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Speaker 3: I wish I had known the guy.
Speaker 5: He's a he's still alive, but he is dying of cancer.
Speaker 5: And he's a small town Nebraska guy. I'm a small
Speaker 5: town Kansas guy, and I just I wish I had
Speaker 5: known him because he's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 5: He is like what I picture the founding fathers were
Speaker 5: probably like, if you listened to them talk.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'd have made a good founding father. I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: well said yeah.
Speaker 5: And super smart guy, too good for politics. I just
Speaker 5: was watching the interview last night, and I've thought this
Speaker 5: many times. I've listened to interviews with them, I've read stuff,
Speaker 5: and we talked to him, and just like, why can't
Speaker 5: we have more people like this in our politics?
Speaker 3: Because they won't take the job.
Speaker 5: I guess most of the time where they won't say
Speaker 5: the things you need to say to get elected.
Speaker 4: I think it comes down to what does getting into
Speaker 4: politics for reward and what does it punish? And we
Speaker 4: get the leaders public servants we deserve because our politics
Speaker 4: are perverse.
Speaker 5: I retweeted the Ben Sas interview from sixty Minutes last night,
Speaker 5: saying everybody should watch it. Sarah Isger, who I really like, said,
Speaker 5: haven't seen a conversation like this intellectual, philosophical big picture
Speaker 5: on TV in decades. It's incredible. I would agree it
Speaker 5: was incredible. Let's listen to some of it. Here's Ben SaaS,
Speaker 5: who's dying of pancreatic cancer, on sixty Minutes last night.
Speaker 6: I love America, and I think there's a lot of
Speaker 6: big and meaty things that we should have been talking
Speaker 6: about and we still can talk about. And having a
Speaker 6: terminal diagnosis isn't really that unique. We're all always on
Speaker 6: the clock. Some of us have the benefit maybe it's
Speaker 6: a weird word, but the benefit of knowing our time
Speaker 6: is finite and defined. Then it becomes an opportunity to
Speaker 6: talk about bigger stuff and you have focus from that. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean it's weird to be in your early fifties
Speaker 6: and get a terminal diagnosis, and people all of a
Speaker 6: sudden act like you're ninety three or ninety four and
Speaker 6: you have a lot of wisdom. I don't know that
Speaker 6: I have a lot of wisdom, but I have a
Speaker 6: lot of things that I think we should be reflecting
Speaker 6: on together.
Speaker 3: Oh, and he lays out some of them right here.
Speaker 6: Neither of these parties really have very big or good
Speaker 6: ideas about twenty thirty or twenty fifty. At a national
Speaker 6: security level, at a future work level, at an institution
Speaker 6: building level, the Congress is not wrestling with bigger important
Speaker 6: questions right now.
Speaker 7: If Congress is looking at the wrong things, what is
Speaker 7: it missing.
Speaker 6: We are living through a digital revolution, which is both
Speaker 6: glorious and horrific at the same time, because what the
Speaker 6: digital revolution does is it accelerates almost everything about the
Speaker 6: human experience. Anything that can be reduced to a series
Speaker 6: of stabs, which is most economic activity, is going to
Speaker 6: be routinized and become really really cheap, really fast, and
Speaker 6: really ubiquitous. We've never lived in a world where twenty
Speaker 6: two year olds couldn't assume that the work they did
Speaker 6: they would be able to do until death of retirement,
Speaker 6: and we're never going to have that world again. And
Speaker 6: Congress doesn't talk about any of those kind of most
Speaker 6: fundamental issues. The disruption of work for good and for
Speaker 6: ill should be front and central. Congress doesn't even not
Speaker 6: have that conversation.
Speaker 4: It's an enormous conversation in the small liberty in me
Speaker 4: is concerned that Congress will respond by passing gigantic, expensive
Speaker 4: government programs that will be rife with bloat and fraud.
Speaker 3: I had another point I was going to make. It
Speaker 3: is actually more positive than that.
Speaker 4: Oh, but there should be thinking before the storm hits,
Speaker 4: in the same way that a lot of the world
Speaker 4: health organizations and our health organizations thought a lot about
Speaker 4: what if there was a giant pandemic, how should we
Speaker 4: handle it? Then when it hit, they panicked and didn't
Speaker 4: do any of the things they said they were going
Speaker 4: to do, which they should have stuck with. But a
Speaker 4: little planning, a little if this then that I think
Speaker 4: would be really helpful before the AI.
Speaker 3: Ending work as we know it the thing really manifests.
Speaker 5: Let's start down the road of Ben Saz talking about
Speaker 5: the role politics should play in our lives.
Speaker 6: What makes you a Republican. I'm a Republican because I
Speaker 6: think the Lincoln Reagan continuum does the best job building
Speaker 6: constraint on thinking Washington is our fundamental political community. I
Speaker 6: think your fundamental political community is your neighborhood, in your
Speaker 6: city hall, and maybe even your state legislature. And right
Speaker 6: now we are sacrificing a lot of our national politics
Speaker 6: to weird folks who want their main community to be
Speaker 6: their political tribe at a federal level. And that should
Speaker 6: be like the ninth thing or the fifteenth thing you
Speaker 6: care about, not the first or second thing.
Speaker 3: I would agree weird folks.
Speaker 6: He goes on, it's no secret that the current president
Speaker 6: and I wrestled on lots and lots of issues. But
Speaker 6: I don't spend much time commenting on our current politics
Speaker 6: because I don't really think our current politics are driving
Speaker 6: what's happening. I think it's mostly an echo of what's happening.
Speaker 6: I think we have really thin, shallow community right now,
Speaker 6: and unless people know the thickness of their local community,
Speaker 6: it's hard to make sense of what national politics are
Speaker 6: for I think sational political dysfunction is an echo of
Speaker 6: larger problems.
Speaker 5: That's troubling and correct I believe and correct and going
Speaker 5: to be hard to fix in the Internet.
Speaker 4: Era, thin shallow connections to our communities that sounds about
Speaker 4: right and feeling like really really strong connection to whoever
Speaker 4: is president at the moment right, and the two camps
Speaker 4: becoming more and more quasi religious too. In various ways,
Speaker 4: he got asked about what's conservative or not? Oh, actually,
Speaker 4: this is a clip they played from so Ben Sass
Speaker 4: was one of the yes votes to remove Trump from
Speaker 4: office after January sixth.
Speaker 5: He was one of the Republicans that voted yes. Was
Speaker 5: there a total of six or seven?
Speaker 3: Seven? I believe you.
Speaker 5: He voted yes to remove him. And he had to
Speaker 5: explain to his Nebraska voters why he didn't think a
Speaker 5: lot of the stuff Trump did was conservative.
Speaker 8: Here's some of that personality. Cults aren't conservative. Conspiracy theories
Speaker 8: aren't conservative. Lying that an election has been stolen, it's
Speaker 8: not conservative. Acting like politics as a religion, it isn't conservative.
Speaker 3: So I turned some of you off, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: And then more importantly to me, this conversation about again
Speaker 5: people the weird people that want to be in national office.
Speaker 7: Many senators I know would not be able to breathe
Speaker 7: without that job, it would kill them to leave.
Speaker 6: I don't want what you said to be true, but
Speaker 6: I fear that that is true, and that is a
Speaker 6: sign of a much, much deeper problem. We got a
Speaker 6: lot of people who serve in government who really do
Speaker 6: think the highest and greatest thing you can ever do
Speaker 6: is have the title senator or congressman. The best thing
Speaker 6: you can do is be called dad or mom, bluffer, neighbor, friend, governor, senator,
Speaker 6: house member. It's a great way to serve. It should
Speaker 6: be your eleventh calling, or maybe sixth, but never top.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you do in Your national sport is
Speaker 4: federal politics and your quasi religion is federal politics. And
Speaker 4: I can probably come up with a couple of more
Speaker 4: metaphors because it's morphed into this weird way beyond what
Speaker 4: politics ever has been the thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so what what did you you said? Our national
Speaker 5: religion and.
Speaker 4: Uh and uh sports national pastime?
Speaker 5: Yeah, our national past time. It's our number one TV show.
Speaker 5: The number one TV show in America isn't entertainment, Cosby
Speaker 5: or Seinfeld. It's what did Trump do today? And how
Speaker 5: were the good mean things said about him?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's a it is our pastime, our entertainment.
Speaker 5: We think the answer to all our problems comes out
Speaker 5: of Washington, d C. And specifically the president. Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker 5: It is absolutely trouble and not the way it was designed.
Speaker 4: And I agree with Ben Sass that a lot of
Speaker 4: the current weirdness we have in politics are a reflection
Speaker 4: of that. Because again, later in the hour, we're going
Speaker 4: to get to the casual embrace of like murderous violence
Speaker 4: on the left and some of the things that have
Speaker 4: been said recently, and you don't get there. That's not
Speaker 4: one step to get there. That's being way down a
Speaker 4: path that you suddenly embrace somebody who says we need
Speaker 4: to have these people's blood, blood running through the streets,
Speaker 4: we need to slaughter these people. People nodding their head.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, the whole radical chic thing. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: where we go from here. We're not gonna play it here.
Speaker 5: But if you watch the interview, the last part of
Speaker 5: it is about him being a very Ben Sas being
Speaker 5: a very devout Calvinist, Reformed Church Calvinist, and him talking
Speaker 5: about what that means to him and how he looks
Speaker 5: at death and dying through that Lens and all that
Speaker 5: sort of stuff, and then oh my god, the stuff
Speaker 5: about not getting to walk his daughters down the aisle
Speaker 5: or being there for his son when he's sixteen, eighteen, twenty.
Speaker 4: Ooh, trying to stay optimistic about that. Yeah, that was
Speaker 4: very very, very heavy and emotionally that was something.
Speaker 3: But who is there?
Speaker 5: Is there any way we can break out of this
Speaker 5: in the Internet era? You don't raise money with interviews
Speaker 5: like that as a politician.
Speaker 4: No, And I've got an extremely provocative philosophical question for you.
Speaker 3: Do we have time? Yes, we do.
Speaker 4: In a time where mobs are running wild in the streets,
Speaker 4: will of Ben Sassby heard?
Speaker 3: Can he be heard?
Speaker 4: Or? And I know a lot of my younger friends
Speaker 4: on the right would say, look, I agree with him,
Speaker 4: But if the Ben sass is the world, the political
Speaker 4: pacifists will get absolutely bowled over, bowled over, bulldozed by
Speaker 4: the howling mob. We've got to neutralize their howling mob
Speaker 4: with ours before we can even hope to have the
Speaker 4: samee conversation.
Speaker 5: Well, and he and and and ah and a Ben
Speaker 5: SaaS in most districts is not going to lose to
Speaker 5: a Democrat. You're going to get primaried on the right
Speaker 5: right and get and lose. Same same with anybody who
Speaker 5: tries to be anything like Ben SaaS as a Democrat,
Speaker 5: you're going to get primaried on the left by an
Speaker 5: AOC or somebody. Yeah, talking about public if you can
Speaker 5: keep it talking about how evil capitalism and how trumps Hitler.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I don't know how we break out of that.
Speaker 5: Couldn't recommend that interview with Ben SaaS, even if you
Speaker 5: ignore the government stuff and just do the child rearing,
Speaker 5: how you face death stuff, because it's really good.
Speaker 4: If anybody knows how to fix this, call me at
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Speaker 3: Faxit to the President quickly.
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Speaker 9: A man calling himself Charles Chen reached out to me
Speaker 9: on social media over the following weeks. He asked detailed
Speaker 9: questions about my background, offered to pay for a trip
Speaker 9: to China, sent me a flight itinerary to Shanghai, and
Speaker 9: pressured me to move our conversation to wichat an app
Speaker 9: that is monitored by the CCP.
Speaker 3: That's a young woman by the name of Elsa Johnson.
Speaker 4: She is a Stanford University student testifying to something a
Speaker 4: story that we brought you a number of months ago
Speaker 4: about how she was actively recruited by Chinese spies who
Speaker 4: are looking for more Stanford students and scientists and research
Speaker 4: assistants to do work for the Communist Chinese. I am
Speaker 4: struck by the fact that was on CBS News and
Speaker 4: for all of the idiotic yelling about when Barry Weiss
Speaker 4: took over as whatever executive editor, the just horrifically ridiculous
Speaker 4: muling by the far lefties. It's obvious to me what
Speaker 4: Barry is doing. She's saying, that's a huge story. Yes,
Speaker 4: we're going to cover it. To stuff that is obviously
Speaker 4: a huge story that ought to be covered, like hundreds
Speaker 4: of communists at No King's rallies, for instance. That would
Speaker 4: be lovely, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 4: Miss Johnson goes on to discuss how the Communist Chinese
Speaker 4: agent attempted to put his hooks in her.
Speaker 9: He publicly commented on one of my Instagram posts in
Speaker 9: Mandarin asking me to delete screenshots. I had taken of
Speaker 9: our conversation. I do not know how he knew I
Speaker 9: had these screenshotso the FBI confirmed he had no affiliation
Speaker 9: with Stanford. He was likely operating on behalf of China's Ministry.
Speaker 3: Of State Security. I was one of at least.
Speaker 9: Ten female students he targeted. Since twenty twenty, after my
Speaker 9: co author, Garrett Malloy, and I published our investigation, the
Speaker 9: incidents worsened. I began receiving intimidation calls, where callers would
Speaker 9: switch to Mandarin and in one case the caller referenced
Speaker 9: my mother. Just this week, I received another call from
Speaker 9: US number. After exchanging hellos, the caller switched to Mandarin
Speaker 9: and asked whether I had finished dinner. I have also
Speaker 9: received threatening scam emails attempting to convince me to take
Speaker 9: down my reporting on this issue.
Speaker 5: Ah, that's stuff about get rid of your screenshots. I
Speaker 5: have no idea how they knew I had screenshots, or
Speaker 5: did you finish dinner, which I assume.
Speaker 3: Is she was eating dinner at the time. Yeah, just to.
Speaker 5: Let you know where got an eye on you right now,
Speaker 5: which would be this sort.
Speaker 4: Of thing happens hundreds of times, certainly a week or
Speaker 4: a month in the US, especially on university campuses which
Speaker 4: are teeming with Chinese nationals or Chinese Americans who have
Speaker 4: family back in the homeland and therefore have you know,
Speaker 4: points of the leverage against them. Yeah, she is an
Speaker 4: incredibly brave young woman, by the way, I salute her.
Speaker 4: This one more example of how we are the most comfortable,
Speaker 4: least aware superpower that's ever existed on Earth.
Speaker 3: We just don't protect ourselves. Yeah, man, it'd be sacked.
Speaker 3: A lot of us hate ourselves.
Speaker 5: It'd be so easy to just, you know, copy some
Speaker 5: documents from whatever department you're in at the university and
Speaker 5: send them to whatever email address you're supposed to, just
Speaker 5: to avoid the whatever they might do to your family
Speaker 5: back home. You think, what good is this stuff from
Speaker 5: the college you're going to do. It's no big deal.
Speaker 5: It's not like their nuclear secrets or something like that.
Speaker 3: And it'd be so easy to go along with that stuff. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this gal she was.
Speaker 4: She was just reporting on what China was doing on campus,
Speaker 4: trying to recruit students, and so she wasn't even like
Speaker 4: a target for recruitment. She was somebody who was talking
Speaker 4: about it. And then she bashed Stanford for failing to
Speaker 4: help her deal with the alleged foreign espionage, saying that
Speaker 4: she was quote a freshman navigating a foreign intelligence operation
Speaker 4: with no institutional support.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: So she ultimately the Hoover Institution, which is the conservative thinking,
Speaker 4: conservative leaning think tank that operates on Stanford's campus, as
Speaker 4: like a weird It's almost like East Germany back in
Speaker 4: the day, if you remember that, it was this outpost
Speaker 4: of in this case, sanity, in the midst of the
Speaker 4: insanity of Stanford. The university told her, yeah, we can't
Speaker 4: help here, and the Hoover Institution said, wait, what is happening?
Speaker 4: Will help you. We're gonna connect you with the FBI
Speaker 4: and get you some good advice and some good protection.
Speaker 3: Way to go.
Speaker 4: Hoover Institution, then the spokeshole for the ridiculous Stanford that
Speaker 4: quote the university takes any allegations of undo foreign influence
Speaker 4: seriously and has robust policies and procedures to protect students. Okay,
Speaker 4: I don't know what to tell you other than what
Speaker 4: we've told you many times before. China is actively trying
Speaker 4: to bring us down, and a lot of American society
Speaker 4: doesn't really care China's ass in short, Yes, sir, that's correct.
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Speaker 10: Two Army soldiers are in the hospital with serious injuries
Speaker 10: after a bear attack in Alaska, a spokesperson with the
Speaker 10: eleventh Airborne Division stating the soldiers were participating in a
Speaker 10: land navigation training exercise on Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf,
Speaker 10: Richardson when they encountered the bear in a remote area.
Speaker 10: Both soldiers deployed bear spripe during the attack, but sustained
Speaker 10: serious injuries and were taken to a hospital in Anchorage.
Speaker 10: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game responded to the incident,
Speaker 10: determining it appears to be a defensive attack by a
Speaker 10: bear recently emerged from a den, and initial reports identified
Speaker 10: the involved animal as a brown bear.
Speaker 3: Wow, soft on bear crime, That's what I say.
Speaker 5: And you joined the military, you don't think about being
Speaker 5: injured by a bear?
Speaker 3: No, indeed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's terrible. I'm glad the guys are well. They're
Speaker 4: certainly going to survive. Bel Oh, God knows what sort
Speaker 4: of injuries they have. We got this note from Eric
Speaker 4: in bald Mound, Illinois number one. Herrick bald Mound needs
Speaker 4: to hold vote like this week to get a better name. Wow,
Speaker 4: what I mean, like virtually anything would be a better name. Anyway,
Speaker 4: Eric says, I lived in Anchorage for thirty one years.
Speaker 4: There are many bear encounters every year. You should have
Speaker 4: an Alaska bear report weekly or monthly. That's a compelling idea.
Speaker 4: We'll consider it, and he sends along this headline report
Speaker 4: bear injured woman's backside while she was using an outhouse
Speaker 4: near Haines, Alaska, literally bit on the ass as she
Speaker 4: attempted to use an outhouse at his ill treatment. Second
Speaker 4: bear related story on the show today. By the way,
Speaker 4: if you've listened to the whole thing includes some would
Speaker 4: be criminal geniuses in southern California vandalizing.
Speaker 3: Cars while wearing a bear suit.
Speaker 5: Back to you have an I ran update for you
Speaker 5: in a second. There's a little confusion going on. Nobody's
Speaker 5: exactly sure what's happening. But are you following the whole
Speaker 5: missing scientist story? Yeah, kind of tangible, Is it real?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the guy wandered off, but I don't know. No,
Speaker 4: there's ten missing scientists.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, the news coverage is about at least ten
Speaker 5: scientists or research link figures that have been cited as
Speaker 5: either are missing or recently died in mysterious circumstances. The
Speaker 5: story has spread quickly because several of the cases involved
Speaker 5: sensitive government or defense adjacent work. Can't I can't figure
Speaker 5: out if this is like an internet BS story or
Speaker 5: a real story.
Speaker 3: Fox was just talking about it.
Speaker 4: I the last time I read about it, I thought, Oh,
Speaker 4: this is internet BS. If you can take the entire
Speaker 4: world of government, science and the rest of it, and
Speaker 4: a bunch of guys who were older, certain number of
Speaker 4: got you gonna die, and.
Speaker 6: You know what that is?
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm a fool. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I could see how you could put that together and
Speaker 5: make it work, though, yeah, do it with like ex
Speaker 5: major League ballplayers next right, exactly exactly. I was watching
Speaker 5: a highlight from Tucker Carlson over the weekend where he
Speaker 5: was talking about he said, and I quote, I feel
Speaker 5: sorry for Trump as I do for all slaves. He's
Speaker 5: talking about how Trump is a slave to the Israeli's
Speaker 5: needs and wants.
Speaker 3: Of course, Yanta Jews.
Speaker 5: I feel sorry for Trump as I do for all slaves.
Speaker 5: They can't possibly be friends anymore, can they?
Speaker 3: No? Tucker and Trump?
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 3: Trump has said he's essentially he's dead to me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I can understand why. So here we have Tucker. Are
Speaker 3: you used to Are you moving off Tucker? Or yeah?
Speaker 3: I was going to have more.
Speaker 4: Because evidently he's repeatedly, lately, repeatedly taken a praising Sharia
Speaker 4: law and suggesting that Islam and it is a totalitarian
Speaker 4: legal code, offer an inspiring moral clarity in contrast with
Speaker 4: today's Western decadence. He even announced his attention to buy
Speaker 4: a house and cut her, which he should.
Speaker 3: Because there's employer run this another time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know what's going on there. So there
Speaker 5: are conflicting reports on what's happening on with the whole
Speaker 5: ceasefire Iran blowing up all their bridges and power plants thing.
Speaker 5: CNN has said that talks are set for tomorrow, contradictoring
Speaker 5: reports from The New York Post are and others are
Speaker 5: that the US delegation led by Vice President jad Vance
Speaker 5: is set to lend Pakistan today for talks. Trump just
Speaker 5: said on one of the TV channels that Wednesday evening
Speaker 5: is the debt new deadline. According to Reuters, citing a
Speaker 5: senior Iranian official, Iran is considering attending the talks in
Speaker 5: Islamabad as Pakistani mediators worked to end the US blockaded
Speaker 5: the Straight of Horn moves. That's the first I've heard
Speaker 5: of any Iranian officials showing up at all, although that
Speaker 5: might be, as we were talking about earlier, the politicians
Speaker 5: and not anybody from the Revolutionary Guard who would seem
Speaker 5: is actually in charge of whether or not the Straight
Speaker 5: opens or not.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I could conceive of maybe the civilians and the politicians,
Speaker 4: as you put it, saying hey, look, here's the deal.
Speaker 4: We can't get anything past the IRGC. Here's how you
Speaker 4: bring them to their knees. You do that for us,
Speaker 4: we'll cut you a deal. I could conceive of that happening.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it is, but that's the only way
Speaker 4: those guys have any influence in anything. They don't have
Speaker 4: the guns, they don't have as many guns.
Speaker 5: And again to quote Donald Trump, he said, up in
Speaker 5: an Iran deal is not signed by now Wednesday evening,
Speaker 5: we will blow up every single power plant and bridge
Speaker 5: in Iran, which is a heck of a threat. And
Speaker 5: maybe he means it, I don't know. Okay, we'll keep
Speaker 5: our eye on this. Different story came across this headline
Speaker 5: over the weekend, and I know somebody personally.
Speaker 3: Who has done this headline.
Speaker 5: And the Wall Street Journal was students are speeding through
Speaker 5: their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators.
Speaker 3: That is so funny.
Speaker 4: Judy and I had a long drive back and forth yesterday.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you about it more later, but we saw
Speaker 4: some billboards for university or college that I'd never heard of.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, often when we do that, Judy, you'll
Speaker 4: like google it and we'll read about it together. And
Speaker 4: it was an online university. Well, and I was thinking,
Speaker 4: what would it take to.
Speaker 3: Get a lot? I don't know, maybe I get a degree.
Speaker 5: That's interesting. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking
Speaker 5: about the online classes you can take at regular universities.
Speaker 5: The person I know, for instance, I'm not gonna mention
Speaker 5: the university because I don't want to get this person involved,
Speaker 5: but it's one of your big universities you've heard of.
Speaker 3: They have a very.
Speaker 5: Well known basketball team and commuted to big university. This
Speaker 5: person I know who is graduating here in a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks is going to attend the graduation. They've never
Speaker 5: set foot in the state, let alone on this campus.
Speaker 5: They did their degree very a short amount of time.
Speaker 3: It was shocking to me how they were done already.
Speaker 5: It said, this particular article in the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 5: was it takes most college students who are at the
Speaker 5: campuses at least four years to earn a bachelor's degree.
Speaker 5: This person that they quoted finished in three months. Yes,
Speaker 5: the person I know. I don't think it was three months,
Speaker 5: but it was really short to finish a degree having
Speaker 5: never degree.
Speaker 3: Or advanced degree.
Speaker 5: This was an advanced degree, but it's still and this
Speaker 5: one was still like a year and a half or
Speaker 5: two year program that they did in months, but in
Speaker 5: a graduate degree from a major university having never set
Speaker 5: foot in the state. Now, is there there's no reason
Speaker 5: why that can't be true if you're allowed to go
Speaker 5: at your own pace. From everything we've learned about colleges currently,
Speaker 5: where on average, I just read this the other day,
Speaker 5: on average, students attend twenty hours a week. I think
Speaker 5: of classes, right, that's including studying, studying and attending classes
Speaker 5: twenty hours a week. Well, then if you wanted to
Speaker 5: kick ass and do like forty hours a week or
Speaker 5: maybe even sixty cents. You might not have a job
Speaker 5: and run to really buckle down. Yeah, you could get
Speaker 5: down pretty fast.
Speaker 4: This person, you know, what was their situation roughly? Did
Speaker 4: they have lots of time to devote to it or Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm just trying to figure out how much of a
Speaker 4: like blowoff easy scam this is and how much is
Speaker 4: just a question of applying yourself on your own schedule,
Speaker 4: because those are two very different things.
Speaker 5: I have no idea how hard it is, although from
Speaker 5: everything I read, a lot of these degrees are not
Speaker 5: very hard.
Speaker 3: You know, it'd be hilarious because my daughter.
Speaker 4: Actually the reason we drove back and forth is Judy
Speaker 4: announced that she was going to drive the two and
Speaker 4: a half hours issh to where de Lanny's going to
Speaker 4: law school and just have lunch with her and give
Speaker 4: her a little supporter. She goes into finals, and I
Speaker 4: canceled my golf game. Well, I found a pinch hitter,
Speaker 4: and I can't believe if I almost didn't do this
Speaker 4: and went with her and we had a wonderful day
Speaker 4: and gave her some raw raw.
Speaker 3: We believe in you blowed big hugs.
Speaker 1: Baby.
Speaker 3: It was wonderful great to see her too.
Speaker 4: Anyway, how funny would it be as she is just
Speaker 4: about to finish her second year of law school if
Speaker 4: I got my.
Speaker 3: Law degree before she did.
Speaker 4: Sorry, honey, the well I almost said, the College of
Speaker 4: Saint Martin and the Caribbean has a worted me a
Speaker 4: doctor of juris. Uh, but you're saying this is a legitian.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't think the issue is here that this article
Speaker 5: was not about offline online No, this is about regular
Speaker 5: colleges that offer their online stuff and because you could
Speaker 5: do it at at your own.
Speaker 3: Pace, you could just get done really really fast.
Speaker 5: What it gets to is the lack of rigor in
Speaker 5: you know, current degrees. It's just not very much work
Speaker 5: and not very hard, and they're dragging it out over
Speaker 5: four years so they can charge it for eight semesters
Speaker 5: or whatever and make so much money.
Speaker 4: But it's a resort where you occasionally go to informational lectures. Right,
Speaker 4: So what college is now occasionally if you want to, yeah,
Speaker 4: and everybody gets an A.
Speaker 5: And everybody gets an A exactly right. It's they've done
Speaker 5: this to themselves. They've completely blown up their whole thing.
Speaker 5: It's in the it's got to be in the dying
Speaker 5: days of anybody having any respect for this whole system.
Speaker 4: It's gotta be unless it does some serious reforming of itself,
Speaker 4: which they're trying. I want to talk to tomorrow about Yale's
Speaker 4: Law school and how they've realized, oh, people are mocking
Speaker 4: us and we suck and we probably ought to do
Speaker 4: something about it.
Speaker 5: Well, that's what I'm meant, and it's current incarnation, it's
Speaker 5: in its dying days. I hope it reforms yourself. If
Speaker 5: my kids go to college and we pay. First of all,
Speaker 5: the prices.
Speaker 3: Need to come down. Secondly, you need to actually learn stuff.
Speaker 5: It needs to be challenging, and you need to come out,
Speaker 5: like with knowledge about something.
Speaker 3: We've talked about that before.
Speaker 5: There are all kinds of studies that show that people
Speaker 5: come out of with no more knowledge than they had
Speaker 5: going in.
Speaker 3: Right, they're just poor and their ear lobes and death.
Speaker 5: God, wh we're so fat and soft and jacket and
Speaker 5: it's just amazing.
Speaker 3: I know, I am yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean one of the reforms that they al is
Speaker 4: trying to get going, and this is in until recently
Speaker 4: the number one law school in America is they are
Speaker 4: trying to move the median grade average, right, your average grade, They're.
Speaker 3: Trying to move it from an A to a B.
Speaker 3: What are we doing here? No kidding? Oh my god? Boy?
Speaker 5: Well, certainly in the last it started with the uh
Speaker 5: whatever they call that scandal, with finding out that kids
Speaker 5: got into with their fake rowing credentials sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: That that didn't bother me at all.
Speaker 4: Compared to the DEI and the Great inflation and the
Speaker 4: and all the Mark Neil Marxist destruction.
Speaker 3: All that didn't bother me in the least.
Speaker 5: You combine it all, though, and you you blow up me.
Speaker 5: Me Having I hear you went to Harvard, Certainly if
Speaker 5: you went in the two thousands means zero to me
Speaker 5: until I have conversations with you and determine your level
Speaker 5: of intelligence.
Speaker 3: Not the least bit impressed. No, indeed, in.
Speaker 5: Fact, makes me less likely to think much of you.
Speaker 5: Probably it was the other direction at this point. Boy,
Speaker 5: that's a that's not good bang for your buck.
Speaker 4: We're asking AI earlier, what does an economy look like
Speaker 4: if there's no scarcity, if there's a universal high income,
Speaker 4: how it it change, and.
Speaker 3: It's fairly mind boggling. In the AI could just kind
Speaker 3: of well it nobody's really sure.
Speaker 4: Uh run the experiment, Hey, AI, what is a society
Speaker 4: that's so successful and prosperous and safe that it just
Speaker 4: completely loses this edge?
Speaker 3: What would that look like? You know?
Speaker 5: I would get one of those degrees, but I don't
Speaker 5: want to spend the money just to be able to
Speaker 5: make the funny comment that I have an Art History
Speaker 5: Masters from the University of Kentucky.
Speaker 4: I was shocked how expensive it was to get an
Speaker 4: online like legit university law degree.
Speaker 3: It was damn near as expensive as going there. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we can do it pretty fast. Apparently interesting if you
Speaker 3: work at it. Let's be realistic. I don't want to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 5: There's how much reading what? I have anxiety, so I
Speaker 5: need extra time on this. I shouldn't have to do
Speaker 5: the reading.
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Speaker 4: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, continuing on.
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Speaker 4: The enemies of freedom have always charged its defenders with subversion,
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Speaker 3: Very much. What's happening on today's school campuses? Uh?
Speaker 4: You know, defenders of freedom are the racists and the
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Speaker 4: duck Master from the crow Whisperer Kevin the Texas Marine
Speaker 4: with some congratulations to duck Master Jack for what my
Speaker 4: coworkers have called the crow whisper. That would be Kevin himself.
Speaker 4: Befriending birds can be fun. I've made friends with crows
Speaker 4: at my work. One will hang out on my toolbox
Speaker 4: and talk to me. A couple of my coworkers mocked
Speaker 4: me for it. It now leave food for them as well.
Speaker 4: Crows are amazing. They have their communications networks are extensive,
Speaker 4: and their memories last for years and years and years.
Speaker 5: My son Henry told me the other day. He said,
Speaker 5: because we saw a crow. He said, a crow is
Speaker 5: as smart as a seven year old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: They will absolutely remember anybody who menaces them or I've
Speaker 4: heard that offering them a shiny object in the springtime.
Speaker 4: Much like a methad, you offer a crow some like
Speaker 4: shiny like tinsely stuff or something for their nest, they
Speaker 4: will remember you as a friend and somebody who is
Speaker 4: kind to them.
Speaker 3: So I got to try. That sounds kind of cool.
Speaker 5: It always reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.
Speaker 5: The crows seem to be calling his name, thought, Kau,
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: I just realize you may have made friends for multi
Speaker 4: generational animal lives. Can't speak for ducks, but crows and
Speaker 4: ravens teach their offspring who's a good person who's bad.
Speaker 4: Hope Henry appreciates this. Since my neighbor who fed ducks
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago now has several early spring.
Speaker 3: Am I going to be running from flocks of ducks?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 4: That being said, anyone willing to save a random animal's
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Speaker 4: on the other hand, says, make sure to remind Jack
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