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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, Society & Culture, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of A&G includes the theory of Performative Politics. Plus, even more New Polls and a re-examination of the 40 hr work week.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We live in an era of performative politics, we'll explain what that means this hour

0:29.6

is pretty interesting. It explains a lot of things actually. Talked earlier about a

0:36.6

doula that's a midwifey person, is there a distinction I don't know between a

0:42.2

doula and a midwifey? We have a doula both times. What's the doula? Anyway it's

0:47.4

somebody who assist with birth who's not a doctor or a nurse but is

0:51.0

experienced in helping birth children. She hangs around so you don't have to

0:55.8

every minute as a husband. You need to go to the bathroom or something like that. Oh that's

0:59.8

handy. She was hounded out of her gig with a doula's association for claiming

1:06.5

that only women give birth which is transphobic and transgrasping. That was

1:13.6

well-gas transgressive trans something or other and in that world I was

1:19.8

gonna try to pass this off as real on you and then hit you with the surprise.

1:25.4

I'm not going to because I think we can make the point more effectively by

1:32.4

telling you in advance this is parody but it's impossible to tell that it's

1:40.7

parody because people who are sincere about ridiculous stuff like the doula

1:45.5

thing are every bit as ridiculous as the parody which makes it more

1:50.2

difficult to write parody but ask yourself one simple question why is daylight

1:55.5

saving time not observed in most countries near the equator? Anyone with a

1:59.8

modicum of social awareness will feel a keen sense of discomfort when

2:03.4

contemplating the answer to the question posted above. We're here to explain.

2:07.7

America's most infamous original patriarch first made the case for daylight

2:11.8

saving time when he said early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy

2:15.4

wealthy and wise. Perhaps we should have asked the Ben Franklin household six

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