Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and no He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: President Trump tells NBC News that he is quote very
Speaker 3: angry at Putin for criticizing Ukrainian President Vladimir z Lenski,
Speaker 3: now threatening to impose additional tariffs.
Speaker 2: He says, twenty five.
Speaker 3: To fifty percent on Russian oil if Putin stands.
Speaker 2: In the way of a deal. So we're going to
Speaker 2: get the two wars we are kind of involved in
Speaker 2: out of the way here this segment, at least for now,
Speaker 2: first Russia Ukraine. Trump saying he's really pissed off at
Speaker 2: Putin is the first negative ish thing he said about
Speaker 2: Putin maybe ever, certainly in this attempt to brok her
Speaker 2: apiece and.
Speaker 4: Attack some pretty serious economic sanctions to is anger.
Speaker 2: And we'll see where that goes. But I was surprised
Speaker 2: how little talk as in. I didn't hear it anywhere.
Speaker 2: The giant Sunday New York Times front page piece about
Speaker 2: our involvement from the beginning of helping the Ukrainians being
Speaker 2: so much more than it had ever been reported. Now.
Speaker 2: The why that was in there at that time is
Speaker 2: kind of interesting. I don't know if that's just when
Speaker 2: they got the reporting together, or if this is some
Speaker 2: sort of effort to let people know how involved we
Speaker 2: are so we need to continue, or I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe there's no political thing to it at all. It
Speaker 2: might it might just be journalism. But did you read that?
Speaker 2: It is quite amazing? Yeah, I read of It's like
Speaker 2: four parts. It's like one of those We're going to
Speaker 2: win a Pulzerprize over this incredibly long pieces that they wrote.
Speaker 2: But one of the lead paragraphs about it New York
Speaker 2: Times reporting that Ukrainian in hi Mars when we gave
Speaker 2: them those super fancy missiles and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: The strikes on Russia were directly coordinated from a US
Speaker 2: military base in Germany. We were in charge of the
Speaker 2: coordinates and the we gave them this stuff, coordinate everything really,
Speaker 2: really the whole thing, right, just we're across the border,
Speaker 2: your fingers on the triggers. That's it. Revealing the Ukraine's
Speaker 2: dependence on US support was far deeper than anyone had realized.
Speaker 2: And they go into from the very beginning, like day two,
Speaker 2: A truck pulls up in Kiev, picks up a couple
Speaker 2: of Ukrainian generals, all under secret, you know, protected by
Speaker 2: British secrets, so all this sort of stuff gets them
Speaker 2: to the border. They go to our military base that
Speaker 2: we've got in Germany, and we immediately start the instructing, planning,
Speaker 2: coordinating at a very very deep level, like we're running
Speaker 2: the war, right, which I always assumed. I've said many
Speaker 2: times and I've always assumed that there's no way they're
Speaker 2: doing this without our help. But right, that's funny.
Speaker 4: I had the same reaction that it was very very
Speaker 4: thorough and interesting but not surprising.
Speaker 2: And by the way, a lot of folks on the.
Speaker 4: What do you call it, the new right, the isolationist right,
Speaker 4: is there a name, the woke right, the JD vance
Speaker 4: Ish right, And I love JD in a lot of ways,
Speaker 4: but not so much in others. If you're making the
Speaker 4: argument that that was a bad policy and unjustified and
Speaker 4: we provoked to Russia, that's fine, but you got to stop.
Speaker 2: Just calling people neocons. That's not an argument. It's like
Speaker 2: the left calls everybody fascists. You're just you're not advancing
Speaker 2: the football, but maybe that's not what you want to
Speaker 2: do ideologically, you're not convincing anybody of anything. There were
Speaker 2: also the New York Times reports SMEs some months earlier,
Speaker 2: at the very beginning of the war, and they mentioned
Speaker 2: this general had been allowed to send a small team
Speaker 2: about a dozen officers to Kiev, easing the prohibition on
Speaker 2: American boots on Ukrainian ground, by calling them SMEs so
Speaker 2: as not to evoke memories of the American military advisors
Speaker 2: sent to South Vietnam that ended up being because it
Speaker 2: was advisers, they called them advisors. They called them advisors
Speaker 2: all through the Kennedy administration. Pretty soon you're in a
Speaker 2: full on war kind of what we were doing then,
Speaker 2: same thing, except this time instead of advisors, they called
Speaker 2: them SMEs subject matter experts. Oh so we sent in
Speaker 2: a dozen subject matter experts.
Speaker 4: Ah, that's weird, the government using obscure terms to obscure
Speaker 4: what they're doing.
Speaker 2: American military advisors that were right in Kiva, a dozen
Speaker 2: of them, right at the beginning of the war and
Speaker 2: coordinating all kinds of their respons This is what you
Speaker 2: should do where when, and this is what our intelligence shows.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you remember the very beginning of the war.
Speaker 2: It was just stunning the way Ukraine was able to
Speaker 2: halt that invasion and the tanks and all that sort
Speaker 2: of stuff. It's because we were as involved as you
Speaker 2: could get without us actually just you know, dropping the
Speaker 2: airborne rangers there, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And yet there was that very halting, incremental
Speaker 4: increase in support by the Biden administration, right, which is interesting.
Speaker 4: You know, the books will be written, I suppose, and
Speaker 4: they'll disagree with each other, but the incoherence of his
Speaker 4: policy will, you know, fascinate me for the rest of
Speaker 4: my days. Well, according to both the Woodward and the
Speaker 4: Sanger book, it was all about Biden really worrying that
Speaker 4: he could trigger Putin wanting to use nuclear weapons, and
Speaker 4: like Secretary of State Blincoln was further on the other
Speaker 4: side of we got to push harder, we got to
Speaker 4: push harder.
Speaker 2: We don't need to be so scared. But that was
Speaker 2: Biden's decision, for better or worse. Yeah, those of you
Speaker 2: who think, you know, we're close to World War three
Speaker 2: and it's none of our business, you're probably happy about that,
Speaker 2: right yeah. Okay, So the other war, I thought that
Speaker 2: if you're interested in that stuff, from Ukraine. Read that
Speaker 2: New York Times, so I thought it was interesting. The
Speaker 2: other war we're involved in, it might be getting way
Speaker 2: more involved in as Trump threatened a military strike on
Speaker 2: Iran Sunday and I didn't get that much attention either.
Speaker 2: It's funny how running for third term panel discussions We're
Speaker 2: gonna bomb the but Jesus out of a major military
Speaker 2: power and get involved in a war in the Middle
Speaker 2: East with the biggest dog in the neighborhood barely makes
Speaker 2: the news. Technically, we're gonna bomb the bi Allah out
Speaker 2: of them. Excellent point, Thank you. I shouldn't use that term.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense. This is from sixty minutes on
Speaker 2: Sunday night. One of the hostages has that got released
Speaker 2: by Hamas. He'll tell his story and what's not in here,
Speaker 2: I'll fill in the rest ninety If you could say
Speaker 2: something to President Trump, what would you say, Please stop
Speaker 2: stop this wall and help bring all those back. And
Speaker 2: you think he can help. I know he can help.
Speaker 2: I'm here because of Pump. I'm here only because of him.
Speaker 2: I think he's the only one who can stop this
Speaker 2: roll again. So you think he can bring about another
Speaker 2: cease fire, he has to Hamas, and I think he
Speaker 2: can do it, you know, from a media politics side,
Speaker 2: I just thought it was interesting for the second week
Speaker 2: in a row they had they lead with a story
Speaker 2: that's pretty Trump friendly. But this guy's story, if you
Speaker 2: didn't see it, is freaking brutal. I did not. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, it's it's you know, we'll ruin your day
Speaker 2: sort of story. His wife and his whole family massacred,
Speaker 2: and him thinking he was going to be killed. He
Speaker 2: already his wife and kids had already been killed, right
Speaker 2: and and and him thinking every single day when they
Speaker 2: came to get him, they would, you know, they would
Speaker 2: act like they were going to kill him, and then
Speaker 2: not like.
Speaker 4: They did to a number of He might not not
Speaker 4: have been aware of it, but they did that plenty
Speaker 4: of times. It was not an unrealistic expectation.
Speaker 2: I am interested that he both thinks thanks Trump for
Speaker 2: getting him out, but thinks that they need to stop
Speaker 2: the war so Hamas can continue to exist. I don't
Speaker 2: know that there's a presumption in the media, the mainstream,
Speaker 2: which is to say, left to media, that somebody like
Speaker 2: him has greater moral weight and special insight into really
Speaker 2: complicated political policy.
Speaker 4: And a guy like me. I have full empathy for
Speaker 4: the horrors he has endured. I can't even imagine it.
Speaker 4: But I don't grant him any special intellectual or any
Speaker 4: other sort of power to dictate policy or even insight
Speaker 4: just because Yeah, yeah, I don't understand that assumption. That's unspoken,
Speaker 4: but it's there.
Speaker 2: We had the news story that there were Hamas protests
Speaker 2: against Hamas in Aza over the weekend, and we had
Speaker 2: the story yesterday that one of the voices that spoke
Speaker 2: up against AMAS had been killed. Well, more details came
Speaker 2: out yesterday. Hamas found this guy, tortured him for hours,
Speaker 2: and then dropped him on the doorstep, near death at
Speaker 2: his family's house, with the message that don't be protesting us, Yeah,
Speaker 2: to send to everyone else. Yes, So you freaking moron
Speaker 2: college kids? What what? What? How do you square that
Speaker 2: with your opinion? This is a Palestinian dude who was
Speaker 2: protesting with a number of other young Palestinian people against
Speaker 2: TAMAS and they tortured him for four hours and killed him.
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, well, an organization that is against every single
Speaker 4: principle you claimed to have.
Speaker 2: He was against them too, but you know I was.
Speaker 4: I'm rereading James and Helen Pluckrose's brilliant book Cynical Theories
Speaker 4: about the origin of the postmodernist, neomarxist whatever you want
Speaker 4: to call it, woke thing, and how it works, how
Speaker 4: it functions in the ideology itself and it is. It's
Speaker 4: difficult to convince people that college students who've been thoroughly indoctrinated,
Speaker 4: some of them since they're in kindergarten, but certainly once
Speaker 4: they get to college are so captured by the idea
Speaker 4: that the world is quickly and easily divided into the
Speaker 4: oppressor and the oppressed. You'd think, no, no, no, nobody
Speaker 4: could buy an argument that oversimplified and have that as
Speaker 4: their worldview and just be able to, for instance, because
Speaker 4: they perceive the Palestinians being oppressed, not see any fault
Speaker 4: in Hamas, not see any sin or hatred or evil
Speaker 4: in Hamas none because they are oppressed.
Speaker 2: Simple, that's the end of it. Don't tell me anything.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear anything else. You think, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: An adult, even a very young adult, couldn't possibly be
Speaker 2: that cultize, that indoctrinate. But it's true. You just have
Speaker 2: to accept it. This is a brave young man twenty
Speaker 2: two years old who stood up and led a protest
Speaker 2: against Amas. I mean, that is a true patriot right there,
Speaker 2: and he knew this was coming. Good lord, Yeah, that's brutal.
Speaker 4: I find myself wondering, will we have to as a
Speaker 4: nation or as you know, parents and grandparents and aunts
Speaker 4: and uncles and neighbors and friends, have to borrow a
Speaker 4: number of pages from the dprogramming cultist's handbook for dealing
Speaker 4: with our young people because they were stolen away by
Speaker 4: a cult.
Speaker 2: We just didn't know it. It was at your local schools.
Speaker 2: The same guy didn't cover his face, by the way,
Speaker 2: Oh my lord, he's there with his face showing his
Speaker 2: name available, protesting Hamas because they're evil and he wants
Speaker 2: his little strip of land have a shot a chance,
Speaker 2: and he is tortured to death for it, and you
Speaker 2: freaking more hunts and college can.
Speaker 4: Getting your gender studies master's degree from freeing your faces, brave,
Speaker 4: brave revolutionaries? Nutjobs? Yeah no, I'm telling you. It's it's sad,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 2: That's enough of that. I want to get to that
Speaker 2: Forbes billionaire list. We got a bunch of stuff to
Speaker 2: get to today. Boy A Maria Shriver with a piece
Speaker 2: about her divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, one
Speaker 2: of the new billionaires on the list, by the way,
Speaker 2: just added this year. Wow, all fits together. See it's
Speaker 2: all coming again. A bunch of stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here. Do you think these little elections they have
Speaker 2: mean anything? I just never have. Am I wrong about that? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Talk about that later? Not talking about that? Now? What
Speaker 2: little elections?
Speaker 1: What? What?
Speaker 2: What? When I have these little special elections somewhere like
Speaker 2: in Florida, Wisconsin weather for the member. God, he's hitting me,
Speaker 2: Stop hitting me. I've never believed that. It seems so
Speaker 2: dumb to me. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: I I'd meant to throw this in the last discussion
Speaker 4: because it occurred to me when you're describing Trump's turning
Speaker 4: maybe on poutin and now threatening in the rest of it.
Speaker 4: Trump is his own good cop and bad cop. That's
Speaker 4: his negotiating style. He comes on with the handshakes and
Speaker 4: the smiles and everything, and if you defy him, he,
Speaker 4: you know, it turns around snarling like some sort of
Speaker 4: horror movie. Then you got a mess on your hands,
Speaker 4: and you come around to his side and you're his
Speaker 4: buddy again.
Speaker 2: He's his own good cop bad Could I talk about
Speaker 2: this on the air how I has shown my son
Speaker 2: how the car salesman tried to shine me on the
Speaker 2: other day to get something. I don't think, so maybe
Speaker 2: I'll talk about that on the air later. Because he
Speaker 2: was doing the kind of good cop thing, and I
Speaker 2: was like, you see what he did there? What was
Speaker 2: going on there?
Speaker 4: Coming up a brand new feature I've entitled woke Watch
Speaker 4: because the battle is far, far, far from over. But
Speaker 4: I was ranting about colleges and schools, and so I
Speaker 4: thought an example of the evildoers and the people who
Speaker 4: are getting it right very quickly. The Trump administration is
Speaker 4: now targeting Harvard with a review of nine billion dollars
Speaker 4: in federal funding that's on the way to the school.
Speaker 2: Wow, not the four hundred million of Columbia. Now.
Speaker 4: It's two hundred and fifty six million in current contracts
Speaker 4: and eight point seven billion in grants spread over multiple years,
Speaker 4: and that money is spread among Harvard and a couple
Speaker 4: of affiliates, including Boston area hospitals. But it places Harvard
Speaker 4: alongside Columbia University in the Trump administration crosshairs as they're
Speaker 4: fighting over the future of higher education in America.
Speaker 2: We'll let me present it from the left. This send
Speaker 2: a chill down the spine of anybody that cares about
Speaker 2: independence in higher education. That's very good, it says.
Speaker 4: If you're quoting the guy later in the article, I
Speaker 4: was going to mention Harvard was one of sixty schools
Speaker 4: the Education Department contacted earlier this month warning them of
Speaker 4: potential enforcement actions if they didn't quit letting Jews get
Speaker 4: beat up and kept out a class. Ah so, and
Speaker 4: they made statements to that effect.
Speaker 2: I definitely have to talk about the whole car salesman
Speaker 2: experience because the guy who was doing the financial stuff
Speaker 2: talking about his career path didn't go to college. And
Speaker 2: none of the guys that I was dealing with early
Speaker 2: twenties went to college. They're making lots of money, and
Speaker 2: it's just interesting.
Speaker 4: But that kind of fits into this right, right, And
Speaker 4: let's see the guy, the person the spokeshole from Harvard.
Speaker 4: The president said if the federal government removes its funding,
Speaker 4: that would halt life saving research. We fully embraced the
Speaker 4: important goal of combating anti Semitism, one of the most
Speaker 4: insidious forms of big and try I appreciate him saying that,
Speaker 4: but he and where's that other professor made a study
Speaker 4: that I fear that this will chill the free and
Speaker 4: open exchange of ideas and scholarship on America's campuses. And
Speaker 4: the rest of America is saying to this guy, I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I don't have his name in front of me, but brother,
Speaker 4: that's exactly what you're not doing. You literally make your higharies,
Speaker 4: your hires, your hyres.
Speaker 2: Write a statement of loyalty and adherence to a single
Speaker 2: philosophy and a single school of scholarship that most of
Speaker 2: the country doesn't agree with, right, that most of us
Speaker 2: find abhorrent. You don't hire them unless they swear on
Speaker 2: their mother's soul. They won't participate in the free exchange
Speaker 2: of ideas. And that's why we're here. That's why we're
Speaker 2: here with Trump and his checkbook and the rest of it. Well,
Speaker 2: we fear this will really send a chill through a
Speaker 2: good Lord. You people are insane. I didn't get to
Speaker 2: the Good College because I ran in too long. Oh dang,
Speaker 2: dang it. Any next segment, who's on the Billionaire's list
Speaker 2: this year? Among other things? On the way, what Joe
Speaker 2: just mentioned if you missed the segment at the podcast
Speaker 2: Lots of Fun Stuff Today Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5: There is a new must have accessory in Major League Baseball,
Speaker 5: the torpedo bat. It's all the rage after multiple New
Speaker 5: York Yankees players used these bats to contribute to tying
Speaker 5: an MLB record hitting fifteen home runs in three games.
Speaker 5: The torpedo bat, which is actually customized for each hitter individually,
Speaker 5: moving more wood to their specific sweet spot where they
Speaker 5: most often hit the ball.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. So is this a big deal the baseball
Speaker 2: season has just started. I think it is definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The Yankees are hitting home runs at a prodigious rate.
Speaker 4: It makes perfect sense. It reminds me of some of
Speaker 4: the technology and golf clubs these days. But the idea that, yeah,
Speaker 4: you almost always catch the ball, you know here on
Speaker 4: the bat, let's move a little more mass there. You
Speaker 4: never hit squibs off the end, or even if you do,
Speaker 4: there's no point in having that much mass at the
Speaker 4: very end of the bat, which is why they're cupped
Speaker 4: out sometimes. But so now they're making it their bulgey
Speaker 4: in the sweet spot. There's more wood there. It's not
Speaker 4: like a just a cylindrical barrel anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had our little conversation yesterday about if Babe
Speaker 2: Ruth played today he just had a regular stick, if
Speaker 2: he'd have had the modern technology, I wonder it would
Speaker 2: have been anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so was Renton and Raven As I want
Speaker 4: to do about how perverse and cultier colleges were. Last
Speaker 4: segment one to highlight once again, one that is doing
Speaker 4: it right, the University of Austin, Texas, the brand new
Speaker 4: re embracing the old Principal's university of free exchange of
Speaker 4: ideas and scholarship and dissent is welcome and the rest
Speaker 4: of it, which seems weird you have to defend. But anyway,
Speaker 4: they tweeted. College admissions are unjust, not just biased, not
Speaker 4: just broken, unjust. Students spend high school anxiously stacking the
Speaker 4: resumes with hollow activities, then collect generic recommendation letters and
Speaker 4: out source their essays to tutors or AI. Admissions at
Speaker 4: elite colleges now come down to who you know, your
Speaker 4: identity group, or how well you play the game. This
Speaker 4: system rewards manipulation, not merit. It selects for conformity, not character.
Speaker 4: That's why we're introducing the University of Austin's new admissions policy.
Speaker 4: If you score fourteen to sixty plus on the SAT,
Speaker 4: thirty three plus on the ACT, or one hundred and
Speaker 4: five plus on the COLT, you will be automatically admitted
Speaker 4: pending basic eligibility in an integrity check. Below that threshold,
Speaker 4: you'll be evaluating on your test scores ap slash IB
Speaker 4: you results and three verifiable achievements, each described in a
Speaker 4: single sentence.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: We care about two things, intelligence and courage. Intelligence to
Speaker 4: succeed in a rigorous intellectual environment. We don't inflate grades.
Speaker 4: Courage to join the first ranks of our truth oriented university.
Speaker 4: College admissions should be earned, not inherited, bought or gained
Speaker 4: at UATX, your merit earns you a place in full
Speaker 4: end at full tuition's scholarship.
Speaker 2: Want to cly here? Wow? Cool, hallelujah. So I'm not
Speaker 2: anti college, but I am anti the idea that everybody
Speaker 2: should go to college and if you don't, you've failed
Speaker 2: at life or something. I am very anti that, and
Speaker 2: I think well poles show a growing number of people
Speaker 2: feel the same way. But anyway, I ran into a
Speaker 2: couple of young people who I was buying a vehicle
Speaker 2: at a car dealership the other day. The car salesman
Speaker 2: who I was dealing with was probably twenty four or
Speaker 2: something like that. The guy just, you know, sells cars.
Speaker 2: And he he had started working at a dealership when
Speaker 2: he was seventeen, and he was like washing cars, and
Speaker 2: he worked his way up and he's doing sales and
Speaker 2: he said, he's making really good money. So then I
Speaker 2: go to the finance guy and you know, you go
Speaker 2: in the room and you sit down and they do
Speaker 2: that whole thing. And then that guy's got that you
Speaker 2: sign all the papers and everything like that, and he's
Speaker 2: a step up. You work your way up to that
Speaker 2: from car salesman. And he was twenty four, I think
Speaker 2: he said he was. He worked at Walmart straight out
Speaker 2: of high school and worked hisself up to a management
Speaker 2: position in Walmart. He must have only been twenty two,
Speaker 2: and he was making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a year at the Walmart as a twenty two year old.
Speaker 2: And he said, all my friends went to college. They
Speaker 2: owe one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and have a degree,
Speaker 2: and they can't get a job doing anything, and he's
Speaker 2: making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And then he
Speaker 2: got hired with that Walmart did some things he didn't like,
Speaker 2: so he went and work at the car dealership. And
Speaker 2: I assume he's making more money there or he probably
Speaker 2: wouldn't have taken the job. Yeah, And I just thought
Speaker 2: that was interesting that that story's not told more often,
Speaker 2: that there are people doing that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I say this as a guy who got a
Speaker 4: liberal arts education and enjoy the hell out of it
Speaker 4: and have benefited from it enormously. And I'm not sure
Speaker 4: I've just concocted this thought in my head. I'm not
Speaker 4: sure I agree with it completely, but I'll toss it
Speaker 4: out there anyway. If one of those two guys, either
Speaker 4: one of them, is curious enough to want to learn
Speaker 4: the things you would learn at a liberal arts education,
Speaker 4: they will seek that knowledge out. They will read about
Speaker 4: history and the arts and stuff, which I think is important.
Speaker 4: And if they're not curious enough about that stuff to
Speaker 4: pursue it in their lives at all, in spite of
Speaker 4: you know, the Internet, and you know, just the availability
Speaker 4: of all the wisdom of mankind at the tip of
Speaker 4: your fingers that they wouldn't have benefited much from college anyway.
Speaker 2: Correct, although most people, I think most I think it's
Speaker 2: fair to say most most people don't benefit from college.
Speaker 2: Now they don't, I don't think they do, or they
Speaker 2: pay so dearly for it. It's a net loss, you know.
Speaker 4: The only contradiction to myself I want to make is
Speaker 4: that sometimes you don't know what you're interested in until
Speaker 4: it's put in front of you. True, so I'd say
Speaker 4: it's not without value, but it's because such a ripoff.
Speaker 2: But at the high, very top, toward the top the list,
Speaker 2: your interest should be making a living and supporting yourself. Well,
Speaker 2: that should be very high on the list.
Speaker 4: Nancy Pelosi said, we're gonna make it so if you
Speaker 4: want to be a poet or a guitar player, you can.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget that. The Obamacare discussion, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I wonder if that's gonna I think it's
Speaker 2: turning around this idea that obviously you should go to college,
Speaker 2: and if you don't go to college, your life is
Speaker 2: going to be a waste in a disaster. And the
Speaker 2: whole circular thing of Elon is talking about doing away
Speaker 2: with the you got to have a college degree for
Speaker 2: practically every job in the federal government, and it's just
Speaker 2: not necessary at all. It makes no sense. The private
Speaker 2: sector has started to go that direction because they've figured
Speaker 2: it out, but in the government you still have to.
Speaker 2: So the government who lends money for people to go
Speaker 2: to college so that college can raise the prices, and
Speaker 2: then requires that you have this worthless free can degree
Speaker 2: right to get a job in government. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: pretty obvious what's going on there. It's almost like the
Speaker 2: company store. Yeah, that's very much like that. It's a circling,
Speaker 2: circular profit racket.
Speaker 4: And then you add in the fact that you're being
Speaker 4: indoctrinated with truly perverse ideas. Yeah, that to the stew
Speaker 4: of your decision making. Yeah, it's man, it's so off track.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I'm not anti college. I'm glad I
Speaker 4: went to college. There's a bunch of stuff that I enjoyed.
Speaker 2: But I have known some people that one were not
Speaker 2: interested in a bunch of the things that you was
Speaker 2: just talking about. And two they were just so go
Speaker 2: getters and wanted to get started out in the world
Speaker 2: and do their thing. They could not sit in a
Speaker 2: class for four years wondering, what the hell is this
Speaker 2: going to do me any good?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, that's why I abandoned my original career plans
Speaker 4: of going to grad school.
Speaker 2: I couldn't stand it anymore.
Speaker 4: AnyWho, those of you who can, including my beloved daughter,
Speaker 4: I admire your pluck if you have, you know, specific
Speaker 4: goals in mind. The never ending pursuit of another meaningless
Speaker 4: degree racket.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, a lot of that, a lot
Speaker 2: of that for some people is just putting off. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. They don't the thing I was talking about,
Speaker 2: the kind of person that wants to get out there
Speaker 2: in the world and get into it and get started.
Speaker 2: There's people that are the opposite. The last thing I
Speaker 2: want to do is get out there in the world
Speaker 2: and get started and have to.
Speaker 4: Yes, So many of the degrees, the advanced degrees these days,
Speaker 4: are what I would call decoration masquerading his achievement.
Speaker 2: My dad, when I was a kid, used to talk
Speaker 2: about the perpetual college students that he'd run into, and
Speaker 2: that had to be a tiny slice. Yeah, back in
Speaker 2: the late fifties of people. Now it's a lot of people.
Speaker 2: It seems like everybody I know gets a graduate degree
Speaker 2: of some sort.
Speaker 4: You almost have to, because undergrad degrees are so meaningless
Speaker 4: at this point. They taught you nothing. You learned nothing, right,
Speaker 4: you know, no more than the day you enrolled. You're
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty grand in debt.
Speaker 2: So the college keeps you around for another year with
Speaker 2: unlimited federal loans. Yes, wow, Yeah, what a racket. Yeah
Speaker 2: it is. It's got to be torn down to the studs.
Speaker 2: If they were.
Speaker 1: Doing God's own job of teaching what they claim to
Speaker 1: be teaching, the core stuff, it would still be fraudulent
Speaker 1: because it's such a ripoff, right, yeah, just amazing.
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Speaker 4: I was chatting with some fellows who are very, very
Speaker 4: up on college sports. Your top high school quarterback prospects.
Speaker 4: High schoolers now haven't played it down down in college.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Same in basketball. So in what sense none? Is
Speaker 2: it amateur sports? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Or you're not you have to pafy you're on the
Speaker 4: golf team it is, or the you know whatever, or
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Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting. Well, maybe some of them will end
Speaker 2: up on the Billionaire's List, which Forbes is out with today,
Speaker 2: which is kind of interesting. Look at, you know, how
Speaker 2: people make their money in the world in a variety
Speaker 2: of things. A stick around that's coming up next. Arm
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Speaker 6: A New Jersey resident who won more than a million
Speaker 6: dollars in the lottery, said they were inspired to buy
Speaker 6: a ticket, buy a dream, the dream of finally leaving
Speaker 6: New Jersey.
Speaker 2: I thought that'd be a lead insiner. One way to
Speaker 2: become a billionaire is win the lottery. Another way is
Speaker 2: to well. Another way is to inherit it. But most
Speaker 2: of the new billionaires on the Forbes list of billionaires
Speaker 2: are self made, and I love that. Seventy percent of
Speaker 2: the new billionaires that have showed up made their money themselves.
Speaker 2: They did not inherit it. With a record three twenty
Speaker 2: eight new billionaires on the Forbes list for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: that's a lot. That's the total number of billionaires the
Speaker 2: new ones. There are only two hundred and eighty eight newcomers,
Speaker 2: but seventy percent of them did it themselves, which I love,
Speaker 2: hailing from thirty three countries and territories collectively worth nearly
Speaker 2: six hundred and eighty billion. And some communists will claim
Speaker 2: that that's somehow taking money from you. I don't get
Speaker 2: that check. No, I still have my money. The United
Speaker 2: States has the most new billionaires once again, with one
Speaker 2: hundred and three Americans added to the ranks this year.
Speaker 2: Yes and again for you know, Bernie Sanders or that crowd.
Speaker 2: That's just proof that we're an evil country that is
Speaker 2: set up for billionaires or something or or were the
Speaker 2: biggest economy in the world, and we have the most
Speaker 2: innovative people. Right here's my favorite name on the list.
Speaker 2: The youngest billionaire is a nineteen year old German named
Speaker 2: Johann Vombomback. How would you like to be a billionaire?
Speaker 2: You're ninety and your name is Johan Bomback. It's pretty good,
Speaker 2: pretty good life. But he is he inherited his It's
Speaker 2: actually split between him and fourteen other ears to the
Speaker 2: boring Ecohm pharmaceutical fortunes. Oh, they do work, but I'm
Speaker 2: not really that interested in the people that inherited their money. No,
Speaker 2: Germany had the second most newcomers, behind the United States
Speaker 2: with thirty seven. China and Hong Kong ranked third. It's
Speaker 2: interesting countries like China and then Russia was India's fourth,
Speaker 2: the Russia was fifth. Countries like China and Russia. What's
Speaker 2: that mean becoming a billionaire? You must you must be
Speaker 2: you know, a favored son. It's almost all men in
Speaker 2: these countries of the communist party or the dictator or
Speaker 2: they wouldn't allow you to, right.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I would love to know more about some
Speaker 4: of those individual cases.
Speaker 2: Again, about seventy percent of the world's newest billionaires are
Speaker 2: self made, meaning they established their fours rather than inheriting them.
Speaker 2: The richest self made newcomer seventy three year old dude
Speaker 2: from Saudi Arabia. And I love this one. The youngest
Speaker 2: self made billionaire Scale AI. I don't know that AI company,
Speaker 2: Scale AI anyway, the co founder and CEO, Alexander Wang.
Speaker 2: He's worth two billion dollars and he's the youngest self made.
Speaker 2: Good for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the guy from Saudi Arabia that falls under the
Speaker 4: China and yeah, Russia rubric right.
Speaker 2: Right, You wouldn't have unless they wanted to allow you to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I've known a fair number of very
Speaker 4: successful people, especially in the last decade or so of
Speaker 4: my life. Build a business and sell it. If it
Speaker 4: has something to do with tech, all the better. That's
Speaker 4: how you get rich. You build a business and you
Speaker 4: sell it. The most famous New billionaires he stupidly designed
Speaker 4: a business.
Speaker 2: We have to show up and work at every day,
Speaker 2: can't so stupid? Stupid, stupid. The most famous New billionaires
Speaker 2: became household names by finding success in the various art forms.
Speaker 2: Blue collar worker Bruce Springsteen, who's never actually had a
Speaker 2: real job, is now worth one point two billion dollars
Speaker 2: and is on the billionaire list. Congratulations Bruce. His twenty
Speaker 2: one studio albums, ten live albums, and seven EPs of
Speaker 2: Solda combined one hundred and forty million copies across the
Speaker 2: gold It would be interesting to me if he arrived
Speaker 2: now where you make no money off of so you
Speaker 2: can't sell albums, there's no money in that. How much
Speaker 2: will will there be billionaire outside of Taylor Swift? Like
Speaker 2: really rare occurrences your concert circuit favorites.
Speaker 4: I happen to watch Saturday Night Live with Morgan Wallen
Speaker 4: the other night, and I know he does really well.
Speaker 4: I'd love to know, you know, what his financial situation is.
Speaker 2: It'd be a lot less though. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I look at bands of the eighties and nineties who
Speaker 4: are like crazy rich, who now would be touring relentlessly
Speaker 4: to make their mortgage right and thank boy, you know.
Speaker 2: You're lucky you got in when you did. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: Springsteen the reason he showed up on the Billionaire At
Speaker 2: least he sold his music catalog to Sony last year
Speaker 2: for five hundred million, So that's a pretty big jump.
Speaker 2: Movie Stars Swartzenegger now on the list one point one
Speaker 2: billion dollars.
Speaker 4: I'm willing to sell my song catalog for a five
Speaker 4: million and that's a starting point.
Speaker 2: I'm a reasonable man. So Schwarzenegger's a billionaire. Yes, his
Speaker 2: ex wife is out with how devastating the divorce was
Speaker 2: to or maybe we'll talk about that later. I thought
Speaker 2: it was a comedian Jerry Wow. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is
Speaker 2: on the list for the first time at one point
Speaker 2: one billion dollars, benefiting from a five hundred million deal
Speaker 2: for Netflix to show their sitcom for the next five years.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, So Seinfeld the TV show is now and
Speaker 2: he sold it for what three hundred million? And he
Speaker 2: s with Larry David that was not a limited time
Speaker 2: and now he's getting a five hundred million dollars deal
Speaker 2: from Netflix. Wow wow Wow. Yeah. Most of the billionaires
Speaker 2: on the list are men, all practically all of them,
Speaker 2: and about two thirds of them inherited their wealth. So
Speaker 2: that's where you are. Yeah, we really need to do
Speaker 2: a sitcom. Is that still a thing? Can you still?
Speaker 2: It'll be a Netflix streaming special. It's I don't know,
Speaker 2: a couple of guys with a wacky technical director and
Speaker 2: a wisecracking newswoman.
Speaker 4: Just off the top of my head. I haven't gotten
Speaker 4: much further than that. Well, we could sell the show, no,
Speaker 4: but we don't want to. So yeah, I have to
Speaker 4: still show up and work with a point. We'll sell it,
Speaker 4: but we won't be on it.
Speaker 2: What is that worth? So then what are you buying?
Speaker 2: The microphones?
Speaker 4: I don't know the name, and you can have that
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