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Speaker 1: We're on our way home from school tonight, and out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, my twelve year old daughter says, do you
Speaker 1: know why I'm worried about having kids racing myself for
Speaker 1: some climate scare mongering or some other brand of crazy
Speaker 1: that TikToker or teachers are pushing.
Speaker 3: I responded, no.
Speaker 1: Why, she says, I'm afraid they'll come home one day
Speaker 1: and they'll tell me their trans and I'll say, oh, no,
Speaker 1: you're not, and then they'll hate me, and the school
Speaker 1: will call me in and yell at me and tell
Speaker 1: me I'm anti trans, and I'll say, you damn right
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: This is a twelve year old.
Speaker 2: By the way, Wow, who has a very similar attitude
Speaker 2: is my year old? Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1: So many thoughts and emotions racing through my head. But
Speaker 1: in the moment I couldn't ever stout laughing. I told her,
Speaker 1: hope bad that will have passed by the time she
Speaker 1: has kids. I certainly think it will. I wouldn't call
Speaker 1: it a fad kind of one. It's a psychological contagion.
Speaker 1: There are a bunch of examples of this through history.
Speaker 3: How interesting is that.
Speaker 2: Though, kids like her kid and my kid coming to
Speaker 2: this conclusion in the face of everything around them other
Speaker 2: than like reality.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, this young woman, obviously, God bless her, has
Speaker 1: the I am not going to tell you to ignore
Speaker 1: the evidence of my eyes and ears and my conscience.
Speaker 1: Good for her anyway, Who knows, Maybe a little be
Speaker 1: the kids of this generation, whatever they're called, who are
Speaker 1: growing up rolling their eyes at the furries in their classrooms.
Speaker 1: They're sick of having pronouns and gender issues shoved down
Speaker 1: their throats. Who can see plainly and simply that the
Speaker 1: trans and nine non binary kids are mainly just misfits.
Speaker 1: We're desperate for attention and belonging. Ding Maybe today's middle
Speaker 1: schoolers will be the ones to rebel with conservatism and
Speaker 1: put a stop to the madness.
Speaker 2: Eventually, my son's always bringing up the furries, How does
Speaker 2: he even know the word furries?
Speaker 1: Brilliantly said an anonymous and good for your kid. You
Speaker 1: are absolutely right on every single count. How's about this?
Speaker 1: Greeting's big freedom, Old simple Jack in America's Sweethearts Michael,
Speaker 1: Katie and Hanson. Our fabulous son, who just happens to
Speaker 1: be of mixed heritage, is about the same age as
Speaker 1: Jack's oldest and, like Jack, soon or a young man,
Speaker 1: is starting the years of freshman at a very nice
Speaker 1: California public high school. We've driven our son to and
Speaker 1: from school since kindergarten in order to be sure he
Speaker 1: attends better than nearby local schools up with school choice.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Due to this and to and fro drive time, our
Speaker 1: son also enjoys the statistically proven educational advantage of listening
Speaker 1: to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Our son, who naturally
Speaker 1: understands the meaning of such words as Marxist, woke, progressive,
Speaker 1: and scumbag, reported that his classes were pretty much chill
Speaker 1: and relax. He reported that week one, after reviewing the
Speaker 1: class syllabus, he asked his chill I think I can
Speaker 1: you know I'm going to leave the subject even out,
Speaker 1: But he asked his chill blank teacher, what does climate
Speaker 1: change have to do with this topic? The teacher leaned
Speaker 1: in and quietly told him nothing.
Speaker 3: They make us teach this stuff. Oh my god, wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: The notable exception to the mostly chill and relaxed teachers
Speaker 1: who would say that to him was the wait for it,
Speaker 1: young white, college educated female English teacher who has a
Speaker 1: giant Pride flag hanging in her classroom. This has been
Speaker 1: our son's English teacher's teachings. Week one read a novel
Speaker 1: about the offensive nature of quote not seeing color. Next week,
Speaker 1: definition examples and how to reac to microaggressions.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Then he was.
Speaker 1: To declare what genders he identifies as for that week. Boy,
Speaker 1: the whole microaggressions thing has been so thoroughly debunked and
Speaker 1: misproven that that or whatever the word is, that that's
Speaker 1: the worst thing you can do is have people, you know,
Speaker 1: focus on microaggressions. Finally, last week he was to declare
Speaker 1: his to the class his pronouns.
Speaker 3: This is English class.
Speaker 1: Now he stood up and proudly declared that his pronouns
Speaker 1: were HRH and HRM. His Royal Highness and his Royal majesty.
Speaker 1: He reports that the class erupted in laughter and cheers.
Speaker 1: His English teacher, on the other hand, was not amused
Speaker 1: and angrily announced that his declaration was quote not appropriate
Speaker 1: for her English class.
Speaker 2: Why aren't you reading Shakespeare or something?
Speaker 1: Let's see on brighter side, substitute teacher came in, who
Speaker 1: taught for decades. When the gentleman asked the class what
Speaker 1: they had last worked on and was told pronouns, he
Speaker 1: declared to the class, I.
Speaker 3: Will be teaching English and nothing else.
Speaker 1: Twitch The class of kids cheered, wow, A and G
Speaker 1: S A y O, D A A, T A and G.
Speaker 1: Saving America's utes one day at a time, Alnonymous.
Speaker 2: You know it's not unrelated to the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 2: opinion piece we read earlier about how America isn't ignoring
Speaker 2: the fact that World War three is on the horizon.
Speaker 2: They're not unrelated that we're so willingly like giving away
Speaker 2: Western civilization or embarrassed by it. Of course they're related.
Speaker 2: There's why would there be a great need to protect
Speaker 2: something that you don't like? Yeah, yeah, I remember years
Speaker 2: It just started years ago. When I think Harold Bloom,
Speaker 2: his last name is Bloom. The world's greatest Shakespeare expert,
Speaker 2: who taught at Yale for years and years, and how
Speaker 2: he was so bothered by the fact that nobody taught
Speaker 2: Shakespeare anymore so, the greatest writer in the English language
Speaker 2: of all time was no longer being taught in the universities,
Speaker 2: unless it was to point out how misogynist or racist
Speaker 2: or you know, male toxic it was, or anything like
Speaker 2: That was the only time I'd ever come up if
Speaker 2: at all. Well, if you're that willing to give away
Speaker 2: your culture, of course you're not figuring out how to
Speaker 2: make sure China, Russia and Iran.
Speaker 3: Don't band together to win.
Speaker 4: Right, right in the success that they have had coming
Speaker 4: up primarily through education the teachers, colleges and then the
Speaker 4: schools in indoctrinating several generations of American kids and Western
Speaker 4: kids in general into this stuff.
Speaker 3: Admires the wrong word.
Speaker 1: You've got to respect how incredibly evil and devious and
Speaker 1: successful it has been, and we.
Speaker 3: Let it happen under our watch.
Speaker 2: I was reading Henry the Fifth and listening to it
Speaker 2: at Fairmount over the weekend because I was doing this
Speaker 2: history podcast about the Battle of Agancore, which is what
Speaker 2: is in Henry the fifth the Shakespeare thing, that's the
Speaker 2: famous speech we Band of Brothers. That whole speech is
Speaker 2: from that. But man, the writing of Shakespeare. I know
Speaker 2: this is a ridiculous thing for anyone to say, but
Speaker 2: it's just so amazing. I mean, it's it's just unimaginably
Speaker 2: rich and amazing. And the fact that we don't teach
Speaker 2: it in universities anymore will come on in China, we
Speaker 2: don't care about our culture.
Speaker 1: No, I'm sure there are multiple really good books about this. Actually,
Speaker 1: I can think of a couple that are more or
Speaker 1: less on this topic. And I just bought a Douglas
Speaker 1: Murray book, The Strange Death of Europe I think is
Speaker 1: the title. Can't wait to dig into that, probably tonight.
Speaker 1: But how the civil rights movement followed fairly closely after
Speaker 1: the development of the critical theory crowd in France and Germany,
Speaker 1: and how they realized, oh, racial divisions and later sexual divisions.
Speaker 1: That's where we convinced people to hate their own countries
Speaker 1: and their own civilizations. It's not going to be workers
Speaker 1: of the World unite. It's going to be every single
Speaker 1: misfit or minority we can think of. We'll come up
Speaker 1: with a way to convince them that there's no redeeming
Speaker 1: their society and they've got to help us tear it down.
Speaker 1: That's what we'll do. And just for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: this is not my paranoid ratings. They wrote books with
Speaker 1: their names on the cover describing this very process, and
Speaker 1: they got it into the schools and universities. Again, it's insidious,
Speaker 1: it's horrifying, it's heartbreaking, but it has been successful.
Speaker 2: And as my twelve year old just finished reading Animal
Speaker 2: Farm and picking up on the fact that the people
Speaker 2: who promised, you know, a more fair world took over
Speaker 2: and were the same tyrants as the tyrants before a
Speaker 2: line from the Who song one of the best lines
Speaker 2: ever in rock music. Meet the new boss same as
Speaker 2: the old boss.
Speaker 3: Yeah so good. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And as I tweeted the other day, I untleashed a
Speaker 1: long screed about elections and political theory and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the urge just overcame me, but
Speaker 1: I was describing how elegant the description in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: four is of the scam the Orwell book. Obviously, and
Speaker 1: interestingly enough, Well, I won't give you the context because
Speaker 1: it's fairly straightforward but he explains how the time honored
Speaker 1: technique is the middle says to the low, we're talking
Speaker 1: about like layers of society. The middle says to the low,
Speaker 1: we will overthrow the high.
Speaker 3: You gotta join with us. We'll overthrow the high.
Speaker 1: And the middle throws out the high and becomes the high,
Speaker 1: and the low gets screwed. See Black America. Since you
Speaker 1: know the New Deal practically, since the welfare state came
Speaker 1: into being and debased the black family and made them
Speaker 1: dependent on the largesse of the government as opposed to
Speaker 1: their own genius and hard work. Anyway, then the next
Speaker 1: time around the old high, remember they're now the middle,
Speaker 1: they make the same promise to the low. Maybe they
Speaker 1: throw out the current high, maybe they don't, but either way,
Speaker 1: it's a scam.
Speaker 3: History of the world, yep, pretty much, Jack arm Strong
Speaker 3: and Joe Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2: My son, who is in playing football last year said
Speaker 2: he wanted to lift weights somewhere and then so I
Speaker 2: started inquiring about getting gym memberships and found out that
Speaker 2: you can't get a gym membership unless you're kid's sixteen
Speaker 2: or eighteen, depending on the gym.
Speaker 3: And I was surprised by that.
Speaker 2: But so they came up with some sort of program
Speaker 2: at one of the gym's for kids, so the coach
Speaker 2: is involved, and because it's the school program for some reason,
Speaker 2: they can do it in a room. I don't know anyway,
Speaker 2: So I joined a gym last night, and is the
Speaker 2: first time I had been like a big public gym
Speaker 2: in decades. And I used to lift regularly. I did
Speaker 2: that for decades, but I hadn't been there in a
Speaker 2: long time. And Henry was over in one room working
Speaker 2: out with people and beat red and wearing himself out
Speaker 2: and everything like that. It's cool, and they do all
Speaker 2: the fun modern stuff with the big ropes and flipping
Speaker 2: over tires and all that sort of stuff that tying
Speaker 2: yourself to things and pulling them trying to keep the
Speaker 2: exercising exciting.
Speaker 3: I was just out with the regular equipment.
Speaker 2: And I have had I've heard enough women over the
Speaker 2: years complaining about guys hitting him on them at gyms
Speaker 2: that that's a thing, right, Katie, Yeah, unfortunately, So I
Speaker 2: just I just had that in my head. So there
Speaker 2: weren't very many women there. There were probably I don't know,
Speaker 2: one woman for every five guys, and but I was
Speaker 2: I just I just, you know, I'd lift.
Speaker 3: Something and then i'd get done.
Speaker 2: I'm walking around on restl accidentally make eye tie acid contact.
Speaker 3: I'm just from trying really hard to like not look
Speaker 3: their direction. Right.
Speaker 2: But then I was also thinking about a number of
Speaker 2: the women that I've heard complain about gym's being a
Speaker 2: meat market and guys hitting on them date guys from
Speaker 2: the gym.
Speaker 3: So how does that whole thing work out?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I don't quite understand if you're
Speaker 2: dating guys from the gym. It seems like there must
Speaker 2: be some level of success that occurs, or there's a
Speaker 2: good reason why guys are getting on girls at the gym.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because if you're her type and you hit on
Speaker 5: her at the gym, it'll work out. It has nothing
Speaker 5: to do with the fact that you're at the gym.
Speaker 5: It's like sexual harassment. It only exists among ugly guys,
Speaker 5: among good looking guys. That's called really flattering. Well, I'm
Speaker 5: unless it's bad and nasty, of course, right, that is
Speaker 5: not the point in my life I'm in. I'm not
Speaker 5: looking for that at all. In fact, I prefer if
Speaker 5: the gym had zero women at it.
Speaker 2: But but if there is dating occurring at the gym,
Speaker 2: which clearly is happening, I can see why. Just like
Speaker 2: anywhere else in life, some guys are taking a shot
Speaker 2: now and then Hey, you work out here often or
Speaker 2: hot stay or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, boy, these weights sure are heavy. I'd go with that.
Speaker 5: That all it comes down to the woman. Also, the
Speaker 5: women that are saying this are the same ones that
Speaker 5: go to the gym also with like nothing on.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just gonna say I blame the women
Speaker 1: for wearing their sexy, tight workout gear. You got to
Speaker 1: start dressing like Billie Eilish in her oh I'm androgenists
Speaker 1: and not sexy and not attractive period before she went
Speaker 1: with her I'm crazy sexy. Look at my booby's period.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what she's doing now. But you gotta
Speaker 1: dress like sweatsuit.
Speaker 2: Billie Eilish, big baggy gray sweatsuits of the old style.
Speaker 3: That's the way you gotta dress.
Speaker 5: I can say women who dress who wear almost nothing
Speaker 5: to the gym and actually still work out, because that
Speaker 5: is a that's some risky business right there, because oh
Speaker 5: things can pop out and oh you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Or move aside, or the way you don't. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: have a little slip.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking this throughout loud because I don't know if
Speaker 2: this is fair or not. Is this the patriarchy having
Speaker 2: its way or something like that, But it seems like
Speaker 2: if I really am going to the gym and.
Speaker 3: I don't want guys to look at me or hit
Speaker 3: on me or whatever.
Speaker 2: I just wear regular like sweats, not super tight clothes
Speaker 2: or you know, a tube top or whatever you're wearing
Speaker 2: whatever you call that your sports bra.
Speaker 3: With your tights.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you go to the gym and your underwear
Speaker 5: on quote leg day and you're doing eight hundred squats
Speaker 5: in front of a group of men, what do you
Speaker 5: think is going to happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're supposed to eat more than you're gonna need.
Speaker 2: By the way, okay too, I like Joe's lines. You
Speaker 2: ever pulled something like, really pulled a muscle?
Speaker 3: Huh? You never done that? Yeah? I am. You know
Speaker 3: what I heard?
Speaker 4: He is?
Speaker 3: You ever heard that? Explain now that that's hot talk? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's amazing. But batting average wasn't higher as a young man?
Speaker 1: Eh?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I uh. I like the gym.
Speaker 2: I love going to the gym. If I hope this
Speaker 2: song continue and Henry and I can go three times
Speaker 2: a week. That's the plan. God, that's my favorite thing.
Speaker 2: I feel so much better about myself when I'm done.
Speaker 2: I went for That's absolutely true. But yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: punishment for me.
Speaker 3: I hate it.
Speaker 5: See, I went from hating it like a borderline in
Speaker 5: tears before I would go, but knowing that I had
Speaker 5: to go to Now if I don't go, I feel
Speaker 5: like something wrong.
Speaker 3: You have to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that that happens. It becomes a habit.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if your body craves it or
Speaker 2: your mind craves it or whatever. But let's talking to
Speaker 2: Henry about how you'll get stronger. You'll you know, it
Speaker 2: increases testosterone, which he cares about, and it somehow just
Speaker 2: gives you confidence. I remember when I used to lift
Speaker 2: all the time. He just feels stronger, tougher, and more confident.
Speaker 5: I don't know anyone that's ever left the gym and
Speaker 5: said I regret doing that.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, Well all exercise is pretty much that way,
Speaker 2: as long as you don't, you know, snap your achilles.
Speaker 2: I would regret that if I snap my achilles.
Speaker 1: Sure you drop the bar on your throat or something
Speaker 1: that'd be Damn, that's a bad day.
Speaker 3: Can somebody come get this bar off my throat?
Speaker 2: I'm strong and get the reality is this is fabulous.
Speaker 3: I thank you. That's enough of that. This is all crazy.
Speaker 3: It's just the way it is. Yeah, but damn it.
Speaker 2: We weren't allowed to ask about the big guys.
Speaker 3: This is the United States of America. Let's not play games.
Speaker 3: This is the Armstrong and Getty show. Jake Cost argues
Speaker 3: in National Review.
Speaker 2: That what we are currently doing defies how the US
Speaker 2: system was design to work. Quoting him, now, Republicans and
Speaker 2: Democrats today conceive of each other is totally, irredeemably corrupted.
Speaker 2: And this is all from his new book, Democracy or Republic.
Speaker 2: The People in the Constitution. The two sides fight over
Speaker 2: everything large and small, from major problems to utter trivialities.
Speaker 2: To borrow a phrase from Madison's Federalist number ten, where
Speaker 2: no substantial occasion presents itself. Boy, that sounds right right now,
Speaker 2: No substantial occasion presents itself. They fight both tooth and
Speaker 2: nail over the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions. The mutual
Speaker 2: hatred between the left and the right leaves little political
Speaker 2: space for compromise. Fundamentally, they do not wish to compromise.
Speaker 2: They want to destroy each other. So it is little
Speaker 2: wonder that our government has been so frequently halted by gridlock.
Speaker 2: The left and right wish to be hegemonic, but the
Speaker 2: constitution is designed to prevent factional hegemens from emerging in
Speaker 2: our country. In other words, you can't accompli is what
Speaker 2: you're trying to accomplish. If the two sides enter the
Speaker 2: government not with the spirit of compromise, but with a
Speaker 2: spirit of destruction, they should expect to be blocked and
Speaker 2: virtually every turn. That's the way it's set up, which
Speaker 2: is precisely what has happened. This is no way to
Speaker 2: run a country, any country, but it certainly dooms us
Speaker 2: to failure under a consensus based regime like the United
Speaker 2: States Constitution. If we want to rail against the evils
Speaker 2: of our opponents for nothing more than the sheer pleasure
Speaker 2: of the cathartic reliefs, so be it. But nothing will
Speaker 2: get done while we spew o a s splenetic bile,
Speaker 2: bile from our spleen at one another. That's the best
Speaker 2: kind splenetic bile. Yeah, but if we actually want to
Speaker 2: solve problems in this country, we need to recognize that
Speaker 2: under our system of government, working together is the only
Speaker 2: way to do that. That is an interesting point that
Speaker 2: gets left out a lot. We have a system that
Speaker 2: doesn't allow for what both sides are currently trying to do.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in fact, it specifically disallows it. The problem is,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he gets to this elsewhere in the book,
Speaker 1: is even if you're not actually sincerely bent on destroying
Speaker 1: your opponent, As Mark Leibovich's fabulous book This Town pointed out,
Speaker 1: these people pretend to go at it hammerdon dongs, right,
Speaker 1: and then laugh in the green room, then go to
Speaker 1: the same cocktail parties and pick up their kids at
Speaker 1: the same schools. But you know, our system is not
Speaker 1: designed for that. But our fundraising is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an e specific god boom dunked. That is
Speaker 3: kitty for the win. It's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, you need but the after you need to write
Speaker 2: the afterword for his paperback version of that book, because
Speaker 2: that might Sorry, James madiside, I'm James Madison.
Speaker 3: Listen to me.
Speaker 1: Wow, So Kenny, just because he's short, you take a
Speaker 1: sh he's one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment
Speaker 1: in you jackass.
Speaker 2: Sorry James Madison, your system for government might be trumped,
Speaker 2: if you pardon the expression, by the way, we got
Speaker 2: our donor situation set up and cable news and media
Speaker 2: and everything like that. Sorry, sorry, I can stay in office.
Speaker 2: Somebody would raise their hand, they would Can I say
Speaker 2: this anonymously because I don't want anybody to hear this
Speaker 2: in my district. I can stay in office for the
Speaker 2: rest of my life, eat at the finest restaurant, send
Speaker 2: my kids to the coolest private schools, live a really
Speaker 2: fun lifestyle, flying around private jets, doing all this cool
Speaker 2: stuff by never compromising on anything. Correct, So you tell
Speaker 2: me why I should compromise.
Speaker 1: I got both my kids on my payroll, my wife's,
Speaker 1: my campaign consultant. We live in a giant house right
Speaker 1: on the Potomac, and you're telling me to compromise for
Speaker 1: the good of the country. Ah.
Speaker 2: Now, I used to be a guy who would yell
Speaker 2: on this very radio show before all this craziness started that, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: the compromising has got us three trillion dollars in debt
Speaker 2: and this is unsustainable. Well three yeah, well, dad, that's
Speaker 2: back when I was saying that. So that's why I
Speaker 2: was for the well break it. Whatever's next has got
Speaker 2: to be better than this. We're headed off a cliff
Speaker 2: and nobody seems to care when they were compromising. Now
Speaker 2: with the nobody compromises, ever, we're thirty three trillion dollars
Speaker 2: in debt with no end in sight, and nobody really
Speaker 2: cares out about where we're headed.
Speaker 3: Other than that, things are going fine. From my perspective,
Speaker 3: everything's great.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of reaching across the aisle, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: something nice about John Fetterman.
Speaker 3: Believe it or not, I think ever since he started
Speaker 3: wearing a suit, he's cleaned up his act. The behoodied
Speaker 3: bohemoth from Pennsylvania. Stay with us, won't you? Well?
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Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't help that the guy who got
Speaker 2: elected president, and I think a lot of people were hoping.
Speaker 3: I was hoping that.
Speaker 2: He was going to try to bring us back toward
Speaker 2: the madisona Madisonian view of government, because he did that
Speaker 2: for many, many years.
Speaker 3: But no, he looked, he saw which way the wind was.
Speaker 2: Blowing, and rightly or wrongly determined and I better get
Speaker 2: on board with the other side is evil. We need
Speaker 2: to destroy him, crowd, and that's what he has done.
Speaker 2: So we've gone further down that road. Somebody needs to
Speaker 2: stand up at some point and say, look, our government
Speaker 2: is designed to work only if we compromise, and if
Speaker 2: we don't, it's just it's just not going.
Speaker 3: To work at all.
Speaker 1: Well, aside from a small handful of jackasses like ourselves,
Speaker 1: virtually everybody in media who could carry that message forward
Speaker 1: has gone with the same plan as the politicians because
Speaker 1: it helps for clicks, it.
Speaker 2: Helps for d absolutely does, absolutely does. We've had this
Speaker 2: conversation many times behind the scenes that you know, the
Speaker 2: other sides always wrong, our side's always right. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of people making a lot of money with that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's going to have a shelf life, like as in
Speaker 2: the country is going to have a shelf life. But man,
Speaker 2: currently the absolutely no compromise. Ever, if you're seen going
Speaker 2: out to dinner with the other side, you're ruined. Somebody
Speaker 2: will run to your left or right, depending on your party,
Speaker 2: and beat you because you sent a load to somebody
Speaker 2: on the other side.
Speaker 3: That's just that's never gonna work.
Speaker 1: No, it's suicidal as a country. But I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm standing on the beach yelling at the tide.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, and it fits within it's within the Republican Party itself. Also,
Speaker 2: so Matt Gates in a handful of others are So
Speaker 2: we're not going to compromise on this.
Speaker 3: On the whole speaker thing.
Speaker 2: Well, man, your your hope for legislation that reforms entitlements
Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff can't get through the
Speaker 2: Senate and get signed by the president currently, you got
Speaker 2: to win more elections.
Speaker 3: I don't know. You're right, we're yelling at the tide.
Speaker 1: Shockingly. I have a kind word about John Fetterman. He's
Speaker 1: the loser socialist from Pennsylvania. That's the fella who only
Speaker 1: one because he's running against doctor Oz.
Speaker 3: That's right, carpetbagging quack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could become senator if I could run against
Speaker 2: Gonna Rhea or something else unpopular.
Speaker 1: Well, that's uncharitable toward doctor Oz. I thought you were
Speaker 1: calling for civility just a moment ago met with doctor Oz,
Speaker 1: mortal enemy. Fair enough, he goes back to something he
Speaker 1: did to us in our own studio.
Speaker 3: If you haven't ever heard that story.
Speaker 1: Behoodied Behemoth, bum trust funder communist from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: Hi, good night everybody. Hello.
Speaker 1: You know what, Michael, let's set the scene here with
Speaker 1: just a little bit of Yeah. I know that doesn't
Speaker 1: really enter into any of the things I said, but
Speaker 1: give us a little clip sixty one, would you come on?
Speaker 3: You know what's so hard sometimes is watching those videos
Speaker 3: and the people telling the kids don't cry, and like
Speaker 3: let them cry. So that's Rashida Tuley.
Speaker 1: But hours and hours after it became generally known that
Speaker 1: the Israelis did not bomb a hosp a hospital and
Speaker 1: five hundred plus were not killed. All of it was
Speaker 1: Hamas lies, she was still saying that that was the case.
Speaker 1: John Fetterman oddly tweeted out, yes, socialist loser, John Fetterman,
Speaker 1: I think we covered that. But anyway, yes, the same
Speaker 1: fella said, it's truly disturbing that members of Congress rushed
Speaker 1: to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza. Who
Speaker 1: would take the word of a group that just massacred
Speaker 1: Inno Senator's Raeli citizens over our key?
Speaker 2: Ally the New York Times would several Congress people would Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's troubling, but good question. I'm on your side on
Speaker 2: this one. Now get a job. Get a job ever
Speaker 2: in your life, have one job.
Speaker 1: Well, he's got a job now us Senator fabulous bringing
Speaker 1: his wit and wisdom to the halls of the Senate.
Speaker 3: Everybody, good night.
Speaker 1: New open letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay, signed by
Speaker 1: over seventy faculty members, we call on you and the
Speaker 1: Harvard leadership to publicly and unequivocally them the intimidation and
Speaker 1: harassment of Palestinian, Arab, Black, and Muslim students and other
Speaker 1: supporters of Palestinian liberation at Harvard. The leadership should denounce
Speaker 1: all forms of racism, Islamophobia, and Zemenophobia, including anti Semitism
Speaker 1: and anti Palestinian racism. Okay, you know, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: mentioned anti semitism, because there's a hell of a deal
Speaker 1: Jewish Harvard students right now are afraid to come out
Speaker 1: of their dorms because you have mobs dressed as Palestinians
Speaker 1: chanting death to Israel.
Speaker 2: Now, the Palestinians elected Hamas back in two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: I heard somebody reference polling that would show that they
Speaker 2: would re elect Hamas again if you had an election today.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's accurate or how good the
Speaker 2: polling is.
Speaker 3: But I'm not familiar with that.
Speaker 2: But for the sake of this conversation, assuming that would
Speaker 2: be true. Now, it is true that they elected Hamas
Speaker 2: the one and only time they've ever had open on elections,
Speaker 2: but if they would elect him again.
Speaker 3: So how far do you go with the and children.
Speaker 2: Are never to blame for anything. Uh, you can't put
Speaker 2: it on them, But how far do you go with
Speaker 2: the it's not their fault. See, you can't attack Hamas
Speaker 2: and kill Palestinians if you vote, would vote for the Hummas.
Speaker 3: To be your government.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's complicated just because ethically, yeah. Yeah, and you know, Hamas,
Speaker 1: after being elected by a very very narrow margin, essentially
Speaker 1: ended democracy and took over as dictators. And I haven't
Speaker 1: seen those polls, but yeah, I just the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So much of what's being said on the pro Palestinian
Speaker 1: side requires putting aside your morality completely. Just making it
Speaker 1: absolutely clear all of these moral claims I'm making are
Speaker 1: entirely conditional on what side we're talking about. Just so
Speaker 1: you know, appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 2: Collective punishment for Palestinians is awful, and I might agree
Speaker 2: with you but collective punishment for Israelis was okay because
Speaker 2: Hamas went in and killed a bunch of babies that
Speaker 2: didn't vote for nothing, And so you're okay with collective
Speaker 2: punishment on that side. Collective punishment going the other way
Speaker 2: is wrong. And then you've got the other thing of
Speaker 2: Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinians. But then in the same
Speaker 2: breath you make the argument of it was just them
Speaker 2: reacting to decades of oppression.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, which is it right?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't mean to suggest that anybody who's pro
Speaker 1: be a better deal for the Palestinians is a monster
Speaker 1: or anything like that, or of course thinks the Israel
Speaker 1: has been unfair at times, or maybe even now. That's
Speaker 1: absolutely an argument that could and should be heard. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, the whole when you impose the victim
Speaker 1: oppressor framework on every single question, which is what the
Speaker 1: radicals in American universities have been doing for a couple
Speaker 1: of days, aids now, it turns off, It obviates it
Speaker 1: to avoids the need to think every single question is
Speaker 1: predecided for you up to and I know this thing
Speaker 1: sounds like an insane example even up to It's okay,
Speaker 1: if they slaughter babies in their cribs because they're the
Speaker 1: victim and the babies were part of the oppressors, so
Speaker 1: it's okay. It turns you into a stupid, vicious beast
Speaker 1: when you look at everything through the victim oppressor lens.
Speaker 1: You no longer have to think it all. You no
Speaker 1: longer have to exercise anything approaching morality anymore. That's why
Speaker 1: it's so appealing to people, because they don't have to
Speaker 1: wrestle with anything difficult.
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons I despise it so much.
Speaker 1: It turns people into vicious, bloodthirsty mobs who are completely
Speaker 1: convinced of their own righteousness.
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Speaker 1: That this was so interesting, the taking a look at
Speaker 1: insurance right now?
Speaker 3: Oh boy, I mean.
Speaker 1: You talk about inflationary pressures and holy crap, look at
Speaker 1: this bill. Insurance is absolutely at the top of the
Speaker 1: list of you know parts of your life where you
Speaker 1: say that maybe second only to groceries because you have
Speaker 1: to shop more often.
Speaker 2: But it's up twenty percent.
Speaker 1: Auto insurance rates are up forty six point two percent
Speaker 1: since January twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Since twenty twenty, it's up almost fifty percent.
Speaker 1: That is correct, Sir, Holy, more than in the eight
Speaker 1: previous years combined. Homeowner home owner premiums have increased by
Speaker 1: about thirty eight percent since twenty nineteen, about six percent
Speaker 1: in the first three months of this year.
Speaker 2: Now, you don't understand. We have record low unemployment, stock
Speaker 2: market is up, inflation is slowing.
Speaker 3: Why are you not happy? I don't understand why you're
Speaker 3: not happy?
Speaker 1: And interestingly enough, the rates are even higher in many
Speaker 1: of the states in which the Armstrong and Getty Shows
Speaker 1: most listened to, including Arizona, Illinois, Texas, California, and Floridy.
Speaker 2: Is this one sector not discussed more?
Speaker 3: This is a bigger deal than the price of gas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree, And it's interesting people are looking
Speaker 1: around saying essentially what the heck is going on? Well,
Speaker 1: progressives are blaming, of course, climate change in corporate greed.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren was jabbering the other day, Man, is she
Speaker 1: a treat? She says, I'm gonna quote her. Now, insurance
Speaker 1: have underwritten financing fossil fuels, and then they profit from
Speaker 1: selling protection from the impacts of those fossil fuels on climate.
Speaker 1: Trying to say that because insurance companies have some money
Speaker 1: and energy, the energy has caused rapid climate change and
Speaker 1: that's why insurance premiums are high. Blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: listen to the here's where it really gets hit. And
Speaker 1: now when climate risks arising, they're trying to hang American
Speaker 1: families out to dry here and demanding either higher premiums
Speaker 1: or to get out of the market all together.
Speaker 2: It's on May fifty nearly fifty percent increase since pre
Speaker 2: pandemic on auto insurance. I remember when I was younger,
Speaker 2: I wanted to get like a cool, fast car. I
Speaker 2: realized I can afford the car. I can't afford the
Speaker 2: car insurance. Well, that's got to be doubly true, now
Speaker 2: can I What kind of car can a young person
Speaker 2: drive that they can afford the insurance on?
Speaker 1: So what's actually happening is in here? The sort of
Speaker 1: person who would like to know what's actually happening is
Speaker 1: opposed to just getting spun. The actual culprit is a
Speaker 1: bad storm of inflation, litigation abuse, and government made dysfunctions,
Speaker 1: according to Wall Street Journal, which had been exacerbated by
Speaker 1: a string of bad weather. So you start with auto
Speaker 1: insurance rates used in new vehicle prices have increased thirty
Speaker 1: percent and twenty one percent, respectively since January twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Spensive cars cost more to ensure. Duh.
Speaker 1: Prices for vehicle parts have risen twenty two percent since
Speaker 1: the start of the pandemic. Well repair costs are up
Speaker 1: fifty percent, absolutely none of that having anything to do
Speaker 1: with corporate greed or climate check.
Speaker 2: Now, the parts are up the same amount that overall
Speaker 2: inflation's up roughly twenty percent.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and I'm so glad they bring this up
Speaker 1: because and I wish I could get to the litigation abuse,
Speaker 1: because that's important. But this is one of my favorite
Speaker 1: aspects of life in America that nobody is talking about.
Speaker 1: The progressive anti police movement fueled by George Floyd, the
Speaker 1: Ferguson effect, et cetera, has seriously reduced traffic enforcement, resulting
Speaker 1: in more reckless driving in accidents, deaths, from alcohol related
Speaker 1: crashes have risen by a third since twenty nineteen, even
Speaker 1: as arrests for driving under the influence and traffic citations
Speaker 1: have fallen by twenty percent.
Speaker 3: Effect meat cause