oogie for you to vote for Trump.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Exactly I heard, And I'll bet you heard this too,
some really really smart commentators talking about the deep steaks,
if you'll pardon my vomit inducing use of that cliche,
and and super smart people, very insightful, but they still
don't get it. They're talking about well that, you know,
the great swing state of No. That doesn't really balance
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him geographic, Like, you don't get it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You don't get it. People hesitate to vote for Trump
because they think he's a loose cannon, because he's just
too crazy. You need you don't need to balance geographically,
you need to balance crazy. You gotta have a Doug Bergham,
a Marco Rubio, somebody like that, who is seen as
a steady hand, a call influence Trump, who famously didn't
(12:03):
hire hr McMaster because he said he looks like a
beer salesman. He likes because he casts people for TV shows.
He did that, you know, as an adult, and made
lots of money doing that. Burgham looks like the president.
So I mean, that's part of what he's got going
for him. And what's the number one thing Burgham has
going for him. He's a billionaire, and you're going to
(12:26):
outshine Trump. Trump only likes rich guys and hot women.
That's the only people he really has any respect for.
Well and certainly Pence also answers the description of quiet,
earnest background guy. Yeah. As I heard somebody point out yesterday,
that was at a time when Trump needed the conservative
Christian He need the cultural guy to back up the
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fact that he was a millionaire Democrat playboy his whole life.
That's the balance he needed. He doesn't need that balance
as much now. He needs the I'm not too crazy
balance that you were talking about. I can see that
ticket Trump Bergham would be tough to beat. I think
if any idiotic and highlights from the yes Burgham versus
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Kabla Harris from the vice presidential debate, are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You'll slap her silly metaphorically, speaking verbally, verbally everybody so,
as idiotic highlights from this idiotic trial raise their idiotic heads,
we will bring them back to you throughout the show.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
That's right, skimby toilet, stay with us. I woke up disturbed.
The guy is real. The woman's voice is a computer.
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
How's it going? Hey there, it's going great? How about you?
I see you're rung in an open AI hoodie. Nice choice?
Speaker 8 (13:53):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What the feeling about? Are you in a cool indose
for yourself or something?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Can you take a guess of what I might be
doing based on what I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Showing you here? Hmmm?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
From what I can see, it looks like you're in
some kind of recording or production setup.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
With those lights. Okay, so what's happening there? Oh? Boy?
Is the new open AI four can see you and
read your writing and talk to you as opposed to
just chat. The new chat doesn't just chat. It looks
at you and can say, hey, cool, you're wearing an
open AI hoodie. Appreciate that? How do you like that? Hello? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
The Wall Street Journal reporting on the new AI model
DUBGPT four can better digest images and video in addition
to text, and interacts with people by voice in real time.
You can interrupt the voice feature while talking to it
and say never mind, you know what else we need
to talk about as blah blah blah, and it'll just
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adapt immediately. It's capable of responding close to instantaneously.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know what I think I have the AI
chatbot say hey, you shaved? I like it.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Open Ai executives showed to livestream demonstration and how the
model kule to analyze code translate languages between two speakers,
which would be amazing. I mean that makes Google Translate
look like well, yesterday's news guide users through a basic
algebra problem. Finally, but one written down on a piece
of paper. You just show it and say, all right,
(15:30):
can you help me solve this problem?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh boy, you had another step toward kids cheating uhh yeah, yeah,
or learning to harness the tools that we have and
we'll all be using. It's gonna be harder than ever
to convince your kid you need to learn how to
do this. This is I got ten devices surrounding me
right now that can do this math for me. Why
would I ever need to do this? Yeah? Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
The new model could also detect a person's emotions in
their tone of voice or facial expression. I wonder if
it could detect sarcasm. You look pensive yet full of Onwii.
Let's see what there was?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
One more? Uh?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
It already features a voice mode that combines three separate
models to respond to users in voice.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
No, that goes into the old one. Sorry, that was
the wrong paragraph and you got. Yeah, if you got
always have to remember that whatever you'd hear, you just
heard or read or try out, it'll be fifty times
better in six months, right right.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So GPT four to zero was built as a single
model trained on text, vision and audio material and can
respond more quickly and accurately. So, in other words, it
takes in the world and responds to it right visually
through text and obviously audio.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, God, reproductive rates are already flow right.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The porn applications always because you got to be you know,
the biggest the websites are porn sites in the world.
That's just the way the whole thing works. Wow.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, the story of mankind is pornography and military applications.
That's what drives most progress medicine. Yeah, when we get away,
when we get.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Around to it, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
This Mother's Day is especially significant for me because it's
the first Mother's Day that I am celebrating since coming
out as trans and starting HRT. My daughter, who is eight,
she said, but you're not a mom.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I said, yes i am. She said, no, you're not.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
And the reason she said that is because my wife
doesn't allow her to call me mom. I'm known as parent.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It makes me sad. I wish she would call me mom,
but she doesn't. So I said to.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Her, well, I'm a mom. Whether you acknowledge that or not,
I am still a mom. If you're a trans female
and have kids, you're a mom. You're no less a
mom than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You're poor kid. How old is a kid? Did she say? Eight? Oh?
My god, your poor kid? Trans women are women, dogs
are dogs.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Always makes me laugh. So I don't care about her.
You want to do that and talk about it that way, fine,
but you're poor eat year old girl. Oh my god,
that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Michael, I failed to warn you. Do we have the
gender bending madness? See music?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Retti're so sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We were discussing other things about later in the show,
and I forgot to make it clear.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
To my It's my fault. I Joe Getty. Would you
like me to sign something? Is there?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Do we have some sort of form of assuming blame?
I will sign it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Glad that woman didn't even go with uh, you know,
I'm a kind okay, she the person didn't even go
with a you know, I'm a kind of mom. I'm
no less of a mom. Then you're the person who
gave birth to you. I mean, that's crazy. You were
dad a week ago. Give me a break. It's gender
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branding madness, folks. Poor girl five.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I came across a really interesting piece of thinking from
a gentleman who's a PhD. And he's very sympathetic to
the gay community. And this is very long, so I
going to summarize part of it. But one thing that
increasingly is becoming clear to people who are actually looking
into all this is that the lgbt QI A plus
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minus BBQ RFD thing is an artificially assembled group of
people with very very different lives and takes and that
sort of thing, And it's an artificial jamming of them together,
so that, for instance, gay people think, oh, I have
to be down with the whole tra for kids thing
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because I'm in that group of letters, when more and
more gay people, for instance, are saying, now, wait a minute,
that that's sick transitioning kids.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well, this guy is talking.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
About how a lot of people assume that since like
the gay marriage decision the Supreme Court and softening attitudes
about gay this and that that it's easy for people,
especially young people to come out, and the guy's making
the point, No, it's not. It's still really difficult for kids,
and he talks about the internalized feelings they might have.
(20:33):
There's something wrong with me because I'm different from everyone
I know. I'd give up almost anything to be somebody else,
somebody normal. I feel like I'm so screwed up. Sometimes
I'd like to die. I'm a freak. I don't fit in.
I hate myself. This happens among kids who discover decide
they're gay or lesbian or whatever. And that's his premise
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that it's still really challenging, especially for young people, and
he makes the point a troubling number of men and women,
even psychotherapists working with gender confused children, have a visceral
disgust at the same thought, at the thought of same
sex relationships. Many, if not most, gender nonconforming kids are
bullied in middle and high school, just as they've always been,
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at least until they come out as trans, and he
mentions Hannah Barnes's book The Cast Review, looking into the
system and britting it. Up to eighty percent of the
kids treated at the Tavistocks Gender Identity Development Service, where
same sex attractive, attracted.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Rather eighty percent.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Genderists might argue that, well, of course they were, because
they're trapped in the wrong body. They are assigned female
at birth, but they're really a man or vice versa.
As many have noted before me, He writes, gender identity
ideology is deeply homophobic at heart.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's interesting. So you'd have to believe that you're actually
a woman. You're born with the male genitalia, called a
man by the doctor, you're actually a woman, and like
most people, you're straight. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Everything's great, and I fit right in because I'm a
straight woman instead of no, I'm a gay dude or
a lesbian woman, and he goes into.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Uh oh.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Hilary Cass in the Big Cast review in Britain, she
went on to give example of a young biological male
who'd begun to transition early on quote, she's doing well.
She had puberty blockers at the earliest stage, she had
feminizing hormones at the early stage, and she passes very
well as a woman. But with hindsight she knows she
was a boy with intense internalized homophobia and was gay.
At this point, she's clearly not going to transition. How
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could she he writes, in my psychotherapy practice, I worked
with several such men. One of them swallowed the lies
told to him by gender clinicians that he could actually
become an actual woman via sex reassignment surgery, and as
a result, chose to go under the knife. He now
knows he's a gay man, but he no longer has
a penis as a result of his surgery. Various sorts
of intercourse is always painful. Another jar or something he
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can reattach it. Maybe someday, Oh, sure that happens. Another
was sent by his parents for conversion therapy after he
came out as gay. Failed to convert him. He underwent
surgery to transform himself he believed into a normal heterosexual woman.
He can't ever go back. He's functioning poorly. Third avoided surgery,
but suffers from a long list of medical complications following
years on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. As a
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young gender non conforming boy, whatever the hell that means,
he's a feminine, he liked dudes. He suffered such intense
bullying and ostracism that he took flight from his homosexuality. Now,
as a young adult, he has no sexual function to
speak of at all.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, that would be that. I feel like the toughest
situation you could be in is if you had a
very effeminate boy or very butcher girl in a lot
of modern schools, it'd be tough, be a tough situation
because the teachers would be the activist teachers would constantly
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be trying to recruit them to be transgender, beat them
into it. Plus the kids have been because I know
this because I got a kid in school. I know
how they talk. They talk about this stuff all the time.
It's amazing how much it comes up in conversation. Well,
because it's part it's in every class and your social
media too, and there's like ninety different celebrated days, months, weeks,
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occurrences to constantly remind everybody. But it'd be it'd be
really tough for a kid, Like again, if you're an
effeminate boy who's gay, Uh, to fight against that? And
how would you know? You wouldn't know, you're you know,
twelve or whatever. And can you imagine if fundamentalists of
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one religion or another said, oh my god, my son
is attracted to men. Here, what we do We cut
off his penis? We and his testicles, We feed him hormones,
and we craft him something like a vagina so he
can be.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
A straight woman. That's the solution to having a gay son.
You would be you would be looked upon like you.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Were a member of the Third Reich. Yeah that that
that it's it's pretty easy to portray that is that what?
That's the way you could be like a super right
wing you don't believe in gay activists. Oh yeah, like
you you're gay, then you're you say you're no, you're not.
You're a woman, and you chop him up and turn
him into a physical something like a woman, right or
(25:38):
vice versa. Right, you're not gonna have horrifying You're not
gonna have a gay son. You're gonna have a woman.
You have a daughter.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
And the idea that this has done to uh confused
adolescence is is it's again this it's the stuff of
doctor Mengela, and I will stand by those words. So
a couple more examples of sick and then some really
great news. Disney's news star Wars series Tales of the
Empire uses they them pronouns for a gender ambiguous character.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So Disney continues with their well idical queerization of children's entertainment.
My kids will bail on that immediately they come across that.
I don't know about the rest of the country. Not
going to get into detail on that. There is a
new pullout from Rasmussen. Seventy one percent want Disney to
quote cease grooming small children. To put it more literally,
(26:30):
they want Disney to stop attempting to queer children using
drag queen's gay sex, transvestite, and transsexuals in their entertainment
and their parks. Vast majority of Americans want them to
stop doing that. Well, there's different kinds of grooming. Like
Pluto looks like he could use some grooming. I appear
(26:50):
to be a lot of ticks, matted hair. I would
agree to nails trimmed. Here's something interesting though. In early
twenty when a lot of this stuff had not yet
gone as mainstream as it is now, Disney, the Disney Corporation,
enjoyed a plus fifty six favorability rating Okay, seventy seven
(27:11):
favorable to twenty one unfavorable. Plus fifty six. It is
now plus three WHOA So would they did they think
it was going to make them more liked? Like? Were
they so off base of where most people are that
they thought they would make them more liked or are
they or were they willing to take a hit to
(27:33):
do what's right?
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Which do you think? I think it's well, it's kind
of both. I think they have activist people within the company.
We've seen some of the videos and heard their voices
saying I'm working like crazy to drive this as far
as i can, and that the higher ups in the
C suite they believe Twitter's America. They believe activists represent
America right, so they went along with it thinking it
(27:54):
was good for business.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I would guess, yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Thus in the way could George Floyd everybody was terrified
take on the DEI crowd. One more quick story than
the good news, The Harvard Crimson with an article recently
claims it's unclear if men have an athletic advantageow for
women to claim that at this point is hilarious, Absolutely hilarious.
(28:17):
But he's so called most elite of the elite universities
are still printing that in.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Their school paper. Did you catch your cultists? When Jerry
Seinfeld Bash and Harvard, did you listen any of his
graduation speech? It's actually pretty damned interesting just a little bit. Yeah,
it's pretty interesting. First of all, it's now known only
thirty people walked out of tens of thousands of people
(28:42):
in that state at Duke, So whatever, he got way
more attention than it deserved. But he is talking about Harvard.
At one point he said, Harvard. Now, Harvard used to
be a great college. I mean, you might be too
young to realize this, but Harvard used to be like,
really a big deal. It's not anymore. And I thought
that was interesting, stated good for him, Good for him.
All right, finally the good news.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Speaking of big colleges, this is one of the new ivs,
according to people who think we need to have ivs.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Monday slashed funding
for DEI initiatives and diverted the money to public safety
and policing instead. Now, it didn't tear it down to
the studs, which I was hoping, but it redirected two
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point three million of the diversity funding to campus security,
possibly precipitating the collapse of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Hallelujah,
and all DEI programs immediately wherever they exist.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
You're was mentioning, yeah, go ahead, go ahead and finish
off your thought.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Ah UNC's twenty four member board of governors, which includes
the board of trustees, expected to vote next week on
changing the school's diversity policy. University of Florida and March
closed its diversity department, fired all of its DEI staff,
and canceled DI contracts with outside vendors.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Again, hallelujah. You only need new ivs if you believe,
if you actually wish we had a cast system. You
believe in a class system, and you need to have
another group of colleges that you can fake your kids
into and show that you're important and rich and you
can hang out with your important, rich friends. And my
kids go to these colleges, and people who are beneath
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us don't. That's why you have to have new ivs.
Well said, well said, yeh yeh, it's right. But hey,
here's the deal. This is not the beginning of the end.
This is the end of the beginning.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
We need to keep fighting these sick, divisive, racist, neo
Marxist programs wherever they are. We're not even nearly done.
Got a couple more examples of colleges going in the
right direction. But you know, I could also point out
there's a government program I just read about. I can't
remember the Department of Agriculture, as somebody is instituting a
new DEI program. So as most of America is waking
(30:58):
up to the insanity government and a Democrat government is
going even further in that direction, keep fighting it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
All the money is in Roaring Kiddy right now. We've
got a too late for you to do any good
stock tip for you, among other things on the way,
are strong YETI we need to get them to the ship.
We could save them. Forget it. Let them die. It's
(31:26):
not worth the trouble they were about to surrender irrelevant.
The Jedi are a threat to be eradicated wherever they
are found. So who are these Jedis who were who
were hurt?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Oh it's one person they ohe it's a Jedi that
uses they them pronouns. So the people who are trying
to kill them, well, I'm going to kill them, but
I'm not going to use them. I'm not going to
misgender them. I'm not going to use the wrong pronouns.
Thanks Disney.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Okay, So I'm not sure I would have noticed that
if somebody hadn't pointed it out. In fact, I'm sure
I wouldn't have. But that's an interesting decision. So that
Disney didn't want to have the he or she on
referring to anybody, Well, no, on that particular character. Okay,
that's a gender non conforming character. Jack, what part of
(32:18):
this do you not get?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
That character uses they them pronouns but they don't, so
the people trying to slaughter them respected their pronouns?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Well, did they state that at some point in the
episode or would I just pick up on it through
the fact that they say they.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Well, I think you would in the visuals as they're
looking at a single person and saying they them all
the time.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I'm just trying to be honest. I'm not sure I
would have noticed or not. I don't know. I think
they're trying way too hard. I guarantee you that I
don't know anything about the video game Roaring Kiddy? Is
that for kids or adults? Is that an adult man game?
But game stock stock game stop stock soared over seventy
(33:02):
percent and another meme stock thingy where they drove up
to the stock on the whole Roaring Kitty. And if
you're hearing it from me. At this point, it's obviously
too late for you to enjoy any of these run ups.
I feel like, if I was a younger man and
had a little money, I would like really try to
be on top of these things, because people can and
do make money. Of course, you can and do lose money.
But on some of these crazy run ups where everybody
(33:25):
gets on board and drive something up and then dumps
it at the right time by the dip, right by
the dip, by the dip is right.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Yeah, I feel like all these momentary, high flying, wild
internet schemes are passing me by.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh well, I'll be fine, right, Yeah. You'd have to
really pay attention again once you hear it from your
favorite radio show. It's too late, oh trust us, Yeah,
way too late. New York Times has this article, you know,
the whole cicada thing, which I keep hearing about but
I don't know much about. They're gonna be It's worse
than ever because of global warming, I keep hearing. Worse.
(33:58):
Is it bad? Our? Cicada's bad? No? Anyway, more of
them or less of them are the same number. Because
of climate change, A trillion cicadas are about to come
upon us. Everywhere, just in certain places. Again, I haven't
read a single article about this. I'm not interested in bugs,
But New York Times is an article for edible bug fans.
Cicadas are noisy lobsters of the trees. There are about
(34:22):
to be a trillion delicious cicadas. I merge across the
Midwest and Southeast for a brief raucaus once in a
lifetime opportunity for all the And then they've got all
these recipes in which you cook your cicadas in certain
different ways, trying to get the bug thing going in
that they kind of told me when told us when
we were kids that was going to be the future
of eating. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I remember when the cicadas came out in my neighborhood
in Chicago, Land when I was I'm gonna say, ten
or twelve years old, something like that, And I remember
people eating them on the news and everybody recoiling it.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Oh gross, but yeah, okay, go ahead eat them. As
wasn't there a story a while back that bugs aren't
near as nutritious as they'd been pushing all through the seventies.
I think, I think I remember that there's a bit
of a myth that bugs are so damn nutritious. They
can get all the mtares need from some grasshoppers, ants
and cicadas.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
White yeah, beans, eat all the bugs you want. I'm
working on this pork chop over here, and I got
to focus. I gotta concentrate.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
God, lobsters in the trees. That's That's not the way
I'm looking at it. Gross. They got them all boiled
up though, cover slathered in butter. Of course, you cover
anything and enough butter. It's pretty good, aren't strong and
getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Then we got to the porn starriness of it all.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Remember Trump's whole defenses.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I never slept with Stormy Dinos, and I didn't pay
her to be quiet. Michael Cohen paid her to be
quiet because he's such a great guy who I hope
is torn apart by wild dogs. And I only paid
him when I thought were legal fees. And if I
did anything at all, I did everything I did which
I didn't do to protect my wife from finding out
the things I never did.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Amiel, That might be the perfect defenses. Trump faces trial
for misdemeanor business records charges that led to a misdemeanor
campaign thing that has expired according to the statue of limitations,
except for the bonus hear of COVID with runners on
first and second or first, second and third resulting in
(01:01):
a felony voter fraud for covering up a scandal or
something like that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Back to you, I was listening to the coverage yesterday,
and as we pointed out, since this whole thing began
first burbled up a year or so ago. The sex
is what drives the coverage of this and maybe even
the whole court case, because if it were something else,
and I was trying to think of a good example,
like if he'd I don't know, least a ski boate
(01:29):
he used for the election but tried to pay for
it a different way so his wife wouldn't find out,
or something I don't know, would it would it would
have taken an expensive vacation, say, when it happens all
the time, would it be grabbing people the same way?
Because the sex is inconsequential and it's always just kind
of uh implied that that's the big deal or a
(01:53):
big deal, but it's not. It's just not not really, no, No,
the whole thing is is squishy. Actually, as long as
we're talking about this, give us Jonathan's tarly In forty four,
Michael I.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Was laboring under the same misconception that there had to
be clarity as to what you're charged with so you
could prepare a defense. There is still a debate where
experts are sort of shrugging that they're not quite sure
what the crime being alleged here is. But on top
of that the prosecutors haven't really explained why denoting this
(02:30):
as a legal expense was wrong. So we don't even
have that explanation.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Not yet anyway. But Cohen is on the standarday, going
to be cross examined, and who knows how Welly does
with that. I don't know. I mean, I've given up
on paying attention to the legal experts really, because, like
I said, I feel like I could go on any
of these cable shows with no knowledge of the law
and having not listened to the testimony and do exactly
(02:57):
what the cable news show wants me to do.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Really, nobody's listened to the testimony we've just gotten, you know,
just little highlights. I guess you'd call it from folks
in the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Because if you flip on MSNBC, always a rough day
for Donald Trump. Today, Cohen landing blow after blow, tying
Donald Trump to the money that transferred to Stormy Daniels,
blah blah blah. And then on the other side, nothing,
that's a big nothing nothing nothing. Okay, fine, wait and
see what the jurors decide. I guess yeah, now you're
(03:27):
sucking the fun out of this. I was going to
play a couple of like wildly contrasting points of view.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Well it's illustrated, that's yeah, it makes me clearly. I
just you outsmarted me so often occurs. Good lord, he
broke my ankles with his crossover folks. Anyway, Uh, here's
your more standard view. This is William Brennan on the
lead forty two Michael.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I mean, this guy's a polluted source. He could be
the Dictionary photograph for polluted source. He's a narcissistic scophant
that put his star on Trump's wagon, and when he
didn't get what he wanted, which was a DC, he
turned on him. And now he's got an extra grind.
This guy wrote a book called Revenge this guy Michael Cohens.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
About Michael Cohen.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
He was hoping to monetize his role as the president's attorney.
I mean, I think Blanche will have him on the
stand for days. And Cohen's got an allergy to veracity,
so it's going to be an interesting cross.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
This guy's got a bit of Al Sharpton in him
and to veracity. That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
All right, here's some other geek who may or may
not have any idea what he's talking about, but he's
got a completely contrarian point of view.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
His name is Randy Zelen. He's on CNN forty one.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Michael, I think if the defense is smart, rather than
simply trying to blow up Michael Cohene, I would embrace him.
I would embrace the power that he had. I would
embrace his reputation as being a bully. I would embrace
the fact that he was put on this earth to
please the former president. And when we are put on
(04:59):
a pl to please someone, we tend to do things
without getting their approval or getting their permission, so we
can come back and say, look what I did for you.
I would embrace the fact that the man had his
sights on being the chief of staff there.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It is a credible story.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
And remember trials are all about whose story makes more sense.
And to portray Michael Kohen as someone who would do
anything to curry favor with the former president, it would
not be above him to go and do all of
this on his own and then say, look how I
saved you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A lot of a defense in a trial is sprinkling
seeds of doubt. And if you can spread two or
three different sorts of seeds of doubt, you know, maybe
seeds one and two don't sprout with juror four, but
seed three does.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
And remember all you need is one.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
But if you've got three pretty good rationales for why
this is a stupid prosecution, we should all go home.
I really like their chances of getting a jury. I
thought that was an interesting take from Randy Zellen.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, one of the things I've learned, going clear back
to the OJ trial and following these TV trials is
it's really hard to separate in your head what you're
hearing from commentators from the only things the jurors here correct.
And remember, they haven't heard any of this other stuff.
They in theory didn't know these things coming into it,
(06:24):
and they haven't heard any of this commentary from the
cable news channels. They've just heard the thing, and it's
really hard to know what they're thinking. Right. Agreed, so on.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
A totally different topic, because honestly, I don't think any
of the particulars have a great deal of significance to
this convoluted weak ass, pardon me law fair trial.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Here's one interesting thing that came out yesterday. I thought,
according to Cohen anyway, and he's a liar, but this
could be true. Milanisen Milan, what did juice? Milania came
up with the phrase locker room talk after the Access
(07:10):
Hollywood tape came out and Trump was talking about grammed
and women by their yu who's and all that sort
of stuff. Milania came up with the idea of just
say it's locker room talk and spin it that way.
It's just guys being guys. That's interesting if that's true.
That if she's kind of the way Hillary Clinton was
with Bill where they would actually strategize together on how
(07:31):
to handle his affairs, right at least according to Georgie
Stephanopolis's books. And I keep going back to and I've
said this a bunch of times, I just want to
make sure everybody hears it. When Bill Clinton would have
affairs and they would come out, even if he was
in love with the woman and it was multi years,
they would claim the person was either insane or a
slime slot. And that's how they would get rid of
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them as.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Opposed to take the lead on that, of course, and
Hillary could play ball with it, and that's how they
handled their what they used to call bimbo eruptions, that's.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The term for it. They had inside the Clinton world
that call them bimbo eruptions. Okay, we're gonna claim this
woman's a slut, she sleeps around all the time, she
lies about it, she's just money grubbing. So they would
destroy women who had sex with Bill Clinton, whereas Trump's
paying them off. Neither is great. How about you don't
cheat on your wives. But to act like the Trump's
(08:23):
doing something that just cannot be put up with them
as a president, it's ridiculous. It is absolutely flaming hypocrisy.
But you gotta be used to that right now. So
the one angle of the story that I do find
highly amusing is that Trump is under that gag order
the Trump did I just say that Trump Trump is
under the gag order from the judge, And can't you know,
(08:45):
impugne the judge or the witnesses, et cetera, et cetera.
And it's been our beliefs that Trump will intentionally violate
that to get put in jail and become even greater
a martyr for Mega, but.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Hasn't happened yet. But he's come up with this clever angle.
Now you got folks like JD. Vance and Andy McCarthy
and various other folks showing up outside the trial, politicians
especially and making statements. Well, Trump has now taken to
reading their statements outside the courtroom, just quoting them, which
is an interesting strategy. Gag Order wise hit us with
(09:19):
thirty four there, Michael jd Vance, what's going on?
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And that quote trum is a direct to democracy And
we cannot have a country where we get to prosecute
your political opponent instead of persuading the voters. Ag Bird,
as you know, very highly respected from Iowa. Let the
American people decide who the next leader of the free
world will be.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Politics is absolutely no place in this sort. This is
all politics.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Andy McCarthy, great legal analysts said, none of this is illegal.
There's nothing illegals called politics. There's nothing illegal.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So as some belief, like Sunday before last, all these
various people were on the Sunday talk shows basically putting
their resumes in for being his running mate, and there's
some belief that that's what's happening now with a bunch
of these people. Jd Vance showing up there, Ramaswami is
showing up there today. Then there's word that Marco Rubio's
headed there. So Now that's the next level of You've
(10:21):
got to go be there and write out some sort
of statement that Trump can read, and he'll judge who's
got the best. Wow, it is the Apprentice. He is
running another episode of The Apprentice. You know who's got
the lead according to your odds makers, though, And this
is the guy I'm hoping for, and I think it's
going to be the person if I had to bet money.
(10:41):
Doug Bergham. Doug Bergham for a number of reasons and smart.
He's the guy that introduced Trump at that one hundred
thousand person crowd in New Jersey the other night. And
I listened to his introduction and it was real good.
He's not a light to place on fire gut. But
during the debates, he was the guy I liked the most.
I liked him better than Nicky Haley. I just didn't
(11:02):
pay much attention to him because he was at less
than one percent. She actually had a shot. But he
was great in the debates. The things he talks about,
I mean, it's it's the perfect gives you cover if
you're if it's too oogie for you to vote for Trump.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Exactly I heard, And I'll bet you heard this too,
some really really smart commentators talking about the deep steaks,
if you'll pardon my vomit inducing use of that cliche,
and and super smart people, very insightful, but they still
don't get it. They're talking about well that, you know,
the great swing state of No. That doesn't really balance
(11:38):
him geographic, Like, you don't get it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You don't get it. People hesitate to vote for Trump
because they think he's a loose cannon, because he's just
too crazy. You need you don't need to balance geographically,
you need to balance crazy. You gotta have a Doug Bergham,
a Marco Rubio, somebody like that, who is seen as
a steady hand, a call influence Trump, who famously didn't
(12:03):
hire hr McMaster because he said he looks like a
beer salesman. He likes because he casts people for TV shows.
He did that, you know, as an adult, and made
lots of money doing that. Burgham looks like the president.
So I mean, that's part of what he's got going
for him. And what's the number one thing Burgham has
going for him. He's a billionaire, and you're going to
(12:26):
outshine Trump. Trump only likes rich guys and hot women.
That's the only people he really has any respect for.
Well and certainly Pence also answers the description of quiet,
earnest background guy. Yeah. As I heard somebody point out yesterday,
that was at a time when Trump needed the conservative
Christian He need the cultural guy to back up the
(12:48):
fact that he was a millionaire Democrat playboy his whole life.
That's the balance he needed. He doesn't need that balance
as much now. He needs the I'm not too crazy
balance that you were talking about. I can see that
ticket Trump Bergham would be tough to beat. I think
if any idiotic and highlights from the yes Burgham versus
(13:08):
Kabla Harris from the vice presidential debate, are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You'll slap her silly metaphorically, speaking verbally, verbally everybody so,
as idiotic highlights from this idiotic trial raise their idiotic heads,
we will bring them back to you throughout the show.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
That's right, skimby toilet, stay with us. I woke up disturbed.
The guy is real. The woman's voice is a computer.
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
How's it going? Hey there, it's going great? How about you?
I see you're rung in an open AI hoodie. Nice choice?
Speaker 8 (13:53):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What the feeling about? Are you in a cool indose
for yourself or something?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Can you take a guess of what I might be
doing based on what I'm.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Showing you here? Hmmm?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
From what I can see, it looks like you're in
some kind of recording or production setup.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
With those lights. Okay, so what's happening there? Oh? Boy?
Is the new open AI four can see you and
read your writing and talk to you as opposed to
just chat. The new chat doesn't just chat. It looks
at you and can say, hey, cool, you're wearing an
open AI hoodie. Appreciate that? How do you like that? Hello? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
The Wall Street Journal reporting on the new AI model
DUBGPT four can better digest images and video in addition
to text, and interacts with people by voice in real time.
You can interrupt the voice feature while talking to it
and say never mind, you know what else we need
to talk about as blah blah blah, and it'll just
(14:55):
adapt immediately. It's capable of responding close to instantaneously.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know what I think I have the AI
chatbot say hey, you shaved? I like it.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Open Ai executives showed to livestream demonstration and how the
model kule to analyze code translate languages between two speakers,
which would be amazing. I mean that makes Google Translate
look like well, yesterday's news guide users through a basic
algebra problem. Finally, but one written down on a piece
of paper. You just show it and say, all right,
(15:30):
can you help me solve this problem?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh boy, you had another step toward kids cheating uhh yeah, yeah,
or learning to harness the tools that we have and
we'll all be using. It's gonna be harder than ever
to convince your kid you need to learn how to
do this. This is I got ten devices surrounding me
right now that can do this math for me. Why
would I ever need to do this? Yeah? Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
The new model could also detect a person's emotions in
their tone of voice or facial expression. I wonder if
it could detect sarcasm. You look pensive yet full of Onwii.
Let's see what there was?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
One more? Uh?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
It already features a voice mode that combines three separate
models to respond to users in voice.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
No, that goes into the old one. Sorry, that was
the wrong paragraph and you got. Yeah, if you got
always have to remember that whatever you'd hear, you just
heard or read or try out, it'll be fifty times
better in six months, right right.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So GPT four to zero was built as a single
model trained on text, vision and audio material and can
respond more quickly and accurately. So, in other words, it
takes in the world and responds to it right visually
through text and obviously audio.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, God, reproductive rates are already flow right.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
The porn applications always because you got to be you know,
the biggest the websites are porn sites in the world.
That's just the way the whole thing works. Wow.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, the story of mankind is pornography and military applications.
That's what drives most progress medicine. Yeah, when we get away,
when we get.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Around to it, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
This Mother's Day is especially significant for me because it's
the first Mother's Day that I am celebrating since coming
out as trans and starting HRT. My daughter, who is eight,
she said, but you're not a mom.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I said, yes i am. She said, no, you're not.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
And the reason she said that is because my wife
doesn't allow her to call me mom. I'm known as parent.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It makes me sad. I wish she would call me mom,
but she doesn't. So I said to.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Her, well, I'm a mom. Whether you acknowledge that or not,
I am still a mom. If you're a trans female
and have kids, you're a mom. You're no less a
mom than anyone else.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You're poor kid. How old is a kid? Did she say? Eight? Oh?
My god, your poor kid? Trans women are women, dogs
are dogs.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Always makes me laugh. So I don't care about her.
You want to do that and talk about it that way, fine,
but you're poor eat year old girl. Oh my god,
that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Michael, I failed to warn you. Do we have the
gender bending madness? See music?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Retti're so sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
We were discussing other things about later in the show,
and I forgot to make it clear.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
To my It's my fault. I Joe Getty. Would you
like me to sign something? Is there?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Do we have some sort of form of assuming blame?
I will sign it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Glad that woman didn't even go with uh, you know,
I'm a kind okay, she the person didn't even go
with a you know, I'm a kind of mom. I'm
no less of a mom. Then you're the person who
gave birth to you. I mean, that's crazy. You were
dad a week ago. Give me a break. It's gender
(19:11):
branding madness, folks. Poor girl five.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I came across a really interesting piece of thinking from
a gentleman who's a PhD. And he's very sympathetic to
the gay community. And this is very long, so I
going to summarize part of it. But one thing that
increasingly is becoming clear to people who are actually looking
into all this is that the lgbt QI A plus
(19:41):
minus BBQ RFD thing is an artificially assembled group of
people with very very different lives and takes and that
sort of thing, And it's an artificial jamming of them together,
so that, for instance, gay people think, oh, I have
to be down with the whole tra for kids thing
(20:01):
because I'm in that group of letters, when more and
more gay people, for instance, are saying, now, wait a minute,
that that's sick transitioning kids.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well, this guy is talking.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
About how a lot of people assume that since like
the gay marriage decision the Supreme Court and softening attitudes
about gay this and that that it's easy for people,
especially young people to come out, and the guy's making
the point, No, it's not. It's still really difficult for kids,
and he talks about the internalized feelings they might have.
(20:33):
There's something wrong with me because I'm different from everyone
I know. I'd give up almost anything to be somebody else,
somebody normal. I feel like I'm so screwed up. Sometimes
I'd like to die. I'm a freak. I don't fit in.
I hate myself. This happens among kids who discover decide
they're gay or lesbian or whatever. And that's his premise
(20:56):
that it's still really challenging, especially for young people, and
he makes the point a troubling number of men and women,
even psychotherapists working with gender confused children, have a visceral
disgust at the same thought, at the thought of same
sex relationships. Many, if not most, gender nonconforming kids are
bullied in middle and high school, just as they've always been,
(21:17):
at least until they come out as trans, and he
mentions Hannah Barnes's book The Cast Review, looking into the
system and britting it. Up to eighty percent of the
kids treated at the Tavistocks Gender Identity Development Service, where
same sex attractive, attracted.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Rather eighty percent.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Genderists might argue that, well, of course they were, because
they're trapped in the wrong body. They are assigned female
at birth, but they're really a man or vice versa.
As many have noted before me, He writes, gender identity
ideology is deeply homophobic at heart.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's interesting. So you'd have to believe that you're actually
a woman. You're born with the male genitalia, called a
man by the doctor, you're actually a woman, and like
most people, you're straight. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Everything's great, and I fit right in because I'm a
straight woman instead of no, I'm a gay dude or
a lesbian woman, and he goes into.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Uh oh.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Hilary Cass in the Big Cast review in Britain, she
went on to give example of a young biological male
who'd begun to transition early on quote, she's doing well.
She had puberty blockers at the earliest stage, she had
feminizing hormones at the early stage, and she passes very
well as a woman. But with hindsight she knows she
was a boy with intense internalized homophobia and was gay.
At this point, she's clearly not going to transition. How
(22:49):
could she he writes, in my psychotherapy practice, I worked
with several such men. One of them swallowed the lies
told to him by gender clinicians that he could actually
become an actual woman via sex reassignment surgery, and as
a result, chose to go under the knife. He now
knows he's a gay man, but he no longer has
a penis as a result of his surgery. Various sorts
of intercourse is always painful. Another jar or something he
(23:13):
can reattach it. Maybe someday, Oh, sure that happens. Another
was sent by his parents for conversion therapy after he
came out as gay. Failed to convert him. He underwent
surgery to transform himself he believed into a normal heterosexual woman.
He can't ever go back. He's functioning poorly. Third avoided surgery,
but suffers from a long list of medical complications following
years on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. As a
(23:36):
young gender non conforming boy, whatever the hell that means,
he's a feminine, he liked dudes. He suffered such intense
bullying and ostracism that he took flight from his homosexuality. Now,
as a young adult, he has no sexual function to
speak of at all.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, that would be that. I feel like the toughest
situation you could be in is if you had a
very effeminate boy or very butcher girl in a lot
of modern schools, it'd be tough, be a tough situation
because the teachers would be the activist teachers would constantly
(24:10):
be trying to recruit them to be transgender, beat them
into it. Plus the kids have been because I know
this because I got a kid in school. I know
how they talk. They talk about this stuff all the time.
It's amazing how much it comes up in conversation. Well,
because it's part it's in every class and your social
media too, and there's like ninety different celebrated days, months, weeks,
(24:32):
occurrences to constantly remind everybody. But it'd be it'd be
really tough for a kid, Like again, if you're an
effeminate boy who's gay, Uh, to fight against that? And
how would you know? You wouldn't know, you're you know,
twelve or whatever. And can you imagine if fundamentalists of
(24:54):
one religion or another said, oh my god, my son
is attracted to men. Here, what we do We cut
off his penis? We and his testicles, We feed him hormones,
and we craft him something like a vagina so he
can be.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
A straight woman. That's the solution to having a gay son.
You would be you would be looked upon like you.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Were a member of the Third Reich. Yeah that that
that it's it's pretty easy to portray that is that what?
That's the way you could be like a super right
wing you don't believe in gay activists. Oh yeah, like
you you're gay, then you're you say you're no, you're not.
You're a woman, and you chop him up and turn
him into a physical something like a woman, right or
(25:38):
vice versa. Right, you're not gonna have horrifying You're not
gonna have a gay son. You're gonna have a woman.
You have a daughter.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
And the idea that this has done to uh confused
adolescence is is it's again this it's the stuff of
doctor Mengela, and I will stand by those words. So
a couple more examples of sick and then some really
great news. Disney's news star Wars series Tales of the
Empire uses they them pronouns for a gender ambiguous character.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
So Disney continues with their well idical queerization of children's entertainment.
My kids will bail on that immediately they come across that.
I don't know about the rest of the country. Not
going to get into detail on that. There is a
new pullout from Rasmussen. Seventy one percent want Disney to
quote cease grooming small children. To put it more literally,
(26:30):
they want Disney to stop attempting to queer children using
drag queen's gay sex, transvestite, and transsexuals in their entertainment
and their parks. Vast majority of Americans want them to
stop doing that. Well, there's different kinds of grooming. Like
Pluto looks like he could use some grooming. I appear
(26:50):
to be a lot of ticks, matted hair. I would
agree to nails trimmed. Here's something interesting though. In early
twenty when a lot of this stuff had not yet
gone as mainstream as it is now, Disney, the Disney Corporation,
enjoyed a plus fifty six favorability rating Okay, seventy seven
(27:11):
favorable to twenty one unfavorable. Plus fifty six. It is
now plus three WHOA So would they did they think
it was going to make them more liked? Like? Were
they so off base of where most people are that
they thought they would make them more liked or are
they or were they willing to take a hit to
(27:33):
do what's right?
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Which do you think? I think it's well, it's kind
of both. I think they have activist people within the company.
We've seen some of the videos and heard their voices
saying I'm working like crazy to drive this as far
as i can, and that the higher ups in the
C suite they believe Twitter's America. They believe activists represent
America right, so they went along with it thinking it
(27:54):
was good for business.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I would guess, yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Thus in the way could George Floyd everybody was terrified
take on the DEI crowd. One more quick story than
the good news, The Harvard Crimson with an article recently
claims it's unclear if men have an athletic advantageow for
women to claim that at this point is hilarious, Absolutely hilarious.
(28:17):
But he's so called most elite of the elite universities
are still printing that in.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Their school paper. Did you catch your cultists? When Jerry
Seinfeld Bash and Harvard, did you listen any of his
graduation speech? It's actually pretty damned interesting just a little bit. Yeah,
it's pretty interesting. First of all, it's now known only
thirty people walked out of tens of thousands of people
(28:42):
in that state at Duke, So whatever, he got way
more attention than it deserved. But he is talking about Harvard.
At one point he said, Harvard. Now, Harvard used to
be a great college. I mean, you might be too
young to realize this, but Harvard used to be like,
really a big deal. It's not anymore. And I thought
that was interesting, stated good for him, Good for him.
All right, finally the good news.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Speaking of big colleges, this is one of the new ivs,
according to people who think we need to have ivs.
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Monday slashed funding
for DEI initiatives and diverted the money to public safety
and policing instead. Now, it didn't tear it down to
the studs, which I was hoping, but it redirected two
(29:25):
point three million of the diversity funding to campus security,
possibly precipitating the collapse of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Hallelujah,
and all DEI programs immediately wherever they exist.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
You're was mentioning, yeah, go ahead, go ahead and finish
off your thought.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Ah UNC's twenty four member board of governors, which includes
the board of trustees, expected to vote next week on
changing the school's diversity policy. University of Florida and March
closed its diversity department, fired all of its DEI staff,
and canceled DI contracts with outside vendors.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Again, hallelujah. You only need new ivs if you believe,
if you actually wish we had a cast system. You
believe in a class system, and you need to have
another group of colleges that you can fake your kids
into and show that you're important and rich and you
can hang out with your important, rich friends. And my
kids go to these colleges, and people who are beneath
(30:22):
us don't. That's why you have to have new ivs.
Well said, well said, yeh yeh, it's right. But hey,
here's the deal. This is not the beginning of the end.
This is the end of the beginning.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
We need to keep fighting these sick, divisive, racist, neo
Marxist programs wherever they are. We're not even nearly done.
Got a couple more examples of colleges going in the
right direction. But you know, I could also point out
there's a government program I just read about. I can't
remember the Department of Agriculture, as somebody is instituting a
new DEI program. So as most of America is waking
(30:58):
up to the insanity government and a Democrat government is
going even further in that direction, keep fighting it.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
All the money is in Roaring Kiddy right now. We've
got a too late for you to do any good
stock tip for you, among other things on the way,
are strong YETI we need to get them to the ship.
We could save them. Forget it. Let them die. It's
(31:26):
not worth the trouble they were about to surrender irrelevant.
The Jedi are a threat to be eradicated wherever they
are found. So who are these Jedis who were who
were hurt?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Oh it's one person they ohe it's a Jedi that
uses they them pronouns. So the people who are trying
to kill them, well, I'm going to kill them, but
I'm not going to use them. I'm not going to
misgender them. I'm not going to use the wrong pronouns.
Thanks Disney.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Okay, So I'm not sure I would have noticed that
if somebody hadn't pointed it out. In fact, I'm sure
I wouldn't have. But that's an interesting decision. So that
Disney didn't want to have the he or she on
referring to anybody, Well, no, on that particular character. Okay,
that's a gender non conforming character. Jack, what part of
(32:18):
this do you not get?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
That character uses they them pronouns but they don't, so
the people trying to slaughter them respected their pronouns?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Well, did they state that at some point in the
episode or would I just pick up on it through
the fact that they say they.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Well, I think you would in the visuals as they're
looking at a single person and saying they them all
the time.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I'm just trying to be honest. I'm not sure I
would have noticed or not. I don't know. I think
they're trying way too hard. I guarantee you that I
don't know anything about the video game Roaring Kiddy? Is
that for kids or adults? Is that an adult man game?
But game stock stock game stop stock soared over seventy
(33:02):
percent and another meme stock thingy where they drove up
to the stock on the whole Roaring Kitty. And if
you're hearing it from me. At this point, it's obviously
too late for you to enjoy any of these run ups.
I feel like, if I was a younger man and
had a little money, I would like really try to
be on top of these things, because people can and
do make money. Of course, you can and do lose money.
But on some of these crazy run ups where everybody
(33:25):
gets on board and drive something up and then dumps
it at the right time by the dip, right by
the dip, by the dip is right.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Yeah, I feel like all these momentary, high flying, wild
internet schemes are passing me by.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Oh well, I'll be fine, right, Yeah. You'd have to
really pay attention again once you hear it from your
favorite radio show. It's too late, oh trust us, Yeah,
way too late. New York Times has this article, you know,
the whole cicada thing, which I keep hearing about but
I don't know much about. They're gonna be It's worse
than ever because of global warming, I keep hearing. Worse.
(33:58):
Is it bad? Our? Cicada's bad? No? Anyway, more of
them or less of them are the same number. Because
of climate change, A trillion cicadas are about to come
upon us. Everywhere, just in certain places. Again, I haven't
read a single article about this. I'm not interested in bugs,
But New York Times is an article for edible bug fans.
Cicadas are noisy lobsters of the trees. There are about
(34:22):
to be a trillion delicious cicadas. I merge across the
Midwest and Southeast for a brief raucaus once in a
lifetime opportunity for all the And then they've got all
these recipes in which you cook your cicadas in certain
different ways, trying to get the bug thing going in
that they kind of told me when told us when
we were kids that was going to be the future
of eating. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I remember when the cicadas came out in my neighborhood
in Chicago, Land when I was I'm gonna say, ten
or twelve years old, something like that, And I remember
people eating them on the news and everybody recoiling it.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Oh gross, but yeah, okay, go ahead eat them. As
wasn't there a story a while back that bugs aren't
near as nutritious as they'd been pushing all through the seventies.
I think, I think I remember that there's a bit
of a myth that bugs are so damn nutritious. They
can get all the mtares need from some grasshoppers, ants
and cicadas.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
White yeah, beans, eat all the bugs you want. I'm
working on this pork chop over here, and I got
to focus. I gotta concentrate.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
God, lobsters in the trees. That's That's not the way
I'm looking at it. Gross. They got them all boiled
up though, cover slathered in butter. Of course, you cover
anything and enough butter. It's pretty good, aren't strong and
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