WEBVTT - Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

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<v Speaker 1>Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the

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<v Speaker 1>George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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<v Speaker 2>Armstrong and Getty and no He Armstrong and Yetty.

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<v Speaker 3>President Trump tells NBC News that he is quote very

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<v Speaker 3>angry at Putin for criticizing Ukrainian President Vladimir z Lenski,

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<v Speaker 3>now threatening to impose additional tariffs.

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<v Speaker 2>He says, twenty five.

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<v Speaker 3>To fifty percent on Russian oil if Putin stands.

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<v Speaker 2>In the way of a deal. So we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>get the two wars we are kind of involved in

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<v Speaker 2>out of the way here this segment, at least for now,

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<v Speaker 2>first Russia Ukraine. Trump saying he's really pissed off at

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<v Speaker 2>Putin is the first negative ish thing he said about

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<v Speaker 2>Putin maybe ever, certainly in this attempt to brok her

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<v Speaker 2>apiece and.

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<v Speaker 4>Attack some pretty serious economic sanctions to is anger.

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<v Speaker 2>And we'll see where that goes. But I was surprised

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<v Speaker 2>how little talk as in. I didn't hear it anywhere.

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<v Speaker 2>The giant Sunday New York Times front page piece about

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<v Speaker 2>our involvement from the beginning of helping the Ukrainians being

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<v Speaker 2>so much more than it had ever been reported. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>The why that was in there at that time is

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<v Speaker 2>kind of interesting. I don't know if that's just when

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<v Speaker 2>they got the reporting together, or if this is some

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<v Speaker 2>sort of effort to let people know how involved we

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<v Speaker 2>are so we need to continue, or I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe there's no political thing to it at all. It

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<v Speaker 2>might it might just be journalism. But did you read that?

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<v Speaker 2>It is quite amazing? Yeah, I read of It's like

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<v Speaker 2>four parts. It's like one of those We're going to

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<v Speaker 2>win a Pulzerprize over this incredibly long pieces that they wrote.

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<v Speaker 2>But one of the lead paragraphs about it New York

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<v Speaker 2>Times reporting that Ukrainian in hi Mars when we gave

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<v Speaker 2>them those super fancy missiles and that sort of stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>The strikes on Russia were directly coordinated from a US

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<v Speaker 2>military base in Germany. We were in charge of the

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<v Speaker 2>coordinates and the we gave them this stuff, coordinate everything really,

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<v Speaker 2>really the whole thing, right, just we're across the border,

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<v Speaker 2>your fingers on the triggers. That's it. Revealing the Ukraine's

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<v Speaker 2>dependence on US support was far deeper than anyone had realized.

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<v Speaker 2>And they go into from the very beginning, like day two,

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<v Speaker 2>A truck pulls up in Kiev, picks up a couple

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<v Speaker 2>of Ukrainian generals, all under secret, you know, protected by

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<v Speaker 2>British secrets, so all this sort of stuff gets them

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<v Speaker 2>to the border. They go to our military base that

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<v Speaker 2>we've got in Germany, and we immediately start the instructing, planning,

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<v Speaker 2>coordinating at a very very deep level, like we're running

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<v Speaker 2>the war, right, which I always assumed. I've said many

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<v Speaker 2>times and I've always assumed that there's no way they're

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<v Speaker 2>doing this without our help. But right, that's funny.

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<v Speaker 4>I had the same reaction that it was very very

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<v Speaker 4>thorough and interesting but not surprising.

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<v Speaker 2>And by the way, a lot of folks on the.

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<v Speaker 4>What do you call it, the new right, the isolationist right,

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<v Speaker 4>is there a name, the woke right, the JD vance

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<v Speaker 4>Ish right, And I love JD in a lot of ways,

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<v Speaker 4>but not so much in others. If you're making the

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<v Speaker 4>argument that that was a bad policy and unjustified and

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<v Speaker 4>we provoked to Russia, that's fine, but you got to stop.

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<v Speaker 2>Just calling people neocons. That's not an argument. It's like

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<v Speaker 2>the left calls everybody fascists. You're just you're not advancing

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<v Speaker 2>the football, but maybe that's not what you want to

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<v Speaker 2>do ideologically, you're not convincing anybody of anything. There were

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<v Speaker 2>also the New York Times reports SMEs some months earlier,

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<v Speaker 2>at the very beginning of the war, and they mentioned

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<v Speaker 2>this general had been allowed to send a small team

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<v Speaker 2>about a dozen officers to Kiev, easing the prohibition on

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<v Speaker 2>American boots on Ukrainian ground, by calling them SMEs so

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<v Speaker 2>as not to evoke memories of the American military advisors

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<v Speaker 2>sent to South Vietnam that ended up being because it

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<v Speaker 2>was advisers, they called them advisors. They called them advisors

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<v Speaker 2>all through the Kennedy administration. Pretty soon you're in a

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<v Speaker 2>full on war kind of what we were doing then,

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<v Speaker 2>same thing, except this time instead of advisors, they called

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<v Speaker 2>them SMEs subject matter experts. Oh so we sent in

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<v Speaker 2>a dozen subject matter experts.

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<v Speaker 4>Ah, that's weird, the government using obscure terms to obscure

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<v Speaker 4>what they're doing.

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<v Speaker 2>American military advisors that were right in Kiva, a dozen

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<v Speaker 2>of them, right at the beginning of the war and

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<v Speaker 2>coordinating all kinds of their respons This is what you

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<v Speaker 2>should do where when, and this is what our intelligence shows.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, if you remember the very beginning of the war.

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<v Speaker 2>It was just stunning the way Ukraine was able to

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<v Speaker 2>halt that invasion and the tanks and all that sort

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<v Speaker 2>of stuff. It's because we were as involved as you

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<v Speaker 2>could get without us actually just you know, dropping the

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<v Speaker 2>airborne rangers there, right.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, And yet there was that very halting, incremental

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<v Speaker 4>increase in support by the Biden administration, right, which is interesting.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, the books will be written, I suppose, and

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<v Speaker 4>they'll disagree with each other, but the incoherence of his

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<v Speaker 4>policy will, you know, fascinate me for the rest of

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<v Speaker 4>my days. Well, according to both the Woodward and the

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<v Speaker 4>Sanger book, it was all about Biden really worrying that

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<v Speaker 4>he could trigger Putin wanting to use nuclear weapons, and

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<v Speaker 4>like Secretary of State Blincoln was further on the other

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<v Speaker 4>side of we got to push harder, we got to

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<v Speaker 4>push harder.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't need to be so scared. But that was

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<v Speaker 2>Biden's decision, for better or worse. Yeah, those of you

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<v Speaker 2>who think, you know, we're close to World War three

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<v Speaker 2>and it's none of our business, you're probably happy about that,

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<v Speaker 2>right yeah. Okay, So the other war, I thought that

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<v Speaker 2>if you're interested in that stuff, from Ukraine. Read that

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<v Speaker 2>New York Times, so I thought it was interesting. The

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<v Speaker 2>other war we're involved in, it might be getting way

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<v Speaker 2>more involved in as Trump threatened a military strike on

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<v Speaker 2>Iran Sunday and I didn't get that much attention either.

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<v Speaker 2>It's funny how running for third term panel discussions We're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna bomb the but Jesus out of a major military

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<v Speaker 2>power and get involved in a war in the Middle

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<v Speaker 2>East with the biggest dog in the neighborhood barely makes

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<v Speaker 2>the news. Technically, we're gonna bomb the bi Allah out

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<v Speaker 2>of them. Excellent point, Thank you. I shouldn't use that term.

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<v Speaker 2>It makes no sense. This is from sixty minutes on

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<v Speaker 2>Sunday night. One of the hostages has that got released

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<v Speaker 2>by Hamas. He'll tell his story and what's not in here,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll fill in the rest ninety If you could say

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<v Speaker 2>something to President Trump, what would you say, Please stop

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<v Speaker 2>stop this wall and help bring all those back. And

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<v Speaker 2>you think he can help. I know he can help.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm here because of Pump. I'm here only because of him.

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's the only one who can stop this

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<v Speaker 2>roll again. So you think he can bring about another

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<v Speaker 2>cease fire, he has to Hamas, and I think he

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<v Speaker 2>can do it, you know, from a media politics side,

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<v Speaker 2>I just thought it was interesting for the second week

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<v Speaker 2>in a row they had they lead with a story

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<v Speaker 2>that's pretty Trump friendly. But this guy's story, if you

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<v Speaker 2>didn't see it, is freaking brutal. I did not. Oh

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<v Speaker 2>my god, it's it's you know, we'll ruin your day

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<v Speaker 2>sort of story. His wife and his whole family massacred,

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<v Speaker 2>and him thinking he was going to be killed. He

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<v Speaker 2>already his wife and kids had already been killed, right

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<v Speaker 2>and and and him thinking every single day when they

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<v Speaker 2>came to get him, they would, you know, they would

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<v Speaker 2>act like they were going to kill him, and then

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<v Speaker 2>not like.

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<v Speaker 4>They did to a number of He might not not

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<v Speaker 4>have been aware of it, but they did that plenty

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<v Speaker 4>of times. It was not an unrealistic expectation.

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<v Speaker 2>I am interested that he both thinks thanks Trump for

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<v Speaker 2>getting him out, but thinks that they need to stop

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<v Speaker 2>the war so Hamas can continue to exist. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know that there's a presumption in the media, the mainstream,

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<v Speaker 2>which is to say, left to media, that somebody like

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<v Speaker 2>him has greater moral weight and special insight into really

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<v Speaker 2>complicated political policy.

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<v Speaker 4>And a guy like me. I have full empathy for

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<v Speaker 4>the horrors he has endured. I can't even imagine it.

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<v Speaker 4>But I don't grant him any special intellectual or any

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<v Speaker 4>other sort of power to dictate policy or even insight

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<v Speaker 4>just because Yeah, yeah, I don't understand that assumption. That's unspoken,

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<v Speaker 4>but it's there.

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<v Speaker 2>We had the news story that there were Hamas protests

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<v Speaker 2>against Hamas in Aza over the weekend, and we had

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<v Speaker 2>the story yesterday that one of the voices that spoke

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<v Speaker 2>up against AMAS had been killed. Well, more details came

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<v Speaker 2>out yesterday. Hamas found this guy, tortured him for hours,

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<v Speaker 2>and then dropped him on the doorstep, near death at

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<v Speaker 2>his family's house, with the message that don't be protesting us, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>to send to everyone else. Yes, So you freaking moron

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<v Speaker 2>college kids? What what? What? How do you square that

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<v Speaker 2>with your opinion? This is a Palestinian dude who was

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<v Speaker 2>protesting with a number of other young Palestinian people against

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<v Speaker 2>TAMAS and they tortured him for four hours and killed him.

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<v Speaker 4>Right, Yes, well, an organization that is against every single

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<v Speaker 4>principle you claimed to have.

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<v Speaker 2>He was against them too, but you know I was.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm rereading James and Helen Pluckrose's brilliant book Cynical Theories

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<v Speaker 4>about the origin of the postmodernist, neomarxist whatever you want

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<v Speaker 4>to call it, woke thing, and how it works, how

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<v Speaker 4>it functions in the ideology itself and it is. It's

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<v Speaker 4>difficult to convince people that college students who've been thoroughly indoctrinated,

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<v Speaker 4>some of them since they're in kindergarten, but certainly once

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<v Speaker 4>they get to college are so captured by the idea

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<v Speaker 4>that the world is quickly and easily divided into the

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<v Speaker 4>oppressor and the oppressed. You'd think, no, no, no, nobody

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<v Speaker 4>could buy an argument that oversimplified and have that as

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<v Speaker 4>their worldview and just be able to, for instance, because

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<v Speaker 4>they perceive the Palestinians being oppressed, not see any fault

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<v Speaker 4>in Hamas, not see any sin or hatred or evil

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<v Speaker 4>in Hamas none because they are oppressed.

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<v Speaker 2>Simple, that's the end of it. Don't tell me anything.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to hear anything else. You think, no, no, no, no.

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<v Speaker 2>An adult, even a very young adult, couldn't possibly be

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<v Speaker 2>that cultize, that indoctrinate. But it's true. You just have

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<v Speaker 2>to accept it. This is a brave young man twenty

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<v Speaker 2>two years old who stood up and led a protest

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<v Speaker 2>against Amas. I mean, that is a true patriot right there,

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<v Speaker 2>and he knew this was coming. Good lord, Yeah, that's brutal.

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<v Speaker 4>I find myself wondering, will we have to as a

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<v Speaker 4>nation or as you know, parents and grandparents and aunts

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<v Speaker 4>and uncles and neighbors and friends, have to borrow a

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<v Speaker 4>number of pages from the dprogramming cultist's handbook for dealing

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<v Speaker 4>with our young people because they were stolen away by

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<v Speaker 4>a cult.

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<v Speaker 2>We just didn't know it. It was at your local schools.

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<v Speaker 2>The same guy didn't cover his face, by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my lord, he's there with his face showing his

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<v Speaker 2>name available, protesting Hamas because they're evil and he wants

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<v Speaker 2>his little strip of land have a shot a chance,

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<v Speaker 2>and he is tortured to death for it, and you

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<v Speaker 2>freaking more hunts and college can.

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<v Speaker 4>Getting your gender studies master's degree from freeing your faces, brave,

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<v Speaker 4>brave revolutionaries? Nutjobs? Yeah no, I'm telling you. It's it's sad,

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<v Speaker 4>all right.

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<v Speaker 2>That's enough of that. I want to get to that

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<v Speaker 2>Forbes billionaire list. We got a bunch of stuff to

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<v Speaker 2>get to today. Boy A Maria Shriver with a piece

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<v Speaker 2>about her divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, one

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<v Speaker 2>of the new billionaires on the list, by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>just added this year. Wow, all fits together. See it's

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<v Speaker 2>all coming again. A bunch of stuff on the way.

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<v Speaker 2>Stay here. Do you think these little elections they have

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<v Speaker 2>mean anything? I just never have. Am I wrong about that? Anyway?

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<v Speaker 2>Talk about that later? Not talking about that? Now? What

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<v Speaker 2>little elections?

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<v Speaker 1>What? What?

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<v Speaker 2>What? When I have these little special elections somewhere like

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<v Speaker 2>in Florida, Wisconsin weather for the member. God, he's hitting me,

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<v Speaker 2>Stop hitting me. I've never believed that. It seems so

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<v Speaker 2>dumb to me. Yeah, yeah, you know.

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<v Speaker 4>I I'd meant to throw this in the last discussion

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<v Speaker 4>because it occurred to me when you're describing Trump's turning

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<v Speaker 4>maybe on poutin and now threatening in the rest of it.

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<v Speaker 4>Trump is his own good cop and bad cop. That's

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<v Speaker 4>his negotiating style. He comes on with the handshakes and

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<v Speaker 4>the smiles and everything, and if you defy him, he,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, it turns around snarling like some sort of

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<v Speaker 4>horror movie. Then you got a mess on your hands,

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<v Speaker 4>and you come around to his side and you're his

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<v Speaker 4>buddy again.

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<v Speaker 2>He's his own good cop bad Could I talk about

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<v Speaker 2>this on the air how I has shown my son

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<v Speaker 2>how the car salesman tried to shine me on the

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<v Speaker 2>other day to get something. I don't think, so maybe

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<v Speaker 2>I'll talk about that on the air later. Because he

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<v Speaker 2>was doing the kind of good cop thing, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, you see what he did there? What was

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<v Speaker 2>going on there?

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<v Speaker 4>Coming up a brand new feature I've entitled woke Watch

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<v Speaker 4>because the battle is far, far, far from over. But

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<v Speaker 4>I was ranting about colleges and schools, and so I

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<v Speaker 4>thought an example of the evildoers and the people who

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<v Speaker 4>are getting it right very quickly. The Trump administration is

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<v Speaker 4>now targeting Harvard with a review of nine billion dollars

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<v Speaker 4>in federal funding that's on the way to the school.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, not the four hundred million of Columbia. Now.

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<v Speaker 4>It's two hundred and fifty six million in current contracts

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<v Speaker 4>and eight point seven billion in grants spread over multiple years,

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<v Speaker 4>and that money is spread among Harvard and a couple

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<v Speaker 4>of affiliates, including Boston area hospitals. But it places Harvard

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<v Speaker 4>alongside Columbia University in the Trump administration crosshairs as they're

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<v Speaker 4>fighting over the future of higher education in America.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll let me present it from the left. This send

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<v Speaker 2>a chill down the spine of anybody that cares about

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<v Speaker 2>independence in higher education. That's very good, it says.

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<v Speaker 4>If you're quoting the guy later in the article, I

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<v Speaker 4>was going to mention Harvard was one of sixty schools

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<v Speaker 4>the Education Department contacted earlier this month warning them of

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<v Speaker 4>potential enforcement actions if they didn't quit letting Jews get

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<v Speaker 4>beat up and kept out a class. Ah so, and

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<v Speaker 4>they made statements to that effect.

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<v Speaker 2>I definitely have to talk about the whole car salesman

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<v Speaker 2>experience because the guy who was doing the financial stuff

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<v Speaker 2>talking about his career path didn't go to college. And

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<v Speaker 2>none of the guys that I was dealing with early

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<v Speaker 2>twenties went to college. They're making lots of money, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's just interesting.

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<v Speaker 4>But that kind of fits into this right, right, And

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<v Speaker 4>let's see the guy, the person the spokeshole from Harvard.

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<v Speaker 4>The president said if the federal government removes its funding,

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<v Speaker 4>that would halt life saving research. We fully embraced the

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<v Speaker 4>important goal of combating anti Semitism, one of the most

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<v Speaker 4>insidious forms of big and try I appreciate him saying that,

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<v Speaker 4>but he and where's that other professor made a study

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<v Speaker 4>that I fear that this will chill the free and

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<v Speaker 4>open exchange of ideas and scholarship on America's campuses. And

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<v Speaker 4>the rest of America is saying to this guy, I'm sorry,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't have his name in front of me, but brother,

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<v Speaker 4>that's exactly what you're not doing. You literally make your higharies,

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<v Speaker 4>your hires, your hyres.

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<v Speaker 2>Write a statement of loyalty and adherence to a single

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<v Speaker 2>philosophy and a single school of scholarship that most of

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<v Speaker 2>the country doesn't agree with, right, that most of us

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<v Speaker 2>find abhorrent. You don't hire them unless they swear on

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<v Speaker 2>their mother's soul. They won't participate in the free exchange

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<v Speaker 2>of ideas. And that's why we're here. That's why we're

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<v Speaker 2>here with Trump and his checkbook and the rest of it. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>we fear this will really send a chill through a

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<v Speaker 2>good Lord. You people are insane. I didn't get to

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<v Speaker 2>the Good College because I ran in too long. Oh dang,

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<v Speaker 2>dang it. Any next segment, who's on the Billionaire's list

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<v Speaker 2>this year? Among other things? On the way, what Joe

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<v Speaker 2>just mentioned if you missed the segment at the podcast

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<v Speaker 2>Lots of Fun Stuff Today Armstrong and Getty.

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<v Speaker 5>There is a new must have accessory in Major League Baseball,

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<v Speaker 5>the torpedo bat. It's all the rage after multiple New

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<v Speaker 5>York Yankees players used these bats to contribute to tying

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<v Speaker 5>an MLB record hitting fifteen home runs in three games.

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<v Speaker 5>The torpedo bat, which is actually customized for each hitter individually,

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<v Speaker 5>moving more wood to their specific sweet spot where they

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<v Speaker 5>most often hit the ball.

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<v Speaker 2>That's interesting. So is this a big deal the baseball

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<v Speaker 2>season has just started. I think it is definitely. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>The Yankees are hitting home runs at a prodigious rate.

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<v Speaker 4>It makes perfect sense. It reminds me of some of

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<v Speaker 4>the technology and golf clubs these days. But the idea that, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>you almost always catch the ball, you know here on

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<v Speaker 4>the bat, let's move a little more mass there. You

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<v Speaker 4>never hit squibs off the end, or even if you do,

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<v Speaker 4>there's no point in having that much mass at the

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<v Speaker 4>very end of the bat, which is why they're cupped

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<v Speaker 4>out sometimes. But so now they're making it their bulgey

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<v Speaker 4>in the sweet spot. There's more wood there. It's not

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<v Speaker 4>like a just a cylindrical barrel anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we had our little conversation yesterday about if Babe

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<v Speaker 2>Ruth played today he just had a regular stick, if

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<v Speaker 2>he'd have had the modern technology, I wonder it would

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<v Speaker 2>have been anyway.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, so was Renton and Raven As I want

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<v Speaker 4>to do about how perverse and cultier colleges were. Last

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<v Speaker 4>segment one to highlight once again, one that is doing

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<v Speaker 4>it right, the University of Austin, Texas, the brand new

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<v Speaker 4>re embracing the old Principal's university of free exchange of

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<v Speaker 4>ideas and scholarship and dissent is welcome and the rest

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<v Speaker 4>of it, which seems weird you have to defend. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 4>they tweeted. College admissions are unjust, not just biased, not

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<v Speaker 4>just broken, unjust. Students spend high school anxiously stacking the

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<v Speaker 4>resumes with hollow activities, then collect generic recommendation letters and

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<v Speaker 4>out source their essays to tutors or AI. Admissions at

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<v Speaker 4>elite colleges now come down to who you know, your

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<v Speaker 4>identity group, or how well you play the game. This

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<v Speaker 4>system rewards manipulation, not merit. It selects for conformity, not character.

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<v Speaker 4>That's why we're introducing the University of Austin's new admissions policy.

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<v Speaker 4>If you score fourteen to sixty plus on the SAT,

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<v Speaker 4>thirty three plus on the ACT, or one hundred and

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<v Speaker 4>five plus on the COLT, you will be automatically admitted

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<v Speaker 4>pending basic eligibility in an integrity check. Below that threshold,

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<v Speaker 4>you'll be evaluating on your test scores ap slash IB

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<v Speaker 4>you results and three verifiable achievements, each described in a

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<v Speaker 4>single sentence.

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<v Speaker 2>That's it.

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<v Speaker 4>We care about two things, intelligence and courage. Intelligence to

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<v Speaker 4>succeed in a rigorous intellectual environment. We don't inflate grades.

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<v Speaker 4>Courage to join the first ranks of our truth oriented university.

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<v Speaker 4>College admissions should be earned, not inherited, bought or gained

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<v Speaker 4>at UATX, your merit earns you a place in full

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<v Speaker 4>end at full tuition's scholarship.

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<v Speaker 2>Want to cly here? Wow? Cool, hallelujah. So I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>anti college, but I am anti the idea that everybody

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<v Speaker 2>should go to college and if you don't, you've failed

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<v Speaker 2>at life or something. I am very anti that, and

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<v Speaker 2>I think well poles show a growing number of people

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<v Speaker 2>feel the same way. But anyway, I ran into a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of young people who I was buying a vehicle

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<v Speaker 2>at a car dealership the other day. The car salesman

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<v Speaker 2>who I was dealing with was probably twenty four or

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<v Speaker 2>something like that. The guy just, you know, sells cars.

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<v Speaker 2>And he he had started working at a dealership when

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<v Speaker 2>he was seventeen, and he was like washing cars, and

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<v Speaker 2>he worked his way up and he's doing sales and

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<v Speaker 2>he said, he's making really good money. So then I

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<v Speaker 2>go to the finance guy and you know, you go

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<v Speaker 2>in the room and you sit down and they do

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<v Speaker 2>that whole thing. And then that guy's got that you

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<v Speaker 2>sign all the papers and everything like that, and he's

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<v Speaker 2>a step up. You work your way up to that

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<v Speaker 2>from car salesman. And he was twenty four, I think

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<v Speaker 2>he said he was. He worked at Walmart straight out

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<v Speaker 2>of high school and worked hisself up to a management

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<v Speaker 2>position in Walmart. He must have only been twenty two,

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<v Speaker 2>and he was making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 2>a year at the Walmart as a twenty two year old.

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<v Speaker 2>And he said, all my friends went to college. They

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<v Speaker 2>owe one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and have a degree,

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<v Speaker 2>and they can't get a job doing anything, and he's

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<v Speaker 2>making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And then he

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<v Speaker 2>got hired with that Walmart did some things he didn't like,

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<v Speaker 2>so he went and work at the car dealership. And

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<v Speaker 2>I assume he's making more money there or he probably

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<v Speaker 2>wouldn't have taken the job. Yeah, And I just thought

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<v Speaker 2>that was interesting that that story's not told more often,

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<v Speaker 2>that there are people doing that. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>And I say this as a guy who got a

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<v Speaker 4>liberal arts education and enjoy the hell out of it

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<v Speaker 4>and have benefited from it enormously. And I'm not sure

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<v Speaker 4>I've just concocted this thought in my head. I'm not

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<v Speaker 4>sure I agree with it completely, but I'll toss it

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<v Speaker 4>out there anyway. If one of those two guys, either

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<v Speaker 4>one of them, is curious enough to want to learn

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<v Speaker 4>the things you would learn at a liberal arts education,

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<v Speaker 4>they will seek that knowledge out. They will read about

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<v Speaker 4>history and the arts and stuff, which I think is important.

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<v Speaker 4>And if they're not curious enough about that stuff to

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<v Speaker 4>pursue it in their lives at all, in spite of

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<v Speaker 4>you know, the Internet, and you know, just the availability

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<v Speaker 4>of all the wisdom of mankind at the tip of

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<v Speaker 4>your fingers that they wouldn't have benefited much from college anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>Correct, although most people, I think most I think it's

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<v Speaker 2>fair to say most most people don't benefit from college.

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<v Speaker 2>Now they don't, I don't think they do, or they

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<v Speaker 2>pay so dearly for it. It's a net loss, you know.

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<v Speaker 4>The only contradiction to myself I want to make is

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<v Speaker 4>that sometimes you don't know what you're interested in until

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<v Speaker 4>it's put in front of you. True, so I'd say

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<v Speaker 4>it's not without value, but it's because such a ripoff.

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<v Speaker 2>But at the high, very top, toward the top the list,

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<v Speaker 2>your interest should be making a living and supporting yourself. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>that should be very high on the list.

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<v Speaker 4>Nancy Pelosi said, we're gonna make it so if you

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<v Speaker 4>want to be a poet or a guitar player, you can.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll never forget that. The Obamacare discussion, I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I just I wonder if that's gonna I think it's

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<v Speaker 2>turning around this idea that obviously you should go to college,

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<v Speaker 2>and if you don't go to college, your life is

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<v Speaker 2>going to be a waste in a disaster. And the

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<v Speaker 2>whole circular thing of Elon is talking about doing away

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<v Speaker 2>with the you got to have a college degree for

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<v Speaker 2>practically every job in the federal government, and it's just

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<v Speaker 2>not necessary at all. It makes no sense. The private

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<v Speaker 2>sector has started to go that direction because they've figured

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<v Speaker 2>it out, but in the government you still have to.

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<v Speaker 2>So the government who lends money for people to go

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<v Speaker 2>to college so that college can raise the prices, and

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<v Speaker 2>then requires that you have this worthless free can degree

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<v Speaker 2>right to get a job in government. I mean, it's

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<v Speaker 2>pretty obvious what's going on there. It's almost like the

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<v Speaker 2>company store. Yeah, that's very much like that. It's a circling,

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<v Speaker 2>circular profit racket.

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<v Speaker 4>And then you add in the fact that you're being

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<v Speaker 4>indoctrinated with truly perverse ideas. Yeah, that to the stew

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<v Speaker 4>of your decision making. Yeah, it's man, it's so off track.

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<v Speaker 4>Like I said, I'm not anti college. I'm glad I

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<v Speaker 4>went to college. There's a bunch of stuff that I enjoyed.

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<v Speaker 2>But I have known some people that one were not

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<v Speaker 2>interested in a bunch of the things that you was

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<v Speaker 2>just talking about. And two they were just so go

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<v Speaker 2>getters and wanted to get started out in the world

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<v Speaker 2>and do their thing. They could not sit in a

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<v Speaker 2>class for four years wondering, what the hell is this

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<v Speaker 2>going to do me any good?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Yeah, that's why I abandoned my original career plans

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<v Speaker 4>of going to grad school.

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't stand it anymore.

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<v Speaker 4>AnyWho, those of you who can, including my beloved daughter,

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<v Speaker 4>I admire your pluck if you have, you know, specific

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<v Speaker 4>goals in mind. The never ending pursuit of another meaningless

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<v Speaker 4>degree racket.

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<v Speaker 2>On the other hand, a lot of that, a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of that for some people is just putting off. That's

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<v Speaker 2>what I'm saying. They don't the thing I was talking about,

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<v Speaker 2>the kind of person that wants to get out there

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<v Speaker 2>in the world and get into it and get started.

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<v Speaker 2>There's people that are the opposite. The last thing I

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<v Speaker 2>want to do is get out there in the world

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<v Speaker 2>and get started and have to.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, So many of the degrees, the advanced degrees these days,

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<v Speaker 4>are what I would call decoration masquerading his achievement.

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<v Speaker 2>My dad, when I was a kid, used to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about the perpetual college students that he'd run into, and

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<v Speaker 2>that had to be a tiny slice. Yeah, back in

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<v Speaker 2>the late fifties of people. Now it's a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 2>It seems like everybody I know gets a graduate degree

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<v Speaker 2>of some sort.

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<v Speaker 4>You almost have to, because undergrad degrees are so meaningless

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<v Speaker 4>at this point. They taught you nothing. You learned nothing, right,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, no more than the day you enrolled. You're

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<v Speaker 4>one hundred and fifty grand in debt.

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<v Speaker 2>So the college keeps you around for another year with

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<v Speaker 2>If they were.

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<v Speaker 2>and what they are now. He's buying a home. He's

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<v Speaker 2>like twenty four years old and buying a home with

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<v Speaker 2>his job and everything. But interest rates to what they

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<v Speaker 2>I want to learn about that stuff you guys were

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<v Speaker 2>talking about, not the stuff they're teaching me right now

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<v Speaker 2>in high school. Wow. So you know, it depends on

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<v Speaker 2>what you're into, depends on what you're in to.

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<v Speaker 4>To apply to the University of Texas at Austin or

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<v Speaker 4>what do they call it, what's the actual name University

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<v Speaker 4>of Austin.

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<v Speaker 2>How's their basketball team? That's what matters. Oh lord, college

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<v Speaker 2>Sunday Saturdays. If they're not a number one seed. Oh

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<v Speaker 2>my gosh, that's right.

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<v Speaker 4>I was chatting with some fellows who are very, very

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<v Speaker 4>up on college sports. Your top high school quarterback prospects.

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<v Speaker 4>High schoolers now haven't played it down down in college.

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<v Speaker 4>The major college programs are offering them six million dollars

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<v Speaker 4>to come play for your high school football six million

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<v Speaker 4>whoa and more.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow. Same in basketball. So in what sense none? Is

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<v Speaker 2>it amateur sports? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>Or you're not you have to pafy you're on the

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<v Speaker 4>golf team it is, or the you know whatever, or

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<v Speaker 4>you're a non hot female athlete, or you're a swimmer

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<v Speaker 4>or something.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that's interesting. Well, maybe some of them will end

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<v Speaker 2>up on the Billionaire's List, which Forbes is out with today,

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<v Speaker 2>which is kind of interesting. Look at, you know, how

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<v Speaker 2>people make their money in the world in a variety

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<v Speaker 2>of things. A stick around that's coming up next. Arm

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<v Speaker 2>Strong hey Gety.

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<v Speaker 6>A New Jersey resident who won more than a million

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<v Speaker 6>dollars in the lottery, said they were inspired to buy

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<v Speaker 6>a ticket, buy a dream, the dream of finally leaving

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<v Speaker 6>New Jersey.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought that'd be a lead insiner. One way to

0:29:32.600 --> 0:29:34.720
<v Speaker 2>become a billionaire is win the lottery. Another way is

0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:37.200
<v Speaker 2>to well. Another way is to inherit it. But most

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<v Speaker 2>of the new billionaires on the Forbes list of billionaires

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<v Speaker 2>are self made, and I love that. Seventy percent of

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<v Speaker 2>the new billionaires that have showed up made their money themselves.

0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:51.480
<v Speaker 2>They did not inherit it. With a record three twenty

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<v Speaker 2>eight new billionaires on the Forbes list for twenty twenty five,

0:29:59.200 --> 0:30:01.840
<v Speaker 2>that's a lot. That's the total number of billionaires the

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<v Speaker 2>new ones. There are only two hundred and eighty eight newcomers,

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<v Speaker 2>but seventy percent of them did it themselves, which I love,

0:30:08.960 --> 0:30:13.160
<v Speaker 2>hailing from thirty three countries and territories collectively worth nearly

0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:16.960
<v Speaker 2>six hundred and eighty billion. And some communists will claim

0:30:17.000 --> 0:30:20.880
<v Speaker 2>that that's somehow taking money from you. I don't get

0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:24.000
<v Speaker 2>that check. No, I still have my money. The United

0:30:24.000 --> 0:30:26.760
<v Speaker 2>States has the most new billionaires once again, with one

0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:29.239
<v Speaker 2>hundred and three Americans added to the ranks this year.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes and again for you know, Bernie Sanders or that crowd.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just proof that we're an evil country that is

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<v Speaker 2>set up for billionaires or something or or were the

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<v Speaker 2>biggest economy in the world, and we have the most

0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:50.840
<v Speaker 2>innovative people. Right here's my favorite name on the list.

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<v Speaker 2>The youngest billionaire is a nineteen year old German named

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<v Speaker 2>Johann Vombomback. How would you like to be a billionaire?

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<v Speaker 2>You're ninety and your name is Johan Bomback. It's pretty good,

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<v Speaker 2>pretty good life. But he is he inherited his It's

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<v Speaker 2>actually split between him and fourteen other ears to the

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<v Speaker 2>boring Ecohm pharmaceutical fortunes. Oh, they do work, but I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not really that interested in the people that inherited their money. No,

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<v Speaker 2>Germany had the second most newcomers, behind the United States

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<v Speaker 2>with thirty seven. China and Hong Kong ranked third. It's

0:31:29.480 --> 0:31:33.720
<v Speaker 2>interesting countries like China and then Russia was India's fourth,

0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:38.080
<v Speaker 2>the Russia was fifth. Countries like China and Russia. What's

0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:42.680
<v Speaker 2>that mean becoming a billionaire? You must you must be

0:31:43.040 --> 0:31:45.560
<v Speaker 2>you know, a favored son. It's almost all men in

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<v Speaker 2>these countries of the communist party or the dictator or

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<v Speaker 2>they wouldn't allow you to, right.

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<v Speaker 4>Right, Yeah, I would love to know more about some

0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:53.400
<v Speaker 4>of those individual cases.

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<v Speaker 2>Again, about seventy percent of the world's newest billionaires are

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<v Speaker 2>self made, meaning they established their fours rather than inheriting them.

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<v Speaker 2>The richest self made newcomer seventy three year old dude

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<v Speaker 2>from Saudi Arabia. And I love this one. The youngest

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<v Speaker 2>self made billionaire Scale AI. I don't know that AI company,

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<v Speaker 2>Scale AI anyway, the co founder and CEO, Alexander Wang.

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<v Speaker 2>He's worth two billion dollars and he's the youngest self made.

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<v Speaker 2>Good for him.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the guy from Saudi Arabia that falls under the

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<v Speaker 4>China and yeah, Russia rubric right.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, You wouldn't have unless they wanted to allow you to.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you know, I've known a fair number of very

0:32:35.280 --> 0:32:38.440
<v Speaker 4>successful people, especially in the last decade or so of

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<v Speaker 4>my life. Build a business and sell it. If it

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<v Speaker 4>has something to do with tech, all the better. That's

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<v Speaker 4>how you get rich. You build a business and you

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<v Speaker 4>sell it. The most famous New billionaires he stupidly designed

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<v Speaker 4>a business.

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<v Speaker 2>We have to show up and work at every day,

0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:57.480
<v Speaker 2>can't so stupid? Stupid, stupid. The most famous New billionaires

0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:01.320
<v Speaker 2>became household names by finding success in the various art forms.

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<v Speaker 2>Blue collar worker Bruce Springsteen, who's never actually had a

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<v Speaker 2>real job, is now worth one point two billion dollars

0:33:08.960 --> 0:33:15.840
<v Speaker 2>and is on the billionaire list. Congratulations Bruce. His twenty

0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:18.480
<v Speaker 2>one studio albums, ten live albums, and seven EPs of

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<v Speaker 2>Solda combined one hundred and forty million copies across the

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<v Speaker 2>gold It would be interesting to me if he arrived

0:33:24.240 --> 0:33:26.160
<v Speaker 2>now where you make no money off of so you

0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:28.880
<v Speaker 2>can't sell albums, there's no money in that. How much

0:33:28.960 --> 0:33:32.240
<v Speaker 2>will will there be billionaire outside of Taylor Swift? Like

0:33:32.400 --> 0:33:36.800
<v Speaker 2>really rare occurrences your concert circuit favorites.

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<v Speaker 4>I happen to watch Saturday Night Live with Morgan Wallen

0:33:39.400 --> 0:33:43.240
<v Speaker 4>the other night, and I know he does really well.

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<v Speaker 4>I'd love to know, you know, what his financial situation is.

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<v Speaker 2>It'd be a lot less though. Oh yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>I look at bands of the eighties and nineties who

0:33:52.080 --> 0:33:56.000
<v Speaker 4>are like crazy rich, who now would be touring relentlessly

0:33:56.040 --> 0:33:58.840
<v Speaker 4>to make their mortgage right and thank boy, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>You're lucky you got in when you did. Yeah, oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>Springsteen the reason he showed up on the Billionaire At

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<v Speaker 2>least he sold his music catalog to Sony last year

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<v Speaker 2>for five hundred million, So that's a pretty big jump.

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<v Speaker 2>Movie Stars Swartzenegger now on the list one point one

0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:13.640
<v Speaker 2>billion dollars.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm willing to sell my song catalog for a five

0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:19.439
<v Speaker 4>million and that's a starting point.

0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:24.759
<v Speaker 2>I'm a reasonable man. So Schwarzenegger's a billionaire. Yes, his

0:34:24.920 --> 0:34:28.200
<v Speaker 2>ex wife is out with how devastating the divorce was

0:34:28.200 --> 0:34:29.719
<v Speaker 2>to or maybe we'll talk about that later. I thought

0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:35.680
<v Speaker 2>it was a comedian Jerry Wow. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is

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<v Speaker 2>on the list for the first time at one point

0:34:37.360 --> 0:34:41.840
<v Speaker 2>one billion dollars, benefiting from a five hundred million deal

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<v Speaker 2>for Netflix to show their sitcom for the next five years.

0:34:47.280 --> 0:34:50.840
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, So Seinfeld the TV show is now and

0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:53.719
<v Speaker 2>he sold it for what three hundred million? And he

0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:55.880
<v Speaker 2>s with Larry David that was not a limited time

0:34:55.960 --> 0:34:58.480
<v Speaker 2>and now he's getting a five hundred million dollars deal

0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:05.799
<v Speaker 2>from Netflix. Wow wow Wow. Yeah. Most of the billionaires

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<v Speaker 2>on the list are men, all practically all of them,

0:35:10.080 --> 0:35:12.279
<v Speaker 2>and about two thirds of them inherited their wealth. So

0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:14.960
<v Speaker 2>that's where you are. Yeah, we really need to do

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<v Speaker 2>a sitcom. Is that still a thing? Can you still?

0:35:17.920 --> 0:35:20.640
<v Speaker 2>It'll be a Netflix streaming special. It's I don't know,

0:35:21.200 --> 0:35:24.320
<v Speaker 2>a couple of guys with a wacky technical director and

0:35:24.360 --> 0:35:26.040
<v Speaker 2>a wisecracking newswoman.

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<v Speaker 4>Just off the top of my head. I haven't gotten

0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:34.399
<v Speaker 4>much further than that. Well, we could sell the show, no,

0:35:34.560 --> 0:35:37.640
<v Speaker 4>but we don't want to. So yeah, I have to

0:35:37.640 --> 0:35:40.279
<v Speaker 4>still show up and work with a point. We'll sell it,

0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:41.319
<v Speaker 4>but we won't be on it.

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<v Speaker 2>What is that worth? So then what are you buying?

0:35:43.560 --> 0:35:44.439
<v Speaker 2>The microphones?

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know the name, and you can have that

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