Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Chetty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie I know he Armstrong and Yetty. President Trump attended
Speaker 1: last night's game, making the first sitting president to attend
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Trump got cheered, Taylor Swift, got booed.
Speaker 1: And the Chiefs stunk. It was like the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: was played on Earth too? Right? Are we the upside down?
Speaker 1: What the heck is going on? That's a decent point.
Speaker 2: Trump left before the third quarter, while the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Left halfway through the first That's right. Oh said it.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good Trump. That's right. I said it.
Speaker 2: Trump cheered, Taylor Swift booed maybe for the first time
Speaker 2: in her life, and the Chiefs just demolished. All three
Speaker 2: of those are sick. Somewhat surprising here you go, never
Speaker 2: in the game?
Speaker 1: Ugh uh? What do we got coming up? Before I
Speaker 1: get to my stuff?
Speaker 2: Campus madness update plus ongoing coverage of the shocking Nancy
Speaker 2: Mace rape, voyeurism, sexual exploitation, and trafficking accusations made on
Speaker 2: the floor of the House last night. More details are
Speaker 2: coming out. This is It's crazy. There's no doubt.
Speaker 3: Just what brand of crazy and who's bringing the crazy
Speaker 3: is not yet clear.
Speaker 2: So mentioned a record viewership for the Super Bowl one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty six million people. Fox has watched across
Speaker 2: all their platforms, which you have to count because like
Speaker 2: I watched at least half the game on my phone
Speaker 2: while I was at the gym, and stuff on the
Speaker 2: on the app, so that should count, even though it wasn't,
Speaker 2: you know, home on the cable or whatever.
Speaker 1: The hell.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of people, though, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: six million people, that's that's a stunning audience. When it's
Speaker 2: great to at least have a tiny, little temporary return
Speaker 2: to the three channel. Everybody can talk about something world right,
Speaker 2: When the number one show in America can get nine
Speaker 2: million people sometimes one hundred and twenty six is quite
Speaker 2: amazing that we all we also do.
Speaker 1: That and CNN gets three hundred and forty people.
Speaker 2: Here is a woman blaming Trump for the Chiefs losing
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard this.
Speaker 2: That's the other.
Speaker 4: Reason why we didn't win, because the Trump was at
Speaker 4: the I said, gay Trumps are.
Speaker 1: Not good at our game.
Speaker 2: Now there are a lot of people that do things
Speaker 2: online for attention and it's fake. She sounds like because
Speaker 2: every year after a Super Bowl you see the legitimately
Speaker 2: losing their mind, upset people because.
Speaker 1: Of their team loss. She sounds legitimately crazy.
Speaker 5: Wasted, sitting in a chair crying a legitimately No, she
Speaker 5: was legitimately sitting in a chair wasted, crying into a washcloth.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like those videos. Yeah, every year you get and
Speaker 2: it's funny. They're always drunk.
Speaker 1: Always.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, if if she has a husband
Speaker 3: or a boyfriend, sir, run for your life.
Speaker 1: Just run.
Speaker 3: I don't care what she looks like, her how well
Speaker 3: she can cook, Just trust me on what you know?
Speaker 2: Cook if she was hammered drunk, all right, I kind
Speaker 2: of want to know, well.
Speaker 1: She can cook, because that's what keep you around. There's
Speaker 1: all kinds of other problems. She's a bad mom. Uh,
Speaker 1: we never have sex, but man, can she make biscuits?
Speaker 2: And great?
Speaker 5: I don't give her a who that friend was that
Speaker 5: took that video and put it online because they're that
Speaker 5: friendship's over.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a decent point there. Does that to me?
Speaker 2: I'm going to make their life miserable until what they
Speaker 2: I die.
Speaker 1: Well, I never thought about that.
Speaker 2: I thank god escaped the everybody's got a video recorder
Speaker 2: era of my life when I was drinking. But yeah,
Speaker 2: if I'm drunk and saying stupid things and you record
Speaker 2: me and post.
Speaker 1: It all, that is not good. Are they any laws
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 2: Hmm?
Speaker 1: Interesting question.
Speaker 3: That's interesting expectation of privacy in a public place, right,
Speaker 3: you could prove that it was done intentionally with malice.
Speaker 2: But how is it different than like in the old
Speaker 2: days in radio? And this was a glorious time. Gladys
Speaker 2: play the hard These were the good times.
Speaker 1: Good time.
Speaker 2: The thing was tube amplification. Good times to be a
Speaker 2: radio host. Not a good time to be anybody out
Speaker 2: there in the world. But back in the day in radio,
Speaker 2: you could just call somebody up and have them on
Speaker 2: the air immediately and pretty much say or do anything
Speaker 2: and air them. And it was oftentimes incredibly unfair and
Speaker 2: very incredibly funny. Entertaining yes, And then you have a
Speaker 2: laws where you have to have one person's consent to
Speaker 2: do that, And then you have states where there are
Speaker 2: laws where you have both people consent to that. I
Speaker 2: mean the ones the person consent is ridiculous. So Joe
Speaker 2: and I have consented, We're okay with calling this woman
Speaker 2: at home pretending we're the fire department and saying her
Speaker 2: dog was run over.
Speaker 1: Let's call her.
Speaker 2: And that's good enough because Joe and I consent, but
Speaker 2: consent on both ends. Took all the fun out of
Speaker 2: these kinds of things on the radio.
Speaker 1: But how is that not.
Speaker 2: Applied to I video it and then put it out
Speaker 2: in the public sphere?
Speaker 1: Is it because YouTube is not?
Speaker 2: Is it that old thing with YouTube's not actually a
Speaker 2: newspaper or a television station or whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't know, is there are any attorneys listening hit
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Speaker 1: What are the.
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Speaker 2: They might have to fix that because I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I see a giant difference for the victim there. Wow,
Speaker 2: you get hammered drunk and you're stumbling around saying crazys
Speaker 2: and your buddy videotapes he puts it on his Twitter
Speaker 2: account and now you're being mocked by everyone.
Speaker 3: Bringing you shame and humiliation. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 3: what the law is currently on that.
Speaker 1: I have to work that out over time.
Speaker 2: Here's one of my favorite things that happens about once
Speaker 2: a week in the New York Times, parenting in a
Speaker 2: burning world.
Speaker 1: This is from a climate editor. Boy, she and I
Speaker 1: would have a lot to talk about, wouldn't we mean it?
Speaker 1: At time together? Right? They have fun? Apparently that's the news.
Speaker 1: Number One.
Speaker 2: Writers have spilled a lot of ink on the question
Speaker 2: of whether it's ethical, desirable, or financially advisable to have
Speaker 2: children in an era of accelerating environmental crisis.
Speaker 3: Writers are a self involved ninny and sorrier writers.
Speaker 2: Writers have spilled a lot of ink on that, and
Speaker 2: most of us have not read any of that stuff, like, well,
Speaker 2: I'll get to my ultimate point after this paragraph, because
Speaker 2: it's always the same to me. Indeed, it's on many Americans' minds.
Speaker 2: A twenty twenty four Pew survey found that more than
Speaker 2: a quarter of US adults age eighteen to forty nine
Speaker 2: who don't plan on having children cited concerns about the environment,
Speaker 2: including climate change, as the major factor. Yet we rarely
Speaker 2: talk about how people have already chosen to become parents.
Speaker 2: Can cope with their own anxiety and fears as their
Speaker 2: children contend with an increasingly unstable climate. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I have, like most parents, a gazillion things I worry about.
Speaker 1: All day, every day about my kids that ain't on
Speaker 1: the list. Right right. This reminds me what's the technique
Speaker 1: called again where you.
Speaker 3: As like James Comy, you leak something to the press
Speaker 3: and you have the press call you and then they
Speaker 3: can quote you as commenting on the leak.
Speaker 1: That you leaked. I can't remember what that's.
Speaker 3: Called, the log rolling or the old dipsy doodle or whatever.
Speaker 1: I can't remember. If somebody remembers, tell me, but.
Speaker 3: This seems like kind of a version of them, where
Speaker 3: you terrify children, poor little innocent children in schools that
Speaker 3: they're going to burn to death, and puppies are going
Speaker 3: to burn to death, and everyone will die, including your
Speaker 3: mommy and daddy, because of climate change.
Speaker 1: And then when they grow up and say I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I can have a kid because it's so dangerous.
Speaker 2: You say, look, people aren't willing to have kids because
Speaker 2: I'm so dangerous. That is one hundred percent true and
Speaker 2: should be commented on regularly. I mean, when you talk
Speaker 2: about adults eighteen to forty nine, a quarter of them
Speaker 2: don't plan on having kids. How many of us weren't
Speaker 2: planning on having kids when we were twenty two, but
Speaker 2: then we changed.
Speaker 1: Our mind when we got older.
Speaker 2: I mean lots of us, So that younger end of that,
Speaker 2: a lot of them aren't going to have kids anyway,
Speaker 2: aren't planning to have kids.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: People are having less kids. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: That's what I wanted to bring up. I heard something
Speaker 2: about China today. They're really struggling in China with marriages.
Speaker 2: They can't get people to get married. And then they
Speaker 2: went through this reasons.
Speaker 1: It might be.
Speaker 2: While people of blah blah bah. There's something happening, and
Speaker 2: I don't know why. People just aren't willing to understand this.
Speaker 2: There's something happening in modern society with comfort and luxury
Speaker 2: or attention span or something where we're just not interested
Speaker 2: in coupling and having children. Why they have to assign
Speaker 2: a reason to it. It's climate change, it's the rent's
Speaker 2: too high, it's the Trump is in office.
Speaker 1: It's no, it's not there's something going on. As a
Speaker 1: beast that's taken away.
Speaker 2: There's no stronger desire on planet Earth than to couple
Speaker 2: and have kids. That has gone away for some reason.
Speaker 2: And it ain't because of the rent, right, I would
Speaker 2: agree completely. And the fact that it's happening in communist China, yeah,
Speaker 2: and capitalists South.
Speaker 1: Korea and Denmark and Italy and the United States and
Speaker 1: rural America and cities, yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 3: And the other thing that bothers the hell out of
Speaker 3: me about that conversation is I find it so pathetically
Speaker 3: and it's a perfect, you know, the manifestation of victimhood culture,
Speaker 3: where you've got to be a victim of something to get.
Speaker 1: Attention and feel important. But for the lady for the
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 2: Times to say, these times they are so dangerous and volatile,
Speaker 2: we can't have children, Not during World War one or two,
Speaker 2: or the Middle Ages or the smallpox outbreak or you
Speaker 2: know whatever, the Cold War or the race riots.
Speaker 1: And assassinations in nineteen sixty eight. No, these are the
Speaker 1: times that are really scary.
Speaker 3: Oh, man up, including the women, She s Louise quit
Speaker 3: celebrating weakness.
Speaker 1: What do you get when you do that? I'll give
Speaker 1: you a minute.
Speaker 2: What kind of society do you get tictok a week
Speaker 2: one right, you nailed it, ge money, and a new
Speaker 2: guest essay, the Oregon writer Emma Pate explains how she
Speaker 2: had made peace with the dire facts of climate change,
Speaker 2: including Wait.
Speaker 3: A minute, Wait a minute, an Oregon writer named Pate?
Speaker 1: Is this parody? I wrote? I know? Is this Fred Ormison? Uh?
Speaker 2: She's made peace with the dire facts of climate change,
Speaker 2: including the reality that her children will be increasingly affected
Speaker 2: by warming and pollution or climate related disasters in the
Speaker 2: years to come. I know my children are likely to
Speaker 2: die in the endless hurricanes. But I had children anyway.
Speaker 2: How brave of you whether it's ethical to have kids.
Speaker 2: Screw you and you determining whether it's ethical for me
Speaker 2: to have kids.
Speaker 1: Man, these people are insufferable. They really are. I know it.
Speaker 1: It's hilarious.
Speaker 2: You know what, if you had children, you'd be too
Speaker 2: busy to write this stuff. You wouldn't have time, right right,
Speaker 2: we got and you wouldn't be worried about fanciful half
Speaker 2: a degree elevations in forty seven years.
Speaker 1: Please, we got a lot more in the way. Stay here.
Speaker 1: What really doomed Joe Biden's presidency? Well, actuary tables.
Speaker 2: But what doomed in politically early on was the pull
Speaker 2: out of Afghanistan, which was a disaster. Everybody watched on
Speaker 2: TV as his poll numbers plummeted. He never recovered and
Speaker 2: CBS News checking in on Afghanistan. What life is like
Speaker 2: under the Taliban. Here's the reporter interviewing a Taliban leader.
Speaker 1: The president has demanded that Thaliban give back the hardware value.
Speaker 2: That's seven billion dollars hardware put on parade last year
Speaker 2: at an abandoned US air base.
Speaker 1: Abdul Kahar Balki.
Speaker 2: Is the Taliban spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Speaker 2: Is it entirely out of the question that the Thaliban
Speaker 2: would ever return this military hardware?
Speaker 1: Is it absolutely off the table?
Speaker 6: These are the assets off the state of Avanistan and
Speaker 6: they will continue to be in the position off to
Speaker 6: stay toughle funds.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's no deal then with the president.
Speaker 6: People don't make deals on the assets of these states.
Speaker 6: They make agreements through doalg and engagement to find spaces
Speaker 6: and areas of common interests.
Speaker 1: Fresh and translate that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, First of all, the Taliban leader speaks better
Speaker 2: English than me.
Speaker 1: Where do you go to school, not public school.
Speaker 2: Apparently, I guess he's I would guess he's British educated,
Speaker 2: judging by his accent. First, I was thinking, why are
Speaker 2: you asking this question? There's no way he's gonna say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: sure you want to back, We'll give him back. But
Speaker 2: I guess because President Trump has demanded him back, and
Speaker 2: so that's a reason to ask the Taliban leader, is
Speaker 2: there any any circumstance where are gonna give them back?
Speaker 2: In the Taliband's gonna say no. Of course they're going
Speaker 2: to say no, you want them, come and get him.
Speaker 2: It'd take a lot of troops in many, many years.
Speaker 2: I think you tried that once before. But if you
Speaker 2: want to go ahead, I think it's much more likely
Speaker 2: again they're going to say, make us an offer.
Speaker 1: Let's talk.
Speaker 2: We got your stuff, you want it back? We need money. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they don't need some of this stuff. I mean, they
Speaker 2: probably want to keep a lot of the guns and everything,
Speaker 2: but they don't need tanks and humbes necessarily to keep
Speaker 2: the population under control. They'd probably be happier in heck
Speaker 2: to sell those for a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Wows Uncle Joe, wowow Wow. So I'm on this just
Speaker 1: popped into my head.
Speaker 2: So I'm exchanging gratitude lists with this guy.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 2: We decided the other day we're going to get on
Speaker 2: this habit. We're going to be grateful for his stuff,
Speaker 2: and he's.
Speaker 1: No, no, just uh.
Speaker 2: I'm going to text him every morning and and I
Speaker 2: forgot today, so I got to do it during the
Speaker 2: commercial break. I'll text him every morning three things I'm
Speaker 2: grateful for, and he's going to text me three things
Speaker 2: he's grateful for.
Speaker 1: I brought up the whole idea of.
Speaker 2: No wine February, the no whining during February, you know,
Speaker 2: on the kind of the flip side of whining. And
Speaker 2: one way to get out of whining is to be
Speaker 2: grateful for the good things. One thing a person I
Speaker 2: put on my list today, be grateful you're born in
Speaker 2: the freaking United States. If you're born in Afghanistan, you're
Speaker 2: going to have an awful, miserable, possibly very short life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: no matter what your attitude.
Speaker 3: Is, unless you're an active participant in evil, that would help.
Speaker 2: It would give you a better chance of survival probably,
Speaker 2: But yeah, and that you know you can have all
Speaker 2: the strength of character you want, you're gonna have a miserable, short,
Speaker 2: painful life if you were born lots of places in
Speaker 2: the world other than the United States. Doesn't happened in
Speaker 2: the United States. Isn't the only place you can avoid
Speaker 2: that to a fate. I mean, I think if you're borning,
Speaker 2: you know, some rural village of France, you probably have
Speaker 2: a decent life. But there are a lot of places
Speaker 2: where you you got no shot and it's just luck.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's wrong. This is the worst most
Speaker 1: racist country on earth. What else should I put on
Speaker 1: my gratitude list?
Speaker 2: Mcflurri's grateful for Oreo, mcfluury's that come in two sides.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 2: Wow Wow coming up a campus madness update, k through
Speaker 2: grad school madness, good news and bad news.
Speaker 3: Tell you was as long as we have a minute,
Speaker 3: the next doge like effort and I don't know if
Speaker 3: it could be cat or something like that, muskrat spell
Speaker 3: out all the letters involved in seriously calling out the
Speaker 3: bull crap of the American education system from top to
Speaker 3: bottom and making it a national beyond a moonshot priority
Speaker 3: like more like, you know, curing smallpox or getting electricity
Speaker 3: to all fifty states style effort to get rid of
Speaker 3: what's wrong with the American education system and straighten it out. Honestly,
Speaker 3: that might be the single most important thing we could
Speaker 3: conceivably do, right up there with dealing with overspending in
Speaker 3: the national debt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if we might not be better off
Speaker 2: if we only focused on the education, the schools and
Speaker 2: like put all the effort into that. Yeah, be more
Speaker 2: likely to be successful because there's plenty there, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4: So Democrats have been playing hopscotch while Republicans are playing
Speaker 4: grand theft dollar four and we're finally starting to realize,
Speaker 4: let's put the chalk down and let's actually focus on
Speaker 4: what are those lanes where we can pursue, like the
Speaker 4: legal cases, like legislatively, really the budget that's really really
Speaker 4: place where they do have power.
Speaker 2: That's particularly talking about the whole doge thing. But we've
Speaker 2: been mentioning this column by Rich Lowry of National Review,
Speaker 2: where he says, this is the biggest win in the
Speaker 2: last three weeks for the right in the culture war
Speaker 2: in half a century. And I'm so used to losing
Speaker 2: every cultural war thing. The idea that we're winning now
Speaker 2: is a bunch of issues is just I don't even
Speaker 2: know how to I don't even know how.
Speaker 1: To feel right. It is so odd, but it's it's great.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, and I think the voices of sanity need to,
Speaker 3: you know, make as much progress as quickly as possible.
Speaker 3: I suspect, you know, barring well, you know that's crazy
Speaker 3: to try.
Speaker 1: To predict anything. Trump will have four years.
Speaker 3: I'm certainly hoping his successor at least wires at least
Speaker 3: oh boy, the constitutional corsis will have at least four
Speaker 3: years to continue the progress that's being made. But we
Speaker 3: absolutely need a moonshot style effort to reform education in
Speaker 3: this country because it is absolutely killing us. Michael, It's
Speaker 3: a campus Madness Update, good and bad news edition, good
Speaker 3: and bad.
Speaker 2: News, madness screaming, how's madness?
Speaker 1: You idiot on the campus? God, how's quite scream Yeah?
Speaker 2: No kiddingel So, disembalment figures into the story somehow, so
Speaker 2: well metaphorically speaking.
Speaker 3: So we'll start with some good news, really interesting piece
Speaker 3: about Tufts University, which is to the left of Trotsky
Speaker 3: Boston area. But there's a professor by the name of
Speaker 3: Hirsch there who teaches a class on American conservatism that
Speaker 3: is always one hundred percent enrolled and extremely popular, and
Speaker 3: he a man of the sane center left, has them
Speaker 3: read Frederick Hayek's Road to Serve Them at Ininran's The
Speaker 3: Nature of Government, and then has lefty writers assigned as well.
Speaker 1: That says, all right, let's talk about this issue.
Speaker 3: And it is a classic American education where you have
Speaker 3: to understand both sides before you say which one you're on.
Speaker 3: And he is systematically steel manning conservative arguments for the
Speaker 3: college kids. And the really encouraging part about this is
Speaker 3: the kids love it.
Speaker 1: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: And poll after poll has shown that a lot of
Speaker 3: college kids resent the cancel culture and the bully culture
Speaker 3: and the radical culture. But they just they're afraid or
Speaker 3: you know, intimidated into silence. And there's a lot more
Speaker 3: curiosity out there than I think you would think from
Speaker 3: looking at college camp.
Speaker 1: God, are we.
Speaker 2: Actually coming out of peak that? And we'll never have
Speaker 2: to deal with it again, at least in our lifetimes.
Speaker 2: I mean, did we just live through the pendulum swinging
Speaker 2: to the far end of that nuttiness?
Speaker 1: I share hope. So I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm a little afraid of it being like a sports
Speaker 3: team that you know has a very bad beginning of
Speaker 3: the season, then they win six in a row and
Speaker 3: you think all right, and then that is just a
Speaker 3: blip and they go back to being bad. I think
Speaker 3: there's so much of a fight to go on, but
Speaker 3: let me plunge on here. We can talk about this
Speaker 3: at length. A great piece in the Free Press about
Speaker 3: how all over the country, including in some surprising places,
Speaker 3: educators are covering up for their own failures wholesale. We
Speaker 3: should have the best education system in the world, they write,
Speaker 3: we should have an education system that reflects us being
Speaker 3: a superpower. But there's no one with a straight face
Speaker 3: who can say that the United States has a world
Speaker 3: class education system. And that's from a higher up in
Speaker 3: the New Jersey Department of Education, now retired. But they
Speaker 3: go through place after place where because they are failing
Speaker 3: to meet any standard, they are systematically changing the standards,
Speaker 3: including this shock to me. In twenty twenty four, Oklahoma
Speaker 3: schools seemed to perform a miracle. They went from twenty
Speaker 3: four percent proficiency in reading to forty seven percent in
Speaker 3: two years. You almost number doubling the previous figure. You
Speaker 3: see that number in a year. You know, something funky happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Indeed, if it sounds too good to be true, that's
Speaker 3: because it was. In last year, Oklahoma lowered its cut scores,
Speaker 3: the score a student needs to hit on test to
Speaker 3: be considered proficient.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. That's good Hearts law. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Once, once a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to
Speaker 2: be a good measure.
Speaker 1: Yep. Trend is also happening in New York State.
Speaker 3: After not a single eighth grader in the upstate city
Speaker 3: of Schenectady tested proficient in math in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: state officials lowered the scores the following year. Wisconsin lowered
Speaker 3: cut scores last year. Illinois is about to lower its scores,
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. We did in tell a lot
Speaker 3: of blue states, but Oklahoma shocked me.
Speaker 2: We've done it in California a couple of times. Well,
Speaker 2: it speaks as much to the nature of bureaucracy as liberalism.
Speaker 2: Well it's a good Heart's law. I mean that seems
Speaker 2: to be a law. No matter what you no matter
Speaker 2: your politics, you come up with a goal, or you
Speaker 2: measure something, then you come up with a goal and
Speaker 2: then you just fudge to meet the goal, and so
Speaker 2: the measure doesn't work anymore.
Speaker 1: And that's it happens, over and over again.
Speaker 2: I can come up with one hundred examples up the
Speaker 2: top my head, because I think it's a fascinating aspect
Speaker 2: of the way the human brain works. But how are
Speaker 2: there not People raise their hands, say, we can't be
Speaker 2: lowering the standards.
Speaker 1: We need to raise the quality field tradition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right right, lift up the children, don't drop the standards.
Speaker 1: That'd be a good slogan.
Speaker 3: Veering back to good news, The Department of Education on Friday,
Speaker 3: Cancer which still exists, apparently canceled fifteen million dollars in
Speaker 3: federal grants that were used to fund diversity programs at
Speaker 3: three universities in California, State, La, Virginia Commonwealth, and University
Speaker 3: of Saint Thomas and Minnesota. All had received giant, multimillion
Speaker 3: dollar grants, part of a billion dollars a billion that
Speaker 3: the Biden Education Department spent on diversity programs in America's schools,
Speaker 3: nearly half of which went to grants for race based hiring.
Speaker 3: That is, at least temporarily on the way out. Now
Speaker 3: back to bad news. Two stories here that are adjoined
Speaker 3: at the hip Brown University Medical School that's one of
Speaker 3: your elite ivy leaguers.
Speaker 1: By the way, elite. I almost vomit when I say
Speaker 1: that about these universities.
Speaker 3: But they now give diversity, equity and inclusion more weight
Speaker 3: than excellent clinical skills in its promotion criteria for faculty,
Speaker 3: raising questions duh about the equality of teaching and patient
Speaker 3: care at the elite medical school and underscoring how deeply
Speaker 3: deis penetrated medical education. Again, when they decide what faculty
Speaker 3: to promote, they now give DEI more weight than excellent
Speaker 3: clinical skills.
Speaker 1: I saw that over the week in Medicine. I meant
Speaker 1: to mention now on the air, that is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2: I was looking at the actual paperwork, the criteria, and
Speaker 2: really your plan for how you're answering the question of
Speaker 2: how you're going to get diversity, equity inclusion into your
Speaker 2: your medical practice is more important than your actual SI right,
Speaker 2: that is how or as important?
Speaker 1: How is that even possible?
Speaker 3: You could take a talk show host's opinion on this,
Speaker 3: or you could listen to Bob Cerencioni, an orthopedic surgeon Maryland,
Speaker 3: This is as stark as it gets the criteria. Say
Speaker 3: what DEI medical schools is all about, and it's not
Speaker 3: about clinical performance. Hector Choppaw, clinical professor at Texas A
Speaker 3: and M, said it was difficult to comprehend why clinical
Speaker 3: skills get less weight than DEI quote.
Speaker 1: That is heartbreaking.
Speaker 3: Clinical skills are of paramount importance and should be considered
Speaker 3: major criteria for any promotion.
Speaker 1: The quotes from saying people go on and on, but
Speaker 1: we'll keep moving.
Speaker 3: University of California Schools oops illegally used racial preferences and
Speaker 3: admissions lawsuit alleges.
Speaker 1: Of course, California.
Speaker 2: By gonna Trump prove California we already in deficit, but
Speaker 2: we're gonna spend fifty million dollars to do it.
Speaker 3: They are illegally still recruiting based on race and with
Speaker 3: a paper thin, a tissue thin cover up of what
Speaker 3: they're doing all across the UC system.
Speaker 2: That fifty million dollar Trump proofing California legislation. By the way,
Speaker 2: past Friday afternoon late I noticed when I got the
Speaker 2: ding on my phone it was like five thirty California
Speaker 2: time when they announced the passing of that.
Speaker 1: I think that was an accident. He laughed, I laughed, And.
Speaker 3: If that got you riled up, this is going to
Speaker 3: make you completely insane. You may remember that last year
Speaker 3: San Diego school officials got sued for punishing a student
Speaker 3: for supposedly wearing blackface at a football game when it
Speaker 3: was really just team color face paint. Well, now a
Speaker 3: worse and more horrifying battle is unfolding within the Capistrano
Speaker 3: Unified School District in Orange County, where an elementary school
Speaker 3: student was punished and deemed racist for making a drawing
Speaker 3: that say it said black lives matter, with the offending
Speaker 3: phrase all lives matter under it. The girl, through her mother,
Speaker 3: is suing the school district. Listen to this, and we
Speaker 3: could get into the legalities of this, but I think
Speaker 3: their self evident. The fractice began when the girl who's
Speaker 3: just identified as BB heard a lesson on Martin Luther
Speaker 3: King that also touched on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Speaker 1: This is in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: BB's teacher read her and other students in the class
Speaker 3: of a book about Martin Luther King and also discuss
Speaker 3: discussed the Black Lives Matter movement. Students were probably already
Speaker 3: familiar with it is. The school had a picture displayed
Speaker 3: that included the phrase black lives matter, along with a
Speaker 3: clenched fist that young BB saw every day. And this
Speaker 3: girl is where does it say that? The whole clunch
Speaker 3: six years old?
Speaker 1: Six? Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the clenched fist accompanying that sign off awesome.
Speaker 1: What are you trying to say there?
Speaker 2: So BB became concerned for classmate of color, while b
Speaker 2: B did not understand what phrase meant. The book had
Speaker 2: the effect of making BB feel bad for a classmate
Speaker 2: of color, who then drew a picture for her little
Speaker 2: friend to help her feel Included. BB's picture contained the
Speaker 2: frame black lives matter, drawn in black marker. Below that
Speaker 2: was the phrase any life, written in light colored marker.
Speaker 2: Before any life were four circles of different colors, which
Speaker 2: BB drew to represent three classmates in herself holding hands.
Speaker 2: And for that she was suspended for school, singled out, browbeaten,
Speaker 2: yelled at by the teacher, forced to apologize to her
Speaker 2: little not a chance, not a chance, not a chance,
Speaker 2: not a chance. I realize it's easier said than done
Speaker 2: to pull your kid out of school because it's really
Speaker 2: really expensive. I'm paying the bills right now. But no way,
Speaker 2: I'm letting my kid have to apologize for that and
Speaker 2: sending them back into that classroom.
Speaker 1: No flipping way, Little.
Speaker 2: MC, the second girl in question, expressed confusion about what
Speaker 2: BB was apologizing for. BB shared MC's confusion about the
Speaker 2: need for an apology, but she did as she was
Speaker 2: ordered to do. She was then prohibited from taking part
Speaker 2: in recess for two weeks. She was banned from recess,
Speaker 2: forced to sit on a bench and watch her classmates
Speaker 2: play without her for that sin.
Speaker 1: That's California schools, folks.
Speaker 3: I'll move around along before I say anything that would
Speaker 3: end our careers.
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. I know it is.
Speaker 2: I know it is. I tell you what. It makes me,
Speaker 2: just absolutely militant. I would be eupy I would be
Speaker 2: in danger of getting arrested if I got into a
Speaker 2: conversation about that with my kid at the school.
Speaker 3: We could talk about an oh, oh, it would go
Speaker 3: very very badly. Yes, we could talk about the former Oakland,
Speaker 3: California teacher who is now suing because she was fired
Speaker 3: for not calling a five year old by the right
Speaker 3: pronouns because the five year old's crazy ass activist parents
Speaker 3: had decided that their five year old was misgendered, and
Speaker 3: finally this.
Speaker 1: To drive home the point that.
Speaker 3: We need a Space Shot style effort to clean up education.
Speaker 3: Three Columbia University encampment leaders are suing the school alleging
Speaker 3: that it's disciplinary actions such as they were, caused them
Speaker 3: quote severe emotional and psychological harm, and one of the
Speaker 3: attorneys is Jim carl James Carlson, a professional anarchist who
Speaker 3: stormed Hamilton Hall last spring and clashed with a facilities
Speaker 3: worker with the militant students again, the university gives them
Speaker 3: pitter pat sanctions for violently taking over buildings, and they
Speaker 3: sue for damage and other relief for severe emotional and
Speaker 3: psychological arm including anxiety, depression, and trauma for which they
Speaker 3: are seeking treatment. Wow, if we as a society can't
Speaker 3: stand up and face that sort of thing down, we
Speaker 3: deserve to go away. We deserve to be taken over
Speaker 3: by China or whoever else.
Speaker 2: I agree with that. But none of this is going
Speaker 2: to matter because an asteroids going to hit Earth in
Speaker 2: eight years. I've got the details on that coming up.
Speaker 2: Among other things.
Speaker 7: But the price of eggs skyrocketing from bird flu. Shortages
Speaker 7: are growing from coast to coast. Some chains like Costco
Speaker 7: and Trader Joe's are limiting the amount of eggs customers
Speaker 7: can buy, and it stores with eggs on the shelves
Speaker 7: sticker shop. Eggs are now so valuable become a target
Speaker 7: for thieves. In Seattle, surveillance camera captured suspects entering a
Speaker 7: shed behind Luna Park Cafe. Or police say they stole
Speaker 7: more than five hundred eggs. Jerry's Organics had to beef
Speaker 7: up security after thieves stole.
Speaker 1: One hundred thousand eggs from their farm.
Speaker 7: In Pennsylvania, bird flu was impacted tens of millions of
Speaker 7: farmed chickens, sending egg prices up sixty.
Speaker 1: Five percent in the last year.
Speaker 7: The Department of Agriculture projects egg prices will increase again
Speaker 7: about twenty percent this year, and we're told that it
Speaker 7: will be at least another six months before egg price
Speaker 7: is stabilized.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why the kids are sharing a room now
Speaker 2: my guy did when I was a kid, and the
Speaker 2: other room is being used full hens. You got about
Speaker 2: one hundred hens in their laying eggs where the money
Speaker 2: is got the.
Speaker 3: Hens little hazmat suits so they don't get the bird flu.
Speaker 1: You almost eat more eggs than I do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I realize if you're a restaurant aware, Well,
Speaker 2: let's hear this story first.
Speaker 7: In Los Angeles, Canter's Deli has been in business for
Speaker 7: over one hundred years now. So basically, just to explain this,
Speaker 7: you went from dollars a month a few years ago
Speaker 7: to know at least twenty three to twenty five thousand
Speaker 7: dollars a month for eggs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for pretty much the same product for them, the
Speaker 5: same amount of eggs.
Speaker 1: And they are drowning under those costs.
Speaker 7: A business has been in business for one hundred and
Speaker 7: five years now, can't break even.
Speaker 1: Not just simply because of the eggs. That's enough to
Speaker 1: do it. There you go.
Speaker 3: So they're just gonna have to lose money till the
Speaker 3: egg thing gets straightened out. To hold on to their
Speaker 3: customer base, they keep on serving meals and just losing
Speaker 3: money on everywhere.
Speaker 1: That would suck.
Speaker 2: But I might eat three eggs a month, I don't know,
Speaker 2: A couple of week, I don't know, don't do do
Speaker 2: do more people? Most people eat way more eggs than me.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I too, will really enjoy four
Speaker 2: or five a month, maybe six. Well, although it's in
Speaker 2: you know, bread and stuff like that too, truely, Yeah,
Speaker 2: which all made indeed, which makes everything go up in price. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm big right now on the thing you talk about
Speaker 2: a lot with the tiny number of ingredients like I
Speaker 2: got banana bread at the store the other day, and
Speaker 2: the ingredients where like banana, walnuts, butter and some else
Speaker 2: like four ingredients, And yeah, it makes you feel a
Speaker 2: lot better than when you get that long laundry list
Speaker 2: of ingredients in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great rule of thumb for avoiding the what do
Speaker 3: they call it, the ultra refine foods or Hunter process?
Speaker 3: Ultra process. Yeah, highly process.
Speaker 1: So we have more to the Nancy May story an
Speaker 1: hour for we do.
Speaker 3: Indeed, the concious woman from South Carolina got up and
Speaker 3: gave a shocking speech about rape and sexual exploitation and
Speaker 3: name specific names of her oppressors and those who victimized
Speaker 3: her and other women called out the Attorney General of
Speaker 3: the state of South Carolina against whom she is going
Speaker 3: to be running for office soon. It's all very odd
Speaker 3: and shocking and unprecedented. On the floor of the house.
Speaker 3: We'll have some of the audio for you and some interpretation.
Speaker 3: But this story is not going away. It's one brand
Speaker 3: of crazy or another, and we haven't figured out which
Speaker 3: brand yet.
Speaker 1: I'll get to that now or four. Two quick things
Speaker 1: before we take a break.
Speaker 2: One I'm really liking on the iPhone the AI summary
Speaker 2: of my texts.
Speaker 1: I'm finding that very very handy. Huh. I haven't used
Speaker 1: it yet.
Speaker 2: I did I have a choice in using it. It
Speaker 2: just showed up on my phone when I had did
Speaker 2: the update, But now all my texts. I glance at
Speaker 2: it and there's an update long text from the babysitter saying,
Speaker 2: you know dropped off Henry. She will pick him up,
Speaker 2: but as a much longer text day. The way it
Speaker 2: picks out just the information you need and gives it
Speaker 2: to you in the bullet is awesome. Uh. And this story,
Speaker 2: NASA is tracking an asteroid that could hit the Earth
Speaker 2: in eight years. The asteroid is between one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty and three hundred feet long, which I believe gets
Speaker 2: you into destroy the dinosaur's territory. Estimated two percent chance
Speaker 2: of an impacting Earth at this point, I had a
Speaker 2: one in fifty. If I had a one and fifty
Speaker 2: chance of winning five million dollars. I'd be as excited
Speaker 2: as hell.
Speaker 1: I would be too.
Speaker 2: We have one and fifty chance of having a dinosaur
Speaker 2: level exting. Seems like this is a big story. Sweet
Speaker 2: meat or death. Better late than never.
Speaker 1: Eight years, Well, it's been a good run. Been a
Speaker 1: good run.
Speaker 2: We do four hours every single day. We're kind of
Speaker 2: petering out though, after a good run. It's been We
Speaker 2: do four hours every day. If you miss an hour,
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