WEBVTT - "He's Dumb As A Bag Of Bricks" 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.760 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:21.919 and Jettiety and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.639 There was a tweet that went out that signaled that 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.240 the President may be open to pausing some of these 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.159 terrors for ninety days except on China. And when I 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.040 was here in the room, there were cheers when that 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.599 went out, but quickly the White House said no, no, no, 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.040 that's fake news, saying that that's actually not true. And 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.879 you saw the Dow climb about nine hundred points and 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:47.360 then fall again. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.760 Yeah, so a tweet went out that wasn't accurate and 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:57.800 two point four trillion dollars of market value was added 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:02.080 in minutes. That's hard to wrap your head around. Then 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.280 most of it are raced just as quickly when it 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.040 turned out that that tweet was inaccurate. But you wouldn't 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:12.240 think that the economy could work that way. We're at 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:17.960 tweet without even like confirming it or discussing it or 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.720 or letting talked about happen would move the market two 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.720 point four trillion dollars. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.280 Now, this guy's a blue check mark for what that's 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.800 worth on Twitter, it's not worth anything. So quite literally, 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:39.600 a guy said something markets went wild. Now here's a twist. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.480 Was that tweet actually inaccurate? Now that the White House 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.720 is starting to say much more openly. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're negotiating. 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.640 It's the huge trade barriers forever is not the goal. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.440 Did the Trump team somehow get that tweet out. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.600 Because they were worried it the way things were going, Perhaps, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.880 I've got to believe God to believe. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.040 Because they were. Markets were down as much as the 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.920 Dow was down as much as sixteen hundred when we 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.240 went on the air yesterday, and I mean another a third, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.440 really bad day would have been a lot of political pressure. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.320 There might have been panic in the streets. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.880 And you got to remember the entire administration is that's 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.799 a hell of a lot of people. And surely among 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.360 that hell of a lot of people, there are at 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.840 least a couple of them that were fielding calls from 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:27.280 Ford Motors CEO or some Wall Street to Super Heavyweight 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.160 or something and told them, look, no, giant trade barriers 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:32.079 forever is not our goal. 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.360 We're just trying to get better deals. This is a negotiation. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.560 And they said, oh, thank god, thank god. And they 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.239 went and told everybody they wanted to tell, So we're gone. 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.359 There might have been people woke up with a horsehead 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.760 in their bed. I mean, these are some high stakes here. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.040 We often mock Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana for his 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.040 folksy jokes and whatnot. What he said, and I thought 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.079 was a pretty decent point. This is Trump's economy now, 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.720 So there's no more for better or worse. There's no 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:07.200 more blaming Biden or things for anything at all. Any 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.560 of it is gonna be ring true now it wouldn't 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.560 ring true. But so all of it is at Trump's 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.440 feet now. And that's totally quite amazing because we are 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:22.239 it is April, ladies and gentlemen. He took over in January. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.640 You could have been able to ride. I inherited a 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:29.880 bad economy for maybe a couple of years possibly, but 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.960 that's over. It's your economy now. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.800 And you know, it's kind of interesting funny from our perspective, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.800 is I have in front of me like giant stories 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.160 that would be three days worth of headlines like at 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.920 any other point in history, but they didn't even get 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:51.000 noticed in this just flurry of change and policy, and 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.600 you know, tariffs and deportations and the rest of it. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:54.480 It's just dizzying. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.360 So why are the markets up today? Well, here are 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:01.880 some of the backstories that are probably responsible. Politico says 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:07.240 that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant flew to Florida to encourage 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.760 Donald Trump to focus his message on negotiating favorable trade 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:15.200 deals or risk the stock market creating creating further, So, 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:20.000 the Treasury sec went and talked to Trump and that 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:26.640 came out also Politico, with Trump had started telling allies 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.359 and phone calls yesterday morning that the endgame of the 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.560 tariffs would be sooner than people expect, and that the 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.120 White House is in talks with multiple countries, stressing that 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.960 deals are close to being made. So you don't know 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.760 if Trump wanted that it to get into Politico. I mean, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.039 if you say this is going to be over sooner 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.680 than people think, and it's just being reported that this 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.800 is when it's going to be over, did you get 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.680 that message out on purpose? Quite possible? All right, yeah, yeah, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.400 And per the Washington Post, Elon Musk appealed directly to 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:09.040 President Trump to ditch the tariff regime. He wasn't digging 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.240 it and Ted Cruz, who has been a pretty big 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.280 backer of Donald Trump, said, if President Trump uses this 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.640 moment is leverage, that would be a massive victory for 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.400 the American people. But there are voices in the White 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.400 House that want high tariffs forever. There are angels and 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.039 demons sitting on President Trump's shoulders. Who does he listen to? 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.160 Oh gosh, I hope it's the angels and not the demons. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:40.200 But from the Treasury Secretary Elon, Ted Cruz and others 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.440 saying yeah, that's enough. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:44.720 There you go. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.280 Yeah, maybe that's why we are If this ends up 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.360 with the post WW two intentional and understandable trade imbalances 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.560 that lasted way way too long, the tariff at the 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.039 barrier imbalances I'm talking about, if this all ends with 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.680 those being restructured in a way that's much more twenty 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.039 first entry in farty US manufacturers, that this would be 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.640 an enormous victory, absolutely great. I find myself wondering and 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.720 I will never Well, maybe I will get the answer, 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.159 because everybody always writes books after this stuff is done. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:18.200 But the like the charts with the numbers and the formulas, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.400 and some of it was hilarious. I mean I don't 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.919 care how much you love Trump, you got to admit 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.039 announcing a thirty percent terrify on and uninhabited island is 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.719 pretty funny. Or an island that's just got penguins, or 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.560 an island with whom we do zero trade and never. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.120 Have that of all, the penguin means the one where 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.880 the penguin is sitting in the chair in the Oval 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.000 office like Zelenski and Trump is yelling at him you 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.440 don't have the cards, and the penguin looks so aw. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.880 I don't care who you are. That's funny. But here's 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.680 my question. Was that at least semi intentionally chaotic and 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.800 crazy because Trump likes to well, you know, the Art 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.279 of the deal takes it talks about this. He he 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.480 likes to inject so much stress and angst and turbulence 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.960 into negotiations people are anxious to come to a deal. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.600 Was that intentional or was it just way too fast 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:15.960 and sloppy unintentionally? 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:16.360 I don't know. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.600 So we have a new Supreme Court ruling, different topic now. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.400 The Supreme Court said the Trump administration can move forward 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.120 with the termination of sixteen thousand probationary federal workers across 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:30.560 six agencies and departments. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.880 Wow, okay, that's good. Well that's a can What the 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.760 hell is the executive branch. No, if it's one way ratchet, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:38.560 all you can do is. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:44.040 Grow please, And so that's rescinding a lower court order. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.880 And I realized sometimes judges disagree, but was this a 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.120 you know what Elon was talking about the other day. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.800 A judge is as much a politician that as a 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.680 judge that just didn't like Trump and Elon and Doge 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.320 and all that sort of stuff, trying to shut it 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.760 down because the Supreme Court said, nah ah, he can 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.800 do that. He fired sixteen thousand probationary people. And like 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.960 you said, if he can't, well then what. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.880 The thing you have to remember about progressive judges, a 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.880 lot of them and not everybody appointed by Obama for instance, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.120 is like an avowed progressive nut. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.560 A lot of them are. But the thing you have 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:20.760 to remember about them. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:25.160 Is they they rule for a result, not a strict 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.400 interpretation of the Constitution in the law. They will really 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.440 stretch the law to get the result they want. That's 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.760 what progressive judges has done since the early part of 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.360 the twentieth century, and that's why it's so frustrating because 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.480 they just they see their job differently than a conservative 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:40.199 judge would. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.080 Back to the tariff thing. Just to wrap it up. So, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.600 Peter Navarro, who is the guy really pushing it on 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.400 all the TV shows and advising Trump on this you've 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:50.920 probably seen. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.960 I think he's one of Ted Cruz's demons. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.800 Yeah. Well, Elon musk And on Twitter today has called 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.000 Peter Navarro a moron. And what did he call him? 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.880 Dumbas a sack of bricks. 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.960 Yes, that is correct, that's a perfect recitation of the epithet. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.160 Yes, that is the modern era we live in. Back 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.040 in the old days, you de said, I believe the 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:18.120 gentleman from Kentucky may be confused in his numbers when 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.160 he posits that. Know, now you say he's dumb as 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.920 a sack of bricks. Peter Navarro was on Laura Ingram 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.760 last night and said, I'm telling you this is going 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.600 to be a Golden age Dow fifty thousand. I guarantee that, 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.320 and I guarantee no recession. When we passed the biggest 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.320 broadest tax cut in history. This is going to be 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.000 great stimulus, etcetera, etcetera. Well, right, and he just stated 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.719 to her out and out. We are going to be 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.800 you know, I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to have huge tariffs, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.120 We're going to manufacture everything for ourselves. We're going to 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.800 be a self reliant you know, the high Wall economy. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.679 And I saw that and thought, oh, for God's sake, no, Well, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.040 as it turns out, probably no. 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.760 I like that stuff. Taking shots at people from Harvard too. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:00.920 Still have that in front of you. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.640 Oh yeah, for Thomas Sowell, this is that is really good. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.240 I should remember that for the rest of my life. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:13.160 Wonder when he said that how many years ago he 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.640 said that, because I would like to keep that in 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.600 my uh my holster if you will. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.120 Can paraphrase that if it's not handy, but I'd like. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.320 To get it exactly right. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:32.480 Go ahead, Well, hang on a second, Uh, let me 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.000 see if I can find it, because you're right, he's 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:40.720 such a brilliant writer. Yeah, he essentially said there's been 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:45.480 no great disaster in this country that there wasn't somebody 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:46.480 from Harvard right in. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.079 The middle of right and he's Elon retweeted that, referring 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.960 to Peter Navarro the aforementioned sack O bricks. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.560 Yeah, the other thing he said that I think as 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.960 good as the principal benefit of a Harvard degree is 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.480 never again having to be impressed by anyone with a 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:05.719 Harvard degree. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.840 A sack of bricks has really no IQ whatsoever. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.440 I mean, it's very intellectually speaking, really not impressed. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.320 Okay, so we'll look at the Supreme Court ruling a 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.000 little bit, see if there's anything more to that, and 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:21.959 some other stuff on the way. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:22.240 Stay. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:30.160 Our economy is in the midst of a beautiful metamorphosis, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:36.680 turning from a simple caterpillar into a dead caterpillar. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.119 It's a good punch. 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:47.719 Line, funny last night. He's pretty anti. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.960 Trump, of course, but all right, So cleaning up the 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.360 mess from last segments, Thomas Sowell. In every disaster throat 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.320 American history, there always seems to be a man from 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:59.600 Harvard in the middle of it. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:00.480 That's good. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:09.240 Yeah, love Thomas anyway. So this is just funny and 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:14.360 ironic and denoying. Have you ever heard of Johnny Kim. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.720 He is forty one years old. He was successfully a 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:27.679 Navy seal, a Harvard educated doctor, and a NASA astronaut, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.640 and he has become quite the meme, I guess among 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.720 Asian people. The theme being thank God my mom isn't 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:42.800 friends with his mom, getting to the whole tiger mom 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.840 superachieving Asian thing. It doesn't matter how much you've achieved, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.640 you're falling short of Johnny Kim Navy seal, Harvard Med 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.839 School graduate, and on Tuesday blasted off as part of 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.800 his latest act, astronaut. I'm sure he is penning a 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.760 best selling novel in space that will make him completely 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:11.679 unattainable and insufferable. It's the son of South Korean immigrants. No, 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.440 this isn't the line of opportunity, Bruce Springstein. Then still 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.560 in the live that you can get ahead in America. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:22.280 Oh my god, um, I want to make sure you 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.400 hear it here because you can see the story all 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.960 day long. That freaking dire wolf is not a dire wolf. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.439 It's a gray wolf with white hair. All right, that's it. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:32.480 That's the end of the story. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.600 It's a regular wolf with a die job. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.760 Please, I mean, look into it. It's true. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.240 Let's play that ABC clip again, okay, just that we 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.680 need to drive a steak through the heart, the still 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.400 beating heart of a vampire of mainstream media. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.440 Drive it, Michael, drive it. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.080 In a first for science biotech company Colossal Bioscience. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:56.800 It says it. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.680 Brought the extinct dire wolf back to life that hasn't 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.920 want the earth since the Stone Age. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:07.079 We've taken a gray wolf genome, which is already genetically 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.720 ninety nine point five percent identical to dire wolves, and 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.120 we've edited those cells at multiple places in its DNA 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.079 sequence to contain the dire wolf version of the DNA. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.360 The company tells us they're not stopping there. They plan 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.200 to have wooly mammoths roaming the earth again by twenty 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.680 twenty eight, but critics argue that this de extinction could 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.520 harm fragile ecosystems. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.120 No, critics should argue that you shouldn't actually bring back 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.120 the dire wolf. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:34.360 Not even close. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.520 It's like Joe Mocking couple weeks ago. Was it the 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.880 same company with their hairy elephants. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.960 Yeah, exactly. They're not bringing back the wooly mammoths. They've 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.920 introduced a gene into regular elephants that make the hairer. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.720 That's it. Critics say, no, critics say they didn't make 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.520 an effing dire wolves, all right, and I love that lead. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.200 The company says, yeah, okay, I have a tyrannosaurce Rex 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:58.880 in my basement. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:03.840 I feed it cows. Radio reports say that this man 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.080 has a terreno source Rex. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:09.880 ABC News. You're just you're, you're, you're just entertainment for moron, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:17.040 Holy crep. To even hint that you're a journalist and 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.560 then do that report is absurd. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.800 Yeah, I don't know what to tell you. The Today 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.800 version of NBC, their headline was extinct dire wolf seen 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:38.880 on Game of Thrones has been revived. No it hasn't. Wow, Wow, Shane. 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.240 It's like pointing to a hairy Italian guy and saying, 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.040 we have recreated the sasquatch. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.920 No, you haven't. You bred a wolf that's kind of 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:54.040 big and has light fur and like the Yahoo News. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.280 Of course it's got Yahoo right in the name of 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.320 you expected to. The revival of the once think to 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.560 dire wolf species has everyone asking the same thing, what 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.120 animal is next? No? Anybody, I for brain is asking 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.800 did you really let me look a little further into this? No, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:17.280 you didn't. Is the dodo next? Dinosaurs? People, shad Park. Yeah, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.200 the dinosaurs will eat the dodos. If they run out 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.560 of dodos, they'll bring down a Willie mammoth. Yes, that's 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.920 going to happen. So now you have hairy elephants and 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.080 white regular wolves. Whoop be. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.760 Yeh, I've got a saber toothed tiger in my backyard. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:35.760 You can't look at it. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.920 Oh boy, that's good. More on the waist to hear. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.160 Ugh Armstrong and Getty. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.520 Five seconds to shark top of the key. 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.920 Lost the dribble, He's got to pick it up. It's 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.440 scripped up by content content SETUSA had drawn a found 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:59.640 a way from twelve down to the school's third national 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.280 championship in men's basketball. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.040 So that's Florida winning the national championship last time. In 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.760 that last couple of minutes, the defense Florida played was amazing. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.679 That's what you don't see. Like you said earlier, the 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.639 NBA doesn't play defense. That's not the way the league 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.560 is structured anymore. So when you see it, it's like, oh, yeah, 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.080 that could be part of the game too. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.960 Oh and it requires so much energy to play that 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.840 sort of swarming, suffocating defense. But oh it makes it 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.680 hard to score baskets for sure. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:27.440 Yeah, really exciting. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:33.160 So I am so troubled by what's happening in Great 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.800 Britain for a couple of reasons. And what's happening is, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.400 essentially they've really really chucked a lot of the bedrock 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:45.959 principles that we at least partially shared about free speech, 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:49.120 free expression, the idea that you don't have the right 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.479 to not be offended. Just because you're offended doesn't mean 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.520 you're right. And I'm reminded, as i often am, of 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.320 Reagan's great quote that freedom is never more than one 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.600 generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.720 children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.000 and handed on to them to do the same, or 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.320 one day we will spend our sunset years telling our 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.040 children and our children's children what it was once like 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.600 in the United States when men were free. Ooh, that's 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.080 a great quote, and it's not alarmism. He's absolutely right 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.320 to wit. And I'm going to quote some from Nelly Bowles, 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.119 who is both very very smart and very very funny, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.320 but she says what's going on in Britain. The Sentencing 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.000 Council for England and Wales was hours away from implementing 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:36.320 a new criminal code that would have required different procedures 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:41.840 for sentencing ethnic minorities for crimes. They would have had 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:46.679 two sentencing systems, at least one for white people and 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.280 no one for non white people, which is like the 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:56.119 bizarro not comparative justice restorative justice procedures of some of 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.560 our woke schools in the university universities. At the last minute, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.919 the Ministry of Justice planned emergency legislation to stop it. 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.000 As the Guardian said, the Sentencing Council cave to pressure 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.359 and Nelly right, putting aside that justice should be race blind. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:11.159 Obviously. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.400 There's an interesting note here on the idea of a minority. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.480 There are straight up two billion people in South Asia, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.919 many of whom want to move to England, while the 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.240 total population of England and Wales is something like sixty million. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.359 So two billion to sixty million. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.280 The plan was to give gentler sentencing for any of 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.960 those two billion who have arrived or will arrive in 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.240 the future. Just seems hard to sustain. Makes me a 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.280 little sorry for the ethnic English. Then she makes a 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.040 joke that kind of lands. Then in their own native 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.720 land they want to give themselves harsher punishment by dint 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:48.200 of their own ethnicity. Sad strange death by politeness. That's 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.600 just one of several examples, so I'll give you one more. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.919 In free speech news on the Island, a Times radio 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.280 producer was arrested a few months ago, and this week 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.560 he told his story. He was arrested by the police. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.000 Now he explains, quote I complained about my daughter's school 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:09.040 on What's app then six police officers turned up. The 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.720 video of him was talking about what happened, paired with 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.959 the footage of arrest is truly incredible. 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:15.720 I'll see if we can get you a link at 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:16.840 onstring getty dot com. 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:21.119 High His arrest was on suspicion of quote harassment and 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:25.160 malicious communications for being in a group chat snarking about 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:25.600 the new. 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:26.199 Head of the school. 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.479 The most defensive thing I could find, right snelly that 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.399 the Times radio producer's wife referred to a school leader 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:37.160 as a control freak and for that he was arrested 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.560 by the British police for quote unquote harassment and malicious communications. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.080 Can you imagine that sort of incursion against free speech 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.680 in the United States. If the woke British declare somebody 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.400 beyond criticism, you dare not criticize them or you will 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:54.960 be jailed. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.119 That is great Britain. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.960 There are more examples of this, but I will end 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.000 with a bit of humor before we get onto a brilliant, 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.080 brilliant quote. England's economy is so sad, and they think 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.160 the problem is that they need to grow faster deeprivilege 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.120 more as though anyone thinks those castles have central air. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.520 In my opinion, there's no saving them. All we can 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.160 do is treat their ideas like Ebola builds seawalls around 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.800 their island. They are America's intellectual parent, but like all 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.520 elderly relatives, there comes a time to throw them off 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.000 a cliff, give ourselves a new name, and never speak 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:29.960 to our siblings again. 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:35.480 That's funny, it is. So I'm on this salmon rushdie kick. 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:38.600 I'm not exactly sure how I got on it. If 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:42.000 you don't know or remember, he wrote a book in 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.640 the eighties, way back in the eighties called The Satanic 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:51.719 Verses that for whatever reason, the Islamic world went nuts 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:56.840 over it was minor, a minor thing. He didn't feel 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.359 like he'd written a controversial book at. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.520 All, really, and threats to your freedom Islamism. 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.200 But people who hadn't even read the book, particularly in Iran, 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.159 went nuts over it, and then the Ayatola went nuts 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:13.200 over it and said that Salomon Rushdi the author, needed 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:17.800 to die. And then his home country of India banned 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.880 the book, to his great dismay, and then that kicked 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:24.240 off countries all around the world banning the book, and 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:25.640 it just grew and grew and grow, and he had 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:29.800 to go into hiding for think a dozen years, ending 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.200 with by the way whatever it was two years ago 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.560 when he was almost killed on stage in the United 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.040 States of America by a Muslim who was still angry 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.280 about that book, who, of course, he had never read. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:40.640 The kid had never read it. He was a twenty 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.080 four year old job who lived with his parents, had 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:47.520 never read the book, stabbed out Rushdie's eye, cut his 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:50.160 throat only because he didn't know what he was doing. 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.560 Did he not killed the guy? But I'm reading Rushdie's 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:58.920