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 he Armstrong and Eddy. So we
Speaker 2: kind of have some breaking news here.
Speaker 1: Trump with a social media that's a truth social thing,
Speaker 1: so whatever you call that message that he puts out.
Speaker 1: He said, after speaking with the President Shinbaum of Mexico,
Speaker 1: I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to
Speaker 1: pay tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA agreement.
Speaker 2: Our relationship has been a very good one.
Speaker 1: We're working hard together on the border, both in terms
Speaker 1: of legal aliens and fentanyl, et cetera, et cetera. So
Speaker 1: backing off that until April second, and so Mexico has
Speaker 1: said they're gonna hold off on there. They were gonna
Speaker 1: Sunday announce their tariffs on US as part of the
Speaker 1: trade war, but so that's off and then announced overnight.
Speaker 1: I guess they had excluded cars, American cars and the
Speaker 1: three big car makers from Canada or Mexican tariffs to
Speaker 1: try to get that worked out.
Speaker 3: So it's all very fluid, yeah, and an odd way
Speaker 3: to negotiate. But I'm kind of pleased, as often with
Speaker 3: Trump chaos madness, that.
Speaker 1: It really is a I'm divorcing you. What, I'm divorcing
Speaker 1: you as of tomorrow at noon, divorcing you. And then
Speaker 1: later that day you say, if you start allowing me
Speaker 1: to park my car in the garage in your car
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 2: Driveway, I'll take a look at this again.
Speaker 1: Then you say, four days a week, I'll start parking
Speaker 1: my car in the driveway.
Speaker 2: Okay, the divorce is.
Speaker 3: Off exactly, and the divorce never happens generally. But again,
Speaker 3: it's an interesting technique. But how many times can you
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 1: I would think, like the third time you say I'm
Speaker 1: divorcing you, it's a how you just roll your eyes?
Speaker 1: I mean, because this is round two or three of
Speaker 1: deadline for tariffs. Remember the thing on Columbia, and it works.
Speaker 1: They did agreed to take their illegals back.
Speaker 3: Well, and if it's not a giant tariffs, it's threats
Speaker 3: to like confiscate your territory be it Panama or Greenland
Speaker 3: or what have you, and it ends up in a
Speaker 3: much saner place generally. Again, I'm not sure that's the
Speaker 3: greatest way to negotiate. It depends on who you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I hate the idea of and this is undeniable that
Speaker 3: this has happened, whipping up anti American sentiment in Canada.
Speaker 3: I just I don't like that idea. You know, Canada
Speaker 3: is goofy and screwed up in a couple of different ways.
Speaker 3: But they're fundamentally nice people and a good ally and
Speaker 3: we trade with them a lot, so let's be buddies anyway. Oh,
Speaker 3: we'll see how it plays out. Seeing of giant political
Speaker 3: rock stars Gavin Newsom, the governor of California.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you've heard of him.
Speaker 3: He is so hot for the presidency he has to
Speaker 3: rearrange his pants to hide his arousal.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 3: He is campaigning in half a dozen different ways every
Speaker 3: single day to be the twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Eight Democratic nominee for president.
Speaker 3: The latest incarnation of that urge is his new podcast,
Speaker 3: which is being promoted by our friends at iHeart Media.
Speaker 3: And the idea of the podcast is that he is
Speaker 3: engaging with figures on the right, including maga folks, enjoying
Speaker 3: about policy and ideas and that sort of thing. And
Speaker 3: in short, I'll cut to the punchline, coming off as
Speaker 3: a thoroughly open minded moderate governor, which is something else
Speaker 3: as he is governed to the left of Trotsky. So
Speaker 3: on the podcast the other day and we've got a
Speaker 3: clip for you, he told his guest Charlie Kirk of
Speaker 3: Turning Point USA, notable mega e right wingy thinker, speaker, guy,
Speaker 3: very very very smart.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Don't always agree with Charlie, but he's a provocative guy
Speaker 3: in a world where you got to cut through anyway.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: He told Charlie Kirk that he was now against biological
Speaker 3: men and women's sports.
Speaker 4: What I know.
Speaker 3: Are slapping their foreheads. Wait, what, he's not crazy about
Speaker 3: the whole pronounce thing. He says, like everybody in government
Speaker 3: and the universities has their damn pronouns on their emails. Okay,
Speaker 3: that he doesn't like the term latenx seems phony.
Speaker 1: Well, he's right about all these things. He's just said.
Speaker 1: His new patients.
Speaker 3: Telling Charlie Kerric the whole defunding the police not good.
Speaker 3: Cancel culture now and agreed, Oh there have been problems
Speaker 3: with BLM definitely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So the obvious comment to this I will credit to,
Speaker 3: uh Chris Nicholson. OOSA is not a big time tweeter,
Speaker 3: but he said, I kind of respect, how unapological I
Speaker 3: kind of respect how unapologetically two faced Newsome is. Here
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, I'm a politician. I shift with the wind.
Speaker 3: What do you expect? I'm with the winners now. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's what he's saying. Another comment, if they made
Speaker 3: a prototype for cynical politician trademark, they'd use him for
Speaker 3: the mold.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely true. Here he is talking to Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 6: It's like, you right now should come out and be like,
Speaker 6: you know what, the young man who's about to win
Speaker 6: the state championship in the long jump in female sports,
Speaker 6: that's that that shouldn't happen. You as the governor should
Speaker 6: step out and say no, no, And I appreciate, and
Speaker 6: but like, would you do something like that, would you
Speaker 6: say no men in female sports?
Speaker 7: Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely
Speaker 7: agree with you on that. So that's easy to call
Speaker 7: out the unfairness of that. There's also a humility and
Speaker 7: a grace. You know that that these poor people are
Speaker 7: more likely to commit suicide, have anxiety and depression, and
Speaker 7: the way that people talk down tooble communities is an
Speaker 7: issue that I have a hard time with as well.
Speaker 7: So both things I can hold in my hand. How
Speaker 7: can we address this issue with the kind of decency
Speaker 7: that I think you know, it's inherent in you, but
Speaker 7: not always expressed.
Speaker 3: I used to call Gavin Newsom a lungkhead, and that
Speaker 3: was misplaced. He is very canny, very smart in his way,
Speaker 3: completely phony a moral I mean, that was just that
Speaker 3: was a red herring. How about this, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to talk down to anybody. If you're a male, you
Speaker 3: can't play in female sports.
Speaker 1: The whole trans thing of if you don't go along
Speaker 1: with all of it, they'll kill themselves, which is like
Speaker 1: a hell of a moral hostage taking things sort of game.
Speaker 2: Who came up with that? It was very clever. It
Speaker 2: worked for a long time.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, moral arguments and fear and guilt to
Speaker 3: motivate you to go along with the radical program. The
Speaker 3: interesting thing about heavy, though, is he didn't say that.
Speaker 3: He just referred to it obliquely. That's why he's so canny.
Speaker 3: He wasn't gonna make that crazy claim. He just wanted
Speaker 3: it out there. Yeah, pretty trump mask actually are yes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: these people are disturbed, and disturbed people tend to have,
Speaker 3: you know, worse outcomes. Yeah, undeniably it is. It's the
Speaker 3: talking down to vulnerable populations that.
Speaker 2: What are we talking about.
Speaker 3: We're talking about beating a crap out of women on
Speaker 3: a sports field.
Speaker 2: I was having this conversation with my kids the other
Speaker 2: day about, uh, they.
Speaker 1: Are talking about getting into me, getting into politics ever
Speaker 1: or anything like that, if I ever thought about it
Speaker 1: or whatever, and on how as far as I can tell,
Speaker 1: it's impossible to be at any very high level of
Speaker 1: politics without being phony, at a level I would never
Speaker 1: be comfortable with.
Speaker 2: I just don't think you can do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can be mayor of some smaller birds without
Speaker 1: compromising anything.
Speaker 2: You might be able to do that.
Speaker 1: But if you rise very high at all, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to You're gonna have to play that game at
Speaker 1: some point.
Speaker 2: And I just I just am not built that way.
Speaker 1: And I was thinking to e Xamp I'm listening to
Speaker 1: right now the book Thirteen Days by Lawrence Wright.
Speaker 2: I really like Lawrence Wright's stuff. And it's about the.
Speaker 1: Piece of chords between Egypt, Israel, and the United States
Speaker 1: back when Carter was president. So it's sadat began and
Speaker 1: Carter and it's the Thirteen Day Summit, and I'm just
Speaker 1: into it. It's really freaking good, so good, but it
Speaker 1: went through some of the stuff Jimmy Carter had to do.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter ran and lost because he didn't wink and
Speaker 1: nudge to the racists in Georgia in the early seventies.
Speaker 1: Then he ran again and had a couple of phrases
Speaker 1: that were associated with I'm on your side and you
Speaker 1: know who I am, and you know why I can't
Speaker 1: say it out loud.
Speaker 4: You know the oft mentioned dog whistles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did exactly dog whistles, and he did it,
Speaker 1: and he separated himself enough from it that he couldn't
Speaker 1: be completely tagged with it. But his campaign did it,
Speaker 1: and he obviously wouldn't have allowed his cam But I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: even freaking.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter, and this is not a knock on him.
Speaker 1: Like I just said, you cannot rise to a high
Speaker 1: level of office without playing that game at some level.
Speaker 2: You just can't.
Speaker 1: So that's why I give some leeway to the Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsoms and Donald Trump's, Jimmy Carter's whoever who do this,
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's possible to become a senator,
Speaker 1: a governor, certainly a president without playing that.
Speaker 2: Game at some level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I agree with you.
Speaker 3: At the same time, calling them on it aggressively is
Speaker 3: how we prevent what I was about to describe, and
Speaker 3: that is, if you do that and you win, then
Speaker 3: you get to do the things that matter.
Speaker 4: As Charles Kronhammer r.
Speaker 1: Right, that's what Jimmy Carter would, I guarantee you, that's
Speaker 1: what he was thinking at the time to make himself
Speaker 1: be able to sleep at night, was the state the country.
Speaker 1: It'll be better off if I'm in charge. And Okay,
Speaker 1: so I have to do this little thing. Ultimately it
Speaker 1: will be a win.
Speaker 3: And indeed, in Jimmy Carter's case, I could see him saying,
Speaker 3: and if I can allow my campaign to blow a
Speaker 3: couple of dog whistles at the racists and I win.
Speaker 3: I can do great things to promote the health and
Speaker 3: welfare of black.
Speaker 4: Americans or black Georgians or whatever.
Speaker 3: Right, And the racists they're gonna hate that, but they're
Speaker 3: gonna help me do it.
Speaker 4: And ain't that sweet?
Speaker 3: And so again, to get to do the things that matter,
Speaker 3: you've got to put yourself on some very shaky moral ground,
Speaker 3: which you know, depending on how you handle it, might
Speaker 3: end up being a moral good. But the reason you
Speaker 3: have to call people out and criticize them for it
Speaker 3: is to make sure they don't slide too far. I'm
Speaker 3: on that moral ground and end up, you know, being
Speaker 3: just flat evil. The problem is I Havevin Newsom, since
Speaker 3: he's soulless and has no principles like Kamala Harris is,
Speaker 3: you know, and he was a pretty moderate Democrat when
Speaker 3: he came up, and some people say he would that
Speaker 3: was that's the real Gavin. Well maybe, but California is
Speaker 3: a very moderate purple state when he came up too,
Speaker 3: So he's just a wind sock.
Speaker 2: It's amazing how far you can go in politics without
Speaker 2: having any real convictions.
Speaker 1: You just figure out, okay, on this day in history,
Speaker 1: what do most people want or believe that I can
Speaker 1: get elected?
Speaker 2: Saying?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 3: But then the question is are you ten percent of
Speaker 3: wind sock, twenty five fifty or one hundred percent a
Speaker 3: wind sock?
Speaker 1: I don't think he can run away from his record.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's going to answer for the
Speaker 1: homelessness and the.
Speaker 2: COVID shutdown and a whole bunch of different things.
Speaker 3: If his opponent is worth a damn, they'll hang it
Speaker 3: around his neck successfully. But the number of times the
Speaker 3: Republican Party has coughed up somebody who's not very good
Speaker 3: at making the case.
Speaker 2: He won't need to.
Speaker 1: He won't face a Republican, he'll face other Democrats. Josh
Speaker 1: Shapiro runs circle around him.
Speaker 4: Oh you think he won't wouldn't get to the general.
Speaker 2: No, no way. I think that's where his danger is.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna get killed by.
Speaker 4: A Oh yeah, maybe maybe.
Speaker 3: But Gaffy is again, he's very very savvy, and he's
Speaker 3: very good at portraying the problems he and the Democrats
Speaker 3: have caused as something that fell out of the sky
Speaker 3: and they've had to deal with. And we're dealing with
Speaker 3: it aggressively and creatively. We're demanding the cities and counties
Speaker 3: of California take responsibility for their homeless programs and make
Speaker 3: sure they're paying off.
Speaker 4: I look really good at twisting it like that.
Speaker 1: I look around at these homeless camps and I say,
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on?
Speaker 3: Right, let's ride gav It's just utterly phony, but he's
Speaker 3: good at it.
Speaker 1: Man Trump put out a hell of a threat to Hamas.
Speaker 1: Yesterday he tweeted it out that and other stuff on
Speaker 1: the way stay here.
Speaker 4: Drum Sports News.
Speaker 3: For the first time ever in the game's history, the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six World Cup Final will include a halftime show.
Speaker 1: Oo right now, Drake is like, oh no, that's a
Speaker 1: perfect lead in to what I was just about to
Speaker 1: talk about. So, my oldest son's birthday is tomorrow, and
Speaker 1: one of the things I'm getting him for his birthday
Speaker 1: is a I'm taking him to a concert because that's
Speaker 1: what I did for his younger brother, Henry for his birthday.
Speaker 1: So I owe Sam a concert. Henry is into classic rock.
Speaker 1: That was easy for me to do. Sam is into
Speaker 1: like your hip hop rap, and I just don't know
Speaker 1: that world, and I know he wants to see this
Speaker 1: guy Ken Carson and Playboy Carti. Anyway, Can anybody give
Speaker 1: me advice on whether or not it would be safe
Speaker 1: for me to be at Rolling Loud California in Inglewood, California.
Speaker 2: Coming up in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: It's it's a like a festival sort of thing. It's
Speaker 1: got Playboy, Cardi, Suicide Boys. Now the s on both
Speaker 1: ends is a dollar sign.
Speaker 2: Oh, wool tj.
Speaker 3: Why As always I must ask how like five eight
Speaker 3: or really.
Speaker 1: Wull Y s t Grizzly Ken Carson, thanks so much,
Speaker 1: wool Tyler Jordan something or other I can't pronounce, and others.
Speaker 2: So anyway would it be safe for me to go there?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to be like, you know,
Speaker 1: overly scared, middle aged white guy something.
Speaker 2: I also don't want to be an idiot.
Speaker 1: So if anybody has an idea on this, text me
Speaker 1: four one five two nine five KFTC four one five
Speaker 1: two nine five KFTC.
Speaker 4: Funny you should bring that up.
Speaker 3: I just came across this Twitter thread. It's it's, you know,
Speaker 3: naked engagement baiting, but I thought it was so interesting.
Speaker 3: Name a band or musician that does nothing for you,
Speaker 3: no matter how much other people seem to love it.
Speaker 3: I'll start, says the guy running the Twitter threat, and
Speaker 3: he posts a picture of Metallica. Hmm, I'm going to
Speaker 3: express none of my own opinions because I don't want
Speaker 3: to distract from my greater point. First response Steely Dan
Speaker 3: and led Zeppelin comment on Metallica.
Speaker 1: Sorry, recently, I've just recently become a big Steely Dan
Speaker 1: guy hated in my whole life, and I just recently
Speaker 1: have decided I like Steely Dan.
Speaker 2: Isn't that weird?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Again, I will not weigh in with any of my opinions,
Speaker 3: but other than this one, yeah, I love the Dan
Speaker 3: moving along. Sorry, but rush Bruce Springsteen. He goes into
Speaker 3: some detail, some galss sting and the police. I'll never
Speaker 3: get it. I've tried, Brother, it simply just doesn't register.
Speaker 3: Foo Fighters don't like him. Here's the definition of ma
Speaker 3: It's Tom Petty. I appreciate the Beatles' place in music history,
Speaker 3: I just can't get into them. Tried many times. Pink Floyd,
Speaker 3: the Door is grateful, dead Tea Swizzle you too, Madonna,
Speaker 3: I never got Bob Dylan, Fleetwood, Mac Oasis. They're doing
Speaker 3: less than nothing for me. On and on and on.
Speaker 3: The list of musicians anything else to There's bon Jovi,
Speaker 3: Guns n' Roses, Dreams, Theater, Green Day. The list goes
Speaker 3: on and on and on. Some of the greatest, most interesting, creative, whatever,
Speaker 3: popular musical artists in history. There's something for everyone, and
Speaker 3: if you don't like it, fine, nobody cares.
Speaker 4: I don't care. Just dig what you dig. And shut up.
Speaker 1: Some of those are surprising to me, Like I can
Speaker 1: understand how things that are more on the edge of
Speaker 1: art you might not get or not might get or not.
Speaker 1: Like I can understand lots of people not being into
Speaker 1: Bob Dylan. That makes perfectly good sense to me, even
Speaker 1: though I love Bob Dylan, But like Fleetwood, Mac just
Speaker 1: seems like not liking a ham sandwich, I mean a
Speaker 1: really good Ham sandwich.
Speaker 4: I agree. I've tried and tried, just can't get into them.
Speaker 1: But again, teach their own so far, Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. And there's plenty of music out there.
Speaker 1: If you're not digging this, there's plenty of other stuff.
Speaker 1: So Trump with a pretty forceful tweet yesterday about a
Speaker 1: deadline for Hamas.
Speaker 2: If you haven't heard this, among other things on the way,
Speaker 2: stay with.
Speaker 1: Us, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 5: With Phase one now concluded, uncertainty around phases two and three,
Speaker 5: Israel already blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza to pressure Hamas,
Speaker 5: and now Trump comes in here with this threat to
Speaker 5: not only let all hell break loose, but to send
Speaker 5: Israel everything it needs quote.
Speaker 2: To finish the job.
Speaker 5: And indeed we have gotten a response from a Hamas
Speaker 5: spokesman who says, quote, these threats complicate matters regarding the
Speaker 5: ceasefire agreement and encourage the occupation government that means Israel
Speaker 5: not to implement the agreement. And he then goes on
Speaker 5: to urge the US administration to pressure Israel to enter
Speaker 5: the second stage as stipulated in the agreement that was
Speaker 5: indeed backed by the United States.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that anybody quote what Hamas thinks
Speaker 1: is if that is a legitimate commentary.
Speaker 3: Name the sorts of negotiations that are appropriate when you
Speaker 3: know the other side is not negotiating in good faith.
Speaker 1: So trance or is there aren't any Trump met with
Speaker 1: a bunch of hostages that had been released in the
Speaker 1: Oval Office yesterday and heard their stories, so in this
Speaker 1: and right afterwards, and I imagine he was pretty worked
Speaker 1: up emotionally having heard the stories. When he tweeted this out,
Speaker 1: Shalom Hamas means hello and goodbye. You can choose.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good opening.
Speaker 1: Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately
Speaker 1: return all the dead bodies of the people you murdered,
Speaker 1: or it's over for you over in all caps only
Speaker 1: sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick
Speaker 1: and twisted.
Speaker 2: Exclamation point.
Speaker 1: I'm sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job.
Speaker 1: Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you
Speaker 1: don't do as I say. I met with your former hostages,
Speaker 1: whose lives you've destroyed. This is your last warning. Exclamation
Speaker 1: point for the leadership. Now is the time to leave
Speaker 1: Gaza while you still have a chance. Also, are the
Speaker 1: people of Gaza a beautiful future awaits. But do not,
Speaker 1: but not if you hold hostages. If you do, you
Speaker 1: are dead. All caps make a smart decision. All caps,
Speaker 1: release the hostages now, or there will be hell to
Speaker 1: pay later.
Speaker 2: All Caps. It doesn't have a timeline on it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say by tonight or Saturday, or the end
Speaker 1: of the month or whatever. Just as now, I'm reminded,
Speaker 1: and it's so simple of a piece. Who wrote it
Speaker 1: for the Free Press I can't remember, but and it was.
Speaker 1: It was very long and very detailed and went through
Speaker 1: all sorts of episodes of history.
Speaker 4: But the history of.
Speaker 3: Someone launching an unprovoked attack on a neighbor went in
Speaker 3: a time of peace and being defeated is that you
Speaker 3: lose your sovereignty, your land or both every single time
Speaker 3: through history. There's just there is no exception. How could
Speaker 3: there be an exception except Israel is supposed to now
Speaker 3: re engage and talk about a two state solution. Ha ha,
Speaker 3: He says, completely without humor.
Speaker 1: Even if there is an exception, it will be a
Speaker 1: blip and then historically forgotten. When Israel then says, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's it. I don't care what anybody says about anything.
Speaker 1: We're going to completely rid this area of all human beings.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I read another scholarly piece on how in a
Speaker 3: number of those instances and or land disputes, one side
Speaker 3: one decisively and the other lost and accepted it and
Speaker 3: adjusted to it, and their people lived happy, productive lives
Speaker 3: and the bloodshed and did the people.
Speaker 4: Of a country X.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into specifics because they don't
Speaker 3: want to open a can of worms, but the people
Speaker 3: of country X, who were defeated and lost some lander,
Speaker 3: sovereignty or whatever, went on to have a much much,
Speaker 3: much better faith than the people in Gaza.
Speaker 1: So Mark Alpern in his newsletter today to Trump's aggressive threat,
Speaker 1: and I'm not using threat perjorada. I think it was
Speaker 1: a threat, he said, a lot of people will say
Speaker 1: Trump blusters about the Middle East all the time.
Speaker 2: Watch closely. This time could be different, and for real.
Speaker 1: I think he's got to follow through or allow Israel
Speaker 1: to follow through at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he made a similar vow several weeks ago. A
Speaker 4: few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was.
Speaker 1: They had interrupted the peace process Hamas had. He said,
Speaker 1: all the hostages need to come back. Israel re engaged
Speaker 1: with the peace process as laid out in the agreement,
Speaker 1: with the number of hostages and everything like that. So
Speaker 1: I think that gave him a pat But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think there are any caveats in this one.
Speaker 3: No, this would be you very much like Obama's red
Speaker 3: line that you can play hopscotch.
Speaker 1: Yes, you'd like yes, Yeah, that would be a problem anyway.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how this turns out.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I got a interesting text from a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: It's something their kid is being taught in school. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: this is from their work book at school. I meant
Speaker 1: to ask what class is this because it kind of matters. Uh,
Speaker 1: it says, why does my first grader need to know
Speaker 1: the word negro?
Speaker 2: That is what they said.
Speaker 1: But so the there's one page from the workbook with
Speaker 1: a picture of baseball team from the Negro Leagues, and
Speaker 1: it says the Monarchs were a team in the Negro League.
Speaker 1: Underline the phrase that shows the events are told in
Speaker 1: a onological time order. And then the next page it
Speaker 1: says most baseball fans cheered for Robinson, some booed they
Speaker 1: did not like having an African American player in the league.
Speaker 2: And then it gets into Negro and what bood means.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's, oh, it's vocabulary, so it's a
Speaker 1: reading thing. Isn't this the definition of dei? So you've
Speaker 1: got that's what dei is. You got a class where
Speaker 1: you're trying to teach a kid to read, and you
Speaker 1: put in all this stuff about the Negro Leagues and
Speaker 1: how there are so many racists that they booed Jackie
Speaker 1: Robbinson be baseball player. Okay, maybe you need that in
Speaker 1: your social studies class or history class at some point
Speaker 1: when you're older. But first grader's reading, No, this is
Speaker 1: not looking in every class. This is not the easiest
Speaker 1: best way to teach a first grader to.
Speaker 3: Read microbiology, algebra, astronomy, or get in every class, indoctrinate constantly.
Speaker 1: That America is a bad country and racist, and yeah,
Speaker 1: right right crazyh yeah, yeah, it is crezy.
Speaker 3: Well, it's it's ugly and insidious. It's entirely intentional. On
Speaker 3: the one hand, the activists, and then it's a bunch
Speaker 3: of softtheads who who think they're doing the right thing.
Speaker 3: They've been persuaded by the moral arguments, not knowing that
Speaker 3: they're being used as tools by Marxists.
Speaker 4: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: All we can do is keep spreading the word and
Speaker 3: empower y'all to fight against it when you find it.
Speaker 4: Because they're wrong.
Speaker 3: They're wrong morally, they're wrong historically, that they're just, and
Speaker 3: they're certainly wrong educationally.
Speaker 4: There's no arguing with that. Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 3: There is a story whereas that ah Minnesota state employees
Speaker 3: are taught at their various indoctrinations sessions that they are
Speaker 3: swimming in the waters of white supremacy and that the
Speaker 3: Republican Party quote is overtly and boldly claiming a white
Speaker 3: supremacy autocratic agenda. A training document shows Minnesota Management and
Speaker 3: Budget Department utilized a thirty two page document.
Speaker 4: What does this have to do with managing and budget.
Speaker 3: White supremacy culture are still here is the title and
Speaker 3: its management training last year, according to Elphinus, and the
Speaker 3: department describes its employees as stores of the state's financial
Speaker 3: and human resources. According to the training document, the power
Speaker 3: elite in the American colonies constructed white supremacy to intersect
Speaker 3: with support, reinforce, and reproduce capitalism and various forms of
Speaker 3: oppression and to quote, commodify and dehumanize all living things
Speaker 3: in the name of power and profit for a few
Speaker 3: at the expense of many. I've got that tattoo on
Speaker 3: my chest. Let's commodify and dehumanize all living things in
Speaker 3: the name of power and profit for a few at
Speaker 3: the expense of many, It says, beautiful script, but they
Speaker 3: misspelled dehumanize.
Speaker 4: It says dehumanize, and so it's a little embarrassing. I
Speaker 4: keep me shired on anyway.
Speaker 3: White supremacy, it says, quote, is a project of psychic
Speaker 3: conditioning and toxic belonging that not only colonizes minds and bodies,
Speaker 3: but also the land and the water, and the sky
Speaker 3: and the air we breathe. We are all swimming in
Speaker 3: the waters of white supremacy culture. Wow, this is you know,
Speaker 3: what's interesting is the sort of rhetoric that flies in
Speaker 3: the on the left, because generally speaking, people of the
Speaker 3: left are a little more dreamy and poety, and people of.
Speaker 2: The right are a little more do the math.
Speaker 3: But white supremacy is a project of psychic conditioning and
Speaker 3: toxic belonging that not only colonizes minds and bodies, but
Speaker 3: also the land and the water and the sky and
Speaker 3: the air we breathe. This construction of white supremacy is
Speaker 3: alive and well. For just one example, we're all living
Speaker 3: through a period where the US Republican Party is overtly
Speaker 3: and boldly claiming a white supremacy autocratic agenda. Oh, they
Speaker 3: go through the list of things that are clearly white supremacy.
Speaker 3: It's the usual suspects, the pursuit of perfection, the value
Speaker 3: of objectivity and rationality over the emotional. So my little
Speaker 3: screen there was that was overt white supremacy saying, let's
Speaker 3: do the math and understand precisely what we're doing and
Speaker 3: be realized since.
Speaker 2: This seems so racist to me.
Speaker 1: This is one of those It's like that comedian we
Speaker 1: play where the clansmen and the woke person agree because
Speaker 1: it seems to me that a klansman would say, shone
Speaker 1: up on time caring about facts, that's white people's stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right and racist and woke. Meet.
Speaker 3: Let's see. So these are things that are white supremacy.
Speaker 3: Pursuit of perfection, value of objectivity and rationality over the emotional,
Speaker 3: the belief that progress is measured by being bigger and
Speaker 3: having more.
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily think that.
Speaker 3: White supremacy, she wrote, worships the word, including writing that
Speaker 3: is grammatically correct and properly cited, and it also celebrates individus.
Speaker 3: Is that.
Speaker 1: Only white people can write grammatically correctly.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what a racist thing to say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, these people are flaming racists.
Speaker 3: Oh. White supremacy also celebrates individualism, which for white people
Speaker 3: means seeing yourself and or demanding to be seen as
Speaker 3: an individual and not part of the white group. That's right,
Speaker 3: individual rights, individual identity, not running around like a sheep
Speaker 3: and a herd. That's white supremacy. See this, it's so
Speaker 3: obvious what they're doing if you know anything about you know,
Speaker 3: propaganda and the politics of persuasion and trying to get
Speaker 3: people to obey your worldview or your philosophy. It's so
Speaker 3: obvious what they're doing. I mean, you can see the seams.
Speaker 1: You know, back to the Negro League baseball stuff for
Speaker 1: first grade reading projects. I mentioned this Nietzsche quote came
Speaker 1: across the other day that I've been fascinated with. I
Speaker 1: need to dig into it more find the actual quote.
Speaker 1: But he was a Nietzsche's kind of a half a
Speaker 1: nut anyway, But he was saying, it's very important for
Speaker 1: countries to be able to forget certain things and remember
Speaker 1: certain things. And it was the idea of, you know,
Speaker 1: letting go of your flaws and not you know, letting
Speaker 1: that drag you down and recognizing you moved past it.
Speaker 1: Now let's focus on the good things that make us,
Speaker 1: you know, prosperous and successful. And that makes perfect sense
Speaker 1: to me. And I don't know how you nail that
Speaker 1: down exactly, because you know, critics of that idea would
Speaker 1: say you're trying to whitewash the past or ignore your
Speaker 1: flaws or whatever. But I keep li likening it to
Speaker 1: like an individual relationship or a company or something like that.
Speaker 1: What are we going to hammer every single night that
Speaker 1: one time we fought over how I insulted your mom.
Speaker 1: We're going to bring that up every night. How does
Speaker 1: that benefit us if we've you know, got and pasted
Speaker 1: it and I've apologized or whatever, or the greatest metaphor
Speaker 1: ever invented for life, the Great game of golf.
Speaker 3: I played with a guy the other day, nice fella too,
Speaker 3: but he was kicking himself three holes later.
Speaker 4: This like an hour for a putty miss.
Speaker 2: We're on the knights hole.
Speaker 3: He's kicking a hell out of himself for a putty miss.
Speaker 3: On six, I'm like, dude, you are You're so self defeating.
Speaker 3: This is terrible. And yeah, as a country, you've got
Speaker 3: to say, you know what, we screwed up. We're not
Speaker 3: going to do that again and move on. Maybe right
Speaker 3: the wrong if it needs to be righted. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but again, perfect example of you know what, I was
Speaker 3: driving it. These people know that obsessing over the sins
Speaker 3: of history is a way to get to pride people
Speaker 3: away from pride in their country and their people and
Speaker 3: their principles and who they are. And once they are
Speaker 3: pride away from their history and their identity, you can
Speaker 3: control them.
Speaker 4: That's Marxism.
Speaker 3: They wrote books on this and sign their names they're
Speaker 3: on the spine. This is not my wild idea. Trust them,
Speaker 3: they meant it. We'll finish strong next strong.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 8: According to the Wall Street Journal, the President could sign
Speaker 8: that executive order as early as today, directing Education Secretary
Speaker 8: Linda McMahon to quote take all necessary steps to facilitate
Speaker 8: the closure of the Education Department based on the maximum
Speaker 8: extent appropriate and permitted by law. It's something the President
Speaker 8: has been angling for since his first days in office.
Speaker 1: I opened the show by saying, I wish we were
Speaker 1: having a giant national conversation about the necessity for role
Speaker 1: of public schooling in the United States, but we're not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to go that big on it.
Speaker 3: At least let's talk about the federal government's role in it.
Speaker 3: And we're going to go big on this tomorrow, especially
Speaker 3: after we see what happens today, whether Trump signs anything
Speaker 3: or what.
Speaker 1: An executive order doing away with the Department of Education,
Speaker 1: which he doesn't have the power to do.
Speaker 3: But the way that was worded to shut it down
Speaker 3: to whatever extent is permissible by law, and that idea
Speaker 3: and principle I absolutely love. All Right, We're gonna scale
Speaker 3: every department back to the specific statutory set of duties
Speaker 3: it's supposed to do and then go from there.
Speaker 4: It's like zero based budgeting.
Speaker 1: So I saw on Fox and Friends this morning. I
Speaker 1: guess there's some unhappiness about the idea on the right.
Speaker 1: For instance, if you had schools teaching the sixteen nineteen project,
Speaker 1: you'd have no federal authority to go in there and
Speaker 1: do anything about it.
Speaker 3: How do you root out the DEI stuff? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 3: it's an issue.
Speaker 4: Final thought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'd lean toward having those communists enclaves
Speaker 1: teach the kids the way they want and just assuming
Speaker 1: that there aren't that many of them.
Speaker 3: Hello, U haul, except that every school in America practically
Speaker 3: is a deep blue radical little you know, chunk of ground.
Speaker 4: In your town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at this point, at least, now.
Speaker 4: Here's final thoughts with me.
Speaker 2: Your host just got a final thought from everybody at that.
Speaker 4: Sir, right, you're sick.
Speaker 2: You're sick.
Speaker 4: He's get a final thought from everybody. Mike Lad's little
Speaker 4: lad us off just a.
Speaker 9: Row simpot one. All morning, I was kind of worried
Speaker 9: about my eyes. I just had eye surgery, and I
Speaker 9: kept seeing spots and you know what appeared to be
Speaker 9: dinge in my vision. It turns out my glasses were
Speaker 9: just dirty.
Speaker 4: I just had to clean them.
Speaker 2: I getting seen beautifully. That's funny.
Speaker 3: Well, and I dropped acid in your diet coke too,
Speaker 3: Katie Green are esteemed news woman.
Speaker 4: As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 1: I need to get a new pillow, cause this is
Speaker 1: the second time in a month where.
Speaker 2: I've woken up and my neck is just I can't
Speaker 2: even turn my head.
Speaker 1: Good life, and let me know where it direction go.
Speaker 1: I've been battling. Here will be my final thought. I've
Speaker 1: been battling the sleep thing for a while. The right pillow,
Speaker 1: the right pillow case, the right mattress, the right.
Speaker 2: Sleeping position, all these things.
Speaker 1: I've gone through a bunch of kind of expensive pillows,
Speaker 1: trying to my kids swear by the cube. But I'm
Speaker 1: not a side sleeper. But if you're a side sleeper,
Speaker 1: it's so awesome, are you?
Speaker 2: I do at the cube? You gotta get the cube.
Speaker 3: Okay, I don't have the cue. I'm a side sleeper.
Speaker 3: I'll try the cube. You gonna make a note the cue.
Speaker 3: See you be e there it is. Here's how you
Speaker 3: tell us a part. Jack and Joe, do we not
Speaker 3: have time. We don't have time for this.
Speaker 2: Oh I want to hear it too.
Speaker 3: No, no, you will not hear it because you hogged
Speaker 3: all the time. Are your rambling final thoughts? Now I
Speaker 3: get nothing, short end of the stick, hind teeth. I
Speaker 3: won't stand for it tomorrow. I'm hogging all the time,
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Speaker 3: bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and getcha. Our message is clear. To continue
Speaker 2: to speak lies to his truth.
Speaker 4: I was wondering you know what you felt about that?
Speaker 2: It makes no sense?
Speaker 4: Are you sure?
Speaker 7: Says yes, So let's go with it.
Speaker 3: It comes to trade though. China's like a pig with
Speaker 3: an enormously long tongue. I mean, really, if you think
Speaker 3: about it, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Are strong and getdy