1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: Getty and know He. 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. 5 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 3: Well, guys, this weekend there's a historic winter storm hitting 6 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 3: most of the country that's bringing brutal temperatures and over 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 3: twenty inches of snow. 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: Greenland Herd was like, well, you wanted us, you got us. 9 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, Today's Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, although that 10 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 3: had nothing to do with the storm. Hey, it's freezing 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 3: out there. This morning on my way to work, I 12 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 3: saw a Wall Street stockbroker spooning with Zora and Mandane. 13 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: That's funny. Shot it Southwest? Was it? Yeah? 14 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 4: Southwest just was rated the best airline really on a 15 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 4: series of metrics including on time, this, that, and the other, 16 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 4: canceled flights, bagging, channeling, blah blah blah. They beat out Delta, 17 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 4: the perennial. 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 5: Line screwed by United more than any other airline, but 19 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 5: that's just my personal experience. 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: Mrkin was the bottom rated one. Really. 21 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, often these storms don't live up to the hype. 22 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 5: But they're saying New York might get the most snow 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 5: it's had in several decades, So that'll get a lot 24 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 5: of attention since all the media's in New York. It's 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 5: going to be minus forties with the wind chill through 26 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 5: a bunch of the country. 27 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 2: That's pretty chilly. That's really chilly. 28 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 4: But that may assist these young folks with the newest 29 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 4: online trend. No by January. We'll tell you more about 30 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 4: that coming up. 31 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 5: You know what we need to revisit for the show 32 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 5: because we did it on the One More Thing podcast. 33 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 5: These influencers who are trying to make their faces more 34 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 5: attractive or their bodies. 35 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 4: Oh young men, yeah, looks Max, look smacks. We got 36 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 4: to talk about that later for everybody, because I was 37 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 4: telling my kids about it last night. 38 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 5: They were just their eyes were wide with wonder that 39 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 5: anybody's actually doing this. It's stunning. So stick around for that. 40 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 2: As CBS we just. 41 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 4: Direct them to the Armstrung and Getty One More Thing podcast. 42 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 4: It's also an option. 43 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 5: So CBS News got taken over by Barry Weiss and 44 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 5: you either know her actor you don't. But I was 45 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 5: pretty hopeful that things would get better in terms of 46 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 5: it's down the middle coverage, an attempt to not be 47 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 5: biased one way or the other. How well they're doing it, 48 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 5: that is in the eye the beholder. But the new 49 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 5: CBS Evening newscasts with Tony de Koppel is that how 50 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 5: you say, his name has grown ten percent in adults 51 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 5: twenty five fifty four, which is your money demo. According 52 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 5: to Nielsen, the first two weeks it was up four 53 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 5: percent and viewers, and then thirteen percent after that, so 54 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 5: it grew and then the people that show up didn't. 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 5: It seems like more people came, So there you go. 56 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 5: I like it because it's faster paced and they're much 57 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 5: less likely to hit you with weather. They are now 58 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 5: because this is historic. But the other newscasts it's just 59 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 5: always weather. Quit what the weather. 60 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 2: We have world. 61 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 5: Changing events going on, some of the biggest things in history, 62 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 5: and you're telling me the weather somewhere two thousand miles away. 63 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 4: Weather and puppies. Yeah, much more cute. See it's a 64 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 4: more serious newscast, definitely. It's annoyed me a couple of times, 65 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 4: but all news annoys me. 66 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 5: But yeah, and it's you know, it's never going to 67 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 5: be perfect for anybody, I suppose, but sure, speaking of CBS, 68 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 5: sixty Minutes Sharon al Phonsie and Scott Pelly's jobs. If 69 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 5: you're a sixty minutes fan, you know those names are 70 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 5: on the line after pushing back hard against Barry Weiss's 71 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 5: CBS News shakeup. So they behind the scenes apparently have 72 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 5: said some pretty harsh things and gotten very loud in meetings, 73 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 5: and now the talk is that they may be out. 74 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 5: You don't get on board or get out, and two 75 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 5: of the biggest stars of sixty minutes might be out. 76 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 5: According to The New York Post, was it that Scott Pelly. 77 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 4: Was saying really strong things in the meaning or was 78 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 4: it that he just says them so slowly it was 79 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 4: driving everybody crazy. 80 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 5: I'm talking to slowly. I'm not joining the new culture adequately. 81 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 5: And then he takes off his suit jacket to make 82 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 5: sure you notice how giant his arms are. 83 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 2: Goodness. 84 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 4: So here's how Scott Adams, creator Dilbert, later a conservative 85 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 4: commentator online podcaster, was memorialized in The Old Gray Lady, 86 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 4: The New York Times Breaking News. Scott Adams, whose comic 87 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 4: Strict Dilbert was a sensation until he made racist comments 88 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,799 Speaker 4: on his podcast, has died at sixty eight. Okay, first 89 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 4: of all, and I think y'all know this. Somebody says 90 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 4: something quote unquote racist according to the New York Times. 91 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 4: I figure, probably it's almost certainly not racist. It might 92 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 4: be racially prove or might. 93 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 2: Just be about race. Yeah. 94 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 5: So a lot of people were contrasting that with the 95 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 5: headline that they had for Bagdaddy, the guy who started 96 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 5: ISIS and was, you know, setting people on fire and 97 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 5: cages and everything like that. When they had their headline 98 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 5: about him that Austere scholar dies at the age of whatever. 99 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 5: That's what they said about the guy who led ISIS. 100 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 5: He got a cartoonist who made some racial comments, and 101 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 5: they put something negative in the headline, but nothing negative 102 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 5: in the headline for the death of al Bagdaddy who 103 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 5: started ISIS, which is really quite amazing. Yeah, Okay, I 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 5: got another great New York Times story yesterday. I talked 105 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 5: about this, how it's there's all this chatter about how 106 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 5: Europe is gonna start siding with China because of Trump 107 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 5: and a variety of other things. Really you're gonna side 108 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 5: with China? Does that seem a good like a good idea. 109 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 5: Some of the explanation of that in the New York 110 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 5: Times was quite hilarious. Also, we've got a woman who's 111 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 5: dedicated her life for relocating obese cats. I want to 112 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 5: check in on. That's all on the way stay here. 113 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 5: There's not much to what I teased. I can tell 114 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 5: you the whole story in one sentence. Here there is 115 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 5: a woman up on the television I just saw who 116 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 5: has dedicated her life to rehoming obese cats. Wow, people 117 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 5: somehow can no longer take care of they're really really 118 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 5: fat cat, and she is. I guess if you've got 119 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 5: a fit cat, sorry that they're on their own, but 120 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 5: your cat's. 121 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 2: Number you can call, but I can't help you. 122 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 5: Yes, Katie, Well, I mean if you have a really 123 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 5: overly fat cat, you can't take care of it in 124 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 5: the first place because you got it fat. M there's 125 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 5: not enough criticism of pet owners for letting their pets 126 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 5: get fat. Yeah, they don't make these decisions on their own. 127 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 4: True, the many ways I offend people, though, I think 128 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 4: I will leave that one to you. You're absolutely right, 129 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 4: But you know the irony is my dog is slim. 130 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 4: My dog looks great in his owner, not so much. 131 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 4: We ought to be in charge of my food. We 132 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 4: slim down one of her pugs, and she seems much 133 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 4: happier now. She would eat all the other dog's food 134 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 4: that was a problem though she runs up, including a 135 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 4: almost two. 136 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 5: Hundred pound whatever the hell it is. The little pug 137 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 5: just rules a roost, eats the food. I'm gonna make 138 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 5: you what, Watch me eat your food? 139 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 2: All right? 140 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 5: You can have what's left. 141 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: Wow. The dog world is so weird. 142 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 5: It's got nothing to do with anything but like aggression. 143 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 5: It's the size of the fight and the dog. As 144 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 5: they say, that doesn't make any difference. If you fit 145 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 5: in the mouth of the other dog. He can be 146 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 5: a feisty does I don't know. 147 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 2: Who are we to question the ways of dogs? Anyway? 148 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 4: Let me make one more attempt at this. The ridiculous 149 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 4: New York Times obituary headline of Scott Adams Dilbert Guy 150 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,760 Speaker 4: breaking news. Scott Adams, whose comic strip Dilbert was a 151 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 4: sentation until he made racist comments on his podcast, has. 152 00:07:59,160 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: Died at sixty eight. 153 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 4: Never mind that those comments weren't racist, they were just provocative. 154 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 4: Here was the headline of the New York Times for 155 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 4: Joseph Stalin when he died. Stalin rose from Czarist oppression 156 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 4: to transform Russia into a mighty socialist state. 157 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 2: At least he wasn't a racist like that. 158 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 4: Damn Scott Adams or the infamous New York Times A 159 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 4: bit for Cassim Sulimani, commander of Iran's KOD's Force. Cassim Sulimani, 160 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 4: master of Iran's intrigue, built a sheite axis of power 161 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 4: in the Middle East. Good things Stalin and Sulimani didn't 162 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 4: do anything really awful, like make a racist comment on 163 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 4: a podcast. 164 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 5: Wow, isn't that amazing? 165 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that is stunning. 166 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 5: And then I used the example of albag Daddy, the 167 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 5: guy who started isis austere scholar dies at whatever age. 168 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 5: It was right, right, it's absolutely amazing. If you lean right, 169 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 5: they've got to put the worst thing you've ever done 170 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 5: in the headline of your obituary. But you could be 171 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 5: You could be a person throws gaze off of buildings 172 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 5: to kill them like they do in Iran or whatever 173 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 5: after a good beaten and torture and murders college students 174 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 5: in the street who tried to get any freedom, or 175 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 5: women who want to show their hair, and you get 176 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 5: the a good job of bringing people together headline when 177 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 5: you die. 178 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: Oh, that reminds me. 179 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 4: I have a segment plan that I think you are 180 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 4: thoroughly going to enjoy even as you hate. It has 181 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 4: to do with how sick and twisted academia is in 182 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 4: the United States. You're saying, yeah, we know, Joe. No, 183 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 4: this example is too good. It's too good. If there 184 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 4: is ever a trial of American academia, I will lead 185 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 4: with this evidence, then the prosecution will rest. 186 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 2: That is coming up. But the reason I thought of 187 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: that is there's. 188 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 4: Been so little said practically outside the Armstrong and getty 189 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 4: show of zenophilia in American culture, particularly leftist American culture. 190 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 2: If it is foreign, we dare not criticize it. 191 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 4: We must only praise it or only look for its 192 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 4: good attributes, because it would be belligerent and kind of 193 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 4: I don't know, racist, or something to criticize. I don't 194 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 4: know Cassim Sulimani for torturing and murdering gays and anybody 195 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 4: who dared to sent against the government, or anything. 196 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,719 Speaker 2: That would not be good. It's xenophilia. 197 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 4: It is interrrational and obsessive fixation and love of anything foreign. 198 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 2: Don't get it. 199 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 5: Speaking of Iran, there are more photos and videos that 200 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 5: are coming out what they did last weekend where they 201 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 5: finally squashed that the biggest, the biggest attempt at a 202 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 5: revolution since the a Revolution in seventy nine, and more 203 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 5: people are getting on board with the death toll numbers 204 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 5: being twenty thousand or greater, which is really something, which 205 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 5: is why I guess Trump announced today that there is 206 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 5: an armada, a giant, deadly armada, to use Trump's words, 207 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 5: headed toward Iran. So it's still on the table that 208 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 5: we do something, and nobody knows what that something is. 209 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 4: We have some pretty damn dramatic audio of what you 210 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 4: were just talking about the crackdown, Okay, would mind? Yeah, yeah, 211 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 4: sixty place, Michael. 212 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 6: Yours leadership has admitted that thousands were killed, but blamed 213 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 6: the dusts on rioters and agents of Israel and the US. 214 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 6: The regime has long used the narrative of a foreign 215 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 6: plot to justify its crackdowns. This time it had an 216 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 6: exiled opposition and a US president urging a revolt. 217 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 7: I think that the regime has never been closer to 218 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 7: a fould to a complete regime change, yet doing it 219 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 7: for survival but also to prevent more protests in the 220 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 7: coming years. The aim is to traumatize a generation. 221 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 2: Wow. 222 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 5: Wow, the aim was to traumatize the generation. Don't even 223 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 5: try it. You saw it with your own eyes as 224 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 5: people died next to you, had their eyes shot out 225 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 5: or whatever. 226 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 4: Right, getting back to our discussion of dogs turn a 227 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 4: generation into cringing dogs that are afraid of a beating. 228 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, so do you think Trump does something big, like 229 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 5: goes full on tries to foment regime change? I don't 230 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 5: know if you could get people to come back out 231 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 5: of their houses. 232 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 2: Right, right? 233 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 4: Well, And I came across a piece that was very 234 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 4: well written. The journal ran it, Trump has options in Iran, 235 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 4: none are likely to help the protesters much. Well, right, yeah, 236 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 4: So if we could have, I don't know, taken out 237 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 4: some of their capabilities two weeks ago, while you know, 238 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 4: millions were in the street, hundreds of thousands were in 239 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 4: the street tearing down flags and breaking in to government 240 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 4: buildings and stuff like that. 241 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 2: But that ain't gonna happen now. 242 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 4: So what would we do make it clear that there 243 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 4: will be a terrible cost when they do this by 244 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 4: bombing various installations or something. But the iotolas in the 245 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 4: ir gee'll just say, well, we did what we needed 246 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 4: to do, all right, we'll rebuild it. Thanks for nothing. 247 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 5: Well, and is that that reporter just said that they 248 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 5: were at full on existential threat. Yeah, this could be 249 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,199 Speaker 5: politically tough or might you know, cause Trump to attack 250 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 5: or whatever. But if we don't do it, we're going 251 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 5: to be hung by our feet in the Turan Square. 252 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 5: So we gotta do something. 253 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 4: In another headline, Iranian regime claims that tested a long 254 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 4: range missile that can hit the US Eastern seaboard. 255 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 2: Who did that? Iran did? Well? How was the provocative? Yes, 256 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 2: I would say so. Yeah. 257 00:13:54,480 --> 00:14:00,079 Speaker 4: The missile was fired towards Siberia with Russian permission to 258 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 4: test it. It would have traveled up to thirty seven 259 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 4: hundred miles to reach its target, but they claim it 260 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 4: has a range of up to sixty two hundred miles, 261 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 4: which is plenty to hit the Eastern seaboard. That would 262 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 4: be that would be quite the maneuver by the Iranians. 263 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 4: Surely they wouldn't do something that insane. 264 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 5: No, but man, that's really provocative when you've been trying 265 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 5: really hard to get a nuclear weapon and then you 266 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 5: demonstrate that if you've got a nuclear weapon. 267 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 2: You've got, you know, rockets that can reach the United States. 268 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 4: And by the way, we have three good buddies that 269 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 4: do have nuclear weapons and we all hate you. 270 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, and that was provocative within our made headed their way. 271 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'd sane. This would be fun to watch, 272 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 4: could be a very exciting weekend. I'm close to curling 273 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 4: up in the fetal condition a position just saying. 274 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: La la la la la la la la la la la. 275 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 2: It's all too spicy, there's too much. 276 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 5: How about some good news that I want to unpack 277 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 5: coming up next segment. We've mentioned it several times this week, 278 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 5: but here some of the numbers behind the numbers, we'll 279 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 5: get to. 280 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 2: Murders down. 281 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 5: Unbelievably, like that's never happened before, and all kinds of 282 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 5: different crimes dropped, like just crazy, maybe the lowest murder 283 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 5: rate since nineteen hundred. 284 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 2: They think, what is going on? There are twenty twenty five? 285 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so you can't you can't. You can't really 286 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 5: make some sort of argument that it's you know, trying 287 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 5: to make Trump look bad or something like that. 288 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 2: I mean, because the YOP. 289 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, but all these mainstream outlets they're talking about how 290 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 5: the murder rate has dropped in a way it's never 291 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 5: dropped before. We need to get into some of the details, 292 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,239 Speaker 5: and then wonder why. 293 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 4: I guess show hands anybody murder anybody in twenty twenty five, 294 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 4: anybody on the crew handful? 295 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, a couple of people two years ago thought 296 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 2: about it. 297 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 4: Handful of twenty twenty four Michael, okay, a handful. They 298 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 4: all had it coming. Let me check my calendar. Yeah, 299 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 4: that was the end of twenty four murdered Jim. There 300 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 4: it is on my monthly calendar, telling you they had 301 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 4: it coming. Well, wow, okay, I want to hear more 302 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 4: about that. Plus a takedown of American college education. 303 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 2: Oh, it's so terrible. 304 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 5: You get on the interstate of forty five miles an hour, 305 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 5: you got to come as far as I'm. 306 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 2: To Armstrong and getty. 307 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 5: According to a new report of the US murder rate 308 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 5: has fallen to its lowest level since nineteen hundred. 309 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's pretty hard to get murdered if you 310 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 2: never go outside. 311 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 5: And then he shows a picture of a young man 312 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 5: in his house playing video games. 313 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 2: That plays a role. 314 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 5: So the flat out numbers are In twenty twenty five, 315 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 5: the United States saw an historic decline in the murder 316 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 5: rate twenty one percent drop across major cities, bringing the 317 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 5: national homicide rate to its lowest level since nineteen hundred. 318 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 5: They think that before murders per one hundred thousand residents. 319 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 2: Wow. 320 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 5: I went to all of my different chat bots and 321 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 5: asked them what the leading theories are for why this happened. 322 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 5: And the biggest consensus is we don't know why. That's 323 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 5: the biggest consensus. Everybody's got a whole bunch of different 324 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 5: possibilities and they overlap quite a bit, but nobody's exactly 325 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 5: sure why. The most the first thing everybody says is 326 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 5: this is a normalization after COVID, because there was a 327 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 5: spike as we all remember twenty nineteen to twenty twenty 328 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 5: two as COVID hit and then George Floyd and just 329 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 5: unrest and a general feeling of everything's gone crazy and everything, 330 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 5: and you know, so the point. 331 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 4: Of murdering another human, I know, that's why I murdered 332 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 4: no one. 333 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 5: Well, I suppose that's why you get to the nobody's 334 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 5: exactly sure, because it doesn't exactly make sense why you'd 335 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 5: murder somebody as you just jokingly referred to things got 336 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 5: pretty nutty with a lot of our politics, and now 337 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 5: all of a sudden you're working at home and all 338 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 5: kinds of things. But I mean, and then you have murdered. 339 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 4: Someone, right, it's right. Oh, COVID sucked. I mean with 340 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 4: I couldn't socialize and my stores were closed, and I 341 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 4: murdered guy. 342 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 2: I mean, come. 343 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 5: On, and then if you add in the fact that 344 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:23,439 Speaker 5: it's a one year drop, we didn't everybody doesn't decide 345 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 5: at the same point. 346 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 2: Okay, that's over. I feel less murderous. Here we go. 347 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,159 Speaker 4: I'm gonna and I might throw punch you, but I 348 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 4: ain't gonna kill you. And I've killed a handful of 349 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 4: people to settle minor, minor disputes. And it's you know, 350 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 4: it finally occurred to me, Well, this is wrong. 351 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 2: I need to stop doing this. 352 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, that it's just a you know, there are many 353 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 4: things that happen in human society that are the confluence 354 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 4: of several different things coming together, and this is absolutely 355 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 4: gonna be one of those. 356 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:57,719 Speaker 5: Well, let me run through some of them and then 357 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 5: you can. So Number number one at every already throws 358 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 5: out is the post spike normalization after COVID. Then the increase, 359 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:10,639 Speaker 5: but we're now well below pre COVID numbers, so it 360 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 5: wiped out the COVID bump and then is lower than 361 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 5: pre COVID policing strategy and law enforcement actions. I mean, 362 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 5: murders got bad enough that we cared more about murders 363 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 5: and they're paying more attention to it. Community programs and 364 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 5: local investments, Economic and demographic factors. Long standing theories about crime, 365 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 5: like an aging population, fewer people in high risk age groups. 366 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 2: But that didn't happen a year. 367 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 5: That didn't happen in a year. You didn't go from 368 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,360 Speaker 5: being an angry nineteen year old to a tired seventy 369 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 5: five year old between twenty four and forty. 370 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 2: Five, right, right. 371 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 5: But one of the consistent points experts all across, and 372 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 5: this is according to all of the chatbots ask is 373 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 5: there's no agreed upon cause yet combination of factors likely interacts, 374 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 5: as you were just pointing out, and researchers weren't it 375 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 5: maybe too early to draw a firm conclusions, but what 376 00:19:59,359 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 5: the heck? 377 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope people are taking the time to look 378 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 4: most carefully at the places where most of the murders 379 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 4: take place. 380 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 2: I mean, well, sleep, right, So we always talk about that. 381 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 5: How it's you know, gang ridden areas of Chicago, gang 382 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,679 Speaker 5: ridden areas of Chicago, where everybody's shooting each other and 383 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 5: it doesn't have anything to do you. But why did 384 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 5: they stop murdering each other? Was it COVID? They didn't 385 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 5: start working from home and got all upset about it, 386 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 5: right right, fighting turf wars from home? You know, I've 387 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 5: converted my spare bedroom into an office now, and I 388 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 5: murder the crips from there, or wearing a mask made 389 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 5: them nuts, right right, it's interesting, be fuddled. Well, we 390 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 5: got a bunch of things going on like that, and 391 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 5: it's well, it's stunning that we can't figure it out. 392 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 2: Why did we stop having babies? You know? Why did 393 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 2: the murder rate drop so far? One way? That a 394 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 2: different thing. Just why? I don't know. 395 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 5: Why do we have so much autism and the depression 396 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 5: and an anxiety? All these things we don't know? 397 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 4: Probably not microplastics scientists are now saying. 398 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 2: Oh really, I hadn't heard that. 399 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 4: I don't know if big milk jug weighed in and 400 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,199 Speaker 4: threatened people or what. But yeah, the Free Press with 401 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 4: a big piece about how, uh, don't worry microplastics are 402 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 4: probably not killing you. 403 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 5: Uh, not killing is but is it the cause of 404 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 5: autism and all the different stuff they're saying. 405 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 2: No, I actually don't know. 406 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 4: But this gal who has a degree in geophysics, uh 407 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 4: from California Institute of Technology and has written for Science, 408 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 4: The Economists, The New York Times, and many other publications. 409 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 4: As a piece entitled Relaxed microplastics Aren't Killing You, a 410 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 4: debunked study last year connected microplastics in the brain to 411 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 4: everything from heart attacks to dementia. I guess what, It's 412 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 4: not true, huh, junk science. 413 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 5: And haven't we all learned to We all have like 414 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 5: a spoonful of plastic in us now, spoonful of microplastics 415 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 5: something like that in our brains or our heart or somewhere. Yeah, 416 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 5: right in my gallbladder. Well but that but if they 417 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 5: could eliminate that, that'd be a good thing. I mean 418 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 5: that's what you do when you do science. You eliminate 419 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 5: various things until you can narrow it down to something. 420 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 2: Uh. 421 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that they've eliminated it, but they've 422 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 4: onlike prosecuted it. 423 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 2: So it's chemtrails. It's clearly kim trails. 424 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to read this whole thing and it's very, 425 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:34,159 Speaker 4: very long, but anyway, call who's got I'd like to 426 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 4: read this, but it's very long, and who's got the time? 427 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: So you don't hear that much on the. 428 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 5: News when you listen to the news, murder rate is down. 429 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,400 Speaker 2: Have the explanation here, but it's very long and I'm 430 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 2: kind of busy, so it's Friday. Hell with it. 431 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 5: We want to tell you about simply Safe, which is 432 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 5: a hell of a good idea. I love the fact 433 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 5: that I have simply saved. 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But this article is very long, and 454 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 4: I have got things to do, so come. That was 455 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 4: shorthand for its more detail tailed and I think we 456 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 4: want to take on in the show. 457 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 2: Of course I've grasped the entirety of it, but. 458 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 5: I do want to get to this sound bite. Maybe 459 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 5: we can do this next segment. I haven't actually heard it, 460 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 5: but I'm just looking up at the TV. They're playing 461 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 5: on Fox. So the Australian Open tennis tournaments going on. 462 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 5: It's in one of the big four tennis tournaments. And 463 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 5: for whatever reason, our American tennis players after their matches, 464 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 5: when they're doing the whole press conference thing, journalists grilling 465 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 5: them on political questions, trying to get them to weigh in, 466 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 5: you know, try to get them on the record of 467 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 5: you being four against something. I guess, so you can 468 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 5: make their lives miserable as tennis players or hold them 469 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 5: responsible right the government of their countryatly. 470 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 2: I hate this time we live in. 471 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 4: If I'm reminded of when remember when we banned Russian 472 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 4: like ballerinas and stuff like that for a bit? 473 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 5: Hmm, yeah I was. 474 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 2: I wasn't sure how I felt about that. Well, how's that? 475 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 5: So the Winter Olympics is going on here in and 476 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 5: starts in just a couple of weeks. Is there any 477 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 5: banning of Russian athletes for that? I haven't heard anything 478 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 5: about it. 479 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 2: I haven't heard it. And if not, why not? 480 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 4: If you know anything about it, email us, But keep 481 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 4: it short, because you know me, I don't have a 482 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 4: lot of Because it's long, we're just not going to 483 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 4: get to the answer. Maybe put it in the put 484 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 4: it that, put it in the subject matter. Yeah, you know, 485 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 4: I'll actually look into that and come up with the answer. 486 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 4: Because I was hardcore last Olympics that you can't be 487 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 4: letting Russia compete here. We violates the spirit of everything 488 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 4: I feel like. 489 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 2: Right. 490 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 5: Of course, the other argument has always been that the 491 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 5: sports is supposed to transcend politics and everything and show 492 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 5: that we're all something or other. 493 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, says the people making zillions of bucks off the Olympics. 494 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, kid, of course, why do we have China participating? 495 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 2: Any who? 496 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 5: Bunch of stuff on the way, stay hear finish up 497 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 5: a couple of previous conversations. Why the murder rate drop? 498 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 5: Friend of the Armstrong and Getty show texts, I suspect 499 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 5: the murder rate drop due to decreased alcohol alcohol consumption 500 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 5: by a lot for people under forty. 501 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 2: Oh, that absolutely could play a factor. Great therey. Yeah. 502 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 5: And then on the whole Olympics question. Which Olympics start 503 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 5: February sixth. They're in Milan, Italy, the Winter Olympics. There 504 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,360 Speaker 5: are no official boycotts of countries, but Russia and Belarus, 505 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 5: their athletes can't participate with like Russia gear and national 506 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 5: anthem and flag and all that. You're just an individual 507 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 5: athlete that happens to be from Russia. So I like 508 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 5: that it doesn't penalize the athlete because that always sucked. 509 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 5: You work your whole life to do something and it's 510 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 5: not your fault. Yeah, there are arguments on both sides, 511 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 5: but I definitely don't need Russia getting to walk into 512 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 5: the stadium with their flag and their national anthem. Screw you, right. 513 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 4: So our headline on this segment is you thought you 514 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 4: knew how awful academia was. 515 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: Right, Well, you're wrong, and I was wrong. It's worse 516 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 2: than I thought. 517 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 4: But first, let's ease into it with this somewhat humorous 518 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 4: look at American education. 519 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 2: One plus one yes, two incorrect? Yes, multiculturalism, Well done, Simon. 520 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 2: Next question, what is three times three? 521 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: Yes? 522 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 5: Nine wrong? 523 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 2: Yes, Penelope, gender equality very good? Is this a joke? 524 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 2: Do you think gender equality is a joke? 525 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 3: No? 526 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:26,959 Speaker 2: But isn't this a maths class? 527 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 5: Don't be so racist. 528 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 2: I just asked a question. We don't ask questions. 529 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:32,920 Speaker 5: Questions are offensive. 530 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't discriminate. 531 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 5: It has nothing to do with mathematics. 532 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 4: Do you think you're so great with your masks and 533 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,719 Speaker 4: your science and your facts? 534 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 2: What about feelings? 535 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 6: Huh? 536 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 5: Yeah, you're all crazy, so violating me with your different opinion. 537 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 2: I have the right to speak my mind. No, we 538 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: have the right not to be offended. And that's more important. 539 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 2: Where did that come from? That's we ran that a 540 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 2: couple of years ago. That's funny. 541 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 4: It's from Australia or New Zealand to wrong, gender equality correct, 542 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 4: exactly beautiful, So easing my way to my ultimate point. 543 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 4: You've all lived in. Who's a terrific writer and thinker 544 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 4: about America and its institutions and history and that sort 545 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 4: of stuff, wrote a piece entitled America's two hundred and 546 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 4: fiftieth Isn't just a birthday? 547 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 5: And of course it's too long, so I didn't read 548 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 5: it t LDR. But gonna drink bikar day like it's 549 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 5: your birthday. 550 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 2: That's what we're gonna do. 551 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 4: So he what he's urging us all to do is 552 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 4: answer the question, the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of what? 553 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 4: The Declaration of Independence, the words endowed by our creator 554 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 4: within unalienable rights, blah blah blah, all men are created equal, 555 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 4: that sort of thing, the birth of a nation founded, 556 00:28:54,560 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 4: a certain dedicated to certain principles, because it's a you 557 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,719 Speaker 4: don't celebrate your wedding anniversary and don't think about your 558 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 4: wedding or your your marriage or your sweetheart or whatever. 559 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 4: It's not just an excuse for a party. It's a rededication. 560 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 4: And he wants to remember, wants us to remember what 561 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 4: we're celebrating. 562 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,959 Speaker 5: Yeah, Walter Isaacson, one of the great authors out there 563 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 5: on history stuff. He's got a new book coming out 564 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 5: this year called the Greatest Sentence ever written, and it's 565 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 5: that first sentence, We hold these truths to be self evident, 566 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 5: that sentence, and. 567 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 4: Then I'm glancing toward a pole, delta pole. Of American students, 568 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 4: forty percent of high school students poll said that they 569 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 4: were taught that America is built on stolen land in 570 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 4: class at school. Another twenty two percent heard it from 571 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 4: an adult. There my greater first day of class. 572 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 2: They had to do. 573 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 5: They had the right to land acknowledgment before they started 574 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 5: history class the first day. Oh my god, in America 575 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 5: stupider than land acknowledgments. 576 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 2: It's moronic. It's one of the stupidest things ever invented. 577 00:29:59,120 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 2: I agree, As you know. 578 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 4: In America, white people have white privilege. Yeah, forty one 579 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 4: percent said they were taught that in school. Another twenty 580 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 4: five percent said they were taught it by a different adult. 581 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. 582 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 4: Gender is an identity choice, regardless of the biological sex 583 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 4: you were born into. And America, white people have unconscious 584 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 4: baye ses blah blah blah. All these things were taught 585 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 4: in the schools, which brings me to my ultimate point. 586 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 4: This is almost hilarious. Let's see, here's a couple of 587 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 4: guys who they explained who they are, their scholars, about scholarship, 588 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,240 Speaker 4: and they mentioned two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's 589 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 4: founding provides an opportunity to reflect on and fight over 590 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 4: the country's extraordinary story. Unfortunately, many of the serious scholars 591 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 4: who study America its history, literature, and culture, also known 592 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 4: as American studies, failed to provide anything close to a 593 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 4: balanced and nuanced account of the country's complex tale. And 594 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 4: they go into America's story as a story of greatness, 595 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 4: the wealthiest, most powerful nation on the planet. Its founders 596 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 4: created what is now the world's longest lasting liberal democratic constitution. 597 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 4: Declaration of Independence, put forth revolutionary ideas about human freedom 598 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 4: and equality ushered. 599 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 2: In a new era. 600 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 4: Then, of course, we've had our problems between slavery and 601 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 4: Jim Crow treatment of Native Americans, high levels of economic inequality, 602 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 4: which exists everywhere and always had. 603 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 2: That's a canard. But finally, here's the point. 604 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 4: They went to just under one hundred articles over a 605 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 4: three year period in American Quarterly, which is the flagship 606 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 4: journal of the American Studies Association. This is the big 607 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 4: association of American studies that all your professors in all 608 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 4: the universities belonged to. Published by JOHNS. Hopkins University, widely 609 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 4: considered country's premier journal. 610 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. 611 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 4: Eighty percent of the articles over a three year period 612 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:06,719 Speaker 4: were critical of the United States. They were bashing, twenty 613 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 4: percent were neutral, and zero were positive. 614 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 5: Wow. 615 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 2: Zero Wow. 616 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 4: And they go into a great deal of detail about 617 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 4: the fact that the twenty percent that were quote unquote neutral. 618 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 2: Were pretty critical, but were just a little less bashye 619 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: than the bashing one. 620 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 5: I don't need to argue about that. If all I 621 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 5: need to know is there were zero positive. That's amazing. 622 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 4: Zero in the field of American studies. How perverse is that? 623 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,920 Speaker 5: And I asked this question all the time. Has this 624 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 5: ever happened in world history? Or does it always happen? 625 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 5: I just don't know about it. Where a really successful 626 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 5: culture at some point turns on itself and hates itself. 627 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 5: Has this ever happened before? Did the Romans do this? 628 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 5: The Greeks, of the Persians, or any of your great empires? 629 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 5: Did they at some point turn on themselves and hate 630 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 5: themselves like this. Well, even if they had. 631 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 4: They didn't have the you know, near instantaneous ability to 632 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 4: go from one country, one continent to another, and to 633 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 4: export military power and or becomes xenophiliac about foreign things 634 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 4: that simultaneous you know, hatred of yourself and lust for 635 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 4: the foreign. 636 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 2: They couldn't have gotten that going. That is wild. 637 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 4: It's well they right, it's astonishing. We couldn't find a 638 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 4: single positive article over a three year period. There were 639 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 4: none on American ingenuity. Readers wouldn't come to understand why, 640 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 4: as of twenty twenty, the US, which represents four percent 641 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 4: of the world's population, won forty two percent of the 642 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 4: individual Nobel prizes since the awards creation in nineteen oh one, 643 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 4: or why the US was the first. 644 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 2: Country to land a man on the moon. 645 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 4: Not a single article of about America's vanquishing Nazi Germany 646 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 4: and World War two Soviet Union in the Cold War, 647 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 4: thereby freeing millions and millions of people. 648 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,239 Speaker 2: No discussion of why the US is rated as the. 649 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,800 Speaker 4: Most desirable destination for immigrants across the perth. 650 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 2: There's a good one to stay out there. 651 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 5: Why why do millions and millions and millions of people 652 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,240 Speaker 5: try to sneak into this country when there's nothing positive 653 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 5: to say about it. 654 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 4: That's pretty hilarious. Hey, every dollar, Peso and Drachma on Earth? 655 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 4: Where would you most like to invest yourself? 656 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 2: US? Police? 657 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:29,640 Speaker 3: US? 658 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 2: Can I go to America place? Not a single effing 659 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 2: paragraph long. 660 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 4: Article in American Quarterly, the flagship journal of American studies. Now, 661 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 4: do you believe me how diseased our campuses are? 662 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 2: That's wild? 663 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,000 Speaker 5: And I would imagine if there was anybody that wanted 664 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,120 Speaker 5: to write something positive, they feel like I'll be ostracized. 665 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 5: I can't. I can't do that. 666 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 2: I can't stick my neck out like that. Oh, you're 667 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 2: not swimming against the tide. 668 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 4: You're swimming against the I don't know the jets of 669 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 4: water going one hundred miles per hour. 670 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:03,279 Speaker 7: Yeah. 671 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,920 Speaker 5: I'm not going to get on any boards or invited 672 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,319 Speaker 5: to doing conferences, or win any prizes or get any 673 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 5: jobs if I come out and say something positive about 674 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:13,240 Speaker 5: the United States. 675 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 2: How do you feel about jailing academic? 676 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,720 Speaker 5: I'm mean it was a joke, A joke. 677 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,840 Speaker 2: Friend. Can't we laugh anymore? 678 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 5: You got to hear this New York Times journalist going 679 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 5: after our tennis players at the Australian Open. 680 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 2: It's really something. 681 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 5: It's getting a lot of attention. 682 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty