Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Tai and Pee.
Speaker 2: Arms and feel like I gotta wind up more for
Speaker 2: that art art on a Friday. I feel like I
Speaker 2: need more of a wind up, li' from Studio C
Speaker 2: season your Hey, dimly let room Deep with on the
Speaker 2: bowels the Armstrong e Gedddy Communications Compound and Hey y'all
Speaker 2: today Friday, Friday. Uh, we're toiling under the title of
Speaker 2: the show, get the flock out of here. Hey, that's
Speaker 2: a good one, all right if you prefer, We're going
Speaker 2: to queeze Iran.
Speaker 1: Will we enjoyed the juice?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Really happy with both.
Speaker 2: My titles this morning. Huge, Really pleased with myself. Ah,
Speaker 2: I've been one of the problems with doing this job
Speaker 2: for this many years is most of the things I say,
Speaker 2: I've said ten to fifty times.
Speaker 1: But I'm hating humanity.
Speaker 2: But here's one of the things I've said many, many
Speaker 2: times over the years. When they launched a new round
Speaker 2: of sanctions against Iran or Iraq or North Korea back
Speaker 2: in the day, when they're trying to stop them to
Speaker 2: get a nuclear weapon, which obviously didn't work. But all
Speaker 2: these different things is.
Speaker 1: If you got these, why.
Speaker 2: Didn't you do this earlier?
Speaker 1: We're at war or.
Speaker 2: This is a huge crisis and you said you're gonna
Speaker 2: punish him? What so you're holding back on the real sanctions.
Speaker 2: We're seven months into the war. Why were you holding
Speaker 2: back on some of these sanctions?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: And this does not mean your point isn't a valid one.
Speaker 2: Every sanction bruises somebody other than the person you're sanctioning,
Speaker 2: and and the stricter and harsher of the sanctions, the
Speaker 2: more bruising. There are of people who say, as I
Speaker 2: often do, hey why did I come in for a kick?
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden I get.
Speaker 2: That, But it wasn't a we're really at a point
Speaker 2: of difficulty here earlier than this seems like we were,
Speaker 2: I hear you. Anyway, So yeah, new round of sanctions,
Speaker 2: which do sound like a pretty big deal on all
Speaker 2: kinds of Well, have to play that clip of Scott
Speaker 2: Besson laying it out. This is the the strongest package
Speaker 2: package of sanctions on and biggest and strongest package of
Speaker 2: sanctions that have ever been unleashed. Economic sanctions. Oh and uh,
Speaker 2: it'll be and it'll be on every country that does
Speaker 2: business with Iran. They don't come around China, in our India,
Speaker 2: some of our friends. That sort of stuff. You got
Speaker 2: to stop doing business. That's the problem that always happens.
Speaker 2: My favorite example is always a band. When we had
Speaker 2: strong sanctions on Iraq and we ended up going to
Speaker 2: war with them and we had what do we have there?
Speaker 2: At one point one hundred thousand troops, one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty thousand troops, France was still doing business with them
Speaker 2: behind our back to get around the sanctions because oh well, well,
Speaker 2: you know you gotta make money. Well you remember the
Speaker 2: Secretary General and his boy of the UN. The UN
Speaker 2: Secretary General and his son were doing big business and
Speaker 2: making tons of money as those sanctions were in effects
Speaker 2: as approved by the UN. So yeah, it's everybody cheats,
Speaker 2: everybody lies, everybody pursues.
Speaker 1: Their own self interest.
Speaker 2: I've got a tale of a near tragedy avoided. Oh no,
Speaker 2: this morning. So I run into work every single day.
Speaker 2: As I've mentioned many times, I've done been doing this
Speaker 2: since I was nineteen years old, my entire radio career,
Speaker 2: working morning radio for some reason I'd do it to
Speaker 2: get a heart pumping on everything like that, get jazzed
Speaker 2: up for the show. At the point that I can
Speaker 2: no longer running, I guess I'll have to call it
Speaker 2: a day. But it's not exceeded a saunter since nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight. I was running today. I'm wearing red Wing
Speaker 2: work boots eight seventy five classic model Steve McQueen, everyone else.
Speaker 1: Very cool, very cool boot.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm running in and I trip a little
Speaker 2: on a crack and a sidewalk and stumble a little bit,
Speaker 2: catch myself, but realize in the little planter thing on
Speaker 2: ground level where they've got you know, it's just like
Speaker 2: there's a tile of cement missing and there's a tree
Speaker 2: coming out of it, like they do in urban parks.
Speaker 2: But the sprinkler thing is on a metal rod, a
Speaker 2: tiny mital rod. It's like a drinking straw size, only
Speaker 2: it's a metal rod sticking up out of the ground.
Speaker 2: And I stumbled, and I'm looking right at that thing,
Speaker 2: and I thought, if I had gone down, that thing
Speaker 2: would have been paled me clear through my torso my
Speaker 2: final destination.
Speaker 1: It would have stuck clear.
Speaker 2: Out my back. I mean is long enough and pointy enough,
Speaker 2: and I just wonder, well, one that would have been
Speaker 2: the sort of story that makes national news. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if it was that.
Speaker 1: A week and a half.
Speaker 2: Two weeks ago, we had a couple of impaling stories
Speaker 2: in a row. In our Impaling Story of the Week,
Speaker 2: they come in threes, people being impaled. That would have
Speaker 2: been a lame way to go out, Jack, I know.
Speaker 2: Lame way to die is whoever's next showing up to
Speaker 2: work and sees me on the ground with that sticking
Speaker 2: out in my back, thinks well, that's not good. I
Speaker 2: should call someone. I suppose I have a horrifying story
Speaker 2: of that sort, but I'm going to withhold it, showing
Speaker 2: restraint for once in my life. No, no joke. That
Speaker 2: could have happened if I, if I'd have gone down,
Speaker 2: very easily could have impaled me. It is a tiny
Speaker 2: enough spike it would easily just go right through me.
Speaker 2: And it reminded me of this is a horrifying story
Speaker 2: of for a cup of coffee. Maybe they're still popular.
Speaker 2: I don't see them around like I used to. Uh
Speaker 2: for environmental reasons and because the humble sea turtle was
Speaker 2: dying by the millions because of straws, which turned out
Speaker 2: to be bogus. People were trying to do away with
Speaker 2: plastic straws, so one solution in California was paper straws,
Speaker 2: which are useless. Another thing was they started selling those
Speaker 2: like aluminium straws that you would wash and reuse, so
Speaker 2: you wouldn't have a blessed anyway. Remember the story is
Speaker 2: in the New York Post, of course, of a woman
Speaker 2: who had one of those aluminum straws, and she stumbled
Speaker 2: and went down through her eye socket and out her
Speaker 2: head and killed her. Oh Lord, impaled clear through her head. Wow,
Speaker 2: you have to assume God didn't want you, right, how'd
Speaker 2: your sister die?
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. I'm not gonna tell you. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Well now I really want to know.
Speaker 1: You don't.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I'm not gonna tell you. It's just
Speaker 2: this makes me want to know more. Trust me. Sorry, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's start hurt the show officially. There is stuff to
Speaker 2: talk about today. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 2: How did it already get to be frye? August twenty first,
Speaker 2: The year twenty twenty six Armstrong. You're getting we approve
Speaker 2: of this program. There's some people who just hate I know,
Speaker 2: for some reason, I enjoyed every time I say it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's begin the show now officially according to
Speaker 2: f C see rules the rags.
Speaker 1: Here we go at Mark. You bet so somebody just
Speaker 1: cut this off? Uh huh, let's cut up here. Oh
Speaker 1: that's a Minnesotan.
Speaker 2: Oh you batcha talking about anti flock camera activists getting
Speaker 2: up there and just cutting the thing down.
Speaker 1: Name, that's what it sounded like.
Speaker 2: Apparently I've never vandalized anything in my life, but you
Speaker 2: might be able to get me on board with that. Depends.
Speaker 1: That's controversial.
Speaker 2: I know it is. I don't like that. I didn't
Speaker 2: vote for that. Who nobody voted for that. We didn't
Speaker 2: have a good discussion about this. He just showed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I'm looking forward to hearing your discussion with
Speaker 2: Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation during our.
Speaker 1: Four of the show. Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Yeahs. I have a lovely opportunity to attend my youngest child's,
Speaker 2: who is a full grown adult now law school mock
Speaker 2: trial finals, and so I will be doing that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to miss the end of the show.
Speaker 2: I apologize deeply, humbly, and insincerely, as are you a
Speaker 2: defendant question? Oh, that'd be fun, and I will testify
Speaker 2: on my own behalf damn it. I'm an innocent be
Speaker 2: here are my words, Sarah, sit down. Trump is going
Speaker 2: to South Carolina to try to rally Lindsey Graham's sisters support,
Speaker 2: and that woman should not be a US senator. I
Speaker 2: think I agree with you, I really do. Her opponent,
Speaker 2: Ralph Norman, I don't know his agage. I don't know
Speaker 2: his act at all. Not a staunch conservative, great conservative record.
Speaker 2: He's seventy three running for a six year term. Her
Speaker 2: answer in the debate the other day is disqualifying. Yes,
Speaker 2: we'll play that later if you don't know it. We
Speaker 2: get headlines on the way we go, clips of the week,
Speaker 2: lots of stuff coming up. Stay here. We got some
Speaker 2: good audio today from crazy people that is kind of
Speaker 2: modern news. Really, it's like the modern newsflow. People say
Speaker 2: crazy things out loud on video, and then there are
Speaker 2: those of you out there who compile them various political
Speaker 2: bents or reaction to news stories or whatever that are
Speaker 2: just amazing. And we've got a lot of those today.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, you're always concerned about nutpicking. I think
Speaker 2: in a lot of cases the nuttiness is in the
Speaker 2: philosophy and the ideas, and they are widely held. So yeah,
Speaker 2: some of that to come. I propose we just Kareene
Speaker 2: from story to story. I have so many interesting things
Speaker 2: to talk about today. I like Kareem after another careening
Speaker 2: on a Friday. Yes, yes, all right, let's begin by
Speaker 2: figuring out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with
Speaker 2: Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, starting with the Alphabet networks. CBS Iran looks to
Speaker 3: boost regional trade ties as United States turns from bombs
Speaker 3: to economic warfare. CNBC oil prices head for a second
Speaker 3: weekly rise as the United States abouts to turn up
Speaker 3: the economic pressure on Iran, and CNN. Iran condemns Trump's
Speaker 3: threat of quote economic d Day against Tehran condemns m hm.
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, they have to do this, go ahead. They
Speaker 2: have to be worried about this Iran. They have to think,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, they've already got rampant inflation, unemployment, growing
Speaker 2: discontent in the streets. But I tell you one thing
Speaker 2: about rains of terror. They work you machine gun. Forty
Speaker 2: fifty thousand people, you pull them out of hospital beds
Speaker 2: and torture them to death. Everybody hears about it. Everybody thinks, yeah,
Speaker 2: you protest. New York Times.
Speaker 3: Canada is considering United States trade deal as deadline nears.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't even talk about the Trump threat fifty
Speaker 2: percent tariff on Canadian goods, and then he backed off
Speaker 2: at five till midnight. The other night, he was up late,
Speaker 2: five minutes till midnight. The tariff is off. We've come
Speaker 2: to an agreement and no details, and nobody knows there
Speaker 2: actually was an agreement or whatever. And what we're playing
Speaker 2: ultimate hardball with is is the North American Free Trade
Speaker 2: Agreement or the successor to that that Trump himself negotiated
Speaker 2: and hailed as the best agreement in the history of agreements.
Speaker 2: But because he's Trump, because it's up for renewal, it's
Speaker 2: time to just beat the crap out of everybody else
Speaker 2: involved in the negotiation. From the Wall Street Journal, even
Speaker 2: if there are friends and allies, which I don't think
Speaker 2: is a good long term strategy, Yes, Katie.
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal, California draws more startup investment than all
Speaker 3: other forty nine States combined.
Speaker 2: You know, if I'm gabbing news of my tout that
Speaker 2: why does California, when it ranks fiftieth almost every year
Speaker 2: in business climate and all the different other things, continue
Speaker 2: to be such a hub for the most innovative companies
Speaker 2: on Earth, you know, for decades and decades part of
Speaker 2: its momentum. I think inertia, they're here, They're in California, USA.
Speaker 3: Today, Americans are drinking less alcohol than ever before.
Speaker 2: Man, I wouldn't have predicted that. Hey, they're saying it's
Speaker 2: at a record low. We're more anxious, we're more depressed
Speaker 2: at each other's throats divided sounds like a recipe for
Speaker 2: having a couple of pops to me.
Speaker 3: Right from the Washington Post, neighbors say Gordon Ramsey's burger
Speaker 3: joint is stinking up their pricey condos. Oh my, they're
Speaker 3: referring to it as a greasy odor.
Speaker 2: They're burgers. His burgers are damn good. Oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's pricey, but that's a good burger.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: New York Post new hypoallergenic peanuts could bring the salty
Speaker 3: snacks back to airplanes and school cafeteria.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the return of the peanut to the
Speaker 2: to the flight fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'll.
Speaker 2: Be in Cleveland before no time, enjoying these peanuts. Can't
Speaker 2: serve peanuts on a plane because one guy out of
Speaker 2: fifty millions. All right, don't fly take the bus. Hey,
Speaker 2: mister peanut, I'm sorry about your terrible allergy. I seriously am,
Speaker 2: and I hope you live a long, happy life and
Speaker 2: avoid any sort of problem with it. On the other hand,
Speaker 2: give me some damn peanuts. You can't say, mister peanut.
Speaker 2: When there is a mister peanut with spin spindley legs
Speaker 2: and a top hat in a monocle, I appreciate him
Speaker 2: dressing classy even in these casual times.
Speaker 1: Well done, mister.
Speaker 2: You don't see mister Peanut just wearing his pajamas, right right, well,
Speaker 2: all right, Peanut.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Study fine, Larry Legoo, Yeah, that'll do. That's fine, Salted Sam,
Speaker 2: I don't know. You guys are the worst.
Speaker 3: Okay, study fines forty nine percent of dog owners say
Speaker 3: that their pets eat higher quality meals than they do.
Speaker 2: Wow. I've probably had periods of my life where that
Speaker 2: was true. The dog ate better this week than I did,
Speaker 2: and my wife can't cook. Whoa, whoa, Wow, this is
Speaker 2: the nineteen forties. My wife kad cook. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you really nice knowing you, Michael.
Speaker 1: What's the mic on the Old Battleax?
Speaker 2: I thought I was talking to Hansom, Holy Salted Sam. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And finally the Babylon Bee Ah sad woman's mascara not
Speaker 3: smudged enough while filming herself crying for a selfie video
Speaker 3: and now she has to start all over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding, sitting in your car or walking or whatever. God,
Speaker 2: those thing is performative, It really really is.
Speaker 1: Stop it.
Speaker 2: Had a comment on one of those stories, but don't
Speaker 2: remember what it was, unfortunately from earlier. Oh yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: We'll get track.
Speaker 2: Five minutes, got tracked by day. Yeah, I'm sure we'll
Speaker 2: get to that later. Whatever it is. We got clips
Speaker 2: of the week coming up. If you don't know what,
Speaker 2: we're referring to. Lindsey Graham, who dropped dead out of
Speaker 2: nowhere with a heart attack a while back, and his
Speaker 2: sister immediately emerged as a candidate to take his seat,
Speaker 2: which bothered me from the get go because I don't want.
Speaker 1: The ortic dissection.
Speaker 2: But you got the dead part, right, that's the bottom line,
Speaker 2: anything with your heart's a heart attack. To me, it's
Speaker 2: all the sound. His sister immediately jumps up to, well,
Speaker 2: she should be the senator, which I don't get at all,
Speaker 2: just because you have the same last name. I don't
Speaker 2: understand that at all. But to fill the seat until
Speaker 2: the election in November. Fine, yeah, okay, But immediately I
Speaker 2: remember people saying, you know, she was very close to him,
Speaker 2: and you know they were very tight, an advisor he
Speaker 2: would turn to. Clearly he was not turning to her
Speaker 2: for any advice on anything since she got asked by
Speaker 2: Taiwan and her answer was I don't really know anything
Speaker 2: about four policy. She couldn't even make up an answer,
Speaker 2: which alone is enough reason not to be a senator.
Speaker 2: You're you're not quick enough on your feet and verbal
Speaker 2: enough right here, curious and curious enough about the world. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: That was a serious bloater her chances.
Speaker 2: God, I'd say Clips of the Week next, and then
Speaker 2: we'll get into the Koremi love the story from Mark
Speaker 2: Alpern's column today. Let's talk about this more later. Listen
Speaker 2: to this. There's not a single twenty twenty six candidate
Speaker 2: in any race, either party with a polster who isn't
Speaker 2: telling them to adopt an anti data center position and
Speaker 2: to accuse their opposition of being pro data center. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's the that's the best position to take, no matter
Speaker 2: what party, what your constituency, what race, right to be
Speaker 2: anti data center and it'd say the other girl, guy
Speaker 2: or girl is.
Speaker 1: For of them.
Speaker 2: I saw something similar. It's uh yeah, yeah, it's just
Speaker 2: it's obligatory. Wow, all of us sudden. So more on
Speaker 2: that to come. Got dozens of great stories to get to.
Speaker 2: But first, it's the beloved Friday tradition. Let's take von
Speaker 2: look back at the week that was. It's cow clips
Speaker 2: of the week.
Speaker 1: It's cow. They call it cow bow clips of the week.
Speaker 1: It's cow.
Speaker 2: Luigi Mangioni pleading guilty to stalking the husband and father.
Speaker 1: I shot mister Thompson in Manhattan and he died. MANI
Speaker 1: said to like breaking news the sudden death of actress
Speaker 1: Hayden Pattittier. Frank Beer, the drummer of Zizi Top, has died.
Speaker 2: The national debt hitting a staggering milestone, topping forty trillion
Speaker 2: dollars for the first time.
Speaker 1: The ro is pretty good return on investment. Back to
Speaker 1: just facts.
Speaker 2: Pretty soon I'll be declaring the foremost straight a territory
Speaker 2: of the United States. You are the best in the
Speaker 2: world in terms of the research sits you do.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to be honest to you.
Speaker 2: I'm not national security that I'm not that informed on
Speaker 2: national security. So tonight here that humanoid robot called Superman
Speaker 2: and is six and a half foot jump into the air.
Speaker 2: Now it is something the rac sure is off. As
Speaker 2: you remember, I donated the flag poles, one on each side,
Speaker 2: and this is a great pole. This is the top
Speaker 2: of the line.
Speaker 1: It's tapered.
Speaker 2: Nick Sirley has a small penis allegedly.
Speaker 1: That's so adult of you. Did you hear about this?
Speaker 1: What'd you got to today?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Because I look you just bedrodden and doom scrolled.
Speaker 1: It's also the reason I quit smoking weed.
Speaker 2: I don't understand like, there's no sexualization in a drag show.
Speaker 1: It was just people dressing up and singing.
Speaker 3: Care and cannibility circles work better than punishing people who
Speaker 3: have engaged in sexual harm to make them stop.
Speaker 2: Also, what we saw were kinds of poverty, people who
Speaker 2: are stealing things like to the base. So we imagine
Speaker 2: a future society without the nation state, right so, and
Speaker 2: without money.
Speaker 1: Socialism is more gear toward like helping the people in
Speaker 1: your you know, the governs can please Tennis.
Speaker 2: We're'm gonna say, what's the grow up? I just wanted
Speaker 2: to follow up on the period.
Speaker 1: You're a loud, boisterous person.
Speaker 2: You're faking. I trying to find out if you had
Speaker 2: so handsOn. That woman that said we envision not having
Speaker 2: a nation state all that sort of stuff, was that
Speaker 2: the chick that is mom Donnie's housing person? Is that
Speaker 2: who that was? Earth? Yeah? Oh that's say Ed's sister. Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 2: There's so many of them it's hard to keep them
Speaker 2: all straight. You envision doing away with the nations state
Speaker 2: and money? Okay, that's a reasonable position. Man, what fuck?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna run on. Cats will walk upright
Speaker 2: on their back feet, and we'll all start speaking Polynesian.
Speaker 2: That is the future of America. That's what I'm bad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this is gonna happen by twenty twenty eight. That's where
Speaker 2: we're gonna go with. We're speaking about a careening from
Speaker 2: issue to issue to issue, which we plan to do.
Speaker 2: Got a good clip from Gavin Newsom. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: to a little bit later. It's become quite a thing
Speaker 2: that they no longer use the SAT scores to qualify
Speaker 2: people to get into universities because they were racist or
Speaker 2: whatever they decided. Uh, and so they did away with it,
Speaker 2: and now we have endless universities, including a good one
Speaker 2: from Berkeley just the other day, where this professor had
Speaker 2: the guts to come out and say, look, we got
Speaker 2: to do something. I'm getting all these students they can't
Speaker 2: do basic math. I can't teach them the stuff we
Speaker 2: need to teach him here at Berkeley if they show
Speaker 2: up not being able to do basic fractions. Anyway, Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsome asked about it yesterday, and we'll play the clip
Speaker 2: a little bit later where he hums and haws it. Look,
Speaker 2: it's an issue of fairness. Show me the data. I mean,
Speaker 2: once I see the data, I'll make a decision and
Speaker 2: just won't take a stand on that. This is what
Speaker 2: a weird time to be alive. Yeah, he does not
Speaker 2: have the game he thinks he has. Plus he's so
Speaker 2: beholden to certain groups be it, you know, And that's
Speaker 2: that's very similar to the whole transgender athlete. It's a
Speaker 2: question of fairness there, but the grace of God, he
Speaker 2: just he knows he's stuck in between a rock and
Speaker 2: a hard place, the rock being the truth and the
Speaker 2: hard place being his radical supporters, or in the case
Speaker 2: of the education thing, the teachers' unions. I was in
Speaker 2: a lunch yesterday with some corporate types and one of them,
Speaker 2: throughout the question, we got into talking about politics and
Speaker 2: twenty eight and that sort of stuff, and one of
Speaker 2: them said, do you think Gavin Newsom actually believes people
Speaker 2: like him? That's an interesting question. Yeah, I think he
Speaker 2: believes people like him. But you know, I listen you
Speaker 2: like you do. I take in a ton of podcasts
Speaker 2: and punditry and all that sort of stuff. Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 2: name hasn't popped up much lately anytime they get into
Speaker 2: the who do you think is going to be the
Speaker 2: nominee in twenty eight? Lately his name hasn't popped up
Speaker 2: like there. For a while, it was always his name,
Speaker 2: and lately it has not been. And it's more AOC Kamala,
Speaker 2: Harris Shapiro those that crowd, But AOC keeps coming up
Speaker 2: over and over oh my god, please nominator anyway. I
Speaker 2: didn't mean to get off on that. Oh no, that's
Speaker 2: all right. Has struck me as so completely ridiculous in
Speaker 2: a non starter for so long, But in these weird,
Speaker 2: populous times, if the Republican involved made a misstep, that
Speaker 2: could happen. Oh, and understanding the way primaries work, right,
Speaker 2: you don't need to appeal to that many people to
Speaker 2: get the nomination in either party. Yeah, yeah, oh, you're right.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Brett Stevens, the token conservative for the New York Times,
Speaker 2: wrote a great piece about that where he said, yeah,
Speaker 2: woke one was crazy. Uh, but where's the accountability? And
Speaker 2: he goes he lists person after person after person who
Speaker 2: was ruined for saying something completely mainstream that again now
Speaker 2: you could say again and it would have no repercussions.
Speaker 2: And he makes a powerful, powerful case. I would like
Speaker 2: to hear that list. We want to be a class action.
Speaker 2: I know legally it'd be hard to get this together,
Speaker 2: but a class action among people who were victimized by
Speaker 2: the whole horrific woke apocalypse. Would this be names and
Speaker 2: stories we all remember mostly from his column and examples.
Speaker 2: Perhaps I remember several of them, but we don't have
Speaker 2: to dig into that. That would be a pretty good one. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we got a lot more on the way. We're going
Speaker 2: to get into mail bag and some of the other
Speaker 2: stories of the day, and just koreem from topic to topic.
Speaker 2: It'll be real good. Stay here.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I was just reading this article the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: of which I understand about five percent about the really
Speaker 2: intricate parts of the economy and the market that most
Speaker 2: of us don't pay any attention to. Uh, and it's
Speaker 2: not good news. And it's a weird mid August. What
Speaker 2: the hell is going on? Maybe I'll get to that
Speaker 2: a little later, a little more unprecedented. That's good, right, Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: super so mentioned Brett Stevens calming The New York Times
Speaker 2: about how AOC laughed off Wolk one and and he says,
Speaker 2: good for AO se acknowledging mistakes. Now, can we have
Speaker 2: some accountability for the vast damage that Woke one point
Speaker 2: zero did not to mention the damage that Woke two
Speaker 2: point oh continues to do. And he points out that
Speaker 2: it wasn't just an Orwellian linguistic fad or a tedious
Speaker 2: set of corporate training sessions and cultural sensitivity et cetera,
Speaker 2: as it was experienced by those on the wrong end
Speaker 2: of it. It was a system of enforced ideological conformity, policed
Speaker 2: by social bullying and institutional coercion or cowardice, which damaged
Speaker 2: and sometimes even ended reputations, careers, and at least one
Speaker 2: man's life. Restitution if only in the form of honest
Speaker 2: contrition and perhaps even a public apology is in order.
Speaker 1: And then he goes through.
Speaker 2: The top editor for the Philadelphia and Choir that's the
Speaker 2: big newspaper in Philly, had to resign for his job
Speaker 2: and issue a groveling apology for the sin of running
Speaker 2: an article by the paper's architecture critic with the headline
Speaker 2: buildings matter too or you know, and they're a bunch
Speaker 2: of bunch of.
Speaker 1: Examples that are just laughable.
Speaker 2: The thing that got him fired was a headline saying
Speaker 2: buildings lives matter too. No buildings matter too. Didn't even
Speaker 2: have lives in it, so no buildings matter too. At
Speaker 2: the height of George Floyd was enough to get you fired.
Speaker 1: Yeah, insane.
Speaker 2: Here's a radio side podcast host who was suspended indefinitely
Speaker 2: because he stated it's sometimes permissible for a non black
Speaker 2: person to quote a racial slur in narrow context. He
Speaker 2: didn't even use it. He just said it is permissible
Speaker 2: to use it as a if you're talking about racial slurs.
Speaker 2: And he was essentially fired for that. Wow. James Bennett,
Speaker 2: former editor of the New York Times opinion section, forced
Speaker 2: from his job after publishing an essay from a sitting
Speaker 2: senator Tom Cotton.
Speaker 1: Remember that to be right about most of it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember that that was crazy. That was Tom Cotton
Speaker 2: arguing that we should put the National Guard on the
Speaker 2: streets I think, to try to calm things down. Which
Speaker 2: you don't have to agree with that, but that's perfectly
Speaker 2: reasonable to let a US senator make that case right
Speaker 2: in the New York Times. Well one more example, just
Speaker 2: because I can't resist, because I remember this at the
Speaker 2: time and still makes me insane. Jason Kilbourne, University of
Speaker 2: Illinois Chicago law professor, who was barred from campus and
Speaker 2: placed on administrative leave because he had used the first
Speaker 2: two letters I'm sorry, the first letter of two slurs
Speaker 2: in his civil procedure exam on a front the Black
Speaker 2: Law Students Association described as mental terrorism SORR. He referred
Speaker 2: to the N word, and I don't know what else. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think there was a I don't remember what the
Speaker 2: other ear so that was moving the line or the
Speaker 2: overton window from you can't say the word you need
Speaker 2: to say the N word too. You can't even say
Speaker 2: the inWORD right or even N dot dot dot. And
Speaker 2: it was a law class about a woman filing a
Speaker 2: discrimination case because somebody had dropped an nbomb on her.
Speaker 2: Did you read Harry Potter? You remember the whole Voldemort thing.
Speaker 2: They couldn't say it didn't that seem nuts? Nope, that
Speaker 2: actually happened. Is happening in the United States of America.
Speaker 2: Here's a woman railroaded out of Harvard after a TV
Speaker 2: appearance in which she said that the terms male and
Speaker 2: female were scientifically essential, even if she insisted that facts
Speaker 2: about biology shouldn't prevent us from treating people with respect.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a Nazi to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kidding, unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Here's your freedom loving crazy. Yeah, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 2: so angry and to the point that walk woke two
Speaker 2: is a thing and going on right now. We've got
Speaker 2: a story later about this guy who had to leave
Speaker 2: his job after eleven years at a prestigious newspaper in
Speaker 2: Seattle first stating the truth about Sophie Cunningham and the
Speaker 2: whole trans thing and specifically teenage athletes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll read his horrific offensive words to you and
Speaker 2: let you be the judge. Here's your freedom loving quote
Speaker 2: of the day. Badly needed. So interesting backstory on this one.
Speaker 2: When Ronald Reagan lost the nomination for president to Jerry
Speaker 2: Ford in nineteen seventy six at the convention Ford one,
Speaker 2: and he gave a speech and he he said, I
Speaker 2: watched it just the day before yesterday. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: how interesting. Here's a fifty year anniversary on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Oh that's why he came up.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so Jerry Ford said, ron why didn't you
Speaker 2: come up and say if you were, he was the
Speaker 2: very greatest thing to do. This is such a good story.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, when you lose in politics, you're bitter.
Speaker 2: And they were bitter, and they hated each each other
Speaker 2: at that time, as always happens in politics, Ford and Reagan.
Speaker 2: Reagan loses to Ford barely the night that Ford's going
Speaker 2: to give the big speech at the convention. You know, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm the nominee. Reagan and Nancy and a couple other
Speaker 2: people are across the street having drinks. He has had
Speaker 2: no plan to speak, right, he was asked to speak
Speaker 2: and he said no. His wife told him no, they
Speaker 2: were open, or they weren't even going to be in
Speaker 2: the arena for this thing, right as it was going on.
Speaker 2: That's how he and then he ends up on stage
Speaker 2: given what many people call the best convention speech ever.
Speaker 2: Right in his best speech, perhaps, but so he said
Speaker 2: the obligatory kind words about Jerry Ford, but having no plan,
Speaker 2: he went into a riff about how he'd been asked.
Speaker 1: To write a letter for a time capsule.
Speaker 2: That's going to be opened in the year twenty seventy
Speaker 2: thirty six, Yeah, the three hundredth anniversary of the country.
Speaker 2: And he talks about the brainstorming he did about what
Speaker 2: to write about and the issues of the day, and
Speaker 2: how you know that probably wasn't the right a pro
Speaker 2: including nuclear warfare or nuclear weapons control. And I'll pick
Speaker 2: up his speech and this is our freedom loving quote.
Speaker 1: And it suddenly dawned on me.
Speaker 2: Those who read this letter one hundred years from now
Speaker 2: will know whether those missiles were fired. They will know
Speaker 2: whether we met our challenges, whether they will have the
Speaker 2: freedom that we have known up until now will depend
Speaker 2: on what.
Speaker 1: We do here.
Speaker 2: Well, they look back with appreciation and say thank God
Speaker 2: for those people in nineteen seventy six who headed off
Speaker 2: that loss of freedom, who kept us now one hundred
Speaker 2: years later free, who kept a world from nuclear destruction.
Speaker 2: And if we failed, they probably won't get to read
Speaker 2: the letter at all because it spoke of individual freedom,
Speaker 2: and they won't be allowed to talk of that or
Speaker 2: read of it. That notion of what will the people
Speaker 2: of one hundred years from now say about us? If
Speaker 2: that doesn't energize you just a little bit, you're a
Speaker 2: different sort of person than we are. Well, if you're
Speaker 2: a political junkie. I found this interesting because I watched
Speaker 2: it just the other day and read alone, I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm an America junkie, So don't you ruin the mood
Speaker 2: I've set. I read a long piece about it from
Speaker 2: Scott Linskim of The Dispatch.
Speaker 1: The crowd went wild.
Speaker 2: He gave the speech right after Ford gave his big
Speaker 2: expectance speech. It's a terrible idea to have anybody give
Speaker 2: a speech after the right you know who the nominee is,
Speaker 2: gives their speech. Anyway, Riggan comes out, gives a better speech.
Speaker 2: Crowd goes wild and immediately, of course people were writing
Speaker 2: and jaws were flapping about the did we nominate the
Speaker 2: right guy immediately, like within sixty seconds of the guy.
Speaker 1: Giving you what a horrible move? Yeah? Whoops ooops, Oh.
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Speaker 1: Polly writes more than Gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Last Friday, I tuned in had one of the best
Speaker 2: laughs I can remember listening to your your stuff about
Speaker 2: those outdated coffee commercials and the tab commercial.
Speaker 1: We could use a lot more of that right now.
Speaker 2: How about make that an every Friday segment and pull
Speaker 2: out old commercials to laugh at. Thank you always for
Speaker 2: what you do. Love your show. I love you more, Polly.
Speaker 2: I don't remember this at all. I'm glad they enjoyed
Speaker 2: it so much, the outdated coffee commercials where the husband
Speaker 2: says to his wife, the girls at the office know
Speaker 2: how to make coffee. But I don't remember our riffing
Speaker 2: about it. I just I don't remember it. Oh, really, wow.
Speaker 2: I'm glad we hidro one Easter. I'm glad we were funny.
Speaker 2: Oh it was hilarious. I cherished the memory yesterday. Perhaps
Speaker 2: you remember this. Yesterday we were talking about the turnaround
Speaker 2: in education among several Southern states and how blue states
Speaker 2: are ignoring it because it's politically incorrect to recognize Red.
Speaker 1: States are doing anything right, and it goes up against
Speaker 1: a lot of teachers' unions.
Speaker 2: If you missed it, for God's sake, seriously grab the
Speaker 2: podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand from Thursday, August the twentieth.
Speaker 2: I think it's ours two and three. We talked about
Speaker 2: it to figure out it's well titled. But anyway, on
Speaker 2: that topic, a California public school teacher says, I agree
Speaker 2: with you regarding the state of state of schools, particularly
Speaker 2: in California at the high school level, Goodheart's laws in
Speaker 2: action graduates. Graduate rates no longer are just a measure,
Speaker 2: They're the goal. So everything is done to move the
Speaker 2: kids along, regardless of skill. One thing regarding California stats
Speaker 2: good portion of the kids who can't read. Our kids
Speaker 2: who have recently come to the US from other countries
Speaker 2: and don't speak English and in many cases weren't educated
Speaker 2: in their primary language either. These students are included in the
Speaker 2: test results that get reported, but there are signs of
Speaker 2: hope in the California district I work for teachers that
Speaker 2: all levels are offered training on teaching and reading and
Speaker 2: phonics is the core.
Speaker 1: We've already seen gains.
Speaker 2: That's good, you know, that's an interesting point and a
Speaker 2: good one, but it's also damning, just from a different direction. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't bring in people who don't speak English and
Speaker 2: have no education into the class with my kid and
Speaker 2: drag down the whole process for US taxpayers who want
Speaker 2: our kids educated. Yeah, gaffy, if this means that much
Speaker 2: to you that the unwashed masses can flood into the
Speaker 2: country without documentation, start ESL schools all right, fund them
Speaker 2: by the government. Course it'll turn out to be a
Speaker 2: scam too and get unionized in the rest of it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, don't drag down the English speaking kids.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. Wow, that's interesting. I was talking to some
Speaker 2: of the other day that grew up in a California
Speaker 2: public school and there was a big wave of immigrants
Speaker 2: came in that didn't speak English, and how every class
Speaker 2: was just undoable at that time. This would have been
Speaker 2: in the eighties, I guess. Yeah, the mayor of Sacramento
Speaker 2: tried to run us out of our careers for saying
Speaker 2: that out loud. We got a lot more in the way.
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