Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetti and he Armstrong and yetty.
Speaker 3: Breaking news stories that we that happened in the last
Speaker 3: twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: We haven't mentioned.
Speaker 3: It broke in the New York Times that Iran offered
Speaker 3: a written guarantee that they would not try to kill
Speaker 3: President Trump and they gave that to the United States
Speaker 3: like a month or so ago.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I was actually going to bring that up because you've
Speaker 1: been railing for quite some time, correctly that the Biden
Speaker 1: Administration's got to tell them, you go after Trump, that's
Speaker 1: an act of war. And that's precisely what the Biden
Speaker 1: administration told them, apparently just behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: Which is interest credit and then Reddit where it's due.
Speaker 3: Also the fact that Elon met with the Iranian ambassador
Speaker 3: to try to cool tensions between Orion and the United States.
Speaker 3: What is Elon at this point?
Speaker 1: Just guess a guy who you don't turn down if
Speaker 1: he asks for an appointment.
Speaker 3: Right of all trades, because he's involved in so many
Speaker 3: different things.
Speaker 1: Right, he calls, he asks for half an hour, and
Speaker 1: you think I don't need a gigantic rocket. He surely
Speaker 1: doesn't do direct sales for his cars.
Speaker 3: To tell him, yes, maybe the satellite system, or maybe
Speaker 3: I need a monkey who can communicate with a computer.
Speaker 2: I don't know shit, Just tell him yes and we'll
Speaker 2: see what he wants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot to cram into the final hour of
Speaker 1: the week, Saints Preservis. I'm looking at all the stuff
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to this week, and we're barely
Speaker 1: going to scratch the surface. So let's get to it
Speaker 1: first though, It's time for fond look back at the
Speaker 1: week that was.
Speaker 2: It's cow clips of the week, pull on China syndrome,
Speaker 2: and so he could go all night. It's is not controversial.
Speaker 1: Which is the week President le Trump is shaking things
Speaker 1: up in Washington.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you right, told the President he comes back,
Speaker 4: I come back.
Speaker 2: We fix this. Pete Hesett will lead the Department of Defense.
Speaker 5: But if you're distracted from the mission to take care
Speaker 5: of your virtue signaling and your wokeism, he wants you
Speaker 5: out of there.
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio, Senator from Florida, officially nominated today for Secretary
Speaker 3: of State.
Speaker 5: It's a tremendous honor to the president replaces confidence of
Speaker 5: me in a position of such importance.
Speaker 2: It may be an Attorney General Mac Eates down the road,
Speaker 2: US Attorney General Matt Gates.
Speaker 3: That will end weaponized government.
Speaker 2: That's one of the most intelligent members of Congress. I
Speaker 2: think he's qualified.
Speaker 3: President Trump is going to hit the Justice Department the blowtorch,
Speaker 3: and Matt Gates is that torch.
Speaker 1: The more you get to know Matt Gates, the less
Speaker 1: you're gonna like him.
Speaker 4: It must be the worst nomination for a cabinet position
Speaker 4: in American history.
Speaker 2: The nomination of Gates rocked Capitol Hill one of the
Speaker 2: most jaw dropping days. Could literally hear the jaws dropping
Speaker 2: to the floor.
Speaker 3: One official saying, this can't be real, and this is
Speaker 3: making everyone's head explode right now we're watching it.
Speaker 6: I mean, this feels like a red alert moment for democracy.
Speaker 3: The President electapping RFK Junior, the conspiracy theorist people like.
Speaker 2: You, Bobby, don't get too popular, Bobby.
Speaker 3: He acknowledged that these rapid fire announcements of cabinet picks
Speaker 3: might be seen by some lawmakers as disruptive. I would
Speaker 3: describe it as god tier level trolling.
Speaker 1: In case you've been listening for hours, and thank you
Speaker 1: very much. We do cow twice, our one and our
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Speaker 1: executive producer, produced two completely distinct cows won the general
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Speaker 2: Very entertaining, Well done.
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Speaker 2: Look it up, look it look it up. Since Matt Gates.
Speaker 3: Came up a couple of times in there, let's revisit that.
Speaker 3: So one thing on Matt Gates and I, uh, he
Speaker 3: might be good at reckon the Justice Department and the
Speaker 3: way Trump wants.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think he is a bad person, just as personal life.
Speaker 1: Again, according to Ben dominic Well, I was about to
Speaker 1: read that so we can get over several different kinds
Speaker 1: of not a nice fellow.
Speaker 3: But Mark Alpen wrote in his newsletter yesterday, having you know,
Speaker 3: had person interactions with Matt Gates. He said he is
Speaker 3: behind closed doors, much more serious than his clown show
Speaker 3: that he does to get on cable news.
Speaker 2: So I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't doubt that it's part of something we've
Speaker 1: discussed a million times. We want our our heroes to
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent pure of heart and admirable at
Speaker 1: every moment, and we think our villains are going to be.
Speaker 2: Just dastardly every breath they take. And that's not the
Speaker 2: way human beings are.
Speaker 3: Matt Gates is a vile sex pest, and any Senator
Speaker 3: who votes for him owns that, writes Ben Dominich, guy
Speaker 3: who started the Federalist now he runs the Transom dot com.
Speaker 3: He's a serious guy and important for you to know
Speaker 3: before you turn off the radio. Nobody could be more
Speaker 3: supportive of Trump. I don't think hardly than Ben Dominich
Speaker 3: over the last several years. I mean, no matter what
Speaker 3: twister turn Trump did, Ben Dominant, including January sixth, Ben
Speaker 3: Dominich found a way to support it because he's he's
Speaker 3: in that camp. But this is what he writes about
Speaker 3: Matt Gates. I realize that we are occasionally given to
Speaker 3: hyperbole about the untoward nature of politicians, but let me
Speaker 3: be clear. Matt Gates is a sex trafficking, drug addicted
Speaker 3: piece of s okay. He is abhorrent. His eyes are
Speaker 3: permanently rimmed with the red rings of chemical boosters. In person,
Speaker 3: he smells like overexposed axe body spray and stale astroglide.
Speaker 2: You you the.
Speaker 3: Fact that he boasted on the floor to multiple colleagues
Speaker 3: in the House of Representatives of his methods of crushing
Speaker 3: viagra and high test red bull to maintain his erection
Speaker 3: through his orgiastic evenings is perhaps the least defensive of
Speaker 3: his many crimes against womanhood and Christian faith. The man
Speaker 3: has less principles than your average fentanyl addicted hobo. That's
Speaker 3: a heck of a sentence right there. I feel like
Speaker 3: we could have paused done many of those sentences. But
Speaker 3: that's a good one right there.
Speaker 1: The man has one would like to be compared more
Speaker 1: favorably with fentanyl addicted hoboes.
Speaker 3: At least would one not at least they're peers, at
Speaker 3: the very least as opposed to less than wow all
Speaker 3: at he likes them under age, and he's not ashamed
Speaker 3: about it. Matt Gates isn't just your average extreme Florida
Speaker 3: maga man. He's a hypocritical ass with the worst botox
Speaker 3: money can buy.
Speaker 2: I don't know why this, that's the play part of it.
Speaker 3: You know, you can have his botox and faces you
Speaker 3: want and run the fellow justice.
Speaker 2: He's not a fan of wrinkles. Who is uh?
Speaker 3: He's a hypocritical ass with the worst boatox money can buy,
Speaker 3: pursuing an ever thinner nose and higher cheekbones at every
Speaker 3: opportunity like a real housewife gone mad for fillersh. Every
Speaker 3: Republican in Washington has an opinion about Matt Gates, and
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent of those opinions are keep Matt Gates
Speaker 3: away from my wife, daughter, friend, and anyone I care about.
Speaker 3: He's a walking genital warts included as a bonus. If
Speaker 3: I was merely attempting to count the number of women
Speaker 3: I know who have had bad experiences with Matt Gates,
Speaker 3: oo'd run out of fingers and toes. If you vote
Speaker 3: for him to be Attorney General of the United States,
Speaker 3: you don't just need your head examine. You need to
Speaker 3: be committed to a mental institution. The man is absolutely
Speaker 3: vile and here's really your your final sentence.
Speaker 2: You need to hear. Oh he doesn't get mean here,
Speaker 2: does he?
Speaker 3: There are pools of vomit with more to offer the
Speaker 3: Earth than this std riddled testament to the failure of
Speaker 3: fallen masculinity.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, So I, as the father of three, come across
Speaker 1: many pools of vomit, and none of them offered much.
Speaker 3: Ben Dominich is maga and he's a very serious man
Speaker 3: and a very serious Conservative who just happens to actually
Speaker 3: know Matt Gates, and I think is offended by the
Speaker 3: idea of this kind of guy being the Attorney General.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to belabor the point, but Andrew McCarthy,
Speaker 1: who has taken on and defeated and dissected and just
Speaker 1: eviscerated the lawfair against Trump. He's a very, very knowledgeable
Speaker 1: legal and constitutional expert. He has been one of the staunchest,
Speaker 1: most effective defenders of Trump in print and on air
Speaker 1: and cable for the whole warfare against Trump period. Brilliant
Speaker 1: in his defense of Donald J.
Speaker 3: Probably probably to the point that it had an effect
Speaker 3: because he's a respected legal finger.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would agree, he is a serious man. His
Speaker 1: headline is on Trump's foolish, futile Matt Gates ag nomination.
Speaker 1: He said he's stunned, and he suspects Nathan Wade would
Speaker 1: have a better chance of getting confirmed to run the
Speaker 1: Justice Department. That was the lover boy and the lawfair
Speaker 1: in Georgia, and he says, I almost don't see any
Speaker 1: time and any point in wasting time discussing this.
Speaker 3: You can come up with some clever pool of vomit,
Speaker 3: like analogy metaphor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he chooses not to go with disgusting eloquence, the
Speaker 1: whole genitals.
Speaker 2: With wartz thing, oh lord, walking SBD. It's a stunning takedown.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm sure we have some folks who
Speaker 1: are so devoted to Trump. Whatever he says is gospel
Speaker 1: to them.
Speaker 3: I know for a fact, having gone through some of
Speaker 3: our followers last night and spend a lot of time
Speaker 3: on Twitter, I know a lot of you really believe
Speaker 3: Matt Gates is the guy to you know, fix the
Speaker 3: deep state or whatever.
Speaker 1: I just wish we could pick a nicer guy. I
Speaker 1: think that may be the understatement of the year. A
Speaker 1: nicer guy. I think like ninety eight percent of humanity
Speaker 1: is a nicer guy.
Speaker 2: This guy Gates.
Speaker 3: This guy would get your daughter drunk, have sex with her,
Speaker 3: and then show videos to her his friends the next day.
Speaker 2: That's who Matt Gates is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, He's a pig and disgusting. And there
Speaker 1: are plenty of guys who could shake up the Justice Department,
Speaker 1: who would not be so easily taken down, rendering your
Speaker 1: goals unfulfilled. That's the part you don't get. He doesn't
Speaker 1: go in there, and because he's sculped Soper, Trump powers
Speaker 1: succeeded everything. No, they'll take him down easy as pie.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. You'll be ineffective. I mean, I object
Speaker 1: to him on moral grounds. But the next step is, well,
Speaker 1: let's see if I were to accept the idea of
Speaker 1: an utter pig being in charge of the Justice Department,
Speaker 1: would that work?
Speaker 2: And the answer is no, No, it wouldn't come close
Speaker 2: to working. No, it's ineffective. Enough said, probably should get
Speaker 2: to the very end of this, and if that disappoints you, sorry,
Speaker 2: that's just reality.
Speaker 3: Here's the last writings have been Dominich on this about
Speaker 3: Oh god, there's more about the senators involved in possible
Speaker 3: confirming him. If they have a degree of independence, the
Speaker 3: Republicans in the Senate, any kind of free thought, mindful
Speaker 3: of the fact that a presidency is four years, but
Speaker 3: your career is forever, they will reject this choice so
Speaker 3: emphatically that it sends a very simple, straightforward message. You
Speaker 3: can be an absolute dirt bag, want to be pimp
Speaker 3: pounding d pills and caffeine while you film your girlfriend
Speaker 3: twerking on the gram. Or you can be a Republican.
Speaker 3: The choice is yours. So again, he does not, He's not.
Speaker 1: He's not what you'd call a squish on.
Speaker 2: On Matt Gates. I admire his pluck.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on it? Push back if you
Speaker 3: want to. We got more in the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
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Speaker 2: But evidently Judy brought.
Speaker 1: Up you know, I think Joe might want to watch
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna have that on for sure. So all right, I.
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Speaker 3: Joe predicts Dull. I think I think there's a real
Speaker 3: good chance of Tyson gets tired and then quit.
Speaker 2: I think there's a decent chance of that.
Speaker 3: He did that when he was serious twenty years ago,
Speaker 3: toward the end of his career, saying he just lost
Speaker 3: his killer instinct or whatever, because you have to have
Speaker 3: a certain mindset to actually want to punch something in
Speaker 3: the head hard enough to knock them out. You have
Speaker 3: to get a certain level of meanness or hate them
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Speaker 3: he had.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll see after the funds out of He's
Speaker 1: not going to be like, oh this is cool, I'm boxing.
Speaker 2: He's done plenty of that. He is going to make.
Speaker 3: The upper level is they're each going to make forty million,
Speaker 3: somewhere between twenty and forty million.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Wow. So here's something we've left out of the RFK
Speaker 3: Junior conversation that probably will become a bigger deal as
Speaker 3: we get closer and more people become aware of it.
Speaker 3: Maybe you dig his health stuff and you like the
Speaker 3: idea of him taking on big farm and everything like that.
Speaker 3: Do you realize how pro life RFK Junior has been
Speaker 3: his entire career. Mike Pence put out a statement today
Speaker 3: because Mike Pence has always been a one hundred percent
Speaker 3: I mean pro choice, RFK Junior has been Mike Pence
Speaker 3: has always been a one hundred percent pro life there
Speaker 3: should be no abortion at all guy, And he wrote today,
Speaker 3: for the majority of his career, RFK Junior has defended
Speaker 3: abortion on demand during all nine months of pregnancy, supports
Speaker 3: overturning the Dobbs decision, and has called the legislation to
Speaker 3: codify Roe Versus for legislation to codify Roe versus.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 3: If confirmed, RFK Junior would be the most pro abortion
Speaker 3: Republican appointed secretary of HHS in history. I don't think
Speaker 3: a lot of the people behind RFK Jr right now
Speaker 3: know that I would agree. Yeah, he's defended a portion
Speaker 3: on demand during all nine months of pregnancy throughout his
Speaker 3: political career.
Speaker 2: Good lord, Yeah, well, I'd like to verify that's true.
Speaker 3: Well, let's see if he's still there, if he's willing
Speaker 3: to walk that back. I mean, you'd have to walk
Speaker 3: back a lot of things he said. I've seen some
Speaker 3: of the interviews that are floating around in social media.
Speaker 1: Mm hm h yeah. Boy, there's so much to be said.
Speaker 1: I'll summarize it with this. There's a process that exists.
Speaker 1: It's required by the Constitution, and it will happen and
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff will get settled, and if
Speaker 1: the accusations are inaccurate or exaggerated or what have you,
Speaker 1: that should come out and never everybody's going to be fine.
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Speaker 2: to hang around the bar and drink. Their friends tell
Speaker 2: you that you know so many things we could get to.
Speaker 1: I got these absolutely unbelievable emails from various folks who've
Speaker 1: had relatives all female. That's just seeing them cut off connection.
Speaker 3: I hadn't thought. I hadn't put that together. But everybody
Speaker 3: I've heard from his female also, every one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a sister in law, here's a yeah, here's
Speaker 2: a wife, and just a boy.
Speaker 1: Sad people losing their minds and cutting off their you know,
Speaker 1: family connections. I mean, maybe your brother in law's jackass anyway,
Speaker 1: But come on, folks, don't end friendships over presidential elections.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Your life should not revolve around the presidency.
Speaker 1: And in fact, if you turned off media for a while,
Speaker 1: you'd realize, oh, it doesn't anyway. So I found this really,
Speaker 1: really interesting, one of my favorite things I've read recently,
Speaker 1: and I've been trying to get to it, but it's long.
Speaker 1: Roland Friar, who is a He's a professor of economics
Speaker 1: at Harvard. He's a really intriguing thinker.
Speaker 2: He's a black man, isn't he Roland Fryar? I think
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really matter, but he describes being an undergrad at
Speaker 1: Harvard in the nineties and how they'd sit around the
Speaker 1: dorm they debate religion or the role of discrimination in America,
Speaker 1: I mean, the most controversial stuff, but gating ideas and
Speaker 1: grappling with the other person's ideas and how cool that was.
Speaker 1: And then he describes in teaching, I asked a student
Speaker 1: in the front row, with all this technology and social media,
Speaker 1: where do you guys have these types of conversations? And
Speaker 1: a young woman looked up from her notebook and replied, oh,
Speaker 1: we don't. And I looked around the amphitheater and asked, really,
Speaker 1: and a hundred heads nodded in unison, we don't dare
Speaker 1: have those discussions at all.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I thought they were exaggerating until a student in
Speaker 1: another class dared to ask if racial disparities are due
Speaker 1: to systemic racism or differences in work ethic. He happens
Speaker 1: to be black and from a disadvantaged background, and he
Speaker 1: earnestly wondered why in his neighborhood growing up, it seemed
Speaker 1: to him that black immigrants worked harder than American born blacks.
Speaker 2: That's fairly well documented too.
Speaker 1: In class, Oh yeah, in class with a black professor
Speaker 1: who is very well known, very well respected, a white
Speaker 1: woman a couple of rows behind him called him a
Speaker 1: white supremacist and attempted to shut down the discussion.
Speaker 2: In Roland Friar's class.
Speaker 3: I mean, I realized the point of this is not
Speaker 3: for me to debate her, but immigrants of other races
Speaker 3: from other countries work harder than white people born here.
Speaker 2: Also, It's just certainly hard me anyway.
Speaker 1: And then he asks, you know the obvious question, if
Speaker 1: my dormmates and I had the threat of academic censure
Speaker 1: hanging over our heads back then, would we have been
Speaker 1: as forthcoming. I'd like to think so, but I don't,
Speaker 1: But I doubt it. We weren't courageous. We lived in
Speaker 1: a world where the cost of information was higher and
Speaker 1: the cost of asking the wrong question was essentially zero,
Speaker 1: so debate was an efficient way to learn. And he
Speaker 1: goes into a bunch of different examples about arranged marriages
Speaker 1: and the Bible and talking to a gay man about
Speaker 1: his life experiences, and you know, the more you read it,
Speaker 1: the more you think this is one of the most
Speaker 1: important things in the world for learning.
Speaker 2: But then he gets to his main point.
Speaker 1: A decade ago, I still interacted with dozens of undergrads
Speaker 1: and doctoral students who are asking important and provocative questions
Speaker 1: about race and sex in America. But now students invite
Speaker 1: me to lunch and ask if their research idea is
Speaker 1: too risky. They wonder out loud what they are allowed
Speaker 1: to say in public in quotes as though they're in
Speaker 1: the situation room discussing nuclear launch strategy rather than pondering
Speaker 1: the economics of policing in a cafe. And then he
Speaker 1: says how some of them are trying to have anonymous discussions,
Speaker 1: but his main because he's a professor of economics, the
Speaker 1: issue affects research in economics, hardly known for its far
Speaker 1: left politics. When I use artificial intelligence to evaluate all
Speaker 1: the race and sex related papers published in the top
Speaker 1: six econ journals for a number of years, asking the
Speaker 1: algorithm to score how liberal or conservative the conclusions, laned
Speaker 1: I found a more than two to one leftward hilt.
Speaker 2: Overall, there were.
Speaker 1: Particularly big gaps in the late Obama years in the
Speaker 1: early twenty twenties. Did empirical output lean left at those
Speaker 1: times or were political correctness pressures especially strong? Realistically, either
Speaker 1: journal editors are refusing to publish controversial results or academics
Speaker 1: are too cowardly to even do the research, and he
Speaker 1: mentions a couple of exceptions, but his point is.
Speaker 2: We are stunting learning.
Speaker 1: In even fields that ought to be as dry as economics,
Speaker 1: because everybody's so afraid of saying the wrong thing, asking
Speaker 1: the wrong thing, and the data reading them leading them
Speaker 1: to the quote unquote wrong conclusion. And it's costing us
Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars, not only just economically, but
Speaker 1: in terms of social aid programs and companies being ill
Speaker 1: informed on what they're trying to do. And his ultimate
Speaker 1: ultimate point is this stuff is incredibly damaging.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, ultimately, it's not the billions. It's the complete
Speaker 3: destroying of society, is the downside? Well yeah, now that's
Speaker 3: a down sae. The end of the Enlightenment is the downside.
Speaker 3: This points out this is what James Lindsey's always talking about,
Speaker 3: and he's a math professor, just that it had gotten
Speaker 3: into every aspect of university life.
Speaker 2: Nuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he mentions his own work on race and
Speaker 1: policing has been labeled hate speech on Twitter. Pre elon,
Speaker 1: but he said, even if stone cold economists have fallen
Speaker 1: prey to self censorship, economics can tell us why. A
Speaker 1: brilliant analysis by Stephen Morris develops the basic economics of
Speaker 1: political correctness.
Speaker 2: Here's an example.
Speaker 1: Suppose there is an informed professor advising a less informed
Speaker 1: politician as to whether diversity equity inclusion policies help minorities.
Speaker 1: If the professor says dei is, the politician might interpret
Speaker 1: the recommendation as the honest findings of an unbiased researcher.
Speaker 1: But he also might interpret it as the motivated reasoning
Speaker 1: of a racist and might even stop asking the professor
Speaker 1: for advice. And Morris demonstrates mathematically that if the professor
Speaker 1: is sufficiently concerned about being thought a racist, he will
Speaker 1: lie and recommend DEI even when he knows it's a
Speaker 1: bad idea.
Speaker 2: For minorities.
Speaker 1: If he does tell the truth, his advice may come
Speaker 1: across as tainted by bias. The implications are unsettling for
Speaker 1: anyone trying to make decisions based on any academics recommendation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know I've come across this. I keep mentioning.
Speaker 3: I'm reading the book Sapiens, and it's about the development
Speaker 3: of Homo sapiens and different kinds of humans and everything
Speaker 3: like that, And there are multiple theories about how Homo
Speaker 3: sapiens ended up being the only.
Speaker 2: Human left.
Speaker 3: There were at one time six different kinds of humans
Speaker 3: living on the planet at the same time, and hopeless
Speaker 3: Homo sapiens ended up a jing as the only one.
Speaker 3: Nobody's exactly sure why, but one of the prominent theories
Speaker 3: is includes all kinds of interbreeding with different groups and
Speaker 3: them having different characteristics and levels of intelligence and abilities
Speaker 3: to do different things, and surviving in different parts of
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 2: That would lead you to believe there.
Speaker 3: Are differences between the races that can be measured, but
Speaker 3: nobody has the guts to pursue that because it could
Speaker 3: be used for all kinds of awful reasons and sounds bad,
Speaker 3: so nobody pursues what actually might be true, because it
Speaker 3: would be a problem.
Speaker 1: Anybody who says we probably better not uncover the truth
Speaker 1: because bad people could use it for X y Z
Speaker 1: I reject out of hand.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm not going there.
Speaker 1: Let's uncover the truth and then let's deal with the
Speaker 1: truth and say you can't use this to hurt or
Speaker 1: discriminate or whatever. That's fine, But the idea that I
Speaker 1: am so wise, I have perceived that the truth is
Speaker 1: too dangerous, and so I forbid you from researching it
Speaker 1: if you certain. Sorry for the frank use of letters,
Speaker 1: but no, I disagree, You're not that wise.
Speaker 3: My thirteen year old who's super into this sort of stuff,
Speaker 3: we were having this very conversation the other day and
Speaker 3: he said, well, even if even if that were true,
Speaker 3: it wouldn't make any difference because individuals still get to choose.
Speaker 2: You know, how hard you work, you're a level of education.
Speaker 3: I thought, if a thirteen year old can figure that out,
Speaker 3: then why is this so.
Speaker 1: Controversial a particularly bright one? But yeah, yeah, And so
Speaker 1: Friar gets back to his main point is the desperate
Speaker 1: need for true academic diversity and true free thought on campuses,
Speaker 1: and he's one hundred percent right. But I'm just the
Speaker 1: thing that makes me insane is the self righteous, generally
Speaker 1: college educated, generally white, generally women like the girl who
Speaker 1: said you're a white supremacist to the black boy, young
Speaker 1: man from a tough background.
Speaker 2: I mean, holy crap.
Speaker 1: But that woman and people who think like her, they
Speaker 1: don't care or they're not even curious about if DEI
Speaker 1: hurts or helps black people. It hurts them unquestionably in
Speaker 1: my opinion, they don't care about that. They just care
Speaker 1: about their own egos, and so they will screw and
Speaker 1: sentence black children generations more to awful outcomes in public schools,
Speaker 1: for instance, instead of seriously pursuing school reform to protect
Speaker 1: their own ego and their own beliefs.
Speaker 2: They are the opposite of honest.
Speaker 1: They are most the most insidious sort of self serving, dishonest,
Speaker 1: uncaring people.
Speaker 2: And I hate them. That's hate speech. I hate you for.
Speaker 3: Them when you use hate speeches, and I hate.
Speaker 1: You, that is hate speech. Saying DEI doesn't work, that's
Speaker 1: not hate speech. I hate well, that's DEI is a
Speaker 1: Marxist plant. It has nothing to do with race.
Speaker 3: So I got to run off to my son's high
Speaker 3: school for career day, Joel take over the last segment.
Speaker 2: Probably golf for wine, something like that.
Speaker 1: Golfing drunk. As a matter of fact, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: mention to him at the career day. One of the
Speaker 1: great pleasures as you can knock off early, right exactly.
Speaker 3: Anyway, we got We'll finished strong next.
Speaker 2: How you doing.
Speaker 1: Last segment of the week. I really like this. Chris
Speaker 1: sent this about women's sports. San Jose State volleyball called
Speaker 1: for a new civil rights march, and he describes how
Speaker 1: the state of Nevada doesn't really let the women on,
Speaker 1: for instance, University of Nevada say we're not playing against
Speaker 1: a dude, because Nevada has that bizarro post modern If
Speaker 1: a dude says he's a girl, suddenly he's a girl,
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden. We believe in magic in
Speaker 1: the twenty first century, right, how about some alcony turn
Speaker 1: I get some lead, you want to turn it into.
Speaker 2: Gold for me? Good lord?
Speaker 1: Anyway, and how that explains why a lot of the
Speaker 1: women aren't speaking out those some are. Then he suggests
Speaker 1: this maybe a school team might try this strategy. Show
Speaker 1: up at San Jose State when it's time to serve,
Speaker 1: have all the girls line up at the back of
Speaker 1: the court. Server lightly taps the ball from or pomlets
Speaker 1: that roll across the floor. Do not touch the ball.
Speaker 1: Make the ref pick it up when it's time receive.
Speaker 1: Have the girls line up at the back of the
Speaker 1: court the backs to the nets, squat down with hands
Speaker 1: over heads like duck and cover.
Speaker 2: Do not touch the ball.
Speaker 1: After losing twenty one zero, have the girls link elbows
Speaker 1: and walk off the court in the line without saying
Speaker 1: a word. The optics will say it all and he
Speaker 1: compares it to the march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge
Speaker 1: out of Selma, Alabama, nineteen sixty five. You know, I
Speaker 1: hesitate to make that comparison because other than you know,
Speaker 1: there certainly are acts of violence against women in women's
Speaker 1: sports by men who are claiming to be women, but
Speaker 1: it's not as widespread and horrifying as the violence against
Speaker 1: black people.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So that's a bit overly dramatic. But I like the
Speaker 1: idea of something dramatic and visual, don't.
Speaker 5: You, Yeah, some form of a protest. Yeah, And I
Speaker 5: like that because you know, they're not completely throwing, you know,
Speaker 5: not playing the actual game itself, but they're making a
Speaker 5: statement by what they do on the court.
Speaker 1: I like it, yeah, I mean to forfeit the game
Speaker 1: takes a lot of courage and iceolute these young women
Speaker 1: because they have administrators and the governments just threatening them
Speaker 1: and browbeating them and hinting, if not overtly threatening to
Speaker 1: take their scholarships away after they've spent all these years
Speaker 1: working to get one. And it's just it's incredibly immoral.
Speaker 1: But it's too easy for the mainstream media to ignore,
Speaker 1: which they are mostly if you have them standing on
Speaker 1: the court letting the ball fall, I just standing motionless,
Speaker 1: essentially getting out of the way of spikes.
Speaker 2: News would have to show that footage. And I like
Speaker 2: the idea.
Speaker 5: A lot of the girls on these teams who are
Speaker 5: taking it really hard online because all of these these
Speaker 5: teams have their own like Instagram pages and Twitter accounts
Speaker 5: and whatnot, and people are firing back at them for
Speaker 5: being haters.
Speaker 2: Just from Afar. Yeah, yeah, we were talking about that earlier.
Speaker 1: The double sided evil coin of number one dope e
Speaker 1: A holes get the idea that their stupid, stupid ideas
Speaker 1: are actually good ideas that are very popular because when
Speaker 1: you draw from eight billion people around the world, you
Speaker 1: can find you know, at least seventy five who will
Speaker 1: beg into anything. I think wet to chew off our
Speaker 1: thumbs today, just for fun, you can find fifty people
Speaker 1: around the world it would willingly chew off their thumb.
Speaker 2: And then and then those on the.
Speaker 1: Tics you would never hear from in your life, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like these poor young women, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they have those a holes pardon me, vicious jackass.
Speaker 2: Lunatics have a direct line to.
Speaker 1: Make themselves, make the women aware of them, to get
Speaker 1: the women's face, as it were.
Speaker 2: That's just human beings are not designed for the Internet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can adjust before we make
Speaker 1: ourselves nuts nuts sir, then we already just hey, whener
Speaker 1: that already happened? Final note apropos of nothing certainly not that.
Speaker 1: Elon Muskin Vive Ramaswami's new government efficiency department is now
Speaker 1: solictening applications on x You have to be a subscriber
Speaker 1: to Twitter to apply, But this is attractive. They're processing
Speaker 1: the applications in the usual way companies and government agencies do.
Speaker 2: Then Musk and.
Speaker 1: Ramaswami are going to personally review the top one percent
Speaker 1: of applicants.
Speaker 2: However, they come up with that.
Speaker 1: But the department, the actual ads said on X quote
Speaker 1: we need super high IQ small government revolutionaries willing to
Speaker 1: work eighty plus hours per week on on glamorous cost cutting.
Speaker 2: And then they said, and it's not clear.
Speaker 1: Oh, indeed, this will be tedious work, make lots of enemies,
Speaker 1: and compensation is zero. Now, I don't know if they
Speaker 1: meant literally it would be unpaid eighty hours a week successive.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're working six hours a day, that's
Speaker 1: twelve and a half hours.
Speaker 2: A day, six days a week.
Speaker 1: Twelve and a half hours per day, eight to eight
Speaker 1: thirty every day, six days a week. I believe in
Speaker 1: smaller government. But hey, boss, can I have this afternoon off?
Speaker 2: Please? Hey kids, it's that time again with Armstrong and getdy. Hey.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap things up for the day, beginning with our
Speaker 1: technical director Mike Langelo.
Speaker 2: Michael, final thought. You know Jack's doing a career day today.
Speaker 4: He should get up in front of the class and
Speaker 4: then act like Mike Tyson and say, you know what,
Speaker 4: this is what I do for a living. But it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter what you do, because they're all going to
Speaker 4: be gone soon. We'll all be dead and just depress
Speaker 4: the whole classroom.
Speaker 1: We'll all be dust and then just stare at the kids.
Speaker 1: Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 5: I will be attending a watch party to watch the
Speaker 5: Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight tonight. And I think Mike
Speaker 5: Tyson is going to knock.
Speaker 2: Jake Paul out. Really, yes, I think.
Speaker 1: And I take it from your tone and the look
Speaker 1: on your face, you're.
Speaker 2: Rooting for that. Oh yes, big time? All right? Jack
Speaker 2: is off at his kid's career day. Gosh.
Speaker 1: My final thought is I'm getting dragged into watching this
Speaker 1: Tyson thing. I object to it on the merits, on
Speaker 1: its face.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's.
Speaker 1: Bread and circuses, it's it's immoral. Can we read some
Speaker 1: proofs this evening?
Speaker 5: I think, if I'm keeping count, that's the forty third
Speaker 5: thing you've rejected this morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm a rejectionist.
Speaker 1: I actually I will gladly watch a bunch of bm
Speaker 1: ds and brightly colored uniforms slam into each other on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. So all right to each their own. So
Speaker 1: many people, thanks so a little time.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty fan. We'll see you Monday. God bless America,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of guy you're like, just smacking
Speaker 2: the ass. Don't get too popular. I'm all beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: Can I mean it? O care about legacy? After that?
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it's not serious. In particular, it can't
Speaker 2: be real. And again, thank you so much for sharing that.
Speaker 2: We'll just leave it there on this Faturday morning.
Speaker 6: Good Bye, a great Friday, you Mother, Armstrong and Geddy