Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty and know He.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Well, guys, this weekend there's a historic winter storm hitting
Speaker 3: most of the country that's bringing brutal temperatures and over
Speaker 3: twenty inches of snow.
Speaker 2: Greenland Herd was like, well, you wanted us, you got us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Today's Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, although that
Speaker 3: had nothing to do with the storm. Hey, it's freezing
Speaker 3: out there. This morning on my way to work, I
Speaker 3: saw a Wall Street stockbroker spooning with Zora and Mandane.
Speaker 2: That's funny. Shot it Southwest? Was it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Southwest just was rated the best airline really on a
Speaker 4: series of metrics including on time, this, that, and the other,
Speaker 4: canceled flights, bagging, channeling, blah blah blah. They beat out Delta,
Speaker 4: the perennial.
Speaker 5: Line screwed by United more than any other airline, but
Speaker 5: that's just my personal experience.
Speaker 2: Mrkin was the bottom rated one. Really.
Speaker 5: Yeah, often these storms don't live up to the hype.
Speaker 5: But they're saying New York might get the most snow
Speaker 5: it's had in several decades, So that'll get a lot
Speaker 5: of attention since all the media's in New York. It's
Speaker 5: going to be minus forties with the wind chill through
Speaker 5: a bunch of the country.
Speaker 2: That's pretty chilly. That's really chilly.
Speaker 4: But that may assist these young folks with the newest
Speaker 4: online trend. No by January. We'll tell you more about
Speaker 4: that coming up.
Speaker 5: You know what we need to revisit for the show
Speaker 5: because we did it on the One More Thing podcast.
Speaker 5: These influencers who are trying to make their faces more
Speaker 5: attractive or their bodies.
Speaker 4: Oh young men, yeah, looks Max, look smacks. We got
Speaker 4: to talk about that later for everybody, because I was
Speaker 4: telling my kids about it last night.
Speaker 5: They were just their eyes were wide with wonder that
Speaker 5: anybody's actually doing this. It's stunning. So stick around for that.
Speaker 2: As CBS we just.
Speaker 4: Direct them to the Armstrung and Getty One More Thing podcast.
Speaker 4: It's also an option.
Speaker 5: So CBS News got taken over by Barry Weiss and
Speaker 5: you either know her actor you don't. But I was
Speaker 5: pretty hopeful that things would get better in terms of
Speaker 5: it's down the middle coverage, an attempt to not be
Speaker 5: biased one way or the other. How well they're doing it,
Speaker 5: that is in the eye the beholder. But the new
Speaker 5: CBS Evening newscasts with Tony de Koppel is that how
Speaker 5: you say, his name has grown ten percent in adults
Speaker 5: twenty five fifty four, which is your money demo. According
Speaker 5: to Nielsen, the first two weeks it was up four
Speaker 5: percent and viewers, and then thirteen percent after that, so
Speaker 5: it grew and then the people that show up didn't.
Speaker 5: It seems like more people came, So there you go.
Speaker 5: I like it because it's faster paced and they're much
Speaker 5: less likely to hit you with weather. They are now
Speaker 5: because this is historic. But the other newscasts it's just
Speaker 5: always weather. Quit what the weather.
Speaker 2: We have world.
Speaker 5: Changing events going on, some of the biggest things in history,
Speaker 5: and you're telling me the weather somewhere two thousand miles away.
Speaker 4: Weather and puppies. Yeah, much more cute. See it's a
Speaker 4: more serious newscast, definitely. It's annoyed me a couple of times,
Speaker 4: but all news annoys me.
Speaker 5: But yeah, and it's you know, it's never going to
Speaker 5: be perfect for anybody, I suppose, but sure, speaking of CBS,
Speaker 5: sixty Minutes Sharon al Phonsie and Scott Pelly's jobs. If
Speaker 5: you're a sixty minutes fan, you know those names are
Speaker 5: on the line after pushing back hard against Barry Weiss's
Speaker 5: CBS News shakeup. So they behind the scenes apparently have
Speaker 5: said some pretty harsh things and gotten very loud in meetings,
Speaker 5: and now the talk is that they may be out.
Speaker 5: You don't get on board or get out, and two
Speaker 5: of the biggest stars of sixty minutes might be out.
Speaker 5: According to The New York Post, was it that Scott Pelly.
Speaker 4: Was saying really strong things in the meaning or was
Speaker 4: it that he just says them so slowly it was
Speaker 4: driving everybody crazy.
Speaker 5: I'm talking to slowly. I'm not joining the new culture adequately.
Speaker 5: And then he takes off his suit jacket to make
Speaker 5: sure you notice how giant his arms are.
Speaker 2: Goodness.
Speaker 4: So here's how Scott Adams, creator Dilbert, later a conservative
Speaker 4: commentator online podcaster, was memorialized in The Old Gray Lady,
Speaker 4: The New York Times Breaking News. Scott Adams, whose comic
Speaker 4: Strict Dilbert was a sensation until he made racist comments
Speaker 4: on his podcast, has died at sixty eight. Okay, first
Speaker 4: of all, and I think y'all know this. Somebody says
Speaker 4: something quote unquote racist according to the New York Times.
Speaker 4: I figure, probably it's almost certainly not racist. It might
Speaker 4: be racially prove or might.
Speaker 2: Just be about race. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So a lot of people were contrasting that with the
Speaker 5: headline that they had for Bagdaddy, the guy who started
Speaker 5: ISIS and was, you know, setting people on fire and
Speaker 5: cages and everything like that. When they had their headline
Speaker 5: about him that Austere scholar dies at the age of whatever.
Speaker 5: That's what they said about the guy who led ISIS.
Speaker 5: He got a cartoonist who made some racial comments, and
Speaker 5: they put something negative in the headline, but nothing negative
Speaker 5: in the headline for the death of al Bagdaddy who
Speaker 5: started ISIS, which is really quite amazing. Yeah, Okay, I
Speaker 5: got another great New York Times story yesterday. I talked
Speaker 5: about this, how it's there's all this chatter about how
Speaker 5: Europe is gonna start siding with China because of Trump
Speaker 5: and a variety of other things. Really you're gonna side
Speaker 5: with China? Does that seem a good like a good idea.
Speaker 5: Some of the explanation of that in the New York
Speaker 5: Times was quite hilarious. Also, we've got a woman who's
Speaker 5: dedicated her life for relocating obese cats. I want to
Speaker 5: check in on. That's all on the way stay here.
Speaker 5: There's not much to what I teased. I can tell
Speaker 5: you the whole story in one sentence. Here there is
Speaker 5: a woman up on the television I just saw who
Speaker 5: has dedicated her life to rehoming obese cats. Wow, people
Speaker 5: somehow can no longer take care of they're really really
Speaker 5: fat cat, and she is. I guess if you've got
Speaker 5: a fit cat, sorry that they're on their own, but
Speaker 5: your cat's.
Speaker 2: Number you can call, but I can't help you.
Speaker 5: Yes, Katie, Well, I mean if you have a really
Speaker 5: overly fat cat, you can't take care of it in
Speaker 5: the first place because you got it fat. M there's
Speaker 5: not enough criticism of pet owners for letting their pets
Speaker 5: get fat. Yeah, they don't make these decisions on their own.
Speaker 4: True, the many ways I offend people, though, I think
Speaker 4: I will leave that one to you. You're absolutely right,
Speaker 4: But you know the irony is my dog is slim.
Speaker 4: My dog looks great in his owner, not so much.
Speaker 4: We ought to be in charge of my food. We
Speaker 4: slim down one of her pugs, and she seems much
Speaker 4: happier now. She would eat all the other dog's food
Speaker 4: that was a problem though she runs up, including a
Speaker 4: almost two.
Speaker 5: Hundred pound whatever the hell it is. The little pug
Speaker 5: just rules a roost, eats the food. I'm gonna make
Speaker 5: you what, Watch me eat your food?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: You can have what's left.
Speaker 2: Wow. The dog world is so weird.
Speaker 5: It's got nothing to do with anything but like aggression.
Speaker 5: It's the size of the fight and the dog. As
Speaker 5: they say, that doesn't make any difference. If you fit
Speaker 5: in the mouth of the other dog. He can be
Speaker 5: a feisty does I don't know.
Speaker 2: Who are we to question the ways of dogs? Anyway?
Speaker 4: Let me make one more attempt at this. The ridiculous
Speaker 4: New York Times obituary headline of Scott Adams Dilbert Guy
Speaker 4: breaking news. Scott Adams, whose comic strip Dilbert was a
Speaker 4: sentation until he made racist comments on his podcast, has.
Speaker 2: Died at sixty eight.
Speaker 4: Never mind that those comments weren't racist, they were just provocative.
Speaker 4: Here was the headline of the New York Times for
Speaker 4: Joseph Stalin when he died. Stalin rose from Czarist oppression
Speaker 4: to transform Russia into a mighty socialist state.
Speaker 2: At least he wasn't a racist like that.
Speaker 4: Damn Scott Adams or the infamous New York Times A
Speaker 4: bit for Cassim Sulimani, commander of Iran's KOD's Force. Cassim Sulimani,
Speaker 4: master of Iran's intrigue, built a sheite axis of power
Speaker 4: in the Middle East. Good things Stalin and Sulimani didn't
Speaker 4: do anything really awful, like make a racist comment on
Speaker 4: a podcast.
Speaker 5: Wow, isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is stunning.
Speaker 5: And then I used the example of albag Daddy, the
Speaker 5: guy who started isis austere scholar dies at whatever age.
Speaker 5: It was right, right, it's absolutely amazing. If you lean right,
Speaker 5: they've got to put the worst thing you've ever done
Speaker 5: in the headline of your obituary. But you could be
Speaker 5: You could be a person throws gaze off of buildings
Speaker 5: to kill them like they do in Iran or whatever
Speaker 5: after a good beaten and torture and murders college students
Speaker 5: in the street who tried to get any freedom, or
Speaker 5: women who want to show their hair, and you get
Speaker 5: the a good job of bringing people together headline when
Speaker 5: you die.
Speaker 2: Oh, that reminds me.
Speaker 4: I have a segment plan that I think you are
Speaker 4: thoroughly going to enjoy even as you hate. It has
Speaker 4: to do with how sick and twisted academia is in
Speaker 4: the United States. You're saying, yeah, we know, Joe. No,
Speaker 4: this example is too good. It's too good. If there
Speaker 4: is ever a trial of American academia, I will lead
Speaker 4: with this evidence, then the prosecution will rest.
Speaker 2: That is coming up. But the reason I thought of
Speaker 2: that is there's.
Speaker 4: Been so little said practically outside the Armstrong and getty
Speaker 4: show of zenophilia in American culture, particularly leftist American culture.
Speaker 2: If it is foreign, we dare not criticize it.
Speaker 4: We must only praise it or only look for its
Speaker 4: good attributes, because it would be belligerent and kind of
Speaker 4: I don't know, racist, or something to criticize. I don't
Speaker 4: know Cassim Sulimani for torturing and murdering gays and anybody
Speaker 4: who dared to sent against the government, or anything.
Speaker 2: That would not be good. It's xenophilia.
Speaker 4: It is interrrational and obsessive fixation and love of anything foreign.
Speaker 2: Don't get it.
Speaker 5: Speaking of Iran, there are more photos and videos that
Speaker 5: are coming out what they did last weekend where they
Speaker 5: finally squashed that the biggest, the biggest attempt at a
Speaker 5: revolution since the a Revolution in seventy nine, and more
Speaker 5: people are getting on board with the death toll numbers
Speaker 5: being twenty thousand or greater, which is really something, which
Speaker 5: is why I guess Trump announced today that there is
Speaker 5: an armada, a giant, deadly armada, to use Trump's words,
Speaker 5: headed toward Iran. So it's still on the table that
Speaker 5: we do something, and nobody knows what that something is.
Speaker 4: We have some pretty damn dramatic audio of what you
Speaker 4: were just talking about the crackdown, Okay, would mind? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: sixty place, Michael.
Speaker 6: Yours leadership has admitted that thousands were killed, but blamed
Speaker 6: the dusts on rioters and agents of Israel and the US.
Speaker 6: The regime has long used the narrative of a foreign
Speaker 6: plot to justify its crackdowns. This time it had an
Speaker 6: exiled opposition and a US president urging a revolt.
Speaker 7: I think that the regime has never been closer to
Speaker 7: a fould to a complete regime change, yet doing it
Speaker 7: for survival but also to prevent more protests in the
Speaker 7: coming years. The aim is to traumatize a generation.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, the aim was to traumatize the generation. Don't even
Speaker 5: try it. You saw it with your own eyes as
Speaker 5: people died next to you, had their eyes shot out
Speaker 5: or whatever.
Speaker 4: Right, getting back to our discussion of dogs turn a
Speaker 4: generation into cringing dogs that are afraid of a beating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so do you think Trump does something big, like
Speaker 5: goes full on tries to foment regime change? I don't
Speaker 5: know if you could get people to come back out
Speaker 5: of their houses.
Speaker 2: Right, right?
Speaker 4: Well, And I came across a piece that was very
Speaker 4: well written. The journal ran it, Trump has options in Iran,
Speaker 4: none are likely to help the protesters much. Well, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: So if we could have, I don't know, taken out
Speaker 4: some of their capabilities two weeks ago, while you know,
Speaker 4: millions were in the street, hundreds of thousands were in
Speaker 4: the street tearing down flags and breaking in to government
Speaker 4: buildings and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But that ain't gonna happen now.
Speaker 4: So what would we do make it clear that there
Speaker 4: will be a terrible cost when they do this by
Speaker 4: bombing various installations or something. But the iotolas in the
Speaker 4: ir gee'll just say, well, we did what we needed
Speaker 4: to do, all right, we'll rebuild it. Thanks for nothing.
Speaker 5: Well, and is that that reporter just said that they
Speaker 5: were at full on existential threat. Yeah, this could be
Speaker 5: politically tough or might you know, cause Trump to attack
Speaker 5: or whatever. But if we don't do it, we're going
Speaker 5: to be hung by our feet in the Turan Square.
Speaker 5: So we gotta do something.
Speaker 4: In another headline, Iranian regime claims that tested a long
Speaker 4: range missile that can hit the US Eastern seaboard.
Speaker 2: Who did that? Iran did? Well? How was the provocative? Yes,
Speaker 2: I would say so. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The missile was fired towards Siberia with Russian permission to
Speaker 4: test it. It would have traveled up to thirty seven
Speaker 4: hundred miles to reach its target, but they claim it
Speaker 4: has a range of up to sixty two hundred miles,
Speaker 4: which is plenty to hit the Eastern seaboard. That would
Speaker 4: be that would be quite the maneuver by the Iranians.
Speaker 4: Surely they wouldn't do something that insane.
Speaker 5: No, but man, that's really provocative when you've been trying
Speaker 5: really hard to get a nuclear weapon and then you
Speaker 5: demonstrate that if you've got a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: You've got, you know, rockets that can reach the United States.
Speaker 4: And by the way, we have three good buddies that
Speaker 4: do have nuclear weapons and we all hate you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that was provocative within our made headed their way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'd sane. This would be fun to watch,
Speaker 4: could be a very exciting weekend. I'm close to curling
Speaker 4: up in the fetal condition a position just saying.
Speaker 2: La la la la la la la la la la la.
Speaker 2: It's all too spicy, there's too much.
Speaker 5: How about some good news that I want to unpack
Speaker 5: coming up next segment. We've mentioned it several times this week,
Speaker 5: but here some of the numbers behind the numbers, we'll
Speaker 5: get to.
Speaker 2: Murders down.
Speaker 5: Unbelievably, like that's never happened before, and all kinds of
Speaker 5: different crimes dropped, like just crazy, maybe the lowest murder
Speaker 5: rate since nineteen hundred.
Speaker 2: They think, what is going on? There are twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so you can't you can't. You can't really
Speaker 5: make some sort of argument that it's you know, trying
Speaker 5: to make Trump look bad or something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, because the YOP.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but all these mainstream outlets they're talking about how
Speaker 5: the murder rate has dropped in a way it's never
Speaker 5: dropped before. We need to get into some of the details,
Speaker 5: and then wonder why.
Speaker 4: I guess show hands anybody murder anybody in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 4: anybody on the crew handful?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, a couple of people two years ago thought
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 4: Handful of twenty twenty four Michael, okay, a handful. They
Speaker 4: all had it coming. Let me check my calendar. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was the end of twenty four murdered Jim. There
Speaker 4: it is on my monthly calendar, telling you they had
Speaker 4: it coming. Well, wow, okay, I want to hear more
Speaker 4: about that. Plus a takedown of American college education.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so terrible.
Speaker 5: You get on the interstate of forty five miles an hour,
Speaker 5: you got to come as far as I'm.
Speaker 2: To Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5: According to a new report of the US murder rate
Speaker 5: has fallen to its lowest level since nineteen hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's pretty hard to get murdered if you
Speaker 2: never go outside.
Speaker 5: And then he shows a picture of a young man
Speaker 5: in his house playing video games.
Speaker 2: That plays a role.
Speaker 5: So the flat out numbers are In twenty twenty five,
Speaker 5: the United States saw an historic decline in the murder
Speaker 5: rate twenty one percent drop across major cities, bringing the
Speaker 5: national homicide rate to its lowest level since nineteen hundred.
Speaker 5: They think that before murders per one hundred thousand residents.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: I went to all of my different chat bots and
Speaker 5: asked them what the leading theories are for why this happened.
Speaker 5: And the biggest consensus is we don't know why. That's
Speaker 5: the biggest consensus. Everybody's got a whole bunch of different
Speaker 5: possibilities and they overlap quite a bit, but nobody's exactly
Speaker 5: sure why. The most the first thing everybody says is
Speaker 5: this is a normalization after COVID, because there was a
Speaker 5: spike as we all remember twenty nineteen to twenty twenty
Speaker 5: two as COVID hit and then George Floyd and just
Speaker 5: unrest and a general feeling of everything's gone crazy and everything,
Speaker 5: and you know, so the point.
Speaker 4: Of murdering another human, I know, that's why I murdered
Speaker 4: no one.
Speaker 5: Well, I suppose that's why you get to the nobody's
Speaker 5: exactly sure, because it doesn't exactly make sense why you'd
Speaker 5: murder somebody as you just jokingly referred to things got
Speaker 5: pretty nutty with a lot of our politics, and now
Speaker 5: all of a sudden you're working at home and all
Speaker 5: kinds of things. But I mean, and then you have murdered.
Speaker 4: Someone, right, it's right. Oh, COVID sucked. I mean with
Speaker 4: I couldn't socialize and my stores were closed, and I
Speaker 4: murdered guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, come.
Speaker 5: On, and then if you add in the fact that
Speaker 5: it's a one year drop, we didn't everybody doesn't decide
Speaker 5: at the same point.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's over. I feel less murderous. Here we go.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna and I might throw punch you, but I
Speaker 4: ain't gonna kill you. And I've killed a handful of
Speaker 4: people to settle minor, minor disputes. And it's you know,
Speaker 4: it finally occurred to me, Well, this is wrong.
Speaker 2: I need to stop doing this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that it's just a you know, there are many
Speaker 4: things that happen in human society that are the confluence
Speaker 4: of several different things coming together, and this is absolutely
Speaker 4: gonna be one of those.
Speaker 5: Well, let me run through some of them and then
Speaker 5: you can. So Number number one at every already throws
Speaker 5: out is the post spike normalization after COVID. Then the increase,
Speaker 5: but we're now well below pre COVID numbers, so it
Speaker 5: wiped out the COVID bump and then is lower than
Speaker 5: pre COVID policing strategy and law enforcement actions. I mean,
Speaker 5: murders got bad enough that we cared more about murders
Speaker 5: and they're paying more attention to it. Community programs and
Speaker 5: local investments, Economic and demographic factors. Long standing theories about crime,
Speaker 5: like an aging population, fewer people in high risk age groups.
Speaker 2: But that didn't happen a year.
Speaker 5: That didn't happen in a year. You didn't go from
Speaker 5: being an angry nineteen year old to a tired seventy
Speaker 5: five year old between twenty four and forty.
Speaker 2: Five, right, right.
Speaker 5: But one of the consistent points experts all across, and
Speaker 5: this is according to all of the chatbots ask is
Speaker 5: there's no agreed upon cause yet combination of factors likely interacts,
Speaker 5: as you were just pointing out, and researchers weren't it
Speaker 5: maybe too early to draw a firm conclusions, but what
Speaker 5: the heck?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope people are taking the time to look
Speaker 4: most carefully at the places where most of the murders
Speaker 4: take place.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, sleep, right, So we always talk about that.
Speaker 5: How it's you know, gang ridden areas of Chicago, gang
Speaker 5: ridden areas of Chicago, where everybody's shooting each other and
Speaker 5: it doesn't have anything to do you. But why did
Speaker 5: they stop murdering each other? Was it COVID? They didn't
Speaker 5: start working from home and got all upset about it,
Speaker 5: right right, fighting turf wars from home? You know, I've
Speaker 5: converted my spare bedroom into an office now, and I
Speaker 5: murder the crips from there, or wearing a mask made
Speaker 5: them nuts, right right, it's interesting, be fuddled. Well, we
Speaker 5: got a bunch of things going on like that, and
Speaker 5: it's well, it's stunning that we can't figure it out.
Speaker 2: Why did we stop having babies? You know? Why did
Speaker 2: the murder rate drop so far? One way? That a
Speaker 2: different thing. Just why? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Why do we have so much autism and the depression
Speaker 5: and an anxiety? All these things we don't know?
Speaker 4: Probably not microplastics scientists are now saying.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I hadn't heard that.
Speaker 4: I don't know if big milk jug weighed in and
Speaker 4: threatened people or what. But yeah, the Free Press with
Speaker 4: a big piece about how, uh, don't worry microplastics are
Speaker 4: probably not killing you.
Speaker 5: Uh, not killing is but is it the cause of
Speaker 5: autism and all the different stuff they're saying.
Speaker 2: No, I actually don't know.
Speaker 4: But this gal who has a degree in geophysics, uh
Speaker 4: from California Institute of Technology and has written for Science,
Speaker 4: The Economists, The New York Times, and many other publications.
Speaker 4: As a piece entitled Relaxed microplastics Aren't Killing You, a
Speaker 4: debunked study last year connected microplastics in the brain to
Speaker 4: everything from heart attacks to dementia. I guess what, It's
Speaker 4: not true, huh, junk science.
Speaker 5: And haven't we all learned to We all have like
Speaker 5: a spoonful of plastic in us now, spoonful of microplastics
Speaker 5: something like that in our brains or our heart or somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 5: right in my gallbladder. Well but that but if they
Speaker 5: could eliminate that, that'd be a good thing. I mean
Speaker 5: that's what you do when you do science. You eliminate
Speaker 5: various things until you can narrow it down to something.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that they've eliminated it, but they've
Speaker 4: onlike prosecuted it.
Speaker 2: So it's chemtrails. It's clearly kim trails.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to read this whole thing and it's very,
Speaker 4: very long, but anyway, call who's got I'd like to
Speaker 4: read this, but it's very long, and who's got the time?
Speaker 2: So you don't hear that much on the.
Speaker 5: News when you listen to the news, murder rate is down.
Speaker 2: Have the explanation here, but it's very long and I'm
Speaker 2: kind of busy, so it's Friday. Hell with it.
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Speaker 4: I have got things to do, so come. That was
Speaker 4: shorthand for its more detail tailed and I think we
Speaker 4: want to take on in the show.
Speaker 2: Of course I've grasped the entirety of it, but.
Speaker 5: I do want to get to this sound bite. Maybe
Speaker 5: we can do this next segment. I haven't actually heard it,
Speaker 5: but I'm just looking up at the TV. They're playing
Speaker 5: on Fox. So the Australian Open tennis tournaments going on.
Speaker 5: It's in one of the big four tennis tournaments. And
Speaker 5: for whatever reason, our American tennis players after their matches,
Speaker 5: when they're doing the whole press conference thing, journalists grilling
Speaker 5: them on political questions, trying to get them to weigh in,
Speaker 5: you know, try to get them on the record of
Speaker 5: you being four against something. I guess, so you can
Speaker 5: make their lives miserable as tennis players or hold them
Speaker 5: responsible right the government of their countryatly.
Speaker 2: I hate this time we live in.
Speaker 4: If I'm reminded of when remember when we banned Russian
Speaker 4: like ballerinas and stuff like that for a bit?
Speaker 5: Hmm, yeah I was.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure how I felt about that. Well, how's that?
Speaker 5: So the Winter Olympics is going on here in and
Speaker 5: starts in just a couple of weeks. Is there any
Speaker 5: banning of Russian athletes for that? I haven't heard anything
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard it. And if not, why not?
Speaker 4: If you know anything about it, email us, But keep
Speaker 4: it short, because you know me, I don't have a
Speaker 4: lot of Because it's long, we're just not going to
Speaker 4: get to the answer. Maybe put it in the put
Speaker 4: it that, put it in the subject matter. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: I'll actually look into that and come up with the answer.
Speaker 4: Because I was hardcore last Olympics that you can't be
Speaker 4: letting Russia compete here. We violates the spirit of everything
Speaker 4: I feel like.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Of course, the other argument has always been that the
Speaker 5: sports is supposed to transcend politics and everything and show
Speaker 5: that we're all something or other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, says the people making zillions of bucks off the Olympics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, kid, of course, why do we have China participating?
Speaker 2: Any who?
Speaker 5: Bunch of stuff on the way, stay hear finish up
Speaker 5: a couple of previous conversations. Why the murder rate drop?
Speaker 5: Friend of the Armstrong and Getty show texts, I suspect
Speaker 5: the murder rate drop due to decreased alcohol alcohol consumption
Speaker 5: by a lot for people under forty.
Speaker 2: Oh, that absolutely could play a factor. Great therey. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then on the whole Olympics question. Which Olympics start
Speaker 5: February sixth. They're in Milan, Italy, the Winter Olympics. There
Speaker 5: are no official boycotts of countries, but Russia and Belarus,
Speaker 5: their athletes can't participate with like Russia gear and national
Speaker 5: anthem and flag and all that. You're just an individual
Speaker 5: athlete that happens to be from Russia. So I like
Speaker 5: that it doesn't penalize the athlete because that always sucked.
Speaker 5: You work your whole life to do something and it's
Speaker 5: not your fault. Yeah, there are arguments on both sides,
Speaker 5: but I definitely don't need Russia getting to walk into
Speaker 5: the stadium with their flag and their national anthem. Screw you, right.
Speaker 4: So our headline on this segment is you thought you
Speaker 4: knew how awful academia was.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, you're wrong, and I was wrong. It's worse
Speaker 2: than I thought.
Speaker 4: But first, let's ease into it with this somewhat humorous
Speaker 4: look at American education.
Speaker 2: One plus one yes, two incorrect? Yes, multiculturalism, Well done, Simon.
Speaker 2: Next question, what is three times three?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Nine wrong?
Speaker 2: Yes, Penelope, gender equality very good? Is this a joke?
Speaker 2: Do you think gender equality is a joke?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But isn't this a maths class?
Speaker 5: Don't be so racist.
Speaker 2: I just asked a question. We don't ask questions.
Speaker 5: Questions are offensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't discriminate.
Speaker 5: It has nothing to do with mathematics.
Speaker 4: Do you think you're so great with your masks and
Speaker 4: your science and your facts?
Speaker 2: What about feelings?
Speaker 6: Huh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're all crazy, so violating me with your different opinion.
Speaker 2: I have the right to speak my mind. No, we
Speaker 2: have the right not to be offended. And that's more important.
Speaker 2: Where did that come from? That's we ran that a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. That's funny.
Speaker 4: It's from Australia or New Zealand to wrong, gender equality correct,
Speaker 4: exactly beautiful, So easing my way to my ultimate point.
Speaker 4: You've all lived in. Who's a terrific writer and thinker
Speaker 4: about America and its institutions and history and that sort
Speaker 4: of stuff, wrote a piece entitled America's two hundred and
Speaker 4: fiftieth Isn't just a birthday?
Speaker 5: And of course it's too long, so I didn't read
Speaker 5: it t LDR. But gonna drink bikar day like it's
Speaker 5: your birthday.
Speaker 2: That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4: So he what he's urging us all to do is
Speaker 4: answer the question, the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of what?
Speaker 4: The Declaration of Independence, the words endowed by our creator
Speaker 4: within unalienable rights, blah blah blah, all men are created equal,
Speaker 4: that sort of thing, the birth of a nation founded,
Speaker 4: a certain dedicated to certain principles, because it's a you
Speaker 4: don't celebrate your wedding anniversary and don't think about your
Speaker 4: wedding or your your marriage or your sweetheart or whatever.
Speaker 4: It's not just an excuse for a party. It's a rededication.
Speaker 4: And he wants to remember, wants us to remember what
Speaker 4: we're celebrating.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Walter Isaacson, one of the great authors out there
Speaker 5: on history stuff. He's got a new book coming out
Speaker 5: this year called the Greatest Sentence ever written, and it's
Speaker 5: that first sentence, We hold these truths to be self evident,
Speaker 5: that sentence, and.
Speaker 4: Then I'm glancing toward a pole, delta pole. Of American students,
Speaker 4: forty percent of high school students poll said that they
Speaker 4: were taught that America is built on stolen land in
Speaker 4: class at school. Another twenty two percent heard it from
Speaker 4: an adult. There my greater first day of class.
Speaker 2: They had to do.
Speaker 5: They had the right to land acknowledgment before they started
Speaker 5: history class the first day. Oh my god, in America
Speaker 5: stupider than land acknowledgments.
Speaker 2: It's moronic. It's one of the stupidest things ever invented.
Speaker 2: I agree, As you know.
Speaker 4: In America, white people have white privilege. Yeah, forty one
Speaker 4: percent said they were taught that in school. Another twenty
Speaker 4: five percent said they were taught it by a different adult.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Gender is an identity choice, regardless of the biological sex
Speaker 4: you were born into. And America, white people have unconscious
Speaker 4: baye ses blah blah blah. All these things were taught
Speaker 4: in the schools, which brings me to my ultimate point.
Speaker 4: This is almost hilarious. Let's see, here's a couple of
Speaker 4: guys who they explained who they are, their scholars, about scholarship,
Speaker 4: and they mentioned two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America's
Speaker 4: founding provides an opportunity to reflect on and fight over
Speaker 4: the country's extraordinary story. Unfortunately, many of the serious scholars
Speaker 4: who study America its history, literature, and culture, also known
Speaker 4: as American studies, failed to provide anything close to a
Speaker 4: balanced and nuanced account of the country's complex tale. And
Speaker 4: they go into America's story as a story of greatness,
Speaker 4: the wealthiest, most powerful nation on the planet. Its founders
Speaker 4: created what is now the world's longest lasting liberal democratic constitution.
Speaker 4: Declaration of Independence, put forth revolutionary ideas about human freedom
Speaker 4: and equality ushered.
Speaker 2: In a new era.
Speaker 4: Then, of course, we've had our problems between slavery and
Speaker 4: Jim Crow treatment of Native Americans, high levels of economic inequality,
Speaker 4: which exists everywhere and always had.
Speaker 2: That's a canard. But finally, here's the point.
Speaker 4: They went to just under one hundred articles over a
Speaker 4: three year period in American Quarterly, which is the flagship
Speaker 4: journal of the American Studies Association. This is the big
Speaker 4: association of American studies that all your professors in all
Speaker 4: the universities belonged to. Published by JOHNS. Hopkins University, widely
Speaker 4: considered country's premier journal.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Eighty percent of the articles over a three year period
Speaker 4: were critical of the United States. They were bashing, twenty
Speaker 4: percent were neutral, and zero were positive.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Zero Wow.
Speaker 4: And they go into a great deal of detail about
Speaker 4: the fact that the twenty percent that were quote unquote neutral.
Speaker 2: Were pretty critical, but were just a little less bashye
Speaker 2: than the bashing one.
Speaker 5: I don't need to argue about that. If all I
Speaker 5: need to know is there were zero positive. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: Zero in the field of American studies. How perverse is that?
Speaker 5: And I asked this question all the time. Has this
Speaker 5: ever happened in world history? Or does it always happen?
Speaker 5: I just don't know about it. Where a really successful
Speaker 5: culture at some point turns on itself and hates itself.
Speaker 5: Has this ever happened before? Did the Romans do this?
Speaker 5: The Greeks, of the Persians, or any of your great empires?
Speaker 5: Did they at some point turn on themselves and hate
Speaker 5: themselves like this. Well, even if they had.
Speaker 4: They didn't have the you know, near instantaneous ability to
Speaker 4: go from one country, one continent to another, and to
Speaker 4: export military power and or becomes xenophiliac about foreign things
Speaker 4: that simultaneous you know, hatred of yourself and lust for
Speaker 4: the foreign.
Speaker 2: They couldn't have gotten that going. That is wild.
Speaker 4: It's well they right, it's astonishing. We couldn't find a
Speaker 4: single positive article over a three year period. There were
Speaker 4: none on American ingenuity. Readers wouldn't come to understand why,
Speaker 4: as of twenty twenty, the US, which represents four percent
Speaker 4: of the world's population, won forty two percent of the
Speaker 4: individual Nobel prizes since the awards creation in nineteen oh one,
Speaker 4: or why the US was the first.
Speaker 2: Country to land a man on the moon.
Speaker 4: Not a single article of about America's vanquishing Nazi Germany
Speaker 4: and World War two Soviet Union in the Cold War,
Speaker 4: thereby freeing millions and millions of people.
Speaker 2: No discussion of why the US is rated as the.
Speaker 4: Most desirable destination for immigrants across the perth.
Speaker 2: There's a good one to stay out there.
Speaker 5: Why why do millions and millions and millions of people
Speaker 5: try to sneak into this country when there's nothing positive
Speaker 5: to say about it.
Speaker 4: That's pretty hilarious. Hey, every dollar, Peso and Drachma on Earth?
Speaker 4: Where would you most like to invest yourself?
Speaker 2: US? Police?
Speaker 3: US?
Speaker 2: Can I go to America place? Not a single effing
Speaker 2: paragraph long.
Speaker 4: Article in American Quarterly, the flagship journal of American studies. Now,
Speaker 4: do you believe me how diseased our campuses are?
Speaker 2: That's wild?
Speaker 5: And I would imagine if there was anybody that wanted
Speaker 5: to write something positive, they feel like I'll be ostracized.
Speaker 5: I can't. I can't do that.
Speaker 2: I can't stick my neck out like that. Oh, you're
Speaker 2: not swimming against the tide.
Speaker 4: You're swimming against the I don't know the jets of
Speaker 4: water going one hundred miles per hour.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to get on any boards or invited
Speaker 5: to doing conferences, or win any prizes or get any
Speaker 5: jobs if I come out and say something positive about
Speaker 5: the United States.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about jailing academic?
Speaker 5: I'm mean it was a joke, A joke.
Speaker 2: Friend. Can't we laugh anymore?
Speaker 5: You got to hear this New York Times journalist going
Speaker 5: after our tennis players at the Australian Open.
Speaker 2: It's really something.
Speaker 5: It's getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty