Glenn and Stu open early Christmas presents for Stu. They talk about the dangers of Omicron and how it could affect the war on terror. They also talk about how things are changing with Michael Schellenberger and something that has happened on the border that is not what you would expect from the border.
00:00:09.420Yeah, some stuff that you'll see on the podcast today if you're watching us.
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00:00:17.500Just amazing stuff. Amazing stuff you're not going to see anywhere else.
00:00:21.180We also talked about Omicron, and it looks like it is going to be much more transmissible, but maybe, maybe not as deadly as COVID-19 in the past.
00:00:41.220We also talked about San Francisco, how things are changing with Michael Schellenberger, and something that has happened on the border that is really crazy and not what you would expect from the border.
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00:01:08.440Over on the Studos America podcast page, you can get access to It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Venezuela, which I know people are enjoying, so thank you for that as well.
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00:01:26.400The Studos America, this time you're all drunk.
00:01:28.500Yes, well, that's what happens when you do a power hour.
00:01:30.820One shot of beer per minute for an hour and then attempting to talk coherent politics throughout it.
00:01:36.140It gets very messy by the end, but it's a lot of fun.
00:09:33.240He went, he had breakfast with the two of them at Jesse James house.
00:09:37.100Jesse was sitting there in the parlor in the living room and, uh, they were talking and he noticed that his mom's needle point that was over the fireplace was crooked.
00:09:48.060So he got on a chair, was straightening it out and Robert Ford shot him right behind the ear, shot him in the back, um, in the head actually, but it had his back turned.
00:09:59.740Uh, and he became the coward Robert Ford, uh, and, uh, eventually was shot in the back as well, uh, by somebody that really wanted him dead.
00:10:13.340And it had no connection to Jesse James, just hated the fact that this guy started to go on stage and make himself into a big hero.
00:18:30.120Yeah, you know, and the worst thing about it is, I suppose it's one thing if these people want to engage in this behavior.
00:18:38.240But the ones I feel bad for are the service workers, people who clean hotels, people who wash dishes in restaurants,
00:18:45.240who I fear are going to end up having to do this for years, even after the, you know, people who consider themselves their betters have moved on.
00:18:55.940Yeah, I think that's going to happen with the airline industry, too, if the airline industry doesn't, it doesn't wake up and start pushing back.
00:19:01.840You, in your article, talked about a trip in Washington, D.C., and I had this exact same experience when I went into the coastal cities.
00:19:10.320You said it was bizarre to find thousands of people indifferently donning masks outdoors.
00:19:18.180Yeah, I, you know, again, living out here, I was aware that masking, you know, when you go into a restaurant or you walk into a hotel was a thing.
00:19:30.540But the idea that people were wearing them outside in March, I, it just would never have occurred to me that that was a thing.
00:19:39.380There was never any real evidence that outdoor transmission of the virus was a thing, but especially when, you know, you're just walking down, down the road.
00:20:28.680And I should say, I mean, to me, I think that the sort of deep politicization of the most ordinary acts like walking on the street or going into a restaurant or whatever is horrible.
00:20:40.500You know, I think that people who go out of their way to put on masks to demonstrate some sense of superiority is obnoxious.
00:20:47.500I also think people who, say, put on a MAGA hat or a Let's Go Brandon shirt or whatever.
00:21:10.420Yes, the you come to the conclusion that this is going to be just another stupid thing that we, you know, you wrote no fault divorce, factory slice bread, frozen meals.
00:21:26.980And, of course, infant formula are adopted enthusiastically by the upper middle class who then think better of them by the time the lower orders come around.
00:21:39.140Yeah, obviously, that's there's a lot to unpack there.
00:21:43.460But, you know, one of the most fascinating conclusions that sociologists have drawn over the last few decades is that divorce is actually not something, by and large, that upper middle class professionals are doing anymore.
00:21:58.780Divorce, if you look at, you know, where it sort of falls on the class ladder, is actually largely concentrated among the lower middle classes, you know, who used to be the people who were most likely to have, you know, sort of lifelong, stable marriages.
00:22:13.460Um, and so there's this consistent pattern that plays out where, you know, the people at the top get enthusiastic about something, people a little bit further down are sort of skeptical.
00:22:26.440And the top imposes it on the bottom, and then they think better of it, and they discarded themselves, but everybody else is stuck with it.
00:23:17.440With Omicron, what do you see on the horizon?
00:23:20.880I think that what we're going to see here is that people are finally going to come around to the reality that, you know, COVID is not like Russian roulette.
00:23:36.420I think that's how most people think of it.
00:23:38.460Or if it is like Russian roulette, it's playing it with some kind of weird gun that has, you know, a couple million chambers in it.
00:23:48.060And the same thing is true of, you know, of getting in your car for your morning commute, you know.
00:23:54.400There is always a non-zero chance that something really bad could happen to you.
00:23:58.920But I think what a lot of this comes down to is just people's varying, you know, assessments of risk.
00:24:07.160But I think what we're going to see now is people kind of quietly acknowledging to themselves, oh, yeah, you know what?
00:24:13.660I don't have to be worried about this.
00:31:24.060He's looking at this particular woman, but you don't see.
00:31:27.400He misses me by six inches, maybe, enough for me to touch the truck, to slap the side of the truck, to yell stop, because you just struck a human being with your vehicle.
00:31:37.200So now you might say, and this will separate this show from the left and the rest of media.
00:31:46.520You might say that that guy thought you were a bunch of lefties that were trying to, you know, do bad things to the Border Patrol.
00:31:55.600Even if that's true, I hope he goes to jail.
00:32:37.760No, you signed up for the U.S. National Guard for a different reason than that.
00:32:40.960Sir, we're here to support the refugees.
00:32:44.020Then you could say, but they're not refugees.
00:32:45.720Sir, we're here to support the refugees.
00:32:47.380And what that says to me, and I look at this, the pressure that our law enforcement agents on the border are under because of the administration.
00:32:55.220The message and the edict and the mantra from the Biden administration, they're going to crack.
00:33:02.860You're going to see this happen more and more and more.