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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Figuring It Out

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of A&G continues the conversation about the dual shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Drew Harwell of the Washington Post is featured with background on the dreadful world of 8Chan.

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0:00.0

So here's what's been on my mind all weekend among other things, the thing about all the

0:25.1

things that have changed drastically in a couple of decades. Like drastic changes, our politics are way

0:32.4

different than they used to be. Our media is way different than it used to be in all kinds of

0:38.3

different ways. Their willingness to show violence, their taking sides, their all that sort of stuff.

0:44.3

They're trying to whip you up at every moment and convince you that what is happening is life and death.

0:50.0

I was going to say kids are different today, but I'm trying to stop saying that because kids are not

0:53.9

different. They do not come out of the womb different. We're raising kids differently apparently

0:58.6

and have been for a while now because because the kids have a way different attitude of entitlement.

1:03.8

You know, you ask any teacher that's been around for a while and kids are different or coach or

1:07.8

anybody who works with you. They're young people. Yeah. So we were creating, we were making them

1:13.6

miserable through that craziness. Yeah, we wouldn't text you, said, how about schools? How about the

1:17.4

education system that has brought us all these males that do this sort of thing? We were taking a look

1:22.2

at it. And then to me, the big giant one that you stir that up and then you put in the magic

1:27.0

ingredient, the internet, which nobody has wrapped their head around how to handle that or where

1:32.6

that's going because it's so new. That's it completely new to humankind. Right. The ability to

1:38.6

put whatever nutty idea you have and find people to back up on it and encourage you. I mean,

1:44.4

really, really encourage you. And the idea was to put every idiot in the world and touch with every

1:50.0

other idiot. Exactly. The great P.J. Orrark there. Oh, and then I was speaking to young people

1:54.0

whether it's kids are a little bit old people. The fact that we don't date, Mary and have sex anymore.

1:57.6

I mean, we've gone over the statistics on that just a plummeting of coupling. It's weird. This

2:03.7

that came out over the weekend more than 20% of millennials claim to have no friends, according to

2:08.1

a UGO. I saw that headline. Yeah. You know, I just unleashed a tweet and if you follow us on the

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