Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and no He Armstrong and Yahetty.
Speaker 2: This I saw that a new study found that dogs
Speaker 2: can almost get all the nutrients they.
Speaker 1: Need from plant based foods. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only downside is once dogs go vegan, they won't
Speaker 2: stop barking about I heard, I heard, I heard you possible, Yes, impossibly.
Speaker 1: I that's pretty funny. Shut up, fid oh, shut up.
Speaker 1: So this makes my just makes me tired thinking about this.
Speaker 3: So my son is taking a class through the local
Speaker 3: public school district in American history, and I I knew
Speaker 3: from the get go that there's a chance it was
Speaker 3: going to be unpalatable to me. But the idea is
Speaker 3: really the idea is I just got to get through
Speaker 3: one more year of public school. It's off to the
Speaker 3: private school. Variety of reasons I can't explain, but and
Speaker 3: then I don't have to deal with it ever again
Speaker 3: in my life. But public schools are woke across the nation.
Speaker 3: They're even more woke in California, and they're even more
Speaker 3: woke than that in the town I live in so
Speaker 3: it's like three levels of woke and American history class
Speaker 3: day one they gave. The only assignments on day one
Speaker 3: was a handout to syllabus. You gave your pronouns and
Speaker 3: had to write a land acknowledgment explaining how we had
Speaker 3: stolen the land from the Indian tribe where the school
Speaker 3: was built and we should feel awful about it. So
Speaker 3: I knew we were off to a rough start. And
Speaker 3: then the teacher also handed out the book and explained
Speaker 3: how the book is full of lies and distortions that
Speaker 3: they will all that they will go through and fix.
Speaker 3: And I thought, wow, So the current history books, which
Speaker 3: most normal people feel like are two woke, are not.
Speaker 1: Two anti American?
Speaker 3: Are not anti American or woke enough for the teacher,
Speaker 3: oh boy. And it was explained how we're not going
Speaker 3: to use terms like slaves in this class. We'll call
Speaker 3: enslaved people because slaves is a dehumanizing term. You know,
Speaker 3: just when you start down the road of that sort
Speaker 3: of nonsense, I know you know which direction it's gone.
Speaker 3: I know, and I just think I think it's headed
Speaker 3: for a crash. I think it's headed for This ain't
Speaker 3: gonna work in the past, I've stayed out of this,
Speaker 3: but I no longer give a crap. I don't care
Speaker 3: if the person hears about it, or if it causes
Speaker 3: any problems, or I don't care. I just don't care.
Speaker 3: You're a lunatic if you believe that stuff, You're a
Speaker 3: freaking lunatic. Yeah, you well, you're an ignoramus, and your
Speaker 3: ideology and your ignorance have led you to saying just
Speaker 3: idiotic things. The lack of perspective is the thing that
Speaker 3: makes me insane.
Speaker 1: And gosh, how don't even know which direction to go.
Speaker 1: I've got so many But.
Speaker 4: The idea that that slavery slavery you're supposed to call
Speaker 4: it these days because it makes you sound most sovistigated,
Speaker 4: is somehow uniquely American, might be the least accurate thing
Speaker 4: that's ever said. Slavery was everywhere, all the time, for
Speaker 4: all of human history, and it was brutal and dehumanizing
Speaker 4: everywhere it occurred, no exceptions. And then a few societies,
Speaker 4: including ours, said, you know, this is ugly and sick.
Speaker 1: I don't think we ought to do this anymore, even.
Speaker 3: Without all this stuff. So how do we get back
Speaker 3: to a point where we should all learn American history,
Speaker 3: how this country is founded. That's not an attempt to
Speaker 3: cover up bad stuff. It's just you've only got time
Speaker 3: for so many things. And if you make the whole
Speaker 3: semester about how the Indians at this land before we
Speaker 3: got here, you don't get to the writing of the
Speaker 3: Constitution and how that came to be, and what the
Speaker 3: Bill of Rights is and how magnificent it is, and
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You don't have time for it. If you focus on.
Speaker 3: Enslaved people and the name ative Americans, where are you.
Speaker 3: Where's a kid supposed to learn about Thomas Jefferson. If
Speaker 3: you spend all your time on Indian tribes and slavery, you're.
Speaker 4: Making an excellent argument to get parents on our side
Speaker 4: and get pissed off about this. That's a miserably ineffective
Speaker 4: argument against the teachers and administrators, though, because they know
Speaker 4: exactly what they're doing. They think America is an evil
Speaker 4: place Western civilization ought to be torn down, and they
Speaker 4: are actively trying to indoctrinate your kids into their neo
Speaker 4: Marxist thinking. And so they're like, no, no, we're teaching
Speaker 4: them precisely what they need to learn our priorities aren't wrong,
Speaker 4: they're precisely right time they would say to you, if
Speaker 4: they're going to be honest.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I'm so disgusted by all this.
Speaker 3: That's why I've gone completely anti public school. I just
Speaker 3: think it needs to be torn down, start over. Why
Speaker 3: do we even have public schools. It's a bad idea,
Speaker 3: it doesn't work. Get rid of them. And do you
Speaker 3: good teachers out there, and I know a bunch of
Speaker 3: them will work your asses off and your miracles. I
Speaker 3: mean just I've done some teachers that are just it's
Speaker 3: like they were said by God, they're so amazing.
Speaker 1: Love you people, love you, respect you, cherish you.
Speaker 3: And you can do the same. Gig at some sort
Speaker 3: of private school that's not out of its mind. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and again I beg government schools.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the right that's the right term. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Anyway, So everybody who listens to the show knows I Joe,
Speaker 4: I'm an Orwell freak, and I'm so intrigued by one
Speaker 4: of the major themes of nineteen eighty four, which was,
Speaker 4: and I quote Orwell, the most effective way to destroy
Speaker 4: people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of
Speaker 4: their history. And you know, I've talked about that at
Speaker 4: length before, but I came across an absolutely wonderful description
Speaker 4: of why that is. It happens to be Peggy Noonan
Speaker 4: writing about the historian David McCullough, who he's passed away
Speaker 4: now for a few years, but some of his previously
Speaker 4: unpublished work has come out and and she says, this
Speaker 4: does not feel at all like Beryl scraping.
Speaker 1: This stuff is great. David. I didn't know there was
Speaker 1: unpublished David McCullough's stuff out. Cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had written, He's written all sorts of stuff. Truman,
Speaker 4: the Johnstown Flood, John Adams seventeen seventy six, the Wright Brothers,
Speaker 4: I mean, wonderful, wonderful. I've read a half does of them.
Speaker 4: So why does history matter? I will answer in the
Speaker 4: world's words of David McCullough. History shows us how to behave.
Speaker 4: History teaches reinforces what we believe in, what we stand for,
Speaker 4: and what we ought to be willing to stand up for.
Speaker 1: And it's not just the dry recording of facts. It
Speaker 1: has a moral quotion.
Speaker 4: He says, quote at the core the lessons of history
Speaker 4: are largely lessons in appreciation everything we have. All the
Speaker 4: great institutions, the arts are law exist because those who
Speaker 4: came before us built them. Why did they do that?
Speaker 4: What drove them? What obstacles did they face? How are
Speaker 4: we doing His stores and creators in difference to his
Speaker 4: isn't just ignorant, it's rude. And he's absolutely one hundred
Speaker 4: percent right. And twisting history is not an accident. That's
Speaker 4: what Marxists do. That's why Orwell wrote nineteen eighty four
Speaker 4: in the twentieth century, because he saw what they were
Speaker 4: doing and why they were doing it. But Jjin Bing's
Speaker 4: trying to do it every damn day of the week
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: The people on the other side have just such an
Speaker 3: easy argument for people who are just kind of paying
Speaker 3: attention and want to be nice people to grasp onto Well,
Speaker 3: people like me just want to cover up slavery and
Speaker 3: how we took the land from the Indians the end wrong.
Speaker 4: No, you're wrong and ignorant and either wittingly or unwittingly
Speaker 4: a Marxist activist. And I will spend every day I
Speaker 4: live opposing you.
Speaker 1: I hate you. I'm so hate speech, i hate you,
Speaker 1: I'm so frustrated by this. You can't even imagine.
Speaker 4: Oh, I can tried to imagine, but it came across
Speaker 4: another great piece of writing by Dan Luherman, who is
Speaker 4: curiously enough a professor of I want to get this right.
Speaker 4: He's a professor at Columbia University. He's a professor of
Speaker 4: cognitive science and teaches various science and theater, interestingly enough,
Speaker 4: at various schools.
Speaker 1: But woke he ain't. Boy, this guy's got to be
Speaker 1: unpopular at Columbia.
Speaker 4: He's written a brilliant piece for the Free Press called
Speaker 4: the War on Knowledge, and he's talking about how, and
Speaker 4: he gives examples of his kids' schools. In many classrooms today,
Speaker 4: the very idea of committing information of memory has become unfashionable.
Speaker 4: Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching.
Speaker 4: As I toured schools for my daughter, we are often
Speaker 4: assured that facts will not be the focus of education.
Speaker 1: We don't do wrote memorization.
Speaker 4: Teachers probably declare with a condescending wink, as if memorization
Speaker 4: an outdated relic of a less enlightened era. But without facts,
Speaker 4: what are students actually learning? At the progressive Brooklyn private
Speaker 4: school where I once taught spelling wasn't corrected until middle school.
Speaker 4: Focusing on spelling, we were told, got in the way
Speaker 4: of creativity. I then watched smart curious kids right Massion
Speaker 4: macie n for machine at age fourteen than wilt When
Speaker 4: people involuntarily gasped at their failed spelling attempts. Their writings
Speaker 4: were often expressive and insightful and incoherent. They probably weren't
Speaker 4: even aware of these sixty thousand dollars per year price tag,
Speaker 4: or they might have raged against the massion funny thing
Speaker 4: to say.
Speaker 1: And then math was treated with the same flippancy.
Speaker 4: Curious about the curiously low standardized test scores, I once
Speaker 4: wandered into a math classroom where the teacher was barefoot
Speaker 4: in a faded led Zeppelin T shirt.
Speaker 1: It was a really cool shirt, he mentions.
Speaker 4: He then drew a circle on the board and announced,
Speaker 4: this is not a circle.
Speaker 1: That's the representation of a circle, all right.
Speaker 4: The lesson, it seemed, was to gain mystique points by
Speaker 4: using a stoner voice to say something quirky. I couldn't
Speaker 4: help but make a connection between that math lesson and
Speaker 4: the school's undying demand for expanse expensive private tutors.
Speaker 1: There's more.
Speaker 4: The war on knowledge is not confined to elite on claves.
Speaker 1: He writes.
Speaker 4: The Seattle Public school system embraced a Math Ethnic Studies
Speaker 4: framework starting in twenty nineteen. Their teachers were encouraged to
Speaker 4: reflect in their curriculum how can we change mathematics from
Speaker 4: individualists to collectivist thinking? Good lord, and you think I'm
Speaker 4: ranting about Marxism out of line, No, sir. That math
Speaker 4: framework reached more than fifty thousand. Students drew on themes
Speaker 4: like power and oppression and history of resistance in liberation,
Speaker 4: which reminds me of my favorite math joke, who I
Speaker 4: was ten scared of seven because seven, eight, nine and
Speaker 4: nine oppressed or something like that.
Speaker 3: This is a funny writing, it really is on a
Speaker 3: horrifying topic. Well, like one of the examples apparently this
Speaker 3: teacher said, we're not going to use terms like they
Speaker 3: use a term in the book. We're not going to
Speaker 3: use resourceful people. And I don't know what that's about.
Speaker 3: Have you heard that one? You're not supposed to credit
Speaker 3: I could imagine. Yeah, I can imagine too. There's too
Speaker 3: much credit giving given to, you know, people who came
Speaker 3: from England and started building colonies or whatever. The United
Speaker 3: States being resourceful when all they were doing is stealing
Speaker 3: from the endian or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, any positive attribute, it's white supremacy. One more quick
Speaker 4: quote from this in the words a Tracy castro Gill,
Speaker 4: the creator of the Math Ethnic Studies framework, And this
Speaker 4: is a quote, folks, decolonial teacher. Education must actively confront
Speaker 4: coloniality and create alternative frameworks. In her words, she casts
Speaker 4: education itself as a colonial project to be dismantled, a
Speaker 4: fundamental departure from what the word education means. We've got
Speaker 4: to tear it down, friends, tear it down. Government schools
Speaker 4: have been taken over by the extremest left period.
Speaker 3: It's disturbing, man, seriously disturbing. You Wonder where the you know,
Speaker 3: you run into a twenty five year old with crazy beliefs.
Speaker 1: They got it starting in kindergarten.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And I've got to at least be somewhat
Speaker 4: forgiving to some of these young teachers who are teaching
Speaker 4: the kids precisely what they were taught their entire careers
Speaker 4: and told was important to teach kids. But we folks
Speaker 4: can no longer sit quietly and idly and quote unquote
Speaker 4: trust our school boards and our teachers and our superintendents.
Speaker 1: No, man, we are in a fight, so fight. Hey,
Speaker 1: you want to come in on any of that? You
Speaker 1: have any example?
Speaker 3: School years up and running text line four one, five, two,
Speaker 3: nine fifty.
Speaker 4: It was August twenty twelve when the Publisher's clearing House
Speaker 4: prize patrol surprised this othern Oregon man with balloons, flowers,
Speaker 4: and an oversized check. You won five thousand dollars a
Speaker 4: week forever, they told him, with TV cameras rolling in.
Speaker 1: Oh cool.
Speaker 4: John Wiley, a white city Oregon thought he was set
Speaker 4: for life. He retired and moved close to his kids,
Speaker 4: bought a house on six acres near beautiful Bellingham, Washington,
Speaker 4: and every January for the past twelve years, Publishers Clearinghouse
Speaker 4: deposited that prize money into his bank account. But you
Speaker 4: know the old internet meme of how it started, how
Speaker 4: it's going, Here's how it's going.
Speaker 1: I thought, why didn't they give me a heads up? Hey,
Speaker 1: we're going out of business, you know that.
Speaker 5: No, it's like somebody just cut the cord, sold my jet, ski,
Speaker 5: sold portrailer. I had a little bit of money left over,
Speaker 5: and that's what I'm living on right now.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose my home.
Speaker 4: In of this year, Publisher's Clearinghouse filed for bankruptcy.
Speaker 3: Wow, So if you're not old enough. Before there were
Speaker 3: lotteries everywhere. The prize to win was the Publisher's clearing
Speaker 3: House sweepsteak and had big celebrity ads everywhere, and you
Speaker 3: won a big check per week for the rest of
Speaker 3: your life, which is a cool way to get the money,
Speaker 3: I always thought, because it keeps you from losing your
Speaker 3: mind and spending it all in a drug addict with
Speaker 3: a young stripper wife, a pregnant stripper wife. But but
Speaker 3: if the company goes out of business, it sucks. If
Speaker 3: you planned your whole life around, I'm gonna get Was
Speaker 3: it five thousand a week for Layah? And they actually
Speaker 3: they said him a check once a year? Sure, but
Speaker 3: still that's fantastic. Yeah, that's fantastic. I mean, and you would,
Speaker 3: you know, you would base your spending around that save
Speaker 3: you the trouble. It's two hundred and seventy six thousand
Speaker 3: bucks a year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, awesome and so uh and n got a business,
Speaker 4: it's just over Well when the annual payment didn't arrive,
Speaker 4: he and his wife contacted publisher's clearing house and a
Speaker 4: representative told them the payments would resume on a quarterly schedule.
Speaker 4: Then the company filed for bankruptcy, no warning. And this
Speaker 4: guy had built his financial life around this, continuing hones,
Speaker 4: this is a fairly reasonable thing to do.
Speaker 3: Although I might have, you know, hired a lawyer briefly
Speaker 3: and said, just tell me a little something about bankruptcy law.
Speaker 3: If this company, I mean, is there some way I
Speaker 3: get this forever if the company decides to quit or
Speaker 3: goes out.
Speaker 4: But I might spend two hundred and fifty dollars a
Speaker 4: year to have an account and take a quick look
Speaker 4: at their financial statements.
Speaker 3: Wow, they didn't give my heads up. You got to
Speaker 3: send a letter that says two things, one good news
Speaker 3: and bad news. Good news, your diet is working, great,
Speaker 3: you look fantastic. Number two of the bad news, we're
Speaker 3: going out of business, and that whole five thousand a
Speaker 3: week is over starting now bye.
Speaker 1: So there's no oof is right?
Speaker 3: Holds a dude, I mean it's so I'm gonna go out?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, he's I think the guy we're talking about
Speaker 4: here is seventy whoa one and he's been out of
Speaker 4: the workforce. Oh, I'm sorry, this guy's sixty one. They
Speaker 4: profile a handful of people. This happened to this guy's
Speaker 4: sixty one, But he's been out of the workforce for
Speaker 4: years and years.
Speaker 3: You're not getting a job at age sixty one. It's
Speaker 3: pretty well documented that if you lose your job in
Speaker 3: your fifties, especially as a man, you will never work again.
Speaker 1: That's just the way. Our current economy is a structured
Speaker 1: so rob a liquor store or what.
Speaker 3: Well, plan accordingly, I guess, but you can't blame somebody
Speaker 3: for not planning accordingly when you got this lottery thing.
Speaker 1: I think so that poor son of a gun happens
Speaker 1: to live in Oregon.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Oregon, did you know, as if we need
Speaker 4: to re establish how crappy the mainstream media is, did
Speaker 4: you know there have been violent protests in Portland around
Speaker 4: the whole ice thing for dozens and dozens of nights,
Speaker 4: every single night.
Speaker 1: No, I had no idea.
Speaker 4: You got five people in marching for trans rights. ABC
Speaker 4: News will cover it, but no, haven't heard a word
Speaker 4: about this. Well, you're about to stay.
Speaker 3: With us, Armstrong and Getty. South Park is the most
Speaker 3: current TV show that has ever been Uh, here's the
Speaker 3: latest episode of South Park, which I haven't seen, Butters
Speaker 3: experiences the reality of tariffs when he has to buy
Speaker 3: a labooboo doll for his girlfriend's birthday.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 3: We just sent ten F thirty five's to Puerto Rico,
Speaker 3: part of the whole Hey, Venezuela, watch your p's and
Speaker 3: q's effort that is going on right now, so stay
Speaker 3: tuned for more infull on that.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: As I've often said, the best way to discredit progressive
Speaker 4: policies is to enact them. Unfortunately, there is an enormous
Speaker 4: cost to that city. San Francisco's really turned itself around,
Speaker 4: making great progress. People are coming back, companies are running space.
Speaker 4: Well done, Mayor Luri and everybody in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: He's got a seventy five percent approval rating.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, some of the other great cities the West continue
Speaker 4: to be completely drowning in their own lefty lunacy. Seattle,
Speaker 4: which made a couple of tentative moves towards sanity, but
Speaker 4: they just shut down three of their big parks for
Speaker 4: sixty days citing negative activity, which they never describe exactly
Speaker 4: but it's junkies stabbing each other and shooting up and
Speaker 4: taking craps in the park and letting their pit bulls
Speaker 4: run around and making the parks utterly unusable for the
Speaker 4: people who live there. And so the city of Seattle
Speaker 4: is willing to shut it down and clean it up.
Speaker 1: They're not willing to say why.
Speaker 3: That description doesn't make the parks sound very pleasant. People
Speaker 3: crapping in the park with pitbulls running around.
Speaker 1: Oh, telling you that's not a good day.
Speaker 4: And in down there in beautiful Portland, formerly one of
Speaker 4: the great cities in the western the United States, which
Speaker 4: has gone completely to hell.
Speaker 1: As Dan Springer will.
Speaker 4: Make it clear to you, there have been violent, noisy,
Speaker 4: crazy Antifa driven protests there every night for dozens and
Speaker 4: dozens of nights, and it is getting zero coverage in
Speaker 4: the mainstream media because it's somewhat inconvenient.
Speaker 1: Dan Springer of Fox News.
Speaker 4: His audio will play now for the good of the audience.
Speaker 1: Night after night.
Speaker 6: This is the scene just outside the ice facility in Portland.
Speaker 6: Hundreds of residents live in apartments just feet away. They
Speaker 6: routinely call police about the noise and crime.
Speaker 1: Sit corner two in and out here they need help, but.
Speaker 6: The cops did not come. Residents on their own. This week,
Speaker 6: protesters brought what looked like a guillotine. Some confrontations end
Speaker 6: with residents getting assaulted, first a bullhorn, then a fist.
Speaker 6: No arrest was made despite the injuries.
Speaker 3: Wow, we've been on the air in Portland for what
Speaker 3: fifteen years something like that. First time I ever went
Speaker 3: to Portland thirty years ago, I thought, this is the
Speaker 3: greatest city I've ever been to.
Speaker 1: It's like a queen San Francisco. It was just it
Speaker 1: was so amazing.
Speaker 3: And then you know that I have got my famous
Speaker 3: story of taking Sam there when we went to watch
Speaker 3: the eclipse of the things that we saw on the
Speaker 3: street that were so disgusting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, public various befoulings of the streets. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: eighty two nights, is that what he said? In a
Speaker 4: row i'dvantually catch that number again.
Speaker 6: Rolland on this night in late June, federal police used
Speaker 6: tear gas and flashbanks.
Speaker 1: Again no Portland police in sight.
Speaker 6: It came out later in court that one officer told another,
Speaker 6: if it were not ice, we could assist directly. Julie
Speaker 6: Parrish sued the city to force police to enforce local laws.
Speaker 7: This is a full on abdication of police duty in
Speaker 7: a four block radius that impacts some of the most
Speaker 7: vulnerable Oregonians that we have. Now they've said, We're just
Speaker 7: going to let violent rioters do this for eighty straight
Speaker 7: nights and we don't care.
Speaker 6: Portland Police responded. We take these concerns seriously. At the
Speaker 6: same time, we are committed to protecting individuals' rights to
Speaker 6: express themselves peacefully.
Speaker 5: The Partland approach is pathetic, shottish, and if you enable
Speaker 5: people to behave the way the protesters have and wreck
Speaker 5: the neighborhood for everyone else, they will come back and
Speaker 5: wreck it the next night.
Speaker 4: Listen, we're pro cop around here, but that statement by
Speaker 4: some spokeshole is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: We take it very seriously. No, you clearly don't.
Speaker 4: But we also want to protect people's right to demonstrate peacefully.
Speaker 4: How many laws are they breaking it's unpermitted. I guarantee
Speaker 4: you that they're breaking noise ordinances literally literally breaking stuff.
Speaker 4: They're defacing private and public property, they're blocking traffic. Stop
Speaker 4: with your But we want to protect people's rights to
Speaker 4: protest peacefully. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: You know, I was happy to hear Elon the other day,
Speaker 3: and he was talking about his trans kid and how
Speaker 3: he lost his son and how he is going to
Speaker 3: spend a lot of money taking on the woke mind virus.
Speaker 1: This is part of the wolk mind virus.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad Elon's on the right side of it
Speaker 3: because more people need to be aware of it. It
Speaker 3: needs to be combated somehow. It's dangerous. It is such
Speaker 3: a dangerous crazy philosophy.
Speaker 4: Right, hey, and Portland PD officers, we know you guys
Speaker 4: want to do the right thing.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 4: Drop us a note, mail bag at Armstrong a geddy
Speaker 4: dot com and email. We have never in how long
Speaker 4: have you been doing this? It's discouraging. I'm getting old.
Speaker 4: We have never gotten a source in trouble. Never mail
Speaker 4: bag at Armstrong ageddy dot com. What is the brass
Speaker 4: telling you?
Speaker 1: Guys? Anyway? Rolling on and I tell you what again
Speaker 1: to my opening statement about discrediting progressive policies, but the
Speaker 1: enormous cost here's an example.
Speaker 6: The protest chaos, which began with riots aimed at social
Speaker 6: justice in twenty twenty, has severely damaged Portland's reputation. It's
Speaker 6: now ranked by the nonpartisan Urban Land Institute as the
Speaker 6: second worst place in America to invest with six and
Speaker 6: a half million square feet of commercial vacancy, The top
Speaker 6: twenty office towers have lost fifty seven percent of their
Speaker 6: combined value in five years.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, then go ahead played the last clip. Michael, It's short.
Speaker 6: Portland's elected leaders ignored our requests for a comment about
Speaker 6: what some are calling the city's debt spiral. As for
Speaker 6: those nightly protest, police admitted to us that they have
Speaker 6: not made a single arrest out there since June eighteenth.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 4: That is incredible, And in the people, and interestingly, it's
Speaker 4: you know, not rich people, people of color, whatever, who
Speaker 4: are pissed off.
Speaker 1: They're like, would you please enforce the law.
Speaker 3: Well, the first and only place I'd ever heard the
Speaker 3: term death spiral for a city was San Francisco, and
Speaker 3: we talked about it for a long time. It finally
Speaker 3: got so bad they elected a guy who was willing
Speaker 3: to do something about it, and the people were willing
Speaker 3: to let him do something about it. And now San
Speaker 3: Francisco it's completely different than it was a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago. I can attest to that with my own
Speaker 3: eyeballs having seen it change in that amount of time,
Speaker 3: and he's got a seventy five percent approval rating. How
Speaker 3: bad will Portland have to get before people are willing
Speaker 3: to turn it around?
Speaker 4: And danger danger Portland and Seattle. If you haven't thought
Speaker 4: of this, San Francisco was either in and of itself
Speaker 4: or by versue of being right next to Silicon Valley,
Speaker 4: the world engine of technology. You're not so San Francisco
Speaker 4: could come roaring back because all of the AI growth.
Speaker 4: They they got bail out by you know, great smart
Speaker 4: policy changes. But the energy that is reinflating the balloon
Speaker 4: of San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Is not everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and San Francisco used to be the number one
Speaker 3: tour spot in the world. I think it was Paris
Speaker 3: and then San Francisco. How long will it take before
Speaker 3: the world catches on that you can go back to
Speaker 3: San Francisco. It'll do damage for a very very long
Speaker 3: time for tourism. I mean, you cause damage that will
Speaker 3: take decades to fix. Even if, like today, you went
Speaker 3: full ly Rudy Giuliani in the nineties with Portland, it
Speaker 3: would take a very long time to turn things.
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Speaker 3: How would you, in a sentence describe the woke mind
Speaker 3: virus or.
Speaker 1: Just the all of it.
Speaker 3: The it's got to do with flying in the face
Speaker 3: of reality always, whether it's boys and girls, sports or
Speaker 3: nobody can gather anywhere during COVID unless you're protesting cops
Speaker 3: than you can. I mean, just all these nonsensical things, right,
Speaker 3: well to describe.
Speaker 4: It in a sentence, I mean, those are great examples
Speaker 4: of what it looks like in the real world.
Speaker 1: It is a.
Speaker 4: Far leftist effort to tear down the institutions of Western
Speaker 4: civilization using fake, quasi.
Speaker 1: Moral arguments, right.
Speaker 3: So the moral arguments are the important part though, because
Speaker 3: I do believe that at the top it's being orchestrated
Speaker 3: by people who just want to tear down America. But
Speaker 3: the people that buy into it aren't thinking about that.
Speaker 3: So that's where the virus part comes in. It just
Speaker 3: you just glom onto the well. This seems like the right,
Speaker 3: nice thing to do. I don't know, right, And a
Speaker 3: lot of people throw around the term useful idiots for
Speaker 3: the people who don't know that they are executing the
Speaker 3: plans of uh Michelle Foucaut, the French uh, you know,
Speaker 3: neo Marxist philosopher.
Speaker 1: But I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't want to insult anybody. I'd much rather change
Speaker 4: their minds. Well, I do want to insult some people,
Speaker 4: but not those people. You have been duped into thinking
Speaker 4: they are trying to execute or create a.
Speaker 1: More moral, decent world. They're not.
Speaker 4: They lie constantly, They distort reality. They turn slavery as
Speaker 4: ugly into all you white people sit there and will
Speaker 4: tell you how all white people are evil and colonialism
Speaker 4: blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: And by the way, we now run these institutions. And
Speaker 4: that's the bottom line. The woke thing, the postmodernist thing,
Speaker 4: the neo Marxist thing, it's all a set of techniques
Speaker 4: to capture control of institutions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought all that would would go out the window,
Speaker 3: hopefully when the anti Jewish stuff started happening.
Speaker 1: On college campuses.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, that whole microaggressions thing was all crap and
Speaker 3: list it's against the white man, the jew whoever?
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: No, No, that stuff is just a tool. They don't
Speaker 4: mean any of it. Well, the activists don't mean any
Speaker 4: of it. They just it's a tool. But the people
Speaker 4: who fall for it and think they're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: Actually do believe all that stuff. Why was there so
Speaker 1: much spitting in the game last night? Is it going
Speaker 1: to be a new thing.
Speaker 4: Is that going to be part of a hocker shocker?
Speaker 4: NFL fields slick with spit? It's disgusting.
Speaker 3: Do you care about the fact that we now call
Speaker 3: the Department Offense the Department of War?
Speaker 1: Not really me neither.
Speaker 4: Initially I thought, why are we There's no point, there's
Speaker 4: no need. It's kind of militaristic, blah blah blah. But
Speaker 4: then I thought, you know, the term defense is almost
Speaker 4: never used. Look at that gleaming new defense ship full
Speaker 4: of a bunch of defensiers who are ready to defend
Speaker 4: America in future defenses like they did in World War
Speaker 4: World Defense two.
Speaker 3: I hope we don't end up at defense with China. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: Chiefs and Chargers both likely playoff teams playing each other.
Speaker 8: But the main thing is that they're playing in Brazil
Speaker 8: and it's on YouTube, so it's in a country where
Speaker 8: they don't really watch NFL and I don't know how
Speaker 8: many people are going to be there or care about
Speaker 8: the game.
Speaker 3: And then it's on YouTube. It's a first YouTube game.
Speaker 3: They bought a package thingy, like a lot of different
Speaker 3: outlets have. There are more different platforms for watching NFL
Speaker 3: games this year than there ever have been before. You
Speaker 3: don't have to be a YouTube subscriber anybody can watch
Speaker 3: it on YouTube, although it was just a month or
Speaker 3: so ago. Remember when Taylor Swift announced her new album
Speaker 3: she was on the Kelsey Brothers podcast. YouTube crashed because
Speaker 3: one and a half million people tuned into that when
Speaker 3: it was live. And the average NFL game gets about
Speaker 3: eighteen million people. So hopefully they've beefed up something. I
Speaker 3: don't know the technique. Yeah, what was the other super
Speaker 3: high profile Uh? Oh, it was the first NFL game
Speaker 3: they did well that And remember the Mike Tyson the
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson fight they crashed?
Speaker 1: Was that apple or whoever that was? That didn't work
Speaker 1: all of the viewers of favor. Oh did you see
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson's going to fight Floyd Mayweather? Did you see that?
Speaker 1: They announced that yesterday? Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Uh, Tyson is orige. He's going to be sixty when
Speaker 3: the fight happens. Uh. Back to the football game, so
Speaker 3: they're they're playing in Brazil. I didn't even following the
Speaker 3: thing about new globes and new maps. Lately, we've been
Speaker 3: the world has been using the same globes and maps.
Speaker 1: Since Magellan was floating around the Earth.
Speaker 3: And we have an upstate my globe, and we haven't
Speaker 3: updated them, and they're way out of proportion, and and
Speaker 3: and and all kinds of different stuff, and so they're
Speaker 3: put they're trying to get new maps going. So you
Speaker 3: see that Africa is way way bigger than the United States,
Speaker 3: whereas in most globes and maps that you ever see
Speaker 3: on a school wall, it's not, for instance, so but that.
Speaker 1: But I was looking up when the game is.
Speaker 3: It's actually at nine o'clock local time, even though it's
Speaker 3: going to be on at eight o'clock East Coast time.
Speaker 3: For some reason, in my mind, I picture South America
Speaker 3: being straight down from America, but it's way east of US.
Speaker 1: You go down in way east, so whatever, it's kind
Speaker 1: of over yonder.
Speaker 3: But so they're gonna be playing it from like nine
Speaker 3: to midnight local time there.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever. I don't know how many fans
Speaker 1: off in De Rio at midnight.
Speaker 4: That sounds like delightful and totally safe recreation.
Speaker 3: Well, I know some people involved with some of the teams,
Speaker 3: and they are leaving immediately after the game. As far
Speaker 3: as I know, everybody went down there and you were
Speaker 3: not allowed to leave the hotel, and they're leaving as
Speaker 3: soon as it's over. So if you're a fan, I
Speaker 3: guess you go down there and enjoy San Paulo and
Speaker 3: hope you don't get mugged. If you're actually with the teams,
Speaker 3: you're huddling up in your hotel.
Speaker 4: Oh it's in su Polo, Window, which is an enormous city.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest cities on Earth. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Every time I'm reminded of the population of it, I'm shocked.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. Yeah, San Paulo, Brazil.
Speaker 3: The only thing I know about it is that great, big,
Speaker 3: giant Angel Christ statue thing that they got high up
Speaker 3: on that hill. You see that anytime they show Zampola.
Speaker 3: I would like to see that with my own eyes.
Speaker 3: But I also do my son. My brother was there
Speaker 3: with his daughters for the Taylor Swift concert last year
Speaker 3: and said it was super sketchy around there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I believe that.
Speaker 3: But it will be interesting to see if YouTube crashes
Speaker 3: or not. And they've got some YouTube stars like mister
Speaker 3: Beast is somehow involved. Various people that have huge presences
Speaker 3: on YouTube are involved in the broadcast in various ways.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Interesting, you know. I I you learn yearn long to
Speaker 4: go back to London and spend more time in Britain.
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it, and I would love to go
Speaker 4: to a soccer game there. But I would not go
Speaker 4: there to watch an American sport, I don't think. Although
Speaker 4: you know, a buddy of mine's a huge Chiefs fan,
Speaker 4: and he went to see the Chiefs in London, thinking yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm going to see the Chiefs and I'm going to
Speaker 4: see London, which makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3: It seems a little odd if I if I get
Speaker 3: the chance, if I'm ever in Brazil, it's not going
Speaker 3: to be to watch a football game I could watch
Speaker 3: here personally. Yeah, yeah, I had another question, but I'll
Speaker 3: save it.
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