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 2: And jet Taking and no he I'm strong and Jetty.
Speaker 3: Here are the people of Chicago telling the nation's worst mayor,
Speaker 3: Brandon Johnson, what they think of being a sanctuary city.
Speaker 2: This what's gonna happen to you.
Speaker 4: You got Cash Ptail and Pam Bundy that you're gonna
Speaker 4: have to deal with sooner than later. Then it's gonna
Speaker 4: be an autist. Next it's gonna be an investigation. Then
Speaker 4: it's gonna be an indictment, phibition. That's what's gonna happen
Speaker 4: to you, mister, Brandon Johnson. I'm up here.
Speaker 2: The people of Chicago. We're done with you.
Speaker 5: You're so strong about protecting those aliens, but you won't
Speaker 5: do nothing but a US citizen.
Speaker 1: So that's the Mayor of Chicago getting a tongue lashing
Speaker 1: from some of his constituents.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Really solidly positioned as America's worst mayor. But Jack, there
Speaker 3: is a threat in the distance gaining ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Election is today.
Speaker 1: The primary for the Mayor of New York is today.
Speaker 1: And because it's such a heavily democratic system in this case,
Speaker 1: I mean, because there have been some Republican mayors, as
Speaker 1: you may remember Rudy Giuliani back in the day, Michael
Speaker 1: Bloomberg who was a Republican for a while well, and
Speaker 1: Rudy was known as America's mayor at the end of
Speaker 1: his terms because he'd done such a brilliant job.
Speaker 2: But there is no Republican candidate like that.
Speaker 1: So whoever wins the Democratic primary today is going to
Speaker 1: be the mayor, although it's going to kick into rank
Speaker 1: choice voting, but it looks like even with the rank
Speaker 1: choice voting situation, this Zooran Mamdani is going to end
Speaker 1: up being the mayor and beat out old Cuomo, who
Speaker 1: is a crook. I mean, it's just a horrible human being.
Speaker 1: But he's the one that every normal person is hoping
Speaker 1: ends up being the mayor because of the other choice,
Speaker 1: the communist Zoran Mendani. Young guy has never done anything
Speaker 1: in his life except for live off of his parents
Speaker 1: and bad mouth America. I mean, he's that crowd yeah
Speaker 1: that is so popular on college campuses. Big fan of
Speaker 1: Hamas too, I mean really active Humas support, which has
Speaker 1: got to be part of the reason the tremendous turnout
Speaker 1: of the young there, along with some of his socialist policies,
Speaker 1: which will go through some of those right now if elected.
Speaker 1: He does plan to spend or says he's going to.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the ability to do this and the
Speaker 1: money doesn't exist, but he wants to spend sixty five
Speaker 1: million dollars on gender affirming care for all trans people,
Speaker 1: including miners. He promises to investigate New York hospitals who
Speaker 1: have stopped providing the services to miners, oh my god,
Speaker 1: and establish an office of LGBTQIA plus Affairs at City
Speaker 1: Hall to put pressure on these hospitals to continue to
Speaker 1: provide services to kids.
Speaker 2: This guy is satan. I thought I hated him before,
Speaker 2: Now I really hate him.
Speaker 1: He's promised to keep the nypdmaciated, underfunded and understaffed and
Speaker 1: take it further he wants to. He agrees completely with
Speaker 1: the idea of globalizing the Intifada, and we all know
Speaker 1: how that has turned out or what that means. But
Speaker 1: we'll look at a couple of his other signature proposals
Speaker 1: as he that he has here. He wants to freeze rents,
Speaker 1: stacking the rent guidelines board with people who agree with
Speaker 1: his freeze the rent program, which I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've had the least bit of economics ever ever looked
Speaker 1: into this ever before the whole rent freeze thing doesn't work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me thirty seconds on that before he continue
Speaker 3: the list. So the Wall Street Journal's talking about this guy,
Speaker 3: and they begin by quoting this twenty three year old
Speaker 3: paralegal gal who's desperately looking for an apartment and hoping
Speaker 3: to find roommates or whatever.
Speaker 2: And it sounds really difficult and expensive.
Speaker 3: And that's one of the main reasons she supports Zoren
Speaker 3: Mamdani for New York mayor, because this guy is gonna
Speaker 3: freeze rents and really.
Speaker 1: Stick it to landlords. So she supports them, and I
Speaker 1: just want to sit her down. Look, you're a paralegal.
Speaker 1: You're probably reasonably bright, sweetheart. Anybody who conceived of offering
Speaker 1: rental property is gonna say, wow, they just made it
Speaker 1: much less attractive.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 3: And you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna take a
Speaker 3: lot of my rental properties off the market. Do you
Speaker 3: think that's gonna make your life better or worse?
Speaker 2: Prices send a message.
Speaker 1: High priced rent sends the message we need more rental units.
Speaker 2: We'll pay for rental units. Give us more rental units.
Speaker 1: And the idea that this communist is going to end
Speaker 1: that signal being sent to the market and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be good for people is stupid with a capital stupid.
Speaker 1: He wants to deal with food costs and the prevalence
Speaker 1: of food deserts, which has been debunked many times over
Speaker 1: the years, but by creating government run grocery stores. Government
Speaker 1: run grocery stores in New York, so when.
Speaker 3: People just like steal everything, only one customer out of
Speaker 3: ten even goes to the checkout line. What's he going
Speaker 3: to do then, is he going to crack heads or
Speaker 3: is he going to say they're looting it back?
Speaker 1: Or what he wants to pay for all these different things,
Speaker 1: the surgeries for miners and cracking down on the schools
Speaker 1: and all these different things by you guessed that taxing
Speaker 1: New York's rich millionaires already pay forty one percent of
Speaker 1: the state's income taxes, and he wants to increase the
Speaker 1: taxes on that crowd. People have been fleeing New York
Speaker 1: in the same way that they've been fleeing California. They've
Speaker 1: been fleeing New York City in the same way they've
Speaker 1: been fleeing, for instance, in San Francisco Bay Area for
Speaker 1: the same reasons.
Speaker 3: Did you see Ron DeSantis' tweet about this. He posted
Speaker 3: one of the headlines about what mom Donnie wants to do,
Speaker 3: and he said, when you thought Palm State real estate
Speaker 3: couldn't go any higher or Palm Beach real estate couldn't
Speaker 3: go any higher, because yeah, a lot of the moguls,
Speaker 3: a lot of successful people in New York are like,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: That's it, I'm heading to Florida.
Speaker 1: A couple of grocery magnates have said they will leave
Speaker 1: the state or the city if he is elected. Mamdani
Speaker 1: has walked back his support for defunding the police, the
Speaker 1: most toxic political phrase anybody's ever invented. It's hard to
Speaker 1: believe anybody would still say it, and he was still
Speaker 1: saying it up until a couple of days ago, which
Speaker 1: he once called a feminist issue.
Speaker 2: For some reason, somebody got to help me.
Speaker 1: But according to the New York Posts, he's still the
Speaker 1: only candidate who won't commit to hiring more NYPD officers,
Speaker 1: even as the forces well below normal numbers. There's this
Speaker 1: unhealthy fixation on the state of Israel, says The New
Speaker 1: York Post, which has been with him since he helped
Speaker 1: found Butwyn College Students for Justice in Palestine chapter when
Speaker 1: he was a student, which is the last time he
Speaker 1: really did anything. And he has refused to denounce the
Speaker 1: globalize the Intifada as a chanting phrase even after the
Speaker 1: murders in a variety of places around the country. This
Speaker 1: guy is a complete socialist, Marxist, communist nut job, and
Speaker 1: it looks like he's going to win, as the turnout
Speaker 1: already in New York today is very high and.
Speaker 2: It seems to be driven by the youth.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like an AOC style result that's about
Speaker 1: to happen. Wow Wow, although he's way further down the
Speaker 1: road of socialist craziness than AOC.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean her being a waitress bartenders like grounded her
Speaker 3: in the real world way way beyond this character a
Speaker 3: Trustafarian radical activist his entire life.
Speaker 1: Government run grocery stores, government decides rents. You're going to
Speaker 1: investigate hospitals who stop doing surgeries to change the gender
Speaker 1: using my finger.
Speaker 2: Quotes of children. Right, that's a heck of a thing
Speaker 2: to run on, and that's going to be the winning candidate.
Speaker 2: It looks like in New York.
Speaker 3: Wait, and I just scanned the rest of the journal
Speaker 3: article about the housing situation, and they quote a handful
Speaker 3: of young professionals. This person's an artist, so please. But
Speaker 3: here's a software engineer twenty six years old, CouchSurfing because
Speaker 3: the apartments that he really wants just they're snapped up
Speaker 3: off the market in seconds.
Speaker 2: There's an undersupply.
Speaker 1: So what we need to do is have the government
Speaker 1: crack down on landlords and freeze the rents. What are
Speaker 1: we teaching he asks, knowing full well the answer in
Speaker 1: our schools. How do these people, these young professionals, not
Speaker 1: have the most basic grasp of the way.
Speaker 2: Markets actually work.
Speaker 3: You know what, I had a pretty damn good public
Speaker 3: school education, and I was really fuzzy on that stuff.
Speaker 3: On why rent controls are a terrible idea. They're an
Speaker 3: awful idea. They punish the very people they claim to help,
Speaker 3: except for a very small subset of them that get lucky.
Speaker 2: But why don't American kids know this?
Speaker 3: Because they're busy learning about the genderbread person and how
Speaker 3: you can have your healthy genitals lopped off if you
Speaker 3: momentarily decide you're the other sex.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I don't remember when I read you know, pieces about
Speaker 1: rent control and why it doesn't work, But it wasn't
Speaker 1: I didn't learn it in school.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, if you want to argue, I guess
Speaker 3: because schools are run by lefties and it's always a
Speaker 3: lefty proposal, so they're not going to teach you in
Speaker 3: school that rent control doesn't work.
Speaker 2: Right, right.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, if you wanted to argue
Speaker 3: about so called supply side economics, and there are some arguments,
Speaker 3: well it's slow, or it's indirect, or the rich design
Speaker 3: tax policy, so the so called trickle down, which is
Speaker 3: a terrible term invented by lefties. It doesn't happen well enough,
Speaker 3: it doesn't happen in fast. We could get into an
Speaker 3: argument about supply side economics. My side is right, definitely,
Speaker 3: But you're not out of your mind.
Speaker 1: If you're arguing in favor of rent control, you're a
Speaker 1: mad man.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it makes no sense.
Speaker 1: I mean, just why don't any of these people ever
Speaker 1: picture themselves as if they owned a rental house? What
Speaker 1: would you do if the city decided you don't get
Speaker 1: to charge as much rent as you want, or the
Speaker 1: prevailing you would decide, well, I'm gonna sell the place.
Speaker 1: Then I guess I'll sell it because housing prices are
Speaker 1: high and there's a lot of value in this place,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to sell it as opposed to rent it.
Speaker 1: Or if you were considering buying some places to rent out,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't if you don't want to.
Speaker 2: Control your rent.
Speaker 3: And they mentioned that not only would a rent freeze
Speaker 3: discourage new investment, but it discourages spending on maintaining existing units.
Speaker 1: Oh obviously I'd never even thought about that, but of
Speaker 1: course it would, because you have the supply artificially constricted,
Speaker 1: and so everybody's so desperate you don't have to.
Speaker 3: Yeah there's cockroaches, Fine, organize them into a cockroach.
Speaker 2: Circus or move on. I don't care. There are people
Speaker 2: lined up on their deep to rent this place. Screw you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the paints, peel and paint it yourself.
Speaker 1: Cornell professor Russell Weaver, who teaches courses in Equitable Community Change. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're sending your kid to college to take a course
Speaker 1: called Equitable Community Change calls tenants down our colleges to
Speaker 1: the studs. Yes, calls tenants the sleeping job in future elections,
Speaker 1: and how this is going to be the issue that
Speaker 1: gets Zoran over the line. There are I think six
Speaker 1: candidates still left. They started with eight on the Democratic side.
Speaker 1: Three of them were running on freezing rents, but the
Speaker 1: other two didn't get any traction.
Speaker 2: This guy is going to be the one that wins.
Speaker 3: You know, this is a harsh sentence even without using
Speaker 3: the word. But the President used this word today. We
Speaker 3: ought to replay that you've heard. We got suggest that
Speaker 3: somebody should go f themselves. Renters are about to mercilessly
Speaker 3: they are about to absolutely screw themselves in New York.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, it'll be interesting to watch. The New York
Speaker 1: Post gives a bunch of examples of cities across the
Speaker 1: country where they've tried it and it didn't work. For instance,
Speaker 1: Colorado state law now forbids any sort of rent control
Speaker 1: in any city because they try various places and it
Speaker 1: didn't work in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Ain't exactly, Oklaholma, no, no, it is not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the President dropped an F bomb appropriately, I think today,
Speaker 1: Among other things about the ceasefire, which we haven't talked
Speaker 1: about for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Lots of stuff on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 6: There's a healthy dose of skepticism because the Iranians don't
Speaker 6: have a great track record of meeting.
Speaker 1: Whatever they talk about, either publicly or privately.
Speaker 2: Is that fair, that's more than fair.
Speaker 5: And in fact, in recent hours, Iran's parliament has withdrawn
Speaker 5: or approval.
Speaker 2: To work with the IEA.
Speaker 5: They've talked about pulling out from the on Proliferation Treaty.
Speaker 5: Iran remains aggressive within the within the region Iran government.
Speaker 5: Iran's government is aiming to survive at a time when
Speaker 5: it's air defenses or in essence so weak that Israel
Speaker 5: or the United States can own any building in the country,
Speaker 5: let alone the sky. So in essence, it's looking to
Speaker 5: survive and to stabilize itself.
Speaker 2: But we'll how the next few days playoffs. So Trump and.
Speaker 3: Norm Rule, who's a long time diplomat dealing with Iran,
Speaker 3: pointing out that they're in survival mode right now. So
Speaker 3: they'll promise anything, they will commit to anything, but they
Speaker 3: don't mean it.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: So Trump announces, like middle of the day yesterday, there's
Speaker 1: been a ceasefire. Iran and Israel have agreed. Then both
Speaker 1: Iran and Israel some spokespeople came out and said, no,
Speaker 1: we haven't. And then by the end of the day
Speaker 1: both Iran and Israel had spokespeople that said we did
Speaker 1: agree to ceasefire. But then they kept lobbing stuff at
Speaker 1: each other, like overnight and into the morning and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. Anyway, so Trump was asked questions about
Speaker 1: all this by reporters.
Speaker 2: We'll start here.
Speaker 6: They got a true print from I mean, Iran will
Speaker 6: never rebuild it from there, absolutely not. That place is
Speaker 6: under rock. That place is demolished. The quo pilots did
Speaker 6: their job. They did it better than anybody could even imagine.
Speaker 6: They hit late in the evening, there was dark with
Speaker 6: no moon, and they hit that target with every one
Speaker 6: of those things. And that place is gone. But when
Speaker 6: I see CNN all night long, they're trying to say, well,
Speaker 6: maybe it wasn't really as demolished as we thought.
Speaker 2: There was demolished, and.
Speaker 6: You take a look at the pinpricks and you see
Speaker 6: that place is gone.
Speaker 1: So that's to the fact that you know what's Israel
Speaker 1: rang got the fight for.
Speaker 2: At this point, they've lost their nuclear.
Speaker 1: Program or at least the facilities where they're riching uranium,
Speaker 1: we think. But then to the ceasefire or is each
Speaker 1: side committed to the ceasefire? And Trump was asked about that.
Speaker 2: In Israel.
Speaker 6: As soon as we made the deal, they came out
Speaker 6: and they dropped the load of bobs, the likes of
Speaker 6: which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen.
Speaker 6: I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, okay,
Speaker 6: now you have twelve hours, you don't go out in
Speaker 6: the first hour. It just drop everything you have on them.
Speaker 6: So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with
Speaker 6: Iron either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out
Speaker 6: this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that
Speaker 6: was shot perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not
Speaker 6: happy about that. What we basically have two countries that
Speaker 6: have been fighting so long and so hard that they
Speaker 6: don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that.
Speaker 3: I don't get why one of his advisors doesn't say
Speaker 3: to him, no, Israel going out and like going hard
Speaker 3: and hot and hard at it at the beginning of
Speaker 3: that twelve hours is precisely.
Speaker 2: What you'd expect them to do.
Speaker 3: They have a mission to accomplish, they have agreed to
Speaker 3: an artificial end to it, so they're gonna.
Speaker 2: Get it done. Get how he doesn't get that? So
Speaker 2: where are we right now?
Speaker 1: Wondering if the ceasefire will home the usual ceasefire situation.
Speaker 2: A shaky ceasefire seems to be holding.
Speaker 1: Jim man Iran has no cards. Their defenseless. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine what they'd get out of continuing to fight. I
Speaker 1: hate do gooders. We'll explain that coming.
Speaker 7: Up Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6: More than sixteen billion passwords for Google, Apple, Facebook and
Speaker 6: other platforms have been leaked in one.
Speaker 2: Of the largest acts of all time. Oh, it's pretty scary.
Speaker 2: Now everyone knows your Facebook password, but you where's it again? Password? Once?
Speaker 2: You see?
Speaker 1: Like it seems like like once daily I end up
Speaker 1: at a website that I haven't used in forever and
Speaker 1: it needs the password, and I gotta go to whatever
Speaker 1: to try to figure out what my password is. Just like,
Speaker 1: I keep thinking that we're going to get past this
Speaker 1: moment and it will be something old people talk about
Speaker 1: years from now. You used to have to have passwords
Speaker 1: for each site and memorize them, or write them down,
Speaker 1: or have a nap that kept them or whatever. That
Speaker 1: that's gonna go away and they'll use our eyes or
Speaker 1: our thumb prints.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the use.
Speaker 3: But in the always vexing, when you're in the middle
Speaker 3: of rushing through something, noticed that this password has appeared
Speaker 3: on a list of hacked.
Speaker 2: You know whatever the hell? Would you like to change
Speaker 2: it now? No? I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: No, No, I just assume all kinds of Russian mobsters.
Speaker 1: I have my passwords. I just want to get into this.
Speaker 1: I would opt probably for a no password on most sites.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you can get into my DMV information.
Speaker 1: How about how about you let me in it with
Speaker 1: no password whenever I want to get in.
Speaker 2: Oh, you fool, You'll be hacked. And then what hacked
Speaker 2: into my DMV information? All right?
Speaker 3: Are your nord some rack account? What if the Chinese
Speaker 3: knew what size pants you owned?
Speaker 2: Then what? We got? A couple of texts.
Speaker 1: One an economics professor at high school, said he taught
Speaker 1: uh why rent control didn't work and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but he has a feeling all the students remembered was
Speaker 1: whatever TikTok video they were looking at well, it was
Speaker 1: we got another text.
Speaker 2: Why are you guys talking about New York.
Speaker 1: You don't think it's interesting that the biggest city in America,
Speaker 1: maybe the most important city in the world, is about
Speaker 1: to elect a communist as a mayor.
Speaker 3: I find that pretty interesting. They never text again. They
Speaker 3: came into that. Yeah, never text again.
Speaker 2: Never text again.
Speaker 1: So I got started on this jag because it's happening
Speaker 1: at a local skateboard park, and it reminded me of
Speaker 1: something that happened to me years ago in LA And
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell this story again because it drives
Speaker 1: me nuts. It's a great example of the conflict of
Speaker 1: visions that Thomas Sowell talks about between conservatives and progressives
Speaker 1: and just different ways of seeing the world and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, where I can't get in the mind. I
Speaker 1: can't even understand the point of view of the people
Speaker 1: I'm about to talk about, and they can't understand my
Speaker 1: point of view. So we got a local story here
Speaker 1: in Fulsome, California, that's right, that Fulsome. I heard the
Speaker 1: training come and coming around the and I shot a
Speaker 1: guy just for fune whatever. That whole thing Fulesome skateboard
Speaker 1: Park where for a couple of reasons. They're talking about
Speaker 1: doing away with the attendants at the skateboard park. The
Speaker 1: attendant's job is to, it says, stop graffiti from happening,
Speaker 1: break up fights, and to make sure skateboarders have helmets
Speaker 1: and pads on wouldn't they skateboard? The city is saying
Speaker 1: they don't have enough money for the attendant. A whole
Speaker 1: bunch of skateboarders showed up to various meetings and said,
Speaker 1: nobody goes because nobody's gonna wear.
Speaker 2: All those paths. So what's the point.
Speaker 1: I just saw a video up on the TV and
Speaker 1: it showed one kid in this giant, glorious looking skateboard park,
Speaker 1: one kid skateboarding, and it said on there it said
Speaker 1: they've had five hundred and eighty people a month on
Speaker 1: average during summertime. That's nobody's I did the math, it's
Speaker 1: nineteen a day or something like that. That's nobody. You
Speaker 1: should have two hundred kids a day there. I've had
Speaker 1: This experience drives me nuts. When I went to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: my son was super into skateboarding. One time we went
Speaker 1: we went to LA just to do like a tour
Speaker 1: of skateboard parks. He'd never been to different ones, and
Speaker 1: I thought, in LA's probably got a lot of great
Speaker 1: skateboard parks. We'd been to the one on Venice Beach,
Speaker 1: and check that out. As we traveled around, almost every
Speaker 1: skateboard park we went to, which was empty on a
Speaker 1: beautiful day eighty degree like it always isn't a la
Speaker 1: eighty degrees, slight breeze, beautiful sunshine, empty skateboard park in
Speaker 1: the summertime, but an attendant there saying, I'm sorry, you
Speaker 1: can't skate here because you don't have the pads.
Speaker 2: Because we didn't bring pads.
Speaker 1: I always had him more a helmet, but he didn't
Speaker 1: have elbow pads and knee pads and all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. She couldn't skateboard there. And the first one
Speaker 1: it was like annoying. The second one it was like
Speaker 1: annoying times five. By the third one, actually, I found
Speaker 1: a skateboard park that was packed full of people's skateboarding
Speaker 1: because they didn't have an attendant.
Speaker 2: Got to skateboard for a while.
Speaker 1: Tried a different skateboard park, also empty, with a person
Speaker 1: there with a clipboard attending it. And that's when I
Speaker 1: started getting angry and lecturing people and saying, yes, do
Speaker 1: you realize there's a skateboard park like a mile from
Speaker 1: here that's packed full of people's skateboarding, kids baking. You
Speaker 1: have nobody here, So what are you accomplishing? Why did
Speaker 1: you build a skateboard park. It's empty on a gorgeous date,
Speaker 1: nobody's using it.
Speaker 2: Well, we need to make sure kids are safe.
Speaker 1: No, well, first of all, you don't, but you might
Speaker 1: as well not have a skateboard park.
Speaker 2: Either have one or don't.
Speaker 1: But you're not stopping kids from wrecking on their skateboard
Speaker 1: because they're not skateboarding, or they're traveling further away to
Speaker 1: go to some place where they don't have to wear pads.
Speaker 1: And every I said this at several skateboard parks, and
Speaker 1: all they did was look at me like I'm an
Speaker 1: angry lunatic, partially because I was an angry lunatic.
Speaker 2: But I like, I can't get in the headspace.
Speaker 1: Of anybody who could be an attendant, or the parents
Speaker 1: who think that's a good idea. Better to have an
Speaker 1: empty skateboard park then to let our kids skin their
Speaker 1: knees or elbows.
Speaker 3: The paternalism probably a poor choice of words.
Speaker 2: Since some of these people are literally fathers.
Speaker 3: But the condescension, the nannyism of it is disgusting to me.
Speaker 3: The idea that kids, all of a sudden, for the
Speaker 3: first time in human history, can't, within reasonable bounds, assess
Speaker 3: their own risk tolerance and their own willingness to endure
Speaker 3: the negative consequences of overdoing it. I mean, for the
Speaker 3: first time in human history, kids must be protected from
Speaker 3: banging up their elbows and knees. I do not get
Speaker 3: someone coming to that conclusion and being so pleased with themselves.
Speaker 2: I'm horrified by it.
Speaker 3: I'm disgusted by it literally because I see what it's
Speaker 3: doing the generation of kids, generations of kids. Why do
Speaker 3: kids have so much anxiety Because they haven't been a
Speaker 3: lot in general, because they haven't been allowed to develop
Speaker 3: a sense of risk tolerance throughout their lives and confidence that.
Speaker 2: They know what they're doing. They're veiled caves.
Speaker 1: That's indisputable. It's been documented. As we've talked about before.
Speaker 1: Europe has figured out that they're doing away with like
Speaker 1: the super safe parks and stuff like that. They're moving
Speaker 1: toward kids doing more dangerous stuff, banging their heads and
Speaker 1: elbows and stuff. More often because it's good for you
Speaker 1: for all kinds of different emotional reasons. But I also
Speaker 1: wonder just what it does to children. I know with
Speaker 1: my kids, part of it, what it does to children
Speaker 1: to see all these stupid, freaking they don't make any
Speaker 1: sense laws. I know it's made my kids less respect
Speaker 1: respectful of all laws.
Speaker 2: Is what it's done.
Speaker 1: And of course it would, because when you're confronted with
Speaker 1: stupid ones, it makes you think everybody who makes laws
Speaker 1: is stupid. So why would I pay attention to this one?
Speaker 1: Because that one's obviously dumb.
Speaker 3: If Thomas Jefferson were here, he might say, fir of all,
Speaker 3: what are those metal things flying through the sky? But
Speaker 3: he would also say, this reminds me of that discussion
Speaker 3: you guys had about rent controls like twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 2: This is the same thing.
Speaker 1: You have a market of faith or respect for the law,
Speaker 1: and your sons have seen more and more stupid, useless,
Speaker 1: paternalistic laws, their faith in the laws declining. They will
Speaker 1: behave politically in a way that ends.
Speaker 3: That as soon as they can, if indeed you can
Speaker 3: fight the nanty state, and they will be beaten back
Speaker 3: by your son's disgust with a paternalism.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: A woman who is super nice and very helpful to
Speaker 1: me and just like the nicest person in the world,
Speaker 1: have been very helpful to me in all kinds of
Speaker 1: different ways of my life. But she told me the story,
Speaker 1: and I kept my mouth shut about how when the
Speaker 1: skateboard park in my town opened up, how she and
Speaker 1: another mom they would go there on the weekends and
Speaker 1: set up and monitor to make sure all the kids
Speaker 1: were wearing the prop her pads and helmets and everything
Speaker 1: like that. And she said she kept it up for
Speaker 1: a summer or two, but they just couldn't keep up
Speaker 1: the schedule.
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 2: I just like, what were you a kid? Ever? Once?
Speaker 1: And maybe a few girls didn't. Did you notice the
Speaker 1: boys did bang their knees and have bloody of have
Speaker 1: scabs on their elbows and knees constantly as a child,
Speaker 1: And did you think that that was just awful like
Speaker 1: Auschwitz or something like that, that they were having scabs
Speaker 1: on their knees.
Speaker 2: It's like the most normal thing.
Speaker 1: In the world for a ten year old boy to
Speaker 1: have a scab on his knee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't hold back.
Speaker 3: I generally say something in situations like that, it's probably
Speaker 3: why I have very few friends.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well I can't stop short of you're a psycho,
Speaker 1: because I think you are.
Speaker 2: I think you see that's your problem.
Speaker 1: How do you not look around an empty skateboard park
Speaker 1: and think, well, this is somehow self defeating. If we
Speaker 1: have nobody using the skateboard park, I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: we're doing here, right exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, yeah. You gotta develop going from emotional
Speaker 3: gear one to five. You gotta be able to settle
Speaker 3: into two and three there and make the argument. You know,
Speaker 3: I respectfully disagree. I think kids need to take risks
Speaker 3: and get banged up and learn that it won't kill them,
Speaker 3: and decide how risky they want to live their lives.
Speaker 1: I think it's great that kids get banged up. Were
Speaker 1: you not a kid once? Do you think kids are
Speaker 1: built differently now? Are? They're like bones made of glass
Speaker 1: now and they didn't used to be? Every What is
Speaker 1: your thought process?
Speaker 2: I just it makes me insane, that sort of thing.
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Speaker 3: let go of this stuff as well as I can.
Speaker 3: Like I've had some unfortunate breaks in my life that
Speaker 3: I've been able to mostly let go of much better
Speaker 3: than I can let go of this sort of thing.
Speaker 2: We're driving around a skateboard parks.
Speaker 1: Finally, I was just getting Sam had been looking forward
Speaker 1: to the skateboard park so much. It was our vacation.
Speaker 1: We were there and we couldn't go anywhere. So I
Speaker 1: finally found I had to go to like two stores.
Speaker 1: Finally found a bike store where they sold knee pads
Speaker 1: and elbow pads stuff like that, just so we could
Speaker 1: go skateboard. We went to one and they said they
Speaker 1: weren't the right kind of elbow pads. And I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever been angrier.
Speaker 2: In my life. And I just couldn't let it go.
Speaker 2: It was like my head was gonna pop off.
Speaker 1: I hate that feeling where I just it's a cognitive
Speaker 1: dissonance I just can't make. I couldn't make the empty
Speaker 1: skate park, skateboard park, beautiful day. There's nothing wrong with this,
Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt anything to bang your knee all fit
Speaker 1: into my head.
Speaker 2: It just was making me crazy, right right.
Speaker 3: There is absolutely a vein of especially you know, it
Speaker 3: clicked in my head when you got to that example
Speaker 3: of oh yeah, he's got elbow pads, but they're not
Speaker 3: the right cod right. That that is absolutely the intoxication
Speaker 3: of power aiding what I was going to talk about here,
Speaker 3: just the great C. S. Lewis quote, which we've used
Speaker 3: many times on the show. But of all tyrannies, a
Speaker 3: tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim maybe
Speaker 3: the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
Speaker 3: robber barons than under omniptent, moral, busybodies. The robber baron's
Speaker 3: cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity or greed may at
Speaker 3: some point be satiated. But those who torment us for
Speaker 3: our own good will torment us without end, for they
Speaker 3: do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Speaker 2: So true.
Speaker 3: I want to popular popularize the saying, maybe we got
Speaker 3: to get T shirts going safety third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And people.
Speaker 1: Would ask, what, wait, wait, isn't the expression safety first
Speaker 1: and the safety Maybe the back of the safety third
Speaker 1: T shirt would have one courage, two curiosity three safety,
Speaker 1: safety third. Right, I'll bet I'm not talking about handing
Speaker 1: your four year old of forty five.
Speaker 2: Letting them squeeze off a couple of shots.
Speaker 1: We're talking about kids riding their bike at a park
Speaker 1: and playing ball. I'm sure the one woman still tells
Speaker 1: stories about the bald lunatic.
Speaker 2: Okay, if I remember walking away.
Speaker 1: Have fun monitoring your empty skateboard park.
Speaker 2: You're doing a lot of good for the world. I
Speaker 2: was so mad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she cannot conceive of what you were trying to communicate.
Speaker 1: Now she thinks, thank god, if I hadn't been here,
Speaker 1: that lunatic would have let his kids skateboard without knee pads.
Speaker 2: Think of the horrors. How many people would have died.
Speaker 3: It's a stereotype, and it's oversimplified because there are many tough, smart,
Speaker 3: great women who have helped make America great. But we
Speaker 3: have gone from maybe too much of a daddy society
Speaker 3: to too much of a mommy.
Speaker 2: So without a doubt, Oh, we.
Speaker 3: Are clutching our children to our aprons and not letting
Speaker 3: them risk a single thing.
Speaker 2: Good Lord.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll check in on the sea spy. We got
Speaker 1: a bunch of other stuff coming up.
Speaker 8: Some disturbing news out of France where one hundred and
Speaker 8: forty five people were jabbed with needles during a music
Speaker 8: festival held a cross multiple cities this weekend. Police are
Speaker 8: now investigating whether the incidents were inspired by online posts
Speaker 8: encouraging people to target women with syringes. Authorities say twelve
Speaker 8: arrests have been made so far.
Speaker 3: What holy crap, I'm looking at the written version of
Speaker 3: the story. I mean, come on, everybody has the same reaction, right, syringes,
Speaker 3: full of what and by whom?
Speaker 2: For what purpose? Well? And they have maybe one suspect.
Speaker 3: Oh a dozen suspects have been nabbed by the French authorities,
Speaker 3: but there's no.
Speaker 2: Word on the what and why.
Speaker 1: I almost hope that it's some sort of organized group
Speaker 1: and not that TikTok challenges have this sort of power.
Speaker 2: Oh you think it could be that? Do you know
Speaker 2: anything about this?
Speaker 7: So there there was speculation, and this isn't like reported
Speaker 7: or anything.
Speaker 2: This was just speculation.
Speaker 7: I saw on one of the articles video went viral
Speaker 7: a few months ago of this woman in Turkey and
Speaker 7: she's in her full Muslim garb, and she's next to
Speaker 7: a woman who is not of the Muslim faith, and
Speaker 7: she's wearing the girls like just wearing a tank top
Speaker 7: or whatever, and the Muslim woman has a little needle
Speaker 7: in her purse and she pricks the girl's skin as
Speaker 7: like a symbol of like I shouldn't be able to
Speaker 7: see that. And so there was some speculation that that
Speaker 7: might have been something along the lines like there's all
Speaker 7: these women showing all of this skin at these music
Speaker 7: festivals and it's.
Speaker 2: Not hmm per speculm.
Speaker 1: Now that is the sort of problem they've been having
Speaker 1: a lot of in France and a number of places
Speaker 1: in Europe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a well, nearly one hundred and fifty concert growers,
Speaker 3: many of them teenage girls were jabbed with syringes.
Speaker 1: Now, you know, just making an observation. I guess if
Speaker 1: it did turn out to be young men. Man mark
Speaker 1: Stein wrote about this all the time in his book
Speaker 1: America Alone Geez twenty years ago or whatever. How news
Speaker 1: outlets always go to with youths or young men and
Speaker 1: don't make it clear what's going on there. If these
Speaker 1: were young Muslim men, the media would downplay that they
Speaker 1: always do. I don't know if it is.
Speaker 2: In this case. It might not be at all. It
Speaker 2: might be all any other brand of lunatic.
Speaker 3: But the Interior Ministry said one hundred and forty five
Speaker 3: victims across the nation reported being stabbed with needles, with
Speaker 3: Paris officials probing thirteen cases in the capitol.
Speaker 2: What a weird story.
Speaker 7: But to go with what Joe said, I went through
Speaker 7: so many versions of this story and not one suspect
Speaker 7: description anywhere.
Speaker 1: Hey, it happens all the time story out of the
Speaker 1: Europe where there's a riot or a beating or whatever
Speaker 1: with and you try to get the details on that,
Speaker 1: you might have to go to your fifteenth news source
Speaker 1: before you find out all it was an Islam thing.
Speaker 3: H Yeah, I mean we should have done the story
Speaker 3: once an hour for a week that I did last
Speaker 3: week about Elon Musk calling out the British government for
Speaker 3: actively suppressing knowledge of the grooming gangs and how they
Speaker 3: were heavily Asian, more specifically Pakistani, and how the government
Speaker 3: had denied it and local police were desperate to not
Speaker 3: say that and the press actively suppressed it. But Keir Starmer,
Speaker 3: the lefty PM just got done with an audit that said, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's undeniably true that the bulk of these cases are
Speaker 3: Pakistani grooming gangs that are causing the exploitation, rape and
Speaker 3: sexual trafficking of these young English girls, primarily poorer girls.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there is a culture in Europe of just.
Speaker 3: Don't say anything, don't say the M word or the
Speaker 3: I word.
Speaker 2: We don't we don't want more trouble.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope more information emerges on this whole needle
Speaker 1: stabbing story. God, that is disturbing. If you miss a segment,
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