Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 1: Well listen to this.
Speaker 3: According to a new report, last week, air traffic controllers
Speaker 3: at Newark lost all communication with.
Speaker 1: Plans for over a minute.
Speaker 4: It's getting to the point where we really should clap
Speaker 4: when the plane lands.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, no kidding. Turns out our air traffic control
Speaker 5: system in the United States is horrifically antiquated, as bureaucratically
Speaker 5: screwed up, as virtually anything the government does, and probably
Speaker 5: not very safe.
Speaker 1: Other than that, though, it's just a peach Well statistically
Speaker 1: has been very very safe, including up to like write
Speaker 1: this moment.
Speaker 5: So what until people start dying in droves? You don't
Speaker 5: you don't maintain it. What is your point, sir?
Speaker 1: Why am I yelling? Yes? That's true air traffic. Air
Speaker 1: air travel in the United States is miraculously say yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wonder how we pull it off. I mean, yeah.
Speaker 5: On the other hand, it is, uh, it is absolutely
Speaker 5: in The rack in Washington, d C was a symptom
Speaker 5: of this at Reagan National airport between the passenger jet
Speaker 5: and the helicopter. The near misses are getting more and more.
Speaker 5: The we don't know what's going on, Hey, what's happening
Speaker 5: over here? Incidents where it's out of controller happening more
Speaker 5: and more in a way that any you know, sane
Speaker 5: people would nip in the bud, although the bud was
Speaker 5: like twenty years ago anyway. Sean Duffy is the new
Speaker 5: go get them transportation secretary who makes Pete Buddhajic look
Speaker 5: like the pleasant faced, do nothing climber that he is.
Speaker 5: Sean is making the rounds talking about how we've got
Speaker 5: to reform the system.
Speaker 1: Michael will start with thirty one.
Speaker 6: This is an infrastructure problem, right, and we've known this
Speaker 6: infrastructure problem has existed for a very long time.
Speaker 1: The last administration knew it. No one has done anything.
Speaker 6: So for Newark specifically, we're going to rebuild the communication
Speaker 6: system at Newark. I thought it was going to be
Speaker 6: eight months, six months. We're pushing to do it faster.
Speaker 6: Hopefully this summer we get that done. But the key
Speaker 6: is always safety, right. I don't want people to fly.
Speaker 6: I'd rather have them delayed or canceled. I'd rather have
Speaker 6: it takes six months than two and a half months
Speaker 6: to build out the communication system because I want people
Speaker 6: to get from point A to point B safely, and again,
Speaker 6: if they have to wait for a flight, I'll prefer
Speaker 6: that then something else going wrong with their flight.
Speaker 2: So while I did throw in the it's still safe.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's safer to fly than to drive to
Speaker 1: the airport. But we all know over the last several years,
Speaker 1: the whole delays thing has gotten completely out of control.
Speaker 1: You show up at the airport assuming one of your
Speaker 1: flights is going to be delayed.
Speaker 2: Now, it didn't used to be that, right.
Speaker 1: Duffy goes on, What.
Speaker 6: We have to do is we're rolling a plan out
Speaker 6: on Thursday. We're gonna need a lot of money from
Speaker 6: Congress to do this. It's not gonna take ten years
Speaker 6: like Pete suggested. It's gonna take three to four years
Speaker 6: to get this build out done. You can't snap your
Speaker 6: fingers and lay fiber or bring in new radios or
Speaker 6: new radar. Those things take time. And we're gonna put
Speaker 6: the time in, the money in, and you're gonna start
Speaker 6: to see results sooner than three or four years. As
Speaker 6: this buildout happens.
Speaker 5: So other countries have private, nonprofit companies doing their air
Speaker 5: traffic control because they can adapt, they can innovate, they
Speaker 5: can hire people, they can fire people, they can pay
Speaker 5: what it takes to get good.
Speaker 1: People, et cetera. Without the incredible bureaucracy. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: This chokes everything. Why are other countries more libertarian on
Speaker 1: this than we are?
Speaker 5: Because they don't have incredibly powerful employee unions government employee
Speaker 5: union France is probably all screwed up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I don't know how they run it.
Speaker 1: I know Canada does the tomorrow private full hour on
Speaker 1: French air traffic controlling. Oh wow, wouldn't that be fascinating?
Speaker 1: In the people?
Speaker 5: Alex What is people who have no shame and will
Speaker 5: say anything, no matter how dishonest.
Speaker 1: Thirty five Michael.
Speaker 4: It's outrageous and it's because of Trump and doge. FAA
Speaker 4: has been cut, employees have been caught, top people have
Speaker 4: left in exasperation.
Speaker 1: Now what Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 4: If there's any place where Trump chaos, which is so
Speaker 4: typical of this administration, can really cause loss of life,
Speaker 4: it's at the FAA.
Speaker 1: God, I hate politics. This, Oh my god, honestly the
Speaker 1: worst form of government ever invented, except for all the others.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just that's one of the most powerful
Speaker 1: people in that party just playing the old game.
Speaker 2: Oh it's so tiring. Absolutely lie.
Speaker 5: Not only that, but I was reading an aviation expert
Speaker 5: talking about how Chuck Schumer has opposed every single meaningful
Speaker 5: update and reform to the FAA through the years, merely
Speaker 5: to protect the unions that contribute to his campaigns. He
Speaker 5: every time somebody has said, hey, we really ought to
Speaker 5: update this, we ought to increase the technology, we ought
Speaker 5: to do this, we ought to hire these people.
Speaker 1: Uh give. He has opposed every reform.
Speaker 5: And now now when when the Trump administration is trying
Speaker 5: to do something, he says, it's Trump and Doge, good lord,
Speaker 5: how does he hide his horns?
Speaker 1: What an evil you do?
Speaker 2: The game of politics? Just don't. I don't know how
Speaker 2: you do it. I guess you just accept that that's
Speaker 2: the way we do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, goodness knows.
Speaker 5: I've been more than critical of Donald J when I
Speaker 5: think it's appropriate, and will continue to be. And if
Speaker 5: you don't like it, I'm sorry to hear that. But
Speaker 5: it does what it does. But Matthew countin any of
Speaker 5: the free press actually listened to him. I'm not sure
Speaker 5: if he was there, but he listened to Trump's entire
Speaker 5: address to the University of Alabama's graduating class, and he says,
Speaker 5: and Matthew countenend is a very serious journalist. He said,
Speaker 5: he's been amazed that while people were either enjoying or
Speaker 5: criticizing his riff on transgender athletes, which was at that speech,
Speaker 5: and a couple of other things, he said, there's almost
Speaker 5: no coverage of the substance of what he said and.
Speaker 1: Continent. He said, he found it really interesting.
Speaker 5: Trump summarized ten tips for getting out of college and
Speaker 5: having a good life, and I will touch on them briefly.
Speaker 1: That's a good tease right there. I mean, that would
Speaker 1: make me. I'm surprised that hasn't been in the news. War.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I don't want to rush like a maniac
Speaker 5: through them, so we can do them after the break.
Speaker 1: But they it's like reading the Art of the Deal.
Speaker 1: It explains a fair amount of what Trump is up to,
Speaker 1: not all of it, but some of it. So we'll
Speaker 1: get to that after the break.
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Speaker 2: There's the hardball salesman.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and putting aside some of the particulars which
Speaker 1: were bs because Trump's a ps or.
Speaker 5: That was Donald J and his I'm gonna make a
Speaker 5: deal mode. More on the trade talks with China later,
Speaker 5: although it's early days of an enormously complex.
Speaker 1: And more on what he said with the ceasefire with
Speaker 1: the Hoothies, which is kind of interesting too. Yeah. But anyways,
Speaker 1: speaking of Donald J, you know, I see him as
Speaker 1: like some of.
Speaker 5: My favorite athletes through the years, great strengths and great flaws.
Speaker 1: That's fine, that's enough set.
Speaker 5: But he He gave an address at Alabama Roll Tide
Speaker 5: at their graduation the other day in which he rolled
Speaker 5: out ten thoughts about success that I found very, very interesting,
Speaker 5: and they explained a fair amount about Trump himself.
Speaker 1: The first one.
Speaker 5: Success can happen at a young age, he said. In America,
Speaker 5: with drive and ambition, young people can do anything. And
Speaker 5: he cited some chapters of his own life. And I hear, Yeah,
Speaker 5: the dad was rich and gave him money. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: But he mentioned other American innovators like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney,
Speaker 5: the founders who started off in their twenties.
Speaker 1: Don't waste your youth, he said, get after it. By
Speaker 1: the way, I can name off the top of my
Speaker 1: head five people I've known in my life who dad
Speaker 1: gave them a bunch of money and they spent it
Speaker 1: all and ruined their lives and are worthless. Yes. Yeah, indeed,
Speaker 1: love what you do, he says. I rarely see somebody
Speaker 1: that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a mixed bag. Let me get through it,
Speaker 5: then we can discuss. He pointed to his father, Fred Trump,
Speaker 5: who died in ninety nine at the age of ninety three.
Speaker 5: He was a tough guy, tough as hell, actually, or
Speaker 5: he worked seven days a week, not because he had to,
Speaker 5: but because he enjoyed it, and Matthew count in any comments, Well,
Speaker 5: it's hard for his critics to understand.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and his.
Speaker 5: Supporters enjoy politics a sense of fun, improvisation, and risk,
Speaker 5: imbuse his rallies and campaigns.
Speaker 1: My you know, I'm not quibbling with any of this
Speaker 1: because that's all true, and I'm sure most of this
Speaker 1: will be true in general. But man, not everybody has
Speaker 1: a motor like Donald Trump does, or are lots of
Speaker 1: successful people I've known.
Speaker 2: You just either have that motor or you don't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and some people.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking of one friend of mine who said to
Speaker 5: me not terribly long ago, Look, I hate my job,
Speaker 5: but I'm good at it, and I make good money,
Speaker 5: and I've got job security, and I do other things
Speaker 5: that bring me life satisfaction.
Speaker 1: He says, I can accept the bargain.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, if you want to be like a runaway,
Speaker 5: success in your field probably helps to.
Speaker 1: Really enjoy what you do.
Speaker 5: But anyway, this is what the Sean Duffy and the
Speaker 5: reforming air traffic control thing reminded me of, because instead
Speaker 5: of saying, well, we got to protect the unions, and
Speaker 5: you know, the head of the fbaa he's got his turf,
Speaker 5: and you know, we don't want to rush into this
Speaker 5: blah blah blah blah, which has yielded a system that
Speaker 5: still used the technology of the nineteen nineties, even though
Speaker 5: it's one of the most important things the government does.
Speaker 5: Think Big Trump said, it's just as hard to solve
Speaker 5: a small problem as a big problem. He finds the
Speaker 5: audacious more enticing than the incremental. He leans toward the
Speaker 5: wildest visions, winning the presidency despite no military or government experience,
Speaker 5: for example, or being re elected after impeachment, defeat, embarrassment indictments,
Speaker 5: a criminal conviction and two assassination attempts, Oh my god,
Speaker 5: rewriting the rules of American government foreign policy or the
Speaker 5: global trading system, or turning the Gaza Strip into a
Speaker 5: luxury resort, or reopening Alcatraz Prison. Goes on, and some
Speaker 5: of it gets filed away with the under the heading no, but.
Speaker 1: Some of it is worth considering. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: cool that someone would say it out loud. Yeah, we've
Speaker 1: been in these like post WW two trade agreements for
Speaker 1: seventy years. Why do we blow them up? What would happen?
Speaker 1: How about the crowd that always just wants to keep
Speaker 1: things the same so you can stay in your job.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of people. Oh, it's huge in government. Huge.
Speaker 5: It's like the number one thing to be reckoned with,
Speaker 5: work hard, never ever stop.
Speaker 1: That explains the two am tweets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the motor. You just I think he got
Speaker 2: that or you don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can get more disciplined as you go, certainly,
Speaker 5: but I hear you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He quotes the great Gary player, South African pro golf
Speaker 5: for nine major champion chip winner. He was one of
Speaker 5: those guys's fond of saying. It's funny. The harder I work,
Speaker 5: the luckier I get.
Speaker 1: Yeah. True.
Speaker 5: Anyway, don't lose your momentum. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 5: The word momentum is very important.
Speaker 1: Trump said.
Speaker 5: He brought up William Levitt, real estate developer who pioneered
Speaker 5: the post WW two move to the suburbs in nineteen
Speaker 5: seventy two. You remember Levitt Towns. That was an expression. Anyway,
Speaker 5: Levitt sold his company to a large corporation. He was
Speaker 5: never able to recapture his earlier success, and years later
Speaker 5: Trump continued to encountered Levitt at a party, referring to
Speaker 5: the sale Levitt told Trump, I shouldn't have done it.
Speaker 5: I lost my momentum, and the anecdotes right. The anecdote, rather,
Speaker 5: writes Matthew CONTINENTI reveals why Trump operates at such high speeds.
Speaker 5: Trump has been liking to the honey badger who doesn't
Speaker 5: give up. His tenacity is related to a fear that's
Speaker 5: slowing down means a loss of momentum and an end
Speaker 5: to his career.
Speaker 1: I think someday, long after this period, when you know
Speaker 1: people's hatred of Trump, for people who hate him, you
Speaker 1: know you can look at him more objectively. They'll pick
Speaker 1: up on that because he's obviously got qualities, good qualities
Speaker 1: to be able to pull off what he's pulled off
Speaker 1: in his life.
Speaker 2: And some of them are that I admire.
Speaker 1: Are He takes bad breaks better than like anybody ever.
Speaker 1: He just he just finds a way around or ignores
Speaker 1: it or I don't know, just amazing to something else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to get through these if I can. I
Speaker 1: love this be an outsider. Progress never comes from those
Speaker 1: satisfied with the failures of a broken system. Trump said, wow,
Speaker 1: one more time.
Speaker 5: Progress never comes from those satisfied with the failures of
Speaker 5: a broken system. The contrast with his political antithesis, Barack
Speaker 5: Obama is stark write continenty. Obama says progress is achieved
Speaker 5: through bottom up community action within institutions. For Trump, progress
Speaker 5: is the result of renegade individuals willing to break things.
Speaker 5: That Trump approach is more effective, and he goes into
Speaker 5: it a little bit. Trust your instincts. I have a
Speaker 5: quibble with this. I won't get into I'd like to
Speaker 5: rephrase that is, trust your common sense. And Trump addressed
Speaker 5: the kids at Alabama said Trump used the word instinct
Speaker 5: as a synonym for common sense. Borders are not racist,
Speaker 5: he said, speech is not violence. America is good and
Speaker 5: terrorists are bad. Men can never become women. Police are
Speaker 5: not criminals, and criminals are not victims. Police can be criminals.
Speaker 5: But that's about as clear as a credo as you
Speaker 5: can get.
Speaker 2: Wow, how does that get more attention?
Speaker 1: Ah? Because it probably makes so much sense in the media.
Speaker 1: Hated it.
Speaker 5: Believe in the American Dream. Last August, Trump declared that
Speaker 5: the American Dream was dead. He pledged to bring it back.
Speaker 5: Mission accomplished. The American Dream is real, he said to
Speaker 5: the Alabamas. It's there, it's right before you. I love
Speaker 5: that and fine is that? Finally, oh, two more things positively,
Speaker 5: he said to the youngsters and their parents and friends.
Speaker 5: Don't consider yourself a victim, he said, consider yourself a winner.
Speaker 5: And he recommended one of his favorite books, a classic,
Speaker 5: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peel. The
Speaker 5: teaching has your universal application. Whether you're born rich or poort,
Speaker 5: black or white, male or female. In America, anyone can
Speaker 5: be a winner. And finally, be an original. And his
Speaker 5: list of American trailblazers went from Teddy Roosevelt to Doug MacArthur,
Speaker 5: George Patton, Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Muhammad Ali, all men
Speaker 5: and women of action, Daredevil's risk takers, outside personalities, He's capone.
Speaker 5: You're one of a kind. Trump told the graduates. Don't
Speaker 5: try to be someone else, just be yourself. And finally,
Speaker 5: and most importantly concluded, never ever give up. Number eleven,
Speaker 5: Have a hot young wife. Number twelve, be like Hitler,
Speaker 5: because I'm the new Hitlar, un below evable. So much
Speaker 5: good there. For all the legitimate criticisms, those are points
Speaker 5: worth considering and teaching your kids.
Speaker 1: When Democrat presidents speak to Harvard with the usual crap
Speaker 1: it gets in, it leads every newscast. I didn't hear
Speaker 1: a word about Trump's speech to Alabama, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: Under this ban, service members who have a current diagnosis,
Speaker 7: or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria
Speaker 7: will be processed for separation from military service. Now, that
Speaker 7: also means that transgender individuals cannot currently join any branch
Speaker 7: of the military. No, it's unclear exactly how many people
Speaker 7: were talking about, but in twenty eighteen, an independent research
Speaker 7: institute estimated there are about fourteen thousand transgender troops serving
Speaker 7: in the Middle.
Speaker 2: It's probably closer to six.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not nearly that that number is way cooked up.
Speaker 5: Gender vending update next hour.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the cardinals, however, many hundreds of them
Speaker 1: there are taking their individual out loud oath of silence, ironic.
Speaker 1: What the hell would happen if it leaked out who
Speaker 1: the pope was? And again, I just want to throw
Speaker 1: this in because it's shocking to me. I'm pro Catholic Church,
Speaker 1: I'm pro pope, I'm pro Christianity, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: But the fact that.
Speaker 1: All this wonderment at their system and secrecy and rules
Speaker 1: without throwing in like constantly, the biggest pedophile crisis in
Speaker 1: world history, and you knew it, and you've known it
Speaker 1: for centuries, and you hit it, and then you would
Speaker 1: move a rapist to another little town so we'd rape
Speaker 1: more little kids.
Speaker 2: He didn't care about that. I don't get it.
Speaker 5: Bureacracies protect bureaucracies. That's all you need to get.
Speaker 1: That is what you need to know. And it's a
Speaker 1: very important thing to know. Not about the Catholic Church,
Speaker 1: it's about bureaucracies in general.
Speaker 5: If I might steal twenty seconds, I was reading about
Speaker 5: the Vatican's finances. I guess Francis was struggling against this till.
Speaker 1: His dying day. It was like the last days of
Speaker 1: his life.
Speaker 5: He was issuing edicts and trying desperately to figure out
Speaker 5: how to straighten out the Vatican's finances. That is a
Speaker 5: wash in priceless treasures, but tumbling deeper into debt. And
Speaker 5: all they could come up with is hit believers up
Speaker 5: for more money and maybe raise prices for all the
Speaker 5: tickets to get into the Vatican.
Speaker 1: And one more thing in this, and I realize this
Speaker 1: makes a lot of people uncomfortable and if you're Catholic,
Speaker 1: you hate somebody saying it. But I'm looking at all
Speaker 1: these guys. A lot of these guys are like, in
Speaker 1: their seventies and eighties, they were involved in the freaking
Speaker 1: raping of children.
Speaker 2: I guarant freaking.
Speaker 1: Tea a bunch of those people up there were so
Speaker 1: quit treating them like some sort of I don't know
Speaker 1: what this is, but yeah, I don't.
Speaker 5: I look at every large institution with a squinty, jaundiced eye,
Speaker 5: all of them.
Speaker 1: AnyWho, here's the most annoying thing that's gonna happen this summer.
Speaker 1: I just want you to put it on your calendar
Speaker 1: so you can avoid it. Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend
Speaker 1: are getting married in June.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be.
Speaker 1: A three day extravaganza, three days in Italy from the
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty six that I will
Speaker 1: get a tremendous amount of media coverage.
Speaker 2: So look forward to that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, who wants to do that, even if
Speaker 1: you can afford it? Who wants three days of pageantry
Speaker 1: and walking out in different outfits and people ooing and
Speaker 1: eyeing and ah? You know who does his wife and
Speaker 1: her friends?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder if she's gonna get her duck lips
Speaker 5: puffed up even more for the ceremony. Probably so they're
Speaker 5: not getting married on the five hundred million dollar yacht,
Speaker 5: which was a rumor originally.
Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be in some Italian town. That would
Speaker 1: be too showy. That would be too showy. Although he
Speaker 1: does have that How big is the ring? I had
Speaker 1: that somewhere, It doesn't make it twenty carrot ring on
Speaker 1: her finger, twenty carrot diamond ring that she works, so
Speaker 1: ring is so big they're having to measure it in
Speaker 1: cubic inches. That's the guys, another one of these stories.
Speaker 1: I'm always confused by it, since it's never damaged me
Speaker 1: so far. Yet, there's been a major password breach, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest yet in the cyber world. Over nineteen
Speaker 1: million passwords were leaked. I never know what to do
Speaker 1: with this information because my password hygiene is probably ced
Speaker 1: D level.
Speaker 2: I mean, I try a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't just do one, two, three, four, but I
Speaker 1: don't change them there as much as you want. I've
Speaker 1: got the same one across multiple platforms. A lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff they tell you not to do. So far,
Speaker 1: nothing's ever happened to me, and I drained ten percent
Speaker 1: of your bank account every two months. But you know whatever,
Speaker 1: so far, nothing's ever happened to me, and nothing really
Speaker 1: bad's ever happened to anybody I personally know. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're supposed to do with this information,
Speaker 1: but I thought this article was kind of interesting. About
Speaker 1: the nineteen billion passwords that are circulating online currently, and
Speaker 1: six percent of them have been leaked. Ninety four percent
Speaker 1: had been reused across accounts and services, which you're never.
Speaker 2: Supposed to do.
Speaker 1: I do that.
Speaker 2: Everybody does that. I got to be surprised for you.
Speaker 2: Good for you if you don't.
Speaker 1: But the most common passwords are really easy to decode.
Speaker 1: Only forty two percent, or eight to ten characters in length,
Speaker 1: supposed to be longer. Okay, fine, way too many of
Speaker 1: them only have lowercase letters. Okay, good for you. I'm
Speaker 1: getting to the part that I really like. The analysis
Speaker 1: found that one two three four is used by four
Speaker 1: percent of all passwords. Still, there are seven hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven million people using one two three four as
Speaker 1: their password. Wow, or it might be the same person
Speaker 1: over and over again. In some cases, if you go
Speaker 1: to one, two, three, four, five six. It's three hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty eight million passwords that are that. Wow. Uh,
Speaker 1: password is common, admin is common. Some people use not
Speaker 1: nice words. The word ass is one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five million passwords. I kind of feel like I have
Speaker 1: missed an opportunity. I have not used ass in any
Speaker 1: of my passwords, and why haven't you? Lack of imagination,
Speaker 1: I guess sixteen million passwords that include the F word
Speaker 1: ass is the top entry, and then it goes down
Speaker 1: from there with a bunch of other filth. What about
Speaker 1: merkin see I think you're safe. You have Merkan dollar
Speaker 1: sign dollar sign asterisk. I think you're safe. The Russians
Speaker 1: can't get into that, no way. But and then it
Speaker 1: has here the usual rules. You know, don't use the
Speaker 1: same password across anything. It just to I'd like to
Speaker 1: know the percentage of people that follow all the rules.
Speaker 1: It's got to be single digits. How often have.
Speaker 5: You accepted, say, Apple's invitation to create an impenetrable thirty
Speaker 5: seven digit password.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while the problem is, it seems
Speaker 1: to me, if my phone saves it, then fine, I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's a bunch of nonsense. You saved
Speaker 1: it and then you'll automatically fill it in the next
Speaker 1: time I use it.
Speaker 2: But then sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1: And I didn't write down the fifty letters, numbers and
Speaker 1: shapes that I've never even seen before and don't know
Speaker 1: where to find them on the keyboard. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: go between my phone and my iPad and my MacBook,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't like save it in a way
Speaker 1: that's effective, right, and feel free to write your email
Speaker 1: what I'm doing wrong. I'd appreciate it. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't quite well. So I almost never go with it.
Speaker 5: I went with it the other day, and I've got
Speaker 5: kind of a feeling of foreboding that I've made a mistake.
Speaker 1: I feel like every day of my life I type
Speaker 1: in either my email address or my address or something
Speaker 1: like that. AI is not going to take over the
Speaker 1: world as long as I'm still doing that. I mean,
Speaker 1: how is it not just automatic that if I come
Speaker 1: to anything on a computer that I'm running, that it's
Speaker 1: got my address ready to go on my own device
Speaker 1: that I've piped it in eight thousand times this year, So.
Speaker 5: Come on, line, I need to talk about this at
Speaker 5: some point. I'm using AI a fair amount. Now, Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 5: chat GPT for a couple of things, research and cool,
Speaker 5: and I've actually created some silly images just to see
Speaker 5: how that worked, but mostly some reason to fine things.
Speaker 5: I was trying to remember the title of a book
Speaker 5: I read years ago about the partition of Pakistan and India,
Speaker 5: which was incredibly powerful MOBI moving moby Dick is correct. No,
Speaker 5: actually it's not. It has the curious title of Ice
Speaker 5: Candy Man. But you were also published in the US
Speaker 5: as Cracking India.
Speaker 1: But so you were able to just say, what's the
Speaker 1: name of the book about the partition of Indian and Pakistan?
Speaker 2: And it gave you some options.
Speaker 5: It gave me a longish list, and one of them
Speaker 5: was Ice Candyman, which I thought sounded somewhat familiar. Came
Speaker 5: out in nineteen ninety one, and so I asked it
Speaker 5: for or more information on that book, and it gave
Speaker 5: me a plot summary and the main characters and stuff,
Speaker 5: and I said, bingo, that's it. And there were zero
Speaker 5: stupid sponsored irrelevant to Google results.
Speaker 1: It was really handy.
Speaker 2: Huh that is interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really we all should be using AI more,
Speaker 1: I think for a variety of things.
Speaker 2: I need to get into that.
Speaker 1: Everybody I know like, once you dabble in it really
Speaker 1: really finds it helpful, you know.
Speaker 5: And this is going to shorten the campus Madness update,
Speaker 5: but I can't resist. I was reading this piece about
Speaker 5: Donald Trump wanting to reopen Alcatraz, and it starts with
Speaker 5: kind of a criticism of how silly and impractical that is.
Speaker 5: We've all heard why it'll never happen. I bet he
Speaker 5: hasn't thought about it for one second since he said it, right,
Speaker 5: it went into some of the history of Alcatraz that's
Speaker 5: pretty interesting. It wasn't open for very long, and it
Speaker 5: was more or less a publicity stunt because it could
Speaker 5: be seen by the people in the press in San Francisco,
Speaker 5: and it was, you know, a prohibition and jed Gar
Speaker 5: Hoover's cracking down on al Capone and the rest of it,
Speaker 5: and it just it was super dramatic.
Speaker 1: It only operated for what was it twenty.
Speaker 5: Six years or something like that before they said this
Speaker 5: is too expensive, this is crazy, we got to stop this,
Speaker 5: and so it closed down. But then the Washington Post
Speaker 5: had comments, of course, and it gave me the option
Speaker 5: for read comments, and I did, and it begins with
Speaker 5: an AI summary of the comments on the article, and
Speaker 5: I will read that to you now. The comments overwhelmingly
Speaker 5: criticized President Donald Trump's idea of reopening Alcatraz as a
Speaker 5: modern prison, describing it as an impractical, costly, and influenced
Speaker 5: by outdated cultural references idea. Many commenters expressed disdain and
Speaker 5: for Trump's leadership, suggesting that his ideas are often impulsive
Speaker 5: and lack substance. Hu I had noticed that some humorously
Speaker 5: suggested that Trump himself should be the first inmate at
Speaker 5: Elcatra as we're to reopen. Overall, the comments reflect a
Speaker 5: strong disapproval of the proposal and skepticism about Trump's decision
Speaker 5: making abilities. So it's like, well, thank you for summarizing
Speaker 5: all those angry keyboard Warrior anonymous trolls.
Speaker 1: And of course I left leaning interpretation of it from
Speaker 1: my eye, because yeah, it's always going to be that way,
Speaker 1: I guess, you know.
Speaker 5: Maybe we'll talk more about that in the One More
Speaker 5: Thing podcast that we do after the radio show. But
Speaker 5: Campus Madness Update is only moments away, friends, stay with us.
Speaker 1: I just came across a great new book that's coming
Speaker 1: out from Jason Riley. About the black family in America,
Speaker 1: and he's a black guy who gets to write it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I have to talk about that in an hour four.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 5: It's a very blunt way to assert that, Jack, But
Speaker 5: I know exactly what you mean. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Jason Riley's is brilliant. Love to hear about that. So
Speaker 5: it's time for campus Madness Update. Everybody breaks yourselves.
Speaker 2: Oh, what's happening.
Speaker 1: There's some serious madness. Oh my god, I'm threatened and disconcerted.
Speaker 5: I wanted to start with the curious case of Alan Garber,
Speaker 5: the president of Harvard University, the new one who's an
Speaker 5: actual scholar and a thoughtful Jewish man, which factors into
Speaker 5: the summit. He's done a couple of big time interviews recently.
Speaker 5: I'm both in the Wall Street Journal in the New
Speaker 5: York Times, and the headline is, really, the president of
Speaker 5: Harvard is fighting the Trump administration tooth and nail and
Speaker 5: agrees with them. It's interesting stuff. A couple of takeaways
Speaker 5: from the Wall Street Journal interview, For instance, Garber is
Speaker 5: quite blunt in saying students at Harvard no longer feel
Speaker 5: comfortable disagreeing with each other or the professors, they have
Speaker 5: ideological lockstep, and it bothers him a lot. When he
Speaker 5: first arrived at Harvard, Is an undergrad in nineteen seventy three,
Speaker 5: said he found quote a place where people debated freely.
Speaker 5: He and classmates shot the breeze with people of all viewpoints.
Speaker 5: We are happy to argue with one another. It was
Speaker 5: a time that shaped me and I think everyone else
Speaker 5: who was there then, Bob so not what it's like
Speaker 5: now or right Upon returning to Harvard is provost. In
Speaker 5: twenty eleven, Garber noticed the spirit of healthy disagreement from
Speaker 5: his undergrad days had disappeared, and again not diminished somewhat,
Speaker 5: or was not as strong as it had No, it
Speaker 5: had disappeared. It's something that concerns him in his colleagues.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 5: Students today find it much harder to have conversations with
Speaker 5: one another about difficult subjects, particularly with someone they don't
Speaker 5: know well, with whom they might disagree. And to me,
Speaker 5: that is a big loss. Well that has to do
Speaker 5: with I won't use the fancy term, but the constantly
Speaker 5: expressed idea that there are only two sides, good and evil.
Speaker 5: You pick good, or you are an evil person. And
Speaker 5: we will persecute you. That is the spirit on college campuses.
Speaker 5: It's not open inquiry and curiosity.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite of that.
Speaker 5: Garber goes on to say he knows the university has
Speaker 5: a perception problem with the general public, driven by a
Speaker 5: view that Harvard doesn't care about swaths of America and
Speaker 5: that is overly liberal. I would call it progressive. We've
Speaker 5: had some real problems we should address, he says. He says,
Speaker 5: I really understand the resentment that people can feel when
Speaker 5: they think the problems are not taken seriously people.
Speaker 1: That's something we absolutely must have dressed you, because I
Speaker 1: think it's clearly true. Is why people have that view.
Speaker 1: That's most of it.
Speaker 5: Yes, to diversify the faculty, the university is seeking to
Speaker 5: hire people with an intellectual range, even a visiting fellow
Speaker 5: company campus for a few weeks, whatever it takes. When
Speaker 5: it comes to teaching, quote, part of what we need
Speaker 5: to make sure is that in the classroom in other settings,
Speaker 5: we promote the idea that it doesn't matter what your
Speaker 5: personal views are. You need to teach it in a
Speaker 5: way that is fair to multiple points of view. And furthermore,
Speaker 5: you need to enable students to speak up when they
Speaker 5: have a perspective that is different from the mainstream. Asked
Speaker 5: how many faculty voted for Trump, for instance, Garber replied,
Speaker 5: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: I have an idea. I have our good idea, Allan.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm not gonna attack the guy because he
Speaker 1: might be about as good as it gets right now.
Speaker 1: He also was.
Speaker 5: Quite blunt in saying, yeah, Harvard has and has had
Speaker 5: for a long time, a serious anti Semitism problem. Nonetheless,
Speaker 5: the other day Harvard put out a report on anti
Speaker 5: semitism with a report on anti Muslim bias on campus.
Speaker 5: The progressive view that if we're forced into giving you
Speaker 5: peanut butter, we're gonna give you jelly, even though there's
Speaker 5: very little jelly to worry about and nobody asked for it.
Speaker 1: But we've got to We.
Speaker 5: Can't talk about anti semitism unless we throw in a
Speaker 5: little anti Muslim bias. Anyway, he is an interesting case
Speaker 5: and again, probably as good as it gets right now.
Speaker 1: But I've got to throw this in.
Speaker 5: From the New York Times article, Baba Bah in the
Speaker 5: eyes of mister Trump and many Republicans.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 5: It's the classic Republicans pounce It's not that Harvard and
Speaker 5: other elite universities have become echo chambers. It's that mister
Speaker 5: Trump and many Republicans are saying they become echo chambers
Speaker 5: because he can't ever admit conservatives are right in the
Speaker 5: liberal press, a place where students develop intolerance for political
Speaker 5: perspectives different from their own and shield themselves against any
Speaker 5: opposing ideas. University leaders often say that criticism exaggerates the issue.
Speaker 5: Your faculties like ninety three percent progressive. So at what
Speaker 5: point is it a real problem we should be worried about,
Speaker 5: not exaggerated, when it's one hundred percent the rarely seen
Speaker 5: one hundred and seven percent.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you could exaggerate the current situation exactly.
Speaker 1: It's almost everybody right exactly. Well, I won't be labor
Speaker 1: the point you made it quite well.
Speaker 5: Another headline, racial discrimination persists at UCLA Medical School as
Speaker 5: federal investigation is underway. Documents show Department of Health Services
Speaker 5: has launched a civil rights investigation into UCLA's medical School,
Speaker 5: investigating with the school's admission to office discriminates based on race.
Speaker 5: It does, it absolutely does, It does intentionally and out loud.
Speaker 5: The medical schools circulated a memo just last month that
Speaker 5: outlined quote guiding principles for student representation on the admissions committee.
Speaker 5: Those guidelines require the committee to consider race and LGBTQ
Speaker 5: at bipock in the rest of it when a weighing admissions.
Speaker 5: It's utterly unconstitutional and ridiculous and obvious. Another Campus Madness
Speaker 5: headlines slight pivot here you see Berkeley, yet another California
Speaker 5: elite institution, received six figure donations from CCP officials.
Speaker 1: That's your Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 5: I wish we had more time to flesh this out,
Speaker 5: but the American elite universities will take all the money
Speaker 5: they can from Cutter, for instance, to push pro Islamist
Speaker 5: propaganda and China, including a two hundred and twenty million
Speaker 5: dollar government investment in UC Berkeley from a guy banned
Speaker 5: because he's a Commie agent.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 5: Didn't even get to the professor at the University of
Speaker 5: Chicago who published midterms and instead told students to go
Speaker 5: to an anti Trump protest.
Speaker 1: Campus Madness got to clean it out. Armstrong and Getty