Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3: Immediately Rowsy takes Toronto down, but Coronto looking for the
Speaker 3: guillotine and Rowsy pops her head out in full mount
Speaker 3: ground and pound Rowdy looking for the arm and already
Speaker 3: the arm.
Speaker 2: That's Tever, Mom, Mom and Mia.
Speaker 3: It is incredible, the most devastating finish in MMA history,
Speaker 3: and round of Rowsey just took another arm postage and just.
Speaker 2: Like that, it's over. Wow.
Speaker 4: If you like chick's beating the crap out of each other,
Speaker 4: that was something over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Especially middle aged ones. That's what I love. I don't
Speaker 2: know why I can't watch MMA.
Speaker 4: I find it way too violent, and I watched boxing,
Speaker 4: and I've watched lots of boxing matches. I don't know
Speaker 4: what's different in my head about it. There's something about
Speaker 4: the when the person finally loses them being so helpless
Speaker 4: and getting beaten on that I just can't watch.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: That was a fifteen second match between Ronda Rousey, who
Speaker 4: I ask embarrassing questions to on the show. Many years ago.
Speaker 4: She's a very famous MMA fighter. And then that Gina Carano,
Speaker 4: who was famous in the Mandalorian. I'd never seen her
Speaker 4: do anything other than being the Mandalorian. But then she
Speaker 4: made some comments about Trump or whatever, and she got.
Speaker 1: She said something fairly moderate and the lunatics at Disney
Speaker 1: threw her out on her ear.
Speaker 4: Anyway, they fought each other the weekend in Ronda ROWSI
Speaker 4: it says here was the wording they used here. I
Speaker 4: wanted to use this wording because I thought it was
Speaker 4: really good. An arm bar submission victory. What's an arm
Speaker 4: bar mission victory?
Speaker 1: That means he gets the person's arm in a position
Speaker 1: and they say I'm out, I'm out, I'm out because.
Speaker 2: If they don't, they break it. Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Anyway, that was a Jake Paul production, not the kind
Speaker 4: of purse usually in these big Jake Paul fights were.
Speaker 4: Like when he fought most recently, he made like ninety
Speaker 4: million dollars.
Speaker 2: It's usually a huge.
Speaker 4: So this was on Netflix over the weekend. Ron A
Speaker 4: Rousey made two point two million, Gina Carano made a million.
Speaker 4: Would I let somebody bend my arm up behind me
Speaker 4: to where it's almost to break for a million dollars
Speaker 4: if I can say it's enough after fifteen seconds, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I probably would million bucks.
Speaker 2: That hurts. I'm done right exactly. I walk out into
Speaker 2: the middle of the ring. I'm through here right anyway.
Speaker 2: So is it so Fi Stadium? And uh?
Speaker 4: Is that the big LA football stats where the Chargers
Speaker 4: and the Rams play?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, I don't think our listeners necessarily have
Speaker 1: all the stadium names.
Speaker 4: Memory a Scotchers and not that big a crowd. So
Speaker 4: they had it in the dark, and so they had
Speaker 4: lights in each of the seats to make it look
Speaker 4: like there was way more people there than there actually were,
Speaker 4: which is an interesting Jake Paul's good at this sort
Speaker 4: of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why he makes his million bucks, because he's
Speaker 1: like the brain and promoter behind it. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not a big fan of his as a human being,
Speaker 1: but he's sure is an entrepreneur.
Speaker 4: And that prime that either he or his brother came
Speaker 4: up with. That drink is just disgusting if you've ever
Speaker 4: tasted it. But anyway, they're gonna putting on the spectacles. Eh,
Speaker 4: two million dollars perse for the winner is not a
Speaker 4: giant money. So I don't think people like the chick fighting,
Speaker 4: just like people don't like the chick basketball. You can
Speaker 4: claim sexism or whatever you want, but it just doesn't
Speaker 4: draw as many eyeballs.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't know what to do about that. I
Speaker 2: don't know change change.
Speaker 1: And how old is Gina Carano who got screwed. I
Speaker 1: don't want to criticize her, and if she can make
Speaker 1: a million bucks, good for her.
Speaker 2: But Michael, do you know? I think she was forty four? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, let me ask aause. I was asking.
Speaker 4: Gemini how old are the two participants, because that's a
Speaker 4: decent question watching middle aged women beat the crap out
Speaker 4: of each other. Uh so ROUSI is thirty nine? Corono
Speaker 4: forty four?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: If they were household name big deals, he wouldn't get
Speaker 4: necessarily that many eyeballs.
Speaker 2: Anyway.
Speaker 4: That's enough of that. Just kind of funny that it happened.
Speaker 4: It's also funny that this happened. You're a big wine connoisseur.
Speaker 4: Do you know about the new wine they've got at Costco?
Speaker 4: Kirkland signature wine that's coming in a big tub, like
Speaker 4: an ice cream tub. Costco is now selling a ten
Speaker 4: liter bucket of wine.
Speaker 2: Have you. Do you know anything about wine? This boy?
Speaker 2: That's good or not?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I don't buy my wine by the buckets.
Speaker 4: And I thought by the plastic bucket ten leaders in
Speaker 4: a big plastic bucket at Costco, or you could save
Speaker 4: ten percent by buying a kiddie pool full of wire.
Speaker 4: I like this joke about it, though. Here's a note
Speaker 4: for the less cultured Europeans. You can only call it
Speaker 4: Kirkland Cabernet severn, oh if it comes from the Costco
Speaker 4: region of the United States.
Speaker 2: That's a good wine joke. That is pretty funny. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to Gina Carano. Are you
Speaker 2: going to move on? Sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was reminding myself. Here's why Disney fired her.
Speaker 1: She shared a post suggesting that neighbors turning on Jews
Speaker 1: during the Holocaust was similar to how people today treat
Speaker 1: others for having different political views in blue cities and states,
Speaker 1: for instance. And people are getting hounded out of their
Speaker 1: jobs and careers for not expressing the right views, which
Speaker 1: was one hundred percent true. And now you have progressives
Speaker 1: out and out denying the Holocaust over and over again,
Speaker 1: and Disney ate fire in anybody. Secondly, she mocked mask mandates,
Speaker 1: criticized pandemic lockdowns and alleged fraud in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: presidential election. Mocking mask mandates and inoculation with the vaccine mandates.
Speaker 1: They should have been mocked. You'd run a healthy twenty
Speaker 1: year old men out of the military for not getting
Speaker 1: the jab.
Speaker 2: It's freaking obscene.
Speaker 1: And she mocked the use of gender pronouns by listing
Speaker 1: unrelated words in her social media bio. That's why Gina
Speaker 1: Kurana was fired by freaking Disney.
Speaker 4: Then she gets her gets an arm bar submission and
Speaker 4: a million bucks in midlife. You can bar both my
Speaker 4: arms from millions. Now, where's my check on the subject
Speaker 4: of the anti semitism? Did you watch that Bill Maher
Speaker 4: screed that I sent you?
Speaker 2: No, It's definitely worth watching.
Speaker 4: So Bill Maher's final little monologue that he does on
Speaker 4: his show Friday Nights, And I know for a fact
Speaker 4: because I've heard him talking about that.
Speaker 2: That's what he's most proud of.
Speaker 4: He puts a lot of effort into writing that every week,
Speaker 4: and it's usually got comments that either get laughs or
Speaker 4: big applause lines. This one got almost no applause lines.
Speaker 4: What's he kind of mocks the crowd for and it
Speaker 4: was all about, Hey, progressives, what happened to we stand
Speaker 4: up for minorities? And it was all around the anti
Speaker 4: Semitism thing and using the example of how Jewish people
Speaker 4: getting beaten up and driven out of jobs, and jokes
Speaker 4: about him and everything like that, and nobody says anything, Hey, progressives,
Speaker 4: what's going on here? And the crowd just sat there silent,
Speaker 4: and you could tell he was a little rattled by
Speaker 4: that or angry about that would be a better way
Speaker 4: to look at it, Like he make a joke about,
Speaker 4: you know, basically the ridiculousness of overlooking anti Semitism. The
Speaker 4: crowd was silent, and he'd say, ha ha, but yeah,
Speaker 4: crowd wouldn't cool with laughing about that. The Jews deserved
Speaker 4: this is the only thing I could take from the
Speaker 4: crowd's reaction is reel deserves this.
Speaker 2: A large majority of people.
Speaker 1: And I remember how disturbed I was when I first
Speaker 1: learned in this, But it's absolutely true a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and I don't know the percentage they believe what they're
Speaker 1: told to believe. They say what they're told to say.
Speaker 1: They've been told to say over and over again that
Speaker 1: Israel is evil and Jews are you know Israel, And
Speaker 1: I've heard people say Jews are actually bad. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to sit here and I believe that having spent
Speaker 1: zero time looking into it or.
Speaker 2: Thinking about it. They're sheep sheeple.
Speaker 1: And those were a bunch of sheeple at the Bill
Speaker 1: Mahr taping who were shocked when the man was going
Speaker 1: against what they've been taught.
Speaker 2: They are supposed to believe because Trump's in favor of them,
Speaker 2: so right, so they must be bad. Different topic, before
Speaker 2: we take a bath. That's a sheep sound, of course
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: My animal noises are known far and wide for their accuracy.
Speaker 1: This is a sheep, I don't see. I don't need
Speaker 1: to say that. It is self evidently a sheep.
Speaker 4: My one of those toys if you remember that if
Speaker 4: you're old enough, from when I was a kid, somehow
Speaker 4: got out of adjustment. So the air would point two
Speaker 4: or the thing and it was it was all so I.
Speaker 2: Would point to a cow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you hear right, right, So lifelong problem with my
Speaker 4: animal noise is the wrong thing. Surprised when an elephant
Speaker 4: doesn't bark, for instance. A different topic, These sorts of
Speaker 4: headlines drive me nuts. Thank god for the LA School District,
Speaker 4: and they were the first in the country to ban
Speaker 4: cell phones and people were shocked about the good results.
Speaker 2: Here's another one now New York City.
Speaker 4: New York City teachers say phone band in classrooms has
Speaker 4: caused jaw dropping change in students' attention.
Speaker 2: You're kidding.
Speaker 4: If you're surprised by this, you are by definition a moron, yes,
Speaker 4: or an.
Speaker 2: Idiot or something I don't even know what.
Speaker 4: Well. May fifteenth mark to one year since Governor Kathy
Speaker 4: hochel enacted a bellde belt ban on personal phones and
Speaker 4: public schools, impacting almost a million children in K through
Speaker 4: twelve schools across the state. Teachers who spoke to the
Speaker 4: New York Post all say the band has been an
Speaker 4: overwhelmingly positive impact on their schools. Do you think like Joeyceys,
Speaker 4: Imagine if back in the day, I'm gonna bring my
Speaker 4: television to school and then plug it into the cable
Speaker 4: and then sit here at my desk with the TV
Speaker 4: in my cable package?
Speaker 2: Is that okay?
Speaker 4: And then when you take that out of the room,
Speaker 4: teachers say, oh my god, the results have been I
Speaker 4: was skeptical but the results have been very positive. Every
Speaker 4: kid has a television set. I think that the cell
Speaker 4: phone band has been remarkable. Doctor Jessica Chuck Goldman said,
Speaker 4: you have a PhD, and you I've been astounded by
Speaker 4: how much of the of a shift it has been.
Speaker 4: You got a PhD, and you're astounded that taking a
Speaker 4: the entirety of the Internet out of their hand while
Speaker 4: they're in the classroom ended up being a good thing. Okay,
Speaker 4: I can see why you have a PhD, because they're very.
Speaker 2: Cruse that stupid people get PhDs.
Speaker 4: Right there, Kids actually talk to each other in school now.
Speaker 4: They sit in the hallway, they engage, they laughed, they studied,
Speaker 4: play games. I actually saw a card game in the
Speaker 4: hall recently, which was jaw dropping. I've been working in
Speaker 4: schools now for twelve years. I've never seen that. It
Speaker 4: actually hurts my heart that we're allowing this to go
Speaker 4: on and people with PhDs are acting surprised at the
Speaker 4: positive result from taking the phones out of their hands
Speaker 4: at school.
Speaker 1: It's like your uber driver says, you know what I
Speaker 1: figured out today I should not steering on going oncoming traffic.
Speaker 2: It occurred to me that's a bad idea, and you'd
Speaker 2: be like, geez, wait what, well listen to this fat
Speaker 2: level of stupidity, good God or foolishness.
Speaker 4: As the school year comes to a close, teachers tell
Speaker 4: the Post that their students appear totally transformed.
Speaker 2: How's this news? Before the band?
Speaker 4: Eighth grade social studies teacher Michael Simmons said it felt
Speaker 4: like you could be in a classroom with twenty five
Speaker 4: students and still feel it like you're by yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I know that.
Speaker 4: Feeling when I'm around people who are staring at their phones.
Speaker 4: You're sitting in a classroom with a bunch of people
Speaker 4: staring at their phones.
Speaker 2: How what would you do to fix that problem?
Speaker 4: Well, let's a brainstorm here and see if there's anything
Speaker 4: that could forward.
Speaker 2: Spend one hundred million dollars on a study.
Speaker 4: But without the constant distraction of devices, he reports, kids
Speaker 4: are finally present again. Students used to get a vibration
Speaker 4: on their phones and they try to hide it. Now
Speaker 4: they have to pay attention what I'm saying. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't know what to say about this other than you know,
Speaker 4: don't be angry when it goes the right direction, I guess.
Speaker 4: But turns out those double yellow lines in the middle.
Speaker 4: You're supposed to stay on your side of it and not.
Speaker 4: It's like steer into a truck.
Speaker 1: I'm getting out now. I thought they were just random
Speaker 1: turns out their PhD.
Speaker 4: In dry h The fact that schools in my public school,
Speaker 4: they exist nearby, I don't know about everywhere in the audience,
Speaker 4: but the fact that school still allow cell phones in
Speaker 4: the classroom is astounding. The fact that that happens anywhere
Speaker 4: in the United States at all at this hour is stunning,
Speaker 4: and it just shows so weak people are. Parents, teachers, administrators, everybody.
Speaker 4: Everybody should be on the hook for being weak. Every
Speaker 4: parent should be at the school saying this is outrageous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree completely.
Speaker 4: I don't know what percentage of parents don't agree with that.
Speaker 4: I really don't know.
Speaker 1: Now, there are gonna be a few days that your
Speaker 1: your kid is pissed off because they got the new
Speaker 1: Trump phone and they really want to be looking at it.
Speaker 4: I can hit you with some of the details, Abator,
Speaker 4: that'll never happen.
Speaker 2: Because they didn't get them. They didn't get them shipping today.
Speaker 4: According to the Trump people, it's just a coincidence that
Speaker 4: that story broke over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, more on the way, stay here.
Speaker 5: According to a senior official, President Trump keeps a letter
Speaker 5: in the resolute desk addressed to Vice President jd. Vance
Speaker 5: in the event he dies or is assassinated. The letter
Speaker 5: reads simply, I wish it had been you.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: So apparently Joe has mitigating circumstances for how awful this
Speaker 4: story looks for the Trump family.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, I don't well, you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, it's worse. What I've got makes it look worse.
Speaker 4: So Don Junior and Eric Trump last year, on the
Speaker 4: ten year anniversary of Trump announcing he was running for president,
Speaker 4: had a special commemorative Trump Phone that they released MAGA
Speaker 4: friendly alternative to Apple and Samsung. It was four hundred
Speaker 4: ninety nine dollars if you got in early on the
Speaker 4: promotional price, gold colored phone with patriotic branding, made in
Speaker 4: the USA, and it happened to be bundled with Trump
Speaker 4: Mobile Wireless, which is a forty seven dollars plan to
Speaker 4: fit in with the fact that he's a forty seven president.
Speaker 2: Bye blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Buyers could place a one hundred dollars deposit to pre
Speaker 4: order the phone. That was supposed to be available late summer,
Speaker 4: so it came out in June. In a couple of months,
Speaker 4: you would have your phone, and estimated almost six hundred
Speaker 4: thousand people did so, generating fifty nine million dollars in
Speaker 4: deposits for the phone. A year later, not a single
Speaker 4: phone is shipped at all. Nothing, And they've updated the
Speaker 4: terms on the website for the phone that you put
Speaker 4: your deposit on. No longer is it a deposit on
Speaker 4: a phone you will get. It's a conditional opportunity to
Speaker 4: buy a phone if the device is produced.
Speaker 2: That's what it says in the fine print.
Speaker 4: Oh my lord, you've made a deposit on a device
Speaker 4: that you will get if the device is produced, does
Speaker 4: not guarantee production or availability, and nothing about a refund,
Speaker 4: So your money just went away.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 4: Also, the hole made in the USA, which is appealing
Speaker 4: to a lot of people, shifted in the website. If
Speaker 4: you go there now it says designed with American values
Speaker 4: in mind.
Speaker 2: Why it's supposed to made in the USA.
Speaker 4: Now, this story broke over the weekend, got a lot
Speaker 4: of attention in a bunch of because it's it's it's
Speaker 4: the sort of thing that makes you say, oh my god,
Speaker 4: did you hear this?
Speaker 2: And so it got a lot of true.
Speaker 4: The Trump people announced that the pre order customers will start.
Speaker 2: Receiving a phone any day.
Speaker 4: Now, maybe that's true, but as of yet, nobody has
Speaker 4: received an actual phone.
Speaker 1: Well, although it is known now what the phone is,
Speaker 1: it is off the shelf. Rebrand of a device made
Speaker 1: by Wingtech called the Revel seven Pro five G was
Speaker 1: available at T Mobile for zero dollars when you sign
Speaker 1: up for their service. The seven Pro, by the way,
Speaker 1: was lace replaced by the eight Pro. Because this thing
Speaker 1: is over eighteen months old, right, one rates one tech writer.
Speaker 1: This is old stock that they bought to avoid a lawsuit.
Speaker 2: I love changing made in the USA to made with
Speaker 2: American values in mind.
Speaker 4: Wow, I don't see how it will come on. I
Speaker 4: don't care how big a Trump fan you are. I'm
Speaker 4: still a by far glad Trump beat Kamla not even close. Sure,
Speaker 4: but this is disgusting that a president of the United States,
Speaker 4: you know, and his kids are doing it. But they're
Speaker 4: they're trafficking on his dad. The reason it sells is
Speaker 4: because their dad, who's a ten year anniversary of him
Speaker 4: announcing blah blah, blah. I mean you're playing to your
Speaker 4: biggest fans and just plane flat out freaking ripping them off.
Speaker 4: I mean you're just a step past pushing them down
Speaker 4: and grabbing their wallet. At that point, bil can their
Speaker 4: bank accounts? Yeah, oh that's a week.
Speaker 2: And the one hundred dollars doesn't guarantee you'll even get
Speaker 2: a phone.
Speaker 4: It's a deposit on a perhaps phone that is overpriced
Speaker 4: to start with and by way not made in the USA,
Speaker 4: and a ty year later, and as we all know
Speaker 4: with phones, a phone a year later is completely different thing.
Speaker 1: And we're getting bad publicity. So we said, where can
Speaker 1: we find six hundred thousand phones? Just it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what it is, just give me six hundred yell. Well,
Speaker 1: they've got this outdated model of this that Verizon gives
Speaker 1: away anyway.
Speaker 2: Get them, buy them. How weak is that? It's it's horrific,
Speaker 2: And like, you need fifty nine million dollars?
Speaker 4: Why why why have this sort of baggage out there
Speaker 4: that makes you look bad?
Speaker 2: For fifty nine million dollars? What does Donald J say
Speaker 2: about as followers? In private? We'll know someday I'll bet.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2: All right, listen up one type per person. Don't waste them.
Speaker 2: Oh God, yes, thank you, Mayor settle down. There's enough
Speaker 2: for everyone.
Speaker 4: More I need more.
Speaker 2: That's it. Share them wisely. Here you go, clean syringes.
Speaker 2: Thanks Mayor ness be safe. There's more coming.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: That men rops your teeth. You can't succeed without teach
Speaker 2: Thank you, Karen Bass. Remember Spencer Pratt won't do this
Speaker 2: for you. We appreciate.
Speaker 4: That's the latest AI created amazing ad against Mayor Bass
Speaker 4: from the Spencer Pratt people fans are just anybody's Several
Speaker 4: interesting things about that. One that audio of the mayor
Speaker 4: from last week Mayor Bass of la going around where
Speaker 4: she talked about why taxpayers need to fund dentistry for
Speaker 4: meth heads. They don't have teeth. Meth rots your teeth.
Speaker 4: You can't go out and get a job without teeth.
Speaker 4: What job can you get with no teeth? Oh, because
Speaker 4: they've taken meth for so long and continued to take
Speaker 4: it that they're now toothless. I'm on the hook for
Speaker 4: paying for their new teeth so that they can, in theory,
Speaker 4: get their act together and.
Speaker 2: Go out and get a job. That's quite the position.
Speaker 2: Anyway during your toothy privilege.
Speaker 4: Right anyway, So that ai AD is a mayor bass
Speaker 4: and it looks very real of her going around to
Speaker 4: all drug addict camps and handing out pipes and talking
Speaker 4: about dental care and stuff like that. But aside from
Speaker 4: the issues there, it's just the what what is this
Speaker 4: done for advertising political ads? And am I wrong that
Speaker 4: the main reason campaigns have had to raise money politicians
Speaker 4: have raised money all these years is so you have
Speaker 4: a war chest for running ads.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of it.
Speaker 4: Yes, if it turns into now you just need some
Speaker 4: creative people.
Speaker 2: They don't even need to work for you, just on
Speaker 2: your side.
Speaker 4: You could certainly hire a bunch of college guys or
Speaker 4: kids or girls or whatever for pretty cheap to put
Speaker 4: these ads together. Maybe that's the fix that we've all
Speaker 4: been wanting for a long time. Of you say outrageous
Speaker 4: things as an AOC or Marjorie Taylor Green, you raise
Speaker 4: more money than anybody else because of your Twitter followers,
Speaker 4: then you have a war chest to run ads. Maybe
Speaker 4: all that blows up when anybody can make a free
Speaker 4: ai AD And it's all just about coming up with
Speaker 4: a clever ad for free.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it will help. It will certainly take some
Speaker 1: of the air out of it. Because if you had
Speaker 1: just one or two really creative people, and hell, that's
Speaker 1: the same people might do your social media if they're
Speaker 1: really adept at that sort of thing, getting noticed, getting clicks,
Speaker 1: promoting you know, posts and.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could have a very small shop of people
Speaker 1: getting you an enormous amount of attention.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if we're there yet, but we're
Speaker 2: gonna end up there.
Speaker 4: So few people watch regular television, and certainly watch it
Speaker 4: in such a way that they sit there and watch commercials.
Speaker 4: Same with the radio industry into certain kinds of radio shows.
Speaker 4: But so if you can get a memorable commercial out
Speaker 4: there that reaches people, then what the hell difference does
Speaker 4: it make that your opponent has a two million dollar
Speaker 4: war chest to buy ads? Go ahead, buy as many
Speaker 4: ads as you want and put them on the evening
Speaker 4: news that nobody watches.
Speaker 2: What the hell difference is going to make?
Speaker 4: And I remember Chris Christy, this is several cycles ago
Speaker 4: when he ran for president. What year was that Trump's
Speaker 4: first term, I guess so twenty sixteen. I remember him
Speaker 4: talking about you know, people say money doesn't matter, and
Speaker 4: policy it does. If somebody puts up a piece about
Speaker 4: you and you don't have the money to fight back
Speaker 4: with the ads, you're doomed.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's true anymore.
Speaker 1: The longer we go, the truer what you're saying will be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because remember, older folks will vote disproportionately, they actually show
Speaker 1: up at the polls. But that's we're sliding toward that
Speaker 1: having lessons with us.
Speaker 4: We're we're older people and I don't know about you,
Speaker 4: but I don't watch any TV where I sit and
Speaker 4: watch the commercials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're already older people.
Speaker 1: Well well yeah, uh, true enough, so let's talk about
Speaker 1: younger people. This is I'm going to quote Nelly Bowls
Speaker 1: and then move to something else. But did you hear
Speaker 1: about the episode between Jonathan Height, the Fabulous John Hight
Speaker 1: and New York University. He was invited to speak at
Speaker 1: the graduation and, as Nelly writes in an episode so validating,
Speaker 1: it almost feels made up. The NYU student government assembly,
Speaker 1: you should a statement opposing the selection of Jonathan heyde
Speaker 1: is the class of twenty twenty six commencements because of
Speaker 1: what they say is his quote disturbing rhetoric. They call
Speaker 1: this selection quote deeply unsettling. Now, height you might know
Speaker 1: from our show or just reading him or the stuff
Speaker 1: he writes for various publications, but he's the author of
Speaker 1: The Anxious Generation. Most recently, he has been a major
Speaker 1: figure in the move and to reduce screen time in childhood.
Speaker 1: He's also warned that shielding students from opinions they disagree
Speaker 1: with or even might find offensive is to their detriment. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what the NYU Student Government Assembly letter protesting him said.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: Since the announcement on Thursday, April thirtieth, this is so good.
Speaker 1: Many students have reported feelings of disappointment, discussed unenthusiasm, defeat,
Speaker 1: and embarrassment.
Speaker 4: First of all, before you even go further, I didn't
Speaker 4: attend my college graduation.
Speaker 2: To my shame. I've told that story before.
Speaker 4: But if I had gone, I'm not sure I would
Speaker 4: even have looked up who spoke? Does that matter that
Speaker 4: that many people who speaks at the graduation? Is that
Speaker 4: something that's on your mind for everybody?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, it's either something that wow, that was cool,
Speaker 1: I'm a little fired up, or it was just glad
Speaker 1: that's over.
Speaker 2: And then you go on with your freaking life.
Speaker 1: Any But that's claiming offense, though, is how you get power.
Speaker 1: Remember that's what all of this is about. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I love that list. Since the announcement, many students have
Speaker 1: reported feelings of disappointment, discussed unenthusiasm, defeat, and embarrassment.
Speaker 2: Boy put enough about my mourning.
Speaker 4: Boy, You wouldn't want to have to go to a
Speaker 4: graduation and feel a lack of enthusiasm. Unenthusiasm graduation I've
Speaker 4: ever been to in my life, feeling that their commencement
Speaker 4: intended to be a celebratory moment is instead become another
Speaker 4: instance of being misunderstood.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Indeed, as Nelly points out, his graduation speech spewed such
Speaker 1: vile bigotry as what you pay attention to shapes what
Speaker 1: you care about, and what you care about shapes who
Speaker 1: you become.
Speaker 2: Oh my God, shield me from those horrors.
Speaker 1: It included other deeply disturbing lines, like from a poem
Speaker 1: by Mary Oliver, pay attention, be astonished, tell about it.
Speaker 1: Students booed, hold on, now, why do they boo?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 2: Is this person?
Speaker 4: No boot everything he said, practically, but is that person?
Speaker 4: A lot of known for being a Trump voter. I
Speaker 4: don't know, Mary Oliver, but I love I.
Speaker 2: Love what what Nelly Bull says.
Speaker 4: How do you boo that?
Speaker 2: And I stand with them?
Speaker 1: Why? Because it's enough already, John Height, your book was
Speaker 1: on the bestseller list for what a billion weeks? Actually
Speaker 1: one hundred and six weeks, one hundred and six weeks.
Speaker 1: When I think about that fact and your literary success, well, John,
Speaker 1: I also report feelings of unenthusiasm and defeat. But Alicia Finley,
Speaker 1: the genius of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, she
Speaker 1: mentioned she's talking about the same thing, among other similar
Speaker 1: happenings in at trenching critique of higher education, the Coddling
Speaker 1: of the American Mind, which came out in twenty eighteen's
Speaker 1: fabulous book Get It It's It's.
Speaker 2: More relevant than ever.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Height and Greg Lukianoff, another friend of the Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty Show, argued that academia's efforts to shield young
Speaker 1: people from discomfort and challenges was producing a generation of
Speaker 1: bubble kids. They took aim at campus cancel, culture, identity, politics,
Speaker 1: and safe spaces, and then, of course New York University
Speaker 1: students lent their support to their thesis this month by
Speaker 1: demanding that the school canceled their invitation blah blah blah, because,
Speaker 1: wait for it, they found his opinions unsettling. Keeping mind though,
Speaker 1: the activists, when you're talking about the postmodernists or neo Marxist,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call them, the woke crowd, there
Speaker 1: is virtually nothing that they say, this is the reason
Speaker 1: you must do this that sincere. They don't want to
Speaker 1: uninvite anybody who disagrees with the woke culture because they're
Speaker 1: actually unsettled. They want them silenced, period. They make these
Speaker 1: quasi moral arguments that are completely insincere. Student Government Committee
Speaker 1: wrote that mister Height had quote promoted disturbing rhetoric around
Speaker 1: anti racism, social justice, and diversity, equity and inclusion, claiming
Speaker 1: that the abolition of DADI may be the only way
Speaker 1: out of the leftist ideological capture of American campuses. That's
Speaker 1: deeply unsettling and clearly undermines the university's stated values. Height
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent right, then they get into the
Speaker 1: unenthusiasm and defeat feeling. Oh, the perhaps administrators invited mister
Speaker 1: Height because they understood the student so well he delivered
Speaker 1: his speech Thursday to jeers and a walkout, exhorting grads
Speaker 1: to quote, turn their attention toward doing hard things, invoking
Speaker 1: philosophers and songwriters. Unbelievable, and then they actually the title
Speaker 1: of her pieces is the age of college coddling coming
Speaker 1: to an end or coming to a close, because New
Speaker 1: York University, of all places, ignored the students and had
Speaker 1: Jonathan Heights show up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what Talk's amazing to me is that that
Speaker 2: he actually spoke there. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She talks about how Cornell they had that debate on
Speaker 1: the Israel Palestine conflict and a bunch of students and
Speaker 1: activists surrounded the president of the university's car and one
Speaker 1: got bumped and claimed to be injured. And then we've
Speaker 1: got to fire them. We've got to fire them, but
Speaker 1: the university has stood by.
Speaker 2: The president said, no, you guys are the problem.
Speaker 1: Last week, Princeton scrapped their one hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: year old tradition. We talked about this that allowed students
Speaker 1: to take exams unsupervised if they signed a pledge that
Speaker 1: they didn't cheat. The votes followed a student survey in
Speaker 1: which a third of seniors admitted having cheated on an
Speaker 1: assignment or an exam. Peace universities are trying to replace
Speaker 1: broken windows and repair their damaged reputations, including the great
Speaker 1: inflation thing at Yale and Harvard.
Speaker 2: It's good, good, So let's get on.
Speaker 4: You know, I think we're starting to see a breakdown
Speaker 4: between the student body of these universities. And I don't
Speaker 4: know what. I know what's going on here because we
Speaker 4: played a clip last week. I don't know if you're
Speaker 4: here for that or not, in which whoever was given
Speaker 4: the speech mentioned Ai and everybody booed whatever that was about.
Speaker 2: And now here we've got the.
Speaker 4: Former Google executive giving a commencement speech at Arizona and
Speaker 4: got booed.
Speaker 2: Let's hear this every.
Speaker 6: Profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person, and
Speaker 6: every relationship you have. I know what many of you
Speaker 6: are feeling about that. I can hear you, hear you.
Speaker 2: There is a fear. There is a fear.
Speaker 6: Generation yet, that the future has already been written, that
Speaker 6: the machines.
Speaker 2: Are coming, that the jobs are.
Speaker 6: Evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics is fractured,
Speaker 6: and that you are inheriting a mess that you did
Speaker 6: not create. And I understand that.
Speaker 1: Here I can just hear their disappointment discussed on enthusiasm, defeat,
Speaker 1: and embarrassment.
Speaker 2: There might be something going on.
Speaker 4: There's been something going on in the world of the
Speaker 4: you know, higher education for a very very long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wonder if students are just maybe maybe everybody is
Speaker 4: starting to hear the chatter of this is a waste
Speaker 4: of time and money. This degree is got going to
Speaker 4: do any good. They're charging you wait too much for this,
Speaker 4: You're not actually learning anything.
Speaker 2: I wonder.
Speaker 4: I wonder if that's seeping into people and they're just
Speaker 4: kind of angry as they head out the door.
Speaker 1: Well, they're angry and doctrinated into a monog culture.
Speaker 2: What a weird situation. Here's another clip we played this
Speaker 2: last week.
Speaker 4: The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution?
Speaker 4: Doesn't bother at all? This is something very different. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but it's it's kind of interesting though. Uh, it's an
Speaker 4: interesting just an unhappy student body about the state of
Speaker 4: the world.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So guy who wrote the book saying don't coddle students.
Speaker 1: The students are upset that he's going to come and
Speaker 1: not coddle them again.
Speaker 2: It's as if it is made up.
Speaker 4: I feel like, though you get that entire crowd there
Speaker 4: at the University of Arizona, what percentage of people there
Speaker 4: got banged for their buck and their degree? Maybe some
Speaker 4: of the engineer science kids make science people, Yeah, and
Speaker 4: that'd be it. Everybody else paid way too much for
Speaker 4: not much information. According to all studies. It's wild that
Speaker 4: we have that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the applied degrees are still pretty good, although there's
Speaker 1: so much great inflation.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't.
Speaker 1: I mean you as anybody who's ever done anything difficult knows,
Speaker 1: whether it's the military or sports, or an academic discipline
Speaker 1: or music or whatever. If you give people very low expectations,
Speaker 1: they will rise to those.
Speaker 2: And not much above.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, even the accountant sell bet are a lot
Speaker 1: worse at accountant accounting than they were twenty years ago.
Speaker 4: I want to talk about the world's most pompous man.
Speaker 4: On the way out the door, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 4: PEB announced that this year's World Cup Final will have
Speaker 4: a halftime show featuring Madonna, Shakira and BTS, which is
Speaker 4: being described as something for every one to dislike.
Speaker 2: No kidding.
Speaker 4: The BTS. People don't want to see Madonna and the Madonna.
Speaker 4: People don't want to see bts and most people don't
Speaker 4: want to see any of them.
Speaker 2: But you know what, Roger.
Speaker 1: Goodell probably gets that in a gathering like mine, people
Speaker 1: love to hate it.
Speaker 2: Ah. That's where Yeah, that could be. That absolutely could be.
Speaker 4: I thought about grabbing audio from sixty Minutes last night,
Speaker 4: but this is mostly a visual and it was the
Speaker 4: third story. If you did or didn't watch sixty Minutes,
Speaker 4: they often do like kind of an entertainment thing for
Speaker 4: their last story.
Speaker 2: This is a pretty decent one. I actually watched it.
Speaker 4: It was about the new movie The Odyssey, which is
Speaker 4: coming out in a few weeks. Christopher Nolan, who's done
Speaker 4: some of the great giant screen epic sort of things
Speaker 4: he did Oppenheimer. If you saw that taking on the
Speaker 4: Odyssey three thousand year old, maybe the first great story
Speaker 4: ever told in world history, and he was featured on
Speaker 4: it last night. I thought it was kind of interesting.
Speaker 4: I'm not buying Matt Damon as the lead though. That
Speaker 4: that really disappoints me. I just don't think he's got
Speaker 4: the whatever it is to be that guy, and he.
Speaker 2: Just can't picture it anyway.
Speaker 4: Scott Pelly did the interview, and I was watching that
Speaker 4: and thinking he is the most pompous human being in
Speaker 4: the world. Maybe he's ever lived his style. That's why
Speaker 4: I said I didn't grab audio. It's the way he talks.
Speaker 4: We do you think that? But the way he leans
Speaker 4: back in his tight shirt with his big arms and
Speaker 4: his glasses in his mouth and head cocked, and the
Speaker 4: way it's just he.
Speaker 2: Is so pompous.
Speaker 4: He's like a Saturday Night Live caricature of that sort
Speaker 4: of person.
Speaker 2: He's so over the top with his pomposity. It's just
Speaker 2: it's hard to take. Yeah, what a slow talker.
Speaker 4: Can imagine being around somebody like that, To talk to
Speaker 4: that all the time, Jesus take it down a notch.
Speaker 2: Captain wonderful. Oh, he's hard to take.
Speaker 3: Jacky Clock kiss time Stop, Jack and Joe Live, God
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Speaker 2: APPRE'SI your host for final thoughts, Joe Kenny.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody and the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap up the show for the day. There he
Speaker 1: is pressing the buttons in the control room. Michelangelo Michael,
Speaker 1: which final thought this past weekend? I did absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4: I literally sat down on the couch and just watched television.
Speaker 2: I actually felt shame this morning getting up. I got
Speaker 2: nothing done.
Speaker 4: Shame.
Speaker 2: Jack Funnel thought, Yeah, I'll pick up on that.
Speaker 4: I think Katie Green, who's not here with her new baby,
Speaker 4: could probably relate to this. Michael, I can't even imagine
Speaker 4: that for an afternoon, let alone for a whole weekend
Speaker 4: of having nothing to do in doing nothing. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: it's been a long time since I've done that.
Speaker 1: Hearkening back to the Trump thought own story, I'm going
Speaker 1: to seed my final thought to old friend of mine
Speaker 1: and of the show's Dave, who says, I swear on
Speaker 1: my Trump Bible. Your trump phone is on its way.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Oh and if you're not happy with it, try to
Speaker 4: chase me down in your Trump shoes.
Speaker 2: By using all the knowledge from Trump University.
Speaker 4: Right, you can try to assume me with the law
Speaker 4: degree you got at Trump University. Oh my god, that
Speaker 4: Trump phone thing isn't like the most over the top
Speaker 4: thing you've done.
Speaker 2: I think, Oh my what you saying? So armstrong? You
Speaker 2: getty wrabbing up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: So many people are thank so little time go to
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty dot com for the hotlings, for the swag,
Speaker 1: the ang superstar. We're working on a new T shirt
Speaker 1: that says socialism sucks.
Speaker 2: Wear that around, make a statement. Demn it. We gotta
Speaker 2: fight back against these commies. Yeah, I do like that.
Speaker 4: I'll wear a Trump Socialism Sucks T shirt. Absolutely, we'll
Speaker 4: see tomorrow. God bless America. The people in charge of
Speaker 4: this country do not love.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 6: This is a crisis Sandwich and everyone knows that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Let me say. Let me say one thing. Happy
Speaker 2: birthday Grandpa happened? I said, oh great, Thick, the dramatics
Speaker 2: could come down just a little bit. Don't you oppress me.
Speaker 2: Those are the rules. Those are the rules. Now by
Speaker 2: that high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong and Getty.