Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
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Speaker 2: With that fire danger looming, families in southern California are
Speaker 2: shell shot and worried a new inferno could break out.
Speaker 2: They've got everything prepared. You can see the monumental amount
Speaker 2: of resources of fire truck here, one tucked in there,
Speaker 2: another one.
Speaker 3: In that driveway five six, and.
Speaker 2: On down almost every block as fire trucks here in
Speaker 2: this canyon. We spoke with La County Fire Chief Anthony Broni.
Speaker 2: There is another Santa Ana wind event.
Speaker 1: Forecast for next week.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the La County Fire Department's going to be ready.
Speaker 1: So the farks continue and hopefully the word of it
Speaker 1: is over in terms of creating more damage. If you're
Speaker 1: if you lost everything, the worst of it is not over.
Speaker 1: You're it's still in the middle of the worst of it,
Speaker 1: and you might be in the worst of it for
Speaker 1: a very long time. Then you got the weird situations
Speaker 1: we were talking about a little bit ago about neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: We know a few people like this where everything is
Speaker 1: gone except for your house for whatever reason. And uh,
Speaker 1: how weird that would be if you're the one house
Speaker 1: in the block that survived, or you're you're you're the
Speaker 1: part of the homes where the fire stopped for some reason,
Speaker 1: but everything next to it and the neighborhood has gone,
Speaker 1: and so you're surrounded by you know, it looks like Gaza,
Speaker 1: your local gas station and grocery stores burnt down. Your
Speaker 1: kid's school is gone. I mean, it's not near the
Speaker 1: same neighborhood you used to live in, even though your
Speaker 1: house is still there. I'd be that'd be wild. How
Speaker 1: many years before that comes back?
Speaker 5: Well, and you're living in a burnout healthscape and yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know what the air quality is going to be.
Speaker 5: And then there is going to be eventually never ending
Speaker 5: clearing of row I mean, oh my god, eighteen hours
Speaker 5: a day, and then never ending infrastructure repair and construction,
Speaker 5: like you're living in the middle of a brand new subdivision.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just it's unthinkable.
Speaker 5: And the rebuilding, of course, no matter your imagination, you
Speaker 5: cannot fully imagine the just the suffering and the annoyance
Speaker 5: and the stress.
Speaker 1: A lot of pressure already on the government to streamline
Speaker 1: making that easier, and Gavin Newsom's done away with a
Speaker 1: lot of the permits and environmental regulations and everything like that.
Speaker 1: Reason Magazine tweeted out yesterday, they're the libertarian outfit. If
Speaker 1: removing permit and review processes will help California communities recover
Speaker 1: faster and stronger after the wildfires, wouldn't there permanent removal
Speaker 1: help the state deal with its housing shortages? Of course,
Speaker 1: pretty impossible to counter that thought.
Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, it's it's ridiculous. California's problems are entirely of
Speaker 5: its own making.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes things are so Bill Burr, comedian, was on Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel last night. This gets into a topic we've covered
Speaker 1: quite a bit, but we'll cover it again in case
Speaker 1: you don't understand it yet. How is Bill Burr the
Speaker 1: father the husband in an emergency situation? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm all right, I'm alright. When big stuff happens, I
Speaker 1: get ridiculously calm my achilles, heel stop that. Sorry, we
Speaker 1: need six, not seven. I don't know why we get
Speaker 1: some six.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they are talking about looting, but CNN and
Speaker 2: Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance
Speaker 2: companies that are just going to keep everybody's.
Speaker 3: Premiums and still give themselves a bonus.
Speaker 1: Free Luigi.
Speaker 3: They acted surprise, Why did that happen? I have no
Speaker 3: he wrote on the bullets, why it happened?
Speaker 1: Oh we're back to Luigi.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, I never left Luigi.
Speaker 1: Wow. The hilarity ensues around Luigi the Murderer. Wow. And
Speaker 1: the crowd thought it was funny. A crowd just nah.
Speaker 5: Of course they might have been shocked. Sometimes people laugh
Speaker 5: whim shocked. Kimil thought it was hilarious. Bill Burr obviously
Speaker 5: thinks it's good material for his crowd. I like, I'm
Speaker 5: a Bill Bill Burr fan, but again, just so everybody
Speaker 5: sends it. And I have been screwed by a number
Speaker 5: of insurance companies and I'm sure I will be again.
Speaker 1: In my life, it has always seemed to me that
Speaker 1: you pay your whole life, and then when you need them,
Speaker 1: they either drop you or raise the rates enough to
Speaker 1: cover how much they just gave you. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: been like mostly my experiences. So I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: all about helping out the insurance companies. But in California
Speaker 1: they passed a law that you were not allowed to
Speaker 1: raise your premiums, even though with inflation and all kinds
Speaker 1: of other things happening throughout the pandemic in the last
Speaker 1: four years, it costs so much more to fix your house.
Speaker 1: There was just no mathematical way they could continue to
Speaker 1: be in business in California. If it costs, you know,
Speaker 1: one and a half times what it used to cost
Speaker 1: to fix your house, they can't charge the same premium.
Speaker 1: Obviously it doesn't work.
Speaker 5: Yeah, costs your up seventy percent. You can raise your
Speaker 5: premiums ten percent. We're leaving, was the answer, right, appropriately, Right.
Speaker 1: It's the biggest market in America, might even be statistically
Speaker 1: the world California for insurance companies, and all the big
Speaker 1: companies left because it didn't make mathematical sense anymore.
Speaker 3: Free Luigi, Yeah, talk.
Speaker 1: About looters, talk about the insurance companies, says Bill Burr.
Speaker 1: I just wish more people understood that, so we could
Speaker 1: come to some sort of Okay, the insurance companies, I
Speaker 1: hate them too, but let's figure out what they should
Speaker 1: be doing in a fair world where they're allowed to
Speaker 1: function well, and the things that they do that are indefensible,
Speaker 1: then regulations can reasonable regulations can be put in place
Speaker 1: and are in place to prevent that sort of screwing. Actually,
Speaker 1: in terms of consumer friendliness, California is very much insurance
Speaker 1: wise to the point of absurdity, driving all the companies
Speaker 1: out of the state for political purposes.
Speaker 3: It's just not realistic as usual.
Speaker 1: That Free Luigi thing and the reaction of Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, has there been anything like that
Speaker 1: that I can think of in my life?
Speaker 5: A cold blooded murder of a husband and father celebrated
Speaker 5: because people don't.
Speaker 3: Like his company. I don't know. Wow, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Troubling Bill Burr is a comedian who primarily, you know,
Speaker 5: performs for youngish people and is irreverent and says things
Speaker 5: he might not necessarily believe to get a rise.
Speaker 3: I get what comedy is.
Speaker 5: But seriously, now, if we were to accept that any
Speaker 5: industry that.
Speaker 3: Had a history of activity that.
Speaker 5: Most consumers resent their executives open season for their murder.
Speaker 1: Airlines shoot the shoot the guy runs southwest, shoot him
Speaker 1: in the street. Yeah, I hate the way they treated
Speaker 1: me all these years. United Airlines, whatever hospital serves, you
Speaker 1: know that the doctor's companies. Rennakarker whatever, whatever company you
Speaker 1: don't like, the phone company, pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 3: You think of dozens of them.
Speaker 1: Now you're electric bill. Yeah, obviously there's the endless list
Speaker 1: of companies you're not really pleased with. You don't get
Speaker 1: to murder them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there are a lot of good people trying to
Speaker 5: do better within those companies, and you might murder one
Speaker 5: of them.
Speaker 1: Plus murder is wrong anyway. Uh Well, once you start
Speaker 1: down that road. We've had this discussion ever since the murder.
Speaker 1: Once you start down that road, it's all over.
Speaker 5: It's all over civilization. You may yes, it's crazy wild West.
Speaker 5: You're you're living in uh. I don't know where's lawless
Speaker 5: the Sudan.
Speaker 1: So a couple of factoids for you, uh borrows. Homes
Speaker 1: burned down are still on the hook for monthly mortgage
Speaker 1: payments in the long run, even though there is not
Speaker 1: a house there, but many will get temporary relief. Homeowners
Speaker 1: usually have the option to pause mortgage payments for as
Speaker 1: much as a year if they are impacted by a
Speaker 1: natural disaster.
Speaker 3: Have you heard anybody even take a.
Speaker 5: Wild guess as to the average time till the rebuilding
Speaker 5: of the average home in Los Angeles?
Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't even heard of speculation. But like
Speaker 1: you tell me, off the top of your head, off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, if I just lost my house,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's two or three years before I live
Speaker 1: in a home on that spot.
Speaker 5: Again, what do you think, Oh, that's a minimum, Yeah,
Speaker 5: minimum fare minimum.
Speaker 1: I mean there are only so many contractors, right, It'd
Speaker 1: be so long from now. I wouldn't even really be
Speaker 1: thinking about it because I'd know that for years I'm
Speaker 1: living somewhere else, So I got to figure out what
Speaker 1: that is with the schooling and my work and everything else.
Speaker 5: I would agree, I can't even imagine what it's gonna
Speaker 5: be like to sort this out.
Speaker 1: And just as an aside, I also don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but I would be looking into some sort of situation
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna try to buy a new house somewhere
Speaker 1: else and start my life and then when that gets built,
Speaker 1: sell it or something. I mean, what are you gonna
Speaker 1: put your life on a hold and go back there?
Speaker 3: I guess a lot of people are right. I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine how you deal with it, honestly, very
Speaker 5: obviously a person of person, but it's it's to call
Speaker 5: it disruptive is not nearly enough. Some of the most
Speaker 5: famous real estate in the world burnt to the ground.
Speaker 5: There was that mansion, that hilltop mansion that cost fifty
Speaker 5: million dollars to build over a dozen years, whatever it was,
Speaker 5: and it's sold for eighty three million or something like that.
Speaker 3: I can't remember.
Speaker 5: It's got a name, Jimmy the house, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't name my houses. I should, though it's classic.
Speaker 3: But that place is ruined. It's done, it's burnt.
Speaker 1: All sorts of ten twenty seventy million dollar houses are
Speaker 1: just gone. Tony. I heard a story from somebody yesterday.
Speaker 1: I didn't know this was a thing. Somebody whose friend
Speaker 1: their house survived. The firefighters got there, came in, took
Speaker 1: all the furniture out of the living room that was
Speaker 1: made out of wood and threw it in their pool,
Speaker 1: and then hosed down the walls with some sort of
Speaker 1: fire retardant and went to the next house and then
Speaker 1: the house. The house survived the flames coming by that interesting.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was a thing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the best case, and that's going to be horrendous.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it. Repairs there new placements.
Speaker 5: And in the context of the other two hundred and
Speaker 5: seventy five houses in your little development there are gone,
Speaker 5: and they're trying to hire contractors, repair people.
Speaker 3: And the rest of it, I can't even imagine.
Speaker 5: No anyway forbearans is what they call pausing your mortgage
Speaker 5: payments for a certain amount of time. Mortgage companies are
Speaker 5: required to offer it on the roughly forty percent of
Speaker 5: mortgages backed by Fanny Mae and Freddie Mack. Loans backed
Speaker 5: by the FAHA and the VA have similar guidance. Loans
Speaker 5: that do not have federal backing, like jumbo mortgages, may
Speaker 5: also be eligible for for barants. That depends on mortgage
Speaker 5: companies that service these loans.
Speaker 1: But if you were not eligible for this, so you go.
Speaker 1: You got to keep taking making your house payment for
Speaker 1: that three to five years we were talking about while
Speaker 1: you're living renting a place.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, and residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed
Speaker 5: might also be eligible for property tax relief. But paying
Speaker 5: a mortgage and property tax on a pile of ash
Speaker 5: wife one more somewhat sobering headline. Right south West's pilots
Speaker 5: would like to listen to this sobriety seems to be
Speaker 5: a bit of a challenge.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's unfair.
Speaker 5: A little noticed rule change last year by California's insurance
Speaker 5: regulator will likely shift a large chunk of the cost
Speaker 5: of the LA wildfires two homeowners.
Speaker 3: Across the state.
Speaker 5: Pushed by insurers, the change puts California homeowners on the
Speaker 5: hook to pay directly toward the cost of rebuilding from
Speaker 5: very large disasters, even though fatter insurance built I'm sorry
Speaker 5: through fatter insurance bills, whether they were exposed to the
Speaker 5: LA fire or not. Dave Jones, former California insurance commissioner,
Speaker 5: who was not a crook unlike the current cabal, says
Speaker 5: that would be a huge wake up call for Californian
Speaker 5: is because they have no idea that the rules have changed.
Speaker 5: The new policy effects the backstop for California's Fare Plan,
Speaker 5: which is the insurer of last resort because so many
Speaker 5: thousands and thousands and thousands of homeowners in cal Unicornea
Speaker 5: can't get coverage because the aforementioned bad rules. So the
Speaker 5: rule change means insurance companies can build their customers if
Speaker 5: they're forced to bail out the plan, which has an
Speaker 5: estimated two hundred million dollars in cash and two point
Speaker 5: five million billion dollars in reassurance, which is not going
Speaker 5: to be nearly enough to cover their share of the
Speaker 5: losses from the fires.
Speaker 3: That could be double or triple.
Speaker 1: So all of our insurance is going to go up.
Speaker 3: Skyrocket probably nice. I know.
Speaker 1: Looking for good news somewhere else.
Speaker 3: We'll keep looking and get back to you.
Speaker 1: The ceasefire deal decent chance it falls apart. If you
Speaker 1: haven't heard the latest, explain that among other things on
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Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, ball player, actor, a commentator and funny man.
Speaker 1: You gotta be a certain age to remember when he
Speaker 1: used to go on Carson back in the day when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Loved his appearances. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: a major league baseball player turn comedian, really hilarious guy.
Speaker 1: Well he was a He was a very mediocre player,
Speaker 1: and he made a career of it making a joke,
Speaker 1: really self great, self deprecating humor. He is in the
Speaker 1: movie Major League, just doing his act again. We'll tell
Speaker 1: his stories about how I wasn't very fast runner, so
Speaker 1: when i'd run, I'd move my hand up like this
Speaker 1: and knock my hat off to look like it was
Speaker 1: I was going faster.
Speaker 3: Oh that's beautiful.
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Speaker 3: The hell with it? That's all. We got one damn hit.
Speaker 1: You can't say damn on the air.
Speaker 5: I don't worry, nobody's listening anyway. The Great Bob Buker's
Speaker 5: pass Jack more disappointing news. A famous cartoonist who is
Speaker 5: syndicated by the Washington Post, has made a career out
Speaker 5: of portraying Republicans as Nazis and perverts and sickos and
Speaker 5: the rest of it. Has been arrested for child porn charges.
Speaker 5: Who in the Sacramento, California area. Oh my god, one
Speaker 5: forty nine year old Darren Bell, who again had I
Speaker 5: was just looking at a collection of his cartoons portrayed
Speaker 5: Trump as Hitler, among other things. Ah, there was a
Speaker 5: tip to the Child Sex Abuse National Center for Missing
Speaker 5: and Exploited Children Child Sex Abuse material Line, and he
Speaker 5: was arrested with one hundred and thirty four videos.
Speaker 3: And many many images, et cetera. Has been tried.
Speaker 1: That is so disgusting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It is.
Speaker 1: First of all, it's disgusting and twisted, and I think
Speaker 1: those people's brains are broken and can't be fixed. But
Speaker 1: how do you think you're gonna get away with it?
Speaker 1: You really think that nobody's going to get into your
Speaker 1: computer somehow and find you. I just can't imagine that.
Speaker 3: I guess the compulsion is that strong.
Speaker 1: Oh that's horrifying. That is horror.
Speaker 5: If you're looking for a logical explanation, yeah, I can't
Speaker 5: even imagine. It's an affliction. I think in a sickness.
Speaker 1: So coming up a quick review of America's college campuses.
Speaker 1: It feels like we're kind of winning the war against
Speaker 1: woke and DEEI, oh my lord, we have miles to
Speaker 1: go before we sleep. The wah Pole has announced their
Speaker 1: new slogan. Remember it used to be democracy dies in darkness.
Speaker 1: I do think this is a better direction for them,
Speaker 1: and we got to check it. On the Middle East
Speaker 1: peace deal, which maybe falling apart, I got dang it.
Speaker 1: I've spent so much time reading about this I left
Speaker 1: out maybe the key, probably the key why Israel is
Speaker 1: pursuing this, because I've been saying all morning long, I
Speaker 1: understand why they would make this deal. Well, there is
Speaker 1: a good reason for them to make this deal.
Speaker 5: Who gets the most credit? A very silly discussion between
Speaker 5: Trump and Biden. How's this likely to come out? Is
Speaker 5: it a good deal? And what about the hostages? So
Speaker 5: many questions. We'll have some answers. If you can't stick around,
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Speaker 3: On demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: There's some question about whether Hamas knows where each one
Speaker 4: of these hostages are, how long it may take to
Speaker 4: get them all together. There are thirty three in this
Speaker 4: first group, we're not sure how many are alive. Beyond that,
Speaker 4: it'll be a joyous occasion when those thirty three get reunited,
Speaker 4: but it's going to be pretty tense about all of
Speaker 4: the rest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty up in the air. Question how many
Speaker 1: hostages are alive and what kind of condition are they
Speaker 1: in is a heck of a thing. As David Sanger
Speaker 1: of The New York Times talking about the peace deal
Speaker 1: before this happened last night. So the acting leader of AMAS,
Speaker 1: you might remember the former leader of HAMAS threw a
Speaker 1: chunk of wood at a drone and then got his
Speaker 1: head bloot off. Remember that whole story.
Speaker 3: It has passed. Yes, Jack has passed.
Speaker 1: A timely death, actually untimely. It'd have been better if
Speaker 1: he died before October seventh. But that guy is dead,
Speaker 1: and so this is the current acting leader of HAMAS
Speaker 1: releases this video last night after the news breaks of
Speaker 1: a peace deal.
Speaker 6: We also got a statement overnight from the de facto
Speaker 6: leader of HAMAS, who released this about the deal.
Speaker 7: What happened on October seventh a miracle, a military achievement,
Speaker 7: and a security achievement carried out by al casombriad Or
Speaker 7: remain a source of pride for our people and our resistance,
Speaker 7: though will we passed down from generation to generation after
Speaker 7: it struck a fatal blow to the end.
Speaker 6: That statement's important because it illustrates the type of pressure
Speaker 6: that is currently being faced by the Israeli government. Hamas
Speaker 6: is claiming victory. We saw images last night from inside
Speaker 6: the Gaza strip of Hamas gunman freely going around and
Speaker 6: celebrating what they are calling an achievement, promising to conduct
Speaker 6: yet another October seventh attack, and it raises real questions
Speaker 6: about how this agreement is going to be accepted, especially
Speaker 6: among the right wing coalition of the Israeli Prime Minister.
Speaker 1: So imagine somebody kidnaps your kid, you make a deal
Speaker 1: with him, and as you're making the deal, they say
Speaker 1: to you, I'm going to as soon as I can,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kidnap your kid again. Yeah, what kind of
Speaker 1: a deal I'm making here. So apparently that took the
Speaker 1: right wingers in the people that are to the right
Speaker 1: of net and Yahoo in his government said no freaking way,
Speaker 1: we're on this, and that's why they have not had
Speaker 1: a vote now. They were supposed to vote yesterday, but
Speaker 1: now they have not had a vote on whether or
Speaker 1: not they're going to go forward with this deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the deal has not been agreed to.
Speaker 5: I also wanted to point out the statement by the
Speaker 5: leader of mo Oswell, I get it in his world
Speaker 5: of extremists quote unquote domestic politics, why he would say
Speaker 5: something like that. It also just illustrates the utter insanity
Speaker 5: of two days after October seventh, the Biden administration saying Israel,
Speaker 5: you've got to have a ceasefire. A good lord. It's
Speaker 5: unspeakably dumb. Anyway, a few more details. BB Netniaho announced
Speaker 5: earlier today that the long waited ceasefire deal is on
Speaker 5: hold because of a last minute crisis, which including the
Speaker 5: bragging about the pride in October seventh. Net Nyahu delayed
Speaker 5: his cabinet voting Thursday, accusing Hamas of a last minute
Speaker 5: blackmail attempt. There's more to this. In part that included
Speaker 5: the terror group objecting to a part of the agreement
Speaker 5: that gave Israel the right to refuse the release of
Speaker 5: certain Palestinian prisoners accused of murders, said net Nyahoo's office
Speaker 5: in a statement. Quote Hamas is demanding that it determined
Speaker 5: the identity of the terrorists to be released and that
Speaker 5: was not agreed to, and Israel said that we can't
Speaker 5: agree to that. So you know, I'm swear I'm not
Speaker 5: saying this to pat myself on the back. But I
Speaker 5: didn't believe yesterday that it was a done deal, and
Speaker 5: I sure as hell don't believe that today is a
Speaker 5: done deal. You are trying to come to an agreement
Speaker 5: with a foe that will not until the last days
Speaker 5: of mankind mind negotiating good faith.
Speaker 1: Well, the mainstream media is all reporting it. I heard
Speaker 1: it on NPR, I heard it on CNN, I heard
Speaker 1: it on MSNBC as Netna who once again scuggling a
Speaker 1: peace deal. Hamas has agreed to it, but Netna who
Speaker 1: once again backing away from a peace deal. That is
Speaker 1: not the way these have gone down over the last
Speaker 1: year and a half. And as you just heard from
Speaker 1: Joe there, there's reasons why he would not agree to this.
Speaker 1: And I've been trying to figure out why would you
Speaker 1: agree to it?
Speaker 5: I mean, I realized that it is terrible, it's worth
Speaker 5: mentioning that go ahead.
Speaker 1: So only Fox is the only place I've seen play
Speaker 1: that video from the Hamas leader doing the touchdown dance
Speaker 1: over this thing. They didn't even mention it on any
Speaker 1: of the other news outlets. I think that's a pretty
Speaker 1: key piece of information when your opponent is vowing more
Speaker 1: October seventh, as soon as we can get our act
Speaker 1: together and get enough people. Oh, we'd love to murder
Speaker 1: more babies and old people and rape a bunch of
Speaker 1: college girls, I'd be fantastic. That's who you're supposed to
Speaker 1: do the peace deal with.
Speaker 3: Good Lord.
Speaker 5: It's difficult to say whether that was the key point
Speaker 5: or the Hamas stating that we get to choose the
Speaker 5: guys you released, by the way in Israel saying whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3: We never agreed to that. Yeah, it doesn't not be
Speaker 3: one of these of both factors, right exactly.
Speaker 1: There's the piece that I've been missing. I knew this,
Speaker 1: but I forgot about it. Richard Engel reported it, and
Speaker 1: I read about it so in the Bob Woodward book.
Speaker 1: One of the weird turns of history. They were within
Speaker 1: days of normalizing relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel when
Speaker 1: October seventh happened. It was all the pieces were in place,
Speaker 1: and that you talk about an historic shift in the
Speaker 1: Middle East. Why would Saudi Arabia do that because then
Speaker 1: they would be part of the whole US umbrella of
Speaker 1: protection against Iran and any other foe. So Israel and
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia were going to become friends and then their forces.
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia's a friend in the United States just changed
Speaker 1: the entire balance of power in the entire Middle East.
Speaker 1: There were days from that happening when not over seven
Speaker 1: the cord obviously then it was off because the Arab
Speaker 1: street as they call it in Saudi Arabia was horrified
Speaker 1: at the way the Palestinians would be treated. Blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Well, apparently that's back in the works again.
Speaker 1: There's a decent chance if Israel agrees to this, that
Speaker 1: MBS thinks, Okay, this will appease my people enough. They're
Speaker 1: no longer bombinum, the food aids getting in, We're going
Speaker 1: to normalize relations, and it's back on. Saudi Arabia is
Speaker 1: under the US nuclear umbrella again.
Speaker 5: Talking about Iran, right, and MBS, for all of his
Speaker 5: many sins, is a practical man, and he understands a
Speaker 5: backward oil kingdom with a bunch of people running around
Speaker 5: shouting fundamentalist slogans from the year eight hundred ain't the
Speaker 5: way to run a country in the twenty first century.
Speaker 5: He is trying desperately to modernize his country and diversify
Speaker 5: the economy too, But he understands he's got to be
Speaker 5: plugged into the international community and he can't do that
Speaker 5: as a fundamental Muslim pariah. So yeah, he has every
Speaker 5: interest in cementing this deal.
Speaker 1: He also believes another thing from a Woodward book. He
Speaker 1: fully believes Iran's going to get a bomb. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and RAN's going to have a nuclear weapon and we're not,
Speaker 1: And so we need to be friends with the United
Speaker 1: States and Israel, which is also a nuclear power, though
Speaker 1: they claim they're not right, Oh they are.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, so much for the peace deal, the
Speaker 5: cease fire. Who knows, it might never be implemented in
Speaker 5: any way, or it might be in six hours.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Man normalized relations between Saudi, eurobe and Israel crazy, I mean, wow,
Speaker 1: remember where the hijackers came from?
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Speaker 1: Want to leave plenty of time for your update about
Speaker 1: the world of colleges or what it is you teased.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: There is the troubling, there is the highly amusing, and
Speaker 5: there is the quite hopeful. It's kind of a Neopolitan
Speaker 5: ice cream box of collegiate madness.
Speaker 1: Neopolitan ice cream is all the different flavors.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the chocolate, the strawberry in the vanilla. Do
Speaker 3: you still see that in stores? You want to hear
Speaker 3: that a vestige of my childhood.
Speaker 1: You want to hear another amazing I've never Okay, I've
Speaker 1: never had strawberry ice cream, great.
Speaker 3: Scott, were you raised on the moon?
Speaker 1: No, It's been available to me many, many Unlike what
Speaker 1: was the sandwich you were talking about, which I'd never
Speaker 1: come across in my life.
Speaker 3: Uh, hot pastrami sand I never.
Speaker 1: Come in contact with a potrami sandwich. I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities for strawberry I scream. It just always
Speaker 1: sounded gross to me, so I've never tried it.
Speaker 5: Katie has a look on her face like she's watching
Speaker 5: a documentary on some weird tribe that's never brushed up
Speaker 5: against modernity.
Speaker 1: I basically am listening to this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know the list of things Jack has never done, eaten,
Speaker 5: gone to it, or it's astonishing because you've actually lived
Speaker 5: a very interesting life in ways.
Speaker 1: Unless you find eating strawberry ice cream part of the
Speaker 1: richness of life, because I've missed out on that.
Speaker 3: It is part of life's rich paget.
Speaker 1: No doubt, We've got more on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 3: Some business news. Amazon announced it is phasing out his
Speaker 3: try before you buy option. That's too bad. I'm going
Speaker 3: to miss buying underwear that ten people have already tried.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because I remember watching Jeff Bezos on Charlie
Speaker 1: Rose back when he had hair, talking about this is
Speaker 1: one of the great things about Amazon. You know, you're
Speaker 1: not sure your size, buy a pair of shoes you
Speaker 1: know a size bigger that size, and try them on.
Speaker 1: You send back the ones that don't fit. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was part of their whole why you should start
Speaker 1: buying through online. He must think that it's caught on
Speaker 1: enough that they don't need to do that anymore. And yes,
Speaker 1: and it must be a negative somewhere or bad.
Speaker 5: People are exploiting it in a way that is too costly,
Speaker 5: like so many others trying underwear. Yeah, that's right. Normally
Speaker 5: don't we have introductory music. Michael, it's a campus madness update.
Speaker 3: I forget to warn you. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 5: It's just a digest of stories about colleges in universities.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're going to zoom through it. The good,
Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 5: As I've often said, you have to remember in the
Speaker 5: war against Woke, the war against Dei, the neo Marxism,
Speaker 5: the racializing everything. We're not at the beginning of the
Speaker 5: end or at the end of the beginning. The war
Speaker 5: has just begun. Some examples again, the good, bad, and
Speaker 5: the ugly. This is really quite a story. Columbia University,
Speaker 5: you remember them with the madness and the occupation and
Speaker 5: the pro terrorism and anti jew and blocking Jews from
Speaker 5: going to classes and just all that stuff. Well they've
Speaker 5: cleaned up their act. No, they have not even a
Speaker 5: little bit. As the kids returned to school this year,
Speaker 5: the Columbia Literary Society Alpha Delta Phi set up a
Speaker 5: two day event in the these Hen's House, named after
Speaker 5: a five year old Gosen girl who died in the conflict.
Speaker 5: It's tragic. Obviously, nobody likes that, except for Hamas they
Speaker 5: like that but it is a two day festival celebrating
Speaker 5: the campus protests of last year. They've set up a
Speaker 5: museum of themselves celebrating Hamas and the protests on the
Speaker 5: Columbia University campus. They have a table with the wrenches, hammers, ropes,
Speaker 5: and wirecutters used by the anti Israel protesters to break
Speaker 5: in and occupy Columbia's Hamilton Hall last to April, with
Speaker 5: a sign do not get your fingerprints on these, because
Speaker 5: of course the man might crack down.
Speaker 3: Very strange.
Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal headline, the higher education is
Speaker 5: in trouble, among other things, schools should curtail DEI and
Speaker 5: stop taking political sides. They're quite right, but they cite
Speaker 5: some astonishing statistics. Confidence in America's colleges and universities has
Speaker 5: declined modestly among Democrats, but it has collapsed among Republicans.
Speaker 5: A decade ago, a mere decade ago, fifty six percent
Speaker 5: of Republicans expressed high confidence in higher education. Now only
Speaker 5: and only eleven percent expressed little or no. It was
Speaker 5: fifty six to eleven, it is now twenty to fifty.
Speaker 5: I'm a little or no, me too, Yeah, Only twenty
Speaker 5: percent of Republicans expressed high confidence in higher education, and
Speaker 5: fifty percent have little or no confidence.
Speaker 1: What is it for Democrats? Do you have that? Oh?
Speaker 5: Goodness, I'm not sure they gave that specific number, right.
Speaker 1: I told the story as this is Halloween before last,
Speaker 1: so it's probably gone further this direction now. But I
Speaker 1: was out walking with other parents for Halloween. These are
Speaker 1: all college educated, super liberal town people, and I was
Speaker 1: shocked by most of them saying, yeah, not going to
Speaker 1: college unless there's some specific reason. I thought, Wow, this
Speaker 1: crowd's turned against college. There's really something.
Speaker 5: And then this, do you have an insatiable desire to
Speaker 5: read about al chemical hermaphrodites, gender fluid angels, Ethiopian eunuchs,
Speaker 5: trans saints, sects, workers, and gender queer monks.
Speaker 1: Man, I'm gonna go see Ethiopia Eunichs this weekend. They're
Speaker 1: doing a special MLK show.
Speaker 5: They're they're opening for John Mayer. Or would you like
Speaker 5: to contemplate how these medieval techs speak to the historical, theoretical,
Speaker 5: and political concerns that animate contemporary trans studies. Well, if
Speaker 5: you'd like to, you can take at Boston University the
Speaker 5: upcoming course Medieval trans Studies. Boy the kids can't read, write,
Speaker 5: or do engineering.
Speaker 1: It's interesting In Gladiator two, the slave holder of the
Speaker 1: gladiator this time around, Denzel Washington is clearly flaming gay,
Speaker 1: like really really gay, and the two emperors are both
Speaker 1: kind of transish, And I thought, okay, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know that sort of thing went on in Greek and
Speaker 1: Roman life, but I imagine they got a kickout of alerting
Speaker 1: the world. See this was always happening's always been this
Speaker 1: way not of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll touch on this briefly.
Speaker 5: A Columbia University professor who called the Hamas October seventh,
Speaker 5: rape murder, child murder, burning people, live, attack on Israel awesome.
Speaker 5: We'll teach an upcoming course on Zionism at beautiful Columbia.
Speaker 3: University this term. So that's great, that's just super. That's
Speaker 3: enough said.
Speaker 5: But this from our friends at FIRE, the Foundation for
Speaker 5: Individual Rights and Expression that fight on both sides of
Speaker 5: the aisle. They want to make sure there's free expression speech.
Speaker 5: They've got a new report that finds half of faculty
Speaker 5: say mandatory DEI statement pledges in hiring are rarely are
Speaker 5: never acceptable.
Speaker 3: But only half. One of the headlines is.
Speaker 5: Five nearly half of conservative faculty report they feel unable
Speaker 5: to voice their opinions because of how others might react.
Speaker 5: Half on campus, it's only a fifth of liberal faculty,
Speaker 5: and more than a third of faculty say they self
Speaker 5: censor their written work because of social pressor, which is
Speaker 5: quadruple the number of scientists who said the same thing
Speaker 5: at the height of McCarthyism.
Speaker 1: Wow, if you're a liberal professor afraid to espouse your
Speaker 1: views on campus, you have no testicles and or ovaries. Really,
Speaker 1: what are you afraids gonna happen?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5: Eighty seven percent of faculty find it difficult to have
Speaker 5: an open and honest conversation on campus about at least
Speaker 5: one hot button political topic one in seven report and
Speaker 5: being disciplined or threatened just for their opinions. Thirty five
Speaker 5: percent report toning down their written work to avoid controversy
Speaker 5: and where there was one more headline that I really liked.
Speaker 5: Only twenty percent of university faculty say a conservative would
Speaker 5: fit in well in their department, only twenty percent in
Speaker 5: a fifty to fifty country, And how.
Speaker 1: Could you possibly, as a liberal not progressive, think that
Speaker 1: that's good?
Speaker 5: They are cultists and they're so self righteous. They're convinced
Speaker 5: that they're good and anybody who disagrees with them is evil.
Speaker 5: It is a dichotomous view of the world, the second
Speaker 5: use of the day of the term Menichaean.
Speaker 1: Everything's one or the other in the world. Everything you're
Speaker 1: either good or evil, and if you're progressive, you're good.
Speaker 1: If you're not your evil. People actually believe this crap.
Speaker 1: Life and politics isn't a series of trade offs and
Speaker 1: people who have different opinions and see the world differently.
Speaker 5: It doesn't take all kinds in the world of these people,
Speaker 5: It just takes one kind their kind. The rest should
Speaker 5: die anyway. Another quick headliner too. Civic education is making
Speaker 5: a much needed comeback on a number of different campuses,
Speaker 5: so there is hope. Colleges from Arizona, Texas, to Florida, Tennessee,
Speaker 5: North Carolina and Ohio are starting up American government and
Speaker 5: politics and civic education programs.
Speaker 3: It's making your assertions. There is hope.
Speaker 5: And even the University of San Francisco has severed ties
Speaker 5: with one of your racist anti racists who is accredited
Speaker 5: online class Understanding the roots of racism and bias, anti Blackness,
Speaker 5: and it's links to whiteness, white racism, privilege and power.
Speaker 5: This lunatic. They've severed ties with them. There's hope. We
Speaker 5: just got to keep fighting.
Speaker 1: I wonder if we reached the high point of the
Speaker 1: craziness and for my lifetime that's over, I hope.
Speaker 2: So.
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