Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Jettiety and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: There was a tweet that went out that signaled that
Speaker 2: the President may be open to pausing some of these
Speaker 2: terrors for ninety days except on China. And when I
Speaker 2: was here in the room, there were cheers when that
Speaker 2: went out, but quickly the White House said no, no, no,
Speaker 2: that's fake news, saying that that's actually not true. And
Speaker 2: you saw the Dow climb about nine hundred points and
Speaker 2: then fall again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a tweet went out that wasn't accurate and
Speaker 1: two point four trillion dollars of market value was added
Speaker 1: in minutes. That's hard to wrap your head around. Then
Speaker 1: most of it are raced just as quickly when it
Speaker 1: turned out that that tweet was inaccurate. But you wouldn't
Speaker 1: think that the economy could work that way. We're at
Speaker 1: tweet without even like confirming it or discussing it or
Speaker 1: or letting talked about happen would move the market two
Speaker 1: point four trillion dollars.
Speaker 3: Now, this guy's a blue check mark for what that's
Speaker 3: worth on Twitter, it's not worth anything. So quite literally,
Speaker 3: a guy said something markets went wild. Now here's a twist.
Speaker 3: Was that tweet actually inaccurate? Now that the White House
Speaker 3: is starting to say much more openly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're negotiating.
Speaker 3: It's the huge trade barriers forever is not the goal.
Speaker 1: Did the Trump team somehow get that tweet out.
Speaker 3: Because they were worried it the way things were going, Perhaps,
Speaker 3: I've got to believe God to believe.
Speaker 1: Because they were. Markets were down as much as the
Speaker 1: Dow was down as much as sixteen hundred when we
Speaker 1: went on the air yesterday, and I mean another a third,
Speaker 1: really bad day would have been a lot of political pressure.
Speaker 4: There might have been panic in the streets.
Speaker 3: And you got to remember the entire administration is that's
Speaker 3: a hell of a lot of people. And surely among
Speaker 3: that hell of a lot of people, there are at
Speaker 3: least a couple of them that were fielding calls from
Speaker 3: Ford Motors CEO or some Wall Street to Super Heavyweight
Speaker 3: or something and told them, look, no, giant trade barriers
Speaker 3: forever is not our goal.
Speaker 4: We're just trying to get better deals. This is a negotiation.
Speaker 3: And they said, oh, thank god, thank god. And they
Speaker 3: went and told everybody they wanted to tell, So we're gone.
Speaker 3: There might have been people woke up with a horsehead
Speaker 3: in their bed. I mean, these are some high stakes here.
Speaker 1: We often mock Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana for his
Speaker 1: folksy jokes and whatnot. What he said, and I thought
Speaker 1: was a pretty decent point. This is Trump's economy now,
Speaker 1: So there's no more for better or worse. There's no
Speaker 1: more blaming Biden or things for anything at all. Any
Speaker 1: of it is gonna be ring true now it wouldn't
Speaker 1: ring true. But so all of it is at Trump's
Speaker 1: feet now. And that's totally quite amazing because we are
Speaker 1: it is April, ladies and gentlemen. He took over in January.
Speaker 1: You could have been able to ride. I inherited a
Speaker 1: bad economy for maybe a couple of years possibly, but
Speaker 1: that's over. It's your economy now.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's kind of interesting funny from our perspective,
Speaker 3: is I have in front of me like giant stories
Speaker 3: that would be three days worth of headlines like at
Speaker 3: any other point in history, but they didn't even get
Speaker 3: noticed in this just flurry of change and policy, and
Speaker 3: you know, tariffs and deportations and the rest of it.
Speaker 3: It's just dizzying.
Speaker 1: So why are the markets up today? Well, here are
Speaker 1: some of the backstories that are probably responsible. Politico says
Speaker 1: that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant flew to Florida to encourage
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to focus his message on negotiating favorable trade
Speaker 1: deals or risk the stock market creating creating further, So,
Speaker 1: the Treasury sec went and talked to Trump and that
Speaker 1: came out also Politico, with Trump had started telling allies
Speaker 1: and phone calls yesterday morning that the endgame of the
Speaker 1: tariffs would be sooner than people expect, and that the
Speaker 1: White House is in talks with multiple countries, stressing that
Speaker 1: deals are close to being made. So you don't know
Speaker 1: if Trump wanted that it to get into Politico. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you say this is going to be over sooner
Speaker 1: than people think, and it's just being reported that this
Speaker 1: is when it's going to be over, did you get
Speaker 1: that message out on purpose? Quite possible? All right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And per the Washington Post, Elon Musk appealed directly to
Speaker 1: President Trump to ditch the tariff regime. He wasn't digging
Speaker 1: it and Ted Cruz, who has been a pretty big
Speaker 1: backer of Donald Trump, said, if President Trump uses this
Speaker 1: moment is leverage, that would be a massive victory for
Speaker 1: the American people. But there are voices in the White
Speaker 1: House that want high tariffs forever. There are angels and
Speaker 1: demons sitting on President Trump's shoulders. Who does he listen to?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I hope it's the angels and not the demons.
Speaker 1: But from the Treasury Secretary Elon, Ted Cruz and others
Speaker 1: saying yeah, that's enough.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe that's why we are If this ends up
Speaker 3: with the post WW two intentional and understandable trade imbalances
Speaker 3: that lasted way way too long, the tariff at the
Speaker 3: barrier imbalances I'm talking about, if this all ends with
Speaker 3: those being restructured in a way that's much more twenty
Speaker 3: first entry in farty US manufacturers, that this would be
Speaker 3: an enormous victory, absolutely great. I find myself wondering and
Speaker 3: I will never Well, maybe I will get the answer,
Speaker 3: because everybody always writes books after this stuff is done.
Speaker 3: But the like the charts with the numbers and the formulas,
Speaker 3: and some of it was hilarious. I mean I don't
Speaker 3: care how much you love Trump, you got to admit
Speaker 3: announcing a thirty percent terrify on and uninhabited island is
Speaker 3: pretty funny. Or an island that's just got penguins, or
Speaker 3: an island with whom we do zero trade and never.
Speaker 1: Have that of all, the penguin means the one where
Speaker 1: the penguin is sitting in the chair in the Oval
Speaker 1: office like Zelenski and Trump is yelling at him you
Speaker 1: don't have the cards, and the penguin looks so aw.
Speaker 3: I don't care who you are. That's funny. But here's
Speaker 3: my question. Was that at least semi intentionally chaotic and
Speaker 3: crazy because Trump likes to well, you know, the Art
Speaker 3: of the deal takes it talks about this. He he
Speaker 3: likes to inject so much stress and angst and turbulence
Speaker 3: into negotiations people are anxious to come to a deal.
Speaker 3: Was that intentional or was it just way too fast
Speaker 3: and sloppy unintentionally?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So we have a new Supreme Court ruling, different topic now.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court said the Trump administration can move forward
Speaker 1: with the termination of sixteen thousand probationary federal workers across
Speaker 1: six agencies and departments.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, that's good. Well that's a can What the
Speaker 3: hell is the executive branch. No, if it's one way ratchet,
Speaker 3: all you can do is.
Speaker 1: Grow please, And so that's rescinding a lower court order.
Speaker 1: And I realized sometimes judges disagree, but was this a
Speaker 1: you know what Elon was talking about the other day.
Speaker 1: A judge is as much a politician that as a
Speaker 1: judge that just didn't like Trump and Elon and Doge
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff, trying to shut it
Speaker 1: down because the Supreme Court said, nah ah, he can
Speaker 1: do that. He fired sixteen thousand probationary people. And like
Speaker 1: you said, if he can't, well then what.
Speaker 3: The thing you have to remember about progressive judges, a
Speaker 3: lot of them and not everybody appointed by Obama for instance,
Speaker 3: is like an avowed progressive nut.
Speaker 4: A lot of them are. But the thing you have
Speaker 4: to remember about them.
Speaker 3: Is they they rule for a result, not a strict
Speaker 3: interpretation of the Constitution in the law. They will really
Speaker 3: stretch the law to get the result they want. That's
Speaker 3: what progressive judges has done since the early part of
Speaker 3: the twentieth century, and that's why it's so frustrating because
Speaker 3: they just they see their job differently than a conservative
Speaker 3: judge would.
Speaker 1: Back to the tariff thing. Just to wrap it up. So,
Speaker 1: Peter Navarro, who is the guy really pushing it on
Speaker 1: all the TV shows and advising Trump on this you've
Speaker 1: probably seen.
Speaker 4: I think he's one of Ted Cruz's demons.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Elon musk And on Twitter today has called
Speaker 1: Peter Navarro a moron. And what did he call him?
Speaker 1: Dumbas a sack of bricks.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is correct, that's a perfect recitation of the epithet.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is the modern era we live in. Back
Speaker 1: in the old days, you de said, I believe the
Speaker 1: gentleman from Kentucky may be confused in his numbers when
Speaker 1: he posits that. Know, now you say he's dumb as
Speaker 1: a sack of bricks. Peter Navarro was on Laura Ingram
Speaker 1: last night and said, I'm telling you this is going
Speaker 1: to be a Golden age Dow fifty thousand. I guarantee that,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee no recession. When we passed the biggest
Speaker 1: broadest tax cut in history. This is going to be
Speaker 1: great stimulus, etcetera, etcetera. Well, right, and he just stated
Speaker 1: to her out and out. We are going to be
Speaker 1: you know, I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to have huge tariffs,
Speaker 1: We're going to manufacture everything for ourselves. We're going to
Speaker 1: be a self reliant you know, the high Wall economy.
Speaker 1: And I saw that and thought, oh, for God's sake, no, Well,
Speaker 1: as it turns out, probably no.
Speaker 3: I like that stuff. Taking shots at people from Harvard too.
Speaker 3: Still have that in front of you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for Thomas Sowell, this is that is really good.
Speaker 1: I should remember that for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Wonder when he said that how many years ago he
Speaker 1: said that, because I would like to keep that in
Speaker 1: my uh my holster if you will.
Speaker 4: Can paraphrase that if it's not handy, but I'd like.
Speaker 1: To get it exactly right.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Well, hang on a second, Uh, let me
Speaker 3: see if I can find it, because you're right, he's
Speaker 3: such a brilliant writer. Yeah, he essentially said there's been
Speaker 3: no great disaster in this country that there wasn't somebody
Speaker 3: from Harvard right in.
Speaker 1: The middle of right and he's Elon retweeted that, referring
Speaker 1: to Peter Navarro the aforementioned sack O bricks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the other thing he said that I think as
Speaker 3: good as the principal benefit of a Harvard degree is
Speaker 3: never again having to be impressed by anyone with a
Speaker 3: Harvard degree.
Speaker 1: A sack of bricks has really no IQ whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's very intellectually speaking, really not impressed.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll look at the Supreme Court ruling a
Speaker 1: little bit, see if there's anything more to that, and
Speaker 1: some other stuff on the way.
Speaker 4: Stay.
Speaker 5: Our economy is in the midst of a beautiful metamorphosis,
Speaker 5: turning from a simple caterpillar into a dead caterpillar.
Speaker 4: It's a good punch.
Speaker 1: Line, funny last night. He's pretty anti.
Speaker 3: Trump, of course, but all right, So cleaning up the
Speaker 3: mess from last segments, Thomas Sowell. In every disaster throat
Speaker 3: American history, there always seems to be a man from
Speaker 3: Harvard in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, love Thomas anyway. So this is just funny and
Speaker 3: ironic and denoying. Have you ever heard of Johnny Kim.
Speaker 3: He is forty one years old. He was successfully a
Speaker 3: Navy seal, a Harvard educated doctor, and a NASA astronaut,
Speaker 3: and he has become quite the meme, I guess among
Speaker 3: Asian people. The theme being thank God my mom isn't
Speaker 3: friends with his mom, getting to the whole tiger mom
Speaker 3: superachieving Asian thing. It doesn't matter how much you've achieved,
Speaker 3: you're falling short of Johnny Kim Navy seal, Harvard Med
Speaker 3: School graduate, and on Tuesday blasted off as part of
Speaker 3: his latest act, astronaut. I'm sure he is penning a
Speaker 3: best selling novel in space that will make him completely
Speaker 3: unattainable and insufferable. It's the son of South Korean immigrants. No,
Speaker 3: this isn't the line of opportunity, Bruce Springstein. Then still
Speaker 3: in the live that you can get ahead in America.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, um, I want to make sure you
Speaker 1: hear it here because you can see the story all
Speaker 1: day long. That freaking dire wolf is not a dire wolf.
Speaker 1: It's a gray wolf with white hair. All right, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the end of the story.
Speaker 4: It's a regular wolf with a die job.
Speaker 1: Please, I mean, look into it. It's true.
Speaker 3: Let's play that ABC clip again, okay, just that we
Speaker 3: need to drive a steak through the heart, the still
Speaker 3: beating heart of a vampire of mainstream media.
Speaker 4: Drive it, Michael, drive it.
Speaker 6: In a first for science biotech company Colossal Bioscience.
Speaker 4: It says it.
Speaker 6: Brought the extinct dire wolf back to life that hasn't
Speaker 6: want the earth since the Stone Age.
Speaker 7: We've taken a gray wolf genome, which is already genetically
Speaker 7: ninety nine point five percent identical to dire wolves, and
Speaker 7: we've edited those cells at multiple places in its DNA
Speaker 7: sequence to contain the dire wolf version of the DNA.
Speaker 6: The company tells us they're not stopping there. They plan
Speaker 6: to have wooly mammoths roaming the earth again by twenty
Speaker 6: twenty eight, but critics argue that this de extinction could
Speaker 6: harm fragile ecosystems.
Speaker 1: No, critics should argue that you shouldn't actually bring back
Speaker 1: the dire wolf.
Speaker 4: Not even close.
Speaker 1: It's like Joe Mocking couple weeks ago. Was it the
Speaker 1: same company with their hairy elephants.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. They're not bringing back the wooly mammoths. They've
Speaker 4: introduced a gene into regular elephants that make the hairer.
Speaker 4: That's it. Critics say, no, critics say they didn't make
Speaker 4: an effing dire wolves, all right, and I love that lead.
Speaker 3: The company says, yeah, okay, I have a tyrannosaurce Rex
Speaker 3: in my basement.
Speaker 4: I feed it cows. Radio reports say that this man
Speaker 4: has a terreno source Rex.
Speaker 3: ABC News. You're just you're, you're, you're just entertainment for moron,
Speaker 3: Holy crep. To even hint that you're a journalist and
Speaker 3: then do that report is absurd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what to tell you. The Today
Speaker 1: version of NBC, their headline was extinct dire wolf seen
Speaker 1: on Game of Thrones has been revived. No it hasn't. Wow, Wow, Shane.
Speaker 3: It's like pointing to a hairy Italian guy and saying,
Speaker 3: we have recreated the sasquatch.
Speaker 1: No, you haven't. You bred a wolf that's kind of
Speaker 1: big and has light fur and like the Yahoo News.
Speaker 1: Of course it's got Yahoo right in the name of
Speaker 1: you expected to. The revival of the once think to
Speaker 1: dire wolf species has everyone asking the same thing, what
Speaker 1: animal is next? No? Anybody, I for brain is asking
Speaker 1: did you really let me look a little further into this? No,
Speaker 1: you didn't. Is the dodo next? Dinosaurs? People, shad Park. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the dinosaurs will eat the dodos. If they run out
Speaker 1: of dodos, they'll bring down a Willie mammoth. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: going to happen. So now you have hairy elephants and
Speaker 1: white regular wolves. Whoop be.
Speaker 4: Yeh, I've got a saber toothed tiger in my backyard.
Speaker 4: You can't look at it.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's good. More on the waist to hear.
Speaker 4: Ugh Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Five seconds to shark top of the key.
Speaker 8: Lost the dribble, He's got to pick it up. It's
Speaker 8: scripped up by content content SETUSA had drawn a found
Speaker 8: a way from twelve down to the school's third national
Speaker 8: championship in men's basketball.
Speaker 1: So that's Florida winning the national championship last time. In
Speaker 1: that last couple of minutes, the defense Florida played was amazing.
Speaker 1: That's what you don't see. Like you said earlier, the
Speaker 1: NBA doesn't play defense. That's not the way the league
Speaker 1: is structured anymore. So when you see it, it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that could be part of the game too.
Speaker 3: Oh and it requires so much energy to play that
Speaker 3: sort of swarming, suffocating defense. But oh it makes it
Speaker 3: hard to score baskets for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really exciting.
Speaker 3: So I am so troubled by what's happening in Great
Speaker 3: Britain for a couple of reasons. And what's happening is,
Speaker 3: essentially they've really really chucked a lot of the bedrock
Speaker 3: principles that we at least partially shared about free speech,
Speaker 3: free expression, the idea that you don't have the right
Speaker 3: to not be offended. Just because you're offended doesn't mean
Speaker 3: you're right. And I'm reminded, as i often am, of
Speaker 3: Reagan's great quote that freedom is never more than one
Speaker 3: generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our
Speaker 3: children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected
Speaker 3: and handed on to them to do the same, or
Speaker 3: one day we will spend our sunset years telling our
Speaker 3: children and our children's children what it was once like
Speaker 3: in the United States when men were free. Ooh, that's
Speaker 3: a great quote, and it's not alarmism. He's absolutely right
Speaker 3: to wit. And I'm going to quote some from Nelly Bowles,
Speaker 3: who is both very very smart and very very funny,
Speaker 3: but she says what's going on in Britain. The Sentencing
Speaker 3: Council for England and Wales was hours away from implementing
Speaker 3: a new criminal code that would have required different procedures
Speaker 3: for sentencing ethnic minorities for crimes. They would have had
Speaker 3: two sentencing systems, at least one for white people and
Speaker 3: no one for non white people, which is like the
Speaker 3: bizarro not comparative justice restorative justice procedures of some of
Speaker 3: our woke schools in the university universities. At the last minute,
Speaker 3: the Ministry of Justice planned emergency legislation to stop it.
Speaker 3: As the Guardian said, the Sentencing Council cave to pressure
Speaker 3: and Nelly right, putting aside that justice should be race blind.
Speaker 4: Obviously.
Speaker 3: There's an interesting note here on the idea of a minority.
Speaker 3: There are straight up two billion people in South Asia,
Speaker 3: many of whom want to move to England, while the
Speaker 3: total population of England and Wales is something like sixty million.
Speaker 4: So two billion to sixty million.
Speaker 3: The plan was to give gentler sentencing for any of
Speaker 3: those two billion who have arrived or will arrive in
Speaker 3: the future. Just seems hard to sustain. Makes me a
Speaker 3: little sorry for the ethnic English. Then she makes a
Speaker 3: joke that kind of lands. Then in their own native
Speaker 3: land they want to give themselves harsher punishment by dint
Speaker 3: of their own ethnicity. Sad strange death by politeness. That's
Speaker 3: just one of several examples, so I'll give you one more.
Speaker 3: In free speech news on the Island, a Times radio
Speaker 3: producer was arrested a few months ago, and this week
Speaker 3: he told his story. He was arrested by the police.
Speaker 3: Now he explains, quote I complained about my daughter's school
Speaker 3: on What's app then six police officers turned up. The
Speaker 3: video of him was talking about what happened, paired with
Speaker 3: the footage of arrest is truly incredible.
Speaker 4: I'll see if we can get you a link at
Speaker 4: onstring getty dot com.
Speaker 3: High His arrest was on suspicion of quote harassment and
Speaker 3: malicious communications for being in a group chat snarking about
Speaker 3: the new.
Speaker 4: Head of the school.
Speaker 3: The most defensive thing I could find, right snelly that
Speaker 3: the Times radio producer's wife referred to a school leader
Speaker 3: as a control freak and for that he was arrested
Speaker 3: by the British police for quote unquote harassment and malicious communications.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine that sort of incursion against free speech
Speaker 3: in the United States. If the woke British declare somebody
Speaker 3: beyond criticism, you dare not criticize them or you will
Speaker 3: be jailed.
Speaker 4: That is great Britain.
Speaker 3: There are more examples of this, but I will end
Speaker 3: with a bit of humor before we get onto a brilliant,
Speaker 3: brilliant quote. England's economy is so sad, and they think
Speaker 3: the problem is that they need to grow faster deeprivilege
Speaker 3: more as though anyone thinks those castles have central air.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, there's no saving them. All we can
Speaker 3: do is treat their ideas like Ebola builds seawalls around
Speaker 3: their island. They are America's intellectual parent, but like all
Speaker 3: elderly relatives, there comes a time to throw them off
Speaker 3: a cliff, give ourselves a new name, and never speak
Speaker 3: to our siblings again.
Speaker 1: That's funny, it is. So I'm on this salmon rushdie kick.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure how I got on it. If
Speaker 1: you don't know or remember, he wrote a book in
Speaker 1: the eighties, way back in the eighties called The Satanic
Speaker 1: Verses that for whatever reason, the Islamic world went nuts
Speaker 1: over it was minor, a minor thing. He didn't feel
Speaker 1: like he'd written a controversial book at.
Speaker 4: All, really, and threats to your freedom Islamism.
Speaker 1: But people who hadn't even read the book, particularly in Iran,
Speaker 1: went nuts over it, and then the Ayatola went nuts
Speaker 1: over it and said that Salomon Rushdi the author, needed
Speaker 1: to die. And then his home country of India banned
Speaker 1: the book, to his great dismay, and then that kicked
Speaker 1: off countries all around the world banning the book, and
Speaker 1: it just grew and grew and grow, and he had
Speaker 1: to go into hiding for think a dozen years, ending
Speaker 1: with by the way whatever it was two years ago
Speaker 1: when he was almost killed on stage in the United
Speaker 1: States of America by a Muslim who was still angry
Speaker 1: about that book, who, of course, he had never read.
Speaker 1: The kid had never read it. He was a twenty
Speaker 1: four year old job who lived with his parents, had
Speaker 1: never read the book, stabbed out Rushdie's eye, cut his
Speaker 1: throat only because he didn't know what he was doing.
Speaker 1: Did he not killed the guy? But I'm reading Rushdie's
Speaker 1: memoir called what is it called?
Speaker 4: Something that doesn't written that damn book.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 4: I'm sure I'm glad he wrote the book.
Speaker 1: Uh that comes goes Jess Joseph Anton is the name
Speaker 1: of the book, because that's the name he went by
Speaker 1: when he was in hiding. Uh. And he had protection
Speaker 1: from basically like the Secret Service of England. He's a
Speaker 1: guy who's been living in England and he went to
Speaker 1: Oxford and been living in England his whole life, and
Speaker 1: he was so disappointed when this very first happens. So
Speaker 1: this fits in with the free speech stuff and also
Speaker 1: the Muslim immigration stuff that's been going on in Europe.
Speaker 1: So he writes this book. Even if it had been
Speaker 1: flat out a book that said Mohammad was a gay pedophile,
Speaker 1: I mean, like it didn't. But like, even if it
Speaker 1: had been like over the top critical, you still should
Speaker 1: be able to write that book in Western civilization. It's
Speaker 1: crazy that you couldn't. But he didn't write anything even
Speaker 1: close to that. But people on the left, like artists
Speaker 1: on the left, came out and said he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: written the book. Margaret Thatcher on the right said that
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have written a book and that sort of
Speaker 1: thing shouldn't happen because everybody was so scared of Islam
Speaker 1: that you know, we shouldn't criticize them, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: Well everybody.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of the beliefs about, you know, domesticating
Speaker 3: the Chinese. The belief was that, look, if we just
Speaker 3: if we're cool and not at all combative, they won't
Speaker 3: be combative to us and try to take over the
Speaker 3: world in the name of sharia law, so let's be nice.
Speaker 1: All kinds of people, right left and center of politics
Speaker 1: backed down to the Muslim crazies rather than stand up
Speaker 1: for free speech and free expression and all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. Quite a few people were killed. I think
Speaker 1: a total of fifteen people died through this whole thing,
Speaker 1: including the Japanese translator who was murdered for translating the
Speaker 1: book into Japanese there in their country. Just just craziness,
Speaker 1: absolute craziness. Well, here is Saman Rushdi talking about how
Speaker 1: disappoint that he is, and he I don't know when
Speaker 1: he said this, but it's since he got his eye
Speaker 1: carved out by the nutjobs in the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Disappointed in the younger generation.
Speaker 9: I feel kind of disappointed in the younger generation because
Speaker 9: it used to be that it was kind of old
Speaker 9: fogies like me who were conservative about what could be
Speaker 9: said and what was wrong to say, and young people
Speaker 9: were iconoclastic and you let it all hang out. And
Speaker 9: now it's the other way out. It's an older generation
Speaker 9: that still holds on to traditional ideas of free expression.
Speaker 9: But the fact that there's a generation growing up which
Speaker 9: is willing to suppress speech which it doesn't like is
Speaker 9: extremely alarming because I mean that simple definition of free speech,
Speaker 9: in order for it to be free, it has to
Speaker 9: include speech by people you don't agree with otherwise not
Speaker 9: free speech. And there's an increasing feeling that that's the
Speaker 9: kind of wrong way of thinking.
Speaker 1: He's from the atheist hippie generation of the sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: and you know, the young people were the you know,
Speaker 1: the people that stood up for that, as he just said,
Speaker 1: and now it's the other way around. It's only the
Speaker 1: old people that still remember the importance of it, and
Speaker 1: the young crowd is no, no, no, free speech is bad.
Speaker 1: Too much free speech, that's right.
Speaker 3: Need lockstep adherence to what we've been inductrinated into. They
Speaker 3: wonn't say that out loud, but that's precisely what they mean.
Speaker 1: So you got the free speech aspect of this conversation
Speaker 1: and then the the fundamentalist Muslim aspect of this. So
Speaker 1: I because I'm on this kick, I was watching some
Speaker 1: old sixty minutes interviews with Salmon Rushti one way back
Speaker 1: in the eighties when he was in hiding, and then
Speaker 1: one from recently after he was almost assassinated. But they're
Speaker 1: showing these clips from various parts of the country with
Speaker 1: young Muslim men almost entirely in the streets, just insanely
Speaker 1: enraged still over this book that they've never read, just
Speaker 1: because they were told it was bad. It's so pre Enlightenment,
Speaker 1: pre age of reason.
Speaker 3: It's just craziness, right, which is one of the reasons
Speaker 3: it's so scary that the postmodernist neomarxist woke crowd, they're
Speaker 3: like post Enlightenment, but pre Enlightenment. They think appeal to
Speaker 3: objective facts, science to data is wrong. Somehow, it's just
Speaker 3: your beliefs. That's the only thing that matters. And it
Speaker 3: aligns very nicely with fundamentalist religious lunatics. And then the
Speaker 3: fact that and the funny thing is the religious lunatics
Speaker 3: would throw them off a building. Absolutely they were in charge. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: here's for Palestine.
Speaker 1: It's amazing that in so many places around the world
Speaker 1: in Europe is way worse that that's the added than us.
Speaker 1: And we went too far at various times since nine
Speaker 1: to eleven in terms of bending over backwards to accommodate
Speaker 1: a crazy culture that has no room for any other
Speaker 1: point of view?
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Don't you see the paradox there? I don't see how
Speaker 1: more people don't see the paradox there the conundrum where
Speaker 1: that's not gonna fit If you've got a group of
Speaker 1: people who don't believe in a different point of view.
Speaker 1: You can't say we're going to allow your point of
Speaker 1: view because we allow all points of view. If they
Speaker 1: end up dominating your point of view and all others
Speaker 1: go away, you see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you have a duty to support the right
Speaker 3: of totalitarians to pitch totalitarianism in the name of a
Speaker 3: diversity of viewpoints? It's a great paradox. So one more
Speaker 3: thought and you, Jack, you may have read this too.
Speaker 3: I can't remember, oh where I read this, but it
Speaker 3: made a hell of an impression on me.
Speaker 4: It was a description of a scene of the.
Speaker 3: Stoning of a young woman who is accused of adultery
Speaker 3: in Afghanistan, And.
Speaker 1: How could that still be going on in the world?
Speaker 3: I know, and and the evidence was thin at best,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't really matter. No, But the fun part
Speaker 3: of the description that really made an impression on me
Speaker 3: was the description of how there was really a fairly
Speaker 3: small percentage of the crowd that was in favor of
Speaker 3: this and were such vehement, devout fundamentalist lunatics that they
Speaker 3: wanted to see this young girl's skull crushed for the
Speaker 3: sin of being seen with a man. But everybody had
Speaker 3: to outdo each other in signs of fervor and hatred
Speaker 3: toward this girl lest they be reported as probably an infidel.
Speaker 4: And soft Unshuria law.
Speaker 3: And so everybody went through this performative viciousness that spread
Speaker 3: through the crowd, and everybody checked their conscience and allowed
Speaker 3: themselves to get fired up. Then when it was all over,
Speaker 3: you know, they congratulating each other and all shuffled home
Speaker 3: feeling terrible feelings of guilt and conflict in their hearts.
Speaker 1: Performative viciousness. That's exactly what was going on with the
Speaker 1: whole Salmon Rushdie Satanic versus thing. And he was pointing
Speaker 1: out that at the time there in the late eighties,
Speaker 1: there are people going on BBC television and radio talking
Speaker 1: about how like Muslim clerics going on TV and seeing
Speaker 1: how someone rush Tee should be killed for this, and
Speaker 1: that was airing where anything close to that the other
Speaker 1: direction is against the law in Great Britain. That's sort of.
Speaker 4: Giving offense to a religion, right yeah.
Speaker 1: But toward him from Islam, they could threaten his life
Speaker 1: and get away.
Speaker 4: With it, right yep.
Speaker 3: Wow, way to stand up for Western civilization, grits.
Speaker 1: Wow, We'll finish strong next strong, very deep.
Speaker 10: Inside this mine in western Pennsylvania is a little known
Speaker 10: government office that handles a critical mission for the federal workforce.
Speaker 10: It can take months for the Office of Personnel Management
Speaker 10: to process a case, potentially delaying retiree benefits. The facility
Speaker 10: has literally miles of files, some twenty six thousand filing
Speaker 10: cabinets filled with retirement paperwork, some of them stacked ten
Speaker 10: hot dose engineers are working to create a fully digital
Speaker 10: experience with federal retirees, the hopeful, happy customers.
Speaker 1: You've heard about the mine. We've talked about it, and
Speaker 1: Elon's talked about it a lot. But there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with holding that up as an example, because if that
Speaker 1: can happen, anything can happen. In terms of it, you're
Speaker 1: not being efficient.
Speaker 3: I'm picturing people in I was going to say like
Speaker 3: Silicon Valley, but just like in the insurance company saying
Speaker 3: they're going to digitize their records. When's that clip from
Speaker 3: like nineteen ninety two or something. No, no, now, now
Speaker 3: we still have filing cabinets full of paper, and that's
Speaker 3: currently and that's not yesterdayear If somebody retires today, that's
Speaker 3: how they handle it.
Speaker 1: And like I said, if that can happen, anything can
Speaker 1: happen in terms of inefficiency.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but Elon's a Nazi paint as cars the hell.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 3: Seriously, there's times I look around and think I want
Speaker 3: to become a dog trainer or or run the monkey
Speaker 3: house at the zoo or something like that, because human
Speaker 3: beings are they're just too strange.
Speaker 1: Those are very different jobs you should choose carefully.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 11: True, I have some final thoughts, and some people say
Speaker 11: they are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But
Speaker 11: if you look at what's happening, I would have to
Speaker 11: say Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts. They
Speaker 11: are right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: I mean, being a dog trainer is a lot different
Speaker 1: than running the monkey house, So I don't know, I
Speaker 1: would think it a lot of pooh either way, here's
Speaker 1: your host for final thoughts at Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: It flies around more at the monkey House.
Speaker 3: Certainly, Hey, let's get a finel thought from everybody on
Speaker 3: the CREWI wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 4: Michael Aigelo lead us off.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna find the saddest movie this weekend playing in the theaters.
Speaker 3: And then, during a quiet moment in the film, y'all
Speaker 3: chicken jockey.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I would laugh so hard if somebody said.
Speaker 3: You'd probably be beaten with many fists. Katie Green are esteemed amusewoman.
Speaker 3: As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 1: I was looking at these dire Wolves and the pups
Speaker 1: that they made are pretty cute. They are cute, and
Speaker 1: I want one.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna listen to the Grateful Dead. It's my favorite
Speaker 4: dead song, dire Wolf, Don't murder Me. I beg you
Speaker 4: please don't murder me.
Speaker 3: Jack.
Speaker 1: Final thought, I'm wearing a suit today, as I often do.
Speaker 1: The average man feels two thirds more confident in a suit,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I do.
Speaker 4: Yes, excellent. I beg of you don't murder me. Gotta
Speaker 4: get the lyrics right.
Speaker 3: My final thought, I'm going to seed to me A
Speaker 3: love who wrote a beautiful farewell wish to America she
Speaker 3: passed away recently. My living wish and fervent prayer for
Speaker 3: you in this nation is that the America I've known
Speaker 3: is the America you fight to preserve. And then each citizen,
Speaker 3: every leader, will do their part to ensure that the
Speaker 3: America we know will be the America our grandchildren and
Speaker 3: great grandchildren will inhance.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty wrap pick up another grueling for our workday.
Speaker 3: So many people, thanks so a little time. Go to Armstrong,
Speaker 3: Getty dot Com. Great hot links, Katie's corner. You got
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Speaker 4: Yet people love them. I love them, You'll love them.
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Speaker 1: I don't realize Florida had a guy on their team
Speaker 1: that's seven foot nine. Championship's gonna have an asterisk next
Speaker 1: to it. Seven foot slam dunk sitting down. See you tomorrow,
Speaker 1: God bless America.
Speaker 4: A mixed finish on arm.
Speaker 1: Strong and Getty.
Speaker 9: You're kind of disappointed.
Speaker 1: Heck yes, Audio smofo, this was a huge mistake. Correct, yep? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Are you sure?
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been thinking that we really all need a
Speaker 2: tremendous hug.
Speaker 4: Look, I think that's sort of deeper.
Speaker 1: Problem here is get the hell out of here. It's
Speaker 1: rather preposterous, isn't it. Screw it, I'm leaving, arms strong
Speaker 1: and getty