WEBVTT - They're Bleeping Bleeping Rats With Hooves! 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.880 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.560 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:25.840 Jettie and he Arms wrong yet. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:37.120 Live from Studio ce Signor, deep within the stinking bowels 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.600 of the Armstrong and Giddy Intormation Complex. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.520 This is the Armstrong and Getty Show Live. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:47.960 Yes, not best of We're back live this Wednesday for 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.840 the twenty third the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. 0:00:52.159 --> 0:01:00.120 This morning, under the tutelage of temporary general manager Clarity, 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.600 Jack is out at least part of today, so I 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.399 get to do one of my theme general managers instead 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.240 of a specific general manager, specific human being. I should say, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.000 I've been thinking about as I look over a bunch 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.040 of different stories and groups of stories that I really 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.600 want to talk about today. And if there is a 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.480 theme emerging, it is this, and as usual Donald J 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.039 is more or less at the center of it. But 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.679 whether it's Pete Hegseeth at the Defense Department that's getting 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:34.520 a lot of attention among the chattering classes. The tariff slash, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:41.200 trade ups and downs, stock market skyrocketing yesterday after going 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.000 in the toilets the previous day, et cetera, et cetera. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.600 Getting kind of used to it, aren't we The immigration stuff, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.480 and a couple of different other topics, oh, you know, 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.880 bumps and junkies on the streets, school choice, and in 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:02.560 particular the battle with the major university. Clarity is a 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.640 little hard to find because and we're all used to 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.520 this at this point, you're either screeching twenty four hours 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.520 a day that Trump is Satan. If Satan got together 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.959 with a female Hitler and they had an unholy evil baby, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.520 that's Trump, or Trump is always right in every way, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.240 even when any reasonable human being would say, whoops, that 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.359 was a misstep. He probably shouldn't have done that. Whereas 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.920 the truth is usually in between, and it's much more interesting. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.160 And so we're gonna try to bring you clarity about 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.720 a handful of different topics, and we'll figure out in 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.800 what order in a moment or two, because they're all 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.000 so interesting. Obviously, if you know the show I Joe 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:48.840 Getti m on a g hod against the neo Marxist 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.560 woke indoctrination our kids are getting from the time they 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:58.440 step into pre kindergarten. As it turns out, I've been 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.839 saying k through pH D for the longest time. There 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.560 is a story out of Is it a Maryland, I'll look, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.079 it doesn't matter. It's one of your blue Eastern states 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.520 that have lost their minds, where they are indoctrinating the 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:17.880 tiny little kids, the pre k kids into the woke 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.960 doctrine at age three and four in a preschool. 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.200 I know it's an obscenity. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.840 Is it is absolutely worth having a g hot against 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.640 this stuff. I came across an author that generally I 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:33.960 like and admire a little bit. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.920 He's what's his face, It doesn't matter. He's the guy. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:37.400 He's always writing about Stoicism. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.440 He's put out like eleven books about the Stoic philosophy 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.040 and stuff, and it's really good, and I like the 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.600 Stoic philosophy. I'm a fan. But this guy had a 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.840 piece in I think the New York Times, I think 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:54.440 piece were he claimed that any claim of Neo Marxism 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:59.120 in education these days is just the stupid kneed. You're 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.200 in a kind of cliche of the right and there's 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.400 nothing to say here. And I thought, oh, my god, brother, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:11.120 I'm not sure I can read your stuff anymore. You're blind. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.600 You have these ideas that dominate education. You're supposed to 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.279 be teaching how to add and subtract, and they've got 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:22.240 the rainbow and the genderbread person and explaining how you 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.520 know people of color aren't allowed to add in America because. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.240 The slavery are some nonsense. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.599 This guy's trying to claim that this stuff is just 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.159 some sort of paranoid dream of the right, and it's 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.760 just very disappointing. Whether he's deliberately blinded or ease of 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:42.760 that point of view, I don't know. But we're definitely 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.560 still at the stage of this battle where we're drawing 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.960 people's attention to the issues at hand, which is fine, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.560 more than willing to do that. But the battle will 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.719 be long, and it will be chaotic, and there will 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.680 be times that perhaps our side, I'm assuming you're more 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.680 or less on the same side ideologically. If you're not, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.719 that's fine, feel free to drop a note explaining where 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.240 we're wrong. But those of us who are on the 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.200 side of a much more traditional read and write, rhythmetsic 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:15.720 education and not indoctrination into neo Marx's garbage, there are 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.200 going to be missteps and courts that say, no, you 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.560 can't do that. In that way, because Trump is trying 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.480 to do what we're talking about in a very Trumpian way, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.640 suddenly and dramatically and stirring things up and stirn up 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.440 a bunch of dust, and then trying to get a 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.440 settlement within the chaos, which is his negotiating style. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.080 And there will be. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.360 Moments where, Hm, that's not gonna work, and probably wasn't 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:45.919 a great idea. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.480 I mean, for instance, trying to deny Harvard its tax 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:49.440 exempt status. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.000 You may be shocked by this, but I think that's 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.479 a mistake, and we'll get into a little detail about 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.560 that later. The reason being just very very briefly, it 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:04.720 grants the executive ranks for presidents specifically think Obama and 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:10.479 the Tea party organizations. It grants the administration way too 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.320 much power to say to the irs, Yes, that group 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:19.400 and that group and that college, deny their tax exempt status. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.359 There are four oh one C three or five oh 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.120 one C three, whatever it is. This is why I 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.320 hire an accountant, deny them their status because they are 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:32.680 not under kingly favor, and the left has abused the 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.039 hell out of that. And so I find myself on 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.720 the side of Congress needs to do its job and 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.600 limit that sort of abusive executive power because if we 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.479 if we permit it on the right, the left is 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:53.279 going to just do it like crazy. And I know 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.040 there's a certain point of view that's like, you know, 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.320 they take the low road all the time, and there 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.479 are virtually no repercussions. So we're going to take the 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.400 low road until we win. I don't think it's time 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.120 for that yet. I think we kick Congress and it's 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.320 behind get them to limit executive power in a way 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.440 that it's fair handed for both sides, you know, and 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.800 keep appointing reasonable conservative judges, not conservative politically that. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:19.920 Always come to an outcome. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:24.240 I like conservative as in the understand the three branches 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.480 of government and what their jobs are and don't overreach. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.480 So anyway, that will be one of the topics to 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:37.840 address today that I hope you'll find interesting. Matt Tayibe 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.640 one of my favorite authors, even when I don't just 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.560 when I don't agree with him, just because he's he's 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:52.480 able to getting back to the whole Trump delusion syndrome 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.880 or you know, people who believe he's right every single 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.800 second of the day. Tayibe will praise Trump lavishly when 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.760 he's right. And he'll say loudly when he thinks he's wrong. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:10.800 And his piece recently about the divorce between the federal 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:16.280 bureaucracy and big time colleges is you know, long, long, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.480 long overdue. And he is absolutely honest in pointing out 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.040 that while some of the things that Trump administration is 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.000 doing to try to reign in the colleges might be 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.440 a little over certain lines and maybe we need to 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.320 reel it in a little bit, he is absolutely brutal 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:36.839 and honestly describing how perverse and one sided universities in 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.000 the United States have become. So we'll get to that, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.720 among other things. Anyway, glad you're here, Thank you for 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.880 tuning in. Jack will be joining us as possible as 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:50.920 he has got the respiratory butt kicker doujore Just nasty, Katie, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.640 do you here we go with a little on air 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.320 medical diagnosis, one of our specialties. You said, it sounds 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.559 kind of similar to what your mom and pop had, right. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:01.599 Almost to a t. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.480 I mean they were sore throat, a bunch of crap 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.760 in their lungs, coughing a lot, and that's basically what 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.000 Jack's been talking about. And theirs lasted for weeks. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.800 Oh that's not good. Ye yeah, was it ever named? 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:16.640 No? 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.880 They went from a cute bronchitis to possible pneumonia, back 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.760 to bronchitis to upper respiratory infection. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.560 Ah, yes, yeah you are I the all purpose term 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.840 for you got some sort of microbe and it's it's 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:31.840 making it hard to breathe. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.160 Yeah, and the wheezing and the coughing. Just they're still 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.400 coughing a little bit. And it's been over a month. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.560 Oh gosh, yeah, I've had a version of that, the 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.400 ol you've felt good for five six weeks weeks and 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:45.120 you're still coughing. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.840 Deal. Yeah, and just you know, just a little hint. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.640 And I will certainly not to harass our co hosts 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.200 since he's not here to defind himself. Some people on 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.679 Earth are hypochondriacs. In the minute they have a sniffle, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.199 they act like they're dying. Some people are much more stoic. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.800 Back to stoicism probably misuse of the term, but anyway, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.320 if perhaps they are the sort who come from a 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.160 family of Iowa farmers, where you show up and do 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.160 the work no matter how bad you feel, and you 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.760 don't complain. Blah blah, blah blah blah much. Perhaps you 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.640 don't take illnesses seriously enough. I would suggest if you 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:25.080 get this one, you understand people are getting pretty sick 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.600 from it. M M. What's interesting is nobody's even asking 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.920 the question, is it COVID A variant? 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.640 Is it COVID? Which is good? 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.720 I guess we'll beyond that until doctor Fauci goes to 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.079 work at the Wuhan lab again. Anyway, all right, let's 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.040 begin the show officially according to FCC rules and regulations. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.040 Here we go. The show starts at mark. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:49.120 I was born in Brooklyn, the same place where Donald Trump's. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.559 Family comes from. His father and my grandfather were builders 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.320 together in Brooklyn. Yeah, even when he was much younger, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.360 you knew that he was going to go places. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.280 That's Chuck Schumer singing the praises of Donald J. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:04.760 Trump. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.720 That was from The Apprentice in two thousand and six, 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:14.040 which I don't want to horrify anybody, was nineteen years ago. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.880 Wait a minute, let me, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:18.400 was never a. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.920 Great guy at math carry the three good Lord. Two 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:26.640 thousand and six was nineteen years ago. II kamba, Oh 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:27.400 what are you gonna do? 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:27.800 Time? 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.400 March is on. Doesn't it all right? Katie has her 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.880 headlines coming up. We've got all sorts of good stuff 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.840 squeeze in this hour. I hope you can stay with us. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:42.040 Hedgehogs are disappearing in the UK Live Team coverage coming 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.840 up a little bit later on, among other stories we'll 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.439 be covering today. I just saw that that audio. Are 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.959 they really well, that's disturbing. I think are hedgehogs? 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.640 I don't know. We'll talk about it. When we talk 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:56.040 about it. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.040 Let's figure out who's reporting what it will leave plenty 0:11:59.040 --> 0:11:59.360 of time. 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.080 It's the lead story with Katie Green. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.960 Katie Well, it's just like, I mean, I've become aware 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:11.080 spending time in South Carolina that our medillos, while a 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.280 fascinating looking beast, and Texans can certainly relate to this, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:19.440 are incredibly destructive. They dig up your lawn and then 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.160 they dig under your foundation. Oh real stuff, they're they're 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.480 oh yeah, they're destructive little bastards. And I just the 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.760 hedgehog is a cute little roly poly furry. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.320 Looking thing, right, yes, but but do the Brits oh 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.199 my gosh. Sorry on a side, so. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.480 Years ago, when I just moved to northern California. I 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.880 was playing golf with Mike. I'm not even sure Mike's 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.560 still with us, but a wonderful guy and uh and 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.040 I was trying to connect with them. And it was 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.760 the first time we played golf together. And some deer 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.800 kpered by on the very pretty golf course we're playing, 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.000 and I said, oh my god, They're so graceful, aren't they? 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.360 And he said, what they're beep beep, rats with hooves. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.839 They eat all my flowers. I was like, oh, well, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.320 I didn't work out right, make it graceful, rats with hoofs. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.959 So I don't know. The Brits think hedgehogs is rats 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.040 with the fur. I don't, well the rats have for 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:16.880 you know what I'm saying. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.840 Anyway, I don't, all right, Joe, And then he shot 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.040 it to you right in front of me, out of 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:22.800 your meanness. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.520 No he didn't know. I'm sorry, Katie. Back to you. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:31.360 From MSNBC. Education Department plans to restart debt collections for 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.239 defaulted student loan. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:38.880 Borrowers, yes, having inexplicably been suspended for years and years 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.600 and years because of COVID. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.080 From The New York Times, China has an army of 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.400 robots on its side. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.200 In the tariff war. I actually glanced at that story. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.800 Go ahead, Oh no, it's just they're they're mentioning major 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.240 investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence giving them the 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:59.439 edge over us. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:00.400 Yeah. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.680 I came across a really really interesting throw piece about 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.240 how we lost our manufacturing edge, and they talked about 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.320 the automotive industry a lot, and I. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.040 How do I express this briefly? 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.960 One of the overarching themes is timing, and nobody talks 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:17.520 about that. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:19.400 If you have a. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:25.760 Gigantic, mature industry fifteen years later or twenty five years later, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.320 upstarts are going to be able to move much more 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:35.920 swiftly and creatively than the giant established conglomerates with labor 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.720 agreements with big unions and that sort of thing. Part 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.800 of it is just timing. But anyway, back to you. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.320 More on that later from the Washington Times. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:49.520 Under Trump, border catch and release has dropped ninety nine 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.840 point ninety nine percent. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:56.320 From Moortion, Oh whoopsnow no, actually he's so good at 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.920 immigration there's nobody to round up. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:00.720 Yeah. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:06.240 Yeah, More on that to come, including really interesting perspective 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.360 on what the left was saying when their guys were 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.440 in office, completely different. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.400 Oh, there's a shock from ABC. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:21.160 According to the FBI, seniors lost four point eight billion 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.080 dollars to scammers in twenty twenty four alone. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:27.360 Oh my gosh. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.000 Oh this is such a problem, and this is not 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.000 as cold as it sounds. Is the only way to 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:39.200 get beyond this to have folks who are not hip 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.880 to the whole internet scammer. Everybody's trying to steal all 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.960 the time culture of ours when they pass away. That's 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.120 the only way we're going to get beyond this. I 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.320 don't know, Katie, I don't know if you've ever heard 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.880 this story. I was talking to some FBI agent instead 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.040 a thing I did years ago, and they're talking about 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.320 a woman had been scammed out of like half life 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.880 savings by a smooth talking telephone, you know, scammer guy. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.600 This is back when it was mostly on phones, and 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.560 they were investigating it talking to her. She was fully 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.360 aware of what had happened to her. They are sitting 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.320 in the living room, the phone rang, and after a 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.240 while they wandered into the kitchen to see what she 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.800 was doing. She was getting scammed again. She was falling 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.040 for it again. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.040 Oh my gosh, so what do you do? I don't know. 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.760 From the New York Post, gen Z grads say their 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.880 college degrees are a waste of time and money as 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.160 AI has infiltrated the workplace. 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:36.680 A lot of truth to that. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.520 And finally, the Babylon Bee after the food die ban, 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.520 fruity pebbles to be changed to whitey pebbles. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:50.120 Whitey pebbles. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.440 Have you ever seen the comparing contrast between various popular 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.720 products in the US and in Canada that's banned some 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.240 of these diyes ages Ago, Yes, they look fine. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.960 Jack always said, Oh, they're just not quite as lurid. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.760 They look less like tropical fish and more like colors 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.960 that actually occur in nature. I'm not super up on 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.520 the food dye science. It can't be doing us any 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:18.160 good now. All right, so much to talk about, My goodness, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:18.960 the list is long. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.160 Can't wait to get started. Glad you're here. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.640 If you have missed a segment, Grab the podcast Armstrong 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:24.719 and Getty on demand. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:26.919 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.320 The UK announced plans to improve its environment and hopes 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.800 to restore at least one point two million acres of 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:39.000 wildlife habitat to protect a rare species like hedgehogs and 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.159 red squirrels, because if those die out it could mean 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.400 the end of the traditional English breakfast. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.320 Wow ends up being a shot at British food, which 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.600 is admittedly yeah, way down, way down the ladder of 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:59.480 world cuisines, towering only above the Scots from what I understand, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.200 not that I'm much of a world traveler. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.199 So there's your hedgehog story. Not a lot of detail 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:04.800 to it, Katie. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.320 Perhaps you could dig into the whole vanishing hedgehog crisis 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:08.840 in Britain. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.640 Oh, I'm all over at excellent. There you go. Live 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:16.200 team coverage coming up. So a first a scene setter. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.440 This is the practically unwatchable NBC Nightly News, Stephanie. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:24.360 Gosk more than two hundred educational institutions signing a statement 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.840 protesting the Trump administration's efforts to reshape higher education in 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.600 the US. The statement calls the government's tactics unprecedented overreach 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.160 and political interference. The statements released coming just hours after 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.160 Harvard became the first school to sue the federal government 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.639 for freezing two point two billion dollars in research funds. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.000 The lawsuit accuses the government of using the funding as 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.240 leverage to gain control of academic decision making. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.479 Okay, I just wanted to set the scene a little bit, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.639 and we'll be talking about colleges more specifically later on 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.400 in the show, but I wanted to talk about elementary 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.320 education at least a little bit. So here's here's the situation, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:13.359 and tactics matter because if say I got a kid 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.920 and the next door neighbor kid is bullying my kid, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.399 and I go over to talk it over with the 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.760 kid's parents and say it's got to end. But instead 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.960 of talking it over, I just go over and punch 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.040 the wife and say, how do you like it? 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.000 Okay, my kid was getting bullied. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.159 That's a legitimate problem that needed to be fixed. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.160 But now I'm the bad guy and that bully. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.760 It ain't gonna get fixed because everybody's gonna be fixated 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.320 on what I just did and this, so you. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.280 Can't do that. Yeah, they're going to focus on the 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.320 wife punching for sure. Yeah, exactly. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.320 I couldn't decide whether I was going to kick the 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.120 dog in this scenario or punch the wife. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.480 I would never raise my hand to a woman. But anyway, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:01.320 you get the point. 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.720 You gotta be careful because if you overreach, then and 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.520 anybody who's familiar with Saul Olenski's rules for radicals knows this. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:15.520 They try to make you the bad guy. They try desperately. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.720 It's called a decision dilemma. 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.560 It's when the protester comes up and screams right in 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.280 your face through a bullhorn until you can't take it 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:29.000 anymore and you punch them. Then you notice that they've 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.800 all got their phones out and are all videoing you. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.800 In the carefully edited version video of you punching them 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.280 makes you into the bad guy, and they win the day. 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.520 They're desperate to get you in a position to do that, 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:46.280 so you have to be tactically smart. Anyway, One more 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.919 scenes that are before we get into the substance. Up 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.640 until very very recently, a lot of America would hear 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:58.119 DEI and they would think, oh, yeah, diversity. I'm in 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.719 favor of that. Equity sounds like equality, and I've been 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.480 taught to be in favor of that an inclusion. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.359 How can I be against inclusion? 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.000 And they had everybody convinced that this neo Marxist philosophy, 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.000 which is actually just a tool of takeover of institutions 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.840 because if they can pin the original sin of slavery 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.440 on you, and you're thinking, I was born one hundred 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.160 and twenty five years after it ended. 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:18.800 Doesn't matter. 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:23.160 You're still part of the patriarchy, white supremacy culture, blah 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:28.080 blah blah, sixteen nineteen project blah blah blah. So you're like, oh, 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:28.600 I'll do it. 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:30.440 You tell me to just tell me what you want 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:32.920 me to do and and stopped calling me a racist. 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.200 So a lot of America was in that attitude, and 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.560 so they were winning like crazy, to the point that 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.880 they've taken over vast swaths of the American education complex. 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.640 So that's where this starts. You know, not long ago 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.439 when a lot of people, including us, started fighting against this, 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:55.359 and the Trump administration is right now. So the Trump 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.240 administration recently sent a letter to states nationwide with the 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:05.720 demand verify that your schools are not engaging in illegal diversity, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:10.160 equity and inclusion programs or risk your federal funding because 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:11.600 they're racially discriminatory. 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:13.320 Not to mention neo Marxist, but. 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:20.080 Well, not surprisingly at all, several states have pushed back 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.800 like crazy. For instance, New York State, we will not 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:28.040 give in the misleading and damaging myths about diversity, equity, 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:33.600 and inclusion work. Okay, all right, So they've gotten away 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:38.840 with their own absolutely misleading and damaging myth about what 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.040 they're doing, but so many people bought it. 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:44.120 Now they're being called on it. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We've 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:45.800 seen the reality of what you're doing. 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:49.199 You're trying to tear down that the pillars Western civilization. 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:52.560 This isn't about diversity. Well, they're not going to go 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:56.560 down without a fight. So here comes the fight you got. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:02.399 The General Counsel in Wisconsin's's education department love Wisconsin, but 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:06.240