Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he Armstrong and Yeddy Oh Foreman connected. I
Speaker 1: think he hurt. Joe Fraser down, Goes Frasier, down, Goes
Speaker 1: Frasia down, Goes Fraser. Foreman is all over. Joe Fraser,
Speaker 1: Frasier is down again. J Dundea is screaming, stopping. It
Speaker 1: is over. It is over in the second round.
Speaker 2: George Foreman becoming heavyweight champion of the world back in
Speaker 2: what year was that seventy three something like that, something
Speaker 2: like that, Yeah, and Howard Cosell making the call. George
Speaker 2: Foreman died over the weekend. The reason we're playing that
Speaker 2: if you don't know boxing, you know him from the grill.
Speaker 2: The George Foreman grill turned it into a gazillion dollar empire.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask Michael to repeat his touching
Speaker 1: and thorough What do you call it biography? No, it's
Speaker 1: an autography. No, when you guys ulig, no, that's not
Speaker 1: it either. Anyway, you're you're touching. Preview tribute to George Foreman,
Speaker 1: Michael Great Boxer and a better grilled salesman. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: looking at me like, what are you talking at? What
Speaker 1: you want to hear? Click twelve? Sure it's really good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: A friend of mine, I said, jeege, you're making all
Speaker 3: these other companies wealthy. Why don't you get your own product?
Speaker 3: And we looked around and found the grill. No one
Speaker 3: wanted to be bothered with it at all. They had
Speaker 3: names for it, joked for it, and the grease really
Speaker 3: rolled off, and they still tender. I hated it. I said, boy,
Speaker 3: let's do it. But I never expected it to be
Speaker 3: so successful. And then all of a sudden, the checks
Speaker 3: just started rolling in. This thing sold over one hundred million.
Speaker 1: He told obituary. That's the world is a hundred million.
Speaker 1: George Forman grills.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: You know, such an interesting guy making seventy six is
Speaker 1: that right? Having made your living getting punched in the
Speaker 1: head for a number of years is pretty impressive. But
Speaker 1: he had such a cheerful attitude about life once he
Speaker 1: made the Christian turn. Before that, he did not.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever watched the documentary When
Speaker 2: We Were Kings, which won an Oscar Fantastic Movie. If
Speaker 2: you like the whole thing. It's all about Foreman and
Speaker 2: Ali and that particular fight. But George Foreman was a
Speaker 2: bad person and an angry person with never a smile
Speaker 2: on his face up until the point that he found
Speaker 2: Jesus in a locker room and became a completely different
Speaker 2: human being, which is its own amazing story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, indeed. Yeah. Boy, if you're old enough to
Speaker 1: remember the heyday of boxing in the early seventies, when
Speaker 1: it was Foreman, Nali and Frasier trading the crown back
Speaker 1: and forth and just great fights. Remember because when George
Speaker 1: Foreman knocked up George Joe Fraser there to become the
Speaker 1: heavyweight champion of the world, it was such a big
Speaker 1: deal at that time. I remember asking my mom before
Speaker 1: I left the house to get on the bus one
Speaker 1: more time, what is the name? Because I needed to
Speaker 1: know the name of who the new heavyweight champion of
Speaker 1: the world was to be. You know, part of the
Speaker 1: cool crowd is like an eight year old or whatever,
Speaker 1: because that's just something you had to know. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine that these no, no, no, my kids, you got
Speaker 1: to know mister Beast's latest count just to giveaway, right,
Speaker 1: A couple of Chris Foreman could have whooped mister Beast's ass, by.
Speaker 2: The way, even in his forties, because George Foreman came
Speaker 2: back and won the heavyweight title again when he was
Speaker 2: forty four or something like fairly.
Speaker 1: Sad fight, as I recall, and he took a lot
Speaker 1: of punches.
Speaker 2: So a couple of things I want to get to
Speaker 2: later that have nothing to do with politics before I
Speaker 2: launch into this political pulling. I listened to a podcast
Speaker 2: about from an astrophysicist about life and space and that
Speaker 2: sort of stuff that was so flippant interesting, and I
Speaker 2: learned a bunch of things I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that later. And then this.
Speaker 2: A person I know, Boy, I gotta be really vague.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get them in trouble because this
Speaker 2: is not particularly cool. I got a bunch of screen
Speaker 2: captures of a group conversation online from women who are
Speaker 2: using AI as therapists, and particularly advice on how to
Speaker 2: talk to their husband about various things like in an
Speaker 2: argument like, HEYI my husband said this, what should I say?
Speaker 2: And then the AI lays it out for him, and
Speaker 2: then they go tell their husband that now is.
Speaker 1: This a good thing or a bad thing?
Speaker 2: Or a weird thing, because to me, obviously the weird
Speaker 2: thing is what if your husband's asking AI it's powder
Speaker 2: respond of this, and it's really just two computers talking
Speaker 2: each other, and you're like barely.
Speaker 1: Fall I don't know. It's like you're watching the show
Speaker 1: or reading a column, an advice column, and you kind
Speaker 1: of recognize yourself. Then it's all about the you know,
Speaker 1: the output. How's the advice? Well, who knows? Who knows? Well?
Speaker 1: You look at some of the hallucinations the AI has
Speaker 1: these days, or inventing court cases. I guess that is
Speaker 1: a hallucination or or my god, some of the stories
Speaker 1: we've heard about teenagers who have had quote unquote relationships
Speaker 1: with some AI somewhere that's like told them, you know,
Speaker 1: some teams your age cut themselves to show people that
Speaker 1: they're not happy. So, I mean the women terrible advice.
Speaker 2: These women are talking about the great comfort they get,
Speaker 2: you know, and they have had a rough day to
Speaker 2: talk to their AI therapist and it just feels like,
Speaker 2: you know, the AI really listens and.
Speaker 1: And that's what they like talking.
Speaker 2: I think we're going down a really weird fricking road. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: happened to an extent. I didn't realize that's what That's
Speaker 2: what I got from reading all these messages. It's already
Speaker 2: going on. It's I've been presenting it as you know,
Speaker 2: in the future. People might no, no, no, it's already happening
Speaker 2: way more than I realized. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, these
Speaker 2: are like very regular assault of the earth, normal people
Speaker 2: type people.
Speaker 1: Not this isn't yeah weirdos and work at a university
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah. I'm fully on board and pretty aware
Speaker 1: of how sideways this sort of thing can go these days.
Speaker 1: Especially at the same time though, I mean, I'm picturing
Speaker 1: like I'll just use my wife, who's who's retired at
Speaker 1: this point, but and and living off of my large
Speaker 1: ass the way anyway, like a lifestyle to which she's
Speaker 1: become accustomed. Do you think it's okay that she's living
Speaker 1: off my large s ai? So anyway, But you know,
Speaker 1: there may have been a time or two in her
Speaker 1: past where she had a really challenging coworker, for instance,
Speaker 1: I mean just kind of a pain in the arse,
Speaker 1: and would come home and she'd ask her ai oh
Speaker 1: ai advice column thingy counselor deally my coworkers, you know,
Speaker 1: very bitchy and negative all the time, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: How should I deal with it? I could see getting
Speaker 1: some decent advice about how to navigate through that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. I am not okay with this at all.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised you are, and maybe you're right, but I
Speaker 2: am not okay with this at all. Taking out the
Speaker 2: human element. I just think it's awful.
Speaker 1: Oh well, hang on now, hang on. I say, there
Speaker 1: are books, there are magazine written by people. Well, AI
Speaker 1: is written by people. It's just chaitterizing those people without
Speaker 1: paying them. Well it can be.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's theoretically synthesizing everything it has read
Speaker 2: into a coherent answer.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's without danger. I just don't think
Speaker 1: it's automatically bad.
Speaker 2: So, well, this is what the AI told one person.
Speaker 2: For instance, you're used to managing his emotions, and now
Speaker 2: that he's upset or at least quiet, it's triggering your guilt.
Speaker 1: But you're right.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't feel guilty. You didn't do anything wrong. You
Speaker 2: were thoughtful in your message, and it's okay to want
Speaker 2: to date yourself after explaining to the AI what went on.
Speaker 1: I just find this very weird. That's getting pretty specific.
Speaker 2: If he chooses to be upset, that's on him. You're
Speaker 2: allowed to take care of yourself, even if it doesn't
Speaker 2: matches unspoken xps.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's getting very very specific. Okay, it's not you know,
Speaker 1: some people have negative energy and it's best to see
Speaker 1: her around them. I mean, that's okay.
Speaker 2: That's like, in this situation which you have described, you're
Speaker 2: the good guy, he's the ahle oh boy, which is well,
Speaker 2: it fits in with therapy. That's what therapists do almost always.
Speaker 2: That's why, like ninety percent of therapy is worthless. That's
Speaker 2: what a therapy does. They co sign your bs a therapist.
Speaker 2: Most of the time, you're you're a write and down
Speaker 2: trodden and they are awful human beings and need to
Speaker 2: adjust to you.
Speaker 1: That's that's what you get almost always from therapy.
Speaker 2: So it's not surprising that AI therapy would be feeding
Speaker 2: people that. But it's just I don't know the companionship,
Speaker 2: the the the leaning on the chat bought for these conversations,
Speaker 2: and at some point you're gonna stop talking to.
Speaker 1: Your friends about it. You can only talk to the
Speaker 1: computer about it. That's the problem. It's the as opposed
Speaker 1: to talking to a friend, calling your mom, you know,
Speaker 1: talking it out with your husband, trying to you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. I'm on board. It's evil. It's horrifying. We
Speaker 1: should be terrified.
Speaker 2: I don't know if evil's the right word. But and
Speaker 2: like I said, it's already happening. I've got many, many
Speaker 2: examples that I was given by someone who just wanted
Speaker 2: to let me know, this is how much it's happening,
Speaker 2: like in my friend group already.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Evil implies intent. I just
Speaker 1: think it's corrosive. Oh so corrosive. Yeah, the tentacles of.
Speaker 2: Especially if AI is going to lean toward you know,
Speaker 2: you're the victim. You definitely want that more than maybe
Speaker 2: if you talk to a friend and says, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it sounds like he's got a good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I as you know, I think of myself
Speaker 1: as an optimistic cynic. I don't I'm a cynical. I'm
Speaker 1: a nihilist cynic. Wow. Wow, how pleasant to be around.
Speaker 1: I would I need to see a serious inflection point
Speaker 1: or I do believe humanity is on the path to
Speaker 1: giant drops in population, huge change in the trajectory of
Speaker 1: human occupation of the earth. We are not getting together
Speaker 1: with our friends, we are not getting together with lovers,
Speaker 1: we are not making babies, we are not forming families.
Speaker 1: AI could be about to put a zillion piece a
Speaker 1: lot of work, or reduce, certainly the need for them
Speaker 1: to be around. I just it.
Speaker 2: Feels very, very funky to me. Very many teenage sea changes.
Speaker 2: How many teenage girls. Teenage boys too, but girls more
Speaker 2: prone to this than boys. I think are gonna type
Speaker 2: into the AI chat. Bought it that my mom told
Speaker 2: me I can't this, do this and that. What do
Speaker 2: you think I think your mom is being overly protective? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well ye eh. No country for old men, glad. I'm
Speaker 2: i I wish I was eighty. I wish I was
Speaker 2: on death's door. I don't think I can handle the
Speaker 2: modern world.
Speaker 1: Michael. When mankind dies out, what do you think I've
Speaker 1: always tended to think it'll be a planet of the beavers,
Speaker 1: the apes in second place, in spite of their better
Speaker 1: pr A planet of the apes and maybe the ants.
Speaker 1: What's your your pick? I'm gonna go with the beavers. Well,
Speaker 1: you like beavers. They're hardworking, they're industrious.
Speaker 2: A non fun, real life, cynical nihilist answer is who
Speaker 2: will take over is the people that populate third world
Speaker 2: countries who aren't doing all this crap and are having
Speaker 2: kids like crazy and are probably fundamentalist Muslims.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly right. I never prefer the beavers, Frank,
Speaker 1: I never got.
Speaker 2: The political polling, which is really really good, among other things.
Speaker 1: On the way, stay here art the President of the
Speaker 1: United States, Donald Trump in attendance tonight at the Wells
Speaker 1: Fargo Center.
Speaker 2: So that's at the NCAA wrestling finals that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: showed up to watch and uh, crowd.
Speaker 1: Pretty excited for him to be there. It would sing,
Speaker 1: I would say, you know those those audio tapes you
Speaker 1: sometimes hear the president was booed and you hear kind
Speaker 1: of said boos and a lot of cheers. Is up.
Speaker 2: No, that was unequivocal in my lifetime in modern politics.
Speaker 2: The only people that have ever gotten chance like that
Speaker 2: Barack Obama, Bernie and Trump. No, never anything close to
Speaker 2: that from anybody else. Bernie on the concert circuit right
Speaker 2: now drawing huge crowds.
Speaker 1: More on that to come for Nard Sanders.
Speaker 2: So this guy Bill mcinturf he's the head polster for
Speaker 2: NBC in Wall Street Journal, which team up for whatever
Speaker 2: reason for polling.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure what that's all about. Anyway.
Speaker 2: This is like his internal on polling that Mark Alprin
Speaker 2: put out today. In less than twenty slides, we cover
Speaker 2: the following major storylines. Bill mcinturf, Right, you don't see
Speaker 2: this every day. What the first slides have in common
Speaker 2: is how unique they are with the surgeon right direction.
Speaker 2: It's the first time the right direction is over forty
Speaker 2: percent and one hundred and forty seven months, So that's
Speaker 2: fourteen one hundred and twenty would be ten years, and
Speaker 2: then he got another twenty seven months for a couple
Speaker 2: more years. So that's a long long time since right
Speaker 2: direction has been over forty percent.
Speaker 1: Wowow and.
Speaker 2: Historic drop in the ratings of the Democratic Party. So
Speaker 2: we had that last week in other polling. But NBC's
Speaker 2: polling has the same thing.
Speaker 1: As Carl ro pointed out, the Republicans are not exactly
Speaker 1: on Super Night ground polling wise either, but you know,
Speaker 1: clearly have the edge over the beleaguered, hated Democrats.
Speaker 2: The survey finds President Trump matching or exceeding any previous
Speaker 2: positive rating for his job approval, personal rating, and the
Speaker 2: percentage of voters saying they identify as MAGA supporters.
Speaker 1: He is still the high water mark in all of those. Well, no, no,
Speaker 1: I know. I've heard that the tariffs are terrifying everybody,
Speaker 1: and he just announced that he's tightened those up. By
Speaker 1: the way, they're not going to be as brought. And
Speaker 1: everybody's afraid of the economy. And these deportations are crazy,
Speaker 1: and the doge is out of control. That's what I heard. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in just a second.
Speaker 2: These positive changes basically are because Trump enjoys exceptionally strong
Speaker 2: ratings among Republicans and his political base. A majority of
Speaker 2: voters approve of President Trump's job handling of water, security
Speaker 2: and immigration, so he's above water on that. Conversely, President
Speaker 2: Trump's job rating on the economy is the lowest he's
Speaker 2: ever had, So it's interesting that his economic numbers are
Speaker 2: so low, yet he has his highest approval personal popularity,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera he's ever had. It reminds me
Speaker 2: of Barack Obama, you know, speaking of crowds cheering. When
Speaker 2: you get into the whole culture personality thing. I mean,
Speaker 2: after Obama had been president for a while, there were
Speaker 2: a number issues that he did not pull very well on,
Speaker 2: but his overall number stayed high, and I could see
Speaker 2: Trump being like that.
Speaker 1: Sure, Yeah, absolutely, And I've long maintained if he can
Speaker 1: avoid being too quick and haphazard with the economic stuff,
Speaker 1: that gives us a hell of a lot more time
Speaker 1: in leeway to do the really important, you know, other
Speaker 1: things that our priorities, including cleaning up the universities. More
Speaker 1: to come on that.
Speaker 2: Between a plurality and a majority of voters say President
Speaker 2: Trump is making quote the right kind of change rather
Speaker 2: than the wrong kind of change on seven different policy areas,
Speaker 2: the consistent forty plus saying the right kind of change
Speaker 2: once again represents a hardened Trump political base.
Speaker 1: I think when you have one hundred and forty seven
Speaker 1: consecutive months of wrong track and then somebody offers actual,
Speaker 1: substantive change as opposed to lip service and no actual change,
Speaker 1: which has made all of us very cynical about those promises, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're going to have a hell of a lot of
Speaker 1: people say, hey, let's give it a try, let's see
Speaker 1: what happens. That's what these pull numbers feel like to me.
Speaker 2: And then on this since it's such a hot topic
Speaker 2: and he gets covered negatively in the news all day
Speaker 2: every day, a plurality of voters say Doge is a
Speaker 2: good idea. More tellingly, more than sixty percent of voters
Speaker 2: say Doge should continue either continue as is or slow down,
Speaker 2: but continue.
Speaker 1: So pretty solid ground on Doge. Still the epicenter of
Speaker 1: the woke mind virus. Our universities are finally getting cleaned up.
Speaker 1: The details coming up in a moment to stay with us,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty ribbling up, big step down the lane
Speaker 1: runner for the win back in Maryland is won. Maryland
Speaker 1: is going to the Sweet sixteen. That was an exciting game.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch the game, but I just saw the
Speaker 2: last three minutes on a YouTube video. It went it
Speaker 2: was like the game winning shot like five times.
Speaker 1: In a row is one of those.
Speaker 2: It was one of the it makes the three pointer
Speaker 2: and you thought the game was over, but then there's
Speaker 2: a couple seconds left and the other team makes it,
Speaker 2: and then there's a foul on the time out, and
Speaker 2: then another one, and it just kept going back and forth,
Speaker 2: like five times in the last minute.
Speaker 1: Very exciting. It's very gracious of me to call for
Speaker 1: that clip. Jack is my fighting in a line. I
Speaker 1: lost in a humiliating defeat to the hated Kentuckians last night.
Speaker 1: Hated can't they turned the but oh Kentuckians with their
Speaker 1: weird Kentucky ways. You know what turnovers equal? Jack, You
Speaker 1: know what they equal? They equal a loss. You protect
Speaker 1: the rock or you lose. They fail to and they
Speaker 1: lost some good advice right now, I don't have that
Speaker 1: stay up watching games anyway. So speaking of colleges, if
Speaker 1: you're familiar with the show, you understand that we believe
Speaker 1: firmly because it's one hundred percent correct that the real
Speaker 1: I'm trying to steer clear of my infection metaphor because
Speaker 1: it's disgusting. How about we say the where the rebel
Speaker 1: alliance is strongest, the and not the good rebel alliance
Speaker 1: from Star Wars, the bad ones, the evildoers, Where they're
Speaker 1: clustered most densely, Where the power of the woke mind
Speaker 1: virus is strongest, and where it radiates outward from is
Speaker 1: education in the country, especially the colleges and universities. But
Speaker 1: elementary education is terrible to anyway. So if we are
Speaker 1: going to get rid of, or at least weaken the
Speaker 1: neo Marxism that the woke thing represents, because remember, friends,
Speaker 1: it's all about overthrowing Western civilization. Has a dozen different
Speaker 1: excuses of why you have to because the patriarchy, because
Speaker 1: of transphobia, because of you know, racism, systemic racism, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. It's all about overthrowing Western civilization.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so the Trump administration is coming hard for
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And you probably heard that they
Speaker 1: threatened to yank four hundred million dollars of funding away
Speaker 1: from Columbia, which might be the you know, the the
Speaker 1: center of the center of this sort of thing, along
Speaker 1: with Coavid.
Speaker 2: And the fact that Columbia relented on a couple of things.
Speaker 2: The coverage of this over the weekend has been from
Speaker 2: like op eds in the New York Times of a
Speaker 2: dark day for freedom of speech and universities and how
Speaker 2: a hilarious freedom has been attacked and how we all
Speaker 2: should shudder of the chill wind that is blowing with
Speaker 2: the evil Trump people putting their finger on the scale
Speaker 2: in college kid versus.
Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing your opinion, Thanks versus.
Speaker 2: After the Biden administration allowing gazillions of taxpayer dollars to
Speaker 2: go to these universities where they have Jews shouldn't be
Speaker 2: allowed on campus festivals.
Speaker 1: And saying nothing about it. For the preaching hatred of
Speaker 1: the United States and its constitution.
Speaker 2: If you can, finally somebody did something. So here's what happened.
Speaker 1: First, I was going to lead with this the headline
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal University sprint from we will not cower
Speaker 1: to appeasing Trump with much of their funding at stake
Speaker 1: schools or quietly hiring lobbyists and reaching out to politicians
Speaker 1: amid Washington's quest to reign in academia. And they give
Speaker 1: a bunch of examples. University of Michigan presidents sat down
Speaker 1: for breakfast with a group of lawmakers from his home state,
Speaker 1: and the message was clear. The school was ready to
Speaker 1: play ball with Trump's Washington. It's time for universities to
Speaker 1: wake up and start addressing the reasons why they've lost
Speaker 1: so much trust. President Ono told the bipartisan group at
Speaker 1: a hotel conference room. Aha added that universities should listen
Speaker 1: to their most vocal critics. Well, that is refreshing. Then
Speaker 1: they mentioned Columbia university they named zech Stanford and Duke
Speaker 1: and wake Forest and Harvard and Vanderbilt, who have all
Speaker 1: hired lobbyists to put in a good word in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. So yeah, here's why coming up. Yeah, there is.
Speaker 2: Some belief some people have written that this gave various
Speaker 2: university administrations that covered they needed to do what they
Speaker 2: wanted to do and blamed only where I was going,
Speaker 2: blamed on Trump so that they don't get attacked by
Speaker 2: their own students. I don't know how much I believe
Speaker 2: that or not, or if a lot of those universities
Speaker 2: they were in more agreement with the students than Trump.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think it probably varies case
Speaker 1: by case, president by president. As we were saying last week,
Speaker 1: they have created a monster, I'd say universities collectively, they
Speaker 1: have created a monster of a faculty and student body
Speaker 1: that is so wildly radical left that they are terrified
Speaker 1: of them. University presidents, and I think some of them
Speaker 1: are thinking, oh God, yes, thank you, you gave me
Speaker 1: covered to ring in these maniacs.
Speaker 2: It's like if you let your kids run the show
Speaker 2: in your house. I mean, at some point when you
Speaker 2: put that down, there's gonna be great resistance. They've done that.
Speaker 2: It's these college campuses. I mean, just none of us
Speaker 2: have been able to understand why you just don't when
Speaker 2: the students demand something, say yeah, good for you, get
Speaker 2: back to class, get out of my room, my office,
Speaker 2: or you're demanding something. You don't demand anything. You pay,
Speaker 2: you come here, you take classes, you leave with the degree.
Speaker 2: If you don't like it, go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: I don't know right demanding Wow, the Armstrong doctrine. Folks,
Speaker 1: you just heard it, simple, effective, love it. So here's
Speaker 1: what happened on Friday. And this is no accident that
Speaker 1: Columbia made this announcement Friday after noon, where you know,
Speaker 1: unpopular news goes to die. Columbia agreed on Friday to
Speaker 1: overhaul its protest policies, its security practices in its Middle
Speaker 1: Eastern Studies department, in what The New York Times called
Speaker 1: a remarkable concession of the Trump administration, which you refused
Speaker 1: to could consider restoring, which has refused to consider restoring
Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars in federal funds. Without major changes.
Speaker 2: The agreement would stunned and dismayed many many members of
Speaker 2: the faculty.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it did. They were running the place could
Speaker 1: signal a new stage in the universities, escalating clash with
Speaker 1: elite universities and colleges. And they named Jack Harvard, Stanford,
Speaker 1: University of Michigan and others facing similar threats and probably
Speaker 1: making similar moves. Now, I thought this might be instructive.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, got it by way.
Speaker 2: I hope they realize that this was so good for
Speaker 2: their graduates, who are going to go out into the
Speaker 2: world with Columbia University on the resume, and this gives
Speaker 2: them some chance that the employer they run into will think, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's not as crazy as it used to be, because
Speaker 2: otherwise there's no way I would hire somebody from Columbia,
Speaker 2: right who graduated Columbia recently?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'd run in the other direction. Yeah, unless
Speaker 1: they proved that they were not, you know, woke mind
Speaker 1: virus captured. I think we're back to the university president's
Speaker 1: case by case. I think some of them Jack are
Speaker 1: absolutely thinking that, thinking that, Oh thank god. It's because
Speaker 1: I tell you what I'm hearing from all of my
Speaker 1: friends on Wall Street or you know, in business around
Speaker 1: the country that they're terrified of our graduates, not attracted
Speaker 1: to them, but some again are so captured or part
Speaker 1: of it that they don't care. So here I want
Speaker 1: to illustrate. Here are these shocking, disillusioning concession that Columbia
Speaker 1: University made, which has the New York Times all in
Speaker 1: a lather. Uh oh, many in academia calling this an
Speaker 1: actor surrender. Many of the steps Colombia is promising should
Speaker 1: have been made long ago in its own best interests.
Speaker 1: Restricting masks during protests means rule breakers will have to
Speaker 1: take responsibility for their actions. Oh no, could disagree with that.
Speaker 1: Clear rules clearly enforced about time, place, and manner. Restrictions
Speaker 1: on campus speech will raise the cost for those who
Speaker 1: want to block speakers they dislike. Oh no, ending the
Speaker 1: Heckler's veto at a college. What a terrible thing to
Speaker 1: do at sarcasm for those are just waking up. The
Speaker 1: school will also incorporate into the formal policy. Listen to
Speaker 1: this incredible concession Columbia has been beaten into taking. They
Speaker 1: will incorporate into formal policy the definition of anti Semitism
Speaker 1: recommended by their own Anti Semitism task Force, and it
Speaker 1: will adopt the so called institutional neutrality institution wide that
Speaker 1: means the school itself and its departments won't take sides
Speaker 1: on political controversies of the day. Now, that principle, which
Speaker 1: is associated with the University of Chicago, well, it used
Speaker 1: to be associated with universities everywhere all the time, because,
Speaker 1: pardon me, that's what they're effing's supposed to be doing,
Speaker 1: teaching kids how to think, not what to think, and
Speaker 1: so dragging them back even a couple of feet towards
Speaker 1: sanity is seen as outrageous in a lot of the
Speaker 1: college campuses. And of course they mentioned in the Wall
Speaker 1: Street General the editorial board, and they're quite correct. The
Speaker 1: test will be whether it's enforced throughout the institutions or
Speaker 1: all of these reforms will be controversial only among those
Speaker 1: who think a university as an ivory foxhole. Oh that's
Speaker 1: a great phrase. Who wrote that the board an ivory
Speaker 1: fox hole? Love? That is an ivory.
Speaker 2: Fox hole from which to launch political movements or indoctrinate students.
Speaker 1: All perfectly reasonable. I love this. I love this.
Speaker 2: Oh one more note, Wow, I hadn't looked into it
Speaker 2: this much. That's what they're describing as some sort of
Speaker 2: unholy surrender to maga.
Speaker 1: Yes, wow, those are the main Uh, you know it
Speaker 1: changes now they want some sort of audit of the
Speaker 1: Middle Eastern Studies Department because it's so flamingly anti Semitic.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the devil's in the details there. Sure,
Speaker 1: of course we'll have to see how that plays out,
Speaker 1: but in the main, it's wonderful. One more note, and
Speaker 1: this is the part that you definitely want to know.
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Speaker 2: For some reason, that reminded me, I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about how my neighbors are making me feel bad about
Speaker 2: myself unintentionally not but just just like kind of a
Speaker 2: comparison between me and my kids and them and their kids.
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Speaker 1: Ask your AI counselor for comfort and suckor you know,
Speaker 1: we could either rush through this like maniacs, or I
Speaker 1: could pay off what do your tax dollars have to
Speaker 1: do with all of this college campus madness? After a
Speaker 1: quick break, I advocate the latter plan.
Speaker 2: And I will pay off. How my neighbors are making
Speaker 2: me feel bad about myself, It's got more to do
Speaker 2: with me than them. But yeah, maybe I need to
Speaker 2: move to a neighborhood everybody's like doing meth and has pitbulls.
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Speaker 2: There you go with the ongoing tips for eggs, because
Speaker 2: apparently all of us eat one hundred eggs per day,
Speaker 2: and it's the most important thing in the world of
Speaker 2: the cost of eggs.
Speaker 1: Well in, a rise of thirty percent in the price
Speaker 1: of eggs is thirty percent in their cost of living.
Speaker 2: Because all I do is eat eggs all the time.
Speaker 2: It's my entire bill every month, every credit card bill eggs. Sense,
Speaker 2: that is kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are very expensive thanks to the inflation Bertsley,
Speaker 1: but a have cereal, have like a ham sandwich for breakfast.
Speaker 1: That's actually pretty enjoyable anyway, So I wanted to pay
Speaker 1: this off for you. We've been talking about how the
Speaker 1: a lot of the major universities are actually now bowing
Speaker 1: to the pressure from the Trump administration to stop being
Speaker 1: Marxist hives of anti American hate and perversion and flamingly
Speaker 1: anti Semitic. By the way, even as you swear you're
Speaker 1: tolerant and welcome all folks, just not the evil Jews
Speaker 1: at Columbia University, for instance, or UCLA, we never forget anyway.
Speaker 1: So what does your tax money have to do with this? Now?
Speaker 1: You might not need to, you know, consider that angle,
Speaker 1: because the way the universities are pumping out America hating
Speaker 1: Marxist graduates and many of them are becoming school teachers
Speaker 1: and indoctrinating your little kids is horrifying enough. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more so, As Alicia Finley writes, she's a brilliant writer.
Speaker 1: Like most colleges, Columbia, who we're just talking about, relies
Speaker 1: on federal funds and tax exemptions. These subsidies not only
Speaker 1: allow colleges to exist, they fuel campus radicalism by encouraging
Speaker 1: the growth of graduate programs and academic departments in social
Speaker 1: sciences and humanities whose primary goals are to promote left
Speaker 1: wing political causes rather than like turn loose useful people
Speaker 1: to society. It's self serving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta break through this because for forever, the
Speaker 2: whole idea he's going to graduate school, she's going to
Speaker 2: graduate school was such, you know, a good thing obviously.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, gotta break out of that. They're very accomplished.
Speaker 2: It's not clearly a good thing at all anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I'd say, in the vast majority of cases,
Speaker 1: it's a time and wasted time and money. Start with
Speaker 1: unlimited federal borrowing for grad students. Here's your tax dollars
Speaker 1: at work. The Education Department caps the total amount of
Speaker 1: federal loans for undergrads. The loan limit has helped keep
Speaker 1: a lid on college costs, as you know, I've said
Speaker 1: many times through the years, and people don't get this.
Speaker 1: When you flood a market for a particular good or
Speaker 1: service with money or incredibly cheap loans. Say your local
Speaker 1: car dealer is offering eighty four month loans at one
Speaker 1: point five percent. You look at that payment, you think,
Speaker 1: I don't give a crap what the price is. That
Speaker 1: payment's too good to pass up. So my weather, my
Speaker 1: f one fifty just went from seventy grand to ninety
Speaker 1: three grand. I don't care. And universities get that. So
Speaker 1: you got this unlimited spigot of federal money. The loans
Speaker 1: are backed, and then Joe Biden tries to forgive them
Speaker 1: glad that Mummy is out the White House, and so
Speaker 1: they just have carte launched to raise tuition or whatever
Speaker 1: they want anyway, So the loan limit has helped keep
Speaker 1: a lid on college costs. But that's just for undergrads.
Speaker 1: The net cost of attendance at publican nonprofit colleges after
Speaker 1: discounts has been flat over the last fifteen years. Partly
Speaker 1: because inflation has been so high it's just kind of
Speaker 1: kept up. But colleges, being the resourceful for profit businesses
Speaker 1: they are, don't tell me, well, no, Joe, they're nonprofits. No,
Speaker 1: you've got thousands and thousands and thousands of people profiting
Speaker 1: from their business salaries pensions. Anyway, they boosted revenue by
Speaker 1: adding pricey graduate programs and enrolling more grad students. Brown
Speaker 1: University December warned it has a ninety million dollar budget
Speaker 1: hole owing in Part two quote rapid growth in faculty
Speaker 1: and staff positions, with staff growth out pacing growth in faculty,
Speaker 1: how could it possibly be? So it's probably ei positions
Speaker 1: and crapping, right, So it's just bureaucracy. It's not even teachers.
Speaker 1: So what are you gonna do at Brown University? One
Speaker 1: planned budget solution? Double the number of residential masters students.
Speaker 1: Double it? Wow? And in what jack bioscience? Computer engineering? Huh?
Speaker 1: Colleges around exactly. Colleges around the country are adding master's
Speaker 1: programs in such fields as social work, humanitarian, community development,
Speaker 1: and Middle Eastern studies, often costing six figures to rake
Speaker 1: in more federal dollars. I love this. Columbia offers master's
Speaker 1: degrees and negotiating into conflict resolution, sustainability management. You got
Speaker 1: a master's in sustainability management, nobody even knows what that is,
Speaker 1: and human capital management, the last being a fancy term
Speaker 1: for HR. And then Alicia asks, hey, where all those
Speaker 1: graduate peacemakers when the protesters were tearing Columbia part and
Speaker 1: occupying building. You should have enlisted their help. So most
Speaker 1: research universities enrolled two to three times as many grad
Speaker 1: students as undergrads. Now you know why, man, And it's
Speaker 1: our tax dollars financing that Marxist hell hole boo, I
Speaker 1: say boo.
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