Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Kat Katie and He Armstrong and Eddy, various
Speaker 2: world organizations, all of whom hate Israel are calling it
Speaker 2: a famine now in Gaza. We'll talk more about that
Speaker 2: later in some of the proof in various directions, but
Speaker 2: President Trump was asked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3: I mean, some of those kids are that's real starvation stuff.
Speaker 3: I see it, and you can't fake that. So we're
Speaker 3: going to be even more involved.
Speaker 2: It's crazy what's going on over there. He mentioned, I
Speaker 2: just know what I see on television, but that's horrific.
Speaker 2: You can't fake that. Well, you can certainly exaggerate it.
Speaker 2: You can miss represented a lot. And they've been doing
Speaker 2: it for decades, by the way.
Speaker 4: Well and saying, yeah, judging by what I've seen on TV,
Speaker 4: it's pretty bad. You have like the greatest intelligence apparatus
Speaker 4: on earth. Why are you judging by what you've seen
Speaker 4: on TV?
Speaker 2: Good point at all?
Speaker 4: Orfully selected video snippets from carefully selected biased journalists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was just looking at a headline. And
Speaker 2: then we'll talk about this later, so we'll move on.
Speaker 2: But two hundred and sixty humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza yesterday.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and sixty trucks, twenty pallets of humanitarian aid
Speaker 2: were air dropped at various parts of Gaza. As one
Speaker 2: of my favorite tweeters said, worst genocide ever. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so coming up as in is in. You can't. It's
Speaker 2: not good at being a genocide, is the way his point,
Speaker 2: dropping all of this food and bringing in all these trucks,
Speaker 2: you're not doing a very good job of a genocide
Speaker 2: if that's what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Right, And it's interesting. I had prepared for later a
Speaker 4: story about various maidenstream media journalists who are covering the
Speaker 4: situation in Gaza, all of whom are tied to Hamas
Speaker 4: or Hezballah or have praised Yah Yah Sinoar or a
Speaker 4: number of these characters. Anyway, we talked about this actually
Speaker 4: yesterday and we can touch on it again. Is there
Speaker 4: actually starvation in Gaza? It is very difficult to get
Speaker 4: a straight story. It looks selish. Oh my god, it
Speaker 4: looks tellish.
Speaker 2: And I mean, though that's not fake, I mean it's tellish,
Speaker 2: no matter what now whether or not there's purposeful starvation
Speaker 2: going on, that's a different question.
Speaker 4: On later on the show. There are a number of
Speaker 4: significant stories we ought to touch on more thoroughly. The
Speaker 4: absolutely shockingly miserable poll numbers of the Democratic Party. Also
Speaker 4: a major ruling that is allowing judges to continue to
Speaker 4: issue nationwide injunctions against Trump, even those Supreme Court quote
Speaker 4: unquote struck down the ability to do that.
Speaker 2: We will get into that.
Speaker 4: And also I want to talk about how on the
Speaker 4: economic front, AI is already wrecking college graduates job prospects.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to hear that, yeah, like recent college graduates.
Speaker 4: And also a great piece from a Trump skeptical, a thinker,
Speaker 4: if Trump's tariffs are so bad, where's the recession? So
Speaker 4: we'll get to all of that stuff, but first, a
Speaker 4: handful of stories that tend to be a little lighter,
Speaker 4: but I wanted to touch on them. Michael plays a
Speaker 4: little bit of number twelve.
Speaker 2: Would you please.
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Speaker 4: So that is an ad for Astronomer, which was the
Speaker 4: company run by the dude who was smooching with his
Speaker 4: illicit babe at the Coldplay concert, and the companies like, A,
Speaker 4: all right, this is bad for our look and b
Speaker 4: everybody is curious about our company soon, And so they
Speaker 4: hired Ryan Reynolds PR firm, marketing firm, and he hired
Speaker 4: Gwyneth Paltrow Chris Martin of Coldplays X to do the commercial.
Speaker 4: Thinking there's a little more tie in celebrity that'll get
Speaker 4: more attention for us. And my only point in bringing
Speaker 4: this up is it's kind of funny in some good pr. Secondly,
Speaker 4: in a few years, I think people are going to
Speaker 4: say Ryan Reynolds was an actor. I think he's a
Speaker 4: really innovative, smart business guy. I was just thinking, man
Speaker 4: talk about turning lemons into lemonade nobody'd ever heard of
Speaker 4: this astronomer company. When you've got all of that attention,
Speaker 4: find a way to get out what you are and
Speaker 4: what you do.
Speaker 2: That's a great idea. If you ever have a scandal
Speaker 2: come your way, take that opportunity to say, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: the guy from that video, and here's what I can
Speaker 2: do for you.
Speaker 4: Right that that would be extra bold or hier a
Speaker 4: Gwynneth Feltro, But yeah, yeah, I think that's absolutely a
Speaker 4: smart take.
Speaker 2: And Ryan Reynolds impresses me. Moving along, so.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the media, Skydance Media, which is the giant
Speaker 4: media conglomerate which is part of the big CBS Paramount merger.
Speaker 4: That is that's one of the reasons CBS settled with
Speaker 4: Trump over some very questionablelawsuit. The constitution all right anyway,
Speaker 4: But so that's the company involves.
Speaker 2: Sky Dances made.
Speaker 4: A series of new commitments to eliminate bias in news
Speaker 4: and entertainment programming at CBS and its parent company, Paramount CBS.
Speaker 2: It's the home of sixty minutes Oh boy.
Speaker 4: When its planned acquisition is complete, Scout Dans is also
Speaker 4: confirming the elimination of all diversity, equity and inclusion policies
Speaker 4: and initiatives in Paramount, which had been one of the
Speaker 4: most aggressive proponents of DEI in the entertainment business.
Speaker 2: I see, I think sixty minutes is a news program
Speaker 2: that still matters, and it'll be interesting to see do
Speaker 2: people quit, do they adjust their sales? I wonder what's
Speaker 2: going to happen. Uh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't think it matters much, and I
Speaker 4: think in five years it will matter much less. But
Speaker 4: five years is forever in the modern era, sure, But anyway,
Speaker 4: scott Ants laid out the moves in two letters. It's
Speaker 4: sent to the FCC Commissioner. The first letter addresses concerns
Speaker 4: about media bias at CBS, pledges to ensure that cbs
Speaker 4: is reporting is fair and.
Speaker 2: By and fact based.
Speaker 4: Second outline in sky Dance's commitments going forward to promote
Speaker 4: non discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely fabulous.
Speaker 4: I don't love how we got there, but end all
Speaker 4: DEI programs everywhere they exist in schools, corporations and nonprofits,
Speaker 4: and don't let them rename them and keep discriminating.
Speaker 2: And we can get to that in a little bit.
Speaker 2: This headline just deserves a quick nod.
Speaker 4: The Biden administrations seven and a half billion dollar EV
Speaker 4: charging port initiative that was going to build allegedly a
Speaker 4: half a million by the year twenty thirty has built.
Speaker 2: Were these going to be the same ev charging ports
Speaker 2: that every city has put like in front of their
Speaker 2: public library that do nothing? Why do you bring that up, Jack,
Speaker 2: Because they don't do anything. Nobody seems to know that.
Speaker 2: But they don't do anything. You can plug in your
Speaker 2: car for an hour and get like five miles working.
Speaker 2: I mean, they just don't work.
Speaker 4: So there are pos's or PSOs anyway. But instead of
Speaker 4: half a million, and granted it's just the year twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five and allegedly they have time to go, they
Speaker 4: have delivered fewer than four hundred charging ports since the
Speaker 4: seven and a half billion dollar program began almost four
Speaker 4: years ago.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable and they're worth God we get stolen from and
Speaker 2: a lot of it is under the mantle of green
Speaker 2: energy and electric cars ain't going anywhere anywhere anyway. It's
Speaker 2: just not gonna happen, at least not now unless something
Speaker 2: changes major with technology and speaking of media, final note
Speaker 2: for this segment, maybe we can break semi in time
Speaker 2: for once in our lives. I thought this was a
Speaker 2: joke at first. The Atlantic, the great vaunted Atlantic, read
Speaker 2: by the same people who run around Manhattan with the
Speaker 2: NPR toat bags and tell us all what we ought
Speaker 2: to think from the lecterns of universities and the broadcast
Speaker 2: TV and radio, et cetera, and Hollywood.
Speaker 4: The Atlantic with a story about Helen by Helen lewis
Speaker 4: finally a Democrat who could shine on Joe Rogan's show,
Speaker 4: her point being breakthrough and be the modern go getter
Speaker 4: democratic voice and isn't screwed around.
Speaker 2: It's forceful, that is plane.
Speaker 4: Speaking that can reach the common people, bring men back
Speaker 4: to the party, bring the working class back to the party.
Speaker 4: Finally the Democrats have this person, and she is dead
Speaker 4: blanking serious hunter Biden Y.
Speaker 2: I've heard a couple of people say that that his
Speaker 2: frankness was so refreshing, and why can't we get somebody
Speaker 2: who speaks that way?
Speaker 4: That reminds me of the same sort of blanking morons
Speaker 4: who declared that Tim Walls was teaching American manner new
Speaker 4: sort of masculinity.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't I don't want to get off on
Speaker 2: this topic, because we got plenty of time but there
Speaker 2: were news stories out yesterday that Kamala Harris is contemplating
Speaker 2: a presidential run. Please do because that would be hilarious.
Speaker 2: How could you be that lacking in self awareness? I
Speaker 2: hope I'm not. I mean, because that's embarrassing.
Speaker 4: No, that's that isn't that That is actually an interesting
Speaker 4: discussion how a Kamala Harris can be that on a
Speaker 4: week It's.
Speaker 2: Almost to the level of like if I'm walking around
Speaker 2: talking about I think I can make the Olympic basketball team.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna do. My plan is, it's got
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Speaker 2: and shoot a lot. I'm gonna try out this summer
Speaker 2: because the Olympics are next summer and I've.
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Speaker 2: about this last week. It's just if the world's go
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Speaker 4: They're happy, you're happy, except everybody's happy. There are no
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Speaker 4: Might have to become a pet psychic because AI has
Speaker 4: screwed up your prospects as a recent college graduate.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that. Also, we've got this hilarious bit
Speaker 2: about no wonder young people are a soft today with
Speaker 2: what they read in college versus what we read, I mean,
Speaker 2: in school. It's pretty funny. Stay here.
Speaker 4: So that Russia just started direct flight between Moscow and
Speaker 4: North Korea.
Speaker 2: It's one of those rare trips where the fun part
Speaker 2: really is the journey and not the destination of it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: no kidding. I'd love to go to North Korea if
Speaker 2: I felt like I could be safe. I don't know,
Speaker 2: if it was like a real roll of the dice
Speaker 2: to me. Yeah, because old what's his name?
Speaker 1: He?
Speaker 2: I mean he he he what he did something? He
Speaker 2: vandalized and authorities, but they beat him to death. That
Speaker 2: ain't cool.
Speaker 4: He just took a poster as a souvenir. Yeah, outo
Speaker 4: warm beer, God rest his soul.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Ah.
Speaker 4: So this is uh, this is the beginning, I believe.
Speaker 4: And I'm neither an alarmist nor a minimizer about AI
Speaker 4: and its disruptive powers. I lean more toward alarmist, I think.
Speaker 4: But Wall Street Journal with an article today, what do
Speaker 4: you uh, Let's see, AI is wrecking an already fragile
Speaker 4: job market for college graduates. Companies have long leaned on
Speaker 4: entry level workers to do grunt work that doubles is
Speaker 4: on the job training. Now Chat, GPT and other bots
Speaker 4: can do many of those chores. And they go through
Speaker 4: a handful of companies. This is a marketing agency. They've
Speaker 4: They're clients have all but stopped requesting entry level staff
Speaker 4: young grads once in high demand, whose work is now
Speaker 4: what's being called a home run for AI, meaning it's
Speaker 4: the sort of thing AI does the best.
Speaker 2: Can you give me an example, like what sort of
Speaker 2: things are is AI doing? Really? Well?
Speaker 4: They go they speak more in generalities. But let me
Speaker 4: get through the list dating app grinders hiring more seasoned
Speaker 4: engineers for going some junior coders straight out of school.
Speaker 2: So the gay hookup app is not hiring young grads
Speaker 2: because of AI. That's an interesting that's already got a
Speaker 2: lot to it.
Speaker 4: Here's a Columbus based consulting firm, Futurity, which is pretty
Speaker 4: well known, decided not to hire a summer intern this
Speaker 4: year instead of opting to run social media copy through
Speaker 4: chat GPT instead. And this guy, the CEO, said he's
Speaker 4: urging his own kids to focus on jobs that require
Speaker 4: people skills and can't be easily automated.
Speaker 2: So the tough partics, Yeah, the tough part is, some
Speaker 2: people have pointed out is people skills often are a
Speaker 2: lot more something you're born with than something you can learn,
Speaker 2: as opposed to the other skills that you know, you
Speaker 2: could sit down and learn. Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can improve them or you could let them
Speaker 4: kind of atrophy. But you either got it or you don't.
Speaker 4: That's absolutely true. So and they go through a bunch
Speaker 4: of examples, but a year's long white collar hiring slump
Speaker 4: and recessionaries have weakened the.
Speaker 2: Show up work hard.
Speaker 4: We'll educate you to become the next generation of leader's relationship.
Speaker 4: And the statistics are crazy. Unemployment stats in the last
Speaker 4: let's see from the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen statistical year
Speaker 4: to the most recent period among high school young high
Speaker 4: school grads has ticked up a tenth of a percent, Okay,
Speaker 4: barely at all. Some college the unemployment numbers have ticked
Speaker 4: up four tenths of a percent, which is quadruple the
Speaker 4: previous number, but it's hard to glean much. An associate's
Speaker 4: degree is up two tenths of a percent. If you
Speaker 4: have a bachelor's degree, the unemployment rate is up one
Speaker 4: point one percent, and among grad students it's up one percent.
Speaker 4: So the horizon unemployment is steepest among college grads and
Speaker 4: grad school students. These sectors where graduate hiring is slowed
Speaker 4: the most. Information finance, insurance, technical serches. Those sectors are
Speaker 4: still growing well.
Speaker 2: The best example out there, as we've mentioned multiple times,
Speaker 2: is just a couple of years ago, learn to code
Speaker 2: was like the thing you want your kid to be successful.
Speaker 2: Learn to code. Now I know people who code who
Speaker 2: use AI to do all their coding.
Speaker 4: Right and after dancing around the issue. In the two
Speaker 4: and a half years since chat GPT's release up into
Speaker 4: the way, almost all companies plan for their future. CEOs
Speaker 4: are now talking openly about AI's immense capabilities, likely leading
Speaker 4: to deep job cuts. Top industry executives, including Amazon JP Morgan,
Speaker 4: have said in recent weeks they expect their workforces to
Speaker 4: shrink considerably. Ford CEO Jim Farley City expects AI will
Speaker 4: replace half of the white collar workforce in the US
Speaker 4: half half including the hardworking people at Grinder. You should
Speaker 4: have led with that half. Oh my god, you don't
Speaker 4: start to show with a show stopper jack.
Speaker 2: Half a white collar jobs eliminated by AI. If that's
Speaker 2: even close to true, Wow, that will be a revolution.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 6: Some of y'all have not experienced emotional trauma through literature,
Speaker 6: and it shows. Kids today are out here reading The
Speaker 6: Magical Bunny and How We Learned to Love Himself or
Speaker 6: Sparkle the Dragon's Conflict three Resolution Journey.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry, but that is emotional tofu, just.
Speaker 6: Page after page of affirmations and pastel illustrations like a
Speaker 6: therapist made it on Canva. Meanwhile, we were out here
Speaker 6: getting emotionally demolished by Where the Red Fern Grows.
Speaker 2: You want to talk about resilience.
Speaker 6: I watched a boy Barry's Two Dead Dogs after one
Speaker 6: got ripped apart by a mountain lion and the other
Speaker 6: one starved a death out of grief, and I read
Speaker 6: that in the fourth grade. I came out of that
Speaker 6: book Vietnam VET, and aged ten years and two hundred pages.
Speaker 6: Today's kids get talking lamas who validate their feelings, and
Speaker 6: we got Old Yeller where the dog gets rabies and
Speaker 6: the dad's like, well, son, i think it's time we
Speaker 6: shoot your best friend in the face.
Speaker 2: It's all part of growing up.
Speaker 6: And that was our bedtime story. And you wonder why
Speaker 6: millennials cry during commercials?
Speaker 4: Did?
Speaker 2: I hated ten years reading that book. That is interesting though.
Speaker 2: I thought about that that when my kids were young,
Speaker 2: which I guess makes means I've become soft like all
Speaker 2: of modern society. It's just like, good God, all the
Speaker 2: old Disney movies we'd watch and everyone the parents die,
Speaker 2: all your old Disney classics, the parents die.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's obligatory. Yeah uh yeah, that's
Speaker 4: something else. I'm reminded. It's funny I'm deep in thought
Speaker 4: thinking of some of the books I've read and my
Speaker 4: kids read in schools, and the concept of trigger warnings,
Speaker 4: which is one of the worst things that's ever happened,
Speaker 4: and how that's all related to And this might.
Speaker 2: Seem like a stretch, but I swear it's not.
Speaker 4: It's related to the whole neo Marxist thing, where what
Speaker 4: they want to happen is you don't know what to say,
Speaker 4: you don't know what you can say. You're afraid of offending,
Speaker 4: you're afraid of getting in trouble, you're afraid of losing
Speaker 4: your job.
Speaker 2: In short, you're afraid.
Speaker 4: And so you got to go through every conceivable trauma
Speaker 4: or discomfort there might be in reading a piece of literature.
Speaker 4: That's a bizarre notion, and yet it took hold at
Speaker 4: most of our universities.
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, and Michael, I apologize.
Speaker 4: I got a an in urgent communication during the break
Speaker 4: and wasn't able to communicate to you. Hansen prepared a
Speaker 4: little musical thing for me earlier today. I got that
Speaker 4: handy Oh wow, okay, here you go.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh it's not good. But what did they say?
Speaker 4: We're like I was trying to quickly with the of
Speaker 4: Hanson and Ai craft a theme song to our miseducation update. Okay,
Speaker 4: and our twisted schools break all the rules. They churn
Speaker 4: out fools that just ain't cool. And I said, in
Speaker 4: the style of nineteen seventies British punk, there you go,
Speaker 4: and again it wasn't good.
Speaker 2: Anyway. A couple of stories for you.
Speaker 4: Let's start with good news. A victory for our friends
Speaker 4: at the Goldwater Institute. Tim Sanderfer's output of Pennsylvania Mom
Speaker 4: won a major victory for parental rights and government transparency
Speaker 4: last week when ours local school district tried and failed
Speaker 4: to withhold Dei materials from parents, claiming they were trade secrets.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, can you imagine, man, I would lose my
Speaker 2: mind if any school official ever said anything close to
Speaker 2: that to me. No, no, no, no, no, no, you don't
Speaker 2: get to have any secrets, right do you work for us?
Speaker 4: And claiming that it's like the same as the design
Speaker 4: for our jet engine here at Lockheed.
Speaker 2: Our DEI materials are trade secrets. Yeah.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, she requested assets to our
Speaker 4: local schools, materials that were presented to teacher, staff and
Speaker 4: students to see whether the school district was indoctrinating students
Speaker 4: by teaching racially discrim discriminatory DEI, but the district refused,
Speaker 4: calling it trade secrets. I would say, up the Goldener Institutes,
Speaker 4: and the judge said, you're out of your mind. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I would say, you're either going to release this to
Speaker 4: all his parents right now, or then we'll go through
Speaker 4: the whole lawsuit process and then you'll release it to us,
Speaker 4: because obviously you have to.
Speaker 2: So what are we going to do here?
Speaker 4: In a groundbreaking, an amazing decision, the court correctly held
Speaker 4: that the public was entitled to see records created by
Speaker 4: a government employee to train other government employees. There was
Speaker 4: no trade secret protection for this material ord And by
Speaker 4: the way, the school district appealed to the Supreme Court
Speaker 4: of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Because they actually believed they should be able to keep
Speaker 2: it asad secret. The way they're crafting their organization to
Speaker 2: teach your kid, that's nuts. It is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 4: I think I don't know, but I think you may
Speaker 4: be making the mistake of judging their motivations by what
Speaker 4: they say. Their motivations are. They don't believe for a
Speaker 4: second it's a trade secret. They just want to keep
Speaker 4: doing DEI and so they're making any excuse they could find.
Speaker 4: Moving along another good positive story.
Speaker 2: Well, there is the you know, there's the example of
Speaker 2: who's that guy around for governor in Virginia, Terry mcculluff. Well, actually,
Speaker 2: in one of the debates, got hammered for saying something
Speaker 2: along the lines of parents can't be trusted with teaching
Speaker 2: their kids. We need to get them to the schools
Speaker 2: where they you know, we can count on them getting
Speaker 2: the right information so in education can take over. There
Speaker 2: is a certain belief that actually seems to exist along
Speaker 2: those lines, which is crazy. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: And it's that nexus of like activists, neo Marxist types
Speaker 4: and the well meaning fools who get swept up in
Speaker 4: their ideas who actually believe this crap that it gets
Speaker 4: a little confusing because you know a lot of those
Speaker 4: people like Terry mccauiff, I don't think is a neo Marxist,
Speaker 4: but he's a progressive and he's been convinced by the
Speaker 4: you know, neo Marxist in the progressive wing of the Democrats.
Speaker 4: I guess that they mean it. They really want to
Speaker 4: educate the kids better, and PhDs in education, are the
Speaker 4: people to do it? Some more good news in a
Speaker 4: weird way. It occurred to me as I spoke that phrase,
Speaker 4: that undoing something horrible happening, it is good news, but
Speaker 4: it's kind of half and half, if you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. A school district in North Carolina has been
Speaker 4: ordered to admit their mistake and issue an apology and
Speaker 4: fork over twenty thousand dollars and some more settlement stuff
Speaker 4: after they were sued for suspending a sixteen year old
Speaker 4: student who used the term illegal aliens in class.
Speaker 2: Suspended for that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the sixteen year old student was in an English
Speaker 4: class discussion.
Speaker 2: He is the term English.
Speaker 4: The teacher said aliens, and the student said, do you
Speaker 4: mean space aliens or illegal aliens who need green cards?
Speaker 2: Wow? And it was just a clarification question, right right.
Speaker 4: The student was later suspended for three days and marks
Speaker 4: denoting racially and sensitive behavior were added to his permanent record.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I realize it's easier said than done. You've got
Speaker 2: to pull your kid out of that school. Good lord,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of schools around America, I know.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So the case actually caught the eyes of Donald J. Trump,
Speaker 4: who wrote the student of personal recommendation letter. According to
Speaker 4: the Liberty Justice Institute, people are crazy. Yeah, yeah, let's see,
Speaker 4: I could quote the judge, but they said more or
Speaker 4: less what you'd think they would have said. First Amendment,
Speaker 4: et cetera. Utterly unracially not I mean completely not racially
Speaker 4: insensitive or mean or Yeah, that is absolutely nuts.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 4: Speaking of nuts, the University of Kansas, Jack, your quasi
Speaker 4: alma mater, I.
Speaker 2: Went for an entire year courses who graduated there? Wow? Wow,
Speaker 2: rock chock jayhawk, I know you're a big fan.
Speaker 4: University of Kansas DO is offering a course in the
Speaker 4: fall called Angry White Male Studies that will examine the
Speaker 4: rise of the angry white male in the United States.
Speaker 4: The course will be offered with the goal of teaching
Speaker 4: about the prominent figure that is the angry white male.
Speaker 2: That's exciting. I got a half of an MBA from there,
Speaker 2: so that's probably why I've gone out in the world
Speaker 2: and done a half assed job of being a business person.
Speaker 2: And finally, this, ah, is this even worth trying? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: It's a think piece, and a really good one written
Speaker 4: by a fellow named Brandon, last name withheld entitled stoner
Speaker 4: logic in academia. And he's talking about in particular Michelle
Speaker 4: Foucault French Bastard. It looks like foul called, but it's
Speaker 4: pronounced full call French Bastard, who is one of the
Speaker 4: most cited intellectuals in American universities today. Kids hear his
Speaker 4: ideas more than virtually anybody's. He is one of the
Speaker 4: founding fathers of critical theory and neo Marxism.
Speaker 2: I know that from listening to James Lindsay go on
Speaker 2: and on about this human being.
Speaker 4: Indeed, and if you would like, read his in Helen
Speaker 4: Pluckrose's brilliant Cynical Theories anyway, So it's all about how
Speaker 4: this guy was a bright stoner who liked to read
Speaker 4: and learn stuff, but he never really felt like applying
Speaker 4: himself at college and that sort of stuff. But he
Speaker 4: realized he really needed more formal education and somebody to
Speaker 4: help lead him if he was going to get anywhere
Speaker 4: in his life. And he went to college and found
Speaker 4: that a lot of what they were trying to teach
Speaker 4: was stoner logic stone and he explains that one day
Speaker 4: a lecturer. This is my favorite example, a highly esteemed
Speaker 4: scholar launched into a shallow Fucoyan analysis of something or
Speaker 4: other as it applied to the university. He went on
Speaker 4: and on with a sort of smug self awareness, like
Speaker 4: he thought he was delivering gold and absolutely blowing our minds.
Speaker 4: He says, I should note here that this lecturer is
Speaker 4: really likable and a genuinely nice person. Look at this classroom,
Speaker 4: said the lecturer. Look at how the very structure of
Speaker 4: this classroom exerts power. You are all on one side,
Speaker 4: stepped up in auditorium seating, so I can see all
Speaker 4: of you, but you can only see me, not each other.
Speaker 4: You are kind of forced to look and listen.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, con true, But watch, he continued.
Speaker 4: The construction of this lecture theater exerts a system of
Speaker 4: power and ensures the self perception of you, the students,
Speaker 4: as lacking knowledge, and it sets me up as the
Speaker 4: distributor of knowledge, and thus it conveys power.
Speaker 2: And for what I'm paying, I hope you're not a
Speaker 2: distributor of knowledge. You're getting ahead of us. But you're
Speaker 2: absolutely right.
Speaker 4: These systems of power are everywhere hidden in the architecture
Speaker 4: and the systems of our society. Design to maintain and
Speaker 4: designed to maintain the continuity of power.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and this guy.
Speaker 4: Who's writing of really likes his I remember being thoroughly unimpressed.
Speaker 4: This was exactly the kind of simple, fact free, intuitive
Speaker 4: analysis than I and other high school graduates had arrived
Speaker 4: at many times while sitting around a bong, and it
Speaker 4: wasn't even accurate. I remember thinking that since class sizes
Speaker 4: tend to be smaller university, ninety percent of the teaching
Speaker 4: rooms were not stepped auditoriums. They were smaller, flat office
Speaker 4: like rooms, perfect for egalitarian, discussion oriented classes. The only
Speaker 4: rooms with this structure were the few lecture theaters intended
Speaker 4: for hosting large audiences, and in any case, they clearly
Speaker 4: had that structure for acoustic and a communicative reasons, not
Speaker 4: because our neoliberal overlords wanted to inculcate us in some
Speaker 4: sort of pliable consciousness lest we threaten their systems of power.
Speaker 2: Oh much more.
Speaker 4: That is so hilarious to your point, Jack, there was
Speaker 4: a knowledge differential between us and him, At least there
Speaker 4: was supposed to be. We were there, as young people
Speaker 4: with less knowledge to be educated by a more knowledge teacher.
Speaker 2: I couldn't see how pointing.
Speaker 4: This out at this obvious fact was some kind of
Speaker 4: mind blowing revelation, and then a couple more sentences then
Speaker 4: I'll stop.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Crucially, while he had an issue with these systems of
Speaker 4: power inherent in the structure of the lecture theater, he
Speaker 4: apparently had no objection to the avert power required to
Speaker 4: make students pay for a core curriculum of course is
Speaker 4: he helped design, then he teaches, and for which they
Speaker 4: had to buy the compulsory textbook right that he co
Speaker 4: wrote for ridiculous.
Speaker 2: He didn't have any problem with that system of power, right,
Speaker 2: and the insane charge for books that whole scamp.
Speaker 4: So his point is the whole critical thinking thing, and
Speaker 4: that's what the course was, was just a way to
Speaker 4: indoctrinate students into a simplistic worldview.
Speaker 2: Your boss has a bigger office, makes more money than you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's somebody's got to be the boss, and he has
Speaker 2: the experience and the expertise to be the boss and
Speaker 2: manage us. So the company can what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: But then they apply that stoner logic free analysis to
Speaker 4: like everything, including the oppressor. The person with more power
Speaker 4: is always wrong, and the person with less power is
Speaker 4: always right.
Speaker 2: I mean, what an idiotic notion. I've said more than once.
Speaker 4: If my dog expressed that idea to me, I would
Speaker 4: hit him with a rolled up newspaper for being so stupid,
Speaker 4: and I do not have Oh my god, the bloom
Speaker 4: is really off the roads for climate change and all
Speaker 4: kinds of stuff that's green, among other things we can
Speaker 4: talk about.
Speaker 2: Stay here. Have you ever been tempted to lick a battery? Well,
Speaker 2: there's no need.
Speaker 5: You can just buy these nine volt battery flavored tortilla
Speaker 5: chips instead. It's been a while since I last licked
Speaker 5: a battery. Let's first up, see how that tastes yah
Speaker 5: tingly metallic?
Speaker 7: He can't wait to eat these now a lot less
Speaker 7: immediate electric. Well, these do have those as a sort
Speaker 7: of minerally metallic off to taste, but it does kind
Speaker 7: of taste.
Speaker 2: Like a battery. Final verdict is that nine vaut.
Speaker 5: Battery to chip do beat licking an actual battery.
Speaker 2: So there are chips that are supposed to taste like
Speaker 2: licking a battery. Yeah, supposed to taste like a nine
Speaker 2: vault battery. Okay for people who do that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: As a guy who has touched my tongue to. I
Speaker 4: think licked over states what happens. But as somebody who's
Speaker 4: touched my tongue to many nine volt batteries, the idea
Speaker 4: of designing tortilla chips that way is insane.
Speaker 2: Katie just made her what the hell are you talking about? Face?
Speaker 6: This whole segment just shows why women live longer than
Speaker 6: you guys all sticking your tongue see nine vaults.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you check to see if it's still worth
Speaker 2: worth it.
Speaker 4: If there's voltage, it's still like in if you're in
Speaker 4: a rock and roll band. Now you know, toward the
Speaker 4: end of my career of making mediocre music in front
Speaker 4: of drunks. No offense to our audiences who are wonderful,
Speaker 4: but stop boxes, your distortion, your tuner. It's just all
Speaker 4: your stump boxes were powered by nine volt batteries. Toward
Speaker 4: the end, they're powered by cords. I got a better setup.
Speaker 4: But so if something in your signal chain wasn't working,
Speaker 4: the first thing you'd do is check if the battery
Speaker 4: still had juice. You can eliminate that as an issue
Speaker 4: you that's the way to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, what do you what do you do, Like
Speaker 2: if your toilet gets clogged, well, shove your arm down
Speaker 2: deep in there. You fish around, see what's going on naturally.
Speaker 2: So my son, who's a very artistic and art minded,
Speaker 2: he heard the story about the guy who had the
Speaker 2: banana tape to the wall and sold it for a
Speaker 2: couple of million dollars. You remember that story, sure, So
Speaker 2: he's trying to get in on that action. So he
Speaker 2: crafted something he thought about over the weekend. It's just
Speaker 2: a cardboard box and he just says box on it,
Speaker 2: and he thinks he can sell it. And so he's
Speaker 2: trying to figure out where to get into an art
Speaker 2: auction or anything like that. But he wrote the description
Speaker 2: for it. He spent some time online going around a
Speaker 2: different crap, and he put this together yesterday. He's gonna
Speaker 2: he thinks he can make a million dollars. He's already
Speaker 2: figured out how he's gonna spend the money. It's just
Speaker 2: a cardboard box. This piece symbolizes the struggle of humanity
Speaker 2: toward the common era, the unwariness of the unknown, the
Speaker 2: common misconception of life as a whole, an illusion of
Speaker 2: what can be, toward the unravelment of the mind. Of
Speaker 2: a youth. This flat, pure emotion cannot be recreated. It
Speaker 2: truly is a piece for the ages. This is a box,
Speaker 2: that's his description. He feel it's as good as the
Speaker 2: banana tape to the wall.
Speaker 4: I feel like, as a fool with more money than sense,
Speaker 4: I need some reference to the structure. I mean, just
Speaker 4: even the most thin reference to the cube shape.
Speaker 2: That's just something, right, the four corners of humanity or something.
Speaker 4: It's it's literally anything. I'll trust Henry to come up
Speaker 4: with that. Look, I got seven hundred K.
Speaker 2: For you, but that's as high as I go. Oh
Speaker 2: my god. Consumer confidence is up, at least partially because
Speaker 2: we feel like the whole tariff thing worked out. I
Speaker 2: guess you got some details on that, the one of
Speaker 2: the biggest deals in economic history worldwide that Trump put
Speaker 2: together yesterday, among other things. At hour three, Armstrong and
Speaker 2: Getty