03-10-26 Part Two - Queering the World Map

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A couple of stories I don't fully understand here. Okay. Alright.

Because they never gave me the answer to this and this went viral the other day.

And I thought this might have been from a couple of years ago, but no, it was a state department official who was a test to find before the house. And it was where represented Brian Masse, the Republican of Florida, questioned a state department official last week over the Biden era grants for DEI programs around the world, amid her claim that former president Joe Biden's administration was trying to make

maps, yes, maps of the world, more gay. There are Rogers, the State Department's Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy was testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a hearing titled "Advancing National Security through Public Diplomacy." Can you tell me what is, can you tell me what is querying the map, said Masse who serves

as a chair of the committee?

“So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay, said Rogers, when referenced in the”

Biden administration efforts, literally how do you make a map more gay or gay at all? The representative then asked the State Department official. I don't know, admitted Rogers, since the age of photography we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough.

I also took critical theory in college and I think sometimes people use queer as a verb,

I do understand that the maps that they were trying to make gay were I think of Chesnia and Slovakia. So maybe those countries asked for it, I doubt it, but I don't know. Masse noted that lawmakers have real things to work on in Congress. There's part of the back and forth, okay, all right, there you go.

Do you tell me what is querying the map?

“So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay.”

Literally? Well, how do you make a map more gay? I mean, especially gay at all, you know, since the age of cartography we've had pretty good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough.

So I know also I took critical theory in college, I think sometimes people use queer as a verb.

I do understand that the maps that we were trying to make gay were I think of Chesnia and Slovakia, so maybe those countries asked for it, I doubt it, but I don't know. We do have real things to work on in Congress, like what's going on. Okay, so they never got to how were they trying to make the map gay? Where's their musical accompaniment from?

Frankie goes to Hollywood? I opened up in my mind a whole new series of hearings here when she said that. I thought, okay, hold on, everybody stop the calendar because we got some new things to add because right now I have no fewer than 1234 questions and that's just right off the top of my head.

And the first one is, what, well, what and how, so what does the gay map, was that the edict though when they never explained it? Because that would make sense from the Democrats, you know, all right, let's make the map more gay. How, we don't know, just making more gay, how, yes, some maps have a wide range of colors,

much like a rainbow flag, okay, okay, never thought of that, so they, you can tell if you're looking at a continent, you can look at the different countries and they're separated

“and they, they color them differently, I don't think that's what they meant, in fact,”

I don't think anybody can tell you what it means.

I'm like, nobody's giving me the answer, they didn't get the answer there, but I know,

and she said, I don't know, but then how do you know, they were trying to make it gay, was there an email that came down, then an email came down from Hunter or something when

“he was in charge of the White House, you know, saying, look, you need to make the maps”

more gay. And somebody asked, how, and they said, we don't know, just make a more gay, like, I love how I put the emphasis like they got angry. But we don't want to get them out of the details, just make the damn math more gay, but we don't know how it's a map.

It's almost over the строia, also this schulflashback, just over the rats and then

often this is stupid. Paul, no, garney, this строia is so my safe space, hmmm, do you mean that's all it's not right?

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And there I'm doing research yesterday trying to find out. Anybody else have the story in? I, okay, because I had to, I had to, when I first googled it, how do you make a map more a day, the, the stories regarding what, in part what you just heard came up, the new stories.

Right. So AI wouldn't touch it initially. So I clicked on AI mode, right, to force AI to deal with it.

And here's what I got, and I don't know if it means, because AI just kind of, again,

relax, right, it's, it's just a collection of, all the above. Making a map more gay typically refers to queer cartography, a practice that shifts the focus from traditional geography to the lived experiences, histories, and safety of the LGBTQ+ community. That's a map, because, oh, the first of all, here's a question, who's still using maps?

(laughing) Maybe that should have been my first one. Ah, did it mean, taking the initials GPS and G has to mean gay? Well, I mean, LGBTQ+ GPS, right, because that, that's the map, the dancer, my previous question, that's the map we use.

I mean, because, so you have this, right, you want to use a map, I don't know, to find, if you're LGBTQ, gay-friendly, hotel, gay-friendly businesses, you can already do that,

“which is, is my, right, okay, that's what I'm reading here, yeah, that's what I'm reading,”

but I did it for AI2, put a little bit differently than you, and that's what came up. You can already, you can already do that, because those businesses already promote that. Now what you bring the government involved in it, now they have to talk about what they want to do is implement, all right, the history of, I don't know, acceptance, history of laws, avoid this town, avoid this state, avoid this, whatever, but isn't that already, isn't

many years now, especially as adults, I mean, but it's pretty much adults that are going to be looking this stuff up, don't we already have that availability?

“Yeah, the private sector, if that's what you're talking about, they're already promoting.”

I'm sorry, but I'm thinking about a map, and all I'm thinking of, what gets me from point A to point B. How do I, how do I get to where I'm going, do you remember when

map Quest first came out, how inaccurate it was? Oh, yeah, I remember one time use, and

this goes back, I don't know, I had my laptop with me, and I had to do it before I left the house, and then I had the directions on a piece of paper, and it led me to a golf course was in a, oh, when you had to run it back when you had to print it out, right, it led me to a residential cul-de-sac, exactly, you know, like snow golf course here, it wasn't as good as it is today. All right, so that, okay, see, I'm thinking simply directions, not, you

know, what you can get privately through apps, whatever, which is, which is already being promoted, right, it has been, by the way, for years. You know, because it's, the business is getting on board, for whatever it is, we want you to know that we're this. And I have gay friends, and they, they talk about it. You know, they talk, and, and it's been going

on for the longest time, right, so that already, I mean, it's that sector. That basically

part of the private sector, marketing in the way they market, you can see it on packaging of, you know, we're eco-friendly, we're this friendly, oh yeah, this hotel is pet friendly, this hotel is LGBTQ-friendly, whatever it is, I see, you see in the marketing campaigns already. I see that, oh, where did I see that? Because it was, I forgot what it was, business like LGBTQ-friendly, I'm like, well, you're a dry cleaner. But they, I'm good. No, I'm

going to be dropping off my shirts for three seconds, and then later picking up my shirts for three seconds, none of that's going to come into play, right? But the private sectors doing that already, right, that was my, you don't need the government involved in that, to begin with, and for Slovakia, and we're talking about United States, so they're talking about giving money in foreign aid for other countries, which by the way, is bogus, this

is not what, this wasn't, this isn't real, this wasn't a real effort. This is what I

“believe, which it wasn't Matt Tiamy, Tiamy. I think it's a shuttle burger, who wrote”

about the money that they found that was being used. And this was part of what was going

on, you know, when they were going basically going through the books, and doge was kind

of, I don't know if it was at its peak, in terms of the conversation, but they were looking at things, and how money was being used. They would say, well, it's being used here, but it's actually being used to campaign for this, and it's basically this massive propaganda machine. And this week's, I don't buy for a moment, that's where this money was going. I believe this money was going, the government spends stupid money, there's no doubt, especially

when liberals in charge. And it's likely part of a greater effort, and by the way, this

“would be even if it were along those lines, would still be a propaganda machine. And I think”

it was Michael Schelmanberger that wrote about it. I'm almost positive when he brought that up, and we were talking about it, about to what extent money was being used, and how it was helping to organize these radicals here domestically, basically. And I have to believe that's part of it. It's a radical agenda, nonetheless, first of all, there's zero purpose in that. And if other countries want to spend their money doing that, but

the definition of it from what we get from again, it's AI. We had it look for it, is

tie a beer, Schelmanberger brought up. Where's this money actually going, right? Because

“if the government is just repeating what the private sector is doing, or if they're saying”

we're doing this for foreign countries, are they really going to, as they say, quote, "Gay up the map in Slovakia, or is that going, is that foreign aid going for whatever, is that getting lost?" And remember when Trump came in and said, "We're pulling all this money out." This is just ridiculous. Right. Right. Where we're wasting the money. Was it even going that to begin with? And U.S. the public should it be going for that? Right.

Because with the thing be, well, their private sector can't afford to do it like our private

sector can here. And so we need to ensure that we are querying the map for Slovakia. Yeah. Are we having this conversation, actually? Yes, we are. Yeah, we are. And we're not drinking or smoking anything. No, I'm just like, just realized what we were talking about. I'm just like, no, this is when you get into the minutia of spending. You know,

“that's what Doge really started as. Get into the spending of the unbelievable, not just”

inefficiencies, but amount of money that's going and Shalomberger found so much of it

that was going to propaganda that basically came right back, working here in favor of the radicals

on the left in the U.S. And that has to come to an end. But will it? We're over 38 trillion now. You know, it's not going to come to an end, but it's screaming. No. Nobody's screaming. It's going to continue. And enjoy your map drive safely. The country is more concerned with the Olympic hockey between the United States and Canada than they are the federal debt and the fiscal doomsday that is ahead of us. Yes. Yeah, sedate the masses. Right. Are the liquor

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complete the full race. Everybody get the trophy under the new decision runners who reached mile 18 were given the option to turn toward the finish line early rather than complete the full 26.2 mile race. If you're having a tough day and you want to end your race, you can choose to take the turn at mile 18 and head to the finish line early. You do not need to notify anyone of your decision and you can opt to take this route at any time. There is no shame in making

a smart decision for your body official said participants who chose to finish early were still rewarded a finish or medal as well as any challenger medals they had earned. Organizer said the option was introduced only for this year's race. The decision quickly drew mockery online with critics comparing the policy to even being worse in a participation trophy

Race organizers said the change was made due to weather concerns but temperatures expected to reach

“into the 80s during the event. That's not the point. You could make the choice always to stop”

running in America. Yeah that's the mean you get a medal which we're waiting for. You're listening to Red Eye Radio from the Ray Lee Factor Studios. We are Red Eye Radio. He is currently an honorary McNamara download our Red Eye Radio app today and you can listen when you choose. So the whole LA Marathon thing where you could get the finish or medal if you only did 18, the whole point is it's not that you got to, you know,

if to get people to race in a marathon. Now to begin with, if I'm the organizer, this is me. I'm going to go with a hell wants to run 26 and a half miles. Yeah, it was a 26.1. It was a 26.2. 26.2 yeah. See I'd make it to point one. Well and give up. Close enough. Glad you correct the tenth of a mile. Glad you got, I figured on the marathon I could be just close enough with 26 and a half. No,

you've got to say point two. I wasn't right either. So I said 26.1. No, but I needed to clarify that because the nitpickers, you know what an idiot you are. Yeah. I didn't think anybody really cared whether it was 25 and a half or 25.2. Yeah. But or 26.2. Mm-hmm. But for the case of accuracy,

“yes. Or for some only 18. But if, if you want to have a marathon and have, you know, you get a”

mile for finishing, you get a medal for finishing five miles. Yeah. And miles. I've run a, I run a half marathon once 13, which was 13.1. That's probably why the point one was stuck on my mind. 13.1. I did it

and hated every minute of it. I ran and I looked, I used to run all the time, but I've always believed

that long distance running is just horrible on the frame, at least for me. And I'd rather run short. I used to run an official race. I only ran five miles once and I hated it. It's too boring. But I'll never forget my neighbor across the street when we were playing on the same basketball team together. He said, look, let's really get in shape for this year. So let's run and I was living in Buffalo at the time. I was in college because let's run every single day. Yeah. So he would

be throwing rocks at my bedroom window of my parents house whenever because we were working full time. Yeah, we were working full time at the bank then during the summer we were full time. So it's like, I don't know, five, three in the morning he's throwing rocks at my window. What? We got to run. Yeah. We'd run like five miles every day. Yeah. Well, we did it all the way to when basketball started, which was like October for us. The practice started, it didn't help at all. Yeah.

Didn't help at all, you know, when you're running sprint on a basketball court, completely different from doing five miles a day. But even if, but here for the marathon, you got to the same metal that anybody else who finished got. And that's the point. And to me,

that's always a no. No. I wouldn't take it. No. No. No. Number one, I'm not running. I'm not doing

this insanely boring thing for a metal. I'm doing it because something inside me tells me I need to run

“well, it's the force comes in from. I was running. But remember, it's also what the metal represents.”

Finishing a marathon for people is the accomplished. Yeah. It's a goal. It's a huge goal. So if you've got something that says you're finished, oh, you finished a marathon. Well, no. I mean, think about that, right? Because you have the metal on display or somebody would see it somewhere. You know, I'm assuming you put it, I don't know, somewhere. And somebody's going to, you have a finish or metal that you've finished a marathon. Because that's for a lot of people. That's like the goal.

It is, I have a friend of mine. I used to work in radio, whether she's a, uh, was in, she's a great

she's been there for years. And she's one of those long distance runners. And she just, I mean,

“she'll run forever. Right? She would always post it on Facebook. And, and for me, I just, I just don't”

have the frame for, for running long distance. Yeah. But you see the people that they may not run like a bunch of marathons, but they're like training. I want to run a marathon and I want to finish a marathon finish. That's all they want to do. They want to finish a marathon. You know, for some

of the big marathons, you've got to qualify. You've got to be able to, you know, get into it first.

And then, you know, then you can see if you can finish that one. Then you get a finish or metal. But imagine being in the marathon, you don't finish. You get the metal. But your goal was, because for many people, I don't know if it's most, but for many people that run a marathon, it may be there only time to run it or maybe they only run a few in their lives. But the goal is I want to finish a marathon, not win a marathon because there's only a handful

of people in the world that are going to, sorry, those people are, I mean, when you think about how fast they're running, they're running at an average of like 13 miles an hour for the entire time. Don't, don't you think I don't think of that every single time I ride my bike. And the average of my bicycle ride is like nine miles an hour. And I'm like, but they're running 13 in a marathon. I got wheels and I can coast and sometimes it's downhill. It's insane. And I saw

this documentary on this one thing. And he was on this one guy. And he, by the way, had this, they don't know what it is. And his brain and his muscles and everything else, he can run to no end. He can run to no end. And the doctors couldn't explain it. It was, it was real life for his

gump. And, and he said, I've always been able to do it. I've never had a problem doing it. And I

think it was like on date line or something or 20, 20, one of those, you know, news programs back in the day. And I, but for most people, it's, I want to finish a marathon. So then you don't finish, you get the finish your medal. And then for the rest of your life because, you know, your goal

“is to finish a marathon. Yeah, I always wanted to finish a marathon. Well, you did, didn't you?”

I mean, there's the medal. That's like, no, that's like the people that I know that run the triathlon. If you don't do the swimming part of it, that's okay. No, you can play the two thirds of it. That, that's fine. No, you got to finish the whole thing. You're right. I mean, that has to be embarrassing, you know, if you're sitting there got the finish and somebody else did you do, why, you finished the marathon? Marathon? No. Now, see, when I lie, it's, it's a, it's a much

more sophisticated lie. And I don't keep it up forever, though, but I want to see people's reaction. Right. And that's, I have a picture when I flew with the Thunderbirds in the F-16. And I'm all, you know, I'm in the pilot garb and everything. Right. And I'm standing, you know, right outside, you know, the, the, the cockpit, like deck right there, canopy's open. Right. And there's my name, right across it. Right. Yeah. So it looks so official. Like, this is my plane. And I've got that

picture. You get into my house. It's on the fireplace mantle. The people have walked into my house saying, my God, you were a fighter pilot. I should, did I ever tell you about this? Yeah. And then,

now when I do that, I always think of the Navy seal, who erics Navy seal incident, which

“transition into being a member of aerosmith. Right. And here's the thing, I don't even own an”

aerosmith t-shirt. I haven't even put a wheel effort into it. But, but it's, it's just so funny the way people, wow. So you're just not a radio talk show host. You were, you were a fighter pilot. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and that's right next to look, look, look at the termination letter from the the Portland Trailblazers, when I used to play for the NBA, that went over there. And because I used to work for the, right. Well, you know, I used to work for the radio station that

used to be owned by Paul Allen. Yeah. And the port, it was under the Portland Trailblazers, our great affiliate KXL. And you believe that decades ago, KXL, let me go, I can't believe it. But I'm back now. Right. We're, we're back now for years. Great, great radio station. The great Lars Larson been there for decades, man. What a dominant career he's had. But, you know, so I, but it's like you played for the Trailblazers. Yeah. And it's like,

scenes to be used to be since 2010. I was a little wide guy at the end of the bench. I really

“didn't play much. Maybe a minute of game. I only average four points of game. Right. Exactly.”

But I really have never done that one yet. I still haven't framed that one. But I,

I do do the, the Thunderbirds. I do want to, I just, you got to frame it, though. You got to have it in a frame like, and that's when the, that's when the Trailblazers caught me. Yeah. You know, but, you know, but I put some shoes in there with it. Right. Put some shoes in there. I got to find a pair of old conversion all stars. Right. Oh, no, you know, no, no, pfliers. Yeah. There you go. Right. Wow. Pfliers. You really, you played a long time ago. Yeah. It's right. And I could run

higher and jump farther and, and a really short pair of shorts. You know, so yeah. Yeah. Got to fit the era. You got to fit the era. Oh, my gosh. Those short shorts. Yeah. All right.

“We got, we've got to bring this one up. It was going to be said. Mm. Steven A Smith has”

ruled out running for president. Man. He said he would back Rubio over some top Democrats. Whoa. Now, why isn't he going to run money? He doesn't want to give up his job in the money. Let me put the presidential aspirations to bed if I have to give up my money. It's not happening. I'm glad that he says it out loud, by the way. You know, I mean, certainly he's no Donald Trump. Well, exactly. Trump and, and Trump's companies, even though they're, you know, a trust are making

more money than he would ever make his president. But he doesn't take a salary. Everybody knows that. You could, but you can argue that Trump's companies worldwide have taken a hit because, you know, have the people roughly, you know, hate the guy now that he became a actually ran, finally ran for president in one and one twice. So that actually hurts his brand at least in the meantime. He has made some money on a number of moves. But most, if, if you look at that, like Oprah,

the left was just obsessed with her running. She was never going to run. Yeah. But the

thing on Steven A Smith, where he says, you know, he said, I would vote for Rubio because he's the adult in the room. And I would vote for Rubio over Gavin Newsom or Vice President Kamala Harris. What about the issues? Yeah. Right. You know, Rubio has been great and he has given himself a shot of being a future president when that would be. I don't know. But he has been tremendous as a secretary of state. But if he ran for president, I could care less. Where do you stand on the

issues? I, I elect somebody to do my bidding on the issues. That's it. Right. I don't vote for them because I wish to work. You know, I need somebody to worship. I've got nobody to worship today. Let me vote for this person. So then I can worship them for the next four years. Well, here's the question for you. Steven A Smith's profile. Grown since he's become, I don't know, more reasonable. He's not a conservative. Probably not overall. Maybe, you know, it would be the same thing that

you'd see where people's, you know, their favorability. Well, betterman, for example. He would be he'd be like, betterman. Democrats would, would lose, you know, any, uh, yeah, police in him politically. But I mean, and Republicans marketability in terms of like his job. Is it, is this audio? No, rowing as a result? I would say no. I would say on social media, it has because he's gained a lot more attention. Okay. And social media may not know. No, that may be, but it's very, but is it people that

watch the sports? No, but that's not the only monetization. I mean, if you're, if you're looking

at the, the bottom line on the money, but are, is, but are they making, are, do they, they own his

“does, whoever he's, he has to be any works for now. Yeah. I do, do they make, uh, that's how much I pay”

attention to sports. Do they make money off of his, excite that his politics? I think he probably owns that or at least a register say, yeah, he probably makes a huge chunk. I'm, I'm saying in what his core business is, is it helping him? And I would say, well, the SPN, you know, the question is how long they're going to last altogether anyway. But his pro, I think his profile on social

he's talking about is from sports. Yeah. Sure. We are right, I radio. Get in touch with what I radio,

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used to. Yeah. And saying that it may take four to five hours to get through. Oh,

not good. And in general telling you, get to the airport three, three and a half hours in advance

“of your flight. Yeah. Uh, right now because of all this, you know, I flew, was it last week?”

I'm not scheduled to fly again. I probably would have gone up sooner, but I just don't trust. I can't miss a flight because right now, it's like I'd have to come every flight out to come back in a Sunday morning and I got to work Sunday night. I can't take the chance with the next, you know, time I'm looking to fly is my dad's birthday in April. It's 100 birthday. Yeah. But yeah, one's just going to get yourself. Good question. Democrats aren't touching. Nope.

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