WEBVTT - So She Could Use Them As A Footstool 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:24.200 Arm Strong and Katty and now He Armstrong and Yeddy. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.480 Easter Sunday happens to fall on the same day as 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.960 the marijuana holiday for twenty which means, no matter what 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.080 your religion, this Sunday, you're probably going to see a 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:37.680 giant bunny. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.599 Why was Conan O'Brien doing a joke? Is that old? Yeah, 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.520 it's an old class Okay, got you? Yeah, gotcha? 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:44.240 Yeah? 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:45.440 I love Conan. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.559 Made a really serious point, But why would I I 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.720 got an article from The Oregonian about disappearing church going 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.360 in Oregon. Maybe I'll hit that later. Makes me sad? 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.400 Might just be nostalgia. Is it because I think religion 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.760 is so important? Or is it just nostalgia Sometimes it's 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:05.720 hard to separate in my head. It might be a 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:06.360 little of both. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.920 But I think it's an instinctive reaction, honestly, I do so. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.720 Coming up, AOC and Bernard Sanders are on their Fighting 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:16.800 Oligarchy tour. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:17.840 Yeah good, and. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.280 They hit one of the delightfully red parts of California. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:26.280 Folsom California side of the famous Johnny Cash prison and 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.720 we're calling out Congressman Kevin Kylie bad mouthing him in 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.160 front of the hordes. Well, Kevin is going to answer 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.000 later this hour on the Armstrong and Getty Show, looking 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:36.680 forward to that. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:43.200 They should open falls of prison to olig Ox, They 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.920 should tell Lucy inmates who are victims of white supremacy 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.440 and capitalism. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.720 So yesterday we talked at length about the battle between 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:58.880 the Trump administration and Harvard and the bigger issue of 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:05.600 how to clean up the infection that is Neo Marxism 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.800 in our education system in general, but especially in our 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:15.280 colleges and universities. How do we get back to the 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.160 principles of the free exchange of ideas and academic freedom 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.720 and the horrible like Dei. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.440 Statements and that sort of thing. How do how do 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:25.720 we clean that out? 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.040 How do we fix that without violating our own principles? 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.960 The Trump administration will very short summary then I want 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.040 to get into some folks ideas that the email to us. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:41.799 But we were saying, if Trump uses the powers of 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:46.600 the federal government to control what's taught in colleges, the 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:48.800 next lunatic left sho to get in office. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.840 Is going to do the same thing, right, right? 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.760 Too many executive orders, not enough, Congress not enough, the 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.040 culture demands. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.480 But at the same time, why would any administration be 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.880 in favor of gazillions of dollars a taxpayer money going 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.639 to a college that you feel like is teaching things 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.000 opposite everything you believe? 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:11.880 Right? 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.399 Why doesthetical to the principles of the country, never mind 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:15.960 what I believe? 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:20.240 Why would taxpayers fund that? Okay, so a bunch of emails, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.600 I said, all right, how do we do this? What 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.200 techniques should we use that? Does anybody have any thoughts? 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.120 And as always, you guys, you folks, responded with brilliance 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:28.880 and creativity. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:31.560 Let's see this is. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.040 And there's a bunch here, Jack, Well, just we'll sort 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.480 through them and discuss as necessary. Sarah with a nice 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.640 note about going back to grad school the first time 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.640 in twenty ten twenty eleven, the second time in twenty 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:47.440 nineteen through twenty one in California and how the viewpoint 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.160 diversity on campus in that first stint was challenging but 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.960 not impossible, but by twenty nineteen through twenty one, and 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.720 exacerbated by COVID, she writes, I noticed social justice and 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.480 every every class, rubric incorporated into instruction in every class, 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.720 which seemed to be legally required and actually is in California, 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:11.160 which is sick. So you know, and some people said, dudes, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.240 all of a sudden, you're concerned about you don't want 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.040 the government to control what's being taught. They're controlling it 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.280 like crazy right now, reinforcing the neo Marxism. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.000 You're absolutely right. So that was more about her experience. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.240 Now on the ideas, there wasn't any pushback from the 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.920 universities when you're jamming, you know, Marxist philosophy in there 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.160 with the government funding. There was no pushback because the 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.839 universities were happy to teach it. So it didn't really 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.760 make the news, right, Yeah. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.159 So Jennifer writes a nice note, love hearing your thoughts 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.400 on academic freedom today. I'm glad it's always that you 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.320 don't just follow along with the latest Trump caper or 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.880 caprice note to self, use the term caprice more. I 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.760 was pleased to hear the discomfort in your voice as 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.320 you pondered as directives to Harvard academic and freedom and 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.600 tenure have a long entangled origin. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.400 And she goes into some of the history of it. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.280 But academic freedom and tenure have their roots in protecting 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.680 institutions and individuals from incoming rulers and administrations. Protecting the 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.520 scientists whose theories went against the teachings of the church. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:17.159 For example, academic freedom meant no more burning heretical academics 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.760 at the stake. Intention was a very, very wise and 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.440 benign one. There cannot be scientific progress, or controversial literature, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.839 new forms of artistic expression, or questioning the King without 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:33.120 art without economic freedom. Removing academic freedom, which is what 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.480 Trump is trying to do. You know, I would interject, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:37.880 but Jennifer's. 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:38.320 No academic freedom. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.200 Right now, we know that you cannot be a scientist 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.479 at Harvard and not believe in climate change. You couldn't 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.200 or publish a paper. You couldn't do that. So that's 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:48.240 not academic freedom. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.440 Well right, And I'm going to interject here, Jennifer, because 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.080 I think she is semi unintentionally stated exactly the problem. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:56.600 I'm going to rephrase her sentence. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.800 Removing academic freedom, which is what Trump is trying to do. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:07.400 To restore any semblance of academic freedom, would basically reverse 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.800 a thousand years of progress. Well, that would be true 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.800 if it were not already snuffed out on college CAMPI 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.280 to to you know, in the vast majority of them, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:22.400 but now, okay, to solutions. I liked your leaning toward 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.960 a reasonable stance of actually enforcing existing civil rights laws 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.200 and then working to change culture within institutions. What Trump 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.600 is trying to do woul bring on predictable chaos. Honestly, 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.760 with the vitriol coming from the far left, I truly 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.120 believe that if they ever gained real power, conservatives of 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.560 any stripe would be in literal danger. I'd hate to 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.080 see Trump setting them up for that and that much power. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.159 Well, one of the questions I was asking is why 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.359 are they getting federal money anyway? Harvard is sitting on 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.559 fifty three billion dollars and the Wall Street Journal actually 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.360 has an article today. Is Harvard's fifty three billion dollars 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.320 endowment big enough to offs at the funny cuts? 0:06:58.360 --> 0:06:59.960 I haven't read it yet, but I've got an interest 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.720 than that. Yeah, that's I was question. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.400 I would just pull back and say, fine, well, we'll 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:06.360 fund it ourselves. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:07.720 Yeah. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:12.760 We also had an emailer staunchly defending taxpayer paid for 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:14.640 research at universities. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.800 I get it. Very very good defense. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.600 Get I get why it would work, but I get 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.960 the theory, kind of like that person was talking about. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.920 But the reality is the reality is there's only one 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.760 point of view that's allowed, including research. So I don't 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.920 want my taxpayer money going to universities that only allow 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.280 research that fits in with their politics. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:41.960 Right, Yeah, more strictly spent to research, money, more reasonably 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:42.920 spent would be fine. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.760 Here's a note from Tim here. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.760 I liked your thoughts on reigning and Harvard and other 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.560 and their DEI programs, among other things. Here's my ideas 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.560 for doing that to them in other colleges that push 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.800 woke ideology. The government should sue them for any violations 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.480 of any law. Recruit plaintiffs who have been agreed by 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.080 the woke pol season represent them in lawsuits. I love 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.160 that withhold every diamond support, ask alumni to withhold their 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.680 financial support. Expose them for the leftist agenda they're pushing 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.800 on the students. Make it clear that a degree from 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:16.520 Harvard has become a liability and not an asset. Yeah, okay, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.560 So combination of you know, attention on the progress the 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.200 problem and enforcing laws strictly and consistently. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.400 This reminds me a little bit of the problem with the. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.600 From the left, and we didn't agree with this their 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.200 idea of fixing racism with more racism. Yeah, this has 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.760 got a little bit of the fixing lack of academic 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.240 freedom with more of a lack of academic freedom. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.439 Right, That's that's what troubles me about it. And it's 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.560 a conundrum. It's a hard you know, not to crack, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.079 which is why we ask for input from the folks. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.400 A couple more. Our friend, Frank, Thanks Frank. It's an 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.880 honor to be your friend, writes the Real Culprit. The 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.200 original sin if you Will is the Higher Education Act 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.240 of nineteen sixty five, which is the legislation that allows 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.240 the federal government who influence a private colleges policies and 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.600 operations if it or its students. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.880 Receives any federal money. This must be rescinded. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.599 Hillsdale College is famous for not taking federal money and 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.640 is therefore immune from federal meddling. This age is just 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.200 one of the lefty strategies that's caused the left to 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:15.920 expand their power. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.080 This is the if you still live with your parents, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.080 you're gonna have to follow their rules principle. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.280 Yes, yeah, and it's notable that this was, you know, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:30.240 during the reign of the Benevolent Great Society LBJ, who 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:37.280 decimated the American family, particularly the black family, by subsidizing families, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.280 breaking up kids out of wedlock, the rest of it. 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.880 If you ever have any time, look at the comparison 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:48.280 of employment rates, imprisonment rates, education rates, et cetera among 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.640 Black Americans between nineteen fifty and nineteen seventy. You'll read 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.360 some stuff that will open your eyes. Let's see, this 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.520 is kind of neither here nor there, but I liked it. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:02.240 Kim writing about how does school districts enforce equity in Oregon? 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.680 Because the problem goes all the way down to K 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.239 through twelve. In one case, in the town of Independence, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.360 they couldn't find replacements for special needs teachers who were 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.520 absent for a very short period, so they closed down 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.160 the entire school because it would be inequitable to give 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.000 the vast majority of students instructional time that the special 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.200 needs students didn't get crazy. That's crazy again, that's not exactly, 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.839 but it's just more of the insanity. We're trying to 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:30.560 fight a couple more. We got a great note from 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.640 Mary who is the chairman and CEO of. 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.800 Independent institute. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.680 That works on this stuff a lot, and she recommended 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.839 a couple of books that they are part of, including 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.320 when they just released two days ago, Let Colleges Fail 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:54.400 The Power of Creative Destruction and Higher Education. And Mary 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.080 will absolutely be in touch about the book and about 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:58.320 what you all are trying to do. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.600 Sounds just terrific. Yeah, there needs to be a little 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:04.040 more of that. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.679 And you know what's interesting is colleges and universities have 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:13.359 become so much like all the other giant, bloated, stupid 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.600 bureaucracies we talk about all the time. They are so 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.520 in bed with the government at this point, exactly the 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.679 same dynamics are at play. There's no responsiveness to taxpayers. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.360 They just get bigger and bigger, no matter how bad 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:27.560 they are at their jobs. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:29.520 So yeah, I'm really intrigued by that. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.600 How about Randy in Pennsylvania listening to your comments blah 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.760 blah blah. Intentionally or not, Trump is doing what needs 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.720 to be done by getting this out in the open 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.760 for people to see what's going on, especially to hear 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.360 the progressive responses, which would shock many of us Hopefully 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.840 this will encourage people to get involved locally by getting 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.480 onto school boards to make a change at local levels. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.160 I attended a day long program last Thursday by the 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.080 Institute of Faith and Freedom at Grove City College again Pennsylvania. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.000 Can only say that I was hugely encouraged by the 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:02.360 dialogue provided by for recent grads, very refreshing. I like 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.200 that attack it at the elementary and high school levels, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:13.480 local school boards. This is tom Leave. You touched on 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.400 it a little bit yesterday. You were mentioning letting the 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.480 free market decide. I think that's one part of it. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.040 The other part of it is doing what we're doing 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.880 now simply stated, no federal funding of discriminatory policies or 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:23.559 violation of. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.760 Civil rights laws. Yeah, that's true. That's absolutely true. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:34.560 Ideological bigotry so much harder to root out, all right, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.520 How would you have any sort of rule where you 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:43.880 force Harvard to fund research that doesn't believe in climate change? 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:44.480 Right? 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.760 Final note, we're gonna squeeze it in Burbank Luke, guys, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:50.880 I hope this problem takes care of itself. You touched 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:55.000 on it yesterday. A degree from Harvard and others carries baggage. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.120 Now the job applicant is not only possibly a leftist activist, 0:12:58.240 --> 0:12:59.959 but you now have to wonder how smart they are. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.480 I'm an engineer, and we only care about experience. I 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.360 know dozens of solid engineers who went to quote unquote 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.640 lesser schools who've done astounding stuff. Frankly, the elite engineering schools, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.040 two of which are might now woke Alma Maters, been 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.640 overrated for a long time and aren't worth the tuition. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:15.800 That's interesting. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.959 Wow, Wow sucks if you sent your kid there and 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.160 paid for it. We've got a lot of thanks for 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.840 your thoughts, everybody. We appreciate it. Yeah, that's good stuff. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.320 At car dealerships across the country, the rush to beat 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.559 the tariffs is on. Even customers who really don't need 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.839 a car are buying now before prices could rise by 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.240 as much as twenty five percent, and used car invatory 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.839 is also shrinking, but buyers shopping for cheaper options than 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.360 new cars with prices short rise, used car sales up 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.319 twelve percent compared to a year ago. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.520 What was your takeaway from that? You look shocked. Well, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.640 if you don't need a car, why are you buying 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:57.200 one at all? 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:58.080 I mean. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.480 Your car will lasts until things change again, unless you 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.120 think there's some sort of permanent, actual long term protectionist plying, 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:07.760 which I don't. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:13.200 No, No, I'll tell you what a guy told me 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.199 the other day. I was talking to this guy who 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.800 was doing some work for me. He's asking about my cyberbeast, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.480 and I said, yeah, my oldest son got too tall 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.040 for the back seat of my car, so I needed something. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.280 And I said, yeah, that seems like a good excuse. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.680 People want an excuse to buy a different car. Yeah, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.520 that's what they're doing. That percentage of people. That was 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.680 all it needed to say, Well, honey, I suppose we better. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.360 Yeah, as soon as you reach a level of financial 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.520 comfort that buying a car is not because the last 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.520 one won't run anymore and you desperately need. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.360 Yeah, there's excuse making. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.480 So tomorrow is good Friday, I say with guilt in that, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:58.720 and I don't I don't even. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.040 Know where this comes from, being. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.320 Completely open and honest about this, I don't even know 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.760 where the guilt comes from that I'm not. I don't 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.080 do anything for good Friday. I'm not planning to go 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.080 to church on Sunday. And more importantly, my guilt is 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.080 about the fact that I don't have my kids going 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.880 to church on Sunday, and I don't know. I went 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.680 to church on Sunday for Easter when I was a 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.440 kid and did all the Eastern stuff and I enjoyed it, actually, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:23.800 so I feel guilty about that. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.120 I was looking at these statistics. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:34.480 The decline in people who call themselves Christians has leveled 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.760 off since twenty nineteen. It had been declining for quite 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.440 a few years. Now it's leveled off and it's not 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.280 declining anymore. Here are the latest numbers, which I thought 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:50.200 was kind of interesting. Nationally. Well, let me just do 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.040 these organ numbers because I thought it was interesting. And 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.400 this is from an Oregon newspaper and they're just talking 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.440 about organ which is less churchy than the rest of 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.680 the country. But it's kind of an interesting glimpse in 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.560 TI your non churchy states like Oregon, in California, I'm 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:07.200 sure in two thousand as recently a two thousand and seven, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.600 two thirds of adults in Oregon identified themselves as Christians. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.320 By the most recent survey last year, it's down to 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.560 forty three, so it dropped from sixty seven to forty 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:17.880 three from two thirty eight. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.360 God, that's quite a drop and a pretty short amount flushing, 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.680 isn't it. I'd love to hear an explanation of that. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.480 Is it is there a been mass migration. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.960 And for the whole country it went from seventy eight 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.600 so damn near eighty percent in two thousand and seven 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.320 called themselves Christians and it's still sixty two percent. But 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.400 that's a that's a healthy drop. Yeah, but it is 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.960 leveled off and it hasn't dropped over the last three years. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.360 I don't know what that means. Just thrown it out there. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.600 Yeah, I would never want anything close to theocracy, but 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.960 to deny that the foundation of English common law in 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.360 the Constitution has a lot to do with Judeo Christian 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.560 principles just being ignorant. They are intertwined. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:06.520 What are we coming up? 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.159 Kevin Kylie, congressman from a conservative part of California, claps 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.600 back against AOC and Bernie who called him out the other. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.159 Day, Armstrong and getdy. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:23.720 Kevin Kylie knows that this is not what you want. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.320 He knows that it is deeply unpopular. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.920 He knows that it hurts the people of fulsome, but he. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.560 Is not there to serve working families. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.840 He is there to serve himself and the billionaire class 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:43.480 that put him there. Well, mister Kylie, I think some 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:54.360 of your constituents have a message for you. Don't vote 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:59.280 to give tax breaks to billionaires and cut programs that 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.000 the working class of this country desperately needs. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.240 Man. I wish, I wish we could talk to this 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.920 Kevin Kylie person, but he's probably busy giving a foot 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:10.800 rub to some oligarch right now. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.840 Oh, I tell you what typical of former English high 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:21.120 school teachers. Kevin Kylie has become an unrecognizable monster, apparently 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.119 according to AOC and Bernie, And we'll talk to the 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.440 monster now. Congressman Kevin Kylie of California's third District, Kevin, 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:28.000 how are you, sir? 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.720 I'm doing well. So nice of you to welcome you. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.480 To your program, despite you know what you've heard from 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.040 our friends Bernie and AOC. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.639 There, you're currently on your hands and knees serving as 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.200 a footstool for an oligarch. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:43.760 Oh my god, it's crazy. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.960 Did you see she's fly first class for this fight oligarchy? 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.440 Score? Yeah, right right? 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.439 Seriously, And Kevin, you're not going to blow your own 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.159 horn but if you if you knew Kevin, a former 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.560 high school teacher, son of a teacher, who believes in 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.199 fiscal responsibility, educational choice, you know, American values. To to 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.440 call them some sort of lackey for all of ours 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.960 is hilarious. But how would you respond to the screens 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:06.560 that you've heard? 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.359 Oh my gosh, where do I even begin. Well, for 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.719 one thing, you know, I actually told both of them 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:14.679 and I said, look, I'll debate you while you're in 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.359 town if you want. But no, they much prefer to 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.639 just stand up behind a teleprompter and attack me from 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.240 there than actually try to defend their ideas. But it's 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.320 like when you look at what they advocate for. Okay, 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.480 they want their socialists. They have a social's division for America. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.800 They believe in open borders, they believe in defunding the police. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:39.960 They believe in essentially attacking and effectively abolishing small businesses 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.840 or at least making life miserable for them. These ideas 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.520 have actually been implemented in the very states. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:46.919 That they visited. 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.160 In California, no more so than in places like San Francisco, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.560 or in Oakland or some Los Angeles. So we don't 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.080 have to theorize about what the consequences are. We can 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.520 see it in the real world that many Californians have 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.200 had to live with, and what are the consequences because 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.680 we have at a cont full crime and homelessness and poverty, 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.120 and ironically enough inequality. California has one of the most 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:08.680 is one of the most highest. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.080 Inequality states in the entire country. So I'd say, just 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:13.560 look at the reality that we have. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.119 Fortunately, I happen to represent an area where we do 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.240 things differently, and precisely because of that, we've managed to 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.280 maintain a much higher quality of life than the rest 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:21.840 of California. 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:24.760 That's quite a crowd they drew, though enthusiastic crowd, as 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.000 Burnie always does. You know, there's just enough chunk of 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.080 people that buy that whole socialist vision that show up 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.199 and cheerleg crazy and I can't. So they're trying to 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.200 do what Trump did, where he would go into blue 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.359 areas and draw a big crowd of excited conservatives that 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.920 don't feel represented in that area and then call out 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.639 the local person and then make a lot of news 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.520 that way. So I guess that's the whole point is 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.800 to get you to respond. I don't see how it 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:55.200 benefits them exactly though. 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:58.320 Yeah, I don't know, and you don't know how many 0:20:58.359 --> 0:20:59.960 people cobby from. 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.240 You know about it a laguaria and how our people 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.080 come from. So you know, but look, I feel like, 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.600 you know, people want to go and participate in that. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.440 I think it's fine. I think that people of whatever 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.240 viewpoint they are is, whether you're far or less communists 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.679 or wherever you are on the spectrum, I think it's 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:19.320