WEBVTT - Log Rolling Or The Old Dipsy Doo 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.840 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Chetty Armstrong and 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:25.160 Jettie I know he Armstrong and Yetty. President Trump attended 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.160 last night's game, making the first sitting president to attend 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:28.880 the Super Bowl. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.840 Trump got cheered, Taylor Swift, got booed. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.840 And the Chiefs stunk. It was like the Super Bowl 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.960 was played on Earth too? Right? Are we the upside down? 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.200 What the heck is going on? That's a decent point. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.080 Trump left before the third quarter, while the Chiefs. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:48.680 Left halfway through the first That's right. Oh said it. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.199 That's pretty good Trump. That's right. I said it. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.760 Trump cheered, Taylor Swift booed maybe for the first time 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:00.520 in her life, and the Chiefs just demolished. All three 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.720 of those are sick. Somewhat surprising here you go, never 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:05.320 in the game? 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:10.440 Ugh uh? What do we got coming up? Before I 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:11.160 get to my stuff? 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:16.319 Campus madness update plus ongoing coverage of the shocking Nancy 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:23.440 Mace rape, voyeurism, sexual exploitation, and trafficking accusations made on 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.679 the floor of the House last night. More details are 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:30.000 coming out. This is It's crazy. There's no doubt. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:34.080 Just what brand of crazy and who's bringing the crazy 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:35.440 is not yet clear. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.399 So mentioned a record viewership for the Super Bowl one 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.760 hundred and twenty six million people. Fox has watched across 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.720 all their platforms, which you have to count because like 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:49.840 I watched at least half the game on my phone 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.880 while I was at the gym, and stuff on the 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.080 on the app, so that should count, even though it wasn't, 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.240 you know, home on the cable or whatever. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:57.480 The hell. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.520 That's a lot of people, though, one hundred and twenty 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.800 six million people, that's that's a stunning audience. When it's 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.880 great to at least have a tiny, little temporary return 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.440 to the three channel. Everybody can talk about something world right, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.080 When the number one show in America can get nine 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:20.399 million people sometimes one hundred and twenty six is quite 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:21.920 amazing that we all we also do. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.280 That and CNN gets three hundred and forty people. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.720 Here is a woman blaming Trump for the Chiefs losing 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:31.200 the Super Bowl. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:31.760 I haven't heard this. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:32.799 That's the other. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.160 Reason why we didn't win, because the Trump was at 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:40.919 the I said, gay Trumps are. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.360 Not good at our game. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.560 Now there are a lot of people that do things 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.240 online for attention and it's fake. She sounds like because 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.160 every year after a Super Bowl you see the legitimately 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.840 losing their mind, upset people because. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.680 Of their team loss. She sounds legitimately crazy. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.560 Wasted, sitting in a chair crying a legitimately No, she 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.160 was legitimately sitting in a chair wasted, crying into a washcloth. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:13.400 Yeah. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.160 I like those videos. Yeah, every year you get and 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:17.919 it's funny. They're always drunk. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:18.840 Always. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:19.519 Yeah. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.519 I was gonna say, if if she has a husband 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.440 or a boyfriend, sir, run for your life. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:25.239 Just run. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.320 I don't care what she looks like, her how well 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.720 she can cook, Just trust me on what you know? 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.960 Cook if she was hammered drunk, all right, I kind 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:35.840 of want to know, well. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.920 She can cook, because that's what keep you around. There's 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.160 all kinds of other problems. She's a bad mom. Uh, 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.160 we never have sex, but man, can she make biscuits? 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:45.520 And great? 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.000 I don't give her a who that friend was that 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.240 took that video and put it online because they're that 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:52.040 friendship's over. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.240 Oh that's a decent point there. Does that to me? 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.360 I'm going to make their life miserable until what they 0:03:59.400 --> 0:03:59.920 I die. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.440 Well, I never thought about that. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.640 I thank god escaped the everybody's got a video recorder 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.320 era of my life when I was drinking. But yeah, 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:13.400 if I'm drunk and saying stupid things and you record 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:14.520 me and post. 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.159 It all, that is not good. Are they any laws 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:18.520 about that? 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:20.599 Hmm? 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:22.239 Interesting question. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.120 That's interesting expectation of privacy in a public place, right, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.320 you could prove that it was done intentionally with malice. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.240 But how is it different than like in the old 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.520 days in radio? And this was a glorious time. Gladys 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.320 play the hard These were the good times. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:38.840 Good time. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.040 The thing was tube amplification. Good times to be a 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.160 radio host. Not a good time to be anybody out 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.960 there in the world. But back in the day in radio, 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.200 you could just call somebody up and have them on 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.839 the air immediately and pretty much say or do anything 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:58.400 and air them. And it was oftentimes incredibly unfair and 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:04.279 very incredibly funny. Entertaining yes, And then you have a 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.440 laws where you have to have one person's consent to 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.000 do that, And then you have states where there are 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.280 laws where you have both people consent to that. I 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.880 mean the ones the person consent is ridiculous. So Joe 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.080 and I have consented, We're okay with calling this woman 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.760 at home pretending we're the fire department and saying her 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:22.599 dog was run over. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:23.520 Let's call her. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.280 And that's good enough because Joe and I consent, but 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.400 consent on both ends. Took all the fun out of 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:30.479 these kinds of things on the radio. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:31.640 But how is that not. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.159 Applied to I video it and then put it out 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.240 in the public sphere? 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.599 Is it because YouTube is not? 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.960 Is it that old thing with YouTube's not actually a 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.760 newspaper or a television station or whatever. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.640 I don't know, is there are any attorneys listening hit 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.920 us with an email mail bag at armstrong in geeddy 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:51.320 dot com. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:51.840 What are the. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.720 Legalities the emerging legal realities? But they might have an 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.920 era mail bag at armstrong in getty dot com. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.919 They might have to fix that because I'm not sure 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:08.040 I see a giant difference for the victim there. Wow, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.839 you get hammered drunk and you're stumbling around saying crazys 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.279 and your buddy videotapes he puts it on his Twitter 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.400 account and now you're being mocked by everyone. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.400 Bringing you shame and humiliation. Yeah, yeah, I don't know 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:23.599 what the law is currently on that. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:25.760 I have to work that out over time. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.080 Here's one of my favorite things that happens about once 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:35.200 a week in the New York Times, parenting in a 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.000 burning world. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.680 This is from a climate editor. Boy, she and I 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.440 would have a lot to talk about, wouldn't we mean it? 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:49.400 At time together? Right? They have fun? Apparently that's the news. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:49.960 Number One. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.520 Writers have spilled a lot of ink on the question 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.359 of whether it's ethical, desirable, or financially advisable to have 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.279 children in an era of accelerating environmental crisis. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.279 Writers are a self involved ninny and sorrier writers. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.160 Writers have spilled a lot of ink on that, and 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.920 most of us have not read any of that stuff, like, well, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.000 I'll get to my ultimate point after this paragraph, because 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.960 it's always the same to me. Indeed, it's on many Americans' minds. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.240 A twenty twenty four Pew survey found that more than 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.720 a quarter of US adults age eighteen to forty nine 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.640 who don't plan on having children cited concerns about the environment, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:29.280 including climate change, as the major factor. Yet we rarely 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.720 talk about how people have already chosen to become parents. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.200 Can cope with their own anxiety and fears as their 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:38.080 children contend with an increasingly unstable climate. I gotta tell you, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.800 I have, like most parents, a gazillion things I worry about. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.960 All day, every day about my kids that ain't on 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.800 the list. Right right. This reminds me what's the technique 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.720 called again where you. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.480 As like James Comy, you leak something to the press 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.440 and you have the press call you and then they 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.560 can quote you as commenting on the leak. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.840 That you leaked. I can't remember what that's. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.040 Called, the log rolling or the old dipsy doodle or whatever. 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.760 I can't remember. If somebody remembers, tell me, but. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.320 This seems like kind of a version of them, where 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:26.360 you terrify children, poor little innocent children in schools that 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.360 they're going to burn to death, and puppies are going 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.880 to burn to death, and everyone will die, including your 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.920 mommy and daddy, because of climate change. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.040 And then when they grow up and say I'm not 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.640 sure I can have a kid because it's so dangerous. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.319 You say, look, people aren't willing to have kids because 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.160 I'm so dangerous. That is one hundred percent true and 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.199 should be commented on regularly. I mean, when you talk 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.559 about adults eighteen to forty nine, a quarter of them 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.000 don't plan on having kids. How many of us weren't 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.079 planning on having kids when we were twenty two, but 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.520 then we changed. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.480 Our mind when we got older. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:07.600 I mean lots of us, So that younger end of that, 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.320 a lot of them aren't going to have kids anyway, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:11.480 aren't planning to have kids. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:11.640 Now. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.560 People are having less kids. There's no doubt about that. 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.600 That's what I wanted to bring up. I heard something 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.680 about China today. They're really struggling in China with marriages. 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.040 They can't get people to get married. And then they 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.600 went through this reasons. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:23.319 It might be. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.320 While people of blah blah bah. There's something happening, and 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.360 I don't know why. People just aren't willing to understand this. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:36.160 There's something happening in modern society with comfort and luxury 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.160 or attention span or something where we're just not interested 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.360 in coupling and having children. Why they have to assign 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.920 a reason to it. It's climate change, it's the rent's 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.120 too high, it's the Trump is in office. 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.720 It's no, it's not there's something going on. As a 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.280 beast that's taken away. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.760 There's no stronger desire on planet Earth than to couple 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.040 and have kids. That has gone away for some reason. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.320 And it ain't because of the rent, right, I would 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.679 agree completely. And the fact that it's happening in communist China, yeah, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.760 and capitalists South. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.640 Korea and Denmark and Italy and the United States and 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.000 rural America and cities, yeah, right exactly. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:16.280 And the other thing that bothers the hell out of 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.920 me about that conversation is I find it so pathetically 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.880 and it's a perfect, you know, the manifestation of victimhood culture, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.240 where you've got to be a victim of something to get. 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.160 Attention and feel important. But for the lady for the 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:29.800 New York. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:34.400 Times to say, these times they are so dangerous and volatile, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.439 we can't have children, Not during World War one or two, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.960 or the Middle Ages or the smallpox outbreak or you 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.000 know whatever, the Cold War or the race riots. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.800 And assassinations in nineteen sixty eight. No, these are the 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.920 times that are really scary. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:53.959 Oh, man up, including the women, She s Louise quit 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.480 celebrating weakness. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.720 What do you get when you do that? I'll give 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:58.440 you a minute. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.000 What kind of society do you get tictok a week 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:06.600 one right, you nailed it, ge money, and a new 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.880 guest essay, the Oregon writer Emma Pate explains how she 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.920 had made peace with the dire facts of climate change, 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:14.800 including Wait. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.839 A minute, Wait a minute, an Oregon writer named Pate? 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:23.920 Is this parody? I wrote? I know? Is this Fred Ormison? Uh? 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.800 She's made peace with the dire facts of climate change, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.920 including the reality that her children will be increasingly affected 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.240 by warming and pollution or climate related disasters in the 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.000 years to come. I know my children are likely to 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.280 die in the endless hurricanes. But I had children anyway. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.920 How brave of you whether it's ethical to have kids. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.400 Screw you and you determining whether it's ethical for me 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:48.160 to have kids. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:54.240 Man, these people are insufferable. They really are. I know it. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:54.960 It's hilarious. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.560 You know what, if you had children, you'd be too 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.200 busy to write this stuff. You wouldn't have time, right right, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.920 we got and you wouldn't be worried about fanciful half 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.720 a degree elevations in forty seven years. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.200 Please, we got a lot more in the way. Stay here. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.080 What really doomed Joe Biden's presidency? Well, actuary tables. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.120 But what doomed in politically early on was the pull 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.320 out of Afghanistan, which was a disaster. Everybody watched on 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.880 TV as his poll numbers plummeted. He never recovered and 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.600 CBS News checking in on Afghanistan. What life is like 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.840 under the Taliban. Here's the reporter interviewing a Taliban leader. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.880 The president has demanded that Thaliban give back the hardware value. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.720 That's seven billion dollars hardware put on parade last year 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.720 at an abandoned US air base. 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:45.719 Abdul Kahar Balki. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.480 Is the Taliban spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.920 Is it entirely out of the question that the Thaliban 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.199 would ever return this military hardware? 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.200 Is it absolutely off the table? 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.959 These are the assets off the state of Avanistan and 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.559 they will continue to be in the position off to 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:01.319 stay toughle funds. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.040 It seems like there's no deal then with the president. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.680 People don't make deals on the assets of these states. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:13.600 They make agreements through doalg and engagement to find spaces 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.240 and areas of common interests. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:17.800 Fresh and translate that. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:24.280 Okay, Oh, First of all, the Taliban leader speaks better 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:24.880 English than me. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.920 Where do you go to school, not public school. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.440 Apparently, I guess he's I would guess he's British educated, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:37.960 judging by his accent. First, I was thinking, why are 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.160 you asking this question? There's no way he's gonna say, oh, yeah, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:42.560 sure you want to back, We'll give him back. But 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.959 I guess because President Trump has demanded him back, and 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.199 so that's a reason to ask the Taliban leader, is 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:50.960 there any any circumstance where are gonna give them back? 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.440 In the Taliband's gonna say no. Of course they're going 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.440 to say no, you want them, come and get him. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.480 It'd take a lot of troops in many, many years. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.520 I think you tried that once before. But if you 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.720 want to go ahead, I think it's much more likely 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.280 again they're going to say, make us an offer. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:04.920 Let's talk. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.120 We got your stuff, you want it back? We need money. Yeah, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:09.679 they don't need some of this stuff. I mean, they 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.439 probably want to keep a lot of the guns and everything, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.000 but they don't need tanks and humbes necessarily to keep 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.480 the population under control. They'd probably be happier in heck 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.280 to sell those for a lot of money. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.440 Wows Uncle Joe, wowow Wow. So I'm on this just 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:25.280 popped into my head. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.520 So I'm exchanging gratitude lists with this guy. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:29.800 I know. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.040 We decided the other day we're going to get on 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.760 this habit. We're going to be grateful for his stuff, 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:35.360 and he's. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.240 No, no, just uh. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.520 I'm going to text him every morning and and I 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.120 forgot today, so I got to do it during the 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.680 commercial break. I'll text him every morning three things I'm 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.680 grateful for, and he's going to text me three things 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:47.440 he's grateful for. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.760 I brought up the whole idea of. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:54.200 No wine February, the no whining during February, you know, 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:55.800 on the kind of the flip side of whining. And 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.360 one way to get out of whining is to be 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:02.080 grateful for the good things. One thing a person I 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.240 put on my list today, be grateful you're born in 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.640 the freaking United States. If you're born in Afghanistan, you're 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:14.680 going to have an awful, miserable, possibly very short life. Yeah, 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.680 no matter what your attitude. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.000 Is, unless you're an active participant in evil, that would help. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.080 It would give you a better chance of survival probably, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.440 But yeah, and that you know you can have all 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.040 the strength of character you want, you're gonna have a miserable, short, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.920 painful life if you were born lots of places in 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:35.480 the world other than the United States. Doesn't happened in 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.520 the United States. Isn't the only place you can avoid 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.320 that to a fate. I mean, I think if you're borning, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.560 you know, some rural village of France, you probably have 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.640 a decent life. But there are a lot of places 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.280 where you you got no shot and it's just luck. 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.600 Oh my god, that's wrong. This is the worst most 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.800 racist country on earth. What else should I put on 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:55.680 my gratitude list? 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:00.239 Mcflurri's grateful for Oreo, mcfluury's that come in two sides. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:01.600 That's a good one. 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:07.320 Wow Wow coming up a campus madness update, k through 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.320 grad school madness, good news and bad news. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.720 Tell you was as long as we have a minute, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.680 the next doge like effort and I don't know if 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:20.040 it could be cat or something like that, muskrat spell 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:26.880 out all the letters involved in seriously calling out the 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.840 bull crap of the American education system from top to 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.880 bottom and making it a national beyond a moonshot priority 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:42.240 like more like, you know, curing smallpox or getting electricity 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.720 to all fifty states style effort to get rid of 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:51.880 what's wrong with the American education system and straighten it out. Honestly, 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.960 that might be the single most important thing we could 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.200 conceivably do, right up there with dealing with overspending in 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:58.920 the national debt. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:00.640 Yeah, I wonder if we might not be better off 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.840 if we only focused on the education, the schools and 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.880 like put all the effort into that. Yeah, be more 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:13.600 likely to be successful because there's plenty there, Armstrong and getty. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.760 So Democrats have been playing hopscotch while Republicans are playing 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.720 grand theft dollar four and we're finally starting to realize, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.800 let's put the chalk down and let's actually focus on 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.520 what are those lanes where we can pursue, like the 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:34.360 legal cases, like legislatively, really the budget that's really really 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:35.919 place where they do have power. 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.280 That's particularly talking about the whole doge thing. But we've 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.200 been mentioning this column by Rich Lowry of National Review, 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.720 where he says, this is the biggest win in the 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.520 last three weeks for the right in the culture war 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.760 in half a century. And I'm so used to losing 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:58.800 every cultural war thing. The idea that we're winning now 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.600 is a bunch of issues is just I don't even 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.520 know how to I don't even know how. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.920 To feel right. It is so odd, but it's it's great. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.679 Excuse me, and I think the voices of sanity need to, 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.440 you know, make as much progress as quickly as possible. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.840 I suspect, you know, barring well, you know that's crazy 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:18.360 to try. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.080 To predict anything. Trump will have four years. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:25.679 I'm certainly hoping his successor at least wires at least 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:30.280 oh boy, the constitutional corsis will have at least four 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.960 years to continue the progress that's being made. But we 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.960 absolutely need a moonshot style effort to reform education in 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.520 this country because it is absolutely killing us. Michael, It's 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:48.960 a campus Madness Update, good and bad news edition, good 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:49.600 and bad. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:57.320 News, madness screaming, how's madness? 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:02.720 You idiot on the campus? God, how's quite scream Yeah? 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.679 No kiddingel So, disembalment figures into the story somehow, so 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.000 well metaphorically speaking. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.960 So we'll start with some good news, really interesting piece 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.600 about Tufts University, which is to the left of Trotsky 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.760 Boston area. But there's a professor by the name of 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:21.040 Hirsch there who teaches a class on American conservatism that 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:26.200 is always one hundred percent enrolled and extremely popular, and 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:31.040 he a man of the sane center left, has them 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.600 read Frederick Hayek's Road to Serve Them at Ininran's The 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.680 Nature of Government, and then has lefty writers assigned as well. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.760 That says, all right, let's talk about this issue. 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.280 And it is a classic American education where you have 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.800 to understand both sides before you say which one you're on. 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.720 And he is systematically steel manning conservative arguments for the 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.240 college kids. And the really encouraging part about this is 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:58.560 the kids love it. 0:19:59.240 --> 0:19:59.920 That's interesting. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.040 And poll after poll has shown that a lot of 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:07.280 college kids resent the cancel culture and the bully culture 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.800 and the radical culture. But they just they're afraid or 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:15.360 you know, intimidated into silence. And there's a lot more 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:20.200 curiosity out there than I think you would think from 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:21.080 looking at college camp. 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:21.640 God, are we. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:26.040 Actually coming out of peak that? And we'll never have 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.399 to deal with it again, at least in our lifetimes. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.159 I mean, did we just live through the pendulum swinging 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.600 to the far end of that nuttiness? 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.640 I share hope. So I don't know, I don't know. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.080 I'm a little afraid of it being like a sports 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:41.920